Generally speaking, those who dared to mix the army during the Republic of China period were different from the later soldiers Wang Zhenyu came from. The era in which Wang Zhenyu lived was a peaceful era. Joining the army was due to sufficient political treatment, such as retiring after retiring from the army, so in China at that time, people cut their heads and sent their children to the army. This was especially critical for rural children. Due to the strict household registration management system, farmers were unfortunately bound to the land and rely on the heaven to make a living. There were only two ways to change this identity before the reform and opening up, one was to study, and the second was to join the army.

The popularity of soldiers reached its peak in the 1980s, and then it went downhill with the reform of the army. Waiting for soldiers to be unable to be promoted, the officers must be military academy students. After the system of soldiers no longer being assigned to the distribution was clarified, the history of the popularity of soldiers ended. However, this does not mean that the army is no longer popular. On the contrary, such reform is more like a centralized reform, which concentrates the honors and privileges that originally belonged to all soldiers to the top of the army and even higher levels.

Wang Zhenyu's youth army is currently in its first stage. Soldiers can be qualified to enter the military academy through their performance in combat and daily work, and can also get a good job after retirement. Even if you are disabled, rural police, security forces, police stations, factory and mine workers will give priority to soldiers, and officers will not have to worry about them. Currently, officers are scarce. And once they really want to transfer, civil servants at all levels of governments and managers at all levels of factories and mines will be hired. He would give priority to hiring these officers, which made the soldiers full of fighting spirit and enthusiasm. Wang Zhenyu never expected to inspire anyone by relying on the theory of reviving the Chinese nation, because he believed in the Western theory of human selfishness. He felt that morality and spirit alone were not enough to make society work healthily, and the system was also needed. His first point, after learning from the lessons of later generations, was to achieve breakthroughs in this system. The government and enterprises did not have a job, and the secondary employment of soldiers was also relaxed and they chose their own jobs.

But this is definitely ahead of the curve in China. In fact, even in the 21st century American imperialism, the secondary employment of their soldiers is a headache, but because their soldiers have sufficient professional skills training, they have not become waste soldiers or brainless soldiers.

In this era, the Youth Army had so many relevant policies and positions to solve this problem. In other armies, this problem has always been a big problem, and many other new problems have emerged.

For example, Zhang Zongchang's army is essentially not a serious army, and there is no political idea of ​​defending the country as a guide, nor is it a guarantee of serious and self-disciplined military discipline. The political guiding ideology that can bring together hundreds of thousands of people is to grab money, grain, and territory. The only guarantee to maintain the combat effectiveness of this army is to rob unscrupulously rob and indulge in lust. It can be said that such an army is essentially the same as the Eight Banners of Manchuria in the late Ming Dynasty. It is an armed robbery group. Everything in the world can be seized and destroyed at will for them. Therefore, for Zhang Zongchang and his soldiers, the essence of fighting in war is the same as being a bandit. Promoting and making money to play with women is also the only reason and spiritual motivation for the bandit gangster group to survive. You can despise their behavior, but you cannot underestimate the amazing power they burst out from time to time.

Wu Peifu was definitely a famous general in this era. His direct army was also brave and good at fighting and strict discipline. He was definitely worthy of the reputation of "a benevolent and righteous army, a mighty army" given by the people. But no matter how good you are, you will only suffer if you meet these bandits, gangsters and bastards under Zhang Zongchang.

In history, even the Northern Expedition Army, which claimed to be invincible, suffered a great loss when it arrived on the ground in Shandong. In the end, it finally relied on Bai Chongxi, the little Zhuge, to turn the situation around, and even asked Zhang Zongchang, a thing that didn't want his ancestors, to use the Japanese to make a plan.

So can the Youth Army deal with the nearly 300,000 Zhilu coalition forces under Zhang Zongchang? To tell the truth, Wang Zhenyu, who was holding the fourth brother Wang Jingwu (Chen Quan is regarded as the boss and named Wang Chenquan), was also very bottomless. The children were scrambling to look at the Siberian tiger that was obviously frightened and hid on the side, but Wang Zhenyu's eyes consciously and unconsciously turned to the dusk north.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom,,,,." At 12:00 a.m. on September 11, at lunch time, the battle between the Feng army and the Youth Army was officially started with the first artillery shell of the heavy artillery brigade under Zhang Zongchang, and with a sharp whistling sound, the battlefield reporter of Shanghai "Shen Bao" and "Ta Kung Pao" recorded truthfully with his pen in his hand: "At 12:00 noon on September 11, 2016, with the beginning of the artillery bombardment of the Zhilu coalition, the Civil War broke out,"

Both sides of the war did not admit that this was China's Civil War. The Fengtian army insisted that it was seeking rebellion, while the Young Army claimed that it was in the Northern Expedition. Anyway, it was right that they all thought they were the just side.

Less than 1,500 meters from the forefront, Zhang Zizhong, commander of the 1st Division of the Youth Army, Zhang Xuguang, chief of staff, and Jiang Zhiqing, director of the Political Guidance Department, sat in the division command center with different expressions. Just now, a shell fell less than 200 meters away. Fortunately, the hidden work was in time and did not cause much casualties. Unfortunately, this shell was obviously a random test-firing projectile that was located in the telephone line. The location of the division headquarters temporarily interrupted the external communications. Now the telephone soldiers have been ordered to re-connect. The company commander of the communications company almost yelled and told these young soldiers that even if they died, they would have to connect the telephone line. These passionate soldiers, with a simple mind, did not hesitate to risk shelling and rushed out to find the break without hesitation. Fortunately, this area was not a focus of bombardment target for the Zhilu coalition, and telephone communications were restored quickly.

This episode did not affect the three senior leaders of the First Division of the Youth Army, and the staff members were not taken seriously by them. They were having their own conversations.

"Teacher Zhang, Director Jiang, can our position really withstand the Zhilu coalition? Listen to the guns that were fired by these guns, all of which were fired by 150mm caliber. I have seen the navy attacking this caliber before, and we have not equipped many guns. At present, the 12 gates equipped by the heavy artillery battalion of the First Division were all shipped by the Expeditionary Force after training, and the number of shells is limited. But why does Zhang Zongchang's army feel that there are at least a hundred gates? And the next one will definitely be the charge of the large corps." The chief of the strategy was originally planned to take over as the commander of the 1st Division, and even the position of commander of the 101st Regiment was given to He Chengjun, but Zhang Zizhong temporarily descended. However, the commander had already talked to him. After the battle, he would be transferred to another division as the commander, so his resistance was not very strong. He just thought that his brothers, more than 20,000 troops, would face the fierce attack of the enemy ten times that of his enemy, and all of them were Japanese equipment. If he had not had a good time playing the drums, it would be fake.

"Chief Zhang doesn't need to worry. Our defensive position can definitely withstand it, and the custody of Zhang Zongchang and others was shocked. Not to mention them, in Europe, even the great powers like Britain and France suffered heavy losses in the face of our defensive position." Zhang Zizhong is from Shandong and does not like to speak much, so he answered the European war hero. Jiang Zhiqing, who had just been promoted to director of major general, is also a classmate of Jiang Zhongzheng, who is famous in history. He was originally a big shot in the Verdun counterattack. He led Chen Cheng's troops all the way to kill and almost captured the German marshal Hindenburg alive. Afterwards, the French did not forget to award our classmate Jiang's advanced medal. This time, he followed Bai Chongxi and others returned to China and were waiting to make meritorious contributions, but in Wang Jingwei's assassination plan, this man was regarded as the first candidate for the assassin by Xiao Wang. The reason was that he had participated in the assassination of Tao Chengzhang, the leader of the Restoration Association, and was absolutely loyal to Sun Yat-sen. The story followed was a bit furious. Wang Jingwei decided on the candidate but found no one. It turned out that because the award ceremony was postponed, Jiang Zhiqing simply reported that he had not even gone to Wuhan and went back to his hometown in Fenghua. This unexpected action naturally made him lucky to avoid the embarrassment of choice, and at the same time, he also avoided the possibility of being cannon fodder. However, Wang Jingwei, who was so dying, arranged for the assassination personnel, did not forget to reuse Jiang Zhiqing, according to Wang Jingwei's idea. Once Wang Zhenyu was successfully killed, the National Government would naturally be Sun Wen in charge. Jiang Zhiqing, a general who belonged to the revolutionary party, naturally belonged to the scope of reusing. The position he arranged for Jiang Zhiqing was the commander of the Jiangsu Provincial Military Region and the commander of the Nanjing Security District. As a result, everyone knew that the assassination failed, Wang Jingwei fled to Japan, and Sun Wen retreated to Shanghai. Originally, there was nothing in Jiang Zhiqing here, and he didn't participate from beginning to end, but Wang Jingwei ran away and didn't know what he wanted to do. The list of personnel he drafted was not burned. Because Wang Zhenyu greeted him in advance, the government's personnel involved were basically not investigated, but the military did not It's easy to say, but the result was that Bai Chongxi, who was originally going to serve as the commander of the Northern Expedition Army, became the chief of staff, and the specific work was the chief of staff, who was in charge of the deputy chief of staff. Jiang Zhiqing was also very unfortunate. The spies from the National Security Bureau immediately monitored him. If it were not for the Minister of Political Department Lieutenant General Dai Jitao, who had not intervened, would have been arrested and received the merits. However, the crime of death could not be escaped. Jiang Zhiqing's appointment to be deputy minister of the Political Department was directly invalidated, and was then sent to the First Division of the Youth Army to serve as the director of the Political Guidance Department. His great military achievements in Verdun only turned the rank from a brigade general to a major general. Looking at the two shining ranks of Lieutenant General on Zhang Zizhong's shoulders, Jiang Zhiqing could only swallow his envy.
Chapter completed!