Wuhan eventually fell.
Cheng Qianfan's heart was surrounded by pain and sadness.
After the Battle of Nanjing, Wuhan fell again, and Cheng Qianfan could fully imagine that the fall of Wuhan would have a huge blow to the people of the country.
Wuhan has been known as the "bridge of nine provinces" since ancient times. It connects Jiangsu and Anhui to the east, Guizhou and Sichuan to the west, Hunan and Guangdong to the south, Henan and Hebei to the north, Yangtze River and Han River, Pinghan Railway and Guangdong-Han Railway, and intersect here, it is the most important transportation hub in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
Especially after the fall of Nanjing, the capital of the state, Wuhan became the center of the war of resistance in China.
Defend Greater Wuhan!
It is the loudest slogan of the War of Resistance in the past few months!
The "Great Japanese Locust Army" conquered Wuhan, which was a huge good news. Kentaro Miyazaki naturally wanted to respond to the joy with his teacher as soon as possible.
Cheng Qianfan ordered Li Hao to drive Bai Ruolan to school to pick up Xiaobao, and was also responsible for sending the two girls home. He got on another car and escorted the remaining security vehicles to the Japanese Embassy District of Hongkou District.
Along the way, General Xiao Cheng's convoy crossed the bridge and passed through the card. Even when he entered the British and American concession, he did not stop all the way. When the police in the British and American public concession saw General Xiao Cheng's license plate, they quickly raised the railing and let it go.
Seeing this, citizens along the way pointed secretly, and were also amazed at Mr. Xiao Cheng's current prestige and power in Shanghai.
"You guys are waiting for me outside." Cheng Qianfan sorted out his suit and said in a deep voice.
"yes."
"It is honorable to be the Chief of the Deputy Chief of the Inspector Cheng." Kogoro Imamura came out in person to welcome the Deputy Chief of the Chief of the Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer's Officer
"Is Mr. Imamura at home?" Cheng Qianfan nodded slightly.
"Just come back, Deputy General General Cheng is a coincidence." Kogoro Imamura nodded and said with a smile, "Please."
Cheng Qianfan, led by Kogoro Imamura, climbed the stairs and came to the entrance of the study.
Kogoro Imamura was about to come forward and knock on the door, but Cheng Qianfan shook his head, "I'll do it myself."
After saying that, he sorted out his clothes, then walked forward and knocked on the door.
"Kogoro, is it you?" Imura Hitaro's voice came from inside.
"Teacher, it's me." Cheng Qianfan said.
"Kentaro is here, come in." Hitotaro Imamura said.
"yes!"
Cheng Qianfan pushed the door open and nodded to Kogoro Imamura to thank him, and then closed the door of the study.
"Why is it here at this time?" Imamura Hitotaro was reviewing the documents, looking up at Kentaro Miyazaki and asked, "If I remember correctly, Kiyomizu-kun has made an appointment to meet you today."
"Mr. Qingshui contacted me later. Because he had something to do temporarily, he changed the time to tomorrow morning." Cheng Qianfan said.
"So that's it." Hitotaro Imamura nodded. He looked at Kentaro Miyazaki, saw the joy that could not be concealed in Kentaro's eyes, and asked with a smile, "What's so happy about it? Are you getting rich again?"
"In the eyes of the teacher, are students so vulgar and full of the smell of money?" Cheng Qianfan smiled bitterly.
"You don't like money anymore?" Hitotaro Imamura asked.
"Uh--" Cheng Qianfan was so amused and crying, and then he took out the newspaper from his body. "Teacher, the student just saw the news that the empire occupied Wuhan, and was very excited. What he thought about was to share this joy with the teacher."
As he said that, he smiled and shook his head, "After these words from your teacher, the excitement flame in the student's chest has now dissipated a lot."
"I knew you came for this." Imamura Hitaro showed a slight pride of being so true and that "everything was within my expectations."
"So the teacher has known this news for a long time?" Cheng Qianfan said in surprise, and then he laughed himself, "Yes, the teacher's news must be more informative than the newspaper office."
"What I said just now is intended to disperse and relieve your excitement." Hitotaro Imamura said, "Although the occupation of Wuhan is worth celebrating, we cannot be blinded by victory."
"Hayi." Cheng Qianfan said with a solemn face and stood attentively.
"Of course, don't be so serious, after all, this is Wuhan." Imamura Hitotaro saw Kentaro Miyazaki's serious look and said with a smile, "You can celebrate or be excited, but you must always be vigilant in your heart."
He looked at Kentaro Miyazaki, "Occupy Wuhan, or even the entire China, is just a small step for the empire to conquer the entire universe."
"Hayi, the students are too proud." Cheng Qianfan's eyes were filled with a hot and crazy light, "The future of the empire is the entire universe, and the Dahe nation will become the noblest nation on the entire earth!"
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"The empire occupied Wuhan and severely damaged the Chinese government. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is studying and analyzing and summarizing the war in Wuhan." Imamura Hitaro looked at Cheng Qianfan, "I will also assign a job for you."
"Teacher, please give me instructions, and the students must complete it carefully." Cheng Qianfan said respectfully.
Imamura Hitaro nodded, very satisfied with Kentaro Miyazaki's attitude.
He knew that although his student was very smart, capable and talented, he was sometimes a little lazy and his energy was affected by the 'copper smell'.
However, whenever he ordered, assigned work, or assigned "assessment homework", Kentaro Miyazaki's attitude has always been correct, without any shirks or carelessness.
"I have some information and information about the Wuhan war here. You can study it and write a research report and hand it over to me." Hitotaro Imamura said.
"Hayi." Cheng Qianfan took the document bag respectfully with both hands.
Hitaro Imamura lowered his head to review the documents again. After a few minutes, he raised his head and looked surprised, "Why are you still here?"
"The teacher didn't say anything, how could the student..." Cheng Qianfan said.
"I'm busy." Hitotaro Imamura smiled, "Go, you are my student, why are you still so restrained in front of me?"
"It's not just being reserved, it's respect for the teacher." Cheng Qianfan explained.
"You, you." Hitotaro Imamura waved his hand.
Then Cheng Qianfan bowed respectfully, stepped back to the door, turned around and opened the door, and gently brought the door with him.
A few minutes later, Hitotaro Imamura raised his head and saw the newspaper that Kentaro Miyazaki had forgotten. He got up and picked it up and looked at it. He saw that some parts of the newspaper seemed to have been wet before, but now they are dry again.
Imamura Hitaro couldn't help but shake his head and sighed softly, "Kentaro is so pure and innocent about the Empire!"
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Return to the residence in Yanderi.
Cheng Qianfan was just in time for dinner with Bai Ruolan and Xiaobao.
"What's wrong? My Xiaobao is in a bad mood." Cheng Qianfan knocked Xiaobao's little head with his quick hand.
"Xiao Ming hasn't come to school for two days." Xiao Bao sighed softly.
"Didn't you say that Lu Xiaoming bullies other classmates? Don't you like to play with this classmate?" Cheng Qianfan asked with a smile.
"Xiaoming doesn't come to school, I haven't hit him for two days..." Xiaobao said it was so easy, covering his mouth with a whisper.
When Cheng Qianfan heard this, he couldn't help but feel amused.
"Have students Lu Xiaoming bullied other students recently?" Cheng Qianfan asked.
"I didn't dare to do it when I was there. When I was away, he still bullied other classmates." Xiaobao was a little distressed, holding his chin with both hands, "I don't know what to do."
"So you beat Xiaoming every day?" Cheng Qianfan laughed, and then he said with a slightly serious expression, "If you bully other classmates, your brother will definitely be angry."
Xiaobao looked up at him.
Cheng Qianfan continued, "However, for Lu Xiaoming who bullies his classmates, my brother specifically approved you to beat him up."
"Really?" Xiaobao's eyes lit up.
"Of course." Cheng Qianfan nodded.
Amid Xiaobao's cheers, Cheng Qianfan stood up and returned to the study on the second floor. Behind him, Bai Ruolan's "learning" Xiaobao's voice came.
Words like ‘can’t fight’, ‘bad fight’ floated into his ears.
Xiaobao seemed to have talked about a few evil things about how Lu Xiaoming bullied his classmates.
Cheng Qianfan listened secretly and heard Bai Ruolan say:
You are capable of fighting, Lu Xiaoming dares not tell the teacher, and if the teacher doesn't come to me, I will ignore it.
Cheng Qianfan couldn't help laughing.
Close the door of the study room, but Cheng Qianfan had a serious expression on his face:
Lu Xiaoming hasn't come to school for two days?
What's the reason?
What happened to his family?
...
Cheng Qianfan carefully studied the information and information given by Hitaro Imamura.
To be precise, this should be the preliminary study and analysis of the Wuhan war by Hitaro Imamura himself.
"this--"
Cheng Qianfan showed a shocked and ecstatic look, because the information and information provided by Imamura Hitaro is very detailed, and some of the information is even confidential.
Although it is not necessarily a very confidential information, it is difficult to truly access.
It can be said that if it were not for the teacher-student relationship of Imamura Hitaro, it would be very difficult, and even almost impossible, to obtain these information.
After Cheng Qianfan carefully studied the information and information, he had already sorted out the important information, information, or what he personally thought was very valuable.
Then he made a draft in his heart and began to write quickly:
"After the Battle of Xuzhou, the Tokyo Base Camp had a fierce discussion on whether to continue to march into Wuhan.
The Tokyo Base Camp has estimated that if further attacks Wuhan, it will require at least 2.1 billion yen to increase military expenditure.
In addition, given that the Japanese army was extremely tired after the Battle of Xuzhou, the base camp needed to add 300,000 to 400,000 troops to the Wuhan battlefield.
The huge military expenditure and the scale of military increase have made the Japanese cabinet actually not uniform or even contradictory in its idea of ​​attacking Wuhan.
However, the Japanese Navy and Army were very eager to occupy Wuhan.
The Japanese Army and Navy generally believe that if they can finally successfully occupy Wuhan, they will maximize the speed of occupying the entire China.
One of the most important points of the Japanese Army is that occupying Wuhan will bring a huge blow to Chongqing and help force Chongqing to surrender.
The Japanese base camp believes that the capture of Wuhan has great political, military and economic significance:
On the one hand, this can destroy China's anti-Japanese war center;
On the other hand, the government lost Nanjing and Wuhan one after another, which would directly hit the prestige of the government and then force Chongqing to surrender and seek peace.
"Even if Chongqing does not surrender and loses Wuhan, it means losing Hunan, Hubei granaries, and the only economic center in mainland China.
Not only will the National Government lose its ability to be self-sufficient economically, it can also cut off the weapon delivery channel - the Guangdong-Hankou Railway."
After thinking about it, Cheng Qianfan crossed out this passage. He believed that both the teacher and Comrade Xiangwu had long seen this very thoroughly and he didn't need to say much.
However, he then added it, which was what he gained from the information and tried to maximize the restoration of the information content.
Among them, in Cheng Qianfan's view, the Japanese base camp's estimate of the military expenditure and military strength of the Wuhan war is of strong reference value for Japan's national strength and military mobilization capabilities.
In addition, according to information and intelligence, the Japanese base camp was actually not directly determining the current military plan to capture Wuhan, but was constantly adjusting and changing.
The Japanese Army Base Camp once formulated a plan for how to capture Wuhan.
The military strategy of the North China Front Army was specifically the Japanese North China Front Army planned to go south along the Pinghan Railway and fight all the way until it reached Hankou.
After fierce discussions, the Japanese army in North China analyzed the advantages and disadvantages.
The advantage of this military strategy is that the roads are smooth, the plains are combated, and suitable for mechanized troops.
For the national army with extremely low mechanization, the Japanese army can completely form a huge combat advantage with the mechanized army.
However, the shortcomings of the plan are also obvious. It must pass through the First, Fifth and Ninth War Zones of China, and most importantly, it must also be attacked by the Eighth Route Army in the rear.
Therefore, after fierce discussion, this military march plan was eventually denied.
The second plan of the Japanese base camp was to cross the Dabie Mountains from south of the Huai River to encircle Wuhan, preferably to be able to encircle and annihilate the main force of the national army.
The advantage of this advance strategy is that it is closest to the distance, which can maximize the shortening of advancement.
The disadvantage is that the terrain of the Dabie Mountains is complex, which is not conducive to the marching of mechanized troops, which will directly affect the Japanese supply line.
After the Yellow River Gardenkou burst, the plan was no longer needed to be discussed and was directly abandoned by the Japanese base camp.
The third plan of the Japanese base camp was to go up along the Yangtze River and attack Wuhan.
The advantage of this plan is that the Japanese army can take the initiative and use the navy, army and air forces to cooperate in combat, with a moderate attack distance.
More importantly, the Chinese army's defense on the Yangtze River defense line is extremely weak.
Of course, there are also disadvantages: the Yangtze River waterway is complex and not conducive to the marching of mechanized troops.
After the Battle of Xuzhou, the Japanese army had to carry out large-scale mobilizations on a long journey. In addition, there was another extremely important key point to achieve this plan, that is, it was necessary to occupy Jiujiang as soon as possible.
In addition, this military strategy is likely to be able to expel Chinese troops and it is difficult to annihilate them.
The third strategy adopted by the Japanese army in the end to occupy Wuhan.
Cheng Qianfan secretly went to the safe house on Deserang Road that night and sent a telegram that had been streamlined and still very long to the Northwest Headquarters.
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I returned to Suzhou, and when I got home, I kept typing.
Chapter completed!