A month passed in a flash, and the whole division of the first division was pulled to the original water division patrol field in the east of Dongguan City for review, and Xue Yue was full of energy to prepare a little white face for a good lesson; God seemed to be willing to satisfy his hopes, and the opponents drawn out of the first shot were the first and third regiments to confront each other; Zhuang Jihua was very generous, and asked Xue Yue to pick a company from one regiment at random, and the companies of the three regiments were also sent by himself, Xue Yue was very unhappy after hearing this.

"The deputy division is large, and he is lowly and professional, but he is still sent by the deputy division commander, so as not to gossip." Xue Yue said to Zhuang Jihua neither humbly nor arrogantly, but he sneered in his heart, if you lose, you said that I sent the strongest company to beat your weakest company, I think it is so beautiful.

Zhuang Jihua was stunned for a moment and immediately understood what Xue Yue meant, he didn't care, smiled at Xue Yue, and then said to Wang Bailing: "In this way, let's ask Senior Commander Wang to order troops." ”

Wang Bailing pretended to think about it and said: "The Cultural Revolution started with the Seventh Company, so let's do it, the first regiment will order the Seventh Company, and the third regiment will be sent by Dai Anlan." ”

Of course, Wang Bailing didn't have a good heart, he also wanted to make Zhuang Jihua make a fool of himself, Dai Anlan Company is the strongest company of the three regiments, but the seventh company is not the seventh company brought out by Zhuang Jihua, the seventh company is in the second division Hu Zongnan Regiment, Chief of Staff Chen Zhuo looked at Zhuang Jihua worriedly, to be honest, as a Whampoa instructor, he was also a little dissatisfied with Zhuang Jihua's promotion so quickly, and he also wanted him to suffer a loss, but Chen Zhuo didn't want him to suffer a loss because of this, after all, Zhuang Jihua was going all out to train the troops.

Chen Zhuo went to a regiment many times, rarely saw Zhuang Jihua in the regiment headquarters, all soaked in the company, and he also saw Zhuang Jihua crawling on the ground like a soldier; Under the leadership of Zhuang Jihua, a group is changing every day; Compared with Zhuang Jihua, Wang Bailing is a puddle of mud; He never left the division, or went to drink and make a living, and he still had a home in Dongguan, and his two concubines lived with him.

Regarding Wang Bailing's proposal, Zhuang Jihua agreed without care, although the Seventh Company is not the strongest, it is not the weakest company, and it is just right for it to fight.

There are three types of shooting confrontation, standing, lying and kneeling, and the shooting distance is 100 meters; The two companies were pulled to the shooting range one after another, and at the sound of an order, the gunfire on the field rang out again.

The target shooting is not fast, how can the confrontation between the two companies take an hour, the senior officers are waiting in boredom, and the crowd is naturally divided into several parts, Wang Bailing and Miao Bin are a group, Zhuang Jihua, Sun Yuanliang, Xiong Shouyun and others are a group, Chen Zhuo is with several other division officers, and Xue Yue is standing on the other side with the officers of the three regiments.

"Can the Seven Links work?" Xiong Shouyun asked quietly.

"There will be results later, what's the hurry." Zhuang Jihua said casually.

"Don't be ignorant of good people; I'm not in a hurry, I mean if you lose, what do I think you do? Xiong Shouyun looked at Zhuang Jihua dissatisfied.

"If you lose, go back and practice again, it's not a big deal." Zhuang Jihua said with a smile.

"I said the Cultural Revolution, you can afford to put it down," Sun Yuanliang was happy, during this time he was also training in the second regiment, but Zhuang Jihua came too little, only twice, but he had the bottom in his heart, even if he lost, he would not lose too ugly.

"As long as the combat effectiveness of the whole division goes up, my goal will be achieved, and besides, it is not yet known who will lose and who will win." Zhuang Jihua said with a smile.

Sun Yuanliang couldn't help but be dumbfounded, he remembered that Zhuang Jihua still had a position: deputy division commander, responsible for presiding over the training of the whole division, Xue Yue wanted to overwhelm Zhuang Jihua, he would inevitably have to train the troops desperately, so the training of the three regiments went up, Zhuang Jihua brought out one regiment again, can he Sun Yuanliang not practice? Can you not practice hard? Unless he is willing to be a soft-footed shrimp, Zhuang Jihua's purpose will naturally be achieved.

"Okay, you Zhuang Cultural Revolution, it turns out that you set us two up!" Sun Yuanliang, who came to his senses, stared at Zhuang Jihua "angrily": "I only understand now why Song Xilian said that you are insidious and cunning." ”

Zhuang Jihua laughed when he heard this, Xiong Shouyun couldn't help laughing, they all knew the background of Song Xilian's words, Zhuang Jihua cheated Song Xilian of two months' salary and invested in the construction of the army.

"Poor thing! Poor Xue Boling fell into your shell, and you still don't know it. Sun Yuanliang shook his head and sighed.

"What shell? This is a conspiracy, not a conspiracy," Zhuang Jihua said to Sun Yuanliang dissatisfiedly: "Head Sun, now that you know, can you not practice?" ”

Sun Yuanliang thought about it with a blank face, and shook his head helplessly: "No." ”

It really can't, the punishment rules are there, and if you fail twice in a row, you will be demoted, this is not a joke, Zhuang Jihua will not make such a joke with them.

"That'll do."

An hour passed quickly in the small talk, and Xue Yue listened confidently to the report of the star officer:

"A regiment of seven companies fired a total of xxxx rounds of ammunition, with a total of 4,321 targets; The three regiments launched a total of ......., with a total of 4,321 targets. ”

Xue Yue didn't believe his ears a little, and he asked unwillingly, "You guys are not mistaken, right?" ”

"Report to Captain Xue, there is nothing wrong. This is the result of the addition of the three postures, standing posture and kneeling posture, your regiment is lagging behind, but the lying posture is more ahead of your regiment, and it has caught up again. The star officer replied loudly.

Xue Yue was even more difficult to accept, when Wang Bailing first pointed out Dai Anlanlian, he was seven points sure in his heart, but now he is nominally tied, but in fact he loses two wins and wins.

"No, come again." Xue Yue was unwilling, and the green tendons on his neck jumped suddenly.

"According to the rules, this game is a draw, Captain Xue doesn't need to worry, let's move on to the next round." Wang Bailing said with a smile, but he was secretly surprised in his heart, he also asked just now, the Seventh Company is only a medium company in the first regiment, but such a medium company can fight against the strongest company of the three regiments.

"Assassination, or my regiment and a regiment." Xue Yue shouted.

"Okay, Commander Xue will order the troops." Zhuang Jihua didn't wait for Wang Bailing to speak, and immediately said.

"Okay, which company was sent by Commander Xue?" Wang Bailing had no choice but to accept it.

"Okay, I'm ......."

As a result, naturally, ...., the three regiments suffered a fiasco. After all three regiments fell, nearly half of the soldiers of the first regiment remained on the battlefield. In fact, just halfway through this competition, Xue Yue was desperate, and at the beginning of the assassination, a regiment of soldiers was divided into dozens of small teams, and these small teams were either three, or four, or five; These small teams form hedgehogs and roll around the battlefield; When defending, it can fight against seven or eight three regiments of soldiers fighting separately, and it often takes one to two times the casualties of the three regiments to kill such a small group; And the soldiers who were killed and scattered, as long as they did not die, were soon combined into a small hedgehog; When attacking, the little hedgehog scatters into a fan shape, and the battle is resolved in two or three strokes; The company commander of the third regiment finally became anxious and tried his best to break up the two small teams, but in the end he also lost himself.

How could this be, Xue Yue was anxious and angry, was this still the wilting mess? What did this Zhuang Jihua do? Xue Yue began to realize that this Zhuang Jihua may not be the kind of little white face who came to power by relying on relationships, and the content of those two pamphlets was not a literati and martial arts.

"Cultural Revolution, don't leave your hands like this, okay?" Xiong Shouyun asked worriedly, Xue Yue's surname is stubborn, can he accept such a failure? .

"It's okay," Zhuang Jihua said slowly: "Xue Boling's surname can be explained in three words, and he will not admit defeat; When he wins, he may be arrogant, complacent, and slack; But if he loses, he will play with his life when he goes back, and we will see. ”

"You! People's hearts have been pondered by you. Xiong Shouyun smiled bitterly and said, "Fortunately, I am your subordinate. ”

"Does it matter?" Zhuang Jihua was a little puzzled.

"Of course, I'm your subordinate, at least you won't count me." Xiong Shouyun said with confidence.

"Hey, it's... Why! Zhuang Jihua said in a slow and long tone: "Song Xilian and Hu Zongnan definitely don't agree with your opinion." ”

Well, Xiong Shouyun was stunned and couldn't help but touch his pocket.

"It is said that the red glow flies in the West Mountain, and the soldiers shoot the target and return to the camp...," a regiment won a complete victory, and the whole regiment happily sang and went back. In the last 10-kilometer cross-country in which all three regiments participated, the first regiment won the first place, and the third regiment won the second place this time; Although Sun Yuanliang was unhappy, he had not lost his temper, but Xue Yue, who was aiming at Zhuang Jihua, almost ran away and scolded the participating company commander for a bloody scolding, if Zhuang Jihua hadn't come forward to stop it, Xue Yue would have almost beaten the last few soldiers who arrived.

After the review, although Wang Bailing and Miao Bin were not happy, they had to admit that Zhuang Jihua had become the real deputy commander of the first division.

At the Second Plenum of the Central Committee, Chiang Kai-shek won a great victory, and [***] was forced to accept the "Sorting Out Party Affairs Bill", [***], Lin Boqu, and Tan Pingshan resigned from their posts in the Kuomintang, and Chiang Kai-shek took over as the head of the Kuomintang Organization, and he appointed Chen Guofu as secretary to actually control the Organization Department. Chiang Kai-shek's motion to recommend Zhang Jingjiang as chairman of the Kuomintang, Soong Ching-ling as vice-chairman, Tan Yankai as chairman of the Kuomintang, and Soong Ching-ling as vice-chairman was also passed; The Russians were very satisfied with this proposal, and it also strengthened their determination to cooperate with Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek became chairman of the Military Council, and he ascended to the pinnacle of Chinese power. At the same time as the Second Plenary Session of the CPC Central Committee was convened, the situation in Hunan changed drastically, and Wu Peifu finally chose to send troops to Hunan to carry out a two-front operation.

After the Wu army was dispatched, the road was like a bamboo, Tang Shengzhi abandoned Changsha and retreated to Hengyang, and the two Guangxi reinforcements were reinforced; Li Zongren lobbied vigorously from Guangxi to Guangzhou, and [***] also changed course after the Zhongshan ship, and also agitated for the Northern Expedition; But Chiang Kai-shek did not dare to go on the Northern Expedition now, on the one hand, the situation of the First Army had not fundamentally improved, and after the expansion of the army, all divisions were reorganizing their troops, but the time was too short; On the other hand, he also felt that the political situation was unstable, he had not yet fully grasped power, and that Chiang Kai-shek turned to oppose the immediate Northern Expedition after three bills passed by the Second Shangzhuang Jihua with great difficulty.

Chiang Kai-shek's opposition to sending troops to aid Hunan made Li Zongren anxious, he found Li Jishen, who had a good relationship with him, but Li Jishen did not agree, he said to Li Zongren that the current situation in Guangzhou is unstable, and the time for the Northern Expedition has not yet come; Li Zongren disagreed, and he said to Li Jishen that as long as you and I send troops, other armies will respond en masse. Li Jishen didn't understand for a while, and he didn't know what Li Zongren meant. Li Zongren unravels the mystery.

"You and I are the sons of Liangguang, they are the main army, they are both guest troops, we are all willing to send troops, can they still not send troops?"

Li Jishen woke up like a dream, and he completely understood what Li Zongren didn't say. The people who are now in power in Guangdong are from other provinces, which causes dissatisfaction among the more xenophobic Cantonese army; When the Northern Expedition was dispatched, these people from other provinces would leave Guangdong, and Guangdong would naturally return to the hands of the Cantonese people.

Li Jishen uncharacteristically advocated the dispatch of troops at the Military Committee, and took the lead in sending Ye Ting's Reading Force to reinforce Hunan, followed by Chen Mingshu's 10th Division. Sure enough, as Li Zongren expected, after Er Li sent troops, other armies responded one after another, and Chiang Kai-shek's heart was also moved.

In the middle of June, the sun shone on the ground white, and the wind blowing from the depths of the ocean had a more spicy smell in addition to the fishy smell.

When Chiang Kai-shek's car slowly drove into the parade ground, "Stand... The voice of the star officer resounded throughout the audience, and the already quiet parade field could even be heard when a needle fell to the ground.

"Report Chairman, the First Division of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army has been assembled and is waiting for review."

Chiang Kai-shek ascended the review stand, and Wang Bailing immediately reported loudly to Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek nodded, and he looked at the officers of the First Division on the review stand one by one, Deputy Division Commander Zhuang Jihua, Chief of Staff Chen Zhuo, and Party Representative Miao Bin.

On the way up to the review stand, he was carefully surveying the troops lined up in a neat phalanx, and in the sun, most of the soldiers' shoulders and backs were soaked with sweat, but all the officers and soldiers in his eyes were as straight as the benchmarks, and their eyes were shining. In just two and a half months, the first division was reborn.

"Okay, thank you guys." Chiang Kai-shek was extremely happy in his heart, and the change in the first division was beyond his expectations.

"It is not hard to be lowly and deserved, it is natural for the party and the country." Wang Bailing replied loudly.

"Cultural Revolution, you come over too." Chiang Kai-shek beckoned to Zhuang Jihua.

Zhuang Jihua hurriedly came over and saluted Chiang Kai-shek: "Report to the principal, Zhuang Jihua, deputy commander of the first division, listen to the order." ”

"Let's go down and take a look at your soldiers." Chiang Kai-shek excitedly crossed his hands on his waist, and his eyes were full of love and appreciation.

Chiang Kai-shek took the lead, followed by Zhuang Jihua and Wang Bailing, then Deng Yanda, director of the Political Department, and Jiang Bocheng, chief of staff of the army; They watched one regiment after another, and asked them about their training in the past two months or so, and at first it was Wang Bailing who answered, and later it became Zhuang Jihua's answer, and Chiang Kai-shek also accosted the officers in front of him from time to time.

"Xiong Shouyun."

"Yes, Headmaster!" Xiong Shouyun straightened his chest and tucked his abdomen and replied loudly.

"Can a regiment fight?"

Xiong Shouyun did not answer directly, but strode to the front of the queue and asked loudly, "Can a group fight?" ”

"Use me in the first battle, use me to win!! Use me in the first battle, use me to win!! Use me in the first battle, use me to win!! "The sound of more than a thousand throats roaring is deafening.

After the hurricane, Xiong Shouyun strode back to Chiang Kai-shek: "Principal, this is the answer of a regiment of officers and soldiers. ”

"Okay, use me in the first battle, use me to win! Good! Chiang Kai-shek even claimed: "Cultural Revolution, you made this again." ”

"This is the confidence of the officers and men of my division that they will win." Zhuang Jihua replied.

Chiang Kai-shek nodded, turned around and continued to walk towards the Second Regiment.

"Sun Yuanliang."

"Report to the principal, Huangpu Phase I, Sun Yuanliang is waiting for orders!" Sun Yuanliang's handsome face was extremely serious.

"Hit Huizhou, you have made meritorious contributions, do you want to go to Hunan to make new contributions?"

Sun Yuanliang also strode to the front of the queue and asked loudly to his second regiment: "Do you want to go to Hunan to make meritorious contributions?" ”

"Kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, for the country and the people!! Kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, for the country and the people!! Kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, for the country and the people!! Another hurricane resounded through the sky.

"Xue Boling, you are getting stronger and stronger." Chiang Kai-shek looked at the black and thin Xue Yue and said with a smile: "I won't ask, just look at their appearance, I know that they are elite soldiers, good soldiers brought by you Xue Boling." ”

"Report to the chairman, don't dare to be greedy for merit, this is all the work of Deputy Division Commander Zhuang!" Xue Yue replied loudly.

After the first proofreading, the more Xue Yue came back, the more he thought about it, the more he couldn't figure it out, especially the assassination, which stimulated him too much, the casualty ratio of 1:2, which is very rare in white-knives fighting, he carefully recalled the situation at that time, and found that if he fought alone, his heat did not seem to be down, but a group did not compete with him at all, most of the time it was to bully the widow with the crowd, and to fight more and less.

After figuring it out, he couldn't help but scold Zhuang Jihua for not being authentic, what kind of ghost tactic is this, completely losing the courage and guts of a soldier; Scolding and scolding, he took out Zhuang Jihua's booklet and studied it carefully, after this booklet was sent down, he was thrown into the corner, now, he wants to know himself and know that he will not be defeated in a hundred battles.

Then he began to treat his people in the way of others, and then he heard that Zhuang Jihua had appeared in the second regiment again, and began to guide the training of the second regiment, "Damn, next time I review Lao Tzu's regiment to beat you two regiments." Not long after Xue Yue swore that he must give Zhuang Jihua a little look, Zhuang Jihua finally came to his third group.

Although Zhuang Jihua concluded that Xue Yue would not be discouraged, he was still worried, so he came to take a look, but he didn't expect to find that Xue Yue was quietly training according to his booklet, not only that, but also made some corrections to the things on the booklet.

This discovery made Zhuang Jihua very happy, so he stopped for a few days in the third regiment, and discussed with Xue Yue the tactics of the company, battalion and regiment, and he told Xue Yue some of his experiences, such as assault, the main firepower should be used at a point, through which the enemy's defense line was opened.

"Our problem now is that there is no strong fire support during the assault, there are only a few machine guns and only a few artillery pieces, and they can't destroy fortifications like Huizhou at all, so I think we can only provide cover for the assault team through precision strikes."

"Precision strikes? What precision strikes? How to deliver precision strikes. Xue Yue was a little puzzled.

"I organized sharpshooters in the Seventh Company, and their mission was to fight enemy machine gunners and commanders." Zhuang Jihua introduced: "During the assault, these sharpshooters can form a strike team to focus on the enemy's firepower points, and two or three guns can block the enemy's firepower points, so that fire support can also be realized." ”

Now Xue Yue understood, he immediately proposed that he could organize a god pitcher, his regiment had several veterans with such accurate bomb throwing, Zhuang Jihua was very interested in her proposal, and decided to look for it in the first and second regiments.

The discussion between the two formed the main tactical queue in the offensive tactics of the Kuomintang army after that: commando team, covering team, support team, commando team all submachine guns (called flower machine guns at that time), covering team mainly composed of machine gunners, snipers, and god pitchers, the covering team provided fire support for the assault team, the assault team was responsible for opening the gap, and the support team was responsible for expanding the gap.

Every time Xue Yue discussed, he noticed that Zhuang Jihua recorded it in his small book, and after a few days, he memorized a thick book; Soon after Zhuang Jihua left, the division headquarters sent a booklet "Principles of Offensive and Defensive Tactics" signed by Xue Yue and Zhuang Jihua.

When he was waiting for Zhuang Jihua, his deputy regiment commander just said something with a little white face, and he was interrupted by him, "Deputy Division Commander Zhuang is not a little white face, he is a soldier!" It's a man, understand? ”

The deputy head of the regiment stared at Xue Yue dumbfounded, wondering when the head of the regiment had changed.

That's why when facing Chiang Kai-shek now, Xue Yue replied like this.

"Commander Xue is good at training and leading troops, and students have benefited a lot from him." Zhuang Jihua said to Chiang Kai-shek.

Chiang Kai-shek nodded and looked at Xue Yue thoughtfully: "Why are you humble?" Did you suffer the loss of the Cultural Revolution? ”

Xue Yue looked at Chiang Kai-shek embarrassedly, and nodded helplessly.

"Hehe, it's too normal, if you want to play cards according to common sense, then it's not Zhuang Jihua." Chiang Kai-shek said to Xue Yue with a smile.

"It's still the chairman who understands Deputy Division Commander Zhuang." Xue Yue said with a wry smile.

"But I'm very happy to see you like this, the whole team will be invincible, and the first division is the tiger of our party-state." Chiang Kai-shek was full of joy, but he forgot that the commander of the first division was Wang Bailing; I forgot Napoleon's words: a flock of sheep led by a lion can defeat a flock of lions led by a sheep.

"Choosing a life, it looks like we should go on a northern expedition." On the way back, Chiang Kai-shek said to Deng Yanda in the car.

(To be continued)