The Battle of Taierzhuang greatly stimulated the nerves of the Japanese Empire, and Emperor Hirohito then convened an emergency meeting. Through this meeting, Emperor Hirohito and the Japanese army headquarters changed their original intentions: the Japanese invaders no longer cared about strategic depth and dispersion, and believed that the Japanese army must immediately try to defeat the Chinese army in order to restore the reputation of the "invincible imperial army". Hirohito immediately decided: quickly send a large-scale increase of troops to Huaxia, launch a larger attack, and vow to avenge the fiasco of Taierzhuang!

After the victory of Taierzhuang, he was naturally rewarded for meritorious deeds, and after some bargaining, Jiang Qiang won a first-class Baoding Medal and won the rank of second-class general! The center of the Baoding Medal is Baoding, surrounded by light, Ding is the treasure of our country in ancient times, symbolizing the winner of this chapter, the meritorious service of defending the country, the country cherishes such as Ding, and the light of honor is shining. This chapter was promulgated on May 15, the 18th year of the Republic of China, divided into 1 to 9 classes, awarded to soldiers who defended foreign aggression or suppressed civil strife, and had meritorious military achievements.

The Nanjing government has six kinds of general medals of the three services, the first place: the National Light Medal, the second place: the Blue Sky and White Sun Medal, the third place: the Baoding Medal, the fourth place: the Yunlu Medal, the fifth place: the Medal of Loyalty and Bravery, and the sixth place: the Medal of Loyalty! It stands to reason that Jiang Qiang's performance in the Battle of Taierzhuang, even if he won the Order of the Blue Sky and the White Sun and even the Order of National Glory, is not excessive, but Jiang Qiang did not pay too much attention to this, but only emphasized the rank of "second-class general"! Because the so-called improper name is not good, the current national government is the mainstream and orthodox, so the name that should be demanded must be demanded.

As for why Jiang Qiang can bargain, it is because the chairman still has something to ask for, not only does he need Jiang Qiang to continue to garrison Shandong to keep the Japanese army in his throat, but he also wants to send personnel to the Jiaodong area to receive pilot training! More importantly, the chairman wants to buy some planes, tanks and other luxury equipment from Jiang Qiang, among which there are shadows of the Americans and the Soviet Union! Although Jiang Qiang has always kept a low profile and has done enough confidential homework on the weapons and equipment of the super era, after all, paper can't hold the fire, and many things will continue to leak out!

After all, others are not stupid, even if some high-tech cannot be imitated now, but if the United States and the Soviet Union have weapons and equipment such as Mustang fighters, Pershing tanks, Tiger tanks, bazookas, assault rifles, etc., they can greatly reduce the research and launch process! Jiang Qiang did not refuse pilot training, but Jiang Qiang did not agree to the weapons and equipment, because it was not time to release it, so he had to let himself have more advanced weapons and equipment!

Even in the era of peace in the future, no country will sell the most advanced weapons and equipment in service to other countries! Not only is it afraid that the other party will crack and imitate, but also that the other party will carry out targeted attacks after mastering the performance weaknesses! Therefore, Jiang Qiang will not sell these heavy weapons easily, even if he gives more money, otherwise it will be easy to lift a stone and shoot himself in the foot!

The victory of the Chinese army in Linyi, Taierzhuang and other places greatly stimulated the chairman's desire to win, and in order to expand the results of the battle, the chairman adopted the policy of-for-tat confrontation with the Japanese army! As early as the beginning of March, the chairman of the National People's Congress successively mobilized a large number of troops from various theaters, with the result that the strength of the Fifth Theater increased from 29 divisions to 64 divisions and three brigades.

Later, the chairman of the committee also placed the elite descendants of the First Army, the Eighth Army, the Twenty-seventh Army, the Seventy-fourth Army, and the Seventy-eighth Army in eastern Henan, trying to fight the Japanese army in Xuzhou! Li Zongren was very worried about this and was not optimistic about the situation.

Because Xuzhou is surrounded by plains, there is no danger to defend, the Japanese army is a mechanized force, and there is an air force to help the war, in Xuzhou and the Japanese army decisive battle, our army will suffer a big loss. Proceeding from the strategic idea of a protracted war of attrition, Li Zongren believed that it was extremely stupid to conduct a positional war of attrition with the Japanese army in the Xuzhou area, and advocated the evacuation of Xuzhou!

However, Li Zongren's proposal was rejected, and he could only immediately deploy the Battle of Xuzhou according to the order! On March 14, just after the Battle of Taierzhuang ended, the Japanese front-line commander telegraphed to the base camp: There is a powerful group of Chinese troops gathered in the Xuzhou area, and according to reliable intelligence, the group includes about 50 divisions and more than 600,000 people, most of which are the elite troops of Chairman Chiang!

The Japanese military department was immediately ecstatic, unanimously believing that this was a rare opportunity to avenge the revenge of Taierzhuang, and the Minister of War Sugiyama Mototo immediately reported to the Japanese Emperor Hirohito, strongly advocating the launch of the Battle of Xuzhou and the encirclement and annihilation of the elite of the Chinese army in the Xuzhou area! After reading the report, Hirohito was immediately excited: "Encircle and annihilate the Chinese army in the Xuzhou area, and not let a single Chinese army of 50 divisions slip through the net, so as to annihilate them all!" ”

"Commander Jiang and Commander Sun, you have worked hard these days! On behalf of the party-state and 40,000,000 compatriots, I would like to pay high tribute to you! "The Battle of Taierzhuang came to an end, and Jiang Qiang finally met with Li Zongren." Ha ha! Everyone is responsible for defending the land during the War of Resistance, and there is no hard work! However, Chief Li worked very hard to plan the layout, if it weren't for Chief Li setting up such a big situation for the Japanese army to plant a big heel, we little shrimp could only stare dryly! ”

Jiang Qiang was in a very good mood and began to talk, and after a while, he returned to the truth and said: "Sir Li, with all due respect, the Xuzhou area is no longer in danger to defend, and our army is now suffering heavy casualties and continues to rest!" So in the near future, I will lead my troops back to the defense area to hold on! Of course, if Chief Li is determined to fight the Japanese army in Xuzhou for a life-and-death decisive battle, I will lead my troops to come to the aid at that time! ”

Even if he didn't know the trend of history, just from the current situation, Jiang Qiang knew that the Japanese army, which had suffered a big loss, would definitely fight back wildly, and the Xuzhou area did not have enough time and place to defend it! Jiang Qiang will never engage in senseless decisive battles and attrition, he has an extremely complete defense system on his territory, even if the little devil tries his best, don't want to take advantage!

"Then thank you Commander Jiang! Hopefully, we will have more opportunities to fight together in the future! Li Zongren sighed lightly in his heart, how could he not judge it this way, but Shangfeng had to obey it! At this time, Li Zongren couldn't help but envy Jiang Qiang's freedom and independence, he could completely develop and strategically layout according to his own intentions, and it felt good not to be constrained!

"That's for sure, as long as the little devils are still wreaking havoc in our country, we will always fight side by side! To be honest, to be able to kill the enemy together with Chief Li, Commander Sun, and all the brothers, I feel supremely honored and lucky! Jiang Qiang lowered his head, his expression was extremely sincere, no matter what the position of the two sides would be in the future, but at least now everyone is a comrade in the same trench!

To be able to participate in this historic Taierzhuang victory, and to be able to fight side by side with these historical generals, Jiang Qiang was not only moved and excited, but also full of pride! "Commander Jiang's words have gone to our hearts!" "That's right, the green mountains don't change the green water for a long time, we will have a period later!" Sun Lianzhong, Tian Zhennan and others showed gratitude, looking reluctant,

This time, they and Jiang Qiang jointly assisted in the defense of Taierzhuang, which can be said to have benefited a lot, not only reduced casualties a lot, but also learned a lot of advanced tactics, and also obtained a lot of medicines, munitions and advanced weapons and equipment from the Jiaodong Group Army! Of course, Jiang Qiang did not make a loss-making transaction, and the merits of the Japanese army killed by the Second Army in the process of assisting in defense were all attributed to himself, and Jiang Qiang also airlifted thousands of seriously wounded soldiers to the Jiaodong area in the name of rescue!

It only takes two or three months to recuperate, and these seriously wounded soldiers will become veterans of a hundred battles in their own troops, a proper fortune! "Haha, take care, everyone! In the future, kill a few more little devils to avenge the sacrificed brothers and compatriots! Since it was decided to retreat to the defense area to hold on, Jiang Qiang did not delay too much, so he began to lead his troops north to return to the Jiaodong area on the morning of March 17! As the stalls grew bigger and bigger, not only did more weapons and equipment be needed for the armed forces, but the consumption of all kinds of materials became astronomical, especially oil, rubber and artillery shells!

Therefore, in addition to continuing to accumulate wealth and recruit troops, the top priority is to take down Dongying as soon as possible, establish a self-sufficient oil industry chain, and deepen the military industry chain! Sitting and looking back, Hu Zi still read unsatisfied: "Boss, let's really go back like this?" Hehe, I've just found some feeling in the past two days! "The head of the guard regiment of the nominal headquarters, Huzi has no chance to go to the battlefield, so in the past few days, the counteroffensive sweep has had a good time, and he personally led the team to exterminate several small units of the Japanese army!

At the same time, Huzi has also seen too many tragedies, the little devils who are desperate are fleeing in all directions, but almost all the village farmers who encounter them are slaughtered! Jiang Qiang smiled and said, "Let's go, the devil is already crazy!" Soon we will fight hard to increase the troops, and we are not all the way with them, so it is appropriate to go home and defend at this time! ”

Just as Sun Tzu said in the Art of War: "The major affairs of the country of soldiers, the place of death and life, and the way of survival must not be ignored", we must pay attention to the right time, place and people in war, otherwise we will have to play bad sooner or later. After completing the task of defending and blocking the Jiaodong Group Army, which sent troops to Feixian, Tengxian and Linyi, they have returned to the garrison area one after another, and Jiang Qiang is the last group of troops to return!

After the Chinese army won a great victory in Taierzhuang, the Battle of Xuzhou continued. Tang Enbo's regiment surrounded each other with the Japanese army in the areas of Lincheng, Zaozhuang, Yixian, Beizhuang, and Gucheng, and it had become a stalemate. The Japanese reinforcements went north and had many fierce battles with the national troops intercepted along the way, and there was also a Japanese army in Lianyungang that put on a landing posture to threaten and contain Sun Lianzhong's group army and Zhang Zizhong's 59th army!

In addition, the Japanese army also urgently airdropped a large number of munitions and materials to Donghai County, which made the thousands of remnants of the Japanese army guarding the East China Sea even more crazy. When Jiang Qiang led his troops back to Gaomi, it was already noon on March 18, needless to say, there would naturally be an extremely jubilant and grand welcome ceremony, as well as an extremely warm reunion family reunion after a long absence!

"Everyone, be quiet! I have a few words I would like to share with you! In this bloody battle with the Japanese army in Taierzhuang, although we paid a heavy price for casualties, everything was worth it! After some passing scenes, Jiang Qiang stood on the podium, first spoke a few words about the aftermath, and then read aloud the carefully prepared anti-Japanese war text into the microphone:

Since Pangu opened the sky, the three emperors set the country, and the five emperors opened the territory, all the major events of the country, the man should worship and sacrifice the country, that is, the bones are spilled into mounds and rivers of blood, and the land of the country should not be humiliated, and the territory of the country should not be lost. Soldier, clothed with liver and gall, general, parasitic blade, handsome, full of lance and blood, king, sharp blade glow. We have no elders and youngers, no noble and low, we will work together to pour the water of the Yellow River, break the waves of the East China Sea, conquer the land of Hulu, exterminate the cave of the Japanese slaves, beg for the deception of our cowards, and kill the barbarians. Ren, corpses are all over the field! Only, the spirit can be relied on! "Down with Little Japan!" "Give me back the rivers and mountains!" "Huaxia will win!" "Long live the Asian Liberation Army!"

This article full of pride and righteousness, magnificent momentum and vigorous fighting spirit won the applause of the audience in an instant, and the enthusiasm of the soldiers and civilians present soared to a new peak! On the field, all the soldiers and civilians raised their arms and shouted, and soon this article of the Anti-Japanese War was widely disseminated through news newspapers and radio stations, and Jiang Qiang took advantage of this to once again swipe a wave of prestige!

Early the next morning, Jiang Qiang got up, although the big war came to an end temporarily, but there were still many development and business tasks! After Jiang Qiang went out, he drove directly to the headquarters to hold a military summary meeting, focusing on a detailed summary of the battle losses, achievements, achievements, and strategies and tactics of the Japanese army in the past month! The battle lasted more than 20 days from February 24 when it took the initiative to reinforce the Pang Regiment in Feixian County, and the total number of casualties of the Jiaodong Group Army was 2,483, and 3,780 were seriously injured, of which 1,423 were disabled due to injuries!

In addition, 2 fighters, 9 tanks, and 241 artillery pieces of various types were lost! The result of the battle was that the number of Japanese troops annihilated was 31,347, and 89 Japanese fighters, 142 large and small tanks, and 324 artillery pieces of various types were shot down! Of course, a large part of it was created together with friendly forces, but as long as the Jiaodong Group Army got a little bit of edge,

Otherwise, the data would not be so accurate! Although the number of casualties and attrition is nearly 4,000, the fresh blood absorbed these days is as high as more than 9,600 people, including 4,417 abducted friendly troops, more than 5,100 recruits, and the Jiaodong Group Army not only did not attrition for more than 20 days, but increased by more than 5,600 people, which is equivalent to two more regiments!

At the same time, the population of the Jiaodong Group Army has increased by more than 80,000 people, most of whom are ordinary people who have fled the war from other places, and there are many aspiring and enthusiastic young people who come here! "We have indeed achieved a lot of results, and our own strength is constantly improving, but this is far from enough! I know that everyone has worked hard recently, so you can take a proper rest and adjust your state, but the work that needs to be done must not be left behind, especially the several work resolutions formed at today's meeting must be implemented as soon as possible!

Finally, it is the old saying: the revolution has not yet succeeded, comrades still need to work hard, and we still have a long way to go! That's the end of today's meeting, and I won't leave you for dinner! Meeting! The military summary meeting lasted for a whole day, and it was not until it was almost dark in the afternoon that Jiang Qiang ended the meeting and asked everyone to go back to their homes to find their mothers.

With the Jiaodong Group Army all returning to defense and vigorously developing indecently, the Japanese army, which had been gnawing hard bones for a long time and repeatedly frustrated, seemed to have lost interest, and began to adopt a war strategy of changing to encirclement but not attacking the area under the jurisdiction of the Jiaodong Group Army! As a result, the Jiaodong region, Gaomi, Jiaoxian, Zhucheng and other places have once again entered a "period of peaceful development", and Jiang Qiang's focus has also shifted to military training and internal affairs construction!

However, in the Xuzhou area, the fighting between the enemy and us is becoming more and more intense! After capturing Tengxian and Feixian, the Japanese army was blocked by the Jiaodong Group Army for two days, and after the former 20th Division and the 5th Division rested for a week to replenish their troops, they began to continue to attack south to Zaozhuang, Yixian, and Taierzhuang!

Beginning on March 20, the activities of Japanese planes over Taierzhuang began to become frequent, and the Japanese Fifth Division moved south to attack Lincheng, and fierce battles broke out inside and outside the city. At dusk, the defenders, after a bloody battle, finally repelled the enemy troops, restored their original positions, and then took advantage of the victory to pursue and stabilize the situation again. On the morning of March 21, Chen Bui led the team to Qixia County again, this time in addition to 50 prospective pilots who came for training, there were also 3 officials of the Republic of China and more than 20 escorts!

In addition, Chen Bui also brought his most beloved youngest daughter Chen Lian! Chen Lian is 18 years old, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he was taken by Chen Bui to Chongqing Hechuan to attend high school, during which he has become an underground party member, but for some reason he followed Chen Bui to Qixia County this time!

"Director Chen, there is a good saying that the villain comes first and then the gentleman, we have already talked about the basic principles before, but many details need to be further discussed!" Jiang Qiang met Chen Bui and his entourage in the county magistrate's office, and after a long period of greetings and conversations, Jiang Qiang went straight to the point and said: "Director Chen, you have been tired all the way, you should have taken the wind and washed the dust first, and then talked about business!" But I'm a person who is more anxious, if it's convenient for Director Chen now, I want to make things clear first! ”

Chen Bui nodded and smiled: "I came here to be a heavy responsibility, so naturally the sooner I implement it, the better!" Commander Jiang is doing things vigorously and resolutely, and we can't wait for it, so what's inconvenient? "In these difficult times, every minute counts!" "Well, it's better to get down to business first!" "Yes! Oh, yes! ”

The other three officials of the Republic of China nodded again and again, although they were a little tired, but they were not in the way, but if they could implement the details and report to the committee as soon as possible, they would show the glorious image of themselves and others who worked tirelessly, were capable and talented! "That's good! I'll get straight to the point! ”

Jiang Qiang nodded lightly, and then said: "Now there are three main details that need to be finalized: first, the issue of pilots' living expenses and training fees, second, the purchase price of weapons, and third, the relevant confidentiality system!" Chen Bui raised his eyebrows slightly, nodded and smiled: "Commander Jiang, I don't know if you have a specific plan?" If so, might as well talk about it first? "Good! Then I'll throw bricks and lead the way! ”

Jiang Qiang was not polite, and casually took out a document from the briefcase on the table and handed it to Chen Bui and said: "As a pilot, you must have a strong physique, which requires that nutrition must keep up, and to put it in layman's terms, you must eat well!"

In addition, training pilots also requires a lot of resources, and the gasoline consumed alone is not a small amount, so to sum up, if it is according to the training standards of our army's Flying Tigers, the living expenses are 500 silver dollars per month, and the training fee is 1500 silver dollars, totaling 2000 silver dollars per month! "Ahem, ahem! What? 2,000 silver dollars per person per month? Chen Bui, who had just taken over the paper, couldn't help but shudder, and looked at Jiang Qiang with wide eyes, hoping that this was just a joke that wasn't funny! No way? "2,000 silver dollars a month?" "Doesn't that mean that the basic cost of 50 people a month is as high as 100,000 silver dollars?"

The other three were also frightened, and the tea bowl in their hands almost fell to the ground! "Well, you heard it right, and I didn't say it wrong!" However, Jiang Qiang's sincerity cast a confirmed look at Chen Bui! No wonder Chen Bui and others were shocked, it is really difficult for people to accept that each person is basically as high as 2,000 silver dollars a month, you must know that the monthly salary of the chairman is only 800 yuan, and the monthly salary of Shanghai workers is about 220 yuan, and it is very good that the people at the bottom can earn 10 oceans a month!

"Ahem, ahem!" Chen Bui shook his head again and again and said, "Commander Jiang, I'm afraid this won't work, it's too expensive!" Far exceeded our expectations! Jiang Qiang smiled solemnly: "Director Chen, don't be in a hurry to deny it first!" The so-called penny is worth everything, I really don't have a lion to open his mouth, you first look at the daily food list of our pilots! ”

"Each person is provided with 250ml of energy drinks, 550 grams of meat (beef, sheep, pig, chicken, fish), 4 eggs, 620 grams of vegetables, 310 grams of potatoes, 60 grams of dried vegetables, 380 grams of flour, 300 grams of refined rice, 60 grams of lard, 180 grams of sugar, 15 grams of salt, 340 grams of fruits, 30 grams of peanuts, 12 grams of tea and other spices!" "Wow, the pilot's food is so good?"

"However, it's not worth 500 oceans a month?"

Chen Bui, Li Qinghong and others took a closer look, this food ration was really luxurious, not to mention ordinary people, even their officials and important members were not so high-valued.

But after careful calculation, except for inexpensive energy drinks and special Burmese rice, other daily meals will not exceed 3 oceans a day, where can I use 16 oceans a day? Jiang Qiang patiently explained: "Ordinary daily necessities don't cost a lot of money, and the most expensive ones are energy drinks and Burmese rice!" This is a good thing that can't be bought with money outside, and after taking it, it can greatly improve physical fitness and physical function, and can control the fighter more excellently, and exert unexpected combat effectiveness! ”

"Really?" "Even if it was, it would be too expensive!" "That's really not going to work! 2,000 yuan a month per person, it's scary! ”

Chen Bui, Li Qinghong and others stared at Yang Fan with a face full of disbelief, this price greatly exceeded their budget, and they couldn't accept it for a while! "It doesn't matter, seeing is believing, hearing is false! I can take you to the site for a visit in a moment, and you will understand what it means to sharpen a knife and cut wood! Jiang Qiang didn't continue to dwell on this, but then took out a list of weapons with color maps and basic performance of weapons and said: "Look at this again, there are mainly planes and tanks, which are the mainstream equipment in the current world, and they are definitely more advanced and powerful than those in small Japan!" If you need it, I can find a way to get some back! "Although we can't sell the most advanced tanks and planes we use now, there are still a lot of tanks and planes in the Hongkou area, and you can make a little money by paying first and specifying a new delivery location.