People will change, over the years, Chiang Kai-shek's biggest change is decisiveness, and the things he decided will not be easily changed at all, which is why Mao dared to come to Nanjing for this national defense meeting.

The matter was settled, and everyone went out to prepare. Unlike others, Liu Yuan doesn't need to worry too much about it at all, the troops in the Southwest Special Administrative Region are all under his jurisdiction, as long as he gives an order, the army will definitely be killed.

But others got busy, and He Yingqin telegraphed to the north to conduct a massive military exercise to confuse the Japanese, thinking that the Chinese would be engaged in a big war with them in the north. At the same time, the 78th Division and other elite troops were telegraphed to Shanghai in the starry night, and at the next national defense meeting, Chiang Kai-shek slapped the table and scolded the local princes, "Niang Xipi, are your troops always worried about Lao Tzu's fake anti-Japanese?" Lao Tzu sent all his four most elite divisions to the battlefield, now you can rest assured, Lao Tzu let Lao Tzu's descendants fill in, let Lao Tzu's student soldiers fill in, you wait for victory. ”

Chiang Kai-shek's scolding made many people bow their heads in shame. The relationship between the southwest and the center has always been allied, so he cannot represent the power of the princes on the earth.

Li Zongren was born in the military, although there is always an elegant temperament around him, but the representative of the ministry He Yingqin did not have a hot temper, He Yingqin stood up and said, "The Central Army is not afraid of death, and we Gui men are not afraid of death. ”

Yan Xishan looked at the people who looked at him embarrassedly, stood up and said, "Shanxi is outnumbered, so we won't run around, but Shanxi people are not afraid of things, we are willing to defend Taiyuan and not let the enemy army move south." ”

"Hmph, cowardly, our Hunan army is willing to follow the chairman to fight to the death." He Jian responded loudly.

"The Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningbo Special Economic Zone is willing to obey the dispatch of the central government." Mao bowed down and said lightly, Liu Yuanzhi said that Mao said this sentence to measure many things.

Chiang Kai-shek gratefully glanced at the colleagues present, got up and announced, immediately set up the supreme command, appointed Deng Yanda as the representative of the general party, responsible for military discipline management, political and ideological work, appointed Liu Yuan as chief of the general staff, Bai Chongxi and He Yingqin as deputy chiefs of staff, the whole country is divided into theaters, a total of seven theaters on both sides of the Yellow River, with Hebei and Henan as the main areas, as the first theater, the commander of the theater is Cheng Qian, Shanxi, Chahar, Suiyuan are the second theater, and the commander of the theater is Yan Xishan, The Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou region was the third theater of operations, with Liu Yuan as the commander, and the Fujian-Guangdong region as the fifth theater under the command of Chiang Kai-shek, and the combat areas were Shandong and Anhui. At the same time, Liu Yuan ordered Li An to transport the radar to Nanjing for battlefield trials.

At the end of the meeting, Chiang Kai-shek stood on the rostrum and said very seriously, "This is a battle of national fortunes, and it is the first time that the Chinese nation has fought back on such a large scale since the First Sino-Japanese War. Don't blame me for making him look different, I'll do what someone says they do. After saying that, Chiang Kai-shek bowed deeply to everyone, and this was definitely the first time in everyone's memory.

Chiang Kai-shek's voice was serious and indifferent, with a fierce murderous intent, and some generals with retreat had a chilling feeling, and no one dared to doubt Chiang Kai-shek's determination to resist Japan at this time.

At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the Eighth Army commanded by Zhang Fakui, Zhuang Jihua (a character in reality, not the protagonist in the novel. The 24th Group Army, galloping to the aid of Shanghai in the starry night.

With the issuance of orders one after another, elite soldiers from all over the country began to gather in the south, including Xue Yue's elite soldiers and He Jian's elite soldiers. The troops of the Southwest Special Administrative Region even boarded the train to Shanghai.

Gao Zhihang has been promoted to commander of the National Revolutionary Army with the rank of lieutenant general, and under his organization, the air force of the Southwest Special Administrative Region has continuously landed at various airfields in the vicinity of Nanjing.

After a day's meeting, a middle-aged staff officer returned to the apartment very tired, and just when he returned home, he saw a low-stature businessman waiting for him at his house.

"Your ministry should come to me at this time, you will not only leak me, but also your own." The staff officer shook his head and said.

"The matter is urgent, I have arranged your family, after you and I die, they will live happily." Said the low-stated merchant.

"I'm dead, how do I know if you'll be kind to my relatives?" The middle-aged staff officer said distrustfully.

"You can rest assured, you are one of the first people to support the Great Japanese Empire, and we will definitely treat your family as an example." The Japanese businessman persuaded.

"If I had known the Tao today, I wouldn't have done it." The middle-aged staff officer said bitterly.

"You are wrong, the Japanese Empire is ten times stronger than China, and you are doing this as a far-sighted investment. Please tell me about the situation, sir. The merchant advised again.

"Okay." The middle-aged man trembled and wrote down the information bit by bit, and the businessman actually took out the radio station that had been prepared a long time ago in the staff officer's house and began to transmit the message.

The content is simple, the Chinese side intends to start a war in Shanghai, hoping that the base camp will be ready.

As soon as the telegram was sent, within five minutes, Dai Li personally arrived with agents of the Military Intelligence Bureau, and when Liu Yuan set up the Military Intelligence Bureau, it was mainly external, so these seeds that were originally hidden in the Nationalist Government by Japan had just leaked, and they were discovered by Dai Li.

Japan had just obtained the land of Pingjin, and its military situation was arrogant, and it even launched a conflict with the troops of the Nationalist Government when the Nationalist Government of Zhilu Province was prepared.

The front-line commander Zhang Zhizhong decisively ordered the troops to launch a fierce attack on more than 5,000 Japanese marines. The Japanese did not expect the Nationalist Government to be so desperate this time, and the 87th and 88th Divisions burst out with extremely strong combat effectiveness and continuously repelled the enemy's attacks.

As a staunch main battle faction, Zhang Zhizhong did not care about any negotiations at all, but ordered his troops to continue to launch a forcible attack on the enemy army.

But the defense of the Japanese army was not a soft egg, relying on strong fortifications, inflicting extremely heavy losses on the 88th Division.

Liu Yuan personally dialed the phone from the front line, and scolded Huang Meixing, the major general and brigade commander of the first phase of Huangpu, "Huang Meixing, you can't do it in the end, if you can't do it, I will change to other brothers, you can't go up like this, you can't come down, let the enemy reflect it, do you know how heavy our losses are?" ”

"Boss, don't say it, I'm ashamed to be a Whampoa soldier. You wait for the news that I have taken the enemy's position, and if it fails, I will not mention it, because I have already died in battle. After saying that, he put down the phone.

"What kind of attitude is this, do you Whampoa soldiers have this attitude?" Bai Chongxi glanced at it, shook his head and said.

Zuo Quan frowned, and was about to reason with Bai Chongxi, but Liu Yuan shook his head and said, "Deputy commander-in-chief, do you know what that phone call I just said means?" ”

"It's nothing more than giving death orders to his subordinates, and it's not that I haven't seen it." Bai Chongxi said indifferently.

Half an hour later, news came from the front line that the 264th Brigade led by Huang Meixing contacted and broke through dozens of enemy fortresses.

Liu Yuan nodded and said, "Okay, call General Zhang Zhizhong and suggest replacing Huang Meixing." ”

Bai Chongxi had to admire Liu Yuan, but he had some contempt for Liu Yuan's order, and what he admired was that Liu Yuan's classmates in Huangpu were willing to fight to the death obediently with a phone call, and the contempt was because the front line was obviously like a rainbow, but he temporarily changed generals.

Zhang Zhizhong, as the commander of the front, although he received the telegram, rejected Liu Yuan's suggestion and did not exchange it for Huang Meixing.

After another half an hour, a telegram came back from the front that Huang Meixing, the brigade staff headquarters, and the communications department were all killed in battle, and no one survived.

"This." Bai Chongxi looked at Liu Yuan in a daze, and said in horror, "You expected it a long time ago." ”

"As soon as the war started, we Huangpu students all had the heart of death, and there was still a trace of fear of death."

"Let me go. I have to avenge Mei Xing. Zuo Quan said angrily.

Although Zhang Zhizhong was sad that he didn't listen to Liu Yuan's advice at the moment, he knew very well that now was not the time for him to blame himself at all, but grabbed the phone and shouted, "Commander Song, you must strengthen the offensive now, the offensive of the 88th Division has been seriously hindered, the commander of the 2nd ** Brigade died in battle, and it is up to you whether you can take Hongkou now." ”

Song Xilian listened to Zhang Zhizhong's call, and the tears in his eyes immediately flowed, there were really not many classmates in the first phase, but he didn't expect that Songhu had just started fighting, and his brother went to one, and when the war ended, he didn't know how many were left.

Zhang Zhizhong became extremely busy, picked up the phone and continued to shout, "Artillery regiment? Throw me as many cannonballs as you can. ”

"Boom! Rumble! "The shells fired from the Japanese warships were at least more than 200 millimeters, and when they erupted in the mouth, they caused a huge explosion, and the shock wave rushed the soldiers into the sky, many soldiers were directly blown into pieces, and their bloody intestines flowed all over the ground, and some soldiers were left with half of their bodies, but they could not die directly, lying on the position and wailing in pain.

Some soldiers who were lucky enough to survive wiped their faces with their uniforms at random at the shouts of the officers, and continued to move forward by relying on obstacles.

The Japanese relied on the solid cement building for defense, and the Type 92 heavy machine gun frantically poured 7.7 mm bullets outward, and the soldiers' steel helmets had no effect in the face of the rain of bullets, and many soldiers' heads were shattered to the ground like watermelons shattered by a stone.

The skirmishers could not save the soldiers who were at the forefront, and the only surviving soldiers hid in bunkers, according to the knowledge of infantry drills, and looked for the best targets for shooting and looking for enemy firing points.

With the assistance of the infantrymen, several sturdy artillerymen struggled to push out the 37-mm anti-aircraft guns, and after a few bombardments, they finally knocked out the enemy's firing points, and then the enemy's naval guns fired ferociously, blowing the coastal defense guns into powder, and all the artillerymen were killed.

But the soldiers simply did not have time to relate to their comrades, dozens of machine gunners, hanging machine guns around their necks, used as submachine guns, along the breach, began to charge the enemy units. Many soldiers in the unit were armed with semi-automatic rifles, and they also shot frantically, suppressing the Japanese machine gunners and preventing them from raising their heads.

"Grenade! Grenade! The officer shouted on his stomach on the bunker.

"Get down! Get down!" The officer immediately attached the grenade hanging from the body to the rifle, ranged, fired, boomed, and the enemy was immediately reimbursed for the cement fortifications of more than five hundred millimeters.

Groups of seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy scouts braved the flames of war, carried stretchers, rescued wounded soldiers from the battlefield, and some of their companions were unfortunately killed by enemy shells, but they did not even shed a single tear, and the war taught the people to mature.

For this matter, Liu Yuan personally found He Yingqin, because He Yingqin was in charge of the work of the Boy Scouts, "Instructor, please let those children withdraw from the battlefield, the war is our adult business, and we should not let the children go to the battlefield." ”

"You all know that the road is war, war does not distinguish between adults and children at all, we can't find so many people with military training to go to the battlefield for a while, you also see such a large-caliber artillery, those people have already peed their pants before they go to the battlefield, these children are in adolescence, as long as the political work is done well, they have nothing to fear, they are the most loyal to the three ** righteousness." He Yingqin objected.

"Instructor, I order you to let those children go." Liu Yuan said angrily.

"I'm the Boy Scouts' chief officer." He Yingqin was also very annoyed by Liu Yuan's attitude, in his opinion, he ordered the boy scouts to go to the battlefield, it was good for him, and he actually ordered himself like this.

"I am the Supreme Commander of the Theater of Operations, I order you to let these children withdraw from the battlefield, sir, I beg you, let them go, I, Liu Yuan, would rather die on the battlefield by myself than see these children die on the battlefield, they are still children, they should not face such a heavy thing so early, I beg you." Liu Yuan had a cry in his voice.

"A woman's kindness. Don't blame me for not helping you then. He Yingqin hung up the phone angrily.

Liu Yuan picked up the phone and connected a strange line, "Order all the members of the Elite Alliance of Strong Powers in Shanghai to spontaneously assemble at the assembly point and deliver supplies for those children, it is time for us to dedicate ourselves to the motherland." ”

"I know the chairman, I will personally command." The old turtledove was injured in the intelligence work, and he thought that he could live a good life for a few days, but he didn't expect the organization to suddenly give him such an order. But he didn't hesitate.

When Liu Yuan knew that Gao Zhihang personally took off with a plane to fight the Japanese army, he threw the cup to the ground, and it was not okay to die Huang Meixing?

"General, this is the time to boost the morale of the generals, otherwise in this disadvantageous situation, we are likely to collapse, and you don't have to blame yourself." Bai Chongxi comforted Liu Yuan on the side and said.

With the cooperation of radar, Gao Zhihang led a squadron of planes to fight fiercely with the Japanese, and at the same time covered a squadron of bombers and carried out a crazy bombing of Hongkou.

It is not the first time that the Chinese people have seen their own air force, but it is indeed the first time that they have seen the sky densely packed with Chinese aircraft fighting in groups.

Many old people knelt directly on the ground and shouted, "How can China perish with such a powerful combat force." ”

As an international city, many Westerners also live in Shanghai, and they really can't imagine what it should be like to have Chinese fighters flying in the sky, and the sky is full of blue and white fighters.

In the first air battle, the squadron he led actually destroyed 16 Japanese fighters, and the Japanese Air Force was not as disciplined as the Army.

Chiang Kai-shek also took advantage of the victory on the first day to issue a self-defense statement, declaring that the battle would not end if the Japanese army did not leave China for a day.

When the Western military observers saw that the Nationalist Government had gained the upper hand in the first engagement, they began to discuss, for none of them expected that the Nationalist Government would dare to rebel against the Japanese Government.

But they really resisted. However, these military observers are not very optimistic about the national government.

The British government believed that the Nationalist Government could resist for a month at most, because the Nationalist Government did not have a complete industrial system, and the Japanese just did not reflect it, and once it reacted, the Nationalist Government would be defeated.

The United States has certain ties with the Republic of China, so they know a little about the Nationalist government, so they think that with new weapons and newly trained soldiers, they can resist for at least two months.

Germany, which has the most confidence in the Nationalist Government, said that without the command of General Liu Yuan, the Nationalist Government might not be able to resist for even two months, but with the command of General Liu Yuan and the excellent soldiers in the southwest, it can resist for at least three months, but three months is already the limit of the country.

However, at this time, a young man named Bai Xiude spoke in the newspaper, "Even Germany, the best ally of the Southwest Special Administrative Region, thinks that this time the resistance of the Nationalist Government will not exceed three months, but I think it will be an extremely long war, for two reasons, since the debut of the Huaxia Gemini, it seems that it has never been defeated, even if the defensive area is lost, but the enemy will pay several times the price of him, I believe that the strength of this general, and that is the information I personally observed in Shanghai, You would never have imagined that their teenage children would dare to go to the front line to deliver ammunition, but can our country do it? ”

The peasants were willing to donate their surplus rations at home, the landlords donated their gold and silver that they could not use, the bosses took their workers to help the government transport supplies, the squires organized volunteers to go to the front, they held either shotguns or old sleeves in their hands, but the singing in their mouths was always the same, that is, the national anthem of the national government, always so moving, so warm.

Although many countries are not optimistic about the Republic of China this time, they have to admit that it is the war that has brought the country to maturity and unity.

The Japanese naval artillery was so terrifying that Liu Yuan decided to show his cards first and organized a cluster bombing of more than 150 B-17 bombers. To this end, Gao Zhihang organized more than 300 fighter escorts. This is already half of the family funds of the Southwest Special Economic Zone, and it is impossible to take out more Southwest Special Economic Zone, so some of the planes are still the legacy of Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army.

The next day, the sky was foggy, and the visibility was very low, Gao Zhihang led a destroyer to fly in the front to guide the planes in the back.

Suddenly, a voice came from the radio station, "Eagle attention, Eagle attention, three o'clock direction, fifteen bean bags, height 2500, azimuth 327 Hearing this news, Gao Zhihang felt that the blood in his body was about to ignite, but he immediately remembered the commander's words, if he was fucking driving a plane to fight, he would help him raise Xiaohong. Xiaohong is said to be a three-hippopotamus brought back by the general from Zhangjiakou, damn how can an air force commander raise horses.

"The eagle calls the bee, and the eagle calls the bee." Gao Zhihang shouted dissatisfiedly.

"Little bee received. Little bees received. Please speak. ”

"The Bee Squadron was responsible for destroying the fifteen potatoes, and the rest of the troops continued to do what was planned. Complete. Gao Zhihang ordered.