The wind blew through the banks of the Yellow River with a hint of coolness, blowing away the nitrate on both banks, and covering the rich land on both sides of the river with a layer of golden wheat waves, which were not endless, and occasionally there were large blackened pieces of land in the middle, even the hard-working peasants could not completely remove the traces of war in just half a month, and the dilapidated villages could still see the fierce battles at the beginning, and a corpse that was decomposing could occasionally be seen in the broken intestine wall

Corresponding to the golden wheat waves are newly built tombs in various places, white spirit flags fluttering in the wind, and people wearing linen and filial piety haunt the villages, toiling in the fields with grief and sorrow. /.qb5, c0М//

The theater command did not encourage people to return home, but the news of the victory sent most of the fleeing refugees on their way home to clean up their homes in ruins.

Different from the ruin of the countryside and fields, the city of Xuzhou is very lively, this unprecedented victory makes all strata of the country excited, because of political differences rarely walk together the three sisters of the Song family came to Xuzhou to condole, after which the condolence regiments from all over the country came one after another, and the reception office in the theater was overwhelmed, so they had to temporarily transfer personnel from various armies to participate.

After the offensive was stopped, Chiang Kai-shek convened a grand congratulatory meeting in Xuzhou, at which Li Zongren Zhuang Jihua was awarded the newly promulgated Order of National Glory, becoming the first recipient of the Order of National Glory. Chief of Staff Xu Zuyi, Group Army Commander Sun Lianzhong, Yang Sen, Jiang Baili, Deng Xihou and other army division commanders, a total of more than 20 people, were awarded the Order of the Blue Sky and the White Sun, after the Zhujie meeting, Chiang Kai-shek announced the general adjustment plan, officially announced that Li Zongren was transferred to any theater commander, Zhuang Jihua took over as the commander of the Fifth Theater, to Zhuang Jihua's surprise was that Chiang Kai-shek transferred Jiang Baili to the Central Committee, served as a senior counselor of the Military Commission, and became his military staff, and the 49th Group Army was still commanded by Zhuang Jihua, Sun Zhen served as the deputy commander of the 101st Army, with Lan Yundong as the commander, the 104th Division was served by Zhang Xin as the division commander, and the brigade commander left by Zhang Xin was taken over by Xia Yanglin.

Most of the 50,000 supplementary troops from Sichuan and Guizhou were filled into the southwest system by Zhuang Jihua, and 500 fresh graduates from the central government jointly wrote to the military academy asking them to serve in the 49th Group Army, thus solving the shortage of officers at the grassroots level.

Liao Yaoxiang led the commander of the new 22nd Division to cross the river and search and attack in the direction of Dexian, and found that the north of the Yellow River was extremely empty, and only a small number of puppet troops were stationed in most areas. This also made Chiang Kai-shek deeply satisfied, and before leaving, he specially approved the reorganization of the new 22nd Division into a type A division.

The people of Hebei, who had been poisoned by the Japanese army, enthusiastically joined the army to serve the country, recruiting more than 20,000 recruits within a dozen days, and adding the soldiers recruited some time ago, a total of more than 50,000 soldiers were added to the Second and Third Group Armies.

In accordance with the old method, Jihua urged all armies to step up the training of new recruits, and at the same time summed up the operations of some time ago, and demanded that officers at and above the battalion level return to the battlefield in batches to re-examine the attack and defense, and write a written report to report, and the theater command will conduct random inspections at any time, and at the same time, he took the time to perfect the tactical manual he had written.

The wheels of the battle came to a halt temporarily, and after three months of fighting, both sides were exhausted, and they both turned to rest, adjusting their deployment and accumulating forces to prepare for the next wave of bloodshed.

Japan began to take a fresh look at China's local resistance. It will quickly approve an increase of 5 billion in military spending, and the base battalion will also be approved by adding 10 divisions in addition to the 20 divisions. The North China Front and the Central China Front were unified and reorganized into the China Dispatch Army. The General Headquarters of the Dispatch Army was set up in Nanjing, and Junliu, commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, was appointed commander-in-chief of the Chinese Dispatch Army. Unified command of the Japanese forces in China. But for the sake of face. The North China Front was retained. Sugiyama Motoshi served as commander.

Terauchi Shouichi was transferred to Japan to serve as an attendant to the emperor's guard. This is an honorary position. Generally, it is held by a veteran general in the army with high moral integrity. The battle between the Japanese cabinet and the mainland minister has also come to an end. Ita Seisishiro was transferred back to Japan to serve as the land minister. Lieutenant General Antenlij took over as commander of the 5th Division. Ryosuke Isotani, another major responsible person in the battle of Xuzhou, was also transferred. Served as Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army. Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinohara, commander of the 10th Division.

Terauchi Shouichi before returning home. Promoted Yasuken Nakajima to Major General. He served as the commander of the 5th Mixed Brigade of the former Front Army. Qin Yashang, the former commander of the 5th Mixed Brigade, was responsible for the reconstruction of the 108th Division. Yamashita Fengwen, the former commander of the Chinese Garrison Corps, served as the commander of the 16th Division. Responsible for the rebuilding of the 16th Division

The Japanese army mobilized troops from the country and northeast into Shandong and North China. Xuzhou was defeated. The Japanese army in North China drank to quench their thirst. Troops were drawn from all over North China. caused the North China Void Team to launch local counterattacks in various parts of North China. The first place is Shanxi.

After Japan transferred the 20th Division and the Yamashita Corps from Shanxi. Wei Lihuang came down from Zhongtiao Mountain. Launch a counterattack to Yuncheng. Conquer Xia County, Lin, and Anyi. Surround Yuncheng from three sides; Luliang Shanhe L 120th Division attacked. They take a completely different approach. Do not attack the county seat. Swept the Japanese strongholds from Datong to Shuozhou. The 129th Division on Taihang Mountain was divided into several routes. Attack southern Hebei and Shanxi respectively. The Japanese were forced to retreat on the main communication arteries.

Cao commanded the Eighth Route Army in Jizhong to launch attacks on the surrounding Japanese troops, and successively attacked the Ping Railway. Chen commanded the 386th Brigade to fight continuously in southern Hebei. More than 800 enemies were annihilated. The anti-Japanese resistance in southern Hebei developed according to open-mindedness. Nie Rongzhen commanded the main force of the Jin-Cha-Ji base area to launch continuous operations near Zhangjiakou. The Japanese army was completely passive in all parts of North China.

In order to change this passive situation, soon after his arrival in office, Sugiyama Moto, the new commander-in-chief of the Japanese North China Front, summoned senior generals above the brigade commander level in Peiping to study the operational strategy in North China.

From beginning to end, this meeting was full of Sugiyama Moto's anger and ridicule, he made great mockery of Terauchi Shouichi, and under his command, hundreds of thousands of imperial troops turned from a group of brave lions to cowardly sheep, and the troops in North China were even more fleshy and mended, causing the situation in North China to be so rotten that the prestige of the Imperial Army was humiliated and the face of the Japanese Empire was lost.

"Shouichi Terauchi, this idiot!" Sugiyama Yuan roared angrily at the end, not at all worried that this would spread to the country and reach Sugiyama Yuan's ears. All the generals here are all generals who participated in the war some time ago, and they have more or less been reprimanded by Sugiyama Moto's anger and shame.

Sugiyama soon found out about this situation, and his tone changed, and he began to boost morale, and by the way, he also talked about his strategy: "The main task of the front army is still to open up the Jinpu line and destroy the strength of the young Zhuang faction of the Shina army entrenched in the Xuzhou area, and only in this way can the Shina government sit down and honestly accept the peace conditions of the imperial army." Fourteen divisions will be added to North China in the next three months, and we have never gained such strength in North China. Gentlemen, the mission of conquering China and creating an empire is on your shoulders! ”

At the back of the conference room, Nakajima Yasuken looked at Sugiyama Yuan expressionlessly, he was bored with this meeting, whether it was accusations or morale boosting, the impact on him was very small, in his opinion, the defeat of Xuzhou was a strategic failure of the empire, this defeat was doomed, and Shouichi Terauchi was just a scapegoat for the strategic mistakes of the military department.

Kataoka is very worried about this state of his old friend, especially his contempt for Sugiyama Moto. Privately dragged him to the officers' club to comfort him, but Nakajima didn't care.

"The defeat in the Battle of Xuzhou is just a silhouette of the strategic failure of the military department, and General Yama, as the Minister of War, cannot escape the blame," Nakajima directly pointed the finger at Sugiyama Moto: "Kataoka-kun, you look at it, it is impossible for him to end the Shina Incident either." ”

Shima came to this conclusion because he opposed Sugiyama Moto's strategy, and according to Sugiyama Moto's plan, the elimination of the Chinese government forces in Xuzhou was the primary goal, so he decided to devote 12 of the 14 divisions to the second Jinpu Road operation under preparation, and Hebei and Shanxi each to invest one division to stabilize the current situation, and Yamamoto clearly announced at the meeting that the battle plan had been submitted to the base camp, and the base camp would approve this battle plan in the near future.

"General Shan's combat ideas are still based on the concept of conquering China within a year or two, but this is wrong, the two battles of Nanjing and Xuzhou, to the people of China increased confidence, even if Xuzhou is captured, open up the Jinpu line, the government of China will not seek peace. From the perspective of a protracted war, we should first eliminate the anti-Japanese forces in North China, at least seriously weaken them, and use three divisions to encircle and suppress Jizhong, and five divisions to encircle and suppress Jin-Cha-Ji. Nakajima Yasuken said solemnly: "During this period, six divisions were used to support the Jinan defenders, stabilize the Shandong battlefield, and at the same time clear the anti-Japanese forces that appeared in Jiaodong, and after clearing North China, we had a stable rear, and then began to implement the campaign to open up the Jinpu Road, with six divisions to attack Henan, along the Pinghan Railway south, inserted into the rear of the Xuzhou Zhina Army, and the front also used six divisions to attack along the Jinpu line, and the Central China Front also sent five to six divisions, and the main force turned around and went west after conquering Suxian, In cooperation with the imperial army that moved south from Henan, in this way, the main force of the Chinese army concentrated in Xuzhou was encircled and annihilated, laying the foundation for victory. ”

Kataoka couldn't help but gasp after hearing this, this is really a grand strategy, a strategy that the Japanese army has never implemented, and it makes people's blood boil when they think about it.

"Nakajima-kun, you should immediately report to Admiral Sugiyama, if this strategy can be implemented, we will achieve an unprecedented victory, and the Shina people are likely to sit down and negotiate." Katagang danced and was very excited.

Nakajima didn't answer, he just took a sip of sake silently, Kataoka urged repeatedly, and for a long time Nakajima took out a document expressionlessly and handed it to Katagang, Katagang quickly took it and looked down seriously.

There was a commotion outside the door, Nakajima felt his shoulders swell, stood up, opened the door, and in the bathroom, he released the liquid accumulated in his body freely, but the door of the bathroom was opened, and the two officers came in one after the other, still complimenting each other.

"Ligao-kun, it's great that you can come to Beiping, and we can fight together for His Majesty the Emperor again."

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