Cheng Qian used almost all his troops to block the reinforcements, encircle and annihilate Tufeiyuan, and wanted to turn the tide in an unfavorable situation, but as soon as Shangqiu was broken, the defeat was certain.

The Japanese redeployed and assigned the 10th Division's Seya Kai Brigade to the 16th Division, intensifying its attack. The 16th Division was like a sharp knife, piercing straight into the Forte of the Eastern Henan Corps. The remaining troops of the 10th Division remained in Shangqiu and Haozhou.

More than 5,000 people from the 4th Mixed Brigade of the 1st Army in the north forcibly crossed the Yellow River and approached Lanfeng to rescue the besieged Japanese 14th Division.

If the more than 100,000 troops of the national army do not withdraw, it is very likely that they will be attacked from the east and west. In addition, in the past few days, the armies of Xue Yue's Eastern Henan Corps have fought fiercely, and the casualties have been relatively large. Retreat is a foregone conclusion.

Time was pressing, and Cheng Qian drew up a plan for the retreat of the whole army overnight, and then handed it over to the chairman for review.

"Commission, this is the retreat plan I drew up overnight, please take a look."

Cheng Qian respectfully put the plan on the chairman's desk. At this time, Chairman Jiang was a little sluggish, with an expression of lack of sleep.

After reading it, the chairman of the committee cheered up and said, "You have drawn up such a detailed plan in such a short time, and it seems that Song Yun has not slept all night." ”

"The soldiers pressed the realm and did not dare to slack off. It's just ......" Cheng Qian hesitated and said regretfully: "It's just that this battle is a bit of a wretch." ”

"This battle is a laughing stock for the ages, don't say it." The chairman of the committee felt a trace of loss and said, "I am very satisfied with this retreat plan, so let's implement it according to your plan." ”

"Yes."

Cheng Qian took back the plan and turned to leave.

The brief contents of the "Deployment Plan for the Transfer of Troops in the Theater" drawn up by Cheng Qian overnight are as follows:

“…… Song Xilian's army moved to Mi County; Hu Zongnan's corps moved to Bishui and Gongxian; Li Han's soul army was transferred to Yu County and Jia County; Gui Yongqing's army moved to Luoyang; Huang Jiejun moved to Xiangcheng and Yexian; Yu Jishi's army moved to Miyang. ……

Depending on the degree of detachment from the enemy and the urgency of the situation, the above-mentioned units should precisely stipulate the order in which they should begin their westward advance, so as to ensure order. ”

Xue Yue soon received this retreat plan, and he attached a transfer order, requiring that "the battlefield cover troops sent by each army must respond to the battle calmly, resist hard, delay the enemy army, and ensure the safety of the transfer of our main force." The headquarters of Sun Tongxuan and Shang Zhen began to move on the night of June 3 after the transfer of our main forces was completed."

The troops of the Nationalist Army began to move westward one after another, and the crisis of the Tufeiyuan Division was completely resolved. But Tu Feiyuan did not feel joy at the escape from death, and his mind remained calm.

A communications soldier walked up to Tu Feiyuan and reported: "Report! The North China Command called. The enemy's main forces withdrew one after another, intending to flee to the west of the Jinghan line. The front army decided to first pursue the enemy to the line of Zhongmu and Weishi. The commander of the 2nd Army shall command the 14th Division and its subordinate units together and designate a line of pursuit as above. In addition, make your one move forward quickly and cut off the Jinghan line. ”

"Baga~" Tu Feiyuan scolded the bastard in a low voice, afraid of being heard by others. But if you don't scold, it's hard to vent the dissatisfaction in your heart.

At the beginning, he listened to the order of a stupid commander to venture into Lanfeng, and only then did he fall into the fate of being surrounded by Xue Yue's regiment, causing most of the loss of the entire division and his vitality; Now the North China Front is going to order itself to surprise and pursue, and this order is completely wrong and stupid.

Tu Feiyuan's ideas coincided with the base camp, and he understood the situation in Henan and knew the Chinese army and their chairman even better.

The Japanese base camp meant that the pursuit operation stopped at Lanfeng, Guide and other places, and issued an order: without approval, it was not allowed to cross the line of Lanfeng, Guide, Yongcheng, Mengcheng, Zhengyangguan, and Lu'an to fight.

However, the North China Front did not listen to the orders of the base camp at all, and assigned the 14th Division to the 2nd Army, and together with other troops, pursued the Nationalist army west of Lanfeng.

The descendants of the national army have always had a major feature, and the genius formulated the battle plan, but the implementation was a group of pigs!

Cheng Qian's retreat plan was perfect, but the retreat evolved into a rout, which is described as "defeated like a mountain" in an idiom.

However, Xue Yue already had a premonition that the retreat would not be so smooth, because he knew that the serious consequences caused by Gui Yongqing and Huang Jie would spread. In the process of retreating, deserting generals appeared in all armies.

The 16th Division of the Japanese Army captured Qixian, Tongxu, and Chenliu, and the commander of the newly formed 35th Division, Wang Jinzai, gave up Lanfeng and retreated without a fight.

On June 4, the 14th Division of the Japanese army occupied Lanfeng and continued to attack Kaifeng. On the night of June 5, the Japanese attacked the city from the northwest corner. At about 1 o'clock in the morning of the 6th, Song Kentang led the 141st Division to retreat to Kaifeng after only 3 hours, and Kaifeng was lost.

(Now think back to the 31st Division of the Northwest Army, Chifeng City, guarding Taierzhuang for a month, what a miracle.) ）

At this time, the 16th Division of the Japanese Army had occupied Weishi and Fugou, and the 10th Division had occupied Zhecheng.

So many fleeing generals have added a strong touch to the chairman's sentence of "a laughing stock for the ages", but Xue Yue couldn't laugh, he was completely anxious.

"So many generals of the lineage did not obey the order and evacuated without authorization, isn't this a joke that the local army from all walks of life is told to look at the Whampoa soldiers and the chairman of the committee!?"

Xue Yue felt ashamed and annoyed, and immediately called Shang Zhen: "Song Shi withdrew from Kaifeng without authorization, that is, he ordered all the blocking troops to stick to the line from Zhongmu County to Zhongmu Station, and those who dare to retreat without authorization unless ordered to do so will be dealt with strictly by military law!" ”

In time, Xue Yue ordered so strictly, there were many high-ranking officers of the Nationalist Army who were afraid of death or incompetent, and there were many who retreated without authorization and fled without permission during the battle in eastern Henan.

For example, the 29th Division of the 187th Army Corps, which is the main force, retreated without authorization when the regiment commander Zhang Dingguang was guarding Zhupigang in Qi County; Zhang Shumin, chief of staff of the division, repeatedly instigated retreat, and dared to abandon his post and abscond; Brigade Commander Xie Xizhen first withdrew from Zhupigang, and without reporting to the division commander, even under the pretext of containment, he took a car south; Ye Geng, the brigade commander, suddenly disappeared during the battle of Sui County, and later heard that he had gone to Hankou.

The westward advance of the Japanese 10th, 14th, and 16th Divisions seriously threatened the safety of Zhengzhou, where the headquarters of the First Theater Commander was located, and the Pinghan Road.

At that time, although the First Theater had hundreds of thousands of troops with nearly 30 divisions, most of which were the so-called main forces of the central lineage, it could not resist the westward advance of the two divisions of the Japanese army. Kaifeng fell, and Zhengzhou was in danger. The distance between the two places is less than 50 kilometers.

On the way to Mi County, thousands of people dragged their families and their families to the west with the 88th Division.

After inquiring about Zhong Bin, he learned that a large number of bandits had appeared in Guangwu, Zhengxian, Zhongmu, and West China. They drove away the people and burned the villages. But there is one thing that Zhong Bin does not understand, those bandits only drive the people, do not kill people, do not steal food.

Zhong Bin recalled what Shao Fei said before leaving, this was the "strange thing" he said, Zhong Bin seemed to understand something......

(End of chapter)