At six o'clock in the afternoon, Wu Ming, who had received a telegram from various departments on the front line, was finally relieved that the 40th Brigade of the 14th Division of the Guangdong Army had arrived at Huangkeng, eight kilometers southwest of Wujing Town, and that the 3,400 brothers led by Luo Yuming and Tian Zhenggang had successfully crossed the Xipai River at the southern foot of Songshan and were heading for Shuinandong, the predetermined hiding place six kilometers ahead.

"Call the General Staff Headquarters, Record"

Wu Ming, who was staring at the sand table, did not raise his head, and dictated the content of the message to Du Pingzhang, the chief of the confidential section: "At 6 o'clock in the morning, our unit launched a surprise attack on the boundary site town where the 1st Regiment of the 39th Brigade of the Guangdong Army was stationed, and after 30 minutes of fierce fighting, successfully occupied the whole town of the boundary site, annihilated 341 enemies, captured 1,054 people under the enemy regiment commander Zheng Zhaowen, and seized weapons and ammunition. launched a fierce counterattack on the position south of the town occupied by our department, and our department occupied a favorable position and stubbornly resisted, so far not an inch of land has been lost; At present, the 40th Brigade of the 14th Division of the Guangdong Army stationed in Nanxiong and its artillery company are rapidly approaching and entering the battlefield in about an hour and a half, and the officers and men of our brigade are determined to annihilate the enemy in front of the battle, the newly formed 10th Brigade, Wu Ming. ”

Du Pingzhang quickly wrote it down, handed the telegram to Wu Ming, and asked with a smile: "Master, do you add an honorific after the payment?" ”

"Respect a fart, just shoot your hair like this, you don't have time to serve those big men."

After Wu Ming finished speaking, he quickly signed his name on the telegram, threw it to Du Pingzhang, continued to lower his head and stare at the sand table, and slowly pulled up the two red pennants on the sand table and planted them in the positions of Xipai River and Shuinan Cave respectively.

Dai Ziran, the chief of the operations section on the side, immediately calculated the distance between the two points, and soon reported the mileage of the two small roads in the east and west between Shuinandong and Wujing Town, which is separated by a mountain in the north.

Wu Ming nodded with satisfaction, pointed to Nanxiong City, thirty-eight kilometers west of Wujing Town on the sand table, and said:

"Now it's up to Lu Kuiyuan and them...... As long as Lu Kuiyuan and his team can destroy the telephone lines of Nancheng after nightfall, the enemy can only contact each other through radio stations, and then we can quickly decipher the contents of the enemy's communications according to the captured code book, and if everything goes well, we can also send wrong information to the enemy, creating an opportunity for Lu Kuiyuan and them to sneak attack the headquarters of the 14th Division. ”

Long Shaogang said with some concern: "Nanxiong City, which is located in Guangdong on the border of Jiangxi and Guangdong, is tall, and the brothers of the two spy companies can't speak Cantonese. ”

Zhang Dongning thought for a moment and said with relief: "Didn't Kuiyuan bring more than a dozen sets of Cantonese army uniforms?" It is estimated that they will have a way, even if they can't sneak into the city and finish off the enemy's division headquarters, scaring him into a hurry has basically achieved their goal. ”

Dai Ziran was very puzzled when he saw Wu Ming's calm and unhurried appearance, and he didn't know where Wu Ming's confidence came from? After thinking about it for a long time, I still couldn't figure it out, and I was just about to ask Wu Ming, when I suddenly found that Sun Chengyuan, the adjutant who followed Wu Ming like a shadow, was gone: "Huh? Where did Chengyuan go? It seems that I haven't seen him for a day today. ”

The surrounding Long Shaogang, Zhang Dongning, and the staff officers immediately looked at Wu Ming, and Wu Ming had no choice but to answer truthfully: "Chengyuan has acted with Lu Kuiyuan." ”

Everyone suddenly came to their senses, and Wu Ming also smiled, and asked everyone to guess with a mysterious face, which city gate would Lu Kuiyuan attack from? As a result, as soon as the words came out, they immediately exchanged the eyes of all the brothers, Wu Ming touched his head and smiled awkwardly, and left under the pretext of urgency.

A young warrant officer staff officer looked at this and that in confusion, he still didn't know the essentials in the face of a group of commanders who laughed and scolded in a low voice, and he couldn't help but ask his boss Dai Ziran in a low voice:

"Section chief, why didn't everyone answer the question raised by the brigade? The subordinates feel that this issue is still necessary to be discussed

Dai Ziran immediately glared: "With Sun Chengyuan's kid with him, does the spy company still need to sneak in through the city gate?" You haven't seen Sun Chengyuan's skills, at least you should have heard of it, right? The forty-five-meter vertical cliff east of the Phoenix Mountain base couldn't help him, and the six-meter-high Nanxiong city wall couldn't help him? It's a pig brain."

The young staff officer was dumbfounded, and then he was overjoyed, but it didn't take long for him to ask another question: "My subordinates still have a doubt, at this moment the 1st Regiment and the Machine Gun Battalion of our Army are sneaking in the valley south of Wujing Town, if everything goes well, they can reach the line of Shuinandong before 8 o'clock in the evening, if the 40th Brigade that has been reinforcing arrives without waiting for the arrival of the artillery company of the Guangdong Army, which is more than 10 kilometers behind, to immediately launch an offensive against the boundary town guarded by our 2nd Regiment, will it affect the action plan of the 1st Regiment and the Machine Gun Battalion?" ”

Dai Ziran admired the young subordinates' diligence and questioning, and pointed to the sand table and explained seriously: "It is possible that this question you raised may happen, but it is unlikely...... First of all, the enemy's reinforcements must be very tired after a rapid march of 38 kilometers, and they need to rest for at least an hour in Wujing Town and finish eating before they can continue to move forward 14 kilometers and enter the battlefield to launch an attack on the position of our 2nd Regiment. ”

Dai Ziran saw that seven or eight of his subordinates were all surrounding, so he paused slightly, and slowly pointed to the position in the south of Zhennan, the boundary site guarded by the Second Regiment of the headquarters:

"Look here, our second regiment occupies the advantageous terrain, plus the afternoon assault to build a lot of fortifications, across the road one south and one north in a corner, condescendingly control most of the area within three kilometers. In this morning's battle, it has been fully proved that in the absence of artillery support, it is absolutely difficult for the enemy to launch a large-scale offensive with infantry, and not only can it not pose a threat to our army's position, but will cause its own huge casualties, and with the tragic lesson of the 39th Brigade and the 2nd Regiment and the fatigue just mentioned, the main force of the enemy with reinforcements absolutely does not have the courage to attack the position of our 2nd Regiment before the artillery arrives. ”

Seeing that the staff officers under his command nodded frequently and understood, Dai Ziran said the third reason:

"At the last point, if you fight at night, how many troops do you think are stronger than us? One of the great advantages of our army is the long-term persistence in night combat training, you have all gone through two stages of recruit training, you should know how high the proportion of night marching and combat training in our army's entire training, and each of our regiments has its own reconnaissance company, and in the consistent style of Yang Sixian, the commander of the second regiment, he will definitely send his brothers in the reconnaissance company to capture the enemy's mobile outposts, and even shoot cold guns and throw grenades at the sentinels on the periphery of the enemy, so as not to make the enemy who is exhausted after a day of running so that he can't sleep at night. It's not his Yang Sixian style. ”

All the staff officers smiled heartily, and they all felt that they had benefited a lot, and in excitement, they immediately discussed the possible tactical use of the Second Regiment in the future and the maximum effect to be achieved.