Liu Yimin's efforts still worked, the development of the Zhang Gufeng incident was very different from history, and I don't know where the Soviet army got the information, anyway, they had a clear understanding of the deployment of the Korean army, the Pacific Fleet of the Soviet Red Navy tightly blocked the mouth of the Tumen River, and the Soviet Red Army Air Force dispatched hundreds of planes, not only bombing the battlefield, but even the headquarters of the 19th Division, the main force of the Korean Army, was bombed. The guards and equipment were all bombed, including the brigade headquarters and the wing headquarters under the 19th Division of the Chinese Army. The whole battle lasted until August 20, and it was not until August 25 that the Soviet Union signed an armistice.

That's enough, at this time, the work of transferring war readiness materials and factories from Wuhan to the rear has already reached a later stage, and one more day will give you one more chance. The reorganization and training of the troops has also achieved phased results, and its combat effectiveness has been restored and improved, which is different from the urgent situation before the Wuhan Battle in history.

The Zhang Gufeng incident has taught the Yue Jun a profound lesson. Before the start of the war, Emperor Hirohito did not sign the War Department's request for instructions, and after the 1st Division of the 19th Division, the main force of the Korean Army, captured the Zhanggufeng area, Emperor Hirohito's attitude took a 180-degree turn, repeatedly telling his bastard subordinates that as long as they stuck to the defensive line, they must not expand the scale of the war, which was tantamount to acquiescing to the actions of the 19th Division. When the Soviet army counterattacked on a large scale, saying that the supply of troops and soldiers could not be guaranteed, and the losses were heavy, Emperor Hirohito panicked and strictly ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to immediately negotiate with the Soviet side to stabilize the defense line and stop the conflict. Finally, an armistice agreement was signed between the two sides, and Emperor Hirohito immediately convened a meeting of the Imperial Court.

Although it was a hot summer, Emperor Hirohito's eyes were as cold as the ice strips of the cold winter wax moon, and swept straight to the faces of Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace and Prime Minister Fumima Konoe, so frightened that the two of them kept kowtowing on the ground, and the sweat and blood marks on their heads were mixed together, which was indescribably dirty and ugly.

After a long time, Emperor Hirohito said coldly: "I have repeatedly said that what matters is not what we do, but what the international community thinks of us." Well, now a small Zhang Gufeng will make the head of the North Korean army bleed, which is simply a shame! ”

In Konoe Fumima's view, Emperor Hirohito's anger was inevitable, and he said that the empire itself should not fight on two fronts, and the most important thing at present was to occupy Wuhan and Guangzhou, completely destroy Chiang Kai-shek's will to resist, and end the war as soon as possible, otherwise, the heavy burden of war would crush the empire's economy.

The old devil Konoe Furuma felt that it was time for him to speak, raised his head and glanced at Emperor Hirohito's face first, and felt that it was still so cold, so he said: "It's not impossible for the North Korean army to test the attack to the north, the key is not the time. Now that the war in China has not achieved its desired goals, the army should focus on capturing Wuhan and destroying the will of the Chinese to resist, rather than repeating the incident. Although the Russians are our natural enemies, now is not the time to settle accounts with them. ”

Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Palace, this old bastard's beard is gray, and he has already reached the age of tears and coughing and fart, but this old bastard died in China some time ago, and then the North Korean army suffered a defeat at Zhang Gufeng, and he was extremely depressed. As soon as he heard Konoe Fumima say this, the old bastard of Prince Zairen of the Xianyuan Palace raised his head and said in a protest voice: "The tentative attack of the Korean army is not a failure, at best it is a draw with the Russians. How can Your Excellency the Prime Minister say that? ”

Konoe Funma knew in his heart that in addition to the emperor, Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace was the most powerful, and he, the prime minister, was just making money for the emperor and Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace, preparing for the preparation of grain, grass and munitions, but the clay man also had a three-point blood surname. As soon as he heard that Prince Zaihito of the Idle Yuan Palace actually refuted him, Konoe Fumima immediately ridiculed him: "Your Royal Highness, I remember that the army swore at that time that it would destroy China in three months. Now that it has been a year since the start of the war, the army has not only failed to fulfill its original oath, but has sacrificed so many Yamato's children, and even the imperial economy has been burdened with a heavy burden. In particular, it was purely strategically immature for the army generals to launch an attack on the Soviet Union at the critical moment when they were about to launch the Wuhan Offensive Campaign, regardless of the overall situation. ”

Before Konoe Fumima could finish speaking, Emperor Hirohito interrupted him with a wave of his hand, not allowing him to say more.

Prince Zaihito's beard was about to be cocked, and he pointed at Konoe Fumima, his lips trembling. However, the emperor's face was as gloomy as a rainy day, and the old bastard did not dare to touch his head openly, and his lips trembled, but he still stubbornly held back his words.

Emperor Hirohito coldly glanced at several ministers again, then coughed and said: "At the time of the Great War, His Excellency the Prime Minister and His Excellency the Chief of the General Staff accused each other, this is not the way to cooperate with civil and military!" ”

Emperor Hirohito said this, Konoe Fumima and Prince Zaihito of the Kanin Palace two old devils glanced at each other, and they didn't know whether they were mocking each other or hating each other in this eye, anyway, both of them made a review of the emperor and expressed their loyalty.

Waiting for the performance of the two right-hand men to end, Emperor Hirohito's gloomy face could be regarded as a hint of flushing, and he said viciously: "The Zhang Gufeng incident is not entirely a bad thing, at least it proves one problem, that is, the Soviets are fierce on the surface, but in fact they are not ready to attack us. If they plan to attack us, with the strength of a division of the Korean army, they will not be able to stop them at all. From this point of view, the issue of going north still needs to be observed and studied again. Now that the Soviets' intentions have been preliminarily discovered, we can let go of the Wuhan Raider. ”

Saying this, several old devils all said yes and hay continuously, and Konoe Fumima was even so moved that snot and saliva flowed down together, and his mouth kept chanting, "His Majesty the Emperor!" ”

Even Shanshan Yuan, who had been pretending to be confused and watching the excitement on the side, said: "From a historical point of view, as long as you capture Wuhan, you can dominate China." Through the Battle of Wuhan, we can achieve the goal of resolving most of the Chinese incidents by force. As long as Wuhan is controlled, the Chiang regime can be expelled from the Central Plains and the Chiang regime can be reduced to a local power."

Emperor Hirohito raised the frame of his glasses with satisfaction, and there was a hint of coldness in Sven's tone, like a snake letter of a poisonous snake: "I don't want to see the millions of imperial lions subject to China, and I am determined to concentrate all the forces of the empire and immediately launch the Wuhan Raid." The purpose of this battle was to deal a fatal blow to China's political axe and force China to surrender. In order to achieve this goal, the whole empire must exert all its might, stop the transfer of all units of the army in China, mobilize 200,000 conscripts again in China, and add the 10 divisions and regiments previously formed for the Battle of Wuhan to replenish the strength of 400,000 troops, so as to ensure that the front-line troops can replenish their losses in battle. The political axe arranged a budget of at least 3 billion yuan for the Wuhan Raid to ensure the needs of the operation. ”

At this moment, not only Prince Zaihito of the Idle Yuan Palace, the land minister, and the sea minister shouted long live, but even Konoe Fumima vowed to ensure that no matter how tight the finances were, they would also ensure the needs of the Great East Asian Holy War, and immediately stated that a budget of 3 billion yuan had been arranged, and in order to support the war, a little more was added, at least 3.25 billion yuan, to ensure the supply of baggage.

The demons danced wildly, the rabid dogs barked, and these war maniacs seemed to have seen the victorious scene after the occupation of Wuhan, and for a while they forgot how the king of the Higashiur Palace and Seishiro Itagaki died, and they all offered suggestions and suggestions, and it was immediately a scene of demons dancing wildly.

Empress Ryoko, who was in the harem, learned about the situation of the Imperial Council from the report of the female officials, and even ignored the irregularity, saying that it was a hot weather, and personally held a pot of herbal tea to comfort Emperor Hirohito, and asked the female officials to give herbal tea to several ministers. This time, the spirit of several demons was even more sufficient, Xiang Shanyuan, looking at the emperor with both eyes, and from time to time the corners of his eyes secretly flashed Empress Liangzi's white neck and bulging chest, and he said his opinion loudly while swallowing saliva, and his image was very different from the past.

As a matter of fact, after the capture of Nanjing, the General Staff Headquarters of the Yue Army began to formulate a battle plan for the capture of Wuhan, because the Yue Army misjudged the situation, thinking that after the capture of Nanjing, the national political axe would succumb; Second, because there is a big difference between the two factions in the country about expanding aggression and not expanding aggression in their own country; Thirdly, the Eighth Route Army had brilliant results after participating in the war, forcing the Yue Army to concentrate its forces to deal with the Eighth Route Army, and did not care about capturing Wuhan. After the Battle of Xuzhou, in order to stabilize the rear, the Yue army had to carry out a sweep in central Hebei, southern Hebei and Shandong. Now these factors do not need to be considered, since Chiang Kai-shek's national axe insisted on the War of Resistance and refused to surrender, the main force of the Eighth Route Army was driven to the direction of Wuhan again, the public order in North China was relatively stable for the time being, and there was another call for revenge for the Jade Crushed soldiers such as King Tsugihiko of the Higashigur Palace, Seishiro Itagaki and the Eighth and Tenth Divisions, Emperor Hirohito naturally wanted to take advantage of the situation and decided to attack Wuhan.

In the end, Emperor Hirohito instructed the General Staff Headquarters to mobilize troops in accordance with the proposed battle plan and quickly launch the Wuhan Offensive Battle.

After the end of the imperial meeting, the base camp of the army sent orders one after another to all the units of the army invading China, and the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, Shunroku Hatata, was even more arrogant, and the order to the divisions and regiments was very clear: "The Wuhan Raider War is related to the future and destiny of the empire, and it has the effect of solving the incident in one fell swoop. All units must attack bravely according to the battle plan, completely annihilate the [***] forces that are holding resistance around Wuhan, completely expel Chiang Kai-shek's forces from the Central Plains, and force them to surrender. ”

At this time, the Chinese high command had also completed the deployment of the defense of Wuhan. After the battles of Songhu, Taiyuan, Nanjing, and Xuzhou, as well as the long talks with Liu Yimin in Xuzhou, Chiang Kai-shek has realized that he cannot repeat the mistakes of the Battle of Songhu, and has made a change in his guiding ideology, realizing that "the key to the military victory or defeat of the War of Resistance is not to gain or lose in Wuhan, but to maintain the lasting strength of our continued War of Resistance." For this reason, they decided to defend Wuhan without fighting in Wuhan, and were determined to break out of the shackles of urban defense, advance defensive operations to the vast battlefields on the periphery of Wuhan, and make use of the mountainous areas on the outskirts of Wuhan to maneuver with the enemy and actively defend themselves. At the same time, some of them mobilized the enthusiasm of the masses to "devote themselves to the all-out war and the enrichment of the base areas of the war of resistance." In this way, the mobile surname of the defense is greatly improved.

Chiang Kai-shek made great efforts to defend Wuhan, mobilizing a total of 130 divisions, 200 aircraft, and 40 warships, with a total strength of 1.1 million troops, to take advantage of the favorable terrain on both sides of the Dabie Mountains, Poyang Lake, and the Yangtze River to organize defense. Various propaganda teams went deep among the people and brushed the slogan repeatedly advocated by Liu Yimin not to let the army drink a sip of clean water and grab a grain of rice on the walls of market towns and villages.

At this time, due to the slight revision of history after Liu Yimin's arrival, the Battle of Nanjing, the Battle of Xuzhou, which were different from history, and especially a series of brilliant achievements of the Eighth Route Army, were formed, and the morale of [***] was still very high. Especially during this period of time, the Yue Army was busy entangled with the Eighth Route Army in North China, and the main force won valuable time to rest and replenish, and its combat effectiveness recovered significantly. Based on this reason, and knowing that there was still a tiger like Liu Yimin, a tutor who specializes in eating ghosts, could launch a thunderous blow against the army at any time, Chiang Kai-shek was full of confidence in defending Wuhan. Even if the order was to abandon Wuhan in the future, according to the situation deduced by Liu Yimin when he was in Xuzhou, Chiang Kai-shek was also confident that he would eliminate a part of the living forces of the army, so that Xiao Yueben would be in a passive position strategically. Therefore, in his speech at the Wuhan Central Radio, Chiang Kai-shek clearly pointed out that "the Chinese people and the political axe have been bullied and oppressed to the last limit by the invaders" and vowed that "for the survival of the nation, the [Chinese] [***] team is determined to fight to the death against the Yue army in the Wuhan area."

As an unborn strategist of the Chinese nation, without Liu Yimin's analysis report, [***] has long been keenly aware that the next focus of the army's attack will inevitably be Wuhan. In particular, after the success of the Mentor's Morning Glory operation, the heavy army group of the Yue Army went south, and [***] realized that the Yue Army was about to launch the Wuhan Raid. At the same time, he sent telegrams to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, demanding that all units of the Eighth Route Army make arrangements in advance, and that once the army launched the Wuhan Campaign, our army should carry out extensive guerrilla warfare, ambush warfare, and sabotage warfare against the Wuhan Army, and resolutely cooperate with the Battle of Wuhan.

As for how the instructor cooperated with the Battle of Wuhan, [***] pointed out in a telegram to the Shandong Bureau and Liu and Luo that once the heavy army group of the Yue Army was entangled with the main force of [***], the main force of the instructor should launch a powerful attack on the Yue Army, restore and develop the base area, and contain the North China Army from going south for reinforcements. At the same time, it is necessary to send additional troops to northern and central Jiangsu to carry out guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, flank and tail attack the Chinese army, and make every effort to sabotage the communication lines of the Chinese army so that it will not be able to attack Wuhan with all its might.

(To be continued)