Nakajima Yasuken did not know that the move to the south shook the four command headquarters, and the commander of the North China Front, Sugiyama Moto, was frightened into a cold sweat by his approach of letting go of the flanks, and ordered him to abandon the south, but the commander of the First Army in Shijiazhuang, Kazuki Kiyoji, was greatly appreciative of his actions, withheld Sugiyama Moto's telegram, and refused to forward it to Nakajima. , QВ (5), CoМ\\ Sugiyama Motomori angrily wanted to remove Kazuki Kiyoji from his post as commander of the First Army.

Li Zongren never dreamed that the front of the Pinghan Line would collapse so quickly, and that it would be eight times as large as the enemy, and that the entire front would be completely crushed by the Japanese army after only one day and one night of fighting. Seeing that Nakajima Kangjian was getting closer and closer to the Yellow River, Li Zongren was very anxious.

At this moment, Xuzhou only has two regiments of troops directly under the theater, and there is also a military police regiment, and as the general reserve of the 91st Army Hao Zhiju Department, Gao Zhiju Department is expanded from the original 166th Division, the reorganization of the troops has not yet been completed, half of the recruits have been enlisted in the army for less than two months, relying on such troops to stick to Zhengzhou, Li Zongren himself has no confidence, in a hurry, Li Zongren is looking for reinforcements everywhere, but all the troops suddenly disappeared, Li Zongren had to telegraph Xue Yue to transfer a division from the front line back to defend Zhengzhou.

After Xue Yue received Li Zongren's telegram, he instinctively wanted to refuse, the front-line troops were tight, the three armies were fighting hard, and drawing any of the troops might lead to the failure of the troops. Xue Yue was unwilling, but he didn't want to offend Li Zongren like this, so he proposed to the commander-in-chief Bai Chongxi to suspend the offensive, and Bai Chongxi did not greet Li Zongren, and immediately ordered that no troops should be transferred from the front line, and strictly ordered Xue Yue to speed up the attack and break through the Japanese army's defensive circle as soon as possible.

Bai Chongxi also couldn't understand why Nakajima launched an attack at this time? Assault Henan? Attack Zhengzhou? Hold me back from the counterattack? But in this way, the north of the Yellow River will not be empty? The Japanese army fighting in eastern Henan is not in the back road? Let our army cut off their transport lines? Yasuken Nakajima also did not receive reinforcements that were much larger than his forces, and it was impossible for him to have the forces to both attack and protect the transport lines? What exactly is he going to do? Bai Chongxi hadn't understood it yet, but in his heart he didn't think that Nakajima Kangjian would attack Zhengzhou, and the information from Zhuang Jihua did not have this hand.

The 77th Army was completely dispersed, Nakajima attacked with infantry, Lu Hasao led the cavalry to make a detour, biting the 37th Division and the 77th Army military headquarters, and did not give Feng Zhi'an any time to stop and reorganize the troops, the 77th Army fought hard all the way, but the battle situation never appeared to be saved, Feng Zhi'an rushed to escape to the bank of the Yellow River and could not cross the river, so he simply led his troops to the west.

Feng Zhi'an shook his hand and walked away like this, and Nakajima Yasuken's face was impressively cheerful, and now there was no strength to stop him from reaching the north bank of the Yellow River.

Li Zongren learned that Nakajima Kangjian conquered Yuanyang and then marched eastward, and he was just relieved, but Nakajima turned around and went south to cross the Yellow River at the three churches at the junction of Yuanyang Fengqiu.

Kaifeng, Wuhan, Shijiazhuang, and Beiping shook as one.

Chiang Kai-shek thundered like thunder in Wuhan and sent a telegram to Li Zongren demanding that the generals who had mistaken the battle and dereliction of duty be brought to justice, "The collapse of the 80,000-strong army in one day has caused the Japanese army to be difficult in the Yellow River, and if there is no suspicion of fearing the enemy and avoiding the war, the theater commander's department should strictly examine it and deal with it in accordance with the old practice of Han Fuyu!!!! ”

The murderous telegram made all the generals shudder, and Li Zongren once again thought of Zhuang Jihua's reason for resolutely not fighting with Han Fuyu in the first place, "They are all untrustworthy guys." Li Zongren sighed in his heart, and then silently handed over Chiang Kai-shek's telegram to Xiao Zhenying, the general staff, Xiao Zhenying is the old man of the Northwest Army, the actual founder of the 29th Army, and has a wide range of connections in the Northwest Army, and is deeply respected by the 29th Army, but he has a very poor relationship with Feng Yuxiang, even after the start of the Anti-Japanese War, Feng Yuxiang sent someone to assassinate him when he served as the commander of the First War Zone, and the relationship between the two is simply incompatible.

Xiao Zhenying couldn't help but shake his head after seeing it: "No wonder the chairman of the committee is angry, in two days, he lost more than 100 miles of two cities, which is really unheard of." ”

"You have to work this matter," Li Zongren handed over this hot potato to Xiao Zhenying with a slight change of hand, Xiao Zhenying did not shirk with a wry smile, the battle situation suddenly had a variable, Li Zongren had no time to deal with this kind of thing, and the deputy commander Liu Zhi was far away in Xuchang, and only he, the general senator, came forward.

"Brother Zhenying, what do you think is the purpose of this Japanese army?" Li Zongren was puzzled, no matter how he looked at this Japanese army, it was like launching a suicidal attack, this kind of operation with no right rear, no support troops, and no supplements, wasn't it obvious that they were destined for death?

"I can't see it," Xiao Zhenying shook his head and said, "But they are a great threat to us, if nothing else, we should attack Zhengzhou tomorrow." ”

Li Zongren didn't think so in his heart, but now he has so many troops in his hands, if he wants to hold Zhengzhou, it will be very difficult without foreign aid, and just thinking about it, Xiao Zhenying added: "Degong, have you found it, if this Japanese army turns around to the east after crossing the river, Xue Yue's logistics supply line may be cut off." ”

"I don't know, but I only have such a small number of troops,...。" Li Zongren spread his hands: "I can't stop Zhengzhou." ”

"Only Xue Yue has soldiers, but Xue Yue will definitely not agree, so let's do it, it's better to telegraph to the chairman and ask for more troops." Li Zongren couldn't laugh even if he smiled bitterly.

Li Zongren's 100,000 urgent telegrams were distributed to Xue Yue, Bai Chongxi, and Chiang Kai-shek, and Xue Yue could not help but be shocked when he saw that the logistics line was shocked, and regardless of Bai Chongxi's orders, he transferred the 74th Army from the attacking force to launch a counterattack on Zhongdao.

As soon as Bai Chongxi saw that he had crossed the river on Zhongdao, he no longer objected to Xue Yue's transfer of troops, and at the same time sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, demanding that the 27th Army assembled in Xinyang and the Eighth Army at the junction of Henan and Jin be placed under the command of the First Theater of Operations, and Chiang Kai-shek immediately agreed. Bai Chongxi telegraphed the 27th Army to urgently transport Zhengzhou by car, and the Eighth Army went to Jiaozuo to launch a counterattack on Xinxiang, completely cutting off the rear route of the troops crossing the river.

Yasuken Nakajima crossed the river without permission to expose a big gap on the northern line, and Sugiyama was also so anxious in Beijing that he almost split his desk in half.

"Your Excellency, you should immediately order Nakashima to return to Hebei and stick to Xinxiang to Anyang. Otherwise, not only will it be dangerous, but it will also lead to the flank of the combat troops in eastern Henan being attacked by the ** army. ”

The staff officers of the General Staff were surprisingly unanimous this time, whether it was Litaka Support or Eto, or Okabe Naosahiro, and unanimously demanded that Sugiyama Gen order Nakajima to return to Hebei and cancel the Henan operation.

Sugiyama Mototo has given orders to Kazuki Kiyoji several times, but Kazuki Kiyoji just refused to obey the order, and repeatedly called to distinguish Nakajima, Sugiyama Moto's heart was extremely annoyed, but he had nothing to do about this kind of subduing in the Japanese army.

"Your Excellency, Seiji Kazuki still refuses?" Eto asked.

"Then remove him from his post and send him to a court-martial." Ligao suggested with a firm expression.

"Yes, send him to court-martial!" The staff officers chimed in.

"Your Excellency, I suggest that the 101st Division, which is ready to be put into Puyang, stay in Xinxiang, and be responsible for guarding the section from Xinxiang to Anyang to ensure the safety of the flanks of the main force of the front army." Okabe suggested.

Sugiyama thought for a moment and felt that this might be the only solution, so he nodded in agreement.

In fact, even if Kiyoji Kazuki gave Nakajima an order, Nakajima would not carry it out, and he was now marching happily south of the Yellow River. After rushing across the Yellow River, he found that as he expected, the squadron south of the Yellow River was very empty, except for a small number of troops called the security regiment, there were almost no regular troops, but it was right to think about it, 80,000 troops were gathered in front of the Pinghan line, and 300,000 counterattack troops in eastern Henan, and there could not be many troops south of the Yellow River.

"Gentlemen, you defeated the ** army that was several times your strength, occupied two county towns in two days, and drove straight into more than a hundred miles, you created a military miracle! This is your eternal glory! I'm so proud of you! Nakajima shouted in front of the soldiers, cheering up their increasingly tired bodies: "I know you are tired, but I hope you can persevere, we have a **500,000 army to the east, as long as we fight over, we can cooperate with our army to completely annihilate the main force of this ** people!" ”

"Hooray!" "Long live the Emperor!" Murakashita raised his arms and shouted loudly.

"Hooray!" "Long live the Emperor!" The soldiers also shook their arms and shouted excitedly.

The village was in flames, littered with dead bodies; There were dozens of wagons parked at the entrance of the village, loaded with grain and forage, and in order to grab the grain and forage, they killed all the villagers of the village.

After resting, Nakajima led the troops to move in the direction of Kaifeng.

Just as Nakajima was resting, the gunfire outside Zhengzhou subsided all night. On this night, there were several shocks in the city of Zhengzhou, and the defenders closed the city gate and waited for the city. What made them strange was that the Japanese only fired their guns outside the city, and the positions outside the city were also lost in several places, but after dawn the gunfire gradually faded away, and the cavalry galloped eastward.

Hearing the report of the troops who had searched outside the city that the Japanese army had left and was heading east, Li Zongren paused, and then walked quickly to the map to examine it carefully.

"What's the idea of the little devil?" The chief of staff was very puzzled: "Wouldn't it be to attract our army out of the city to pursue?" ”

"This is what adds to the picture," Li Zongren turned around and smiled: "Director Huang, telegraph to the Kaifeng City Defense Headquarters, a large number of Japanese troops are coming to you, you must hold on for three days, lose within three days, send him to a military court, lose after three days, the responsibility lies with me."

The second telegram was sent to Yu Jishi, the commander of the 74th Army, ordering him to rush to Kaifeng immediately, and at the same time to divide a powerful part to seize Lankao and block the Japanese army.

The third telegram was sent to Chairman Wuhan and Xinyang Bai Jiansheng, saying that the Japanese troops crossing the river would not exceed 10,000 at most, and their purpose was to harass the rear of our army, and they might also advance eastward into the Fifth Theater, and would cut off the rear route of the main forces of the Fifth Theater with Honma, and cooperate with the two fronts in the southeast to encircle the main forces of our Fifth Theater.

The fourth telegram was sent to Commander Zhuang of the Fifth Theater of Operations, and the Fifth Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army crossed the Yellow River to fight without a rear and was attacking Kaifeng. ”

"Speed up!" Nakajima walked in the queue, and a young and slightly immature soldier sat on his horse: "We must rush to Kaifeng tonight!" ”

The pace of the queue immediately accelerated, the sound of heavy breathing spread in the team, and the heavy breathing of thousands of people condensed into a white mist in the air.

"The real test begins."

Hearing the sound of the horses' hooves coming from behind, Nakajima stopped, turned his head to look at the west, and the yellow clouds were hanging in mid-air, a sun flag haunted the yellow clouds, and the deer grass was back, ** people should be aware of their intentions.

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