569. The Tears of the Warlords
Bloody battles day and night, living like a year, the time lasted until March 31, Lao Qin felt that he had been in Taierzhuang for half his life, and his mental strength was almost exhausted.
The devils also entered the final madness, and were repulsed in the morning, and as soon as breakfast was over, there was almost no rest, and they began to attack again, this time almost collecting their last ammunition stock, and throwing it all into the Zhuangzi.
With an overwhelming array of shells, overwhelming fire, and overwhelming shrapnel, Taierzhuang has almost become a furnace, and steel is about to melt in it.
The frenzy of the Japanese army's desperate gamble brought miraculous results, and the exhausted and scarred defenders could not withstand the huge fire attack and retreated again and again.
This time, Lao Qin had a heart, no longer defending a house, but following the large army to advance and retreat, trying his best to connect with the brother troops and rely on each other to protect.
If you want to die, let go crazy first. The madness of the devil is precisely the confirmation of the crisis of the devil.
Tang Enbo's corps in the Lunan Mountains north of Taierzhuang began to exert force, and the 52nd Army and 85th Army under his command began to attack Zaozhuang, Yixian, Nigou and other places.
In the west, the 55th Army launched attacks in Lincheng and Guanqiao, and the 59th Army and 40th Army in the west also attacked Aiqu and Xiangcheng.
The 22nd Army of the Sichuan Army in the south attacked Hanzhuang, Shagou and other places, the 2nd and 30th Divisions of the 30th Army of the Northwest Army also crossed the canal and attacked northward, and the 75th Army attacked north from the southwest.
Except for the Gui Army and the Northeast Army, which were defending the Huai River area on the southern front, and were still withstanding the attacks of the 11th and 13th divisions of the Japanese army, almost all the troops in the Fifth Theater were mobilized.
The targets were all directed at Taierzhuang, and the encirclement was gradually encircled, and the reinforcements were sent to the reinforcements and the encirclement, cutting off the supply lines and communication lines of the Seya detachment, and gradually squeezing inward.
All this shows that the Seya detachment has entered a very dangerous situation, and Seya himself must also understand that if he retreats at this time, it will be even more miserable, and the morale of the Chinese army will be even higher, so he will desperately take down Taierzhuang.
Taierzhuang is the bottom of the entire Xuzhou battle, and whether it can win depends on whether it can hold this bottom line, so hundreds of thousands of troops in the entire Fifth War Zone will see if the 31st Division can withstand the onslaught of the devils, and they will have the opportunity to encircle and annihilate the Segu detachment.
As long as they can take down Taierzhuang and go directly south, Xuzhou will become an empty city with no soldiers to defend, once Xuzhou is taken, it will be done.
At that time, the base camp will see a rich prospect, and a large number of aircraft and reinforcements will be sent to attack the Chinese army, and the great credit for opening up the Jinpu line and connecting the two major fronts of North and Central China belongs to Seya.
Therefore, the final key to the battle of hundreds of thousands of people is condensed into the life-and-death struggle in a small Taierzhuang, and the defenders who have been fighting for several days and nights are almost reaching the limit of the human body.
Lao Qin and the others were less than ten people, and they felt that they were all staggering when they walked, they were deaf, they couldn't see what was in front of them clearly, they were blurry, and they couldn't hear the sounds around them clearly, they only knew that there were sounds everywhere, but they didn't know what was ringing.
When I eat something in my mouth, I can't taste anything anymore, like chewing wax, and I can't tell if I'm hungry or full, and I don't know where the three meals are, anyway, if you have something, you can eat it, and it doesn't matter if you don't eat anything.
All of their eyes were swollen like big red peaches, and their eyes were red. Lao Qin's voice was also hoarse, his throat was smoking, no matter how much water he drank, it was useless, and the skin of his mouth was all rotten, and he didn't feel pain.
As for the clothes, everyone was no different from beggars, and in winter the military jacket was torn into a sieve, and the cotton inside seeped out, and at first it was like a snowman.
Later, the cotton slowly fell off, and the ones that didn't fall off were also stained, and the color of the cotton could not be seen, and the blood stains on many people's bodies were dried and blackened, and then they were dyed, and they didn't know whether it was the blood of the enemy or their own blood.
Hardly a person's body is intact, either here or there, like old money, from beginning to end, where bandages can be wrapped, they are all entangled, like a mummy.
Of course, they don't know about mummies yet, just like zombies, everyone knows what they are, and indeed like zombies, the bandages still ooze blood from time to time.
As soon as they saw the dead body, they pounced on it and turned over its ammunition, food, bandages and medicines. Whether it's your own people or devils, especially the devil's medical kit, it's very easy to use, there are hemostasis, cotton wool, bandages, etc., just use it.
The Chinese and Japanese armies were the same, they were all lightly wounded and could not get out of the line of fire, and when they hit the back, they all became poor ghosts, and when they touched the bodies of these poor and dead, they almost got nothing, and there was no ammunition, food, and medicine.
It feels like two gangs of beggars are fighting for their lives here.
In fact, the intensity of the devil's onslaught this time is not as hot as a few days ago, but everyone can't move, and a little bit of force can put huge pressure on the other party.
Lao Qin dragged his fast-moving legs and retreated back with the large army, and the team behind them burst into tears.
Each regiment and brigade has a temporary supervising team, as well as the line of life and death, the demarcated line, can not retreat, retreat to the past to kill, at the beginning, there are indeed supervising the team shot and killed comrades.
The division headquarters is the same, almost every day to shoot one or two derelict officers who have escaped, from battalion commanders to platoon commanders. Military orders are like mountains, and it is normal to kill those who escape before the battle, and there are many ancient and modern times.
But now, looking at such a group of comrades-in-arms, the overseer team really can't shoot, but they also have military orders, and if they disobey military orders, they will die.
What to do?
Looking at his comrades-in-arms who were scarred like beggars, the captain of the war overseer roared angrily:
"Brothers, come with me, fight devils, if there is anything, I am responsible alone."
The brothers of the supervision team, all with tears in their eyes, followed the captain and rushed forward, and the supervision team of the 184th regiment disappeared into the group of devils, and I heard that the last one did not come back.
After that, the 31st Division abolished all the supervision teams, changed all of them into combat teams, and went up to fight devils.
The supervising team is still like this, not to mention those brigade headquarters, regimental headquarters, battalion headquarters, almost all the guard units have been dispatched, and most of the commanders are around, only one or two people are left, all of them are signal soldiers.
The devil once again attacked Zhuangzi and became a mess with the defenders, and a large number of signal soldiers also died in the melee, which caused serious consequences, that is, the formation of various units fell into chaos.
Once the structure of the troops is disrupted, it is extremely dangerous, which is equivalent to losing its command, and it can only fight alone and resist piecemeal, and it is impossible to form a joint force, and its combat effectiveness plummets, and the defense of Taierzhuang has fallen into the most critical juncture.
On the night of March 31, Taierzhuang was captured by the Japanese army by three-quarters, and the remnants of the 31st Division, squeezed in the southwest corner, were still struggling to support.