Chiang Kai-shek's temporary headquarters was set up in the ancestral hall of a large family in Gao'an County, and the courtyard was full of hurried officers, and the radio in the headquarters was constantly ringing, and Chiang Kai-shek was sitting at the big long table in front of the map, and Chiang Xianyun was reporting the battle situation word by word.

There are many bigwigs in the command headquarters who are also closely concerned about this situation, Bai Chongxi looked unfazed, looked at the line on the map, and kept shaking his head, in his opinion, if he let Xiao Zhuge personally command this battle, it would definitely be another result.

Director Zhou, a figure who should not appear in the Northern Expedition Headquarters, is also sitting quietly at the moment, he is responding to the call of the Central Committee to organize workers' pickets and cooperate with the Northern Expeditionary Army to fight, after all, it is not a very simple thing to surround Sun Chuanfang with more than 100,000 people in Nanchang for a generation.

Director Zhou's eyes narrowed slightly, compared to Chiang Kai-shek, who was frowning, he had much more confidence in Liu Yuan, this young guy can always create miracles.

"Headmaster, be in a hurry." The chamberlain's confidential staff officer ran to Chiang Kai-shek's side, apparently wanting to report to Chiang Kai-shek alone. Chiang Kai-shek was in a very irritable mood at the moment, waved his hand and said, "There are no outsiders here, if there is any bad news, just say it directly, anyway, I, Chiang Kai-shek, have made enough mistakes, and I am not afraid of this time." ”

The young staff officer nodded and said, "Call the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Commander Jiang Zhongzheng, and Liu Yuan, the commander of the Third Division of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army, after a hard battle, our third division was reduced by three-quarters, and there are less than 2,500 soldiers who can fight.......

The surrounding commanders also looked at the young staff officer with disbelief, and after a long time, they heard Zhou Enlai's applause, "This is a great victory, there will be no war north of the Yangtze River now, and we have incorporated so many troops from Sun Chuanfang at once, and our strength has increased greatly." ”

Everyone applauded, and in response to Director Zhou's words, they really didn't expect that this young Liu Yuan would be able to persuade Sun Chuanfang, a smiling tiger, what kind of skill it would take.

Chiang Kai-shek's face was so flushed that he didn't reflect for a long time, Jiang Xianyun, who was next to him, pushed him, and then he reflected, Chiang Kai-shek patted the table excitedly and said, "Who said that our Whampoa Army can't fight, who said that I Chiang Kai-shek can't command my students, my soldiers successfully persuaded Sun Chuanfang to surrender, this is how much combat strength to be absorbed, and the victory of the Northern Expedition is just around the corner." ”

Chiang Kai-shek felt that he was going crazy at the moment, Chiang Kai-shek said excitedly to Jiang Xianyun beside him, "Hurry up and call Liu Yuan, just say that I have agreed to all Sun Chuanfang's requests, and I will treat him well, he gave the warlords a good start, and Sun Chuanfang's troops, for the time being, are under the command of Liu Yuan, and the more than 10,000 elites are also given to him, and the number is set as the Tenth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, Liu Yuan is the commander, and the rank is still a major general for the time being." And tell the troops, stop the attack, just clean up the battlefield. ”

Now that the war has had a result, many people have left Chiang Kai-shek's headquarters, because they really don't want to watch Chiang Kai-shek jump up and down and issue orders in an orderly manner, that is, Chiang Kai-shek has a good student, otherwise the battle of Nanchang will also be lost, and it will be up to him to see how he steps down.

Later, by chance, in the Baijiaping cave in Shaanxi, Director Zhou also talked about this matter with American journalist Edgar Snow, and Snow asked, "What do you think of Mr. Chiang Kai-shek as a soldier?" ”

Director Zhou thought for a long time, as if he had returned to the years of passion in the Northern Expedition, Snow remembered that I saw Zhou's hand trembling at that time, and I thought he must be recalling something.

As a result, Zhou's words surprised me, Zhou said, "As a strategist, Chiang Kai-shek may be able to pass the grade, but when it comes to tactics, Chiang Kai-shek is completely a layman, taking the Battle of Nanchang as an example, Chiang Kai-shek has no way at all, and even he can't command his own troops, and for the siege, he, like the warlords at the time, takes the most stupid method, he fantasizes himself about Napoleon, but as we all know, Napoleon's method requires great reliance on the high morale and fighting spirit of the soldiersChiang Kai-shek always makes mistakes at this point, he likes to treat the troops as death squads, but in the actual command, he is a mess, there was once a division of the whole army annihilated, fortunately Mr. Chiang has a good student, this excellent student, whether in strategy or tactics, is not this Chiang Xian can compare, and it is his existence that makes up for Mr. Chiang Kai-shek's insufficiency, which may be the reason why the Northern Expedition can advance very smoothly and make Chiang Kai-shek's popularity soar in military command. ”

However, no matter what others said about Chiang Kai-shek later, Chiang Kai-shek's popularity today has indeed reached its peak, and Chiang Kai-shek wrote in his diary, "I am very relieved to hear in the depression." ”

Although there are only a few short words, it is indeed Chiang Kai-shek's good evaluation of Liu Yuan.

And just when the headquarters of the Northern Expeditionary Army was cheering, whether it was Liu Yuan's third division or Sun Chuanfang's troops, the atmosphere became extremely bad.

Not long after Liu Yuan left Sun Chuanfang's headquarters, the news came that Sun Chuanfang had committed suicide by drinking bullets in the headquarters.

Fortunately, Sun Chuanfang had personally given the order for his soldiers to surrender, and most of his soldiers had laid down their weapons, but even so, the soldiers' emotions had become very unstable, and there was a possibility of chaos at any time.

And the anger of the third division is also not much better, Guan Lin died in battle, the worst news that Liu Yuan has heard since he crossed, the future general of the national government, died in this battle, and he was a colonel when he died.

Hu Zongnan personally blocked the gate of the camp, and he couldn't stop the soldiers who were going crazy to find Sun Chuanfang's troops to descend desperately, until Liu Yuan appeared in front of the soldiers.

The leader was Guan Linzheng's regimental deputy, he was holding Guan Linzheng's military hat in his hand, as well as a brief chapter, his eyes were full of tears, and when he saw Liu Yuan's bang, he knelt down for Liu Yuan.

The seven-foot man, crying like a child, "Division commander, you let me avenge the regiment commander, it doesn't matter if you shoot me afterwards, we are all soldiers, and it is glorious to die in battle, but they molested the regiment commander's body, unrecognizable, and his head was smashed, I beg you, division commander." ”

Some people take the lead, some people follow suit, and there are only a few hundred people left in the next regiment under Guan Linzheng, hundreds of men who came down from the battlefield, with gunpowder smoke on their bodies, and dust and blood on their bandages, so they knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Liu Yuan, repeating that sentence back and forth, to avenge the regiment commander!