Once again, the little devil has perfectly carried out a tactical deception!

Obviously, the 16th Division, the absolute main force of the Battle of Longhai Road, had quietly retreated, and a detachment mixed into the 3rd Brigade, the 13th Brigade, and the 10th Division was also put on a fearless posture and attacked westward. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Whether it is Chairman Chiang or the Headquarters of the First Theater Commander, they do not know what is going on, but from the perspective of the strategic situation, they only feel that the Japanese army has the upper hand, and if the Battle of Lanfeng is not ended, the Eastern Henan Corps will be in great danger! So, on May 31, the Commander's Headquarters of the First Theater issued an order, and the Eastern Henan Corps and the 17th Army Corps were evacuated separately and separated from contact with the Japanese army, and the Battle of Lanfeng ended.

The Eastern Henan Corps and the 17th Army Corps are all the elite of the Central Army, and if they are surrounded by the Japanese army and wiped out by the Yellow River in the East Henan Plain, the entire Anti-Japanese War situation will be in an unprecedented crisis! Chairman Chiang may not even know what to use to defend Wuhan!

At this time, Chairman Jiang had long since lost the ambition of the 14th Division of the 14th Division, but had only one word: regret!

Under this mentality, Chairman Chiang is looking forward to the rapid withdrawal of the main forces of the First Theater of Operations!

As soon as the troops of the 1st Theater withdrew, the 14th Division, which was under heavy siege, was freed from the trap and occupied Lanfeng bloodlessly on June 2!

The Japanese troops advancing west along the Longhai Road were mixed into the 3rd Brigade, the 13th Brigade, and the 10th Division, and joined the 14th Division in Lanfeng.

The battle plan drawn up by Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe demarcated the line of halt for the Japanese attack on the Lanfeng line. However, as soon as the main force of the First Theater was withdrawn and the 14th Division easily occupied Lanfeng, General Terauchi Shouichi, who advocated attacking, could not hold back his manic heart again, and even ignored the dissuasion of Lieutenant General Okabe Naosaburo and the orders of the base camp, sent a telegram to the new commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Umezu Mijiro, and the commander of the Second Army, Lieutenant General Tsukihiko King Higashikurenomiya, instructing the 14th Division of the First Army, the 10th Division of the Second Army, the 3rd Brigade and the 13th Brigade to actively defend Kaifeng.

The active defense that Shouichi Terauchi said is actually an offense!

As a result, the dilapidated 14th Division summoned up Yu Yong and took the lead in attacking Kaifeng on June 3!

On this day, it was the day of the great change of blood of the Central Committee of the Japanese Army, and Prime Minister Fumima Konoe finally kicked out the land minister Sugi Sugimoto, who advocated "the destruction of China in three months", and the new land minister, Lieutenant General Itagaki Seishiro, took office!

Shouichi Terauchi, Sugi Sugimoto, and Seishiro Itagaki are all raccoon dogs, and they are all representatives of the expansion of the invasion faction within the Japanese army.

Compared to Sugi Sugimoto, Itagaki Seishiro is bolder and more adventurous!

Thinking that Itagaki Seishiro could single-handedly plan the "918" incident, establish the puppet state of Manchukuo, walk more than 1,000 miles to survey the offensive route in the name of visiting his old classmate Yan Xishan, and provoke the Battle of Taiyuan with half a division's strength, what else did he dare not do?

Seishiro Itagaki presided over the Central Committee of the Japanese Army, and Shouichi Terauchi, who was fighting outside, was naturally even more reckless!

The Provisional Aviation Regiment of the North China Front Army exerted all its strength, dispatched all the planes that could be dispatched, and divided the troops into two routes, one way to suppress the Eighth Route Army from Luokou to Dezhou and Wuqiao, and all the way to Kaifeng to bomb indiscriminately to cover the Japanese attack, killing and wounding more than 1,000 people in Kaifeng in just one day.

On June 4, the Japanese army attacked the city of Kaifeng. On the 5th, concentrated artillery fire began to bombard the city of Kaifeng!

In the sky, Japanese planes were frantically dropping bombs and strafing, and on the ground, Japanese artillery was screaming. The ancient city of Kaifeng trembled under the onslaught of the Japanese army.

In just one day, in the early morning of June 6, the Japanese army captured Kaifeng!

Burning, killing, looting, raping, raping, and crazy little devils, raging in the ancient city of Kaifeng!

Just when the Japanese army was attacking Kaifeng, the headquarters of the commander of the First Theater of Operations submitted an urgent report to Chairman Chiang, asking for permission to blow up the Yellow River embankment, divert the water of the Yellow River to repel the enemy, block the footsteps of the Japanese army's frenzied westward advance, ensure the safety of Zhengzhou, and ensure the safety of the Pinghan line.

This report was approved by Chairman Chiang!

Chairman Chiang was afraid that it would be too late to blow up the embankment of the Yellow River, so on 3 June, he directly called Cheng Qian, commander of the First Theater of Operations, and instructed him to break all his worries, resolutely do it, and make a complete effort!

Blowing up the embankment of the Yellow River and flooding the Japanese army, strategically speaking, it is absolutely necessary at this time! However, once the Yellow River bursts its banks, the Yellow River is boiling as follows, regardless of how many Japanese troops can be drowned, those ordinary people who have no time to move will definitely be unlucky. This matter, once the people of the country know, it is definitely what a thousand people refer to!

Experienced as Cheng Qian, he can't take care of much at this time, so he personally deployed and arranged for the troops to blow up the Yellow River embankment!

It was the Ministry of Military and Commercial Affairs that undertook the task of blowing up the embankment of the Yellow River. The location of the embankment is set at Zhaokou, where the Yellow River embankment is thinner!

No one could have imagined that the sappers of the Shang Zhen Department did not break the embankment in Zhaokou smoothly, and they could not complete it in a hurry!

Cheng Qian had no choice, so he sent Jiang Zaizhen's new 8th Division, which had been changed from the Guizhou Army, to carry out this task.

After Jiang Zaizhen went to the Yellow River and looked around, he thought that it would be more appropriate to change the location of the embankment to Huayuankou!

This suggestion was quickly approved. As a result, Chiang Jae-jin's new 8th Division drove to Huayuankou on June 7.

No one wants to do such a thing that has been stinking for thousands of years, and they can't bear to do it, but they can't help it!

Two officers of the new 8th Division took incense, candles, and tribute, burned incense and kowtowed by the Yellow River, and cried and shouted while kowtowing: "God, it's not that we want to break the embankment, it's that we are incompetent and can't beat the little devils, so we have to break the embankment and divert water to resist the enemy!" Open your eyes and forgive us! ”

After burning the paper, kowtowing, and crying bitterly, the two officers ordered to excavate!

If history had developed according to inertia, by the early morning of June 9, Jiang Zaizhen's new 8th Division would blow up the mouth of the garden and let the Yellow River flood to the southeast!

At the moment of crisis, Xiao Siming's role in capturing Texas was revealed!

Due to the occupation of Dezhou by the Eighth Route Army, the 16th Division, the 114th Division, the 3rd Mixed Brigade, the 13th Mixed Brigade, the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade, and the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade were stored in Dezhou for ammunition, food, and socks and supplies stored in Dezhou.

After the capture of Kaifeng, the Japanese army's food and grass supplies could be raised on the spot to feed the war, but ammunition and oil could not be raised in Kaifeng! Kaifeng City did not have so much gasoline and diesel, and there were no shells and bullets for Japanese-style weapons that the Japanese army urgently needed!

The 3rd Mixed Brigade was formed by drawing troops from the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army, and it was also a mechanized mixed brigade, and its combat effectiveness was stronger than that of the 10th Division, the 14th Division, and the 13th Mixed Brigade.

The mixed 3rd Brigade would not be able to attack at all without fuel and ammunition, and the 14th Division alone, whether it was Terauchi Shouichi or the new commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Umezu Mijiro, would no longer dare to let them venture alone.

The Japanese attack came to an abrupt end on the Kaifeng front!

Historically, after the Battle of Lanfeng, the Japanese army continued to advance westward, captured Kaifeng in the early morning of June 6, and attacked in the direction of Zhengzhou along the Longhai Road.

Seeing that the historical tragedy was about to be repeated, the Japanese army stopped its westward march on the Kaifeng front!

After receiving the report that the Japanese army did not continue to advance westward, Cheng Qian, commander of the First Theater of Operations, still did not believe it, and immediately ordered the troops that were withdrawing from Empress Cang to send a small force to carry out a tentative attack on the Japanese army in Kaifeng to show the Japanese army's intentions.

As a result, after the Japanese counterattacked, they did not take advantage of the situation to pursue, but began to build a defensive line on the spot, and it seemed that they were going to hold on!

Cheng Qian shouted that he was lucky, immediately reported to Chairman Chiang, and ordered the new 8th Division, which was tasked with blowing up the embankment of the Yellow River, to suspend its operations and wait for a new order.

Chairman Chiang, who did not know why, could not figure out why the Japanese army stopped after capturing Kaifeng, and organized his staff to study and judge. However, due to the lack of intelligence support, I did not know that the 16th Division of the Japanese Army had retreated after occupying Shangqiu, and so many senior staff and military generals could not come up with a reason.

At this time, the Eighteenth Group Army sent an urgent telegram to the Military Commission and the First Theater, informing that the Japanese Fifth Division had suddenly landed at Tanggu Port in Tianjin, and was attacking and advancing south along the Jinpu Road and the road from Tianjin to Dezhou; The 16th Division of the Japanese Army crossed the Yellow River in Pingyin County, Shandong Province, and entered the Northwest Plain of Shandong. Judging from the situation of the Japanese army, it is judged that it is an attempt to advance on the north and south fronts simultaneously, flank Dezhou, regain control of the northern section of the Jinpu Road, seek and annihilate the eastward advance detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army that captured Dezhou, and carry out a heavy siege of the armed forces behind the enemy in the plain area!

I see!

Without the 16th Division, only the 10th Division, which had suffered a heavy blow on the battlefield of Taierzhuang, and the 14th Division, which had suffered a heavy blow in the Battle of Lanfeng, had not yet had time to reorganize, plus the 3rd Brigade and the 13th Brigade, whether it was Chairman Jiang or Cheng Qian, the commander of the 1st Theater, they suddenly felt much more relaxed.

Chairman Chiang immediately sent a telegram to the Second Theater and the Eighteenth Army, ordering all units in the Second Theater to actively attack the enemy in front of them. Order the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army that captured Texas to hold on to Texas, drag the devils for as long as possible, cover the first theater to reorganize the troops, consolidate the defensive line, and prepare for another battle!

The suspension of the Japanese army's westward advance has indeed won a precious respite for the First Theater, and this opportunity is very rare, and anyone with a discerning eye can see it clearly!

As for whether the eastward advance detachment of the commander of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, which captured Dezhou, would all be killed under the attack of the two main divisions of the Japanese army, Chairman Chiang did not consider it. In a matter of righteousness, every army and every soldier should be determined to sacrifice for the country! Selfishly speaking, the eastward advance detachment is the Eighth Route Army, the armed forces of the Communist Party, even if it is wiped out by the Japanese army, Chairman Guan Chiang's bird matter?

This is June 7th, and it is only one day away from the early morning of June 9th, when the first war zone in history opened the entrance to the garden! (To be continued.) )