Zong Ren stopped and frowned deeply. Of course, he clearly encouraged the morale of the soldiers in the fifth war zone. He still made a lot of publicity, but he really didn't have much help to Han Fu.

Han Fu held heavy troops and was arrogant. After betraying Feng Yuxiang, he became even more arrogant and domineering. He killed and expelled officials appointed by the Central Committee in Shandong, issued currency without authorization, intercepted payment for goods, and dissolved the Shandong Kuomintang Party headquarters. He was swaying between the Japanese and the central government. During the Xi'an Incident, he only sent a telegram among the local forces. After the Lugou Bridge Incident, he expressed his support for the War of Resistance, but secretly engaged in Shandong neutrality with Doihara, but his subordinates did not agree.

When the Japanese army attacked Hebei, Han Fu followed the central government's order and transferred Sun Tongxuan's troops to Hebei to participate in the war, but he intervened in Sun Tongxuan's actions and repeatedly missed the opportunity to fight. After the Japanese army invaded Shandong, Han Fu fought several battles seriously, but still did not dare to join the main force, retreated all the way across the Yellow River, causing the Japanese army to easily occupy northern Shandong.

Chiang Kai-shek knew all these situations, and Li Zongren was also aware of them, but Li Zongren did not expect that Han Fu would retreat from northern Shandong now.

"It seems that it is necessary to invite Deputy Commander Han to come to Xuzhou for a meeting." Seeing that Li Zongren was hesitant, Zhuang Jihua suggested to him.

"Okay," Li Zongren sighed, it seemed that the only thing was: "Give Han Xiangfang a call and ask him to go to Xuzhou to attend the combat conference."

Yi immediately sent someone to call, but Zong Ren and Zhuang Jihua walked into the war room. As soon as Zhuang Jihua entered the door, he was attracted by the sand table in the war room. The sand table was extremely exquisitely made, and the mountains, rivers and rivers were vivid in my mind.

"It's rare, it's really difficult. Such a sand table is rare and is definitely made by famous masters." Zhuang Jihua exclaimed.

"This is the hand of Chief Xu, a big deal." Li Zongren also smiled.

"There is a study of military geography in Japan. The Japanese attach great importance to military geography, and I happened to win the first place again." Xu Zuyi was a little satisfied when he talked about winning the first place in Japan and overwhelming Japanese classmates. This sand table took a lot of effort, and everyone who saw it praised it. He felt extremely satisfied.

"No wonder. It turns out that your conscience is very bad.

"After saying that, Jihua and Li Zongren were very angry.

"This is to use his shield to break his spear." Xu Zuyi couldn't help but laugh.

After joking, Li Zongren asked: "What are your plans for the defense of Jinpu Road in Cultural Revolution?"

Zhuang Jihua's words came to his mouth but turned into: "I was just about to hear the high opinions of De Gong."

Li Zongren smiled faintly: "Don't hide your private parts. I'm not those old antiques. I know the ravines in your heart in the Cultural Revolution. Please feel free to pour them out."

"Yes, I discussed the Cultural Revolution with Degong. Tell me and I, to see if the ideas are the same as ours." Xu Zuyi also said with interest.

Zhuang Jihua looked at the two of them and thought to himself whether you want to take the test for me. Since that's the case, I'm not polite. So he stood in front of the sand table: "Okay, I'll say, first, I'll declare that I'm not mature in my mind shortly after I arrived in the fifth zone."

"I estimate that the Japanese army's strategy is to advance north and south, North China send troops south, Central China send troops north, but I don't know how much Japanese troops are. But this can be estimated. I estimate that the Japanese army in North China can send three to four divisions south, and Central China may send two to three; there are two attack routes for the Japanese army in Central China, one is to set off, go to Gaoyou, Huai'an, and Suqian; the other is to set off from Nanjing, go north along the Jinpu Road, go to County, Fengyang, Bengbu, and Suxian, and directly attack Xuzhou. The former is to go to Gaoyou Lake, Hongze Lake, and Luoma Lake along the way, and there are many rivers, which are not suitable for large-scale corps combat. The latter road is supported by the Jinpu Railway, which is convenient for transportation and maintenance, so I judge that the Japanese army is likely to take this route."

"The Japanese army also had two lines on the northern front. One was to go south along the Jinpu Road, set out from Dezhou, attack Jinan, and the other might also land in Qingdao, attack Jinan along the Jiaoji Railway, and then attack Tai'an, Jining, and Xuzhou."

"For the Japanese army on the southern front, I suggest that they resist step by step and delay the Japanese army's operations as their main combat purpose. The main defense line is located in Bengbu, and a force is used to harass them from the side. As long as they are blocked south of Bengbu, the southern front will be considered a victory."

"Our army's main force concentrated on dealing with the Japanese army on the northern front. After the Japanese army launched an attack, our army made appropriate resistance in Jinan and consumed some of the Japanese troops. The Third Army retreated into Mengshan and released the northern line of Jinpu Road; with part of the 22nd Army blocked the attack along the way, let them pass through Yanzhou, Tai'an and placed them all the way to Xuzhou. Then the Third Army in Mengshan immediately counterattacked Tai'an, Jinan, cut off the Japanese retreat route, and cooperated with our army's main force near Xuzhou to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Japanese army."

Zhuang Jihua's plan was grand. The Japanese army could only come to the place with four divisions and 100,000 troops. He assembled more than 300,000 troops in Xuzhou, plus the 60,000 to 70,000 troops from the Third Army, and enough troops to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army.

Xu Zuyi couldn't help but sigh inwardly that Zhuang Jihua's plan was almost the same as what they discussed at the beginning. They also judged that the Japanese army would advance north and south. Although the southern line had a long coastline, the Japanese army was unlikely to land because it was not as big as the port (Note: Lianyungang had not been developed at that time), and the surrounding terrain was complex, which was conducive to defense but not attacking, so it was more likely to go north along the Jinpu Railway.

The biggest difference in their local plan was the northern line defense, which did not obtain the 22nd Group and other three armies.

Before, their playing style was similar to Zhuang Jihua, especially the third group Mengshan District. They were the same, but next, they were different.

But after obtaining three armies, Li Zongren wanted to transfer two of them to the vicinity of Jinan, and the Third Army entered Jiaodong to block the Japanese army coming from the Jiaoji Line.

However, Zhuang Jihua's plan was even more bold, letting the Jiaoji Line go, and then luring the Japanese army to come, gathering and annihilated it. Xu Zuyi recalled that during the Great Wall War of Resistance, Zhuang Jihua was the same, and he took dangerous moves, attacking the enemy behind him, and finally turning the situation around. The same was true in Nanjing. He set the northern line in danger and disappeared, but he used his new force to counterattack on the southern line, forcing the Japanese army to dispatch troops to rescue from the northern line, and finally resolved the Japanese attack on Nanjing and annihilated a large number of Japanese forces.

"Overall, I think it's better to lure the enemy into the depths than to set up defenses everywhere. It's best to divide and annihilate them. If not, then gather and annihilate them."

Zhuang Jihua finally finished his analysis. Li Zongren and Xu Zuyi did not express their opinions immediately, but looked at the sand table and then looked at the enemy and us situation chart.

"Ge, do you think, abandon Jiaodong without fighting. How do you explain the committee? How do you explain the public opinion?" Li Zongren asked slowly.

"With victory, you can hand over anything." Zhuang Jihua said quietly: "Dong De, if you have land and people lose people, people and land lose both, people and land lose both land, and people and land are both preserved. If the scorched earth fights, since the soil can be burned, what can you bear to bear?"

The war of resistance was originally Li Zongren's first. In fact, he also asked someone to write the story of Russia's fight against Napole and burning Moscow to show his determination to fight against the war. However, Zhuang Jihua did not agree with it, at least he did not like this slogan. The war of resistance was to survive, not to destroy himself. China is completely different from Russia during the Napoleon period. The gap between Russia and France is not as big as today's neutrality. China is destined to lose many areas and cannot move all its citizens out of the occupied areas. For their future lives, cities must be left behind.

"I am not disagreeing with this idea in the Cultural Revolution, but I am worried that the Chairman of the Operational Concept may not agree. Jinan is the capital of Shandong Province. Once it falls, the Chairman will be under great pressure." Li Zongren said calmly that it was a bit impolite to support his Operational Concept by Zhuang Jihua using the scorched earth resistance to the war, but Li Zongren did not take it to his heart.

Zhuang Ji was a little stunned. Why did Li Zongren start to think about Chiang Kai-shek? The sun came out from the west. Ten years of civil war, Chiang Kai-shek fought with local factions in the first five years, the Guangxi faction rose and fell several times, and the battle between the Central Plains was flying. Li Zongren and Feng Yuxiang should be the two people who hated Chiang Kai-shek the most. Li Zongren only had some cooperation with Chiang Kai-shek after the Guangdong-Guangdong Incident. The premise of this cooperation was to resist Japan. But no matter what, he would not share the worries for Chiang Kai-shek so quickly, so he could only be the one who could do it.

"The War of Resistance is a major event for the nation and must be considered comprehensively. During the Cultural Revolution, the Japanese suffered a loss in Nanjing after underestimating the enemy and advancing. I dare not expect them to make such a mistake." Seeing that Zhuang Jihua's eyes were flashing, Li Zongren was obviously doubting his geographical reasons.

But Li Ren was not perfunctory to Zhuang Jihua. First of all, he disagreed with the Japanese army on the northern front only three to four divisions. Currently, the fifth theater has assembled more than 400,000 troops. In addition, the first theater in Henan is still hundreds of thousands of troops, with a total of 700,000 or 800,000 troops. How dare the Japanese army attack with 100,000 people? Li Zongren didn't believe it.

In fact, Li Zongren had not fully realized the impact of the Nanjing victory. Before that, the army soldiers were full of pessimism in the war of resistance. After that, the army was motivated, not only the soldiers, but also senior generals like him were unknowingly affected, believing that the Japanese army could defeat the land. The reason why Nanjing did not defend was because the large troops were all disabled in Songhu.

"If you have no objection, I'll talk about the Chairman." Zhuang Jihua thought for a while and said that he was sure to convince Chiang Kai-shek.

"Cultural Revolution, don't be too impatient, let Commander Li think about it and plan." Xu Zuyi came out to smooth things over, and he, the chief of staff, was doing this place.

"I'm sorry, I'm too anxious." Zhuang Jihua suddenly noticed and apologized to Li Zongren apologized. This is not Nanjing, he is just the deputy commander, and he must pay attention to maintaining the majesty of the head coach. Moreover, he just put forward a very rough strategic concept, so that the head coach would agree quickly, which was indeed a bit aggressive.

Li Zongren waved his hand generously and said that it was nothing. Zhuang Jihua's idea was very attractive to him. Not to mention the complete annihilation of the Japanese army on the Northern Front, even if he annihilated half of them, he was satisfied.

The room became quiet, and the three of them were all planning their own tactics and how to configure their troops. However, no matter how they configured it, Zhuang Jihua knew that the Forty-Nine Army of his place must be the last deadly steel knife.

"Report, Deputy Commander Han called back," the staff came in and reported loudly: "The Japanese army in northern Shandong was frequently mobilized, the front line was tense, and the low-level position could not be reached by Xuzhou. Special delegations were sent to Sun Tongxuan, can it be?"
Chapter completed!