Chiang Kai-shek's confidant is also his own confidant, which is probably unexpected by Zhang Xuewu.

Chiang Kai-shek's murder has always been a soft knife without seeing blood, with the help of Zhang Xuewu to attract the attention of the army, consume the vitality of the army, so that the government can win the key time to reorganize equipment and fight again, so Chiang Kai-shek gave Zhang Xuewu the opportunity to honor and expand his strength, what is already uncontrollable, it is better to let go and let it develop on its own, the more the tenth theater grows, the more he regards it as a thorn in the flesh, and he must completely eliminate it.

Moreover, Chiang Kai-shek also occupies the general intention of the government to lead the resistance, if Zhang Xuewu does not obey the strategic arrangement of the national government, it is a deliberate attempt to preserve strength, public opinion can praise you Zhang Xuewu to heaven, and you can also send you to hell, then see how many of your subordinates are loyal to you Zhang Xuewu?

There are many ways to deal with Zhang Xuewu and Chiang Kai-shek, but Chiang Kai-shek doesn't want to give outsiders a feeling that they are too anxious, and the biggest taboo in high-level decision-makers is the appearance of the ending of the cunning rabbit and the death of the lackey.

Chiang Kai-shek finally pointed his finger to Xuzhou, knocked hard and said: "Some time ago, we lost a lot of money in the two major battles of Songhu and Nanjing, and the elite headquarters of the Central Army were almost three out of ten, and now I said that my Prince Zairen was clearly negotiating with us in Shanghai, but in fact he was making trouble, Xuzhou was a place where soldiers had to fight since ancient times, and there was no possibility of giving up. Let's see if there is any way to delay my own attack, disperse and advantageously contain my own forces? ”

Chiang Kai-shek's words made Li Zongren, Gu Zhutong, Chen Cheng and others present suddenly stunned slightly, it is obvious that Chiang Kai-shek's words are referring to something, the people present are all professional soldiers, and the huge sand table is not as good as the two armies of the Tenth Theater except for the Rehe side that has just been inserted into the logo of the Tenth War Zone, but compared with the headquarters of the Tenth War Zone, the combat effectiveness of nearly 300,000 troops entrenched in the Zhongtiao Mountain area is probably not as good as the two armies of the Tenth War Zone.

And it is very strange that although Shanxi has been included in the 10th Theater, the Commander's Department of the 2nd Theater has not been revoked? Yan Xishan is still the commander of the general of the Second Theater of Operations, and the headquarters of the Central Army and the Jin Army in Zhongtiao Mountain are not under the command of the Tenth Theater?

This is in obvious contradiction with the provisions of the military order that the division of the theater of the Ministry of Military Affairs is subordinate to the military order? Therefore, everyone understands the so-called situation of Zhang Xuewu's 10th War Zone.

There is no impermeable wall in this world, and whoever speaks first is in line with Chiang Kai-shek's wishes, but it is Zhang Xuewu who offends, which is equivalent to digging a pit for Zhang Xuewu to jump, and digging a pit for others is obviously a very hated thing! Moreover, Zhang Xuewu's power has increased greatly at the moment, the soldiers of the 10th Theater are strong and strong, and the entire system of the Youth Army has been given the number of the 10th Theater, and the intention of the Supreme Military Council is very obvious, you can organize as many troops as you can afford to raise in the 10th Theater, except for the Tiger Division and the Honor 1st Division, the rest of the divisions have only half of the normal funds, and their treatment is similar to that of the 18th Group Army and the Fourth Route Army.

The identity of the Central Army, the treatment of the miscellaneous army is not as good, this is the real situation of the troops in the Tenth Theater, but everyone also knows that there is a secret big consortium behind Zhang Xuewu, which has made huge investments in the United States and constantly transfuses blood to Rehe, otherwise relying only on Zhang Xuewu to sell opium and its derivatives will not be able to maintain such a huge troop consumption, coupled with the huge loans and military purchases provided by the Soviet Union several times, Zhang Xuewu can be called a strong soldier!

Therefore, Li Zongren and Gu Zhutong, He Yingqin and others are all contemplative, Li Zongren and He Yingqin will not share this worry for Lao Jiang, Gu Zhutong is pretending to be stupid, Hu Zongnan and Tang Enbo and others are not at enough level to speak falsely, and only Chen Cheng is left who speaks with enough weight!

Chen Cheng glanced at Gu Zhutong very helplessly, Chairman Jiang must be supported by someone, otherwise the old man will be furious when he starts a temper, and it will be a big trouble for the old man to think that he is not loyal enough to him, and he will not be able to solve his worries.

Chen Cheng hesitated for a moment and said to Chiang Kai-shek: "Chairman! He believes that the current strategic deployment and intentions of the army are actually Sima Zhao's intentions, and everyone knows that he is forcing us to turn the tables on our own, so that the Nine-Power Convention Organization will think that we are sabotaging the process of talking about it and rekindling the flames of war! As a matter of fact, the intention of my recent military readjustment and deployment is to conduct a large-scale strategic decisive battle with our army in Xuzhou, to completely open up the Longhai line, to let the main force of the Chinese army in North China join forces with the main force of the Chinese army in central China, and to blindly increase troops to Xuzhou for passive defense, which is very unfavorable to our army, and the only way for our side to do so now is to wait for the person to tear his face in Shanghai, and then use the main force of the 10th Theater to attack the front line of Shanhaiguan with all his might, reconquer Jinzhou, cut off the connection between the Kwantung Army and the North China Army, and strategically divide the main force of the Chinese army. ”

"Very nice! This idea of rhetoric is very good! Chiang Kai-shek nodded with satisfaction, but Chen Cheng was also bitter in his heart, and when these words reached Zhang Xuewu's ears, he was afraid that Zhang Xuewu would be offended at home.

Chen Cheng is also a figure who is not surprised by several ups and downs, because Chiang Kai-shek has always been the same to his favor, so no matter how big Chen Cheng suffers defeats, he can not shake his position at all, the eighteenth army under his command is organized by the second division into the fifth division, even if the invasion of the Hubei-Henan-Anhui Soviet region suffered a big loss, was attacked by He Yingqin, Gu Zhutong, Xiong Shihui and other people, Chiang Kai-shek resolutely reorganized the 18th Army into the second army and eight divisions.

Li Zongren can see from the sidelines that Chen Cheng is Lao Jiang's confidant, and Li Zongren is inconvenient to comment too much on Chen Cheng's so-called military talent, there are too many factors that determine the outcome of a battle, and many things are not taken for granted if you have more soldiers and good weapons, and who has not defeated a battle? As long as you don't lose your surname once and you can't make a comeback, it won't be a complete failure.

Li Zongren admired what Chen Cheng once said, rather than die without a fight, it is better to survive than to fight! He also put forward the strategy of containing the main force of the Chinese army and making the enemy move from east to west and prevent him from moving from north to south.

Chiang Kai-shek seemed to ponder for a moment and said: "Order the Fifth Theater to strengthen preparations for war, with the Tang Enbo Corps and Hu Zongnan's Corps as mobile corps, and transfer the Fifth Army, the 36th Army, the 74th Army, the 83rd Army, the 87th Army, the 88th Army, and the 98th Army, and the 100th Army to form a guerrilla group on the north and south fronts, which will be under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Theater to contain the main forces of the North China and North China armies. The Eighth Brigade went to the Fifth War Zone, and the headquarters of the Fifth War Zone defended Xuzhou at the same cost, and wanted to build Xuzhou into a second Chengde and a second Nanjing! ”

As soon as Chiang Kai-shek's words came out, Li Zongren felt a sense of relief, Tang Enbo's regiment and Hu Zongnan's corps were all the establishment of three types of armies, the eight elite Soviet armies on the north and south lines were the absolute descendants of the Central Army, and the four artillery brigades added a lot of confidence to Li Zongren, especially the newly formed seventh and eighth heavy artillery brigades, which were all 150 mm large-caliber field howitzers and 105 mm howitzers, which were the two brigades deployed in Jiangbei by the Rehe Army to reinforce Nanjing at that time.

Zhang Xuewu left all the equipment to Hu Zongnan, and all the artillery was withdrawn to Suiyuan through the northwest of Jin, and the Supreme Military Commission was like a treasure, Hu Zongnan picked up three 1005 mm howitzer battalions, and the strength also increased geometrically, with reinforcements and heavy artillery, Li Zongren couldn't help but fantasize that the support of the air force was coming, and Li Zongren knew that now all the flight units of his Kwantung Army were suppressed by Zhang Xuewu's air force on the front line of the so-called pseudo-Xinjing in Changchun. He said that his military factories in the northeast were basically paralyzed and suspended, but the Rehe Army had lost a lot of fighters when it supported the defense of Nanjing, and Zhang Xuewu was not willing to send the air force to Xuzhou to help in the war in order to defend his military base in Baotou.

Chiang Kai-shek started with power schemes, although Li Zongren was quiet, but Chiang Kai-shek had already grasped Li Zongren's pulse, and the so-called reinforcements he gave Li Zongren were still a paper plan, and how much of the battle plan on the map could be reflected in reality, I am afraid no one would be clear, Chiang Kai-shek believed that Li Zongren was also very clear about this, so he continued to speak: "If the Shanghai negotiations break down, it is planned to send no less than eight integrated divisions from the 10th Theater to attack the Shanhaiguan and Pingjin fronts. Completely cut off the connection between the North China Front and the Kwantung Army, and effectively contain the mobile combat strength of the North China Front of the Yue Army, so that while the Fifth Theater concentrates its main force to defend Xuzhou, it can encircle the main force of the Central China Front from the outside and carry out a decisive battle! ”

Chiang Kai-shek's plan for a decisive battle amazed everyone present, could such a large decisive battle plan be properly deployed in a hurry? How many of the units involved in the campaign have completed their replenishment and reorganization and are heading for the intended sortie area? If the headquarters of the 10th Theater of Operations once attacked, it would inevitably be besieged by both the Kwantung Army and the North China Front, and if the attack was blocked, the offensive and defensive situation of the entire 10th Theater would be reversed.

(To be continued)