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Chapter 95 Bloody Battle of Songshan (1)

Jieshi had his own courage, energy and leadership qualities. He was not only a person, but also in the sense of Greek tragedy, he was also a tragic person. The accident of history forced Chiang Kai-shek to compete with another more unique and better character Mao ZD, which was Chiang Kai-shek's misfortune. In other words, Chiang Kai-shek lacked the prerequisite for those generals and politicians to be remembered forever - luck. His luck was extremely bad, and similarly, his mistakes were indeed immeasurable.

He was sure of his moral integrity, but he turned a blind eye to his family members and subordinates' ugly behavior of accumulating wealth. Chiang Kai-shek did not realize what was happening and did not take any measures to do so. This was his major negligence.

The Kuomintang was isolated in Chongqing, an unacceptable wartime capital, with public facilities here being too crowded and inconvenient, and the climate was unbearable. The Kuomintang regime soon became corrupt, but this became a way of life for senior officers and bureaucrats. The large number of conscription was indignant, and the peasants in shackles were hungry. The fact that they were threatened by illness and death made the slightest possibility of supporting Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang eliminated. Finally, huge inflation first appeared in Chongqing, reaching the peak after the war, bringing endless disasters to the people and causing the regime to be generally corrupt and degenerate.

Most of the mistakes Chiang Kai-shek made may be due to potential shortcomings in his personality and thoughts, as well as the lack of education in his childhood.

He is good at provoking one person or one person against another, but his point of view is a narrow military view. He attempts to rely on strength to achieve his authority, and his way of dealing with rebels is punishment rather than transformation. In his opinion, the greatest crime is infidelity. There are three contradictions in his character. One of them is that although he can retaliate against his opponents cruelly and often adopt immediate interrogation and execution, he lacks the cruel character he has to be completely a memorable tyrant.

Chiang Kai-shek's mind was too simple. From a propaganda perspective, this simplification is meaningful, but from a political decision-making perspective, it means that it lacks creativity.

After Wu Ming turned around and left, Chiang Kai-shek did not leave because of something. Instead, he picked up a document on the table and read it carefully.

"Junru, come out!" Chiang Kai-shek said gently lowering the information in his hand.

"Yes, Chairman." Wei Lihuang turned out from behind the screen.

Wei Lihuang, Han nationality, with the name Junru, was from Hefei, Anhui Province. When he was young, he served as a guard in the Guangzhou National Government of Mr. Sun Yat-sen. Later, he served as the commander of the 14th Division of the First Army of the National Revolutionary Army, deputy commander of the Ninth Army, commander of the martial law of Xuzhou, deputy commander of the capital garrison, commander of the 14th Army. Commander-in-chief of the 14th Army and commander-in-chief of the front enemy of the Second War Zone, commander-in-chief of the First War Zone. Chairman of Henan Province, commander-in-chief of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and deputy commander-in-chief of the Chinese Army of the Allied China Theater.

General Wei Lihuang was one of the "Five Tiger Generals" in the Kuomintang army. He started as a guard of Mr. Sun Yat-sen and entered the wave of democratic revolution movements, and gradually moved from an ordinary soldier to the peak of his life as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Chinese Army. This was really a rare miracle for generals of the miscellaneous army.

Since the Chinese Expeditionary Force crossed the Nujiang River and launched a large counterattack from the west, the front-line troops have made little progress, and the Japanese army has a tendency to counterattack. When the United States sent people to send a captured emergency intelligence and accompanied by a chart of the Japanese defense force deployment on the east bank of the Nujiang River, Wei Lihuang was shocked and extremely angry. Because the Japanese deployment was undoubtedly clear and targeted. According to the plan, the Expeditionary Force's attack was divided into left and right wings. On the left, Songshan and Longling were feinted by an army, with the purpose of dispersing and restraining the enemy, and the right-wing Tengchong was the main attack. The main attack group was the 20th Army, and the 11th Army served as reinforcements. However, the Japanese army seemed to have already understood the deployment of the Expeditionary Force and concentrated all the more than 30,000 main forces of the 56th Division in Teng.

Attacking the front line of Ligong Mountain, the attacking troops failed repeatedly, and the reinforcements were blocked in the canyon; artillery fire could not be carried out,: According to the mountain, the Chinese army was killed and injured in a large number of people. In the first week of the war, nearly 10,000 casualties were killed and tens of thousands of people. In June, the rainy season came, heavy rain fell, the river water rose sharply, and the Chinese military and local offensive almost collapsed on its own. If the 200,000 Chinese army could not win against only 30,000 Japanese troops, the impact of failure would soon spread to northern Myanmar, Impal and the entire Southeast Asia. The Japanese were completely likely to advance directly, taking advantage of the victory and attacking Myanmar, India, attacking Kunming, Guiyang, and Chongqing. At that time, the "dominoes" on the Asian battlefield would have an unpredictable collapse due to a small Nujiang battlefield.

The leak is in

The senior generals caused great shock. Who and how to get the secrets there, Wei Lihuang determined that there was a spy in Chongqing. As a real soldier, he was different from political soldiers such as He Yingqin and Chen Cheng. When soldiers faced the victory or defeat of the war, politicians faced the gains and losses. He recruited the two commanders-in-chief of the army overnight to discuss countermeasures. After obtaining the unanimous agreement of the two commanders of the army, he immediately ordered the General Staff to change the original offensive plan. He personally took the newly drafted combat plan and went straight to Chongqing to meet Chiang Kai-shek.

"Junru, what do you think of Mr. Liu?" Chiang Kai-shek pointed to the sofa and asked directly.

Wei Lihuang sat down respectfully and thought, "It's very insightful, dare to tell the truth, but it's not easy to control."

"It was probably because he had been abroad for a long time and was influenced by foreigners' speeches and behaviors." Chiang Kai-shek lowered his eyes and said quietly: "Fortunately, he is serving the party and the country. Let him be an instructor in Kunming. He can not only cultivate talents for the party and the country, but also have no soldiers in his hands and cannot make much trouble."

"Chairman Gao Jian." Wei Lihuang said.

"The change and deployment before the enemy is of great importance, who can be responsible?" Chiang Kai-shek asked seriously.

Wei Lihuang stood up and stood attentively, saluting, "If you fail, you are willing to take responsibility for your position."

Chiang Kai-shek stared at Wei Lihuang without saying anything for a long time. Finally, he lowered his head, picked up his pen, and signed his name on the new combat plan.

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On the southern foot of the Hengduan Mountains and the west bank of the Nujiang River, there is a dangerous peak with an altitude of 2,690. It is like a huge terrifying monster guarding the key points of the Burmese Highway, with the momentum of "one man is at the pass, ten thousand men cannot open". Songshan is the highest peak in Longling County, shaped like a natural bridgehead.

Since the Japanese army advanced straight into the west bank of Nujiang in 1942, Songshan's strategic position has become particularly important. It not only firmly controlled the Myanmar Highway, but also controlled the initiative of the Nujiang battlefield to advance and attack, retreat and defend, and also formed a horn-like momentum with Tengchong and Longling, echoing each other. As we climbed the main peak high ground, we did not need to use telescopes to see the enemy positions in the Pohai Mountain East Coast. Usually, the clouds and fog dissipated, and everyone with standard vision could clearly see the broken Nujiang Bridge, Huitong Bridge, in the canyon, and also see the kilometer-long gray highway around the mountains on both sides of the straits like belts. Aerial survey data obtained by US aircraft showed that the 115 howitzer group set on the Songshan position of the Japanese army can at least completely complete the 100-kilometer section of the two sides of the straits; Gibraltar on the Myanmar Road."

What made the Chinese soldiers gritted their teeth was that an elite Japanese army was entrenched on it and spent a year building extremely complex permanent fortifications to form a strategic stronghold that can be attacked and retreated and defended. Thus, it firmly controlled the initiative on the Nujiang battlefield.

This elite Japanese army is the Lameng Songshan garrison under the 56th Division, a mixed force. The commander is the artilleryman, Major Jin Guang Huijiro, who has a total of 1,400 soldiers, equipped with powerful combined firepower such as 100-meter heavy artillery group, mountain cannons, tanks, anti-aircraft machine guns, etc. It is worth mentioning that this garrison is the top of the Japanese army. In the annual military competition of the Myanmar Front, they have always maintained the first three events in rifle shooting, artillery shooting, and weight climbing; especially the enemy chief Jin Guang, who is famous for his calmness and tenacity. He personally commanded a field cannon to close the fire in the battle of Nanchang, resulting in Chen An, Lieutenant General of the 29th Army of China. In the 29th Army of China, Lieutenant General Chen An, was famous for his calmness and tenacity.

It is worth mentioning that the military quality and fighting spirit of Japanese officers and soldiers are also the one-to-one and five-to-ten. If our army does not have five times to ten times the advantage over the enemy, it will not be able to annihilate the enemy. This is both the reason for soldiers and the generals. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, a Kuomintang general named Fang Cheng wrote a book called "Eight Years of the History of the War of Resistance Against Japan" based on his own personal experience, aiming to summarize experience and distinguish gains and losses. The book lists twenty-three major articles to conduct a detailed comparison of the Chinese and Japanese armies. In addition,
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