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After the outbreak of the "Lugou Bridge Incident" in 1937, Liu Fei, with his excellent military theoretical attainments and many years of practical experience in leading troops in combat, was appointed by the Military Commission of the National Government as the leader of a combat team to command the national army to fight against Japan.
[Lieutenant General Liu Fei]
In particular, the drafting and organization of the formulation of campaigns related to the fate of the country, including accurately judging the operational intentions of the Japanese army. Although the official rank was a group leader, this group leader was placed among the generals of the National Army at that time, and it really belonged to a rare category. Everyone knows that without super wisdom and excellent foresight, it is impossible to perform this group leader role.
Liu Fei held this extremely important position, which shows that the National Government, of course, including the Military Commission of the National Government at that time, had high expectations for Liu Fei. Liu Fei also knows that when the country is in danger, let him hold such an important position, and he must do his best to contribute to the country.
In the face of the Japanese army's aggressive offensive posture against our country after the "July 7 Incident," it has always arrogantly clamored for the fallacy of destroying China in three months. Liu Wen knew that it was not the Japanese army base camp that completely despised China and became so willful and arrogant.
Why Liu Fei has such a understanding of Japan, he has been admitted to the Japanese Army Infantry College since 1927, and after graduating from the Japanese Army Infantry College in 1930, because of his excellent grades, he was exempted from the examination and sent to the Japanese Army University, which specializes in training senior command officers of the Japanese Army, to continue studying for four years, not only as a Japanese general, but also with a deeper understanding of the characteristics of Japanese combat and their shortcomings. He is well aware that Japan is an island country, although it is faster than China in the process of modernization, especially the advantage of industrialization ahead of China is more obvious.
However, because Japan is surrounded by the sea on all sides, there is a huge gap between China in terms of population, resources, and land area, and the innate conditions have forced Japan to adopt a strategy of "quick war and quick decision", which must crush China in a short period of time and force the Chinese government to surrender.
Although China is completely inferior to the Japanese army in industrialization, especially in the equipment of the army and the training of soldiers. However, as long as we have a large population, a relatively sufficient supply of troops, a vast land from south to north, from west to east, different geographies, and abundant resources, as long as we strengthen our convictions, give full play to all kinds of favorable situations, and achieve a sustained depletion of the japanese army's effective forces, we will eventually defeat Japan's aggression against our country and finally win a complete victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Liu Fei's proposal was endorsed by many senior generals of the Military and Political Committee of the National Government, and was even summarized by General Bai Chongxi as the classic thesis of "accumulating small victories for big victories, exchanging space for time", as the basic strategic idea of China's War of Resistance Against Japan, which was mainly a frontal battlefield led by the National Government.
[German Mechanic Division of the Nationalist Army Shooting at the Japanese at the Battle of Songhu]
When the Battle of Songhu had not yet begun, Liu Fei was entrusted by the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government to formulate a campaign plan for the entire Battle of Songhu, and his brain began to think about how to achieve the best outcome at the minimum cost in the face of the reality that the enemy was strong and we were weak, preserving the strength of the nationalist army as much as possible, and accumulating strength for the long-term war of resistance.
Liu Fei faced with a steady stream of intelligence and information about the Japanese army. After careful summarization, he learned that the Japanese army had invested more than 200,000 troops in 8 divisions and 2 brigades and regiments of the ground force, more than 500 combat aircraft, more than 300 tanks, more than 30 warships, more than 300 heavy guns, and countless mountain guns, mortars, and grenadiers. Although the Nationalist army invested 8 group armies, a total of more than 800,000 troops, but there were only a few dozen aircraft, no warship could fire on the Japanese positions, and other heavy weapons were only a fraction of the Japanese army, which was simply negligible.
The disparity in the number of weapons and equipment between the enemy and us is so great that he is not a commander who commands specific battles on the front line, and can do whatever it takes just to win the battle, without considering other comprehensive factors. He understood that his duty was not to desperately fight with the Japanese army, and as a patriotic soldier, Liu Fei certainly knew the importance of defending Shanghai. However, he went deep into the front line several times to enter the position to observe, and witnessed the soldiers of the Nationalist army being bombarded by Japanese aircraft and the heavy artillery bombardment of Japanese warships on the sea and the river, and a group of heroic and fearless commanders and fighters were instantly blown to blood and flesh.
As a think tank, he must be calm, must remain restrained, and feels that he cannot make such a senseless sacrifice, and must unswervingly implement it in accordance with the principle of guiding the anti-Japanese resistance throughout the country, "accumulating small victories into big victories, and exchanging space for time," and must never let the Japanese army completely annihilate the main force of our army on the songhu battlefield.
In particular, when he received a telegram saying that the Japanese reinforcements at the Battle of Songhu and landed at Hangzhou Bay from the flank, they would encircle the Nationalist forces in Shanghai in a roundabout way. In the face of this extremely unfavorable situation, he immediately suggested to Ling Chiang Kai-shek, the commander-in-chief in charge of the Battle of Songhu and also the commander-in-chief of the national anti-war army, that the Battle of Songhu must be stopped as soon as possible, and that all group armies should withdraw from the existing battlefield in an orderly manner in accordance with the withdrawal plan drawn up by the operation group, so as to preserve the strength of our army and seek an opportunity to annihilate the Japanese army.
Chiang Kai-shek, who was commanding all the Nationalist forces to stubbornly resist the Japanese army, thought about Liu Fei's proposal for a long time. As a commander-in-chief, he certainly knew that the gap between the equipment of our army and the overall strength of our soldiers was very large compared with that of the Japanese army, and many troops went to the battlefield with whole battalions and regiments, and as many as a few days, or even only half a day, they all died on the battlefield. However, Shanghai is China's economic and industrial center, and if it is not desperately defended, how can it support China's long-term war of resistance to the need for industrial materials?
However, when Chiang Kai-shek calmed down, he knew that Shanghai had concentrated the main forces of the Nationalist army from all over the country, and once it was fully surrounded by the well-armed and well-equipped Japanese army, how could China's anti-Japanese resistance be discussed, and after a long period of contemplation, finally Chiang Kai-shek adopted Liu Fei's suggestion, and finally withdrew all the positions on the Songhu battlefield, preserving the strength and capital of the Nationalist army to continue the war of resistance.
Such an incident occurred during China's desperate resistance to the Japanese invasion step by step, delaying the ferocious offensive of the Japanese army, and taking the initiative to withdraw to the rear. The Japanese army failed to achieve the evil goal of annihilating the main force of the Nationalist army again in the Battle of Xuzhou, an important town in the Jianghuai River Valley. Therefore, the strategy was changed, hoping to rely on the strong naval and air superiority of the Japanese army itself, adopt the posture of advancing westward in unison along the north and south banks of the Yangtze River, and implement the so-called "Yangtze River Leap Forward Strategy", and the ultimate goal of the specific strategy is to occupy Wuhan, an important town in central China.
At this time, Liu Fei also came to Wuhan, where he was in charge of the operation in the Military Command of the Nationalist Government and participated in the planning and guidance of the Battle of Wuhan throughout the process. Since Wuhan is an important town in central China, the Nationalist army mobilized 14 group armies with a total strength of nearly 1.1 million people, and in the same way, the Japanese army concentrated the strength of 14 divisions and regiments, about 250,000 people, in order to conquer Wuhan.
[Nationalist heavy machine gun positions firing at the Japanese]
Objectively speaking, the weapons and equipment of the Nationalist army have improved to a certain extent compared with the Battle of Songhu, but there is still a big gap compared with the Japanese army. In order to accurately assign the 1.1 million Nationalist troops and be able to effectively strike at the Japanese army, how Liu Fei, as the person responsible for the Formulation of the Battle of Wuhan, arranged his troops to stop the rhythm of the Japanese army's attack to the greatest extent and win time for the relocation of schools and factory equipment in the Wuhan area was where he needed to think seriously at every moment.
Just as Liu Fei and his subordinates were watching the sand table every day, as well as the exercise and confrontation between the enemy and our forces. One day he received a letter from Liu Fei, an instructor at the Japanese Army University, Ji Gubanyuan, who in addition to telling the story of the teacher-student relationship, was more to advise Liu Fei to recognize the current situation, China will be completely occupied by the Japanese army sooner or later, as long as you turn to Japan, with your qualifications and ability to serve the Japanese army, it will certainly be many times higher than your current status. Of course, there are also conditions, that is, to let Liu Fei provide the specific operational deployment plan of the Chinese army to defend Wuhan, so that the Japanese army can quickly occupy Wuhan, eliminate the main force of the Nationalist army defending Wuhan, and then be able to invade the southwest with more abundant troops and achieve the goal of occupying all of China.
Liu Fei was indignant after reading this letter, and he felt in his heart that although he had received a good education in Japan, this was by no means a reason for me to betray the motherland. Thinking of this, he did not hesitate to hand over this letter to the National Government in order to show his heart, to show his position of being at odds with the Japanese and the Kosovars and his determination to swear to die an improper traitor.
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