Not to mention, Terauchi Shouichi is indeed a giant of the Japanese army, and he basically says nothing in the Japanese army, he wants to dismiss the commander of the First Army of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji, and it has really been done!

Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe led the staff officers to be busy for a long time, and by the afternoon, the battle plan was finally come out. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Japanese army is a strategically short-sighted and tactically meticulous army, and their commanders and staff officers are very thorough, meticulous, and impeccable in their plans for specific combat operations.

The battle plan that Okabe Naosaburo came up with was meticulous in planning when the Fifth Division would arrive in Qingdao, how it would be loaded on the ships, when it would go ashore in Tanggu, and what landing equipment it would need to prepare. Including the 16th Division, the oil for the vehicles on the road, the feed for the pack horses, the ammunition for the soldiers, and the rations were all arranged in an orderly manner, not to mention that after the 16th Division arrived at the Yellow River, the warriors built pontoon bridges and other major events, which were naturally properly arranged.

There is no way, the follow-up baggage supplies of the 16th Division are all in Texas, and they all fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army. Okabe Naosaburo could only demolish the east wall to make up the west wall, and temporarily transferred the 16th Division from the supplies of the 5th and 10th Divisions.

After the battle plan was taken out, it was reviewed and signed by Terauchi Shouichi and immediately sent to the Fifth and Sixteenth Divisions for implementation.

Immediately afterwards, Okabe Naosaburo drafted a telegram requesting an urgent increase in arms and supplies for the North China Front, which was also reviewed and signed by Terauchi Shouichi and sent to the base camp.

It is said that when this telegram requesting an urgent increase in arms and supplies for the North China Front arrived on Prime Minister Fumihiro Konoe's desk, Prime Minister Konoe was furious, called Prime Minister Sugiyama Moto, who was about to leave office, threw the telegram in his face, and asked what kind of battle the army was fighting. Can't even protect the munitions? Don't you know that the Japanese Empire was short of resources and that the people had tightened their belts in order to support the war?

Sugiyama Yuan didn't change his face, and cheekily said that the reason why the Tuba Road broke the cauldron and captured Dezhou was to pull back the pace of the Second Army of the North China Front Army advancing westward along the Longhai Road, and it was no big deal! As soon as the 5th Division and the 16th Division arrive at their destination, the north and south will attack, and the recovery of Texas is just around the corner!

When Prime Minister Konoe saw Sugiyama Moto's unruly appearance, he was so angry that he pointed his nose and told Sugiyama to get out!

Sugiyama Yuan is really thick-skinned, anyway, he also knows that his land minister can't do it for the time being, and he has to change to Itagaki Seishiro, so he has no scruples, and he actually held his chest and shouted at the end of the Konoe text, saying that it was the Prime Minister that it was better to approve the report of the North China Front as soon as possible, otherwise, the 16th Division will lack food and clothing, and even artillery shells and bullets will be gone, and it will not be able to complete the task of destroying the Eighth Route Army and recapturing Texas!

After all, Konoe Fumiro is the prime minister of the Japanese cabinet, and the culprit of the invasion of China, he is so angry that he has to sign honestly and urgently allocate arms and materials to the North China Front!

Some of the materials could be transferred directly from the puppet state of Manchukuo to North China, including the rails, gang, and timber used to build the Jinpu Road and the Luokou Bridge, as well as some bullets, shells, rice, flour, oil, pork, beef and mutton, and so on.

On the evening of the 29th, due to the incessant urging of the commander of the North China Front, General Terauchi Shouichi, the Japanese army headquarters decided to report to His Majesty the Emperor for approval to dismiss the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji, from his post and transfer him back to the General Staff Headquarters as an attachment to the General Staff Headquarters. Lieutenant General Yoshijiro Umezu, Vice Minister of the Ministry of the Army, was transferred to the post of commander of the First Army.

The reason why the Japanese army headquarters agreed to dismiss Lieutenant General Kiyoshi Kazuki from his post was not only forced by the obscenity of General Terauchi Shouichi, but also because of the obscenity of General Terauchi, that is, Prime Minister Fumiro Konoe was upset when he saw that Sugiyama Mototo, who boasted of destroying China in three months, and wanted to drive Sugiyama Mototo and his vice-minister Umezu Mijiro out of the army center and replace Seishiro Itagaki as land minister and Hideki Tojo as vice minister. The dismissal of Lieutenant General Kiyoshi Kazuki from his post as commander of the First Army just made room for Umezu Mijiro. As a result, the scapegoat, Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji, could only be sacrificed.

As for what Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoshi violated the orders of the North China Front Army and ordered the 14th Division to attack in the direction of Kaifeng without authorization, it did exist, but that was not the fundamental reason for Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji to be dismissed from his post.

The Japanese army launched the 918 Incident, launched the Lugou Bridge Incident, and half of the 5th Division led by Seishiro Itagaki to attack Taiyuan without authorization, triggering the Battle of Taiyuan. On the contrary, Seishiro Itagaki is so bold and reckless, isn't he about to become a land minister now?

General Terauchi was impatient to wait, and after receiving a telegram from the base camp, he immediately conveyed an order to the First Army, relieving Lieutenant General Kiyoji Kazuki of his post as commander of the First Army, and placing Major General Shojiro Iida, chief of staff, in temporary charge of the operational command of the First Army, and handing over command to Lieutenant General Umezu Yoshijiro upon his arrival.

The old devil Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji is still in the dark, and he doesn't know that he has greatly offended General Terauchi Shouichi and has been swept away by the Terauchi General!

The reason why Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoshi ordered the 14th Division to attack in the direction of Kaifeng was to create a brilliant record of one division of the First Army seizing the Henan provincial capital. If this were not the case, he would not have strengthened all the field heavy artillery brigades, chariots, and automobiles attached to the First Army to the 14th Division.

The only selfishness is that Lieutenant General Kiyoshi Kazuki wants to make meritorious contributions and wants to be promoted to general as soon as possible.

Now it's okay, not to mention that the general can't do it, he was relieved of his post and transferred back to the staff headquarters as a staff headquarters attached!

That's it, Lieutenant General Kazuki Seiji still has illusions, not realizing that what awaits him is that he will soon be transferred to the reserve after returning to Japan!

The ignorant Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji also sent a telegram to General Terauchi Shouichi, asking what was going on and why he was suddenly relieved of his duties.

The answer to Lieutenant General Kiyoshi Kazuki was the cold words on the telegram of General Terauchi Shouyi: "The duty of a soldier is to obey orders!" ”

Of course, this matter can't be contained in paper, and the Central Committee of the Japanese Army is not monolithic, and Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji also has friends, so he will definitely know the inside story soon. But knowing that it's also for nothing, his arms can't twist his thighs, how can he take Earl Shouichi Terauchi? At most, after returning to Japan, I crawled on top of my wife at night and greeted the female friends of the Earl Terauchi's family in my head!

That same night, due to the work of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army to capture Shangqiu, the First Theater had to adjust its deployment and dispatch five divisions to Huaiyang, Taikang, Longquji, Qixian, and Yangguji to deploy defenses at various key points, preparing to find and annihilate the enemy advancing westward, and to change the remnants of the 14th Division of the Japanese Army in the area of Sanyizhai from attacking to defending, and planning to annihilate the 14th Division while it was fleeing.

As a matter of fact, this kind of adjustment and deployment in the First Theater is all official articles, and the 14th Division cannot be captured under heavy siege, and it is expected that the 14th Division will be destroyed in the movement when it escapes.

The 14th Division was so mobile, and there were Japanese planes Lu Xu airdropping fuel and munitions, if they really escaped, would the Kuomintang Army be able to catch up?

Besides, the commander of the army Huang Jie, who garrisoned Shangqiu, led his troops to flee without a fight, and then transferred five divisions to block the westward advance of the Japanese army, isn't that pure two-sided combat and asking for hardships?

To put it bluntly, the deployment of the first theater is to end the battle of Lanfeng. It is difficult to say whether the five divisions that were transferred to the east to block the attack could reach the designated position on time.

When the First Theater made such a deployment, it did not know that the Eighth Route Army had blown up the Luokou Bridge and severely damaged the 21st Wing of the 21st Brigade of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, let alone that the 16th Division of the Japanese Army had actually quietly stopped its westward advance and began to secretly retreat.

There was no way, Xiao Siming beat the 21st Brigade of the 21st Brigade of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army like that, and the little devil's plane had already gone crazy, not only bombing indiscriminately on the Luokou Yellow River defense position, but also conducting a large-scale reconnaissance and search along both sides of the highway parallel to Jinpu Road, and when he found a little suspicious, he swooped down to drop bombs and strafe fire.

In this hidden camp, the radio station could not be turned on, lest the Japanese army listen to the radio signal, lock on to the target, and send planes to bomb it!

If the radio station is not turned on, the results of the Battle of Luokou will not be reported, and it will affect the judgment of the headquarters on the situation of the Battle of Eastern Henan!

finally survived until dark and confirmed that it was impossible for the Japanese plane to come out, so Xiao Siming ordered the radio to turn on and report to the division headquarters, headquarters, and Yan'an headquarters!

Xiao Siming and the others did not have the conditions to count all the results of the Battle of Luokou, but the results of the Japanese search team were fixed, and the results of the Japanese troops who were bombed along with the Luokou Bridge were also fixed, plus the approximate number of Japanese troops killed and wounded by machine gun fire, Xiao Siming reported to the division headquarters, the headquarters, and the Yan'an headquarters that the results were to destroy 1,200 Japanese troops, destroy and blow down 10 Japanese tanks, 10 armored vehicles, and 18 automobiles, and completely blow up the Luokou Railway Bridge on the Yellow River.

This telegram was quickly relayed by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army to the Military Commission and the First War Zone.

After Chairman Chiang and Cheng Qian, commander of the First Theater of Operations, and others received the good news, they learned that the Japanese army had sent the Fifth Division back to the North China Region to fight with the Eighth Route Army!

What Xiao Siming didn't expect was that Chairman Chiang, the bigwigs of the Military Commission, and the commanders of the First Theater miscalculated, thinking that the Japanese army would only send one Fifth Division back to North China, which would be more than enough to deal with the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army, and the enemy situation on Longhai Road had not changed much, and it was still the 16th Division, the 10th Division, the 3rd Brigade, and the 13th Brigade to attack westward, and the enemy on Longhai Road could still get the 114th Division stationed in Xuzhou. The independent mixed 5th Brigade stationed in the Lianyungang section of Xuzhou on the Longhai Road was even supported by the 3rd, 9th, 13th, and 101st Divisions of the Japanese Army that participated in the capture of Xuzhou. In this case, although the battle of Luokou Bridge carried out by the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army was not small, it could not change the situation of the Lanfeng Battle.

It was because of this miscalculation that the First Theater still adjusted its deployment as it did in history, and began to take a defensive position against the 14th Division of the Japanese Army in the Sanyizhai area, and stopped attacking!

This is really a mistake, and the great fighter plane was missed like this!

No one can blame this matter, not to mention that Chairman Chiang and the First War Zone misjudged, including Xiao Siming, at this time, he did not know that the Japanese army had actually transferred two divisions, the Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division, back to North China. He originally thought that the Fifth Division had been temporarily placed under the direct jurisdiction of the Central China Dispatch Army, and that the North China Front Army had no right to transfer the Fifth Division back to North China for the time being, and that the Japanese army had ordered that the troops be transferred back to North China, and that the 16th Division or the 10th Division, which belonged to the Second Army, would definitely be transferred. Now that it has been confirmed that the 5th Division has been transferred back, it means that the Japanese army will not transfer the 16th Division or the 10th Division back to North China. After all, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army is there, and the team is only a small eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army, according to the convention, it is more than enough for the Japanese army to transfer one elite brigade, and it is impossible to transfer one elite division, let alone two elite divisions!

This is all caused by the lack of accurate information!

Then again, if the Japanese army wants to conceal its own actions, just as the Eighth Route Army wants to conceal its own actions, it can be done. If they can't even do this, the little devils will not be able to capture Pingjin, Taiyuan, Jinan, Xuzhou, Shanghai, and Nanjing. Little devil, naturally it's a ghost! (To be continued.) )