Xu Tingyao, formerly known as Qi Yao, the word Yuexiang. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Anhui Wuwei County to open a town pioneer. Born October 9, 1892. In his early years, he studied in Wuhu Wanjiang Middle School. After graduating in 1912, he was admitted to the Second Preparatory School of the Wuchang Army. In 1914, he was admitted to the third infantry department of the Baoding Army Military Academy and was assigned to the fourth company, which was the same as Zhang Zhizhong, Bai Chongxi, Cai Tingkai and other contemporaries.

The current commander of the 17th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, with the rank of general, is highly regarded by Chairman Chiang because he is both civil and military, and has participated in hundreds of large and small battles since graduating from the Baoding Army Military Academy.

The 17th Army consisted of the 4th Division of the National Revolutionary Army and the 25th Division, which was formed by the expansion of the independent brigade of the 4th Division.

So far, there are three divisions under its jurisdiction, namely? Pig? Pig? Island? In the novel, the 2nd Division, the 4th Division, and the 25th Division, the commanders of each division are all famous generals in history, respectively, Huang Jie, the commander of the 2nd Division, Tang Enbo of the 4th Division, Guan Linzheng of the 25th Division, and it is worth mentioning that the deputy commander of the 25th Division is Du Yuming.

The 17th Army alone has gathered several high-ranking generals of the national army who are famous in history and have made outstanding achievements.

You must know that Huang Jie, Tang Enbo, Guan Linzheng, and Du Yuming are all Chairman Jiang's confidants, and Xu Tingyao can be the chief of these people, and Jiang's weight on them can be seen.

The three divisions of the 17th Army are among the best in the battle sequence of the Central Army, both in terms of equipment level, troop combat effectiveness, and the quality of commanders and fighters.

When the Japanese invaded Rehe, Xu Tingyao was ordered to lead the 17th Army north to defend North China, and later after the situation changed, he led his troops to garrison eastern Hebei, once southern Hebei, the only elite force of the Central Army north of the Yellow River.

It is not difficult to see from the garrison of Xu Tingyao's department that Chairman Jiang's intentions. It was to restrain the development of the Han Fuqu in Shandong and the Jin Sui Army in Shanxi, and at the same time to declare the actual control and presence of the Nationalist Central Government in North China.

However, now it has become the only firefighting team to deal with the Northeast Army and save the situation in Hebei.

At that time, Xu Tingyao's military headquarters was located in Handan, and his troops were scattered in Hengshui and other places, after receiving an urgent order from Chairman Chiang.

Xu Tingyao immediately ordered Huang Jie's 2nd Division, which was stationed in Handan with the military headquarters, to set off south to aid Puyang in the starry night, and at the same time ordered Hengshui Tang Enbo's department, Xingtai Guan Linzheng and Du Yuming's troops to set off immediately and rush south to help.

At the same time, Hu Zongnan also urgently dispatched reinforcements from all over the Central Plains to the north.

Due to the extremely critical mud bricks in the Puyang battle overnight, Xu Tingyao led the army to set off with Huang Jie. Rush to the Puyang front.

The troops collected all the vehicles that could be requisitioned in Handan and other places, marched at full speed, and ran 59 kilometers in only three hours to reach Anyang.

On a mound on the side of the north highway in Anyang, Xu Tingyao, Huang Jie and other lieutenants in military uniforms were taking a temporary rest on the mound.

Looking at his own troops who kept hurrying past the road next to them, Huang Jie's eyebrows showed his worries about the unpredictable future of this battle, and he turned to Xu Tingyao and said: "Military seat, the Northeast Frontier Army is menacing this time, and it will only be a few days. Liaocheng and other cities caused our Central Army and Shandong Army to lose troops and lose generals, and this battle was unpredictable. ”

A staff officer next to him nodded sympathetically: "Yes, Puyang now only has Wang Yaowu's two regiments of men." I'm afraid it's hard to persevere. ”

Unlike the Central Army in the Central Plains, the 17th Army has been in North China for a long time, and it has heard of chickens and dogs with the Northeast Frontier Army, so it understands the strength of the Northeast Frontier Army better than the former. In their view, Zhang Xinghan's Northeast Frontier Army was a more powerful presence than the Japanese, which was a common belief among the many generals of the 17th Army.

Xu Tingyao straightened up his military uniform and said awe-inspiringly: "The Lu of the Eater." As a soldier of the country, we should complete the tasks assigned to us by the leader with the determination not to fear life and death, and if we do not succeed, we will become benevolent! ”

"Order the troops to speed up their advance, and they must rush to Puyang before dawn."

"Yes." A communications staff officer behind Huang Jie suddenly stepped forward and quickly turned around to take the order.

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Puyang City, after using encirclement points to send reinforcements and continuously ate several reinforcements of the Central Army, Zhang Xinghan of the Puyang and Xinxiang battle situations has occupied the absolute initiative.

But now he also faces a problem: since the westward expansion of Texas, the number of prisoners in his hands has exceeded 20,000.

Of the 20,000 Central Army defeated last night, less than 1,000 were actually killed, another 1,000 escaped, and 90 percent were captured.

Now Zhang Xinghan has nearly two divisions of prisoners in Puyang alone, and the headache is that these prisoners are all his own compatriots, if time permits, Zhang Xinghan will definitely transport them back to the rear, full of transformation, and completely transform them into his own troops.

These are the elite of the well-trained Central Army, and as long as they are slightly transformed, they are rare elite troops.

But at present, he is busy attacking Puyang, Xinxiang and Jincheng, and has no time to transfer these prisoners.

It is definitely not possible to kill so many prisoners, they are not devils, they are not foreigners, but their real compatriots, no matter how stiff they are with the top level of the Nanjing government, Zhang Xinghan is not willing to attack these unarmed compatriots.

It is not possible to let go, so many prisoners are suddenly released, which can only cause two results, the first is to flee back to the nearby city and be re-armed to fight against the Northeast Frontier Army, and the second is to become stragglers, fall into the grass and become cowards, rob homes and houses, and endanger one side.

Neither outcome was what Zhang Xinghan wanted.

So after thinking about it, Zhang Xinghan still decided to capture Puyang City first, firstly, as a place to settle and hold these prisoners, and secondly, to leave a place for his troops to settle down on the border of Hebei, Shanxi and Henan.

With the might of the tank division in his hands, even if the Central Army has 100,000 troops in the field, it can't stop itself, so as long as Puyang is captured, it can become a stronghold of the troops on the Shanxi-Hebei-Henan border, and it can be attacked and defended.

In the temporary headquarters located in the east of the city, Zhang Xinghan and Liu Jianguo were redeploying the siege plan for Puyang.

Guo Zhong, who was ordered to take the guard battalion to the outside of the city to shout and surrender the defenders in the city, hurriedly returned.

"Zhongzi, how is it, does Wang Yaowu agree to surrender?" When Zhang Xinghan saw Guo Zhong coming back, he asked casually, in fact, he didn't really expect Wang Yaowu to lead his troops out of the city to surrender, but only to further break the fighting spirit of the defenders in the city and hit their morale.

Sure enough, Guo Zhong shook his head with some guilt and said, "No." Wang Yaowu was very stubborn, not only did he not surrender, but he also ordered the machine gunners to shoot at us, but fortunately the brothers were able to hide quickly. ”

"It seems that Wang Yaowu is still very loyal to Principal Jiang." Liu Jianguo quipped.

"Hehehe, in fact, it is not necessarily, Chairman Chiang is still the veritable president of the Nationalist Government, and we may have become rebels in their eyes.

Until the situation completely changed, these people would not easily give up their allegiance to Jiang Guangtou, and he would not surrender. This is to be expected. After Zhang Xinghan finished speaking, he suddenly paused, and said: "There is another possibility, the reason why Wang Yaowu so resolutely refused our army's photo, and did not even use this opportunity to delay time, it is enough to show that there must be reinforcements coming to Puyang, otherwise since Wang Yaowu does not surrender, then he should lead his troops to break through at night." ”

Guo Zhong was a little surprised. He said with admiration: "The chief seat is wise, and when he came back just now, he happened to meet Xiao Li, a communications soldier, who said that he had just received the latest intelligence message from the Secret Bureau. I'll relay it on my behalf. ”

"What is the content of the message?" Zhang Xinghan asked anxiously.

According to intelligence, Hu Zongnan is urgently assembling garrisons in Zhengzhou, Kaifeng and other places, preparing to cross the Yellow River north again for reinforcements.

Besides. Xu Tingyao's troops of the Central Army stationed in Hengshui, Handan, Xingtai and other places suddenly assembled last night. The Secrecy Bureau estimates that it is likely that an urgent military order has been received.

Not long ago, the latest information sent to the headquarters of the Security Bureau by agents of the Anyang Branch of the Secret Bureau confirmed that Huang Jie's Division of the 2nd Division of the 17th Army stationed in Handan arrived in Anyang overnight and continued to go south without pause, obviously to come to the aid of Puyang. Guo Zhong said.

"Xu Tingyao? 17th Army? Hearing this, Zhang Xinghan quickly spread out the corner of the rolled map, found Handan and other places, and said: "He really dares to move, but judging from the current situation, the Nanjing government only has such a new force in Hebei that can be used." ”

"General, according to the humble understanding, the three divisions of Xu Tingyao's 17th Army are all the elite of the Central Army, and their strength should not be underestimated, if they really rush to Puyang, and then there is a central army reinforced from the Central Plains to attack from the north and south, with the strength in our hands now, I am afraid the situation will really become unoptimistic."

Liu Jianguo frowned when he saw Zhang Xinghan after hearing what he said, and hurriedly explained: "I'm not saying that we can defeat our army with the 17th Army, but with their joining, our plan to capture Puyang, Xinxiang and Jincheng may be delayed."

According to the information provided by the Secrecy Bureau, hundreds of thousands of troops from Jiangxi, Jiangsu, and Guangxi are rapidly moving north, and once the war drags on until they arrive, it will be difficult for our army to complete the strategic encirclement plan of the Jin Sui army. ”

Zhang Xinghan nodded undeniably and said: "Jianguo, your analysis is very reasonable, so we must kill this 17th Army and eat Chairman Jiang's last new force in Hebei." ”

"Huh? Eat the 17th Army? Liu Jianguo was taken aback and said: "General seat, we now have nearly 20,000 prisoners in our hands, and we have to divide troops to besiege Puyang, the three divisions of the 17th Army are all A divisions, at least 40,000 or 50,000 people, can it be done?" ”

Zhang Xinghan said confidently: "There is no way, only dare or not, you think so, Xu Tingyao will think that our army is insufficient, coupled with Wang Yaowu's constant urgency, as well as the Nanjing government's 100,000 urgent orders, it will inevitably speed up the march to reach the destination as soon as possible, so that the vigilance will inevitably be relaxed, and our army will have an opportunity." ”

Zhang Xinghan continued: "Pass on my order, the troops immediately assemble and prepare for battle, and in addition, send a telegram to Gao Zhihang, dispatch a bomber brigade tomorrow morning, and blow up the Yellow River railway bridge for me, and another Zero fighter will cruise and fly along the Yellow River within 300 miles east and west, block the river, and not give Hu Zongnan a chance to cross the river to the north!" ”

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