The 4th Division of the Japanese Army is one of the most non-existent units in the Japanese army, and it is indeed easy for people to ignore the combat effectiveness and role of this unit.

The enemy that is often overlooked is the deadliest enemy.

The security regiment fought with the 4th Division of the Japanese Army in Osaka, and Li Hong knew the combat effectiveness of the 4th Division best, and also understood the enemy's cunning tactics.

Of all the units of the National Army in the entire 5th Theater, except for the Security Regiment, none of them could take advantage of the 4th Division of the Japanese Army.

Now the 4th Division of the Japanese Army is stationed in Lengshuipu Town, which is less than 50 kilometers away from Taierzhuang.

From a military perspective and geographical location, the 4th Division of the Japanese Army has the greatest advantage in reinforcing the 9th Brigade, and the road from Lengshuipu Town to Taierzhuang is flat, which is especially suitable for the devil's mechanized troops to attack.

Beware of the Japanese 4th Division, all officers and generals agree, but which one will stop the attack of the Japanese 4th Division?

The officers looked at each other one by one,

Li Hong saw the embarrassment of the other generals, and he volunteered to say: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am familiar with the 4th Division of the Japanese Army, and the task of blocking can be handed over to our security regiment. ”

"There is a security regiment blocking the Japanese army of the 4th Division, very good, very good!!"

Li Zongyao agreed to Li Hong's request to fight, and he was not at ease when other troops blocked the 4th Division.

Immediately, Li Zongyao made a decision on Li Hong's operational deployment and immediately issued a combat order to the troops under the command of the 5th Theater.

After receiving the task of blocking the operation, without further ado, Li Hong did not stay long, and quickly left the front-line command and returned to the security regiment.

As soon as he returned to the security regiment, Li Hong dispatched three battalions out, and several battalions that received combat missions began to prepare for battle.

The 4th Division of the Japanese Army was responsible for blocking the cavalry battalion, the 1st infantry battalion, and the 5th infantry battalion.

In order to cooperate with the large forces of the national army to encircle and annihilate the 9th Brigade of the devils, Li Hong seconded more than a dozen combat vehicles to the front-line troops.

Considering that the little devils would definitely send planes to support, Li Hong also arranged air defense weapons to the front line to make up for the lack of air defense firepower of the national army.

After deploying everything, Li Hong hurriedly set off with his troops.

This time it was not a war of annihilation, and it didn't require too many troops, so Li Hong didn't attack with the whole regiment.

Li Hong had fought with the 4th Division in Osaka and understood the enemy's combat effectiveness, and there was no problem for the three battalions of the Security Regiment to block the enemy's reinforcements.

It is inevitable that the 4th Devil Division will reinforce the 9th Brigade, but the Osaka Division likes to deliberately delay the chain as soon as it fights, and in Li Hong's judgment, the enemy will only send one wing at most for reinforcements.

In order to avoid the war, the Osaka Division deceived its superiors and subordinates, and did all kinds of ridiculous things, which really did not deliberately belittle this Japanese army A unit.

Li Hong predicted that the enemy would send a wing to reinforce him, which was an overestimation of the courage of the commander of the Osaka Division, and the enemy was very likely to send only one brigade or fewer troops to perfunctory the Japanese command.

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A few hours later.

At this time, within a range of dozens of kilometers in Taierzhuang, the sound of guns and cannons resounded with fierce firefights.

"Sudden !!"

"Bang Bang !!"

"Tom !!"

The sound of gunfire was deafening, bullets and shells flew everywhere on the battlefield, and columns of smoke tens of meters high were clearly visible.

Tens of thousands of troops of the Nationalist Army surrounded the Japanese 9th Brigade from the outer defense line, and the 17th Division of the Central Army, which was in the center of the battlefield, blossomed from the center of the enemy's position and took the lead in launching a counterattack against the little devils.

The battlefield is changing rapidly, and sometimes the fighter plane can change dramatically.

Originally, the Japanese army desperately attacked the position of the 17th Division of the Central Army, but now the little devil took the initiative to give up the position he had taken, and instead, the officers and soldiers of the 17th Division fought back and pursued and pestered the little devil.

The attacking and defending sides were exchanged, and the initiative of the offensive was suddenly in the hands of the national army.

During the fierce battle between the 17th Division of the Central Army and the 9th Brigade of the Devils, the Nationalist troops on the periphery slowly tightened the encirclement and launched simultaneous attacks from the left and right flanks of the enemy's position.

Although the 9th Brigade of the devils is elite and its firepower is fierce, tens of thousands of national troops attacked in turn, and the little devils gradually showed a decline.

Soon, reinforcements from the north and south of the Japanese army rushed to the aid and tried to relieve the siege of the 9th Brigade of the Devils.

The Japanese reinforcements were very fast and had tanks to support the attack, but the enemy's reinforcements on both sides were stubbornly resisted by the Nationalist troops.

The devil's reinforcements and the national army fought fiercely for several hours, and the two sides fought for an inch of land, and the Japanese army organized many charges and lost a lot of troops.

In order to save the 9th Brigade, the Japanese sent dozens of fighters and bombers into the battle.

Even though the little devils occupied the air superiority and the number of ground artillery was stronger than the national army, the national army troops united to resist the enemy, and the soldiers fought very tenaciously, and the little devil reinforcements were never able to break through the defense line of the national army.

At this moment, more than 100,000 troops from both sides of the enemy and us are fighting in the surrounding counties and towns of Taierzhuang.

At the same time, Li Hong led three battalions of the security regiment to 15 kilometers away from Lengshuipu Town.

The terrain on the outskirts of the town is relatively open, and Li Hong chose to ambush near a road.

This road is convenient for the enemy's mechanized troops to march, and if the 4th Division is going to be reinforced, then this road is the enemy's must go.

Under Li Hong's order, the machine gun crew and artillery occupied the important terrain near the road, and the rest of the soldiers quickly dug trenches with sapper shovels to carry out field fortification operations.

After the soldiers have built various field fortifications, they quickly establish defensive positions and fire points according to the surrounding favorable terrain.

The security regiment laid an ambush in advance, and the 4th Devil Division did not know about it, because the Osaka Division had not yet received a reinforcement order from the North China Command.

The time was pushed to noon, and the Japanese reinforcements from two lines broke through the first line of defense of the blocking Nationalist troops.

The offensive of the Japanese reinforcements is so slow, it is not that the little devils do not work hard in the war, the combat effectiveness of the key national army units is not weak, and there are bombers in the 5th theater of operations.

The Devil's reinforcements did not progress, but the encircled Devil's 9th Brigade was in a predicament, and the Devil's soldiers gradually died out and were wiped out by the national army.

The devil's reinforcements can't go up, and it's not just Itagaki Seishiro who is anxious, but even the North China Command of the Japanese Army is very concerned about the life and death of the 9th Brigade.

At this critical time, the commander of the Japanese army in North China, Terauchi Shouichi, thought of the 4th Division under his command.

Before, Terauchi Shouichi didn't think about using the 4th Division to reinforce him, but he was worried that Yuzaburo Matsui was playing tricks, so the Osaka Division was not in the reinforcement sequence.

Soon, the commander of the Japanese army in North China, Terauchi Shouichi, gave the Osaka 4th Division a death order, and Terauchi Shouichi strictly ordered Yuzaburo Matsui to reinforce the 9th Brigade at all costs......

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