Chapter 32 The Second Attack on Linyi

"Legion Commander, this Gao Quan is too unusual! Yesterday I had a great deal of effort to get half a pig from the city, and I was going to improve the food for the brothers today. Came together this morning and the meat was gone! I guess it was the bandits of the Independent Brigade who did it, so I sent someone over to take a look, hey! Pork is stewed in their cauldron! I'll go and ask them personally, guess what the head of the regiment surnamed Qian said? He even said that their independent brigade bought it in the city yesterday! ”

"That's it, Legionnaire. There were more than a dozen brothers in our brigade the day before yesterday, and we thought they were deserters, but we didn't know that someone saw these people in the Independent Brigade last night. Blatantly abducting friendly troops like this, Legion Commander, you can't ignore it! ”

Early in the morning, several division and brigade commanders surrounded Pang Bingxun and quarreled unrelentingly, and the commander of the Pang Corps, who only slept in the middle of the night last night, suddenly had a big head, and he tried his best to recruit Gao Quan, how did he collect a basket for trouble?

"Alright guys! I'm going to go to the Independent Brigade right now and see if there's any of the kind of situation you said. ”

"We'll go with you."

"Legion Commander, everyone is from the Three Legions, you have to treat everyone equally!"

Alike? How can I treat everyone equally? Pang Bingxun secretly smiled bitterly. This Gao Quan respects him on the surface, but behind the scenes, he has always done his own thing, and there are many powerful soldiers, he is really not good at dealing with it casually, there is no way, he has said a few more words bitterly in the past! Gao Quan is also a clever person, as long as he says a few soft words, presumably these division and brigade commanders will not be unrelenting.

"Report!"

Pang Bingxun led a group of division and brigade commanders to the door, and a herald ran in, "Report to the corps commander, the independent brigade commander Gao personally led his troops to reconnoiter the enemy camp, and came back this morning with two Japanese armored vehicles!" ”

Armored vehicles? The division and brigade commanders present gasped, obediently, that thing can be flaid! Pang Bingxun turned his head and glanced at his division and brigade commanders, and said in his heart, what else do you have to say this time? He who is surprising will do amazing things! As the old saying goes, no matter how good the troops are usually, as long as they can make achievements when they are fighting the Japanese, even if they go to Wuhan, no one will really hold him responsible!

All the officers above the brigade level of the Third Army Corps gathered in the courtyard of the brigade headquarters of the Independent Brigade, and Gao Quan was organizing the unloading of the trucks.

As soon as he saw Pang Bingxun leading a group of division and brigade commanders in, Gao Quan hurriedly trotted up to greet him, and saluted with a "snap", "The independent brigade welcomes the regiment commander and all the commanders to come and inspect!" "That's right, how beautiful it is, save more face for these chiefs!

"Good, good!" Pang Bingxun looked at the two armored transport vehicles and couldn't close his mouth with a smile. "Oh, that's good! I heard that you personally went to reconnoiter the enemy camp and got back two devils' armored vehicles, so we came over and opened our eyes. ”

This is really an armored car, and there is a fixed machine gun on top of the cab, plus the carriage is made of thin steel plates, which really has a bit of an armored combat vehicle.

"What's in these boxes?" Pang Bingxun asked, pointing to the soldiers who were carrying the boxes.

"Those are all Japanese military uniforms," Gao Quan didn't want to say much about this question, "Since the corps commander is here, Gao Quan will give the corps commander one of these two cars." Golden Tiger. Gao Quan beckoned, Jin Hu trotted over and handed Gao Quan a key, Gao Quan directly handed the key to Pang Bingxun, "Commander, commanders, who can drive, go up and go around." ”

What a surprise! Pang Bingxun forgot that he was here to reprimand Gao Quan, and as for the two division and brigade commanders who had suffered losses, seeing the happy energy of Pang Bingxun and the others, they were embarrassed to say something out of place to spoil everyone's interest. So, this little turmoil passed in a festive atmosphere. Pang Bingxun is also a corps commander no matter how he says, and there were more than 10,000 or 20,000 people when his troops were strong, and it was not like having fun to find a driver who could drive. Among the guards who came with him was a kid who had driven a car before, and he served as the driver, Pang Bingxun took the lead, and a group of generals went up to the Japanese-made armored transport vehicle one by one to test it.

The Third Army was jubilantly testing the new car, and Lieutenant General Sakagaki was not idle. Last night, he lost a number of patrols and two transport vehicles, these are all trivial matters for the lieutenant general, and the division commander of the Fifth Division is concerned that Zhang Zizhong has led his 59th Army to fight elsewhere, and now is it the best opportunity to break through the place in front of him, occupy Linyi, and be ashamed of it?

After some careful consideration, the lieutenant general decided that this was definitely a once-in-a-millennium opportunity! Judging from the information he had, the Third Army of Linyi, the first squadron, had already lost its combat capability during the Linyi Peripheral Offensive and Defensive War in the early stage, and now it is just insisting on itself, wanting to scare itself with the victory a few days ago! In the words of the Chinese, it is called a swollen face and a fat man! The Fifth Division is a well-known steel army, and it once had a glorious history of defeating more than 30 divisions all the way, how could it be blocked in Linyi by such a little-known miscellaneous army? If it gets out, where will the faces of Lieutenant General Sakagaki and the Fifth Division be put in?

After making up his mind, the commander of the Sakagaki Division immediately commanded his Fifth Division to make a comeback!

On the banks of the Yi River, the sound of guns and cannons sounded again, and this ancient land, this long river, after a week, was once again ignited by the brutal Japanese invaders.

Although the Third Army has lost its troops and its combat strength has been greatly reduced, the remaining soldiers are the most capable of fighting and the most resolute soldiers! In the bloody battle with the Fifth Division of the Devil in the early stage, these soldiers already had sufficient combat experience, and now although the number is much smaller than the original, the Fifth Division wants to eat him in one go, but it is not simple.

If it was when the Fifth Division had just entered the Linyi battlefield, with the current state of the Third Army, it would have been impossible to block the first attack launched by Seishiro Itagaki with wing-level troops, but the current Sakagaki Division is no longer the Sakagaki Division of a few days ago. In the first battle of Linyi, the Sakagaki Division was heavily damaged by the Third Army and the 59th Army, and suffered such heavy losses, it was impossible to relieve this breath in just a few days, and the rest of Pang Bingxun's corps were all soldiers who had experienced the baptism of fire in that war, plus the addition of Gao Quan's strong reinforcements, although it was still not the opponent of the Sakagaki Division, it was no problem to carry it for two or three days and persist in him for half a week.

Lieutenant General Sakagaki was ashamed of his previous shame, and attacked Linyi for the second time, and as soon as he came up, he put more than half of the troops under the current price section into the attack, and the battle entered a white-hot state from the beginning.