With the advantage of troops and firepower, the captain of the Japanese army was naturally unwilling to fail, and he did not believe that a mere 300 Rao Republic of China troops could have many grenade reserves, so he organized more than ten waves of attacks in Taoyuan Town, and he attacked the defensive positions on three sides of the town.

But it is clear that the reality is cruel and the truth is cruel.

During the whole night of fighting, the Japanese brigade launched fifteen attacks, but each attack was blown up by grenades, and the defending battalion commander also organized the reserve to carry out several counter-charges.

And the captain of the devil brigade is also crazy, seeing that his brigade was stopped by the Republic of China army with only half of his own strength, the conceited and arrogant captain could not accept such a status quo, and at the end of the battle, he even organized a group pig rush charge several times, but in the face of the defenders who rushed up with grenades tied all over their bodies, the position of Taoyuan Town was still rock-solid in the hands of the defenders of the Republic of China.

The final result was that in the battle of this night, the defenders of Taoyuan Town held their positions at the cost of more than 200 casualties, and the Japanese troops who attacked frantically with red eyes also lost nearly 500 casualties.

Counting the second squadron of the goats that were wiped out before, there are only more than a hundred people left in this devil brigade, and one brigade is completely crippled. Similarly, the defenders of the Republic of China also suffered heavy casualties, and only more than 70 people were alive.

Such huge casualties on both sides are also helpless, after all, the grenade is only a close-range throwing weapon, and the rest of the devil's firepower is all dominant, the grenadier is an extremely excellent weapon in this era, in this Republic of China battlefield, and the devil also has 92 infantry guns, as well as light and heavy machine guns. With the advantage of positional defense and almost unlimited grenades, the devil was actually blown up quite badly.

Taoyuan Town was still there, and the Japanese brigade with heavy casualties had to retreat, and at the same time sent the battle report to the headquarters of the Sakamoto detachment in the rear, but the impact of this battle was extremely huge, and it could be called a spark in the prairie fire.

"How many grenades are left"

Seeing the devil retreating, he didn't close his eyes all night, and even took the lead in the charge many times, the battalion commander touched his arm and asked the soldiers guarding the warehouse. This is one of the few literate soldiers in their battalion, and he sent them to guard the warehouse, and if the devil captures Taoyuan Town, then this soldier will also detonate the warehouse, leaving not a single grenade for the devil.

"And Ten Thousand and Ninety-Eight"

After hearing the number, the battalion commander did not speak, but the corners of his mouth twitched for a moment and left, and vaguely, the soldiers guarding still heard the battalion commander's muttering.

"So much more..."

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"Yaga... Baga · · Yaga"

The headquarters of the Sakamoto detachment, after hearing the news that Taoyuan Town was still in the hands of the Republic of China troops and that his fifth brigade was almost wiped out, the detachment leader, Major General Sakamoto, was furious, and he fell at the headquarters, beating and scolding when he saw people, and after a period of madness, Major General Sakamoto calmed down.

"The captain of the fifth brigade doesn't have to come back, let him kill himself by seppuku"

"Merge the rest of his brigade into the Seventh Brigade"

With a wave of his hand, the culprit team leader committed suicide, Major General Sakamoto's mood calmed down a little, and then he looked at the battle map in front of him.

On the battle map hanging on the wall, there are red arrows around Linyi City, each arrow is a brigade of Sakamoto's detachment, two of which point directly at Linyi City, while the remaining six arrows make a bend outside Linyi City, and then point to Xiangcheng behind Linyi.

In the case of a long attack on Linyi, Sakamoto's detachment changed its battle plan, he planned to leave two brigades to contain the Linyi defenders, and the remaining six brigades to attack Xiangcheng on a detour to support the battle of Taierzhuang from the side, but now he left a brigade to contain the Linyi defenders

The two brigades can barely contain the Linyi defenders for a period of time as horns, and a brigade is afraid that it will be dumplings by the Linyi defenders immediately, and after several consecutive battles, Major General Sakamoto knows very well that the 59 combat effectiveness of guarding Linyi City is definitely the elite of the Republic of China army.

And now there is a nail in his own position.

Taoyuan Town.

If the enemy uses this nail as a breakthrough, then there is a good chance that his detour plan will be discovered.

So for the sake of the smooth progress of the battle plan, he has to start mending the holes.

"Order the Eighth Brigade to stop advancing, attack Taoyuan Town through Ling and Beidao, and immediately attack the Republic of China defenders around Linyi after occupying Taoyuan Town, and prevent the defenders from transferring"

After drawing out a brigade, the worry on Sakamoto Shaoza's face was not less at all, the purpose of the detour to the city was to rescue the besieged Seya detachment in Taierzhuang, the original strength of the six brigades was slightly insufficient, and now another brigade was drawn, Sakamoto Shaozo couldn't help but worry about the next battle. A moment later, he studied the deployment map around Xuzhou again, trying to find new reinforcements, even one or two squadrons

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"What? Taoyuan Town is still in our hands? ”

"And repelled the attack of a Japanese brigade?"

At the headquarters of the 38th Division of the 59th Army, the division commander seemed to have heard a great joke, and the boss with his mouth open was full of disbelief.

The regiment commander who came to report also guessed this situation, and directly called a soldier behind him, which was a communication soldier sent by Taoyuan Town.

To be honest, the regiment commander himself didn't believe it when he just received the news, after all, he himself was the commander of the regiment guarding Taoyuan Town, and all three battalions of his regiment were scattered, and the position was lost, and in the end, there were only more than 200 people left in a regiment of more than 1,000 Rao, and the culprit was a brigade of Japanese troops attacking Taoyuan Town. One of his regiments was directly broken up by a full-fledged brigade of the Japanese army.

But now suddenly a soldier came and told him that one of his battalions had repelled the attack of a Japanese brigade and had successfully held the position.

No one would believe this, but it was so, looking at the report written by his battalion commander, he had to believe it.

"How did you hold it?"

Recalling the devil's recent strange deployment and the real battlefield report, the division commander finally had to believe the facts, and then he asked curiously.

"I don't know, but the scouts I sent found that the direction of Taoyuan Town was very empty, but the scouts of the defenders who were directly contacted have not returned."

After knowing the situation, the regiment commander also sent scouts as soon as possible, but the time is still short and there is no reply.

"But according to the time, it should be almost up, I will let them report directly to the division headquarters" Looking at the time, the regiment commander continued.

"Then we'll wait, I'll see how it is done" The division commander was also curious, how the strength of a mere battalion could resist the attack of a large Japanese brigade, which was difficult for a main regiment to do.

"If that's the case, then..." While waiting, the division commander pointed his finger at Taoyuan Town, thinking in his heart.