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, Xiaji Town, north of Dizhou City, the front-line commander of the Northwest Army's No. 1 Road Army

Dozens of carts loaded with ammunition were about to go north, and a group of ragged and exhausted officers and soldiers retreated north through the town in a long snake-like formation. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Hundreds of wounded officers and soldiers who had been evacuated from the battlefield were transported from the south into the town, blood flowing from the boards of the trucks, spilling all the way onto the dusty loess roads.

Cao Haosen, the acting commander of the Third Route Army, sat expressionlessly on the handsome chair, staring at the telegram on the table, his brows were furrowed, his brows were furrowed, and his forehead was full of beads of sweat.

Lijiagang, who thought it would be attacked in one fell swoop, turned out to be unexpectedly hard, and became the flesh and blood mill of the three main divisions including the 26th Division, and the one-day attack filled the lives of more than 4,700 soldiers down the mountain. More than 9,000 lightly and seriously wounded officers and men were huddled in Xinye Castle to resign themselves to fate, counting the three divisions without a whole division, the defenders' positions were still as solid as a rock and could not be shaken in the slightest, and the charge was less than 100 meters away from the enemy's position.

Cao Haosen personally commanded the Nazhou battlefield also suffered heavy casualties, invested two catties, the division's troops, several hours of fierce attack were never able to cross the long trench dug in advance by the defending enemy, more than 5,000 corpses of soldiers still could not fill in the long trench, and finally at noon the wine time to organize the whole army to fight hard. Finally broke through the defenders' lines and crossed the trenches. Cao Haosen, who was taken aback, realized the danger and immediately ordered the whole army to retreat, but the all-pervasive defenders seized the opportunity to rush out of the city wall to carry out a major counterattack. A brigade that hit the city was never able to escape to the north of the long trench, and the two main divisions that had fought hard for a day were still entangled by the pursuing soldiers of Dengzhou, and all the artillery and heavy weapons were lost, and the officers and men of the two divisions under the heavy fire of the enemy could hardly escape even if they wanted to, and the cunning enemy kept a distance, followed closely, and kept bombarding with a large number of equipped light and heavy machine guns and mortars, and thousands of enemy officers and men wearing camouflage uniforms usually rushed up and fired wildly at the landing point of the shells. When the chaotic brethren held their ground and fought back, they retreated. Once the red-eyed and fearless brothers who were killed chased after them were chased over, they would attract machine-gun fire that was denser than raindrops, and almost all of the corpses of their own officers and men of the Northwest Army fell on the wide battlefield, and the more they were beaten, the fewer people they fought, the more frightened they became, and many officers and soldiers who had been arrogantly saying that they had seen through life and death for many years shed tears of despair for the first time on this cruel battlefield.

The guards urged him to retreat twice, but Cao Haosen did not move. At this time, what he is facing is not retreat, but life and death. His mind was at a loss. He was reluctant to come to serve as the commander of the Third Route Army before, and strongly opposed the commander's desperate adventure plan, but the absolute authority of the commander did not give him any chance to distinguish, as for many years, Cao Haosen could only take office with a hard head, sent away the old man Pang Bingxun, who suffered heavy casualties and was in a state of mind, and stationed in Nanyang with two and a half recuperated main divisions, and received an urgent order from the general headquarters before he sat down: go all out to attack Lijiagang and Dengzhou!

Cao Haosen knew that the commander was in a hurry, and Li Zongren, the overlord of the Gui family who had risen again, waved his army north, and quickly conquered Hengyang and Changsha, He Jian was beaten by Bai Chongxi and Zhang Ben and was dizzy, panicked, and strode backwards to Tingxiqiao before he could stand on his feet, and hurriedly collected and scattered all the troops to form a formation to resist, but the battle of Tingxiqiao, which was famous in the early days of the Northern Expedition, was a miracle created under the command of Li Zongren and Zhang Ben, and the main force of the attack is still Li Zongren's Seventh Army and Zhang Ben's Fourth Army. Clear-eyed people know that He Jian's defeat is only a matter of time, and Li Zongren's morale-like army will return to Wuhan again. Regain control of the two lakes and win the world. It was precisely because of such a delicate situation that the marshal urgently transferred the main force of five divisions to Nanyang in the blink of an eye. He attempted to gather the strength of more than 70,000 elite soldiers of seven and a half divisions to break the defense line of the Fifth Army of the Central Army in one fell swoop, and then regardless of turning southeast, he grabbed Wuhan in front of Li Zongren in exchange for the maximum

Benefit.

However, no one expected that it would be such an ending now, the Fifth Army of the Central Army was so resolute and brave, and the seven divisions that were temporarily gathered under the command of the young general An Yi had the audacity to fight the time difference, and they fought so smartly and quickly.

It wasn't until the other side launched a general attack that Cao Haosen understood that An Yi had already seen the intentions of his army, or that he had imagined such a possibility, so he dug a nine-kilometer-long trench in advance and built a solid Lijiagang blocking front, and was invincible early.

Cao Haosen's command of the offensive was repeatedly frustrated, and when he saw the bitter battle reports from the two fronts, he suddenly remembered that An Yi, the commander of the enemy army, was born as an engineer company commander, and in the early days of the Northern Expedition, he used the originality and improvement of the engineer's professional technology and theory. Becoming a model for the whole army to learn from, Cao Haosen never expected that the Fifth Army Corps, which was younger than their commander, performed so well, with strict military discipline, consistent pace, decisive and fierce but flexible and free, looking at the whole army, how many generals have such prestige and talent?

Defeated, defeated like a mountain!

The cut has passed, everything has become an irretrievable fact, Cao Haosen cannot be reversed even if he has the power of heaven, he knows the habits of the Northwest Army. Knowing how much impact the fiasco of the Nanyang War Zone will have, even if this luck is particularly good and can barely keep it..., Gong sticks to Nanyang. Defeat! There is no forgiveness of sin, though he has always been one; Xin cautiously monitored the Fifth Army Corps in western Hubei, adopted a defensive strategy to stick to Nanyang, and used his limited forces to the main battlefield of southeast Henan and Henan-Anhui where the battle was most intense. Feng Dashuai only needs a reason to lose his troops. There will never be a second way out except for the shooting of him, and it is difficult to find those who have made great achievements from ancient times to the present. Scapegoats are all over the place.

"Let's go, let's go, it's too late," the loyal captain of the guard urged again.

"Let's go? Where to go? ”

Cao Haosen shook his head and smiled miserably, slowly stood up and commanded in a low voice: "Call a few division commanders and deputy division commanders, I want to talk to them, maybe this is the last time I will talk to them, go quickly!" ”

"Yes!"

The chief guard hesitated for a moment, then turned away.

At noon the next day, Xuzhou Zhangcheng Daying, the General Headquarters of the Central Army.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, General An Yi urgently telegraphed!" The joy that could not be concealed on Ge Jingen's face was revealed.

"Hurry up!"

Chiang Kai-shek stood up, staring at Ge Jingen with blazing eyes, and more than a dozen generals at the meeting stood up with him. Full of anticipation.

"The officers and men of our army fought hard day and night for two days, successively defeating two divisions of Liu Ruming's division, the 9th and 26th divisions of the enemy in the Nanyang Theater, and three mixed brigades, destroying more than 28,000 enemies and capturing more than 30,000 enemies before and after, until 10:40 a.m. today. General Zhang Cunzhuang led the new 10th and 16th divisions of the Left Route Army to counterattack bravely and reached the east of Nanyang City to form an encirclement, and General Yin Jinan led the 16th and 44th divisions to pursue the victory and blockade the west and north of Nanyang. General Deng Bin led the new 9th Division and the new 14th Division to the south of the city, and more than 9,000 remnants of the enemy in the city saw that the general trend had gone, laid down their arms to stop resisting, and the defending enemy had sent generals out of the city to negotiate surrender.

The Fifth Army Corps planned to move the front-line headquarters from Dengzhou to Nanyang so that it could command the next stage of the war. Student, Ann..."

The hall was full of cheers, and Chen Yi and other generals came to Chiang Kai-shek's side one after another, congratulating in unison, saying that this good news was another turning point after Hu Jialin's Independent Division and Zhang Chengzhu's First Cavalry Division cooperated with friendly troops to conquer the boundary and penetrate into the commercial water.

Ge Jingen hurriedly said that the victory in Nanyang was of greater significance, because of the victory in Nanyang, the enemy in Jiahe and Yexian was defeated without a fight, and the north retreated to Xuchang to build a new defense line, and the Third Army finally broke the deadlock and went north on the whole line, and southern Henan fell into the hands of our army. From now on, Luo Yi will be under the front of our Third and Fifth Army Corps, and the Northwest Army's original desperate attempt to take Wuhan and entrench itself in the two lakes will completely fail, and the evil consequences that will follow will be infinitely magnified, and all units of our army will stop their decline from then on, and will soon enter the stage of overall counteroffensive.

The generals were inexplicably excited, but Chiang Kai-shek was very calm, he instructed Chen Yi to immediately report the Nanyang victory to the whole country, awarded the Fifth Army Division Commander and above the generals at all levels of the Yunlu Medal, promoted the Fifth Army Corps Left Route Army Commander-in-Chief and Chief of Staff of the 44th Army Zhang Cunzhuang, the Right Route Army Commander-in-Chief Yin Jinan, and the Deputy Commander of the 44th Army Na Bin Lieutenant General, heavily rewarded the Fifth Army Corps with 800,000 yuan, and ordered the Fifth Army to compile the remaining meritorious officers and men into a book and submit them to the Ministry of Military Affairs, and the Central Military Commission and the General Headquarters will be commended and commended together.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, commander of the Third Army Corps, Commander He, secret telegram." The staff officer of the Major General presented the message with both hands.

"Oh?"

Chiang Kai-shek took the telegram, read it twice, and happily gave the order: "Call General He Chengjun of Xuezhou immediately." I sent Mr. Ming Wei Cao Haosen by plane. I'm going to wait at the airport in person, haha Brother Huanzhang, since you can't tolerate such a talented person as Mr. Ming Wei, "Brother wants to thank you for your success and respectfully smiled..."

Nanyang, the front headquarters of the Fifth Army Corps.

"The commander, the Military Commission and the General Headquarters jointly came to commend the telegram"

"Put it on the table."

An Yi didn't raise his head, and read the secret message from Hu Jialin repeatedly sadly, and the joy of winning a big victory was long gone.

In the first battle, the Independent Division and the 1st Cavalry Division did their best, the Independent Division undertook the main attack, and the 1st Cavalry Division made a long-distance attack on the enemy's right flank, and finally fell into a tragic white-knuckle battle, and the brothers of the two divisions paid a huge price. Only with the coordination of the two divisions of the friendly army broke through the defense line of the three divisions of Zhang Weiwang of the Northwest Army, and made great contributions to the friendly army's attack on Shangshui.

More than 3,000 officers and soldiers of the Independent Division were killed in this battle. More than 6,000 brothers were wounded, only 50 percent of the officers and men of the 1st Cavalry Division remained, Xiao Wu, commander of the cavalry regiment of the Independent Division, was shot in the abdomen, Li Yuewu, deputy of the regiment, was stunned by a bomb and is still unconscious, and half of the battalion and company-level commanders who were replenished into the Independent Division from various periods in Huangpu were gone.

An Yi never thought that he had always insisted on not fighting unprepared battles, especially not fighting the kind of offensive operations that used human lives to pile up combat exploits, and had always advocated looking for fighters to annihilate the enemy in the movement, but his trump card was so ruined by the military commission and the third army of the people, which made him heartbroken, but helpless.