Just when Wang Husheng walked in, Xu Rui said: "Old Wang, we have suffered a big loss in this battle."
"We completely wiped out two Japanese divisions, including a Guards division. Isn't that still a loss?" Wang Husheng laughed and scolded, "Don't take advantage here and act like a good boy." After a pause, Wang Husheng put his hand in his hand again.
He put the pile of newspapers on the table and said with a smile, "Would you like to see how these newspapers praise you?"
The newspapers Wang Husheng brought were all newspapers from the concession, many of which were run by Westerners, such as Miller's Review.
Although the backgrounds of these newspapers are different, their reports on the Third Songhu Battle are surprisingly consistent. They all praise Xu Rui and the Songhu Independent Group as a flower, especially the French-run newspapers.
, even started to compare Xu Rui with General Napoleon, the pride of the French.
As for the Japanese, especially the Japanese royal family, these newspapers were completely derogatory.
Those who don’t know the inside story can even easily conclude from these reports that Japan is about to surrender!
However, the fact is that even though the Songhu Independent Regiment won the third Songhu Battle, the situation faced by the Songhu Independent Regiment did not improve. In a sense, the situation even became worse.
!Because after this defeat, the Japanese army will definitely devote more troops to the Songhu battlefield.
However, the strength of the Songhu Independent Regiment has not been greatly expanded. The key is that there is no source of troops. Even though the Songhu Independent Regiment controls a huge Shanghai and several surrounding counties, it can hardly find decent men. Those individuals
The able-bodied men who could serve as soldiers had either been exhausted or had run away, and the rest were weak, old, young, women, and children.
Xu Rui said angrily: "Look, these Western white-skinned pigs have no good intentions at all."
People of this era may not know the tricks of Westerners, but Xu Rui, as a time traveler, knows the tricks or secret thoughts of the West better than anyone else. Westerners of this era praise China and disparage Japan, and
In later generations, the West praised India and disparaged China, but the reason was actually the same.
Because Japan now and China in later generations have threatened the dominance of Western white people in the world, they have derogated them in every possible way in an attempt to undermine the national self-confidence of the Japanese and Chinese people, thereby leading to the collapse of the country and nation, so that Western white people can
Continue to lead the world for another hundred years.
So Xu Rui doesn't want to see the Western media praising him at all.
Wang Husheng was not so clear-eyed about the evil nature of white people, and immediately protested: "Old Xu, it's unfair for you to say that. I have basically read these newspaper articles, and the reports on the Third Battle of Songhu are pretty good.
It’s objective and fair, especially this article in the Miller Review. I really recommend you read it.”
"If you don't watch, we don't have the time." Xu Rui shook his head repeatedly and said, "If we have this time, we might as well do more work. If nothing happens, the Japs will come back within half a month, and the fourth Songhu
The battle is about to break out, and this time, the Japs will not come with two divisions, but at least five divisions!"
Speaking of the Fourth Battle of Songhu, Wang Husheng's expression immediately became solemn.
At that moment, Wang Husheng said in a deep voice: "Old Xu, do you really think the Japanese will dispatch at least five divisions?"
"Isn't this obvious?" Xu Rui said, "If there are no more than five divisions, the Japs have no certainty of victory, so five divisions are the minimum, and there is no guarantee that ten divisions will come.
group!"
"Ten?" Wang Husheng was startled and said, "In this case, it will be a big trouble."
"Actually, it's not a big deal." Xu Rui said cheerfully, "Anyway, we have already set the table. If you come to one table, you will eat, and if you come to two tables, you will also eat." After a slight pause, Xu Rui said
Rui added, "But this time, let's not think about any counterattack. Let's just stick to our guns and fight the Japanese in street fights."
"Yes." Wang Husheng also nodded and said, "This big counterattack against the Japs is really great. One guy annihilated two Japs divisions. This is the greatest victory since the Sino-Japanese War broke out. However,
The price is also really heavy. If there is another major counterattack like this, our Songhu Independent Regiment may not have many people left."
Xu Rui said: "It's my fault. I was too ambitious and pursued a hearty victory, but in the end I lost at least two or three years of war potential. If I hadn't launched this counterattack, I would never have sacrificed so much."
There are many veterans, let alone so many new recruits who died in battle at once. It is especially a pity for these new recruits. If you give them enough time to grow, they will eventually grow into battle-hardened warriors like all veterans! This is all my fault!"
What Xu Rui said is true, because the fighting style of the Third Songhu Battle has seriously deviated from Xu Rui's original guidelines of launching urban guerrilla warfare against the Japanese in urban Shanghai. In the end, the Third Songhu Battle
The Battle of Shanghai turned into a positional battle, which resulted in a large number of casualties among the officers and soldiers of the Songhu Independent Regiment.
If the policy of urban guerrilla warfare had been adhered to from the beginning, the number of casualties of the Songhu Independent Regiment would never have been so exaggerated. Especially the new recruits would have had enough time to grow up slowly, which could take as long as half a year or as little as three months.
, these more than 10,000 recruits will also grow up, and the war potential of the Songhu Independent Regiment will increase exponentially by then!
But now, in order to seek a hearty victory, just to annihilate the two Japanese divisions, they have sacrificed all the more than 10,000 recruits, and also recruited 5,000 veterans! From this point on, the Songhu Independent Regiment
In fact, they lost instead. This is a typical example of winning face but losing lizi. On the surface, it is indeed glorious, but the war potential is consumed.
For the weak party, this kind of consumption method is a taboo and must be resolutely avoided and put to an end as much as possible.
"Old Xu, please don't say that, let alone blame yourself." Wang Husheng said quickly, "In order to win this victory, our Songhu Independent Group paid a high price, but judging from the effect, it was a heavy price.
It has dampened the arrogance of the little devils and greatly boosted the morale and confidence of the soldiers and civilians across the country, but this cannot be bought at any price."
"That's true." Xu Rui laughed at himself, "It seems that this is the only benefit left."
Seeing that Xu Rui's mood was not very high, Wang Husheng suddenly took out a letter from his pocket and said, "Here, this is a letter sent from Damei Mountain, for you."
"Letter?" Xu Rui took it with some surprise, but saw only four words on the envelope written by Juixiu: Xu Rui personally signed it.
As soon as he saw these four words, Xu Rui knew that this was a letter home from Sai Hongfu. He opened it eagerly and took the letter out of the envelope. The first thing that caught Xu Rui's eyes was
There was a photo sandwiched in the folded letter. When Xu Rui picked up the photo and looked at it, his heart almost melted.
It turned out that Sai Hongfu sent a photo of her daughter with the letter.
Compared to when he was just born, the little guy's facial features have fully grown and he looks much more beautiful. Although he is only a little over a month old, it can be seen from the outline of his eyebrows that the little guy has perfectly inherited her mother's beauty.
Gene, she will definitely be a disaster-level beauty when she grows up.
Looking at Hong Guoer's photo, Xu Rui's heart almost melted.
"Is this a photo of Hong Guo? Let me take a look." Wang Husheng reached out and snatched the photo away.
When I heard there were photos of red fruits, Jiangnan, Liumei and Sweet Potatoes all rushed over to see them.
"Ah, she is really beautiful. She will definitely be even more beautiful than her mother when she grows up."
"Well, he's really handsome. I've seen a lot of babies, but this is the first time I've seen one as beautiful as this."
Wang Husheng took the photo back from Liu Mei's hand and said with a smile: "Old Xu, I have agreed with you that you must leave Hong Guo'er to our family's Dabao as your wife, but you cannot let Doudou or the two little ones without conscience.
The wolf cubs are causing trouble."
Liu Mei bumped Wang Husheng with her elbow and said coquettishly: "Shut up, how did you know he was your son?"
Wang Husheng stared at Liu Mei's belly and said naively: "Intuition, intuition tells me that he must be his son."
Xu Rui laughed and said: "I can't make the decision on this matter. Our family is a democratic family. Hong Guoer has to decide who she likes to marry in the future. What I said to Xiaobai doesn't count.
, So, if you two really want to marry Hong Guoer as your daughter-in-law, you have to raise your family’s big treasure."
After saying that, Xu Rui took back the photo of Hongguo from Wang Husheng, then clutched Sai Hongfu's letter and walked away happily. Sai Hongfu's letter immediately cleared away the haze that had enveloped Xu Rui, making his mood
Becoming cheerful again, this guy, Wang Husheng, pointed at Xu Rui with a smile, and then began to arrange the aftermath.
Don't think it's over once the war is over. This may be true for Xu Rui, the regiment leader, but for Wang Husheng, the political commissar, the work that has kept him busy until dark has just begun. At that moment, Wang Husheng, Liu Mei, and Jiangnan were involved in a tense situation
I was so busy doing the aftermath work that I couldn’t even take care of eating.
"Political Commissar, what should I do with these more than a hundred 120mm-caliber field howitzers?"
"The howitzer of the Japanese Heavy Artillery Brigade? The caliber is quite large. Can it still be repaired?"
"It's terrible. It was basically turned into scrap metal by the ammunition, and the barrel was bent."
"Then dismantle it. When the scrap iron is transported back to Dameishan, thousands of tons of steel can be recycled. This is gun steel."
"Of the more than 35,000 Sanba Daigai branches, less than 5,000 are intact, and the rest are basically severely damaged and irreparable. What should we do with them?"
"Let's dismantle them all. Recycle as many recyclable parts as possible and hand them over to the maintenance team."
"And here is a list of the guns damaged by our army during the battle. There are more than 3,600 submachine guns, more than 100 light machine guns, and more than 50 heavy machine guns that were seriously damaged."