Chapter 110: How did he do it
Listening to the news from Dai Yunong, Jiang Guangtou's expression changed a little gloomy in an instant, angry, shocked, disbelief, etc., and annihilated the 14th Division. This is indeed a good thing, a great thing for the whole country to celebrate, but why did this happen by the 99th Army? Instead of the Central Army's troops?
A few minutes ago, he received the order of the Central Army to retreat without authorization. The angry bald head of Jiang shouted that he would deal with Long Muhan's military law. But a few minutes later, he received another news that the Central Army ran away and suddenly a miscellaneous army ran out to destroy the 14th Division.
This is indeed a great thing for the country, but for Baldy Jiang, it is undoubtedly Su Dao slapped him in the face fiercely. But soon, Baldy Jiang discovered some suspicious points in the information, and secretly hated that he was too anxious and had no time to figure out the facts.
"Six hours? Our 200,000 army has not defeated the 14th Division for so many days. Su Dao only took six hours to wipe out the 14th Division. Yunnong, is this news true or false?" Jiang Guangtou asked with a frown.
"It should be true. The student confirmed with Lanfeng's subordinates at San, and the answers he got were all six hours. Since Su Dao strictly controlled the battlefield and my people did not have the chance to enter the battlefield, it is still impossible to confirm how they did it." Dai Yunong replied respectfully.
Although he was reluctant to believe that this was true, in fact, his subordinates did report to him like this, and he also confirmed it repeatedly. If the information was really fake, then he could only say that his subordinates deceived him. However, Dai Yunong did not think about this. Everyone in the Military Affairs Bureau had received rigorous training. Even if he wanted to betray the organization, he would not deceive people on such information.
"My mother, is this Su Dao really so capable?" Jiang Guangtou touched his head and said to himself in depression.
Immediately, Jiang Guangtou grabbed the old-fashioned phone on his desk and called He Jingzhi directly. Since Su Dao wiped out the 14th Division, Lan Feng was like returning to China. The previous strategy could still be carried out. Now he wants to urgently re-transfer the troops to the front line to prevent the battlefield in eastern Henan from falling into a embarrassing situation without support.
At the same time, Jiang Guangtou also signaled Dai Yunong to leave. Dai Yunong respectfully saluted and then left Jiang Guangtou's office. However, what Jiang Guangtou didn't expect was that Dai Yunong had just left the office for less than half an hour before he turned back. At this time, he happened to discuss the war with He Jingzhi.
"Yunnong, is there anything wrong?" Jiang Guangtou frowned again. He knew Dai Yunnong's character well. He would never disturb him one after another. Moreover, at this critical moment, while asking, Jiang Guangtou couldn't help but ask a big question mark in his heart. Did something happen again?
"Principal, my subordinates just sent a telegram. The 99th Army began to retreat north of the Yellow River. It seemed like they wanted to withdraw from Lanfeng. And my subordinates saw with their own eyes that the 99th Army built a floating bridge on the Yellow River, and there was nothing there a few days ago." Dai Yunnong replied carefully again. Now he discovered that anything about the 99th Army was unscrupulous. Although the principal did not value the 99th Army, this does not mean that he could ignore the information about the 99th Army, and he could not be too excited when rewarding, otherwise he would suffer a loss.
At this time, Jiang Guangtou's expression changed one after another, and the anger in his heart arose. He was still discussing how to launch a counterattack battle next. This time he also included the 99th Army in the counterattack force sequence, and also planned to let the 99th Army take the lead. Although it was a bit of the intention of consuming the 99th Army, it still had to shock the generals of the Central Army and make them feel a sense of crisis.
But who would have thought that before his plan was formulated, Su Dao ran away there. And he ran so simply. Now the Japanese army's follow-up support troops must be on the way to Lanfeng. Even if he immediately ordered the troops to rush to Lanfeng, it was probably the Japanese army that arrived first.
‘Bang!’
Jiang Guangtou threw the water cup on the table heavily to the ground, and the hot water inside was sprinkled all over the floor. With previous experience, Jiang Guangtou has now replaced the cup with steel in order to prevent the cup from falling again and wasting property. Now even Jiang Guangtou has begun to save money, and it is conceivable how nervous the central government should be.
"Immediately send a telegram to Su Dao, saying that he dares to retreat, I will kill him, and ask him to nail it to Lanfeng for me to not allow the Japanese army to cross Lanfeng." Jiang Guangtou shouted loudly. He could not continue to endure the anger in his heart. Su Dao was too much.
Su Dao's successive retreat without authorization had long caused dissatisfaction among Jiang Guangtou and a group of senior generals. There were even many defeats in battles, and they all put the blame on Su Dao. If Su Dao hadn't retreat without authorization and refused to work, he would probably have won many battles.
Besides, in the late stage of the Battle of Songhu, Su Dao was nailed there tightly. At the beginning of this battle, the Baltimore Jiang had a good impression of Su Dao. With the previous record of retreating on the battlefield of Songhu, Su Dao's performance this time was really remarkable, but no one expected that Su Dao was still as virtuous as he beat the enemy and ran away.
The most important thing is the battle in Linyi. It was originally very hoped that the Fifth Division of Seishiro Itagaki was wiped out in a short period of time. Unexpectedly, Su Dao retreated, which caused Zhang Zhizhong and Pang Bingxun to lose their troops and generals to be wiped out. If it weren't for running fast in the end, it would probably be that the Isogaki Division and the remnants of Itagaki Division might have severely damaged their two troops after they met.
"I telegram Gui Yongqing, asking him to garrison Lanfeng for me as soon as possible, and be sure to enter Lanfeng before the Japanese reinforcements arrived, otherwise the military law would deal with it." After a long time, Jiang Guangtou finally calmed down. He realized the seriousness of the problem and Lanfeng must not be lost.
In order to cover Li Zongren's retreat from Xuzhou, Xue Yue was still fighting with the Japanese army in the eastern part of Henan. If the rear was unstable at this time, wouldn't Xue Yue's retreat be completely cut off? Although he was not incompatible with Xue Yue, Jiang Baldy would not give up Xue Yue at this time, so he had to protect Xue Yue's retreat no matter what.
(In his later diary, Chiang wrote that Xue Yue was the second in Bai Chongxi. Xue Yue, who was born in the Guangdong clan, had been opposed to Chiang all his life, just like Bai Chongxi. Some people might say that I was nonsense. Xue Yue had such a high official position and his relationship with Chiang was not too bad. Will he oppose Chiang? But in fact, this is the case. Although Xue Yue had a high official position, he was not a direct lineman of the Central Army after all, but his relationship with Chiang was relatively delicate.)
Chapter completed!