When Zhao Wenzhao walked into the Wuhan camp hall, the press conference had not yet begun, but the hall was already crowded with reporters from Western countries in Han, but there were not many Chinese media reporters, because many reporters were still on the way back to Wuhan urgently, and the press conference was specially postponed for half a day for this.

Although none of the officials of the Nationalist Government have yet to show up, and Chairman Chiang has not been seen, this does not affect the media reporters who have already attended the scene to discuss the victory of Wanjialing.

As soon as Zhao Wenzhao walked into the hall, Fan Changjiang, a Ta Kung Pao reporter who was familiar with him, greeted him with joy.

Fan Changjiang was an outstanding social activist and journalist in modern China, who spent ten months traveling through the northwestern provinces, giving a great deal of serial reports on the poverty of the northwestern provinces and the Red Army's Long March, which caused great repercussions at the time, and the book "The Northwest Corner of China" compiled from this series of reports was also a bestseller.

Because Fan Changjiang's coverage of the Red Army's Long March was relatively objective, fair, and open, he won the favor of the Communist Party, and his contacts with the Communist Party were relatively frequent.

"Brother Wen Zhao, you didn't leave?"

"Brother Changjiang, didn't you leave either?"

The two opened their arms and embraced, unable to hide the joy between their eyebrows.

As a matter of fact, not only Chinese reporters like Fan Changjiang and Zhao Wenzhao are overjoyed, but even many Western reporters are sincerely happy, to put it nicely, these Western reporters are naturally full of the spirit of internationalism and full of sympathy for China's arduous War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

There has never been a free lunch on this shijie, no country, any nation, can not really selflessly treat another nation, another country, even after the founding of New China, the red Soviet Union's aid to China is also planned, its main intention is to control China through aid, so that China becomes a satellite country of the Soviet Union, but the CCP is unwilling to become a branch of the CPSU, especially Chairman Mao is impossible to accept the control of the CPSU, so the two countries soon became enemies, After that, the Soviet Union withdrew its experts and forced China to repay its debts, and the previous friendship was lost.

This was true of the Soviet Union, which was in the same socialist camp, not to mention the Western powers.

However, the current situation is different; now that little Japan is the dominant power in the Far East, and the Western powers are deeply contained by Germany in Europe, they have no time to take care of Asia, and the Western reporters who stand on their own stand naturally hope that the Nationalist army will be able to dampen the arrogance of the Japanese army and make little Japan's attempt to quickly annihilate China come to naught.

To put it bluntly, this has nothing to do with humanitarianism, let alone bullshit international friendship, it is all a liar, and there is always only a naked exchange of interests between countries.

The two came to the corner, and Fan Changjiang asked, "Wen Zhao, are you going to De'an?" ”

"Dean?" Zhao Wenzhao was stunned for a moment, and asked rhetorically, "You want to go to De'an?" ”

Fan Changjiang nodded, and said solemnly: "Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, the national government will organize a condolence group to go to De'an, and I plan to follow, first, to pay tribute to the officers and soldiers of the national army on the battlefields of Jiujiang and De'an, and secondly, I also want to verify the number of enemies killed on the battlefield of De'an. ”

Fan Changjiang's words obviously refer to the great victory of Taierzhuang.

It is undeniable that the victory of Taierzhuang is the first victory on the frontal battlefield of resistance against Japan, whether it is the number of enemies killed, the number of prisoners or the materials captured, there are unprecedented, in comparison, the victory of Pingxingguan is insignificant, the victory of Pingxingguan is not even a great victory in the real sense, the L15th Division of the Eighth Route Army just ambushed a small Japanese baggage team, only because the national army was continuously defeated, so the battle of Pingxingguan became the highlight of the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, In order to boost the determination and morale of the military and people throughout the country to resist the war, the Nationalist Government could only pinch its nose and hype it up, calling it a great victory at Pingxingguan.

The victory of Taierzhuang is the first great victory of the national army on the frontal battlefield, which is genuine, but there is actually water in the number of enemies killed, the first battle of Taierzhuang, Sun Lianzhong's group army did hit the small Japanese Seya detachment, and captured a lot, the small Japan discarded a lot of baggage when it was defeated, but the number of killed enemies was actually only more than 1,000 people, not the official hype of killing more than 10,000 enemies, in fact, the entire Seya detachment was less than 10,000 people, Taierzhuang really wanted to kill more than 10,000 enemies, and the Seya detachment was directly annihilated, And where is there any breakthrough?

The Seya detachment was able to recover quickly because the wounded officers and soldiers quickly recovered and returned to the unit.

Of course, if the entire Battle of Xuzhou is counted, the number of enemies killed is indeed more than 10,000, but if calculated in this way, the number of enemies killed in the Battle of Songhu is even more, reaching more than 30,000 people, but is this a great victory? Of course not, the Songhu Warring States Army lost, the so-called great victory, you have to control the battlefield after the battle.

Therefore, Fan Changjiang didn't believe much in the figure of more than 10,000 killed enemies reported by Xue Yue's Corps, he preferred to believe that this was just an opportunity for the Nationalist Government to publicize it, of course he would not jump out to question Xue Yue's Corps at this time, but it did not mean that he would give up the exploration of the truth, so he wanted to go to De'an for an on-the-spot interview.

I have to say that the media people of this era are still very responsible, unlike the media people of later generations, who can be said to have no discipline and no bottom line, and dare to talk nonsense on the Internet under the guise of public knowledge, completely ignoring how many young people who are not deeply involved in the world will be misled by their remarks, and they do not know how bad the impact of their actions will be.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to go." Although Zhao Wenzhao also wanted to go, there was still a big mess in Wuhan waiting for him to deal with, but when it came to going to De'an, Zhao Wenzhao remembered something, and immediately took out a letter from his briefcase and handed it to Fan Changjiang, and advised, "Brother Changjiang, please do me a favor and forward this letter to Captain Xu of the 19th Independent Brigade of the 58th Division." ”

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Since many reporters were still on their way back to Wuhan, the press conference had to be postponed, but Chairman Chiang was not idle, taking advantage of this short gap, he had already roughly understood the beginning and end of the victory at Wanjialing through the radio waves, and heard that Xue Yue's corps failed to achieve the tactical goal of completely annihilating the 10th Pei Regiment of the small Japanese, but let Junrokuro Matsuura and hundreds of other people break through, and he felt regretful in his heart, but soon Chairman Chiang left this little regret behind.

On the one hand, he was happy that the Nationalist Army had finally won a decent victory on the frontal battlefield, but on the other hand, this victory was won by Li Zongren, an old opponent, commanding hundreds of thousands of miscellaneous troops, which made Chairman Jiang feel quite uncomfortable.

But now, the great victory of Wanjialing is a great victory won by the Central Army

Although Xue Yue was not a student of Whampoa of Chairman Chiang, he was also a general of the Central Military System

What particularly excited Chairman Chiang was that the 5th Pei, which he had always pinned high hopes on, played a vital role in the victory of Wanjialing, and you must know that Wang Yaowu was appointed by Chairman Chiang to serve as the deputy commander of the 74th Army, and Yu Jishi was resolutely opposed at the beginning, but in the end Chairman Chiang still chose Wang Yaowu.

And Wang Yaowu finally did not disappoint Chairman Chiang, and repaid Chairman Chiang with a hearty victory.

"Wang Yaowu, what a Wang Yaowu" Chairman Jiang was agitated, and he proudly said to Chen Cheng, the commander-in-chief of the Ninth Theater who had just arrived, "At the beginning, Liangzhen also told me that Wang Yaowu was not as good as Feng Shengfa, but I didn't believe it, no, Wang Yaowu immediately proved to the people with an unprecedented victory that he was capable of being the commander of the 74th Army." ”