Li Zongren's Fifth Theater Command is located at the mouth of the old river in Xiangyang, Hubei Province, and is an original building with one well and three courtyards, with the front and middle courtyards being typical brick and wood structure northern dwellings, and the back yard being brick and wood structure imitating European-style buildings. If history does not change, he persisted in the War of Resistance here for 6 years.

Sitting in the study at the moment, as the commander of the Fifth War Zone, he is not facing a good situation. As we mentioned earlier, the general situation after the loss of Nanjing, in addition to the troops on the Nanjing side, more Japanese troops approached from the north.

According to the history known by Jin Tao, in this battle, in order to open up the Tianjin-Pukou Railway (Tianjin-Pukou) and unite the northern and southern battlefields, the Japanese base camp successively mobilized 8 divisions, 3 brigades, and 2 detachments (equivalent to brigades) of about 240,000 people, which were respectively commanded by the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army (reorganized by the Central China Front Army on February 18, 1938) and the commander of the North China Front Army, Terauchi Shouichi, to carry out the north-south advance, first to capture Xuzhou, a strategic point in East China, and then along the Longhai Railway ( Lanzhou-Lianyungang) takes Zhengzhou in the west, and then takes Wuhan in the south along the Pinghan Railway (Beijing-Hankou).

The Chinese army, commanded by Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater of Operations, successively mobilized 64 divisions and three brigades of about 600,000 people, with the main force concentrated in the area north of Xuzhou to resist the southern attack of the Japanese army on the northern front, and a part of the troops was deployed on the southern section of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway to prevent the Japanese army from advancing north on the southern line to secure Xuzhou.

Don't look at the Chinese army as the defensive side, there are nearly 600,000 troops to deal with the attack of small Japan. In fact, because of the gap in equipment, mobility and combat capability, the difference in strength between the two sides is not too much.

As the commander of China's Fifth Theater of Operations, Li Zongren's work is busy. He didn't understand why he wanted to see him, as an internationally renowned foreign firm.

In our words, Chanchen is a standard "downside" or "two-way dealer". Acting as an agent for many well-known manufacturers and insurance companies in Germany and Britain, and exporting Chinese local products to Europe. It is certain that the "Electronic Circuit Laboratory" set up in cooperation with Jin Tao and the various radio equipment produced in the future will be an important economic pillar for Yang Ningshi, the manager of Chanchen & Co. The reason why I say this is that although I am a "bad man" who does not produce anything, the Germans are always savvy about technology.

Even this kind of shrewdness made them not ask Jin Tao for sending information to Li Zongren. Of course, this may also be what Jin Tao showed them at that time, and some other future super technologies make them unable to put down. After all, if those things fell into the hands of Germany's enemies, the harm to Germany would be too great.

"Representatives of Chanchen Foreign Firm, what are they doing when they see me?"

When Li Zongren heard the report, he raised his eyes to look at the young man in front of him. This is a doctor of political science who has just graduated from the University of Rome, and his name is Cheng Siyuan. Before going to the University of Rome, he was Li Zongren's secretary. At this moment, when he returned from his studies, he immediately threw himself into the war of resistance.

"Zen Chen? They...... Maybe they didn't get some military equipment! ”

We know that before and before the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, China was a country under a military embargo. I don't know if Westerners have a disease in their heads, are they afraid that after the Chinese turn over in science and technology, they will find them to settle the accounts of the eight-nation alliance?

In fact, in China at that time, there were many people who mastered Western technology. But most of them, like Cheng Siyuan, had to plunge into the whirlpool of political struggle after returning to China. It was really a very great regret, in addition to the civil war at that time, and more importantly, none of the so-called leaders in China at that time really built a city or a place in a down-to-earth manner. It was a waste of the hard work of many scholars who traveled across the ocean and studied diligently.

For example, Wang Zhu, Ba Yuzao, and Wang Xiaofeng, three international students who graduated from the Department of Aeronautical Engineering in Massachusetts, dug the first pot of gold for the future Boeing in the United States, but after returning to China, why did they make few achievements? Of course, with Jin Tao, the BF-109 fighter technology, Guangxi and Shanxi have seen a slight improvement in construction. But on the whole, there is always infighting. Before the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, there was a struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, a struggle between warlords, and a struggle among warlords. If we go deeper, we will find the struggle between the merchants and the people, the struggle between the landlords and the tenant farmers.

To sum up, without a just, fair and open rule of law, it will inevitably be impossible to build a city or a place.

The reason why I say this is how big a territory Japan is. Any big province in China will not have much smaller territory and no less population than it, so why can't it be built well.

I don't laugh when I write here, when we talk about the invasion of the Song Dynasty by the Mongols, everyone says that the lack of knights in the Song Dynasty is a big shortcoming. Originally, there were no good horses, so there were no cavalry. It seems that this is a reasonable thing, but a rhetorical question - where does the Great Song Dynasty not raise horses?

There is only one reason for success for a successful person, and that is that he wants to succeed. And the loser can always find 1,000 reasons to show that the failure he experienced is not his own responsibility at all. I am afraid that this is the face of all parties and politicians during the Republic of China.

If you want to say that someone of them succeeded, it is still the same sentence, not to mention anything else, build tanks, planes, aircraft carriers and then talk about his success!

When it comes to success, only the great Chinese who founded New China and led the then poor and white New China to achieve "two bombs and one satellite" and left behind the assertion that "if you are backward, you will be beaten," you can be considered successful. No matter how many merits and demerits there are, at least two bombs and one satellite, no one dares to threaten China with nuclear war, and this is the fact that we can see.

No matter what others think, if you only look at Jin Tao's fear of the conditions to Chanchen Foreign Bank, you should understand that Jin Tao's "farming" is of course the goal of realizing such an assertion. With the knowledge in EeePC, if he accidentally gets a nuclear bomb out a few years early, he will definitely find a chicken for countries around the world that are unfriendly to China, and let them understand that there is only one way to die except to be a monkey. Even if you can't build a nuclear bomb, you can build a dirty bomb.

Hearing Cheng Siyuan, who had just returned from studying in Rome, had doubtful words, it made Li Zongren a little tempted. Although the Gui army of the Guangxi warlords was equipped with British goods, Li Zongren was still very clear about the power of the German goods of the Central Army. And if the Germans are willing to sell some artillery to China at this moment, they may still be able to use it in future operations.

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————————————————————————————————————— sunlight shone in through the window and shone on the desk in the study, Li Zongren sat there quietly and thought quietly. Cheng Siyuan, who is only 29 years old at the moment, is still very young, and as a 29-year-old doctor of political science, he knows very well what Li Zongren is thinking at the moment.

The Gui army has never been a descendant of the Nationalist government, and at this moment, in order to resist the Japanese against the entire Chinese warlord army, the troops of all warlords have to unite openly. Of course, the truth of national hatred and family hatred are all understood by these leading people, otherwise Zhang Xueliang would not have engaged in any "Xi'an Incident" with Yang Hucheng.

However, when resisting foreign enemies, it has to take into account its own strength without major losses, and relatively speaking, China's domestic problems are much more complicated than those in the future European theater. It is no wonder that Li Zongren has to think carefully at this moment, that is, what is the purpose of the representative of Chanchen Foreign Bank to come to him. As he himself knew, it was a business firm that could get the machine tools and other equipment that China urgently needed, representing many European and American companies.

Although the current situation of the anti-Japanese war is unfavorable, the whole country is already in the midst of an anti-Japanese war. So if you make a deal with Chanchen in private, will you make anyone unhappy?

Not to mention that Chinese politicians are tired, a country without the rule of law, without immutable rules, almost everything has no set standards. Then when you act, you have to think a lot. Probably this is the reason why foreigners often say that Chinese have cities and are slightly autistic.

After a while, Li Zongren made up his mind, no matter how things would develop, it was not too important to meet him. The only thing that bothers is if they have any deals that raise the question. If it is a light weapon, then it will be handed over to Lao Jiang, if it is some high-power or heavy, sophisticated weapons, as long as Li Zongren can afford to buy his own Gui army.

"Let's see, they're coming from afar, and it's okay for me to see them!"

"Yes, as a well-known international trading house, they can bring a lot of much-needed supplies."

The young Cheng Siyuan responded softly on the side, knowing that Li Zongren had made up his mind. As he answered softly, he exhaled inwardly.

"Hey, these things are more exhausting than a fight. If only Zenchen could bring us some planes, now if they want to bring weapons and equipment to China, I'm afraid only the Germans! ”

Although the Japanese Empire did not deliberately blockade China's coast during World War II. But at this moment, China's capital and the coastal cities have almost completely fallen, and China's main port has become Guangzhou. What's more, European and American countries still have an embargo on military equipment against China, and there is little need for the Japanese Empire to blockade it.

Speaking of which, before the Second World War, the best weapons and equipment that China received should have been given by the Germans. This is also the reason why Li Zongren thought so much when he heard the name of Chanchen Foreign Company.