Thousands of devils were dumbfounded, there were wolf-like chasing soldiers in the back, there was a desperate checkpoint in front of them, and there was the rolling Huai River on the side, how should it be good?

And the devil artillery on the south bank of the river also had no way to take the north bank, and there was no way to open artillery to help, and the Japanese planes in the sky could only hover low, helpless to leave.

As soon as the Chinese army saw the devil's plane coming, they desperately rushed into the devil's crowd and fought with the devil's dog, so as to avoid the strafing and bombing of the Japanese plane.

The 112th Brigade and the 113th Brigade organized a number of death squads on the spot, and began to intersperse and divide and surround the devils, and the 2,000 devils were divided into small pieces and small pieces, surrounded by pieces and could not move.

The devils who were not surrounded fled along the banks of the Huai River in the east and west directions, and the Chinese army also divided its troops to chase after them, and the 38th Division sounded the final charge horn when it saw this.

A large number of devils were shot to death on the banks of the Huai River, stabbed to death with bayonets, and hacked to death by the broadswords of the Northwest Army, and the blood stained the north bank of the Huai River red, and the devils lay in wait for dozens of miles.

General Zhang Zizhong of the 59th Army was not satisfied with this feat, and when the 38th Division slaughtered the devils of Xiaobengbu, he also commanded the 180th Division and the 13th Cavalry Brigade to kill eastward from the direction of Xiaobengbu.

Killed all the way to Linhuai Pass, helping the 51st Army that was fighting with the devils to the death, the impact of tens of thousands of people was as spectacular as the mountains and seas, and the devils who were killed directly fled in all directions.

The 59th Army not only relieved the siege for the 51st Army, but more importantly, recovered the lost territory and recovered the positions on the north bank of the Huai River in one fell swoop.

Most of the devils who rushed to the north bank of the Huai River ended up like the devils in Xiaobengbu, dying in the river, by the river, in the positions on the north bank, and on the way to escape.

If there is no counteroffensive now, when?

After the headquarters of the commander of the Fifth Theater received a call from the 51st Army and the 59th Army on the north bank of the Huai River, Chief Li, who was extremely excited, and General Xu, chief of staff, immediately dispatched troops to carry out a major counterattack on the Japanese army on the south bank of the Huai River.

The 21st Group Army (Gui Department), which had participated in the Battle of Songhu, was ordered to set out from Hefei, Anhui Province, and its 48th Army was on guard in the Luqiao area, and the 7th Army coordinated with the 31st Army to attack the Japanese flank in a roundabout way, and forced the main force of the Japanese 13th Division to return from the north bank of the Huai River.

The 51st and 59th armies were ordered to immediately cross the Huai River, attack the Japanese troops on the south bank of the Huai River to the south, and consolidate the positions on both sides of the Huai River.

The 59th and 51st armies took advantage of the situation to counterattack and restore all positions on both sides of the Huai River. The 21st Army and the 31st Army went east out of the Mingguang River and attacked the Japanese flank.

The Japanese army on the south bank of the Huai River was unable to take care of the end and was stuck with the Chinese army along the Jinpu Road, so that the Japanese army's attack on the Huai River valley was completely bankrupt.

Although the bloody battle of the Huai River did not annihilate all the elite 13 divisions of the Japanese army, it also caused the Japanese army to pay a huge price and delayed the Japanese army on the Huai River line.

Strategically, it smashed the Japanese army's planned "north-south attack" and forced the Japanese army to change to the strategy of "defending from the south and attacking from the north", taking Shandong from the north and attacking Tengxian and Yixian.

This strategy created a situation in which the Japanese army in North China went deep alone, thus creating a good fighter for the Chinese army to annihilate the Japanese army in Taierzhuang.

Taking advantage of the defeat and retreat of the Japanese army, Niu Gu and Lao Dan and their Jiangbei squadron also hurriedly dispatched, took advantage of the fire to loot, and teamed up with the locals in northern Anhui to loot the logistics and baggage troops of the Japanese army, making a windfall.

The people of northern Anhui are known as strong, brave and good at fighting, and there is a local saying: "the paper paste of the south of the Yangtze River, the iron of the north of Anhui". In Liuhe, Dingyuan, Mingguang and other places, the Japanese army was attacked by the local people's armed forces.

In this, of course, there is part of the credit of Niu Gu's Jiangbei squadron.

These armed people lurked in towns, villages, mountains and forests, and the Japanese army would be attacked by them every time they went to every village and town.

At that time, there were about 3,000 armed organizations such as the Red Gun Society, and they attacked the Japanese army everywhere in northern Anhui, causing the Japanese army to be unpeaceful day and night.

The Loyal Salvation Army Headquarters also ordered Niu Gu and them to liaise with organizations like the Red Gun Society, develop them to join the Loyal Salvation Army, and expand the Jiangbei Squadron into the Jiangbei Brigade.

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In this bloody battle of the Huaihe River, the two platoons of Tan Yizhong and Qin Guogang suffered heavy casualties, with more than half of the losses, and the last person could only take one squad each, handing over the seriously wounded commander Zhang of the 673rd Regiment to the 337th Brigade.

Most of the remaining soldiers in each of their classes are veterans from the northwest, and they are happy to see the 59th Army, the entire army of tens of thousands of people, all of whom are fellow villagers in the northwest.

At the instigation of the villagers, Tan and Qin pulled the remaining two squads and joined the second battalion and third company of the 223rd Regiment of the 112th Brigade of the 38th Division of the 59th Army of the Northwest Army.

At that time, the Chinese had almost no strict identity authentication, and they could work and live in a random place and change their name.

Many people who are soldiers are also a common thing to change their names, and they are not good here, and they may change their names at any time to go to another unit, especially if they have relatives and friends in another unit as officers.

During the war, there were fewer troops in the army, and most of them were only counted on the basis of sacrifices, disappearances, and desertions, so the Ministry of Military Affairs could only write down such a chaotic number in a confused book.

And Tan and Qin are so easy to go, mainly because of their superior troops, the company that guarded the ship together before, all of them were sacrificed, from the company commander to the soldiers, only the two of them remained.

Without a direct boss, it was quite troublesome to report for duty, and when the Northeast Army saw that they spoke Northwest Chinese, they thought they were in the wrong place, and drove them directly to the Northwest Army's station.

Besides, the two platoons of Tan and Qin were originally local troops sent by the Gui army, so it doesn't matter if they stay or go, besides, when the Northwest Army rescued us, they also lost a lot of people.

Therefore, the decision to leave and stay is left to them.

And Tan and Qin naturally wanted to go to the old troops of the Northwest Army, although their old troops were not the 59th Army, they were all fellow villagers, the same as the old troops. I went to the second battalion and three companies of the 223rd regiment, which suffered more losses, which was considered a supplement.

Just like that, everyone is happy.

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After the bloody battle of the Huai River, the south of Xuzhou was temporarily stopped, and the idea of the Japanese army trying to attack Xuzhou from the north to the south could not be realized for the time being.

However, the northern line of Xuzhou has a big loophole.

This loophole is Han Fuqu.

Han Fuqu, Deputy Commander of the Fifth Theater, Commander-in-Chief of the Third Army, and Chairman of Shandong Province.

Han Fuqu, who was in an important position, did not listen to Li Zongren's advice, and retreated without a fight in the face of the natural danger of the Japanese army abandoning the Yellow River in Taishan, Shandong.

This Han commander abandoned the Yellow River defense line on the northern line of Xuzhou, so that the north gate of Xuzhou immediately lost its barrier and was exposed in front of the Japanese army, and Xuzhou became nervous in vain.

In fact, this Han Fuqu is a very controversial figure, one of the thirteen Taibao who belonged to the Northwest Army under Feng Yushen, who was brave and resourceful in battle, with outstanding ability, and was quickly promoted by virtue of his military exploits.

Later, he and Shi Yousan opposed Feng and Jiang, which accelerated the disintegration of the Northwest Army, and Han himself was given an important task to govern Shandong, but he did some good things, such as attaching importance to the rule of officials, education, and rural areas, and made some achievements.

But then he turned against Chiang again, supported the army and respected himself, did not listen to the central government, was in a semi-independent state in Shandong, and became a new warlord.

Later, he said that the central government had given the heavy artillery brigade promised to him to Tang Enbo's department, so he quit and pulled his troops to retreat for several hundred miles.

The call back of this goods turned out to be: "Nanjing is not guarded, why is it guarded by Tai'an?" ”