The bald man was looking gloomily at the continuous winter rain outside the window in a daze.
Just yesterday, a cold wave from Siberia swept across the entire East China region. The temperature in Nanjing also dropped sharply, and there was continuous rainy weather. Due to the dual impact of the rainy weather and the consecutive defeats on the battlefields in North China and Songhu, the boss recently
My mood was extremely bad.
In the North China battlefield, the Japanese general Seishiro Sakagaki led two and a half divisions to defeat dozens of elite divisions in the second theater. Zhangjiakou, Yuxian, Pingxingguan, and Xinkou were successively lost. The Central Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army were one.
Defeat after defeat, retreat after retreat. If not for the moderate victory at Niangziguan, which solved the difficulties in eastern Shanxi first, and the Japanese army attacked from both sides, not to mention Taiyuan would be lost, and even Shanxi would be about to fall.
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However, this still could not completely solve the decline of the national army in Shanxi. Eastern Shanxi was once again besieged by one and a half divisions mobilized by the Japanese army. In northern Shanxi, the Itagaki division, with the support of the Army Air Force, which was reinforced again by the Japanese army, attacked wildly. The entire defense line had
The victory over Jindong, which was on the verge of collapse and celebrated by the whole country, only managed to keep the war situation in the entire second theater in a favorable direction for less than 20 days before it turned bad again.
If possible, the bald man really wants to go to the Shanxi front line and ask his generals who are leading the elite army. Hao Mengling died in the battle, Liu Jiaqi died in the battle, Jiang Yuzhen died in the battle, and tens of thousands of Chinese troops died in the battle. How many of them are not afraid?
The generals and soldiers who died were not afraid of fighting to the death, and the Shanxi defense fortifications were built with huge sums of money several years in advance. Why did they fight this battle like this?
But as a leader, he also knows that he cannot ask, at least not at this time. What are the complicated interest relationships and the relationships between warlords in various places? It is simply a mess that cannot be cut through. The clearer the question, the more complicated it becomes.
It's hard to get off the tiger.
The only thing he can do now is to watch the battlefield in Shanxi decay, take the opportunity to weaken the influence of the old Shanxi man who has been entrenched in Shanxi for more than 20 years, and reorganize a defense line in southwestern Shanxi to counter the Japanese army.
The North China battlefield is fine. Although the government unified the organization to fight, there are only tens of thousands of the Central Army. The Jinsui Army accounts for the majority, plus a group army of the Zhazhachuan Army and tens of thousands of red troops. They are just a bunch of miscellaneous forces.
Just the army.
But in Songhu, it made the current number one person in China lose face. Here, he had carefully planned it for a long time. Not only did he invest in the most elite German team that he spent several years building,
The armorers have gathered the most elite troops from all provinces in the country, and they have the advantage of geographical location and people, but the chaos of the war is still unavoidable.
In the fierce fighting until the end of October, the main force, which had invested up to 700,000 yuan, had lost control of Shanghai urban area and retreated to the west of Shanghai. This economic city in the east of Asia had actually fallen.
What makes this boss even more anxious is that the Investigation Bureau of the Military Commission once again overheard suspicious situations. The exchange of messages between the headquarters and the base camp of the Japanese Army’s Shanghai Condemnation Force suddenly became frequent, which seemed to indicate that the Japanese Army was likely to attack again on the Songhu battlefield.
Increase troops! There are also generals in the Ministry of Military Affairs who have written conclusively that the Japanese army will definitely increase troops in Shanghai, and the number will never be less than three to four divisions.
Right now, it is somewhat unsustainable for an army of 700,000 to cope with the attack of more than 100,000 Japanese troops and aircraft and artillery. If another 100,000 people come, the consequences will be unimaginable.
It can be said that in the past two days, the boss's short hair, which was not focused on his temples, has turned gray.
If Songhu is lost, the capital Nanjing will be in danger!
There was bad news every day, and the only thing that made him happy was that the lone army that followed his orders and stayed at Sihang Warehouse earned him some face.
In the past two days, public sentiment across the country has been raging, and they are full of praise. Although most of them praise the lone army, after all, they are still the defenders of Songhu, which can be regarded as a fig leaf covering the faces of Songhu's third theater and his leader.
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Xie Jinyuan's desperate resistance at Sihang Warehouse has triggered an unprecedented anti-Japanese wave. Not only wealthy businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang actively donated money and materials, and subscribed for national bonds, but even overseas Chinese living abroad also donated generously. The overseas Chinese in Honolulu came to Situ Mei
Under the organization of the church, we once again cut down on food and clothing and donated money. Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia are also donating.
Especially after yesterday's scene of tens of thousands of Chinese people chanting slogans in the concession was broadcast across the country by radio stations, inspired by this, students in major cities across the country reappeared in a wave of strikes to join the army!
According to statistics, in late October alone, nearly 100,000 young students from all over the country joined the army. When the leaders learned of the news, they wrote a heroic poem on the spot: "One inch of mountains and rivers, one inch of blood, one hundred thousand young people and one hundred thousand troops." That is absolutely
It is the nation's most powerful support for him, a leader who strongly advocates the war of resistance and will never surrender. It is also the greatest comfort in the heart of this influential figure in contemporary Chinese politics.
However, no matter how brilliantly Xie Jinyuan's troops fought at Sihang Warehouse, they could not change the decline of the entire Songhu battlefield.
What makes the bald man sitting in front of the window silently watching the autumn wind and autumn rain even more disturbing is that last night, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China had already felt the strong pressure from the Shanghai Western Concession authorities. The staff of the consulates of Western countries in Shanghai have been in Africa.
Official rumors spread that if the government did not order Xie Jinyuan's troops to stop resisting at Sihang Warehouse and retreat to the Western Concession, all consequences would be borne by the government!
The so-called consequences naturally refer to the fact that after the Japanese army failed to break through the Sihang Warehouse for two days, they were so angry that they openly threatened the Western Concession authorities to bomb the Sihang Warehouse with heavy artillery, regardless of the international impact. This group of Western countries usually dragged
The 2,580,000 yuan seemed very impressive, but when the Japanese threatened me like this, I was really scared.
And what annoys the boss even more is, what is the logic of this mother-in-law? You can just be a fan. The Japanese devils bombed the concession that the mother-in-law had snatched from China on Chinese soil, causing
It is nonsense that the government should bear the losses!
After the boss heard the news, if he hadn't gone through more than ten years of ups and downs in the officialdom, and had not acted in the Youth Gang when he was young, he would have already attacked the foreigners with a machine gun, but now
But the bald man could only swallow his anger.
The so-called "head determines the butt, and the butt, in turn, restricts the head" is absolutely reasonable. The bald man who has become the first person in China's political circles cannot be like the green man twenty years ago who would follow him passionately even if he disagreed.
Damn it, he is still counting on these guys who claim to be Western powers but are actually Western cowards to speak out for China at the UN General Assembly. At this juncture, how can he dare to make extraneous matters?
Besides, the political significance of Xie Jinyuan's war in Sixing Warehouse has been achieved, and it seems that there is no need to hold on any longer.
As for what will happen to this army after it retreats to the Western Concession, the bald man obviously won't worry too much. No matter how elite the army is, it is just a regiment or a battalion. As an army with millions of troops under his command,
Leader, he is not worried about such a small force. Even if it is the Liu Lang Independent Regiment that has made great contributions to the Great Wall and made great contributions to Jindong again, in fact, the big boss does not care that much.
The government is lacking everything now, except for people. No matter how elite you are, can you be a division or an army? And with China's current population, as long as you have enough money, you can easily build a division, an army, or even a group army.
come out.
This is cruel, but it is a fact. From the perspective of ordinary people, an elite army or a battle-ready general is just a number to these big shots. One general can cause thousands of bones to wither, except for themselves.
can be ignored.
Like Comrade Liu Bei of the Three Kingdoms, he would always throw his son for fun to win the favor of famous generals. That is because his son is just an inconspicuous little stone on the throne of power. Moreover, he is still in exile.
How can a small boss be compared with a top boss who already controls millions of kilometers of land? He is still in the early stages of his career.
Therefore, when Wang Shihe carefully came to report how to reply to the Western consulates, the depressed boss did not think for long before he tactfully issued instructions for the Sihang Warehouse garrison to withdraw into the Western Concession.
However, the boss is still very scheming and requires the negotiators to reach an agreement with the Western Concession and even the Japanese side. During the process of the Chinese defenders withdrawing to the Western Concession, they are not allowed to attack. The Chinese defenders can retain their weapons and return to the ranks of the Chinese army at the appropriate time.
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This is of course not to say that the boss feels particularly sorry for the 800 elites who gave him face, but that this negotiation report can save some face for the national government that has lost face, and can also explain it to the excited people outside.
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After being promoted by the propaganda department, it is obviously forced, but it is likely to be to protect this army that has won honor for the country and the nation, and does not want them to die on a position without backup. They have already reached China.
The military's strategic purpose of bravely resisting Japan is to rather die than surrender. There is no need to choose unnecessary sacrifices.
This is politics, black becomes white, and white becomes black. Changes come from the heart.
It can be said that the bald man was thoughtful and considered all the voices at home and abroad, except for the defenders who were willing to die to guard the Sixing Warehouse without a substitute to accept his military orders.
So, he made a miscalculation after all.
After all, the little people are not chess pieces on the chessboard. They can move around at will at the mercy of the big bosses who command them. They also have their own will.
Especially after a little butterfly from another time and space accidentally broke in.
At the moment when Wang Shihe took the order and prepared to give orders directly to the defenders of Sihang Warehouse through the 3rd theater, the machine gun bullets of the Japanese army hiding at least 500 meters away to symbolically fire at the defenders of Sihang Warehouse unexpectedly passed through.
Then, the terrible ricochet happened to hit the only field radio station of Xie Jinyuan's department that was placed in the headquarters room.
The radio station is broken.
Everyone was fine, but the radio was damaged by a ricochet from the Japanese army.
Except for the tunnels, the defenders of Sihang Warehouse were cut off from the outside world.