Spy Wars: I have space, but I choose to work alone

At this time, a cold voice came:

"That's right. You have only two endings. Either you fight to the death with the Japanese 56th Division, die on the battlefield, become a glorious martyr, and the nation will always remember you. Or you retreat without permission, be punished by military law, and become a shameful deserter! You will be nailed to the pillar of shame in history forever. Which way of death do you want to choose?"

"Brother Six!"

"Brother Six!"

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As the visitor walked in, almost all the officers in the entire command center stood up respectfully to greet him.

After hesitating for two seconds, Commander Zhang and several other military-level officers did not stand up, but still nodded their heads.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Commander Zhang, the highest commander of all the troops in Lawu, felt bitter in his heart.

It is said that he is the highest commander of Lawu, but he can only command military personnel and a special forces regiment directly under him. The actual command of the entire Lawu army is actually in the hands of this small major general and director of the military law department.

"A big spy who has never commanded a troop, even if he is the most powerful spy recognized by the Military Control Commission, is commanding an army!"

"This is simply a nightmare. We can't fight this war! We will definitely not be able to defend Lawu!"

"Forget it, I'll just die here!"

Commander Zhang was filled with despair.

"How can that be possible? The brothers are not ignorant of the general situation. They will definitely choose to defend Lawu to the death!"

"That's right, the worst that can happen is death! There's nothing to be afraid of!"

"Die, die!"

"We will resolutely obey Sixth Brother's command and defend Lawu to the death!"

"Yes, I will listen to Sixth Brother!"

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All the officers were trying desperately to express their opinions, fearing that Ma Liang would use an excuse to kill people.

The reason was simple. While Ma Liang led his men to open the warehouses and use all available supplies to arm these 20,000 people, he also did not neglect his military law work.

Three officers with strong backgrounds took 20 soldiers and tried to escape back to the country before the Japanese army surrounded Lawu, but they were caught by Liu Gongfeng's men who temporarily served as the military court.

Without further ado, Ma Liang ordered the 23 men to be shot in public, and required each company to send ten soldiers to watch the execution under the leadership of an officer to deter the entire army.

It is said that among them was the nephew of a certain senior official, but they were all killed by Sixth Brother without hesitation. As for those Military Control Commission subordinates who were exiled to the army, if Sixth Brother really wanted to kill someone, he didn't even need to find a reason.

Ma Liang had just sat down when he heard his old subordinates starting to build momentum for him and fight for supreme command, so he quickly spoke out to stop them:

"I am the director of the Military Law Department of the military department. I am only responsible for supervising the implementation of military law. As for the specific troop command, each unit must obey the unified command of the military commander Zhang, as well as the division commanders Li and Liu. Anyone who delays military operations or disobeys orders will be subject to military law!"

When Ma Liang said this, he looked at all the officers present with a serious expression, which made everyone feel a chill down their spine.

"Yes!"

Everyone answered in unison.

Hearing that Ma Liang had the self-knowledge to not interfere with the command of the troops and handed over the command of the troops to the three of them, Commander Zhang and the two division commanders Li and Liu looked at each other and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"There's a 30% chance of holding Lawu!" Commander Zhang thought to himself.

Actually, Ma Liang had no choice but to do this. As a backbone soldier of a combined battalion in his previous life, and having received formal military school education, he was picked up by the Military Intelligence Department without actually commanding a front-line troop.

In modern highly informationized and integrated forces, Ma Liang's level is at most enough to command a platoon.

But at this time, in a low-level army that was mainly composed of infantry and did not need coordinated armor, air force, drones, and various high-tech weapons and equipment, Ma Liang was confident that he could command a division, no more than that.

Of course, this refers to commanding an infantry division to carry out complex offensive operations. If it is pure defense, Ma Liang is confident that he can command two divisions.

But now the time is too short and he doesn't have enough time to understand the troops of these two divisions.

They have no idea about the equipment and combat effectiveness of each unit, or the abilities and personalities of each commander.

If you command the troops rashly, misunderstandings may occur, such as transferring troops good at defense to defend the covering position, transferring troops good at offense to defend the main position, and placing two conflicting troops in the same position.

Commanding division-level troops in combat is not commanding company-level troops in combat.

In company-level combat, as a commander, you can clearly see the enemy's attack focus and firepower configuration on the battlefield, and you can quickly adjust the troops and firepower to effectively respond.

When the troops reach the division level, the troop organization is large, and as a commander you can only rely on field telephones and radio stations to command the troops at a headquarters far away from the front-line positions.

In other words, only when your subordinates report the specific battlefield situation to you can you know the specific situation, and then make targeted adjustments to the troops and firepower on the map, and then command all the troops through telephone, radio, and messages.

If he didn't report it, the position would be lost, the enemy would have reached your headquarters, and you would have been captured by the enemy, and then you would have realized that the position was lost.

Military commanders must have a high degree of cooperation with their subordinates and build enough trust in order to effectively command the troops.

Simply put, it means cultivating your own direct subordinates and ensuring that they unconditionally carry out your arrangements and will not lie to you, otherwise you will not be able to command the troops at all.

The army is not like the soldiers in Red Alert, who will unconditionally obey the orders of whoever holds the mouse.

Even if they are going to die, they will just obey until they are the last one to die. They will not make any objections or shoot the commander in the back.

In reality, armies are made up of people. People have various ideas and factions, so it is extremely difficult to unify the command.

Therefore, even in modern times when the army is highly informationized and integrated, if a regimental unit is airdropped by an unfamiliar commander.

If he wanted to fully control the army and unleash its full combat effectiveness, it would take at least half a year to complete various complicated tasks, not to mention that it was a semi-feudal army with soldiers serving as generals.

The saying that changing generals before a battle is a taboo in military strategy is exactly this truth!

After Ma Liang listened to the standard troop deployment by Commander Zhang, Li Longting and others, although there were some minor flaws in Ma Liang's opinion, he did not point them out in order to maintain his dignity as a commander.

Because compared to ensuring unified command for the entire army, this minor flaw is not worth mentioning.

After the meeting, Ma Liang continued to be busy with various arrangements.

At night, there were sporadic gunshots and explosions from small groups of troops exchanging fire in the dense forests outside the city of Lawu.

All the defenders in Lawu Town felt the atmosphere before the war!

The first battle that breaks out in a war is always the fight between scouts. In order to understand the enemy's deployment and various intelligence, Ma Liang sent Liu Gongfeng and others out to engage in a bloody fight with the special forces and scouts assigned to the 56th Division of the Japanese Army.

Minimize the Japanese army's knowledge of Lawu's defensive arrangements as much as possible!

The New 28th and New 29th Divisions did not have elite troops that could compete with the elite reconnaissance forces of the Japanese Army, so only Liu Gongfeng's troops went up.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the scouts reported that the search team of the Japanese 56th Division and the 146th Regiment of the Japanese Army had arrived at the outskirts of Lawu and were resting. They were expected to launch an attack after dawn tomorrow.

The main force of the Japanese 56th Division, including artillery and other heavy equipment, was still a whole day's journey away from Lawu!