Tang Enbo said: "It's just your wishful thinking, what if the devil who caught up was a wing?" Even if there is a suitable ambush terrain, with only four regiments of troops, I am afraid that I can't eat it in a hurry, right? Once it drags on for too long, the main forces of the Japanese army on the north and south lines will run over, and we will still be a dead end? ”

Zhong Yi said with a smile: "Don't worry, Commander Tang, I guarantee that the pursuing Japanese army will not exceed one brigade!" ”

After a pause, Zhong Yi continued: "Of course, our army must also retreat as a regiment!" ”

Hearing this, Bai Chongbei finally understood why Zhong Yi said that as long as the order can be directly ordered to the regimental level, the success rate of the breakthrough can increase from sixty percent to eighty percent!

This is because after the order is given to the regimental level, the probability of defeating or even completely annihilating the 22nd and 27th divisions of the Japanese army has increased by at least 20%!

However, Bai Chongbei has one more worry!

Bai Chongbei said: "I now understand why you proposed to give orders to the regimental level, but what I want to say is that it is difficult to achieve unified command of more than two hundred and ten regiments!" Don't talk about anything else, how do you solve the communication? Our military radio stations are only allocated to the division level, and there are no radio stations at the brigade and regiment level, so it is difficult to achieve instant communication! ”

"Then pass it through the division headquarters!" Zhong Yi said, "But it must be stated that each division headquarters does not have command authority, but only the function of uploading and ordering, which must be made clear!" ”

"Got it!" Bai Chongbei nodded, and said, "One last question." ”

Zhong Yi smiled slightly and said, "The commander-in-chief is worried about not having enough time, right?" ”

"If you know, it's good." Bai Chongbei said, "The Eleventh Army of Okamura Ningji and the Twelfth Army of Guzhuang Ganlang are swooping in from the north and south, and the time left for us will not exceed five days at most!" You tell me, how many days will it take to complete the defeat or even total annihilation of the 22nd and 27th divisions of the Japanese army? ”

Zhong Yi said: "The most conservative estimate is that it will take five days!" ”

"Five days?" Bai Chongbei's face immediately fell, and he shook his head and said, "No, I can only give you two days!" ”

"Two days?" Zhong Yi said with a smile, "Commander-in-chief, this is impossible, devils are not fools, after they have suffered a few losses, they will definitely be vigilant, and it will not be so easy to ambush them again, only by retreating in stride, it is possible to lure them into being fooled again, so this is a dynamic process, five days is already the limit!" ”

Bai Chongbei said: "But the problem is, after waiting for five days, the main force of the devil has also arrived!" ”

"So." Zhong Yi bowed his head lightly, and said, "We also need two of the most elite troops to hold Xiaogan and Huang'an counties respectively, and to hold the life passage of Wuhan, so as to ensure that the main force of our Dabie Mountain Theater can still retreat from Rongxi after defeating or annihilating the 22nd and 27th divisions of the Japanese army!" ”

"!" Tang Enbo couldn't help but interject, "If there are two elite troops to hold Xiaogan and Huang'an counties, then why should we entangle with the 22nd and 27th divisions of the Japanese army in the Dabie Mountains?" Wouldn't it be good to evacuate directly to Wuhan? If there was no delay on the way, we would have crossed the Han River in two days! ”

Zhong Yi only smiled slightly when he heard this, ignoring Tang Enbo.

Li Pinxian, Sun Lianzhong, Liao Lei and others cast angry eyes at Tang Enbo.

If he really did what Tang Enbo said, his Twentieth Army would definitely be able to retreat, and Hu Zongnan's Seventeenth Army and Yu Jishi's Thirty-sixth Army would most likely be able to keep it, but the remaining large number of Gui Army, Sichuan Army and Northwest Army would only be able to ask for more blessings.

This is the second choice that Zhong Yi said before.

If so, it can keep up to 100,000 elites.

Of course, this is not what Bai Chongbei wants, what he wants is to keep all the 600,000 elites!

At that moment, Bai Chongbei glanced at Tang Enbo with idiot eyes, and said to Zhong Yi: "Ziren, Huang An is close at hand, and the problem is not big, but Xiaogan is more than 200 kilometers away, and it will definitely be too late to transfer troops from the Dabie Mountain battlefield, so I am afraid that I can only let the new 38th Division and the eight honorary divisions that are still resting in Wuhan go to the top." ”

Zhong Yixin said, Lao Tzu deliberately detained these nine divisions, isn't it for this moment?

However, on the face, Zhong Yi said respectfully: "Which troops to use to block the attack is the matter of the commander-in-chief." ”

Bai Chongbei glanced at Zhong Yi deeply, and it was only at this moment that he had a deeper understanding of Zhong Yi!

Before this, Bai Chongbei thought that Zhong Yi deliberately detained the nine divisions that were resting in Wuhan so that one day after he returned to military power, he could retake these nine divisions under his command.

But now, Bai Chongbei found that he was wrong.

Zhong Yi detained these nine divisions, never for personal gain, but to guard the passage of life at this moment and ensure the safety of more than 600,000 elite troops in the Dabie Mountain Theater!

After a while, Bai Chong said in a sad voice: "Commander-in-Chief Liao! ”

Liao Lei took a step forward in response and responded loudly: "Yes! ”

Bai Chongbei said: "Immediately lead the 21st Group Army south to Huang'an, and then nail me to Huang'an like a nail, without the order of the commander's department, even if the last pawn is killed in battle, I am not allowed to take half a step back!" ”

"Yes!" Liao Lei stood up violently, and immediately turned around and walked away.

Bai Chongbei turned his gaze to Luo Zhengying again, and said in a deep voice: "Call Wuhan immediately, and immediately set up the former enemy command of the Pinghan Railway, and order Sun Liren, the commander of the new 38th Division, to be the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, and lead the new 38th Division and the 1st to 8th Divisions of Honor who are resting in Wuhan, go north to Xiaogan, and hold the line of Xiaogan for at least ten days!" ”

"Yes!" Luo Zhengying agreed, turned around and hurried away.

Seeing Luo Zhengying's figure go away, Bai Chongbei retracted his gaze and said to Zhong Yi: "Ziren, it's up to you next!" ”

"No problem!" Zhong Yi nodded vigorously, then turned around and walked into the communication office next door, and said to the dozen or so members of the telecommunications team sitting in front of the radio station, "Now start grouping, a total of four groups, the first group is connected to the Fifth Corps, the second group is connected to the Sixth Corps, and so on, do you understand all of them?" ”

"Got it!" More than a dozen operators sat up straight and responded loudly.

"Good!" Zhong Yi bowed his head lightly, and said, "Immediately get in touch with the corresponding corps, and ask them to send the contact codes of the subordinate group armies and legions to the commander's department, quickly!" ”

"Yes!" A dozen or so operators immediately got busy.

In less than a quarter of an hour, each group obtained the communication contact codes of each group army and each army corps to which the four corps belonged, which was actually the code name of each group army and corps.