"At present, when we are not fighting for the gains and losses of one city and one place, if our two group armies are exhausted, and we rely on a single 6th group army in the future, won't the original planned battle of the Central Plains be completely lost?" Zhao Tieshu shook his head and said, "In that case, let me send this telegram." ”

"What's the matter, the Battle of Shijiazhuang was presided over by me head-on, am I still afraid of being responsible?" Yang Hucheng's face sank, "Someone, send a telegram to the General Staff, just say that Jinan is lost, Shijiazhuang is no longer necessary, our army's flank has been exposed to the Japanese army, and now our 3rd Army requests to retreat!" ”

As a matter of fact, the Northwest Staff Headquarters quickly adopted a joint telegram between Yang Hucheng and Zhao Tieshu. But the Japanese army is not incompetent, on the contrary, once the Japanese army grasps the opportunity, the Japanese army's reaction can be called fast, Terauchi Shouichi, Xiangyue Qingji will Yang Hucheng, Zhao Tieshu's two group armies as a thorn in the eye, a thorn in the flesh, once these two group armies are completely annihilated, then the later attack on the Central Plains will be twice the result with half the effort.

"Quick, quick!" The cold wind in January was still biting, but it was under these extremely difficult conditions that the Japanese troops of the brigade walked overnight, and after conquering Jinan, they did not stop at all, let alone burn and loot as before, and rushed directly to Jizhou in Hebei. At this time, it was Wan Fulin's troops of the 53rd Army who were responsible for the defense of Jizhou.

"Commander, this time the Japanese army has moved in earnest." Staff officer Wang Xiwu looked at Wan Fulin with an anxious expression.

"I don't know if the Japanese army really moved? But this time, it was our 49th Army that blocked the flanks and fought geese all day long, but in the end, the geese pecked. I finally earned an errand in Jizhou's defense, but I didn't expect it to be a chore. ”

Wan Fulin said with a bitter face, Shijiazhuang will fight. He can only be regarded as a flank here. The front is all by Yang Hucheng's Shaanxi army. There is also the Northwest Army on top, and then there are Shang Zhen and Sun Dianying's department, and the number of troops is not small for a while, and Wan Fulin has only achieved the defense tasks in Jizhou, Nangong, and Xinhe under his efforts. It is considered that the rear is a little more of a reserve, but what Wan Fulin never expected was that the Japanese army could not attack the Shijiazhuang area for a long time. It was a big detour, and the speed of attacking Shandong from afar was incredible, and it was rumored that even Han Fuyu, chairman of Shandong Province, was almost killed by the Japanese army on the battlefield. Thinking of this, Wan Fulin shuddered a little, he had personally experienced the resistance between Rehe and the Great Wall. In my heart, I was reluctant to have a head-on contact with the Japanese army.

And with the same idea, there is also his staff officer Wang Xiwu, "Yes, the military seat, even Han Fuyu's nearly 100,000 people can't stop the Japanese army, and the Japanese army that came from Shandong this time must be the main force, but we are only a 53rd Army." was also siphoned off by Yang Hucheng, and he definitely couldn't kill the Japanese. Again. Now even Shijiazhuang is retreating, and we don't have anything to do here. ”

"Nonsense, Zhang Wenqing's example before is a lesson from the past, do you want me to follow in his footsteps?" Wan Fulin said with a face.

"It's not enough to follow in his footsteps, the young marshal was under house arrest in Nanjing before, and now there is a young marshal behind him, besides, Zhang Wenqing is just a small division commander, he will move when he moves, you are a veteran of the Northeast Army, the old man with qualifications, that is the same generation as the old marshal, the tree has deep roots, and it has a huge influence in our Northeast Army, and it is not that you can move it. In addition, we are not not fighting with the Japanese, just withdraw a brigade first, protect our own back road, fight a few battles with the Japanese in front, and then wait for the opportunity to retreat, as the saying goes, it is better to ask for others than to ask for yourself, now Taiyuan has been beaten down by the Japanese, the Japanese army in Shanxi is advancing eastward along Zhengtai Road, and the main force of Shijiazhuang is in front of the division, Yang Hucheng and Zhao Tieshu can fight again, and they can only flee in the wilderness, and they may not be able to take care of us at that time. We must find our own way back, first arrange a break, and after engaging the Japanese army, we will send a telegram to the commander. Zhang Xiwu persuaded.

"Okay, that's how it was arranged." Wan Fulin thought about it again and again, and finally decided to do what Zhang Xiwu said, he is a person of the same era as Zhang Zuolin, just like burying Fuyu, he understands the hard truth that if there are soldiers in hand, he has the right to speak, and the people of his era regard the soldiers at hand more than anything else. Therefore, Han Fuyu led the army to retreat regardless of Nanjing's order. Because Han Fuyu had nearly 100,000 troops on hand, he was not afraid that Chairman Jiang in Nanjing would punish him. It's really not good, or if you change to Nanjing later, there are more rules in the northwest.

The trucks and mules and horses of the brigade were advancing on the rugged road, and the peasants in the dark night saw the carts and horses of the brigade, and they all took their families and mouths to avoid it. However, to the surprise of these people, the Japanese army did not seem to care about them at all, and passed the village as fast as they could, and ran directly to the farther county seat of Jizhou.

"Hurry, hurry, move all the food!" At this time, in a small town in the east of Jizhou County, hundreds of soldiers were responsible for escorting the grain collected next to Jizhou County to prevent the grain from falling into the hands of the Japanese army. And promote the people of southern Hebei to gradually move to Shandong.

Time was very short, and these soldiers were also scrambling for time overnight. It's just that the speed with which the Japanese army arrived was obviously unexpected by these soldiers.

"Oh no, camp, then, the Japanese are coming over there!" The Japanese army's convoy was relatively large, and when these soldiers of the Northeast Army discovered the Japanese army, the other party had already turned through the riverside forest, and when they appeared in sight, it was only a few hundred meters away, because of the speed of the Japanese army, even if they found their farmers, with two feet, it was difficult to run past the Japanese army's cars and horses.

"Damn, why did the little devil get here so quickly. Quick, everyone retreats to Lok Ma Mountain! Battalion commander Zhou Jixian saw the lights of one truck after another, and the other party's mechanical bicycle rushed to the front, and couldn't help but be horrified.

The Japanese army did not wait for any movement here, and the machine gun fixed on the machine bicycle had already fired first. The rain-like bullets were directly sprinkled on some of the soldiers and civilians who were still carrying food and had not had time to dodge, and immediately swept down a small piece. The people next to him were even more scattered.

Bang, bang, the gunfire of the Northeast Army soldiers returning fire pales in comparison.

"Zhu Jianjun, you take two squadrons, these branches of the army will be handed over to you, don't necessarily annihilate or defeat the department in the shortest possible time, and hurry to join the main force!" Kawamoto said with a cold face.

"Hello! Humble duty must be fortunate not to be dishonored! Zhu Jiandao nodded and directly beckoned his troops to get out of the carriage, and several military trucks were directly across the necessary place at the entrance of the town. (To be continued.) )