Chapter 324: Lieutenant General
Under Chen Bui's personal management, newspapers and radio stations in major cities in the Kuomintang region were full of photos of Sun Yumin, his 20th Division, and his Huoshan Independent Detachment, and of course, the head of the Devil's Lieutenant General Division, Ito Masaki.
"The god of war is mighty and mighty, and the commander of the enemy's lieutenant general's division, Ito Masa, is happy to die on the battlefield!"
"Wuning victory, the national army Sun Yumin's department completely annihilated the 101st division of the Japanese army!"
"The God of War is back!"
The three pages of the Central Daily are all the news of Wuning's victory, most of them are written by Pantene who came back from the battlefield, after all, she has personally contacted this battle, and there are a lot of materials, the reports she wrote are both wonderful and straightforward, compared to those reports that are the same as the official tone, the press release she wrote is very down-to-earth, plus this news is exciting enough, both relieved and surprised, and the response is naturally very good.
The rest of the newspapers, such as the morning newspaper and the evening newspaper, also spared no effort to tout this great victory and touted Sun Yumin.
The same is true for the radio station, and even Sun Yumin's resume is like a treasure when broadcasting: General Sun Yumin, whose ancestral home is Hengyang, Hunan, enlisted in the army in the 22nd year of the Republic of China, served in the Sun Lianzhong Department of the Northwest Army, and was transferred as a backbone member when the teaching corps was expanded in the 24th year of the Republic of China, and served as the commander of the first company of the second battalion of the second regiment. In the defense of Nanjing, General Sun Yumin was promoted to regiment commander by the line of fire, led the second regiment to hold the Guanghuamen position, even if he was seriously wounded, he still fought hard until the city was broken, and after breaking through, he was promoted to the colonel of the 46th Division Quartermaster Logistics Department. In the same year, he was appointed as the commander of the 20th Division, and led his troops to fight fiercely with the Japanese invaders around Jining. In May of the 27th year of the Republic of China, the 20th Division of the Japanese Army, which led the 20th Division and the 14th Division of the Japanese Army, known as the invincible division, fought fiercely between Lanfeng, and dealt a heavy blow to the invincible Japanese army. In this battle, General Sun took the lead and bravely killed the enemy, but unfortunately he was seriously wounded. Before his wounds healed, he still led his troops to defeat the rampaging Hatian detachment at Ruichang, resulting in the Japanese army in the division having almost no combat effectiveness and being forced to be transferred back. General Sun Yumin also recurred from his old injuries in this battle and went to Huoshan to recuperate. During the Battle of Northern Jiangxi, General Sun was ordered to go on an expedition, first recaptured Gao'an, and then led his troops to defeat the 102nd Brigade and killed the brigade commander Yoshio Kudo; In this winter offensive, General Sun led the 20th Division and the Huoshan Independent Detachment to kill the commander of the Japanese 101st Division, Ito Masaki, and almost completely annihilated the enemy's 101st Division.
Under the instruction of Xu Enzeng, Zhongtong organized special celebrations and studies in major schools, factories, hospitals and other places.
In just two days, Sun Yumin's fame became famous, not only in the national control area, but even in the enemy-occupied area.
For a time, Sun Yumin's name resounded all over the country, and he also became the number one assassination target of devils, Japanese spies and Wang's puppet government, and even publicly offered a reward of 100 taels of gold to kill him.
Sun Yumin was completely unaware of all this when it happened, and it was not until he captured Ruichang from the 106th Division that he learned about it on the radio.
When he heard the news, he only laughed twice, and then he didn't take it seriously. Originally, I sent Panting back to let her contact Chen Bui privately to help convey that the 20th Division needed the support of the follow-up troops, after all, it was fighting against an ad hoc division composed of retired personnel of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army. As for the results of the first battle of Wuning, he told Pan Ting that when he wrote the report, he only wrote about the 20th Division and Zhang Xiaohu, but who knew that this woman did not do what she told and made such a big battle, maybe she didn't expect it.
Until Tang Chunhong sent a telegram from Luo Zhuoying, Sun Yumin thought that it was just Pantene's personal doing.
After two or three days, Sun Yumin almost forgot about it, but he heard a news that surprised him.
There are troops coming to Ruichang, and they are national army troops.
Luo Zhuoying did not arrive, but the advance troops of the 139th Division arrived first, and it was the 417th Regiment that came, this regiment was more appreciated by Sun Yumin, whether it was to fight Gao'an or break through the defense line of the 102nd Brigade, the combat effectiveness shown was very strong.
Lin Yuanping led the commander of the 417th Regiment into the headquarters in Ruichang City.
Although there is Zhang Xiaohu with the rank of major general in the headquarters, and a bunch of officers with the rank of colonel, Sun Yumin, who does not have a military rank, is not at all inconspicuous, but the commander of the 417th Regiment can still tell who the core figure is at a glance, he walked in front of Sun Yumin, saluted a military salute, and then said: "Wang Heng, the commander of the 417th Regiment of the 139th Division, was ordered to report for duty!" ”
"Check-in? If your troops of the 139th Division don't report to Li Zhaoying, what are you doing when you come to Ruichang to find me? ”
"Report to the army commander, Division Commander Li can't come, but the deputy division commander will lead the whole 139th Division to report to you in a few days." Wang Heng behaved neither humbly nor arrogantly, and his voice was very loud, which Sun Yumin liked very much.
After hearing his words, Sun Yumin immediately understood the purpose of Luo Zhuoying's coming, and also understood that Lao Jiang did not allow him to object, and had already pushed him to the position of army commander. It is indeed such a great feat, even if he wants to shirk it, how can he shirk it.
These people in the division headquarters are all Sun Yumin's henchmen, all of them are masters who can recruit and fight, especially the stupid bear, as soon as he heard Wang Heng say the word commander, he jumped up excitedly and said: "Jiang Guangtou finally did a very happy thing, boss, let alone being a military commander, it is more than enough to be a group army commander." ”
"What nonsense?" Sun Yumin reprimanded him, and then asked Wang Heng: "What is the situation, can you tell me?" Seeing that Wang Heng was stunned and didn't understand what he meant, he asked again: "Isn't the 139th Division a unit of the 32nd Army?" Report to me? Is it Li Jingrong's meaning or Li Zhaoying's meaning? ”
After hearing Sun Yumin's words, Wang Heng understood what he meant, and hurriedly replied: "Report to the military seat, according to the order of the military and political department, the 139th division will draw the 12th army sequence, come to Ruichang to assemble, accept the command of the military seat, our department is the vanguard force, the 422nd regiment, the 423rd regiment and the troops directly under the division headquarters will arrive later." ”
As soon as Wang Heng's words came out, the whole room began to boil, although everyone had more or less received a little news from Tang Chunhong, saying that all departments of the national army had received the report of the battle situation of the Wuning victory, and Lao Jiang praised Sun Yumin, but no one expected that before the promotion order arrived, the 139th Division had already come to report.
The people in the room were very excited, not only stupid bear, but also Deng Dongping, who was the commander of Shen Fazao's guard company in the 87th Division, and Sun Yumin was only the small battalion commander of the teaching corps, only one level higher than himself, but the ghost made him choose to follow him, but he didn't expect that since then, he has followed him all the way. Shen Fazao is still a division commander now, but Sun Yumin has become a lieutenant general. Lin Yuanping is the same, at the beginning he was still a devil heavy soldier, to throw himself to Sun Yumin's side can be said to be a last resort, did not expect that people did not dislike his devil identity at all, these years even the most important security work has been handed over to him, although he has half Japanese ancestry, but he has long regarded himself as a thorough Chinese, and has long regarded himself as a member of the people around Sun Yumin.
Everyone was excited, but Sun Yumin frowned.
The 12th Army is Sun Tongxuan's troops, although he said that he is also from the 12th Army, but he is self-aware, except for Zhang Xiaohu of the 20th Division, the other two divisions may not be completely under his command, and the 139th Division is subordinate to the 20th Group Army, which is Shang Zhen's troops, and there is a gap between them, although the 139th Division cooperates quite well with himself, but this does not mean that he can control this force.
Liu Wenzhi plays the role of a think tank and a mouthpiece by Sun Yumin's side, and some things that Sun Yumin is not suitable to say and do, he will come forward to say and do. Now that he is away, this role has been replaced by Deng Dongping, although Sun Yumin did not make it clear.
"Commander Wang, you said that the 139th Division came to report, and the troops were brought over by the deputy division commander, right, what about your division commander Li Zhaoying? Where did he go? ”
"At the same time that our division received the transfer order, Division Commander Li also received the transfer order and went to other armies to become a commander, which was an order personally issued by Commander-in-Chief Shang." Wang Heng replied: "Only the deputy division commander is left in the division headquarters, and the chief of staff and they are also transferred away with Division Commander Li. ”
"Oh, I see." Deng Dongping nodded, and then he turned his head to Sun Yumin and said, "Commander, it seems that it was Kudo Yoshio's general's knife that worked." ”
As soon as this sentence came out, the whole room laughed, except for Wang Heng who felt inexplicable.
Sun Yumin was worried that his gang of people would leave a bad impression on others, so he explained to Wang Heng: "Commander Wang, don't mind, they are not making fun of Master Li, but just because he made a deal with me, I benefited, and he also benefited." ”
Although it was a simple explanation, it made Wang Heng feel very warm, when was Li Zhaoying and Li Jingrong in the 139th Division, when did they care so much about the feelings of a small regiment leader.
"Commander Wang, everyone is also an old acquaintance, starting from Gao'an and then fighting with the 102nd Brigade, we have seen the combat effectiveness and performance of the 417 Regiment, and we are also clear, after coming to us, they are their own people." Deng Dongping also comforted him, which can be regarded as a representative of everyone's acceptance of him and the 417 regiment.
"Report." A familiar female voice came from the door of the conference room, and this voice suddenly gave Sun Yumin an illusion, and time seemed to have suddenly pulled to the moment of Jining.
After Tang Chunhong shouted a report at the door, she walked in, which was her habit.
"Director Tang."
"Director Tang."
The people in the room all greeted her one after another, which made her very useful, and this feeling was really good.
"Sister Hong, is there any emergency?" Although Sun Yumin is slightly older than Tang Chunhong, he has been calling her according to Lu Man.
"Shizao, no, I should call you Junzao." Tang Chunhong was also full of smiles, and said: "I just received a telegram from the 81st Division, and the division commander of Zhanshutang has been ordered to lead his troops south to return to the building, and I ask you to give you a meeting place. ”
"Eighty-first Division?" A trace of surprise flashed on Sun Yumin's face, although he knew from Wang Heng's mouth that he had been "promoted" to the rank of military commander, but he still didn't expect that it would come so quickly.
He, the "army commander", is really a "nest", the troops are being assembled, and some of them have even arrived, but he hasn't even seen the order to take office, which is really a strange story. He also thought of Lao Jiang's idea, and was worried that he would refuse, so he made the first move and pushed all the troops to his side, which became an established fact, and he couldn't help but disagree. But he also didn't understand, Lao Jiang could tell him what he wanted, but why did Chen Bui do this? If Sun Yumin remembers correctly, the telecommunications director Tang Chunhong is his person, and it should not be difficult to secretly send a private telegram, but there is not the slightest movement on his side.
The original battle plan of fighting Wuxue first and then Jiujiang was temporarily terminated by Sun Yumin, and there was such a big change, he had to adjust his plans and strategies accordingly.
After settling Wang Heng and his 417th regiment, Sun Yumin called Zhang Xiaohu, Deng Dongping, Silly Xiong, Dai Cunxiang and Dong Wenbin together to discuss this sudden change. The five of them were all elated, and they all resolutely agreed with and supported him as the "army commander", although his "army commander" was still not rightly named, but they had already been called the army commander, and they didn't care what Sun Yumin's attitude was.
Unlike the five of them, Sun Yumin has always been in hesitation and contradiction.
He is a descendant and knows the general trend of history, so he has always wanted to lead these brothers on the right path, the battle of Chengzi Town on the bank of the Yangtze River, the reason why he cheated to death is to dilute his existence, so that Lao Jiang and Dai Li's eyes will no longer be staring in this direction, even if these brothers and people related to him are in the future. I will not be implicated by switching to a CD. In this battle of northern Jiangxi, the reason why he gave up all his military achievements was also out of this idea. The matter had already been successful for most of the time, but now Lao Jiang suddenly gave himself this hand again, which made him entangled.
Sun Yumin never thought of swearing allegiance to this rotten government of the Republic of China, let alone following Lao Jiang's side, let alone an army, even a group army, he would not be tempted. But now, Sun Yumin is a little tempted, and being tempted does not mean that he will be subdued by Lao Jiang, but just because, he needs troops now, and he needs a force that can fight with the devil with real guns and live ammunition, not to mention the 20th Division, this is his old army, although Zhang Xiaohu has led it for two years, and the troops have been reduced by nearly half, but the combat effectiveness shown is still very strong, and Wu Ning has been well reflected in the battle of defeating the 101st Division; Although the 139th Division is temporarily inferior to the 20th Division, it can be regarded as the top few main divisions in the 20th Group Army. As for the 81st Division, Zhanshutang is an old acquaintance, Sun Yumin still remembers that when he retreated, he secretly sent someone to report the news, if he hadn't known about Sun Tongxuan and Shang Zhen's actions, he wouldn't even use his watch to exchange for Gui Yongqing's all-out offensive and rescue.
With these three divisions, plus their own Huoshan Independent Detachment, given time, what came out was a steel unit no less than the 74th Army.
Just imagine, if you can lead this army to sweep away the devils, how happy it will be!