Chu Jingming smiled slightly and said, "Our brother, you are still polite to me." ”

As soon as Chu Jingming's words fell, Yali trotted over with a telegram in her hand, and saluted Qiao Anbang with her proud breasts on the ground: "Headquarters, the military committee is calling." ”

"Huh? Military? Qiao Anbang didn't react for a while, after all, he was a traversal, and it was impossible for some organs and departments to remember the national political axe so clearly.

"Well, it's the Military Council of the National Revolutionary Army." Yali nodded and explained.

"Oh? What is the content of the message? Qiao Anbang asked with relief.

"The telegram said that after discussion and decision by the Military Committee, you will be awarded the rank of lieutenant general of the army, and I will be reorganized into the National Revolutionary Army's Reading Tiger Army, and the rest of the officers at all levels will be awarded official military ranks according to their positions! In recognition of the brilliant achievements of our department! Yali read the message.

As soon as Yali said this, everyone present was in an uproar, and they all said excitedly: "Great, we are all going to be promoted." ”

"Congratulations to the general on being promoted to lieutenant general."

"Congratulations to the general ......," everyone congratulated Qiao Anbang one after another.

Qiao Anbang couldn't help frowning, how could he, who was a human being, not see the strangeness in this.

However, if you think about it carefully, this matter is not all bad, at least you can recruit soldiers justifiably in the future, after all, the national political axe is still the legal political axe of China, and the positions and troop numbers they grant are always more convincing than their self-proclaimed ones.

After thinking about it, Qiao Anbang made up his mind and said to Yali: "Call back to the Military Commission, Qiao Anbang will definitely lead all the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army to fight hard to kill the enemy and serve the country!" ”

"Yes!" Yali answered, and then turned to leave.

Seeing Yali leave, Chu Jingming just wanted to say goodbye and leave, but suddenly, a guard rushed in and saluted Qiao Anbang and said, "General seat, an officer came from the other side, claiming to be the liaison officer of the 11th Group Army, saying that you have something important to discuss with the general seat." ”

Hearing this, Qiao Anbang glanced at Chu Jingming and the others, and couldn't help but smile indifferently: "Big brother, it seems that you don't have to go to the north bank, the 11th Group Army sent people at this time, which means that they are more anxious than us." ”

"This group of kings and eight calves, when we were fighting with the devils, they didn't show up, and now that we have won the battle, they are running to get a piece of the soup, what a fucking bastard!" Li Jupeng, the commander of the third division, said indignantly.

"This is also a reasonable thing, it just so happens that we are going north to Xuzhou, and Huainan will be handed over to them anyway, and now they have taken the initiative to come, so it will save us business." Qiao Anbang now just wants to quickly get rid of the mess in Huainan, and then go north to Xuzhou to participate in the Battle of Taierzhuang.

In fact, the situation in Huainan seems to be good in a short period of time, but Qiao Anbang knows that it will not be long before the army will definitely increase its troops on a large scale, and it will inevitably make a comeback and launch a large-scale retaliatory attack, so even if the 11th Army takes over Fengyang now, or recovers Dingyuan and other important Huainan towns, then it will not be long before the devil will be driven back to the north bank like a duck again.

After making up his mind, Qiao Anbang immediately said to the guard, "Please let him in." ”：

"Yes!" The guards rushed forward and immediately turned and took the order.

It didn't take long for the guards to lead a [***] officer in a colonel's uniform to walk in, with a square face, a slightly fat figure, and a pair of narrow eyes that revealed an extraordinary essence.

As soon as he came to the front, the colonel's officer stood up with his head held high and saluted Qiao Anbang and said, "The liaison officer of the colonel of the 11th Group Army, Wang Quanquan, is good, sir!" ”

Li Jupeng and others behind Qiao Anbang were quite disdainful, and secretly ridiculed, bah, return the king's power, this name is really fucking unpleasant.

Qiao Anbang returned the salute quietly, nodded calmly, and said, "Well, Liaison Officer Wang, why are you here today?" ”

Wang Quan said a little arrogantly: "On the orders of General Li Pinxian, commander-in-chief of the 11th Group Army, I came to express my condolences to your department!" ”

Wang Quanquan's voice fell, and Li Jupeng preemptively said: "I don't know what condolences Commander Li asked Liaison Officer Wang to bring us?" Is it the ocean, or is it guns and ammunition? ”

"This ......" Wang Quanquan obviously didn't expect someone to ask this question in the rescue [***], obviously didn't know how to answer, and was embarrassed for a while.

Qiao Anbang didn't want to make a feud with Li Pinxian, because there was really no need for that, so he immediately said: "On behalf of me, I would like to express my gratitude to Liaison Officer Wang for saving [***], and ask Liaison Officer Wang to convey his thanks to Commander Li on my behalf!" ”

"The chief is polite, the humble post will definitely be, it will be." Wang Quanquan looked at Qiao Anbang very gratefully and nodded.

"By the way, sir, the humble official came here this time, and he also brought some suggestions from Commander Li!" The king has power.

"Oh? Please speak, listen to the contemptible! Qiao Anbang gestured with a solemn hand.

"In view of the continuous fighting of your troops, the soldiers should be very tired, our Commander Li suggests that our 11th Army take over your troops to garrison Fengyang County, and ask Chief Qiao to lead your troops back to the north shore to rest!" The king had the right to reveal the true purpose of his trip.

Qiao Anbang was a little amused in his heart, but on the surface, he still pretended to be silent for a moment, and then said: "Dissatisfied with the liaison officer Wang, I am planning to lead my troops north to Xuzhou to participate in the Battle of Taierzhuang, if your department is willing to take over our troops to garrison Fengyang, it will be better." ”

"Really!" Wang Quanquan didn't expect Qiao Anbang to say this, and he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Of course, if Commander Li has no opinion, he can lead his troops across the river to hand over the defense with our troops now!" Qiao Anbang nodded.

"Okay, report this news to Commander Li immediately!" The king had the right to say that he wanted to leave.

"Wait, before Liaison Officer Wang leaves, Qiao has one more thing to say." Qiao Anbang raised his hand to stop him.

"Sir, please." The king has the right to solemnize his hand.

"Please Liaison Officer Wang tell Commander Li that now that the army in the Huainan region is weak, Commander Li can take the opportunity to recover the lost territories such as Dingyuan, Mingguang, and Shouxian!" Qiao Anbang said indifferently.

"Please rest assured, sir, the humble post will definitely convey the words to Commander Li." Wang Quanquan said and saluted Qiao Anbang, "I have resigned from my humble position." ”

Qiao Anbang saluted back and said, "Go slowly!" Gensheng, send the liaison officer Wang for me. ”

………………………………………… Huaibei, headquarters of the 11th Army.

Wang Quanquan recounted Qiao Anbang's words to Li Pinxian word for word, Li Pinxian was surprised after listening to it, and asked in disbelief: "Is that really what Qiao Anbang said?" ”

"Hmmm! That's what he said. The king replied with a nod of authority.

"Great." Li Pinxian was in a good mood, and immediately said: "Order the troops to cross the river immediately!" ”

"Yes!" Wang Quan hurriedly stepped forward and immediately turned around and took the order.

In the afternoon, Li Pinxian led the main force of the 11th Group Army to cross the Huai River to the south, and smoothly handed over the county seat of Fengyang County, while Qiao Anbang led the main force of the rescue [***] to cross the river to the north, and after crossing the Huai River, the whole army galloped along the Xubang Highway in the direction of Xuzhou.

As for Chu Jingming, he also took the surviving more than 200 soldiers to Xuzhou with Qiao Anbang's rescue, Chu Jingming didn't have the slightest nostalgia for the 11th Group Army, and he didn't want to stay and be used as cannon fodder by the 11th Group Army again.

Although Li Pinxian was a little reluctant to Chu Jingming's departure, he was reluctant to stay, after all, Qiao Anbang gave him a great benefit, that is, to recover the lost land in Huainan, compared to these, Chu Jingming was insignificant.

…………………… At the same time that Qiao Anbang led his troops to advance to Xuzhou, the situation on the battlefield of the northern front of Xuzhou also underwent a major change.

First of all, the Fifth Theater has been reinforced by tens of thousands of elite troops who have been successfully withdrawn from the defense of Nanjing, and its strength has been further strengthened, and the strength of the Chinese Army has also increased; in addition to the original Fifth Division and the 10th Division, the 14th Division and two mixed brigades have been added to the Chinese Army, with a total strength of nearly 150,000 troops, accounting for as much as half of the total strength of the North China Front Army.

It can be seen that the army attached great importance to the battle of Xuzhou, due to the increase in the strength of the army, the fifth theater suddenly felt the pressure doubled, on the east road, after the fifth division of the army received reinforcements, the offensive became extremely rapid, all the way like a bamboo, successively defeated several divisions, and had the momentum of defeating Yan Xishan and Wei Lihuang hundreds of thousands of horses in one fell swoop in Shanxi.

General Li Zongren, commander-in-chief of the Fifth Theater of Operations, urgently dispatched General Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army to rush to Linfen's aid.

On the west road, the 10th Division of the Sichuan Army has captured Teng County, and Liu Mingzhang's troops of the Sichuan Army blocked the 10th Division for three days at the cost of all the deaths.

Xuzhou, the headquarters of the commander of the Fifth Theater of Operations.

In the headquarters, there was an endless stream of communications personnel coming and going, and General Li Zongren, accompanied by his old partner Bai Chongxi, was frowning in front of the map. Although General Li Zongren had already drawn up a battle plan for the Battle of Taierzhuang to lure the enemy into depth, due to the increase in the number of troops of the Yue Army, the original ambush troops were already a little powerless to eat the 10th Division of the Yue Army.

Li Zongren sighed and said, "Jiansheng, you said that we only prepared one table of dishes, and now there are two tables of guests, how can this be good?" ”

Bai Chongxi also frowned, and then said: "Duke De, the current plan is to transfer Li Pinxian's 11th Group Army and the 25th Group Army on the southern line to rush north and rush to the aid of Taierzhuang, otherwise Sun Lianzhong's group alone will not be able to block the attack of the Yue Army, let alone cooperate with Tang Enbo's department to eat the 10th Division." ”

"But the distance between the two places is nearly 500 miles, even if Li Pinxian's troops march in a hurry, they can't catch up without three or five days, and in three or five days, the army should have reached the city of Xuzhou a long time ago." Li Zongren said with a worried face.

(To be continued)