At noon on 22 March, the newly formed Fourth Regiment of the Second Zhejiang Security Division went to Maopailing as scheduled to take over the defense, and Wu Ming, Zhang Dongning, Dai Ziran, and others politely handled the handover with the commander of the Fourth Regiment, not only leaving behind the carefully built fortifications, food that could last for 10 days, 450,000 rounds of ammunition, 30 boxes of grenades, and six tents of their own, but also copied a military topographic map of the Maopailing area of 1/20,000 and handed it to the Fourth Regiment, which was densely marked with complex terrain in the surrounding area.

The battalion and company commanders of the Fifth Regiment did not say goodbye to the villagers, but led their subordinates directly to gather in Da Sheping in the east of the village, and after a brief report, they set off under the leadership of the regiment commander Wu Ming to evacuate this ancient mountain village that had only been stationed for five days.

However, the hundreds of villagers who were alarmed still came to see them off, but they all stood in the distance and watched, many villagers always felt that they were sending away the Red Army team, but the military uniforms and cockades on the officers and men of the Fifth Regiment were all white dog costumes spurned by the Red Army officers and soldiers, this reality made the villagers' mood very complicated, until the last of the year, no one stepped forward to say goodbye, just watched from afar without saying a word, until the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Regiment all disappeared in the east bend of the mountain, the villagers returned to their homes quite lost.

Wu Ming originally thought that he could rest for two days before going south when he returned to Nancheng, but who knew that the situation on the battlefield in Ludao was changing rapidly, and the 11th Division, the main force of the first column that had left for Guangchang two days ago, entered the Red Army's ambush circle yesterday morning on the front line of Caotaigang, which is located 30 kilometers northwest of Guangchang, and the remnants of the 59th Division followed desperately forward to relieve the siege.

Due to intelligence errors, the 10th and 14th Divisions of the main force of the second column under Chen Cheng's personal command had already attacked the north of Guangchang City, but were stubbornly resisted by the five regiments of the Red Army; Chen Cheng, who received the telegram for help, commanded the 10th and 14th Divisions to get rid of the entanglement of the Red Army and turned north to rescue the 11th Division trapped in Caotaigang, and on the other hand urgently reported to Chiang Kai-shek asking for reinforcements.

Frightened, Chiang Kai-shek immediately ordered the 5th and 9th Divisions of the 3rd Column, which were the general reserves, to abandon all their baggage and gallop to the Caotaigang and Dongpi fronts.

As soon as the order was issued, Tao Zhiyue, commander of the Eighth Division, who was guarding Nanfeng, sent an urgent telegram: The 11th Army and other units of the main force of the Red Army had surrounded Nanfeng, and all the logistics and transportation lines had been cut off.

At this time, the 79th Division had left Nanfeng and rushed to the aid of the 11th Division in the west, and Zhao Guanlan's 6th Division was still guarding the Red Army in eastern Jiangxi and western Fujian at Huangshidu, north of Nancheng.

As soon as Wu Ming led his troops back to Nancheng, he received a notice: The headquarters is not allowed to stay and go south immediately!

Chen Shizheng, who came to give the order, was quite interesting, not only brought enough ammunition and dry food, but also allocated a one-time supplementary military fund of 30,000 oceans to the five regiments, and then dragged Wu Ming to the city headquarters.

After listening to Yu Jishi's introduction to the battle situation, Wu Ming was stunned for a long time, suddenly walked to the large map and pointed to Nanfeng, and asked all the officers, including Yu Jishi and Wu Qiwei, the commander of the 90th Division, with annoyance: "How many people are in Chief Tao Zhiyue's Eighth Division?" ”

All the generals and colonels were surprised, and a staff officer on the side subconsciously replied: "The Eighth Division has three brigades, with a total of 12,500 soldiers. ”

"Bullshit!"

Wu Ming's scolding frightened everyone, only to see him point to Nanfeng on the map and say loudly: "As far as I know, the Eighth Division has three brigades, namely the 22nd Brigade of Xiang Chaozhong, the 23rd Brigade of Zeng Zhiyuan and the 24th Brigade of Li Ying, these three brigades are not only the main brigades with full strength, but also just completed the refitting in October last year, the weapons and equipment are almost the same as the main divisions of the Central Army, and they also have an artillery battalion. And ah......"

Wu Ming turned sideways and pointed to the line from Caotai Gang to Dongpi on the map to the west: "Here, the 12,000 brothers of the 11th Division were surrounded by the communist army three times their own in Caotai Gang, and the two regiments of the 59th Division were surrounded by the communist army of five regiments in this mountain nest south of Dongpi, and the total number of communist troops besieging the 11th and 59th divisions in this place was no less than 50,000, plus the 10,000 communist troops who dragged General Chen Cheng in Guangchang, plus the tens of thousands of communist troops in eastern Jiangxi faced by the sixth division of Chief Zhao Guanlan, the total number of communist troops has exceeded 70,000...... Ladies and gentlemen, all the previous information shows that the communist army is no more than 50,000 at most, and now it has suddenly increased to 70,000, who believes it? ”

"Wait!"

The tall Wu Qiwei stopped Wu Ming, who was about to come down: "Head Wu, do you want to tell us that there are not so many enemies in Nanfeng, but a bluff?" ”

Wu Ming smiled: "I didn't say this offending word!" However, we had a lot of dealings with the 11th Army of the Communist Army before, and the number of this unit a month ago was the 10th Army of the Communist Army, Zhou Jianping, who graduated from the Yunnan Jiangwutang, was appointed as the commander, and Tu Zhennong, who was elected secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Department, was appointed as the political commissar, and it had three brigades of at most more than 1,000 people, and most of the officers and soldiers came from the counties of Shangrao Prefecture in northeastern Jiangxi. ”

"A month ago, the 10th Army quietly left more than 500 wounded and sick people, slipped out of the encirclement set up by 12 regiments in Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, and became the 11th Army of the Communist Army in eastern Jiangxi, with a total strength of about 5,500 people in their heyday, after more than a month of long-distance travel and continuous fighting, how many more people can they have? He counted 5,500 men from the sky, and I dare say that a third of the more than 5,000 people didn't even have a rifle! ”

"It's such a unit that actually surrounded an elite division of our army with three brigades of more than 12,000 people and an artillery battalion, and even beat the division to the point of asking for reinforcements, do you believe it? Whether you believe it or not, I don't believe it anyway. ”

After Wu Ming finished speaking, he strode down the steps, stood behind Yu Jishi, took out a cigarette, and took out a beautiful American lighter to light it as if no one was around.

Although some people were very annoyed by Wu Ming's rudeness, the generals, including Yu Jishi and Wu Qiwei, attached great importance to Wu Ming's analysis, and quickly gathered together to discuss, and then made a correct judgment:

The main force of the communist army will not be in Guangchang and Nanfeng, but in Caotaigang and Dongpi line, more than 30 kilometers west of Guangchang and Nanfeng, and the reason why the communist army has created a situation in which the war is raging everywhere is that the purpose is to facilitate them to concentrate their superior forces and annihilate the two regiments of the 11th Division and the 59th Division in the shortest possible time.

After making a clear judgment, Wu Qiwei and Yu Jishi immediately sent a joint telegram to Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Cheng at the front, and made changes to the plan to support Nanfeng, and the original plan of sending three regiments south to support was changed to only sending one regiment to escort ammunition to ensure that the transportation line north of Nanfeng was unblocked.

Wu Ming was completely speechless, the reason why he suddenly went crazy was completely to take the opportunity to escape from going south and confronting the main force of the Red Army, and the brothers who had been nervous for a while also needed to have a good rest.

However, Wu Ming is Wu Ming, it is by no means something that ordinary people can figure out, in the face of Yu Jishi's serious orders, in the face of Wu Qiwei and a group of generals' smiling faces, Wu Ming stood tall and solemn, and shouted a surprising rhetoric: "Obey orders!" Subordinates are guaranteed to complete the mission! ”

The generals were full of praise for Wu Ming's courage to shoulder the heavy burden, and Yu Jishi also felt that Wu Ming had added glory to his face, so he cordially went up and pulled Wu Ming's arm, walked to the side and asked with concern: "Is there anything else that needs to be added?" ”

Wu Ming thought for a while: "Chief of Staff Chen, who should be supplemented, has been prepared in advance, considering that the roads to be taken here are all on the main road, and the terrain is relatively open, if it can be equipped with two heavy machine guns, it will be more reassuring." ”

"Good! You go back and prepare, do your mobilization, and I'll send someone to send you two American Browning heavy machine guns right away. Yu Jishi agreed very generously.

"Thank you!"

Wu Ming saluted dignifiedly, turned around and walked away, without looking at the full hall of generals.

Standing beside Yu Jishi, Wu Qiwei shook his head again and again: "This tiger under your command has a character!" ”

Yu Jishi smiled slightly: "Speaking of which, he and you are still our own family." ”

Wu Qiwei was stunned for a moment, then laughed, and asked humorously: "Head Wu has a keen eye and is more proficient in calculation, I don't know how many high-achieving students in Huangpu are?" ”

Yu Jishi replied embarrassedly: "Ye Luzi was born, but this person is very studious and naturally smart, I wonder if Brother Qingyun (Wu Qiwei) has heard of the Zhejiang Army Teaching Team?" ”

Wu Qiwei immediately remembered: "Remember, he is the instructor captain Wu Ming who wrote two highly acclaimed basic textbooks for military training, invented a new method of rapid construction of fortifications, and was praised many times by the "Central Daily" and "Republic of China Daily", right?" ”

"That's him."

Yu Jishi's smile gave up the pride that couldn't be hidden.

Wu Qiwei nodded again and again: "Sure enough, there is no void under the fame!" You are blessed to have such a wise and brave subordinate! ”

"Ha Lu Ha! Brother Qingyun has won the award, Wu Ming's foundation is good, but he hasn't fought a big war yet, so it's a good thing for him to go out and exercise. Yu Jishi smiled modestly.

Wu Qiwei was quickly called away, and Chen Shizheng immediately walked to Yu Jishi's side: "Do you say that Wu Ming is greedy?" Every time it seems that he is very happy to obey orders, but every time he has to take the opportunity to get some benefits, didn't he originally say that the Gannan region is not suitable for heavy machine guns, and also transported all the heavy machine guns in his department back? Well, now it's needed again, why is this person so philistine? ”

Yu Jishi couldn't help but be happy: "It's just two heavy machine guns, it is estimated that he was poor and scared before, or he is still childlike, let him go, as long as he can complete the task well, halu ha!" ”

Yu Jishi's good mood only lasted for five hours, and he was shattered by the sudden bad news, and in a hurry, he hurriedly gathered troops to reinforce Maopailing, who sent a telegram for help, and asked Wu Qiwei to send a regiment to help in the battle.

At this time, Wu Ming had already led the fifth regiment to escort a large number of baggage south, and it was already 20 kilometers away from Nancheng, and it was still 18 kilometers away from the destination Nanfeng City.

Wu Ming, who suddenly received Yu Jishi's urgent order, never expected that less than a day after he led his troops to leave the safety of Maopailing, the three regiments of the Red Army, which had been rapidly evacuated, suddenly turned around and fought back to Maopailing, and through telegram analysis, the new Fourth Regiment of the new formation, which had just arrived at Maopailing, was probably finished!