In the blink of an eye, three days have passed.

For the ancient and suffering Chinese nation, these three days have been truly thrilling!

From great sorrow to great joy, and then from great joy to great sorrow, in just three days, everyone profoundly understood the profound philosophy contained in the sentence "Misfortune and fortune are relied upon, and fortune and misfortune are lurking".

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Jiujiang, a fortress of river defense.

The sun flag was fluttering over the fortress, and thousands of officers and soldiers were standing on the ruins of the fortress cheering.

Not far away, the forward of the 3rd Division of the Chinese Army, Major General Riichiro Katayama, commander of the 5th Infantry Brigade and Regiment, was holding a saber in his hand and saying to the communications staff officer beside him with great ambition: "Immediately send a report to the division and regimental headquarters that after four hours of fierce fighting, our unit has successfully captured the Jiujiang River Defense Fortress, and the 6th and 68th Infantry Wings are attacking and advancing towards Wuhan along both sides of the Yangtze River. ”

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Wuhan, Hankou Wharf.

Chairman Chiang was standing on the wharf with a melancholy face, looking at the vast Yangtze River in a daze.

At this moment, Chairman Jiang's heart was floating in the popular poem "Linjiang Immortal".

The rolling Yangtze River is passing away, and the waves are sweeping away the heroes. Success or failure turns empty, the green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red several times.

On the white-haired fisherman river, accustomed to watching the autumn moon and spring breeze. A pot of turbid wine is happy to meet, and many things in ancient and modern times are laughing and talking.

The first two sentences of this poem "Linjiang Immortal" are undoubtedly quite close to Chairman Chiang's state of mind at this time, which lasted for several months, and the battle of Wuhan, which gathered nearly two million troops from China and the two countries, is finally about to settle, and the rumbling cannons can be faintly heard in the east and north, and the vanguard of the Yue army should be about to enter Wuhan City, right?

At this moment, Chairman Chiang's heart was full of melancholy, and he was even more unwilling.

"Take a seat, let's go!" Wang Shihe, the chief of the palace guard, persuaded in a low voice, "Otherwise, it will be too late." ”

Chairman Jiang didn't seem to hear it at all, just looked at the vast river in front of him in a daze, but this will be he is not remembering the ancients, but remembering himself, at the beginning of the Wuhan battle, Chairman Jiang boasted about Haikou, as the leader of the party-state, he wants to live and die with Wuhan, people are in the city, and people are lost in the city!

Now that Wuhan has been lost, it seems that Chairman Chiang should also be martyred.

"Guns!" Chairman Jiang suddenly turned around and said to Wang Shihe, "Give me a gun!" ”

"Guns?" Wang Shihe was stunned and said, "Bench, what do you want a gun for?" ”

"Kill back!" Chairman Jiang said, "Kill me back, kill back to Wuhan City!" ”

After saying this, Chairman Jiang said to General He next to him: "He Yingqin, immediately reorganize the troops and kill me back!" ”

"Take a seat!" Admiral He said with a miserable expression, "The troops have been scattered, and they can't be organized at all, and it is said that my vanguard has already entered the city, and if you don't leave, it will really be too late!" ”

"You go." Chairman Jiang said, "Anyway, if I don't leave, I want to live and die with Wuhan!" ”

After that, Chairman Jiang turned around and left, Wang Shihe glanced at the two guards next to him, and the two guards hurriedly rushed forward, set up Chairman Jiang and left, Chairman Jiang was furious, and said angrily while struggling: "Let go of me, what do you two want to do?" Let go of me! Wang Shihe, Wang Shihe ......"

Wang Shihe just didn't hear it, and forcibly escorted Chairman Jiang onto the speedboat.

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Southern Hebei, Shahe County.

Nearly 60,000 men of the New Sixth Army were winding south on the plain on an "S"-shaped marching route.

When marching in an open plain area, it is exquisite, especially when the enemy has air superiority, and the march must not take a straight line, but can only take an "S" shaped line.

The reason is simple, if you go in a straight line, the enemy planes will shoot all the way along your marching column, and the casualty toll will be terrifying!

And if the "S" shaped line is taken, the threat of enemy aircraft will be much smaller.

In addition, taking the "S" shaped line enables officers to control their troops more intuitively, and it is not easy to fall behind or run away; the quality of the Baoshan Division is absolutely excellent, but the quality of the 181st Division, the New 6th Division, and the New 9th Division is somewhat unreliable, especially after the iron-fisted rectification of Yue Weihan, there are not a few people who have ghosts in their hearts and want to take advantage of the opportunity to slip away.

In the long marching column, Yue Weihan, the commander of the New Sixth Army, was also walking like an ordinary soldier.

Yue Weihan didn't say that it was for the sake of showing off and showing the equality of officers and soldiers, but it was completely out of safety considerations, because so many people were marching on foot, and you Yue Weihan was sitting in a car alone, wasn't that looking for death?

Gao Jingwu, the director of the intelligence department, suddenly caught up and said, "Military seat, the military commission emergency war report!" ”

Yue Weihan left the marching army column and stopped, Gao Shuxun, Sun Dianying, and more than a dozen major generals and senior staff members who were transferred from the 181st Division, the New 6th Division, and the New 9th Division also stopped.

Yue Weihan's hand is not very clever in playing bright and secretly descending, Bi Guangheng, Gao Shuxun and Sun Dianying can naturally see it, but what can they do? At this time, the New Sixth Army was already acting collectively, with more than 30,000 tigers and wolves of the Baoshan Division eyeing at it, who would dare to disobey Yue Weihan's military orders?

This will not be a few days before Shi Yousan and Shi Youxin's brothers were shot.

As for the 181st Division, the new 6th Division, and the new 9th Division's vacated positions as regiment commanders, of course, officers had to be transferred from the Baoshan Division, and moreover, it was just the beginning, and after a while, Yue Weihan would definitely transfer battalion, company, and platoon level officers to the 181st Division, the New 6th Division, and the New 9th Division! When the regimental, battalion, company, and platoon-level officers have been replaced with the backbone of the Baoshan Division, it is time to clear the positions of division commanders and brigade commanders.

In short, Yue Weihan only believes in his own people, this unit is not in the hands of his own people, he will never rest assured, as for Gao Shuxun and Sun Dianying, you express your willingness to accept Yue Weihan's command, or if you are unwilling, it doesn't matter, anyway, as long as Yue Weihan is not dead, they don't want to go back to their old troops.

After receiving the telegram from Gao Jingwu's hand, Yue Weihan only glanced at it twice, and his face immediately darkened.

Sun Dianying and more than a dozen major generals Gao Shen suddenly felt nervous, should Yue Yi's executioner take the opportunity to kill people, right?

"Junza, is there something going on in Wuhan?" Gao Shuxun took two steps forward and asked with concern.

Unlike Sun Dianying and others, Gao Shuxun quickly put himself in the right position, although Yue Weihan's removal of the regimental-level officers of the new 6th Division was not authentic, and Gao Shuxun was also very unhappy, but after all, the new 6th Division belonged to the battle sequence of the New Sixth Army, and Yue Weihan was the commander of the New Sixth Army, so he had this right.

"It's not just Wuhan." Yue Weihan shook his head and replied, "Jiujiang has also been lost!" ”

"Jiujiang!?" Gao Shuxun is also a character, and he lost his voice at the moment, "So the Yangtze River waterway ......"

"Order the troops, change the rear team to the front team, and return to Shimen!" Yue Weihan sighed and gave the order gloomily.

Wuhan has been lost, the strategic fulcrum of the Wuhan battle no longer exists, and the loss of Jiujiang means that the army will soon be able to open up the Yangtze River waterway, and once the Yangtze River waterway is opened, the Central China Front of the army will be able to quickly obtain supplies from the Yangtze River waterway, and then it will be a large-scale pursuit of the [***] rout.

When the war is fought on this, the worst result is the direct destruction of the country!

The best outcome can only be the fall of most of Hunan and Hubei.

Moreover, the blockade of the Pinghan Line, the Jinpu Line and the Longhai Line by the New Sixth Army, the Sun Lianzhong Group and the Yu Xuezhong Group has become meaningless! Since the blockade of the Pinghan Line has lost any meaning, the New Sixth Army cannot continue to move south to fight with the Yue Army in the north.

Xiao said that the loss of two divisions is nothing at all, but if China loses the New Sixth Army, I am afraid it will hurt its vitality!

It is based on this consideration that Yue Weihan did not hesitate to issue the order to return to Shimen, and after returning to Shimen, the New Sixth Army will never force Shimen to stay too long, at most rest for half a day, and then abandon Shimen.

The order was quickly conveyed, and the troops who had been going south immediately turned around and headed north.

Gao Shuxun said a little depressedly: "Junzao, it was originally a good situation, why did it become like this?" ”

"Isn't it because we have a commander who doesn't make it to the top!?" At this moment, Yue Weihan's heart was also full of resentment.

It's still as the American said, [***] has first-class soldiers, but only second-rate officers, third-rate commanders, and unpopular commanders!

[***] The soldiers are really impeccable.

Let's talk about the Sichuan army with the worst equipment, only eat two thin meals a day, and they are so hungry that their chests are pressed against their backs, but they can still play with devils with bayonets! What does it mean to have no regrets? This is called no regrets! For the sake of the country, for the nation, for the three words "Chinese" to fall on the tombstone, they dare to fill in their lives!

This is true of the Sichuan army, the same is true of other local armies, and even more so of the Central Army!

Throughout the past and present, up and down for 5,000 years, the volunteers on the Korean battlefield can be slightly superior, and in terms of courage alone, even the People's Liberation Army during the War of Liberation cannot be compared with [***] during the War of Resistance against Japan.

It is a bit unjust that the grassroots officers of [***] were rated as second-rate, but it is also an indisputable fact.

In terms of combat bravery, [***] grassroots officers are as good as ordinary soldiers, but as officers, it is not enough to be brave in combat, they also have to understand tactics! However, the vast majority of [***] junior officers are illiterate and have not received a military academy education in the true sense of the word, and how many of them understand the art of modern warfare?

As for the third-rate commander and the unpopular commander-in-chief, it is an absolutely pertinent evaluation!

Almost all of the senior generals who served as theater commanders and commanders of group armies were old soldiers, and when it came to speculation and drilling, they were all experts, but when it came to fighting, almost all of them were laymen.

As for Chairman Chiang, as long as he has a third-rate level, the results of the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Xuzhou, and the Battle of Wuhan will be much better; if Chairman Jiang has a first-class standard, maybe the Battle of Songhu will directly extinguish Xiao Yueben's ambitions, and there will be no Battle of Xuzhou and Battle of Wuhan.

(To be continued)