At 8 o'clock in the night on December 26, Xuzhou Fifth Theater Headquarters.
At this time, all the heads of each group army had arrived, including General Zhang Zhizhong, who came for reinforcements.
General Zhang Zhizhong was a heroic figure who fought bravely and led the way. It was a pity that he died in the Battle of Zaoyi.
General Zhang Zhizhong also appreciated the Dragon Boat Festival, shook hands with the Dragon Boat Festival cordially, and talked about some things in Nanjing.
It turned out that Zhang Zhizhong and Duan Wu met when they were in Nanjing, but there were many people around Duan Wu at that time, and the two of them only exchanged a few words.
So at this time, given this opportunity, how could I not say a few words.
But at this moment, the others had already taken their seats, and Li Zhongren came over personally to invite him: "General Zhang, we have a meeting. Let's talk after the meeting is over. This guy can't leave tonight."
"Commander Li, please!"
Zhang Zhizhong asked Commander Li to go ahead, but Li Zhongren did his duty.
A group of people entered the venue, but at this moment, a general with a slightly fat figure and a round face stood up and laughed loudly: "General Zhang, long time no see, hahaha!"
"Pang Bingxun?"
Zhang Zhizhong went out in search of prestige and immediately became furious because the fat man was none other than Pang Bingxun.
This Pang Bingxun had a grudge against General Zhang. During the Central Plains War, Pang betrayed Feng and defected to Chiang Kai-shek when he saw that the rebellion against Chiang was over. What was even more despicable was that he also attacked Zhang Zhizhong's division. Zhang Zhizhong almost suffered an accident. From then on, the two had a deep feud.
So at this time, Pang Bingxun's call to stop Zhang Zhizhong was somewhat sarcastic. What he meant was, back then you called me a traitor, but now I'm not serving in the National Government?
Zhang Zhizhong naturally knew Pang Bingxun's intentions. If he was not a well-educated person, he would definitely beat Pang Bingxun to the ground with fists and kicks.
Of course, Duanwu also knew about the feud between these two people, but now was not the time to talk about these things.
And since Li Zhongren was also trying to persuade him, Zhang Zhizhong had no choice but to forget it and sit on the other side of the conference table.
Li Zhongren added a chair next to him, which is a unique seat for the Dragon Boat Festival.
Because at the beginning, Li Zhongren did not prepare a seat for Dragon Boat Festival, and wanted to cut off one of Dragon Boat Festival's hands to vent his anger.
But I didn't expect that after letting Duanwu enlighten me, he not only resolved the grievances, but also asked Duanwu at this time. That was an artillery brigade. Among other things, Li Zhongren bought Western guns and cannons, which was really a cabbage.
I asked for the price of a pig.
Therefore, this artillery brigade is easy to talk about, but if it is actually established, it will probably be more expensive than the equipment of a division. Therefore, Li Zhongren's 180-degree change in attitude is reasonable.
And Li Zhongren also introduced to the officers present: "This is the famous Dragon Boat Festival. I don't think I need to introduce his achievements to you anymore, right?"
"Dragon Boat Festival?"
"What?"
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Perhaps the information from each group army was too closed, or perhaps Li Zhongren had deliberately concealed the news of the Dragon Boat Festival's arrival in Bengbu, so most of the officers present did not know about the Dragon Boat Festival's arrival in the fifth theater.
Of course, they were familiar with the Dragon Boat Festival and couldn't be more familiar with it, because the Chairman of the Generalissimo just announced to the whole army that he would commend the Dragon Boat Festival and award him the Yunhui Medal. This kind of honor is not something that ordinary people can get.
"Hello everyone, I am Duan Wu, seniors, please take care of me."
Duan Wu smiled and greeted, which immediately attracted a round of applause. In addition to Duan Wu's combat ability being recognized by them, the most important thing was Duan Wu's relationship with the Chairman.
After everyone clapped their hands, the Dragon Boat Festival took their seats, and at this time Li Zhongren said: "The main reason for inviting everyone here this time is to convey to everyone the plan of the Operation Department and the division of defense areas of each department. I hope everyone can remember their own defense areas.
And if you have any comments or suggestions, you can bring them up at the meeting. Secretary Wang, send the battle plan."
Li Zhongren said and asked the secretary to send the documents.
The secretary distributed the combat plan for each defense zone by name. In other words, each officer present only knew the combat plan for his own defense zone, but not for other defense zones to avoid leaking secrets.
Everyone watched for a long time. The content of the battle was very detailed and did not require too much explanation. What's more, once the battle started, many changes occurred, and everything had to follow the arrangements of the headquarters.
Therefore, everyone expressed no objection to the battle plan, but the weapons and ammunition were insufficient and needed to be replenished. After all, a war was about to begin.
This was Li Zhongren's most troublesome problem, because all departments were short of weapons and ammunition, including the direct troops he brought.
Of course, his direct troops are much better than those local troops, which really lack weapons and ammunition.
Li Zhongren really had no choice but to tell everyone that he would find a way.
But suddenly, he thought of Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival had sold him a lot of weapons and equipment of the 48th Army, and Commander Yu, the commander closest to Dragon Boat Festival, showed no signs of shortage of weapons and ammunition.
So Li Zhongren lowered his voice and said to Duanwu: "Duanwu, do you have any extra weapons and ammunition?"
"Yes, I have!"
Duan Wu suddenly replied loudly, which not only made Li Zhongren's ears hurt, but also attracted everyone's attention.
Li Zhongren was very angry. Originally, he just wanted to ask if Duanwu had more weapons and ammunition, of course he would give priority to replenishing them himself. But Duanwu's shout didn't matter, everyone present heard it.
These officers were staring at weapons and ammunition with green eyes at this time. They would not let go of even the slightest disturbance, not to mention the Dragon Boat Festival was so loud.
At this time, Li Zhongren had no choice but to say: "Since the Dragon Boat Festival brothers have weapons and ammunition, can you separate some of them? You have also seen that each group army is currently short of supplies of ammunition and weapons."
Duanwu smiled, then stood up slowly and said: "You all want weapons and ammunition, and you are all very urgent."
"Yeah!"
“Very urgent!”
"Our army is in urgent need!"
"Yes, our division is also very short of weapons and ammunition. If this little devil comes, how will we fight?"
"That's right, that's right, before the soldiers and horses use food and grass, go ahead!"
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All the officers agreed, but they seemed to have misunderstood what Duanwu meant. Because Duanwu didn't want to hear their complaints at all, but wanted to say, why do they have no weapons and ammunition?
Was it a fierce battle with the Japanese? Or were they poor to begin with?
Duanwu looked straight and said: "Everyone, I, Duanwu, do not produce weapons and ammunition, but the weapons captured by my independent regiment are not only enough for my own use, but also support friendly forces, and even sell weapons and equipment to pay for my brothers.
Why? Why is it that our independent regiment has more weapons and equipment than we can use ourselves, but everyone else is so poor that they jingle and jingle?
You are all my Dragon Boat Festival seniors. You have longer military service than me and have fought more battles than me. But now I want to ask you, do you really know how to fight?"