As the saying goes, "Kill a thousand, lose eight hundred." The Red 15 th Army wiped out 100,000 enemy troops, and its own casualties were only more than 30,000 yuan, which was already very rare, but it was not only the battle that caused the attrition, because it fought five battles in a short period of time, during which it was even the eastern part of the army that had to march in a hurry, with a cumulative journey of more than 500 miles, and there was not even time to sleep in the middle, as a result, the commanders and fighters of the Red 15 th Army were almost exhausted, and those who did not know were afraid that they thought it was a pink eye epidemic when they went to the troops, and even the commanders and fighters were so tired that they vomited blood and even died of exhaustionIn addition, the resistance of the human body has decreased greatly under extreme fatigue, and the number of people who have fallen ill has increased by more than ten times compared with usual, and at this time Su Yu actually wanted to fight another big war, and Hu Weidong also discovered his biggest flaw - he did not cherish the soldiers very much (Note 1), although under the encouragement of the high morale of the consecutive victories, the majority of commanders and fighters gave full play to the fine style of not being afraid of fatigue and fighting continuously, and achieved great victories, but the spirit could not be eaten after all, in case the battle reached a critical moment. The consequences of a sudden large number of commanders and fighters in the army falling could not hold on, and what made Hu Weidong even more worried was that after the Red 15th Army had tried its best to eliminate so many national troops, it found that their enemies had not decreased, but increased

"Xue Yue, Wei Lihuang, and Sun Lianzhong are not easy to deal with, and any of them have more than 100,000 troops, they all made significant contributions in the War of Resistance, if they are defeated now, wouldn't it help the devil?" , Hu Weidong couldn't help frowning, in the previous battles, he was the first to pick those incompetent and timid generals who dragged down the friendly troops in the War of Resistance, which was not only easy to win, but also made a contribution to the future War of Resistance in disguise, but after a long time Hu Weidong found that he did this is tantamount to helping the national army survive the fittest, and the rest are generals who can fight, as for the loss of more than 200,000 soldiers, for the old Jiang who controls half of China, it can be replenished soon (the loss of veterans is a pity, However, the improvement of the tactical level and the survival of the fittest of the generals are enough to make up for it, and most of the national army in the late stage of the Anti-Japanese War in history has been rebuilt several times, but the exchange ratio with the Japanese army is getting better day by day, which is enough to show this point. Therefore, Hu Weidong is tantamount to digging a pit and burying himself

"It seems that the only way to leave Hangzhou is to leave Hangzhou, but fortunately, the most important supplies have been moved," Hu Weidong sighed.

Hu Weidong now knew very well that as long as the Red 15 th Army continued to stay in the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou area, which Lao Chiang valued most, Lao Chiang would definitely regard him as the number one enemy, even surpassing the Central Red Army and local warlords, and that the Red 15 th Army would be completely overwhelmed by the million-strong national army that could not be killed. After abandoning Hangzhou, with the habit of Lao Chiang, a part of the army will definitely be stationed in the army, and the pressure on the Red 15th Army will be somewhat relieved at that time

The situation was better than Hu Weidong expected, probably because he was frightened this time, Lao Jiang actually left most of the 200,000 elite national army led by Xue Yue in the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou area to prevent the Red 15th Army from attacking again. In this way, the national army of the Red 15th Army was left with only Wei Lihuang and Sun Lianzhong, with a total strength of less than 300,000, and the two were slightly inferior compared to Xue Laohu, and the Red 15th Army may not be able to win if it relied on the Soviet area to carry out internal operations, and the Red 15th Army from Su Yu, Mao Zetan, and ordinary soldiers to the Red 15th Army all had high fighting spirits, but Hu Weidong once again showed his extraordinary insight, "It may not be difficult to win, but what if you win?" With our strength, it is absolutely impossible to destroy the enemy at a rate that will keep up with the speed of the enemy's conscription. It's too close to Chiang's damn core to rule that he can bring in a steady stream of troops and consume us alive. Only by jumping the main force to the outside line and pulling the battlefield far away can our army have more opportunities for development. Moreover, politically, it is also much more advantageous for us to go north to resist Japan than to repeatedly entangle with the Kuomintang in the south of the Yangtze River. ”…,

This time Hu Weidong really made up his mind to go north immediately, but having said that, even Su Yu, who has always been bold, was a little afraid of crossing the river, although everyone had not experienced the tragic battle of the Xiangjiang River, but they had all heard of it, and a Xiangjiang River sacrificed more than 40,000 people to cross with difficulty, not to mention the Yangtze River, which is known as the "moat"? Moreover, the number of non-combatants of the 15th Red Army has now surged to 70,000 or 80,000, which will undoubtedly further increase the difficulty of crossing the river. In particular, those scientists are all the baby bumps in Hu Weidong's heart, and they will be abolished if they stay in the Soviet area with poor conditions, but if they are taken away, if one or two are killed by the enemy's planes when crossing the river, Hu Weidong will not be distressed to death? I was bombed by planes on the ship, but I didn't even have a place to hide

After thinking about it, no one has any plan to get ten out of ten, but there is a consensus on one point, that is, to go to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, on the one hand, the upper reaches of the river are narrower, and the speed of passage is much faster, on the other hand, it is far away from the ruling center of Lao Chiang, and the enemy's dispatch is far less flexible and fast than in the Yangtze River Delta, so the Red 15th Army also has the possibility of fighting the time difference. It's just that the non-combatants are not all willing to follow the road obediently, especially some scientists, and their reason is that they do not want to leave the Soviet zone

On the one hand, this is because the high-spirited spirit of the masses in the Soviet area and the honesty and honesty of the party members and cadres have infected those intellectual elites from the national control area, but more importantly, some of them have made achievements here that can only exist in the minds of those who stay in the big cities of the national control area, and for a real scientific and technological worker, treatment and even respect are not as attractive as scientific research results

Of course, the fact that these scientists were able to produce results in the poor Soviet areas was inseparable from their own genius and efforts, but Hu Weidong was absolutely indispensable, although he only put forward some ideas and did not have time to personally participate in scientific research and production, but his contribution was indispensable

Note 1: Lin Zong was diametrically opposed to Su Yu in this regard, in order to kill fewer soldiers, he would rather spend a lot of precious shells, and even spare some enemies; As long as Su Yu can destroy more enemies, he never cares about his own casualties. It is really difficult to say which is right and which is wrong, but at least the subordinates definitely prefer Mr. Lin, and although Su Yu is extremely talented in history, there has always been a Chen Yi who is good at ideological work as the leader, not without reason