Chapter 408: Shouichi Terauchi's vigilance
Qin Wei didn't want to get too stiff with Lu Han, but he couldn't help but stiffen a little.
Lao Jiang watched it in Chongqing. If he had been in harmony with Lu Hanhe here, it would not take him two days, and the director of the Yunnan-Guizhou Pacification Office would probably not have to do anything, and he would have returned to Chongqing to continue to be his air force commander. If that is the case, what awaits him is only to go abroad after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. But he really didn't want to go down this path. It's not easy to live under the fence, and just based on the things he did before, even if it just leaks a little bit of news, I'm afraid that someone will settle accounts with him. He needs a strong enough force to defend himself. And out of selfishness, he hopes to be self-centered, just like the Qin family in the later generations that Gu Changjun revealed to him.
Therefore, he can only maintain a relationship with Lu Han that does not like each other.
It's a conspiracy, a very simple, sometimes complicated thing.
As for the administrative reform plan, it is just something that he made up when he was idle and bored not long after he first arrived in Chongqing, borrowing some of the contents of the relatively mature administrative system in the 21st century, combined with some of his own views, which Gu Changjun called "four dislikes". He doesn't care if Lu Han does what he does, and if he doesn't do it anyway, he has nothing to lose, and if he does, it won't be worse than now. He was now more concerned about the progress of that battle, and that was the focus of the whole plan in his mind.
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"When did this intel come about?"
Nanking!
Shouichi Terauchi is waiting for his "most reluctant" day. He had already received news that Tu Feiyuan had been ordered to retire, and the above was also looking for a replacement for him...... In other words, he, the commander of the Chinese dispatch army, can be regarded as the leader. It was nothing, he had expected it. But the base camp didn't plan to leave him a little dignity at all, and even the dispatch army knew the news. Those who used to be respectful to him have now begun to disobey him. even passed on his small words behind his back, which made him, who had always been arrogant, feel extremely angry. But there was nothing he could do. In Japan, a general who has lost a battle is not qualified to say anything, not to mention that he has been defeated more than once. Moreover, according to the practice of the Japanese army, the head of the army, that is, the supreme leader, should generally bear the responsibility for defeat, but this time the base camp first got rid of the soil and fertilizer before removing him...... Tu Feiyuan is the chief of the general staff of the dispatch army, and according to convention, he does not need to bear any responsibility for those defeats, on the contrary, he will be the number one candidate to succeed him. But now everything is reversed...... There are rumors within the dispatch army that this is the ghost he made in it. Deliberately used Tu Feiyuan as a scapegoat.
God pity! Although he had that kind of thought, he never put it into action, right?
Originally, I thought that with Ishihara Waner's plan of "snipe and clam fighting, fishermen benefiting", some lost points should be recovered. Unexpectedly, the Chinese was even more desperate, and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China moved to Outer Mongolia all of a sudden...... Now it's all right. The Kuomintang was much more relaxed all of a sudden. After Hu Zongnan took over part of northern Shaanxi, the vast majority of his forces began to press on Shanxi again. Ran over Yoshio Shinozuka's 1st Army. As a result, North China immediately fell into a tense situation. Tada Jun of the North China Front could only withdraw the men and horses originally sent to support Okabe Naosaburo, and on the one hand, he insisted on holding on to various key passes, and on the other hand, nervously waited for the possible storm. As for the possible infighting between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party...... Not to mention the door, you can't even see the window. Because the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) went to Outer Mongolia and established the "Khalkha Anti-Japanese Base Area," it immediately began to draw elite soldiers and strong generals from their major anti-Japanese base areas. It is said that more than 20,000 people will be taken out of the regular army alone, and as for the families of other party members, political cadres, guerrillas, and many ordinary people in the rural areas, the total number is said to be more than 100,000 or 200,000. This means that the CCP's power in North China will be greatly reduced. It was too late for the Kuomintang to be happy, so how could it take the initiative to provoke at this juncture? What's more, provoking the Communist Party is secondary, and making the Chinese people shameless is also secondary, and the Kuomintang on the Soviet side cannot afford to provoke it for the time being.
It can be said that his days are not as good as the day. But the house leak happened to be rainy, and I was worried about how to solve the dilemma in front of me, and there was information again - the third war zone of the Kuomintang was secretly building an airport in Zhejiang and Fujian!
"It's Qin Wei! Chinese Air Force! Yes definitely! ”
Shouichi Terauchi seemed to be a cat whose tail was grabbed, and he exploded all at once...... It's all the Air Force, it's all that Qin Wei! If it weren't for that guy, if it weren't for the Chinese Air Force led by that guy, how would he have fallen to the point where he is today? Unexpectedly, that guy not only didn't know how to accept it when he saw it, but he also kicked his nose in the face, and found an opportunity to hit the door.
"Zhejiang-Fujian? Where exactly? ”
Terauchi Shou turned into a wind-like man in an instant, and with a "swish", he was already standing in front of the map of China on the wall.
"Mainly in the mountainous areas of northern Fujian and some places in central and southern Zhejiang, there are more than a dozen airports under construction. According to our intelligence, China's 3rd Theater of Operations allocated a lot of supplies for this! "Succeeded Kenji Dohihara was the former commander of the Japanese 21st Army, Mikiro Furujo. This man contributed a lot to the Japanese army's campaign to capture Guangzhou, because he led the army to land at Daya Bay, took the Chinese army by surprise, and caused Yu Hanmou and Wu Tiecheng, who were in charge of Guangdong affairs, to flee in embarrassment, causing Guangzhou to fall quickly. As a result, he was promoted to the rank of army general, and was able to assume the post of chief of the general staff of the Chinese Dispatch Army after his resignation in Tohihara.
"Northern Fujian and south-central Zhejiang?" Hearing Kojo Kanro's report, Terauchi Shouichi's fingers quickly swiped in these two areas, but no matter how he swiped around, he couldn't find the point, which made him more and more impatient: "What does this guy want to do?" ”
"Your Excellency, the General Staff has already made a judgment on this and has drawn up a plan." Furuso Kanro looked down on Shouichi Terauchi's panicked performance. As the supreme commander of the Chinese Dispatch Army, it is simply unimaginable that he would be afraid of the Chinese and nervous because of the actions of the Chinese. This is not to mention, after taking over from Tu Feiyuan, he conducted a thorough survey of the entire Chinese dispatch army, and found that the morale of the dispatch army was extremely low, especially the troops in South China and Central China, and they had no confidence in victory in the face of the Chinese army. However, Terauchi Toshiichi, as commander, was helpless against this situation, allowing all kinds of rumors and factors that were unfavorable to morale to run rampant among the army at all levels...... He was extremely angry about this, and completely lost the slightest reverence for this once extremely domineering land minister. Even after the news of Shouichi Terauchi being dismissed came out, he began to secretly take over the affairs of the entire dispatch army. Now, he simply said bluntly in front of Terauchi Shouichi that the staff he led had made a response to the actions of the Chinese army...... What does that mean? In other words, the commander of Terauchi Shouichi was the last to know the news of the high-ranking members of the dispatch army.
"Planning?"
Shouichi Terauchi was stunned for a moment. It's been a long time since anyone dared to provoke him like this, even if he was no longer the original land minister, even if he had been defeated many times in succession, no one had ever dared to challenge his authority. Therefore, Guzhuang Ganlang's words made him a little unable to react for a while...... According to the general procedure, shouldn't the General Staff draw up a contingency plan after he has given the order? But seeing Guzhuang Ganlang's expressionless face, he quickly understood...... Finally, some people began to stop taking him as a commander in their eyes! That's how losers are treated? In this case, if he had followed his previous temper, he would have immediately and forcefully demanded that the base camp remove Guzhuang Ganlang and send another obedient and sensible chief of staff. But now he no longer has this ability, and to his surprise, he found that he was not angry, not even as impatient and nervous as he was just now, on the contrary, he felt that he had a little more schadenfreude in his heart:
"What's your plan?"
"The General Staff believes that this is the intention of the Chinese to take advantage of the decisive battle between the empire and the Soviet Union in Siberia to recapture the strategic place of Nanchang!" Guzhuang Ganlang was still expressionless.
"Nanchang?" Shouichi Terauchi glanced at the map, "It's really close!" If Chinese really has this plan, he will not only be able to obtain air supremacy in Nanchang nearby, but also be able to mobilize nearly one million troops in the Ninth and Third Theaters nearby, and will also be able to cooperate with the Fifth Theater to carry out a devastating blow to our troops along the Yangtze River, and even use air superiority to cut off the water and land ties between Wuhan and Nanjing...... At that time, whether it is to retake Wuhan to the west or to threaten Nanjing to the east, it will not be too difficult to ask them. ”
"The commander was right. But you think too highly of the Chinese. Guzhuang Ganlang snorted coldly, "Even if they can retake Nanchang, they can only face the flanking attack of our troops on both sides in Wuhan and Nanjing, not Wuhan and Nanjing, which threaten us." ”
"Makes sense." Shouichi Terauchi did not argue, "But I don't understand one thing: if they just want to retake Nanchang, why should the Chinese build so many airports for Nanchang?" Do they need so many planes? Transporting troops? But with their ninth and third theaters alone, they could muster enough troops; In order to initiate air support nearby? Nanchang is not far from Changsha, they can take off in Changsha, so it will not delay the battle, why should they consume so many materials in vain? ”
"But apart from Nanchang, where else can they attack? Where is it worth such a big investment? Guzhuang Ganlang didn't give an inch, "Your Excellency Commander, I see that you have been a little too nervous by several tricks by the Chinese!" ”
"It's better to be nervous than to be negligent. And one of the most important lessons I've learned from fighting Chinese so many times is not just looking at the surface of the other side's actions. Terauchi Shouichi looked coldly at his new chief of staff, "Gu Zhuang-kun, look at the map...... Don't you think that although northern Fujian and central and southern Zhejiang are the closest to Nanchang, if you take the two regions as the center and the combat radius of the Chinese Air Force as the radius, this area is a bit big? (To be continued......)