Tang Enbo returned the salute and said: "Both, the task of cooperating with the 21st Group Army and the 16th Group Army to attack Nanning will be handed over to you, this is the first battle of my Far Fifth Group Army, I hope you will go all out and become famous in one battle, don't lose the general seat and my face." ”

"Yes, Commander, I promise to complete the mission!" The two division commanders, Hu and Yang, said in unison.

"Then I'll wait for your good news, and you remember to me that you must reach the outside of Nanning City in three days, this is the death order of the head seat!"

The two division commanders glanced at each other, looked at Tang Enbo and stopped, but after all, they didn't say anything, turned around and shouted all the way to speed up the march, and soon disappeared into the ranks.

In Jiang Haoran's infantry drill code, the commander did not have an explicit plan that the junior officers could not ask more, and most of the two division commanders muttered in their hearts, before setting off, it was obvious that the whole group army was attacking Nanning, but when they arrived here, they became two of them, where did the remaining five divisions go? I'm afraid it has become the biggest question in their minds at this moment.

"Herald, pass on my order, all the remaining troops turn to the northeast five kilometers in front and attack at full speed."

"Turning northeast?" As soon as Tang Enbo's voice fell, a question came from behind, and Tang Enbo looked back to see that Major General Wan Jianfan, chief of staff of the Far Fifth Group Army, was already standing behind him.

Wan Jianfan has been his chief of staff since the Battle of Taierzhuang, and after Tang Enbo was promoted to commander of the Far Fifth Group Army, it took a lot of trouble to transfer him over.

"No, Commander, that road is in the direction of Chongzuo, do we have to change our plan to attack Chongzuo?" Wan Jianfan said suspiciously.

Tang Enbo smiled bitterly: "It's not that I want to change the battle plan, before leaving, the head seat gave me a trick and ordered me to open it after I get here, so ...... You'd better see for yourself, right? ”

Tang Enbo said as he took out an envelope from his jacket pocket and handed it to Wan Jianfan.

Wan Jianfan took the envelope, took out a blank piece of paper from it, hurriedly glanced at it, his face changed drastically, and he exclaimed: "This, this, this...... Commander...... The general seat ...... "I didn't say a reason for a long time, obviously, the content above must be very outrageous, far more than just attacking Chongzuo."

Tang Enbo was not surprised, waved his hand and said: "Chief of Staff, don't be too surprised, the general seat must have his reasons for doing this, and we will boldly implement it." ”

"But Commander, we only have five divisions and less than 60,000 people, once we go deep behind the enemy, the enemy's southern army will arrive immediately, that is more than 200,000 troops, after we kill it, where is the way out?"

Tang Enbo hesitated for a few seconds and said, "Maybe the Southern Army of the Island Army can't reach the Chinese border at all?" ”

"How is this possible?"

"It's possible, don't forget, when we started to assemble, Zhang Cripple secretly left the Baoshan base, I suspect it must have something to do with this."

"What? Commander, the Fourth Brigade of the Special Operations Division has a total of more than 4,000 people, and you can't think that Zhang Linghu can stop the enemy's Southern Army of more than 200,000 troops with these 4,000 people, right? ”

"I don't know if I can stop it, but I believe that the general seat will not harm us, carry out the order, Chief of Staff!"

……

Hanoi, the Viceroyalty of French Indochina.

Vice Admiral Jean Degu, a French admiral pacing back and forth with a worried face, had just received a telegram from Vice Admiral Yamashita Fumi, ordering him to mobilize all the transport vehicles on standby and prepare a month's worth of food for the southern army of the island army.

This can make Jean Degu worried, and the vehicle is fine, but where can he find a month's food for the 200,000 army?

This year, the whole of French India has suffered unprecedented natural disasters, the first half of the year is drought and locust rage, the second half of the year is typhoon, flood, grain production has been greatly reduced, famine has begun to spread, many people are starving to death, even if it is his old life, this task can not be completed, but Yamashita Fengwen does not care about him so much, the tone is extremely domineering and unreasonable.

This is the bitterness and grievance of being a prisoner.

France, once boasting the strongest army in Europe, surrendered after only six weeks of German blitzkrieg, and it was the original policy of non-resistance that caused today's humiliation.

However, the Germans still gave face to France and did not divide the French colonies, so in French India, thousands of miles away from France, he still continued to be his governor of Indochina, even after the invasion of the island army, he only surrendered to the island army in the name of the governor of Indochina, the position of the governor was retained, and the French army remained here as a colonial army.

But he knew that the reason why the island army was so easy to talk was mainly because their battle line was too long, and they did not have enough strength to replace French rule and control the situation in the entire Indochina Peninsula. Coupled with the fact that he has now reached the point of servility in the face of a powerful island army, the island army is even more willing to maintain this status quo.

Of course, in order to control and gradually weaken the French power in India, at the beginning of the invasion, the island army also pretended to sign a "mutual defense agreement" with the French colonial government, called "mutual defense", but in fact ruled by the French forces. Jean Degu saw through the island's intentions, but he was helpless, and the Vichy government in France could only swallow the island's actions in India. In this way, India at that time presented a situation of domination by the island army and the French army.

But this situation is only a superficial phenomenon, in fact, Jean Degu could not raise his head in front of the island army at all, otherwise there would not be such a tragic situation.

"Report, there is a Chinese at the door who asked to see you, saying that he can help the governor solve your food problem." A soldier came in to report.

"Chinese?" Jean Degu frowned, and then his expression was grim, and a chilling feeling arose, he had just received the news that Yamashita Fengwen was collecting grain, how could this Chinese know?

"Please, please let him in!" Jean Degu hesitated for a few seconds and ordered, there is nothing more terrible than not being able to complete the task given to him by Yamashita Fengwen, since this Chinese is so energetic, maybe he can really solve his difficulties, even if he is suddenly ill, it is better than doing nothing himself.

After a while, a middle-aged man dressed in a black gown, wearing a top hat, holding an umbrella in his hand appeared in front of Jean Degu, the middle-aged man was not tall, not short, not fat, not thin, and his face was even more ordinary without any features, belonging to the kind of person who would not remember his appearance when he turned around.

"Monsieur is ......," said Jean Degu in a somewhat stiff Chinese.