Zhang Lingfu is really happy, he didn't pretend to be fake at all, he was happy from the bottom of his heart. The reason for www.biquge.info is also very simple, he is full of confidence in his troops, and he looks down on the T Communist Party from the bottom of his heart, thinking that the T Communist Party will only fight guerrilla warfare and fight head-on battles, and the 74th Division will not be an opponent for the T Communist Party with one hand.

There is another reason for Zhang Lingfu to feel relieved, that is, Wang Yaowu assured him that after Tang Enbo took Jinan, he immediately returned to the division to rescue him, hoping that he would firmly attract **** and prepare to fight a brilliant victory. Xue Yue on the other side also assured him that the reorganized Fifth Division was moving westward at high speed and would soon go to Huihunt. Even Jiang sent a telegram to him, trying him to respond calmly, attract more ****, and then eliminate them in one fell swoop.

These multi-faceted guarantees gave Zhang Lingfu a lot of confidence, in his opinion, if his 74th division simply sticks to it, it is no problem to resist the siege of **** for a month, not to mention that he does not need to hold on for ten days and half a month, at most a week, the surrounding reinforcements will surround this area, and when the **** is difficult to fly, anyway, General Zhang feels that the Blue Sky and White Sun Medal is not far from him.

So what is the actual situation on the battlefield? Is it as optimistic as Zhang Lingfu imagined?

At this time, the closest to Zhang Lingfu was the reorganized 65th Division in Tai'an, and after the second column was inserted between the 65th Division and the 74th Division, the 65th Division also tried to reopen the communication line and restore contact, but Guo Yongyao's 154th Brigade, which was sent to "sweep", was quickly repelled by the second column, and even because Guo Yongyao was too light on the enemy, he was almost defeated by the fierce second column. Later, Li Zhen, commander of the 65th Division, sent the 160th Brigade to attack again, but was quickly repulsed. After two temptations, Li Zhen already knew that the enemy on the opposite side was very difficult to provoke, and he no longer dared to act rashly, but he retracted Tai'an and insisted on it, and there was no intention of reinforcing and moving closer to Zhang Lingfu at all.

In addition to the 65th Division, the main force of Tang Enbo's First Corps is under the city of Jinan, and is fighting fiercely with the main force of the Shandong People's Liberation Army led by Chen Shuai. In order to take Jinan and eliminate the ****, Tang Enbo also invested all his main forces, leaving only the previously mentioned Li Tianxia and his 83rd Division as a reserve. Anyway, there is no ability to go south to reinforce Zhang Lingfu for a while.

As for Wang Jingjiu's Second Corps, it is even farther away from Zhang Lingfu, at this time its main force is still in the Juxian area, as for the Fifth Division, which Xue Yue guaranteed to have approached Zhang Lingfu at high speed, in fact, the speed is not so fast, and the relationship between the five main forces is also like that, and the ones who can really fight side by side are probably the New First Army and the New Sixth Army of the same origin. As for the relationship between the Fifth Division and the 74th Division, as well as between Qiu Qingquan and Zhang Lingfu, don't look at the fact that they are all from Shaanxi, and they are all from the Huangpu family, but the relationship is really not close.

What's more, in Qiu Qingquan's view, **** is what is going on, with the combat effectiveness of the 74th Division, it can be completely blocked, and it is also relatively hard for their fifth division to chase the third and eighth columns along the way, it is better to rest for a day or two, and then it is not too late to hurry. All in all, the 5th Division was not fast, and there was no hurry. This also determined that Zhang Lingfu would not get any substantial reinforcements for at least five days.

Let's not mention the matter of Zhang Lingfu's side, he doesn't have much choice in the encirclement for the time being, so he can only defend passively. Let's first look at the situation of Wang Jingjiu's corps in Lunan. As I said just now, at this time, Wang Jingjiu had already discovered that the so-called main force of the Central China Field Army in the north was completely imaginary, and that it was only the third and eighth columns of the Central China Field Army. So according to Xue Yue's order, he transferred the entire 5th Division back to the division to rescue Zhang Lingfu. After removing Qiu Qingquan's Fifth Division, Wang Jingjiu's corps still had four reorganized divisions left, and according to Wang Jingjiu's idea, they continued to go north, on the one hand, to find opportunities to annihilate the Third Column and the Eighth Column, and on the other hand, they could also recover Rizhao, Qingdao and other big cities.

At this time, there was another joke, just as Wang Jingjiu led the Second Corps to go north, the integrated 75th Division under his command suddenly had no news. How can a reorganized division, in fact, the strength of an army evaporate from the world all of a sudden? If you say that you are annihilated by the enemy, it is impossible that there will not be a single shot, let alone that no one will be able to escape. What's more, the situation on the battlefield is relatively clear now, there is no **** main force in southwest Lu, can it be said that the reorganized 75th Division has defected?

Of course, this is not very likely, and soon after, news came that the baggage troops reportedly saw that the integrated 75th Division was moving westward. At this time, Wang Jingjiu wondered, the third and eighth columns were in the north, what was the whole 75th Division doing in the west?

Wang Jingjiu, who was full of doubts, personally led the team westward, and at the same time sent Yang Wenjing, commander of the integrated 72nd Division, to find the missing integrated 75th Division. This division commander Yang did not dare to be sloppy, jumped into a jeep and set off, but he did not expect the entire 75th Division to go quite fast, and the commander of Yang chased for a long time without finding a figure, just when Yang Wenjin was about to report the situation to his superiors, he suddenly received an order from the army headquarters, and then he knew that the integrated 75th Division had been separated from the command of the Second Corps.

It turned out that Jiang decided to form a new corps with the reorganized 75th Division, the reorganized 70th Division that had just arrived in Xuzhou, and the newly formed 21st Brigade, under the command of Ou Shounian, deputy commander of the Sixth Appeasement Zone. Prepare to send reinforcements from Xuzhou and Linyi to Tai'an for reinforcements. In order to pursue efficiency, Jiang personally instructed the division commander Liu Jiming, but forgot to inform Chen Cheng, Xue Yue, and Wang Jingjiu. And Liu Jiming felt that President Jiang would not be so unreliable, and he must have notified his superiors, so he left without making a report. In this way, things are more funny, which makes Wang Jingjiu's corps a burst of chickens and dogs, and indirectly leads to Wang Jingjiu's next battle plan may be difficult to implement.

The reason is very simple, originally Wang Jingjiu was going to use four integrated divisions to fight two columns, and in terms of strength, he occupied a double advantage. However, Jiang couldn't help but say that he had withdrawn a reorganized division, which meant that Wang Jingjiu had only three reorganized divisions left with the troops that could be used at hand, although he still had a certain advantage, it was basically impossible to fight a war of annihilation.

This situation was soon discovered by the Third Column and the Eighth Column, and General Su immediately made a decision and ordered the Third Column to continue to deal with Wang Jingjiu's corps, while the Eighth Column quickly went west to pursue and intercept Qiu Qingquan's entire 5th Division. As for the Seventh Corps of Ou Shou Nian, which had just been formed, General Su did not pay attention to it. It's not that General Su underestimated Ou Shounian, but the actual situation determined that the new method that Jiang someone came up with was an out-and-out trick.

Why? Because Ou Shounian was still in Wuhan at this time, he was temporarily arrested by Jiang someone, and the reorganized 70th Division and the newly formed 21st Brigade had just arrived in Xuzhou at this time. But who made President Chiang's order bigger than the sky? They could only go on the road with resentment, but because of their emotions and the fact that Lunan's guerrillas were constantly attacking the communication lines, their movements were quite slow.

As for the reorganized 75th Division, they are a little closer to Tai'an, but the problem is that they are now equivalent to a lone army, so they are not moving fast, and they are ready to join the reorganized 70th Division and the new 21st Brigade before going north together to rescue Zhang Lingfu.

In other words, this piece of sincerity is not powerful and does not play a role. Speaking of Ou Shounian, the newly appointed commander of the Seventh Corps arrived in Xuzhou by plane from Wuhan that night, and after a short meeting with Chen Cheng and Xue Yue, he hurriedly set out on the road. However, there is actually a hidden danger here, that is, whether it is the 75th Division, the 70th Division, or the newly formed 21st Brigade, they do not buy the accounts of the district's birthday, and he, the commander of the corps, actually cannot command the troops below.

Why is this happening? Because Ou Shounian is not a confidant of Jiang someone, in fact, this is a hostile faction of Jiang someone historically. Ou Shounian is a native of Guangdong, and he studied in a private school for a few years in his early years, and his education level is not high. So how did he get on the road to the army? That's because he has a good uncle, and Ou Shounian's uncle is the famous General Cai Tingkai! In 1921, he defected to his uncle Cai Tingkai, who was a company commander in the Guangdong Army, at first as a clerk in the company, and later introduced by Cai Tingkai to study at the Yangjiang Military Training Institute of the Guangdong Army, and in 1925, he served as the commander of a company of the Fourth Army to participate in the Northern Expedition.

Please note that Ou Shounian not only participated in the Northern Expedition, but later during the Nanchang Uprising, he and Cai Tingkai also participated (of course, it is said that he was coerced to participate, Cai Tingkai was the commander of the 24th Division at that time), but later deserted halfway. At that time, Ou Shounian was the commander of the 70th Regiment of the 24th Division that participated in the Nanchang Uprising, and there was an ordinary soldier in this 24th Division at that time, and this ordinary soldier was the later famous General Su. Please note that the fate of General Su and the old superior Ou Shounian is not limited to this, in history, when he was competing for eastern Henan, Ou Shounian was beaten by General Su and became a prisoner of the old subordinates.

Because Ou Shounian is Cai Tingkai's nephew, and inevitably belongs to the 19th Army Department, naturally the relationship with Jiang is not very harmonious. It's just that because the 19th Road can fight, and Ou Shounian performed well in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War (participated in the famous Battle of Xuzhou and the Battle of Wuhan). Later, he was appointed as the commander of the 48th Army stationed in the Dabie Mountains, but because he was born in a miscellaneous background and had a black history of anti-Chiang, after serving as the commander of the 48th Army, he bailed out some anti-Japanese activists, and it was not long before he was shielded and connived at by Jiang someone. The party was dismissed from his post and investigated, and he was transferred to the special class of the Chongqing Army University for brainwashing. Until March 1943, when he served as the deputy commander-in-chief of the 26th Group Army, because he had nothing to do, he played mahjong every day in Enshi and his fellow villagers and old superiors who were under house arrest.

From these resumes, it can be seen that Ou Shounian is out of place in the family lineage, and it may be very difficult for him to command the Seventh Corps as a commander.

Speaking of which, the situation in Shandong is generally very clear, the plans and hole cards of both sides are on the table, the key point of victory and defeat is Zhang Lingfu's 74th Division, he did not play well, General Su will win a big victory, he persevered, and this battle became quite troublesome.

At the same time as the all-round attack was launched on the Shandong side, the beacon fires in northern and eastern Henan had also been ignited. At this time, eastern Henan was the territory of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army, and Liu Deng's department of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army had five columns, namely the second, third, fourth, sixth, and seventh columns, with a strength of about 200,000. Why do you want to make a special mention here about the Liu Deng Department of the Shanxi-Hebei-Lu-Henan Field Army? The reason is very simple, because the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region is too large, and it manages a large area of eastern Henan and south-central Hebei, and there are four military sub-regions alone: the Taiyue Military Region, the Taihang Military Region, the Southern Hebei Military Region, and the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Military Region. There were a total of seven columns (equivalent to seven corps).

At this time, Liu Deng commanded the main force of the main forces, and the remaining two columns were still active in the southern Hebei and Taiyue regions. For example, the first column was headed by Yang Dezhi, and the eighth column was commanded by Xie Fuzhi.

In addition to the main force of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army, the troops participating in the next Central Plains War also included the field army of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region. It must be briefly explained here that the historical Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region had two field armies, namely the First Field Army and the Second Field Army. The First Field Army was under the command of Nie Shuai, and had three columns under its jurisdiction, mainly responsible for dealing with Yan Xishan. The 2nd Field Army was under the command of General Xiao Ke. But to tell the truth, General Xiao may be a good hand in literary and artistic work, and his performance in the War of Liberation is really unsatisfactory.

In this historical time and space, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region was completely under the command of Nie Shuai alone, with nine columns under his command. Three of these columns were temporarily assigned to He Shuai's command and were maneuvering with Yan Laoxi in Shanxi, while the remaining six columns remained in North China and were under the unified command of Nie Shuai, responsible for dealing with the attacks of the three main corps of the People's Party Army together with the Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan Field Army.

Therefore, at this time, the PLA participating in the competition in eastern Henan totaled two major field armies, with a total of 11 columns, and they had to compete with the 15 integrated divisions of the People's Party Army, and there was still a certain gap in strength. However, it is not without good news, Yang Dezhi's first column and Xie Fuzhi's eighth column participated in the strategic counteroffensive stage of the late stage of the Anti-Japanese War before the combat consumption was relatively large, and after a few months of rest and recuperation, they are about to recover their combat effectiveness, and they can join the battle in the second half of the campaign as a strategic reserve at this time.

Moreover, compared with a large number of Central China and Shandong Field Armies in Shandong, which were reorganized from the New Fourth Army, the troops reorganized by the Eighth Route Army in North China and Shanxi were more adequate in personnel and better weaponized. A considerable part of the artillery brigades belonging to the column have 105-mm artillery, and there is no shortage of 76 or 75-mm artillery in the division's firepower, and they are backed by the Northeast and Inner Mongolia to continuously obtain military assistance from the Soviet Union, and can obtain sufficient guarantees in terms of weapons and ammunition.

Of course, this is not the same as fighting a good battle, the kind of pressure that the main force of the 15 *** army is unimaginable, judging from the map, these fifteen integrated divisions are lined up from Luoyang to Heze, and the army of more than 500,000 is still like a flood beast.

According to the deployment of the General Headquarters of the People's Party, the Third Corps was stationed between Heze and Kaifeng, and was responsible for seizing Puyang. The Fifth Corps was located in the center between Kaifeng and Zhengzhou to Xinxiang and Anyang, while the Fourth Corps went out of Luoyang to Jiaozuo, Jincheng, and Changzhi.

After achieving this first-stage operational objective, the three corps fought a major battle of annihilation between Xingtai and Handan, destroying the main force of the Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan People's Liberation Army in one fell swoop. Then continue to wave the army to the north, directly take Beiping and Tianjin, and expel the **** out of the customs.

Overall, this is a flat and stable battle plan, anyway, it is to rely on brute force to push north, if the **** knows each other obediently and runs away, then push the boat down the river to recover Hebei, if the **** dares to use the mantis arm as a car, then fight a war of annihilation, eliminate the **** main force.

For this operation, Jiang not only put the 15 most powerful integrated divisions on the front line, but also deployed a number of second-line reserve forces in the second line, that is, in southern Henan and northern Hubei. There are also six or seven corps in the process of being reorganized on this line, and as soon as the first line needs assistance, the troops on this line will be able to immediately go up. On the Jianghuai side to the east, heavy troops have also gathered, and there are as many as five troops that have been or are in the process of being reorganized. Anyway, according to Lao Jiang's view, this crackdown on bandits is foolproof.

So what arrangements did the T Communist Party make for the battles in northeastern Henan and southern Hebei? In accordance with the Army. The main force of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Field Army headed by Liu Deng was not prepared to entangle too much with the Kuomintang army in eastern Henan, and gradually lured the enemy to Linqing, Liaocheng, Xingtai, and Handan. Lengthen the enemy's supply routes, widen the gap between the enemy's 500,000-strong army, and strive to fight a battle of annihilation in the area south of Xingtai and destroy one or two of the enemy's integrated divisions. If the KMT army remains in good shape, it will continue to retreat to Shijiazhuang and Hengshui to look for fighters.

Anyway, the goal of the main force of the Shanxi-Hebei-Lu-Henan Field Army and the Jin-Cha-Ji Field Army was to annihilate the enemy's three to five integrated divisions in the next one to two months, so that Jiang's dream of an all-out attack for three months to complete the suppression of the Communists was shattered.

However, what is more interesting is that the battles on the entire Central Plains battlefield did not first break out in southern Hebei and eastern Henan, but first unfolded along the Zhengtai Railway. He Shuai led the second, third, and fourth columns of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Field Army out of Shijiazhuang and marched westward to Yangquan, creating a situation of seizing Yangquan and luring the Taiyuan defenders to the rescue. (To be continued.) )