As soon as Wang Ching-wei's telegram was issued, the whole country was in an uproar, and all circles throughout the country criticized Wang Ching-wei's traitorous acts, the chairman of the NPC Standing Committee openly refuted Wang Ching-wei's remarks, and the central authorities expelled Wang Ching-wei from the party and all public posts.

It should be noted here that Wang Jingwei's telegram is called "Yan Dian", and the Yan character does not refer to Wang Jingwei's telegram to flattering the Japanese, but to the date on which the telegram was sent.

At that time, the telegraph was charged a higher fee due to the complexity of the technical means, and it was generally charged according to the number of words, so at the end of the Qing Dynasty, a method of replacing the date with a special word was invented.

The code word for the telegram on the 29th happened to be the word "Yan", so it was called "Yandian". There is also the previous "Ma Ri Incident", because the date of the incident was the 21st, the reference word is horse.

Not long ago, the "Wenxi fire", the 12th refers to the word Wen, the fire occurred on the night of the 12th, and the fire on the evening of the 12th is referred to as the "Wenxi fire".

On December 29, the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), the whole country, including Sangou and their troops, all knew about Wang Jingwei's traitorous behavior, and they were very angry.

But there is no choice but to step up preparations for war, defeat the Japanese army with practical actions, and destroy the shameless thoughts of traitors and potential traitors.

The Japanese government, on the other hand, was overjoyed by Wang Jingwei's traitorous behavior, and immediately issued a statement expressing support for Wang Jingwei's actions and at the same time suppressing the Chinese government.

The Japanese Government issued such theories as "not taking the Nationalist Government as an opponent in peace talks," "taking defeat as the fundamental policy," and "bringing down the Chiang government."

In fact, after the fall of Wuhan at the end of October, the Japanese government arrogantly propagated that the Nationalist Government was the local government of Chongqing, and the Chinese army was the Chongqing Army.

After the Battle of Wuhan, both China and Japan suffered huge losses, and on the whole, the Chinese army's War of Resistance had survived the most difficult defensive stage and entered the stage of resistance to tension.

After the battle of millions of troops on both sides, both in terms of troops and economy, they were exhausted and could not stand it, and for the time being, both sides could not launch a major war.

Moreover, at the end of October, Wuhan announced its abandonment, and due to the containment of the front line and the effective operation, the evacuation was timely, and the Japanese army was not able to capture any large Chinese troops except for some heavy losses.

This made the Japanese army a little annoyed, but after all, Wuhan was the largest city after Shanghai and Nanjing, and with the addition of Beiping and Guangzhou, the Japanese army almost occupied China's first-tier cities.

Wuhan was lost, and Changsha in the south was immediately under a serious threat from the Japanese army, so the 74th Army was ordered to defend Changsha, and the 51st and 58th divisions were urgently transported by car and train to the periphery of Changsha for deployment.

However, after the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese army could not launch a major war for the time being, and it could not reach Changsha due to the limitation of troops.

However, due to the actions of Wang Jingwei and other big traitors, Japan accelerated its action to suppress the Chinese government, and Changsha was too far away to make a big deal all of a sudden, but Nanchang is a good place.

Therefore, on the front line along the Nanxun line, according to a large number of informant intelligence of the Chinese army, it shows:

On the line from Jiujiang to De'an, the Japanese army began to hoard a large number of war materials, and the operation of a large number of troops, artillery, tanks, and heavy weapons showed that the Japanese army was very likely to conduct a major war against Nanchang.

Nanchang is the capital of Jiangxi Province, the intersection point of the Nanxun Railway and the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway, and the hub of the rear liaison line and supply line of the Ninth and Third Theaters of the Chinese Army, and has an important strategic position.

Based at Nanchang Airport, the Chinese Air Force frequently attacked Japanese naval vessels sailing in the Yangtze River near Jiujiang, posing a great threat to the rear supply lines of the Japanese forces in Jiujiang and Wuhan.

In order to improve its position in Central China, the Japanese army must attack Nanchang and occupy it. Nanchang was also a blessed place of the National Revolution, occupied an important position in the Northern Expedition, and after the occupation, it again struck a spiritual blow to the Chinese.

Therefore, the Japanese army expanded its army a lot, and the Japanese army added the 26th Division in 1937, and the 15th, 17th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, and 27th divisions in 1938.

At the beginning of 1939, the 32nd-37th divisions were formed, all of which belonged to the three-unit system (three wings) of the garrison division, and were organized into large-scale formations.

The Japanese army's standing divisions and regiments belong to the four-unit system, with a number of 2.2-25,000 people, and the number of garrison divisions and regiments has been reduced to 1.3-15,000 people, and the proportion of front-line combat personnel is higher and more capable.

However, it is not suitable for long-distance large-mobility operations, but in a short distance, it maintains a combat capability similar to that of a standing division and regiment, and has the characteristics of rapid response and high attendance.

At the beginning of 1939, the Japanese army also organized a large number of independent mixed brigades, such as the 6-14 independent mixed brigades, which were enriched into the battlefields of North China and Central China.

In the Central China Battlefield, the Japanese army abolished the original 2nd Army, and a large part of its troops were transferred to the jurisdiction of the 11th Army.

As a result, the 11th Army of the Japanese Army became the most powerful Japanese army force in Central China, and it was also the most powerful combat corps-level unit of the Japanese Army in China.

The 11th Army of the Japanese Army had seven or eight divisions and regiments, as well as a large number of field heavy artillery units and tank units, as many as more than 100,000 or 200,000 people, and became the main army attacking the Chinese army.

On January 20, 1939, just after New Year's Day, the Fifth Plenary Session of the Fifth Central Committee of the National People's Congress was held in Chongqing.

"We must fight a protracted war of resistance and fight to the end, not only to prevent the enemy from achieving the goal of a quick victory in the past, but also to smash their current conspiracy to quickly and quickly, and this is the only strategy we have now."

The congress reorganized the Supreme Council of National Defense into the Supreme Council of National Defense, unified government and military orders, and fully concentrated power to meet the needs of the War of Resistance.

At the same time, the "Outline of Organizational Organizations at All Levels of the County and Its Implementation Methods" was adopted, and a national militia regiment was added to each county, and all men aged 18-45 in the county became militia and became the reserve of the regular army.

The Chinese army also expanded considerably, from 183 infantry divisions, 58 independent infantry brigades, 43 independent infantry regiments, 9 cavalry divisions, 5 independent cavalry brigades, and 3 independent cavalry regiments at the beginning of July 1937.

By the end of 1938, there were 229 infantry divisions, 30 separate infantry brigades, 13 cavalry divisions, and 10 separate cavalry brigades.

In terms of troop allocation, the Ninth Theater has 52 infantry divisions, the Fifth Theater has 34 infantry divisions, and 23 infantry divisions are under the Central Military Commission.

It fully reflects that Central China is a decisive battle area on the frontal battlefield.

In the vast land, who is the lord of the ups and downs, only the victor in the Central Plains.

During the intervals between the war at the end of 1938, the Central Military Commission stepped up the reorganization and training of various units, compressed and streamlined the command level of the troops, and first abolished the two-level structure of corps and corps.

The corps was set up as the basic strategic unit and the division as the basic tactical unit, and each division gradually abolished the brigade level and changed it to a three-regiment system in the course of training.

The unit's reorganization and training is divided into three phases, with one-third of the troops conducting the whole training in each period, and two-thirds continuing to serve as combat missions, of which one-third are used as a vigilance and one-third are guerrilla.

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