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On August 15, Japan ordered a general mobilization, with the 3rd and 11th divisions as the backbone of the formation of the "Shanghai Dispatch Army", and the Japanese emperor appointed Admiral Matsui Ishine as the commander, with the task of "cooperating with the navy to destroy the middle of the Shanghai neighborhood and occupy the key line of Shanghai and its northern region."

The Chinese side, believing in the adjustment of the great powers, wasted two precious days in vain, and at this time the Japanese in Shanghai had already summoned all the expatriates to enlist in the firing line, with a total strength of more than 15,000 troops, and claimed to the outside world that 3,200 men, 10,000 well-dressed Japanese troops, with the convenience of fortifications and street fighting, it was so easy to take there.

Due to the leakage of the Japanese spies around Chiang Kai-shek, the plan of the Japanese warships preparing to annihilate the Yangtze River also completely failed, which made Zhang Jun regret it, and he actually forgot about it.

In this campaign, the Kuomintang successively invested 78 divisions, 7 independent brigades, 3 temporary brigades, the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps, the 7th Artillery Regiment, the Ministry of Finance's Tax Police Corps, 1 Military Police Regiment, the Shanghai Municipal Security Corps, the Shanghai Municipal Police Corps, and the Jiangsu Provincial Security Corps, and 3 naval fleets, with a total strength of more than 750,000 troops. The Japanese army invested 5 divisions and 1 brigade to reach 200,000 people, and after two months of fierce fighting, the Japanese army relied on strong firepower to break through the defense line of the squadron, but at this time China was defeated but not chaotic.

At this time, Chiang Kai-shek was already an ant on a hot pot, the development of the war situation was so unsmooth, according to the intelligence that the Japanese army increased again, it is likely that the Japanese army in Shanghai will reach an unprecedented 300,000 people, and the ** casualties at this time are almost 150,000, many of the elite units of the Central Army have been crippled, such as three German divisions, 36, 87, 88 three divisions, have lost more than half of the street battles in Shanghai, which makes Chiang Kai-shek's heart bleed, if his elite is exhausted, then what to limit those princes, At this time, Chiang Kai-shek was already in a dilemma, losing all his elite and not losing the hearts of the people and the army.

November 3, 1937 at noon:

Dai Li, director of the Military Command Bureau, took the briefcase and hurriedly entered Chiang Kai-shek's official residence in Nanjing, this time Dai Li had an important intelligence report, for this information, he sacrificed a group of intelligence personnel, and at the same time, this information was related to the life and death of hundreds of thousands, so Dai Li hurriedly came to see the chairman, even if he disturbed the chairman's rest.

"Commission, through the efforts of our intelligence officers, we have finally obtained the latest battle plan of the Japanese army, please take a look."

Chiang Kai-shek's sleepy-eyed rigor suddenly let out a fine light, and quickly snatched the Japanese army's battle plan from Dai Li's hand, and looked at it quickly, and then it was "Ah! With a bang, the Japanese battle plan fell to the ground.

"Dai Li, find Zhang Jun for me quickly, be fast, and ask the relevant personnel of the Ministry of Defense to arrive immediately, there is a major military situation."

This battle plan clearly states that the Japanese army has secretly formed the 10th Army in the country, and now it has been transported to the open sea of Shanghai, and will land at Jinshanwei on November 5, and then surround more than 700,000 **, if Japan succeeds, then Chiang Kai-shek will be finished. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek remembered Zhang Jun's battle plan, which clearly predicted that the Japanese army would land at Jinshanwei, and he Chiang Kai-shek simply ignored it.

In the first two months of fierce battles, the squadron suffered 150,000 casualties, and the Japanese casualties were less than 40,000, which made the Japanese army even more arrogant that the squadron was vulnerable, which would also be more conducive to Zhang Jun's strategy of luring the enemy to go deeper, resisting steadily, continuing to attrition, and finally counterattacking.

When Dai Lian nodded and found Zhang Jun, Zhang Jun was taking a few division commanders to deduce the development of the battle situation in the war room! In fact, Zhang Jun is also worried, why hasn't the chairman summoned him yet, after the Japanese army landed in Jinshanwei, things will develop to the point where they can't be cleaned up, today Zhang Jun is discussing with Rommel and others, secretly send troops to Jinshanwei tonight, although Zhang Jun is unwilling to send his troops to the range of the Japanese naval artillery attack, but saving the fate of 700,000 ** must prompt him to do so.

However, now that the chairman of the committee has summoned him, it means that things have taken a turn for the better, and Zhang Jun hurriedly followed Dai Li to the Ministry of National Defense with relevant information.

When Zhang Jun entered the conference hall of the Ministry of Defense wearing an SS uniform, all the generals were very surprised why this German had come to the conference room of the Ministry of Defense today. Chiang Kai-shek's words interrupted everyone's doubts.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now I can publish this top-secret battle plan, according to the real strength of China and Japan, and at the same time, for the sake of secrecy, this battle plan has not been announced, this plan is a battle plan formulated under my personal auspices, I hope that you will sincerely unite and conscientiously implement it, and if you slacken, you will be punished by military law."

Zhang Jun didn't care whether Chiang Kai-shek put gold on his face or not, the important thing was that this battle plan had a stage for him to display it, and it was better to have Chiang Kai-shek with a big backer to stand up and support him.

"Now I would like to ask Colonel Zhang Jun to explain this battle plan."

There were a few sparse applause below, Zhang Jun didn't care what those high-ranking officials thought, he had no intention of fighting for power and profit here, he was just doing his part for the suffering motherland, and nothing else mattered.

"Thank you, Chairman, for giving me this opportunity, this plan is instructed by the Chairman, and at the same time formulated according to the Chairman's tactical thinking, for the sake of secrecy, a different set of operational plans is used, but the first stage is the same as the previous one.

Now that our army has completed the first stage of combat missions and objectives, I think everyone knows that the original intention of the Japanese army was to start a war with us in North China, and the main force of our army is basically arranged in the south, and there are several thousand kilometers of supply lines to go to the north, and we have no air superiority, and the Japanese army only needs to bomb the railways with planes to cut off the supply of our army, and if the elite of our army is wiped out, then there will be no hope of victory in the resistance against Japan.

Since we have no hope of victory in the north, then we will put the battlefield at our doorstep, that is, the Songhu and Nanjing areas, which have five advantages: convenient command, easy concentration, and convenient supply; the many harbors south of the Yangtze River are not conducive to the enemy, and it is easy to move the perception of the great powers and help them a lot. Therefore, the chairman of the committee set the battlefield in the Songhu and Nanjing areas.

And Japan is unwilling to start a war with us in Shanghai, so we can only lure the enemy to Songhu, let the Japanese army send troops to Shanghai on a large scale, and reduce the military investment in North China, this stage has been successfully completed, although we have paid a heavy price, but also to the Japanese invaders to deal a heavy blow, shattered the Japanese invaders' three-month selfless Chinese clamour.

Now the campaign has entered the second stage, continue to lure the enemy deep, the current three defense lines, I believe everyone has been to check, absolutely first-class quality, if the Japanese army wants to break through these three defense lines, will pay very heavy casualties, the second stage of the combat idea is to continue to lure the enemy deep, relying on the fortifications to resist steadily, continue to consume the Japanese army's vital strength, and prepare for the third stage. The duration of operations at this stage is two months

The specific arrangements are for all the armies participating in the war in Shanghai to retreat to the defense fortifications in an orderly manner this evening, and the Ministry of National Defense will make specific arrangements.

In the third stage, the Japanese army at this time has broken through the first two defense lines, and the first on the Xideng line, the fierce battle has been a long time, our army took the initiative to abandon the Xideng line, the armies defending on the Xideng line immediately retreated into the two cities of Wuxi and Jiangyin, and let the Japanese army enter the Nanjing area, and the land from Nanjing to Wuxi and Jiangyin is very flat, and there is no water network, which is very conducive to the assault of the armored forces, and the armored corps we formed will launch a counterattack against the Japanese army that entered the city of Nanjing, at this time the exhausted Japanese army in front of our armored army, can only be crushed to death like a bedbug, and the ** in Wuxi and Jiangyin will also launch a counterattack to cut off the retreat of the Japanese army.

Our new-style air force, on the other hand, did not participate in the battle during the first campaign, first, to paralyze the enemy, second, to give them more time for training, and in the third stage, our air force will regain air supremacy for more than 10 days. ”

"Papapa......" The applause of the entire Ministry of Defense became warm, everyone is a soldier, Zhang Jun's plan is reasonable and unreasonable, you can see that even if the third stage can not counterattack the Japanese offensive, (it seems that these people do not understand the power of the German armored division) in front of the three national fortifications, it is also our defense of the enemy's attack, then the casualty ratio is not the casualty ratio in the street battle in Shanghai, in the street battle in Shanghai, we use rudimentary weapons to attack the elite Japanese army, and the Japanese army also relies on strong fortifications, Can the casualties be small?

This time, the commander-in-chief has become Chiang Kai-shek, the deputy commander-in-chief is He Yingqin and Li Zongren, Zhang Jun is still the commander of his 74th Army, and he commands the three-stage counterattack mission, Zhang Jun has no intention of fighting for any rights, since Chiang Kai-shek wants to personally command, then let him personally command it, and he can also step up training now, and wait until the third stage, so as to inflict heavy casualties on the Japanese invaders.

"Report to the commander, last night, the squadron withdrew on all fronts, and the front-line troops of our army thought that the squadron was changing guards, so they did not report, and this morning I found out that all the squadrons had retreated to their defense line."

"Baga, check for me, who leaked the battle plan."

"Hey!"

Can Matsui Ishine not be angry? It is scheduled to land at Jinshanwei on November 5, and then cut off the retreat of the squadron in one day, so that the elite of the squadron can be completely annihilated, and then force the Chiang Kai-shek government to surrender, and now it is completely in vain. The spy war between the two sides was in full swing in Shanghai.

Zhang Jun was idle again, the factions and the struggle for power and profit in the **, Zhang Jun understood it, since Zhang Jun was invited to participate in the national defense meeting, Zhang Jun has not been invited anymore, not to mention the right to command, not even the right to interrogate, only the daily battlefield briefing will send a copy to Zhang Jun, so that Zhang Jun can understand the extent of the development of the war situation.