"Half a month or even ten days to eat the 22nd and 27th divisions of the Japanese army?" Zhong Yi shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Commander-in-chief, you are really ...... Dare to think and dare to speak! ”

In fact, what Zhong Yi wants to say is that you are really naïve.

But when the words came to his lips, Zhong Yi was replaced by daring to think and dare to speak.

In any case, Bai Chongbei is the commander-in-chief of the theater of operations, and he can't go too far!

"Dare to think and dare to speak?" Bai Chongbei frowned and said, "Ziren, do you think you can't do it?" ”

Zhong Yi shook his head and said, "Commander-in-chief, it's not that you can't do it, but you can't do it at all!" ”

"Why?" Bai Chongbei frowned and said, "In the battle of Xiaogan-Yunwu Mountain, our ten armies completely annihilated four divisions of the Japanese army in less than two days, and in the battle of Dabie Mountain, we had nearly thirty armies, and we couldn't eat two divisions of the Japanese army in half a month?" ”

"It's different!" Zhong Yi said, "The battle of Xiaogan-Yunwu Mountain annihilated four divisions, the remnants of the divisions that were withdrawn from Hankou and Hanyang, were not only exhausted, but also lost all their heavy weapons!" And these two divisions in Dabie Mountain are not only fully staffed divisions, but also have formed heavy equipment! ”

Bai Chongbei said: "But these two divisions are only three-unit garrison divisions, and they can only be regarded as C divisions in the Japanese army's battle sequence, and their combat effectiveness is inferior to those of the 10th and 16th divisions, not just a little bit!" ”

"Even if these two divisions are three-unit garrison divisions, it is absolutely impossible for our army to eat them in half a month!" Zhong Yi walked to the sand table as he spoke, pointed to the sand table and said, "Commander-in-chief, please see, the Japanese army has set up a long snake formation along Guifeng Mountain, Bodao Peak, and Heaven Village to Baimajian, which is a typical step-by-step resistance and resistance, which is not enough to explain the problem?" The devil is going to use these two divisions to lure us into being fooled! ”

Bai Chongbei became impatient again, and said angrily: "Then you just say it, how long will it take?" ”

Zhong Yi stretched out his hand and tapped the sand table lightly, and said: "If external factors are not considered, it will take at least two months before it is possible to trap the 22nd and 27th divisions that have entered the Dabie Mountains to death!" ”

"Two months?!" Bai Chongbei's face darkened.

……

Early in the morning, Okamura Ninji came to Shunroku Hatata's office.

As soon as he entered the door, Okamura Ninji immediately said, "Your Excellency, General, are you looking for me?" ”

Kawabe Shozo next to Toshirokuchi Hata bowed his head slightly, and Kawabe Shozo handed over the telegram in his hand.

After reading it, Okamura Ningji's face immediately became gloomy, because the telegram only said one thing: Zhong Yi actually raised objections to Bai Chongbei and even the national army command!

"Okamura-kun, this is not good news." Hata Junliu said, "Since this Zhong Yi has been from Jin Shanwei, his performance at the military level can be called extraordinary, Bai Chongbei and Chang Someone, as long as they are not idiots, will definitely listen to his opinions carefully, so the fishing plan you envisioned is likely to fail!" ”

Okamura Ninji said in a dark voice: "Your Excellency General, maybe you can make a remedy!" ”

"Remedy?" Shunroku Hata's expression moved, and he asked, "You say, how to remedy it?" ”

Okamura Ningji said in a dark voice: "Your Excellency the General also said just now, Zhong Yi's performance at the military level is extraordinary, so it is basically ineffective to counterattack him from the military level!" ”

Kawabe Shozo's expression moved slightly, and he said, "What does Okamura-kun mean is to fight back from a political level?" ”

"Yes, fight back politically!" Okamura Ninji said in a deep voice, "I can instruct the domestic newspapers to publish a few more articles on the Empire's financial constraints, and it is better to make the draft of Prime Minister Konoe's speech at the Imperial Council public, so as to create the illusion that the Empire's national strength is close to exhaustion and it is no longer capable of launching a larger-scale attack!" ”

"Huh?" Shunroku Hatata's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said, "That's a good idea. ”

Okamura went on to say, "Hasn't the U.S. government decided to abolish the scrap trade agreement with the Empire? This matter can also be taken out to make a fuss, and then when it was previously organized into the Eleventh Army and the Second Army, because there were not enough guns, the matter of using guns to fill the number of teaching guns in military schools was also turned over and exaggerated! ”

"Yo Xi!" "In this way, the high-level officials of China will definitely think that the empire is no longer capable of launching a larger-scale attack, and Bai Chongbei will dare to enter Dabie Mountain with confidence!" ”

"Hello!" Okamura Ninji paused, and said, "The formation of the Twelfth Army also needs to be kept secret, and the mobilization of soldiers should be carried out in the name of exercises, and the transfer to the battlefield should be carried out in the name of changing guards. ”

"Yo Xi!" Shunroku Hata nodded and said, "That's it!" ”

"Your Excellency General, call the base camp here, and maybe catch up with today's evening newspaper!" After Kawabe Shozo finished speaking, he turned around and hurried away.

Seeing the figure of Shozo Riverside go away, Shunroku Hata said again: "Okamura-kun, talk about a game?" ”

Okamura Ninji said happily: "Since Your Excellency the General has this Yaxing, he should be accompanied. ”

"Yo Xi!" Shunroku Hata nodded happily and immediately ordered the guards to set up a chess game.

……

Half a day passed quickly.

In the evening, Principal Chang came to the battle hall of the headquarters again.

This time, President Chang came to attend the staff meeting!

The topic of the meeting was whether the battle plan of Dabie Mountain was canceled? All senior staff members of the High Command are qualified to attend the meeting as observers and can express their views at the meeting.

At the meeting, the two factions had a fierce exchange of opinions and could not hold each other.

One faction of opinions resolutely supported Zhong Yi's judgment, believing that this was the Japanese army fishing, and that the 600,000 elite main forces in the Dabie Mountain Theater must not be risked!

But the other school of thought believes that Zhong Yi is alarmist at all!

Several staff officers who held this opinion even believed that Zhong Yi just didn't want to see that others could win the battle, so he deliberately raised objections, and his heart could be punished!

Listening to the fierce quarrel between the two factions, Principal Chang was also a little hesitant.

On the one hand, Principal Chang felt that the military spirit was available, and now it was really a godsend opportunity to pursue and annihilate the 22nd and 27th divisions of the Japanese army that had entered the Dabie Mountains.

But on the other hand, Principal Chang had great trust in Zhong Yi's military ability, and he felt that there must be a reason why Zhong Yi was so unequivocally opposed to the launch of the Battle of Dabie Mountain.

At this moment, Dai Lian hurriedly walked in.

"Headmaster!" Dai Li walked up to Principal Chang and whispered, "Tokyo's eyeliner report, Japanese Prime Minister Fumihiro Konoe had a quarrel with War Minister Sugiyama Motodai at yesterday's imperial meeting!" The reason is that Japan's finances are already very tight, and in the words of Fumihiro Konoe, if the scale of the war against China continues to be expanded, Japan will go bankrupt! ”

"Oh, really?" Principal Chang suddenly perked up when he heard this, "Yunong, the news is reliable?" ”

"Absolutely." Dai Lidao.