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Volume One On the Songhua River Chapter 522 Zhengzhou is in Crisis

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    Chapter 522: Crisis in Zhengzhou

    Not only Tang Qiuli did not understand the information sent by the Zhengzhou Intelligence Station, but the generals in the division were also confused. Tang Enbo still had at least hundreds of thousands of troops, so why was the defensive force still weak?  He looked back at Yu Deshui and ordered: "Director Yu, let the Zhengzhou Intelligence Station find out the actual situation at all costs." Yu Deshui understood what the division commander meant, and he was concerned about the "seems" and "unclear" in the intelligence.  "When he was not satisfied with the vague words, he immediately rushed back to the intelligence office.

    Yu Deshui was also very angry. Tang Enbo could not be contacted. The division commander relied entirely on his own intelligence system to judge the Japanese army's movements, but he was sent such vague intelligence. It was really embarrassing. If the military plane was delayed, he would be responsible.  Big.

    Tang Qiuli stared at the map on the wall, and his scalp became numb the more he looked at it. If the information from the Zhengzhou Intelligence Station was true, Zhengzhou might be in danger now. Henan is the hinterland of the Central Plains, and Zhengzhou has a very convenient geographical location.  The position was too important. This hand held Tang Qiuli's pulse. Tang Qiuli sighed secretly in his heart. Zai Ren and Xiangyue Qingsi were not just ordinary people. They were passive in several battlefields and they did not use their hands.  This strange army here is indeed very sophisticated. Am I looking down on them too much?  He thought to himself.

    Zhengzhou, the Zhengzhou that made Tang Qiuli fearful. After the Japanese army captures Zhengzhou, they can have three main directions of attack. If they advance westward, they can attack Xi'an in Shaanxi Province. They can echo the mountain passes of Wuxiang from the flanks and attack Taiyuan. They can also attack Hanzhong in southern Shaanxi Province and advance with troops.  Sichuan may take Ankang and attack Hubei.

    Going south, the goal is to take Wuhan, the important town in central China, and occupy this city in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, which is the thoroughfare of nine provinces. We can go up the river and attack the southwestern provinces, and we can go down the river to attack Nanjing and Shanghai, and cut China into two halves, east and west.

    March east, go down to Kaifeng and Shangqiu, and approach Xuzhou. Xuzhou is an eye. If we go north, we can defeat the Japanese army in Cangzhou and flank our 300,000-strong troops. If we go south, we can take Nanjing and attack Shanghai.

    Tang Qiuli was heartbroken. With Zhengzhou lost, his Yellow River defense line was about to collapse. From the analysis of the Japanese attack situation on various battlefields, the Japanese army was most likely to advance westward and eastward. Otherwise, the Japanese army in Wuxiang and Cangzhou would be  , would launch such a violent attack, obviously to support the Japanese army in the middle.

    It is unlikely to go south. With less than 100,000 troops, they are trying to sweep across the hinterland of East China. They will allocate more than half of their troops to just the transportation points that need to be defended along the way. How can they attack Wuhan?  How many people can reach the gate of Wuhan?

    In order to prevent the Japanese army from marching west from Zhengzhou to Shaanxi and seizing Xi'an, he ordered Sun Zhenbang, commander of the Yellow River Defense Command, to lead his four river defense brigades, totaling more than 36,000 troops, to immediately move to Lingbao, Henan, and build a  Defense fortifications were built to prevent the Japanese army from advancing westward.

    He also knew that Sun Zhenbang's more than 30,000 local troops alone could not withstand the nearly 100,000 Japanese troops for many days. He immediately ordered the Zhou Yushan Division of the Transportation Command of the ** Division to leave one regiment to maintain basic transportation support tasks.  , mobilized their four infantry regiments and an air defense regiment, and immediately rushed to the Lingbao front line as quickly as possible, and formed the Lingbao Defense Command with Sun Zhenbang.

    Ordered Yuan Jinghao, commander of the Shaanxi Provincial Security Command, to lead three local security brigades, totaling more than 22,000 troops, to immediately station in Shangluo and set up defenses to prevent Japanese troops from attacking Xi'an in two directions.

    In the direction of Dezhou, he ordered the cancellation of the plan to raid Tianjin. Although it was a good move, saving his life was more important at the moment. At the same time, he notified Liu Tiehan, Tang Qiusheng and Li Honggang of the crisis in Zhengzhou in detail, and also informed Liu Tiehan, Tang Qiusheng and Li Honggang of the planned raid on Tianjin.  With the Cangzhou front line secured, the troops will go south to the Xuzhou area and join Zhang Zizhong's Sulu garrison to jointly block the Japanese troops who intend to capture Xuzhou. The Dezhou Campaign Headquarters will decide how many troops to deploy.

    After a series of orders were issued, Tang Qiuli almost collapsed on the kang, his whole body was sore and weak. This time he used all his family resources. It could be said that "young and old all went into battle". All the troops from all over the place were mobilized. With the few troops in his hand,  , and have to keep an eye on the mountain pass in Wuxiang to prevent him from running back to Taihang Mountain.

    He has never felt such a dangerous situation. All the unfavorable situations have appeared. He is so heavy that he can't breathe. His strategic layout is in danger of collapse just because of Zhengzhou.  With Tang Enbo's 230,000 troops in total, he couldn't defend Zhengzhou, which was protected by the natural dangers of the Yellow River?  He was filled with doubts.

    He also thought that the Japanese army might march south from Zhengzhou to Wuhan. He struggled to sit up and prepared to send a telegram to Chairman Chiang Kai-shek in Nanjing, reminding him to pay attention to the defense in northern Wuhan.  The Nanjing Military Commission sent a war report. At about 7 a.m. on December 16, the Japanese troops who retreated to the sea launched a massive attack on our defense positions from Shanghai and Hangzhou Bay.

    This time the Japanese army attacked with a fierce offensive and equipped with a large number of long-range heavy artillery.The number of troops increased by about 150,000. Fierce fighting broke out across the entire perimeter of Shanghai and in the direction of Hangzhou Bay. The fighting was brutal. On the first day, all Japanese attacks were repelled. However, according to reports from forward observation posts, the Japanese did not retreat and were likely to attack again.  intention.

    Tang Qiuli had two big heads. The Japanese were going crazy. They were fighting fiercely on the northern battlefield, and there was another breakthrough in the center line. On the southern battlefield, the fighting resumed, and it was also a life-threatening attack. This was a typical north-south pincer strategy.  The Japanese want to decide the situation in China in one battle. The flashpoint of all this is in Zhengzhou.

    However, Tang Qiuli could not take care of the southern battlefield, and he was also powerless. There were hundreds of thousands of elite Central Army troops under Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, and there were generals like Zhang Zhizhong. What he was most worried about now was the situation in Zhengzhou, but the intelligence  He didn't come for a long time, and the situation was unclear. Asking him how to direct the battle made his eyes burn with anxiety.

    If you look at the land of China in 1937 from a high altitude, you will see that the south and north of the Yangtze River are full of smoke and artillery fire, but there is peace in the middle. Historically, at this time in the land of China, except for the southwest and northwest, war is everywhere, and the national government  The capital was forced to move, first to Wuhan and finally to Chongqing, because the appearance of Tang Qiuli blocked the Japanese troops in North China from moving south.

    Only then did we have the current situation of two fronts, the north and the south. The Japanese army used all its strength to attack the north and the south. In fact, China's anti-Japanese battlefield has been divided into two parts. The south is the Central Army led by Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, and the north is led by the Tang Dynasty.  Comparatively speaking, for the North China Army Division headed by Qiu Li, Tang Qiuli was under much heavier pressure than Chairman Chiang. He was the number one enemy of the Japanese army.

    Tang Qiuli, the commander of the North China ** Division and the commander-in-chief of the Yellow River Basin War Zone, was so anxious in a simple farmyard in his county that he deployed all the available troops to the front line. There were no more troops to mobilize. In Peiping,  Prince Zai, the chief of general staff of the Japanese base camp, but Xiangyue Qingji, the commander of the North China Expeditionary Army on the Niangziguan front line, smiled happily.

    These two old foxes congratulated each other. They originally had no hope of repaying ten thousand troops for sending less than 100,000 troops to attack Anyang and capture Zhengzhou. Attacking Henan was not their main goal. When the war started, they focused on  We arrived at Datong and Niangziguan in Shanxi on the west line, and Dezhou in Shandong on the east line.

    This did not violate the overall strategy formulated by the emperor to dispatch troops from Shanghai to join forces under Nanjing City. It also satisfied the army's original idea of ??moving from north to south, first targeting North China, and then moving south. It was very satisfactory.

    Unexpectedly, when the war started, the fighting in the direction of Datong was not smooth at first. Yan Xishan, the local emperor, was determined to fight with the imperial army and concentrated the main force on the front line of Datong. They fought to the death and the war made no progress. Later, he discovered that his wife  The Jin army at the pass had a weak garrison and was preparing to raid Niangzi Pass and open the gate to Shanxi from the east. Unfortunately, the Chinese devil Tang Qiuli took the lead. As a result, they were stopped in front of Niangzi Pass, unable to advance or retreat.

    The direction of Texas is the battlefield where Zai Ren and Xiangyue Qingji hold the most hope. The shaky Chinese defenders' defense line can be crushed by the Chinese army with just a little more strength. Who would have thought that the Chinese defenders would be at a comprehensive disadvantage?  The army refused to fall. Later, Tang Qiuli mobilized reinforcements, and the situation on the Texas battlefield reversed. The 300,000 imperial troops lost nearly 70,000 to 80,000 troops and were forced to retreat to Cangzhou, where they were overwhelmed and unable to move.

    Although His Highness the Prince personally led reinforcements, he could not change the passive situation. He broke into the mountain pass where Tang Qiu left his home in the Taihang Mountains, empty-handed, and did not achieve the expected results at all. If he continued to waste it, he might be trapped and die in the Taihang Mountains. In the end, he would not be able to survive.  Without changing the battle plan, they attacked Taiyuan from southern Shanxi, but were blocked by Yan Xishan's hundreds of thousands of Jin troops at the foot of Wuxiang city. Their heads were bruised and bleeding, but Wuxiang was not captured.

    In the North China battlefield, nearly one million troops were used to fight from November 5 to December 13. During more than 40 days, none of the original battle plan was realized. It was impossible to go south. North China  Being passive everywhere, Zai Ren and Xiangyue Qingsi were extremely distressed. During this period, Xiangyue Qingsi returned to Peiping many times to discuss with Zai Ren how to change the current passive situation.

    Forced by the situation, the two of them decided to launch a long-planned risky move, using the only unused force to attack Anyang, Henan, open the northern gate of Henan, and march directly to Zhengzhou, thus changing the situation of the war.  A gambling adventure, the entire chess game in North China, they only have such a piece of work in their hands.

    Zai Ren was not optimistic about attacking Henan. With more than 90,000 troops, he had to face more than 200,000 Central Army troops. Compared with the strength of the Central Army, he was at an obvious disadvantage. Without the disastrous defeats at Songhu Battlefield and Hangzhou Bay in the south, he would not have been able to defeat the Central Army.  The combat effectiveness of the army has a new evaluation, otherwise, Zai Ren would have approved the implementation of this plan long ago. The reason for repeated delays is that he is worried that these more than 90,000 troops will be eaten by the Central Army before they even see the Yellow River.

    However, Xiang Yue Qingsi repeatedly insisted on launching the Henan Campaign. Zai Ren understood the mood of his old friend very well. With the North China fighting like this, there was no way to reverse the situation. As a member of the North China faction, heThe position of commander of the army will definitely not be maintained. Even if he defends it with all his strength, it will not change the fact that he will lose again and again.

    However, Xiangyue Qingji was full of confidence. Everything stemmed from the adventurous actions of a Japanese squadron leader. It was this inconspicuous guy in the Japanese army who made Xiangyue Qingji see the dawn of victory.

    (To be continued)
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