Chapter 867: Boiled Frogs in Warm Water

"Giggles!" Leng Rushuang smiled playfully, shook his head and said, "Someone told me, 'To understand the war?' You must know that the smaller the battle, the less destructive and influential it will be, and it will not cause major changes to the entire battle situation. On the contrary, a big victory affects the situation of the entire war, and the joy after the victory will make all people reach a state of madness in a short period of time, as a soldier is beyond reproach, but as a commander, you must keep a clear head, judge the situation, quickly judge what changes will occur in the situation, and make adjustments and deployments in time, only in this way can you not put yourself under the dangerous wall. At the same time, a major war is also more likely to expose some shortcomings that the troops cannot discover in peacetime, and in order to improve the quality of a troops, it is not enough to rely on training in peacetime, and the elite is not trained, but fought; if you cannot discover their weaknesses in actual combat and correct them in time, I am afraid that for them, there will only be some arrogance to increase. 'Proud soldiers will be defeated' is a lesson that countless ancestors have bought with their blood! ’”

"Hehe, do you remember?" Jiang Haoran remembered that this was a passage he said to Leng Rushuang when he was defending Nanchang, Leng Rushuang actually said it word for word, good memory is one aspect, and it also shows that she is very attentive.

Jiang Haoran remembered what Huang Jie said for no reason, Leng Rushuang has the talent of a division commander, and an idea of forming a female division suddenly popped up in his heart, and even he himself was taken aback by this idea.

"Of course, I remember everything you say." Cold as frost with a smug face.

Jiang Haoran suddenly got up and smiled at Leng Rushuang, "Then I'll sue you, you will still be wrong." After speaking, he slapped his palms and said loudly: "Okay, okay, everyone is almost happy, now I order, everyone starts to take turns resting." ”

The order was given, everyone stopped, Liu He hurriedly designated the first batch of people to go back to rest, the battle had just begun, and the people in the command headquarters were exhausted, the list was determined, most of the people began to leave, and the command suddenly seemed to be much looser. In such a large battle, the staff team alone is a huge number, as well as communications, intelligence, command, and so on, although the space of the headquarters is not small, it is still overcrowded.

"Chief of Staff, Brother Siyuan, hurry up, after formulating the next battle plan for Jiujiang, you also go home to rest for a while, and you will come back to change shifts in the afternoon." Jiang Haoran said and walked to the combat sand table.

"What's next for Jiujiang? This Jiujiang has been defeated, what is the next step, are you still going to go from Jiujiang to Ruichang, and go straight to Huanglongfu to kill Wuhan? Liu Heqi said.

Jiang Haoran said with a smile: "The chief of staff is good, but now is not the time, the rabbit is in a hurry and bites, and he can't be in a hurry, so he has to use the method of boiling the frog in warm water to take his time." Now the top priority is how to hold Jiujiang, and then clean up the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army by the way. ”

"You mean to let the New Fourth Army copy the ass of the Japanese Third Division and attack the front and back of the Hurricane Column? Zhang Dabiao said.

"Yes, Brother Siyuan is close to the crux of the problem?"

"But in this case, wouldn't the new Fourth Division in Jiujiang have to face the Japanese army's reinforcements from Wuhan or even Nanjing alone?"

Jiang Haoran was noncommittal and said, "That's why you have to formulate the next battle plan for Jiujiang?" ”

The two stopped talking and walked quickly to the combat sand table, and the other staff officers also hurriedly approached.

Jiang Haoran began to explain, and the staff officers also picked up pen and paper to draw and measure tools, and were busy recording, measuring, drawing, and finally formulating a complete set of combat plans.

A set of plans is simple to say, but it involves a very large number of issues such as troop deployment, logistical supply guarantees, possible unknown factors, when to attack, how many troops to attack, and from several fronts.

Fortunately, Jiang Haoran's thinking is very clear, and he doesn't need other people to use their brains all the way, just record and draw, but even so, it takes nearly an hour.

In fact, the plan had already been formed in Jiang Haoran's mind, but even he didn't expect Jiujiang to be defeated so quickly, so it seemed a little hasty at this time, but it was not too late, just enough to have a daytime for the New Fourth Army and the New Fourth Division to rest.

The plan was actually not complicated, the New Fourth Army set out from Pengze and Hukou, and the whole army was dispatched to advance to the enemy's Third Division from the area east of Poyang Lake and south of the Yangtze River by pulling a net, and cooperating with the Hurricane Column to semi-encircle them, not for the purpose of total annihilation, but to force the Japanese Third Division to withdraw from the battlefield and withdraw to the direction of Chizhou in the fastest and most fierce way.

The biggest advantage of this is that the reinforcements in the direction of Xuancheng of the Japanese army can also be blocked, so that the Japanese army in Huangshan will lose the fastest and strongest reinforcements in a row, and the will to fight will inevitably decline, not to mention, it can also buy more time for the new Tenth Army to attack Huangshan.

In fact, Huangshan is indeed a hard nut to crack, and the battle has been fought for more than 30 hours now, but the attacking troops have not yet reached the enemy's city wall, which sounds a little blind and is equipped with a heavy artillery brigade.

In fact, it is no wonder that the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army is one of the first seven permanent divisions and regiments of the Japanese Army, and it is known as the "Steel Army" in the Japanese army, and its combat effectiveness should not be underestimated, especially their division commanders, who are even more famous.

To get back to the point, the New Fourth Army withdrew from the Yangtze River, Jiujiang will inevitably usher in the most crazy counterattack of the Japanese army, and once the Pinghan Railway is broken, the only logistics channel for the Japanese army will be broken, and Jiujiang is also the fastest and most promising logistics channel for the Japanese army.

After all, on the Pinghan Railway, the Japanese army had to face more than 300,000 troops from the Eighth Route Army and the Fifth War Zone, and even if the Japanese army had the ability to open up the Pinghan Railway, this railway would definitely be damaged like never before, and there would be a long process from repair to opening to traffic, but Jiujiang was different, and they only faced Jiang Haoran's 40th Group Army. Therefore, no matter which aspect is considered, the Japanese army will definitely counterattack Jiujiang.

However, Jiang Haoran still believed that the Japanese army would not send troops from Wuhan, and the reinforcements would still come from the direction of Nanjing, and they would be urgently transported by water.

So in the plan, in the direction of Wuhan, Jiang Haoran only transferred a regiment from the New Second Division to guard the intersection from Ruichang to Jiujiang, and no matter how much it was drawn, it couldn't be drawn, after all, the New Second Division had just laid down De'an, and thousands of Japanese troops fled into the mountains and forests, at this time the troops had advanced to Jiujiang, and the whole road became particularly important.