A lieutenant staff officer stood up and said: "Your Excellency Lieutenant General, my subordinates think that this does not mean anything, the activities of Tubalu in this area have not been a day or two, and the imperial army has also concentrated its forces to carry out two major encirclement and suppression, both of which have had little effect, but their sabotage activities have never stopped, but this time it is even worse, as for the Fifth Theater troops of the Chongqing Government Army, I think it is just a coincidence, the Gui Army has always advocated the preservation of strength, and rarely clashes with the imperial army head-on, even if it is a forced order from their military committee, Every battle was basically avoided if it could be avoided, and if it could not be avoided, they adopted the method of delaying, so they would never take the initiative to launch a large-scale attack on the imperial army. ”

As soon as the words of the Japanese army Nakazo fell, an officer of the Great Zuo also stood up and said: "My subordinates also agree with Noda-kun's opinion, General Li, the commander of the Gui Army, has always been as timid as a mouse, and the troops led by him are even poorly equipped and poorly educated, and they are simply a group of rabble. Since the imperial army conquered Wuhan, they were entrenched in eastern Anhui and never launched an effective frontal attack on the imperial army, and of course, the imperial army also tacitly did not take any major military action against them. According to reliable sources, they not only treated the imperial army like this, but also treated Tubalu with the same attitude, adopting a strategy of not offending each other. There is also news that the subordinate army of the Gui Army has exchanged weapons and materials with the troops of our Imperial Allied Army more than once, and this time, the subordinates thought that the Gui Army must have reached some kind of agreement with the Eighth Route Army, and they were worried about the ammunition and material depot of the Imperial Army stationed in Madian, and the Gui Army bluffed in Xinyang, Jingzhou, and Suizhou to contain the troops west of Xinyang of the Imperial Army and buy time for the Eighth Route Army to attack Zhumadian. ”

"Yo Xi!" Anan nodded several times and said: "What Noda-kun and Miyazawa-kun said has a certain amount of truth, some time ago, Tuba Road stripped the railway from Zhumadian to Xinyang, causing all the autumn materials and weapons of our Eleventh Army to be stranded in Zhumadian, it seems that they are really worried about this batch of arms and materials, otherwise they really can't explain their intentions, Kinoshita-kun, don't you say?" ”

Anan Weiji turned his eyes to Kinoshita Yong beside him as he spoke, but Kinoshita Yong didn't hear it, frowned, as if he had something else thinking, maybe he felt that the atmosphere in the room was wrong, and suddenly looked up and found that everyone was looking at him, so he turned his face to Anan Wei and said: "Anan Jun, I don't think this matter is so simple, if Jiang Haoran didn't come back, maybe it's not wrong to think like this, but now that the special high school has definite news that Jiang Haoran has returned to Nanchang, this matter can't be treated so simply." ”

Anan Wei thought for a moment and said, "This shouldn't have anything to do with Jiang Haoran, right?" Since Jiang Haoran came back, the reconnaissance planes of the imperial army have not relaxed their aerial reconnaissance, and the special high school has not sent back the news that their troops have been abnormally moved. ”

Seeing Anan's insistence, Kinoshita Yong did not refute, nodded slightly, and said: "Just now, Miyazawa-kun's evaluation of the Gui troops and the leading figures of the Gui family is biased, General Li is by no means a general who is as timid as a mouse and fears the enemy without fighting, on the contrary, this person is thoughtful and can fight well, plus there is also a Bai Chongxi who is called 'Little Zhuge 'by his side', these two are by no means good at their generation, you must not take it lightly." ”

Miyazawa Daisa, who had just spoken, stood up and said, "Your Excellency the Chief of Staff, you think too highly of them, don't you?" You must know that the Gui army has nearly 200,000 people, since the start of the war, the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Xuzhou, and the Battle of Wuhan, they have all been there, but their performance has been mediocre, and it can even be said that it is very poor. ”

Kinoshita Yong smiled bitterly and said: "What you said is not wrong, but this does not prove anything, the war broke out in an all-round way, although Admiral Li shouted 'scorched earth resistance,' but they were all shouted to others, he actually did not have the determination or even courage to fight to the death with the imperial army, it is still the factional dispute of the Chongqing government, they all hope to preserve their own strength, let the factional opponents fight to the death with the imperial army, they can sit and reap the benefits of the fisherman, the reason why the imperial army can quickly occupy most of China, there are factors in this regard." But it would be a big mistake to judge the enemy's combat effectiveness by such factors. Yes, the equipment of the Gui Army is worse than the Central Army, but it is still much higher than the Tubalu and Sichuan Army, and in terms of literacy, they are really not as bad as we imagined, especially the Seventh Army of the Gui Army, which is famous, known as the 'Steel Seventh Army', is the watchman of Li Bai and the two of them, and is not only the Gui Army, but also the ace of the ace in the Gui Army, and the elite of the National Army. Good at mountain warfare, famous for melee night combat, combat effectiveness is quite strong, tactics are also very flexible, during the Northern Expedition, they have a famous battle, called "Hesheng Bridge Battle", the Seventh Army and Ye 61 independent regiment side by side bloody battle, defeated Wu Peifu's elite division. Wu Peifu used all his strength, and the broadsword team cut off a total of 7 regiment commanders and 2 brigade commanders' heads, and Wu also slashed several deserters. But it could not stop the charge of the Northern Expeditionary Army. By the afternoon, the red-eyed 7th Army of the Gui Department actually charged at the place where the Wu army's gunfire was most intensive. Faced with a fierce and fearless enemy, the Wu army was routed all the way. Tens of thousands of people launched a counter-charge against the warlords, rushing through to seize the road and flee for their lives. Wu Peifu's adjutant was also killed in the rebellion. Wu Peifu, the direct leader, is known as the victorious general. This battle brought his political life to an end. There is also a famous - "Longtan Battle", which is also the 7th Army's desperate continuous fierce charge, at the expense of heavy casualties to capture the commanding heights of Nanjing City, Qixia Mountain, and then launched a counterattack, with less to win more, the tens of thousands of Sun Chuanfang's outlaw army in the battle against the water in the east of Baguazhou gathered and annihilated, bloody battle for seven days and seven nights, killed 60,000 corpses of Sun Chuanfang's army all over the field, defeated and fled, Sun Chuanfang has since withdrawn from the Chinese political stage. “

Speaking of this, Kinoshita Yong's eyes swept the audience, saw that everyone was silent, took a sip of tea from the cup, and continued: "Maybe you think this is all history and can't explain anything, then I will also tell you about a battle, a battle between the Seventh Army and the Imperial Army, the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Wuxing, when the elite troops of the Imperial Army landed from Jinshanwei in Hangzhou Bay, and soon after its main force the Tenth Army went ashore, it went straight to Fengjing, Pingwang, and Jiaxing, in order to cut off the retreat of the Chinese defenders in the Battle of Songhu. Traveling to Wuxing 616161616161 being blocked by the Seventh Army, speaking of this, Kinoshita Yong seemed to suddenly remember something, turned to Anan Weiji and continued: "By the way, I remember that this battle was commanded by Anan Jun at that time, right? ”