Almost at the same time, on the road from Suqian to Lingbi, there was also a unit marching rapidly, and they were the officers and men of the newly formed 13th Division of the 43rd Group Army.

Lu Erniu, the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the group army, personally led the troops, and the troops ran wildly in the moonlight, and their task was to contain Lingbi's island army and prevent them from reinforcing Wuhe and Bengbu, while Hao Pengju, deputy commander-in-chief, stayed in Suqian with a regiment.

Speaking of Hao Pengju, now he is a high and powerful position, and his title is amazingly big, when Jiang Haoran formed the Third War Zone, he actually pushed him to the high position of deputy commander-in-chief of the war zone, which he probably never dreamed of.

But then he also figured out that Jiang Haoran's move was actually to make himself a flag, a banner that summoned the puppet army to come to surrender, and told the puppet army generals with practical actions that as long as he surrendered, not only would everything not be investigated in the past, but he could also be reused by high-ranking officials and never before.

But Hao Pengju will never understand that in Jiang Haoran's heart, the use value is actually greater than the practical value, like his character, Jiang Haoran has always looked down on him, and when his value is not there one day, I am afraid it will be a high-level end.

At about 12 o'clock that night, Jinan, the former enemy headquarters of the island army.

An operational staff officer hurriedly ran into the headquarters and said in a panic: "Report the report, Huai...... Huainan was in a hurry, and the army suddenly besieged the city on three sides and launched a fierce attack on Huainan, with three divisions, all of which were on the front, the new third division on the left, and the new first division on the right. ”

"What are you talking about" Okamura Ninji raised his head from the battle sand table, his face was suddenly white, and a frightened expression jumped on his face.

The staff officer repeated what he had just said again, and the people in the room were all stunned, Okamura Ningji was already drenched in a cold sweat, and it took a long time to wave his arms and roar: "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible, the main force of the special operations division is still in Wangji, and the troops of the new first division have already been disabled by the locust army, and the remaining regiment is on the other side of the Xiqi River, how can it be possible to reach Huainan?" ”

None of the people in the room dared to answer Okamura Ningji's words, and they were all a little at a loss, and at this moment, another staff officer hurriedly ran in and shouted: "Huainan urgent telegram, the attack on Huainan is far more than just these three divisions, there are also the new fourth division, the new second division, and even the figure of the tank division, the attack is extremely fierce, less than fifteen minutes after the battle, the locust army has suffered heavy casualties, the defense line has been greatly threatened, Lieutenant General Sadao Ganda asked for urgent support. ”

"Eight Grids, did they all come out of the ground? The new 1st, 2nd, and 4th divisions were completely destroyed by the napalm of the locust army on the defense line of Mengcheng, and it had only been a few days, how could it be possible that they were all fully manned again? It must be a trick, this must be Jiang Haoran's trick? Yes, definitely. Although Okamura Ninji was chattering, people had already begun to scurry back and forth in the headquarters, and his panicked expression could not be concealed.

"Okamura-kun ......". Ishihara stopped talking, and when Okamura Ningji stopped and looked at him, he sighed lightly and said, "I think we are in the middle of the scheme?" Jiang Haoran's target was Huainan at all, not the Mengcheng defense line. ”

Okamura Ningji gritted his teeth and said, "Then how did you say these divisions came from?" The corpses of the army piled up in front of the Mengcheng defense line are not fake, who has the ability to restore the combat effectiveness of the troops whose three companies have been disabled in just a few days? How do you explain this? ”

Ishihara said: "I have carefully read all the examples of Jiang Haoran, in the early days of the Burma campaign, although the locust army suffered heavy casualties, but the expeditionary force was actually not much better, but Jiang Haoran in less than a month, the expeditionary force was almost resurrected with full blood, and re-formed a strong combat effectiveness, he used the method of airlifting soldiers from Nanchang, 331 base, Yunnan and other places, how difficult it is can be imagined, but he did it. Also, after the Battle of Lashio, the expeditionary force also suffered heavy casualties, but he scattered all the ten divisions of the 41st Army into the expeditionary force, so that the expeditionary force was resurrected again, which led to the later Battle of Mandalay. Therefore, Jiang Haoran is good at this, if his reserve army is sufficient, and there is a train transportation on the Pinghan Railway, it is entirely possible to restore the combat effectiveness of these divisions within ten days. ”

Okamura Ningji seemed to have been struck by lightning, and the whole person was a little blind, and it took a long time before he suddenly woke up and shouted: "Order the Tenth Army to reinforce Huainan quickly, order the two divisions in Huainan to defend strictly at all costs, and inform the reinforcements that they are already on the way, hurry up!" ”

"Wait!" Ishihara Guan'er decisively stopped the staff officers who were about to carry out the order, and shouted: "Okamura-kun, Huainan is beyond help, Jiang Haoran's several ace divisions have all arrived, the two C and D divisions of the Locust Army cannot compete at all, and the troops of the Tenth Army may not be able to reach Huainan until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest, but they are afraid that it will be difficult for them to hold out until dawn, so ......."

"So, you asked me to abandon Huainan?" Okamura Ninji roared infinitely.

Ishihara was silent, in fact, Okamura Ninji was already clearly aware of this, and did not expect Ishihara to answer, he paced quickly in the room, and his inner collapse and helplessness were revealed.

"Your Excellency, General!" Ishihara suddenly changed his name, as if to remind Okamura Ningji that he should maintain the demeanor of a general, "The most important thing at the moment is not Huainan, but Hefei and Bengbu, Huainan is lost, Hefei's locust army has been surrounded on three sides, and the logistics channel is only left from Feidong to Chuzhou, once the army sends one or two divisions from Huainan or Chaoxian to Feidong, Hefei's Twelfth Army will be more than lucky, but Hefei is not the most important ......."

Ishihara Wan'er said, and walked to the battle sand table, and Okamura Ningji and a group of staff generals also hurriedly surrounded him.

Ishihara Wan'er picked up the command pole, and the tip of the pole waved to the place name "Bengbu", and continued: "The most dangerous thing is still here, Bengbu is the last gateway to Xuzhou, and it is also the traffic artery of the locust army from the north to the south, and it will definitely become Jiang Haoran's next target, so Okamura-kun, I suggest that troops from Chuzhou and Mengcheng be immediately transferred to Bengbu, and at the same time, order the two divisions of Huainan to take advantage of the fact that the encirclement has not yet been formed, and immediately withdraw to Bengbu, so that the locust army can also build another defense line between Bozhou, Mengcheng, Bengbu, and Chuzhou, For the time being, it is a relief from the urgent need. ”

As soon as Ishihara's voice fell, the entire command was silent, and Okamura Ningji's face was even darker, and fools could see that when it was time to build this line of defense, it was only a matter of time before Xuzhou fell, and in the short term, the locust army in northern Anhui and Hefei could not recover its troops, especially Hefei, if it did not retreat decisively, I am afraid that there was a danger of annihilation, and the main force of the national army would immediately kill under the city of Bengbu, and then the two group armies in southern Anhui would attack from the rear, how long could this temporarily constructed defense line last?

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