"It is hereby ordered that the 300th Independent Brigade of the Kuomintang Army rush to Xuzhou to report immediately after receiving the order. It is limited to arriving in Xuzhou before the 28th of this month, without any mistake! Li Zongren, Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth Theater! January 27th of the Republic of China
"The twenty-fifth day of the month"
This telegram made everyone present tense up, especially Su Rui. He knew the process and the inside story of the Xuzhou Battle and was even more worried. Could it be that Commander Su also took a fancy to him?
Isn’t it possible to build a family of thousands of people?
However, Su Rui quickly turned his mind back. In later generations, he had read the autobiography of Chief Li and other people's evaluations more than once. Chief Li was a rare and kind person. Moreover, he
These mere thousands of troops might seem precious to him, but to Commander Li, who commanded these hundreds of thousands of troops, they might just be an insignificant small force, and perhaps they weren't valuable at all.
Su Rui quickly retracted his thoughts. In an instant, his eyes became extremely sharp and he said firmly to everyone: "Let's go back to the brigade headquarters and notify all officers above the regiment and battalion level to have a meeting at the brigade headquarters!"
An hour later, several important officers of the 300 Brigade gathered together in the conference room of the brigade headquarters.
Perhaps everyone had received the news that they were heading to Xuzhou, and everyone's expressions were solemn. Even the normally cheerful guard battalion commanders Luo Jia, Wang Dezi and I didn't dare to joke around.
Su Rui was the last one to come in. There was nothing we could do about it. This is also a common problem in Chinese officialdom. Leaders are always the last to arrive, otherwise they would not be able to show their authority. Our Commander Su is no exception.
"Okay, now the meeting begins."
Su Rui entered the topic bluntly as soon as he sat down. He looked directly at the crowd and said: "The Japanese invaders have invaded our Jinpu Longhai Road, and Xuzhou will definitely become the focus of their struggle. Now Commander Li orders our entire army to go to Xuzhou immediately.
"Military orders are like mountains and must not be violated. I wonder if you have anything else to say?"
Everyone was silent. It is the duty of soldiers to obey orders. Since they have been placed under the command of the fifth theater, they must naturally obey the dispatch of the fifth theater. Otherwise, the consequences of disobedience and disrespect will be very sad. Han Fuqu is a lesson learned from the past.
Bai Jingran was the first to speak. He said: "Sergeant, since the commander ordered us to go to the Xuzhou front line, we naturally have nothing to say. It's just that the recruits we recruited have only been trained for less than ten days. I'm afraid it will be dangerous to let them go to the battlefield rashly.
It’s such a disadvantage.”
Su Rui waved his hand and said, "But the problem is that we have no time. The Japanese will not give us time, and Chief Li will not give us time. We can only let them learn on the battlefield, although the price will be high.
.”
Speaking of this, Suri felt a faint pain in his heart. It was a very cruel thing to throw a group of untrained soldiers into the battlefield, but there was no way. Suri was no longer allowed to slowly train the soldiers at this stage.
At this time, Liang Zhi on the side spoke, still with the same expressionless face: "Don't worry, everyone, I estimate that our 300 brigade will not have to go to the battlefield in the short term."
Wu Chengfeng, who was sitting at the bottom, asked doubtfully: "Is it true or not, Chief Li asked us to go all the way to Xuzhou just to let us watch the excitement?"
After hearing this, Su Rui glared at Wu Chengfeng and continued: "Listen to what the Chief of Staff has to say!"
"yes!"
Wu Chengfeng shrank his neck and stopped talking.
Liang Zhi then continued: "My reason is very simple. Commander Li will not know the situation of our 300 brigade. He will not push our fledgling team out so quickly, at least ten days."
Not within half a month. As for the reason why we were transferred to Xuzhou, I’m afraid it’s also due to normal transfers.”
Liang Zhi's analysis made Su Rui on the side secretly admire him. Although he could think of such a level, he came to the conclusion after combining the historical data observed from later generations and the inside analysis of the Xuzhou Battle. Liang Zhi simply
Being able to come up with such a result based on his own analysis shows that this guy is really amazing.
"Okay, everyone, do you hear me clearly? The entire army, including the logistics department, hospitals and other departments, are ordered to be prepared. They must all set out before 15 o'clock this afternoon. Do you hear me clearly?"
"yes!"
After Su Rui and others were setting off in a flurry of excitement after the meeting, in a headquarters in Xuzhou City, Chief Li Zongren, commander of the fifth war zone, and Xu Zuyi, chief of staff of the war zone, looked at the 100,000-to-1 ratio.
The military map frowned.
After a while, Chief Li frowned and said, "Yan Mou, Linyi is a key place. Who do you think is better to guard?"
Xu Zuyi thought for a while, sighed lightly and said: "Sir, I can't think of anything. The military strength is tight everywhere now. It's not good to mobilize any troops."
Linyi is an important military town in the southwest corner of Shandong Province. It connects to Xin'an Town in the south, Taierzhuang, Zaozhuang, and Yixian County in the southwest, Fei County in the north, Mengyin and Xintai in the northwest, Rizhao in the east, and Ju County and Zhucheng in the northeast.
From a geographical point of view, Linyi's gains and losses affect the overall situation and are closely related to the safety of the three major railway lines: Longhai, Jinpu, and Jiaoji.
Who should be sent to guard it? This is indeed a headache for Chief Li.
He discussed it with Chief of Staff Xu Zuyi many times, but they still couldn't make a decision. The dilemma was that they didn't have soldiers. There were too many openings to block in the fifth theater, and there were places where soldiers were needed everywhere. Xuzhou Nanmian asked him if he wanted to use troops.
Soldiers, the Japanese 9th Division came over. The east side of Xuzhou also asked him for troops, saying that the Japanese 3rd Division was marching towards northern Jiangsu. The Sichuan Army happened to be in Teng County, north of Xuzhou, which no one wanted.
.It would be nice if there was another ragtag army that no one wanted at this moment.
Thinking of this, Chief Li anxiously wandered around the headquarters, making Chief of Staff Xu Zuyi's head spin.
He was so anxious that he urged: "Sir, please stop talking and say something quickly. This matter is a burning thing and cannot be delayed any longer."
Li Zongren stopped and thought for a moment and asked: "Yan Mou, what do you think about bringing down the 300 brigade we just lost in Linyi?"
Xu Zuyi was shocked when he heard this, "Sir, this is not possible. The 300th Brigade is a ragtag army among a newly formed ragtag army, with only three to four thousand people. You can imagine its combat effectiveness. You
Put him in Linyi and fight Itagaki Seishiro's Fifth Division, isn't that like throwing an egg against a stone?"
"Isn't that true?" Chief Li said: "I heard that the 300 brigade actually fought a great victory against the Japanese in Nanjing a few days ago. It not only protected more than 100,000 Nanjing garrison troops and civilians from breaking out of the encirclement.
, and even killed a Japanese detachment.”
Xu Zuyi shook his head: "Huh, do you believe what the Central Daily News reports? If he is really so powerful, will the Central Committee be willing to throw him into our fifth theater?"
"Jingle Bell……"
Just when the two grown men were worried about each other, the phone on the desk rang. Chief Li was standing next to the desk. But he didn't want to answer it at all. He just stared at the phone blankly.
It is estimated that 80% of them came to him to ask for troops and reinforcements.
Needless to say, the call must have come from somewhere in the front. All the calls Commander Li received these days were of this type. His throat was dry as he said, "Who should I call if they want soldiers? You are the commander of the theater."
Sir. The commander-in-chief doesn’t have soldiers, but he always has words. So these days, Commander Li spoke into the microphone of the telephone and said a lot of kind words, words of comfort, words of condolences, words of thanks, words of encouragement, and he almost said a lot of nice words in his life.
It's all said and done.
Chief of Staff Xu seemed to see Chief Li's mood and embarrassment in front of the ringing phone. He didn't want his chief to notice anything, so he casually walked over and put a document on the table as if nothing happened.
He took the phone slowly and slowly. The voice on the phone was very harsh. After listening to it, Chief of Staff Xu hurriedly covered the transmitter with his hand and said softly: "Mr. Li, this is General Pang Bingxun's call."
Li Zongren suddenly came back to his senses. He hurriedly took a step forward and took the phone from Xu Zuyi's hand. His mind flashed, how could I have forgotten this Pang Bingxun? Pang Bingxun was on the phone.
The leader reported on the frontline defense work in Haizhou. Li Zongren interrupted General Pang Bingxun and ordered him to immediately hand over the defense of Haizhou to Commander Miao of the 57th Army and rush to Linyi County.
Pang Bingxun did not bargain on the phone. He simply said yes and said, "Our department will implement the commander's order immediately."
After putting down the phone, Chief Li breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Finally, there is still an army that can be mobilized. No matter how bad Pang Bingxun's Third Army is, it can still resist for a few days..."
Three days passed quickly. Su Rui and his 300 brigade hurriedly and slowly arrived at Xuzhou City.
Xuzhou in the 1930s was already a big city. It had been a few months since Su Rui came to this era. This was the first time he entered such a prosperous big city. Of course, Nanjing, which was immersed in artillery fire in the previous few months, was not included.
After Su Rui placed the troops outside the city, he took a squad of guards to the Fifth Theater Headquarters to report.
After arriving at the headquarters, a staff officer soon led Su Rui into an office. When Su Rui entered the office, he saw a fat man with a peaceful face and three golden stars embedded in his collar.
The middle-aged man looked at him with bright eyes, and beside him stood a lieutenant general in his forties.
As soon as Su Rui saw it, he immediately knew that the person in front of him must be Li Zongren, the commander-in-chief of the fifth theater. He immediately put his legs together, saluted loudly and said loudly: "Report, Su Rui, commander of the 300th Independent Brigade of the Nationalist Army
Come report!”
Chief Li looked the other person up and down before smiling and nodding: "Well, good! He is indeed a hero who came out of Nanjing City. He has such a heroic spirit at first glance. Very good! Very good!"
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