As soon as this news came out, there was an uproar in the conference room, and anyone with a little military knowledge could see that the attack on Kaiping in front of Jiangmen at this time was nothing more than to cut off the land rescue channel in Guangxi, and even if it was planned to transfer troops from Guangdong, it was too late to make a decision, but Jiang Haoran used this time to seize the opportunity again.

And now is the most critical moment of the Guangdong campaign, maybe the capture of Guangzhou will be in the next second, but the army decisively gave up the attack on Foshan and withdrew its troops with all its might, which is already very telling, and their strategic focus has shifted to Guangxi.

The 42nd Group Army is all-meter equipment and equipment, with a very high degree of mechanization, from Kaiping to Maoming is only more than 200 kilometers, and the Motorized troops can reach it in one day, and the 48th Division of the garrison in this area, because of the attack of the new Sixth Division of the National Army, has all been transferred to the direction of Xinyi, and the entire rear is almost in a vacuum, even if it is too late to return to help, not to mention that there is a difficult New Sixth Division in front, and a rash retreat will be strangled by their full strength.

Chief of Staff Shan Yuan broke the silence and said: "I think the most important thing at present is to ensure the safety of Zhanjiang, and the 48th Division and the Shigedo Division should be fully defended to block the bottom copy troops of the Zhina Army, abandon Nanning and Yulin as soon as possible, and the troops will rush back to help, and all departments will retreat to Hainan Island in an orderly manner, as long as Zhanjiang and Hainan Island are still in the hands of the locust army, the second island chain defense line can still become a reality." ”

War Minister Hata Shunroku immediately stood up and said: "By all means, once the locust army in the direction of Nanning and Yulin begins to retreat, the troops of the 21st Group Army, the 16th Group Army, the 71st Army, and the two divisions of the Far Fifth Army on the periphery of the Zhina Army will inevitably attack with all their might, and the more than 100,000 troops will retreat, and the congestion will inevitably be formed, and the aviation of the Zhina Army will inevitably attack strongly, and a careless will cause a major rout, and the situation may be completely out of control." ”

Shanshan Yuan said coldly: "Do you have to retreat five divisions at once?" You won't be broken off with two divisions? ”

"Humph!" Shunroku Hata snorted coldly and said: "You are right, once you fully retreat, it means that the locust army must shrink its defensive position, and the previous permanent fortifications must all be abandoned and temporary field fortifications must be built from a new location." And the 21st Group Army of that army is the elite of Li Zongjian's lineage, especially the Seventh Army of Steel is known for its bravery, and they also have two young divisions that are not afraid of tigers with newborn calves, which division do you think can complete such a difficult task alone? ”

After hesitating for a few seconds, he said, "Then what do you think should be done?" ”

Hata Junroku didn't seem to be completely unprepared, and replied without any hesitation: "Nanning and Yulin can't be lost, but reinforcement must be needed, but it can't be blindly defensive, but it should be offensive." The Nanning direction was defended by two divisions, which could barely block the frontal attack of the Zhina Army in a short time. The Yulin defense line only had the 16th Group Army, a miscellaneous army, and one division was enough to deal with it. Therefore, a division was transferred from Nanning to attack the rear of the Tang Enbo Division, and formed a front and rear attack posture with the Shigeto Division, and strangled them with all their might. A division drawn from Yulin took the initiative to attack the 71st Army, at least cut off the communication between the 71st Army and the New Sixth Division, and then flanked the New Sixth Division with the 48th Division with all its might. Of course, that's the first step......"

Shunroku Hata said and swept his eyes across the audience, and found that almost everyone, including the locust, was looking at him expectantly, which showed that his plan had moved everyone, and there was a slight smug look on his face, and he continued after a slight pause: "Once the situation is effectively controlled, the locust army still has a chance to turn around, and the key is, of course, whether the southern army can fight its way out of the encirclement and get rid of the pursuers." This is entirely possible, although Jiang Haoran raided Vientiane with surprise troops, but after all, there is only a brigade of more than 4,000 people, and it is believed that everyone here will find it incredible to block the more than 200,000 troops of the locust army with one brigade. The locust army could also do everything possible to regain the support of the French Indochina government, on the one hand, it could persuade the French to continue to stand on the side of the locust army through coercion and inducement through the special high school, and on the other hand, it could also ask the German government to intervene and put pressure on Vichy France to force them to submit. If we take 10,000 steps back, even if it can't become a reality, the defense line of the special operations division in Vientiane cannot be crossed, and it doesn't matter, I still have a two-pronged strategy, as long as General Yamamoto's 56th National Congress can go all out to assist the army, we can still win a comprehensive victory in this battle in Guangxi. ”

As he spoke, Shunroku Hatatake paused and turned his eyes to Admiral Minister Okari and Combined Fleet Commander Isoroku Yamamoto, while Locust also looked at the two, apparently hoping to see their statements.

The big horned Qinsheng and Yamamoto fifty-six exchanged glances, and the big horned Qinsheng got up and said loudly: "For the holy war of the locusts, we will believe you again, you say, what do you want us to do?" ”

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Early the next morning, French Indochina, Vientiane.

In the torrential rain, the Mekong River rushed and roared with yellow waves, but a steel bridge more than 200 meters long on the water remained unmoved.

This bridge is the Vientiane Bridge, and the Mekong River widens abruptly during the rainy season, and the rushing and roaring flood sweeps everything away with a thunderous force, completely dividing Siam on the other side.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Western powers invaded, and Britain and France established colonies in British India and French India on the east and west sides of Siam respectively.

In order to connect the land lines of communication, the British and French colonists jointly built two steel bridges, one is the Vientiane Bridge in front of us, and the other is the Tapa Bridge a hundred miles downstream.

Therefore, the Vientiane Bridge in front of you is the only way for the 16th Army of the Island Army to pass quickly.

However, at this time, the Vientiane Bridge was densely packed with busy special operations division soldiers. The bridgehead on the north bank was also full of busy soldiers of the special operations division, and they began to nervously build defensive positions.

Yesterday evening, Zhang Linghu led his troops into Vientiane as scheduled, and the French soldiers defending along the way did not put up any resistance, and also actively cooperated with them in attacking the convoy of the island army, and more than 100 vehicles of materials that arrived in advance fell into Zhang Linghu's hands intact.

The troops took over the defense of Vientiane at a very fast pace, blocking the Vientiane Bridge overnight and clearing all the remaining enemies in the city.