Defensive positions had been formed for a week, and even 155mm heavy guns had reached their positions, but there was still no movement of enemy troops in this direction.

The march took ten days, and the week was already seventeen days.

Both division commanders checked the situation in the distance from the command post over and over again, as if the enemy would appear in sight in the next second.

In fact, this command post can only see three kilometers away, and the movement of the enemy troops still depends on the scouts.

The position from Changsha to this side should be 300 kilometers, and the regular marching speed of the troops should be 23 kilometers.

Could it be that Zhang Zhidong found another passage? The two looked at the map at the same time at their respective command posts and shook their heads again, impossible.

A reconnaissance unit has been sent to reconnoiter before, and there is no way to pass quickly at all, but ... Why the hell, Zhang Zhidong hasn't arrived yet.

"Report, the reconnaissance battalion has found enemy troops forty miles away!"

A scout with camouflage on his head rushed straight into the headquarters without caring about military discipline.

However, Yuan Mingzhang didn't blame him for not making a report, he brought the news that Yuan Mingzhang wanted to hear the most.

"Whew, finally..."

No matter what the reason was before, as long as you fight, it's easy to do.

Unlike soldiers, it is always the hardest time for a commander to see the enemy, and the feeling of scratching blind before is so disgusting that I almost vomit.

"Wait, forty miles?"

Yuan Mingzhang glanced at the little correspondent who came, and he remembered that the reconnaissance range for the reconnaissance battalion was thirty miles.

"The report, it was an order from the battalion commander to expand the reconnaissance radius to fifty miles." The scout did not hesitate to sell the battalion commander ... With the relationship between the battalion commander and the division commander, he will definitely not be punished.

"This guy." Yuan Mingzhang really has a headache for himself, the battalion commander, although he has a good ability, but...

"Forget it, how many people are on the other side?"

Yuan Mingzhang frowned and looked at the map in front of him, if he could formulate tactics according to the number of enemies, maybe...

Of course, the odds of getting the exact number of people are small.

"It is impossible to estimate, there is no edge in the marching column, there is at least one regiment in sight, and according to the speed of their march, they are about to enter twenty-two miles."

I can't get the exact number of people, but I can't see the marching procession on the side, there are at least 10,000 people... Twenty-two miles? Yuan Mingzhang roughly calculated in his heart that there would be three hours at most, and the enemy would enter the best range of artillery.

If it weren't for the fact that there might be a lot of enemies this time, he really wanted to lead his troops to design an ambush circle.

"You, go and inform Senior Commander Li. The first platoon of communications went to inform the artillerymen, the observers immediately entered the position, and the second and third platoons notified everyone on the position to enter the combat position. ”

Yuan Mingzhang's breathing became heavy, a real battle, he was already excited.

I just hope that the opponent will not let him down.

On another hill, the peaceful atmosphere is completely different from here.

"I've been wounded for the Commander, I've shed blood for the Commander, I want to see the Commander! I want to see the teacher!! ”

One of the 120 people recruited into the army at the beginning, Huang Zhaodi, now a staff officer of the Sixth Division, was being pressed to the ground by the people of the Intelligence Department, and he could only helplessly say some classic lines in film and television dramas.

It's not at all what he deserves, but ...

"Shut up, you spy!"

With a punch in his scarred face and a little lower down his diaphragm, Huang Zhaodi almost vomited out all the acid water in his stomach.

As the person in charge of the three departments in Hunan and Hubei, Wang Shang said that he has seen a lot of this kind of guy who refuses to admit it with a fluke mentality.

"Say, when did it start, honestly explain, how did you deal with Zhang Zhidong, we can let your family go and give you a martyr's treatment, but if you continue to be hard-mouthed...

If it weren't for the fact that war might start at any time now, and it must be known as soon as possible, Wang Shang would not have given this martyr treatment.

However, Huang Zhaodi obviously didn't understand this.

"Master! Division! Save me! I didn't betray the brethren, you believe me, Master, what kind of person I am, don't you know? ”

He saw his division commander Li Qinyan and wanted to grasp the straw that could save him in the end.

"Staff Officer Huang?" Li Qinyan was surprised, "Director Wang, Staff Officer Huang is the spy you want to arrest?" Is this a misunderstanding? Staff Officer Huang is an old man who followed the commander a year ago, how can he collaborate with the enemy. ”

At the beginning, more than 100 people did not report the commander-in-chief to the government, and according to common sense, they can be completely trusted.

Li Qinyan's first thought was that the people in the Intelligence Department had made a mistake, Staff Officer Huang was not only an old man who followed the commander in chief from the beginning, but also one of the people who was personally promoted by the commander, no matter how he thought about it, it was impossible to betray the commander.

"Senior Commander Li, this information was exchanged for the lives of my two intelligence officers." Wang Shang said in a deep voice.

This guy has been included in the key monitoring targets since the second half of last year, and he was originally promoted to give him a chance, but he didn't expect to be caught by the little tail before the war.

"Is it possible that there is a deliberate ...... over there in order to counter the plot?"

Li Qinyan is also not sure, people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, and it is completely impossible for him to know whether his subordinates have rebelled or not... But...

"Senior Commander Li, are you the one who doubts me?" Wang Shang could barely restrain his anger. "This is an arrest warrant signed by the director himself, you can take a look." 、

If it weren't for the fact that the division commanders of these combat units were not good at tearing their faces, Wang Shang would have wanted to directly show the arrest warrant and take people away.

"Shizuo, news has come from Yuan Shizuo, Zhang Zhidong's troops are almost in the range of artillery fire." A herald sped in.

Li Qinyan's face changed greatly, and the people on the position were still carrying out civil engineering operations.

"Quickly notify everyone to enter the combat position, give priority to the artillery, and prepare for coordinated artillery fire."

Although entering the range of artillery does not mean that positional warfare is about to begin, at this time, anything can happen.

"Director Wang, the battle is about to start, and Staff Officer Huang is also a senior commander, you see?"

He wanted to suspend the treatment of Huang Zhaodi, and it was not too late to wait until after the war, but he still did not want to believe that the people he had worked with for so long had betrayed his brothers.

"No, the arrest warrant of the Intelligence Bureau, Division Commander Li, should be clear, and I can't violate it."

Wang Shang's answer made his face very bad, but he couldn't affect the overall situation because of this.

"This ...... Forget it, Director Wang, let's take him away first.... Stalemate here is not good for the war situation. ”

"Master! Division!! Division!! ”

Huang Zhaodi, whose face was like ashes, was dragged away from the position, calming down his mood, and Li Qinyan's brows furrowed.

In this battle, the gap between the forces of the two sides is still too large.