After Liu Dagu escorted people down, Gao Shenxing, Li Zihan and Shu Tongwen walked out of the room one after another.

Shu Tongwen said gratefully: "Captain, xiexie, I know that you are doing this to drag down the 5th Army and reduce the pressure on the main force of the New Fourth Army, but if you do this, it is easy to put the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army in southern Anhui in danger." ”

Li Zihan looked complicated, and also said: "Yes, Lao Xu, you really shouldn't have detained Zhang Wenqing, something big will happen." ”

Zhang Wenqing is the commander of the first army, a senior general of the national army, and his identity is not trivial, no matter what, the anti-Japanese salvation army in southern Anhui at least nominally belongs to the sequence of the national army, and Xu 19 detains his colleagues without authorization, which is very bad in nature.

Moreover, Xu Shijiu still suppressed Zhang Wenqing because of his help to the New Fourth Army, which was especially intolerable to Chairman Jiang, and Li Zihan could imagine how angry Chairman Jiang and Gu Zhutong would be when they knew the news

If nothing else, when the main force of the New Fourth Army is resolved, Gu Zhutong should go all out to deal with the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army in southern Anhui

And when the time comes, he Li Zihan will be sandwiched between the anti-Japanese salvation army in southern Anhui and the party-state, in a dilemma, and he is not a person inside and out.

Xu Shijiu waved his hand and said lightly: "Everyone has already been detained, what's the point of talking about this?" However, I want to see what Shangguan Yunxiang and Gu Zhutong can do with me? Send troops over again? It's really not that I underestimate them, like the army, there are 100,000 people, and our anti-Japanese National Salvation Army in southern Anhui is not afraid at all, just a group of rabble. ”

After a pause, Xu Shijiu continued: "I'm just worried, even with our help, the main force of the New Fourth Army may not be able to break through the encirclement and interception of the First Group Army, when Xiang Ying chose to go to Maolin and Ningguo to southern Jiangsu, it was really his mistake, if he had taken Qingyang, and then crossed the river between Guichi and Tongling and retreated north, it would have been possible to cross the Yangtze River, alas." ”

Shu Tongwen also sighed, his eyes were gloomy, there were indeed two different opinions on the route of the transfer, some commanders led by Ye Ting did propose to find an opportunity to cross the river from Guichi and Tongling, but unfortunately, in the end, it was Xiang Ying's opinion that prevailed, and then caused today's tragedy.

If you had gone to Qingyang and then looked for an opportunity to cross the river from Guichi and Tongling, where would there be today's situation.

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"What did you just say?" Gu Zhutong looked at Huang Baitao in surprise and said in disbelief, "Xu Shijiu suppressed Zhang Wenqing? ”

"It's not just Zhang Wenqing, but also Zhan Zhongyan and Tang Yunshan" Huang Baitao replied with a wry smile, to be honest, when he first received the telegram from Shangguan Yunxiang, Huang Baitao couldn't believe it, no matter how bold Xu Shijiu was, no matter how reckless he was, he wouldn't dare to be so nonsense, right? But soon, Huang Baitao realized that Shangguan Yunxiang could never be stupid enough to frame Xu Shijiu in this matter, because it was easy to prove.

Realizing this, Huang Baitao didn't even bother to verify it, so he came directly to report to Gu Zhutong.

"What, Zhan Zhongyan and Tang Yunshan were also detained by Xu Shijiu?" Gu Zhutong was angry when he heard this, but he was even more worried, Zhang Wenqing, Zhan Zhongyan and Tang Yunshan were detained, and the three commanders of the First Army were all out of position, didn't it mean that the three divisions of the First Army had lost their effective command?

At this time, Gu Zhutong didn't dare to transfer the general to the bee cave.

Otherwise, as soon as the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army in southern Anhui was pressed, the first army would collapse directly.

Huang Baitao knew what Gu Zhutong was worried about, so he shook his head and said, "Boss, Xu Shijiu shouldn't be so bad." ”

Although he had never met with Xu 19, nor had he had direct communication with Xu 19, based on the information held by the 3rd Theater Commander's Department, Huang Baitao dared to assert that Xu 19 would never take this opportunity to attack the 5th Army.

Because if Xu Shijiu did this, he would be spurned and scolded by thousands of people.

As the leader of the national government, Chairman Chiang must be cautious and cautious when it comes to the New Fourth Army, lest it provoke domestic boiling and international criticism.

What's more, in terms of Xu Shijiu's previous performances, he doesn't look like a villain who falls into a well and takes advantage of people's danger

Of course, Xu Shijiu would not blatantly attack the first army, but small actions behind the scenes were inevitable.

"Won't you do this?" Gu Zhutong didn't think so, and retorted coldly, "Chief of Staff, you think too highly of him, right?" ”

Huang Baitao closed his mouth and refused to say more, in the final analysis, Huang Baitao's background is not good enough, neither the Baoding Military Academy Department, nor the Huangpu Department, after arriving in the third war zone, he has always been cautious and kept a low profile, just now he spoke a fair word for Xu Shijiu, which caused Gu Zhutong's cold eyes, so that he would not be stupid and continue to argue for Xu Shijiu, and he did not owe Xu Shijiu favors.

Gu Zhutong pondered for a moment and said, "In this way, let Tian Zhongyi's Xinpei enter Jing County immediately and control the situation first."

Like the vast majority of generals of the Nationalist Army, Gu Zhutong has always had a grudge against the Sichuan Army, and after the New Fourth Army withdrew from Yunling, it stands to reason that the 23rd Group Army should be taken over by Tang Shizun's 23rd Group Army nearby, because the territory controlled by the 23rd Group Army is too small to support too many soldiers at all, but Gu Zhutong would rather transfer the reserve division of the First Group Army from western Zhejiang than give up the territory to the Sichuan Army.

In the final analysis, Gu Zhutong, Chen Cheng and others are Chairman Chiang's confidants, and their thoughts are the same as Chairman Chiang's, they all regard the Sichuan Army as their opponents, so they want to weaken the Sichuan Army through the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and will never give the Sichuan Army a chance to grow.

"Yes" Huang Baitao agreed and turned around.

After Huang Baitao left, Gu Zhutong picked up the hot water bottle from the table and slammed it on the ground, the hot water bottle shattered with a bang, and the boiling water splashed on the ground, and it also splashed on Gu Zhutong's trousers, which made him bare his teeth, and then he became more and more annoyed, and flew up and kicked on the shell of the hot water bottle, kicking the bamboo shell and smashing it directly on the wall.

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Huang Baitao guessed very accurately, Xu Shijiu never thought of taking advantage of the opportunity of the first army losing effective command to attack the first army, because this time, the nature immediately changed, and the matter of detaining Zhang Wenqing, Zhan Zhongyan and Tang Yunshan can actually be big or small, and the initiative is also in the hands of Xu Shijiu, but if the anti-Japanese salvation army in southern Anhui takes the initiative to attack the first army, it will be different.

Chairman Jiang dared to lay a black hand on the New Fourth Army because he was the leader of the national government, and he could brazenly and reversely say that the New Fourth Army was a rebel army, so he would fight and fight, and at most he would be scolded by the entire Chinese people, but if Xu 19 dared to attack the First Army, then the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army in Southern Anhui would immediately become a real rebel army, and when Chairman Jiang transferred troops to fight the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army in Southern Anhui, he would stand on the moral high ground.

Although Xu Jiu doesn't like to participate in politics, it doesn't mean that he doesn't even have the most basic political vision.

But then again, Xu Shijiu would not be stupid enough to take the initiative to attack the First Army, and he would not be stupid enough to take the initiative to give the moral commanding heights to Chairman Jiang, but it also did not mean that he would obediently wait in Yunling and do nothing, just wait for Gu Zhutong to clean up the New Fourth Army first, and then go back to clean up his Southern Anhui Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army.

Faced with the discouraged army and the first army, which had lost its effective command, Shu Tongwen gave Xu 19 a good idea.

It is not possible to directly do anything to the first army, but military means will not work, it does not mean that political means will not work, yes, most of the officers and men of the first army are strong men who have just been caught, and they cannot read a few big words, and naturally they cannot understand any big truths, but if you conclude that they have no consciousness, then you are wrong, and they are very wrong.

Lao Mao insisted on taking the rural line, if the vast number of poor and middle peasants really had no consciousness, how could the revolution succeed?

In the final analysis, no matter how big the truth is, it is not as big as the truth of filling the stomach, to make the vast number of poor and middle peasants ideologically conscious, you have to make their stomachs awake, you have to make them believe that they can fill their stomachs and have a good life by following the party, and they believe this, that is, they are completely conscious, and it is precisely because the people of the whole country have realized that the eight million Jiang troops have been wiped out, and Jiang has run away from Taiwan with his bald head.

Shu Tongwen's idea for Xu Shijiu was to dig the corners of the First Army and not use military means to achieve the goal of weakening the First Army and strengthening the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army in southern Anhui.