Before Jiang Haoran and his party arrived at the gate of the headquarters, they heard a noise from afar, but they could still hear it, and there was a lot of joy, and everything seemed to be good news. Nature

"Commander-in-Chief Jiang has arrived!"

As the guards at the door reported aloud, the noise in the command headquarters suddenly calmed down a lot, Jiang Haoran walked in with three women, Bai Chongxi immediately greeted him, and said with a smile: "Ziqian, good news, the island army has withdrawn." ”

"The island army has withdrawn? Where did the island army retreat? Jiang Haoran frowned unconsciously and said.

"Hefei, Hefei is now an empty city, just Yang Sen sent a telegram, they have entered the city, and after Huainan's island army abandoned Huainan last night, they went straight to the direction of Bengbu, and the special operations division and the new third division pursued all the way, and by this morning, these two divisions could no longer be seen on the road, and with the degree of the special operations division, the island army could never be faster than them, so it can only be said that the island army retreated to the left and right flanks, and they were ready to abandon Bengbu." Bai Chongxi's eyebrows fluttered endlessly, not noticing that Jiang Haoran's face had become very ugly.

As soon as Bai Chongxi's words fell, Jiang Haoran's cold words immediately came out: "This is also good news? I don't know how you have brought the soldiers for so many years? ”

Jiang Haoran ignored Bai Chongxi after speaking, and walked straight to the combat sand table, Bai Chongxi's smile suddenly froze on his face, and he stood in place like a stake, and he didn't react for a long time.

The joyful atmosphere in the command headquarters was also suddenly suppressed by Jiang Haoran's black face, everyone looked at each other and didn't know what was wrong, it stands to reason that ** will recover the two cities of Fat and Huainan without blood, and now the island army is obviously preparing to abandon Bengbu, which is undoubtedly great news for **, and it is not worth Jiang Haoran's black face at all.

Jiang Haoran didn't pay any attention to everyone, including Li Zongjian on the side, didn't look at it, stared at the sand table in front of him with self-care, but his brows were locked tighter and tighter, and after a long time, Jiang Haoran raised his head and ordered Liu He to call Ye Zhaofeng immediately, ordering him to send more reconnaissance planes to immediately reconnoitre, to find out the specific retreat routes of the Hefei and Huainan Island Army, and at the same time, ordered the airborne division except for Zhou Benye's first regiment to be airborne as planned, and the other troops immediately returned to wait for the next order.

After issuing the order, Jiang Haoran asked the latest movements of the enemy in the direction of Chaoxian, and a staff officer reported that the enemy in the direction of Chaoxian did not retreat, but did not attack either, and entered a state of truce since last night.

Immediately, Jiang Haoran ordered his staff officers to bring all the telegrams sent to and from various units after 12 o'clock last night, and read them as if no one was there, and there was no superfluous expression on his face, except for being unhappy.

This kind of behavior made the atmosphere in the headquarters suddenly become a little weird, and everyone was stunned by him, but no one stepped forward to ask more, this guy was anxious, but no matter who it was, he didn't have a good face, and Bai Chongxi's deflated just now is the best proof.

Putting down the last telegram in his hand, Jiang Haoran swept his eyes across the audience and said coldly: "Why, you think this should be a time to rejoice, right?" ”

Naturally, no one will answer this, Jiang Haoran didn't seem to have any hope, and continued: "Xuzhou is for us, although it is not as simple as exploring the bag and taking things, but it is also three fingers to pinch the snail - nine out of ten, so our goal can not only focus on the recovery of Xuzhou, but should take advantage of the favorable conditions of the open terrain and the lack of population concentration to kill and injure a large number of enemies, and defeat their living force at one time. And it was to flee with this almost undamaged million army, and the escape route of the Twelfth Army of the Hefei Island Army and the two divisions of Huainan at the moment must be in the direction of Chuzhou, if they are allowed to pass Chuzhou...... Everybody look at ......".

Jiang Haoran said and waved the command pole, drew a circle in the area of Jiangsu, Shanghai and Hangzhou on the sand table, and continued: "All these are important cities in our country, densely populated, with a heavy historical heritage, planes can't bomb, can't bomb shells, once they let their hundreds of thousands of troops come back here again, occupy every city to fight with us in the streets, let's think about it, how much casualties do we have to pay to recover these cities?" And if these prosperous cities experience another war, will they be equivalent to ruins? How many years, how many manpower, how much money, how much money will we need to rebuild? ”

After Jiang Haoran said this, everyone began to whisper, some agreed with Jiang Haoran's statement, saying that he was far-sighted, and some thought that Jiang Haoran was unrealistic, and it was good to be able to guarantee the victory of the Battle of Xuzhou in front of him, how could he think so far?

Bai Chongxi said without yin or yang: "Do you think we can annihilate the hundreds of thousands of little devils?" ”

Jiang Haoran glanced at him and said, "Who said it can't?" As long as Okamura Ningji dares to fight with me for Bengbu, Lao Tzu will let his Twelfth Army in Hefei be annihilated. It's a pity that there are high-ranking people among the little devils, who saw through my overall plan and withdrew from the battlefield before me. ”

"Superior?" Li Zongjian frowned, and then said: "I think the master of the island army that Ziqian said must be the new chief of staff of the island army, and Ishihara Waner, who is known as the 'first soldier' of the island country. ”

The corners of Jiang Haoran's mouth hooked slightly, nodded and said: "Yes, the hero sees the same thing, I really didn't take this person in my eyes before, and I guess he is also a strategist on paper, but now it seems that I underestimate him, I have fought with Okamura Ningji many times, and I am familiar with his tactics, so that Okamura Ningji can admit defeat so quickly and retreat to second?" This is by no means his style, so this person can only be Ishihara Waner. ”

"And what are you going to do now?" Li Zongjian said.

Jiang Haoran sneered: "Hmph, he wants to retreat and seek second, Lao Tzu doesn't let him retreat with his whole body, he doesn't want Xuzhou, and Lao Tzu doesn't want it, he wants to eat his twelve armies!" ”

"Ah......h

As soon as Jiang Haoran's voice fell, there were sudden exclamations in the room, the battle was fought here, and finally saw the dawn, at this time Xuzhou was empty, the special operations division was in a hurry, and it could enter Bengbu this morning, and one step further, Xuzhou was already at your fingertips, whether it was strategic significance or international reputation, it was far more extraordinary than destroying an army of the island army, and there was really no need to lose a watermelon and pick up a sesame seed.

Although the opposition occupies the mainstream, it also strongly supports Jiang Haoran, that is, Xue Yue, commander-in-chief of the Third Theater, who believes that Xuzhou is already the meat in the mouth and can be eaten at any time, but he let go of the 12th Army of the Island Army, which is the endless trouble after letting the tiger return to the mountain.