Kasumi Nakajima did not know that his actions went south were shocked by four command centers. The commander of the North China Front Army, Sugiyama Moto was frightened by his way of letting go on the flanks and continuously ordered him to give up going south. The commander of the First Army of Shijiazhuang, Katsuki Kiyoshi, was highly praised by his actions, detained Sugiyama Moto's telegram and refused to forward it to Nakajima. Sugiyama Moto was furious and wanted to remove the position of the First Army of Katsuki Kiyoshi.

Another shocking thing was the command center of the First War Zone in Zhengzhou. Li Zongren never dreamed that the front of the Pinghan Line would collapse so quickly, and it was eight times the enemy. After only one day and one night of battle, the entire front was completely defeated by the Japanese army. Seeing Nakajima Kangjian getting closer and closer to the Yellow River, Li Zongren was extremely anxious.

At this moment, Xuzhou only had two regiments directly under the war zone, and there was also a gendarmerie regiment, and Hao Zhiju's unit of the 91st Army, which was the general reserve. Gao Zhiju's unit was expanded from the former 166th Division. The reorganization of the troops had not been completed. Half of the new recruits had been enlisted for less than two months. Li Zongren himself had no confidence in defending Zhengzhou with such troops. In desperation, Li Zongren looked for reinforcements everywhere, but all the troops suddenly disappeared. Li Zongren had to call Xue Yue to draw a division from the front line to defend Zhengzhou.

After receiving the telegram from Li Zongren, Xue Yue instinctively wanted to refuse. The front line was in short supply, and the three armies were fighting hard. Drawing any force might lead to the failure of the troops. Xue Yue was unwilling, but he did not want to offend Li Zongren like this, so he proposed to commander-in-chief Bai Chongxi to suspend the offensive. Bai Chongxi did not say hello to Li Zongren, and immediately ordered that no troops be drawn from the front line, and also strictly ordered Xue Yue to speed up the attack and break the Japanese defense circle as soon as possible.

Bai Chongxi also couldn't understand why Nakajima Kangjian launched an attack at this time? Attack Henan? Attack Zhengzhou? Retain our counterattack troops? But in this way, isn't the north of the Yellow River empty? The Japanese army fighting in eastern Henan no longer has the rear route? Let our army cut off their transportation lines? Nakajima Kangjian did not receive reinforcements that were far greater than his troops. He could not have the force to attack and protect the transportation lines? What exactly did he do? Bai Chongxi didn't understand it yet, but in his heart he didn't think Nakajima Kangjian would attack Zhengzhou. There was no such trick in the information from Zhuang Jihua.

The 77th Army was completely defeated, Zhongdao. With infantry attacks, Lu was swiftly fighting the cavalry, and he bit the 37th Division and the 77th Army headquarters, without giving Feng Zhi'an any time to stay and rectify the troops. The 77th Army fought hard, but the situation never showed a chance to save the situation. Feng Zhi'an rushed to escape to the bank of the Yellow River, but could not cross the river, so he simply led his troops to the west.

Feng Zhian left like this, and Nakajima Kangjian was very cheerful. Now he had no strength to stop him from reaching the north bank of the Yellow River.

Li Zongren learned that Nakajima Kangjian conquered Yuan. Yang immediately advanced eastward. He had just breathed a sigh of relief, but Nakajima turned around and headed south to cross the Yellow River at the three churches at the junction of Yuanyang Fengqiu.

Kaifeng, Wuhan, Shijiazhuang and Peking are vibrated in one.

Chiang Kai-shek was furious in Wuhan and sent a telegram to Li Zongren to ask for the misunderstanding. The generals who were dereliction of duty were brought to justice. "The collapse of 80,000 troops in one day made it difficult for the Japanese army to cross the Yellow River, as if they were entering a no-man. There was a suspicion of fearless enemy and avoiding war. The chief of the war zone should strictly review it and follow Han Fuju's old rules to deal with it!!!!"

The murderous telegram made all the generals shudder. Li Zongren thought of the reason why Zhuang Jihua refused to fight with Han Fuju again, "They were all untrustworthy guys." Li Zongren sighed in his heart, and then silently handed Chiang Kai-shek's telegram to General Senator Xiao Zhenying. Xiao Zhenying was an old man of the Northwest Army and the actual creator of the 29th Army. He had a wide connection in the Northwest Army and was highly respected by the 29th Army. However, he had a very poor relationship with Feng Yuxiang. Even after the War of Resistance began, Feng Yuxiang sent someone to assassinate him when he served as the commander of the First War Zone. The relationship between the two was simply incompatible.

After seeing this, Xiao Zhenying couldn't help but shake his head: "No wonder the Commissioner was angry. In two days, it was unheard of that. Two cities and two lost lands in the city for more than a hundred miles."

"You have to work hard for this matter. Let's go," Li Zongren changed his hand slightly and handed the hot potato to Xiao Zhenying. Xiao Zhenying smiled bitterly and did not refuse. The battle situation suddenly had a variable. Li Zongren had no time to deal with such matters. Deputy Commander Liu Zhi was far away in Xuchang again, and only he, the general senator, came forward.

"Brother Zhenying, what is the purpose of this Japanese army?" Li Zongren was puzzled. No matter how he thought that the Japanese army was launching a suicide attack, this kind of battle without the right rear, without support troops, and without supplementary forces, isn't it obvious that he died?

"I can't see it," Xiao Zhenying shook his head and said, "But they pose a great threat to us. If nothing unexpected happens, it's time to attack Zhengzhou tomorrow."

Li Zongren thought so, but now he has so many troops in his hands. It would be very difficult to defend Zhengzhou without foreign aid. Just as he was thinking, Xiao Zhenying added: "Dong, have you noticed that if this Japanese army turned east after crossing the river, Xue Yue's logistics supply line might be cut off."

"I don't know, but I only have such a little force in my hands..." Li Zongren spread his hands: "I can't stop defending Zhengzhou."

"Only Xue Yue has soldiers, but Xue Yue will definitely not agree. This is better, it is better to telegraph the Chairman and ask for more troops." Even if Li Zongren smiled bitterly, he could no longer laugh.

Li Zongren's urgent telegram was distributed to Xue Yue, Bai Chongxi and Chiang Kai-shek. Xue Yue's logistics line was shocked. He ignored Bai Chongxi's orders and dispatched the 74th Army from the attacking troops to launch a counterattack on Nakajima.

Bai Chongxi no longer opposed Xue Yue's dispatch of troops when crossing the river in Zhongdao. At the same time, he sent Chiang Kai-shek to request that the 27th Army gathered at Xinyang and the Eighth Army at the junction of Henan and Shanxi be transferred to the command of the war zone. Chiang Kai-shek immediately agreed. Bai Chongxi ordered the 27th Army to transport Zhengzhou urgently, and the Eighth Army went to Jiaozuo and launched a counterattack on Xinxiang, completely cutting off the retreat of the troops crossing the river.

Kazuya Nakajima crossed the river without authorization and exposed a big gap on the north line. Sugiyama was also so anxious that he jumped up in Beijing and almost split his desk in half.

"Your Excellency, you should immediately order Zhongdao to return to Hebei and defend Xinxiang to Anyang. Otherwise, not only will he be in danger, but it will also lead to the flanks of the combat troops in eastern Henan being attacked by the army."

The staff members of the General Staff had a surprisingly unanimous opinion this time, whether it was Ligao support, Eto or Naomiro Okabe, who unanimously asked Sugiyama to order Nakajima to return to Hebei and cancel the Henan battle.

Sugiyama Yuan had ordered Katsuki Kiyoshi several times, but Katsuki Kiyoshi refused to accept the order, and repeatedly called Nakajima to distinguish it. Sugiyama Yuan was extremely annoyed, but he had no choice but to resist such inferior confrontation among the Japanese army.

"Your Excellency, will Xiangyue Kiyoshi refuse?" Eto asked.

"Then you will remove his position and send him to the military court." Li Gao suggested with a firm expression.

"Yes, send him to the military court!" The staff members agreed.

"Your Excellency, I suggest that the 101st Division that is ready to be devoted to Puyang will be left in Xinxiang, responsible for defending the Xinxiang to Anyang area, and ensuring the safety of the main force of the front army." Okabe suggested.

After a little thought, Sugiyama Sora nodded in agreement and felt that this was probably the only solution.

In fact, even if Kazuki Kiyoshi ordered Nakajima, Nakajima would not implement it. He is now marching happily south of the Yellow River. After rushing across the Yellow River, he found that as he expected, the Zhong** team south of the Yellow River was very empty. Except for a small number of troops called security regiments, there were almost no regular troops. But thinking about it, there were 80,000 troops on the front of the Pinghan Line and 300,000 counterattack troops in eastern Henan. There could be no more troops south of the Yellow River.

"You guys, you defeated the army that is several times your strength, occupied two county towns within two days, and drove straight into more than 100 miles. You have created a military miracle! This is your eternal glory! I am proud of you!" Nakajima shouted loudly in the face of the soldiers, cheering their increasingly tired bodies: "I know you are already very tired, but I hope you can persevere. There are 500,000 troops in the east. As long as we fight, we can cooperate with our army to completely annihilate the main force of this group!"

"Long live!" "Long live the Emperor!" Murakami raised his arms and shouted loudly.

"Long live!" "Long live the Emperor!" The soldiers also shook their arms and shouted loudly.

The village was filled with fire, and dead bodies were everywhere; dozens of carts were parked at the entrance of the village, filled with grain and forage. In order to grab the grain and forage, they killed all the villagers in the village.

After resting, Nakajima led his troops to move towards Kaifeng.

Just as Nakadao was resting, gunshots outside Zhengzhou City were sounding all night. That night, the city of Zhengzhou was startled several times. The defenders closed the city gates and were waiting for battle at the top of the city. What surprised them was that the Japanese army only fired guns outside the city, and the positions outside the city were also lost several places, but after dawn, the gunshots gradually faded away, and the brigade of cavalry rushed eastward.

Hearing the report of the troops searching outside the city, saying that the Japanese army had left and headed east, Li Zongren was stunned for a moment, then quickly walked to the map and took a closer look.

"What's the Japanese's idea?" The Chief of Staff was very puzzled: "Is it not that I want to attract our army out of the city to pursue?"

"This is the extravagant thing," Li Zongren turned around and smiled: "Director Huang, telegraphed the Kaifeng City Defense Command that a large number of Japanese troops came to you. They must hold on for three days, fall within three days, and send him to the military court. If he loses in three days, the responsibility lies with me.

The second telegram was sent to Yu Ji, the commander of the 74th Army, and ordered him to rush to Kaifeng immediately, and at the same time, he distributed a powerful force to seize Lankao and block the Japanese army.

The third telegram was sent to Wuhan Chairman and Bai Jiansheng, Xinyang. The Japanese army crossed the river at most no more than 10,000 people. His purpose was to harass our army's rear, and he might also advance eastward to the fifth war zone. He would cut off the main retreat of the fifth war zone with Honma and cooperate with the two southeast lines to encircle the main force of our fifth war zone.

The fourth telegram was sent to Commander Zhuang of the Fifth War Zone. The fifth mixed brigade of the Japanese army crossed the Yellow River, fought without a rear, and attacked Kaifeng. It was determined that his intention was to enter Shandong through Lankao and lift the encirclement of Honma, hoping to prepare for it."

"Start up!" Nakajima walked in the queue, and immediately a young and slightly immature soldier sat: "We must arrive in Kaifeng tonight!"

The frequency of the queue immediately accelerated, and heavy breathing spread in the team. The heavy breathing of thousands of people condensed into a white mist in the air. Many soldiers walked too fast, opening their coats and military uniforms inside. Some even threw away their coats and lightly put them on the battlefield.

"The real test has begun."

Hearing the sound of horse hooves from behind, Nakajima stopped and turned his head to look at the West. Once the yellow clouds were hung in the air, a sun flag appeared in the yellow clouds, and the deer grass was back. People should have noticed their intentions.
Chapter completed!