"What?" Nanjing Demilitarized Zone? Zhang Xuewu looked around at the group of generals in the headquarters who were covered in gunpowder smoke and almost ragged clothes, and now Zhang Xuewu didn't know how many troops he had? The reserves have long been exhausted, and the death squads do not remember how many times they have been organized, and the urban area of Nanjing has become the grave of the Yue army, and while the Chinese defenders have also suffered a large number of casualties, the casualties of the Chinese defenders are also increasing rapidly, and the street fighting is cruel, often the Chinese defenders have just annihilated an intruding Yue army unit, and they will be bombarded by the Yue army's artillery fire, and in the dense and fierce artillery fire, it is very normal for the troops to lose 30 or 40 percent.

Zhang Xuewu has long had no reserves at hand, the garrison troops of Wulong Mountain and Yanziji are the last formed troops in Nanjing City, Zhang Xuewu did not dare to move, even if the direction of Xishuimen Xiaguan was exhausted, he transferred the 159th Division where Jiang Xinzhou and Baguazhou were located to Xiaguan to fight hard, and did not move the defensive strength of the Wulong Mountain Fortress, the three divisions of the 74th Army were reorganized into only two regiments, and these two regiments were also put into battle last night, no matter how tense the troops were every night, Zhang Xuewu had to organize death squads to recapture the streets lost during the day according to the convention, if he does not fight back one day, he will immediately notice that the situation of the defenders is not good.

However, Zhang Xuewu also knows that if he is organizing death squads, he is afraid that he will have to organize staff death squads and general death squads, and what worries Zhang Xuewu even more is the contact with Wuhan, Chiang Kai-shek sends seven or eight telegrams almost a day to inquire about the war situation, but the [***] troops on the outer line are deployed extremely slowly, and the Soviet machinery that entered from the Dingyuan battalion is sent to the rear through the northwest of Shanxi, and Chiang Kai-shek is making every effort to expand the descendants of the Central Army, rather than equipping the Sichuan Army, Gui and other troops that have formed combat effectiveness, In this way, the speed of the reorganization of the troops has slowed down a lot, and the Sichuan army's weapons and equipment are so poor that a division is not even as strong as a brigade of the army, and the rifling is smoothed out, how can the old sleeve be compared to the Type 38 rifle? Not to mention that the Sichuan army only has two light machine guns in a company, and the troops on the outside line have been unable to deploy for a long time, and the most important thing is that Chiang Kai-shek ignored the advantage of the Yue army in controlling air supremacy, and the [***] squadron marching on foot does not have any advantage over the Yue army in terms of speed, and it is even inferior to the Yue army fighting in a foreign country in terms of logistics support. Let the logistics department of the military station directly distribute food!

In the face of the price of grain in the market, which changes three times a day, the national currency issued in hand cannot buy anything at all, and this is clear to Chiang Kai-shek, the Ministry of Military Affairs, and even more so to the officers and soldiers below.

Although Nanjing fought very hard, Zhang Xuewu has always been full of confidence, because the offensive of the army in Rehe has entered a state of stagnation, which means that his large-scale counterattack is also brewing at the same time, but Zhang Xuewu still maintains a high degree of vigilance, the reason is that from the historical point of view of modern times, in the world, which war is a country with military aid and no industrial system defeated a country without military aid and an industrial system? Modern warfare is fighting a country's comprehensive industrial potential, not a dozen German armor divisions, so Zhang Xuewu has been committed to building a small and complete industrial base in Baotou, accumulating family funds, it doesn't matter if the output is small, I'm afraid that there will be no output!

Zhang Xuewu's principle is that the output is small, we are higher high-tech, and use quality technology to fight the quantity, just like the latest model of the BF-109K fighter, its surname can be said to be the design concept and I am now equipped with the 94-type, 95-type, 96-type carrier-based aircraft and various types of attack aircraft of the army aviation are completely the products of two eras, compared with the earlier BF-109F fighter, the BF-109K fighter has replaced a more powerful aero engine, Its surname can be greatly improved, and the problem of the slow climb speed of the BF-109F has been improved, and the cabin has been fully enclosed and airtight, which allows the pilot to have a higher climb altitude than himself when fighting, even if he encounters the siege of enemy aircraft with absolute numerical superiority, he can easily break through the encirclement of the military fighters and easily shoot down the enemy planes.

However, Zhang Xuewu is trapped in the lonely city of Nanjing, and he doesn't know much about the international situation at this moment, and he doesn't know that at this moment he has accepted the armistice agreement formed by a joint mediation team composed of nine countries including the United States, Britain, and France, and now Wuhan is also boiling like a pot of boiling water, although Nanjing has not yet been lost, but everyone knows that this is just a matter of time, Zhang Xuewu's defense of Nanjing can last for more than a month, plus the time when he was appointed commander of the Nanjing garrison, it will be two months!

Zhang Xuewu can be said to have once again created a miracle in the history of modern world warfare in Nanjing, the use of armored groups, the large-scale use of rocket artillery and heavy artillery, the large-scale investment of the Air Force, the important surname of air supremacy, the integrated combat mode of sea and air, the application of aircraft carriers, etc., all of which have made people in all circles around the world have a refreshing feeling?

The Battle of Nanjing can be said to be the middle [***] team in Songhu after the corpse mountain and sea of blood, still able to maintain tenacious combat effectiveness, holding a prediction that will never be able to hold the city for more than 20 days for more than a month, during which it also launched several beautiful counterattacks, especially the tactics of the final raid on the enemy's command structure with elite small troops, which can be described as classic, if it were not for Prince Hatohiko of Asakanomiya waiting for the entrance ceremony in Nanjing, Tada Jun moved out of the headquarters, then it was not a lieutenant general who was killed, Rather, it is a general, and according to the practice of this army, Tada Jun is likely to be promoted to marshal.

Kill an enemy marshal? This kind of feat is something that you don't usually dare to think of! And cut off the other party's head? This seems to be a bit barbaric, but compared to the massacre of tens of thousands of Chinese civilians and wounded soldiers in Xiaguan and the cutting off of the head of Prince Hatohiko Asakanomiya, the culprit who ordered it, it seems to be in line with the style of the Chinese?

Zhang Xuewu is calculating the strength in his hands, and Hu Zongnan's headquarters in Jiangbei are nominally under his command, but he may not have a big surname if he wants to transfer him across the river to participate in the war, because Hu Zongnan's first reaction is to report to the Wuhan camp, which is the main reason why Chiang Kai-shek likes to cultivate, promote, and reuse the Whampoa department. At this point, Nanjing's Zhang Xuewu did a very good job.

In the overall battle situation, Chiang Kai-shek was not so assured of Zhang Xuewu, the strong combat effectiveness of the Rehe Army directly refused to call the army abroad, and its main mechanized division has not yet been put into battle, there are still about seven to eight divisions of troops in the hinterland of Rehe and Suiyuan in the reorganization and equipment, and the Rehe Army received a large amount of free Soviet aid even more than the political axe of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek also understood that the Soviets hoped that the Rehe Army would drag the Kwantung Army back, so they did not hesitate to provide assistance. Especially those machine tools and equipment that are urgently needed in the rear of Yucheng University have all entered Zhang Xuewu's pocket.

Zhang Xueliang is now serving as the senior counselor of the national government, although Zhang Xuewu nominally defected to himself, but the Rehe Army is different from the Central Army, there are some local warlord flavors, this Chiang Kai-shek is very vigilant, he does not want to take off Zhang Xueliang and another Zhang Xuewu, said that he is an external trouble, there is no need to worry, and [***] and local factions, especially Zhang Xuewu, a local faction that has developed greatly under the banner of the central government, makes Chiang Kai-shek very uncomfortable, which is his confidant.

However, it is still far from the point where the cunning rabbit dies and the lackey cooks, and Chiang Kai-shek has always advocated a gentle way, dealing with Zhang Xuewu can not be like Li Zongren and Chen Jitang, and the time is not right, gradually control, gradually decompose its command, and dismember the ironclad Rehe Army, cannonballs and silver bullets are Chiang Kai-shek's two major killer weapons, and I am afraid that it will not be of much use against the artillery shells of the Rehe Army, so Chiang Kai-shek is ready to use his only magic weapon, silver bullets!

As for Zhang Xuewu's arrangement, Chiang Kai-shek has never been able to make up his mind, just like this time he has been planning to promote Zhang Xuewu after the defense of Nanjing, and put the staff headquarters on suspicion of being a deputy commander? It's too young again, a lieutenant general who is less than thirty years old, if it is replaced by the warlord melee in the early years of the Republic of China, the overseers and marshals are everywhere, and now some military and political systems of the Republic of China are on the right track, Zhang Xuewu's promotion makes those generals who rushed out of the bloody storm in the first and second phases of the Huangpu and the Second Northern Expedition and the Central Plains War?

Chiang Kai-shek really had some headaches, and the most headache for him was whether Zhang Xuewu could obey the order, lead his troops to withdraw from Nanjing, let the multinational forces of the League of Nations take over the defense of Nanjing, declare Nanjing a demilitarized zone, and say that the main force of the Central Branch of the army will be withdrawn from Huai'an and Linyi to Jinan, and all the troops in Heze, Jining, and Linyi will be withdrawn to Jinan, and the ceasefire line between the two sides of Zibo, Liaocheng, and Handan will be maintained, and Prince Zairen, the special envoy of the plenipotentiary negotiator on this side, will go to Shanghai to negotiate with the Nationalist Political Axe, and Nanjing and Shanghai will be designated as a demilitarized zone. He said that the warships and marines could be stationed in Shanghai, and the army should withdraw accordingly, and that the army, navy, and air force of the Republic of China should not enter the demilitarized zone between Shanghai and Nanjing, otherwise it would be regarded as a provocation, and demanded that the head of Prince Hatohiko of Asakanomiya, which had been cut off by the Chinese [***] commando team, be returned before the negotiations.

Chiang Kai-shek is a little incomprehensible to the so-called armistice? After the previous Songhu War, he asked the German ambassador to mediate with Tao Deman, and finally ended with his harsh condition of North China autonomy, and this time he suddenly proposed negotiations under the condition of absolute superiority, and it is really difficult for people to believe his real surname and the hidden secret behind it.

(To be continued)