Wu Ming's generals were full of confidence to prepare for the arrival of the big war, but on the red side, there were chickens and dogs, and there was chaos.

Xianyan Town, located at the junction of Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, is named after the thousand-year-old temple - Xianyan Temple, which is a famous commercial port for hundreds of miles. At this time, in a red-walled and green-tiled courtyard building on Badu Street in the east of the town, several horse lanterns were hung high, reflecting the hall house vividly.

Tang Shengzhi, who rushed to Xianyan Town in advance with the horse team, looked at the latest movements of the blue side that kept coming from the exercise headquarters, and broke out in a cold sweat.

Although he had anticipated the severity of the situation and sent orders to respond to it by telegram in the evening, he found that he had underestimated the ability of the blue side to act. Now, the blue side has occupied all the places west of Liudu Creek, and is constantly advancing the battle line to the southeast, and a big war is about to break out.

Tang Shengzhi called the chief of staff, Zhou Yan, and soon issued a new order, and the radio waves flew across the night sky to all parts of the red side, asking all units to move closer to the main force as soon as possible, and the 67th Division would seize the peak heights of the wind tunnel at all costs to meet the retreating forward troops.

At this time, Chiang Kai-shek, who had already returned to the exercise headquarters in Danan Town from the Zhuganshan Observation Center, suddenly became interested in the current silent war situation.

For Qian Dajun's secret transmission of information to the Red Side, he turned a blind eye and pretended not to know anything, but in this case, the Blue Party knew the difficulties and still acted according to the established plan, looking at the latest news from the various referee groups, Chiang Kai-shek was eager to see that Wu Mingbu could not achieve victory.

In the entire exercise area, there were both people who were in a hurry and people who were not in a hurry.

The commander of the 45th Division, Major General Dai Minquan, was still looking good and wandering at this time.

Although he received a telegram from the Red Exercise Headquarters in the evening, Dai Minquan didn't care at all, at this time, his Tan Qingyun Brigade had almost arrived at Xiafang Village on the north bank of Huangjiasil, which can be described as a noble soldier, what else could he ask for? Another brigade following the division headquarters was immediately ordered to set up camp in Zhuuchi Village and the surrounding areas on the Zhejiang-Jiangxi border.

Dai Minquan was a veteran Kuomintang general, born in Fan Zhongxiu's Henan Army for the founding of the People's Republic of China, who participated in the battle against Chen Jiongming and rescued Sun Yat-sen, and later served as the commander of the mixed brigade of the third column of the Wuhan Nationalist Government during the Northern Expedition, and served as the commander of the 25th Division after the Kuomintang Army Formation Conference in 29.

In the Gushi Battle from April to May of the 20th year of the Republic of China and the second Gushi Battle from July to August, Dai Minquan led the 1st Division of the 25th Division to hold Gushi, repelled the second attack of the Red Army, and was promoted to brigade commander. In the 24th year of the Republic of China, Dai Minquan served as the commander of the 45th Division of the local militia and bandits adapted from Xixian, Runan, Gushi, Huangchuan and other counties in Henan.

Because of his qualifications, Dai Minquan did not care about the outcome of the exercise, stopped his advance before dark, and had dinner and slept early after setting up camp.

In the middle of the night, the chief of staff knocked on Dai Minquan's door with a telegram from the headquarters, Dai Minquan scolded and opened the door, the chief of staff hurriedly handed over the telegram, Dai Minquan scolded after reading it:

"How do you march in the middle of the night? Do you know what night blindness is in Ludao, people here are unfamiliar with life, what if the officers and soldiers fall off the cliff? Tang Shengzhi went crazy, and you went crazy too...... It's not okay to transfer Tan Qingyun Brigade, it's all our Henan soldiers, who is responsible for the loss? ”

"Don't go to bed yet, we have to travel for the day tomorrow...... It's really damn bad, and I don't know which turtle grandson chose the drill location of the road, here the mountains are one after another, and there are dense woods everywhere, I really don't know when the road will be able to get out of this ghost place."

"But—"

The chief of staff still wanted to persuade, Dai Minquan raised his eyebrows, closed the door with a "bang", the chief of staff looked at the message in his hand, shook his head helplessly, thought about it, Yu Crisp didn't do anything, and went back to the house to sleep.

While Dai was asleep, the officers and men of the two regiments of Li Bojiao's Brigade of the 63rd Division, which was in charge of the Red Side, were also resting in Tangbian Town, where the camping conditions were very good.

In a house in the middle of the town, Major General Li Bojiao, the brigade commander who was awakened, came to the window after reading the urgent telegram sent by Tang Shengzhi, looked at it by the light of the horse lamp under the eaves, shook his head and said:

"It's already very late at night, and it's a bit difficult for us to get on the road at this time...... Old Gu, think about it, the blue side is 40 kilometers away from us, and it is also 20 or 30 kilometers away from the artillery unit, I don't believe that the people on the blue side don't sleep, and they forcibly marched 70 or 80 kilometers for more than 40 hours to attack our artillery and baggage troops, so that the officers and soldiers can continue to rest, and they will go tomorrow morning."

"This exercise is not trivial, the chairman of the committee and the bigwigs of the military committee are watching"

Deputy Brigade Commander Colonel Gu Mingjia hesitated a little, and continued to persuade: "Brigade Commander, no matter how you say that Commander Tang is also a senior of our Hunan Army, if we openly violate his orders, we will have to eat military law." ”

"What kind of military law to eat? Isn't it just a fucking exercise, and you still eat military law"

Li Bojiao spoke with a thick Hunan accent, he touched his forehead, and said casually: "You call Commander Tang, just say that most of the officers and soldiers of our brigade have eye diseases, and the night march has suffered great losses, and I ask to leave early tomorrow morning." In addition, you can call the division again and explain the situation of our department, I want to delay for a few hours, there should be no problem."

Now that the brigade commander has made a decision, Gu Mingjia can't continue to entangle, so he has to call back.

Li Bojiao, who graduated from the Hunan Army's Third Division Officers' Training Institute, can be regarded as a tiger general in the Hunan Army; he fought bravely, successively served as squad, platoon, company, battalion, regiment commander, and other positions, and had profound qualifications, and won the attention of Chen Guangzhong, commander of the 63rd Division.

However, Li Bojiao was very uninterested in participating in the exercise, and in his eyes, it was not interesting to play these shows, and the best way to really test the soldiers was to go to the battlefield once, so as to promote the growth of the troops

The night is deep, the curved first quarter moon hangs high, the bright moonlight swaying down, and the mountains look white and cold.

Jiudu Mountain is a mountain range at the junction of Jiangxi and Zhejiang, with an altitude of only more than 200 meters covered by dense forests, and even the forest coverage rate of the border area between the two provinces in later generations has reached more than 80 percent, not to mention this era without any industry. At the edge of a dark forest at the eastern foot of Jiudu Mountain, a group of people suddenly jumped out, they were agile, like apes growing on the mountain, and rushed out of a long distance in a hurry.

Soon, a group of black shadows gathered on an open grass, the first person to greet was Lu Kuiyuan, the commander of the guard battalion of the new Second Division, he looked around at his brothers, after more than 30 miles of forced march over the mountains and mountains, although everyone was out of breath, but still supported each other in twos and threes, leaning together, maintaining the appearance of soldiers.

Lu Kuiyuan instructed the communicator, and quickly called a few leading officers over, Lei Yan, who arrived at the last of the year, was a little embarrassed, his face flushed, he gasped for breath, and saluted after arriving at Lu Kuiyuan's side: "Battalion commander, our second guard company-"

"Okay, I know what you want to say...... Don't be cranky, after all, it's the first time that your guard company has experienced such a long forced march at night, and it's already rare not to fall behind."

Lu Kuiyuan waved his hand and interrupted Lei Yan's explanation.

Along the way, Lu Kuiyuan took the officers and soldiers of two spy companies and a guard company to follow the trail, pass through the junction of the red side, climb several mountains in a row, and finally came to the side of the road southwest of Tangbian Town. Although the officers and soldiers of the two spy companies were very tired, they could still persevere, but Lei Yan's guard company had never undergone such training, and they still kept up with the footsteps of the spy company, which was enough to ⊥surprise Lu Kuiyuan.

Major Qian Zhisheng, the deputy battalion commander, took out the map, Lu Kuiyuan covered the flashlight with gauze, and simply assigned the task with the help of the faint light, so that Lei Biao led the second company of spies to attack and harass Li Bojiao's brigade, and Lu Kuiyuan himself led the first company to attack the red artillery and baggage troops, Lei Yan and the deputy battalion commander Qian Zhisheng led the officers and soldiers of the second company of the guard to rest and respond at any time.

"But—"

Lei Yan was a little anxious when he heard this, this time, he finally led the team to participate in the operation, how could he be left aside?

Lu Kuiyuan smiled slightly and said, "After all, your guard company has not undergone such high-intensity training, and the most important thing now is to rest to recover your strength...... We are now only going to attack, and there are still five hours until half past four in the morning, and we will launch a general attack when the moon is gone, and the earth is dark, and the enemy is sleeping. When the time comes, you can lead the team into battle. ”

Lei Yan nodded helplessly, and soon watched Lu Kuiyuan and Lei Biao disappear in the bushes with the officers and soldiers of the special service company......

Chicken manure mountain shrouded in night.

"Boom-"

In the darkness of the night, the camp of Daotang Village, where the Red Artillerymen and Heavy Troops were located, was full of fire, gunfire and explosions came and went, and the horses and pack horses in the livestock shed neighed in horror, and several of the horses broke free from their reins and disappeared into the night. Helping to push the artillery and carry the ammunition, the artillerymen, who had been tired all day, woke up from their sleep and rushed out of their tents in a panic.

The small group of attacking troops of the blue side avoided the light and dark fire points around the camp, and from time to time they burst out of the woods, constantly firing black guns at the red soldiers, and from time to time throwing in a few drill grenades without shrapnel.

By the time the two infantry battalions of the artillery and baggage camps had gathered to meet them, the small group of blue raiders had disappeared again. When everyone went to sleep and just lay down, gunshots and explosions rang out again, causing a crowd of chickens and dogs to go.