As soon as Leng Feng returned to the military headquarters from the field hospital, Guo Weiquan came in a hurry. A piece of news that was not surprising was sent from the commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Zone.

Xuzhou has fallen!

"Early this morning, the cavalry corps of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army appeared in the eastern suburbs of Xuzhou. The 31st Division of the Second Army behind the palace was defeated. The division commander Chi Fengchen led his troops to retreat to the Liguoyi Station. The Japanese invaders entered Xuzhou City..."

June 12, 27th year of the Republic of China, at 9:37 am.

The combat room of the New First Army headquarters was silent. Although I had foreseeed this day, when it came, many people still couldn't accept it psychologically.

What a shame for Chinese soldiers who win a battle but lose their territory!

The news of the fall of Xuzhou was a huge blow to the Chinese military and civilians. This important military center and transportation hub connecting North China and central China fell into the hands of the Japanese invaders.

Strategically, the Japanese army has surrounded half of China, leaving only Fujian and Guangzhou's estuary, and the TW opposite Fujian has long been occupied by the Japanese army.

Dormitory No. 24, Longhai Railway Bureau, Zhengzhou.

"Sir, Chief Li Telegram, Xuzhou fell this morning..."

Lao Jiang stood at the window with a single figure and a very lonely expression. Since the War of Resistance Against Japan, he has worked hard and worked hard to fight against the Japanese invaders. He has been defeated repeatedly and defeated repeatedly. The depressed mood has always been blocked in his chest and cannot be dissipated.

After a while.

"How many troops do we have not withdrawn?"

"All those who should be withdrawn have been withdrawn. The troops behind the palace will also retreat from Weishan Lake to the west bank, in addition to the troops who stayed behind the enemy to fight against the war." Lin Wei replied.

"Okay, Li Delin is in the Party and the country. I heard that the old injury on his right face has relapsed. Is it serious?" Old Jiang changed his mind.

"I heard it's quite serious and he still has a high fever, but he insisted on retreating first and insisted on retreating with the commander-in-chief of the theater commander." Lin Wei said.

"This won't work. Can you send a plane to pick Li Delin up to Wuhan for treatment?" asked Lao Jiang. Although he and Li Delin were political opponents, at this time, he needed Li Delin to help him maintain the current situation. The hundreds of thousands of troops in the Fifth War Zone needed a capable commander.

He cannot lose his big picture because of small things.

"Xuzhou field airport has been occupied by the Japanese army. The nearest field airport is in Guide and is also controlled by the Japanese army. Even if a runway is temporarily built, it will take at least one week. Moreover, once it is discovered by the Japanese air reconnaissance, it will be too dangerous."

"Can Li Delin still hold on?"

"According to the plan, they will join the large army to break through the siege in Bozhou and then arrive in northern Anhui. This area is still under the control of the National Army. There should be no problem with the smooth retreat."

At this time, a burst of rapid footsteps sounded outside the door, and Liu Weizhang's figure appeared at the door.

"President, the Intelligence Department of the Military Commission urgently called a Japanese army with more than 20,000 people moving forward rapidly in Ueyang. The number may be the newly formed 106th Division of the Japanese army, and the division commander Junichiro Matsuura!"

"What?" Old Jiang was shocked when he heard this, and his whole body became cold.

"map!"

"The 106th Division has nearly 20,000 people. This Japanese army obviously went to Guide. Such an obvious marching route has suddenly been exposed now, and it is probably impossible to hide it!" Liu Weizhang's nose was sweating.

"Immediately notify Xue Boling of this information and ask him to adjust the deployment of the Battle of Guide!"

"Commissioner, in this way, the passage for retreating in the fifth zone of war zone is very likely to be cut off. There has been no heavy rainfall in northern Anhui in recent days, which is extremely beneficial to the mechanized marching of the Japanese army. Our army is exhausted and must speed up the retreat!"

"The Longhai line must have a certain amount of troops. If you retreat without fighting, the Japanese army can easily cross the Longhai line and attack western Shandong. The Japanese army must have changed its combat plan!" Liu Weizhang said affirmatively.

It's Shinroku Hata!

The Japanese base camp changed its original plan and handed over the dominance of the Battle of Xuzhou to the commander of the Central China Front Army in Nanjing, heading the Japanese Central China Front Army on the southern line.

Before this, whether it was the landing in the East China Sea or the Fifth Division, the Independent Mixed Brigade, the fierce attack in Linyi, so that it quickly captured Linyi, Tancheng and other places, and even the Doiyuan Division in eastern Henan, had attracted the attention and attention of the Chinese army.

In this way, the next goal of the Japanese army is Wuhan!

Lao Jiang was shocked. This was a moment of life and death. He immediately ordered the suspension of the supervision journey of Guide front line and flew back to Wuhan quickly. He wanted to hold a military meeting immediately to discuss some measures to deal with the situation in front of him.

This time the Japanese army is coming with great force, and there will inevitably be continuous attacks. The Wuhan area is empty, so the Japanese army cannot take advantage of the loophole at this time.

Chiang hurriedly said goodbye to Cheng Songyun and others, and took his entourage and Soviet military advisers on the plane.

When Xue Boling received the news, he felt very stressed. The Japanese army had previously occupied Bozhou. Once this 20,000 Japanese army's new force went north to rescue the Japanese army in Guide, it would be difficult to fight.

The sudden Japanese reinforcements put Xue Boling in a dilemma.

At this time, Xie Zaoshi and Li Ye led the heavy artillery brigade and the armored brigade, as well as the two most elite reconnaissance battalions of the New 38th Division and the New 37th Brigade to a village northwest of Guide, called Liu Fuji.

At this time, Xue Boling moved his front-line command to Ningling and worked with Li Bohao of the 64th Army. The elite 11th Division under Hu Shoushan also headed to the Guide battlefield.

Tang Keqin's 20th Army Command is located in Wrangamaji east of Guide.

Huang Jie's military headquarters confronted the Japanese army across the river in Mao Dui south of the Dasha River.

That night, Xue Boling held a high-level military meeting at the commander level in Ningling to discuss the final offensive plan for the Japanese army in Guide. All commanders with division commanders and above must participate.

Li Ye also attended the meeting on behalf of the New First Army. Although he had the most powerful force to attack the Japanese army in Guide, his military rank and qualifications were the lowest among the meetings.

And he is also an unknown little person.

Although his record was shocking, most of his achievements were not counted on him. Li Ye had a good mentality. He knew very well that it was probably not his own ability to achieve what he had today. Without Leng Feng's guidance, he would not be able to command such an armored brigade, let alone the Japanese army who were still fighting on the battlefield would be frightened.

Of course, Li Ye has no achievements at all. No matter how good the tactic is, it requires an excellent executor to play it out. The commander's ability to adapt to the situation is also very important.

If Li Ye does not have this ability, Leng Feng will not let him serve as the captain of the armored brigade.

Of course, he still lacks the temper and needs to continue to hone his skills so that he can finally become the commander of the armored corps who stand alone.

Some generals were a little shaken when they failed to capture the two Japanese troops in Guide for a long time. For example, Tang Keqin opposed the continued besieging of the Japanese troops in Guide. His troops were mechanized troops and were good at mobile warfare. After five days of fighting in Guide, his troops suffered more losses than the siege of Segu Detachment in Taierzhuang.

Qiu Qingquan also stood on Tang Keqin's side, believing that there was no need to siege Guide. Guide had been occupied by the Japanese army. Now that a large number of reinforcements from the Japanese army have arrived, there is no need to fight the Japanese army to fight to the death in Guide, which would in vain the country's army's strength.

It is believed that adopting a flexible and maneuverable strategy of active defense is much better than consuming a lot of vitality in Guide.

On a certain level, the opposition between Tang Keqin and Qiu Qingquan is not unreasonable. More than half of the national army's forces are concentrated in the First and Fifth War Zones, and the rear is now extremely empty.

The reason why the troops in the Fifth War Zone retreated was to prepare for the possible Wuhan battle. If the national army in the Fifth War Zone could not retreat, the Wuhan battle would have to be an empty city plan.

But some people disagree. Once the Japanese army is allowed to occupy Guide and the important towns in eastern Henan fall into the enemy, the Japanese army will inevitably advance west along the Longhai Line, attack Henan and western Shandong, threaten the Pinghan Line, and even immediately detonate the Battle of Wuhan.

Similarly, the safety of this retreat passage in Luxi cannot be guaranteed.

Even if the Japanese army in Guide cannot be eliminated, they cannot be left alone. They must be trapped in Guide and cannot move. It is best to eliminate this Japanese army.

The dispute was very fierce, and each had its own reasons. Tang Keqin even proposed the idea of ​​leading his troops south to block the Japanese reinforcements.

Obviously, Tang Keqin didn't want to consume his strength in Guide. He wanted to preserve his strength and escape by himself.

Xue Boling's face was very dark. He also heard about some of the actions of Tang Keqin on the battlefield in Xuzhou. He fought for his achievements and ran away when he saw danger. His command post was called "Yudongshou" and there was a new nickname called "Tang Paopu".

I heard that this nickname was heard from the New First Army's "Leng Yan King", but Leng Feng denied this matter.

Xue Boling was very angry, but he didn't get angry on the spot. Tang Keqin wanted to leave, but he couldn't stop him, so he just let him go. Wasn't he going to block the Japanese 106th division?

Let him go!

Xue Boling asked for instructions from Jiang Jiang, and Jiang Jiang agreed. He had no choice but to protect Jiang Jiang. If Tang Keqin could block the 106th Division, it would be helpful to the Battle of Guide.

The military meeting was not smooth, and Xue Boling even had a rare recess in the middle, but none of the generals present left, and there was no result in the meeting. Even if they were held for a night, they would be willing to do so.

"Captain Tang Army, how many days can you block the 106th Division?" Taking advantage of the recess, Xue Boling asked someone to call Tang Keqin over and asked directly in person.

Although Xue Boling agreed to Tang Keqin's request in principle, he would not let him pass the test easily, which was related to the success or failure of the Battle of Guide.

Tang Keqin made a military order for him to do so.

Tang Keqin originally thought that he had suffered too much loss and wanted to find an opportunity to escape. Fortunately, as long as he found a reasonable reason, Chiang Kai-shek would definitely agree. This excuse to block the Japanese reinforcements was really great.

But Xue Boling, the tiger boy, was not stupid at all. He asked him to issue a military order and wanted to leave it alone, but it would not work. You have fulfilled your responsibilities.

Tang Keqin hesitated and sweated. He thought he could not be afraid of Xue Boling, but when he really faced it, he was really guilty.

The main reason is that his mind is not simple. If he is really committed to leading troops to block the Japanese army, he will not be afraid of being seen through.

"Captain Tang Army, your army is now one of the few elite troops in the national army. I also know your thoughts. Give me a promise to block the Japanese army in Bozhou for a few days?"

"I wonder how many days it will take for Brother Boling?"

"Can you do it in one week?"

"It's a little difficult for a week, right?" Tang Keqin understood, and he said it clearly enough.

"A week, there is no condition. If you can't do it, I will change to someone else. There are many troops removed from the Five War Zone. It is not difficult to find a reinforcements that will block the Japanese army for a week."

"Most of the troops in the Fifth War Zone evacuated from western Shandong. There were few troops in Huainan south of Longhai Road. Apart from the three armies of the Guangxi clique, only two troops with heavy casualties were left. Suxian could not be defended for long, and it was estimated that they would be captured by the Japanese army soon..."

Tang Keqin's meaning is very obvious, which is to tell Xue Boling that if the Longhai line cannot be defended, it will sooner or later fall into the hands of the Japanese. The most important thing is to retreat the fifth main force in Xuzhou to avoid being surrounded and eaten by the Japanese army. (~^~)
Chapter completed!