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Because of the order to burst the embankment, Lao Jiang was pushed to the forefront in the past two days, although the situation was very critical at that time, but it was not to the extent that the situation could not be reversed completely.

It was mainly the decision-makers of the Nationalist Government who were panicked by the sudden attack of the Japanese army.

The Japanese army was just a partial division, almost copying the tactics of the original sneak attack on Guide, and a big roundabout move between Guide and Tuocheng.

This could have been discovered.

However, the troops stationed in Tuocheng were the 102nd Division, which were all Guizhou soldiers, and in the Battle of Guide, they belonged to the Eighth Army, and after the Battle of Guide, the Eighth Army changed its command system.

This unit was stationed in Tuocheng and was subordinate to Shang Qiyu's Second Army.

This unit belongs to the first theater of operations, which is not loved by my grandmother and uncle, and the soldiers, equipment and equipment are replenished, and the good ones are not in its turn, and even the military rations are deducted.

There was a lot of resentment among the officers and men.

According to the principle of nearby command, the 102nd Division should be under the command of the Eighth Army, but in this way, there will be too many troops in the Eighth Army, and if there are four divisions, that is the size of the group army.

Thus, the 102nd Division was assigned to the Second Army.

This is not his own lineage, Shang Qiyu naturally does not care too much, the Japanese army was frustrated in Guide and suffered heavy losses, and the First Theater Commander's Department judged that the Japanese army would not take major actions in the near future.

However, Tuocheng did not directly face the Japanese army, and the troops were in a state of recuperation, and their vigilance inevitably decreased.

This allowed the Japanese army to take advantage of the loophole.

The Eighth Army was also a little negligent, Luo Yufeng was busy reorganizing the troops, and there were no Japanese troops in front of Guide, Dangshan, Bozhou, and there were national J troops stationed in these places.

Even if the Japanese army attacked, the Eighth Army would react, but Luo Yufeng underestimated the capabilities of these friendly forces.

The Tang Corps stationed in Bozhou had long been withdrawn and replaced with the 106th Division, which was formed by the remnants of Shi Hanzhang, and the division commander was called Shen Ke.

It is said to be a division, but in fact it has less than 3,000 troops, military discipline is very poor, and its combat effectiveness is weak.

With such a force, the charge of a large Japanese army was easily crushed, and this guy ran away with his troops to the mountains of northern Anhui.

Luo Yufeng received a telegram from the defenders of Tuocheng, only to know that Bozhou was captured by the Japanese army, and the Japanese army took a detour all the way, bypassing Guide and attacking Lanfeng.

Luo Yufeng hurriedly transferred troops to intercept it, and a Japanese army from Bozhou suddenly arrived in Guide.

At that time, there was only one brigade of the new 38th Division stationed in the city of Guide, although the strength was not lost to the Japanese army, but after all, it was a newly reorganized unit, and the time was not long, and it had not been completely run-in.

The new 41st Brigade hurriedly met the battle and blocked the Japanese attack, but it was not able to divide troops to intercept the Japanese army.

With Dangshan, Yucheng was captured by the Japanese army one after another, and the provisional 35 garrisoned in Yucheng was defeated to Guide, and the Japanese 3rd Division occupied Yucheng.

The Japanese army greatly increased, and Luo Yufeng urgently transferred the new 38th Brigade stationed in Caozhou to reinforce and return to Germany, and ordered the newly formed special service group to make a long-distance attack on the flank of the Japanese army in Kaifeng.

At this time, who knew that a brigade of the 88th Division Long Mu Han stationed in Lanfeng didn't hold on for half a day, and lost Lanfeng.

A heavy rainstorm is coming!

Under such heavy rains, China and Japan were forced to stop all military operations.

It was not until after the sky cleared that the new 38th Brigade threw away its heavy equipment and marched 80 miles in a hurry to reach Guide, which blocked the Japanese 3rd Division to the east of Guide.

Then came the news of the loss of Peixian and Fengxian, and Liu Ziliang led the remnants of the 68th Army to retreat all the way to Jinxiang and Shanxian to rebuild the defense.

At the request of Cheng Songyun, commander of the First Theater of Operations, Luo Yufeng sent the newly reorganized 40th Division to support Liu Ziliang.

For a time, the safety of Luxi and Yuzhong was in jeopardy.

Cheng Songyun, commander of the First Theater of Operations, was also a little panicked, once Kaifeng and Zhengzhou were lost, the Pinghan Line would be in danger, and he hurriedly asked Lao Jiang in Wuhan to instruct him, and at the same time ordered the new Eighth Division stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River to prepare to dig embankments and release water.

For the Battle of Wuhan, Lao Chiang withdrew the elite troops that originally supported the Fifth Theater and the First Theater and went south, and the troops in the First Theater and the Fifth Theater were basically the original troops, and the troops that were later reinforced were basically concentrated around Wuhan.

The Japanese army suddenly launched an attack on Yuzhong, with the intention of capturing Zhengzhou in one fell swoop and taking the Pinghan line, the old Chiang panicked, and in addition to the "peaceful" goodwill suddenly released by the Japanese army, his vigilance was suddenly lowered a lot.

This time it's broken, and it's a little devil.

But now it will be too late to send troops north, and Lao Jiang has always been afraid that the road of "replacing soldiers with water" will be taken in the future.

Otherwise, Zhengzhou would not be protected, and the Pinghan Line would be occupied by the Japanese army.

Lao Jiang also took into account Leng Feng's new army, and he imagined that once there might be problems in the battle of Wuhan, he could also transfer Leng Feng's new army south through the Pinghan line.

The combat effectiveness of the New First Army is obvious to all, and it may be able to turn the tide when the time comes.

Of course, it's best not to use it, and the troops of this country J are not only the new first army that can fight, isn't there also Luo Yufeng's eighth army?

Before digging the embankment, Lao Jiang also sent a telegram to Luo Yufeng, ordering him to retreat to northern Henan if he could not hold on.

This is the treatment that many Huangpu henchmen and generals have, and Luo Yufeng is just a small character, as if he has become Lao Jiang's heart.

Leng Feng is uncontrollable, and his ambition is too great, on the contrary, Luo Yufeng, who is very arrogant, is a person who can be controlled, and he is very loyal.

The order to dig the embankment Lao Jiang also summoned He Jingzhi, Chen Cixiu, Zhang Yuejun, Dai Liang, Chen Bulei and other military and political dignitaries, and the think tank debated fiercely for a night before finally making a decision.

Although the order was given by Lao Jiang, this can be regarded as the result of a collective discussion.

The problem is that the First Theater reported the problem too seriously, as if the Japanese army would immediately occupy the Zhengzhou and Pinghan lines without digging the embankment, which also misled Lao Chiang and others in some ways to make this decision in a hurry.

It's just that no one could have imagined that this hastily made decision to dig the embankment objectively helped the New First Army and northern Henan escape a catastrophe.

When the news reached Wuhan, Lao Jiang's face was very ugly, and no one knew what he would think at that time.

The big mistake has been made, and he can only try his best to save it, who will take this responsibility, Lao Jiang knows in his heart that the order is given by him, and the responsibility can only be borne by him.

But he is not alone in the decision-making, so even if he is responsible, these people will still carry it with him.

At least at this time, I can't let Hitome see the joke.

Wang Zhaoming jumped out and was the first to bombard Lao Jiang, and at the meeting, he burst into tears and strongly demanded that Lao Jiang be held responsible.

Lao Jiang had a black face almost the whole time, if it weren't for the loss, it is estimated that the civilization staff in his hand would have smashed directly into Wang Zhaoming's head.

Lao Jiang's rash decision to dig the embankment is indeed responsible, but if it weren't for the Japanese invasion, no matter how crazy Lao Jiang was, he would not have given such an order, and this point should still be treated objectively.

"Judging from the information obtained so far, on the whole, the next key offensive targets of the Japanese army are in the two areas of Luxi and northern Henan......" Xu Peigen, director of the Intelligence Department of the Military Command Department, picked up a baton and drew a circle on the map of the locations of northern Henan and Luxi.

"The so-called 'epiphany' plan of the Japanese army should mean blowing up the embankment of the Yellow River and flooding northern Henan, right?"

"The 'Epiphany' plan should be a smoke bomb released by the Japanese army, deliberately interfering with our line of sight, and the War Department made an analysis and judgment that the Japanese army most likely wanted to move west into central Henan, occupy Kaifeng and Zhengzhou, and then attack northern Henan from the north and south, eat our new first army, and then go south to Wuhan along the Pinghan line." Liu Weizhang, the director of the War Department, stood up and walked over, gestured with his hand on the map and explained.

"Isn't this the same strategy of the Japanese army advancing north and south in an attempt to open up the Jinpu line?" He Jingzhi asked.

"Now it seems that the Japanese army did have an attempt in this regard, but what the Japanese army did not expect was that we would dig an embankment at the mouth of the garden to release water, and the Yellow River would rush south, flooding thousands of square kilometers of area, and this area would form a huge yellow flood area, and the Japanese army's mechanized corps could not come from here at all, so the plan to advance westward into Yuzhong was bankrupt." Liu Weizhang pointed to a piece of yellow on the map. said the colored area.

"It seems that it is not necessary for the Japanese side to sing the wind of peace with us just to attack northern Henan?" Xiong Bin, deputy head of the Military Command Department, said strangely.

"Maybe they're just trying to paralyze us, and they want to make a surprise attack on northern Henan?"

"It's possible."

"According to our reconnaissance, the Japanese army has mobilized heavy troops in northern Anhui, central Lu, southern Hebei and Xuzhou to comprehensively attack our first and fifth theaters, the focus is still on the first theater, it is obvious that the Japanese army's strategy has undergone a major change, they seem to have given up the idea of capturing our Wuhan, and instead adopted the means of encroachment from north to south, and gradually compressed our strategic living space, if the Japanese army occupies Henan Province and marches to the northwest and enters Sichuan from Guanzhong, this will be very dangerous."

"This is the strategy of taking the Mengyuan Dynasty to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty, so that Shanxi and Shaanxi will be the targets of the Japanese army's next attack."

"Shanxi and Shaanxi are barren and lack resources, at this stage, they do not have enough troops to maintain such a long front, and the logistics of the Japanese army seriously restrict their movements, so I think this is not the preferred strategy of the Japanese army." Deputy Chief of General Staff Bai Jiansheng said solemnly.

"I agree with Jiansheng's opinion, although the national strength of Japan is stronger than ours, if you want to swallow China in one bite, you can't do it, and the Japanese army is no better than Meng Yuan, even if you want to repeat Meng Yuan's destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty, don't forget, how many years did it take for Meng Yuan to really destroy the Southern Song Dynasty?"

The Japanese army showed a kind of arrogance and arrogance, and shouted out the words of destroying China in three months, although they were not able to do it, but the battle was fought, the Japanese army still had the upper hand, at least the territory of China they occupied was getting bigger and bigger, this is an indisputable fact.

But China is too big, how many troops will it take to occupy it completely?

In order to quell the constant resistance and struggle in the occupied areas, the generals of the Japanese army are really so hot that their brains are getting to the point of obstacles?

If the Japanese army really changed its strategy, calmed down and consolidated its occupied areas, operated slowly, and strengthened its control, it would be really quite a troublesome thing.

China is a multi-ethnic country that has been assimilated and assimilated for thousands of years.

"Delin, you came down from the battlefield, what do you think?" Lao Jiang listened to his subordinates express their opinions one by one, but found that Li Delin was sitting next to him, his eyes floating out of the window, as if he was a little absent-minded.

At such an important military meeting, he was distracted by the commander of the Fifth Theater.

"If you want me to say, if the purpose of the Japanese army is really Luxi and northern Henan, then why has not even a commander-in-chief been appointed to launch such a big campaign, and so many troops are not subordinate to each other, it is like child's play, which is not in line with the consistent style of the Japanese army, so I think these are all smokescreens." Li Delin said.

"Sizzle......

"The commander of the 2nd Army of the Japanese North China Front is Lieutenant General Prince Minoru Higashiku, who commanded the Japanese army's campaign in this campaign, right?"

"As far as I know, the Second Army has been assigned to the Central China Dispatch Army." Li Delin smiled slightly.

Everyone, look at me, I look at you, it seems that you don't understand the meaning of Li Delin's words, does the subordination of this Japanese army have anything to do with this?

"I have something here, you might as well take a look at it and see if what you say makes sense." Li Delin took out a few folded newspapers from his pocket, spread them out, and handed them to Lao Jiang first.