Umezu Mijiro's staff meeting lasted all night and nothing came of it. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

There was no way, Umezu Mijiro could only dismiss the meeting first.

It is very strange that a meeting without a heated argument should not reach an agreement, but the result is that it is inconclusive.

Whether the 14th Division of Tufeiyuan will go south to the Longhai Line, or will it stand still and wait for the opportunity.

Everyone talked a lot, but very few really stood up for one of them, and it was obvious that there was no unanimity within the First Army.

Of course, this has something to do with Terauchi Shouichi's tough and arrogant style, and if he wins the hearts of the people, perhaps, this meeting will not need to be held at all.

"Your Excellency Commander, the field hospital called and said that the commander of the Dohihara Division had just left...... "Umezu Mijiro was having a headache when the adjutant suddenly ran in and reported.

"Left, where did you go?"

"It seems that I received a telegram, so I left in a hurry, and asked the military doctor to prescribe some medicine and took it with me." The adjutant was brought by him from Tokyo, and he was not familiar with the situation.

"Quick, call the train station and stop him!" When Umezu Mijiro heard this, he stood up excitedly and gave an order.

"Hay!"

"Your Excellency Commander, the commander of the Tufeiyuan Division, they are at the railway station, and the train to Xinxiang will depart in half an hour."

"Prepare the car, go to the train station."

"It takes at least twenty minutes to get from the headquarters to the train station......"

"So much nonsense, let the train delay the departure time and wait for my orders."

Umezu Mijiro rushed to the train station, where Kenji Dohihara and his lieutenant and a few soldiers who were escorting the guards were in the waiting room of the station.

Kenji Dohihara's face was very bad, although he used antipyretics, but the fever had not completely subsided, wrapped in a military blanket, his body looked very weak, like an old man in his last years.

"Tu Fei Yuan-kun!"

"Your Excellency, why are you here?" Kenji Dohihara leaned on the back of his chair, his eyes were closed, as if he was recuperating his spirit, and when he heard this, he opened his eyes and was surprised to see Umezu Mijiro appear in front of him.

"Tu Fei Yuan-kun, why don't you say goodbye?"

"I shouldn't have been here in the first place, so I didn't leave the commander's honor, and I was lazy." Kenji Dohihara said apologetically.

"No, you leave like this, making Commander Ben's heart uneasy, besides, you still have a high fever, if you go back like this......" Umezu Mijiro's eyes showed a hint of worry.

"It's okay, I know my body, besides, I brought it, and my adjutant also knows some medicine, he will take care of me."

"Can you tell me why you suddenly decided to go back?"

"My worst fears have happened." Kenji Dohihara sighed.

"What are you most worried about?" Umezu Mijiro asked puzzled.

"Xue Boling and Leng Feng have joined forces."

"What, Xue Boling and Leng Feng teamed up?" When Umezu Mijiro heard this, he couldn't help but change his face slightly, this was the name of the two people he had heard the most in the past two days.

Needless to say, Leng Feng naturally had been tumbling in his mind for the past two days, a Chinese general who made the imperial soldiers talk about it, they called him a "cold-blooded butcher" and his troops a "devil's army".

And this "Xue Boling" is a famous general of the Northern Expedition, with the nickname of "Tiger Boy", and he is also a well-known role in the GMD army, so that the two people are now one in Luxi and the other in eastern Henan, commanding two powerful corps respectively.

Kenji Dohihara's 14th Division was between these two corps.

Facing one person alone, Kenji Dohihara didn't think he would lose to anyone, but if two people joined forces against one of him, the situation would be even worse.

Umezu Mijiro understood why Kenji Dohihara was in a hurry to rush back, if he wasn't there, the people below would not be able to deal with the next situation.

"Division, find the Japanese army that evacuated Chengwu, they withdrew to Dingtao, and joined the main force of the Japanese army of the 14th Division, our army is now on the south bank of the Wanfu River to defend and attack, and the Japanese army is retreating to the north bank and the direction of Dingtao County in a step-by-step manner."

"Are you sure that the Japanese are retreating in a systematic way?"

"Sure."

"It seems that Kenji Dohihara really intends to disobey the orders of the North China Front Command, which is a good thing for us." Xie Jiyuan said.

"Then do we want to increase our efforts, the new 38 has broken through the Wanfu River and arrived in the area of the tomb set, which is less than 20 kilometers away from Dingtao County." Long Yingqin asked.

"If we take Dingtao, the strategic depth of the Japanese army will be much smaller, and for us, it will be much safer, so let's take a dozen and see what Tu Feiyuan wants to do." Leng Feng decided to launch a battle to recover Dingtao.

"Send a report to Commander-in-Chief Sun, our army can wait for the opportunity to launch a campaign to recover Dingtao, act quickly, don't give the Japanese army time to react, Tu Feiyuan doesn't want to find an excuse, we just give it to him."

"Yes!"

"What about time?"

"The specific time is determined by Commander-in-Chief Sun himself, so I won't interfere too much." Leng Feng said, "Send a telegram to Xue Boling, tell him that we are ready to recover Dingtao, and ask him to help contain some of the Japanese troops." ”

"Yes."

"Order the new 36th Brigade to advance in the direction of Da Liji and Shatu, and release the rumor of preparing to attack Caozhou."

"Understood!"

"The special task force cooperates with the 22nd Division to monitor the Yuncheng Sakai troops, and if there is any movement, report it immediately."

"Yes!"

As Leng Feng's orders were issued one after another, the troops in the Luxi area almost moved, and such an abnormal move immediately aroused the vigilance of the Japanese army.

The Chinese are going to make a big move in Luxi, and they must be coming for the Tufeiyuan Division.

For a while, there was a feeling that the wind was about to come and the wind was full of buildings.

Kaifeng, Headquarters of the First Corps.

"Leng Guoguang wants to settle Tao, he really got into trouble with Tufeiyuan, and ordered the 74th Army to retreat twenty kilometers!" After receiving Leng Feng's telegram, Xue Boling smiled and ordered.

"Chief Xue, are you helping Leng Guoguang, or are you pit Leng Guoguang?" Wu Xiqi exclaimed.

"Do you think I'm helping him, or am I cheating on him?" Xue Boling asked with a smile.

"If I had done before, I would have thought you must be cheating on him, but now I can't say it, there is an ulterior secret between the two of you." Wu Xiqi said.

"What secret can we have, besides, we haven't even met in person, I don't know what Leng Guoguang looks like." Xue Boling Road.

"Do you really want to give this order?"

"There is no joke in the army, how can I joke about this kind of thing, you know this."

"Well, even though I don't know what you're thinking, I suggest that Chief Xue think twice." Wu Xiqi said seriously.

"You are the chief of staff, not the commander, and give orders as I say."

"Okay, but I reserve my opinion." Wu Xiqi turned around and walked out, and when he reached the door, he suddenly turned back, "Do you want to talk to Leng Guoguang?" ”

"What do you want to say?" Xue Boling raised his forehead and asked rhetorically.

"We have an agreement, it's not appropriate to carry him behind his back for such an important transfer, right?"

"Wu Xiqi, you are my chief of staff Xue Boling, not his chief of staff Leng Guoguang." Xue Boling said heavily.

"Okay, what about Song Gong and the Commissioned Attendant's Room?"

"When did you become such a mother-in-law, didn't you become the chief of staff on the first day, do you still need me to teach this?" Xue Boling said tirelessly.

"Still not going to do things?" Seeing Wu Xiqi standing at the door and not leaving, Xue Boling waved away.

Wu Xiqi sighed: "Hey, Chief Xue, I find that you are getting more and more difficult to serve." ”

"You old thing, don't you want to serve me anymore?" Xue Boling laughed out loud, he and Wu Xiqi were friends who had died on the battlefield, there was no problem with this kind of joke, and it would be different if there was another person.

"I'll tell him everything you told him about Leng Guoguang." Wu Xiqi turned around and waved his hand.

"Old thing, count yourself smart."

"This Xue Boling, addicted to playing?" Leng Feng received a telegram from Wu Xiqi, he couldn't cry or laugh, at this time, he didn't help himself, and gave him a knife.

"Master, why doesn't Xue Boling help us?"

"He wants to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight?"

"When we fight with Kenji Dohihara, he will come out to clean up the mess and take the credit alone?"

"Don't guess, Xue Boling is not that kind of person, just wait and see." Leng Feng stopped the random suspicions of his subordinates, at this moment, Kenji Dohihara was probably most worried about him joining forces with Xue Boling.

If Xue Boling made a look of sitting on a mountain and watching the tiger fight, then Kenji Dohihara would definitely misjudge, and the result of the misjudgment would naturally make a wrong decision.

Of course, it is not easy to make Tu Feiyuan misjudge, he is naturally suspicious, and it is indeed not easy to make him believe in one thing.

"Is the battle to recover Dingtao still going on?"

"Don't worry about anything else, without Xue Boling's cooperation, we won't be able to recover Dingtao, everything will go according to the original plan." Leng Feng said categorically.

On the morning of the 26th, the battle on the periphery had begun, and the units of the Third Army, the 1st Honor Division, and the New 38th Division had all arrived at their designated positions.

The main attack was a regiment of the new 37th Brigade of the 1st Honor Division, which took the lead in launching a fierce charge against the Japanese positions outside Dingtao County, and then the main force of the 20th Division of the Third Army crossed the Dongyu River and launched an attack from the direction of Maji from the southwest of Dingtao to Dingtao County.

The new 38 was a brigade that launched an attack on Dingtao along the road from Chengwu to Dingtao.

The 2nd Brigade was interspersed with the northern part of Dingtao to block the reinforcements from Caozhou.

The Japanese army was stationed in Dingtao with almost one infantry wing, a small number of armored vehicles and artillery, and no 150 mm howitzers.

These large-caliber howitzers and tanks were concentrated near Caozhou.

Of course, the siege troops did not have large-caliber heavy artillery, at most 75 mm mountain artillery and field artillery, but for the first time in number, they surpassed the Japanese troops.

On the evening of the 26th, GJ occupied most of your positions on the outskirts of Dingtao County with an absolute superiority in troops, and the two Japanese brigades that set out from Caozhou to support Dingtao were also blocked in the middle of the road.

After a scuffle, neither the Luxi Corps nor the 14th Division of the Japanese Army took much advantage of each other.

(To be continued.) )