The commander-in-chief didn't speak for a long time, and Ye Zhao couldn't help but be a little nervous. Could it be that the commander-in-chief blames himself for his incompetence? Alas, who would have thought that Li Yunheng and the 16th Army were so bad, with nearly 20,000 men in three divisions and strong fortifications, but they couldn't hold out for even an hour. It's incredible, but that's how cruel it is. If they could hold out for an hour, one of their regiments stationed at the forefront would be able to rush to Jiujiang City. The cadets of a regiment may not be a big deal, but there is absolutely no problem in delaying it for another hour, and with this hour, he can lead the main force to rush over. At that time, it will certainly not be a matter of holding Jiujiang, at least, it will be able to contain the Japanese offensive - of course, it will be too late to say anything now. A division of the Japanese army entered Jiujiang, and even Jiujiang City was occupied, and at this time, if he led the team over, he would have to gnaw hard bones. Ye Zhao was confident that he would counterattack Jiujiang, but if there were heavy casualties as a result, it would be more than worth the loss.

The battle situation reported by Ye Zhao in time was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for Ouyang Yun. Just before he called, Ouyang Yun stared at the sand table, considering the role that Peng Ze might play in this battle of Hankou from the overall situation, and a very bad thought suddenly flashed in his heart. Before sending troops, he didn't feel that there was a problem, but now, after re-examining the positions of the Chinese and Japanese participating troops, he was suddenly surprised to find that if there was a certain tacit understanding between the Japanese army and the Central Army and even some local armies, then Peng Ze was likely to become an island, and at that time, the situation of the student army would be difficult.

He was really afraid of something, just when he was worried that once Jiujiang was lost, the Xuebing Army would be in extreme danger, Ye Zhao's call arrived, confirming the news of Jiujiang's loss. Jiujiang was lost so quickly and unexpectedly that he suddenly had a very small thought: Could this be a game? Even, the Battle of Hankou was a game, that is, a pit dug by Lao Chiang and the Japanese waiting for the student army to jump into it. Once this thought was generated, it grew up as quickly as a devil, and soon filled Ouyang Yun's entire body and mind, and even made him feel as if there were ants gnawing at it in his heart, making him can't help but want to reach in and scratch it twice. If this is the case, then the so-called Chongqing incident may be a play that Lao Jiang and the Japanese have long been together, and if this is the case, then this is really terrifying.

Now what? Is there still a need for Peng Ze to stick to it? Do you want to break through the siege immediately while the Japanese army has not completely occupied Jiujiang? But in that case, Madang Fortress and the small lonely mountain must be abandoned. The importance of Madang Fortress to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River is self-evident, once the Madang Fortress is lost, then the Japanese Yangtze River Fleet will be able to reach Wuhan directly, and at that time, Wuhan will be difficult to hold...... In just five minutes, Ouyang Yun had thousands of thoughts in his heart. In the end, after an ideological struggle, he decided to believe in the Chongqing government and Jiang for once, and decided not to take any drastic action for the first time. He didn't take any drastic actions, but he had to be prepared for the future, so after he gave Ye Zhao the order to stay at Hukou and observe the changes in the battle situation in Jiujiang, he immediately began to contact Li Zongren, Chen Cheng and Xue Yue.

The Battle of Xuzhou commanded by Li Zongren was fought quite well, although it was forced to give up after the worst battle, but it caused great casualties to the Japanese army. It can be said that the First Battle of Xuzhou achieved Li Zongren's reputation as a famous anti-Japanese general. And it was precisely because of his outstanding performance in the Battle of Xuzhou that when the Battle of Hankou began, the Military Council would hand over the command of the north bank of the Yangtze River to him.

As a general, you need victory to build your confidence in the enemy. Because of the opportunity obtained in the Battle of Xuzhou, Li Zongren's confidence in the Japanese was greatly increased. Therefore, when he received a new appointment, he embarked on the journey to Hankow with full confidence. However, not long after he arrived in Hankou, he had just taken command of the Jiangbei team, and the cruel facts gave him a blow in the face. There were quite a few Chinese troops in Jiangbei, in addition to the Central Army with five divisions, there were also six divisions of the Sichuan Army and two divisions from Yunnan, but because there were no descendant troops in hand, in fact, at the beginning, Li Zongren's order could not even leave Wuhan City except for the transfer of the headquarters.

This situation was not only unexpected by Li Zongren and Chief of Staff Bai Chongxi, but also by Ouyang Yun. Ouyang Yun thought that Li Zongren, as the commander-in-chief of the North Bank, had a certain prestige and decision-making power, so he contacted him, on the one hand, to get his assistance at a critical time, and on the other hand, he hoped that he would come forward and mediate between himself and Yang Sen, so that the Sichuan army would not fall into trouble when the student army might be in trouble.

Since the beginning of the Xinhai Revolution, the situation in Sichuan has been the most complicated of all provinces in China. The fighting situation in Sichuan is complicated, and the various forces and warlords are singing and I will appear, and the cruelty of its civil war can be said to be unparalleled in the country.

In the current Sichuan, Liu Xiang and Yang Sen were originally in power together. Liu Xiang and Yang Sen, two enemies who once shared the sky, no matter what their personal morality was, no matter what kind of unbearable means they used to deal with their own people in the civil war, what is worthy of praise is that externally, the attitude of the two people is the same, and they are willing to follow Lao Jiang's orders to lead the army out of Sichuan to participate in the War of Resistance.

In the past, Liu Xiang was secretly executed by Lao Jiang. And in this time and space, because the Scholar Army dominated the storm in the late stage of the Battle of Nanjing, it changed the cruel history of the past. Therefore, Liu Xiang was able to die a good death, and died of illness in Wuhan after the last illness.

After Liu Xiang died of illness, Yang Sen took over his army, so there was inevitably a "misunderstanding" between him and Ouyang Yun. There are now two Sichuan army divisions in the sequence of the student army, and even the number has been changed. Ouyang Yun invited the Sichuan army to Guangdong, but he actually did a good thing, after all, at that time, the two Sichuan army divisions had already lost the strength of the first battle, and they also lost their logistics supplies. However, in the eyes of the cadet soldiers and Liu Yuqing and Rao Guohua, in Yang Sen's view, it was Ouyang Yun's inauthentic deeds. It's not good to say, Ouyang Yun incorporated the two Sichuan army divisions under that circumstances, that is, taking advantage of the danger of others.

In that time and space, Ouyang Yun was a Sichuan person, plus this time and space, the Sichuan army showed the iron bone that the Chinese currently lack, so Ouyang Yun had a good impression of the Sichuan army. However, it is one thing to have a good impression, and it is impossible for him to sacrifice the interests of the student army and make a move to curry favor with Yang Sen. For a long time, because of the strength of the Scholar Army, Ouyang Yun was not worried that Yang Sen would have any bad intentions for the Scholar Army. But now, he has to worry about whether the Sichuan army will fall into the well when the student army is in trouble. In view of such thoughts, he took the initiative to contact Li Zongren, hoping that he would make peace and eliminate Yang Sen's misunderstanding of him and Xuebingjun.

Li Zongren has had a hard time lately. As mentioned earlier, he did not have a direct line of troops under his command, although he had five well-equipped central divisions as well as the Sichuan army and some other local troops. However, the troops did not listen to him very much, so even if he had a good strategy against the enemy, he could only sigh to himself because the order could not be effective. He knew about the change of the 74th Army to the 74th Army, and the 74th Army was in the limelight some time ago, although the losses of the department were also very heavy, but after all, it completely annihilated a division of the Japanese army and won the most brilliant victory since the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (the central government's consistent style is to control the media, saying that the black is white, and the white is black, so. Whether it was the annihilation of the 108th Division by the Cadet Army in the Battle of Tianjin, or Li Zongren's heavy defeat of two divisions of the Japanese army in the Battle of Xuzhou, these were deliberately forgotten by the media controlled by the central government). The five division commanders on the north bank of the Central Army were not very convinced, but now that the brother troops have achieved such brilliant results, these Central Army have also risen as if they had won the battle, let alone Li Zongren.

The Sichuan army is a well-known beggar army, although the will to fight is not bad, but the equipment is too poor, and the combat effectiveness is objectively low, so even if Yang Sen is willing to listen to Li Zongren, Li Zongren does not dare to count on them to be the main force. When Ouyang Yun took the initiative to contact him, he was drinking with Yang Sen and discussing the next strategic plan. Yang Senqi, no matter how disgraceful the role he played in the Sichuan Civil War, is worthy of respect that when he led his troops out of Sichuan to fight, he showed the basic qualities of a Chinese soldier. The 2nd Army of the Japanese Chinese Dispatch Army tried to launch two sharper offensives at Guangshui and Dawu, but as a result, they were blocked by Yang Sen and his group of beggars with their lives. And it was precisely because of the performance of the Sichuan army in this battle that Li Zongren opened his arms to Yang Sen and began to have a heart-to-heart with him, becoming a real friend in distress.

"Commander-in-Chief, your telegram!" The adjutant stood at the door and said respectfully.

"Show me!" Li Zongren drank some wine and behaved very casually. The telegram was handed to him, and he looked at it twice, and suddenly he laughed.

When Yang Sen saw it, he leaned over and said, "Brother Delin, what good thing are you happy to be like this." ”

Li Zongren spread the telegram directly in front of him and said, "Zihui, good news, there is a solution to the problem we are most worried about. ”

Recently, the 2nd Army suddenly fell silent, which made Li and Yang uneasy for a while, not knowing what the Japanese were planning, and fearing that the Japanese would suddenly explode in silence. In that case, the vast line of defense will definitely not be secured. And once Hankow is directly exposed to the iron hooves of the Japanese army, then no one can say what will happen next.

Li Zongren thought that Yang Sen was his own person, and just now, he was still saying: "The Sichuan army has a good foundation, but unfortunately the equipment is too poor." Those people in Chongqing, this is the standard, they want the horses to run fast, and they want the horses not to eat grass. ”

In this regard, Yang Sen was also very helpless. Sichuan is already an inland city in China, and there are too few opportunities for contact with the outside world, so it is unfortunate to be a frog at the bottom of the well. In modern warfare, fighting is actually poor equipment, so no matter how good the quality of your soldiers is, if you don't have equipment, it's still in vain.

The Sichuan army has a good foundation and can fight tough battles or even win battles, but there is a premise for this, that is, it must have passable equipment. Li Zongren and Yang Sen have been most worried about how to obtain advanced equipment recently. Therefore, when Li Zongren said the above words, Yang Sen immediately became excited, he grabbed the telegram and read it at a glance, and then understood the meaning of Li Zongren's words. His tightly knit brow finally opened up a little.