Nakajima's 5th Mixed Brigade and 1st Cavalry Brigade, totaling nearly 10,000 people, attacked behind enemy lines, and arrived at Yamashita to Suxian with less than 2,000 men left, and all their heavy weapons were lost, but their sacrifice made the balance of victory fiercely tilt in favor of the Japanese, and the tide of battle had never been so favorable to the Japanese. Full // this \ small // say \ net

"Your Excellency, the ** army is retreating, please immediately attack Huaibei, cut off the road for the retreat of the ** army in Xuzhou, and encircle and annihilate the ** army east of Xuzhou." Nakajima suggested to Yamashita Fumi.

Yamashita Fengwen looked him in the eye and said solemnly, "Please rest assured, we will leave the rest to us." Then he commanded in a loud voice: "Stand up!" Salute to Nakajima-kun! ”

After speaking, he first raised his right hand and gave a military salute to Nakajima, and all the officers solemnly raised their right hands. Sticking to the scene, Shikacao, who hurried to avenge Nakajima's grievances, lay on a stretcher and burst into tears.

After Nakajima left, Yamashita immediately issued an order, leaving a brigade to Gushu to guard Suxian, and the rest of the troops immediately went to Huaibei Jinfa to pursue the new 22nd Division and the new 38th Division retreating westward.

The night is slowly falling, the sound of artillery is becoming clearer and clearer in the night, the sky is beating a touch of blood red, the troops coming down from the front line are getting fewer and fewer, the labor table on the long street is still the same, Xu Yuancang, a famous place in Xuzhou, is still standing straight on the side of the road, stuffing steamed buns into the hands of each passing soldier, a group of wounded with blood stains appeared on the street with stretchers, Xu Yuancang hurriedly took the gentleman of Xuzhou Jishitang to meet him, the bandage was re-bandaged, the wound was coated with Jishitang's secret medicine, and the stretcher team members hurriedly went on the road again.

"Mr. Xu, should you also go?" Zhuang Jihua greeted Xu Yuancang and said to him anxiously.

"I'm not leaving." Xu Yuancang's white beard fluttered, and he didn't see a tired look on his face after being busy all day, but there was a faint worry between his eyebrows: "This is my home, I'm here waiting for you to call back." ”

"Old sir," Zhuang Jihua sighed, saluted a saluting officer in return, and then said, "I feel deeply guilty for not being able to keep Xuzhou, but, old man, you should go, and it is better to go quickly, I am worried about your safety." ”

Xu Yuancang is a famous residence in Xuzhou, the former Qing Dynasty has raised people, and then changed to business, supported Kang Liang's reform, sponsored Sun Yat-sen's revolution, was the chairman of the first Xuzhou political council, is a very famous veteran of Xuzhou's political and economic circles, and was the president of the Xuzhou Chamber of Commerce and Industry before the war. Before the last battle of Xuzhou, Chiang Kai-shek thought that Xuzhou could not be defended, and Xu Yuancang ranked first among the people who had sent a special telegram to Xuzhou that they had to withdraw.

Reality played a joke on Chiang Kai-shek, last time he thought he couldn't hold it, but in the end he held it, this time he thought he could stand it, but in the end he had to give up Xuzhou.

"Commander Zhuang, you have done your best, and you brothers have also done your best," Xu Yuancang's expression was unwavering, his snow-white long beard fluttered slightly in the cold wind, and his eyes included the vicissitudes of life as he looked at the soldiers who walked by beside him, stained with gunpowder smoke, and said loudly: "Brothers! Victory and defeat are commonplace, we are not afraid of defeat, as long as we are in one breath, we will fight with the little devil to the end, I am old, I can't carry a gun, it is all up to you to defeat little Japan, I am in Xuzhou, I will not go, waiting for you to fight back, when the time comes, I will come to meet you like today! ”

"Stand ...... Correct! There was a long shout from the queue, and the whole line stopped.

"Salute to the fathers and villagers of Xuzhou," a major general said loudly on a horse, all the soldiers raised their right hands and saluted solemnly to the people of Xuzhou present, Zhuang Jihua also raised his right hand to Xu Yuancang and saluted solemnly, and the major general continued: "Fathers and fellow villagers, you can rest assured, we will definitely fight back!" Let's go! ”

The team immediately moved forward quickly, and when the major general passed by, he guessed that it was Zhuang Jihua who was standing next to Xu Yuancang, and he was suddenly surprised, and he dismounted and ran in front of Zhuang Jihua.

"Report to Commander Zhuang, Dai Anlan, the commander of the 73rd Brigade of the 52nd Army, was ordered to retreat, please instruct."

"Well," Zhuang Jihua looked at Dai Anlan, and he had been thinking about this member of the army, and wanted to dig him up to the 49th Group Army, but Guan Linzheng resolutely refused to let go, at this moment, Dai Anlan's military uniform was tattered, and the cotton inside was exposed, Zhuang Jihua shook his head lightly: "Why are you injured again?" I don't go to the hospital either. ”

Pointing to the blood stains on his body, Dai Anlan shook his head lightly: "No, this is the blood of the devil," he hesitated as he spoke, and finally asked, "Commander, what's wrong?" If you fought well, why did you suddenly retreat? ”

"The north and south lines have been broken through, Yin Dong led two divisions to the north bank of the Yellow River, and Fengwen under the mountain has already gone to Huaibei, if you don't go faster, you will be surrounded," Zhuang Jihua said bitterly: "The new 38th Division is blocking, let's go." ”

"!" Dai Anlan couldn't help but scolded: "How did they do it, they couldn't eat two and a half divisions in Honma in more than ten days." ”

"Don't scold..."Before Zhuang Jihua finished speaking, Jian An ran over and delivered Bai Chongxi's telegram.

"In view of the fact that the Japanese army broke through the north and south lines, I ordered the troops on the front line in Xuzhou to immediately move to the front line of Shangqiu and Haozhou."

After reading it, Zhuang Jihua coldly put away the telegram, there are too many things that need to be summarized in this battle, and it needs to be summarized in terms of strategy and tactics, why did the battle become like this, and how did it become such a passive situation.

How could he become so passive, this question is not only Zhuang Jihua is thinking, but Bai Chongxi of Xinyang is also thinking. The news of the breakthrough of the northern front caused him a far more shock than Zhuang Jihua, before that, he had always believed that he could annihilate the Honma group, but he didn't expect the battle situation to suddenly change so much.

First of all, Nakajima led his troops to conquer Xinxiang, broke through the Yellow River, drove straight into the rear of the First War Zone, all the way to the Fifth War Zone, and south of Yongcheng, this group of tired soldiers actually defeated the Gui Army that he was proud of, although the Eleventh Group Army had only one army, although it was also after a long battle, it could not be defeated by a group of things eager to survive, and then Li Pinxian lost Su County, which made it even more difficult for him to ask to deal with Tang Shizun and Feng Zhi'an and others.

After dropping two telegrams, Bai Chongxi calmed down and finally found that Zhuang Jihua's request for retreat was prescient, and he could not help but admit that he was too optimistic, and the victory in the two battles of Nanjing and Xuzhou made him despise the Japanese combat effectiveness too much.

With this understanding, Bai Chongxi finally ordered that the five theaters retreat on all fronts, and the first theater must fight back with all their might, recapture Xinxiang, and contain Yin Dong.

But not long after the order was issued, Zhuang Jihua called urgently, and the west bank of the canal was breached.

“… The Japanese army used Jining City to attract the attention of our army, secretly moved the 10th Division and the 21st Division to the northern front, broke through the defense line of the 56th Division of Sun Tongxuan's division of the Third Army, and led the 55th Army to also appear in chaos, and the Japanese army took the opportunity to break through and occupy Liangshan, and the west bank of the canal was shaken on the whole line. ”

Bai Chongxi's eyes were full of starlight, stunned, the canal defense line was about to collapse, the troops near Juancheng and the 102nd Army that was crossing the river to the south would be threatened, and once the Japanese army broke through the resistance of the 49th Group Army and Hu Zong's Southern Song Xilian Division, it would go straight to Heze, and then enter Henan and attack Shangqiu through Minquan, and the retreating troops of the Fifth Theater would fall into the danger of being surrounded by the Japanese army.

"Commander Zhuang is in a hurry."

Bai Chongxi received the telegram from the staff officer, and Zhuang Jihua asked the troops of the first theater to make every effort to delay the southward pace of the Japanese army to the Japanese army, and then requested that the second army in Xinyang be transported to Kaifeng immediately, and then rushed to Cao County.

Bai Chongxi immediately knew that Zhuang Jihua was considering the worst possible situation, passing through the northern front could not block the Japanese army, so the Second Army Corps would have to take on the task of blocking the Japanese army and covering the retreat of the whole army.

"Order the Second Army to be transported to Kaifeng immediately." Bai Chongxi's face was pale, and he was full of remorse in his heart, he knew that this was the case, he should have accepted Zhuang Jihua's original request, the whole army retreated, and after thinking for a long time, Bai Chongxi's face was heavy: "Directly order Xu Zuyi to block the Honma and Yindong troops with the 101st Army of the 49th Group Army, the 1st Army and the 78th Army immediately retreat south, establish a defensive line in Heze, and the 102nd Army give up the southern crossing, turn to the north and retreat, and go to Yanggu and Taiqian to rest and avoid the Japanese front." ”

Bai Chongxi did not expect this telegram to be fiercely refuted by Zhuang Jihua, and he revoked this order in the name of the commander of the theater, but ordered the 102nd Army and the 1st Army to block Honma and Yin Dong, and the 78th Army immediately marched east to reinforce the canal defense line and block the Japanese army advancing westward.

Zhuang Jihua's obvious behavior made Bai Chongxi furious, and he immediately called Zhuang Jihua and asked him to obey the order, "Commander Zhuang, if the 102nd Army continues to cross south, it will definitely affect the retreat and deployment of our army south of the Yellow River, and then suffer serious losses. ”

In the end, Bai Chongxi said very understandingly: "I know that the 102nd Army is a unit carefully trained and equipped by Jun, but the retreat to the north is not to give up, but to temporarily place it behind the enemy, and when the time comes, it can rush through the northern section of the Pinghan Line and return to the First War Zone." ”

Bai Chongxi thought that he had done his best, but Zhuang Jihua's reply was very fast and very unkind: "Although the front of Yanggu is blank, after this battle, the Japanese army will definitely not tolerate the 102nd Army staying here. Moreover, if they fled in such a hurry, the morale of the army would be damaged more than the loss of materials, and the soldiers would inevitably think that they would be abandoned, which would have a very bad impact on future operations, so the second strategy was absolutely not feasible, and they would rather pay ten times the price than hold on until the 102nd Army crossed the Yellow River south. ”

Bai Chongxi was so angry that he almost tore up the telegram on the spot. Immediately sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, complaining that Zhuang Jihua refused to obey the order, although he knew that Chiang Kai-shek would definitely not allow this statement.

But Zhuang Jihua still didn't give up, and then the third telegram came, in which he clearly told Bai Chongxi that there were orders to give him directly in the future, and that he must not pass him to give orders to his subordinates, and he also faintly accused him of not adopting his suggestions, which led to the current situation.

"..., Jun is good at military affairs, and he has been in the military for a long time, when he knows the harm of overstepping his command, and now the war situation is at a critical moment, and he must be consistent to tide over the crisis,......。 If Nakajima crosses Eijo, he will decide to retreat, and it will not be the situation it is today. ”

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