In the Battle of Linyi, the 59th Army and the 40th Army under the 3rd Army Corps suffered more than 4,000 casualties at the cost of more than 10,000 casualties, and thwarted the Japanese army's attempt to capture Linyi.

This was the biggest setback suffered by the Japanese 5th Division since its invasion of China, and its division commander, Seishiro Itagaki, was unable to sleep and eat, became angry and almost committed suicide.

More importantly, through the Battle of Linyi, the 5th Theater cut off the left arm of the Japanese army in the northern section of Jinpu Road, smashed the Japanese army's plan to attack Taierzhuang, and contributed to the opportunity to encircle and annihilate the Lone Army's Isogu Division in Taierzhuang in the Battle of Taierzhuang.

The 59th Army decided to rebuild the second battalion of the 223rd regiment, Tan Yizhong and a few survivors stayed in the second battalion headquarters to help maintain daily affairs first, Qin Guogang took a person to the fifth war zone in Xuzhou to wait for the troops, saying that another group of Shaanxi soldiers were coming.

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If the Battle of Xuzhou was a flanking attack on China's Fifth Theater by the two major fronts of the Japanese army in the north and south, then the Japanese army in the south is now blocked by China's Gui Army and the Northeast Army at the Huai River.

The Japanese army in North China attacked in two ways, one was the Fifth Division, which was intercepted by China's Northwest Army in Linyi, and now only one was the Tenth Division, which went south along the Jinpu Line, and now reached the vicinity of Tengxian.

Teng County and Linyi belong to the two gates in the north of Xuzhou, Linyi is in the northeast, Teng County is in the northwest, and the county belongs to the defense area of the 22nd Group Army of the Sichuan Army.

At the beginning of March, He Chaoxing of the Baohuashan Brigade of the Yuanzhong Salvation Army was taking a platoon of the Sichuan Army from Mingguang to Xuzhou to report to the military station, and with the slips of the 31st Army, he received several truckloads of ammunition and supplies.

Then he took this platoon of people to escort several truckloads of ammunition and supplies, took a car from Xuzhou, went all the way north, and came to the 727th Regiment of the 364th Brigade of the 122nd Division of the 41st Army of the 22nd Group Army of the Sichuan Army in Tengxian County to report for duty.

Fellow is fellow countryman, as soon as he opened his mouth, his mouth was full of Sichuan dialect, and he felt that Ba Shi was very good, especially He Chaoxing and their row, they hadn't seen so many fellow villagers for a long time, and they couldn't stop talking about the people of the 727 regiment.

The 727th Regiment is short of ammunition and supplies, although the Fifth War Zone has sent some Chinese formal rifles, Czechs, Miners, and mortars, but the number is not large, and it does not quench its thirst.

Now He Chaoxing has sent several truckloads of grenades, rifle machine guns, bullets, etc., as well as military jackets, big cotton shoes, and even underwear.

I also heard He Chaoxing and them say that in Mingguang on the south bank of the Huai River, they beat little Japan to nowhere to escape, robbed a lot of ammunition and materials, and exchanged the looted for those at the Xuzhou military station, and then sent them over, which is really as wonderful as listening to a story.

The regimental headquarters of the 727th Regiment arranged He Chaoxing's platoon to the third company of the first battalion, and the normal numbering of the troops, the higher the front, the more powerful, or the older the qualifications.

The first battalion in this regiment is naturally the oldest qualified, but the first and second companies in front are full, and only the third company is still lacking, so it is arranged to go to the third company and become the third company and the third platoon, and He Chaoxing is still the platoon commander.

This treatment is very good for the new soldiers, in addition to being a fellow countryman, He Chaoxing's heavy meeting gift also made the regiment very grateful.

Although the local people in Teng County were very supportive of the army, when they saw that the Sichuan army was still wearing single clothes, single pants and straw shoes in the winter, they kept sending cotton jackets and cotton shoes, fat pigs, rice and other things.

But after all, he was a fellow countryman, and his own life was also very difficult, so the troops symbolically accepted some of them, and most of them were sent back.

The villagers also organized intelligence teams, stretcher teams, transport teams, etc., especially a large number of young people to help dig fortifications, and dug a tank trench 5 meters deep and 12 meters wide on the periphery of Tengxian County, which was very powerful.

Beginning on March 10, the Japanese army began to attack the outermost positions in Teng County, the defensive troops of the 127th Division of the 45th Army of the 22nd Group Army in the area of Beixiangcheng and Jiehe.

The two sides fought continuously in the outer positions for three or four days, and both suffered heavy casualties, and the Japanese army, with the help of aircraft, artillery and tanks, finally broke through a bloody road and went straight to Tengxian.

The commander-in-chief of the defense of Tengxian was General Wang Mingzhang, commander of the 122nd Division of the 41st Army, who sent most of the main forces to the outskirts of Tengxian County.

There are only a few divisional headquarters and brigade headquarters and a little guard unit in Teng County, and the only combat team is the first battalion of the 727 Regiment, that is, He Chaoxing's battalion.

In the face of the attack of a strong enemy, Division Commander Wang ordered several troops to come to defend Teng County together, but they were all intercepted by the Japanese army outside and could not enter.

The attack on Tengxian was the elite 10th Division of the Japanese Army, and the division commander Ryosuke Isoya happened to be classmates of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School with Seishiro Sakagaki of the 5th Division.

Both of them are China experts, and they both belong to the division commanders of the elite divisions under the North China Front.

The attack on Teng County was the Seya detachment under the 10th Division, with the 33rd Brigade as the backbone and the 33rd Brigade commander Major General Seya Kei as the detachment leader.

In addition to the 10th and 63rd Wings, the Seya Detachment also had an independent machine gun brigade, the 10th Brigade of the 1st Wing of the Field Artillery, and the 1st Brigade of the 2nd Wing of the Field Heavy Artillery.

This detachment had 12 92 rifles, 12 75 mountain guns, 24 75 field guns, 8 105 howitzers, and 18 150 howitzers.

There are also more than 30 94 armored vehicles and more than 10 89 medium combat vehicles. Such equipment, looking at the entire Fifth Theater of the Chinese Army, does not add up to such a tyrant.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of March 16, the 1st Brigade of the 10th Wing of the Japanese Army came to the city of Tengxian County, and saw that the city wall of Tengxian County was still relatively tall, 10 meters high and 5 meters thick.

But in the era of cold weapons, this city wall is indeed a moat that most armies sigh at, but in the era of hot weapons of aircraft and artillery, it still relies on this kind of city wall, which is really a bit ridiculous.

The heavy artillery of the Japanese army bombarded Dongguan in Tengxian County for two hours, not only flattening the tank trenches, but also blasting a gap in the earthen wall around Dongguan.

He Chaoxing looked extremely helpless, this battle had just begun, and the Sichuan army and the local villagers had worked hard for many days to get rid of the fortifications so easily.

Some brothers of the Sichuan Army of the 727th Regiment were killed by other people's artillery without even seeing the shadow of the devil, which was really unjust.

There is no way, the Chinese soldiers are used to being beaten, numb, and feel that this is all a matter of course, and in the end they can only comfort themselves with fatalism, this is fate.

When the Japanese saw that a gap had been blown open in the wall of Teng County, they organized a machine gun squadron and infantry artillery to suppress the Chinese positions on both sides of the gap.

At the same time, about a squadron of nearly 200 infantry was sent to attack the gap, and the commander of the 727th Regiment of the Sichuan Army Zhang ordered the first battalion to be patient, not to expose themselves first, and to fight when the devils entered the gap.

That's right, He Chaoxing was worried that these Sichuan troops didn't fight many battles at first, especially the Japanese army didn't fight much, and they lacked experience, but now it seems that there are still veterans.

The commander of the first battalion sent the second and third companies to the left and right sides of the gap, and the first company stayed in the rear, and when the devils rushed into the gap in the city wall more than ten meters deep, they gave an order and opened fire.