“…… Annihilated a total of 400,000 Japanese troops, outflanked a total of 160,000 Japanese troops in Beiping and Tianjin, and captured seven general-level officers such as General Sho Chinese New Year's Eve zo of the Japanese Chieftain, Lieutenant General Tanaka Shinichi, and Lieutenant General Jiro Togawa, 38 officers of the rank of lieutenant, and 48,900 officers and soldiers of the rank of lieutenant and below, which was the most Chinese New Year's Eve victory since the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan! ”

"President Roosevelt of the United States of America sent a telegram today to Chairman Chiang Kai-shek to congratulate the squadron on its Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve victory in North China Chinese New Year's Eve.

"The United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland sent a congratulatory telegram on Chinese New Year's Eve, in which Mr. Churchill congratulated the squadron on a great victory on Chinese New Year's Eve, which hastened the destruction of Japanese militarism and laid the most solid foundation for the final complete defeat of the Japanese army!"

Chongqing continuously organized a large-scale Chinese New Year's Eve parade to celebrate victory, the Hong Kong people organized death squads, 3,000 Hong Kong youths rushed to the front line in North China, and the people of Guangzhou once again advocated fundraising, raising more than one million legal dollars in a short period of time. qВ5, c0M Chinese network

The unprecedented victory plunged all Chinese into a carnival, wine sales skyrocketed, the Spring Festival seemed to be coming again, and deafening firecrackers exploded in the streets and alleys on Chinese New Year's Eve.

This joyful spring breeze quickly blew from North China to the south of the Yangtze River, in the city of Nanjing, the footsteps of spring are obviously earlier than Beiping, on both sides of the Qinhuai River, willow trees spit out green shoots, and the city is full of explosions. The Nanjing municipal government issued an emergency order to prohibit the sale of firecrackers in Nanjing in order to maintain law and order, but the streets and alleys of Chinese New Year's Eve were still filled with children's happy laughter.

However, the people in the various government agencies of the Wang Jingwei government in Nanjing, who were widely in Nanjing, were panicked, and when the news of the Battle of North China came, the entire Nanjing officialdom was immediately mourned; if a year ago, after the Battle of Northern Hubei, they were still lucky, now even the gangsters on the street know that the life of the Japanese will not last long.

Although the newspapers were still desperately declaring war on British and American imperialism and the mighty military of the Imperial Army, the crowd in front of the Japanese embassy on Chinese New Year's Eve was crowded, and officials began to think about immigrating to Japan. To the dismay of the occupying forces, not only did the Chinese officials want to leave this dangerous place, but also the Japanese who came to China to pan for gold on Chinese New Year's Eve. The Japanese began to sell their possessions in China, and Shanghai broke the record of 16 Japanese factories changing hands in one day, and the person who bought them was so mysterious that no one knew who he was.

Not only Japanese civilians began to think of a way out, but even the Japanese army began to be unstable; the security around the headquarters of the Chinese dispatch army was tighter than ever; cars were constantly bringing in high-ranking generals from railway stations and docks; the headquarters was brightly lit on Chinese New Year's Eve; officers were coming in and out; everything showed that the army had recently operated on a Chinese New Year's Eve scale.

In the conference room of the headquarters, Chinese New Year's Eve maps hung on the wall, with Nishio sitting at the head of the conference table and Seishiro Sakagaki standing in front of the map, which was Chinese New Year's Eve different from the shape of previous years. The Sun Flag is confined to the Jiangnan area, and it seems so lonely and lonely that there is nothing to be done.

Seishiro Sakagaki briefed the senior officers present on the current enemy situation, and after Kantaro Suzuki became prime minister, the Chinese New Year's Eve headquarters proposed a new strategy that was more political than military.

"The purpose of the new strategy is to exchange the Jiangnan region for peace," Sakagaki Seishiro said after introducing the war situation: "The Chinese New Year's Eve base camp judged that the main force of the China Army would continue to attack Manchuria, but the dispatch army headquarters believed that even if the China Army was only partially transferred, the strength of the China Army joining the Jianghuai Theater or the Jiangnan Theater would far exceed that of the Imperial Army, and in the North China Battle, the China Army invested about two million troops on Chinese New Year's Eve, and as long as 200,000 troops were transferred, it could capture the north of the Yangtze River."

According to the information provided by the Chinese New Year's Eve camp, the Kwantung Army currently has 400,000 and 500,000 right, of which 300,000 will be assembled in the Manchurian Gap, and the remaining 100,000 and 500,000 Manchurian Defense Forces will be in the Menggu and Far Eastern battlefields to block the Soviet attack. In the south, the Imperial Army has been weakened by the Chinese New Year's Eve, and the entire Southern Army has only about 300,000 left, of which 30,000 are in the Thai-Burma border, 50,000 in the Singapore to Malaysia region, 20,000 in Vietnam and Laos, the Imperial Army has concentrated 100,000 troops in the Philippines, and there are 80,000 troops in the Mariana Islands. ”

Seishiro Sakagaki's voice floated in the room, and although it sounded full of energy, the content was thrilling, and behind this simple and boring figure was that if the squadron planned an attack on Jiangnan, the Chinese New Year's Eve base camp would not send any reinforcements. Before the Battle of North China, the headquarters of the dispatch army had transferred Chinese New Year's Eve batches of troops from Jiangnan to the north, but now these troops have all been lost, but there is no way to make up for them.

"Taking into account the current situation, the new chief adviser Umezu will propose on Chinese New Year's Eve that the Jiangnan Theater be contracted to shrink all the Jiangbei troops to the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou region, leaving behind the areas west of Nanjing, including Anqing and Wuhu, Nanjing will become the front line, and the headquarters of the dispatch army will be moved to Shanghai.

Seishiro Sakagaki's face was pale, and there were still 210,000 troops left in the Jiangnan Theater, with no tanks or planes, only more than 100 armored vehicles and 210,000 troops scattered across the vast area from the sea to Anqing, spanning both sides of the Yangtze River. On the Chinese side, the two theaters of operations, the Jiangnan Theater and the Jianghuai Theater, have a total military strength of 1.2 million, of which the Jiangnan Theater has a military strength of about 800,000. The Jianghuai Theater has 400,000 troops.

The main force of the Japanese army is scattered south of the Yangtze River, and there are only more than 60,000 troops north of the Yangtze River, and Guan Linzheng, commander of the Chinese Jianghuai Theater, is reorganizing the army, and once the rectification is completed, the peace north of the Yangtze River will be broken.

After Kantaro Tazuki became prime minister, the cabinet members have not yet been announced, but news has come from various sources that Suzuki Kantaro made a request when he became prime minister to appoint a group of people who are willing to make peace to form a peace cabinet, and this request was agreed by the Shigetomi group and the emperor, and the diplomatic Chinese New Year's Eve minister will be replaced by Shigemitsu Aoi Togo. Except for the diplomatic Chinese New Year's Eve, others are still tense and mediating.

However, it is reported that Nishio Shouzo may be appointed as the Chinese New Year's Eve minister of the army, and the chief adviser has been determined to be the former commander of the Kwantung Army, Umezu Mijiro, and the commander of the Kwantung Army will be replaced by Okabe Naosaburo, and such a transfer will not affect the operation of the Kwantung Army.

In recent years, China's military dispatch has been frequent, and Sakagaki Seishiro has a vicious expectation that Suzuki will transfer Nishio Toshizo and Umezu Mijiro back to China, probably hoping that they will support his peace ideas.

After Umezu Mijiro took office, he quickly put forward a strategy of contraction in view of the Chinese battlefield, mainly to shrink the Jiangnan theater, according to Umezu Mijiro's opinion, abandon the entire Jiangnan, quickly transport the Jiangnan pair to Manchuria, block the squadron on the Shanhaiguan line, and quickly form 50 divisions in the country, but these armies are not to be invested in the Southern Army or Manchuria, but are responsible for domestic defense.

The defeat of the Battle of North China brought out all the weaknesses of Japan, and the total strength of the four Japanese islands was less than 400,000, which was only enough to meet the defense needs of Kyushu. It is necessary to expand the army on a large scale on Chinese New Year's Eve to meet the needs of domestic combat readiness.

Seishiro Sakagaki paused for a while, and when he saw that no one spoke, he continued: "According to the usual practice, the Shina Army needs a three-month to five-month recuperation period after the Chinese New Year's Eve scale battle, and we must seize these three or five months to adjust the scale of the army on Chinese New Year's Eve. ’

"Your Excellency," someone finally broke the silence, and Sakagaki looked back at Shimomura, the commander of the 13th Army who was indeed stationed in Shanghai: "Nanjing has become the front line, what should the Nanjing Nationalist Government do?" Do you want to move to Shanghai together, or stay in Nanjing? ”

"The relocation of the headquarters to Shanghai is a military decision, and it has nothing to do with politics, and there will be a commander to discuss with Chairman Chen Gongbo on the direction of Nanjing's amplitude." Seishiro Sakagaki replied. The Nanjing government was a trouble at first, and when the war was going well, it was not a good assistant, but in its heart it was a Chinese New Year's Eve trouble, which became a huge Chinese New Year's Eve obstacle to negotiations with Chiang Kai-shek's government.

Shimomura will never speak again. Nishio Shouzo raised his eyes and looked at the generals who joined the meeting, all the division commanders of Jiangnan or the Chinese Dispatch Army were here, although Beiping and Tianjin were exceptions, and everyone did not say a word. "Sakagaki-kun continue to proclaim." Nishio Tobukizo.

The 137th Division was responsible for responding, and after the defenders of Anqing retreated to Wuhu, the Nanjing defenders sent the 17th Division to respond, and the Wuhu defenders abandoned Wuhu again, and the whole army retreated to Nanjing.

After Sakagaki Seishiro announced the retreat sequence, Nishio Shouzo stood up with a serious expression: "Monarchs, the empire is in the harshest and most difficult period in history, the Chinese New Year's Eve and the nation can still not survive, the empire can not survive, it all depends on the efforts of the monarchs!" ”

"I am willing to break my bones for Your Majesty! Never give up! Shimomura stood up and replied Chinese New Year's Eve.

Immediately, all the generals stood up together: "I am willing to break my bones for Your Majesty!" Never give up! ”

"Excellent! Ladies and gentlemen! In this retreat, all the news was leaked without a trace, whether it was the Nanjing government or anyone else, they couldn't help but leak half a word to them! Nishio Shouzo's expression was extremely stern.

'Hello!'

After the meeting, Shimomura Ding deliberately walked last, and when he arrived at the door, Shimomura Ding suddenly turned around and came back and walked in front of Sakagaki: "Sakagaki-kun, is there any news from Okamura-kun?" ”

Nishio Shouzo and Sakagaki Seishiro looked at Shimomura with some surprise and Shimomura was known as a wise general among Japanese generals, after Ishihara Waner retired, it was he who took over as the head of the war department, and he was the first to put forward the idea of landing in Hangzhou Bay, but his question today seems a little abrupt, according to the Japanese tradition, Okamura Ninji defeated such a crucial battle, even if he did not die in the battle, he would have been seppuku after the war.

"Shimomura-kun, if Okamura-kun can hold off the Shina army for five months, it will be regarded as a war achievement for the empire." Seishiro Sakagaki replied with a blank face.

"Beiping Tianjin, how much military strength do we have?" Shimomura asked again.

Seishiro Sakagaki shook his head slightly: "Before Okamura-kun recounted, there were about 30,000 troops on Chinese New Year's Eve in Beiping, and about 70,000 in Tianjin plus the Chinese New Year's Eve in the township soldiers counted as 100,000 troops. ”

Xini Shouzo has been staring at Shimomura Ding, pondering his thoughts in his heart, Shimomura Ding sighed: "It would be good if they could rush to Tanggu, and the navy could send a ship to pick them up in Tanggu." That's 100,000 troops. ”

So that's the case, Nishio Shouzo shook his head slightly in his heart, he was a little disappointed, and scolded with a serious expression: "Shimomura-kun, what's wrong?" Confused? In such a state, how can we fulfill the mission entrusted by the emperor! I will fulfill the expectation of the people! ’

Shimomura was stunned for a moment, and then lowered his head with some shame, he understood that Nishio Shouzo saw the panic in his heart, and the 200,000 troops shrank to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, but the squadron still had a million people, and the Jianghuai theater was north of the Yangtze River, which still threatened the Jiangnan region.

"Shimomura-kun wants to be outstandingly intelligent," Seishiro Sakagaki said, "The commander has an idea, come and give us a detailed view." Shimomura looked up at Seishiro Sakagaki and Shouzo Nishio with some confusion, Seishiro Sakagaki and Shouzo Nishio exchanged glances, and Sakagaki walked to the map: "After the withdrawal is completed, the commander decided to instigate a local attack on the Jianghuai Theater of China north of the Yangtze River, with the purpose of impacting the Zhina Army on the front line of Taixing and Taizhou and boosting morale. ’

In fact, in addition to Beiping Tianjin, there are some Japanese soldiers who are marching hard in the mountains on both sides of the Great Wall, and for them, the most dangerous thing is not the lack of food, nor the squadron of the Chinese New Year's Eve, but the hundred-year-long bandits in the mountains on both sides of the Great Wall

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