Then he made a draft in his heart and began to write quickly:

"After the Battle of Xuzhou, the Tokyo Base Camp had a fierce discussion on whether to continue to march into Wuhan.

The Tokyo Base Camp has estimated that if further attacks Wuhan, it will require at least 2.1 billion yen to increase military expenditure.

In addition, given that the Japanese army was extremely tired after the Battle of Xuzhou, the base camp needed to add 300,000 to 400,000 troops to the Wuhan battlefield.

The huge military expenditure and the scale of military increase have made the Japanese cabinet actually not uniform or even contradictory in its idea of ​​attacking Wuhan.

However, the Japanese Navy and Army were very eager to occupy Wuhan.

The Japanese Army and Navy generally believe that if they can finally successfully occupy Wuhan, they will maximize the speed of occupying the entire China.

One of the most important points of the Japanese Army is that occupying Wuhan will bring a huge blow to Chongqing and help force Chongqing to surrender.

The Japanese base camp believes that the capture of Wuhan has great political, military and economic significance:

On the one hand, this can destroy China's anti-Japanese war center;

On the other hand, the government lost Nanjing and Wuhan one after another, which would directly hit the prestige of the government and then force Chongqing to surrender and seek peace.

"Even if Chongqing does not surrender and loses Wuhan, it means losing Hunan, Hubei granaries, and the only economic center in mainland China.

Not only will the National Government lose its ability to be self-sufficient economically, it can also cut off the weapon delivery channel - the Guangdong-Hankou Railway."

After thinking about it, Cheng Qianfan crossed out this passage. He believed that both the teacher and Comrade Xiangwu had long seen this very thoroughly and he didn't need to say much.

However, he then added it, which was what he gained from the information and tried to maximize the restoration of the information content.

Among them, in Cheng Qianfan's view, the Japanese base camp's estimate of the military expenditure and military strength of the Wuhan war is of strong reference value for Japan's national strength and military mobilization capabilities.

In addition, according to information and intelligence, the Japanese base camp was actually not directly determining the current military plan to capture Wuhan, but was constantly adjusting and changing.

The Japanese Army Base Camp once formulated a plan for how to capture Wuhan.

The military strategy of the North China Front Army was specifically the Japanese North China Front Army planned to go south along the Pinghan Railway and fight all the way until it reached Hankou.

After fierce discussions, the Japanese army in North China analyzed the advantages and disadvantages.

The advantage of this military strategy is that the roads are smooth, the plains are combated, and suitable for mechanized troops.

For the national army with extremely low mechanization, the Japanese army can completely form a huge combat advantage with the mechanized army.

However, the shortcomings of the plan are also obvious. It must pass through the First, Fifth and Ninth War Zones of China, and most importantly, it must also be attacked by the Eighth Route Army in the rear.

Therefore, after fierce discussion, this military march plan was eventually denied.

The second plan of the Japanese base camp was to cross the Dabie Mountains from south of the Huai River to encircle Wuhan, preferably to be able to encircle and annihilate the main force of the national army.

The advantage of this advance strategy is that it is closest to the distance, which can maximize the shortening of advancement.

The disadvantage is that the terrain of the Dabie Mountains is complex, which is not conducive to the marching of mechanized troops, which will directly affect the Japanese supply line.

After the Yellow River Gardenkou burst, the plan was no longer needed to be discussed and was directly abandoned by the Japanese base camp.

The third plan of the Japanese base camp was to go up along the Yangtze River and attack Wuhan.

The advantage of this plan is that the Japanese army can take the initiative and use the navy, army and air forces to cooperate in combat, with a moderate attack distance.

More importantly, the Chinese army's defense on the Yangtze River defense line is extremely weak.

Of course, there are also disadvantages: the Yangtze River waterway is complex and not conducive to the marching of mechanized troops.

After the Battle of Xuzhou, the Japanese army had to carry out large-scale mobilizations on a long journey. In addition, there was another extremely important key point to achieve this plan, that is, it was necessary to occupy Jiujiang as soon as possible.

In addition, this military strategy is likely to be able to expel Chinese troops and it is difficult to annihilate them.

The third strategy adopted by the Japanese army in the end to occupy Wuhan.

Cheng Qianfan secretly went to the safe house on Deserang Road that night and sent a telegram that had been streamlined and still very long to the Northwest Headquarters.

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I returned to Suzhou, and when I got home, I kept typing.
Chapter completed!