The world is unpredictable!

When Xiao Siming was waiting in concealment at the Luokou Bridge on the Yellow River, he turned off the radio during the day and practiced radio silence, so as to avoid being monitored by the Japanese army and attracting indiscriminate bombing by Japanese planes. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Radio silence is a measure that must be taken by troops on covert standby, mainly in order not to expose the target.

On the night of 27 May, the night of 27 May, the vanguard of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army rushed back to Jinan by car.

During the day, the Japanese troops stationed in Tai'an had already dispatched two infantry squadrons to transport them to Jinan, plus the infantry brigade of the Fifth Division, and the commander of the Second Infantry Wing of the North China Garrison Army, which was responsible for garrisoning Jinan, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and no longer sent reports to the North China Front Army Headquarters one after another asking for help, but was busy strengthening the deployment of the city defense, waiting for the main force of the Fifth Division to return to Jinan, and then looking for and destroying the Eighth Route Army that was peeping at Jinan and waiting for an opportunity to attack the city.

As for the matter of recapturing Dezhou, it is not within the scope of the consideration of the commander of the Second Infantry Wing of the Mixed Brigade of the North China Garrison Army, but the matter of Lieutenant General Toshiyoshi Ando, the commander of the Fifth Division, who is about to return to North China!

The Fifth Division is worthy of being the flower of the Japanese army, with strict military orders and rapid action. In such a short period of time, the vanguard rushed back to Jinan to assist in the defense of Jinan, relieving Terauchi Shouichi and Okabe Naosaburo of fearing that the Eighth Route Army would seize Jinan when the Japanese army was empty. However, the main force of the Fifth Division, because it took time to assemble and gather, could not be assembled until the evening of the 27th at the earliest, and began to return north, arriving in Jinan on the evening of the 28th.

This is still a march in the area controlled by the Japanese army, and there is no Chinese army to block and harass it, otherwise, if the Fifth Division wants to rush back to Jinan smoothly, the time will definitely drag on for a few days.

It is reasonable for the Fifth Division to quickly return northward, and the most unexpected thing is that the war situation in eastern Henan is still developing according to historical inertia!

Lieutenant General Nakajima, commander of the 16th Division who received the order of the North China Front, as Lieutenant General Naosaburo Okabe predicted, heard that the name of the Eighth Route Army of the 20th Cavalry Wing, which had killed him, was the eastward advance detachment, which had just captured Dezhou, and that the North China Front was going to transfer the 16th Division back to North China to encircle and annihilate the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army. Annihilate the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army and avenge the 20th Cavalry Wing!

According to the rules of the Japanese army, when a unit is completely annihilated and the flag falls into the hands of the enemy, the unit will be abolished.

The 20th Cavalry Wing of the 16th Division was completely annihilated by the Eighth Route Army in the Battle of Mafang, the team flag was captured by the Eighth Route Army, and the entire wing ceased to exist. So that the 16th Division now has no cavalry wing!

In the same way, the infantry brigade that was unlucky with the 20th Cavalry Wing, because there were still remnants, the unit number was not affected, and it was still a complete infantry brigade after replenishment.

This revenge, Lieutenant General Nakajima and the 16th Division cannot fail to report it, and it must be reported immediately, the sooner the better!

The units of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army suddenly screamed as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and the offensive was extremely fierce!

Huang Jie, the commander of the 8th Army stationed in Shangqiu, was frightened by the Japanese army. As soon as the 16th Division launched an attack on the outlying positions of Shangqiu, Huang Jie led his troops to retreat in great strides and retreated back to the outskirts of Shangqiu.

Shangqiu was a strategic support point to block the westward advance of the Japanese army from Xuzhou along the Longhai Road, and the reason why the First Theater deployed Huang Jie's 8th Army in Shangqiu was that the task was to block the westward advance of the Japanese army and cover the battle to eliminate the 14th Division.

At this time, the main force of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army was attacking Wuyang and Bozhou. Only the 16th Division, the 3rd Brigade, and the 13th Brigade were attacking in the direction of Shangqiu. Moreover, the eastward advance detachment of the Eighth Route Army had already captured Dezhou, cutting off the supply lines of the 16th Division, the 3rd Mixed Brigade, and the 13th Brigade, and the Japanese offensive was absolutely unsustainable. As long as Huang Jie led the 8th Army to defend Shangqiu, the Japanese army would not be able to attack for a few days, so it would naturally not be able to attack.

It's a pity that Huang Jie, a famous general who originally graduated from the first phase of Whampoa, didn't know what to think at this time, and he didn't desperately stop the Japanese army! On the contrary, the Japanese army attacked one step, and he took a step back. The Japanese attacked the outskirts of Shangqiu, and he retreated to the outskirts. On the 27th, the Japanese army began to attack the periphery of Shangqiu, and the radio station of Huang Jie's headquarters was blown up by Japanese aircraft, and Huang Jie actually used this as an excuse to lead the two main divisions to run away in the early morning of the 28th, ignoring the order of Cheng Qian, the commander of the first theater of operations, to defend Shangqiu, block the enemy advancing westward, and cover the 14th Division of the Eastern Henan Corps, and retreat to Liuhe and Kaifeng, leaving only the 187th Division to defend Zhuji Station and Shangqiu.

It is a fool's dream to block the attack of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army with a single 187th Division, mixed into the 3rd Brigade and the 13th Brigade!

The army commanders all ran away, and Peng Linsheng, the commander of the 187th Division, still had a heart to fight, and he also ran away. As a result, the Japanese army successfully occupied Shangqiu on the night of the 28th, or in the early morning of the 29th.

Fortunately, on the 27th, the 64th Army captured Luowangji, the 74th Army recaptured Luowang Station, and the 71st Army fought hard and attacked Lanfeng City in two hours, opening up the Longhai Line, so that the 42 military trains full of supplies left near Shangqiu could return to Zhengzhou.

A wing of the 14th Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Lanfeng City, under the fierce attack of the 71st Army, abandoned the city and fled to Sanyi Village.

At this point, it can already be basically determined that the division headquarters of Tohihara Kenji is in Sanyi Village.

The Tufei Yuan Division had already fallen into the encirclement of our Eastern Henan Corps, but because Gui Yongqing led his troops to withdraw from Lanfeng without authorization, the 14th Division broke out of the encirclement, and the boiled duck flew. Now, Chairman Chiang is personally sitting in the headquarters of the commander of the First Theater of Operations in Luoyang, and the Eastern Henan Corps and Hu Zongnan's 17th Army Corps are all descendants of the Central Army.

Think about Jiang Yuzhen Shouyuanping, Wang Mingzhang Shouteng County, Sun Lianzhong, Chifeng Cheng Shoutaierzhuang, Gui Yongqing and Huang Jie of the Central Military Lineage, I don't know if I will die of shame in the future!

These two people will definitely not die of shame, if they die of shame, how could Gui Yongqing later become the commander of the navy of the national * army, how could Huang Jie worship the admiral?

On the 28th, Chairman Chiang, who did not know that Huang Jie had abandoned Shangqiu, personally gave orders to the commanders of all units besieging the 14th Division, and was extremely dissatisfied with the fact that the 14th Division could not be annihilated after several days of fierce fighting.

Since then, the participating units have launched fierce attacks on the 14th Division, which was huddled in the vicinity of Sanyizhai and Quxingji. The battlefield rained bullets and bloodshed!

The Chinese army attacked fiercely, and the 14th Division also fiercely returned fire with strong artillery fire, and the two sides fought together.

Fearing that the 14th Division would be annihilated and that the planes of the Provisional Aviation Regiment of the North China Front would bomb the area from Dezhou to Jinan indiscriminately, they ordered them to concentrate their forces on bombing the main force of the Central Army attacking the Tufeiyuan Division, and to urgently send supplies to the 14th Division, including ammunition, food, oil, and medicine. At the same time, the independent mixed 4th Brigade on the other side of the Yellow River was ordered to quickly organize a river crossing to reinforce the 14th Division.

As a result, Chairman Jiang's descendant Gui Yongqing once again surprised people. All units were actively attacking the Japanese army, Gui Yongqing was good, the Japanese counterattacked, Gui Yongqing once again ordered the headquarters to retreat, and they fled in embarrassment, even throwing radio and ammunition.

How can a donkey pull a horse in this battle?

In the early morning of the 29th, after the First Theater learned the news of the loss of Shangqiu, it had to adjust its deployment and urgently transfer five divisions of troops to redeploy to the east to block the defensive line.

At this time, whether it was Chairman Chiang, Cheng Qian, or Xue Yue, they still had the dream of annihilating the 14th Division, and they still strictly ordered the troops besieging the 14th Division to intensify their attacks.

In fact, at this time, Chairman Jiang and Cheng Qian were already panicking, and they were already thinking about the retreat of the Eastern Henan Corps and the 17th Corps. Because in their eyes, the Japanese army's capture of Shangqiu, strategically speaking, has seriously threatened the flank of Xue Yue's Yudong Corps, and if the blocking troops cannot stop the Japanese offensive, our army will attack the 14th Division but fail to overcome it, which will be extremely disadvantageous strategically.

And, most crucially, it would be even more troublesome if the troops acting as the blocker fled again without permission and let the Japanese army advance in stride.

This point was not only counted by Chairman Jiang and Cheng Qian, but also by the army commanders and division commanders who participated in the Battle of Lanfeng. Because the terrain of the East Henan Plain is open and there is no danger to rely on, it is suitable for the rapid movement of the mechanized troops of the Japanese army. And the only armored battalion of the Chinese army, the armored battalion of Qiu Qingquan under the command of Gui Yongqing, is not helpful at all, and it runs faster than the infantry!

On the night of the 28th, Xiao Siming, who was secretly waiting at the west end of the Luokou Bridge, ordered the radio station to be turned on, and deployed the next combat mission to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments that had captured the plains, Yucheng, and Qihe, and ordered the Wudi Independent Regiment to quickly drive to the Luokou line with the first regiment, occupy the river defense position on the west bank of the Yellow River, and undertake the task of monitoring the Japanese army and blocking the Japanese army from crossing the river; Hu Qingyun was ordered to command the Deping Independent Regiment to lay mines on both sides of the highway leading from Dezhou to Jinan, preparing to intercept the attack.

As soon as the radio station was turned on, it received the news that Political Commissar Xiao led the 343 Brigade Headquarters, cadres and five detachments to arrive in Dezhou City.

What made Xiao Siming happiest was that the 129th Division still sent Sun Jixian's Jinpu detachment to accompany the five detachments to Dezhou.

This Jinpu detachment now has only one battalion of troops. However, the 5th company of the Red Fourth Front Army was the old unit of the original Jute Uprising, and it was a very famous heroic company in military history after the first battle at Yangmingbao Airport after going north to resist Japan.

Well, there are two more elites of our army in the Jilu border area!

Xiao Siming immediately sent a telegram to Political Commissar Xiao Hua, suggesting that the brigade headquarters, the Fifth Detachment, and the Jinpu Detachment immediately go to Ningjin and Leling to replenish ammunition, expand the troops, and prepare to participate in the anti-Japanese heavy sweeping battle.

This kind of advice is most welcome!

Xiao Hua immediately telegraphed back to Xiao Siming, ordering him to concentrate on commanding the eastward advance detachment to fight, and said that he would lead the five detachments and the Jinpu detachment to launch an attack on the enemy at Wuqiao in the north, and strive to drive the enemy at Wuqiao and Dongguang to Cangzhou to hold on, so as to expand the strategic maneuver space for our army's next counter-sweep. After completing the task, retreat to Leling to rest and replenish.

The basis of the five detachments is the second battalion of the 343 Brigade and the 685 Regiment, that is, the original Red Fifth Regiment, one of the famous three tigers of the Central Red Army. Although the troops have now expanded, the foundation is good, and there is no problem at all in fighting a war.

Xiao Siming immediately sent a telegram to Huang Hua, deputy commander of the eastward advance detachment, ordering him to report to Political Commissar Xiao immediately, and the Fourth Regiment and the Yanshan Independent Regiment obeyed the unified command of Political Commissar Xiao and fought side by side with the Fifth Detachment. At the same time, Xiao Siming sent another telegram to Wang Lushui, asking him to immediately transfer a batch of weapons and ammunition, medicines, rice and noodles, and canned beef to supplement the Fifth Detachment and the Jinpu Detachment.

Such a disposal measure made the cadres and fighters of the Fifth Detachment and the Jinpu Detachment feel like they were at home again.

At about 3 o'clock in the morning on the road, Xiao Siming suddenly received an urgent call from the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army: "Shangqiu is lost!" ”

As soon as he looked at these four words on the newspaper, Xiao Siming immediately wanted to scold his mother!

After a lot of hard work and repeated calculations, I didn't expect that in the end, the Japanese army would successfully capture Shangqiu, just like in history.

With such a result, how can Xiao Siming not scold his mother!

Xiao Siming's heart was like a mirror, and as soon as Shangqiu was lost, the siege of the 14th Division of the Japanese Army was immediately lifted. The siege of the 14th Division by the Eastern Henan Corps became the end of the strong crossbow, and the follow-up was weak. Next, the first theater of operations will issue an order to retreat on the 31st as it has done historically.

If the Japanese army continued to advance westward regardless of it, Chairman Chiang and the First War Zone, who were in a panic, would definitely have ordered the Yellow River embankment to be blown up and the Yellow River water to be diverted to repel the enemy!

Xiao Siming, who was furious, let out a deep sigh! (To be continued.) )