As soon as Yu Ruofei arrived outside Guangzhou, Shen Gang immediately met with Yu Ruofei: "Brother Yu, I haven't seen you for a long time, I think you're lucky to see you like this!" ”

Yu Ruofei laughed when he heard this: "This person is old, it is normal to be blessed!" ”

"Brother Yu, you are only thirty years old, it is when you are in the prime of life, how can you say that you are old, this is going to be blessed, I think it is my sister-in-law who serves you too well! This whole person is shiny, and you can't get lucky if you want to! Shen Gang was full of envy when he said this.

Shen Gang was also married before, but his wife died of dystocia two years ago, leaving only his eldest man and a newborn daughter, and he still remembered his deceased wife in his heart in the past two years, so he has never married. In recent years, his career has been smooth sailing, and he has shown his edge in the national army, but he has a lot of things on his mind, and there is no one in the family to take care of him, and this person is getting thinner and thinner.

Yu Ruofei smiled and said: "Okay, don't make fun of me, when the matter here in Guangzhou is over, I will arrange for you to meet someone!" ”

When Shen Gang heard this, he frowned slightly: "People? Don't ask you to be a matchmaker! ”

Since Shen Gang served as the director of the Operations Department in the National Army, some people have been proposing to him, wanting him to marry a continuation, including many powerful families in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, but he has never been able to let go of the deceased wife in his heart, so he has been dragging it out, and now he hears that his friend Yu Ruofei is involved in this matter, which makes him a little crying and laughing.

Yu Ruofei also sighed: "Don't say anything, I know what you want to say, but I'm not forced to do it, the elders over there will talk to me in person, and I can't save that face." When the time comes to go back to Fuzhou, you can say that you should go and see you. Anyway, just seeing one side won't let you lose a piece of meat! ”

Seeing Yu Ruofei say this, Shen Gang didn't speak, when it came to this, it can be seen that Yu Ruofei is really under a heavy trust, even if it is for such a friend, he has to take a look, as for after reading it, it has to be the same, do whatever you want.

So he said: "Forget it, I'll go back and see you when the time comes, but don't talk about those things now, you come here, I'll tell you about the current situation!" ”

The battle reports of the Third Division were basically reported to the Fuzhou side every day, but Yu Ruofei had been marching with his troops before, and the information channels were very limited, and he often lagged behind the development of the situation. Now it is also necessary for Shen Gang to talk about the latest situation.

Shen Ang led Yu Ruofei to a large table, on which was a military map of the area around Guangzhou, densely marked with many symbols.

Shen Gang said: "According to the commander's instructions, our division must end the battle in Guangzhou as soon as possible, preferably within a week. In order to achieve the goal of a quick victory, we withdrew our troops from the city one by one, and also attracted Long Jiguang's troops out of the city. At present, my 31st and 32nd regiments are deploying a defensive line here in this area, and about 10,000 or so Long Jiguang headquarters on the opposite side! Shen Gang pointed out with a pencil as he spoke: "That is, the area from Baishi Town to Xujia Village has formed a confrontation front about seven kilometers long. In addition, one battalion of the 33rd Regiment of our division was retained as a reserve at the division headquarters, and the other two battalions were still in the city of Guangzhou. And the artillery regiment of our division has made relevant combat preparations, and has carried out an intermittent shelling of the enemy's positions for three days, and has struck at the enemy's artillery positions, destroying at least ten or more enemy artillery pieces according to expectations! ”

Shen Gang pointed out the relevant position with a pencil as he spoke, and Yu Ruofei on the side also nodded again and again after hearing it: "According to the current situation, although Brother Shen, although your third division is less powerful than Long Jiguang's division, it still occupies an advantage on the battlefield!" Especially here in Baishi Town, with the strength of just one regiment, you can confront three regiments of the enemy head-on without falling behind, it can be seen that Brother Shen, you are usually well-trained! ”

In the face of Yu Ruofei's compliment, Shen Gang also accepted it with a smile, because this is a fact, in Baishi Town, Shen Gang put the 31st regiment, because the terrain of Baishi Town is somewhat complicated, and it is the center of the battlefield, Long Jiguang also wants to capture it under such an important position, but due to the complex terrain, the number of troops is too small to take it down, so Long Jiguang mobilized the strength of three regiments as soon as he was ruthless, and he is currently fighting with the 31st regiment. Judging from the reports from the front, the 31st Regiment has relied on its firepower and terrain advantages to give full play to the defensive tactics of barbed wire and trenches and heavy machine guns.

"It's just that the bullets and shells are consumed too much, and the heavy machine gun company of the 31st Regiment worked hard to shoot out the three-day reserve of bullets in the first day, so I had to remobilize the bullets to the past!" Shen Gang has long known about the high ammunition consumption of machine guns, and after the first battle in Hangzhou, he has always paid great attention to maintaining the ammunition reserves of heavy machine guns, and the heavy machine guns in wartime have lost their combat effectiveness due to lack of bullets. However, once this war started, no matter how much preparation was made, it would not be enough, and the 31st Regiment originally relied on terrain and firepower superiority to defend, and this bullet consumption was even more.

After a rough introduction, Shen Gang said to Yu Ruofei: "The second regiment of your guard division has just arrived, so let's rest and rest today." Then you will go to Yalan Village behind Baishi Town tomorrow, if it goes well, you will directly go forward to support the 33rd Regiment in Xujia Village, the 33rd Regiment plus the second regiment of your guard division will be almost the strength of a smaller division, and it should be possible to defeat the other party's two regiments at that time. As long as you make a breakthrough from the front, then you can make a detour and semi-encircle the enemy in front of the 31st regiment. Thus a complete victory. As long as we defeat Long Jiguang's main force in Baishi Town and Xujia Village, then Long Jiguang will not be able to save his defeat even if he has two or three regiments of troops left. ”

Shen Gang's words came out to listen to Yu Ruofei nodded again and again, Shen Gang's combat arrangements may seem very simple and boring, but this war, what is needed is victory, as long as it can be won, then the simplest and most effective method will be adopted, as for those complicated and beautiful battle plans, most of them cannot be realized.

Shen Gang's battle plan was very simple, first of all, to attract Long Jiguang's troops from the city and put them in the field for strategic confrontation, so as to form a state of strategic decisive battle and achieve a situation of defeat with one blow. Then, after receiving reinforcements from the reinforced regiment of the guard division, the superior forces were organized to make a breakthrough at a certain point on the frontal front, and then break through the entire frontal front. As long as the five regiments deployed by Long Jiguang on the front are defeated, then the battle of Guangzhou can come to an end.

Shen Gang's battle plan had also been reported to the Fuzhou side before, and several senior staff officers in the General Staff, as well as Feng Qin, Liang Xunqin, Chen Yi, Jiang Fangzhen and others, also expressed their approval after reading Shen Gang's battle plan.

"When the commander wanted to put Shen Gang as the commander of the Third Division, I was still a little worried, but now I look at his situation and methods are still very reliable." Lin Chengkun actually didn't have a good impression of Shen Gang, but even so, Lin Chengkun still admired it, since the Third Division arrived in Guangzhou, the Third Division of the National Army has been firmly controlling the situation in Guangzhou, allowing the situation in Guangzhou to advance step by step in a direction favorable to the National Army.

"There are Shen Gang and Yu Ruofei in Guangzhou, there shouldn't be any problems!" Chen Jingyun said: "I'm still worried about Hangzhou!" ”

At this time, Feng Qin said: "Commander, rest assured, now that the first and second divisions are already in a state of combat readiness, as long as the Beiyang Army moves south, then our army can go north directly!" ”

Chen Jingyun nodded and said, "What about the Fourth and Seventh Divisions, how is the combat readiness completed?" ”

Feng Qin said: "According to your instructions, commander, the General Staff has ordered the Fourth Division to go north to Hangzhou three days ago, and the Seventh Division in Hangzhou has also completed operational preparations and can set off at any time!" ”

In fact, Feng Qin's words are a bit watery, the Fourth Division is good to say, originally the troops stationed in Fuzhou, the personnel and equipment are relatively full, except for mortars, other weapons and equipment are basically full, and even the cavalry reconnaissance battalion, which is rarely equipped with other troops, is full. According to the adjustment of the Nationalist Army at the beginning of the year, the division has three infantry regiments, and in addition to an artillery regiment, there is also an engineer battalion, a baggage battalion, and a cavalry reconnaissance battalion. Needless to say, the sappers and baggage were basically the same new army establishment, while the cavalry reconnaissance battalion was newly created by the national army itself. Originally, according to the standard establishment of the New Army and the Beiyang Army, a division needed to be attached to a cavalry regiment, but the National Army could find so many war horses and cavalry, and the original Tenth Town only had dozens of horsemen. Later, the cavalry regiment was simply abolished and a cavalry battalion was given, which was mainly used for reconnaissance tasks. Even if it is a cavalry battalion, among the eight main divisions of the Nationalist Army, only the first division, the guard division and the fourth division are fully equipped, and most of the other divisions are cavalry companies, ranging from tens to hundreds of cavalry. This is also the result of the National Army looting all the war horses in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, and the quality of these war horses is not good.

In fact, the mules and horses of the National Army have always been very nervous, first of all, horses for riding, the requirements for such horses are extremely high, and the National Army simply cannot get so many suitable ones in a short period of time. As for the transportation of horses, it is easier to solve, because the requirements are not high, so ordinary pack horses, mules, and even donkeys can be used, which is much easier to collect from the people. However, the national army needs too many mules and horses, even if these transport animals are not demanding, but it is difficult to meet the demand for a while if they are collected from the people, so many times the baggage needs to be hired by the people to directly use the cart or simply carry it on their backs.

Due to the early formation of the Fourth Division, the horses attached to it were all fully organized into a battalion, and the rest of the transport mules and horses were also quite a bit, so this maneuver was not bad.

However, the Seventh Division, which was originally stationed in Hangzhou, was a little unsatisfactory, the predecessor of the Seventh Division was the surrender of Zhejiang, plus some troops drawn from the First Division and the Second Division, and then Fuzhou directly sent a lot of recruits, in short, it was a hodgepodge.

Later, as time passed, the second batch of artillery ordered by Chen Jingyun from Germany also arrived, so the seventh division was replaced with 75 mm artillery, and the replaced 57 mm mountain artillery is not easy to distribute, because there are not many of them, not even 36 to fill an artillery regiment, and now the artillery in the national army system is basically based on 75 mm artillery. The original 60-mm and 57-mm mountain artillery has already been relegated to the second line, and if they are directly incorporated into the divisions, it will result in some divisions having them and others not having them, and this will not only affect the establishment but also affect the logistical supply problem.