On the morning of the next day, the 1,840 first batch of trainees of the Lushan Officer Training Corps gathered in the large playground of Haihui Temple to listen to Chairman Chiang Kai-shek's summary of the phased study and training and a speech entitled "Resisting Foreign Enemies and Rejuvenating the Nation."

The energetic Chiang Kai-shek finished his speech under the sun, and was surrounded by more than ten generals into the newly completed Western-style office building under the Wulao Peak.

Chen Cheng seized the opportunity to submit to him the plan for the confrontation drill that had been finalized after detailed discussion with Wu Ming and Wu Ming last night, and this plan with novel ideas and like a test of actual combat was very detailed and clear, very close to reality, not only with a sharp increase in difficulty, but also very pertinent and testable.

After reading it, Chiang Kai-shek attached great importance to it, and immediately questioned whether the investment of troops by both sides was reasonable: "Resignation, no matter what Wu Mingbu says, it is only a local security force, and there are only two companies of 300 officers and soldiers, how long can they withstand the two battalions of the Second Guard Regiment?" ”

Yang Jie, chief instructor, Zhu Peide, chief of staff, He Guoguang, director of the Military Administration, and others were all surprised when they heard Chiang Kai-shek's question, and immediately stopped talking in a low voice and listened with their ears pricked up.

Chen Cheng had the bottom in his heart, and unhurriedly took several operations in the early stage of the Fourth Encirclement and Suppression War as an example to revisit such a fact with everyone:

“…… Looking at the above-mentioned situation, the number of officers and men of our army, whether overall or partial, is double or even several times that of the communist army, but each time it is dragged to exhaustion by the communist army that moves quickly and has no whereabouts, and at the end of the day, it is surrounded and annihilated by the communist army's concentrated superior forces, and encircled and reinforced.

"Secondly, the Wu Ming Department of the Zhejiang Army, which was transferred to assist in the exercise, is a very good local force, numbered as the Fifth Regiment directly under the Zhejiang Security Command, which is stationed in western Zhejiang all the year round, and has summed up a set of effective tactics in the face of the continuous attacks of the communist army in northeastern Jiangxi...... For more than two years, the communist army in northeastern Jiangxi launched many surprise attacks at the regimental and battalion level against the unit stationed in western Zhejiang, and each time it returned home under the effective blows of the unit. ”

Leaving aside the excellent quality and sophisticated equipment of the officers and men of the two battalions of the Second Guard Regiment, the comparison of the disparity in strength between 1,000 and 300 is not very reasonable.

Yang Jie, the chief instructor who is known as a theoretician in the army, asked: "Brother Cixiu, is this Wu Ming the same Wu Ming who led a battalion-level teaching team of the Zhejiang Army to garrison the Qingshi Bridge in Hangzhou during the Songhu Incident and pioneered the rapid construction method of fortifications and fortresses?" ”

"It is him, the "Infantry Basic Training Manual" and the "Infantry Ordnance Maintenance and Repair Manual", which are currently listed as reference textbooks by the Central Military Academy, are the masterpieces of this person, and he has also compiled the operation and maintenance textbooks of light and heavy machine guns, basic surveying and mapping textbooks, and mortar crash textbooks based on relevant foreign academic papers and practical experience, which have been comprehensively promoted in the Zhejiang army. Chen Cheng never forgot to seize the opportunity to recommend Wu Ming.

Yang Jie nodded appreciatively: "I have read those two easy-to-understand booklets, they are very well written, there is not a single nonsense in the whole article, and they are concise and very practical...... From this point of view, this Wu Ming is indeed a talent, how did Brother Ci Xiu find out about this person? ”

Chen Cheng said with a smile: "I also found it occasionally when I went home to visit relatives and passed through western Zhejiang...... The Eighteenth Army is currently resting on the western border of Zhejiang, and they have frequent contact with each other, so they know more than others. According to Luo Zhuoying, deputy commander of the Eighth Army, and other generals, Wu Ming's unit is different from any other local army; the military discipline of this unit is strict, the training is extremely hard, the officers at all levels have a cultural foundation, the soldiers are generally literate, the overall quality is very high, the overall marching speed is very fast, the tenacity is full of endurance, it is proficient in mountain operations, its combat characteristics are very similar to the main force of the communist army, and in many respects it is even surpassed. The two battalions of our 2nd Guards Regiment may not be able to beat them. ”

Hearing Chen Cheng say so confidently, all the generals and colonels were aroused, and Chiang Kai-shek was naturally no exception, and immediately threw out Chen Cheng's confrontation drill plan, so that everyone could discuss and choose two of them.

After the discussion, everyone was very interested in both plans, and they were reluctant to give up either plan, and after the most unanimous request, both plans were put into practice.

Since the two confrontation drill plans need at least four days to unfold, not counting the fact that both sides need three days to prepare, in this way, the study and training of other subjects will be crowded, and the scheduled study time of the current batch of students is only half a month, and now they have ten days of study and training, and the remaining five days are obviously not enough.

Chiang Kai-shek thought about it for a long time, and finally made a decision:

"Time squeezed out, two-pronged, the preparation time for the confrontation between the two sides, reduced from three days to one day, all the students have to enter the field to observe, the command can ask the instructor group to help, as soon as possible to set up each referee team, set up detailed standards...... If there is not enough time, then postpone it and do a good job of receiving the second batch of students

Beginning last night, Wu Ming's staff group and 25 brothers of the barrage squad have copied more than a dozen topographical maps of the exercise based on the maps provided by the command headquarters.

Wu Ming and Dai Ziran, who remained in the camp, nervously formulated a battle plan and discussed with each other various possible situations and corresponding tactics to be adopted.

The second guard regiment stationed in Xingzi County was busy.

The original three-day preparation period was shortened to one day, which caught Huang Meixing, the regiment commander who graduated from the first phase of Huangpu, Gao Zhisong, the deputy regiment commander who graduated from the third phase of Huangpu, and several battalion commanders by surprise.

I learned that in addition to being equipped with more pistols than ordinary infantry battalions, the officers and men of Wu Ming's department carried all half-new and old 38 rifles on their shoulders, and there were quite a few Czech machine guns, estimated to be about 10, but they all looked very old, and it was estimated that they were eliminated after the old commander Yu Jishi formed the Zhejiang Army Security Division and changed its equipment, so it was not a problem, and it could not be compared with the 82 mortars and 20-millimeter machine guns equipped at the battalion level in the headquarters.

Wu Ming knew that the Second Guard Regiment was well-equipped, and each battalion had six 82 mortars produced by the Jinling Factory and six 20-mm high-level dual-purpose machine guns produced by the Swedish Bofors Company, but after inviting Qiu Xingxiang to inquire about the situation of the commanders at all levels of the Second Guard Regiment, Wu Ming was still surprised:

Several commanders of the Second Guard Regiment were officers under Yu Jishi, when Yu Jishi served as the commander of the Second Central Guard Division, Huang Meixing was the commander of his regiment, and the Second Guard Division was renamed the 88th Division when it arrived in the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, Huang Meixing and others followed Yu Jishi to experience the tragic Songhu Anti-Japanese War, and Gao Zhisong, who was the battalion commander at the time, was also the same as Yu Jishi, was seriously injured and carried off the battlefield, and returned to the re-formed Central Guard Regiment after recovering.

In the face of such a strong enemy, Wu Ming muttered a little, the weapons and equipment of his troops are not as good as the other party, and the number of people is at an absolute disadvantage, can he win in battle?