"Well, Kensheng has a point!" General Li Delin nodded solemnly, agreed and adopted General Bai Jiansheng's suggestion.

I have to say that politically, General Li Delin may surpass General Bai Jiansheng.

But in military affairs, Xiao Zhuge is still very strategic and tactically minded.

Even compared to General Li Delin, it is even better.

"The regimental seat, the commander's headquarters of the theater is in an emergency, Lanfeng is lost, and the commander's department orders us to abandon the plan to go south.

Turn west and join the counterattack against Lanfeng! Recapture Lanfeng at all costs and annihilate the enemy's 16th Division! Open up the road for the westward withdrawal of the main force of our Xuzhou Theater. Yang Chen was hurrying with the troops, and Yao Zhiqing, the minister of communications, suddenly caught up in a hurry and reported to him.

After listening to Yao Zhiqing's report, although Yang Chen was surprised, he quickly calmed down.

He immediately instructed the heralds who were following him: "A few of you, go and inform the battalion commanders immediately and tell them the latest order from the Theater Commander's Department, and Su County will not go."

The whole regiment immediately turned around and headed west, the rear was the front, and we rushed to Lanfeng!"

"Yes!" Several soldiers stood up on their horses and saluted, and then they rode their horses and went separately to give orders.

Not long after, all the troops of the regiment received an order, and they stopped going south, turned around and took the Yongcheng and Shangqiu areas, and rushed to Lanfeng day and night.

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Lanfeng County.

After receiving the order of the chairman.

Xue Boling immediately assembled 10 armies of the Eastern Henan Army, half of which were on the periphery ready to block the reinforcements that might arrive at any time.

The remaining half was used as the main attack force, besieging the units of the Japanese 16th Division that occupied Lanfeng and the surrounding important towns.

After a fierce battle, the Yudong Army, which had an absolute superiority in strength, successfully recaptured Lanfeng Station and attacked the city.

At this time, the 14th Division, the 5th Division and other frontal battlefields of the Japanese army were the main attacking forces.

Because all the troops opposing it in the Fifth Theater of Operations retreated overnight and moved westward according to the order.

Therefore, the little devil was able to take advantage of the situation to occupy the area of Linyi and Taierzhuang.

Japanese command.

After learning that the 16th Division captured Lanfeng and was besieged by hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops.

The following arrangements were made, and the 5th Division moved south from Linyi and continued to march to Taierzhuang and Xuzhou.

The 114th Division also set off again from Lianyungang and attacked front and rear together with the 5th Division.

After taking Xuzhou, it marched directly west along the Longhai Railway, following the main force of the Chinese Fifth Theater retreating from Xuzhou.

The 14th Division was directly transferred to the Lanfeng battlefield to support the 16th Division and hold Lanfeng and other places.

In order to cut off the way for the main forces of the Chinese Fifth Theater to retreat westward.

At the same time, because of his poor performance on the battlefield in Shanxi, he was left in the rear by Terauchi Shouichi and used to guard the 4th Division of the territory.

At this time, he also received an order from Terauchi Shouichi again, and went straight to Yongcheng, the place where the retreat of the army of the Fifth War Zone retreated, overnight.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that there were no soldiers to send, the old devil Shouichi Terauchi would definitely not entrust such an important task to Matsui, the "messenger of peace".

Sure enough, when General Li Delin led the army of the Fifth War Zone to retreat to Yongcheng, he was even about to fall into despair.

This Osaka division did not fire a single shot, and directly let it pass through the defense area.

Even in order to avoid causing unnecessary conflicts, this Osaka division deliberately retreated several miles back to leave enough space for Li Delin's troops to retreat.

This made General Li Delin puzzled for a while, and even subconsciously thought that this might be a conspiracy of the Japanese army.

It was not until several reconnaissance units were dispatched one after another that it was certain that it was safe, and the rear could be overtaken by the Japanese pursuing troops at any time.

Only then did General Li Delin bite the bullet and lead his troops through the defense area of the 4th Division of the Japanese Army, that is, the Osaka Division.

Until the end, not only General Li Delin was confused, but even General Bai Jiansheng, who was known as Little Zhuge , was also confused and puzzled.

I don't understand what kind of plane the little devil is doing.

Afterwards, Terauchi Shouichi held Matsui accountable why he didn't attack Li Delin's department.

Matsui's reply was that he had not received any orders from the command at that time to open fire.

After getting this answer, the old devil Shouichi Terauchi almost spewed out a mouthful of old blood out of anger.

Of course, that's for later......

When the Japanese army in North China launched its operation, the Japanese army in Central China also accelerated its attack one after another, and continued to attack the area around Suxian with the strength of two divisions.

In addition, two divisions were sent westward to Shangqiu, trying to attack the 16th Division inside and outside, which could not only pursue the main force of China's Fifth Theater.

It is also necessary to destroy the Yudong Army besieging the 16th Division in the Lanfeng area.

In this way, the reinforcements of the Japanese army in the direction of Lanfeng will have four divisions.

In addition, there are several divisions, which are also attacking and advancing in the direction of Xuzhou.

Once successful, it will surely advance westward along the Longhai Railway and follow the pursuit.

Together with the above four divisions, they flanked the main force of China's Fifth Theater and the main force of the Eastern Henan Army in the Lanfeng area.

After learning of the Japanese army's deployment, the chairman of the committee sent a telegram ordering Xue Boling, Hu Shoushan, and others to completely annihilate the enemy in Lanfeng as soon as possible.

Otherwise, once the Japanese troops on the periphery come up to surround them, the consequences will be unimaginable.

In order to encourage Xue Boling and others, the chairman of the committee specially added to the telegram the news that Yang Chen's Tiger Regiment had been dispatched to participate in this battle.

The name of a man, the shadow of a tree.

Yang Chen, and his Tiger Ben Regiment, that is a winning army that has never lost a battle, it can be said that as long as there is a Tiger Ben Regiment to participate in the battle.

Then this battle will be stable!

When Xue Boling learned of this news and spread it widely.

The entire Eastern Henan Corps, nearly 100,000 soldiers, could not help but boost their morale.

They are like beating chicken blood, and the blood is surging!

Under the orders of General Xue Boling, the units of the Eastern Henan Corps launched an all-out attack on the Japanese 16th Division on the same day.

After the bloody battles of the officers and men of the three armies, they finally succeeded in recapturing the county town of Lanfeng County in the evening of the same day.

As a result, the Longhai Railway was restored to traffic, and the military supplies of dozens of trains trapped in Shangqiu were able to withdraw to Zhengzhou that night.

At that time, Lanfeng was guarded by the 19th Infantry Brigade under the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, led by Kusaba Tatsuha.

After the defeat, the old devil of Caochang Chen led the remnants of the army to retreat to the area of Sanyi Village north of Lanfeng overnight.

In order to prevent the loss of the 19th Infantry Brigade, the commander of the 30th Infantry Brigade and the acting division commander, Sasaki Toichi also led the main force of the 16th Division to the rendezvous.

However, at this time, the 16th Division had basically fallen into the encirclement of the Eastern Henan Army.

However, Sasaki took the initiative to launch a counterattack against the national army in the early morning of the next day, under the cover of fire support from the group of fighters of the aviation units that came to support.

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