The General Staff drew up a detailed plan according to Lu Liang's requirements, with the main forces of the Fourth Army placed in the Ningde and Nanping areas of Fujian to guard against the threat from Zhejiang and Jiangxi, the First Division of the Third Army in Shaoguan to defend against the Hunan and Jiangxi directions, and the Second and Third Divisions of the Third Army as general reserves, placed in Guangzhou and Huizhou. These are defensive forces.

The 1st Division of the 1st Army was on standby in Zhanjiang, and its target was Hainan Island. The remaining two divisions and the entire Second Army will be deployed as the main offensive force in the border areas of Guangdong and Guangxi. The main targets of this operation were Hainan Island and Guangxi Province. The recovery of Hainan was an established plan, but because there were fewer ships and limited landing capacity, Hainan was never attacked. The Zhanjiang Shipyard, Shantou Shipyard, and Guangzhou Shipyard are now capable of manufacturing all kinds of civilian vessels of less than 10,000 tons, which is sufficient to meet the current demand for cargo transportation.

As for the wider islands in the South China Sea, the navy is now limited, and it is not yet time. Those islands are easy to take down, but difficult to defend and supply, and are not suitable for the current strategy. In fact, Lu Liang's vision is farther, not only the islands in the South China Sea, but also more land in his strategy plan.

The Guangxi region has complex terrain and inconvenient transportation, and this offensive will reduce the use of trucks, as well as the carrying of more than 100 mm caliber artillery, and the army will only use infantry guns and mortars with smaller calibers and easy to carry. According to the estimation of the General Staff Headquarters, the greatest difficulty in this operation was not actually on the front line, but in logistics and transportation.

The weapons used by the army have a huge demand for bullets, and two-thirds of the production capacity of military factories is used for ammunition production for peacetime training consumption, and there are not many ammunition in stock in logistics warehouses, and high-intensity training makes ammunition consumed at an astonishing rate, no less than small-scale battles. The upcoming Guangxi campaign will be a severe test of the production capacity of military factories

In addition, Guangxi's poor transportation conditions have made the logistics departments even more worried, and the investigation bureau and the special operations brigade have gone deep into all corners of Guangxi to draw accurate and detailed maps, and the situation obtained is not optimistic. Most of the roads are narrow dirt roads, between mountains, canyons, basins. The south is a little better, mostly valleys, river valley plains, piedmont plains and alluvial deltas, which are muddy but not insurmountable. The north side is a huge challenge, the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the 100,000 mountains, the march and combat of the troops will be severely tested.

In order to cope with the mountainous terrain in the northwestern part of Guangxi, as well as the Yunnan-Guizhou Campaign and the Sichuan Campaign, which would soon take place, the General Staff of the Army decided to set up a special mountain combat unit. There are three mountain brigades, which are independent of each army and are directly under the General Staff Department. Soldiers from the mountainous areas were selected from various armies for targeted training, and the weapons and equipment distributed were also light weapons that were conducive to mountain warfare, and there were no large-caliber artillery.

Each mountain brigade has three infantry battalions, as well as brigade fire battalions, engineer battalions, baggage battalions, etc., with a total of 7,500 people. The three mountain brigades will all be used for operations in the mountainous areas of northern Guangxi.

Immediately after the plan was formulated, preparations for the corresponding war began, and the war machine was set in motion again. With the powerful propaganda machine in full force, the people of Guangdong and Fujian provinces erupted with great revolutionary enthusiasm and even called for the reunification of the whole country. This is not surprising, they are not all aspiring young people with revolutionary aspirations, most of them are ordinary people. The peasants would benefit from the war-led increase in the sale of agricultural products, the workers from the opening of factories, the service trades from the increase in the sale of goods, and the bourgeoisie from the opening of new markets and resources. Only interests can attract the broadest possible masses to participate in the revolutionary tide, and this is also the most powerful driving force.

Compared with the enthusiastic public, Le Fei did not seem too happy. Having seen the cruelty of war, he knew that fighting meant casualties, which meant that his comrades-in-arms around him would leave him or die on the battlefield. Bullets and bullets, no one knows if they will continue to live in the next moment.

In order to let his comrades come back alive, Le Fei frantically absorbed the knowledge of war, and also frantically trained the soldiers of the third company. A few months ago, Le Fei was transferred to the commander of the third company of the first infantry battalion of the newly formed army first mountain brigade and received two months of military training. After less than three years in the army, he became a lieutenant company commander, and at the age of less than twenty-four, it can be said that he has a bright future. This is thanks to the rapid expansion of the size of the army and the number of cadets in the military academy is too small and has not yet graduated, the army has expanded the size of the military academy and the number of students, but it is far from quenching the thirst of the near, so a large number of cultural learning, and low-level officers with rich war experience have been promoted in the line of fire, and Le Fei is also one of the lucky ones.

Most of the soldiers in the Third Company were veterans drawn from various armies, and they had also experienced war, which made Le Fei feel a lot more worried. The training is intense and orderly, routine physical training is indispensable, 10,000 meters a day is commonplace, but more tactical training and shooting training. The training ground in the mountainous north of Guangdong is located in a large mountain, which is similar to the terrain of Guangxi, and the high-intensity shooting training will not affect the people's lives.

"Assemble! Triple Gathering! After breakfast, Le Fei shouted outside the cafeteria, and soon, the well-trained soldiers were lined up in a neat line.

"Take a break, stand upright, look to the right, look forward. Target, range, left turn in unison! "Shooting training is the heaviest subject, Le Fei already feels numb, when shooting just mechanically pulling the trigger, aiming time is very short, but the accuracy is very high. This is the biggest requirement of the army, and the training volume of more than 500 rounds of ammunition per soldier per day is enough to make them feel numb, and thus train them to feel the gun.

Dong Dashan's feeling is different from Le Fei, he never feels bored when operating a machine gun, and now he can even carry the handle of a light machine gun and shoot the accuracy of a rifle! Dong Dashan and Le Fei went to the mountain brigade together and served as the platoon commander of the first platoon of the third company. He was a well-known machine gun shooter in the 1st Mountain Brigade and served as a machine gun instructor in the 1st Mountain Brigade. At this time, he was leading the machine gunners of the third company to conduct shooting training, and compared with the rifle shooting training ground, the gunfire here was more dense, and it was also more able to mobilize Dong Dashan's high spirits.

In contrast, Jiang Maosheng's sniper training ground is different, they not only have to train marksmanship, but also all the skills necessary to be a sniper. Lurking, infiltrating, looking for targets, etc., they often hide in the mountains for a whole day after camouflage, and sometimes have to conduct actual combat drills with their infantry brothers. Here, Jiang Maosheng's sniping talent was brought into full play.

After the shooting training, the training of the third company had to be temporarily suspended because a big man was coming to inspect. This person is Lu Liang, and the mountain brigade has a bearing on the success or failure of the Guangxi campaign and even future operations, so he can't help but care.

From the barracks to the quartermaster department and then to the training ground, Lu Liang carefully inspected every corner accompanied by Lu Bei, commander of the 1st Mountain Brigade. The 1st Mountain Brigade has been organized and trained for more than three months, and the results of the inspection have satisfied Lu Liang, and it seems that the Mountain Brigade is ready for combat, which means that the army's war preparations have been basically completed, and the operation in Guangxi is imminent.

After the shooting training was over, Le Fei had just finished assembling the soldiers when he saw a group of people walking towards the third company from a distance. It's closer, it's closer, it's true, it's Lu Liang, Prime Minister of the Provisional Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Navy and Army!

Lu Liang walked to the third company, Le Fei suppressed his excitement, stepped forward, saluted and said: "Report to the chief, the third company of the first brigade and one battalion in the mountains is conducting shooting training, there should be 257 people, but there are 180 people, and 77 people who are absent are undergoing machine gun shooting training and sniper training. Please the chief instructs! ”

"Please take a break." Le Fei turned back to the queue, and Lu Liang looked at the team of the third company, the young soldiers' faces were covered with mud and sweat, and the stains on the grass-green uniforms showed that they had undergone high-intensity training. Although the inner excitement was manifested on his face and clenched fists, his military posture was still upright and his face was resolute. This is a powerful army, and from them, Lu Liang feels invincible self-confidence, and also brings firm confidence to Lu Liang.

"Soldiers, I'm Lu Liang, I'm sorry to interrupt your training. You can see that everyone is excited, and so am I. I was excited because I saw an invincible army of steel, the backing of the revolutionary cause, and the hope of the country's rise. You have defended our revolutionary cause with your youth, sweat, and even your lives, and you continue to pay for it. I know the cruelty of war, and if I could, I would like to see no war in the world forever, but the Manchu rulers didn't think so, the Western powers and bandits didn't think so, and those who deprived us of our right to exist and prosperity didn't think so. Therefore, we must use the guns in our hands and our lives to seize our rights, and use blood and fire to create a better future for the country! ”

"Soldiers, the Provisional Government will provide you with the best weapons, the best training, and the best fighting environment, but these are not enough, you are always the ones who greet bullets in war, and you are the ones who greet death. Who has the courage to face the death of the speech? It's you! I want to salute you guys, you are the loveliest people! ”

"Soldiers, the training is hard and the war is cruel, which requires you to be kind to your comrades. A stone can be shattered, but the mountain of all stones cannot be shaken. Unity is the only magic weapon to survive on the battlefield, do not abandon or give up! It's a law we all need to follow. I am the Prime Minister of the Provisional Government, the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy and Army, and those titles aside, I am an ordinary person like you, a member of all the Zhenguo Army. Soldiers, we are required to obey orders. Now, I command you to forge a new future for our country with blood and fire! ”