[The Iron Blood King of the Anti-Japanese Army] Chapter 246: Ma Zheng in the eyes of Lao Jiang

The main reason why Ma Zheng talked about these things with Lao Jiang was that Ma Zheng knew that 38 years was a very important year for the Nationalist Government, because in this year the Japanese Government's attitude towards the Nationalist Government underwent a great change, from a simple military offensive at the beginning to a policy of political inducement and military attack supplemented by military attack, and this change in policy caused huge disagreements within the Nationalist Government.

In fact, Japan's inducement of the Nationalist Government has been going on, and it has never stopped, and only one month after Japan conquered Nanjing, that is, on January 16, 1938, the Japanese Konoe Cabinet issued a statement on China:

After the capture of Nanjing, the Imperial Government waited until the 13th year of the Showa Dynasty in order to give the Chinese Nationalist Government a final chance to reconsider. However, the Nationalist Government did not understand the true meaning of the empire, and even instigated the War of Resistance, ignoring the suffering of the people at home and the peace of East Asia as a whole. Therefore, in the future, the Imperial Government will not regard the Nationalist Government as an adversary, but will look forward to the establishment and development of a new Chinese regime that can really cooperate with the Nationalist Government, and will adjust diplomatic relations between the two countries with this new regime to help build a rejuvenated New China. The Imperial Government's policy of respecting China's territory and sovereignty and the rights and interests of all countries in China has of course remained unchanged. By the time of the Showa period, the empire's responsibility for peace in East Asia had increased. The Government expects the people to be more motivated to accomplish this important task. ”

Only two days later, the Konoe cabinet supplemented the previous statement, and in any case the Japanese tried to force the Nationalist Government into submission by all means. Moreover, Ma Zheng also knew that in history, the Konoe cabinet issued three statements to the Nationalist Government in only 38 years, especially at the end of 38 years, the statement successfully caused a split within the Nationalist Government, and Wang Jingwei took a group of leaders and factions to leave.

Because of this, Ma Zheng had to make Lao Chiang realize that Japan's ambition to destroy China would not disappear because of the government's surrender, but would only make it easier for the Japanese to destroy China. It is necessary to strengthen the determination of the Nationalist Government to resist Japan.

Although Lao Jiang did not waver in history, he was moved by Konoe Wenlu's statement, and Ma Zheng really changed this period of history because of his appearance. After all, the hurricane instigated by his sudden butterfly has completely swept through the north and south of China, and even the outcome of the Battle of Wuhan has changed, and I am afraid that nothing is impossible.

In fact, Ma Zheng's worries were a bit redundant, if it was half a year ago, Lao Jiang did still have some fantasies about the Japanese. He also thought of solving the problem through peace talks and achieving the goal of an armistice. However, after the outbreak of the Battle of Wuhan, Lao Chiang had clearly realized that the Japanese army had always taken the elimination of the Nationalist Government's colonization of China as its highest goal, and had never changed, and all of this was a ploy played by the Japanese army without achieving this goal, which was really unbelievable.

The reason why a large number of high-ranking officials of the Nationalist Government, including Lao Chiang, had illusions about Japan was not that they could not see the wolf ambitions of the Japanese at all, but because of the huge gap in the national strength of the two countries, they believed that China's resistance against Japan was bringing about its own destruction, and it was just trying to survive for a long time.

But after the Battle of Taierzhuang and the Battle of Wuhan. Realizing that the Japanese are not invincible, that China's national defense forces can also annihilate the enemy with entire brigades and even entire divisions, that Japanese generals can become defeated under Chinese generals one after another, and that their heads can also become trophies of the Chinese, so at this moment Lao Chiang's determination to resist Japan was unprecedentedly firm.

Some people say that the Nationalist Government does not want to resist Japan, but this does not make sense, and the 22 large-scale battles on the frontal battlefield are not blown. This would be unfair to the nearly one million Kuomintang troops who sacrificed in the Battle of Songhu, the Pingjin Battlefield, the Battle of Nanjing, the Battle of Taiyuan, the Battle of Xuzhou and other battlefields, and it would not have been for the efforts and contributions made by the Nationalist Government in the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Japan now has more than just a coastal area.

However, it was precisely because the fighting was too fierce in the early stage that the elite troops carefully cultivated by the Nationalist Government were basically lost. In particular, the group of German armor divisions formed by Lao Jiang tightened his belt were basically all confessed to the Songhu battlefield and the defense of Nanjing, which also made the Nationalist Government doubt the future of the Anti-Japanese War, such as Wang Jingwei, Zhou Fohai and others, it can be said that these people were lost in the darkness before dawn.

However, Lao Jiang is an understanding person after all, although Lao Jiang's command level is indeed not very good. In the evaluation of many senior officers, it is equivalent to the level of an infantry battalion commander. But in terms of political skills, Lao Jiang was definitely the No. 1 politician in the Republic of China, and his vision was by no means comparable to Zhou Fohai, Wang Jingwei and others, and he saw hope. I saw the light.

Of course, hope and light were mainly bought by the front-line officers and soldiers led by Ma Zheng with their lives and blood, and it was precisely because they continued to prove that the Japanese could be defeated with their achievements on the front line, so politicians like Lao Chiang strengthened their determination to resist the war.

In addition, the voices from the international side also made Lao Chiang more confident in China's immortality, especially after this battle, the United States and the Soviet Union and other countries have shown favor to the Nationalist Government. The $100 million in aid promised by the Soviet side is already on the way to China, including a large number of weapons and related equipment, with which the government can form at least 30 infantry divisions in a short period of time.

Although the Roosevelt administration did not explain how to aid China, the attitude of the Americans still gave Chiang a new hope.

Ma Zheng's performance really surprised Lao Jiang, his previous understanding of Ma Zheng only came from the investigation of the Military Control Bureau, and those investigations were all old materials from three years ago, and the description of Ma Zheng only stayed in the form of courage and resourcefulness but the form was reckless and impulsive, and the name of a madman was worthy of his name.

However, the investigation report of the Military Administration is far from the situation transmitted back by the goddaughter Chen Jiaying, in the report of the goddaughter, Ma Zheng is a gentle and majestic Confucian general, basically similar to Zhou Yu, a famous general of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period.

The Military Command Bureau is Lao Jiang's right-hand man, Lao Jiang also believes in Dai Li, and Chen Jiaying is an orphan girl adopted by his wife, his goddaughter, and she will not lie to him if she wants to, so the two completely different reports make it difficult for Lao Jiang to judge which is true and which is false. But now after the previous conversation, Lao Jiang felt that the reports of the two were inaccurate, and the real Ma Zheng was far more terrible than what they said in the report.

In Dai Li's report, Ma Zheng is a tactician, and his tactical command level is no worse than that of the famous generals in the previous issues of Huangpu, but in Chen Jiaying's report, Ma Zheng is a strategist, and his strategic vision is extremely high, and he can find the enemy's weaknesses in the big strategy every time, and then use a small force to beat the enemy dizzy.

However, after actual understanding, Lao Jiang believed that Ma Zheng did not live up to the title of "magic general" given to him by the Japanese, he was a military commander with a unique strategic vision and a very high level of tactical command, and in terms of strategic vision, Lao Jiang believed that there was only one person in the country who could compare with him, that is, Jiang Baili, the acting president of the Army University, who was still seriously ill.

The most important thing is that some of the strategies and views of the two of them on Japan are strikingly similar, although the language of the expression is different, but the core idea is the same, that is, not to negotiate peace and fight a protracted war, and the Japanese are consumed! Could this be what the legendary heroes see?

And Ma Zheng's tactical level is also terrifying, which can be seen from the record he has created during this time, Jiang Baili is not as good as Ma Zheng in this regard!

Of course, Lao Jiang didn't know that Ma Zheng had traveled back from later generations, and he had a very detailed understanding of the war between China and Japan, and at the same time, as a professional soldier, he had also read Mr. Jiang Baili's "On National Defense" in detail, and also read the chairman's "On Protracted War".

Moreover, Ma Zheng is also a special operations commander, and special operations is one of the most refined tactics, which requires extremely high levels of commanders. Ma Zheng can stand out among the millions of troops of the Republic and serve as the commander of the Thor Special Combat Team, and his tactical level can be seen, and it is reasonable that Lao Jiang can't see through Ma Zheng. (To be continued.) )