The Battle of Songhu completely broke the Japanese army's attempt to annihilate China in three months, and the war lasted until October, when the Japanese army failed to occupy Shanghai, and the Japanese base camp was extremely angry and decided to support Shanghai again from the five divisions and brigades of Northeast China, North China, the Japanese headquarters, and Korea.

In mid-October, Zhou Zhirou took advantage of Japan's loss of air force intelligence to carry out a large-scale bombing of the Japanese army again, and the 33rd Group Army, under the command of Du Yuming, took Luodian as a breakthrough point and used heavy weapons to carry out a large-scale counterattack on the Luodian battlefield.

The new Gui officers and men who arrived on the battlefield formed an offensive group with the Seventh Army of Steel as the core, and attacked Wusong several times, compressing the entire line of the Japanese army into a small area.

However, Chiang Kai-shek's strategy proved to be wrong, and under the cover of the enemy's naval artillery, the strength of the Nationalist army was bombarded in large numbers, and the Nationalist army had to withdraw from the positions it had just captured, and the battle once again entered the stalemate stage.

Chiang Kai-shek, who had not given blind command on the battlefield for a long time, personally went to the front line to observe the front-line operations and began to make new operational arrangements.

In order to achieve the smooth war, Chiang Kai-shek kept mobilizing elite troops from all over the country into Shanghai, the 8th, 9th, 15th, and 21st group armies entered the battlefield one after another, and made adjustments to the war, the 15th and 19th groups were the left wing corps, Chen Cheng was the commander of the corps, and had 3 corps, the general headquarters of the Jiangfang Army and the general reserve, a total of about 16 divisions, 2 fortress headquarters, 4 independent regiments, and 1 Jiangsu security team.

Zhang Zhizhong finally left, after he left, Zhu Shaoliang served as the commander of the 9th Group Army, and at the same time the Ninth Group Army was the Central Combat Corps, under the jurisdiction of the entire seven armies, 18 divisions, 3 independent brigades, the Songhu Garrison Headquarters, the North Station and Jiangwan under its jurisdiction, Zhang Fakui, the commander of the Right Wing Corps, under the jurisdiction of ten divisions, three independent brigades, the central teaching column, the defensive area south of Suzhou Creek to the north bank of Hangzhou Bay, plus the 33rd Group Army of Du Yuming's just now, the total strength of the Kuomintang reached 80 divisions, and the total strength reached 900,000.

Chiang Kai-shek has never been so beautiful, a million troops, I am excited when I think about it, even Han Xin did not really command more than a million troops, thinking of this, Chiang Kai-shek thought of Liu Yuan again, no wonder that guy dared to have an opinion on himself, what it was like to master hundreds of thousands of troops, it was the same as being on the clouds.

Chiang Kai-shek summoned all the generals to a meeting, but he could not live up to the title of commander.

Among all the generals who participated in the meeting, Du Yuming, the commander of the 33rd Group Army, who had been hidden by Liu Yuanxue for many years, was the most proud.

This is a regiment with completely southwestern characteristics, a reorganized division of 20,000 people, all Garand rifles, all green camouflage, walking on the road, steel helmets are not reflective, when passing through Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek and He Yingqin were startled, Chiang Kai-shek saw with his own eyes, they have a light machine gun in a squad, two submachine guns, unlike other troops, they have hundreds of artillery in a division, each division is equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft guns, green trucks pass by one by one, and rumbling chariots, It's not the kind of potato that the little devil can compare with at all, what kind of equipment is this, he Liu Yuan dared to be generous, and Chiang Kai-shek even believed Du Yuming's words about the failure of heavy weapons to arrive several times.

At the meeting, Chiang Kai-shek said a lot of deployments, Chen Cheng began to announce the adjustment of their left wing group, the 33rd Army Cai Tingkai and the 27th Army took over Luodian's troops for defense, Yu Xuezhong's 15th Army defended the Yuepu position, Xue Yue's 19th Army took over the Dachang position, and the 74th Army entered the west of Suzhou Creek and became a comrade-in-arms with Du Yuming.

As soon as Chen Cheng finished speaking, Chiang Kai-shek was a little uneasy, walked to Du Yuming's side, patted Du Yuming's shoulder and said, "Guangting, I don't worry about Luodian handing over to others, there is the key offensive direction of the Japanese army, Huang Wei and Yu Chengwan are fighting there, there are not many of my students who can fight, I will let you go now." ”

Du Yuming is not the kind of person who talks a lot, he just lowered his head and said, "Principal, rest assured, our soldiers in the southwest region have a heart to serve the country with death, if the position is lost, I, Du Yuming, will be the first to die on the battlefield." Du Yuming's voice was not loud, but it was very penetrating.

"Good, very good." Chiang Kai-shek clapped his hands and said, pressed Du Yuming on the chair, and said with satisfaction and confidence, "Since the Anti-Japanese War, our Third Theater Commander Liu Yuan has given us a good start to contain the invaders in Shanghai for a generation, but we cannot be satisfied with this, we must continue to fight with the Japanese invaders, defeat them, and let the whole world see our strength and determination to fight to the end." ”

Chiang Kai-shek blew it hard, which was a lot of anger for everyone, and when he saw that everyone looked like they were united, he broke up the meeting.

Chiang Kai-shek, who was in a good mood, found a bunch of people gathered in his lounge, Bai Chongxi stood at the front, his face was the worst, he thought that this matter would make the junior say, where he knew that Du Yuming was cold to death, and he couldn't kick a fart with three feet, so he could only go on by himself.

Bai Chongxi said to Chiang Kai-shek, "Chairman, the Japanese ships are strong and the guns are strong, and it is not a matter for us to defend in Shanghai, I still suggest retreating from Shanghai, following the advice of the chief of staff, bringing the Japanese army into our rhythm, and fighting them on the Wufu line." Bai Chongxi also had no way, he didn't know how grim the situation of the war was until he was on the front line, and Bai Chongxi didn't even know what Liu Yuan relied on to fight against the Japanese with so few troops. ”

"Smack!" Chiang Kai-shek slapped the table fiercely and said, "Our ancestors once said that those who offend me will be punished even if they are far away, and I Chiang Kai-shek is incompetent, how can I have you comrades, the Japanese have not yet attacked, you let me retreat, how do you let me explain to the people, how do you let the international community view us, cowards?" Have you ever thought about how the Japanese used to talk to us, and how they talk to us now, if we retreat this time, the Japanese will look down on me again, and I would rather make the soldiers suffer a little more than maintain the dignity of the party-state. Chiang Kai-shek stubbornly said to Bai Chongxi.

Bai Chongxi and Chiang Kai-shek are not in the same system, and they are persuading each other at this moment, which is a good intention, and a sense of responsibility of a chief of staff, and when he sees that Chiang Kai-shek does not listen, he will ignore him, pointing to the international community to help, that is not a dream, what is it.

Just when the atmosphere was extremely awkward, Qian Dajun walked in and said, "Chairman, Guan Linzheng wants to see you." ”

"Oh, look, when you all said no, my student came to ask for war." Chiang Kai-shek glanced at everyone proudly.

Guan Linzheng didn't say much, but said to Chiang Kai-shek, "Headmaster, before Fuguo goes to the southwest, let me tell you that if the Japanese increase their troops, please pay attention to Jin Shanwei." ”