The people who spoke out against the rest and recuperation were Lu Dayong, commander of the Second Division of the Sichuan Army, and Ge Changchun, commander of the Fourth Division.

Lu Dayong and Ge Changchun glanced at each other, and then Lu Dayong stepped forward and said to Wang Haoshan: "Marshal, have you forgotten that the core point of the battle plan formulated by the young marshal for us is to 'fight slow with fast'?" He thought that he could not give the KMT troops a chance to regroup and stabilize their position, and that they should take advantage of the victory to pursue and attack the armed forces of the People's Party in one go! ”

Wang Haoshan frowned and said, "Even if you want to 'fight fast and slow', there is no need to leave no time for the brothers to catch their breath, right? The brothers are not iron men, and they will always get tired if they continue to pursue them like this. If you are exhausted, how can you fight the army of the Kuomintang? ”

"The reason why the young marshal decided to start an all-out war against the Kuomintang at this time is because the people of the Kuomintang are in turmoil at this time, and it is the best time for us to sweep away the forces of the Kuomintang. Once the KMT is relieved and the opportunity is given to reorganize the provincial armies, then even if we can finally wipe out the KMT provincial troops one by one, we will inevitably have to pay an extremely heavy price. ”

In fact, Wang Mo's plan for the Sichuan army for this operation obviously borrowed the essence of the German Nazi "blitzkrieg", that is, to take advantage of the turmoil in the hearts of the Kuomintang to take advantage of the Sichuan army's powerful firepower advantage to advance all the way, and completely wipe out the armed forces of the provinces before the Kuomintang reacted.

To put it bluntly, just one word - quick!

Wang Haoshan, an officer of the old school, obviously did not understand the essence of this battle plan, and said with some displeasure: "Lao Tzu has never heard of such a war, no matter how anxious he is, he is not in a hurry to take this day." You are all old men of the Sichuan Army, why don't you know how to be sympathetic to your own brothers, and you have to exhaust the brothers below? ”

Lu Dayong and Ge Changchun looked at each other, both a little helpless, after all, the handsome is the handsome, at most they can put forward opinions, can they disobey the order?

If only the young marshal were here.

Lu Dayong and Ge Changchun couldn't help but feel such feelings in their hearts, thinking about when they were fighting in Sichuan. As long as it is the opinion of the young marshal, the marshal will inevitably obey his words.

After thinking about it, Lu Dayong said, "Dashuai, see if you can do this." Bring in the operational staff officers of the General Staff Office and ask them if there is any way to do both? ”

"Those student babies?" A trace of distrust appeared on Wang Haoshan's face, but after looking at Lu Dayong and Ge Changchun's very insistent attitude, he had to say, "Then call them here and ask." But I still say the same thing, no matter what, I have to be considerate of the Sichuan army brothers below. ”

At present, the operational staff officers of the various units of the Sichuan Army are basically young officers who have just graduated from the Hubei Military Academy, and Wang Haoshan has always had the concept of "not being able to do things firmly without hair," so naturally he does not have much trust in these young combat staff officers.

The operational staff officers directly under the General Headquarters of the Sichuan Army are the ones with the best graduation results among this group of operational staff officers, and although they lack actual combat experience, they are absolutely excellent in military theoretical knowledge.

Soon, 10 operational staff officers headed by Liao Yan, a Hubei officer, were summoned, and Lu Dayong immediately explained the differences to these operational staff officers and asked if there was any way to get the best of both worlds.

When the 10 operational staff officers heard this, they did not say anything to shirk it. Instead, they took out a map and gathered around it to discuss and counsel with each other.

After more than half an hour, Wang Haoshan was a little impatient, feeling that it was impossible for these students to come up with a way to do both, so he was about to continue to order all units of the Sichuan army to camp on the spot to rest.

At this time, Liao Yan walked over, saluted Wang Haoshan and other senior officers of the Sichuan Army, pointed to the map unfolded by several combat staff officers and said: "Great marshal, commanders, please take a look, according to the young marshal." and supplemented by our staff of the battle plan. After the Kuomintang army was routed and expelled from Hubei, that is, now, our Sichuan army divided its troops into two routes, all the way eastward to Nanjing. All the way south to Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong. ”

At present, the KMT controls Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Guangdong, and this battle plan is obviously to sweep away all the KMT forces as quickly as possible, like an autumn wind sweeping away leaves.

Although the armies of these KMT provinces are a rabble, there are always hundreds of thousands of troops. That is, Wang Mo had confidence in the combat effectiveness of the Sichuan army, so he dared to use 40,000 Sichuan troops to completely wipe out the provincial armies of the Kuomintang.

"Of course, we know that. Why do you mention this again? Zhang Li asked.

Facing the senior officers of the Sichuan Army in this circle, Liao Yan did not seem to have any stage fright, and said calmly: "Division Commander Zhang, don't be impatient, after discussion and deliberation, our staff office unanimously agreed that if you want to speed up the speed on the premise of ensuring the physical strength of the soldiers of each department, you must start in this aspect of the division of troops. ”

Saying this, Wang Haoshan became interested and asked, "Oh? Tell me, then, how do you divide the troops? ”

Wang Haoshan's attention made Liao Yan very encouraged, his spirit was lifted, and he said loudly: "Back to Dashuai, first look at the road of attacking Nanjing, because Nanjing has a strong city, and it is the base camp of the Kuomintang with a large number of elite troops, so our army needs artillery regiments that can attack fortifications and provide artillery support to participate in the battle." In addition, there is the Yangtze River waterway transportation, which is also extremely convenient for the artillery regiment to move with the army. Therefore, it is recommended that the eastward march of this route army be composed of the two most elite divisions and equipped with all large-caliber artillery! ”

The transportation of heavy artillery has always been a big problem and is the main reason for slowing down the advance of the troops.

Wang Haoshan nodded approvingly and said: "That's right, the heavy artillery of each artillery regiment is still transported through the Yangtze River waterway, which is the most convenient and fast, and it is also conducive to capturing Nanjing, the base camp of the Kuomintang. ”

Lu Dayong and other officers of the Sichuan Army also agreed with this opinion, that is, everyone felt that their division was the real elite, and strongly demanded to join the Eastern Route Army attacking Nanjing.

"If you want to talk about elite, which division can be more elite than our first division?"

"This mission of eastward attack on Nanjing belongs to our three divisions!"

"Our second division was personally brought out by the young marshal, who can be as strong as our second division in terms of combat effectiveness?"

"We have the most veterans of the Sichuan Army in our four divisions, and the task of attacking the fortification is naturally to come from our four divisions!"

……

This nonsense asked for war, so that Wang Haoshan had to shout and scold: "Fight for a fart, fight, let the two divisions go east to attack Nanjing, Lao Tzu has his own measure, can you use you here?" ”

Wang Haoshan may be far inferior to Wang Mo in commanding operations, but in terms of prestige in the Sichuan army, he is absolutely unparalleled. After all, he is the one who brazenly raised troops against the Qing Dynasty back then, and now he has the power of the military and politics.

As soon as Wang Haoshan became angry, these officers who were noisy in order to compete for the combat mission of advancing eastward to attack Nanjing hurriedly shut up, for fear of touching the marshal's moldy head.

Wang Haoshan glared at the Sichuan Army officers angrily, and then said to Liao Yan: "Staff Officer Liao, don't pay attention to these two poles, you continue to talk about yours." ”

"Yes, Dashuai!" Liao Yan nodded in response and continued to explain, "Let's talk about the Southern Route Army, because it has to go over mountains and mountains all the way, and it has to march quickly to defeat the army that annihilated the Kuomintang, so this route army should travel lightly. In terms of firepower, they should bring more light machine guns, less or no heavy machine guns, no mountain artillery and field artillery, and only mortars that are easy to carry. In this way, I think it will be enough to deal with the rabble of the Kuomintang. ”

"Staff Officer Liao, what you said is very reasonable, but you haven't said how to solve the physical problems of the soldiers in various departments." Zhang Li said.

Liao Yan said unhurriedly: "This problem is also easy to handle, the two route armies are two divisions, and they just take turns to attack the Kuomintang with divisions as units. I believe that with the combat strength of our army, unless it is surrounded by several times the strength of the Kuomintang, a single division will be able to break through the defense line of the Kuomintang and completely defeat the Kuomintang troops. In addition, when encountering a large number of elite troops of the Jiancheng or the Kuomintang, it is completely possible for the two divisions to converge and jointly launch a strong attack. ”

Liao Yan explained it simply and clearly, that is, Wang Haoshan, an officer of the old school, could hear the advantages of this combat plan, and laughed and said: "Okay, Staff Officer Liao said well, just do what Staff Officer Liao just said!" ”

Therefore, Wang Haoshan immediately ordered the Sichuan army to divide this army into two routes, he personally led the first and fourth divisions eastward to Nanjing, and the second and third divisions were temporarily commanded by Lu Dayong, and went south to Jiangxi to continue to pursue Li Liejun's troops.

Not only that, Wang Haoshan also ordered a large number of people to be requisitioned from Hubei to assist the Sichuan army in transporting logistics materials, so that all units of the Sichuan army could completely go into battle lightly, rushing all the way, relying on the strong firepower advantage, and extremely ferociously broke through the defense line of the Kuomintang army one after another.

The momentum of the Sichuan army made the anxious Kuomintang even worse, and the Kuomintang troops in the provinces, which were already in turmoil, were in a panic.

It was not without the KMT army that rose up to resist, but under the ferocious offensive of the Sichuan army, it soon collapsed.

The Kuomintang has as many as 100,000 troops in various provinces, which sounds quite frightening, but it is only when we really fight that we really understand that the Kuomintang people are engaged in politics and play with their pen and pen, and this kind of leading troops to fight is absolutely unpopular.

What is more critical is that the KMT has a complicated internal faction, and its orders are not uniform, so it is impossible to integrate and concentrate forces.

Sun Yat-sen in Nanjing either received news every day that the Kuomintang had been defeated and annihilated, or received urgent reports about where the Sichuan army had broken through and captured.

Tear it up.

In the office, Sun Yat-sen angrily tore up the emergency messages to shreds, and scolded regardless of his identity: "Bastard, on weekdays, one gun and one salary are more powerful than the other, but now no one can count on it!" Is our hundreds of thousands of troops paper-paste, and even the 40,000 Sichuan troops can't resist it! ”

"Sir, it's not that the front-line departments don't do their best, but that the firepower of the Sichuan army is too fierce." Zhang Jingjiang comforted.

Xu Chongzhi also said: "The firepower of the Sichuan army is indeed much stronger than that of our army. Therefore, he thought that only by relying on the defense of the fortified city could our army have a chance to repulse the Sichuan army with heavy losses. The most urgent task at the moment is to reorganize the troops in the area around Nanjing and make preparations to resist the city and hold on to it. ”

Resist the city?

Can Nanjing really hold on? (To be continued.) )

PS: It seems that it is better to pay off the debt as soon as possible, so as not to be beaten by you all the time!