Chapter 13: Changing Guards (55)

Just when everyone was focusing on the Japanese in the distant Pacific Ocean, on December 24, the 11th Army of Central China Anan led the army to the Xinqiang River again, and Mo Di, who stayed in Mabu, was once again shocked by the madness of the Japanese, and sincerely sighed that not only the Japanese on the eastern island were crazy, but also the Japanese in Chinese mainland.

"The soldiers will block, the water will flood, as long as the Japanese army dares to come, they will be crushed to death in the Liuyang River." Xue Yue in Changsha had long been prepared, full of ambition, and laughed out loud, and there was no lack of viciousness in the laughter; at the same time, over China, Xue Yue's Chinese flavor of Lechang in Guangdong resounded: "Wait for the battle, swear to annihilate the Japanese army." In October, the smoke of the Second Changsha War was extinguished, and only two months later, the curtain of the Third Changsha War will be opened again.

It was clear that the general direction of the Japanese army this time was determined to be Changsha again, and the leaders of the 21st Group Army in Mabu invariably breathed a sigh of relief, and put down the heavy burden of thousands of catties on their heads. The previous No. 575 Continental Order, the spearhead was directed at Dabie Mountain, which really scared the decision-making level of the 21st Group Army out of a cold sweat!

"Today, we have the last meeting, and the agenda of the meeting is to discuss the purpose of the Japanese attack on Hunan Province, how to resist it, have dinner after the meeting, and return to their respective units tomorrow." On the afternoon of 24 December, a small meeting was being held in the combat conference room of the Seventh Army in Mabu, which was presided over by Xu Qiming.

Li Pinxian and Zhang Yichun, together with the personnel of the group army headquarters such as Wei Yongcheng, returned to Lihuang on 8 December, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. On 8 December, the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang decided to declare war on Japan, Germany, and Italy, and the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia. The Netherlands, Free France, Haiti, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Greece, Costa Rica and other countries declared war on Japan. Almost all Chinese believe that the Germans attacking the Soviet Union and the Japanese attacking the United States are completely grasshoppers shaking the tree, which is ridiculous. This shows that imperialism has been in a frenzied self-aggrandizement, to the point of losing its correct judgment, and this is the beginning of defeat. With the United States joining the war, China will quickly struggle out of the quagmire of war and meet the imminent victory. The masses in various parts of the country were excited, and a rally and procession attended by 50,000 people was held in Kunming, which was so great that it could use slogans to drive the Japanese out of the taste of the Pacific Ocean.

However, professionals could not blindly obey and be credulous like the people, but carried out a comprehensive analysis, and the leaders of the three armed forces of the 21st Group Army in Mabu began to analyze from a professional perspective the gains and losses of the Japanese army's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the pulling of the United States into the water. Discuss the purpose of the Japanese army opening a new front on the Great Plains, and whether this act brought China an opportunity to win the war or go further into the abyss. If it is an opportunity, how can the Chinese battlefield be seized, and if it is an abyss, how can it be avoided. The Chinese battlefield is becoming more and more difficult, mainly because of the extreme shortage of materials, the German-style equipment of the Central Army carries less ammunition than the local army using Japanese-style captured weapons, and international aid can only be achieved through a chicken-intestine Yunnan-Burma road, and even the function of blood transfusion cannot be achieved. Around these issues, the conference room of the Seventh Army in Mabu was filled with smoke, and everyone expressed their opinions and opinions. In order to avoid the smoke in the house, Mo Di found a position near the door, opened a crack in the door, and let the cold wind outside blow in, which backfired, even if the cold wind was biting, it could not dilute the smoke in the house, but froze himself enough.

Zhang Guangwei sat by the door with Mo Di, chatting about the content outside the theme of the meeting, knowing that because of this meeting, Mo Di's marriage was delayed, Zhang Guangwei smiled and said, he deserved it, and he didn't tell me if he asked his wife. Mo Di said with a wry smile, I also want to tell you, the problem is that the communication is not smooth, it is inconvenient to say, you can't let me notify you in the military telegraph! Zhang Guangwei laughed, that is to tell the world, asked the woman some questions, age, appearance, personality, family, etc., concerned about asking if the money for Mo Di's marriage is enough, if it is not enough, the brothers will make up for it. Mo Di told Zhang Guangwei that the money was not enough, but too much. Since it was separated from the wild supplement group, it made an economic end with the wild supplement group. Although Luo Wei's work is not very atmospheric, it is very crisp, and he mobilized a large amount of money to buy out all the interests that should belong to Mo Di, so that when Mo Di went to Tongcheng, he brought a lot of cash and packed two full boxes in a camphor wood box. There were no banks in Tongcheng, and there were banks in Anqing in the past, but after the outbreak of the war, the banks of Britain, France and the United States withdrew, leaving only the sales department of Japan's Daiichi Bank. Depositing money in a Japanese bank is a pimple in my heart, and I am not insured, but it is even more inconvenient to carry a large amount of cash with me, so I asked Zhang Guangwei if there was any way to solve it. Zhang Guangwei asked how much, Mo Di said a number, Zhang Guangwei gasped, this amount is not small, almost the entire army of the 84th Army for two months, at present, this little brother is not ordinary rich, but quite rich. Zhang Guangwei thought about it, sent someone to Tongcheng, escorted Modi's idle expenses to the mall, and at the same time told the Guangxi Military Government to deposit the corresponding expenses into Modi's designated account in Guangxi. Mo Di nodded lightly, if it can be handled like this, it is the best, as for the account, there are ready-made, when he was the battalion commander in Guilin, let his younger brother Mo Yongxin in Guilin to follow Zhang Yongfa's boss Zhang Xiangpu to do business, in the past few years, he has been successful in his studies, and he has opened a five-state grain and oil store on Zhongzheng Road on the west side of Guilin Cross Street, and has an account number of Guangxi Provincial Bank.

The meeting did not come up with any name, nor did it plan to discuss any results, day after day under the chairmanship of Xu Qiming. Everyone has one purpose, that is, to wait together and wait for the Japanese to truly implement the 575th continental order. If the Japanese Continental Order No. 575 is not fulfilled for a day, it will be like a sharp sword hanging over the head of the 21st Group Army, which can be dropped anytime and anywhere.

On December 15, the Ninth Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee of the Kuomintang opened in Chongqing, and the commanders and deputy commanders of all armies returned to their stations. Only the chiefs of staff of the various armies and the staff of the staff offices remained in Mabu. After a week of discussions, the discussion of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has come to an end, and there are two opinions on the occurrence of the incident, one is that this is not an isolated operation, but a unified deployment and arrangement of the Axis powers to conquer the world, and a follow-up deepening of the German army's military action against the Soviet Union. Another view is that this incident was entirely a conspiracy of the Americans, a deliberate attempt to allow the Japanese to sneak attack, a bitter ploy by Roosevelt, a reason for the Americans to take the initiative to enter the war, and a big move to deal with the isolationist ideology in the United States. Mo Di belongs to the latter, his attitude is very clear, even if the Japanese are crazy, they are not crazy to such a point, this is definitely a conspiracy of the Americans, the Americans saw the actions of the Japanese in Southeast Asia and Australia, worried about losing their vested interests in these places, so they induced the Japanese army to sneak attack, in front of the world to play a bullied image of the bitter master, and at the same time to condense the fighting spirit of the countrymen, the so-called mourning soldiers will win.

In any case, there is no doubt that the Americans are drawn into the whirlpool of war, and with the participation of the Americans in the war, the pressure on the Chinese battlefield has been greatly reduced, which is always a good thing for the Chinese army, which is already overwhelmed.

In the next 10 days, under the leadership of Xu Qiming, the meeting summed up the combat situation in the Dabie Mountain area this year. This kind of summary requires a large amount of data collection, and for a while, it makes chickens and dogs jump. In this year, the biggest change was that the Chinese Military Commission abolished the structure of the 11th Group Army and merged the 84th Army into the 21st Group Army. The 84th Army and the Seventh Army basically did not fight with the Japanese, but they fought with the New Fourth Army, and in January there was an extermination incident in southern Anhui, and the northern Anhui and Hubei-Henan-Anhui regions were also carrying out all-out purges, and Mo Shujie of the 84th Army and Li Xiannian of the Red Army fought many times, and they won and lost each other. It's just that these are difficult to appear, the only thing that can be mentioned is the two volleys that happened in Lujiang, one is to intercept Li Shigui, one is to intercept Shen Xilin, two battles, although the main force is the 138th Division, but the real victory is the 176th Division Field Supplement Regiment. Fortunately, now Luo Wei's field supplement regiment is directly under the 48th Army, otherwise, it will really make the 138th Division lose face. This summary commended the 48th Army Field Supplement Regiment and applied for the third-class Baoding Medal for Modi. As the leader of the field supplement regiment at that time, Mo Di was named by Xu Qiming and asked to make a report on the battle situation, so Mo Di stayed on the rostrum for half a day as the spokesman of the meeting.

The meeting time is getting shorter and shorter, the rest time is getting longer and longer, Mo Di has nothing to do, and he borrowed a horse and went to Osmanthus King Village to pay tribute to the Osmanthus King who once gave him a lot of insights. I haven't seen it for a few years, the thousand-year-old osmanthus tree is still the same, but the mood is different, and the osmanthus tree in front of it has become completely different, although it is already the end of December, the osmanthus king is still full of vitality. Mo Di knew that he still had half a year to be on this land, and after half a year, he would return to Guilin for supplementary training, and no one knew if he would be able to return here after supplementary training. But one thing is clear, after his supplementary training is over, he will declare to the Interpretation Hall for promotion to the rank of major general, and with his achievements in the past few years, there should be no accidents. Life is proud, the winter wind is also warm, although osmanthus is not the flowering season, it still reveals the fragrance of the tree.

Just when the group of people who stayed in Mabu had nothing to do and began to play cards and drink every day, Yueyang's Ah Wei Nanji finally made a move. At 14 o'clock on December 24, the 236th, 235th, and 234th Wings of the Japanese Army forcibly crossed the Xinqiang River and launched a comprehensive attack on Tongxi Street, Xinqiang Town, where the 134th Division of the 20th Army of the National Army was stationed, and the battle was fully launched.

In the past few days, it has become more and more obvious that the Japanese army will launch an offensive in northern Hunan in the area of the Xinqiang River. Soon after the meeting, Xu Qiming introduced the battle situation in Changsha and the deployment of both sides, and once again named the invincible name: "Tianzong, as far as I know, the second battle of Changsha in September was only because you gave your old classmates a move, and finally fermented into a huge battle plan. This time, the Japanese army attacked Changsha again, and I don't know what unique insights and views Director Mo has. ”

Yang Zanmo, chief of staff of the 48th Army, and Ma Bacui, chief of staff of the 7th Army, picked up Mo Di from left to right, walked to the podium, and sat Mo Di on the main podium.

Mo Di stayed on the podium for a while, and said one thing: As long as the old routine of September is followed, this Japanese army will still come and go, but I don't know if General Xue Boling will get carried away and come up with some new tactics. Chen Kairong, chief of staff of the Seventh Army, asked, according to Director Mo, it is difficult to win by being conservative, but it is difficult to win with innovation? Mo Di nodded and said: Xinqiang River, Miluo River, Laodao River, Liuyang River are still the same, if according to the last time, it is not bad to defend in turn by river, if you can defend in turn, and finally in the valley between Laodao River and Liuyang River, with heavy troops, or more effective. Xu Qiming's eyes widened and asked: Tianzong means that the three rivers on the river are false attacks, so that the Japanese army thinks that we are the same as last time, and as a result, the valley between the Laodao River and the Liuyang River turned the virtual into reality, wonderful! I immediately reported to the Chief of the General Staff, Bai.

Seeing Xu Qiming hurriedly walked out, the rest of the people suddenly became a basin of loose sand, Mo Di stood up from the chairman's seat and asked: Brothers, is the meeting over.

Everyone laughed, stood up one after another, and walked out of the conference room, where the wine and food had already been served in the officer's canteen.

Loose meals, not drunk.