Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Front and the Rear

8.38 Front and Rear

Huang Haoran asked the 27th Division to disguise itself as two armies and march southward, just to lure out the ambush soldiers that Kenji Tuhihara placed in the hinterland of the Chinese army! Let the little devil think that the strength of the defenders of Liuyuankou and Chen Liukou is empty, and attack boldly! In fact, Huang Haoran has already made Song Xilian's 71st Army and Hu Zongnan's 1st Army open the net!

For the counterattack of the 14th Division, Huang Haoran has already made arrangements! Xue Yue's 27th Army and Li Hansoul's 64th Army did not send the main force to pursue the Tufeiyuan Division, and when Lieutenant General Tohihara Kenji defeated the two regiments that were bluffing behind the 14th Division, he would find that the Chinese army was already waiting solemnly behind the strong fortifications!

In this way, even if the 14th Division cannot be completely annihilated, at least all the "abandoned sons" that Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara has thrown in among the hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops can be eaten! If Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara insists on rescuing his "abandoned sons", Huang Haoran will not mind taking the Chinese army to stage a drama of "encircling the point and sending reinforcements"!

Right now, the battle of Lanfeng is entering the rhythm controlled by Huang Haoran! Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara's poisonous plan was in turn used by Huang Haoran!

In the end, the Fukuoka team in Yang Yuanyuan was discovered by Xu Zilong's guard group! As the elite of the 25th Group Army, the officers and men of the Guard Regiment not only have outstanding combat effectiveness, but also have professionals in many aspects! The largest number of them are the Scouts!

Perhaps because of their professional sensitivity, as soon as the officers and soldiers of the guard regiment walked near Yang Yuanyuan, they felt that there were probably scouts hiding devils in the ruins of this village! After getting Xu Zilong's permission, the battalion commander led a team of scouts to the side of Yang Yandao away from the road, and then entered the village! If Xu Zilong hadn't given the order first, this trip would have been "only reconnaissance and no hunting", and the reconnaissance masters of the guard regiment would have cleaned up all the Japanese reconnaissance cavalry lurking in the village!

Cao Fulin was overjoyed when he learned that there was a team of Japanese scouts hiding in Yang Fuyuan! He took the officers and soldiers of the 85th Brigade to stage a play on the highway, and wasn't he most worried about not being able to attract little devils as audiences? After all, the little Japanese reconnaissance planes can't see very thoroughly in the sky, and now with these Japanese scouts, it can be regarded as giving Cao Fulin the opportunity to perform a targeted performance!

Cao Fulin gave the order, and the troops that had already passed through Yang Yuanyuan immediately turned to the right a few kilometers ahead, and then rushed back to the tail of the marching column at the speed of a rapid march, and joined the marching army again to fill the ranks. In the next hour or so www.biquge.info the 85th Brigade had already walked four or five rounds on the edge of Yang Yuan's march route in this oval shape, which seemed to be extremely immense!

In order not to make the Japanese scouts in the village suspicious, Cao Fulin also deliberately adjusted the sequence of some troops, among which the heavy artillery unit and the chariot unit only walked two rounds on the edge of Yang Yuanyuan, otherwise, the Japanese should think that the Chinese army had transferred all the chariots in their hands to the bank of the Yellow River! That would be too fake!

The 85th Brigade not only did a good job in heavy equipment, but even the infantry with light weapons on their backs, Cao Fulin would let them often "change roles", the first trip to wear a steel helmet when passing through Yang Yuanyuan had to wear a soft military cap on the second time, and in the third round, the Hanyang in his hand had to be replaced with a Czech style or a crooked handle! If you have a fourth round, you're basically going to have to play the role of a baggage soldier carrying an ammo box! There are also military uniforms on the body, and there are more patterns to change, open, draped, take off and put on the shoulders, in short, every soldier has to change his appearance after walking through the side of Yang Yanyuan!

Xu Zilong watched Cao Fulin and the 85th green officers running back and forth at the back of the queue, and he even felt that Cao Fulin had the potential to be the boss of the troupe!

encountered such a competent actor as the 85th Brigade, and it is not unjust that they were deceived by the second lieutenant Fukuoka!

"Send a report to the wing headquarters! The Chinese army marched through Yang Yuanyuan and stretched for dozens of kilometers! It is estimated that the total strength will not be less than one army! ”

Second Lieutenant Fukuoka asked Aikawa Juncao to use the radio to send this "water and electricity telegram", but it made the Tohihara Division suffer! Speak of a brigade as an army! That's a tenfold deviation!

After receiving the telegram from Second Lieutenant Fukuoka, Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara immediately ordered to "activate" the chess pieces buried in the hinterland of the Chinese army! A few small red flags on the sand table that had been holding troops still before suddenly began to slam towards the south bank of the Yellow River!

During the march, no matter what size of Chinese troops they encountered, these Japanese infantry were all divided into troops to respond to the battle, and now in their eyes, only Chen Liukou and Liuyuankou remained!

At the same time as the latent chess pieces broke out, Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara returned with the main force of the 14th Division and killed it back!

The two regiments of Zhong Song's 61st Division, which were on the front line of pursuit, only supported it for less than forty minutes before being routed by the 14th Division!

Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara stepped on the battlefield where the smoke of gunpowder had not yet faded, looked at the corpses of Chinese soldiers all over the ground, pulled out his sword and proudly declared:

"A great victory for the 14th Division! It's coming! ”

At this time, Huang Haoran was rushing to the front line of Lanfeng!

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In the headquarters of the 20th Group Army, Jiang Zaizhen, the commander of the new 8th Division, was chasing after the butt of Shang Zhen, the commander-in-chief of the 20th Group Army, and asked about "releasing water".

After the Tufeiyuan Division broke through the encirclement of the Chinese army, the highest authorities sent a secret telegram to Shang Zhen, asking Shang Zhen to take the 20th Group Army to come up with a plan for "releasing water."

After receiving the order, Shang Zhen immediately ordered his basic unit, the 56th Division, to be stationed near the Yellow River embankment, and by the way to study the plan for digging the embankment. However, Liu Shangzhi, commander of the 56th Division, insisted that it would be better to "rehearse" on the ground than to talk about the plan on paper, so that night, there was a sound of shovels and pickaxes cutting and digging on the embankment of the Yellow River near Zhaokou, mixed with the shouts and curses of the officers. More than 5,000 people from the two regiments of the Tang Bangzhen Brigade of the 56th Division threw off their arms and worked under the embankment and dam.

When Shang Zhen's headquarters received the task, Liu Shangzhi, the commander of the 56th Division, patted his chest and assured Shang Zhen: "Isn't it just a plan to dig an embankment and release water?" That's not easy! Even if you really want to release the Yellow River water! I, Liu Shangzhi, can also complete it in just a few hours with one brigade, so please put your heart in your stomach. ”

But as soon as he stepped onto the Yellow River embankment today, Liu Shangzhi, a layman who didn't know anything about water conservancy, was suddenly dumbfounded! The Yellow River embankment in front of him is really far from the Yellow River embankment in Liu Shangzhi's mind!

Originally, in Liu Shangzhi's mind, the Yellow River embankment was a ridge that was a little wider and thicker! How would he, a big man, know that the embankment project of the Yellow River has been gradually formed as far back as the middle of the Spring and Autumn Period. By the time of the Warring States period, the embankment of the Yellow River already had a considerable scale! During the period of the Five Dynasties of the Northern Song Dynasty, there were double embankments, and they were divided into two categories: "directional" and "retreating" according to whether they were in danger or not, and each category was divided into three categories. By the Ming Dynasty, the construction and waterproofing technology of the Yellow River embankment project had reached a fairly high level!

Such a majestic dam, let alone digging it by manpower, will be bombarded for half a day with German heavy howitzers of 150 mm caliber equipped with the Central Army!

Liu Shangzhi wanted to retreat, telling his commander Shang Zhen that he was afraid that he would not be able to take the embankment, but he was afraid of being reprimanded by Shang Zhen. In view of the difficult situation of riding a tiger, Liu Shangzhi could only offer a high reward to the officers and soldiers of the 56th Division! No matter who it is, as long as you can come up with a feasible "water release plan", you will be rewarded with 5,000 yuan in the ocean!

Under the heavy reward, there must be a brave man! The officers and men of the 56th Division were forced to red-eyed by these 5,000 oceans! All of them bent down and played with the Yellow River embankment to engage in "experiments", isn't it just carrying soil and digging sand? These young people from crop people are not afraid!

However, due to the extremely poor soil quality in this area of Zhaokou, there are still a lot of quicksand. The embankment guarding the Yellow River seemed to be unable to get past the officers and men of the 56th Division, and everywhere it was digging and collapsing, often burying people and guys in the mud and sand, and thousands of officers and soldiers "demonstrated" together for several hours, and there was not even a shadow of the "plan"!

Liu Shangzhi was so anxious that he stomped his feet, and Tang Bangzhen scolded even more, but none of them had anything to do with this mountain-like mound of sand! .

In the end, Liu Shangzhi could only call Shang Zhen and tell him that the "plan for releasing water" could not be studied!

The angry Shang Zhen scolded Liu Shangzhi on the phone, and then rushed to the drill site of the 56th Division with a cart of explosives. Piles of explosives were even carried up the Yellow River's outer dikes for on-site "experiments", and boxes of mines were buried in the sand. But a loud bang didn't bring any amazing effect, Shang Zhen estimated that he would dig at this speed, and when he found out the plan for releasing the water, his head should also move!

Just when Shang Zhen was anxious and didn't know how to report to the highest authorities, Jiang Zaizhen, the commander of the new 8th Division, suddenly ran to Shang Zhen's group army headquarters!

"Commander! What the 56th Division did in Zhaokou was not an order from you? ”

As soon as Jiang Zaizhen came up, he went straight in, so that Shang Zhen didn't have a headache! Although the highest authorities are tantamount to saying the idea of digging embankments in disguise, after all, they have not yet issued an official order to the 20 th Group Army through the Military Commission! The highest authorities made it very clear in the secret telegram that the plan was formulated this time only to prevent accidents on the frontal battlefield, and top secrets should not be leaked!

But thousands of people carrying guys and explosives went to the embankment of the Yellow River to conduct "research", how could this news be so easy to blockade! When the highest authorities say this, it is really a little bit of a backache to stand and speak!

"What order? I don't remember giving the order to the 56th Division! Master Jiang! Did you get the wrong message? Nowadays, traitors and Japanese spies are everywhere, you can't believe everything! ”

Jiang Zaizhen sneered and said, "Commander! I was kind enough to help you, but you didn't tell me the truth, which really chills my heart! I'm not afraid to say it to you! The plan for digging the embankment and releasing water, I have it ready-made! ”

Jiang Zaizhen's words made Shang Zhen's eyes light up! Isn't it? After Jiang Zaizhen led the New 8th Army into Jingshui Town, he built a lot of fortifications in the area of Huayuankou, and he knew a lot about the situation in that area! Maybe he really has a way! (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.) )