"Boyuan, come, let me introduce Mr. Enlai to you?" Zhao Zhigang, who was in a suit and leather shoes, walked into the living room of the South Bank villa, and was looked at by Chiang Kai-shek, who looked left and right with a complacent face. Zhao Zhi, who had just picked up the plate and was ready to feast, had no choice but to put down the delicious food and walk silently towards the corner where Chiang Kai-shek and Zhou Enlai were sitting.

Zhao Zhilai attended a reception hosted by Chiang Kai-shek, which was specially organized for the consultation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the CCP delegation led by Zhou Enlai was naturally the protagonist of the reception. Before the buttocks were hot, he was called by Chiang Kai-shek, Zhao Zhi was full of displeasure, but the other guests in the hall looked at Zhao Zhi with envy and jealousy, they all knew that Zhao Zhi was the upstart of the government, but they didn't expect Chiang Kai-shek to value Zhao Zhi so much.

Zhao Zhi had long been mentally prepared for the hostility of other people, but he didn't care, because there was no conflict of interest between Thunder and the forces represented by these people. Ignoring Chiang Kai-shek's surprised expression, Zhao Zhi stretched out his hand to Zhou Enlai and said hello, "Mr. Enlai, let's meet again, hello." "Chiang Kai-shek is an excellent politician, politics has always been dirty, Zhao Zhi did not believe in the military commanders did not report to Chiang Kai-shek about Zhou Enlai's visit to the hotel, rather than making Chiang Kai-shek suspicious in his heart, it is better to directly and openly take the opportunity to say it.

"Oh, you've all met already?" Although Chiang Kai-shek's expression was surprised, the calm in his eyes proved that he had already known about the meeting between Zhou Enlai and Zhao Zhi. Sure enough, he couldn't hide it, Zhao Zhi noticed Chiang Kai-shek's expression, and muttered in his heart. Chiang Kai-shek is now able to use the thunder, so he treats himself politely everywhere, and believes that when the Thunder and the national government have a conflict of interest, Chiang Kai-shek will not hesitate to kick the thunder away, including himself, of course.

"I have long admired General Zhang's prestige, and today I happened to be running errands near the hotel where General Zhang was staying, so I stopped by and sat down." Zhou Enlai was also a little puzzled by Zhao Zhi's practice of taking the initiative to greet him, and the CCP's intelligence department's analysis of Zhao Zhi was that this person was good at strategy and liked to plan first and then act. Taking the initiative to visit Zhang Zhi was the idea of killing two birds with one stone, and if Zhao Zhi failed to win over him, he would let the news go out and say that Zhao Zhi would meet with the CCP representatives in private, so that there would be a rift between Lei Ting and the Kuomintang before, but he didn't expect Zhao Zhi to take this matter to heart at all.

"What are Jiang Gong and Mr. Enlai talking about, so happy?" Receiving Chiang Kai-shek's signal, Zhao Zhi sat down on the sofa next to Chiang Kai-shek and Zhou Enlai.

"We were talking about the arrangements for the war in Shandong just now, and it just so happened that you came back from the Shandong battlefield just now, tell us your views on the war in Shandong, fighting a war is your housekeeping skill, and we can't compare to you." The Shandong war made Chiang Kai-shek raise his eyebrows for a while, and when all the national troops turned to the defensive intermission, only Shandong and Hebei provinces were in full swing on the entire anti-Japanese battlefield, and it happened that the battle plans of these two battlefields were planned and commanded by Zhao Zhi, and the person who had the most say in the Shandong war was none other than Zhao Zhi himself.

"It's really hard to say, things on the battlefield are changing rapidly, so there is a fixed pattern, and this depends on the actual intelligence." Chiang Kai-shek and Zhou Enlai were both good military theorists, but they were not qualified military commanders, and the tactical direction they formulated for fighting might be feasible, but if they formulated battlefield tactics, they might be a little bit worse.

"You see, this is a rough sketch of Shandong and Hebei." After being glared at by Chiang Kai-shek, the helpless Zhao Zhi had no choice but to dip his finger in wine and draw a sketch on the table, "Here, the Japanese puppet army here has been forced to retreat to Hebei, which means that a large area here has become a buffer zone between us and the Japanese army." Zhao Zhi's map of Thailand was scribbled in wine words, and he was afraid that only he knew what it represented, and the impatient Chiang Kai-shek simply asked the attendant to find a large map for Zhao Zhi to use as an explanation.

"Everyone, please see, the narrow strip west of Jiaodong to Jinan has been controlled by my thunderous Burmese troops, the Youth Army has also taken Liaocheng and Xingtai, and the 74th Army has completed the construction of the defense line after taking Dezhou and Binzhou, that is to say, our strategy of cutting off the land communication links between the north and south of the Japanese army in Shandong has been completed, and the next thing is how to expand the advantages and mobilize large forces to go north and south to further expand the control area." A large map was spread out on the table, and it was not only Chiang Kai-shek and Zhou Enlai who failed, but almost all the military generals who participated in the reception came over.

"Okamura Ninji has been taken to the hospital for treatment, and now that the Youth Army is preparing to besiege Shijiazhuang, I think the Japanese army should soon pick out a new commander to take Okamura's place. The Japanese army has changed its commander, and their style of play will definitely be adjusted accordingly, which requires our troops to adapt and find out the weaknesses from it, so my opinion is to be cautious and slowly encroach on the area controlled by the Japanese army. ”

"Does that mean that some newspaper reports of a major counteroffensive are simply fabricated?" A woman who looked like a reporter struggled to squeeze to Zhao Zhi's side and asked, the state guards who would be in charge of the guard work turned a blind eye to this female reporter, anyway, it was Zhao Zhi who was asking, Chiang Kai-shek didn't speak, they had to protect Chiang Kai-shek's safety.

"Can I say it's just your personal guess?" As a result, Chiang Kai-shek's personal attendant handed over the baton, Zhao Zhi smiled and clicked heavily on the position of Shijiazhuang, "This is Shijiazhuang, Xingtai and Hengshui have been taken by us, Shijiazhuang has actually become an isolated city, and our troops scattered around Shijiazhuang can besiege the city at any time." Fighting a war kills people, and it can't be done by just talking about it, so we have to be careful. ”

"The plan for the great counteroffensive has been improving, the Youth Army now has more than 200,000 soldiers fighting against the Japanese army in Shandong and Hebei, and the 74th Army has also replaced all American-style equipment, and we have also put more than 400,000 Burmese mercenary troops and 50,000 Jewish troops in Shandong, which add up to more than 700,000, and the great counteroffensive is not impossible, but we need to formulate a battle plan before we can implement it." Zhao Zhi deliberately concealed the reserve and supplementary strength of the 50,000 74th Army, and if you add them and the second batch of Jewish troops that are about to land in Jiaodong, the actual anti-Japanese armed forces active in Shandong and Hebei have exceeded 800,000.

"Then may I ask General Zhao, can you first reveal the approximate time of the major counteroffensive, I think the people should be very concerned about this time." Zhao Zhi's answer was too general, and the bold female reporter didn't seem to get the answer she wanted, and seeing that the guards of the state government didn't drive her, she simply picked some sensitive topics to ask.

"Military secrets, no comment." The previous ones were all said by Chiang Kai-shek to Zhao Zhi, and the intention was nothing more than to let the high-level people attending the reception have a good idea of the war in Shandong, but what this female reporter asked about had already involved the battle plan, as the formulator of the major counteroffensive plan, Zhao Zhi would not be so stupid that a casual person could get an answer from him. The four words "no comment" became the most common words Zhao Zhi said in the second half of the reception, even if Chiang Kai-shek asked about the plan, Zhao Zhi shook his head and did not answer.

"Find a place to eat, next time there's a drinking party like this, don't tell me, I'm going to starve to death." Sitting in Dai Li's car, Zhao Zhi hurriedly asked the driver to drive to find a place to eat. It was Chiang Kai-shek's idea to stop Zhao Zhi from attending the drinking party, but now Zhao Zhi, who was hungry, poured his anger on Dai Li, who could only secretly complain that he was wronged.

"Boyuan, the people who are qualified to participate in the drinking party are all people who are valued by the chairman or people who have a lot of status in the party, and it is also for your good that the chairman asks you to participate in such a meeting, you kid doesn't want to thank me, and you dare to be angry with me, be careful that I go to my younger siblings to sue you for the black state." Dai Li had no choice but to follow Zhao Zhi to eat at night, who made him owe Zhao Zhi a favor. After Zhao Zhi led the troops north to Shandong, there were a lot more antique calligraphy and paintings in Dai Li's house, and more than half of them were sent by Zhao Zhi.

Zhao Zhi was not very interested in Dai Li's rhetoric, and it was not even as good as the red oil in front of him to arouse Zhao Zhi's idea, "You save it, I am not a member of your Kuomintang, Thunder is not the establishment of your national army, and my people do not take the military salary of your national government, what will I do when I go to show that face." I still understand the truth of the tree and the pig fat being knifed, do you want me to be shot as soon as I go out? After eating two bowls of red oil in a row, Zhao Zhicai stopped, he knew that Dai Li specially sent him something to say.

"You tell me the truth, are you going to go south and withdraw all the troops?" Zhao Zhi's sudden return to Chongqing was at the behest of Chiang Kai-shek, but Dai Li didn't know this, and when Zhao Zhi returned to Chongqing, he also brought back a large number of mercenaries, and he didn't even avoid meeting with Zhou Enlai of the CCP by the military commander's monitors, all of which made Dai Li come to a conclusion that Zhao Zhi was going to leave the Shandong Theater, and the command of the battlefield would be transferred to the control of the national army.

"In the evening, Jiang Gong also asked the same thing, and I said that I had not decided yet, but the Americans have been urging me to send troops to the South Asian theater to relieve their pressure, and you also know that Jiang Gong values the military aid of the Americans very much, so I am also very difficult." Zhao Zhi, who was holding a cigar in his hand, said vaguely, using the Americans as an excuse was an excuse that Zhao Zhi had discussed with Rowling a long time ago, and only in this way could Zhao Zhi use the domestic battlefield to withdraw and do his own thing.