The news that the Random Arrow Plan was finally approved made the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Defense Force, General Cai Yi, who was on the front line, very happy, which was obviously a real good news, and he and the Northeast Defense Force had already made thorough preparations for it.

After the telegram order from the Central Military Department was issued, Cai Ye couldn't wait to convene a plenary meeting of front-line commanders and summoned Zhang Zizhong, Fu Zuoyi, Liu Yazhao, Wei Lihuang and others.

At this time, the command headquarters of the Northeast Defense Force had been moved to Seoul, relying on the port of Incheon, the Incheon airport, and a number of railway lines for supply and reinforcement, and the total number of troops of the whole army had expanded to 1.7 million, with 11 air divisions under its jurisdiction and 4 other local coastal air divisions that could be deployed.

The army is equipped with 11,000 light tanks, 13,300 barreled artillery, 2,748 rocket artillery, and a total of 15,700 infantry armored vehicles and amphibious armored vehicles.

American Matthew. General Ridgway said that the terrain in southern Korea is so complex that most of the places are impassable even for wheeled vehicles, and many of the roads marked on the map are impassable.

The Northeast Defense Force also faced this problem, but the Imperial Army had a large and high-level engineering force, and by supporting the North Korean political axe, a large number of Korean civilian workers were recruited to be responsible for road construction, on the one hand, the road was built, and on the other hand, it could only rely on large-scale airdrops and air transportation to increase the supply and delivery.

In this third Sino-Chinese war, Song Biao fully learned the lessons of the Americans in the Korean War, and the entire war was fought and stopped between operations and repairs, fought when the conditions were right, and stopped to make preparations for the war when the conditions were not ripe, and gradually advanced in a very steady way, without any intention of making rash advances.

In the past few months, the Northeast Defense Force has built five large military airfield centers in Seoul, Incheon, Gwangju, Jeonju, and Cheongju in the southern part of the DPRK on the basis of the military airfields left behind by the Yue army, and transferred five air force divisions to station.

Only the Fourth Group Army led by General Chen Wu had a relatively deep defensive line and had already exchanged fire with the Japanese army on the front line, and it was inconvenient for the military situation to come back in an emergency.

Everyone arrived on the morning of April 17, and when they arrived at the general headquarters, they went directly to the conference room, Wei Lihuang and Bai Chongxi, the newly promoted chief of staff of the Second Group Army, were the first to come, and their tasks were also completed the earliest.

Feng Shui takes turns, and now it is finally Fu Zuoyi's turn to lead his First Army into battle, Fu Zuoyi is naturally very happy, and he also arrived early on a transport plane, and after arriving at the general headquarters, he also looked quite high-spirited.

Fu Zuoyi happened to meet Zhang Zizhong and Wei Lihuang at the door of the conference room, and when he saw the two, he enthusiastically took Chief of Staff Liu Yazhao to shake hands with them, his face full of red light.

When shaking hands with Zhang Zizhong, Fu Zuoyi couldn't help but smile and said: "Brother Xunchen, although this battle is now with my Second Army as the main force, your Third Army is also an elite gathering. ”

Zhang Zizhong smiled, pointed at Fu Zuoyi and teased: "You are too proud, don't be careless here." ”

Fu Zuoyi smiled and defended: "How dare I be careless, it's just that it took a year for my Second Army to attack on all fronts with the main force, and I was held back for a whole year, so I can't wait." ”

Zhang Zizhong agreed: "I deeply feel the same way, Yisheng virtuous brother." ”

Speaking of this, he invited Fu Zuoyi to enter the conference room together, and added: "The commander-in-chief is probably waiting for me to wait for a long time inside, so let's go to see the commander-in-chief first!" ”

"It's good!"

Fu Zuoyi replied, and Zhang Zizhong invited Wei Lihuang and others to go together, soldiers speak by their achievements, Wei Lihuang's qualifications are relatively low compared to the two of them, but in the previous Seoul offensive, he hit Jeollanam-do Province in one go, although many people think that it can be a big victory if they change themselves, but whether they can win so beautifully, there is really not much certainty.

Nowadays, everyone has a lot of admiration when they see Wei Lihuang.

Fu Zuoyi also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, Wei Lihuang's record did bring him a lot of pressure, and under the pride on the surface, he actually had a very strong competition in his heart.

He wanted to fight a very beautiful decisive battle in the southeast and completely expel the Yue army from the Korean Peninsula.

Entering the conference room, Fu Zuoyi and others saw Cai Yizheng and Chief of Staff Liu Gengyun and others in front of the big map to discuss the problem, and an adjutant stepped forward to report that they had arrived, and the two army generals Cai Yi and Liu Gengyun turned around and happened to see everyone, and at this time they were about to officially launch the final decisive battle against the army, and everyone's interest was very high.

"You're coming so fast!"

Cai Yi exclaimed, and invited Fu Zuoyi and the others to sit down first.

Fu Zuoyi and Zhang Zizhong stepped forward to salute and report together, and then sat down in their respective positions.

Cai Ye had in his hand the battle order officially signed by the Central Military Department and the Emperor, so he read the military order and informed everyone present that the official decisive battle date would be in mid-May, and the specific battle time would be urgently notified three days before the war.

After reading the battle order, Cai Yi took off his reading glasses again, and the lieutenant generals and major generals of the Imperial Army who were also present said: "Now that all the conditions are ripe, the affairs of the Southeast Theater will not drag on any longer, and the first, third, and fourth, three group armies will launch attacks from three areas at the same time. With the support of the Air Force and the headquarters, various units took turns to annihilate the Japanese army and completely expel the Japanese army from the Korean Peninsula, thus laying an important foundation for the subsequent landing on the Japanese mainland. ”

After many years as the Minister of Land and Resources, this time Cai Ye is much calmer than when he was young, he can be regarded as a stable person when he is young, but he often makes some slightly impatient moves, very peculiar, looks very stable, and occasionally suddenly does something not so steady.

Today's Cai Ye is much better in these aspects, after all, in addition to the aging body and the ambition of the old man, there are also those lessons, experience, connections, knowledge, honors, mistakes, ......, veteran senior generals always have the advantage of senior generals.

Cai Ye said a few words of stability, and he was also thinking about some things in his heart, but the others were very energetic, and they had been waiting for this final decisive battle for a long time, so they looked forward to driving the Yue army into the sea as soon as possible.

There is a miracle in war.

One of the biggest differences between the Third Sino-Chinese War and the Second Sino-Chinese War lies in the contrast of strength, during the Sino-Japanese War, the empire had just been established, and the national strength was still weak, and in the face of the fact that it was already an industrial country, the empire could only adopt the overall strategy of doing whatever it took to achieve a quick victory, and now in the period of the Third Sino-Chinese War, the strength of the Sino-Chinese War was not at the same level at all, and the disadvantage of the congenital surname of the Sino-Japanese surname was that the war resources seriously needed to be imported from overseas. This allows China to fight a gradual circular blockade based on mutual attrition of strength, and eventually blockade the Chinese army on the mainland island and consume it to death.

Strategically, China's strategy is the right path.

In terms of tactics, China has made full use of the advantages of the military industry and the country's science and technology and troop resources to actively promote the progress of new tactics, which can not only fight the key and line-type penetration blitzkrieg of the armored and mechanized army, but also fight the indiscriminate arrow warfare of multi-point offensive, and can also adopt multi-line division in tactical planning to focus on the battle of encirclement and annihilation.

Relying on the strong military industrial strength, the empire has given priority to ensuring that the 1.7 million troops of the Northeast Defense Force replace the M35 assault rifles on all fronts, especially in the Southeast Campaign and the Ryukyu Campaign, whether it is the Central Military Department or the Front General Headquarters, the unified understanding is that the role that armored forces can play in these two battles is limited, or it needs to focus more on the offensive of the army infantry.

Before World War II, there were two main combat systems in the army's operations, one was the combination of traditional artillery and infantry, and the other was the combination of mechanized armored vehicles and infantry.

Jiang Fangzhen, Liu Gengyun, Han Chunlin, Liu Yazhao, Su Bin, these three generations of military theory experts, such as the old, middle-aged and young generations, have also made continuous research contributions to the traditional artillery infantry system of the Imperial Army, especially Han Chunlin, who has been in the second line and served as vice president of the Central Military Academy, has been committed to the study of multi-arms theory, and has also advocated the "new comprehensive theory" in the field of traditional artillery infantry.

The main core idea of Han Chunlin's theory of "new integration" is to advocate the diversification, integration, and lightness of individual light weapons, the need for fierce firepower and light weight, and the pursuit of concentration and superiority in regional firepower, rather than simply letting soldiers pursue a longer strike range, and the farther target is the work of mechanized troops, aviation units, and artillery, and what soldiers should do is to concentrate on the front line and give play to the advantages of regional firepower points and rely on the advantages of the entire system to eliminate the opponent.

With the support of this theory, CSKA has developed a large number of new individual weapons in the past two decades, including bazookas, grenades, assault rifles, M33 special sniper rifles, and so on.

The status of artillery in the Imperial CSKA has declined to a certain extent compared with the past, but it can still be maintained at a world-class level, the development and service of new light howitzers and howitzers have been relatively smooth, and the development and service of rocket artillery have also been accelerating in the past few years.

The army is a system, and its entire equipment setting has a very high scientific surname.

With the large-scale service and improvement of large-caliber mortars like 105\120mm, the 75mm light howitzer has lost the dominant position of the original barreled artillery, and the empire began to install the M1930 105mm caliber towed light howitzer and the M1933 120mm towed light howitzer on a large scale, both of which are the center of the artillery power of the Imperial Army.

As in the case of the southeastern part of the Korean Peninsula, it is quite difficult for large-scale mechanized troops to penetrate the defenses, because they are all mountainous areas, and the main garrisons of the Chinese army are also on high ground, and it is impossible for tanks and armored vehicles to attack from the bottom of the mountains to the mountains.

In large-scale positional warfare, artillery is a branch of the armed forces that is more constrained, and the indiscriminate bombardment of artillery can easily complicate the terrain of the front line and make it more muddy, and the infantry can effectively make use of these complex secondary terrains, which is a big obstacle for tanks and armored vehicles.

In addition to the development of mortars, a very important problem is that the range of low-caliber artillery is too close to effectively cooperate with tank combat, and if you want to use artillery and tanks to cooperate in combat, the range requirements for artillery will be very high, and it must effectively cover the opponent's rear and artillery positions, rather than bombing indiscriminately on the front line.

Also in the mountains, as long as the opponent's fortifications are built strong enough and a complete defense system is established, the role that artillery can play can be easily limited, unless it is a large-caliber heavy howitzer, and this large-caliber heavy howitzer is also difficult to advance in mountainous and hilly areas.

Therefore, the decisive battle in the southeastern theater of the Korean Peninsula still has to be dominated by the infantry, and the main attack with the infantry will inevitably bear heavy casualties, and in terms of tactical planning, we can only adopt the classical tactic of "encircling but not annihilating, and consuming the enemy's grain and grass." This is the most classic chapter in the philosophy of Chinese affairs.

In order to realize such a plan, it is necessary to carry out a strong offensive in key areas, break through the opponent's most critical defensive lines, take the most critical high ground, and use tank divisions to break through the defense as much as possible in areas where armored forces can be used, so as to finally realize the division and encirclement of the Yue army, take the counterattack as the defense, and take the defense as the attack, sit back and exhaust the Yue army, and force the Yue army to take the initiative to launch an offensive and break through the encirclement.

At this moment, as the commander-in-chief of the Northeast National Defense Force, General Cai Yi is most worried about four words -- the arrogant army will be defeated.

Especially during this period of time, Cai Ye also clearly felt the change in this pride mentality.

Cai Ye was silently thinking about many things, and in the past few days, he has been thinking of a way to make the troops more calm and stable, and adjust the mentality of the soldiers.

He was silent for a while before he asked his adjutant to distribute the operational plans issued by the Joint Operations Staff Headquarters of the Central Military Department to the various group armies, and the commanders and chiefs of staff of each group army had a copy.

In the past few months, all the group armies have been intensively preparing new operational plans, but for the entire Northeast Defense Force, the most important task is the construction of basic works and defensive lines, the improvement of infrastructure such as airports, radars, roads, and ports, and the repair of railway bridges to ensure that the army is ready for subsequent operations.

During this period of time, the Yue army was also frantically stepping up preparations for war, trying to use the special terrain of the southeastern region of Korea to block the Northeast Defense Army, and prepare for the future counteroffensive.

For the people of Yueben, all difficulties are temporary, and the Imperial Army still has the opportunity and strength to defeat China, and it seems that all they lack is some luck.

However, once the Southeast Theater and the Ryukyu Islands are lost, the Chinese air force will fully cover the mainland and carry out an all-out bombing of the base camp.

In fact, in the next few weeks, fighter planes taking off from Jeju Island will carry out a large-scale bombing of the military factory, which should be a headache for the base camp, right?

Zhang Zizhong, Fu Zuoyi, the commanders of the various group armies, and the detailed operational plans issued by the generals and subordinates were all opened and carefully browsed, and the grand strategy of the war had long been determined by the emperor and the Central Military Department as a blockade war that gradually encroached on attrition, and they and the army general Cai Ye were only tactical executors.

The "indiscriminate arrow" plan issued by the Central Military Department this time is itself a collection of various plans proposed by various group armies and the Northeast National Defense Force, but the tactical direction is more detailed, and all the detailed arrangements have been systematically distributed, and all army commanders can ensure that they are implemented in place.

The duty of a soldier is to obey commands.

Cai Ye waited very quietly for the front-line commanders to read their respective battle plans, the military department has already made a lot of preparations, if the group armies and the Northeast National Defense Force still think that it is inappropriate, they can propose to the Central Military Department within a week, but the task must be completed, and the positions to be captured by the group armies and when, the supply and transportation work and other logistical support work, the prisoner arrangement work, and so on will have regulations.

All kinds of necessary requirements can be added, and it is a dereliction of duty to fail to complete the requirements of the battle plan in the end.

According to the plan of the Central Military Department, the First, Second, Third, and Fourth Group Armies will simultaneously launch an offensive against the Yue Army in the southeastern battlefield, and the First Group Army will indeed be the main force, with the First Group Army launching an offensive from Cheongwon County, occupying Bao'en County, Sangju, and Gumi, and finally joining forces with the Third Army in Daegu, while the Second Army and the Fourth Group Army will all be on the border line to coordinate operations, launch infiltration attacks from the north and southwest, attract the Yue Army to disperse its forces, and enable the First and Third Army to occupy the superiority in strength to encircle and annihilate the Yue Army. Cut off the ties between the various departments of the army.

To put it simply, the "chaotic arrow plan" planned by Liu Gengyun and Jiang Fangzhen is to flank the enemy in two directions and outflank them in two ways, and to carry out an encirclement and annihilation battle against the main force of the Yue army in six areas, cutting the Yue army into six sections, and encircling and annihilating two parts; as long as one of the four offensive is successful, it can effectively cut off the supply capacity of the entire theater of the Yue army, and then after a war of attrition lasting one to two months, finally launch a general offensive to annihilate all the remnants of the Yue army on the Korean Peninsula.

Cai Ye waited silently for more than ten minutes, until all the commanders had finished reading the battle plan in their hands, and then he and Chief of Staff Liu Gengyun beside him glanced at each other with a tacit understanding, and then said: "Everyone, I, Cai Ye, have fought a lifetime of victory, and there is no other trick, only that no matter how weak the enemy is or how strong the enemy is, we must pay attention to it." The southeast theater is all mountainous, and there is very little room for our army's armored troops to play, so this battle is destined to be mostly a white-knuckle bloody battle from the beginning, and great sacrifices are inevitable. I hope that you will all be prepared for anything, and that there will be no defeat of the arrogant army. This time, the emperor personally telegraphed to me, the battle in the southeast must not be lost, and now the overall situation is extremely favorable to us, as long as you do not make low-level mistakes, you will be able to sweep the army, if you still have some mistakes in such a situation, defeated by arrogant soldiers and mistakes in preparation, you will be severely punished. ”

After a slight pause, he ruthlessly picked up the teacup next to him and drank tea, and then added: "The emperor's meaning is very clear, whether it is the empire, or the military department and the cabinet, the country has made all efforts for you, you are a generation of famous generals, famous in history, defeat is the sinner of the nation who missed the opportunity, there are thousands of troops but not even the scum of the Imperial CSKA, whether it is important or not, you weigh it yourself, don't think that you will be able to achieve fame if you sit in this position." If you dare to slack off during this time, there is no regret medicine to take. ”

Cai Ye is not the kind of person with a rough surname like Chen Wu, but he is also a very tough old man, he was on top of the emperor for the cavalry, and his seniority, prestige and merits in the army are not comparable to Liu Gengyun, let alone Fu Zuoyi and others here.

He said this with a straight face and so ruthlessly, which still put a lot of pressure on everyone here.

If there is another person, Zhao Tingzhu and Zhang Yahu, two tougher senior army generals, the effect may be even more powerful, and "prestige" is still a very powerful thing in the army.

These senior generals are actually very powerful, very able to sit on the scene, Fu Zuoyi, Zhang Zizhong's qualifications are not even worthy of lifting shoes in front of them, and one level lower than Jiang Fangzhen, Cai Yi, Zhao Tingzhu, Zhang Yahu, and Chen Qicai are Zhang Jun, Liu Gengyun, Han Chunlin, and in the early years, there were Zhang Xianren, Xiao Xingheng, Wang Tingzhen, Wu Luzhen...... This group has basically retired, and the five who remained, Jiang Cai, Zhao, Zhang and Chen, all have particularly high military merits and prestige, and their role is to be in the national defense force.

To put it mildly, when Cai Ye was promoted to lieutenant general, none of the commanders present were school officers, and Zhang Zizhong's qualifications were relatively deep, and he was a lieutenant at that time.

Cai Ye did not slap the table and scold loudly, but he had such a cold face and said a few heavy words, even Fu Zuoyi and Zhang Zizhong felt that they couldn't sit still, while Cai Ye continued to glance around indifferently.

In fact, Cai Ye was also very worried in his heart.

A few days ago, he went to inspect Chen Wu's Fourth Group Army, and discussed with Chen Wu about the Southeast Campaign; Chen Wu fought very well with the Yue Army in those years, and although Chen Wu's combat achievements in that period were very beautiful, Chen Wu was still extremely impressed by the brave and desperate formation of the Yue Army in those years.

Chen Wu's suggestion to Cai Ye is to suppress the scene, and to be more fully prepared, and if a bloody battle really starts in the southeast theater, the casualties may be very large.

In addition to Chen Wu, Emperor Song and Zhao Tingzhu also sent a telegram to Cai Yi, telling him to be careful that the army used the special terrain of the mountain theater to launch a counterattack.

Especially the emperor's telegram, which made Cai Yi's nerves very tense.

Seeing that there was silence in the conference room, Liu Gengyun said to Zhang Zizhong: "You all make a statement!" ”

Zhang Zizhong immediately got up and said: "Please rest assured that the chief of staff and the chief of staff will do our best to never let the army slip through the net." ”

Fu Zuoyi, Wei Lihuang and others also hurriedly got up and said together: "Please rest assured that Commander-in-Chief Cai and Chief of Staff Liu." ”

Liu Gengyun said with a smile: "It is precisely because I am not at ease that I and the commander-in-chief are going to hold this meeting, your ability is definitely no problem, there is no problem with our military deployment and preparation, and there is no problem with tactical planning and design, now I am more worried that you are afraid that you will underestimate the enemy because of the previous successive victories, and fight on the ground, the army is not our opponent at all, and we are not worthy of lifting shoes, this is not an exaggeration, but in the mountain battle, they are still very powerful, have certain specialties, and dare to fight, Therefore, we must be cautious, strategically, we can despise the book, there is nothing to be afraid of the small book, tactically, we must attach great importance to the book, strive to do our best in every battle and all the energy of our lives, and strive to fight every battle very beautifully. ”

"Yes!"

Fu Zuoyi and the others agreed again.

Chief of Staff Liu Gengyun then motioned for everyone to sit down, and added with feeling: "Ladies and gentlemen, most of you are my students and old departments, I will say a few more words here, Commander-in-Chief Cai and I have been in the army all our lives, and we have not tasted defeat, and now that this war is over, we are about to officially retire, so I hope that you must be cautious, make sure to show your talents, be more cautious and prepared, and let me and Commander-in-Chief Cai have the opportunity to retire with dignity." ”

He and Cai Ye are quite a bit of your ** face, and I sing the taste of white face, one hard and one soft.

After listening to Liu Gengyun's words, Fu Zuoyi, Wei Lihuang, Liu Yazhao and others were quite emotional in their hearts, the years are not forgiving, and the senior generals have finally reached the moment to leave the Central Army, if they really leave, the era of the Continental Army may come to an end.

At present, the status of the navy and the air force in the Central Military Department has been unprecedentedly enhanced, and although the army has won a great victory in Seoul in the past, it still cannot be compared with several great victories of the navy, and the focus of the whole country's attention is indeed the navy, and the establishment of the Marine Corps has also been expanded again and again.

Cai Ye actually has this sense of crisis, but he has suffered losses from the cavalry before, and now it is inconvenient to say anything, he and Liu Gengyun said: "We won't talk about other gossip, let's hurry up and talk about tactical planning." ”

Liu Gengyun bowed slightly, got up and walked to the wall where the command and operation map was hung, picked up the baton and pointed to the location of Daegu, and said to everyone: "The plan of the chaotic arrows this time is the tactics of two strong attacks and two coordinated attacks, and at the overall strategic level, we will pursue rapid advance, occupy Daegu, cut off the connection between the various scattered positions on the front line of the Japanese army and the command headquarters, and cut off the supply lines of the Japanese army. When the First Army and the Third Army broke through to the Gumi Division within a week of the start of the campaign, the focus of the army's defense was in the area of Seongju and Qigu in the upper reaches of the Nakdong River, and it was expected that a large-scale offensive and defensive battle would take place here that would determine the turn of the whole campaign, and the terrain here was extremely unfavorable for our army's motor vehicles, so our army adopted a new type of equipment, that is, dismantling the turret structure on the basis of the light tank T15, and erecting only a heavy machine gun, which could ensure the rapid advance of this armored vehicle by greatly reducing the weight. Under the condition that the road conditions are suitable, although the infantry fighting vehicles can pass, but considering the forward insertion and cooperation without tanks, as well as the narrow road conditions, the order of the Central Military Department is to give up the main combat status of armored fighting vehicles, which means that the damage of the front-line troops will be heavier, and the air force will give more support, and the navy will also carry out a more comprehensive and frequent blockade of the strait in the near future, so as to prevent the army from giving sufficient supplies to the troops dispatched by the army. ”

The commanders quietly listened to the explanation of Chief of Staff Liu Gengyun, and each other had already prepared in their hearts, because the terrain was too complicated, and the process of continuing to advance to the east was not suitable for mechanized troops at all, and even the advancement of the MT22 light tank became very difficult, so they could only take an extreme way to dismantle the turret of some retired T15 tanks to reduce the weight as much as possible, so that it could become an armored vehicle that could pass freely in this complex mountain environment.

Of course, the Imperial Centre Army is not afraid of this kind of terrain, it can only be said that fighting in such terrain, the gap between the Imperial Army and the Imperial Army will be greatly narrowed, in order to enhance the superiority in equipment and tactics, the main countermeasures of the Empire are to strengthen the armament of assault rifles and rocket launchers, including the peculiar equipment of tracked rocket artillery in the finalization of rocket artillery vehicles.

In addition, the Reich transferred more of the task of storming the pillboxes and positional defenses to the Air Force, which was carried out by the Air Force's attack aircraft G2\205, while the main ground attack weapons were aviation rockets, incendiary bombs, and 25mm caliber aviation guns.

However, this combat method has only been conducted in Fujian a few exercises before, and the Central Military Department does not have a great grasp of this, and if the actual results are not very satisfactory, in the end it can only continue to rely on the brave struggle of the soldiers and the front-line command of the grassroots officers.

Liu Gungyun has no time to deal with these things now, all he can do is to distribute the combat tasks in more detail, no matter how the commanders of the group armies carry out, no matter how many sacrifices and casualties will be paid at that time, they must also take Daegu, the first group army and the third group army must complete the division at Gumi within three days after the battle plan is launched, plus the strength of the 14 newly formed infantry regiments to forcibly break through the defense line of the Yue army in Qigu and Seongju, and take Daegu within a week, otherwise, The whole plan will fail.

Prior to this, Liu Gengyun and Cai Ye had already discussed various remedies in the event of a failure to break through Daegu, and there were still many solutions, but they hoped that such a situation would not occur.

Another noteworthy point in the Random Arrow Plan is that the two airborne divisions of the Air Force will be dispatched, but the wartime command of these two divisions will still be handed over to the Northeast National Defense Force, and Cai Ye will personally command and dispatch them, and they will also participate in the Battle of Daegu at that time.

After explaining all the battle plans to the lieutenant generals, Liu Gengyun put down his baton, walked back to the conference table, and said: "The battle of Daegu is very important, and our army must not make any mistakes. The Central Military Department has already issued a warning to the Chinese army through some channels that if the Chinese army uses chemical weapons, we will inevitably retaliate with chemical weapons; at present, some poison gas bombs have been delivered to Jeju Island, and we can launch a retaliatory war at any time, but we still have to make all preparations as much as possible to prevent the military dogs from jumping over the wall and using poison gas bombs. ”

Hearing this, everyone was not very surprised, there have been rumors that the army may use chemical weapons, and some mustard gas bombs have been found in the ammunition depot of the army when they captured Seoul.

Chemical warfare is not terrible, as long as the degree of prevention is high, the vigilance is high, the troops are unlikely to suffer serious trauma, the Imperial Army has always had long-term research and investment in this area, and is not afraid of fighting chemical warfare with any country, and the Empire can attack the homeland of the country, which is a great advantage, and it is also a difficult pressure for the Empire.

Because it was related to the success or failure of the entire campaign, the current operational meeting was held for a very long time, and Cai Yi, Liu Gengyun, and the commanders of the following group armies discussed together for nearly two hours, and the situation on the front line was ever-changing, and it was impossible for Wei Lihuang and others to stay in Seoul for a long time, so they would take the opportunity to return to the garrison areas tomorrow and hold another meeting in the evening to discuss it.

It was not until about 0:00 in the evening that the commanders and chiefs of staff of the various group armies went back to rest, and the senior army general Cai Ye suddenly asked him to stay alone before Fu Zuoyi was about to leave.

When the other generals, including Liu Gengyun, left, there were only two people left in the conference room, Cai Ye and Fu Zuoyi, Cai Ye personally got up and made a new cup of hot tea for Fu Zuoyi, and invited Fu Zuoyi to sit down with him and talk about something.

Fu Zuoyi hurriedly took the teacup and said, "How dare you bother the commander-in-chief." ”

Cai Ye said: "You are the first among the protégés of the Son of Heaven, and you are also the first to be promoted to the rank of general in this first session, and now you may also be the first to be promoted to the rank of general, so you can see how much the emperor and the chief of the general staff of the military department Jiang love you." ”

Fu Zuoyi was still very proud of this in his life, but in front of Cai Yi, a senior general of the older generation, he didn't dare to have any arrogance, and immediately replied very modestly: "Thanks to the emperor's love, there is no way to repay it, only to die to serve the territory." ”

Cai Ye felt that it was very reasonable to bow slightly, and then said: "Since you have such an awareness and know that the emperor treats you very kindly, you must seize this opportunity, among all the generals, only you have the highest arrogance, which is a good thing and a bad thing." To tell you the truth, the First Army you led was not the elite ace of the Imperial Army, and compared to the Army, I thought it had no advantage except for being well-equipped. Therefore, you should be most cautious in leading such troops to fight the toughest battles. ”

Fu Zuoyi felt a little bad slightly, and continued to reply: "What the commander-in-chief said is very true. ”

Cai Yi's expression was solemn.

He didn't go to the First Army to inspect, but Liu Gengyun did, and after coming back, he had a lot of complaints, Liu Gengyun's feeling was that the First Army was a little slack, and it was the same thing to say that Fu Zuoyi was strict in governing the army, but what Liu Gengyun felt from top to bottom was another kind of indescribable impetuousness.

Such a discovery made Liu Gengyun feel very bad.

So in this whole day, Cai Ye carefully observed Fu Zuoyi and Liu Yazhao, and the basic judgment was that Fu Zuoyi himself was a bit of a light enemy.

At this point, it is impossible for the problems of equipment and soldiers to change greatly, and the commanders are also fixed, and the only difference is that it is very important to see from the mentality of the commanders and the officers and men, whether they can withstand difficulties, and whether they can have the spirit of daring to fight.

Cai Yi, Chen Wu, and Zhang Yahu, a group of senior generals, are very concerned about the mental state of the troops, and perhaps Fu Zuoyi himself feels that there is no problem with his troops, that is, he is eager to fight and make meritorious contributions, but in Cai Yi's view, he is impetuous.

For a senior general like Fu Zuoyi, Cai Ye had some things that were too ugly to say, so he could only tell Fu Zuoyi again: "You must be cautious, don't stumble, it doesn't matter if you lose your reputation and military prestige, the emperor's affection can't be lost." You should not look down on the army, they are still very powerful in some areas and in some specific environments. ”

Fu Zuoyi still bowed his head silently, but felt that Cai Ye and Liu Gengyun were a little too worried, maybe they were both old, anxious to retire, they couldn't afford to lose, and their mentality was too conservative.

Cai Yi saw that he seemed to have accepted his suggestion, so he stopped here, and asked Fu Zuoyi to go back to rest early, and take the plane to return to the Cheongju garrison of the First Army tomorrow morning.

Fu Zuoyi has always been recognized as a very strict lieutenant general in the National Defense Forces, and he is known for his extremely strict military training, upright management of the army, and his uprightness and severity of his conduct, and his in-depth study of positional warfare, especially defensive warfare, has won the praise of high-level Jiang Fangzhen, Chen Qicai, and others, and the Song Emperor has also personally favored it.

People always change.

With the deepening of prestige, qualifications and connections, Fu Zuoyi himself also has the feeling of being the first general under the senior general, he thinks so, and the people below him also generally feel this sense of pride, especially after the previous two big victories, Fu Zuoyi is also more and more proud.

In front of Cai Yi and these people, he is still very restrained, but this can no longer be regarded as the real him.

(To be continued)