Chapter 785: The Battle of Lanfeng begins
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"Read!"
"Yao Heizi and his entourage of six people have arrived in Zhengzhou, I have arranged for them to rest and eat, and in addition, the army unified action team, about 30 people, arrived in the same car, whether it has anything to do with us, look forward to returning."
"Tell Cong Hu and Yao Heizi that this time the task of escorting ammunition, the military commander will act with them, they are in the open, and the people of the military commander are in the dark, so they must ensure that the ammunition is delivered safely."
"Understood!"
"Shizao, why do you want to use the people of the military commander?" Fang Xiaoyang asked puzzled.
"Dai Yunong owes me a lot of favors, and now he is worried about how to pay me back, and now give him a chance, so that he won't be cranky and think I have bad intentions."
"If the master has nothing to ask for, this Dai Yunong will definitely not be able to sleep, and people like him are most afraid of owing favors to others." Long Yingqin said with a smile.
"Ying Qin's words are reasonable, it seems that these days have not been in vain, and there has been progress."
"How can you not make progress by learning from your master?"
"Poor mouth!"
"Ying Qin, you draft an order, I plan to secretly change the 22nd Division with the new 40th Brigade, and the time is ripe for an official showdown with Kenji Dohihara." Leng Feng commanded.
"Finally fighting back?" When Long Yingqin heard this, he felt an indescribable excitement.
"We must take advantage of the opportunity of Takashi Sakai to shrink the defense and quickly complete the change of defense, so that we have enough strength, the 22nd Division has suffered too much loss, and it is also urgent to rest and replenish." Leng Feng said, "You call the headquarters of the 22nd Division and ask their division commander Shi to come over, and I will personally discuss this matter with him." ”
"Understood."
"Inform Dai Xu to get ready, and our garrison in Jining will also make some adjustments." Leng Feng said, "This matter still needs to be discussed with Commander-in-Chief Sun." ”
Xue Boling is right, Lu Xi's situation today was not laid out by Leng Feng at the beginning, he doesn't have that much ability, he can foresee so many things, this is because of the situation, take advantage of the situation.
Because the Chinese army in Taierzhuang, Xuzhou, grasped the initiative on the battlefield, the Japanese army could only deal with it passively, and his intervention made the initiative further tilted towards the Chinese side.
The Japanese army was too arrogant, and with two divisions and 560,000 troops, they dared to gnaw on the next important town of Xuzhou, and they did not take the Chinese seriously.
Underestimating the enemy, being arrogant, striving for merit, and daring to make such a big gamble when there is no follow-up, the Japanese army is really not popular enough to swallow the elephant.
Of course, the strategy of the Tokyo base camp was also wavering, neither the expansion faction nor the non-expansion faction reached an agreement, and the arrogant Japanese generals on the front line did not listen to the orders from above, and blindly attacked, which eventually led to the defeat of Taierzhuang.
But some people are not willing to admit defeat, they still want to redeem all this, their brains are hot, and they don't care about anything.
Caozhou, Kenji Tohihara was lying on the bed, the military doctor came to treat him, after he came back, he still had a high fever, although he used antipyretics, but the effect was not very ideal.
Now only a combination of physical cooling and medication can be used.
Kenji Dohihara had to take a drip to handle military affairs, and he needed to take a break every hour, otherwise, his body would not be able to bear it.
Just like this moment, he had been staring at the position where someone had made a battle map and placed it above his head for half an hour.
"Hey!"
"Division Commander, why are you sighing?" The adjutant asked with concern.
"Division commander, the front army staff urgently telegraphed!" Chief of Staff Tadayoshi Sano came in from outside, holding a telegram marked red secret in his hand.
"Read." Kenji Dochihara.
"After receiving top-secret information, the Chiang government in Wuhan, China held a secret military meeting yesterday, during which Chiang came up with a plan for the Luxi operation, the contents of which were related to the following points: First, the GMD corps of eastern Henan and Luxi under the unified command of General Xue Boling, commander of the First Corps in eastern Henan, was ...... to the corps with our elite 14th Division as the main force."
Tadayoshi Sano's voice rang out, and the message was hundreds of words, and it took three minutes to read it thoroughly.
To put it simply, the content of this information is that Chairman Chiang of Wuhan, inspired by the victory of Taierzhuang, decided to fight another war of annihilation in Luxi and create another victory like the Battle of Taierzhuang.
The target of the Battle of Taierzhuang was the Isogu Division, and the target of this Luxi Battle Plan was aimed at the 14th Division of his Tufeiyuan, and its sinister intentions were clearly revealed.
After hearing all this, Kenji Dohihara's face became even more ugly.
The opponent had apparently treated him like a fish on a chopping block, ready to be slaughtered, something he could not bear to bear no matter what.
"The source of the information?"
"Our highest-ranking intelligence team in Wuhan, the mermaid."
"It seems that this information is accurate." Kenji Dohihara nodded, the mermaid team belongs to the second department of the staff headquarters, and it is top secret, and even he doesn't know the specific members of this intelligence team.
This is an intelligence group that has been in operation for many years, and even when his protégé Nanzao Yunzi was in Nanjing, he only heard of his name, but did not see him.
"Yes, the information has been verified by special channels, and there should be no fake."
"Special channels?" Kenji Dohihara was surprised.
"Yes."
"Does the Front Command have any recommendations?" Kenji Dohihara asked, he wanted to know how Shouichi Terauchi would feel when he saw this combat opportunity for the Chinese army.
"Not yet."
"Report!"
"Come in!"
"Division commander, the front headquarters has an urgent telegram, you have been temporarily suspended, and the commander of the 14th Division will be temporarily replaced by General Naosaburo Okabe, chief of staff of the front army."
"What?" Tadayoshi Sano was startled and snatched the telegram from the communications officer's hand.
Kenji Dohihara smiled miserably, His Excellency Terauchi Shouichi was going to seize his military power in the end, and this was necessary to implement his will.
"Division commander, what should I do?" Sano Tadayi was anxious, he knew very well that once Kenji Dohihara was removed, the future and fate of the 14th Division would be in jeopardy.
"Before the arrival of the Acting Commander of the Commander of the Okamaburo Gunbu Division, Major General Toshima Botaro, the commander of the 27th Brigade Brigade, temporarily commanded the troops......"
The temple not only removed his division commander, but also let a brigade commander who was not too compatible with him temporarily take charge of the troops.
Toshima Botaro was already very dissatisfied with his "cowardice", and if he had not been the commander of the division, he would have made a public break long ago.
"Regarding the appointment of the division commander, even if His Excellency Teramichi is the commander of the front army, he does not have the right to remove him at will, his order must at least wait until the base camp is posthumously recognized, who knows about this telegram?" Kenji Dohihara is not a passive beater, he is ruthless, and those who know him are frightened.
"Say, who knows all about this telegram?"
The communications officer was frightened and hurriedly said the names of several people.
"Order these people to shut up for me, as if there was no telegram, I don't want to hear about it from anyone until Major General Kamba Naosaburo arrives, understand?"
"Hay!"
"Division Commander, where is Toshima-kun?"
"Doesn't he think that my current tactics are too aggrieved, just let him go to Dingtao to see if he has the ability to defeat the elite new 38th Division of the Chinese Army." Kenji Dohihara said slowly.
"Okay, I'll go give the order."
"Send a telegram to Commander Umezu that my 14th Division has reached a critical moment of life and death, and I hope he can raise more ammunition and food supplies to send me."
"Hay!"
There are still 30,000 people left in the Tufeiyuan Division (the wounded and sick are counted among them), and Leng Feng has implemented a strong wall clearing in Luxi.
Shouichi in the temple, this old guy is hiding in Beiping City, the lights are bright, and the delicacies are delicious, where do you know the suffering of the front-line soldiers?
Ammunition was not too scarce for soil and fertilizer, but this time he went south, and he had a lot of time to prepare, so it can be said that he had premeditated and brought enough ammunition.
But there was a shortage of grain and grass, and when it was in Juancheng, some were destroyed, and the Japanese army has always had a tradition of feeding the war with war, and the logistics system is the worst in the world.
Leng Feng naturally knew this weakness and carried out a strong wall clearing against the Japanese army, while Kenji Tohihara thought that after entering a plain area rich in grain like Luxi, the supply of grain and grass was not yet handy.
But when he came in, he knew that the opponent had already taken a step ahead, because he had been dragged for three days in the county town, and when he wanted to send troops down to collect grain after the troops occupied Caozhou, he found that there was no food at all.
Without food, is it possible for soldiers to fight hungry?
The opponent targeted his weaknesses, and it was fast, accurate, and ruthless, which simply made him not have the slightest temper, but the above did not pay attention to these at all.
As long as they have the result, they may also maliciously guess, this is a prevarication he deliberately found, how brave are the soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire, how can they be intimidated by such a small difficulty?
If there is no grain and grass, why not rob the Chinese?
The army of the empire entered China, and how much grain and grass it brought from Japan was not all snatched from the Chinese, and everything of the Chinese was from the Great Japanese Empire.
Whatever it is, grab it first.
But no one knows, what is the taste of this ungrabbable?
Therefore, Terauchi Shouichi felt that these reasons were all excuses, all of which were manifestations of incompetence, and the dignified Imperial Japanese army had a strong and invincible force, and the conquest of China was just a formality.
If it weren't for the intervention of the Western powers, why would the empire have waited until now?
There is a more important point, Shouichi Terauchi doesn't want to lose to Shunroku Hatata, at least he can't lose too ugly, whoever can enter Xuzhou first will win.
Toshima Fangtaro didn't think much about it, since Kenji Dohihara sent him to Dingtao, it means that His Excellency the division commander no longer wants to shrink, this shows that the enemy is weak, it is completely inexplicable.
Without saying a word, Toshima took his brigade headquarters to Dingtao and prepared to do a big job.
Leng Feng and the 1st Division of Honor had already set up a position east of the 14th Division, and his descendants were in place one after another, and a new 38th Division was added, which had just come down from the battlefield of Taierzhuang and had a big victory over the Banxi United at Yutai.
This army is at its peak, if the strength is still in its heyday, he really wants to touch it, but now, Kenji Tuhihara doesn't dare to gamble.
Even if he was aware of the weakness of the First Division of Honor now, he would not dare to take this risk.
If you want to fight, you will fight weakly, Kenji Dohihara's eyes quickly moved to the west, this was part of his original plan, if there was no honor of the first division, perhaps, he would have implemented this plan a long time ago.
He had discussed this plan privately many times with his friends in the First Army General Staff, but with his current strength, he was also a little risky.
Adventure is adventure, but this is his only chance to win back a city.
(To be continued.) )