The General Headquarters of the Japanese Army in China.

Matsui Ishine is holding a meeting of the military department, and although the military department has made big statements about the destruction of China in three months, and it has been more than three months since the full-scale war began, the military is quite satisfied with the progress of the current war situation.

As long as Nanjing is taken before the year ago, then the entire East China region, including Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui, has all entered the control, with the East China occupation zone, as well as the three eastern provinces occupation areas as the base, and then continue to threaten Henan, Hunan, Hubei, and the two Guangxi areas, it can be said that the strategic goal has been initially achieved, just waiting to take Nanjing.

"In terms of the navy and air force, it has completely controlled the air supremacy in the waters of the Yangtze River, the Niudao Division is like a bamboo in the Wuhu area of Anhui Province, and the commander of the Zhina Army on the opposite side, Tang Shizun, is completely stupid, and he can't resist the attack of our army at all, and the Jing'an Army, which is composed of the people of the northeast, has also performed very well, and has just taken Si'an and is preparing to attack Guangde!"

"The Tang Shizun Department was completely defeated and vulnerable, but the 145th Division of the Chinese Army Rao Guohua had already entered the Guangde front and was ready to resist stubbornly - Rao Guohua has a strong personality, but it is a little difficult, but now he is the only one stationed on the front line of Guangde, and it is impossible to block the offensive of the Ushishima Division, and it is just around the corner to take Guangde......

"There are a lot of defenders in Nanjing, and Tang Shengzhi, the commander-in-chief of Nanjing, has released the wild words that he will fight with us to the end, and that people are in the city and people are dying in the city, which cannot be underestimated......" Several officers in charge of intelligence reported to Matsui Shigen one after another.

"Nanjing, it is indeed a hard bone!"

Matsui Shigen sighed lightly: "The Chinese army is hoarding heavy troops in Nanjing, if they really hold the city to the death and fight with our army in the streets, even if our army can take Nanjing at that time, I am afraid that we will have to pay a great price - pass the order, when the time comes to attack Nanjing, the main thing is to persuade to surrender, supplemented by the drive, and at the same time, the peripheral divisions and regiments have made a comprehensive encirclement of Nanjing, so that the Chinese side thinks that we will go all out to annihilate all the troops in Nanjing......"

"Make a full-fledged encirclement? Isn't it your Excellency that you really plan to really annihilate all the defenders of Nanjing? ”

Several officers attending the meeting wondered, it stands to reason that it is the best policy to annihilate the living forces of the Chinese army to the greatest extent now.

"There is an old saying in the Chinese people, forcing dogs to jump over the wall is a big taboo, if they are really trapped to death, so that they have no hope of survival, they can only arouse their desperate and stubborn heart!"

Matsui Shigen said: "According to the intelligence, I heard that Tang Shengzhi destroyed all the ships that crossed the river in Nanjing, sealed the city gate to prevent the people from escaping, and it was clear that he wanted to force out the desperate heart of the army and the people, and they were ready to fight against the water, and what we have to do now is to do the opposite - Nanjing is a thousand-year-old city, covering an area of too wide and many houses, among which the streets extend in all directions, we must try to avoid street fighting with a group of guys who know that they will die, otherwise Nanjing is afraid that it will become the second Shanghai!" ”

The Shanghai battlefield lasted three or four months, and the casualties were quite heavy, and the Japanese did not want to fight that kind of vicious battle again.

"I see what Matsui meant!"

An officer frowned and pondered, and suddenly said with joy: "Tang Shengzhi, the commander-in-chief of Nanjing China, destroyed the ships and blocked the city gate, in order to create an environment for the China army and the people to fight against the water, and we deliberately let go of the gap on one side to give those who don't want to die a little hope of escape, in this way, the China army is likely to split from the inside, and it is very likely that it will not attack itself at that time, is this the case?" ”

Matsui smiled with satisfaction, it was clear that the officer had guessed his idea.

The officer couldn't help but be overjoyed, and continued: "According to the general's thinking, the peripheral divisions and regiments have made a posture of encirclement and suppression, but they have also revealed vacancies, so that the high-level military of the Zhina Army has to worry all the time, the life and death of the hundreds of thousands of defenders in Nanjing, they must not want to see hundreds of thousands of troops annihilated in the Battle of Nanjing, maybe it will also be split from the inside, and if a confused guy gives an order to retreat, the scene will be too beautiful......

"Yes, yes!"

Several officers seconded: "Tang Shengzhi ordered to defend to the death, and the military of China ordered to retreat, the defenders of Nanjing must be divided and chaotic, some people want to escape, some people want to fight, when the time comes, even if Tang Shengzhi wants to defend to the death, it will be impossible!" ”

"Yes, that's what I meant!"

Matsui Shigen said with a look of wisdom in his hand: "Often the most tenacious fortresses are breached from their inside, let's wait and see if Nanjing will verify this truth......

"Your Excellency is really clever, I admire it!"

"Those idiots of the Shina Army met Lord Matsui, it was really their fate!"

A cadre of military officials is full of sycophants.

"Well, any victory is made, not shot with sycophants!"

Matsui Shigen couldn't help but be proud and said, "The Wuhu side is going well, how is the battle situation on the Jiangyin front line in Changzhou progressing?" ”

"Not so good......

Speaking of the battle situation here, several officers suddenly looked gloomy and said: "The Zhina Army in the two cities of Jiangyin in Changzhou may have been stimulated by the results of the Shanghai battlefield and fought extremely tenaciously, not only these two cities, but also the area of Pingguandu Sanshanling on the front line, the battle situation is also fierce, especially the tiger killing mouth proposed by Asaka Dazuo to sneak attack, and it has suffered heavy casualties - plus the wind and snow over there in the past few days, the weather is very bad, and our air force cannot support it at all, and the progress is extremely unsmooth......

"Don't be so pessimistic, these have been thought of when I tried my best to override public opinion and ordered the Shanghai battlefield soldiers to approach Nanjing in three ways!"

Matsui Shigen said: "After all, Nanjing is the capital of the current Shina government, if their capital is easily taken by us, how can the Shina government have face?" In fact, if he was the commander of China, he would definitely give up Nanjing and take advantage of the vast depth of China's territory to fight a war of attrition, instead of arranging for the army to defend Nanjing, which was in no danger at all, for the sake of face! ”

"The people of China are stupid, so naturally they can't be compared with Your Excellency!" A cadre officer said.

"Don't talk about that!"

Matsui Shigen waved his hand and said: "According to the intelligence, the weather in Jiangsu has been extremely improved, and the fighters will be able to take off tomorrow. ”

"That's nature, how can the people of China stop the iron cavalry of my emperor's army!"

A cadre of officers laughed and discussed, but at this moment, an intelligence officer hurriedly came in and reported anxiously: "Your Excellency Matsui, the supply team led by Miyamoto Nakasa still can't be contacted......"

As soon as these words came out, everyone's laughter suddenly stopped, and everyone's hearts rose with a bad premonition!