8.1 Lanfeng goes to war

From May 29 to 30, Xue Yue led the Chinese troops in the 1st Theater to continue fierce battles with the 14th Division in Tufeiyuan at Yifeng and other places. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Since most of the chips in Xue Yue's hands were troops who had been withdrawn from the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing, there were a lot of new recruits and their combat effectiveness was not strong. In addition, the Tufeiyuan Division is another mechanized division with powerful artillery firepower, and its mobility is extremely strong, and it almost fights when you want to fight, and you can leave when you want! Facing the cunning rabbit-like Tu Fei Yuan Division, Xue Yue was quite passive.

The terrain of the East Henan Plain is very flat, and it is simply the most ideal stage for mechanized troops! Although the Chinese army was the attacker, it could only face the Japanese planes, heavy artillery and chariots with flesh and blood, and suffered great casualties!

The only thing that comforted Xue Yue was that under his transfer, the main force of the Chinese army in the 1st theater had been assembled. The 5 armies, including the 8th, 27th, 64th, 71st, and 74th, and the 61st and 106th divisions, were all in place, and Hu Zongnan's 1st Army was also on its way.

The impatient supreme authorities saw on the map that the Chinese army had formed a "momentum of encirclement" against the Tufeiyuan Division, and immediately thought that the time had come to encircle and annihilate the Tufeiyuan!

So the supreme authority Yue Chengqian, the commander of the 1st Theater of Operations, issued an order to Xue Yue to attack the Tufeiyuan Division!

On 31 May, in order to cooperate with the army's offensive, 10 E-15 fighters of the Chinese Air Force flew from Zhumadian to Zhoujiakou Airport to refuel and hang bombs, and then flew to the vicinity of Lanfeng to bomb the artillery positions of the Tufeiyuan Division. As a result, it was surrounded by 24 fighters of the 2nd Flying Group of the Japanese Army Aviation. 5 were shot down by the Japanese and 5 were damaged! After this fiasco, the 1st Theater completely lost air supremacy in the Lanfeng area.

On the afternoon of May 31, a tank battalion and an armored search battalion of the 200th Division rushed to Lanfeng. The officer leading the team was none other than Qiu Qingquan, who was promoted by Huang Haoran to serve as the acting head of the teaching corps during the defense of Nanjing.

After the Battle of Nanjing, Qiu Qingquan was promoted to become the deputy commander of the 200th Division, the only mechanized unit in China. In the previous Battle of Taierzhuang, the 200th Division also sent an armored vehicle company to participate in the battle, providing a lot of help to Sun Lianzhong's 2nd Army.

On the night of May 31, as various preparations were implemented one after another, Xue Yue, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, gradually calmed down. Xue Yue was quite satisfied with the deployment of the Tufeiyuan Division this time.

There are 3 reinforced divisions under the command of Li Hansoul on the east road, and there should be absolute certainty of taking a few small strongholds in Yejigang and Hecun! The west road is more than 4 divisions commanded by Gui Yongqing, and they are all the descendants of the highest authority of the Central Army, and they are also equipped with 200 divisions to increase the original chariot troops, attacking Yifeng, Neihuang, and Malan Village, and the odds are great! The 9 divisions of Sun Tongxuan and Shang Zhen on the north road should not be a burden if they cut off the enemy's retreat and attack south.

As long as the attack goes well, the Tufeiyuan Division will be compressed into an area of only a few hundred square kilometers between Lanfeng, Neihuang, Minquan, and Kaocheng to become a turtle in an urn! Xue Yue will usher in a big victory comparable to the Battle of Taierzhuang!

In order to be as foolproof as possible, Xue Yue didn't dare to close his eyes these days! In his mind, he imagined the countless reactions of the Tu Fei Yuan Division, and then resolved them one by one!

The highest authorities are very concerned about this battle of Lanfeng! As long as Xue Yue can completely annihilate the Tufeiyuan Division, then he is very likely to catch up with Huang Haoran from now on!

Therefore, Xue Yue will never allow himself to make mistakes!

The highest authorities want to surpass Chief Li with this battle! Xue Yue wants to surpass Huang Haoran with this battle! This battle of Lanfeng has been given too much meaning from the beginning......

In the early morning of June 1, Cheng Qian, commander of the 1st Theater of Operations, was stationed in Kaifeng and personally supervised the battle!

At dawn on June 1, the Japanese officers and soldiers of the Tufeiyuan Division were awakened from their dreams by earth-shattering explosions and shouts of killing! Xue Yue commanded more than 100,000 Chinese troops to attack the 14th Division in Tufeiyuan!

The Chinese troops in the 1st theater launched an attack on the 14th Division in Tufeiyuan from the east, west, and north to capture Neihuang. The Japanese troops stationed in Neihuang fled to Shuangtaji and Yangqiji in the southwest. In the first half day of the battle, Xue Yue's progress was extremely smooth! The 14th Division of Tohihara gave up a considerable part of the occupied area with only a slight resistance.

Seeing that the 14th Division was so "vulnerable", the senior staff members in the 1st Theater Commander's Headquarters had even begun to "worry" that Tu Feiyuan might take advantage of the speed advantage of the mechanized division to "escape"!

On the afternoon of June 1, Xue Yue's attack suddenly became difficult!

In a large compound in Xiaoli Village, southwest of Yifeng, Lieutenant General Tu Feiyuan, the commander of the 14th Division of the Japanese Army, saw Xue Yue's intentions from a sealed front-line emergency telegram! The Chinese army has finally counterattacked! The commander of the Tu Fei Yuan Division was not surprised by this incident.

When he received the mission, Tu Feiyuan knew very well in his heart that he led more than 20,000 Japanese troops into the middle of more than 100,000 Chinese troops, and he would definitely be attacked!

Although Tu Feiyuan also looked down on the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, he did not underestimate the enemy. This person is a cunning fox, even if he has succeeded a hundred times before, he will still be cautious about implementing his next step. Dohirahara thinks that one defeat can ruin everything!

When the 14th Division penetrated deep into the hinterland of the 1st Theater, Doihara ordered the commander of the Fengming Brigade to lead his troops closer to the main force of the division, and Dohihara did not want his 14th Division to be divided by the Chinese army like the Isoya Division and break each one.

Therefore, when he found out that Xue Yue wanted to encircle and annihilate the 14th Division, Tu Feiyuan did not dare to slack off, and he immediately turned the Japanese army from all walks of life to attack, occupied the stronghold of the village, and resisted desperately with strong firepower. He had to try the attack power of the 1st war zone first.

During the day on June 1, the Chinese troops in the 1 theater of operations continued to attack. It's a pity that the progress is not much, but the casualties are not small......

In Kaifeng City, Xue Yue is like sitting on pins and needles!

Xue Yue knew too well in his heart that if the Tufeiyuan Division could not be solved as soon as possible, once the Japanese army in the Xuzhou area pulled out and moved westward, then all the efforts made by the 1st Theater to encircle and annihilate the Tufeiyuan Division would be in vain! The highest authorities' expectations for victory are so high that they will certainly not rest on their laurels!

Xue Yue, who was anxious, ordered all armies, divisions, and brigades on the front line not to slack off and intensify their attacks overnight.

On June 2nd, the deadlock was finally broken! After filling in the strength of 2 regiments on the east road, Li Hansoul's 64th Army broke through the peripheral positions of the 14th Division, combined with the 71st Army of Song Xilian on the West Road, and captured the key land of Pheasant Gang, and all the Tufeiyuan Division fell into a heavy siege!

It was only at this time that Xue Yue breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile appeared on his tense face. At present, the Japanese army in the direction of Xuzhou has not moved, and the Tufeiyuan Division has been successfully forced into several large villages by Xue Yue, so it seems that the 14th Division has been solved with eighty percent certainty!

Excited, Xue Yue sent the latest war report to the highest authorities in Zhengzhou overnight.

Cheng Qian was very pleased to receive the report. "Well done, Boling!"

After receiving the report, the highest authorities read it several times, smiling and showing their dentures.

Subsequently, the highest authorities telegraphed to Xue Yue: "All the troops on the front, including Gui Yongqing's 27th Army, have joined the attack!" It is necessary to destroy the soil and fertilizer within the time limit. ”

At the same time, the highest authorities also sent a telegram to Gui Yongqing, the commander of the 27th Army, telling Gui Yongqing that now is the time when the chariot troops can exert their might, and they should be willing to use them! Don't be left behind.

On the evening of June 2, Huang Haoran arrived in Kaifeng with the 29th Division of the Guard Regiment and Cao Fulin......

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The "five-way encirclement" strategy implemented by the Japanese North China Front and the Central China Dispatch Army against Xuzhou finally returned to an empty city at the cost of more than 10,000 casualties.

Major General Hashimoto and the senior staff members of the base camp dispatch squad watched as the 500,000 or 600,000 Chinese troops in the 5th Theater jumped out of the encirclement of the Japanese army and safely withdrew to western Anhui and southern Henan, but the Japanese army was not able to annihilate even a single Chinese division! Such a gloomy record made Major General Hashimoto feel disgraced.

On the same day that Huang Haoran arrived in Kaifeng, Major General Hashimoto was forced to return to Tokyo with his base camp dispatch squad.

At the behest of Prime Minister Sugiyama Moto, General Terauchi Toshiichi, commander of the North China Front, and General Shunroku Hatata, commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, reached a consensus in private. The Japanese Army decided to make the base camp dispatch squad their scapegoats to accept the wrath of Emperor Hirohito!

The telegram from the army accusing the headquarters dispatch squad of "ineffective command" flew towards Tokyo like snowflakes, directly portraying Major General Hashimoto as the culprit of the failure of the "five-way encirclement" strategy! With these foreshadowing of the army generals, Emperor Hirohito naturally did not have a good face when he saw Major General Hashimoto!

Major General Hashimoto felt Emperor Hirohito's displeasure, he knelt on the stacked mat in the Japanese-style room, and reported to Emperor Hirohito the gains and losses of the Battle of Xuzhou.

"Although our army cut off the retreat of the Chinese army from the west of Xuzhou with the main force, the Xuzhou area was surrounded like an iron bucket. However, the Chinese army, which totaled about 50 divisions, suddenly jumped out of the encirclement of our army from the southwest in late May. Due to the lack of strength of the imperial army, it was impossible to pursue and siege at the same time, so the final results of the battle were minimal......"

This was already the most euphemistic language that Major General Hashimoto could think of, and in the face of the defeat in the battle, any explanation paled in the face of the outcome of the battle.

Emperor Hirohito is obviously suppressing the anger in his heart! Lu Xiang Sugiyama Moto secretly glanced at Hirohito, and he noticed that the emperor's forehead was bruised. Sugiyama is not sure what this "god-like man" in the eyes of the Japanese people is angry about now. Shifting all the blame to the base camp dispatch squad is not a clever trick! Maybe the emperor already knows something!

There are many departments in the government that are not in line with the army! Not only the Navy Ministry led by the Navy, but also the position of the Foreign Minister began to waver when the Army's performance on the Chinese battlefield began to deteriorate. And Prime Minister Konoe, whose attitude is intriguing...... (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )