At the beginning of May of the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), that is, while the Yuwang Mountain Resistance Battle was still fierce, the 16th Division attacked Jinxiang Yutai north of Fengxian County, and the troops pointed directly at Dangshan.

Less than 100 kilometers to the east of Dangshan is Xuzhou, which is an important offensive and defensive place on the railway line to the west of Xuzhou.

Once the Japanese army takes Dangshan, it will be equivalent to cutting off the rear road of the Fifth Theater of the Chinese Army, and the railway that retreats west of Xuzhou will also be cut off.

General Xue Yue, commander-in-chief of the First Corps of the First Theater (Eastern Henan Corps), urgently ordered the 74th Army to assemble in Dangshan before mid-May, and the 58th Division of the 74th Army set off first to arrive at Dangshan, and immediately sent the 174th Brigade to Fengxian to meet the 16th Division of the Japanese Army.

On the 14th, a battalion of the vanguard of the 174th Brigade encountered the Japanese army in Wangzhai, fought until the evening, withdrew to Fengxian, and on the 15th, the Japanese army began to attack Fengxian.

At the height of the battle, the Japanese artillery collapsed the wall of the West Gate, and the Japanese army swarmed into the city, but was repelled by the defenders, and the defenders also suffered many casualties.

At the same time, another part of the 16th Division, which went south from Yutai, made a detour directly in the direction of Zhoujiazhai, trying to cut off the connection between Fengxian and Dangshan.

The Japanese army liked to attack the flanks and attack separately and together, as simple as the tactics of a three-year-old child's playfulness, but it often made the Chinese army extremely uncomfortable.

Regardless of whether it was a large split attack or a small roundabout side attack, the Chinese army knew that the Japanese army was brazenly using such a simple tactic, and it would not be able to defeat it.

This is not because the Chinese army is tactically low, but because of its low strength, most of the tactics are based on strength, and the comprehensive strength of the Japanese army is much higher than that of the Chinese army, so it will naturally be able to fight.

For example, if a small group of big men are dealing with a large group of children, they will definitely not stupidly attack only one point, but divide into several groups to copy and besiege.

In front of the Japanese army, the strength of the Chinese army is like that of a child, that is, it knows that the Japanese army has divided its troops, but there is no way to divide the troops into several ways to resist.

There is only a small advantage in numbers, and we can only use the strength of the number of people to contain one part of the enemy, find a way to resist and contain it, and then bring in more troops to besiege one of the enemy.

To put it simply, this is how Taierzhuang's victory was fought.

Taierzhuang fought a war of encirclement and annihilation, which required a large corps to fight and strategize, and this time the 74th Army could not achieve the effect of a large corps in terms of numbers.

Secondly, there is also a difference in tactics, which is only to block the enemy's attack on the rear road of the five theaters, rather than the tactics of asking us to encircle and annihilate a certain Japanese army.

But in spite of this, we must also consider the specific situation, just like the predicament of the 174th Brigade of the 58th Division in Fengxian this time, how to solve it is a difficult problem in front of the 74th Army.

The Japanese army is not only strengthening the attack on Fengxian, but also sending troops to detour the retreat of the 174th Brigade, the 51st Division of the 74th Army has not yet reached Dangshan, and the 172nd Brigade, another brigade of the 58th Division, wants to defend Dangshan, and does not dare to send troops to block the Japanese detour.

Faced with such a predicament, the normal way of playing, the 174th Brigade could only retreat immediately, return to Dangshan, and echo the inside and outside of the 172nd Brigade on the periphery of Dangshan, resist the Japanese army, and wait until the arrival of the 51st Division to counterattack.

This is a normal and conservative tactic, but the above does not agree to fight like this, because Dangshan is too important for the entire Chinese battlefield at present.

The first corps and the first theater above, and even the Military Commission, did not dare to take it lightly, and the large corps fought and defended one point, not just accumulating troops at that point.

No matter how many soldiers there are, they are all dead if they are not deployed, so to defend one point, we must lead the area with one point, make a fuss outside one point, increase the depth of defense, increase the flexibility of defense, and unfold the troops along the way.

From this, it can be concluded that defending Dangshan is not only to defend Dangshan locally, but to hold several positions at the front of Dangshan as much as possible, so as to have the depth and flexibility of defense.

After Fengxian, it is this important place for defense in depth, this cannot be lost casually, if it is lost, it will be difficult to defend Dangshan, but now the problem is that only the 58th Division is in Dangshan, and there are no extra troops to share the depth position.

If we follow this troop strength, there is another tactic for reference and application, that is, to move defense, give up holding on to a point, deploy the force, be erratic, wait for an opportunity to attack one point of it, and force it to retreat.

This Taizu was very handy in the use of anti-encirclement and suppression, but now there is a problem, that is, the key point of playing sports defense on the plains is to require first-class mobility ability.

But the two-legged Chinese army, on the endless plain, could not outrun the four-wheeled Japanese mechanized troops, and before they started playing, they gave the Japanese army to play to death first.

Now a new topic for General Xue Yue is how to actively defend against the mechanized Japanese army on the plains, which can only be the next step of the general.

That is, to hold on to a small force to contain most of the Japanese army and buy time for other brother troops, therefore, General Xue signaled that most of the 174th Brigade would withdraw to the forward position in Dangshan one by one, leaving only one battalion to defend Fengxian.

On the surface, this kind of order is very fucked up, and it is also very severe, no matter who is left, this battalion is obviously sacrificed.

In Feng County, not a brigade can hold it, and a battalion doesn't have to think about it, and there is no second way to go in the last battalion, there is only one way, and that is a dead end.

But war is like this, mercy does not lead the army, too merciful, can not kill the heart, can not make up the determination to survive with broken arms, but like the kindness of women, kill more people.

Zhu Qi, the commander of the 174th Brigade, ordered the 3rd Battalion of the 348th Regiment to stick to Feng County, and became the battalion with a broken arm, with more than 500 people in the battalion, under the leadership of the battalion commander Li Shouqing, who devoted themselves to the defense of Feng County, which sacrificed their lives and forgot their lives.

Perhaps, in the War of Resistance, there were many such Jedi defense battles, so Fengxian County is not worth mentioning, and the Baoshan defense battle in the previous Battle of Songhu, the same is true of Yao Ziqing's battalion, the whole army was wiped out, and it became the swan song of the Anti-Japanese War.

Li Shouqing's battalion aimed at defending Baoshan, that is, it aimed at killing itself in Fengxian, what kind of courage and courage to sacrifice the momentum.

The dead soldiers were not afraid, in the face of the powerful aircraft and artillery of the Japanese army, Fengxian County, which was swaying in the flames of war, held on for seven days under the persistence of 500 dead soldiers, pinned down a large number of Japanese troops, and did not dare to let go of the attack on Dangshan.

On the seventh day of the battle, Li Shouqing's battalion was already scattered and unformed, Battalion Commander Li had already died in battle, and the battalion commander who temporarily filled the position was a small squad leader who was not well known.

That is to say, all the officers of Li Shouqing's battalion from the battalion commander to the battalion commander died first, and in the end, the largest officer was only one squad leader.

This unknown seriously wounded squad leader, in the end, collected more than a dozen seriously wounded soldiers, which can be regarded as the last bit of seed of the third battalion, and everyone, like the third battalion, is like a flame, and it has reached the last moment when the oil runs out and the lamp withers.

For seven days, a battalion faced a wing of the Japanese army and held out for seven days, which was also rare in the entire War of Resistance, but in the history of the War of Resistance, there are too many things to record.