Due to the huge disparity between the enemy and ourselves, half an hour later, Qiu Qingquan saw that his subordinates could no longer hold on and shouted, "Retreat, let's retreat quickly!!"
The seven or eight surviving tanks quickly retreated and fled. The infantry battalion commander watched Qiu Qingquan escape, and saw that most of the anti-tank guns behind him had stopped roaring. He shook his head sadly and indignantly, stood on the fortification and shouted, "Brother
Guys, the Japs are coming. Although we have temporarily lost this time, the war is not over yet. We will counterattack one day. We bought those tanks from abroad with great difficulty. We cannot throw them away. Give them to those who brought the seeds.
Come on, entangle these little Japanese and let our main force retreat. One day, the brothers of the 200 Division will avenge us. Kill the enemy and serve the country!!" As he said, he was the first to go to the Japanese tank with an explosive pack.
The front line rushed forward.
"The battalion commander is dying. What are we so afraid of? Come on!" Several officers shouted, grabbing their guns and shooting wildly at the Japanese troops, hoping to attract Japanese firepower.
"Huh? The Chinese troops over there are very powerful, attack me!!" Xiangyue Qingji waved his hand and said.
Qiu Qingquan looked at the position that disappeared in the fire, and said with tears to the communications soldier next to him, "Send a report to Xue Yue, my mission is completed!" After saying that, he threw his hat to the ground, held his head and cried.
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Except for Qiu Qingquan, no one up and down the 200 Division knew that this time the 200 Division was just a bait.
On a hillside more than ten miles away, Xue Yue habitually held on to his white gloves and looked at the map.
"Report. The 200th Division sent a telegram. The main force of the Japanese mechanical troops has been lured to Sanyi Village by us." A staff officer said with a salute.
Xue Yue smiled and said, "I wonder if the committee will chase me with a scepter if they know I made such a bet."
Wu Yizhi next to him sighed, "You dare to use the most elite 200 Division as bait, Boling, you are really brave."
Xue Yue chuckled and said, "The 200 Division, which is the most elite in our eyes, will probably not even be looked at in the eyes of the Japanese army. They have more than 300 tanks. If they are combined with infantry, artillery and aircraft, we will not be able to resist them at all."
Can’t live.”
Wu Yizhi asked strangely, "How can you be so sure that the Japanese army will bring tanks to attack Sanyi Village?"
Xue Yue nodded at Lan Feng and said, "Lan Feng has been building fortifications for two or three years, and Hu Lian is here again. I am very optimistic about this Hu Lian. He is very good at fighting defensive battles. The Japanese army cannot defeat them at once, and they are attacking the city."
During the battle, the role of tanks was greatly reduced. On the contrary, there were tanks from our army here in Sanyi Village, which could just be used to fight tanks. Neither Kozuki Seiji nor Doihara Kenji would let go of the tanks we desperately lacked.
, naturally they will use tanks for quick attacks. Okay, now that the main force of the Japanese army’s mechanical troops is here, let’s surround them and order other troops to immediately surround Sanyi Village!!!”
Xiangyue Qingsi commanded the troops to clean the battlefield. Although the tank troops of the National Army were severely damaged, Xiangyue Qingsi's tank troops also suffered heavy losses. Nearly forty tanks lost their combat capabilities, and more than twenty
The vehicle suffered varying degrees of injuries and is undergoing emergency repairs.
Watching night gradually fall, Xiangyue Qingji ordered the troops to cook on the spot and prepare to spend the night here.
And in the night, countless figures were surging.
"Quick, quick, quick, follow closely. No one is allowed to untie the rope. If you find a whole class sitting and being shot, hurry up, keep your voice down, and leave!!" The officers directed the troops to trek through mountains and rivers under the moonlight. In order to prevent
A spy in the army leaked secrets. Xue Yue ordered all the soldiers to be connected with ropes and move one class at a time. The officers had to go together with three people even to go to the toilet. This made it impossible for the Japanese spies hidden in the army to send information to Xiangyue Qingji.
, by the time Xiangyue Qingji received the information, the sky was already dark.
"How is it possible? How is it possible? Which commander of the National Army is this? How could he use the most precious tank troops as bait!!" Xiangyue Qingji looked at the muddy Nationalist officer in front of him and said in disbelief.
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"Tell me, who are you? Are you a spy sent by the Chinese?" Xiangyue Qingji grabbed the officer and shouted.
"Report, I am Seisaburo Koizumi, the intelligence officer of the Imperial Japanese Empire. I have been hiding in the China Army for eight years. I took the risk to come here because of the emergency. Please send a message to T&T High School for verification. My code is 87992."
The officer endured the pain and spoke in a pure Japanese voice.
"Go, quickly go and generate electricity to verify." Xiangyue Qingji still didn't want to believe this fact. "Also, send electricity to the aviation force, and send out scouts. Investigate the situation immediately."
In less than ten minutes, the Signal Corps will come and report, "Report, a call from THT, 87992 is a senior agent lurking in the National Army. His physical appearance is 163cm tall, small yellow teeth, and the third lower back tooth is missing."
Seisaburo Koizumi quickly opened his mouth, and Seiji Kozuki saw at a glance that he was indeed missing a tooth.
At this time, another signal soldier came in and reported, "Report, a large number of Chinese troops suddenly appeared between our army and Lanfeng, and the numbers of two armies have been discovered."
Xiangyue Qingji still couldn't believe it, "How is it possible? How could they come so fast and there are so many of them."
Here I want to talk about Xue Yue, who was regarded as the God of War by later generations.
Xue Yue is a Cantonese. He was born after the Sino-Japanese War. Because of the national crisis, his father hoped that his son could resist the enemy like Yue Fei, so he named him Xue Yangyue. Later, he changed his name to Xue Yue. Xue Yue practiced martial arts since he was a child and entered Huangpu in 1907.
Army Academy (different from the later Whampoa Military Academy), participated in the Ge Ming Dynasty, and made many military exploits. He once protected Sun Yat-sen and Soong Meiling in Guangzhou in times of crisis.
But what’s interesting is that Xue Yue’s colleague in Guangzhou was Ye Ting, and the starting unit was the Ou Zhen Army that surrendered after the Nanchang Uprising. What’s even more interesting is that before April 12, Xue Yue even approached Chen Duxiu, hoping that the Red Party could use Chiang as an intermediary
Fang Ming was arrested, but was rejected.
After the Nanchang Uprising, Xue Yue took in Ou Zhen's troops, and relied on them to first defect to Zhang Fakui and then to Wang Jingwei during the Guangzhou Incident, and again to Zhang Fakui in the Jiang-Gui War. As a result, less than a thousand soldiers were beaten by Chiang's intermediaries.
He finally took refuge in Chen Cheng before he rose again. At this time, it was already the Jinggangshan period, and it was also the Wang Ming Bogu period.
Xue Yue took the opportunity to rise up and defeated the Red 1st, Red 3rd, and Red 5th Legions. Later, he was defeated by the earliest Red Young Pioneers, the Red Youth International Division, and forcibly defeated this army that originally had few guns.
Everyone had a gun, and the firepower was greatly increased, and the Red Army was "escorted" all the way through the 25,000-mile Long March.
At this time, Xue Yue had become a lieutenant general and an effective general under Chen Cheng. He also initially gained the trust of Jiang's intermediary because of his vigorous anti-Red action.
Xue Yue regarded this Battle of Lanfeng as a turning point in his fame. At the end of the Battle of Songhu, the fever that he fell into the water had already spread among the army. Naturally, there were many gossips, and it was best to stop their mouths.
The only way is to use military achievements to talk about things. This time, Xue Yue mobilized everyone under the guise of being trapped in Lanfeng City. It can be said to be extremely risky.
Xiangyue Qingji looked at the photo dropped by the plane with an extremely solemn expression. In the photo, he could see densely packed Nationalist troops marching and repairing emergency fortifications.
"Your Excellency, Commander, since the Nationalist Army is not ready yet, let's rush out and meet with the division commander first." A staff officer beside him said anxiously.
Xiangyue Qingji had calmed down at this time and said, "What are you afraid of? We have more than two hundred tanks and thousands of warriors here. Although China is huge, there is nowhere we can't go?"
After speaking, Xiangyue Qingsi clicked on the map and said, "Xue Yue must want to block the connection between us and Lan Feng first, so the main force must be concentrated between the two of us. He is planning to use flesh and blood to block our chariot, but he
I underestimate the chariot. I want to see if Xue Boling can stop this horse and Pingchuan!!"
At this time, loud cheers suddenly came from outside the room.
Xiangyue Qingji walked out of the door and asked, "What's wrong? What's the fuss about?"
A staff officer said excitedly, "Lanfeng has been captured. The division commander sent a telegram saying that Lanfeng City has been captured by our army."
"How did it happen? Why was Lanfeng City breached?" Xue Yue was sweating anxiously as he patted the map. "Didn't Hu Lian say that he was invincible in defending the city? How come the city was breached in just two days?"
Wu Yizhi shook his head and said, "Hu Lian sent people here, let them speak for themselves."
An officer with a dark and bloody face was helped in by two people. Xue Yue asked in surprise, "How did it become like this?"
The officer burst into tears immediately, and the tears turned his face black and red, making him look even more miserable.
"General Xue, for the sake of the party and the country, please save our division quickly. The Japanese artillery is really powerful." After the officer finished speaking, he wanted to pull Xue Yue's clothes.
Xue Yue flashed and asked, "Tell me first how you lost your Lan Feng."
The officer spoke slowly.
——Lan Fengcheng
"Boom!" After another ball of fire, several Japanese soldiers slowly got up and walked forward.
"Quick, shoot." In a nearby private house, several National Army soldiers saw the Japanese army less than thirty meters away from them, and they quickly opened fire. The bullets from the Mauser rifle instantly passed through the Japs' heads.
, leaving a pink mixture on the ground.
Upon seeing this, several Japanese soldiers quickly got down and fired back in the direction of the shooting.
About a hundred meters away, a soldier holding a telescope said to the soldier holding two flags next to him, "Quick, the gun just fired is twenty meters away from ten o'clock."
The soldier waved the red and yellow flags and started waving them behind him.
"Yo Xi, correct your position!!" The soldiers on the artillery position looked at the flag and began to convey the order. Within three minutes, three heavy artillery shells hit the house where the National Army was staying just now. Only countless rubbles were seen.
Flying into the sky, when the Japanese army advanced again, there was no movement in this house.
"Master, the Japanese are attacking us bit by bit with artillery. We have no power to fight back. What should we do?" A regimental commander hurriedly ran into the headquarters and shouted to Hu Lian.
Hu Lian put down his pen and said, "What can we do? If we don't have artillery to fight back, we can only get beaten. At this rate, how long can we sustain it?"
A staff officer said, "Now the Japanese army divides artillery into more than 30 groups, and supports them separately according to small teams. Almost every minute, one of our firepower points is unplugged. I think it can last for a day at most."
Hu Lian pressed the baton hard into a curve and cursed, "Damn, the Japs are so bullying. Let the brothers rush out and get in trouble with the Japs!!"
"Division commander, the Chinese troops have rushed out." The communications soldier said to Kenji Doihara who was at a high place.
Kenji Doihara nodded and said with a smile, "The Chinese people still have some brains, but fortunately we have been prepared to withdraw the troops."
He only saw the Japanese machine guns quickly occupying the commanding heights, firing "click, click, click", and grenades firing non-stop. Hu Lian gritted his teeth as he watched the soldiers he trained with his own hands keep falling.
After persisting in getting up, falling down again, until he could no longer move, Hu Lian felt extremely aggrieved.
"It would be great if we also had these weapons, if we also had cannons." Hu Lian slowly put down the telescope and said, "Order the troops to stop the counterattack. The Japanese have long been on guard against our attack. This Kenji Doihara is not simple.
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After Hu Lian's troops persisted for two days, they were finally defeated by Doihara Kenji's combined infantry and artillery tactics, and they withdrew from Lanfeng City with less than two thousand defeated soldiers.
"In this case, we can't blame Hu Lian. The Japanese's artillery fire is indeed scary." Wu Yizhi shook his head and said.
Xue Yue tugged on his gloves and said, "To deal with heavy artillery, our only way is to use the air force. Let's go to the power generation committee and ask for air force support."
——Kaifeng
When Jiang Zhongyi read Xue Yue's telegram, he almost lost his breath. The tanks of the 200 Division were the only ones in the entire National Army, and they were lost like this. The angry Jiang Zhijiang just wanted to beat Xue Yue up.
"Don't be angry, Commissioner. These fourteenth divisions are so elite. If they can all be wiped out, they will have the combat power of several 200 divisions. You see, Commissioner, Xue Yue has deployed the 27th and 64th armies to Sanyi Village and
Between Lanfeng and Lanfeng, the 88th and 87th divisions are coming, so our chances are actually very good." said Chen Builei, who accompanied Jiang Jie to Kaifeng.
Agent Jiang nodded and said, "Okay, let's take a gamble!! Order the air force to cooperate with Xue Yue to eliminate the 14th Division."
——Sanyi Village
After receiving the telegram from Kenji Doihara, Kozuki Seiji laughed and said, "Okay, once Lan seals the city, our army will have a lot to do. Didn't the Sixteenth Division end the battle in Xuzhou? Send them a telegram immediately and let them know."
They came to Lanfeng via the Yellow River to participate in the war, and then sent electricity to Shouyi in the temple, asking him to fully support our fight to Kaifeng."
The staff officer next to him asked, "What about Xue Yue's troops?"
Xiangyue Qingsi said with a chuckle, "Now that Lan Fengcheng has freed his hands, and we are attacked from both sides, I want to see whether it is his shield that is thicker or the tip of my spear!!"
——Yan'an
Jiang Cheng shook his head and said to Chairman Mao, "Lan Feng is still lost. Chairman, I think Kaifeng is in danger."
Chairman Mao smoked a cigarette, closed his eyes tightly, and said slowly, "What do you think?"
Jiang Cheng immediately said, "I think we might as well publicize it first and prepare the people of Henan. If Chiang Kai-shek really wants to open Huayuankou, the people will not suffer such heavy casualties."
Chairman Mao shook his head and said, "We cannot publicize in advance. This is different from Nanjing. Many people have premonitions about Nanjing, and the Yellow River matter is top secret. If we publicize it and the White Party knows about it, we will destroy the United Front of the Anti-Japanese War."
The label will be taken off, and if the Japanese find out, the label of being a collaborator will be taken off."
Jiang Cheng suddenly felt a little troubled and asked, "Chairman, what do you think we should do?"
