Okabe Naosaburo frowned and said: "Your Excellency Commander, I understand, you mean that as long as the imperial army captures Wuhan, the more than one million national troops in the outer battlefield will lose the will to resist in an instant, and they will be defeated, but the problem now is that the imperial army may not be able to capture Wuhan within half a month." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Seishiro Itagaki said in a deep voice: "Sakurada-san also thought that the Fifth Division would not be able to capture Xinkou in a short period of time, but in the end, it was still the Imperial Army that won!" So this time, I still firmly believe that it will still be our 11th Army that will win in the end, and it will still be the Imperial Japanese Army, and it will definitely be! ”

"Your Excellency, Commander, you are gambling!" Naosaburo Okabe said.

Seishiro Itagaki said, "You think it's a gamble, but in my opinion, it's a brave contest!" ”

After a slight pause, Seishiro Itagaki continued: "Okabe-san must have heard the story of a samurai duel, the main factor that really determines the outcome is never the level of force, let alone the sharpness of the katana, but whether the samurai has enough guts, if he has enough courage to dare to use a killing move in a duel that others dare not make, such as the sword technique of fighting for life, then the final victory will definitely belong to him!" ”

Okabe Naosaburo frowned and said, "If according to His Excellency the commander, first determine the target, and then dispatch all the troops to rush towards the target, what is the use of the battle plan?" ”

Seishiro Itagaki said unhappily: "Okabe-san, you are raising the bar, I said that the key factor that really determines the outcome of the battle is the courage of the commander, but I never said that there is no need for a battle plan, on the contrary, I think the battle plan is a firm cornerstone for determining the outcome of the battle." ”

Okabe Naosaburo said in a deep voice: "Then now, the problem is back to square one, and the more than a dozen war games of the General Staff have proved that the possibility of success in attacking Wuhan in a gambling way is very small, and this point does not seem to be enough to make up for it through the courage of His Excellency the Commander." ”

"No!" Itagaki Seishiro shook his head.

Okabe Naosaburo said: "Could it be that there is a loophole in the war games of the General Staff?" ”

"It's not a loophole, it's just that Andasan they ignored a point." Seishiro Itagaki nodded to the map and said, "Although the 3rd Division and the 101st Division are currently in danger, this does not mean that they cannot participate in the joint attack on Wuhan, in fact, the 3rd and 101st Divisions are the main forces to capture Wuhan, because they are the closest to Wuhan!" ”

"Nani?" Okabe Naosaburo was dumbfounded and said, "The Third Division and the 101st Division also participated in the joint attack on Wuhan?" ”

"Your Excellency, Commander, this is too risky, isn't it?" "If the 3rd and 101st Divisions hold on together, they may be able to hold out for a while longer, but if they participate in the attack, they will only be able to hold out for seven days at most, and after seven days, they will be in a desperate situation of running out of ammunition and food!" ”

Itagaki Seishiro said: "Even if you hold on to it, what will happen after seven days?" Andasang, do you dare to say that in seven days, Jiujiang will definitely be able to be recaptured? Will the Hunan and Jiangxi highways be able to resume unimpeded? ”

"This, this ......" Takeshi Anda was speechless, of course he couldn't guarantee this.

Seishiro Itagaki patted the Adachi samurai on the shoulder and said, "Andasan, please believe me, because, as a commander, my intuition tells me that the imperial army will definitely be able to capture Wuhan before the 3rd and 101st Divisions are defeated, and once Wuhan is captured, the siege of the 3rd and 101st Divisions will be solved!" ”

"Hello!" Anda Wuzhi paused heavily, and his mind was settled.

Okabe Naosaburo was also silent for a long time, although he still didn't agree with it in his heart, but he couldn't deny that this was indeed a countermeasure, and it was probably the best countermeasure.

Itagaki Seishiro said to Okabe Naosaburo again: "Okabe-san, then the opinions between us are unified, now we can send a telegram to all divisions and regiments on the front, except for the 3rd and 101st divisions, the rest of the divisions and regiments will immediately launch a centripetal attack on Wuhan, I will only give them a week, and after a week, the Rising Sun Flag of the Imperial Japanese Army must be planted on the head of Wuhan!" ”

"Hello!" Okabe Naosaburo paused heavily, and said, "So, what about the 3rd Division and the 101st Division?" ”

Itagaki Seishiro's eyes froze, and he said in a deep voice: "The Third Division and the 101st Division will be the key to victory or defeat, so their combat objectives must be modified. ”

"Modification?" Takeshi Anda and several other staff officers looked at each other.

Itagaki Seishiro pointed to the map and said: "Order, the 3rd Division bypasses Changde, and joins forces with the 101st Division to attack Yueyang, and after capturing Yueyang, immediately wave the division north to attack Huarong County, and threaten Jingzhou to the north!" Okabe-san, Andasang, please believe me, as long as Huarong County falls, the national army on the battlefield in Wuhan will collapse in an instant! ”

Okabe Naosaburo and Takeshi Anda were shocked at each other, Commander Itagaki is really desperate!

Under such circumstances, let the 3rd Division and the 101st Division continue to go deeper, in case the situation does not develop as smoothly as Commander Itagaki expected, and if the Nationalist Army on the Wuhan battlefield does not collapse after the fall of Huarong, then the 3rd Division and the 101st Division will definitely be dead or alive!

However, it must be admitted that Huarong is indeed the lifeline of Wuhan, because once Huarong falls, Jingzhou will also open the door, once Jingzhou is captured by the Japanese army, then Wuhan's Yangtze River channel to Chongqing will be completely cut off, and there will be no way to evacuate to Chongqing if the personnel and materials in Wuhan are hoarded, so the wisest thing for the national government is to evacuate from Wuhan urgently as soon as Huarong falls, but in this way, it will inevitably trigger an avalanche-like chain reaction.

This is the same as when the Fifth Division captured Niangzi Pass in the Shanxi battlefield, Yan Xishan was worried that the more than 200,000 troops gathered in Xinkou and a large amount of military supplies would be surrounded by the Japanese army, so he urgently ordered the personnel and materials in Xinkou to retreat, which triggered an avalanche reaction, and in the end, not only the materials could not be saved, but more than 30 divisions were also defeated by the Japanese army.

Although Seishiro Itagaki's plan is very risky, Naosaburo Okabe must admit that once the adventure is successful, the harvest will undoubtedly be very rich!

Takeshi Anda turned to deliver the order.

Okabe Naosaburo then asked, "What about Jiujiang?" That's it? ”

"Jiujiang?" Itagaki Seishiro said in a cruel voice, "Of course you can't just forget it, Xu Rui can be called the mortal enemy of the empire by His Majesty the Emperor, it is not a fluke, but he does have real skills, so I decided to go to Jiujiang in person, and have a good meeting with this mortal enemy of the empire, I want to see how powerful he is." ”

Itagaki Seishiro has already thought about it, and the next eleventh army is to launch a centripetal attack on Wuhan from four different directions in accordance with the battle plan formulated by Okamura Ningji before, although he is the commander of the eleventh army, but there is nothing to do in the command headquarters, it is better to go to Jiujiang and command the operation to hunt Xu Rui.

Okabe Naosaburo hurriedly dissuaded: "Your Excellency Commander, I'm afraid this is too dangerous. ”

"Okabe-san rest assured." Seishiro Itagaki waved his hand and said, "I will be careful enough not to repeat the mistakes of Okamura Ninji, I might as well tell you that Okahara-san has already taken the navy's gunboat and is rushing to Anqing, with Okahara-san and his special combat team, my safety must be guaranteed." ”

(Dividing Line)

Just as Seishiro Itagaki was reading, Xu Rui, who was far away in Jiujiang, suddenly sneezed twice.

Xiao Taohong, who was following Xu Rui, immediately said with concern: "Uncle, do you feel unwell?" ”

While speaking, Xiao Taohong leaned down, put her pretty face against Xu Rui's face, and tested her body temperature, which was not bad, after Xu Rui's body temperature dropped, it did not rebound.

Xu Rui coughed twice, and so many pairs of eyes were staring.

Little Peach woke up like a dream, and two red clouds immediately surged on Baozi's face.

Xu Rui said to Xiao Taohong again: "Xiao Taohong, you help me sit up first." ”

Xiao Taohong hurriedly stopped and said, "Uncle, the doctor said that you need to stay in bed for a long time and can't get up." ”

"Silly girl, I'm fine, help me sit up." Xu Rui shook his head, he really has nothing to do, this has to be gambled by the little devil's 38 big cover, the 38 big cover has strong penetration, so there is no warhead left in his body, after injecting the fever reducer injection, the infection level has also been successfully passed, and it will be completely fine.

By this time, Xu Rui's body was already recovering rapidly.

Xiao Taohong couldn't resist Xu Rui, so she had to help him up, stood still behind Xu Rui again, leaned Xu Rui's upper body in her arms, and used her drumming **** as Xu Rui's pillow, and the dozen or so Sichuan veterans guarding the side quickly turned their eyes away, they really didn't dare to look more, and they had to have nosebleeds if they looked at it again.

Xu Rui sat up and immediately saw the situation outside the city.

Look closely, only to see less than a kilometer ahead is the station of Jiujiang, the station of Jiujiang is shared by cars and trains, Jiujiang in the period of the Republic of China, is a number of land and water docks, goods gathered, boats like rain, so built a piece of warehouse, which will not only be full of warehouses, but also a large number of materials in the open air.

Xu Rui had been to Jiujiang Station once five days ago and had seen a mountain of supplies.

But now, there are much fewer materials stacked in the open air, and it is estimated that they are being transported to the front line.

But even the remaining materials are enough for Zhao Baishi's Sichuan Army to squander for several years, of course, the premise is that the Sichuan Army must have the ability to take it down, and it must be before Yoshimoto Sadachi, a little devil, comes back to help, otherwise, once Yoshimoto Sadachi comes back in advance, there will be no hope of taking the station.

The battle had begun, and the main force of the Sichuan Army was exhausted, attacking from three sides around the station.

This is also Xu Rui's opinion, there is no distinction between main and auxiliary, and the three battalions are all the main attack! (To be continued.) )