Facts have proved that Zhao Changtian is really more suitable for actually commanding operations, and he is a little more competent than Li Zhigao, a teacher.

After Zhao Changtian got the command of the whole division, he left two regiments plus the division's heavy artillery regiment, with Li Zhigao personally sitting in charge as the main force and responsible for pinning down the new army's barracks in the front, while he himself personally led a regiment plus the division's antiaircraft artillery battalion, all equipped with trucks, left the official road, bypassed the New Army's position, and directly attacked the patrol battalion position in the rear from the flank.

At that time, when Li Zhigao saw this plan, he felt that Zhao Changtian was too big and wanted to send him more troops, but who knew that Zhao Changtian said that one regiment and one anti-aircraft artillery battalion were enough, and no matter how much it was, it would be difficult to deploy the troops, but the command would not be effective.

For this reason, Li Zhigao had no choice but to believe him, but he sent an extra special operations company to defend Zhao Changtian, and repeatedly instructed that no matter what, he was not afraid of the loss of the troops, but Zhao Changtian must be safe and sound.

Soon, the battle officially began, Zhao Changtian personally led a regiment and an anti-aircraft artillery battalion, first let them sleep during the day, and at night, the whole army went out, left the main road, and began to detour. After a night's march, they finally bypassed the positions of the new army and reached the right side of the patrol camp before dawn.

After that, Zhao Changtian concentrated 100 armored trucks equipped with five-millimeter steel plates, and each vehicle was equipped with a squad in addition to the driver to form a special assault squad. The special assault squad rode in armored trucks, all equipped with submachine guns and machine guns, and twelve men had four machine guns and twelve submachine guns.

At this time, the sky had gradually brightened, and Zhao Changtian, after comprehensively summing up the situation of the enemy on the opposite side, did not call for aerial bombardment and took the time to wait for air support, but immediately organized the regimental artillery battalion plus the anti-aircraft artillery battalion specially brought over, and at the same time carried out saturation artillery bombardment of the patrol battalion's position.

At the beginning of the shelling, Zhao Changtian did not wait for the artillery fire to end, he directly used a hundred armored trucks as arrows, and the follow-up trucks followed, and began to charge forward with vigor and vigor taking advantage of the momentum of the artillery attack.

At this time, the patrol battalion position had already been stunned by the sudden dense artillery fire, so there was no resistance to Zhao Changtian's charge at all, and it was easy for Zhao Changtian's troops to rush in. The armoured trucks were then divided into ten teams, each with ten armoured trucks and twenty ordinary trucks behind them. The ten groups began to disperse and assault, rushing wherever they saw a build-up of soldiers, in short, to keep the camp in chaos and not give them a chance to assemble.

In this way, through the rampage of the assault group, making full use of the speed advantage and rapid-fire weapons such as submachine guns and machine guns, causing continuous chaos and bloodletting to the camp, the whole battle took less than three hours, and the entire patrol battalion of more than 10,000 people was all defeated, and in the end only more than 2,000 people escaped, and the rest either surrendered helplessly or were killed in the chaos.

The most fortunate thing is that in the chaos, Zhang Xun, the governor of Jiangnan, was captured alive!

After that, Zhao Changtian left a battalion to guard the prisoners on the spot, and the others took Zhang Xun and other backbone of the Qing army to directly penetrate the back of the new army from the patrol battalion position, and surrounded the new army's position with Li Zhigao's large army.

Then, Zhao Changtian shouted in front of the battle, persuading him to surrender in the name of Li Zhigao, and after the first persuasion failed, he did not talk nonsense, and immediately organized a 130-mm heavy artillery regiment, 85-mm heavy artillery and 75-mm guns, and at the same time sent two bomber squadrons to cover the new army's position three hundred meters in front of the new army's position.

After the combined bombardment by aircraft and heavy artillery, the 300 meters in front of the position of the new army was already in shambles, and the whole of the new army, who had witnessed all this, were immediately stunned, because they all knew that if this kind of fire fell on their heads, they would not be able to stop it at all.

In this way, before evening, the new army, which was originally just a maneuver, surrendered, completely and unconditionally.

In other words, the entire operation took less than a day, and the main division of Li Zhigao suffered a total of only 25 people with minor injuries, three people seriously injured, and no one died, so it can be said that it was a battle with zero casualties.

As for the material consumption, it is not too large, and the biggest consumption is the joint bombing of aircraft and artillery at the end, but in fact, Zhao Changtian followed Li Zhigao's instructions to conduct a wartime exercise, and as far as Zhao Changtian himself is concerned, there is not much need. According to Zhao Changtian, even without that fire intimidation, the new army would eventually surrender.

In short, in this campaign, Zhao Changtian gave full play to the strong firepower and high mobility of Li Zhigao's troops, avoided the weakness of the troops with little actual combat experience, and skillfully used such methods as sneak attacks, outflanking, intimidation, and persuasion to surrender.

To put it bluntly, Zhao Changtian's battle was quite beautiful, and Li Zhigao asked himself if he couldn't do it so well.

If Li Zhigao is to personally command and fight this battle, don't look at how good his usual theory is, but when it comes to the real thing, he must still be the same, that is, he will not care about sending planes to bomb first, and then hit the artillery fire over, and then let the soldiers charge and push in trucks to complete his "blitzkrieg" feat!

To put it bluntly, Li Zhigao's set is to rely on his own equipment and firepower to bully people, decent, nothing surprising, another person has so many advantages for him, and he can win according to this method. However, although he can win with this method, the consumption must be amazing, and the personnel loss is definitely not small, it is absolutely impossible to consume so little and lose so little as Zhao Changtian did.

To put it bluntly, Li Zhigao is very rough and not fine enough, in terms of level, at most he is at the level of a platoon leader, and he will never be able to play so much work with Zhao Changtian.

Because to play strategy, it is more about adapting to the situation, relying on the sensitivity of the battlefield, being able to quickly make the most appropriate judgment according to the current state, and develop its own set of dispatches, which is naturally more flexible than textbook dispatches, and can obtain the maximum results with the smallest losses. These things, ordinary people can't learn, they really have to rely on talent, like Napoleon in the West, Lin * Biao and others in later generations, are representatives of this kind of people.

Strictly speaking, Li Zhigao is relying on the knowledge and experience of later generations to do lip service, and he can be a "military theorist" or a "military educator", and it is not bad to organize materials and form an army, but when it comes to fighting, he may not have that surname.

That's right, it's Nai's surname!

For example, leading troops to fight a war, this can be said to be a rather cumbersome matter, from intelligence analysis, to organization and mobilization, to material reserves, and so on, it can be said that the commander needs to do analysis and judgment, which is definitely not so simple, and it can be done well by one person.

To be precise, being a general, more like being the manager of a large group and a large company, what is most needed is organizational and management skills, and it is necessary to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of everyone, take into account all kinds of accidents, and let the whole team do what they want.

An excellent manager can spend very little time to manage the company up and down in an orderly manner, a qualified manager can manage the company smoothly and freely, and an unqualified manager, even if he is busy all day long, will also manage the company worse and worse.

Like Li Zhigao, who has a cheat as big as a ring, he has worked hard for nearly a year, only sleeps more than two hours a day, and is busy vomiting blood, but it can only develop to this point, and there are many loopholes. This cannot be said that Li Zhigao did not do well, it can only be said that he did not do well enough.

Needless to say, although ability is not innate, the corrective effect of the surname is very important. Li Zhigao naturally likes **, never asks for careful work, and doesn't like to live with too much pressure, in the original society, the main reason why he is mixed is not because he has no good father and mother, but because of his surname.

Such a surname, it leads to Li Zhigao doing things without regard for the end, doing things very roughly, not careful enough, as soon as something happens, the first time is to cheat, want to rely on cheating to solve, just like he used to play games, once he can't pass the level, the first time is not to think about how to improve the method, but to think about opening a cheat first.

In other words, Li Zhigao can only rely on cheating to bully people, if everyone is at the same level and everyone cheats, he will definitely lose. If an elite manager had owned his ring, he would have been in another world for such a long time.

In other words, Li Zhigao is not a qualified manager, he is just a cheater with a cheat, a lucky person who is hit by a pie falling from the sky. If he is smart enough, he should have withdrawn from the perspective of a manager, made full use of his ability, became a chairman behind the scenes, and let others manage it for him.

There are many people in the world, especially people who get rich overnight, often can't find their own positioning, always think that they are very powerful, can do everything, it turns out that such people, even if they have a big advantage, the final result is often very miserable.

Fortunately, Li Zhigao is a very self-aware person, he has gone through more than half a year of careful management, and finally found his own shortcomings, so he has only recently begun to continue to try to delegate power to those management talents he values, and he himself intends to be a behind-the-scenes chairman.

For example, he tried to give Liu Runsheng at the beginning of government affairs, although Liu Runsheng's ability was average, but he was at least qualified, liberating a lot of his energy, and later he began to decentralize power to Tao Chengzhang, although because of the short time, he can't see his ability for the time being, but at least for now, many of Tao Chengzhang's suggestions are very pertinent.

In the army, he also found many problems, the biggest problem is the lack of command.

That's right, Li Zhigao's troops were brought out by him, the weapons and equipment and tactics are the best, and the grassroots officers are almost trained, at least barely enough, but unfortunately there is a serious lack of generals who can lead the troops alone!

Li Zhigao can't stay in one place all day, sooner or later he has to go out, and he can't always lead the troops himself, sooner or later he needs many generals to lead the troops to fight for him, and this general who leads the troops to fight for him, in addition to having enough loyalty, has to be reliable.

Otherwise, even if you are given a strong army, if the general is too bad, you can still lose everything, which is what Li Zhigao is not happy to see.

Fortunately, Zhao Changtian gave Li Zhigao a satisfactory answer, and proved his qualifications as a famous general with beautiful results!

At the subsequent combat meeting, Li Zhigao began to continue to delegate power and began to ask Zhao Changtian what to do next.

As expected, Zhao Changtian continued to follow the law and immediately proposed a new plan.

Li Zhigao's original plan was to lead his troops to break the army in Nanjing first, and then immediately return to the division to the west, and then break the army in Anqing.

However, Zhao Changtian thinks that this method is too conservative and too wasteful of his combat power, since he has completely annihilated Nanjing's army, he should take advantage of the situation to advance eastward and take Nanjing directly!

According to Zhao Changtian's statement, they acted quickly this time, and completely annihilated the Qing army in less than a day, and with the Qing army's reaction ability, they definitely didn't know the results of the battle here.

Therefore, our army should give full play to the characteristics of strong mobility, quickly go straight to Nanjing, and then let the soldiers change into the clothes of the new army, and take the opportunity to seize the city in the name of urging supplies, etc., as long as we take Nanjing, we will grasp the initiative, and the whole game of chess will be alive! ”

"It's okay to take Nanjing, but have you thought about the consequences?" Li Zhigao frowned, "After taking Nanjing, whether we rebel by electricity or not, we will become the number one enemy of the Qing court, and we will definitely mobilize the main force to fight us, then it is not what I am happy to see." ”

"Headmaster, students don't agree with that." Zhao Changtian smiled slightly, his whole body was full of confident temperament, and he pointed to the map with his finger and said, "Principal, the new army and the patrol battalion are already the most powerful forces in the Qing court, and the new army of the ninth town in Nanjing is the more capable unit in the new army, and what is their combat effectiveness, it has been vividly demonstrated in this battle, as for whether the Qing soldiers will come to fight us, if they don't come, they will really come together, isn't this exactly what we want?" ”

After speaking, Zhao Changtian nodded the direction of the Taiping Mansion and said again: "Principal, the reason why I proposed to fight Nanjing is because of such considerations.

First of all, Taiping Mansion is our old nest, our factories, schools and other important facilities are there, there can be no chaos, otherwise we will be greatly injured, therefore, we have to burn the flames of war outside, which is also the original intention of you to take the initiative to send troops at that time. However, since we have already caught fire with the Qing army, and then want to get away with the Qing army's not being held accountable, it may not be a big surname. In other words, since everyone has torn their faces, we should take the initiative first, and we can't wait for the Qing court to make a decision for us. And Nanjing City, this is a special place, as long as we take Nanjing, the Qing army must not abandon it, will definitely mobilize a large army, first desperately come to attack Nanjing, so that the war can be burned in Nanjing, to avoid the Taiping Mansion suffered from the war early.

Secondly, purely in terms of combat effectiveness, one of our divisions can completely resist the new army, and our strength and firepower allocation should actually be best at group attacks, that is, conducting general battles, so as to give full play to our firepower superiority and avoid our supply inferiority. Now, the various units of the Qing army are scattered in various places, and if we want to fight them one by one, although it will be easier, it will widen our supply lines, and it will put pressure on our supplies, which will be unfavorable to our troops equipped with a lot of heavy firepower. On the contrary, if Nanjing is regarded as the main battlefield, Nanjing is not far from our Taiping Mansion, and it is quite convenient to supply by land or water. When the time comes, we will have the home advantage, and the logistics supply is very short, and the Qing army will come from afar, and the supply will not be as good as ours.

Third, the weather advantage. Now that winter has arrived, this kind of weather is good for the defending side and harmful to the attacking side. Our winter coats have long been issued, but the winter coats of the Qing army are very inadequate as far as I know. Therefore, if we break through Nanking at this time and force the Qing army to come over and fight us, we can still have another point in terms of weather. When the time comes, we will have plenty of winter clothes, and we can have a happy battle with the Qing army in the coldest time, and destroy the main force of the Qing army through one or several battles that determine the surname, so that the situation in the whole world will immediately change dramatically! ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Changtian smashed the map: "Headmaster, the strength of our troops is strong enough, we are not short of weapons or money, our morale is strong, and our fighting spirit is usable." However, we have been nesting in Taiping Mansion before, and the layout is too small, not only is there not enough soldiers, but also the strategic space is also small. Now that we are fighting with the Qing court, we should expand our strategic space as soon as possible, take the initiative to attack outward, and lay down a few turf, so that we can attack and retreat. And the capture of such an influential city as Nanjing, not only can make us more active militarily, but also form a strong influence politically, as long as Nanjing is taken, no matter what the situation develops in the future, it will not be able to bypass you. ”

"Hmm......"

"Headmaster!" Zhao Changtian continued, "As you yourself said, the current Qing court is no longer the Qing court of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom era, and the current court has been [***] to the top, and now it can hold on, what does it rely on?" Not his army yet? As long as we destroy his army, then with the current situation of the Qing court, it will inevitably be immediately divided, and all parts of the country will read the force, when the time comes, we will be the first to revolt, how can we not bypass the name of righteousness, in the future, we must have a name, we must have strength, and then develop, we can take advantage of the situation to sweep across the country and establish a new China, and you are the leader of New China! ”

"Have you thought about the attitude of the Great Powers?" Li Zhigao shook his head, "If we take Nanjing, what will the great powers think?" ”

"Great powers? What do the great powers think, and do we need to care? Zhao Changtian smiled, "We have special medicine and other goods in demand, and as far as I know, our trade quota with the great powers is also increasing, that is to say, our economic exchanges with the great powers are getting closer and closer, and they will not easily cut off our economic line." Of course, even if they come, we are not afraid, because at most they will send warships into the Yangtze River to find trouble, but we have artillery with a range of 30 kilometers, and those powerful bombers! With this kind of deterrence by force, the warships of the great powers pose no threat to us. And if the great powers really want to send troops over, it can only bring humiliation on themselves. Therefore, the problem of the great powers is not a problem at all, once we take Nanking, until the situation is clear, they will definitely not help each other and will not make trouble for us. ”

"That's ......"

"Headmaster!" Seeing that Li Zhigao was still hesitating, Zhao Changtian was anxious, "Time waits for no one, we have to take it in Nanjing, this is the will of God!" If you don't take it, you will suffer from it! ”

"Okay, I'll listen to you!" Li Zhigao finally made up his mind, "Let's leave and go directly to Nanjing!" (To be continued.) )