Chapter 84: The Battle of Wuhan Ends
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After returning from the automobile factory and having just passed a few days of stable life with the two beauties, the headquarters sent a report on the battle between Wuhan.
The Wuhan Battle has ended. Looking at the battle report, Zhang Yunfei felt silent. History has experienced a large deviation here, and this deviation is mainly reflected in the casualties of the troops of both China and Japan.
Perhaps it was because of the arrival of Zhang Yunfei, the little butterfly, that history had undergone a major change. The Japanese played an absolute advantage in land, sea and air equipment in the Battle of Wuhan. They fought hard for several months and annihilated several main troops of the Kuomintang. The ** troops suffered as many casualties as 700,000 to 800,000, including a large number of direct Central Army.
However, the Japanese army suffered more than 200,000 casualties. During the war, the Japanese army had replenished personnel several times, and the total number of people participating in the war reached more than 500,000. The Japanese army used the largest force that could be gathered at that time.
Although the battle ended with the Japanese occupying Wuhan, it was unexpected that this battle was much more tragic than in history, and the number of deaths between China and Japan was much higher than recorded in history.
Due to heavy casualties, the remaining nearly two million elite troops have retreated to several southwestern provinces and abandoned large tracts of North China, Central China, East China and South China. However, in these occupied areas, nearly one million troops remained, and insisted on guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines.
Seeing such large casualties between the two sides, both China and Japan were at the point of being injured. Zhang Yunfei analyzed that after the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese army, which had already felt insufficient troops, became increasingly lacking as the front line extended, and were unable to organize large-scale strategic offensives such as the Battle of Songhu, Xuzhou and Wuhan, aiming to capture cities and territories, and were forced to turn to strategic defense.
This led to the development of China's War of Resistance from the strategic defense stage to the strategic stalemate stage, and the Japanese invading army fell into the quagmire of the protracted war that it was most reluctant to engage in and could not extricate itself, which led to a change in Japan's policy of aggression: from military strikes as the main force, political inducement as the auxiliary, to political inducement as the main force, and military strike as the auxiliary; from fighting on the front battlefield with the main force, to transferring troops to "public security" battle on the battlefield behind enemy lines.
It seems that the Japanese will not have a good life in the next few months. The troops participating in the war need to rest and replenish supplies, and they also need to be stationed in such a large occupied area. The area currently has an area of several million square kilometers. The Japanese troops in China, except for the Kwantung Army, will only be 300,000 or 400,000. It is estimated that the Japanese occupied areas, except for big cities, are limited to several kilometers on both sides of the main transportation lines.
The vast rural areas and mountainous areas will be fertile soil for the development of guerrillas behind enemy lines and the establishment of anti-Japanese bases.
After reading the battle report, Zhang Yunfei was in a very good mood. It was a great opportunity. It seemed that it was his turn to perform. What should he do while the Japanese soldiers are currently empty?
Well, if you have to work, you have to hurry up. In a few months, a large number of newly formed divisions of the Japanese may land in China, and of course they may also go south to Southeast Asia to fight.
However, now I took the opportunity to fight the Japanese. If the Japanese were beaten to hurt, the Japanese would form a large number of newly formed divisions in a few months. If they did not go south to Southeast Asia to fight and concentrate on dealing with themselves first, it would be a troublesome at that time.
Should I fight or not?
Zhang Yunfei walked around the office, thought carefully, and after thinking for a long time, Zhang Yunfei decided to take a gamble. Zhang Yunfei bet that the established strategic policy of Japan would not change because of himself.
The greedy little Japan will definitely send troops to Southeast Asia to establish its Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Circle, and will not put all its troops into the Chinese battlefield.
As a country with poor resources, Southeast Asia has rich resources and excellent seaports, especially the "Strait of Malacca", known as the throat of the Pacific Ocean, which is full of temptation to Japan.
Since he decided to make a gamble and do a good job, Zhang Yunfei walked to the huge war room, looked at the huge tactical sand table in the center of the war room, and thought carefully.
Just when Zhang Yunfei was thinking, a war room staff officer walked up to Zhang Yunfei, stood attentively, saluted and said, "Report to the division commander, the soldiers arrested three Japanese people at a checkpoint more than 100 kilometers north of Datong just now, but these Japanese people are different from the Japanese we have captured before. These three Japanese people always say they want to see you, Commander."
Since Zhang Yunfei's troops restored Datong, the Japanese have increased their reconnaissance efforts in Datong base. Fortunately, Zhang Yunfei has increased his defense and the soldiers have also arrested several groups of Japanese who attempted to sneak into Datong.
Unexpectedly, the Japanese arrested today actually said they wanted to see Zhang Yunfei. This was the first time this happened.
After thinking about it, Zhang Yunfei decided to meet these Japanese, so he said to the nearby war room staff: "I want to meet these Japanese people to Datong."
I was originally going to think about it and engage in a large-scale battle to take the opportunity to fight the Japanese, but unexpectedly, before the action, the Japanese even brought him an appetizer.
On the north of Datong, three Japanese were tied up by the soldiers in this post of the 136th Division. At first, these Japanese were quite arrogant and were clamoring and calling out, but after being slapped by the soldiers for a few times, they immediately became honest and allowed the soldiers to tie them up. However, one Japanese began to shout loudly in stiff Chinese, saying that there was something important and they wanted to see Zhang Yunfei.
A battalion commander at the checkpoint immediately took it seriously and reported the situation to the Datong Command Center using the checkpoint phone. Not long after, the command center called and asked the checkpoint to send people to bring three little Japanese to the Datong Command Center.
Three little Japanese, tied like rice dumplings, were pushed and shoved by the soldiers onto a large truck. About a squad of soldiers also boarded the truck. The truck drove out the checkout in a while and drove onto a simple sand and gravel road. After driving a few kilometers along the sand and gravel road, it drove onto a wide and flat cement road.
At present, Datong has practiced several cement roads. These spacious cement roads connect Datong with several surrounding counties. In the past, it took a day to ride a horse, but now it takes only two or three hours to drive.
The highway not only ensures that the troops can move quickly and all kinds of combat materials can be delivered to the front line quickly and smoothly, but also greatly facilitates the lives of the people around them. When ordinary people go to the county town or go to Datong, they no longer have to take muddy and curved paths, but have flat cement roads.
The big truck followed the road and reached Datong in just over two hours. Three little Japanese arrived at Zhang Yunfei's command center under the escort of the soldiers.
"Report to the division commander, three Japanese have been brought to the command office. Please ask the division commander for instructions." A soldier walked to Zhang Yunfei and reported loudly.
"Oh, it's here so soon. Thank you for your hard work. Take the person to the side hall of the command center." Zhang Yunfei said.
The partial hall of the command center is specially used to entertain people outside the army, such as visiting journalists, ordinary people, businessmen, celebrities, etc., all of them will be received in the partial hall and will not be brought into the command center's office or war room, because there are many military secrets involved.
Chapter completed!