Just when the fierce battles between Beishahe and Tengxian were raging, Sun Zhen, the commander-in-chief of the 22nd Group Army in Lincheng, finally ushered in Chen Daqing, the commander of the 4th Division of the 85th Army of the 20th Army of Tang Enbo.

A regiment of the vanguard of the Fourth Division had arrived at Lincheng by train, and Sun Zhen asked them to march near Taierzhuang to support the defense of Tengxian.

At this time, seeing Chen Daqing coming, Sun Zhen informed Chen Daqing of the enemy situation, and at the same time ordered the people of the city to make pot helmets and make military rations for the 20th Army Corps.

The Twentieth Army Corps is the main force of [***], with a complete range of troops, and it is the decisive force that Li Zongren is preparing to use to destroy the southward advancing army.

According to Li Zongren's order, the 20th Army Corps was to send a division to support the Tengxian operation, one division to hold Lincheng, and the rest of the main force to be placed in the mountains east of Lincheng, preparing to encircle and annihilate the Yue army that had traveled south from Longyangdian to Lincheng.

When Chen Daqing learned that Tengxian was still in the hands of our army, and that the 22 nd Group Army still had a regiment stationed in Nanshahe outside Tengxian County, and that three regiments were engaged in battle with the enemy on the front line of Beishahe, Chen Daqing felt that something could be done, so he led the Fourth Division to advance toward Tengxian.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, when the vanguard of the 4th Division arrived at the Nansha River, the 372nd Brigade of the 124th Division of the 41st Army had already fallen into a bitter battle with the 63rd Wing of the Chinese Army, the defensive line had been broken through, and the troops would be defeated at any time.

The 372nd Brigade was withdrawn from Tengxian County at dawn in accordance with Wang Mingzhang's order. As soon as the troops had set up their positions, the 63rd Wing of the Japanese Army arrived. The two sides crackled and opened.

The commander of the 63rd Wing of the Yue Army, Furong Zhenping Dasa, was surprised when he encountered the attack of the [***] team on the front line of the Nansha River, and knew that his roundabout sneak attack plan was exposed, so he hurriedly reported to Major General Lai Guqi and sent cavalry troops to reconnoitre. This reconnaissance found that the troops of the Sichuan Army were still stationed at the Nansha River, and their strength was limited. Furong Zhenping was relieved, and while asking Lai Guqi to call in the air force, he commanded the artillery and armored units to carry out artillery bombardment to cover the troops' assault.

The 63rd Wing commanded by Furong Zhenping is equipped with a cavalry brigade, two armored squadrons, an artillery brigade, and an engineer brigade. In just two hours, the 372nd Brigade, which had only simple field fortifications, suffered heavy losses, and if it did not retreat, the troops would be divided, surrounded and annihilated by the Nansha River.

At this time, the vanguard of the 4th Division of the 85th Army arrived. It is a pity that as soon as the newly arrived vanguard regiment met the enemy, it was destroyed by the Chinese army, and under the bombardment of the Japanese army's planes, the army's morale fluctuated, and it retreated directly to the southeast mountainous area. The 372nd Brigade could not support it, and finally hoped for reinforcements, but did not expect that as soon as the reinforcements came into contact with the enemy, they were bombed by enemy planes and artillery fire, and turned around and retreated. At this time, the morale was discouraged, and the remnants of the 372nd Brigade withdrew from the line of the Nansha River, moved to the west of Tengxian County, and reported the situation to Wang Mingzhang.

Wang Mingzhang was shocked when he received the report, the Nansha River defense line was lost, and the defenders of Tengxian County became completely alone, and he hurriedly sent a report to Sun Zhen to inform him that the Nansha River was lost, and the reinforcements of the 85th Army of the 20th Army turned to the northeast mountains, asking Sun Zhen to quickly deploy the defense of Lincheng, and urged the reinforcements of the 85th Army to turn around and return to the west, and flank the Yue army attacking Lincheng.

Sun Zhen's hands and feet were cold after receiving the report, because at this time, the other units of the 85th Army of the 20th Army had not yet arrived in Lincheng, and there was only one special battalion directly under the 41st Army in Lincheng, with three infantry companies and a pistol company.

Sun Zhen was busy and wanted to order the 125th and 127th Divisions of the 45th Army, which were fighting fiercely on the front line of Beishahe, to quickly return to Lincheng, and ordered the 372nd Brigade, which had just retreated from Nanshahe, to quickly go north to reinforce the 370th Brigade and consolidate the Beishahe defensive line. But when I think about it, the front line of Beishahe is fighting fiercely, and as soon as the 125th and 127th divisions withdraw, the 370th Brigade and the 372nd Brigade, which suffered heavy casualties, will not be able to stop the army on the front line of Beishahe at all, and the devils from Jiehe and the devils from Shenjing will encircle Tengxian County. Moreover, it was broad daylight at this time, the devil's plane was so rampant, and the troops were a little better in their positions, if they retreated rashly, they would immediately become the target of the devil's plane, and the team would soon collapse. There was no way, Sun Zhen hurriedly sent a report to Chen Daqing, the Fourth Division of the 85th Army, asking him to immediately lead his troops back to Lincheng.

Sun Zhen's concerns are correct, at this time, the first line of Beishahe has been beaten into a pot of porridge. According to Wang Mingzhang's plan when he came to inspect in the morning, the defenders on the front line of the Beisha River retreated to the front line of the Nansha River to hide and wait for the rest after the blockade in the morning. The 125th Division, the 127th Division, and the 370th Brigade commanded by Chen Li were forced to shrink their positions, expecting to hold out until dark and then break through.

At this time, both sides are racing against time to see who will arrive in Lincheng first. In Sun Zhen's mind, as long as the Fourth Division could withdraw to Lincheng, Chief Li's plan to gather and annihilate the army around Lincheng could be realized. Unfortunately, due to the turn of the vanguard regiment, the main force of the Fourth Division immediately turned to the northeast mountains of Lincheng, and Sun Zhen's orders and requests could not be realized.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Sun Zhen received the cavalry and tanks of the Yue Army to arrive around Lincheng, and had to order the headquarters of the 22nd Group Army to withdraw from Lincheng. Because he could not allow the army to achieve such a great result as the capture of the headquarters of the 22nd Group Army.

Liu Yimin, who was far away in Culai Mountain, never dreamed that after his guidance, the army's attack attempt had been transparent, but the result was still the end of losing the city and Wang Mingzhang being trapped in the lonely city of Teng County.

After receiving the report of the loss of Lincheng, Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater of Operations, was silent in front of the map for a long time before issuing an order: "1. The troops of the army going south to Lincheng are determined to be the 63rd Wing of the Segu Detachment, and it is estimated that the enemy will continue to capture Zaozhuang after capturing Lincheng, and then go south to attack Xuzhou. Therefore, the theater was determined to annihilate the enemy between Lincheng, Zaozhuang and Taierzhuang and consolidate Xuzhou. 2. Sun Tongxuan's Third Army should undertake the task of attacking Jining and Yanzhou in the northern section of the Jinpu Road, and cooperate with the troops of the First Theater to undertake the task of containing the Fifth Division of Heze's Army so that it cannot advance eastward to support the operation in the direction of Xuzhou. 3. Sun Zhen's 22nd Group Army must hold on to Tengxian County for three days, and the army that contains and encircles Tengxian cannot move south to support the operation. 4. Sun Lianzhong's Second Army strengthened the front-line garrison of Taierzhuang and launched an active offensive against the Yue army that might attack Taierzhuang. 5. Pang Bingxun's troops in Linyi must stick to Linyi, and Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army supported Pang Bing's troops in the operation, resolutely blocking the southward movement of the East Road Army to ensure that Linyi was not lost. 6. The Twentieth Army of Tang Enbo has all entered the Lincheng area, and the commander of the corps should lead the corps headquarters to the Lincheng area to command, and when the army attacks Taierzhuang, he will attack from the west flank and join forces with our army on the front line of Taierzhuang to attack the army and completely annihilate the army. ”

Li Zongren's order was not wrong, as a commander-in-chief of the theater, he considered the overall situation and strategy. As for whether Wang Mingzhang's insistence on Tengxian County would be wiped out, Li Zongren, who had been in war for a long time and was accustomed to seeing life and death, and also used to seeing the formation and destruction of the army, did not think about it so much. All he wanted was sacrifice in exchange for victory.

After Wang Zhenwen's 366th Brigade withdrew from Dongguan to the east gate of the city, it hid in the area of the east gate and was responsible for guarding the east gate.

Enemy planes flew in again to drop bombs, and the city was filled with the sound of bomb explosions and the cries of people as houses collapsed.

Wang Zhenwen kept cursing the damn devil in his heart, taking the bomb as money and throwing it constantly, isn't he afraid of throwing the book into a poor egg?

While scolding the devils, and on the other hand, scolding those who are high-ranking officials, they do not know how to equip the troops with more antiaircraft machine guns, antiaircraft guns, field artillery, and mountain artillery; this is good, the devils do not need to charge, they do not need to fight bayonets, and the troops will suffer heavy casualties just by bombing aircraft and artillery. The broken guns in the hands of the soldiers, let alone hitting 500 meters or 200 meters, will burn high incense as long as they are a little accurate within 100 meters. Now there is no other way but to wait for the devil to attack the city wall before he can blow him up with a grenade. If you get a little farther, you don't know where the bullets are going!

As soon as the plane flew away, the devil's artillery began to shell, and this shelling lasted for two hours, until it blew a big hole in the city wall near the east gate, and more than 100 devils rushed up with a howl and rushed into the gap.

Wang Zhenwen was waiting for this opportunity, and with an order, the soldiers hidden at the gate of the East City threw grenades at the devils. After a rain of bullets, all of these more than 100 little devils were killed. The soldiers were so excited that they couldn't help but stand up and cheer. This time the joy was full of sorrow, and the devil's artillery fire attacked sharply, which made Wang Zhenwentuan, who had just won the battle, pay a heavy price again.

After withdrawing from Pingyi, the troops suffered heavy casualties after the Longyangdian Blockade Battle, the Dongguan Blockade Battle, and the Dongchengmen Defense Battle just now. As soon as Wang Zhenwen checked, there was only one battalion left in the whole regiment, and everyone hung up the lottery. Zhang Xuanwu, the commander of the city defense, had no choice but to withdraw Wang Zhenwen's regiment to rest and send another battalion to defend the east city gate.

At this time, the number of troops in Tengxian County was slightly more than in history, including the complete Zhang Xuanwu regiment, the dilapidated Wang Zhenwen regiment, and the guard troops of three division headquarters and two brigade headquarters, plus the militia regiment of Zhou Tong, the magistrate of Tengxian County, and the strength reached 5,000 people. After fierce fighting from morning to noon and the wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of the Yue army, the small county town of Tengxian County was already riddled with holes, and several parts of the city wall were blown open by the Yue army, and the troops suffered heavy casualties.

After receiving the telegram that Sun Zhen had lost the city and Li Zongren ordered Tengxian to hold on for three days, Wang Mingzhang knew that Tengxian had become an isolated city, and if there was no strong reinforcement, he and his subordinates would inevitably live and die with Tengxian County. muttered: "Guawa knows that Teng County can't hold it", so he discussed with Zhang Xuanwu, saying that the army's firepower is too strong, and going to the city wall is equivalent to sending us to death, so we can only let the devils beat us, and it is difficult for us to hit the devils, and how many brothers have been killed by the devil's bombs and shells before they have time to throw a grenade. In the current situation, it is no longer possible to keep the army out of the city. We can only change the tactics of war, engage with the army in close quarters, so that the devils' artillery and planes do not dare to bomb wantonly, take advantage of the troops' sufficient grenades, rely on the houses and fortifications in the city, fight street battles with the devils, fight over and fight repeatedly, and hold on to Tengxian for three days no matter what.

After making up their minds, Wang Mingzhang and Zhang Xuanwu immediately organized their troops, demarcated the defense area, and told the commanders and soldiers at all levels that this Teng County was the grave of the 122nd Division. At the same time, Wang Mingzhang ordered Chen Li to hold on to the front line of the Beisha River until dark, move to the west of the railway after breaking through, join up with the 372nd Brigade, report to Commander-in-Chief Sun, and leave some seeds for the 22nd Group Army.

By evening, the army poured into the county seat of Tengxian County through several gaps in the city wall. This time, instead of filling the gap with human lives as before, the defenders fought back desperately, and beat the Yue army out in life or death, but began to fight with the Yue army in the city. The entire city of Tengxian was filled with shouts of killing, grenade explosions, and gunfire.

Kei Seya wanted to launch special bombs several times today and use poison gas to win, but the sky was not beautiful, and the wind was not in the right direction, so he could only use bombs and shells to open the way and storm Tengxian. In fact, the strength of his attack on Tengxian at this time was the infantry of the two brigades of the 10th Wing, as well as the artillery, cavalry, and armored units of the wing and brigade. Most of the special forces under the command of the division were sent by him to attack Lincheng with the 63rd Wing. From yesterday's blockade by Wang Zhenwen's regiment in Longyangdian to being harassed at night, and then to today's siege battle, although Seya Kai relied on aircraft, artillery and tanks, the troops also suffered heavy losses and heavy casualties. After learning the news that Lincheng was going down without a fight, Seya Kai concentrated his firepower and troops to storm Teng County, and Xitu went down with a drum. After an afternoon of fierce fighting, seeing that the troops finally broke through the city wall in the evening, Seya Kai thought that the city had been broken, and immediately reported to Isoya Ryosuke: "Break through Teng County!" ”

Seya Kai never imagined that the defenders only let the devils into the city in order to change the situation of being passively beaten, and to engage with the devils in short arms and fight for their lives. Listening to the bursts of gunfire and grenade explosions in the city, Seya Kai was still proud in his heart, a brigade of soldiers divided into two routes, went deep into the hinterland of the enemy's defense line, and connected two cities in a flash.

The strange thing is that after the troops entered the city, they only listened to the sound of guns and cannons but did not see the signal flare of victory rising.

A little suspicious, Kei Seya called the Wing Commander of the 10th Wing, Akashiba Yaezo Daisa, and asked him to personally supervise the troops into the city to see what progress had progressed, and report quickly.

After receiving the order, Chichai Yaezo Daisa took a squadron of devils into the city, and Seya Kai felt that the Chinese defenders had great ability, and no matter how much they could toss, it was impossible to escape the net. Looking at the quiet night sky, Kei Seya suddenly became poetic, and chanted the Ise Yamada haiku of Matsuo Basho, the god of haiku: "On the night of the spring moon, stay on the stamen for the time being." ”

After chanting, he was about to chant a few more paragraphs, when he saw a shout of killing accompanied by groups of imperial soldiers pouring out from several gaps in the city wall. Knowing that a great change had occurred, Kei Seya urgently ordered the artillery to open fire to block the pursuit of the defenders in the city and cover the retreat of the imperial army.

After being busy for a long time, Akashiba Yaezo Osa finally ran back to Seya Kai's headquarters in a pant and reported the situation.

It turned out that after the army entered the city, several tanks opened the way to cover the infantry to search and suppress the defenders. As a result, numerous grenades flew out of the streets, blowing up a large chunk of the attacking imps, and one tank was blown up. Seya Kai arrived to see that the loss of the troops in the moment of entering the city was greater than the loss of a day's fighting, so he issued an order to retreat, wanting to hold on to the area of the east gate first, and then fight after gaining a firm foothold. Unexpectedly, when the defenders saw that the army was retreating, they took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill, but it was still the same old way, machine guns and grenades, and the army could not gain a foothold, so they withdrew from the city.

The more Kei Seya listened, the more anxious he became, and as soon as he grabbed Chichai Yaezo Daisa, he slapped him wildly, and only after he finished incitement, did he ask: "Baga, is the Army University teaching you to command operations like this?" ”

Akashiba Yaezo couldn't withstand the humiliation of Kei Seya, and turned around to go to command the troops to fight again, but Kei Seya stopped him and ordered him to gather his troops and prepare to camp to prevent the defenders from sneaking up at night.

After Chishiba Yaezo left, Seya Kei stopped chanting poetry and hurriedly sent a report to Ryosuke Isoya, asking the 40th Wing to make a breakthrough at Beishahe as soon as possible and join the 10th Wing to attack Tengcheng.

At this time, the city was already full of jubilation, the devils had withdrawn, and the soldiers were busy cleaning up the battlefield. The devil's 38 big cover has become the favorite of the soldiers, and everyone who gets one of them jumps excitedly.

Chen Qinghua and Deng Hailong's two companies have only 30 people now. Originally, they had been arranged by Zhang Xuanwu to rest and recuperate, but during the street battle just now, Zhang Xuanwu considered that the devils would inevitably be menacing from several gaps, so he mobilized all the troops in the city and put them into battle. Chen Qinghua and Zhang Hailong were lucky, they met a small group of devils without tank cover, and threw down a grenade, more than 30 of the more than 50 devils actually lay down, and the rest turned around and ran. At this time, the 30 brothers of the whole company actually changed their clothes at once, and all of them changed into the equipment of the Japanese type.

With a good gun, he couldn't help but want to give it a try, so Deng Hailong encouraged Chen Qinghua to ask the regiment commander Wang Zhenwen for instructions, whether he went out of the city to kill him, maybe he could capture a Type 92 heavy machine gun!

Wang Zhenwen looked at the two people and said, "Do you really treat the devil as a melon baby?" I can guarantee that now the machine guns and tanks of the devils are aimed at the city gate and a few gaps! Do you have what it takes to try it? I promise you'll be beaten into a sieve when you show your head. The devil is defenseless and suffers, tomorrow, maybe our brothers will be on the road in this Teng County! ”

Hearing what Wang Zhenwen said, Chen Qinghua and Deng Hailong stopped arguing, and led their own company rest area, ready to wait for tomorrow to have another fight with the little devil of the dog.

Wang Mingzhang saw that at this moment, the kung fu troops actually killed more than 300 devils with grenades, and shouted that Liu Yimin's method was better, if he kept fighting according to the words of his deputy chief of staff, maybe the devil's losses would be even greater. At this time, he did not hesitate, and asked Zhang Xuanwu and Wang Zhenwen to command the troops to plug the gaps in the city wall overnight, strengthen the street battle fortifications, and open up the courtyard walls according to the method that Zhu Zhexiao explained before leaving, and try to build hidden fortifications as much as possible. He also dug holes in the city wall, arranged shooting holes and hidden forts, and prepared to follow him in the city wall first when the devils attacked tomorrow morning.

In the evening, Chen Li and Chen Dingxun commanded the 125th Division, the 127th Division, and the 370th Brigade to break through the encirclement of the devils on the first line of Beishahe.

After Sun Zhen evacuated Lincheng, he did not move to the rear as in history, but hid in a village ten kilometers away from Lincheng. Knowing that Chen Dingxun led his troops to break through, he rushed to meet at night.

Seeing that the casualties of the troops were so large, Sun Zhen directly sent a report to Deng Xihou, reporting the casualties of the troops in detail, and imploring him to quickly mobilize in Sichuan and prepare to make up for the losses of the 22nd Group Army since it entered the war. He also asked him to send a telegram directly to Chiang Kai-shek, requesting permission for Wang Mingzhang's troops to evacuate Teng County, and at least to withdraw the officers of the three divisions so that the troops could be rebuilt.

After sending the telegram, Sun Zhen ordered to keep the numbers of each department, organize the four regiments into three regiments, and stay in Luxi to mobile guerrillas, ready to meet Wang Mingzhang at any time to break through.

It may be that Deng Xihou immediately reported to Chiang Kai-shek the losses of the 22nd Group Army after receiving the telegram, and Chiang Kai-shek was moved by the sacrificial spirit of the Sichuan army. Not long after, Li Zongren sent a telegram allowing the three divisions of the Sichuan Army in Tengxian County to evacuate, but only the division headquarters, and all guard units and combat units were not allowed to retreat, and Wang Mingzhang himself must stay in the city to command, and must hold out for two more days to create fighters for the 63rd Wing of the Tang Enbo Army. Two days later, regardless of the situation of the battle, the defenders of Tengxian County could retreat and break through.

After reading the telegram, Sun Zhen sighed and sent a telegram to inform Wang Mingzhang that the headquarters of the divisions and brigades remaining in the city would be withdrawn from the city.

Early the next morning, the Beishahe defense line began to pounce on the county seat of Tengxian County, burning, killing and looting along the road, creating the Beishahe tragedy, and almost all the adults and children in Beishahe Village were killed. The worst thing is that those women, after being raped by devils, were disemboweled. Many years later, there was an old man named Ren Shigan who went through hardships and collected evidence of the crime of the army forcibly annihilating and killing people in Beishahe, and the Beishahe tragedy was made public.

The sun is out, and the devils have started a new offensive. This time, the devil's strength was much stronger, and the embarrassed and angry Seya Kai threw the brigade and the 40th Wing and the divisional special forces that had arrived to reinforce the Jiehe River into battle, and asked the signal corps to guide the aviation to blow up the east gate, west gate, south gate, and north gate, and concentrated all the artillery bombardment for two hours, destroying a large section of the city wall, and then waved the army into the city.

Wang Mingzhang knew that today's offensive of the army must be much stronger than yesterday's, but he didn't expect the devil to put all his troops into such a desperate effort. It's too late to say anything now, it is the order of the peak to defend Teng County, and it is the duty of a soldier to be loyal to the country. Wang Mingzhang and Zhang Xuanwu could only command the troops to be strangled with the Yue army.

This time, the devil learned well, and according to the tactics of street fighting on the street of the infantry of the army, he fought fiercely with the defenders, basically using tanks, mortars, infantry guns and grenadiers to open the way, and strangled them one by one. In this way, the defenders with backward equipment and tactics will not be able to support them.

Chen Qinghua and Deng Hailong led their company of 30 men to follow Wang Zhenwen to hold the direction of the West Gate.

Since all of them were replaced with 38 big covers, Chen Qinghua and the other 30 people became the elite of Wang Zhenwen's troupe. Wang Zhenwen asked them to shoot from a long distance to cover the other fighters to drop bombs.

The devil's tank came up, and when he went to a courtyard, he shrank back and "tom" at the courtyard wall, which was a cannon and directly blew up the courtyard wall. And then it was another shot at the houses in the courtyard. Seeing that the walls of the courtyard had collapsed and the houses were crumbling, the devil infantry entered the courtyard under the cover of machine guns to search. At this time, in the house that was about to collapse, five thin Sichuan soldiers rushed out, raised their hands and threw grenades into the group of devils. The grenade exploded, several devils were blown up, and five Sichuan soldiers were also beaten into a sieve by the machine guns on the tank.

Chen Qinghua saw that his comrades-in-arms sacrificed so heroically, and asked Deng Hailong to tie up all the grenades while shooting.

Deng Hailong knew that Chen Qinghua wanted to blow up the devil tank, so he quickly tied six grenades into a bundle, and tied five or six bundles at once, and then said to Chen Qinghua: "Company Commander Guawa, if you can return to Sichuan alive, my cousin and son will be handed over to you." My cousin is well-behaved, cheap your ghost son. You raised my son and asked him to be a guest! ”

After speaking, Deng Hailong lifted two bundles of grenades and flashed into the courtyard from the hole in the wall at the root of the courtyard wall, and under the cover of the corner of the wall, he pulled the fuse and threw a bundle of grenades into the middle of the devils who were searching. Under the cover of smoke from the grenade explosion, a few rolls arrived in front of the tank.

The devil tank was about to reverse, ready to move on, to continue attacking the next compound, defenseless. Deng Hailong directly stuffed the tank under the devil tank and sounded the fuse. Then he rolled and ducked to the side.

With a bang, the devil's tank didn't move.

As soon as Chen Qinghua saw that Deng Hailong had blown up the tank and saved his life, he hurriedly led the soldiers to shoot and cover, and beat the surviving devils to hide in the corner and couldn't raise their heads, trying to rescue Deng Hailong.

Another team of devils rushed into the courtyard, and the machine guns blew like the wind, knocking down several soldiers around Chen Qinghua. Chen Qinghua aimed at the devil machine gunner is shot, and directly knocked the machine gun dumb. Just as he was about to see how Deng Hailong was doing, the devil's grenadier remembered, and a piece of shrapnel was inserted straight into Chen Qinghua's back.

A devil found Deng Hailong, who was hiding in the corner with his bare hands, and raised his bayonet and stabbed him. Deng Hailong knew that it was impossible to escape, so he didn't move, and when the devil stabbed the bayonet into his body, he turned to the right, and used his body to take the devil's gun out of his hand, and then he held the devil, pulled out the grenade, touched the gravitational force on the butt, and with a "boom", the grenade exploded. Deng Hailong, a short Sichuan man who was turned into a soldier by his companions, was torn apart by a grenade along with the devil.

(To be continued)