9.5 From Wuchang to the Yellow Flood Area

"That's right! In fact, I have always told my colleagues in the government that Huang Youchen is a loyal and brave person, but no one buys it! Now that I think about it, maybe it's because Huang Youchen's ascension speed is too fast, so it will arouse the jealousy of others! This is in line with the sentence--- Mu Xiu will be destroyed by the forest wind......"

After Minister He chose to retreat when he saw it, he immediately gave Zhang Qun another look and signaled him to continue to follow. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Zhang Qun nodded knowingly, and then quickly stood up and continued to smear Huang Haoran.

"After listening to Brother Jing's words, I also remembered one thing! Recently, there have been a lot of articles about Huang Youchen in the newspaper, and I don't know if Brother Wei and Jing have read it? ”

Zhang Qun originally expected that when he said this, the highest authority or Minister He would definitely take the initiative to answer. But the development of things exceeded Zhang Qun's expectations, not only did the highest authorities not speak, but even Minister He didn't have the slightest intention of answering, which made Zhang Qun feel so disappointed!

Now that this has begun, even if no one answers, Zhang Qun can only continue to answer it!

"It's really weird! Those reporters who have always been disobedient to the government's discipline seem to be optimistic about Huang Youchen alone, and they treat Huang Youchen differently! They kept preaching in the newspapers, saying that other generals of the Central Army could be immediately promoted and awarded awards even if they won a small victory, but Huang Youchen transferred to the 5th and 1st major theaters and defeated several famous generals of the Japanese army, and the Military Commission did not even say anything! It's a bit of a favoritism! Especially recently, such reports have frequently appeared in the newspapers, and the public opinion has been monstrous! I heard that some people compare Huang Youchen with Zhang Shaoshuai back then, saying that the reason why Huang Haoran is not reused is that the government is going to start suppressing the main battle faction again!"

Zhang Qun's words surprised the highest authorities! The highest authorities didn't expect that Zhang Qun, in order to discredit Huang Haoran, would even take out hearsay and rumors! Just now, Minister He labeled Huang Haoran as "pro-Soviet", and now Zhang Qun is constantly hinting in front of him that Huang Haoran has incited public opinion to coerce the government, it seems that these two people really want to knock Huang Haoran out of eighteen layers of hell!

If you change to others, you may believe it when you see Minister He and Zhang Qun singing and harmonizing like this, and their words are conclusive! But how can the highest authorities be ordinary people? There is a period of time from the beginning to the present, and it is enough for the highest authorities to figure out the joints inside!

I didn't expect that! In order to control the Sichuan government, Zhang Qun, and Minister He, in order to rescue Gui Yongqing, did not hesitate to reverse black and white and slander the most capable general in the Central Army! It seems that the waterproofing of the garden mouth not only blocked the ambitions of the Japanese, but also made the officials in the government lose their sense of crisis! It's only been a few days of peace! They started tearing each other down again!

If the highest authorities had counted on these wine bags and rice bags to deal with little Japan, perhaps the country would have perished long ago!

The more the highest authorities think about it, the angrier they become! looked at Zhang Qun's eyes and began to be fierce! At this time, Zhang Qun happened to talk about the excitement, he didn't notice that the aura of the highest authority had changed, and he continued to carry out the cause of Heihuang Haoran to the end!

"Take a seat! If it's really a group of reporters who feel aggrieved for Huang Youchen, it's not a big deal! I'm afraid that someone is behind this matter! I heard that Chen Cixiu has been in a mood because of Huang Youchen recently, and now the country is in an eventful season, and the generals are suspicious of each other, which is not a good sign! I don't think it's going to be that simple! ”

After pouring out all the rhetoric that had been prepared for a long time, Zhang Qunchang threw a smug look at Minister He! It's like an invitation! Minister He looked at the supreme authorities whose faces had turned cloudy, and he really wanted to rush up and strangle Zhang Qun, an idiot, right now!

I really don't know how Zhang Qun got into the high position of vice president of the Executive Yuan! If you smear Huang Haoran, you can smear Huang Haoran well! What are you doing with the old man's words again!? Knocking over the two confidants of the highest authorities with one rod, do you Zhang Qun have the ability?

And the last sentence "Now the country is in an eventful season, and the generals are suspicious of each other, which is not a good sign", it is simply in! When did Huang Haoran and Chen Cixiu tell you that Vice President Zhang and the two of them were unhappy? It's obvious that you, Zhang Qun, are here to stir up! It's stupid enough to buckle a big hat for yourself!

Minister He felt that he must immediately dissolve the "alliance relationship" between him and Zhang Qun, otherwise, he would probably be affected by Zhang Qun!

Thinking of this, Minister He quietly moved the position where he was standing to the side and drew a clear line with Zhang Qun. The subsequent development of events was indeed not expected by Minister He, and the highest authorities suddenly stared at Minister He and threw out a new topic as if they had not heard what Zhang Qun had just said at all!

"Respectfully! Has Jianfeng met with you recently? What's the recent movement of the Youth League? ”

Minister He secretly screamed in his heart! Zhang Qun's words just now really caused trouble! Now, here's the trouble!

The Jianfeng mentioned by the highest authorities is none other than the "prince" who has been in the USSR for twelve years!

If Huang Haoran was "pro-Soviet" in his work with the Soviet ambassador, what about the "prince"? The "prince" even studied at the university in Moscow! According to what Zhang Qun just said, isn't the "prince" "red" to the bones!

Minister He realized that Zhang Qun was going to be in big trouble now! So he hurriedly stepped forward and said loudly to the highest authority: "Take a seat!" Rest assured. Everything is fine in Nanchang, and the Shabaab is also willing to rally around the Central Committee! It's just that Jianfeng is relatively young, so sometimes it is inevitable that the steps will be a little bigger......"

Zhang Qun also realized the serious mistake he had made at this time, and he looked at the cold eyes of the highest authorities, sweating profusely!

Earlier in 1938, the highest authorities accepted the suggestion of Jiangxi Provincial Chairman Xiong Shihui and sent the "crown prince" to serve as the deputy director of the Jiangxi Provincial Security Department. If the "prince" is regarded as an ordinary 27-year-old youth, then this position seems to be too high, but in view of the excellent results of the "prince" in the Soviet Union Tomachev Central Military and Political Academy and the urgent need of the current War of Resistance against Japan, then all this seems logical!

Nanchang, located next to the Ganjiang River, is a relatively developed city in the industrial and mining industry, and is relatively safe because of its location in the rear. So at the beginning of the year, hundreds of thousands of refugees had poured in, and it was chaos. After taking office, the "prince" gave up the mansion prepared for him by the Jiangxi Provincial Security Department, lived in a very simple house, and immediately went to work. In April 1938, the Wuhan government convened a provisional national congress and passed a resolution at the suggestion of the highest authorities to establish the Three People's Youth League. The "Prince" persuaded his father that the Blue Coat Society, which had been organized by intelligence chief Dai Li, a few years earlier, should be replaced by the Three People's Socialist Youth League. At the same time, the "prince" also proposed that the status of the members of the Three Youth League be equal to the official members of the ruling party; Even, after reaching the age of 25, members of the Three Youth League can stay in the league indefinitely and do not have to transfer to the ruling party. And all these requests were approved by the highest authorities!

After realizing that the highest authorities are trying to reserve political capital for the "prince"! There are naturally not a few people with such a special status as members of the Red Three Youth League! The first to bear the brunt of expressing dissatisfaction with the highest authorities were the brothers Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu, who controlled the Party Affairs Bureau.

Chen Lifu believes that this is a "political move" by the chairman of the NPC National Committee, and it is also another example of the leader's political strategy of dividing and conquering. The Chen brothers have been trying to get their hands on this emerging center of power, but they have never been able to do so!

All this is because the highest authorities have personally become the supreme leader of the Three People's Youth League, and they have also appointed Chen Cixiu, a capable general under them, to serve as the secretary general of the Central Committee of the Three People's Youth League. The thin-bodied and mild-tempered Chen Cixiu is not only capable and loyal, but also a native of Zhejiang. The highest authorities personally took command and put Chen Cixiu into the Three Youth League, in fact, they are escorting the "prince"!

Minister He knew that in the minds of the highest authorities, Chen Cixiu was a general with a great political future, and could even be trained to be his successor one day! Therefore, Minister He has always regarded Chen Cixiu as both a comrade in the party and a political opponent. Now, the "crown prince", who has only returned to China for only one year, has become another potential political contender for Minister He.

Chen Cixiu's and the "prince" have many things in common, for example, Chen Cixiu supports the "prince's" idea of isolating the Three Youth League from the corrupt organization in the Wuhan government. With the support of the highest authorities and Chen Cixiu, the "prince" deliberately took the Jiangxi branch of the Three Youth League as a model for the Central Committee of the Youth League and even the Wuhan government. This has brought him to the point of incompatibility with the members of Dai Li's Blue Coat Society, as well as the provincial and local political systems controlled by the CC faction!

The highest authorities naturally know the risks in China's political bloc, so the highest authorities will instruct Xiong Shihui to set up a position of deputy director of the security department in Nanchang, the provincial capital, for the "prince". The "crown prince" actually does not have to take on much substantive work.

Who knew that it backfired later! Perhaps it was because the "prince" had stayed in the Soviet Union for too long, and he didn't understand the Chinese officialdom at all, and he devoted himself to his work as soon as he came up, and the "prince" was very honest and fair, which inevitably clashed fiercely with the local administrative system that had accumulated shortcomings for a long time! Not long after taking office, the "prince" went to various parts of the province for surprise visits! This made the local officials of the Wuhan system quite embarrassed! Soon, Xiong Shihui's office was flooded with a large number of local officials. They accused Xiao Jiang of working like a "Soviet"!

In order to let the "prince" stay in Nanchang and no longer raid and visit everywhere, Xiong Shihui deserved to set up the "Jiangxi Provincial Local Political Training Institute" and transferred the "prince" to the director of the recruit supervision and training department. As a result, after taking office, the "crown prince" not only formulated a large number of new decrees with "Soviet colors", but also attracted new gossip because he invited Soviet military advisers to give speeches at the anti-fascist rally in Nanchang! Eventually, even the highest authorities received reports accusing the "prince" of being overzealous and adopting leftist practices.

It can be said that the supreme authorities deeply abhor the remarks of "the prince is pro-Soviet"! In the eyes of the highest authorities, the so-called "pro-Soviet" is nothing more than a trick devised by his political enemies in order to discredit his son! What the "prince" did after returning to China was only radical at best! It has nothing to do with "pro-Soviet" at all!

Because of the "prince" incident in front of him, the reason used by Zhang Qun to discredit Huang Haoran can easily make the highest authorities feel disgusted! In addition, Zhang Qun later pulled Chen Cixiu into the water without knowing whether he was alive or dead! This made the highest authorities feel that Zhang Qun's drunkard did not mean to drink, but Xiang Zhuang's sword dance meant Pei Gong!

Huang Haoran and Chen Cixiu are both excellent candidates to assist the "prince" in the eyes of the highest authorities! Zhang Qun attacked and slandered Huang Haoran and Chen Cixiu, how do you look like he is helping some people cut off the wings of the "prince" in advance!

What's the difference between this and rebellion!?

The highest authority glared at Zhang Qun fiercely, and then said to Minister He: "Respect! In these extraordinary times, we also want to talk about democracy. I believe that the Youth League will become an important political force in the future, so the money that should be spent must be spent. I have decided to allocate another amount of money to the Political Academy, and you will discuss it with the Ministry of Finance when you go back. As for Huang Youchen, we must not treat such a meritorious person badly! Taierzhuang and Lanfeng have won many victories, such a record is simply amazing! Even if Huang Youchen is given an army general, I think it is well deserved! However, this promotion and awarding of honors has always been handled by your military and political department! Draw up a paper and send it to me! ”

The words of the highest authorities made Zhang Qun like a lightning strike! He's really self-defeating this time! not only offended Huang Haoran, but also put himself on such a big mountain as the "prince"! In the future, I am afraid that it will be dangerous!

After saying this, the highest authorities called Lin Wei, and Minister He and Zhang Qun both understood that this was the meaning of serving tea to send guests!

"Commission, I will definitely do the things you explain as soon as possible! And those people who talk nonsense in the Military Commission, I will also reprimand them with 100 million! Solidarity! These four words of your commission are now the right time to use! ”

Minister He had completely abandoned Zhang Qun at this time, and what he said was to signal to the highest authorities that he had nothing to do with Zhang Qun! The friendship between politicians is really thinner than paper!

"Okay! Good! I know who you are. ”

The highest authority smiled and nodded, but what he said was a pun! "I know who you are!" This sentence can be interpreted from two opposite angles! In the eyes of the highest authorities, I am afraid that only the highest authorities themselves will know!

When he left the courtyard, Minister He ran fast in front, as if he was afraid of walking with Zhang Qun! Zhang Qun looked at Minister He's back and muttered, "Fooled!" Fooled ......"

After Minister He walked out of the official residence, he quickly got into his black car, and then started a new plan in his heart!

Judging from the attitude of the highest authorities just now, it is impossible for Minister He to "encircle Huang and save Gui"! Zhang Qun's accidental involvement of the "prince" made Minister He realize another reason why the highest authorities are particularly interested in Huang Haoran! If the highest authorities have positioned Huang Haoran as a "pillar of the two dynasties"! So no matter what kind of tricks it is, don't think about moving to Huang Haoran!

Now that the road to "playing tricks" has been blocked, there is only one option left in front of Minister He to "show weakness"! If you want to save Gui Yongqing, you must win over Huang Haoran! As for the conditions that can be used in exchange, didn't the highest authorities already say it just now?

Become the first army general among the Whampoa students! Such a temptation Huang Haoran will never be able to resist!

"Drive! Let's go to the Wuchang Ministry of Foreign Affairs building! ”

Minister He patted the back of the driver's seat vigorously and said loudly. When the black car turned a corner and drove onto the road, Minister He saw Zhang Qunzheng walking out of the gate of the official residence in a dejected way from the reversing mirror!

Minister He just glanced at it and closed his eyes, completely forgetting about his previous personal relationship with Zhang Qun. From this moment on, Zhang Qun is no longer valuable!

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When Minister He left the official residence of Luojiashan, Huang Haoran was sitting on the sofa with Soviet Ambassador Bogomolov in the "Aid Receiving Office" on the right side of the second floor of the Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Wuhan Government in Wuchang Town.

After digging the embankment at the mouth of the garden, China and Japan insisted on their own words in the newspapers, and the scolding and war continued! They all blame each other for being the culprit! Although it is impossible for an outsider of the Soviet ambassador Bogomolov to know the inside story of the dike digging at the mouth of the garden, he also deduced from his understanding of the current situation that the Wuhan government was the one who dug the dike and released the water! However, this bearded man's views on water release are very different from those of Western journalists!

In Bogomolov's view, the era of suffering is over, and the crisis facing Wuhan has been drowned by the flood gushing from the mouth of the garden! After the successful excavation of the embankment at the mouth of the Yellow River Garden, the Wuhan government first received the good news that the southern part of Huzong in the eastern Henan battlefield was safe and sound, and then received the news that the Japanese army was attacking Wuhan from Pinghan to the south and attempting to go bankrupt!

For the Soviets, the Chinese dragged down the Japanese by releasing water, which also reduced the pressure on the USSR in the Far East! It was good for the USSR! As for what kind of life the Chinese people are living in the Yellow Flood Zone, the USSR does not care!

Huang Haoran looked at the smug Bogomolov, and secretly scolded in his heart: "Dead old hair! Sure enough, if it is not my race, its heart will be different! The ancients did not deceive me! Immediately after that, Huang Haoran decided to add to the blockage of Bogomolov!

"You Soviet defectors to Japan, have you been tossing up something lately?"

With Huang Haoran's opening, the good mood of Soviet Ambassador Bogomolov suddenly disappeared!

"That damn traitor! Yesterday a lot of information about our great Soviet Union was revealed to the Japanese! The defenders of the border are simply idiots! Actually let such a person escape to the Northeast! Now we must make a complete adjustment of the defense plan for the Far East! ”

Looking at the blue tendons that burst out of the forehead of the Soviet ambassador Bogomolov, Huang Haoran felt that his psychology was balanced! The man he just spoke about was actually a scandal for the Soviet government! It seems that no matter how thick Lao Maozi's skin is, there is still a limit! Being scarred is really not a pleasant thing!

On June 13, 1938, a big event happened in the Soviet Far East! Soviet Political General Ryushikov of the third rank fled from the Soviet Union to the Japanese border positions in Hunchun, located in China. Political General Ryushikov previously held the post of Governor of the Far East of the NKVD in the Soviet Union. At that time, the "cleansing" in the Soviet Union was carried out by the NKVD, which, judging by the post of political general of Ryushikov, was the general responsible for the "cleansing" in the Far East. Now even he, the person in charge of the "cleansing work" in the Far East, has to flee his homeland and go abroad, which is enough to show how fierce the purge campaign in the Soviet "Far East" was!

After his defection, Ryushikov confessed to the Japanese General Staff Headquarters the following:

1. During his tenure in the Far East for about a year, Ryushikov was personally responsible for the arrest of about 3,000 people, and the number of arrests in the entire Far East was about 200,000, of whom more than 7,000 were executed.

2. The reason why General Ryushikov fled abroad was because he himself was in danger of being purged. Specifically, the upper echelons of the NKVD, influenced by Stalin's "purges", were overly sensitive, and began to get rid of regional leaders of his rank one after another. At this time, a friend of General Ryushikov in Moscow sent him a message reminding him to "pay attention to safety", so Ryushikov made up his mind to escape.

The Japanese General Staff Headquarters did not have the slightest doubt that Ryushikov's motive for fleeing was to evade purges. The General Staff Headquarters also believed that since Ryushikov used his position as head of the NKVD for the Far East to flee abroad by choosing a weakly guarded link of the border guard under his jurisdiction, it was likely that the Soviet side would redeploy its border defenses.

What is even more interesting to the Japanese is that Senior General Ryushikov was once the intelligence minister of the Far East region of the former Soviet KGB, and he has a large number of secrets such as espionage communication codes in the Far East. So General Ryushikov was soon detained by the secret Japanese army to Tokyo.

Due to Ryushikov's betrayal, the Japanese Kwantung Army spy team arrested more than 100 Soviet intelligence officers, so that the Soviet intelligence network in the northeast was basically dismantled!

At this point, the Soviet military intelligence network and defensive deployment in the Far East were in danger of being forced to be completely revised! General Ryushikov, a traitor, became a thorn in Moscow's heart for a while!

And Huang Haoran is now playing with this thorn in the hearts of the Soviets, how can Soviet Ambassador Bogomolov not be in pain!

"Yellow! I think your government should seize the opportunity of the Japanese trapped by the flood to launch a counteroffensive! Now the Japanese are concentrating their main forces in Central China! Your army has a chance in both North and East China! We, the Soviet Union, have already sent you a lot of equipment! There's no reason for you to pile them all up in a warehouse! ”

Soviet Ambassador Bogomolov, it seems, should be considered the smartest of the Soviets! He soon realized that he had been overshadowed by Huang Haoran, but he did not get angry, but took the opportunity to encourage Huang Haoran to command the Chinese army to launch a counterattack against the Japanese army!

"Yellow! Brave generals should not stay inside the office in the rear! You have defeated the Japanese many times! You belong to the battlefield! If you are willing to make meritorious deeds, I can ask your chairman to fight for you! What's more, I'll be able to get you another batch of equipment from the existing supplies first! ”

Like a weasel who wants to eat a hen, Bogomolov dances in front of Huang Haoran with the last seductive chip in his hand! It's a pity that he met a person like Huang Haoran! For indigestible food, Huang Haoran has never been interested!

It was not easy for the Chinese army to retreat from under the Japanese butcher's knife by taking advantage of the flood of the Yellow River, and it was not even too much time to lie down and lick the wounds. From the "77 Incident" to the present, most of the Chinese army has been in tatters! Even the 25th Group Army, which had won many battles under Huang Haoran, was withdrawn from Xuzhou, and the shortage reached nearly thirty percent!

If the Chinese army does not rest now, as long as there is a vicious battle like the Battle of Xuzhou, I am afraid that it will collapse completely! Bogomolov wants to exchange the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers under Huang Haoran with a little Soviet aid?

Phew!

"I say Mr. Ambassador! The supplies you promised me on Lushan Mountain, but they haven't arrived yet? And now you're going to trick me with this bite-wrenching pie? Hey! There is an old saying in China that I don't know if Mr. Ambassador has heard, it is called old debts are not paid off, and new debts are not to be discussed! ”

Huang Haoran has been dealing with Bogomolov for half a month, and he has completely figured out Bogomolov's veins, and when he deals with these old hairies, he has to be hard when he should be hard! The Soviets now also have a demand for us in China, otherwise they would not have come to Wuhan to carry forward their style!

"Yellow! Look at what you said! Our supplies have long been transported across the border! It's because your road network is so backward! That's why it didn't arrive in Wuhan! Now a large number of materials are piled up in warehouses in Xinjiang, and some of them are about to rust! That's not what we want to see!"

Bogomolov's counterattack did not bring Huang Haoran's good face, Huang Haoran leaned back in the chair and said with a smile: "Before signing the contract, you didn't know about our domestic situation in China!" In my opinion, it's your service that isn't in place! Air transport is also one of the pillars of national defense. If you Soviet transport planes earlier, all problems would not have been solved! I think it's your side of the story! ”

"You! It's ......."

Bogomolov stood up with a snort, looking like he wanted to get angry, but was pulled by Huang Haoran: "What are you doing?" Davalisi! We are friends now! Friend! So be it! You rush your Moscow! As long as I can complete the refitting of my 25th Army as soon as possible, I will immediately return to Xuzhou with my troops! That's all right, right? ”

Huang Haoran's words are actually equivalent to not saying them! At present, the 25th Army has 8 divisions of large units, including the existence of the 99th Division, an overnumbered unit, and by the time the Soviets have transported enough materials to arm the 25th Army, I am afraid that the Japanese will have already hit the door!

"Yellow! You really don't look like Chinese! ”

Bogomolov's comment to Huang Haoran is very complicated! However, Huang Haoran happily accepted it, and he smiled and said to Bogomolov:

"Mr. Ambassador! I'll just think you're complimenting me! You'll have to hurry up when it comes to equipment! Not to mention all the replacements, at least we have to honor the 5 divisions that Mr. Ambassador said in Lushan first, right? You'll write a note to my 25th Army in a moment! 5,000 Mosin Nagant and 500 light and heavy machine guns! And 122-mm howitzers and mortars, you can do it yourself! Walk! I'm going to invite you to drink now! ”

After speaking, Huang Haoran dragged the blue-faced Bogomolov out of the office.

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When Huang Haoran was fooling Bogomolov, the Japanese troops in the Yellow Flood Area were still struggling in the flood!

The commander of the 30th Infantry Brigade, Major General Shinoshujiro, is a particularly good character. This time, he led his troops out of Jinxiang, attacked and returned to Germany, plundered Suiqi, and killed all the way. When most of the main force of the 16th Division was still east of Yingshui, the 38th Wing of the 30th Brigade Regiment had already rushed to the vicinity of Kaifeng under the command of Wing Commander Kondo Motoosa and blew up the railway bridge on the Pinghan Line; And the 33rd Wing, led by Yamada Daisa, has already rushed to the vicinity of Xuchang!

But the commander of the Shinoshujiro Brigade never imagined that Sunzhuang, where his headquarters was located, would suddenly be surrounded by a flood falling from the sky in the middle of the night. When his officers stood in the water that had just covered their insteps and reported to the commander of the Shinoshujiro brigade that the Yellow River had breached, the commander of the Shinoshujiro brigade was still sitting on the marching bed stupidly, thinking that he was dreaming!

After the commander of the Shinoshujiro brigade came to his senses, he hurriedly put on his riding boots, grabbed the radio and reported to the division commander, General Nakajima, but after calling for a long time, he could not get through to the division headquarters!

"Retreat eastward! ......Hurry up" The commander of the Shinoshujiro Brigade can only choose to retreat at this moment, looking at the white flood outside the village, he knows that the 30th Infantry Brigade is in trouble this time!

Later, under the attack of the Chinese army, the commander of the Shinoshujiro brigade could only leave behind 4 howitzers, more than 400 Mongolian war horses and more than 10 disabled soldiers. Immediately led his troops eastward, threw himself into the Yellow Flood Area, trudged through the floods, and went to the Tongxu area to find safe land.

The 33rd Wing's Yamada Daisa was even more unlucky. When the 33rd Wing found out that they were besieged by the flood, they immediately became panicked. Yamada Osa turned around and retreated east according to the order of the commander of the Shinoshu Jiro Brigade, but was attacked on three sides by the three divisions of Sun Tongxuan's division with 10 times the force. The Yamada Wing, which was previously fierce and unusually fierce in front of the Chinese army, has now completely turned into a plate of loose sand in the face of the surging flood! After a night of fierce fighting, the 33rd Wing finally crossed the Yellow Flood area several kilometers wide and moved with great difficulty to the vicinity of Tongxu. Until he arrived at his destination, Yamada Osa, the commander of the 33rd Wing, was still bare-armed, bare-backed, and looked embarrassed as if he had lost his armor.

The same fate also fell on the head of the Tu Fei Yuan Division!

In the headquarters of the 14th Division of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara held the microphone in his right hand and scratched his head with his left hand, and his tone was extremely sad, while Chief of Staff Yuno Tadayoshi stood aside with a depressed expression:

"Nakajima-kun, I'm leaving, I'm very sorry, please take care!"

This ending was something that Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara did not expect. Now, the west of Kaifeng is covered by the Yellow River, the 4th Infantry Brigade of the division, the 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, and the 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade have all withdrawn into Zhongmu County, and embankments have been built around the county seat, blocking the city gates, as if trapped on an isolated island. Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara felt that the Central Plains battlefield was a mess, and his eloquence and elite soldiers were useless.

Originally, Lieutenant General Kenji Tuhihara commanded the 14th Division to move from Sanyiji to Lanfeng, preparing to launch an attack on Kaifeng. The intelligence department reported that the Chinese army had decided to dig the Yellow River embankment to block the imperial attack. But Tu Feiyuan turned a deaf ear to this, and he believed that as soon as Kaifeng was attacked, Zhengzhou was in his eyes. Moreover, crossing the Yellow River half a month ago was not a matter of effort; The Chinese army wanted to break a ditch by breaking the embankment of the Yellow River to block the Japanese army, but it was really a lack of donkey skills.

Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara mobilized three artillery wings and handed them over to the command of Sano, who commanded the operation under Kaifeng Castle. After an unexpected and by no means easy contest, Kaifeng was captured, Zhongmu was captured, and Baisha was captured! The cavalry wing has entered Xinzheng, cut off the Pinghan Railway, take Zhengzhou and smash Wuhan!

But now, it's all over!

With the exception of Huang Haoran, Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara defeated all the other opponents he met after arriving in China! But now, he has encountered the rushing Yellow River again! Soon Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara found out that he couldn't defeat this opponent either!

Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara, who had no choice but to return to the base camp with the regret that "his ambition was not rewarded", followed in the footsteps of Seishiro Itagaki, who had been promoted to land minister, and assumed the post of military staff officer of the General Staff Headquarters. The two famous Japanese generals defeated by Huang Haoran in Taierzhuang and Lanfeng left the Chinese battlefield one after another!

Lieutenant General Takamasa Iseki, the successor of Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara, was very depressed, and it was not the Chinese army that he had to deal with at the beginning of his tenure, but the floods of the Yellow River!

Major General Machijiri Miki, Chief of Staff of the 2nd Army, who took office at the same time as Lieutenant General Takamasa Iseki, decided to give full support to the 14th Division to get rid of the Yellow Flood Zone. Major General Machijiri drew sappers from each division and organized an engineer squadron and a bridge building material squadron, which were assigned to the 14th Division. Fearing that these forces would not be enough, Major General Machijiri asked for help from the 1st Army. The 1st Army immediately transferred the main force of the 2nd Wing of the Independent Engineer Corps and a squadron of river crossing materials to Kaifeng, under the command of Jingguan Takasho.

Jingguan commanded two engineer wings and three engineer squadrons, including the headquarters, and after three full days and three nights of tossing, they moved a total of three teams of men and horses who were isolated and trapped in Zhongmu to the vicinity of Kaifeng. Some stragglers who were swept away by the flood returned to Kaifeng one after another through various channels.

However, the 14th Division was trapped in Zhongmu, and the troops were not all out of danger, and the 16th Division was in a hurry again. The two infantry wings of the 30th Brigade were hit by the Chinese army and washed away by the flood, and they were a little like a remnant of defeat, and they were trapped in the yellow flood area. (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.) )