In early November 1938, Chiang Js presided over a military conference at Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 In addition to high-ranking generals from various departments of the Central Military Commission and the whole country, more than 100 officers at and above the division commander level of the Third and Fifth Theaters were also notified to attend the meeting as observers. Zhou El and the chief of staff of the 18th Army also took part in the meeting. The main agenda of the military conference was to sum up the lessons and lessons of the first phase of the operation and determine the strategic guidelines for the second phase of the War of Resistance.

At this meeting, Jiang JS divided the War of Resistance against Japan into two periods: from the Lugou Bridge Incident to the fall of Wuhan as the first period; After that, until the end of the Sino-Japanese War, it was the second period.

In order to adapt to this big war stall, it is convenient to command operations. At the meeting, Jiang JS reformed the army system, abolishing the two levels of corps and corps, and taking the army as the basic unit of combat; Xi'an, Guangxi, Chongqing and other camps were cancelled, and two camps were set up in Tianshui and Guilin. Cheng Qian and Bai Chongxi were appointed as the directors of the camp. Under the Supreme Command, Generals Cheng and Bai Er were responsible for commanding the two major battlefields in the north and south respectively.

At the same time, Chiang also redivided the national theater of operations and adjusted the deployment of troops. The country is divided into ten theaters, as well as two theaters, Jicha and Sulu.

In order to support and train the development and growth of the guerrilla forces behind enemy lines, Chairman Chiang decided at this military meeting that on the front-line battlefield, it is necessary to constantly take the initiative to attack the Japanese army and attract the main force and attention of the Japanese army to the front line, so as to reduce the pressure on the guerrilla forces behind enemy lines.

This move played a certain positive role in the development of the Kuomintang guerrilla forces behind enemy lines and on the development of the Communist Party's anti-Japanese forces behind enemy lines. Of course, the development and growth of the people's anti-war forces contained and consumed a considerable number of Japanese troops and puppet armies, and in turn, played a decisive role in promoting the final victory of the anti-Japanese war.

Finally, Chairman Chiang also ordered: Starting from the beginning of 1939, the troops in all theaters on the Yangtze River should reorganize and train in stages and batches to replenish their personnel and equipment, and by the end of 1939, all the troops in the theater should complete their training and prepare for a counteroffensive.

These are relatively vague strategic plans and arrangements, which are not military secrets, and with so many participants, there are no secrets to keep. Ma Yuming revealed to Yang Tianfeng that he was also close to his cousin.

However, Yang Tianfeng figured out from it the general reason why Ma Yuming wanted to delay the use of new weapons in actual combat, but this was too nonsense, and when the counteroffensive was launched at the end of 1939, how many things would have to be delayed?

"There are drawings and detailed descriptions of the manufacturing process, which is different from reverse imitation starting from the part, and the time will not be delayed for a long time." Yang Tianfeng analyzed and explained the difficulties emphasized by Ma Yuming: "With the machinery, equipment, and technical personnel that have been largely relocated to the rear, we will be able to form a production scale in one month at most, and with another month of training technical troops, we will be able to equip the troops and enter actual combat in two or three months." Brother Ma thinks long-term, but the Japanese army will not wait, the war will soon break out again, without steel fists, won't it be another defeat? Now that the morale of the people is low, can the government withstand the bad effects of another major defeat? ”

"The Great War?" Ma Yuming didn't believe Yang Tianfeng's statement, shook his head lightly and said: "The Japanese army occupies Wuhan and Guangzhou, and the strength has reached the limit of use. At present, the Japanese Army has only one Guards Division in China, while in China it has 24 divisions and regiments, and has basically lost the ability to continue the offensive. According to the information we have obtained, the Japanese Emperor has just convened a base camp meeting in Tokyo and formulated new strategic guidelines for the Sino-Japanese War: first, the Japanese army will change from a strategic offensive stage to a long-term and protracted war stage; Secondly, the Japanese army should take local operations in order to secure the occupied area. In the future, Japan's main task will be to 'independently guide the construction of New China.'" ”

"Independently guide the construction of New China"? Yang Tianfeng thought that if the Japanese army wanted to re-establish a nationwide central power, it would inevitably look for a suitable candidate. Wang Jingwei, this big traitor is about to appear!

The thought flashed, Yang Tianfeng was not ready to say anything, and no one believed what he said, Wang Jingwei was the second person in the national government after Chairman Jiang. What is the basis for saying that he wants to take refuge with the Japanese?

Turning his gaze to the map on the table, Yang Tianfeng smiled faintly, stretched out his pencil and clicked on the location of Wuhan, and said: "Brother Ma, please look, this is the current situation of the enemy around Wuhan, if you are a Japanese commander, will you feel comfortable, will you feel at ease?" Look here, look here......"

After the capture of Wuhan, Okamura Ninji's 11th Army could not relax its vigilance, and even faced a serious situation.

If the point of Wuhan, where more than 300,000 troops of Okamura Ningji's 11th Army is stationed, is compared to a person's head, then Hefei to Wuhu is like this person's body, and the long waterway from Wuhu to Wuhan is exactly this person's neck, a "neck" that has been pulled to be extraordinarily long.

And in the "neck" of the Okamura army was stuck a "steel knife". This is the army of more than 50 divisions of Chen Cheng and Xue Yue in the Ninth War Zone. They were deployed to the west of Poyang Lake in the south of the Yangtze River, relying on Jiugong Mountain and Mufu Mountain, and had been actively reorganizing and preparing for a counteroffensive, and they could cut off the "neck" of Okamura's army (the Yangtze River waterway communication line) at any time, so that the Japanese army in Wuhan fell into a heavy encirclement and death.

In the west and north of Wuhan, there were more than 30 divisions of Li Zongren's Fifth Theater, which were building positions in the area around Suixian near the first line of the Japanese army, and peeking at the city of Wuhan in front of them.

Under the pressure of this "knife" and "hammer", the 11th Army looked very cramped, unable to stretch out its legs and show its hands.

“…… Of these two major threats, the Ninth Theater is the most serious. Yang Tianfeng threw his pencil on the map with a snap, leaned back, and sneered: "Before achieving self-sufficiency and supporting the war with war, the Yangtze River waterway transportation is the lifeline of hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops in Wuhan, and it must be ensured." If I were Okamura, I would launch a big attack, stretch out, and drive out the biggest threat. ”

Ma Yuming blinked, staring at the surrounding situation of the Yangtze River on the map. Although Yang Tianfeng was right-headed and reasonable, he didn't believe it much.

"Brother Yang's strategic vision is really amazing!" Ma Yuming half-truthfully complimented: "Gao Jian, it is really Gao Jian." Ma will definitely report this analysis and judgment immediately, so that our army can prepare in advance. If the Japanese army really had an operation against the Ninth Theater, then the new weapons did not have to be hidden, and they would definitely give the Japanese army a head-on blow. ”

"That's what I meant." Yang Tianfeng pondered for a moment and said, "Three or four months, I don't think I have to wait until the end of the year to use it when the big counteroffensive comes!" (To be continued.) )