In the final analysis, this shijie still has to rely on strength to speak, so after Yang Yongtai left, Ningbo businessmen discussed with each other for a while, Zuihou's answer is that everyone should not discuss, let's first see who is in Shanghai with Sun Wen and Wang Zhenyu's army! Poor Feng Guozhang, none of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols felt that he had any hope of victory, and even wished that he and the Beiyang Army under his command would be finished as soon as possible.

Although no one is optimistic about himself, Feng Guozhang does not have the consciousness of a loser, and he still has to play the villain of this volume to the end. On March 17, Feng Guozhang came to Wuhu in person, and after severely reprimanding Wang Zhanyuan, Yang Shande, and Lu Yongxiang, he personally served as the supreme commander, commanding the second, fourth, and thirteenth field divisions of Beiyang and the first and second miscellaneous divisions of the Jiangsu Army, totaling 100,000 troops, ready to meet the invading Youth Army Right Route Army.

And Tao Zhiyue, who had already been determined by Feng Guozhang, was still very leisurely inviting Lu Diping to eat at the moment: "Come on, Brother Lu, try it." ”

After speaking, Tao Zhiyue used a military thorn to skillfully pry open the canned lychee in his hand, and Lu Diping took a sip unceremoniously: "It's so sweet, commander-in-chief, what are you?" ”

Tao Zhiyue smiled: "I know you don't, this is the military canned food produced by our Anjiang canning factory, which is generally decorated with salted fish, fruits or something, these things are easy to perish, and if you seal it with canned food, the shelf life will be longer." As for Brother Lu, the one you drink is called canned lychee, this is a special supply for officers above the regimental level, and ordinary soldiers don't have a chance to taste it. ”

Lu Diping gulped and drank Zuihou in one gulp, and then took out the flesh with his hands and ate it, a very relishing look. Then he shouted vaguely: "TMD, isn't Lao Tzu's Eleventh Division a youth army formation, and those bastards from the Weishenme Armaments Department even sent their summer clothes to Hukou, so they didn't distribute this thing to us?" ”

Tao Zhiyue smiled and said: "Brother Lu, you are really the brother of the Armaments Department, our military cans were distributed before crossing the Snow Peak Mountain." Later, when I came to Changsha, I also made a report to apply for replenishment, but there were things in the Ministry of Armaments but there was no capacity, so there was no way to transport them, not to mention your newly formed troops, even we were out of stock. Then, Brother Lu, what you just drank is a can of my zuihou, hehe. ”

Lu Diping's eyes widened, and he said very embarrassedly: "Oh, commander-in-chief, a gentleman doesn't win people's love, why didn't you say it earlier?" ”

Tao Zhiyue waved his hand and said: "It's okay, the officer in charge of liaising with us at the Armaments Department has assured that the allocation of transportation capacity has been much looser recently, as long as we take Wuhu, this thing will be replenished at that time." ”

As soon as Lu Diping heard this, he immediately got up and said: "Commander-in-chief, this time to fight Wuhu, let's go to the 11th Division!" ”

Tao Zhiyue was happy when he heard it: "This is no problem in itself, but I may not be able to promise you this time, Brother Lu." Because our style of play may have to change, this time we will not learn from Bai Chongxi to play fortification. ”

Lu Diping was a little puzzled: "Don't attack?" So how do we take Wuhu? ”

Tao Zhiyue said with a smile: "Brother Lu, you are pretending to be confused, this time we will change the way of playing, we will play to lure the snake out of the hole......"

On March 20, the 1st Division of the Youth Army finally reached the bottom line of the Beiyang Army, Tongling, and the 11th Division commanded by Lu Diping took Nanling and appeared in front of Feng Guozhang with a double-arrow division posture.

And almost at the same time, on the left side of the Youth Army, Ni Sichong gathered more than 10,000 remnants to abandon Anqing and fled to Hefei, Bai Chongxi's soldiers took Anqing, Tongcheng, Luzhou and other important towns without blood, and then went straight to Zhang Huaizhi's Fifth Division and Zhang Xun's Dingwu Army to defend the Chaohu defense line, a decisive battle to determine the fate of China is about to begin.

On March 20, at the headquarters of the Southeast Front, which had moved forward to Anqing, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi were engaged in the most heated quarrel since they met.

"Brother Delin, this matter is not trivial, this time the reinforcements transferred by the marshal must be given to the left army, otherwise the situation will be ruined" Bai Chongxi almost roared.

Li Zongren shook his head and said: "Brother Jiansheng, it's not that I, the commander, are unfair, but that the danger faced by the Right Route Army is really several times that of you, and Feng Guozhang is a real army of 100,000. In contrast, your Left Route Army is now 70,000 elites, and the opponent's Beiyang Army on the front line of Chaohu Lake will not be more than 60,000. So this time, I will transfer the Ninth Division to Tao Zhiyue and them, I hope you will understand. ”

Bai Chongxi was almost so angry that he hit the beam with his head after hearing this, he slapped the table a few times and said: "Brother Delin, you are confused, what are we doing, we are fighting, we are trying to win the war for the commander and ourselves." At this time, what kind of justice do you say, you can see for yourself this strategic situation, now it is a two-front decisive battle, and the competition is who is more ruthless and faster. If we take Pukou as soon as possible, the Beiyang Army will be defeated. On the other hand, if Feng Guozhang's old thief defeats Tao Zhiyue and them as soon as possible, the back road of our left route army will be in front of them, they have a navy, and when the time comes, there will be no back road, no supplies, and we will be the result of the annihilation of the whole army. ”

Li Zongren shook his head and said, "I saw this, so I decided to strengthen Tao Zhiyue's shili and avoid the situation you said." ”

"And then? The strength of the two sides is equal, and they are on a par? And then play positional warfare, one meter at a time to push forward? ”

Bai Chongxi was about to break out, but he still tried to calm himself down, and said softly: "Brother Delin, if this war lasts for a long time, there will be two problems, I don't know if you have considered it?" The first question is that our Southeast Front Army is currently losing five integrated divisions here, and with the security forces attached to the operation, it has almost reached the scale of 140,000 people. If the war drags on, even if we win, what status will you and I have in the hearts of the commander? Will you and I be in command of an army of more than 100,000 people in the future? Fighting a war is not just about killing people, we also have to settle economic accounts. The second question is, if we can't concentrate superior forces and break through the Chaohu defense line in the shortest possible time, then once Feng Guozhang recovers and transfers the two divisions commanded by Xu Shuzheng in Xuzhou, what will be the situation in this southeast battle? Brother Delin, have you considered all of this? ”

Li Zongren, who was not tall, had his brows wrinkled unconsciously, and he walked straight to the map, staring at the map with his eyes intently and thinking hard. This time, the marshal really trusted himself too much, and let Xu Yuanquan go, a general like Wan Yaohuang didn't need it, but he only appointed himself with the least seniority among the three army commanders to serve as the supreme commander of the Southeast Front Army. Not only that, but he was also very relieved to assign half of the army of the Youth Army to himself, if he couldn't win this life-and-death battle, how could he be worthy of the commander?

"Jiansheng, but if you follow your thinking, our left side is completely opposite to the right side, it is a situation of 100,000 to 50,000, this is a bet on who is faster, and then Tao Zhiyue and they will have to face a bloody battle."

Bai Chongxi's heart was suddenly happy when he heard this, he knew that Li Zongren's attitude was finally loosened, and he hurriedly said: "Brother Delin, Ci is not in charge of the army, this is our only chance, once Yuan Thief recovers and mobilizes the army, this southeast battle will become a bad battle." So now we can only gamble and see which of us and Feng Guozhang is more ruthless, and compare to see which of them can carry Tao Zhi, Yue Lu Diping, Zhang Huaizhi and Zhang Xun! Big brother can't hesitate, if you don't want to do the job over there Tao Zhiyue, I'll go for nothing, anyway, my reputation has always been bad. But we also have to hurry, the sooner we prepare, the sooner we can break through the Chaohu defense line. ”

Li Zongren nodded and said: "Okay, just do it, you don't need to do the work on Tao Zhiyue's side, I will take a regiment to Tongling to sit in person, their first division is from the personal guard of the marshal, there is no reason why you can't gnaw hard bones......"

On the other side, in Feng Guozhang's temporary headquarters in Wuhu, Guo Songling and the others were working intensively, and Feng Guozhang didn't know that his military deployment had already been leaked. also thought that he had a plan and said: "This time we and the other party are five or five, Zhang Huaizhi and Zhang Xun are both veterans of the army, and the army under his command is also a long-fought division, relying on the Yuxi River to resist the attack of the enemy's left army. So the key problem is that we are twice as large as the enemy, so this time we are going to defeat the enemy's right army in one fell swoop. I ordered the 2nd and 4th Divisions to set out from Wuhu and directly attack Tongling, and the 10th Division to attack Nanling from Xuancheng. After taking Tongling, I will let the navy follow, transport you from Chizhou to Jiangbei, and deal a fatal blow to the enemy's left army. I heard that Li Zongren, the commander-in-chief of the enemy army, is only 24 years old this year, and he dares to compete with the old man at such a young age, I think he is humiliating himself, haha. ”

"Haha" Wang Zhanyuan, Yang Shande also followed hahadaxiao.

Only Guo Songling frowned and said softly: "Marshal, I'm afraid we still have to be cautious, and it is recommended that General Xu Shuzheng's team be transferred down to supplement the Chaohu defense line, so as to ensure that nothing goes wrong." ”

Wang Zhanyuan was furious when he heard this, and scolded: "Bastard, how can you ask a little staff officer about such a major military incident?" It's against you. ”

Guo Songling was neither humble nor arrogant and said: "The so-called staff officer is to make suggestions, check and fill in the gaps, if it is not recommended at this time, then what else do I do." ”

"You" Wang Zhanyuan was furious, this staff officer actually dared to stand up to himself, and immediately wanted to ask someone to clean up Guo Songling.

"There's no need to fight" Feng Guozhang resolved the crisis for Guo Songling in time, "Mao Chen is also kind, but Mao Chen, this time the old man can't listen to you, because we can't get the opening fee, if there is still money, I won't be in such a hurry to fight to the death with the enemy, everyone should be more careful......"