Liu He was stunned for a moment, and seemed to feel that this explanation also made some sense, but he soon realized that he did not get to the crux of the problem, "That's right, but now that you have copied the enemy's old bottom, and the recovery of Guangzhou is just around the corner, you have to transfer heavy troops to the west, won't you fight Guangzhou?" ”

"Of course, Guangzhou wants to be recovered, but everything has priorities, go, go to my office and say." Jiang Haoran got up as he spoke, raised his legs and walked to the office, he didn't bother to explain others, but the position of chief of staff is related to the control of the overall situation of the entire campaign, and he must understand his combat intentions.

As soon as he entered the door, Jiang Haoran waved at Mei Xiang, who was busy at the desk, and said, "Take a map of the Liangguang region." ”

Cleaned up the clutter on the table, Mei Xiang's map was also brought, Jiang Haoran spread out the map on the table, picked up a pencil, drew a line between Nanning, Yulin, and Foshan, and said: "See, these cities are on a parallel line, and it is also where the heavy troops on both sides of the enemy and us are currently hoarded, and now my new sixth division has been interspersed in Rongxian in front of Yulin, and this parallel line has been interrupted. And they will definitely do it, because they can lose Guangdong, but they must not lose Guangxi. Therefore, we must rush ahead of them to cut off their back road, this is the first opportunity, in Go is called 'first move', my hand of chess continues, the next battle of the little devils can only follow my way of thinking, the result will become me step by step, they are passive defense everywhere. ”

Liu He clasped his hands in front of his chest, his eyes never left the map, but his expression was not relaxed, and he was obviously a little unclear, "Why do you think that Guangxi is more important than Guangdong, and the little devil must guard Guangxi?" And will it go your way of thinking? ”

Jiang Haoran smiled slightly, picked up his pen and dotted the three words "Hainan Island" on the map, and said: "The key is here, if the island army wants to prevent our navy from entering China's territory, it must defend Hainan Island to the death, relying on the many islands between Hainan Island and the Philippines to arrange a defense line, Hainan Island is in their hands, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and even their mainland will have no worries." Originally, the hope of the island army was in the southern army, but the southern army is obviously hopeless now, at least in the short term, the island army does not see hope, and the war in Guangxi cannot be delayed, the island army is most likely to transfer troops from Guangdong to help, although our army's encirclement has been formed, I am not afraid that he will invest more troops, but if the island army retreats to the second, decisively abandon the outer defense line of Nanning and Yulin, and go all out to help Hainan Island, they only need to arrange a defense line in Zhanjiang, and we cannot organize a large-scale offensive in such a narrow combat area. Even if our navy can enter the Beibu Gulf Strait, but without a perfect logistics support base, we will not even want to pass through the Qiongzhou Strait, nor will we be able to carry out further landing operations on Hainan Island, and with the strength of eight divisions stationed on an island, do you calculate how many landing troops are needed to tear through their defense lines? ”

"So you want to directly block Zhanjiang before they retreat?"

"Yes, as long as Zhanjiang is blocked, these divisions on the periphery of the little devil will not be able to escape, Hainan Island will no longer be defendable, and once Hainan Island falls into my hands, it will be like a domino that has been toppled for the island army, and without the frontier protection of Hainan Island, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, and Macao can only give up ...... on all fronts."

At the same time, Tokyo, the base camp of the island army.

In the conference room, high-level officials such as Hirohito Tenlocust, Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, Chief of Staff Yamamoto, Minister of the Navy Yamagotoki Sushio, Minister of War Shunroku Hatata, and Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander of the Combined Fleet, gathered together.

The Southeast Asian crisis and the Guangzhou-Guangzhou crisis are imminent, and the outcome of the battle is directly related to the safety of the island army's millions of troops in China, and even directly threatens the security of the island country's mainland.

In fact, at the beginning of the construction of the second island chain defense line by the island army, there were two versions: army and navy.

In the eyes of the navy, the construction of the second island chain should rely on the construction of a defense line between Fujian, Taiwan, and the Philippines, because this line is relatively short, and compared with the current situation of the gradual weakening of the naval force, the defense line is tighter, and the manpower and material resources invested will not be too much, and the relatively narrow sea area can greatly ease the pressure faced by the navy, and they only need to block the Taiwan Strait and the Bashi Strait to block the invasion of China's Pacific Fleet, and even free up a lot of military power to support the Songhu battlefield and the Pingjin battlefield in China. It's a lot to kill.

However, this move was strongly opposed by the army, which invested a large amount of national defense construction on Hainan Island, and second, the army worked hard to build roads, railways, dig coal and mine, and open factories, and so on, and invested a lot of money, but the cost has not yet been recovered, and they have to hand it all over, which makes them extremely unwilling.

The top leaders of the island countries also chose a plan that favored the army based on more interest considerations, but the facts in front of them proved that the army was incompetent and was simply unable to sustain the fruits of the two provinces, and as a result, the navy invested a lot of manpower, material, and financial resources to build the island chain defense line, which was once again threatened.

The Army, on the other hand, complained that the Navy had not contributed enough troops, and that the reinforcements at sea were like nothing, and that there had been almost no substantial help to the Army in the present, as was the case in Southeast Asia. The same is true of the two Guangzhous, and the army and navy today cannot escape the blame.

The disputes and complaints between the two camps were thus turned around, and for a time there was a lot of trouble, and finally the wrath of Hirohito the locust subsided.

The war situation has reached such a point, the top level of the island country has actually long been chaotic, all kinds of negative thoughts, complaints abound, the cloud of defeat has long been over everyone's heart, but they will not and dare not say it in their mouths, because they all know that the island country has caused a lot of evil, the Chinese's hatred for the island country has reached the point of no return, only blood can repay, they have no way back, failure is perish, rather than sit back and wait for death, it is better to let go.

When there is a dispute, everyone is full of blood, but when it comes to solving the actual problem, they don't open their mouths at all, and this mess is indeed not easy to clean up.

At this moment, a senior staff officer hurriedly came in to report that the headquarters of the 21st Army in Hong Kong had sent an urgent telegram that two divisions of the 42nd Army of the Zhina Army had suddenly attacked Kaiping.