After all, the 674th Regiment ran desperately for an hour to come, and most of the Japanese troops came by boat on the south bank of the Huai River.

The Japanese army, who was waiting for work, faced the soldiers of the 674th Regiment who seemed to have a small marathon, and naturally made a judgment.

The marathon is just a race, do what you can, you really can't run, you don't want that medal, you can have a ranking, from the fourth place to the thousandth, it seems to be about the same, so there is no need to work so hard.

The 674 Regiment is different, saving people is like fighting fires, and it must race against time, and unlike the marathon, it is fully armed, carrying at least a dozen pounds of equipment on its back, and running continuously.

Many soldiers vomited and fainted, but the 674th Regiment still persevered, but as soon as they ran to the destination, they didn't have any time to rest, so they immediately rushed into the enemy formation and began to fight.

The 674th Regiment, which had rushed over to save people, gradually felt overwhelmed after fighting with the devils for a while, and the devils continued to transport troops from the south bank of the Huai River.

The remaining more than 100 people of the 673rd Regiment rushed towards the 674th Regiment and finally broke through the barrier of the devils, and the two armies gathered together and fought and retreated.

Just when the 674th Regiment was about to die, the commander of the 337th Brigade, Dou Guangdian, came with his own guard troops, and there were not many people, and it was estimated that there was only one company.

Although all the people in this company are masters, they are thrown into the army of devils of several thousand people, like mud cows entering the sea, and they can't make any waves.

Then even the guard unit of Division Commander Zhou also came, almost one more than a company, although they tried their best to kill, but in the face of the impact of thousands of devils like a tide, they were still unable to turn the tide, after all, there were too few people.

Originally, the quality of individual soldiers was not as good as that of devils, but now once the devils form a large impact team of several thousand people, they will burst out with even more terrifying impact.

Now the devils not only want to occupy the strategic point of Xiaobengbu, but also want to eat these Chinese troops who came to the rescue, so they are holding on tightly.

There were constantly small groups of Japanese troops, interspersed with the formation of the Chinese army, carrying out overtaking attacks, passing the main force of the Chinese army, advancing to the place where they retreated, and blocking the attack.

These small units of the Japanese army, like a sharp blade, are cutting and decomposing the main body of the main force of the Chinese army, and seeing that the 337 Brigade is about to be slaughtered and hunted like this, the people who save their lives are coming.

The 59th Army came.

It couldn't have come at a better time. It's just a life-saving straw, no, it's a life-saving reinforcement.

The 59th Army, the Northwest Army, was formed by the 38th Division of the 29th Army originally stationed in Pingjin, and after the Qiqi Lugou Bridge Incident last year (1937), Song Zheyuan's 29th Army failed to control the situation, resulting in the loss of Pingjin, an important town in North China, and an uproar across the country.

When the Japanese army attacked Pingjin during the 77 Incident, there was also a serious division within the 29th Army.

After several years of softening in the big cities, the 29th Army no longer seems to be the heroic unit that fought on the Great Wall and cut off the enemy's head with a broadsword.

Instead, it seems to have become a new warlord who has self-respect (more than 100,000 people in four divisions of one army), preserves strength, and covets territory and enjoyment.

Although the Central Military Commission gave them sufficient titles and territory, at a critical time, they still did not obey the orders of the Military Commission, insisted on going their own way, and even had a tendency to turn to the Japanese.

In the face of various temptations, there was a serious division within the 29th Army, and Zhang Zizhong, commander of the 38th Division, seized power in Beiping under the pretense of recuperation, while his troops were in Tianjin.

As a result, Zhao Dengyu, the commander of the 132nd Division in Beiping (the former heroic captain of the Great Wall Broadsword Team), was killed, Beiping was lost, and the 132nd Division was outnumbered and defeated by the Japanese army.

Feng Zhi'an's division of the 37th Division fought fiercely with the enemy at Lugou Bridge, and then withdrew from Beiping to Hebei to persist in the War of Resistance; Liu Ruming's division of the 143rd Division was far away in the Chahar area, and the distant water could not save the close fire, and the Japanese army was also waiting to be attacked in the surrounding area.

Therefore, with the loss of Pingjin, all public opinion was aimed at Zhang Zizhong, the commander of the 38th Division, and the people of the whole country scolded him as a traitor and traitor.

Even when he entered Beijing (Nanjing) to plead guilty, he was recognized by the people on the train and was almost beaten to death by the angry people, but fortunately, there were entourage guards who escaped in time.

has reached the point where everyone shouts and beats, Zhang Zizhong learned from the pain and decided to change his former non-single-minded resistance and justify himself with actions and performance.

The Military Commission also gave them the opportunity to make up for their merits and split the 29th Army into three armies, with Zhang Zizhong's 38th Division expanded into the 59th Army, Liu Ruming's 143rd Division expanded into the 68th Division, and Feng Zhian's 37th Division expanded into the 77th Army. Song Zheyuan, the veteran commander of the 29th Army, was promoted to commander-in-chief of the First Army.

The names of these three armies have meanings and connections, 59, 68, 77 each set of numbers add up, all are 14, divided by two is two seven, meaning "seven-seven", commemorating the 77 incident.

It is also to carry the shame of the July Seven Incident on his body forever, so that one day, he will be ashamed.

There is also a folk saying that the sum of their numbers is 14, all of them are 14, and they are all "death" troops, that is, they are the army that wants to die with the Japanese army. This is a bit similar to the people's analogy of the 74th Army, the "death" army.

Indeed, in the subsequent War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the performance of these three armies was very eye-catching, and they were not ambiguous when they killed the devils, which confirmed the truth that the prodigal son did not change his money.

The current 59th Army has become a powerful firefighting force in the current Battle of Xuzhou, fighting in the south and in the north, invincible.

The troops who came to rescue the 337th Brigade of the 113th Division of the 51st Army of the Northeast Army were the 38th Division of the 59th Army of the Northwest Army, and General Huang Weigang, the commander of the 38th Division, commanded the 112th Brigade to directly enter the enemy position and rescue the troops of the 337th Brigade at zero distance.

At the same time, the 113th Brigade was ordered to surpass the attack and kill the devil in Xiaobengbu, and ordered the 114th Brigade to go east of the Huai River in the former Xiaobengbu, that is, in the direction of Linhuai Pass, to carry out a vigilance, and at the same time shoot and kill the Japanese troops on the river on the bank.

As soon as the powerful Northwest Army joined the battle group, the situation changed greatly, and more than 5,000 people from the two regiments of the 112th Brigade pounced on more than 2,000 devils, plus there were nearly 2,000 people from the Northeast Army, and they also tried their best to counterattack.

More than 2,000 devils couldn't resist it at once, and began to retreat to Xiaobengbu, hoping to retreat to the position over there and resist stubbornly.

Unexpectedly, when they retreated to Xiaobengbu, something was wrong, the 113th Brigade of the Northwest Army had already taken the lead, and with a strong charge, they immediately took Xiaobengbu, which was empty.

The follow-up units of the Japanese army on the river, most of which were logistics and artillery units, were ready to be transported over to consolidate the beachhead and support the troops attacking in depth.

However, it was attacked by the 114th Regiment of the 227th Brigade, and mortars and light and heavy machine guns rang out together, knocking the devils on the river to pieces, and they fled back one after another.

The Japanese bridge-building troops, which were building bridges on the river, were once again dealt a devastating blow.

The more than 2,000 devils who pursued the 337 Brigade on the north bank of the Huai River were attacked by the 112 Brigade and were retreating to Xiaobengbu, where they were met by the 113 Brigade that took the lead.