When Yang Yuchun was going to go to the enemy's rear, the combat section chief had to re-determine the candidate, but this was not the most important thing. The most important thing was to persuade Chiang Kai-shek to agree to his retreat, but Chiang Kai-shek's call was delayed. Zhuang Jihua could imagine that Chiang Kai-shek was now communicating with Bai Chongxi. Bai Chongxi coordinated and commanded such a huge battle for the first time in this war. He definitely hoped to win a complete victory, especially after Zhuang Jihua won two consecutive victories, the people had already vaguely called the first general.

"I sent another message to Wuhan, and the Chairman's Office and the Chief Bai Command of Xinyang. The Japanese army's attempts have become very obvious. Our army suffered huge casualties on the Eastern Front and is unsustainable. Now retreating can save the troops to the greatest extent."

But Chiang Kai-shek in Wuhan remained silent, and Bai Chongxi's reply came soon. Bai Chongxi still insisted and transferred the 20th army south. In order to enhance Zhuang Jihua's confidence, the 74th Army was assigned to the command of the Fifth War Zone. At the same time, it was recommended that the 74th Army be used in the Yongcheng battlefield on the southern front.

Gong Chu handed over the retreat plan he had formulated to Zhuang Jihua for a look. After Zhuang Jihua looked at it, he shook his head and said, "This is not OK."

According to this plan, Li Xianzhou's 92nd Army and Yu Xuezhong's 51st Army will retreat to Jiangsu. Fan Songfu, Liu Ruming and Liao Yaoxiang will retreat westward with Lu Han and Deng Xihou to southeastern Henan, Liao Lei and Li Yannian will retreat to Hubei; Zhang Zizhong and Tang Enbo will join Sun Liren to Fengxian and Dangshan will retreat; Sun Lianzhong's command headquarters will retreat to Heze and enter Henan from Heze. Sun Tongxuan and Du Yuming will retreat to Shangqiu through Shan County, and Xu Zuyi will be responsible for leading the 49th Army and the First Seventy-Eighth Army to retreat to Henan.

"Such a simple retreat is equivalent to giving up the vast and vast enemy backbone to the Japanese, and some troops must be left behind in the enemy backbone." Zhuang Jihua said, picking up a pen and drawing on the document: "It is good for the 92nd Army to withdraw to Jiangsu. Liao Lei's 21st Army must leave no less than one division to fight guerrillas in the mountains near Dingyuan. Li Yannian's troops in the Second Army retreated to Hefei, and the rest of the 21st Army retreated into Dabie Mountains. Yu Xuezhong's army was not enough to enter Jiangsu. We cannot only see northern Jiangsu, but also Shandong. Shandong has Yimeng Mountain, Taishan, and Jiaodong. Such a vast area cannot be left to others like this. Let Liu Ruming go there, and these two divisions will enter the Yimeng Mountains in the future. The strategic position of the Dabie Mountains is extremely important and cannot be given to others. Tell Liao Lei to make plans to stick to it for a long time and build it into our fortress behind the enemy."

After North China gave up, GCD took the opportunity to occupy the enemy in North China. In view of this, Chiang Kai-shek had an order before the beginning of this war. Once he had to retreat, he had to leave enough troops behind the enemy, and he could no longer withdraw like North China.

"The situation in North China proves that plains are also OK. We can persist, Weishan Lake, Dushan Lake, and Nanyang Lake are also good places to fight guerrilla warfare. You are a guerrilla warfare expert, so it should be fine to accommodate a brigade in this area." Zhuang Jihua used his hand to draw a big circle in Zaozhuang, Jining and Peixian, surrounding the three lakes in western Shandong and their surrounding areas.

Gong Chu smiled bitterly in his heart. The commander dared to think about the guerrilla warfare on the plains was extremely dangerous. The biggest difference between the Kuomintang and GCD lies in the grassroots organizational and policy. If GCD can survive behind enemy lines, the Kuomintang may not be able to do it, but this cannot be said.

"No." Zhuang Jihua is easier to talk to, so Gong Chu decided not to let him down. Experts praised: "Although this area is large, this area is a major transportation route. The Japanese army must have strong garrison troops, and the guerrilla space is not large. It is difficult to establish a stable base, which can accommodate a regiment if it breaks the sky."

After saying that, he looked at Zhuang Jihua nervously. Zhuang Jihua nodded. He admitted that Gong Chu's judgment was good, but who should I send? This place is probably a hundred times more difficult than Yimeng Mountain, and Zhuang Jihua couldn't find a suitable candidate for a while.

"You re-design a retreat plan. There is no need to make any changes to the northern line. The southern line will be modified as I said just now, and then organize the deduction. What's the problem?"

Gong Chu nodded and agreed to turn around and go out.

After receiving a telegram from Zhuang Jihua, Chiang Kai-shek immediately called He Yingqin, Jiang Baili and Chen Cheng to discuss. Jiang Baili and Chen Cheng firmly supported Zhuang Jihua, believing that the long-term resistance did not care whether Honma could be annihilated now. We have already hit Honma hard, Haneda, and Nishio Suzuo. Although the Second Battle of Jinpu Road failed to annihilate the Japanese army in an integral manner, the number of enemies annihilated is no less than the first Battle of Jinpu Road. Retreat now can avoid unnecessary adventures.

He Yingqin's attitude was a bit ambiguous. He said that he could retreat to protect the entire team, and hesitated, thinking that the annihilation of Honma was about to be imminent, so he could do it by gritting his teeth.

After hesitating for a moment, Lin Wei decided to support Zhuang Jihua, not only because of Zhuang Jihua's brilliant record, but also because of Zhuang Jihua's front-line commander, and what he said was more convincing.

After receiving the support of three major military aides, Chiang Kai-shek made up his mind to retreat, but unexpectedly, Bai Chongxi refused firmly. He insisted that he could still fight. The Japanese army descended from Puyang had been intercepted by the 27th Jun, the 22nd Army and the Rao Guohua Division. Xue Yue had made great progress north of the Yellow River. The 36th Division and the 17th Division had been divided and surrounded by several isolated small villages, and the annihilation was just in front of him. South of the Yellow River, Xu Zuyi had seriously compressed the space of Honma. Our army was only five miles away from Dongkou, the core position of Honma. The New 22nd Division was in Su County. Kangjian Nakajima was already exhausted, so that our army could regain control of the entire battle situation.

In the telegram, Bai Chongxi accused Zhuang Jihua of being arrogant and refusing to obey orders. The 20th Army was still retreating to Dangshan, Henan, and the 74th Army did not drive to the front line of the Qinghe River, causing crises in the front line of the Qinghe River. He even hinted that Zhuang Jihua might deliberately relax the front line of the Qinghe River, making the retreat a fait accompli.

After reading Bai Chongxi's telegram, Jiang Baili was a little angry. He said with great dissatisfaction: "Bai Jiansheng is in Xinyang and Zhuang Jihua is in Xuzhou. Who knows the actual situation on the front line better? This is self-evident. Fighting is not based on imagination and speculation. Chairman, I firmly demand the order to retreat."

Although Chiang Kai-shek agreed with Chiang Baili's opinion, he showed his spirit this time rarely and insisted on persuading Bai Chongxi instead of forcing orders. He advised Bai Chongxi to pay attention to the crisis on the Eastern Front in the telegram. Even if he annihilated Honma, there were still 500,000 Japanese troops on the periphery, and the Japanese army could still attack. If our army suffered too much and could not stop the Japanese army, the Japanese army might directly attack Wuhan, which would be more than worth the loss.

Wuhan and Xinyang telegrams were in contact with each other, and Liao Yaoxiang, who suffered a great loss, was leading his troops to attack Suxian in anger.

Liao Yaoxiang arrived in Suxian shortly after dawn. The remaining troops of the July 16th Brigade met. Liao Yaoxiang, who had never suffered such a loss, was furious after hearing the Yao Songtao report. While reporting Zhuang Jihua without hesitation, he asked for severe punishment of Li Pinxian, and quickly assembled troops to start attacking Suxian.

It ignited Liao Yaoxiang's anger, which was equivalent to igniting the anger of the New Twenty-Two Division. The boxers rushed towards Suxian in three directions. Soon they recovered the losses they suffered in the west of the city. When Liao Yaoxiang initiated, nearly two thousand people still did not enter Suxian, and they were ambushed by Liao Yaoxiang.

The continuous forcing army dragged Nakajima for a long time. Although more than 3,000 people arrived in Suxian, there were still two thousand people dragging behind him. Liao Yaoxiang's right wing detoured by the West Gate, and he got news on the way. A Japanese army was coming. Liao Yaoxiang immediately decided to destroy the Japanese army.

When the shells fell, the extremely tired Japanese soldiers stood there stupidly. Facing the Chinese soldiers coming like a tide, they just instinctively made resistance moves. The ending was self-evident. The Japanese soldiers aroused the last bit of strength and attacked Suxian, dragging their heavy legs forward. The leather boots on their feet seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and the thousand pounds on their hands were like ten thousand pounds. Their physical strength and spirit had reached the limit, and many people didn't want to get up after lying down.

The loud charge and the sound of cannons woke up Zhongdao on the city wall. He was resting on the city wall and fell asleep in a daze. In fact, the entire brigade was sleeping. The sound of gunfire and cannons made them get up from their sleep and look at the smoke and fires rising in the distance.

"Your Excellency, let me take people out to pick them up." It was too time for Gushu to arrive in the city. The entire Fifth Mixed Brigade was divided into three parts. The vanguard led by Nakajima, including the First Cavalry Brigade, had about 1,5600 troops; the second part he led had about 2,000 troops; the regiment leader Gao Pu led the last group, including some soldiers with weak physical fitness, light wounded, doctors, nurses and engineers, etc.

Nakajima's expressionless smoke and the flames rose up, and it took a long time to shake his head firmly: "No, order it, the whole army enters the state of combat, tell Shicao and withdraw to the city immediately."

"Your Excellency." The ancient tree was extremely distressed. Nakajima's move was undoubtedly to give up the outside team of the city and let him fend for himself: "Let me go."

"How many troops are there outside? How much physical strength do you have?" Nakajima's voice was still firm, but he dared not turn around, and tears faintly appeared in his eyes. After a long time, Nakajima said: "Immediately send a telegram to Peking that the army is counterattacking and requesting emergency reinforcements. We will fight to the last soldier."

Nakajima tried hard to calm down his grief, and then turned to the ancient tree: "Tell all the soldiers that they are not allowed to retreat in this battle, and everyone must stick to the last moment."

The gunshots outside the city gradually disappeared, and the cannons at the north gate sounded again, and the earth-shaking explosion trembled in Nakajima's heart. The main attack direction of the Zhong** team was at the north gate. With such powerful artillery fire, Lu Cao didn't know if he could withdraw from the railway station outside the north gate.

Liao Yaoxiang's attacks have always been crazy. He followed the tactics taught in Chongqing Military Academy. The infantry charged with bombings, and raindrop-like shells destroyed all obstacles in the train station. The soldiers who rushed towards him rushed into the station with the explosion and fought with the Japanese army to fight for the house.

Lu Cao stared at his blood-red eyes and wanted to launch a counterattack, but was stopped by the messenger who arrived in time. The messenger brought Nakajima's orders, which made him immediately retreat into the city. Lu Cao led the remnants to quickly retreat into the city, and Liao Yaoxiang succeeded in the first battle.

The easy capture of the important barrier outside the North Gate made Liao Yaoxiang deeply believe that retaking Suxian was just a small task, but he wanted to humiliate the deputy commander who made him suffer inexplicably and the commander-in-chief of the South Line.
Chapter completed!