When Zhao Wenzhao walked into the Wuhan camp hall, the press conference had not yet begun, but the hall was already filled with reporters from Western countries stationed in Han. On the contrary, there were not many Chinese media reporters, because many reporters were still on the way back to Wuhan urgently, and for this, the press conference was postponed for half a day.

Although no officials of the National Government have appeared yet and Chairman Jiang is even more invisible, this does not affect the media reporters who have already arrived to discuss the great victory of Wanjialing.

As soon as Zhao Wenzhao walked into the hall, Fan Changjiang, a reporter from Ta Kung Pao who was familiar with him, came up happily.

Fan Changjiang is an outstanding social activist and journalist in modern China. He spent ten months traveling to the northwest provinces, giving great reports on the poverty of the northwest provinces and the Long March of the Red Army. It caused great response at that time. The book "Northwest Corner of China" compiled by this series of reports was also a hit.

Because Fan Changjiang's reports on the Red Army's Long March were relatively objective, fair and open, he won the favor of the Communist Party and had frequent contacts with the Communist Party. Zhao Wenzhao, a reporter from Xinhua News Agency in Wuhan, established a deep personal relationship with Fan Changjiang because of his similar background, experience and career.

"Brother Wenzhao, you didn't leave?"

"Brother Changjiang, didn't you leave?"

The two of them hugged each other with their arms open, but they could not hide the joy between their eyebrows.

In fact, not only Fan Changjiang, but also Zhao Wenzhao are happy. Even many Western journalists are sincerely happy. To put it nicely, these Western journalists are naturally full of internationalism and are full of sympathy for China's arduous war of resistance. In fact, to put it bluntly, they do not want Japan to dominate China.

There has never been a free lunch in this world. No country or nation can truly treat another nation selflessly. Another country, even after the founding of New China, the Red Soviet Union had a purpose to assist China. Its main intention was to control China through aid and make China a satellite state of the Soviet Union. However, the CCP was unwilling to become a branch of the Soviet Communist Party, especially Chairman Mao could not accept the control of the Soviet Communist Party, so the two countries quickly became in trouble. Later, the Soviet Union withdrew experts from aid China and forced China to repay its debts. The previous friendship was gone.

Even if the Soviet Union, which was in the socialist camp, was like this, let alone the Western powers.

But the situation is different now. Now the little Japanese dominates the Far East, while the Western powers are deeply restrained by Germany in Europe and have no time to take care of Asia. Western journalists who stand on their own position certainly hope that the national army can slash the arrogance of the Japanese army and make Japan's attempt to quickly destroy China failed.

To put it bluntly, this has nothing to do with humanitarianism, nor is it a shitty international friendship. It is all a trick. There has always been only a naked exchange of interests between countries.

When the two came to the corner, Fan Changjiang asked, "Wen Zhao, are you going to De'an?"

"De'an?" Zhao Wenzhao was stunned and asked back, "Are you going to De'an?"

Fan Changjiang nodded and said seriously: "Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, the National Government will organize a condolence group to De'an. I plan to follow him. On the one hand, I would like to express my respect to the soldiers of the National Army on the De'an battlefield. On the other hand, I also want to verify the number of dead enemies reported on the De'an battlefield. As a responsible media person, I hope that every number that appears in the Ta Kung Pao can stand the test of history."

Fan Changjiang's words clearly meant something, referring to the Taierzhuang victory.

It is undeniable that the Taierzhuang victory was the first victory on the front battlefield of the Anti-Japanese War. Whether it was the number of dead enemies, the number of prisoners, or the materials seized, there were unprecedented. In comparison, the Pingxingguan victory seemed insignificant. The Pingxingguan victory was not even considered a true victory. The 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army only ambushed a large baggage of Japanese troops. It was only because the Kuomintang army was defeating continuously that the Pingxingguan battle became a highlight of the early stage of the War of Resistance. In order to boost the determination and morale of the national military and civilians, the National Government could only urge it with its nose and hype, calling it Pingxingguan victory.

The Taierzhuang victory was the first major victory on the front battlefield of the national army. It was real, but it actually had moisture in the number of killing enemies. In the battle of Taierzhuang, Sun Lianzhongdi's army did severely damage the Segaya detachment of the Japanese, and seized a lot of them. When the Japanese were defeated, they discarded a large amount of supplies, but the number of killing enemies was actually only more than a thousand, rather than the official publication of more than ten thousand. In fact, the entire Segaya detachment was less than ten thousand. In the battle of Taierzhuang, more than ten thousand enemies were killed. The Segaya detachment was directly wiped out. Where could there be any breakthrough?

The Seya Detachment was able to recover quickly because the injured officers and soldiers were quickly recovered and returned to the team.

Of course, if the entire Xuzhou Battle is counted, the number of killing enemies is indeed more than 10,000, but if calculated in this way, the number of killing enemies in the Battle of Songhu has reached more than 30,000, but can this be called a great victory? Of course not, the National Army of the Songhu Battle lost. The so-called great victory must be controlled by you after the battle.

Therefore, Fan Changjiang did not believe the number of more than 10,000 enemies reported by Xue Yue's corps. He was more willing to believe that this was just an opportunity to promote the National Government. Of course, he would not jump out to question Xue Yue's corps at this time, but it did not mean that he would give up his exploration of the truth, so he wanted to go to De'an for an on-site interview.

It has to be said that the media people in this era are still very responsible, unlike later media people, who can be said to be unconventional and have no bottom line. They dare to talk nonsense on the Internet under the guise of public intellectuals, completely ignoring their remarks that they mislead many young people who are not well-informed in the world, and they have no idea how bad their behavior will have.

"I'm afraid I can't go." Although Zhao Wenzhao wanted to go, there was still a big deal in Wuhan waiting for him to deal with. However, when he went to De'an, Zhao Wenzhao remembered something. He took out a letter from his briefcase and handed it to Fan Changjiang, reminding him, "Brother Changjiang, please help me and pass this letter to Captain Xu of the Independent 19th Brigade of the 58th Division."

(Split Line)

As many reporters were still rushing back to Wuhan, the press conference was forced to postpone, but Chairman Jiang was not idle. Taking advantage of this short gap, he had already roughly understood the whole story of the Wanjialing victory through radio waves. He heard that Xue Yue's regiment failed to achieve the tactical goal of completely annihilated the 10th Bail Regiment of the Little Japan, but let hundreds of people including Matsuura Junruoro break through. He felt very regretful, but soon Chairman Jiang threw this little regret behind his mind.

Chairman Jiang still cannot forget his mood after hearing about the victory in Taierzhuang. At that time, Chairman Jiang's mood was really overturned. He was full of sweet, sweet, bitter, spicy, salty and delicious. On the one hand, he was happy that the national army finally achieved a decent victory on the front battlefield, but on the other hand, this victory was achieved by Li Zongren, the old opponent, commanding hundreds of thousands of miscellaneous troops, which made Chairman Jiang feel quite uncomfortable.

But now, the Wanjialing Victory is a major victory created by the Central Army

Although Xue Yue is not a Huangpu student of Chairman Jiang, he is also a long-time general of the Central Military System.

What made Chairman Jiang feel inexplicably excited was that the 5th Pei, who had always been highly anticipated by him, played a crucial role in the Wanjialing Victory. You should know that Wang Yaowu was appointed as the deputy commander of the 74th Army, was appointed by Chairman Jiang. Yu Jishi firmly opposed it at the beginning, but in the end, Chairman Jiang chose Wang Yaowu.

Wang Yaowu finally did not disappoint Chairman Jiang and returned Chairman Jiang with a refreshing victory.
Chapter completed!