The Battle of Xuzhou ended with the expectations of the people, but it did not achieve the results that people imagined. The Japanese army controlled the north-south and east-west transportation lines of China at the cost of nearly 30,000 people, laying a solid foundation for the Battle of Wuhan. Looking at the entire Battle of Xuzhou, although there were a lot of troops invested, the National Government did not achieve brilliant results. It was a general failure in the Battle of Xuzhou.

The loss of Xuzhou marked the loss of the Longhai Line of the Jinpu Line. After the Japanese army controlled the railway, the mobility of the squadrons further reduced the entire Xuzhou Battle was originally in Chairman Jiang's plan, but the result was not consistent with the previous idea. The situation in the entire China was further deteriorating.

Chairman Chiang dispatched nearly one million troops, while only about 300,000 troops in the Japanese army participated in the war, but the casualties ratio between China and Japan did reach 3:1. The Japanese army's advantage was indeed significantly increased, and this result was achieved when the number of people was at an absolute disadvantage. It has to be said that the gap with the Japanese army is very large, which is so big that it is insurmountable.

However, the Battle of Xuzhou naturally had a positive side. The battle was held. The Japanese army mobilized 8 divisions and 5 brigades and about 300,000 people. The Chinese troops participated in the war had 70 divisions and about 1 million. It took five months. The officers and soldiers of the squadron fought bravely. First, they stopped the Japanese army on the southern bank of the Huai River and broke their attempt to join the Japanese army on the northern front; then defeated the Japanese army on the eastern front in Zibo area, and blocked the right wing of the Japanese army on the western front in Jiaxiang area, smashing the Japanese plan to meet in Taierzhuang in Taierzhuang.

During the battle in Taierzhuang area, the Fifth War Zone adopted active defensive tactics, with one part serving as the inside defense and the other part placed on the outside fighting, combining offense and defense, flexible maneuvering, and achieving a great victory. Afterwards, the highest military authorities regardless of the overall situation of the enemy being strong and we being weak, mobilized a large army near Xuzhou, attempting to fight the Japanese army to a decisive battle, which made the battle passive in the later stage.

Despite this, this battle suppressed and consumed the Japanese army's live power. The squadron killed and injured more than 26,000 Japanese soldiers at the cost of more than 65,000 casualties. In addition to striking a huge blow to the Japanese army, it also delayed the Japanese offensive level, winning time for the deployment of the Wuhan Battle. The Japanese army's offensive target was basically the same as China's defensive targets.

Chairman Jiang and others also saw the Japanese army's ambitions. In the later stage, they just delayed the Japanese army and began to further deploy the Wuhan battle. At this moment, all the serial troops began to receive defense news centered on Wuhan. Xue Yue's regiment began to gather heavily in the southern part of Henan, intending to prevent the Japanese army from entering Wuhan south.

The Chinese Navy also deployed defenses day and night at the Yangtze River port. The reefs and thunders flooded the entire Yangtze River, intending to destroy Japanese warships and prevent Japanese warships from attacking Wuhan. This defense achieved great results later. The Japanese army finally gave up the waterway because of these reefs and thunders. It has to be said that Chairman Chiang also took great pains to the battle of Wuhan, but the gap in comprehensive national strength cannot be compensated in a short period of time. Everyone knows this, otherwise it would be impossible to lose such an important supply line with the power of millions of soldiers.

Looking at the entire Xuzhou Battle, if it were not for Chairman Jiang's eagerness to achieve success, the Japanese army would definitely not have occupied such an important transportation line in just a few months. However, no one would comment on whether such an ending was good or bad. After all, without the Xuzhou Battle, the Japanese army further enhanced their ambitions, and they would not have quickly gathered their troops to start the Wuhan Battle.

After the Battle of Xuzhou, the Japanese army was full of momentum, sweeping away the haze of the Songhu battlefield before. Although the Songhu battlefield was successful before, it did not achieve the goal of deterring the entire China. The Battle of Xuzhou undoubtedly added this weight to them. Now, in the eyes of the Chinese people, it is obviously not so mysterious. More than one million to three hundred thousand finally allowed the Japanese to get such a large area, which made the morale of the entire Chinese military and civilians also lowered to a very low place.

Although a group of patriotic anti-Japanese generals emerged during the Battle of Xuzhou, in general, the Battle of Xuzhou was a failure and did not have a heavy blow to the Japanese army as expected. On the contrary, the Japanese army connected East China and North China, making their mobility more flexible

At this moment, Wang Mingyu had already begun to think about the war. Chairman Jiang learned that the 318th Army had appeared in Tongcheng and participated in the Wuhan Battle. He was relieved. In order to appease the 318th Army, he let them fight with peace of mind. Chairman Jiang spared no expense to let Minister He Yingqin prepare several tons of materials and drove the greenway to the front line of Tongcheng.

Wang Mingyu was also surprised at the generous manner of Chairman Jiang, because these supplies were enough for the entire 318 army to use for more than a year, but then he understood Chairman Jiang's idea. Now Chairman Jiang at least thinks he is his own family, so he has fewer concerns when allocating supplies. One is that good steel should be used on the blade. The 318 army is undoubtedly the most prominent force in the entire combat sequence.

If Chairman Jiang was still thinking about that little thing at this time, then would he still have the plan for the entire Wuhan? Chairman Jiang, who had lost his people once in Nanjing, urgently hoped to defend Wuhan to boost morale among the people. However, Wang Mingyu understood Chairman Jiang. Once the battle became favorable, Chairman Jiang would likely become passive to active, just like the battle in Xuzhou, and wanted to win and defeat with the Japanese army.

If this happens, Wang Mingyu estimates that the Battle of Wuhan will eventually end in failure. After all, although there are more than 20,000 people on his side, they can restrain at least 60,000 Japanese troops, but it is unknown if other troops can also restrain the Japanese troops.

It is not that the combat effectiveness is low. In fact, the combat effectiveness is actually very good. But the morale of the army is unstable who still has the heart to fight. If even the generals leading the army begin to doubt their abilities, then these soldiers who can only obey commands will naturally fall apart. This situation has occurred many times in the late stage of the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Xuzhou.

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