Piao Tianwen    (...In every battle, our main combat troops are very chaotic, the relationship between the troops is chaotic, and the hidden problems within the troops are even more chaotic; when I first took charge of the battle situation on one side, I encountered such a situation... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance-Cao Xiaomin")

The Japanese want to fight Anqing! The news was not officially released, the news came from the public speculation!

In China, every move of the Japanese army was under the surveillance of the people. When the Japanese navy and army gathered along the river just as they began, the people in cities along the Yangtze River had already heard the wind; some newspapers also took photos of the Japanese army's gathering and published them, so before the official announcement was made, the civilian escape had already begun.

Unlike the people in many places in Henan who were unwilling to escape and asked local officials to do their work, many people in Anqing area participated in the righteous act of fellow villagers who went to Nanjing to rush to rush to escape refugees. They had long been clear about the cruelty of the Japanese. When they heard that the Japanese army was going to advance along the Jiangxi River, the wave of refugees that appeared again appeared in every war.

On both sides of the official road, the fleeing people avoided the oncoming army and walked silently with a confused look on their faces. Adults used bamboo baskets to carry young children and small food, while women, children and elderly people were struggling with the youthful and young men at home - this is still good, there is a young and strong man to rely on; more families have long lost the young and strong men in their homes because of the blows of Ding Laf, and can only carry this heavy burden by the strongest women in the family. In hot weather, when the tired woman rested by the roadside, she was tightly attached to her body, which was soaked in sweat, which attracted the greedy eyes of those bloody soldiers from time to time. But this is the ultimate challenge of survival, and she cannot tolerate shyness in the war...

Why did the news leak so quickly? Will the Japanese army suspect our agents because of this? Cao Xiaomin, who has arrived at the Madang defense line to inspect and is preparing to hold a military meeting, is seeing more and more refugees. He is not numb because he is used to all this. He is still heartbroken, and he is also worried that the agents in Nanjing will be exposed.

Although Cao Xiaomin himself wanted to go to Anqing to take charge of command, he had no choice but to divide the military command into the Jiangbei Defense Zone commanded by Bai Chongxi. Although he had the position of deputy chief of staff of the Battle Command to intervene legitimately, he had to take into account that Bai Chongxi's face was not easy to intervene too deeply, so he just wanted to do it.

"The turrets are divided into three levels. The first-level turrets have just been equipped with four fortress cannons modified with the Navy's eight-inch cannons transported by the Soviet Union. They have been tested for two days, and although they have not yet reached the point of shooting. It is not easy for the enemy warships on the river surface within the range to avoid several consecutive shootings. The second-level turrets are also equipped with six-inch naval cannons. Usually the cannons are hidden in the tunnel, and they are dragged out to fight when the enemy attacks. The concentrated attack of the artillery group is theoretically enough to ensure that every round can be hit. The third-level turret is mainly a machine gun position, and four mortar positions have been added according to the latest plan. It is almost a whim to the enemy to forcibly land and attack our main position..." Bao Changyi, the captain of the Second Corps of the Guard, who is responsible for commanding the defense of the fortress position, reported the preparations to Cao Xiaomin.

Although he has experienced many battles, Cao Xiaomin has never seen so many heavy equipment being placed together. The black holes on his position that are awe-inspiring and weak! In the original time and space, the equipment on the position may not be stronger, but the defense of this fortress will not be bad in any case. With such defensive power and terrain cooperation, even if the Japanese leave a division of the life, they may not be able to be taken down. But in the history of the world where he came, this fortress must have been lost. What is the weakness?

Cao Xiaomin continued to listen to Bao Changyi's report, but his mind had already flown to other places outside the fortress: except for Linjiang, Madangji was considered a dangerous place, but in other directions, there were small hills and lakes. If the Japanese army landed in other places and attacked in a roundabout way, it would basically be without danger! What's more serious is that if the Japanese army fully occupied the air superiority, any mobilization of troops would be attacked by the enemy in the air on the way. It would be a tragedy for the ground troops to encounter air strikes under such terrain!

However, history has changed. At this time, the air force of the Wuhan Battle Zone is not weak, and it will even have an advantage for a period of time. This avoids the mobilization of the flat ground mobilization in the flat area due to the loss of air force and the loss is heavy. Since this is the case, can't Madang become a good preset battlefield? When the Japanese army was staring at the back of the roundabout attack on Madang fortress, and when the enemy was operating in the flat area, as long as the Chinese Air Force had the advantage, the most fatal weakness in history would become the greatest advantage!

On the first day Cao Xiaomin arrived in Madang, the first military meeting became a meeting to revise the defense tactics of the Madang Fortress. Among the generals attending the meeting, the Second Corps of the Jiang Defense Fortress Garage, the 26th Division of the 43rd Army, the 8th Artillery Regiment, the 41st Regiment, and the 42nd Regiment, the fortress defenders with fixed defensive tasks, and the more heavyweight generals also included Tang Shizun, the Commander-in-Chief of the 23rd Army, and Dong Zhao, the Commander of the 16th Army.

When they were in Wuhan, the generals of the army were all figures who hoped to be able to get to the next level on the political stage. Since everyone saw through Chiang Kai-shek's cultivation of Cao Xiaomin, they naturally followed Cao Xiaomin in everything. However, when they arrived at the grassroots level, many officers did not have that intention; Tang Shizun and Dong Zhao were fine, but a group of generals led by Bao Changyi, whom Cao Xiaomin respected the most, did not buy him at all! The heads of grassroots combat troops always had a skeptical or unacceptable attitude towards this young commander-in-chief. The progress of the military meeting was very slow, and Cao Xiaomin had to give a comprehensive explanation of every new deployment proposed before he could pass.

Of course, it is possible to use a high-pressure situation to carry out the military law and his own deputy chief of staff of the General Staff of the Battle and commander-in-chief of the Jiangnan War Zone to force the order, which can of course make everything pass smoothly. However, Cao Xiaomin knew that his tactics must work together to achieve good results. If each department disobeys or just carries out its own deployment without any initiative and adaptability, such flexible tactics cannot be implemented. So he was patient and explained as much as possible to all questions. In terms of the sand table, what he wanted was that each army would treat his own deployment with enthusiasm.

When dealing with soldiers, if you want to conquer them, you have to be on the battlefield or on the sand table; after most of the day of verbal battles, Cao Xiaomin finally convinced everyone here. But after this, Cao Xiaomin also understood that if you want to work in the army, you must not rely on the halo of a hero. At least Chiang Kai-shek's halo is much more reliable!

"Let the 72nd Army be in place as soon as possible..." As soon as everyone dispersed, Cao Xiaomin collapsed in his seat and gave orders to He Yan weakly. He really found that if he did not have his own iron-core troops, no matter how powerful you are, it would not be possible to move many troops. He had to transfer several troops in the war zone that were more obedient and had a connection to him, such as the 72nd Army, the 74th Army, etc.

"Tang Shizun is loyal to the central government and will also execute the various orders issued by the central government, but his military management has always been soft. I am afraid that his orders will change when they come to the bottom, so you should spend more time when using the 23rd Army to fight...Tang Shizun and Dong Zhao are both new officials who have just taken office, and each has their own internal turmoil. Of course, they will definitely want to show their own battles in order to rely on the central government, but the troops below are not necessarily there; you must have at least one army's absolute reliable troops for dispatch. I will hand over the 72nd Army to you, but you cannot let the 72nd Army fight in every battle, and consume this strong army..." Before Cao Xiaomin set off, Chiang Kai-shek analyzed some of the situations of the horse being the nearby generals and officials, and temporarily assigned his 72nd Army to Cao Xiaomin directly mobilized.

After a brief contact, Cao Xiaomin discovered that Chiang Kai-shek actually had a thorough understanding of each army and general. Since he had a thorough understanding, why should he use some troops with flaws? After carefully calculating the deployment of troops in various places, Cao Xiaomin also found helplessness: if these troops that are worrying, there will be no soldiers available!

After a while, Cao Xiaomin continued to conduct on-site inspections. His impression of the entire Madang defense system was indeed strong. What satisfied him the most was that Bao Changyi, the chief officer. Bao Changyi was able to apply the offensive and defensive system of the entire fortress to the point of being well-known: when reporting on the storage of heavy artillery ammunition, Bao Changyi took the warehouse and immediately pointed out that there were differences, and there were ten more shells. After verification, it was Bao Changyi right! Later, Bao Changyi explained that the error should have occurred from today's ten live ammunition test shots that were not registered in time, and immediately called the quarantine officer to scold him and deducted his military pay for a month... But even such a serious and responsible general, Cao Xiaomin found that he was very isolated and had no friendship with the chief officers of other surrounding troops!

"That person named Bao is very popular today. It is rare that General Cao has a lot of people who don't care about him..." "They are like this. They always think they are the most advanced in their studies, and they think they are the commander of the British fleet..." "I think he is just a fish on the beach..." Some central generals openly defamed Bao Changyi in front of Cao Xiaomin when Bao Changyi was not present. In their opinion, this is to please Cao Xiaomin. After all, this old Bao questioned Cao Xiaomin many times at the military meeting, and was a thorn...

Cao Xiaomin heard that the reason why Bao Changyi was isolated was because he was from the navy and the others were all army!

The enemy is in front of the battle, and the factions within the *** are excluding each other without any weakness!

(Author: This is the content of the first chapter of the manuscript after the computer was stolen. It has not been able to solve some detailed review issues that echo before and after... Is it considered cheating to subscribe to my own novel? Haha.)
Chapter completed!