"It is not the time to compete for the gains and losses of a city and a place. If our two armies are all destroyed, and the 6th army is alone, the established battle in the Central Plains will not be completely ruined?" Zhao Tieshu shook his head and said, "Since that's the case, let me send this telegram. ±,"

"What do you mean? The Battle of Shijiazhuang was presided over by me. Am I still afraid of taking responsibility?" Yang Hucheng's face darkened. "Come here, I'll send a telegram to the General Staff. He said that Jinan was lost and Shijiazhuang no longer had to stick to it. Our flanks have been exposed to the Japanese army and our 3rd Army requested a retreat!"

In fact, the Northwest General Staff Headquarters quickly passed a joint telegram between Yang Hucheng and Zhao Tieshu. But the Japanese army was not incompetent. On the contrary, once the Japanese army seized the opportunity, the Japanese army's reaction was rapid. Soichi Tsakachi and Kiyoshi Kazuki even regarded Yang Hucheng and Zhao Tieshu's two armies as thorns in their eyes and were stabbed in their flesh. Once these two armies were wiped out, the subsequent attack on the Central Plains would be twice the result with half the effort.

"Quick, hurry!" The cold wind in January was still biting, but under such extremely difficult conditions, the Japanese army in the brigade walked overnight. After conquering Jinan, they did not stop at all, nor did they burn, kill and loot like before, and directly rushed to Jizhou in Hebei. At this time, the troops of the 53rd Army Wan Fulin were responsible for the defense of Jizhou.

"Secretary, the Japanese army has acted seriously this time." Staff Officer Wang Xiwu looked at Wan Fulin with an anxious look on his face.

"Don't I know if the Japanese army is really doing it? But this time, our 49th Army stood on the flanks and beat the geese all day long, but in the end it was pecking. I finally earned a job in defense in Jizhou, but unexpectedly it was a chore in the end."

Wan Fulin said with a bitter face, "The Battle of Shijiazhuang is only a flank. The front is all covered by Yang Hucheng's Shaanxi Army, and the Northwest Army, and Shang Zhen and Sun Dianying's troops were not small for a while. Wan Fulin only obtained the defense missions in Jizhou, Nangong and Xinhe areas with great efforts. It was more of the reserve team in the rear. But Wan Fulin never expected that the Japanese army could not capture the Shijiazhuang area for a long time. In fact, it came a big detour, and rushed to Shandong from afar, and the speed of capturing Jinan was incredible. There were rumors that even the chairman of Shandong Province, Han Fuju, was almost killed by the Japanese army on the battlefield. Thinking of this, Wan Fulin was a little chilled. He had experienced the war of Rehe and the Great Wall. He was unwilling to have a direct contact with the Japanese army from the bottom of his heart.

And his staff officer Wang Xiwu had the same idea, "Yes, military commander, even Han Fuju's nearly 100,000 people could not stop the Japanese army. This time the Japanese army that detoured from Shandong must be the main force. We are only one 53rd Army. A brigade was taken away by Yang Hucheng, so we must not be able to defeat the Japanese. Besides, even Shijiazhuang is retreating now, so we are not responsible for the trouble here."

"Nothing nonsense. Zhang Wenqing's previous example is a lesson in the past. Do you want me to follow his footsteps?" Wan Fulin said with a face.

"It's not that following his footsteps, the young marshal was placed under house arrest in Nanjing before, but now there is a young marshal behind him. Besides, Zhang Wenqing is just a small division commander, and he will move when he moves. You are a veteran in the Northeast Army and are of the same qualifications as the old marshal. He has a huge impact on our Northeast Army. He doesn't have to move just by urging. In addition, we are not not fighting with the Japanese, we just take down a brigade first to protect ourselves.

The way to retreat is to fight a few battles with the Japanese in front and then wait for an opportunity to retreat. As the saying goes, it is better to seek oneself than to seek others. Now the Japanese have been defeated by the Japanese in Taiyuan. The Japanese army in Shanxi advanced east along Zhengtai Road and met with the main force in front of Shijiazhuang. No matter how hard Yang Hucheng and Zhao Tieshu can fight, they can only escape in panic, and may not be able to take care of us at that time. We must plan our own way of retreat, first arrange a way out, and after fighting with the Japanese, we will then send a telegram to the commander." Zhang Xiwu advised.

"Okay, then that's what we've arranged." Wan Fulin thought about it for a while, and finally decided to do what Zhang Xiwu said. He was a person of the same era as Zhang Zuolin. He understood the hard truth that if there was a soldier on hand, he had the right to speak. People of his era even valued the soldiers on hand more than anything else. Therefore, Han Fuju led his army to retreat despite the orders of Nanjing. Because Han Fuju had nearly 100,000 troops on hand, he was not afraid of Chairman Jiang of Nanjing punishing him. If it really didn't work, it would be better to switch to Nanjing later, and the rules in the northwest were also a little more.

The brigade of trucks and mules and horses were advancing on the rugged roads. When farmers in the dark night saw the brigade of carriages and horses, they all took their families and kept their families away. These days, I don’t know how many Japanese killed the people. Wherever the Japanese army passed, the four transmissions spread fear and death. However, what made these people strange was that the Japanese army did not seem to care about them at all. They passed by the village as fast as possible and rushed directly to the farther Jizhou County.

"Hurry, hurry up, move all the food away!" At this time, in a small town in the eastern part of Jizhou County, hundreds of soldiers were responsible for escorting the food collected next to Jizhou County to prevent the food from falling into the hands of the Japanese army. It also promoted the gradual transfer of the people in southern Hebei to Shandong.

Time is very tight, and these soldiers also grabbed time overnight. However, the speed of the Japanese army coming was obviously beyond the expectations of these soldiers.

"Not good, camp, then, the Japanese are coming over there!" The Japanese convoy was quite disturbing. When these Northeast Army soldiers discovered the Japanese army, the other party had already turned over the forest by the river. When they appeared in sight, they were only a few hundred meters away. Due to the speed of the Japanese army, even if they discovered their farmers, they would never be able to run over the Japanese cars and horses with their legs.

"Damn it, why did the Japanese arrive here so quickly? Hurry up, everyone retreat to Luomashan!" Battalion Commander Zhou Jixian saw the lights of trucks coming, and the other party's mechanical bicycle rushed to the front, and he couldn't help but feel shocked.

The Japanese army did not wait for any action here, and the machine gun fixed on the machine bike was fired first. The bullets like rain splashed directly at the part of the transport of food. The soldiers and the people who had no time to escape immediately swept down a small piece. The people next to them scattered directly into birds and beasts.

Bang, Bang The gunshots of Northeast Army soldiers fighting back appear pale and powerless in comparison.

"Mr. Takekashi, you will lead two squadrons and you will leave these Chinese troops to you. Don't annihilate or defeat the unit in the shortest time, and come quickly to join the main force!" Kawamoto Taki said with a cold face.
Chapter completed!