Chapter Forty-Nine: Diverting and Running Away

The commander of the Yamawaki Division had just received news that Japanese songs were being heard everywhere, and was discussing with his chief of staff how to deal with it, when the gunfire outside suddenly became intense.

Ever since the Third Division and Sun Lianzhong's Second Army came to face, the gunfire has never stopped. But tonight, since dark, the frequency of exchanges of fire between the two sides has been much smaller. Now that the gunfire has become fierce again, it is very telling. At the very least, the commander of the Yamawaki Division and the chief of staff of the Tian Yuan in the division headquarters agreed that the singing incident at night was a trick made by Sun Lianzhong opposite them!

There is only one opponent in front, and that is the Second Army! Sun Lianzhong is the commander of this army, who else but him would devise such a shameless strategy?

"Sun Lianzhong! You are so despicable! If you have the ability, we will fight face to face on the battlefield, and if you have the ability, you will defeat my 3rd Division from the front! Playing intrigue behind his back, what kind of hero is he? "Maybe it's because I'm so angry in my heart, Yamawaki Masatashi scolded in front of the chief of staff next to him, it seems that only in this way can the anger in the heart of His Excellency the lieutenant general be a little lowered, right?

"General, let's hurry up and come up with a countermeasure!" Scolding can indeed regulate people's emotions and relieve their depressed mood. But if you stand here and keep scolding, you will make a mistake! As the chief of staff of the division and regiment, Tian Yuan Toshio saw that Lieutenant General Yawaki had a tendency to become more and more energetic as he scolded, so he hurriedly reminded him.

"Plan ahead, order all wings to immediately reorganize the army, take the Shiben detachment as the lead, and march towards Zaoyang!" Yamawaki Masataka deserved to be a high-ranking officer in the Japanese army, and as soon as he was reminded by the chief of staff, he immediately recovered from his almost uncontrollable emotions, and then gave the order for the whole division to advance. Now that Sun Lianzhong has already started fighting, there is no need for him to wait until tomorrow.

Gao Quan felt that the devil was a little impatient. That's because the devils of the 3rd Division were stimulated last night. Most of the tens of thousands of devil soldiers didn't sleep in the middle of the night, and listening to the song made their hearts sour than drinking four taels of vinegar.

There are those who cry secretly in the middle of the night like a resentful woman, there are those who sing to the music like crazy, there are those who drown their sorrows through wine, and there are a few fellow villagers who gather together to whisper and pour bitter water on each other. With such a unit, no matter how many personnel and advanced weapons are, what combat effectiveness does it have? What's more, the devils are now receiving an order to transfer the whole army to Zaoyang! Now that you're leaving, what's the point?

The morale of the Japanese soldiers dropped greatly and they wanted to rush to Zaoyang as soon as possible. No matter what awaits them in Zaoyang, they don't have to stay in this evil place anymore.

The 500 Army attacked from the flank, and the devils who wanted to run away were relatively not so tightly defended on the flank, while the 30th Army and the 68th Army, which were responsible for the frontal defense, were a little overwhelmed.

It has been two days since the Third Division was facing each other, and the casualties of both armies were not small. Especially the 30th Army, the starting unit of Sun Lianzhong, the casualties of several regiments all the way to the front were more than half.

The Devil's Chariot Brigade, the Field Artillery Wing of the 3rd Division, plus several field wings with strong combat effectiveness. These troops took turns to play, and planes appeared in the sky from time to time to bombard indiscriminately! For two days and two nights, Chi Fengcheng and his 30th army had been exhausted. Although there is still a big gap from 70% of the battle losses during the Battle of Taierzhuang, it can be regarded as a huge casualty!

At the time of Taierzhuang, Sun Lianzhong was the focus of the entire Xuzhou General Battle, even if he fought his troops to clean up, as long as Sun Lianzhong and several of his division commanders and brigade commanders were alive, the chairman and the war zone would give him supplementary troops! But now it's different, the center of the battle is not here, he has exhausted the troops, and there won't be so many soldiers for him at all!

When Ishimoto received an order from Lieutenant General Yawaki to attack immediately, the tanks of Ishimoto's detachment had not yet been refueled. Pumping oil out of the truck and filling it into the tank isn't that simple!

The fuel used for tanks is diesel, and there are diesel and gasoline for baggage trucks! Put gasoline into the tank of the diesel and it will deflagrate, which will damage the engine!

Sadamao Ishimoto was the commander of the armored forces, and he certainly knew the consequences. Every time he finds a truck, his armorers must first ask whether the car burns gasoline or diesel, and the diesel car is used to pump gas, and the gasoline car is spared!

Pump, refuel, refuel, refuel! Gather all the light and heavy trucks of the division and take out the orders of the division commander, no matter how ugly the faces of those brigade commanders, wing commanders, and detachment commanders are, these motor vehicles General Ishimoto are all requisitioned! That's it, when the order from the division headquarters came, a quarter of the tank tanks of the Ishimoto detachment were still not filled.

Wait, wait! Shi Benzhen is a chariot and is unwilling to give up, if possible, he wants to drive all these chariots to Zaoyang! Of course, it would be best to drive to Wuhan.

The Chinese army apparently did not intend to give General Ishimoto time to refuel. Not long after the order of the division headquarters here, the army of Chifeng City was killed! Ishimoto had no choice but to regretfully stop refueling, and led his tanks, whether they were full or not, to rush up! The opponent has already come, and he has no time to refuel.

Sun Lianzhong knew that there was something wrong with the devil, the attacking troops of the 30th Army fought very bravely, and the 68th Army fought equally bravely. Tens of thousands of Chinese troops divided into two directions, left and right, and launched a fierce attack on the devils.

At the beginning of the attack, it was indeed very smooth, the 30th Division went up and defeated a brigade of the devils, and the 27th Division followed, and the two divisions squeezed the 18th Wing of the devils for a while, and almost broke up the Japanese army, a powerful wing! This would have been unthinkable at the very beginning of the battle, or even yesterday. Zhang Huatang and Huang Qiaosong's eyes were red with excitement, and they saw that a big victory was just around the corner!

At this critical moment, the devil's chariot drove over! The momentum of the attack of two divisions of the Chinese army was quickly contained under the onslaught of the devil tanks.

Commander-in-Chief Sun got the report and heard that the devil chariot unit had come up again, so he knew that it would be difficult to win tonight's battle. In a relatively flat wilderness, with no fortified terrain to rely on, it is simply a fool's dream to rely on infantry units to block the onslaught of an armored unit.

The fighters are brave, and they also dare to carry bundles of grenades to blow up the devil chariot, but in the end, how high can the success rate of such a bomb be? And how big is the sacrifice? If this method of warfare could really be popularized on a large scale, the armored corps would have been removed from the class sequence a long time ago!

"Chifeng City, let your troops back immediately! Retreat to your position and hold on! Commander-in-Chief Sun's reaction was not unpleasant, but he didn't expect that the devils were not going to fight hard with his 30th army this time, nor were they going to capture Miyang, the devils were going to change their course and run away!