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7.37 Fall of the 116th Wing (3)

When Captain Tian Tian Fu led the 116th Wing through Fangjiagou, he did not forget to send an impassioned telegram to his brigade commander, Major General Sawada Toshige, and division commander, Lieutenant General Hou Zhou. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 In this telegram, Captain Tian Tianfu described the lone force of the 116th Wing as an act of indomitable fearlessness, and he asked the Central China Front to launch a "central flowering" operation against the Chinese defenders on the southern line of Jinpu Road. The 116th Wing of Captain Tian Tianfu is this center, and the main forces of Huang Haoran's 25th Army and Central China Front will form beautiful petals in the 116th Wing. According to the assumption of Captain Tian Tianfu, he himself will stand in the center and watch the "famous generals" of the Chinese army wither!

What a beautiful picture! The captain of the Tim Tian Fu Wing is a little eager to see it!

It's a pity that the commander of the Captain of the Tima Fu Wing, the commander of the Sawada Tokushige Brigade and the commander of the Commander of the Continental Division, do not think like this......

Regarding the 116th Wing's initiative to attack Fangjiagou, the commander of the Sawada Dezhong Brigade and the commander of the Continental Infantry Division were aware. In their opinion, it was just the captain of the Tiantian Fu Wing who was eager to fight, and since the Central China Front broke through the Huai River, there had been no victory, and the commander of the Sawada Dezhong Brigade and the commander of the Won Zhou Division also hoped that the bravery of the 116th Wing could boost the morale of the 13th Division!

But the next action of the captain of the Tiantian Fu Brigade greatly surprised the commander of the Sawada Dezhong Brigade and the commander of the Zhou Division! The 116th Wing actually plunged headlong into the encirclement of hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops! Where is this "center flowering" operation? It's just looking for death!

The angry commander of the Won Chau Li Division could only report the bad news to the commander of the Central China Front, General Shunroku Hatata. Now, only the six generals of Shun Hata can turn the tide! Two of the main wings of the 13th Division are still south of the Huai River, and the remaining one wing on the north bank is pinned down by the Chinese army and cannot move at all.

This will be possible only if the 3rd and 9th divisions are fully committed to the north of the Huai River!

Central China Front Command.

After reading the telegram from the commander of the Chau Division, General Shunroku Hata let out a long sigh. He finally managed to tie the battle near the Huai River into a balance of power, and before Tokyo decided whether to continue the war, the elite Japanese soldiers should not be wasted on the banks of the Huai River, but now due to the advance of the 116th Wing, all the efforts of General Shunroku Hata were in vain!

The situation has changed dramatically!

The Central China Front can be said to have lost face on the battlefield in Nanjing, first the 114th Division was almost completely annihilated in Lishui, and then it was calmly jumped out of the encirclement by Huang Haoran's Nanjing garrison, and then the Nanjing Massacre! This series of "incidents" has pushed Tokyo's patience to the limit!

If the 116th Wing had been wiped out north of the Huai River today, the angry emperor would not have known what to do with the Central China Front! General Shunroku Hata didn't want him to become the shortest-lived commander of the Central China Front!

So the six generals of the 116th division reluctantly reached out to the 116th wing, the main force of the 9th division was ordered by the six generals of the six generals of the hata to start preparing to move to the north bank of the Huai River, the 13th division of a brigade left on the south bank also received the order to cross the Huai River, before that, the 13th cavalry brigade of the 13th division on the north bank took the lead in setting off, the sixth general of the hata Shunliu hoped that this cavalry brigade could catch up with the pace of the 116th wing and drag Tian Tian Fu back, if it really doesn't work, one more brigade of troops, Tian Tian Fu can also hold out a little longer!

The originally calm southern line of Jinpu Road has become turbulent under the drive of the 116th Wing!

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"What? You repeat? The 9th Division also moved? How many troops are there? Pouring out of the nest!! ”

"Report to Chief of Staff Xu! According to the report of the 21st Group Army, the 103 Brigade stationed south of the Huai River suddenly became lively, and a large number of Japanese gunboats appeared on the Huai River River. ”

With a series of orders from Shunroku Hatata, the Central China Front quickly began to act, and the situation on the southern front of Jinpu Road suddenly escalated, which surprised Xu Zuyi, chief of staff of the 5th Theater of Operations! He really didn't understand what kind of stimulus the Japanese were under, and as soon as Shunroku Hata made a move, he was two divisions and regiments, and he put on a desperate posture! Could it be that the little devil's strategy has changed again? The southern line of Jinpu Road has once again become the focus of the Japanese attack?

If that's the case, that's too bad! The 5th Theater has just made adjustments in the past few days in response to the latest developments in the war situation, and some troops on the southern front have been ordered to fight on the northern front! Even if Xu Zuyi orders the troops to turn immediately, they have to slow down by half a beat, and it seems that they can only rely on Huang Haoran's 25th Army and 21st Group Army to resist for a while!

"Can any of you tell me what the hell is going on!?"

No one could answer Xu Zuyi's question, and Xu Zuyi, who was in a hurry, couldn't help but drop the cup! Seeing that the killing moves of the Central China Front were coming alternately, the senior staff officers in the headquarters of the commander of the 5th Theater of Operations still couldn't think of a reason! How can there be any reason not to lose such an unprepared battle!

As soon as Chief Li, who had just returned from Zhengzhou, entered the door, he was startled by the chaotic scene inside the headquarters of the commander of the 5th theater! Now that the 20th Army Corps has not yet been transferred, the southern line of Jinpu Road has become a mess, and if the Japanese really use troops in the north and south at the same time, Chief Li's plan to annihilate the Japanese army north of Xuzhou will have to be completely revised!

After carefully checking the telegrams sent by various ministries, Chief Li felt that he was close to the truth! Just as Chief Li judged before, Hata Junroku had no intention of fighting a decisive battle in Huainan and the 5th Theater, and now that the Central China Front is suddenly in such a hurry to send troops across the river desperately, it should be under some kind of pressure!

This reason must be found out so that the 5th theater can correctly judge Shunroku Hatata's intentions, otherwise, any blind transfer may bring great side effects!

In order to calm Xu Zuyi down, Chief Li began to analyze the situation for Xu Zuyi:

"Yan Mou! Don't be in a hurry! There must be a reason for everything! I don't think Shunroku Hatata's actions seem to have been planned for a long time! Think about it, his 9th Division plus the 103rd Brigade has more than 40,000 people, and if he wants to send so many troops across the Huai River in a short period of time, how many ships does the Central China Front need to use? As far as I know, the Japanese do not have this transport capacity......"

Chief Li's words immediately reminded Xu Zuyi that he had been thinking about how to deal with the 40,000-strong army of Shunroku Hata before, but he forgot that the Japanese would not be able to cross the Huai River for a while! After calming down again, Xu Zuyi quickly thought of it with Chief Li, it should be something happened to the Japanese army on the north bank of the Huai River, so Shunroku Hata would increase his troops desperately!

"Someone! Then the battle report from the north shore in the past two days is coming! Even the firefight at the platoon level can't be spared! I'd like to see which force stabbed the hornet's nest! (To be continued.) )