Li Jingqi is a native of Guilin, Guangxi, not tall and has the heroic spirit of a soldier, although Li Jingqi's official title is a major general and a senior staff member, but his actual position is Li Zongren's guard director, Li Zongren has done ten years of behind-the-scenes deployment of security work, is a typical behind-the-scenes figure, if it is not for the heavy responsibility of going to Rehe this time, Li Zongren can send a lot of people, but none of them can really make him feel at ease, because it is important to go to the Tenth War Zone in Rehe to ask for help, so Li Zongren does not dare to hand it over to idle people, etc., If he could walk away, or if Bai Chongxi was there, one of him and Bai Chongxi would definitely have to go on a trip in person.

So he sent a real cronie to Rehe to see Zhang Xuewu, Li Zongren believes that Zhang Xuewu can understand the reason, in fact, Li Zongren also has his worries, that is, if he is too close to Zhang Xuewu, the thorn in the eye and the thorn in the flesh at the moment, I am afraid that there will be no good fruit to eat, you must know that the person who the committee hates the most now is not himself, but the up-and-coming Zhang Xuewu!

Li Zongren once analyzed Chiang's strategy and steps to cut the domain, and he and Bai Chongxi's new Gui coefficient rose up against Chiang Kai-shek to resist Chiang Kai-shek's cutting of the domain, but Zhang Xueliang's Yi Zhi and the help of the Central Plains War can be said to have beaten Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, Feng Yuxiang, and Yan Xishan can't find the north, and later the Fujian Incident and the Liangguang Incident, those who do not return to their hearts were basically swept away by Lao Chiang. However, the foreign object is that the Soviet Union has become the current one.

The Soviets are encroaching, and they say that they are swallowed by whales, and the threat of dealing with the Soviets is greater in comparison, but at present, only the Soviets are willing to aid China in the entire international community, so Li Zongren can't figure it out? China is all over the world and sells it with money? How come it is that at the critical moment, there is no real friend? It's not like that, right?

Li Zongren still has great expectations for the 10th Theater of Operations, because the domestic production of 150 mm heavy grenades can only be produced by the military factory in Baotou, and it turns out that only the arsenal of the three eastern provinces of the Northeast Army can make shells and artillery, and the combat effectiveness of the Northeast is indeed very average, but the firepower is first-class in China. What you want, in the end, I didn't forget that Huanggutun gave 200 kilograms of explosives.

Li Jingqi also traveled all the way to Chengde, the capital of Rehe, before the Kwantung Army pressed the border, although the smoke of gunpowder in Chengde has dissipated, but the whole city has a strong atmosphere of war, and scorched earth and rubble can be seen everywhere, but the equipment of the troops in the tenth theater did make Li Jingqi extremely shocked.

Before he came, Li Jingqi only heard that the weapons and equipment of the Rehe Legion were the first in the country, and now he was shocked to see Li Jingqi with his own eyes, because the weapons and equipment of the Rehe Legion are indeed excellent, and the semi-automatic rifle, which is still very rare in the world, has been installed on a large scale in the Rehe Legion? How much ammo does this cost? Li Jingqi estimated that the weapons in the hands of the officers and men of the 10 th Army Corps, the tanks and armored vehicles that were already often visible, and the fighter planes that frequently took off and landed from the air, the strength of the 10 th Theater was so strong that Li Jingqi did not dare to imagine.

Zhang Xuewu had only looked at Li Zongren's telegram slightly, the strength of the Fifth Theater was unprecedentedly great, and even the Jin Army and the Central Army in the northwest and southeast of Jin in the Zhongtiao Mountain region had to coordinate the operations of the Fifth Theater, with the Fifth Theater of Operations as the core! Respond to the overall Xuzhou decisive battle plan.

However, this set of operational plans drawn up by the Supreme Military Commission and the General Staff Headquarters was, in Zhang Xuewu's view, a complete waste of strategic resources, and before the Battle of Xuzhou began, Jiang Gong of the Supreme Command was busy deploying the Battle of Wuhan? What does this mean? Will the Battle of Xuzhou be a failure? If the Supreme Command is all about such deployment intentions, then how can the troops below do their duty and defend their territory for a battle? Obviously want to give up or fight to the death? The officers and soldiers below are not all fools, those who are officers withdraw quickly, and those who are soldiers are crushed for thousands of miles, these are all things that have a number.

Nearly 900,000 troops are placed in Xuzhou, the place of the four wars, at best it is just a mobile defense, if Zhang Xuewu is allowed to command, Zhang Xuewu will resist the two armies of the North China Front Army along the Xuzhou line, and then concentrate his forces to give the Central China Front Army a blow of annihilation, at least the Central China Army will be disabled, so that the Yue Army will not be able to launch a large-scale campaign in a row, and after the Battle of Xuzhou, it will directly attack Wuhan without strategic material reserves.

However, Zhang Xuewu's plan for a decisive battle can only be implemented if he mobilizes his elite headquarters in the 10th Theater; under normal conditions, it is very difficult for the [***] squadron in an offensive state to inflict heavy losses on the Yue army with three or four times the superior strength, and it is almost impossible to annihilate the surname without 10 times the strength of the troops, and the [***] squadron has inherent defects in the offensive aspect in the face of such a unit as the Yue army, which has extremely high overall military and tactical literacy.

In the skirmish near Chaoyang, a heavy mortar battalion equipped with 24 heavy mortars of 120 mm caliber was attached to two infantry battalions, and each infantry battalion also had an 82-mm mortar company, armed with six 82-mm mortars and six 60-mm mortars, with a total of 48 light and heavy mortars.

In the end, the Hail Rocket Artillery Battalion was dispatched to completely defeat the Yue Army and give the blow of annihilation, which made Zhang Xuewu have serious doubts about the integration and application of firepower, and for this reason, many officers in the 10th Theater were forced to replace their posts by deputies and return to the military academy to recuperate.

Zhang Xuewu summoned Li Jingqi in Chengde, as the commander of the war zone, it is still appropriate to summon Li Jingqi, a major general, Zhang Xuewu also found a problem, that is, you can't be too casual, because some people will not take you seriously because you are too easy-going, so Zhang Xuewu also summoned Li Jingqi in a high-profile manner, Zhang Xuewu can't bear what Li Zongren means by sending someone to come at this moment?

This Li Jingqi is the director of the personal guard who has followed Li Zongren for many years, and he is also the senior staff member of the Fifth Theater General Staff, the senior staff member is a fictitious title, but the director of the guard is a real caring person, so Li Zongren sent Li Jingqi to cross the Rehe, Zhang Xuewu did not think that it was simply for some so-called materials and ammunition.

Li Jingqi saw Zhang Xuewu in the war room of the Chengde Garrison Headquarters, the big sand table and the red attack direction on the map made him slightly stunned, Li Jingqi was also born in the fifth phase of the Baoding Infantry School, and the soldiers are naturally sensitive to maps and sand tables.

Li Jingqi looked at the commander of the theater of operations, who was too young to speak, and saluted with a straight salute: "Li Jingqi, senior staff member of the Fifth Theater Commander's Department, and Chief Li Delin asked me to convey his greetings and greetings to Commander Zhang. ”

Zhang Xuewu has always been that you respect me a foot, I respect you, you do the first year of junior high school, I will be the master of the fifteenth, Li Jingqi is very polite, Zhang Xuewu is naturally not easy to show up, so he modestly smiled: "Li Gaoshen is polite!" Chief Li Zongren is a senior, how dare my juniors be commensurate with each other? Hurry up, please be seated! ”

Li Jingqi was also slightly stunned, because when Zhang Xuewu received him in the war room before, he was a little apprehensive, and the young man was inevitably rash, after all, the war room is a secret place, one is to treat himself as an outsider, and the second point is to give you a dismount, except for these two points Li Jingqi really can't figure out other intentions.

After Li Jingqi sat down, he hurriedly said: "Chief Zhang doesn't know, although the two heavy artillery brigades allocated by the Military Commission to the theater have arrived, but there is a great shortage of shells, this 150 mm caliber heavy grenade, except for Rehe, can only be imported from Germany, and now Germany has almost cut off military trade with China, so in desperation, I also ask Chief Zhang to lend a hand, for the sake of fighting against the Japanese invaders, support some, and the Rehe Army Corps should also give some weapons if it is convenient, and the Sichuan Army and the Northwest Army departments can't do it with a single shot. Resisting the enemy is all based on flesh and blood, and the soldiers of the Fifth War Zone are impressed by the five. ”

As he spoke, Li Jingqi took out a post from his arms and said: "Chief Li also knows that the tenth war zone is not easy, this is 700,000 oceans, please accept it with a smile." ”

Zhang Xuewu smiled and said, "Chief Li is so calculating!" How many marks a hundred and fifty mm heavy grenade a shot? Ninety percent of the new Mauser standard rifles and submachine guns imported from Germany under the refitting and elimination of my Rehe Legion, and the supplies and medicines are rising almost every day, what can 700,000 oceans buy? ”

Li Jingqi's face flushed, and he took a deep breath and said: "That's why I asked Chief Zhang to be accommodating, as a support to support the Fifth War Zone to resist the enemy, with the support of Chief Zhang, how many officers and soldiers should be sacrificed in the Fifth War Zone?" You can keep a little more blood for the nation! ”

Zhang Xuewu nodded and said: "Chief Li is for the country and the people, and I, Zhang, am a person who doesn't know the depth and ignores the righteousness of the country and the nation?" 6,000 rounds of 150 mm high-explosive grenades and 200 special ammunition, 30,000 Mauser standard rifles, 500 light and heavy machine guns, 50 anti-aircraft guns, 100 75mm field guns and 120 mm mortars, and a corresponding part of penicillin and other medicines, put them in the ocean of 700,000 and ask Li Gaoshen to bring them back. ”

Looking at the shock on Li Jingqi's face, Zhang Xuewu smiled and said: "Responding to requests is my purpose of being a man!" ”

(To be continued)