He Jia's question was very specialized, but Han Yunhua still gave a very appropriate answer: "How to say that it is biased, our army achieved an unprecedented victory during the Battle of Saibei, but it cannot be said that our army's combat effectiveness completely surpassed the elite of the Japanese North China Front, on the contrary, in terms of pure combat effectiveness, our army is still far from being as elite as the main force of the Japanese army." ”

He Jia's twin sister He Yaqi said: "What's going on, your combat effectiveness is not as good as others, why did you defeat so many Japanese troops?" ”

Han Yunhua looked at He Ya who asked the question, this He Ya gave him a very strange feeling, Han Yunhua can be very sure that He Ya is definitely not a reporter, although there is no flaw in the question she asked, but the way she asked the question is not like a professional reporter raised it, but more like a neighbor *** to the big brother coquettish.

Han Yunhua replied with a smile: "This is the difference between tactics and strategy, in terms of tactics, that is, at the level of every battle, the Japanese army occupies almost all the initiative, but at the strategic level, the Japanese army during the Battle of Saibei was completely led by our army, which is also one of the most important factors that determine the victory or defeat of the Japanese army." Therefore, the defeat of the Japanese army did not mean that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army was inferior to that of our army, but because the high-ranking generals of the Japanese army had a narrow strategic vision and dull tactics. Although our army won a decisive victory in the Battle of Saibei, it recovered Guisui, Baotou, Jining and other cities. However, the casualties of our army were also extremely heavy, and such casualties were painful and bone-wracking, and without the full support of the Party Central Committee and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, it would have been impossible for our army to recover its vitality in such a short period of time. ”

Next, He Jia asked again: "I wonder what General Han thinks about the prospects of the war?" ”

Han Yunhua thought for a while and said: "This question has been asked to me by many people, but my answer is the same every time, although the strength of the Japanese army is stronger than us in all aspects, this is definitely not a reason for us to retreat." As a soldier, we must be full of desire for victory, and enthusiasm is the real motivation of a soldier. We must persist in resisting Japan, and that is not something we can give up if we say we will give up, and the 5,000-year-old historical inheritance of the Chinese nation must never be severed in our area. And we must also be full of hope for the future, although the Japanese army is rampant now, but the reality of the island country limits the strength of its outward expansion, just by relying on the domestic production of those materials can withstand how many major wars, and Japan's rapidly declining economy can support Japan and China to fight against the youth. Therefore, in order to survive, to develop, and to the millions of people behind us, we must straighten up and fight bravely. ”

Han Yunhua's generous speech won the warm applause of the three beautiful reporters, and just as the He sisters and Fan Yun continued to ask questions, Wei Peng ran in and said loudly: "Report sir, the front-line scouts have sent an urgent military situation. ”

Han Yunhua said sorry to the three reporters, and then walked towards the conference room with Wei Peng.

After entering the conference room, Han Yunhua asked urgently, "What are the actions of the Japanese army?" ”

Wang Yuanhua said: "Just now, the scouts used the radio to send urgent information, saying that the two main divisions of the Japanese army and a scattered unit, with a total strength of about 58,000 people, had arrived at Madang Fortress. The scouts recognized four detachments, including the 16th Division, the 9th Division, and the Hatian Detachment. ”

Han Yunhua stared at the map and said, "Order Li Dayong and Wan Guoquan in Hukou to gather immediately and hand over the defense area to the 26th Division of the Sichuan Army, and the main force of our army will immediately rush to the front line of Pengze to standby." But Li Dayong and Wan Guoquan were not allowed to enter the city, and they were allowed to hide in the mountains on the outskirts of Pengze County, waiting for orders at any time. ”

Han Yunhua is now starting to be a little worried, because the soldiers of his department have continuously attacked the Japanese army, and along the way, there are 7 strongholds of the Japanese army, and now they even occupy the county seat of Pengze, although they have achieved brilliant results. But it also led to Han Yunhua's division being a little lonely, and now Han Yunhua's department has a division of the 74th Army on the flank, followed by the 26th Division of the Sichuan Army. Although it seems that there are no worries, in fact, these two troops have extremely important defensive tasks, and once something happens, they may not be able to mobilize troops to rescue Han Yunhua's department.

Han Yunhua was a person who had taken precautions, and at the same time he sent a telegram to Chen Cheng when he dispatched his troops, he reported to him about the situation at the front line, and at the same time hoped that the Nationalist Government would transfer the 77th Independent Brigade to rest and recuperate. ,

Chen Cheng also considered that Han Yunhua's troops had been fighting with the Japanese army for more than ten consecutive days, and the casualties of the troops must be very serious, so he agreed to Han Yunhua's request. At the same time, the main force of Xue Yue's first corps also arrived at the Hukou fortress, so Chen Cheng ordered Han Yunhua's department to hand over the defense area to Xue Yue's department, and the troops and horses of the department withdrew to Jiujiang to rest, and the Nationalist Government promised that the supplies of Han Yunhua's department would also stop in Jiujiang, and at the same time, the Nationalist Government allocated a battalion of infantry to Han Yunhua's department.

Han Yunhua knew that Pengze County would not be the main battlefield of the war in a short time, and at that time, with the consistent strategy of the national government's use of troops, Han Yunhua did not know how many soldiers and horses would be left after the end of the war. Moreover, Han Yunhua has always not advocated that troops guard a certain city or strategic place and wait for others to fight, so it is not his Han Yunhua's style to be beaten passively.

It was Xue Yue himself who came to hand over the position, and this time Xue Yue led four fully equipped infantry divisions to take over the position of Han Yunhua's department. Xue Yue's current mood was not nervous, let alone excited, only a faint disappointment and depression. A month ago, with the dust of the battlefield and the inextricable resentment that was difficult to resolve, Xue Yue hurried to the wartime capital Wuhan with a part of the main force of his department from the battlefield of Lanfeng, which was filled with gunpowder.

Xue Yue's visit was ordered by Chiang Kai-shek to attend the highest military meeting of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government to deploy the Battle of Wuhan. However, all of a sudden, from the front line of artillery fire, he suddenly found himself in the bustling metropolis of Wuhan, and Xue Yue felt that it was difficult to adapt for a while. His thoughts were still wandering thousands of miles away on the bloody Lanfeng battlefield.

These days, the unforgettable scene of the Lanfeng battlefield is like a nightmare in his mind. As soon as he closed his eyes, Tu Fei Yuan's strange smirk lingered in front of his eyes, and the Lan Feng battlefield and Tu Fei Yuan Kenji and his 14th Division became a thorn in Xue Yue's heart that could never be pulled out.

The great victory of Taierzhuang, the heroic sacrifice and battle of Li Zongren, the commander of the Fifth Theater, and hundreds of thousands of miscellaneous troops in the Fifth Theater raised Chiang Kai-shek's head from the frustration of a series of defeats. After the great victory in Taierzhuang, Chiang Kai-shek, whose tactical level was average and his strategic level was even worse, suddenly became hot-headed and decided to fight a few more great victories like Taierzhuang on the Shandong battlefield in one go. So, in a very short period of time, Chiang Kai-shek mobilized 50 divisions and 600,000 elite troops to gather in Xuzhou, which was almost all the elite infantry of the squadron, and had the courage to fight with the Japanese army.

In fact, the stubborn resistance of the squadron made the Japanese base camp lose its troops, become angry and embarrassed, and lose face in front of the world. Taierzhuang was defeated, and out of face, they mobilized the army to launch the Battle of Xuzhou. The Japanese army was ashamed of Xuetai Erzhuang, gathered about 300,000 people in 13 and a half divisions, equipped with all kinds of sophisticated heavy weapons, and adopted the tactics of flanking from the north and south, and surrounded Xuzhou in five ways, in an attempt to annihilate the main force of the squadron in one fell swoop and completely destroy Chiang Kai-shek's will to resist Japan.

However, at this time, Chiang Kai-shek suddenly remembered what the genius military strategist Jiang Baili had told him about China's Turkish defense: "The quality of the weapons and soldiers of the squadron is inferior to that of Japan, and this is an unavoidable objective reality, therefore, we must try to avoid a decisive battle with the enemy on the northern plain, where there is no danger to rely on, and try by all means to force the main force of the Japanese army to change the offensive line, and attract the main offensive route of the Japanese army from the north-south route of northeast → north China→ central China→ south China to the east-west route up the Yangtze River. In this way, we can make full use of the mountains and lakes and marshes along the river to eliminate the advantages of the Japanese army in weapons training. Although Japan has a strong army, it has fatal weaknesses: Japan has a small population and insufficient soldiers; The land is small and resources are scarce; The country's weak strength is not conducive to long-term warfare. And the Chinese population is large and the soldiers are sufficient; The territory is vast and rich in resources. Based on this, Japan can only adopt a strategic policy of a quick victory in the war against China. We should do the opposite, be prepared to fight a protracted war, exchange space for time, and drag Japan down through the consumption of time. The specific method is to drag the Japanese army into the second ridge of China's geography, that is, the junction of Hunan and Sichuan, and engage in a decisive battle with the Japanese army......"

When Chiang Kai-shek realized that he had put his 600,000 troops in a plain with no danger to rely on to fight a decisive battle with the well-equipped Japanese army, which was tantamount to sending meat to the anvil and causing fire to self-harm, he broke out in a cold sweat and quickly broke through and threw the empty city of Xuzhou to the Japanese army.

However, at the critical juncture of the breakthrough of Xuzhou, Xue Yue, who was the former commander-in-chief of the enemy in the First Theater, was extremely pleasantly surprised to find that among the Japanese troops of the Fifth Route who surrounded Xuzhou, more than 20,000 people of the 14th Division of Tufeiyuan actually broke away from the main force and crossed the Yellow River to the south, intending to cut off the Longhai Road and prevent the Kuomintang troops from advancing eastward to reinforce the Zhengzhou and Kaifeng lines. ,

Xue Yue, who was proficient in tactical command, knew that this was the "cone tactic" that the Japanese army used to break through alone. After the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the arrogant Japanese army did not take the squadron seriously, and their iron hooves were rampaging on Chinese soil, and there was no longer any taboo for soldiers. It seems that the fiasco of Taierzhuang did not make them learn much. It can be said that a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and immediately appeared in front of Xue Yue, this unexpected discovery made Xue Yue excited, and Xue Yue decided to seize the opportunity and eat the soil and fertilizer.

Xue Yue, a 42-year-old Cantonese general, was brave and knowledgeable, and was known for his shrewdness and courage in his soldiers, and was called "Tiger Cub" by the people of the time. Xue Yue's style of commanding operations is bold and pungent, he is good at the ever-changing and dangerous battlefield, tightly choking the occasional flaws of the opponent, boldly capturing the fighters, and ingeniously creating a decisive battle environment, so as to eat the opponent in one bite when the enemy is caught off guard. This Tufei Plain who dared to venture alone, Xue Yue knew him well.

Tu Feiyuan was a notorious spy in the Japanese army invading China, and his bad deeds were outrageous: he was the mastermind of the "918" incident; The puppet state of Manchukuo was established, and he was the culprit; hijacked Pu Yi as a puppet emperor, and he single-handedly planned it; North China's independence was manipulated by him behind the scenes...... Now Tu Feiyuan has appeared on the battlefield as a soldier again. Westerners even compared him to Lawrence, the great spy who was famous in the West, and called him "Lawrence of the East". Xue Yue thought, it doesn't matter if you are Tu Feiyuan or Lawrence, as long as you dare to appear in front of me with open fire, I will dare to eat you

Sadly, at this time, although everyone called Tu Feiyuan "China Tong", he knew very little about the current opponent named Xue Yue. In his huge head information bank, the information about Xue Yue, a short, short-tempered southern Chinese general, could even be said to be blank.

Xue Yue's plan to encircle and annihilate Tufeiyuan was immediately approved by Chiang Kai-shek.

Chiang Kai-shek admired Xue Yue's courage and vision, at this time, he was still thinking about a little Jiujiu in his heart, and Xue Yue's plan was exactly what he wanted. Chiang Kai-shek didn't want Li Zongren to be too glamorous, he wanted to let his henchman Xue Yue enjoy this delicacy exclusively. Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Li Zongren to avoid the decisive battle, evacuate Xuzhou, and quickly break through; While personally flying to the headquarters of Cheng Qian, the commander of the first theater in Zhengzhou, he sang the leading role point-in-cheek.

Chiang Kai-shek had a long history of meddling in the commands of the generals in front of him, and whenever a battle came to a critical point, their beloved chairman always liked to point fingers and add chaos to his busy schedule. As the supreme commander-in-chief, he has always liked to skip the command. No matter how big or small, he always had to stick a rod into the end, and sometimes he had to personally inquire about the transfer of a division, which made the senior generals who commanded the war at the front feel in the way and hurt their brains. In the eyes of all the high-ranking generals of the Nationalist Government, including Xue Yue, if the chairman of the committee did not interfere in the command of the front line, and after the strategic deployment was issued, he would let the generals take command, how good it would be; strategically, the chairman of the committee was undoubtedly a great strategist, not to mention anything else, after the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance, he boldly accepted Jiang Baili's suggestion, and tried by all means to force the main force of the Japanese army to change the offensive line, and attracted the main offensive route of the Japanese army from the north-south route of northeast→ north China→ central China→, and south China to the east-west route along the Yangtze River. On this point alone, the chairman's decision-making can be called brilliant. But overstepping the command of the battle is not the business of a wise leader, which will cause a lot of inconvenience to the forward commander.

Chiang Kai-shek not only fully agreed with his plan of encirclement and annihilation, but also generously handed over the two well-equipped descendants of Gui Yongqing's 27th Army and Huang Jie's 8th Army to Xue Yue's command. In this way, together with Li Hansoul's 64th Army, Yu Jishi's 74th Army, Shang Zhen's 32nd Army, Song Xilian's 71st Army, and Hu Zongnan's 17th Army, which was ordered to rush from Xi'an, Xue Yue actually had 100,000 troops in his hands.

Xue Yue mobilized 100,000 troops and firmly surrounded more than 20,000 people of the 14th Division of Tufeiyuan in the Lanfeng area of eastern Henan. At dawn on August 20, the battle to encircle and annihilate Tufeiyuan finally started according to the expected time, and Xue Yue commanded an army of 100,000 troops to launch a fierce attack on the 14th Division of Tufeiyuan, and the fierce battle lasted for several days.

Just when the armies from all walks of life frequently reported good news and Tufeiyuan was about to be destroyed, who knew that at this juncture, it was Gui Yongqing's 27th Army and Huang Jie's Eighth Army that had a problem. First of all, Gui Yongqing couldn't resist the crazy counterattack of Tufeiyuan, who was still fighting in the trapped beasts, and the position of the 27th Army was broken through, Gui Yongqing handed over a warrant to Long Muhan, the commander of the 86th Division, and ordered him to defend Lanfeng, but he slipped away from the battlefield. Long Muhan saw Gui Yongqing fleeing from the battlefield, and then he also abandoned the city and fled. As soon as Lan Feng was lost, Xue Yue's tight net was torn in an instant, and the 14th Division of Tufeiyuan, which had become a turtle in the urn, hurriedly fled from the hole torn open by the big net. ,

Xue Yue hurriedly readjusted his deployment, strictly ordered all the troops to fight to the death, and once again entangled Tufeiyuan, who had escaped from the encirclement, and forced him into a desperate situation. Tu Feiyuan tasted enough of Xue Yue's power, he was shocked every day, and had a premonition that a catastrophe was coming, just when Xue Yue was preparing to annihilate Tu Feiyuan with the final blow, it was Chiang Kai-shek's descendants who betrayed him, and Huang Jie's Eighth Army defended Guide fell into the hands of the enemy. With the loss of Guide, Xue Yue's plan to encircle and annihilate Tufeiyuan was abandoned, and his 100,000-strong army immediately faced the danger of being attacked on his back, and the situation on the battlefield turned tense sharply. The two generals of the lineage fled from the battle, and Xue Yue jumped like thunder. He scolded Gui Yongqing and Huang Jie viciously in his heart: If it weren't for these two wastes, the 14th Division of Tufeiyuan would have been sent by me to see the king of Hades

Xue Yue knew that the reason why Gui Yongqing and Huang Jie dared to be so presumptuous was because they relied on being Chiang Kai-shek's descendant and didn't take him Xue Yue seriously at all. According to Xue Yue's temper, he should have shot these two bastards at the moment, if he didn't make an example, how could this battle continue

Xue Yue sent several harshly worded urgent telegrams to the Wuhan Military Commission, requesting that Gui Yongqing and Huang Jie be severely punished and disciplined: "Gui Yongqing, the commander of the 27th Army, was greedy for life and afraid of death, cowered in battle, and refused to carry out the order to defend the city, causing Lan to close the city and fall into the hands of the Japanese chieftain Tu Feiyuan without a fight, disrupting the entire plan of our first war zone. If such despicable performance is not punished, it will disturb the morale of the officers and men on the front line and cause great harm to the overall situation of the War of Resistance Against Japan. I hope that the Military Commission will check it at its discretion. Xue Yue knocked. ”

However, no one expected that Gui Yongqing, commander of the 27th Army, and Huang Jie, commander of the Eighth Army, escaped from the battle, but they were only dismissed from their posts and investigated. If it had been someone else, he would have become the chairman of the committee, just because they were the chairman of the committee's descendants, but they were only dismissed from their posts and investigated, and the commander of the 86th Division, Long Muhan, was made a scapegoat, and was executed by Chairman Jiang for the crime of ineffective combat.

Originally, the task of Xue Yue's first corps this time was to defend the railway line from Nanchang to Jiujiang, which is also known as the Nanxun line. However, due to the continuous large-scale actions of Han Yunhua's headquarters in the Hukou area, the Japanese Eleventh Army was dizzy, so it had to quickly shrink its forces to prevent the squadron from taking the opportunity to counterattack. In view of the "heavy losses" of Han Yunhua's department, the Wuhan Garrison Headquarters urgently transferred the main force of Xue Yue's First Corps to Pengze County.

In fact, the two divisions of Xue Yue's division set out from Wuhan very early and rushed to the front line at Hukou, but the train on which the troops were traveling was blown up by Japanese planes in Huanggang, so Xue Yue's two divisions had to rush to Hukou on foot. After the two infantry divisions of Xue Yuetong's department in Jiujiang turned around, they quickly rushed to Hukou by train to take over the defense.

Han Yunhua still recognizes Xue Yue's command ability, and there are really a lot of high-ranking generals in the national government that Han Yunhua admires, but the most popular ones for Han Yunhua are Chen Cheng and Li Zongren and General Xue, who was called "tiger cub" by Chiang Kai-shek. In modern Chinese history, Xue Yue is an extraordinarily complex and controversial figure, and although he has been sealed in a coffin, it is difficult to determine. Against the Japanese invaders, he was a general who shocked the enemy and a well-deserved national hero. In following Chiang Kai-shek's anti-people activities, he was again a sinner of history.

However, politics and stance aside, Xue Yueqi's strategic and tactical command ability alone is indeed something that few people can compete with. Xue Yue fought bravely, resolutely and fearlessly, and was deeply loved by Chiang Kai-shek.

Xue Yue became the favorite general of Chiang Kai-shek, the big winner, in that era when the banner changed and the warlords competed against each other. At that time, Chiang Kai-shek had a unique vision, and took this little-known general of the Cantonese army into his pocket, and entrusted him with important tasks. For Chiang Kai-shek's kindness, Xue Yue naturally reciprocated.

Over the years, Xue Yue has followed Chiang Kai-shek's killing and conquest, and his footprints have traveled all over the country, he is Chiang Kai-shek's right-hand man's favorite general, where the battle is the hardest, where is the focus of the battlefield, he will appear there. "encircled and suppressed" the Red Army, he was unrelenting, and owed a lot of blood debts; Resisting Japan and killing the enemy, he strategized and made many miracles.

Han Yunhua still knows a lot about Xue Yue's life, although Xue Yue, a Kuomintang general, brought great losses to ** during the ten-year confrontation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and the Liberation War, and also committed unforgivable crimes. However, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he established great military exploits and made immortal achievements for the nation and the country. Among the high-ranking Kuomintang generals with bright stars and talents, Xue Yue was known for his distinctive personality and ability to fight well, and he was recognized by the historical circles as the famous anti-Japanese general who annihilated the Japanese army the most in the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and was a well-deserved "No. 1 general in the anti-Japanese war." Tsuchihara, Okamura Ninji, Sakagaki Seishiro and other vicious Japanese war criminals were all defeated by his men. Because of his outstanding military achievements, Xue Yue was ranked as a four-star "first-class general" of the Kuomintang Army, which was equivalent to the rank of marshal. In the upcoming Battle of Wuhan and the subsequent Battle of Changsha, Xue Yue successfully commanded the "Wanjialing Victory" and the three "Battle of Changsha" that shocked China and the rest of the world. Therefore, handing over the position to Xue Yue, Han Yunhua was still very relieved. ,

Although Han Yunhua knew that the troops in his hands were still very sufficient, and he was not without a fight with the Japanese army on the front line of Hukou, Han Yunhua knew that the Japanese army had gathered a large number of troops in Shanghai, Nanjing and other places, and could support the troops in Wuhan at any time. And the part of the Botian detachment stranded in Taiwan has also reached Madang Fortress, so that the Japanese troops of the Hatian detachment, which is at the brigade level, have expanded rapidly, and now it has reached a jaw-dropping point. In the military sequence of the Japanese attack on Wuhan, the Potian detachment was known for its toughness and bravery, and its ferocity. The Potian detachment is called a brigade, with more than 20,000 troops, and with the coordination and cooperation of naval and air forces, its strength is far superior to that of a division of the Japanese army. However, the Japanese base camp still had some concerns about the Hatian detachment, which had a large proportion of Taiwanese locals, so a brigade of the Nuoda was simply divided into two combat groups, one was the forward unit of five infantry brigades, one artillery brigade, and one light and heavy battalion led by the head of the Hata detachment, Hatada Shigeichi, with a total strength of about 6,500 men. The other is two infantry wings, an artillery wing, and a tank brigade under the direct jurisdiction of the Central China Front Command. The Central China Front Headquarters is fighting Major General Shigeichi Harata and losing one man, so I will give you another soldier, but I will definitely not transfer all this Chinese-Japanese mixed race troops to the periphery of Wuhan, because it is easy to have an accident.

Major General Shigeichi Harata is a cool-headed, resourceful and decisive player, and good at attacking, making him a rare general. Because of his outstanding military achievements, Shigeichi Harata was quickly promoted, and although he was still a brigade commander, he was about to be promoted to the rank of lieutenant general, and his friends in Tokyo had telegraphed to congratulate him that the headquarters had submitted the order to promote him to lieutenant general to His Majesty the Emperor. In this way, Major General Shigeichi Harata had a rank one level higher than the commander of the general brigade of the Japanese army, which was rare among officers of the same rank in the Japanese army. The reason why the Japanese base camp did this was entirely because most of the officers and men of the Potian detachment were Taiwanese youths and adapted to the tropical climate. The strength and bravery of the Hatada detachment was well known among the Japanese army, and the Japanese army headquarters transferred the Hatian detachment from Taiwan with the intention of making it play a role in the battle of Wuhan, which was fought in the scorching heat.

In addition, the Japanese base camp deliberately divided the Hakuda detachment into two attack groups, so in order to appease the Japanese officers of the Hakuda detachment, the base camp deliberately promoted most of the officers of the Hakuda detachment to the rank of one rank. After the First Sino-Japanese War, China was defeated and forced to cede Taiwan to Japan, and Taiwan thus became Japan's "territory," and the Taiwanese became the "subjects" of the emperor.

However, due to the strong attack of Han Yunhua's headquarters, the main force of the Third Fleet and one and a half infantry brigades of the front troops of the Hatian detachment were quickly annihilated, so the Japanese base camp had to adjust the battle plan and transfer the vast majority of the troops of the Hatian detachment to Madang Fortress to restore the original combat effectiveness of the Potian detachment.

Originally, he thought that he had offended someone, so he reduced his main brigade commander, who had more than 20,000 people in his hands, to an ordinary brigade commander with only more than 6,000 people. A few days ago, he was worried about replenishing troops and upgrading his ranks, but now in just a few days, all these things have been realized.