Outside the county town of Weishi, on the battlefield in the northwest, the fighting was still fierce, Yang Dali led the officers and soldiers of a battalion who were encircled by the Yue army and launched a desperate struggle with Yue Kou, although the strength was at a disadvantage, but the morale of the officers and soldiers of the first battalion was high, and they were not afraid of death.

In the city, the chief of staff of a regiment rolled up his sleeves, picked up the machete that had just been inserted in the ground, raised his head and shouted: "Brothers, the regiment and the first battalion are surrounded by little devils, and they are not afraid of death!" Follow me! With that, he took the lead and strode out of the city.

"Come on, kill these dogs!" The officers and men of the 2nd Battalion, who had already been prepared, were all excited, and followed the chief of staff towards the outside of the city.

………

On a dirt slope not far northwest of the city, Major General Suzuki Ichi, commander of the Sixth Division of the Chinese Army, climbed the dirt slope with several staff officers, picked up binoculars, and Suzuki Ichichi saw the officers and soldiers of both sides fighting.

After looking at it for a while, Suzuki suddenly found that a group of wolf-like Chinese soldiers rushed out of the city, and those Chinese soldiers rushed towards the center of the battlefield with a tiger descending the mountain.

In just five minutes, the forward troops of the 113th Infantry Wing, which had just completely completed the encirclement of the Chinese army, were defeated and retreated, and soon the group of Chinese soldiers was killed in the center of the battlefield and joined forces with the besieged Zhong[***], but they did not take the opportunity to break through and retreat into the city, but immediately launched a counter-charge towards the 13th Infantry Wing.

The morale of the [***] people soared, and the combat effectiveness soared suddenly, and the 13th Infantry Wing was suddenly caught off guard and retreated one after another.

Seeing this, the corners of Suzuki's mouth twitched twice, and he immediately turned his head to a staff officer behind him and said angrily: "Order the 13th Infantry Wing to fight with all your strength and defeat this branch of the army!" ”

"Hay!" The staff officer jerked his head down, then turned and strode away.

After seeing the staff officer leave, Suzuki Ichichi immediately said to another messenger behind him: "Order all wings to immediately bypass the front branch army, attack Weishi County in a roundabout way, and open up the road for our division to advance eastward!" ”

"Hay!" The communications staff officer bowed his head suddenly, and then turned and walked away quickly. However, not long after the communications staff officer left, he saw a devil young officer running over with a hurried face.

Seeing Suzuki Yiyi, the young officer suddenly closed up and said: "Report to the general, the pursuit unit of the Shina Army has been found behind!" The 36th Infantry Wing of the 23rd Brigade behind His Royal Highness has exchanged fire with the forward troops of the Chinese Army! ”

"What? How could the people of China be so fast? Suzuki was obviously a little unable to adapt, and suddenly said with a shocked face.

But then he calmed down again, turned around and looked at the 13th Infantry Wing, which was still fighting fiercely with the Chinese [***] people, Suzuki said with a dead face: "Order the 23rd Infantry Wing to resist desperately and not retreat!" The rest of the main force immediately bypassed Weishi County and rushed south! ”

"Hay!" The young officer bowed his head suddenly, and then turned and strode away.

………

Liu Jiagang.

After arriving at Liujiagang, Lai San, Ling Tianbao and others set up their headquarters here, after all, this place was already very close to the front line, and as senior commanders of the troops, there was no need for them to risk their lives to personally lead the troops to charge unless there were special circumstances.

In this way, it is not that all of them have become greedy for life and afraid of death, but as senior commanders, they have to be responsible for the tens of thousands of officers and men of the whole division, because they have to coordinate the overall situation and command the battle, otherwise the troops will be like a plate of scattered sand, and it will be difficult to form any combat effectiveness.

Lai San, Ling Tianbao, and Wang Tiehan set up the division headquarters together to form a joint command headquarters of the former enemy, which was located at the foot of the mountain outside Liujiagang Village, with trees and jungles as cover, and was relatively safe.

Although the devil's fighter plane has no time to take care of the Sixth Division at present, after all, it is careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years.

In the joint headquarters, Lai San, Ling Tianbao, Wang Tiehan and others were discussing the military situation around the map, and Peng Bo, chief of staff of the Third Division, drew Weishi County on the map with a pencil, some red arrows representing the Sixth Division, and blue arrows representing the departments of the 42nd Group Army.

I saw that on the map, the blue arrows formed a tight defense line outside Weishi County, and the two red arrows representing the Yue army pointed directly at the blue defense line.

Peng Bo pointed to the map and looked up to the crowd: "According to the report of a regiment in the city, Yang Dali, the commander of the regiment, led the guard company and a battalion to take the lead in launching a counter-charge against the advance force of the army.

Up to now, the 1st Regiment has been fighting a bloody battle with the Yue Army for nearly two hours, and the casualties are quite heavy, and I am afraid that it will not last long, but fortunately, the main forces of our divisions have arrived, and just now Lai Changqing has already commanded the 1st Brigade to launch an attack on the rear guard of the 6th Division. ”

"Brother Heavenly Leopard! What do you think the 6th Division will do next? Lai San nodded and asked Ling Tianbao beside him.

"In my opinion, there are only two ways out for the Sixth Division, one is to hold on to the spot and resist to the end. This is, of course, what we want, and we can calmly encircle and annihilate it.

The second is to immediately disperse and break through, the Sixth Division has more than 20,000 people, if they really break through in pieces, then it will be difficult for us to stop them all and completely annihilate them! Ling Tianbao pondered for a moment and said.

"Nope! The little devil will definitely not break through separately, with the surname of the little devil, if the war really does not go well and cannot break through, they will definitely hold on to the death, and then carry out some so-called jade crushing battle. Wang Tiehan, the commander of the fourth division, immediately denied.

"Lao Wang is right, I think so, Lao Ling, Lao Wang, your two divisions will take a detour, completely cut off the devil's breakthrough road, and encircle it under the county seat of Weishi, with our three divisions as the main attack, how about it?" Lai San suggested.

"Lai, I think it's better for the third and fourth divisions to serve as the two wings, and it's better for our second division to serve as the main attack!" Ling Tianbao immediately objected, after all, in their opinion, encircling and annihilating the Sixth Division was a great achievement.

"Lao Ling, your second division has suffered relatively large losses, plus the long-distance march, the main attack is still in charge of our second division!" Lai San patted Ling Tianbao's shoulder and said.

Just when Ling Tianbao wanted to continue arguing, at this moment, a communication soldier strode in, snapped his feet and said, "The main seat is calling!" ”

"Huh?" The three of them stopped arguing, and Lai San took the lead in asking, "What are the instructions from the general seat?" ”

"Command! The 3rd Division will provide you with fire support at any time, and the 2nd and 4th Divisions will firmly block the counterattack of the Japanese Army, prevent it from breaking through and wait for the general attack! The above order is urgent, and the divisions will immediately implement it after receiving it, and those who violate the order will be dealt with by military law! The signal soldier finished the message aloud and stood upright.

Ling Tianbao waved his hand and said, "Got it, you go down first." ”

After the communication soldiers left, Lai San smiled and said to Ling Tianbao and Wang Tiehan: "Two brothers, we should sincerely unite and go all out to encircle and annihilate this sixth division, you can rest assured, with a bite to eat from my third division, you will definitely not be hungry!" ”

"Hahaha! Or can you talk! That's right! We should unite together to fight the enemy! You can't delay big things for some small profits! Wang Tiehan laughed heartily when he heard this.

"Don't worry! Our Lao Ling is definitely not the person who is cautious, the little devil wants to pass through our defense area, that is a fantasy! Ling Tianbao also nodded in agreement.

"Good! We will now split up now, and this attack I will personally go to the front line to direct the battle, and I will leave it to you here! Lai San said excitedly.

"Hmmm! Rest assured! I immediately ordered the regiments to move into their predetermined positions! Ling Tianbao nodded.

"Hmm!" Lai San nodded solemnly, then put on his military hat, turned around and strode out.

After seeing Lai San leave, Ling Tianbao and Wang Tiehan respectively issued combat orders to their respective troops, and for a time, nearly 70,000 troops of the three infantry divisions spread out around the entire Weishi County.

An invisible net was quietly opened, and at the same time, the fierce battle between the 1st Regiment and the 13th Wing outside Weishi County continued, because the 6th Division did not throw troops again, but chose to break through, so that the pressure on the 13th Regiment was much lighter, and only the 13th Infantry Wing wanted to defeat the fierce Tiger's Regiment, which was a fool's dream.

In the temporary headquarters of the 6th Division, in fact, it was an armored command vehicle, Suzuki Ichimasa looked anxious and restlessly waiting for news, not long ago he had sent the 47th Infantry Wing of the 11th Brigade and the 45th Infantry Wing of the 36th Brigade to the south of Weishi County at the same time, and he led the division headquarters and field hospital to replenish the corps and then followed up.

Prepare to break away quickly before [***] breaks through the 23rd Wing's block, so that it is impossible to escape.

In fact, Suzuki Ichichi also made a great determination to cut off his arm this time, leaving two infantry wings to block the pursuit of the 42nd Army, in his opinion, as long as he can successfully get rid of the pursuit of the 42nd Army, it is worth sacrificing two permanent infantry wings.

However, the news that made Suzuki desperate soon came, the armored car he was riding in came to an abrupt stop, the door was opened, and he saw a young officer with a hurried expression and suddenly retracted his feet and said: "General, it's not good!" ”

"What's wrong?" Suzuki stood up with an awe-inspiring expression and asked.

"The forward troops of the 47th Infantry Wing have been stubbornly resisted by the China Army, and the 45th Infantry Wing has also encountered a very strong fighting force of the China Army, and it is currently fighting fiercely!" The devil officer suddenly looked up and responded.

"What?" Suzuki's face changed drastically, and he suddenly said angrily: "Yaga Yalu! Order all wings to advance with all their strength and crush the resistance of the Shina army! ”

"Hay!" The devil officer suddenly bowed his head and turned around and left quickly.

………

In Weishi County, on the periphery, Lai Changqing, commander of the Third Division and the First Brigade, was wearing a steel helmet and standing outside the temporary headquarters with a grim face. Listening to the dense gunshots coming from time to time in front of him, Lai Changqing's face became even more grim.

His three regiments have been attacking for almost half an hour, but they have not yet defeated the devil soldiers on the opposite side, and from the perspective of firepower, the devils on the opposite side have only one infantry wing to die, and there is no perfect field fortification.

However, these devil soldiers are indeed extremely crazy, unusual, and even fought a war of attrition with the First Brigade, fighting for every inch of land, not giving an inch!

The abnormality of the devil surprised the first brigade a lot, and along the way with the devil's palace troops can be regarded as a lot of dealings, the devil is almost a touch of collapse, but now the devil in front of him suddenly changed his surname, and his combat effectiveness soared.

Although the 1st Brigade had an absolute superiority in strength, it could not defeat it in a short period of time!

This made Lai Changqing inevitably a little anxious, and at this moment, a major officer ran over, and when he saw Lai Changqing, he stood up and said: "The brigade seat, the division seat has an order, within half an hour, we must defeat the army in front of us and join the second division and one regiment!" ”

"Oh, got it." Lai Changqing nodded, and then said, "Where is the master seat now?" ”

"The division has already personally led the second and third brigades to pursue the inescapable devils, and the second division seems to be fighting a blockade! The order given to us by the division is to cooperate with a group to destroy the enemy in front of us! The major officer replied.

"Hmmm! I got it! Lai Changqing nodded, and immediately shouted to the herald: "Herald! ”

"Yes!" A burly warrior ran over quickly, and then stood up and said, "Please instruct the chief!" ”

"Order the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd regiments to intensify their attacks, and within half an hour, at all costs, they must crush the enemy on the opposite side and join up with the 2nd Division and 1st Regiment!" Lai Changqing said with a cold expression.

"Yes!" The herald said yes, and quickly turned to leave.

…………….

Xuzhou battlefield.

General Li Zongren commanded the main force of the Fifth Theater, and with the cooperation of the First Theater, successfully surrounded the Xuzhou Army, which was trapped in Xuzhou with only two mixed brigades, and after several battles, there were less than 10,000 people left in the two mixed brigades, and most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled.

Just when the Fifth Theater was about to recover the important town of Xuzhou, Xue Yue's Ninth Theater also scored brilliant achievements, and the group armies of the Ninth Theater went upriver along the Yangtze River, almost sweeping the entire Jiangxi in just over half a month, and by October, the main force of the Ninth Theater had advanced to Jiujiang, an important town of Jiangfang.

Here, the 9th Theater encountered unprecedented fierce resistance, and at the same time, the 21st and 101st Divisions of the Yue Army, which had been withdrawn from Zheng County, also arrived at Hankou Station by train.

At this point, the situation in Central China was that the Fifth Theater counterattacked Jiangsu and Anhui, and the First Theater counterattacked Shanxi, Shandong, and some regions, and most of Henan.

The Sixth Theater counterattacked the Liangguang region, and the Third Theater counterattacked southern Anhui and southern Jiangsu. The Ninth Theater counterattacked the Lianghu area.

In the central and northern Henan regions, except for Zheng County, Xinxiang and other places that had just been recovered by the 42nd Group Army, the rest of the regions had been completely taken over by the other [***] of the First Theater.

Except for the Fifth Theater and the 42nd Group Army's northern Henan, the main forces of the Yue Army in the rest of the region almost did not suffer any losses, like the devils in the counteroffensive area of the Third Theater, almost all of them shrank to Nanjing, Yangzhou, and Songhu.

The situation in the Sixth Theater is even more unoptimistic, and with the exception of some remote and medium-sized cities that have been voluntarily abandoned by the Chinese army, important large and medium-sized cities are still in the hands of the Chinese army.

Therefore, those who can really pose a threat to the Yue army are Li Zongren's Fifth Theater Troops, Xue Yue's Ninth Theater Troops, and Zhang Mingyu's 42nd Group Army.

However, after the Fifth Theater recovered northern Anhui and northern Jiangsu, it had to keep troops stationed everywhere, and there were very few troops that could be drawn out to reinforce other theaters.

In addition to grabbing cities and land, the troops of the First Theater also have a top-secret task, that is, to be on guard at all times against Zhang Mingyu's 42nd Group Army; if Chairman Chiang gives an order, the troops of the First Theater may move north at any time to take Shanxi together with Yan Xishan's Second Theater.

The most important thing is that they also have to defend against the Eighth Route Army in North China and the New Fourth Army in Central China, so they are basically useless.

Although Gu Zhutong's Third Theater had a large number of troops, it was obviously very difficult to capture Nanjing, Songhu, and other important military places and recover the capital in one fell swoop.

The Yue armies around Nanjing may not have the strength to defeat the Third Theater, but Gu Zhutong's Third Theater also does not have the ability to completely annihilate those Japanese armies and recover the above-mentioned areas.

……….

Yucheng, the hall of the Military Commission.

Surrounded by everyone, Chairman Jiang strode to the giant map hanging on the wall of the hall, looking at the intricate red and blue arrows on the map, Chairman Jiang turned his head and said to Chen Cheng: "Ci Xiu, you can introduce to you the current situation of our army's counteroffensive. ”

"Yes!" Admiral Chen looked high-spirited, took a step, came to the map, picked up the command pole and pointed to the map: "At present, my first war zone and the fifth war zone have successfully cleared the Yue army in the border area of northern Anhui and eastern Shandong, and the remnants of the Syrian army in northern Jiangsu have also been surrounded by our army in Xuzhou City, and all annihilation is just around the corner!" ”

After saying this, General Chen pointed to the vicinity of Nanjing and said: "Our Third Theater has also achieved brilliant results, and all units have made rapid progress, and have completed preparations for a strategic offensive against the Nanjing area from many directions, and I believe that the national capital Nanjing will be recaptured soon." ”

When General Chen said this, everyone present suddenly became noisy and discussed, after all, Nanjing was the national capital at that time, and it was of great significance.

In addition to Guangzhou in eastern Guangdong, the main force of the Sixth Theater has recovered Huizhou, Heyuan, and other places, and General Yu Hanmou is now actively preparing for a counterattack on Guangzhou.

Seeing this, General Chen pointed to the Lianghu area very proudly and said: "The troops of the Ninth Theater have also reached Jiujiang, and they can break through the blockade of the army and march into Wuhan!" Recover the whole country and drive out the Kou! It's a waiting! ”

However, before Admiral Chen's words fell, one person strode forward and said calmly and forcefully: "Hmph! Foolish dreams, completely foolish dreams! What a joke! ”

(To be continued)