Sometimes some things can be successful without deliberately doing or creating them. This involves the right time, place and people. For the national army who has been fighting on the front line for more than several months, it is very necessary. A partial victory to boost the low morale.
As a result, Zhang Tianhai and others fought a victorious battle "at the right time", so when Song Xilian reported the battle report to the theater headquarters, Chiang Kai-shek, who also served as the theater commander, immediately regarded this battle as a typical example of the Songhu Anti-Japanese War. publicity.
What to promote? Of course, it is to promote the bravery of the national army officers and soldiers and that the Japanese army is not invincible.
Song Xilian's report and telegram was very interesting. It also included the 69th Army. It said something like "very effective cooperation". Of course, it also inevitably mentioned leading a battalion of officers and soldiers to go deep into the enemy's territory and kill the enemy alone. The artillery position, and then killed Zhang Tianhai, who turned around and captured the Japanese regiment headquarters, killed Mizusaburo Shinoda, captain of the 58th Japanese regiment, and captured the regiment flag. In addition, Song Xilian also unceremoniously killed Zhang Tianhai. Most of the credit that belongs to the Hu Jiaji goes to himself, but the only credit that falls on the miserable Hu Jiaji is that he led his troops to launch an attack on the Japanese enemy forces on the north bank and dealt a heavy blow to the main force of the Japanese army.
It’s not that Song Xilian, as a commander, likes to take credit from his subordinates, and the credit for the command must be his own. It would be inappropriate to replace anyone else. Don’t forget about arbitrarily mobilizing troops for combat. If you want to be held accountable, don’t mention credit. Well, Amitabha would be dead if he wasn’t shot.
Holding this heavy battle report, Chiang Kai-shek closed his eyes and tapped his fingers lightly on the table, thinking about how to reward him.
"Come here, call and ask about the battle situation of the 69th Army last night!" Chiang Kai-shek ordered the guard beside him.
"Yes!" the guard responded.
Soon, the report about the 69th Army last night was passed back to Chiang Kai-shek, including the fact that the 55th Division sneaked into Dachang to gain a foothold before being driven out, and the 57th Division was responsible for blocking the attack from Dachang. The Japanese reinforcements in the town were pushed back until the Japanese reinforcements were repulsed.
That's right, after receiving the order from General Matsui Iwane, the Ogisu Rippei did not dare to disobey the military order and directly ordered the Sendai Regiment to withdraw to the field. As for the remaining troops of the Artillery Regiment, they were on the 5th of the 69th Army. The troops of the 17th Division escaped and returned to Dachang Town after evacuating.
Of course, the Chinese military did not intercept this type of intelligence, so it attributed the enemy's retreat to the 36th Division's timely annihilation of the trapped enemy.
As the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy, Chiang Kai-shek's military talents were not as serious as those of later generations. After carefully reading the battle reports from the 78th Army and the 69th Army twice, he issued two orders: First, the 69th Army was disbanded after the war, and the 57th Division was assigned to the newly established 74th Army of Yu Jishi. The 55th Division was temporarily under the direct control of the theater; secondly, a careful study of this battle can serve as a basis for central A classic case in the military academy classroom.
After giving these two orders, one name also stuck in his mind, and that was Zhang Tianhai. From his intuition of many years in the army, this was a talent.
Being able to remain calm even after entering enemy lines, annihilating the enemy's artillery positions and then sneaking into the enemy's coalition headquarters, what else is this but a talent?
However, Lao Jiang was not in a hurry to say that he would reward Zhang Tianhai immediately. He still wanted to observe. If he was really a talent, he would have other uses.
But in general, the sneak attack that night really made the 36th Division and the 57th Division shine in a big way, but what about the 55th Division? In this case, there will be no punishment but no general.
After this battle, the theater headquarters also made some adjustments to the two armies participating in the war: the 69th Army lost almost half of its troops since joining the war and was withdrawn to the rear for replenishment, while the 78th Army replenished its armed forces on the spot. Ammunition and troops continue to be stationed at Suzhou River.
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On the afternoon of the 28th, on the south bank of the Suzhou River, there was the headquarters of the 78th Army, oh, to put it bluntly, it was the headquarters of the 36th Division.
Zhang Tianhai, Hu Jiaji, Fang Ren and others stood in front of Song Xilian and lined up one after another. This time he wanted to reward the three people who had made the most contributions in this battle on behalf of the party and the state.
The rewards this time are simple to say. Both Hu Jiaji and Fang Ren received the fourth-class Yunhui Medal. Only Zhang Tianhai received the fourth-class Yunhui Medal and was promoted to military rank. Yes, he is now the second-class. The lieutenant colonel and battalion commander of the 16th Regiment!
"In this battle, the three of you have contributed the most, but please don't get carried away because of this. The Japanese army did not attack again today, but it does not mean that the south bank of the Suzhou River is peaceful. Our enemies are very Brutal, I hope you will not disappoint the expectations of the party and the country and continue to fight the enemy bravely!" After saying this, Song Xilian saluted a military salute. This military salute was a salute on behalf of the party and the country.
"Yes!" the three of them replied.
Soon, the 36th Division Headquarters issued an order for Sun Hong, deputy battalion commander of the 1st Battalion of the 216th Regiment of the 108th Brigade, to be transferred to the 212nd Regiment of the 106th Brigade as the second battalion commander.
This is another minor personnel adjustment.
"Yu Lin, the Japanese army is very abnormal today. We killed the main force of two regiments, and they didn't even fart? After the Japanese Army's 58th Regiment's headquarters was taken away, this little devil is Not only did they retreat, they even left without even looking in the direction of Xiaoji. If you go by your analysis, what do you think it would be like?" Walking on the south bank position, Hu Jiaji asked Zhang Tianhai, after the battle last night, he He values Zhang Tianhai more and more.
Zhang Tianhai frowned and said in a deep voice: "I don't know, maybe we gave the Japanese army a heavy blow last night, so they need to adjust their combat direction; or maybe they are replacing the newly reinforced troops. For us, None of it is good news.”
"Let's go! Go back and have a rest. Just two hours of sleep in the morning is definitely not enough. Leave the rest to the people below!" Hu Jiaji said with a big yawn. He also only had to sleep for two hours. Within an hour, the teacher sent someone to arrest him.
"Okay!" Zhang Tianhai also stretched.
The next day was definitely the most comfortable day since the 36th Division entered Shanghai.
Although there were Japanese planes coming to bomb, at least there was no ground artillery bombing, and the life was much more comfortable.
Soon, the soldiers of the national army could no longer laugh. After all, the next main wave of the Japanese army was coming soon!
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PS: This thing about Kawen is really troublesome. I have been sitting here for a long time and I can’t write anything. Blue thin mushroom.
