After everyone calmed down their excitement, Zhang Cheng conveyed to everyone the instructions of the central government to call on all units of the Eighth Route Army to support the frontal battlefield of the Kuomintang army and launch a large-scale sabotage war against the Japanese army. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

It is now the beginning of April, and the Battle of Xuzhou has entered the most fierce mid-stage stage, and both China and Japan have invested huge forces in order to win the battle, intending to attack the main force of the other side in one fell swoop.

On March 23, the Japanese army moved south from Zaozhuang and engaged the defenders' alert troops in the Kangzhuang and Nigou areas on the north side of Taierzhuang. In order to lure the enemy deeper, Liu Lanzhai Company Commander of the 31st Division led the cavalry company to set off from Taierzhuang and search and advance in the direction of Yixian County, and the commander of the 91st Brigade led the 183rd Regiment to follow up and encountered the Japanese army in Kangzhuang, 20 miles south of Yixian County. The battle of Taierzhuang officially began, and our army's horse team fought and retreated in order to lure the enemy into depth.

On March 24, more than 2,000 Japanese troops, with the cooperation of aircraft, artillery and tanks, began a large-scale attack on Taierzhuang. The Japanese army set up an artillery position in Liujiahu Village, five miles north of Taierzhuang, lined up 10 cannons, and bombarded Taierzhuang.

Gao Hongli, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 183rd Regiment of the 91st Brigade, led the soldiers, each with a big knife and 8 grenades, to enter the enemy's artillery position, cut the enemy unable to parry, abandoned the artillery and fled. At that time, there was a rumor on the battlefield of Taierzhuang: "The good story of Zhang Fei making trouble in Liujiahu".

At the same time, the 1st Battalion of the 186th Regiment, which held the north gate of Taierzhuang, resisted stubbornly under the command of Commander Wang Zhen and Battalion Commander Jiang Changtai, and engaged in a white-knuckle battle with the Japanese army outside the north gate of the city, repelling the fierce attacks of the Japanese army many times. The 1st Battalion was a recruit, who had only been in the army for half a year, and almost all of them died at the north gate of Taierzhuang.

Commander Wang Zhen also personally set up a machine gun to shoot at the Japanese army outside the city, that night, 200 Japanese soldiers broke through the small north gate, hid in the Taishan Temple near the small north gate, Wang Zhen personally led the soldiers to besiege the enemy of the Taishan Temple, and finally eliminated it.

On the 24th, the Japanese army repeatedly attacked Taierzhuang and repeatedly attacked the village. The defending 2nd Army stubbornly resisted and engaged in a fierce battle with the Japanese army. The Japanese attacked for 3 days and 3 nights before rushing into the city.

On March 27, 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 Japanese troops 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. This is a battle plan that Li Zongren has already drawn up, with part of the troops to defend Taierzhuang, and the defenders try to drag the enemy as much as possible, so that the army outside the village will surround the Japanese invaders 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 the 29th, the Japanese Seya detachment was again supported by troops and occupied the eastern half of Taierzhuang.

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 Seya detachment decided to fight to the death, killing 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 state of stalemate for a while.

The Battle of Taierzhuang was in full swing, and Chang Kaishen saw that the battle was stalemate, so he ordered the 18th Group Army to launch a large-scale sabotage battle along the Jinpu Road in North China, destroy the supply lines of the Japanese army, and assist the Kuomintang Army in realizing the plan of annihilating the 10th Division.

After Zhang Fengming, chief of staff, introduced the details of the Taierzhuang Battle to the comrades, Zhang Cheng ordered people to unfold a map of the surrounding area of the Jinpu Road trunk line, and then said: "The Battle of Taierzhuang is an important part of the Battle of Xuzhou, and the overall situation of the confrontation with Japan is very crucial.

Of course, we must flexibly use the sabotage war launched against the Japanese army, first of all, we must not play the name of the instructor, before our instructor has successively eliminated two divisions and regiments of the Japanese army, four independent mixed brigades, has already become a thorn in the side of the Japanese army, a thorn in the flesh, if the Japanese army once it learns that our instructor is in the hinterland of Qilu, it is likely to attract the main force of the Japanese army to Qilu and launch a sweep against our instructor.

We can continue to use the name of the previous Qilu anti-Japanese guerrillas to carry out a sabotage war, and all units must not be greedy for perfection, and must not launch an attack on the large forces of the Japanese army, so as not to startle the snake.

In addition, each department can be divided into parts, remove the traitor armed forces supported by the Japanese army, so that the Japanese army will lose its eyes and ears, and then focus on attacking the Japanese army's search teams, transport teams, trunk strongholds and other small troops, accumulate small victories into big victories, paralyze the Japanese army's blockade network, and also send troops to attack the Japanese army's railway trains, cut off the supply lines of the Japanese army, so that the Japanese army can be divided from the north and south, and unable to effectively reinforce the Seya detachment that is in a desperate situation in Taierzhuang, and complete the tasks assigned to us by the central government. ”

After Zhang Cheng set the tone, the political commissar then added: "According to the strategic thinking of the division commander, after the heads of all departments return to the base areas, they will immediately divide their troops, and it is strictly forbidden to mention the name of the instructor, put away all the neat military uniforms, and require all officers and men of all units to wear the clothes of ordinary people to participate in the battle, and fight guerrilla warfare and sabotage warfare in order to confuse the eyes and ears of the Japanese army and make them think that we are local guerrillas." ”

Zhang Cheng finally concluded: "Launching a sabotage war and guerrilla warfare on the main line of the Jinpu Road is only a task for the Kuomintang and our Eighth Route Army to cooperate. At present, our most important task is still to develop the local troops in a low-key manner, to form a rural government, and to bring the entire rural areas of the land of Qilu into the rule of our Eighth Route Army.

We must go deep among the masses, call on the masses to join us in resisting Japan, and actively mobilize the people in the base areas to join our Eighth Route Army. In addition, it is necessary to severely crack down on bandit forces and traitor forces, so that our base area will become an impregnable and impregnable fortress. Alright, that's it for the meeting, and I declare: adjournment! ”