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    Chapter 253: The situation suddenly changes (please vote for me!)

    Li Guoyao is confident about the current battle, but others are not so optimistic. Whether it is Commander-in-Chief Zhang in Bengbu City or Liu Shiyi on the Guangming Front, they all feel great pressure.

    Especially Liu Shiyi in Guangming City. In the past two days, battle reports have been received from the three divisions of his 31st Army. Without exception, all three divisions suffered heavy casualties. If Li Guoyao hadn't kept saying there was no problem, he would have almost died.  I can't hold on anymore.

    The two-day attack by the Japanese army has caused the 31st Army to pay a heavy price. The 131st Division has more than 7,000 people and less than 5,000 people are left at this time. The 135th Division has more than 6,000 people and only more than 3,000 people are left. One division was defeated.  A brigade was formed, and the 188th Division also suffered heavy casualties, with more than 7,000 men and only 5,000 men left. If Li Guoyao's troops could not complete their work within two days, they would all retreat, and Bengbu City would be in trouble by then.

    Although the general headquarters in the rear has sent telegrams to the troops on the front line saying that reinforcements are on the way, Liu Shiyi knows very well that this is just to appease the soldiers on the front line. What kind of reinforcements are there at this time?

    As the lieutenant general, Liu Shiyi is very aware of the current situation. There are fighting everywhere. There are not many troops left in either the fifth theater or the third theater.

    Let¡¯s not talk about the fifth theater. First of all, it is too far away, and water from far away cannot quench our thirst. In addition, the Japanese army now aims to open up the Jinpu line, and the fifth theater is the first to bear the brunt.

    Life in the Third Theater is not easy now. The Japanese Sixth Division is eyeing Hefei. The main fleet has also arrived in Anqing. In addition, the loss of Quanjiao has made Feidong directly face the Japanese artillery fire. How can there be any troops?  Reinforce them.

    Commander Gu does not have many troops available anymore, and even if there are reinforcements, they will not exceed one division.

    "But there are 40,000 Japs attacking the front line of Tianzhen. Not to mention a division, even an army may not be able to defeat them. So their only hope now is Li Guoyao's side.

    However, just when Liu Shiyi and others were in a dilemma, they suddenly received a telegram from Li Guoyao from the Dingyuan front line, asking them to gradually withdraw troops from Guangming and other places starting tomorrow morning, and then attract the Japanese troops to move closer to Bengbu, no later than  Tomorrow afternoon, the main force of the Japanese army must arrive outside Bengbu.

    After receiving the telegram from Li Guoyao, everyone was shocked. What kind of plan was this? This was not included in the plan mentioned before!

    In fact, this has always been the case, but Li Guoyao did not tell them clearly before. The reason is that even if he said it, Liu Shiyi and others would not agree. After all, it would be too dangerous.

    Of course, Liu Shiyi and others may not agree now, but it doesn't matter, the choice of the matter has been handed over to them, and it is up to them how to choose.

    As for Li Guoyao, what he can do now is to destroy the 101st Division first. If the 101st Division can be destroyed, and Liu Shiyi and others follow his plan, then those in the 13th Division will also  Can't run.

    Commander-in-Chief Zhang and Liu Shiyi quickly sent a telegram to inquire about the situation. Li Guoyao also told the truth and did not force them to do anything. Anyway, everything was up to them. Then Li Guoyao shifted his attention to Quanjiao.

    However, what Li Guoyao didn't expect was that as soon as they ended contact with the 31st Army, something happened to the defenders in the bright direction.

    At one o¡¯clock in the morning on February 26, the main force of the Japanese 103 Brigade suddenly launched a surprise attack on the Guangming defenders.

    Since the Japanese army is not usually good at night fighting, the reason is that the Japanese aviation and artillery cannot exert their combat effectiveness at night, so the defenders are not on guard, but they did not expect that the Japs would choose to conduct a surprise attack late at night.

    In order to achieve the effect of a surprise attack, Yamaguchi Chongji directly sent out all two tank squadrons in his hands to join the surprise attack force.

    When a brigade of Japanese troops suddenly appeared in front of the Guangming peripheral position with the cooperation of two squadrons of tank troops, the troops of the defending 131st Division were completely stunned.

    There were no surprises. The 131st Division suffered a disastrous defeat in this battle. The entire division and the troops directly under the 31st Army suffered heavy losses. Guangming City was lost in less than two hours. In addition to less than 2,000 people evacuated, 4,000 remained.  Many people died in the battle.

    The 103rd Brigade did not stay for a moment after conquering Guangming. Except for leaving a brigade of troops to clear out the remaining enemies in the city, the main force marched towards Bengbu overnight.

    When the news reached Bengbu, the entire former enemy headquarters was shocked.

    Once the light is lost, Fengyang will not be able to hold on. Once these two satellite cities are lost, Bengbu will also be lost.The countdown to fall has entered.

    Commander-in-Chief Zhang then personally called Li Guoyao to inquire about countermeasures. The answer he received was to abandon Fengyang and withdraw the entire army to Bengbu to defend it.  Moreover, Li Guoyao directly told Commander Zhang that as long as they were given two days to hold on, the little devil would be finished.

    Although Commander-in-Chief Zhang didn't quite believe it, he had no other choice at this point. Anyway, he had already prepared to defend Bengbu and even decided to live or die with Bengbu. Then he no longer hesitated and immediately ordered the 131st Division and  The 188th Division immediately retreated to Bengbu.

    Without the obstruction of the Chinese army, the main force of Yamaguchi Ojiji and Numata Shigetoku, totaling more than 10,000 people, arrived at the Bengbu front line at around 5 a.m. on February 27, and set up artillery at the south gate and east gate of Bengbu in preparation.  Siege the city.

    When the news came, the Japanese Army Command in Chu County cheered, and everyone felt that victory was just around the corner.

    Of course, the only one who is unhappy is probably Yin Dongzhengxi. Yin Dongzhengxi, who was resting in Cangzhen, felt a little jealous after receiving the news. He originally planned to capture Dingyuan today and rush to Bengbu overnight. He wanted to do the first  A person who enters Bengbu City wants to take the first victory in this battle.

    In the end, he did not expect that Yamaguchi Chonger would actually launch a surprise attack overnight, conquer Guangming, and arrive at Bengbu City while they were sleeping.

    In this way, the Yamaguchi Division had an advantage, and their 101st Division was too late anyway.

    However, what he didn¡¯t expect was that just when he was angrily preparing to assemble his troops and rush to Dingyuan, suddenly the troops left behind in Quanjiao City sent a telegram saying that Quanjiao was suddenly raided by the Chinese army.  The opponent not only had a large number of artillery, but was also familiar with the terrain outside Quanjiao City, and captured the outer fortifications of the north gate in less than half an hour.

    Not only that, there seemed to be people in the city responding to the troops outside the city. The headquarters of the garrison was attacked just now. Although the guard troops had defeated the opponent, it also made the troops in the city dare not use their full strength to deal with the enemy troops outside the city.

    All in all, the situation in Quanjiao is very bad now. According to the garrison, if the fight continues like this, Quanjiao City may fall in a day at most.

    After receiving the news, Yin Dongzheng was surprised and angry. It didn't matter that he had been robbed of his credit, but now the Chinese people wanted to return to attack Quanjiao. Once Quanjiao was conquered by the opponent, all his previous efforts would be defeated.  The water is gone.

    More importantly, a few days ago, the front army headquarters sent a telegram saying that it was preparing to use troops against Hefei, so it was decided to use Quanjiao as a logistics base for the front-line troops. Therefore, so many supplies will be shipped to Quanjiao in the next few days.  Jiao, these are all prepared for the attack on Hefei.

    Once Quanjiao falls into the hands of the Chinese army, this batch of supplies will be finished. Therefore, both public and private, we must prevent the Chinese army from counterattacking Quanjiao.

    After thinking about it again and again, Yin Dongzhengxi immediately called Chuxian County to ask for instructions from Tanaka Shizuichi and asked his 101st Division to immediately go south to reinforce Quanjiao.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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