The counterattack of the New 33rd Army also achieved great results, they continued to attack the Japanese army in the south and east, and the Japanese army was already strained, and it was powerless to resist the counterattack of the New 33rd Army!

Most of northern Henan and parts of Shandong became the defense areas of the New 33rd Army.

"Brother Fan, Li Weimin's troops have sent a message, do you want our troops to enter the Chengde area? Our troops have cleared all the enemy forces in Zhangjiakou, and according to your order, the troops are not allowed to enter the Beiping area, and Li Weimin wants to let the troops enter Chengde! ”

The defense area of the new 33rd Army is constantly expanding, but a piece of heart disease among them is the Pingjin area, and Liao Fan really doesn't have the courage to bomb the Pingjin area indiscriminately! Therefore, when he gave orders to several division commanders, he repeatedly warned them not to enter the Pingjin area, so as not to cause an overreaction of the Japanese army and plunge Pingjin into a war.

"You can enter the undertaking, tell Lu Liming to let their troops enter Zhangjiakou to stand by, and if there is a change, directly enter the undertaking to support Li Weiminshi!"

Chengde is adjacent to Qinhuangdao and close to Shanhaiguan, which means that it is not far from the Japanese army in the northeast! Liao Fan was worried that they would forcefully recover Chengde, causing an overreaction from the Kwantung Army Headquarters, and then cooperating with the Japanese army in the Pingjin area to strike at Li Weimin's department, and the situation on the battlefield would become very passive! Therefore, Liao Fan ordered the armored division to enter Zhangjiakou and stand by, as long as there was movement of the Japanese army in the northeast, let Lu Liming's armored troops cover Li Weimin's division to withdraw from Chengde!

"Okay, let's go send a telegram to Senior Commander Li!"

"Wait, tell Li Weimin to be clever, and withdraw if the situation doesn't work, there is no need to rush to recover Chengde now!"

The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun have been an important barrier against the nomads in the Central Plains since ancient times, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but under the modern war system, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun have lost their original functions! However, for the encirclement of the Pingjin area, it is necessary to recover these important areas in order to encircle the Japanese army in the Pingjin area, and then negotiate with the Japanese army to recover the Pingjin area!

The Pingjin area can only fight with each other, this is what Liao Fan has always insisted on, he just wants to leave something to future generations!

"Xiao Xue, how is the battle situation in Wuhan? It's been eight days, why hasn't this battle been fought yet? ”

Liao Fan has been paying attention to the battle situation in Wuhan, a few days ago, he heard that the Japanese army was going to break through, but there was no front line for a long time, which made Liao Fan very anxious!

"The national army has eliminated all the Japanese troops who broke through the siege, and now the Japanese army is attacking the main city of Wuhan, and there are still 5,000 Japanese troops holding on in the city, and the national army is not easy to fight!"

In addition to handing over the affairs of the political secretary group to Xue Ya, Xue Ya also has to engage in staff work in the headquarters! According to Liao Fan's words, give young people more opportunities to exercise, maybe they will be top-notch in some aspects in the future.

"There are still 5,000 Japanese troops in Chengnai? How could the little devil leave so many people behind? ”

Liao Fan couldn't understand why the Japanese army had broken through the siege, why they had left so many troops in the city of Wuhan, leaving 1,000 people old, weak, sick and disabled to deal with the Chinese army in the city, but leaving 5,000 people behind, could it be that they wanted to consume the living force of the Chinese army!

"The little devil doesn't want to give Wuhan City a funeral, right?" Xue Ya said jokingly.

"Martyrdom! It's not impossible! ”

Liao Fan had a bad premonition in his heart, it was very likely that the Japanese army had already deployed something in Wuhan that they didn't know, and it must have been premeditated!

"Signal soldiers, send the telegram directly to Xue Boling's headquarters, let them be careful, the Japanese army must be deployed in Wuhan City, and they want to use hundreds of thousands of people in Wuhan City to be buried with them!"

The little devils definitely don't want to be martyred for Wuhan City, but they definitely want to drag the Chinese to be buried before they die! If the Japanese army has enough* deployed in the city of Wuhan, as long as the national army enters the city and detonates*, not only the army but also the ordinary people will suffer, and the city of Wuhan will become a ruin!

When the main force of the Japanese army broke through, the Japanese commander must have given them an order, and they broke through in order to buy time for the remaining defenders in the city to deploy the plan, just waiting for the main force of the national army to enter the city.

The little devil also knows that the greater the capital, the greater the benefit, and the 5,000 troops are enough to pull 30,000 troops in China and hundreds of thousands of people to scatter together!

Xue Boling is deploying the final step to seize Wuhan, and the five thousand defenders in Wuhan are all old, weak, sick and disabled, armed to the teeth! Xue Boling didn't dare to take it lightly, because the mercy of the generals was to bring the soldiers home alive as much as possible!

"Chief Xue, a telegram from Taihang Mountain!" The chief of staff took out a telegram and sent it to Xue Boling.

"Liao Fan's telegram?"

Xue Boling didn't expect Liao Fan to send him a telegram at this time!

"Liao Fan is worried that the little devils have done something in the city of Wuhan, I am afraid that the Japanese army has buried * in the main city of Wuhan, they want to blow Wuhan into ruins, and at the same time die with us!"

The chief of staff made a report to Xue Boling.

Xue Boling frowned and took the telegram from the chief of staff, and looked at it carefully: "All this is just Liao Fan's speculation, they don't have the slightest evidence to prove that the Japanese army in Wuhan City wants to die with Wuhan City!" ”

The chief of staff did not speak, because he knew that Xue Boling must have his own judgment, and Liao Fan had already analyzed the head of the telegram that if the Japanese army was really so crazy, they would be irresponsible to hundreds of thousands of people when they attacked Wuhan City!

Xue Boling shook his head, read Liao Fan's telegram carefully, and then took a deep breath to calm himself down!

"Let the troops pause the attack!" Xue Boling still gave the order to suspend the attack, he must ensure that what Liao Fan said in the telegram is true or false, not afraid of 10,000, just in case! If all they reclaim is a ruin and sacrifice so many warriors, they will lose a lot.

"I'll arrange for people to go to the city to reconnoiter now, and strive to get the fastest result!"

"Go, and Qiu Qinghe's affairs should also be arranged, just say I'll invite him to dinner tonight!"

If you want to figure out the truth of the matter, it will inevitably take time, and during this time, Xue Boling wants to solve Qiu Qinghe's matter.

Xue Boling sent an invitation to Qiu Qinghe in the name of the celebration banquet, and today he Xue Boling will invite all the high-ranking generals to celebrate their great success this time, and Wuhan City will be taken back in a few days!

In fact, Xue Boling only sent an invitation to Qiu Qinghe alone, and the other senior generals were busy with the war and the troops, so they didn't bother to care about this side of the matter at all!

"Isn't it a celebration feast? Why is there no one? ”

After approaching the headquarters, Qiu Qinghe felt that something was wrong, because everyone in the headquarters was busy, and no one paid attention to him at all!

"Someone! Give me Qiu Qinghe's weapon! Xue Boling walked out of the inner room and directly ordered his guards to tie up Qiu Qinghe!

"Chief Xue...... You...... You ......" Qiu Qinghe really panicked this time.

"Qiu Qinghe! You really want to join the celebration party! Do you have what it takes? Are you worthy of the 100,000 soldiers who died at the pass? "Xue Boling's heart hurts, they fought at the pass and wiped out nearly 40,000 of the main force of the Japanese army, but they suffered more than 100,000 casualties! This is all Qiu Qingquan's achievement, if it weren't for him retreating without a fight, the soldiers of the national army fought to the death, where would there be such a big casualty!

"Chief Xue, don't forget, Chairman Jiang and I are relatives!"

"I haven't forgotten, I know that this matter has been reported, and Chairman Jiang will not do anything to you, but today I will first cut it off and comfort the soldiers who died in this war! As for Chairman Chiang, after I recover Wuhan, do you think Chairman Chiang will do anything to me? Escape from the battle, according to military law, shoot on the spot! Pull me out! ”

Xue Boling didn't give Qiu Qinghe any more chance to speak, he escaped from the battle, and the military law was engaged, which was the case in any army! There is no room for manoeuvre!

"Chief Xue...... Chief Xue spares his life! ”

"Chief Xue, after returning to Chongqing, you will be indispensable to Chairman Jiang's suspicion!"

"For the sake of the troops, what is this little thing! The army is not Chairman Chiang's alone, but is the wealth of our country! ”

Xue Boling has already made up his mind to kill Qiu Qinghe, killing is killing, he doesn't care what Chairman Jiang thinks of him, as a soldier, he is worthy of the country and the people, this is enough!

"Inform the whole army that Qiu Qinghe escaped from the battle and has been dealt with by military law! In the next battle, whoever dares to escape from the battle, under himself, will be shot on the spot! ”

I have to say that Xue Boling's actions have boosted the morale of the whole army, originally the casualties of the troops were so large, Qiu Qinghe should be responsible for the main responsibility, and now that the culprit has been shot, it can be regarded as giving them an explanation!

However, Wuhan City is not as tight as imagined, the Japanese army still has 5,000 people in Wuhan City, if Liao Fan's analysis is correct, the national army should not storm Wuhan City, otherwise the final result will be the destruction of the city!

"The little devil is really a brute, he dares to do anything!"

Xue Boling rubbed his temples, originally he wanted to rely on the advantage of troops to launch a strong attack on the Japanese army in Wuhan City, but from now on, the advantage of strength has become a shortcoming, and the more soldiers enter the city, they think that there are more casualties!

In the next few days, the scouts continued to enter Wuhan to reconnoitre, and finally determined that what Liao Fan said was true!

Wuhan was originally an important area for the Japanese army to hoard supplies, and the main forces of the Japanese army chose to break through, leaving behind a large amount of arms and materials, and the little devils did not want to leave these materials to the Chinese to fight them! So the commander of the little devil asked the remaining troops to deploy these arms before breaking through, turning the whole of Wuhan into a huge arsenal!

Although these arms are not enough to raze Wuhan to the ground, it is enough to blow up half of Wuhan City, and it will also affect the people in Wuhan City.