Chapter 121: Annoying the devil
When Li Zongren received the telegram, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info He said to Chief of Staff Xu Zuyi: "This student of Lao Chiang (as the warlords call Chiang Kai-shek in private) really has two hits. It is rumored that whoever cooperates with him will have a good ending, and this is true. ”
Xu Zuyi read the telegram and said: "Degong (Li Zongren's honorific title), look at his idea, it's very simple, but it should be effective." ”
Li Zongren said: "Tell the troops right away and do it." ”
At this time, the battle in Taierzhuang has reached a critical moment. The reinforcements of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army were blocked by Zhang Zizhong and other troops in the area north of Lanling County. The main force of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army, Ryosuke Isoya, successively broke through the defense line of the Nationalist Army in Bingfang Town and Nigou Town, and was only a dozen kilometers away from the Seya Detachment that was surrounded in Taierzhuang.
The commander of the Second Army, Sun Lianzhong, had less than 20,000 men in his hands, and he deployed his troops around the town of Malantun, while being flanked by Ryosuke Isoya and the Seya detachment. The Japanese army attacked desperately, trying to open up the connection between them.
At 5 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army launched an attack, and by 8 o'clock in the morning, Sun Lianzhong had already repelled 4 Japanese attacks. The troops suffered heavy casualties, but they still gritted their teeth and held on.
Sun Lianzhong and the officers and soldiers did not know how long they would hold out, nor how long they would be able to hold out. They were all numb, only knowing that they were still alive, and they would fight when they saw the Japanese army. The spirit is about to break.
At this moment, Li Zongren called that the Tiger Brigade of the Xia Dynasty had captured Zaozhuang and cut off the back road of Isoya Ryosuke, and the Japanese army would soon run out of ammunition and food.
Sun Lianzhong, who had not closed his eyes for 2 whole days, had swollen eye bubbles that were already swollen, even more puffy, and his thick lips were cracked in many places. When he received the telegram, his eyes widened, and he slapped the water tank on the table made of makeshift ammunition boxes, and the water tank above it fell off.
He said: "Okay, good job, this doll in the summer, sure enough." He ordered the news to be passed on to the troops immediately, so that everyone could hold on any longer.
The officers and men who persevered in blood finally had hope and their spirits were greatly boosted.
The days of the Seya detachment, which was under siege, were even more difficult.
The Seya detachment repelled countless frantic attacks by the Nationalist army, and they were almost exhausted of ammunition and food, and the spirit of the officers and men was almost unable to support it. At this moment, many loudspeakers suddenly appeared on the position of the national army, and someone inside shouted in Japanese: "Listen, devils, your old nest Zaozhuang has been captured by my heroic Tiger Brigade Brigade, and your baggage supplies have all been cut off, and you have no hope." Surrender. ”
The national army didn't shout indiscriminately, but only shouted two sentences.
This idea was given to Li Zongren by the Xia Dynasty, and this very common method was extremely effective at this time. In order to facilitate the shouting, Xia Chao specially translated the content of the shouting into Chinese, and anyone could shout.
The reason why the Japanese officers and soldiers were able to hold on was that they believed that they would wait for reinforcements, and they relied on this breath to support them tenaciously. Zaozhuang was captured, and the Japanese army really had no way to retreat, and the spirit of many Japanese officers and soldiers could not bear it at once.
Lai Qigu is also under a lot of pressure in his heart, he knows that the most promising reinforcements are Isoya Liansuke's troops at present, but Isoya Liansuke has no supplies, and it is difficult to get through to himself, even if the two armies meet, without supplies, is it useless.
He really wanted to refute the rumors and stabilize the mood of the troops, but the enemy did not agree, and the loudspeaker was not annoying, and kept shouting. Moreover, in order to ensure the effect of shouting, there are constantly substitutions, and the accent is constantly changing, for a while in Sichuan, for a while in Hunan, and in the Northwest, the content is just those two sentences, without changing. was so angry that Lai Qigu smoked from his seven orifices.
The loudspeaker of the national army kept shouting, it was so annoying, there were really devils who were annoyed to death.
Many Japanese officers and men fell into a state of madness, jumping out of the fortifications hysterically, blindly charging, and losing their lives in vain. Some are suicidal, some are sluggish. The morale of the army has been greatly affected
At this time, Ryosuke Isoya sent him a telegram confirming that what the enemy said was true, and Zaozhuang was lost. Let Lai Qigu concentrate his forces to move closer to him, strive to join forces in one place, and then try to break through.
After Matsui Ishone retired, General Yanjun took over as commander of the Central China Dispatch Army. He received a report from Ryosuke Isoya that there was no good way, and there were only the 5th and 10th divisions in the Taierzhuang area at present, and the troops were drawn from other places, and it was far from quenching his thirst.
He could only encourage them to persevere, and promised them to send planes to drop supplies.
Ryosuke Isoya was also a little discouraged, the troops at hand, plus the Seya detachment, now there are more than 10,000 remaining troops, and the airdrop is not a problem at all. The only hope is that the two armies can quickly converge and then break through in the direction of Zaozhuang or Linyi.
The appearance of the summer dynasty made Isoya Ryosuke very passive, he was originally a reinforcement, but now he was also attacked by the enemy and became a lone army.
Li Zongren now had no worries and was determined to annihilate the besieged Seya detachment.
At this time, Xia Chao called, saying that the Tiger Brigade would launch an attack on Isoya Ryosuke, entangle the main force of the 10th Division, and let Li Zongren let go and annihilate the Seya detachment. Then, with all his might, encircled and annihilated Ryosuke Isoya's troops.
Li Zongren was overjoyed, if this was the case, the result of the Battle of Xuzhou would not only be the annihilation of the Seya detachment. It is possible to completely annihilate the 10th Division. After discussing with Bai Chongxi, he thought it was feasible and reported it to the Military Commission. It was approved by Chairman Chiang.
In the afternoon of the same day, Li Zongren issued a general attack order, which was two full days earlier than in history.
After sending a telegram to Li Zongren in the summer, the troops that could be used were concentrated, and the troops directly under the brigade, the second regiment, the third regiment, and Xu Feihu's division, totaling 7,700 people, immediately moved south to attack the main force of the 10th Division of Ryosuke Isoya.
What Xia Chao didn't expect was that the development of the battle situation was beyond his expectations.
Summer Asaka looked at Ryosuke Isoya's character.
In the War of Resistance Against Japan, the reason why the devils were difficult was because no matter which unit they were surrounded, the surrounding troops would go to the rescue. In the summer, it is expected that Ryosuke Isoya will desperately rescue the Seya detachment. Will not leave Taierzhuang.
Unexpectedly, Ryosuke Isoya knew that it was impossible to rescue the Seya detachment, his back road was cut off, and if he delayed it, even his own troops would be surrounded and annihilated, so he made up his mind to break his wrist, abandon Lai Qigu, and immediately move closer to the Fifth Division.
Just when Li Zongren's main force surrounded and annihilated the Seya detachment, Isoya Ryosuke sent a brigade to make a move to rescue the Seya detachment, and he led the main force of the 10th Division to suddenly attack and advance in the direction of Linyi.
This trick is very vicious. As a result, Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army suffered from the enemy.
In the summer, Chaozheng led his troops to Taierzhuang, and suddenly received a telegram from Li Zongren, telling him about the new movements of Isoya Liansuke, and asking him to quickly reinforce Zhang Zizhong's troops.
Summer scolded angrily: "Isoya Ryosuke, this bastard, actually left his subordinates alone, it's really fucking shameless, what a big Japanese imperial army, I'm sorry!" ”
He immediately ordered to march in the direction of Lanling.