, Webb, did you see anything in Xuchang? Ye Sufei was very concerned about the situation mentioned by Weber, so she pretended to be unintentional and said: "Maybe Zhengzhou has something that attracts us." \。 ”

"This damn secrecy," Foreman suddenly began to complain aloud: "The war is already going on, why should it be so secrecy?" I really don't understand*......"

Webber and Bai Xiude nodded thoughtfully, Ye Sufei's eyes rolled, and he suddenly suggested: "We can ask Commander Zhuang to accompany the team for an interview, such as to the division level or the regiment level." ”

Forman, Weber, and Bai Xiude's eyes lit up, and they nodded at the same time, in their opinion, this request is not difficult, there are also such military reporters in the US army, they can generally go to the regimental level, and when the battle is not fierce, they can even go deep into the company. However, after all, Weber has been dealing with Zhuang Jihua for a long time, and he thinks that Zhuang Jihua's approval of such a request is very small, but it can be tried.

As he was talking, suddenly there was a chaotic noise outside, faintly someone was calling the Yellow River, Ye Sufei pushed open the window, and saw many people running and shouting on the street, most of them were reporters in the press conference hall just now.

Ye Sufei's face changed sharply, and she hurriedly called a reporter she knew loudly, and the reporter turned his head and saw that it was them, so he shouted at them: "The news just now came that General Tang Enbo successfully crossed the Yellow River!" Now the troops are crossing the river! ”

Militarily speaking, crossing the Yellow River is to cross a moat, north of the Yellow River, a horse and a flat river, no shelter and no orchid, from the bank of the Yellow River to Beiping, there are almost no decent terrain obstacles, and the transportation is convenient, and it has always been advantageous to attack and not to defend.

The main thing is that "this is the Yellow River, not a small river in a certain county or province: in the history of China, the Yellow River has always been a symbol of the nation. "It is the Yellow River that crosses; Wang Shi is in the north, Lu You is in tears, this is the land of Hebei.

Starting from the gunshot at the Lugou Bridge, the people of the country are all looking forward to crossing the Yellow River, pointing north with the flag, and the six-year expectation has all been transformed into today's cheers!

“mugod！” Webb shouted, "Zhuang isvenygood! He is the wisest commander! I dare to say that I never expected this hand* ......" One by one, Foreman rubbed his hands and was also excited, Bai Xiude let out a puff of smoke, stood up and said with a smile: "Go, go, let's go and see, what is Colonel Huā going to say again*......"

The reporters who had just dispersed gathered in the press conference hall again, and to their surprise, "this time there was actually their long-famous Commander Zhuang who came to attend the press conference, and the reporters were even more excited.

"Commander Zhuang! Already hit that? Take Xinxiang without *......"

"Commander Zhuang! Commander Zhuang! What troops took part in the offensive? ””

"Commander Zhuang! Will Shandong's offensive continue? ”

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Zhuang Jihua stood up and pressed down with both hands, the reporters suddenly calmed down, and Zhuang Jihua looked serious: "Last night, General Tang Enbo commanded ** to break through the Japanese army's Yellow River defense line, and the current troop is gathering smoothly*......"

"The Battle of Xuzhou and the breakthrough of the Yellow River prove one thing, at present, our army has formed an advantage over the Japanese army, and our army can conquer the cities and areas fortified by the Japanese army."

"General Zhuang" "Weber waited for Zhuang Jihua to finish speaking, and immediately stood up, and when Zhuang Jihua appeared at the press conference" Weber immediately realized that this was by no means an accident, but intentional: "**The main force is in Shandong, so can the attack on the north bank of the Yellow River continue?" Also, what is the strength of the Japanese army in this area? ”

Zhuang Jihua was a little surprised by Weber's appearance, and he smiled at Weber: "Mr. Weber, your speed is fast enough, from Myanmar to Henan, this is the second time you have been to Shangqiu." ”

"Yes, General, four years ago, I witnessed a grass life in Shangqiu, and today this grass life has been extended to the whole country." Webb also smiled: "General, you are much cuter now than when you were in Burma." ”

Zhuang Jihua smiled and didn't pick up the topic: "The attack on Shandong and the north bank of the Yellow River is one, Mr. Weber, do you remember the topic we talked about in Nanjing six years ago?" When we left Nanjing, I left a sentence on the wall of the headquarters, saying that when I entered Nanjing, it was like a rat entering the bellows. Now that has been fulfilled.

The lack of troops is the biggest weakness of the Japanese themselves, when they have the initiative, this weakness is not obvious, but when the initiative is in our hands, this weakness becomes very obvious, whether it is Shandong or the north bank of the Yellow River, the Japanese army with its current strength can not stop our army. ”

"At present, the number of today's divisions and regiments on the battlefield is transferred from the Soviet and Russian battlefields, which shows that the strength of the Japanese army has reached the point of demolishing the east wall and making up the west wall, and if the Soviet army can seize the opportunity to launch a counteroffensive, the entire front of the Japanese army may collapse......."

Weber chuckled in his heart, Zhuang Jihua was accusing Soviet Russia of half-heartedness in the war against Japan, but the main enemy of Soviet Russia was Germany, and Germany's main military forces were in Soviet Russia, and Soviet Russia was unable to attack the Japanese army, which was also understandable. So why is he doing this? He provoked the British in Burma, and now he is going to provoke the Russians? No, he must have ulterior motives, what is it?

A series of questions surged in Weber's heart, but Zhuang Jihua quickly changed the topic: "Everyone, from now on, the situation of the war will get better and better, but it has not yet reached the moment of victory. ”

The Yellow River, rolling with yellow waves, white waves, mixed with fine sand, rolling towards the East China Sea. On top of the rough waves, two pontoon bridges flew across the two banks.

In fact, breaking through the Yellow River was not as difficult as the reporters imagined, and for the same reason, the Japanese army could not gather enough troops to hold the north bank of the Yellow River, and the 102nd Army's smuggling operation was not discovered. At dawn, the 102nd Army had already passed a battalion, and after the Japanese army found out that the squadron had crossed the river, they sent two squadrons to counterattack, but they were resolutely attacked by the 102nd Army, and under the cover of the air force, in the morning, Guo Xunqi sent the 106th Division across the river, and then things went smoothly.

The 49th Army and the 5th Army, two engineer regiments, spent half a day erecting two pontoon bridges. As soon as the pontoon bridge was set up, Fan Hanjie sent the tank across the river.

The attack plan formulated by Tang Enbo was that the 49th Army and the Fifth Army would cross the river from it and then take Yuanyang directly. The 31st Group Army crossed the river at the eastern foot of Dengshan Mountain west of Zhengzhou and attacked Wushe. In order to balance the striking forces of the two fronts, Townenburg assigned the 2nd Tank Division of the Fifth Army to the 31st Army.

There was only one 102nd Army left in the 49th Group Army, and by the time Zhuang Jihua appeared at the press conference, the 102nd Army had already landed on the north bank of the Yellow River, the 1st Tank Division of the Fifth Group Army had all landed on the banks of the Yellow River, the headquarters of the two group armies led by Fan Hanjie and Guo Xunqi had also crossed the Yellow River, and the bridgehead had been extended to a landing ground 10 kilometers deep and 20 kilometers wide.

Zhuang Jihua ignored Tang Enbo's cautious eyes, but also interfered with the command system, and directly appointed Fan Hanjie as the commander-in-chief of the attack sequence on the east road.

Fan Hanjie did not take advantage of the Japanese retreat to pursue, but ordered the troops to take a defensive posture, that night, the squadron only cautiously tested forward, but when the tank appeared on the battlefield, "the Japanese began to retreat gradually, and after nightfall, the Japanese began to leave the battlefield and quickly retreated."

The real assault began after sunrise the next day, but when the roaring tanks rushed to Yuanyang, "it was found that it was an empty city, and the Japanese had withdrawn last night." Then came the news that the 31st Group Army had conquered Wushe, and then, the puppet army troops stationed in Xiuwu and Boaijing took the initiative to send people to contact and ask for an uprising.

From the mouths of these puppet soldiers, "Tang Enbo learned that the Japanese army was evacuated urgently last night, and the retreat was so fast and so urgent that even the prisoners of the gendarmerie were not disposed of" directly handed over to the puppet army to see, and then all the Japanese * themselves in the city, including civilians, left, and did not tell them where they went.

"What is this Gu Shoufu doing?" Fan Hanjie felt a little bad and was worried that Gu Shoufu had set some trap.

"Let the troops be careful, rather slow down, don't fall into any ambush." Guo Xunqi also encountered this situation for the first time, and he retreated without a fight.

"Okay, order the 1st Tank Division to stop and let the infantry go first." Fan Hanjie asked Guo Xunqi in a tone of soliciting opinions.

"Okay, that's all. The 106th Division and the 107th Division, two divisions, were ordered to search and advance to Xinxiang from the east side of the Pinghan Line. Guo Xunqi did not refuse, Fan Hanjie had been silent before, until the first battle in Yunnan did his reputation rise, he commanded a detachment, dragged Sun Du's main force, and created the most favorable conditions for the final annihilation of the main force of the Yunnan army.

Since then, no one in the Sichuan army has dared to underestimate this person who does not have so much edge and usually does not talk much. This time, Zhuang Jihua directly appointed Fan Hanjie as the commander-in-chief of the East Road Army, and asked Guo Xunqi to cooperate with him, Guo Xunqi did not have any trouble with this, at the same time, Tang Enbo also found that it was inappropriate, and ordered Wang Zhonglian, the commander-in-chief of the West Road Grass, to be cautious and not to be greedy for merit. Wang Zhonglian gave almost the same order as Fan Hanjie, telling the tanks to stop and the infantry to go first.

The distance between the vanguard and the follow-up troops was always maintained at about two miles, the left and right flanks were scattered widely, and the cavalry troops had a great search range.

It was in Xinxiang estimated by Fan Hanjie that the Japanese army was concentrating on Gu Shoufu to concentrate all four divisions and one mixed brigade here, and in addition, the first mixed brigade of the North China Dispatch Army directly under Shijiazhuang went out to Anyang to show solidarity from afar.

The four divisions and regiments are "the old division, the 10,000 divisions, the knife division, the concave division, and the first mixed brigade, with a total strength of 80,000 troops, of which the 10,000 divisions are divisions and regiments transferred back from the Soviet-Mongolian battlefield, and the old divisions and knife divisions have always been subordinate to the headquarters of the North China Dispatch Army, and are the strategic reserve of the North China Dispatch Army, and the equipment training is considered first-class among the current North China Dispatch Army.

Gu Shoufu has been thinking about how to deal with the attack of the squadron, and the original plan was to use Yuanyang Wushu and other places as bait to lure the squadron to attack, and the main force was placed in Xinxiang and waited to move. However, after the three divisions were transferred, it was somewhat inadequate to carry out this plan.

Therefore, after Nakajima Yasuken led three divisions to leave, Tanijuo decisively changed the battle plan, especially the successive defeats of the imperial army in Shandong, which stimulated the proud blood of Tanijuo's samurai, and he insisted on a decisive battle with the Shina army, and Okamura Ninji finally approved his plan.

Gu Shoufu's plan was very simple, that is, to concentrate his troops in the important town of northern Henan, the key pass of the Pinghan line, Xinxiang, and fight a decisive battle with the Chinese army here.

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