The Japanese army arrived one after another, and successfully landed along the Yangtze River, and there were almost 50,000 people in the two divisions, and if the ratio was three to one, it was equivalent to 150,000 troops, and it was obvious that 80,000 ** could not stop the advance of the two divisions of the Japanese army. Ｘ

In desperation, because the strength set up for this exercise was only 300,000, Xiao Linghu could only tear down the east wall to make up the west wall, and draw out the five divisions from the west along the Shanghai-Nanjing railway defense line and transfer them to the Yangtze River defense line in the north.

Tachibana Jun struck at the right time, and sent a unit to break through the Suzhou Creek defense line and advance towards Shanghai. In desperation, Xiao Linghu had no choice but to withdraw the four divisions besieging the Japanese barracks in Hongkou and gradually retreat westward.

The two sides fought fiercely in the area from Zhabei to Jiading in the north of Shanghai, and at this time, a month had passed, and Tachibana Jun had two more divisions, but did not land on the northern line, but went around to Hangzhou Bay in the south of Shanghai, and landed in the area of Jinshanwei, and immediately broke through the weak southern defense line, and the troops were divided into two routes, all the way to the west to attack Jiaxing, and all the way to the north to attack downtown Shanghai.

By this time, Xiao Linghu had no troops available, so he could only draw out all the reserves in an attempt to block the hole in the south, but it was too late.

The Japanese captured Jiaxing and continued along the south bank of Taihu Lake to Wuxing.

At this time, Xiao Linghu and the other classmates were sweating, of course, they could see that once the Japanese army captured Wuxing, then it would wave its division to the north to attack Yixing and Wuxi, not only threatening the flank of the **, but would cut off the entire ** retreat channel to the west, and complete the encirclement of the entire ** army fighting in the Songhu area.

"Damn, this Tachibana Jun is too bad!" Xiao Linghu scolded secretly in his heart, but they had no choice but to deal with the current situation, if they did not immediately withdraw the troops fighting in Shanghai, there would be a danger of annihilation, but once they withdrew from Shanghai, it would represent their defeat.

Because the condition for the failure of this sand table deduction is that whoever withdraws from Shanghai first will lose.

Looking at Xiao Linghu, who was sweating and scratching his ears, Tachibana Jun was a little proud, and said with a smile: "Ling Hujun, if you don't run away, you really won't have a chance again!" ”

Xiao Linghu could only drop the whip, shook his head helplessly, and admitted to him: "You won, I have nothing to say!" ”

Tachibana Jun put away the smug expression just now, walked up to Xiao Linghu, patted him on the shoulder affectionately, and said with a smile: "Do you know why you lost this deduction?" ”

"Why?" Xiao Linghu asked.

"Because you don't have a victory at all, it's determined by the strength of the country!" He was solemn.

For a while, Xiao Linghu was really speechless, Lihuajun did say an objective fact.

"Still, you're a little surprising to me."

"Surprised by what?" Xiao Linghu asked him.

Tachibana Jun stared at him for a long time before he said leisurely: "According to my prediction, I was originally going to defeat you within a month; But I didn't expect you to be able to last an extra month! ”

After listening to Tachibana Jun's words, Xiao Linghu couldn't be calm, for him, fighting for a month was no different from fighting for two months, he only thought that this sentence was Tachibana Jun's words of comfort to him, so he didn't take it to heart.

Of course, it wasn't until later that Xiao Linghu really realized how important time is to a battle. What he didn't expect was that today's sand table deduction between him and Tachibana Jun would really become a fact a year later, but neither he nor Tachibana Jun expected that the future battle would be more intense, more brutal, and more huge than their deduction. Of course, there were too many dead and wounded to be unimaginable.

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The sand table deduction is over, and the final result is a big victory for the Japanese side, although this makes all the Chinese teachers and students very unhappy, but just as Xiao Linghu can accept Tachibana's argument, this defeat is actually the national strength, not the real war!

More than two hours passed in this military chess battle, and there was one last item left for them, that is, a discussion between the players of both sides in order to get a more comprehensive summary.

Sitting in the small conference room of the school, the 10 students from the Chinese side and the 10 students from the Japanese side sat opposite each other in groups, still arguing fiercely about the sand table deduction just now, although everyone did not understand the same language, this did not prevent each of them from expressing their views clearly, but they were busy with the translations on both sides, and sometimes before a sentence was translated, there were people from the other side who immediately raised a rebuttal.

Whether it is the leader of the Chinese side or the leader of the Japanese side, they are also willing to watch the opponents of both sides argue like this, which shows that everyone has already been involved in it, and if they can really fight in the future, it is also a way for the personnel of both sides to learn from each other's strengths and weaknesses, so as to give full play to the effect of making use of their strengths and avoiding their weaknesses.

But Xiao Linghu was reluctant to say a word, he was still thinking about Tachibana's sentence in his heart, if China and Japan went to war, for the Chinese side, it would really be more auspicious than lucky, which did not depend on the number of troops, but on the strength of the country.

As if seeing Xiao Linghu's unhappiness, Tachibana Jun didn't say a word, just watched his teammates arguing with the Chinese personnel without interjecting.

Xiao Linghu was a little bored when he heard this, he got up and said goodbye to Wen Sen on the side, and walked out of the door, so that others only thought that he was going to be convenient.

Tachibana Jun also got up and said hello to his team leader, and followed him out the door.

Xiao Linghu walked to the toilet, and there was a call from Tachibana Jun from behind: "Ling Hujun! ”

Xiao Linghu turned his head and saw Tachibana Jun with a smile on his face, so he had to stand up and wait for him to approach.

There were no toilets near the conference room, so they had to walk through the wide playground to the aqua toilet near the wall, which was very rare for the vast Chinese region at this time, and there was only one toilet in a regular military academy like the Central Army School, but there were more than a dozen squatting pits inside, and even then, in the morning, it was often overcrowded. The reason why many students are willing to get up early is not that they are really diligent, but to be able to occupy a pit early.

"You're upset!" Tachibana Jun caught up, and the two of them walked to the toilet together.

Xiao Linghu nodded: "Today we failed, of course we are not happy." ”

Tachibana said: "Don't you have a saying that victory and defeat are common things in soldiers? This is just a sand table deduction, so why bother with it? ”

Xiao Linghu said with a straight face: "Maybe soon, our two countries will really have a big fight, I think at that time, we may really not be able to beat you!" ”

Tachibana Jun was speechless and walked with him silently.

Even if any two of them are stupid, it can be seen that at this time, the relationship between the two countries has reached a state where they can't fight. Tachibana knew very well that the Japanese had invaded Northeast and North China, and although their cabinet also wanted to try to control the initiation of the war, there were always people in the military clamoring for the destruction of China, which was the clamor before the war, and it was probably the preparation before the war.

For the Chinese side, at this time it is no longer a question of whether to fight or not, but a question of whether to start a war early or late, after all, any bloody Chinese will not tolerate being occupied by the Japanese and allowing them to oppress their compatriots.

The two of them walked into the toilet, Xiao Linghu walked out first, the reason why he wanted to walk around the toilet was not to pee at all, but to come out of the small space of the quarrel to relax.

Squatting down under a tall poplar tree, picking up a branch casually, and drawing a position map on the ground, this is his daily compulsory course, with his identity, of course, he does not dare to really hope to be able to command thousands of troops and horses, to fight like the sand table just now, to be able to fight a positional battle at the company level, is what he must be prepared at any time.