Chapter 474: Forcing Back a Strong Enemy (1)

A few days passed in a flash.

Since the security regiment stabilized the situation in the northern part of the city, there has been no fighting on the side of the northern position.

The 3rd Battalion of the Security Regiment that stayed behind in the position, after receiving Li Hong's order, was actually the same as the 8th Wing, as long as the opponent did not take the initiative to attack, it would never take the initiative to provoke the opponent.

The security regiment and the 4th Division of the Japanese army are like reaching some kind of tacit understanding, no one provokes anyone, and they are not guilty of each other.

A few days ago, President Jiang took his entourage secretary and his entourage to the 5th War Zone to supervise in person.

The principal's purpose here was not to come to the front line to supervise the battle, he was actually not optimistic about the Taierzhuang Battle organized by the 5th War Zone, he wanted Li Zongyao to give up the strategy of encirclement and annihilation.

Li Zongyao has absolute confidence in the battle of Taierzhuang, and the entire battle plan is half completed, so he will naturally not give up easily.

Li Zongyao reported to the principal the detailed deployment of the entire Taierzhuang battle, and Bai Wenqing even did not hesitate to make a military order to ensure that this battle was fought well.

In the end, the principal was moved by the resolute and decisive words of the two and agreed that the battle plan of Taierzhuang would remain unchanged.

In addition, the 20th Army Corps of the Central Army received an order from the principal to take the initiative to attack the Japanese army and cooperate with the 5th Theater to fight the Battle of Taierzhuang......

After the 20th Army Corps of the Central Army received the battle order, the 52nd Army and the 85th Army under its jurisdiction moved from the outside of the Japanese army and launched an attack from the enemy's flank.

At this time, the Japanese 5th Division and the 10th Division had not yet realized the strategic intention of the 5th Theater of Operations.

The Security Regiment, the 2nd Group Army, and the troops of the National Army around Taierzhuang gradually formed an encirclement of the Japanese 33 Brigade and other troops outside Taierzhuang.

After the 33rd Brigade of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army was surrounded, the 5th Division of the Japanese Army changed its original attack plan and immediately sent the 9th Brigade to the Taierzhuang area to increase troops and relieve the siege of the 33rd Brigade.

As soon as the 5th Brigade of the 9th Division came up with reinforcements, it launched an attack on the outer defense line of the 20th Army Corps of the Central Army.

When the Japanese attacked the 20th Army Corps, Commander Tang, the commander of the 20th Army, ordered the 52nd Army and the 75th Army to besiege the 9th Brigade of the Japanese Army.

The soldiers on both sides fought fiercely for several days, and in the end, the Central Army troops inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army, annihilating thousands of enemies, and the plan of the 9th Brigade of the Japanese Army to rescue the 33rd Brigade of the Japanese Army was frustrated.

The 33rd Brigade of the Japanese Army, which was besieged outside Taierzhuang, saw that the reinforcements were repelled by the Central Army and there was no hope of rescue, so the 33rd Brigade of the Japanese Army decided to fight to the death to break through.

The 33rd Brigade of the Japanese Army was naturally unwilling to be annihilated, and the devil soldiers fought with extraordinary bravery, and the enemy killed them one by one, and organized death squads to break through the siege many times.

Although the enemy is besieged, it is not easy to completely destroy the enemy. The Devil Combat Unit had heavy artillery on the ground and bombers in the air, which caused great casualties to the Chinese troops.

Commander Li Zongyao of the 5th Theater mobilized several times the strength to attack the 33rd Brigade of the Japanese Army on the outskirts of Taierzhuang, and even though the Nationalist troops paid a heavy price in casualties, they still failed to destroy the enemy.

When the two armies were outside Taierzhuang, the 5th Division and the 10th Division of the Japanese Army, led all the divisions under their jurisdiction, and the whole army assembled in the Taierzhuang area.

As soon as the two divisions of the Japanese army came up, they disrupted the original encirclement plan of the 5th Theater, and the theater could only divide troops to block the Japanese army, and the Battle of Taierzhuang gradually fell into a stalemate.

In the past few days, the towns and counties around Taierzhuang have almost become a pot of porridge, and the Chinese army and the Japanese army have been fighting fiercely everywhere.

The task of besieging the 33rd Brigade of the Japanese Army was completed by Sun Liancheng's 2nd Army and other Central Army units, while the Security Regiment received the task of holding Taierzhuang.

Li Hong could have taken the initiative to ask for the 33rd Brigade of the 10th Division and the remnants of the 5th Division to besiege and annihilate outside the city, but Li Hong thought that there was a Japanese 4th Division outside the city, so he devoted his main energy to preventing the Japanese 4th Division.

At present, the strength of the security regiment is encircling the Japanese 4th Division to prevent the 4th Division from reinforcing the besieged Japanese troops.

The 4th Division of the Japanese Army, strange to say, was surrounded by other Japanese troops outside the city, and this 4th Division had no sign of reinforcements at all, and it looked like it didn't care about itself.

Li Hong stood on the highest point of the mountain behind Taierzhuang, looking at the battle situation more than 20 kilometers away from Taierzhuang.

"Sudden ......"

"Tom ......"

In the distance, the sound of guns and artillery continued, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the battlefield all around, and in the past few days, the national army troops and the devil troops fought in the dark, from morning to night, and from night to day.

The troops outside the city have been fighting fiercely with the besieged Japanese troops for several days, and the casualties of the little devils have reached more than 5,000, and the casualties of the national army troops have reached more than 13,000.

Suddenly, there was the sound of an airplane's engine in the distance.

"Buzz—"

Li Hong moved the telescope in his hand and looked at the group of planes flying in the sky.

Dozens of Japanese planes, sailing in formation, flew violently towards the battlefield outside the city.

As soon as the devil's bomber came, it rained down hundreds of aerial bombs and carpet-bombed the foreign military units in the city.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The explosion of the bomb was incessant, and the ground could feel the vibration.

Suddenly, the battlefield outside the city turned into a sea of fire.

The besieged devil army is now a battle of trapped beasts, and the enemy will do everything in order to break through, and any despicable tricks can be used.

Incendiary bombs, poison gas bombs, aircraft cannons, these lethal weapons, the little devils all used, which is why the foreign troops in the city paid heavy casualties and did not annihilate the enemy.

Li Hong mobilized some anti-aircraft guns to the 2nd Army, but the little devil pilots were crazy to the extreme, and they were not afraid that the planes would be destroyed and people would be killed, and the enemy planes continued to carry out air raids one after another.

Under the cover of bombers, the enemy organized more than a thousand troops to break through.

"Imperial soldiers, crush the soldiers in front of you, break through, and give !! ducks and chickens"

The devil soldiers pounced on the positions of the national army troops like a pack of hungry wolves, and the enemy's offensive was fierce, but the national army troops fought very tenaciously.

The troops of the national army withstood the bombardment of enemy shells and aerial bombs, and engaged in a fierce battle with the rushing devils.

The two sides fought for more than an hour, and even though the devil soldiers tried their best, in the end, the enemy did not open a breakthrough in the national defense line, and the enemy's long-cherished wish to break through the encirclement was once again disappointed.

Looking at the tragic battlefield in the distance, Li Hong frowned and began to think.

According to the desperate breakthrough of the devil troops outside the city, the national army troops will inevitably pay an extremely heavy price.

Wounding 100 enemies and losing 1,000 self-inflicted losses, this battle can no longer be fought like this, the security regiment must free up their hands as soon as possible and find an opportunity to participate in the battle to end this siege and annihilation battle.

Subsequently, Li Hong thought of a way and returned to the headquarters.

Li Hong gave an order to all the units outside the city to immediately launch an artillery bombardment on all units of the 4th Division of the Japanese Army outside the city.

The troops outside the city of the security regiment carried artillery and attacked the Japanese 4th Division in all directions......