Rise From Eight Hundred

"What did you say?" Wang Gongyu's eyes gradually turned cold.

"I need manpower!" Tang Dao said calmly.

"I was ordered to establish the 43rd Army Independent Battalion based on the Four-Line Camp. Thanks to the attention of the two commanders Wu and Guo, the Songjiang Guard Battalion was also assigned to me an hour ago." Tang Dao continued. "But, the troops are still not enough!"

"When the Guard Battalion was first established, there were more than 800 soldiers. Although there were casualties in the continuous battles, there were still 400 to 500 people. In addition to the remaining troops of the Four-Line Camp of your Deputy Director Tang, the nearly 600 troops are enough for the establishment of an infantry battalion." Wang Gongyu's face turned cold. "Why do you still want to attack my security group? What? Are the commanders dissatisfied with Wang? At this time, it is a bit too much to do this kind of colleague oppression?"

The calm Commissioner Wang pointed the spearhead directly at the bigwigs of the command center. In his opinion, if he had not received the instructions of those people, Tang Dao would never make such a crazy move.

With an illusory promise, he came to dig up the roots of the commander of the Songjiang Security Corps.

In such a chaotic world, wealth and glory are all false, and the truth is that someone has a gun!

"It has nothing to do with the commanders-in-chief. I came to you on my own!" Tang Dao shook his head. "Only if you agree, I will make this request to them!"

"Then, there is no such possibility. Deputy Director Tang, you should give up this idea completely!" Wang Gongyu refused directly. "Although Wang is not talented, he can also lead these Songjiang men to kill the enemy and serve the country!"

"Now that the Japanese invaders are eyeing outside the defense line, military affairs are urgent, I will no longer keep you, Deputy Director Tang, and see you again!" After saying that, Commissioner Wang was going to send him away.

Obviously, not speaking ill of Tang Dao who wanted to dig up the roots was the last restraint of Commissioner Wang.

"Tsk!" Tang Dao chuckled.

Even darkness can't stop the contempt.

How dare a boy do this? Wang Gongyu, who turned around and wanted to leave, almost raised his eyebrows.

When he had a good impression of Tang Dao, his behavior was called youthful frivolity. It was a little bit arrogant, but because he was young, everything could be forgiven. Now he was full of resentment, so naturally he could only be described as arrogant.

"Commissioner Wang, you said that you killed the enemy to serve the country, so I ask you, after the battle of Jiashan, where do you want to go to fight the enemy?" Facing Commissioner Wang's eyes that could make people into honeycomb coal, Tang Dao's expression remained unchanged.

"My troops will retreat to Nanjing. As long as the Japanese invaders don't return, my troops will not return to their hometown!" Wang Gongyu still had some scholar's spirit. Although he looked at Tang Dao fiercely, he still answered word by word.

"But what if Nanjing is gone!" Tang Dao was shocked.

"Jinling is gone" Wang Gongyu's face was extremely ugly. "This is impossible!"

No one except Tang Dao thought of this possibility, not only the Chinese, but also the Japanese themselves.

Because Nanjing is the capital, the heart of the whole of China.

Even the Japanese who started the war never thought that they could occupy the heart of a huge opponent in one fell swoop.

The battle plan formulated by the Japanese headquarters is still on the desk of the Shanghai Expeditionary Force Command, and that is the second version of the battle plan after the revision.

In fact, to a certain extent, China should thank those war ambitionists in Japan whose ambitions are constantly expanding. It is their expansion of the war that has forced the whole of Japan to be like a fully wound war machine, fully committed to the war, and dragged into the quagmire of protracted war. Not to mention, they were forced to start the Pacific War, and finally put the country on the war gambling table. Transport was completely wiped out.

Wars have always been fought with economic and industrial strength. Let alone the current Japan, even if they are allowed to develop for decades, they may not be able to support such a large-scale war.

On this point, perhaps only one genius-level strategist in the whole of Japan can see it clearly.

That was Ishihara Kanji, the then head of the Operations Department of the Japanese headquarters.

In the early stage of the Battle of Shanghai, the Japanese were so arrogant that they thought two divisions were enough to wipe out all enemies. Who knew that the Chinese army at that time was completely different from that of the September 18th Incident?

After entering China, the two divisions led by Matsui Iwane immediately fell into a bitter battle and encountered unprecedented strong resistance. They had no choice but to urgently ask for help from the Japanese headquarters, hoping to increase troops immediately.

The Japanese headquarters was surprised by Matsui Iwane's request. They didn't even dare to believe that the Chinese army could stop two full divisions of the Japanese army. So the Japanese General Staff sent a man named Nishimura Toshio to China to investigate the situation.

Soon after, Nishimura Toshio brought back a report that shocked the Japanese headquarters. It was roughly as follows: First, the Chinese army fought extremely bravely and tenaciously. No matter they were attacked by overwhelming artillery fire or surrounded, they would never retreat; second, the Chinese army and civilians were united and shared the same hatred of the enemy; third, the Chinese army had increased its troops in large numbers, with more than 100,000 troops on the front line and more than 200,000 troops on the second line; fourth, the two divisions led by Matsui Iwane were in a bitter battle, and the logistics supply could not keep up. The situation was very serious.

Nishimura Toshio's report reflected the situation of the Battle of Shanghai at that time very realistically and objectively. If the Japanese army wanted to defeat China with two divisions, the result would only be that they would be driven into the sea by the Chinese army to feed the fish.

Although the Japanese headquarters understood the real situation, they were still hesitant and argued endlessly about whether to increase troops.

Among them, Japanese Army Minister Sugiyama Gen supported the immediate increase of troops, the sooner the better, while Ishihara Kanji, who served as the Minister of Operations, firmly opposed it, and the two argued endlessly.

As the only genius-level strategist in the Japanese army, Ishihara Kanji had a completely different understanding of the war of aggression against China. If the Japanese army followed his design ideas, I am afraid that the final outcome of the War of Resistance Against Japan would be changed.

Ishihara Kanji believed that before the Meiji Restoration in Japan, China was a hegemonic existence in Asia and even in the world, with advanced civilization and technology that made the world tremble. Japan cannot naively think that China is an old and weak country and cannot withstand a single blow just because of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. It is even more impossible to imagine ending the battle in a short period of time. Once it enters a protracted war, Japan's future will be uncertain.

Ishihara Kanji also made a very advanced allegory about the role of the air force and the atomic bomb in the war, so he insisted on implementing the "non-expansion plan" and the "final decisive battle plan" using super weapons against China.

If Japan really follows Ishihara's steps, it will hold on to the Northeast after occupying it, and give up the expansion of the war and maximize the use of the rich resources in the Northeast. The consequences will be really unimaginable.

According to the chess deduction of Chinese military scientists in later generations, if this strategy is implemented, China will lose the three northeastern provinces forever, unless China has the courage to fight a full-scale war of resistance and is willing to involve the remaining territory in the continuous war.

Fortunately, such a result did not happen. The Japanese headquarters decided to increase troops, and a total of five divisions plus two naval fleets marched to Songhu.

Ishihara Kanji also resigned for this reason.

However, the Japanese headquarters still listened to Ishihara Kanji's opinions to some extent. In the early stage, it planned to stabilize its foothold in Songhu before launching a full-scale invasion war. In the second version of the combat plan, the Shanghai Expeditionary Force would withdraw its troops after attacking several national defense lines.

However, the Japanese army has always had a tradition of "overthrowing the superiors". The Tenth Army transferred from North China did not intend to be so "conventional". It rushed all the way to the city of Nanjing and finally conquered Nanjing at a huge cost.

From that moment on, the Japanese army must wind up and start the war machine with all its strength.

The Japanese themselves could not have imagined, and the Chinese certainly could not have imagined that there were still hundreds of thousands of troops after retreating from Songhu, so how could they be defeated in one blow?

But the fact is that after the great defeat in the battle, the morale was low, the army was scattered, and those bigwigs in high positions were still busy scheming and pulling each other's legs. How could they not be defeated?

Wang Gongyu certainly did not think of this possibility.

"If the important town of Songhu can be lost, how can Nanjing not be lost?" Tang Dao sneered again, stretched out his hand to pull out the 38 bayonet inserted in his leggings, and used the ground as paper and the knife as a pen to draw the current battle map.

In one direction, the main force of the 10th Army was running wildly along the Beijing-Shanghai Railway, and in the other direction, the 18th Division and the Jiashan front were facing each other.

Tang Dao pointed at the Jiashan defense line and said calmly: "If the Japanese army bypasses the Taihu Lake, do you think you still have a chance to return home as long as the Japanese invaders don't return?"

Wang Gongyu's face suddenly froze, and he hesitated for a long time before answering: "But your independent battalion and the army are also here."

"So, retreat is inevitable!" Tang Dao's eyes moved away from the battle map he drew, looking at the cold void, and said quietly: "Not only do we have to retreat to Nanjing, but we have to retreat to a farther place, and then accumulate enough strength to fight the Japanese!"

"You Tang Dao can do it, why can't I?" Wang Gongyu remembered the 'protracted war' that Tang Dao had said, and his face showed weakness, but he was still struggling.

"Because you are a major general, and I am not! Where I will go in the future is..." Tang Dao smiled slightly and whispered two words.

Commissioner Wang's pupils did not shrink suddenly, but almost dilated.

If he had not had enough restraint, he would have exclaimed.

The place name that Tang Dao uttered sounded like a famous mountain in China, but he knew what it meant, because another famous Chinese army was currently active there.

That clearly meant that Tang Dao wanted to

"You said that, aren't you afraid that I would report it? Just based on the place name you just mentioned, everything you have now will be lost." Under the moonlight, Wang Gongyu's eyes were cold.

"You won't! When you were young, Wang Gong, you were the editor-in-chief of the "Iron Blood" group magazine, didn't you also want to save the country and the nation from the water and fire!" Tang Dao smiled lightly, pointed to the southeast and said: "Wang Gong, you have also seen the result of this war, those people can't save China! Then why don't we change our thinking and change some people? And the report you mentioned, if you do that, the Japanese will probably be the happiest!"

The head was buzzing.

Wang Gongyu certainly knew that Tang Dao's judgment was correct, and he would never be so stupid as to do such a stupid thing of "pain for the loved ones and joy for the enemies".

At this time, he finally figured out what Tang Dao's so-called "venture capital" was investing in.

Those are the two directions that currently exist in the country.

However, that force is still very weak now.

That investment is really the future!

A confused and unknown future.

The risk is huge and crazy!

In a trance, Tang Dao's voice was still coming, "The products of that mountain are rich enough. If they can be transported out, do you think it would be a good business?"

However, it doesn't matter anymore.

He stood there for a full five minutes!

"I'll do this business!" Wang Gongyu, who had been struggling for a long time, made a decision as if by magic.

Future facts proved that this business was the wisest decision made by the commissioner in his life.

The business made a lot of money, and the direction was chosen correctly.

However, in his words, it was better to say that he invested in Tang Dao rather than that he wanted to invest in that direction.

From Songjiang to here, everything Tang Dao predicted came true.

And Tang Dao was not wrong about him. This man was really good at doing business, much better than him at commanding troops to fight.

Tang Dao really wanted to do business with him.

The future battlefield behind enemy lines needed an agent to turn supplies into money, food and various armaments.

This man who crossed the officialdom and business circles with enough patriotic enthusiasm had such qualifications.

Of course, what attracted Tang Dao the most at this time was the Five Hundred Army that had been tested by the fire of war.