Happy days are always short-lived, and after a few days in Changsha, Xu Ming's mind always thinks of his team, and then he realizes that he can't leave there.

Hengyang has always been an important city in Hunan, Hengyang during the Anti-Japanese War, because of the fall of a large number of national land, but also strengthened the military status of Hengyang, the military supplies transferred to the north, and the crowd that followed the train to the south, gave the city a deformed prosperity.

The garrison of the troops is not in the city, but in Huangshaling, outside the city, more than 20,000 recruits have arrived, and these recruits are trained strong men from Hunan and have been added to the 26th Army according to the instructions of the Military Command Department.

Speaking of Ma Dang's deflated experience, Xie Jinyuan persuaded: "Military seat, Li Baobing thinks very highly of himself, he can't hear the words of others, and your responsibility has been fulfilled, let's leave him alone, it's serious to train your troops well." ”

Xu Ming sighed, "I can't take care of it, Zhongmin, how is the training of recruits now, and how long will it take to form combat effectiveness." ”

"It's not bad, we have entered the tactical drill link, and when the veterans come back, help pass on the leadership, and the combat power can be formed immediately."

While talking, Hu Lian, Zhang Shaofang, Zhao Ren and others all arrived, and after a pleasant greeting, talking about Madang's experience, everyone thought that it was not worth it for Xu Ming to arrive.

Xu Ming didn't want to talk about this matter anymore, so he diverted the topic, "The veterans will come back in more than half a month, and the basic tactical movements and various training must be formed in this half month, and when the soldiers on leave come back, they will immediately enter the battalion and regiment for coordinated exercises, and after a month, the troops must be ready for combat."

Zhao Ren asked: "Junzao, is there going to be a war again in 1 month?" ”

In the previous fierce battles, the troops suffered heavy casualties, and now that more than 20,000 new soldiers have been replenished, it will take three or five months to enter the battle.

Xu Ming smiled bitterly, "Anqing lost yesterday, Madang is now the first to bear the brunt, if Li Yunheng can hold it for ten days and half a month, if it is lost in three or five days, Hukou will be lost again, and the devil will arrive at the Nanxun line and the Ruiwu line, by that time, all the troops will be pulled up, we are known as the elite, and we can't run away." ”

Originally, everyone thought that they could rest for a few months this time, but Xu Ming's analysis has always been accurate, and everyone can't help it, more than 1 month is really insufficient, if there are 3 months, many things will be easy to arrange.

The troops are in intense training, but Xu Ming is very idle, he has always disliked to lead the troops to do it himself, the current 26th Army is already a self-contained system, the training behavior and various rules and regulations of the troops are very mature, Xu Ming just happened to be a big shopkeeper, only occasionally took time to go around below.

Xu Ming and Qiu Linfeng had just returned from Hengyang City, Qiu Linfeng was still carrying a bag of sauce meat in his hand, and the two chatted while walking.

"Xiao Qiu, take your father to Changsha or Chengdu, it's not safe in Lujiang."

"My father didn't want to, he stayed at home for a long time and didn't want to go out." Qiu Linfeng replied.

Lujiang was defended by only one local security regiment, but it did not fall, not because of how powerful this security regiment was, but because the strategic location of Lujiang was not important. Xu Ming had seen the county chronicles of Lujiang before, and the account of the Anti-Japanese War period was very funny, during the entire Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army occupied Lujiang three times, and the defenders did not fire a shot, one of them, the Kuomintang defenders contributed hundreds of chickens and ducks, and the Japanese army happily returned to Wuhu after harvesting. Anyway, Xu Ming couldn't figure out whether the Lujiang defenders were the Kuomintang's security regiment or Japan's "Imperial Army".

"Stop, what are you doing!" As soon as they walked to the gate of the barracks, Xu Ming and Qiu Linfeng's chat was rudely interrupted by the guards.

"Don't do anything, I'm from the military department." Xu Ming waved his hand to stop Qiu Linfeng, who was about to reprimand the guards, with a normal expression.

The guards looked at Xu Ming's military uniform, there was a red border on the symbol on his chest, and on the collar, there were two shiny gold collar badges, if it was a veteran, he knew that this was a general.

"Show me your ID." The guards don't know the general's uniform,

Xu Ming pretended to take it out, "I'm sorry, I didn't bring it." ”

"I didn't bring it, I didn't bring it in!"

"Can you be accommodating," Xu Ming pulled out a cigarette.

"Nope." The guard stretched out his hand to knock the cigarette down, and his eyes still glanced at Xu Ming, revealing a look of contempt.

Being despised by his own soldiers, giving Xu Ming a strange feeling, he simply talked to the guards.

"Where are you from?"

"Yongzhou's."

"Yongzhou, I remember that there was a big bandit named Zhang Yunqing there."

"Hey, how do you know, that bastard has been killed, his head has long been hanging on the gate of Yongzhou, and there are still 3 handfuls of white hair floating." Talking about the story of his hometown, the guards were full of energy. ”

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"How do you feel about the food in the troops?"

"The food is very good, you can eat meat, but there is less chili pepper."

A few horsemen came, and when the guards saw it, they hurriedly ended their chats and gave a military salute.

"Hello company commander."

The company commander got off his horse, stood upright, and also saluted, but not to the guards, but to Xu Ming.

"Throne!"

"Throne—" The soldier was dumbfounded.

Xu Ming patted the guard on the shoulder and walked into the barracks.

Just when Xu Ming's troops were training intensively, the flames of battle in Madang were ignited.

It was the Hata detachment that ignited the flames of war, and after the defeat of the Harata detachment, the commander of the unit, Lieutenant General Hamada Shigeichi, was almost dismissed, but fortunately, Okamura Ninji protected him. His troops had been resting in Tongling, and thousands of troops had been replenished from all over Japan, and their combat strength was restored.

In the early morning of July 26, the vanguard of the Japanese Botian Detachment and the Marine Corps set out from Anqing and landed in a surprise attack at Xiangkou. Since the Japanese spies had figured out the deployment of **, this sneak attack was a great success.

The 53rd Regiment of the 313th Division of the defending army and the 1st Brigade of Jiangfang were quickly routed. Immediately after the capture of Xiangkou and Xiangshan, artillery positions began to be set up near Xiangshan to shoot at Madang Fortress together with the troops on the river.

Xiangshan is the commanding heights here, and after the Japanese army established an artillery position, it immediately formed a suppression of the battery.

At the same time, dozens of Japanese warships opened fire fiercely at Madang Battery, and with each bombardment, hundreds of shells fell into the squadron's position. At the same time, the Japanese infantry launched an attack behind the Madang Battery.

, the Japanese Hatian detachment with several people as a combat group, under the cover of heavy machine guns and grenadiers, carried out a continuous strong attack. The battery had only 1 battalion of marines and an infantry battalion, and only half of this infantry battalion was still near the fortifications, but thanks to 8 pillboxes, using the heavy machine guns in the bunkers, the defenders repelled 3 consecutive Japanese attacks. However, with the close firing of the Japanese mountain artillery units and the bombing of the aviation units, the pillboxes were destroyed one by one, and the Madang battery fell into a crisis.

Madang Fortress is indeed strong, but no matter how strong it is, it can't cope with this two-sided attack. The captain Bao Changyi was in a hurry, but he couldn't contact the commander-in-chief Li Yunheng, because the communication line had been destroyed by traitors. Bao Changyi had no choice but to send people for overhaul on the one hand, and on the other hand to report by telegram to Bai Chongxi, commander-in-chief of the theater of operations, and Liu Xing, commander-in-chief of the Jiang Defense Army. Both of them were shocked and hurried to contact Li Yunheng.

Li Yunheng didn't believe it at all, in his opinion, how could the defenders of Xiangshan, with 1 regiment and a battalion, be attacked by the Japanese army on Changshan, the flank of Xiangshan. At three o'clock in the afternoon, after the line was overhauled, Li Yunheng got in touch with Bao Changyi, and in Bao Changyi's scolding, he finally confirmed the emergency situation on the front, and at this time, Chiang Kai-shek also called in person.

At that time, the situation had not yet collapsed, and the 167th Division was not far from Madang, only 20 kilometers, and if this division was urgently mobilized and quickly reinforced Madang, everything could be remedied. However, the 167th Division was originally reorganized from Shaanxi's troops, and its internal relations were complicated, and the division commander Xue Weiying could not control it. After receiving the urgent order from Bai Chongxi, Chen Cheng and Li Yunheng, Xue Weiying chose a small road to set off, from receiving the order that night to arriving on the 29th, 20 kilometers walked for 3 days, and when he arrived, the fort had just been lost!

This speed is incomprehensible, in history, Zhang Zizhong also received an order for urgent reinforcements in the Battle of Linyi, Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army marched 190 miles in one day and one night, rushed to the Linyi battlefield, and turned the tide of the war. Even if Xue Weiying takes a small road, the distance is only 40 kilometers, and she definitely doesn't have to walk for three days.

The squadron boasted of the impregnable Madang defensive line, Li Yunheng vowed to hold a strong position for 1 month, and fell into the hands of the enemy in 3 days, Chiang Kai-shek was furious, and Xue Weiying and Bao Changyi and other officers who retreated from Madang Fort were all arrested, after interrogation, Bao Changyi and others were acquitted, and Xue Weiying was shot on the charge of "fearing the enemy like a tiger and delaying the fighter", which was the second Huangpu general to be executed since the Anti-Japanese War.

Everything was as Xu Ming expected, Madang's defense line had a lot of problems and was vulnerable, ** up and down once again saw Xu Ming's "Xu Xian" skills, and the hope of recovering the situation was also pinned on him.

On July 30, Xu Ming received an urgent military order, asking him to rush to Jiujiang as quickly as possible, as Luo Zhuoying's deputy, and rush to Hukou