Li Yifeng, commander of the Southern Hebei Military Region, had made preparations for war as early as a week ago, and he knew Chen Feng's personality very well, and he knew that whether or not the Nationalist Government wanted to submit a request to the Eighth Theater for reinforcements to Henan, this was not important, but the important thing was that Commander Chen would certainly not watch Henan fall into the hands of the Japanese, which was not in line with his style.

Sure enough, as soon as the troops were ready, the order from Guisui arrived. According to the order of the theater commander's department, the Southern Hebei Military Region, as a sharp sword in the theater, will not only launch an attack on the Japanese puppet army in Shandong, but also make preparations to go south to reinforce Henan.

Li Yifeng was also a resolute person, and immediately after receiving the order, he convened a military meeting at the division and brigade level in Handan, and then the 15th and 16th divisions of the Southern Hebei Military Region and an artillery brigade quickly advanced in the direction of Liaocheng, and a mechanized infantry division of the Southern Hebei Military Region began to move southward with the cooperation of armored troops, artillery units, and army aviation units, and put on a posture of moving southward in a big way.

At the same time, Chen Feng also sent a telegram to Lao Jiang, requesting that he go south to Henan to fight, and said that the 100,000 troops of the Eighth War Zone were ready to go south and could enter Henan to fight at any time.

After receiving the telegram from Chen Feng, Lao Jiang's first reaction was not ecstatic, but thunderous, and his first reaction was that Chen Feng, a bastard, had come to grab the territory again, so Lao Jiang urgently summoned several of his subordinates to discuss countermeasures in the official residence.

Chongqing. Zeng Jiayan official residence.

After He Yingqin, Chen Cheng, Dai Li, and others arrived, Lao Jiang asked about the situation in Henan.

As the Minister of Defense in charge of national defense, Chen Cheng was the first to stand up and say, "Principal." The battle situation in Henan has been eroded to the extreme, an infantry brigade and a tank division of the 12th Army of the Japanese North China Front have reached Zhongmu, which is less than 40 kilometers away from Zhengzhou, and according to the marching speed of the Japanese mechanized troops, it will take up to 3 hours to reach the city of Zhengzhou! ”

"In addition, the 32nd and 35th Divisions of the Japanese Army went north to attack Fengqiu, Yuanyang, Xinxiang and other places, and now they have captured Xinxiang and are now attacking in the direction of Anyang."

The old man said angrily: "Niang Xipi, what is Jiang Dingwen doing for food, haven't they come up with a combat charter in the First War Zone?" ”

"Headmaster. The Japanese army was strong. The main force in the First War Zone is mostly recruits, and more than 100,000 troops were annihilated by the Japanese army on the Lanfeng front, and I am afraid that they will no longer be able to fight! Chen Cheng said with a bitter face.

"Yes, principal, the Japanese army directly touched 4 infantry divisions and 1 tank division this time. In addition, a large number of artillery and aviation units were involved in the battle. On the other hand, our army has only a few dozen small cannons. Not at all an opponent of the Japanese. He Yingqin also spoke.

Jiang Dingwen and He Yingqin have a very good relationship, and even the four King Kongs under He Yingqin's command, at this time, He Yingqin's speaking for Jiang Dingwen was also expected by Chen Cheng and others.

"None of this is a reason. Wei Lihuang can defend Henan, why is he Jiang Dingwen so cowardly as a general of the Five Tigers! The old man asked angrily.

Everyone smiled bitterly, can this Jiang Dingwen be compared with Wei Lihuang, Wei Lihuang can become the general of the Five Tigers, it is all based on strength, and Jiang Dingwen. This person really entered the eyes of the world because of the fifth "encirclement and suppression" of the Jiangxi Soviet region and the pacification of the "Fujian Incident", but it is worth mentioning that at this time, Mao's military command had been excluded by the line struggle within the CCP/CCP. At that time, the commander of the Red Army was Otto Braun, a member of the German Communist Party under the pseudonym Li De, a military adviser sent by the Computy/Industrial International.

Jiang Dingwen's personality is almost unaware of the Tao, gambling, greedy for money, lustful for life, when he was in Shaanxi, what this person did can be described as angry and resentful, and even almost forced the officers and soldiers of the former Little Northwest Army.

However, everyone will talk about these things in private, and they can't be directly said at all, because the old man still trusts Jiang Dingwen very much. The old man's hometown, Fenghua County, Zhejiang, is not very far from Jiang Dingwen's hometown Zhuji County, and with the relationship between the villagers, and the fact that they are old comrades-in-arms who fought together in bloody battles during the Northern Expedition and the Eastern Expedition of the National Revolutionary Army, the "two Chiangs" are even known as sworn brothers, and the two families of Jiang Zhongzheng and Jiang Dingwen also have close contacts.

As the real core members of the Nationalist Government and the most trusted people of Lao Chiang, they are very familiar with the old man's personality. Because the old man's career has a close relationship with the Whampoa Military Academy, from the Northern Expedition to the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression for more than ten years, a total of 5 generals fought the world for the old man, and some people called them the old man's "Five Tiger Generals" at that time, including Jiang Dingwen.

He Yingqin smiled bitterly: "Principal, Wei Lihuang can fight, but Wei Lihuang can't use it, although Jiang Dingwen lost the battle, but this person is loyal to you and the party-state!" ”

He Yingqin's ability to observe words and emotions is very strong, he knows very well Lao Jiang's employment standards, this ability is not the first, whether he is loyal or not is the most important thing. Let's take the replacement of Wei Lihuang with Jiang Dingwen this time, it is not that Wei Lihuang made any mistakes, but because the old man received a secret report that Wei Lihuang had close contacts with many senior generals in Yan'an, so the old man would transfer him out of Henan and let Jiang Dingwen take over as chairman of Henan Province and commander of the First War Zone.

Dai Li also said on the side: "Yes, when Wei was in charge of Henan, he had close contacts with the leaders of the Communist Party and the senior commanders of the Eighth Route Army, and even the Eighth Route Army had offices in Luoyang and Zhengzhou. Whenever Zhou, Zhu, Peng and others came to Henan, Wei Du personally greeted them, set up banquets, and entertained them to watch the play. ”

He Yingqin and Dai Li said this, Lao Jiang was not surprised at all. The military command and the special service system of the Central Command have long sued Wei Lihuang on the pretext that he "protects the Communist Party and harbors different intentions." He himself deliberately sent Dai Li to Luoyang to collect evidence of the correspondence between Wei and the Communists, so he removed Wei Lihuang from the rank of army general, and used the method of promotion and secret surrender to remove the commander of the First Theater of Wei from his own post and transfer him to the director of the General Office of the Northwest Battalion in Xi'an.

"Forget it, don't talk about this, we have to keep Zhengzhou now, Zhengzhou doesn't lose us, we still have a chance!" Old Jiang Dao.

Defense Minister Chen Cheng said: "Principal, the Japanese North China Front Army of more than 100,000 troops attacked Henan, and our army does not have many main forces in Henan, and it may be difficult to resist the Japanese attack by relying on the First War Zone alone, and the only way at the moment is to order the Second War Zone and the Eighth War Zone to send reinforcements, especially the Eighth War Zone, the South Hebei Military Region under Chen Feng is very close to the First War Zone, and it can fight south at any time!" ”

Lao Jiang smiled bitterly and took out a telegram from the desk and said, "This is a telegram sent by Chen Feng half an hour ago, you all take a look!" ”

Soon the telegram was passed through the hands of the people, and after the last time it returned to the old man's desk.

The old man looked at the crowd and asked, "What do you think?" ”

He Yingqin said: "It's a good thing to press the battle in the eighth theater of war, but it's easy to please God and it's hard to send God!" ”

Chen Cheng retorted: "This Chen Feng does have the problem of grabbing territory, but this person is still very good in nature, although the strength of the eighth station has improved by leaps and bounds in the past few years, but this person has no second heart, and it is not a big help to the party-state, and even if he stays in Henan, it doesn't matter, it is better to be occupied by him than by the Japanese!" ”

The old man sighed and said: "Resignation, this is a bad word, the Japanese still have a chance to take it back if they occupy us, but if it is occupied by Chen Feng, then we will never have a chance again!" ”

Everyone thinks about it, and this is really the truth, the Japanese will take it back one day, after all, everyone also sees the momentum of the Japanese, and the grasshopper after the autumn is just that, as long as China insists on not surrendering, the Japanese will one day not be able to hold on. As soon as the Japanese left, those occupied areas were not yet governmental.

But if it is occupied by Chen Feng's subordinates, then the problem will be troublesome, and it will be really difficult to come back. If you use force, let alone fight but can't fight, once you start fighting, it will be a civil war, and you will be poked in the backbone by the people.

"So what are we going to do? Could it be that they watched the Japanese occupy Henan? Chen Cheng said loudly.

There was silence in the conference room for a while, and suddenly Chen Guofu, who had not spoken, coughed lightly and said: "Commission, in the past few years, the party and the state have worked together to resist foreign humiliation, and now the future of the Anti-Japanese War has turned into a good situation. However, the south bank of the Yellow River is thousands of miles away, and it is quite difficult to defend, and during the flood period, I am afraid that the enemy will attack us by breaking the embankment, and if I can obtain Wuzhi and other counties to defend to the death, I can counterattack the enemy at any time. Near the mouth of the Gaiqin River, the north bank of the Yellow River is low, and if the embankment breaks at any point downstream, it is only necessary to break the north embankment near the mouth of the Qinhe River, and all the water of the river can move north to Zhangzhang and Wei, then our great danger can be solved, and the enemy will live in a dangerous place......"

Chen Guofu was the only one in the entire conference room who was talking, although his voice was not high, but as soon as Chen Guofu's plan came out, everyone felt that their scalps were numb, whether the plan was successful or not, it would inevitably cause huge casualties and property losses, and most importantly, it would be remembered by history at this time, that is, it would be infamous through the ages.

As soon as Chen Guofu's words fell, Chen Cheng immediately stood up and objected: "This is absolutely impossible, not to mention whether it can succeed by replacing the army with water, the disaster caused by the diversion of the Yellow River alone is not something we can bear!" The stakes are high, and please think twice about the principal! ”

"In extraordinary times, when there is the determination and courage of a strong man to break his wrist, Kaifeng and Zhengzhou are the political and economic centers of Henan, once they fall into the hands of the enemy, the consequences are unimaginable, so when our army cannot hold on, it should be destroyed first, so as not to cause the enemy." Chen Guofu said in a deep voice.

The most important thing is that once the Yellow River bursts its banks and is diverted, the entire eastern Henan region will soon become a flooded country, and the Japanese army's mechanized troops will be completely paralyzed, which can buy a lot of time for the party-state to deploy troops.

"Extraordinary times do extraordinary things, although Yu is unwilling to bear it, but the Japanese are rampant, since the soldiers can resist the enemy with water, then we will replace the soldiers with water" Lao Jiang clapped his head

(To be continued......)