Chairman Chiang was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked He Yingqin to send a commendation telegram to Gui Yongqing, and at the same time planned to leave for Zhengzhou, the army's great victory gave the entire Lanfeng Battle a good start, and the Japanese 14th Division seemed to have become a fish on the chopping block of the national army, just waiting for Chairman Chiang to cut it with a knife, so he had to fly to the front line to experience this great victory.

However, this time, Chairman Jiang was destined to not make the trip, and before He Yingqin's commendation telegram was sent, the battle situation in Lanfeng had already taken a sharp turn.

The cavalry search squadron sent by the Sakai detachment fought an encounter with Qiu Qingquan's chariot search team near the Red Temple, and most of this cavalry squadron was annihilated, but several cavalry still escaped and reported this astonishing discovery to the detachment commander Takashi Sakai, who immediately changed the direction of attack and continued to make a detour south from Yifeng.

After Qiu Qingquan won the encounter, he did not search in all directions, but advanced straight to Kaocheng, and as a result, he passed by the main force of the Sakai detachment, taking into account the restrictions on the march on the road, the Sakai detachment did not carry heavy firepower, so the marching speed was also very fast, and it hit outside the city of Lanfeng that afternoon.

After receiving the report from the division commander Li Ying, Gui Yongqing couldn't believe his ears.

"What are you talking about, Little Japan has hit outside Lan Feng City?" Gui Yongqing's eyes widened, and he glared at Li Ying deadly, how could this be possible, Qiu Qingquan's assault column had just won a battle at the Red Temple, how could little Japan come over so quickly? Could it be that the assault column still has the l36 brigade and 13K defeated by Little Japan?

Thinking of this, Gui Yongqing's hairs all stood up, with the strong combat effectiveness of the 13U Brigade and the 13th Qingquan Assault Column, he still let Little Japan be defeated, how could the division and RR division in Lanfeng City alone be able to resist the advance of Little Japan?

Others don't know, Gui Yongqing is very clear, the predecessor of the RR Division is Pre-Pei, the soldiers are all eliminated during the reorganization of the Central Army, and the equipment is even worse to the extreme, many soldiers are still carrying Hanyang, as for the division, after the Dangshan battlefield defeated Little Japan, it has not had time to remediate, where is the combat effectiveness?

"Quick, quick, quick." Gui Yongqing immediately summoned the adjutant to him, and said urgently, "Pack up your things, withdraw, withdraw immediately"

At the critical juncture, Gui Yongqing's first reaction was not to defend the Lan Seal City and hold the lifeline of the Longhai Railway, but how to save his life, how to keep the only remaining armed Liliang in his hand, the division commander Li Ying originally wanted to defend it, but when he saw that Gui Yongqing had fled, he had to order a retreat.

However, the little Japan came too quickly and too suddenly, when Gui Yongqing walked out of the military headquarters surrounded by the guard platoon, there was even a fierce gunfire outside the city, and at a glance at this situation, it was impossible to calmly deploy and retreat, Gui Yongqing immediately ordered the deputy army commander Li Shusen to organize the retreat of all units, but he ran away with the guard platoon first.

Gui Yongqing's escape directly escaped from Lanfeng to Kaifeng.

It wasn't until he fled into Kaifeng City that Gui Yongqing finally recovered from his panic, and then he suddenly thought that abandoning Lanfeng would trigger a series of reactions, and what was more serious was that this move directly cut off the retreat route of hundreds of wagons of war supplies stranded in Shangqiu, and such a serious consequence was definitely not something he Gui Yongqing could afford.

The most terrible thing is that he just sent a good news to the headquarters, but in a blink of an eye, he was beaten by Little Japan and lost his armor, and even lost the Lan Feng City, He Yingqin and Chen Cheng were close to him again, but I was afraid that they would not be able to turn around for him in front of the commission.

Gui Yongqing immediately took out a notebook pen, wrote a warrant with a brush, and then handed it to the adjutant, and advised: "You go find a horse and send this warrant to Division Commander Long as soon as possible, remember, you must hand it over to Long Muhan in front of the officers and soldiers of the RR Division, and don't let Long Muhan secretly destroy this warrant." ”

The adjutant took the warrant and turned to look for the horses.

Gui Yongqing's rout really triggered a series of chain reactions, Gui Yongqing was like the first domino, the second domino that fell immediately after Gui Yongqing was Li Ying's division, and then the one who fell was Long Muhan's RR division, although Longmu Han was also from Huangpu, he did not have the style of other Huangpu students.

Although the reorganized RR Division is not organized, there are more than 7,000 officers and soldiers, although the equipment is poor, but it is still much stronger than the Sichuan army, and the poor equipment of the Sichuan army has played a prestige in Dachang, Guangde and Tengxian.

It's a pity that Long Muhan didn't have the courage at all, and soon ran away with the RR division.

Qiu Qingquan, who had just arrived in Kaocheng with an assault column, had not even had time to meet with Ma Weilong, the commander of the 138th Brigade, and the defeated soldiers who had escaped from Lanfeng City came with shocking news.

The assault column had powerful combat vehicles, as well as trucks, motorcycles, anti-aircraft guns, and anti-aircraft guns, and its firepower was unprecedentedly powerful; if it was to go head-to-head, Qiu Qingquan would even dare to go head-to-head with the 17 permanent divisions of Little Japan, but the powerful firepower of the assault column was built on the basis of unimpeded logistical support.

Once the logistical supply line is cut off by the Japanese army, the assault column will immediately become a toothless tiger, not to mention anything else, the consumption of fuel for the tank alone is a huge burden, once the fuel is informed, the tank trucks of the assault column will immediately have to lie down, and the equipment exchanged from the Soviets at a great price will become the trophy of small Japan.

There was no other choice, Qiu Qingquan could only retreat from Kaocheng with his assault column, taking advantage of the fact that the fuel he carried was not exhausted, while the little Japan had just occupied Lanfeng, and before he had time to cut off the road and railway traffic, he quickly withdrew the troops to Kaifeng, Qiu Qingquan did not want his assault column to become the trophy of the little Japan without a big battle.

As soon as Qiu Qingquan's assault column withdrew, coupled with the fact that Lanfeng had been lost, the three brigades of the 46th Division did not have much significance in guarding Kaocheng again, and the deputy division commander Zhou Zhenqiang immediately ordered the troops to retreat to Kaifeng, and as a result, he received an order from Li Shusen, deputy commander of the army, in the middle of the retreat, ordering Zhou Zhenqiang to abandon Kaocheng and lead his troops to retreat to Luowang Station.

As soon as the 46th Division withdrew, there were no other Nationalist troops near Lanfeng, and the 14th Division captured Lanfeng without bloodshed, and as a result, the Longhai Railway was cut off at once, and the 13th and 16th divisions were unable to complete the task, and the hundreds of wagons of the Nationalist army stranded in Shangqiu were intercepted.

When the news reached Wuhan, He Yingqin, Minister of Military Affairs, was stunned.

Didn't Gui Yongqing send a good news this morning, saying that he had won a big victory in Lanfeng, why did Lanfeng lose in less than half a day? The contrast between before and after is inevitably too big, Rao is He Yingqin and Gui Yongqing are in-laws, and after getting the news, they couldn't help but scold, this Gui Yongqing, why is the official getting bigger and bigger, but the standard is getting worse and worse?

Only then did He Yingqin react, the so-called Lanfeng victory was mostly boasted by Gui Yongqing.

Falsely reporting war exploits is nothing, the key is that Lan Feng is the throat of the Longhai Railway, and the hundreds of wagons of war readiness materials aided by the Soviet Union are still stranded in Shangqiu, Lan Feng suddenly lost, and the passage for the transfer of this batch of war readiness materials to the rear of Wuhan was immediately cut off by Little Japan.

But He Yingqin didn't dare to hide such a big thing, in fact, He Yingqin couldn't hide it at all, Chairman Jiang soon got the news and turned back to the camp on the way to the airport, and as soon as he walked into the war room of the headquarters, Lao Jiang directly threw the civilized stick in his hand to the ground viciously, and the war room, which was originally as lively as a vegetable market, was silent for a while.

"Jingzhi, what the hell is going on?" Lao Jiang glared at He Yingqin and asked sharply, "Didn't Gui Yongqing say that he had won a big battle in the morning, why did Lan Feng lose in less than half a day?" , why did Lan Feng fall? The two remnant divisions of the 74th Army can hold Dangshan for two days in the face of the two main divisions of small Japan, and the two divisions of the other army are the RR Division of Jialong Muhan, and the 46th Division is still a division, how can a division of the Japanese army not be able to hold it for a day? ”

He Yingqin was speechless, he had a hundred mouths and couldn't explain it for Gui Yongqing at the moment, and he couldn't explain it, he understood Lao Jiang's temper, and now Lao Jiang was angry, the more he explained, the worse the result would be, and Lao Jiang would really directly order Gui Yongqing to be dismissed on the spot and then escorted back to Wuhan for execution.

At this moment, the best choice is to remain silent, don't say anything, and try to turn around when Lao Jiang's anger is gone.

Lao Jiang was still angry, stretched out his finger and pointed at He Yingqin hard, and said sharply: "This matter must not be counted like this, when the battle of Lanfeng is over, the responsibility of the relevant military commander must be investigated" After speaking, Lao Jiang turned his gaze to Chen Cheng and asked, "You said Cixiu, what should I do now?" ”

Chen Cheng had already digested the huge shock brought to him by the news of Lan Feng's loss at this moment, and said carefully: "Commission, although Lan Feng has been lost, the situation is still not so bad that it is irreparable. ”

Bai Chongxi and several senior staff members next to him nodded one after another, Chen Cheng didn't say anything to the point, although Gui Yongqing and Long Muhan's escape from the battle was infuriating, and the loss of Lanfeng was indeed surprising, but the situation on the entire Lanfeng battlefield did not collapse, as long as Sun Tongxuan, Shang Zhen, and Li Hansoul could not be encircled in time, the Tufeiyuan Division would still be unable to escape defeat.