Kaifeng, the headquarters of the First Corps.

Xue Yue hurried into the war room with dust. He had just returned from Fengqiu and Changyuan inspected the defensive position. In Fengqiu, he even entered the position to build fortifications with the officers and soldiers. General Xue graduated from Baoding Army Officer's School in his early years, and the fortifications were not vague at all. Many grassroots officers who graduated from Central Military Academy were not as good as him.

After receiving the urgent report from the headquarters, Xue Yue hurried back. He didn't even care about the dust on his body and face, so he went straight to the headquarters' combat room. Seeing Xue Yue strode in, the senior generals and senior sects who had been waiting in the war room came up one after another.

"Have the situation been verified?" Xue Yue stood straight to the map and asked loudly.

"General, the situation has been verified." Chief of Staff Yan Xunfu replied, "The 138th Brigade reported that the Japanese army that appeared near Kaocheng had a large number of tanks, artillery, and even 10m caliber field howitzers. Sun Tongxuan's army also sent a telegram saying that the Japanese army near Heze was gone, and the main force of the 14th Division of the Japanese army had indeed arrived from Heze south."

"Dog Japanese, Dog Japanese 14th Division, Dog Japanese Kenji Dohara" Xue Yue put his hands on his waist and scolded three Dog Japanese in a row, and then said, "Dog Japanese is really arrogant. A mere division dares to drill into our stomachs. What is Dog Japanese Kenji? Want to have a center for me to blossom?"

Yan Xunfu said: "General, if you are not wrong with your humble position, the main force of the Japanese 14th Division should be aimed at hoarding a large number of combat preparations from Shangqiu."

Speaking of hoarding a large number of war preparations in Shangqiu, Xue Yue's face immediately became gloomy.

This was another evil result of Chiang Kai-shek's decision after making a slap in his head. Originally, after the Taierzhuang victory, the main force of the Fifth War Zone had already been exhausted and it was difficult to fight again. The best choice at that time was to decisively give up Xuzhou, and then deploy troops along the Longhai Railway, set up defenses and resist step by step, so as to consume the Japanese army's spirit as much as possible before the Battle of Wuhan.

But Chiang Kai-shek went against the rules. He was inspired by the victory in Taierzhuang and his confidence expanded. In addition, at the end of last year, the Soviet Union provided a large number of combat preparations at the beginning of this year, so Chiang Kai-shek sent troops from all over the country to condemn generals, and made every effort to have a strategic decisive battle with Japan in Xuzhou that determines the fate of the two countries.

At that time, a large number of senior generals such as Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, Zhang Fakui, and Chen Cheng tried their best to dissuade him. Xue Yue also sent telegrams to the command headquarters several times, but Chiang Kai-shek's bald head was already hot and he could not listen to the objections at all. Therefore, hundreds of divisions and hundreds of carriages and supplies were continuously transported to the front line.

In the end, the cruel reality gave Lao Chiang a heavy blow. The two major groups of Japanese troops in North China and Central China were like sharks that smelled bloody, pounced towards Xuzhou from both north and south, trying to annihilate the main force of the national army in Xuzhou. Under the harsh situation, Lao Chiang had no choice but to order a retreat.

As a result, the battlefield in Xuzhou was in chaos

Although the time of Xuzhou's retreat this time was relatively calm, at least much calmer than the retreat of Songhu, it was not easy to transfer more than 100 divisions and a large amount of combat readiness materials to Wuhan in a short period of time? In particular, the low transportation capacity of the Longhai Railway and the low efficiency of the Transportation Bureau seriously hindered the transfer of materials.

Xue Yue withdrew his gaze from the map and asked, "How much money is left but has not been transported away?"

Yan Xunfu shook his head and replied with a wry smile: "Master, you should ask how much materials you have transported away."

"This Yu Feipeng" Xue Yue was furious, took off his military cap and put it on the table, and said angrily, "I really don't know what his transportation bureau eats. It's so difficult to distribute a few more fronts and adjust a few more car skins?"

Xue Yue actually wronged the Director of Transportation Yu Feipeng. Yu Feipeng has made his best efforts. In the Battle of Shanghai and Nanjing Defense War, the Transportation Bureau lost a considerable part of the locomotive to transport troops and supplies to the front line. Due to the lack of technical reserves and the lack of spare parts, the damaged locomotive has not been repaired yet.

The Longhai Railway is a single line, and it has to transport a large number of soldiers to the rear, and it has to transport mountains of combat preparation materials. The people from the Transportation Bureau are indeed in a dilemma. In the words of a transfer worker in the Transportation Bureau, which one of the damn people wants to transport materials to the front line? It has just been transported up and then transported back. Isn’t this intention to use us as a trick?

Which one issued the order? Of course, it was the order issued by Chairman Chiang Kai-shek.

A communications officer hurried in and reported to Yan Xunfu: "I'll call you, and the war zone chief's department urgently sent a telegram."

Yan Xunfu received the telegram and hurriedly finished reading it, saying to Xue Yue: "General Chief Cheng, Chief Cheng sent an urgent call, asking us to kill the alone Doihara Division at all costs."

Xue Yue groaned and said in a deep voice: "Call the commanders in all walks of life and hold a military meeting."

The news that the Doihara Division alone entered the vicinity of Lanfeng soon reached the Wuhan Command. After hearing the news, Chairman Jiang was shocked first, and then furious, and scolded Niang Xipi three times, one scolding the little Japanese dog, and the other scolding the Transportation Director Yu Feipeng for ineffective organization and regulation. As for who the third Niang Xipi was scolded, only he himself knew.

Minister of Military Affairs He Yingqin, Deputy Chief of General Staff Bai Chongxi, Chief of the Nine War Zone Chen Cheng and other senior generals of the Party and the State gathered at the Wuhan camp as soon as possible. Chairman Jiang also hurried over and didn't bother to have lunch, so he held a meeting of staff to discuss solutions urgently.

This is also Lao Chiang's usual style. Originally, it would be enough to leave this matter to Cheng Qian, the commander-in-chief of the First War Zone, to solve it, or even to Xue Yue, the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Henan Corps. However, Lao Chiang did not. He insisted on interfering in Wuhan and commanding remotely. In the Battle of Shanghai and the Battle of Nanjing, Lao Chiang was like this.

Seeing that the senior leaders of the commander-in-chief put the small red flags and small blue flags of the Japanese army onto the sand table, Chairman Jiang and senior generals of the Party and the State unexpectedly discovered that after the Doihara Division headed south from Heze, it had actually fallen into the encirclement of Sun Tongxuan's 3rd Army, Shang Zhen's 3rd Army, Tang Enbo's 3rd Army and Xue Yue's 1st Army. Moreover, Lanfeng and Gui Yongqing's 1st Army were stationed, the situation on the entire battlefield was not very good.

"Commissioner, our 18 elite divisions in eastern Henan have unintentionally formed a siege against the 14th Division of the Japanese army. As long as Gui Yongqing's army can hold in Lanfeng for two to three days and consume the spirit of the 14th Division, Sun Tongxuan, Shang Zhen and Li Hanhun's troops can reach the vicinity of Lanfeng and launch a general attack on it."

"Committee, this is called surrounding all sides and blooming in the center."

"Commissioner, half of the foot of the old Japanese devil, Kenji Doihara, has stepped into the gates of hell. He has surrounded a division of Japanese with eighteen elite divisions. If this battle is not good, it would be a big joke."

"Commissioner, please give Boling the order to order the Eastern Henan Corps to destroy Doihara at all costs."

"Committee, I agree with the opinions of the third brother Mo. After abandoning Xuzhou, the Japanese arrogance of rescheduling due to Taierzhuang's defeat was re-arrogant. This time we will destroy another division in Lanfeng, and this time it will not be a heavy blow. This time we will destroy an entire division, capture or kill a division commander to show him."

Faced with such a favorable situation, the senior generals of the Party and the country were all ready to put on their wings and flew to the Lanfeng front to command the battle instead of Xue Yue. Infected by everyone's emotions, Chairman Jiang's eyes also became brighter. He turned around and ordered his servants: "Send a report to Xue Yue immediately and launch the Lanfeng Battle."

Chairman Jiang and senior generals of the Party and the State were instructing the country at the Wuhan Command. Cheng Qian and the senior leaders of the War Zone rebuked Fang Zun in Zhengzhou. Xue Yue and the commanders of various lines of the Eastern Henan Corps were in an emergency meeting in Kaifeng. Gui Yongqing, who was on the Lanfeng front, and the division commanders, brigade commanders, and regiment commanders were already a little confused.

The Japanese 14th Division's offensive against Kaocheng was unusually fierce. Among the two divisions of the army, the 46th Division was adapted from the Central Military Academy's Teaching Corps. Among the three brigades of the 46th Division, the 138th Brigade of Ma Weilong was the 138th Brigade. However, the Japanese 14th Division had only been attacking for a long time, and the 138th Brigade began to struggle.

Zhou Zhenqiang and Ma Weilong didn't care. Since it was a war, how could there be no one who could die? As long as the Japanese 14th Division was dragged to Kaocheng and won time for the siege of friendly forces, not to mention a mere 138th Brigade, it would be worth it to kill all the entire army. The commander, the war zone chief and the corps commander will not say anything about it, and the Dohihara Division was delayed at all costs. What does it mean to be at all costs? The battle last soldier was called at all costs.

But Gui Yongqing didn't think so. Han Fuqu and Sun Yuanliang's knowledge were not far away. He had to worry. If his troops were really fighting for Lanfeng and the Lanfeng Battle was not successful in the end, Xue Yue would definitely find a scapegoat. Gui Yongqing would most likely become a scapegoat for Xue Yue to shirk responsibility.

However, Gui Yongqing also knew that if he escaped in the battle this time, I was afraid that even He Yingqin would not be able to make a comeback for him, because Shangqiu had hoarded hundreds of caravans of supplies. Once the Japanese army captured Lanfeng, the hundreds of caravans of supplies left in Shangqiu would directly become the spoils of Japan, which was absolutely unwilling for Chiang Kai-shek.

Others don't know that Gui Yongqing, who is in the central government, knows that these hundreds of vehicles of war preparation materials, together with Soviet aircraft, tanks and aviation troops aiding China, were exchanged from the Soviets for life-saving war preparation materials at the cost of recognizing Outer Mongolia and the Far East that the Far East was forever cut from China's territory.

He could not escape, and Gui Yongqing was unwilling to fight with the army, so he could only take others as cannon fodder.
Chapter completed!