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Chapter 182: Status determines the way of thinking

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    At this time, the streets of Nanjing were filled with gongs and drums, firecrackers blasting, red flags waving, and huge crowds of people.

    On the streets above, people were everywhere beating gongs and drums, and many students were holding the Blue Sky and White Sun flag and waving it constantly.

    In the center of the street, soldiers of the Eighty-eighth Army formed in four rows, carrying their weapons on their shoulders.

    Those light machine gunners and general machine gunners polished their weapons until they were shiny, reflecting a gleam of light under the sun.

    Those heavy machine gunners, four people carrying a heavy machine gun, were walking among the team.

    The mortarmen were also walking among the team carrying mortars. Everyone held their heads high and their chests high, not caring about the people on both sides of the street. However, their heaving chests told people that they were very excited.

    They recaptured Nanjing, and Nanjing, which had been occupied for nearly half a year, was regained in their hands.

    "Chief Commander, after Nanjing is recovered this time, your reputation is soaring! Someone in Chongqing is going to cry!"

    Now Zhou Weiguo, Yang Jie, He Yuchen and others are riding on horses and walking in the middle of the team.  Needless to say, these flatteries are naturally the ones who captured the little devil.

    "Without the bloody battle of all the soldiers, I, Zhou Weiguo, would not have been able to enter this city!"

    Zhou Weiguo said to Yang Jie with a smile while waving to the people.

    "General, we cannot be careless in the capture of Nanjing this time! All the ten reinforcement divisions of the Japs have landed in Shanghai. Although after we captured Nanjing yesterday, the three divisions of the Japs attacked Wuxi  The regiment has stopped attacking and the army has retreated ten miles, but I guess the little Japanese will not let it go.

    ¡°And the Japs still have several divisions in Jiujiang and other places where they are confronting the troops in Shangfeng. I think the Japs may have to send more troops to Central China!  "

    Zhou Weiguo always had a smile on his face. After hearing Yang Jie's words, he turned to look at Yang Jie and said, "I know this. The little devil will not give up the rich Jiangnan area. The reason why we got the support of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang consortium this time is, after all,  The reason is that the little devils raided them too hard. It seriously affected their interests. That's why they supported us so much when we launched the second Jianghuai campaign. They even support us now to fight against that person.

    My father¡¯s connections and prestige are just an excuse.  What we have to do now is to form the new division.  If we don't have enough troops in hand, we may be at a loss in the next battle!  "

    Yang Jie nodded after hearing this. This was also his idea.

    The main task at this stage is to replenish the personnel and equipment of the infantry divisions participating in this battle and form new divisions.

    Another issue is the issue of rescued prisoners of war.

    "Sell newspapers! Sell newspapers! The Eighty-eighth Army successfully recaptured Nanjing. Some people say that the recovery of the entire Jiangnan region is just around the corner!"

    "Sell newspapers! Sell newspapers! New situation in the war of resistance! The 88th Army launched a counterattack and successfully recovered Nanjing and its surrounding areas."

    "Extra! Extra! Someone asked: When will the Eighty-Eighth Group Army conquer the entire country!"

    "Extra! Extra! When will the Eighty-Eighth Group Army's next counterattack be?"

    In major cities in the Kuomintang-controlled areas across the country, and even in many counties, the shouts of newsboys on the streets attracted countless people.

    The significance of Zhou Weiguo's recovery of Nanjing was not only to recover Nanjing, which had been occupied for nearly half a year, nor to almost annihilate the Japanese Central China Expeditionary Force, nor to destroy so many little Japanese.

    His greatest significance is that China has shifted from strategic defense to strategic offense.

    Countless people of insight wept with joy at home. Every time they talked about the continuous decline of the country in the past and the continuous defeat and retreat of the army, many people were heartbroken.

    Little devil, a country with a place where the projectile, has continued to withdraw a big Asian country.

    Even though countless soldiers fought one after another and shed their lives and blood, they still could not change the situation of the country's continuous decline.

    Now Zhou Weiguo¡¯s cross-river battle can be said to be a major counterattack and a strategic change.

    From strategic defense to strategic offense, it is precisely because of this that Zhou Weiguo's prestige in the country was not worth mentioning half a year ago. Through continuous wars and continuous victories, he slowly rose to a nationally famous figure, and then to a well-known figure in the country.  It is now a household name.

    It can be said that nowadays, the people of China are very familiar with these two people.

    One is Shangfeng, who has been famous for a long time. He is remembered by the people of the country because of the continuous decline of the country.The other one is Zhou Weiguo, who is remembered by the Chinese people for his continuous recovery of territory and elimination of Japanese invaders.

    The most interesting thing among these newspapers is that those newspapers separated the Eighty-Eighth Group Army and the National Army.

    When all the newspapers outside were reporting on Zhou Weiguo, countless reporters gathered in Nanjing to interview Zhou Weiguo.

    At this time, Zhou Weiguo was dealing with the issue of prisoners of war at the former Central China Dispatch Army Headquarters, now the Eighty-Eighth Group Army Headquarters.

    The meaning of the first prisoner of war is the little devils who surrendered.

    This battle lasted for one and a half months, killing six Japanese divisions, two brigades, and maiming two Japanese divisions. A total of about 160,000 Japanese were wiped out and more than 10,000 Japanese were captured.

    The way to deal with these prisoners of war, at the beginning, the generals below tended to kill all these prisoners of war to avoid wasting food, but Yang Jie's words reminded Zhou Weiguo.

    "General, the Japanese have more than 10,000 prisoners this time, which shows a problem. There are not many fanatical soldiers in the Japanese standing division. We have eaten so many Japanese troops before, but there have never been many prisoners of war. But in this battle  , we captured more than 10,000 people.

    ¡°And I specially sent people to ask about these prisoners. They all have wives and children at home.  Some people already have wives even if they don¡¯t have children yet.

    This shows that there is already a problem with the soldiers of the little devil.  Most of their soldiers who would rather die than surrender were between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four.  These people are deeply influenced by military and nationalism.

    ??And further on, after they have experienced the big dye vat of society, their water chestnuts are almost smoothed out.

    From now on, our troops fighting against the Japs will probably have many people after the age of twenty-five.  There will be many prisoners by then.

    "If we kill like this today, I'm afraid that future battles will arouse desperate resistance from the little Japanese."  I think it would be better to leave them to do hard labor than to kill them.  It just so happens that we need some time to develop people's livelihood and carry out infrastructure construction. These people are a great labor force!  "

    Yang Jie's words made Zhou Weiguo understand something. Sometimes, some things can no longer be based on one's own will.

    Soon he will become a military commander commanding hundreds of thousands of troops, and at the same time he will become a centralizer. What he has to consider more is interests.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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