On the evening of 16 May, after 12 days of continuous marching, all 6,000 officers and men of Wu Ming's new 10 th Brigade arrived in Ganzhou in southern Jiangxi and were warmly received by the officers and men of the newly formed 1st Division directly under the Jiangxi Provincial Government.

On the morning of the next day, Wu Ming, with the assistance of the newly formed First Division, learned of the general garrison position of the Guangdong army facing the headquarters, and immediately sent a special service company south to investigate, and at the same time sent away his old friend Zhang Fenglan.

At 10 a.m. on 18 May, a Hawker-3 fighter plane of the Central Air Force flew over the Dongguan military camp in the old town of Ganxian County and threw down an orange-red communication bag:

The two regiments of the 1st Independent Division of the Guangdong Army left Nanxiong in northern Guangdong and were slowly moving towards Xinfeng in the northeast.

After reading the reconnaissance intelligence of the Air Force, Wu Ming thought hard for a long time and made a decision:

All units of the brigade immediately made preparations for departure, and at 3 p.m. they set camp and marched south, arriving at Xinfeng City, 70 kilometers south of Ganzhou, before dawn tomorrow, and establishing positions on the line of Zhangjialing, two kilometers south of Xinfeng City, to prepare for battle

At one o'clock at noon on 19 May, the 39th Brigade of the 14th Division of the Guangdong Army drove to Changlong Village, 40 kilometers southwest of Xinfeng City, when it suddenly received an urgent report from the reconnaissance team of the 1st Pioneer Regiment

According to the southbound caravan, Xinfeng City suddenly increased a brigade with an unknown number, and the brigade entered Xinfeng City at about 6 o'clock in the morning, and then immediately built fortifications on the line of Zhangjialing, two kilometers south of the city.

The commander of the 39th Brigade was taken aback, and immediately ordered the regiment in the forefront of the whole army to temporarily stop advancing, while the rest of the troops continued to march northward, rushed to the front of Wujing Town to set up camp, and quickly telegraphed the general situation to the headquarters of the 14th Division in Nanxiong.

Chen Zhang, commander of the 14th Division of the Guangdong Army, was also taken aback when he received an urgent report, and this news was likely to be a precursor to the start of the Central Army's move, so he immediately called Shaoguan to report to the military headquarters.

The Cantonese army knew that Chiang Kai-shek would sooner or later crusade against Liangguang, but the representatives of the two sides were still negotiating in Guangzhou, and the Central Army had not made any action to increase its troops southward, and Chen Jitang, the bigwig of the Guangdong army, reminded him of Li Zongren, the commander of the Gui army, to secretly order Huang Yanjiao's Third Army, stationed in Shaoguan, to establish a solid defense on the main roads in northern Guangdong before the arrival of the Central Army, and at the same time closely monitor all the movements of the Central Army in the north of the border, and be ready to meet the battle at any time.

Chen Zhang, who was stationed in Nanxiong, received an order from the army commander Huang Yanjiao, and immediately sent the 39th Brigade of the main force under his command to Wujing, an important town on the border of Guangdong and Jiangxi, and then peeped into Xinfeng.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Wu Ming came to the forward observation post of Miaoxia Village, located in the territory of Jiangxi on the provincial border, climbed the halfway point of Zhushan Mountain in the south of the village, and carefully observed Wujing Town, the garrison of the 39th Brigade of the Guangdong Army 13 kilometers away, through the 20-fold artillery mirror, and then took out his binoculars to check the patrol of the Guangdong Army across the river.

"Our opponent is very well equipped, all Czech rifles and Czech light machine guns, and an officer who leads a patrol even has a Browning stuck in his waist, the Cantonese army is really rich, we can eat a big dog this time......"

Many of the brothers raised their binoculars again and carefully looked at the Cantonese army patrol wearing khaki military uniforms and British steel helmets, and found that the opponent was exactly what the brigade commander said, not only well equipped, but also well dressed.

"No matter how good the opponent's equipment is, we can't come nonsense, don't forget the telegram sent by the headquarters in the morning, you must not shoot the first shot, the commissioner surnamed Kang sent by the headquarters is afraid that he has already arrived in Ganzhou City at this time......"

Deputy Brigade Commander Long Shaogang reminded Wu Ming in a low voice that when Wu Ming led his troops to go on the expedition for several years, Long Shaogang stayed at home, took care of his home for Wu Ming's training of recruits, and worked hard without complaining, so this time Wu Ming couldn't help but pull him to share weal and woe.

The regiment and battalion commanders stopped laughing after listening to Long Shaogang's words, and found that the boss Wu Ming really frowned, the regiment and battalion commanders felt very uncomfortable, no one thought that the headquarters would send a supervisor to fight a war before, and there was a bullshit order that the first shot would never be allowed, isn't this tying up their hands and feet?

Wu Ming did not expect Chiang Kai-shek to be so cautious.

It stands to reason that the first line at the junction of Hunan and Guangdong and Guangxi is the main battlefield of this crusade against Guangxi and Guangzhou, and Chiang Kai-shek should also send a special envoy to supervise the army to Hunan He Jian's side, but now he is directly sent to his own troops, and the person who comes is Kang Ze, a political and industrial expert in the "Thirteen Taibao" under Chiang Kai-shek, which made Wu Ming unexpected.

Seeing that the brothers were all looking at him, Wu Ming thought about it for a long time, but still expressed his judgment:

"The name of the person is Kang Ze, graduated from the third phase of Huangpu, and served as the captain of the political propaganda brigade of the General Headquarters of the Suppression Headquarters, the head teacher of the special training class for officers of the Central Army, and the chief captain of the Beilu Mobilization Brigade.

"I didn't expect the headquarters to send someone to supervise the war, and it was this extremely difficult Kang Ze, but it makes sense to think about it carefully, four days ago, Hu Hanmin, the biggest opposition leader in the Kuomintang, died, this old guy is one of the first veterans in the party to follow Mr. Sun Yat-sen's revolution, not only has deep qualifications, but also has a high prestige, his temper is also very big, and he scolds his mother at every turn, so suddenly there is a cerebral hemorrhage......"

After all, no matter how capable Chen Jitang is, he can't suppress everyone, including Li Jishen, the former commander of the Guangdong Army who rushed to Guilin from Hong Kong, and the relationship with his old subordinate Chen Jitang is very stiff, in view of the above situation, I am afraid that our combat plan will have to be changed, as for how to change, I will talk about it after I have met Kang Ze."

Lu Kuiyuan, the commander of the guard battalion who brought the two spy companies this time, was anxious when he heard it: "Then what should we do?" You can't just wait like this, can you? ”

Wu Ming thought for a while and waved his hand vigorously: "Don't wait, the spy company will plan its actions according to the original plan, and I will give you another task, not only to find out all the situations on the other side, but also to send a detachment to infiltrate Nanxiong, the headquarters of the 14th Division of the Guangdong Army is located in Nanxiong City, you give me a clear understanding of Nanxiong's defense." ”

Lu Kuiyuan was a little embarrassed: "But...... The brothers don't speak Cantonese, so we'll be discovered in the past, and we won't be able to hide our whereabouts, which is a bit tricky......"

"No matter how troublesome it is, it has to be good, if you can't complete the task, you are asking, as for what you do, I don't care." After Wu Ming finished speaking, he called Long Shaogang to go down the hill.