On the outskirts of Pixian County, Li Pinxian gathered in Xuezhong, Li Xianzhou, Han Deqin, and Zhou Zhe, and after Li Pinxian entered Jiangsu, Chiang Kai-shek decisively adjusted the command system of the Jiangsu troops, and Li Pinxian replaced Han Deqin to command all the squadrons in Jiangsu. The whole book

Zhuang Jihua's proposed counterattack will start with Jiangsu first.

On February 12, the 51st Army, the 75th Army, and the 92nd Army attacked southwest Lu in three ways, Yu Xuezhong led the 51st Army out of Pi County, attacked the Taierzhuang area, and dragged the Japanese army in Xuzhou, Zhou Zhe led the 75th Army out of Tancheng to launch from the south to Linyi**; Li Xianzhou led the 92nd Army out of Linshu and went to Linyi from the southeast.

Behind enemy lines, Shen Honglie commanded Qin Shangrong, Fan Zhuxian, Lu Bin, and Zhang Liyuan to attack everywhere, blow up bridges and culverts, attack Japanese strongholds, communication lines, and the entire land of Qilu, from Jiaodong to Xuzhou, the war was raging, and the Japanese garrisons in various parts of the country were in a hurry.

To the west of Dingyuan, Liao Lei commanded the 21st Group Army to continue to attack by different routes, entangled the 110th Division to the death, forcing it not to dare to go north to reinforce Maozhou.

In the southern section of Jinpu Road, Song Yunfei and Zhao Hanjie divided their troops into two routes, Zhao Hanjie led his troops to the north, and operated in the triangle of Bengbu, Mengcheng and Suxian. Song Yunfei led his troops south, and once rushed into Pukou and blew up an important arsenal of the Japanese army in Pukou.

The question of Sugiyama Moto's surrender was equally unsolvable to him, and the staff were equally arguing, continuing to attack and stopping to rest, divided into two large parts, and quarreled in front of him, and no one could convince anyone.

The frequent activities of the squadron made Shunroku Hata feel a little abnormal, he felt that since Xue Yue's troops crossed the Yellow River in the south, the squadron had gradually stabilized its position, and the long-term combat and the emptiness of the rear left two major hidden worries, once these hidden worries broke out, the consequences were unimaginable.

Information came from Shangqiu, **The general will have a big move in the next few days, but Shunroku Hata didn't understand, what is the general's big move? Where will the counterattack take place? Just as Toshiroku Hata hesitated, the Lanfeng counterattack under the command of Du Yuming began, and the five corps launched an attack on Ito's two divisions from the south and west.

Du Yuming's ** made Shunroku Hata's heart fall into his stomach, **The general chose to launch a counterattack on the northern section of the imperial army, which was undoubtedly beyond his expectations, but it was not terrible, Ito and Yoshio Shinozuka had the strength of nearly nine divisions, which could completely suppress the counterattack of the ** general.

"Yo Xi, it seems that the ** general has exhausted his donkey skills, and all the forces he can mobilize have been mobilized." Shunroku Hata was somewhat satisfied, he was originally worried that Zhuang Jihua would launch a counterattack against Yamashita Fengfu, who had the weakest troops, or Gu Shoufu, who was the farthest away.

"Your Excellency, what about the Forty-ninth Army?" Chief of Staff Shozo Kawabe reminded that Shozo Kawabe was equally hesitant about whether to continue the offensive or stop to recuperate.

"This is the unit he left behind to guard Shangqiu, don't worry too much, the ** general is still very worried about his safety." Shunroku Hata looked very confident, casually made a joke, and then he ordered solemnly: "Order Tani Toshio, Yamashita Fumi, and Ando Toshiyoshi to strengthen the attack, and order Shinozuka Yoshio to send a division to reinforce Ito, and the rest of the divisions to continue to attack Shangqiu." ”

But in the face of the war all over the rear, Shunroku Hata was a little helpless, so he had to strictly order the 110th Division to strengthen the southern section of the defense, and ordered Nishio Shouzo to ensure traffic safety and not affect the front battle. Nishio Shouzo also has no superfluous methods, to ensure traffic safety needs troops, the strength of various places has been transferred to the limit, even his headquarters is located in Yanzhou, there is only one wing left, Jinan to Tai'an only brigade in the defense, forced to helpless, Nishio Shouzo transferred the seriously damaged Honma troops to Yanzhou, Tai'an line to rest, and enrich the garrison.

Lanfeng's counterattack was in full swing, the first squadron offensive was fierce, and the Chinese soldiers who were stimulated by the Xuzhou bloody case went crazy, completely desperately played, completely ignoring the rain of bullets from the Japanese army, rushing up with red eyes, and the front team formed by the refugees evacuated from Xuzhou followed the troops forward.

After a day of fierce fighting, the 60th Army and the 23rd Army defeated the 68th Brigade of the 37th Division at Minquan Chengzhuang, Feng Shengfa commanded the 71st Army to make a detour through Litang and break the Jinhu Wing of the 70th Brigade of the Japanese Army, and Xue Yue commanded the 27th, 21st and 27th Armies to counterattack in the front and forced the 101st Division to switch from offensive to defensive.

The crisis of the 37th Division made Ito feel in danger, and he quickly retreated from under the Lanfeng City, and the 101st Division and the 37th Division alternately covered and retreated, and Du Yuming and Xue Yue took advantage of the victory to pursue and chase into Shandong in one fell swoop.

After entering the border of Yulu, Xue Yue and Du Yuming's troops divided into two routes, Du Yuming conquered Louzhuang, and then developed in the direction of Weiwan; Xue Yue occupied Matou, and the 27th Army on the left flank captured Jiaoyuan and Sanchunji. The two armies pursued Ito on the Rushi Plain like two mad dogs biting their prey.

Shunroku Hata accurately estimated the predicament that Ito would encounter, in fact, to put it bluntly, this is also the combat effectiveness shown by Nanjing Xuzhou and the ** squadron in the early stage of this campaign, which makes him feel that the current ** squadron is no longer like the previous ** squadron.

The timely reinforcement of the 14th Division allowed Ito to stabilize his position, and at this time, both the enemy and the enemy saw the importance of Sun Lianzhong's insistence on Cao Ji, and it was precisely because of his persistence that he drove a wedge on the northern front of the Japanese army, where he was like a rock, and the sea water flowed through both sides of him, but could not drown him; The Japanese army was unable to use its forces smoothly on the northern front.

After discovering this, the pressure on Cao Ji increased sharply, and the 32nd Division attacking Cao Ji was under tremendous pressure from Yanzhou, Beiping, and even Nanjing, and Yoshio Shinozuka even transferred the 118th Brigade from the 109th Division to strengthen the 32nd Division and attack Cao Ji.

But it was too late, after Du Yuming and Xue Yue invaded Shandong, Zhuang Jihua ordered Yang Sen's department, which had been waiting for a long time, to reinforce Cao Ji, and Yang Sen's department retreated all the way from Dangshan, especially the 20th Army basically did not fight any battles, but the 47th Army suffered heavy losses along the way, retreating all the way from the canal to the north of Shangqiu in the south of Minquan, and now it was just the time to attack.

Yang Sen took over the position of the 12th Army in Qingqi, he held the Qingqi with the 47th Army, and led the 20th Army to reinforce Cao Ji, from the south gate into Cao Ji, and took over Sun Lianzhong's defense of Cao Ji, Sun Lianzhong's department fought hard for two months, a group army of nearly 50,000 people is now only more than 12,000 people left, and the troops suffered heavy casualties.

Sun Tongxuan's casualties were also staggering, but his strength surpassed Sun Lianzhong's, and there were more than 20,000 people in the entire army.

Yang Sen and Xu Yuanquan's appearance in Caoji Huanggang relieved Nanjing Beiping Yanzhou, even if there was still a 49th Group Army, it was impossible to salvage the situation in the eyes of Sugiyama Moto, Shunroku Hatata, and Nishio Shouzo, so it became their joint decision to continue the offensive, and on February 17, Ando Toshiyoshi attacked the city of Yucheng and tore the defense line of the squadron from the center.

Shunroku Hata watched the latest progress of the Japanese army with great delight, and an urgent message from Shangqiu made his heart flutter again.

"The fast column reinforced from Wuhan crossed Shangqiu and headed south today, there were a large number of tanks and armored vehicles along the way, the specific number is unknown, and the 49th Group Army secretly moved south, and the destination is unknown."

"Is it here that the general really fights back?" Kawabe Shozo pointed at Ando Toshikichi in Yucheng with some surprise, with a look of disbelief on his face: "What if it's a fast column?" ”

Shunroku Hata didn't speak, he picked up a cigarette from the table and smoked it silently.

Private Bangu, who had just handed over the post, was tired and leaning in the trench, and the motor behind the opposite position sounded, I don't know how many things the ** army sent to the front line, sometimes I really envy them, there are so many things sent, and there are fewer and fewer things sent from the rear in the past few days, and I haven't eaten fragrant rice dumplings for a few days. In this cold land, the villagers of the surrounding villages have run out, and there is no place to grab anything.

It's still comfortable in Xuzhou, Bangu closed his eyes and remembered that he and a few companions in the class broke into the ** person's house, and the woman's fragrant body was really comfortable. It's a pity that the war is coming to an end, otherwise you can enjoy more ** women in the future; But it's over, you can go home, maybe you can catch up with spring ploughing, help your father plough the field, and my sister can go to junior high school next year.

Just when Bangu was squinting and thinking nonsense, just behind the position opposite him, across the grove, a large number of tanks were neatly lined up, Qiu Qingquan held a horn in the command car and shouted: "I repeat, the Japanese army on the other side is the executioner of the Xuzhou Massacre, and his hands are stained with the blood of his compatriots. ”

"Understood!" The surrounding officers replied in unison.

"Okay, there are three minutes left, go back to your car, prepare to attack, whoever fucking pees his pants will get out of Lao Tzu." Qiu Qingquan closed the map and glanced at the officers with his eyes, who saluted and ran back to their tanks quickly.

There was a muffled thunderous sound in the sky, followed by an explosion on the opposite side. The earth is shaking, the earth is trembling, and it is almost impossible to stand firm on the ground; Strings of bombs rained down on the Japanese positions, and at first the explosion could be heard, and then the explosion could no longer be heard, only once.

As soon as the bombardment, which lasted for more than half an hour, stopped, the roar of motors was heard in the sky, dozens of planes appeared in the sky above the Japanese positions filled with gunsmoke, and the huge body of the B17 shook slightly, and a string of bombs fell from the sky.

For this counterattack, Zhuang Jihua not only strengthened the 150 heavy artillery brigade directly under the theater to the 49th Group Army, but also contacted the air force and asked the air force to provide air cover.

Dozens of planes flew from the eastern sky, and the fighters loitering around the periphery immediately caught up with them, blocking the Japanese planes outside, and after the B17 threw the bombs, it flew slowly to the west, and the I-16 swooped down from the sky again, and the machine guns opened heavy fire on the ground, plowing the Japanese position again.

After surviving the plane, the Japanese soldiers crawled out from all corners, looking a little sluggish, and rushed to the firing position completely instinctively, carrying all kinds of weapons out of the concealment. Unexpectedly, there was no movement on the opposite side, and there was no trace of people in the open area in front of the position, and then the sound of rolling thunder sounded again, and the shells fell on the position again.

This blow was completely unexpected by the Japanese troops, who did not have time to hide in the shelter and suffered heavy casualties, the machine gun was overturned, and the stump and broken arm flew sideways.

The unbearable bombardment was over, but the ground was still shaking, and a swarm of steel monsters rose from the horizon, black smoke belching from their tails forming a huge black dragon in midair, and a heavy roar could be heard for miles.

The tanks rushed into the Japanese positions with a cloud of dust, crushing all the obstacles that hindered their advance, and several Japanese soldiers crawled out of the position with grenades, and as soon as they straightened up, they were torn in two by a violent rain of bullets, and the fire from the muzzles of the guns destroyed the remaining fire points.

A group of soldiers jumped from the tank, and they fired heavily from the smoking positions, driving the Japanese soldiers out of the broken trenches.

"Speed up! Speed up! Leave those little devils in hiding and hand them over to the infantry! Just rush forward and remember to rush forward! Qiu Qingquan saw his tank break through the Japanese position, and shouted excitedly on the intercom.

The brigade frankly roared and rushed through the first line of defense of the Japanese army, and those stumps and severed arms turned into a bloody mass of flesh under the tracks, including Itaya, who was still sighing just now.

Behind the tank is the Xia Yanglin Brigade, this brigade has been loaded on wheels, Zhuang Jihua collected nearly a hundred cars from everywhere, mounted this brigade on wheels, followed the rapid column assault, behind them is the main force of the 101st Army, and on their right is the 102nd Army commanded by Sun Zhen.

The tank ran through the two Japanese positions in a row, regardless of the small Japanese troops scattered everywhere, and quickly rushed along the road to the camp, Lan Yundong left Situ Fei's division to clear out the Japanese army that had been divided, and the main force still followed behind the tank and thrust into the camp.

The rapid assault made the Japanese army panic, and the commander could not reorganize the defensive line at all, so he could only watch the squadron rush over, and when they reacted, Situ Fei had already eliminated the Japanese troops in several villages and surrounded the remaining hundreds of Japanese troops in three villages.

The camp was an important support point for the left flank of the Japanese army, and there was a wing in this direction, but there was a brigade here. Wing Commander Lang Li Kazuo was moving troops step by step to fill the gap, but he didn't expect the tank to drive to the entrance of the town in a blink of an eye, and the shells exploded in the command department, and then the tank rushed into the town and killed his headquarters directly.

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