As mentioned in the previous chapter, due to the indiscriminate command of Jiang **, 800,000 Chinese troops fell into a heavy siege, and in the end, after General Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army and Tianluo's independent regiment came out of the palace, other armies took the opportunity to break through. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Not to mention that General Zhang Zizhong and the independent regiment of the Heavenly Wolf also retreated after the continuous blockade. However, it was said that the various breakthrough troops fought and retreated, and the formation was not chaotic, and they retreated to the west and south step by step. The Japanese army blocked one place, the Chinese army rushed to one place, and everything was broken, and the army gathered in the south of Henan and the north of Hubei, and all roads rushed out of the encirclement one after another. In order to avoid a war of attrition with the superior enemy, when the enemy forces from all walks of life were encircling Xuzhou step by step, Li Zongren ordered the defenders of all walks of life under his command to retreat to the mountainous areas and lakes and marshes after a little resistance, and carried out guerrilla warfare of "breaking the whole into pieces" and entangled with the enemy for more than a month. Li Zongren and more than 700 officers and men of the commander's department passed through Suxian and Mengcheng at night, and moved beyond the enemy's encirclement to Huangchuan. Liu Ruming's troops, who remained in Xuzhou City, ambushed the Japanese 9th Division in the vicinity of Xiao County, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese army. Seeing that most of the Chinese army had gone, the Japanese attempted to besiege and annihilate Liu Ruming's troops in Xuzhou City.

At the beginning of July, Liu Ruming's troops pretended to defend to the death, and seeing that the armies from all walks of life were withdrawn, according to Jiang **'s order, they abandoned Xuzhou City, skillfully jumped out of the encirclement of hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops, and moved safely. Not only did the enemy not defeat Liu Ruming's troops, but they did not even capture a single captain. The 13th Division of the Central China Dispatch Army of the Japanese invaders slaughtered all the way, and found that Li Zongren had sung an empty city plan, which greatly frustrated the North China Front Army, which was bent on fighting for merit, and the Japanese invaders suffered more than 10,000 casualties and obtained an empty city.

In late June 1938, the Japanese gradually forced Xuzhou, and the railway employees of the Xuzhou Locomotive Depot were unwilling to be slaves to the country, so they drove the locomotive to retreat south on the Jinpu and Longhai lines. During the southern withdrawal, locomotives played the role of transporting military supplies and repatriating refugees. Due to the continuous southern invasion of the Japanese army, they successively moved to Guangdong, Han and Hunan and Guizhou to continue to transport military supplies for the anti-Japanese resistance, during which they experienced the fall of Wuhan and major battles such as Changsha and Hengyang. The devotion of the vast number of employees to their duties in the battle, and their lives and deaths, showed the revolutionary spirit of railway work, which is particularly capable of fighting. During the 8-year Anti-Japanese War, 186 employees of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway sacrificed their lives for the country.

According to later statistics, the Battle of Xuzhou lasted half a year, and both of them successively invested about 1.6 million troops (950,000 in China and 650,000 in the Japanese), and finally the Chinese army eliminated about 90,000 Japanese in total (three times that of history), and the Chinese army itself suffered more than 130,000 casualties (30,000 more than in history). This battle dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese invaders, slowed down the speed of their attack, added time to the Battle of Wuhan, and more importantly, brought enough confidence to the Chinese military and civilians in the war of resistance.

And the Japanese paid a heavy price and got an empty Xuzhou city, and Terauchi Shoudai was furious, clamoring for a decisive battle with the Chinese army. And the other officers had nothing to do, and in the end, the bastard of Dophi Yuan Xianji had a bad idea, and Terauchi Shouichi and the other officers immediately agreed after thinking about it. Then they bowed to Tu Fei Yuan together.

On July 5, 1938, Tufei Yuan Xianji led his 14th Division to suddenly march towards Henan, and his left and right flanks had already gathered troops to reinforce at any time. The 14th Division has been attacking, and General Cheng Qian, who is in the first theater of operations in Henan, of course, has not done it. He sent his subordinate Xue*, known as the "Tiger Boy", to lead 12 divisions to besiege Tufei Yuanxian Er, hoping to eat him in one bite before the Japanese reinforcements arrived.

And General Cheng Qian's idea is good, General Xue * is brave, but there is a good saying, if you are not afraid of a god-like opponent, you are afraid of a pig-like teammate. Gui Yongqing, the commander of the 27th Army (He Yingqin's niece and son-in-law, who was the chief captain of the NJ Teaching Corps), who had fought in the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of NJ, led his troops to retreat to the Kaifeng area after the position was broken through, and Long Muhan, the commander of the 88th Division under his command, also abandoned Lanfeng City and fled without authorization after seeing him retreating. Immediately after that, the 102nd Division of the 8th Army stationed in Dangshan was under the fierce attack of the enemy, and the division commander Bai Huizhang also ordered to escape, so the 16th Division, which reinforced the 14th Division, occupied Dangshan.

The Chinese high command was shocked by the loss of Lanfeng. On July 10, Jiang ** ordered Xue *, commander-in-chief of the 19th Group Army of the First Theater, to command Yu Jishi's 74th Army, Li Hanxun's 64th Army, Song Xilian's 71st Army, and Gui Yongqing's 27th Army from east to west, and ordered Hu Zongnan, commander of the 17th Army, to surround the Japanese 14th Division in the areas of Lanfeng, Luowangzhai, Sanyiji, and Quxingji from west to east, and start the offensive on July 11. At the same time, he also warned the generals of all armies: "The battle of Lanfeng is related to the entire anti-Japanese war situation, and the armies of Hu, Li, Yu, Gui, and Song should follow the tasks indicated by Commander-in-Chief Xue, and must carry out a general attack on the whole front at 6:30 p.m. on the 11th of this month, and must annihilate the enemy in the areas of Lanfeng, Sanyizhai, Lanfengkou, Chenliukou, Quxingji, and Luowangzhai before dawn on the 12th of tomorrow." If there is any cowering and ineffective attack, it will be severely punished according to the law; If the most meritorious deeds are built in the battle or the most captured by the enemy, a special award shall be given. I hope that the department will obey and not disobey. ”

In the end, the 74th Army desperately regained Lanfeng, but due to the chaotic command of Gui Yongqing, it was lost again on July 14. At this time, all the reinforcements of the Japanese invaders came up, and it was already difficult for the Chinese army to recapture them.

As a consequence of this battle, the Japanese invaders occupied a large area of Henan. And Jiang ** sent a telegram to reprimand the commander of the 1st Theater and the commander of the 19th Army: Attacking a division with the strength of the 4th Army and not being able to go down, the Battle of Lanfeng is really a joke in the world. Of course, the old general Cheng Qian quit again, and he finally strongly asked Jiang ** to deal with Gui Yongqing, the main person in charge of the incident, and Jiang ** finally shot Long Muhan for various reasons and dismissed Gui Yongqing.

In order to prevent the Japanese from continuing to attack westward, Jiang **, with the reference of his advisers, finally decided to break the embankment and lead the troops with water to prevent the Japanese from continuing to attack.

At the beginning of August, Jiang Zaizhen, the commander of the Shang Zhen army under the secret order of Jiang **, dug the Yellow River embankment at the mouth of the garden (because it was also raining heavily in the sky as in history), and the water of the Yellow River rushed down to the Huai River. Along the way, many farmland villages were flooded. At this time, something strange happened, and many people seemed to know about it in advance. They were fixed on high places with planks, boats, bamboo rafts, etc., and some people had long since left their homes and taken refuge elsewhere. However, the bursting of the embankment at the mouth of the garden still drowned more than 30,000 Japanese (10,000 more than in history), more than 300,000 people (890,000 in history), and tens of millions of people were left homeless. In the end, the Japanese looked at the Yellow River and sighed, retreated to Xuzhou, and then went south to Bengbu to fight the Chinese army again.

The next day, the government of the Republic of China accused the Japanese of blowing up the Yellow River embankment, causing the Yellow River to burst. The Japanese invaders, on the other hand, accused the Chinese army of blowing it up themselves, citing the fact that the people knew about it in advance. The two sides fought over this, and in the end, the people who escaped from Shuikou said in unison that it was bombed by the Japanese invaders, and the reason was that Taishang Laojun told them in a dream. So much so that the Japanese thought that it was really their own air force that bombed it (in retaliation, the plane destroyed nearly 60 planes in Xuzhou), and the Japanese invaders investigated internally, but no one admitted it. And Jiang ** and others, who knew the truth of the matter, looked at each other, could there really be a god and help themselves. This matter was so decided, and it took decades to know that it was Hua Jun who did it, but what happened to Taishang Laojun's dream?

Oh, Taishang Laojun dreamed that this thing was done by the wolf, and when he broke through with General Zhang Zizhong, he left the army to retreat and consolidate his cultivation. When he came out of the customs, he received Tu Fei Yuan Xian Er, who had already occupied Lanfeng twice, and he couldn't make up for it if he wanted to.

In the end, he gritted his teeth, took out a pill to restore his strength that his ancestor gave him (it was prepared for him to survive the Ninety-Nine Heavenly Tribulation), came to a deserted place within a radius of dozens of miles, and swallowed the pill in one gulp. At this time, I saw that his soul power kept rising in an instant, 100 miles, 1000 miles, 10,000 miles, until it covered half of the world (covering the entire earth can fly) before stopping. And the moment he swallowed the pill, there were two people in the universe who sensed it, one was the Five Elements Divine Venerable, and the other was a lewd man, and they wanted to see what the Sky Wolf was going to do.

And the next scene surprised them, the wolf actually carried the most mysterious exercise in the five elements nerves, the dream transformation Dafa, and the scope of the dream transformation was the area south of the Yellow River Garden Mouth, including Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu.

Two nights before the bursting of the embankment at the mouth of the garden, when the people in this area slept at night, they had a strange dream, and a voice in the dream said: I am the Taishang Laojun in the sky, and I didn't want to participate in your mortal war, but your enemy actually wants to dig the Yellow River and drown you, I can't ignore it.

The next day, when the people talked to each other, they were very surprised, and then they prepared for the escape, some people did not believe it, and there were some places where the wolf's skill could not be reached, and there were some sad people who did not sleep, and some people thought it was a hallucination, in short, 300,000 were drowned in the water in the end.

And the wolf at one time, saved more than 600,000 people, this seriously interfered with the operation of this time and space, his sky suddenly darkened, the wolf looked at it, and didn't care that the mana on his body had not recovered, and immediately took out the magic weapon pistol given by the ancestor and the bullets he usually refined, plus a total of more than 5,000 pieces refined by the grandfather, thinking, even the ninety-nine heavenly tribulation should be dealt with in the past, right?

And when he was full of confidence, his ancestor Five Elements Divine Venerable and another lewd man were like crazy demons, and they were all talking to themselves: "Ninety-nine Heavenly Punishment, this is the end, since Liu Bowen cut off the dragon vein, the ancestral star earth has never appeared, can this child survive?" You say this kid is here to save people, but who's going to save him now? ”

Can Skywolf get through?

To be continued!