For many generals in the army, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers. But when you really see the losses of each army after defeat, I believe that any general will feel uncomfortable. If you can win, who wants to lose?

Pang Bingxun's 40th Army, which was stationed in Linyi earlier, resisted multiple rounds of attacks by the Japanese Fifth Division alone, and finally cooperated with the 1st Division of the 59th Army and the special task force commanded by Hu Biao to successfully defeat the Japanese infantry brigade besieging Linyi.

What Pang Bingxun didn't expect was that not long after Hu Biao and his entourage left, the Japanese Fifth Division, which had made a comeback, once again gathered tens of thousands of elites, and under the cover of aircraft, tanks, and artillery, launched a fierce offensive against Linyi again.

Originally, with the cooperation of the 59th Army, the 40th Army could hold out for a while. No one expected that the 10th Division would come so quickly, and after taking Yicheng, it would advance to Taierzhuang, forcing the 59th Army defending Taierzhuang to withdraw.

The 40th Army, which lost its support, finally failed to hold out for too long, and had to abandon Linyi, which had held out for several months, and retreat to the front line of Taierzhuang to stand by. By the time it was withdrawn to the rear for recuperation, the Fortieth Army had less than a division of troops left.

With such huge casualties, for the army commander Pang Bingxun, sadness must be inevitable. Even if the theater of operations has promised to replenish him with new troops in the rear. But Pang Bingxun knows that the newly assigned recruits can compare with those old subordinates?

Pang Bingxun, who was resting in the rear, as a reserve in the war zone, had been staying near Taierzhuang and waiting to enter the battle. After receiving the telegram from the war zone, Pang Bingxun also looked very surprised, and even felt that the war zone was a bit foolish.

With the strength of a main division, to besiege Yicheng, which has a wing stationed, sounds very reliable. But Pang Bingxun knew very well that with these remnants in his hands, it would be difficult to defeat the Yicheng defended by the Japanese army.

Just when Pang Bingxun was about to call back for instructions, after the next telegram came, he said with some joy: "Call back to Chief Li, and our department will immediately go to the front." I really didn't expect that Captain Hu and the others would fight back. ”

The two division commanders under his command were also very happy and said, "Military seat, is it a special task force?" ”

"That's right! It is the special task force that helped us to encircle and suppress the Sakamoto Brigade earlier, and they are now lurking in Yicheng. Just now, the Einsatzgruppen team blew up the supplies stored by the Japanese army in Yicheng, and our troops are fighting back in full force. ”

"There should be a Japanese wing stationed in Yicheng, right? I heard that after the little devil entered the city, he drove away all the people in the city, and there were no outsiders in the city except the little devil. How did the Einsatzgruppen do it in this situation? ”

As a commander at the division level, he naturally knows very well how much difference there is between having people and not having people in a county town that is heavily guarded. The most difficult thing is how to blow up a heavily guarded material warehouse? That kind of place, idlers should not approach!

Listening to the exclamation of his division commander, Pang Bingxun said with a happy face: "Order the troops, immediately set off to Yicheng, immediately send a report to the special task force, ask them about the situation in Yicheng, and hope that they will send someone to pick us up."

If it hadn't been for the sneak attack of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army before, we wouldn't have lost Linyi. If we can take Yicheng this time, we will be able to copy the back road of the 10th Division. We can't miss this opportunity to get revenge! ”

"Yes, Throne! Do you want to bring the newly replenished troops with you? ”

During this period, the 40th Army, which had replenished more than 1,000 recruits from the rear, was also worried that it would be difficult for these recruits who had only undergone simple training in the rear to adapt to the battlefield environment. Bringing new recruits over may lead to mistakes.

But for Pang Bingxun, he thought about it in the face of the staff officer's inquiry: "The new regiment is a reserve and rushes to the front line with the main force. They definitely can't fight a tough battle, but they should be able to clean up the battlefield. When you become a soldier, you must see blood! ”

Since these recruits have been added to the 40th Army, they will also be his subordinates of Pang Bingxun in the future, so they will naturally be pulled to the front line to fight. This time he was ordered to outflank him, and Pang Bingxun felt that there should not be many tough battles, and the troops of one division were almost enough.

Most importantly, he felt that having the Einsatzgruppen team could relieve them a lot of pressure. In the previous encirclement and suppression of the Sakamoto Brigade, he and the troops of the 59th Army almost did not encounter any hard battles, and they captured a large amount of booty.

At present, the 40th Army is in urgent need of reconstruction, and the rear of the troops will be deployed one after another. But weapons and ammunition or something, many of the recruits sent over didn't even have weapons. If you want to arm these recruits, you must accumulate a lot of weapons and ammunition.

Only troops with weapons and ammunition have combat effectiveness, and if they do not even have weapons for basic self-protection, what is the use of such troops being pulled to the battlefield? Counting on the war zone to provide weapons and ammunition, now that army and that division are not lacking?

Only through the capture of the battlefield may be able to restore the strength of the headquarters in the shortest possible time. As a military commander, Pang Bingxun naturally knows the importance of strength. If his troops were gone, he would be in vain.

Receiving the news that the 40th Army was about to rush to Yicheng, Hu Biao also knew that time was pressing, and he was waiting for dawn before acting, and he might miss the best time to set up an ambush. As soon as the day dawns, the battlefield advantage of the little devil will become greater.

According to the reconnaissance during the day, Hu Biao divided the spy company into three, and one platoon was responsible for battlefield reconnaissance, that is, to reconnoiter the Japanese troops who came from the rear to support, and also to reconnoiter the main force of the 10th Division that might retreat from Taierzhuang.

As for the second platoon commanded by Qin Tianyou, they had just rushed to the section of the highway outside Yicheng, where they were preparing to lay an explosive trap to destroy the road into Yicheng. As for the highway leading to Taierzhuang, Hu Biao was personally responsible.

Arriving at the road used by the Japanese army for supplies, Hu Biao once again reconnoitred the terrain and finally chose a road with hillsides on both sides for ambush. There is a jungle behind the hillside, and a large number of troops can be hidden.

When the Fortieth Army arrives later, they can also go to the jungle to rest first. As for the ambush on this side of the road, whether it is the troops withdrawn from Taierzhuang or the reinforcements from Yicheng, they must pass through the ambush position.

As long as the reinforcements drawn by the Japanese army from the rear were not allowed to arrive in Yicheng in a short period of time, Hu Biao would be able to find a way to take Yicheng before the Japanese reinforcements arrived, and then let the 40th Army be stationed in place to cut off the retreat of the 10th Division of the Japanese army.

Without Yicheng as the rear, the 10th Division, which was withdrawn from the front line, could only choose to break through from other directions. No matter which direction he broke through, Hu Biao believed that these little devils would be blocked and divided and surrounded by the anti-Japanese war forces.

Whether the 10th Division can be encircled and annihilated in the end depends on whether the other anti-Japanese war units are resolute and tenacious. During the breakout, the little devil's heavy artillery and armored vehicles will be unusable. Once they run out of ammunition, they will be defeated.

"Zhuzi, you take Miss Lin to the mountains and set up our radio station. Nearby, remember to dig anti-artillery potholes, preferably avoiding areas that are scouted by imp planes. Without my orders, the newspaper team had to stay there. ”

"Yes, Captain!"

Knowing that it is already a rare thing to be able to bring himself out to fight, and if she really wants to participate in the battle, Lin Yashi also thinks it is impossible. Fortunately, being able to watch the battle at such a close distance is also an attempt and progress for Lin Yashi.

In a sense, Hu Biao no longer resisted taking her out to fight. Compared with earlier in Jinling, she was only responsible for taking care of the wounded, and now her tasks and responsibilities are undoubtedly greater. After hearing the order, she quickly followed.

In the process, Hu Biao looked at the road under the hillside and quickly said: "In this place, dig an anti-tank trench, remember to add camouflage." On this side of the road, it is still the old rule to plant a bomb trap with electric detonation.

On the slopes of the hills on the left and right, start digging defensive trenches, digging as large an area as possible, taking care not to damage the surrounding vegetation. The road trap was organized by Chen Qiang, and I was personally responsible for the anti-tank trenches. Start! ”

"Yes, Captain!"

Through earlier telegraphic contact with Li Zongren, Hu Biao learned that the Japanese 10th Division attacking Taierzhuang had two squadrons of light armored vehicles. If the 10th Division really planned to retreat, it would definitely send a squadron of chariots back to aid Yicheng.

This kind of reinforcement is fast, and it can ensure the safety of the retreat road, so that the troops following up in the rear can smoothly retreat to Yicheng. After taking a look at the highway, Hu Biao felt that the wasteland on the side of the highway should be able to pass through the chariot of the little devil.

In order to prevent the little devil's chariot from breaking through the wasteland without taking the road, Hu Biao naturally needed to dig an anti-tank trench on the wasteland where the chariot could pass. As soon as the chariot of the little devil goes this way, it will fall into the camouflaged trench.

As for the passage from the road, there are explosion traps planted on the road, and as long as one of the chariots of the imps is paralyzed, the other chariots will not want to move forward. As for the explosion trap that you want to retreat and set up, it's the kind that can plug and cut off.

Hu Biao and his entourage, who arrived on the highway, began to get busy on the highway overnight. The troops that had been dispatched in advance for reconnaissance also began to send back information through the radio one after another. Lin Yashi, who set up the radio station, asked Tian Tiezhu to report the news from time to time.

After Tian Tiezhu finished transmitting the telegram, he would bring back Hu Biao's call, and it would not delay the arrangement on the highway. When the 40th Army, which had been attacking overnight, arrived at the ambush site, the reconnaissance detachment in front also sent back the news.

"Captain, General Pang's subordinates have arrived! In addition, the reconnaissance team received news that a tank squadron and a cavalry squadron of the Japanese army were less than ten miles away from us. Looks like they'll be on our side soon. ”

"How's the fortification dug going?"

"Report to the captain, it's enough for us to be hidden!"

"Pillar, send a report to General Pang and ask him to transfer the elite of a company. Bring more machine guns, and the rest of the troops are temporarily lurking, and there are not so many troops on this side. Call back the team, and the raid and harassment war delays time. ”

"Yes, Captain!"

Hu Biao, who quickly gave instructions, asked people to unfold the final camouflage of the ambush position. Explosion traps buried on highways have also been cleaned up. Thinking that the little devil had cavalry, Hu Biao sent people to set up a tripwire and machine gun position in front.

This arrangement is more to annihilate these little devils who have returned to help, to ensure that the Japanese troops stationed in Yicheng will not know that there is a division of anti-Japanese troops planning to seize Yicheng under their control!