After some searching, the 59th Army paid a little price and finally eliminated the little devils who were destroying in and around the city, and the two commanders of the Linyi defenders were barely relieved. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

And because the plan was leaked on the little devil's side, in order to avoid greater losses, all these squads outside were withdrawn.

However, these squads did not have a considerable record, but they lost a lot, which really made Itakami Seishiro swollen several pigs' heads, and he was so angry that he almost didn't cut people.

At the same time, the battle to defend Tengxian County has also entered the final juncture.

At this time, the troops in Tengxian County were extremely empty, and Wang Mingzhang, the commander of the 122nd Division, immediately called the headquarters for help.

When Sun Zhen, commander-in-chief of the 22nd Group Army, learned about it, he immediately contacted Wang Zhonglian, commander of the 85th Army, the vanguard of the 20th Army of Tang Enbo, a friendly army reinforcing Teng County, and asked for rapid reinforcements.

However, Wang Zhonglian used the reason that he needed to wait for the army to arrive before he could go north, so he did not move in Lincheng.

The 85th Army did not send troops, and Sun Zhen had no choice but to leave a pistol company as a guard in the special service battalion that was on duty at the headquarters, and the remaining three infantry companies, led by battalion commander Liu Zhirong, to take a train to help Tengxian County and arrive in Tengxian County that night.

After midnight, a battalion of the 266th Brigade in front of the city arrived at Dongguan in Tengxian County, and the other troops were blocked by the little devils on the way and withdrew in the direction of Lincheng.

At this time, more than 10,000 Japanese troops had already arrived in the city and sent them to the city. According to Wang Mingzhang's statistics, there were only more than 3,000 troops in the city that could command, including 4 to 500 people from the Teng County police and security forces, and less than 2,000 people could participate in the battle.

After analyzing the situation of the enemy and ourselves, Wang Mingzhang convened an emergency meeting of his subordinates to study the issue of strategic decision-making.

In such a situation of great disparity between the strength of the enemy and us, most people think that they can only defend for one day, and it is better to go outside the city to fight in a mobile battle.

However, Wang Mingzhang reported to Sun Zhen by phone to make a decision, but the commander Sun Zhen sent Lao Jiang's request.

They were ordered to hold on to Teng County and wait for Tang Enbo's army to break the siege. The vanguard of the Tang Department had reached Lincheng, and Lao Chiang promised to urge him to hurry north at once, so that their defenders could ensure that Tengxian County was waiting for reinforcements. Of course, if the troops are insufficient, all the forces of the 41st Army can be concentrated in the county town and defend the city and wait for support.

After receiving the call, Wang Mingzhang made up his mind to carry out the order and decided to use the whole army to defend Tengxian County.

Subsequently, Wang Mingzhang resolutely ordered Zhang Xuanwu, the commander of the 727 regiment, to inform all the officers and soldiers in the city that they decided to defend the county seat of Tengxian County.

Immediately, the south and north gates were blocked, and the east and west city gates were temporarily left on the traffic roads and were ready to be closed at any time. At the same time, no one is allowed to leave the city without his warrant, and once he finds out, he will correct the Dharma on the spot!

Then he asked the division headquarters to move from the Xiguan Electric Light Factory to Zhang Jinghu's house in the city.

On March 16, Kei Seya, the commander of the Major General Brigade of the Seya Detachment, led more than 10,000 Japanese troops to attack.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, dozens of Japanese artillery shelled the county seat of Tengxian County, and at the same time, there were Japanese bombers in the sky to bomb, and they did not stop until 10 o'clock, and more than 3,000 shells and hundreds of bombs fell inside and outside the city, and the entire county seat of Tengxian County was full of devastation, and it would make people sad to watch.

At half past 10 o'clock, the Japanese artillery turned sharply to the southeast corner of the Dongguan wall, and under the shelling, a gap of one or two meters wide was blown open in a short time.

Immediately afterwards, the little devil used dozens of light and heavy machine guns to violently strafe the gap to cover the infantry attack.

The soldiers of the 122nd Division were ambushed on both sides of the collapse, waiting for them.

When 50 or 60 devil soldiers rushed to the collapse, a company of the 371st Regiment concentrated 60 or 70 people, each holding four or five cluster grenades, and at the same time threw them at the ghost soldiers who rushed up.

"Boom Boom Boom~"

A series of explosions, the little devils who exploded cried and called their mothers, and less than ten of the dozens of little devils escaped alive.

Of course, the little devil was not willing to fail, and organized two attacks in a row, but they were all repelled by the tenacious Sichuan army, leaving behind some corpses.

The Dongguan Walled City failed, and the little devil changed the location of the attack and stormed from the northeast corner, but it did not succeed, leaving more than 100 corpses, but the casualties of the Sichuan army were also very large. During this period, Zhang Xuanwu, the commander of the 727th regiment, continued to send troops to reinforce, and later when it was fierce, even Wang Mingzhang's spy company was transferred to Dongguan to participate in the war.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, Japanese artillery and bombers bombed the frontal position of Dongguan at the same time, and the Japanese infantry switched to three platoons at a time, each platoon was more than 100 meters apart, and launched a decisive attack on the defensive position of Tengxian County.

The Sichuan army was brave and tenacious, and successively repelled the attack of the first and second platoons of the Japanese army, but the third platoon of the Japanese army rushed up again, so the two sides had to engage in hand-to-hand combat, and the final result was that both sides suffered heavy casualties. However, the little devil's stabbing skills were slightly better, and more than forty little devils still rushed into the pass.

At this time, it was already dark, and the Japanese army had no follow-up troops in order to ambush in the dark. At this time, Wang Mingzhang seized the opportunity to besiege these dozens of little devils with a company of troops, and finally annihilated the Japanese soldiers, and the Dongguan position was regained.

At 8 o'clock in the evening, after a day of fierce fighting, the soldiers of the Japanese and Sichuan armies were tired, and the battle ended here. However, the cautious Japanese flares pierced the night sky from time to time, illuminating the inside and outside of Tengxian County as if it were day.

During the day, the Japanese army was attacking Dongguan, and at the same time intensified the attack on the first line of the boundary river. After many days of fighting, more than half of the officers and men of the 41st Army suffered casualties, and in addition, Teng County's transportation and communications were cut off, and the command was extremely chaotic. Therefore, at noon, the positions on the line of the Jiehe River were gradually broken through by the Japanese army, and the defenders retreated to Lincheng respectively.

After a day of fierce fighting, more than half of the defenders suffered casualties, so at 9 o'clock in the evening, Wang Mingzhang decided to abandon the outlying positions of Tengxian County, and transferred all the troops of the 41st Army into the city to concentrate on defense.

Early the next morning, the Japanese army could not bear it anymore and bombed with 50 or 60 artillery pieces and more than 20 planes, except for the American church in Beiguan, and for a time the smoke of gunpowder filled again, the walls collapsed and the houses collapsed, the wails continued, the collapsed buildings on the streets were piled up into small hills, the original stone streets were blown into deep pits, and the whole city was in a sea of fire, and the whole place was full of scorched earth.

Two hours later, the Japanese army began to attack Dongguan again, and more than a dozen Douding tanks of Xiao Ri * Ben rushed through the collapse of the Dongzhai wall, followed by rows of devil soldiers.

Although the Sichuan army bravely blocked the attack, fearless of death, and destroyed two tanks with cluster grenades, the disparity between the forces of the enemy and us was huge, and the defenders were killed and wounded and could not be replenished, and they were still rushed to the corner of the city by little devils.

In such a dangerous situation, the defending troops first threw grenades, then raised their broadswords, jumped into the little devils and slashed, and wiped out all the little devils who climbed the city wall. However, after the battle, only 14 people remained in a company, and the position was recaptured at the cost of blood.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese army was fierce, bombarding the southern city wall with 12 heavy howitzers, and 20 or 30 enemy planes bombed the defenders of Nanguan.

The defenders of Nanguan were forced to move to the vicinity of the Xiguanwai railway station. A gap was opened in the southern city wall by the enemy's heavy artillery, and five or six hundred little devils swooped down on the southern city under the cover of more than a dozen tanks.

Lu Kang, commander of the 370th Brigade of the 124th Division, and Wang Chaolian, deputy brigade commander, came to the city wall to command, but they were seriously wounded, and the defenders were killed and wounded.

At half past three, the Japanese occupied the southern city wall. Soon after, under the cover of powerful artillery fire and tanks, Wang Lin, the commander of the 740th Regiment of the 124th Division guarding Dongguan, was seriously wounded and died.

When the Japanese army rushed into Dongguan, Wang Mingzhang disregarded his personal safety and went to the crossroads in the center of the city to direct the battle. At this time, the Japanese soldiers who rushed to the south city wall approached the west city gate tower again. After a fierce bloody battle, by 5 p.m. the West City Gate Tower fell into the hands of the enemy. After the Japanese occupied the West City Gate Tower, they immediately concentrated their fire on the crossroads in the center of the city.

Wang Mingzhang and his entourage could not hide, and prepared to move to Xiguan Railway Station to continue to command the defense of the city. Ordered the only spy platoon around him to pounce on the west gate, but they were all knocked down by Japanese machine gun fire.

By this time, Wang Mingzhang had no soldiers to send, so he had to go straight to the train station from the northwest corner of the city.

Wang Mingzhang and his entourage had just arrived near the Xiguan Electric Light Factory, but unfortunately, they were discovered by the little devils on the tower of the Xicheng Gate, and then there was a burst of intensive strafing, Wang Mingzhang and his chief of staff Zhao Weixian, adjutant Luo Jiaxin, major staff officer Xie Dayong, chief of staff of the 124th Division Zou Mutao, and more than ten followers all fell under the guns of the little devils and sacrificed their lives for the country.

At the same time, the Japanese army bombarded the east gate with armor-piercing shells from anti-aircraft guns, and the tower caught fire. The Japanese forces that had captured the southern wall also approached to the north. The officers and men of the 41st Army fought bravely and bloodily, and finally exhausted their ammunition, unable to fight back against the little devils who poured in like a tide, and held on until dusk, retreating to the northeast corner of the city and the northern city wall.

Wang Zhiyuan, commander of the 364th Brigade, and Zhang Xuanwu, commander of the city defense, were shot and wounded, and the defenders in the city had fallen into a situation where there was no one to command, and they fought separately.

At 9 o'clock in the evening, 2 to 300 officers and men of the north city wall, under the command of Hou Ziping, deputy commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 727th Regiment, opened the sealed north gate, and then broke through in an organized way.

As for the rest of the defenders, at the moment of complete occupation by the Japanese army, they were all reduced to ashes. However, this tragic battle also cost the 10th Division more than 2,000 casualties.

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