Chapter 10: Lobbying
Donglin Academy is located in the southern suburbs of Wuxi City, with deep forests and elegant environment. γReading.comγ
At this time, the city of Wuxi was almost razed to the ground by Japanese artillery fire, but the Donglin Academy, which was close at hand, was unscathed and still maintained its original style.
The reason why Donglin Academy can be preserved is not because of how strong the little devil's awareness of protecting the monuments is, but because the little devils have limited resources, they are reluctant to throw the expensive aerial bombs on targets that have nothing to do with the military, and as for the infantry of the little devils, they can't take care of these historic buildings.
Don't look at the devils now, they are making great strides all the way to Nanjing, in fact, they only control a few big cities and areas along highways and railways.
When Xu Rui and Lin Feng arrived with more than 30 remnants, more than 100 remnants had gathered in Donglin Academy.
These more than 100 remnants were able to break through because of Xu Rui's ambush in the city center and the main force of the devils.
Seeing Lin Feng and them walking in, especially after seeing the general star on Lin Feng's collar badge, the remnants of the soldiers who were resting in the corridor and patio of the academy stood up one after another, and several officers hurriedly ran over to salute Lin Feng, Xu Rui glanced over and found that among these officers, the highest rank was only a captain.
Lin Feng returned the salute one by one, while comforting everyone with warm words.
With the passage of time, there are more and more remnants who come to Donglin Academy to return, and when the sky is about to get dark, the remnants of the soldiers gathered in Donglin Academy have exceeded 400 people, with nearly a battalion of troops, but after that, there are very few remnants of the remnants of Donglin Academy, which means that there are only 400 people left in the provisional 79th Division.
A division, with more than 6,000 men, only 400 people remained, which was really miserable enough.
Lin Feng rectified the remnants, temporarily organized the more than 400 remnants into three companies, and then came over to Xu Rui and said: "Brother Xu, this time our provisional 79th Division can break through successfully, all thanks to you, I won't say more, it's too cheesy, I'll just say one sentence, in the future, you will be the benefactor of all the brothers of our provisional 79th Division......"
Xu Rui waved his hand to stop Lin Feng and said with a smile: "What, Brother Lin is planning to leave?" β
"Now that I have broken through, I should return with my troops." Lin Feng nodded, and then said, "If Brother Xu doesn't give up, why don't you go with us?" Or just stay in our division, right? β
Lin Feng naturally hoped that Xu Rui would stay in the provisional 79th Division, this was simply a tiger general!
Hearing Lin Feng say this, the faces of the twenty or so remnants who broke out with Xu Rui immediately showed a look of hope, they had already seen Xu Rui's ability, and knew that Xu Rui was a soldier king who was so strong that they defied the sky, so they naturally hoped that Xu Rui would stay and become a member of their provisional 79th Division.
Thinking that it was possible to fight with Xu Rui in the future, these remnants were so excited that they couldn't do it.
However, to the disappointment of these remnants, Xu Rui did not express his position immediately.
In fact, Xu Rui didn't plan to participate in the provisional 79th Division at all, Xu Rui not only didn't plan to participate in the provisional 79th Division, but even wanted to take this unit away and join the ** armed forces!
As a traverser, no one knows the direction of Chinese history better than Xu Rui, in a word, the failure of the national government has been irreversible, Lao Jiang is a complete comprador, expecting Lao Jiang to save China, it is simply wishful thinking, only by following the **, China has a way out, China has hope.
What's more, Xu Rui was a party member before he crossed over! Loyal ** member!
Xu Rui pulled Lin Feng aside and whispered: "At present, the national * army is defeated like a mountain, and the little devils are like a bamboo, and now they have all reached Nanjing, and the commander's department of the third theater doesn't know which place to run to, you take these three or five hundred remnants of the army, not to mention whether you can break through the blockade of the devil, even if you are lucky enough to stand out, where can you find the commander's department?" β
Lin Feng was dumbfounded, just now he only thought about returning to the building as soon as possible, and he really didn't think about this problem.
Now that Xu Rui said this, Lin Feng suddenly discovered that it was really not so easy to return to the construction with these more than 400 remnants, and if he was not careful, he would probably end up with the destruction of the whole army.
Seeing that Lin Feng was frightened, Xu Rui struck while the iron was hot and said, "Brother Lin, we are now friends of life and death, so I have something to tell you." β
Lin Feng said, "Brother Xu, please speak." β
Xu Rui said: "Brother Lin, if, I mean if, if you return with these hundreds of remnants, do you think the commander's department of the Third Theater will still retain the number of your provisional 79th Division?" β
Lin Feng's heart sank when he heard this, and what Xu Rui said was what Lin Feng was most worried about.
The battle in Wuxi was extremely miserable, and the more than 6,000 officers and men of the provisional 79th Division were left with more than 400 people, and with Lin Feng's understanding of those big figures in the Commander's Department, or in other words, the big figures in the Military and Political Department, most of these more than 400 remnants of soldiers would be incorporated into other fraternal units, and the number of the 79th Division would also become history.
And this is precisely the most difficult thing for Lin Feng to tolerate, his feelings for the old army will never be erased.
Xu Rui continued: "I think that back then, during the 128th Shanghai Anti-Japanese War, your 79th Route Army had 30,000 people, but after the Fujian Incident, your 79th Route Army was reduced to a division, and it was also a miscellaneous division of the three-regiment system. β
Lin Feng was speechless by Xu Rui's words.
After a long time, Lin Feng sighed and said, "But no matter what, we have to return to the building, right?" β
"Who says you have to go back?" Xu Rui immediately retorted, "Brother Lin, you have studied at the Army University, you should be no stranger to Mr. Jiang Baili, you must have read his theory of national defense?" β
"Of course." Lin Feng said solemnly, "The theory of national defense is a compulsory course at Lu University. β
Xu Rui said again: "Mr. Jiang Baili put forward three main points of the war against Japan in the theory of national defense, can Brother Lin remember?" β
"Why don't you remember?" Lin Feng replied, "First, China is not afraid of swallowing Japan, but is afraid of encroachment, so it should not retreat step by step against Japan, but should take the initiative to carry out an all-out war of resistance, turning the rear of the Japanese army into the front, so that it has no time to digest the occupied areas and implement the strategy of feeding the war with war; Second, it took the initiative to attack the Japanese army in Shanghai, so that the Japanese army's offensive route against China was changed from the north-south route in North, Central China, and South China to the east-west route along the Yangtze River. Third, it traded space for time, pursued a protracted war, and dragged Japan down through a protracted war of attrition; A thousand words are turned into one sentence, and China has a way. β
Listening to Lin Feng's statement of Jiang Baili's national defense theory there, Xu Rui unconsciously lost his mind.
A thousand words are turned into one sentence, China has a way, and Jiang Baili is undoubtedly a real military strategist.
Before the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there was a saying in Japanese military circles that there were only three and a half military strategists in China, and the first of them was Jiang Baili.
Jiang Baili's theory of national defense can be said to have directly hit the crux of the Sino-Japanese dispute!
If Chiang Kai-shek can resolutely implement the strategy put forward by Chiang Baili in the theory of national defense, if the Sino-Japanese war breaks out in an all-round way, and when the focus of small Japan's offensive shifts from North China to East China, it takes the initiative to implement strategic contraction and implement the strategy of exchanging space for time, then the Japanese army will very likely hit the two national defense lines of Wufu and Xicheng.
At that time, the Japanese army swept through most of China, and it was unknown whether it could enter Nanjing.
In order to win the sympathy of the Western powers, Chiang Kai-shek did not hesitate to mobilize troops from all over the country and sent them to the Songhu battlefield in a steady stream, and then turned into powder under the indiscriminate bombardment of the Japanese Navy's large-caliber naval artillery and air forces.
A naval gun with a caliber of more than 300mm, you can imagine its lethality.
Basically, when an artillery shell comes, the troops of a company of the national * army will be turned to ashes.
Therefore, it is simply stupid to fight the Japanese on the beach where the Japanese Navy's naval guns can reach.
After the Battle of Songhu, the most elite 500,000 troops in China were killed and wounded, and the war could not be fought again, the Japanese army hit Nanjing in one breath, and the national army retreated to the hinterland of Jiangxi and Anhui in one breath.
After being stunned for a moment, Xu Rui's thoughts quickly returned to reality.
Xu Rui continued: "The three strategic points proposed by Mr. Jiang Baili, the second and third points have become facts, and the key at the moment is the first point, turning the rear of the Japanese army into the front, so that it cannot digest the occupied area, and there is no way to implement the strategy of nourishing the war by war. β
"What?" Lin Feng was dumbfounded and said, "Stay behind enemy lines and fight guerrillas?" β
Before this, Lin Feng had never thought about fighting guerrilla warfare, in his mind, the regular army should fight head-on, and what was the matter with running to the battlefield behind enemy lines to fight guerrillas? But now, Lin Feng suddenly felt that staying behind the enemy line to fight guerrillas might also be a good choice, at least without worrying about the withdrawal of the troops.
However, after thinking about it, Lin Feng thought of another question.
Lin Feng frowned and said: "Although staying behind enemy lines does not have to worry about the withdrawal of troops, it can indeed play a role, making it impossible for small Japan to digest the occupied area, at least so that little Japan cannot quickly digest the occupied area in a short period of time, but where can the military supplies such as weapons, ammunition, food, and clothing be supplied?" You can't fight with the little devil with your empty hands and hungry, right? β
Xu Rui smiled and said, "Brother Lin, have you ever heard a song?" The song is called the Guerrilla Song. β
"Guerrilla song?" Lin Feng shook his head blankly and said, "I haven't heard of it, but does this have anything to do with us?" β
Xu Rui hummed softly: "There is no food, no clothing, our own enemy sent forward, no guns, no cannons, the enemy made it for us." After a few snorts, Xu Rui said with a cruel smile, "We are guarding the transportation line of the little devils, and we are still worried about the lack of military supplies such as food supplies, weapons and ammunition?" Don't forget, we're guerrillas now. β
"Okay then." Lin Feng nodded, and finally made a decision