After the military meeting, it was already evening, and the Li Mansion was brightly lit, and the drinking party began.

A dazzling array of delicacies, pastries, fruits, and wines fill several rooms.

The generals randomly choose seats, choose objects, eat, drink, chat, catch up, and make new friends.

No music, no beauty.

In the midst of pushing the cups and changing the lamps, the rough and wild laughter continued, and they talked about war, tactics, the future, and development, and they spat and scolded Fang Xuan, and they were in full swing.

Without the glamorous sound, bright lights, green wine, and drunken gold fans, at this moment, they show their true colors as Chinese men.

The reception did not end until midnight, and the generals who had eaten and drunk enough to chat and enjoyed themselves went back to their rooms to rest.

Jiang Haoran was not so relaxed, although he was busy all night last night and only rested for two hours on the plane today, but in such a big battle, there are still many things waiting for him to deal with.

In addition to him, there were Liu He and Zhuang Fuguo in the office, and the three of them carefully checked and compared piles of documents, data, and maps in front of their respective desks.

"Knock knock!"

There was a knock on the office door, and the sound of a knife came from outside the door, saying that Chief of Staff Huang was asking to see him.

Jiang Haoran shook his head and said with a wry smile: "This Huang Jie, I knew that he would not give up." After speaking, he shouted to the door: "Let him in." ”

The door opened, Huang Jie smiled, and said, "Hehe, Chief of Staff Liu and Director Zhuang are here." ”

"Say, why don't you sleep and sneak here at this time?" Jiang Haoran asked with a smile.

"Hehe, Mr. Zai, you know me, I can't sleep all night if I don't understand some things, besides, you can hide it from them, but you shouldn't even hide it from me, right?"

Jiang Haoran glanced at Huang Jie and said, "What do you want to know?" ”

Huang Jie said: "Do you want to darken Chen Cang?" ”

Jiang Haoran was stunned for a moment, and then sneered at Liu He and Zhuang Fuguo: "What I said just now, you can see it, this will work." ”

The two of them immediately burst into laughter, only confused Huang Jie, and said hurriedly: "What, am I wrong?" ”

Liu He said with a smile: "Lao Huang, I didn't say that you were wrong, the general seat was still saying just now, it is not difficult to hide this from others, but it is not possible to hide it from you, an old fox, who knows that you will verify it as soon as you enter the door." ”

"So, are you really going to secretly Chen Cang?"

Liu He said: "It's basically the same, the enemy's level of protection on Hainan Island is so high, it must be unimaginable, if their aircraft carriers can't be transferred, it is simply unrealistic to land from the sea, so the head seat came up with a plan to attack the Dutch East Indies, so as to divert the enemy's navy, aircraft carriers, and even troops in the waters near Hainan Island." ”

"Shhh Huang Jie gasped and said hurriedly: "In this way, it is all fake to fight Nanning and Yulin, and your plan is to swallow Guangxi, Hainan Island and even all the navies on their second island chain in one gulp?" ”

"That's pretty much it."

Huang Jie opened his mouth wide, frightened by Jiang Haoran's ambition, hesitated for two seconds and then shouted: "But have you thought about it, I can think of this, and the enemy will definitely be able to, they may not be fooled?" ”

Zhuang Fuguo said lightly: "Of course it is not enough to rely on the current arrangement, and even the five divisions of the Far Fifth Army are not enough to go to Yangon, but you can rest assured, we still have a killer weapon to ensure that the little devil will definitely believe that we are going to the Dutch East Indies, and that is our main direction of attack." ”

Liu He continued: "It doesn't matter if they don't fall for the plan, if they really dare not increase their troops on the Dutch East Indies, our other two aircraft carrier battle groups in the Gulf of Siam, the Far Fifth Army, and the Far First and Far Second Armies will immediately wave their troops and attack his Dutch East Indies." ”

Jiang Haoran also continued: "This situation is almost impossible, the Dutch East Indies is the last source of fuel for the island army, once there is a loss, within three months, the island army will face a situation of running out of fuel, tanks, planes, and automobiles have all become scrap copper and rotten iron, this risk, they dare not take it." ”

Huang Jie was short of breath, his eyes lit up, and he said, "So, the decisive battle is coming?" ”

"Yes, it's time for the pinnacle showdown." Jiang Haoran replied affirmatively.

"Good, good!" Huang Jie waved his fists and walked back and forth in the room, as if only through this method could he vent his joy.

The three people in the room were also amused by his actions.

Huang Jie suddenly stopped and asked again, "What do the remaining eight divisions of the Far Fifth Army mean?" ”

Liu He smiled and said, "Aren't you very smart, guess?" ”

"This ...... I really can't guess that. Huang Jie said truthfully.

"You can guess that you are not a human, you are a god." Zhuang Fuguo said with a smile.

"Then hurry up, say." Huang Jie feigned anger.

Zhuang Fuguo glanced at Jiang Haoran, and after getting the signal, he said: "Actually, these eight divisions, even including the five divisions that went to Yangon Port, did not come for this battle at all, but for ......."

Three days later, Wenchang, Hainan, the headquarters of the Southern Army of the Island Army.

Because of the defeat on the battlefield in Xuzhou, Okamura Ningji's supervision of Liangguang was already somewhat beyond his reach, so the high-level of the island army allocated the troops of Liangguang to the command of the Southern Army.

The commander-in-chief of the Southern Army is still Terauchi Shouichi, and the chief of staff is also Tsukada, and it has under the jurisdiction of the 22nd Army in Guangzhou, the 26th Army in Guangxi, the 19th Army in the Dutch East Indies, and the 17th Army in the Philippines.

The Dutch East Indies had just suffered a large-scale attack by the American army, with heavy casualties, and the defenders originally stationed in the Philippines and Manila were transferred to the front, and the remnants of the 17th Army retreated from Burma were stationed on the islands around the Philippines and Manila.

Considering the importance of Guangxi and Hainan, the base camp of the island army has supplemented the 26th Army with four divisions after the withdrawal of the 17th Army, so the strength of Guangxi and Hainan Island has reached 12 divisions.

And, of course, four divisions of the Imperial Allied Army.

But in fact, since Jiang Haoran's series of persuasion actions in Xuzhou and Beiping, the island army has completely lost confidence in the Imperial Allied Army, even if they are asked to undertake the task of logistics and law and order, they are extremely uneasy, for fear that if they are not careful, they will surrender, but in the case of a serious shortage of troops, they still have to use them, and they can only increase supervision and guard against them.

In the chief of staff's office, Tsukada sat on the chair, his beard was stubbling, his eyes were bloodshot, and his expression was even more sad.

In his hand, he held a black-and-white photograph of a girl in a kimono, standing under a cherry blossom tree in full bloom, with a smiling face brighter than the cherry blossoms behind him, and it was Yuriko Tsukada, the chief of staff of the Sakura Division, who was burned by frosty gasoline on the battlefield in the river.