Chiang Kai-shek's telegram soon came back, and the tone was extremely stern: "It has only been three months since the replenishment and reorganization of the various armies, why should it be easy to attack Jinan, suffer losses, and waste national resources, ** must be stopped immediately, and all units should step up training, familiarize themselves with tactics, and prepare for battle." The whole book"

Zhuang Jihua was so angry that he was a little speechless, Chiang Kai-shek's reason was high-sounding, but the morale of the officers and soldiers of the Fifth War Zone who had been rested and recuperated was high, and most of the wounded veterans returned to the team, and it was a good time to fight a battle, and the Japanese army was the opposite of our army, and time dragged on, and the Japanese army just used it to train troops.

"Re-telegram to the chairman, if the main force of the Japanese army is encircling and suppressing Jizhong, our army is resting and recuperating, and it is just time to attack and disrupt the deployment of the Japanese army, otherwise after the Japanese army settles down the rear, the whole army will come to fight, and I will pay a greater price, this is military common sense, and I sincerely ask the chairman to allow us to continue the offensive."

Seeing this telegram, Xu Zuyi felt that something was wrong, pointed to "this is military common sense" and said: "Commander, cross this sentence out." ”

Zhuang Jihua hesitated and nodded with a cold face, after Xu Zuyi went out, Gong Xiuhua came in and handed him a telegram: "Call from Beiping." ”

Zhuang Jihua received the telegram, and Ligao sent a telegram from Beiping, saying that the fighting in the direction of Jinan had already alarmed the North China Front, and in view of the fact that the main force of the Eighth Route Army in central Hebei had broken through, Sugiyama Yuan decided to transfer three divisions from central Hebei, two of which were transferred to the direction of Handan, and the other to Jinan; in addition, within three days, the 46th Division transferred from the mainland would go ashore in Tianjin, and this division would be attached to the direction of the First Theater of Operations; in addition, the 39th Division would also go ashore in Qingdao, and this division would be attached to the direction of fighting in Zhucheng; The 43rd Division will go ashore in Shanghai, and these three divisions will be the last troops.

In other words, the Japanese army is basically ready, Zhuang Jihua silently calculated in his heart, according to the intelligence of Ligao and Daze, six of the twenty divisions were transferred to the Northeast to join the Kwantung Army's combat sequence and enrich the Northeast that had been emptied; The other two were transferred to the Mongolian Xinjiang garrison and two to Shanxi to fill the gap between the 21st Division and the garrison corps that had been transferred from Shanxi.

Counting this, Zhuang Jihua found that the Japanese army actually invested in the direction of Xuzhou only increased by eight divisions, he marked the location of the Japanese division on the map, and there was a sound of footsteps behind him, he did not look back and still focused on marking on the map.

"Report!" A loud voice came from behind, Zhuang Jihua's hand trembled, and the curve on the picture immediately disappeared, he sighed helplessly, stood up and turned around, looking at the person in front of him.

Zhang Xin saw Zhuang Jihua's angry face, but he stepped forward without fear: "Commander, I heard that a batch of newly developed weapons has arrived in Chongqing, can you give us some of them?" ”

Zhuang Jihua was irritable and couldn't help but scold: "Get out!" Run here and mess around, get out of here! ”

Zhang Xin was stunned for a moment, this was just an introduction, but he didn't expect it to provoke Zhuang Jihua so angry, and the hippie smile on his face suddenly disappeared: "Yes!" With that, he turned around and walked out.

"Come back," Zhuang Jihua called him back again, looking at Zhang Xin's serious face, he liked this Zhang Xin very much, he was a subordinate of the original Song Xiongfu, and his temper was similar to Song Xiongfu: "What the hell is going on?" Say! ”

"I heard that the battle ahead was not going well, and the brothers asked me to come, let me come and ask the commander to fight." Zhang Xin replied loudly.

Zhuang Jihua stared at him coldly, didn't speak for a few minutes, Zhang Xin felt a little furious in his heart, and hurriedly added: "Sir, what I said is true, we heard that the 20th Army went up and fought unsmoothly,...。 ”

Zhuang Jihua waved his hand to interrupt him: "Go back, when is it time to fight, I will naturally tell the Blue Army Commander, go back and build the fortifications well, repair the fortifications, at least withstand 150 howitzer shells." ”

The entire Fifth War Zone is about to become a construction site, and the army and civilian workers are all building fortifications from Tai'an to Yanzhou, to Tengxian, Zaozhuang, Linyi, and Mengyin, and the same is true for the southern front, from the Cihe River to the Vortex River, and then to the Tuohe River, all of them are rushing to build fortifications. Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers are busy on the construction site, despite the cold winter.

The new weapon mentioned by Zhang Xin is actually the semi-automatic rifle that Zhuang Jihua wants, Zhuang Jihua almost thought he was wrong when he got this kind of gun, this is not what AK47 looks like in his mind, AK47 has a somewhat curved handle that has become straight, but the barrel has become longer, but the ammunition capacity is only 24 rounds, and the spear can be loaded at any time, Yu Dawei wrote to him that the range reached 800 meters, and the effective range was 500 meters. Zhuang Jihua tried to shoot a few rounds after getting the weapon, and found that it was quite stable, the body of the gun was a stamping part, the whole gun was not heavy, and it was not yet heavy, and the bullet was 762mm

This gun was named the Shengli Type 1 semi-automatic rifle, and the first batch of only 1,000 was sent to the front line, and Zhuang Jihua had not yet thought about handing it over to that unit. The number of these guns is too small, it is simply not enough to reequip a division as a whole, not even a regiment, and if it is divided casually, logistics support will be a trouble.

After sending Zhang Xin away, Zhuang Jihua marked the battle sequence of the Japanese army on the map, Xu Zuyi came back, holding Chiang Kai-shek's reply in his hand as usual, Zhuang Jihua asked without waiting for him to speak: "Does the chairman still disagree?" ”

Xu Zuyi nodded and handed over the telegram, but Zhuang Jihua didn't answer, thought for a while and said, "Secretary Gong." Gong Xiuhua came in from outside the door, and Zhuang Jihua didn't raise his head: "Call back to the chairman, I will obey the order, and call Du Yuming to tell him that the Japanese army in Jizhong will be allowed to fight for another day and a half at most." Ordered Sun Tongxuan to stop the attack at noon tomorrow and retreat to the original defensive position. ”

Then he stood up straight and said to Xu Zuyi: "The Eighth Route Army in Jizhong has failed, the first phase of the Japanese army's operational objectives has been completed, and the military commander has sent information that the Japanese army will transfer three of the four divisions and regiments invested in Jizhong to the front line, and in the other three days, one division will arrive in Tianjin and Qingdao." ”

"So they're going to attack." Xu Zuyi's face was solemn, but Zhuang Jihua smiled: "Old Xu, it's not that serious, the battle of Guangting was fought well, and the Japanese army was beaten out of the void and reality, they seem to have a lot of people, but in fact they are not as good as the Japanese army during the Songhu battle." ”

"And how are you going to fight?" Xu Zuyi asked, he was a little strange how Zhuang Jihua was so clear about the movement of Japanese troops, but he didn't ask, Zhuang Jihua is completely different from Li Zongren, he seems to have a lot of secrets, and some decisions he made by himself, and did not report to Chiang Kai-shek at all, such as the ** to Jinan this time.

"No hurry, wait." Zhuang Jihua said calmly that the specific deployment of the Japanese attack had not yet been made, and he had to wait for the information of Ligao's support, and after he finished speaking, he said with great interest: "Let's go, let's go out for a walk, I haven't visited Xuzhou City for a long time." ”

As soon as the two went out, Wu Ziniu came to tell him that American reporter Weber and Times reporter Charles jointly requested an interview with him, Zhuang Jihua thought about it and nodded in agreement, turned back to Xu Zuyi and said: "Old Xu, you can take time to look at the map on the table, and we will discuss what to do when we go back, and I will go to meet these two big reporters." ”

Xu Zuyi had actually seen the distribution of Japanese troops marked on the map, and he also had certain ideas in his heart, but he hadn't had time to study them carefully.

The results of the battle of the 38th Division were also reported to the North China Front Headquarters in Beiping, and Sugiyama was very angry, and he wanted to order the wing commander who had escaped to apologize, but Ligao stood up again to admonish.

"Your Excellency, the Imperial Army has been greatly expanded this time, there are a lot of new recruits in the troops, and most of the officers lack actual combat experience, so it is reasonable that the defeat in this battle will be carried out," Li Gao said earnestly: "Your Excellency, I suggest that the launch of the offensive be postponed and the troops should be further reorganized. ”

The final result of the battle in Jizhong proved that the judgment of Ligao support was correct, while Eto's judgment was completely wrong, and the battle plan formulated on the basis of his judgment was a complete failure, which also made Sugiyama Moto's first shot after taking office as commander of the North China Front.

As soon as the words of Ligao's support fell, Okabe Naosaburo stood up to support him, suggesting that the attack be postponed, and the troops should be retrained for two months, and then attack around the Spring Festival next year. The casualties were also enormous.

Sugiyama finally decided to accept the proposal of Naosaburo Okabe and Tarigaka to support him, and in his name proposed to Shunroku Hatata, the commander of the Chinese Dispatch Army, to postpone the attack, and Shunroku Hata was somewhat surprised when he received the telegram and summoned Sugiyama Motomo and Naosaburo Okabe to Nanjing for discussion.

At this time, the Chinese Air Force took an action that made all the idea of delaying the offensive come to naught.

At ten o'clock in the morning, under the winter sun, the Qianjin Airport near Juye was heavily guarded, this airport is a large airport that has been expanding in half a month, and eight modified B17s took off.

On the ground, Qian Dajun, Wang Shuming, Gao Zhihang, and Zhou Zhirou lined up and saluted the military planes that took off.

Eight black dots quickly formed a formation in the air and then flew northeast.

This was a major operation planned by the Air Force Command, codenamed Tenlei, with the aim of bombing the Japanese mainland - Kyushu. The Air Force had been planning for this for a long time, and began to want to take off from Hankou, refuel in Ningbo, and then fly to Kyushu; After winning the Battle of Xuzhou, it was changed to take off from Julu and pass through Shandong, which could shorten the range by nearly 1,000 miles, but even so the B17 removed all the machine guns for self-defense, and the aerial bombs were only half loaded, so as to meet the return range of the aircraft.

"I hope they come back alive." Qian Dajun looked at the disappearing plane and sighed lowly, this time they flew to Julu Airport secretly, and Julu Airport was only allowed to enter but not leave, including Qian Dajun, all the officers were no longer allowed to go out when they landed, so they didn't even go to Xuzhou.

Wang Shuming and Gao Zhihang kept looking at the planes in the distance, and some people in the air force originally proposed not to return bombs, but only to drop leaflets, but this suggestion was angrily rejected by Gao Zhihang and Wang Shuming. As a result, the plane, which was originally intended to carry leaflets, was changed to carry bombs.

"Don't worry, we have calculated, it was night when they flew to Kyushu, and the Japanese mainland has never been bombed, so the guard must not be strict." Gao Zhihang himself didn't know whether to comfort Wang Shuming or himself.

The roar of the plane in the clouds gradually disappeared, Wang Shuming retracted his gaze and turned his head to Gao Zhihang and said: "Recently, the Japanese army has been building airfields in various places, and I have been pressing you and not letting you move, at this time, because we bombed them, they can still repair it, I think the Japanese attack should be fast, it's time, blow it up now, they will be too late." ”

Gao Zhihang was overjoyed when he heard this, the news that the Japanese army was building airfields in various places had already reached his ears, and the location of most of the airfields had also been clarified, and he asked to blow up these airfields several times, but Wang Shuming just disagreed, thinking that it was not yet time, and now he finally nodded.

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