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Chapter 451 The Unhappy Boss

In this way, the heavy rain gave the 15th Army an opportunity to retreat, but it also made it lose the opportunity to expand its results.

Okamura knew very well that Xue Boling's vital force could not be wiped out at this time, and he would still be hindered when he continued to advance to Changsha. These retreating troops set up another line of defense in the retreating position.

After all, God's blocking the pace of his army is only temporary, and it is people who really stop his army.

Breaking through Xue Boling's front line of defense but failing to wipe out this vital force due to the torrential rain, Okamura is also like Amakasu Shigetaro in his heart at this moment, and his thoughts are not persuasive.

Because of Yintian, there is another big boss who also feels unhappy because of Yintian, and this is the chairman of the committee as far away as Chongqing.

During the time when Yintian fell from the rainy night to the dawn, for the chairman of the committee, it was quite a bit like waking up and turning an old hen into a drake.

Before sleep, the 27th Group Army repelled the 33rd Division in Kuzhuling, Luo Zhuoying gained a firm foothold in Tonggu Mountain, and the 15 ghost regiments on the frontal battlefield in northern Hunan were also unable to move an inch due to heavy rain. The situation in Changsha was not as it was in Wuhan, Nanchang was oppressed by the Japanese army steadily like that, and the whole battlefield was not one-sided.

With such a view, the chairman had a rare and peaceful sleep after the First World War in Changsha. As a result, before dawn, an aide knocked on the door saying that Yintian had fallen, and Xue Boling took the opportunity to withdraw Guan Linzheng's troops. The 15th Group Army, the Xiangjiang defense line broke down without attack.

The situation in Changsha took a turn for the worse before the night arrived, and one can imagine the gloomy feeling in the chairman's heart.

He really doesn't want to lose the city anymore. Every time he loses a city, he, who is in the position of commander in chief of the government, will be scolded by the people below. What's more, Changsha is now a barrier in front of the southwest region. Chongqing is now an important town in the southwest. If Changsha is lost, the Japanese ground troops will be able to advance to the southwest in a short time.

It is precisely because he clearly knows that Changsha can be said to be related to his lifeline now, so when the government officials are in dispute over whether "Changsha City should be defended or abandoned", he has given up from the beginning and finally acquiesced in Xue Boling's defense. No matter how tough Xue Boling's attitude was, without his own tacit permission, he would not be able to mobilize so many direct troops of the Central Army.

But now that I woke up, why did the situation that seemed reasonable before suddenly take a turn for the worse on the Xiangbei battlefield?

When the clothed chairman grabbed his crutches and hurried to the war room of the Ministry of National Defense, a group of admirals and staff members with three-star collars were already waiting here.

In response to the unexpected situation of the fall of Yintian, these senior staff members have already talked with Xue Boling who is on the front line, and they have discussed a rough plan with each other. Opinions have not yet been unified, and two different plans, A and B, have basically been formed.

After the two sets of plans came out, the guards were asked to wake up the sleeping chairman.

At that moment, the chairman walked over and said, "Talk about your views. You all discuss and discuss the current situation."

These aides who are familiar with the chairman's temperament know that "talking about opinions" and "discussing and discussing" are just polite speeches. choose.

The head of the think tank, "Little Zhuge" Bai Chongxi stepped forward as usual and said, "Now that Yintian has fallen and the Xiangjiang defense line has been broken, I think the current situation is not too bad. Xue Boling's withdrawal of the 15th Army under the crisis is to keep this new force. .”

At the beginning, "Little Zhuge" Bai Chongxi set his personality for this unexpected situation.

This was the conclusion reached by the generals when they discussed together just now. From the perspective of Changsha's overall strategy, it is a rational choice to retreat decisively when Yintian falls.

Seeing that the chairman's face did not fluctuate, everyone took a look. Sure enough, although the chairman came in a hurry, Xue Boling's timely withdrawal of troops still saved some image in the chairman's mind.

According to the nature of the chairman, the lack of fluctuation in his face was acquiescing, and if he thought that Xue Boling was paralyzed and lost to Yintian, he should be reprimanded with a cane.

The chairman sat down on the chair in front of the map and said, "Tiger Cub is still dozing off. Yintian is such a strategic location, how could he lose it even though he was on guard? In the end, it was his carelessness that led to the collapse of the Xiangjiang defense line. fall!"

"Tiger Cub" was the chairman's pet name for Xue Boling, among the generals, Xue Boling was the only one who could have such a title.

The generals in front of the map heard this call, and immediately understood in their hearts that although the chairman's tone was angry at Yintian's careless loss, he still did not waver to Xue Boling's continued command in Changsha.

"What do you guys think about the current loss of the Xiangjiang defense line? The heavy rain in Changsha may stop if it stops."

"According to the current situation, the junior staff have discussed two sets of plans, A and B."

The reason why there is a plan A and B is actually the disagreement between Bai Chongxi, Chen Cheng and Xue Boling.

The chairman nodded. In fact, he was happy to hear that the people below did not urinate into a jug.

So Bai Chongxi stepped forward with a command pole, pointed to the map and said, "Scheme A: From the perspective of the overall situation of the country, after losing the defense line based on the natural danger of the Xiangjiang River, our army should consolidate the roots of the existing operations, such as maintaining Mufu Mountain. The base area. At the same time, mobile warfare is mainly based on mobile warfare, and the necessary positional warfare is coordinated. Without favorable terrain and favorable timing, it is not advisable to start a decisive battle with the Japanese 11th Army on the plain in front of Changsha City, so as to achieve the effect of economical use of troops and avoid profiteering. .”

"If the Japanese army breaks into the vicinity of Changsha, the main force of the Ninth War Zone should move to Liling, Zhuzhou, and Hengyang. In case Changsha fails to defend, Xue Boling should leave Changsha and take command in Pingxiang."

"Little Zhuge" Bai Chongxi's analysis is well-founded. This is his claim after the loss of the Xiangjiang River's natural danger defense line, especially the words "economic use of troops" and "fisherman's profit" fell into the chairman's heart.

After thinking about it for a moment, the Chairman asked, "What about Plan B?"

Hearing this, Chen Cheng, with the same three-star general rank and a senior staff member, stepped forward to take over the baton, which was also a generous speech.

". The lower ranks and Xue Boling believe that although the Xiangjiang line is lost, our main force still exists. At present, Xue Boling has mobilized the 106th Army overnight and the remaining five full-scale divisions of the surrounding troops are preparing to block the Japanese Third Division. Luo Zhuoying The Ministry continues to restrict the 79th Division and the Zuozhi Detachment, and the 33th Army, [-]th Army, and Hunan-Hubei-Jiangxi guerrilla forces continue to wipe out the enemy's [-]rd Division. In addition to blocking the above-mentioned battlefields, the low-ranking officials thought they could try the strategy of luring the enemy deep!"

(End of this chapter)