Nanjing, Presidential Palace.

At this time, in the study of the presidential palace, a military map was hung on the wall next to it, marked with dense arrows, which was the situation map of the entire national war of resistance at this time.

If you look closely, there are three places where the arrows are the most dense and eye-catching, the largest is undoubtedly the Songhu battlefield, and the remaining two are in Shanxi.

However, these people in Nanjing did not care too much about the battle situation in Shanxi, even if Wei Lihuang joined the Battle of Taiyuan with the 14th Army, which was dominated by the 14th Army, but the main force of the Nationalist Government was not in Shanxi, but in the Songhu battlefield.

Shanxi was not a place that the Nanjing government could actually control, and even Wei Lihuang's 14th Army had been inserted into Shanxi before taking advantage of the Red Army's Eastern Expedition.

Unless it is the fall of Shanxi that will attract the attention of the Nanjing Nationalist Government, the rest of the fall of Taiyuan has little to do with the Nanjing government.

To put it bluntly, Shanxi is Yan Xishan's territory, not Lao Jiang's territory, and if you lose it, you will lose it, and it is not so distressing.

But the Songhu area is different, this is the core of the Nanjing government, and if it is lost, it will directly threaten the capital Nanjing, and the taxes here are also very important.

At this time, Lao Jiang's study can be described as a gathering of bigwigs, not only the three giants of the Military Commission, but also several of Lao Jiang's cronies.

The so-called three giants of the Central Military Commission are: He Yingqin, chief of staff and minister of military affairs, Bai Chongxi, deputy chief of staff and minister of military training, and Xu Yongchang, director of the Military Command Department. As for the fourth giant, Chen Cheng, has not yet served as the political minister of the Military Commission at this time, and has not yet become the fourth giant.

The main reason why these people are brought together is because of a map.

If Leng Jie was there, he would definitely recognize that it was the map he had changed.

After Li Hong got this map, he handed it over to the regiment commander Sun Liren, although Sun Liren felt puzzled at the time, but felt that the matter was not simple, and after hesitation, he handed it over to Wang Gongliang, the commander of the second detachment of the tax police corps.

The latter was handed over to Zhu Shaoliang.

Originally, Zhu Shaoliang didn't believe it, but what happened in the early hours of that day was not only seen by the tax police corps, but also seen by several other divisions. Moreover, according to the report, the Japanese artillery fire did weaken a lot in the next few days.

With the attitude of 'I would rather believe what I have, not what I don't', Zhu Shaoliang directly bypassed Gu Zhutong and reported the matter of this map to the headquarters.

It's normal to report at the same level, don't look at Gu Zhutong is the supreme commander of the Songhu battlefield (the commander-in-chief is Lao Jiang, Gu Zhutong is the deputy), but Chen Cheng is the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, and many of the generals on the Songhu battlefield are Lao Jiang's favorite generals.

Therefore, the actual commander of the Songhu battlefield can actually be regarded as Lao Jiang.

Originally, Lao Jiang didn't pay attention to it, but he asked Dai Li to check it out (at this time, the military command had not yet been established).

It just so happened that Dai Li's special team of more than 300 people was near Jinshanwei.

The importance of the northern shore of Hangzhou Bay was not unclear to the Nationalist Government, but the Japanese army did not move for a long time, so most of the troops here were withdrawn, and the regular army did not even have a thousand people.

And Dai Li confirmed that there was something important here, so he sent his subordinates to inquire about the situation.

It's good to die, but there was an exchange of fire with the Japanese intelligence department, and the scale was larger than the previous one, the Japanese army wanted to eliminate his special team, but I didn't expect that because of Dai Li's order, the special team found out about the conspiracy of the Japanese intelligence department.

After some firefighting, the Japanese spy forces were repulsed.

It is precisely for this reason that Dai Li firmly believes that the Japanese army must intend to use troops in Jinshanwei, otherwise they would not do so.

"Chairman, this map can't be a conspiracy of the Japanese army, the Japanese army will mark such an important combat operation on the map in a grand manner, and it is also in the Japanese army on the northern front of Yunzaohama, which cannot be beaten by Jinshan Weiba's pole."

Seeing that it was because of this incident that the chairman of the committee called him back, Chen Cheng was a little angry, and he also complained a little about Zhu Shaoliang, is this not taking himself seriously?

Chen Cheng's suspicion is also shared by others, after all, this is indeed a bit suspicious, and this is undoubtedly a slap in the face.

Dai Li said in a deep voice, "Chief Chen, but my Einsatzgruppen was attacked by the Japanese army in Jinshanwei, and if it wasn't detected in advance, it might have been destroyed. Moreover, during this period near Jinshanwei, the frequency of Japanese espionage activities increased greatly, which shows that the Japanese army really had military operations. ”

Chen Cheng said unhappily, "What does this mean?" At this time, Japanese spies were active in many places, so you can't think that the Japanese army will land in Jinshanwei in a big way just because Director Dai's Einsatzgruppen was attacked, right?

Now the troops on the Songhu front are tight, and there are not too many troops at all. ”

Chen Cheng was telling the truth, the situation in the Battle of Songhu at this time was not good for the Chinese army.

Leng Jie's troops were originally defending the south bank of Yunzaobang before, but Leng Jie's small person couldn't control the entire battle situation, even if he tried to kill a Japanese division commander, it wouldn't be of much use.

Is the Japanese army short of division commanders?

There is no shortage, a few have died, and they can be made up at any time.

In order to break the stalemate, the Japanese army organized three divisions to launch a fierce attack on Yunzaohama, and soon broke through the Chinese army's Yunzaohama defense line. Moreover, the Chinese army successively lost all the strongholds on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek, such as Dachang, Miaohang, and Jiangwan, and was forced to retreat to the south bank of the Suzhou Creek.

In such a situation, as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, how many troops does Chen Cheng have?

Bai Chongxi also frowned, "Chairman, is this news accurate?" ”

Lao Jiang's face was also a little embarrassed, so he looked at Dai Li, who immediately understood his meaning and quickly explained, "Sir Bai, according to our intelligence, we know that the Japanese army does have reinforcements about to arrive at the Songhu battlefield. ”

Chen Cheng wanted to continue to refute, but He Yingqin, who had not spoken before, said, "Chairman, there is a matter, two days ago, Mo San (Gu Zhutong's character) sent a telegram from the front line, saying that he learned that three divisions of the Japanese army will arrive in Shanghai in the near future. ”

Three divisions?

Everyone was a little surprised, and their faces were cloudy.

He Yingqin didn't finish speaking, looked at a few people, and added, "Moreover, Jin Shanwei's defensive strength is indeed too weak. ”

"But what about Bai Maokou?" Bai Chongxi suddenly snapped.

Although Lao Jiang's command level is not good, the people present are not stupid.

In the current situation, although the Japanese army occupied the position on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek, Shanghai was still in the hands of the Chinese army, and at this time the Japanese army wanted to break the stalemate, so they could only open up another battlefield.

At the beginning, the command did think about Jin Shanwei, but at the same time, it was also worried about Bai Maokou.

Baimaokou is located at the mouth of the Yangtze River in Changshu, and if the Japanese army lands here, it will soon be able to occupy Changshu, Suzhou and Wuxi, and it will also cut off the retreat of the Chinese army in the Songhu battlefield.

The reason why Chen Cheng, Bai Chongxi and others all disagreed with the Japanese landing at Jinshanwei was because they believed that it was more likely that the Japanese army would land at Baimaokou.

For a while, there was silence in the study.

Jin Shanwei? Or is it a white mouth?

A required question.

If you choose the right one, Shanghai can continue to hold on for a while; If you choose the wrong one, the Battle of Songhu will soon be defeated.