"Nani, the embankment at the mouth of the garden ......" Kenji Dohihara, who secretly flew to Xuzhou to wait for the results of the bombing, received the report from the adjutant, and his eyes were about to fall to the ground in shock. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Yes, aerial reconnaissance found a gap of several miles long in the section of Huayuankou on the south bank of the Yellow River, which is an aerial photo." The adjutant pulls out a photograph from the folder.

In the photo, a clear gap in the embankment of the Yellow River, under the shooting of the camera on the plane, rolled from the west, gathered in this gap, and the waves rolled, forming a country of thousands of miles.

"Map!"

"Hay!"

Kenji Tsuchihara found the location of the garden mouth on the map, just upstream of the embankment on the north bank of the Yellow River that was bombed by Japanese planes.

His face changed suddenly, and the first thing the water that came down from the upstream must have passed through the gap in the embankment at the mouth of the garden, and when it reached the gap on the north bank below, it was estimated that seventy percent of the water would be diverted.

In this case, the plan to blow up the embankment and flood northern Henan will simply fail.

If northern Henan is flooded by blowing up the embankment, for the Second Army in the Xuzhou area, they can attack Kaifeng and Zhengzhou along the Longhai line to the west, and then occupy central Henan, whether it is to flank the new First Army in northern Henan or attack Wuhan on the Pinghan line in the south.

But now the biggest breach is on the south bank, and the situation in northern Henan is much lighter, so if the Yellow River is too large, it will block their road to the west.

Kenji Dohihara wanted to give the North China Front a chance, but instead tied his hands and feet.

The river swelled, and the break at the mouth of the garden was quickly enlarged, forming a huge flood outlet. The flood rushed down like a wild horse, rolled up a monstrous wave, broke the Longhai Railway, and flowed towards the southeast of Henan.

The flood inundated large areas of farmland and villages, and then passed through the Yinghe River and the Xiqi River, and finally flowed into the Huai River, flooding the banks of the Huai River, and the Huai River railway bridge was broken by the flood.

Although early warning measures were activated, the levee burst was still a little untouchable, and the flood came too quickly.

Wherever the flood passed, people had no time to react, and their homes were submerged, causing untold loss of life and property.

Lao Jiang received the report of the embankment bursting at the "Huayuankou", and he was stunned for a long time before he reacted.

Originally, he wanted to "replace the army with water" to prevent the Japanese army from invading central Henan and threaten the safety of the Pinghan line, but as a result, a victory was fought in eastern Henan, and the Japanese army was unable to advance westward, and the matter of breaking the embankment was put on hold.

Unexpectedly, a month later, under a natural disaster, the Yellow River still burst its banks, and it was not the location of the breach that was decided at the beginning.

Millions of people were affected and people were displaced, and Lao Jiang ordered the First War Zone and the Henan Provincial Government to come forward for disaster relief, and at the same time squeezed out a disaster relief fund from the Ministry of Finance, and called on the people to donate money for disaster relief.

At the same time, Lao Chiang also received the news that Japanese planes were bombing Liuhukou on the north bank of the Yellow River, and the next key area for the Japanese army to attack was northern Henan.

This does not seem to match the peace and goodwill that was unleashed before.

Having been deceived, Lao Chiang and the Nationalist government had a strong sense of being teased, clearly deliberately releasing goodwill so that China could relax its vigilance.

Just when some people were singing the song of "peace" in a loud voice, the Japanese army brazenly launched a key attack on northern Henan.

This slap in the face was really loud.

After Vice President Wang Zhaoming learned that the Japanese army had bombed the Yellow River embankment, he said that he was sick and did not go to work.

His secret envoy, Takemasa Takamune, director of the Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, made a secret visit to Tokyo and seemed to have seen the dawn of "peace."

The "low-key club" was stormy for a while.

Northern Henan.

The bursting of the embankment at Huayuankou diverted most of the flood water that originally flowed into northern Henan into southeastern Henan and finally into the Huaihe River Basin.

Although Japanese planes blew a gap of more than 100 meters in the section of the Liuyuankou embankment on the north bank, they eventually submerged less than one county, and then the flood water was reversed and flowed through the flood discharge area.

Although the flood caused a lot of property losses to the people, but there were not many casualties, due to the early evacuation, effective organization, and the later mobilization of a large number of disaster relief materials from Shanxi and other places.

The Northern Henan Administration has been strategizing and organizing effectively, and the disaster relief and post-disaster reconstruction work has been carried out very effectively, and there have been almost no major epidemics, and the reputation of the New First Army and Leng Feng in northern Henan has continued to rise.

That's all for later.

Leng Feng is now facing not only the problem of disaster relief, but the beginning of the Japanese army's "epiphany" military operation against northern Henan and the New First Army.

"On the morning of the 17th, the Japanese army set out from Yongcheng and Xuzhou and launched an attack on Dangshan, Fengxian, Peixian and other places, and there were fierce battles with our 27th and 68th armies, and the Japanese army failed to break through our Dangshan defense line......"

"On the night of the 18th, Commander-in-Chief Sun of the Third Army telegraphed that an elite Japanese mechanized unit had attacked Yanzhou, and it was found that this Japanese army was an independent mixed 3rd Brigade stationed in Tai'an, and the detachment leader, Major General Shigeji Yanagishita, ......"

"18 is the afternoon Liaocheng electricity, the 114th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Jinan, the Chiba Wing Hirata Brigade, with the cooperation of the Japanese army stationed in Yucheng. A large number of troops were secretly mobilized, and in planes and armored vehicles, they set off from Jinan and invaded Liaocheng through Dong'e County, and the current battle was fierce, and the second and third divisions of the Luxi People's Army, as well as the Wu Hanzhang Independent Brigade, were successively put into battle. ”

"The ...... of the 129th Advance Corps and the Southern Hebei Branch"

……

"Didn't the Japanese troops stationed in the Handan area make any movement when they were independently mixed into the Second Brigade?" In the war room, Xie Jiyuan, who was listening to the report, asked.

"Not for the time being, we have sent intelligence officers in Handan City, and we have not found any unusual movements of the Japanese army yet?"

"The Japanese army of the Daimyo has been very active recently, and often goes to the countryside to sweep, and we have received reports from the common people that many villages in the Daimyo have been poisoned by devils." Intelligence staff officer Fang Xiaoyang said, "The Japanese army seems to be fishing on purpose. ”

"Judging from the current situation in our periphery, this wave of offensive launched by the Japanese army in our periphery should be aimed at us, with the purpose of sabotaging our reform and recuperation in northern Henan, so as to achieve the goal of weakening us."

"This is just the appearance, judging from the relevant 'epiphany' action plan that we have in our hands, the purpose of the Japanese army this time is to eat our new first army in one bite, but to eat us, first of all, to clear our periphery, the Japanese army does not attack northern Henan head-on, but uses the troops around us, this is the purpose." Long Yingqin, deputy director of the General Staff Office, analyzed.

"The strategy that 'Epiphany' has now exposed is to first attack the friendly forces around us, and then form an encirclement of northern Henan, and finally eat us, if we sit back and watch the friendly forces be wiped out, then it will be us who will be eaten in the end."

"I think we should take the initiative, when has our new army ever been afraid of little devils?"

"Yes, Junzao, we are strong now, I'm afraid of his little devil, as many as he comes, we will destroy as many ......"

"It's all hot in the head, is there such an aggressive staff officer as you?"

"Senior Guangting, what do you think?" Leng Feng has been listening, weighing, and thinking, what does the Japanese army want to do with such an "epiphany" plan?

At this time, the top brass of the Japanese army put on a posture of wanting to eat themselves, which is a bit of putting the cart before the horse.

The New First Army did cause great losses to the Japanese army, and was also regarded by the Japanese army as the number one enemy, but the high-level decision-makers of the Japanese army should not be hot-headed, of course, they are habitually hot-headed, but they should not be used on him with a hot head.

Changing a country's strategic plan for the sake of him, a Chinese general, is not very reliable no matter how you look at it.

The "Epiphany" plan is so top-secret, it can be leaked through a variety of channels, when did the day himself stop guarding against his top-secret information?

Interestingly, there was actually a specific battle plan, the content was still very detailed, the plan was leaked, and the Japanese army did not change this battle plan, and still arranged troops in accordance with this offensive plan.

He almost pointed to his nose and said to his opponent, "Look, I'm coming, hit me in the face!"

Is there such a war? Whether it is Sugiyama Moto, the commander of the North China Front, or Shunroku Hatata, the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, these two are veterans in the army, doesn't he understand this reason?

"Commander, how did we get the information about the 'Epiphany' project?"

"The Central Unification side has personnel in Nanjing to break into Liang Hongzhi's puppet Nanjing government, and this top-secret plan was obtained through our agents." Xue Ping, acting director of intelligence, said.

"Did you verify?"

"We have confirmed the existence of this plan through other channels, but the specific content of the plan is still mainly provided by Zhongtong."

"Zhongtong, their intelligence has never been reliable, and even if this plan really exists, it may be completely different from what we know." Du Guangting said.

"But the information we have obtained so far and the feedback from friendly forces are consistent with the content of this plan." Long Yingqin said.

"Are we going to let the Japanese himself be deceived?"

"Who is in charge of this plan?"

"There is no information on this."

"I think it is very likely that this is a smokescreen released by the Japanese army, ostensibly aimed at us, but in fact it has another purpose." Du Guangting said, "It's not that I look down on our new First Army, but the Japanese army attacked northern Henan with great fanfare at this time, which is not in line with their strategic interests." ”

Leng Feng nodded, what Du Guangting said was very reasonable, at this time, it was really not in the interests of the Japanese army to launch a campaign against northern Henan and the New First Army.

The strategic goal of the Japanese army is to occupy China, which will not change, the secondary is to seize all kinds of resources, population, mineral deposits and folk wealth in China, they have already searched for northern Henan once, although they have not scraped the land, but northern Henan must not be the first choice in northern Henan now.

Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangzhou, these coastal provinces were the first rich places to be won by the Japanese army.

By taking these places, first, we can blockade China's access to the sea and cut off China's maritime support, and these places are relatively rich places, with developed commerce and trade, and rich economy, which are really the objects of plundering by the Japanese army.

At this time, they have to fight to the death with the New First Army, even if they can eat the New First Army, how much price does the Japanese army have to pay?

Leng Feng didn't believe that such an important factor was not considered by those high-level military and political figures in the Japanese army base camp.

There is only one reason, the Japanese army must have made this "epiphany" plan in order to cover up people's eyes and ears, and has other plans.

So in Luxi, eastern Henan, and southwest Hebei, these offensive moves are all bluffing.