"Commander Liu, Master Xue, what other justifications do you have?!" Chen Xiuping's tone was mixed with anger, and he stared at the two subordinates with burning eyes.

Liu Wenhan and Xue Renwei were weak-hearted, speechless, and lowered their heads in disgrace.

"Commander Chen, sir, I Li Hong has made a gaffe just now, I hope you will bear with me."

Li Hong raised his hand and saluted everyone, expressing his apology for the fierce words just now.

At this time, the most difficult thing to do was Chen Xiuping, and he even regretted bringing Li Hong to the front line headquarters.

Originally, he didn't want to punish his subordinates, but Liu and Xue lied about their military exploits, greedy for merit and profit, and it seemed that they couldn't convince the public without punishment.

Immediately, Chen Xiuping angrily reprimanded: "Commander Liu, Commander Xue, you two are guilty of losing your horse first, originally Chen only wanted to punish a small punishment, but today you are greedy for merit and profit, lying about your military achievements, it is really an unforgivable crime, if I, the commander of the theater, protect you again, how can I explain to the officers and men of the whole army?!" ”

"Chief Chen, I am guilty of my humble duties, Commander Li is our mistake, we should not take the credit for your merits!!" Liu Wenhan and Xue Renwei said remorsefully.

"Liu and Xue are not in a good position to fight, deliberately delaying the fighter, I will order them to be removed from their posts and investigated, come on, take them down first!"

Chen Xiuping's face was calm, and he didn't listen to too many explanations from the two subordinates who made mistakes.

Soon, the Judge Advocate General's Office escorted the two of them down.

The incident of taking the lead in the army was not only a shame for Liu Wenhan and Xue Renwei, but also Chen Xiuping, as the commander of the theater of operations, was naturally disgraced.

Li Hong exposed the truth about the sinking of the Japanese warship in person, which was actually not a good thing, which made Chen Xiuping a little unable to step down.

After dealing with the affairs of his subordinates, Chen Xiuping's face didn't seem to be very good, he swept all the officers and generals, and sat down with anger.

After calming down for a moment, Chen Xiuping said in a soothing tone: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Japanese army occupies the Madangjiang Defense Fortress, and our army has organized troops to carry out many counteroffensives, but as a result, our army's repeated attacks have been frustrated. ”

Everyone talked in a whisper for a while, and there was no good plan for the counterattack, and then all the officers and generals left the conference table and walked to the river defense map in the war room.

There are mountains and rivers on the sand table map, large and small islands and reefs of various shapes, and there are many battery positions arranged on the military fortress, and the location of each battery and firing point is very clearly marked.

The military fortifications on the map are the Madang River Defense Fortress.

Madangji Mountain is shaped like a galloping horse, sleeps across the Yangtze River, and the rock head is 90 degrees wall in the middle of the river, and the river surface is squeezed narrow here. On the cliffs in Jitou and the surrounding areas, the Nationalist Government built three Suojiang forts here in turn before the Anti-Japanese War, and built the fire blockade area of Madang Fortress, which is known as "unbreakable".

Li Hong had flown over Madang Fortress before, and had observed the entire fortress fortifications from the air, and he clearly remembered the environmental and structural characteristics of Madang Fortress in his mind.

The coastal defense map of Madang Fortress in front of me is marked very accurately, and the terrain structure is almost indistinguishable from the real Madang Fortress.

After carefully looking at the map of the Madangjiang Defense Fortress, he soon had some operational ideas in his heart.

According to the geographical advantages, the military fortress of Madang built a number of artillery batteries, machine-gun fire fortifications, tunnel fortifications, and a group of fortified bunkers.

With such a tight deployment of firepower and strong fortifications, even if the 9th and 5th theaters concentrated their firepower, it would be impossible to storm the fortress of Xiamaguan.

Li Hong knew very well in his heart that there was no possibility of victory in recapturing Madang Fortress from the Japanese army, so he could only outwit it.

"Ladies and gentlemen, if you have any thoughts or suggestions in your mind, please feel free to say so." Chen Xiuping asked the officers and generals that he wanted to hear what the combat strategies of his subordinates were.

At this time, a lieutenant general of the national army stood up, he picked up his baton and pointed to the map and carefully analyzed.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we all know that Madang Fortress is easy to defend and difficult to attack, there are many pillboxes built on the position, machine gun groups, artillery groups, and fortifications are very strong, if our army attacks, the Japanese warships on the river can cover our army with artillery fire, and the Japanese air force units can provide air support at any time."

"If our army attacks strongly, the result will only be as heavy as the previous attacks, my suggestion is to give up the counterattack on Madang Fortress, save strength and withdraw to the Jiujiang area for defense......"

The lieutenant general proposed that the whole army retreat, but no one refuted it, and the officers and generals present knew that retreat was a wise choice.

Chen Xiuping looked at his subordinates and said slowly: "Ladies and gentlemen, Madang Fortress is very important, the chairman will not give up easily, and the 9th War Zone will not give up, is there no good way to recapture Madang Fortress?" ”

A major general of the 16th Army said with trepidation: "Sir Chen, even if the officers and men of our army desperately attack the position of Madang Fortress, but the little devils of the dog day will use unscrupulous means, they will definitely use poison gas bombs to attack, and many brothers in our division will die under the Japanese poison gas bombs." ”

At present, the battle situation in Madang, fighting against the Japanese army with various advantages, there is no possibility of winning, and retreat is indeed the most correct strategy.

The two sides fought many times on the front line of Madang, and the battle loss ratio of the national army and the Japanese army was more than ten, so the officers and generals unanimously requested to evacuate and abandon Madang Fortress.

Chen Xiuping came to the front line to supervise the battle, but he made a guarantee to the chairman of the committee, and if he retreated without a fight, he would not be able to go back to the headquarters to report to him.

He himself knew very well that the Madang counterattack was a battle that should not be fought, but after thinking about it again and again, he decided to go against the current and organize troops to counterattack the Japanese army held by Madang again.

As commander-in-chief of the theater, Chen Xiuping has a flexible operational mind, a unique strategic vision, and knows how to analyze the battlefield situation.

He stared at the map for a moment, thought carefully in his mind, and had a preliminary battle plan for counterattacking Madang Fortress in his mind.

"Li Hong, everyone says that you have a quick combat mind, what advice do you have for counterattacking Madang Fortress?"

At this time, Li Hong was thinking and analyzing on the side, Chen Xiuping suddenly asked him, and Li Hong had no choice but to answer bluntly.

"Chief Chen, there is no good combat strategy for lowly positions, my suggestion is the same as everyone else, give up Madang to save strength." After Li Hong said his suggestion, he paused for a few seconds, and then said: "Chief Chen, although the Japanese army has taken advantage of all kinds of advantages, if our army insists on fighting, it is not completely impossible to recapture Madang......