Hangzhou, Zhejiang. At the headquarters of the South China Front, Matsui Ishine was standing straight listening to the reprimand of Shunroku Hatata, the commander of the Chinese Dispatch Army.

In the original time and space of Ouyang Yun, the establishment of the Japanese Army's China Dispatch Army Headquarters was in September 39, and the commander was Nishio Shouzo. At this time, because of the policy changes brought about by the negotiations between the Japanese government and the Nationalist government for the so-called peaceful settlement of the "China incident", the headquarters stepped onto the stage of history ahead of schedule, and the commander was chosen to be Shunroku Hatata. At that time, Shunroku Hatahata had a chance to replace him because Matsui Ishine concocted the Nanjing Massacre that shocked the world when he was the commander of the Central China Front. In this time and space, he can become the commander of the Central China Front and further become the commander of the Chinese dispatch army, which is related to two reasons. Unlike those blindly radical Japanese officers, Shunroku Hata had a more rational understanding of the Chinese war situation, supported the cabinet's proposal for a peaceful settlement of the "China incident", and strongly advocated that the current situation on the battlefield in China should not be changed through war. It was precisely because he was consistent with the current China policy of the base camp, and because the Central China Front supported by Matsui Ishine suffered a great defeat in the Battle of Nanjing, that he first replaced Matsui Ishine and was immediately appointed commander of the Chinese Dispatch Army. What Shunroku Hata is now doing with all his might is to use the achievements of the North China Front in the northwest to deter Mongolia, with a view to establishing a puppet regime similar to that of puppet Manchuria in the northwest. His idea was that once the northwest was stabilized, the North China Front would be able to borrow strength from the Kwantung Army and then point to Wuhan, thus forming a north-south confrontation with the Chinese army and promoting the effective peace talks. After the peace talks take effect, they should concentrate on managing the occupied areas and making them an imperial boost. After that, it's time to solve the Cadet Army.

As one of the most upper-ranking generals in the Japanese Army, Shunroku Hata was qualified to know all the truths about the war of aggression against China, so he was clear about the defeat of the Japanese army in China. The successive defeats of the Japanese army at the hands of the warlord army of the Xuebing Army made Shunroku Hatatake impressed with this new army, and spent a lot of time and energy studying the Second Battle of the Great Wall and the Battle of Nanjing.

As an artilleryist, Shunroku Hata had great respect for artillery, so when he summed up the reasons for the defeat of the Japanese army in these two battles, he paid special attention to the role of artillery on both sides. It is believed that it was precisely because of the unparalleled superiority of the self-propelled guns of the Cadet Army that the defeat of the Japanese army was caused. He immediately came to the conclusion that it was not impossible for the empire to solve the student army as soon as possible, but it would cost too much, so it was extremely unwise to launch the Minyue Qiong Raiders before the cannon technique was improved.

There is a clear difference between Shunroku Hatata's attitude towards the student army and the base camp, which makes Matsui Ishine, who is caught in it, not a person. The Japanese base camp gave Matsui Ishine an order to actively prepare for war and be ready to attack Fujian at any time, but the instructions given by Shunroku Hatake were to defend steadily, to avoid actively provoking the student army while digesting the occupied areas, and even to shrink the defense line to a limited extent when the student army was advancing, so as to cause paralysis of its high-level thinking.

In the habitual thinking of the Japanese, they believe that they must be the attacker, and the Chinese army must only be passively defensive. Therefore, when the news of the simultaneous attack on Xiaoshan, Quzhou, and Ningbo airports reached the ears of Hata Junroku, he subconsciously thought that this was because Matsui Shigen did not listen to his orders and took the initiative to provoke and attack Fujian, which attracted the retaliation of the student army.

"What do those people in the cabinet know? What else are they capable of besides talking on paper and fighting each other? It is extremely unwise to start a war with the student army before the occupied area has been completely digested and absorbed, and what will fail in the early stage of the Battle of Xuzhou? The stubborn resistance of the Chinese army was certainly the main reason, but there were two other points that those in the War Ministry did not understand. The artillery of the Chinese people is sharp, especially the self-propelled artillery units to which the Cadet Corps belongs, and its high flexibility ensures its own survivability while giving our army a heavy blow; Also, the threat of those people of China being in a group is huge! What is the most terrible thing about the country of China? It's the population, 400 million people! If so many people were to form a group, with the current strength of the Empire, there would be no way to carry the war through to the end......"

Shunroku Hata was spilling saliva wantonly on the other end of the phone, and the more he spoke, the more sober he felt, and the more he talked, the more angry he became, as if the bombing of the three airfields was caused by Matsui Ishone's incompetence.

Speaking of which, Matsui Ishine is actually a predecessor of Shunroku Hatata, who is different from the background of other senior generals of the Japanese army, he did not study in the army school since he was a child, and before he became the commander of the Chinese Dispatch Army, he was looked down upon by Matsui, who claimed to be from an orthodox background. It's a three-point temperament, and listening to his tone getting more and more severe, Matsui Ishone, who was already robbed of his position as the commander of the dispatch army by Shunroku Hata's horizontal knife, became angry in his heart, and suddenly put the phone on hold! Putting aside Shunroku Hatata's phone, Matsui Ishine was still angry, and scolded angrily: "Hachigayaru, Shunroku Hata is a bastard, how great does he think he is? Is his current status won by his record? Eight grids, is the Cadet Army invincible? Ouyang Yun, a bastard, has repeatedly succeeded before, but it was just luck, this time in Ningbo, he was not a loser. Come on, ask Takeda Zang to send me the captured pilots to Nanjing! I'm going to slap Shunroku Hata hard with the facts, this guy who can only talk big! ”

Takeda Zang was the commander of the Ningbo airfield, and because of his "effective command", he smashed the air raids of the people of China and inflicted heavy losses on them, and now he has become a banner in the hands of Matsui Ishone.

Matsui Ishone's personal adjutant Takakura Kenhui was picking up the phone to call Ningbo Airport when another phone rang. Matsui Shigen gasped twice, adjusted his mood and grabbed the phone: "Hey, I'm Matsui, the commander of the South China Front-" Before he finished speaking, he was stunned, his mouth was so open, but the muscles on his face involuntarily spasmed.

After Takakura Kenhui finished conveying the order to Takeda Zang, he put down the phone and looked at the commander, and couldn't help but be startled when he saw him like this, and quickly asked, "Your Excellency, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Poof!" Matsui Ishine first sat on the chair with his ass, and then suddenly jumped up like a spring on his buttocks, put the microphone to his mouth and shouted: "Defend it, defend it for me, I will immediately mobilize reinforcements!" He hung up the phone, and just as he was thinking about it, the phone rang again. He could only pick up the phone again, listen, first "um", and then his face, which was originally ruddy because of the outburst just now, immediately turned the color of pig liver, and he roared angrily: "Bage, how can you allow this kind of thing to happen?" Are you a pig? Why do we have to put all the heavy artillery together, we are fighting in the land of China, and any one of them can be our enemy, and they will inform their army of everything they know about the road...... "Matsui Ishine's curse lasted more than five minutes.

When he hung up the phone and was panting heavily, Kenkyo Takakura hurriedly took out blood pressure medication from the drawer and handed him two tablets, held him a teacup, and asked anxiously, "Your Excellency, what happened?" ”

"The Shina have launched a ground attack! The two wings of the 8th Independent Brigade were surrounded in Yingtan and Guangrao, and the people of China were all mechanized marches, and the speed was extremely fast, and Mizuhara Yoshishige did not react at all. The artillery requisition of Qingshi Town in Quzhou suffered an air raid, and the 13th Artillery Wing suffered heavy losses, and if my expectations are correct, it is time for the Zhina people to attack Quzhou.

"Ahh Takakura Kenhui was stupid, and then he asked a stupid question: "Is the Shina going to launch a counterattack?" ”

Matsui Ishine swallowed the blood pressure medicine with a gloomy face, and said, "They should have learned that we are negotiating with the Shina government, and this is to take advantage of the fact that our army has not yet completed the build-up to strike at it preemptively. Takakura, we must not lose this battle, if the 8th Independent Brigade is destroyed, do you know how serious the consequences will be? Without waiting for Takakura's answer, he continued: "In that case, once the matter of the peace talks is exposed, the Shina government will inevitably come under more pressure as a result, which will only lead to the breakdown of the peace talks." ”

"Your Excellency, what shall we do now? The 8th Separate Brigade is in danger, we? ”

"The most important thing we need to do now is to contact all the troops on the front line and let them get the information at all costs. First of all, we had to find out whether this was a separate operation of the Cadet Corps against the 8th Independent Brigade, or a larger offensive. Let's go to the communications office, and I'm going to report to the base camp immediately and ask for the support of naval aviation. Without air supremacy, we will be completely passive......"

Matsui reported to the base camp not only to seek the support of naval aviation to seize air supremacy on the battlefield, but also to think of a way to rescue the 8th Independent Brigade. It's just that the method is too vicious and seriously violates the Geneva Treaty, and he doesn't dare to bear its responsibility alone, so he kicked this hot potato to Seishiro Itagaki in the base camp.

In the Japanese military circles, Seishiro Itagaki has always been known for his boldness, and the so-called Ishihara's position Itagaki has been recognized by the Japanese army. Matsui Ishone's hand can be said to have just grabbed Itagaki's itchy flesh. As he wished, Itagaki decided the matter without even consulting with the others, and in a telegram sent to Matsui Ishone, he said: At a time when peace talks are about to be reached, maintaining the South China Front is of great significance to the coercion of the Cadet Army, and any means are worth trying.

Matsui was overjoyed to receive this telegram and immediately asked the communications agency to regenerate the power of Mizuhara Yoshi, and he gave him the clever plan he had come up with. Then, he ordered Suzuki Shimono by phone and asked him to personally lead the 58th and 104th Wings to Guangrao, and be sure to open the communication line from Quzhou to Guangrao.