"Commander!" Seeing that Zhang Zhizhong was still hesitating, I immediately advised: "At this time, the first batch of Japanese reinforcements had arrived, and the other Japanese reinforcements must be not far away. In addition, the Japanese army had completely controlled the initiative of the sea and air, which allowed the Japanese army to easily land at any point in our coastline. Therefore, the subordinates believed that... our army should set up a retreat in time, otherwise our hundreds of thousands of troops would be surrounded and annihilated by the Japanese army..."

"What did you say?" Before I could finish speaking, Zhang Zhizhong stared at me with a blazing eyes and said, "Company Commander Fang, you just said to slow down. Why is it becoming more and more outrageous to say it now and it becomes a retreat?"

Looking at Zhang Zhizhong's change, I understood what it means to "accompany the king as if he is with a tiger". What would happen if I made great contributions in the past? Once I didn't follow Zhang Zhizhong's meaning, wouldn't I just want to do whatever I want to do? As the saying goes, there is no need to worry about the crime you want to add, let alone the words I just said were a disturbance to the morale of the army.

However, when I thought of the possible losses on the battlefield of Songhu, I gritted my teeth and pointed to the map and continued to say: "Commander, please see, in order to deal with the Japanese army on the battlefield of Songhu, our army can be said to have transported all the troops from all over the country to the area of ​​Songhu. I think... Once the war is intensified, even coastal cities such as Hangzhou will go up to the sea to reinforce!"

"Yes!" Zhang Zhizhong nodded calmly. As the commander of the Cluster Army, he certainly knew this very well.

In fact, in order to make Japan believe that we wanted to fight to the death with them in Shanghua, Chiang moved three-fifths of the national troops here. The remaining two-fifths were either stationed on the front line of North China or some old bullet remnants who really had no combat power.

"In this way..." I concluded: "Our army will inevitably be empty. If the Japanese send a large number of reinforcements to fight our army in the sea and on the other hand, they send a powerful brigade to land in Hangzhou with lightning speed with the advantage of sea and air... With the speed of the Japanese mechanized team, within a few days, our army can cut off our supply and encircle hundreds of thousands of troops. At that time, our army will be in trouble!"

Hearing this, Zhang Zhizhong couldn't help but gasp for a long time and couldn't speak. An adjutant next to him couldn't help but walk up to interrupt and said, "Commander, my subordinates also think that what Company Commander Fang said makes sense. The Japanese army can rely on warships to quickly draw and transfer troops. Even if our army is bombing by Japanese planes, it will be difficult for the train. Once the Japanese army lands on our flanks... I'm afraid that it will be too late even if our army wants to make up for it!"

In fact, these were not what I, a military rookie, thought out of nothing, but the Battle of Songhu in history has developed like this... At the beginning, the Kuomintang army fought bravely in the Shanghai. Hundreds of thousands of troops blocked the Japanese army for more than two months, making the Japanese army's "destroy China in March" completely a joke.

Although the National Army suffered more than 100,000 casualties in the past two months, it also caused more than 40,000 casualties to the Japanese army. Such a casualty ratio is still acceptable for the National Army with completely disproportionate equipment. However, because the Japanese landed in Jinshanwei in Hangzhou, the situation of attacking the National Army on both sides and Chiang Kai-shek's wrong command, the National Army retreated across the board, and in just over a dozen days, more than 100,000 casualties in the National Army...

"No!" Zhang Zhizhong's forehead was covered with cold sweat. After thinking about it, he said in a panic: "I want to report this to Chairman Jiang Weng!"

As he said that, he didn't even bother to say hello to me and took the adjutant to hurry toward the radio room.

However, I know that this is useless, because I know... Not everyone in history has seen this. Chen Cheng and Bai Chongxi are all persuading Chiang Kai-shek to achieve the expected strategic goal when he gets better. Just attract the main Japanese force to the Last Huihai. However, Chiang Kai-shek has always had a high vision and is not satisfied with achieving the original goal. Or it can be said that the reason why he attracted the Japanese army to the Last Huihai still had another goal that others didn't know, a political goal.

There were British, American, and French concessions last time? If the Kuomintang army went to war with Japanese people in the last time, they would inevitably violate the interests of British, American, and French in the last time, and they might even hit bullets and shells into these concessions... To put it bluntly, Chiang Kai-shek hoped that such a thing would happen most at this time, because he wanted Britain, United States, France and other countries to interfere and mediate because of their own interests. This would lead to another opportunity for negotiation...

To be honest, this political intention has some truth. After all, the gap between the three navy, army and air force and the Japanese army was too big at this time. It would be better not to fight without being prepared. From the perspective of the Japanese army, their original strategy was not to fight China but to attack the Soviet Union with Germany. It was just that they looked down on China and miscalculated China and miscalculated China's military strength. They were arrogant and thought that it would take only three months to fight China and then they would be able to free up their hands to deal with the Soviet Union soon.

Of course, Chiang Kai-shek knew this, so he was willing to invest all his family's assets in the past Huihai. On the one hand, it was for strategic purposes, on the other hand, it was also calling the European and American powers, and on the other hand, it was also calling the Japanese. He wanted to let the Japanese know that it was impossible to return to China in three months. He advised him to advise him to be more tactful and turn the finger on others.

It should be said that Chiang Kai-shek's strategy has had some effect, because even Japan's allies Germany is willing to mediate. I hope that Japan will attack the Soviet Union with it. Of course, it does not want to see Japan sinking into the quagmire of China's return to China. Unfortunately, Japan doesn't think that China's return to China is a quagmire. After they defeated the Shang-Return Sea, they mistakenly thought that they had destroyed the economy of China's return to China and could completely defeat the Chinese army. After they captured Nanjing, the capital of China's return to China, they mistakenly thought that the spiritual pillar of China's return to China had been crushed. It doesn't take long to occupy the entire territory of China's return to China!

So the Japanese fell deeper and deeper in their mistakes again and again, and their superficial victory was deviating from their original strategic goals again and again, so that in the end, a million troops were trapped in China and could not extricate themselves...

There is a saying that "strategic victory will never make up for tactical victory." On the day when Japan decided to fight and annex China, it actually made a big mistake in strategy, which also destined them to even fail in Fahuixi. It can be said that if Japan did not make this mistake, then what would be the end of World War II would be a matter of knowledge.

Will the Western powers stand up for China to speak for the insignificant benefits to them in the last return to China, as Lao Chiang hoped, as they hoped, and speak for themselves? Of course, they can speak, but they just say a few words. While they are expressing their protests, they are still selling military materials to Japan to make a fortune in war.

In fact, it is very simple to prevent the Japanese from fighting. Isn’t it? Japan is a country with poor resources and returns home. China does not produce oil at this time. Once Europe and the United States stops the export of oil and steel to Japan, the Japanese oil reserves will only be enough for one year. In other words, a year later, all the Japanese tanks, cars, warships, and planes turned into scrap iron... A few years later, the United States did do this, so Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

Sure enough, just a while, Zhang Zhizhong walked back with a little depressed feeling, and sat heavily on the chair with a telegram in his hand. After a long time, he said depressedly: "The Chairman of the Communist Party believes that... Xiaohui Guihui will focus on the last Huihai. There is not enough troops to land from our spouse soldiers, so that we can concentrate on fighting without any worries..."

What else can I say? This result was actually as expected by me. Even people like Chen Cheng and Bai Chongxi could not convince Lao Jiang. What role could my mere company commander play?

There was another depressing silence. No one in the headquarters was willing to say anything except the "beep" telegram and the tightening fire outside. Zhang Zhizhong and I both had their own thoughts. Zhang Zhizhong suddenly realized that the situation of the war was not as ideal as he imagined, and it was even possible that the entire army would be in danger of being surrounded and annihilated, so he was in a heavy mood. And I... had the helplessness of not being able to turn the world around.

"Company Commander Fang..." After a long time, Zhang Zhizhong sighed and said to me: "You should go back to the army first! Always pay attention to the movements of the Japanese army. If you have any ideas, you can contact me directly on the radio!"

"yes!"

I stood up and saluted Zhang Zhizhong, knowing that it was time for me to leave. But when I turned around, I suddenly remembered the previous explanation from the Education Director, so I turned back to Zhang Zhizhong and asked: "Report to the commander. There are still a batch of arms in the basement of the headquarters building. Given that the building will cause the Japanese army to collapse at any time, the matter of the car camp..."

"Oh!" It is obvious that if I didn't mention this, Zhang Zhizhong would have to forget it, but at this time he obviously didn't want to be upset about it anymore, so he waved at me and interrupted me and ordered the adjutant beside him: "Adjust Li, go and arrange a car battalion to be commanded by the 15th Regiment!"

"Thank you, Commander!" I didn't dare to say anything else, and I saluted Zhang Zhizhong and then withdrew from the headquarters with tactfulness.

It was not until I got on the jeep and drove to the headquarters that I sighed in my heart: Although Zhang Zhizhong is a good general, his mood is easily influenced by external factors, and he has no desire to change his face because the general collapsed in front of him. It seems that he is not very suitable to command such a large army to return to the army to fight. No wonder Chiang, who has returned to history, dismissed him from the battle.
Chapter completed!