Song Zhewu said with a smile: "Since the chief inquired, Zhewu will never dare to hide his secrets. ”

At that moment, he gave He Yingqin a detailed introduction to the establishment of the troops, the allocation of firepower, the specific arrangements for several battles, and the changes in the battlefield......

He Yingqin listened very carefully and carefully, and often interjected during the period, asking in detail what Song Zhewu did not say clearly.

After Song Zhewu finished speaking, He Yingqin pondered for a long time, and then sighed for a long time and said: "Wen Ge, in my opinion, not only your training methods are very novel, but also your tactical concepts are also very advanced. In terms of military affairs alone, you are very accomplished,"

He Yingqin asked again with some doubts: "You learned all this in Germany?" But now the German advisers invited by the political axe have not told us about this? ”

During the decade from the end of 1928 to the deterioration of Sino-German relations in 1938, Chiang Kai-shek successively hired a letter from the end of 1928 to the deterioration of Sino-German relations. Colonel Bauer (Maxbauer), Herman. Hermann Kriebel, George. Gwetzell, Hans. Feng. Hansvonseeckt, Alexander Great. Feng. Alexander vonfalkenhausen and other German [***] advisory groups. These advisers helped the Chinese government at that time to reorganize the army, procure arms, and promote military modernization and industrial modernization.

Professional soldier Mags. Bauer was the first general adviser to the German affairs hired by Chiang Kai-shek, and is now in Nanjing. He was a core member of the German General Staff during World War I, with a fine mind and sharp eyes. He drafted the famous "Hindenburg Plan" and the strategic concept of the general war, and became famous for a while. Ludendorff, then Chief of the General Staff, was obedient to him. There are even analogies: Ludendorff is the gavel that beats the drums of German war, and Bauer is the gavel player.

Mags. Bauer was an artillery expert, and his invention of heavy artillery in World War I was in the limelight. The University of Berlin awarded him an honorary doctorate for this purpose. After participating in the failed Karp coup d'état in March 1920, which aimed to overthrow the Weimar Republic, he wandered through Austria, Spain, and Argentina. Even served as an adviser in the Red Army of the USSR.

In 1927, he came to China to begin his career as a consultant.

In mid-November 1928, Bauer led a 25-member advisory group, including 10 military training experts, 6 ordnance logistics experts, 4 police experts, and 5 economics, railway management, medical, and chemical experts, to Nanjing.

After Bauer came to China, he naturally put his main energies on helping Chiang Kai-shek reorganize and build up the army, and vigorously strengthened the authority of the central political axe headed by Chiang Kai-shek. Bauer advocated the concentration of military and political power in a powerful central political axe, the eradication of all centrifugal forces by drastic means, and the implementation of all necessary reforms to strengthen the authority of the central government.

In addition, he has valuable opinions on the reduction, reconstruction, and training of the armed forces, the development of the economy, the construction of heavy industry, air transport, agriculture, and mining, and the reform of China's financial system.

Won the praise of Chiang Kai-shek. In this war against the Gui family, Bauer made intermediary arrangements and planned well, which made Chiang Kai-shek feel extremely relaxed in military command.

In accordance with Bauer's suggestion, the Nanjing political axe has set up a teaching corps, which has an infantry corps, a heavy weapons corps, an engineer corps, and a signal corps. The teaching team is all distributed with German-style equipment and trained by German affairs consultants.

Later, this teaching corps was expanded to become a teaching corps, and a few years later it was expanded into three divisions, and finally the Fifth Army was established on this basis, which became the elite of Chiang Kai-shek's lineage.

He Yingqin is the training director, and he knows the training of the teaching team very well, and all the training plans must be submitted to him for approval. In He Yingqin's view, the German army's tactics were very advanced, and the training intensity was also very high, and in some places the training intensity was so great that many Chinese soldiers could not even complete it. He Yingqin believes that this is because Bauer ignored the difference in the physical fitness of the Chinese and German people, and after discussing with Bauer, Bauer quickly realized this problem and made appropriate improvements. Through contacts with German advisers, especially Bauer, He Yingqin believed that the German army's tactical concepts were very advanced and should represent the world's top standards.

However, after listening to Song Zhewu's training methods, he felt that although Song Zhewu, a student studying in Germany, was deeply influenced by the German army, he was different from the German army in many aspects such as troop training. For example, more attention is paid to soldiers' physical fitness and stabbing training, which He Yingqin agrees with Song Zhewu, many places in China have not yet been connected to railways or even roads, and in more cases, the two legs of soldiers are relied on during the march. In terms of stabbing, not only the German army, it seems that in addition to the book, the armies of the world do not attach much importance to it, they emphasize more on the fierceness and density of vitality, this point, He Yingqin believes that Song Zhewu's way is right, and the Chinese [***] team will not have such a strong firepower at present, even Song Zhewu's Fourth Route Army does not have it; In the use of artillery fire, although Bauer and Song Zhewu attach equal importance to it, Song Zhewu is more flexible in its application.

He Yingqin said regretfully: "Wen Ge, you know that I also have the position of training director, and I really want to hand over this position to you!" ”

Without waiting for Song Zhewu to answer, he smiled self-deprecatingly and said: "Oh, Wen Ge, don't take it to heart, I admire your talent He Yingqin very much, I know that you will not leave the Fourth Route Army that you founded with your own hands, I can understand this." ”

Song Zhewu said: "He won't go to any position given to him now, the Fourth Route Army is where all his hopes are, and he won't leave here." It's just that He Yingqin really wants to let him go, and he really can't say no. ”

Seeing He Yingqin say this, Song Zhewu's heart was relieved, and he said with a smile: "The chief has won the award." ”

He Yingqin waved his hand and said, "Wenge, I still have a few questions. Your troops should be based on the German formation, but with less engineering formations. However, in terms of the composition of the personnel of each unit, it was more than that of the German army. For example, the German army has 10 people in a squad, and your squad is 16 people. As far as I know, the establishment of the infantry squad of the Yue Army is thirteen people, which is already a large number, and yours is even more than the Yue Army, why is this? ”

Song Zhewu couldn't help nodding secretly, and He Yingqin saw the key.

"The commander-in-chief is right, but the establishment of my troops is based on the establishment of the German army, but it is formed with the army as an imaginary enemy. So, in some places there were differences with the German army. "Song Zhewu said" As soon as Song Zhewu's voice fell, He Yingqin, who was leaning on the sofa, couldn't help but straighten up, showing a surprised expression: "Take the army as an imaginary enemy? Why? ”

Song Zhewu knew that He Yingqin not only did not believe that the domestic army could defeat the Yue army, but he also did not even believe that China would start a full-scale war. Song Zhewu doesn't want to explain more to He Yingqin now, now that the army has only committed a Jinan tragedy, and has not yet shown his fangs, if he talks too much, He Yingqin will not believe it.

Song Zhewu said calmly: "In our periphery, only Soviet Russia and the instinct threaten our survival, and now the European powers are enough to worry about Soviet Russia, and they have no time to have any ambitions against us for a considerable period of time; However, it is said that it is different, and he has always had the ambition to expand his territory, and the Nanyang area is now the sphere of influence of the Western powers, and it can only stop at Taiwan. North Korea is already under his occupation, and its development direction can only be China, and the first target is the northeast. In the final analysis, the Jinan tragedy was the army's attempt to prevent the Northern Expeditionary Army from advancing into the northeast, so I think it is only a matter of time before we have a war with the other party. ”

The purpose of the Jinan tragedy carried out by the Yue army was to prevent the Northern Expeditionary Army from entering the northeast, which Chiang Kai-shek and He Yingqin both knew about, but they also believed that the country was now divided, and the military strength, science and technology, and industry were much worse than those of the capital, and now was by no means the time to turn the other cheek with him. In order not to expand the situation, they only let the Northern Expeditionary Army reach Shanhaiguan and stopped.

However, He Yingqin did not agree with Song Zhewu's statement that there must be a war in China. He said that he had long had intentions for the Northeast, and he knew this, but he believed that the Western powers, such as the United States, Britain, France, and Germany, would never sit idly by and watch the Northeast dominate the Northeast, and they would definitely intervene to stop it. He said that he was afraid of international public opinion, and he would not have the courage to do so.

Although he disagreed with Song Zhewu's point of view, He Yingqin still thought that it was a good thing that this young man had this view, at least it could show that he did not create this army to fight the territory of the civil war, and it was absolutely different from those new warlords.

He Yingqin pondered for a while, and then asked, "Wen Ge, because of this, your troops are more than the army at all levels?" ”

Seeing Song Zhewu nodding, He Yingqin said again: "Your company, battalion, regiment, and division correspond to the squadrons, brigades, wings, and divisions of the Yue Army. You should be stronger than the army for small-caliber artillery, you don't have artillery with a caliber of more than 100mm, and the divisions and regiments of the army are also equipped with 105mm light howitzers. ”

Song Zhewu nodded: "Chief Mingjian, this is indeed the case." I can't afford large-caliber artillery now, and even if I can, I can't afford it, and if it's possible in the future, I'll configure it. ”

He Yingqin nodded and said: "Wen Ge, now that there is a civil war going on in the country, it is not convenient to help you buy artillery, and I will help you contact you when I have the opportunity in the future." ”

At this time, to contact and buy artillery for the non-central army, not only Chiang Kai-shek would not agree, but he He Yingqin would not either, who knows whether Song Zhewu will fight with the central army in the future, this matter has to wait to see clearly.

(To be continued)