However, Su Jin was only stunned for a moment, and soon reflected, Chen Cheng came thousands of miles to Hangzhou Prefecture to find himself, and he definitely would not come to reminisce about the past, and put his posture so low, it is really the so-called courtesy to people must ask for something, it seems that this old brother is not good to scream today. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, Su Jin's experience over the years was not given in vain, he just smiled slightly and said with a hearty smile: "Cheng, since Chief Chen has said so, if the department resigns, it will not know how to be promoted." However, the public is private and private, and we can talk about personal relations in private, but it is better to have a superior and humble person in public affairs. ”

This time it was Chen Cheng's turn to be generalized, and the meaning of Su Jin's words was very clear. The public is public and private is private, and some things are better to distinguish between public and private. Chen Cheng has followed Chairman Jiang for so many years, and he has always been hugging everywhere he goes, and few people dare not listen to what he says, but now he has touched a nail that is neither soft nor hard here in Su Jin, which is a rare thing.

The face of a colonel behind Chen Cheng changed, and he was about to speak when he stepped forward, but was stopped by Chen Cheng's right hand slightly. I saw him nod appreciatively, turned his head to several generals and entourages behind him and said, "Think twice is right, to be a man is to distinguish between public and private, which is very good." ”

Seeing Chen Cheng so open-minded, Su Jin also had to secretly admire, but it was normal to think about it, who could leave his name in history was simple, he stretched out his hand and made a gesture of please.

"Chief Chen is worthy of being Chairman Jiang's right-hand man, and he is our model no matter how he behaves or does things, and he is admired by the department! But now that the weather is relatively cold, let's go to the headquarters and say anything. ”

"Wait a minute." Chen Cheng made a blocking move, only to see him smile and say to Su Jin: "Think twice, I heard that the United States sent bombers to bomb RB a few days ago, and the pilots of those bombers finally landed in Hangzhou. One of the purposes of my visit this time is to want the acting chairman to see these American pilots. ”

Hearing this, Su Jin understood that Chen Cheng came to Hangzhou to discuss things with him, and was it true to see these Yankees?

"Since Chief Chen has an order, the department should obey it, in that case, let's go to the headquarters now, and then invite Lieutenant Colonel Doolittle to meet with you." Su Jin readily agreed.

Soon, the group rode towards the headquarters in more than a dozen vehicles......

Just when Su Jin accompanied Chen Cheng and others to the headquarters, Doolittle and a group of pilots were in a lounge at Lanqiao Airport with a group of pilots of the First Air Division to exchange flight experience, although the two sides did not understand the language, but with the efforts of several translators, the two sides were still able to communicate with each other relatively smoothly, and because they were all peers, everyone communicated very happily, and even several pilots also held aircraft models with each other for tactical simulation.

Doolittle on the side was talking to Chu Yuan, and Doolittle at this time seemed to be full of energy and spirit, because not long after he landed in a shrew fighter, the Third Army forwarded to him a telegram just sent by the US government, President Roosevelt and Marshall, chief of staff of the War Department, jointly signed a promotion order about him, Doolittle was promoted two levels in a row, and was promoted from lieutenant colonel to brigadier general. Doolittle never closed his mouth for more than an hour after receiving the telegram.

Doolittle said to Chu Yuan in a puzzled tone: "Your Excellency, please forgive me, how do I think this fighter is full of strong American-style flavor, and even the buttons inside are written in English, can you tell me why?" ”

Chu Yuan spread his hands, "I'm sorry, I'm just the commander-in-chief of the Air Force, not the head of the Logistics Procurement Department, I think you can only ask Chief Su in person about this question." ”

Doolittle rolled his eyes, this guy definitely did it on purpose. If your Chief Su can tell this top-secret news, it will be a hell of a disaster. However, looking at the rows of shrew fighters flashing blue on the runway outside the lounge, Doolittle had another idea in his heart, if he could persuade Su Jin to sell this fighter to the U.S. government, how good it would be, so that the army's air combat capability could definitely be improved immediately.

Just when Doolittle was making a small calculation in his heart, a staff officer ran into the lounge out of breath and came to Chu Yuan's side and whispered a few words.

Chu Yuan showed a look of surprise on his face, and then turned his head to Du Little and said, "Your Excellency, our Chief Su has invited you to go to the headquarters, and the Chongqing government has come to see you." ”

"Chief Chen, now that the Third Army's defensive task is very heavy, it is really impossible to spare troops to support Zhongtiao Mountain, and besides, we are thousands of miles away from Zhongtiao Mountain, and we simply have no ability to transport ground troops to thousands of miles away for high-intensity operations on a large scale."

In the conference room of the Third Army, Su Jin's head shook like a rattle, "What's more, the Third Army belongs to the Ninth War Zone. Although it is said that it is necessary to help the brothers' troops, everything must have a degree, and it will not be good if it is not prioritized. ”

Looking at Su Jin, who shook his head again and again in refusal, Chen Cheng's brows furrowed deeply. Secondly, he came this time to recover the matter of Zhongtiao Mountain, the battle to recover Zhongtiao Mountain has been going on for more than a month, and the strength of China and Japan at the beginning of the battle was only 150,000 to 80,000, but as the battle continued, the fire of both sides became bigger and bigger, and more and more troops were invested, and now the first theater has successively invested two group armies, plus three independent divisions, and two mixed brigades with a total of more than 400,000 troops, and the Japanese army has also continued to transfer troops from the Kwantung Army and the North China Front Army. The number of troops participating in the battle also reached nearly 200,000, and a total of 600,000 troops on both sides fought in Zhongtiao Mountain.

If the Nationalist army loses this battle, then the Japanese army can take advantage of the situation to push its troops to Shangluo and Xi'an. If these two places are lost, the Japanese army can be close to Ankang, and even accompany the capital to re-celebrate. On the other hand, if the Japanese army is defeated, it is not only as simple as losing Zhongtiao Mountain, which is not easy to get hold of, once the main force of nearly 200,000 Japanese troops is defeated, the national army can take advantage of the situation to approach Linyingfen or even march towards Taiyingyuan, and then the situation in the entire western part of the mountain will be eroded, and this consequence is not something that Rimei himself can afford.

In this battle, the two military and national militia divisions subordinate to the Third Army performed extremely eye-catching, and in the more than a month of stalemate, this unit performed extremely well in both attack and defense, and in particular, the firepower of this unit made almost all the national army units participating in the battle red with jealousy. The troops are all semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns, machine guns are equipped to the squad level, and each company also has two large-caliber 12.7 mm M2 Browning heavy machine guns and three 60 mortars as suppression vitality, especially the MG42 rifles they are equipped with are even more ferocious.

In more than a month of fighting, all the Japanese troops who fought with the garrison division were bombed by large-scale cluster artillery and fighter jets. In view of the frenzied firepower of the garrison division, Wei Lihuang even issued an order to place the two national militia divisions under the direct command of the theater command. After being directly commanded by Wei Lihuang, these two divisions were sent wherever there was danger, and the garrison division also lived up to Wei Lihuang's high expectations, and won the title of firefighting team by repeatedly inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese army with strong firepower.

It can be said that Wei Lihuang's biggest wish now is that Su Jin can send a few more divisions to the First War Zone, but unfortunately this request was rejected by the Third Army, and they are still unhurriedly implementing the policy formulated by Su Jin, that is, the four divisions implement rotation tactics, and each division must withdraw to Zhejiang and Yingjiang to rest after half a month of participating in the war, so no matter how the First War Zone requires Su Jin, Su Jin will only send two divisions of troops in the First War Zone.

Originally, this was nothing, with the recovery of Maojindu, Taizhai and Guanyang, the battle of Zhongtiao Mountain has slowly developed in the direction of benefiting the national army, but with the continuous increase of Japanese troops, the battle situation began to fall into a stalemate again, and now this battle has become a battle that cannot be lost, Wei Lihuang personally sent a long letter to the chairman of the committee, explaining the role of the troops of the Third Army in this battle, and after hearing this, Chairman Jiang summoned Chen Cheng, He Yingqin, Bai Chongxi and other generals to discuss for a long time. Everyone agreed that winning this battle was inseparable from the support of the Third Army, but they were worried that Su Jin would disobey the Yin, after all, the Third Army was subordinate to the Ninth War Zone, which led to Chen Cheng's trip to Hangzhou.

Just now, he directly asked Su Jin to increase his troops to invest in the Zhongtiao Mountain battlefield, but Su Jin was blocked by Su Jin because he was unable to project troops, which also made Chen Cheng feel a little disgraced.

Seeing that Chen Cheng's request was refused, some people in the entourage standing behind him were unhappy, and a colonel stood up and said angrily to Su Jin: "I have always heard that Chief Su is an anti-Japanese hero, but I never thought that it was better to be famous. It turns out that the chief is a selfish person who only cares about his own selfish interests! ”

"Presumptuous!"

A loud shout sounded in the office, and Bai Qishan, who had always stood behind Su Jin, pointed at the colonel and shouted: "The chief is still discussing things, one of your subordinates actually intervened halfway, and dared to slander the chief, what crime should you be guilty of?" ”

As the head of Su Jin's guard, Bai Qishan's loyalty to Su Jin is naturally beyond doubt. Now seeing that Su Jin was actually accused by a subordinate in person, he immediately had a seizure.

And the generals and officers of the Third Army who were sitting behind Su Jin also showed displeasure on their faces, you must know that the rules of the national army are very strict, and subordinates cannot intervene without permission when the officials discuss things. Especially if he is just a colonel, he actually accused a second-level general of the party-state in front of everyone, if this is spread out, the face of Su Jin and the Third Army will be lost.

Su Jin glanced at Chen Cheng and said lightly: "Chief Chen, this colonel can be described as commendable in courage, I don't know where to excel?" ”

In fact, not only Su Jin was unhappy in his heart, but even Chen Cheng was angry in his heart, he and Su Jin were a first-class general and a second-level general, they were discussing things at the same level, but their subordinates accused each other in person, which not only angered Su Jin but also seemed to be unable to discipline him, after all, people were brought by themselves, and they were also responsible for accidents.

I saw Chen Cheng turn his head and say sharply to the colonel beside him: "Heluo Dao, do you know what you are doing?" Don't you see that I'm discussing things with Chief Su, why don't you hurry up and apologize to Chief Su! ”

It stands to reason that Chen Cheng is angry, and this Heluo Dao should quickly bow his head and admit his mistake. I didn't think about it, but he said with a stiffer neck: "Chief Chen, dare to ask the Ministry of Duty where you did something wrong to apologize to Chief Su?" If Commander Su is willing to send more troops to the First War Zone, I will not say that it is an apology, even kowtow to make amends, but the question is where the post department said it wrong! ”

"Bang!"

Chen Cheng slapped the table violently, and nodded angrily: "Okay...... You really think that I can't punish you if I came out of the chamber, right? Someone! ”

"Yes!"

Two lieutenant colonels stepped forward!

I saw Chen Cheng pointing at the colonel and said: "You tore this guy's epaulette for me, and then escorted him back to Chongyeqing and sent to the military court, on the charge of disrupting the order of the meeting and insulting the commander, I will expel him from the army!" ”

While Chen Cheng was talking, the generals of the Third Army on the other side were observing them with cold eyes, and many people were carefully distinguishing whether Chen Cheng was playing a bitter trick, but how could their eyes see the truth and falsehood of this old Jianghu dialect who was also the head of the General Political Department of the Military Commission, the chairman of the HB Provincial Committee, the member of the Aviation Committee, the chairman of the Central Training Commission, the secretary general of the Central Youth League Department of the Three People's Youth League, and the chief of education of the Central Training Corps.

After all this last night, Chen Cheng said to Su Jin with a wry smile: "I'm sorry, brother, this time it's my brother who is not strict with me, so I let you see the joke." ”

Su Jin quietly watched as the people brought by Chen Cheng escorted the colonel down, and then sighed and said: "Chief Chen, the department also knows that the battle of Zhongtiao Mountain is indeed at a critical juncture, but the problem is just like what I just said, now the combat materials required by the first and second divisions of the garrison fighting in Zhongtiao Mountain alone have reached fifty or sixty tons per day, and in order to ensure that these materials can be smoothly transported to the hands of the participating troops, we have used twenty C-54 transport planes to transport ammunition and replenish troops back and forth every day. It is only barely able to support, and once it exceeds this range, we will no longer be able to guarantee the logistics supply of the troops, so what is the use of sending more troops! (To be continued.) )