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Chapter 429 Good news is frequent

At 7 o'clock in the morning, he was the first to arrive at the general headquarters to review the battle report, sign the orders sent to the three corps, and ask the staff officers to present to Zhu Peide when he encountered major problems, so as to strictly fulfill the obligations of the former enemy's chief of staff. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 At noon, no matter how busy he was, he would return to the barracks of the Independent Division in the north of the city, visit the wounded, comfort the doctors, and sometimes talk for a while with the female nurses who admired him so much, and then return to the general headquarters to continue his work or attend meetings, and at dinner he would either have a drink or two with Zhu Peide, or be called to a small gathering by his colleagues or brothers, and start working until one or two o'clock in the evening, and almost every other night he would go to Commander-in-Chief Chiang's study to talk for about half an hour.

On the morning of 19 April, the extremely angry news finally came: Japan's Tanaka cabinet had decided to send troops to Shandong again, and Fukuda Hikosuke, commander of the Kumamoto Sixth Division, had already issued a mobilization order, and the entire division was ready to board the ship.

When the news broke, the whole country was in an uproar, and An Yi handed over to the staff officer of the Intelligence Section a 5,000-word commentary that he had written over the past few days, which he had revised and revised over over to the staff officer of the Intelligence Section, and ordered him to immediately send it to the Nanjing Liaison Office and forward it to the Oriental News Agency as soon as possible, striving to publish the full text in the next issue of the "Oriental Outlook" weekly.

Because of the relationship between An Yi and the generals of the three corps, armies, and divisions, 14 reporters dispatched by He Jing's Oriental News Agency were given the opportunity to accompany the army to cover the news, and timely and accurate war reports and vivid and detailed war documentary articles were published in the "Oriental News" and "Oriental Outlook" one after another, resulting in a sharp increase in the sales of newspapers and magazines under He Jing's command.

Liu Hong, a reporter sent by He Jing to the headquarters of the Revolutionary Army, conducted five exclusive interviews with Commander-in-Chief Chiang, An Yi, Zhu Peide, He Siyuan, and Ge Jingen, especially the long serialization of "Documentary of the Battle of Yufeng" written by Liu Hong, aroused tremendous repercussions from all walks of life, and the names of generals such as An Yi, He Yaozu, Xia Douyin, Hu Jialin, Gu Changfeng, and Lu Chengguang were familiar to the Chinese people, and the standard photos of Gu Changfeng, who was called the "Tiger General of the Northern Expedition" by the press, were promoted to major generals as soon as they were published, which immediately attracted the attention of countless girls. caused his wife Zhou Ruoting to beg Lao Shoudao again and again in Lao Nanchang to send a telegram to remind him.

Despite the threat from the Japanese, the armies of the Northern Expeditionary Army did not slow down the pace of conquest: on April 12, General Jiang Dingwen led the First Army to conquer Hanzhuang; General Feng Yuxiang's Second Army Sun Liangcheng's troops occupied Yuncheng.

On April 13, the First Army of General Jiang Dingwen of the First Army made another effort to capture the Yinping line in one fell swoop; After a day and a night of fierce fighting, General Chen Zhuo of the Second Army led the 26th Army to finally break through the defending enemy and occupy Linyi, an important town in southern Lunan.

Feng Yuxiang, commander-in-chief of the Second Group Army, saw that the Zhilu Coalition Army and Sun Chuanfang's troops were about to collapse on the whole line and that the Northern Expedition was about to succeed, so he took advantage of the situation to hold a grand rally, officially announced that he would cross the Yellow River north to attack the Feng Army, and once again sent a telegram to General Li Zongren, commander of the Fourth Group Army, calling on him to lead the officers and men of the Fourth Army to set off for the Northern Expedition as soon as possible.

On 15 April, after a short rest, Sun Liangcheng's division of the Second Group Army launched a fierce offensive again, successfully captured Juye and Jiaxiang with a devastating momentum, and attacked the remnants of Sun Chuanfang on the front line of Jining with General Shi Yousan; General Gu Zhutong, the Ninth Army, and General Miao Peinan's Fourth Army of the First Army of the First Group Army adopted the advice of the former enemy's general headquarters, bypassed Zaozhuang, and attacked Tengxian County in the north at full speed.

On 17 April, General Sun Lianzhong and General Han Fuqu of the Second Group Army led two front armies to engage in a fierce battle with the main forces of the Feng Army, Ji Yiqiao and Yu Xuezhong, on the front line of Zhangde (Anyang); After a day and a night of hard fighting, the First Army of the First Army of the First Group Army, General Gu Zhutong, the Ninth Army, and General Miao Peinan's Fourth Army captured Tengxian County in one fell swoop; General Jiang Dingwen's First Army occupied Zaozhuang bloodlessly, and then launched a flank attack on the fleeing enemy in Zaozhuang with the Tenth Army of General Yang Shengzhi who galloped.

On 18 April, General Shi Yousan of the Second Army overcame Jining; General Xi Lichi led two cavalry divisions to conquer Yanzhou with lightning speed; General Gu Zhutong's Ninth Army sang fiercely to attack Xia Zou County; General Chen Tiaoyuan commanded the Second Army Corps to fight fiercely on the eastern front, and the three armies under his command attacked the city all the way to the fortress like a bamboo, and the first line of Yishui in Zhucheng was still unwilling to stop the pace of advancing by victory, and continued to advance to the front line of Laiwu and Tai'an.

At this point, there was not one out of ten Anhui troops under Sun Chuanfang, and this tyrant who had dominated the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River for many years lost his family and fled to Jinan. The Zhilu warlord Zhang Zongchang also suffered heavy losses under the blow of the revolutionary army on all fronts, and had to retreat to the front line in Jinan, and the National Revolutionary Army overfulfilled the first phase of the Second Northern Expedition in only 14 days.

On 22 July, the former enemy's general headquarters of the First Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army was moved to Yanzhou, and the independent division led by acting division commander Hu Jialin and the seventh division led by Li Shilong drove to Yanzhou ahead of schedule to take up the guard mission.

In the middle of the night, the meeting attended by the commanders and above of the three corps of the First Group Army was successfully concluded, and the generals who were stationed near the garrison rode back on horseback, and those who were far away from the garrison were led by the logistics attendants to stay overnight in the west wing of the middle courtyard of the government office.

The excited Commander-in-Chief Jiang was not tired, leaving Liu Zhi, Jiang Dingwen, Gu Zhutong, Xu Tingyao, Hu Zongnan and other seven or eight confidants to continue to talk at night.

The location of the former enemy headquarters is a large ancient building complex covering an area of hundreds of acres, located on the north bank of the Fu River in the city, it is said that it was built in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, it is the palace of Zhu Tan, the tenth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the king of Lu, the magnificent gate is facing the beautiful Zhongyu Bridge of the Hengwofu River, the west side hall behind the main hall is the location of the former enemy headquarters of the First Group Army, after all the generals left after the military meeting, the chief of staff An Yi returned to the side hall of the carved beams and paintings, With more than a dozen staff officers on duty, they nodded and sat down to read the two stacks of information that had only arrived this evening.

As the war unfolded, An Yi's extraordinary command ability gradually showed, and the Battle of Zaozhuang of the First Army was another masterpiece planned by An Yi:

Gu Zhutong with the Ninth Army and Miao Peinan's Fourth Army launched a leaping and rapid attack, bypassing the Zaozhuang line defended by the four divisions of the Zhilu Army at the maximum night marching speed, and suddenly appeared under the town of Tengxian guarded by the two divisions of the Zhilu Army, and it took only one hour and forty-five minutes to capture the city, severely inflicting heavy losses on the defending enemy and cutting off the northward escape of the enemy army in Zaozhuang in one fell swoop, the enemy's main force in order to avoid being encircled, could only abandon Zaozhuang and flee eastward at full speed, and the three main divisions of the Tenth Army led by Yang Shengzhi were supplemented by another division, Jiang Dingwen led the wolf-like first army to pursue from the west, Gu Zhutong once again waved his division south, and the three armies used eight divisions to attack from the east, west, and north, and after five and a half hours of fighting, they won a great victory in the Northern Expedition in which more than 7,000 enemies were annihilated, more than 16,000 enemies were captured, and a large number of weapons, materials, and food were captured.

An Yi's outstanding talent in the two battles has been unanimously praised by the officers and men in the army, and has also attracted great attention from various military groups at home and abroad, various newspapers and magazines at home and abroad have published various news about An Yi, and the two documentary books "Model Battalion" and "Iron and Steel Hero" compiled by He Jing have been reprinted several times again, and have been translated into many languages and transmitted to Europe, America and Japan. An Yi can indifferently face the overwhelming honor, except for accepting routine interviews with the news media such as "Declaration", "Times", Central News Agency and Oriental News Agency, all of which are avoided, this is not because An Yi is arrogant, but he really can't spare time to deal with it, plus the reporters of the above news organizations are basically old friends, and they have always been of great help to An Yi, so no matter how busy An Yi is, he tries his best to meet the requirements of his old friends.

Jiang Dingwen came to the front door, signaled Chen Mian and another guard not to bother, strode into the command headquarters and walked in front of An Yi, An Yi raised his head and saw that it was Jiang Dingwen who immediately stood up, closed the file and asked in a low voice: "Big brother, haven't you slept so late?" ”

"Didn't you sleep too? Why, staying up so much every night, can your body stand it? ”

Jiang Dingwen took out a "three-fort" and handed it to An Yi, and with a "bang" knocked on the American kerosene lighter that he had just gotten his hands on, and lit it to An Yi:

"Hurry up and pack up and come with me, the principal wants you to sit down, Third Brother Mo, Brother Yuexiang, Brother Jingfu, and Hu Zongnan are all here, just waiting for you."

An Yi put the two stacks of documents into his briefcase, closed the bag and handed it to Shen Fengdao, the adjutant who quietly stretched out his hand, and followed Jiang Dingwen out of the door and into the courtyard: "Big brother, did you help the younger brother collect the bullet shells in Zaozhuang?" ”

"When the battle was over, I asked a brother from a division to pick it up, and all the sixteen cars were pulled to the railway station, and it is estimated that they were all sent to Pukou. By the way, why are you collecting so many gun shells and shells? Can your arsenal be reused? Jiang Dingwen asked.

An Yi did not answer truthfully, but deliberately avoided the important and trivialized: "It is difficult, some of them will be used to produce belt buckles, buttons, handicrafts and other things, and some of them will be sent to the foundry workshop of the agricultural machinery factory to be re-furnaceed and cast into pipes or other tools." So far, we still do not have copper-zinc alloy smelting technology and equipment, and we are not able to produce thin plates used as bullet shells, everything still needs to be imported, the little brother has to think about a way, to see if we can introduce technology and equipment, many copper mines in Hunan, Jiangxi, Guizhou and Guichuan, many old mining areas have been producing copper for hundreds of years, if we master the technology, and then have relevant equipment, we will take the initiative in the future. ”

Jiang Dingwen sighed: "Your brain is different from others, any play can make you money, and you always make cheap and don't suffer losses when you fight, and now the whole army treats you as a baby pimple."

In the afternoon, I accompanied the principal to review the first army, and Brother Jing Fu and Brother Yuexiang whispered to me, you have changed from temperament to personality, you seem to be smiling, but a pair of eyes are unfathomable, unpredictable and awe-inspiring, big brother, I also have this feeling, I feel that your kid has really changed, and you have the demeanor of a famous general, this feeling I have experienced in Li Delin and Bai Jiansheng before, I didn't expect you to be so strong at a young age, and people are more popular than death! ”

An Yi smiled dumbly: "Big brother, you follow the nonsense of others, it's true...... Don't say it, others will think that our two brothers are boasting when they hear it. ”

Jiang Dingwen shook his head and laughed, nodded to the two guards guarding the gate of the courtyard, and stepped inside by climbing An Yi's shoulder.