"Xiangxi victory, Xiangxi victory!" A newsboy held a newspaper in his hand and shouted loudly! "Here's a copy!" Liu Hai was strolling around the street with Sima Hong, and after hearing the call, Liu Hai bought a newspaper! "Xiaohong, you see, this battle of Xiangxi was fought well, and the results were huge!" After Liu Hai read it, he said excitedly: "The Japanese army suffered 27,000 casualties, including 12,498 deaths, and about 1,000 people committed suicide in disappointment after being besieged by the national army. The Nationalist army captured 43 mortars, 13 guns, 5 mountain guns, 48 heavy machine guns, 240 light machine guns, 260 grenadiers, countless rifles, and 1,650 Japanese Yanmars! "The results of the battle are indeed great, but this is also because of my man's heroic battle in Takasago City, otherwise Wang Yaowu would have been copied from the back road!" Sima Hong looked at bangs and said. "I have merit, but it is also the life of thousands of brothers in the brigade!" Bangs said. "Commander, Commander! Shangfeng called, I want you to rush to Chongqing immediately! A guard came up from behind and said. It's time to join the celebration again! "Bangs are particularly annoying to this!" Go ahead and stop complaining! Victory should be celebrated! Sima Hong persuaded.

Liu Hai was the same as before, after settling the troops, he took Song Ruyu and Sima Hong back to Chongqing by special plane! Many students and ordinary people took to the streets to celebrate the victory in Xiangxi, and threw money and food and drink into the car as soon as a soldier passed by! Liu Hai sat in the special car of the presidential palace, and under the opening of the gendarmerie, he came to the presidential palace! A large group of officers had gathered in front of the presidential palace, all of them were elated, their faces were full of red light, and their US military uniforms were very dazzling! After Liu Hai walked over, he did not get together with the group of officers, but waited for the call of the presidential palace next to him! After about a quarter of an hour, Wang Yaowu, Chen Cheng, Song Xilian and other senior generals of the national army came one after another, and two people came out of the presidential palace and welcomed everyone at the door!

"Brother Liu, you have made a great contribution again this time! In the first battle of Takasago City, he turned the tide and killed countless enemies, which directly contributed to the victory of Xiangxi, which is amazing! Song Xilian came over and said. They are all soldiers who fought with their lives and blood, and Liu Hai was lucky not to die, and he didn't dare to be greedy for heaven! Bangs said. Brother Liu is too modest! Wang Yaowu walked over, "If Takasago City can't stop it, this battle will have a different result, Brother Liu's victory is very crucial, so don't be too humble!" ”。 Liu Hai looked at Wang Yaowu, remembered Captain Ye in his heart, and said, "Then what merit should Commander Ye make in this battle of Takasago?" "This..." Wang Yaowu naturally knew about Liu Hai's preparation for Ye Tong and his efforts! "Hehe, let's go, the chairman is already waiting for us!" Song Xilian is an old man, and when he saw Liu Hai and Wang Yaowu, he knew that there was something wrong with these two people, and when he saw that Wang Yaowu couldn't get off the stage, he hurriedly ran over to play haha!

"Ladies and gentlemen! This battle in Xiangxi! Having thwarted the Japanese army's conspiracy to occupy the Zhijiang Air Force airfield in China and boosting the morale of the Nationalist army's counteroffensive, this victory will be a major turning point for our army's battlefield to shift from defense to offense! Chiang Kai-shek held a wine glass and said in a thick Zhejiang accent: "In this operation, our army has concentrated superior forces and made strict operational arrangements. Immediately after the Japanese Army's No. 1 operation, we formulated a combat policy to prevent the Japanese army from attacking the Zhijiang River and Guiyang in Changde, so we built fortifications at each key point. Since this battle was related to the success or failure of China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression from the perspective of time, region, and mobilization of troops on both sides, I have already said, "It is absolutely not like the past when the Japanese army was fortunate, and I have repeatedly stressed to the officers and men that this battle can only be won, not defeated." In order to successfully fight this battle, our Kuomintang government mobilized 23 divisions to gather superior forces and equipment to be used in this theater. In terms of operational guiding ideology, we have adopted the operational principle of offensive and defensive, that is, defending first and then attacking. The purpose of defending is to consume the enemy's living forces, and the purpose of attacking is to further annihilate all or most of the enemy's living forces. According to this approach, the specific battle can be divided into two phases. In the first phase of the operation, all the armies of the first-line corps closely coordinated with the air force in bombing, made full use of the existing positions and favorable terrain, carried forward the superior equipment and firepower of the national army, and used the second-echelon forces to carry out a fierce counterattack on the enemy when necessary, coordinated with each other in the operation, and steadily depleted and killed the enemy's vital forces. In the second phase of the operation, when it was expected that the enemy in front of him had suffered the greatest casualties and the attack had been frustrated, the second-line corps of the Nationalist Army entered and exited the favorable area in a timely manner, resolutely adopted an offensive, and cooperated with the first phase of the operation to encircle and annihilate the enemy troops who had entered the deep valley of the Xuefeng Mountain. In terms of tactics, the Chinese army adopted the policy of luring the enemy into depth, that is, concentrating infantry artillery and artillery on both sides of the road, preparing several more positions, and transferring the camera when each position reached the intended goal, not fighting hard for attrition, and so on, and countless soldiers exchanged their lives for this hard-won victory! ”

"It seems that this victory has excited the chairman of the committee, I have never seen him tell the battle in such detail at the celebration banquet!" Chen Cheng said. "Yes! This campaign will turn our strategy to the offensive! Song Xilian next to him also said. Next, let's meet the heroes of this battle! Chiang Kai-shek's excitement had not yet passed, and he continued. Lieutenant General Wang Yaowu, Lieutenant General Liu Hai, Lieutenant General Tang Enbo and General Wang Jingjiu! Chiang Kai-shek said as the men walked out. Tell me, what are your thoughts on the victory of this battle? Chiang Kai-shek said. The victory of the Xiangxi Campaign was mainly due to the wise guidance of the chairman, the great assistance of the generals, and the bloody struggle of countless soldiers! We will always remember them and remember this victory! Wang Yaowu said with a red face. After Wang Yaowu, the commander-in-chief of the Xiangxi Campaign, finished speaking, several other generals also said a few words that were not nutritious, and finally it was Liu Hai's turn.

"The victory in this battle is of great significance, but we must also remember the sincere unity that the chairman said! All those who participated in this battle were heroes, whether they were bandits, ragtags or commoners! In this battle, my main task was to hold on to Takasago City and prevent the Japanese army's roundabout attack! In the battle of Takasago City, there was a group of heroes who used to be bandits, who fought side by side with our national army and made great contributions to the victory of the battle! But in the ensuing battle, they were all wiped out, but their battles and exploits will forever be remembered in this war! We should not forget them, they are also like us, fighting for the country and the nation! I'm here today and I feel ashamed of them if I don't mention it! Say yes, Commander Wang! After Liu Hai finished speaking, he turned his face to look at Wang Yaowu coldly! That's nature ... Wang Yaowu said embarrassedly. That's right, every hero who shed his blood for this war should be remembered! Chiang Kai-shek found out from his bangs' expression and eyes that he was dissatisfied with Wang Yaowu, and ended his speech with one sentence!

"That's what happened!" After his speech, Chiang Kai-shek immediately inquired about what had happened. "This bangs are too arrogant, embarrassing Wang Yaowu in front of so many people!" Chiang Kai-shek said dissatisfied. "Darling, Liu Hai is still very young, young man, it is inevitable that he will be rash, when you attacked Huizhou, didn't you also go deep into the enemy formation as a commander?" Song Meiling said while smiling at the person next to her. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek went to the front line to command in Huizhou despite dissuasion, so that he was almost captured by the rebels, but thanks to Chen Geng carrying him on his back, he escaped by luck! "Yes, I was also impulsive back then, so let's upgrade that security regiment to the National Legion and be stationed in Takasago City, which can be regarded as worthy of those heroic spirits who died in battle!" Chiang Kai-shek thought of the past, and he also sighed a lot, and then said. "Wang Yaowu is okay there, this person has always been very good at being a person, just give Yu a little comfort after a while!" Song Meiling said, "Besides, what he did himself is not glorious, and he should have counted it in his heart!" "Well, so be it!"

After the banquet, Chiang Kai-shek convened a military conference to deploy the matter of shifting the Nationalist army from strategic defense to strategic counteroffensive. "Generals, the Battle of Xiangxi dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese invaders, and also allowed us to achieve a great victory! With the support of the allies and the change in the international situation, the conditions for a counteroffensive against Japan are now in place! From now on, I order the entire national army to turn into a counterattack! Chiang Kai-shek said in high spirits. Yes, I will follow the instructions of the chairman! A group of generals immediately stood up and said. Now I will personally deploy the first counterattack campaign, the Guiliu counterattack campaign! This counterattack campaign will be commanded by He Yingqin, and the targets of the counterattack are Longzhou and Liuzhou. The strength of the troops is as follows: The 14 divisions of the 6th Army of the 2nd and 3rd Front Army and the local teams will carry out the return offensive together, this is our first large-scale counteroffensive campaign, in order to achieve the superiority of firepower in this operation, we specially order Liu Hai's Fourth Army Corps to join the counteroffensive sequence. "Yes!" Bangs stood up and said.

"Bangs, have you finished replenishing your direct brigade?" Chiang Kai-shek made a private appointment with Liu Hai after the meeting. "Report to the chairman, my direct brigade has been replenished and can participate in the operation at any time!" Bangs stand straight! "Very good, you have made a lot of contributions to the Xiangxi operation this time, and you have blocked a Japanese division head-on with a brigade, which is very remarkable, but young people should be modest and cautious, don't be rash, some things don't need to be too serious, you are the pillar of the party-state, and you have a bright future in the future, understand?" Chiang Kai-shek once again looked at his bangs appreciatively. "Obey the chairman's teachings!" Liu Hai naturally understood what Chiang Kai-shek was talking about, just now he already knew about Chiang Kai-shek's order to upgrade Ye Tong and the regiment, no matter what, now Ye Tong and the regiment are already a dignified national army, and the head of Ye is also at ease in the spirit of the sky! "Also, this Guiliu counterattack operation is our first counterattack campaign, we must fight wonderfully and beautifully, I hope our magic artillery can make new contributions!" Chiang Kai-shek said. "Please rest assured that your subordinates will do their best and will never live up to the trust of the chairman!"