Chapter 819 Showing Off His Skills

Compared with Yanagawa Heisuke's 10th Army, Matsui Iwane's Shanghai Expeditionary Army has more troops, reaching 240,000!

The Shanghai Expeditionary Army has more troops, and the large-caliber naval guns of the island country's Third Fleet also carry out intensive bombing from time to time.

Therefore, on various battlefields of the Songhu Battle, the Chinese troops were very passive.

In fact, it is not as simple as being passive.

Most of the troops have lost at least half of their troops.

Even the organization was destroyed!

What's more, a division was deployed on the battlefield and was completely wiped out a few hours later!

It was so difficult to deal with the Shanghai Expeditionary Army, so you can imagine how passive the Chinese government army will be when dealing with the newly-arrived Tenth Army of the devils!

In fact, according to the strategic deduction of the Chinese Supreme Command, even if the Tenth Army does not encircle its own rear, its own side will be in danger.

If the Tenth Army and the Shanghai Expeditionary Army join forces and fight the Chinese government army again, they will definitely crush them all the way.

For this reason, the Supreme Command of China unanimously decided and the Supreme Commander Jiang Jieshi made the final decision, and reluctantly issued a strategic retreat order!

Yes, the opportunity for strategic retreat has come. In order to ensure the manpower and persist in the long-term war of resistance, why not retreat?

After this battle, although there were heavy casualties, China's strategic goal has been achieved.

The main force of the devil was attracted from the battlefield in North China to the Songhu area, successfully avoiding the tragic fate of the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.

If the Songhu Battle was not initiated, or the scale of the battle was not large, this strategic goal could not be achieved at all.

What makes people sigh is that when they found that the strategic goal had been achieved, the big figures of the Supreme Command of China were not very happy.

Yes, the cost of achieving this strategic goal was too high, almost to the point of being unbearable.

China painstakingly spent countless money to build these German-equipped divisions, and more than half of them were killed and wounded.

The most important thing is that the battalion, company and platoon officers who were also responsible for charging into battle, especially the squad leaders and veterans, suffered even greater casualties.

There is no doubt that the vitality of these main forces has been severely damaged.

Focus on the present and look to the future!

Feeling that the strategic goal has been achieved, it is natural that under the organization of commanders at all levels, the main forces of China have begun to withdraw.

Because of proper planning, the retreat can be said to be orderly.

According to the orders of the Supreme Command and the General Command of the Battle of Shanghai, all troops began to rotate and retreat step by step.

For example, a German-equipped division, yesterday, the main task was to provide cover for the retreat of a certain unit behind.

But today, they no longer perform the cover mission, but have become the troops being covered to retreat.

In the historical Battle of Shanghai, the reason why China suffered countless casualties was not during the battle.

To be precise, because the retreat order was issued too hastily and because the grassroots commanders died heroically, the great retreat turned into a great rout!

Naturally, under the pursuit of the devils, most of these Chinese main forces were unable to stop effective resistance.

Therefore, during the great retreat, the casualties on the Chinese side were much higher than those on the front battlefield.

In fact, Ye Tian knew all these scenes well.

The reason was very simple. He could secretly contact the Chinese Supreme Command and even Jiang Jieshi himself.

In addition, at this moment, Ye Tian was active at the junction of the Chinese and island forces.

Therefore, Ye Tian was very clear that the main Chinese forces were retreating.

In fact, Ye Tian fully understood this great retreat.

Also, if they were brave for a while, they would bury the main elite Chinese forces in the Songhu Battle, which was powerless to turn the tide. The consequences were extremely serious.

It can be said that once Jiang Jieshi really did this, Ye Tian would not understand it.

It must be said that in order not to cause the disgust of Jiang Jieshi and the major officials, Ye Tian knew that retreat was good for the great retreat, but he did not make such a suggestion.

Of course, Ye Tian was still very confident in doing so.

Yes, although China is weak and its treasury is empty, it is not without capable people.

Among them, Mr. Jiang Baili, the first military god of China, is the most capable.

In works such as "On National Defense", Jiang Baili has long proposed various ideas about the all-out war of resistance:

Such as the theory of protracted war;

Such as the three macro steps of defense, stalemate, and counterattack;

Such as taking advantage of the specific conditions of China's vast territory and complex and mountainous terrain to open up as many battlefields as possible, thereby reducing the military strength of the island country;

Especially regarding the Battle of Songhu, it is Jiang Baili's greatest contribution to China!

Ye Tian believes that if you look at all the anti-Japanese armed forces, if you choose the person who has made the greatest contribution to the war of resistance, it must be Jiang Baili.

Yes, if he had not proposed this and it was adopted by Jiang Jieshi, the situation of the all-out war of resistance would definitely have changed greatly.

In fact, this change is not the extension of the war of resistance, the number of casualties is greater, but the destruction of the country!

Of course, in Ye Tian's mind, the general who killed the most devils, that is, the god of war Xue Yue, is the second person in the war of resistance.

Apart from other things, Xue Yue made immortal contributions in assisting Chen Cheng in commanding the Battle of Wuhan.

Especially the victory of Wanjialing commanded by Xue Yue, which can definitely be called a great victory!

In the battle of Wanjialing, the 106th Division of the island country, as well as the 101st Division and the 27th Division that came to rescue, were all severely damaged.

That’s not all. The four Japanese brigades deployed in the Battle of Wuhan were also annihilated in the encirclement.

The most unlucky 106th Division, which fought against 10,000 Japanese, only had 1,500 remnants escape the siege.

The Battle of Wuhan lasted for 4 and a half months and ended with the Chinese army’s voluntary withdrawal.

In terms of the battle, the Japanese occupied the three towns of Wuhan and controlled the heartland of China, winning the victory.

But in terms of strategy, the island country did not achieve its strategic intention.

The original plan of the island country was to force a landing in China.

Unexpectedly, although China was defeated repeatedly, it planned to fight again and again!

Under the leadership of Jiang Jieshi, the first person in China, China’s ambition to fight the war of resistance has never been depressed.

And in the rear area occupied by the Japanese, countless anti-Japanese armed forces have grown up.

Such as the anti-Japanese special forces led and commanded by Dai Li, the guerrilla headquarters, the traffic police brigade...

For example, the various anti-Japanese forces behind enemy lines of the Eighth Master.

Of course, in the battlefield behind enemy lines, in addition to these two largest armed forces behind enemy lines, there are many large and small spontaneous anti-Japanese armed forces.

With the efforts of so many anti-Japanese forces behind enemy lines, it is difficult for the devils to achieve complete control in the occupied areas.

If you have to make an analogy, taking the main transportation lines as an example, the devils can only barely control a few kilometers on both sides of the transportation lines.

Therefore, the significance of the Battle of Wuhan is very important.

Even calling the Battle of Wuhan the most significant battle among more than 20 large-scale battles is not an exaggeration.

The island country is seriously lacking in various strategic materials. Because of the heavy losses in this battle, it was forced to fall into the protracted war expected by China and had to change its war strategy again:

Military strikes are no longer regarded as the most important means, but political inducement to surrender has increased its efforts;

Suspend the decisive battle with the main force of China, transfer troops, and first maintain and consolidate the occupied areas.

In this way, with the efforts of Chen Cheng, especially Xue Yue, the overall situation of the War of Resistance has evolved from the strategic defense stage to the strategic stalemate stage!

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Ye Tian still doesn't know the devil's plan to deal with him. The reason why he is still so active is to show his skills again!