Tokyo, the General Staff Headquarters of the Army.

War Minister Hideki Tojo was once again summoned into his office by Kanin Miyashihito.

"Tojo-kun!" Kanin Miyazaihito glanced coldly at Hideki Tojo and said in a deep voice, "Didn't you say that Tada's three-light policy is very likely to destroy the will of the Shina people to resist?" ”

Hideki Tojo was speechless, and to this day, Tada's three-light policy has completely failed.

The massacre of the Yue army not only failed to destroy the Chinese's will to resist, but even prompted the Chinese to take crazy revenge, and the Eighth Route Army led by China [***] controlled almost the entire region of North China, and their guerrilla forces have rapidly grown from less than 50,000 to more than 500,000 in just two months!

To make matters worse, Tada's three-light policy led to an unprecedented international isolation.

Under pressure from the people, the US political axe has drastically reduced the share of strategic materials exported to Japan, resulting in a serious shortage of oil, steel, rubber, and other materials urgently needed by Japan's military industry, and these materials cannot be obtained from China, which has exerted tremendous pressure on Japan's military industrial production.

The Operations Department of the General Staff Headquarters has even drawn up a detailed plan for going south.

According to this plan, the army will transfer five to eight field divisions to form the Southern Army, which will first occupy Vietnam, then advance from east to west, and gradually encroach on Thailand, Burma, and even India.

However, the plan to go south was fiercely opposed by Prime Minister Fumima Konoe, and it was eventually abandoned.

The reason for Konoe Fumima's opposition to the southward plan was actually very simple: after the full-scale outbreak of the war of aggression against China, due to the poor progress, the political axe had already carried out two strategic mobilizations, and by the end of 38, the national and military strength of the company had been exhausted, and the national economy was on the verge of collapse.

At this time, it is absolutely impossible to support another large-scale war.

Perhaps after two to three years of recuperation and recovery, it may be possible to have the ability to occupy Southeast Asia.

However, Southeast Asia is a traditional colony of Britain and France, and the United States is a traditional ally of Britain, and once the army sends troops to Southeast Asia and occupies Vietnam, Thailand, Burma, and other countries, it will be tantamount to declaring war on the United States, Britain, France, and other Western powers.

"Say?" Xianyuan Gong Zairen said coldly, "Why didn't you say it?" ”

Hideki Tojo sighed and said, "Your Royal Highness, the General Staff Headquarters has seriously underestimated the tenacity of the Shina nation, resulting in the unfavorable situation that we are now talking about, and as the Minister of War of the Empire, I should take full responsibility for this. ”

"Hmph, I didn't come to you today to hold you accountable." Miyajihito snorted lightly, picked up a proposal from his desk and threw it in front of Hideki Tojo, and said in a deep voice, "This is a suggestion made by the commander of the Fourth Army Corps, Okamura Ninji, to the base camp two months ago, why didn't you report it to me in time?" ”

Hideki Tojo couldn't help but feel bitter, how could he explain this?

"Tada Jun has lost his mind!" Xianyuan Gong Zairen knocked on the table and said coldly, "As a soldier, he has been controlled by the killing of the **, and it is no longer suitable for him to continue to serve as the commander of the North China Front, I think Okamura Ningji's suggestion is very reasonable, let Okamura Ningji replace Tada Jun." ”

"Hello." Hideki Tojo suddenly bowed his head, turned around and left.

"Wait a minute." Xianyuan Gong Zairen suddenly beckoned again, "Tojo-kun, have you heard of Wang Jingwei?" ”

"Of course." Tojo Ying was about to turn around and stop, and replied, "Wang Jingwei is a man of the year in modern China, and his seniority in the Kuomintang is even far above that of the leader of the national government, Chiang, if it were not for Wang Jingwei's appreciation and promotion, Jiang probably would not have had the opportunity to become the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy at all." ”

Xianyuan Gong Zairen nodded, and said: "This person's curve salvation theory is very interesting, I think it should be helpful for the imperial army to rule China, you might as well send someone to contact him, in addition, Jiang is a diehard, don't have any illusions about him, but this Wang Jingwei seems to be a friend of the imperial army." ”

"Hello." Hideki Tojo bowed his head abruptly and said, "I understand. ”

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At the beginning of November of the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), the political axe issued a statement on China, proposing that as long as the national political axe changed the personnel organization and punished the war criminals who trampled on the moral bottom line, it could be negotiated with China for an armistice.

The conditions are not unfavorable, but the evil intentions of this political axe are also obvious.

As for the war criminals who trampled on the bottom line of morality, there is no doubt that Yue Weihan is being referred to, and the political axe is unable to force Chiang to submit through war, and the army cannot defeat Yue Weihan on the frontal battlefield, but now, he is trying to achieve his goal by non-war means.

As soon as the statement was issued, it immediately caused an uproar in China.

Speaking from the heart, after 600 years of poison in feudal science, the blood surname of the Chinese nation has been greatly castrated, and at the moment of life and death when the country is destroyed and the species is wiped out, the Chinese nation will still burst out with unprecedented cohesion, however, once the situation eases slightly, a considerable part of the people will begin to be disgusted with war and fantasize about peace.

Within the Kuomintang, a considerable number of high-ranking officials advocated the salvation of the country.

From this moment on, the split between the Kuomintang and the Chinese political axe is already inevitable!

At the same time, this also means that the War of Resistance has entered a new stage, that is, the second stage mentioned by [***] in his book "On Protracted War": strategic stalemate!

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Yan'an, Wayao Fort.

[***] is climbing high on the mountain beam and looking into the distance.

Northern Shaanxi in November has been quite cold, just a heavy snowfall, standing on the mountain beam and looking at it, the whole land of northern Shaanxi is covered in silver makeup, magnificent, see the magnificent scene in front of you, [***] can't help but poetry flourish, extinguish the cigarette butt at the moment, is about to compose another song not inferior to "Qinyuan Spring. Snow", but Mr. Zhu and Zhou Gong came up to the mountain.

"Chairman, Chairman." Zhou Gong beckoned from afar, "Something is wrong, Wang Jingwei, vice president of the Kuomintang, has fled." ”

Before the words fell, Mr. Zhu and Zhou Gong had already climbed the mountain out of breath, and after listening to Zhou Gong's narration, [***] said with some emotion: "Wang Jingwei is too honest, too proud, this person is a perfectionist, and he can be regarded as a staunch revolutionary in his early years, but he has never been a real nationalist fighter!" ”

After saying this, [***] added: "So, I am not surprised at all by his escape. ”

Mr. Zhu said worriedly: "Lao Mao, Wang Jingwei has a very high prestige in the Kuomintang, once he really forms a puppet political axe with the support of the political axe, there will inevitably be a considerable number of high-ranking officials of the Kuomintang who will change their ways, and there may be a large number of [***] generals who will lead their troops to Wang Jingwei." ”

"Not a possibility, but a certainty." [***] said lightly, "In addition to Chairman Chiang's Central Army, the Kuomintang troops operating in the battlefield behind enemy lines will all fall to Wang's puppet political axe, and even the Sun Lianzhong clique and Yu Xuezhong clique may defect to the enemy. ”

Mr. Zhu and Zhou Gong couldn't help but exchange glances, and the two of them saw a strange look in each other's eyes at the same time.

After experiencing the brutal intra-party struggle and the arduous 25,000-mile Long March, [***] is showing more and more his courage and ambition, openly rejecting the political line of the Soviet Union, drastically reforming the party's line and constitution, vigorously advocating the guerrilla strategy of reading the autonomy of the party, and secretly accepting Yue Weihan into the party.

Mr. Zhu thought for a while, and said: "Old Mao, the situation of the 39th Group Army may also be more complicated......

"The 39th Army doesn't have to worry." [***] waved his hand and said indifferently, "I said a long time ago that Yue Weihan is politically mature and militarily excellent, and he will handle it well." ”

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Jingcheng County, Headquarters of the 39th Group Army.

Yue Weihan is convening Zhao Xinyi, Gao Jingwu and other party members to hold a branch meeting.

The meeting was presided over by Zhao Xinyi, and the main thing was to study [***]'s "On Protracted War".

Yue Weihan also read this article carefully, and Yue Weihan is no stranger to the name of "On Holding Foreign Wars", but it is really the first time for Yue Weihan to really read this work! Yue Weihan never worships any great man, including Deng Gong, but his reverence for [***] is absolutely from the bottom of his heart.

Regardless of merits and demerits, [***] strategic vision and courage are definitely the first people in the ages!

You can get a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg from the poems written by [***], since China has poetry and songs, there has never been a person's poetry that can beat [***] in momentum, and even Chairman Jiang also highly admires [***] poems, especially the sentence "Ask the vast earth, who is the master of ups and downs" made Chairman Jiang feel great pressure.

In later generations, it is easy to go back and analyze the eight-year War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and divide it into three stages.

But at the time when the Anti-Japanese War just broke out, the international and domestic situation was chaotic, the theory of surrender and quick victory was very loud, and almost no one could make a clear judgment.

The reason is very simple, the "guerrilla warfare theory" pioneered by [***] and the "land reform policy" advocated by [***] are almost a big killer beyond the times, including those poems, so many great people in history, such as Yue Fei and Su Dongpo, can write one or two magnificent poems in their lives is already the limit, but [***] has written a whole basket!

(To be continued)