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Chapter 441: Battle of Guide (9)

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    After receiving the telegram from the North China Front Army Headquarters, the Japanese troops on the front line did not dare to neglect. Both Nakajima Jingo and the commander of the 10th Division, Isotani Rensuke, knew the temper of the general in charge of Peiping.

    Unlike the gentleman-like Lord En Shunroku, Admiral Terauchi was a true playboy. His father, Count Masaki Terauchi, was a Meiji figure who served as director of education, land minister, governor-general in Korea, and prime minister.

    This distinguished commander is not an unreasonable person. When he was the commander of the 4th Division, he once destroyed the Osaka Police Station. The reason was simply because the privates of the 4th Division were in the center of Osaka.  Run red lights and clash with traffic police.

    Now this unreasonable general is sending three telegrams a day to urge them to move forward. This has made Nakajima and the others, who have always been eye-catching, feel tremendous pressure.

    Although the troops suffered heavy losses in this day and night of fighting, Lieutenant General Nakajima did not dare to neglect at all, and immediately organized his troops to continue the attack on the city.

    While the Japanese troops outside Guide City were busy organizing troops to continue the attack on the city, Li Guoyao was in the city to meet with Peng Linsheng, commander of the 187th Division, who had returned to Guide City.

    Peng Linsheng was not tall and very thin. He looked like a frail scholar, not a soldier leading troops to fight at all.

    But Li Guoyao knew that this was just an illusion. Peng Linsheng was different from Huang Jie. He was still somewhat capable and had fought real fierce battles.

    Since they were both fellow Hunanese, Xu Hu and Ma Desheng knew Peng Linsheng's situation very well. After learning that Peng Linsheng was leading troops back to the Guide front line, Xu Hu immediately told Li Guoyao about Peng Linsheng's basic situation.

    According to Xu Hu, Peng Linsheng¡¯s family was relatively poor when he was young and he only attended private school for 8 years.  After that, he walked from his hometown to Shaoguan to serve as a soldier under Xu Chongzhi, and was admitted to the Guangdong Army Martial Arts Hall.

    After graduation, Peng Lin settled down in the Guangdong Army and served as a platoon leader under the First Division Commander Li Jishen. He later served as company commander, battalion commander, regiment commander, and teaching brigade commander.

    In August 26th of the Republic of China, the Japanese army attacked Shanghai.  Peng Linsheng was the brigade commander of the teaching brigade at the time. He took the initiative to participate in the Shanghai Defense War and defended the front lines of Luodian and Dachang. He fought bloody battles for more than 40 days and drove the enemy off the Huangpu River three times. He was awarded by the National Government and was promoted to 18th grade for his military exploits.  Commander of the Seventh Division.

    As for why the 187th Division fled without fighting, Li Guoyao didn't want to go into details. After all, it didn't matter what Peng Linsheng personally thought when dealing with an officer like Huang Jie who was greedy for life and afraid of death.

    What Li Guoyao is most concerned about now is what Peng Linsheng will do next, whether he will fight to the death or fight in secret, which is directly related to the battle situation on the Guide front line.

    "Commander Peng, you must be aware of the battle situation outside. Our army has suffered more than 9,000 casualties in two days, and now less than 5,000 troops can still fight. I wonder how many available troops your army has now?" Li Guoyao said in a deep voice.

    "Sir, our 187th Division is no longer fully organized. There are still three regiments of combatable troops in the division. The total strength is less than 5,000, and there is also a serious shortage of ammunition. At most, it can only be used for half a day of fighting!" Peng Linsheng replied immediately!  road.

    Li Guoyao immediately frowned. The 187th Division is the elite of the national army. It stands to reason that such a division should have two brigades plus some directly affiliated troops. The total strength will not be less than 10,000. However, there are only 5,000 at the moment.  Well, no wonder Peng Linsheng would flee without a fight. With these 5,000 men, the whole army might not even be able to hold out for five hours before the entire army was annihilated.

    "Where are the other two divisions of your army, and how long will it take to reach the front line?"

    Peng Linsheng smiled bitterly and shook his head and said: "When I left, they were still in Liuhe Town, which is not far from here, but it is not certain when they will arrive. After all, Huang Junzuo is still in Kaifeng without his orders.  , no one from the 24th Division and the 40th Division dares to take action!"

    Li Guoyao understood immediately, and then frowned and said: "Commander Peng should have received the order from the First Theater Command. Now I need Commander Peng to express his position. Are you willing to obey my command, Li Guoyao?"

    Peng Linsheng hesitated for a moment, then said immediately: "Yes, since I am here, Peng Linsheng and my brothers will fully cooperate with your department and do our best to defend Guide City!"

    "very good"

    Before the welcome was over, I heard Hou Zhifu hurriedly walked in and said: "Report to the military seat, the Japanese army has launched another attack!"

    Li Guoyao frowned and said: "The little devil has been attacking continuously for more than 30 hours. What a fool, you are so stupid that you still want to attack the city?"

    "Who says it's not the case? After two days and one night of fighting, more than 5,500 soldiers of our army were directly killed, and there were more than 3,000 wounded."??If you keep doing this for one more day, I'm afraid our army will be completely wiped out!  "Liang Chenghu also said.

    "Hmph, what are you afraid of? Even if the whole army is annihilated, we still have to defend Guide City!"

    After speaking, Li Guoyao immediately said to Liang Chenghu: "Deputy Brigadier Liang, you are from the Central Army and a disciple of the Chairman of the Generalissimo. Now go to Liuhe Town for me!"

    "Military, I wonder why you sent me to Liuhe Town for some official business?" Liang Chenghu asked immediately.

    "Bring the 24th Division and the 40th Division back to Germany!" Li Guoyao said in a deep voice.

    "Ah, thiswhat if the other party doesn't want to?"

    Li Guoyao picked up a telegram from his desk and said: "This is a combat order from the First Theater Command to mobilize the Eighth Army to reinforce the return to Germany. By the way, there is also an order from Commander Xue appointing me as the commander-in-chief of the southern line.  You go with these two orders. If anyone disobeys the order, it will be traitorous to the party and the country. You don¡¯t need me to teach you how to deal with traitors!"

    Liang Chenghu's face suddenly twitched. Isn't this putting him on the fire? They are the elite of the Central Army. They believe that they have the orders of the Chairman of the Generalissimo, Commander Xue or the First War Zone Commander's Department. If they had recognized them, they would have come long ago.  Well, why wait until now.

    But seeing the serious expression on Li Guoyao's face, Liang Chenghu knew that the military commander had made up his mind. If he didn't go, the consequences would be disastrous.

    "Yes, I'll get ready now!" Liang Chenghu said through gritted teeth.

    "Well, take Zhang Shaolin's special team with you when you go!"

    "yes"

    When Li Guoyao gave the order, he did not shy away from Peng Linsheng and others. Everyone at the scene was stunned!

    Everyone understood that Commander Li was going to force the other two divisions of the Eighth Army to enter the battlefield. If the two divisions of the Eighth Army did not agree, it might be a bloody conflict.

    Although no one in the 187th Division thought that Li Guoyao had the courage, the officers affiliated with the 61st Army did not think so. They knew how domineering the military seats were. If the chief officers of the two divisions did not understand current affairs,  I'm afraid it's really possible to be killed on the spot.

    The military has done this kind of thing more than once before. Whether it is the military director named Wang in Nanjing City or the security chiefs on the Bengbu front line, as long as you are disobedient and disrespectful, no matter how powerful you are,  A strong backend is useless.

    "In fact, Li Guoyao really didn't care whether these people were disciples of the emperor or direct descendants of Jiang Jun. He didn't intend to go to hell with Lao Jiang, and he didn't care about offending someone like him.

    Even Chairman Chiang is not afraid of offending people, and he still cares about a few small regiment commanders and division commanders. Moreover, he also has the orders of the two military commanders of the First Theater and the First Corps. He and the 61st Army are still in Guide.  In this crucial position, standing and reasoning, what are you afraid of?

    What¡¯s more important is that Li Guoyao is really in urgent need of reinforcements. Although they only have less than two days to enter Guide City, the losses of their troops are far beyond his expectation.

    Not to mention the Guide front line, even Guoyang and other places also suffered heavy losses. According to the news from Xu Hu from the Guoyang front line, although they were only fighting with the Japanese Third Division and other troops in the past two days, all their troops  Three thousand people were still lost.

    At this time, there are only more than 7,000 troops left in the 61st Army on the Guoyang front line. Including the troops on the Bozhou and Guide front lines, there are only more than 14,000 troops, which is more than half less than before.

    You must know that when Li Guoyao received more than 10,000 additional troops a few days ago, the total strength of Li Guoyao's troops was more than 28,000. In addition, he also received reinforcements from two divisions of the Guangxi Army. As a result, after a few days of fighting, only  There were more than 14,000 people left, and the total number of casualties exceeded 20,000.

    At this rate, if the two main divisions of the Eighth Army do not go south to fight in coordination, the collapse of the southern front seems to be around the corner.

    For the sake of the overall situation, Li Guoyao had no choice. He believed that even if he really shot the military commanders of the two divisions of the Eighth Army, the Military Commission and Chairman Chiang would only be able to sulk secretly for a few days.  That¡¯s all.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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