Chapter 761: Bluffing
"Haha, Zhang Zhongling played well, and the siege of Yanzhou and Jining should be solved. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Leng Feng received Zhang Zhongling's telegram and became happy.
"Master, this time, we can finally free up our hands to deal with this old devil Tu Feiyuan."
"Well, Lao Xie, I want to transfer the new 39th Brigade over?" Leng Feng thought carefully for a moment and said.
"Now?"
"Yes, right now!" Leng Feng nodded.
"The 39th Brigade is now in full swing, and it is the time to expand the results of the battle, and now it is suddenly withdrawn, so how can the next battle be fought?" Xie Jiyuan didn't understand that Leng Feng would make such a puzzling decision at this time.
"I plan to ask the Sichuan Army to go north, so that the new 39th Brigade can be withdrawn, and we will have another new force, but this cannot be known to the Japanese army." Leng Feng spoke his mind.
"That attack on Tai'an......"
"Lao Xie, do you really think Zhang Zhongling is going to attack Tai'an?"
"Isn't it?" Xie Jiyuan asked puzzled, "Isn't his order written?" ”
"That's a bluff, we don't have the ability to capture a fortified city like Tai'an now, and attacking the city at this time is asking for trouble." Leng Feng explained with a smile, "Even if Zhang Zhongling's brain is hot, we can't also heat up. ”
"Yes, we are now fighting on two fronts, and the strength has been used to the extreme, so there is no need to take the initiative to attack Tai'an."
"Has the retreat of the troops of the Fifth Theater of Operations already begun?"
"It has already begun, and now the main retreat is the wounded, and we are mobilizing wagons to make every effort to evacuate the wounded in the war zone to hospitals in Hankou and other places for treatment, and the number of wounded is quite large, I am afraid that there are tens of thousands."
Leng Feng nodded, but he put forward the suggestion of withdrawing the wounded first to Li Delin, you know, in history, although the retreat of Xuzhou kept the main force of GJ, there were many seriously wounded left in the war zone, and except for a few of these seriously wounded, the rest were killed by the Japanese army.
Although the wounded soldier consumes a lot of resources, once the body recovers, that one veteran far exceeds the combat effectiveness of three recruits, not to mention that the resources required to train three recruits must be more than treating one wounded soldier!
Some people are too short-sighted and only see the immediate benefits, but not the long-term benefits.
Even if you don't look at the interests, these wounded soldiers who are injured for the country can't be left alone, this will chill the hearts of the soldiers, on the battlefield, everyone has a time when they are injured, when others are injured, you don't care, and when you yourself are injured, others don't care either.
These wounded soldiers are a kind of wealth, but they are not reflected now.
The Headquarters of the Commander of the Fifth Theater of Operations, a meeting to finalize the withdrawal plan.
"The 29th Army and the 3rd Army moved to the mountainous areas of northern Anhui, and the 20th Army Corps went west along the Longhai Road...... The 2nd Army temporarily resided in Taierzhuang as the general reserve of the theater, and the Sichuan Army Corps ......"
"The Sichuan Legion has other arrangements." Li Delin raised his hand and interrupted Chief of Staff Xu Yanmou's words.
"Northern Soviet Army ......"
"The plan and timetable for the retreat are clear to everyone, right?"
"It's clear, then follow this plan and schedule after you go back, and if there is any adjustment, the Chief's Department will notify you at any time." Li Delin said in a deep voice.
"Yes!"
"Brother Delin, why did you suddenly change your mind about the Sichuan Army?" Although the major battle in the Fifth War Zone has ended, Bai Jiansheng still stayed, and he had to wait for Li Delin to get the retreat plan ready before going back.
This is also the thing he is most worried about, with that Leng Guoguang here, there will be constant variables, and he found that his old partner's preference for Leng Guoguang is simply beyond the normal range.
Even for his own generation of children and nephews, he has never trusted him so much, he is simply "doting".
"Jiansheng, Sun Decao has always wanted to repay the favor of Qianteng County for relieving the siege, and I have sold him a favor so much, do you think this favor is not worth it?" Li Delin knew what Bai Jiansheng was thinking.
"Do you think that's appropriate?"
"What's wrong, can't you see that Leng Guoguang has great potential in the future?" Li Delin said, "This is a matter of killing two birds with one stone, taking into account both public and private interests." ”
"Well, now that you've decided, I don't have much more to say." Bai Jiansheng knew that Li Delin had already decided that the Sichuan Army would cooperate with the Honorary First Division Luxi to fight next.
As for how Leng Feng would arrange the Sichuan Army, that was his business.
Of course, the corps headquarters of the Sichuan Army Corps will definitely act with the headquarters of the commander of the Fifth Theater, but the main force of the Sichuan Army Corps must have gone with the Honor First Division.
"Division, this day, the Japanese army has not made any special moves in Caozhou, but has only advanced the front by ten kilometers, and the main force of the forward has entered Dingtao County."
"What is the judgment of the old regiment commander and Commander-in-Chief Sun?"
"They judged that the Japanese army wanted to adopt a steady and steady strategy, and wanted to advance to the Longhai line, and the goal should be to return to Germany." Long Yingqin replied.
"It's possible, Kenji Dohihara is under a lot of pressure right now." Xie Jiyuan stopped, put down the water cup in his hand, and walked to the map to investigate carefully.
"Guoguang, you see, now the position of the Japanese army's forward is here, about two hundred miles away from Guide, my defense line is now concentrated on the south bank of the Wanfu River, from the direction of the Japanese attack, they are indeed rushing to Guide, Guide is an important town in eastern Henan, there is not only Huang Jie's Eighth Army, but also General Li Bohao's 64th Army, the two armies add up to 50,000 people, if Tohihara Kenji can concentrate the most troops, it will not exceed 15,000 people......"
"The blocking positions along the Wanfu River are mainly two regiments of our Third Army and the New 37th Brigade plus one regiment of the New 36th Brigade, right?"
"Yes, the total number of blocking troops is less than 20,000."
"Where are the 28th Division and the 32nd Division of the 23rd Army?"
"Shawo, Dongmingji to Dahuangji, the south bank of the Dongyu River is deployed, they have not been under much pressure from the Japanese army in the past two days, but the combined strength of the two divisions is less than 10,000 people."
"Divisional seat, telegram from the headquarters of the commander of the 1st theater!"
"Read!"
"The General Staff of the First Commander judged that the Japanese Army's Tufeiyuan Division would go south to Germany in the next step, and that Guide had many important military supplies stored in our army, and it would take time to transfer them, so the Commander's Department ordered our Luxi Corps to delay the Tufeiyuan Division to go south for three to five days."
"I know, I called back to the headquarters of the commander of the first theater of operations, and said that the headquarters would try to delay the Japanese army to the south." Leng Feng's face sank, and it was reasonable for the First Commander's Department to make this judgment.
"Master's seat, telegram from Chairman Chiang's chamber."
"Huh?" Leng Feng raised his eyebrows, what's wrong today, I never see them take the initiative to call him on weekdays, but today it's one after another.
“……”
After listening to Lao Chiang's telegram, Leng Feng frowned slightly, and Lao Chiang also judged that the Japanese army was very likely to move south to Germany, and under such heavy pressure, Kenji Dohihara should not disobey the military order again.
In addition, Tu Feiyuan's current actions are also very obvious, placing the main forces on advancing southward.
Capture Guide, an important military town in eastern Yudong, can cut off the passage for the elite GJ in the Xuzhou region to withdraw westward, and can also cut off the supply line of the fifth theater, without supplies, what are the Chinese guarding Xuzhou?
Kenji Tsuchihara steadily advanced southward, seemingly in response to orders from the North China Front's Terauchi Shoukaido, but Terauchi Shouichi was very dissatisfied with Tsuchihara's efficiency.
Twenty miles in one day, this is just an ordinary infantry wing, but now this is a mechanized corps, which is a bit unreasonable.
Even if the Tuhihara division was short of fuel, it shouldn't be like this, so a reprimanding telegram was sent to Kenji Dohihara.
Terauchi Shouichi sternly reprimanded Kenji Tsuchihara in a telegram for taking his orders as a deaf ear, and he didn't understand the truth of the soldier's speed, how could such a person take on the heavy responsibility of the division commander?
If he doesn't want to, he can change people right away.
Kenji Dohihara angrily crumpled the message on the spot and tore it to pieces.
He now understands the reason for the discord between the commander of the First Army, Kiyoji Kazuki, and Shouichi Terauchi, and it is really sad to have such a boss who does not know how to command blindly.
There is no room for Kazuki Seiji to be transferred back to China, and Tu Feiyuan has lost this layer of buffer relationship, and directly faces Terauchi Shouichi, and the pressure is naturally greater.
This situation was caused by the original commander of the Second Army, Nishio Temple, and the commander of the 10th Division, Ryosuke Isotani, two people who were eager for success and profit, if they were not in a hurry to go south to capture Xuzhou, resulting in a fiasco in Taierzhuang, how could they be in such a passive situation?
There is also the dereliction of duty of the intelligence department, the first division of honor made a Ming Xiu plank road to secretly Chen Cang, and actually transferred tens of thousands of troops to Weishan Lake to hide, and the intelligence department of the empire did not receive any news in advance.
The 1st Honor Division seized Jining and Yanzhou, and blocked the supply line of the Isogu Division and the road for retreating northward, and the main force of the Isogu Division suddenly became a turtle in the urn.
Although the Honorary First Division did not participate in the Battle of Taierzhuang, it laid the foundation for the victory of the Battle of Taierzhuang in one fell swoop because of the seizure of Jining and Yanzhou.
Otherwise, with the supply line constantly continuing, it would never be easy to eat the main force of the elite Isoya Division.
In that case, the main force of the Isoya Division was fully capable of breaking through.
However, the base camp mistakenly believed that the main force of the Isogu Division could be used to drag the elite more than 100,000 G troops in the Xuzhou area, and then he led the 14th Division to smuggle across the Yellow River, cut off the Longhai Line in the south, and converged with the Central China Front Army, encircling nearly 500,000 Chinese J troops in the Xuzhou area in one fell swoop.
This is a third of the army under the command of Chiang Kai-shek in Wuhan, and it is still an elite, and if these troops are gone, the conquest of China is just around the corner.
Swallowing 500,000 elite Chinese J in one gulp, Kenji Dohihara certainly thought in his heart, but the development of the situation was not what was preset at the beginning.
Because, what Tu Feiyuan feared the most still happened.
He is still puzzled, such a careful plan and arrangement, there is no possibility of leaking secrets at all, so how did Leng Feng of the First Division of Honor find out?
Could it be that this man has the power of an unpredictable prophet?
The raid on Juye failed, and Doi Yuan knew that his idea of using Ruxi to break the game had failed, and the opponent had obviously thought of him in front of him.
Perhaps, this in itself is in his calculations.
Every step he takes, it seems that the opponent can always find out in advance, and this feeling makes Kenji Dohihara very bad, and he even doubts whether there is a hidden spy on the other side around him.
This is completely impossible, the people around him have been strictly screened by him, and they are all soldiers loyal to the Empire.
The problem is not on your side, that is, the opponent is too powerful.
This kind of thick frustration made Kenji Dohihara feel a kind of gloom in life, that person was only in his twenties, too young, and now he was so powerful, in the future, he seemed to see the scene of the empire collapsing!
As soon as I gritted my teeth, my lips couldn't help cracking, and a hint of fishy sweetness entered my mouth.
"General!"
"It's okay, I bit it myself." Kenji Tohihara waved his hand at the adjutant.
"Takahashi Shosa wants to see you."
"Ask him to come in."
"Hay!"
"General Dohihara, your lips ......" Hiroshi Takahashi asked in surprise when he came in and saw the blood stains on Tohihara's mouth.
"It's okay, I just accidentally bit my lip, Takahashi-kun, is there something wrong with you coming to see me?" Kenji Dohihara took out a handkerchief and wiped the blood from his mouth and asked.
"Takahashi has just contacted Nanjing, and if you agree with our plan, we can concentrate our forces on your operations, and we can also provide fuel for your troops."
"Can you provide me with oil?" Tu Feiyuan looked up in surprise.
"Yes, our 9th Division has already reached the outskirts of Suxian, and at the current rate, we will be able to occupy Xuzhou ...... in less than a week."
(To be continued.) )