Leng Feng knew about Lao Tang, and when the "Black Sun" group was closed for special training, the historians of the so-called Yamato remnants made a special mention of this person.

The war is fought by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, so from the eyes of these people, looking at a famous anti-Japanese general like Tang Keqin, the harvest is quite large.

The enemy's assessment is sometimes the most objective.

Lao Tang can fight, that's for sure, the Japanese army has suffered a lot at his hands, and the Battle of Nankou has proved this, but Lao Tang is too arrogant and has some eyes left.

The factions in the GMD army, in addition to an independent Hu Shoushan, also have the civil engineering department of He Jingzhi and Chen Cixiu, and then the one who can be counted as a force is Lao Tang.

It's just that Lao Tang has done too much in some aspects, relying on Lao Jiang's descendant. Pet. Will do it for some days. Angry and resentful things ended miserably.

But at this time, Lao Tang is still a general who can recruit well.

Since he wants autonomy, then just give it to him, just give him some basic bindings. Leng Feng believes that in addition to unified mobilization and command in such a large battle, it is also necessary to give full play to the subjective motivation of the commanders of the troops below.

The battlefield is changing rapidly, and everything cannot be relied on by the command of the top.

This is actually a process of grasping and delegating power, and it depends on the cooperation between the commander of the army and the generals below.

It's actually quite a complex art, involving not only personal military literacy, but also interpersonal interactions, trust, and so on.

Li Delin was obviously very annoyed by Tang Keqin's arrogance and rudeness, which was like a thorn in his brain, and it was already very objective that the trust index did not drop directly to a negative number.

Even if Leng Feng is in that position, he has to express doubts about whether he can fully trust Tang Keqin, and whether he will make a mess of the entire strategic deployment.

He was asked to go to the friendly army to reinforce the friendly army, but he used the excuse to delay, and he didn't go directly if he was alive, and even came against the headquarters.

There are all such cases.

In addition, not asking for instructions, not reporting, or even reporting to a higher level in case of trouble is not only a matter of rules and face, but also a matter of the prestige of the generals of the system.

The commander who commands the battle situation is not capable of suppressing the generals under his command, so what will the generals of other units in the same theater think, and will they learn the same?

If this problem is not solved, it is difficult to predict what will happen in the next battle.

In fact, Li Delin has worked hard to communicate with Tang Keqin, but the effect is not ideal, and Comrade Tang still goes his own way, obviously not taking him, the commander of the theater, in his eyes.

Leng Feng is now the deputy chief of staff of the theater, and Li Delin fully trusts him, so whenever he encounters a thorny problem, he will also send a telegram to ask for his opinion.

Of course, Leng Feng can't compare to his partner for many years, Deputy Director Bai Jiansheng, but one more person is one more reference, at least in Li Delin's opinion, Leng Feng's brain is flexible, bold and thoughtful, he doesn't worship Jiang so much, and he is a trustworthy person.

For the sake of this trust, Leng Feng can't just give a suggestion.

After careful consideration and weighing the pros and cons, the best way to deal with it at the moment is to let Tang Keqin fight, but at the same time, he must also give him three chapters of the law, and this matter must be known to Lao Jiang, otherwise it will be unbinding.

This is equivalent to asking Tang Keqin to make a military order.

With this military order, the other generals of the Fifth War Zone will not be half-hearted, and those who dare to make a military order are not ordinary people, and they will have to bear the consequences of failure.

Losing an official is just light, and that is to kill the head.

It's just that this military order is not easy to establish, what is the specific content, what to make Tang Keqin do, and what effect to achieve, which is very difficult to define.

Therefore, this is a test of Li Delin's wisdom and experience.

The war is imminent, Li Delin sleeps very little every day, and under normal circumstances, he only sleeps for four or five hours before getting up, and then he starts to be nervously busy.

As the commander of the theater, he not only has to take charge of military affairs, but also has civil affairs to deal with, and the purpose of establishing the theater is to grasp the military and political affairs together and coordinate all forces in the theater to resist the war.

"Sir, telegram number three!"

"Oh, so early?" When he got up in the morning, Li Delin was walking in the yard, and Huang Xuecun quietly walked behind him and handed over a telegram.

"Haha, good, good!" When Li Delin saw the contents of the telegram, his tightly knit brows suddenly relaxed, and he burst out laughing, since he heard the news of the fall of Teng County, Huang Xuecun had never seen his own head official smile at all.

"Brother Delin, what is so happy?" Bai Jiansheng came out of the room with a basin, obviously just getting up, familiar, and the logistics soldiers followed closely.

"Kensheng is here, go in and say." Li Delin smiled.

"It's so mysterious, you still have to go in and talk about it?" Bai Jiansheng handed the basin and towel to his orderly.

"Jiansheng, take a look at this telegram."

"Cipher No. 3 again?" Bai Jiansheng is no stranger to the head of the telegraph.

His old partner seems to really use him as his deputy chief of staff, rather than just giving him a fictitious title.

Li Delin nodded.

"No wonder, it turned out to be a victory and ate a squadron of the Japanese army, this unit is powerful enough, in the process of escaping, it dares to counterattack, who is the commander of this force?" Bai Jiansheng asked in surprise.

"I don't know about this, you know, we know less about his troops, we only know that he has a group of young officers under him, all of whom fought with him from Nanjing, although many of them are from Huangpu, but they are the youngest in the army. Teaching, in just a few months, it is so powerful, Jiansheng, this afterlife is terrifying! Li Delin sighed.

"Brother Delin, don't you want to take a fancy to No. 3 and want to recruit him as a son-in-law, right?" Bai Jiansheng joked.

"I want to have a daughter!" Li Delin smiled, "Brother Jiansheng, you have a daughter of the right age under your knees, and when he comes, you can try it." ”

"Brother Delin doesn't know that he has already made a marriage contract with someone, and he is accompanied by an unknown woman, which is not small?" Bai Jiansheng said with a smile.

"Yes, that's a pity, I still want to be a moon old for your Xiaohui!"

"Thank you, but I really want to see him now, the rising star who can make Brother Geng Guang look up to him must be a rare young talent!" Bai Jiansheng hurriedly shook his hand.

"The first person of the younger generation of GMD."

"This assessment is a bit excessive, he is so young, don't kill him." Bai Jiansheng was surprised.

"I believe in my vision, Brother Jiansheng, let's wait and see, No. 3 is a very special young man, you like it when you see it."

"yes, I'm looking forward to it more and more." Bai Jiansheng said.

"What do you think of his suggestion?"

"Since you can't control it, it's better to just let it go, Tang's qualifications are very old, and he doesn't listen to us, so we really can't do anything." Bai Jiansheng said.

"You agree with Three?"

"I really like this kind of courage on No. 3, ordinary people really can't do this, I've only seen this in Yan'an, as for our President Jiang, I can only hehe."

"I'll say what you're saying here, if you let the people in the military command hear it, I'm afraid it won't be long before it reaches Mr. Jiang's ears."

"Have we said anything bad about him enough?"

"That's right, haha......"

"What do you think of his suggestion?" Li Delin asked.

"I think it's okay, as long as Tang Keqin is willing to cooperate, we can first draw up a telegram and submit it to Mr. Jiang." Bai Jiansheng felt that this might be the best way, at least if Tang Keqin shirked again, I am afraid that Lao Jiang would be the first to let him go.

The deployment of the Battle of Xuzhou was decided by Lao Jiang himself, and Lao Jiang also sincerely wanted to inflict a heavy blow on the Japanese army in Xuzhou this time.

Although Lao Chiang was sometimes soft and sometimes hard in resisting Japan, it was impossible for him to surrender to the Japanese, and this was clear to anyone who knew Lao Chiang.

Lao Jiang still has no backbone at all and will not be a puppet of the Japanese.

Therefore, if Lao Tang does not perform well in Xuzhou, the first person who will not let him go is Lao Jiang himself.

"Oh, by the way, Sun Lianzhong of the Second Group Army called, the 27th Division found the Japanese plainclothes team near Zaozhuang, and he suspected that the Japanese army was very likely to be able to detour south from Zaozhuang, capture Yixian, join forces with the Fifth Division, and take Taierzhuang directly."

"Repeating the tactics of capturing Teng County?"

"Although the Japanese army said that it was delayed in Tengxian for a week, it also tasted the sweetness from the tactics of the big detour, if according to the previous way of playing, they did not want to occupy Tengxian within a week, and the east of Zaozhuang, the terrain is flat, which is very suitable for the big detour of the mobile corps, once the Japanese army adopts such tactics, then the defenders we arrange in Lincheng and Zaozhuang will have no meaning!" Bai Jiansheng said.

"You mean the Japanese army wants to fight us in the Taierzhuang area?"

"It's not that this is not impossible, the Sakamoto detachment of the Fifth Division is now blocked by our army in Linyi, but according to our intelligence information, the Japanese army is very likely to increase its troops in Qingcheng, so that the pressure on Zhang and Pang in front of Linyi will increase suddenly." Bai Jiansheng said.

"Does Liu Weizhang know about this situation?"

"I know, last night, I discussed with him for a night, about the deployment of the first phase of the 'April Fool's Day' operation, the Japanese army can now use nearly 100,000 troops, and then I don't know if they will continue to increase their troops, so that it is very likely to cause a decisive battle in the Xuzhou area!"

"I want to convene a military meeting of the commanders of the troops before the big war to unify their thinking, what do you think?"

"The meeting can be opened, but in the current situation, the commander of the unit will not easily leave the command position, so it is difficult to say how much he can come."

"After the Japanese army occupied Teng County, they didn't go south immediately, I don't know why?"

"There is no useful information from the intelligence department at present, but judging from the attrition of the Japanese army in Teng County, they almost wiped out a division in this battle for nearly a month's combat attrition, I think, if they attack again, they must raise enough ammunition and material supplies!"

"Isn't there any movement on the Japanese supply lines?"

"Yes, there were more than 20 military trains from Jinan to Yanzhou yesterday, an increase of one-third compared with normal days." Huang Xuecun was busy.

"What's in it?"

"There are replenishments for the 10th division, and the ammunition, especially the shells, is in large quantities."

"The Japanese army fired nearly 40,000 shells in Tengxian County, almost bombing the entire county into ruins, it is really hard to imagine how the Sichuan army defending the city survived and held out for seven days."

"The heroic deeds of the Sichuan army must be publicized."

"Understood!"

"Duke De, Commander-in-Chief Sun Zhen sent an urgent telegram, and the Sichuan army that broke through arrived safely in Zaozhuang, and there were less than 2,000 people left in the whole army." Confidential Department Tan Yaodong knocked on the door and came in to say.

"It's prominent, good!" Li Delin said happily that no matter how many people can come out, as long as they come out alive from the encirclement of the Japanese army, it will be a victory.

This is not only a victory for the Sichuan army, but also a victory for the Fifth War Zone!

The Sichuan army defended Teng County for seven days, and although it was finally defeated, it was still glorious despite the defeat, and it bought time for the Fifth War Zone to draw troops from the rear to complete the battle deployment.

Of the more than 10,000 people, 2,000 were left in just seven days, and all of them died in battle, which sounds very sad.

"After seven days and nights of bloody fighting, the defenders of Teng County successfully broke through!"

"The strong man is out of the river, strong, sad!"

"Impression of the Bloody Battle in Fuji County......"

A press conference was held in Xuzhou on the defense of Tengxian County, where Chinese and foreign reporters gathered together, and the spotlight flashed incessantly, and Chief Li Delin personally attended the news conference and was interviewed by a group of reporters.

"From the 13th, the Japanese army broke through the south of the Jiehe River, with tens of thousands of troops, through the Shahe River and the Dongsha River, and pressed to attack Tengxian County, and Wang Zhizhong, the commander of our 122nd Division, fought a bloody battle...... Until the night of the 20th, he adopted the strategy of attacking the east from the west, and led his troops to fight out of the encirclement, and the division commander Wang Zhizhong was wounded, and the division commander Chen Li was seriously wounded, and more than 8,000 officers and soldiers were sacrificed, and the people of Tengxian County suffered huge casualties......"

A miscellaneous army with inferior equipment and patchwork all the way out of Sichuan, like locusts crossing the border, and no one refused to take it in, actually fought an earth-shattering battle in Tengxian County, crying ghosts and gods, I couldn't believe that this was fought by the Sichuan army.

After hearing about the battle, the children of Tianfu set up a mourning hall at home, and held a grand mourning activity, and at the same time, a group of children in Sichuan who were inspired by the heroes went out of Sichuan again, and they will go to the front line to write a new chapter in the Chinese sons and daughters of Sichuan to resist the war and save the country.

The sacrifice of the Sichuan army and its determination to resist the invasion surprised Western journalists, who, after giving high praise to this force, slowly changed their inherent views and prejudices against the Chinese.

Louis Strong, a well-known journalist at home and abroad, wrote in his article: "It is so great, these yellow-skinned Chinese soldiers are really amazing, it is impossible to conquer such a stubborn name, although they may have to endure a hundred bombardments, a thousand massacres, and ten thousand tribulations......

The persistence of the Sichuan army shook the people of the country and the world, and it also touched some Japanese generals very much, and although some Japanese generals did not change their purpose of invading China, their thinking on dialogue and combat tactics has undergone certain changes.

(To be continued.) )