As the saying goes, "Killing one thousand enemies will result in eight hundred losses." The 15th Red Army destroyed 100,000 enemy troops and suffered only just over 30,000 casualties. This is already very rare, but it was not just the battle that caused the attrition.

, because they fought five battles in a short period of time, during which they had to march urgently in the east, with a total distance of more than 500 miles, and they could not even spare time to sleep. As a result, the commanders and fighters of the 15th Red Army were almost

Everyone was exhausted. People who didn't know better might have thought it was an epidemic of pinkeye when they came to the army. There were even many officers and soldiers who were so tired that they vomited blood or even died of exhaustion. In addition, the human body's resistance under extreme fatigue

The number of sick people dropped sharply, and the number of sick people increased by more than ten times compared with usual. At this time, Su Yu actually wanted to fight another war, and Hu Weidong also discovered his biggest flaw - he didn't care much about his soldiers (Note 1)

, although inspired by the high morale inspired by the winning streak, the majority of commanders and soldiers gave full play to the fine style of not being afraid of fatigue and fighting continuously, and achieved great victories, but the spirit cannot be eaten after all. In case of a critical moment, the army will

Suddenly a large number of commanders and fighters could not hold on and fell, and the consequences would be too terrible. What made Hu Weidong even more worried was that after the 15th Red Army tried their best to eliminate so many national troops, they found that their enemies were not reduced, but

Increased...

"Xue Yue, Wei Lihuang, and Sun Lianzhong are all difficult to deal with, and each of them has more than 100,000 troops... Besides, they all made significant contributions in the War of Resistance. If we defeat them now,

Wouldn't that be helping the Japanese?" Hu Weidong couldn't help frowning. In the previous battles, he always picked out those incompetent and timid generals who hindered the friendly forces in the war of resistance. Doing so was not only easy to win, but also made a disguised contribution to the future war of resistance.

However, as time went by, Hu Weidong discovered that what he did was equivalent to helping the national army to survive and eliminate the fittest. The remaining generals were all generals who could fight. As for the loss of more than 200,000 soldiers, it was very important to the old man who controlled half of China.

For Chiang Kai-shek, they will soon be replenished (the loss of veterans is a pity, but the improvement of tactical level and the survival of the fittest among generals are enough to make up for it. In history, most of the national army in the late Anti-Japanese War was rebuilt several times, but the exchange of fighting with the Japanese army

However, the situation is getting better day by day, which is enough to illustrate this point.), so Hu Weidong dug a hole to bury himself...

"It seems that we have no choice but to leave Hangzhou. Fortunately, the most important supplies have almost been moved..." Hu Weidong sighed.

Hu Weidong now knows very well that as long as the 15th Red Army continues to stay in the Shanghai-Ningbo-Hangzhou area, which is most valued by Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Kai-shek will definitely regard him as his number one enemy, even more than the Central Red Army and local warlords.

The millions of national troops who can fight and will be killed will be completely overwhelmed. After abandoning Hangzhou, according to Chiang Kai-shek's habit, some troops will definitely be stationed. At that time, the pressure on the 15th Red Army will be somewhat relieved.

...

The situation was better than Hu Weidong expected. Probably because he was frightened this time, Chiang Kai-shek actually stationed most of the 200,000 elite national troops led by Xue Yue in the Shanghai-Ningbo-Hangzhou area to prevent the 15th Red Army from coming again.

As a result, the only two troops left in the national army that "suppressed" the 15th Red Army were Wei Lihuang and Sun Lianzhong, with a total strength of less than 300,000, and compared with Xue Laohu, they would be

They were all slightly inferior in talent. If the 15th Red Army relied on the Soviet area to conduct internal operations, it might not be impossible to win. Among the 15th Red Army, from Su Yu and Mao Zetan to ordinary soldiers, they all had high fighting spirit, but Hu Weidong once again showed that

His extraordinary insight said, "It may not be difficult to win, but what if we win? With our strength, it is absolutely impossible to destroy the enemy as fast as the enemy recruits troops. This place is too close to Chiang's damn core area of ​​control.

He can continuously mobilize large armies to consume us alive. Only by jumping the main force to the outer lines and pulling the battlefield to a distance can our army have better development opportunities. Moreover, politically, it is better for us to go north to fight against Japan.

It would be much more beneficial to repeatedly quarrel with the Kuomintang in Jiangnan.”….

This time Hu Weidong really made up his mind to go north immediately, but as he said, even Su Yu, who has always been bold, was a little afraid of crossing the river. Although everyone had not experienced the tragic Battle of Xiangjiang River, they had all heard about it. A Xiangjiang River

More than 40,000 people were sacrificed to cross the Yangtze River with difficulty, let alone the Yangtze River, which is known as the "Central Chasm"? And now the number of non-combatants in the 15th Red Army has surged to 70,000 to 80,000, which will undoubtedly further increase the number of people crossing the river.

Difficulty. Especially those scientists are the treasures in Hu Weidong's heart. If they are left in the Soviet area with poor conditions, they will be useless. But if they are taken away, if one or two are killed by enemy planes when crossing the river, Hu Weidong will not feel bad.

Die? We were bombed by planes on the ship, but there was no place to hide...

After much deliberation, no one has a sure-fire plan, but we have reached a consensus on one thing, which is to go to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. On the one hand, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River are narrower and the passage speed is much faster. On the other hand, they are far away from Chiang Kai-shek.

In the ruling center, the enemy's deployment was far less flexible and fast than in the Yangtze River Delta. Therefore, the 15th Red Army had the possibility of hitting the time lag. However, not all non-combatants were willing to continue on the road obediently, especially

It's some scientists, and their reason is that they don't want to leave the Soviet area...

On the one hand, this is because the high-spirited spirit of the people in the Soviet area and the integrity of party members and cadres have infected the intellectual elites from the Kuomintang-controlled areas. But more importantly, some of the technical talents have made great achievements here while staying in the big cities in the Kuomintang-controlled areas.

The results can exist in the mind, but for a real scientific and technological worker, treatment and even respect are not as attractive as the results of scientific research...

The achievements these scientists were able to achieve in the primitive Soviet areas were of course inseparable from their own genius and hard work, but Hu Weidong also definitely contributed. Although he only proposed some ideas and did not have time to personally participate in scientific research and production,

His contribution is indispensable...

Note 1: Mr. Lin is completely opposite to Su Yu in this regard. In order to kill fewer soldiers, he would rather spend a lot of precious artillery shells and even let some enemies go; while Su Yu never cares about his own casualties as long as he can destroy more enemies.

It’s hard to say which one is right or wrong, but at least his subordinates definitely prefer Mr. Lin. Although Su Yu has outstanding talents in history, there has always been Chen Yi, who is good at ideological work, as the leader. It is not without reason.

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