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Chapter 426: Another escaping general appears

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    The first attack on the city fell short due to the rain of explosives from the defenders. This made Susumu Fujita, who was supervising the battle from behind, extremely angry. He immediately ordered the Japanese troops on the front line to organize a second attack immediately. Mengcheng must be captured today!

    No wonder Susumu Fujita is so anxious. The news coming from the battlefield in eastern Henan is getting worse and worse. Early this morning, the national army launched attacks at multiple strongholds and defeated all the imperial troops on the periphery of the main battlefield.  The intention of closing the city.

    Although the Doihara Division is not weak, its troops are quite scattered. Even Lanfeng City only has one regiment of troops. Once the Chinese army concentrates all its efforts on attacking Lanfeng City, the Doihara Division may not be able to stop it.  .

    Therefore, the Central China Front Army Headquarters strictly ordered the troops on the Mengcheng front line to speed up their march and must reach Guide City within three days to capture this strategic location.

    But they were blocked in this small city, which made Fujita extremely anxious.

    Of course, Fujita was more embarrassed than anxious.

    You must know that the imperial army on the front line has three divisions, and they are all first-class divisions of the Empire of Japan. Although these three divisions are not full, the total number of front-line troops is only more than 30,000. Even at its peak,  Less than half.

    However, the number of enemies on the opposite side is not large. According to the intelligence sent back by Tigaoke, the enemy on the opposite side only has a miscellaneous army, with a total strength of only 20,000 people, or even less.

    And after these days of consumption, they must have fewer troops, but even so, they still failed to conquer Mengcheng, which made Susumu Fujita feel humiliated.

    Out of embarrassment and anger, Susumu Fujita went berserk again!

    It is said that while Li Guoyao's troops were fighting a bloody battle with the Japanese army, the battle situation on the eastern Henan frontline once again experienced a change that made Xue Yue bloody - Dangshan fell.

    In fact, as early as the night when the Japanese army invaded Xuzhou, the commander of the North China Front, General Touichi Terauchi, issued a combat order to the troops to pursue westward and capture the Yongcheng, Guide, and Lanfeng lines.

    According to this order, the Japanese Second Army immediately ordered the 5th Division and the 114th Division to pursue along the Jinpu Railway from Xuzhou to Su County, while the 16th Division and the attached 3rd Mixed Brigade captured Guide.  At the same time, the 10th Division and the attached mixed 13th Brigade rapidly advanced to the Yongcheng area.

    After receiving the order, the Japanese 16th Division set out from Xuzhou on May 21. After arriving at Dangshan, they fought with the 102nd Division of Huang Jie's 8th Army.

    Despite Xue Yueqian¡¯s warnings and orders, Huang Jie, commander of the Eighth Army, was ordered to defend Dangshan at all costs and buy time for the main force to annihilate the Dofeiyuan Division.

    However, what Xue Yue did not expect was that the 102nd Division retreated at the critical moment, and Dangshan was captured by the Japanese army on the 24th.

    When the news came, Xue Yue on the Lanfeng front line was so angry that he almost vomited blood. One Gui Yongqing was enough to embarrass the entire national army. Now there is another Eighth Army, and the Central Army has been completely embarrassed by them.

    Once Dangshan is lost, the Japanese 16th Division can advance all the way west. As long as it captures Guide, it can enter the battlefield in eastern Henan. By then, the national army on the battlefield will be passive.

    In desperation, Xue Yue could only report the situation to Zhengzhou while mobilizing troops to encircle the 16th Division.

    After receiving the telegram from Xue Yue from the front, Chiang Kai-shek was very angry. He really didn't expect that his two favorite disciples would trick him at such a critical time. This was a battle that he personally commanded in East Henan. If  If you lose, you will really become the laughingstock of the ages.

    Anxious and angry, Lao Jiang immediately called the Chief of Staff of the First War Zone and ordered: "Tell Commander Cheng that I want to go to the front line of Kaifeng to command the battle. I am always waiting in Zhengzhou, I'm afraid I won't be able to wait.  What news!"

    Chiang Kai-shek is really anxious. Let alone the military significance of this battle, the political significance alone cannot be ignored.

    And with the Taierzhuang victory as a comparison, once he loses the battle on the eastern Henan front, he will inevitably be compared with the big boss of the Gui Army. This is a situation that Chiang Kai-shek absolutely does not want to see.

    However, what Chiang Kai-shek said shocked the Chief of Staff of the First War Zone. The Chairman of the Generalissimo was going to Kaifeng, so what was the point of Chief Cheng staying in Zhengzhou?

    Besides, the frontline is raging and the soldiers are in danger. Bullets will not know who you are and will not stop hitting you just because you are the chairman of the committee. There are even enemy snipers on the battlefield looking for valuable targets.  If the Chairman of the Generalissimo has some shortcomings, how can Chief Cheng and their first theater explain it to the whole country?

    Therefore, no matter from which aspect, the Chairman must not be allowed to go to the front line. He has to consider the future and fate of the first theater and the entire country.

     Thinking of this, Chief of Staff Shi of the First War Zone hesitated slightly and replied cautiously: "Chairman, don't worry, Chief Cheng has been supervising and urging the armies in the past two days. Besides, Japanese aircraft activities are rampant, and the Chairman has a lot of responsibilities."  The country has important responsibilities, so it¡¯s better not to go to Kaifeng!¡±

    However, at this time, Lao Jiang had lost his patience due to the situation on the front line, and immediately said angrily: "I am not afraid of death, and I do not want to interfere with Commander Cheng's command. But the attack has not made any progress, I can sit still in Zhengzhou  ?"

    Seeing that the Chairman was angry, Chief of Staff Shi did not dare to say more, so he replied: "I will immediately convey the Chairman's instructions to Chief Cheng!"

    When Cheng Qian heard that Chiang Kai-shek was going to Kaifeng, he knew that half of them were coming for him and must have been dissatisfied with his command these days.

    But Cheng Qian also felt a little aggrieved. Who is responsible for the war in eastern Henan that has dragged on to this day?

    Are you following me, Cheng Qian?  no!

    Is it in Xueyue and Xue Boling?  Neither!

    If you really want to find a bastard who will take responsibility, it must be that idiot general Gui Yongqing brought by your chairman.  Xue Boling had commanded well on the front line in the past two days, and a great victory was in sight. If that bastard Gui Yongqing hadn't escaped before the battle, the immortals in Dofeiyuan would have peeled off their skin now. It's impossible to say that the bastard's body would have been completely cold.

    "Besides, Xue Boling has finally adjusted his strategy now. If you go there, you have to rearrange it. Wouldn't that add chaos?"

    Besides, the Japanese planes are very evil, and the bullets don¡¯t have eyes. If you, the Generalissimo Chairman, have shortcomings, it will not be a matter of losing a few generals or hundreds of thousands of troops, but a matter of the national security of a big country like mine.  Character, military prestige, military morale, people's morale, and important matters.

    ¡°If something like this really happens, I, Cheng, will become a sinner across the country. I don¡¯t want to become a target of the Chinese people because of you.

    Thinking of this, Cheng Qian immediately made up his mind that the Chairman must not be allowed to go to Kaifeng!

    "However, the situation on the front line is indeed unsatisfactory. Since the Chairman cannot be allowed to go, then I, Cheng, will go there myself.

    In view of this, Cheng Qian immediately ordered the chief of staff: "If you go to the commissioner's official residence again, just say that Dofeihara is a clown and not worthy of the chairman's visit in person. Just say that I will go to Kaifeng in the afternoon. Please rest assured, chairman."  "

    In fact, when Chiang Kai-shek shouted that he wanted to go to Kaifeng, it was partly out of anger, not because he really wanted to go to the front-line battlefield.

    In the past few days, Li Pinxian, Li Zongren and the Wuchang Military Commission sent out urgent messages, saying that in addition to the Japanese army's eagerness to seize the Longhai Line and peek into Wuhan, the Japanese troops in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River were also frequently mobilized and moved along the river, and they were likely to go up the river to peek into Wuhan.  Please ask him to return to Wuhan as soon as possible.

    Seeing that there was no hope of annihilating Dofeiyuan today, Cheng Qian gave him another step, so he went downhill and immediately decided to leave Zhengzhou and return to Wuhan.

    However, before leaving, Chairman Chiang repeatedly warned Cheng Qian's chief of staff: "Tell Song Gong that our army is eight times larger than the enemy in the Lanfeng area. As long as we attack boldly, we will definitely destroy this enemy. Only those who dare to make big sacrifices will  Only if we can achieve great results, I will call you at any time when I return to Wuhan."

    At the same time, Chiang Kai-shek issued repeated orders to the generals on the front line, reprimanding the army commanders for their incompetent command and cowardly actions, resulting in low morale and shrinking back.  In addition, they also accused the commanders of various military divisions and brigade regiments of being very few who fought bravely to take the lead in this battle, and most of them lacked courage and seldom cheered up, thus delaying the war.

    From all this, it is not difficult to see that our Chairman Chiang is eager to swallow the soil and fertilizer in one gulp, and his anxiety is palpable.

    Although war has its own inherent laws, once the opportunity is lost, it is not easy to turn the situation around.

    What's more, the national army missed two fighter opportunities, and it would be difficult to completely annihilate the Doihara Division.

    Fortunately, the Japanese 16th Division is still hundreds of kilometers away from Guide, and the Japanese troops on the southern front are also blocked in Mengcheng by Li Guoyao, so there is still a chance.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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