readx; In the Nanjing Presidential Palace, the president looked at the report in his hand and pondered for a moment before saying: "Lao Hong has two sons in the army!" ”

Shen Gang said: "There are two, one is the fifth son Major Hong Zhilin who died on the front line in Qingdao, and the other is Hong Zhiguang, the second son of Lao Hong, who just graduated from the Fuzhou Military Academy last year and is now serving as an artillery company commander in the Ninth Artillery Regiment of the Ninth Division!" ”

"I remember that Lao Hong has a total of three sons under his knees!" Chen Jingyun continued. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Chief Hong has a total of six sons, except for the eldest son, the second son and the fifth son, the other three all died at an early age!" Shen Gang returned: "In addition to the eldest son of the Hong family, the third son of the Hong family took care of the family business, and the second and fifth sons all joined the army and entered the Fuzhou Military Academy one after another the year before last!" ”

Hearing this, Chen Jingyun sighed and put down the report in his hand: "I don't know if Lao Hong can survive this time......

From the era of Fuzhou military and political axes, the national army system has a tradition of military and political dignitaries actively joining the army, at the beginning of those officials and wealthy businessmen in order to express their heartfelt to Chen Jingyun, and with the growth of the national army, joining the army has obviously become an important way to maintain the family's prominence, so almost every military and political dignitaries have descendants to join the army. Although these people cannot join the army to be ordinary soldiers, but will enter the Fuzhou Army School or Fuzhou Naval School to study, and become officers after graduation, the national army is in a state of war, although the casualty rate of officers is very low, but it is normal for dozens of officers to be killed and wounded in a big war, and in this case, there are occasional news of the death of the children of high-ranking military and political dignitaries.

In last year's Northern Expedition, the third son of Gao Zeyan, the former deputy minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the current director of the Anti-Smoking Department, was killed in the Battle of Chaohu, and then a cousin of Lin Changming and a distant cousin of Chen Jingyun were also killed in the Battle of Jiangbei.

In fact, logically speaking, it is not generally difficult for the disciples of these military and political dignitaries to die in battle, because if the children of these military and political dignitaries join the army, with the influence of their fathers and brothers in the family, they will basically be arranged to the headquarters of the division headquarters and the military headquarters when they serve in the army, and they will be sent to the grass-roots units after a few months of training, and most of them are company commanders or battalion commanders, according to the tradition of middle and senior officers in the national army who do not go into battle. Middle-level officers such as company commanders and battalion commanders basically had no chance to shoot in person, and the reason for the casualties of officers was either unfortunate to be hit by stray bullets and artillery shells, or the troops fell into a bitter battle, which happened to Major Hong Zhilin of the 32nd Regiment of the 3rd Battalion before.

But there are always dead and wounded in war!

"Hong Zhilin's aftermath must be properly arranged, and Lao Hong's second son, you can arrange for him to be transferred to the division headquarters of the Ninth Division, don't let him have an accident again!" Chen Jingyun doesn't want to hear the news that Hong Zitai's two sons were killed, that would be too big a blow to Hong Zitai, although Hong Zitai was greedy for money some time ago, but this person still has the ability, Chen Jingyun is still counting on him to be the director of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce for one more term, if he hears the news that both sons are killed in succession, it is estimated that Hong Zitai will collapse!

Soon after, the State Military Commission decided to posthumously award Major Hong Zhilin, the highest-ranking soldier who had died in battle in the Battle of Qingdao, with the Silver Double Sword Medal and posthumously promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Hong Zhilin's death naturally did not have much impact on the hundreds of thousands of national troops, after all, not everyone can know that Hong Zhilin is Hong Zitai's son, but his death in the hearts of many military and political dignitaries in Nanjing City is full of worries, and most of those people are also worried about the safety of their own children.

Although they were all worried, not many of them planned to let the children of the families who joined the army come back or hide in the rear! They already knew that there would be casualties in the war, but there were still so many military and political dignitaries who sent their children to the battlefield, so naturally they had a bigger plan. That is to expect them to make meritorious contributions, and then let another general appear in the family, so as to ensure the continued prosperity of the family within the national army system.

On 14 August, the Ninth Division of the Nationalist Army arrived at the Qingdao front, and then took over the position of He Zonglian's 28th Division, which suffered great losses. The fact that the 28th Division suffered such huge casualties was not only related to the active onslaught of the 28th Division, but more importantly, the lack of sufficient heavy artillery firepower of the Nationalist Army.

Among the Nationalist Army, in addition to the 75-mm guns equipped by the divisions, there were only two Reading Artillery Regiments with heavy firepower, of which the first Reading Artillery Regiment was equipped with 12 French 105-mm cannons handed over by the United States, 12 French 105-mm howitzers handed over by the United States, and six 105-mm howitzers ordered by the Nationalist Army from Germany, for a total of 30 guns.

The 2nd Reading Artillery Regiment had 12 German-made 150-mm howitzers captured from the Beiyang Army, and 18 105-mm cannons ordered by the Nationalist Army, for a total of 30 guns.

This adds up to sixty guns, which sounds like a lot, but it is still too small in caliber, and only the twelve 150-mm German-made howitzers can have a comparative shelling effect, while the large number of 105-mm guns and more 75-mm guns are not very effective for bombing the fortress.

This is also why the number of artillery of the National Army far exceeds that of the German army, but why the front-line troops still complain about the lack of artillery, not because there is no artillery, but because of the lack of large-caliber siege artillery.

The direct consequence of the lack of a large number of siege artillery was that the Nationalist Army had to rely on a large number of soldiers to capture the German fortress, and this was the direct cause of the large number of casualties of the Nationalist Army.

And such huge casualties were not without results, the 28th Division had already taken the lead in conquering the first land fortress of the German army, the Xiaokanshan Fortress, and then conquered the Xiaokanshan North Fortress.

At this time, Zhang Zuolin's 29th Division in the north had not yet achieved any results, and the 3rd Division had only conquered part of the central fortress.

He Zonglian finally showed her due ability in this battle! On the day of the Xiaokanshan Fortress, even He Zonglian himself admired himself very much, without the support of a large number of heavy artillery, he was able to take the lead in breaking through the fortress position of the German army, and this ability was replaced by other generals of the National Army, I am afraid that he will not be able to surpass himself!

To conquer the enemy's fortress, even if it is a hard attack, the way to fill with the soldier's surname is also to require the front-line generals to have good tactical literacy, the same attack on a Lushun, under the command of Nogi Noshinori tens of thousands of casualties is also ineffective, but after Kodama Gentaro accepted the command, the same way of strong attack but the number of casualties dropped sharply, and successfully captured Lushun.

Attacking fortified positions, that's not just a casual order to let the troops rush up!

After He Zonglian's 28th Division withdrew from the front line, it was already 13,000 people before the war, and only more than 9,000 people remained, and when the 28th Division withdrew to Jimo to rest, the 9th Division also took over the front of the 28th Division and launched a large-scale attack on the northern fortress of Xiaokanshan.

Among the many division commanders and brigade commanders of the National Army today, Zuo Yugang is the most famous one, you must know that during the Northern Expedition last year, he and Xu Lishan were known as the commanders of the two fierce generals of the National Army, Xu Lishan became famous in a battle because of the annihilation of a brigade of the Seventh Division of the Beiyang Army with less than 300 casualties in the Battle of Crossing the River in Southern Jiangsu, and although he Zuo Yugang did not become famous in the first battle, the Ninth Division under his command was the number one trump card in the Northern Expedition, and the firepower of the Ninth Division at that time was incomparable to other National Army units. Therefore, the Ninth Division has always served as the absolute main force of the Northern Expedition, from the attack on Chaohu to the attack on Hefei, and then to the attack on Chuzhou, Bengbu, Xuzhou, Jinan, the Ninth Division under Zuo Yugang has always been the main attacking force, and the Ninth Division has not tasted defeat in these battles. Zuo Yugang can proudly say that whether it is Cao Kun or Pan Juying, or Tang Tianxi or Xu Shuzheng, they are all defeated by his subordinates!

Although his overly fierce operational command style has been criticized by many bigwigs of the National Army, not only Shen Gang was disgusted with him, but his two top bosses in the Northern Expedition War had no good impression of him, such as Yuan Fang, the commander of the Second Army, and Li Jimin, the later commander of the First Army. Although there are many people's dissatisfaction, but his combat exploits are real, from Chaohu all the way to Yanjing to this feat, no one can erase it, and he connected to win the victory is also to gain Chen Jingyun's trust, if it were not for Chen Jingyun to protect, he would not have been able to turn from the acting commander of the Ninth Division to the regular at the beginning, it is estimated that he would have been transferred to other units a long time ago, where he could still have the opportunity to serve as the commander of the number one ace division of the National Army at that time!

Whether Zuo Yugang's command style is too strong is actually not such an important thing for Chen Jingyun, Chen Jingyun only needs victory, and Zuo Yugang can bring him victory, then this is enough, as for how Zuo Yugang fights, that is his own business, Chen Jingyun doesn't care so much.

As soon as Zuo Yugang answered He Zonglian's defense line, he immediately commanded the Ninth Division to launch a fierce attack on the north fortress of Xiaokanshan, although the current Ninth Division is far inferior to the Ninth Division during the Northern Expedition in terms of firepower, but the same firepower as the main forces of the other national troops, but under the command of Zuo Yugang, it has played a fierce offensive style as always!

In just three days after the Ninth Division was put into operation, it had already conquered the northern fortress of Xiaokanshan!

After the battle report of the Ninth Division reached Shen Gang of the Nanjing General Staff, Shen Gang muttered: "This Zuo Yugang has not failed the president's trust!" ”

Although Zuo Yugang had already taken the North Fortress of Xiaokan Mountain, Shen Gang's dislike for this person was still the same, and he did not change anything because of this, and Chen Jingyun also smiled and nodded after learning the news: "He is really a fierce general!" ”