The ambush circle set up by the 117th Regiment did not come in handy, although the newly formed Third Regiment Sun Dongli pretended to be defeated, fighting and retreating, but after a distance, the trailing devil puppet army no longer pursued, and it did not work to take the initiative to attack them, which made him angry and screamed.

Seeing such a situation, Sun Yumin had to shake his head and sigh.

Sitting in the jeep, Liu Wenzhi frowned, a few days ago, when he led his troops to Tengxian, he did not have this feeling, the 20th Division at that time was the pride of the sky, and it was the invincible division that the people looked forward to, just a few days later, returning from the original road, outsiders could not feel anything, but as the chief of staff, he knew that this army had lost its glory yesterday.

He didn't know why, and he couldn't figure out what the reason was, the upper echelons would suddenly give up this unit, but he could vaguely realize that this matter would have something to do with Chen Yun and them.

Sitting in the car, Sun Yumin also had the same thoughts, no matter who it was, it was always very uncomfortable to be treated as an outcast. Now is not the time for me to find out why, the most important thing is how to be able to obey military orders and maintain vitality as much as possible.

Perhaps the soldiers felt something, and unlike the righteous march, the returning procession was like an old man in the twilight, lifeless.

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Taierzhuang battlefield.

On March 27, 1938, the Japanese army, which had received reinforcements, launched its third attack on Taierzhuang City. The Japanese army bombarded the Taierzhuang wall, the north city wall was blown down, the small north gate was also destroyed, the officers and soldiers of the 3rd battalion of the 181st regiment guarding the small north gate were sacrificed, more than 300 devil soldiers broke into the city, the tragic street battle began, and the Chinese defenders in the city launched a fierce street battle with the Japanese invaders. Although the Japanese army occupied two-thirds of the whole village, the Chinese defenders who held on to the Nanguan area did not retreat to the death and held their positions to the death, in order to complete the counter-encirclement of the Japanese army by the troops on the outer line. The chief of staff, Feng Yizhong, defended Taierzhuang with part of his troops, and the defenders tried their best to hold back the enemy, so that the army outside the village would surround the Japanese and catch turtles in an urn.

On the 28th, the Japanese army attacked the northwest corner of Taierzhuang, sought to capture the west gate, and cut off the connection between the headquarters of the 31st Division of the Chinese defenders and Zhuangnei. The commander of the division, Chi Fengcheng, commanded the enemy with powerful artillery fire, and organized dozens of daredevils to fight the enemy hand-to-hand. Tang Enbo's 52nd Army and Wang Zhonglian's 85th Army attacked the Japanese army in Zaozhuang and Yixian on the outer line.

On March 29, the Japanese Seya detachment was again supported by troops and occupied the eastern half of Taierzhuang. On the 29th, Lin Wei relayed Chiang Kai-shek's telegram: Taierzhuang barrier Xu Hai is related to the second phase of the operation, so the Second Group Army is fully guarded, even if there is a soldier and a soldier, it must also be sacrificed and work hard, if it is lost, all officers and soldiers should be severely punished, that is, Chief Li, Deputy Chief Bai, and Vice Chief Lin will also be punished.

On the 31st, the defenders of the Nationalist Army completely surrounded the Seya detachment, which had entered the Taierzhuang area. At that time, the Sakamoto detachment turned from Linyi to Taierzhuang to help, arrived at Xiangcheng and Aiqu areas, and flanked the 20th Army Corps. The corps immediately ordered the 52nd Army and the newly arrived 75th Army to besiege the Sakamoto detachment. After several days of fierce fighting, the Japanese inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese army, and their plan to rescue the Seya detachment was frustrated.

Seeing that the rescue was hopeless, the Isoya Division decided to fight to the death, and killed them one by one. Although the Kuomintang army besieged with five times the strength of the army and paid a heavy price in casualties, it was difficult to destroy the enemy, and the war was in a stalemate for a while.

On April 3, 1938, Li Zongren issued a general attack order. The 52nd, 85th, and 75th armies of the 20th Army of Tang Enbo's division launched a fierce offensive against the enemy near Taierzhuang. The Japanese fought hard and occupied most of the markets. The Nationalist army launched barricade battles, counterattacking one after another, clearing out the enemy and recapturing the market occupied by the Japanese army.

On the 4th, the Chinese Air Force bombed the Japanese positions in the northeast and northwest of Taierzhuang with 27 aircraft. That night, the Japanese Seya detachment was overwhelmed, blew up the materials that were not easy to move, and fled to Yixian.

At 1 a.m. on 7 April, the Chinese army sounded the horn of a counteroffensive, and the left wing corps composed of Sun Lianzhong's 2nd Group Army and the right wing corps composed mainly of Tang Enbo's 20th Army launched a large-scale counteroffensive in Taierzhuang and its vicinity. Sun Lianzhong, who had been defending and being attacked, heard that the counterattack was uplifted, and gave an order, and the sound of killing shook the sky. The two sides launched street battles and hand-to-hand combat, and for a time, the guns and bullets in Taierzhuang City rained down, and blood flowed like a river. For the first time, the Japanese army was so stubbornly attacked by the Kuomintang army that it was quickly crushed. To the north of Taierzhuang, the sound of gunfire was getting thicker, and the Tang Enbo regiment had opened fire on the enemy. Isoya had fallen into a counter-encirclement and began to waver, ordering the troops to retreat on all fronts. At this time, the enemy army had become the end of the crossbow, the ammunition and gasoline had run out, many motor vehicles had been destroyed, and the whole army was devastated and fled in confusion. Li Zongren ordered the troops to chase fiercely, the corpses of the enemy soldiers were all over the field, all kinds of baggage were everywhere, Isoya himself led the remnants to desperately break through from the direction of Zaozhuang, and then under the desperate rescue of the Linyi Banhuan Division, he finally escaped from Shengtian and escaped from this place that he could not forget for the rest of his life.

In the Battle of Taierzhuang, Zhang Zizhong's Pang Bingxun Department abandoned his previous suspicions, fought side by side in Linyi City, and blocked the main force of the Banhuan Division from advancing half a step in the siege of Xuhai; In Sun Yumin's 10th Division, he forgot about life and death, went forward one after another, and used the strength of one division to block the two divisions sent by the Japanese army in North China to rescue the 10th Division near Tai'an and could not move; Under the perseverance of Wang Mingzhang, Chi Fengcheng and other units of the Sichuan Army, and even the annihilation of the whole army, and under the close cooperation of Sun Lianzhong's Northwest Army, Tang Enbo's 20th Army Corps of the Central Army, and the Li and Baigui departments, the troops of the Nationalist Army were unprecedentedly united, gathered hundreds of thousands of people in the Taierzhuang area, defeated the main forces of the 5th and 10th elite divisions of the Japanese army, annihilated more than 20,000 Japanese troops, captured a large number of weapons and ammunition, seriously dampened the arrogance of the Japanese army, and was a great victory in the early stage of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression on the frontal battlefield.

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Taierzhuang won a great victory, but the Japanese army trapped in the frenzy near Tai'an did not stop attacking the 20th Division because of the fiasco of the 10th Division and the 5th Division and had broken through in Linyi, but instead lengthened the width of the battle line in a belligerent way, forcing Sun Yumin, who was already overstretched, to make matters worse.

The 115th Regiment Lai Wenli Department defending Zou Cheng is the front part of the 20th Division's defensive line, and the defense of these days is really miserable, but he followed Sun Yumin all the way down, and he can be regarded as a general who has seen the scene, Sun Yumin's tactical methods He has also learned a few percent, the only thing that is lacking may be Sun Yumin's kind of "obscene and shameless" to the enemy, as long as he can win, as long as he can kill devils, he will do everything he can to "despicable".

Dai Cunxiang concurrently served as the battalion commander of the first battalion on the Jining bloody battle almost no combat effectiveness, the 20th Division did not replenish the source of troops, Sun Yumin could not give him a supplementary source of troops, but fortunately, Deng Dongping had the foresight, as soon as he took office as the commander of the 60th Brigade, he privately set up a number of conscription points in the Heze area that was not occupied by devils, and many local people in southwest Lu who fled from all over North China and lost their homes, or many people in northern Henan who came to admire him, crowded out various conscription points, in less than half a month. Unexpectedly recruited more than 10,000 recruits, hurriedly taught them how to shoot some basic military skills such as guns, and began to replenish the ministries, although Sun Yumin was very pleased, but he was not happy, he knew very well what it meant for recruits to go to the battlefield, but if he didn't add it, he couldn't do it.

Dai Cunxiang had a headache because of the large number of recruits under his command, how could he let these recruits survive on the battlefield; Sun Yumin is upset about how to resolve this crisis; Qian Jin was anxious about ammunition supplies and food supplies.

He had already gone to the Quartermaster Department of the Third Army several times to ask for equipment and materials that had never been supplied before, but where to get them, he received the reply that the supplies of the 20th Division were not under their control, and that the 12th Army was pushed to the Third Army, and the Third Army was pushed to the Fifth Theater Command. ran around several times, and even tried to find a way to get to the point was rejected.

Qian Jin also understood that this matter was beyond his ability to solve, and wanted to report it to Sun Yumin several times, but as soon as he saw that he was busy every day, and he couldn't get rid of a mess of things every day, he couldn't open his mouth. Seeing that the hoarded materials were constantly decreasing, and it was no longer possible to support the consumption of the whole division for a few days, Qian Jin, who was in a hurry to go to the doctor, thought of buying it from the black market, but he didn't expect that his own practice would accelerate Sun Yumin, who had been on the blacklist, into the abyss.

From the beginning, Qian Jin planned to buy from the black market, Qian Jin fell into a trap set by others, and was surrounded by the gendarmerie regiment and people in a place during the Zhengzhou transaction, not only was a large amount of cash for the purchase of materials taken off as stolen money, but even he and Huang Baisheng, the commander of the second battalion of the guard who accompanied him, and dozens of soldiers were arrested on the spot.

When Sun Yumin learned the news, Qian Jin and others had already been sent to Wuhan.

When he was worried about internal and external troubles, Sun Yumin was so anxious that his mouth burned with blisters at the division headquarters.

Tang Chunhong, who knew the situation of the 20th Division, couldn't bear to see him, and secretly sent a telegram to Chen Bui, and told Lu Man, who was like a sister to her, about these things.

During this time, Lu Man has been busy with the affairs of the hospital, and as soon as the war started, it was actually them who were the busiest in terms of logistics, and the hospital was even more obvious.

She hadn't seen her man for many days, and after hearing Tang Chunhong's words, she rushed to the headquarters of the 20th Division, which was also in Heze City.

I haven't seen him for a while, Sun Yumin has lost a lot of weight, his previously heroic expression has become sluggish, his bright eyes have become hollow, there is no light on his scorched yellow face, and his usually neatly combed hair is spread on his head like a ball of dead grass.

Seeing him like this, Lu Man was distressed, tears flowed down his eyes, ran over, hugged Sun Yumin, who was sitting in a daze on the chair, and put his head into his arms.

Since meeting Sun Yumin at the headquarters of the 20th Division, Lu Man decided to help this man of his own tide over the difficulties. As soon as she left the door of the division headquarters, she ran to Tang Chunhong's telecommunications room, and called and sent telegrams to her eight brothers and sisters, crying and begging for help. She is the eldest of all the brothers and sisters, and she is the posthumous child, and her appearance and temperament are the same as the biological mothers of the nine of them. You must know that although Chen Bui does not approve of his children joining the army and politics, but the children of high-ranking cadres like them have their own ways, especially the eldest brother who is more than ten years older than Lu Man has his own trading company, although it is not as good as the financial resources of Kong and other families, it is not comparable to ordinary people, last time Lu Man asked him for thirty yellow croaker, it was just a drop in the bucket for him.

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It has been seven days since Chen Yun discovered Haiyan's disappearance.

She sent her and another soldier from Zhengzhou to Heze on a mission. After arriving, the two went separately to do errands, the soldier did his own thing, and waited for a day at the time and place of the rendezvous without waiting for her to come, and disappeared inexplicably, and the soldier who escorted her searched the entire Heze, and asked someone to go to the police station and prison to inquire, but there was still no news, so anxious that he rushed to Zhengzhou overnight, and reported to his superior, Chen Yun.

Although this Haiyan and his relationship were very close, Chen Yun still fulfilled the organizational procedures as soon as possible, immediately changed the joint location and evacuated his liaison on this line, and reported to Yan'an.

In fact, ever since the Huangpu Department and the Gui Department squeezed out the 20th Division, Minister L has received secret reports from our Party's hidden personnel on various lines. In particular, Agent 09, who was never activated in the 20th Division, also sent a message asking for help.

Minister L did not dare to slack off and immediately reported to Vice Chairman Zhou and the leaders of the Central Military Commission.

The next day, Minister L received the intention of the central government to give full support and assistance to Sun Yumin's 20th Division, and ordered the ZYY Department of the New Fourth Army, which was operating in the surrounding area, to provide camera support, and the guerrillas in southwest Lu to fully assist.

Although the leader expressed the attitude of the Central Committee, Minister L knew that on the surface, the 20th Division was a victim of the struggle between various factions, but the root cause may be because of the traitors on his side. Chen Yun's telegram just verified this conjecture, and the organization's desire to absorb Sun Yumin has been exposed.

Since it is because of our reasons that we have put others in danger, it is necessary for us to break this dilemma.

Fortunately, 09 has a lot of energy, and it has solved the urgent need in front of it by itself. Now it is basically confirmed that Haiyan has defected, because it was discovered too late, and a series of consequences caused by her rebellion have already been produced one after another, if it were not for the unexpected effect of an unintentional move earlier, I really don't know how to remedy it at this moment.

After Minister L sorted out the whole thing, he found that as long as Sun Yumin immediately made his attitude clear to those who doubted him, this dilemma could be easily solved. 09 didn't make it clear what kind of attitude this Sun Yumin has towards our party now, nor did she explain how sure she was that she was going to the bottom, and she might not be sure that she herself could lead this person onto this broad road.

Now, I have to let 09 and Sun Yumin make it clear, and let him first draw a clear line with our party and get through the current predicament.