readx; Chen Jingyun also has some doubts about which battle plan to choose to cross the river, although he inherited the military knowledge of Chen Jingyun in his previous life, but he did not inherit the military intuition and talent that he should have as an officer, which is also the reason why Chen Jingyun has not personally commanded the troops since he took control of the army, not that he does not want to personally command a big battle, but he has self-knowledge, he does not have that ability. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Whether it was the previous Battle of Hangzhou, the Battle of Guangzhou, the War in Southern Jiangsu or the Battle of Anhui and Jiangxi, Chen Jingyun directly marked down the combat objectives to his generals, and then the specific combat matters were the responsibility of the generals below. It is precisely because of Chen Jingyun's state of letting go that the departments under the General Staff Department are so important, especially the Operations Department, which undertakes almost all the planning and formulation of foreign wars of the Nationalist Army. What Chen Jingyun had to do was to put forward the objectives of the campaign, tell the generals that he was going to occupy those territories, and the rest was for the generals to find a way to grab the territory. Chen Jingyun hardly came up with any detailed battle plan, which was and still is.

These professional things are still left to professional people, otherwise what would he do with so many generals in the command, would he be good-looking!

And now, these generals have come up with a battle plan for him, and there are two plans at once, and this state is not what he wants, he wants a general feasible plan, not a bunch of plans thrown at him by his subordinates for him to choose.

So he immediately spoke: "Since there are two plans now, then the General Staff will organize two deductions, and then use the best ones." ”

Chen Jingyun said this, Yuan Fang could only say: "I understand, the General Staff will organize relevant deductions in the next two days, and then report to the marshal!" ”

Chen Jingyun nodded: "Well, in these two plans, it is said that it is necessary to concentrate superior forces, whether it is from Yangzhou as the main attack or Hefei as the main attack direction, then a large number of troops are needed!" Did the General Staff calculate whether the strength of our army in southern Jiangsu was sufficient? ”

Yuan Fangdao: "The General Staff has calculated, and now our army's troops in southern Jiangsu are still less, and the General Staff recommends that the 11th Division be transferred to southern Jiangsu." ”

Chen Jingyun frowned when he heard this: "The 11th Division has not yet become an army, and the artillery regiment under its jurisdiction does not even have artillery, how can it fight?" ”

Yuan Fang explained: "The 11th Division can be transferred to southern Jiangsu to continue training and wait for the artillery to arrive, or it can be used as a reserve when the situation is corrupted!"

At this time, Chen Weihua on the side also said: "Now that our army has reached an alliance with the Gui army and the Dian army, both sides in Guangdong have begun to withdraw their troops, and the military confrontation between the Gui army and our army and the Dian army has eased, and now the three of us have drawn troops to attack Hunan." The threat from Guangdong is no longer large, the 11th Division can be withdrawn, and even the 3rd Division can be transferred north. ”

"It's okay for the 11th Division to be transferred north, but how can the 3rd Division move? Although Lu Rongting's Fifth Army has gathered the main force to go north, it is indispensable to release people! Yu Ruofei on one side raised objections.

Chen Weihua said: "Our army still has the First Mixed Brigade and the Fourth Army in Jiangxi and Hunan, and there are still three local garrison regiments in Guangdong, and it is okay to undertake certain garrison tasks. Now our army needs a large number of troops in southern Jiangsu, and it is a waste to keep the third division, the main force of long-trained training, in Guangzhou and do nothing! ”

At this time, Shen Gang also put forward his opinion: "It is a little wasteful to continue to maintain the main force of the Third Division in the direction of Guangdong, but we can make some changes, I think that some troops can be transferred from the Third Division and the Eleventh Division to form a mixed brigade, even if there are more recruits and some heavy weapons are lacking, but it can still be used for emergency response." At that time, the main force of the Third Division could still be transferred north to southern Jiangsu. ”

"In this way, our army has to expand into a mixed brigade, can the finances support it?" Sun Guangliang, the head of the logistics department, who rarely spoke, raised the key issue.

Chen Jingyun also spoke at this time: "Although there is pressure on military spending, it is not a big problem if it is just a mixed brigade!" ”

In this kind of matter, Chen Jingyun has always been very decisive: "Chief Yuan, you remember, a part of the 3rd Division and a part of the 11th Division will be transferred to form the 14th Mixed Brigade. ”

"Commander Lin's Third Army?" Yuan Fang cautiously raised a more serious issue, that is, the status of the Third Army, the Third Army now has only one First Mixed Brigade and the Third Division left, and now the First Mixed Brigade has entered Hunan, and the strength of the Third Army is the smallest among the four armies of the Nationalist Army.

Chen Jingyun said: "The headquarters of the Third Army was transferred north to southern Jiangsu together with the Third Division, and then the 11th Division was also transferred to southern Jiangsu and incorporated into the Third Army. Responsible for the general reserve of the southern Jiangsu region. As for the transfer of the 1st Mixed Brigade to the formation of the 4th Army. Guangdong is under the sole responsibility of the 14th Mixed Brigade. ”

In order to concentrate more troops during the Northern Expedition, the Nationalist Army was preparing to transfer the Third Division and the Eleventh Division to the north, and at the same time set up the Fourteenth Mixed Brigade.

The third division in Guangzhou has always been Lu Rongting's heart disease, how to look at how to get in the way, there is a third division, Lu Rongting simply did not dare to transfer too many troops from Wuzhou and other places, now Chen Jingyun said that he would transfer the third division to the north, he was naturally willing, and immediately agreed to reduce the garrison in western Guangdong, leaving only one brigade of troops, and this brigade was mainly used to suppress and exterminate the remnants of Long Jiguang, after the remnants of Long Jiguang arrived in western Guangdong, and also crossed the sea into the Hainan region, although the troops and equipment were not strong, But it has always been the pressure on the Gui army, although he is not afraid that Long Jiguang will turn against the sky, but he also has to keep the troops to deal with Long Jiguang.

The reason why it is so smooth is also a lot to do with the fact that the three have formed an alliance, and at the same time, Lu Rongting has also paid attention to Hunan, and wants to use the main force in the direction of Hunan, even if he can't occupy the whole of Hunan at that time, he will also take most of Hunan and expand the territory of the Gui army.

Not only has the confrontation between the Gui army and the Nationalist Army decreased, but the confrontation between the Dian army and the Gui army has also been reduced a lot, from the previous confrontation of tens of thousands of troops to the present two sides have promised to deploy only one division of troops on the border of the two provinces, and then Lu Rongting's Fifth Army transferred the main force to prepare to enter Hunan, and Tang Jiyao is also ready to free up his hands to clean up Sichuan.

The large-scale military confrontation between the three warlords in the south ended, liberating a large number of troops of the three warlords, and the strength of the Fifth Army of the Gui Army into Hunan was as high as two divisions and one brigade. The Seventh Army of the Dian Army also sent two divisions into the Sichuan area to reinforce the Sixth Army, preparing to completely open up the situation on the Sichuan side.

In order to solve the military confrontation between the three families, Chen Jingyun also paid a certain price, he has already pulled out 1 million military expenses for the Gui army in accordance with the original alliance agreement, and also gave 2 million to the Yunnan army, in the original alliance agreement of the three families, the Gui army and the Yunnan army promised to form a southern coalition army with Chen Jingyun and accept the reorganization of the temporary political axe in the south, and at the same time, the central government also had to bear a part of their military expenses, and it was naturally impossible to give all of them, so it could only be said that they would give a part. After the Gui army and the Dian army got this batch of military funds, they didn't even ask for money, and immediately used the money to purchase a lot of ordnance and ammunition from the national army, and the national army would certainly not be able to buy heavy weapons if it didn't have enough of them, but rifles, bullets and other military supplies could still be bought, and the national army had a lot of old guns in its inventory.

Besides, if Chen Jingyun wants to count on them to attack Sichuan, Hunan, and even Hubei, to share the pressure of Beiyang, it is impossible to watch them run out of guns and ammunition, and it is necessary to properly support a batch of light weapons and ammunition.

When the Third Division and the Eleventh Division of the Third Army were about to be transferred north, the General Staff finally decided on the final plan for the battle of crossing the river, and this time the plan could be regarded as a combination of Shen Gang and the General Staff Plan, with the main attack direction in the Anhui region and the deployment of certain troops in the Yangzhou direction to accompany the attack. The main strategic goal is to take Hefei, after obtaining the southern part of Anhui, and then advance eastward to threaten Chuzhou and Bengbu on the Jinpu line.

In this preliminary plan, the General Staff planned to use the Ninth Division, the Eighth Division, the Fifth Division, and the Fifth Mixed Brigade as the main forces to cross the river from Wuhu, and the Sixth Division in Anqing also marched northeast to Hefei to form a main force with four divisions and one brigade as the first echelon. At the same time, the First Army was dispatched to the Fourth Division of Changzhou and the First Division of Shanghai to be stationed in southern Anhui, and followed the first echelon as the second echelon. After the 3rd and 11th Divisions of the Third Army arrived in southern Jiangsu, they were stationed in Shanghai and other areas respectively to fill the defensive gaps of the 1st and 4th Divisions.

At that time, this will be a general battle with more than 100,000 troops, and the first strategic stage will be centered on Anhui, and the next stage will be centered on Chuzhou. As long as this plan is successfully implemented, then Feng Guozhang's two divisions and one brigade in the Jiangbei region will fall into the predicament of being encircled. So as to completely change the strategic impasse in southern Jiangsu. If it fails, the national army is defeated and retreats south of the Yangtze River, and finally it can rely on the navy to block the southward counteroffensive of the Beiyang Army, if it is a fiasco, the loss of more than half of the northbound troops will trigger a chain reaction, even if there is a navy, it will not be able to stop the counteroffensive of the Beiyang Army to the south, and then Chen Jingyun can only jump off the Qinhuai River.

Plans are always beautiful, and the reality is always cruel, the staff made such a plan for Chen Jingyun, saying how it will be once it succeeds, but no matter what the plan will be, all kinds of accidents always come out unexpectedly!

This time, no less!