The Commander's Department of the Fifth Theater judged that the commander of the Isogu Division, who had defeated Yu Wei and was arrogant and divided 10,000 yuan, must not wait for the reinforcements of the enemy army in the north from Bengbu to echo, and would go straight to Taierzhuang, in order to capture Xuzhou in one fell swoop and seize the great achievement of opening up the Jinpu Road first. Therefore, the Fifth War Zone dispatched troops and waited for the net.

In addition to Sun Lianzhong's troops facing the enemy head-on, they also sent Tang Enbo to sneak south to break the enemy's back, and cooperated with Sun to encircle the Japanese army and annihilate it.

On 19 March, after receiving the order, Sun Lianzhong immediately commanded the troops to move eastward and designated staff officers to go to the area north of Xuzhou to select a front-line command post. At the same time, the 31st Division of Chifeng City was ordered to enter Taierzhuang and its vicinity, build fortifications, and cover the concentration of other units one after another.

The general situation of the deployment of the Second Army after the completion of the Second Army was as follows: The Taierzhuang Walled City was defended by the 184th Regiment of the 31st Division. Part of the other units of the division defended Fankou Village, seven miles west of Taierzhuang, and Guanzhuang, about three miles east, preparing to coordinate the operation with the core of Taierzhuang. The other part is deployed along the south bank of the Grand Canal. Chi Feng Cheng commanded outside the walled city.

The 27th Division, 30th Division, and 44th Brigade of the Second Army were successively assembled in the area northeast of Jiawang and south of Taierzhuang. The headquarters is located five kilometers away from the Taierzhuang Walled City.

On March 22, the Chifeng City Division was stationed. The next day, the enemy from Yicheng to the south invaded Taierzhuang, and the Chinese army returned fire, forming a state of confrontation. Liu Lanzhai led the cavalry to attack the Japanese army from the north gate of Taierzhuang, and the brigade commander Qi Zibin led the 183rd Regiment to follow up, and encountered the Japanese cavalry in Kangzhuang.

The 183rd Regiment fought fiercely with the Japanese army at Zhangshan until late. On the afternoon of the same day, a number of enemy planes flew at low altitude in the vicinity of Taierzhuang to carry out reconnaissance and strafing, and a bloody battle was about to begin. On the morning of the 24th, about 5,000 or 6,000 men of the three wings of the Japanese army, with the cooperation of aircraft, tanks, and heavy artillery, pounced on Taierzhuang.

When the battle was about to be fought, Sun Lianzhong personally went to the front line and ordered his subordinates: "In the face of a strong enemy, we can only rely on the terrain to block it, and then use the small assault at night to drag it down." Without an order, there will be no retreat. ”

During the battle, the Japanese destroyed the northern wall of Taierzhuang and rushed in from the breach. Chi Feng Cheng personally led the death squad to fight the enemy. When Li Zongren heard the report, he ordered a reward of 100,000 silver dollars. But the daredevils unanimously said: "As long as you resist the war, you don't want silver dollars!" ”

That night, Chi Feng Cheng took the lead and led the team to attack the enemy at night, and with the cooperation of the 186th Regiment, he fought a bloody way to destroy all the Japanese troops who rushed into the breakthrough from the breakthrough. For several days in a row, the enemy took advantage of its superior weaponry and used daylight to fight.

The Chinese army resolutely resisted, and at the same time attacked in the dark and at night, destroying the enemy, and the two sides launched a fierce tug-of-war. In the early morning of the 29th, Sun Lianzhong convened a meeting of army, division, brigade commanders and artillery regiment commanders to reiterate his ambition to stick to Taierzhuang. He also pointed out: The enemy in front seems to be waiting for reinforcements, and I can gather and annihilate him with a pincer offensive. The 31st Division still had to fight on its own in order to organize the battle on the outside line.

The battle continued until April 3, when the Japanese captured the southeast gate of Taierzhuang, invaded 100 meters inside the walled city, and threw tear gas at the same time. Two-thirds of Taierzhuang was occupied by the Japanese army, and the Chinese defenders suffered seven or eight out of ten casualties. Sun Lianzhong's troops were stationed in a corner of Nanguan and did not retreat.

At this time, Li Zongren called and strictly ordered the Second Army to hold until dawn the next day, waiting for Tang Enbo's corps to come for reinforcements. Sun Lianzhong said with great righteousness: "With this determination, it is not a pity that our Second Army has sacrificed everything, and Lian Zhong has also repaid the country with a death." ”

Gather all available troops, including cooks and stretchers, to form a death squad to attack the enemy at midnight. At this time, Chi Fengcheng called to ask if he could retreat to the south bank of the canal, and Sun Lianzhong ordered: "When the soldiers are finished, you fill in it yourself." You've filled it in, I'll fill it in. Whoever dares to cross the river will be killed! ”

Ikebe, with the determination to die, resisted house by house until the evening of the 4th, and repelled the enemy reinforcements.

On April 6, after completing the encirclement mission, the Chinese army attacked on all fronts. The Japanese divisions of Isoya and Itagaki were in great confusion, and the wolves rushed to the north, gradually withdrawing north. Sun Lianzhong's troops and friendly forces flanked inside and outside, sweeping away the remnants of the enemy.

The Battle of Taierzhuang ended with the complete victory of the Chinese army, and it is known as the great victory of Taierzhuang. In this battle, although Sun's weapons were inferior, the spirit of the officers and men who had the courage to fight and was not afraid of sacrifice made up for it. In close combat, broadswords also exerted great power, and Sun officers and soldiers also used twelve bundles of cluster grenades to blow up enemy tanks.

Treating such a famous general in the history of China's Anti-Japanese War, Han Xing is of course very respectful. When I got closer and closer, I saw Sun Lianzhong's appearance, which was also very outstanding.

Sun Lianzhong can be said to be a big man, a big man, very burly, a head taller than others, nearly one meter nine, to say that he can carry a 238-pound mountain cannon alone, it is not an exaggeration. The big man has a big head, and the face is very large, so that the nose and mouth are much smaller.

When Han Xing arrived in front of Sun Lianzhong, he stood upright, saluted and said, "Report to Commander Sun, Han Xing of the Southern Expeditionary Army has come to report to you." ”

Sun Lianzhong also gave Han Xing a military salute and said, "Welcome to Sun Lianzhong of the Second Group Army!" The Southern Expeditionary Army, the Southern Expeditionary Army with outstanding achievements, which one doesn't know! Welcome, welcome Commander Han, when I see you today, I can't imagine that you are so young! Fortunately! Fortunately! ”

Sun Lianzhong looked at the tanks that were still smoking again, and said with a smile: "Commander Han came according to the cavalry of the little devils!" ”

Han Xing nodded and said, "Commander Sun is right, we just want to eat horse meat, and we are here according to the 14th Brigade of the devil." ”

Sun Lianzhong also smiled: "Each other, each other, we have all fallen in love with the devil's cavalry brigade." I'm panicking, it's not a problem to drive the little devils out of Tanghe City, it's just that their four legs are fast, and we can't catch them! Now that your tanks are here, I'm relieved. ”

Then the two discussed a specific battle plan, that is, Sun Lianzhong's troops drove the devils out of Tanghe City, and then the tank battalion defeated the devils' cavalry, and then Sun Lianzhong's troops and Han Xing's southern expeditionary army surrounded and annihilated together.

The battle plan had been decided, so Han Xing led a tank battalion, a special operations battalion, and a guard platoon to a place south of the Tang River, about seven or eight miles away, and hid behind a village.

The devil must pass through this road to escape south, just waiting for the arrival of the fighter plane.

Han Xing was a person who was unwilling to sit and wait for an opportunity, so he was idle at this time, so he asked the tank battalion to stay here, and he led Yin Zhaoli's special operations battalion and Zhang Xiaosan's guard company, and quietly leaned forward.

Looking at the county seat of Tanghe from afar, due to the fierce fighting for several days, the county town of Tanghe has long been turned into a ruin, full of ruins and broken walls, homes destroyed by artillery fire everywhere, and some dilapidated houses are still emitting wisps of green smoke. As for the common people, they hid outside the war zone long before the war, and if they stayed at home, it was really rare to be alive.

Because the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties in the Tang River, they vented their anger on the common people. During the two days of the fall of the Tang River, the Japanese cavalry wantonly killed people and set fires, raped women, looted everywhere, and did all kinds of evil, and everywhere was a horror, which was really like hell on earth.

Tanghe City can be said to be stinking and smelling of corpses. Because the Japanese army had the habit of burning corpses, they demolished the houses of ordinary people and burned the bodies of their officers and soldiers who died in battle. It was a raging fire, burning all night, and people's ashes floated high in the sky, wishing to cover the sky black.

And the mutilated corpses of ordinary people are left unattended and unattended, and they are left to be gnawed by dogs and cats, rotting and stinking......

At this time, in Tanghe City, the headquarters of the 14th Brigade was also shrouded in gloomy clouds.

The brigade commander Shigeichi Fujita said worriedly to the chief of staff, Shio Shoichi: "Shio-kun, what should we do next?" ”

Shikio Masaichi said to Shigeichi Fujita worriedly, "Your Excellency, Commander, we are indeed in a very difficult time. In the first battle of the Tang River, the Chinese army was less than a regiment of troops, and after a day and a night of hard fighting, it lost more than 1,000 elite imperial troops before occupying the Tang River. This was the second major loss suffered by the tank battalion of the Southern Expeditionary Army, and it seriously hurt the morale of our troops. At present, the main force of Sun Lianzhong's Second Army has been blocked in front of us, and if we attack, we can't attack it, and if we defend it, it's not stable, so do you ask the commander to make plans early? ”

Fujita Shigeichi sighed, and secretly calculated his strength: "The troublemaking of the tank troops of the Southern Expeditionary Army caused us to lose an armored brigade and a cavalry brigade, and in our retreat, each wing suffered different losses. This time, we lost more than a thousand cavalry. At present, we have only five or six thousand troops left, and our morale has been greatly damaged, and if we continue to fight, it will indeed be very detrimental to us. Our only hope is to wait for reinforcements from the 16th Division, and we hope they will come soon. ”

It was at this time that a staff officer sent information about other fronts.

The Japanese army attacking Nanyang to the north of the Tang River was also desperately intercepted by the 121st Division of Mu Tingfang of the Jiang Defense Army, and suffered huge casualties. Although Nanyang was eventually occupied by the Japanese army, the Japanese army was unable to continue to advance along the way.

A brigade of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, which continued north on the right flank in Tongbai County, was also intercepted by Sun Lianzhong's 2nd Army. The two armies fought fiercely, and the limited strength of the Japanese army could not break through the defense of Sun Lianzhong's army, which was the best at defense, and it was impossible to advance at all.

Fujita Shigeichi said to Shio Shoichi with a sad face: "In this way, between Kiritaki and the Tang River, our army will not be able to advance. As a result, a gap of up to 60 kilometers appeared, and our encirclement of the perimeter of the Chinese army was completely defeated. ”

Shixiong Zhengyi said: "What's more, although our inner layer of encirclement has been completed north of Zaoyang on May 10, the Tang Enbo Group Army has already broken through most of the group army as early as the 10th. In this way, the inner encirclement loses its meaning. ”