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Chapter 402: Chief Li¡¯s worries

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    Huaibei. Baishan Town. The temporary residence of the Fifth War Zone Chief¡¯s Department.

    Commander Li has not slept a wink all day and night. What happened during this period is like a slide show, which makes him, a veteran of many battles, a little unable to cope with it.

    The National Army achieved an unprecedented victory in the Taierzhuang Victory a month ago. They sacrificed their lives in the Fifth Theater and killed and injured more than 20,000 Japanese troops. This greatly encouraged the Chinese army, which had been suffering from defeat, and also inspired the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Chairman Chiang Kai-shek.

    Therefore, the man in Wuhan city thought that since he, Old Li, could fight, it would be better to give him more troops and use Xuzhou to fight a few more "Taierzhuang victories".

    The partial victory made Chairman Chiang's head and body feel hot. In an instant, hundreds of thousands of troops were ordered to march to Xuzhou. He even went to Xuzhou in person for pre-war mobilization. All frontline officers above the rank of lieutenant general and division commander arrived.  Xuzhou listened to the instructions.

    "But Chairman Chiang's enthusiasm was so hot that it gave Chief Li a fever, which made him a little bit difficult to bear. After all, he knew his own affairs, and Chief Li was not sure whether Xuzhou could fight in a big game.

    But regardless of whether Chief Li was uneasy or not, the national troops from all walks of life arrived as promised. After the 75th Army and the 92nd Army arrived in Xuzhou, on April 20, Fan Songfu's 46th Army and Lu Han's 60th Army were also transferred to Xuzhou.

    With so many troops obtained at once, Commander Li immediately had enough troops. He immediately transferred the two armies to both sides of the canal to strengthen the defense forces in this area.

    Soon Li Yannian¡¯s 2nd Army and a division of the Jin Army¡¯s Shang Zhen Department also arrived in Xuzhou and joined the Eastern Front.  Tan Daoyuan's 22nd Army also followed and joined the defense line in the Weishan Lake area in northwest Xuzhou.  Then Shi Yousan's 69th Army, Feng Zhian's 77th Army, and Liu Ruming's 68th Army also arrived in Xuzhou.

    In less than a month, the reinforcements sent by Chairman Chiang were almost 200,000, and the total number of the original troops in the 5th theater was no less than 600,000.

    Most of the troops were gathered in the area near Xuzhou, which was really overcrowded.

    And his old partner Bai Chongxi called from the Hankou Military Headquarters and happily told Chief Li that the Chairman was continuing to mobilize military reinforcements.

    Chief Li didn¡¯t know whether to laugh or cry. He felt helpless. Thinking of his relationship with Lao Bai a month ago, Chief Li felt quite speechless.

    When Lao Bai told him after the relevant meeting of the Military Commission that a large number of reinforcements would arrive in Xuzhou in the near future, Chief Li asked: "Why did the Chairman transfer so many troops?"

    Bai Chongxi replied: "The Chairman wants you to expand the results of Taierzhuang and fight the little devil in Xuzhou!"

    Chief Li smiled bitterly and shook his head, feeling relieved.

    I remember when I first entered the 5th theater, Chiang Kai-shek went everywhere complaining about poverty and only gave him some low-quality miscellaneous troops. There was no elite Central Army. Otherwise, the results of the Taierzhuang victory might have been greater.

    But today the fighter plane has passed. If you put these 600,000 people in Xuzhou, the center of the Great Plains, aren't they just waiting to be eaten by the powerful mechanized Japanese army?

    Xuzhou has been a place of hundreds of battles since ancient times. There is no problem in fighting a big battle, but if the little devils make a desperate effort to gather all the main forces to fight the Chinese army, it will be difficult.

    However, both Chairman Chiang and the commanders at all levels on the Xuzhou front felt that the Japs did not have the courage. After all, the Japanese army would have to give up all the results achieved in the early stage and make a desperate effort to concentrate all the main forces.

    However, they all underestimated the Japanese army's eagerness to engage in a decisive battle with the Chinese army. After the little devils learned that more than 600,000 Chinese troops had gathered in Xuzhou, the whole base camp was overjoyed. They immediately concentrated the main force to advance north and south together, vowing to  The hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops were wiped out near Xuzhou.

    In fact, what they didn¡¯t know was that during that period, the Japanese Army Command was also immersed in a state of depression and misery.

    In the Battle of Taierzhuang, whether the Japanese army was wiped out more than 10,000 people or the national army boasted of more than 30,000 people, it was the first major defeat for the famous Japanese Army in decades after the Russo-Japanese War.

    Precisely because it was the first time, the Army could not lose this face no matter what, and did not dare to face the facts no matter what.

    So the big guys in the base camp tried their best to defend themselves. They controlled public opinion in the country and bombarded them in turn, trying their best to tell the Japanese people that this was not a defeat, but just a small mistake by the commander, and a small mistake.  The remnants of the 5th and 10th Divisions were by no means defeated and fled, but made new transfers.

    "However, the "mistake" in Taierzhuang brought shame to the Japanese Army, and also caused the Supreme Emperor, the Supreme Emperor of Japan's base camp, to suffer great humiliation in front of the world.

    In anger, His Majesty the Emperor changed 2On the 16th, the imperial meeting decided not to launch an attack on new areas before August. It was decided to quickly increase the number of troops to China on a large scale and launch a greater attack, vowing to avenge Taierzhuang and avenge the great humiliation.

    Fighters soon appeared.  Just after the Taierzhuang battle, the frontline commander of the Japanese invaders telegraphed to the base camp: There is a powerful group of Chinese troops in the Xuzhou area. According to reliable intelligence, this group has about 50 divisions and more than 600,000 people, almost all of whom are Chiang Kai-shek's elite troops.

    The Army Command was immediately overjoyed and thought this was a rare opportunity to avenge Taierzhuang.

    General Gen Sugiyama, the prime minister of the land, immediately reported to the emperor and strongly advocated launching the Battle of Xuzhou.

    In the memorial submitted to the imperial court, Sugiyama Gengami said: "A severe blow to the Chinese troops concentrated on Xuzhou can have a huge effect in dampening the enemy's will to resist. Therefore, the Army is preparing to carry out an annihilation operation against Xuzhou. Since the enemy  It is almost the elite main force of the Chinese army, and it is already in a state of isolation. Our army should seize the opportunity to use large forces and fight on a large scale to completely annihilate this enemy in one fell swoop. I believe that as long as the goal of annihilating this enemy force is achieved,  Strategic intentions can use force to resolve the incident in China, prompt the Chiang regime to surrender and take a decisive step, and can also reverse the negative influence of our army in Taierzhuang."

    When the emperor heard the news, he was also overjoyed. He believed that this was a great opportunity to curb the arrogance of the Chinese army's ongoing Taierzhuang victory propaganda, and immediately decided to encircle and annihilate the Chinese army in Xuzhou.

    And asked the army to achieve huge results at all costs, so that no one of the 50 divisions of the Chinese army in Xuzhou area could slip through the net, and strive to annihilate them all.

    Following the Japanese Emperor's decision, Prime Minister Sugiyama wanted to achieve a quick victory and not miss this golden opportunity. On the same day, he sent an order to General Terauchi, Commander-in-Chief of the North China Front, and General Tian Shunroku, Commander-in-Chief of the Central China Expeditionary Force, to order the 84th Department of the Army of the Base Camp.  Order: "The base camp attempts to defeat the enemy near Xuzhou. The commander of the North China Front Army should use a powerful force to defeat the enemy near Xuzhou and occupy the area east of Lanfeng and north of the Longhai Line. The commander of the Central China Expeditionary Army should use a force  The commander of the North China Front occupied the Jinpu line south of Xuzhou and near Luzhou"

    In order to ensure the victory of the Xuzhou annihilation battle, Prime Minister Sugiyama dispatched a "base camp dispatch team" composed of the Chief of Operations of the Ministry of War, Major General Hashimoto Gunma and other senior advisers, to the Xuzhou front line to guide the battle on the spot.

    Subsequently, the main force of the Japanese army of 200,000 to 300,000 was assembled from North and Central China and marched towards Xuzhou. By mid-to-late April, the Japanese army had assembled as many as 13 elite divisions.

    ¡°Then these elite Japanese troops were equipped with various heavy weapons, supplemented by hundreds of aircraft. They adopted the tactics of advancing from north to south and outflanking, and launched an encirclement attack on Xuzhou in six directions, in an attempt to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Chinese army near Xuzhou with a quick battle.

    At this time, Chairman Chiang Kai-shek in Wuhan City was still immersed in the heat wave of propaganda and immersed in the excitement of the Taierzhuang victory, and was not yet fully aware of the Japanese offensive intentions.

    So he ordered all the troops in the Xuzhou area to carry forward the glorious spirit of the bloody battle at Taierzhuang, resolutely separate themselves to block the invading enemies, and achieve several more great victories at Taierzhuang through the Xuzhou battle.

    As a result, in less than a month, the Japanese army completed the encirclement tactics of hundreds of thousands of troops on the Xuzhou front line, and was advancing towards Xuzhou from all sides.

    It was at this time that Chairman Chiang suddenly came to his senses. At this time, he finally understood that the Japanese army¡¯s intention was to encircle and annihilate his main force, his 600,000-strong army.  At this time, his heated brain was disrupted by another fire, and he began to feel cold all over.

    Then the chairman of the committee busily ordered people to call He Yingqin, Chen Cheng and Bai Chongxi to study countermeasures.

    Now that the Japanese army's intentions have been exposed, it is obvious that holding Xuzhou any longer is tantamount to a decisive battle with the Japanese on the Great Plains, and it is tantamount to triggering a conflagration.  A decisive battle with the Chinese army is exactly what the Japanese army wants.

    If these 50 divisions in Xuzhou are eaten by the Japanese, what else will they use to fight the war?  Niang Xipi!

    Subsequently, the Military Commission ordered the troops on the Xuzhou frontline to retreat immediately. We will not fight the Xuzhou Battle!

    But at this time, the Japanese army had already reached the Xuzhou front line, and the Japanese army on the southern front had also captured Bengbu. It was not easy to withdraw.

    Fortunately, Chief Li arranged the situation properly. Despite several setbacks, he was able to evacuate hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops from Xuzhou before the Japanese army captured Xuzhou. However, at this time, the main force of the Japanese army besieged Mengcheng, trying to cut off the retreat of the Fifth Theater Command.

    Once the little devil succeeds, the consequences will be disastrous. Although the little devil will not eat the 600,000 main force in one bite, eating half of it will not be a big problem.

    Fortunately, at this time, Li Guoyao's command of the Northeast Army took the initiative to reinforce Mengcheng and defended this strategic location in time.

    But the 61st Army is just a miscellaneous army after all. They have been fighting the Japanese army on the front line of Mengcheng for two days and two nights. Now that tens of thousands of Japanese troops have surrounded Mengcheng, they can still stop it.

    Once the 61st Army was defeated, the follow-up troops and even Commander Li might be made dumplings by the little devils. For a while, Commander Li was full of worries about the battle situation on the Mengcheng front line.

    ?¡­(Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com)The Pai army has been fighting the Japanese army on the front line of Mengcheng for two days and two nights. Now that tens of thousands of Japanese troops have surrounded Mengcheng, they can still stop it.

    Once the 61st Army was defeated, the follow-up troops and even Commander Li might be made dumplings by the little devils. For a while, Commander Li was full of worries about the battle situation on the Mengcheng front line.

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