Rise of 1926 sodu

  "Vengo, the shells are a bit too many, I didn't expect such great power?" Gao Zongbao's uneasy voice interrupted Song Zhe Wu's thoughts. He knew that Gao Zongbao had misunderstood, and smiled to say: "Not many, if only using shells can solve all the problems, I really hope to fire a few more rounds! You must remember, compared with various factions in the country, our biggest advantage is that our firepower is much stronger than theirs. Of course, it's still far behind foreign troops, and we're not at an advantage compared to the Japanese army. However, within the country, just in terms of firepower, we are first-rate. As I said before the war, we must maximize our strengths and minimize our soldiers' casualties. I need them to be not only excellent veterans but also excellent officers after 8 years. This troop is still too young, it's not allowed to let them encounter setbacks, they need time to accumulate experience, so there's no question of whether the shells are used too much."

  "8 years? Why 8 years? If they just fight a few more battles and gain some more combat experience, these men can be considered veterans. Weng, I'm not flattering you, but the tactics and training of your soldiers are absolutely top-notch in the country. At first, I thought you learned them while studying in Germany, but both Xiao Chief of Staff and Wang Chief of Staff said it's not true, what you're saying is something even the German army doesn't have! I now truly understand and appreciate great talent emerging late." Gao Zongbao's eyes were filled with a mix of puzzlement and admiration.

  Song Zhe-wu knew he had misspoken and hastily covered it up by saying: "Eight years from now, these people will be between twenty-eight to thirty years old, in the prime of their lives. Many excellent military officers, even generals, will emerge among them. Although war is cruel, there has always been a saying that 'one general's achievement is built on the bones of ten thousand men'. I have always felt that the phrase 'love soldiers like sons' is too simplistic. We, as leaders, not only need to regard them as our children but also as our backbone. To put it mildly, only if our backbone is strong will our waist be straight; to put it grandly, a country's military power must be strong for its backbone to stand upright."

  Song Zhe Wu Yue became more and more agitated, even stirring up the dreams and desires that he had deeply buried in his heart. Song Zhe grasped Gao Zong Bao's arm tightly and said loudly: "Since the end of the Ming Dynasty, the backbone of our Chinese nation, which is the strongest and most unyielding in the world, has been constantly bending, to the point where even Japan, a barbarian country that surrendered to our ancestors during the Tang Dynasty, can now hold its head higher than us! I can tell you that the backbone of our Chinese nation will stand up again, and our Baoding Army is the strongest backbone of our Chinese nation, at least it will be part of this strong backbone. These soldiers, including you and me, will all be part of this strong backbone, are elements that make it up..."

  While Song Zhe Wu was speaking with great emotion, Yang Teng Hui stood on the top of Xiaogan East City Tower, his face ashen, staring rigidly at a small highland in the distance, motionless. Although the two places were more than 20 li apart, this was a plain area without any obstructions, and he could see very clearly what was happening on the small highland with the help of binoculars.

  Since the Fourth Army, which had received unknown benefits from Nanjing's Old Chiang, began attacking No. 1 High Ground, he stood on the city wall for several hours. He and his good friend, Li Mingrui, deputy commander of the Seventh Army, had agreed that by the evening of the 2nd, Liu Zhiyuan's Central Army Second Route would arrive. At that time, Li Mingrui would suddenly open up the front line of the Wuhan Eastern Defense Line, and he would withdraw his troops together with Li Mingrui to support the Center, allowing the Central Army Second Route under Liu Zhiyuan to break through the defense line in one fell swoop.

  Yang Tonghui, as a former subordinate of Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi of the Guangxi clique, also felt a deep pain in his heart when he defected to Chiang Kai-shek to counterattack his old superiors. However, he was also very helpless, not because of the 300,000 yuan that Chiang Kai-shek gave him, but because he couldn't bear Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi repeatedly using Hunan-born generals such as Hu Zongnan, Ye Qi, and Tao Jun, while abandoning their old subordinates from Guangxi.

  In Yang Tenghui's view, Hu Zongnan was not like a soldier, but more like a politician. It was because of the "Xiang Case" he triggered that Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing got angry and found an excuse to use troops against the Guangxi clique, which led to the siege of their tens of millions of troops in Hubei and Hunan by the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Guangxi clique.

  Don't mention the third route army of Han Fuju, who is still hesitant; even if this fourth route army doesn't come, with their 100,000 troops they won't be able to withstand the two main armies of the Central Government. Moreover, he had already received a telegram from Cheng Qian in Hunan announcing his surrender to Chiang Kai-shek. As for Cheng Qian's surrender to Chiang, Yang Tenghui was not surprised; after all, with Chiang Kai-shek's tacit approval, Li Zongren had suddenly turned against Cheng Qian that year. On May 19th, 1928, Cheng Qian received a meeting notice from Li Zongren and accompanied Bai Chongxi to Wuhan from Changsha. In order to lull Cheng Qian into a false sense of security, after arriving in Wuhan, Bai Chongxi made an excuse to go to Henan to meet with Feng Yuxiang and slipped away. On the 21st, Cheng Qian attended the Wuhan Political Sub-Committee meeting. During the meeting, Li Zongren suddenly had the unguarded Cheng Qian arrested and immediately sent a telegram in the name of the Wuhan Political Sub-Committee to the Nanjing government saying: "Cheng Qian has always been violent and unruly, with a tendency to stir up trouble. After the Western Expedition he became even more arrogant and domineering, controlling Hunan politics. Today's special meeting decided to put Cheng Qian under temporary surveillance, please immediately issue an order removing him from all his positions." Chiang Kai-shek received the telegram and on the 23rd presided over a Central Political Meeting, passing a resolution that removed Cheng Qian from all his positions, abolished the Hunan-Hubei Temporary Political Affairs Committee, and ordered Cheng Qian to await trial. After the meeting, Cheng Qian's Sixth Army automatically retreated to Jiangxi because of Cheng Qian's arrest, later either being disbanded or reorganized, quickly disappearing without a trace.

  But Cheng Qian defected to Chiang, Wuhan was already finished, and the Gui system in Wuhan was also finished. Even if Yang Tenghui made a final effort with all his remaining strength, he had no power to turn things around, and the defeat of the Gui system was already settled. Yang Tenghui could sacrifice himself for his job, but his troops, his old subordinates should not have ended up like this. Thinking about these things, Yang Tenghui's feeling of guilt towards Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, those two old superiors, faded a lot.

  To block the third route army of Wu Jingping and the fourth route army of Song Zheyu, he knew that his division was not enough. That's nearly 200,000 people! With his less than 20,000 men, resisting an army of 200,000 is absolutely unimaginable, even if Sun Wu were to come back to life. However, he knew that various local forces were still watching and waiting, at least Feng Yuxiang was waiting, they were all waiting for the most favorable opportunity to take action, this was also the view of Li Zongren who was far away in Guangxi. But Song Zheyu of the fourth route army was very active, according to intelligence, he was still in Zhengzhou two days ago, but today he suddenly appeared in front of him.

  If he had defected to Chiang at that time, his troops could have avoided losses. However, this would make it more difficult for Li Mingrui to withdraw. Once he defected, the northern side of Wuhan would almost be defenseless, and the entire defensive system in Wuhan would collapse immediately. The troops defending on the eastern side of Wuhan would abandon their positions and retreat westward to Guangxi. In this way, it would be even more difficult for Li Mingrui to withdraw his troops from the army, and it would be extremely dangerous.

  He still thought that his trip would be able to hold out for a day or two without any problems. Although the troops' losses would be relatively large, as long as they could hold on until tomorrow night, everything would be fine. But what he absolutely did not expect was that just one hour later, No. 1 High Ground had fallen. According to reports, the enemy's artillery fire was extremely fierce.

  For the loss of No. 1 Heights, he did not feel very regretful, this heights was too small, he only put a division headquarters and two regimental troops. After the loss of No. 1 Heights, in order to be on the safe side, he had ordered the brigade that was going to attack Xinyang from the northwest of Xiaogan to withdraw to Xiaogan and strengthen its defensive strength. Although he did not think that this Fourth Route Army would quickly swallow up his brigade on No. 2 Heights.

  But the scene in the telescope just now shocked him, the huge smoke and dust that rose up in an instant, and the faintly transmitted roar, made him feel desperate and lonely. He knew he wouldn't be able to return from this trip. He immediately had someone send a telegram to Li Mingrui, requesting to open fire ahead of schedule, otherwise he would do it himself. He didn't want his troops to bleed anymore, nor did he want the old subordinates who came out with him from Guangxi to throw their lives away in vain!

  The Fourth Route Army's firepower was too intense, so intense that it made him feel terrified! Such powerful firepower wouldn't even be possessed by the Central Army.

  He decided that once the four roads were surrounded by troops in Xiaogan, he would immediately telegram.

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