"Commander, I have a little doubt, I don't know if I should talk about it?" Speaking was a colonel from the General Staff, the colonel was not very old, but his face showed sophistication and shrewdness beyond his peers.

"What doubts?" Huang Ke didn't give him a good look.

The colonel stood up: "Commander, the troops led by General Batu are now stationed in the Jinji region, if they enter the Suiyuan region, will they unite with the local prince, if that happens, I am worried that it will be too big." ”

The colonel spoke very bluntly, and it was undeniable that as a staff officer, he had a long-term vision; People's hearts are unpredictable, to be honest, he really hadn't thought about this issue before, what if Batu gained a foothold in Mongolia and joined forces with outsiders?

But Huang Ke's heart quickly dispelled this thought, he clearly understood that the use of the will be doubtful, and the suspicion will also be used, not to mention that people are sitting in the bureau, disaster comes from the sky, and when things are a little unpredictable.

What's more, the most important thing at the moment is not these things, but how can Batu lead his troops to successfully enter Suiyuan?

"You're right, and it's very reasonable, but our primary problem now is how to solve the supply problem of the troops led by Batu, if we consider whether he has two hearts at this time, I think it's a little early, right?"

After Huang Ke criticized for a while, the staff officer shut up, but Huang Ke didn't know if he had any resentment in his heart. When asked how to carry out the supply, a group of staff officers stared dryly and did not know what to say; Yes, the Northern Expeditionary Army did not have an air force, and if there was an air force that could carry out airdrops, then the supply problem would be solved.

"Commander, according to the humble position, since we can't supply General Batu's expeditionary corps now, it is better to send a telegram to General Batu and let him lead his troops to gain a foothold in the existing area, and it is not too late to cross the Yellow River and march to Guisui after the summer comes."

"Keep talking!" Bai Chongxi's words aroused Huang Ke's interest.

Bai Chongxi walked to the back of the seat and slowly opened the large-scale map of China behind him with his hand, "The troops led by General Batu are now in this position in the Jinji region, please see, this place is close to the Taihang Mountains and is facing the danger of Huang Ke, which can be said to be a natural barrier." In addition, there are not many warlords here, and the main force of the Yan Xishan Department in Shanxi has been transferred to Nanjing, Wuhan and other places, and there are only some local troops left, so if Batu's troops set up camp here, it will be much easier in terms of internal and external conditions than in the Suiyuan area. ”

Bai Chongxi's opinion was indeed read, and Huang Ke couldn't help nodding. The other officers also cast their heads in the same direction and concentrated.

"According to the humble opinion, it is better to let General Batu be stationed here and open up a place here to carry out land reform, firstly, it can solve various problems of logistics and supply of Batu's department, and secondly, it can also be used as an advance base for our Northern Expedition, and once the time is ripe, we can order General Batu to lead his troops to cross the Yellow River."

"Base!" Such a special word flashed in Huang Ke's mind, and Bai Chongxi's suggestion opened him up to a new idea.

Right! If Batu established a base here, he would not only be able to solve his own grain and grass supply problem, but also be able to open up the current predicament and form a virtuous circle.

"Good!" Huang Ke was very happy when he heard this suggestion, "Yes, Chief of Staff Bai's suggestion is very good, you go and refine it now, draw up a plan and report it to me." ”

"Yes!" After Bai Chongxi finished speaking, he took out a pen and paper and prepared a draft message plan. There is an unwritten rule in the Northern Expeditionary Army Command that if it is an urgent military matter, it must draw up a plan at the conference table, which is also a habit of Huang Ke.

Experienced officers of the staff pooled their wisdom and quickly worked out such an order plan of about 100 words.

Huang Ke nodded after reading it, handed it to Bai Chongxi next to him and said, "It's okay, take it and send the report." ”

"Yes!" When Bai Chongxi took it and was about to hand it out, Huang Ke called him again, he took the prepared telegram, then picked up the pen on the table and thought for a while, and then added a sentence at the back: "Relying on the sky and the sea are innumerable, and the flowing water and mountains know themselves - Huang Ke." ”

After receiving the telegram, Batu could not calm down, and in the tent by the Yellow River, he walked back and forth in front of a bonfire, around which some high-ranking officers sat around, and the faces of these people were reflected in the fire, and their shabby military uniforms made them no different from ordinary soldiers.

"The horses are tired of the long journey, and the lips are tired of gossiping; But brothers, I, Batu, am happy and sad now, and I have to be verbose. ”

The generals looked at Batu, whose face turned red in the light of the campfire.

"I am glad that the headquarters has taken into account our practical difficulties, and now we no longer need to carry out the original order to attack Suiyuan, we can repair on the spot, and wait until the weather warms up next year to raise the plan to march into Suiyuan; The worry is that the headquarters is now organizing three major battles, and there is no one to send us supplies at all, which means that if we want to drink wine and eat meat now, we have to rely on our own hands. ”

There was no sound from the officers around, and the expressions of all were as calm as ever; Indeed, the long war career has made them accustomed to calmly facing all bad or wonderful things, and Batu is deeply pleased to have such a group of comrades-in-arms, in his words, they are the warriors given by Tengri!

Batu threw the horse whip in his hand to the ground and sat on it, he always retained the behavior and habits of the Mongols, Ma Guizi turned his expectant eyes to Batu, no doubt, now the backbone of everyone is ah, when it is close to despair, everyone hopes that he can give a satisfactory plan.

"Commander Huang Ke also said in the telegram that we should rely on the dangerous terrain of the Taihang Yellow River to carry out an agrarian revolution and establish a base here; I just asked someone to ask the members of the troops, now we still have more than 8,000 people, and there are not many horses, I looked at the map, fifty miles ahead is Pingyuan County, where the defenders are less than 1,000 people, we will knock down all the Pingyuan County at once, and the surrounding countryside is also controlled, with the help of Taihang Mountain, it is estimated that we can pass through. ”

"Commander, do we still have to send troops to garrison the countryside? There were no walls or economic centers in the countryside, and we sent troops to defend them so that if the enemy attacked, we would easily eat a ball. Ma Guizi disagreed with this, and after he said it, some officers also talked about their own opinions, and most of them agreed with Ma Guizi.

Batu thought for a moment: "Commander Huang Ke means that we should carry out an agrarian revolution in the countryside and let the peasants trust us; However, unlike the Northern Expedition, we have no rear, and if the enemy comes to attack, we will suffer. ”

"I don't think it's better to leave a cavalry platoon in a town as a mobile force, so that it won't cost much troops around the county, and some more troops will be stationed at important card points, which will not only facilitate the development of the agrarian revolution, but also be able to unfold the troops, and when necessary, they can also contact each other, just like the beacon of your Han people."

Listening to Batu joke about the beacon tower of the former nomads and farming peoples, the generals laughed, and the original melancholy atmosphere faded a lot.

Ma Guizi and several officers stood up, he wrapped his military coat tightly and said: "I think it is better to send scouts to explore the situation in Pingyuan County now, and if we can, we will launch an attack on Pingyuan County tonight; I don't want to sleep in a tent in the snow and ice anymore, I'm going to sleep on a warm kang in the county seat, haha. ”

"Okay, sooner rather than later," after speaking, Batu asked Li Han, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion, to call over and give the order to arrive at the reconnaissance.

Li Han, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion, is not tall, long and sturdy, is an authentic Guangxi man, he joined the cavalry team after the merchant army at the earliest, and later because of his good equestrian skills, brains, and several hands in battle, he was promoted to the commander of the reconnaissance battalion step by step.

Li Han is a guy who naturally likes to fight, when the Northern Expedition marched, he passed by Shaanxi with more than a regiment of the Northwest Army to pursue, he personally led dozens of scouts to break the back, and his troops were uninjured after a battle, and the pursuing Northwest Army fell a large number of corpses.

After being stationed in the Jinji region, the troops stopped, and the weather at this time turned cold, Li Han was a southerner, and he was not freezing, plus he stayed in the tent all day, he was shivering from the cold, and there was a feeling that he was going to see the king of Hades.

After a long time, Li Han's body bones felt crispy, and he had long been looking forward to going out for activities. As soon as he heard that there was a combat mission, he happily hurriedly selected a dozen or so elite soldiers, selected a few fast horses with good foot strength, and rushed towards the direction of Pingyuan County as soon as he slipped away.

With the help of the cover of night, Li Han and the others walked around the plain county town with a radius of only ten miles. Pingyuan County is stationed in a civil defense battalion of the Jin army, plus the security brigade and police in the county town are no more than 1,000 people, such a third- or fourth-rate army is vulnerable to combat effectiveness, and those who stand guard at the city gate are hiding in the sentry post because of the cold weather, drinking and gambling cards.

When Li Han saw this, it was better to find a way to probe the truth, a few people put down their horses and took off their military uniforms, and then clamped the horse's belly and rushed towards the city gate, when there were still a few hundred meters away from the city gate, more than a dozen people shot into the sky together.

Bang bang bang! After hearing the gunshots, the soldiers of the Civil Defense Regiment who were originally hiding in the sentry began to run out idly, at this time Li Han and they reined in the reins of their horses and roared, and the officers and men of the Civil Defense Regiment thought that the bandits were coming, so they hurriedly blew the whistle to gather, and after ten minutes, more than a dozen members of the team gathered from the sentry tower.

But at this time, Li Han and the others had already run out of a few miles with the help of fast horses.