[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 227: The Thorn in Xue Boling's Heart (Third Update, Asking for a Monthly Pass)

Xue Yue was 42 years old, a Cantonese general, courageous, known for his astuteness and courage in the use of soldiers, and was called "Tiger Cub" by the people of the time, and was a famous general in the world. Xue Yue's style of commanding operations is bold and pungent, and he is good at tightly choking the occasional flaws of the opponent on the ever-changing and dangerous battlefield, boldly capturing the fighters, and creating a decisive battle environment with ingenuity, so as to eat the opponent in one bite when the enemy is caught off guard.

But this time Xue Yue was really angry, he claimed to be a famous general in the world, he had always been supervising the battle for others, or simply he was shooting those who escaped from the battle, He was once pointed at his nose and said that he would supervise the battle of his troops.

After getting angry, Xue Yue immediately ordered someone to call all the officers above the division level on the front line of Peng Ze to a meeting, and specially instructed that no one was allowed to ask for leave for any reason, otherwise the military law would investigate and deal with it.

Since there were not many defenders on the front line of Pengze at this time, there were only two armies and five divisions, and after receiving the military order, the five division commanders plus the four chief and deputy army commanders and the chief of staff of the two armies were all there.

At the beginning of the meeting, Xue Yue threw the telegram forwarded by the theater headquarters to everyone, and then said: "What a shame, don't you feel ashamed to think that my dignified Central Army was pointed at and scolded by a mud-legged man who has not received orthodox military education?" ”

Li Hansoul, the commander-in-chief of the First Route Army, got up and said: "Chief Xue doesn't have to be angry, think that he Ma Zheng is just a ****, and the few victories he has won are just a fluke, how can he compare with Chief Xue!" ”

"Bohao, I'm not angry because of his Ma Zheng's words, but I feel sad for my dignified government. I think that my government has two million troops, and its weapons and equipment are better than those of Tubalu, and there are many famous generals in the world. Taking out a random one is not comparable to a hairy boy like Ma Zheng, but why can't we win a battle beautifully, can't we win a battle by nature? ”

Speaking of this, Xue Yue sighed and said: "It's not that we can't win the battle, it's that we don't have the conditions to win the battle, and our people don't know anything except how to calculate and roll each other." It's really sad! ”

As soon as they heard this, everyone knew that Chief Xue remembered the Battle of Lanfeng again, and everyone was immediately silent.

Seeing the expressions of his subordinates, Xue Yue suddenly felt bored for a while, and immediately raised his hand and said: "You have seen the telegram, I won't say anything else, I don't care how you fight, you can't lose an inch of your position." If you think you also have the qualifications of Gui Yongqing and Huang Jie, then you can try. Alright, adjourn! ”

When everyone dispersed, Xue Yue sat down on the chair weakly, looking tired!

Although more than a month had passed, Xue Yue's mood was still affected by the Battle of Lanfeng. Thinking of the previous battle, Xue Yue felt an inextricable resentment in his heart, it was definitely the most wrestling battle he had fought since he joined the army. These days, the unforgettable scene of the Lanfeng battlefield has swirled in his mind like a nightmare.

Just close your eyes. Tu Feiyuan's strange grin shook in front of his eyes lingeringly. The Lanfeng battlefield and Kenji Tohihara and his 14th Division became a thorn in Xue Yue's heart that could never be pulled out.

Speaking of this, we have to start with the great victory in Taierzhuang in April, when the heroic sacrifice and battle of Li Zongren, the commander of the Fifth Theater, and hundreds of thousands of miscellaneous troops made Lao Jiang raise his head from the frustration of a series of defeats. After the victory in Taierzhuang, Lao Jiang suddenly became hot-headed, and decided to fight a few more big victories like Taierzhuang in the Shandong battlefield.

So, in a very short period of time, 50 divisions and 600,000 elite troops were ordered to gather in Xuzhou. This is almost all the elite infantry of the Nationalist Government, and it has the courage to fight the Japanese army.

In fact, the stubborn resistance of the Nationalist Government also caused the Japanese base camp to lose its troops and lose face in front of the world. The Japanese government has also lost points in front of the rest of the world. Therefore, after the fiasco of Taierzhuang, the Japanese army decided to be ashamed and mobilized to launch the Battle of Xuzhou. For the shame of Xuetaierzhuang, the Japanese army suddenly assembled about 300,000 people in 13 and a half divisions, equipped with all kinds of sophisticated heavy weapons, and adopted the tactics of flanking from the north and south, and encircled Xuzhou in five ways, in an attempt to annihilate the main force of the Nationalist Government in one fell swoop and completely destroy the anti-Japanese will of China and Lao Chiang himself.

In fact, Chiang's move was exactly what the Japanese wanted, and they had been looking for such an opportunity to engage in a strategic decisive battle with the Chinese government, so as to withdraw from this endless war.

Fortunately, the old Jiang was only hot-headed for a while, and after being beaten several times afterwards, he suddenly remembered a passage that Jiang Baili had told him about China's territorial defense: "China's national defense strength is weak, and the quality of the army's weapons and soldiers is not as good as Japan's, this is an unavoidable objective reality, therefore, we must try to avoid a decisive battle with the enemy on the northern plain, where there is no danger to rely on, and try by all means to force the main Japanese army to change its offensive line, and change the offensive line of the main Japanese army from northeast, north, and central China. The north-south route in South China attracted the east-west route up the Yangtze River, thus making full use of the mountains and lakes along the river to eliminate the advantages of the Japanese army in weapons training. ”

"Although Japan has a strong army, it has a fatal weakness: it has a small population and not enough soldiers. The country is small and resources are scarce. The country's weak strength is not conducive to long-term warfare. And the Chinese have a large population and sufficient soldiers. The territory is vast and rich in resources. Based on this, Japan can only adopt a strategic policy of a quick victory in the war against China. We should do the opposite, be prepared to fight a protracted war, exchange space for time, and drag Japan down through the consumption of time. The specific method is to drag the Japanese army into the second ridge of China's geography, that is, the junction of Hunan and Sichuan, and engage in a decisive battle with the Japanese army......"

When Lao Jiang realized that he had placed his 600,000 troops in a plain area where there was no danger to rely on to fight a decisive battle with the well-equipped Japanese army, which was tantamount to sending meat to the anvil and causing fire to self-harm, he broke out in a cold sweat and quickly broke through and threw the empty city of Xuzhou to the Japanese army.

However, at the critical juncture of the breakthrough of Xuzhou, Xue Yue, who was the former commander-in-chief of the enemy in the First Theater, was extremely pleasantly surprised to find that among the Japanese troops of the Fifth Route who surrounded Xuzhou, more than 20,000 people of the 14th Division of Tufeiyuan actually broke away from the main force and crossed the Yellow River to the south, intending to cut off the Longhai Road and prevent the Kuomintang troops from advancing eastward to reinforce the Zhengzhou and Kaifeng lines.

Xue Yue, who was proficient in tactical command, knew that this was the "cone tactic" that the Japanese army used to break through alone. After the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance against Japan, the arrogant Japanese army did not take the Chinese defenders seriously, and their iron hooves rampaged on Chinese soil, and there was no longer any taboo of soldiers. It seems that the fiasco of Taierzhuang did not make them learn much. It can be said that it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and Xue Yue decided to seize the opportunity and eat the 14th Division of Tufeiyuan.

Xue Yue's plan to encircle and annihilate Tufeiyuan was immediately agreed by Lao Jiang. Xue Yue was considered to have handed in good luck, and Lao Jiang, who had other plans in his heart, not only completely agreed with his plan to encircle and annihilate, but also generously handed over the two well-equipped descendants of Gui Yongqing's 27th Army and Huang Jie's Eighth Army to Xue Yue's command. In this way, together with Li Hansoul's 64th Army, Yu Jishi's 74th Army, Shang Zhen's 32nd Army, Song Xilian's 71st Army, and Hu Zongnan's 17th Army, which was ordered to rush from Xi'an, Xue Yue actually had 100,000 troops in his hands.

After a hard battle, Xue Yue's headquarters finally firmly surrounded more than 20,000 people of the 14th Division in the Lanfeng area in eastern Henan. Xue Yue commanded an army of 100,000 troops to launch a fierce attack on the 14th Division of Tufeiyuan, and the fierce battle lasted for several days.

Just when the armies from all walks of life frequently reported good news and Tufeiyuan was about to be destroyed, who knew that at this juncture, it was Gui Yongqing's 27th Army and Huang Jie's Eighth Army that had a problem. First of all, Gui Yongqing couldn't resist the crazy counterattack of Tufeiyuan, who was still fighting in the trapped beasts, and the position of the 27th Army was broken through, Gui Yongqing handed over a warrant to Long Muhan, the commander of the 86th Division, and ordered him to defend Lanfeng, but he slipped away from the battlefield.

Long Muhan saw Gui Yongqing fleeing from the battlefield, and then he also abandoned the city and fled. As soon as Lan Feng was lost, Xue Yue's tight net was torn in an instant, and the 14th Division of Tufeiyuan, which had become a turtle in the urn, hurriedly fled from the hole torn open by the big net. (To be continued.) )