The Second Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army has jurisdiction over the 30th Army of Tianzhennan and the 42nd Army of Feng Anbang, and after the Battle of Niangziguan, the troops suffered heavy losses, and the 42nd Army has basically become an empty number, and after a short period of supplementary training, the existing strength of the whole group army is three divisions and one reading brigade, that is, the 30th Division of Zhang Jinzhao and the 31st Division of Chifengcheng of the 30th Army, the 27th Division of Huang Qiaosong of the 42nd Army, and the 44th Brigade of Wu Pengju.

After being ordered to defend Taierzhuang, Sun Lianzhong deployed the 31st Division and an artillery battalion attached to it to the frontal defense line of Taierzhuang, the 27th Division occupied a position on the front line of Huanglinzhuang on the right flank of the 31st Division, and the 30th Division occupied a position near the Dunzhuang Gate on the left flank of the 31st Division to ensure the safety of the left and right flanks of Taierzhuang.

Chifeng City is a native of Jingxian County, Hebei Province, also known as Fengchen, the word Zhen'e. When he was 14 years old, his parents sent him to a dim sum shop in Mulberry Garden to learn how to make dim sum. As a result, after two years, I didn't know how to learn the craft of making dim sum, but I attracted Chi Fengcheng's heart to become a soldier. Because the young Chi Fengcheng saw the majestic posture of the cavalry on the war horse, he admired it very much, and felt that he should be a commanding general. So, at the age of 16, Chi Fengcheng went to Sun Lianzhong's student corps to sign up for the army.

In the Cadet Corps, Chi Fengcheng worked very hard, and he was excellent in both learning and skill. Sun Lianzhong saw that he was a manufacturable material, so he sent him to Feng Yuxiang's guard pistol battalion. It is said that the wedding room of Feng Yuxiang and Ms. Li Dequan when they were newly married was assigned to the guards of Chifeng City.

Before the Taierzhuang War, the young man who went to learn the craft of dim sum making at the age of 14 has grown into a 35-year-old strong man and has become the youngest lieutenant general and division commander in the Northwest Army.

When Chifengcheng arrived at Taierzhuang, the 31st Division, as the vanguard of the Second Army, had already arrived in Taierzhuang ahead of schedule, and the order of the theater at that time was to take over the first-line defense line of Taierzhuang and Hanzhuang, and assign it to the command of the 20th Army Corps. Wang Zhen and 184 Regiment of the 91 Brigade garrisoned Taierzhuang, Han Shijun of the 91 Brigade 182 Regiment garrisoned the North Railway Station, and the commander of the 93 Brigade led Wang Yubin's 183 Regiment to attack Yi County with the cavalry regiment to lure the enemy, and Dai Bingnan's 181 Regiment followed up with the 183 Regiment and was under the command of Brigade Commander Qi Zibin.

After arriving in Taierzhuang, Chi Fengcheng listened to Qu Shen's report on the deployment of troops and agreed to Qu Shen's arrangement. The two met with Tang Enbo and Guan Linzheng again, and Tang Enbo and Guan Lin vowed to guarantee that as long as the guns rang out in Taierzhuang, the main force of the 20th Army Corps could go south to encircle the army, and it would take only one day at the longest to reach the front line of Taierzhuang.

With the guarantee of the Tang Army, Chi Fengcheng and Qu Shen had a slight idea in their hearts. However, considering that in case the reinforcements of the Tang Army were late, a single 31st Division and the 44th Brigade of Reading Power would not be able to hold Taierzhuang.

Fortunately, the main forces of the Second Army quickly arrived and began to deploy. The 31st Division returned to the group army system, and the task was also very clear, that is, to defend the front line of Taierzhuang, resolutely block the southward movement of the Yue army, and cooperate with the 20th Army Corps of Tang Enbo to gather and annihilate the southbound army in Taierzhuang.

Chi Fengcheng and Qu Shen took the brigade commanders, regiment commanders, and staff officers to inspect the topography of Taierzhuang. Seeing this, Chi Fengcheng was clear in his heart, knowing that Chief Li was going to take the first line of the Taierzhuang Canal as the axis of defense and fight a big battle here. Because the geographical location of this Taierzhuang is really a strategic defense fulcrum. The Taierzhuang Canal is different from the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and it draws an east-west arc here, which just blocks the footsteps of the Yue army to the south. Taierzhuang also has Zaotai Railway, Linzhao Railway and Jinpu Line, Longhai Line communication, is a water and land transportation hub, is really my must defend, the enemy must attack the place.

At this time, the spring flowers of Taierzhuang are blooming, and the peach blossoms and apricot blossoms of a tree show pink and red smiling faces from the courtyards of the farmhouses, on the ridges, and in the mountains and forests, covering the ancient town in a spring.

The simple people of Taierzhuang already have a premonition that there will be a big war here. Except for the elderly, women, and children who began to move, all the young and middle-aged people stayed behind to help the troops prepare for war, and the streets were all hurried by.

In their free time, these young farmers do not forget their crops and hoe in the fields with hoes.

Chifeng City doesn't have much culture, but after many years of military life, he has long been literate and hyphenated, and the boundless spring in front of him actually made the rough general want to chant poetry. It's a pity that after thinking about it, I only thought of the sentence "The beacon fire lasted for three months, and the family letter was worth 10,000 dollars." Just as I was about to open my mouth to read it, I remembered that the war was imminent, how could I suddenly remember these two lines of poetry?

Shaking his head, Chi Fengcheng ordered all troops to quickly prepare for war in accordance with the arrangements made by the theater commander's headquarters, the group army headquarters, and Qu Shen on behalf of the division headquarters.

In the early morning of March 23, when Liu Lanzhai, commander of the cavalry company of the 31st Division, led his troops to search and reconnoiter in Yi County, he first made contact with the vanguard cavalry unit of the Yue Army and seized an adjutant knife, and it was found that there were only more than 1,000 people in the Yue Army, but there were tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, and cavalry. After receiving the report of the arrival of the cavalry, the division headquarters ordered the cavalry company to retreat in the direction of Panjiaxiang, continue to attack and reconnoitre, and withdraw to the south of the canal from the right flank or left flank when forced to do so.

Then the 183rd Regiment vanguard team and the Yue army began a fierce battle at Zhangshan. The summit team was all veterans of the Northwest Army, and they occupied favorable terrain and fought to the death. Wang Yubin, the commander of the 183rd regiment, was afraid that the climbing team would be killed and wounded, and ordered to retreat several times, at this time the captain of the climbing peak, Wang Baokun, was wounded, and the company commander Kou Bao detected that the tanks and cavalry of the army had cut off the retreat in a roundabout way, so he ordered people to be in the position, and fought fiercely with the enemy, until the grenades were thrown, the bullets were exhausted, and the last soldier died, and the gunfire on the position of the climbing team subsided.

The wounded who retreated from the positions of the climbing team brought back the mimeographed documents of the captured army. At this point, the Fifth Theater of Operations completely figured out that it was indeed the Seya Detachment that attacked Taierzhuang, and the strength and firepower of the Seya Detachment were all clarified.

After the army occupied Zhangshan, it attacked the Nigou station. Gao Hong of our 183rd Regiment set up camp and fought and retreated. In the evening, the Yue army fought fiercely with the 183rd Regiment in Beiluo, and the 183rd Regiment suffered heavy casualties, and withdrew to Nanluo to join the 181st Regiment, forming a stalemate with the Yue army.

On the 24th, the army monitored the defenders of Nanluo with a force, bypassed Nanluo, and began to attack the northeast corner of Taierzhuang through Liujiahu. As a result, on the 25th, the Chinese Air Force dispatched to blow up the little devil and call his father and mother, and the defenders took advantage of the situation to counterattack and drove the devil to Beiluo to wait for help.

On the 26th, Furong Zhenping Dazuo led the main force of the 63rd Wing to Taierzhuang, and with the cooperation of the aircraft, launched a fierce attack on the front line of Taierzhuang.

The 27th, 30th, and 31st divisions of the Second Army guarding Taierzhuang were all Sun Lianzhong's basic troops. At that time, the generals of the miscellaneous army were most afraid that the troops would be eaten by the Central Army, and although the Second Army had been centralized, it still belonged to the miscellaneous army in the Central Army. Whether it is Sun Lianzhong, the two army commanders and three division commanders under him, they all have strict control over the troops. The advantage of this is that the whole army can be twisted into a rope. In addition, at this time, the officers and men had a high awareness of the War of Resistance, and the three divisions were able to cooperate closely with each other and support each other.

Not to mention the 41st Division's four regiments in the city, Beizhan and Nanluo, the 27th Division on the right flank and the 30th Division on the left flank actively launched an attack on the Yue Army, intending to disperse the strength of the Yue Army and reduce the pressure on the 184th Regiment in the city.

When Furong Zhenping Dazuo saw this posture, he had to divide his troops, one to attack the right flank of Taierzhuang, and the other to attack the left flank of Taierzhuang, concentrate artillery fire, and cover a brigade to attack Taierzhuang. Because if he concentrates all his strength on attacking Taierzhuang, he is likely to be surrounded by the middle [***] teams on both flanks.

After a day of fighting, the army finally occupied Yuanshang Village in the north of Taierzhuang and gained a foothold. There are bunkers built in this village, and you can look down on the defenders of Taierzhuang City from a high vantage point. It poses a great threat to the defenders. An army took advantage of the situation to break into Taierzhuang and was annihilated by the defenders. However, the city wall north of Taierzhuang has been destroyed and cannot be repaired in a short time, so the defenders have to use the big temple as a support point to organize defense.

Wang Zhen, the commander of the 184th Regiment, is a senior officer of the 31st Division, and the commander of the 92nd Brigade was originally vacant, so he should be promoted, but Chi Fengcheng has not been promoted for the time being. After accepting the task of guarding Taierzhuang, he put Wang Zhenjiu's first battalion in the eastern half of Taierzhuang, Wang Zuxian's second battalion in the western half of Taierzhuang, and Yu Gongkui's third battalion outside the west gate to guard the pontoon bridge.

After Qu Shen, the former enemy commander of the 31st Division, learned that the Yue army had once attacked Taierzhuang, he immediately moved the command post to under the railway bridge of the South Railway Station, and rushed to the village, leading Wang Zhen and deputy regiment commander Jiang Changtai to inspect the position, only to find that Yuanshang Village had become the fulcrum of the Yue army's attack.

Wang Zhen blamed himself for not discovering the important surname of Yuanshang Village in advance, and sent Qian Zhensheng to recover Yuanshang Village.

Wang Zhen thought about it simply, at this time, the combat strength of the Yue army was not declining, and how could it be possible to recapture Yuanshang Village from the hands of the Yue army with the strength of a company? As a result, Qian Zhensheng was sacrificed, and Commander Wang Zhen was also seriously injured.

Chi Fengcheng adopted Qu Shen's suggestion and sent Wang Guanwu as the commander of the 184th Regiment to command the battle of Taierzhuang.

27 At dawn, the army concentrated on attacking the north gate of Taierzhuang. Zhang Guanghou, commander of the 7th Artillery Regiment of the defending army on the south bank of the canal, led a battalion of artillery to divide 10 75 mountain artillery pieces into three artillery groups with a company as a unit, and took turns to go into battle to bombard the artillery positions set up by the Yue army on the west side of Liujiahu Lake to contain the artillery fire of the Yue army.

The army came up, opened the way with grenadiers, infantry guns and machine guns, and attacked the north gate frantically. The defenders relied on the preset positions and resisted stubbornly. When the two sides were fighting fiercely, Chi Fengcheng and Qu Shen commanded our army's armored train to suddenly dispatch, and the artillery fire and machine guns on the train directly beat the attacking devils back. The armoured train was immediately returned to safety.

At this time of the battle, Furong Zhenping understood that with the 63rd Wing and the supporting forces alone, it was a fool's dream to take Taierzhuang. He immediately reported to Seya Kai, asking His Excellency the brigade commander to lead the 10th Wing to quickly move south to strengthen the offensive forces on the front line of Taierzhuang.

Fukuei Mahei didn't know that Kei Seya was in trouble at this time.

The 10th Wing went through three battles in Jiehe, Longyangdian and Tengxian, and the loss of troops was too large, with 3,000 dead and wounded. But at this time, there was a fierce battle, and the Jinpu Road was destroyed again, how could it be withdrawn to rest? The 40th Wing did not suffer much losses, but unfortunately the use of the 40th Wing required not only the approval of the division commander, but also the approval of the Second Army, which was very troublesome. The worst thing is that after Furong Zhenping concentrated the main force to attack Taierzhuang, Tengxian, Lincheng, Zaozhuang, Hanzhuang, and Yixian all needed garrison troops, and the strength of the 40th Wing mainly undertook the garrison tasks in these places.

Kei Seya had no choice but to report to the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Ryosuke Isoya.

After Ryosuke Isoya received the report, he felt that it was really an evil door, when did it start, this [***] team was suddenly not afraid of death, a Teng County made the elite Tenth Wing lose its combat effectiveness, and now Taierzhuang has become like this again. If you can't even take a small Taierzhuang, won't the 10th Division become the laughing stock of the imperial army? Therefore, he did not hesitate at all and added all the several reserve infantry brigades of the division to the 10th Wing. Ordered Seya Kai to quickly lead the 10th Wing to rush to the front line of Taierzhuang, and be sure to take Taierzhuang.

After the order to Kei Seya was issued, Ryosuke Isoya had a long heart, feeling that the situation in this Taierzhuang was a bit weird, and it was impossible to have fewer troops. He sent a telegram to the commander of the Second Army, Nishio Shouzo, saying that he had encountered the elite troops of China in Taierzhuang and that he had to increase his troops. Lieutenant General Nishio Shouzo ordered the Fifth Division attacking on the front line of Heze to send at least one brigade to support Taierzhuang, and asked the 16th Division to speed up and take over the 39th Wing and the Reading Mixed Sixth Brigade to attack Linyi, and the Reading Mixed Sixth Brigade to defend Juxian, and the 39th Wing to bypass Linyi and go south to support the Taierzhuang operation. At the same time, the 114th Division stationed in Yanzhou was also asked to send troops to take over the defense line of Jiehe and Tengxian. Let the 40th Wing and the divisional units be able to concentrate on reinforcing the Taierzhuang front.

After receiving the telegram, Nishio Shouzo sent a telegram to remind Isoya Ryosuke that due to the destruction of the Dawenkou section of the Jinpu Road, reinforcements and supplies may not arrive at the front line in time in the short term. Ryosuke Isoya should take this factor seriously into account when deploying the battle. It was difficult for the Fifth Division to draw out its troops for the time being, and the 114th Division could only defend Yanzhou for the time being because a brigade had broken jade during the transportation of vehicles, and the brigade and regiment that had arrived in Yanzhou in advance were attacked with ammunition and baggage trucks. Linyi's 39th Wing could be reinforced south, and the defensive line was replaced by the 16th Division.

At this time, the new battle plan of the base camp had not yet been introduced, and Nishio Shouzo did not know about it, if he knew, I am afraid that he would order the 10th Division to abandon the offensive operation and stick to Tengxian, Lincheng, Zaozhuang and Yixian.

After receiving a telegram from the division commander to replenish the troops and the 39th Wing to the south to support, Seya Kei had the confidence to leave the 40th Wing to strictly defend Jiehe, Lincheng, Zaozhuang, Yixian, and Hanzhuang, and resolutely repel the attack of Tang Enbo's troops. He led the 10th Wing to Taierzhuang.

Han Sanwa is a beggar in Wushengguan in northern Hubei Province, when the 31st Division was building a position on the front line of Wushengguan, he saw him pitiful, and accepted him into the team as a recruit, only 17 years old this year.

Since the army began to attack Taierzhuang, Han Sanwa has always been frightened, and when she heard the sound of cannons, she fell to the ground, for fear that she would be shot carelessly. was so angry that the squad leader kicked his ass straight, scolding while kicking: "The brothers are fighting with the devil, you fool is starting to pretend to be cowardly!" Those who are afraid of death will die quickly, so hurry up and carry grenades for Lao Tzu. ”

But no matter how the squad leader kicks, Han Sanwa just can't get up, what he thinks in his heart is, it doesn't matter who of you beats whom, do Lao Tzu's. Anyway, Lao Tzu was born to need food, and I haven't seen any official give Lao Tzu a penny, why let Lao Tzu give them his life? Besides, my biggest dream is to go to Hankou to beg for food, and maybe even get some legendary sturgeon meat to eat!

28 At dawn, the army attacked the north gate again, and the cannonballs shrouded the north gate in a sea of fire. Han Sanwa crawled in the bunker and secretly aimed at it, and saw that her comrades-in-arms were shooting and throwing bombs, and exchanged fierce fire with the Yue army.

Looking at Han Sanwa, it didn't feel right, because there were more and more dead people, and even the wounded soldiers were simply bandaged and put into battle again.

Han Sanwa wanted to escape, but looked around, feeling that no one was paying attention to him, so he quietly got up. As soon as he wanted to leave, the squad leader called him again to send grenades.

Han Sanwa was born as a beggar, and he has the vision of a beggar, knowing that if he escapes at this time, once he is seen, he will definitely die. I had no choice but to move the box of grenades and send them to the squad leader. One by one, the grenades were unscrewed and placed in front of the soldiers.

Loading the second box of grenades, he hurriedly ran out of the fortifications, and just as he wanted to observe the situation again, the devils rushed up, and the living soldiers jumped out of the trenches and started a white-knuckle battle with the devils with broadswords. Han Sanwa felt that she was afraid that she would not be able to run, and the devils were constantly attacking. At this time, Han Sanwa scolded all the eight generations of the devil's ancestors in her heart, scolding this group of people who were shot for not staying well in Yuben, and running to China to bully people, and the harmful Lao Tzu couldn't escape if he wanted to.

At this time, the squad leader cut off the head of a little devil, turned to Han Sanwa and shouted: "Hanwa, look at Lao Tzu's craftsmanship!" As soon as he finished speaking, the devil's two bayonets stabbed into the squad leader's body from both ribs.

The insensitive Han Sanwa saw the squad leader's sacrifice, and her heart suddenly became empty. This Northwest man is afraid that he is the best person in the world to himself, although he kicks and beats himself.

Han Sanwa's blood surged, and she felt that the damn devil was too hateful, and she had to teach them a lesson. He wanted to rush forward to avenge the squad leader, but when he thought about it, his marksmanship was too stinky, and he couldn't pick up a big knife, so he could only rely on grenades if he wanted to teach the little devil a lesson.

Han Sanwa learned to throw grenades during training, and knew that if the cover was unscrewed, the string would explode.

When she arrived at the grenade box, Han Sanwa opened the two grenade boxes, took out a grenade, unscrewed the cover, and threw it at a devil as soon as she pulled the string. It's a pity that the grenade didn't explode before it exploded, and it was kicked away by the devils.

Seeing that she couldn't blow up the devil, Han Sanwa was anxious, quickly climbed down, poured out all the grenades in the box, divided them by two, unscrewed the covers, and wrapped the cables together, thinking to herself, one can't blow you up, Lao Tzu will get you a bunch of grenades, I don't believe that you can't be blown up.

The devils are coming around. Looking at the skinny young soldier in front of him, a group of devils were giggling and laughing.

Han Sanwa sat on the grenade pile, pulled the string with his right hand, and smirked at the devil.

The devil officer who led the team saw that something was wrong and said a bird word, and a group of devils lay down and dodged one after another. At this time, Han Sanwa pulled the grenade. After pulling it, I remembered that I was still sitting on the grenade, and this pull, didn't I blow myself up?

A continuous explosion blew Han Sanwa into pieces of minced meat. He didn't know that it was he who created a record of killing the enemy with a single soldier in the defense of Taierzhuang: 24 devils were killed. Of course, Han Sanwa is a recruit, and he is a timid and backward recruit, so his name is naturally unknown to anyone.

Chi Fengcheng and Qu Shen saw that the army launched another strong attack, worried about the weakness of the troops in the city, and urgently ordered the third battalion of Yu Gongkui to enter the city for reinforcements, and ordered the engineer battalion to run into the city to fill the defensive gap in the city.

After the three battalions entered the city, the north gate had been broken through, and all the defenders of our north gate were killed, and the corpses pillowed each other, which was unbearable. Pei Ke, the commander of the eighth company, saw that the army had entered the temple and was fighting fiercely with the defenders in the temple, and shouted, "Brothers, come to me!" Take the lead in entering the enemy formation and start a white-knuckle fight with the enemy.

The little devil is physically strong and good at fighting bayonets. As soon as they saw the Eighth Company wielding a big blade and killing it, the devils shouted, all withdrew the bullets, and began to fight with the Eighth Company in groups of three.

The Northwest Army's housekeeping kung fu is a broadsword. Not to mention the broadsword team of the 29th Army, the broadsword of the 31st Division is equally powerful. These two contacts are inseparable. The army stabbed the soldiers of the Eighth Company in the abdomen, and the Eighth Company cut off the heads of the soldiers, and the battlefield looked extremely cruel.

The fierce battle lasted until noon, and all the eight companies from the company commander Pei Ke were killed at once, and the remnants of the defenders of the temple were also killed, and the devils occupied the temple.

Yu Gongkui, the commander of the third battalion, saw that the eighth company had entered the temple, and he was busy commanding the seventh company and the ninth company to block the reinforcements of the devils at the north gate, and desperately rescued the eighth company.

On the evening of the 28th, the 183rd Regiment in Nanluo, under the command of brigade commander Qi Zibin and regiment commander Wang Yubin, launched a counterattack on the artillery position of the Yue army in Liujiahu. Gao Hongli, the commander of the first battalion, took the lead and led the soldiers into the enemy formation, cutting melons and vegetables with a big knife in his hand, and greeted the devils.

The devils who reacted mobilized tanks and armored vehicles and fought back frantically. The 183 regiment retreated after blowing up 8 enemy cannons.

At the same time, the 184th Regiment defending Taierzhuang also organized a death squad, and the team members carried big knives, short guns, and grenades in their waists, and went to the temple.

At this time, the devils who captured the north gate and the big temple were exhausted after a day of fierce fighting. When the defenders touched it, the devil soldiers were resting against the wall, and only the vigilant devils were still staring around.

The tactics of the death squad are very simple, after touching it, it is a grenade, followed by a short gun at close range, and then a big knife. The devils of a squad stationed in the big temple were caught off guard, they were stunned, and all of them were annihilated, and the death squad recaptured the big temple and began to shoot at the north gate.

(To be continued)