The meeting continued, and Wang Zhenyu kept listening, thinking, and did not speak. The venue gradually quieted down, so quiet that only the sound of Wang Zhenyu's right index finger slowly tapping on the table was heard, and no one dared to remind the handsome, so he just waited.

After I don't know how long it took to do it, Wang Zhenyu suddenly withdrew his right hand, took a deep breath and said: "Brother Jiansheng and Brother Baili's plan to fight the tiger is actually very good, but this time I can't agree, the plan has to be changed." ”

As soon as this remark came out, all four were shocked.

Wang Zhenyu didn't care about the surprised expressions of his subordinates, but chatted according to his own thoughts: "Let's talk about one question at a time, first of all, why do we dare to propose this Northern Expedition?" Can anyone tell me? ”

General Xu Yuanquan, director of the training department and director of education of the Army University, stood up and said: "Report to the marshal, I think it is because we have an invincible youth army. At the same time, the north is in turmoil, the people are struggling to make a living, and the Feng army has nothing to do but poison the people, so we must crusade against them, complete reunification, and build a strong China. This is also your original goal of leading our invincible youth army, Marshal! ”

As soon as he said this, the generals present applauded one after another. Wang Zhenyu glanced at these grandsons, it seems that with the smooth rise of the Youth Army, these grandsons in front of him have begun to take it for granted, and even the slogan of the invincible Youth Army has come out.

Wang Zhenyu couldn't help coughing, and everyone immediately kept quiet, all eyes on the handsome man who brought them victory, glory, power and status.

"I can't say that your views are wrong, if you are just an ordinary youth soldier or junior officer, then your opinion is correct. On the other hand, it seems to me that if you, as a high-ranking military officer, think so, it is not only wrong, but also very dangerous. In fact, the answer is there, his Zhang Zuolin's Fengjun is not to say that it is 700,000, even if it is a team of 1 million people, it will not have half an impact on me Wang Zhenyu. Except for our Minister Dai, who here has never led soldiers to fight? If this is a battle with less than 100 people, there is a high probability that the side with more people will win. And once the scale of more than 1,000 people is compared, it is not the number of people, but the combat effectiveness. Therefore, the speed of Fengjun's pulling of the team does not have a great impact on us, on the contrary, it has a very bad impact on themselves. At least 700,000 Feng troops are the mouths of 700,000 people who want to eat, and the pressure on their logistics and supplies is unimaginable. Therefore, even if we do not actively forge ahead, we will definitely lose the Feng army even if we waste time and play positional warfare with the Feng army. Since Fengjun is not terrible, then what have I been thinking about just now? Who could have guessed? Guess and win! ”

Wang Zhenyu's sudden joke caused a burst of laughter among the generals at the scene, and the atmosphere of the meeting suddenly became much more lively.

Only Bai Chongxi still said with a serious face: "Dashuai, are you worried about the Japanese?!" ”

Wang Zhenyu nodded and said, "That Secretary Chen, go, take out the altar of Moutai in my cabinet, and let Chenhao and them send it to Chief of Staff Bai's car, this is his prize." ”

Everyone laughed again, and even Bai Chongxi couldn't help laughing, and while laughing, he touched his head with some embarrassment, which had begun to show signs of hair loss.

Wang Zhenyu saw Bai Chongxi's action, and added: "Don't touch it, if you touch it again, you will become a monk, go home and talk to your wife, eat some walnuts, black sesame fruits, vegetables, milk, beans, eggs, peanuts, sesame, honey, pork liver." These things can make you not a monk. ”

At this moment, everyone laughed directly, and Wang Zhenyu himself laughed.

After laughing for a while, Wang Zhenyu knocked lightly on the table and said, "Now there is only one question left for everyone to discuss, how to deal with the reaction of the Japanese." To be precise, once we pick up the bong system, what will we do if the Japanese take action? ”

"What are you afraid of? We have won the world powers such as Germany and Austria-Hungary, so do we need to be afraid of countries like Japan? Cheng Qian shouted this sentence very naturally.

"The victory in the Verdun counterattack and the Italian campaign was based on the strong industry of Britain and France, and the war against Japan, our current military industrial production capacity could not be supported, not to mention that we did not have a strong navy like Britain and France. It is not difficult to win a battle, and it is enough to concentrate superior forces, but if you want to feel that you can win a war, it is undoubtedly a fool's dream" and Bai Chongxi, who did not deal with Cheng Qian's defense war during the war, immediately coldly rewarded Cheng Qian with a bucket of cold water.

Cheng Qian's face immediately couldn't be hung up, as a Huxiang faction boss who had just risen in the youth army system, he was about to fight back against Bai Chongxi immediately. However, Wan Yaohuang and Wan General Staff did not plan to give him this opportunity, because the intrigues of the generals below in front of the marshal would affect the image of himself, the general staff, in the eyes of the marshal.

"I won't discuss this point, the marshal said just now, you are all senior generals, so let's focus on analyzing specific issues."

"I'm worried that Japan will send troops directly" Xu Yuanquan, who had studied in Japan, was the first to put forward his own point of view, which immediately made Wang Zhenyu's heart move. In 1928, Japan did accept Zhang Zongchang's invitation to send troops to Jinan when the National Revolutionary Army invaded Shandong, and created the appalling Jinan tragedy, which not only killed the Kuomintang representative Cai Gongshi and others, causing more than 10,000 casualties on the Kuomintang side, but also dealt a heavy blow to Chiang Kai-shek's prestige, which laid the foundation for a series of such as the Central Plains War.

Now let Xu Yuanquan analyze it like this, Wang Zhenyu involuntarily nodded in agreement.

Jiang Baili shook his head and said: "Japan does have the possibility of sending troops directly, but it is not big, after all, we are now with Britain and France and they are all Entente countries, and it is too risky for Japan to send troops directly." ”

Xiong Kewu is just the opposite: "What Brother Baili said is not unreasonable, but the Japanese are a very adventurous people, and many times they can't take it for granted and infer it. Otherwise, the fate of the Beiyang Naval Division back then would be our end. ”……

The atmosphere in the conference room became warm again, and the discussion became more and more intense......

At this time, in a secret conference room of the Guangzhou municipal government, Fang Zhenwu, the head of the Guangzhou terminal of the National Security Bureau, was secretly meeting with Nguyen Thanh Nguyen, the representative of the Vietnamese king to enlighten Nguyen Phuc Chang (the son-in-law of Le Thanh, a wealthy man in southern Vietnam). In a Western restaurant in the French Concession, Zheng Jiemin, a special commissioner of the National Security Bureau, disguised himself as a sympathizer and supporter of the Vietnamese Liberation Movement, and met with a Vietnamese revolutionary named Nguyen Ai Nguyen. It is worth mentioning that this Vietnamese named Nguyen Aiguo is the famous Ho Chi Minh in history, but Ho Chi Minh is not a fighter at all, he is now a nationalist, and like Kim Jiu and others in North Korea, he is looking for thick legs to hold in the Manchurian world, and whoever supports him will believe in anything.

Wang Zhenyu can be said to know about this matter or not to know about it, he just mentioned when he met with Wang Yaqiao alone, like North Korea and Vietnam, the clans of the traditional Chinese border countries still need to be contacted, and it may be useful in the future. Wang Yaqiao immediately understood, and immediately sent his good brother, Fang Zhenwu, who had not been reused because he was captured in Beijing, to Guangzhou to serve as the head of the newly established Guangzhou Station. Colonel Pong Chun Vu also realized that this was an opportunity for his rise again, and after discussing with his subordinates Zheng Jiemin and others, he decided on such a strategy, and at the same time met with representatives of the Vietnamese royal family and civil independence activists.

According to Zheng Jiemin's view, the Vietnamese royal family is obviously decaying and unpopular, but it is precisely this existence that is more valuable and easier for China to control. And emerging forces like Hu Hanmin are also worth investing and supporting, because they are currently better controlled and utilized, while old fritters like Pan Peizhu are already politically mature, and investing in them is likely to be a meat bun and a dog with no return, after all, it is not easy to control.

In the conference room of the Standing Committee building, the controversy had already focused on the issue of relations with Japan, and Li Zongren stood up and said: "No matter what, we should be ready to fight, and I suggest that the 21 field divisions remaining in the country be fully mobilized immediately, and the combat units directly under the provincial military districts, all security forces, and railway troops should be fully mobilized. The navy immediately held the mouth of the Yangtze River, sunk itself if necessary, and built another river defense fortress, in short, not to let the Japanese fleet enter the Yangtze River......"

Li Zongren's suggestion was correct, but it made Ma Xicheng, who was usually silent and silent, unable to sit still: "Brother Delin, if we follow your plan, I am afraid that the pressure on our logistics will be no less than that of the Feng army, and in fact, because our youth army is more dependent on heavy weapons such as artillery and machine guns than the Feng army, our logistics support pressure is likely to be much greater than that of the Feng army." ”

"Yes, so what I mean is still to find a way to use Britain and France to avoid the possibility of Japan entering the war through diplomacy as much as possible, and our combat plan should not be reduced in scale, but on the contrary, we should expand the intensity of the attack to speed up our advance, so that Japan will lose the best opportunity to intervene" Other generals have demanded that the size of the army participating in the war and the scale of the battle be further expanded.

Wang Zhenyu coughed twice again, and everyone quieted down again, and now it was the turn of the marshal to summarize his statement