Chapter 20: The Smoke of Gunfire Returns

"Boyuan, come, come and take a look at the information that has just been sent" Zhao Zhi was summoned to his official residence by Chiang Kai-shek in a hurry, and handed Zhao Zhi a copy of the information he had just received. Yan Baichuan's troops can't stand it, and the Zhangwu County town you handed over to them will be lost, it's only been more than four months, I really don't know what his troops are for? The angry Chiang Kai-shek slammed the celadon teacup in his hand to the ground. When Zhao Zhi took Zhangwu County by surprise, the major newspapers in Chongqing hyped it up, and many newspapers at home and abroad also reprinted each other.

Zhao Zhi carefully read the information, then raised his head and said, "It's not a big deal, since the Japanese army can take it back, let's just grab it back." If they dare to mobilize heavy troops to besiege Zhangwu County, then we will turn Zhangwu County into Luodian on the second Songhu battlefield, and make it a meat grinding ground, and entangle the Japanese army to death in Zhangwu County, and I will eat him as much as he comes" Chiang Kai-shek knew Zhao Zhi's ability, but the current situation made Chiang Kai-shek somewhat uncertain.

Zhao Zhi smiled and asked Chiang Kai-shek's attendant to ask for a pen and white paper, and drew a rough sketch of Zhangwu County with a few brushstrokes, even with the mountains around Zhangwu County. "You see, this is a rough sketch of the city of Zhangwu County, last time my people were stationed in this location, in Zhangwu County only here can be stationed a large number of troops, and my people have already secretly dug a tunnel from this camp to the outside of the city" Zhao Zhi used the pen in his hand to draw a heavy line at the position of the west side of the city wall, and drew from the barracks on the west side of Zhangwu County to a riverbed outside the city wall.

"This tunnel was dug from the city to this riverbed outside the city, the riverbed has long since dried up, and now it is a mass grave, we built a fake grave at the exit of the tunnel, this time it came in handy" Zhao Zhi's words made Chiang Kai-shek see a glimmer of light in the darkness. If there really is such a tunnel, as long as troops are sent to enter the county from the tunnel at night, even if the Japanese army is tightly defended, Zhangwu County will have to change hands again.

"In your opinion, how many troops will be sent?"

"If it's just to recapture Zhangwu County, then you don't need too many people, if you want to let the Japanese army learn a lesson, you might as well go to more people, if there are fewer people, you won't be able to do anything at all" After staying with those officers of the national army for a long time, Zhao Zhi also learned to speak at this time, and did not give Chiang Kai-shek a practical answer at all. No matter what he said, it was Chiang Kai-shek who made the final decision, and it was better to have nothing to do with what he had just hung up than to talk more and offend people.

"You little slippery head, let you say it, you can say it, I learned their tricks to prevaricate me at a young age," Chiang Kai-shek smiled and knocked Zhao Zhi with a cane. Chiang Kai-shek and Zhao Zhi talked and laughed at nothing, but the attendant standing on the side was taken aback, in his memory, Chiang Kai-shek had never spoken to anyone like this, and listening to that tone was not angry at all, it was like an elder in the family teaching a younger generation. It seems that this kid who came back from abroad is like the president's eyes, and it seems that he will have to be closer to this young man in the future.

"If the Jin Sui Army is transferred to the past, no two regiments will not work at all, if your central army also has a regiment, we not only have to take back Zhangwu County, but also station troops in the mountains on both sides to protect the flanks, only the city and the outside echo each other, Zhangwu County has the possibility of holding on, otherwise it is better to simply give up" Zhao Zhi is very familiar with the environment guarded by Zhangwu County, where the mountains and forests are very suitable for land occupation, but at the same time, it also restricts the opportunity for large-scale operations, as long as it is properly arranged, Only a few troops are needed to withstand the opponent's offensive, but the geographical location of Zhangwu County is not very good, and it is better to give it up than to stick to it.

"Can't give up, Zhangwu County must get it back" Chiang Kai-shek's hand slapped heavily on the table, the domestic battlefield was sluggish, and he urgently needed a few victories to boost morale. Now that he already knew that Zhao Zhi had also arranged a tunnel, Chiang Kai-shek had to fight, even if he couldn't take the county seat, he would let the Japanese army teach him a long lesson.

"Then pull the guys in the training camp up to try their hands, anyway, they also need to sharpen their hands in actual combat, this is a good opportunity" The soldiers in the training camp have been in the mountains for half a month, and the overall situation is not bad, the harsh training has allowed them to grow rapidly, after the first few days of discomfort, now the remaining guys are staying in the mountains very leisurely, quite a bit of a vacation in the mountains. However, they still lacked the most crucial part of training, that is, actual combat, that is, Chiang Kai-shek did not recruit Zhao Zhi for a few days, and he also thought that he would come to Chiang Kai-shek tomorrow and approve himself to take the whole training team members to the surrounding mountains to suppress bandits, so as to increase their actual combat experience in mountain combat.

Zhao Zhi's initiative to ask for war made Chiang Kai-shek hesitate, Zhao Zhi's training camp was infused with too much effort into him, not to mention that the soldiers who were selected for training were all one in a hundred, that is, the high cost of food and ammunition consumption in the training camp every day was about to collapse him. In his heart, each of these soldiers who had not yet walked out of Sun Liyang was a precious egg, and he was sent to Shanxi to grab a small county town, and Chiang Kai-shek felt a little bit of a knife in his heart.

"If you are reluctant, then I will only take my 500 people to go, but I have too few people, I can only help you take back Zhangwu County, and the troops stationed in the county town will be sent by yourself" Among the more than 2,000 soldiers who were trained, there were 1,000 people recruited by Zhao Zhi privately, Chiang Kai-shek had always known about this, and this was also the price of Zhao Zhi in order to train soldiers, after all, Lei Ting was a company, and Zhao Zhi was not a real national army officer under him. After several rounds of strict screening, only 500 people were left, and the rest were given to Chiang Kai-shek.

Seeing that Zhao Zhi looked very sure, Chiang Kai-shek lowered his head and pondered for a while, and finally decided to send Zhao Zhi with the soldiers in the training camp to recapture Zhangwu County, but their task was only to annihilate the Japanese army occupying the county seat. In order to ensure the smooth operation of Zhao Zhi and them, Chiang Kai-shek also ordered the mobilization of two regiments from the Jin Sui army and began to secretly move to Zhangwu County.