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Volume Three Far East Stories Chapter 640 (Part 1) Who is the Uncrowned King?

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    The remaining three recruit supplementary brigades in Nanyuan Base Camp continue to train. The pace of recruitment of new recruits across the country for the participating armies has not stopped. This has created a special case in the history of modern warfare. The party participating in the world war is also  The Sino-Japanese alliance is fulfilling its combat obligations within the Allied countries with its standing national defense forces without executing the national mobilization order.

    Of course, over the past year and a half, the Chinese Army and Air Force have become the spiritual pillar of the Chinese people and the backbone of the entire society. The Chinese Army and Air Force, with their strict discipline, generous remuneration, hard training, and brave combat, have become the pride of the times!  The military song "Three Major Disciplines and Nine Points" is engraved loudly in the hearts of every soldier!  It is reflected in their daily behavioral norms, and the Nanyuan Recruitment Supplementary Brigade's voluntary participation in local dredging and water conservancy projects on both sides of the Yongding River has become a glorious tradition.

    The newly organized 27th, 28th and 29th Divisions of the participating armies formed the Chinese 4th Group Army. The selection of the commander of the group army was both surprising and unexpected. Jiang Fangzhen resigned from the post of Shanxi Army Governor and the commander of the reorganized 13th Division, and was promoted to Army  General, served as the commander of China's 4th Group Army, and the person who took over as the governor of Shanxi and the commander of the reorganized 13th Division was the 57-year-old Beiyang veteran Wang Shizhen.

    Originally, when the Allied Forces on the Eastern Front were established at the end of May, Wang Geng wanted to transfer Jiang Fangzhen to be the chief of staff of his coalition forces. At that time, Shanxi was overwhelmed with things in all aspects, so he replaced Jiang Hongyu, who now joins the war.  The army was selected to go abroad to join the coalition for the second time. Jiang Fangzhen was determined to go to the front line to show off his skills, so Wang Geng made such an arrangement. As for the old man from Beiyang, Wang Shizhen, he never dreamed that he would be able to take charge of the new Beiyang side again.  The people who unite to the south seem to be as indestructible as the Sino-Japanese alliance.

    By the end of July 1918, Jiang Fangzhen led the newly formed Chinese 4th Army to fight abroad. The commanders of the three reorganized divisions under his command were Song Zheyuan, commander of the 27th Division, Tong Linge, commander of the 28th Division, and Shi Yousan, commander of the 29th Division.  These former mixed brigade commanders were only battalion and company commanders in the 16th Mixed Brigade in Langfang. After following Wang Geng for a year and a half, they finally became division commanders. Of course, they could go abroad to fight in the Volga River and Ukraine to show off their talents.  , the attraction to these young generals is far greater than being a military assistant or military division commander at home.

    At one o'clock in the afternoon on July 28, 1918, Wang Geng walked into the conference room. Behind him was Qian Tianfu, director of the war room, and a group of staff officers. Already waiting in the war conference room ten minutes in advance was Jiang Hongyu, chief of staff of the coalition forces.  On the right side of the conference table are Japanese generals led by the newly arrived Japanese First Army Commander Tanaka Giichi, three Japanese lieutenant generals, division commanders and their respective chiefs of staff, and six major general brigade commanders.

    On the left and opposite side of the conference table are the Chinese generals headed by General Jiang Fangzhen, the commander of the Chinese 4th Group Army. They are also three lieutenant generals, commanders of reorganized divisions and their respective chiefs of staff, but there are as many as nine major generals and brigade commanders.  The momentum is much greater than that of the Japanese generals opposite, and basically none of the Japanese major generals and brigade commanders are under 45 years old. Among the Chinese generals, even the lieutenant generals and division commanders are not over 40 years old.  In contrast, although the Japanese generals' faces were cleanly shaved and their heads were shaved meticulously, the young Chinese generals opposite were obviously much more energetic.

    The generals of the Japanese First Army headed by General Giichi Tanaka knew nothing about the young Chinese division and brigade commanders across the conference table, but they were all familiar with General Jiang Fangzhen, the commander of the Chinese 4th Group Army.  It has been a long time, and there is no other reason. Jiang Fangzhen studied at the Japanese Army Military Academy and graduated with first place in 1905. During his time at the Japanese Military Academy, Jiang Baili, Cai E, and Zhang Xiaozhun were called the "Three Heroes of China."

    Moreover, this 36-year-old Chinese Army general had already been the governor of a province before, and had served as the president of the Army School and Army University in Baoding, China. He was a serious military model with both civil and military skills. Although the Japanese division commanders were all older than Jiang Fangzhen  Although he was considered Jiang Fangzhen's senior in Lu Shi's eyes, his affection and admiration for General Jiang, who spoke fluent Japanese, were clearly visible.

    Jiang Fangzhen, whose courtesy name is Baili, is a famous military theorist and military educator in modern China.  After graduating from the Japanese Army Military Academy with the first rank, he also studied in Germany. After returning to China, he served as the principal of the Baoding Army Military Academy and the acting president of the Army University.  In Wang Geng's previous life, Jiang Fangzhen was the first among the Southern Party generals to put forward the military theory of a protracted war against Japan in his collection of military treatises "On National Defense" published in 1937.  And it influenced Bai Chongxi and others to a certain extent in the future.

    Later generations' evaluation of Jiang Fangzhen was that he was a first-rate military scientist, but not a first-rate military strategist. Wang Geng did not think so. In Wang Geng's previous life, Jiang Fangzhen never personally commanded a battle in his life. In more than 30 years,  During his career, he was successively employed as chief of staff or consultant by Zhao Erxun, Duan Qirui, Yuan Shikai, Li Yuanhong, Wu Peifu, Sun Chuanfang, Tang Shengzhi, Chiang Kai-shek, etc. He only served as a senior staff member and traveled among the princes.

    ? ??As for Jiang Fangzhen's coffin positioning, most later generations believe that he should be a military scientist rather than a military strategist.  Later, after Jiang Fangzhen's death, Wang Yunsheng, the chief writer of "Ta Kung Pao", recalled his article, or Cao Juren's "Critical Biography of Jiang Baili" used the term "military scientist" cautiously.

    In the elegy of "Tiger Chief" Zhang Shizhao, it is even said that he "talks about military affairs with a touch of Confucianism, and enters the world with a more reserved style." Perhaps Huang Renzhi's elegiac couplet is a bit more polite: "A natural strategist and a natural writer.  ".

    Jiang Fangzhen just didn't meet Bole in his previous life. This is Wang Geng's own opinion. Of course, whether real gold is afraid of fire or not, the vast Eastern Front battlefield of the Allied Forces is the best melting pot and school. Wang Geng wants Jiang Fangzhen to take charge of it alone.  Leading troops, didn't the commander of the 1st Division in front of Japan, Lieutenant General Kawai Cao, also just stepped down as the president of the Japanese Army University? Who said that military scientists cannot lead troops to fight and become strategists?  Wang Geng doesn¡¯t believe this evil!

    As Wang Geng walked into the conference room, a crisp, "Commander-in-Chief has arrived!" The Chinese, Japanese and federal generals in the entire conference room stood up in a hurry and stood at attention, their boots clattered, and several Japanese divisions  The regimental leader looked with curiosity in his eyes as he looked at the young but graceful Commander-in-Chief of the Eastern Front Allied Forces of the Allied Powers, and at this famous uncrowned king of Asia.
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