May 7, 1938, Xuzhou.

Xu Shenzuo is a diligent person. He works until eleven or two o'clock every night before returning to his residence from the office building of the War Zone Chief Office.

Xu Shenzuo’s residence is easy to find, right in the courtyard of the chief official.

At five o'clock in the morning, Xiao Yun, the captain communications company commander of the 100th Independent Brigade who rushed to Xuzhou from Jia Wang Feiqi to Xu Shenzu's house.

Although Chief Xu, who was woken up from his good dream, was very tired, he immediately received the frontline envoy. After reading Cheng Jiaji's private message, Xu Shenzun attached great importance to it and asked the war zone chief immediately.

"Yan Mou, how do you feel?" After reading this private message that was actually a contracted operation plan, the commander of the theater commander asked his chief of staff.

"The enemy situation provided by Degong and Cheng Jiaji is very important. If Guanhu Town is really taken over by the Ninth Division of the Puppet Manchukuo Army, then a multi-aglide in the Japanese army that was originally deployed on this front line would be empty. This multi-aglide and the Hatan Detachment were a considerable force. Whether it was joining the front battlefield under Taierzhuang, attacking Pizhou, or assisting the Sakamoto Detachment, which was fighting fiercely with the 20th Legion, these more than 10,000 Japanese troops were a powerful force that could change the situation."

As the chief of staff of the entire theater, Xu Shenzuo was naturally more than capable of coordinating the overall situation. He not only saw the fighter jets from the information from the Independent One Hundred Brigades, but also realized the crisis.

"You mean to let Cheng's troops attack and pull out the Japanese detachment." The commander of the theater was not an ordinary person, and immediately heard the meaning of his staff.

"The Sixty Army has arrived in a strengthening regiment, and the main force of the army will not arrive in Xuzhou one day. The 16th Army has also arrived in a brigade. The main force of the army is blocked in Jungnan, and it will probably take three days to reach the Taierzhuang battlefield. At present, only by letting the advance brigade of the Independent 100 Brigade and the 16th Army attack the Japanese flanks, can the main position of the Hatan Detachment be revealed. Otherwise, once the situation changes in the battle situation to that time, even if the main force of the 60th Army and the 16th Army come up in time, there will be another stalemate. After a long time, the Japanese army in the south of Xuzhou will come up, until that time?"

Xu Shenzuo didn't finish his words, but his meaning was fully understood. The commander of the war zone fully understood that if he really came to that point, not to mention that the lonely city of Xuzhou could not be preserved, even the hundreds of thousands of troops in the fifth war zone were in danger. The commander of the war zone did not make a statement immediately, but kept siping the Xishan tea that his wife sent to his hometown. This was also the habit he had developed over the days, and once he had to make a major decision, it was this action.

Perhaps because the battle situation was really at its critical moment, the commander of the war zone did not fall into long-term thinking. In less than five minutes, he put the teacup in his hand and walked to the huge military map that was one to one hundred thousand on the wall with a steady and fast pace unique to an old professional soldier.

"Immediately send a telegram to Cheng Jiaji in the name of the War Zone Chief Office, agreeing to his attack plan, but the time must be advanced. The limit order for him to lead the Independent 100 Brigade and the Preliminary Brigade of the 16th Army to form an attack detachment to launch an attack detachment before 4:00 this afternoon."

"The advance brigade of the 16th Army arrived at Jiawang before 11:00 this morning and was incorporated into the Cheng Detachment."

"The main force of the 16th Army has temporarily broken through all obstacles. It is necessary to rush to the back of Taierzhuang within two days to assemble."

"I sent an urgent telegram to urge the Sixty Army to speed up and arrive in Xuzhou tomorrow morning."

"Give power to the Third Army and order them to extend to the Jiawang line with one of the powerful parts of no less than one division within four hours to block this port, so that one Japanese army and one soldier would not threaten Xuzhou from this direction."

"The movements of the Japanese army and the Hatan detachment were unknown when they were powered on each department. I hope that all departments should be careful to prevent them."

"Let the Military Forces Department allocate all the supplies needed by the Cheng Detachment. You will supervise this matter in person later."

The commander of the theater commander issued several important combat commands in one go, fully demonstrating his solid military command skills, superhuman courage and meticulous thinking.

"Dong De, this situation has not been verified yet!" Xu Shenzuo, who had previously insisted on the attack of the Cheng Detachment, asked with some concern when he saw that the commander of the theater commander had made such a big adjustment to the military deployment on the front line so quickly.

"Even if there are any deviations in this arrangement, the situation of the war will be so bad. If the Japanese really defeat them, it will be too late to say anything. I will take the responsibility immediately! I will give you any questions! If there is any problem, I will explain to the Chinese people!" This time, the commander of the war zone did not say slander about his hometown, but every word was decisive.

Since the commander and commander of the theater have made up their minds, Xu Shenzuo, as the chief of staff, feels that he no longer needs to say anything more, just execute it!

With the order of the commander of the theater commander, the various departments of the commander-in-chief of the fifth theater commander-in-chief immediately became extremely busy. This pre-war busyness would immediately spread to all Chinese troops north of Xuzhou.

When Wen Songyuan rushed to the arms warehouse of the war zone chief's office to collect supplies early in the morning, he was shocked to find that the men in charge here were surprisingly surprised. Wen Songyuan did not need to use any threatening means, nor did he need to hand over the red envelopes that had been prepared long ago. The officials guarding the warehouse used a enthusiasm for clearing the warehouse to actively cooperate with the soldiers from the reinforcement battalion who were sent to Xuzhou as a guest porter in the Independent 100 Brigade to play a guest role in the porter in Xuzhou to desperately lose weight in the arms inventory in the war zone.

Since this is the case, Wen Songyuan naturally would not be polite to them. He hired thousands of workers temporarily and moved almost all three arms warehouses within a few hours. He stuffed more than a dozen cars with their clothes. When he left Xuzhou, the heavy arms on the trains were pressed into a difficult situation.

At the same time, after receiving the telegram from the war zone, the 100 Independent Brigade also took action immediately. At 8:30 in the morning, the entire brigade completed the assembly and standby work. After the brigade of the 16th Army and Wen Songyuan and others arrived in Jiawang, they would distribute the light and heavy weapons they had only received from the war zone, and they could set off to get the nest of the 9th Division of the puppet Manchukuo.

The Third Army was also ordered to send the 80th Division to Jiawang within a limited time.

For a time, all the Chinese troops on Xubei were ready to go.
Chapter completed!