What made Chairman Jiang's face even more gloomy was that he had just boasted to reporters from Western countries that Madang Fortress could stop the Japanese army for one to two months.

Lao Jiang was furious, and immediately removed Li Yunheng, the 16th Pei Chang Xue Weiying was directly robbed, and the Huangpu family failed to save Xue Weiying's life, since the defeat of the Lanfeng Battle shot Long Muhan in a rage, Lao Jiang did not seem to cherish his Whampoa students as much as before, Xue Weiying was already the second Whampoa student to be shot.

When the news reached De'an, Xue Yue said to his chief of staff, Wu Yizhi, that he wanted something bad.

The battle of Lanfeng was lost, and Lao Jiang had no complaints about Xue Yue, but at the moment of the war, Lao Jiang was pulling and pulling among the senior generals under him, and it turned out that except for Xue Yue, there was really no one who could be qualified for the post of commander-in-chief of the L Corps.

On the eve of Madang's defeat, Xue Yue had just arrived in De'an.

Although the 16th Army and the 49th Army were still organizing a counteroffensive, with Xue Yue's judgment, it was clear at a glance that it was absolutely impossible for the Nationalist Army to restore the Madang defensive line, so it would not be possible to transfer hundreds of thousands of his L Corps up.

In the final analysis, the current national army is not as good as before, and it is okay to play defense, but it is really more than enough to attack.

However, Chairman Chiang did not think so, and Chen Cheng, commander-in-chief of the Ninth Theater, did not think so, and after being called by Chairman Chiang overnight and scolded him, Chen Cheng turned around and strictly ordered the 16th Army and the 49th Army to counterattack Madang, and after the 16th Army and the 49th Army failed in the counteroffensive, Chen Cheng also transferred Li Hansoul's 1st Army stationed in Hukou.

As a result, Li Han's soul army also failed to recapture Madang, the Nationalist Government spent a lot of money to build the bunker fortifications in Madang became the largest barrier of the Japanese army, the national army attacked for several days, the casualties were not counted, looking down from the world, I saw that the position of Madang Fortress was full of corpses of soldiers of the national army, and the blood shed stained the Yangtze River red.

The Nationalist counterattack failed, and the Potian detachment counterattacked, and Hukou was also lost.

Xue Yue's words were true, it was really a bad thing, as soon as the mouth of the lake was lost, Jiujiang was directly exposed to the small Japanese troops, and then Chairman Jiang and Chen Cheng were finally awakened, and they did not dare to hope for a counterattack anymore, so they only let Xue Yue's corps guard the Jiujiang defense line, and no matter what, the Japanese army could not cross the Jiujiang defense line.

Xue Yue immediately summoned the commander-in-chief, corps commander, and army commander of more than a dozen group armies of the L Corps to his corps headquarters and convened an emergency meeting before the war.

In addition, Xue Yue also deliberately left Yu Jishi's 36th Army Corps by his side as the general reserve of the corps, for the upcoming battle of Jiujiang and De'an, Xue Yue was full of expectations, the defeat of the Battle of Lanfeng has become a thorn in his heart, Xue Yue is eager to pull out this thorn, he is eager to prove himself again.

In Xue Yue's eyes, Yu Jishi, like Gui Yongqing, is Chairman Jiang's protégé, putting them on the front line, Xue Yue will not sleep peacefully, only in his hands can he rest assured, in a word, Xue Yue never wants the tragedy of the Battle of Lanfeng to repeat.

In addition to Xue Yue, there is another person who is also full of expectations for the upcoming battle of Jiujiang and De'an, this person is the commander of the Little Japanese Army, Okamura Ningji, Okamura Ningji is one of several senior generals of the Japanese army Liao Liao who has both strategic and tactical vision, so this is destined to be a chifeng duel.

"Captain, it's fighting, it's fighting again." The little madman rushed into the headquarters of the 19th Brigade like a gust of wind, pointed outside, and reported to Xu 19 out of breath, "Company Commander Zhang and Company Commander Lu are fighting again. ”

Xu Shijiu's head grew as soon as he heard this, threw the pencil in his hand onto the map, turned around and walked out.

Considering that the 19th Brigade was seriously attrition in the Battle of Lanfeng, plus the cooking squad members, there were only more than 100 people left in the whole brigade, so he simply reduced it to a company, and transferred two companies from Li Song's 348th Regiment to supplement the 19th Brigade.

Li Song's 348th Regiment also suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Lanfeng, a regiment of more than 2,000 people fought only one battalion, which can be described as a great injury to vitality, and the casualties of grassroots officers were particularly large, the three battalion commanders and more than a dozen company commanders were almost all killed, and the regiment commander Li Song was also seriously wounded and stayed in Hankou, Feng Shengfa simply reorganized into a 348 regiment, and the remaining 400 or so veterans of the 348 regiment who survived the bloody battle were added to the independent 19th brigade.

The Lu company commander that the little madman said is named Lu Jianbang, one of the three remaining battalion and company officers of the original 348 regiment, Han Keqiang, the commander of the first battalion, has now been promoted to regiment commander, and took more than a dozen Guyu veterans to the rear to recruit and reorganize the troops, and the remaining two company deputies In addition to Lu Jianbang, there is also a company named Mu Enguang, who has become the company commander of the 19th brigade.

At the beginning of this year, when the 58th Division was still training in Shashi, Hubei, because of the different food standards, there was quite an unpleasant quarrel between the 19th Brigade and the 348th Regiment, and the grassroots officers of the two units were even more on the same page.

Lu Jianbang is especially a thorn in the head, this guy used to be a monk in his early years, he still has a ring scar on his head, and he is infinitely powerful and can carry a stone grinding plate for dozens of miles with his arms, and his image is quite similar to Lu Zhishen in the Water Margin, so everyone calls him a flower monk, and this guy has a lot of trouble with Zhang Youquan as soon as he comes.

When Xu Shijiu arrived at the drying field, Lu Jianbang was holding Zhang Youquan's shirt and pressing him on the stone mill in the drying field, and another big iron fist had been raised high, but Zhang Youquan was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and his fan-like left hand grabbed the wrist of Lu Jianbang's raised right hand to prevent the big iron fist from falling.

Because of the wrestling, Lu Jianbang and Zhang Youquan both had distorted faces, and the arms that rolled up their sleeves were also bulging, and the two were fighting and spraying trash talk to each other.

"Dog's Day Flower Monk, I'm your grandmother."

"You deserter, don't screw your head off today, Lao Tzu has your surname."

"Just you? It's not that Lao Tzu underestimated you, if it weren't for Lao Tzu's injury, the quasi-security would have beaten you all over the ground looking for teeth, and your mother wouldn't recognize you when she saw you, do you believe it or not, believe it or not? ”

"I don't believe it, but you're going to give it a beating?"

"Your grandma, see if Lao Tzu doesn't pinch out your egg yolk."

Over there, Xu Shijiu came over with a black face, and the two of them had no intention of stopping.

Zhang Youquan was ridden under him, he was at a disadvantage, he couldn't stop if he wanted to, Lu Jianbang didn't put Xu 19 in his eyes at all, the official name of the 19th Brigade is the independent battalion, the battalion commander is Gao Shenxing, Xu 19 is just the battalion deputy, as the saying goes, the staff officer doesn't take the commander, the fart doesn't make a sound, and the battalion deputy is not much stronger than the staff officer.

Xu Shijiu did not stop him, let alone step forward to forcibly separate the two, but turned his head and instructed the little madman: "Go, call all the brothers of the whole brigade over, and say that Company Commander Lu and Company Commander Zhang are having a wrestling match on the drying field, let them come over and watch." After saying that, Xu Shijiu also brought a stone from the side, so he sat down and watched it for a while.

Zhang Youquan turned his head sideways and smiled at Xu Shijiu, and the strength in his hand was also a little weaker.

Lu Jianbang actually didn't care about Xu Jiu at all, if Xu Jiu scolded him as soon as he came up, he would definitely be hungry, but Xu Jiu put on a good show of jiashi, Lu Jianbang felt quite bad in his heart, this guy still had to call the brothers and watch them like monkeys, and his heart was even more unpleasant.

Zhang You said with all his might, and Lu Jianbang stopped and got up.

Seeing that the two of them were no longer fighting, standing there with a scowl on their faces, Xu Shijiu said, "Why don't you fight?" Let's fight again. ”

Zhang Youquan was silent, but Lu Jianbang snorted from his nostrils and turned his face to other places, in fact, Lu Jianbang didn't have any opinions on Xu Nineteen, Xu Nineteen's ability He still admired it very much, what made Lu Jianbang haunted was actually the fact that the remnants of the 348 Regiment were absorbed by the Nineteenth Brigade.

In any case, the 348th Regiment is a regiment-level establishment, but the 19th Brigade is a battalion-level unit, and if it is to be absorbed, it should be the 348th Regiment to incorporate the remnants of the 19th Brigade, how can there be any reason for the 19th Brigade to incorporate the 348th Regiment? Not only Lu Jianbang thinks so, but also Mu Enguang and the remaining more than 400 veterans of the 348th regiment.

Yang Shaoren, chief of staff of the 58th Division, was also worried that Xu 19 would not be able to clean up the remnants of the 348th Regiment.

Feng Shengfa added the remnants of the 348th Regiment to the 19th Brigade, the original intention was to haode, the purpose was to close the fists and gather the elite veterans together, so that it would be more powerful when it was fought out, but in actual operation, Feng Shengfa couldn't help but be a little in a hurry, because it was not easy to merge the remnants of the 348th Regiment into the 19th Brigade.

Yang Shaoren told Feng Shengfa about his worries, but Feng Shengfa smiled when he heard it.

Those who want to govern the army must first choose a general and replace it with someone else, Feng Shengfa really doesn't dare to do this, but if it is Xu Nineteen, Feng Shengfa is not worried, and it is not the first time that the Nineteenth Brigade has been temporarily supplemented with veterans, whether it is the guard battalion of the original 58th Division or Zhang Youquan's remnants, which one is a fuel-efficient lamp?

What about zuihou? Zuihou was not still cleaned up by Xu Shijiu.

In a word, Feng Shengfa's ability to govern troops and fight wars is a hundred reassurances, no matter what kind of thorn, no matter what veteran ruffian, as long as it is in the hands of Xu Nineteen, he will immediately become a brave and warlike elite, although Lu Jianbang is difficult, but compared with Xu Nineteen, it is obviously not enough.