It's the Spring Festival, and in the Spring Festival of three or seven years, Yan'an has been particularly prosperous.

Subject to various objective conditions, Yan'an is unable to develop industry on a large scale, but the development of these alone is enough to give Yan'an a new look.

The material resources funded by the Black God Army are constantly being sent, and now there is no need to transport them by air, and the oil is too precious, so they are transported by land through Shanxi and across the Yellow River.

It can be said that the party Central Committee has never been so comfortable.

The children are all dressed in new clothes and running and playing in the snow.

Taizu stood in the snow, looking at the children running and playing, his eyes full of happy smiles.

At this time, the boss came over and came to Taizu's side, and the boss said: "Lao Mao, everyone is here, just waiting for you." ”

"Ugh." Taizu smiled and said, "Okay, let's go back." ”

The conference room was packed, and the long tables were filled with chestnuts, peanuts, sugar cubes, apples, and so on.

Everyone was talking and laughing.

Today, on the third day of the Lunar New Year, an enlarged military meeting of the Central Committee was convened to study the current situation and make corresponding countermeasures.

Shanghai has been fighting for nearly four months, and the total number of troops in Shanghai has reached 400,000, and it is still increasing.

If it weren't for the two defense lines that had been built with countless painstaking efforts, they would have been unable to hold on a long time ago, but even so, it was only a matter of time before they abandoned Shanghai.

In the four-month battle, although our army suffered heavy losses, it was said that the same was true for myself, and the ratio of casualties on both sides was four to one.

Our army suffered more than 300,000 casualties, while the Japanese army suffered 780,000 casualties.

After sitting down, Taizu picked up the Black God cigarette on the table, took out one, lit it, took a puff, and then said, "If you have any ideas, tell them." ”

The quarrel was quite happy just now, no one squeaked at this time, and seeing that no one spoke, Taizu began to nod and said, "He Huzi, you talk about it first." ”

He Lao is always the head of the 120th Division, and when he heard Taizu point to his head, Mr. He looked at everyone and said with a smile: "Let me tell me?" ”

Everyone laughed: "If you don't say it, who will say?" ”

"Medium, just say it." Mr. He said: "Chairman, after the little devils occupy Shanghai and Suzhou, they will inevitably go south and fight against the devils outside the Guan, so I think Xuzhou may break out in a larger scale than Shanghai." ”

Taizu was silent.

At this time, Liu Shuai said: "Because of the existence of the Soviet Union, Yue Ben will not invest the whole country in the Chinese battlefield, and now, Yue Ben is actually very passive, after occupying Shanghai, will they seek to negotiate with the Nanjing political axe?" ”

The prime minister nodded and said, "Bo Cheng is right, I don't rule out this possibility." ”

After thinking for a moment, Taizu said: "If I really realize my own problems, what they should do is a complete truce and concentrate on managing Northeast China and North Korea." However, this possibility is extremely small, so if they want to negotiate with the Nanjing political axe, then they have only one purpose, that is, to borrow the road, and to borrow the road on the condition of giving up Shanghai. ”

After Taizu's words were finished, everyone's expressions became solemn, because if it was really as Taizu said, saying that he really did this, then with Chiang Kai-shek's person, he would definitely not be able to ask for such a good thing, but in this way, the situation in North China would be extremely serious.

First of all, the 300,000-strong army of Yueben could drive straight into the country unscathed, and carry out a north-south advance with the army outside the pass; Second, the hundreds of thousands of Central Army troops in North China will become a bomb that could be detonated at any time, leaving the situation out of control.

After a moment of silence, Liu Shuai said: "If Nanjing Zhengaxe really makes peace with himself, then Xuzhou is a key point." ”

Xuzhou is a strategic place for soldiers to fight, and if there is no peace, Nanjing political axe will inevitably organize a large-scale battle in Xuzhou.

The premier's brows were tightly locked, once Chiang Kai-shek disregarded the general interests of the nation and secretly made peace with himself, he would be in a dilemma for [***].

Exposing Chiang Kai-shek's traitorous acts will inevitably lead to national turmoil, especially with unpredictable consequences for the situation in North China.

But if it is not revealed, the situation is also extremely dangerous, because if the Central Army cannot be restrained, then this battle will not have to be fought, and it will definitely be lost.

Which one of you is not a genius? But for a while, no one could think of a way to crack it.

After a pause, Taizu turned to Mr. Peng and asked, "Mr. Peng, how is the Jicha side?" ”

Mr. Peng said: "No problem, if you fight in Xuzhou, the devils outside the gate will definitely not be able to reach Xuzhou." ”

Taizu smiled and asked, "So confident?" ”

Mr. Peng said: "At least in the two provinces of Jicha, trench warfare can definitely stop the little devils." Even if the little devils can break through the defense line of the Great Wall, without the need for other armies, we can still use the trenches to entangle the little devils and make them unable to move. ”

Ren Bishi asked, "Old Peng, is it really so powerful?" ”

At this time, Deng Gong said: "It's really powerful." Then he explained: "The main reason is that there are too many trenches, and there are holes in the trenches to connect them." To put it mildly, hiding in a trench is like a ground mouse, and I don't see how I can deal with it. ”

Liu Shuai added: "Indeed, the layers of dense trenches allow us to gather and disperse at any time, both to gather heavy troops for positional warfare, and to disperse at any time. If they want to deal with us, they can only go down to the trench, but in this way, everyone will be evened. ”

Mr. Peng said: "It's not that it's flat, it's that we have the advantage." ”

Liu Shuai smiled: "Yes, it is indeed us who has the advantage. ”

[***] is the ancestor of guerrilla warfare, and no one else can learn this level in this regard, no matter how much they learn it, because [***] guerrilla warfare is forced out, and it is sharpened between life and death.

What's more, his side is familiar with the terrain, and the little devil must be black-eyed when he goes to the trench, so he is naturally at a disadvantage, and it is a great disadvantage.

Mr. He said: "It's a pity that such a large-scale trench can only be done under certain circumstances and conditions. ”

Nodding, Taizu said: "These trenches still have a great psychological importance, like the Great Wall defense line, if it is broken through a little, it is easy to cause the collapse of the whole line, but with these trenches, the possibility of the collapse of the whole line does not exist." ”

Mr. Zhu said: "What Lao Mao said is true. After a pause, he said, "Is it possible to put the devils outside the gate in to fight?" ”

When Mr. Zhu said this, everyone thought about it.

After a while, Liu Shuai said, "I think I want it." ”

Once Chiang Kai-shek secretly made peace with him, then he had to plan for the worst, Taizu nodded slightly.

-- Nanjing Massacre!

How can the tragedy be avoided?

This has always been a thorn hanging in Han Lihong's heart.

To avoid tragedy, we must find solutions at the source.

The culprit of the Nanjing Massacre is not one, not just the beast, but also not one, but two.

In addition to the culprit of the Nanjing Massacre, there were two other people, two damned people, one of whom was naturally indispensable to our Chairman Chiang, and the other was Tang Shengzhi.

At that time, in the Battle of Songhu, the army could not break through the frontal defense of our army, so it landed in a roundabout way from Hangzhou Bay, and then threatened and attacked the flank of our army with heavy troops.

As a last resort, our troops were forced to retreat.

Due to the strong naval and air force of the army, the high degree of mechanization, and the stupidity of Chiang Kai-shek, our army was completely defeated, so that it retreated again and again, and retreated to the vicinity of Nanjing in one go.

In this way, the issue of defending the capital Nanjing was put on the agenda of the Nanjing Political Axe Command in advance.

Nanjing cannot be defended.

Nanjing is located at the bend of the Yangtze River, and the terrain is backed by water, so the army can blockade Nanjing from the river, cut off the lines of communication in our rear from land or from Wuhu, and then attack Nanjing by land, sea and air forces.

Moreover, our army suffered too great losses in the Battle of Shanghai, and after an extremely chaotic long-distance retreat, it had no combat effectiveness, and it could only recover its combat effectiveness after a long period of supplementary training in the rear.

Therefore, Nanjing could not be defended at all.

This is an obvious truth, but because Nanjing is the capital, it is not good to look good without a fight, so everyone advocates that they can only symbolically defend and then take the initiative to retreat. In terms of the use of troops, it should be between 12 and 18 regiments and about 30,000 men, because too many troops are not conducive to mobility.

Everyone is this kind of opinion, except for two people, one is Chiang Kai-shek, the other is Tang Shengzhi, their reason is that Nanjing is the capital, it has attracted international attention, and it is also the mausoleum of Premier Sun Yat-sen. Therefore, it is imperative to hold on!

In a word, the stubborn defense of Nanjing is not for political and military considerations, but only for the sake of face.

So, who will defend Nanjing? No one wanted to, and in the end, Chiang Kai-shek appointed Tang Shengzhi as the commander of the Nanjing garrison.

After taking office, Tang Shengzhi told reporters: "I am ordered to defend Nanjing with confidence in at least two things: first, that is, the unit to which I belong swear to live and die with Nanjing, and I will not hesitate to sacrifice in the defense of Nanjing; secondly, such sacrifices will inevitably cost the enemy greatly".

There were more than 100,000 troops guarding Nanjing, including Gui Yongqing's Teaching Corps, Sun Yuanliang's 88th Division, Song Xilian's 36th Division, Yu Jishi's 74th Army, Ye Zhao's 66th Army, Deng Longguang's 83rd Army, Xu Yuanquan's 2nd Army, and military police units.

The vast majority of these troops are crippled units that have just been withdrawn from the Songhu battlefield, there are very few veterans, most of the recruits have not been trained, many have not even let go of guns, the troops are very consumed, exhausted, and the combat effectiveness can be imagined.

However, it was these remnants of the new army that faced tens of thousands of troops with a total of about five divisions and two detachments, equipped with a large number of heavy weapons, aircraft, and warships.

Both in terms of strength and firepower, our army is at an extreme disadvantage.

Under this extreme disadvantage, Tang Shengzhi and Tang showed his fearless courage, he learned from Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, and also imitated cats and dogs, and ordered all ferries and boats to be transferred to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and forbade any troops to retreat from Xiaguan to the north of the river, and also arranged for Hu Zongnan's First Army to garrison the Pujiang River, and stopped any troops from crossing the river from Nanjing to the north bank by force.

And it was this order that later led directly to the Nanjing Massacre.

Although General Tang made a great determination to break the kettle, in the end, because of a telegram order from Chairman Chiang, he changed his mind and issued a retreat order.

Originally, it was intended to be held to the death, but as soon as the temporary retreat order was given, the whole army immediately collapsed.

More than 100,000 troops instinctively poured into the narrow area around Rujiangmen and Xiaguan in the night, where there were no troops.

The various units were crowded together, the soldiers could not find the officers, the officers could not find the soldiers, and they lost any structure.

No matter how many people there are, such troops will not be able to continue fighting.

For a time, in the narrow area of Shimonoseki, the curses of the wounded soldiers, the cries of the refugees, and the fierce gunfire in the distance were mixed together and dissolved in the sky-rushing firelight...... The area around Shimonoseki is in unprecedented chaos.

At the same time, many officers and men who were unwilling to wait for death used all kinds of floating tools to cross the river and retreat north, some used the wooden beds of ordinary people, some used baths, some used dung buckets, some used reeds, some used coffins, and some soldiers waved a whip and rode on the back of an old ox to forcibly cross the river.

When Tang Shengzhi ordered the destruction of the cauldron and the sinking of the boat, some troops secretly hid hundreds of small wooden boats, and it was these small wooden boats that saved the life of this great general who had just made an oath and made bold words.

Half of the officers and men who failed to cross the river were taken prisoner by the Japanese army, while the other half disguised themselves as refugees and hid in various refugee areas.

A few days later, these collectively captured officers and soldiers were brutally slaughtered by the Kou.

After the massacre of the captives, all that remained were the officers and soldiers mixed in the refugee group, and among the more than 100,000 refugees, it was impossible to distinguish who was the real refugee and who was a disguised refugee.

As a result, the real officers and soldiers were slaughtered, the real refugees were also slaughtered, and in this atmosphere of bloody murder like killing a rabbit, large-scale robbery, forcible annihilation, and massacre followed.

Now, in order to avoid the Nanjing Massacre, and in order to prevent some people from disregarding the lives and deaths of more than 100,000 soldiers just for the sake of face, it is necessary to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle and let Chiang Kai-shek make the decision to abandon Nanjing.

-----Xiaozhuang Airport.

Han Lihong, Song Zheyuan, Ji Hongchang, Fang Zhenwu, Yanzi, Liang Ye and others all stood on the airport, looking up at the blue sky.

A little while, escorted by four fighters, a transport plane landed on the airfield.

The cabin door opened, the spiral ladder was lowered, and the prime minister and Mr. Peng stepped down from the transport plane.

Han Lihong gave Yan'an two transport planes to travel in an emergency.

Normally, just in case, whenever possible, the prime minister travels by transport plane, and fighter jets will be sent to escort him.

This time too, after receiving the notice, four fighters were dispatched.

Every drop of gasoline is extremely precious, and the prime minister is against it, but in this matter, Han Lihong never listens, and the prime minister can't help it.

Xiaozhuang Airport is an underground hangar, which was used to hide the batch of planes stolen from Chengde at the beginning, which is absolutely hidden.

The underground hangar is built with a tunnel leading directly to Ranzhuang.

The prime minister has already seen some, so he is not surprised, but Peng Lao is always the first time, and he can't hide the surprise in his heart.

Everyone took a few jeeps and went directly to Ranzhuang from the tunnel.

Peng Lao is always a great military strategist, and when he sees a leaf, he knows that since the Black God Army can build such a tunnel, it can build more similar tunnels.

In Mr. Peng's eyes, he was not interested in the role of these authentic farewells, he was most shocked and envious of the following: with these tunnels, it is really possible to use soldiers like a god when they use soldiers.

The biggest role of these tunnels is not to attack, but to transport troops.

Think about it, a large army can appear at any time in a place where it is impossible at all, what will be the situation for the enemy army?

When the prime minister and Mr. Peng came, Han Lihong naturally took out all the good things to entertain the prime minister and Mr. Peng.

Although no one cares about this, for Han Lihong, it is a projection of emotion, and he is like a child who wants to be filial to his parents in front of the prime minister.

After lunch, everyone got down to business.

The prime minister told Taizu's judgment, and after Han Lihong heard it, he had only one word in his heart, and that was to serve.

There are too many big bulls in [***], looking at the history of Chinese civilization for 5,000 years, if you use "the stars are like rain" to describe it, then this era will definitely dominate.

Many of these big bulls can be said to be born at the wrong time, because Taizu is too dazzling, if there is no super bull like Taizu, then which of them is not a hero and a hegemon?

But these big bulls, who doesn't obey Taizu? The reason why this is so is that Taizu's insight is incomparable to anyone.

Finally, the prime minister said: "Lihong, the chairman asked me to ask your opinion. ”

After pondering for a moment, Han Lihong had an idea, he couldn't do anything else, but he had too much experience with Chairman Jiang.

"Sir, do you think this will work......

After Han Lihong finished speaking, the prime minister smiled. Subsequently, the prime minister put Mr. Zhu in and said that he was put in.

After the prime minister finished speaking, Han Lihong, Ji Hongchang, Fang Zhenwu, Song Zheyuan and others looked at each other and smiled, and then Ji Hongchang said: "Mr. Zhou, we are also studying this matter." After a pause, he added, "The big boss has come up with a brilliant idea......

After listening to Ji Hongchang, the eyes of the prime minister and Mr. Peng widened, and then, Mr. Peng stood up and said excitedly: "Okay, great!" ”

-- Mr. Peng, Mr. Ji Hongchang, Mr. Fang Zhenwu, and Mr. Song Zheyuan studied the specific battle plan, and the premier wanted to go to Han Lihong's house to have a look.

Walking outside, the prime minister said, "Lihong, thank you." ”

The prime minister's thank you naturally refers to Han Lihong's selfless help to [***], Han Lihong said: "Sir, the Kuomintang organization is weak, especially the backbone of the Kuomintang is comprador landlords, so I have always believed that it should not be the Kuomintang that will lead China in the future, but [***]. ”

Looking at Han Lihong, the prime minister's eyes were blazing, and he asked calmly, "What about you?" ”

After a moment of silence, Han Lihong said: "Sir, I have carefully studied the history of your party, and I have found that your party is full of passion and ideals, which is conducive to the development and growth of your party, but it is also easy to lead to too strong ideological factors and affect the decision-making of the surname. ”

The Prime Minister was silent.

(To be continued)