Chapter 189 4. Luo Lirong was scolded bloody by Chiang Kai-shek

Sun Lianzhong, director of the enemy's Baoding Sui Department, learned that the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army was about to fight Baobei again, and hurriedly reported to the Nanjing High Command for countermeasures. On October 6, Chiang Kai-shek flew from Nanjing to Peiping and held a military meeting. More than 40 people including the director of North China Xingyuan, the director and deputy director of the Sui Department, the commanders of various armies and divisions attended the meeting.When the army commanders took turns reporting the situation, they all "commented the difficulty of food delivery" and asked the high command to solve it, but avoided mentioning the subjective reasons for repeated setbacks in combat.

Chiang Kai-shek was very dissatisfied with this, thinking that this was "putting the cart before the horse, only caring about the difficulties encountered and forgetting our fundamental task."He requested that the meeting "should focus on the experience of suppressing the bandits, point out the strengths of the bandits, check their own shortcomings, and study how to defeat the bandits." When Luo Lirong, the commander of the 3rd Army, made a speech and reported the difficulties in supplying food and fodder for the troops, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly stood up, waved his arms and reprimanded loudly: "Wherever the Communist Party goes, it can stand there and have food to eat. You Luo Lirong The army commander, leading the main force of the national army with tens of thousands of horses, and stationed in a place like Shijiazhuang, where the time and place are favorable, can't even get food, and everything depends on the government, how shameless! How incompetent!" Luo Lirong scolded bloody head.

Facing the reprimand from the "principal", Luo Lirong, a graduate of the second phase of Whampoa and a general in the direct line who has been highly valued, did not dare to show his air, his head almost dropped to his chest.On the contrary, Li Zongren quickly smoothed the field, asking all troops to follow the president's instructions and prepare for the fall battle in a planned and prepared manner. Regardless of scolding, Chiang Kai-shek still proposed two methods on how to solve the food problem of the troops: one is "to be able to effectively control the local food supplies"; Army to collect."It can be seen from this that Chiang Kai-shek's implication is to ask the troops to solve difficulties by grabbing food.

Then, the topic turned to mobile forces. Chiang Kai-shek said: "The current strategic policy to deal with the Communist Army must be divided into two types of corps, the defensive and the mobile. The troops are used for mobility, and in the future, as long as the garrison can support the battle for more than three days and attract the communist army under the city or nearby areas, the mobile corps can wipe them out in one fell swoop." "Now the North China Communist Army has been attracted by me to the Xushui area, and its strength is insufficient. This is a great opportunity for a decisive battle with Nie Rongzhen's troops." Chiang Kai-shek was quite proud, and then said: "Luo Lirong speeded up a division of the 3rd Army and the 66th Regiment to go north. , Join the new 2nd Army stationed in Baoding, attack the Communist Army from the north and the south, and fight the Communist Army decisively. This is a good turning point for the North China and Northeast War.”

The senior Kuomintang generals who participated in the meeting were greatly relieved when they saw that the general did not point to their heads, and they all praised Chiang Kai-shek's brilliance in military command with one voice. Amidst the false praises, Luo Lirong felt uneasy. He knew that although the distance from Shijiazhuang to Baoding was not far, Zhengding, Xinle, Dingxian, and Wangdu had all been liberated by our army. It is possible, the future is unpredictable!But the "principal" has already made a high-level statement, how dare the "students" defy it? Therefore, Luo Lirong committed the crime north alone.