Nanjing, since ancient times, is a place where soldiers must fight, the unique environment, so that he is easy to defend and difficult to attack, several battles in history to attack Nanjing, such as the Jingnan period, Zhu Di attacked Nanjing, the late Ming Dynasty Nanjing attack and defense, and a few decades ago, when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising, Nanjing offensive and defensive battles. Especially during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, the final offensive and defensive battles were almost a sea of corpses and blood, and Nanjing deserved to be a heroic city, resisting the continuous attacks of the Hunan army, and finally being isolated and broken.

However, the era of cold weapons, or the offensive and defensive warfare in the early stage of hot weapons, is completely different from the present, the times have progressed, the tactics have advanced, the revolutionary party has not realized the danger, and they have spent more energy on the defense of the river than in Nanjing, and the five infantry corps guarding in Nanjing, two of which are above the river defense, and the other two are about ten kilometers away from the city of Nanjing, and in the middle of Nanjing and the river defense, there is only one standing army in Nanjing.

If all the plans go well, the 100,000 or so people who have been reduced to zero, plus the special operations brigade and the paratrooper lions, will be about 170,000, and Nanjing will be surrounded by water, and when the time comes, the whole of Nanjing will be at your fingertips.

The revolutionary party did not know at all that when their side had not yet acted, through the intelligence bureau, they already knew the actions they were preparing and the forces they were mobilizing, and even the northwest had already thought of countermeasures and was ready to take them down in one fell swoop.

Yan Xishan, who was in a hurry, went to mobilize the army, while Yang Yuanzhao stayed in the staff headquarters and watched the plan formulated by the staff officers. He nodded repeatedly, but watched. He sensed a doubt, and that was. This strategy was to preemptively attack the enemy, and the Third Army would mobilize in the shortest possible time and use the method of decapitation to take out the top echelons of the revolutionary party in order to end the entire war.

This is undoubtedly the easiest method and the least costly, but there is one point, in terms of rationality, it is somewhat lacking. When Yang Yuanzhao raised this question, Feng Yuxiang, Jiang Baili and Zhang Xiaohuai all frowned.

They are soldiers, and when they generally consider problems and do things, they often consider them from a military point of view, and such a plan, to a certain extent, is very good and is the most labor-saving. The plan that costs the least, but in terms of rationality, is really debatable, even if it wins. In the future, it will also be worth criticizing, you say that you have received the news that the revolutionary party is ready to do it, but in the end it is you who will do it first. Problems arise then, let alone countless years later.

The military is always a continuation of politics. The northwest wants to unify China and build a truly powerful one. Reasonable country, sometimes, this rationality has to be considered, of course, this is in the case of similar cost, will not affect the overall situation or damage too much because of this so-called reasonableness.

The three of them are all military masters, they just didn't take it into account before, this plan is very good, even if they want to join the question of rationality, it is only an adjustment of time, itself, the third army is reduced to zero, when they go to Nanjing, there will be a problem of equipment, now, it is just in the equipment, adding the latent time, the layout of the northwest in Nanjing is far beyond the imagination of the revolutionary party, and some of the arrangements are even arranged by Yang Yuanzhao before the revolutionary party occupies power, It is more reasonable to drag the time to a day after the revolutionary party has taken action against the node cities, even if it is impossible to explain how the Third Army crossed the layers of defense of the revolutionary party, rushed directly to the city of Nanjing, and succeeded in beheading it in one fell swoop.

The general direction has been set, and the next step is to gradually improve, these are naturally completed by the staff officers below, and a confidential secretary took the order to find Yan Xishan, as the commander, he must know the intentions of the staff department, otherwise, if the generals are outside, if the military order is not accepted, it will be a big trouble.

Yan Xishan was indeed in a hurry, and before the people rushed back, the phone was called back first, and the red siren sounded in the camp of the Third Army. It was a yellow alert, all the vacations were canceled, and the Third Army on duty in Shuanggang was like a giant beast awakened, and the soldiers quickly sat up and packed up their personal belongings, war materials, luggage, tents, and personal guns and ammunition, all of which were packed in accordance with certain regulations.

The logistics troops also opened the arsenal of the Third Army, which was built underground, an airtight ammunition depot that was protected on weekdays, the thick gate was opened, and the newly equipped 155 new heavy guns, enough ammunition for 120 bases, and various other facilities, one by one cannons, were dragged out of the warehouse, and then pulled on the cars with hooks, the Third Army has not completely finished the transformation of motorized steps, but it also has more than 1,000 cars.

A significant difference between the Northwest Army and other units is that in addition to guns and ammunition, logistics supplies also include hundreds of different items such as military rations and compressed biscuits, which seem inconspicuous, but are the best supplement to the battle.

For example, the standard battlefield meal pack in the northwest is based on the meal bag of this era, referring to some concepts of later generations, heating with a certain amount of quicklime, as long as there is water, you can eat hot meals, hot rice is not only to replenish energy, taste, there are unique, in the recovery of physical strength, increase pleasure also has great benefits.

Without the power of faith, what the Northwest has to do is to change from the science and system, almost to every field of military affairs, under the guidance of Yang Yuanzhao, the Northwest Army actually embarked on a similar path as the US military in later generations, using higher and stronger, more scientific methods to overwhelm the opponent, but there is not much that belongs to the once RED Army, at least the Northwest Army must pay attention to hardship and hard work, but will not deliberately endure hardships.

The standard for rapid response in the northwest was 100 minutes, and when the Third Army had all concentrated and had already loaded its vehicles and begun to march to the railway station, it was only 55 minutes that had passed, which was almost half of the amount compared to the allotted time, which not only showed that the Third Army was well-trained, but also showed a scientific method of concentration.

About 30 minutes later, Yan Xishan rushed back to the Third Army, under his control, the Third Army's movements, much faster than before, it was easy to get this battle, in Yan Xishan's view, it must be fought beautifully, he heard the previous plan, the Third Army was reduced to zero, raided Nanjing, and after taking Nanjing, cooperated with other Northwest Army, completely dismantled the ruling foundation of the revolutionary party.

Although this battle was not as majestic as Shandong's First Army to resist foreign enemies, it was also an important war to unify China, and Yan Xishan was also quite concerned and serious, not only personally urging the army to set off, but also letting the staff officers make a timetable on the basis of the staff department's plan.

But then, the order of the confidential secretary of the General Staff was poured down like a basin of cold water, the soldiers are fast, this should be absolute common sense, but at the critical moment, it is necessary to delay the troops, Yan Xishan is not ignorant of politics, as soon as he saw the order of the confidential secretary, he knew that it was mixed with political factors, fortunately, the strength of the northwest is far above the revolutionary party, even if the slow army is used, it is not that the revolutionary party can deal with it, among the training subjects of the Third Army, there is also latent training, plus the introduction of the General Staff, near Nanjing, There are enough hiding places for hundreds of thousands of people, and as long as the Northwest does not leak it by itself, the Third Army will only be lurking for a few more days.

has been mobilized, so he will no longer stop, and there is not much difference between resting in the place and here, Yan Xishan still dispatched at the fastest time after receiving the order, in this regard, the confidential secretary was still a little worried, but he was blocked back by Yan Xishan, he will launch according to the order, but how to launch it depends on him.

As one of the few senior military leaders in the military, Yan Xishan had all the breath that not only a secretary could resist, but after saying a few dry words, he left, while Yan Xishan shook his head and set off with the army.

At the time of the war, the Northwest as a whole was a game of chess, not only the Third Army reacted quickly, even the Railway Bureau also reacted, the Northwest passenger car generally has 16 to 18 carriages, according to the standard of 148 people per carriage, a carriage is about 2,000 more, plus logistics personnel, the Third Army, basically needs 65 trains.

For the northwest, the industry is developed, they can make trains, dozens of trains, this is not a problem, the Baotou Railway Bureau temporary mobility, can mobilize so many numbers, but with the current busy degree of the Northwest railway network, it is impossible to arrange so many wagons at one time.

Replace the previous plan, it is necessary to adjust the railway schedule, a large area of delayed trains, now, do not need to be too urgent, the least do not need to rush to Nanjing in the shortest time, part of the personnel choose to increase the carriage, in the original 15 cars, 16 trains, add two or three carriages, and the balance of the train's carriage has, squeeze a person who is almost squeezed into double, a carriage squeezed down 250 people is no problem, after all, the organized army, more rules than individual passengers, and there is no shoelace a lot of luggage.

Coupled with the relationship between diversion and batching, the first batch is about one and a half divisions, which must be set off in advance, and the rest will be set off within two days. Two hours later, the first group of vanguards sent out by rail, which was a reconnaissance group bound for Wuhan to prepare for the plane, and the rest would depart for Nanjing in three days.

After everything was ready to stop, Yan Xishan also set off, originally he should be the commander, and finally followed the military headquarters to set off, but now the plan has slowed down, maybe it will be seven or eight days before the battle starts, he is not worried about the front line, with a dozen staff officers and a company of guards, followed the reconnaissance group to set off, he is ready to follow the reconnaissance group, take a plane to Nanjing, do the vanguard work and hidden command work. (To be continued......)