Chapter 175: [Master of Micro-management] The Red Side

However.

What confused everyone was not just this.

Inside the conference room.

Chu Yao and the Blue Star netizens in the stream had just digested the news of "the Whampoa Principal flying from Nanjing to Nanchang to oversee the battle," when the regimental commander in front of them threw a big one the next second:

"According to the orders from the superiors,"

"My unit is hereby placed under the 'Land, Sea, and Air Force General Headquarters Nanchang Camp', to be unified and commanded by Commander Lu Diping."

"This time, for the encirclement, not even a fly is allowed to get out!"

As the words fell.

There was a lot of discussion in the conference room, and the surrounding NPCs were discussing what this "Land, Sea, and Air Force General Headquarters Nanchang Camp" was for.

Unified command?

Isn't it already?

These bottom-level battalion and company commanders didn't quite understand the situation above.

In reality, the few divisions around here also had their own agendas, making it difficult to coordinate.

That's why they were doing this, to conduct unified command.

And Chu Yao and the Blue Star viewers in the stream were already confused and started flipping through the map:

"Isn't it?"

"Is there a sea in Nanchang?"

"Isn't this an inland city?"

"Where does the land, sea, and air come from?"

Looking at the map, it was all mountains, where was the sea?

Besides the Gan River tributaries, the whole screen was marked with hills above 500 meters in altitude; those few rivers were somewhat related to water, but not enough to be called a sea.

Land, Sea, and Air Camp.

It sounded quite intimidating.

The barrage in the stream rolled:

【Good heavens, it turns out they already started commanding the overall situation at this time.】

【Where did the sea in Nanchang come from?】

【Land, Sea, and Air is also ridiculous; does the 'Republic' even have planes at this time?】

【It seems there's only an army.】

【Isn't it... does he not have a count of his own level???】

The Blue Star netizens in the stream were confused; it turned out that this kind of command operation had already started at this time.

Whether this Whampoa Principal had substance or not was hard to say.

The Blue Star netizens were a bit confused about the Whampoa Principal's operation.

After all, during the previous "Federation Military Exercise," this Whampoa Principal's overall micro-management hadn't beaten the Whampoa Fourth Class students, and now he had done this again.

For a time, the Blue Star netizens really couldn't judge.

After all, according to the situation during the 【Liaoshen Campaign】, no one could beat the big shot who commanded a million-strong army days in advance.

Now?

It was the same front-line micro-management.

It was just that the target had changed; the Blue Star netizens knew less about the red side.

For a time, they weren't sure of the result.

There were quite a few discussions on the game forum, one of which was a hot post:

"Rational Discussion: Is the Whampoa Principal's micro-management useful at all?"

Below were various opinions.

1st floor:

"Don't blindly black him, no matter what, Nanjing is beating a group of warlords, so there should be something to it."

2nd floor:

"What substance? Wasn't the Central Plains War mediated by Zhang Xueliang entering the pass? Forgot how they were beaten in the third level 【Liaoshen Campaign】 during the 'Federation Military Exercise'."

3rd floor:

"Hard to say, the red side's intelligence is too little now, what if the Whampoa Principal plays a trick this time?"

4th floor:

"Is he a tactical genius, or is he just giving away kills? Please look forward to it!"

5th floor:

"Isn't it? Brother upstairs, who told you to be the commentator."

6th floor:

"I think it's hanging; the red side's commander is the big shot who can trigger the gold-colored 【Autumn Harvest Uprising】 Plot Card."

7th floor:

"The information upstairs is outdated; the Whampoa Principal can also trigger it; yesterday someone triggered a gold-purple Plot Card from the Whampoa Principal 【Xi'an Inc...】"

The discussions in the post were inconsistent.

Some felt it could succeed, after all, he was the Whampoa Principal.

Whampoa Military Academy trained so many famous generals, this dignified principal, even if he couldn't beat the one in the 【Liaoshen Campaign】 later, now it was still the initial stage of the red side.

This principal's micro-management should be useful; one could see it from the unified command, through this organization, unifying the command power to one person.

It could largely avoid the personal grudges between the high-level officials of the various units below, leading to unsmooth offensives.

And those who felt it was useless thought.

It was completely a fancy operation, and it was estimated that it would be the same as the 【Liaoshen Campaign】 10 years later.

After all, this was an inland area.

Looking at it, there were no hills or mounds lower than 500 meters.

Creating some kind of "Land, Sea, and Air General Headquarters Nanchang Camp," wasn't this just fancy and useless?

However, the specific situation still depended on the subsequent battle situation.

They couldn't discuss anything, and still had to look at the plot progress in the game.

And Chu Yao.

The day after the meeting ended, he received the order to set off.

Heading toward the direction of Shicheng, blocking the road for the red side forces to retreat eastward, and not only that.

Two days later.

Chu Yao, who had collected all the information, hung a large map in the stream.

On it were the orders issued after the formation of the "Land, Sea, and Air General Headquarters Nanchang Camp," which clearly showed the intention to surround the red side forces.

Chu Yao looked at the map and smacked his lips:

"Big moves right after landing; this troop mobilization."

"56th Division, 49th Division, block the gap in the southeast."

"60th Division, 61st Division, 12th Division, block the gap in the southwest."

"Overall forming a large encirclement."

"Then the main force in the north, 18th Division, 50th Division, New 5th Division, attack Donggu and Longgang from three directions, conducting a secondary encirclement."

"Good heavens, a net cast from heaven and earth."

Even the Blue Star netizens in the stream had to admit that no matter how one looked at this plan, there were no major problems.

One could see the Whampoa Principal's military command level.

It was just...

Just when the Blue Star netizens were thinking about how the red side would break the situation.

They realized.

Before Chu Yao's troops had even marched to the designated location.

The red side forces where Qiao Bo was had already transferred positions a few days ago.

Because it was a merged stream.

So Qiao Bo was also paying attention to Chu Yao's situation, until just now when Chu Yao took out the map and released the command and layout of Nanjing.

Qiao Bo finally understood what the transfer a few days ago was for?

Qiao Bo couldn't reach the high-level officials, so he could only listen to orders and follow the team, not knowing what the purpose of the transfer was.

But with the layout map of Chu Yao's stream released.

Looking at his position.

Qiao Bo reacted, holy crap?

Is it real?

Qiao Bo was a bit incredulous, looked at the time difference between his and Chu Yao's stream, it was still the same day, with a half-day time difference.

But the red side... had predicted it several days in advance?

Looking at the confused Qiao Bo, the Blue Star viewers in the stream didn't know what was going on, but until Qiao Bo posted the current location of the red side forces.

The Blue Star viewers in the stream collectively dropped their jaws.

【Holy crap! This prediction is amazing! The red side jumped out of the encirclement directly?】

【Wait! Chu Yao's side set off five days ago? Qiao Bo's side started transferring six days ago, they opened a full-map hack?!】

【Textbook-level battlefield prediction!】

【It's ruined, it's ruined, the Whampoa Principal is on the third floor, but the red side is already in the atmosphere!】

【To be fair, you can't say the blue side's layout is bad, this isn't just...】

【So the situation now is... the encirclement net carefully laid out by the Whampoa Principal is going to surround nothing?】

【Dimensional strike, this is!】

Looking at the red side force distribution map at this moment, the Blue Star netizens couldn't help it.

Can you say the blue side's layout is bad?

Clearly not.

Just looking at the blue side's layout, once the two layers of encirclement were formed, it would be a net from heaven and earth, with no way to fly out.

But now...

The red side really grew wings and flew away.

The main force in the Donggu and Longgang areas had already withdrawn.

What was left was only Donggu, which was almost an empty city.

The second layer of encirclement composed of the New 5th Division, 18th Division, and 50th Division was completely useless, because there were no main forces of the red side there.

At this moment, the blue side's New 5th Division attacking Donggu would only hit empty air.

This kind of prediction was truly too shocking.

For a time, netizens were discussing it, and even Qiao Bo couldn't figure out how the red side predicted it.

This Whampoa Principal was also unlucky.

The opponents he encountered were all at what level.

The red side is in the atmosphere this time.

The Chu Yao next door was also dumbfounded, because they hadn't reached the predetermined position yet, and the other side had already jumped out of the second layer of encirclement.

Had to admire the red side's prediction.

With the plot progress in the game, because the blue side hit empty air, although they occupied Donggu and other places, there were no major battle results.

However, the red side's main force in the east was now facing the blue side directly.

Three days later.

Several days had passed in the game, and the blue side had re-arranged.

Chu Yao posted a new map layout and plan in the stream.

After adjustment, the blue side planned to use the 50th Division and 24th Division in the north as bait to build defensive works to attract the red side's main force to attack.

And the 18th Division in the west and the 28th Division, which was previously reorganized from the New 5th Division, would sneak attack the red side's main force from the flank.

Then advance together.

To annihilate this part of the Communist side's main force in the Xiaobu and Huangpi areas.

Looking at the blue side's plan in the stream, the viewers in the stream couldn't pick any faults.

But...

A plan was a plan after all.

The 18th Division and 28th Division that were supposed to sneak attack from the flank had problems.

(Plan)

The blue side's original plan was for the 18th Division and 28th Division to advance together and sneak attack the red side's main force from the flank.

But the 18th Division set off according to orders and arrived at Longgang, while the 28th Division had just left the door.

(Reality)

The original encirclement plan.

At this moment, because the 28th Division didn't keep up, the 18th Division became a lone army, sending its head a thousand miles away.

The 18th Division, which should have been sneak attacking the flank of the red side's main force.

At this moment, its own flank was wide open.

The red side naturally didn't let go of this opportunity.

The main force in the east and the main force in the south advanced together, trapping the 18th Division in Longgang and annihilating it.

Chu Yao was numb when he found out.

Although they weren't facing the red side forces directly, they were just blocking the encirclement in the east, but how was the red side's information faster than his.

Not many people inside knew that the 28th Division set off later than the 18th Division.

It was only known after the fight.

As a result, the red side knew that the 28th Division set off later than the 18th Division, and didn't drag their feet at all.

Directly encircling and annihilating the 18th Division.

More than 9,000 people in the 18th Division, even the division commander didn't run.

The blue side's morale had already scattered.

He had just come back from a meeting, and the regimental commander was thinking about how to run. And at this moment, the 28th Division in the center of the encirclement had already retreated and run after seeing the 18th Division annihilated; this run was not a small matter, it even brought down the 50th Division.

The 18th Division in the west was annihilated, the 28th Division ran, so the remaining 50th Division and 24th Division in the north naturally couldn't conduct an encirclement.

Not to mention they didn't dare to fight the red side.

So after the 28th Division retreated and ran to the west, the 50th Division and 24th Division also retreated to the east.

But no one expected the red side's speed to be so fast.

The 50th Division had just retreated from the source to Dongshao, and the Communist side's main force, which had traveled over mountains and rivers, had already killed them, but because of the long journey.

The red side couldn't completely encircle the 50th Division, annihilating more than 3,000 people of the 50th Division, while the remnants of the 50th Division continued to flee eastward.

With this.

The originally planned 【Encirclement】 operation ended in failure.

This battle made the netizens on Blue Star unable to understand, and even the red side streamer Qiao Bo and blue side streamer Chu Yao who were in it couldn't figure it out.

Qiao Bo's perspective was, following the team, transferring, transferring, transferring, fighting, fighting, won.

Chu Yao's perspective was, accepting orders, acting, acting, becoming the outer encirclement, then the 18th Division inside was inexplicably annihilated, the 50th Division collapsed, and the whole line was finished.

The first layer of outer encirclement itself was large, and the surrounding friendly forces were too far away.

Taken alone, it was almost impossible to be the red side's opponent.

This was also the regimental commander of the 56th Division where Chu Yao was, who had a life-saving look, not wanting to fight the red side forces head-on.

Because they really couldn't beat them...

And with the collapse inside the encirclement, the victorious red side troops began to focus on developing the base area at this time and marched toward the surroundings.

At this moment.

Chu Yao.

The 56th Division where he was had already held firm in Jianning, and the regiment where he was, because of the regimental commander, was assigned to a relatively safe position.

This surprised Chu Yao.

But thinking about it, it made sense.

After all, he bought this combat staff officer position, and he had spent all his starting assets of ten million, plus some treasures and antiques he got later.

If this regimental commander didn't have some connections, would he dare to accept so much?

And looking at the many regiments under the 56th Division, putting them in the rear, one could imagine that this regimental commander also had people above him.

Pfft.

The money wasn't spent in vain.

Chu Yao sighed, shopping daily, inquiring about news.

However, most of the folk news was gossip, and the attitude of the common people toward them wasn't too good either; it couldn't be called hatred on the surface, but they hid far away when they saw them.

When he returned to the station, he heard the order for a meeting.

When Chu Yao went in, the meeting had already ended, and seeing Chu Yao come in, the regimental commander directly threw a file over:

"These are the latest materials discovered by the higher-ups."

"Take a look, just pay attention."

"They are all some high-level officials from over there, we definitely won't encounter them in this place."

Chu Yao nodded and opened the folder.

Inside was a thick stack of materials, and the first person who came into view was the person on the 【Autumn Harvest Uprising】 Plot Card; Chu Yao looked at it incredulously:

"Hiss—"

And the ones behind also made his eyes widen.

Because many of the names above.

Could match the names exposed by Du Yong, the streamer from the Whampoa Military Academy before.

Good heavens.

Until...

"Holy crap?!!!"

The regimental commander looked up, full of question marks.

Chu Yao hurriedly waved his hand:

"Nothing."

"It's just that... it turns out the Red 4th Army that annihilated the 18th Division is the one opposite us."

The regimental commander nodded:

"Nothing."

"We are in the rear, we can't fight here."

The regimental commander looked proud, the money wasn't spent in vain.

Want me to sell my life, no way.

Chu Yao opposite twitched his mouth.

Is this the point?!

The point is the Red 4th Army and the commander of the Red 4th Army?!

Qiao Bo and Chu Yao were both uploading their respective materials.

And the 56th Division where Chu Yao was, was opposite the Red 4th Army.

It was just that he didn't know before that the 18th Division was annihilated by the Red 4th Army, and even less that the commander of the Red 4th Army was the one who beat the Whampoa Principal later.

This damn.

The Whampoa Principal didn't lose unjustly this time, no wonder he was on the third floor and still hadn't beaten the red side.

It turns out the red side's command started in the atmosphere.

The Red 4th Army already had this level of command, what must the red side's commander-in-chief be like.

How could anyone fight this?

Chu Yao was also suppressing his excitement and immediately uploaded the materials.

But the smile on the corner of his mouth couldn't be suppressed; this would definitely explode the game forum.

In fact, it was indeed so.

This was the first time Blue Star players clearly understood the personnel of the red side forces.

After all, although Nanjing was not good at tactical command.

But the degree of importance attached to the red side was unquestionable, the materials were very detailed, and the players started looking for corresponding news on the 【Republic】 timeline.

To see if there were any mentions of these names in the timeline.

And it really worked.

They really found quite a few related major events.

At this moment.

Polar Star Company.

Zhao Ming looked at the backend data.

On the projection in front of him was an illusory "Republic" map, and the densely distributed small dots were players; as more and more materials came in.

Blue Star players had already found the direction, and it was inevitable to open a series of major plots.

After all, there were already players streaming in the red side's base area for a long time.

Many players who started later were opening to that place, and at this moment, the number of players in the red side's base area and Nanjing was the largest.

There were even players about to trigger the "Second Anti-Encirclement Campaign" and "Third Anti-Encirclement Campaign".

According to this direction and line of thought, it wouldn't be long before all the plots were triggered, and the only thing left to trigger would be 【Four Crossings of the Chishui River】.

Other plots were fine for single-player immersion, but this level.

Zhao Ming was thinking about making it into a dungeon.

Similar to the previous national war dungeon, all players could participate, of course... it would definitely still be from the perspective of a small soldier.

However, real-time maps and barrage communication could be opened, allowing players to watch the action routes and discuss and communicate in real-time.

If he wanted to do it, he would do it.

Zhao Ming immediately pulled out the materials for 【Four Crossings of the Chishui River】, but after looking at the backend data.

The players' progress was a bit too fast.

This kind of large-scale dungeon plus the heaven-defying command of 【Four Crossings of the Chishui River】 should be opened on a holiday.

After thinking about it.

Zhao Ming set some classic battles before and after 【Four Crossings of the Chishui River】, such as 【Cleverly Crossing the Jinsha River】 and 【Flying Capture of Luding Bridge】, as waiting to be triggered.

Once players triggered all the "Anti-Encirclement Campaigns".

These classic battles would be triggered first, while 【Four Crossings of the Chishui River】 would wait for the holiday at the beginning of next month to be triggered. ===== CHAPTER 176 =====