The wind in the sky blew across the banks of the Yellow River with a hint of coolness, blowing away the salt on both sides of the river, covering the rich land on both sides with a layer of golden wheat waves. This wheat wave is not continuous, and sometimes large pieces of blackened land appear in the middle. Even hardworking farmers cannot completely clear the traces of war in just half a month. The decaying village can see the fierce battle at the time, and the broken tiles may occasionally see a rotting corpse.

Corresponding to the golden wheat wave are newly built tombs from all over the country. White soul-summoning banners flutter in the wind, and people wearing mourning clothes appear in various villages, working in the fields with grief and sorrow.

The theater command did not encourage people to return to their hometowns, but the news of victory allowed most fleeing refugees to embark on the way back and clean up their homes that had become ruins.

Unlike the dilapidation of rural fields, Xuzhou City is very lively. This unprecedented victory has inspired all walks of life across the country. The three Song sisters, who rarely walk together due to political differences, came to Xuzhou to express their condolences. Since then, the labor force groups from various places have arrived one after another. The reception desk of the war zone is overwhelmed and have to temporarily draw personnel from the various troops to participate.

Zhuang Jihua rarely participated in these activities. After stopping the attack, Chiang Kai-shek held a grand victory ceremony in Xuzhou. At this meeting, Li Zongren, Zhuang Jihua was awarded the newly issued Guoguang Medal, becoming the first recipient of the Guoguang Medal. Chief of Staff Xu Zuyi, Commander of the Army Sun Lianzhong, Yang Sen, Jiang Baili, Deng Xihou and other military commanders were awarded the Blue Sky and White Sun Medal. After the victory ceremony, Chiang Kai-shek announced the adjustment plan of the general and officially announced that Li Zongren would be transferred to the First War Zone.

Commander, Zhuang Jihua took over as commander of the Fifth War Zone, and what surprised Zhuang Jihua was that Chiang Kai-shek transferred Jiang Baili to the Central Committee and served as a senior senator of the Military Commission and became his military aide. The 49th Army was still commanded by Zhuang Jihua, Sun Zhen served as deputy commander, and Lan Yundong served as commander of the 101st Army. Zhang Xin served as division commander of the 104th Division, and Zhang Xin was replaced by Xia Yanglin. Zhang Lingfu, who was somewhat inconsistent with Xia Yanglin, was also promoted to the brigade commander of the 105th Division of Liang.

All the units of the Forty-Nine Army were fully expanded, and most of the 50,000 supplementary soldiers from Guizhou, Sichuan were filled into the troops in the southwest system by Zhuang Jihua. Five hundred fresh graduates from the Central Committee jointly wrote to the Military Academy to ask for the 49th Army to serve and solve the lack of grassroots officers.

Liao Yaoxiang led the commander of the New 22nd Division to cross the river and searched and attacked Dexian. It was found that the north of the Yellow River was extremely empty, and there were only a small number of puppet troops garrisoned in most areas. After conquering Renping, Liao Yaoxiang boldly divided the three regiments into three routes, swept Gaotang, Xiajin, and Yucheng to cut off the Jinpu line, captured a large number of puppet troops, and approached the Nandamen Plain of Dexian. This also made Chiang Kai-shek deeply satisfied. Before leaving, he specially approved the reorganization of the New 22nd Division into the A-type Division.

Deng Wenyi led the transmission team and recruiting team to achieve great success in Hebei. The people of Hebei, who were poisoned by the Japanese army, actively joined the army to serve the country. Within a dozen days, more than 20,000 new soldiers were recruited. In addition to the soldiers recruited some time ago, a total of more than 50,000 soldiers were filled into the Second Army and the Third Army.

Jihua urged all troops to step up training for recruits in accordance with the old methods, and at the same time summarized the operations of the previous period, requiring officers above the barracks to return to the battlefield in batches to review the attack and defense, and write a written report to report. The theater command will conduct random inspections at any time. At the same time, he took time to improve the tactical manual he compiled.

The wheel of the battle stopped temporarily. The three-month battle made both sides exhausted and both turned to rest. Adjusted the deployment and accumulated strength to prepare for the next wave of blood.

Japan began to re-examine China's local resistance forces. It quickly approved the addition of 5 billion military expenditure bases. It also added ten divisions beyond the twenty divisions. It unified the North China Front Army and the Central China Front Army into the Chinese Expeditionary Army. It set up a general headquarters for the Central China Expeditionary Army, and the Central China Expeditionary Army Commander Toshiro served as the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Expeditionary Army. It unified the command of the Japanese army in China. However, for the sake of face, the North China Front Army was retained. Sugiyama Moto served as the commander-in-chief.

Teraunuchi was transferred to serve as the assistant officer of the Emperor's Guards. At this time, an honorary position was generally served as a veteran general of the respected army. The dispute over the mainland prime minister of the Japanese cabinet also came to an end. Shiro Nakama was transferred back to China to serve as the mainland prime minister. Lieutenant General Anten Lieki took over as the head of the Fifth Division. Another main responsible person in charge of the Xuzhou battlefield, Ryosuke Isotani was also transferred to serve as the chief of staff of the Kanto Army. Lieutenant General Shinohara Yoshinohara served as the head of the 10th Division.

Before returning to China, Shiichi Sakui promoted Kazuki Nakajima to major general. He served as the commander of the 5th Mixed Brigade in the former frontier. Qin Yashang, the former commander of the 5th Mixed Brigade, was responsible for the reconstruction of the 108th Division. Former commander of the Chinese garrison corps, Tomomo Yamashita served as the commander of the 16th Division. He was responsible for the reconstruction of the 16th Division.

The Japanese army mobilized troops from the country and Northeast China into Shandong and North China. Xuzhou was defeated. The Japanese army in North China drank to quench thirst. They drew troops from all over North China, causing empty North China. The squadron launched a local counterattack in various parts of North China. Shanxi was the first to bear the brunt.

After the Japanese dispatched the 20th Division and the Yamashima Corps from Shanxi, Wei Lihuang came down from Zhongtiao Mountain and launched a counterattack towards Yuncheng. He captured Xia County, Lin and Anyi. He surrounded Yuncheng from three sides; the Hel 120th Division in Luliang Mountain used attacks. They adopted a completely different strategy. They did not attack the county town. They swept across the Japanese stronghold from Datong to Shuozhou. The 129th Division on the Taihang Mountain divided several troops and attacked several routes to southern Hebei and Shanxi respectively. The Japanese army was forced to huddle on the main transportation trunk line.

Cao commanded the Eighth Route Army in central Hebei to launch an attack on the surrounding Japanese troops and continuously break the Ping Railway. Chen commanded the 386th Brigade to fight continuously in southern Hebei and annihilate more than 800 enemies. The anti-Japanese war in southern Hebei was based on the great development of the open-minded development. Nie Rongzhen commanded the main forces of the Jin-Cha-Hebei base to launch a continuous battle near Zhangjiakou. The Japanese army was completely passively beaten in all parts of North China.

In order to change this passive situation, the new commander-in-chief of the Japanese North China Front Army, Sugiyama, summoned senior generals above the brigade commander in Peking to study the North China combat strategy.

The meeting was filled with the anger and mockery of Sugiyama. He mocked Sakaichi in the Temple. Under his command, more than 100,000 imperial troops turned from a group of brave lions to timid sheep. The North China troops were drawn to pieces and replenishing the sores, causing the situation in North China to rot to this end, which insulted the imperial army's prestige and lost all the face of the Japanese Empire.

"Shouichi Temple, this idiot!" Sugiyama Yuan finally roared angrily, not worried that this would reach the country or the ears of Sugiyama Yuan. All the generals here were generals who participated in the war some time ago. They had suffered more or less losses from Sugiyama Yuan's angrily scolded and ashamed.

Sugiyama Yuan soon discovered this situation. His tone changed and began to boost morale. By the way, he also talked about his strategy: "The main task of the front army is still to open up the Jinpu Line and destroy the young Chinese army entrenched in the Xuzhou area. Only in this way can the Chinese government sit down and honestly accept the peace conditions of the imperial army. In the past three months, North China will add fourteen divisions. We have never gained such strong strength in North China. Brothers, the victory is still in our hands! Brothers, the mission of conquering China and creating the supreme and glorious empire is on your shoulders!"

In the back of the conference room, Kasugi Nakajima looked at Sugiyama with a expressionless face. He felt very bored by the meeting. Sugiyama's influence on him was very small, whether it was accusation or boosting morale. In his opinion, Xuzhou's failure was a strategic failure of the empire, and this failure was destined. Teruchi Nakachi was just a scapegoat for the military's strategic mistakes.

Katagang was very worried about his old friend's situation, especially his contempt for Sugiyama. He privately pulled him to the officers' club to comfort him, but Nakajima didn't care at all.

"The defeat in the Battle of Xuzhou was just a silhouette of the military's strategic failure. As the Minister of the Army, General Yama cannot refuse to blame," Nakajima pointed the finger at Sugiyama Moto: "Kan Katagang, look at it, he will not be able to end the China Incident."

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The island made this conclusion because he opposed Sugiyama Yuan's strategy. According to Sugiyama Yuan's plan, it was the primary goal. For this reason, he decided to put twelve of the 14 divisions into the second Jinpu Road battle in preparation, while Hebei and Shanxi each invested one division to stabilize the current situation. At the meeting, Shanyuan clearly announced that the combat plan had been reported to the base camp, and the base camp would approve the combat plan in the near future.

"General Sugi's combat ideas are still based on the concept of conquering China within one or two years, but this is wrong. The two battles between Nanjing and Xuzhou have added confidence to the Chinese people. Even if Xuzhou is captured and the Jinpu line is opened, the Chinese government will not seek peace. From the perspective of long-term war, the anti-Japanese forces in North China should be eliminated first, and at least severely weakened them. Three divisions and five divisions encircled and suppressed Jin-Cha-Ji. If such a heavy blow, it will definitely eliminate the local anti-Japanese forces in the short term. Then the central Hebei troops moved south to attack southern Hebei, and the troops encircled and suppressed Jin-Cha-Ji continued to attack the Taihang Mountains, and the Chinese troops entrenched here would be completely eliminated.

Eliminate." Nakajima Kasukai said seriously: "During this period, six divisions were used to support the Jinan defenders, stabilize the Shandong battlefield, and at the same time cleared out anti-Japanese forces in various parts of Jiaodong. After clearing North China, we had a stable rear, and then began to implement the battle to open up the Jinpu Road. Six divisions attacked Henan, headed south along the Pinghan Railway, and penetrated into the rear of the Xuzhou Chinese Army. The front also used six divisions to attack along the Jinpu Line. The Central China Front Army also sent five to six divisions. After conquering Suxian, the main force turned west and cooperated with the Imperial Army who went south from Henan to encircle and annihilate the main force concentrated in Xuzhou in one fell swoop, laying the foundation for victory."

After hearing this, Chianggang couldn't help but suck. This was a big strategy, a strategy that the Japanese army had never implemented before, and it was exciting to think about it.

"Nakajima, you should immediately write to General Sugiyama. If we can implement this strategy, we will achieve unprecedented victory, and the Chinese people will likely sit down to negotiate." Kazuang danced and was extremely excited.

Nakajima did not answer. He just sipped the sake silently. Kazuo urged him repeatedly. After a long time, Nakajima took out a document expressionlessly and handed it to Kazuo. Kazuo quickly took it over and looked carefully.

There was a noise outside the door, and Nakajima felt a little swollen. He stood up and opened the door. In the bathroom, he happily released the liquid accumulated in his body. However, the bathroom door was opened. The two officers came in one after another, complimenting each other.

"It's great that you can come to Peking, we can fight for His Majesty the Emperor again."

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