The river wind hunts, the boat that goes up the river, staggering, compared with the boat that goes down the river, it is like an angry horse galloping, splashing a long splash, full of soldiers and supplies roaring down the river. Both sides of the river are lush and green, and the mountains are full of flowers, giving the majestic mountains a layer of charm.

There were many passengers on the boat from Wuhan to Chongqing, and almost every boat was stuffed with these refugees who had fled their homes, and the war was close to Wuhan, and a few vigilant people were the first to flee to the Bashu Basin, which is surrounded by mountains, and more often it was those refugees who had difficulty finding work in Wuhan.

The children are noisy on the boat, but the adults are a little sad, and they don't know what awaits them in the vast future. They talked in low voices, talking about all the rumors they had heard about Sichuan, all kinds of gossip about the survival of Chongqing.

Seeing that it was getting closer and closer to Chongqing, the crowd on the ship began to emerge on the side of the ship, eagerly looking at the mist-shrouded mountain city in the distance. At this moment they noticed that the door of the first class, which was rarely opened, had been opened, and a soldier was standing on the side of the ship, next to a beautiful female officer, and not far away there were two burly soldiers, whose cold gaze prevented anyone from approaching.

The April river breeze was still a little cold, and the ship was getting closer and closer to Chaotianmen, and the passengers on the ship began to pack their bags and prepare for a new life.

"Cultural Revolution, isn't it a bit homesick?" Gong Xiuhua smiled teasingly, holding the side of the boat with both hands, and the military coat did not affect her slender figure at all.

"Hometown timidity? It's a little," Zhuang Jihua nodded slightly: "But...., I feel like I'm a deserter." ”

Gong Xiuhua shook her head gently, the river breeze blew her hair, and the tips of her hair swayed gently, adding three points of charm: "Deserter? Oh, if you're a deserter, someone else forced you. Forget it, don't pretend to worry, that's disgusting. ”

Zhuang Jihua couldn't help laughing, he exhaled lightly, turned his head to look at the palace embroidery: "I said that my actions this time are not small, it seems that the defense of Wuhan will be very harsh." ”

After leaving Xuzhou, Zhuang Jihua spent a few days in Wuhan, and his situation finally came. Hiranuma finally issued his State of the Union address, in which he proposed the ultimate strategy for resolving the Sino-Chinese war.

In this strategy, Hiranuma clearly stated that during his term of office, he would resolve the Sino-Chinese war and build a new East Asian order together with people of insight with China, and at the same time proposed to vigorously develop the economy, strengthen international cooperation, and solve the current economic dilemma.

According to the information received from Ligao and Daze, it was decided to expand the army by 500,000 yuan, increase the war expenses by 6 billion yuan, reorganize the current fourth-wing division into a third-wing division, and abolish the brigade and regimental structure in the division to make up for the shortage of officers and veterans.

The commander of the North China Front, Sugiyama Motofu, was transferred back to China as the director of army education, Nishio Shouzo was appointed commander of the North China Dispatch Army, Tada Jun replaced Shunroku Hahata as the commander of the Chinese Dispatch Army, and Prince Minoru Higashikure became the commander of the North China Second Army, forming the 11th Army, with Okamura Ninji as the commander.

In terms of the air force and navy, 800 planes from the country and navy were dispatched to build airfields in Nanjing, Xuzhou and other places. The navy consists of 120 ships of the Third Fleet to undertake the task of attacking along the river.

After receiving this information, Chiang Kai-shek secretly summoned He Yingqin, Chen Cheng, and Zhuang Jihua, and even Jiang Baili, who was lingering on the sickbed, was picked up, and held a secret meeting at his official residence, at which it was decided that the specific strategy for defending Wuhan -- to defend Wuhan and not to fight in Wuhan, and to decide that the basic strategy for defending Wuhan was to use the terrain around Wuhan to deal with the Yue army for the purpose of depleting the strength of the Chinese army.

To Zhuang Jihua's surprise, Chiang Kai-shek's confidence was boosted by three great victories, and he had to stand up with Bai Chongxi, Jiang Baili, He Yingqin, and even Chen Cheng in the end.

At this time, China, from Jiangnan to Saiwai, the frontal battlefield was calm again, up to two years of frontal fierce fighting, both sides understood the weakness of the other party, said that I knew very well that their biggest weakness was the lack of troops, so they decided to increase troops, in one fell swoop to conquer Wuhan, they also know the weakness of the Chinese side, there are not many elite soldiers, logistics supply difficulties, so without eating the victory, they can not take advantage of the victory to expand the results, but China's victory lies in the vast territory, the strategic space is vast, even if the rich Jiangnan and North China are lost, it can not be fatal to this giant.

Not only did the frontal area remain calm, but the base areas behind enemy lines also remained calm, and the Eighth Route Army's New Fourth Army also stopped its large-scale operations, began to seize the time to consolidate the base areas, extensively reduced rents and interest rates in the base areas, launched training campaigns in view of the current decline in the combat effectiveness of the troops, and organized various anti-Japanese organizations.

But in Shandong, Xu Xiangqian led his troops into Shandong, and the troops of the 115th Division entered the Hebei-Shandong border area, ready to enter Shandong at any time for reinforcements. After Xu entered Shandong, he bypassed Jinan and other places where the Yue army was heavily armed, interspersed from the wilderness to the vicinity of Boshan, and then defeated the Zuolin squadron of the Yue army at Wuweidang, achieving a great victory in Wuweidang, and taking advantage of the victory to establish power in six nearby villages.

Peng Xuefeng led his troops back to central Anhui, ambushed the Yue army transport team in Lishuwa near Dingyuan, destroyed 20 Yue army transport convoys, and then defeated the swept Yue army Yecun squadron and the puppet army Zheng Yuan department at Xiaohu's house, and established an anti-Japanese base in Anhui.

The situation in central Anhui and Shandong did not attract the attention of Chiang Kai-shek, but it aroused Zhuang Jihua's vigilance, and there were [***] troops operating in both places, which could easily cause a conflict between the two armies.

"Old Jiang is jealous, what can you do? Let's do what we have to do, we've done our part. Gong Xiuhua said lightly that when she knew that Chiang Kai-shek was going to transfer Zhuang Jihua back to Sichuan, her first reaction was that the Moses incident broke out, and Chiang Kai-shek would never continue to let Zhuang Jihua's prestige grow endlessly.

Zhuang Jihua was silent for a while before saying: "You can't think like this, let alone do this, this is a way to evade responsibility, if you think like this, I won't come back in the first place." ”

Gong Xiuhua was also silent now, she understood Zhuang Jihua's distress, so she said a bunch of comforting words, but she didn't expect it to make Zhuang Jihua even more depressed.

"How long will it take for the Cultural Revolution to expand Sichuan's industry to meet the needs of a million people?" Gong Xiuhua asked with a different question.

"A million people?" Zhuang Jihua is thinking about this matter these days, how to expand the scale of production, the current industrial equipment in Sichuan is bought from abroad, and most of the equipment is produced by his own people, but he has not yet the ability to produce core equipment, so the bottleneck of expanding production is on these.

"We have to speed up equipment research," Zhuang said, "and we also have to import a batch of equipment from abroad, and we have to start construction of at least 20 factories every year, and these factories must start construction within a year." So that in three to four years we will be able to meet the equipment needs of 1.5 million people. Workers in factories also need to be recruited, and the more recruits the better, which can not only solve employment and alleviate people's livelihood problems, but also reserve skilled workers. ”

"In addition, it is necessary to strengthen road construction, especially the road traffic from Guizhou to Yunnan, the transportation construction from Xikang to Yunnan, connect Xikang with the Yunnan-Burma highway, the mining development of Yunnan should also be strengthened, the steel plant should be expanded, and the aircraft factory should also be expanded.

Zhuang Jihua crackled and said a lot, the boat gradually approached the barge at Chaotianmen Wharf, and the passengers on the boat became even more excited, but neither of them moved, just calmly looked at the shore.

Suddenly, Zhuang Jihua's face changed, he turned around and left, the palace embroidery was unknown, he looked at it on the shore, and then turned back to the cabin, "Wu Ziniu, pass the order, everyone stays in the cabin, and no one is allowed to show up." ”

As soon as the ship docked, the people on the shore looked up, and the gongs and drums beat twice and then fell silent. In the cabin, Gong Xiuhua said angrily: "What are they doing?" It's really nothing to look for. ”

Wu Ziniu laughed: "I said Commander, even if I am here, I don't need to hide like this." ”

"The question is, what do I say to them?" Zhuang Jihua smiled bitterly: "What do you say, say that your children are killing the enemy on the front line, and I will come back first." Or what, I'll come back and rest for a few days before I go? Our ferry ticket was originally bought at Guanyin Bridge, so let's get off at Guanyin Bridge. ”

Wu Ziniu was also silent now, he remembered Lu Ruishan, Zhuang Jihua specially asked Lu Ruishan's opinion before leaving, and was willing to go back with him, Lu Ruishan hesitated for a long time and still did not agree, on the contrary, he proposed to go to the front line of the combat troops, Zhuang Jihua simply assigned his guard brigade (leaving a battalion) to Liao Yaoxiang's new 22nd Division.

There was silence in the cabin, the madness became very depressed, and the people on the shore also looked at each other, and there were many discussions, this time there were not only people from Yucheng City Political Axe, but also some institutions of the Central Committee of the National Political Axe, Sichuan Provincial Political Axe, and people from the Yucheng business community, they got Zhuang Jihua to take the ship of the Minsheng Company back to Yucheng, and they prepared the welcome ceremony early, but they didn't expect that the ship docked and could not see Zhuang Jihua get off the boat, these people discussed left and right, whether the news was wrong.

Lu Zuofu also felt strange, the telegram he got said that Zhuang Jihua was in Yucheng today, so he specially rushed back from Dianjiang.

"Director Lu, is there a mistake, is Chairman Zhuang not today's ship?"

Lu Zuofu smiled bitterly: "Everyone, let me get on the boat and see if Chairman Zhuang has disembarked somewhere else." ”

After speaking, Lu Zuofu hurriedly got on the boat, found the captain, and heard the news of Zhuang Jihua from the captain, thinking in his heart, knowing that something bad was wrong, Zhuang Jihua has always disliked to be sent to the ship, and the Southwest Development Team has a clear rule that if you don't send it when you go out, you won't pick it up when you come back. Isn't this one on the shore a taboo?

(To be continued)