Under One Person: One Person Goes

Chapter 402: Failure
"Boss Dai, we businessmen have a phrase called "stop loss in time". You know what it means. Although I am a cultivator, I am also in the secular world. Sometimes doing business is similar to fighting a war. If you keep pouring money into a business in the early stages but can't see any return or make any money back, then you can almost give up. This way, at least you can protect your capital no matter how much you lose.

Even laymen like us can see clearly that your army has no chance of winning if it continues to fight the Japanese here. It is better to withdraw in an orderly manner and find another place to fight the Japanese. It is also my duty to publish newspapers and broadcasts during this period. After all, I have to consider the interests of my American consortium in China. To be honest, the loss of interests of our mainland consortium in China is far from reaching the level that requires us to suggest to the President to intervene in this war. Japan is still the largest export buyer of our United States. "

"Mr. Wang is so direct. I will pass your words on to the chairman, but I have to be honest with you, Mr. Wang. I am a lowly person and my words are not taken seriously. I cannot guarantee that the chairman will listen to such honest advice."

"It's enough that Boss Dai has this intention. I am also based on the fact that we are all of the same origin and race. Although I am an American citizen, I have seen so many good men die on the battlefield. I feel sorry for my own kind. I have no choice but to take this measure. I hope the chairman can understand."

"Okay, okay, Mr. Wang, I won't bother you to send me off."

Boss Dai, who had come here specially to go through the formalities, got into the car with the antique that Wang Yi had prepared specifically for him, smiling, and headed towards the French Concession.

Wang Yi and Liu Wei stood side by side, watching Boss Dai's special car drive away.

"Do you think Jiang will withdraw his troops from this prison?"

"I have done my best and left the rest to fate. This bald guy never thinks he is wrong and always has a set of arguments to convince himself. He has many capable people under him, including counselors and good generals. But he has to serve such a superior monarch. He dare not speak honest words and cannot offer good advice. His ambitions are in vain."

Hearing Liu Wei's question, Wang Yi also answered in this way.

As a person of later generations, he knew very well that if Baldy had not carefully managed and listened to others' advice during the 14 years of the War of Resistance Against Japan, including the three years of the War of Liberation, the Japanese would not have been able to fight so smoothly and they would not have won so quickly.

In addition, during the Korean War and in modern times, a bunch of lackeys supported by the United States were so useless, which led to a lot of people who didn't know the truth to save the bald man's reputation, saying that he was still okay, after all, he had fought back and forth with the group led by the gentleman for more than three years.

What a joke! The reason why they were able to fight was because the bald man did have a group of capable generals under his command. However, these capable generals either died in the War of Resistance against Japan or most of them entered Gongdelin to rebuild their worldview. If these generals were eliminated and the bald man was in charge, Wang Yi could guarantee that the three-year Liberation War could be shortened to one to two years.

After hearing the hidden meaning in Wang Yi's words, Liu Wei became even more confused.

"Then why did you ask Mr. Dai to tell you about the business principle of cutting losses in time?"

"I've already said that we should do our best and leave the rest to fate. As for why I use a business metaphor, you probably don't know. When this bald guy was ordered to the Northern Expedition, he didn't concentrate on fighting. He was busy listening to the radio and paying attention to his stock market situation. When I say this, the bald guy can immediately think of the story of his stock trading back then."

"Hey, the Northern Expedition is such a big event, but as a general, he didn't think about how to capture the city, but was concerned about business outside the battlefield. It's no wonder that the Republic of China is in such a state now, it's really..."

Hearing Wang Yi talking about another abstract dark history of Lao Jiang's youth, Liu Wei was so angry that he laughed. A bunch of dirty words came to his lips but he didn't know which one to spit out. But then he reacted and looked at Wang Yi in horror.

"Wait, you know about this private matter?"

"Haha, that's nothing. Believe me, this guy has done something bad that you can't imagine. You will only be tempered by his things in the next few years, otherwise you might be pissed off to death by him one day."

"Let's talk about the future later. Let's talk about the present. If this bald guy doesn't withdraw his troops and insists on having his own way, after Songhu falls, where will the Japanese attack next?"

"Nanjing, after the Japanese take Songhu, they will attack the capital of the National Government in one go."

"How dare they? Nanjing is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and there is the natural barrier of the Yangtze River!"

"Wrong. It's not that it's easy to defend but difficult to attack. The only thing is the natural barrier of the Yangtze River. However, the natural barrier of the Yangtze River cannot stop the Japanese army. This is not the Jingnan Campaign of the Ming Dynasty. The Japanese have strong ships and powerful guns. The Yangtze River is not a natural barrier for them at all, but a flat land. In addition, the morale of our army has been greatly boosted by the victory in the Battle of Songhu, but we are a tired army with a demoralized army, and we have no chance of winning."

Wang Yi spoke calmly about the future course of history. He had come to understand clearly over the years that the current historical trend could not be changed by one more or one less person of his.

Be it the capital or Songhu, this point was proved. Once the battle line was lengthened and the battlefields became more numerous, he became a fire-fighting teammate, putting out fires here and then there. In this situation, let alone sabotage behind enemy lines, the front line would have collapsed before he even got to the Japanese rear to cause sabotage.

But he had to do so, because the more people he rescued on the front battlefield, the more help these people would be in the upcoming strategic stalemate, strategic counterattack and even the subsequent War of Liberation, which would increase the chances of winning and preserve more manpower for his side.

So he can now speak so calmly about what will happen next.

But for Liu Wei, who was living at that moment, Wang Yi's inference made him panic.

No matter how much he disliked bald heads and the Kuomintang government, he also understood that if Nanjing, as the current capital of the Republic of China, was conquered by the Japanese in the first year of the full-scale war of resistance, it would be a huge blow to the morale of the people and the military of the entire Republic of China.

"How can you be so calm? The Battle of Songhu is already lost, and the capital of Nanjing is about to fall. No, I have to ask Li Qiang to come over for this matter. I must report to the organization and see what we can do. How much time do we have now?"

"That's why I kept you here tonight. As for the time, it's already early October. If things go well, the outcome of this war will be known in November. As for Jinling, it won't last until the New Year."

"Why is it so short? Can't you think of a way? You have so many tricks, why can't you try to replace the prince with a cat and delay a little longer?"

"You want me to replace the bald guy and give orders myself? Do you really think I haven't thought about it? But in our circle, including Lao Zhang, how many people are really good at fighting? Even if there are, Minguo has been dead since the 16th year of the Republic of China when this bald guy stole the high position. Now it's just the process of Minguo's corpse rotting.

Even if you change your brain, it doesn't matter. Your hands and feet are not yours, and you can only be beaten."

Wang Yi also sighed. He had thought about influencing the bald man's command through mind control before, but he didn't dare to take the risk.

The circle of aliens is so deep, and there is a lot of old people hiding somewhere. Maybe there is one next to the bald man. After all, he is now the nominal ruler of a country.

No matter how capable he is, his concealment methods may not be discovered by some old immortals, which will intensify the conflict. It would be a loss if Baldy directly turned his spearhead against the circle of aliens. It's not that Baldy is incapable of doing such a thing. After all, his previous record of pacifying the country before resisting foreign aggression is right in front of him.

To put it another way, even if I can control the bald man with my mind, what can I do?

If he really had vision and perspective, he could have used an operation that went against the bald man's character in order to preserve the manpower and continue to fight the Japanese invaders in the depth of the country. It would have been nothing for the bald man to just gain some fame.

But he didn't. Did he have to follow the bald man's example and directly tell the local troops and the main forces that the Battle of Songhu was doomed to fail and that they should find opportunities to break out and join up in Nanjing? Just a few words of military order, without even a specific plan, asking these local troops and the main forces to find ways to break out and assemble on their own? If such a military order was issued, the Japanese would be so happy.

Your national army is already in disarray, with generals not knowing their soldiers and soldiers not knowing their generals. On the Battle of Shanghai, you are running around like headless flies, engaging in encounters and ambushes with us.

Now you are running around like a headless fly, trying to escape from Songhu?
All of a sudden, the battle between the two sides changed from an offensive battle to a pursuit battle and an annihilation battle in which the Japanese army surrounded the National Army.

Given that most of the Nationalist Army's friendly forces are in trouble and they are determined to remain motionless and preserve their own strength, surrendering as a whole and selling out their teammates will definitely happen.

If he loses the Battle of Shanghai and provides a large number of puppet troops to the Japanese, he will become a bald man even if he is not a bald man. It is better not to let such a thing happen.

The most fucked-up thing is that Wang Yi is a normal person. Unless he does nothing in the next few days and just keeps controlling the bald man with his mind, otherwise, with the bald man's brain circuit, he can always micro-manipulate a wave of abstract anti-human operations at any time, and mess up the situation that he had worked so hard to establish in the early stage.

In this way, only he and the people will suffer, while the invaders will benefit. For Wang Yi, it would be better to just let nature take its course.

Based on his trust in Wang Yi, Liu Wei knew that if the National Army lost the Battle of Shanghai, the capital Nanjing would be in danger, so he did not continue to chat with Wang Yi. He immediately started to practice his profound skills and left like an arrow. For such a major event, he must pull Li Qiang, a guy who could get in touch with the central organization, to discuss countermeasures together.

Late at night, the editor-in-chief's office of the Mainland Daily Newspaper was brightly lit, and Li Qiang, who was dragged all the way here by Liu Wei, was not sleepy at all.

He looked at the picture of begonia leaves hanging on the wall and the comparison of the current military strength of China and Japan marked by Wang Yi on the Songhu battlefield. The more he looked, the more frightened he became.

Because even he, an outsider, could see clearly that if the National Army suffered a major defeat in Songhu, the three defense lines set up by the National Government in the capital of Nanjing, namely the Shanghai-Hangzhou Line, the Wu-Fu Line and the Xi-Cheng Line, would be useless. The capital of Nanjing would have no strategic location to defend and would be directly exposed to the Japanese army.

"Old Wang, what makes you think that the Nationalist army will be defeated in the Songhu battlefield?"

"You already know part of the reason. The Nationalist Army's command system is in disarray. Coupled with the disparity in armaments between the two sides, there is almost no chance of winning. The best way is to fight and retreat at the same time, constantly consuming the Japanese army's manpower. But you also saw that with this bald guy around, it is basically impossible to implement such a strategic approach.

The second point is that the bald man misjudged the strength of the two sides. He thought that even if the Japanese were well-equipped and had high-quality soldiers, his side had more than three times the strength of the Japanese army. No matter how you look at it, the advantage was on him. But he forgot that Japan could also increase its troops. They had 17 standing divisions, each of which had a full strength of about people, not counting the Type B divisions of the second-line troops.

As for fighting, Chiang Kai-shek doesn't have the ability or the courage to gamble with the other side. If the other side dares to gamble, the courage and pattern of the commanders of both sides are not on the same level. Tell me, how can the national army win?"

Li Qiang nodded, which was considered as his agreement with Wang Yi's statement.

Just because he was approved didn't mean he had to make a decision immediately. He paced back and forth while looking at the picture of begonia leaves in front of him, talking to himself.

"For more than a year, the organization has been digesting the part of the Northeast Army that the young marshal ordered his brother to bring over before his military remonstration. The economy and armaments are not as stretched as when they first settled here. These Northeast Army soldiers who came here have fought the Japanese outside the Great Wall, so they have combat experience.

We have sent intelligence here, and the organization probably understands that we can't fight a stupid war with the Japanese, but we have to go to the battlefield to know how to fight the Japanese. But our main forces are in North China and Northwest China, and we are out of reach. Lao Wang, can you tell me and Lao Liu directly what the consequences will be if the Japanese capture the capital of Nanjing?"

"When a country's capital is captured by foreigners, it is a huge blow to the people's morale. You and I both know."

"These are all lies, tell me something real!"

"Ten days in Yangzhou, three massacres in Jiading."

Wang Yi said these eight words calmly, but Liu Wei and Li Qiang's breathing stopped and their pupils widened. After a few seconds, they said this in unison.

"How dare they!"

"Why wouldn't they dare? The Qing army was a foreign race, but the Japanese were not? This was a war of aggression and counter-aggression, and also a war to defend the country. The Japanese came here to destroy China and our Chinese civilization. Haven't they done enough of this? Don't forget the Port Arthur Massacre during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895!"

It was clearly just Wang Yi's subjective judgment. Emotionally, Liu Wei and Li Qiang did not want to believe what Wang Yi said. They felt that in the current era of industrial civilization, no country would dare to do such a thing as massacring the citizens of a country.

But reason tells them that this is bound to happen. None of the Japanese and foreigners, these invaders, will treat the Chinese as human beings.

"Old Wang, this is not a joke!"

"I don't joke about this kind of thing."

"Then what can we do?"

"I will go to save people. I took Wu Gensheng to Luotian Dajiao to cause trouble before, just to get some people in the circle to follow me and prepare for the Nanjing incident, but I can't tell them directly. But I don't know how many people I can save, especially with the government, which will only cause trouble for us. Even I don't dare to have too high expectations.

So I want to hand over this information, including my judgment, to the organization, and let them make the decision and give us a plan."

"What if the organization doesn't believe it?"

"I will go too. This is the root that has supported my practice until now. Even if I may not come back, even if I am alone, I will go."

"Okay! We trust you. Lao Wang, don't worry about anything else. Just adjust yourself to the best state. I will convey this information and your judgment to the organization. We still have two months to prepare. Don't be impulsive. I believe the organization will give us a reliable plan! Lao Liu, come with me."

"it is good!"

Liu Wei and Li Qiang came and left in a hurry.

Wang Yi watched them leave, then sat down on a chair, staring in a daze at the picture of begonia leaves hanging on the wall.

PS: After the Lantern Festival, the Chinese New Year is over. Happy Lantern Festival to everyone~
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