"Let me give you a thorough explanation, the Japanese army on the other side of Shangqiu has already moved." Qiu Qingquan pulled the map as he spoke, and pointed to Shangqiu.

The Eastern Henan Corps, composed of the main force of the national army in eastern Henan, was besieging the 14th Division of the Japanese Army on the side of the Yellow River, and on the Shangqiu line, Huang Jie's Eighth Army was responsible for the defense, and the purpose of the Eighth Army was to block the Japanese troops attacking from the west of Xuzhou and cover the Eastern Henan Corps besieging the 14th Division.

And now, as Qiu Qingquan said, the Japanese army began to operate in the direction of Xuzhou to Shangqiu, and a large number of Japanese troops with chariots and artillery were attacking Lanfeng along the Xuzhou-Shangqiu line.

"Is it serious?" The nature of the matter is very serious, the Japanese army attacked from the west side of Xuzhou, and the national army in the Lanfeng area may be dumplings.

Madman Qiu made a gesture to Zhang Wei, Zhang Wei leaned over, only to hear Madman Qiu whisper, "The situation is very serious, the Japanese troops attacking from the Xuzhou side are strong and have a lot of heavy equipment, so the 14th Division is not much worse than the 14th Division in front of you." ”

"Then, let our troops stop it!" Zhang Wei said eagerly.

Madman Qiu shook his head: "The troops in Shangqiu are only the Eighth Army, and with the firepower of the Eighth Army, they can't stop those Japanese troops at all, just yesterday, the Eighth Army has retreated, leaving only one division with the worst combat effectiveness in Shangqiu."

Zhang Wei learned from the mouth of Qiu Maniac that just yesterday, when Zhang Wei and the 46th Division fought a bloody battle with the Japanese army, the Eighth Army stationed on the front line of Shangqiu discovered the Japanese army, and had a contact battle with the Japanese army, during the battle, the Eighth Army found that the Japanese army outflanked from the direction of Xuzhou was strong and difficult to stop, so the Eighth Army immediately took emergency countermeasures, first snatched all the weapons, ammunition and stored equipment in Shangqiu City by train, so as not to fund the enemy.

In the end, in order to avoid the annihilation of the troops, the Eighth Army only left one of the 187th Divisions with the worst combat effectiveness to defend Shangqiu, and the rest of the troops withdrew from Shangqiu on the same day, and the important place of Shangqiu was declared to have fallen.

"The Eighth Army should at least fight a dozen and then withdraw." Zhang Wei complained.

"It was because I was afraid that the troops would fall into it too hard that they retreated in advance." There was a contemptuous smile on the corner of Qiu Maniac's mouth, the retreat of the Eighth Army was actually not indispensable, after all, the Japanese troops reinforced from Xuzhou were completely invincible, but it was too unreasonable to withdraw so quickly.

"Sir, if the Japanese army coming from the direction of Shangqiu drives all the way in, then the troops of the 14th Division who are besieging us will not be copied by someone, and if the besieged 14th Division launches a counterattack, it will become an enemy on the back of the enemy!"

"You're right, so, the siege battle will not continue, yesterday, I cooperated in the direction of the 74th Army, in the process of attacking, the people of the 74th Army found that the Japanese had erected a pontoon bridge over the Yellow River, a pontoon bridge that could cross the car, and a large number of Japanese troops came over through the pontoon bridge, no matter how they fought, they couldn't eat them!"

"Retreat?" "Soon, I found that the matter of the Japanese pontoon bridge has been reported, and I and the leader (Gui Yongqing) have also ventilated, the order to retreat will come down soon, but the troops at the front still have to attack, as long as the order does not come, they have to fight, the current way of fighting, just to increase the casualties of the Japanese army as much as possible, the order to retreat, tomorrow at the latest, the fastest, may be down today."

Madman Qiu's expression became quite helpless.

In this large-scale battle, the national army concentrated several main forces that were stronger after the war in Nanjing (although only stronger than other troops), and transferred a part of the newly formed 200th Division to help in the battle, the purpose of this operation was to hope to give a devastating blow to the 14th Division fighting alone, several main forces attacked desperately, but in the end they still failed to achieve their goal.

The Japanese army's strength and firepower are all above the national army, on paper, the national army's strength and number have an advantage, once it is transformed into the actual battlefield, the situation is completely different, the Japanese army can let the engineers quickly build fortifications in the field, so there is a Japanese fortress in front of Zhang Wei, and the national army's divisional engineers, at most, can only dig ordinary field fortifications, do not have a large scale of field fortifications to operate capabilities.

The Japanese army could quickly erect pontoon bridges on the Yellow River and maneuver, and could strengthen the 14th Division with a large number of artillery and armored vehicles, which the national army could not even think of.

The national army's ideas are always perfect, and when they are implemented on the real battlefield, they fail to achieve the predetermined goals because of the gap in hardware strength and coordination and cooperation capabilities.

"Sir, what should we do with the assault column?" Zhang Wei asked, this will determine the future whereabouts and safety of the assault column and the preparatory battalion.

Madman Qiu was silent for a while: "Wait for the order, there will be troops to answer us." "Zhang Wei! In short, everything obeys orders, as long as the order is issued, the whole column will be drawn immediately, your preparation battalion is the only infantry unit, all preparations must be made, although there will be other troops to protect us, but the iron still needs its own hardness, your battalion must tighten the strings, if there is a delay, military law is ruthless! ”

"Yes!" Zhang Wei accepted the order, after learning about the battle situation, he went out of the column headquarters and walked to the preparatory camp with three heralds, the heralds waited outside, and the Japanese grenadiers on his back were useless.

Qiu Maniac's performance shows how serious the current situation is, the attack and fighting on the front line are still continuing, Qiu Maniac is thinking about retreating, he needs to prepare early, the Japanese army is attacking in a big way, and the situation must be very chaotic at that time.

As madman Qiu said, Zhang Wei should not only consider from the perspective of the preparation battalion itself, but also think of the entire assault column, the assault column, the subordinate tank battalion, the battle defense artillery battalion, the search company, most of the troops are non-infantry combat units using technical equipment, they also need the protection of the infantry of the preparation battalion, the combat vehicle has no infantry cooperation, and it is a death to encounter the Japanese army's anti-tank weapons and infantry raids, and the self-defense ability of the combat defense artillery is stronger than that of the combat vehicle unit, and there are some infantry light weapons in their hands, such as rifles and light machine guns, etc. But the combat ability of the infantry is difficult to compliment, and their main business is to fight against artillery.

Fighting against the Japanese infantry was also an ending of losing artillery and dying.

The burden on the preparation battalion is not light, its own people must be taken care of, and the Japanese army must be on guard. Zhang Wei now hopes that the retreat order will be as late as possible, and if he comes later, his people will have a chance to rest for a while, at least let the soldiers sleep well, recover their mental and physical strength, and eat something good, so that the next battle and retreat can have the confidence to deal with it, otherwise with the current state of the troops, they really bumped into the Japanese army, and after fighting for a while, their own physical strength could not hold on.

"Let's go, hurry up, go back to eating meat!"

Zhang Wei took the herald and quickened his pace.