"Sir, Leng Guoguang called, our department officially recovered Xinxiang at 12:08 noon today!"

"What, recover Xinxiang?" Lao Jiang exerted force on his hand, and almost broke the pen. The news was too sudden, completely beyond his expectations. ΔΔΔ

After finally calming down his excitement, Lao Jiang asked, "How did he do it?"

"Long-distance raid, internal and external cooperation." Lin Wei answered eight words.

"That's all?"

"That's all." Lin Wei nodded heavily.

"Give birth should be like the light of the country!" Even though Old Jiang felt a little sad, he couldn't help but feel a little bit of emotion at this time. He didn't like to accept "adopted sons", but at this time, he really had a little bit of this idea.

"Sir, do you want to send a commendation telegram to Leng Guoguang?"

"Well, please polish Mr. Bu Lei, and speak more enthusiastically." Old Jiang ordered.

"yes!"

"By the way, my wife said when will I come back?"

"This trip will be over in half a month. I asked my wife's secretary to find out the specific itinerary." Lin Wei lowered his head and said.

"Well, then ask."

"yes!"

"Puff, Leng Guoguang, you're too bullying!" Kenji Doihara was exposed to the news of Xinxiang's occupation and vomited blood. In the current result, even if he conquered Lanfeng and occupied Kaifeng, the capital of Henan Province, he would not be able to recover the defeat.

All the supply passages on the ground of his 14th Division and 6 were blocked.

Only airdrop is left.

In order to realize their ambition to have a "Big6", the Japanese have carried out decades of preparations for this purpose. The most fully prepared was intelligence work. They entered China with various means almost omnipresent information to collect, political, military and geographical aspects.

What they are trying to use these one day in the future to achieve the goal of completely occupying and conquering China.

The Japanese have reached a point where they are almost perverted and persistent because they know that they have to make a big fortune with small gains and only have one chance, so they must understand the enemy thoroughly before they can take action.

Leng Feng certainly knew this, but he knew better that intelligence was not the only key to winning. He valued one factor too much and would go to another extreme.

Leng Feng attaches great importance to intelligence work, but he has not yet reached the point where he cannot fight without intelligence. No war will be waiting for you to figure out the enemy before fighting. The key is whether you dare to make up this decision.

When Leng Feng decided to recover northern Henan from the Japanese army, he made up his mind to do this, and all his plans were secretly centered around it.

He only discussed many things with a limited number of people such as Xie Jiyuan, and used various actions to cover up his true purpose, even hiding the commanders and fighters on the front line.

He couldn't let Kenji Doihara see the clues. Once this old guy smelled something, he would definitely be prepared.

Facts have proved that Leng Feng's decision was right.

Kenji Doihara did not realize that his real target was northern Henan. Even though he surrounded Puyang, he thought Leng Feng wanted to cut off his logistics supplies.

I never thought that Leng Feng’s target was not him, but Xinxiang, the entire northern Henan!

He took himself too seriously, but he abandoned it like a worn-out clog!

Kenji Doihara's resentment towards Leng Feng has never been so deep. He is like a resentful woman abandoned by her husband, and has become hysterical.

However, in the battlefield in eastern Henan, Kenji Doihara still showed the prestige of the 14th Division and also achieved his own level. I have to admit that this guy still has a good way of doing intelligence and commanding wars.

After waiting for three days, the vanguard of Hu Shoushan's army arrived in Lanfeng, and the 61st Division, which was reorganized by its supplementary brigade, arrived at the battlefield first and quickly entered the battle.

The Japanese army had a fierce offensive, and it was originally a narrow area east of Lanfeng. Kenji Doihara carried many artillery, at least it was not comparable to the First Corps in East Henan.

With the powerful heavy artillery combined with tanks and aircraft, the combat power of the 14th Division was finally released at one time, releasing the aggrieved breath of being held in Luxi.

On June 2, the day before the New First Army Special Service Regiment and the Cavalry Regiment led by Liang Dong rushed to Xinxiang for a long distance, the Japanese army attacked Neihuang and Neihuang Station.

The 195th Division guarding Neihuang was Liang Kai, the commander of the division, who had just been changed from the local security regiment in Henan. They were basically recruits, with few guns and never participated in actual combat.

Even such a cannon fodder unit was naturally defeated by the powerful bombardment of the Japanese army. It collapsed before it lasted for a long time. It didn't matter if it collapsed. The 631st Regiment of the 106th Division guarding Neihuang Station was attacked from both sides and retreated with him.

The Japanese army occupied Neihuang, Mazhuangzhai and Renheji.

"Captain Xue, the 74th Army called, Ji Hongru, the commander of the 2nd Regiment of the 51st Division, was killed. This is the highest-level officer who has died in our army since the war started."

"I understand." Xue Boling responded with a hint of tiredness.

The 51st Division experienced the Battle of Shanghai and the Battle of Nanjing, with losses of up to 60 or 70 percent. After the war, it retreated to the rear and rested, recruited new recruits, and barely restored its organization. However, its weapons were much worse than in the past. Most of the soldiers were recruits and had never been on the battlefield. If there was no supervision team behind, it would probably be scared before the Japanese army could attack, and these new recruits would be so scared that they would throw their guns and run away.

Even in this case, the 51st Division went to the battlefield and resolutely joined the battle against the Japanese army.

"Do you want the 51st Division to be removed and rested?"

"Do you ask Wang Yaowu to agree?" Xue Boling asked heavily.

"OK."

"When will the Tang Army Group arrive?"

"The river has begun to cross and is expected to arrive in two days." Wu Xiqi said, the degree is no longer slow, and the Japanese offensive in the fifth war zone has also slowed down a little, which has made Li Delin arrange for retreat more calmly.

However, the pressure in the south increased. The main force of the Japanese 114th Regiment appeared in Suxian. The 59th Army, which was forced to rest for a short time, went south to reinforce Suxian.

Pang Bingxuan's Third Army served as the reserve force of the war zone.

The Yunnan Army and the Second Group Army joined forces with Wang Zhonglian's 95th Army to block the 5th Division of the Japanese Army and a brigade of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army from the East China Sea.

On the 2nd, the 16th Japanese Division had captured Pi County and reached the Nianzhuang area to the west. At the same time, the Japanese Fifth Division and the Independent Mixed Fifth Brigade had approached the Taierzhuang area.

In the south, the attacking situation of the Japanese Sato detachment was curbed. This was a lonely army. Once the food and bullets were not supported, they could only defend the occupied area, but also restrained the strength of an army group in the fifth war zone.

Although he gave up voluntarily, the pressure on Li Delin's shoulders is quite high, and Japanese planes continue to raid, bombard and create pressure on Xuzhou.

In Yanzhou, the two Japanese brigades, which were hit hard, began to move after receiving domestic troops and grain and ammunition. After a period of rest and rest, the strength of the Sichuan Army stationed in Yanzhou was further enhanced.

The Japanese army faced the powerful Sichuan Army who had been guarding Teng County for a week in Yanzhou, and seemed to have no better way for a while, which also avoided the trouble of fighting on the third line of the fifth war zone.

Now other battlefields in China have basically stopped, and China and Japan have concentrated all their war resources into the area of ​​thousands of square kilometers at the junction of Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan and Shandong provinces.

Here the Japanese army has invested at least 200,000 troops, while the national army has conservatively estimated that it has at least 700,000.

This scale is no less than that of the Battle of Songhu. Although the Battle of Songhu was cruel, the G army was defeated miserably. Seven hundred thousand ** was beaten by 200,000 Japanese troops. They threw away their armor and lost their armour all the way. The elite German armoured division was gone, the heavy artillery purchased was also lost, and the only armored regiment was also lost.

It can be said that in the Battle of Shanghai and the Battle of Nanjing, GJ almost lost one-third of his possessions, and it was the most elite third.

The remaining two-thirds are just superficial numbers.

If the Japanese army really made dumplings in the Battle of Xuzhou, China's future for the War of Resistance would be really dark, because the Eighth Route Army and the Anti-Japanese Guerrillas were not included, and the entire army in the country would be more than 100 and a half.

After the battles between Songhu, Nanjing and Xuzhou, the overall number of the National Army had dropped to 1.4 million. Now, more than half of the troops were gathered at the junction of the First War Zone and the Fifth War Zone.

It is known as the elite, but in fact more than half of them are recruits, commonly known as: raw melon seeds.

Although the Japanese army had only 200,000, they were all veterans, and even the supplementary soldiers were all recruited directly by retired veterans in China.

These soldiers had served in the army for at least three years before, and had received military training and brainwashing of the Bushido spirit since childhood. After a little training, they could keep up with the battle of veterans.

This gap cannot be made up with money or anything else, only time. Even in the late period of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Kuomintang army replaced American equipment, but the quality of the soldiers was still not as good as that of the Japanese veterans in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japan.

It’s not that you are stronger, but that others are weaker, so Japan has never thought that it was defeated by the Chinese.

Chiang Kai-shek and the big men of the Guofu realized that if they wanted to continue fighting battles like Songhu, Nanjing and Xuzhou, one or two more battles, even if they won, China would probably not have an army that could fight against the Japanese army.

The veterans were all killed, the new recruits were completely cannon fodder, and their weapons were not as good as others. How to fight?

From this point of view, some people's arguments about the destruction of the country when the war of resistance and destruction are not really true, but these people are too unscrupulous and have no national integrity.

Only nations that die with their backbone deserve respect from others, and those who bend over will always be nailed to the pillar of shame by history.

Passion cannot replace guns and cannons. Although politicians sometimes lie, they still have a little more sober than some people who only have a hot head.

When some cold data are placed in front of you, many people will calm down. It turns out that they are too self-righteous and too similar.

In war, we cannot only consider sacrifice, but not what results will be obtained after sacrifice. If sacrifice is just sacrifice, what is the meaning of sacrifice?

Such a decision is correct to evacuate Xuzhou decisively. Although there will be pain and incomprehension, history will answer all this and will correct it.

At noon on June 3, Xue Boling received a telegram from Leng Feng to recover Xinxiang.

This is not the first division of honor, no, now it is the first time that the New Army has recovered lost territory from the Japanese army, and miracles seem to be able to survive in it.

Xue Boling sighed long and said: The next wave of the Yangtze River pushes the previous wave.

(To be continued.)8
Chapter completed!