Chapter 2 2. The Tail of the Big Bad Wolf

In this world, there are many different versions of the fable of the big bad wolf and the little white rabbit.However, the general meaning is the same. It is said that the mother of the little white rabbit went out one day, and only the little white rabbit was left at home.A big bad wolf came outside the door, and the door of the little white rabbit's house could not be closed tightly, so the big bad wolf adopted a very despicable trick, imitating the voice of the little white rabbit's mother, tricking the little white rabbit to open the door .The little white rabbit is not that stupid, it sees the tail of the big bad wolf through the crack of the door.

In the 1930s, a group of big bad wolves from the Japanese island country came from the East.Like the big bad wolf in the fable, they wear a piece of human skin and howl the tune of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, but they still can't hide the beast's tail under their buttocks. This group of big bad wolves from Japan are even worse than the big bad wolf in the fable, and they are even more shameless.It doesn't matter if they can't hide their tails, they can also find other excuses. Anyone who wants to do bad things can always find an excuse. There is also a Chinese folk story about a young goat drinking water by a stream.

Suddenly a big bad wolf came up upstream of it. When the wolf saw the sheep, it became malicious.This wolf still wants face, and it needs an excuse to eat sheep.It said the lamb had polluted the water it drank.The lamb said, you are upstream and I am downstream, how can your water be dirty?The big bad wolf was very angry. It said that it was not what happened now, but that your father dirty the water I drank before.So, it ate the lamb with peace of mind. The Japanese island nation takes the invasion of the Chinese nation as its national policy, and everyone from the emperor to the ministers believes that conquering China is the ladder to conquer the world.However, they have become aggressors, but they do not have the courage to admit that the war against China is aggression, insisting that it is an "incident", such as the "September 18th" incident on September 18, 1931, and the "1.18" incident in Shanghai in 1932. The 28th Incident, the Marco Polo Bridge Incident in 1937.They shamelessly fabricated many lies, created a series of provocative incidents, and found excuses for them to send troops to China. They marched into China by squeezing toothpaste in a shy way again and again, encroaching on China's territory piece by piece.To the public opinion of the world, they deny aggression. Who invaded China?No aggression.It’s just that countless incidents happened in China, and the Japanese army just came to maintain the order in Greater East Asia and preside over fairness and justice in the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

The Dongying wolves are so shameless. They first created the "Wanbaoshan incident" on the northeast border to provoke relations between China and North Korea, and then they used this opportunity to send a large number of troops into the northeast under the pretext that a Japanese officer, Captain Nakamura, was missing in the northeast.Immediately afterwards, they blew up a section of the Liutiaogou track of the South Manchuria Railway, turned black and white, and framed the Chinese army.So on September 18, 1931, the Japanese army attacked Shenyang and launched the "September 18th Incident".

Later, they repeated the old trick, saying that a Japanese soldier who was stationed near the Marco Polo Bridge disappeared during a military exercise and asked to search for it in Wanping City.When Japan's unreasonable demands were rejected, they actually launched an attack on the Chinese garrison. General Song Zheyuan led the 29th Army to rise up and resist.This is the Marco Polo Bridge Incident initiated by the Japanese General Staff. Lifting a rock to shoot one's own foot is an old Chinese saying to describe people's stupidity.If the Japanese are not like the big bad wolf, but learn from Hitler in Germany, a beast is a beast, take off the human skin, and when Europe is in troubled times and has no time to take care of other things, it will not be squeezed toothpaste, but The first 30 divisions were sent to attack at the same time. Using lightning tactics, the main force went south from the Pinghan and Jinpu routes, and the other route went out to the northwest, implementing a strategic detour, occupying Lanzhou, cutting off the communication between China and the Soviet Union, and The main forces marching westward along the Longhai Railway echoed each other from a distance, attacking Shaanxi and occupying Xi'an, so they could take Longwangshu and threaten Chengdu.At the same time, taking advantage of the convenience of sea transportation, they attacked to the west of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River, echoing the main force going south along the Jinpu Road, so that the Chinese troops in the southwestern provinces could not be transferred to the Yangtze River Basin to fight, and occupied strategic places such as Songhu, Nanjing, Wuhan, and Changsha.Then cross the Qinling Mountains on the right to occupy Chengdu, pass through Yichang on the middle road and pass through the Three Gorges to occupy Chongqing, and pass through Guangxi on the left to Duyun, Guizhou, and occupy Guiyang.In this way, all important cities in China can be occupied in one fell swoop, the main force of the Chinese army will be destroyed, sporadic guerrillas will be driven into the mountainous areas, and the overall resistance of the Chinese army will be dismembered.At that time, the general situation in China was gone, and the national government could only bow its head and obey orders.The Japanese imperialists could use China as their base camp and use China's manpower and property to attack Europe, thereby realizing their ambition of dominating the world and realizing the ideal of the Yamato nation.

This grand strategic blueprint was conceived by Li Zongren, the commander of China's fifth war zone, for Japan's Yamato nation.Fortunately, however, Japan does not have politicians, military strategists, and strategists with such a vision and mind. Japanese right-wingers can only do small things and run some sneaky business. Today, it has been 65 years since the Chinese people won the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, but some people in Japan are still narrow-minded and dare not bear the crime of war.In the face of bloody facts and iron-clad evidence, they still quibble.He also openly visited the "Yasukuni Shrine" and called out for the souls of Japanese war criminals, which hurt the feelings of the Chinese people and the people of the world.In today's stage of peace and development, playing the role of a clown is really humiliating.

Li Zongren looked at the map attentively, and carefully planned the battle plan with a group of staff including Chief of Staff Xu Zuyi.Li Zongren has repeatedly emphasized that operational deployment must conform to the strategic policy of protracted war of attrition.They drew up a combat plan based on the enemy's situation, terrain and missions in the theater at that time: The troops guarding the coastline should focus on defending the key points of the coast to prevent the Japanese army from landing. They should reserve a strong reserve team and place them between Qingcheng, Rizhao, and the East China Sea, so as to support the coast defense forces on the move, thereby frustrating the enemy's landing plan.Once the Japanese army landed, the coastal defense forces would also use their fortified positions to try their best to prevent the expansion of the Japanese army.

The troops on the second line are located near Xuzhou, strengthen the construction of defense fortifications near Xuzhou, and prepare to make full use of the Jinpu Railway and the Longhai Railway to effectively reinforce the operations of the troops on the first line. When the capital, Nanjing, fell, the Wuhan Military Supreme Command Center believed that the Xuzhou Fifth War Zone's combat plan for defense and blocking the enemy alone was not enough, and it was necessary to prepare for a decisive battle with the enemy.This decisive battle may be in Xuzhou, or it may be on the periphery of Xuzhou.According to the opinions of the Supreme Command, Commander Li Zongren organized his staff to formulate a battle plan. They put the possible battle location in Yanzhou, so they issued the Yanzhou battle plan:

If the front-line troops defending the Yellow River are attacked by the frontal enemy in Changqing and the east, they can retreat to Laiwu, Tai'an, Feicheng, Xintai, and Dawenkou areas, occupy key points, and delay the enemy's southward advance in this area. If the troops east of Jinan cannot retreat to the west of Jinpu Road in time, they can retreat to Boshan, Tai'an, Xintai, and the mountains to the north and south of Surabaya to assist the main force in the battle and attack the enemy from the back. If the main force of the Japanese army lands on the coast, or the Yellow River garrison retreats to the south of Tai'an, the main force of the coast garrison should retreat to Rizhao, Juxian, and Yishui.One of them, like Invincible, still sticks to the East Coast.

When the first-line troops retreat, the second-line troops should immediately push forward with force until near Zou County, indirectly support the retreat of the Yellow River garrison, and directly prevent the enemy from going south along the Jinpu line. The rest of the troops should still be controlled near Xuzhou. In the battle near Yanzhou, the guerrilla forces near Zouxian County, Jining Corps, Sishui, and Xintai supported each other, kept the focus on the left and right flanks, and launched a vigorous counterattack against the enemy advancing south. Li Zongren thought very carefully. When formulating the Yanzhou battle plan, he thought of what to do if the battle failed or was unfavorable?So he made another Xuzhou battle plan as a supplement to the Yanzhou battle.He was afraid that the Japanese army would break through from the canal line and enter the area west of the canal, or cross the Yellow River from the area west of the canal.All participating troops in the Fifth Theater shall act according to the following plan:

All the troops along the canal retreated from Shangqiu to cover the left flank of the fifth theater. The main force is gathered in the area west of Weishan Lake, ready to enter and exit southwest.The frontal troops on Jinpu Road retreated to the area between Xiao County in the southwest of Xuzhou and Jinpu Road, preparing to enter and exit to the northwest and northeast.The 22nd Group Army is a reserve force located in the Suyu-Shandong border area for support. The Sixty-eighth Army of the First Theater in the eastern Henan area guards the Longhai Road, and can cooperate with the Third Army of the Fifth Theater to take on the defensive task south of the Yellow River. Judging from the battle situation at the time, this was a very careful battle plan. If it could be implemented in this way, it is entirely possible for the Chinese army to achieve the goal of the campaign.However, Li Zongren devoted all his efforts to the fifth theater, but because of the open resistance of Han Fuju, the deputy commander of the fifth theater who served as the defense of the Yellow River, he retreated without a fight and wasted.Not only that, but also disrupted the scheduled plan of the fifth theater, making our army passive and putting the entire theater in an extremely dangerous situation.