However, just before Bai Fei arrived at Zhoulou Station, the Japanese army finally broke Huang Jie's blockade and escaped by virtue of their courage and superior firepower.

Looking at the main force of the Japanese army in the distance, Bai Fei couldn't help but sigh.

Huang Jie smelled of gunsmoke, and walked over and said, "Brother Bai, brother, I tried my best and sacrificed more than a thousand people, but I still couldn't keep the devil..."

Bai Fei nodded and said, "Commander Huang, it's not your fault, even if the devil's life should not be extinguished." ”

Huang Jie said: "Now that the 16th Division of the Japanese Army has been newly defeated, should we drive the Japanese army out of Dangshan in one go?" ”

Bai Fei shook his head and said: "Dangshan is close to Xuzhou, even if the Japanese army is driven out, we can't stay for a long time, besides, there are so many Japanese soldiers, the siege of the city is indispensable to sacrifice their lives, it is not worth fighting for a small city that cannot be defended for a long time, and at present, it is still necessary to Lanfeng to the defense line of Germany." ”

Huang Jie did it when he heard this. His Eighth Army set up a garrison here to intercept the Japanese army, and although it did not succeed in the end, it also killed more than 1,500 Japanese soldiers and intercepted many Japanese baggage.

There is no one who doesn't like this kind of thing, but most of the people in the Eighth Army were adapted from the Tax Police Corps, which was treated much better than the Central Regular Army in all aspects, whether it was weapons and ammunition, or welfare salaries, and most of the officers and men of various departments were high-achieving students, and their quality was higher than that of the officers and men of the 102nd Division.

Huang Jie saw that his subordinates were busy picking up foreign falls, so he pretended to be righteous and asked: "Brother, it is all up to you to defeat the Japanese army this time, what should you do with these trophies?" ”

Bai Fei didn't really have much interest in these things, so he said casually: "Leave me some canned food, medicine and tents, and you can take care of the rest, and bring the excess back to Germany, please ask Commander Xue to deal with it." Oh, by the way, there are still a lot of materials discarded by the Japanese army near the Xiayi Railway Station, and the people of the 102nd Division are scrambling, so you quickly take someone to manage and collect it. ”

When Huang Jie heard this, he immediately led his men to run towards Xiayi Railway Station.

Bai Fei looked at his hurried pace, and estimated that the two gangs of people would have to quarrel in order to compete for the spoils of war for a while. He shook his head and said to Li Hu: "Immediately arrange manpower to blow up the nearby railroad tracks." ”

"Yes!"

Moments later, the special operators had planted twenty or thirty explosives along the railroad tracks. With a loud bang, the Longhai Line railway near Zhoulou was immediately blown up, and a section of several kilometers of railroad tracks was immediately blown up in more than a dozen places.

Bai Fei sighed and said, "If it weren't for the defense of the damn devils, why would this good railway be so damaged." ”

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In this battle, the Japanese army lost more than 8,000 people in Xiayi Station and other places alone, plus the manpower lost in the previous capture of Dangshan, which added up to more than 10,000, plus the loss of artillery, all kinds of materials were discarded in the process of escaping. This series of losses added up to a lot of nerves, and the entire 16th Division was almost disabled.

After Keisuke Fujie, who fled back to Dangshan, counted the losses, he fell ill that night. When the commander of the 2nd Army of the Japanese Army, Minoru Higashikurenomiya, learned of the situation, he was taken aback and sent a telegram to discuss with Shunroku Hatata, the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, and the telegram said: "... This regiment directly under the military police of China and its commander Bai Fei are really a big problem for our great Japanese army to enter China. Now that the 14th Division is under siege, and the 16th Division has lost nearly half of it, we are stationed in Germany, and our westward expansion plan cannot be completed..."

It turned out that after the Japanese army occupied Xuzhou, the Japanese base camp believed that the Battle of Xuzhou was basically over. In order to expand the results of the battle, the following arrangements were made:

1: Expand the results of the Battle of Xuzhou, and roughly stop at the east of the connection line of Lanfeng, Guide (i.e., Shangqiu), Yongcheng, and Mengcheng.

2. The commander of the Central China Dispatch Army should ensure that the troops participating in the Battle of Xuzhou continue to sweep along the Jinpu Line and must move to the area south of the Huai River (inclusive) as soon as possible. The 13th Division could be deployed on the banks of the Huai River west of Bengbu and transferred to the 2nd Army.

3. The commander of the North China Front should follow the transfer of troops from Central China and deploy about two divisions of the 2nd Army as the backbone of the troops along the Jinpu line from Xuzhou to the Huaihe River.

However, as early as the night of May 19, when the North China Front entered Xuzhou, it had issued an order to pursue the results of the westward expansion, so that the 2nd Army could enter and occupy Guide, but the 16th Division suffered such heavy losses, and the 14th Division that ventured to break through was now surrounded by regiments in Lanfeng, and the 10th and 13th Divisions were still in the area of Mengcheng and Suxian, and they could not quench their thirst from far away, and they could not do anything at all.

After Shunroku Hata heard the news, he also had a headache, so he had to report it truthfully to the Japanese base camp. After such a delay, the 14th Division of the Japanese Army could not wait any longer.

It turned out that after Kenji Dohihara learned of the crushing defeat of the 16th Division that came to the rescue, he already knew that reinforcements could not be counted on. He was worried, knowing that he was unlucky this time, so he simply took out all the food and let his soldiers eat and drink unlimited every day.

By May 25, the third day of the defeat of the Japanese 16th Division. That night, Tohihara gathered all the soldiers and said to them: "I have two bad news for you: First, the 16th Division that came to our rescue has been repelled by the Shina Army, and we have no reinforcements. Two, we have no food. ”

After Tu Feiyuan finished speaking, the soldiers below were in an uproar, and they began to lament and talk. Tu Feiyuan didn't care about them, and waited until the noisy voice quieted down before he said, "So, tonight will be our last dinner." After eating, we organized a breakout, and if we did not break out of the encirclement, within a few days, without the enemy attacking, we ourselves would starve to death. If you want to survive, you must break through the blockade outside the city. I hope you can sacrifice and move forward bravely, otherwise, there is only one way to die! ”

After speaking, Kenji Dohihara ordered his subordinates to take out all the last dried meat, canned food and other food for the soldiers to eat. After everyone finished eating, it was 10 o'clock in the evening. Under the order, Tu Feiyuan led all the personnel of about 10,000 people, and under the cover of the chariot, concentrated his forces to break through to the east.

Kenji Dohihara knew that success or failure was here, so he ordered people to drive the artillery and tanks to the edge of the ravine outside the city, and then stopped, and actually used the tank as a cannon to bombard the squadron on the periphery. Under the cover of firepower, the Japanese soldiers took the opportunity to rush up and rushed out of the periphery of the ravine. At this time, the Japanese soldiers already knew that the situation had reached the worst time, and driven by the will to survive, they were not afraid of death, showed extremely strong combat effectiveness, and charged towards the defenders' positions without stopping.

The squadron besieging the Japanese army was caught off guard, suffered heavy losses for a while, and was almost broken through by them. When the other friendly troops on the other three sides learned of the situation, they immediately mobilized troops to reinforce the defenders in the east, and Xue Yue even transferred Qiu Qingquan's armored troops to participate in the battle, which was able to block the Japanese offensive.