Bai Chongxi, as the deputy chief of staff, is the minister sent to Xuzhou by Chiang Kai-shek, of course, Bai Chongxi is very clear about his Gui identity, and Li Zongren is also a Gui family, so naturally he will not easily overstep his authority. You must know that Liu Yuan is not in Xuzhou at this time, and it is Li Zongren who is in charge. If you are in trouble, then Xuzhou will become a hall of words.

Speaking of the battlefield, Li Zongren felt a trace of bitterness in his heart, Linyi, which had worried him about dying, actually won, and as a result, the entire battlefield situation changed.

Especially the information sent by Dai Li, Matsui Ishine persuaded Terauchi Shouichi after the most reluctant, and the Military Intelligence Bureau failed to assassinate Matsui Ishine twice at this time, but instead lost many excellent agents.

And Ryosuke Isoya actually rushed to Linyi with a heavy army group because of an order from Shouyi Terauchi, and the 200,000 troops that had been assembled in Xuzhou could not get anything. It's a bit of a net fishing, but the fish turns their heads and leaves. This embarrassed everyone.

Zuo Quan was also very depressed, and said on the side, "This temple Shouyi's ability to resist pressure is also too poor, so he was scared away, just this guts, how did he become a general." ”

"You're still young, and when you reach our age, you'll understand what Shouichi Terauchi did for him, and what our personal honor and disgrace are compared to the victory in the war. Since this Matsui Shigen was defeated by Liu Yuan from Shanghai, he has been committed to the study of Liu Yuan's battle, and this has finally paid off, and our 200,000 troops have prepared in vain. Li Zongren said depressedly.

"Now, we can't hesitate, Lao Li, I think let's let the 35th Group Army start moving." Bai Chongxi looked at the map and said.

Bai Chongxi, as the coordinator, arrived in Xuzhou, and Zuo Quan told Bai Chongxi in detail about all the battle plans.

Of course, there is no first in Wen and no second in Wu, and Zuo Quan, as the best chief of staff under Liu Yuan, naturally looks down on Bai Chongxi.

But this identity is here, Zuo Quan has lived for such an age, and he is also a lot more sleek, and he knows how to reconcile the relationship between people. will not work against Bai Chongxi in the open.

As a senior, Bai Chongxi naturally felt the resentment of the young chief of staff in front of him in his heart, but Bai Chongxi naturally knew what the reason was. As the best chief of staff around Liu Yuan, he is very clear about his deeds.

Although Liu Yuan was the commander, when Liu Yuan led the army, his temper was not very good, and he often scolded his generals, and his generals often could not fully understand Liu Yuan's combat plans.

This Zuo Quan is Liu Yuan's first strategist, he can always know the intention of Liu Yuan's orders at the first time, and then spend a lot of time explaining to other generals, and it can be said that he is only second only to Nie Rongzhen under Liu Yuan.

Bai Chongxi has lived for such an age, and he is looked down upon by the juniors, so naturally he is not very happy, so after some thought, a strategic plan for the whole Annihilation of the Rock Valley Division was released. After Bai Chongxi said his strategic plan, he made the conceited Zuo Quan have to be impressed.

At the beginning of the campaign, the 35th Group Army of the Southwest Special Administrative Region began to operate, and the target of the attack was the 108th Division of the Jining generation. Let Ryosuke Isoya lose the possibility of getting reinforcements.

However, who would have thought that Shouichi Terauchi would be empty so quickly and let Ryosuke Isoya run with his troops, so Bai Chongxi thought that he could only launch the plan in advance.

"Ryosuke Isoya brought the news of the heavy army group's eastward advance, did you inform the auxiliary country?" Zuo Quan looked at the confident Bai Chongxi and asked, although he was impressed by Bai Chongxi, he definitely couldn't change his identity as the Southwest Army.

Li Zongren is an old man, he instantly understood Zuo Quan's thoughts, and the young chief of staff of the theater in front of him also has an identity.

That is the Chief of General Staff of the Southwest Special Administrative Region, Liu Yuan's boss in the southwest department, although he followed Liu Yuan to fight, his reputation is not obvious, and he is a full talent, but when he shows his momentum, Li Zongren obviously feels that he has a momentum that can compete with him.

No wonder the one who became the first chief of staff of the republic. But in Li Zongren's eyes, it seems that Liu Yuan is even more unfathomable. Being able to select such a talent among so many classmates, and Chiang Kai-shek did not find it, I have to say that Liu Yuan's ability to recognize people is really extraordinary.

The meaning of Li Zongren's words is obvious, the 35th Group Army is the strategic group army of the Southwest Special Administrative Region, the commander of the group army is nicknamed Dabeard, called He Long, Liu Yuan's favorite general, although he is old, but his talent and ability are the top in the southwest army, and he is also a general who Liu Yuan dares to entrust with big things.

Although he was left in the Xuzhou area, without Liu Yuan's order, Li Zongren or Chiang Kai-shek would definitely not be able to transfer a single soldier from him.

"Chief of Staff, notify the commander immediately." Li Zongren's face was a little blushing, before he had been in command of the Gui troops, and he could use this there.

Zuo Quan saw Li Zongren's unhappiness, but after all, it is not a family now, and some things must be clearly distinguished, so he resigned.

Seeing his old friend's cautious appearance, Bai Chongxi felt a little dissatisfied in his heart, Liu Yuan was the one who wanted to take another step, how could he be so ungraceful.

"Lao Li, you are too careful, you have to inform him of this matter, you are the deputy commander of the theater, you still have this right."

Bai Chongxi still knows what Li Zongren is worried about, and now during the National War, Liu Yuan naturally won't have too many opinions on Li Zongren's mobilization of his troops, he is most likely afraid that there will be omissions in his strategic plan, so he asked Liu Yuan to pick up the gaps, in Bai Chongxi's opinion, Li Zongren doesn't trust himself, but this kind of thing is embarrassed to say it directly.

"Lao Bai, you don't know what to do, Liu Yuan's bearing is no problem, I transfer his troops, he will not have an opinion, but he is the person closest to the front line, so he has the most complete information about the Japanese army, we need his opinion, the most important one, he is the highest military commander in the theater, the transfer of so many troops, if you don't tell him, there will be problems." Li Zongren is not a pure soldier, when he thinks about problems, he is much more responsible than Li Zongren, which is also the reason why Li Zongren is at the helm of the Gui family.

Bai Chongxi thought for a while, what Li Zongren said was right, as the commander of the theater of operations, he really couldn't leave him behind, otherwise it would be difficult to explain the matter to Chiang Kai-shek.

"Order General Gu Zhu of the 24th Group Army (I personally think that the most handsome old man under Chiang Kai-shek), and General Liu Zhi of the Second Group Army, launch a counterattack against the Isogu Division, and the 42nd Army counterattack on Tengxian, how to lose it, how to get it back, come if you want, leave if you want, really treat China as a hotel, this time you want to be ugly."

Bai Chongxi could be transferred to Xuzhou, it was naturally instructed by Chiang Kai-shek, Liu Yuan was in the war zone to cover the sky with one hand, Chiang Kai-shek was naturally a little worried, so he asked Bai Chongxi to go to Xuzhou, which was called co-ordination.

However, how could Bai Chongxi, the human spirit, not understand what Chiang Kai-shek meant, but Bai Chongxi's little Zhuge was not blown out, but commanded the troops.

He knew very well that he didn't have many opportunities to divide power with Liu Yuan in the war zone, as long as Liu Yuan returned to Xuzhou, he would be nothing, but if he could take advantage of Liu Yuan's failure to return to Xuzhou and fight a few beautiful battles, Chiang Kai-shek would not be able to say anything at that time.

Thinking of this, Bai Chongxi had to admire Liu Yuan's good foundation for himself in the war zone, so that he could easily win the weakness of Shouichi Terauchi.

Thinking of this, Bai Chongxi was worried about Liu Yuan for a while, such an excellent young man, I heard that his health has been bad, and he doesn't know how long Lu Dao can last. The old people are not all, since ancient times, famous generals are like beauties, and they do not make the world white.

In Bai Chongxi's opinion, Liu Yuan's weakness in the early stage is really great, it is simply a stroke of genius, so the troops of the temple Shouyi are scattered in such a vast area, which is equivalent to turning a fist into a slap, and the slap blows widely, but where is there such as a fist with explosive power?

The Second Group Army did not bring big losses at all, and General Gu Zhutong, as Liu Yuan's old partner, naturally did not hide his secrets, and the troops were not only full of more than 100,000 people, but also had very good combat effectiveness.

Especially the 42nd Army, it is said that Liu Yuan, in order to repay the battle in Songhu that year, Gu Zhutong's cooperation, specially gave a large amount of materials, bazookas, light machine guns, mortars, everything.

As long as General Gu Zhutong is not ashamed, gives some strength, and bites the little devil Isoya Liansuke, then the entire battlefield will be watched, so how to fight the battle in the later period depends on us Chinese.

Chiang Kai-shek also saw that the situation of the war began to develop for the better, so he dared to let himself mix sand, saying that mixing sand is not very appropriate, in the end, Chiang Kai-shek is still worried about Liu Yuan's age, too young, millions of party-state elites, gathered in the fifth theater, if he loses, Chiang Kai-shek can go into the wilderness. So Chiang Kai-shek really needs a person from the old city to help Liu Yuan look at the point and be conservative.

Hearing that the two group armies were pressed up, Li Zongren felt a little bottomless in his heart, why his partner was so crazy, it was uncomfortable enough to have a Liu Yuan, why was this Bai Chongxi even more arrogant.

"The Japanese have a large number of troops in North China and Northeast China, what if they transfer troops, have you thought about it?" Liu Yuan entrusted the matter of Xuzhou to Li Zongren, and Li Zongren was naturally extremely concerned.

Bai Chongxi seemed to have a long time ago, "There must be reinforcements, and even the transfer of troops on the mainland is not impossible." After speaking, Li Zongren smiled and took out an intelligence book, "This intelligence work is really a good thing, let's see if this is the intelligence book of the hidden pile, in which an intelligence officer proposed that the capacity of the Northern Railway is not the same level as the capacity of the Southern Railway, and we still have a large number of guerrillas behind them, they want to transport artillery and machine guns to the former Jinan or Qingdao, it is impossible without ten days, if we are fast enough and ruthless enough, even if there are reinforcements, it will be too late." ”

"Of course, it cannot be ruled out that Terauchi Shou will be ruthless and send two divisions or even three divisions, but that will take longer, at least more than half a month, and now half of China's air force is in the north, and our bombers are ready for loss."

Li Zongren glanced at his colleagues in the General Staff, this is the team that Liu Yuan left for him, all high-achieving students who graduated from the Wuhan branch and Southwest Military University.

After Bai Chongxi finished speaking, just five minutes later, a representative stood up and said, "Chief of Staff Bai Chongxi did not make any mistakes in his calculations. ”

After Li Zongren listened, he smiled and said, "How about it, although these little guys are not as smart as you, they are not bad." ”

"This Liu Yuan can come to this day, the staff team behind him can be said to be indispensable, but Liu Yuan is too brilliant and covers up their light, can it be said that in the same era as him, others are destined to have no chance to show their heads?" Bai Chongxi said with a sigh.

"Wrong, if there is a person alive, his light will definitely be as bright as Liu Yuan." Li Zongren shook his head and said.

"You mean Jiang Xianyun of Dabie Mountain." Bai Chongxi said clearly in an instant.

"Yes, what an excellent talent that is, just let that guy Zhang Zhizhong kill by mistake." Li Zongren also sighed.

"Lao Li, you don't have to sigh, I don't think it will take long, I think the little devil should raise the price of your head, and you will also be a famous general at that time." Bai Chongxi complimented over and over again.

"What is the price increase of my head, I think you mean that you have raised the price of your own head, I didn't expect that you also have a time when you are jealous of a young man." Li Zongren couldn't help but smile and said to Bai Chongxi.

"Alas, how did this Whampoa cultivate this kind of pervert?" Bai Chongxi said with a smile.

Bai Chongxi knew what the education level of the Huangpu School was, and he thought that one day they would all become the mainstay of the army.

"I don't think this has much to do with the Whampoa Military Academy, you have to know how much resources the powerful elite alliance behind Liu Yuan has sprinkled on Liu Yuan, Liu Yuan can be said to be the representative of the Chinese elite in the whole world, Chiang Kai-shek doesn't know how much information about the powerful elite alliance that Lu Dao secretly collected, I have been fortunate to read some, those papers in their internal publications, I don't understand at all, they mentioned a weapon called missiles, I haven't heard of it." Li Zongren said.

"Don't say that this Chiang Kai-shek is average in everything, it's just a good fate, you said that if it wasn't for a good fate, how could he be the principal, if it wasn't a good fate, how could he meet a student like Liu Yuan." In the final analysis, Bai Chongxi still looks down on Chiang Kai-shek in his heart, without him, Chiang Kai-shek's governance of the country and the army is too ordinary.

While the two were discussing, Zuo Quan had already returned to the headquarters.

As soon as he entered the door, Bai Chongxi asked, "What did Fuguo say?" ”

"Lead the snake out of the hole." Zuo Quan smiled and handed the telegram to Bai Chongxi.

"Not bad." Li Zongren praised Liu Yuan in his heart.

You must know that Liu Yuan is the commander, and Li Zongren is now commanding such a big battle, but Liu Yuan still does not interfere and delegate power, and it is even possible that on the front line, Liu Yuan himself will be transferred by Li Zongren, and ordinary people cannot do this kind of bearing.

"The order was given that the Thirty-fifth Army would immediately attack Jining, and the command of the Thirty-fifth Army and the Second Army would be temporarily handed over to He Long. The goal of the Jining Campaign was to completely annihilate the 108th Division of the Japanese Army. ”