In early March of the 19th year of the Republic of China, the lower reaches of the Yellow River have the appearance of early summer, which is extremely abnormal compared with the previous March when the ice and snow melted, Yang Xiaoou looked at the earth that has gradually cracked, with a sad face, he understands that according to the experience since ancient times, the climate is abnormal and there must be a catastrophe, in fact, from the end of the New Year to the present, the snowdrops and rain in Shandong and Henan have not fallen, which is already a symptom of the year of the great drought, and now the war is imminent, if there is another great drought, the people of the Central Plains ...... Yang Xiaoou didn't dare to think about it anymore, starvation was everywhere, and the tragedy of thousands of miles of red land was about to be staged.

"There is intelligence that the little devil is about to launch a surprise attack in the next few days, but the specific location has not yet been determined."

Li Zejun's words interrupted Yang Xiaoou's thoughts, he rubbed his temples, and pulled himself back to reality from the fantasy tragedy.

"The General Staff judged that the possibility of the Japanese army attacking in Qingdao was relatively large, Brother Qianting, Junzuo handed over the heavy task of monitoring the Japanese army in Qingdao to the 57th Division, I am afraid that it is also for this reason, if, sooner or later, this battle will be difficult to avoid, passive defense is better than taking the initiative, it's just that Junzuo's recent attitude is relatively vague, and he has not made up his mind to fight, it seems that he is waiting for something."

"Well, the soldiers are eager to fight, if the commander makes up his mind to take the initiative to attack the Japanese army, there is still hope of victory, but ......" Li Zejun's eyes dimmed for a while, as the situation unfolded, the shape became worse and worse, and now there is no turning back, it seems that the war is the last way.

However, if only local wars were fought, Li Zejun would have been sure to win most of the battles, but he came from Suidong and came into contact with a lot of Western ideas, and understood that after entering the modern era, it was no longer the trickery and the generals and soldiers who would decide the outcome of the war, but the industrial base and strength of a country, and China was weak and poor, and it was mired in civil war all the year round, so there was no industrial base at all, and the most powerful northeast had also fallen into the Japanese population.

Once the war begins, protracted, does China have enough resources to consume, I am afraid, at present, the most unbearable consumption in China is the population, ten years of vicissitudes, Li Zejun is no longer a little guard who knew nothing back then, because he was deeply influenced by Wu Xiaoliang, the angle and direction of looking at the problem is also different from that of many generals who were born as warlords in Guannai, and he feels unprecedented worries about the prospects of the war.

“…… However, it is not known how long Shandong alone can hold out. ”

Yang Xiaoou was obviously very stunned, Li Zejun and his impression have always been iron-blooded and tough, what is the matter today, the battle has not yet started, he has such deep doubts.

Li Zejun has also been holding back for a long time recently, and as soon as the words came out, he felt speechless, and said with a smile: "I'm getting older, but my courage has become smaller, and I also think that it's better to take the initiative than to defend passively, the Japanese army stationed in Qingdao has only one wing, and there is a great chance of defeating them." ”

Just when Li Yang and the others were exchanging views on whether to take the initiative to attack Qingdao, Wu Xiaoliang in Jinan City was also having a headache, and he was waiting for the final news to be determined, because his target was not the Japanese troops of the Qingdao wing, but the tens of thousands of Japanese troops in the entire Japanese advance team.

Only by eliminating the advance Japanese army can we buy enough time to transfer the results of his construction in Shandong over the past year.

After several days and nights of consideration, Wu Xiaoliang believed that once the Japanese army invaded Shandong on a large scale, it might be able to maneuver in the short term, and there was a great hope of winning the initial war, but in the long run, the strength of Shandong and Henan provinces would not be enough to support the long-term situation.

Therefore, for the sake of the long term, it is necessary to take precautions, and besides, he has already obtained information through reliable channels, and the Japanese military department and cabinet have already made up their minds to launch an all-out war against China, and have been actively preparing for this for a long time.

Many people still do not realize that this war is very likely to turn into an all-out war, and they still wishfully believe that this time is just the same as previous conflicts, just to seize the interests of local areas, and to indicate that the majority of warlords in China have a mentality of watching the tiger fight from a distance, and even if Wang Zhaoming declares war against Japan with a clear banner, it is only a high-profile statement made in the political arena, and in the final analysis, it is only for himself to win the capital for the internal struggle of the Kuomintang.

Among them, Feng Yuxiang benefited the most, and he had no hope of keeping the territory, but he suddenly became the highest military and political governor in Huguang, although there was a large factor that the local warlords in Hunan did not like Jiang Zhongzheng and raised him up, but in the end he still sat firmly in the position of the military and political chief, and in the end, he was afraid that the powerful faction in Hunan was just driving the wolf at the front door and entering the tiger at the back door.

Under the mentality of watching the excitement of the vast majority of powerful factions in China, it is unknown how long they can hold out to resist the Japanese invasion on their own, which even Wu Xiaoliang, who has always been full of self-confidence, has beaten the drum, so he must prepare for the worst.

The prototype of an overall strategy had already been formed in his mind, and this battle to deal with the Japanese surprise attack became the most critical battle, and even the battle that decided the life and death of the Shandong army.

The pressure from the north of the Yellow River is getting heavier day by day, and since the beginning of March, the Japanese troops on the north bank have moved more and more frequently, the deployment of troops has tended to be closer to the direction of Jinan, and the artillery bombardment has been fought every three or five times, and the momentum of the imminent crossing of the river has been higher and higher, but Wu Xiaoliang did not put the most elite 57th Division on the frontal defense line because of this, but placed it in the middle section of the Jiaoji Railway as a reserve force or a mobile force, while monitoring the movements of the Japanese army in the direction of Qingdao. While responding to unexpected situations that may arise at any time.

Wu Xiaoliang had a premonition as early as February that the Japanese army in North China was very strong but rarely took military action; first, it was very likely that there was no unified opinion within the Japanese army at that time, or that it was not ready for unification, so the Japanese military headquarters would deliberately make the group of the former China Garrison Army the North China Front Army, and trusted that Commander Terauchi Shouichi was not a simple role, and his means and capabilities were many times stronger than those of other opponents in the past.

It can be seen from the beginning of Terauchi Shouichi that he was not in a hurry to start the war, but accumulated strength to unify the interior, and it is rare to see such a patient hunter in the Japanese army, because the squadron is unbearable, the vast majority of the Japanese generals regard the squadron as a chicken, and they are extremely contemptuous of it psychologically or strategically, because this contempt they did not show their due strength, which is also one of the reasons why they encountered the defeat of the Suidong Army and the Shandong Army.

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