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Ishihara, who was beaten, let out a sigh of excitement and bowed his head at Muto Nobuyoshi who beat him. However, he did not admit his mistake at all, but continued to insist on his own point of view: "Your Excellency, so far the imperial army is still the victor, but if it continues to fight like this, the imperial army will lose the war, and now the imperial army in Jinan is in an extremely dangerous situation." On the one hand, the imperial army could not complete the task of annihilating the Jinan China Army with the strength of two divisions. On the other hand, the Fifth Division was defeated by the three divisions of the Kuomintang Army in the Southern Branch, and it was powerless, and ...... It was clear that the Kuomintang troops were not using all their strength. According to the battle report sent back by the Fifth Division, the Kuomintang Army only sent the strength of an infantry regiment to attack the main positions of the Fifth Division in Kaishan and Qishan with the support of more than 100 heavy artillery pieces and dozens of aircraft...... I'm afraid the Fifth Division has already been defeated, right? As soon as the Fifth Division is defeated, the remaining Second and Sixth Divisions will immediately fall under siege from hundreds of thousands of troops."

"How is that possible" Muto Nobuyoshi sneered twice, and waved his hand indifferently: "The Southern Branch Kuomintang wants to see us wipe out the Northern Branch Coalition Army in Jinan City. That's why they did not actively attack the 5th Division...... Moreover, we have two more divisions and are about to arrive in Jinan. At that time, five divisions will attack three Kuomintang divisions, and victory will still belong to the imperial army. ”

Ishihara Wan'er slowly raised his head, looked at Muto coldly, and showed a strange smile on his face: "Your Excellency, we have two divisions that are about to arrive in Jinan. But two divisions of the Kuomintang in the southern branch have also lost their traces, and I don't know where they are now? Moreover, these two divisions whose whereabouts are unknown also include the 18th Division of the Kuomintang in China, which had defeated 40,000 Red Army troops at Zhalainoer."

Muto Nobuyoshi's old face froze suddenly, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans rolled down his cheeks. The 6th and 18th Divisions of the Kuomintang Army were also originally concentrated in Xuzhou and had been under the surveillance of Japanese spies. But they were lost three days ago, and no one knows where they went. A normal march on foot for three days can walk at least more than 100 kilometers, if it is a march in the direction of Shandong...... It should be in the area of Yimeng Mountain, and it is only 200 kilometers away from Weixian, where the headquarters of the Shandong Dispatch Army is located, and it will be in three or four days at most...... Let people make dumplings, and in three or four days, can the five divisions of the Shandong Dispatch Army take the three divisions of the Kuomintang? If it were in the past, there would be no need to doubt this kind of thing at all. But at the moment, a living example is in front of us, the Fifth Division was attacked by others for a few hours and could not bear it, and they obviously did not exert all their strength, otherwise the Fifth Division would have been defeated at this time.

"The best way now is to let the 100,000 Northern Branch coalition troops in Jinan City escape, liberate the Second Division and the Sixth Division, and then send out the main forces of the two divisions to reinforce the Fifth Division on the southern front, and hold out until after dark, and then withdraw to Jinan City to reorganize and hold on. The 4th and 10th Divisions were deployed along the Jiaoji Railway to ensure that the logistics line of the army would not be cut off by the Kuomintang Army in the southern branch. At the same time, he ordered Zhang Zongchang's subordinates, who had taken refuge in us, to seize Yantai, Weihai and other ports. In this way, even if the Jiaoji Railway is not guaranteed, the dispatch army will have a spare port to transport baggage supplies. ”

Ishihara Wan'er took out a red and blue pencil and sketched it on the military map, and then slowly said the belly plan he had already prepared: "Your Excellency, please see, when the time comes, our five divisions will set up a long snake formation along the Jiaoji Railway to strictly prevent confrontation with the Kuomintang army in the southern branch. And half of Shandong in the northeast of the Jiaoji Line was under the control of the imperial army. Then the empire had enough capital to negotiate with the Kuomintang in the southern branch...... The victor of this war was undoubtedly the Great Japanese Empire."

Muto Nobuyoshi half-squinted, put his hands behind his back, and slowly paced in the headquarters, as if calculating the gains and losses.

Ishihara took another step forward, almost stood in front of Muto's nose, and lowered his voice: "Your Excellency's second, fifth, and sixth divisions have suffered a lot of losses in the battles of the past few days, especially the artillery of the second and sixth divisions has all suffered heavy losses, and they have not been replenished at the moment, and without artillery, the combat effectiveness of these two divisions will be reduced by at least half." Thus, our five divisions actually had only four divisions in combat effectiveness. Our opponents, on the other hand, had five infantry divisions no less than the permanent divisions of the Imperial Army, and their air superiority could be at least equal to the combat effectiveness of one division. In this way, we are fighting six divisions with four divisions, and if we do not turn to the defense in time and stick to the benefits we have gained, we are very likely to lose the second half of the war. In that case, our Shandong dispatch army will set a record of the defeat of the imperial army...... The Imperial Army of Japan has never lost a battle since the Meiji Restoration, do you want to be the first to do so? ”

Muto Nobuyoshi just sighed, walked a few more steps with his hands behind his back, suddenly stood still, turned his head and said lightly: "Ishihara, do you say that the current empire still has a chance to dominate the continent?" ”

Ishihara was stunned when he heard this, was silent for a long time, lowered his head emphatically, and said loudly: "The overall industrial, economic, and military strength of the empire is not weaker than that of the southern branch, far better than the northern branch, and there is also the Soviet Union and the empire jointly carved up. But...... The foundation of the empire's dominance on the continent was not Shandong, but Manchuria. Therefore, this war is not necessary for the empire at the moment, and while it can still obtain certain benefits, it is necessary to accept it as soon as possible. ”

"Manchurian ......" Muto Nobuyoshi's eyes suddenly became a little more aggressive: "Do you have anything to do with Manchuria?" ”

"Yes" Ishihara smiled coldly: "What the empire needs is the resources and land of Manchuria, but there are many ways to obtain these benefits, and it is not necessary to immediately annex Manchuria to Japan, nor may it immediately separate Manchuria from the territory of China." We only need to raise a puppet in Manchuria who is obedient enough to get the resources there to develop the heavy industry of the empire, and we can also use the vast land there to relieve the population pressure at home. When the empire had grown up with the resources of Manchuria, it would not be too late to make it a part of the empire. ”

Muto Nobuyoshi nodded with a smile, stretched out his right hand and patted Ishihara lightly on the shoulder: "It's really worthy of being 'Strategist Ishihara'." Now you go on a defensive plan and win me the throne of Chief of the General Staff or Minister of War, but your plan for Manchuria will need the support of the Chief of the General Staff or the Minister of War to be realized. ”

……

"Does the Japanese really want a decisive battle?"

Luo Yaoguo put his hands behind his back and looked at the military map in the headquarters of the Xuzhou Garden Hotel. Shandong Province seems to be about to be split in two by a Jiaoji railway. In the northeast of the railway line, the sun rises in Japan, and in the southwest of the railway line, the sky is blue and white. Around Jinan, at the western end of the Jiaoji Railway, the numbers of the Chinese and Japanese troops are densely marked, and it seems that a decisive battle has been formed.

Bai Chongxi stood side by side with him, holding two telenewspapers in his hands, looking at them carefully over and over again, as if trying to find some missing information from them.

One of these two telegrams was sent back by Deng Yanda, informing him that the anti-Japanese allied forces had broken the blockade of the Japanese army and jumped to the outer line after a bloody battle. Now it is moving to the banks of the Yellow River, preparing to look for opportunities to cross the river, hoping that the Kuomintang army can continue to launch an offensive on the southern front to contain the Japanese army, so as to cover the crossing of the anti-Japanese allied army.

The other letter was sent from the Tai'an airfield, reporting the latest enemy situation detected by the air force, and about 30,000 or 40,000 Japanese troops had now been transferred south from the Jinan battlefield, and it seemed that they were preparing to reinforce the Japanese troops on the southwest line of Jinan. The reconnaissance plane also discovered that about one division of Japanese troops had already arrived in Licheng County, east of Jinan, and that the whereabouts of another division were unknown.

I don't know how long it took before I heard Bai Chongxi smile bitterly: "Brother Fuwen, it seems that our plan is about to fail." The Japanese let go of the anti-Japanese allied forces and turned their heads to prepare for a decisive battle with us, while the two divisions under the command of Xue Boling were still slowly crawling in the Yimeng Mountains. ”

Luo Yaoguo nodded noncommittally and looked at Bai Chongxi: "Can Brother Jiansheng be sure that the Japanese are coming south to fight us?" ”

"It should be." Bai Chongxi hesitated slightly, and nodded heavily: "In a few hours, it will be dark, and then our air superiority will not be able to play for the time being, so they can boldly use artillery." The Japanese army now has at least four divisions, while we have only three divisions, and we are at a slight disadvantage in terms of strength. Therefore, tonight is the best time for the Japanese to concentrate their forces and fight a decisive battle with us. ”

Concentrate your forces to fight a decisive battle, a quick victory or a quick defeat. This style of play seems to be exactly Japan's consistent tactic, and it is also very much in line with their national conditions of being poor in resources and unable to fight a protracted war. It seems that they used to do this business in World War II on another plane, and it looks like there will be another bitter battle tonight

Luo Yaoguo nodded, stretched out his right hand and pointed around Mount Tai on the military map, and smiled: "Give Li Delin an order, let the northward column stop attacking and turn to defense...... After retreating to Maanzi Mountain, Yuhuang Mountain, Tongluo Mountain, and Tangwangzhai, they built positions and prepared to defend them. In addition, he ordered the northward column to send a strong force to control the Taishan Mountain Range, and to ensure that the county seat of Tai'an was safe. Hehe, as long as we survive tonight, the initiative on the battlefield will return to us tomorrow."

Bai Chongxi smiled: "During the day, our planes can suppress the Japanese artillery, and they have no way to attack." As long as we survive three nights, Xue Boling can seize Weixian and cut off the retreat of the five divisions of the Japanese army. At that time, the Central G and the Anti-Japanese Allied Army will cut off the Jinpu Line on the northern front. These hundreds of thousands of Japanese devils are the turtles in the urn, and our plan can still be achieved. ”

"They can also cross the Yellow River and run north and retreat from Tianjin." Luo Yaoguo shook his head gently, looked at the direction of Zhili on the map, and sighed: "The Chinese G and the Anti-Japanese Allied Army can't stop them, and the Feng Department is even more impossible to stop the Japanese army." However, the Japanese army should have suffered heavy losses when we chased them...... Now the key is still Weixian, if Xue Boling's 'eastward column' can take it, the battle of Shandong will be a complete victory. ”

"What's wrong with that? The main force of the Japanese army was attracted by us near Jinan, where there is a brigade in Weixian, and our six and eighteenth divisions are still afraid that they will not be able to defeat a small brigade? Bai Chongxi laughed, turned around and went to give Li Zongren a new combat order.

At this time, Luo Yaoguo and Bai Chongxi were still full of confidence, and neither of them realized that they had just made a big mistake. The two of them could never have imagined that the Japanese Fifth Division would pay a heavy price of more than 4,000 casualties in just seven hours of positional defensive battles. The strength of an entire wing was consumed under the Kuomintang army's textbook artillery, infantry, and air coordinated operations, and in another time and space, the scene of the Chinese army using flesh and blood against the powerful firepower of the Japanese army was reversed in this distorted history. So much so that the Japanese had to grit their teeth and send the main force of two divisions, which had also suffered a lot of losses in the previous battles, to the south to reinforce the Fifth Division, in the hope that they could retreat after dark. This reinforcement operation was mistaken by Luo Yaoguo and Bai Chongxi for a decisive battle in the south, and took the initiative to withdraw the Kuomintang army, which had an absolute advantage, and held on, and as a result, the Japanese Fifth Division was released. It also made the history of this time and space slightly closer to the original orbit.

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On the evening of April 1, the 17th year of the Republic of China. The north end of the Yellow River Railway Bridge in Luokou, Jinan.

Zhou Elai frowned tightly, and stood on the railway bridge that had been destroyed by the Kuomintang sappers, looking at the other side. The chaotic rout of the army appeared in his sight. People shouted and neighed, and the noise became a mess. Although this army once maintained good discipline and strong fighting spirit when it broke through the siege, once it escaped from the heavy encirclement of the Japanese army, the Nationalist Alliance Army and the Anhui Army were immediately exposed. Everyone scrambled to cover their heads and flee, and the officers could not restrain the soldiers, and the weapons and ammunition were heavily supplied, and they ran all the way and lost all the way. Everything is on the verge of collapse. Only those Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, wearing blue-gray military uniforms and playing this red flag, were still elite troops, retreating in an orderly manner, fighting and leaving, and shouldering the heavy responsibility of being the queen of the army. In order to make this rabble retreat to the bank of the Yellow River.

Seeing the scene of the rout in front of him, Zhou Elai let out a long sigh and turned his head to look at a pontoon bridge erected on the Yellow River. That was the only way for the entire anti-Japanese Allied army to survive, and it was set up by a Kuomintang engineer battalion that was withdrawn from the Jinan railway station to the north bank of the Yellow River on 31 March, and that was the same engineer battalion that had been ambushed by the Japanese army on the night of 30 March. They retreated across the river with the ground support units of the Kuomintang Air Force, as well as an anti-aircraft artillery brigade. It is said that the 12 77mm anti-aircraft guns were also used as field artillery to bombard the Japanese positions on the other side of the Yellow River for a while, but the result was to block the pace of the Japanese army. I guess those Japanese mistakenly thought that there was still the main force of the Chinese army north of the Yellow River, right?

"General Political Commissar, look at it, our team is coming" Xuanxia's father's voice suddenly sounded in Zhou Elai's ears, but his tone was low.

Zhou Elai turned his head and saw a blue-gray long dragon rolling forward, vaguely distinguishing infantry, cavalry, baggage soldiers, and twenty or thirty mountain artillery and infantry artillery pushed by horse-drawn people. However, this blue dragon is shorter and thinner than when it entered Jinan before. The 30,000-strong army, the vast contingent of 134 mountain artillery and infantry guns, only a few days later, only a third of them remained, and these Red Army were the real backbone of the defense of Jinan, and they were also the army with the heaviest losses.

"Sword Soul, we ...... Defeated ...... It seems that Comrade Mao ZD's opinion is correct, and I will review it with the Central Committee and take responsibility for the failure. Zhou Elai said in a heavy tone. Jinan did not hold on, 30,000 people were defeated, and 20,000 were almost the biggest defeat in the history of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in this time and space...... And if the battle is lost, someone will naturally come out to take responsibility, and this person seems to be Zhou E.

Hearing Zhou E's self-reproachful tone, Xuanxia's father felt sour, and his tears almost fell. He naturally knew what it meant to take responsibility for failure within the party. Chen Duxiu, Qu Qiubai, Zhang Guotao, and these people's precedents can be placed there, if Zhou E also follows in their footsteps......

Moreover, the current period in the party is complex and delicate, and the "twenty-eight and a half Bolsheviks" such as Wang Ming and Luo Fu are constantly rising in the party with the support of the Soviet Union and the GC International. And Mao ZD and Zhou Elai caused a little contradiction for the sake of economic construction and the combat method of sending troops to Shandong this time. If Zhou Elai took the initiative to take responsibility for the defeat at this time, I am afraid that the consequences would ......

Xuanxia's father took a deep breath, took two steps forward, leaned close to Zhou Elai's ear, and said in a low voice: "General Political Commissar, we have not lost this battle, we are the winners, but this victory is not easy to come by."

Zhou Elai's eyes widened, just looking at Xuanxia's father. Xuanxia's father smiled deeply, and folded his fingers to calculate for Zhou E: "First of all, through this defense of Jinan, we have obtained the base areas of thirty-four counties, and they are still on the banks of the Yellow River, with fertile land and densely populated plains. Compared with our Soviet areas in northern Shaanxi and Suiyuan, I don't know how many times richer...... There are also many local tyrants and inferior gentry. Second, Feng Yuxiang has already applied to us to join the party, and he still has tens of thousands of descendants on hand, and there are still 70,000 troops of the second, third, and fourth armies of the Nationalist Army. With his accession, the armed forces under the leadership of our party have increased by more than half at once, and thirdly, we have tempered our ranks through this war, summed up our experience, and learned about the shortcomings of our Red Army. ”