After Bai Chongxi's point, Li Zongren woke up to the fact that the current 20th Army Corps of Tang Enbo seems to be still waiting, the 20th officer is a descendant of the Central Army, and his combat effectiveness is very strong, if he can invite the 20th Army Corps to fight, presumably the situation in Teng County can definitely be solved!

"It's just ......" Speaking of Tang Enbo, Li Zongren's brows furrowed, and he said, "Is Tang Enbo willing to obey our command and agree to send reinforcements?" He is Jiang Guangtou's confidant and favorite general, if he doesn't agree, we will not take him! ”

Hearing this, Bai Chongxi smiled, his eyes were deep, and he said with some meaning: "It's his business to disagree with, but it's our business to give orders, and it's your business as the commander of the Fifth War Zone!" ”

Bai Chongxi said: "You are the commander of the Fifth War Zone, the commander-in-chief of the Battle of Xuzhou, at this time, everything will be premised on the smooth progress of the battle in Xuzhou, for the safety of the Battle in Xuzhou, as long as you bring it up, there is absolutely no problem on Jiang Guangtou's side!" ”

Hearing Bai Chongxi's words, Li Zongren nodded with some understanding.

"I see!" Li Zongren said with a smile.

Li Zongren's mind didn't react for a while, but after Bai Chongxi's reminder, Li Zongren suddenly came to his senses!

Although the Battle of Xuzhou was commanded by Li Zongren, the Battle of Xuzhou was related to the safety of Wuhan and even most of the Republic of China, so the most concerned about Jiang Guangtou at this time should be.

In Jiang Guangtou's heart, there is nothing like the Battle of Xuzhou!

If at this time, he proposed to let Tang Enbo participate in the battle for the Battle of Xuzhou, so that the Battle of Xuzhou could be carried out smoothly, even if Tang Enbo did not agree, Jiang Guangtou asked him, a confidant general, to obey the command.

After realizing this, Li Zongren also counted it in his heart!

Originally, the heart of mentioning it was also a little relaxed, and then immediately ordered the staff officer to start drafting a telegram, and soon a telegram had been drawn up, and after Li Zongren read it, he nodded with satisfaction, and asked the staff headquarters to issue it.

Soon, a telegram from the Fifth Theater Command had been sent to Tang Enbo's 20th Army Corps, and Commander Li Zongren telegraphed an order to transfer Tang Enbo's 20th Army Corps from southern Jin to northern Henan, and immediately lead the main force to reinforce the area north of Teng County, and at the same time send another unit to wait for an opportunity to go south to join the main army of the Republic of China troops in Xuzhou, and wait for the order of the headquarters to encircle the main Japanese army in the north of Teng County and strive to wipe it out.

After the telegram reached the 20th Army Corps, Tang Enbo ignored it until then, turning a deaf ear to Li Zongren's orders, and only listened to the tune and did not listen to the announcement.

As the commander of the 20th Army Corps, Tang Enbo's combat effectiveness is the highest in the entire Republic of China, and he is proud of himself, and he is Jiang someone's confidant and favorite general, so he is a little dissatisfied with his corps being assigned to the command of Li Zongren in the Fifth War Zone.

Tang Enbo believed that his 20th Army Corps was a descendant of the Central Army, and why he should listen to Li Zongren's command was to completely ignore Li Zongren.

If it were in normal times, Tang Enbo might really make Li Zongren powerless against him, but now......

Now that the Battle of Xuzhou has reached a critical moment, and the situation in the Republic of China is still good, it is not easy for Jiang to see the possibility of victory, how can Jiang allow someone to jump out at this time to make trouble and sing back? Isn't this an eye medicine for him?

It can only be said that Tang Enbo did not have the eyesight to see and jumped out at an inopportune opportunity!

As a result, Li Zongren sent a telegram to Chairman Chiang, who was still in Wuhan at this time, following the Battle of Xuzhou.

It is said that Chairman Chiang, who was in Wuhan, was furious when he received this telegram, and even scolded Tang Enbo several times in his office, saying that he was a person without foresight, and if it were not for the fact that someone in the chairman's office was blocking him, it is said that the committee wanted to send a telegram to Tang Enbo at that time to ask him what he wanted to do, whether he wanted to rebel or not!

However, even so, Chairman Chiang sent a telegram to Tang Enbo, in which he severely reprimanded the other party, and finally ordered Tang Enbo to obey Li Zongren's command.

Although Tang Enbo, as a descendant of the Central Army, is his right-hand man, after all, the Battle of Xuzhou is of great importance, and it is related to the layout of the entire government and the future of most of the Republic of China, and the victory or defeat of the Battle of Xuzhou determines the future fate of the Republic of China, so now is not the time to engage in factional struggle, so in this case, he Jiang can only reprimand his confidant and favorite general.

But even so, in order to chill Tang Enbo's heart, Jiang sent a telegram to Tang Enbo, in which he explained to Tang Enbo that after receiving a reprimand message from Jiang Enbo, Tang Enbo was still shocked, and it was not until the second telegram was sent that he realized that he had accidentally made a mistake and almost made a big mistake.

hurriedly sent a telegram to Jiang someone, saying that he had deeply realized his mistake, and then hurriedly led the people of his headquarters to rush towards the area of Teng County.

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At the same time, when the Republic of China made an emergency deployment for Teng County, the Japanese army also made some changes to the battle situation in Teng County.

From noon, the 1st Field Artillery Brigade of the 10th Heavy Artillery Wing, mobilized from all over the city, had arrived at the city and began to bombard the city walls fiercely, causing heavy losses and heavy casualties to the defenders in the city.

After the little devil basically cleared the soldiers in the city, the little devil's infantry began to attack fiercely, and quickly attacked the east and west cities, wanting to expand the results of the battle, trying to take Teng County as quickly as possible, in case it was too late to change.

The outer city was no longer able to defend under the bombardment of the little devils, and as a last resort, all the defenders of the city wall retreated to the inner city, and at this critical juncture, the commander of the 122nd Division Wang Mingzhang urgently transferred Zhang Xuanwu, the commander of the 727th Regiment to defend Beishahe, and a battalion of combat troops returned to the city to defend, and appointed Zhang Xuanwu as the commander of the city defense, responsible for defending the city.

After that, he sent a telegram ordering the 266th Brigade of the 122nd Division on the Pingyi front line to return to Tengxian as soon as possible, for fear that the journey would be blocked, Division Commander Wang Mingzhang made another phone call to the headquarters of the 22nd Group Army for help.

After receiving the news of the request for help, Commander-in-Chief Sun Zhen hurriedly contacted Commander Wang Zhonglian, the vanguard of the friendly Tang Enbo Corps reinforcing Teng County, and asked for rapid reinforcements. However, Wang Zhonglian waited for all the soldiers of the 20th Army Corps to arrive before he could go north, so he did not move in Lincheng.

Sun Zhen had no choice but to leave a pistol company as a guard in the special service battalion that was on duty at the headquarters, and the other three infantry companies formed a battalion and rushed by train to help Tengxian County, and did not arrive until after nightfall that night.

After midnight, only one battalion of the 266th Brigade arrived at Dongguan in Tengxian County, and the other troops were blocked by the Japanese on the way, and after the fierce battle of the Japanese army, they were defeated and withdrew in the direction of Lincheng.