Professor Hao naturally had no objection to Chen Qingzhi's proposal.

In fact, they have now completely lost their backbone, and they don't even know where to go, and they can only follow Chen Qingzhi's independent brigade for the time being.

As for Chen Qingzhi, he planned to take the troops back to Wuhan and other places via Yusheng in a detour.

What's more, he plans to go to Yucheng next, bring out Wang Yachuan, who is recuperating, and take a look at the little girl by the way.

After hearing Chen Qingzhi's plan, Professor Hao also nodded in agreement, and the students and most of the teachers in their middle school had withdrawn to Wuhan with the troops to find another place to relocate the campus, and Chen Qingzhi's plan coincided with him.

They can also drop by and connect with other teachers and students on campus when the time comes.

It was under such a plan that the Independent Brigade marched towards Yu Province with its troops.

Along the way, trekking through mountains and rivers, although it was very hard, but fortunately, there were no little devils chasing after me, which is a blessing in misfortune.

From Xuzhou all the way to the west, through Shangqiu, Kaifeng, and finally arrived at Zheng County, where it joined some of the retreating large troops, and the Independent Brigade relaxed.

Zheng County not only has some troops temporarily stationed at the Battle of Xuzhou, but also the original defenders of Zheng County, and along the way, there are also garrisons stationed in Shangqiu, Kaifeng and other places, and it is not so easy for the little devil to chase after him quickly.

What's more, Xuzhou has been lost, and the main focus of the Japanese army now is definitely planning to plan the Battle of Wuhan, so it must not be too attentive to Zhengxian.

In other words, when they get here, they are safe for the time being!

Just when the Independent Brigade temporarily settled down in Zheng County, the Japanese army in Xuzhou also chased along the Longhai Railway, and within two days of the arrival of the Independent Brigade in Zheng County, the little devils had already arrived in Shangqiu and Kaifeng and other places.

Although Zheng County has stationed a large number of troops, if a war starts, the troops here will inevitably be pinned down by the Japanese army, which will then affect the progress of the Battle of Wuhan.

After receiving this situation, Jiang also carefully considered and passed the overall consideration, and on June 9, Jiang issued an order.

The defenders of the garrison in Zheng County in Yu Province were ordered to dig the embankment of the Yellow River at the mouth of the garden in the northeast of Zheng County, intending to force the Japanese army to retreat with floods.

Although this move will cause the flood area and the downstream torrent, it has to be done for the sake of the overall situation!

The hundreds of thousands of troops in Henan Province cannot be contained, and they must not be restrained by the Japanese army!

Otherwise, the Battle of Wuhan will face the dilemma of lack of troops!

Although this will ruin many families, in the current era of war and chaos when the country is ruined, no one can grasp their own destiny, and in the overall situation, they can only sacrifice a small number of people!

As soon as this order was issued, many troops were in an uproar, especially the local armies in Yu Province, many soldiers and generals were locals, and after hearing this order, they immediately exploded!

Some people even tried to react to the top, but to no avail!

This order will not allow for change, let alone delay, and there is no possibility of change!

As a last resort, the local garrison had no choice but to tearfully dig the embankment of the Yellow River, and the raging flood instantly overflowed, rushing to the downstream flood discharge area, and the river passed through Zhongmu and Weishi along the Jialu River and flooded south.

The pursuing Japanese troops did not dare to pursue again, and seeing that the flood had arrived, they could only retreat to the east of the Yellow Flood Area and make plans again.

At this point, the Battle of Xuzhou is completely over!

However, although the Battle of Xuzhou is over, a new battle is about to start.

As early as a few months ago, the upper side had drawn up an operational plan to encircle Wuhan, and after the Battle of Xuzhou ended and Xuzhou was lost, the upper side immediately redeployed the operational plan.

Here, it is worth mentioning that although Xuzhou was lost, this protracted battle with Xuzhou as the center was not without any effect.

The Battle of Xuzhou, the Fifth Theater held the Xuzhou area for five months under the command of Li Zongren, which was fully reflected in Li Zongren's war strategy of exchanging space for time, which won valuable time for the preparation, assembly, and deployment of the Battle of Wuhan, and because the great victory in Taierzhuang was the first great victory of our army in a frontal battle with the Japanese army, which broke the myth of the invincibility of the Japanese army, made the strategic plan of the Japanese army's quick battle come to naught, and greatly encouraged the determination of the people and the army of the whole country to resist the war!

In addition, although the Battle of Xuzhou failed, on the other hand, it ended because of the Battle of Xuzhou, which made all the generals realize a new way of playing, and their impression of the Japanese army was also more profound!

You must know that before the Battle of Xuzhou, the strategy adopted by our army was basically a passive defensive battle, and often put itself in a passive situation at the beginning of the war, coupled with the fact that the weapons and equipment were inferior to the Japanese army, and the determination to resist the war was not firm enough, so it was defeated repeatedly.

However, after the defeat in the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing, the upper echelons of ****** also absorbed the previous experience, tentatively carried out some new tactics, and used them in the Battle of Xuzhou, and changed to a new policy of offensive defense.

That is, the offensive of mobile warfare, the defensive position of positional warfare, and the intrusion of guerrilla warfare, in a pre-selected battlefield theater, a part of the troops will hold their positions to attract and consume the enemy's vital forces, and the other part of the troops will attack behind the enemy lines, destroy the enemy's lines of communication, attack strongholds and their transportation and supplies, and contain the enemy, so that the enemy will not be able to gather all his strength and let him be distracted.

The last part of the main army is to detour behind the enemy's flank and carry out a powerful attack, thus changing the internal line of operations to the outer line of operations, and striving for the initiative in passivity.

This strategy was vividly displayed in the Battle of Taierzhuang.

It is precisely because of the experiment of the Battle of Xuzhou and the successful case of the Battle of Taierzhuang that the defenders have learned a lot of valuable experience, and these experiences will be mixed and implemented by the defenders and displayed in the next Battle of Wuhan!

Therefore, although the Battle of Xuzhou failed, under the calm command of Li Zongren, most of the living forces of the Fifth Theater were preserved, and a lot of valuable experience and vitality were gained for the upcoming Wuhan War.

In a certain aspect, although the Battle of Xuzhou was defeated, it was a victory in a certain way for a country that has been in retreat!

Because of the end of the Battle of Xuzhou, it not only won valuable time, but also accumulated a lot of precious and useful experience for the Battle of Wuhan!

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