"He wants to repair the Xinzheng Railway?"

"Yes, this is a telegram he sent to the Ministry of Communications, asking the Pinghan Railway Bureau to send him a few experts to assess the manpower and material resources needed to repair the railway, as well as the construction plan. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"What is Minister Yu Qiaofeng's opinion?"

"I'm afraid the central government can't take out this money to repair the Xinzheng Railway, if Leng Guoguang wants to be determined to repair this railway, I'm afraid he has to raise his own funds, and the Yellow River Railway Bridge in Zhengzhou has just been blown up in February this year. Lao Jiang's secretary Wang Shihe said.

"What do you think, Mr. Brey?"

"The old man thinks that if repairing this railway can bring enough benefits, then there is no problem in spending money to repair it, but if it is repaired, it is useless, and it will even suffer disasters, then there is no need to repair it." Chen Bulei thought for a moment and said slowly.

As soon as Lao Jiang heard this, yes, it's not like he didn't say it, the railway is repaired, and the transportation will be smooth, not only people, but also materials will be convenient, which is naturally beneficial.

But the question is, how long can the railway be repaired, how long can Leng Feng stay in northern Henan, or is it just to connect northern Henan and Zhengzhou?

"Maybe he's trying to transport grain and coal to the outside world, which are scarce resources right now?"

Not only Lao Jiang, but also the government and the opposition, but everyone who knew that Leng Feng had plans to repair the "Xinzheng" railway were speculating about his thoughts and intentions.

"Well, northern Henan is an important grain producing area, as well as anthracite, raw materials for steelmaking, as long as it is mined, then no one wants it, it seems that this Leng Guoguang is planning to stay in northern Henan and not leave."

"Northern Henan is a plain area, and there are coal resources coveted by the Japanese, I am afraid that the Japanese will not let go of this piece of fat, and when the time comes, I am afraid that they will provoke war......

"As soon as this railway is repaired, it can bring a lot of business opportunities, and there are still a lot of good things in northern Henan......"

"This Xinzheng Railway has long been demolished, how to repair it, where are the rails, where are the sleepers, Leng Guoguang is a yellow-mouthed child, do you know how to repair the railway?"

"It's impossible to fix it in two months."

Doubts and doubts continued to come out for the next month or two.

However, Leng Feng wants to repair the Xinzheng Railway, and it does not cost the national currency, and the central government has no reason to oppose it, which is repaired, and it is not only the benefit of northern Henan, but also the high-quality coal of northern Henan can be continuously transported through this railway, which is actually a win-win situation.

The problem finally turned to the hands of Yu Qiaofeng, Minister of Communications, who had always adhered to Lao Jiang's will, and Lao Jiang did not say that he supported it, but he did not say that he did not support it.

He pondered, it stands to reason that this is a good thing, the Ministry of Communications should support it, and it does not occupy the funds of the Ministry of Communications for road repair, and it is also his political achievement to repair it.

So, he thought about it and decided to send a team of experts to see it first, if it can be repaired in the short term, then do it, and the Ministry of Communications will come up with a repair plan and technical guidance, and it will not cost a few dollars.

If the construction period is too long, and the funds and materials for the restoration are insufficient, then it is not necessary, so that even if there is opposition, there will be a reason to justify it.

Three days later, Leng Feng received a reply from the Ministry of Communications that he would send a team of experts to Xinxiang, including seven or eight people, led by Mr. Hou Jiayuan, a railway expert.

(This is a later story, let's press the table first)

On the 11th, Mr. Jiang arrived at Zhengzhou Airport on a special plane on the Meiling, although the war situation was stalemate, but he still came with great ambition, and Cheng Songyun, the commander of the First Theater of Operations, personally went to the airport to greet Lao Jiang and his party.

Subsequently, a military conference of the First Theater on the Battle of Guide was held in Zhengzhou, and the participants were all important members of the party-state of the First Theater.

The topic of discussion was how to replicate the victory of Taierzhuang in Guide.

Mr. Jiang's morale is very high, but he obviously misjudged the situation, and the generals below looked at it, this Chairman Jiang never drinks, why does he seem to be drinking high today?

This great feather has been committed again.

Lao Jiang saw that the Japanese army that returned to Germany was not surrounded by the National Legion, and although Xue Boling made a mistake in command, he did not cause much loss, at least the main force of the Tufeiyuan Division was already at the end of the road.

The most embarrassing thing was Liu Weizhang, director of the War Department of the Military Commission, as one of the entourages who accompanied him and those who knew a lot about the current war situation.

He understands Lao Jiang, and in terms of military strategy, it is not a little worse, at least, he is still not sober enough, and with the previous series of victories, his head is also a little hot.

Lao Jiang longs for another victory, this is nothing, human nature, but he is not an ordinary person, he is the commander of the army, and now he is still at the helm of the country, he can't be as emotional as the common people, then it's over.

As soon as the maps of the first and fifth war zones were unfolded in front of Lao Jiang, and the red and blue were compared on them, Lao Jiang suddenly felt a cold sweat break out on the back of his neck.

Although many battles were won, the overall battle situation was quite unfavorable to the national army, and the Japanese army was advancing step by step, and there was not much room left in the fifth theater.

"Commission, Song Gong, I just received a telegram from Chief Li, Taierzhuang has been lost."

It has only been a few days since the great victory of Taierzhuang, and it has been less than a month, and a month later, this small canal city carrying the ardent hopes of the Chinese people finally fell under the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders.

As soon as Taierzhuang was lost, Xuzhou would have no danger to defend, and it would be a matter of time before it was captured by the Japanese army.

In the large conference room of the headquarters of the commander of the first theater, there was silence.

"Adjournment!"

Lao Jiang knew that there was no point in continuing this battle meeting, so it was better to directly announce the end of the meeting, and at the same time consider how to deal with the current situation.

It's like giving old Jiang Huo. A basin of cold water is poured on the top of the hot brain, and the expectations are too high, and sometimes the greater the disappointment.

Lao Jiang stayed in the No. 24 dormitory of the Longhai Railway Bureau in Zhengzhou, and he didn't have much appetite at noon, so he summoned Yan Xunpu, chief of staff of the First Theater Commander's Department, over.

If the Japanese army occupies Xuzhou, the next step will definitely be to advance westward along the Longhai Railway, and the target is the main artery of the Pinghan Railway.

What is connected to the Pinghan Railway, Wuhan is now the capital of the Anti-Japanese War, military and political institutions, educational institutions, industrial and mining enterprises, etc., most of China's essence is gathered here.

If Wuhan is to be occupied by the Japanese, then most of China will be gone, and to keep the Pinghan line is to keep Wuhan.

Since the war situation is likely to develop in the worst direction, it is necessary to prepare for the worst, and it has been planned before, once the battle of Xuzhou fails, the Japanese army will advance westward along the Longhai Road, in order to keep the Zhengzhou Plain and the Pinghan line not lost, the Yellow River will be dug up, and the water will replace the troops with water to stop the Japanese army.

As early as the 24th year of the Republic of China, when Yan Xunpu was the chief of staff of the Wuhan camp, he made this kind of suggestion to Lao Chiang, and many people made similar suggestions one after another, including Lao Chiang's most trusted German adviser Falkenhausen also put forward it.

"The last front is the Yellow River, and it is advisable to make a planned artificial flood to thicken its defense."

When the Japanese army occupied northern Henan, Chen Guofu had suggested that the embankment should be broken in the Wuzhi area on the north bank of the Yellow River to block the Japanese army on the north bank from moving south.

In addition, Yao Cong, deputy director of the General Office of the Military Commission, suggested through Xiong Bin, deputy director of the Military Command Department, that the embankments should be broken at the Liuzhuang, Zhukou and other estuaries east of Lanfeng......

Chen Cixiu also had such suggestions.

Whether to delay the pace of the Japanese attack by killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 self in this way, Lao Jiang is also bottomless in his heart, once this decision is made, the final board will hit him.

But in this position, he had to face such a choice, could there be a better way to avoid it?

If you can block the Japanese troops, you don't need to do this, but the problem is that the Japanese army continues to increase its troops, and the number of Japanese divisions near Xuzhou alone has exceeded ten.

Excluding the Kwantung Army, the main forces of the two major Japanese armies in North China and Central China have exceeded 600,000 troops.

In the face of such a powerful force, Lao Jiang felt a lot of pressure.

After seeing Yan Xunpu, Lao Jiang's mood became a lot heavier, and then he asked people to call Xue Boling's headquarters and talk to Xue Boling on the phone in person.

I asked a question, when will Guide be able to win?

Xue Boling on the other end of the phone was silent for a long time, did not answer, in fact, he could not answer this question at all, he answered less, did not dare to make a military order, answered too much, it is possible that before he could wait, the Japanese reinforcements had already called, that was tantamount to talking big, this is to bear military responsibility.

Xue Boling, the tiger general, is not sure, which is enough to show that this battle is not easy to fight, one wrong step, one wrong step, the Japanese army has now seized Guide, nailed there to the death, and no matter how many people died, they did not withdraw.

Kenji Tsuchihara also grabbed this and the life-saving straw, this old devil really wants to stick to morality, you really can't do anything about him.

At least the Nationalist Army did not have enough heavy weapons and air supremacy, so it was very difficult to fight, and the Japanese army was originally a defensive operation, and the casualties were not proportional at all.

This soil is now a piece of stinky meat, and the surrounding national army is a swarm of flies, buzzing, wanting to swallow it in one bite, but can't eat it, so it can only be gnawed little by little, but when will it be a head?

"How many troops do you need, the troops withdrawn from the five theaters, you can pick them at will, hand them over to your command, can you take Guide?"

Xue Boling still didn't speak, these troops were tired from fighting, even if they were elite, they didn't have much combat effectiveness when they withdrew at this time.

These troops urgently need to rest and recuperate, and then let them fight, that is simply a tactic to add fuel, and if there are many people who can use it, then the Japanese army has long been driven out of China?

Did it work?

If you, Chairman Chiang, can bring in the New First Army, you will be able to take Guide within three days, the question is, is it possible?

Of course, it is impossible for Leng Feng to come, northern Henan is also very important, the war on his side is not over, and it is impossible for the Japanese army to let go of him, a huge threatening enemy.

"Boling, I handed over the new 38th Division to your command, can you take Guide?" Lao Jiang asked.

"I want the heavy artillery brigade and armored brigade of the new First Army, as well as their new weapons for fighting tanks." Xue Boling spoke, if he opened his mouth to find Leng Feng, Leng Feng would probably agree, but in this way, he would owe a big favor.

Now that Lao Jiang has spoken, how to satisfy Leng Feng is Lao Jiang's business, he doesn't need to owe favors, but this is equivalent to saying that a military order has been issued.

If Lao Jiang gave him these to come over, if he Xue Boling failed to solve the Tufeiyuan Division of Guide, then he would be unlucky.

"What is a new weapon for fighting tanks?" Lao Jiang was also a little confused, why hadn't he heard of this, what kind of weapon can fight tanks?

How come no one told him about such important intelligence, the intelligence department is too derelict in its duties.

"I haven't seen it either, but it's said to be very powerful, and against Japanese tanks, one hit at a time." Xue Boling said, he is not a betrayal of Leng Feng, anyway, the news of the "rocket" was not revealed to him by Leng Feng.

Lao Jiang thought about it, and Leng Feng's stubborn temper was really not easy to deal with, so he didn't rush to deal with it first, so as not to get off the stage in front of his subordinates when he got it.

The new 38th Division is easy to adjust, but the troops of the New First Army are really difficult to adjust, and this is not a matter of order, the key is that the reasons are sufficient and insufficient.

More than 100,000 troops besieged more than 10,000 people, fought for four or five days, suffered 20,000 or 30,000 casualties, and made no progress.

Now that there is a sudden change, the person who is changing is not happy, and the person who is doing it is not happy, isn't this here to grab credit?

If the replaced person takes down Guide, then these people will not be ashamed to die before?

Besides, more than 100,000 troops surrounded Guide, and where the later ones came from and who gave up their positions also needed coordination.

The new 38th Division is besieging Caozhou, and Toshima Botaro still has less than 3,000 remnants in Caozhou City, and he is a dead soldier when he comes out, so he can only fight in Caozhou City.

According to Leng Feng's instructions, Luo Yufeng obviously didn't want to wade into the troubled waters of Germany, so he used five or six points of strength to fight Caozhou, and he spent five or six points of strength with Toshima Fangtaro, anyway, he was the one who won in the end.

The heavy artillery brigade and the armored brigade have also disappeared, for fear of being discovered by the Japanese reconnaissance planes, and it will be miserable if they come to serve one pot at a time.

Leng Feng has always paid attention to the situation in the war of Guide, and sometimes, he really can't stand aside and watch the play, and he still understands the truth of cold lips and teeth.

After the Sichuan Army withdrew west to Juancheng for rest, Leng Feng transferred the new 37th Brigade to Shanxian and Jinxiang Yutai to ensure the safety of the Luxi Passage, and at the same time, to prepare for the Japanese occupation of Xuzhou.

Once the Japanese army marched west along the Longhai line, it would inevitably penetrate deep into northern Jiangsu and western Luxi, and he would ensure that the materials and personnel from Yutai and Jinxiang were transferred to northern Henan.

There is also GJ who retreated from Xuzhou at the end, and when necessary, he also had to take the Luxi Passage to retreat westward.

In fact, Leng Feng really wanted to transfer the new 37th Brigade back to northern Henan and control the big places in northern Henan, but the strength of the three brigades in his hands was too thin, and what he was going to do next must be supported by strong force.

However, the fight of the national army in eastern Henan was so bad that he did not dare to withdraw the troops at this time, and he was very uncomfortable, and he had a feeling that he could not use his hands and feet.

(To be continued.) )