If you want to enter the ring-shaped fortifications, you have to run through the hole in the city gate, but the 7.7mm heavy machine gun on the Devil Tank has never stopped firing, and if you want to run over, you will definitely be beaten into a sieve. But a few people in the ring fortifications don't know if they are dead or stunned, and they still haven't fired a single shot anyway. The devil tank car is not terrible, but the tank car that follows the infantry is extremely dangerous, there are no anti-tank guns, it is all a dirt way to deal with it, the Chinese army has no good way to deal with this kind of assault, just like in front of you, although Dai Cunxiang and the death squad want to blow up the car with their bodies, but the devil who follows the tank will not let you approach it. If the heavy machine guns in the front fortifications are not suppressed and all the devils are driven behind the tanks, then the dozen or so people brought by Dai Cunxiang will not be enough for people to stuff their teeth.

Seeing that the enemy was about to rush into the city, Dai Cunxiang planned to rush into the ring sandbag fortifications even if he was hit by a few shots, so he handed the cluster grenade in his hand to the soldiers behind him, and ran to the fortifications with his legs.

At the same time that Dai Cunxiang ran over there, a few people ran out of the fortifications on the left and right sides diagonally facing the city gate, and drilled towards the ring-shaped fortifications facing the gate. On the city wall, two or three people jumped from a height of seven or eight meters.

Dai Cunxiang, who was running, only heard the bullets around him pass by, his face was swept by a strong wind, and he could feel a faint pain, not only on his face, but also on his arms, shoulders, and legs at least three or four places as if he had been bitten by mosquitoes, and the numbness and pain were mixed with pain to hit his head. He didn't dare to stop, rushed to the sandbag in one go, and rolled into the sandbag fortifications.

As soon as Dai Cunxiang entered the fortifications, a 57mm tank shell flew backwards from the top of the fortifications, and if he had been two seconds late, the shell would have hit him solidly, and the result would have been that he was blown to pieces, and even the people who had just entered the fortifications from everywhere were killed.

The shells exploded far behind the streets, and the devil's tank was about to rush into the city gate. Dai Cunxiang was lying on the sandbag, and he could clearly see the calves of the dense devil soldiers through the gap under the tank.

Makqin in the ring fortification was righted by two men, and the cold-blooded monster finally began its first roar.

Knock knock knock...... Knock knock knock......

As soon as the crisp and rhythmic heavy machine gun sounded, it was as if death sounded his death knell, ruthlessly dominating the fate of mankind.

Several devils who were on a par with the tank were hit by the sudden machine gun and fell to the side of the track, and the ghost soldier in front fell directly under the track, and was crushed into a pulp by the tank truck weighing several tons. The ghost soldiers behind were so frightened by this that they all hid behind the tank and followed slowly.

Dai Cunxiang was relieved when he heard the sound of Makqin, and the charging devil soldiers were suppressed behind the tank. Looking at the machine gun, it turned out that Dadong was operating the machine gun with a soldier, and after being in the first battalion for so long, he had never found that this guy's machine gun was so good, more accurate and better than those professional machine gun shooters.

The pain in his body became more and more intense, and Dai Cunxiang wanted to slide to the ground to see where he was injured, but the reality did not allow him to have this time.

After the devil's tank truck crushed several corpses, it had already driven into the city gate hole, and the calves following the tank were becoming more and more real, Dai Cunxiang shouted at the more than ten dead soldiers hiding by the city gate wall: "Blow it up." ”

The distance is not too far, and Dai Cunxiang thinks that his voice can definitely reach the ears of those people. But, as if no one heard, no one moved. Dai Cunxiang was so anxious that he used his hands and feet at the same time, shouting: "Blow up the tank." While gesturing to signal that the daredevils were ready.

Seeing that Dai Cunxiang was still shouting, one of the daredevils at the front also pointed outward with his hand, meaning that he should look outside.

Dai Cunxiang looked along the place where he pointed and saw wisps of green smoke rising from the corpse of a national soldier on the edge of the broken city gate that had fallen to the ground. He fixed his eyes on it, and the "corpse was the same death squad fighter who had asked to be the first to go up."

Dai Cunxiang nervously put his fingers into the sandbag, hoping that this soldier could blow up the devil tank, and hoped that this soldier would not be sacrificed. He knew it would be difficult, but he kept this hope in his heart.

The tank had already driven to the side of the warrior, and it was about to run over him, and at the last moment, the soldier suddenly rolled to the side, and the track was dangerously pressed over him, how could this opportunity be missed, and the cluster grenade in his arms was completely stuffed between the tracks and the wheels.

After stuffing the grenade, the soldier rolled several times in succession, and rolled a bloodstained body from the side of the corpse near the city gate to the base of the wall.

Seeing that this warrior was so agile, Dai Cunxiang breathed a long sigh of relief, he didn't know when this warrior hid in that place, this is a very dangerous thing, not only requires courage and carefulness, but also requires agile body coordination, but also requires extremely fast reaction speed, fortunately, this warrior is very ready for all three points.

If this battle is over and this warrior does not die, he must be introduced to the division. Dai Cunxiang thought secretly in his heart.

The soldier who rolled to the corner of the wall did not honestly pretend to be dead, he lay on the ground and covered himself with his hands on a corpse on the side, after all, the distance was too close, and there was no good cover, once it exploded, he would inevitably not be impacted.

When Dai Cunxiang saw his little action, he couldn't help but laugh secretly, and scolded softly: "This guy is really bold." ”

The wheels of the tank car were stuck on the tracks by these grenades tied together, and the devil commander of the car was about to let people take a look, but he heard a loud roar in his ears, followed by his body as if he suddenly lost control, rolled and crashed in the car, and then fell sideways in the car.

The Devil Commander knew that it must have been a human bomber, and he struggled to get up. Unexpectedly, the roof cover was opened, and a smoke-emitting hand bullet was thrown in, followed by the roof cover and closed firmly.

The grenade was thrown into the car by the soldier whose name Dai Cunxiang did not know, and when he pulled the corpse to cover himself, he was shocked to find that the dead soldier of the National Army actually had three grenades on his body.

The cluster grenade exploded violently, flipping the tank and tumbling to the ground, with the roof facing exactly where he was hiding. A bunch of ghost soldiers who followed the tank car were knocked down by the fragments and shock waves generated by the explosion, especially the soldiers who were advancing close to the tank car, and they were blown up to a blur of flesh and blood, and some of the ghost soldiers who were more or less hit by the explosion fragments later, and for a while, the wailing and screaming in the small city gate hole continued to sound.

This city gate hole is not wide, two tank cars side by side can not walk, now this blown up tank car lying in the middle of the city gate hole, blocking most of the door hole, has become a very good barrier, the back tank car wants to drive in, unless this is no longer the appearance of the king eight shells into the city, or pull out of the city, otherwise there is no way.

Dai Cunxiang saw that the soldier's blow was effective, and he shouted hello, and was excited, but saw that the devil soldier next to the second tank was shooting fiercely at the place where the soldier was hiding. His heart suddenly lifted, the fighters who bombed the tank had not yet come out, and the heavy machine guns here did not dare to shoot, for fear of injuring him by mistake.

The bullet hit the root of the wall, splashed a little bit of yellow dust, and hit the corpses of several dead national soldiers, although it did not spray blood, but the thrust beat these corpses constantly writhing, as if they were living people. That's not all, a few grenades were also thrown, and Dai Cunxiangxiang's heart suddenly became cold, even if the bullet just now didn't hit the soldier, as soon as these grenades rang off, even if he had nine lives, he would have to die.

Just when Dai Cunxiang was sorry, a figure ran towards him from the side of the tank, not as fast as a human being, and flew forward as soon as he got out of the city gate, delicately like a wild cat.

The figure ran out from behind the tank, and then rushed out of the city gate, and in no more than three seconds, as soon as he lay on the ground, an explosion was heard behind him.

Although the explosion of the devil's forty-eight-petal grenade is not as loud as a grenade, its lethality is not comparable to that of a grenade.

Dai Cunxiang didn't have any hope that this soldier would survive, but he didn't expect that there was nothing wrong with the people, which greatly surprised people. Happy, he shouted: "Machine gun fire, cover him." ”

A bitter battle ended when the tanks were blown up in the doorway, and the defenders, who had run out of ammunition and food, were restocked.

Listen to the thick thump of the Makqin, the crisp clatter of the Czech style, and the snap of the formal rifle on the castle tower...... Syllable...... With a sound like a slap, Dai Cunxiang in the sandbag fortification finally put his mind at ease, the devil will definitely not be able to break through his own defense line today, and he can finally look at his injuries now.

Fortunately, several gunshot wounds on his body were penetrating wounds, which did not hurt the vital point, but he bleed more.

Dai Cunxiang didn't care about his injuries, and the hygienist kept asking who the soldier was when he bandaged him, and kept talking until the soldier came to him.

"What's your name? Why didn't I know you before? Although Dai Cunxiang was tired, he still showed great interest in this soldier whom he admired unusually much.

"Report to the regiment, my name is Zhou Shanjun, a native of Cangzhou, Hebei, who joined in Heze in the front formation, and was assigned to the third company and nine classes of the first battalion." The fighter, who had blown up the tank and was able to get out of it, replied.

"Good, good." Dai Cunxiang said with a smile, looking at the soldier in front of him, as if he was looking at a treasure.

Zhou Shanjun was a little shy by him, dodging like a girl, and he didn't have the heroic posture of sacrificing himself to blow up a tank just now.

Until the evening, the devils did not attack again.

In the evening, Dai Cunxiang met Lai Wenli who hurried from Heze at the regiment headquarters, Tie Niu was locked up for more than ten days, even in such a big battle, Sun Yumin did not release him.

When Lai Wenli arrived, he brought orders from the division headquarters to retreat alternately while it was dark and abandon Zoucheng.

Dai Cunxiang was afraid that this iron bull would not change his fate, so he secretly sent a telegram to ask the division headquarters, and only after receiving a positive reply did he issue the order to the battalions.

Zou Cheng in the night is exceptionally silent, bright torches and bonfires burning in iron pots illuminate the entire city wall, not far from the city at the door of the devil's headquarters, a city with the rank of Dazuo looked at the red city from the telescope, and sighed: "No wonder Fu Rongjun will die in Jining, no wonder the tenth division will be broken and sunk in the sand, this branch of the army is really different from other troops, the combat effectiveness is too tenacious." The troops of our 14th Division have never encountered such a formidable opponent. ”

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The defeat at the Battle of Taierzhuang shook the Japanese cabinet, and Emperor Hirohito rebuked the commanders of the North China Front, General Terauchi Shoichi, and the Central China Front, General Matsui Ishone, and ordered them not to start another large-scale war without a cabinet order.

But how could the two big devils who suffered a big loss give up, and after discussion, they each dispatched a large number of troops, marched north and south, and advanced to Xuzhou on a larger scale.

The Japanese army switched to a part of its forces to contain the Nationalist army in the front, and the main force made a detour to the west, in an attempt to encircle Xuzhou from the flank and annihilate the main force of the Fifth Theater. The 10th and 5th Divisions of the Japanese Army advanced south from Yicheng, Shandong Province and the Yitang area northwest of Linyi, respectively, and carried out a diversionary attack on the defending 2nd Army, the 20th and 3rd Army Corps, and the 59th Army of the 27th Army Corps. The defenders resisted stubbornly, and by the end of the month, they stopped the Japanese army on the front line of Hanzhuang, Pixian and Tancheng. The Japanese army began to encircle the west side of Xuzhou from both the north and the south. In the south, the 9th and 13th Divisions marched north along the west bank of the Beiqi River and the Vortex River from the Bengbu area, and on the 13th, after capturing Mengcheng and Yongcheng, they attacked Xiaoxian and Dangshan in Jiangsu; The 3rd Division entered the Dayingji area from Bengbu and attacked Suxian. In the north, the 16th Division crossed the canal from Jining, Shandong, and on the 14th, after capturing Yuncheng, Shanxian, Jinxiang, and Yutai, it advanced to Fengxian and Dangshan in Jiangsu; The 14th Division crossed the Yellow River from Puyang, Henan, and after trapping Heze and Cao County in Shandong, it went straight to Lanfeng, Henan; At the same time, after the 10th Division handed over the operations in the Hanzhuang and Taierzhuang areas to the 114th Division, it crossed Weishan Lake near Xiazhen and attacked Peixian. In mid-May, when the increasingly tragic battle reports from the front continued to reach the case of Lao Jiang of the Wuchang GMD Military Commission, Xuzhou was suddenly facing a serious crisis, which calmed down his brain, which was a little dizzy because of the victory in Taierzhuang. Lao Chiang suddenly realized that the intention of the Japanese army was to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Chinese army in Xuzhou. Chiang Kai-shek immediately called He Yingqin, Bai Chongxi, Chen Cheng, Feng Yizhong and others to study and plan together. The Japanese army's attempt had been exposed, and it was no longer realistic to defend Xuzhou, and He Yingqin and others also advocated a quick breakthrough and decided to abandon Xuzhou. The telegram dictated to Li Zongren by Lao Jiang ordered his troops to avoid the decisive battle, evacuate Xuzhou, and quickly break through.

On the 16th, the Fifth Theater ordered all units to break through to the mountainous areas on the border of Henan and Anhui. The Chinese army fought and retreated, and the formation was not chaotic, and it retreated to the west and south in an orderly manner. The Japanese army blocked one place, the Chinese army rushed to one place, and everything was broken, and the army gathered in the south of Henan and the north of Hubei, and all roads rushed out of the encirclement one after another. In order to avoid a war of attrition with the superior enemy, when the enemy forces from all walks of life were encircling Xuzhou step by step, Li Zongren ordered the defenders of all walks of life under his command to retreat to the mountainous areas and lakes and marshes after a little resistance, and carried out guerrilla warfare of "breaking the whole into pieces" and entangled with the enemy for more than a month. Li Zongren and more than 700 officers and men of the commander's department passed through Suxian and Mengcheng at night, and moved beyond the enemy's encirclement to Huangchuan. Liu Ruming's troops, who remained in Xuzhou City, ambushed the Japanese 9th Division in the vicinity of Xiao County, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese army. Seeing that most of the Chinese army had left, the Japanese army attempted to besiege and annihilate Liu Ruming's troops in Xuzhou City. Liu Ruming's troops pretended to defend to the death, and seeing that the armies from all walks of life were withdrawn, according to Chiang Kai-shek's order, they abandoned Xuzhou City, skillfully jumped out of the encirclement of hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops, and moved safely. Not only did the enemy not defeat Liu Ruming's troops, but they did not even capture a single captain. The 13th Division of the Central China Dispatch Army of the Japanese army fought all the way and found that Li Zongren had sung an empty city plan, which greatly frustrated the North China Front Army, which was bent on fighting for merit, and the Japanese army suffered more than 10,000 casualties and got an empty city.

The 20th Division of Sun Yumin's Division, which suffered heavy casualties and suffered internal and external troubles, was ordered to retreat to Xuchang in early May for a new round of training.