"No, Captain!" Zhang Dali hurriedly stood up straight, replied loudly.

"If you don't have an opinion, just fucking carry out the order." Fu Zhiyong angrily punched him in the chest and said.

"Yes, Captain." Zhang Dali agreed with a bitter face, then turned around and picked up a soldier lying at his feet, and helped him walk towards the location of the infirmary.

"This Northeast person just doesn't know how to do things tactfully, can the dry tobacco pouch of the Sichuan soldiers be moved casually, and it is already polite that people don't use knives with you directly." Fu Zhiyong watched the soldiers around him being taken to the infirmary one by one, and then said to himself with a wry smile......

More than twenty days later, in the early morning of June 12, 1938

The Japanese army sent the Hatian detachment in Central China, escorted by the 20 ships of the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet, to take advantage of the rainy night to sneak attack and land, and on the same day captured Anqing, a key defensive city along the Yangtze River of the National Army, and the Yang Sen Department of the 20th Army of the 27th Group Army of the Sichuan Army of the National Army was taken by surprise by the Japanese army, and retreated westward in a hurry, and the Japanese army captured Anqing, an important defensive town in Anhui, on the same day, and officially opened the curtain of the attack on Wuhan, and the Battle of Wuhan began immediately......

"You see, since the defeat of the Battle of Xuzhou, we are now mainly shrinking the defensive line in Wuhan and the area along the Yangtze River, taking the strategy of core to stick to the periphery and maneuvering to resist one by one, our current position is east of the Yangtze River, if the Japanese army uses the advantage of the navy and air force down the river, then we are likely to face Nanjing, Hangzhou and the Japanese army along the Yangtze River on three sides, if the Battle of Xuzhou is not over, then we are still very safe here, after all, the Japanese army's ideas are concentrated in Central China, The Japanese troops left behind in Nanjing and Hangzhou would only take a defensive position and would not take the initiative to attack us, but now the situation is very different, and we must always be ready to resist the Japanese attack. After breakfast early the next morning, Fu Zhiyong summoned Liao Peng, Zhang Weidong, Yu Hua, Wu Guowei and other officers at or above the battalion level with the rank of colonel, and handed over the daily training to Zhang Dali and Zhao Hu.

"Although our current position seems to be very dangerous, but Xuancheng is a strategic place to defend the Japanese army from invading Nanchang and flanking Wuhan, if Xuancheng is lost, the Japanese army can attack several strategic defense towns on the south bank of the Yangtze River, once the Yangtze River channel is opened, then Wuhan will be dangerous." Liao Peng looked at the marked locations on the map and frowned.

"I also know this very well, but it is not enough to just defend the position, the Japanese army has the fire support of aircraft and artillery, the casualties of the dead position are too great, and it can't be stopped for long, we have to move, so that the heavy weapons of the little devils can not play a firepower advantage, we can only be able to drag the Japanese army." Fu Zhiyong said as he drew a large circle with his finger on the location of Xuancheng on the map.

"Move? What's the way to move? Wu Guowei raised his head curiously and asked Fu Zhiyong puzzled.

"That is, we can't stubbornly defend the attack of the hard anti-Japanese army on the front line, but we have to run and fight, whether it is a positional war or a guerrilla war, we have only one purpose, that is, to delay the Japanese army's offensive speed, it is best to be able to repel it, even if it can't be repulsed, it can't let them pass easily, at least...... It also has to be a one-to-one battle loss rate. Fu Zhiyong explained with a red pencil as he marked several geographically complex areas on the map.

"To put it bluntly, it's just hit and run." Zhang Weidong interjected on the side.

"I know what to do." Wu Guowei grabbed his hair and nodded with a sudden realization on his face.

"It turns out that we can use this tactic, because we only have one battalion of troops, and if we want to run, it is a matter of lifting our legs, but we now have a full regiment of men and horses, and the number of logistics baggage troops plus various auxiliary arms is nearly 3,000, how can this be mobile?" Although Liao Peng also agreed with Fu Zhiyong's idea very much, after thinking about it carefully, he shook his head lightly and said.

"Logistics and baggage troops are withdrawn to the rear, the front line only retains combat troops and weapons and ammunition, and then carry four days of rations and necessary medicines, if you want to maintain the mobility of the troops, then you must abandon the baggage troops, don't you see, the New Fourth Army does not have baggage troops, except for medical personnel, all are front-line combatants, with enough rations and ammunition no one can surround them, otherwise according to our regular army style of fighting, we were wiped out ten years ago, Will it drag on until now? Fu Zhiyong continued to explain.

"Well, this is true......" Liao Peng thought for a while and nodded in relief, after all, he had also been in the camp of the New Fourth Army for a while, and to be honest, he really didn't find any baggage troops in them.

"Report!" Just as Fu Zhiyong was about to continue speaking, suddenly the sentry at the door reported loudly.

"Come in." Fu Zhiyong stopped what he was doing, raised his head and said to the door.

"Regiment commander, the division headquarters sent someone over, saying that there was an urgent military intelligence briefing, and also sent us a communications squad and a radio station." As soon as the sentry at the door walked in, he immediately stood up and saluted.

"Communication class? Let someone in. When Fu Zhiyong heard that the division headquarters had actually allocated a power station to their regiment, he immediately had a bad premonition in his heart, and hurriedly said to the sentry with a solemn face, and he straightened his waist, waiting for the arrival of the division liaison personnel with his hands behind his back.

"Salute! Hello Commander Fu, I am the liaison staff officer of the 126th Division, this is an urgent military briefing and defense transfer order issued by the division headquarters to the new regiment, please confirm and implement it. After a while, I saw an officer with the rank of lieutenant walking in with a dark blue folder, and on the front of the folder there was a badge representing the national army's clear sky and white sun, and after saluting and explaining the situation, he handed the folder to Zhang Weidong, who was closest to him, and asked him to pass it to Fu Zhiyong, the head of the new regiment standing at the innermost part of the conference table.

Thinking that Fu Zhiyong and they were in a meeting, and there was a military map on the table, it was impossible for an officer from another department who was not directly under the ministry to approach casually, because this was clearly stipulated in the wartime regulations and regulations, in order to be afraid of leaking military secrets, although he was only a lieutenant officer, but he had been crawling around in the 126th Division headquarters all the year round, and if he didn't understand this rule, he would be a fool.

"Commander." After Zhang Weidong took the folder, he directly handed it to Fu Zhiyong and said, and then the lieutenant officer did not stay anymore, and after giving a military salute to Fu Zhiyong and the others, he turned around and walked out.

"Hey......, the Japanese army actually took advantage of the rainy night to attack Anqing in the early hours of yesterday morning!" Fu Zhiyong opened the folder and only looked at a few lines, and suddenly screamed in shock, and the folder in his hand also slipped and almost fell directly on the table.

"What!" "This ......" Zhang Weidong and the others were also shocked when they heard Fu Zhiyong's words, and after glancing at each other, their faces turned ugly.

"Commander, this is unlikely! Anqing is the defense area of Commander-in-Chief Yang Sen of the 27th Group Army of the Sichuan Army, and there are two divisions of the 133rd Division and the 134th Division defending there, how could it be possible to lose the city overnight! Wu Guowei said in shock with a look of disbelief.

The Sichuan army led by Yang Sen was quite famous during the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, and it was one of the five most capable divisions on the Songhu battlefield, and it fought a bloody battle in the field for five days and nights with inferior equipment, and it was hard to keep the position in front of the well-equipped Japanese army, with casualties of more than 7,000 people. No one can change that.

"Regiment commander, if Anqing is lost, it means that the Japanese army has put a sharp knife in our hearts, and we can send troops to go straight to Wuhan's flank at any time, this move is ruthless enough." Liao Peng may be the most calm person in this room, when Fu Zhiyong said that Anqing was lost, his first reaction was not shock, but immediately looked at the map on the table to analyze the gains and losses.

"Yes, after the Japanese army occupies Anqing, it can directly attack the flank defense area of Wuhan to the west, and cooperate with the enemy in Xuzhou to break through the defense lines north of Wuhan; To the east, we can cooperate with the Japanese troops in Nanjing and Hangzhou to attack Nanchang in the south, or we can directly go south to attack the weak points of our defenses, and if this force is not eliminated, this threat will be too great. Fu Zhiyong pointed to several routes on the map and explained.

"Go straight down the river...... It should be unlikely, even if we lose Anqing, but the Jiujiang and Huangshi lines are heavily defended by our river defense fortresses along the river, coupled with the narrow and crooked river, from here down the river is not looking for death! Yu Hua also interjected at this time.

"The little devil is not a fool, there are many flat areas on both sides of the Yangtze River, as long as they choose a random place to land, then they can make a fuss inside our core, and the main force of the Japanese army in the north will press up again, we will have no time to care about it at all, maybe we will really let the little devil meet the inside and the outside." Fu Zhiyong rubbed his somewhat swollen forehead and said.

"By the way, the regiment commander, what did the division headquarters say, didn't it tell us to adjust the defense? Where's the transfer? It won't be for us to send troops to assist the 27th Army in retaking Anqing, right? Liao Peng raised his head and looked at Fu Zhiyong at this time and asked.

"Fart, if only we were to assist the 27th Army in the Ninth Theater to recapture Anqing, the division headquarters ordered our new regiment to be stationed at the Dongxi Bridge position before dusk, and take over the defense area of the 214th Regiment to prevent the Japanese army from suddenly moving south to attack Xuancheng." Fu Zhiyong pouted and said.

"What does this Xie Shi mean! Everyone else has lost the flank defense zone in the ninth theater, and we just do it? The tip of this knife is on the rib fork, and it's a fart! Zhang Weidong was not happy when he heard it, and shouted at the top of his voice.

"Weidong! If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense, our 126th Division is the first unit in the third theater, even if we send troops to reinforce, it will not be our 126th Division's turn, you can say a few words. Liao Peng frowned and waved his hand at Zhang Weidong and said.

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