-- Chongqing

Jiang Zhong, Bai Chongxi and He Yingqin sat together and discussed the battle in Nanchang.

"Although the Ganjiang Bridge was blown up, the situation of our army and the Japanese army has not changed much, at most a week, Nanchang will be lost, the only thing we can do now is how to hold the rest of Jiangxi, after all, Jiangxi is mountainous, and it is still more beneficial for our army's defense." Bai Chongxi made a brief analysis and changed the theme of today's meeting to post-war defense.

Jiang Zheng shook his head and said, "Since the Battle of Wuhan and the Battle of Shanxi, there have been arguments in the international community that the Japanese army has no strength to attack again, and the people have no doubts about the final victory of the war. ”

He Ying sighed, "We have always thought that the Japanese army's ability is like that, and we still think that a major counteroffensive will start next year, but judging from the first battle of Nanchang, the gap between our army and the Japanese army is still very large, especially in terms of technical arms, which is extremely obvious." Tactically, it's also a little dull. ”

Jiang Zhong nodded and said, "But you can't look too highly at the enemy, the Japanese army is also a human being, and it has also fought defeats, this time Okamura Ningji took it by surprise and attacked our army with mechanized troops, but Jiangxi is a mountainous area, and their logistics and supplies must not be able to keep up, which can be seen from the fact that their tank troops were stranded in Fengxin for two days." Therefore, what I mean is to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Japanese army, concentrate the main forces, and fight him a counterattack, even if it cannot defeat Nanchang, the Japanese army will lose more than it gains. ”

Bai Chongxi and He Yingqin glanced at each other, and after thinking about it for a while, Bai Chongxi said, "If the commission must be like this, it is best to let the youth army go up, Xue Yue's troops have just been defeated, and most of them do not have much will to fight, and letting such troops counterattack can only increase casualties." ”

Youth Army? Jiang Zhong squinted at Bai Chongxi, of course he knew how many people talked about letting ****** form a youth army. A person who has never led soldiers and fought in a war has now become a prince, as well as an independent army system and much better equipment than most of the national army, all of which makes people red, if it weren't for ****** is his eldest son, I'm afraid that the Whampoa department will also make trouble, and let the youth army go into battle, which is nothing more than trying to consume the strength of the ******, and second, to win the war. If there is any defeat, you can take the opportunity to make trouble and ask ****** to hand over the military power.

Jiang Intermediary regretted that he was too anxious to let ****** start leading the troops, but at the same time, he felt that this was a good opportunity.

Jiang Zhong finally nodded and shook his head and said, "The youth army is still too immature, and it is not appropriate for them to act as the main force, but you can also go up and exercise it, well, just try it first, if it doesn't work, then change to other troops that have been repaired." ”

This sentence turned the main attack of the Youth Army into a delay in time. So that the real main force may come up.

Bai Chongxi did not force it, but said, "The Japanese army is concentrated in Jiangxi, which makes the strength of other regions weak, and I don't think it can only move in Jiangxi." Hubei, Henan and other places also had to cooperate in the operation, attacking and disrupting the war, and focusing on Okamura Ningji's 11th Army, so that he could not increase his troops in Jiangxi. So that our counteroffensive will be successful. ”

Hearing Bai Chongxi's plan, He Yingqin and Jiang Intermediary both nodded in agreement, and Jiang Intermediary asked, "Where do you think it is more appropriate?" ”

Bai Chongxi scratched the map and said, "Here." Although the Fifth Theater has a large and complex military system, uneven combat effectiveness, and a relatively lack of heavy weapons, it can do a good job of attacking and harassing the Japanese army by relying on favorable terrain. And the Townenburg Department has also been transferred here, which can just come in handy. ”

The fifth war zone is the war zone led by Li Zongren, although Jiang Zhong is a little uninterested in Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi who have been watching and helping each other, but he has to admit Li Zongren's combat strength, nodded and said, "Okay, that's it!" ”

Bai Chongxi then continued: "If you want to counterattack, then you must be fast, I think it is best to launch a counteroffensive within this week, in addition, the counteroffensive should also pay attention to strategy, the biggest weakness of the Japanese army now is that the assault is too fast, and the logistics are unstable, I suggest that the first surprise troops cut off the connection between the Japanese army in Nanchang and Jiujiang to prevent the Japanese reinforcements." Then attack Nanchang. ”

Jiang Zhong nodded endlessly, and constantly discussed the details with Bai Chongxi.

-- Provisional Headquarters of the Ninth Theater of Operations in Jiangxi

Xue Yue felt the coolness of the rainy day, but his heart was like a furnace, what a nest!! The 200,000 troops of the Ninth War Zone were driven 200 miles like ducks, recalling the complacent ambition when Wanjialing won the victory last year, and the resentment in Xue Yue's heart was even more indescribable.

"Commander, call from Chongqing." A staff officer said to Xue Yue.

Xue Yue opened his eyes and said, sat upright and said, "Take it." ”

Xue Yue looked at it for a while, nodded and said, "The commission knows me, the commission knows me!" Opportunity Opportunity!! ”

Wu Yizhi next to him asked, "Commander, what did the commission say?" ”

Xue Yue sent him a telegram and said: "The commission indicates that the defeat in this battle is that the first defeat is complacent, the second defeat is due to intelligence mistakes, and the third defeat is due to incomplete armaments. Let's sum up the lessons, prepare for a counterattack, hand over all the youth army to our command, and send Shangguan Yunxiang of the third theater to support us, and ask us to take back Nanchang! And in five days the counteroffensive will begin. ”

Wu Yizhi shook his head and said, "This is too difficult, with those hundreds of heavy artillery, it will be difficult for us to rush through." ”

Xue Yue pointed to the sky and said, "So, didn't God come to help us?" Now it's raining heavily, the devil's logistics must not be able to come up, and the plane can't take off, they have been rushing for so long, and they shouldn't have much baggage, but it's a good time to fight back. And now that Nanchang has not been completely lost, we do have a chance. ”

"Report" An officer covered in mud walked in with two guards.

"What's going on? Which unit are you from? Xue Yue asked nervously.

"The humble post belongs to the 79th Army, Nanchang is lost, I broke the army to the end, after all, outnumbered, General Wang Yujiu was martyred" The officer said intermittently, in just a few words, you can hear the tragedy of this battle.

Xue Yue sighed, patted him on the shoulder, asked him to go down, and sat down in his position with some hesitation.

"Commander, what's wrong with you? Do you have other ideas about a counteroffensive? Wu Yizhi asked.

Xue Yue nodded and said, "If a part of Nanchang is in our hands, we still have a good chance of winning the counterattack." But now it's all lost, the Japanese army still has the railroad as the backing, although the youth army is well trained, but after all, it has not been on the battlefield, and our troops have a lot of recruits, so I am a little worried that the gains will outweigh the losses. ”

Wu Yizhi also agreed when he heard this, and said: "In that case, why didn't the commander telegraph to the chairman of the committee to inform us of our worries?" ”

Xue Yue shook his head and said, "I can't say it, I was originally a victorious general, so naturally I can have different opinions with the commission, but now I am a lost dog." If I speak now, it will only become evidence of timidity, so let's fight. Let the youth army come to me, who is their commander? ”

"It's Hu Lian's kid, he is now the commander of the 201st Division. In addition, there is a division led by Ma Weilong, the two divisions are a total of 20,000 horses, I have been to see it, and the guns are complete. The commission is a cost. Wu Yizhi said with a sigh, his words full of envy.

Xue Yue snorted, "Isn't this good? It's all in our hands, and the old man sent a youth army to tell us. If the Youth Army is defeated in the first battle, our sin may be much greater than the loss of Nanchang."

-- Ganzhou

Jiang Cheng saw that ****** was fine, and his heart was also half determined. In the underground fortifications in Ganzhou, he and ****** chatted while waiting for the battle report. Strange things, Jiang Cheng is from the future, there is all kinds of mess in his mind, and the two of them have a lot of chat.

"Childe, the commission has ordered our youth army to go north, Hu Lian and Ma Weilong have already taken their troops to hand over to Xue Yue, and the commission seems to be preparing for a counterattack." Wang Sheng walked in with a smile and said.

Listening to it, my eyes lit up, "Oh? The commission wants to counterattack? That's great, Gu Quan, do you hear that? We're going on the counteroffensive. ”

Jiang Cheng shook his head and said, "Jianfeng, this is just preparing for a war, not winning, and I am not optimistic about this battle." ”

Hurriedly asked, "Why?" Is it because the combat effectiveness of our youth army is not enough? ”

Jiang Cheng patted ****** shoulder and said, "The combat effectiveness is absolutely enough, but our youth army is only 30,000, and the Japanese army has 100,000, even if there is a loss along the way, there are still 70,000 or 80,000, we are one to one, then there is also a shortage of 40,000, and the other troops have just been defeated, you know, the battle of Wuhan, our national army has already changed half of its blood, most of them are recruits who have just been trained for less than two or three months, where will the spirit recover so quickly, so I am not optimistic." ”

Hearing this, he couldn't help but feel that there was some truth, and he shook his head again and said, "Wei Zuo, Xue Yue and the others must also know, since they dare to fight, there must be a reason, let's not guess." ”

Jiang Cheng nodded and passed perfunctorily.

Suddenly, ****** asked, "Brother Gu Quan, why do you think Yan'an can continue to fight and win with the Japanese army?" Aren't they also recruits? We've been training for at least two or three months, and as far as I know, most of them are farmers who have just put down their hoes. ”

Jiang Cheng smiled and said, "You have also been in the Soviet Union for so long, don't you know the secret of the Red Party?" In fact, except for our youth army and a few units in the national army, the people in the other units were all confused and did not know what they should do. Such a soldier, do you believe that he can win? ”

He thought about it in a low voice and said, "We must find the secret, find a strong way, what the Red Party can do, we will definitely be able to do it." ”

Jiang Cheng looked at ****** and stopped talking.

The heavy rain slowly stopped, accompanied by the rain was a young army dressed in black uniforms that had been dyed with mud, these young soldiers, under the command of officers at all levels, quietly crossed the mountains and mountains to advance behind the Japanese army, and in front of the Japanese army, the four group armies of Xue Yue and Shangguan Yunxiang were making final preparations.

At this time, among the four group armies under Xue Yue, there was a pre-fifth division composed entirely of Jiangxi locals, and in order to make the counterattack more smooth, Xue Yue asked this division to draw a regiment and secretly go to Nanchang and other places to lurk.

They changed into all kinds of clothes, hid rifles, grenades in rice bags, wood, and even coffins, and took advantage of the chaos before the war began, and infiltrated an entire regiment of soldiers into Nanchang under the protection of the local people along the way. None of the ordinary people along the way went to tell the Japanese, and they all watched their soldiers secretly cheer up.

Everything was ready, and seeing that the rain had completely stopped, Xue Yue nodded and said, "Let's start!" ”

The four group armies were divided into three routes, except for the 19th Group Army as a reserve, the other three routes launched attacks on Nanchang from three directions.

But what Xue Yue didn't expect was that the national army that had just launched the attack immediately hit a nail, it turned out that unlike other troops, Okamura Ningji had suffered a big loss in the hands of Xue Yue, so unlike other troops who did not pay attention to defense, the Eleventh Army attached great importance to the construction of fortifications, although due to the short time and the rain, it still insisted on building defensive positions, although they were all some simple field positions. But this was enough to withstand the Nationalist army, which did not even have artillery over 100 mm.

The battle had just begun, and it had entered a white-hot stage, with positions being repeatedly snatched one by one, and there were countless things like three losses and three gains. Most of the national army are new recruits, and many people only have a lot of blood, and they don't know how to protect themselves, kill and injure the enemy, and cause heavy casualties, but the high-level officers know that the youth army is sneaking behind the Japanese army, so they grit their teeth and hold on, waiting for the Japanese army to be unstable on their feet.

"What the hell is Xue Yue thinking? Does he think that such a strong attack can defeat us? Okamura Ninji thought incomprehensibly.

"Report, Yongxiu found traces of the National Army." A Japanese soldier came in and saluted.

"Huh? How many of them are there, and who leads them? What about armament? Okamura Ninji immediately asked.

"The number is unknown, but there are at least 20,000 people, better equipped, and the general of the National Army headed by Hu Lian." The messenger said immediately.

"Twenty thousand?" Okamura Ningji hurriedly bent down to look, and with a stroke of his finger, he said, "This is to cut off our back road, Xue Yue originally had such a plan." Okamura Ninji smiled slightly, he didn't believe that any army could hold his position under his attack.

"Report, urgent military intelligence." Another communication soldier came in and said, "Zaoyang is in a hurry, suddenly a large number of troops want to attack Zaoyang, and it is expected that the other party will be a group army." ”

Another person came in and said, "Xiangyang has called, and it is found that the main force of the Nationalist Army, about 30,000 people, is launching a tentative attack on Xiangyang. ”

"Yicheng called, the national army in Dahongshan suddenly came down the mountain to attack our army stationed at the foot of the mountain, and now it is fighting."

"Huainan called, the New Fourth Army suddenly launched an attack, killing a large number of grassroots officials of our army."

One telegram after another came, Okamura Ninji seemed to see a person smiling and arranging the battle situation, looking at himself, he waved his hand and said, "Order the troops from all over the country to defend on the spot, don't go out of the city, these are all feints, in order to attract our attention, the real purpose of the enemy army is still Nanchang, and after the battle of Nanchang, these troops will automatically disperse." ”

(To be continued.) )