[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 531: Defeat is also meaningful (ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

Shandong. Yanggu. Jingyanggang. Independent division headquarters stationed. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In view of the fact that the scale of this battle has exceeded Ma Zheng's previous expectations, Ma Zheng has to make strategic adjustments. In order to be foolproof, Ma Zheng ordered all military cadres at and above the brigade level of the Independent Division to rush to Jingyanggang on 17 August to convene an emergency meeting.

The military and political cadres of the independent division were still very punctual, no matter how urgent the matter, but they all arrived at Jingyanggang on time at 8 o'clock in the morning of the 17th.

In the conference room, Ma Zheng, Xie Wensheng, Xu Weiguo, Xu Haifeng, Wang Dechuan, Liang Shangren, Lei Zhenhua, Lu Guoqiang, Li Tie and others sat down in turn.

First of all, Ma Zheng informed everyone about the situation in China and Japan after the Battle of Wuhan, of course, including a series of bad news such as the fall of Wuhan and the collective westward movement of the high-level of the Nationalist Government to Chongqing, the non-stop movement of the Japanese army towards Changsha and the Wenxi fire.

However, to Ma Zheng's surprise, these senior officers of the Eighth Route Army in the conference room were not the slightest surprise or surprise, as if the defeat of the Nationalist Government was expected by them.

Ma Zheng couldn't help but ask: "Why, everyone is so indifferent?" ”

"Commander, the defeat of the Kuomintang's batch of wine bags and rice bags is inevitable, if we hadn't gone south to help them clean up the mess last time, I'm afraid Wuhan would have been lost last year. What's more, the fall of Wuhan was already last month, and we have known about it for a long time. Xu Weiguo said with emotion.

Although he did not want the Nationalist government to be defeated, after all, it was China's national defense that was lost, especially since the fall of Wuhan was a disaster for the whole of China.

But who let those well-equipped national/military lords not fight, millions of troops were defeated by less than 300,000 troops of little devils, Wuhan was lost, and Changsha City was burned to the ground by a fire frightened by the Japanese, it was really a shame to throw it to grandma's house.

Xie Wensheng also said fiercely: "This group of bitches raised them, they lost Nanjing two years ago and went to Wuhan to continue to enjoy their happiness." Last year, they lost Guangzhou, Nanchang, Jinan and other big cities, and this year they also lost Wuhan, what are they doing to eat? ”

"Yes! More than a million people were beaten like this by less than 300,000 little devils, what face did they have to flee to Chongqing? If Chongqing is lost, where do I think they will flee? ”

Liang Shangren, who was also angry, slapped the Eight Immortals table in front of him hard, making a crisp sound of "pop", splashing a lot of water in the teacup placed on the table.

Ma Zheng also knew the grievances in the hearts of these officers, as a soldier, especially an officer with an extremely strong patriotic heart, hearing that his country's army was so vulnerable, no matter who he replaced, he would not feel good.

However, Ma Zheng still spoke: "Everyone be quiet, in fact, we can't evaluate this battle like this, let alone arbitrarily say that those soldiers who shed blood and sacrificed for the country and the nation on the battlefield are not wrong. ”

"It's no wonder that the generals and commanders at the top of the Nationalist Government did nothing, in fact, everyone doesn't know that in the Battle of Wuhan, the vast number of Chinese officers and soldiers were generally brave and tenacious, and they used their flesh and blood to resist hundreds of thousands of Japanese imperialist troops armed with steel, and they also killed and wounded a large number of Japanese troops, dealing a major blow to the Japanese army, and they did their best."

Ma Zheng said this very calmly, but loudly. Ma Zheng knew that although these officers in the conference room had one kind or another prejudice against the Kuomintang-led troops, this was by no means what Ma Zheng wanted to see. As Chinese, the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party is by no means like this, but sharing weal and woe and resisting foreign humiliation.

"Yes, the Chinese soldiers are all good, maybe some of our officers do nothing, but our soldiers are all simple, and they are all worthy of our respect. Especially a series of local armies such as the Sichuan Army, they are even more prestigious. Wang Dechuan said.

Wang Dechuan's words made Ma Zheng suddenly think of the straw shoe soldiers, and at the same time, a picture suddenly appeared in his mind - Sichuan military baby. It was a picture that Ma Zheng saw at the National Military Museum a long, long time ago - a Sichuan doll in a tattered military uniform and straw sandals, carrying an old-fashioned Hanyang to the battlefield of resistance against Japan. As Wang De legendal, although the combat effectiveness of those local miscellaneous armies is limited, the military morale shown is not to be underestimated, such as the Sichuan army.

Strictly speaking, the Sichuan army in the War of Resistance was not strictly a regular Chinese army, but an army of local warlords. Neither the equipment, military quality, nor treatment of the troops can be compared with the Kuomintang Central Army.

However, in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, this unit exchanged its fearless sacrifice for the reputation of "the Sichuan army can fight" and "the army cannot be formed without Sichuan". In the decades of civil war, some of them may have done bad things and even hurt nature, and the vast majority of them do not have a high level of education and cannot make any big senses.

It is difficult for them to have the same perception of the relationship between personal interests and national interests as some "rational elites" now, and in troubled times, they may feel the concept of "state" the least, and the most they feel should be the "big and small marshals".

From the time this army was formed, it was in fact someone's personal guard. Personally, they may never have felt what the "state" had done to them, but they knew that "fighting a civil war" was the greatest shame of a soldier.

They may have been rampant in the countryside, or they may have eaten the common people, but only when they threw themselves into the Great Patriotic War, in the struggle to safeguard the territorial integrity of the country and defend national independence, did they truly realize the mission and honor of a soldier, and only in the struggle for national independence and freedom did the passion like fire in their bodies be awakened and burst out like a volcano, so that they could move forward bravely regardless of the disparity in strength between the enemy and the enemy---- for the sake of the 40,000 compatriots behind them. It is better to fight to the last man than to retreat.

Thinking of what these local troops have done for the country and the nation, Ma Zheng couldn't help but feel a burst of enthusiasm. China is the China of the Chinese, and the Chinese are the greatest race in the world.

Although the country is in danger now, with these people who are willing to sacrifice for the country and the nation, China will not die.

Ma Zheng eased his expression, stood up and said: "Comrades, although our country was defeated again, we did not give in. Although we have scored brilliant results in the Suicha region, China and the entire Chinese nation are a whole, a whole with a history of 5,000 years of civilization and heritage, so we cannot look at the victory or defeat of one city or one place, but we must look at this war from the perspective of the overall situation. ”

"Although the Nationalist Government was defeated as before, this time was different from the previous ones. The first few times, whether it was the Battle of Songhu or the Battle of Xuzhou, the Nationalist Government was defeated so much that it was called a nest, although this time it was not too glorious, but it was definitely more meaningful than the previous times. ”

"Meaning?" Everyone looked at Ma Zheng in confusion, not understanding what he meant by this, defeat is defeat, what is the meaning of a defeat.

Ma Zheng knew that these people did not see far by themselves, and they could not see the deeper things, so he immediately said: "This time, tens of thousands of soldiers were killed and wounded by the Japanese army, and this is the most serious loss of the Japanese army on the battlefield in China. This time, although the Japanese army achieved an unprecedented victory in tactics, it lost strategically. ”

Then Ma Zheng continued: "Although the Nationalist Government lost Wuhan, the second largest city in Central China, it was equivalent to losing a big burden on its body, and hundreds of thousands of troops who could fight well could be transferred from defensive garrisons to offensive assault forces, while the Japanese army had to send a large number of troops to defend Wuhan. In this way, the offensive and defensive momentum of the enemy and us has been reversed, and it is still very meaningful to look at this matter from this level or this angle, and the second battle of Wuhan is still very meaningful. (To be continued.) )