However, the commander of the First War Zone, under the threat of abolishing the establishment and number, although he was reluctant, had to go south according to the order, but this action was a little slow. This group army was the closest to the battlefield west of Luoyang, but it dragged on for seven days under the pretext that there was no ferry.

At the same time that the group army was west of Hengqu and crossed the Yellow River to return for reinforcements. Because the 37th Division was released, and under the severe reprimand of Chongqing, the Japanese army had penetrated deep into the hinterland of the First Theater and hit the Luoyang situation where the headquarters of the commander of the First Theater was stationed.

The deputy commander of the 8th Theater did not dare to slack off, and under the strict orders of his principal, in order to make up for his mistakes, he led the 90th Army, as well as the 57th Army, which had suffered large losses in the previous battles, but was still relatively complete in its structure and maintained relatively complete combat effectiveness.

The 123rd Division of the 36th Army, a division directly under the jurisdiction of his 8th Theater Deputy Commander's Headquarters, crossed the Yellow River in Xia County and entered the jurisdiction of the 1st Theater. As for the best equipment, it was also his principal and the First Army he started, and the newly formed Second Army and the 42nd Army that were disabled were transferred back to Shaanxi by him.

The newly formed Second Army and the 42nd Army, which had suffered heavy losses in the previous battles, were indeed returned to make up for it. As for the one that didn't fire a shot, he was always on standby in the reserve position. As soon as the 37th Division counterattacked, it withdrew to the First Army on the north bank of the Fen River as soon as possible, and everyone probably knew what to do when they returned to Shaanxi.

Although the First Army was transferred back to Shaanxi, he also transferred the artillery regiment directly under the First Army, three divisions belonged to artillery battalions, and two American-made howitzers and six mountain guns were transferred to form an artillery battalion, and from the divisional combat defense artillery battalions of the three divisions, one company was transferred from each of the divisional defense artillery battalions to form a combat defense artillery battalion, plus four regimental small artillery companies were taken across the Yellow River.

His movements were not slow, but the adjustment of the structure delayed a certain amount of time. The 14th Army, which belonged to the 36th Group Army, in accordance with Chongqing's order, cooperated with the Second Theater to stay in southwest Shanxi until the crisis in the First Theater was alleviated. As for how long, only God knows.

At the same time that Shanxi reinforcements were arriving one after another, the troops of the First Theater fighting east of the New Yellow River also dispatched some reinforcements to quickly withdraw westward. The Fourth Group Army, which was deployed in Chenliu and Qixian, immediately rushed back to help. The 13th Army, which was fighting on the Kaifeng battlefield, also immediately withdrew to the front line of Zhengzhou to ensure the retreat of all units participating in the Kaifeng battlefield.

After the Fourth Army returned to aid central Henan, the number of troops invested by the Chinese army in the entire eastern Henan war situation was suddenly reduced by one-third. In the case of the delay in taking the Kaifeng line, the deputy commander of the First Theater who was in charge of the command of the former enemy also retreated in the face of the Japanese army rushing from the north.

After withdrawing the 13th Army to the front line of Zhengzhou, the 85th Army, which had the strongest combat effectiveness in its hands, was placed on the front line of Zhongmu. to fill the gap left in the battlefield south of Kaifeng after the withdrawal of the Fourth Army. Ordered the 31st Group Army on the Kaifeng battlefield to shrink its forces to the front line of Chen Liu and Wei.

As soon as he did this, the pace of the war immediately slowed down in the entire eastern Henan battlefield, where only five corps were left, plus three brigades and five columns of the Pan-Eastern Advance Army. The original fierce fighting was replaced by artillery battles on both sides and the combat of small units on the front line.

The two main armies of the Central Army were withdrawn, plus one group army was transferred. On the entire battlefield from Lanfeng to Qixian, only three poorly equipped brigades of the Pan-Eastern Advance Army, the third, sixth, and eleventh columns, and two divisions of the 78th Army remained. And they were faced with a whole division of Japanese troops.

At the same time, in the battlefield of central Henan, as the two parts of the Shanxi battlefield successively crossed the river to the south, plus the return of the Fourth Army, plus the two armies and two cavalry brigades that originally participated in the war. The 37th Division has formed an absolute superiority in strength and firepower, and has begun to form an encirclement one after another in the entire situation.

In the face of an unfavorable situation, Yuichiro Nagano repeated his old tricks, and suddenly moved south with a force, putting on a posture of attacking Ikawa. The main force used a force to entangle the Chinese army in front of it, and before the Chinese army surrounded behind it completed the encirclement, it suddenly forcibly interspersed in the direction of the north of Luoyang. Under the guidance of the receiving forces sent by Yoshimoto Sadachi in northern Henan, they crossed the Yellow River from the Mengjin line.

However, although most of his troops safely withdrew from the Mengjin line to cross the Yellow River, they encountered it on the way to retreat, and the new deputy commander of the First War Zone, who had already prevented him, sent two cavalry brigades in advance along the entire line of Pishan, like a pack of hungry wolves along the way.

In addition, the U.S. Air Force chased and bombed all the way along the way, and after withdrawing from the Yellow River, the Japanese army in this unit only had half of the strength left when it crossed the river and headed south. All the artillery above the mountain artillery, including the few cannons that had been transported out of the Zhongtiao Mountains with great effort, were basically lost. The wounded and the weapons and equipment that could not be carried away were evacuated and thrown all the way.

When the 37th Division retreated, it belonged to a temporarily formed cavalry wing in order to cover the retreat of the main force of the division. and a cavalry brigade that intercepted them along the way, on the Yellow River beach north of Luoyang, launched the last large-scale cavalry battle in the entire history of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.

A cavalry duel was cut down, and the cavalry wing was wiped out. However, in this cavalry duel, it also brought considerable losses to the cavalry brigade transferred from the Eighth Theater of Operations. Although the brigade had broken a cavalry wing, it suffered two-thirds of its own casualties. In particular, the loss of war horses is difficult to make up for after leaving the Islamic League.

After Yuichiro Nagano withdrew to the north bank of the Yellow River with less than half of his troops, the deputy commander of the First Theater of Operations sighed with relief at the same time. If the commander of the theater can hand over the 15th Army to himself, or if he is still in Shaanxi and has time to enter Henan in the future, his Fourth Cavalry Army and several divisions remaining in Suixi are also on the battlefield.

If the few corps withdrawn from Shanxi had moved faster, they would have been able to rush to the battlefield before the 37th Division retreated north. I'm afraid that the 37th Division will have to stay in Henan this time. But there are not so many ifs in all this, the reinforcements arrive slowly, and the commander of the theater is half-hearted. This battle can be fought to the current situation, and it is already doing its best.

What made him even more depressed was that after the deputy commander of the Eighth War Zone crossed the Yellow River. Not only did he firmly control the command of several armies that went south from Yuncheng, but he also firmly controlled them. Even the commander of the First Theater of Operations, the 36th Group Army, which was handed over to him by name, held the command in his hands.

However, after the command of the Fourth Army, which was withdrawn from Hedong, was escaped by the main force of the 37th Division, the battle situation in central Henan had been fundamentally eased, and the commander of the theater who returned Yang was directly controlled in an instant. Moreover, it is rare to personally command the group army, go out of Luoyang to participate in a single foot, and personally beat the water dogs.

In the past, when the fighting was at its most intense, he had called the theater commander many times, hoping that he could go to the front line to boost his morale. Even if it's just the action that he is transferring his belongings, it is good to stop for a while to help him stabilize the morale of the army. But the commander of the war zone not only did not give him any call back, but also did not stop the action of transferring his belongings.

Now that the overall situation has been decided, he has come to the spirit after being shocked three times a day. Under the escort of a division of the 15 th Army, with the field artillery battalion that had been held in his hands before, and in his American Buick car, he finally left Luoyang City and commanded the Fourth Army to come to grab the merit.

This old man led a group army and arrived at the battlefield west of Luoyang. and several armies from the Yuncheng battlefield, after arriving west of Luoyang. The battlefield that was originally orderly became chaotic because of his own people. On a small battlefield, there was actually a theater commander, and two deputy commanders belonging to two theaters were participating in the command.

All the troops participating in the war were also divided into three major divisions with their own superiors, depending on their respective commanders. In the entire battlefield west of Luoyang, there was no unified deployment, and even the various units did not communicate with each other because of their different formations. You come according to your deployment, I follow mine. In the case of a small battlefield, it would be strange if nothing happened like this.

The 96th Army, which belonged to the Fourth Army, was ordered to encircle and annihilate the Japanese troops in one place, but when they arrived, they found that the 90th Army was engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy forces designated by their superiors. As a result, the 96th Army not only ran in vain, but also wasted its fighters because of the confusion in command. With the efforts of these two people, the originally stable situation on the battlefield has become chaotic.

Of course, compared with other troops, at most, they ran away in vain, or fought an inexplicable melee with friendly forces, the 36th Group Army, which originally belonged to the First War Zone and was transferred to Yuncheng to cooperate in the operation, was the most unlucky. The deputy commander of the Eighth Theater of Operations may have the intention of annexation. Even though the group army has now returned to the First War Zone to fight, it is still holding on to the command of the group army.

And the commander of the First Theater of Operations took it for granted that the 36th Group Army was a unit in the combat sequence of the First Theater. Go to the battlefield in the southwest of Jin, just to fight with you. Now that we have returned to the First War Zone, it is natural for the First War Zone to take back command.

Therefore, this veteran of the Sichuan Army, who was transferred to an army and was already very depressed, is now even more unlucky. On average, I receive two orders from my boss every day, and dozens of orders are often contrary to each other. Not only was he confused, but he was also turned around by the envoys.

The commander of the First War Zone doesn't care how many armies you have now, since you are in the name of a group army, you must really be a group army. And that deputy commander of the Eighth War Zone, no matter how big the casualties in your previous battles were. Although we don't use you as a group army with a two-army structure, we really use it as a fully organized army.

The commander-in-chief of the 36th Group Army was stirred up three times by the orders of these two people who had been going all day long. It's just overwhelming, plus it's dizzy. wanted to shut down the radio station, but these two were miscellaneous generals like him, and they couldn't afford to offend.

These two people are known as the five tiger generals of the first person in Chongqing, and the descendants of the first person in Chongqing. As early as the Northern Expedition, he was the deputy commander of the First Army and the commander of the First Division. Although he became a division commander much earlier than him, he was a division commander in the Sichuan Army. But the gold content of this division commander and the division commander is very different.

One is the first protégé of the Son of Heaven recognized by the Central Military System, and has now created several firsts in the Central Army. Among the previous graduates of Huangpu, he was the first to become a military commander, the first to be the commander-in-chief of the group army, the first to be the deputy commander of the theater, and the first to be promoted to major general.

The first person in Chongqing is not only a fellow villager in Zhejiang, but also a small villager in Ningbo, and has the friendship of teachers and students, known as the head of the 13 Taibao. At the same time, he is also the director of his hometown in Zhejiang, and he is too fat to wear a pair of pants.