—— Xuzhou

Li Zongren looked at the battle report, nodded and said, "Okay, very good, now most of the battles of all walks of life are over, and the dust has settled." “

Li Pinxian also exhaled and said, "This is our first big victory since the start of the war." ”

Li Zongren took off his white gloves and said, "Let's go, come out with me, the reporter friend has been waiting for a long time." ”

Since the Battle of Taierzhuang began and later the decisive battle of Lunan Province, countless reporters gathered in Xuzhou, waiting for the latest news.

The news that Li Zongren was going to hold a press conference immediately made the reporters who had been waiting for many days excited, only to see Li Zongren and Li Pinxian enter the press conference hall with a team of guards.

Li Zongren looked at the countless flashing lights and said with a smile, "Fellow journalists, welcome to everyone, I have a message to announce to you here." ”

Looking at Li Zongren's smile, everyone knew what the news was, and suddenly, all the reporters became even more excited.

Li Zongren looked at it almost, and said slowly, "The Battle of Lunan, no, it is the Battle of Xuzhou, which has ended successfully today, our army has used 13 armies and seven independent divisions, brigades and other special forces, more than 300 aircraft, and 350,000 soldiers. After a series of battles such as the Battle of Linyi, the Battle of Tengxian County, the Battle of Taierzhuang, the Battle of Taierzhuang, the Battle of Hundred Miles, and the Battle of Linyi, it paid 70,000 casualties and annihilated all of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army, most of the 5th Division, and the estimated number of more than 50,000 people. Our army will surely win victory after victory in the future until the Japanese army is completely driven out of China. ”

'Boom, blah, blah. Whether it is a Chinese journalist or a foreign journalist. They all stood up and applauded. Everyone knows in their hearts how sensational tomorrow's newspaper will be.

A reporter stood up and said, "Dear Chief Li, this is our first victory since the start of the Chinese war, and you are really our first general in the War of Resistance Against Japan." ”

Li Zongren shook his head modestly, and a reporter came out again and said, "I think I can be called the first person in the Anti-Japanese War." ”

The first person in the Anti-Japanese War? Li Zongren was secretly refreshed in his heart, but he hurriedly said, "This title should be the chairman, I can't afford it." ”

"Excuse me, is the news that the commander of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army was captured true?" A reporter stood up and asked.

"Is there such a thing? How did I not know? Li Zongren frowned and asked Li Pinxian next to him.

Li Pinxian looked at the person who spoke, and whispered, "I know that reporter, it's the child of the Chen family, and they should have gotten the news from Wuhan." ”

Li Zongren's heart suddenly became furious. What do you mean? Caught the division commander of the Japanese army, and did not tell himself about the commander of this military region, but directly reported to Wuhan? Along this there is still no commander of this military district of his own? And is there any military discipline?

Li Zongren looked at the dense reporters in the audience, knowing that this was not the time to get angry, he took a deep breath and said, "Regarding this issue, it is all the reward of the hard work of our officers and soldiers, as for whether he is the commander of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army, it needs to be confirmed again, once there is news." We will announce it as soon as possible. ”

Li Zongren was not in the mood at this time, and left after a few casual words.

Back in the office, Li Zongren was thinking about something with his eyes closed, and Li Pinxian came in and said, "A telegram from Wuhan." The chairman of the committee told us to continue to march troops, completely drive the Japanese army out of Shandong, and to give us more troops. ”

Li Zongren suddenly fought, poked hard at the map and said, "Fight." Hit, hit, hit what? The devil does not have only two divisions. If we chase it again, we will go deep alone, not fighting, all of them will be withdrawn, and we will prepare for the second Battle of Xuzhou. ”

Li Pinxian said worriedly: "Wouldn't this be inappropriate?" ”

Li Zongren laughed angrily, "This is a war, not a political engagement, besides, I basically can't command his Central Army, what can I do, just go back like this." ”

- Tokyo Imperial Council

Hirohito looked at Konoe and the others in front of him with their heads bowed, knocked on the table with Jade Ruyi and said, "What's wrong?" Are you all dumb? What about the vow of three months to settle China? What about the strategy of promoting peace? Why don't you speak? Isn't it usually very talkative? Tell me!! Hirohito slammed it, and Jade Ruyi shattered in half.

Konoe Fumiro knew that he was the prime minister, so he had to answer, and raised his head tremblingly and said, "Your Majesty, there is a special reason for Lunan's defeat, please wait for Rong Chen to return." Moreover, in this battle, although our army's losses exceeded 40,000, the losses of the national army were at least more than 100,000. ”

Hirohito took a breath, calmed down, returned to his usual calm, and began to say in a crane voice again, "Good one, even if you are defeated, you say." ”

Fumiro Konoe took out a document from his back, held it high above his head, and said, "Your Majesty, please see, this is the top-secret information of Seishiro Itagaki of the commander of the Fifth Division. ”

Hirohito nodded, and the guard took the document and handed it to Hirohito, who looked at it, but his eyes widened. Slowly closing the file, he asked, "Is this all true?" ”

Konoe Fumiro immediately replied, "It's all true, the captured Lucia Air Force pilot has been sent to Tokyo, and we have immediately used agents in Lucia, it is said that Lucia has handed over the military equipment of several armies to China, and provided more than 300 planes and pilots, and the intelligence also shows that Stalin still has the idea of increasing assistance." ”

Hirohito looked at Sugiyama and asked, "Does the War Department have any thoughts on this?" ”

Sugiyama Yuan immediately said: "Your Majesty, according to our analysis, the reason why Chiang Intermediary is unwilling to surrender is nothing more than that he still has extravagant hopes for the outcome of the war, and the source of this extravagant hope was that European and American countries intervened in us at the beginning, just like the Battle of Shanghai in 129 and the intervention of the Three Kingdoms in that year, but to Jiang Mediation's disappointment, European and American countries are afraid of our country's strength and are unwilling to interfere in our behavior.

But now Stalin has given a lot of aid to Chiang Mediation, so that Chiang Intermediary has the courage to fight again, so if we want to solve the China Incident, we must completely defeat Chiang Mediation's courage to fight, and make it impossible for Lucia to support Chiang Mediation. ”

Hirohito nodded and said, "Go on, what are your plans?" ”

Sugiyama Moto's eyes lit up and said, "We have made a plan to increase our troops, first of all, we will mobilize the existing troops. Immediately launch the second Battle of Xuzhou, we will definitely be ashamed, first capture Xuzhou to pave the way for the future, this time we will attack in the north and south at the same time, and mobilize more than five divisions.

In addition, within two months, the strength of the imperial army in the Guannai Pass will be increased from the current 16 divisions to 30 divisions, and the number of troops is expected to reach 800,000, and the five divisions of the Kwantung Army in Manchuria will be increased to 10 divisions, and then 25 of the 30 divisions in the Guannai will be transferred to launch simultaneous attacks from Henan, Anhui, Jiangxi, Jiangsu, and other directions. At the same time, in order to punish Lucia's behavior in supporting China, the Kwantung Army will dispatch five divisions from Manchuria to make Lucia realize her mistake. If all goes well, the war will end by the end of the year. ”

The guard was surprised and said, "Send troops to Lucia?" Will it be too risky to go back? ”

Sugiyama Mototo smiled, "Don't worry. We are only ready to launch a tentative attack, not to fight a full-scale war with Lucia, not to mention the growing movement of Germany in Europe. Lucia's attention will soon shift from Asia to Europe.

Hirohito frowned when he heard this, and looked at the Minister of Finance, Kaya Xingxuan, who immediately understood and asked, "Where did this expanded division come from?" Has the War Department considered the issue of military spending? ”

Sugiyama said excitedly: "Isn't the empire even able to afford this money?" It's just a difficult period of more than half a year. Don't you see the benefits of the submission of China? ”

Konoe asked, "Is there any difficulty with the finance minister?" ”

He Wu Xingxuan nodded and said, "Last year, our military expenditure was 3.27 billion, and if we want to implement the plan of the War Department, I estimate that this year's military expenditure will reach more than 6 billion." ”

Everyone gasped when they heard the number. What is the concept of 6 billion yen? In 1937, Japan's entire fiscal expenditure was just over 4.7 billion yen, and this time the military expenditure alone was about to exceed last year's fiscal expenditure by a large amount.

Sugiyama didn't want this plan to be ruined like this, and said excitedly, "Your Majesty, we have two paths now, one is to work hard for a year, and then get a colony dozens of times larger than ours, and from then on, we will completely embark on the road to prosperity, and the other is to negotiate peace with Jiang Mediation, agree to Jiang Mediation's conditions, return to the state before the China Incident, and wait for China to be penetrated and strengthened by Lucia, and finally be recaptured by China Manchuria, after all, although Asia is big, it can't accommodate two powerful countries." ”

Hirohito closed his eyes and thought about it, of course he didn't want to end the war like this, he nodded, and looked at Kaya Xingxuan again.

He Ya Xingxuan understood and said, "If this is the case, extraordinary means must be used to ensure military spending." ”

Konoe asked curiously, "How?" ”

He Wu Xingxuan smiled and said, "It's very simple, add money, and don't worry about whether it will cause inflation, I have already had a plan for this method, as long as the cabinet authorizes it, I can act." ”

Hirohito asked uneasily, "How much income can we expect to increase in a year using special means?" ”

He Wu Xingxuan thought for a while and said, "I can guarantee that this year's fiscal revenue can be increased by more than 70% compared with last year. ”

Everyone looked sideways at him, not knowing what his plan was, Hirohito nodded and said, "Then let's do what the War Department has planned." ”

- Linyi

"What? That's what Li Zongren said? Tang Enbo took the newspaper and read it, only to see that the newspaper attributed all the credit for the Battle of Xuzhou to Li Zongren's command and Sun Lianzhong's stubborn defense, and Tang Enbo only had a few words about him, that is, the hairy boy Hu Lian was more than him.

"Wow, wow, this Li Delin, dare to play yin for Lao Tzu?" Tang Enbo laughed.

"Commander, what are we supposed to do?" A young officer asked.

Tang Enbo patted him and said, "Don't worry, no one will take your credit, this Li Delin really takes himself seriously, he, the commander of the military region, when I tell him to get out, he will get out." ”

- Wuhan

"Okay, what a person who resisted Japan, I think it's better to let him be the chairman of the committee." Jiang Intermediary looked at the newspaper that kept boasting about Li Zongren, and said angrily.

Chen Bui advised, "Calm your anger, this is just the nonsense of those boring reporters, don't worry." ”

If other people are touted like this, Jiang Intermediary doesn't care, but Li Zongren is a Gui head and has a huge power, and Jiang Intermediary is really a little worried that his credit is too great and poses a threat to himself.

Jiang Zhong waved his cane and said, "Bray, you don't know, Keqin sent a telegram to me and said that Li Zongren is vigorously attracting local troops in the army, you see, this newspaper is talking about the Northwest Army, the Sichuan Army, and there are a few words talking about our Central Army, although Delin should not have any ideas now, but the battle will always be over, and at that time you will regret not taking action from the beginning." ”

Saying that, Jiang Zhong sat on the chair with his eyes closed and thought about it, thought for a while and said, "In this way, our rear of the Southwest University is under great construction, and I think we also need a respected person to lead the overall situation, so let Delin go." ”

Chen Bui said worriedly, "I'm worried that he is unwilling, and who will replace Xuzhou?" ”

Jiang said hehehe, "Isn't the rear of this front line all anti-Japanese, he will not oppose it, and besides, I will not remove him." He is still the commander of the Fifth War Zone, but Keqin is the deputy commander, which is called sitting in the southwest and leading Xuzhou from afar, and when there is a need, I will still let him come back. ”

Chen Bui saw that he couldn't persuade anymore, so he could only give up.

Jiang Zhong said again, "I heard that the news of Ryosuke Isoya was captured has been spread, but it is really not like words, and I have no sense of confidentiality at all. ”

Chen Bui hurriedly nodded and said yes.

Jiang Zhong closed his eyes and said, "Isoya Ryosuke and I are also old acquaintances, don't be embarrassed for him, let him come to see me." ”

After a while, Ryosuke Isoya walked in in civilian clothes.

Jiang pointed to the sofa with a smile and said, "Sit down, Brother Isoya has worked hard all the way, I'm afraid you didn't expect to see me like this, right?" ”

Ryosuke Isoya shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Mr. Sun is also my teacher, and I don't know how to face Mr. Sun's questioning under Jiuquan." ”

Jiang Intermediary immediately heard something in Isoya Ryosuke's words, and said, "Brother Isoya, I want to hear your opinion on our war, please tell the truth." ”

Ryosuke Isoya nodded, thought for a while and said, "I've thought a lot about this time, first of all, I've always believed that many of Japan's policies toward China are problematic. Japan's China policy did not see the new direction of China's progress since the Xinhai Revolution and the progress of the natural development of the nation, followed the understanding of the ancient China and the era of warlord secession, and still failed to realize the progress of the unified country represented by Mr. Chiang. ”

Jiang Zhong clapped his hands when he heard this, and said, "If everyone in your country can be as wise as you, then this war will not be fought." ”

Ryosuke Isoya smiled, "It's too late to say anything now, I'm also a prisoner now, so it's useless to talk more." ”

Jiang asked seriously: "Does Brother Isoya really think that peace between China and Japan is better than war?" ”

Ryosuke Isoya immediately replied, "Of course, I have always thought that Japan's choice of war was extremely stupid. ”

Jiang Zhong nodded with a smile and said, "You go down and rest first." ”

Looking at Ryosuke Isoya's back, Jiang Intermediary fell into deep thought.

- Xuzhou

"Commander, how can this chairman be like this?" Li Pinxian said angrily.

Li Zongren shook his head with a smile and said, "Don't worry, this Xuzhou is about to become a thorn in the side of the Japanese army, and we don't know if it's a blessing or a curse if we leave now." (To be continued.) )

PS: The Battle of Xuzhou is over, the protagonist of the next chapter is back, and I found a bunch of one hundred and sixty-two chapters in front of me, why didn't anyone say anything to me, TYT