Song Zhewu's general praise showed that the top decision-maker of the Fourth Route Army was very satisfied with him, and even promoted him Sun Li, which made Sun Li very grateful.

Sun Li served as a platoon commander in the Second Division when Sun Chuanfang was the commander-in-chief of the garrison in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the commander of the Second Beiyang Division, and then followed the Second Division to Fuzhou, and then entered Zhejiang, expelling Lu Yongxiang from Anhui and expelling Feng forces from Shanghai, Suzhou and Anhui. In September 1926, the Northern Expeditionary Army entered Jiangxi, and then entered Jiangxi to fight, and in August 1927, it fought in Longtan for five days and nights. In these years, Sun Li participated in almost all the important battles of Sun Chuanfang's troops in the five provinces of Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui and Shandong.

Although Sun Li is diligent and studious, he has always worked hard and conscientiously, and he has performed well in both troop training and various battles, but except for the old company commander of the company he was in when he joined the army, he has always valued his talent, and no one of his superiors has praised him. He is not good at drilling, so he can only watch other people who joined the army at about the same time as him and those who are not as good as him, and they all surpass him in one by one. When he got to Sun Dianying, he was even more unbearable, and he could only be a deputy battalion commander, with his experience and qualifications, even in Sun Dianying's bandit-started army, it was not a problem to be a division commander.

However, when he arrived at the Fourth Route Army, he quickly promoted his prisoner to be the commander of the regiment, and you must know that the 8,000 people under the jurisdiction of this regiment commander are a division in other units. This time, in front of everyone, the top leader of the Fourth Route Army praised him again, and even said that he would promote him, not only because Song Zhewu appreciated his talent, but because his commander not only did not treat Sun Li as an outsider, but also treated him as a confidant.

Sun Li saluted Song Zhewu excitedly: "The commander knows the grace of the encounter, Sun Li will never dare to forget, he will work diligently and repay him with all his heart!" ”

Song Zhewu and Sun Li's words also made another person very emotional, that is, Tao Rong. Tao Rong already had a preliminary understanding of the history of the Fourth Route Army through Mengxi, as well as the current officers above the battalion level in the army, and he knew that Sun Li was not an old man of the Fourth Route Army, but a captured officer who had joined the Fourth Route Army for less than a year. Through the battle of Zhujiahe, he thought that Sun Li was very talented, and because of his similar status, he also had a good impression of Sun Li, but such a person would never be promoted so quickly in the Gui family, although he also thought that Bai Chongxi was very knowledgeable and good at military affairs.

Song Zhewu's words just now have indicated that Sun Li will be promoted to be the division commander, and the current division commanders are all Song Zhewu's classmates and the founder of the Fourth Route Army, that is, Li Sichi, and he also led the whole division to Tou Cheng to have a division commander position. Judging from this matter, Tao Rong believes that the Fourth Route Army can develop to this point in a short period of time, which is by no means a fluke, which has a great relationship with Song Zhe's martial mind and courage, which shows that Song Zhewu is definitely based on talent, rather than choosing people based on distant relatives, and a person with such a bearing must be a person who can achieve great things.

Sun Li's confession and Tao Rong's demeanor, Song Zhewu had already seen it, and seeing that the goal had been achieved, he changed the topic and asked Sun Li: "How is today's training arranged?" ”

Sun Li hurriedly replied: "Yesterday afternoon, when we arrived at Yuanyuan Village, we immediately built fortifications, last night the second and third two battalions worked all night, and now the fortifications have been basically completed, after Chief of Staff Tao inspected, some places need to be strengthened and improved, and the fourth battalion has been arranged to guard and strengthen the position on the position today; The second and third battalions rested in the morning and formally took over their defense areas in the afternoon; Now the first battalion, the artillery battalion, and the baggage battalion are being trained. The 1st battalion and 1st company are responsible for training the former 19 officers and men who have newly joined our regiment, and they are now being trained in the subject of stabbing and stabbing. Other companies, artillery regiments, and baggage regiments conduct regular training. ”

Song Zhewu pointed to the soldiers who were fighting fiercely on the threshing floor and asked Tao Rong: "Chief of Staff Tao, what do you think of the assassination level of our Fourth Route Army?" Without waiting for Tao Rong to answer, he continued: "In terms of the level of assassination alone, our Fourth Route Army is the best, that is, there are not many troops who can go through ten rounds under them in individual stabbing stabs, and the newcomers must strengthen their stabbing training." ”

Sun Li hurriedly explained: "Commander, the training on the field now is a confrontation between our original veterans and the former 19th Army who have newly joined our third regiment, mainly to get a feel for their stabbing skills, and we can also make reasonable training arrangements." Unexpectedly, they were not inferior to us at all in individual confrontation, not only in terms of technology, but also because they were relatively shorter than the northerners in our troops, they were also more flexible. ”

Song Zhewu took a closer look at the soldiers fighting in the field, they were all the same uniforms, the same posture and steps, and the same skillful movements, Sun Li didn't say anything, he thought that this was a show for the people from the Nineteenth Army. I was a little embarrassed to talk too much just now.

Seeing that Song Zhewu was a little embarrassed for "selling himself and boasting", Li Rujuan looked funny, couldn't help but laugh out loud, and hurriedly covered her mouth with her hands. Li Rujuan's smile couldn't help but make Song Zhewu's old face blush (the experience of being a human in two lives is enough to be called old), so angry that he turned around and glared at Li Rujuan fiercely, Li Rujuan couldn't help laughing more and more, turned around and covered her mouth and smiled even more happily.

The relationship between Song Zhewu and Li Rujuan has long been known to the whole army, seeing a pair of lovers like this, everyone couldn't help laughing, but they didn't dare to laugh, Tao Rong and Sun Li both kept their faces as if they didn't see anything, and as soon as a few guards grinned a little, they were frightened back by Ye Qing's fierce eyes, and they all tensed the corners of their mouths and stood up in an orderly manner.

Song Zhewu laughed at himself and said: "Chief of Staff Tao, I always thought that the Fourth Route Army's stabbing technique was the best, but I didn't expect that the troops led by you and the two division commanders Li were also so good. ”

Seeing that Song Zhewu was unnatural, Tao Rong smiled and said: "Before the battle of Zhujiahe, I always thought that the Gui department had a very good stabbing technique, and there were few opponents in China. However, in Zhujiahe, I was very surprised by the performance of the Third Regiment, and I heard from the staff officer who went to the front to watch the battle with Commander Hu that the solemn troops had already attacked the position, and under the condition of superior numbers, they were actually killed by the three regiments, one battalion, and one company, and they also suffered heavy casualties. Regiment Commander Sun said that if these new recruits who joined the Fourth Route Army are qualified in their stabbing skills, they should be trained in group cooperation, and the essence of the Fourth Route Army's assassination lies in group cooperation. ”

Song Zhewu took advantage of the situation to take over the topic and said: "Group cooperation is the magic weapon of our Fourth Route Army, which is also the tactical foundation and foundation of our Fourth Route Army. Before the Spring Festival last year, he brought a platoon to Laiyuan and conducted two confrontation drills with us, the first time was a platoon arbitrarily designated by us, and the second time was a platoon designated by him to confront the platoon he brought. When I went to Hankou this time, Lin Wei told me that the platoon that General Wenbai brought to Laiyuan was not ordinary soldiers, they were all the elite of the Central Military Academy's teaching team, and there were even a few instructors in it. ”

Song Zhewu had the intention to show off the group cooperation tactics of the Fourth Route Army in front of Tao Rong, which was first created by him Song Zhewu and vigorously promoted and implemented in the Fourth Route Army. Seeing that the individual stabbing confrontation training on the field had stopped, he instructed Sun Li: "Let's see if we can arrange a group confrontation drill." ”

The group coordination tactics of the Fourth Route Army were not only applied in white-knuckle combat, but also used fire support and cover in attack and retreat very well, and the effect was also very significant. At the beginning of the founding of the Tianjin army, Song Zhewu regarded the tactics of group coordination as a basic training for the troops, and it was very relevant to the implementation of the whole army. In Tianjin, after only one year of training, the unit's individual coordination and squad and platoon coordination were very skillfully used, so that the combat effectiveness of this peasant-dominated unit, which had just picked up a gun not long ago, was rapidly enhanced. Zhang Yafei, Gao Zongbao, Zhang Tao and others thought at first that this was the result of Song Zhewu's study of the German army in Germany, and they lamented that the tactics of this Western devil were stronger than that of the Oriental devil. However, Xiao Guodong and several of Song Zhewu's classmates at the Dresden Infantry School said that the Germans did not have such tactics, and this was Song Zhewu's own creation, and they were all surprised and greatly impressed by him Song Zhewu. Song Zhewu now not only wants to show off to Tao Rong, but also to Li Rujuan, and let Li Rujuan see his ability as a husband-to-be.

Huang Dafu, who got the order, ran to a few people, first saluted Song Zhewu and Tao Rong, and then saluted Sun Li for instructions. He is now the deputy commander of the first battalion, and is responsible for the training of the troops in peacetime.

"How are these recruits stabbing at each other?" Sun Li asked Huang Dafu.

As soon as he mentioned this, Huang Dafu couldn't help grinning, and said with a wry smile: "Regiment commander, don't mention it, as soon as you say that you want them to train stabbing stabs, these people of the Nineteenth Army have their mouths on top of their heads, and they don't care about it at all, and they also say that their stabbing is trained by themselves, and there is no need for them to train again, and they also say that the people of our Fourth Route Army can't catch up with them." I arranged for the veterans of the Fourth Route Army to conduct a one-soldier confrontation drill with the people of the 19th Army, thinking that I could not only touch the details of their stabbing skills, but also kill their arrogance, and teach them a lesson to these guys who don't know the height of the sky, but I didn't expect that these people of the 19th Army really didn't have the stabbing skills, and we had a slight advantage in this confrontation. ”

Speaking of this, he looked back at the soldiers of the former 19th Army on the field who also did not expect that the Fourth Route Army had such good stabbing skills, these people had slightly restrained their arrogance, but it could be seen that some of the soldiers of the original 19th Army who won the confrontation were still full of arrogance.

(To be continued)