After Liao Yaoxiang broke the deadlock, he seized the opportunity very well, quickly looked for an opportunity, and broke through to the rear of the 9th Wing of the Japanese Army. At this time, the 9th Wing of the Japanese Army was struggling to resist Hu Lian's attack, and it never thought that a unit would appear from its rear and take the 9th Wing by surprise, and the troops fell into large-scale chaos.

The 19th Brigade could only ask for assistance from the Nakajima Division and the Itagaki Division.

After the confident Itagaki Seishiro got the news, he was immediately so frightened that the six souls left his body, and he slapped himself a few times to calm himself down, holding the map with trembling hands, and there was still a little hardness there.

The whole body was in a cold sweat, how could this be, if Liu Yuan at this time took advantage of their victory on the northern front to transfer the surplus troops to the battlefield and choose to break through from the northeast, then wouldn't the Fifth Division and the Nakajima Division fall into the encirclement of General Liu Yuan?

Itagaki Seishiro felt that his heart was not enough, and at this time he panicked and ordered the troops on the southern front to stop the attack, and the whole army retreated, and then ordered the troops of Sanhe Street to play the role of blocking the Chinese troops and buy time for the transfer of large forces.

At this time, Liu Yuan was also extremely tired, the cigarette in his mouth had not been broken, his eyes were all bloodshot, his face was dry, and at this time, the telegram from Liao Yaoxiang and Hu Lian finally reached Liu Yuan's hands.

Liu Yuan's worries finally disappeared, but he had a little more confidence, clenched his fists and said to Sun Lianzhong next to him, "Itagaki this son of a bitch, this time it finally fell into the hands of Lao Tzu, I will see how he will die this time." ”

"General Yu Chengwan called, and the Japanese troops on the southern front have begun to withdraw from the battle one by one." The confidential staff officer took off his headphones and walked closer.

Sun Lianzhong hadn't reacted yet, Chief of Staff Yu Deshui held the telegram that had just been translated and carried Moxiang, and rushed in at a trot all the way.

Liu Yuan saw the joy on Yu Deshui's face, and turned an empty-handed flip, which made everyone's faces happy, this war is not only the commander's command, but also the commander's body, don't you see Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army, because of his body, let the Yellow Turban Army collapse quickly?

Liu Yuan took the telegram, glanced at it, and said to Sun Lianzhong, "Itagaki Seishiro, this little cub, has such a smart nose, this circle has not been blocked yet, he is about to run away." ”

After saying that, Liu Yuan turned around and looked behind, Li An had already ordered someone to pounce on the map on the table, Liu Yuan took a magnifying glass, looked at the map carefully, looked at it again and again and asked Yu Deshui, "Where is the 85th Army?" ”

"The vanguard has arrived at Sanguanmiao, but the march speed of the large army is very slow." Yu Deshui replied on the side.

Liu Yuan threw his chief of staff Zuo Quan to Xuzhou, and he came to Linyi alone, so there was no think tank around him, this Yu Deshui temporarily became Liu Yuan's think tank, and Sun Lianzhong's command was also occupied by Liu Yuanjiu.

It's slow to be slow, but they don't have to replenish troops and weapons, and how much combat effectiveness they have, this is a thing worth thinking about. Could it be that the little devil was allowed to run away like this, Liu Yuan was unwilling in his heart.

"General." Sun Lianzhong's chief guard came over and said, "There are reporters outside who want to interview our commander. ”

"Let him go aside, this is the national war, is there a chance for them and the media to participate blindly?" Liu Yuanyuan did not lift it and continued to study the map.

Sun Lianzhong was also very unhappy in his heart, thinking that he was too careless as a guard chief.

"Dog, why are you so ignorant, now that the war is so urgent, there is a chance to meet those reporters and get rid of them for me." Sun Lianzhong frowned and scolded his guard captain.

The dog felt very aggrieved, the female reporter outside was too fierce, especially the flat-chested little sister in Jiangnan, with a fierce face, his brothers scared him with a gun, and he was knocked down, and he kept saying that he was the commander's pro-student.

"Commander, those few who remember to know the commander, especially one of them, a pungent little girl, said to be the commander's student, and foreign people are in a hurry, I don't dare to offend."

Sun Lianzhong looked at Liu Yuan a little depressed, I don't know if what the dog said is true or false, Liu Yuan shook his head and smiled bitterly, his precious student Lin Huiyin really has great powers, and he can get an interview certificate from Xuzhou so quickly.

In fact, he ignored his status as a student, she only needed to report the name of her student, and she couldn't get anything she wanted.

"Don't blame the Dog Guard, I'm not a student to mess with." Liu Yuan smiled and shouted outside the door, "Erniu." ”

Li Erniu walked in from the outside, his body straightened, over the years, Liu Yuan fought in the south and the north, he has always followed Liu Yuan's side, and he has never complained.

Liu Yuan said, "Lin Huiyin is here, you go and teach her a lesson, it's too unusual, tell him that I've been busy lately and don't have the time to accept his interview." ”

Li Erniu was just about to leave, but Liu Yuan pulled Li Erniu's shoulder, thought about it and said, "You do activities to let Lin Huiyin, this little girl, don't run around, now the army is in chaos, if there is some chaos, it's hard to say, and I heard Huang Wei say that this little girl is actually on the front line, which really doesn't make me worry." "

"I understand." Li Erniu gave a wise smile, so that Liu Yuan didn't understand what it meant for a long time.

Sun Lianzhong and Yu Deshui are more feudal and strict-mouthed, in their opinion, although this Lin Huiyin is a student of Liu Yuan on the surface, he is secretly most likely Liu Yuan's confidante. But what is the situation, both of them are Liu Yuan's subordinates, and they are embarrassed to ask. Others didn't ask, and Liu Yuan naturally didn't have the heart to explain.

"Chief of Staff Yu, how do you think we should let Lieutenant General Itagaki stay and catch up with my old friend?" Liu Yuan glanced at Yu Deshui and asked.

Yu Deshui knew that his performance during this period of time was seen by Liu Yuan, and Liu Yuan asked himself now, he must have thought about it, and he answered very seriously.

"I think that there are not many ways for Itagaki Seishiro to escape now, if you want to go, you must go to Loess Ping, it is better to let the independent army Hu Lian or the 85th army Wang Zhonglian plug this gap." After Yu Deshui finished speaking, he looked at Liu Yuan and saw that his reaction was not very strong, so he knew that most of his suggestions were not very good.

He continued, "The Independence Army will have to eat the Ninth Wing before it can continue to advance, and the Eighty-fifth Army will still need a little time to reach the assembly area, and even if it does, it must rest and recuperate, replenish ammunition and soldiers before it can continue to fight, and there will be a large movement of troops during the day, which will be attacked by the Japanese air force." It is not very easy for these two units to deal with the difficulties of appealing. ”

Yu Deshui gave a somewhat contradictory answer, which was a little useless in Liu Yuan's opinion, and the loess level really needed to be blocked, but how to play, Liu Yuan couldn't make up his mind for a while.

At this time, Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram from Wuhan, telling Liu Yuan that the attack on the drums in Tengxian was very fierce, and Liu Zhi's losses were very heavy, and he could lose the defense area at any time.

Chiang Kai-shek would not easily interfere with Liu Yuan's command of the battle, but this time Chiang Kai-shek seemed to be a little unscrupulous in Liu Yuan's view that Liu Yuan was not good to stay in Xuzhou and ran to the Linyi front. So he hoped that the battle in Linyi would come to a conclusion soon, and Liu Yuan would return to Xuzhou.

Liu Yuan thought for a while, knowing that this was just the beginning of the pressure, and he needed to make a decision, "The matter has come to this point, we can't hesitate, immediately order Hu Lian and Liao Yaoxiang to speed up the attack, and must annihilate the ninth wing of the Japanese army in the shortest possible time, and then Liao Yaoxiang's division will attack the Wangzhuang and Litun areas, and the independent army will attack Huangtuping, ordering Wang Zhonglian's troops to assemble at Sanguanmiao before six o'clock this afternoon, and at the same time ordering the logistics department to airdrop a large number of supplies to Sanguanmiao." After Wang Zhonglian's troops had assembled at Sanguan Temple, they had to cross the Yihe River in Shandong before ten o'clock the next day. At the same time, he telegraphed to Tang Enbo and Sun Liren, ordering them to take a strong attack, bite the enemy, and not let them out of the battle, and at the same time telegraphed to Yu Chengwan how many people were left in their troops. ”

An order is the action of thousands of troops, and this is the ability that only a general can have. With the issuance of Liu Yuan's order, the Linyi war entered a new tide point.

Sanhe Street, full of broken walls and ruins, beams and pillars are on fire, the ground is scattered with the furniture of the people's homes, the soldiers lie on the ground to rest without any care, next to the Japanese who died in battle, the unhappy soldiers, taking advantage of the officer's lack of sight, fiercely scratched the little devil's face twice, there is a special fetish, but also to see what the Japanese soldiers' crotch cloth is like.

"The commander's order is here, it seems that the pressure on the commander is really not small, our mission has changed, the war situation has changed again, what we have to do now is the same life as a hunter, we must play tailgating with the little devils, we can't let them go too happily. Otherwise, you won't be able to catch it. Sun Liren shouted at a group of officers at the brigade headquarters.

The war in Hedong is basically over, in the night, trucks, staring at the big eyes, illuminating the light ahead, a group of soldiers in tattered uniforms followed behind the trucks, the steel helmets were all worn crookedly, there was a strong smell of blood on the body, the smoke on the face had not been wiped clean, perhaps because of excessive capacity, many soldiers began to seep snow out of their bandages.

Liao Yaoxiang and Hu Lian commanded the troops to encircle the Ninth Wing together, the little devils were not convinced, desperately resisted, and the battlefield was covered with all kinds of corpses, headless, armless, broken in the middle, intestines flowed all over the ground, and brains occupied rifles.

Judging from the current intelligence, none of them made Itagaki Seishiro happy, and now he basically has no useful troops in his hands, and the only mobile force is the strength of several brigades of 6,000 people withdrawn from the southern front, after the bloody battle on the southern front, there is no money left, and Yu Chengwan also has more than 5,000 people left.

This is Itagaki Seishiro's last hole card, he didn't dare to move easily, he didn't let them support the battle on Sanhe Street, but ordered these thousands of people to attack north, hoping to open up a lifeline for the Ninth Wing. The rest of the troops, on the other hand, immediately attacked and gunfought Loess Ping.

The battlefield is ever-changing, the commanders on both sides are fighting wits and courage, Liu Yuan wants to do everything possible to leave Itagaki Seishiro and kill this wolf cub, while Itagaki Seishiro is greedy for his own soldiers, hoping to save them from the encirclement.

The night was too unquiet, Liu Yuan and Itagaki Seishiro were both very tired, but neither dared to rest, for fear that the fleeting fighter plane would not be grasped and the enemy would take advantage of the loophole.

Unlike the exhausted commanders, the fate of ordinary soldiers is to fight, to be loyal, to sacrifice, to brave the fire, to fight, and then to fall, to stand up, or to fall forever.

Although Chiang Kai-shek did not command the battle in the theater, the war in Linyi has always worried about him, after all, he is the supreme commander of the country, and he is not worried that it is all fake, and he does not want to command the battle, it is also fake.

But he promised that Liu Yuan would never participate in his command of the battle, and Chiang Kai-shek understood very well that commanding the battle was not something he was good at. But what Chiang Kai-shek never thought of was the rapid change in the battle in Linyi.

It reminded Chiang Kai-shek of the scene when he encircled and suppressed Liu Yuan, when so many troops fought against Liu Yuan, but because Liu Yuan was personally on the front line, he kept changing the allocation of troops, and he crossed the Chishui four times and defeated the encirclement and suppression troops, which was the most profound lesson that Liu Yuan gave Chiang Kai-shek in the military, and Chiang Kai-shek finally realized that he was outside the courtyard and the military orders were not subject to military orders.

Of course, the reversal of the war situation was not what Chiang Kai-shek was most surprised by, what surprised Chiang Kai-shek the most was the change of Tang Enbo, in Chiang Kai-shek's view, Tang Enbo was his true die-hard fan, and he put it in Liu Yuan's Xuzhou camp to find Liu Yuan unhappy. But Chiang Kai-shek thought that after Tang Enbo arrived in Linyi, he honestly followed Liu Yuan to fight.

Then what did he send him for, why is this Liu Yuan so charming, Huangpu is willing to listen to him, even if he is willing to listen to him, Tang Enbo can't stand this charm.

Moreover, Tang Enbo's combat effectiveness has increased so much for what he wants, and because of his entry into the battlefield, the war situation has undergone tremendous changes, and the Chinese army has gone from being tired of coping with it to taking the initiative to attack, so that Chiang Kai-shek has not reflected it for a while, and today, there has been a change in the need to completely annihilate the two divisions of the Japanese army.

Chiang Kai-shek and Bai Chongxi were in a daze at the map, Bai Chongxi may have been a little fat recently, plus a little lustful, and walked a little frivolously.

Chiang Kai-shek's work and rest are very regular, he is a person who wants to live a few more years, but Bai Chongxi pulled him and didn't let him go, he also cared about the war on the front line, and he could only stay in the office at the end.

The kind adjutant brought Bai Chongxi a jar of chili sauce, and Bai Chongxi gulped down on the chili sauce. But Chiang Kai-shek couldn't bear to look at Bai Chongxi, not knowing what was delicious about the chili peppers. However, Song Meiling knew Chiang Kai-shek's habits and sent Chiang Kai-shek a can of milk and a few pieces of muffin.

The two of them discussed the battle situation on the front line, and after a while, the topic came to Liu Yuanyuan.

"If you want to say that I'm a student, I'm really not an ordinary person, I'm not afraid of you gossiping, I sent Tang Enbo to the Fifth War Zone, just to find Liu Yuan unhappy, he is not the head of state? Most of the country's troops listened to him, and let me, the chairman, put it there, but you see, this stinky boy is very capable, and he has subdued my newly subdued cadres in just a few moments. This ability is not something that ordinary people have. Chiang Kai-shek didn't know whether Lu Dao was a compliment or jealousy, and Liu Yuan said.

Bai Chongxi said with a smile, "Back then, Han Xin and Liu Bang had generals and generals, why did the chairman care about that? Admiral Liu, it is the blessing of the party and the state, and the countryman is unparalleled, why should you be jealous of him? ”

Chiang Kai-shek shook his head and said, "You also underestimate me Jiang Zhongzheng, how many ups and downs I have experienced from young to middle-aged, from Guangzhou to Nanjing, how many stories I have experienced, and the matter between me and Liu Yuan, that can be told in a day or two." I'm just strange that Tang Enbo, such a bullish person, can be subdued by Liu Yuan, which is really a strange thing. ”

"Jiansheng, Liu Zhi sent me several telegrams asking for help in Teng County, I know that Liu Zhi, this kid has a hard mouth, and he refuses to shout to Liu Yuan, but he came to me, do you say that I should tell Liu Yuan and let him retreat, it is not easy for this pig to hold on until now." Chiang Kai-shek looked at Bai Chongxi.

Bai Chongxi shook his head secretly, there was no problem with Liu Zhi fighting on the front line, he guessed that the reason why Chiang Kai-shek wanted Liu Zhi to retreat from the front line was nothing more than to remind Liu Yuan who was the real leader of the country.

"Chairman of the Committee, this Teng County can't give up easily, especially now that the war is still unclear." Bai Chongxi shook his head and said, in the end, Chiang Kai-shek's strategic vision is still much worse, if it weren't for Liu Yuan to help him formulate an anti-Japanese strategy, the war would definitely not be so smooth now.

"Actually, I have another concern, the strategy we have formulated is to fight and retreat, lure the enemy deep, gather and annihilate him, but if Itagaki loses, will Ryosuke Isoya continue to advance?" Bai Chongxi said worriedly.

Although Chiang Kai-shek's strategic vision is poor, he has a chamber and a Zhuge Mr. Yang Yongtai teaches himself every day, which he knows, if Itagaki is defeated, he will lose money if he is scared away. Chiang Kai-shek sighed and said, "The situation on this battlefield is ever-changing, we can only take one step at a time, how this little devil fights, we can't let them listen to us." ”

Now Chiang Kai-shek's heart is also much more confident, this most difficult day has passed, his eyes have now been withdrawn from the Japanese, and his mind is now more focused on the international community, in order to improve his international status, and to obtain more aid.

At the same time, the current Chiang Kai-shek is not so afraid of the Japanese, to be honest, he is not afraid of the attack of the little devils at all, even if Liu Zhi can't hold it, there is still the 35th Group Army waiting behind.

Chiang Kai-shek was confident that Liu Yuan would be able to stop the Japanese army in Xuzhou City, and once the little devil's partial division attacked Xuzhou, then Du Yuming's 33rd Group Army would be killed from the flank, and it would not be so simple for the little devil to run again.

"Jiansheng, you said that Liu Yuan, a stinky boy, would set his bottom line there? Will it be Taierzhuang. Chiang Kai-shek asked.

"Chairman, you're going to test me." Bai Chongxi took a big spoonful of chili sauce, put it on the steamed bun, and said with a smile, "This chili sauce is a good thing, it's too spicy if you put too much, and if you put too little, it won't taste at all." ”

Chiang Kai-shek smiled and said, "What are you doing like learning from those literati, playing deeply, you mean Tai'er Zhuang." ”

"It's not up to us to decide, it's up to our general's mind." Bai Chongxi took a big bite of the steamed bun and said.