Just when Liu Yimin led the main force to cross the Yellow River and return to Luzhong, Liu Jianjian, commander of the Luxi Military Region of the Eighth Route Army and commander of the Second Brigade of the Second Brigade, commanded the main forces of the Second Brigade, the Luxi Garrison Brigade, and the Southwest Lu Garrison Brigade to arrive at the junction of Shanxian County and Dangshan in concealment.

From the Red Eighteenth Regiment to the Central Guard Division, Liu Jianli has always been the chief of staff. When the Red Seventh Army was established in Chengdu, Liu Jianli began to serve as the commander of the Red Twelfth Division, and when the Red Army was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army, the Red Twelfth Division was reorganized into the Second Brigade, and Liu Jianli naturally became the commander of the Second Brigade.

With Liu Yimin all the way to the battle, Liu Jianjian, like Gao Yuan, Li Qing, Chen Dayong, Zhang Hongtao, Hong Chaoyuan, Zhao Shan, Lei Ming, and Li Chang, became a famous general of our army. This time, Liu Yimin ordered him to unify the command of the three brigades to form a strategic group operation, which was a full affirmation of his command ability.

After receiving the order to go south to Longhai Road and prepare to attack and occupy Lianyungang, Liu Jianjian, Zeng Chunjian, Xu Shiyou, and Zhu Liangcai led their troops to the south day and night, and after meeting Chen Shiqu and Tang Liang in southwestern Lu, several people held an operational meeting, discussed it repeatedly, and resolved to quickly break through the Longhai Road and wait for a concealed position near Lianyungang.

However, how this gets through needs to be carefully considered. These people are all famous generals of our army, and they understand Liu Yimin's deployment, that is, they want to secretly cross the Longhai Road, approach Lianyungang unknowingly, and launch a thunderous blow at a critical time. However, the investigation found that the army had taken strict defensive measures along the Longhai Road, relying on the railway to build three blockade lines, and it was absolutely impossible for such a large-scale force to cross the blockade line without anyone noticing.

If he forcibly broke through, although the sacrifice was greater, with the combat effectiveness of the Second Brigade, Liu established a defense line of confident little devils who could not stop our army. However, this is absolutely not in line with Liu Yimin's original intention, and it is very easy to arouse the vigilance of the Yue army, and not only will it not be able to complete the task of sneaking up on Lianyungang to mobilize the Yue army, but it is very likely that the heavy army group on the front line of Xuzhou will move when they hear the wind and besiege our southward group.

Fortunately, when the Fifth War Zone retreated from Lianyungang and Xuzhou, all the trains on Longhai Road were snatched away, Jinpu Road was intermittent, and Jiaoji Road was completely paralyzed. Otherwise, the defense line of this Longhai Road will be even stronger.

After thinking about it, a few people felt that since they could not conceal it, it was better to fight hard, camouflage it, attack one point, mobilize the enemy, and create the illusion that the main force of the first theater would launch an offensive, so that there would be a gap in the defense line of the army, and the main force could pass smoothly.

As soon as this idea came out, several people's eyes lit up, because the Devil's Heavy Army Group was now staring at the Eighth Route Army, and the battlefield was quiet. Between Lanfeng and Kaifeng, there was a delicate situation in which the [***] and the Yue army contracted and separated from each other, both sides adopted a defensive position, there was a narrow blank belt between the battle lines, and both sides were buried in consolidating their positions and closely monitoring each other, but both tried to avoid exchanging fire.

This is not good, you can't let the devils use all their forces to deal with the Eighth Route Army, you should ignite the war between them and [***], so as to force the devils to divide their troops.

As for the question of who should lead the troops to attack the devil's defense line, it is very easy to solve, because Xu Shiyou has long been stimulated by the battle of the Guantai Ferry of the Southwest Lu Garrison Brigade, and has always wanted to fight a good battle and make the Luxi Garrison Brigade the main force. In addition, stimulated by the Luzhong Campaign, Xu Shiyou kept muttering to Zhu Liangcai that such a big battle was the best battlefield for training new troops, but the result was that only the Luxi Garrison Brigade beat the side drum, and Division Commander Liu was really not interesting! Therefore, this combat mission must be grabbed by Monk Xu.

As a result, Chen Shiqu did not give in, and the reason he mentioned was very simple: Since the establishment of the Southwest Lu Garrison Brigade, after the baptism of the battle of attacking the Guantai Ferry, the combat effectiveness of the troops has been improved to a certain extent, but it is only an ambush war, and the troops still need real offensive battles in order to be further tempered, otherwise, it will be difficult for the Southwest Lu Garrison Brigade to be among the main forces.

Liu Jianli was happy when he saw these two famous Red Army generals scrambling to grab the task, and said directly: "The two brigade commanders and brothers don't fight for it, let's just give the little devils a three-way assault on Shangqiu, completely knock the devils unconscious, and make them scratch their heads." ”

Xu Shiyou and Chen Shiqu didn't argue about this, and immediately squeezed to the map, and after looking at it for a long time, Chen Shiqu said: "Brigade Commander Liu, you can't fight Shangqiu, this Shangqiu is an important town in eastern Henan, and now it is the core protective fortress city of the eastern Henan group of the army." First, we can't move, and second, we can't play the role of camouflaging the main force of the First Theater to attack the army. ”

Xu Shiyou said: "I feel that only by attacking between the army and the [***] defense line in the Lanfeng area can we lure the devils into being fooled and make them think that it is a [***] counterattack to cover our true intentions." ”

Liu Jianli nodded and said his thoughts.

Liu's plan had three points, one was that Xu Shiyou led the Fifth Regiment of the Second Brigade and the First Regiment of the Southwest Lu Garrison Brigade to form the Xu Detachment, disguised [***], and went south along the east bank of the Yellow River from Dongming County, all the way to the concealed and rapid advance, not to be entangled with the enemy, to enter between Kaifeng and Lanfeng, and to fight in the gap between the Yue army and the [***] defense line, with fierce firepower and fierce attacks, so that the Yue army thought that the main force of [***] in eastern Henan took advantage of the emptiness of the Yue army's strength to carry out a large-scale counterattack. Second, Chen Shiqu commanded the Sixth Regiment of the Second Brigade and the First Regiment of the Southwest Lu Garrison Brigade to form the Chen Detachment, which went south from Cao County, disguised as a puppet army, bypassed Kaocheng and went south to Longhai Road, attacked one point, cut off Longhai Road, and formed a pincer attack on Lanfeng County with the Xu Detachment, causing the main force to detour behind the enemy in an attempt to recover Lanfeng. Third, Liu Jianli led the main force from Cao County to the south, hiding between Shanxian and Dangshan, and when the army reinforced Lanfeng, he concentrated firepower to break through the defense line of the army on Longhai Road and enter the northern Anhui region. The three-way army made a big fuss in eastern Henan, forming a false impression that the main force of the army had recovered the lost territory in eastern Henan. Then they broke away from contact with the enemy and advanced covertly in the direction of Lianyungang.

After Liu Jianli put forward his plan, several people discussed it again, carefully studied and deduced the southbound route of the Xu detachment and the Chen detachment, the time of the attack, and how to break through the devil's defense line, and then reported it to Liu Yimin for approval after it was finalized.

When the plan was reported, it was the period when Liu Yimin led the main force to hide and wait in Binxian County.

After reading the plan, Liu Yimin considered it again and again, and felt that the combat plan established by Liu was basically feasible, and that there was not much problem with the southward route of the Xu detachment; judging from the reconnaissance situation and logical reasoning, now that the main force of the army had been transferred out of eastern Henan, the combat effectiveness of the 27th, 38th, and 39th divisions of the Terauchi Shouyi should be well understood, and they would definitely take a defensive position in various parts of eastern Henan. After the end of the Battle of Lanfeng in the first theater, the main force urgently needs to replenish and recuperate, and it will inevitably take a defensive position, and there will definitely be a gap between the positions of the two sides, and there will be no problem for the troops to insert from this gap. The only thing to note is that the battlefield in eastern Henan, whether it is [***] or the army, has become a frightened bird, as soon as there is a wind and grass, guns will roar, it is easy to cause heavy casualties among the troops.

As for letting Chen's detachment detour south from Kaocheng, Liu Yimin felt that it was impossible, because it had completely become an occupied area by the army. Although the combat effectiveness of the army in eastern Henan is not strong now, and our army has local people to lead the way, the risk is too great, and if it falls into the position of the army and cannot get out, then it will be a big trouble.

Between Shanxian and Dangshan, it is the junction of the first-line troops of Xuzhou and the defense line of the eastern Henan group, and when breaking through the blockade line, the junction of the two armies is the best breakthrough point. With the strength of the 2nd Brigade Artillery Regiment and the 4th Regiment, we will certainly be able to open up the way for the large army.

Due to the above considerations, Liu Yimin issued a report ordering Liu Jianli to cancel the plan of the Chen detachment to go south from the Kaocheng bypass, and the Xu detachment and the Chen detachment advanced covertly along a route, entered the blank area between Kaifeng and Lanfeng, and after controlling the Longhai Road crossing point, attacked the whole line in the direction of Lanfeng, but did not attack deeply, just shoot more guns and make a big noise, and quickly transfer when the goal is achieved. Ordered the main force led by Liu Jianjian, not to pin their hopes on the reinforcement of Lanfeng by the Yue army, which would lead to the emptiness of the Longhai Road defense line in the Dangshan section, because recent operations have proved that in order to reduce losses, the Yue army is holding its position at night and it is impossible to reinforce it. When breaking through the enemy's defense line, it is necessary to reconnoiter the enemy's firing points in detail in advance, find out the pattern of the enemy's patrol activities, expand the distance between the breakthrough points as much as possible, develop firepower, and resolutely break through the devil's defense line. After the breakthrough, it quickly launched a feint attack in the direction of Shangqiu, creating the illusion that the First War Zone sent a large force to outflank Shangqiu, and then quickly moved. The combat time is limited to one night, and the feint attack in the direction of Lanfeng and Shangqiu must not exceed two hours, and as long as the three troops launch an attack at the same time, the army will not be able to determine the intention of our army, at least in the short term.

After receiving Liu Yimin's telegram order, Liu Jianli quickly adjusted his deployment and began to divide his troops.

Xu Shiyou and Chen Shiqu led their troops to set off respectively, and in terms of time and distance, they should have arrived at their destination by this time, and Liu Jianli was now anxiously waiting for their telegram.

At this time, the Xu detachment led by Xu Shiyou had arrived at the Luowang Station between Kaifeng and Lanfeng, and had already controlled the Longhai Road crossing point.

The investigators' report is consistent with the judgments of Liu Yimin and Liu Jianli. This Luowang Station was captured by the army during the Battle of Lanfeng, and later [***] counterattacked, and the two sides beat Luowang Station into a sea of corpses and blood. As a result, after the instructor of the Eighth Route Army launched the Luzhong Campaign, the arrogant 14th Division stopped at the edge of Kaifeng City. After the 27th Division took over, the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma, received an order to disguise the main force, monitor the movements of the main force in the First Theater, and cooperate with the main force to launch a large-scale encirclement and suppression of the Eighth Route Army. Therefore, after Lieutenant General Honma Masaharu consulted the headquarters of the North China Front, he took the initiative to shrink the defensive line and retreated from the edge of Kaifeng City to the territory of Lanfeng.

This book is 1.8 meters tall, personable, and can write lyrics and compose music, but this guy is a playboy, not only likes women, but also likes men, and his wives who have married twice are from famous families, but no wife can stop his romance. Historically, Masaharu Honma defeated MacArthur when he conquered the Philippines, and he was one of the two generals in the world who had defeated MacArthur, and the other was of course our President Peng. However, although Honma Masaharu defeated MacArthur, he did not seize the battle, resulting in MacArthur's smooth retreat, and this victory was also called a lame victory in the military circles, so he was called an unqualified general by the army and was put into the reserve. In this way, MacArthur did not let him go after the war, extradited him to the Philippines, and sentenced him to be executed as a Class A war criminal.

As a matter of fact, Honma Masaharu is quite similar to Ma Tan of the Three Kingdoms, and when it comes to military theory, it is a mess when it comes to actual command. With him stationed in Lanfeng, it is normal for this Dragon King Station to be abandoned. If he is replaced by Kenji Dohihara, the commander of the 14th Division, then the old devil will not only not retreat, but I am afraid that he will also take active defensive countermeasures, and maybe he will take advantage of the situation to seize Kaifeng!

After the army retreated, the Kaifeng defenders successfully regained Luowang Station. But at this time, Chiang Kai-shek had already judged that the army would inevitably attack Wuhan after dealing with Liu Yimin, and he wanted to seize this rare opportunity to deploy the Battle of Wuhan and transfer the factory to the rear. In this way, the first theater also took a defensive position in eastern Henan, and since Luowang Station was in ruins, it was certainly not suitable for garrison defense. Therefore, when Xu Shiyou led his troops here, Luowang Station was empty, and even the steel rails were removed.

Xu Shiyou is a general who grew up in the Four Front Army, and he is brave and strategic, but he can't imagine that the army and [***] will give up such an important place as Luowang Station at the same time. Later, when I thought about it, I was relieved, without the cover of the station building, if [***] set up a position here, it would become a live target for the military aircraft, and it could only be consumed in vain. Giving up Luowang Station is indeed a helpless move.

By this time, the troops had been stealthily running all the way, and finally reached their destination, and it went unexpectedly smoothly. Xu Shiyou was so arrogant that he ordered Liu Jianli to send a report to report that the troops had arrived at the predetermined location and controlled Longwang Station, the passing point of Longhai Road, and were about to launch an attack in the direction of Lanfeng.

At the end of the telegram, Xu Shiyou specially reported that the Luowang Station was empty, and the steel rails in the station had been removed, which fully showed that neither the First War Zone nor the Yue Army had any intention of large-scale combat for the time being.

After sending the telegram, Xu Shiyou ordered to start attacking in the direction of Lanfeng.

For a time, the silent night was awakened by the sound of gunfire, and the land of eastern Henan was in turmoil again.

Since Shen Yong, the commander of the Fifth Regiment, and Liu Kun, the political commissar of the Fifth Regiment, have been resting in Luxi to reorganize and train their troops and mobilize the masses since they led their troops to participate in the battles to eliminate the 21st Division, the Fourth Brigade and the Fourth Brigade to recover Jizhong. In the evening, I received a report that the main force of the division had annihilated the 10th Division and the 3rd Cavalry Brigade and defeated the 2nd Division and the 35th Division. You must know that these two major battles, which are bound to leave a heavy mark in military history, were attended by the 1st and 3rd Brigades, and only the 2nd Brigade did not. What especially made Shen Yong and Liu Kun feel depressed was that they didn't have to think about it, the 1st Regiment, the 2nd Regiment, the 3rd Regiment, the 7th Regiment, the 8th Regiment, and the 9th Regiment were bound to be the main forces in these two battles. If we don't fight a few more tough battles, I'm afraid that the Fifth Regiment will be completely forgotten by the division commander. Therefore, this time they were assigned to the Xu detachment and undertook the task of feint to attack Lanfeng, Shen Yong and Liu Kun felt that they had to play the prestige of the main force of the Fifth Regiment, otherwise they would be laughed at by Wang Dahu and others.

Of course, Shen Yong and Liu Kun followed Liu Yimin all the way from the Xiangjiang River, and they have been refined into steel, and they are definitely not the masters who disobey orders and act recklessly. The two of them studied together when they had nothing to do along the way, and felt that if they wanted to fool Yue Jun, they had to beat the devil hard. If it really doesn't rain just by thundering, and retreats after a burst of guns, Xiao Yueben will see that the opposite side [***] has not moved, and they will not move. The reason why the division commander did not allow the troops to attack deeply was not because he did not know this, but because he was afraid that the troops would fall into this place and suffer heavy losses, which would affect the strategic operation of the eastward advance to Lianyungang. If that's the case, you'll have picked the sesame seeds and lost the watermelon!

After arriving at Queen Luo, Shen Yong and Liu Kun asked the reconnaissance platoon to report the enemy's situation.

The young men of the reconnaissance platoon played the role of spearheads along the way, and they were the first to arrive at King Luo, and they also reconnoitred the positions of the Yue army to the east of King Luo. According to reconnaissance, the army has built a north-south defense line in the direction of Kaifeng, and the support point of the defense line should be Sanyi Village. After looking for fellow villagers, I learned that some time ago, Xue Yue's Eastern Henan Corps and the Yue Army fought on the front line of Sanyi Village, and the core position of the Yue Army was Sanyi Village.

These three righteous villages were originally called Huijiatang. In the fifth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty, the Yellow River broke in Tongwaxiang, and the area of Huijiatang was located in the Yellow River beach area, which was sparsely populated, and the common people were overwhelmed by bandits and water disasters. A person with lofty ideals surnamed Guan in Donghuitang Village mobilized the three neighboring villages of Donghuitang, Xihuitang and Wang Pimple to build a village together to resist floods and bandits, and cooperate with the Taiping Army and the Twist Army to resist the Qing political axe. In order to commemorate the righteous deeds of the villagers of these three villages, the descendants renamed Huijiatang as Sanyi Village.

The villagers brought by the reconnaissance platoon reported that Sanyi Village now has a large army of devils, artillery, and iron turtles, and has built trenches to connect with the surrounding villages. There are also ghosts stationed in each village, who catch the common people to repair fortifications all day long, and there are barbed wire and trenches outside the official business.

As soon as Shen Yong heard this, he knew that Sanyi Village could not be touched for the time being, and if he wanted to fight, he could only hit the small villages around Sanyi Village, and use the small army of devils to open the knife and lead the devils of Sanyi Village to reinforce him. When the troops suddenly withdraw from the battlefield, the little devil will inevitably pursue and retaliate in the direction of Kaifeng, and naturally the purpose of letting [***] fight with the little devil will be achieved. It doesn't matter if the devil doesn't reinforce, just continue to attack to the east and break through the defense line of the army, and if you have to fight, let the little devil believe that the main force of [***] has to start a counterattack!

(To be continued)