"Yes, disrupted war!" Zhong Yi nodded heavily, and said in a cruel voice, "Biting the butt of the devil's second army is a random beating, and you can't give them a chance to adjust, and you can't give them a chance to breathe!" Can't even give them time to react! Punch them out of a mess first, and the rest will be easy to do! ”

After a pause, he said: "You must remember that this is a pursuit and annihilation war, and the pursuit and annihilation war has a way of fighting a pursuit and annihilation war, if you blindly wait for the armored troops and artillery, then you will turn a chasing and annihilation battle into a positional war, and a tough battle, and a positional battle is the strength of the little devil, and the battle is a nightmare for our army!" ”

Zhou Mengxiong said awe-inspiringly: "If you really fight like this, the casualties will be very large!" ”

"No, Lao Zhou, you are wrong." Zhong Yi said, "Intuitively, such a random fight will definitely cause large casualties, but this is just an intuitive impression, and there are still discrepancies with the facts!" ”

After a pause, he said: "Let's put it this way, take advantage of the fact that the devil's foothold is not stable and fight indiscriminately, the troops who participated in the battle in the early stage will definitely suffer very large casualties, and it is not impossible for the entire regiment or even the entire division to be wiped out!" But with this style of fighting, the later it gets, the smaller the casualties of our army will be, and the casualties of the devils will be bigger and bigger! ”

"On the other hand, if we set out from the beginning to fight a positional war with the devils step by step, at the beginning, the casualties of our army will indeed be much smaller than the chaotic battle, but the further you go, the greater the casualties! And more importantly, in a positional war, we have almost no chance of winning, and only in a chaotic battle can we have a chance to win! ”

Sun Lidao: "Chaotic war is indeed a way. ”

Speaking of this, Sun Liren suddenly shook his head, sighed lightly and said: "However, if you really want to fight a chaotic war, I'm afraid it's not easy, not to mention anything else, it's just our Commander-in-Chief Xue, will he be willing to let the 74th Army and the 29th Army fight hard?" If your own troops don't work hard, but you have to let others do it, will others be happy? ”

Chen Jingan said: "It would be embarrassing to be beaten in the end!" ”

Zhong Yi said: "I am already powerful with Xue Yue! ”

After a pause, he added, "I hope he listens." ”

……

At the same time, in the village of Tumiao, twenty miles north of Hankou.

Xue Yue had already decided to set up his headquarters in Tumiao Village, and a group of staff officers were nervously arranging the war room.

Xue Yue couldn't wait for the staff to be arranged, so he asked Zhang Lingfu to unfold the map, and then called the chief of staff, Wu Yizhi, to discuss how the battle of Xiaogan should be fought.

Wu Yizhi said: "General, I still insist that we should wait for the artillery and the 200th division to arrive before launching a general attack, so that our army's casualties will be minimized!" ”

After a pause, Wu Yizhi said again: "The battle of Wuhan to use a tank battalion to completely annihilate the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army has fully proved the powerful penetration ability of tanks, so it is unwise to launch a general attack in a hurry without waiting for the 200th Division to arrive, and it is also disrespectful to the officers and soldiers participating in the battle!" ”

"I'm against it!" Zhang Lingfu didn't have any scruples at all just because Wu Yizhi was his top boss, in fact, he never put Wu Yizhi as the chief of staff in his eyes, he always only had Xue Yue in his eyes!

After a pause, Zhang Lingfu said again: "The railway and highway bridges from Hankou to Xiaogan have all been blown up, when will the artillery and 200 divisions arrive?" By the time they arrived, the Japanese army had already built complete fortifications in Xiaogan and the periphery, and our army did not know how much sacrifice it would have to make a breakthrough! ”

After another pause, Zhang Lingfu said again: "What's more, we don't have so much time!" ”

Xue Yue's heart sank slightly when he heard this, Zhong Yi told him that he only had seven days at most!

Wu Yizhi said: "Who stipulates that our artillery and tanks can only go by road or railway? There are rivers and lakes all over the way from Hankou to Xiaogan, and the waterway transportation is very convenient, so why not take the waterway? ”

"Uh, waterways?" Zhang Lingfu was stunned when he heard this, the tank took the waterway?

Zhang Lingfu was actually preconceived before, and the tank can really go by water!

The only thing to consider is to find a landing site on the north bank of the Fuhu River!

But after being stunned for a moment, Zhang Lingfu still insisted: "General seat, I insist that we can't give the devil the slightest respite, and we should strive to turn the battle of Xiaogan into a pursuit and annihilation war, and we should not let it evolve into a positional war and a tough battle!" After all, our army is seriously lacking in heavy weapons, and attacking fortified positions is not what our army is good at! ”

Wu Yizhi said angrily when he heard this: "Zhang Lingfu, you are irresponsible, and you regard the lives of the officers and soldiers participating in the battle as child's play!" ”

"Chief of Staff Wu is wrong!" Zhang Lingfu said stiffly, "This consideration of the humble position is precisely for the sake of the lives of the officers and soldiers participating in the battle, because only by turning the battle of Xiaogan into a pursuit and annihilation battle can we minimize the losses of our army on the premise of expanding the results of the battle to the maximum, Chief of Staff, this is the real responsibility!" ”

Wu Yizhi became more and more angry: "Zhang Lingfu, do you still have me as a chief in your eyes?" ”

"That's enough, shut up!" Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, Xue Yue only felt that one of his heads was bigger than two.

Before this, the reason why Xue Yue wanted to transfer Zhong Yi to replace Zhang Lingfu, and then transfer Zhang Lingfu to the 51st Division as the division commander also had a lot to do with Zhang Lingfu's bad relationship with Wu Yizhi.

Seeing that Xue Yue was angry, Wu Yizhi and Zhang Lingfu stopped talking.

Xue Yue said to Wu Yizhi again: "Old Wu, whether the artillery regiment borrowed from the Wuhan garrison and Du Yuming's 200th division can arrive in Xiaogan in time is of great importance to this battle, so according to your opinion, you are personally responsible for specific matters such as taking the waterway and collecting ships, in a word, as soon as possible!" ”

"Rest assured!" Wu Yizhi said, "I must go all out!" ”

After sending Wu Yizhi away, Xue Yue said to Zhang Lingfu again: "Zhong Lin, can't you let Chief of Staff Wu?" He's your boss anyway! ”

Zhang Lingfu protested and said: "Some things can be done, but the issue of principle must not be allowed!" ”

Xue Yue rolled his eyes and said: "However, you advocate that the battle of Xiaogan be fought into a pursuit and annihilation battle, I agree very much, immediately inform the 51st Division and the 79th Division, you don't have to wait for the large army to arrive, and immediately launch a general attack on the enemy in front of you!" Telegraphed to Wang Yaowu and Duan Langru, don't be afraid of sacrifice, when the battle is over, I will make it up to them! ”

Zhang Lingfu snapped and stood upright, and said loudly: "The general seat is wise!" ”

"Go, less sycophants!" Xue Yue snorted lightly, and continued, "At the same time, I sent a telegram to the rest of the group armies, armies, and divisions, no matter what faction Lao Tzu is, no matter what difficulties he has, in short, after rushing to the Xiaogan battlefield, immediately launch a general attack on the enemy in front of him, and no one can shirk for any reason!" ”