April 29, 1938.

Huangzhuang, in the northern suburbs of Xuzhou, is an ordinary small village on the banks of Weishan Lake. It is rarely visited by even the county government.

Ten days ago, an army of thousands of people drove from Xuzhou. The villagers were very nervous and closed the doors and watched the movements of these emperors with caution. There were few soldiers here, but they were still wary of strangers and villagers, not to mention thousands of strangers holding guns and cannons.

However, this nervous temperament did not last long. The masters just walked through the village and set up tents in the fields outside the village. The tents they brought were not enough. These soldiers cut down a forest outside the village, bought a lot of straw from the villagers, and set up a hut.

After several days of continuous visits, the villagers were relieved to see that these soldiers had no intention of entering the village to cause trouble.

This army occupied the wilderness outside the village and more than a dozen nearby hills, saying that they were going to do some military training.

At first, the sound of gunfire outside the village was very frightened by the villagers. After a long time, the villagers became accustomed to it.

There are even some bold children who dare to pick up the shells of the military master after shooting guns. Everything in the small village seems to have returned to the past. Only the gunshots that sound from time to time outside the village and the military singing that floats into the village remind the villagers that there is a large army stationed outside the village.

On a small hill outside the village, Cheng Jiaji and Wen Songyuan, who had been promoted to deputy brigade commander and still served as the commander of the 200th Regiment, watched the military training of the 200th Regiment.

Cheng Jiaji has lived a very interesting life these days. First of all, there are two beauties around him who are different and charming, and he can do whatever he wants. He has never enjoyed such a blessing in that time and space. If it weren't for the fact that the Japanese captured Xuzhou step by step, he would have really wanted to "spring is short and the day is high, and the king will not go to court early from now on."

In addition, Cheng Jiaji also gained a lot of benefits from the senior member of the Military Commission who came to Xu last time. The record of the Independent 100 Brigade was clearly placed there, and no one could erase it. Seizing two Japanese gang flags was an unprecedented glory for the Chinese army. When it turned out to be the unprecedented shame for the Japanese army, even for the sake of being able to pass the situation on a large scale, the Military Commission would reward it on its merits.

If only the military achievements of the Independent One Hundred Brigades would be promoted to Cheng Jiaji as a lieutenant general. However, Cheng Jiaji's qualifications are too shallow. In a few months, he has been promoted from major and major general in an airplane style. Now he has been promoted to lieutenant general. What should he do in the future?

The big men of the Military Commission were still very good at it. When they faced the 100 Independent Brigade, everyone from Cheng Jiaji to the battalion commanders of each regiment was a part. Anyway, the two completely wiped out corps of the Japanese were assigned to each school-level officer, and everyone was qualified to give medals. In this way, it is impossible to say that the meritorious troops treated unfairly by the Military Commission were not.

If you get too much, you have to be a little real, otherwise this matter will not be easy to settle. The sophisticated and sophisticated bosses of the Military Commission are very clear about this.

The medals under the rain should naturally be white and big-headed. The generals in the commander are still very clear about the principle that the medals cannot be eaten as food.

The reward of 300,000 yuan directly allocated to the Independent One Hundred Brigade by the Military Commission is undoubtedly much more affordable and cute than a lot of medals.

With this money, Cheng Jiaji not only gave double worries and honorary expenses to the injured and disabled officers and soldiers, but also bought millions of ammunition warehouses in the Fifth War Zone. (Every warehouse will actually exist for various reasons, and the warehouse that has been cancelled in the account is naturally the warehouse base of various bullets and shells.)

With this money, even the food level of the Independent 100 Brigade has increased a lot, and the food is so much oil that the new recruits and former students have eaten diarrhea.

What made Cheng Jiaji even more happy was that his business was going well with Xia Weimin and Xie Hong. The first batch of opium transported from Henan had already been divided into pockets three days ago, which was a total of 60,000 oceans of extra money. (Xia Weimin and Xie Hong decided to increase their efforts and speed up the pace at the reminder of Cheng Jiaji, and took advantage of Xuzhou being still in the hands of the Kuomintang and made a few bucks.

According to Cheng Jiaji's plan, before the national army withdrew from Xuzhou, the opium business could be done at least two or three times, which was so beautiful.

After the economic problems were solved, Cheng Jiaji focused on how to strengthen the combat power of the Independent One Hundred Brigade.

In the past few days of pulling the troops to the suburbs to train, he has initially promoted some training methods in the army that have proven effective in the history of the time and space where he came from.

The most effective one is Lin’s “one point and two sides, four fast and one slow, four groups and one team.”

In order to allow the troops to grow rapidly, Cheng Jiaji no longer cared about whether it was infringement. Anyway, these tactics were used to fight the Japanese. I think Lin would not mind friendly forces stealing his invention several years later.

"Wen Lao Er, how many people have you pulled from various wounded soldiers hospitals in Xuzhou today."

Cheng Jiaji asked in a relaxed tone.

After returning to Xuzhou for more than ten days of rest, the Independent 100 Brigade was not seriously injured in the battle of Taierzhuang, and many of them have returned to the team one after another. However, there are a large number of seriously injured people from the Independent 100 Brigade in various private hospitals, and they are unable to return to the army for a while. This makes the Independent 100 Brigade, which already has three regiments, still lack soldiers, especially veterans with rich combat experience. Wen Songyuan is not a stable guy. These days, he has been using the method of "abducting" other wounded soldiers who are about to be injured from the Independent 100 Hospital with promotion and good treatment, adding a lot of combat backbones to his 200 Regiment. Cheng Jiaji was acquiesced to Wen Songyuan's behavior. In his opinion, this is very good for improving the combat effectiveness of the Independent 100 Brigade. He may only be the only one. In fact, Cheng Jiaji has not done this for the first time.

"Boss Cheng, today's gains are quite big. Not only are there a few squad leaders, but there is also a major staff officer in the Army Command of the Third Group. I have arranged this staff officer to rest in the brigade headquarters."

There was a sense of pride between the lines of Wen Songyuan's answer.

It's no wonder he was proud. Today's gains were indeed great. Wen Songyuan used to get veterans and squad leaders from non-central units. This time he could actually have a major staff officer from a senior commanding agency. This was really a big fish in the net.

If we talk about what the Independent 100 Brigade lacks the most now, it is undoubtedly a staff talent with certain military attainments. Gao Shiying was fine in handling some daily affairs in a few moments, but he was indeed not a competent chief of staff. After all, he had never received a formal and systematic military education. In the past, the military operations of the Independent 100 Brigade actually performed the duties of the Chief of Staff, Yu Juncai, who had been cleared out, and Gao Shiying played more in handling daily lock-ups. Yu Juncai and his confidants were squeezed away. The Independent 100 Brigade did not have much shock or influence in other aspects, but the level of the staff business has dropped significantly.

According to Wen Songyuan's words, the amateur staff of the brigade department could not even make a plan to seize the mountain.

Although Wen Songyuan said something a bit too much, he lacked a group of competent staff officers. This is indeed a big problem that the Independent 100 Brigade has to face now. If this is not solved well, if the Independent 100 Brigade wants to not lose weight when fighting the Japanese in any situation, it is a matter that you don’t even think about.

"Let's go, my Deputy Wen, let's go and see this major staff officer together."

Sure enough, Cheng Jiaji is more interested in this consultant than the others who have been brought to him by Wen Song these days.

"If you go, go, it's not the boss. I have something to say first. He is a little bit sensible. What's wrong with you at that time is nothing to do with you!

Wen Songyuan is not too stupid and knows how to give his boss a vaccination.

"Don't worry, as long as he has the ability, I can use him even if he is a poisonous snake." Cheng Jiaji said to Wen Songyuan with a smile. This is not a joke. Now Cheng Jiaji feels that what he lacks most is professional military talents. Originally, Yu Juncai and his group of people from the regular Central Army could use it, but it's a pity that they can't be in the same heart and virtue as themselves.

Liu Yicheng has received a formal military academy education. However, he is not a professional staff officer, and his level is limited. Secondly, Liu Yicheng is not in charge of the supplementary regiment now. In addition, Cheng Jiaji always feels that Liu Yicheng is always close to him, which makes Cheng Jiaji dare not use him with confidence. He also has the meaning of using the acting leader to observe the future. If Wen Songyuan can really pick up the treasure, then Cheng Jiaji would shout three times, "I Buddha's compassion."

When Cheng Jiaji first saw Qian Shen, he thought of a person, a character with a very important position in a novel he liked very much, the chief of staff of the Imperial Army who was so cruel and ruthless that he could even abandon himself as a pawn.

Like Obestan, the major staff officer had only one eye, which was not counting. One of his legs was inconvenient to move. To put it bluntly, this was a one-eyed lame man.

However, Cheng Jiaji didn't care. He wanted a competent staff officer who was proficient in staff operations, and it would be better to have the ability to plan the combat marching plan of the large army, rather than finding a warrior who could fight bayonets with the Japanese on the battlefield. The latter now has the ability to stand on the independent 100 brigades.

However, the gloomy and hot sparks of hatred in this person's eyes made Cheng Jiaji's calves twitch when he saw him.

This person looked like a piece of black ice, and his whole body exuded a cold aura.

After repeatedly confirming that the target of the other party’s hatred is not yourself.

Cheng Jiaji asked politely: "Which major Qian graduated from Shandong Branch? Who are there in his family?" (The Fifth Route Army of Han Fuqu, the predecessor of the Third Army, was the president of the Shandong Branch of the Central Military Academy when Han Fuqu was the chairman of the provincial government in Shandong. Most of the staff officers of the Third Army graduated from Shandong Branch, so Cheng Jiaji had this question.)

"The Shandong branch graduated in the 24th year of the Republic of China, and the German Military Academy's Staff Department was admitted to school in the 24th year of the Republic of China until August 26th. Everyone in the family except me died in the Jinan Massacre in the 18th year of the Republic of China." Qian Shen replied in a tone without any emotion. (Han Fuqu once had a close relationship with the Germans during his tenure in Shandong, and sent some military students to him.)

‘I picked up the treasure, it is one of the most famous military academy in the world. Clausewitz, the father of modern military theory, was the principal of this military academy for twelve years. The Staff Department is the strongest department of this military academy. The German Staff Officer is the best in the world. The German Staff Officer made great contributions to the German Staff Officer when he was about to end World War II. When World War II was about to end, Stalin half-jokingly and half-seriously took Roosevelt and Churchill to shoot all the staff officers of the German General Staff Officer after the war.’

‘No matter whether he is a poisonous snake or a three-headed wolf in hell, he has only one person and has a deep blood hatred with the Japanese. As long as he has the ability, such a baby cannot be spared no matter what he says.’

Based on this trial-taking mentality, Cheng Jiaji appointed Qian Shen as the major staff officer of the Independent 100 Brigade on the spot. He asked him to make a complete and detailed marching plan forcing the entire Independent 100 Brigade to marches for 50 kilometers within two days.

The day after Cheng Jiaji took in Qian Shenzhi, Qian Shen showed Cheng Jiaji his value.

"Okay, let's organize and implement this plan in three days." Faced with this detailed and meticulous military training plan, Cheng Jiaji now had no doubt about Qian Shen's ability.

At this time, Cheng Jiaji was so satisfied with Qian Shen. He liked him the more he looked at him. If this guy wasn't too cold, he would have wanted to hug him.

A great Qianshen, not only has two skills in the staff business, but his level is definitely at the level of being the best of professional staff officers. What is even more rare is that he was able to detect some of the long-distance forced efforts by Cheng Jiaji, and cooperate with Cheng Jiaji's intentions in the army's driving plan. Cheng Jiaji alone is sure that he has made a lot of money.

This one hundred miles of troops was on the surface just to test the troops' long-distance marching power. But in fact, Cheng Jiaji mainly wanted to preview a tactic. This tactic was a way of rescuing the Japanese in the War of Resistance, which later caused the Japanese to suffer great losses and also allowed the Japanese to take advantage of a lot of advantages, which was the so-called Tianlu warfare.

The reason why this tactic can win repeatedly in combat against Japan is naturally its extraordinary.

In fact, to put it bluntly, it is to lure the enemy into depth while retreating and shrink the troops and eat one of the enemy's routes with superior forces. However, because such military operations that retreat in front of the enemy require the troops to perform tasks have high tactical qualities, it is also a great test for the commanding ability of the troops commander. Otherwise, under the strong firepower of the Japanese army, it is very easy to change from pretend defeat to real defeat. Some troops have poor tactical qualities and the ability of the troops to control the troops is not satisfactory, which makes the Japanese army collapse thousands of miles away when they rush, so what is the decisive battle?

In the outline of Cheng Jiaji's plan to give Qian Shen, Cheng Jiadanji clearly stipulated that the independent 100 brigades set off from a fan with a battalion as a unit, and after a 50-kilometer marching, the entire army was required to assemble at a certain point and build fortifications within two hours.

In order to cooperate with Cheng Jiaji's training intention, Qian Shen not only added a lot of other contents such as air defense to the specific plan, but also required all troops to send powerful rear guards during the marching, and also assumed various emergencies such as the Japanese army blocking the road and requiring detours.

In short, in this training plan formulated by Qian Shen, everything must be required according to actual combat.

"Brother Wei Li, (Qian Shen's name) From today on, you will be the deputy chief of staff of our department. I will ask someone to make up for it immediately from the chief department." This method of taking action first and then reporting shows that Cheng Jiaji's extraordinary respect for Qian Shen.

"You must be loyal to your duties." Even if you were promoted, Qian Shen's tone was still so bold and emotional. Perhaps the only motivation for this person to survive was to avenge his family.

In the next seven or eight days, the Independent One Hundred Brigade conducted several synthetic drills and long-distance forced military training, although the results were mostly terrible.

However, after these synthesis drills and long-distance training, no one could deny that the tactical level and marching power of the Independent 100 Brigade had greatly improved.

Although the student soldiers from the barracks who Cheng Jiaji had always been concerned about were not comparable to veterans, they were at least like qualified soldiers in terms of appearance and demeanor.

Cheng Jiaji also tried his best to participate in the synthetic drills and forced marching in the past few days, and tried his best to encourage the morale of the troops during the participation.

Cheng Jiaji also issued a death order to the logistics department, asking them to make every effort to ensure the troops' food supply during this period at all costs.

Originally, Cheng Jiaji wanted the troops to train more well, but the Japanese no longer gave him this time.

In order to save face, the Japanese, who suffered a great loss in Taierzhuang, must attack Xuzhou again. In order to seize Xuzhou and avenge their previous shame, the Japanese army has invested a lot of money this time.

Since late April, the Japanese army has gathered 13 divisions and about 300,000 troops from Ping, Jin, Jin, Sui, Sui, Sui and Anhui areas (including the two divisions Isogaki and Itagaki divisions, which have replenished their troops and recovered their energy after escaping from Taierzhuang. They are equipped with various heavy weapons, hundreds of aircraft, and divided into six routes to form a large encirclement of Xuzhou. They adopt the tactics of advancing north and south and flanking detours, attempting to encircle and annihilate the 500,000 and 600,000 troops gathered in the Fifth War Zone of China in the Xuzhou area.

The various Japanese army had already started to launch in early May, and the dense war clouds were getting closer and closer to Xuzhou.

"North and south are advancing, flanking detours." The Japanese tactics were not new to Cheng Jiaji. It was even more crazy to have 300,000 troops wanting to surround and eat fifty or sixty troops, unless their opponent was the British army. (On the Myanmar battlefield, the British army was often surrounded and annihilated by Japanese troops with only less than half of their number, and there were even interesting news that nearly 10,000 British troops almost surrendered to more than a thousand Japanese troops.)

To be honest, Cheng Jiaji was not nervous about the large and useless encirclement that almost half of the Central China had been included. Only the Japanese could think of such flashy and unrealistic military fanaticism. But the problem was that on May 7, the war zone chief had not made a specific arrangement for breaking through the siege, but ordered the troops to resist in the area near Xuzhou to block the Japanese attack.

As a result, not only did hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops show no signs of turning to the outside line, but instead were equipped in the area near Xuzhou, posing as a decisive battle.

On May 9, the War Zone Chief ordered that the 100 Independent Brigade end the training and return to Xuzhou to take charge of Xuzhou as the direct troops of the War Zone Chief Minister and Xuzhou Security Command. Cheng Jiaji was also promoted to Chief of Staff of the Xuzhou Security Command. This important position was very convenient for Cheng Jiaji to continue to traffic in "opium". However, at this time, Cheng Jiaji no longer cared about his small business.

If history really changed due to the butterfly effect, the hundreds of thousands of troops in the Fifth War Zone would really survive and perish with Xuzhou, and there would never be any independent 100 brigades. The situation of China's war of resistance would undoubtedly be more difficult.

Thinking of this, Cheng Jiaji couldn't help but secretly glad that before coming to train, he forced his three wives and concubines to leave Xuzhou, which Miss Li, would otherwise be a real trouble. If this battle starts, no one will care about anyone.

"Xu Shenzuo, the war zone has not organized various troops to transfer. What's going on? I won't really fight the Japanese in Xuzhou!" Cheng Jiaji asked bluntly as soon as he saw Xu Shenzuo. In front of this elder he has always respected, this is the first time Cheng Jiaji is so rude, which shows that he is really a little anxious and confused.

"Haoran, don't be anxious. De Jingzheng is fighting with the supreme authorities for this matter, and there will be a result soon." Understanding the other party's eagerness, Xu Shenzuo comforted him with a gentle speech.

"The specific task of your brigade is to quickly organize the civil servants in Xuzhou and withdraw from Xuzhou in batches under the escort of your brigade." Xu Shenzu immediately issued an order to Cheng Jiaji.

After receiving the mission from Xu Shenzu, Cheng Jiaji was busy organizing the escorts of all the officials from the city government to safely escort out of Xuzhou for several days.

There is nothing to say about this task. In fact, it is just that the Independent 100 Brigade sends small troops in companies, escorting these big and small officials out of the city in batches and handing them over to the next escort troops and then returning.

When the War Zone Chief Office called Cheng Jiaji to hold an emergency military meeting, Cheng Jiaji, who had been very idle these days, suddenly jumped up from his desk and trotted down the brigade office building.

He knew in his heart that it seemed that the Chief of the War Zone should not be said that the Military Commission should have made a decision after hesitating between the departure and the war for so many days.

What he thought the most these days was how he would handle himself if the Military Commission had to defend himself in Xuzhou.

He thought about this question for several days but couldn't get an answer, which made Cheng Jiaji very upset.

Waiting is the most uncomfortable thing, let alone waiting with an almost unsolvable problem.

Now that I'm fine, everything will finally be decided. When Cheng Jiaji went downstairs, he said to himself in his heart, "I'm not a superman, and I don't have the power to change the decision of the supreme authorities. At least I don't have this power yet. As long as I do my duty and kill a few more Japanese devils. If the superiors decide to fight the Japanese army in Xuzhou, then I will never be able to break through the battle when the situation is irreversible. If I'm far away and die in Xuzhou, there's nothing to complain about. If I'm afraid of death, I'll retreat back to Nan'an to be a young man, and I won't come to this dangerous place in Xuzhou."

After his idea was settled, Cheng Jiaji settled down. He put his body in his major general's uniform and walked towards the carriage he parked in the yard of the brigade department.

Dear everyone, I have a fever, so I wrote these two or three thousand words while taking medicine. If there is anything wrong, I will modify it tomorrow.
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