Back on the afternoon of October 15, Seishiro Itagaki, who received a farewell telegram from Honda Masasai, turned extremely pale, and he never expected that the battle in Henan Village, which he thought was full of the elimination of the Eighth Route Army's instructor, would suddenly take a sharp turn, not only was the second brigade annihilated, but the 42nd Company that he sent to support Honda Masasai was also completely lost. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

What shocked Itagaki Seishiro even more was that Honda Masasai mentioned in the telegram that the instructor of the Eighth Route Army was called a division-level establishment, but in fact it was a large army with more than 30,000 soldiers, and more than 700 artillery pieces, strong automatic firepower, and combat effectiveness was far above the standing division of the Imperial Army, which could be described as a great trouble for the Imperial Army.

Seishiro Itagaki couldn't accept the fact in front of him when he thought he would receive a telegram of victory, but the farewell telegram from Honda Masato in his hand, as well as the radio station that called Nishimura Riwin and Oba Sanhei no less than ten times without a response, clearly told him that the 2nd Brigade and the 42nd Wing had all been shattered.

Even if he no longer wants to believe it, in the face of the facts, Itagaki Seishiro has to accept the reality, he is conceited to be one of the four "China experts" in the Japanese army, and he thinks that he knows everything about China's politics, military, and economy, but he really knows nothing about this instructor of the Eighth Route Army.

If he hadn't heard the news that the instructor Yu Yuanping and Laoxian had eliminated the 15th Brigade, he would not have known that China still had such a powerful army.

Just when Seishiro Itagaki was at a loss for what to do with the instructor, a Japanese staff officer came in and reported: "Your Excellency, the special intelligence course you asked for about the instructor of the Eighth Route Army and his division commander Zhang Cheng has been transmitted. ”

Itagaki Seishiro turned his head suddenly, his eyes exuded an astonishing murderous aura, and the Japanese staff officers were suddenly frightened by Itagaki's astonishing murderous aura and took three steps back, seeing the staff officer's embarrassment, Itagaki chuckled and said, "What are you panicking about?" Read me Zhang Cheng's information. ”

The staff officer wiped a cold sweat that didn't exist, forcibly calmed down and said, "Hai! According to information obtained by Tegaoke in the top echelons of the Kuomintang Party, the instructor of the Eighth Route Army was created by his division commander Zhang Cheng. Born in 1912, Zhang Cheng is a fellow villager of the current leader of the Workers' and Peasants' Party and is deeply trusted by the leader of the Workers' and Peasants' Party.

In the early years of the so-called civil war in China, Zhang Cheng served as the head of the Central Guard Corps, responsible for the security of the Central Committee of the Workers' and Peasants' Party, so he remained unknown in military circles. Until 1934, Zhang Cheng became the commander of the International Division of the Young Communist Party and led the troops to fight, shining in the battle, successively defeating the famous generals Chen Cheng and Jiang Dingwen of the Central Army of the People's Party.

After the Workers' and Peasants' Party lost Gannan and began the Long March, Zhang Cheng led the International Division of the Young Communist Party as the general rearguard of the Red Army, and blocked more than 100,000 troops of the Kuomintang Army with the strength of one division, with amazing results; After Zunyi, the Zhangcheng Department was upgraded to a military-level combat unit, an international column of the Young Communist Party, and served as the pioneer of the Red Army.

After the 77 Zhina Incident, the two parties of the Chinese People's and Workers' Party merged, and the International Column of the Young Communist Party in Zhangcheng was reorganized into the Central Instructor of the 18th Group Army of the Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, with an estimated strength of 40,000 troops, most of the weapons and equipment captured by the Central Army of the Liberal Democratic Party, with a large number of artillery, and it was the unit with the largest strength and the strongest combat power of the Eighth Route Army. ”

After listening to Zhang Cheng's information, Itagaki Seishiro was speechless for a long time, he was really unjustly defeated! How could he be victorious if he claimed to be an all-knowing China expert, but he knew nothing about the strongest troops in China.

Yes, Itagaki Seishiro can deduce that Zhang Cheng's instructor is the strongest army in China without verification, and with the power of just one division, he wiped out 23,000 elites of the imperial army. Such a force is not the strongest army in China, and who dares to call it the first?

I hate myself for having no eyes, and I don't take the instructor in my eyes at all, just thinking that he is a miscellaneous division of the Eighth Route Army, and he has committed the taboo of not knowing himself or the other in the art of war, and failure has become a matter of course.

"Yaga! Zhang Cheng, you are so bold! ”

Itagaki Seishiro immediately thought that the instructor of the Eighth Route Army was so powerful, but they were willing to keep a low profile, and the battle report of the annihilation of the mixed second brigade and the 42nd wing had not been issued, and they could do whatever they wanted to do without saying.

"Hehe, it turns out that your target is our Fifth Division!" Seishiro Itagaki laughed angrily at Zhang Cheng's audacity.

However, when he calmed down and analyzed them one by one, he found that his Fifth Division was really in extreme danger, first of all, the Ninth Brigade under the division formed the Kunisaki Detachment to go south to support the Battle of Songhu, and secondly, the 21st Brigade was confronting the 9th Army in Nanhuaihua.

Moreover, after the instructor of the Eighth Route Army eliminated the two mixed brigades of the Chahar Dispatch Corps, there was an emptiness around him, and there was no Japanese army at all to stop their advance.

On the other hand, after losing the protection of the two brigades of the Chahar Dispatch Corps on the flank, the Fifth Division has already shown a situation of fighting alone, and if the instructor stabs him from behind when he and the Central Army of China are in the middle of a fierce battle, the Fifth Division may really end up with the annihilation of the whole army.

Thinking of this, the cold sweat on Itagaki Seishiro's back burst out, and he couldn't help muttering: "Zhang Cheng, Zhang Cheng, you are so vicious and strategic!" I, Seishiro Itagaki, almost fell in love with you. ”

Seishiro Itagaki couldn't sit still, so he immediately summoned the commanders and staff officers of each wing to urgently discuss countermeasures, and finally they reached a plan to strike first, defeat the Ninth Army first, and seize the position in Nanhuaihua.

"Boom!"

At two o'clock in the morning on October 16, the Japanese Fifth Division attacked with all its strength and raided the Nanhuaihua position defended by the Ninth Army.

"Military seat, military seat, no, the Fifth Division launched a sneak attack on our army, and the brothers will not be able to stop it!" Liu Jiaqi, commander of the 54th Division, came to report to Hao Mengling, the commander of the army who had just woken up.

"You lead the troops to hurry up and support, and I'll be there later!" Hao Mengling ordered loudly.

"Yes, I'll go right away!" Liu Jiaqi answered.

Not long after Liu Jiaqi led the troops to rush to support, Hao Mengling immediately put on a military uniform, and took the guard regiment to reinforce the front-line position with a submachine gun in hand.

But at this time, a vicious bullet that flew from there hit Hao Mengling's vital point, Commander Hao Mengling died on the spot, the news spread, the Ninth Army was in turmoil, and then Liu Jiaqi, the commander of the 54th Division, and Deng Tingzhen, the commander of the 5th Brigade, also followed in the footsteps of Commander Hao Mengling and was shot and died, martyring the country.

Hao Mengling was a fierce general that Wei Lihuang valued very much, and when he received the news of the rout of the Ninth Army and the death of the army commander, he was also shocked and dumbfounded.

However, the position of Nanhuaihua was lost, and Wei Lihuang did not have time to grieve, so he ordered the troops to hastily collect Hao Mengling's body, and then continued to requisition troops, intending to block the front of the Fifth Division.