Chapter 224: Political Mission (Asking for a Monthly Pass!) Ask for a subscription! Ask for a tip! Ask for everything! ）

At 11 o'clock in the morning of August 2, the Nationalist Government held a press conference with the outside world, and Lao Jiang personally came forward to read out the war report of Peng Ze's great victory in land and air, and also delivered a passionate speech in front of Chinese and foreign reporters hundreds of meters away and tens of thousands of Wuhan citizens, which attracted applause from the citizens.

Although Lao Jiang did not particularly focus on introducing the Duqi Division when introducing the battle report, but counted the credit to the Ninth War Zone, he did not do anything wrong, and still mentioned by the way that it was Ma Zheng's Duqi Division that was responsible for the attack.

Soon, the report of the new achievements of the KMT-CCP cooperation spread throughout Wuhan, and then spread to the whole country with Wuhan as the center. It can be said that inadvertently, Duqi Division and Ma Zheng became famous again.

Ma Zheng's department is famous, but it makes it a little difficult for Lao Jiang. This ineffective battle is naturally punished, and there is also a reward for military exploits, but Lao Jiang couldn't think of how to reward Duqi Division and Ma Zheng for a while!

It is said that this Duqi Division is also too capable of fighting, and the credit is greater than the other, and it was just announced that it was awarded the Blue Sky and White Sun Medal, and two regimental medals were added to the Duqi Division. It stands to reason that there are regulations for such awards for great meritorious service, such as the promotion of officers to higher ranks, the upgrading of the establishment of troops, and the issuance of medals or commemorative medals to meritorious personnel and ordinary soldiers participating in battles.

But this is the treatment of the Central Army, and no matter how much Ma Zheng's troops can fight it, it is not Lao Jiang's descendant troops, and even the local warlord troops are not. After all, Yan'an is a thorn in Lao Jiang's heart, and now the more dazzling Ma Zheng's performance is, the more wary Lao Jiang is of him, after all, he can't tell when the enemy opposite Ma Zheng will become him, thinking about this guy's unpredictable command ability, Lao Jiang shuddered.

Therefore, the upgrade of the troops is still not necessary. If you go up again, it will be the establishment of the military level. A little devil who can make trouble with a division and Ma Zheng can jump in chickens and dogs, the north and the south start a war at the same time and can win a big victory, if he is given an army, Lao Jiang doesn't know whether it is a blessing or a curse, don't move a stone and hit yourself in the foot.

The troop establishment cannot be upgraded, so let's promote the rank! But this one is also problematic. Now Ma Zheng is already a lieutenant general in the record of the Ministry of Military Affairs of the National Government, and if he is promoted to general, he will be an army general. Think about how many generals the government has now, and that one is not a veteran of Rong Ma's life, but how old Ma Zheng is, and he is only a 278-year-old or 278-year-old general when he is fully counted, what does this make those veterans think, especially those who have led soldiers all their lives and are still lieutenant generals and major generals in the army.

Besides, military ranks follow the position, and the rank of general is generally accompanied by the post of commander-in-chief of the group army. The division commander is generally accompanied by a lieutenant general, and the next division commander is even just a major general, and there is never a division commander with the rank of army general, unless he is specially promoted after dying in battle.

In this way, the problem arises, the strength of the army cannot be upgraded, and the military rank cannot be promoted. But the credit of the Duqi Division is real, and there must be no more medals! Even if Ma Zheng doesn't know what to say, there are always others who look at him. Especially those local warlord troops, whether the Nationalist Government can treat the Eighth Route Army well is also very worthy of reference for them.

Fortunately, the fighting on the front line in Pengze continues. The Japanese army has not yet retreated, and it is not too late to reward it when the war is over.

The only thing that made Lao Jiang happy was that according to the casualties reported by the 7th Division, 5,600 people were killed and 4,200 wounded in the 7th Division last night, with a total of more than 9,800 casualties. More than half of the casualties have already been lost.

Anyway, the battle has basically not needed the Duqi Division so far, not that the Battle of Wuhan is over, but that the Japanese army will not be able to launch a large-scale attack on the periphery of Wuhan in a short period of time after this battle, and the Nationalist Government is not sure to counterattack Anqing, so the final possible result is that the two sides will fight for a small area around Pengze. At this point, Lao Jiang was confident that the Ninth War Zone could be trusted.

Therefore, the Duqi Division is basically idle now, and the more casualties the better, which can be regarded as achieving his original intention of mobilizing the Duqi Division to go south. The casualties of nearly 10,000 people, coupled with the loss of a large number of ammunition, all indicate the decline in the combat effectiveness of Ma Zheng's subordinates.

Therefore, at about three o'clock in the afternoon, the Military Commission and the Ninth Theater Command, as well as Lao Jiang, He Yingqin, Chen Cheng and many other high-ranking generals sent congratulatory messages to Ma Zheng's headquarters at the same time, congratulating the Seventh Division on its new achievements.

But Ma Zheng, who was on the way back to Hukou, didn't even read these congratulatory telegrams, but just asked the newspaper soldiers to reply in a uniform format.

Regarding the casualties of this war, Ma Zheng is still very worried in his heart. Although Ma Zheng deliberately poured water on the number of casualties when reporting the number of casualties to the Military Commission, and said that the death toll was more than 3,000 people, it was still very reasonable to kill 10,000 enemies and lose 8,000 self-inflicted losses, and the real casualties of the 7th Division were still around 7,000.

Although less than 3,000 soldiers died in the battle, it still made Ma Zheng feel distressed. Three thousand people, that is equivalent to a reinforced regiment, not to mention more than 4,000 wounded, it can be said that after this battle, the Duqi Division suddenly lost two and a half regiments of combat power.

But Ma Zheng is helpless about this, after all, fighting is to die, but fortunately, these soldiers can be regarded as worthy of death. Their learning was not in vain, at least three Japanese wings were erased from the Japanese army's combat sequence last night, counting the casualties of the 106th Division in the east of Pengze City, the Japanese army lost at least 10,000 people last night.

Moreover, the casualties of the Japanese army were different from those of the Seventh Division, which suffered about 7,000 casualties, but the absolute losses were only more than 2,800 people, and even if there were still wounded who could not survive and died one after another, the total number should be controlled at less than 3,000. The Japanese army was different, the loss of more than 10,000 was basically an absolute loss, that is, all of them were killed and it was impossible to survive again.

It is said that at about two o'clock in the afternoon, a Japanese detachment suddenly appeared near Madang Fortress, and an unknown number of Japanese troops landed in Madang Town, which indicated that a new round of dragon and tiger fighting was about to begin.

However, the battle on the front line has nothing to do with the Duqi Division, which has been taken over by Xue Yue's two main forces, and the Ninth War Zone has also withdrawn a lot of follow-up troops to reinforce there, and the Duqi Division was ordered to return to Hukou to rest.

At about half past four in the afternoon, the Duqi Division returned to Hukou County, and as soon as it entered the city, it was warmly welcomed by the people in the city. Everyone knew that the Duqi Division had won another battle, and they all went out of their homes to watch the troops return triumphantly.

At the same time, a large number of reporters were stationed at the temporary division headquarters of the Seventh Independent Division, and they wanted to interview Ma Zheng, a famous anti-Japanese general.

Originally, Ma Zheng didn't have much interest in any interviews and other things, and was ready to let Huang Sicheng deal with it, but the big deal was to let him report the troops to the Ninth War Zone and the Military Commission to read the battle report, and then make public some of the loot captured this time, especially the tragic appearance of Yin Dong Zhengxi's old devil before his death and the command knife he carried with him.

However, what made Ma Zheng helpless was that Huang Sicheng, who was sent out, came back soon, and also brought back a Kuomintang colonel, which made Ma Zheng speechless.

The Kuomintang colonel was very polite, and after seeing Ma Zheng, he respectfully saluted and said loudly: "Good sir, Lu Yunguang is the section chief of the third section of the commission's chamberlain. ”

"Hello Section Chief Lu, may I ask whose order you are here this time, and what is the purpose?" Ma Zheng replied with a military salute and asked.

"Report to the chief, I came to Hukou to inspect military affairs on the order of Chairman Chiang, first, to send some ammunition and food for your army, and at the same time to be a guide for the two reporters of the Central News Agency and the Xinhua News Agency, hoping to do an interview with the commander. Moreover, this matter has been approved by Vice Chairman Zhou of your party, and it is a political task, so I ask the chief to cooperate. Lu Yunguang replied loudly.

"Since it's a political task, then I naturally have to cooperate, but I need to ask my superiors for verification, forgive me!" Ma Zheng said.

"Yes!" Lu Yunguang said.

After verification, the Nationalist Government did report this matter to Vice Chairman Zhou, and Vice Chairman Zhou had agreed to Ma Zheng's interview. (To be continued.) )

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