bdsm-fiction Chapter 67 To ensure the smooth progress of the battle, I will bring Jiansheng back with me tomorrow
Chapter 67 To ensure the smooth progress of the battle, I will bring Jiansheng back with me tomorrow
Tang Enbo immediately replied, "Don't worry, Principal!"
The student council will personally go to talk to Brother Yudong and explain the pros and cons.
We must suppress his burning desire for war, but we must not dampen this valiant general's fervent patriotism and determination to fight for the country!
The student council needed to strike a balance, allowing this fierce tiger to tear apart the Japanese invaders while also keeping him in check to prevent him from slipping out of control. He was now fully immersed in his role, contemplating how to balance combat with preserving his strength.
"Yes, I'm relieved that you're so confident." The principal nodded, his tone suddenly becoming somewhat meaningful. "I know De Gong (Li Zongren) well."
He has a strong sense of national responsibility and is a kind and honest person!
Although he harbors ambitions for the world, he can also consider the overall situation at crucial moments, unlike Jian Sheng (Bai Chongxi) who is quick-witted.
In this campaign, nominally he will still be in charge and command the operation. You must respect him and cooperate with him.
Tang Enbo quickly agreed.
The principal walked to the window, looked at the gray sky over Xuzhou City outside, and slowly announced his final arrangements: "To ensure the success of the campaign, and also... to better coordinate the overall situation, I have decided..."
Tomorrow, I'll take Jiansheng back to the three towns of Wuchang so he can fully utilize his abilities without causing unpredictable consequences due to his cleverness.
Tang Enbo was taken aback: "Take Deputy Chief of Staff Bai back to the three towns of Wuchang? This... Principal, with a major battle imminent, is it appropriate for Bai Jiansheng, as the Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the entire army and the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the war zone, to leave at this time..."
The principal turned around, a mysterious smile on his face: "Precisely because he is the deputy chief of staff of the entire army, his responsibilities are not limited to the Wu war zone and Xuzhou."
The defense of the three towns of Wuchang and the overall war situation nationwide both required his overall planning.
Moreover, with him here, it might actually be somewhat inconvenient for De Gong to command the Guangxi clique troops.
By taking him away, Lord De will be able to act more freely, and the generals of the Guangxi clique will be able to truly obey Lord De's orders and fight with all their might.
This is also for the sake of the war situation in Xuzhou and the overall war situation in the country.
Tang Enbo was completely convinced.
The principal's move killed three birds with one stone!
This not only removed Bai Chongxi, who might have been considered "clever," but also weakened the Guangxi clique's flexibility and potential unity in direct command on the Xuzhou battlefield.
This gave Li Zongren the opportunity to command independently, which on the surface was a sign of trust, but in reality... if the battle went smoothly, everyone would be happy.
If things don't go smoothly, or if the Guangxi clique suffers too many losses, then he, the "big shot" Li Delin... Moreover, Bai Chongxi has left his core troops and is now under the direct control of the principal in the three towns of Wuchang.
High, it is high!
"The principal is brilliant! The students are in awe!" Tang Enbo said sincerely.
The next day, the principal convened a military meeting and announced the decision to bring Deputy Chief of the General Staff Bai Chongxi back to Wuchang to oversee the overall situation.
As expected, the meeting was in an uproar. Li Zongren looked surprised and puzzled, and tried his best to persuade him to stay, saying that with a major battle imminent, it was the time when manpower was needed, and Jiansheng was familiar with the plan and was indispensable.
Many other generals also spoke out, believing that it was quite inappropriate to transfer the deputy chief of the general staff at this time.
However, the principal was determined and, on the grounds that "the national war situation needs Jian Sheng's great strategy to coordinate everything," he overruled all objections.
He grasped Li Zongren's hand and said earnestly, "Lord De, I entrust Xuzhou entirely to you!"
I believe in your abilities; I'm confident you can command with composure and inflict a crushing defeat on the Japanese invaders!
"I'll borrow Jiansheng for now. Once things are arranged in Wuchang, I'll have him come back to help you!"
Looking at the principal's sincere (perhaps) gaze, and then at Bai Chongxi's expressionless face beside him, Li Zongren could only nod in agreement helplessly.
Bai Chongxi didn't say much from beginning to end. He just adjusted his glasses, and his gaze behind the lenses was deep and unfathomable. No one knew what this "Little Zhuge Liang" was planning at that moment.
The meeting ended in a delicate atmosphere.
The principal, accompanied by Bai Chongxi, boarded a special plane under the complex gazes of a group of high-ranking generals and flew away from Xuzhou, a war zone that was about to become a giant melting pot.
Tang Enbo stood in the crowd seeing them off, watching the plane disappear into the clouds.
He touched a small notebook in his uniform pocket, which was filled with the principal's "admonitions" from the previous day.
He knew that the real test was only just beginning.
He had to face not only the brutal Japanese 10th Division, but also the complex internal factional relationships.
We must fight a bloody battle to win.
On the other hand, it is also necessary to fully preserve strength.
They even want to... weaken the Guangxi clique in some aspects.
He felt he had to balance all three aspects, and this was another "graduation exam" he faced after graduating from the first class of the Whampoa Military Academy!
Moreover, it was the kind of test where you had to get a perfect score to pass. Just thinking about it gave this fierce general a headache.
Villa No. 169 Jing'an Road is like an eerie, tranquil place in the eye of a storm.
After sending out the "Yangcheng Lake hairy crab order" containing the detailed plan for the second phase of the Japanese offensive and successfully making a phone call by imitating "Director Qi's" voice, Han Zhenhua completely relaxed.
What he didn't know was that only two days had passed since he sent out the intelligence.
Then came a series of complex events that could almost fill a short story: the Kuomintang's assassination attempt on Mao and Wu failed; Ma Gui was captured; the entire Shanghai station, except for its headquarters, was wiped out; Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Xuzhou to oversee the battle; a major war was imminent; and so on.
These events, though thrilling, only lasted for two days!
If he had lived in the French Concession, or if he had a more leisurely lifestyle, he would have surely heard the news from the gossip on the streets long ago. Unfortunately, he lived in the British Concession.
Before the German invasion of Poland and the outbreak of war between Britain and Germany next year, the British concession, though not as prosperous as the French concession, was indeed the only safe haven in Shanghai!
Since the fall of Shanghai, the sounds of gunfire and suppression and resistance have never stopped, no matter where it is. So the sounds of gunfire and fierce fighting in the French Concession have long been commonplace!
He was especially busy for those two days, mainly because of winning the British "Copley Prize in Physics," which instantly transformed this "scholar" with dual British and Chinese citizenship from a "good-for-nothing lecturer" in the students' eyes into a "genius physicist."
It has gained widespread fame in the entire education sector of Shanghai!
Shanghai University, Aurora University, National Chiao Tung University, and National Tongji University all invited him to "lecture." His six years of physics Olympiad preparation in the future would have been more than enough to have him teach the basics of modern physics to the "so-called" universities of over a hundred years ago.
Moreover, he thoroughly enjoyed the experience, especially as he shared the highlights of each of the dozen or so gold medal-winning coaches from the previous six years of the Olympiad, winning applause and reaping a sense of joy.
He also met Xie Yuming, who would later become a "renowned" figure in the Chinese physics community, at Shanghai University, and Wang Zichang at National Chiao Tung University—physical giants he could only look up to in his previous life.
The important thing is that these great figures of later generations all look up to themselves!
After sending out the intelligence, he felt he had done everything a "top agent" could do.
He tried countless times, no matter how powerful the phone's AI was, but he couldn't find how to make an atomic bomb, a cruise missile, or even how to make a hand grenade; his search resulted in the message, "Your search contains dangerous content..."
"The numbers of the seven Class A divisions, their commanders, the axes of attack, and even the advance units are precisely located down to the regiment level—a Japanese force of 3000 men—and the time difference is less than a day... This time, surely everything will be foolproof?"
Han Zhenhua lay on the comfortable sofa, listening to the latest American jazz records and sipping the Pu'er black tea that his Filipino maid had just brewed. He felt an indescribable sense of accomplishment and relaxation.
He could even imagine the sheer joy and shock of Wang, the station chief of the Military Intelligence Bureau's Shanghai station, whom he had never met before, upon receiving this "gift from heaven."
"This intelligence was enough to allow the Nationalist army to lay a trap in advance."
Even with a huge disparity in national strength and military power, surely we could at least win a few decisive battles in the early stages, greatly dampen the morale of the Japanese army, and increase the overall gains in the second phase of the war?
"Especially tonight!" He glanced at the calendar on the wall; today was March 18th.
According to information retrieved by AI on a mobile phone, around 10 PM tonight, the Akitsu-Chūfu Regiment of the 34th Brigade of the Japanese North China Expeditionary Army will cross the Huai River at night from Huaiyuan and head north to attack Linhuai Pass, a key node in the defense line of the 51st Army of the Northeast Army of the National Revolutionary Army.
This advance force, numbering over three thousand men and equipped with only ten tanks and twenty heavy artillery pieces, advanced under the cover of night, attempting to breach the Nationalist army's southern defenses.
"A night raid, without air support, and with Linhuai Pass being a strategically important location surrounded by mountains on three sides, making it ideal for an ambush... As long as the National Revolutionary Army follows the intelligence I provided and concentrates three to four divisions to wait in ambush, it is entirely possible to wipe out this enemy force in one fell swoop!"
This is the second phase of the battle.
A fantastic start!