Chapter 230 2. Liu Bocheng's pre-ambush pieces

Just when the Yesi issued the combat order for the Xiangfan Campaign, the East China Field Army launched the Kaifeng Campaign. The enemy urgently ordered the 18th Army to go northward for reinforcements.In order to cooperate with the Battle of Eastern Henan, Chief Liu Deng ordered the suspension of the Battle of Laoxiang on June 15, and urgently dispatched the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 4th Zhongye Columns and Huaye 10th Columns to the Ping-Han Line to suppress the enemy's reorganization of the 18th Army. Prevent the enemy Wu Shaozhou Corps from aiding the north.But only put Lu Zong on standby in the Tanghe area.

6 The commanders and fighters did not understand Liu Bocheng's intentions, and they were eager to fight, and they all asked to join the battle, but Liu Bocheng sent a telegram to the troops: "Take a good rest." It turned out that Liu Bocheng did not give up Laoxiang's plan to fight.He placed the 6th column in a maneuvering position where Dongke rushed to aid Pinghan, and Nanke rushed to attack Lao Xiang, so that the troops could keep their arrows on the string, and the momentum that could not be fired was a pawn laid down in advance. After the Huaye troops conquered Kaifeng, Bai Chongxi, the "little Zhuge", made some calculations and judged that our army would join forces from east to west and march towards central China. He made up his mind to concentrate its mobile forces northward, which isolated the enemies of Laohekou and Xiangfan. There is no help.Commander Liu Deng is a master at capturing fighters, so he made a decisive decision and ordered the 6th Column, the main force of the Tongbai Military Region, and the 12th Brigade of Southern Shaanxi to take the opportunity to launch the Laoxiang Campaign.

Before our army launched the campaign, the Huaye troops launched the Suiqi Campaign in eastern Henan, forming a situation where the north and the south cooperated and echoed each other.At this time, the enemies of Lao and Xiang are completely waiting to be wiped out. At the tense moment of the confrontation between the two armies, Liu Bocheng was still calm and humorously compared the Battle of Laoxiang to a fierce basketball game: "While the main players of both sides are restraining each other, I took the opportunity to take advantage of the air and shoot alone."