As expected!
I still have unrealistic hopes for the western powers.
At this moment!
They had already confirmed that the Japanese were about to send five more divisions to the Songhu battlefield.
Five Regiments!
If he didn't give the order immediately, the hundred or so divisions on the Songhu battlefield would retreat in an orderly manner.
Once the Japanese sent more troops to land and cut off their retreat, it would be an irreversible defeat.
When that time came!
Even Jinling City was under the enemy's attack.
Huhai was really too close to Jinling.
Therefore!
The wisest choice now was to retreat in an orderly manner!
He placed the 100 divisions back on Wu Fuxi's defense line with Lake Tai as the center.
In the 21st year of the Republic of China, which was 1932, since the 128th war in Shanghai!
Principal Chang's National Party had already formulated a strategic policy to lead the Japanese army from north to south and from east to west.
As early as five years ago, they had already set up a national defense line for half of the southeast.
Therefore!
In the early days of the Battle of Songhu, the commander's decision was to place the battlefield at the Wu Fuxi Cheng national defense line to fight the Japanese!
However, he didn't expect that!
Once the war started, I seemed to have completely forgotten that the party and country had prepared a national defense line for five years for this war.
They actually concentrated their superior forces in the Songhu area to engage in a strategic decisive battle with the Japanese who had landed. They wanted to drive the Japanese into the sea on the spot.
He had even violated the greatest taboo of militarists, the tactic of adding fuel!
The red-eyed Chang had almost emptied out all the troops south of the Yangtze River, adding division by division.
The commander of the Gui Faction army, Li Zongpi, and the commander of the Sichuan army, Liu Xiang, hated this tactic.
Li Zongpi's 60,000 wolf soldiers had been dragged into the battlefield for less than a day, and he had lost 50,000 of them.
Liu Xiang's Sichuan army was even more damaged to the point of being completely isolated!
Why was the battle so tragic?
He had chosen the wrong battlefield!
I, Chang, insisted on having a strategic decisive battle with the Japanese in the Songhu area.
In the Songhu area, the Japanese's naval cannons had the advantage of overwhelming the battlefield!!
The threat of the Japanese naval cannons!
The wealth that the party and the country had accumulated over the past ten years had basically been destroyed by the Japanese's naval cannons!
The fighter jets in the air were shot down by the Japanese cannons.
The heavy artillery on the ground was the main target of the Japanese cannons.
The Japanese cannons!
As the artillery shells weighing over a thousand pounds smashed down, battalions were destroyed.
Therefore!
In the early stages of the battle, all of the heavy artillery of the national army was basically wiped out by the Japanese cannons.
Without air superiority!
Without the cover and suppression of heavy firepower from the ground!
Just relying on the soldiers of the national army to charge with their heads was simply a live target.
This battle was extremely f * cking useless.
Of course!
The Japanese have a fleet of cannons, so do we!
But…
Without the cover of the fighter planes, the fleet was blown up by the Japanese bomber before they could even leave the port.
For this!
The commander-in-chief of the navy, Chen Shaokuan, had no choice but to cut off his arm to survive. He sank the remaining 10 ships on the Jiangyin Fortress to block the river and prevent the enemy's ships from breaking through the Jiangyin Fortress and threatening Jinling City.
In the end!
Launching a strategic battle in the Songhu area was a great mistake in strategic decisions.
And now!
It was not too late to mend the fold.
As long as they could withdraw the 100-odd divisions from the Songhu battlefield before the Japanese reinforcements landed, they would be able to defend Wu Fuxi's defense line.
But…
You, Chang, gathered everyone not to discuss the matter of withdrawing troops!
Instead, they were trying to guess where the Japanese troops would land.!
Motherf * cker!
Why the f * ck do you care where he logged in?
It was more important to withdraw the main force first!
"Your Excellency! Forgive the Ministry for being blunt, but it doesn't matter to us where the Japanese are coming from! There is only one choice in front of us now, and that is to retreat!”
He Yingqin was the first to stand up.
Wu Fuxi's national defense line was something that He Jingzhi and the Desi Military Advisor Group had spent five years working on!
But…
The war had turned out like this. Their entire five years of hard work had turned into an empty shell and became a decoration!
How could He Jingzhi not bleed?
However!
It was still not too late to withdraw the troops and redeploy them to the national defense line!
Otherwise!
Once Songhu was defeated, not to mention Shanghai, even Jinling would be in danger.
"That's right! The Ministry of Civil Affairs also agreed with Brother Jingzhi's advice. The Battle of Songhu could not continue!”Bai Zhuge, the deputy general staff officer, also suggested.
"That's right! The casualties in the Battle of Songhu are too great. If we continue to fight, it may endanger the fate of the party and the country!”
"I suggest that we follow the previous strategy and redeploy our troops to the national defense line. We can use the strong fortifications on the national defense line to fight against the Japanese!”
After He Jingzhi and Bai Zhuge, the two heads of the military, expressed their stance, the other Commanders of the other armies were already fuming with anger and echoed.
Regarding this!
Principal Chang was also dumbfounded. He had not gathered the generals for a meeting to discuss the withdrawal of troops!
Should they withdraw or not?
Didn't he know what was going on?
The Nine Western Nations Conference was about to begin at the beginning of the month!
If, at this moment!
He withdrew his troops on a large scale and gave up the entire Shanghai area to the ghost bandits?
What kind of joke was this?
Principal Chang was still insistent!
They could persist until the Nine Nations Conference was held and obtain the assistance of the Western countries or mediate between them!
This was Principal Chang's wish!
Therefore!
Principal Chang would never withdraw this soldier!
At the very least, they couldn't retreat now!
At the very least, they had to persist until the specific agenda of the Nine Nations Conference was decided. It was not too late to talk about withdrawing troops.
But now, all the generals had unanimously requested to withdraw their troops, and it was difficult to go against their wishes!
Principal Chang looked pleadingly at his chief military advisor, General Fakenhauser.
However, he realized that this old fellow was also shrugging his shoulders and did not express any opinion.
Obviously, this German guy was not optimistic either.
"Alright then! The command center should quickly make a…"
It was also at this time that Wang Shihe rushed into the conference hall and whispered a few words into Principal Chang's ear.
Instantly, Principal Chang's eyes lit up and he continued,"
"The command center will prepare a withdrawal plan and inform the Third Battle Area to await further orders!”
Huh?
What was going on?
Why didn't they retreat again?
……
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