March 16, 27th year of the Republic of China. After a whole day of preparation and deployment, Sun Yumin personally led the 115th Regiment, 116th Regiment of the 58th Brigade, the 117th Regiment and the 118th Regiment of the 59th Brigade, as well as the newly formed 3rd Regiment and Sun Jiehai's artillery regiment to embark on the journey of attacking Jining City for the second time.

Sun Yumin did not blindly launch an attack on the Japanese puppet army in Jining City, he was waiting for an opportunity. To be exact, he was waiting for the defeat of Tengxian and the great victory of Linyi. He knew that once the Isogu Division went all out to take Tengxian and the Banhuan Division was unable to move an inch in the direction of Linyi, the opportunity would come.

Seya Kai has many character weaknesses, the most prominent is of course greed for merit, although he suffered a big loss from Sun Yumin in southwest Lu, but he will still die and advance alone. Sun Yumin took a fancy to this, so he did not launch an attack on Jining for a long time, he was waiting for this old devil to become a turtle in the Jar, and when he was surrounded by the Chinese army, he attracted the bigger old devil Isoya to come to the rescue and become another turtle in the Jar, and then his own 20th Division became the rope that tightened this pocket.

Deng Dongping has been appointed as the brigade commander of the 60th Brigade and liberated Liu Wenzhi, and this time Sun Sun Yumin has saved too many things, he sat in the temporary division headquarters, reading the military intelligence report sent by the Fifth War Zone received by Tang Chunhong, and gradually made up for the "homework" that he had lost these days because of accompanying Xiao Yuying and marriage.

On March 14, the 27th year of the Republic of China, the Isogu Division launched an attack on Tengxian. The Japanese army bombarded indiscriminately with dozens of planes and more than 30 cannons, and Wang Mingzhang, the commander of the defending division, supervised the battle to the death.

On the evening of March 17, 1938, the Japanese army cooperated with artillery fire to capture Tengxian (now Tengzhou). The 22nd Army of the 41st Army of the Chinese defenders resisted bravely, suffered heavy casualties, and fought hard until the 17th, the 122nd Division of the army defending the city lost 6 officers, 105 soldiers, 10 wounded officers, 156 soldiers, 6 missing officers and 470 soldiers, the division commander Wang Mingzhang was martyred, 17 officers and 640 soldiers of the 370 Brigade of the 124th Division were killed, 16 officers were wounded, 331 soldiers were missing, 37 soldiers were missing, 124 officers and 173 soldiers of the 372nd Brigade of the 372 Division were killed, 10 officers and 281 soldiers were wounded, and 32 soldiers were missing.

On the Linyi side, since the start of the war on the 14th, the 3rd Army Corps of the Chinese Army, the 40th Army and other units have resisted step by step. The Fifth Theater Command ordered Pang Bingxun's troops to first establish a defensive position in Linyi to lure the enemy deep and block the frontal attack of the Japanese 5th Division, and then quickly dispatched General Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army and sent Chief of Staff Feng Shaojun and Cheng Chi to aid Linyi. Zhang Zizhong's troops were far away in the Huai River valley at this time, but after receiving the order, they immediately sent reinforcements to Linyi as quickly as possible. At this time, the Japanese army also grasped the movements of Zhang Zizhong's troops, but the Japanese side estimated that the 59th Army would take 3 days at the earliest to rush from Yixian to Linyi, so the Japanese army thought that it could first defeat Pang Bingxun's troops who had exhausted their ammunition in Linyi, and then counterattack Zhang Zizhong's troops at leisure, so the Japanese army estimated that Zhang Zizhong's troops not only could not arrive in Linyi in time to become a rescue army, but became a "dead army" sent to the door. However, Zhang Zizhong led the 59th Army to march day and night, which is the characteristic of the Northwest Army that is hard-working and heroic. Therefore, the 59th Army, when the enemy was completely unprepared, attacked the back of the Japanese 5th Division as if it had fallen from the sky, and the officers and men of Pang Bingxun's department fought back from the position with their lives. Therefore, in the decisive battle of Linyi from March 14 to 18, 1938, the Japanese 5th Division suffered extremely heavy losses, resulting in the Japanese troops being unable to continue to support the operation, and had to retreat back to Juxian to wait for reinforcements.

On March 19, the 27th year of the Republic of China, the opportunity that Sun Yumin had been waiting for came when the commander of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army, Se Brigade (33rd Brigade), stood out alone and launched an attack on Taierzhuang, an important town on the outskirts of Xuzhou, on the second day after capturing Tengxian.

When he saw this military intelligence report, Sun Yumin was suddenly extremely excited, and he felt that the blood in his body was about to boil.

In the battle of Tengxian, the 122nd Division of the Sichuan Army Wang Mingzhang fought bloodily and was annihilated. In the battle of Linyi, Pang Bingxun and Zhang Zizhong, who both belonged to the old army Northwest Army, also fought very hard.

It is precisely because of the bravery and tenacity of these troops that this rare fighter was created.

Just as Sun Yumin asked Liu Wenzhi to summon a meeting of the chief officials above the group level to prepare to start attacking Jining, Tang Chunhong hurriedly walked in with a telegram.

"Division, Chairman and Director Chen have called."

"Tell me, what did they say?"

"The chairman wants you to immediately send troops to take Jining and cut off the back road of the 33rd Brigade of the Japanese Isogu Division that attacked Taierzhuang."

"What did Director Chen's message say?"

"He asked you to put national affairs first, don't worry too much about fame and fortune, if you don't worry about Xiaoman, you can send her back to Wuhan."

"yes, I see." Seeing Tang Chunhong walk out, Sun Yumin said to Liu Wenzhi again: "The chairman personally gave the order, what do you think I should do?" ”

Liu Wenzhi laughed twice and said, "Shizuo, you already have a plan, and you still ask me what to do." ”

"Haha......" Sun Yumin also smiled: "This chairman is not good at commanding operations at all, but he likes to point fingers everywhere, for fear that others will not know him." ”

"So what are you going to do? He's the Supreme Commander after all. Liu Wenzhi said.

"I'll do it!" Sun Yumin's face was full of smirk, and what he said made people feel so untrustworthy. "Several regiments of my 20th Division took turns to fight, but the devils in Jining are too powerful, and we can't break the city with heavy injuries, so there is nothing we can do."

Liu Wenzhi immediately understood what he meant, and said, "I'll call them over for a meeting." ”

On March 20, more than 40,000 Japanese troops of the Isoya Division marched to the Xuzhou area under the cover of aircraft and artillery, and its vanguard Seya Brigade began to attack Taierzhuang on the 19th, and the Battle of Xuzhou, which shocked the world, officially began.

When the scattered reconnaissance and secret sentinels reported one after another, Sun Yumin knew that it was his turn to appear in the 20th Division.

In the middle of the night at four or five o'clock in the morning, it was terrible outside Jining City, and the feints for two or three days in a row made the Japanese puppet defenders tired enough.

Furong Zhenping really saw the horror of this opponent. Regardless of the feint attack day and night, I still have to defend against it, who knows which one is a real attack. Several times, it looked like the Chinese troops were going to really attack the city, but as soon as their heavy firepower fired, they immediately retreated, and their side had to rearrange the position of the heavy fire. From the 17th to the present, it is about to enter the fourth day, and the Chinese army is only feintting, not to mention the loud movement, the sound of gunfire and explosions, the whole area is deafening, but in fact there is almost no damage on both sides.

Three green flares suddenly lit up in the sky, and the Japanese troops at the head of the city began to curse and scold as soon as they saw this familiar routine, knowing that more than an hour ago, they stopped from the feint attack of the Chinese army under the city, but they did not expect to rest for a while, and the Chinese army was about to start "playing" again.

The Japanese puppet army at the head of the city changed positions for heavy firepower after every feint attack in the previous two days, and now if they are not alarmed, they are already numb, and they are almost unwilling to move their nests without the kicking of the officers, and the little time saved is to sleep backwards.

They didn't realize that in every previous feint, the Chinese army had fired red flares, but this time it was a green flare. They didn't even find out that the feints of the past few days were actually to cover up the fact that after three consecutive days of non-stop excavation, a tunnel was dug on the east, west, and south sides that went directly to the bottom of the city wall, and at the end of each tunnel there were hundreds of catties of explosives piled up under the city wall.

Three green flares seemed to light up the night, dragging their green tails and disappearing into the horizon.

It was dark again, not as before, after the signal flare, the mortars and heavy machine guns of the Chinese army did not go off, but a dozen fireballs with orange tails flew in the sky, with a terrible scream of breaking through the air, towards the city tower.

Finally, an officer noticed that something was wrong, he desperately shouted to remind the soldiers who were sleeping on the city tower like mud, but it was useless, no one wanted to get up, and when he saw the cannonball that was about to fall, this devil officer buttoned the Wang Ba box in his hand.

Most of the soldiers on the city tower were awakened by this gunshot, but it was too late, because the heavy fire exposed during the feint attack was accurately hit by the shells falling from the sky because they did not move their positions, and the firelight accompanied by a huge explosion woke up the entire Jining City.

Fukuei Zhenpei was also awakened by the thunderous explosion, and he didn't wear any coat, only a white military shirt, picked up a katana and headed towards the west gate, where the explosion was most intense.

Sun Yumin stood in the lookout hole of the headquarters and saw the continuous fire of the city wall, as well as the countless tracer ballistics shot down from the city wall, as if he was enjoying a fireworks show, but the loud explosion still reminded him that this was a battle to be filled with blood and life.

Sun Jiehai's artillery regiment lived up to the high expectations of the officers and men of the 20th Division, and the continuous artillery bombardment for a quarter of an hour almost exhausted the fighting spirit and confidence of the Japanese puppet army on the city wall.

The phone at the headquarters rang, and Liu Wenzhi answered the phone and said: "Sun Jiehai asked on the phone, he has already fired a base number of shells, do you want to continue?" ”

"No need, leave more ammunition for the old devil Isoya." Sun Yumin put down the binoculars in his hand and said, "Inform Huang Baisheng that he can start work." ”

"He's ready for a long time, just waiting for your orders. As long as they ignite the explosives, the devil puppet army on the city tower will really take a plane. Liu Wenzhi said with a smile.

"Let's get started!" Sun Yumin picked up the telescope again.

In this dark night, I couldn't see anything except the flames and vague figures on the tower, and I really couldn't understand what he was looking at. Liu Wenzhi shook his head while making a phone call.

Lai Wenli took his 115th regiment, Li Tianxi took his new regiment, and Li Tiedan led the 117th regiment to surround Jining City on three sides.

This is what Sun Yumin meant, he deliberately left this direction that seems to be the passage of life, but it is actually the road to the gate of hell, and let the devils and puppet soldiers in Jining City go, not far in front of Zhang Xiaohu led three regiments to spread a big bag and waited for them.

Everyone knows that fighting urban offensive and defensive battles and street battles is certainly not as easy as ambush warfare, and the casualties will be disproportionate compared with the two. Sun Yumin's meaning is very simple, try to minimize the casualties of the troops, it is best to force them out of Jining City, if not, he will also be fearless in attacking the fortification.

Although the endless feints of several days wore out the patience of many Japanese puppet troops, they did not force them away from Jining City after all.

Sun Yumin had no choice but to carry out a large-scale siege, and the explosives under the city wall cost him a lot of money.

At this moment, Huang Baisheng is standing next to the fuse, waiting for the shouts of the people at the entrance of the tunnel a few hundred meters away, the tunnel is covered with a layer of dry wheat stalks, and a fuse twenty or thirty meters long passes through the wheat stalks, and at the end of the fuse is a pile of neatly stacked explosive bags, which is the blood in Sun Yumin's mouth.

"Ignition ......"

The long voice of the loud-voiced soldier specially selected at the tunnel entrance came through the long tunnel, Huang Baisheng showed a knowing smile on his face, the torch in his hand was aimed at the white, tangled fuse, and the sound of gunpowder burning immediately sounded, Huang Baisheng threw the torch in his hand towards the wheat stalks, and ran towards the tunnel entrance, he only needed a minute or two, if he couldn't run out, the powerful shock wave caused by the explosion would tear him to pieces.

Furong Zhenping stood on the city tower, looking at the dark surroundings, he suddenly had an ominous premonition, many years of military career made him often but vigilant, tonight's situation is too abnormal, according to common sense, after such a scale of shelling, it must be a large-scale siege, but now the shelling is almost ten minutes away, and there is still no movement outside. Such an abnormality made Furong Zhenping extremely uneasy, and he said to a captain beside him: "Fire a few flares to shine to prevent the Chinese army from sneaking down to the city while the artillery attack is coming." ”

When a flare was fired into the air, illuminating the entire West Gate as bright as day, Furong Zhenping clearly saw that the ground less than 100 meters below the castle tower was full of Chinese soldiers who were crawling slowly.

"Kill to ........."

Furong Zhenping shouted these words, but he didn't hear the roar of the machine gun on his side, but felt that the sky was spinning, and at the same time he heard a huge muffled sound in his ears, and as soon as it was dark in front of him, he fell to the castle tower.

When he got up, he saw that half of the city wall had collapsed, and he was buried in the pile of ruins along with the Imperial Army and the Imperial Allied Army that were defending the troops on it.

Fortunately, he was on the castle tower, otherwise he would have gone with them to see Amaterasu, Furong Zhenping secretly rejoiced, but he began to roar angrily, the heavy fire on the castle tower has not fired a single bullet until now, and most of these soldiers are like themselves, and they are shocked.

Lai Wenli saw that the first and second battalions had already rushed under the bombed city wall, and half of the stone in his heart fell. The heavy firepower of the whole regiment has been concentrated, suppressing the fire of the devils on the city tower, although it is very fierce, but it will not make the enemy unable to shoot even a single bullet, could it be that the previous shelling and the explosives just now wiped out the Japanese puppet army in Ximen?

Just in Lai Wenli's thoughts, the sound of "clucking...... ghost heavy machine guns finally sounded on the tower of Ximen City, and the soldiers of the 115th Regiment in front of the gap were immediately knocked down.

Lai Wen was in a hurry, rolled up his sleeves and was about to kiss himself, but was stopped by the chief of staff and hugged him, so he had to scold angrily: "Heavy machine guns and mortars suppress me." ”