Age of Rebirth

Chapter 520 Second Zhengzhou is in danger

Not only Tang Qiuli did not understand the information sent by the Zhengzhou intelligence station, but the generals in the division were also confused. Tang Enbo still had at least 10,000+ troops in his hands, so how could the defense force be weak?He looked back at Yu Deshui and ordered: "Director Yu, let the Zhengzhou Intelligence Station find out the actual situation at all costs." "Unsatisfied with the ambiguity, he immediately rushed back to the Intelligence Department.

Yu Deshui was also very angry. Tang Enbo couldn't be contacted. The division commander's judgment on the Japanese army's movements completely relied on his own intelligence system, but he sent such vague information. It's really shameful. big.

Tang Qiuli stared at the map on the wall. The more he looked at the map, the more his scalp became numb. If the information from the Zhengzhou intelligence station was true, Zhengzhou might be in danger at the moment. Henan is the hinterland of the Central Plains, and Zhengzhou has a very convenient location. The position is too important. With this hand, Tang Qiuli's veins were seized. Tang Qiuli secretly sighed, Zairen and Xiangyue Qingsi are not idle people. They were passive in several battlefields, and they did not use their hands. The strange soldiers here are really cunning and scheming. Am I underestimating them too much?He secretly thought.

Zhengzhou, which makes Tang Qiuli fearful, after the Japanese army captures Zhengzhou, they can have three main directions of attack. They can attack Xi'an in Shaanxi from the west, echo the mountain pass in Wuxiang from the flank, and attack Taiyuan. They can also take Hanzhong in southern Shaanxi. Sichuan, or take Ankang, attack Hubei. [

Going south, the goal is to take Wuhan, an important city in central China, and occupy this city in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, which is the thoroughfare of nine provinces. It can go up the river to attack the southwestern provinces, and go down the river to attack Nanjing and Shanghai, dividing China into two halves from the east to the west.

Go east, go down to Kaifeng, Shangqiu, and approach Xuzhou. Xuzhou is an eye. Go north and the Japanese army in Cangzhou will attack our three 10,000+ troops. Go south, take Nanjing and attack Shanghai.

Tang Qiuli was heartbroken when he saw that Zhengzhou was lost, and his Yellow River defense line was about to collapse. From the analysis of the Japanese army's attack situation on various battlefields, the possibility of the Japanese army advancing westward and eastward was the greatest. Otherwise, the Japanese army in Wuxiang and Cangzhou would , will launch such a violent attack, obviously supporting the Japanese army in the middle.

The possibility of going south is very small. With less than [-] troops, they are trying to sweep across the hinterland of East China. Only half of the troops need to be defended along the way. How can they attack Wuhan?How many people can walk to the city of Wuhan.

In order to prevent the Japanese army from entering Shaanxi from Zhengzhou to the west and capturing Xi'an, he telegraphed Sun Zhenbang, the commander of the Yellow River Defense Command, to lead four river defense brigades under his command, with a total of more than [-] troops, to immediately move to Lingbao, Henan, and build a Fortifications, ready to stop the Japanese advance westward.

He also knew that Sun Zhenbang's more than 3 local troops alone could not support the nearly 10 Japanese troops for many days. Immediately, he ordered Zhou Yushan, the transportation headquarters of the independent division, to leave a regiment to maintain basic transportation support tasks. Mobilize four infantry regiments and one air defense regiment, and immediately rush to the front line of Lingbao as quickly as possible, and form the Lingbao Defense Command with Sun Zhenbang.

He ordered Yuan Jinghao, commander of the Shaanxi Provincial Garrison Command, to lead three local garrison brigades with a total of more than 2 troops, and immediately stationed in the Shangluo area to prevent the Japanese soldiers from attacking Xi'an in two ways.

In the direction of Dezhou, he ordered the cancellation of the battle plan for the surprise attack on Tianjin. Although it was a good move, life-saving is the most important thing right now. With the loss of the Cangzhou front line, the troops went south to the Xuzhou area and joined Zhang Zizhong's Sulu Garrison Corps to jointly block the Japanese army intending to attack Xuzhou. The Dezhou Campaign Command decided on its own how many troops to deploy.

After a series of orders were issued, Tang Qiuli almost sat on the kang, his whole body sore and weak. This time, he used all his wealth. , and had to keep an eye on the mountain pass in Wuxiang to prevent him from fleeing back to Taihang Mountain.

He has never felt such a dangerous situation. All unfavorable situations have appeared, and he is a little out of breath. His own strategic layout is in danger of collapsing across the board because of Zhengzhou. The whole body, Tang Enbo's 23 troops, can't defend Zhengzhou, which is guarded by the natural danger of the Yellow River?He was full of doubts.

I also thought that the Japanese army might go south from Zhengzhou to Wuhan, struggling to sit up, preparing to send a telegram to Nanjing Generalissimo Jiang, reminding him to pay attention to the defense in the north of Wuhan. The Nanjing Military Commission sent a report on the war situation. At about [-]:[-] am on December [-], the Japanese troops who retreated to the open sea aggressively attacked our defensive positions from Shanghai and Hangzhou Bay.

This time the Japanese army attacked fiercely, equipped with a large number of long-range heavy artillery, and the number of troops increased by about 15. Fierce battles broke out across the board in the periphery of Shanghai and in the direction of Hangzhou Bay. The observation post reported that the Japanese army did not retreat and had the intention of attacking again.

Tang Qiuli has two big heads. The Japanese are crazy. The northern battlefield is fiercely fought, and there is another breakthrough in the middle line. The southern battlefield, the restart of the war, is also a desperate attack. The Japanese wanted to fight to determine the situation in China, and the flashpoint of all this was in Zhengzhou.

However, in the southern battlefield, Tang Qiuli didn't care about it, and he was determined. With Chairman Jiang's hundreds of thousands of elite Central Army, and generals like Zhang Zhizhong, what he was most worried about now was the situation in Zhengzhou. He didn't come for a long time, the situation was unclear, and he was told how to command the battle, which made his eyes burn with anxiety.

If you look at the land of China in [-] from a bird's-eye view, Jiangnan and North China are full of wars and gunfire, but there is peace in the middle. Historically, the land of China at this time, except for the Southwest and Northwest, was full of wars, and the government was destroyed. The forced relocation of the capital was first to Wuhan, and finally to Chongqing, because the appearance of Tang Qiuli blocked the Japanese army from going south in North China.

Only now is the situation of the two fronts in the north and the south, the Japanese army is putting all its strength into attacking the north and the south. In fact, the anti-Japanese battlefield in China has been divided into two parts. Compared with the North China Independent Division dominated by Qiuli, Tang Qiuli was under much heavier pressure than Generalissimo Jiang. He was the number one enemy of the Japanese army.

Tang Qiuli, the commander of the North China Independent Division and the commander-in-chief of the Yellow River Basin War Zone, was in a small farmhouse in Guxian County. He was so anxious that he deployed all the troops he could use to the front line. Prince Zai, chief of the general staff of the base camp, and Qingyue Xiangyue, commander of the North China Dispatch Army at the front line of Niangziguan, smiled happily.

These two old foxes celebrated with their foreheads and hands. They had no hope of sending less than [-] troops to attack Anyang and occupy Zhengzhou. Attacking Henan was not the main goal of the two of them. We arrived at Datong and Niangziguan in Shanxi on the west line, and Dezhou in Shandong on the east line.

In doing so, it did not violate the overall strategy formulated by the Emperor to join forces with the Shanghai dispatched army under the city of Nanjing, and also satisfied the army's original idea of ​​going from north to south, first targeting North China, and then going south. It can be said to be very satisfactory. [

Unexpectedly, as soon as the battle started, the fight in the direction of Datong was not smooth at first. Yan Xishan, the local emperor, was determined to fight with the imperial army, and concentrated the main force on the front line of Datong. The Jin army at the pass was weak and prepared to raid Niangziguan to open the gate of Shanxi from the east, but it failed as people wished, and was snatched by Tang Qiuli, the devil of China.

The direction of Dezhou is the most hopeful battlefield for Zairen and Xiangyue Qingsi. The crumbling Chinese defense line, as long as they put more effort, they can crush the squadron. Who would have thought that China, which is at a comprehensive disadvantage The defenders did not fall. Later, Tang Qiuli mobilized reinforcements, and the situation on the Dezhou battlefield was reversed. The 30 imperial army lost nearly 8 people and was forced to retreat to Cangzhou.

Although His Royal Highness personally leads the reinforcements, it can't change the passive situation. He broke into the pass of Tang Qiuli's old nest in the Taihang Mountains, empty-handed, and did not achieve the expected results at all. If it continues, he may be trapped to death in the Taihang Mountains. Without changing the battle plan, he attacked Taiyuan from the south of Shanxi, and was blocked by Yan Xishan's 10,000+ Jin army under the city of Wuxiang.

On the North China battlefield, nearly 100 million troops were mobilized. From November [-]th to December [-]th, for more than [-] days, none of the original combat plans were realized, and they could not go south. Passive, Zai Ren and Xiangyue Qingsi were extremely distressed. During this period, Xiangyue Qingsi returned to Peiping many times to discuss with Zai Ren how to change the current passive situation.

Forced by the situation, the two of them decided to use a long-planned dangerous move, using the only unused army, to attack Anyang, Henan, open the northern gate of Henan, and go straight to Zhengzhou, thus changing the situation of the battle. Gambling adventures, the entire chess game in North China, they both have such a job in their hands.

Zairen is not optimistic about attacking Henan. With more than 9 troops, he has to face the more than 20 troops of the Central Army. Compared with the troops, he is at an obvious disadvantage. Otherwise, Zai Ren would have approved the implementation of this plan a long time ago. The reason for the delay is that the 9 troops will be eaten by the Central Army before they see the Yellow River.

However, Xiangyue Qingsi insisted on initiating the Henan campaign again and again. Zai Ren understood the feelings of his old friend very well. North China has become like this, and there is no way to reverse the situation. , It can't change the fact that you lose again and again.

However, Xiangyue Qingji was full of confidence. Everything stemmed from the adventurous actions of a Japanese squadron leader. It was this insignificant guy in the Japanese army who made Xiangyue Qingji see the dawn of victory.

(To be continued)