When the staff officer of the Chief's Department handed over the telegram to Li Zongren, the expression on Chief Li's face stiffened at that time.

It was not at all strange that Gao Quan did not follow the order and changed the battle plan without authorization. Although there are not many people who do not listen to his commander and act at will, it is not uncommon, and during the battle of Wuhan, Commander Hu of the 17th Army Corps is not a good example?

This Gao Quan is different, this person can climb from an ordinary soldier to the throne of the division commander in just a few years, how many commanders has he changed along the way? And how many people have received benefits? From Liu Ruming, he was mixed from a soldier to a battalion commander, and from Wei Lihuang to a regiment commander, and then Pang Bingxun pulled him out to the brigade commander and mixed into the ranks of generals. Hu Zongnan is good, he is promoted to division commander, and he gives people equipment, Li Zongren can't figure it out, you Hu Shoushan has given him so many benefits, why don't you bring people to Xi'an?

For the 500 divisions that were finally under the direct jurisdiction of the Fifth War Zone, in fact, Chief Li was very tired, but because of the huge difference in rank between the two, they could not meet easily, and Chief Li was also spared face-to-face harassment. Gao Quan has not met Chief Li since he arrived in the Fifth War Zone, and this is the reason why the head official doesn't want to see him! Since I annoy him, of course it's best not to see him!

Sometimes, Chief Li really wants to grasp Gao Quan's mistake and clean up this stubborn boy, but in these years, the troops in the theater have always been fighting against the Japanese army, and Gao Quan has always had a good performance, and Chief Li really can't catch any tricks on him. In fact, as a dignified theater commander and first-class general, if you want to clean up a small division commander, you don't need to have any excuse at all. It's just because Chief Li has an instinctive appreciation for the generals who can resist Japan, that he has never taken care of Gao Quan.

What Gao Quan did with Hu Zongnan, except for some secret things, Chief Li basically knew that it was not bad. Therefore, when he received this telegram on the first day of the new year, Chief Li's first reaction was: This Gao Quan, he wants to come to me again to blackmail benefits!

At the beginning, Gao Quan used the pretext of starting a war against the devil to ask for equipment from Chief Hu, and Chief Li had already heard about it! Now that I see this telegram, I take it for granted that Gao Quan is repeating his old tricks and wants to blackmail things. It's just that Chief Li doesn't look at the name of the commander of the war zone, but he is not as generous as Hu Zongnan, and Commander-in-Chief Hu has the support of the back, although Chief Li also has land and brothers, but the expenses are also large! The landlord's family has no spare money, how can it be good to support Gaoquan?

After thinking about it, Chief Li still felt that at the moment of the war, he could not casually rectify a general who was said to be more capable of fighting. Although this person is something that the chief dislikes very much, the kind of character who is more shameless than the slave of the third surname! Lu Bu is a slave with three surnames, and he has three masters, what about Gao Quan? If you count Zhang Shaoshuai, who he followed at the beginning, then he is following five masters, and he is a slave with five surnames! Chief Li obviously didn't count himself, if he did, Gao Quan would have followed the six chiefs.

Waving his hand and driving away the messy thoughts in his mind, Chief Li drafted a draft telegram and sent it to Gao Quan, with one sentence in one sentence: Act cautiously and annihilate the Japanese invaders.

This telegram expressed two meanings, the second half of the sentence was more to annihilate the Japanese invaders, naturally hoping that Gao Quanquan would win the battle, and also expressing his agreement with him to fight the 16th Division. The previous sentence of caution implies that Gao Quan, you pay attention to yourself, if the war is rude and you want reinforcements, it is a dream! And reserve the right to hold you accountable for your defeat. While giving Gao Quanquan autonomy, it also serves as a warning.

This is also because Gao Quan has made many meritorious contributions in the War of Resistance against Japan, if he is replaced by other generals, he wants to change the orders issued by the war zone? Immediately give you military law engaged!

Gao Quan had already begun to adjust his troops before he received the order from the war zone, and as soon as the order from the war zone arrived, the whole army immediately opened up and went directly to Shangtun Town! In fact, even if Chief Li didn't agree, Gao Quan was going to Shangtun, anyway, he never regarded himself as Chief Li's loyal subordinate, with this telegram, of course, it was justified, even if he didn't, he would find all kinds of excuses to go. Even the reason has been thought of, and when the time comes, it will be said that the troops are lost.

After the 16th and 13th divisions of the Japanese army captured Zaoyang, they continued to advance northward, in a vain attempt to encircle the main force of the Fifth Theater at the junction of Henan and Anhui. After the defeat of the 31st Group Army, Tang Enbo retreated all the way north, turned in the direction of Miyang, and jumped out of the Japanese encirclement in time.

After the Japanese invaders occupied Zaoyang, they continued to advance north in the direction of Nanyang, and Sun Lianzhong of the First Theater led the Second Army south to Nanyang to block the enemy in the suburbs of Nanyang. The 31st Group Army, from Miyang to Wuyang, and then to the Inner Township and Ping area, made a big circle and once again formed an attack posture against the Japanese army. Zhang Zizhong's 33rd Group Army, after the failure to block the enemy in Changshoudian, followed the Japanese army to advance in the direction of Zaoyang. Our Jiang Defense Army, on the other hand, took the opportunity to attack the Zhongxiang area of Jingshan and threaten the flank of the Japanese army.

The Fifth War Zone was in the vast area of southern Henan and northern Anhui, and the Japanese invaders pushed away the grind. After receiving the order of Commander Li, Gao Quan led his troops to follow the field survey brigade all the way, and after reaching the foot of Tongbai Mountain, he made a detour and rushed directly to the Tang River.

The situation on all sides of the battlefield, the dynamics of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, and the details of every battle with our theater troops, Gao Quan understood them in detail, just to make him more sure when he was fighting with this stubborn enemy.

Liu Qi, as the commander of the reconnaissance battalion and Gao Quan's close confidant, in this kind of big battle that affected the fate of the whole division, of course, he went all out to put his reconnaissance battalion, which was seriously overstaffed, into high speed. The reconnaissance battalion, although the number of people is already in the thousands, it is really at the juncture of the current war of hundreds of thousands of people, but it still seems to be undermanned, Liu Qi secretly made up his mind that after this battle, his reconnaissance battalion must be doubled and turned into a real regimental battalion.

On this day, the troops were advancing, and the scouts came to report that the troops of the 16th Division of the Japanese invaders were ahead!

A baggage unit of the 16th Division, about a squadron-sized Japanese army, was resting in a village called Lijiapo more than ten miles away. After our scouts reconnoitred and found that there were Japanese troops at the entrance of the village, Shi Lei, the commander of the reconnaissance company, led two scouts to sneak outside the village. The Japanese army has set up a guard post at the entrance of the village, but these vigilant devils, how can it be difficult for our company commander Shi to stop?

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