Guo Shucheng said very easily: "Failure? Failure means we're busy, that's all, what does it matter? Death is death. ......, haha, those of us who almost didn't die were called away by the king of Hades, and now we can live a few more days, what are we sorry about. ”

Zhuang Zongquan smiled bitterly: "Yes, if we can live one more day, it is equivalent to earning one more day, and it is worth it for a long time." ”

Guo Shucheng smiled: "Lao Zhuang, don't be sentimental. I believe that we will not fail. Moreover, only by winning this battle will not only let Bai Chongxi talk to us obediently, but also make the central army afraid and dare not force us too tightly, so that the Hunan army and the Guangdong army will all retreat from us. If this effect is really achieved, where can we not go in the world? We'll be free to do it. ”

Zhuang Zongquan always felt that Guo Zhuocheng was talking big, but he had to force himself to listen to him, and he still thought of a possibility in his heart, that is, Guo Zhuocheng would create a miracle. However, he still reminded: "Captain Guo, the food and ammunition, medicine, clothing and quilts we have captured are not enough, the food can last for ten days at most, and the ammunition can last for two battles like today's at most." ”

Guo Zhuocheng smiled: "Enough! Being able to eat for ten days and being able to fight twice was much better than I thought. When did our Red Army not rely on seizures, and when did we become landlords and have surplus food? ”

Speaking of this, he instructed: "You better set up your defenses in peace, and don't let the enemy take advantage of the loopholes." We will hand over the matter of military training to Chen Peng, Luo Xi, Liu Xiangyang, and Song Jun. I myself talked to the captured officers of the Gui Army, and there must have been some graduates from regular military academies, and perhaps some professionals could be found to help us. ”

As a matter of fact. He wanted to know more about the mineral resources in these areas between Hunan and Guangxi. What can I sell on that plane in 1991? Although the supreme chief over there said that even stones would do. They also bought the calcined cement, but Guo still felt that it would be good to transport something useful to that plane.

Of course, the easiest thing to think of is grain, which can be requisitioned from the homes of ordinary people, or it can be purchased from the surrounding landlords and wealthy merchants with the seized money, but Guo Zhuocheng is not ready to do this, because he knows that the most scarce thing in this era is food, and if the grain here is transported away. It is not known how many civilians will starve to death.

Guo Zhuocheng and Zhuang Zongquan went out at the same time, each busy with their own things.

Bai Chongxi, who was far away in Guilin, was in a very bad mood at this time, and several high-end teacups were dropped by him.

Until now, he didn't know how the two battles of Matouling and Gulingtou were fought yesterday. He was first eaten by a team that appeared inexplicably and a regiment that was attacking Gulingtou, and then he lost a division that had gone to destroy this strange team.

Bai Chongxi thought that he did not underestimate the enemy, and gave enough attention to this strange team. He gritted his teeth against this team, and in order to destroy them as quickly as possible, he did not hesitate to use a main division, and also used five planes, which can be said to be a knife to kill chickens.

But the 44th Division reported again and again that they had broken through one defense line after another. He rushed up the hill guarded by the other party, but was driven down again and again.

This is not unusual. Which Red Army unit was not stubborn and cunning? How could it be so easy to hand over the position, how could it be so easy to accept fate? They're definitely going to fight back, they're going to struggle.

At that time, I thought that it would be a period of more seesawing, and if I consumed a little more bullets, I would eventually be destroyed by the 44th Division. In the telegrams he sent to Division Commander Wang Zanbin, he repeatedly warned him to be cautious and not to rush into success. And Wang Zanbin did not lose his mind, he dealt with it carefully, commanded properly, even if he was a little impatient at the beginning, he wanted to attack from all sides and annihilate the defenders in one fell swoop, but after two defeats, he quickly changed his strategy, concentrated the main force in the main direction, and carried out a key attack on the defenders.

At first, he received a report that they were progressing smoothly, but it didn't take long for him to lose contact, and he was still wondering what would happen, whether the radio station was broken, or the troops were scattered, and finally he was sent the bad news that they were all captured.

This made Bai Chongxi really not understand why this defender was so powerful, killing chickens with a knife turned out to be a chicken pecking the knife of the cow, it was too against the sky, right? If your Red Army is really so powerful, a few fleeing soldiers will wipe out one of the main divisions of our Gui Army, and you will still be forced to leave the Central Soviet Zone? Will you still be driven away by Jiang Jiaoshi's central army, and you will not immediately destroy all these hostile forces, and you will not easily sweep the world?

Bai Chongxi thought that he was not stupid, but he didn't understand what kind of strange unit the Red Army on Matouling was, and he couldn't understand how they used the weapons in their hands to shoot down five planes, and it was all five planes at the same time, and they didn't run away, not even a single person who came back to report the news.

I don't understand Wang Zanbin They have always had the upper hand, but in the end they were all wiped out, as if they were surrounded and surrounded one by one, those who took the initiative to surround others were eaten by others, and those who were surrounded ate ate the people who were surrounded, what a hell!

Although he was surprised and was about to be overwhelmed by a main division and became cerebral palsy, he was smart enough to resolutely withdraw the Gui army, which was attacking the main force of the Red Army, and made every effort to strengthen the defense of the first line of Guanyang County, not only to guard against this strange army, but also to guard against Jiang Jieshi's central army from taking advantage of the situation. As for whether the Red Army can cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, and whether the Red Army will resurrect, it is not a matter for him Bai Chongxi and Gui Jun to consider, first save their own lives.

At the moment when he received Guo Zhuocheng's letter, he really had in his mind the plan to let Guo Zhuocheng's troops block the Central Army for him, and it was not impossible to consider cutting a Guanyang County to the Red Army.

But as Guo Zhuocheng predicted, Bai Chongxi really didn't believe that this strange team under the siege of ten thousand armies really had combat effectiveness, and he was worried that after he made a deal with Guo Zhuocheng, the other party would destroy the Central Army, and he would lose face and be laughed at, and it was equivalent to handing over the handle to Jiang Jiaoshi, which was equivalent to opening the gate and inviting the Central Army to come in, so he wanted to look at the combat effectiveness of this army again, and evaluate whether they had the ability to gain a foothold here for a period of time and give the Central Army a dismount.

As long as this army hurts the Central Army, he will be relieved and let them settle here for a while without any problems. As for whether he was worried about whether this army would grow stronger because of this, so he took root here and gradually encroached on other territories around him, and even took advantage of the magpie's nest to drive him away Bai Chongxi, Bai Chongxi was not worried at all, even if this kind of army was an immortal, he didn't have the ability.

As long as the Central Army, the main force, the Red Army, is wiped out, or the main Red Army is driven to a remote and barren place, this small army will become a rootless duckweed, and they will have no ammunition, no medicine, no clothing, not even food and grass, and no population. Can you make guns and ammunition? Can withstand the constant onslaught of troops sent around?

So, he sent Guo a telegram like that in reply to him.

On the surface, he resolutely rejected Guo Zhuocheng, but in fact, he was waiting for Guo Zhuocheng's next move, and wanted to see how Guo Zhuocheng behaved when facing the Central Army after his Gui army withdrew. He knew that the Central Army would never let go of the Red Army at Matouling, and would definitely take advantage of the opportunity to destroy this Red Army to enter Guangxi.

He contracted the Gui army to defend the key points, waiting for the Central Army and this army to appear in a good show.

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Guo Zhuocheng is now "chatting" with several middle-ranking military officers who have been captured, asking about the situation in Guangxi, especially in the northwest of Guangxi, and learning about the surrounding customs, customs, and products.

Although these Guijun officers didn't want to speak, seeing that Guo Zhuocheng was not asking about military secrets, and Guo Zhuocheng hinted that he would let some of them go if he was willing, they also chatted without a word. Slowly, Guo Zhuocheng slowly had some preliminary impressions in his mind, and his mood slowly improved.

As he knew, the land in Guangzhou-Northwest, Hu-South, and Jiang-Southwest was very barren, with many mountains and few lands, and weeds and bamboo forests everywhere, and Guo Zhuocheng didn't seem to have anything to interact with that time and space in 1991, but in fact there were abundant rare metal minerals here.

Since the Westernization Movement of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing government at that time began to export these rich rare metal minerals to Western countries in exchange for machines, weapons, and ammunition. The reason for the rise of Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi, who occupied Guangxi, was not only their own ingenuity, but also that they sold these rare metal minerals in a big way and exported them to Germany, France, the United States, Britain and other countries in exchange for the weapons and equipment they urgently needed, so that the Gui army could develop and grow under the prying eyes of various warlords.

The Gui army knew that these ores were exported in exchange for weapons, and the Hunan army naturally knew about it, and also sold them in exchange for weapons that could equip the army.

This situation was in its heyday in the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, when a large number of antimony ore, chrome ore, nickel ore, niobium ore and so on were transported to Western countries in large quantities by the Nationalist Government in exchange for a large number of Western ordnance. For example, Jiang Jiaoshi's most elite German armament divisions, the 36th, 87th, and 88th divisions, were basically equipped with German weapons and equipment in exchange for these exported ores.

Because rare metals such as antimony, chromium, and nickel are indispensable raw materials for modern weapons, and Germany and other Western countries lack these rare metals.

It can be said that these rare metal ores made a great contribution to China's war of resistance.

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