Xu Ming picked up the pen and skillfully wrote on a pile of documents, the movement of the pen rustling on the paper, and one after another "agree, Xu Ming" was made.

This is the 108th Division's submission of the first Jiujiang Battle meritorious soldier's merit certificate, for the following request documents, Xu Ming has not refused for a long time, perhaps, he has always been unwilling to refuse others.

Shaking his sour hand, he looked at the alarm clock, the hands pointed to 4 a.m., but now he had no sleep, and since he had been awakened by a nightmare, he could not sleep again.

In the nightmare, he was defeated in Jiujiang, and even he was captured alive by the Japanese army, Okamura Ninji, Hawada Shigeichi, and the resurrected Inaba Shiro laughed at him. Some of his subordinates were killed, some were taken prisoner in despair, and in the surrounding mountains and lakes and marshes, there was the 26th Army.

He was in a cold sweat at the time, and he had a cramp in his calves, and he had no sleep, so he had to approve documents to spend the long night.

"Agree" was quickly over, Xu Ming raised his waist and walked out of the underground command post.

The moon and stars were scarce, the cool breeze was cold, Xu Ming and a few guards wandered aimlessly around the position, seeing their sentries standing upright one after another.

A semi-underground bunker made of bluestone, with a few drops of light from the shooting hole, Xu Ming frowned and walked over.

When the soldier in the bunker saw someone coming, he quickly stomped his feet, and the light on the shooting hole was instantly extinguished.

"Commander-in-chief," looking at the sentry's panicked face, Xu Ming knew what was going on inside.

Xu Ming sighed in his heart, his 26th Army is good at everything, it just likes to gamble, and the usual activities of his troops are quite frequent. Tell the history of the death of the country in the past dynasties, publicize the patriotic heroic deeds, teach and sing the songs of the Anti-Japanese War, and all kinds of propaganda and speeches by the labor army are continuous, but no matter how you teach, people's character is still not easy to change.

He walked into the bunker, and the soldiers inside heard that the commander-in-chief had come to check the post, and their faces were as white as dirt.

The squad leader's hands trembled violently, and suddenly, a dice fell from his hand.

Xu Ming picked up the dice, and the squad leader's feet began to tremble.

"Hey, it's so late, oh, it should be said that it's so early, you're still gambling, and you're not afraid that you won't be able to do anything during the day." Xu Ming lightly blamed.

Looking at these guys who lowered their heads and didn't speak, Xu Ming picked up a pack of "big front doors", handed them out one by one, and then threw out a lighter and asked them to light it themselves.

"What's your name?"

"Hu Detian", "Liu Xiangfu", "Hang Facai"...

"Hu Detian, yes, I'm a squad leader, where is my home?"

"Report to the Commander-in-Chief." The squad leader wanted to salute again, but Xu Ming waved his hand to stop him, "I'm from Qiyang Guanyin Beach." ”

"Yes, I've been there several times, and I remember going down the street there was a big, thick ginkgo tree, and the flowers bloomed like grapes."

"yes, yes, my house is..."

The other soldiers looked at Xu Ming's pleasant face, relaxed one by one, and began to speak casually, and a young soldier said boldly: "Commander-in-chief, can you not tell our platoon commander, otherwise, we will be beaten with a military stick." ”

Xu Ming smiled, "I'm afraid your platoon commander already knows." ”

The little man looked up, the cigarette butt in his hand fell to the ground in fright, not only the platoon commander stood upright at the door, but the company commander also stood at the door with a tiger face.

After wandering around and chatting with the soldiers casually for a while, Xu Ming's thinking slowly became clearer, and he began to reconsider the problems that had plagued him for many days.

The war was fought like this, and he won one victory after another, which is not without glory, not only in the country to give him the title of "little white", but it is said that even the Japanese began to study him separately.

At least that's the case with Okamura Ninji.

His opponent this time is definitely Okamura Ninji, who recalls a series of battles commanded by Okamura Ninji in history. There are no rules, no dogma.

The Battle of Nanchang was a feint attack by the strongest 6th Division, with the controversial 101st and 106th Divisions as the main attack; Hundreds of heavy artillery pieces were put into the main attack positions, armored troops were used to carry out assaults, and the air force was used to carry out supplies, and the important town of Nanchang was taken in a week. The Battle of Suizao and the Battle of Changsha changed the tradition of the Japanese army attacking cities and conquering places in the past, and took the annihilation of the main force as the combat goal. In the Battle of Henan, in view of Tang Enbo's operational characteristics, a tailor-made combat plan was created for him, and Commander-in-Chief Tang was defeated.

What will Ninji Okamura do this time?

"I summarize the characteristics of the enemy's Chieftain Gang Village into three: first, it does not follow the norm and often attacks in links that you don't expect; second, the character belongs to foresight, often planning and then acting, but once it is shot, it is like thunder; Thirdly, Okamura likes to use different combat plans depending on the opponent, and he likes to study the opponent. Now let's talk about it, how will Gangcun attack this time? ”

At the battle meeting, Xu Ming directly said the characteristics of Okamura Ningji that he analyzed, and saw what countermeasures everyone had.

Seeing that Xu Ming admired Okamura Ningci so much, everyone was quite disapproving, and Hu Lian said: "Commander-in-chief, I don't think Gangcun is a big deal, he has been defeated by the commander-in-chief several times in the three months since he took office. ”

Seeing that everyone didn't believe how powerful Gangcun was, Xu Ming explained, "The failures of Anqing and Jiujiang are not Okamura Ningji's fault, Okamura Ningci is not qualified enough, plus he has been in office for too short a time, the internal relationship has not been straightened out, and the situation of our army is not familiar, so there are these two failures." Moreover, the offensive strategy of the Japanese army Anqing and Jiujiang should not have come from the hands of Okamura Ningji, but their combat section chief planned it, the defeat of Jiujiang was a failure for the Japanese army, but it was not necessarily a bad thing for Okamura Ningji, he could just pack up his authority and fight a battle that reflected his combat style. ”

After speaking, he added: "In the second battle of Jiujiang, I estimate that the Japanese army will never fight steadily and disperse its troops, and it is very likely that Okamura Ninji will concentrate his forces in a place that we can't think of, or in a place where we can't think of him, he will use means that we can't think of." ”

Wan Quance, the deputy commander who came from Changsha, said: "The battle is won by surprise, and the battle is peaceful, and Gangcun seems to have won the three flavors of military books. ”

Wan Quance is a native of Guangxi, and his speech is very obvious, and he said in a typical Guangxi accent, "Since Gangcun is such a person, then he should not attack Jiujiang first, or just put in a feint army." ”

"How so?"

"Our army's defense line is solid, and it is impossible for Gangcun not to know that once Jiujiang cannot be captured in a short period of time, the main force of our Ninth Theater will attack from the flank and rear, and the Japanese army will be worried about annihilation. Therefore, the Japanese army may first take De'an, remove the flank threat, and then attack our Jiujiang defense line, which is exactly in line with the operational characteristics of Gangcun that you just mentioned, commander-in-chief. ”

Xu Ming couldn't help but glance at Wan Quance, when Wan Quance came to the 26th Army, Xu Ming didn't think so, but now he speaks concisely, analyzes incisively, and does have a strong ability.

Xu Ming turned his head and asked, "Boyu, what do you think?" ”

Hu Lian nodded lightly: "I agree with Deputy Army Commander Wan's opinion, but I don't think the Japanese army needs to capture De'an, it only needs to first defeat our friendly forces in Mahuiling and De'an, and then concentrate on a decisive battle with our army."

Xu Ming was terrified when he heard it, it was not impossible, the second Battle of Changsha in history, Anan Weiji did just that, he completely controlled the ** operation through a powerful intelligence analysis system, and then always concentrated superior forces on various battlefields to break the opponents individually.

"Zhongmin, what do you see?"

Xie Jinyuan shook his head, "Commander-in-chief, I can't analyze it, if I am Gangcun, I won't dare to take such a risk, most likely I will take the Jinguan Bridge and return to the mountains, and then send troops to defend, and then concentrate my forces to attack my Jiujiang." ”

Xu Ming smiled, "You are right, it is difficult to win a big victory, and there is a lot of leeway, but I don't think Gangcun will be so cautious." ”

Seeing that the others did not express their opinions, he said, "That's basically it, Deputy Commander Wan, the key to this battle is not in Jiujiang, but in De'an, please go to Wuhan immediately to meet with the chairman of the committee, submit our judgment and analysis, and suggest to the chairman that Commander-in-Chief Xue Yue should have full authority to command the troops on the front line of De'an, and Deputy Chief Zhang should be transferred back to Guangdong." ”

Xie Jinyuan was taken aback and blurted out, "Qianli, this will offend Deputy Chief Zhang to death." ”

Xu Ming laughed, "Zhongmin, don't worry, I will go to do the work of General Xiang Hua, and he will happily return to De'an." ”

Let Zhang Fakui go back to Guangdong, there is no way, speaking of which, the command system of the ** is very fucked, taking the army and the corps as an example, Li Jue and Li Hansoul were promoted to the commander of the corps because of their meritorious service in the Jinguanqiao battle, and Xu Ming was at the same level, if he didn't listen to Xu Ming, the commander of the corps, Xu Ming had no choice; Zhang Fakui is now the deputy commander of the theater, and his responsibilities overlap with Xue Yue and Xu Ming, and Xu Ming's defense area also has a mobile artillery regiment, but this artillery regiment is under the command of the Jiang Defense Army. When Xu Ming thought of these messy command structures, he felt very helpless.

"What, Chisato, are you sure of what you're saying?" Zhang Fakui almost jumped up on the wine table, just now Xu Ming said that the Japanese army will invade Guangdong in a big way, which is the hometown of the Guangdong family.

"Although I am not 100% sure, 9% is also available, Brother Xianghua, you must hurry back to Guangdong and prepare for the battle."

Zhang Fakui glanced at Xu Ming, and then glanced at Xue Yue next to him, "Qianli, your analysis is naturally to ask someone to go back, but why don't you let this person go back?" ”

Xu Ming raised his wine glass to Zhang Fakui, and secretly glanced at Xue Yue, and said: "What are you two classmates doing with each other, I personally think that Brother Xiang Hua, you are an unborn famous general, now that Guangdong's defense is empty, and the Japanese army is about to attack, only you have the ability to turn the tide." ”

"Fuck it, you kid has a vision, tiger boy, look at what other people say about me, don't quarrel with me all day long.

Xue Yue laughed, half a month ago, Zhang Fakui was still unconvinced by Xu Ming, and now he is a brother and sister.

After Xu Ming "mobilized" Zhang Fakui, the three of them had a good drink, during which Xu Ming pretended to casually conclude their analysis that the Japanese army would first attack Mahuiling and De'an.

Zhang Fakui smacked his tongue and said to Xue Yue, "Boling, Qianli is very accurate in speaking, you can be careful." ”

Xue Yue said confidently: "Qianli, Brother Xianghua, I already have a strategy, I will arrange the front line with the northeast of the east and west Guling and the northeast of Wushimen and the northwest of De'an, like the reverse of the eight characters, like a bag of rats, and like a flying tong, I want to see what he Okamura Ningji is capable of." ”

Xu Ming said with a smile: "Okamura Ningji is not very capable, that is, he is a little stronger than me." ”

The wine glass in Xue Yue's hand stopped in mid-air, and his eyes squinted at Xu Ming, as if he wanted to see the true meaning of Xu Ming's words