Bai Chongxi stepped forward happily, looked at Jiang Haoran and said coldly: "You already knew that the enemy would break through from here instead of Chuzhou, right?" You know it even before you transfer the 21st Army, right? ”

Jiang Haoran smiled and said: "Chief Bai is joking, I am not an immortal, how could I have seen today's situation clearly more than ten days ago, I believe that you Chief Bai does not have this ability, right?" ”

"You ......"

Jiang Haoran's words made Bai Chongxi quite speechless, if he really had this ability, he would have resolutely refused to let the 21st Group Army take over this line of defense from the new Third Division, originally thought that this was a task to pick up leaks, but who knew that in the end it evolved into the most dangerous interception mission, if the island army broke through in this direction with all its might, under the attack from both sides, what kind of tragic situation should the 21st Group Army fight, Bai Chongxi couldn't imagine it.?? net

In any case, Bai Chongxi was concluding at this moment that Jiang Haoran had already calculated the 21st Group Army.

Li Zongjian said: "It's useless to say these things now, Ziqian, you still want to think about how to solve the crisis of the 21st Group Army, right?" ”

Jiang Haoran said: "There is no other way at the moment, but to order Yang Sen's 27th Group Army to go to reinforcements, and at the same time order Bengbu Su Peng's new 3rd Division to flank Mengcheng to relieve the pressure on the 21st Group Army." ”

"What?" Bai Chongxi jumped up like a bee and shouted: "The main force of the 27th Group Army is still in Feidong, and it will be at least tomorrow after they reach the front line, and by the time they arrive, the 21st Group Army will probably have already been exhausted, and besides, several divisions of your Nanshan Independent Army are on the front line of Suqian, and yesterday the Airborne Division also drove into Bengbu, you actually transferred a new Third Division to attack on the side, what kind of heart do you have, do you want to watch my 21st Group Army completely destroy you?" ”

Jiang Haoran's face changed, and he said coldly: "Then according to what Chief Bai thinks, what should I do so that I don't hope that the 21st Group Army will fight out?" ”

Bai Chongxi was overjoyed, and then said: "Your Nanshan Independent Army, plus the Airborne Division and the Special Operations Division, now have six divisions in that area, and you have to send at least two or three divisions to flank Mengcheng, so that you can repel the enemy as quickly as possible, completely break the enemy's illusions, and rescue the 21st Group Army from fire and water." ”

"You said lightly, two or three divisions? If the enemy attacks on all fronts, will the remaining three divisions be able to hold back the enemy, shouldn't they hand over Bengbu, which was so hard to take, to the enemy to ensure the safety of your 21st Group Army? ”

Jiang Haoran's words suddenly made Bai Chongxi speechless, but the other staff officers in the command headquarters nodded in agreement, the troops on the front line of Suqian must not be reckless, and now that the Tenth Army of the Island Army is all in place, these divisions should take a defensive position and stick to the defense line to ensure the safety of Bengbu and even Chuzhou.

Seeing that Bai Chongxi was defeated, Li Zongjian hurriedly said: "Ziqian, let's think of other ways, the enemy's offensive intention is clear, and the offensive momentum is also fierce, and it is indeed a little too late to transfer the 27th Group Army in terms of time, and the loss of the 21st Group Military is small, but it will be a big matter to let the enemy's 12th Army escape." ”

Jiang Haoran subconsciously touched his nose, in fact, this small action is only available when he is weak or uncomfortable, I'm afraid he hasn't noticed it himself, it's just a subconscious action, but it proves that he already knows all this, but he has a little entanglement in how to protect the 21st Group Army, although this is the starting force of Li and Bai, but in the end, Jiang Haoran will not treat them as political victims to fulfill the enemy, but in front of him, he has to say that he has the ability to turn the tide? He really doesn't, everything can only depend on the creation of the 21st Group Army.

After hesitating for a few seconds, Jiang Haoran said: "President, it's not that I don't want to do anything, but there is nothing I can do, this battle, the 21st Group Army can only carry it to the death, I will urge Yang Sen to hurry forward to support, and at the same time order the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army to step up the suppression of the enemy in the encirclement, and all air forces will be temporarily transferred to the Huaibang defense line." In addition, the 11th Group Army, which ordered Li Pinxian in the direction of Bozhou, also intensified its offensive to relieve pressure on the 21st Group Army, and I believe that through these means, the 21st Group Army will definitely be able to carry it down. ”

Li Zongjian only instigated his nose, obviously his heart was agitated, he could understand it, and he saw that the two group armies of his Gui family were struggling in this battle, and all the other troops were watching the show, it seemed that they had caught up by chance, but it was too bizarre, Li Zongjian preferred to believe that this was Jiang Haoran's conspiracy, but he really couldn't find any fault, so even if the nameless fire in his heart surged straight to his head, he could only try his best to suppress it, and try to use a calm tone to order Jiang Haoran to protect the 21st Group Army at the same time, and also crush the enemy's conspiracy.

But to Li Zongjian's disappointment, Jiang Haoran was unable to turn the tide this time, after a day and a night of fierce fighting, the 21st Group Army paid the price of more than half of the casualties, but failed to block the enemy's attack, the Huaibang defense line was opened by the enemy in the early morning of the next day, and then the entire defense line collapsed.

The soldiers of several divisions of the 12th Army of the Island Army fled from the defensive line like the water of the Yellow River bursting its banks, and by noon, most of them had jumped out of the encirclement.

With the arrival of Yang Sen's 27th Group Army, the remnants of the 21st Group Army were assembled, and the New Third Division responded from the opposite side, and the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army, and the Women's Division pursued from behind, and the fierce battle lasted for nearly two hours, which re-sealed the gap, but the main force of the 12th Army of the Island Army had almost all jumped out of the encirclement.

In the end, hundreds of thousands of horses had no choice but to take out the remaining 10,000 or 20,000 remnants in the encirclement and annihilate them all in the Dingyuan area.

In addition to the losses in the breakout, the island army also paid a heavy price in casualties, at least more than 50,000 soldiers were killed or captured. What is even more worth mentioning is that almost all of the island troops of the seven divisions have abandoned the heavy weapons in their hands and broken out lightly, and the mountains, fields, jungles, and roads in the entire encirclement are full of light and heavy machine guns, various types of artillery, and even tanks and armored vehicles that have not had time to blow up.

And these Japanese weapons** are not worth it, they are now using Su weapons, rice weapons, and British weapons, where do they still put these little devils in their eyes.

However, Li Zongjian has a long-term view, and he doesn't want all these weapons to fall into the hands of the Yan'an troops, and forces the troops to clean up the battlefield, but the trick that these guys are used to is to disobey yin and yang, and after the fierce battle, the soldiers are also so tired that they only have the strength to pant, who has the extra strength to go around collecting these.

Therefore, in the end, at least 70 percent of these weapons fell into the hands of the New Fourth Army and the Eighth Route Army.