As the commander of the Nanjing garrison and the deputy commander-in-chief of the Nanjing Theater, Wei Lihuang is one of the most powerful people in the National Revolution, with more than 300,000 troops under his command.

But only Wei Lihuang, a tiger general, knows how difficult and bitter it is to sit in this position, and he has no right to speak in front of Zhang Zhizhong. Although this lieutenant general always greets him with a smile, Wei Lihuang can feel the contempt that emerges from his heart.

Not to mention Qian Dajun, he has already gone to Chiang Kai-shek several times to ask for a change in commander-in-chief, which is very contemptuous of Wei Lihuang's behavior, but Wei Lihuang also has no clear way to these veterans under Chiang Kai-shek.

And although Liu Zhi and Xue Yue didn't say anything, they secretly opposed their orders, which made Wei Lihuang very sad, and he believed that if Liu Yuan commanded these people, these old men would definitely not object.

Because Liu Yuan had fought side by side with them, and they all recognized Liu Yuan's talent, and he was just a person who had taken refuge in the Guangdong army, in the final analysis, they didn't treat Wei Lihuang as their own.

What is even worse is that Chiang Kai-shek actually interfered with his own command as the commander-in-chief, and you must know that as the chairman of the Nanjing government, he was already very good at ordering the troops, and he did not even know the combat effectiveness of the troops, so he relied on a map to gather all the troops in the vicinity of Nanjing City.

Wei Lihuang found Chiang Kai-shek, but all he got was a scolding, "Who do you think you are?" Do you really think you can command everyone? Qian Dajun has looked for me many times, against you, I don't interfere, can you command the troops well? When the time comes, we will have nothing. Chiang Kai-shek said, patting the table.

For the sake of victory, Wei Lihuang was not afraid, and straightened up and said to Chiang Kai-shek, "From the strategic point of view, Liu Yuan's Tenth Group Army formed a long snake formation, and it was impossible to gather the most powerful force at all, and Fujian, Zhejiang, and Guangdong, where we can use the strength to fight snakes, we don't need to fight them in a decisive battle here in Nanjing, we just need to delay their offensive rhythm, let General He Yingqin send troops to cut off the snake, and then the snake without a waist is only left with a head, and how much strength is left, When the time comes, the only way for them to go back is death. "Wei Lihuang is also a generation of famous generals, so he also has his own reasons.

"Do you really think we have an advantage in strategic posture? You see, we seem to be in an advantageous position in the general situation, but what about the local situation? Liu Yuan concentrated all the strength he could, like a steel knife stabbing at Nanjing, which is in line with the idea of concentrating the main force to launch a deadly attack on the enemy at a critical moment, if we do not concentrate all the troops, but delay and delay as you said, I dare say that our troops will definitely be eaten bite by bite. ”

"But according to your arrangement, a considerable part of our troops have to fight on their backs, and if we lose, we don't even have a buffer zone, so many troops are likely to be defeated." Wei Lihuang said worriedly.

"What are you afraid of, fighting against the water, you have the courage to fight to the death, and I have prepared a large number of transport ships, if there is a problem, the rear will definitely support you in time, and at the same time the warships will also support you, and almost all the elites rely on Chuzhou, more than 200,000 people, how can you fail, tell you that my command will also be set up in Chuzhou." Chiang Kai-shek said. Chiang Kai-shek was also in a bad mood, he sent a telegram to Liu Yuan, asking him to go to Chengdu, but the message he gave himself was to deal with Zhang Jingjiang and others by himself, which was to cut off his own foundation, this kid was really crazy, but he would not compromise anyway.

"Commander-in-chief, this is not good, you are the leader, how can you personally command?" When Wei Lihuang heard Chiang Kai-shek's words, he knew that the Tao was not good.

But how did Wei Lihuang persuade Chiang Kai-shek?

This was due to a different concept of governing the country, and Chiang Kai-shek believed that he should rely on the most powerful forces of the era in order to unify the country in the fastest possible time.

is like Zhu Yuanzhang, didn't he compromise with the landlord class to gain the world? So how can you compromise when you come to yourself? What the common people have, what the petty bourgeoisie has, only the big landlords and the big bourgeoisie can save China, so they themselves must use these two classes no matter what, in order to unify China.

This also led to the continuous gathering of the two legions, 200,000 and 300,000 gathered near Nanjing, although it was not as good as the Central Plains War in later generations, but it was not much worse.

Chiang Kai-shek thought about buying Liu Yuan's subordinates, but when he thought of those officers who were loyal to Liu Yuan, he gave up this idea, and it seemed that he could only fight with Liu Yuan well.

The advance corps of the Tenth Group Army was Guan Linzheng, one of Liu Yuansin's trusted people, leading the New First Army and the New Second Army. The teaching brigade had a total of 60,000 men, and the momentum along the way was like a bamboo, and there was no decent resistance at all, and it did not take long for the troops of the Tenth Army to feel the eastern part of Anhui from western Anhui, but eastern Anhui had already been occupied by Chiang Kai-shek's troops.

Especially in the Chuzhou area, relying on the terrain, more than 200,000 troops were arranged, and a large number of pillboxes were built and countless power grids were set up, and the hidden forts and trenches were absolutely unclear.

At the same time, on the Yangtze River, Chiang Kai-shek transferred the warships of the Nationalist Government, ready to use the artillery fire of the fleet to support the battle on land, and at the same time prepared a large number of ships on the Yangtze River to transport ammunition and soldiers, Chiang Kai-shek knew very well that if Chuzhou was lost, then the Tenth Army would cross the river, and the Nanjing government would lose.

Guan Linzheng is not a reckless person, although his subordinates have asked to launch an attack several times and take Chuzhou, but he has refused, he knows that if he attacks rashly, he is likely to be unlucky, because the intelligence has told himself who is the person in front of him? That person is definitely not weak, his name is Wei Lihuang.

It took Liu Yuan and the army three days to arrive, and Guan Linzheng had already built the camp, prepared a detailed battle map, and roughly marked the arrangements on the opposite side.

"Camping with the water behind the water, who handed this over to Wei Lihuang, I remember that Wei Lihuang is not stupid? Did he think he was Xiang Yu? Liu Yuan always looks confident, he wants to give information to his subordinates, and at the same time he also knows that fighting against the tide is definitely not a choice made by Wei Lihuang, and the only person who made this choice is Chiang Kai-shek.

Originally, Liu Yuan was still thinking that if he had been entangled with him for a long time in eastern Anhui according to Wei Lihuang's original arrangement, then he was likely to encounter huge trouble.

Later, Guan Linzheng told himself that he had almost no trouble all the way, Liu Yuan was thinking that Wei Lihuang was likely to rely on the Yangtze River to fight a decisive battle with him, but he never thought that the other party would split the troops very much to defend Chuzhou, although Chuzhou has the advantage of terrain, but the battle of the backwater, and there is the Yangtze River barrier, once there is any problem, the rear will definitely not be able to rescue in time, Chiang Kai-shek is going to be unlucky this time, how can he be so in command of the operation, why is he always so confused?