Terauchi Shouichi also received the news that Chenqiao was captured by the Eighth Route Army very quickly, almost at the same time as the Eighth Route Army headquarters, Yan'an, and the First War Zone. Vertices M. updates the fastest

After the commander of the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade was attacked, before he died, he finally fulfilled his duties as a commander and sent a very brief telegram to his brigade commander, Major General Kawamura Dong, and the headquarters of the 14th Division on the other side of the river, the content of which was only that Chen Qiao was suddenly attacked by an unknown unit. After sending the telegram, the captain of the devil brigade did not hesitate at all, and directly ordered the radio station to be smashed and the code book to be burned.

The Japanese troops stationed at Chenqiao belonged to the 15th Infantry Brigade of the 4th Brigade of the First Army of the North China Front, and originally belonged to the same 1st Army as the 14th Division. The 4th Brigade is also a support unit of the 14th Division, and it is very convenient for the two sides to communicate with each other.

It was late afternoon. The Japanese troops in Chenqiao gathered the captured people and prepared to deliver supplies to the Yellow River crossing, and the Japanese troops on the south bank of the Yellow River were also preparing to receive supplies, and only waited for dark to send boats across the river to the Chenqiao ferry to pick up supplies.

As soon as the gunfire rang out in Chenqiao Town, the sentries of the Japanese garrison on the south bank noticed it and reported it layer by layer.

Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara, the most famous division commander in the history of the 14th Division, was dismissed from his post as commander of the 14th Division and transferred back to Japan to serve as an attachment to the General Staff Headquarters today because he and Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji, commander of the First Army, disobeyed the orders of General Terauchi Shouichi, commander of the North China Front, during the Battle of Lanfeng.

Lieutenant General Takamasa Sekii, the new commander of the 14th Division, also just arrived today.

After receiving the telegram from the commander of the Chenqiao garrison, Lieutenant General Sekii Takamasa was still a little suspicious, and immediately ordered the radio to contact the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade and ask them to report the details.

Unfortunately, the radio of the XIII Independent Infantry Corps was no longer available.

After the troops in charge of river defense of the 14th Division reported that Chenqiao had been attacked, Lieutenant General Takamasa Sekii was convinced that Chenqiao had been attacked by the squadron.

Lieutenant General Sekii Takamasa immediately ordered the artillery units on the river defense position to open fire to support the defenders of Chenqiao; The defenders stationed at the crossing were ordered to prepare to cross the river by boat to reinforce the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade.

Unfortunately, the Battle of Chenqiao ended too quickly, and it got dark too quickly, and by the time Sekii Takamasa's order was conveyed to the Japanese troops at the ferry on the south bank of the Yellow River, the gunfire in Chenqiao Town had stopped.

The cessation of the gunfire means that the battle is over, and either the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade completely annihilates the sneak attack squadron, or the squadron quickly annihilates the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade.

Anyway, it is extremely risky to send troops to cross the river in small boats and wooden boats for reinforcements at this time. Moreover, the artillery units of the Japanese army in the river defense positions could not accurately shell in the night, wasting shells in vain.

This situation was again reported to the commander of the 14th Division, Takamasa Sekii.

Takamasa Sekii only took over as the commander of the 14th Division today, and his ass was not hot, and he knew very little about the strength of the Eighth Route Army, and his mind was full of intelligence materials of various units of the National * Army in the First Theater, and his mind was full of superstition about the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, and he still thought that the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade would eliminate the sneak attack squadron.

After receiving the report from the river defense troops that the gunfire at Chenqiao had stopped, that it was dark, that it was not suitable for precise shelling, and that it was not suitable for precise artillery bombardment and that reinforcements should be crossed by boat, Lieutenant General Takamasa Sekii did not react abnormally, but only ordered the radio station to contact the defenders of Chenqiao again and ask them to report the situation.

Sadly, the radio of the 14th Division could not be independently mixed into the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade of the 4th Brigade and Regiment, and the contact was completely cut off!

At this time, the radio contact is not available, which means that Chen Qiao is lost and the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade is broken!

It's basic common sense!

Sekii Longchang no longer has the slightest luck mentality, and has to accept the reality that Chen Qiao was attacked and occupied by the ** squadron and the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade was shattered!

Sekii Takamasa did not know what troops captured Chenqiao, but he had a good idea of the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army. In such a short period of time, the entire infantry brigade was shattered, at least it shows one problem, that is, the squadron that captured Chenqiao was very strong in combat and the scale of the force was large enough. Otherwise, even if it is a division of the Chinese regular army, it is not expected that the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade will be broken in such a short time!

The first reaction in Sekii Takachang's mind was that the enemy in front of him launched a counteroffensive in the First War Zone, sending elite troops to secretly cross the river in Zhengzhou or Luoyang, capture Chenqiao, cut off the connection between the 14th Division and the First Army of the North China Front, and cut off the supply line of the 14th Division!

Therefore, Sekii Takamasa immediately ordered all troops to enter the position and prepare for a counterattack!

Immediately afterwards, Takamasa Sekii sent a report to Lieutenant General Mitsu Mijiro, commander of the First Army, and Lieutenant General Tsukihiko Wang, commander of the Second Army, reporting the emergency situation in which Chenqiao had been attacked by the squadron and the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade had lost radio contact.

In the telegram, Takamasa Sekii attached his own analysis, reporting that since Central China sent the Botian Detachment to capture Anqing and the Sixth Division to capture Tongcheng and Qianjiang, the troops of the First Theater on the Longhai Road may be about to launch a counterattack against the 14th Division, the 3rd Brigade and the 13th Brigade stationed in Kaifeng. The capture of Chenqiao should have been a tactical action before the first theater counterattack, with the aim of cutting off the supply lines of the 14th Division, the 3rd Brigade and the 13th Brigade, and at the same time sweeping the northern Henan region north of the Yellow River. Because the imperial army garrison north of the Yellow River is too thin!

The reason why he reported to the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Mitsu Mijiro, and the commander of the Second Army, Lieutenant General Tsukihiko Higashijuer, was because the 14th Division had now been transferred to the command of the Second Army, but the north bank of the Yellow River belonged to the defense area of the Japanese First Army. For the sake of comprehensiveness, Takamasa Sekii made a report to the headquarters of the First Army and the headquarters of the Second Army at the same time!

After all, Takamasa Sekii has just entered the battlefield of invasion of China, and compared with the old spy Kenji Dohihara, he looks much immature. His telegram, in the eyes of Mitsu Mijiro, the commander of the First Army, who later served as the chief of the general staff of the Japanese army, and in the eyes of the Japanese army giant Terauchi Shouichi, he was simply an idiot who knew nothing about the Chinese battlefield!

Almost at the same time, Major General Kawamura Higashi, the commander of the 4th Brigade of the Japanese Independent Mixed Brigade, also reported to the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Mitsu Mijiro, about the emergency situation of the loss of Chen Bridge and the crushing of the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade!

After the 4th Independent Mixed Brigade withdrew from Shouyang, Shanxi Province to Pinghan Road, it was transferred to the battlefield of the Battle of Xuzhou. It's just that the 4th Brigade was lucky for the independent mixed brigade, and they received the task of going south to support the 14th Division and protect the smooth communication with the 14th Division. Therefore, the 4th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade went to northern Henan to take over the defense of northern Henan from the 14th Division.

When the 14th Division was besieged in Lanfeng, the 4th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade urgently assembled troops and went south to the Guantai Ferry on the side of the Yellow River to organize reinforcements across the river. When the main force of the 1st Theater besieging the 14th Division retreated and the 14th Division attacked Kaifeng, the 4th Brigade crossed the Yellow River and participated in the attack. It's just that Kaifeng was lost too quickly, and the independent mixed Fourth Brigade didn't pick up any dazzling feats.

After the 14th Division captured Kaifeng, the 4th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade crossed the river again and returned to the north bank of the Yellow River, and the task was still to support the 14th Division.

This time, the independent mixed Fourth Brigade was ordered to go north to Daimyo and deploy defenses by the Zhanghe River, and the brigade commander Kawamura Dong also thought that relying on the Zhanghe River, he could block the Xiao Siming Division of the Eighth Route Army and serve His Majesty the Emperor, and at the same time, it also washed away the shame of the Snow Brigade being frightened by Xiao Siming's Department in Shouyang, Shanxi.

After receiving a telegram on the banks of the Zhanghe River that Chen Qiao of the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade had been suddenly attacked by an unknown squadron, the ambitious Major General Kawamura Dong thought that the miscellaneous armed forces in northern Henan had taken advantage of the fact that the main force of the Fourth Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade had been transferred north and the munitions and materials stored in Chenqiao had gone to the fire. Therefore, Major General Kawamura Dong reacted by immediately sending a report to the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade, ordering them to completely eliminate the squadron that dared to sneak attack Chenqiao, deter those miscellaneous armed forces who coveted Chenqiao's arms and materials, and let them know that the great military might of the Great Japanese Army could not be offended!

This telegram was not issued!

Seeing that he could not be contacted, Major General Kawamura Dong guessed that the radio of the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade might be out of order, and immediately called to contact him.

How can it be possible to call Chenqiao Town at this time!

Hecun Dong was helpless, and immediately sent a report to the Japanese puppet army in Fengqiu County, ordering them to reinforce Chen Qiao.

When the eastward advance detachment went south, it made a detour, and the telephone line from the county seat of Daimyo to Xinxiang and Fengqiu was not destroyed and was unblocked.

After contacting the Japanese puppet army in Fengqiu City, Major General Kawamura Dong was relieved, and felt that after the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade eliminated the squadron ** that attacked Chen Qiao, he would naturally report to him!

It was only after the commander of the 14th Division, Lieutenant General Takamasa Sekii, sent a telegram informing him that the gunfire at Chenqiao had stopped, that contact with the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade had been lost, and that it was confirmed that Chenqiao had been lost, that Major General Kawamura Dong was really panicked and hurriedly ordered the radio to contact the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade.

The 15th Independent Infantry Brigade has been completely wiped out, how can Kawamura Dong contact them!

Only then did Major General Kawamura Dong believe in the fact that the squadron attacked Chenqiao Town and annihilated his 15th Independent Infantry Brigade!

Like Lieutenant General Takamasa Sekii, the commander of the 14th Division, Major General Kawamura Dong also believed that it was the squadron ** of the 1st Theater that attacked Chenqiao. Because he was guarding the front line of the Zhanghe River, he didn't even see the shadow of the Eighth Route Army, and even if the Eighth Route Army had wings, it was impossible for the Eighth Route Army to fly to Chenqiao by the Yellow River. Only the squadron ** in the first theater, or Wei Lihuang's troops on Zhongtiao Mountain, or perhaps the Eighth Route Army on Taihang Mountain, sent troops to stealthily and detour, and attacked Chenqiao. But the biggest possibility is still the ** squadron in the first war zone!

Chen Qiao, that is a place where a large number of arms and materials are stored, and after being attacked and occupied by the squadron, the losses will be great!

The 15th Independent Infantry Brigade guarding Chenqiao was independently mixed into the Fourth Brigade, and this collective jade shattering was equivalent to the direct loss of one-fifth of the strength of the Independent Mixed Fourth Brigade! Where can Major General Kawamura Dong accept this fact?

The angry Kawamura Dong immediately sent a report to the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Mitsu Mijiro, reporting that Chenqiao had been lost and the 15th Independent Infantry Brigade had lost contact, and at the same time, he requested permission for the independent mixed 4th Brigade to withdraw from the Zhanghe defense line to recapture Chenqiao and eliminate the squadron that captured Chenqiao! (To be continued.) )