Regarding Du Kaishan's somewhat evasive explanation, Yang Zhen sneered: "Du Kaishan, don't give me a bad look here. At that time, the situation in the Hebei, Shandong and Henan regions had been fundamentally reversed due to the impact of the entire war situation. The comparison of the strength of the enemy and ourselves
, there have been fundamental changes.”
"There are very few Japanese troops left there. The remaining enemy forces, which are mainly puppet troops, don't need your intervention, Commander Du. They can solve the problem by themselves. Even if their equipment is not as good as yours, their combat effectiveness is even worse than yours.
, there will be no problem in fighting thousands of puppet troops."
"Don't think that I really don't know what you are going to do, and why you are so involved in the Hebei-Shandong-Henan border area. I still know how many roundworms you have in Du Kaishan's belly. Don't
Please cover up this matter from me."
"How come the things I said to you so earnestly during the training class for senior military cadres fell on deaf ears to you? Your problem is not that you let go of the 1st Division of the 22nd Division and did not give you any help on the Cangzhou battlefield.
The first phase of the operation has come to a successful conclusion. Although I, Yang Zhen, do not have much ability, I am not so short-sighted."
"I have told you more than once that no matter how the situation changes on the battlefield, as a senior commander, you must keep a cool head. Any decision you make must be made from the overall perspective of the entire campaign, not just
Stare at the pots and pans in front of you."
"Commanders at all levels, especially senior commanders, must have independent thinking abilities and habits. They must have independent judgments about the direction of the war situation. The Western Theater Command where you are located has previously experienced pressure on the overall war situation.
It is indeed smaller than Chen Hanzhang’s eastern front.”
"But when our entire army moves into the Hebei-Shandong border area, your position will bear far more pressure than the Eastern Cluster. Don't forget, your Eastern Front happens to be in Tianjin and Jinan.
Between two important cities in North China. Your theater location is close to Tianjin and Qingdao and also close to the two most important ports in North China."
"Within the scope of your operations on the eastern front, the Jinpu Line is also the only railway transportation line controlled by the Japanese army that runs through the north and south of China. Compared with the Pinghan Line, the importance of the Jinpu Line to the Japanese army is far greater.
In other words, in the next battle, from a strategic position, your location will become the focus of the battle."
"This is also the pattern I consciously formed at the end of the first phase of the battle. I have long made up my mind to focus the next step of the battle along Jinpu Road. So in the final phase, we must be in Hebei
The Shandong border area, and most importantly the Dezhou front line, created huge psychological pressure on the Japanese army."
"At the same time, in terms of strategy and tactics, it plays a mutually cooperative role with the troops of the Shandong Military Region. It firmly points the enemies of Dezhou in Dezhou and prevents them from being transferred to other battlefields in Shandong. In terms of the overall strategy, it forms a model of coordinated operations on both internal and external lines.
, and provide certain strategic support to the Shandong Military Region troops."
"If we are in the northern Shandong area, we cannot put enough pressure on the enemy in Dezhou. Not only will it be very detrimental to our own flank security, but we will also be unable to play any supporting role in the Shandong war situation. It will not be helpful to us in the entire North China battlefield.
The above-mentioned strategy will also have adverse effects.”
"The entire North China battlefield is so big that not only the twenty-odd divisions we entered can completely solve it. The development of the entire war situation requires effective cooperation between us and our brother troops in North China. Especially in terms of the entire strategy
Their cooperation is crucial to our ability to win this battle at such a high cost."
"If there is no main force of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei and Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu military regions, the First Army will be entangled in the Shanxi battlefield. Without the main force of the Shandong Military Region, most of the 12th Army will be dragged on the Shandong battlefield. Do you think that alone?
Can the twenty-odd divisions we entered the Pass compete with the entire Japanese North China Front, and even the entire Chinese Expeditionary Force?"
"In this battle, the roles played by us and the brother troops in Guan Nei on the entire battlefield are complementary to each other. However, their respective combat characteristics and combat targets are different, and the results cannot be the same. However, it is absolutely impossible to say who played a greater role.
Big, who can play better than who else, the whole battlefield is a game of chess."
"In the previous battles, they fully cooperated with your actions. But now that the war situation in Hebei has generally stabilized, it's a good thing for you. When they need you most, you stood aside and watched. Let's not talk about the impact on the entire battle situation.
In terms of quality, isn’t it a bit unethical for you to do this?”
"Also, the headquarters' next strategic plan is to prepare for the Hebei-Shandong border area south of Cangshi Highway, east of Ziya River, Fuyang River, and north of Majia River. The terrain here is flat and the size of the rivers is
It’s not big, and it is very helpful for our army to take advantage of the mechanized force.”
"And the Dezhou battlefield is the gateway to northwest Shandong. Whether our army can maintain sufficient strength in this area will directly affect our army's next strategic vision. In other words, it is related to whether we can defeat the enemy's troops.
Attention was attracted from southern Hebei to Shandong."
"This is extremely important for the direction of our next battle. Maybe your idea is reasonable from a local perspective, but have you looked at it from an overall perspective? You don't use Texas' important strategic location to build a better future."
How can the decoy attract a large number of Japanese troops to come over if it creates enough pressure on the enemy in Texas?"
"What if the enemy of Texas takes advantage of the fact that you have only an incomplete division on the front of Texas, without even a line of defense, and takes the risk of bypassing your division's defense line and forcing its way through Texas from east to north?
?At that time, not only will your back route in Du Kaishan be taken away, but even the entire flanks of the Ping-Tianjin battlefield will be threatened."
"You are a veteran. You are not aware of the Japanese army's ability to penetrate. We have suffered many losses from the Japanese army's flanking maneuvers on previous battlefields. This time, it was the sudden intervention of the Chongqing First War Zone that disrupted the Japanese army.
The overall plan is to let your kid escape."
"If there hadn't been this cross-cutting attack in the First War Zone, which disrupted the Japanese army's plan. While your main force was showing off its power in Hebei, Shandong and Yu, the enemy in Texas quietly moved northward, directly to the Japanese flank. What would you do?
Don't tell me, your mechanized troops can quickly return reinforcements when the time comes. The situation on the battlefield is ever-changing, can you guarantee that your troops can return reinforcements in time?"
"I tell you, when the time comes, you, Du Kaishan, will be the biggest sinner of the entire army. The more critical this moment is, the more we must pay attention not to leave any loopholes for the Japanese army to take advantage of. Don't do it because of your own carelessness.
You take it for granted and give the enemy any chance to make a comeback."
"Let me ask you, whether we are in Northeast China or North China, we have been dealing with the Japanese army for such a long time. I don't need to tell you about the advantages of the Japanese army. Have you ever seen that when there is still a certain combat effectiveness, it is necessary to
Do you think the Japanese army needs to rest first before continuing to fight? Have you ever seen a Japanese army that is afraid to move forward even when the battle situation is at a disadvantage?"
"Not to mention anything else, our senior commanders have not yet been able to reach the level of the Japanese senior commanders' ability to capture fighter planes and grasp the entire battle situation. The gap is just a gap, and there is nothing taboo about it. We are in the Northeast
We have suffered similar losses more than once on the battlefield. In the past, the lessons we learned with countless blood on the Northeast battlefield have now been completely thrown away by you."
"After the Cangzhou battlefield ended, the Japanese troops withdrew to Texas successively, and their strength exceeded one division. With such a large force, right under your nose, you actually left me with only an incomplete division to monitor.
?Do you really think that you are the enemy of Texas and you are just a piece of air?"
"Have you ever thought about the consequences of underestimating the enemy? Once the enemy in Texas uses your main force to move westward from Hebei, Shandong and Henan, the entire Fuxian Highway and the Bohai Bay line, the vast area will use an empty city strategy. Regardless of the danger, counterattack Jingxian County to the north.
Fucheng, cut off your retreat. Even along the Jinpu Railway, quickly insert into the Tianjin battlefield."
"And your main force is tied up in the Hebei, Shandong and Yu battlefields and cannot quickly return to the Jinpu line. What will you do then? Not only will your rear be unable to be defended, but even the flanks of the Tianjin battlefield may be threatened. Water
There is no need for me to explain to you the truth about the impermanence of power and the impermanence of troops. There is no need for me to tell you more about the principle of a dog jumping over a wall in a hurry."
"How many times have I told you that for a crazy army like the Japanese army, you cannot use conventional judgment methods to judge their movements. In terms of tactical deployment, you must always be aware of the possible crazy actions of the Japanese army who are always eager to jump over the wall.
Are these words that you have prepared fallen on deaf ears?"
"Now that you know the importance of flanks, what did you do at that time? You transferred the main force to the Hebei, Shandong, and Henan border areas, not to mention whether it would cause conflicts with your brother troops. You just moved the entire army's flanks
If you leave it to the Japanese army and ignore the overall strategic deployment of the entire army, it will be light for me to remove you from your post."
"Not to mention that the Hebei, Shandong and Yu Military Region has the ability to deal with the remnants of the enemy, and there is no need for you, Commander Du, to intervene. Even if you take a step back, you need your assistance. How about you dispatch all the main troops? What?
At that time, Commander Du, who has always had a very high vision, was interested in such a small number of Japanese troops?"
"Besides the fact that you always have a bad relationship with your brother troops, the most critical reason why I'm angry is that your problems are not on the battlefield, but in your mind. Your behavior is, to put it mildly, contentious.
You are strong and eager to show off your strength and bravery. To put it bluntly, you are just showing off your vanity and consciously showing off."
"At any time, we must calmly face the development and changes of the war situation, and consider things one step at a time and three steps at a time. These are the requirements I have made to you senior commanders more than once. But you are because of your
Out of vanity, you ignore the strategic overall situation and rashly intervene in a war zone that you should not intervene in, let alone have no need to intervene."
"As a senior commander, you Du Kaishan did this to vent your personal anger. Ask yourself whether you are qualified? I really have to consider whether you, Du Kaishan, are still a qualified candidate if you continue to serve as the military chief of the Eastern Cluster. Will you
Is it still the right person to continue to be placed in the position of commander at the strategic level?"
"The number of senior commanders we currently have who can act independently is indeed somewhat insufficient. But I would rather leave certain positions vacant, and I will not make any concessions on this point. A senior commander, if he has this in mind,
He doesn’t have an overall view, so what do I want him to do? You know my character, I would rather offend people than be a fool."
Yang Zhen's words are quite serious. Even among the criticisms of senior commanders like Du Kaishan, this is the first time he has said such heavy words. Such unsparing criticism can be said to be unprecedented. Especially
It was the last paragraph that made Du Kaishan's face turn abnormally pale in an instant, and the military uniform on his body looked like it had been fished out of sweat.