Song Zhewu needs talents from the Northeast, and the most urgent thing is the need for students and soldiers in the Northeast, especially for senior generals. And Han Guangdi and Liang Zhongjia are undoubtedly one of the few fierce generals in the Northeast Army who can fight well, and this battle against the Soviet Union on the Western Front has completely proved this.

Even in the original history of the previous life, the performance of the two was also remarkable. In his previous life, Han Guangdi insisted on Zha Lai Nuoer, not only was his weapons and equipment far inferior to the Soviet army, but the comparison of troops was also extremely different, but Han Guangdi still stubbornly held on for two days under the bombardment and strafing of Soviet aircraft, artillery, and tanks, and finally died in battle.

And Liang Zhongjia was even more tough, leading his 15th Brigade to withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of Soviet aircraft and artillery, and the Soviet heavy troops attacked for two days with the cooperation of dozens of tanks, not to mention heavy casualties, and only took the outer positions in Manchuria. If it weren't for Liang Zhongjia's lack of rescue troops and internal ammunition, this Manchuria would not have known how many days it would take.

In the Battle of Tongjiang on the Eastern Front, the Soviet Army occupied Tongjiang with only double-digit casualties, and even chased tens of thousands of Northeast Army troops running all over the mountain. Comparing the two sides, it is as if they are not the troops of the Northeast Army.

Moreover, the Soviet army did not fight on the Eastern Front, but only wanted to force Zhang Xueliang to agree to their conditions. It was different in Manchuria on the Western Front, after the Soviet Army saw the defeat of the Northeast Army on the Eastern Front, Zhang Xueliang gritted his teeth and refused to accept softness, so he was ruthless and wanted to give Zhang Xueliang a hard lesson on the Western Front, so the battle between Manchuria and Zhalainoer on the Western Front was far more fierce than on the Eastern Front, and the Soviet Army invested more troops in this battle than in Tongjiang and Fujin on the Eastern Front.

If it weren't for the death of Han Guangdi in battle, Liang Zhongjia was poisoned and died when he was ordered to reorganize the 15th Mixed Brigade after returning to Harbin, and Song Zhewu believed that these two would have left a strong mark in the Northeast Army.

For such a general, Song Zhewu has long coveted it. It's just that Song Zhewu can't agree to the request of the two of them now, he is very helpless but also very clear to tell the two that he very much hopes that the two can add the Fourth Route Army, but not now, if he agrees to the request of the two now, Zhang Xueliang will not be happy, and will think that he Song Zhewu is digging the corner of the Northeast Army.

Song Zhewu's refusal was expected by the two. It's just that the two of them have agreed that they will join the Fourth Route Army while Song Zhewu is in the northeast no matter what.

The reason is that they are very chilled by the actions of the generals at all levels of the Northeast Army, represented by Zhang Zuoxiang and Wan Fulin, who disregarded the overall situation and only considered their own interests, and even took advantage of this to announce personal vendettas.

As far as they know, it was Zhang Zuoxiang, the overseer of Jilin Province, the chairman of the province, and Zhang Xueliang called the auxiliary commander, because he was dissatisfied with Zhang Xueliang's use of force to recover the Middle East Road and provoke border disputes, and he had always been unwilling for his troops to participate in the war.

Wan Fulin, deputy commander of the Northeast Frontier and overseer of Heilongjiang, was even more afraid that Liang Zhongjia would win the battle and that Liang Zhongjia would threaten his throne as deputy commander of the Northeast Frontier because of his meritorious service in resisting the Soviet Union, so he deliberately delayed the ammunition reserves in Manchuria and Zhainuoer. Because there were 10,000 Northeast troops in Manchuria, the ammunition consumption was also greater, and if the attacking troops under the command of Li Wentian were another hour late, Liang Zhongjia would have to take all the Northeast Army and the Soviet army in Manchuria to fight with bayonets.

On the contrary to Zhang Zuoxiang and Wan Fulin, Song Zhewu, who was stationed in Hebei, was not only able to travel thousands of miles to Manchuria to help, but also did not have the slightest intention of preserving strength in the battle, and suffered thousands of casualties on several battlefields without a single complaint. In particular, Song Zhewu's statement of the national war made the two admire.

In addition, they have seen with their own eyes the strong combat effectiveness of the Fourth Route Army, and the entire Fourth Route Army, from the soldiers to the officers at all levels, has high morale and is well-trained, and it is definitely a strong army rarely seen in China. During the fierce battle of Zha Lai Nuoer, Shi Ming supported Han Guangdi's one-and-a-half company, resisting the Soviet army in the street battle, not only blocking the attack of several times the Soviet army, but also overwhelming the Soviet army in the white-knuckle battle. It is precisely because of their tenacious performance of sacrificing life and forgetting death that the Northeast Army of Zalainuoer also aroused blood surnames, and fought desperately to the death, which was able to block the attack of the Soviet army with absolute superiority in strength and keep Zalainuoer. After the war, only about 100 people remained in the 1/200 companies of the 4th Route Army, which made all the Northeast Army troops stationed in Zhainuoer feel sweaty.

In Manchuria, the performance of the Fourth Route Army led by Wang De surprised Liang Zhongjia, who was very good at training and leading troops. In the first charge of the Soviet army, the outer positions of Manchuria were broken through by the Soviet tank group, and the Northeast Army, which had never seen so many tank groups charged, suddenly became chaotic, and saw that the outer positions of Manchuria were about to be completely lost in the first day of fighting.

If the outlying positions are lost, the Soviets have both tanks and aircraft, as well as a large number of heavy artillery, and it is difficult to say whether Manchuria will be able to hold out until the beginning of the general offensive. Liang Zhongjia, of course, knew that the situation was critical, and without hesitation, he sent a regiment that he had left as a reserve, and the two sides engaged in a white-knuckle battle at the gap in the outer positions. Under the ferocious provocation of the tall and long-arm Soviet troops, the regiment was quickly crushed. At the critical moment, it was Wang De who led his battalion to attack bravely, and he used a bayonet to kill the Soviet infantry and ran back with two long legs.

Liang Zhongjia thought that his 15th Brigade was the strongest force in the country, not to mention in the Northeast Army, even compared with the various armies in Guannei, and even he looked down on some troops, because for more than ten years, whether it was fighting against Mongolian horse bandits, the Beiyang Army, the Northwest Army, including Guo Songling's rebels, he had never suffered a loss. But today, when he compared with the troops of the Fourth Route Army, he felt that there was a huge gap between his troops and the Fourth Route Army.

Liang Zhongjia believed that if his 15th Brigade fought with the Fourth Route Army, he would definitely be the one who lost. Liang Zhongjia, who has always been arrogant in military training, was greatly impressed, and such an army was exactly what he had been thinking about for a long time.

There is another point that makes Liang Zhongjia and Han Guangdi more determined to join the Fourth Route Army, that is, the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Route are very friendly to the people. After the war, the people of the Fourth Route Army took the initiative to help the common people who lost their houses due to the war to build houses. Although it is not a brick house, but a simple wooden house, this is also very rare, Liang Zhongjia has never seen that army will help the people build houses after the war, and even gave some food and money.

These are all things that no Northeast Army can do, but the Fourth Route Army, an army from other provinces, does it very naturally, which makes both of them very emotional!

But what Song Zhewu didn't expect was that when he was about to return to Hailar with the first division, Han Guangdi and Liang Zhongjia came to his headquarters together and told Song Zhewu that they were no longer from the Northeast Army, and now they asked to join the Fourth Route Army......

(To be continued)