Looking at the strategic situation of China and Japan in the Songhu area and the arrangement of troops in the sand table, Xun Huaizhou couldn't help but sigh in his heart...

Xunhuaizhou is actually very thoughtful about the Battle of Songhu. Although as early as April, when Xunhuaizhou began planning the Battle of North China, there was a situation where the battlefield was intertwined if the Battle of North China was unfavorable and the battlefield was in an intertwined state. In order to alleviate the pressure on North China, we should promptly promote the Kuomintang army or our Third Field Army to launch the Battle of Songhu in the Songhu area to disperse and attract the attention of the Japanese military and disrupt the deployment of the Japanese military.

However, at that time, Chiang Kai-shek's attitude towards the Central Army's attack on the Japanese army in Shanghai was unclear, and he firmly opposed the troops sent troops to Shanghai to attack the enemy, so the plan was almost stranded.

However, now, the People's Liberation Army has achieved such brilliant results in the Battle of North China. In the northern region, after successfully provoking the Japanese-Soviet War, Xunhuaizhou did not want the Kuomintang or our army to launch the Battle of Shanghai in an inappropriate manner at this time.

What Xun Huaizhou most hopes is that the Japanese army can concentrate its efforts in the Far East, Outer Mongolia and the Soviet army to kill each other, and it is difficult to solve.

It is best if the Japanese army can gradually advance westward and successfully advance the front to the west of Lake Berga or even the Volga.

Therefore, the decisive battle with Japan in the Songhu area at this stage will greatly restrain the energy of the Japanese army, making the Japanese army more cautious and conservative in the west of the northern front.

At the same time, it will greatly alleviate the pressure of the Soviet Union's army in the Far East. In this way, there will be many variables in the war in Siberia. It will become increasingly difficult to control it yourself.

However, since the Soviet envoy did not get the desired result in our army, he secretly advanced eastward. After promising Chiang Kai-shek a lot of benefits like a blank check, he finally successfully convinced Chiang Kai-shek.

Without engaging with our army, Chiang Kai-shek launched an attack on the Japanese army in Shanghai on the night of September 8, kicking off the Battle of Songhu.

Although, in order to support and cooperate with the Battle of North China, Chiang Kai-shek had already mobilized the Central Army from the Kuomintang-ruled areas of northern Jiangsu, Anhui and Fujian since early June, and gradually began to advance towards the Shanghai area, gradually forming a siege against the Japanese troops stationed in Shanghai. However, at present, the Japanese army's troops in Shanghai are far from the thousands of people who broke out in the Battle of Shanghai in the 1937 period of the later period of Xunzhou.

Before June, the Japanese army had already had 50,000 elite troops in Shanghai and its surrounding areas. Since the Battle of North China began in July, the Japanese army continued to increase troops in Shanghai, posing as a decisive battle with the Chinese team in Shanghai.

By early September, two divisions and a marine brigade were added. In fact, the total Japanese army's total force in Shanghai and its surrounding areas had reached more than 110,000. Moreover, outside Wusongkou, there was a Japanese aircraft carrier formation that could reinforce Japanese Shanghai troops at any time.

Although, starting from 1936, coastal areas such as Shanghai have gradually become hollowed out with the suggestions and support of our party, they were presided over by the Kuomintang and implemented very incompletely. Therefore, once the war begins, a large number of Chinese people will suffer.

What comforts Xunhuaizhou is that there are still some concessions of Western powers in Shanghai. Xunhuaizhou knows that at this stage, no matter what the outcome of the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army is not afraid to directly attack the concessions of Western powers. In this way, these concessions can become temporary refuges for Shanghai citizens.

Looking at the deployment of the Kuomintang troops on the sand table, Xun Huaizhou's face seemed to be getting colder and colder. At present, although Chiang Kai-shek had mobilized 350,000 Kuomintang Central Army to surround the Shanghai area, judging from the deployment of troops, the Kuomintang army's plans seemed to have too many goals and too large.

Perhaps affected by the PLA's record of annihilation of more than 400,000 Japanese troops in one World War. Chiang Kai-shek's plan to set up the Battle of Shanghai this time seemed to be preparing to wipe out more than 110,000 Japanese elite troops in Shanghai in one World War.

Therefore, Chiang Kai-shek divided the heavy troops into three attack directions, one from Jiaxing area to Pudong direction Wusongkou direction **, one from Suzhou Taicang area through Jiading Yuepu to Wusongkou direction **, and one from Suzhou and Wujiang direction to Shanghai city area **, hoping to wipe out the 110,000 Japanese army through three encirclements.

Looking at this somewhat naive combat plan, Xun Huaizhou seemed to be amused. Although many ideas of the Kuomintang army in this arrangement of troops were desirable. Moreover, the current Kuomintang army is much stronger than the Kuomintang army in history, and they are all equipped with German equipment.

At present, many officers at all levels who served in the Kuomintang army were once captured by generals of the Red Third Front and received relatively systematic knowledge education on Japanese combat in the captive camp of the Red Third Front. They should be able to show stronger combat power than the Battle of Shanghai in the same period in history.

However, the fatal weakness of the current Kuomintang army is that because the Kuomintang lacks military expenditure, although it is equipped with German weapons, it is concentrated on light weapons. In terms of heavy artillery and tank armor, the Kuomintang Central Army divisions are seriously short of units.

Moreover, Chiang Kai-shek was superstitious about the German army. Now, the Kuomintang army is still a small division with about 13,000 people, which is very unfavorable to compete with the Japanese army's current division with more than 28,000 people.

Chiang Kai-shek only saw that our army wiped out more than 400,000 Japanese troops in one battle on the battlefield in North China. He did not consider that our army had used a series of strategies to mobilize all the Japanese troops to move out, making them hastily turned into defense during the attack and march, and there was no time to build a stable defense and calm formation. In addition, a despicable force like the Taihang Corps appeared on the battlefield, so that they could quickly turn the situation around at critical moments and achieve decisive victory.

What is completely different from the battlefield in North China is that the Japanese army's positions in Shanghai and Shanghai have been firmly managed for more than a year. After such a long period of construction, the Japanese army's positions are as solid as a god.

In the current situation where the Kuomintang army lacks effective breakthrough methods such as heavy weapons and equipment, it is almost impossible to break through the Japanese army's stable defense in a short period of time and form a large-scale encirclement and annihilation of the Japanese army, and will only cause great casualties to the Kuomintang army.

At the same time, if the Japanese army recovered, once they mobilized one, two divisions or more troops from the Japanese base camp, landed in the Hangzhou Bay area, and attacked the Japanese army defending in Shanghai, then a large number of casualties and the exhausted offensive Kuomintang army would be in danger of complete collapse.

At that time, history will surely repeat itself, and the Kuomintang army that retreated all the way was simply unable to defend major cities in East China such as Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, Nanjing and northern Zhejiang.

The Japanese will form a solid foothold in East China. This will not only affect the development and defense plan just determined by the Japanese military headquarters to the north and the defense plan to cause unpredictable major changes in its development strategy, but will also seriously affect the situation in Europe that Xunhuaizhou and Zhou Tao are secretly guiding.

Of course, it is impossible for Xun Huaizhou to truly develop in this situation. If this is the case, he, a time traveler, might as well find a piece of tofu to kill him.

Besides, wasn’t the Third Field Army of East China that I carefully constructed at the time just for the current complex situation in East China?

Because Xun Huaizhou initially did not know that Zhou Tao's variable would appear in this world, so An his initial idea that the Third Field Army and the southern Anhui tunnel would become the main forces for mass destruction of the Japanese army and firmly dragging the Japanese army to progress in the west.

However, in this situation, Xunhuaizhou certainly does not want our East China region to become a place where the Japanese army's iron hooves are trampled again.

Therefore, the Third Field Army must be used in advance, but how to use it and how to maximize the interests of our party, our army and the Chinese nation is a big issue that requires one's own consideration.

Seeing Xun Huaizhou looking at the sand table in front of him and falling into deep thought, the Chairman and others did not disturb him, but just stood quietly on the side.

It was not until Xun Huaizhou sighed lightly and turned around and drove until everyone fell into silence. He realized that he had just lost his mind. He quickly apologized to the Chairman and others with embarrassment.

The chairman waved his hand and smiled with a smile: "It seems that our divine monkey is also stumped by the current complicated war situation in East China. There are still things that can stump the divine monkey in this world, but it is really rare."

Everyone burst into laughter again when the Chairman said what he said.

At this time, everyone gathered in front of the huge sand table and continued to search for the future of Huaizhou, and everyone discussed the topic.

First, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng Dehuai, who returned to Chongqing in August, spoke: "This time, seeing Chiang Kai-shek made such a big noise, it is still enough. When dealing with Japan, you can't make small fuss. You have to beat him to death with a blow and don't give him a chance to breathe."

"It's so satisfying to see what battles we fought in the North China Battle. It seems that Chiang Kai-shek is also jealous of the achievements of our North China Battle and wants to follow suit. Huaizhou, do you think so?"

As Mr. Peng said, he turned his head to Xunhuaizhou, with some enthusiasm, as if he wanted to get Xunhuaizhou's approval.

However, when Xun Huaizhou heard what Mr. Peng said, he felt helpless. At that time, General Peng wanted to send troops to the Northeast in one go. He put a lot of pressure on Xun Huaizhou.

It is precisely because of this that the Chairman will recall General Peng back to Chongqing again, so that he will no longer serve as commander-in-chief of the Sixth Field Army.

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