Chapter 138: Lanfeng's Offensive and Defensive Battle (3)
But he said that Bai Fei came to the Lanfeng battlefield to supervise the battle, but when he saw that the 27th Division of the 27th Army was blown into meat by Japanese shells in the process of attacking the city in order to recapture Lanfeng, he still couldn't bear to see such a tragic scene, and his compassion moved, so he took over Gui Yongqing's mess and changed from the supervising team to the main force of the siege.
Gui Yongqing was very happy, wishing that someone could wipe his ass.
Historically, it was Gui Yongqing who lost the city and land, first losing Luowang Station, which led to the truncation of the Longhai Line. After knowing this, he was furious, and ordered Gui Yongqing to quickly recapture Luowang Station, otherwise he would be dealt with strictly according to the law and engaged in military law. After he received the call from ******, he hurriedly called Long Muhan and asked Long Muhan to lead the 88th Division to recapture Luowang Station.
After receiving Gui Yongqing's order, Long Muhan rushed to the train station and quickly surrounded the train station. At the beginning of the battle, there was a one-sided trend, and although the enemy fought desperately, it was difficult to resist the powerful offensive of the 88th Division.
But at this moment, a call came to the command. On the phone, ****** said to Long Muhan: "Long Muhan, don't call, there is a situation over there in Lanfeng, you go over for reinforcements immediately." ”
is also blind, as the supreme commander, but he always likes to skip the command, which affects the temporary decision-making ability and initiative of the front-line generals. As soon as he did this, Long Muhan had to start with, seeing that Luowang Station was about to be recovered, but he had to give up the victory in hand, and then bypassed Luowang Station and drove to Lanfeng County overnight.
At that time, Gui Yongqing, who was stationed in Lanfeng, was a little unable to resist the fierce attack of the Japanese army, so he planned to abandon the city and withdraw from Lanfeng, but Gui Yongqing, as the commander of the 27th Army, knew the responsibility to escape from the battle, so before escaping, he played a trick, wrote a note, and handed it to Long Muhan, the commander of the 88th Division, asking Long Muhan and Lanfeng to live and die together.
When Long Muhan led the 88th Division to the vicinity of Lanfeng, the Japanese army was attacking the right flank position of Li Liangrong's 46th Division. Long Muhan immediately ordered his troops to occupy positions and attack the enemy's flank. After the Japanese army was suddenly attacked, the position suddenly became chaotic. Li Liangrong then launched a counter-charge, and the Japanese army could not figure out where the reinforcements came from and how many troops they hastily ordered the troops to retreat.
After repelling the Japanese army, Li Liangrong asked Gui Yongqing what to do, and Gui Yongqing told him to retreat south with his troops. Then he gave the task of defending Lan Blockade to Long Muhan. This move surprised Long Muhan very much, his 88th Division had suffered heavy casualties, at this time, if the Japanese army learned that the main force of our army had been transferred, and turned back to counterattack, how could he resist it with less than a brigade? Helplessly, Long Muhan moved closer to the Red Temple. Gui Yongqing withdrew from Lanfeng, and Long Muhan, who received the hot potato, did not enter Lanfeng, and for a while, the important town of Lanfeng became an empty city.
In the early morning of the next day, Song Xilian received a report from friendly forces that the Japanese army had fled to the vicinity of Lanfeng, so he led his troops to advance to Lanfeng from the south side of the railway, preparing to besiege the enemy with Li Liangrong's 46th Division stationed on the periphery of Lanfeng. However, when Song Xilian's vanguard arrived in Lanfeng City, it was suddenly strafed by the Japanese machine gun fire at the head of the city, and the vanguard of the Song army was too late to guard and suffered heavy casualties for a while. At this time, Song Xilian knew that Lan Fengcheng had fallen into the hands of the enemy.
The loss of Lanfeng not only threatened Kaifeng, but also between Guide and Lanfeng, the plan to annihilate the Tufeiyuan Division was also put on hold. The news of Lan Feng's loss shocked and angered ******. Xue Yue, who was in Guide, was also greatly annoyed that Lanfeng had fallen into the hands of the enemy, and angrily, as the commander-in-chief of the First Corps, sent a telegram to the Wuhan Military Commission, accusing Gui Yongqing of being greedy for life and fearing death, delaying the fighter, and requesting that it be dealt with strictly.
When the Nationalist Government held the Nationalist Government accountable for the loss of Lanfeng after the Battle of Lanfeng, Gui Yongqing put the responsibility for the loss of Lanfeng on Long Muhan, which also led to Long Muhan being sentenced to death by a military court and executed in Wuhan. And because Gui Yongqing was a close general of ****** and had a close relationship with He Yingqin, under the protection of Jiang and He, he only removed the post of commander of the 27th Army. Li Liangrong, commander of the 46th Division, was also dismissed from his post and retained in his post.
Long Muhan did not expect that this trip to rescue Lan Feng not only did not make meritorious contributions, but also finally pushed him to the trial seat of the military court, and Long Muhan's name will also be repeatedly mentioned in the Huayuankou embankment breaking incident. It can be said that Long Muhan carried the black cauldron for Gui Yongqing and died unjustly.
So this time Bai Fei also kept a hand, although he took over the mess, but in order to prevent Gui Yongqing from smearing oil on the soles of his feet, he put him under his nose in the name of joint operations, and acted with himself, and all the soldiers under him were also placed aside to respond.
After Gui Yongqing transferred the 24th Division back, Wang Weiguo also came back and reported: "I went to the front just now to take a look, and the Japanese army's firepower is indeed very fierce, and there are no less than 20 cannons on the city wall alone. There are also a lot of tanks and armored vehicles, gathered in the open space outside the south of the city, it is estimated that they are going to attack our side, and the Japanese army has captured a lot of civilians and also taken them to the front of the battle, if we attack, they will definitely die..."
Bai Fei was startled, and immediately went to check in person, at this time the 24th Division had withdrawn, and the Japanese counterattack had stopped. Coming to a high ground outside Lanfeng City, Bai Fei looked through the binoculars, and sure enough, he saw a lot of ordinary people at the head of Lanfeng City, and the Japanese army tied them one by one with their hands cut their backs and forced them to kneel on the city tower, facing the outside of the city.
Bai Fei was watching, only to see another ghost soldier pulling a naked = naked woman up to the city tower, the woman's hair was messy, crying bitterly, and kept blocking her body with her hands, but the Japanese soldier kept slapping her with a bayonet in the back to stop her behavior.
The little devils around laughed, and immediately someone stepped forward to surround the woman and moved her hands and feet, the woman was humiliated, and suddenly rushed out of the devil crowd, climbed the battlements and jumped, fell off the city wall and died.
A little devil lay on his stomach at the head of the city and looked at it, and suddenly went crazy, stabbed two Chinese civilians kneeling on the city wall with a bayonet one after another, and then kicked the corpses off the city wall.
Seeing everyone gritting their teeth and hating each other in this scene, Bai Fei frowned even more, and turned his head to ask Gui Yongqing: "Commander Gui, did you transfer the people in Lanfeng City out first before retreating?" ”
Gui Yongqing hurriedly said: "That's for sure, I have already ordered it long before the Japanese came." Besides, when the common people in the city heard that there was going to be a war, they also fled west on their own. When I was in the city before, except for the hundreds of old, weak, sick and disabled people who were sick for a long time or couldn't really walk, there was basically no one left, I guess it was someone from other places captured by the Japanese army, after all, it was not difficult to catch a few people in such a big place outside Lanfeng. Bai Fei didn't speak.
At this time, there were at least three or four hundred people in the city, and Wang Weiguo sighed and said to him: "Do you want to order an attack..."
Bai Fei thought about it and shook his head, and said: "You can't be reckless, although these people seem to be certain to die, but they can't die at our hands, order the troops to retreat and lure the devils out to fight..."