Chapter 743 His heart is worth killing (3)

All the generals stared at the sand table and began to think nervously. Chen Chengi, who put down his baton, exchanged opinions with Wang Jun beside him in a low voice. Hu Zongnan and Li Yutang looked at each other for a moment, with doubts on their faces, but they did not dare.

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"Who came up with this plan?"

An Yi's loud voice suddenly sounded, and everyone could hear the dissatisfaction contained in it.

Chen Chenggifeng hesitated for a moment, but answered truthfully: "The report to the commander-in-chief was formulated by the General Suppression Operations Office with the assistance of the advisory group."

"Advisory group? Which group is it specifically?" An Yi asked loudly again.

Chen Chengyi did not answer this time, and looked at Wei Lihuang awkwardly. Wei Lihuang frowned slightly, secretly wondering what An Yi meant?

Everyone was shocked when they noticed that An Yi, who was usually very talkative, suddenly became so strict. Seeing the fierce majesty exuding from An Yi, they immediately thought of An Yi's iron-blooded fighting style and harsh military management methods, and couldn't help but feel sad in their hearts.

With a shudder, they all put away their arrogance and stood up straight without realizing it.

Colonel Hughes raised his arrogant head and replied loudly in Mandarin with a slight Shanghainese charm: "Is there anything wrong with this plan? This is the three-person advisory group that I am responsible for, and I just reported it to Mr. Chairman half a month ago.

It is a painstaking work submitted by me. This plan took me and my colleagues three months of hard work from conception to implementation, and received the full support of more than ten generals from the General Headquarters.

Assistance. Here, please allow me to pay tribute to my colleagues and the headquarters generals who participated in the formulation of the plan, and to express my high respect for the support of Mr. Chairman and General He, Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Suppression. What does General An think of this combat plan?

Please express your opinions openly and honestly. I have heard for a long time that the general is the most outstanding commander among the young generals in China. I will feel extremely honored to receive the general's correction."

An Yi saw that there was no hint of honor on Hughes's handsome and tough face. He lowered his face and asked the staff to hand over the baton, grabbed the baton and pointed it at the Yeji line at the junction of Henan and Anhui:

"According to the new combat plan, the First Army and the Third Army will attack this area of ​​about 130 square kilometers from the north and south. According to the latest information just conveyed, this is the 20th place of Cai Shenxi, the Fourth Army of the Communist Army Xu Xiangqian.

The hiding place of the Fifth Army was not specified, but the number of troops in Cai Shenxi's department was not specified. It was only estimated based on the original strength of the department minus the 5,000 people who had been damaged in the battle, and it was roughly believed that the communist army in the department was about more than 10,000.

"One thing I have to remind you is that this area is an old base area of ​​the Soviet Union. Since ancient times, the people have been fierce and unruly. The Communist army has been operating for many years. It can be described as an army of all people. According to an internal report issued by the Second Office of the General Staff Headquarters in May

According to reports, there are 30 local armed forces of the Communist Army in the area from Shangcheng to Gushi.

One group has a total number of about 26,000 people. The Communist Party calls these local armed forces the Red Guards. In our inherent impression, these armed forces are usually a ragtag group carrying spears and swords, so they are usually directly

This part of the power has been ignored. But here I want to make a point that in a certain

Under some special circumstances, these armed forces can often play a role in influencing the battle situation, such as intelligence transmission, comprehensive and large-area monitoring, familiarity with terrain and secret paths, etc., which are incomparable to our regular army.

In the past few years, whenever our troops entered Soviet base areas, they encountered countless enemies.

The ubiquitous surveillance and sabotage have exposed traces, and there are numerous examples of rapid attacks by the Communist Party's regular army or Red Guards. A year ago, General Zhang Huizhan was surrounded and annihilated by the suddenly assembled main force of the Communist Army, and his head was finally cut off.

Yes, I hope it can attract enough attention from everyone..."

Hughes interrupted An Yi: "General An, what problem do you want to explain after you have said so much? Do you want to tell us that the people there are all red bandits who can carry guns? Even if they can carry them

Are there so many guns for them to carry? This is too much and is alarmist!"

An Yi glared at Hughes, with a playful smile on his face: "Colonel, I want to tell you what People's War is and how powerful it is. You can have some experience from the Songhu Anti-Japanese War that just passed.

Perhaps Mr. Hughes or Western military strategists have not paid enough attention to this point. Chinese military art attaches great importance to the three elements of time, location, and people. In the words of Western military science,

The law is the political environment of war, the natural environment such as terrain and climate, and the humanistic environment. Let’s not talk about the weather for the moment, let’s talk about the geographical location and the people. These two factors are not in our hands now. It can be said that spears, broadswords, birds, muskets, pine cannons

The harm it brings is no less than that of rifles and machine guns... Many people laughed and didn't believe what I said, right? Well, let's deduce it carefully based on the plan."

Everyone's appetite was immediately whetted by An Yi. The three German instructors looked at An Yi with keen eyes, looking very expectant. Brandt also showed a very interested smile, but Hughes still had a look of disdain on his face.

He didn't look at An Yi seriously.

Ever since the Lushan Military Conference, Hughes had been very dissatisfied with An Yi's arrogance. After boarding the ship together, An Yi did not take the initiative to exchange opinions with him, the head of the advisory group. After arriving in Nanjing, he abandoned them and went home.

Went, heading to Bengbu

On the train, Hughes couldn't help but want to take the initiative to find An Yi to exchange his thoughts, but An Yi stayed in the last carriage, playing a game of jumping up and down at the door of the moving train with a group of soldiers.

After arriving in Bengbu, Hughes was not given the respect he deserved.

Heavy, and now he is criticizing the battle plan led by Hughes and formulated after months of hard work, how can Hughes not be furious? No matter how well-educated he is, he can't stand it, not to mention that Hughes has the experience of leading troops to suppress resistance forces in the Indian colonies.

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He has experience in commanding combat operations and has been a military observer in China for three years. He was then hired by Chiang Kai-shek and He Yingqin at a high salary to serve as a military consultant for two years. Now he is offended by the young An Yi. How can he not let the arrogant Hughes feel?

Resistance and resentment?

Without even looking at Hughes, An Yi raised his baton and pointed to the south of Ye Ji: "According to the original plan, the two divisions of General Wang Jun's Third Army will be divided into two groups and march northward from the east and west sides of Sutai Mountain. Everyone, please

Look at the sand table, marked

The distance is all twenty-seven kilometers, and several dangerous mountain cols on both lines are also very clear. However, a swamp on the north side of Meicun to the west of Sutai Mountain is not marked. As far as I know, that area is about ten kilometers in radius.

The swamp is only

A north-south passage can carry two carriages side by side, but there are two wooden bridges more than 30 meters long and built on the hard ground of the swamp protrusion. There are no railings on both sides and the width can only carry one carriage. Therefore, those involved in the attack

How the 7th Division's artillery battalion passes has become a big problem. If engineers are used to build bridges and pave roads, it will take seven hours at the fastest speed to help the artillery battalion pass through this area. This is still very important when the 7th Division's engineer battalion is established.

On an excellent basis.

"According to the plan requirements, after the attack is launched, the east and west armies must arrive at the south of Wumiaoji at the same time within six hours. Otherwise, they will not be able to achieve the expected purpose of rapidity, concealment, and mutual coordination, and they will be discovered by the Communist army in advance, resulting in

The danger of rapid transfer of its main force. Let me ask you, six hours of march time, maybe

Is it achievable? If the 7th Division is delayed for three hours and the 12th Division moves from the east to the predetermined location as planned, will the Communist army mass its forces and attack it head-on? If the main force of the Communist army cannot be defeated, it can be chosen calmly.

If we retreat, then we only need to send two regiments to harass and attack for half an hour. Will the 12th Division dare to continue to advance?"

There was silence in the hall, and the generals started talking, asking each other who was responsible for the terrain survey, and why they didn't even know about such an obvious terrain as a swamp? Wang Jun and Li Wenbin, deputy commander of the 7th Division, looked at each other, terrified. The three Germans

The consultant shook his head repeatedly, asking how could such a low-level mistake happen?

However, An Yi did not give everyone a chance to breathe, and continued to attack: "Look at the North Road. According to this battle plan, General Chen inherited the command of the first division and the third division at the same time, and secretly moved to Quanhe

The first division passed through the East Stone Bridge and the ancient well to the north of Wu Temple, covering a distance of 21 kilometers. It took the lead in launching a strong attack on the Communist army to attract the opponent's attention, and then attacked the Third Army on the south road.

Create effective support.

"There is no big problem with this march route. Several areas along the river valley have been fully considered. The problem is the third division that is responsible for the encirclement mission. As you can see, the third division is taking this ten-mile route.

The eight-kilometer shortcut seemed to have unexpectedly good effects, but everyone discovered that there was a funnel-shaped valley at the thirteenth kilometer. The third division needed to enter the valley and then climb over a height of 100 meters.

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At the narrowest point of ten meters, the plan is for the Third Division's special battalion to set off in advance and climb up the steep Baihe Ridge with only a small trail from the east. They will control this dangerous pass in one fell swoop to ensure the smooth passage of the Third Division so that they can pass through the First Division.

After launching a fierce attack, they struck the opponent's flank unexpectedly, thus destroying the Communist defense line in one fell swoop, and finally formed a joint attack with the two divisions of the Third Army coming from the south, completely annihilating the 25th Communist Army."

An Yi paused deliberately, and said a few words of praise with great intoxication, and then poured a bucket of cold water: "The idea is very good, the whole plan is very clever and complementary, but unfortunately it doesn't work at all, and it gives me a sense of wishful thinking."

Feeling. Maybe you want to ask why? Because I am very afraid of my Huangpu first-term senior brother Xu Xiangqian.

The dynamic and resolute style has been vividly demonstrated for more than a year. Even during the nine months when the internal movements of the Communist Army continued and everyone was in danger, Brother Xu Xiangqian and our army fought on a large scale more than ten times and achieved impressive results.

People's record, the last huge failure occurred when Kuang Shixun was under the wrong guidance of Zhang Guotao. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has dismissed Kuang Shixun from his post.

Cai Shenxi was replaced by Cai Shenxi, who was brave but very cunning, and ordered Xu Xiangqian to reorganize the 25th Army. Based on the 25th Army's countless experiences in this area over the years, as well as many local officers and soldiers and local Red Guards

With their familiarity with the terrain, could they not always be wary of us passing through this narrow path? To put it bluntly, I don’t know how many of them have fallen on this path.

It only takes a few tens of kilograms of explosives to block the narrow pass that is nearly four and a half meters wide and sixteen meters long, making it difficult for the third division to move in the funnel-shaped canyon below.

If they had been prepared, they would have only needed to roll down thousands of rocks from the mountains on both sides to cause the Third Division to suffer heavy losses and return in defeat, leaving the First Division to attack on their own!"

After An Yi finished speaking, he threw the baton directly on the sand table. The head of the baton hit the gypsum on the miniature mountaintops on both sides of the pass. The broken small pieces of gypsum and powder fell down, very much like stones rolling down the mountain. Li Yutang saw it.

Hu Zongnan and their commander Chen Chengyi felt cold in their hearts, and it took them a long time to look away from the shattered place.

Discussions were buzzing, and the generals were whispering to each other, expressing their concerns one after another. The translator behind the three German consultants was extremely tired. The consultants' eyes were wandering back and forth between the German battle plan in their hands and the sand table. Wei Lihuang's face was expressionless.

It was very ugly, and he shook his head repeatedly and sighed softly. At this time, An Yi had already taken the tea from Lin Yaodong behind him and drank it very comfortably.

"Nonsense, this is completely subjective conjecture! I very much doubt General An's intention to one-sidedly exaggerate the enemy's ability and belittle his own ability. Here I want to ask, if General An is like our opponent,

Without knowing anything about our battle plan, can General An still make such a wonderful deduction? Does General An think about problems in this way every time?" Hughes asked angrily and loudly, because he was too emotional.

, the articulation is not accurate either.

Everyone stopped talking and looked at An Yi and Hughes worriedly. An Yi ignored Hughes at all and continued drinking tea as if he hadn't heard. Hughes' face turned red with anger and he almost ran away.

"General An Yi, I remind you Zhuyi (attention) that your army has advanced weapons and strict training, including German rifles and Czech (Czech) light machine guns, Mommy (Maxin) heavy machine guns, and

Your opponents only have a pitiful supply of Chenjiu (obsolete) rifles, earthen cannons dug from tree trunks, and the rest are spears and broadswords with many gaps. You

Fighting against such a poorly equipped enemy is just as easy as the British Empire's army fighting against those naked and invulnerable Boxers. It's unbelievable that you can say such discouraging words. This makes me think of you.

Respect is greatly reduced. I really don’t understand how you achieved all those victories!" Hughes was so irritated that he lost his voice.

Hu Zongnan saw the cold light flashing in An Yi's eyes and immediately knew that something bad was going to happen. An Yi did not live up to Hu Zongnan's expectations and retorted in front of dozens of Chinese and foreign generals:

"No wonder Mr. Hughes formulated such a lame and ridiculous plan full of loopholes. It turns out that the thinking is still stuck a few decades ago. No wonder something like this happened. Mr. Hughes, why don't you simply suggest that Chairman Chiang and General He Yingqin let

Our troops all put on plaid kilts, lined up neatly, beat drums and played bagpipes, and marched against the opponent's old guns and cannons?"

"You...you are so uneducated. You have seriously insulted a soldier of the British Empire. I...I want to duel with you..."

The out-of-control Hughes was about to explode when he was hugged by his assistant Bronte and several German consultants. Bronte tightly covered Hughes's gun holster and uttered a lot of rapid English.

An Yi pushed away Wei Lihuang, who stepped forward to dissuade him, and laughed towards Hughes, who was hugged tightly by four big white men on the opposite side of the sand table and was still yelling and struggling:
To be continued...