Ryosuke Isoya never dreamed that the situation would suddenly change so drastically.

On the afternoon of the 31st, Ryosuke Isoya landed in the wheat field of Beiluo by plane, and surrounded by Lai Guqi and other generals, went to the headquarters of the Seya detachment and personally supervised the attack on Taierzhuang.

In Isoya Ryosuke's mind, the 40th Wing controlled strategic points such as Tengxian, Lincheng, Zaozhuang, and Yixian, and at the latest, the 39th Wing could rush to the vicinity of the battlefield and flank the defenders of the canal from east to west. The main forces of the whole division gathered on the front line of Taierzhuang, and the Chinese defenders in front of them were completely annihilated.

The facts surprised Ryosuke Isoya.

After a series of fierce battles, the 63rd Wing suffered serious losses in combat effectiveness. After adjusting the direction of operations, the 63rd Wing began to concentrate on attacking Taierzhuang. But every courtyard in this village is made of stone, and the town is densely covered with bunkers, which provide good shelter for the defenders. On the 30th, Furong Zhenping Dazuo personally went into battle and commanded all the troops to attack fiercely for a day, and finally occupied half of the area of Taierzhuang. Unexpectedly, in the evening, the defenders brought reinforcements, led by death squads, and fought a tragic night battle with the Yue army, and unexpectedly recovered many positions.

On the morning of the 31st, the 63rd Wing fought back with all its might, and finally regained its position.

Lieutenant General Ryosuke Isoya, a senior general of the army, naturally knew what was happening at Dawenkou, and also knew that there would be difficulties in supplying ammunition for a while, so he could only rely on the accumulation of ammunition in the division itself. Therefore, he had consciously adjusted the combat goal in his heart, and only wanted to capture Taierzhuang and completely eliminate the [***] squadron north of the canal. For Xuzhou, we can only look at each other for the time being, and everything will have to wait for the Jinpu Road to be repaired.

Therefore, after inspecting the battlefield and listening to Kei Seya's report, Lieutenant General Ryosuke Isoya was very surprised, and he couldn't imagine why the squadron, which was often about to collapse at the touch of a button, was suddenly so tenacious and fought to the death. In his impression, the [***] team is not like this, the [***] Eighth Route Army can make an ambush, sneak attack or something, as for Chiang Kai-shek's troops, the tactics are dull, the position construction is weak, generally the imperial army as long as a detour to outflank, they will naturally retreat.

The situation in front of him is beyond the scope of Isoya Ryosuke's cognition, and he also knows that the [***] team will inevitably defend Taierzhuang, but he didn't expect it to be a dead guard. However, he still smiled and encouraged the generals to command the troops to fight bravely: "Gentlemen, I know Chiang Kai-shek and his army very well, Chiang himself is just a small deflated man in Shanghai, and in the words of civilized people, he is a hooligan. The troops he led had no political ideals, and some were only scandals of corruption and the fact that officers married their wives and were jealous. Fighting with such a force is the sorrow of our Yamato samurai. We should fight against a stronger, more disciplined, more combat-ready army. But there is no way, who made us so unlucky and put on such a tasteless opponent? ”

Ryosuke Isoya's words drew a laugh from a group of officers, and the gloom caused by the heavy casualties was swept away.

Seeing that the agitation had achieved results, Ryosuke Isoya said: "Take Taierzhuang and completely eliminate the enemy north of the canal, and the whole of Shandong and even the whole of North China will be our capital." If the Chinese want to take back North China from us, it is simply a fool's dream. We can even directly incorporate Manchuria and North China into the territory of the Great Saying. Ladies and gentlemen, please think about it, how will our children and grandchildren thank us entrepreneurs when they roam the fertile land of North China in a few years' time? ”

When this was said, a group of devils were even more excited, and they even chanted slogans again and again.

Seeing that the morale of the officers was high, Ryosuke Isoya ordered the divisional engineer wing to be replenished with the front-line attacking troops, and all the artillery of the artillery wing was concentrated to strengthen the firepower. After the deployment was completed, Ryosuke Isoya ordered Kei Seya to immediately launch an attack on all fronts, and be sure to quickly clear the defenders of Taierzhuang.

After giving the order, Ryosuke Isoya sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo, saying that the capture of Taierzhuang and the complete defeat of the [***] squadron on the first line of the Taierzhuang Canal were in front of him, and implored Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo to mobilize the aviation forces that could be mobilized to forcefully bombard the defenders' positions along the canal and support the 10th Division to defeat the defenders as soon as possible.

As the commander of the Second Army, Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo hated the repeated battles between the Chinese [***] Brigade and the Chinese army in Lunan for a long time, and was bent on destroying all Chinese resistance forces in Shandong and building Shandong into a strong rear for the further expansion of the Japanese army's aggression. After receiving a telegram from Lieutenant General Ryosuke Isoya, Nishio Toshizo ordered all air forces in Shandong, including Jinan, Qingdao, and Aoshima, to be dispatched to support the 10th Division.

There were groups of screaming machines in the sky, and screaming infantry instigated by Ryosuke Isoya underground, and the defenders of Taierzhuang immediately fell into a bitter battle.

By the evening, the 63rd Wing had captured two-thirds of Taierzhuang's position, and the 10th Wing had also made progress, greatly compressing the positions of the 27th and 30th divisions on both flanks of Taierzhuang.

After listening to the report, Ryosuke Isoya couldn't stop nodding his head and said Yo Nishi in a loud voice.

It's a pity that Ryosuke Isoya's joy didn't last long, and in the evening, the Naka[***] team suddenly launched a full-front counterattack. The 52nd, 85th, and 75th Armies of the Twentieth Army were killed from behind the Lai Gu Wing. The Second Army and its subordinate units along the canal also launched a counteroffensive, and the sound of killing in Taierzhuang was shocking.

After receiving the report of the counterattack of the squadron, he ordered Seya Kai to command the Seya detachment to switch to the attack on the spot, and at the same time ordered all units of the 40th Wing to strictly guard the city to prevent the sneak attack of the squadron. He also sent a telegram urging Major General Lai Wuping to lead the 39th Wing to speed up, quickly rush to the battlefield, flank the [***] team, and cover the main battle.

At two o'clock in the night, Lieutenant General Ryosuke Isoya, whose eyes were red, received the news of the loss of the Jiehe, and his head exploded with a bang, and it turned out that the counterattack of the [***] team was not a tactical move to consolidate the defensive line, but a long-planned encirclement and annihilation battle, which was to wipe out his 10th Division.

At this time, Ryosuke Isoya panicked, and he couldn't care about seizing Taierzhuang anymore, so he immediately reported to Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo and asked for a retreat. At the same time, the 39th Wing, which was rushing in the direction of Taierzhuang, was ordered to immediately stop advancing, quickly seize the position, and make preparations for holding on.

The 39th Wing reported that the troops were rushing to Lanling Town, determined to occupy Lanling Town, and then support the main force in the operation.

Isoya Ryosuke thought that since the [***] squadron was determined to encircle and annihilate the 10th Division, it would inevitably ambush or block the 39th Wing near Lanling, and it must not let the Chinese stew the troops. The 39th Wing was then ordered to immediately stop advancing, turn to Zaozhuang to advance, and join forces with the troops stationed in Zaozhuang.

Finally caught the dawn, and Isoya Ryosuke was about to order the troops to take cover alternately and withdraw from the battlefield. Planes of the Chinese Air Force arrived, and dozens of planes rained down bullets on the positions of the Japanese army.

Ryosuke Isoya hid in the command post and stared blankly at the planes in the sky, and for a long time, he ordered the radio station to quickly report to Lieutenant General Nishio Toshizo, and asked the aviation to immediately dispatch to cover the retreat of the troops to Yixian. Ordered Kei Seya to blow up all the baggage that could not be taken away and immediately transfer to Yi County.

If Ryosuke Isoya had ordered a retreat last night, maybe the Seya detachment would have escaped from the front line, but unfortunately the night has always been the world of the [***] team, and Ryosuke Isoya was afraid that the troops would be defeated by the [***] team when they retreated at night, so he didn't dare to take risks, and lost the last chance for the Seya detachment to escape.

By the time the military aviation arrived, the two armies had already fought together, and it was difficult to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, and the bombing naturally had little effect.

Since the start of the war, when has [***] ever had such an opportunity to beat up the army! Therefore, the officers at all levels, who knew that the Seya detachment had been put in the net, simply ignored the threat of the military planes, and without exception shouted "Brothers, follow me" proposed by Soong Meiling, and attacked the positions of the Japanese army again and again.

Seeing that the troops were surrounded, Ryosuke Isoya aroused the spirit of bushido, and strictly ordered all units to stop retreating, hold their positions, and resolutely repel the attack of the Naka[***] team. This time, the army was also red-eyed, desperately resisting, and the two sides went back and forth to kill each other.

Seeing that the casualties of the troops were getting heavier and heavier, it was difficult to break out of the encirclement, so he had to order the garrisons of the 40th Wing in Zaozhuang and Yixian to meet the main force and break through the encirclement. Order the 39th Wing to speed up and take over the defense of Zaozhuang.

In the afternoon, Ryosuke Isoya sadly found that ammunition and fuel could not be supplied, and the battle line was shaken, and if he did not retreat, he might be taken prisoner.

The panicked Ryosuke Isoya knew that the 39th Wing had not yet arrived in Zaozhuang, and with only the strength of the 40th Wing to live in Zaozhuang and Yixian, he could not break the siege at all. At this time, he couldn't care about anything, and ordered the troops to retreat on all fronts and move to Yixian.

The retreat of the army on all fronts is tantamount to helping the [***] team that is fighting hard. All units did not need to make any mobilization, and they pursued valiantly, constantly intercepting, dividing, and encroaching on the Japanese army.

Ryosuke Isoya had to admit that his supposedly elite 10th Division had been defeated. The retreating troops kept leaving behind the covering units, which were invariably drowned in the frenzy of pursuit by the [***] team.

Until the evening, Ryosuke Isoya and Keicai Seya led several backbone officials such as Fukuei Zhenpei and Chichai Yaezo and a group of remnants of the defeated generals, and fled into the county seat of Yixian under the response of the 40th Wing Zhuzaozhuang and Yixian troops.

As soon as he entered the city gate, Ryosuke Isoya ordered the remnants of the defeated army to close the city gate immediately and defend the county seat.

When he arrived at the headquarters of the 40th Wing Zhuyi County Army, Ryosuke Isoya couldn't help but cry loudly when he looked at the embarrassed Kei Seya and others. Now it's okay, Kei Seya and the others who lost all the troops are even more sad, and the entire command is full of the wails of devils.

After crying, Ryosuke Isoya hurriedly contacted Major General Lai Wuping, the commander of the 8th Brigade and Regiment who commanded the 39th Wing, and learned that the 39th Wing had arrived in Zaozhuang, so Isoya Ryosuke was relieved.

On this night, the high-spirited Li Zongren strictly ordered the troops to quickly wipe out all the small units of the Yue Army who dared to resist, and if the devil did not surrender, he would be resolutely killed!

At dawn, Chiang Kai-shek, who was looking forward to seeing through Kaifeng, received a telegram from Li Zongren, saying that the main force of the 10th Division had been annihilated, more than 8,500 people had been killed, and a large amount of weapons, equipment, and heavy supplies had been seized.

Chiang Kai-shek was excited, and with a stroke of his pen, he directly changed the report of Li Zongren killing more than 8,500 people to killing more than 20,000 soldiers, ordered the Central News Agency to immediately announce the news of Taierzhuang's great victory, and ordered the Fifth Theater to counterattack on all fronts to expand the results of the battle.

After receiving the report that the 10th Division had suffered a defeat at Taierzhuang and that the Seya Detachment had exhausted all its troops, the commander of the North China Front, Shouichi Terauchi, was once again stunned. He couldn't figure out how the elite 10th Division could be defeated in a hard-fought offensive and defensive battle.

After learning from the pain, General Terauchi Shouichi ordered Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbe, chief of staff of the front army, to set up a special staff team and rush to Jinan to examine the reasons for the defeat and formulate a practical plan to completely eliminate the main force of Chiang Kai-shek's political axe army in the Xuzhou area.

At this time, Terauchi Shouichi received an order from the base camp to use Xuzhou to attract the main force of the [***] team and encircle and annihilate it.

Liu Yimin knew the news of Taierzhuang's victory, and it was already noon on April 2.

Li Zongren said in a telegram transmitted through the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army that the reason why the Taierzhuang defense battle was able to win so quickly was that he was grateful to the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army for leading the battle, and to Liu Yimin for his help at a critical time. I can't imagine that the famous generals of the Eighth Route Army have such a mind and attach so much importance to the local affection, and they are worthy of our son-in-law in Guangxi.

Li Zongren warmly invited Liu Yimin and his wife to Xuzhou as guests in the telegram, which was regarded as letting his wife return to her mother's house.

After reading the telegram, Liu Yimin's heart finally let go. I feel that the only fly in the ointment is that the 39th Wing was afraid of being ambushed, so it did not rush to Lanling, but turned to Zaozhuang halfway and temporarily escaped the fate of destruction. But it doesn't matter, these guys will always die in the future, either under the guns of the Chinese, or under the fire of the US army, anyway, they can't escape a dead word.

Thinking about it, Liu Yimin felt proud in his heart, Lao Tzu played a little tricky, Tang Enbo had to attack immediately, it seems that if necessary, he still has to play with these [***] generals.

Seeing Liu Yimin's face with a look of triumph, Cai Zhong couldn't help but laugh at him, saying that he was plagiarizing the ancients, which was nothing remarkable. Zhuge Liang said that Zhou Yu united to resist Cao, relying on words to squeeze. However, Zhuge Liang said that Cao Ying went south to rob Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao, and Liu Yimin forced Tang Enbo to send troops mainly for persecution, and he was not necessarily higher than the ancients. Tang Enbo also has several aunts, why didn't he see Liu Yimin saying that the army went south to rob his aunt's wife? It seems that Comrade Liu Yimin's cultivation kung fu is not yet at home, and in any case, it is not as good as Zhuge Liang, the embodiment of wisdom.

Cai Zhong's words caused Luo Ronghuan and the others to laugh.

After laughing, Luo Ronghuan teased Liu Yimin and said, "Senior Liu, you have helped Li Zongren so much, you can't help in vain!" Shouldn't he be asked to reciprocate? Not to mention anything else, where does he have mortar shells and domestically made rifle bullets. Both of these are the ammunition that our army has accumulated. Although our main forces are gradually being reequipped with rifles, our local troops and guerrillas are using guns that have been eliminated by the main force, and they urgently need to replenish their ammunition! ”

This remark aroused Liu Yimin's thoughts. After Wei Baqun and Chen Hongtao were killed by traitors, the Third Division of Youjiang Reading Force was broken up and struggled until September 37, after negotiations, 1,600 guerrillas of the Red Army in western Guizhou were organized into two Reading Force regiments of Youjiang Anti-Volunteer Army. Wei Gaozhen served as the head of the Eighth Reading Group, Huang Biao served as the head of the Ninth Reading Group, and Li Xiuxue served as the deputy head of the Ninth Reading Group. These two regiments later went to Wuzhou by boat, and then rushed from Wuzhou to Shucheng, Anhui, and were organized as the 1033rd Regiment and the 1034th Regiment of the 173rd Division of the 21st Group Army of the Gui Army in the Fifth Theater of Operations. Historically, this part of the Red Army once attacked Anqing at night with the cooperation of the four detachments of the New Fourth Army, and severely damaged the Yue Army. Later, he was broken up by Liao Lei and incorporated into various units of the Gui Army. A small number of them broke away from [***] after the Battle of Taierzhuang, found the Shandong Eighth Route Army, and returned to the army. It seems that if you really go to Li Zongren, you have to try to bring back this part of the Red Army soldiers.

Thinking of this problem, Liu Yimin said to Luo Ronghuan that he should send a telegram to the central authorities to check the situation of the Red Army guerrillas in Guangxi and Guixi to be incorporated into the Gui Army, and to see if he could send people to the Fifth Theater to bring back this part of the troops. Those were all Red Army soldiers, and they could not be incorporated into the Gui Army like this.

Luo Ronghuan did not know the situation of the Red Army guerrillas in western Guangxi, and when he heard Liu Yimin's words, he felt very strange: Aren't the Red Army guerrillas in the south and the troops remaining in the Soviet area incorporated into the New Fourth Army? Why did the Red Army guerrillas in western Guizhou be incorporated into the Gui Army? The more he thought about it, the more he couldn't sit still, so he directly drafted a telegram to the central authorities, asking the central authorities to find out as soon as possible the situation of the guerrillas in western Guizhou being absorbed by the Gui army, and whether they could send someone to negotiate with Li Zongren to get this part of the troops back. It is best to take advantage of the opportunity of Li Zongren to invite Comrade Liu Yimin and his wife to Xuzhou as guests, and directly propose important people to Li Zongren.

Liu Yimin knows that this matter must be very complicated, and it also involves the current issue of the united front, and Wang Ming and others, who have recently written articles in a row and are bent on expanding their influence within the party, may have other views, and they are in a hurry, and the central authorities will not reply quickly.

When he returned to his residence in the evening, Liu Yimin told Tang Xingying about Li Zongren's invitation to Xuzhou, and asked Tang Xingying if he would like to go.

Tang Xingying looked at Liu Yimin with a strange expression, and asked him if he was confused, what kind of friendship do we have with the Gui Army, remember that you fought the Gui Army in the first battle of the army, and many soldiers have a blood feud with them, what is close to them? As for Li Zongren, he really helped us by sending his parents to Luoyang by plane. However, that was also after we occupied Xi'an. If you don't have a special mission, it's better not to contact them.

Liu Yimin looked at Tang Xingying and felt that this little girl was no longer the little girl of the year, and it can be known from her words that in the past few years, she has matured and understands the political struggle within the party.

(To be continued)