"It is a feasible strategy to use the 14th Division as a reserve, but it is also necessary to give due consideration to the shortage of troops on the front line and continue to reinforce the main forces in the rear, the total number of troops in the first army and the second army is only more than 100,000 troops, but they are to be scattered on a front of hundreds of kilometers long in northern Jiangsu and southern Anhui.

Zhao Dongyun did not directly say where to transfer the 14th Division, nor did he let the First Army and the Second Army make any tactical arrangements, the detailed strategic and tactical arrangements were not his job Zhao Dongyun, all he had to do was to put forward a request: ask the troops to go south to capture the Jiangnan region!

As for how to dispatch troops to do this, it requires the advice of many generals in the Command, otherwise what would he Zhao Dongyun do with dozens of generals in the Command!

After hearing this, Fang Biyong spoke: "At present, the General Staff is still refining the final battle plan for crossing the river to the south, and there will be a deployment of troops according to the final plan in the future, and the 14th Division should move forward appropriately!" ”

Zhao Dongyun nodded, although he boasted that he had a forward-looking vision in the international situation and the strategic development of the army because of the memory of later generations, but in terms of specific military command, his talent can only be regarded as average, and he can only rely on the memory he learned in his original body, but these memories can make him a division and brigade general, but they must not make him an outstanding military commander.

Looking at the many warlords in Beiyang, although Zhao Dongyun is the most famous one in military talent, his actual command talent can be regarded as the bottom one, among several bigwigs in Beiyang, Wang Yingkai, Duan Qirui, Wang Shizhen, Wu Fengling, Zhang Huaizhi and others are all real military commanders, especially Duan Qirui's military talent is second to none among the warlords in Beiyang.

Don't look at his defeat at the hands of the Feng army in Jiangbei, but he was able to lead a fourth division to fight in the east and west, and conquer most of the territory of South China, which is enough to prove his outstanding military talent.

If Duan Qirui and Zhao Dongyun are compared, Zhao Dongyun is more like a combination of a military theorist and a political scholar, while Duan Qirui is a veritable military commander.

In terms of actual command ability, Zhao Dongyun is not even as good as Meng Enyuan and Chen Guangyuan, nor can he be compared with Gu Lanyu and Yang Deming, who are famous in the younger generation.

Therefore, Zhao Dongyun has always seen his position very clearly, he wrote military theoretical works, he expanded the army and trained the army, but he rarely went to command the troops to fight, even in the early days of the Tangshan Campaign, the Jingshi Campaign, and the Bazhou Campaign, he was only the nominal commander, and the specific war was the responsibility of the Operations Department, which was actually commanded by the front-line generals such as Meng Enyuan, Chen Guangyuan, and Gu Lanyu.

And now the war along the Yangtze River, especially the battle of crossing the river in the planning of the Feng army, is related to the life and death of the Feng army, whether it can unify China in the future, so Zhao Dongyun is very self-aware to hand over the battle plan for crossing the river to the war department to formulate, he only supervises the implementation, and does not participate in the formulation of the detailed plan.

In recent years, Zhao Dongyun has gradually transformed from a military commander to a political family!

As a politician, he not only has to pay attention to military affairs, but also needs to maintain great energy to pay attention to civil affairs!

As soon as Fang Biyong finished his report, Zhao Dongyun's office door was knocked again, and then a second-class secretary about 30 years old walked in, this person was named Zhu Chaolin, the deputy head of the General Affairs Section of the Secretariat, and also one of Zhao Dongyun's accompanying secretaries.

He was wearing the same suit as other civil servants, shaved his head and smeared his hair oil, looking neat and shiny, and when he came in, he said: "President, President Zhou is already waiting!" ”

Zhao Dongyun nodded: "Let him come in, and the plan for the Tangshan Industrial Zone sent by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce will also be brought in!" ”

Zhu Chaolin, the second secretary who came in, immediately retreated, and after leaving Zhao Dongyun's office, he immediately walked to a waiting room next to him, and when he raised his feet and entered, he could see that there were four people sitting in the waiting room at this time.

In addition to Zhou Xuexi, the chief minister of the Ministry of Finance, one is Chen Zhenxian, the chief minister of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, and the remaining two are wearing military uniforms, and the older one is Yu Yuanqin, who just took office as the commander of the Fifth Mixed Brigade at the end of last year, and was awarded the rank of major 'general plus middle' at the award ceremony at the beginning of the year. There is also a slightly younger one is the former chief of staff of the 10th Division, Major General Xue Yiping, who is now the commander of the 29th Brigade.

After these people saw Zhu Chaolin coming in, their eyes naturally rose slightly and fell on this Zhu Chaolin, and they smiled one after another.

As high-ranking military and political officials of the Soviet Union, they naturally would not say that they would smile at anyone casually, and if they were ordinary second secretaries of the secretariat, they would not take the initiative to show goodwill.

It's just that this Zhu Chaolin is not an ordinary second-level secretary, he is the deputy chief of the General Affairs Section of the Secretariat!

As mentioned above, the Secretariat of the Presidential Office is a relatively special institution, with many departments, including the General Affairs Section, the First Internal Affairs Section, the Second Internal Affairs Section, the Confidential Section, the Foreign Affairs Section, the Counsellors Section, the Information Affairs Section, the Statistics Section, and the Chamberlain's Office. The Information Division is responsible for Commercial and Commercial Affairs, while the Statistics Division is responsible for financial affairs.

As for the General Affairs Section, this section does not say that it is specifically responsible for a certain aspect of military and political affairs, but the second-level secretary in the General Affairs Section is serving as Zhao Dongyun's accompanying secretary.

The General Affairs Section is also the only department among the many departments of the Secretariat that has six deputy section chiefs and second secretaries at the same time, and its head of the General Affairs Section is Dai Hongci, the former Qing Dynasty legal and political secretary personally invited by Zhao Dongyun.

After the fall of the former Qing Dynasty in 1906, Dai Hongci, like many former Qing high-ranking officials and dignitaries, did not quit the political arena, and even Lu Chuanlin, Lin Shaonian, and other former military ministers successively stayed in the first cabinet of the Wang Yingkai era and the second cabinet of the Zhao Dongyun era, and many other dignitaries were also active in the political arena of the Northern Republican Government or the Southern Federal Empire.

Dai Hongci was one of the 'five ministers going abroad' in the pre-Qing era, and after returning to China, he advocated various innovations, and he was one of the more enlightened politicians in the traditional bureaucracy of the former Qing Dynasty. On the eve of the fall of the former Qing Dynasty, he was the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, although Wang Yingkai was appointed as an adviser to the presidential palace, but he did not hold an important position, after Zhao Dongyun moved into Beijing, after Lin Shaonian and others recommended, he was finally personally invited by Zhao Dongyun to enter the presidential palace secretariat as a first-class secretary.

The first secretary of the presidential secretariat is only four people, and the secretariat is extremely powerful, and most outsiders respect the first secretary of the secretariat as a privy council, which can be regarded as the former Qing military aircraft minister or a cabinet member of the former Ming dynasty in the Beiyang Republic government.

Therefore, although he only has the title of a first-class secretary that does not sound very good, and is far less majestic than the chief of the cabinet, his actual power is not small, and everyone before and after him has to call him 'Dai Privy', which is not an insult to his status as the former secretary of the Qing Rites Department.

Although Dai Hongci supervises the General Affairs Division, as one of the four first-class secretaries, his daily official duties are actually very heavy, so the daily work of the General Affairs Division is shared by those second-class secretaries.

It can be seen from this that Zhu Chaolin, the deputy chief of the General Affairs Section and the second-class secretary, although his position does not sound bad, is one of the top ten second-class secretaries in the Secretariat, and he is not much weaker than those deputy directors and directors of the cabinet, and based on his perennial follow-up to Zhao Dongyun's side to deal with affairs, his importance in the eyes of outsiders has risen to a new level.

So even Zhou Xuexi and Chen Zhenxian, the two cabinet chiefs, are not good at putting on a face, but smiling.

Although Zhu Chaolin is young, he was able to rise in the talented secretariat, and stood out among dozens of second-class secretaries in the secretariat and became one of Zhao Dongyun's six accompanying secretaries, which naturally has his advantages.

He was not only an early student in Japan in China, he graduated from the law department of Keio University in Japan, and after returning to China, he first served in Zhili, and then Zhao Dongyun recruited him to Mukden during his tenure as General Shengjing, first in the judiciary, and later transferred to the secretariat as a third-class secretary, and on the eve of entering the customs, he was promoted to a second-class secretary as the deputy chief of the General Affairs Section, becoming one of Zhao Dongyun's accompanying secretaries.

The most important thing about him being able to become Zhao Dongyun's accompanying secretary is not his academic qualifications and work experience, but that he is good at dealing with people and things, and his ability to observe words and emotions is quite good. If you don't have this ability, it is difficult to make a name for yourself in the Secretariat, why?

Because there are so many talents in the secretariat!

There are basically three kinds of people in the secretariat, one is a traditional civil official from Hanlin in the pre-Qing era, Dai Hongci is a typical example, and this group of people has entered the secretariat quite a lot in the past year. The second type is the staff who followed Zhao Dongyun in the early years, such as Yang Debiao and Yuan Jinkai, the number of these people is not large, but three of the four first-class secretaries occupy three, which is the main composition of the first-secretary, second-secretary and third-class secretary of the contemporary secretariat. The third type is young people who have studied abroad, and the number of these people is the largest, but most of them are young and have not worked for a long time, and they are basically mixed with third-class secretaries or even fourth-class secretaries.

However, in any case, the overall quality of these secretariats in the secretariat is actually higher than that of many section members and division directors in the cabinet.

If you want to get out in such a secretariat, it is naturally not easy!

Zhu Chaolin is obviously the best among the many secretaries in the secretariat, so as soon as he came in, his face was full of kindness, and then he stepped forward and said, "Let you wait for a long time!" ”

Then he turned to Zhou Xuexi and said, "Chief Zhou, please come with me!" ”

The four people here all came to see Zhao Dongyun, but the time to see Zhao Dongyun was early or late, and after hearing Zhu Chaolin call himself, Zhou Xuexi immediately stood up, and then straightened the collar of his clothes, and then stepped forward to follow.

Not long after, he arrived in Zhao Dongyun's office!

Zhao Dongyun in his sight was leaning over the desk and writing something, maybe he heard Zhou Xuexi's footsteps, so he glanced up, and then quickly lowered it again, and at the same time Zhao Dongyun's voice came out: "You sit first, I'll be fine!" ”