8.36 Preparing for war

Fang Xiaoqian's crying voice successfully moved Yu Lianjun, who also came out of Shanghai, Yu Lianjun was also very sad and indignant about the fall of Shanghai, and after talking with Fang Xiaoqian for a while, Yu Lianjun actually fell in love with this somewhat naughty little girl, but for Dai Mengru, Yu Lianjun still didn't have a good face. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Finally, Huang Haoran found an opportunity to interject. Huang Haoran directly asked Fang Xiaoqian how the two women escaped after the city of Nanjing was broken.

"My sister and I are suitable for refugees to run behind the 58th Division, but when I went out of China, my sister and I were separated, and then I moved to Wuhu and Anqing with the refugees, and then in Zhengzhou, when I was penniless and living on the streets, I actually met my sister again, what a god's eye!"

Huang Haoran noticed that Fang Xiaoqian's body was constantly trembling when she told her experience of exile, it seems that the experience of those months is really unbearable for Fang Xiaoqian! At the same time, Huang Haoran also noticed that although Dai Mengru, who was guarding Fang Xiaoqian's side, also lowered her head and wept, her body seemed a little stiff, and this reaction was not normal.

After carefully going through Fang Xiaoqian's words in his mind, Huang Haoran found some of these problems! He clearly remembered that when he was in Nanjing, Fang Xiaoqian and Dai Mengru were not very wealthy, why did Fang Xiaoqian fall to the point of living on the streets after a few months of exile, but Dai Mengru still had money?

Before, when Dai Mengru asked the shopkeeper of the Great China Restaurant, she was a dollar as soon as she made a move, without the slightest hesitation, this is not a woman who has been in exile for nearly half a year should have the bearing! Huang Haoran also saw the homeless and fugitive people when he was marching, as the saying goes, those who have seen ghosts are the most afraid of the dark, and the homeless people and people Huang Haoran saw because they have suffered too much, and they are all very interested in money and food! Not to mention a dollar, it is a few coppers, and it often takes half a day to take it out to buy some necessities!

This Dai Mengru doesn't look like a person who has been in the refugee pile for months in every way.

Before leaving, Huang Haoran left Dai Mengru the phone number of his residence and office and some money, saying that he would definitely come to visit them when he was free. Since Yu Lianjun lived in the Great China Restaurant, she took the initiative to take care of Fang Xiaoqian, not only asked the shopkeeper of the Great China Restaurant to prepare a good guest room for Fang Xiaoqian, but also sent someone to invite a doctor for Fang Xiaoqian.

When he walked to the door of the Great China Restaurant, Huang Haoran pulled Lianjun to his side and whispered: "I don't care how angry you are, I still have to tell you that I have nothing to do with these sisters!" Also, that Dai Mengru seems to be a little wrong! I'll leave you a few people, so you can take care of it. ”

Yu Lianjun stretched out her hand and twisted it around Huang Haoran's waist, and then whispered: "You think I'm stupid!" While you're looking at the sisters in a daze, I've already sent someone to investigate their details! I'm not a womanizer like you, and this building is full of my people, what tricks can two little women play? ”

Huang Haoran scratched his scalp a little embarrassed, and said stupidly: "Womanizer, do you mean me?" ”

Yu Lianjun gave Huang Haoran a good-looking white eye, and then twisted her little waist that hooked the dead man and disappeared in front of Huang Haoran's eyes.

After swallowing a mouthful of saliva at Yu Lianjun's back, Huang Haoran strode out of the door of the Great China Restaurant, and then walked to the corner of the next street and got into the car.

As soon as the car started, Huang Haoran said to Xu Zilong: "Let people stare at those two women!" See what kind of people they come into contact with! I always felt that something was wrong, and the timing of their appearance was so coincidental! ”

At the same time, Shanghai.

The city has fallen for more than half a year, but the smoke of the Battle of Songhu does not seem to have dissipated, the ruins of the city's broken walls can still be seen everywhere, and the citizens of Shanghai are forced to laugh every day under the bayonets of the Japanese military police.

Located in a small two-story building in Hongkou, the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, General Shunroku Hata, and his staff are kneeling on tatami mats, each of them facing only a black and white antique tea bowl.

"Kagesa-kun!" General Shunliu Hata bowed down and said loudly, "Then please!" ”

"Thank you Commander for your trust," said a young Osa who was sitting opposite General Shunroku Hata, respectfully, "I will work hard to complete the Two-Headed Snake Project!" Let Huang Haoran, the famous general of China, become a piece of history! ”

Kagesa Zhenzhao's answer obviously made General Shunroku Hata very satisfied, and the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army showed a satisfied smile on his face!

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Since the occupation of Shanghai, the Japanese Navy has often carried out such cruises on the Huangpu River to show Japan's military strength to the Western countries in the Shanghai Concession.

Standing on the deck of the gunboat "Sheung Shui," Captain Okamoto Eihei, standing cross-legged and holding his saber in both hands, was being interviewed by Yuzaburo Wakatsuki, a reporter from the Yomiuri Shimbun, and Hisao Shimotsu, a reporter from the Allied News Agency, standing on the deck of the gunboat "Sheung Shui."

On the river behind him, there were three Japanese gunboats of different tonnages, and now on the Huangpu River, there is no longer any existence that can threaten the Japanese warships!

But Captain Okamoto would never have imagined that at this moment, on the bank of the Huangpu River, dozens of young people were fiddling with three or four big black and shiny iron balls.

These young people are all Huang Haoran's hidden personnel left in Shanghai, and the big iron ball in their hands is the Soviet mine that has just been secretly sent to Shanghai from the waterway!

After calculating the course and speed of the Japanese warship, the young men put the mines into the Huangpu River, and these mines were not fixed, but floated along the current to the Japanese warships on the river.

"That's it! Leave the corpse in the car! Then get out of the way! ”

After watching the mines drift away, the young man who took the lead commanded his companions to carry down several blonde corpses from a truck, and then disappeared into the night in the truck.

At this time, on board the Japanese gunboat "Shangsui", the interview with Captain Okamoto was gradually reaching a climax.

"Okamoto-kun, your ministry has the responsibility of taking the lead, and the capture of Anqing has made great contributions, how do you feel about this battle?" Hisao Shimotsu, a reporter from the Alliance News Agency, asked.

"Fighting for the heavens, for the holy war of peace in the East, it is the duty of the soldiers of our kingdom, and the headquarters will resolutely complete the combat mission!"

"Okamoto ......" Yomiuri Shimbun reporter Yuzaburo Wakatsuki was about to ask a question, when he suddenly felt that Captain Okamoto Eihei's expression was a little abnormal, so he hurriedly turned his head to look.

I saw that the bow of the gunboat "Sheung Shui" was rushing towards a black guy!

"Dangerous ......!" Captain Okamoto's voice trembled, and he immediately ordered the helmsman to turn right at full speed, but the huge resurgence of the river caused by the turning of the hull swept the mine towards the hull, and the black one slammed towards the ship's waist!

The sound of the "......boom" explosion resounded across the river, and the Japanese navy on the Japanese gunboats in the distance was all taken aback!

The gunboat "Shangshui", which was blown in two by waist-high, quickly sank to the bottom of the river, and at this time, the three Japanese gunboats in the rear also discovered the rest of the mines, so they began to scramble to dodge! At the same time, the guns of the warships began to fire indiscriminately at the banks of the river, where the enemy might be hidden!

Two hours later, the gendarmes stationed nearby arrived on the bank of the river where the accident occurred and found the bodies of several Westerners, who were searching blankly with searchlights on. In this attack, the Japanese Navy sank a gunboat, wounded another, and killed and wounded more than 70 officers and men.

The next morning, the identities of the Westerners were found out, and all of them were French. So in the afternoon of the same day, the Japanese marines stationed in Shanghai clashed with the French in a western restaurant near the French Concession in Shanghai, and all five French citizens were killed! This is a lesson that the Japanese military department has taught to all Westerners who sympathize with China's war of resistance!

Upon hearing the news from the French ambassador to China, the French government was forced to react, and although they did not have the courage to go to war with Japan in Asia, the French government extended an invitation to the Chinese delegation in Europe. Chiang took advantage of the waiting time before the last German aid was on board to Paris, where he was treated with high standards by the French government, received a $50 million low-interest loan from the French government, and opened up French warehouses in Vietnam to Chinese officials for arms sales.

This little episode concocted by Huang Haoran gave the Chinese army a little more confidence in the upcoming defense of Wuhan!

On July 25, the highest authorities convened a military conference on the theme of defending Greater Wuhan. In the conference room of the Military Commission, the highest authorities sat alone in front of a large map. Recently, the highest authorities have been spending a lot more time here than in the past, sometimes even overnight.

The appearance of the highest authority made Chen Cixiu and Minister He feel the pressure. Every day, a steady stream of messages and circulars from the front is sent to the highest authorities. The gold star shining on the collar of the supreme authority was listening to the staff officers analyze the enemy's situation and situation for a while, and at the same time watching the staff officers nervously plotting and recording on the map, as if they were fully engaged.

Two months ago, it was here that the highest authorities organized a military preparation meeting for the Battle of Wuhan. In the past few major wars, the highest authorities have lost. The senior generals of the army found on the battlefield that the appetite of the highest authorities was not small, but the plans and programs formulated before the war did not always work on the battlefield. As soon as the battle began, either the main direction was broken through by the Japanese army, or the friendly neighbors were defeated first, and any counterattack and encirclement were just a false dream in the end.

Now the highest authorities have finally clearly realized that his crowd tactics need space, and they need a huge space for maneuver. The highest authorities stared at Wuhan on the map, only to find that it was a dead place tightly embraced by lakes, swamps, rivers, and rivers. But looking outward, the minds of the highest authorities could not help but suddenly become clear.

After pondering for several days and consulting everywhere, the highest authorities finally proudly threw out their thoughts at the Military Commission, "The three towns of Wuhan must be guarded, but it is not easy to guard." The suburbs of Wuhan, especially in the north of the city, are not safe at all. The city is cut off by the Yangtze River, and there are lakes and marshes outside the city, which is by no means a place of long-term war. So how is Wuhan guarded? I would like to ask the generals to take a longer view. Look at Qianshan and Taihu Lake in the northeast, and don't miss the dangers of Shuangmen Pass and Wusheng Pass in the north. In fact, the Fushan Mountain, the Dabie Mountain and the Yangtze River, which are on the outskirts of Wuhan, are the best natural barriers for me. ”

The highest authorities paused, took a sip of water, and watched the reaction of the crowd. Xue Yue, Zhang Fakui and other generals who came from afar took a long breath when they heard this, and a smile finally appeared on their tense faces. The atmosphere at the venue was much more relaxed. The supreme authorities seemed to be encouraged, and they became even more energetic and gushing: "You can imagine that if our army fights in the three towns, the war will inevitably affect the urban area, and the political and economic importance of Wuhan will be lost. In the besieged city, our army is like a turtle in an urn. Nanjing's lesson is not far away, and it must not be forgotten! Therefore, if Wuhan wants to fight, it must fight from afar. In a nutshell, it is the best policy to defend Wuhan instead of fighting in Wuhan. ”

The highest authority swept the crowd with his eyes, and then pretended to be mysterious and said: "You may not know, during the First World War, the situation in Europe was very similar to that of Wuhan today. As he spoke, he turned to "Xiao Zhuge ": "Jiansheng, you can introduce it to everyone." ”

Deputy Chief of Staff "Xiao Zhuge " seemed to have been prepared, and he slowly walked towards the wall chart. The staff officer on duty hurriedly opened the curtain, and a map of the eastern region of Germany, which had already been well drawn, was displayed in front of the wide-eyed generals.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a well-known example of the battle that took place in the Eastern Theater of Europe in the autumn of 1914, and you must have heard of it. At that time, the German army was limited, and in order to secure the capital of Pakhu, there was initially a plan to retreat to the Transxel River. After General Hindenburg took over the command, not only did he not adopt this passive tactic, but he was determined to take advantage of the weakness of the Russian army's first and second fronts separated by lakes and marshes, and turned defense into offense. Although many people were skeptical of this at that time, the unprecedented annihilation of the German army at Tannenberg proved that Hindenburg was right, and after that, the Russian and German armies fought more than 100 battles, large and small, and the German army always occupied an advantageous position in the eastern battlefield. Once the worries of the two battlefields were removed, Berlin was naturally unharmed. ”

Putting down the whip, "Xiao Zhuge " walked back to the table and said the following: "Wuhan today is indeed too similar to Berlin back then. The Yangtze River and the Dabie Mountains separated the Japanese into two or even three roads, and this provided a good opportunity for our army to divide and attack. This is the case, as long as our army can give full play to its combat effectiveness, the former Xingneng Fort will appear in today's Wuhan. ”

The audience was quiet, and everyone seemed to have not woken up from the encouraging words of "Little Zhuge ". The highest authority did not speak again, but an irrepressible smile spread across his face. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )