At the beginning of October, Xu Ming went directly to the Nanjing General Staff Headquarters to see if he could get the General Staff Headquarters to integrate his troops into the front-line combat sequence.

Originally, his unit belonged to the 128th Division, and the division commander Gu Jiaqi should be found for troop movement and combat arrangements, but he and Gu Jiaqi only had a nominal superior-subordinate relationship, and since he was incorporated into the 128th Division, he and the officers of each company had never met with Gu Jiaqi.

Over the past year, Xu Ming has become familiar with many people from the General Staff Headquarters, the Training Director, and the Military Affairs Department because he assisted in the procurement of foreign military equipment. At that time, the staff headquarters had not yet been merged with the base camp, and it was responsible for the formulation of combat plans and troop arrangements for the first hall, and the director of the department was Liu Fei, who was known as the half of the three and a half military families of the Republic of China.

Of course, Liu Fei is extremely busy now, and Xu Ming directly looked for Chen Hanjie, a senior staff officer of the Operations Section of the First Hall. This gentleman is extremely fond of Go and is a third-term student of Whampoa.

"Smack", Chen Hanjie excitedly took a picture of a sunspot. Xu Ming pretended to pat the door of his head and said, "Hey, don't let your six sons move for three days!" Then he returned the eaten sunspot to Chen Hanjie with his hand, signaling to admit defeat.

Lao Chen laughed, of course he knew that Xu Ming wanted to let it, but he was still very happy to win the Republic of China Chess Saint. He packed up the game of Go and said to Xu Ming: "Qianli, don't you stay well in Haiyan, what kind of battle do you want to fight?" There are many casualties on the front line!"

Xu Ming asked, "How is the battle situation on the front line?" The battle reports are all good news, and I see that they have hit Fuzaohama. ”

Speaking of the battle situation, Chen Hanjie's face was a little gloomy, and he was naturally very familiar with the battle situation when he served in the staff headquarters. He said to Xu Ming: "The battle situation is not good, the Japanese invaders are increasing their troops too quickly, I heard that three and a half divisions are coming, and Luodian is also lost." ”

The battle of Luodian was extremely tragic, the Japanese army invested the elite 11th Division, and ** also took out Chen Cheng's old 18th Army. The two sides fought for 10 days, because Baoshan was lost, Luodian's flank was broken through, and the squadron finally gave up. The Japanese army fought for another month in the area south of Xiangluodian and north of Fuzaobang.

However, as a senior staff officer, Yang Hanjie smelled danger from it, and the support of the squadron was not effective, although troops came from Sichuan to support, but there was a big gap between the combat effectiveness of the local troops and the 18th Army and the 1st Army. The 18th Army can hold for 10 days, and a local army may only be able to hold for three days before it is basically exhausted! He was very unoptimistic about Xu Ming going to the front line to participate in the war. Moreover, it is said that someone said hello and did not let Xu Ming participate in the war.

After listening to Yang Hanjie, Xu Ming was also a little gloomy, Xu Ming didn't want to do something in Songhu, such as changing history or something. However, the Songhu battlefield is the most difficult to change, both sides are hard bridges and hard horses in large corps battles, the victory or defeat depends entirely on strength, and the strategy is almost useless.

Yang Hanjie did not agree to Xu Ming to go to the front line, the reason is simple, he does not have this authority. China's general staff headquarters sounds very lofty, but in fact it is a complete auxiliary organ, and the status of the general staff headquarters of Japan, Germany, and France cannot be compared.

Fortunately, Yang Hanjie agreed to help Xu Ming find Vice Chief Liu (Liu Fei), which was enough for Xu Ming.

Only one day later, Xu Ming's luck came, Liu Fei returned to Nanjing because he was going to carry out a transfer of the Sichuan army, and Xu Ming finally met the main master.

Liu Fei reprimanded Xu Ming first thing when he saw him, he was busy enough during this time, and his staff headquarters was like a big nanny. The troop's marching arrangements, logistical supplies, intelligence analysis, and all other matters related to the war must be arranged in his first office. And Liu Fei's most important work is not this, at that time Liu Fei served as the head of the combat team of the first department of the Military Commission, from the name you can see how important Liu Fei's responsibilities are, these days, he is not fat, there is a trend of slimming from a bamboo to a bamboo pole.

was reprimanded when they met, Xu Ming said aggrievedly: "Deputy Chief Liu, I am a patriotic heart, in Haiyan, I can't help it when I see the fierce fighting on the front line." Otherwise, if you transfer this new force of mine at a critical time, you may be able to change the tide of the battle in one fell swoop! ”

Liu Fei glanced at him, and said angrily: "Beautiful you, just your thousand people, full of iron and can hit a few nails, the front line sometimes loses a battalion in an hour, and your security regiment can last for 10 minutes." ”

Seeing that Xu Ming was still not convinced, Liu Fei planned to simply dispel Xu Ming's thoughts, and said: "Don't count on it, I arranged for your troops to garrison Haiyan, and I will make other arrangements as the situation changes." ”

"Ah" Xu Ming's mouth widened,

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Xu Ming is quite familiar with this, and said: "The people in the United States are sympathetic to us now, but isolationism is still very serious, according to our survey, less than 7 percent of the troops are sent to support us, and less than half support economic aid. The Yuming Group has already shot 3 films reflecting the brutality of the Japanese army. ”

"I heard that you stopped the sale of American steel to Japan, and there was a lot of coverage in the newspapers."

Xu Ming shook his head, only a small part of them were successfully stopped, and the newspapers reported good news but not bad news. He underestimated the shamelessness of the American capitalists, who don't care how many people die in China as long as they can make money! Although the Yuming Company organized one demonstration after another with Chinese and pro-China groups in the United States, several major American companies still sold shiploads of steel and oil to Japan.

Roosevelt said beautifully, condemned the Japanese, and public opinion also supported China. When it really came to use real money to support China's War of Resistance, the soup stopped, and a $25 million Sino-US tung oil loan bill was still in the House of Representatives.

Liu Fei listened to Xu Ming's complaint and comforted him, "Qianli, don't be discouraged, if you don't do these things, no one else will do them, although you can't see the effect in the short term, but it is very important to fight a protracted war." ”

The fact is that Xu Ming saw that the front-line war situation was still passive, and he was too anxious, and the United States' trade with Japan in this time and space suffered greater resistance, like Los Angeles, where there are more Chinese, there are a large number of Chinese guarding the wharf day and night, as long as he sees a ship loaded with steel and oil to sell to Japan, he will immediately forcibly detain him, and the person in charge of the American steel company in Los Angeles was also poured a bucket of dog blood from head to toe by angry overseas Chinese!

Liu Fei then said in an appreciative tone the reason why Xu Ming was not allowed to go to the front line, "Qianli, your role is not a small battalion commander, just like the hundred Hawker 75s you bought, which played a big role. Now, when the commanders and division commanders of the armies and divisions are fighting, they very much want to get the cover of our air force. Let's see if you can find a way to buy some more. ”

When Xu Ming heard this, he complained in his heart, he thought it was too expensive at the time, but now he wants to buy it, but the United States will not sell it, because they are afraid of offending the Japanese!

I have to say that the Japanese are a very good imitation people, how Xu Ming dealt with the Japanese, they learned it as it was, and Xu Ming's ambitious plan to purchase 500 Hawker 75s has been completely rejected.

The current Hawker 75, although it is easy to use, but one less one is destroyed, and I am afraid that after a month, it will all be exhausted. At that time, if China still retreats in November, Japanese fighters will deal a great blow to China's retreat.

Thinking of the retreat of Songhu, Xu Ming remembered the landing of the Japanese army at Jinshanwei, so he said to Liu Fei tentatively: "Vice Chief Liu, you see, will the Japanese army land on the flank of Jinshanwei, our army. ”

To Xu Ming's surprise, Liu Fei actually nodded and said: "Then it is naturally possible, once the Japanese army lands in Jinshanwei, it can cut off the connection between our army and Zhejiang to the south, and to the north it can flank our army with the Japanese army in Shanghai, and even make a big detour to the west to directly cut off the retreat of our army." ”

Xu Ming asked in surprise: "Then since Jinshanwei is so important, why is there not much defense in our army?" ”

This is Xu Ming's biggest question, the landing of Jinshanwei added a heavy weight to the victory of the Japanese army, and directly changed the situation of the war, and why is our army's defense so weak? The troops there have been transferred to the front line in Shanghai, and in the end there are only 3 divisions left, and it is said that there are only 2 companies of soldiers on the front line of Jinshanwei, while the Japanese army is three divisions!

Liu Fei looked at the puzzled Xu Ming, gave an answer, and solved the doubts that Xu Ming didn't understand in his previous life.

"In the 22nd year of the Republic of China and the 24th year of the Republic of China, the National Defense University and the General Staff Headquarters organized personnel to conduct a special investigation for this purpose, believing that it was not suitable for the landing of large corps, and heavy weapons and equipment could not be moved."

Xu Ming's mouth was open enough to stuff an egg, and this was the reason why Jin Shanwei was negligent in taking precautions, and his first feeling was that there was a problem with those two reports.

"Deputy Chief Liu, I don't know if I can read the two reports."

Liu Fei could see Xu Ming's intentions at a glance, he was really a staff genius, and he seemed to have the ability to never forget, and directly said the main content of the two reports.

In Xu Ming's view, the situation in Songhu is very difficult to change, Baoshan, Luodian, Fuzaobang these battles have no tricks, the only thing he feels is the Jinshanwei landing battle, if you can make the ** command believe that the Japanese army will land there, it should be able to greatly reduce the casualties of our army.

But after listening to Liu Fei's introduction, I realized that there was trouble. Because the data and the survey on those two reports are correct!

For example, the roads, bridges, carrying capacity, etc. from Jinshanwei to Songjiang and Jiaxing are very detailed, but these detailed data and investigations have led to the wrong conclusion: Jinshanwei is not suitable for the Japanese army to land.

Just as France considered the Ardennes Forest unsuitable for the passage of armored troops. Of course, a month later, the French realized their mistake at the cost of the demise of France!

Human judgment is based on past experience and knowledge to make predictions. But often experience is wrong, and one of the major changes between World War II and World War I is that the engineering capabilities of World War II were extremely strong.

The Ardennes Forest was not suitable for armored troops, but German sappers were able to let them pass. Similarly, the Japanese army had strong engineering units, bridge-building troops, and boat-building troops. ** There is also no recognition of the secondary bonuses of these units to front-line troops.

This is the big trouble, Xu Ming is sure, even if he sees Lao Jiang, he will never believe what he says, why are you more correct than so many high-ranking staff and elites!

After thinking for a while, Xu Ming said: "Deputy Chief Liu, then can I go to the front line of Jinshanwei to garrison, so that it is closer to the front line, and I will also give an explanation to the brothers." ”

Liu Fei glanced at it meaningfully and said, "Okay, but if you really have to encounter a large number of Japanese troops, don't fight hard and destroy the traffic as much as possible." ”

Only then did Xu Ming know that Liu Fei was actually worried that the Japanese army would land here, but he, the head of the operations department, was afraid that he would not be able to make the ** command change its mind.