Zhuang Jihua was really anxious, during the Battle of Nanjing, although he retreated step by step, hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops arrived at the city of Nanjing, he was not in a hurry, because everything was in his prediction, but today is different, completely different. Ｑb⑸、COM\

Zhang Zizhong was surrounded in Dadong Mountain, Guan Linzheng led the second division to reinforcements, and it was easy to snatch Zhang Zizhong out; The 46th Army fled north, and was defeated by Fengwen under the mountain in the Xulou area southwest of Huaibei, and the new 38th Division had a unstable foothold in Huaibei and was forced to withdraw from Huaibei City, but fortunately, the New 22nd Division occupied Xiangshan in the north of the city, blocked the 16th Division, covered the withdrawal of the New 38th Division and the 46th Army across the Xiaowei River, established a defensive position north of the Xiaowei River, and barely stabilized the Huaibei defense line.

The 9th Division and the 13th Division pressed towards Yongcheng, and Gu Shoufu attacked Deng Xihou Luhan, the Japanese army attacked in separate ways, drilled the gap and advanced violently, and the entire southern front could not form a dense and stable defense line at all, Deng Xihou Luhan alternately covered and retreated in the direction of Yongcheng.

Zhuang Jihua stood at the head of Xuzhou City, looked around, the battle situation was chaotic, the north and south lines were broken through, but fortunately, the main force of the southern front was brought out by him from Sichuan, most of them were trained by his own hands, and he was able to meticulously carry out his orders, and the southern line did not completely collapse.

"Let's go." Zhuang Jihua took one last look at Xuzhou City, and then got into the car, Wu Ziniu immediately jumped into the passenger seat, and Gong Xiuhua sat next to Zhuang Jihua, and the atmosphere in the car was silent and depressing.

Jian An sat in the back two jeeps with two radios, and there was also a company of guards led by Lu Ruishan himself. Lu Ruishan fought in Jiawang for five days and was ordered to withdraw to Xuzhou, and there were still more than 1,400 soldiers left in the two regiments.

Soon after Zhuang Jihua left, Guan Linzheng and Zhang Zizhong led their troops to retreat across Xuzhou and retreat westward, and the Japanese army immediately occupied Xuzhou City. The fire spread throughout the city, and everywhere there were gunshots, and the cries and cries resounded throughout the city.

Xu Yuancang stood in the courtyard, his face was simple and sad, the old housekeeper stood behind him, and the rest of the family had been beaten away, leaving only these old family members.

Looking at the smoke of gunpowder all over the city and listening to the crying sound outside, the old housekeeper couldn't help but take a step forward: "Master, go back to the house." ”

"I am a fish and a man, and I am a sword, this is the slave of the country." Xu Yuancang muttered, two lines of tears rolling down.

Clang, the door was knocked open, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers rushed in with bright bayonets, seeing the situation in the courtyard, they couldn't help but be stunned, but then rushed over, the old housekeeper just stepped forward, a Japanese soldier came up and stabbed him in the stomach, the old housekeeper fell on the spot.

Xu Yuancang was full of liver and gall, stepped forward to hug the old housekeeper, just opened his mouth, and there was a pain in his back, which was immediately carried to the ground, and the blood of the two gurgled together, staining the clean steps red.

"Sir!" "Sir!"

Several family members pounced, the Japanese soldier laughed, pulled over one of the family members, pulled out a bayonet, cut off his ear with one sword, and the old man screamed and fell to the ground. When the rest of the family saw that the situation was not good, they immediately turned around and ran, and the devil laughed and chased after them.

The massacre was staged all over the city, and the whole of Xuzhou was bloody.

After occupying Xuzhou, Ando Toshikichi continued his pursuit westward, and was stubbornly resisted by the 85th Army and the 13th Army under the personal command of Tang Enbo in the area of Nghe An Mountain.

Tang Enbo commanded the 85th and 13th armies to block Ando Toshikichi on a large scale at Nghe An Mountain for three days, and in three days, fierce battles continued for more than 10 miles around Nghe An Mountain, blood flowed like rivers, artillery fire did not stop all night, soldiers on both sides sacrificed their lives and forgot to die, and reports of casualties among senior generals appeared frequently, and the 85th Army lost two regiment commanders, the 13th Army lost a brigade commander, and there were countless casualties below the battalion company commander.

The casualties of the 85th Army and the 13th Army were worth it, the troops of the Northern Front finally stabilized their positions with the support of the 78th Army after the initial confusion after the Japanese breakthrough, the 102nd Army rushed to cross the Yellow River in three days, Sun Zhen led the whole army to the south bank of the Yellow River, and then retreated to Dingtao Caoxiang.

With the southward crossing of the 102nd Army, the large-scale defense of the canal front finally ended, and the troops began to retreat gradually. To the north of the Yellow River, Xue Yue commanded the 71st Army, the 72nd Army and the 23rd Group Army to launch the ** is still in full swing, effectively restraining Yin's southeast pace and alleviating the situation of Xu Zuyi on the south bank.

Honma's two and a half divisions suffered huge casualties in the early battle, and they were simply unable to break through the defense line of the 101st Army, Yin Dong joined the Honma Dongkou encirclement with the 37th Division, and led the 101st Division to cross the Yellow River in Dongming, and fought fiercely with Hu Zongnan and An Enfu, who made great sacrifices to stop the Japanese army on the beachhead on the south bank.

After the 102nd Army crossed the river, Zhuang Jihua began to order the troops to retreat in great strides, and the 101st Army and the First Army took on the task of covering the whole army.

The squadron successively abandoned Dongguang, Juancheng, Heze, Yongcheng, Dingtao and other cities in western Shandong, as well as Peixian and Feng counties in Jiangsu, and Dangshan, Anhui, which was strategically important, and withdrew to Shangqiu, Minquan, Yucheng, and Haozhou in Anhui.

The morale of the Japanese army was high and they continued to pursue relentlessly, and Ito Masaki commanded two divisions and the remnants of Honma to attack Minquan through Heze; Yoshio Shinozuka led five divisions to press Chengwu and Shanxian in two ways to help Shangqiu; Yamashita Fengwen and Gu Shoufu also divided their troops into two routes after they succeeded in attacking Yongcheng, Gu Shoufu continued to attack Haozhou, while Yamashita Fengwen went north and killed Ando Toshichi from Xuzhou, and attacked Sun Lianzhong's Second Army, Sun Tongxuan's Third Army, Pang Bingxun's 40th Army, Tang Enbo's 20th Army, and the New 22nd Division and the New 38th Division.

The situation is still extremely urgent, and the squadron still has not gotten rid of its passivity.

To the west of Shangqiu, Wang Wenzhuang, a large number of soldiers suddenly poured into the peaceful village, these soldiers immediately filled the inside and outside of the village, the whole village quickly turned into a large military camp, soldiers wearing various costumes came and went in the village in a hurry, the Wang family ancestral hall near the south of the village was even more heavily guarded, in and out were some officers wearing yellow Nizi military uniforms, in a hurry, the roof was full of antennas of uneven length, and the whole ancestral hall was slaughtered.

"No, it can't go on like this, we must fight back and disrupt the deployment of the Japanese army." Zhuang Jihua looked nervously at the map, looking at the actions of the Japanese army on the map, according to his understanding, the Japanese army should stop the attack after they retreated into Henan, and turn to rest, after all, they occupied Xuzhou, but the consumption was not small, and it was conservatively estimated that the loss of 650,000 Japanese troops was also 200,000. A third of them were Honma troops on both sides of the Yellow River.

But where did the forces for the counterattack come from? All the troops were retreating in a hurry, and these troops suffered great losses after more than a month of fierce fighting, although the specific numbers have not yet been counted, but at least there are more than 200,000, Zhuang Jihua did not dare to imagine that the battle loss ratio was lower than that of the Japanese army.

After thinking for a long time, Zhuang Jihua finally had to pin his hopes on the troops based on the 49th Group Army and the Central Army's German Armament Division that he personally trained.

"Ordered Sun Lianzhong to hold Shan County for seven days, Sun Tongxuan to hold Cao County for seven days, and ordered the 49th Army and the 78th Army to quickly retreat to Shangqiu to assemble; ordered the Tang Enbo Division of the 20th Army Corps, Pang Bingxun of the 40th Army, and Fan Songfu of the 46th Army to hold on to Xiayi for seven days, and the 59th Army to immediately withdraw to Xuchang for rectification; The new 22nd and 38th divisions were ordered to immediately move south to reinforce the 22nd Army and the 58th Army, and the two divisions of Deng Xihou and Luhan must hold on to Maozhou. Yu Jishi of the 74th Army immediately assembled at Shangqiu. ”

"The commander is not proper," as soon as Zhuang Jihua's order was issued, Gong Chu hurriedly admonished, Zhuang Jihua looked at him a little surprised, Gong Chu said: "Our army is not how to counterattack now, but to try to preserve the troops, now continue to compete with the Japanese army, the main force of the army will suffer a large loss, which is not conducive to the upcoming defense of Wuhan, I suggest that the troops continue to retreat, the Pinghan line retreats, so that it will retreat another two hundred miles, and ask the chairman to immediately transport the troops assembled on the periphery of Wuhan to Xuchang, and we will go to Xuchang to counterattack." ”

Zhuang Jihua's face was gloomy, Gong Chu's words were not unreasonable, but it was also the reason why he had to launch a counterattack in Shangqiu. If the Japanese army arrived safely on the Pinghan line, and then whether it followed the Pinghan line to the south to attack Wuhan or the Pinghan line to the north to attack Kaifeng Zhengzhou, the consequences would be unpredictable, and he did not dare to take this risk.

Zhuang Jihua expressed his worries one by one: "From now on, the morale of the Japanese army is very high, if they are allowed to chase to the Pinghan line, I am worried that we will still not be able to block the Japanese army there, so we must block the Japanese army in this area, once the Japanese cut off the connection between Zhengzhou and Wuhan, it will be more difficult to defend Wuhan in the future." ”

"However, the strength of our troops in the Fifth Theater has been greatly consumed, and all the units have not recovered their vitality, even if they persist in fighting, it will be difficult to form a blow to the Japanese army, unless there are new reinforcements, and the other 74th Army is not used properly, the losses of the 74th Army are relatively small, and it should be the backbone of the counterattack, not used to fight and block." Gong Chu insisted that in the Red Army, after such a great war of attrition, immediately flee, even if you occupy Jinggangshan Ruijin, it is nothing, as long as the troops are still there, I can take it back at any time.

"There is no way to do this," Zhuang Jihua was indeed a little anxious: "The Japanese army rushing from the south and west of Yongcheng has the Fifth Division and the Sixteenth Division, with a total of five divisions, while the Twentieth Army and the Fifty-ninth Army have fought fiercely and suffered great losses, and it is difficult for them to stop the Japanese army alone." ”

However, Gong Chu's opinion cannot be miscalculated, and several major groups of the Japanese army are all pressed on the Fifth Theater, including five divisions of the Taniso Group, five divisions of the Shinohara Yoshio Group, about three divisions of the Ito Group, and about four divisions of the Ando Group, and the strength of the 17 divisions of the Japanese Army is all pressed on the Fifth Theater, and the pressure is unprecedentedly great.

"Commander," Seeing that Zhuang Jihua hesitated, Gong Chu finally put forward his countermeasures: "Humble suggestion, ask for help from Wuhan and the First War Zone, relying on our own strength can no longer stop the Japanese offensive." ”

Zhuang Jihua hesitated, and finally nodded: "Okay, that's it, immediately send a telegram to the chairman of the Wuhan Committee, asking for reinforcements, and the deployment will also be adjusted, no matter whether Wuhan gives reinforcements or not, we will block the Japanese army on the front line of Shangqiu." ”

Zhuang Jihua's 100,000 anxious telegram made Chiang Kai-shek a little panicked, he was a person who knew Zhuang Jihua very well, from the beginning of the Battle of Zhangmutou to the present, this was the first time that Zhuang Jihua took the initiative to ask for help.

Chiang Kai-shek summoned He Yingqin, Jiang Baili and others to discuss, and decided to put the Second Army Corps that had been opened near Kaifeng under the command of the Fifth Theater, and the counterattack north of the Yellow River had lost its effect, and ordered the 23rd Group Army, the 27th Army, and the 71st Army under Xue Yue to immediately move south, leaving the 71st Army to turn into defense north of the Yellow River, and the Eighth Army stopped ** Xinxiang, crossed the Yellow River south with the 32nd Army, and established a defensive position on the south bank of the Yellow River.

Xue Yue commanded the 23rd Group Army, the 27th Army, and the 71st Army to join the battle south of the Yellow River, and Chiang Kai-shek finally gritted his teeth and transferred a part of the newly established 200th Mechanized Division to form a fast column, led by deputy division commander Qiu Qingquan, to rush to the aid of Shangqiu.

The 200 divisions are all-Russian troops, and the more than 100 tanks, armored vehicles, automobiles, and motorcycles aided by Soviet Russia are all concentrated in this division, which is nominally a division and has an actual strength of more than 20,000 troops. This division was Chiang Kai-shek's top friend, and he was reluctant to take it out after the early battle was so fierce, and now he gritted his teeth and took it out.

"Two tank regiments, an antiaircraft artillery regiment, a baggage regiment, an engineer battalion, two infantry battalions of the automobile regiment, and a combat defense artillery regiment can be transferred to form a fast column and immediately go to Shangqiu." Ho Ying-chin quickly made arrangements.

"When to get on the bus? How many wagons do you need? How long does it take to get to Shangqiu? "Chiang Kai-shek is concerned about the head meat, and Chiang Kai-shek asked in detail.

"It takes five trains, more than fifty wagons." He Yingqin replied: "The main thing is that tanks need more wagons, and the two tank regiments have more than 100 tanks, plus anti-aircraft artillery and baggage, so why do they need more than 50 wagons." We were lucky that there were exactly seven or eight trains at Hankou station, and we could start rushing them immediately. Well, it takes four to five days. ”

"There's no need for anti-aircraft artillery," Jiang Baili interjected: "It's a snowy weather now, and the planes can't take off, and even if the weather turns clear, we are in control of the sky, I hope this ghost weather will get better soon." ”

Chiang Kai-shek looked at the black clouds as heavy as lead, and lamented in his heart, God will not help me, if there is the help of the air force, the north and south roads, especially the troops crossing the Yellow River in Honma, on the banks of the bare Yellow River, will definitely suffer a large number of casualties, and will be wiped out by Xu Zuyi, so that the turning point of the war in Xuzhou has already appeared, and there will be such a situation today.

The army was galloping, and Qiu Qingquan led a fast column to board a train in Hankou and gallop towards Henan; Before the Second Army, which had already arrived in Kaifeng, had time to catch its breath, it immediately turned around and headed south and rushed towards Shangqiu.

Xue Yue stopped the attack, and after the 71st and 72nd armies were broken, the army advanced rapidly to the south bank of the Yellow River through Changyuan, Fengqiu, and Yanjin.

To the relief of the Chinese generals, the wind and snow that lasted for more than a month finally stopped, and the Chinese Air Force, which had been preparing for a long time, almost went out, and after the decisive battle on the ground, the decisive battle in the sky began again.

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