9.184 Skinny Reality

After the successive victories in Guangji Huangmei and Wanjialing, the spirit of the Chinese military and civilians has been greatly inspired! In particular, on the day when the newspapers were waiting for the "dead faces" of Japanese generals such as Shiro Inaba, the newspapers in Wuhan were sold out in a short period of time, and in order to satisfy the citizens' desire to collect the newspapers of this day as a souvenir, the printing houses in Wuhan had to reprint them at full capacity for 24 hours a day! And the next day, there was a miracle that the old newspaper sold more expensive than the new one!

When the major newspapers saw that these pages of newspapers that carried the "death scenes" of the Japanese army were so popular, they immediately sent reporters to the front line to collect the latest documentary photos of the battlefield. www.biquge.info So from Guangji to Huangmei, from Wanjialing to De'an, even in the most dangerous line of fire, you can see reporters with cameras shooting wildly! And when these materials were sent back to the newspaper office in Wuhan and sent them out with articles, they were immediately snapped up by the public!

This kind of good news has been seen a lot, and the mentality of Wuhan citizens is also quietly changing, although the Japanese army is still bombing Wuhan with Americans, but the worry on the faces of the citizens is obviously gone. Later, it gradually developed to the point that when the Soviet Air Force and the Chinese Air Force fought an air battle with the Japanese army in the sky over Wuhan, there would be citizens coming out of the air-raid shelter to watch. At this time, the Chinese already believed that the situation of the country had changed, the government's troops would definitely be able to block the Japanese outside Wuhan, and the three towns of Wuhan would be safe!

The military and political departments of the Wuhan government are naturally happy to see this change in people's mood, and since the "Double Tenth Festival", they can return with a full load every time they launch a fundraiser in the urban area. The Chinese army finally showed their bravery and meritorious deeds to their people on the battlefield of Wuhan, so now, the citizens have come to repay their heroes!

In the 20 days in mid-to-late October, in addition to those "Japanese criminals died", the most common word in the newspapers in Wuhan was probably Huang Haoran's name. This is all because the propaganda department of the Wuhan government wants to pour some more oil on the patriotic enthusiasm of the people, so after consulting Minister He and the highest authorities, they poked out the news that Huang Haoran had surrounded the 27th Division between Huangmei and Susong!

As a result, the three towns of Wuhan immediately set off a new round of patriotic upsurge!

Petitions from the Chamber of Commerce, student petitions, and all kinds of dramas are staged in the three towns of Wuhan every day, and everyone only cares about performing their patriotic feelings, but forgets that this battle still has to be fought by people. In the minds of these people, it seems that the two things of "Huang Haoran commanding the battle" and "great victory" have long been equated, and everyone is enjoying the dividends of their dreams with their eyes closed.

At the beginning, Huang Haoran just laughed when he heard such a thing in Tianjia Town, and it was a good thing that the students and the people were a little optimistic about the war. The soldiers on the front line fought bloodily, didn't they just want to defend the rear? Who would want to defend a dead city?

But gradually, Huang Haoran found that something was starting to go wrong. With the passage of time, some Wuhan government officials and well-known figures began to appear in the list of petitioners who first asked Huang Haoran to annihilate the 27th Division as soon as possible, and then the attitude of the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Military Commission began to become a little eager! It seems that in the eyes of these people, it is a matter of course for Huang Haoran to completely annihilate the 27th Division on the battlefield, so only a quick victory can make this result more perfect!

Huang Haoran knows very well that impetuousness is really a must-have. This kind of emotion can not only make people make mistakes, but also make governments make mistakes! The smell of danger is getting stronger and stronger in the daily telegram exchange between Wuhan and Tianjia Town!

The conduction effect of the crowd is really terrible! Especially after a large group of people have come to a consensus, these ignorant people will even think that they are the truth! But the truth is often in the hands of a few.

"What? And those petition telegrams urging us to annihilate the 27th Division as soon as possible? ”

Fan Jie, who was holding a thick stack of documents, noticed the gloom on Huang Haoran's face when he walked past him, so he stopped and wanted to relieve Huang Haoran's mood. But after listening to Fan Jie's words, Huang Haoran just shook his head, and then said with a wry smile: "I'd rather this is another petition from students or ordinary people, so that I can comfort myself with the reason that these people don't understand military affairs!" However, this telegram was actually sent by the Military Commission, and what it said was even more amateurish than those students! Sometimes I really can't help but want to ask, under the leadership of such a decision-making level, how did I win the previous battles! ”

Huang Haoran's words were really a bit heavy, and even Fan Jie couldn't help frowning slightly when he heard it. Now that the Military Commission is their immediate boss, if someone sends Huang Haoran's words back to Wuhan, it will definitely be another turmoil.

"I'll see what those old guys say......"

Fan Jie stretched out his hand to ask Huang Haoran for a message, but was pushed away by Huang Haoran. Then Huang Haoran stood up, walked to the corridor and looked at the busy officers on the first floor and said, "What else can I say?" It's just a rehash of the same old tune! The two battlefields of Wanjialing and Susong, where can they be casually compared together? What do you say, Xue Yue only used 12 divisions, and it took more than 10 days to solve the 106th Division, and now our Wuhan Garrison Command has four or five group armies, which should take less time than Xue Yue! For the first time, I have heard that the development of war can be calculated by counting! If, according to them, the Songhu Battle government invested a million troops, shouldn't it have casually annihilated five or six divisions of the Japanese army? These old things that have nothing to do! I think I've eaten too much lard and I'm blinded! ”

When Huang Haoran said this, Fan Jie suddenly felt very incredible! How could the Military Council send such a ridiculous telegram? Could it be that someone is playing tricks in the middle? For example, if the Japanese deciphered the high-level communication code of the Wuhan government, then they could create such a message and create chaos within the Chinese army!

"Soza, could it be a trick played by the Japanese? We're in Huangmei, didn't we also use Sasaki to send fake orders to devils......"

Huang Haoran sneered, turned around and walked back to the chair, took a stack of newspapers from the guard's hands and threw them to Fan Jie, then stood in place and pointed to the newspaper in Fan Jie's hand and said:

"There's a source for this telegram! Moreover, the Military Commission also revealed the news to reporters in advance, and it was published in the newspapers! He said that the Military Commission was very concerned about the battle situation in Susong, and strictly ordered the Jiang Defense Army to end the battle as soon as possible to comfort the people! There are still a few articles written and applauded, all of them are mud bodhisattvas who have not spoken for many years in the Military Commission, but now they are suddenly in good spirits! ”

Fan Jie lowered his head and hurriedly glanced at it, and found that things were really the same as what Huang Haoran said! So he subconsciously exclaimed:

"How dare you reveal such a confidential message to reporters? These old guys have eaten leopard gall, right? ”

Fan Jie's reaction made Huang Haoran even more angry, because when he first saw this telegram that had already been published in the newspaper, he also reacted like this! The most amazing thing is that Huang Haoran received this telegram from the Military Commission later than he saw the newspaper! If this is the case, the Military Commission will simply issue an order to the ministries through the newspaper in the future!

"The people of Wuhan only know that we have created two great victories in succession in front of us, but they don't know what price we have paid! In these cases, it is impossible for the government propaganda department to tell the truth to the outside world... Let's not mention the battle of encircling and annihilating the 6th Division, it is a special case that cannot be more special, and I am afraid that in the next few years, it will be impossible to encounter such a good fighter again! At the cost of only a few thousand casualties, I was able to annihilate a division of the Japanese army, and even I couldn't believe it! From the discovery of the 106th Division to the total annihilation, Xue Yue's troops fought for more than ten days in a row, with tens of thousands of casualties, and several divisions were turned into empty shelves. According to my estimates, the battle loss ratio of Wanjialing should be more than 3:1, that is, Xue Yue lost nearly 30,000 horses, but the result was only more than 10,000 enemies! What a pyrrhic victory! ”

Huang Haoran's analysis is still very impressive, Xue Yue once sent a telegram to Huang Haoran after the battle of Wanjialing to thank him, which also mentioned the casualty ratio of the Chinese and Japanese sides in the battle. At that time, Xue Yue wrote about 1.5:1 in the message, but Huang Haoran directly said that Xue Yue was lying!

In the battle of annihilating the 106th Division in Wanjialing, there were four or five Chinese divisions that were crippled and retreated to rest! According to the custom within the Chinese army, if a unit does not lose more than half of its combat soldiers, it cannot be counted as "crippled" and withdrawn from the battlefield to recuperate. Even according to the calculation that these divisions had only a full eighty percent of the strength before the war, the losses of these divisions alone exceeded 25,000 people! The casualty ratio reached 2.5:1

Could it be that the rest of the divisions in Xue Yue's hands were really able to be unscathed in the rain of bullets? This is obviously impossible! Therefore, Huang Haoran said that the casualty ratio of Xue Yue's corps and the Japanese army in Wanjialing exceeded 3:1, which is a sufficient basis.

Compared with the 106th Division, a third-class army division with a very low number, the combat strength of the 27th Division surrounded by Huang Haoran's division in Susong is obviously more than a step higher, which can be seen from the losses of the Yang Sen Division of the Sichuan Army guarding Susong. However, after only a few days of blocking, Yang Sen's 27th Army suffered more than 5,000 casualties! If you count the attack troops in several other directions and the losses of Xie Wendong's 27th Army, before the 27th Division was pressed into place, the losses of Huang Haoran's army had already exceeded 9,000 people!

And by the time this battle is over, that number will have to at least double again!

Compared to the brilliant and brilliant words in the newspaper, the reality is definitely skinny! (To be continued.) (To be continued.) )