Chapter 199: Meeting with the Commissioner

The battle review quickly changed its flavor and became a meeting for the generals of the front-line troops to shirke each other's responsibility. This made Chen Xiuwen feel bored. In the early stage of the Nanjing Defense War, although the Neon Army quickly broke through the outer defense line, the main difference in strength was still the difference, and the performance of each troops was still remarkable. However, after the retreat order was issued, although Tang Shengzhi's blind command, many generals of the troops had their own little thoughts, which led to the Xiaguan tragedy. For example, there was a 30,000 teaching corps at that time. If Qiu Qingquan was not calm at that time, the most elite troops of the Chinese Army would have probably had to be thrown into Nanjing.

Sitting in the noisy venue, Chen Xiuwen's mind was no longer on these so-called reviews. After the Neon Army occupied Nanjing, it temporarily stopped its march towards central China. After several months of bloody battles, both the Chinese and Japanese armies needed to take a breath. The Neon Army needed rest and recuperation, and the Chinese troops, which suffered heavy losses, also urgently needed to gather the remaining defeated soldiers and train the troops to welcome future battles.

In the Battle of Nanjing, although the Honorary First Division was also very casualties, the six subordinate regiments were still intact. What Chen Xiuwen was most concerned about was the five thousand defeated soldiers brought out by Sun Wenhua from Nanjing City. Among these defeated soldiers, including the 74th Army, the 66th Army, the 83rd Army, the 103rd Division, the 112th Division and other troops, many of which were grassroots officers and non-commissioned officers. Although these were all defeated soldiers, they were all preserved after bloody battles and survival of the fittest. Before leaving, Chen Xiuwen took special care of Chief of Staff Qiao Zhen, and took advantage of the way to Wuhan to try his best to keep them all. Adding these people into Rongyi Division, not only Rongyi Division can recover its vitality, but the overall combat effectiveness of the entire division can also reach a higher level than before the war.

Luojia Mountain is located in the eastern suburbs of Wuchang. It is towering, with mountains and mountains, lush flowers and trees, and bright buildings. It is located on the shore of the East Lake. The mountains and waters are complementary, making it a scenic spot in Wuhan. After the meeting every day, unlike other generals who are busy entering the city and gatherings, Chen Xiuwen prefers to go to the lake alone or walk on the mountain. After the war, it is rare to have such a chance to relax.

On that day, after dinner, when Chen Xiuwen was walking by the East Lake, he suddenly saw Yi Anhua sitting alone on a stone by the river smoking.

Compared with other generals who actively "speak" at the meeting, Yi Anhua seemed very silent and never spoke actively. Sometimes Chen Cheng, who presided over the review meeting, asked before giving some answers. The experience of the 87th Division of the Nanjing Defense War and even his 259th Brigade was still a big blow to him.

Chen Xiuwen sighed secretly, changed into a smiley face, walked up to say hello, "Brother Jichen, you have this leisurely atmosphere today!"

Obviously, he was smoking a cigarette with his head down. Yi Anhua, who was wandering in a sensation, did not notice that someone had walked up to him. He looked up and saw Chen Xiuwen standing in front of him with a smile. He quickly threw away the cigarette butts in his hand, stood up and raised his right hand to salute: "Teacher Chen."

Seeing this, Chen Xiuwen hurriedly grabbed him and smiled, "Brother Jichen, you are my senior. Why did you make me polite? You still ask me to liberation. According to Huangpu's convention, I should be the one who saluted you. You see, I was not polite to you. Come, sit, sit, sit." As he said that, he pulled Yi Anhua to sit down on the stone.

After taking the cigarette handed over by Chen Xiuwen, Yi Anhua smiled bitterly and said, "The chief has been removed from his post and his army number has been cancelled. I don't have any leisure time now. If it weren't for the national crisis now, I would really want to take off my military uniform." As he said that, Yi Anhua couldn't help but sigh deeply.

"Yes, the national crisis is in the face now. If our soldiers do not pick up guns to defend our country, then our China will be annexed by Japan." Chen Xiuwen nodded, and then smiled and comforted: "Brother Jichen, you don't have to be so pessimistic. The number of the 71st Army has been cancelled, but your 87th Division is still retained. Besides, the Commander of the 78th Army was also the old commander of your 87th Division back then?"

The 36th Division, 87th Division and 88th Division were all brothers from the Central Guard Force. When the 87th Division was just established, Zhang Zhizhong was the first division commander, Sun Yuanliang, the commander of the 259th Brigade, and the commander of the 261st Brigade was Song Xilian, the current commander of the 78th Army and the commander of the 36th Division.

Yi Anhua nodded silently, lowered his head and took a heavy breath of cigarette, and suddenly raised his head and said to Chen Xiuwen: "Luan, if you Rongyi Division lacks people, I think of you Rongyi Division coming."

Chen Xiuwen was stunned and was immediately overjoyed. He didn't expect Yi Anhua to take the initiative to come to his Rongyi Division. How could Rongyi Division not be short of people? So far, the brigade commander of Rongyi Brigade is still the brigade commander Shen Xiuwen himself. During the war, Chen Xiuwen had no time to escape. Deputy commander and commander of Rongyi Brigade Teng Donglin was like a firefighter. If Yi Anhua could come over, he would undoubtedly be the best candidate for Rongyi Brigade.

"Brother Jichen, have you considered this clearly?" Although Chen Xiuwen couldn't hide the excitement on his face, he still asked carefully.

"Actually, I have been thinking about this issue since I retreated to Nanling. I will say that when I was in Nanjing, when I heard that our brigade was thrown away by the commander, my heart was completely cold. If I hadn't met your Rongyi Division, the remaining 3,000 brothers in our 259th century would have been buried by the Yangtze River. Moreover, I saw it on the way to retreat. As a commander, you are always at the end to protect your brothers from retreating. To be honest, you can follow a commander like you, and you will feel at ease. No wonder you Rongyi Division can always win battles." Yi Anhua said with a sensual look, and then said earnestly: "Liberation, if you Rongyi Division lacks people, I can come here to be a commander."

"Haha, what regiment commander? Brother Jichen, you respect Rongyi Division so much, and I, Chen Xiuwen. As long as you come here, you will be the brigade commander of our Rongyi Brigade." Chen Xiuwen immediately stood up from the stone and laughed.

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"Okay, Chen Guangfu, I think you are addicted to poaching. The principal personally ordered the 87th Division to be incorporated into our 78th Army. You kid actually came to me to poach people again. Is it not enough for you to accommodate so many officers and soldiers?"

Three days later, Song Xilian came to the door angrily. It turned out that not only Yi Anhua not only took the initiative to report to be transferred to Rongyi Division, but many of his former 259 officers had to follow Yi Anhua to join Rongyi Division. When the 36th Division retreated, almost half of them were thrown in Nanjing. The newly arrived 87th Division, the 261st Brigade, were almost wiped out, leaving only the 3,000 people from Yi Anhua's 259th Brigade. Unexpectedly, the 259th Brigade, with Rongyi Division and the Teaching Corps, had just arrived in Wuhan the day before yesterday, and handed over so many requests for transfer applications. No wonder Song Xilian had to jump on his feet and hit him.

"Captain Song, Commander Song, if you have something to do, you just call me and I will come to you personally and listen to the instructions. Why are you here in person?" Chen Xiuwen quickly welcomed Song Xilian into the door with a smile.

"You kid and I don't have this trick. Let me ask you, more than 20 officers from the 259th Brigade, including Yi Jichen, collectively proposed to come to your Rongyi Division. Is it your kid's fault?" Song Xilian waved a large number of application reports and slapped Shen Xiuwen's desk heavily.

Chen Xiuwen quickly picked up the application report on the table. The first one was Yi Anhua. There were a large number of officers below, including Liu Mantian, the deputy commander of the 259th Brigade. Chen Xiuwen did not expect that so many people would come with Yi Anhua. After the war, the most lacking were officers and veterans, especially those who had experienced battles and had experience in commanding the battle, which was a valuable asset. It seemed that Yi Anhua also brought him a surprise.

"Sir Song, you see, this is not what I did. It may be that the brothers from the 259th Brigade have been with our Rongyi Division for a long time these days and have feelings for each other, so they are willing to come to my small temple." Chen Xiuwen suppressed the joy in his heart and explained to Song Xilian with a smile. At the same time, he could see that Song Xilian was really popular today.

Chen Xiuwen had a criminal record, so Song Xilian would not believe his explanation. He took a deep breath and tried to calm down his anger. He pointed to the pile of reports on the table and said, "Liangfu, you don't know that our 78th Army suffered a lot of losses, especially the 87th Division that came over, with only the 259th Brigade as a few people left. I still hope to rebuild the 87th Division with these officers. You said that your Rongyi Division has already gathered many people in Nanjing, why are you still embarrassed to come to me to poach people?" Song Xilian became more and more angry as he spoke. He pointed to Chen Xiuwen's nose and cursed: "Liangfu, I, Song Xilian, asked myself that I have never offended you, why did you plot against me like this? This time, if I hadn't for Brother Zhongliang's face, I would have gone to the principal to sue you."

"Captain Song, I admit that Brigade Commander Yi had talked to me before, and I was very happy to think of our Rongyi Division coming. But I really don't know at all that so many people have asked me to come to Rongyi Division, let alone I deliberately dig your foot. I hope you can still believe me in this regard." Chen Xiuwen said hurriedly.

Song Xilian looked at Chen Xiuwen with some surprise and thought that Yi Anhua had already talked to him before, so he nodded involuntarily and said, "So, they really asked for it, it was not something you encouraged in private?"

"Of course not." Chen Xiuwen said firmly. Then he saw that Song Xilian had already calmed down a little, and then picked up the application report that Song Xilian patted on his desk and said with a smile: "Sir Song, you see, these officers are all voluntarily and are willing to come to my small temple. Otherwise, you can approve these reports, this..."

"Fart." Before Chen Xiuwen finished speaking, Song Xilian jumped up and interrupted him, and shouted: "Is Song Xilian so bad? These bastards actually treat me as Wang Jingjiu, and Chen Fahaha. Let me tell you, I will not let go of any of these people except Yi Jichen." After that, he snatched these reports from Chen Xiuwen's hand, came angrily, and left angrily.

Qiao Zhen, who had been standing at the door just now, didn't dare to come in, saluted Song Xilian who was slamming out of the door, watched him get in, walked in, looked at Chen Xiuwen and smiled bitterly, "Sir Song, are you here to call me?"

Chen Xiuwen also smiled bitterly and shook his head and said, "He was finally willing to let Yi Anhua go, but it was a pity for other officers who thought of our Rongyi Division."

"Teacher, you should take a look at these. The troops we brought out from Nanjing were all asking us for people?" Qiao Zhen said as he handed a stack of documents in his hand to Chen Xiuwen.

"Who do you want?" Chen Xiuwen was surprised to receive the documents handed over by Qiao Zhen. It turned out that they were all troops withdrawn from Nanjing, including the 66th Army, the 83rd Army, the 74th Army and other troops. After learning that the Rongyi Division had gathered many of their troops who had been disbanded, some came to ask for people directly, and some sent a letter to ask Rongyi Division to send their troops back.

"How are the current situations of those officers and soldiers who have been collected by us?" Chen Xiuwen asked with a frown.

"According to your order, they have been treated a lot along the way. Most of the officers and soldiers are willing to stay in our Rong First Division, and a small number of them want to return to their original troops or go home." Qiao Zhen replied with his glasses pushing his glasses.

"That's good." Chen Xiuwen felt relieved, patted the documents in his hand for the Rongyi Division's request for people, and threw them on the desk at random, saying, "You go and tell such a unit, and you won't give any one. Damn, if it weren't for us, they would have been reimbursed, and now they still have the face to ask for people from us. I just don't give any one. In addition, tell those officers and soldiers who want to go back to the original unit or go home and tell them that the national crisis is now in the face of national crisis, and fighting against Japan is the obligation of every Chinese, especially soldiers. Let them stay in the Rongyi Division. In addition, they are all broken up and assigned to each unit. The list of personnel is directly reported to the Ministry of Military Affairs."

"Yes." Qiao Zhen responded quickly. In fact, he had known for a long time that Chen Xiuwen would never agree to return these officers and soldiers. As long as the list of personnel was reported to the Ministry of Military Affairs, it would be cooked with raw rice.

"In addition, we must seize this time and train the troops well. Our division will also hold a post-war review meeting, and all officers above the battalion must participate. Summarize the experience and lessons in the Nanjing Battle." Chen Xiuwen said after considering it.

Although the post-war review meeting organized by the Military Commission later became a responsibility shift meeting for generals of various troops, this review also reminded Chen Xiuwen. As the scale of his own troops continues to expand, there will inevitably be uneven personnel quality and the decline in combat effectiveness of the troops is a problem. Therefore, this kind of post-war summary of experience and lessons is very necessary. It is conducive to improving the cohesion of the troops and the commander's command ability in the front line.

As he was speaking, the phone ringing on the table rang. Qiao Zhen answered the phone and quickly handed it to Chen Xiuwen, saying, "It's Chief Chen's phone number."

Since the Nanjing Garrison Command has been cancelled, the troops withdrawn from Nanjing to Wuhan for rest are temporarily under the jurisdiction of the Wuhan Garrison Command. Chen Cheng, the commander of Wuhan Garrison Command, naturally became Chen Xiuwen's immediate superior.

"Sir Chen."
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