Nanjing's reward decision was to be announced throughout the army, so soon the news that Chen Feng was promoted to lieutenant general and the 222nd Division was promoted to a division spread throughout most of China. And this reward decision is also the first positive response of the Nationalist Government since the victory of Xinghe, and this response undoubtedly proves that the news of Xinghe victory is correct and reliable.

Unlike the cheers of the whole Chinese, Chen Feng had a headache at this time, looking at the telegrams from the National Government and the World War II Zone, Chen Feng was one head and two big. Needless to say, the telegram from Nanjing didn't want to be promoted and make a fortune, but the most embarrassing old Jiang insisted on stuffing that Song Mengyao to Saibei, which made the whole thing sour.

What kind of bullshit life secretary, as long as you are a discerning person, you can see that this is Lao Jiang to Chen Feng to make a conspiracy, and it is a beauty plan. But his arms couldn't twist his thighs, knowing that Lu Dao was like this, Chen Feng couldn't refuse. Not to mention that this Miss Song was originally from a prominent background, although she was just an illegitimate daughter, but her status in the Song family was no worse than that of the three genuine eldest ladies, but because of the relationship between the illegitimate daughters, she was quite loved by the three sisters of the Song family, and Mrs. Jiang kept her by her side all the year round, can she provoke such a person.

In addition, Lao Jiang ordered to inform himself, which showed that he was serious and iron-hearted, and he had no chance to refuse. Moreover, Lao Jiang has been using women to co-opt, control, and monitor senior officers for a long time, since it is not a descendant army, but if it wants to be reused, it must accept Lao Chiang's surveillance and control.

The veteran's approach undoubtedly stimulated Yan Laoxi, and after reading the telegram sent by Nanjing, Yan Laotou quit. You Jiang bald head is nakedly digging the foot of the wall, promoting officials and getting rich and sending women, and the means are all at their best.

Soon, the Governor's Department of the Second World War Zone also drew up a reward plan, appointing Chen Feng as the director of the Second Administrative Inspectorate of Suiyuan Province, in charge of the military and political power of the six counties and districts of Fengzhen, Jining, Liangcheng, Xinghe, Taolin, and Shangdu. At the same time, 3,000 regular rifles, 50 light and heavy machine guns, 150 submachine guns, and 300,000 oceans were allocated to the 222nd Division.

These are nothing, who is not happy to give officials money and equipment, but what is terrible is that Fu Zuoyi, commander-in-chief of the Seventh Group Army, personally sent a telegram to Chen Feng, saying that Yan Dashuai's niece and his fiancée Yan Changxi will rush to Xinghe in the near future to take care of his daily life and let him be well received.

Not to mention that there are already two women in his family, and he also heard that his wife is in contact with his uncle, and he wants to take his cousin Tana to his side, and it would be against the sky if there are two more.

But that's the way it is, obviously not happy, but I can't refuse, there are big fish on both sides, who will pay attention to the wishes of my little shrimp.

"Division, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Zhu De sent congratulatory telegrams to congratulate our army on its unprecedented victory." Chief of Staff Yang Yi walked in with a message and said.

Taking the telegram in Yang Yi's hand, Chen Feng looked at it carefully, it was sent directly from Yan'an, and the telegram praised the 222nd Division, calling it a model for the pillars of the country, and the most prominent signatures of the telegram were Mao, Zhou, and Zhu.

After reading the telegram, Chen Feng was a little embarrassed, there are really not many people who can be called the pillars of the country by these gods. What's more, because of his own appearance, it directly led to the fact that the status of the great victory of Pingxingguan of great significance in history became insignificant, and you must know that the great victory of Pingxingguan in the history of Ludao was the first military victory in the history of our army, breaking the myth of the invincibility of the Japanese army.

After the war, Jiang Zhongzheng, leader of the Nationalist Government, sent two telegrams to congratulate Jiamian, and various political parties and organizations in China sent telegrams to congratulate him, and the media in Europe, the United States, and Southeast Asia also reported the news of the victory of the 115th Division of the 18th Group Army.

Moreover, the great victory of Pingxingguan in history was of great significance, at that time, the Battle of Songhu on the southern front had been in a state of stalemate, and the Chinese army suffered heavy casualties. Baoding, Shijiazhuang and other large cities and large areas of land in the northern section of Pinghan and Jinpu Road quickly fell, and Yan Xishan's Jin army also lost ground in succession. The battle of Pingxingguan cleanly wiped out more than 1,000 Japanese troops, which was the first major victory of the Chinese army since the National War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Therefore, the Kuomintang government said: "This is an unprecedented victory of the Chinese army on the Pingsui Line." It dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army that had been on a rampage since the invasion of China, especially because it was the ace division of the Japanese army, so this blow was particularly heavy on the Japanese army, and it was particularly meaningful.

And its more significant significance is that it has greatly boosted the anti-Japanese fighting spirit of the people of the whole country, just as Xu Fanting, then chairman of the Kuomintang Second Theater Field Mobilization Committee, pointed out: The special significance of the Battle of Pingxingguan "lies in breaking the myth of the invincibility of the 'imperial army' and raising our morale." ”

Second, the severe blow to the Japanese army in the battle of Pingxingguan not only broke the strategic attempt of the Japanese army to break through the Pingxingguan and strike at the troops of China's Second Theater and cooperate with the main force of the Japanese army in North China to fight on the Pinghan Road from the right flank, but also thwarted the momentum of the Japanese army's offensive to penetrate deep into the hinterland of Shanxi, dampened the Japanese army's sharp spirit, and made it dare not go deep rashly, thus providing an opportunity for the Chinese side to deploy the Battle of Xinkou, thus effectively supporting the Chinese frontal army's war of resistance.

However, now due to the appearance of Chen Feng, the record of destroying more than 1,000 enemies in Pingxingguan is simply incomparable with the 222nd Division's annihilation of more than 33,000 enemies, so the domestic and foreign subconsciously ignore this battle, but the headquarters of the Second War Zone sent a congratulatory telegram painlessly, and in addition, some ammunition and equipment were replenished.

"Send a telegram to the Central Communist Party in Yan'an, congratulating the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army on its great victory at Pingxingguan, and in addition, mobilize a batch of weapons and equipment from the captured trophies and send it to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, saying that our 222nd Division supports them." Chen Feng said.

"Shizuo, it's nothing to send a congratulatory message, but if you send weapons and equipment, I'm afraid it will make Nanjing unhappy. Shizuo also knew that the Nanjing side and Yan'an had always been at odds, and they had beaten you to the death two years ago. Although the Kuomintang and the Communist Party have cooperated, it is still unknown how long this cooperation can last, and our sending equipment to the Eighth Route Army will inevitably cause dissatisfaction in Nanjing. Yang Yi said with a frown.

"Who told you to send it clearly, let the special combat team take a trip, and you don't need to go to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, just send it to the headquarters of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army operating in the northwest of Shanxi, which is relatively close to us and safe on the road."

"How many weapons and equipment are the divisions going to send, you give an approximate amount!" Yang Yi said.

"In this way, the three divisions under the jurisdiction of the Eighth Route Army are all B divisions, and each regiment has about 2,000 people, so you can give them 2,000 38 big covers, 20 light and heavy machine guns, 10 grenadiers, and don't bring grenades that are too large, send more ammunition, 1 million rifle bullets, 1 million machine gun rounds, okay, that's it!"

Yang Yi not only smacked his tongue when he heard it, the division seat was really generous, as soon as he made a move, it was the equipment of a regiment, a few months ago, in order to equip the security regiment, Chen Feng was about to shake the old man's family background, and it has only been a few months, and he can easily take out the equipment of a regiment when he gives it away.

"Master, there is one more thing to report to you, many reporters have come to Xinghe in the past few days, all with the approval of Nanjing or Taiyuan, hoping to conduct an interview with you, do you want to meet them?"

"Well, in this case, aren't we going to hold a funeral for the soldiers who died in battle tomorrow, and after the funeral, I will meet them collectively at our headquarters, and the chief of staff will bother with this matter." Chen Feng said.

"No problem!"

Yan'an. The seat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Although it was late, the lights in Mao Weiren's cave were still on, and there was a faint sound of conversation coming from inside.

There are 5 people sitting in the room, if Chen Feng is here, he will definitely be able to recognize 4 of them, Mao Weiren needless to say, there is no Chinese who he does not know, and in turn Vice Chairman Zhou, Commander-in-Chief Zhu and Ren Bishi, although the remaining one is not small, but he does not show up much, and he is the person in charge of the intelligence of the Chinese Communist Party.

"Kenon, is the news reliable?" The thick Hunan accent makes the voice seem grandiose.

"Chairman, the news is from Xinghe, it comes from within the 222nd Division, and it should be reliable." Li Kenong replied.

"There are our people inside the 222nd Division?" The Chair asked again.

"Well, there are quite a few of them, but the vast majority of them are medical personnel, and there are no of us in the combat unit."

"How much do you know about that Master Chen, Kenong? Since this division commander Chen will give us weapons and equipment, it shows that he has a good impression of our Eighth Route Army, and we will have to deal with him in the future, but we don't know anything about him now, which is unacceptable. "This time it was Commander-in-Chief Zhu who spoke.

"We have done a detailed investigation of this Master Chen, and found that he is very contradictory, how to say it? Born into a wealthy merchant family, his father was the largest grain merchant and fur merchant in the four northern provinces, and his mother was the youngest daughter of the leader of the Siziwang tribe. Until a few months ago, Master Chen was still a local gentleman, lingering in the brothels of Qinglou every day, making a lustful voice, and even doing evil things of robbing people's girls on the street. In March this year, he served as the head of the security regiment and the commander of the city defense of Xinghe County, Suiyuan Province, through his connections, and officially took up a military position. But what really made people pay attention to him was that a few months ago, he wiped out the Saibei Horse Gang that had been crisscrossing the north of the country for more than 20 years with the strength of a security regiment, and at the same time, it took just one month to wipe out the many bandits in Xinghe, and some of our armed forces were also exterminated by him as bandits. At the beginning of this month, the Japanese army Chahar sent the corps to attack Tianzhen, Chen Feng led the reinforcements of the troops, won a great victory in Tianzhen, annihilated more than 10,000 Japanese puppet troops, and also killed the Japanese army major general Sakai Hoji, his security regiment was immediately upgraded to the Jinsui Army Duqi Brigade, and was quickly upgraded to the current 222nd Division. On the 21st of this month, the Japanese army's independent mixed second brigade and several puppet army cavalry divisions of nearly 20,000 people besieged Xinghe County, intending to annihilate it in one fell swoop, but this division commander Chen took only five days to completely annihilate this Japanese puppet army, annihilating more than 33,000 enemies, and also killed Lieutenant General Abe Norihide, the commander of the second brigade of the Japanese army's independent mixed brigade, and achieved a great victory in Xinghe. Li Kenong slowly said the information they had gathered about Chen Feng.