The siege of Xuzhou was a large-scale extermination operation jointly led by Zhu De and Peng Dehuai, the two commanders and deputy commanders of the Eighth Route Army, after the decision of the central government. Attacking through the four gates at the same time caused great difficulties for the enemy to defend the city. Since ancient times, siege warfare is the most difficult battle, in ancient Chinese history, a strong city often as long as there are tens of thousands of soldiers can resist the enemy tens of thousands, even in the modern history of the cold weapon era, siege warfare is still considered to be the biggest difficulty in the war, and this is Matsui Shigen after choosing to withdraw from the military circles, after the decision to invade China, he invited him to go out of the mountain again, and after he successively captured China's Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan and other large cities, his prestige reached an unprecedented height, At one time, he surpassed several people in the army who were very prestigious, such as Okamura Ninji, Kenji Dohihara, and Yamamoto Fifty-six.

But even if it is recognized as the most difficult siege battle in the war in the eyes of the Eighth Route Army that came to attack Xuzhou is nothing at all, after only an hour of fighting, the four gates of Xuzhou have all been breached, and when the little devil in the city learned of this situation, hurriedly sent a telegram to the high command of the army in China, the supreme commander Uchiji Daishou was shocked after receiving the telegram and had nothing to say, but at this moment Xuzhou can no longer be lost, when he received the death of General Matsui Ishine and Xuzhou Supreme Commander Yoshitsuka Yuo, He no longer knew how to explain to their Emperor His Majesty, if Xuzhou was thrown away now, then he would not have to give any more explanation, and he could go directly to the gallows. So when he received the telegram that the four gates of Xuzhou had all been broken, he did not order the little devils in the city to gather and break out, but gave an order to defend Xuzhou. Who knows that under such circumstances, it is meaningless to defend Xuzhou again, and it can only increase unnecessary casualties. But the king let the minister die, and the minister had to die. This phrase is the same in any country.

After receiving the order to defend Xuzhou, the little devils in Xuzhou City had to redeploy the battle plan again, but half of the garrison troops who claimed to be 600,000 did not turn on their weapons. After the large army of the Eighth Route Army entered the city, when they encountered the position arranged by the little devils, they completely ignored it, but scattered and fled. And the little devil fled in all directions in fright when he saw the Eighth Route Army attacking the city after seeing him, and his confidence suddenly increased greatly, and he all started from the fortifications that he had built with great difficulty, and then went to chase those Eighth Route Army. However, not long after they left the fortifications, their position was occupied by the Eighth Route Army, which had rounded the rear. And the little devils who chase them out are chasing them less and less, because every time they rush out of a step, there will be almost a little devil who is killed by a bullet from nowhere. In the houses on both sides of the road where the Eighth Route Army fled, there were snipers from the Eighth Route Army in ambush. And when they are finally thrown off by the Eighth Route Army in front, they return again, and they will once again experience the terrifying fear of walking one step at a time and lying down one at a time, and no one knows if the next one will be themselves. Although these little devils knew very well that the Eighth Route Army who shot them with black guns was hiding in a certain house on both sides of the road, it was not easy to find a few Eighth Route Army troops from so many houses, and even if they wanted to look for them, the Eighth Route Army soldiers might have evacuated long ago in the shadows. So their only way is to speed up their speed, leave this road as soon as possible, and then return to their own positions, with the Eighth Route Army just now after seeing their position in fear of fleeing in all directions, the little devils take it for granted that the Eighth Route Army does not dare to fight with them at all, they didn't even notice that the Eighth Route Army just ran away just now just to solve them one by one. And just after they returned to the position, the already depressed mood fell directly to the bottom, and in their eyes there was more shock and fear, and then these expressions quickly turned into despair, and then there was a noisy machine gun fire, these little devils who had just escaped from the ghost gate finally went to see the king of Hades.

This strategy to lure the enemy was conceived by Zhu De, and before the attack on Xuzhou, he had already told the division commanders of this strategy, and all the division commanders who attacked Simen adopted this strategy, and also achieved great success, the only one who did not adopt this strategy was the 115th Division led by [***], in the post-war casualty statistics, it was the 115th Division that suffered the greatest casualties, if it were not for the support of Zhang Dongbei and the Langya Special Combat Brigade, the loss of the 115th Division would have been greater.

Zhang Dongbei was indeed a little surprised when he heard [***] say that he wanted to worship himself as a teacher, but he soon came to his senses and said with a smile: "I don't learn other skills, I just learn marksmanship from you." Northeast, about your ability, I believe I don't need to give you examples one by one, I've heard a lot of rumors about you. Not to mention far away, just talking about the weapons used in this attack on Xuzhou that have never been seen before, it can explain everything, you are definitely not an ordinary person. How about the Northeast, as long as you are willing to teach me marksmanship, then I will listen to you from now on. ”

Zhang Dongbei's eyes rolled and said, "Senior Lin, why do you really listen to me?" ”

"The eldest husband has a word, and the horse is difficult to chase, of course my words count. If you don't believe it, I [***] have fulfilled every sentence I said, and I have never let go of empty guns. [***] patted his chest and said.

Zhang Dongbei smiled: "Hehe, since this is the case, Master Lin, I have something to discuss with you now." ”

"You say." [***] with a straight face.

"Withdraw the troops now, then disperse the troops into the city, and then fight guerrillas with the little devils. Ensure the safety of our fighters themselves. In this situation, although we can also kill the little devils, the casualties will be very large, and if we withdraw the troops to the city and disperse, we can shoot the cold guns of the little devils, and if we encounter a small group of little devils, we can fight them, and if there are more little devils, then withdraw. Maybe it will take a little longer to take Xuzhou in this way, but it can protect the lives of our soldiers to the greatest extent. We can't mess with the little devils. This is very unwise in the current situation. ”

[***] frowned, with a look of displeasure on his face, although he sometimes listens to the advice of others, but for him, Zhang Dongbei is only a brigade commander, and just now this brigade commander actually taught him a lesson as a division commander, how can he not be angry.

Zhang Dongbei also found the unhappy look on [***]'s face, knowing that he had a strong sense of self-esteem, and sometimes he couldn't even listen to other people's advice, not to mention that there was a hint of criticism in his own words just now, how could this make this person who dared to slap the table with [***] not be angry.

"Master Lin, after all, there are 600,000 little devils in this city, and we can't afford to fight with the little devils here. You say it's better to destroy these enemies at the least cost or to get away with it. And now the cannon sound of the other three city gates has also stopped, which means that the rest of the Eighth Route Army has entered the city, and until now we have not heard the sound of artillery, which shows that the large army did not start a positional war with the little devil after entering the city. In fact, this is just to better protect our soldiers, and I hope Master Lin can understand the meaning. ”

At this time, Liu Bocheng also braved the enemy's artillery fire to come to the front and persuaded [***]: "Lao Lin, it's not a way to fight like this." We can't fight the little devils. Although they have blown up the mortars of the little devils in the northeast just now, there are quite a few of them, but there are too many little devils, and they have just received information, and a large number of little devils have gathered here."

Everyone was stunned, and [***] wondered: "A large number of little devils gathered at the north gate, what is the situation?" Could it be that the little devil knows that my 115th Division is fighting a positional battle here at the North Gate, so he wants to come and intervene? ”

"No, the little devil wants to break through the defense line and escape from Xuzhou." Zhang Dongbei's words are amazing.

"No, Tohoku. We have just broken through the city gate, and the little devils in the city have just exchanged fire, these little devils are not so, they are claiming to have 600,000 people, can they face our 200,000 Eighth Route Army all of a sudden? It's incredible, isn't it? Is this still the same little devil we met before? Liu Bocheng didn't believe that the little devil came to the north gate to escape, which was so different from the little devil he had met before. But just after he finished saying this, he recalled that the little devil troops he had encountered since Zhang Dongbei joined the 129th Division had indeed been more and more unbeaten, and they were often wiped out or surrendered before they had much fun. It's just that the largest scale of those little devils in the past was only at the division level, and it is not the same as the current 600,000 army, so I didn't feel it before, and now I heard that 600,000 little devils are going to escape, so I feel a little incredible, but I don't feel strange when I think about it.

"It doesn't matter what the little devils are trying to do when they gather at the north gate, but now we can't fight guerrillas anymore, but we need to hold our ground and defend the north gate." Zhang Dongbei said solemnly.

Liu Bocheng said: "Northeast, do you mean that we are here with the little devils?" ”

Zhang Dongbei nodded and said: "Yes, now the situation is very different from before, I thought that no matter how bad the little devil was, he would hold on to the city for ten days and half a month, so we need to take guerrilla attacks to disturb the war, but now the little devils are suddenly coming to the north gate, this intention is too obvious, they want to concentrate superior forces to attack me a little, and then take the opportunity to escape." Since we have already guessed their intentions, we certainly cannot let them succeed. ”

"Haha, I'll just say, everyone is going to fight guerrillas, what if this little devil escapes. Now you know why I started a positional battle with the little devils at the north gate in the first place, and I was guarding against them. [***] suddenly laughed.

Zhang Dongbei and Liu Bocheng suddenly gave him a roll of their eyes, and then Zhang Dongbei said to Liu Bocheng: "Boss, look at the current situation, the 129th Division is also preparing for battle." I'm going to wipe out the little devils on the opposite side first, and then let some of the soldiers of the 129th Division enter the houses on both sides of the street, and let's pave a Hades road for the little devils coming to the north gate, what do you think? ”

Liu Bocheng glanced at Zhang Dongbei in surprise, and said strangely: "Northeast, how do you know this strategy, did anyone tell you?" ”

Zhang Dongbei was confused and asked, "Tell me what?" ”

"How did you know about the Hades Road strategy you just mentioned?" Liu Bocheng asked. Zhang Dongbei didn't understand why he asked, but he still replied with a smile: "This is what I just came up with, and no one told me." ”

Liu Bocheng glanced at Zhang Dongbei strangely, and then glanced at [***], only to see [***] shake his head slightly. Liu Bocheng sighed at this time: "Northeast, I didn't expect you to think of this strategy, this is exactly the strategy formulated by Commander-in-Chief Zhu to attack Xuzhou this time, set up ambushes on both sides of the road, and then lure the enemy here, and then annihilate it by surprise." I didn't expect the two of you to think of going together. ”

Zhang Dongbei asked in surprise: "Boss, what you said is true?" ”

Liu Bocheng nodded and said: "Of course, otherwise I thought why I was so surprised just now, I was in Xuzhou when we had a meeting just now, how did you know about this plan." ”

Zhang Dongbei clapped his hands and said excitedly: "This is really good. Boss, in this way, these little devils who came to the north gate must have been hit by this ambush, if they are in the same ambush here at the north gate at that time, it will definitely make their spirits collapse, maybe when the time comes, they don't need to do it at all, these little devils will be frightened and retreat to the city again. And now our main task is to eliminate this little devil on the opposite side as soon as possible. ”

Liu Bocheng said with a smile: "Northeast, what you said is too mysterious, although it is a good way to set up ambushes on both sides of the road, which can form a three-sided attack on the little devils, but as you said, it is impossible to scare off the little devils with an ambush." ”

Zhang Dongbei said with a smile: "Boss, if these little devils really want to escape from the north gate, then they will definitely be intimidated by this ambush." Boss, if you think about it, there is nothing here at the North Gate, no arsenals, no tanks, nothing that can make the war more favorable to the little devils, so apart from the fact that they want to escape from the North Gate, I really can't remember why they came to the North Gate. Since they wanted to escape, then why did they want to escape, of course, they were frightened by the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who attacked the city, and what scared them was the strategy formulated by Mr. Zhu to lure the enemy into an ambush. So when these little devils also encounter this kind of ambush here at the north gate, they will definitely hesitate and be afraid, plus it is impossible not to pursue behind them, if they venture into this street, then what awaits them at that time is surrounded on all sides, so that the little devils will completely become a turtle in the urn, even if they want to escape, they can't escape. Therefore, when the little devils encounter this ambush again, they will definitely withdraw to the city. In addition to the two main roads at the crossroads, there is also a small road over there, and there must be our comrades' pursuers on the main road, and the little devils will naturally not return the same way, but will definitely take the small road back to the city, so our 129th Division will hold this small road, and this time it will be difficult for these little devils to fly. ”

Liu Bocheng and [***] nodded their heads when they heard this, and [***] said: "Northeast, I didn't expect you to think so carefully and take all the problems into account." Okay, since you have thought about the plan in such detail, then we will arrange the troops according to your plan, but now there are still many little devils on the other side, and we have to hurry up. ”

"Okay, hurry up." At the same time that Zhang Dongbei echoed, a gunshot rang out, and a mortar that had just been brought up by Zhang Dongbei was solved by a bullet from Zhang Dongbei. In order to resolve the battle as soon as possible, Zhang Dongbei issued an order to the Wolf Tooth Special Operations Brigade to shell the whole process, maybe for others, one or two shells will be wasted when playing mortars, but for the soldiers of the Wolf Tooth Special Operations Brigade, it is simply too easy.