The Japanese army's strategic intention was very obvious, that is, to completely wipe out the main force of the Zhongxxx team gathered in Xuzhou, especially the five newly equipped Soviet equipment. In fact, except for the Fifth Army, only one division of the other four armies completed several changes of clothes, and all TB-26 light tanks arrived in Wuhan were strengthened to the 200th Division of the Fifth Army.

It can be said that the Japanese army has deployed on the front line with as many as thirteen divisions, five brigades, and four independent mixed brigades, and three chariot corpses.

The five brigades even included three field heavy artillery brigades, which were just attacking troops deployed by the Japanese army on the front line. The Japanese army with at least ten divisions on the second line could be put into combat at any time.

In front of the huge combat map, Zhang Xuewu frowned and looked at the entire situation in Xuzhou. Although the strength of Li Zongren's troops in the Fifth War Zone has been enhanced, all the five direct troops of the Central Army that had not participated in the Xuzhou Battle in history were incorporated into the Fifth War Zone. In this way, Li Zongren had two troops that could be detoured and maneuvered. This was good news for Li Zongren, especially the 200th Division of the Fifth Army coming from Wuhan. Li Zongren heard that this unit was also mechanized. The 200th Division rushed to Xuzhou was undoubtedly equivalent to injecting and enhancing agents for the entire war zone.

Many people have seen the power of Zhang Xuewu's mechanized troops with their own eyes, and some have also heard of it. Therefore, Li Zongren is still quite sure to fight against the Japanese army to defend Xuzhou. However, the unprecedented strengthening of xxx's strength has also caused certain changes in Li Zongren's tactical deployment.

In the historical battle of Xuzhou, the xxx team has been conducting strategic and tactical defense, including the victory of Taierzhuang, and xxx are all conducting defense. Taierzhuang is the last support point in the front of Xuzhou, a life-and-death battle. However, at this moment, Li Zongren, who is rich in troops and elite troops, will defend the three support points of Linyi, Suzhou and Heze. While consolidating Xuzhou's defense, the defense forces are deployed flexibly on the inside and outside lines, and the five attacks of the Japanese army encircled the three main forces.

The attack was outside, if the other two Japanese troops went deep into the deep, Li Zongren was determined to fight a large annihilation battle at all costs. Except for Zhang Xuewu in the 10th War Zone, the xxx units had no establishment to annihilate the Japanese gangs. Therefore, Li Zongren, who was in charge of the elite, also had this plan. He severely damaged a part of the Japanese army in the Battle of Xuzhou to report all kinds of insults and difficulties from the Japanese side during the negotiations in Shanghai. So Li Zongren set up the commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Zone in Xuzhou City, and was very swearing to live and die with Xuzhou.

The 3rd Army of Pang Bingxun, the 20th Army of Tang Enbo, the 20th Army of Sun Lianzhong, the 22nd Army of Sun Zhen, the 31st Army of Liu Shiyi, the 51st Army of Yu Xuezhong, the 59th Army of Zhang Zizhong, the 59th Army of Du Yuming, the 74th Army of Wang Yaowu, the 83rd Army of Deng Longguang, the 87th Army of Liu Yinggu, the 89th Army of Han Deqin, the 9th Army of Li Xianzhou, the 92nd Army of Feng Qinzai, the 10th Army of Shi Zhongcheng, and the 9th Armored Regiment of the two heavy artillery brigades assigned to Li Zongren, and the 10th Armored Brigade of Qiu Qingquan was also placed under the jurisdiction of the Fifth War Zone.

Li Zongren was also very clear that the battle of Xuzhou was life and death, but Xuzhou was in a plain area without any danger, and the Japanese army attacked from both north and south, so he only wanted to severely damage the Japanese army, attack its living forces and annihilate one of its parts, consume its strategic material reserves, and prepare for the Supreme Military Commission to gain time to deploy the Wuhan Battle.

Li Zongren was naturally overjoyed about the two heavy artillery brigades, the 9th Artillery Regiment and the 10th Artillery Regiment given by the Military Commission. After the visit to the army, he realized that these two artillery brigades were from Zhang Xuewu's headquarters. After the Nanjing Defense War, the heavy artillery was left to Hu Zongnan's headquarters and all the personnel were withdrawn. At this moment, the two high artillery brigades were not only facing a shortage of professional personnel, the troops lack training, and the artillery shells were pitifully small. Moreover, a 105mm howitzer battalion under each brigade was kicked back by Hu Zongnan. No artillery cannons were seen in their lifetime? No artillery cannons died?

In desperation, Li Zongren had to send a telegram to the 10th War Zone to request some artillery shells and supplies. Although the Fifth War Zone had many troops, the equipment was extremely different. Du Yuming's Fifth Army, Wang Yaowu's Seventh Army, Deng Longguang's Eighty-third Army, Liu Yinggu's Eighty-seventh Army, Han Deqin's Eighty-nine Army, Li Xianzhou's Ninety-two Army, Feng Qinzai's Ninety-eighth Army, Shi Zhongcheng's 100th Army are all elite troops, while Pang Bingxun's Third Corps has only five regiments, and the number of guns and bullets is insufficient, and Tang Enbo's division is not enough, and there is no need to mention the combat effectiveness of Sun Zhen's 22nd Army. It's nothing to ask for. After the Sichuan Army leaves Sichuan, it's like a beggar.

Let such troops be used in accordance with a legion or a group of troops? Li Zongren couldn't bear to do so and did not dare to deploy this. In order to reflect the wise decision of the Supreme Command, deploy the third-rate miscellaneous cards at the forefront to consume the Japanese army, deploy the main force of the faction in the middle to fight the Japanese army, and place the elite troops at the end to pick up fruits?

In fact, from the perspective of strategic and protracted war, Li Zongren also agreed with Chiang Kai-shek's deployment and such tactical arrangements. Such arrangements can continue the war more lastingly. However, for those cannon fodder troops placed in front, it is just crying and scolding the sky and the earth. This is the reality. Otherwise, the elite troops will be fought? How can the war be fought? The lives of veterans are much more expensive than the new recruits. Only about five percent of the new recruits can survive for three months. Sometimes they would rather send ten new recruits to test firepower than send one veteran to take risks, because at a critical moment, the veterans can rush out with explosives packs, and the new recruits will only cry and call for their parents. After a battle, the new recruits killed by the supervising team sometimes more than the xxx people. These people will be included in the category of missing, and even the pension is saved.

Li Zongren wanted to deploy the troops under the Third Army of Pang Bingxun and the Second Army of Sun Lianzhong along the Huaihe River, but the troops of the Second Army of the Second Army were only 27, 30, 31, and three divisions, each with only about 6,700 combatants, plus the Independent Forty-fourth Brigade, it was a bit reluctant, so he had to place the 31st Army of Liu Shiyi and the 51st Army of Yu Xuezhong along the Huaihe River, and put Sun Lianzhong’s Second Army of the Second Army of Sun Zhen and the 22nd Army of Sun Zhen in Linyi.

The fifth army of Du Yuming, the seventy-fourth army of Wang Yaowu, the eighty-third army of Deng Longguang, the eighty-seventh army of Liu Yinggu, the eighty-ninth army of Han Deqin, the ninety-second army of Li Xianzhou, the ninety-eighth army of Feng Qinzai, the 10th army of Shi Zhongcheng, the armored brigade of Qiu Qingquan, are directly affiliated to the Military Commission's 10th heavy artillery brigade and the 10th artillery regiment, first to face the main force of the Japanese army that was attacking Suzhou from the far side. If the second troops attacked by the Japanese army in Central China were able to defeat one of the routes, then he could let go of his hands and feet against the Japanese army coming from North China.

However, China and Japan broke their faces in Shanghai. Li Zongren was busy and unrest while dispatching troops, because in front of him, there were three divisions of Han Fuju's Third Army, and the Supreme Military Commission also supported the Fifth Artillery Brigade equipped by the Third Army. The three divisions of Han Fuqu were all masters of the 6th Regiment of the Third Brigade, which had been in charge of the years, with more than 12,000 people.

Li Zongren planned to first stop the Japanese army on the south bank of the Huai River on the southern front, breaking his attempt to join the Japanese army on the northern front, and then defeat the Japanese army on the eastern front in Linyi area on the northern front, and blocking the right wing of the Japanese army on the western front in Jiaxiang area, crushing the Japanese army's plan to meet in Taierzhuang. He adopted active defensive tactics, one of which serves as the inside defense and the other on the outside to fight, combining offense and defense, and flexible and maneuverable combat methods, and did not give the Japanese army the superior ground-air firepower, and the internal and external fighting, making the Japanese army exhausted from dealing with it.

Li Zongren knew that it was mid-November now, and it would be difficult to directly carry out a strategic decisive battle without several months of preparation and mutual testing. Only when the opportunity for a decisive battle arises, the generals of both sides of the battle will truly invest all their strength to give the opponent a final blow. Otherwise, the overall situation before this should be stable and calm. If the tenth battle zone can give themselves a certain cooperation, it would be better.

Li Zongren had no bad impression of Zhang Xuewu in the Tenth War Zone, and believed that he was far better than his prodigal brother, and at least he had a world for the Zhang family. Zhang Xueliang applied to go to the Tenth War Zone for investigation several times, but was stopped by Chiang Kai-shek. His purpose was obvious. However, with Zhang Xuewu, the first to stand out, Li Zongren seemed to have lived a lot better?

Chairman Jiang also seemed to be relieved to send military power, which was much better than commanding a large number of miscellaneous troops to fight desperate battles.

However, what Li Zongren was most concerned about was the actions of the 10th War Zone. He only took a look at the 10th War Zone combat plan sent to him by the General Staff Headquarters and threw it away and burned it, because it was formulated by the General Staff Headquarters for Zhang Xuewu. If Zhang Xuewu could follow the combat plan formulated by the group of paper-talking guys at the General Staff Headquarters, then he would probably not be Zhang Xuewu. His wings would be hard in a few years? Li Zongren could only sigh that his youth was terrifying. What made him envious was Zhang Xuewu's huge funding from unknown sources. If he had such funding back then, he would probably have made a comeback after Chiang Kai-shek stepped down from the world. What was the battle? The battle was the comprehensive national strength of the country and the industrial foundation of the country.
Chapter completed!