Before dawn, Kenji Dohihara was woken up by Chief of Staff Tadayoshi Sano. The www.biquge.info of the pen is good news, the Chinese army has retreated. With a drowsy mood, Tu Feiyuan immediately asked: "Is the 88th Division retreating or is it all the Chinese army retreating?" ”

"Your Excellency, all the Chinese army has retreated, and Heze is now an empty city." Sano Tadayoshi repeated, he had already reported it before, but the division commander didn't hear it. "Cavalry has now been sent south to reconnoiter to determine the direction of the retreat of the Chinese army."

Sano Tadayoshi said that the direction looked a little dignified, the North China Front Army General Terauchi Shouichi ordered the 14th Division to go south to occupy Guide (Shangqiu), cutting off the retreat of the 600,000 Na Army, but the commander of the 1st Army, Lieutenant General Kazuki Kiyoji, knew that it was not feasible to capture Guide, and the strengthened 14th Division was already a mechanized division, and even if it occupied Guide in the absence of supplies, it would only occupy a point of the Longhai Railway, if it could occupy Lanfeng and turn its back to the Yellow River ferry to get supplies, It would not be as simple as cutting off the retreat of the Chinese army, but it would capture Kaifeng, which was close at hand, and threaten Zhengzhou, an important town at the intersection of the Longhai Line and the Pinghan Line.

Lanfeng is less than 50 kilometers from Kaifeng, and Kaifeng is just over 50 kilometers from Zhengzhou, and the 14th Division is a mechanized unit, so it is easy to go 100 kilometers to fight after receiving supplies. Once Zhengzhou is captured, then the Zhina army north of the Yellow River and the Zhina army east of the Pinghan Road will all be exhausted. How do human legs run over iron wheels? How do mules and horses compare to trains? It is true that the Chinese army is fighting on its own soil, but it has a fatal shortcoming: that is, its logistical capabilities are extremely backward. At the same time and distance, the imperial army could gather more than 40,000 people in two divisions, but the Chinese army could only gather less than 20,000 people in two divisions. With the strength and 'speed' of the imperial army, as long as Zhengzhou is occupied, Wuhan more than 400 kilometers away along the railway is just around the corner.

Seiji Kazuki had a good idea, but he made the habit of the Japanese army in World War II, and he liked to play some tricks with limited troops, in order to show his superb command level. The troops are not enough, and they have to play some useless tricks, so that they are always attacked by the country. The army ran away. This is true of Seiji Kazuki, and even more so Kenji Tohihara.

At this time, Doi Hara, who had already gotten up, was looking at the map on the table. The scale of the map is 1/50,000, so it is very large, and the paper is also thick - in the baggage of the Japanese army, this kind of detailed map where there is a well and where there is a path is the most important material for the troops, but also the heaviest burden, so that in the later war, many soldiers carrying the map will secretly burn the map of 1/50,000 to reduce the burden when there are not enough mules and horses, and the road is difficult, leaving only 1/100,000 map for combat.

Heze, Lanfeng, and Guide, this isosceles triangle with red and blue wargames appeared in front of Tu Feiyuan. The 14th Division was at the apex of the triangle, and Major General Takashi Sakai, the commander of the 28th Brigade on the east bank of the Yellow River from Jining, was in Yuncheng, a hundred kilometers away. According to intelligence, the Chinese army is concentrating near Guide, and there is only one miscellaneous 195th Division stationed in Lanfeng City, and the 32nd Division and 74th Army are in Guide. If the 71st Army retreats to Lanfeng (after the retreat of the 88th Division yesterday, the Japanese interrogated the wounded who did not die), it will increase the difficulty of capturing Lanfeng.

Tsuchihara touched his short beard, his eyes were rolling and the flesh on his face was twitching, when a report came from outside, and the telegraph soldier walked in, he bowed and said, "Telegram received." From Major General 3rd and 3rd Rear Admiral of the 2nd Air Force, addressed to the Commander. The squadron took off at 4:30 a.m. and 5:15 p.m. to carry out air raid operations on Guide, and the time for the squadron to arrive over the battlefield was 6:10 p.m. and 6:55 p.m., because the flight distance was long and the time for engaging in combat over the battlefield was extremely limited. Over, sir. ”

"Yo Xi." Tu Feiyuan nodded. This was a telegram from the aircraft carrier Kaga, and the dispatch of the 2nd Air Force this time was to create the illusion that its own army would attack Guide in a big way, and then the China Army would concentrate on Guide and let Kailanfeng go.

"Report." Another staff officer ran in, "The cavalry has ascertained that all the Chinese army has retreated to Dingtao. ”

"Yo Xi!!" Kenji Tsuchihara immediately stood up. It was the news he wanted to hear, and it was exactly what he expected. He stood up and said loudly: "Order: The cavalry wing and the chariot squadron immediately search and advance in the direction of Kaocheng and Neihuang to test the movement of the Zhina army in the direction of Lanfeng, if the Lanfeng Zhina army does not dare to attack, then blow up the Longhai Railway in the Neihuang area!" ”

"Your Excellency?" Hearing that the division commander was going to blow up the Longhai Railway at Neihuangji Station, Chief of Staff Tadayoshi Sano was a little worried. Neihuang is 16 kilometers east of Lanfeng, is a small station on Longhai Road, and this place is only more than 10 kilometers away from Minquan further east, which is equivalent to blowing up this section of railway between Lanfeng and Minquan, doesn't it make the military of China vigilant?

"Don't worry, the Chinese army won't dare to fight." Kenji Dohihara said arrogantly. "If it goes into battle, it will prove that Lanfeng is by no means a ragtag division on the defensive, and there should be a central army. That's what worries me the most. ”

At Nanchang Airport, taking advantage of the glimmer of the sky, Colonel Chen Qixia, commander of the 6th Brigade of the Chinese Air Force, personally took the 3rd, 4th, and 5th squadrons to transfer to the field. At the beginning of the war, China had a total of nine air force brigades, each of which had three or four squadrons under its jurisdiction, each squadron generally had nine planes, and the full strength was 12.

'If I were this kind of man who cums in three seconds, I'd rather swing a knife from the palace!' -- At the end of last year, the Shanghai newspapers made a big comment on the Battle of Songhu, and the 'railway dealer has two empty spaces' to mock the Chinese Air Force in this way. Of course, Chen Qixia only felt that this was not a curse, but a hatred of iron and steel. He believes that China cannot produce aircraft, and that there will be one less plane, so the air force can only exist as a tactical air force of existence, and it is enough to disrupt the Japanese planes, and only contribute at the most critical moment.

Now is the most critical moment. Chen Qixia pushed the joystick to take off with the sound of the engine, and the word 'tactical air force' came to mind. After more than half a month of test flights, the 6th Group has completely mastered the performance of this kind of bomber that has fallen sharply: it can not only accurately hit Japanese ships on the Yangtze River, but can also bomb land targets by name with bombs under the belly, and in addition, it also has a function that other planes do not have, that is, when it flies over the enemy line at a low altitude and the engine tachometer indicates 1,800 rpm, a sound wave will be emitted from the front of the plane, and the propeller will scream like a heavy machine gun. Once, Chen Weiwen of the 5th Squadron swept over the airport at a low altitude, and the ground crew were immediately frightened, and everyone thought that he had accidentally fired a shot.

With joy, Chen Qixia flew at the front, behind him were 27 planes lined up (two were out of order), and with the fleet were the two squadrons of the Soviet Air Force, I-15 and I-16, who escorted the entire bomber fleet - it is good to attack the ground with the bomber in a hurry (if it can be received and used in advance, maybe it will sink when you hear the cloud), but it has the inherent stubbornness of bombers in the battle with enemy aircraft, and it can only fight under the cover of fighter planes.

The clouds at a height of three thousand meters were like waves, stretching to the end of the sky, and the neat queue of planes was like geese heading north, and the morning sun was rising, the sun was shining on them, and the reflection of the golden clouds was sprinkled on them, as if gilded with a layer of gold.

"Are you going?" In the Wuchang Aviation Committee, Zhou Zhirou, who was smoking a cigarette, was not as relieved as Qian Dajun. He knew that airplanes were fragile and that every change would result in losses, usually at 5 percent, but he was even more worried that although the distance from Nanchang to Luohe was only 550 kilometers, he would be unlucky if he encountered an enemy plane.

"It has already departed, two have broken down, so only twenty-eight have taken off." Chief of Staff Yan Yucong said. After he finished speaking, he asked again: "Do you want to notify Kaifeng that the plane has been ......?"

"Nope." Zhou Zhirou shook her head. "The plane has not yet arrived at Luohe Airport, so don't say it for the time being. What about ammunition? He asked.

"I sent out the order last night, and I will be there tomorrow morning as arranged. I don't know if we can wait until tomorrow afternoon. Yan Yucong said that he was worried. After a night of discussion and arrangement, the problem of Henkel's short legs was cleverly solved - the bombers would land directly at Kaifeng Airport after bombing, so that the time in the air would be extended. The plane that originally landed in Kaifeng was changed to land at Zhengzhou Airport, and the plane that originally landed at Zhengzhou Airport was changed to land at Xuchang or Zhumadian Airport. Push one by one, leaving more combat time for the bombardment planes to land in a hurry. Of course, there are also disadvantages to this arrangement, that is, the 250 kilograms of bombs that have been dropped in a hurry can only be loaded in Luohe, and if they carry out a second sortie, they can only carry 50 kilograms of bombs into battle, so they don't know whether this kind of bombs are powerful enough.

"Wait for the plane to arrive at Luohe, and report the problem of the 250 kilogram bomb, but don't say the reason." Zhou Zhirou whispered. The reason why the chairman of the committee came forward to urgently dispatch these bombers to participate in the war was that people who did not understand anything and people who knew everything were making trouble. Zhou Zhirou doesn't like to speak ill of people behind her back, so she has this advice.

"Understood." Seeing that Zhou Zhirou was so careful, Yan Yucong smiled bitterly.

"Report, two groups of Japanese planes are conducting air raids to Germany!" The former enemy headquarters in Lanfeng City, the staff of the headquarters reported to Xue Yue and Yan Xunfu the latest movements of the Japanese army.

"Two brigades? Hehe...... the Japanese are really ruthless. Yan Xunfu sneered, but his smile was a little stiff. This battle has been decided to be fought in Lanfeng, and the Japanese air raid will return to Germany, and the air raid will return to Germany, anyway, the enemy will not change to me.

"It should be a back-to-back attack." Xue Yue combined the intelligence of the cavalry sent by the Japanese army before. Each division of the Japanese army had a cavalry wing, about 400 people, and their role was to reconnoiter the enemy situation and spy on intelligence. According to the reconnaissance, the Japanese cavalry set out before dawn, first to Dingtao, and then in the direction of Lanfeng Kaocheng.

"It's a possibility. But Brother Boling, will the Japanese cavalry tanks go to Beiguan? Yan Xunfu was a little worried. He couldn't figure out whether the Japanese army was searching for a purpose, or whether they were searching the entire battlefield in a carpet way.

"It's impossible to search them all." Xue Yue was also a little worried when he said it, but he still smiled and said: "Du Guangting is still very solid in doing things, and the chairman is also very discerning, and he did not hand over the armored army to two arrogant German straw bales, but handed it over to Du Guangting." But this Du Guangting is really strange, speaking of armor tactics in a set, this can't be taught by Xu Yuexiang, he doesn't have that ability, who taught this? . ”

"I heard that he learned it last year when he was in Germany, and when was the establishment of the armored division determined, some people said that he was deceived by the Czech Skoda, but I didn't expect it to be like this when it started, and there is a big way here."

A commander-in-chief and a chief of general staff, but before the war, they talked and laughed, which is really enviable, but the pain in their hearts is only known to themselves, Chang Kaishen, who returned to Kaifeng last night, has already used dense telephone lines to empty the entire former enemy headquarters, and the two have changed from commanders to bystanders, what can they do without talking and laughing.

"Two groups of Japanese planes?" At the Kaifeng Headquarters, Liu Fei, the director of the First Department, listened to the report of the staff officer, beckoned him to go, and then said to Chang Kaishen: "Report to the chairman, the Japanese aircraft attacked Guide and wanted to divert our attention. ”

"It's a drop, it's a drop." Chang Kaishen didn't sleep all night, and he didn't have anything to eat for breakfast. After affirming Liu Fei's judgment, he said: "For Zhang, when do you say that Tufeiyuan will come out of Heze City?" ”

"Report to the chairman, I think it should be the day after tomorrow." Liu Fei thought for a moment and replied loudly.

"Oh, tell me your reasoning." Chang Kaishen, who was a little excited, stood up and circled around the table.

"I thought that today was the day for the Japanese to investigate, and the scouts went around to test the reaction of our army and search for the enemy's situation everywhere. If my situation is not abnormal in the eyes of the Japanese Invaders, and the Xuzhou troops are retreating westward, the Japanese people will definitely be unable to resist eagerly moving south to attack Lanfeng. The 14th Division is a mechanized unit, with nearly 1,000 artillery trucks and trucks, and the various divisions have already launched the previous attack on Heze, and it will take at least one day to gather and prepare for the pull-out, so it will be calculated as soon as the day after tomorrow. ”

Liu Fei's analysis is still very reasonable, and when Chang Kaishen nodded, Lin Wei, deputy minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs, said: "Chairman of the committee, do we want to notify all ministries and the rear air force, the action will be the day after tomorrow, so that they can get ready." ”

"Good, good. You go and tell them not to delay the fighter plane, to cower, and to deal with it by military law! Chang Kaishen waved his hand, and sat down with great confidence, he believed that the day after tomorrow would be his lucky day! (To be continued.) )