Chapter Seventy-Two: Speculation
"Outside, outside, the elite of the national army recaptured Zhangwu, completely annihilated the 225th Wing of the 37th Division of the Japanese Army, killed countless enemies, and the captain of the wing, Takeda Dingzo, surrendered to the generals of our army"
"Outside, outside, the elite 225th Infantry Wing of the 37th Division of the Japanese Army was defeated by Zhangwu, and the Wing Commander surrendered"
"Outside, outside, the national army photographed Shanxi Zhangwu, killed countless enemies, captured more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers, and dozens of officers below Dazuo disarmed and surrendered"
In all the cities in the national control area, the voices of the newspaper boys were heard early in the morning, and the people, who had long been accustomed to hearing bad news, all chose to look incredulous when they first heard the news, and then they surrounded the newspaper boys to buy newspapers, so that the newspapers worked overtime to print newspapers, but the city could not catch up with the sales speed of the newspaper boys, and finally had to print a batch of single-page extras to finally cope with the rush of newspaper buying in the past.
"Darling, why is there no name of Boyuan on this, is it that your subordinates want to be greedy for Boyuan's credit" Song Meiling sat on the balcony of the villa on the south bank, looking at Chiang Kai-shek with a happy face. She guessed that Chiang Kai-shek wanted to kneel all the credit on the head of the descendants of the national army, but Zhao Zhi's role in this battle, she and Chiang Kai-shek knew better than anyone else, so she was robbed of the credit, and Song Meiling really couldn't look at it.
Chiang Kai-shek smiled helplessly at his wife's accusatory words, "It's not my idea, it's because Boyuan doesn't want his name to appear in the newspaper, I guess he should have other plans." I just wanted to divert the attention of the Japanese army, so that he could get out of it calmly, you think he is stupid, I look at the world, but there is no more cunning guy than him" Thinking of Zhao Zhi's look and confidence when he had a secret conversation with himself before he left Chongqing, Chiang Kai-shek had a headache, such a talent could not be used by him, and it was really a big regret in his life.
"You say this is what Boyuan himself meant?" Song Meiling was a little confused, it was obviously a face-showing thing, why did Zhao Zhi have to deliberately cover it up? Could it be that he still has follow-up plans to implement?
"Don't guess, I don't know what Boyuan will do next? But I can be sure that he will not return to Chongqing in the near future," Chiang Kai-shek picked up a grape from the stone table and put it in his mouth, but his mind was thinking about the 1,000 Northeast refugees that Zhao Zhi wanted to find for him when he left. Chiang Kai-shek wasn't suspicious of Zhao Zhi anything, he just wasn't used to the feeling that this kind of thing was out of his control, especially since Zhao Zhi was still the person he was trying to win over.
Seeing the expression on Chiang Kai-shek's face, Song Meiling smiled, looked down at the newspaper in her hand, the front page headline was the news about the victory of Zhangwu, almost half of the photo was very eye-catching, a guy wearing a Japanese officer's uniform was bending over and holding a command knife and a military flag in both hands, standing in front of him was Xu Yunzhao with a serious face, behind these two people was a circle of national soldiers with guns and a team of Japanese prisoners who were lining up to disarm, and the black pressure was only a large number of people.
In fact, Song Meiling and Chiang Kai-shek didn't know that the guy in the photo who bent down and surrendered with a command knife was not the wing commander of the 225th Wing, Takeda Dingzo, and the Japanese officer who bent over and only showed his side face was pretended by Yu Dazhi, who has always liked to be funny. Before Xu Yunzhao's troops began to storm the defense line of the 225 Wing, Yu Dazhi and the team of scouts under his command had only one task, that is, to get the flag of the 225 Wing and find the commander of the 225 Wing, Wing Captain Takeda Dingsan, only by finding one of these two things, Zhao Zhi could smoothly carry out the next plan, fortunately, Dazhi did not find Takeda Dingsan, but he got the flag of the 225 Wing, as for the Takeda Dingsan that Zhao Zhi needed, with Mo Lun, the king of fraud, What else can't be done?
It was for the implementation of Zhao Zhi's next plan that Yu Dazhi appeared in front of Zhao Zhi and Xu Yunzhao in a Japanese officer's uniform, and the cameraman was brought from the county by Mo Lun, so he took photos on the battlefield to create an atmosphere of surrender on the battlefield. Mo Lun's methods can be imagined, the photos and the manuscript prepared by Zhao Zhi were brought back by the military commanders, and the photos that were developed out did not even see anything wrong with the people of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and Yu Dazhi, who was embarrassed and only showed one side of his face, successfully became the familiar Zhutian Dingsan of the people, and Xu Yunzhao, who was standing opposite him, became the reincarnation of Yue Wumu, who was praised by the people.
"Our children are really unexpected, they have a hand" also paid attention to the Zhangwu war, and the Eighth Route Army Office in Xi'an passed the day's newspaper to Yan'an and the Eighth Route Army headquarters through its own channels. The cave in Yan'an has started a new round of guarding, because most of the high-level leaders have gathered in one of the caves, and the object of their attention and discussion is the victory of Zhangwu mentioned in the newspaper.
"He, Jiang someone, is putting gold on his face again, and he didn't mention Zhao Zhi's name at all, it seems that our little friends are still not as good as those descendants in his Jiang someone's heart" Zhu De's fingers knocked heavily on Xu Yunzhao's avatar, and his face showed a trace of dissatisfaction. Sun Jin, who was rescued by Zhao Zhi from the hill, did not participate in the battle of the pass, but all the remarkable battles in the early stage of Zhao Zhi were sent back to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army by him in code, so who is the protagonist and who is the supporting role in the victory of Zhangwu, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army is clear, and Zhu De, as the commander-in-chief, naturally knows it.
"According to my opinion, this is probably the intention of this little friend of ours" Zhou Enlai held a different view, "You do the math, Zhao Zhi first recaptured the county by surprise and wiped out the defenders in the county, which was a squadron of Japanese soldiers." Then he immediately blitzed the Madian Railway Station, this time it was another Japanese squadron, and then used the captured weapons to ambush the reinforcements coming from the direction of Madian and Maliang River. Now it's a whole Japanese army wing, you think, Zhao Zhi's mercenaries don't belong to any party, they just belong to a mercenary company registered in a foreign country, and a private company with such combat power wants to fight against the Japanese army and a country, I'm afraid it's not very possible."
"What do you mean is that Zhao Zhi is deliberately hiding his strength so that the Japanese army can focus on the national army" Zhu De was a little unconvinced of Zhou Enlai's analysis. But he thought about it carefully, what Zhou En said was not unreasonable, Zhao Zhi in a sense, is indeed not belonging to any faction and a certain political party in the country, and his banner has always been to do things with guns, and even the training troops for Chiang Kai-shek are also used to pay the account, and the Eighth Route Army didn't send sappers to Zhao Zhi.
"No, I guess Zhao Zhi still has follow-up plans to implement, he just doesn't want to expose himself to the Japanese army so early, so he needs the national army to attract the attention of the Japanese army. And the newspaper did not say how many Japanese troops surrendered, I guess Zhao Zhi's move was just a demonstration to the Japanese army, to prevent them from sending troops to attack Zhangwu County, Zhao Zhi's next plan to be implemented is likely to rely on Zhangwu County to complete" Zhou Enlai's confidence made the cave fall silent, and even Mao Zedong, who had not made a sound, got up and paced back and forth in thought.
"Otherwise, let's send a condolence team from Yan'an, nominally to comfort our wounded soldiers, but in fact, quietly contact Zhao Zhi to see if we can invite our children to Yan'an and sit down with us face-to-face to talk" Mao Zedong threw the cigarette butt between his fingers and said his thoughts. The eyes of the other people in the cave lit up, yes, they can continue to send condolences to Sun Jin and send people to Zhangwu County in their name, if Zhao Zhi can accept the invitation to come to Yan'an, for ***, this is a good counterattack against the Kuomintang.
"I think it's a feasible idea, but who is the right one for us?" On the issue of candidates, everyone expressed their opinions, and in the end, Li Kenongli got the task against public opinion, and he decided to send Jin Kai, who had just returned to Yan'an from Shanghai, to Zhangwu County. Jin Kai had dealt with Zhao Zhi when he was in Shanghai, and he had an understanding of Zhao Zhi's personality and temper, and according to Jin Kai's narration, Zhao Zhi was not resistant to ***, although he had not met for a while, Li Kenong believed that Jin Kai would definitely persuade Zhao Zhi to come to Yan'an.
While Chongqing and Yan'an were paying attention to the victory of Zhangwu, Zhao Zhi was busy carrying the booty to the barracks in the west of the city, and the tank and armored car captured from the Madian railway station were handed over to Xu Yunzhao. There is not much fuel to get back from the train station, and these big guys can at most wander around the county, rather than waiting for the oil to fall on the road because of the bright moon, it is better to exchange them and the national army for something that can be used now. After some discussion, Zhao Zhi exchanged these big guys for a batch of Mauser rifle bullets and Czech machine gun bullets, and sent to the barracks with this great victory, and the Nationalist Government rewarded Xu Yunzhao with 20,000 oceans.
Chongqing and Yan'an guessed well, Zhao Zhi still has a follow-up plan, he is in a hurry to move the spoils to the barracks, is to prepare for the implementation of the plan, but the place where he implemented the plan is not Zhangwu County, but Xi'an. Xu Yunzhao's eldest brother Xu Yunbiao has applied to be transferred from the Chongqing Station of the Military Command to Xi'an Station, and the reason why Zhao Zhihui gave the credit for Zhangwu's victory to Xu Yunzhao is in exchange for Xu Yunbiao's support, because he needs to have a place in Xi'an that can be used and controlled by himself, and his follow-up plan does not allow others to snoop and intervene.