readx; On 5 April, the Sakamoto detachment had been completely cut off from the rear by the 20th Army, and ammunition and grain could not be obtained from the 5th Division in Linyi, so it had to be supplied from the Seya Detachment of the 10th Division, and was already in a predicament. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAt 19:37 that night, the detachment ordered to prepare to return to the Linyi area, and at 20:30 called Kei Seya:

"In order to capture Yizhou, the detachment was ordered to return, and it was scheduled to start action after the fall of tomorrow (6 days), and gather troops near the Three Buddha Towers before dawn on the 7th." At this time, the Seya detachment's attack on Taierzhuang also made no progress, and the 1st Squadron of the 10th Wing that had left Huangyaozhuang had abandoned Jizhuang and other outlying villages under the onslaught of the 27th Division and retreated to Huanglinzhuang.

Since the 20th Army had not yet carried out a powerful attack on the flank of the army attacking Taierzhuang, the situation in Taierzhuang was said to be critical, so Chiang Kai-shek sent a telegram to Tang Enbo at 12 o'clock:

"The battle near Taierzhuang, I used 10 divisions to face the enemy of half of the division, which lasted more than ten years, and did not achieve results. The emergency and strict supervision department worked hard to annihilate this enemy on June and July, and did not live up to high hopes. After receiving the telegram order, Tang Enbo actively deployed an attack: ordered the 75th Army to "consolidate the stronghold of the highlands in the southeast and southwest of Chahe Town, and continue to attack and advance to Xiaowang, Dongzhuang, and Taierzhuang with the main force"; ordered the 85th Army (attached to the 665th Regiment, owed to the 5th Division) to "continue to attack and advance towards Low Stone Bridge, Yanzijing, Chaheshan, and Liujiahu"; The 52nd Army (attached to the 5th Cavalry Regiment) was ordered to "consolidate the strongholds in Hongshan Town, Lanling Town, and Xiangcheng with a strong force, and the main force immediately began to attack and advance through Ganlu Temple and Waist Lixu to the line of Nigou and Beiluo." At the same time, he urgently ordered Chi Fengcheng, the commander of the 31st Division: "Ming said (6 days) to defeat the enemy in Taierzhuang and rendezvous with your troops." If it doesn't work, be willing to be a military commander. ”

That night, the 52nd Army reached the line of Dige, Yanglou, and Taogou, the 89th Division of the 58th Army attacked the enemy of Dagushan on the line of Zhuzhuang and Huangzhou, the 139th Division of the 75th Army attacked the enemy of Xiaowang on the line of Chahe Town and West Huangshi Mountain, and the 6th Division of the 75th Army attacked the enemy of Xinzhuang on the line of Daizhuang and Lijiawei.

At the same time, the commander-in-chief of the 2nd Group Army received a telegram from Cheng Qian, commander of the 1st Theater of Operations:

"This chief was ordered to come to Xuzhou to supervise the battle. The enemy limit of Taierzhuang is from Lu to Qi (6 to 8), and 3 is to capture and annihilate internal affairs. The first meritorious person will be rewarded with 100,000 yuan, otherwise the division commander and above will be severely punished. ”

Immediately after receiving the telegram, Sun Lianzhong "strictly ordered all troops to wipe out the enemy in front of him within a time limit and exempt them from military sanctions." The 110th Division sneaked north from the Deshengkou Canal that night, preparing to attack the enemy near Zhangshan.

On the morning of 6 April, the commander of the Seya detachment of the army found that the troops of the 110th Division had advanced to the vicinity of Nigou and the west of Zhangshan, and that the troops of the 52nd Army of the 20th Army had approached Zhangloudi, about 7 kilometers northeast of Yangmiao, where the detachment headquarters was located, and that the main force of the Sakamoto detachment had been surrounded by the 58th Army and the 75th Army from the north, east, and south in the Xingjialou and Dagushan areas, and was preparing to withdraw tonight. In this way, "the commander of the Seya detachment thought that it would be difficult for the reading power to maintain the situation in the battle of Taierzhuang".

decided to retreat, and at 15:30 telegraphed Ryosuke Isoya: "Temporarily evacuate the Taierzhuang area, and the troops will assemble in the rear"; At the same time, the retreat was arranged, and the order: "The detachment will turn northward with all its strength after the loss of this day", ordering the 1st Brigade of the 10th Infantry Wing and the 1st Brigade of the 39th Infantry Wing to occupy Baishan Xicun and Zhangshan in advance of the day, and ordering the main force of the 63rd Infantry Wing (excluding the Taierzhuang troops) to attack Zhuzhuang when it is lost, so as to cover the retreat of the main force of the detachment, and the 10th Wing, the 2nd Brigade of the 63rd Wing in Taierzhuang, and the squadrons of the Don River Gate, Huahuagou, and Huanglinzhuang all withdrew from the first line at 20 o'clock and assembled in the Nigou area. After receiving a telegram from Kei Seya in Yanzhou, Ryosuke Isoya immediately ordered the chief of staff to telegraph Kei Seya and order him to stop retreating. However, Seya Qi was in danger, knowing that if he could not quickly leave the Taierzhuang area tonight, he would be in danger of being completely annihilated after the siege of the [***] team in the Ming Dynasty, so he disobeyed the order and continued to command the detachment to retreat. Due to the hasty retreat and the attack of the squadron, many military supplies, such as grain, ammunition, clothing, and corpses of the army, were not taken away in time, and all of them were set on fire; Some heavy mechanized weapons also ran out of ammunition and could not be used, so they had to destroy themselves and abandon them on the battlefield. As far as the battlefield near Taierzhuang is concerned, the detachment's only 2 155mm guns, 5 tracked tractors and 8 tanks were abandoned on the battlefield (later transported to Xiangtan, Hunan Province by the 200th Division for repairs), which shows its embarrassment when it broke out.

The troops in Taierzhuang and the troops of the 31st Division were fighting next to each other and fighting next to each other. The Yue army tried to withdraw safely, but the defenders blocked it with heavy fire and grenades, and a considerable part of the Yue army was annihilated at the last moment of the retreat. By about 5 o'clock in the morning of the 7th, all the troops in Taierzhuang were wiped out.

On April 7, the main force of the Segu detachment of the army retreated to the Guanzhuang area, and the rear cover troops were in the area of Zhangshan. After the Sakamoto detachment learned that the Seya detachment had fled north, it also accelerated its retreat that night under fire pursuit. Originally, he wanted to return to Linyi to the northeast and through Xiangcheng, but because the main forces of the 20th Army were in the northeast direction, they were unable to break out of the encirclement, so they changed to the northwest direction and retreated to the 10th Division.

After Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater, learned of the fact that the army had fled north, he issued an order to pursue it at 13 o'clock. After receiving the order, the troops began to pursue according to the order.

On April 8, the main force of the Seya detachment gathered in the Yixian area, and a part of the army occupied Zhangshan and Baishan west; Sakamoto's detachment retreated to the area of Guoliji, south of Zaozhuang. The commander of the 2nd Army, Nishio Toshizo, ordered the Sakamoto detachment of the 5th Division, which was based on the 21st Infantry Brigade, to be placed under the command of the commander of the 10th Division. Ryosuke Isoya ordered the two detachments to "vigorously reorganize their forces near their current positions, gather information about the enemy, and prepare for the next attack."

During the entire Taierzhuang battle, the 3rd Group Army, in accordance with the orders of the Fifth Theater, infiltrated the area north of Yanzhou with powerful troops to carry out guerrilla operations in order to cooperate with the Taierzhuang operation: on March 23, the 81st Division of the 12th Army attacked Yanzhou at night, annihilated the enemy, and destroyed the railway north of Yanzhou; On March 26, the 29th Division of the 55th Army blew up many places on the Dawenkou Railway, derailing the military train; On 29 March, the 81st Division attacked the Dawenkou airfield at night, destroying eight enemy planes.

From 9 to 11 April, the pursuing squadron had all approached Yixian: the left wing corps advanced to the area of Baishan West and Nigou south of Yi County, the right wing corps advanced to the Tushan and Mashan areas east of Yi County, and the blocking corps advanced to the area north of Zaozhuang. At this time, the two detachments of the army Seya and Sakamoto had concentrated their forces to occupy various key points such as Baishanxi, Zhangshan, Jiushan, and Guoliji.

At the end of the Taierzhuang War, on April 6, 1938, Li Zongren rushed to the vicinity of Taierzhuang and personally commanded the troops to counterattack on the whole front, and at 1 o'clock in the morning on April 6, our army sounded the horn of the counterattack, and the left wing corps composed of Sun Lianzhong's 2nd Group Army and the right wing corps mainly composed of Tang Enbo's 20th Army Corps launched a large-scale counteroffensive in Taierzhuang and its vicinity.

Gao Fei, who had been defending the attacked, heard about the counterattack, his expression was excited, and he gave an order, and the sound of killing shook the sky. The two sides launched street battles and hand-to-hand combat, and for a time, the guns and bullets in Taierzhuang City rained down, and blood flowed like a river.

For the first time, the army was attacked by such a stubborn attack by the Kuomintang army, and it was soon crushed. To the north of Taierzhuang, the sound of gunfire was getting thicker, and the Tang Enbo regiment had opened fire on the enemy. Isoya had fallen into a counter-encirclement and began to waver, ordering the troops to retreat on all fronts. At this time, the enemy army had become the end of the crossbow, the ammunition and gasoline had run out, many motor vehicles had been destroyed, and the whole army was devastated and fled in confusion. Li Zongren ordered the troops to chase fiercely, the corpses of the enemy soldiers were all over the field, all kinds of baggage were everywhere, and Isoya himself led the remnants to desperately break through.

After 4 days of fierce fighting, the [***] team suffered heavy losses to the Seya detachment and the Sakamoto detachment of the Yue army, and the remnants of the rest of the army retreated to Yicheng and Zaozhuang on the 7th. So far, the Battle of Taierzhuang has been won.

The Battle of Taierzhuang, under the personal command of Li Zongren, defeated the main forces of the 5th and 10th elite divisions of the Yue Army, annihilated more than 20,000 Yue troops, seized a large number of weapons and ammunition, and seriously dampened the arrogance of the Yue Army, which was a great victory for the Kuomintang in the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. It has invigorated the spirit of the whole nation in the War of Resistance and strengthened the belief of the Chinese people in the victory of the War of Resistance!

(To be continued)