The radio waves flew out of a luxurious villa in Jinan City, and two officers dressed in pseudo-disguises hurriedly walked out of the villa, and not long after they left, a large group of Japanese military police and Tegao surrounded the villa. /、ǒМ\\

In Xuzhou City, Han Han, the head of the Xuzhou Station of the Army, hurriedly walked into the headquarters of the commander of the Fifth War Zone, and the commander's department at this moment was heavily guarded because of Chiang Kai-shek's arrival, and there were originally some reporters who could come in, but now even they were forbidden to enter.

Han Feng got out of the car tightly with a black leather bag, his neat military uniform was spotless, and after he got out of the car, he habitually looked around and walked quickly into the small building of the headquarters.

"You can't attack Jinan," Zhuang Jihua looked very anxious in the war room of the headquarters at this moment, and he shouted at Chiang Kai-shek and Bai Chongxi with some gaffes: "The Japanese army in Jinan is waiting for us to attack, and we can't fall for them." ”

"Cultural Revolution, don't get excited," Bai Chongxi looked at Chiang Kai-shek's hesitant face, and hurriedly persuaded: "The mountains and valleys have all retreated to Jinan, but even so, most of the Japanese troops in Jinan are also remnants of the defeated army, and our hundreds of thousands of people can attack it." ”

Zhuang Jihua ignored the look that Bai Chongxi gave him, but still insisted, and did not retreat: "The troops began to engage in battle in mid-July, continued to fight for a whole month, and the ammunition consumption was only replenished by half, and the losses of the 59th Army, the 40th Army, the Second Group Army, and the Third Group Army that initially began to fight reached 60 percent, Jinan City was high and deep, there were many surrounding mountain peaks, the Yellow River was dangerous in the north, and the Taishan Mountains were in the south, which was dangerous and dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and we only had heavy artillery in the 49th Group Army, the 24th Group Army, and the 60th Army Tang Enbo Corps, The rest of the troops lacked heavy weapons and found it difficult to attack the fortifications. And that's not the main thing, it's more important about our soldiers. ”

Zhuang Jihua sighed at Chiang Kai-shek and Bai Chongxi: "We have a large population, but there are very few young people who have received military service, and a recruit has to undergo at least three months of military service before he can become a soldier; As for the Japanese, their nationals are highly educated, and the number of people who have received military training far surpasses ours, so their soldiers are replenished and their equipment is surpassed, and if we attack Jinan and lose a large number of veterans with combat experience, it will be very unfavorable to the next operation, and I resolutely demand that the offensive be stopped, and that Taishan and Mengshan be used to establish a defensive line and rest the team. ”

Of course, Bai Chongxi knew that Zhuang Jihua's opinion was right, there were many other teams, in fact, these teams were very tired, and there was not much ammunition, especially artillery shells and rockets, and now was not the time to attack Jinan.

Li Zongren also didn't want to fight Jinan, the status quo of one unit did not allow it, and after the other refused Zhu De to be the commander of the first theater, he knew that the commander of the first theater must be him, and this battle would definitely become his last battle in the fifth theater.

"Cultural Revolution, you are too careful," Chiang Kai-shek is not very high, he doesn't know what happened to Zhuang Jihua, why is Zhuang Jihua, who resolutely supported him in Nanjing, gone, doesn't he understand the purpose of his coming to the state? However, Chiang Kai-shek still said with a pleasant face: "We can defeat the 120,000 Japanese army under the city of Xuzhou, why can't the clowns in Jinan be eliminated?" You must know that we have more than 300,000 outside Jinan. ”

"Principal, at this time and that time," Zhuang Jihua couldn't help it, suppressed the anger in his heart, and explained again: "We can defeat the Japanese army, and there is really an important factor in the anger is that the Japanese army has been driving straight in, they have rushed all the way, fighting for two months, if we counterattack Jinan now, we will make the same mistake as the Japanese army, when Jinan will not be able to fight, not to mention the loss of troops, once the Japanese reinforcements come up, we may not even be able to hold Xuzhou." (〕”

"Jiansheng, what do you think?" Chiang Kai-shek saw that Zhuang Jihua could not move, so he turned his head and asked Bai Chongxi.

Bai Chongxi knew that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to get support from him, and after thinking about it, he said: "During the Cultural Revolution, it is prudent to use troops, and it is understandable to stop. ”

Li Zongren saw that Chiang Kai-shek's gaze turned to him again, so he said: "I think we should stop, everything is too much, and stopping the battle of Xuzhou now is our complete victory, political and military victory, if the attack on Jinan fails, this victory will be flawed, and the Japanese army will also be aware of our weaknesses." ”

Lin Wei hesitated and said: "Is it an attack, the Japanese army has been defeated and retreated for hundreds of miles, and our army has fought under the city of Jinan, how can I explain to the people if I don't fight." ”

Zhuang Jihua rolled his eyes and said to Lin Wei: "Brother Weiwen, winning is just the icing on the cake, but what about defeating?" Is it not good for the chairman of the committee to go to Xuzhou to personally supervise the battle and collect the troops with a complete victory? ”

Chiang Kai-shek was taken aback by these words, and he felt that there was something wrong in his calculations. Zhuang Jihua is reminding him that the recovery of Jinan is glorious, the icing on the cake of the Xuzhou victory, the prestige of Chiang Kai-shek is limited, on the contrary, once it fails, the damage to his prestige is great, no wonder Zhuang Jihua disregards his intentions and resolutely opposes the attack on Jinan.

When Bai Chongxi was still playing, Li Zongren quickly reacted, he laughed and said: "Now our army is like a rainbow, but when it comes to the edge of Jinan City, it does not attack, even I feel a little aggrieved." Why

The situation in the war zone now looks a lot more worrying, especially logistics, from Xuzhou to Jinan, hundreds of kilometers, along the way by the Japanese army, the common people are running out, food is difficult to meet the needs, Brother Wei Wen and Jiansheng do not know much about these situations. ”

Zhuang Jihua sighed secretly in his heart, Li Zongren was cunning and cunning, and he could see at once that Chiang Kai-shek's idea of attacking Jinan was shaken, and he immediately began to redeem Bai Chongxi, but Bai Chongxi glanced at Li Zongren indifferently: "I think we can still fight, at present, we have an advantage in the air and on the ground, there are no heavy weapons, we can make up for it with air power, and we can fight completely." Speaking of this, he opened the map: "You see, even if you don't attack Jinan, you can leave a main force to monitor the Japanese army in Jinan, and cross the Yellow River in the north of Changqing and Pingyin with a strong force, attack Dexian, and completely isolate the enemy defending Jinan." ”

Bai Chongxi proposed such a plan, but it aroused Zhuang Jihua's interest, and after thinking about it a little, he felt that this move was profitable, at least it could scare Shouichi in the temple of Dexian County.

"Chief Bai is worthy of being a master of the art of war, admire and admire," Zhuang Jihua said with a smile: "The troops monitoring Jinan are Tang Enbo and the 24th Group Army, the 49th Group Army crosses the river, and the 2nd Group Army stays in Tai'an to build a defensive line." Principal, there is a lot of shortage of supplementary troops now, Xue Bing They recruited more than 60,000 supplementary soldiers near Xuzhou, and 30,000 were replenished during the campaign, and the supplementary troops from Guizhou and Sichuan can only be in place a week later, plus the time of training, I estimate that there will be three months before the troops can reach full capacity, and now the key question is weapons and ammunition, please ask the chairman to urge Hong Junqi, first meet our five theaters. (More on here)."

"I've already ordered it from Hong Junqi." As soon as Chiang Kai-shek said this, Dai Li came in from outside the house and reported that the commander of the Xuzhou Station of the Military Command had obtained important information.

"Report to the chairman of the committee, our army has obtained information from the Jinan Station that the main force of the 21st Division of the Japanese Army has arrived in Jinan last night, and the total strength of the Japanese army in Jinan City has reached 50,000, and at this moment the Japanese army has driven hundreds of thousands of residents in Jinan City to build fortifications around Jinan." Dai Li said expressionlessly: "In addition, the Japanese army has transferred the 20th Division from Shanxi and is rushing to Shandong day and night. Qingdao Station reported that a large number of Japanese troops had come ashore in Qingdao, with a total strength of more than 20,000 troops. In addition, the Japanese army arrested laborers and built airfields in the areas controlled by Shandong. ”

Zhuang Jihua sighed in his heart, the Japanese army's extremely strong ability to lose once again saved their crisis, just like the battle of Guangzhou, the Japanese army transferred reinforcements from North China and China in just a few days, and our reinforcements came out of Yunnan and Sichuan, and it took nearly half a year to go, which fully reflected the huge gap in the industrial capacity of the two sides.

Dai Li is not finished: "Beiping Station reported that two mixed brigades of the Northeast Kwantung Army entered the customs from Shanhaiguan, and I don't know if they will be transferred to the Xuzhou battlefield. ”

With Dai Li's report, Chiang Kai-shek's face was gloomy, and Bai Chongxi, Li Zongren, and Zhuang Jihua's demeanor was very complicated, and Li Zongren now fully understands how Zhuang Jihua felt when he was in Nanjing, the Japanese army's mobility ability is too strong, and if it attacks Jinan, it will not be able to defeat it in a month, and with this month's time, I am afraid that there will be no less than 200,000 Japanese troops transferred from all over the country.

"Cultural Revolution, it seems that you know the Japanese army better." Li Zongren let out a long sigh: "Chairman of the Committee, Jiansheng, you can't go any further, the gains outweigh the losses if you go further." ”

The next direction of the operation made it difficult for the senior generals in the theater to give up, and Li Zongren's proposal was not approved by Bai Chongxi and Zhuang Jihua, but Chiang Kai-shek expressed his support.

Lin Wei watched them argue, and now Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren agreed to stop the offensive and only send small troops across the river; Bai Chongxi and Zhuang Jihua, however, insisted on crossing the river with a group army, believing that they should take advantage of the fact that the Japanese army had not yet assembled in place, step up the attack, expand the depth of defense, and lay a good foundation for the next operation.

Now their positions have changed one by one.

"Xu Shenzao, what do you think?" Li Zongren saw Xu Zuyi coming in from outside the door, so he asked his opinion. Xu Zuyi held a telegram in his hand, and he said with a wry smile: "General Jiang Baili, deputy commander of the 49th Group Army, has sent a telegram asking to stop the offensive and move to rest. ”

Zhuang Jihua immediately understood that this was Jiang Baili reminding himself not to be hot-headed, not to be like Nanjing, which consumed the troops to the bone.

Jiang Baili's name is not trivial, his telegram immediately shut up Bai Chongxi, stop the offensive and turn to defense became the final decision of the meeting, but Zhuang Jihua proposed that the new 22nd Division cross the river, the purpose is not to destroy more Japanese troops, but to the north to explore and search, Deng Wenyi led the propaganda team to follow the river, to the north of the Yellow River to recruit recruits and collect food, to this proposal, Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren did not object.

At the end of August, the team reached the periphery of Jinan, and Nishio Shouzo in Jinan City waited with bated breath for the team's attack, but the team stopped, and then retreated ten miles and turned to defense.

At this point, the Battle of Xuzhou ended in a complete victory, and the Japanese suffered another retreat from Beijing, this time they were more embarrassed than Nanjing, suffered greater losses, and retreated farther.

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