Chapter 14: Advanced (55)

The debt was repaid quickly, and it was less than half a month after Mo Di asked Feng Yizhong for help, and he met with Feng Yizhong for the second time, this time it was Feng Shenzuo who took the initiative to let Mo Di, who was still in class, take it directly to the chief of staff's office.

Feng Yizhong's office is no stranger, Xu Qiming's room before, just a little decoration, one of the middle hall characters, the font is not subordinate, but it is quite lawful, it is for four big characters: "Tolerance is big" is Ma Zhanhong.

Although Ma Zhanhong is invincible, he has never seen it, but his fame is too great, and it can be described as thunderous. Ma Zhanhong is also called Ma Xiaojun, Zhanhong is his number, a native of Rong County, can be said to be the founder of the Guangxi New Army. When Lu Rongting was in charge of Guangxi, he founded a model battalion, Huang Xuchu, Zhu Weizhen, Zeng Zhiyi, Su Duan, Huang Shaohong, Bai Chongxi, Xia Wei, Zhou Jiren, Xu Qiming, Yu Zhifang, Zhang Gan, Liang Chaoji, Huang Zhongcong, Ling Qianxi, Feng Huang, Ma Weixin, etc., are all subordinates of the model battalion. Wei Yunsong, Li Pinxian, Liao Lei, Ye Qi, He Zhuguo, etc. even more turned to the wind and belonged to the Ma family, and after that, these people became the pillars of the Guangxi military circles.

In the tenth year of the Republic of China, at the call of Mr. Sun, the former prime minister of the provisional president, Ma Xiaojun and Lu Rongting parted ways, defected to the revolution, and became the backbone of the revolutionary forces in Guangxi. After that, Ma Xiaojun handed over the troops to the rising star Huang Shaohong, and joined forces with Li Zongren's troops entrenched in Yulin to form the Dinggui Bandit Coalition Army to continue the revolutionary cause in Guangxi. At the call of the first premier, Ma came to Guangzhou and was appointed by Sun Yat-sen as a senior staff officer of the Marshal's Mansion and the General Headquarters of the National Revolution. After that, he successively served as Director of the General Office of the Military Commission and Counselor of the Military Affairs Department.

When Ma Xiaojun went to Guangdong, he took a large number of teenagers from his hometown out to see the world, including Feng Yizhong, a teenager from Yangmei Bear Bile Village. Feng Yizhong was not born in Whampoa, but has been engaged in logistics work, rigorous work, conscientious, until the seventeenth year of the Republic of China (1928), was recommended to the Central Military Quartermaster School the second phase of the primary cadre training class, after that, Feng Shi was out of control, graduated from the Central Army Military Academy in 1931, in November 1931 served as the director of the Quartermaster Division of the Fourth Group Army General Affairs Department of the Military Training Department of the Military Commission, in April 1938 as the chief of staff of the Twentieth Army Corps, in 1938 * was appointed as a lieutenant general of the National Government, In 1940, he was appointed Deputy Minister of War with the rank of Lieutenant General.

Feng Yizhong was not very familiar with Li Huangbai, who later dominated Guangxi, but he regarded Ma Xiaojun as a guide, and hung the middle hall inscribed by Ma Xiaojun in the office, firstly, to show everyone his Guangxi identity, and at the same time to emphasize that he was born in a famous family.

"Old man Ma's handwriting is good, and he has a bit of skill." Mo Di said in his heart.

Seeing that Mo Di was interested in calligraphy and painting, Feng Yizhong was quite proud, with a smile on his face, if he knew that Mo Di was purely reading words, and not having any reverence for Ma Xiaojun, he was afraid that he would immediately vomit three liters of blood.

"Sit!" Feng Yizhong personally poured Mo Di a cup of tea.

Mo Wei thanked him and sat down.

"Last month, Tianzong told me to pay attention to the direction of the 116th Division of the Japanese Army, and I reported the news to the Military Command Department, which is the news from above." Feng Yizhong handed over a file to Mo Di, and continued: "This 116th Division, as you said, is a strong reinforcement that Yokoyama Yong negotiated with Nanjing Hata Shunliu again and again, and even quarreled, and for this 116th Division, Hata Shunliu also had a big quarrel with Lieutenant General Shimomura of the 13th Army, and almost got into a fight. In contrast, at present, the units of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army are indeed inferior to the 116th Division, the 3rd, 13th, 39th, and 68th Divisions, and less than half of the people can really use them. In order to increase his combat strength, Yokoyama put together a lot of supplementary troops, including seven independent infantry brigades alone, one infantry brigade, one infantry wing, the 2nd independent mountain artillery wing, and the 44th flying reconnaissance team, all of which numbered about 20,000 people. This time, the Japanese 11th Army was able to send about 100,000 combat troops. ”

Mo Di didn't interject, and listened carefully to Feng Yizhong's words, this guy is not a deputy head of the War Department, and he recited the Japanese military number to be extremely smooth, and he didn't stutter at all, if he didn't have an amazing memory, he was usually very attentive.

"The patchwork troops are definitely not as strong as the original, so the protagonist this time is none other than the 116th Division." Feng Yizhong said: "The current station of the 116th Division is Huarong. It can be expected that the main direction of the Japanese army's attack this time should be Changde. ”

Mo Enemy nodded, a large-scale operation must have a lot of preliminary work, if you can't judge the opponent's next move from these preliminary work, then there is no need for the military command department to exist. In front of him, he used to be the deputy chief in charge of logistics in the Military Command Department, and Liu Fei was the deputy director in charge of military operations in the Military Command Department, and there was also a deputy chief named Xiong Bin, who was Feng Yuxiang in the northwest. As for Xu Yongchang, the head of the Military Command Department, everyone knows that it is an ornament.

At the end of September, the Japanese army began to make abnormal movements, and to everyone's surprise, the object of the Japanese army's activities this time turned out to be the stone pai that had not been captured in the battle of western Hubei in the first half of the year. Just when everyone thought that the purpose of the Japanese army's operation this time was still Shipai in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River west of Yichang, Feng Yizhong insisted that this time it was the Japanese who attacked the west again. Last time, the Japanese put on a posture of playing Changde on the surface, and the actual purpose was the stone card, but this time the Japanese put on a posture of playing the stone card, and its purpose must be Changde. Whether it is the central government or the sixth theater of war, it has always been believed that the stone card is higher than Changde in terms of strategic position, and it must give priority to the defense of the stone card, and Changde can only take care of it at the same time. Feng Yizhong's attitude is also very clear, if the other party attacks Shipai, it should not be placed in Shishou Huarong, but in Yichang. In mid-October, seeing that a large number of Japanese transport ships had entered Dongting Lake instead of Yichang, the Central Staff believed that the main direction of the Japanese attack this time was Changde.

As a result, sticking to Changde has become the focus of work from top to bottom.

"It's hard to keep it." Mo Di shook his head.

The area around Changde, the terrain is dominated by low hills, which is easy to transport military supplies on land and water, and the Japanese army will not have problems supplying its baggage, and will not encounter the embarrassing scene of ammunition shortage like the Battle of Western Hubei. Compared with the dangerous terrain in the mountainous areas of western Hubei Province, the Japanese army was able to effectively exert the power of heavy weapons, large-caliber artillery could participate in the battle at any time, and tanks and armored vehicles were even more like no one. Changde and the Japanese army entrenched in the stone head is only a hundred kilometers away, the terrain is flat, there is only a water in the middle to defend, the problem is that it is now the early winter, in the dry period, the Japanese army across the water, it is not difficult. For the central and sixth war zones, although Changde is not as important as the stone plaque, it is also of great significance. First of all, the granary of Dongting Lake is located, which must not be lost, the national army retreated to the southwest, and there is only one real grain producing place, Dongting Lake District, if the clouds are lost, the War of Resistance will be more difficult. The most important point is that if Changde is lost, the entire Yuanjiang River basin will be lost, and the Japanese army can directly threaten Xiangxi, or it can outflank Changde and attack Changsha.

In the eyes of the national army, Changde must be defended, and failure will cause changes in the overall situation. On the other hand, if the Japanese attack is unfavorable, it is a great way to retreat. The advance can be attacked, the retreat can be defended, and the Japanese army has the initiative.

In this situation, Mo Di is really a little speechless.

"Senza, what do you want Tianzong to say?" Mo Di said with a wry smile.

"Say what you want to say." Feng Zizhong said encouragingly.

"I will defend, the enemy can attack and defend, I am passive." Mo Di said: "In this battle, no matter the time and place, we do not have an advantage, if there is any advantage, it is people." The Japanese army can only send a maximum of 100,000 troops to Changde this time, and if we can have 300,000 to fight in the battle, we will win with the advantage of numbers. ”

"It's hard!" Feng Yizhong shook his head and sighed: "After all these years of fighting, everyone is almost finished!" Take Guangxi as an example, with a population of 20 million, one million people were sent from inside and outside the province to the anti-Japanese battlefield, and according to the calculation of half of men and women, 10 million is one out of ten, and then according to the calculation of old and middle-aged children, then even more than one out of five, basically one out of three adult men will go out to fight. Guangxi is like this, Sichuan is similar, to put it mildly, we have no one to fight! If we want to fight again, I am afraid that women and children will go to war. ”

This news is unknown to Mo Di, and after hearing it, he was dumbfounded, has the crisis of the War of Resistance reached such a situation? After pondering for a long time, he asked, "Sir, how many people can we send to the battlefield?" ”

"There were not many troops in the Sixth Theater in the first place, Wu Qiwei's Jiang Defense Army had to stick to Shipai and did not dare to leave without permission, and Zhou Qi's 26th Group Army and Feng Zhi'an's 33rd Group Army were far away from the Changde battlefield, and they were both confronted by a large number of Japanese troops, so they were useless." Feng Yizhong calculated: "What can be deployed is Wang Jingjiu's 10th Group Army, which has jurisdiction over the 66th Army and the 79th Army. Wang Zhangxu's 29th Group Army had jurisdiction over the 44th Army and the 73rd Army. In addition, there is Wang Yaowu's 74th Army. The total number of these five armies is only 70,000 or 80,000 people, and even if Shi Zhongcheng of Yiyang can lead 100 troops to arrive, it will not exceed 100,000 people. ”

"100,000 people!" Mo Di's eyes widened: "100,000 people fight the Japanese army and 100,000 people, I'm afraid that the chances of victory are not great." ”

"It's not that the odds are small, it's that there are no chances at all." Feng Yizhong said: "In the later stage of the operation, the battle situation is clear, the Jiang Defense Army's Luo Guangwen's 18th Army and Zhu Dingqing's 86th Army will increase troops to Changde, and the 26th Group Army's Liu Jiming's 75th Army, the 33rd Group Army's Liu Zhensan's 59th Army, and He Jifeng's 79th Army will also be harassed to Changde, but in the early stage of the campaign, they will not be able to participate. ”

Mo Di nodded, these troops need to confirm that the direction of the Japanese army's attack is in Changde, and when they have no combat risk, they will send reinforcements, this kind of reinforcement is very unreliable, whether it can be done or not is two words.

"In addition, there are reinforcements from the Ninth War Zone." Feng Yizhong continued to clasp his fingers and said, "About 4 armies of Li Yutang's corps and Ou Zhen's corps are assembled in Hengyang, Hunan, and can be reinforced. ”

Mo Di continued to shake his head, the two corps of the Ninth War Zone were already the last trump cards, and they could only make a move when the Japanese army occupied Changde and encircled the Ninth War Zone, otherwise, they could only watch from the sidelines.

"Anything else?" Mo Di asked.

"And the Zhijiang Sino-US Air Base, does it count?" Feng Yizhong rolled his eyes and said angrily.

"Count." Mo Di replied in the affirmative: "Not only counting, but also the point." In this operation, the Japanese planes took off from Wuhan, and the distance was not closer than that of Zhijiang, and the Sino-American mixed brigade in Zhijiang should have an advantage. Striving for the support of the Air Force is the key to victory. ”

Feng Yizhong was shocked, and hurriedly picked up a notebook from the desk to write down Mo Di's words. Say, "Anything else?" ”

Mo Di raised his head, looked at the secretary-like chief of staff, and said in surprise: "Senza, I haven't planned this kind of large group battle, it's hard to say." ”

"I know that you were only the head of a regiment before, and you have never been exposed to this kind of large-scale battles, but your senior staff has not been less exposed to large-group operations, and you can't stay in your previous consciousness." Feng Yizhong Zhengse said: "You Mo Tianzong is in Anqing, you have fought more than 20 battles large and small, and you have never been defeated, everyone knows it, and there are many people in Chongqing who know it. The most important thing is that you have never fought several times as much as the enemy, and you have fought the same as the unequal. On the diving side, the battle you fought with Jing Jiamo of the Sichuan Army is a typical example of being included in the textbooks of the Central Military Academy. After graduating this time, you will definitely go to a higher level, and your strategic vision can no longer be limited to the past, but you must have a new vision and new thinking. ”

The words were speechless.