The next day, the Japanese army attacked the northwest corner of Taierzhuang, sought to seize the west gate, occupied most of Zhuangzi, and cut off the connection between the headquarters of the 31st Division of the Chinese defenders and Zhuangnei, and the situation was precarious.

Chi Fengcheng felt that if the battle continued, the 31st Division would be annihilated, so he asked Sun Lianzhong, commander-in-chief of the Second Army, whether he could transfer his position and temporarily withdraw to the south bank of the canal. Because the 31st Division was Sun Lianzhong's family's army, and the casualties were so heavy, Sun Lianzhong was very distressed and reported to Li Zongren.

Li Zongren did not want to fall short, so he telegraphed Sun Lianzhong: "The enemy and I have been fighting in Taierzhuang for a week, and the number of winners and losers will be decided in the last five minutes. Reinforcements will arrive at noon tomorrow, and I myself will come to Taierzhuang tomorrow morning to supervise the battle, and you must stay until dawn tomorrow. This is my order, and if I disobey the order, it shall be done by military law. ”

After Sun Lianzhong threw down the phone, he went to Taierzhuang to supervise the battle, and ordered Chi Fengcheng: "When the soldiers run out, you will go forward and fill in by yourself." You've filled it in, I'll fill it in. Whoever dares to retreat across the canal will be killed! ”

When Chi Feng Cheng heard this, he knew that there was no way out, so he resisted house by house with the determination to die, no matter how the enemy rushed to kill, he still fought to the death, and suppressed the enemy with powerful artillery fire. And planned to organize dozens of daredevils to attack the enemy camp at night, engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army, and defend to the end.

At dusk, the remnants of the sun are like blood. Chi Fengcheng stood on the command platform in the playground of a local school, with a large basket of silver dollars beside him.

"All the officers and men of the 31st Division, at present, the enemy has occupied half of the Zhuangzi in Taierzhuang, we have lost contact with the Zhuangnei, but we must recapture the position, I am now ready to organize a death squad of 50 people, if anyone is willing to sign up, please stand on the platform, all the members of the death squad who sign up for the death squad will be rewarded with 30 yuan each."

Chi Fengcheng grabbed a handful of silver dollars from the basket, and then let go of his hand, and the silver dollar fell into the basket with a crisp sound.

"I'll sign up."

"I'll sign up too."

"And me."

Many soldiers boarded the commanding platform, and Guo Laifu was among them.

The two soldiers carried the basket and followed Chi Fengcheng to the members of the death squad, who took thirty pieces of ocean from the soldier's hand, handed it to the first soldier, and then shook hands with him tightly and saluted.

Chi Fengcheng came to Guo Laifu and handed him thirty silver dollars, but Guo Laifu did not reach out to take it, so Chi Fengcheng stuffed the silver dollars into his hand.

"Sir, I don't want money."

"You deserve it."

"Report to the chief, I know, this is going to die nine times a life, there is more luck and less luck, what is the use of asking for money?"

"You can send it to your parents, siblings or your daughter-in-law and children."

"Report sir, I'm an orphan, I have no brothers and sisters, I haven't married yet, I'm a bachelor."

"Then why did you sign up for the death squads? Isn't it for the money? ”

"My parents were killed by the Japanese, and I joined the army to kill devils, avenge my parents, and avenge all the parents who died at the hands of Japanese devils in the world. Our regiment commander Tan said that our sacrifice today is to fight for the survival of the nation and for our future generations not to be enslaved. ”

"Well said, what's your name?"

"Report sir, my name is Guo Laifu."

"Okay, Laifu, I'll keep these thirty oceans for you first, and when you return triumphantly, I'll give them to you myself."

"Thank you, sir, if I can come back alive, can I ask for anything else without money?"

"Oh, no money? So what do you want? ”

Guo Laifu scratched his head embarrassedly.

"Say, whatever you want, I'll try to satisfy you."

"I want a signed photo of Zhou Xuan, okay?"

There was a burst of laughter in the team, and Guo Laifu's face turned red.

"It turns out that you are a fan of Zhou Xuan. Okay, I promise you, I will help you get Zhou Xuan's signed photo. ”

"Thank you, sir." Guo Laifu stood up and saluted.

Chi Feng Cheng also returned the salute.

"Sir, this little brother is right just now, we are not soldiers to fight for money, but for our relatives, to defend them, to defend our country, I don't want this ocean."

A big man on the death squad also put silver dollars in the basket.

"Da Gao is right, we are all here to kill devils, not to make money."

For a while, the members of the death squad put all the silver dollars in their hands back into the basket.

Chi Fengcheng was teary-eyed, looked at everyone, and clasped his fists: "I'm someone in Chi thank you, come on, serve wine." ”

Several soldiers gave bowls to the death squad members and filled them with wine.

"Come, brothers, dry this bowl of Zhuangxing wine, and wish you all success and triumphant return."

Chi Fengcheng drank the wine in the bowl and threw the bowl to the ground.

The members of the death squad also dried the wine in the bowl and threw the bowl to the ground.

"Break the cauldron and fight to the end."

The soldiers are all majestic and heroic.

After nightfall, taking advantage of the darkness, 57 death squads crawled close to the Japanese positions and carried out a sneak attack.

Guo Laifu quietly approached the devil standing guard, covered his mouth with one hand, and pulled the devil's neck with a dagger with the other, and the devil was killed instantly.

Guo Laifu waved his hand to his companions, and the rest of the death squad members rushed into the Japanese camp and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army.

Suddenly, a burst of machine guns rang out, and a machine gun behind the bunker spewed tongues of fire, and several death squad members fell.

Rifle pulled out a grenade from his waist and threw it at the machine gunner, and with a "boom", the machine gunner fell to the ground, and the machine gun was dumb.

Laifu was outflanked by two devils behind him, Laifu jumped up, picked up a spear from the ground, and fought with the two devils, one of the devils stabbed Laifu in the chest with a bayonet, Laifu dodged to the side, dodging the fatal knife, but his right leg was stabbed by another devil, and the blood flowed immediately.

Seeing that Rifle was injured, the big tall man immediately came to support and knocked down the two devils. Laifu got up from the ground and continued to slash with the devil.

The big tall man was surrounded by five or six devils, and there were already several wounds on his body, and blood was gushing out, and the big tall man roared, pulled out a grenade, and died with five or six devils.

Seeing that Da Gao had died a heroic martyr, a wave of blood rushed to his head, and he grabbed a machine gun from the ground and fired at the enemy camp。。。。。。

After the bullet was fired, Laifu picked up the devil's spear again and continued to fight with the devil hand-to-hand, but in the end, due to excessive bleeding and physical exhaustion, he fell to his knees, but Laifu still straightened his body and did not want to fall.

Four or five devils stabbed at Laifu together, and Laifu was pierced through the chamber with a bayonet, and blood was splattered on the battlefield.

The other death squads also fought hard, and finally eliminated the Japanese army and recaptured their positions.

Eleven death squad members returned to the camp with the remains of their comrades. Chi Feng Cheng personally greeted the officers with them.

"Report to the division commander, the death squad will complete the mission, completely annihilate the enemy army, and recapture the position."

Chi Fengcheng looked at the eleven exhausted warriors who were soaked in blood and stained with military uniforms, and burst into tears: "Medic, quickly help these warriors down for healing." ”

Tan Jingting saw Guo Laifu lying in the forty-six corpses at a glance, tears flowed down, he hurriedly stepped forward, ran to Guo Laifu's body, squatted down, looked at the childish face, touched the seventeen or eighteen wounds on his body, grief-stricken, covered his face with both hands, and wept bitterly.

Chi Fengcheng also walked over, looking at this little brother, yesterday's voice and smile still echoed in his mind. He crouched down and closed his eyes. He patted Tan Jingting, who was squatting aside, on the shoulder.

"Your soldiers, well done."

Tan Jingting wiped his tears, saw something in Laifu's shirt pocket, and hurriedly took it out. It was a star photo of Zhou Xuan soaked in blood.

"Rifle 。。。。。。" Tan Jingting's hands trembled and held the photo, tears dripping on the photo.

Back in the camp office, Tan Jingting took out the star album from the drawer of his desk, and with tears in his eyes, pasted the star photos one by one and rebound them neatly.

Tan Jingting put Guo Laifu's bag of Tianfu peanuts that he hadn't eaten too late to finish with this star album.

A few days later, the bodies of 46 death squad members were buried in a cemetery in Taierzhuang.

Tan Jingting put the star album and the bag of Tianfu peanuts in front of Guo Laifu's tomb.

Chi Fengcheng put several signed photos of Zhou Xuan and a record in front of Guo Laifu's tomb. Each photo is followed by the words "Laifu Brother Save, Zhou Xuan".

"Brother Laifu, I helped you fulfill your last wishes, these photos were signed by Zhou Xuan for you with tears, she said, she will remember a fearless warrior like you for the rest of her life, and she is honored to have a fan like you. She also asked me to put this record at your grave as a tribute to you. Rest in peace, brother. ”

Chi Fengcheng, Tan Jingting and other soldiers fired guns to see off the comrades who died in the death squad.

Li Zongren rushed to the vicinity of Taierzhuang and personally commanded the troops to counterattack on all fronts.

At 1 a.m. on 7 April, the Chinese army sounded the clarion call for a counteroffensive, and the left wing corps composed of Sun Lianzhong's 2nd Army and the right wing corps composed 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 counterattacked, and the crowd was excited, and the order was given, 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.

Tan Jingting's left leg was pierced by a bullet in the battle, but he insisted on not getting out of the line of fire until he lost too much blood and fell unconscious, and was then sent to the field hospital for treatment.

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, and Isoya himself led the remnants to desperately break through.

After four days of fierce fighting, the Nationalist army inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese Seya detachment and Sakamoto detachment, and the rest of the Japanese remnants retreated to Yicheng and Zaozhuang on the 7th. So far, the Battle of Taierzhuang has finally been won.

The Battle of Taierzhuang, under the personal command of Li Zongren, defeated the main force of the 5th and 12th 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 won by the Kuomintang in the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japan. It has invigorated the spirit of the whole nation in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and strengthened the belief of the Chinese people in the victory of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.