Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 1474: That’s what I wish for!

Fang Xianjue paused slightly and then walked over quickly.

Standing beside the little child, he looked silently at the already blurry photo of his best friend on the tombstone for a while, and then looked down at the little child who was looking up at him.

"Your name is Tang Shanhe?" Fang Xianjue asked.

The little child nodded vigorously.

"Can you tell me what you said to your uncle Sun when you were kneeling here just now?" Fang Xianjue squatted down and helped Xiao Tang Shanhe pat the dust off his knees.

Xiao Tang Shanhe's pants were covered with dust. It seemed that he had paid tribute to many heroes in this Martyrs' Shrine.

"My father told me that this uncle is a good man, whom even he admires. I told him to have a good rest in heaven and not to work too hard. Next time I come to see him, I will bring him some sweet red bean paste buns." Little Tang Shanhe said seriously.

"Haha! Well, if your uncle Sun knew that he had such a good nephew, he would be very happy." Seeing the little child speak so cutely, Fang Xianjue, who was originally in a gloomy mood, couldn't help but smile slightly.

"Uncle Sun is in another world and can't repay you for sending him the flowers. Then let your uncle repay it for you. Just make a request and I will definitely satisfy it as long as I can." Fang Xianjue said, stretching out his hands to pick up Tang Shanhe.

"Really?" Tang Shanhe habitually put his fingers in his mouth and looked at this man who was almost as tall and strong as his father.

"That must be true. A real man's word is as good as his bond. Your father and mother can prove it! Even if you want your father to stop scolding and beating you in the future, I am the army commander and your father is the regiment commander." Fang Xianjue obviously liked the strong and powerful Tang Shanhe very much.

"Then can I get all the uncles and aunts here to come out?" Tang Shanhe bit his fingers and thought for a long time, and finally said.

"The houses here are different from the ones we live in. There are no windows at all. It's very stuffy to live in them."

"This..." Fang Xianjue's throat choked, but he didn't know how to answer for a moment. After a long while, he smiled bitterly and replied, "Your request is really beyond Uncle Fang's ability."

"Shanhe, mom will accompany you to see the mountain scenery over there, and let dad and Uncle Fang talk here." Tan Tai Mingyue took the initiative to come over.

"How about this? You are still young and don't know what you want. When you grow up and go to school, tell Uncle Fang and he will definitely fulfill your wish." After handing Tang Shanhe to Tan Tai Mingyue, Fang Xianjue still did not forget his promise.

After watching Tan Tai Ming Yue holding the hand of little Tang Shan He and walking away for a long distance, Fang Xian Jue waved to Tang Dao who was standing on the side and said, "Come on, sit over there with me."

In late spring, wild flowers are everywhere and the fragrance is overwhelming!

There are several acres of wild chrysanthemums beside Sun Mingjin's tomb, especially the "roadside yellow" ones, which are in full bloom. Clusters of bright yellow flowers decorate the place beautifully, butterflies flutter up and down, and wild bees buzz and dance. Next to the flowers, there are two or three bamboo frame thatched sheds, which were built by the 10th Army Engineering Battalion according to Fang Xianjue's instructions.

Fang Xianjue had said earlier that this spring he would come to guard his best friend's grave for a night, accompany him to see the scenery of Nanyue, and chat with him.

"Sit down!" Fang Xianjue was the first to sit down on the bamboo stool that had been prepared.

"You have a good way of educating your son. Your son has been well educated. When my kid was this old, he would cry to me and ask me for money to buy candy." Seeing Tang Dao sitting down, Fang Xianjue started talking about education.

"Shanhe's education is okay, but it has little to do with me. I've been away for a long time, and it's all thanks to his mother and grandfather who taught him." Hearing someone praising his son, Tang Dao was not humble, but he didn't take credit for it either.

"It is said that Captain Tang is a man with eight hundred schemes in his mind. He is suddenly so frank today. Something must be going on! Tell me! But I must declare in advance that I am only a small councilor in the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs. I can't help you with military matters." Fang Xianjue said.

"Commander Fang, please don't be so unreasonable. You are a lieutenant general senator, and I am a colonel and the commander of the engineering corps. Generally speaking, you are still much stronger than me." Tang Dao replied.

"You are worthy of being Commander Tang. Since the transfer order of the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs was issued yesterday, even good friends and comrades like Mayor Zhao and Chief of Staff Sun dare not mention the word senator in front of me. But you come up and poke me in the heart. It seems that the relationship between you and me is not yet so familiar!" Fang Xianjue said with a serious face, pointing at the Tang sword.

"Romain Rolland said: True heroism is to still love life after recognizing the truth of life! Just like this Patriotic War, the Japanese army was stronger than China from the beginning to the end. Should we just give up and not fight? If we didn't have the courage to fight the strong with the weak, the war would have ended long ago, and China would have fallen long ago. Anyone who thinks that the commander of the 'Taishan Army' can't bear to hear just two words is really underestimating Chinese soldiers." Tang Dao answered righteously.

"I'm right about you being so smart! I just don't understand why you disobeyed that person, leading to your current situation! Do you know that Commander Xue has always admired you very much and wanted to transfer your Four-Line Regiment to the Tanzhou front several times? As a result, all the telegrams he sent fell on deaf ears and ultimately nothing came of it." Fang Xianjue sighed.

"It's a long story, but in the end, it's just that the road was bumpy and someone had to smooth it, otherwise more people would fall." Tang Dao looked calm when talking about his own experience.

"If Mingjin were still alive, you would definitely become close friends with him. You two have many similar traits, but he is not as outspoken as you." Fang Xianjue sighed.

"I have been traveling around Nanyue with my wife and children for the past six months. When I am not wearing a military uniform, people think I am a rich young man! I have lost my edge, so what can I show off?" Tang Dao grinned.

"Haha! Others don't know you, Tang Dao, but even I, the former highest military commander in Hengyang area, don't know you? Not to mention that you have marked out a piece of land of 2 square kilometers at the foot of Hengshan Mountain to build fortifications and conduct simulated city attack and defense drills. Just saying, wherever you stand, your whole body is as straight as a spear. When I saw you for the first time last year, I felt that if you appeared on the battlefield, you would be able to defeat ten or even a hundred people!" Fang Xianjue also laughed.

"You and the Four Lines have been in seclusion for nearly two years. Others say that your Four Lines have become useless and no longer as brave as they once were. But I know that your precious sword is still a precious sword. When it is unsheathed, it will still shine with a cold light."

"Looking at the Ninth War Zone, the only one who can have such a vision is Commander Fang."

"Oh? What about Commander Xue?" Fang Xianjue looked at Tang Dao with a smile.

Tang Dao had fought under Commander Xue before. General Xue admired him very much and even sent a telegram to transfer the Sihang Regiment to the Tanzhou war zone, even at the cost of making the commander unhappy. He even promoted Tang Dao's old superior Xie Jinyuan to the deputy commander of the 74st Division of the 51th Army and commander of the 154th Brigade half a year ago.

There were originally two powerful generals in the 51st Division, one was Wang Yaowu and the other was Zhang Lingpu, both of whom were very famous in the 9th War Zone. When Xie Jinyuan arrived, he was ranked second, second only to the division commander Wang Yaowu, and surpassing the commander of the 153rd Brigade Zhang Lingpu. It can be seen that General Xue attached great importance to Xie Jinyuan.

Fang Xianjue's intelligence showed that Xie Jinyuan was promoted because, on the one hand, he did have good abilities, and on the other hand, it was because of his subordinate Tang Dao who had emerged as a rising star in the Sihang Warehouse.

It is extremely rare for General Xue, who is so stubborn and power-hungry, to have such an appreciation for the Tang sword.

"Before 1942, you were not as good as him, but now, he is not as good as you!" Tang Dao was straightforward.

This straightforward answer stunned Fang Xianjue.

Tang Dao's next words were even more shocking.

"For example, there will be a battle between Tanzhou and Hengyang in the near future, which you predicted, but he still insists on his own opinion. If the fourth battle of Tanzhou fails, then the important town of Hengyang will be the only one in northern Hunan that can stop the Japanese invaders. And to defend Hengyang, it must be the 10th Army and Commander Fang." There was no other sound in the entire straw hut except the buzzing of wild bees in the surrounding flower fields and the slight mountain breeze.

After a long while, Fang Xianjue finally smiled bitterly. He opened his mouth to say something, but his eyes were still firm. He drew a map on the dusty wooden table with his fingers and said in a deep voice, "Come on, tell me how you deduced that the Japanese army would definitely launch an attack on our war zone."

Fang Xianjue is a very pragmatic person. Although Tang Dao's opinion is similar to his, any conclusion is not made out of thin air, but must be based on detailed logical reasoning.

When anyone does anything, he must have a purpose. Only with a purpose can we infer how he will do it.

This is especially true on the battlefield, which does not allow for any imaginary thinking.

"All of the Japanese army's current combat intentions are derived from the defeat in the Pacific battlefield." Tang Dao did not refuse. He picked up a stone from the ground and started to play war chess with Fang Xianjue on the table.

This war chess simulation is destined to be almost the same as the facts that are about to happen, because apart from the Japanese who formulated the "Operation Plan No. 1", there is probably no one in the world who knows it better than the future little butterfly.

By the spring of 1944, the situation in World War II had reversed, and the Allied forces were winning triumphant battles on major battlefields in Asia and Europe.

On the European battlefield, on the Eastern Front of Europe, the Russians drove the German Empire Army out of their border and continued to counterattack their vassal states; on the Western Front of Europe, General Eisen, commander-in-chief of the Allied Expeditionary Force, was leading the Allied forces to actively open up a second battlefield, and the German Empire was about to face the crisis of fighting on two fronts; on the Southern Front of Europe, Mussolini's government fell and the Axis powers fell apart.

On the Pacific battlefield, the contest between the U.S. and Japanese armies had already determined the strength of the enemy. The U.S. army was pressing forward step by step. Although it had not yet completely cut off the Japanese army's sea routes, its ocean transportation capacity had been reduced to less than half of what it was before. This also led to the Chinese, American and other countries' coalition forces on the Southeast Asian battlefield launching a counterattack, forcing the Japanese army to switch from an offensive to a defensive position.

The Japanese military headquarters realized a terrible problem: the sea transportation lines from mainland Japan to Southeast Asia and South Asia were about to be cut off, and the continental transportation line from the Korean Peninsula through China to the Malay Peninsula would become its last lifeline.

Most areas along this important transportation line, including China's Henan Province, Hunan Province, Guangxi Province and other places, are still under the control of the Chinese army.

In order to save the Japanese army from danger in the East Asian and Pacific battlefields, the Japanese military headquarters proposed the idea of ​​"opening up the mainland transportation line", also known as the "Operation Plan No. 1".

The so-called "continental transportation line" starts from the Korean Peninsula, enters Shanhaiguan through Northeast China, runs through the Pinghan, Yuehan, and Hunan-Guangxi railways from north to south, connects to the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway, opens up the battlefields in Northeast China, North China, Central China, South China, and Southwest China, and runs through the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia, the Malay Peninsula, and the Indonesian Archipelago, and finally connects the Japanese mainland, the East Asian continent, and the Nanyang region, establishing a road supply line for the Japanese army to avoid the annihilation of the army after the sea and air are controlled by the United States.

In fact, as early as the summer of 1943, the idea of ​​"Operation No. " had been submitted to the Japanese Army Headquarters meeting for discussion, but due to the tense situation in Southeast Asia at the time and the fierce battle for islands in the Pacific, the Japanese Army was short of manpower and the plan was forced to be suspended.

In September, the newly commissioned B-9 bombers of the US military were put into actual combat, and for the first time, the Japanese mainland entered the range of direct strikes by the Allied Air Force. On November 29, nine B-11s departed from Liuzhou, mainland China, and bombed the Japanese naval base in Taiwan Province over a distance of nearly 25 kilometers, which caused great panic in Japan.

The Japanese headquarters judged that the United States' long-range bombers would soon attack the Japanese mainland, and they must destroy the US air force bases on the East Asian continent. The importance of the Chinese theater was once again taken seriously by the headquarters.

In January 1944, the Japanese military headquarters officially issued the order for "Operation No. 1".

The content of "Operation No. 29" mainly includes three points: first, to capture the southern section of China's Pinghan Railway; second, to capture Guilin and Liuzhou, and destroy the US Air Force bases deployed in the area to prevent B- bombers from launching raids on the Japanese mainland; third, to defeat the main force of the Chinese army along the Hunan-Guangxi and Yue-Han railways, and continue to attack China's will to fight.

"Operation Number One" was the largest operation in which the Japanese army deployed troops in the Chinese theater since the outbreak of the Pacific War.

曾经时空中，日军在此役共动用18个师团，约51万士兵、10万匹战马、1500门火炮、800多辆坦克、15000辆汽车。

  Since "Operation No. 1" was mainly concentrated in China's Henan Province, Hunan Province, and Guangxi Province, it is known in history as the "Henan-Hunan-Guangxi" Campaign!

Among them, the "Battle of Changheng" was the most important part of the "Battle of Hunan and Guangxi", and was carried out by the 11th Army, the Japanese field army with the largest number of troops in the battlefield in China.

The 11th Army was the only strategic mobile field army under the China Expeditionary Force. By the end of 1943, it had 8 divisions under its command and a strength of more than 16 people.

The former commander of the 11th Army, Anami Korechika, resigned in disgrace due to the defeat in the third Battle of Tanzhou, but the current commander is old veteran Yokoyama Isamu, who relied on his thick skin to hold on to the position of Vice Chief of Staff of the Expeditionary Army and refused to return to his country, which finally gave him the opportunity to be re-employed.

The Japanese headquarters counted on their fingers all the generals in China and found that none of those at the same level as Yokoyama Isamu were as good at fighting as him, and those who were better at fighting than him had higher ranks than him. It was not suitable for him to be the commander of the 11th Army. In addition, Yokoyama Isamu had been very honest during the more than a year since he was out of office, and was very much liked by the then commander of the China Expeditionary Army, Tian Shunroku. In order to smoothly implement the "Operation No. 11" plan, Yokoyama Isamu had to be retrained as the commander of the th Army.

  The Japanese army began preparing to launch Operation No. 1944 in February 2. In addition to the Japanese North China Front Army quietly gathering 15 elite troops and stationing them in the Yellow River section of Henan Province to launch a surprise attack on the Chinese First War Zone, Tian Junliu also made other arrangements with great painstaking efforts.

"You mean to say that the Japanese are still using the tactic of repairing the plank road in the open but secretly attacking Chencang. Their 13th Army launched operations in Jiangsu and Zhejiang not only to contain the Third War Zone, and the 23rd Army launched an attack along the West River in Guangdong Province not only to disrupt the Seventh War Zone, but the more important purpose is to confuse us and make us not understand their true intentions. In fact, they have gathered a large number of troops and hidden them in Chongyang, Yueyang, and Huarong?"

Fang Xianjue had already looked solemn after listening to Tang Dao's analysis of the war situation in Asia and Europe and the real strategic intentions of the Japanese military headquarters. He was even more shocked when he saw Tang Dao clearly mapping out the current attack routes of the various Japanese troops, and that Hunan Province was currently completely calm.

Originally, he judged that the reason why the Japanese attacked Hunan Province was Mr. Baili's "Three Yang Lines". Now, after hearing what Tang Dao said, it suddenly became clear to him. Regardless of whether it was the "Three Yang Lines" or the so-called continental transportation line, as long as the Japanese wanted to transport supplies from their homeland to the Malay Peninsula by land, Hunan Province was the only way they had to pass through and they had to attack.

"Hey! Don't mention that I have been transferred from the 9th War Zone. Even if I were still the commander of the 10th Army, would Commander Xue listen to my suggestions?" Fang Xianjue reached out and brushed away the map that the two had been drawing with their fingers as pens and dust as paper for half a day, and stood up extremely angrily.

This should be the first time that this powerful general in the army fully expressed his dissatisfaction with his immediate superior in front of outsiders.

Admiral Xue defeated the Japanese army's three attacks on Tanzhou in succession over the past few years, and his reputation grew. His desire to control his subordinates also reached its peak. The 10th Army suffered heavy losses in the rescue of Changde, and the 3rd Division and the 10th Reserve Division suffered heavy losses. As a result, the commander of the theater took this opportunity to forcibly insert his own confidants in an attempt to take full control of this "Taishan Army", and used his influence in the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs to transfer the army commander Fang Xianjue who strongly opposed it.

"Sir, Tang Dao is not clear about the right and wrong in the high-level positions in the war zone, but Tang Dao believes that our ancestors have said it very clearly, 'A forced melon is not sweet'. No matter how high the official position is, no matter how powerful he is, if he goes against the will of the people, it is easy to shoot himself in the foot." Tang Dao said.

Tang Dao knew this history too well. General Xue's forced personnel adjustments were fine below the division level, but the transfer of Fang Xianjue, the soul of the 10th Army, was unanimously opposed by the officers and soldiers of the 10th Army. Within a week, they jointly rejected the successor to the commander, which would make the army face the embarrassing situation of being without a commander for the second time.

"What you mean is..." Fang Xianjue could become a tiger general, not because he was fierce enough, but because he was really good at fighting. His brain was much more flexible than that of ordinary people, and he immediately heard the subtext of Tang Dao.

"General Fang might as well leave this dangerous place for the time being. When the war breaks out, since the general can be a councilor, why can't a councilor be a general?" Tang Dao said with a smile.

After concentrating on looking at the Tang sword for a while, Fang Xianjue smiled and said, "Captain Tang knows so much about global wars, and I didn't expect you to know so much about human hearts. Your reputation as a brave general is really unworthy of your reputation. Those who only regard you as a brave general will sooner or later fall into your trap."

"Thank you for the compliment, sir! Tang Dao firmly believes that you will not leave the front-line combat position." Tang Dao said.

"Well, let me guess, Tang Dao, what is your real purpose in talking to me so much today?" Fang Xianjue paced back and forth with his hands behind his back.

"If the Japanese army attacks Hengyang with heavy troops, my 10th Army now only has the 3rd Division and the 10th Reserve Division in the Hengyang area, with a total of no more than 1.5 troops. If I ask the war zone to transfer the Four-Line Regiment to help defend Hengyang, I wonder if Commander Tang dares to come and fight?"

"Haha! If you invite me, I would love to do it!" Tang Dao grinned, revealing a row of white teeth.

The words "eight hundred tricks" can be returned to this army lieutenant general as it is.

As long as this person agrees, the officers and soldiers of the Four-Line Regiment will be indispensable in this battle known as the Defense of Moscow in the East!