Half an hour later, the 78th Regiment Headquarters.

The regiment commander Bai Chongxi, deputy regiment commander Cao Wenlian, chief of staff Zhang Zhizhong, battalion commander Ye Ting, battalion commander of the second battalion Gu Zhutong, and battalion commander of the third battalion Deng Yanda sat in a simple decorated conference room.

Among these people, except Cao Wenlian, the other five graduated from the Central Military Academy. Among them, Bai Chongxi, Ye Ting and Gu Zhutong all participated in the European Expeditionary Force. Zhang Zhizhong and Deng Yanda graduated early after the Sino-Japanese Jiaozhou Bay War in Shandong and remained under Wu Peifu's command. Later, together with Cao Wenlian, they were transferred from Shandong to the 78th Regiment of the Mongolian Military Region to serve.

Usually, officers at the battalion level and above of the 78th Regiment often hold regular meetings, but these meetings mainly discuss the training and tactical interpretation of various troops. This is the first time that such a sudden notification has been established by such an extraordinary meeting. Everyone here knows that Bai Chongxi received a notice from the military region to the headquarters early this morning. After rushing back, he called everyone to a meeting. Something big must have happened.

Deng Yanda was the most impatient. She just sat on the chair and hadn't waited to warm up, she couldn't wait to ask Ye Ting beside her about the content of the meeting. Ye Ting just shook her head slightly and said that she was not clear. The rest of the people were also confused and quietly waited for the delegation leader Bai Chongxi to announce the start of the meeting.

Seeing everyone, Bai Chongxi signaled the guards to take the door and guard outside the door and not let anyone approach. Then he coughed gently and said, "Everyone! My 78th Regiment has been established for half a year. In the past six months, my colleagues have worked hard. Both soldier training and tactical interpretation have made great progress. It can be said that in the entire defense force sequence, my 78th Regiment is a well-deserved elite, and it is also our pride as officers at all levels of the 78th Regiment!"

As Bai Chongxi said, everyone's faces showed a look of pride. It was indeed as Bai Chongxi said, after more than half a year of continuous training and tactical interpretation, no unit in the defense force sequence could compare with the 78th Regiment, not to mention that the 78th Regiment was far superior to the ordinary troops in terms of training, tactics and equipment configuration. Among the officers sitting, some came from the old Eighth Division, which is known as the first strong KMT army. Some experienced local wars in China and Japan, and some fought with the extremely elite German army on the European battlefield. But compared with these troops, they could proudly say that under the same troop strength, neither the unit was the opponent of the 78th Regiment, which was enough to show the strength of the 78th Regiment.

Just when someone was proud of his troops and was a little complacent, Bai Chongxi's tone suddenly changed. He said, "But! The so-called elites were not spoken by mouth, nor were they achieved through practice! What are elites? Elites were shot in the sea of ​​bloody mountains and corpses! No matter how well they were on the surface, they would be piled up with mud when they were pulled onto the battlefield, and everything was useless! Some troops in the military region mocked us for being the Imperial Guard of the Qing Dynasty, and seeing that the airs were so majestic, it was actually just like this. Could it be that our 78th Regiment satisfies the superficial number one in the world? No! This is definitely not the wish of more than 6,000 officers and soldiers from our 78th Regiment, nor is it what I, Bai Chongxi, wanted!"

"Who doesn't accept it? If you don't agree, you will be able to compete with us! Don't talk about a regiment, I can beat them all over the ground!" Deng Yanda jumped up first, blushing and shouting, followed by Ye Ting. Then even Gu Zhutong couldn't help but stand up.

Seeing that the three battalion commanders looked indignant, Bai Chongxi not only was not angry, but laughed. The person who led the troops must have such a spirit of dissatisfaction. Only when the commander is like a screaming little tiger, can such a force be able to do great responsibility.

"What's the use of just shouting a few times? Can you scare people by shouting? Joke!" Bai Chongxi's smile was restrained. He glanced at everyone with a sharp look and sneered: "Military exercises don't mean anything? Only real swords and guns are real guys on the battlefield! Besides, our 78th Regiment is the country's army and the elite of the National Defense Forces. Can we still aim our weapons at our brothers to compete?"

"This..." Bai Chongxi's words left Deng Yanda and others speechless. They looked at each other and didn't know how to tell.

Seeing that Huohou was almost done, Bai Chongxi then revealed his mystery: "If you want to prove that he is the best in the world, you have to prove it with military achievements. Now! There is such a chance, it is a mule or a horse, and you can pull it out for a walk. If the battle is bad, our 78th Regiment is not worthy of its reputation. If the battle is done well, it means that our 78th Regiment is the real strongest military of the National Defense Forces!"

"To fight?!"

As soon as Bai Chongxi finished speaking, this thought flashed through everyone's mind. For more than half a year, they have trained the troops day and night, racked their brains to rehearse various tactics for why? Isn't it just to prove themselves and prove their troops? The regiment commander was right, it was a mule or a horse to pull it out, and whether the 78th Regiment is the best in the world, let the battlefield prove this answer.

When everyone thought of this, they couldn't help but feel excited and rushed to echo loudly. Chief of Staff Zhang Zhizhong remained awake while being excited, because peace had been restored in most parts of the world since the end of the European War, and the armistice between China and Japan continued, and there was no conflict between the two sides recently. Where should this battle go? Thinking of this, Zhang Zhizhong suddenly remembered that just not far from the north, a civil war was taking place in Russia, a neighboring country of China. Could it be that the target of the 78th Regiment was Russia?

"Jiansheng, do you mean... north?" Zhang Zhizhong couldn't help asking.

"Brother Wenbai is worthy of being the Chief of Staff, haha." Bai Chongxi nodded with a smile.

"Russian?"

It confirmed the target of Bai Chongxi's war, and the people present were both surprised and happy. Speaking of the Russians, everyone here had no good feelings. Whether it was the Tsarist Russia, which invaded China and cut off a large number of territories, or the current Soviet government or the orthodox government of the Russian Empire in the Far East, these were not good things to those present.

There is no need to say that Tsarist Russia has been constantly invading Chinese territory since the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty. In the past century, it has taken advantage of China's weak opportunity to cut off millions of square kilometers of land and blackmailed huge compensation. Until the beginning of the European War, under the attack of the Allies, Tsarist Russia, which could not support, had no choice but to ask China for help, and the central government did not disappoint everyone and took advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reclaim part of the originally stolen territory.

After the revolution in Tsarist Russia, although the orthodox government of the Russian Empire established in the Far East nominally accepted Tsarist Russia's international position, it had lost its central rights and became a local force. Now, if it weren't for the support and help of the Chinese government, this nominal orthodox government would have been destroyed long ago. But even so, according to the Sino-Russian Agreement, the return of all ceded territory in the agreement has not yet been implemented, which means that the Russian Russians still occupy a large number of China's territory.

As for the Soviet government, let alone the Soviet government. The Mongolian military region and Russia are already bordering. Under the Russian revolutionary storm, there are many Russians who fled into China through the border areas. These people fled under the bloody and brutal means of the Soviet government. All the officers present witnessed the tragic situation of these fugitives with their own eyes. They even heard from some Chinese-speaking Russian nobles how the Soviet government ignored the lives and deaths of the people in order to search for food, even confiscated all their property in the name of revolution, drove them out of their homes, and even made up charges and shot them to suppress them.

The regional special nature of the Mongolian Military Region is also the frontier of rescue for the Russian famine some time ago. The tragic experience of the Russian people made everyone cry. Although these people are also "Royals" in the eyes of the Chinese, they are indignant about the culprits of this terrible situation, whether it is the steady Zhang Wenbai or the radical Deng Yanda.

Therefore, when fighting with the Russians, no one has any psychological burden. Don’t look at the sound of the Soviet Red Army in the north, it seems that I am the best in the world, but not to mention their combat effectiveness, even the ordinary Chinese Defense Forces are not as good as those of the 78th Regiment. To put it bluntly, with the current firepower configuration and tactical training of the 78th Regiment, it is enough to compete with the Red Army of an army, and it is still very likely to defeat the other side.

"Is this the order of the military region?" Zhang Zhizhong lit a match and lit a cigarette, and asked hesitantly: "Although the orthodox government of the Russian Empire established diplomatic relations in the Republic of China, it is a strategic opponent of the Soviet government to some extent. But after all, the central government did not officially break up with the other side. If our 78th Regiment privately entered the north and fought with the other side, would it cause unnecessary trouble in diplomacy?"

"Wenbai's concerns are correct, but I can tell you with certainty that this is not only an order from the military region, but also an order from the Ministry of National Defense and the General Staff, and it was approved by the State Council." Bai Chongxi understood Zhang Zhizhong's concerns, and immediately took out a telegram and read it. The telegram was not long, with only a few short orders on it. The most important one was to let the Mongolian Military Region cooperate with the 78th Regiment as soon as possible to prepare for combat and go north to enter Russia's territory at any time.

After listening to the telegram, Zhang Zhizhong was completely relieved. With this order, their 78th Regiment was also famous for its division. However, when it comes to fighting with the Soviet Red Army, he still thought that one problem had not been solved, that is, the specific implementation aspect.
Chapter completed!