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Chapter 412: Bloody Battle in Mengcheng (1)

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    It is said that Xue Yue also felt something was wrong after sending the telegram. After all, the 61st Army did not have any professional relationship with him, and the two had no friendship or even intersection. It was obviously a bit inappropriate for him to send a telegram to someone like this.  It means bullying.

    But soon Xue Yue felt that it didn't matter anymore. Although sending reminders or beating the 61st Army was his attention, it was not for himself, but for this rare opportunity.

    He doesn¡¯t want this battle to become uncontrollable due to the mistakes of any one person or any army. He must be responsible for the life and death of hundreds of thousands of troops on the front line.

    Secondly, although he is not Li Guoyao's boss, and the 61st Army is not under his command of the First Corps, he, Xue Yue, is the commander of the Corps, while Li Guoyao is just an ordinary commander of a miscellaneous army. In addition, Li Guoyao is a warlord.  Xue Yue didn't think there was anything wrong with offending Li Guoyao.

    However, what Xue Yue didn't expect was that just when he was about to take a rest, the combat staff suddenly walked in with a piece of telegram. The look on his face was a little surprised, but more of an anxiety.

    Seeing the expression of the combat staff officer, Xue Yue suddenly felt nervous and asked in a deep voice: "What's wrong? What happened?"

    "Sirthis is a telegram from the 61st Army Headquarters in Mengcheng!"

    As he said that, the combat staff handed over the telegram!

    Xue Yue raised his hand and said with a frown: "The 61st Army?"

    However, when he took the message and took a look at it, the expression on his face suddenly changed, and the ups and downs of his chest also showed that the mood of this national army warrior was very unhappy at this time.

    However, Xue Yue did not say anything, but read the message carefully. However, the more he looked at Xue Yue's expression, the angrier he became. In the end, he slapped the desk in front of him and shouted loudly: "Li Guoyao is a bastard."  You are so arrogant, you dare to insult our Central Military Forces like this, I will definitely go to the committee to seek justice for my colleagues in the Central Military Forces."

    The combat staff officer on the side did not dare to answer. Although he wanted to say something in his heart, the matter itself was an injustice done by you, sir. However, he was just a small combat staff officer. How dare he say this to the commander of the corps?  Tired of life?

    "Pass my order and all officers above the division level will have a meeting at the headquarters tomorrow morning!"

    After issuing the order, Xue Yue turned around and left the headquarters, leaving only the combat staff stunned.

    ?¡­Dividing line¡­Dividing line¡­

    After Li Guoyao sent the telegram, he felt a little relieved. Although Xue Yue's move made him angry, Li Guoyao knew that Xue Boling had no stain on his character. He did this because he was worried about the front line.  He had nothing to criticize about the war.

    ¡°At other times, Li Guoyao might have smiled lightly and ignored it.

    But the situation is different now. He knows the outcome of the Battle of Lanfeng, and he also knows the lasting impact of the horror after the failure of the Battle of Lanfeng.

    After the failure of the Battle of Lanfeng in history, the main force of the Japanese army with the Doihara Division as the vanguard invaded westward along the Longhai Line. Zhengzhou was in crisis and Wuhan was shocked.

    How to prevent the Japanese army from advancing westward has become a very urgent issue in the National Government.  Once Zhengzhou is lost, the Japanese army will attack Xi'an, which will make the war situation even more severe.

    In order to delay the Japanese invasion of eastern Henan, the Nationalist Government risked the disapproval of the world and dug a dike at Huayuankou of the Yellow River to release water, triggering the "Huayuankou embankment burst incident" that shocked China and the world.

    Although this move temporarily delayed the Japanese army's southward advance, it caused unprecedented catastrophe to millions of people in Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu, and became one of the "three major tragedies" in the history of China's Anti-Japanese War, along with the Changsha fire and the tragedy of 10,000 people suffocated in Chongqing air-raid shelters.

    For thousands of years, the people along the Yellow River have continued to build levees and made them very strong.  The engineers who were ordered to blow up the embankment dug all night and blasted many times, but they failed to blow up the embankment.

    After the dyke was blown up, the surging Yellow River water carried turbid sediment, like thousands of horses galloping, swallowing up all the villages, crops, and trees along the way, and a large area of ????yellow flood zone appeared in the beautiful and fertile Central Plains.

    According to later statistics, not many Japanese soldiers were drowned when the Yellow River burst its banks. Instead, the Chinese people in the lower reaches of the Yellow River suffered the greatest losses. More than 40 counties and cities in Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces, and more than 3,000 square kilometers of pastoral land were turned into  A fire broke out, 9 million acres of cultivated land was submerged, 900,000 lives were swallowed up, and tens of millions of people were displaced.

    The people of the Central Plains not only suffered from the barbaric plunder of the Japanese devils, but also faced the disasters man-made by the Kuomintang government.  Along with this disaster, it also indirectly led to the tragic Henan Famine in 1942.

    And guideThe direct cause of such serious consequences was the Battle of Lanfeng, and the final failure of the Battle of Lanfeng was due to the two main forces of the Central Army fleeing without a fight. Therefore, after receiving the order to defend Mengcheng, Li Guoyao kept trying to find ways to change this situation.  the result of.

    But he is just a small lieutenant general, with no more than 20,000 troops in his hands, and his influence is limited. He is really powerless.

    However, by coincidence, this tiger cub came to his door. How could Li Guoyao let him go so easily?

    So Li Guoyao personally drafted a cold but sarcastic telegram to reply to Xue Yue. It was one thing to be unhappy, but more importantly, Li Guoyao wanted to take this opportunity to remind Xue Yue.

    "However, this kind of reminder may not be effective, but this is all Li Guoyao can do. After all, the most important task of the 61st Army now is to defend Mengcheng.

    There was nothing to say all night, but early the next morning, I received a call from Qianfian saying that there was movement on the Japs¡¯ positions.

    Li Guoyao did not dare to neglect, he got up immediately and took Zhang Shaolin and others to the city gate to check the situation.

    By the time Li Guoyao and others arrived, the little devils had already formed a formation and seemed to be preparing to launch an attack.

    I saw the little devils gathering a large number of infantry in front of the first line position at the south gate. Based on Li Guoyao's experience, he could tell at a glance that these were two infantry squadrons.

    But considering that this is the little devil¡¯s first attack, it is of a tentative nature. It is already amazing to have two squadrons.

    The actions of the Japanese army also attracted the attention of the troops on the defender's position. The troops on the defender's position were also mobilized frequently. The two sides were at war with each other and the war was imminent.

    At eight o'clock in the morning, following the order of a Japanese captain officer, the Japanese troops of two squadrons began to slowly advance towards the garrison position carrying the rising sun battle flag.

    At the same time, the Japanese artillery positions in the rear also began to exert force. With the rapid sound of shelling, artillery shells hit the defenders' positions one after another!

    Perhaps in order to give the defenders a show of strength, the Japanese army's artillery fire was extremely fierce and the shells were very dense. They fired at the defenders' positions as if they were free of charge.

    Based on Li Guoyao's experience, he immediately judged that there were at least two brigades of mountain artillery or field artillery on the Japanese artillery position, otherwise there would be no such momentum.

    With the Japanese artillery bombardment, the simple defense line on the defender's position was suddenly riddled with holes. The position composed of sandbags and soil could withstand such bombardment. Often when a shell was fired, the sandbags and soil would fly everywhere.  , and soon the defense line on the defender's position was blown to pieces.

    However, Li Guoyao was not in a hurry. The battle had just begun. Although these defense lines were crude, they could not be won by the little devils with a casual tentative attack. Otherwise, the combat effectiveness of their 61st Army would be too scummy.

    Even Li Guoyao did not order the defenders' artillery regiment to counterattack. He wanted to see how the commanders on the front line would respond.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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