Sword of Light: I Can Summon the Fourth Disaster

Xiao Zongmin's Residence in Northern Shaanxi

Xiao Lin hurriedly delivered the telegram. Xiao Zongmin took it and saw that it was a battle report between the synthetic division and the Northeast advance players.

After seeing Qiu Lixing's battle report, Xiao Zongmin frowned and asked, "Just because of a small group of devils, they exposed their base. This is ridiculous!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Lin suggested, "Commander-in-chief, how about we arrange for a quartermaster to go there? As long as the officer corps can gain a foothold there, we can continuously send troops there."

Xiao Zongmin looked at the mark on the map with confidence and said, "Since they are determined to conquer the Northeast, I will lend them a helping hand and have the training team send a battalion and the quartermaster to airdrop there."

"I'll arrange it right away." Xiao Lin said and was about to go out, but was stopped by Xiao Zongmin.

"Is Xiao Tiance giving a lecture to the students?"

"Yes, today Chief of Staff Xiao was invited to give a lecture to the students of the Anti-Japanese University. He plans to dismantle the battle of the officer division and demonstrate it to the students."

Xiao Zongmin frowned when he heard this. If the Officer Division was not composed entirely of players, it would probably be a unit with a low casualty rate. The battle of the Officer Division was not a good example.

"Go and give this telegram about the combined forces division to the General Staff and ask him to talk about the combined forces division."

"Okay, I'll be right there."

On the other side, in the classroom, Xiao Zongmin was simulating the battle of Sanjin with the students. Seeing the neatly organized telegrams from the officers' division, the students knew that today they would mainly learn the combat strategies of the officers' division.

As the main lecturer of the International Youth Column, Xiao Tiance frowned after picking up the telegram. The Officers' Division had fought well before, but after a lot of new players were added, the players of the Officers' Division began to become loose. Although their combat effectiveness had become stronger, it was not reflected in the battle report.

Xiao Tiance was about to start his speech when Xiao Lin came in with a stack of battle reports. He trotted over to Xiao Tiance and whispered in his ear, "Chief of Staff, the commander asked you to change the topic."

Xiao Tiance looked at the battle report handed over by Xiao Lin. It was a neat report from the synthetic division. Xiao Tiance was overjoyed after reading it carefully. He felt that it was a stupid move to talk about the strategy of the officer division in front of the students. The role of the officer division was a death squad and a line filler, which was not suitable to be talked about in front of the students of the Anti-Japanese University.

After patting Xiao Lin on the shoulder to indicate that he understood, Xiao Tiance looked at the students and said, "Hello everyone, I am Xiao Tiance, the chief of staff of the International Youth Column." After that, Xiao Tiance saluted.

"Stand up!" With a slogan, the students stood up together and saluted Xiao Tiance.

"Sit down." Xiao Tiance gestured.

"Students, today we are going to talk about how the combined forces division was besieged by the Japanese some time ago and fought with them for a long time, and finally concentrated their superior forces to counter-encircle the Japanese and wiped them out."

"I am ashamed to say that although I am the chief of staff of the International Youth Brigade, I have never been to the battlefield and have never commanded a troop to fight the Japanese with real swords and guns."

At this point, Xiao Tiance changed the subject and said, "But, many of the students here will go to our column to serve as political cadres, and they need to understand the combat methods of our column's various units."

As soon as Xiao Tiance finished speaking, he looked at the players present meaningfully, and signaled them with his eyes to stand up and introduce themselves.

After seeing Xiao Tiance's eyes, Wang Laoguan stood up and said, "Hello, students. I am Wang Jiangge, the commander of the International Youth Column's synthetic division."

Principal Hu then stood up and said, "Hello, students. I am the commander of the International Youth Column, Hu Tingshan."

After the two introduced themselves, Xiao Tiance clapped his hands and said, "Okay, classmates, these two are the main commanders of our column's front-line troops. Now I'm going to talk about the battle of the synthetic division under classmate Wang's command."

"I believe that the students have read the battle reports compiled from Xiyang before. At the beginning, two divisions of the Japanese surrounded a mechanized infantry regiment of the synthetic division. With the skilled firepower coordination, this mechanized infantry regiment of the synthetic division successfully seized the advantageous terrain and built positions, forming a stalemate with the Japanese."

At this point, Xiao Tiance deliberately kept everyone in suspense and said, "Do you know what the synthetic division did after the mechanized infantry regiment was besieged?"

At this time, a student stood up and said, "Teacher Xiao, I remember the battle report said that after the mechanized infantry regiment was confirmed to be besieged by the Japanese, the combined air force formation of the Xiyang division took off to conduct reconnaissance, and at the same time airdropped a large number of weapons to the mechanized infantry regiment, and also deployed a special forces brigade on the periphery of the battlefield."

Xiao Tiance motioned him to sit down and asked, "Do you know why this special forces brigade was airdropped to the periphery of the battlefield by the Air Force instead of being dropped into the center of the battlefield along with the weapons?"

As soon as Xiao Tiance finished speaking, the students in the room looked at each other, not knowing how to answer. At that time, the special forces brigade in the world was still a concept and had just been experimented on the battlefield.

Zhou Weiguo looked at the enemy situation map hung on the blackboard, stood up and replied: "Teacher Xiao, from the map, the special brigade's goal from the beginning was very clear, rushing straight to the enemy's headquarters, preparing to carry out a decapitation operation."

Xiao Tiance nodded with satisfaction. He knew about Zhou Weiguo. He had studied special operations and had asked the staff officers of the column about this. Naturally, he knew the ins and outs of the whole thing. Today he was mainly going to talk about it with the students.

"The special forces brigade of the combined division is known within our column as the warriors who returned from hell. Their original target was the Japanese command post outside the mechanized infantry regiment, but a soldier passing by our column got there first and killed Yoshio Shinozuka." At this point, Xiao Tiance sighed and made an expression like Xizi holding her heart, which made the students laugh.

After Xiao Tiance stopped the students from laughing, he continued, "Today, the front line of the synthetic division sent a telegram, asking us to have the special brigade conduct a targeted elimination of the Japanese in Jinzhong City tomorrow. Unfortunately, you students cannot go to the front line in person, so you can only wait for the video footage over there."

Knowing that what he said was a bit off topic, Xiao Tiance wiped the cold sweat from his forehead without leaving a trace and continued: "After the mechanized infantry regiment built positions to gradually resist the enemy's attack, the synthetic division sent out two armored regiments to attack from the outside of the enemy's encirclement."

Xiao Tiance signaled them to change the enemy and our own situation map. The students clearly saw that the two brigades of the combined division had broken through several layers of the Japanese encirclement within one day. There were quite a few Japanese and puppet troops whose numbers disappeared from the map.

"After the three regiments of the Second Combined Brigade joined together, the three regiments of the First Brigade also attacked. At this time, they had already eliminated the Japanese division outside the mechanized infantry regiment." After saying that, Xiao Tiance changed the enemy and our situation map. The map clearly showed that the Japanese were constantly sending reinforcements to the periphery of the armored brigade.

After a careful count, the students found that there were a total of 20 Japanese and puppet troops surrounding the combined division, and it was obvious that an arrow representing the reorganized division was coming from the direction of Shouyang to provide support to the combined division.

Seeing that the students had analyzed the enemy ratio, Xiao Tiance said with a smile: "It is clearly marked on the map now. Right now, in these few small villages and hilltops, there are 30 troops from both sides. The enemy ratio is now 2:1. I wonder how you would plan to fight if you were the commander on the scene?"

Zhou Weiguo stood up and said with a frown: "We have all seen the equipment configuration of the combined forces division. If the Japanese have no air force advantage, we can definitely find a way out."

A student stood up and said hesitantly: "The three brigades in the encirclement have strong attack and mobility capabilities. They can completely wear down the enemy's strength little by little in mobile warfare, and then find an opportunity to fight a decisive battle with the enemy when the time is right."

Xiao Tiance nodded and praised: "What the two students said is right. Both methods can inflict heavy damage on the enemy while preserving our own strength. But what? Our three brigades chose to engage in a positional battle with the Japanese."

Zhou Weiguo was a little surprised when he heard this. He knew the level of the International Youth Column's staff, and they would definitely use their own advantages to eliminate the enemy. However, what Xiao Tiance said was totally unconventional!

"Jinzhong is a plain. When the mechanized troops are deployed on the plain, the steel torrent is so powerful that the Japanese cannot resist it at all. However, in positional warfare, given the scale of the Japanese, they will definitely carry a large number of heavy artillery with them, which will cause losses to the synthetic division."

Xiao Tiance smiled and nodded, and said mysteriously: "You are right, but do you know what made the commander of the synthetic division make this decision?"