Chapter 3 Section 3 "German General" Abandoned Lanfeng City

Feng Shengfa hit Doihara hard, and the "German General" abandoned Lanfeng City Like mice digging holes, the regiments of the 174th Brigade dug trenches under the cover of night. Dozens of deep trenches quickly extended towards the enemy's position like rows of black snakes. Except for a part of the more than 100,000 troops defending Nanjing, which broke through to Zhejiang and Jiangxi in the east and west, most of them crossed north into Anhui and re-emphasized New training formation. After Yu Jishi cleaned up the remnants in Pukou, he led his troops to Tunxi in southern Anhui and rested for more than two months.

Southern Anhui is a cultural and scenic spot, with its mountains and natural dangers, it has not been overwhelmed by the Japanese army.Tunxi is located at the foot of Huangshan Mountain. It is a famous historical and cultural town. The 74th Army stayed away from the disturbance of war in this land of clear mountains and clear waters. The weapon quickly regained its vitality. In February 1938, in accordance with the order issued by the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs, the 74th Army was placed under the command of Xue Yue, commander-in-chief of the 1st Corps in the 1st Theater. Xue Yue's name is Boling, and his original name was Xue Yangyue. Later, he changed his current name because of his respect for Yue Fei.The native of Lechang, Guangdong, has been with Rongwu all his life since he entered Huangpu Army Primary School at the age of 10. Ye Ting, Deng Yanda, and Zhang Fakui were all his classmates when he went to Baoding Military Academy to study military affairs at the age of 20.The solid military theoretical foundation and the military talent shown very early enabled Xue Yue to show extraordinary talents no matter in the Eastern Expedition, Northern Expedition, warlord civil war, encirclement and suppression of the Red Army, and his position was constantly promoted.When the Battle of Songhu broke out, Xue Yue first served as the commander-in-chief of the 19th Army of Chen Cheng's left wing army, and later as the commander-in-chief of the front enemy in the third theater.After the fall of Nanjing, Xue Yue served as the commander-in-chief of the 1st Corps in the 1st theater, stationed in southern Anhui, and commanded the 8th Army of Huang Jie, the 64th Army of Li Hanhun, the 3rd Army of Sun Tongxuan, and the newly organized 1st Army, including the 74th Army. The 35th Division, the 71st Army of Song Xilian, and the 27th Army of Gui Yongqing have a total of more than 100,000 troops.This capable Cantonese is good at commanding a large army to fight, good at capturing fighters, and encircling and annihilating the enemy with more victories than few.Therefore, Zhang Zhizhong once said submissively: Xue Yue is a "famous general in a hundred battles".Chiang Kai-shek also relied heavily on it, and often handed over tens of thousands of troops to him for strategic decisive battles.No, when the battle in eastern Henan intensified in May 1938, the worried Chiang Kai-shek personally came to Zhengzhou, the headquarters of the Chief of the First War Zone, hoping to fight a big war with the help of Xue Yue to reverse the situation. The entire battle between Henan and the Soviet Union.

It turned out that when the Japanese Central China Front Army under the command of Matsui Iwane attacked Shanghai, fell into Nanjing, and entered the hinterland of Central China, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters decided at the same time that the Central China Front Army would deploy some troops to go north, and cooperate with the Japanese army going south on the Jinpu Line to attack Li Zongren in the Xuzhou area. The 600,000 Chinese troops in the fifth war zone completed an important blow to the KMT's vital force by opening up the Jinpu line! This is the famous Battle of Xuzhou.

At the beginning of the battle, relying on the bravery of our armies and the correct decision-making of the commanders, Li Zongren reunited and wiped out the aggressive 10th Division of the enemy in the Taierzhuang area, and achieved the victory of Taierzhuang, which wiped out 10,000 enemies.However, this partial victory failed to change the entire battle situation in Xuzhou. The Japanese base camp subsequently increased the strength of 13 divisions with a total of about 300,000 troops, and surrounded Xuzhou in 6 routes. The main force of the 600,000 national army was in danger of being encircled by the enemy!

Chiang Kai-shek was in shock for a day. On the one hand, he sent a telegram to Song Zheyuan, commander-in-chief of the 1st Group Army in the 1st theater, to try his best to contain the Japanese army in Shandong. The Xuzhou National Army then had a difficult and dangerous journey of marching thousands of miles. Even so, Chiang Kai-shek was still worried. On May 13, he hurried from Wuhan, the temporary location of the Military Commission, to Zhengzhou, and arranged for Xuzhou's retreat in person to Cheng Qian, the commander-in-chief of the first war zone. However, events took a dramatic turn.On the second day after Chiang Kai-shek arrived in Zhengzhou, the 14th Division of the Japanese Army (Kenji Doihara, head of the division) advanced alone and crossed the Yellow River from Puxian County, in an attempt to block the breakout troops of the Fifth Theater and the support of the First Theater. Teacher! To the surprise of the soil and fertilizer raw materials, after they captured Heze and rushed into Neihuang, Yifeng, and Yejigang, they inadvertently got into the siege of Xue Yue's 100,000 troops!

Chiang Kai-shek was excited. After the Jigu division ventured into Sun Lianzhong's pocket, the Taierzhuang victory made Li Zongren's reputation.Isn't this an excellent opportunity for Chiang Kai-shek to make great achievements in China? !He thought he would be able to fight a bigger victory than Taierzhuang! On May 20, Chiang Kai-shek convened officers above the division to hold a combat meeting in Kaifeng, where the headquarters of the First Corps was located, and issued the combat plans for each unit: 1. Order the 64th Army and the 74th Army to be the East Route Army, and attack Yejigang, Chuzhuang Village, and He Village along both sides of the Longhai Railway;

2. Order the 71st Army and the 27th Army to be the West Route Army, attacking Yifeng, Neihuang, and Mazhai from west to east; 3. Order the new 35th Division to attack Songzhuang and Zhifangji; 4. Order the 3rd Army to attack Jiukaocheng and Hecun, and use one to ambush Ludaokou, Dazhaiji, Wangzhuang and other places, and attack the enemy with cameras. The carts were rolling, the horses were roaring, and all the ministries entered the attack area immediately after receiving the order. There are about 7,000 Japanese invaders occupying the Yejigang and Chuzhuangzhai areas. They are the main force of the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the Doihara Division. The commander of the regiment is Shizuo Yokoyama.

The headquarters of the 74th Army is located in a small village east of Kaocheng.After the corps meeting, on the way back to the military headquarters, Yu Jishi further subdivided the combat mission: the 58th Division cooperated with the 64th Army to attack Yejigang. The 51st Division tried to contain and attack the enemies in Chuwangzhai. Yejigang is a large trading village built with earthen walls, which is equivalent to a large market town in the south.After Shizuo Hengshan guarded, he reinforced the surrounding area of ​​the stockade, equipped with six 92 infantry guns and light and heavy machine guns, and built forward positions at the same time. Therefore, it is not easy for the 64th Army and the 58th Division to remove this nail.

The 58th Division and the 64th Army launched an attack on Yejigang on the night of May 21, and the 58th Division was responsible for the combat tasks in the southwest.Feng Shengfa used the 174th brigade as the main offensive force, and the 176th brigade as the reserve team, and he moved with the 174th brigade. After the battle started, the regiments of the 174th Brigade tentatively fired a few rounds of bullets at the enemy's position to scout the enemy's firepower.The enemies in the stockade seem to have read the minds of the Chinese people, and they seem to be asleep, not even farting, so the stockade in Heigulongdong is still lying firmly like a blind bear. Five-finger night.

"Send a combat team to approach the enemy!" Feng Shengfa touched the brim of his hat and ordered in a low voice.Touching the hat is a habitual action of Feng Shengfa. Whenever the battle goes wrong or he has no bottom in his heart, he unconsciously repeats this detail. It seems that this touch will bring confidence and strategy. Eight 5-man combat teams crawled towards the enemy's position separately. About half an hour later, several silver-white beams of light suddenly lit up in front of them, illuminating the front of the position as clearly as daylight, followed by beeps. The sound of rattling machine guns and hoarse shouts of killing.Obviously, the enemy discovered the battle team, and the battle team seemed to be in danger!

Sure enough, except for a few wounded soldiers who fled back, more than 30 people died at the enemy's machine gun. "Damn it! The little devil is playing cat and mouse game with me. I will be a mouse today and play with him to the end!" In the command post, Feng Shengfa stepped on the stool with one foot, his eyes opened like leopards, As he spoke, he grabbed his hat and slammed it on the table fiercely—"The teacher threw his hat—Long Yan was furious" has long been a secret known to everyone in the 58th division. Taking out his luminous pocket watch, seeing that it was still early in the morning, Feng Shengfa decisively made a cutting gesture: "Dig a trench! Dig it into his mother's stomach!" Under the light of the flashlight, his spitting stars were like drizzle fluttering. Soon, the regiments of the 174th Brigade dug trenches under the cover of night like mice digging holes. Dozens of deep trenches more than 1 meter deep and 70 to 80 centimeters wide were like a row of black black snakes. Extended to the enemy's position.Unlike the low-lying areas of Pudong, the soil in the Eastern Henan Plain is loose and dry, which is very suitable for tunnel operations. The horizon in the east has revealed a light pink, and the tunnels have been dug to a distance of tens of meters away from the enemy's front position.After Feng Shengfa got the report, he ordered all the ministries to prepare enough ammunition, especially throwing weapons such as grenades, to carry out close-range assaults. The progress of the various units of the 64th Army was also hindered by the prominent positions outside the stockade. Now they only waited for the 58th Division to start a new round of battle before they took shock action at the same time. In the battle against Yejigang, it all fell on the 58th Division. Although it was May weather, Feng Shengfa, who was wearing a jacket, felt a burst of heat on his body. He took off his jacket and handed it to the duty officer. soldiers, and then issued an attack order to the messengers around him.For a moment, hundreds of firepower points in the tunnel launched a stormy attack on the enemy's position at the same time. The sound of machine guns, rifles, and explosions of grenades shook the ground and made dust fly in the firelight! There were also gunfire and charge horns from all directions on Pheasant Hill. The Japanese probably didn't expect the 58th Division to fight under their noses, so when they found the gun barrel protruding from their heels and threw the grenade, they panicked all of a sudden, except for a few who fled into the stockade. , Most of them became ghosts. The officers and soldiers of the 58th Division did not give the enemy a chance to breathe. They chased a few enemies into the stockade, shot or stabbed them with knives, and quickly occupied several positions.As soon as the enemies in the village saw the Chinese troops rushing in, they got into the house, blocked the alley, climbed up the roof, and took advantage of the danger. The advancing troops of the 58th Division were blocked again! It was already daylight. After Feng Shengfa got the report, not only did he not have the previous anxiety, but he laughed, "Isn't there a Krupp cannon?" This sentence reminded Zhao Zigang, the artillery battalion commander, like a wake-up call.It turned out that during the rest of the 58th Division in Tunxi, the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs allocated a batch of German-made Krupp flat-fire guns that had just been shipped from Guangzhou to them. These 6 cannons had not been used in the battle last night due to darkness As a result, Zhao Zigang was worried that he would not have the opportunity to make meritorious deeds.Now it was dawn, and the flat-shooting cannon could come in handy, of course Zhao Zigang was very happy. Ranging, aiming, reloading, launching, following a series of earth-shaking bombardments, mud walls collapsed, and fortresses built in the lanes were turned into smoke and dust in an instant. All the devils were buried in the rubble! In the end, except for the regiment leader Shizuo Yokoyama who led more than 1,000 men to Hecun, the remaining 2,000 enemies in Yejigang were all wiped out! At the same time, the 51st Division that attacked Chuzhuangzhai also won a complete victory, and the 74th Army was immersed in joy. Western proverb goes: A good beginning is half the battle.Such a result was achieved in Doihara in the first battle, which undoubtedly increased the odds for Xue Yue to wipe out the Japanese invaders. Xue Yue's ingenious calculation was disturbed by the "German General", and Doihara took the opportunity to escape from the encirclement of the Chinese. Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to dig the embankment of the Yellow River to block the Japanese offensive. I don’t know from which day, Xue Yue fell in love with smoking hookah. He smoked it in leisure time, and he smoked it even more in wartime. The long copper mouth pipe was like the military belt on his waist. Inseparable belongings.His loneliness, confusion, and anxiety are often satisfied, calmed, and sober in the fragrance of shredded tobacco, and the slowly drifting smoke rings are like mature and perfect strategies gushing out! After learning the news that the 74th Army and the 64th Army had conquered Yejigang and Chuzhuang Village, of course Xue Yue couldn’t forget to take out the hookah, put a pinch on it, press it into the cigarette holder, and start to puff out the fog——to take this moment of being ethereal and ethereal, He was thinking about how to narrow the encirclement, and finally oppress Doiyuan in Neihuang, Yifeng, and Sanyizhai, gather and annihilate them. With years of combat experience and familiarity with the generals, Xue Yue, who holds 100,000 soldiers, is confident enough to tie up Doihara. General". The so-called "German generals" refer to Gui Yongqing and Qiu Qingquan.Gui Yongqing was born in Guixi, Jiangxi, and was born in the first phase of Huangpu; Qiu Qingquan was from Yongjia, Zhejiang, and graduated from the second phase of Huangpu. Both of them were sent to Germany by Chiang Kai-shek to study military affairs.After returning to China, they not only brought the German fascist military training methods back to the country, but also transferred the absolute loyalty and obedience of the Nazis to Hitler to the Kuomintang army.Gui Yongqing often said a sentence: "Germany has a Hitler, and Germany is revived; China has our President Jiang. As long as everyone supports it, China will be revived!" nickname. Chiang Kai-shek naturally liked to hear such "eulogies". The "Central Military Academy Teaching Corps" is known as "Chiang Kai-shek's Iron Guard". When the Corps was established, Gui Yongqing was appointed as the commander and Qiu Qingquan was the chief of staff. At the beginning of 1938, the Kuomintang imported a large number of armored vehicles, and Chiang Kai-shek formed his first mechanized division - the Army's 20th 0 Division, the division commander is Du Yuming, and Qiu Qingquan is the deputy division commander, which shows Qiu's position in Chiang Kai-shek's mind.Not to mention Gui Yongqing, He Yingqin betrothed his niece He Xiangyin to be his wife, and Chiang Kai-shek gave him a congratulatory gift of 500 silver dollars. In the battle of encircling and annihilating Tufeiyuan, Chiang Kai-shek specially ordered Gui Yongqing and Qiu Qingquan to lead his troops to participate in the battle, which not only shows the importance of this battle, but also shows that Chiang Kai-shek attaches great importance to this battle. But for Xue Yue, this generous gift may not be a good thing.Because he knew very well that these two "students of the Son of Heaven" were conceited and conceited, they had more than strength but not enough softness, too much courage but not enough resourcefulness, maybe when a leak was revealed, it would be beyond his reach. Looking back, Xue Yue's worry was prescient, and the matter really broke down with these two "German generals". Originally, Lanfeng was defended by Song Xilian's 71st Army. After the Qiu and Gui armies arrived, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the 71st Army to attack in the direction of Hongmiao, and handed over the task of guarding Lanfeng to the 27th Army, and assigned the 71st Army's The 88th Division (division commander Long Muhan) stayed temporarily and handed it over to Gui Yongqing for command, and Qiu Qingquan assisted him. When changing defenses, Song Xilian introduced the situation of the enemy and friendly forces to Qiu and Gui. Interrupted him and said: "Hey, what is this enemy, let's beat him to death!" Gui Yongqing also said nonchalantly: "It is so difficult to win the many with less, and what is so difficult to win with the few?" Seeing that Qiu and Gui were so proud and underestimated the enemy, Song Xilian smiled sarcastically and said, "Wow! You two 'German generals' are here, and you will definitely win the battle this time." They did have a "victorious battle". On May 21, the day when the 64th Army and the 74th Army launched an attack on Yejigang, when Qiu Qingquan was patrolling the outskirts of Lanfeng with several tanks and dozens of infantry as usual, he encountered a group of more than a hundred soldiers. The enemy cavalry troops searched in the direction of Lanfeng. "Hey! Damn, I miss Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here, I'm going to find someone to sacrifice the cannon!" Qiu Qingquan's blood surged with excitement, and he was the first to drive the tank towards the enemy. How can cavalry be the opponent of tanks?With the cheerful roar of the machine guns in front of the tank, the enemies fell down one after another like stumps that had been cut down, and the horses of the dead masters ran around in the field... After a while, 100 Except for a few devils who ran fast with long legs and survived to report the funeral, the rest became materials for Qiu Qingquan and others to report meritorious service. After all, size is a victory, and it is reasonable to be happy, but Qiu and Gui seem to be born with the ability to blow soap bubbles. They were overjoyed to call and send telegrams to Chiang Kai-shek, Cheng Qian, and Xue Yue respectively, bragging about: "Lan "Feng Dajie", wiped out countless enemies, etc. Chiang Kai-shek, who stayed in Zhengzhou, was of course very excited, as his favorite student.He thought that it was just around the corner to eat Doihara! But the soap bubbles that blow up cannot withstand any wind and rain after all.In just the past day, on the 23rd, a reinforced brigade in Doihara, supported by tanks and artillery, launched a sweeping attack on Lanfeng City.Two or three hours later, Gui Yongqing couldn't stand it any longer, and was routed across the board, wounded and disabled by the scattered rout soldiers, crying for his father and mother, and fled towards West Luohuang like a tide.Qiu Qingquan took advantage of the chariot and fled to Luowang Station in one breath.Gui Yongqing was naturally not as quick as he was when he ran. He knew what it meant to lose Lan Feng as a chief officer, so on the way to escape, he hurriedly wrote a note to Long Muhan, the commander of the 88th Division, ordering Master Long to stick to Lan Feng. On the other hand, he ran non-stop to Luowang Station, saying that he was going to clean up the remnants of the defeated army. The 88th Division with incomplete organizational system (missing a brigade) cannot stop the enemy's powerful offensive anyway.Long Muhan was unable to support himself alone, so he decided to withdraw from Lanfeng and led his troops to the southwest.As a result, Lanfeng fell. It was a sharp knife lying on the enemy's way forward, but now it became a bone stuck in his throat. Xue Yue's worry became a reality, Gui Yongqing messed up the pockets he had tied up, his breath leaked out, his shock can be imagined, and his anger need not be elaborated! He asked Chiang Kai-shek to severely punish Gui and Qiu for abandoning their guards in order to establish military prestige.Of course, Chiang Kai-shek's confidants could not be punished just by being punished by others. He gave Gui Yongqing a death order, requiring him to recover Lanfeng within two days, redeem his merits, and see the effect.Of course he couldn't turn a deaf ear to Xue Yue's words.As a result, Long Muhan became a scapegoat. He was sent to Wuhan by the Military Law Enforcement Division for the crime of leaving without authorization, executed by shooting, and finally became a sacrifice for Lan Feng's fall. In the following two days, Chiang Kai-shek called several times a day to inquire about the situation of the battle. Gui Yongqing was forced to dare not slack off in the slightest, and the 27th Army did fight well.But the two-day deadline was up, and Gui Yongqing couldn't take the Lan Feng, and finally he was too scared to reach out to answer the phone! Chiang Kai-shek saw that Gui Yongqing had been battered and had no choice but to take Lan Feng, so he had to withdraw the rest of the 27th Army to the west of Zhengzhou to rest and stand by. Gui Yongqing himself was dismissed. Although Gui Yongqing left a yellow butt full of bums, as the frontline commander of the entire campaign, Xue Yue had to bite the bullet and wipe it clean for him, and as far as encircling and annihilating Tu Feiyuan, he believed that the opportunity and confidence were still there, so He redeployed his troops again. The 74th Army was ordered to attack the enemy at Luo Wang Station. Luowang Station is a small station on the Longhai Line. The structure inside the station is simple, and the buildings mainly composed of waiting rooms are made of bricks, tiles and wooden beams.A few days ago, when Gui Yongqing and Qiu Qingquan abandoned Lanfeng and fled to Luowang Station, the Japanese followed them. The "German General" who was still in shock lost this strategic location again, and Yu Jishi had to do it for him now. wipe ass.After the Japanese army entered, they built temporary positions with train wagons and trucks as the main obstacles and filled with sleepers, rails, sandbags and other sundries.Before the war, Yu Jishi carried a binoculars and led Wang Yaowu, Feng Shengfa and others to conduct a reconnaissance of Luowang Station and the surrounding terrain environment, and he was somewhat sure of it. The battle began at dawn on May 26.During the Tunxi training period, the attack power of the 74th Army was greatly improved due to the acquisition of a batch of German orogen artillery and flat-fire artillery. Therefore, in the process of attacking Luowang Station this time, Yu Jishi, like the Japanese, first used The artillery made a sweeping bombardment of the enemy positions. The Japanese did not expect the Chinese artillery to be so fierce that their obstacles, light and heavy machine gun bunkers, and even artillery positions were destroyed almost instantly. After about a bag of cigarettes, the rest of the Only then did the artillery come to their senses, and fired back at my position. In this regard, Yu Jishi was well prepared. The artillery of the 74th Army moved to various places to hide after the shooting, and most of its infantry were deployed in depth as skirmishers. Therefore, the Japanese bombardment did not cause me much loss. Just as the devil's cannon roared "Boom tom", Yu Jishi held up his gold-rimmed glasses and waved his hand to issue a group charge order. The assault regiments of the 51st Division and the 58th Division, like hungry tigers, came from the northeast and southwest. Simultaneously rushed towards Luowang Station in two directions. Some soldiers fell under the enemy's machine guns, more soldiers have approached the enemy's position, and a few even rushed to the gap in the bombed enemy bunker. In the command post, Yu Jishi held the binoculars without blinking. Staring at the figure in front of him.However, just when everything was going well, dozens of red lights suddenly rose from the enemy's formation, and the assault troops were suddenly submerged in a fire——the enemy used a vicious flamethrower! Looking at hundreds of fireballs writhing and struggling in the sea of ​​flames, shaking and falling to the ground, Yu Jishi's heart felt like fried!The bursting green sticks on the temples were like detonators about to explode, nakedly resting on his head! "Mom! It's a flat-firing cannon, give me a hard blast!" Yu Jishi's round eyes, with a refined appearance, shone fiercely like two small light bulbs. After a continuous bombardment, the enemy's front fortifications were completely destroyed, and the follow-up troops of the 74th Army quickly drove them into the waiting hall.The waiting hall became the last position for the enemy to defend and resist. Since the two sides were in a state of hand-to-hand confrontation, the artillery had lost its effect, and in the evening the enemy's fortress remained motionless in front of the Chinese.Under the blood-stained sunset, the corpses of the enemy and us overlapped one another, like fallen tombstones, lying in the setting sun of the evening grass! A strong attack will only cause greater casualties; if no attack is made, the enemy will either wait for reinforcements or seek opportunities to break through on their own, both of which will bring new troubles.There must be no way to take it down! , Yu Jishi stared at the military map, put his fist on the table, and said firmly. But what method should be used? Yu Jishi fell into contemplation for a while, but fortunately, the words of a combat staff officer next to him suddenly lit him up: "I think we can attack with fire!" the staff officer said calmly. Yu Jishi turned his head and stared blankly at the young man in his 20s, with a smile rippling from his face: "Wow! Staff Liu, tell me!" Staff Officer Liu seemed to have thought about it a long time ago, and reported like a stream of water: "Didn't the Japanese use flamethrowers to burn us? We don't have that stuff, but we have a simple way to pay back. We have every meal Don’t you eat canned beef made in the United States? Fill those empty tanks with gasoline, seal them a little, send someone close to the waiting room, try to throw them over, and then shoot them. Gasoline is easy to catch fire. Wouldn’t it be thrown to the enemy Molotov cocktails!?" "Okay, okay, this is a good way! This is called 'treating the body in the same way!', after the war, I will definitely reward you and give you a promotion!" Yu Jishi's worries disappeared, and he patted Staff Officer Liu on the shoulder repeatedly. claim good. This trick really worked, and the waiting room of Luowang Station burned into a mountain of flames in an instant with the sound of an explosion. More than 1,000 devils, like mice on fire, dragged their tongues of flames and smoke, headed towards all directions. Running and rolling away, the 74th Army finally planted the blue sky and white sun flag on the roof of the waiting room of Luowang Station at sunset! The good news that came to Xue Yue was not only one of the 74th Army's capture of Luowang Station, the 71st Army's recovery of Lanfeng, and the 90th Army's capture of Qu Xingji. , getting smaller and smaller. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek had already returned to Wuhan. After reading the military reports telegraphed by Xue Yue, the supreme commander, who had been gloomy since his retreat from Xuzhou, finally opened the clouds and said happily: "It seems that Xue Boling (Xue Yue) The word Boling) is going to paint a masterpiece for me!" But history played another big joke on Chiang Kai-shek. Just as Chiang Kai-shek and Xue Yue were planning how to gather the ropes and bind Doihara, another accident happened again! Huang Jie's 8th Army, which was defending Guide (now Shangqiu) and preventing the enemy from reinforcing Doihara, approached the position at the enemy's vanguard At that time, he actually withdrew his troops without authorization and fled in the face of the wind! Huang Jie, courtesy name Dayun, was born in Changsha, a first-year student in Whampoa.Huang Jie did not make many achievements in his military career, but in the Jinan tragedy caused by the Japanese army in May 1928 and the subsequent Jiang Fengyan Central Plains War, he twice protected Chiang Kai-shek from danger, which finally contributed to his success.There are a total of 650 graduates in Whampoa Phase 1. Hu Zongnan is the fastest promoted, followed by Huang Jie.Hu Zongnan is a fellow of Chiang Kai-shek and Chen Cheng, and he is blessed by nature, while Huang Jie relies on "the grace of the savior." It was the vanguard of the Japanese 16th Division that drove away Huang Jie's 8th Army.The head of the division, Nakajima Kinego, and the head of the 5th division, Sakagaki Seishiro, the head of the 10th division, Isoya Rensuke, and the head of the 14th division, Doihara Kenji, are all "China hands" who claim to be familiar with Chinese culture. ".But this Confucian general with a literati temperament on the outside is actually a brutal butcher to the extreme.In addition to Iwane Matsui and Hisao Tani, the head of the 6th Division, the three main culprits in the Nanjing Massacre were him, Kinsago Nakajima. The news of Huang Jie's loss of Guide shocked Xue Yue for a long time, and he didn't realize it. The hookah stick trembled in his hand and fell to the ground. "Fuck you Huang Dayun! Didn't you just stab a knife in my heart!" He was so angry that he slapped the table and cursed. Similarly, the punishment report was submitted to the Military Commission.In the same way, Chiang Kai-shek was still high-pitched and light-hearted. The slight difference from Gui Yongqing was that in addition to being dismissed, Huang was also imprisoned for half a month. Huang Jie was locked up, but he opened the lid of Pandora, and let the devils come to Yudong like a tide. At the beginning of June, Sui County and Lanfeng fell one after another, Luyi and Zhecheng fell into the enemy's hands, and eastern Henan became a Japanese racecourse; on June 6, Kaifeng fell, and Pinghan Road was already in sight. Xuchang is in danger!Zhengzhou is in danger!Xue Yue's 100,000 army surrounding Doihara is also in danger! Xue Yue looked up to the sky and sighed: One general is incompetent, killing the three armies!For more than ten days, he had spent all his time planning and planning, but it ended in such a hasty failure! Chiang Kai-shek didn't expect the battle situation to change so quickly. In desperation, on June 9, he ordered the New 8th Division of Shangzhen's 20th Army to blow up the levee at Huayuankou of the Yellow River, so that the surging yellow water could be turned into a weapon against the enemy. ! The Yellow River has burst its embankment! According to statistics afterwards, the Yellow River's embankment breach submerged more than 40 counties in Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces, causing 12.5 million people to be displaced and 890,000 people to die! But at that time, Chiang Kai-shek seemed unable to take care of all this. He just wanted to block the Japanese attack and buy more time for the defense of Wuhan. In fact, the Japanese did change their strategic direction. They began to attack Wuhan along the northern and southern foothills of the Dabie Mountains. Jiang Shi not without pride said: This is called exchanging space for time!