34. The Great Retreat of Xuzhou
In the previous chapter, it was mentioned that the wolf sang a song "Loyal to the Country" and became in the limelight, which led to the popularity of this song all over the world. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
When the troops entered Xuzhou, Tian Wolf and Sun Lianzhong first sent the wounded to the Xuzhou General Hospital of the Fifth War Zone, and sent their own medical staff to take care of them, and the medical staff of the independent battalion were of course Yang Haiyan and Cai Xiaoyu and other girls, they also participated in the battle in Taierzhuang, and the main task was to cooperate with the medical staff of the Chifeng City Division to rescue the wounded, so they were not injured, so Lao Hanzi sent them, and Tian Wolf handed them some oceans, one, buy some supplements for the wounded; Second, buy yourself some snacks to eat. Sky Wolf is a person who came after 70 years, of course he knows what ordinary girls like, good-looking clothes, but this is in the army, it is impossible, then there are only snacks.
When the girls of the independent battalion bought back large bags of snacks and returned to the hospital, they envied the medical staff of other units to death, envying them for meeting a good commander, and then complaining about their own commander. When Li Zongren found out, he couldn't cry or laugh, thinking that this General Chen was worthy of being an overseas Chinese, and he was very funny. But he couldn't help it, so he asked his adjutant to go to the market and pull a truckload of snacks to the hospital to distribute to the medical staff. Those wounded are all treasures, and they will all be veterans in the future, of course they have to be taken care of, if the medical staff who take care of them have complaints, will it be okay?
And the other poor commanders (mainly referring to the Sichuan army) saw that Commander Li had come out, and breathed a sigh of relief, since the Sky Wolf bought snacks for his female soldiers, they didn't dare to go to the hospital, of course, this was just a small episode.
On April 25, General Li Zongren came to Xuzhou Airport with a large group of people from the headquarters to greet Jiang ** and his wife, who had come to the Xuzhou front line for the third time. Before the plane arrived in Xuzhou, the entire airport was already under martial law, and Li Zongren was afraid of retaliation from the Japanese invaders.
After the plane arrived, Jiang ** and his wife walked off the plane side by side, and they were accompanied by two generals, Feng Yuxiang and Chen Cheng, as well as Mr. Zhou **, a representative of the YA group. General Feng Yuxiang originally didn't want to come, but many of the people who participated in the Battle of Xuzhou this time were his old troops. Although there are scum like Han Fuqu, but Sun Lianzhong, Zhang Zizhong and Pang Bingxun, these old departments fought well this time, although it is impossible for him to lead troops now, but it is still good to come and see the old subordinates, no, Sun Lianzhong and Chi Fengcheng just finished saluting Jiang **, they immediately stood in front of themselves and saluted, and shouted affectionately: "Yushuai is good." ”
Feng Yuxiang immediately returned the salute, pulled the two aside, and asked in a whisper about the details of this battle. And Jiang ** didn't care when he saw this scene, he knew that his righteous brother was still thinking about leading the troops, but he couldn't look down on one or two divisions, and now that the Japanese invaded, he wouldn't pull his own hind legs.
After Jiang ** made a few simple speeches at the airport, he and Li Zongren got in the same car, and the two talked about the current situation in the car; Along the way, Mrs. Jiang kept asking about the wolf, as if she was interested in the wolf, especially some of the wolf's skills and the investment of 10 million oceans to run a company......
And there was no wolf in these teams to greet Jiang **, why did the wolf go? Oh, the wolf is in retreat, he has been in retreat since he came back from Taierzhuang, he has been cultivating his mind for a while, there is not much killing, he feels that his soul power has improved again, and even Jiang ** did not participate in the award of medals to the meritorious personnel of the Battle of Xuzhou.
On April 26, at the awards ceremony, in the Xuzhou Auditorium, Jiang **, Mrs. Jiang, Feng Yuxiang, Li Zongren, Zhou **, Chen Cheng sat in the front row, and Sun Lianzhong, Tang Enbo, Wang Mingzhang, Chi Fengcheng, Wu Xiaoyou and others sat in the second row. And the independent battalion and some meritorious generals and colonels who participated in this battle sat below.
The first item of the conference is to pay a silent tribute to the martyrs who died in this battle; second, singing the national anthem of the Republic of China; The third item, awarded the Huatian White Sun Medal, who received this medal are Li Zongren, Sun Lianzhong, Chen Tianwolf, Chi Fengcheng, Wang Mingzhang, Tang Enbo, Wu Xiaoyou Seven people, Jiang ** personally awarded several people, because General Chen Tianwolf did not come, Wu Xiaoyou received it on behalf of him (they all know the relationship between the two of them); Fourth, the first-class Baoding Medal was awarded, which was awarded by Zhang Zizhong, Pang Bingxun, and two division commanders of the Gui Department, which was awarded by Feng Yuxiang and Madame Jiang; Fifth, the third-class Yunmo Medal was awarded, which was awarded to the old man Hu Decheng and a large number of officers of other troops, which was awarded by the commanders of each division; Sixth, a specific hero medal was awarded (the only one in the Republic of China from 1912 to this time), and Chen Tianluo was awarded this medal.
Afraid that other soldiers would not be convinced, Jiang ** deliberately said some things about the wolf, bombing the aircraft carrier, arresting Yoshiko Kawashima and Nagumo Zaoko, checking the defense line, notifying the Japanese to attack the Songhu route, notifying NJ to evacuate the people, breaking into the Japanese army camp to kill several major officers of the NJ massacre, leading the stragglers evacuated from NJ to form an independent battalion and annihilate a wing, and donated dozens of divisions of arms and tens of millions of oceans of medicine to the Chinese army, and sent a big traitor to Xuzhou and destroyed a den of the special high school and captured the leader of the special high school alive. He also went to Tianjin to make a big fuss, and finally knocked out nearly 60 Japanese planes before and after. In the end, Jiang ** asked: "He is still an overseas Chinese, a lieutenant colonel in the United States, and has a very good relationship with the American consul of SH, and is very rich (he doesn't know that Sky Wolf is almost the richest person in this time and space except for the five major families in the United States), such a person, for the war of resistance of the motherland, he resolutely returned to China to participate in the battle, you say, can he get this medal?" (Some of these things were found out by the military commanders)
"Yes!" Everyone in the audience answered, including Zhou ** and Madame Jiang. The last medal was jointly awarded by Jiang ** and Zhou ** (because they represent the two largest political parties in China at present), and Wu Xiaoyou received it on his behalf. After awarding this medal, Jiang ** announced that he would ascend to the rank of lieutenant general, and warned that what he had just said should not be spread out, lest the Japanese invaders retaliate against the wolf (and for safety, Li Zongren did not let the reporter in at all).
In the seventh item of the conference, Jiang ** announced that the martyrs who died in the battle would be promoted to one level, the pension would be doubled, and the living soldiers would be rewarded with 500 legal currency each (the legal currency had not depreciated at this time, and it was still very valuable).
In the end, Jiang ** and a large number of other Chinese troops made a speech in charge, when the host of the conference Li Zongren announced the dismissal of the meeting, the venue suddenly sounded the tune of "Jing Zhong Serving the Country", which was specially arranged by Li Zongren to play the military band, the purpose was to boost morale, and Jiang ** and other people from Wuhan heard this song, immediately shocked their spirits, when they understood that this song was composed by the wolf, they all said that they were talented, even Feng Yuxiang hummed quietly......
The next day, the reporters who learned the news reported it again, and the land of China boiled again.
At this time, in the conference room of the Xuzhou Headquarters, Li Zongren, who was holding a military meeting, was about to deploy the defense line when he was suddenly stunned by Chairman Chiang's words. What did Jiang ** say?
Oh, he said this: "Delin, your Fifth Theater has fought well this time, and I have ordered another 10 divisions of men and horses from around Wuhan to set off with a total of 200,000 horses, and they will arrive in Xuzhou in a few days, and you will see if we can take advantage of this victory to drive out the Japanese in Shandong again, so that we can quickly recover Shandong." ”
As soon as Li Zongren heard this, he finally came, and the chairman of the committee had already come before General Chen's words fell last time. He hurriedly explained the consequences of doing this to Jiang **, but Jiang ** thought about it and said, "Then I'll think about it again." He thought about it again, but he didn't order the troops to stand by, this time it was lively, the fifth theater originally had nearly 600,000 horses, and now another 200,000, there are a total of 800,000 horses, accounting for one-third of the total number of Chinese troops, this news was quickly reported to the special high school by the traitors, and the special high class immediately sent the news to the North China Front Army and the DJ base camp.
After hearing the news, Terauchi Shouichi, who was implicated in the fiasco of Ryosuke Isoya (the day after being picked up by Seishiro Itagaki), heard the news, and that's it, the Chinese army has 800,000 horses on the great plain of Xuzhou, if I have enough troops to surround it, attack the north and south, and eat them in one fell swoop, not only can I be ashamed of my blood, but I can also take half of China in one fell swoop, wipe out one-third of his troops, and maybe even prompt Jiang ** to surrender, then the Great Japanese Empire can go north and fight with the Soviet Union.
So Terauchi Shouichi sent a telegram of his idea to the DJ base camp, and after the big capital received the telegram, he immediately analyzed it, and within half a day, Terauchi Shouichi received a reply of "immediate implementation", and gave him 10 divisions from the mainland, 3 of which were shipped to NJ, so that they could easily operate.
In this way, Terauchi Shouichi and Yan Junliu gathered 28 divisions to attack from the north and south, wanting to fight a big decisive battle with China and eat the army of the fifth theater in one bite.
The news was soon learned by the military commanders and the underground party, and they immediately passed the news out, and after Li Zongren got the news, he immediately sent a telegram to persuade Jiang ** to disperse and break through, and at first Jiang ** still wanted to fight, and finally the wolf who came out of retreat used a telegram to analyze with him that the plain was not conducive to the Chinese Chinese army, and Jiang ** reluctantly agreed to break through.
Break through when you break through, but someone always has to come to the palace, but everyone pushes me, I push you, and the result is that General Zhang Zizhong volunteered to come out of the palace. In this retreat, the Heavenly Wolf, whose soul power has broken through to a range of 20 miles, also said that he would leave the independent battalion and General Zhang Zizhong to be the queen of the palace.
At the beginning of June (half a month later than in history), the units of China's Fifth Theater retreated to the Henan-Anhui border......
To be continued!