Bright Sword: Construction starts from southeastern Shanxi

However, when Zeng Jiwen learned that the defenders of Lanfeng and Shangqiu were still Gui Yongqing of the 27th Army and Huang Jie of the 8th Army, he was immediately furious. Others did not know, but Zeng Jiwen knew it.

When the troops of these two people faced the attack of the Japanese army, they directly abandoned Lanfeng and Shangqiu, which directly led to the failure of the plan to encircle and annihilate the 14th Division and the front line fell into a more passive situation.

In this time and space, I am afraid that the 11th Division will be surrounded and annihilated, and the farce in the original time and space will happen again.

As Zeng Jiwen expected, in mid-June, facing the powerful firepower of the 11th Division, the encirclement and annihilation plan made no progress.

On the 17th, Japanese reinforcements advanced on Lanfeng, putting Xue Laohu's Eastern Henan Corps on the defensive. On June 20th, the troops in Eastern Henan retreated completely. On June 25th, the Yellow River dikes at Huayuankou and Zhaokou were completely breached, officially ending the Battle of Lanfeng.

Although the Battle of Lanfeng delayed the Japanese army and slowed down the pursuit of the Chinese army retreating from the Battle of Xuzhou, and bought time for the deployment of the Wuhan Defense War, the impact of the Yellow River bursting its dikes on the people in a large area was extremely bad.

When Zeng Jiwen learned about this, he cursed at the 389th Brigade headquarters and was furious. When Zeng Jiwen found out that the two men were still defending, he pointed out that they might be passive and lazy, and asked Xue Lao Hu to make new selections.

But how could he listen to Zeng Jiwen? He was already brooding over the fact that he had been tricked by Tuantuan, and now he was meddling in other people's affairs. Besides, how could he believe Zeng Jiwen if he said he was unreliable?

There was no other way, Zeng Jiwen could only ask the base to be prepared and make arrangements as soon as possible if any disaster-stricken people arrived at the base.

Speaking of this battle, it actually has a lot to do with the 389th Brigade.

As the news of the heavy losses inflicted by the Japanese army in the nine-way siege of southeastern Shanxi began to spread, the whole of China was filled with confidence in the war of resistance.

The Japanese army's successive defeats in Shanxi and Central China led to the Central and North China Expeditionary Forces being held accountable by the Japanese headquarters. The massive losses and attrition meant that the newly expanded forces had to compensate for the losses of the frontline divisions, while also requiring the initiation of conscription and the replenishment of large quantities of supplies.

This was especially true in North China, where nearly 200 aircraft had been lost, requiring a large amount of resources. Therefore, when the cabinet began to replenish supplies and resources for the army, the navy simply refused.

If the army is to be replenished, then material resources such as steel will definitely be tilted towards the army, which is something the navy absolutely cannot tolerate.

As the army won victory after victory in land battles, the navy felt a sense of crisis. If the situation continued like this, if they opened a loophole today, they would be in trouble tomorrow if they helped the army.

Therefore, the navy resolutely refused to do so and wanted to replenish supplies, letting the army find a way on its own. At the same time, in order to stimulate the army and make them give up, they published articles in newspapers and reprinted reports from Chinese newspapers.

At the same time, several naval generals took their marines to wander around in front of the army department every day, beating drums and gongs, saying that they were celebrating the launch of their new warship and adding another warship to the empire. They didn't want some troops to only consume the empire's resources and still have the nerve to continue asking for more from the empire.

Several young officers in the Army Department were so angry that they immediately wanted to let those idiots in the Navy see what it meant to recruit nuclear men.

Under the stimulation of the navy, the army naturally gave up asking for supplies and other resources from the cabinet, and then began to raise resources on its own to make up for the consumption on the front line.

At the same time, although both North China and Central China suffered defeats in this battle, it was impossible to remove both commanders from their posts at the same time.