readx;

Chapter 416 is inappropriate

Hu Jialin, Gu Changfeng, Lu Cheng Guang and others, in accordance with An Yi's instructions, immediately convened a military meeting to brief the commanders above the battalion level on the battle situation of the Left Wing Corps and the crises it might encounter. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Li Fuqiang's special brigade was ordered to urgently dispatch to reconnoiter the enemy, and the staff officers of the division headquarters immediately went out to make a sand table without An Yi's orders, Gu Changfeng, chief of the operations section, and Li Zhenhan, deputy chief of the intelligence section, walked to the front of the map with the relevant information sent by An Yi, and explained in detail the offensive route of the Third Army Corps. The barracks, which was originally bursting with laughter, was slaughtered in a blink of an eye, and all the officers and men knew that the big war was coming, and it would be a huge test for every officer and soldier of the reorganized independent division.

An Yi did not stay to preside over the meeting, but accompanied the condolence group back to Pengcheng camp by car. As soon as he got off the bus, he didn't have time to say goodbye to Song Meiling, Chen Guofu and others, so he was recruited into the command by Zhu Peide.

An Yi carefully read a large pile of the latest battle reports, strode to Ge Jingen and Zhu Peide, who were talking quietly in front of the map, looked at the map marked with the situation of the enemy and us, and then fell into deep thought.

"Xiao Yi, your face is so solemn, do you feel that something is wrong?" Ge Jingen asked in a low voice.

An Yi nodded solemnly: "Yes, the Second Group Army under the command of General Feng Yuxiang has been fighting on the Puyang front line for eight days, and one of General Liu Zhenhua's troops was forced to rush to the aid yesterday to participate in the attack on the front line of Nanle and Guancheng, but it was blocked by Chu Yupu and Xu Yuanquan, veterans of the Zhilu Coalition Army, and it can be imagined how fierce the ongoing battle between the two sides is, which means that the Zhilu Coalition Army has colluded with Zhang Xueliang and Yang Yuting's troops of the Feng Army, which is less than 100 kilometers away from the northern front, and closely coordinated and echoed each other.

Similarly, Sun Chuanfang's main force in the Yutai area is within 100 kilometers of the Zhilu coalition army on the front line of Puyang, and the entire front is from south to north, closely connected by more than 100,000 troops of the three warlord troops, and not a single gap is left for General Feng Yuxiang, and the whole line will move when attacking any point of it. ”

"That's for sure......"

Ge Jingen suddenly realized the meaning of An Yi's words, immediately put away his smile, turned to An Yi and asked in a low voice: "What do you think even if you are bold enough to say it, what else can't be said between us?" ”

Zhu Peide also saw the problem keenly, looked at the map and pondered for a moment, his mind was vague and not very clear, so he simply didn't want to, looked at An Yi with a humble smile on his face and scolded angrily: "If you have something to say, what are you doing?" ”

Zhu Peide's reprimand made the other staff officers also surround him, and An Yi replied solemnly with a deep groan:

"Uncle De, Chief Ge, it's not that the younger generation is playing tricks, but the younger generation can't judge the current situation for a while, since everyone wants to hear it, the younger generation will be ugly:

The juniors feel that General Feng Yuxiang's playing style is very problematic, please take a look...... On the battlefield in the north, General Yan Xishan's headquarters was pressed and beaten by the three group armies of the Feng Army very hard, before losing Dingzhou and Shijiazhuang, and just lost Jingcheng, and now Niangzi Pass is also in danger, General Yan Xishan has urged our army to speed up the pace of entering Shandong more than once, the purpose is to play the role of encircling Wei and saving Zhao to relieve the third group army, therefore, it is impossible for General Yan Xishan not to ask General Feng Yuxiang for support.

However, the strange thing is that General Feng Yuxiang still has no sign of crossing the Yellow River with his division, and among the nine front armies under his command, only General Sun Liangcheng's First Front Army and General Liu Zhenhua's Eighth Front Army are attacking the Shandong direction with all their might, General Lu Zhonglin's Ninth Front Army is facing the Feng army across the Yellow River, and the other six front armies are all staying in the rear of Henan and Shaanxi. ”

Zhu Peide and Ge Jingen glanced at each other and shook their heads helplessly. Both of them clearly knew that the reason why An Yi said this was just that he didn't want to find out, when Feng Yuxiang was beaten by the Feng army and fled last year, Yan Xishan sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight and did not send troops to help, and now he is also standing still.

Feng Yuxiang now has a heavy army in his hand and does not want to help Yan Xishan, who is struggling to resist, to relieve the siege, but keeps calling on Li Zongren's Fourth Army to leave Hubei and go north as soon as possible and join the Northern Expedition battlefield, which not only diverts the attention of the people, but also makes Yan Xishan have a hard time.

Commander-in-Chief Chiang naturally wanted to see this situation the most, he had already secretly sent people to support Yan Xishan with huge sums of money, and he responded to Feng Yuxiang's call in a grand manner, and while he personally went to the front line to command the Northern Expedition, he asked Li Zongren to lead his troops north as soon as possible, realize Mr. Zhongshan's long-cherished wish, and save hundreds of millions of people from hanging upside down.

Ge Jingen and Zhu Peide glanced at each other, smiled tacitly, and whispered to An Yi: "Go on......"

An Yi saw that he couldn't shirk it, so he could only continue: "The reason why the younger generation pulled things so far is because they are worried that the Feng army, which has no direct threat, is rich in troops, and can easily deal with the flanks and rear of the Zhilu coalition army, so that the Zhilu coalition army can draw its main force and fully devote it to the battlefield on the eastern and southern fronts, even if it is just to support the enemy's logistics, it is enough for us to drink a pot, judging from the fact that General Liu Zhenhua's department and Chu Yupu and other troops of the Zhilu coalition army have fought so hard, the worries of the younger generations are likely to have evolved into a fact."

To put it another way, since our first and second group armies, a total of four corps, can fight together, Zhang Zuolin's Feng army, Sun Chuanfang's Anhui army, and Zhang Zongchang's Zhilu army will do the same, and may even do better than us.

Look here...... Sun Chuanfang's Anhui army headquarters was not located on the eastern front but was arranged in Jining, the first army corps under his leadership was stationed on the Jining line, and the Zheng Junyan army and Li Baozhang's army under his command were arranged on the Juye, Yuncheng, Yutai and Jinxiang lines, and the north and east were Zhilu troops, which shows the importance of their location.

Secondly, Zhang Zongchang did not sit in Linyi, the front-line headquarters of the Zhilu Coalition Army at this time, and suddenly rushed to Hanzhuang opposite us, is there a huge conspiracy in this?

Again, Sun Chuanfang's only three legions now are all divisions of a hundred battles, all the way to follow him to the east and west, and just received a large number of weapons and equipment from Belgium last month, its combat effectiveness far exceeds that of the Zhilu coalition army several times, and it is by no means under any of our army's legions, and Sun Chuanfang's position is exactly at the junction of our army and General Feng Yuxiang, as long as he can successfully hold the Jining line, he can cut off the connection between our two group armies, so that we can fight separately, but he can respond left and right.

From the perspective of the entire battle situation, if this battle is not fought well, we will be very passive, therefore, the younger generation is not worried about the two corps in the middle and the right flank, but the most worried is the third corps of General He Yaozu who directly faced Sun Chuanfang's left flank troops. ”

"I see! No wonder you are always keeping an eye on the Third Legion, it makes perfect sense, and the battle situation that seems to be smooth sailing now is likely to contain a deep crisis! Zhu Peide looked at the map and nodded.

Ge Jingen thought about it for a while, and felt that since he had found a flaw, he would really be sorry if he didn't remind him, so he suggested that Zhu Peide send a telegram to He Yaozu in the name of the former enemy's headquarters, so that the Third Army could be more vigilant and deal with possible troubles.

After disposing of all this, Ge Jingen walked to An Yi's side and whispered a few words, and then rushed to the East Courtyard to report to Commander-in-Chief Jiang in person.

Ge Jingen saw the potential danger from An Yi's words, and decided that it was only safe to make the Third and Fourth Army Corps unite as soon as possible through Commander-in-Chief Jiang's telegram to Fang Zhenwu, the commander of the Fourth Army, otherwise it was really possible to be broken by Sun Chuanfang's troops by concentrating all their forces, and then the vigorous Second Northern Expedition would not only die halfway, but also have the possibility of being defeated and retreating to Jiangnan again.

Throughout the afternoon, everything was going well on all fronts, and good news came frequently.

Zhu Peide and An Yi returned to the West Courtyard for dinner together, but after thinking about it, they didn't feel steady, so they picked up a few times of rice in a small bowl and finished eating, turned their heads and asked in a low voice: "Boy, if you were Sun Chuanfang, how would you fight?" ”

An Yi put down his chopsticks and wiped his mouth: "It's very simple, I will take the strategy of resisting step by step and luring the enemy to go deeper, first send a corps to drag the main forces of General He Yaozu's two armies in the area south of Yutai, and then quietly concentrate the troops of about three armies of a corps to drive to the front line of Jinxiang, and attack General Fang Zhenwu, who came from afar to easily defeat Shan County and continue to advance north."

As long as the timing of the attack is well grasped, the three armies of General Fang Zhenwu's Fourth Army Corps that were hastily formed from afar can be divided, and only one of them needs to be destroyed, and the other two have no other way but to retreat quickly, and if they are done well, they can also cripple the Fourth Army Corps and lose their combat effectiveness within at least three months.

After successfully solving the threat of our Fourth Army Corps, the various units involved in the encirclement and annihilation turned to the east non-stop, besieging General He Yaozu's Third Army Corps from the west, because it was Zheng Junyan's corps in Yutai to the north, and Weishan Lake in the east, General He Yaozu had no other choice but to retreat south, as long as the Anhui army repelled General He Yaozu's Third Corps, even if the strategic task was completed, the Zhilu coalition army would no longer have to worry about the west, and would be able to concentrate all its efforts to deal with the two corps in our middle and right flank.

The younger generation boldly guessed that this was the reason why Zhang Zongchang hurried to Hanzhuang, as long as he could hold Hanzhuang, he would win precious time for Sun Chuanfang's troop mobilization. ”

Zhu Peide stood up worriedly, and walked back and forth with his hands behind his back: "I understand that you didn't say these difficulties, as the commander and chief of staff of the former enemy's general headquarters, our father and son actually don't have much power, after formulating the overall battle plan, everything has to be carried out by the following group armies, and you and I can't put our hands in other people's headquarters."

What's more, at the moment, Commander-in-Chief Chiang is with us, and the General Staff Office of the General Headquarters has directly exercised the rights of the front-line command, and you and I are just signing orders and documents, plus the generals and staff teams of the various corps are all famous, and most of the generals have either returned from studying in Japan or from the Baoding First Department, and their qualifications are profound and conceited.

Fortunately, Director Ge of the headquarters attaches great importance to your opinion, I hope that he can see this, so that the commander-in-chief can understand the huge security risks of our left wing corps, otherwise not only the third and fourth corps will break their wings, but the first and second corps will also be dragged down by this, and there will even be a big rout. ”

An Yi shook his head: "I'm not worried about this, my Huangpu army is strong, in the past, He Jingzhi was able to fight all the way to Xuzhou with the little strength in his hand, and now the strength of the various departments has increased a lot, and it is more than enough to maintain the current front." I'm just worried about the weather......"

"I understand, the rainy season is coming, if we can't hit Jinan before the end of the month, the war will be protracted in the future, if it continues to drag on until winter, the combat effectiveness of our southern soldiers will be greatly reduced, and the war will be even more difficult!" Zhu Peide suddenly realized.

Li Shilong and Shen Fengdao also put down their jobs, and looked at An Yi and Zhu Peide with grim expressions, Li Shilong saw An Yi lighting a cigarette and was silent, and ordered the orderly soldiers to serve tea and then asked An Yi: "Brother An, you have always been resourceful and far-sighted, since you can see this step, there is no way to make up for it?" ”

An Yi smiled helplessly: "There is another way, that is, to take Hanzhuang as soon as possible, as long as we occupy Hanzhuang and go north quickly, and Kezaozhuang attacks Teng County, Sun Chuanfang's main force will not dare to go south easily, but will rush to the aid of Teng County to keep Jining, and the pressure on General He Yaozu will be greatly reduced."

However, this method was difficult to implement for a while, because the two corps of General Liu Zhi and General Chen Tiaoyuan did not have this speed, so the only way was to make General He Yaozu increase his vigilance, and retreat immediately as soon as he saw that something was wrong, and then find countermeasures after opening up the distance, otherwise the consequences would be very serious. ”

Li Shilong pondered for a moment, shook his head and smiled: "These are all our speculations, maybe the battle is not as bad as my brother expected, didn't the Third Army Corps and the Fourth Army Corps fight smoothly?" Danger does exist, but what can be done without danger? I'm afraid of choking when I eat, not to mention fighting, my brother may be too worried! ”

An Yi sighed: "Little brother really hopes that he is too worried, but the enemy faced by the third and fourth legions of the left wing is Sun Chuanfang!" The younger brother has fought with the Anhui army, and he is confident that he still knows something about the Anhui system, not to mention anything else, just say that the younger brother led the remnants to flee day and night and finally saw the city of Nanjing, but was still blocked by the Anhui army, and in the end, there was no one out of ten, and he almost couldn't even come back......"