Chapter 873: Li Delin goes to Xinxiang
By the 15th, the battle to siege Guide lasted for two days. Although the progress was quite good, and the heavy artillery brigade and armored brigade were joined, the Kuomintang army was not inferior to the Japanese army in heavy firepower suppression. If they were to siege five times the force, the Japanese army was about to lose more than 70% of the positions outside Guide City.
At this point, the Japanese army has become familiar with your fighting style and no longer fights with you for firepower, trembling and shaking with you, and even playing hand-to-hand combat in chess.
The Japanese army's physical fitness and tactical advantages of bayonets were suddenly reflected. In this regard, many new recruits were on the battlefield, and they suffered a great loss.
Even if the New First Army troops arrived in front of the dense trench formation, there was no good way, firepower suppression, diamond attack and plastic surgery.
The third-three scattered charge and fighting tactics (this cannot be learned at once, even the most elite spy regiment cannot guarantee that they can use it skillfully).
Moreover, Tu Man and Guan Shuhong are not machines, so they cannot fight constantly. Moreover, such a hard-to-hard confrontation will lead to great losses.
Although they are all for the fight against Japan, people's hearts are always fleshy. The two battalion commanders are here to help, not to fight until the last person is left to go back.
But there are at least 7,000 to 8,000 Japanese troops in Guide City, including the wounded.
The further the battle, the harder it is to fight, especially the quality gap between the army between China and Japan is there. Now the battle has completely become a battle of real strength between the two sides, and there are very few opportunities to take advantage of it.
The Tang army also blocked the Japanese army for two days and nights in Bozhou. Although it was 50,000 to 20,000, the two sides were not on the same level of magnitude.
Tang Keqin was able to command these 50,000 people to deal with a division of the Japanese army for two days, which was a great thing for domestic generals.
Of course, the New First Army under Leng Feng's command cannot be compared with that of the New 38th Division.
The Tang Army had a hard time dealing with it. It can be seen from the battle reports sent by Tang Keqin that his troops were facing the 106th Division of the Japanese Army head-on.
Although the 106th Division was reorganized by Japanese reserves and restored soldiers, they were all professional soldiers and were brought to the Chinese battlefield for several battles and had basically adapted to the battlefield.
The special division of the 106th Division is only slightly smaller than that of the A Division, with less than 24,000 people in total, and in fact only about 16,000 people sent to China.
Only Junichiro Matsuura led the main force of the 106th Division to support the Japanese army in Guide, which was only about 12,000 people, and the rest were recruited labor and supplies troops.
Claimed: 20,000.
Tang Keqin's 50,000 people actually face only 10,000 people.
Tang Keqin actually regretted it very much. Why didn’t he give up when he made a military order with Xue Boling? He underestimated the combat effectiveness of the newly formed Japanese division.
This Japanese army was indeed slightly weaker than the Japanese regular field division he encountered, but its strength was still above his army.
The heavy weapons and equipment that should be available were not lost, and they could still call for air support.
Although the Tang Army Corps also had some artillery and a heavy artillery battalion, the problem was that they had a field heavy artillery corps and various other artillery, so there was no need to say that the firepower was strong.
Tang Keqin is also very precious to the little property he had finally saved, but he doesn't want to lose all of it all at once.
After two days, the casualties were as high as 3,000, while the Japanese army suffered less than 500 casualties. If this battle lasted for another four or five days, the Tang army would be completely destroyed.
While sending a telegram to Xue Boling, Tang Keqin exaggerated the phone, while complaining, tired, and asking for reinforcements.
Many troops were withdrawn from the Fifth War Zone to western Shandong, and there were reinforcements, but those were already exhausted. Even if they could arrive, it would take one or two days.
The most recent one is the defenders of Yucheng and Xiayi.
The defenders in both places are absolutely unable to move. If the Japanese army launches another long-distance sneak attack, the gj who besieged Guide will be attacked by the enemy and will be in great trouble.
Xue Boling himself did not have reinforcements, nor did he belong to his First Corps, and he could not command other people's troops beyond his level.
You, Tang Keqin, want reinforcements, okay, no problem, give it up and find General He of Wuhan or Chairman Jiang.
Although Chief He is the Chief of Staff, the power to transfer troops is in the hands of Chiang Kai-shek. If he dares to mobilize a soldier without authorization, Chiang Kai-shek will be dismissed from get out of class.
Although President He is very charming on the surface, he is actually a high-ranking or butler. Although he has a high position and has a certain amount of real power, if he wants to get involved in the "gun" he wants to deal with, Jiang Jiang will come out to deal with him as soon as possible.
When Lao Jiang saw that Tang Keqin was too disrespectful, he had just issued a military order to block the enemy for a week. After only two days, he was clamoring to ask for reinforcements?
There is no military courage for a soldier to "face up"? A telegram directly scolded Tang Keqin, leaving no mercy at all.
You have to choose to block the enemy’s reinforcements, and you have also made the military order by yourself. What’s going on now? You can’t hold on for just two days?
What's the use of such a general?
When Tang Keqin saw that the chairman was not very angry and he was quite angry. He was pretending too much. He was still fighting this battle and putting great efforts into fighting.
This time I can't get through if I want to cheat.
Tang Keqin was so unreliable, and Xue Boling was also worried that Tang Keqin became the second "Huang Jie" of the plague, and the consequences were unimaginable. Therefore, he ordered Peng Linsheng's 187th Division, who was stationed in Xiayi, to pay close attention to the situation in Bozhou and report any situation immediately.
The 87th Division of the 74th Army was also transferred from Lanfeng to serve as a reserve force, ready to deal with emergencies at any time.
Li Delin's condition further worsened, and the high fever did not subside. He used physical fever and medication fever. The effect was not very ideal and he began to get confused.
After the Japanese army occupied Linxuzhou, they did not stop, but immediately advanced west along the Longhai Line.
Dangshan has become a battlefield.
The vanguard of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army had entered Dangshan and was fiercely seized with the 36th Division.
Dangshan is not safe anymore.
As the commander of the 27th Army, Gui Yongqing naturally had to take charge of Dangshan to command. He had experienced the Nanjing Defense War and was deeply touched by the Japanese army's strong combat effectiveness. He was not sure about defending Dangshan.
At this time, it was no longer safe to stay in Dangshan, the head of the Fifth War Zone.
Go west and go to Xiayi to Zhengzhou. Although there is not much danger now, no one can guarantee whether they will encounter the Japanese army. These places are the next places for the Japanese army to attack, plainclothes, spies, and even small Japanese scouts frequently enter and exit.
The commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Zone, if something goes wrong, it will be a disaster.
This road cannot be taken, and there is a safer road.
After Gui Yongqing, Xu Yanmou, Wang Hongshao and others persuaded him, Li Delin agreed to leave Dangshan, and the commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Zone moved to Cao County. Li Delin himself took part of the river from the Chenliu Ferry west of Lanfeng to Xinxiang for treatment.
Li Delin refused to consider going to Xinxiang at the beginning, but it was not because of his pretentiousness, but because of political considerations. Although Leng Feng was a friend of his age, he was once an opponent of Jiang Jiang.
Leng Feng is still the direct descendant of Huangpu, and he is the youngest general, the most promising military star, and the anti-Japanese hero. He has reached this point. If he does not choose the sidelines, he can only call himself a faction!
With his understanding of Leng Feng, he will not easily choose sides. The biggest faction in GMD is Lao Jiang. As long as he does not have direct relationship with any faction and follows Lao Jiang closely, there will be no problem and his future will be bright.
But if he chooses to take sides, he may have a high momentum for a while, but it will be quite unfavorable to his future. If he gets close to local factions like him, it will have a great impact on him.
Especially among the people in Huangpu, there may be many people who are alienated or even hostile to him.
This is very unfavorable to his growth.
He didn't want to cause many troubles and troubles to Leng Feng because of himself.
If it is a little more utilitarian, Li Delin naturally hopes that his relationship with Leng Feng will be closer, which will be beneficial to restraining Chiang Kai-shek's increasingly powerful Central Army.
No matter who is in power in the end, the trend of centralization will not change. Sooner or later, local governments will integrate into the central government. This is the general trend.
As the helmsman of the Guangxi clique, Li Delin naturally had to consider how to integrate and how much voice he could have after integration. This is a very complicated question.
But Leng Feng repeatedly begged and just said, "Come on, I'm not afraid of this." The things you Chief Li are worried about are actually nothing. We are not here."
After repeated consideration, Leng Feng even sent people over, and it was the legendary Yasha special team.
Furthermore, Li Delin's condition improved rapidly after being unable to withstand the persuasion of his subordinates and the special antipyretic drugs brought by Wang Bin.
When this guy saw that the effect was so good, why don’t you go to Zhengzhou or Wuhan? Just go to Xinxiang directly?
Li Delin agreed to come to Xinxiang for treatment, and Leng Feng was naturally very happy. Li Delin is a good at managing the military and government, and he just needs an experienced "old comrade" to ask for advice.
He wouldn't invite anyone else if he wanted to invite him. If Li Delin hadn't relapsed in his old injury and could not command the battle, he wouldn't have even asked for such an opportunity.
As for the things that Li Delin was concerned about, he didn't care at all, and he didn't plan to have any great development or political future in GMD.
But now I have no choice but to borrow this sign to use it. Everyone sits on a boat, you sit on the bow and I sit on the stern, everyone protects each other, just don’t sink the boat.
Li Delin handed over military affairs to his deputy commander-in-chief Li Heling. After arranging the work, he took his own guards and some staff officers, leaving Dangshan with light chariots, and headed towards Cao County along the highway.
Wang Bin led a small team of Yasha to escort him.
Jiang naturally received a telegram from Li Delin on the first time. He was also shocked and surprised by Li Delin's choice. Li Delin's old injury was particularly severe this time. He had been in high fever for many days. Whether it was Zhengzhou or Xinxiang, the medical level of these cities was definitely not as good as that of Wuhan.
Another person would choose to go to Wuhan for treatment in the end, while Li Delin chose to go to Xinxiang. This is intriguing and has to make people associate.
There is another reason for Jiang Jiang’s insomnia.
Chapter completed!