I don't know when the huge sand table has been placed in the command room, the sand table is made of clear colors, mountains and jungles, and it is very conspicuous.

"With such a quick effort, the chief of staff of Zuo Quan actually made a sand table, and the auxiliary country has to say, you have a good chief of staff at home, and I will not have this treatment when I lead the troops to fight." Li Zongren looked at Liu Yuan enviously and said.

"This is the ability handed down by our ancestors, we who are counselors for others, can not, and Li Gong, you don't know what to do, Liu Yuan, this guy is very unconscionable as a military commander, tell me every day, how good the German General Rommel sand table is, I am embarrassed, for this matter, I specially found Mr. Jiang Fangzhen to study for a lot of days." Zuo Quan complained to Li Zongren.

"Oh, this was originally taught by Mr. Jiang Fangzhen, Mr. Jiang Fangzhen's craft was learned from the little devil, not our domestic one, I didn't expect us to use the little devil's craft to fight with the little devil today, I really don't know what to say." Li Zongren said with a smile.

"What is there to say about this, this is called taking other people's paths, so that others have no way out." Liu Yuan said evilly, causing everyone to laugh.

"Okay, don't be poor, if Chairman Jiang sees you like this, he will definitely regret his death." Li Zongren pulled Liu Yuan to the sand table and asked Liu Yuan to talk to him.

"Gong Li, don't you give us the elders of our juniors first?" Liu Yuan said modestly, he didn't want to give Li Zongren a chance to speak as soon as he came to the Fifth War Zone, so it would be bad for both of them.

"There are no outsiders here, just say it, I admit it, I'm old, I can't keep up with the trend of the times, I don't have any good ideas, but I still have the ability to distinguish right from wrong, you don't dare to say it unless you have a battle plan." Li Zongren used the radical method against Liu Yuan.

Liu Yuan knew that Li Zongren used the method of agitation to himself, but he was not angry, he knew that since the old general was willing to joke with himself, it meant that he accepted himself, and his future life in the Fifth War Zone would not be so sad.

"Li Gong (note: it can also be called Degong), that one threw bricks and stones. Of course, I haven't been in the war zone for a long time, and if there is any place for troops, please correct me. After speaking, Liu Yuan pointed to the sand table and said.

When I was in Wuhan, Chairman and I had a general opinion on the Japanese army's next operational plan, that is, the next step of the Japanese army should be to fight in concert with the north and the south, and the only purpose was to open up the lifeline between the north and the south, and to train the two occupied areas into one and form a long snake formation. Therefore, in the northern battlefield, the Japanese army stationed in North China should send four to six divisions, and in the central China region, the number of divisions sent is slightly less, but it will not be less than three.

Liu Yuan glanced at Li Zongren, saw him nodding, and knew that he probably understood what he meant, so he continued.

There are many lakes and rivers in the south, and the Japanese army is a mechanized army, so it is impossible for their Central China troops to take the waterway of Yangzhou, so what he can take should be the railway, and the railway is to go north along the railway, go Fengyang, Xia Bengbu, Suxian, and if they can conquer Xuzhou, it will be a big victory.

The following is also said that the Japanese army in North China, the route they took should probably be from Dezhou, Shandong, to seize Jinan, if not to take Dezhou, then it may also be Qingdao, Tai'an, and then Xuzhou, so as to open up the north-south communication line.

Zuo Quan nodded, what Liu Yuan said was similar to what he thought in his head, and Li Zongren also had a feeling of sudden enlightenment, if the Japanese army really did that, it would really be able to open up the lifeline between the north and the south.

"Then how are we going to fight the Japanese?" Li Zongren continued to ask Liu Yuan.

For the Japanese army fighting from the south to the north, I suggest using our militia, guerrillas, and second-line troops, and even mobilizing the people to adopt guerrilla tactics, destroy their transportation and material stations, and not give them the opportunity to confront each other head-on, with only one purpose, that is, to delay their time to go south and win time for the northern battlefield."

"And what about our main force?" Zuo Quan looked at the map and felt that what Liu Yuan said was not impossible.

"I have heard that the commander of the North China Front, General Terauchi Shouichi, said that I, Liu Yuan, am not good at defending and attacking, and I am a woman, and their so-called Imperial Twin Star Itagaki Seishiro even said that killing me is like slaughtering a dog, and this time I must teach them a lesson.

"Before coming to the Fifth Theater, we had done a certain amount of intelligence confusion to the Japanese army, and now the Japanese army thinks that most of our troops in the Fifth Theater are units without combat effectiveness, and although they know that the troops of our Southwest Special Region have been supplemented to the Fifth Theater, the information they have obtained is that the troops we have supplemented are militias without the slightest combat effectiveness.

What we have to do is to confuse the enemy, if the Japanese army takes the lead in launching an attack in the fifth theater, in my understanding of the Third Army, they will definitely not have the strength to resist, then they will definitely lose their positions, so we can let his troops withdraw into Yimeng Mountain, let him railway the defense line, and let the little devils advance along the Jinpu Road, which is not enough to confuse the enemy, we have to give the enemy a feeling that we can fight, but we have not been able to catch it, so I will send part of the troops of the 33rd Group Army to defend the Japanese army along the way. fought and retreated, and kept luring them into Xuzhou.

Then use the troops lurking in Shandong to recapture Jinan, cut off the Japanese retreat, form a situation of closing the door and fighting dogs, and fight a war of annihilation with the little devils in Xuzhou.

After listening to Liu Yuan's battle plan, Li Zongren did not speak for a long time, but kept pondering: Japan can use up to six divisions and regiments, with a total of 160,000 troops, and with the bold character of the Japanese, he would never think that Liu Yuan would attack their six divisions at the same time.

It is important to know that Liu Yuan only acted against one division in the south, not six divisions.

At this time, Liu Yuan had 400,000 troops in his hands, including more than 200,000 elites, and there were 80,000 soldiers of the Third Army of Han Fuqu, Liu Yuan was confident that he would complete the encirclement of the Japanese troops. Moreover, the troops in other regions are also being assembled, and the elite Chiang Kai-shek does not give it, but the total number of second-line troops is still close to 700,000, at this time, Chiang Kai-shek only dares to hand over so many troops to Liu Yuan alone, because he will not let his troops completely retreat.

Li Zongren didn't catch his breath for a long time, and he took a big breath after the last breath. Liu Yuan: This is to do something that he only dares to think of in his dreams.

He had a rough guess about the Japanese army's offensive route, but he didn't think about such a huge encirclement and annihilation plan, and at this moment he felt that his soul was trembling.

At this moment, Li Zongren was embarrassed to say his strategic plan, according to his own combat plan, it was not bad to be able to annihilate an eyeless Japanese division, he did not expect Liu Yuan to eat the entire six divisions in one bite.

"Miaomiao, if the war in the north goes well, then we can concentrate our vitality to counterattack the Japanese army on the southern front. Is this the application of Marxism in war? Concentrate the main force and annihilate the enemy's vital force.

I have a good friend surnamed Mao who once told me a lifelong saying, that is, step by step, food must be stuttered.