Li Jingqi looked at the offensive and defensive deduction on the huge sand table and was slightly stunned, and then said in surprise: "Chief Zhang wants to counterattack the Northeast?" ”

Zhang Xuewu took a deep breath and said: "The territory of the country, my generation has not been able to open up the territory, that is, not an inch can be ceded, let the land be equated with treason, take out the country's territory, maritime territory, sovereignty and put it aside for discussion is a national thief, everyone will be punished, counterattack on the northeast is inevitable, North Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Myanmar, Siberia are all the territory of my Celestial Empire, what is the great cause of national rejuvenation?" Take back everything we have lost in history! ”

Li Jingqi was dumbfounded and said: "I'm afraid that Chief Zhang's words will cause more trouble!" Korea is already the inherent territory of the country, and the League of Nations also recognizes that Vietnam is a French colony, Burma is a British colony, and Siberia is in the hands of the Soviets. ”

Zhang Xuewu smiled slightly and said: "There is nothing that we can't afford to provoke, we can sacrifice one generation, two generations, three generations to fight a battle of ruins and scorched earth, five years?" Decade? Twenty years? Kill all those who stand in the way of our great cause of rejuvenation, so that we can seize enough resources and living space for future generations, if we spare our own lives and blood, then what is the talk of national rejuvenation? If there is no resources and room for development, what can we talk about the rise of a country? The rise is bloody, it is exchanged for countless bones and lives, and now it is worth the military force, as long as we win the war, we will win everything we dream of, and the noble honor of the military also lies in expanding the territory! We only need to have the belief that whoever stands in the way of our revival and rise will die with him. ”

"If only they had the determination to die together! Just come on! Zhang Xuewu stretched out his arms to the world map!

At this moment, Li Jingqi felt that he was crazy, or was Zhang Xuewu crazy? It's as simple as that, Li Jingqi found that the eyes of the generals and staff officers of the 10th War Zone standing in the war room flashed with a kind of madness? Is this what a general should say? I'm afraid that Chairman Jiang in Wuhan would not dare to say such bold or even crazy words!

Li Jingqi said helplessly: "Chief Zhang, Chief Li privately asked me to say a word, saying that I hope to get your strong support at the critical moment." ”

Zhang Xuewu nodded, he found that this was the real sorrow of the squadron, the order that the military order could not be fulfilled normally had to rely on human favor as the basis for implementation? When a country's army reaches this level, it really makes people fall into a completely speechless situation.

After Zhang Xuewu sent Li Jingqi away, he stood in front of the map, and Huang Tao, who was biting a big cigar on the side, was introducing to Zhang Xuewu the changes in the strength of the enemy and us, obviously saying that in order to deal with Xuzhou, where the Chinese side was heavily armed, he used the more than three months of peace talks to thoroughly adjust the structure and unit ownership of the North China Front Army and the Kwantung Army, because most of the divisions and regiments that were deployed to target Rehe were B divisions, and they were inferior to the "divisions" of Zhang Xuewu's department in terms of combat effectiveness and weaponry and firepower. Therefore, the wartime base camp carried out a strategic adjustment of troops, and transferred a number of experienced combat units and commanders back to the battle sequence of the Kwantung Army, so as to strengthen the strength of the Kwantung Army and strike at Zhang Xuewu's headquarters in the 10th Theater of Operations entrenched in Rehe, Chahar, Suiyuan, and the northwest.

According to Zhang Xuewu's order, Xu Guohui's Tiger Division, Guo Xiangfei's Honorary First Division, Tang Ziqiang's First Armored Division, Li Anguo's Second Armored Division, and heavy artillery clusters were stationed in Chaoyang, and a large number of strategic materials were sent to Chaoyang. He also transferred the headquarters of Li Guobin, the new 7th Division of the 3rd Army of the Youth Army, the 8th Division of the New Youth Army, and the headquarters of Xiao Huairen, the 9th Division of the New Youth Army, which was personally concurrently held by Hao Wenbin, deputy commander of the Suiyuan Dingyuan Battalion for the whole training, to be stationed in Luanping as a strategic reserve.

The new divisions of the Youth Army transferred by Zhang Xuewu are all composed of four brigades, of which three brigades are infantry brigades, one brigade is a mechanized brigade, the tank regiment and armored infantry regiment under the jurisdiction of the brigade, the divisional artillery regiment is equipped with a 105-mm howitzer battalion and two 75-mm mountain artillery battalions, and the engineer battalion, automobile battalion, machine repair battalion, antiaircraft artillery battalion, armored reconnaissance battalion, cavalry battalion, and anti-chemical battalion directly under the division are fully staffed with more than 26,000 people.

Zhang Xuewu was fully prepared for this campaign, not only secretly equipping the troops with the latest production of 100 iron cavalry medium tanks, but also the latest With fwww.xstxt.orgw801C 14-cylinder star-piston air-cooled engine, it has a strong horsepower of 1,600 horsepower, and the nose position is equipped with two Soviet Gorky 20-mm cannons, with 120 rounds of ammunition, and under the wing fixed on the outside of the shock absorbing pillar of the main landing gear, it is equipped with a 30-mm cannon with 35 rounds of ammunition, and the combat radius can reach 1,270 kilometers after attaching a throwable auxiliary fuel tank, which gives the "Saker" fighter a broader combat space.

As for Zhang Xuewu's putting into combat this kind of fighter that only carried out structural platform tests and wind tunnel tests, many people, including Gao Zhihang, thought that this was an adventure, because the fighters equipped by the air force of the 10th Theater were completely capable of suppressing the flying units of the North China Army and the Kwantung Army, and the commanders of the troops considered it from a tactical point of view, while Zhang Xuewu considered it from a strategic point of view, so there would definitely be a certain gap between the two.

At the beginning of December, Li Zongren on the Xuzhou side, in order to cope with the attack of the Yue Army, took Tang Enbo's Corps and Hu Zongnan's Corps as mobile corps, and transferred the Fifth Army, the 36th Army, the 74th Army, the 83rd Army, the 87th Army, the 88th Army, the 98th Army, and the 100th Army to form an attack cluster, which was attached to the 2nd Artillery Brigade, the 5th Brigade, and the Armored Brigade directly under the Military Commission, to prepare for an active attack on the Chinese Central China Army, and to adopt the tactics of internal defense and external attack, with the aim of crushing the main force of the Central China Front of the Chinese Army. Break the strategic intention of the army to meet the north and south.

The Supreme Military Commission sent more than 10 telegrams in a row, urging the headquarters of the 2nd and 10th Theaters to take an active offensive posture against the North China Army.

When the Chinese [***] team was in full swing, he was not idle at all, but he was obviously much more detailed than the Chinese side, and the commander of the Kwantung Army, Ueda Kenkichi, was also actively dealing with Zhang Xuewu, who was regarded as the long knife behind the empire, and the tenth theater had become a big problem for him, but recently he got some news from the Wuhan camp, and it seemed that the supreme commander of the national political axe in Wuhan had a deep insight between Zhang Xuewu?

Officially based on this latest secret information, the Xuzhou operation that has begun to be launched has also slowed down, due to the previous operations in North China and Central China, a large number of elite troops and generals of the Kwantung Army have been withdrawn, although the Kwantung Army is nominally a behemoth of more than 20 divisions, but none of them are standing divisions? Even Hideki Tojo, who has always been unfavorable, was given the opportunity to serve as chief of staff?

This senior soldier Tojo, who was praised by Ishihara as being able to manage only two machine guns, turned out to be the lieutenant general and chief of staff of the Kwantung Army? This made Ishihara Wanji, who was still a major general not long after his comeback, dissatisfied, and Ishihara Wanji, as the director of the Strategic Office of the General Staff Headquarters, seemed to look at Hideki Tojo unpleasantly throughout the meeting.

Ueda Kenkichi is an old-fashioned soldier, who has never used his brain in terms of strategy and tactics, and his strategy is basically to listen to the staff headquarters, and tactically it is to rush and fight fiercely, and call it a day, but it is also this kind of good baby surname of Ueda Kenkichi that makes the bigwigs of the military department and the staff headquarters like it very much.

For the major changes in the battle sequence of the Kwantung Army, Ueda Kenkichi is still very happy in his heart, so that the pressure on him in the 10th theater will be reduced a lot, and Zhang Xuewu's troops in the 10th theater seem to be mythologized all along? In particular, the mechanized troops that showed their skills in the offensive and defensive battles in Nanjing were able to solve the troops of a brigade and regiment in a surprise attack in just a few dozen minutes? This was something that was simply unimaginable before.

Ishihara came with an order for the adjustment of the Kwantung Army's base camp, and in fact this adjustment ended a month ago, but for the sake of this latest information and the question of the candidates for the commanders of the First, Second, and Third Fronts under the Kwantung Army, Ishihara had to publicly read out the list of candidates decided by the Imperial Council of the base camp in order to draw a complete end to this adjustment.

Ishihara Wan'er lifted the fire paint seal with an expressionless face, and took out the order and read it aloud as if no one was next to him: "The Kwantung Three Front Army has nine division regimental formations, ten Divisional B divisions, and two C divisions, and has established thirteen Reading Commands, including the Flight Command, the Combat Vehicle Command, the Engineer Command, the Reading Transit Garrison Command, and the Special Water Supply Force Command. ”

Ueda Kenkichi looked like he was resting with his eyes closed, because this order and the decision of the Imperial Council did not pass him at all, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, but Ueda Kenkichi looked calm and unfathomable at the moment, so that the people below couldn't guess what His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief was thinking?

Ishihara Wan'er saw that everyone below looked breathless and condensed, so he continued: "The First Front Army has the Second Division, the Eighth Division, the Twelfth Division, the Twenty-seventh Division, and the Twenty-eighth Division, and the commander of the Front Army has been awarded the Zhou Standing Army!" ”

(To be continued)