Chiang Kai-shek's telegram came back soon, and his tone was extremely harsh: "The army has only been reorganized for three months. Why did it easily attack Jinan, causing losses and wasting national resources? It must be stopped immediately. All departments should step up their training, be familiar with tactics, and prepare for combat."

Zhuang Jihua was so angry that he couldn't speak. Chiang Kai-shek's reason was high-sounding, but after rest and recuperation, the morale of the officers and soldiers of the Five War Zone was high. Most of the injured veterans returned to the army and wanted to fight. This was a great time to fight a battle. The Japanese army was opposite to our army. If time was delayed, the Japanese army was just using it to train.

"I'll send another message to the Chairman, if a main force of the Japanese army is encircling and suppressing Hebei Central, our army will be resting and recuperating and attacking, disrupting the Japanese army's deployment. Otherwise, after the Japanese army stabilizes the rear, the entire army will come to fight, and I will pay a greater price. This is military common sense. I beg the Chairman to allow us to continue the attack."

Seeing this telegram, Xu Zuyi felt something was wrong and pointed at "This is military common sense" and said: "Commander, please leave this sentence out."

Zhuang Jihua hesitated and nodded coldly. After Xu Zuyi went out, Gong Xiuhua came in and handed him a telegram: "Call from Peiping."

Zhuang Jihua received the telegram and established support from Gao. A telegram was sent from Peking that the war in the direction of Jinan had alarmed the North China Front Army. In view of the main force of the Eighth Route Army in the middle of Hebei, Shanshanyuan decided to draw three divisions from Hebei, two of which were transferred to Handan, and the other one was transferred to Jinan. In addition, within three days, the 46th Division transferred from the local area will land in Tianjin. This division will be in the direction of the First War Zone. In addition, the 39th Division will also land in Qingdao. This division will be in the direction of Zhucheng combat; the 43rd Division will land in Shanghai, and these three divisions will be the last batch of troops.

In other words, the Japanese army was basically ready. Zhuang Jihua silently planned in his mind that according to the information of Ligao and Daze, six of the twenty divisions were transferred to the Northeast to join the Kwantung Army's combat sequence, enriching the all-selected Northeast; the other two were transferred to the Mongolian garrison troops, and two were transferred to Shanxi to fill the gap between the 21st Division and the garrison troops transferred in Shanxi.

At this point, Zhuang Jihua discovered that the Japanese army actually invested in Xuzhou. Only eight divisions were added. He marked the position of the Japanese division on the map, and footsteps came from behind him. He did not look back and still focused on marking the map.

"Report!" A loud voice came from behind. Zhuang Jihua's hand trembled, and the curve on the picture immediately became clear. He sighed helplessly, stood up and turned around, looking at the clamoring person in front of him.

When Zhang Xin saw Zhuang Jihua's face was angry, he came forward without fear: "Commander, I heard that Chongqing has a new weapon that has been developed. Can you give us some?"

Zhuang Jihua was in an irritable mood and couldn't help but curse: "Get out! Come here and make trouble. Gang, get out of here!"

Zhang Xin was stunned that he was just an introduction, but unexpectedly it caused Zhuang Jihua to be so angry, and his smiley face disappeared: "Yes!" After that, he turned around and walked out.

"Come back," Zhuang Jihua called him back again. Looking at Zhang Xin's serious face, he liked Zhang Xin very much. He was the former subordinate of Song Xiongfu and had a similar temper to Song Xiongfu: "What the hell is it? Say it!"

"I heard that the fight ahead was not easy. Brothers asked me to come and ask me to ask the commander for a fight." Zhang Xin replied loudly.

Zhuang Jihua stared at him coldly and didn't say anything for several minutes. Zhang Xin felt a little nervous and quickly added: "Sir, what I said is true. We heard that the 20th Army went up and fought hard,..."

Zhuang Jihua waved his words: "Go back, when should I fight? I will naturally tell the Commander of the Blue Army to build fortifications and repair the fortifications to at least withstand the 150 howitzer shells."

The entire Fifth War Zone was almost a construction site. The migrant workers from military forces went together, from Tai'an to Yanzhou, then to Tengxian, Zaozhuang, Linyi, and Mengyin, all of them were building fortifications, and the same was true fortifications on the southern line, from the Ci River to the Wo River, and then to the Tuo River, all of them were building fortifications. Hundreds of thousands of migrant workers were busy on the construction site despite the cold winter.

The new weapon mentioned by Zhang Xin is actually the semi-automatic rifle that Zhuang Jihua wanted. When Zhuang Jihua got this kind of gun, he almost thought he had read it wrong. This was not the 47 in his mind. The 47 had some curved gun handles that became straight, but the barrel had become longer, and the bullet capacity was only twenty-four rounds. The gun stab could be installed at any time. Yu Dawei wrote to him that the range reached 800 meters and the effective range was 500 meters. After Zhuang Jihua got the weapon, he tried to fire a few shots and found that it was quite stable. The gun body was a stamping piece, and the gun was not heavy. It had not yet hit a formal heavy weight. The bullet was 7.62 rounds.

This type of gun was named the Victory One-style semi-automatic rifle. Only one thousand were sent to the front line. Zhuang Jihua had not yet decided to hand over the troops. The number of guns in this batch was too small, and it was not enough to change the entire division, not even a regiment. If it was divided casually, logistics support would be a problem.

After sending Zhang Xin away, Zhuang Jihua marked the Japanese combat sequence on the map again. Xu Zuyi came back and held Chiang Kai-shek's reply call as usual. Zhuang Jihua asked without waiting for him, "Does the Chairman still disagree?"

Xu Zuyi nodded and handed over the telegram. Zhuang Jihua didn't answer it. He thought for a while and said, "Secretary Gong." Gong Xiuhua came in from outside the door, but Zhuang Jihua didn't even raise his head: "Call back to the Chairman, I obey the order, and call Du Yuming, telling him that the Japanese troops in Hebei and China will retreat, and allow him to fight for another one and a half days at most. Order Sun Tongxuan to stop the attack at noon tomorrow and retreat to the original defense."

Then he stood up straight and said to Xu Zuyi: "The Eighth Route Army in the Central Hebei region has failed, the first phase of the Japanese army's combat goal has been completed, and the Military Affairs Bureau sent information that the Japanese army would transfer three of the four divisions invested in central Hebei region to the front line. Within the other three days, one division will arrive in each of Qingdao in Tianjin."

"So they are going to start attacking." Xu Zuyi's face was solemn, but Zhuang Jihua smiled: "Old Xu, it's not that serious. Guangting's battle was good and it defeated the Japanese army in reality. They seemed to have a large number of people, but in fact they were not as good as the Japanese army during the Battle of Songhu."

"Then what are you going to fight?" Xu Zuyi asked. He was a little surprised that Zhuang Jihua was so clear about the Japanese troops mobilization. However, he didn't ask. Zhuang Jihua was completely different from Li Zongren. He seemed to have many secrets on him, and he decided to do some of them himself, not reporting to Chiang Kai-shek at all, such as this time to Jinan.

"Don't hurry, wait a little longer." Zhuang Jihua said calmly that the specific deployment of the Japanese attack had not been made yet. He had to wait for information on the support of the high-level support. After that, he said excitedly: "Let's go out and have not visited Xuzhou City for a long time."

As soon as the two went out, Wu Ziniu came to tell him that American journalist Weber and Times reporter Charles jointly requested an interview. Zhuang Jihua thought about it and nodded in agreement, and turned to Xu Zuyi and said, "Old Xu, take time to take the map on the table. Let's discuss what to do. I'll go and meet these two big reporters."

Xu Zuyi had actually seen the distribution of Japanese troops marked on the map, and he had some ideas in his mind, but he had not had time to study it carefully.

The 38th Division also reported to the North China Front Command in Peking. Sugiyama was very angry. He wanted to order the escaped corps captain to apologize, but Li Gao's support came forward again to persuade him.

"Your Excellency, this time the Imperial Army has a large number of new recruits, and most of the officers have insufficient practical experience. It is reasonable to fail this battle," Li Gao Support said earnestly: "Your Excellency, I suggest postponing the onset time of the attack and further reorganizing the troops."

After the Hebei-centered encirclement and suppression, Ligao Support's status in the North China Front Army rose sharply. The final result of the Hebei-centered war proved that Ligao Support's judgment was correct, while Eto's judgment was completely wrong. The combat plan formulated based on his judgment was ultimately defeated, which also made the first shot that Sugiyama Moto fired after taking office as commander of the North China Front Army.

As soon as Rigao finished his support, Naosaburo Okabe stood up to support him, suggesting that the offensive be postponed and the training troops were trained for another two months, and the attack was launched around the Spring Festival next year. Eto stood up to refute, but this time, Naosaburo Okabe bluntly refuted his idea, believing that the battle near Yucheng had proved that the combat effectiveness of the newly formed troops such as the 38th Division had a significant gap in combat effectiveness compared to the elite troops of the army. What's more, the news from Xuzhou showed that the preparations for the Fifth War Zone were very sufficient, and even if it was successful, the casualties would be huge.

Sugiyama Moto finally decided to accept the support from Naosaburo Okabe and Ritsugao, and in his name he proposed to the Chinese Expedition Army Commander Shinji Hata to postpone the attack. Shinji Hata was a little surprised after receiving the telegram and recruited Shinji Sugiyama and Naosaburo Okabe to Nanjing for consultation.

At this time, an action taken by the Chinese Air Force made all the ideas of postponing the offensive vain.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, in the winter sun, the Qianjin Airport near Juye was on high alert. This airport was a large airport that has been expanded in half a month, with eight modified 7 flying into the air.

On the ground, Qian Dajun, Wang Shuming, Gao Zhihang, and Zhou Zhirou lined up and saluted the military aircraft that took off.

Eight black dots quickly formed a formation in the air and then flew northeastward.

This is a major operation planned by the Air Force Command, code-named Tianlei, with the purpose of bombing the Japanese mainland, Kyushu. The Air Force planned for this for a long time and began to take off from Hankou, refuel to Ningbo, and then fly to Jiuzhou. After winning the battle of Xuzhou, it changed to take off from Julu and crossing Shandong, which could shorten the range of nearly a thousand miles. However, even so, all self-defense machine guns were removed, and the aviation bombs were only installed half of them, so that the aircraft's round-trip range could be met.

"I hope they can come back alive." Qian Dajun sighed softly at the gradually disappearing plane. This time they were secretly flying to Julu Airport, and Julu Airport was only allowed to enter and not leave. All officers, including Qian Dajun, were no longer allowed to go out when they landed, so they didn't even go to Xuzhou.

Wang Shuming and Gao Zhihang were always looking at the planes away. Someone in the Air Force had proposed not to continue bombs, but only to post leaflets. This suggestion was angrily rejected by Gao Zhihang and Wang Shuming. Why can the Japanese Air Force still bombs on our heads, and we can't continue bombs on their territory? So the plane that was originally planning to carry leaflets was changed to a bomb.

"Don't worry, we calculated that it was just night when they flew to Kyushu. The Japanese mainland had never been bombed, so the guards would definitely be lax." Gao Zhihang himself didn't know whether to comfort Wang Shuming or comfort himself.

The roar of the plane in the clouds gradually disappeared. Wang Shuming withdrew his gaze and turned to Gao Zhihang and said, "The Japanese army has built airports in various places recently. I have been pressing you down and I have not let you move. At this time, they can repair them again because we exploded. I think the Japanese army's attack should be fast. It's time. Now it's too late for them to explode."

Gao Zhihang was overjoyed when he heard this. The news of the Japanese army building airports in various places had long been heard, and most of the airports were found out. He asked to blow up these airports several times, but Wang Shuming just disagreed and thought it was not yet time. Now he finally nodded.
Chapter completed!