The advanced training class that Zhao Dongyun made in his early years has continued to develop to this day, and has created a very special group in the Soviet Department, that is, advanced students, although the number of this group is not large, excluding the twenty or thirty audit students selected by other warlords in Beiyang in the early years, there are about two hundred people, because this group of people is taught by Zhao Dongyun himself, they all regard themselves as Zhao Dongyun's students on weekdays.

This situation has not been changed after the expansion of the advanced training class of the Fengtian Military Academy into the Army University, although the current Army University is said to be a university, but in fact there are not many students, and the school is set up in Beijing, Zhao Dongyun personally served as the principal, although Zhao Dongyun is very busy on weekdays, but he will also find time to teach in person.

Many students at the Army University still call themselves advanced students!

Because there are not many people in this group who have graduated, the number of people makes them more of a small group consciousness, and the evolution of this situation is something that Zhao Dongyun did not expect before, but Zhao Dongyun is also happy to see the formation of this situation.

Shi Yanglin is a member of the advanced students, and he is also one of the early students, and he is also one of the few people among the advanced students who have been promoted to major generals, and now Qu Yiquan, a classmate, died in the Battle of Jinan, he has to bring a few classmates to visit the Qu family, and at the same time, he has to express condolences on behalf of Zhao Dongyun.

The Qu family, like many military and political families, moved into the Beijing division with the entry of the Feng army, but as soon as they settled in the Beijing division, the news of Qu Yiquan's death came, which was a big blow to them.

After Shi Yanglin, on behalf of Zhao Dongyun, visited the family and sent condolences and gifts, he walked into another side hall, where there were already seven or eight young officers, all of whom were his classmates without exception.

Seeing Shi Yanglin coming, several officers inside also stopped talking, and a short officer about thirty years old wearing the rank of colonel walked up: "Brother Shi is here!" ”

Shi Yanglin nodded: "It seems that the classmates in Jingshi are here!" ”

A total of 27 students graduated from Shi Yanglin's advanced training class that year, and after graduation, these people were assigned to various places, some of them served in various departments of the General Headquarters, and some served in various field units.

"It's just that I can't see a few people anymore!" Shi Yanglin sighed, among the twenty-seven classmates in the same class, four of them had already died on the battlefield, and he didn't know how many of his classmates would be able to save after this war and unify China?

Although it sounds like the number of trainees killed in a total of more than 20 is very small, which is nothing in front of the casualties of more than 10,000 in the Feng army, you must know that the group of trainees is only more than 200 people in total, and the death rate of trainees is very high under such a base.

According to the normal situation, the trainees are generally the rank of major or above after graduation, and the probability of such a middle-level officer dying is actually relatively small, but the group of trainees is more special, as a group of elites who have received higher military education in this era, they have also received the influence of the country and nationalism from Zhao Dongyun, making them more dedicated than the students who graduated from other military schools.

No matter what era or environment, there are always a small number of people who have a sense of dedication more than ordinary people, because they have a sense of national and national consciousness that ordinary people do not have, as well as a sense of honor that ordinary people can hardly imagine.

If you think it's too fake to understand, then it's pretty much the same in another way: power belongs to a few!

Under the dual stimulus of responsibility and honor, these trainees have a dedication that ordinary domestic officers do not have, and this dedication is to be honestly extremely scarce in contemporary China.

One of the people next to him also spoke: "Our class is okay, as far as I know, since the class of 07, which just graduated this year, has sacrificed their lives for the country since entering the customs!" ”

Most of the newly graduated trainees of the class of 07 are in the rank of major, except for a few who are assigned to the headquarters, most of them are assigned to various field units as battalion commanders, and the troops are dying every day in the front line, and the accumulation will lead to a lot of casualties among these newly graduated graduates of the class of 07.

Shi Yanglin shook his head and put these thoughts out of his mind: "It is our responsibility to fight for the country and the nation, and it is our honor to be loyal to our teachers. ”

When several other people heard this, some people immediately wondered: "Valhalla, is it true that what I said some time ago about building a pavilion and erecting a monument for our soldiers is true?" ”

Shi Yanglin nodded: "Yes, at this time, the teacher has already approved it, and it is expected to be officially announced in a few days!" ”

"This is a great thing, although it is said that our soldiers should fight for the country and be loyal to the teacher, but after sacrificing their lives for the country, there will be people who can sacrifice us, and there will be no regrets in this life!" So said the others.

At the beginning of entering the customs, some people mentioned that yì established a monument for the martyrs, etc., and some people mentioned that yì imitated the Tang Dynasty to set up the Lingyan Pavilion, after the matter was reported to Zhao Dongyun, Zhao Dongyun also felt that it was necessary to make a decent martyr's monument or something, but he didn't plan to just erect a monument and leave it alone, he planned to combine it with those monuments and Lingyan Pavilion to make a Valhalla Pavilion to worship those soldiers who sacrificed for the country.

After coming out of the Qu family, although Shi Yanglin was still a little sentimental in his heart, he had no time to be sad because of his busy affairs, and after returning to the staff headquarters non-stop, he first met with Fang Biyong to discuss the follow-up Shandong war, and then held a meeting with several heads of the Quartermaster Department to discuss the follow-up supply and transportation solutions in Shandong and even Liangjiang.

Although on the surface, although Shi Yanglin's operations office could not meddle in logistics and transportation, the operations department needed logistics and transportation to formulate relevant combat plans, otherwise his operations department had formulated a plan for the Second Army to continue south to northern Jiangsu, but if the ammunition of the quartermaster department could not be supplied in time, it would be a big trouble.

After a while, the head of the Canal Section, which was specially set up by the Ministry of Munitions to fight in the direction of Shandong and Liangjiang, used sea transportation to transport supplies to the south, which could save time and increase the volume of transportation.

"Only in this case, we must strengthen the strength of the navy, and at the same time have to fight for the coastal ports of Shandong and Jiangsu!" Shi Yanglin did not agree with shipping, at least until Shanghai was taken and the Yangtze River was controlled, and large-scale shipping would be difficult to achieve.

Shi Yanglin did not reject the opinion of the Quartermaster Department, but after returning to the Operations Department, he discussed his follow-up combat plan with a large group of combat staff officers under his command, and then took several section chiefs under him to the presidential palace and gathered other generals of the military to attend the military meeting convened by Zhao Dongyun.

In this long meeting, at the beginning, the previous war development was accepted, but everyone already knew these things before, so they didn't say much, and soon entered today's topic, that is, the arrangement of the follow-up war in Shandong.

"Now that Jinan has fallen, our main task next is to take advantage of the emptiness of other parts of Shandong, especially in the south of Shandong, to quickly seize Tai'an, Yanzhou, Jining, Yizhou and other prefectures and counties, and then let the main force of the Second Army go south to Xuzhou and Sizhou. In this way, it was possible to avoid leaving the First Army in the Henan direction in a situation where it was left alone in the depths. At that time, our army's southern front will be able to form a stable front from Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Guide, Xuzhou, and Sizhou from west to east, and the cooperation of the first army and the second army will be brought into full play on the maximum, so that the two armies can cover each other and not go deep alone! Shi Yanglin, director of the Operations Division, said:

"According to what we know so far, since the first battle of Jinan, the main force of the Lu army has lost more than half, and the remaining troops are stationed in Jining, Yizhou, and Tai'an, and the second army gathers the main force to suppress them and is definitely unstoppable!"

After hearing this, Zhao Dongyun asked: "What is the detailed situation of the enemy troops in various places in the southeast of Shandong, northern Jiangsu, northern Henan and other places?" ”

Immediately, Major General An Yutong of the Intelligence Department replied: "According to the information learned by the intelligence officers of our Intelligence Department and the reports of the troops on the front, the deployment of the enemy's various units is now sorted out as follows! ”

As he spoke, he walked up and instructed on a huge map of China: "Now the northern and eastern parts of Shandong have fallen into the hands of our army, Jinan, Qingzhou, Laizhou, Dengzhou and other places have been controlled by our army, and the strength of the Lu army has been severely damaged since it was annihilated by nearly 20,000 people in the Shandong Campaign, and there are only less than five troops left in various parts of Shandong, and now there is an enemy regiment in Tai'an, and there is an enemy regiment in Yanzhou." Moreover, the above two regiments are both Anhui Provincial Army units, and they belong to the Fourth Mixed Brigade of the Anhui Provincial Army. Reinforcements from Anhui during the Battle of Jinan!

However, it is worth noting that there are a large number of reinforcements of the Anhui army on the front line of Xuzhou and Yizhou, and so far, we have ascertained the number of troops and determined the number of troops in the fourth division led by Duan Qirui, the first division of the Liangjiang Army, the second division of the Liangjiang Army, the Jiangbei mixed brigade, and the first mixed brigade in Zhejiang, with a total of three divisions and two mixed brigades, with a total strength of about 60,000 people.

Among the Anhui army, the Fourth Division is known to everyone that it is the old Beiyang Army, which has won successive battles against the Southern Federation troops after fighting in the south last year, and has not tasted a single defeat, and in the Battle of Nanjing, the division has defeated the enemy of the Southern Federation three times as many times in a frontal offensive battle, and its own losses are less than 500. According to the observations of front-line intelligence officers, the morale of the department was very high and well-equipped. This department is the main enemy of our army in the subsequent southward operations! ”