Kawamura Dong was surrounded, the 1st Army of the Japanese North China Front was in a hurry, and the three main forces of the 1st Army, the 16th Division, were transferred to Nanjing early, but they were crippled and are still being rebuilt. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The 14th Division and the attached 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade, as well as chariots, boats and bridges were trapped in the eastern Henan battlefield and could not get out.

There are only 20 divisions, 109 divisions and some garrison troops left, but the territory occupied by the 1st Army is not small, Hebei, Shanxi, Henan, the four divisions can't take care of it, and now there are two field divisions left?

Moreover, these two divisions were also assigned to a part of the troops to the Tuhihara Division.

Umezu Mijiro himself did not support the war expansion faction, but the soldiers on the front line seemed to have magma in their minds, and they only thought about blindly fighting the war, but never thinking about how to defend the area that was defeated.

Now that the bitter wine has been brewed, the unfortunate thing is that he has this mess, and he is now a little dissatisfied with Terauchi Shouichi, if it weren't for his connivance and agitation, how could there be this passive situation now.

Terauchi Shouichi is a nobleman, he has never been on the front line, how many people have died in the empire's army, in his eyes is just a bunch of numbers, he only cares about whether he can achieve his goal and get promoted and make a fortune.

"Your Excellency Commander, the newly formed garrison division in China is already training intensively, and it is expected to be sent to China soon, at this time, we should not blindly emphasize the attack, the sword in the hand of the samurai is stabbed out, and it also needs to be withdrawn before it can be stabbed out again!"

"What do you mean by Iida-kun?" For his chief of staff, Umezu Mijiro still gives enough respect.

"If we had followed the advice of Tu Fei Yuan-kun earlier, maybe we wouldn't be in today's predicament."

"What do you suggest?"

"Tu Fei Yuan Jun believes that if you want to conquer China, it is impossible to achieve the goal at once, just as we want to encircle and annihilate the GMD army in the Xuzhou area, China is too big, and we don't have enough troops to come, this is to fight on their territory, they have an advantage, there is no doubt about this, we should use the method of continuous encroachment, eat a little, digest a little, this is a good policy."

Umezu Mijiro nodded, he also understood this truth, but he didn't think so, if he was too cautious and conservative, once the opportunity was missed, then there would be many variables if he wanted to achieve the goal of annexing China.

"What should we do now, give up northern Henan?" Miharu asked excitedly.

"Do we still have the ability to keep northern Henan now?"

"No, this is what we have worked so hard to fight, and we must not easily return it to the Chinese, the empire will not lose." Youjin Meiqing's eyes are red.

"A temporary retreat does not mean that we have admitted defeat, and the strength we have now is not enough to confront that devil general." Chief of Staff Shoji Iida said.

"But the front command will definitely not agree."

"The term of office under the temple cabinet is not a few days." Umezu Mijiro, as the person sent by the local to replace Kiyoji Kazuki, naturally knew that the base camp was very dissatisfied with Terauchi Shouichi for making some wrong decisions in the position of the headquarters of the North China Front, and His Majesty the Emperor also had a lot of complaints.

It was decided to remove Terauchi Shouichi from his post and send Xianneng to take over as commander of the North China Front.

This person is very likely to be Umezu Mijiro's old boss, Lu Xiang Sugiyama Moto, and the new Lu Xiang must come down, which is the time when Terauchi Shouichi left his post.

"How do you reply to Kawamura Dong?"

A room full of people was silent, send rescuers, less, that's death, more, no, now at most you can draw out a wing.

Otherwise, if the troops are thinned, the active anti-Japanese elements in the occupied areas will be given an opportunity to take advantage of, and some troops will not be able to be easily mobilized until the anti-Japanese elements in the occupied areas are eliminated.

"Your Excellency, the 4th Division does not have an advance detachment......"

I don't know which staff officer said it casually, Umezu Mijiro's eyes lit up, how could he forget such a unit, but the reputation of this army is too stinky, and if it is not done well, it will become the laughing stock of the 1st Army.

But is there still a unit at the disposal of the 1st Army that can be called upon?

It is also one of the 17 standing field divisions of the Japanese Army, and it is well-trained, no matter how bad it is, it is better than the domestic garrison, right?

The 1st Army was originally not strong enough, and it was pulled away by Terauchi Shouichi before, and now there are only two main divisions left, and one is still in a worrying situation.

His Excellency Terauchi Toshiichi also served as the division commander of the 4th Division, and while he was in office, he had the glorious deeds of leading troops to smash the police station, and the bravery of the 4th Division can be seen.

"What, the southern detachment of the 4th Division?" After receiving a telegram from the headquarters of the 1st Army, Major General Kawamura Dong's eyes darkened, did His Excellency the commander take the wrong medicine, and why did he send this unit over?

This is the famous "wrecked" division, and this time it is the same 8th Wing that was "not afraid of defeat" in the Russo-Japanese War, which is simply a shame in the Imperial Army.

It is simply inconceivable that such a unit could exist side by side in the standing division, and it is said that many officers are reluctant to go to the 4th division.

Counting on this army to save themselves, when they come, it is estimated that grass will grow on the grave of Dong in Hecun.

Kawamura Dong simply wanted to cry without tears, and immediately called back, asking for a change of troops, he could hold out for at least three or five days, enough to wait for reinforcements to arrive.

If the 4th Division is allowed to come over to the southward detachment, it is estimated that it will be possible to double the time.

At this time, how can Umezu Mijiro have extra troops in his hands, in a word, except for the southward detachment of the 4th Division, there is no other reinforcements, if you want to love it, if you don't want it, you will find a way to break through by yourself.

Umezu Mijiro is ruthless, he can't save the independent mixed into the Fourth Brigade, even if he transfers troops from the country now, it will be too late, not to mention, the troops withdrawn from the country are close to the 2nd Army on the Shandong side.

A mixed brigade that he pulled out from the Kwantung Army is still on the way, and even if he arrives, he can only maintain a defensive position and attack, and don't make that illusion.

Umezu Mijiro has already stepped on the ground, and he doesn't plan to float with Shouichi Terauchi and the others.

Umezu Mijiro was a little deflated, but His Royal Highness Prince Minoru Higashikure, the commander of the 2nd Army, who had not been in office for a long time, still had some ideas.

His 2nd Army also suffered a lot of losses, and the 10th Division can be said to have been completely annihilated, even if there are still troops left in the country, it will take at least two years to recover if it is rebuilt.

The 5th Division also suffered a lot of losses in Linyi, Zhang and Pang joined forces to let Itagaki Seishiro not take much advantage in Linyi, and the 108th Division, garrisoning the northern Lubei area, did not directly participate in the battle, but has been fighting against the anti-Japanese armed forces in northwest Lu, and has also fought with Wu Shaozhou's pistol brigade.

In order to occupy Xuzhou first, Terauchi Shouichi was already a demon, and most of the supplementary troops and materials transferred from the mainland were given to the 2nd Army.

This made the already undesirable 1st Army even worse.

Terauchi Shouichi is mediocre, rigid and self-serving, and loves to wear small shoes to disobedient subordinates and retaliate, and more and more people are dissatisfied.

Kenji Dohihara got off to a good start, and naturally some people followed suit, and the top and bottom of the 1st Army were already very resentful, but as a result, as soon as Umezu Mijiro came, he was quickly assimilated.

Anyway, Umezu Mijiro also thought clearly, Terauchi Shouichi will lose power sooner or later, why should he go to meet such a narrow-minded old nobleman?

On June 3, the news came from the new 40th Brigade that it had captured Dabendian (where Hebi is located today).

The Japanese army stationed in Tangyin had only one squadron, and then a small number of puppet troops, at this time it was to grab time with the Japanese army, Leng Feng immediately ordered Dai Xu to attack north along the Pinghan railway line and try to recover the lost territory.

Since the Japanese army entered northern Henan, it has committed countless heinous crimes, burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of evil.

On November 5 last year, the Japanese army occupied Anyang and carried out a bloody massacre in the area of Xiaoximen, creating the tragic Anyang Massacre.

At the same time of burning, killing and looting, the Japanese army also had a wild nature, wantonly on the women who were found, from teenage girls to old women in their 70s******* after the Japanese army captured Changyuan County, they searched along the streets, killed people when they saw them, and slaughtered more than 1,700 civilians, and the corpses in the streets and alleys were in a mess, and the blood flowed like rivers.

On March 29, after the Japanese army entered the county seat, they searched everywhere and killed the people, 300 people were imprisoned in a house, sprinkled with gasoline and set on fire, and all of them were burned to the sea. The 400 people hiding in the soil cave on Nanshan Street, the Japanese army set up two machine guns outside to fire at the soil cave, and all of them were also spared.

More than 4,000 innocent people were killed by the Japanese army by shooting, slashing, cutting throats, digging out hearts, and bitten by military dogs, accounting for a quarter of the city's total population.

The city of Jun County has become a miserable world where "every household wears filial piety, and every family has a cry".

The blood left behind by the massacre had not yet dried up, and under the bitter hatred, as soon as the people of northern Henan heard that the national army had returned, they wept with joy one by one, poured into the streets, and welcomed them.

Lead the way for GJ, traitors, and Japanese puppets have no place to hide at all, and they are all found out one by one, and they are punished in a canonical manner.

In less than two hours, he received a telegram from Dai Xu that the reconnaissance battalion of the new 40th Brigade had entered Tangyin City.

The Japanese troops in Tangyin City seemed to have gotten the news and fled.

The new 40th Brigade easily recovered Tangyin County.

"Now, the situation is obvious, in addition to the Japanese army in Puyang County, as well as the independent mixed Fourth Brigade and the Japanese army stationed at the crossing of the Yellow River, they have begun to concentrate their forces and hold on to several important cities, Jiaozuo in the west, Anyang (Zhangde) in the north, and Qiufeng in the south." In the war room of the military headquarters of the New First Army, Leng Feng held a staff meeting to discuss the next operational plan.

"The Japanese army in Anyang City has the largest number of troops, and if we wait until the nearby Japanese troops concentrate on it, then it will be much more difficult for us to take Anyang." Xie Jiyuan said.

"Yes, therefore, we must take Anyang as quickly as possible, and we must not let the Japanese army have time to gather."

"If we want to fight Anyang, then Xinxiang will not get support, will Mayor Liang's strength be too thin?" Long Yingqin said.

"The anti-Japanese armed guerrillas in northern Henan, as long as they are willing to join, they can be given the number, and the establishment can be given, don't force it, the twisted melon is not sweet." Leng Feng said, "In addition, I know that when Song Mingxuan and Shi Hanzhang were fighting against the Japanese army in northern Henan, some troops were scattered and fell into the grass, and these people are also the objects we strive for. ”

"Four brigades?"

"Yes, the four brigades, the establishment is about 60 percent of our main brigade, weapons and equipment, and the troops that can be incorporated can prepare some of their own equipment, and we will solve the rest."

"So, we're going to take root in northern Henan?"

"Well, it won't move for at least three months." Leng Feng nodded, if this battle is over, there will be at least a quiet period of three months to half a year.

As for whether the battle of Wuhan will be fought or not, it is not something that you can control.

(To be continued.) )