On January 30, no large-scale war broke out on the land where the 13th Army was located, but it was fought very fiercely in other parts of southern Henan.

The planes, artillery, combat vehicles, and tanks of the devils all appeared, and all kinds of shells were vented on the positions of the national army.

Whether it was a field battle or a defense of the city, the casualties of the national army were very large, and in the end, the devils also occupied several county seats.

However, Chief Li Zongren told everyone not to care about the gains and losses of one city and one line. If you lose it, you can get it back sooner or later.

The division commander of the 3rd Division, Toshima Botaro, was blocked by the 1st and 3rd regiments of the Independent Division in the Shangdian Mountains, and was also surrounded and annihilated by the 13th Army, which made him unable to swallow a sigh of relief, not to mention the loss of the most important heavy artillery brigade, and he still hasn't figured out how the heavy artillery brigade was lost?

At the military conference of the 11th Army. Kazuichiro Sonobe expressed great dissatisfaction with the Chinese army once again jumping out of the encirclement, while the 3rd and 17th Divisions were attacked by the Chinese army.

In particular, he expressed great disappointment at the loss of troops and generals of the 3rd Division. He also deliberately asked the staff officer to send a message to blame the 3rd Division.

At the military meeting within the Third Division, Toshima Botaro turned pale. He looked at his officers, slapped the table hatefully, and then picked up the telegram from the military headquarters and said loudly: "Gentlemen, do you see? This is a telegram from the military headquarters. His Excellency the General expressed great disappointment with us. In the same way, I also express my great disappointment to you, what the hell is going on with the Heavy Artillery Brigade, there is no information so far, who can give me an answer, give me an explanation!"

The man in charge of intelligence, De Jingyi, saw sweat on the tip of his nose, and then said: "Your Excellency General, please give me some more time, I have mobilized all our forces to investigate, and I believe that there will be results soon." ”

Toshima Botaro snorted coldly and asked again: "Do you know which Chinese army is the small group that attacked us along the way? Along the way, there were nearly 30 officers killed by them, and their identities have not been found out?"

If a man with Jing had just seen sweat on the tip of his nose just now, then now the beads of sweat the size of beans are falling down.

"Your Excellency, please give me some more time, I haven't found out which team it is yet. We are investigating as soon as possible. ”

Toshima Botaro slapped the table hard and shouted at Tokushizu, "Idiot, rice bucket!"

"How did you do this? You don't know who the people who attacked us are, and you don't know how the heavy artillery brigade was destroyed by the enemy. Yesterday we were almost eaten by a sneak attack on the road for the Chinese army, and you didn't find out about it.

How could I have such stupid subordinates as you?"

The other officers saw Jing Yinan's scolded dog blood spray, and no one dared to speak for him. They all look at the nose and the nose, and they don't speak.

"I will never let go of China's 13th Army. Our shame must be washed away by the blood of the 13th Army. ”

"Hayi" all the officers replied neatly.

Since the Chinese army jumped out of the encirclement during the two encirclements of the main Chinese army, Sonobe Kazuichiro changed his deployment strategy.

He asked the 17th Division to make a detour to the left and right flanks, and one part of the 17th Division to turn back to the right from Suiping through Shangcai, in an attempt to flank the 85th Army from the north and south with the 40th Division on the right flank of Ru Nan, and at the same time demanded that the main force of the 17th Division make a detour from Suiping to Wuyang through Xiping, and the main force of the 3rd Division on the left also advanced to Wuyang, in an attempt to flank the 13th Army from the north and south.

At 4:00 a.m. on the 31st, before everyone woke up, the military headquarters issued an urgent order to move immediately.

The reason for the transfer was because Chief Li Zongren discovered the devil's intention to attack from the north and south through intelligence and analysis of the battlefield situation. So the 85th Army and the 13th Army were asked to transfer immediately.

After Zhang Xuezhong received the order, he also conveyed the commander-in-chief's order immediately, and he asked the 89th Division and the 1st and 3rd Regiments of the Independent Division to go north, the others to the south, and the 13th Army to be divided into two parts, the north and the south.

Also receiving orders was the 85th Army, and the entire 85th Army moved to the county seat.

Such a large-scale transfer cannot avoid chaos, not to mention that there are so many wounded.

Fortunately, the Thirteenth Army still has many trucks, and the wounded are sent to Ye County first, and the others can only walk hard.

Zhou Min was lucky to get on the truck because he had to take care of the wounded, and the others were not so lucky, like Song Lei and others, who could only walk to Ye County on their own legs.

Kazuichiro Sonobe's plan was originally imperfect, but the opponent he met was named Li Zongren, who was one of the top combat commanders in China.

Therefore, when the main force of the 17th Division and the main force of the 3rd Division were preparing to encircle the 13th Army, they found that the 13th Army had already divided the north and south troops into two routes and jumped out of the encirclement. The north-south flanking attack failed.

The main force of the 17th Division and the 40th Division, which were preparing to flank the 85th Army from the north and south, encountered the same situation.

The devil spent so much effort to redeploy, and nearly 100,000 troops were interspersed back and forth on the battlefield in southern Henan, to the anger of Kazuichiro Sonobe, all his plans were understood by Li Zongren, and he didn't even see the shadow of the main force of the national army.

The readjusted battle and the north-south flanking strategy can be regarded as a failure.

From the beginning of the Southern Henan Campaign, every time the devils took the initiative to attack and encircle the Chinese army, the commander of the Fifth Theater of Operations, Commander Li Zongren, was not easy to mess with, when the devils carried out the plan of attacking the north and south. He sent the Second Army to attack the rear of the Japanese army in Wuyang from Miyang, the Tang River and the areas north of them, intending to cut off the rear line of communication with the devils.

Zhou Min and others, who arrived in Ye County, helped set up a new field hospital to examine the wounds of the wounded.

Although I was riding in a truck, the roads in this era were still very bad, and coupled with the bumps, many wounds of the wounded were cracked.

The soldier who was missing an eye and the palm of his left hand that Zhou Min operated on also woke up from the bump.

When he woke up, he felt severe pain all over his body, especially his left hand and left eye, which hurt terribly, and when he slowly raised his left arm, he found that the palm of his left hand was missing. He suddenly shouted, and his shout was a shock to the other wounded and Zhou Min and others who were taking care of the wounded in the car.

Yuanyuan immediately stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong?"

The soldier didn't seem to hear what Yuan Yuan said, but just looked at his disappeared left hand, his eyes were red, and then asked, "What about my hand, who lost my hand?" he shouted, his emotions on the verge of collapse.

Yuan Yuan saw that she was not only emotional and yelling, but also wanted to sit up, so she hurriedly called Yudi to come over and hold him.

"You calm down. Your hand was shattered by a bomb and you can't save it!"

Hearing what Yu Di said, the soldier couldn't help crying loudly anymore.