"Our army on the south bank is all ** elite, and the besieging forces have been formed, why has it been delayed to break through, what is the reason? Did the armies fear the enemy and avoid battle? If it is verified, it should be severely punished! The Japanese offensive on the two fronts in the south and east is fierce, and the southern front is particularly active, and our army may not be able to support it, I hope you will forge ahead bravely and gather and destroy the stubborn enemy! ”

This strongly worded telegram made Xu Zuyi fully understand Zhuang Jihua's anxiety, and it had been several days since Honma was forced to the bank of the Yellow River, but he had never been able to go any further, and the Japanese soldiers in a desperate situation had to resist very stubbornly, and every position, every trench, and even every ditch had to go through fierce battles to take it. \\. QВ⑸。 CoМ/

In the face of such slow progress, Xu Zuyi was a little at a loss, urging, supervising, rewarding, and so on, but the progress was not great, and he didn't know where the problem was.

"The battlefield is vast, don't stick to the division of the 15th theater, you should attack boldly and crush the Japanese army on the north bank first."

didn't wait long, Zhuang Jihua's second telegram arrived again, Xu Zuyi was very cheerful, there are currently 160,000 troops concentrated on the south bank, the Japanese army has been compressed to Dongkou, in such a small area, it is impossible to put all the troops into the attack, so it is better to send one or two divisions to attack the north bank, first cooperate with Xue Yue to defeat the Japanese army on the north bank, and then clean up the main room on the south bank, Zhuang Jihua pointed out a clever hand to him.

Xu Zuyi immediately adjusted his deployment, the First Army and the 78th Army still attacked from the west, the 101st Army attacked from the south, and the two divisions of the 47th Army attacked from the west.

This attack was unexpected by the Japanese army, the squadron had never fought across the theater before, and the proud Xue Yue even refused Li Zongren's inquiry to transfer the troops of the five theaters on the south bank to the north, and wanted to use his own forces to clear the Japanese army on the northern front. But now that the battle situation has reached a critical moment, Xu Zuyi can no longer take care of it, and no longer cares about Xue Yue's feelings, but this move caught the Japanese army off guard.

Sun Zhen quickly gained a foothold in the north of the Yellow River, and then attacked to the west, Jingguan suddenly faced the enemy from three sides, became embattled, Sun Zhen attacked fiercely, and Wang Mingzhang on the right wing successively conquered Fuzhuang Jizhuang and went straight to Wanggu Township; Guo Xunqi on the left flank advanced along the north bank of the Yellow River, conquered Zhoulou and Xiangcheng, and killed the fishbones and Changlou on the other side of Dongkou; Sun Zhen personally led Rao Guohua to follow up.

Jing Guan Jian was forced to draw troops from the front to block Sun Zhen, Xue Yue seized the opportunity to launch a fierce attack, Wang Jingjiu's 71st Army tore a gap in the Japanese defense line, and Huang Jie led the 8th Army to also tear the 17th Division's defense line from the north. The evil results of the well cutting edge tearing down the east wall and making up the west wall are undoubtedly apparent.

The north bank of the Yellow River quickly fell into a state of collapse, and Honma Masaharu was almost in despair, but at this time, the headquarters of the North China Front sent a battle report, and the reinforcements attacking in the north broke through the defense line of the 21st Army, forcibly crossed the Jindi River, and killed Wenliu, and the advance was only ten miles away from the Jingguan blade.

Xue Yue was so angry that he almost vomited blood when he received the report, the situation here has just improved, and there is a problem over there, and it is a big problem that affects the overall situation. He thought about it, so he had to order Sun Zhen through Zhuang Jihua to immediately support Tang Shizun, and be sure to intercept the Japanese army in Wenliu. He didn't even have time to apply for the 102nd Army to be assigned to the 1st Theater of Operations.

Rao Guohua's troops rushed to Wenliu with a forced march, intercepted the Japanese army in Wenliu, routed the Japanese advance, and helped Tang Shizun stabilize the defensive line.

Honma Masaharu felt that his nerves were about to collapse, the offensive of the squadron was getting more and more fierce, and the Chinese generals were almost crazy, completely ignoring the casualties and attacking at any cost. The casualties of his troops are getting bigger and bigger, even the mortars and all the shells have been exhausted, the soldiers' ammunition began to run out, the officer had to ask the soldiers to save ammunition, try to put the squadron closer to fight, which increased his casualties, now two and a half divisions of nearly 70,000 people are left less than 20,000, a large number of wounded soldiers can not be evacuated, as the artillery gets closer and closer, some of the wounded began to take the initiative to return to the front line as meat bullets, holding grenades lying on the way of the squadron, and the Chinese soldiers died together.

The long-range artillery shells have been able to hit Dongkou, Honma can no longer stay in the headquarters, the manpower he can mobilize has been transferred to the front line, there is a strong smell of blood in the air, the shells explode on the street from time to time, although the squadron can hit here, but it does not take this place as the main bombardment target.

Standing on the river embankment in the north of the village, Honma looked at the opposite bank, and the other bank was also full of cannons, and a large number of wounded soldiers on the pontoon bridge were transferred to this side.

"Is this how we were defeated?" Honma asked himself this for the fiftieth time, and he was very unwilling.

"Your Excellency, the ** army has invaded Xijizhuang and Fu Temple, and General Heiyan has asked for reinforcements."

"Tell him I don't have reinforcements, tell him, carry forward the samurai spirit and hold the position." Honma didn't even look back, just said calmly.

"Hello!" The officer hesitated, but finally turned and left.

The sound of the cannon suddenly became more intense.

"I don't have reinforcements, tell them that the people are in the position!".

Almost the same words were also said in Du Yuming's mouth, holding on for ten days, and now only four days have passed, Zhang Lihui and Situ Fei asked for help almost at the same time. After destroying the Japanese tanks, the Japanese army almost attacked by means of barrage advances, and each attack was like a rain of bullets, all the trenches were blown up, all the shelters were blown up, and even the troops who withdrew to the second-line positions could not escape the Japanese artillery fire, and the casualties rose sharply. Zhang Lihui and Situ Fei retreated step by step and had to ask Du Yuming for help, but Du Yuming was unmoved and held Wang Guobin's master deadly.

There are still six days, but Du Yuming doesn't think that he only needs to defend here for six days, the attack on Juancheng is not smooth, Honma Masaharu shrunk into a ball of hedgehogs, the Japanese army north of the Yellow River is desperately coming to help, it is conceivable that the intensity of the battle is by no means lower than here, ten days to annihilate Honma is probably not enough, if the troops are exhausted now, in case something happens, it will be helpless.

The biggest advantage of Jining is that it can only attack on two fronts, it is a canal to the west and Nanyang Lake to the south, and it is impossible for the Japanese army to besiege Jining, so it can only attack from the north and east, which helps the defense to a certain extent.

Without support, Zhang Lihui Situ Fei could only shrink his troops and struggle to support him.

Also in the struggle to support Zhang Zizhong and Tang Enbo in the canal area, after the Japanese army failed to break through in the front, Ando Toshichi transferred the 16th Division of Yamashita Fengwen from the front, to Pixian detour, Tang Enbo urgently transferred Sun Liren's new 38th Division to block, after the new 38th Division left, the frontal defense became weaker, Ando Toshiyoshi took the opportunity to break through from Zhang Zhen's flank Qiuzhuang, entered the west bank of the canal, and then conquered Suyang Mountain, resulting in the new 38th Division and the main force of the connection was severed, Sun Liren saw that the situation was not good, led his troops to retreat to Xuzhou through Nianzhuang. Zhang Zizhong and Tang Enbo also withdrew from the west bank of the canal at the same time, and retreated to Xuzhou while fighting.

There were major changes in the battle situation on the Eastern Front, the whole city of Xuzhou was shaken, and the troops directly under the theater, Lu Ruishan was temporarily appointed as the commander-in-chief, leading the guard regiment and the military police regiment to Jiawang urgently, Lu Ruishan forced the march to Jiawang overnight, defeated the vanguard of the Japanese army in Jiawang, and temporarily stabilized the situation on the Eastern Front.

Subsequently, Zhuang Jihua urgently transferred the 20th Army in Peixian County to Xuzhou, and this army was originally staying here to prepare to defend the Japanese army from sneaking across Weishan Lake, but for some reason, the Japanese army never took such an action.

The Twentieth Army rushed to Xuzhou under the leadership of Yang Sen, but received an order from Zhuang Jihua halfway to cancel the order to Xuzhou, and immediately marched west to seize Dangshan, Yang Sen, who was hurrying, was greatly surprised, this was completely the opposite of the opposite, the previous order was to advance eastward, and the latter order was to retreat westward, without waiting for him to raise questions, Zhuang Jihua's second telegram reported to him the reason, Suxian was lost.

Before dawn is the coldest moment, looking at the swarthy city wall in the distance, Nakajima Kangjian's heart fluctuates, as Yang Yuchun judged, his target is Suxian, and if he goes south, he is likely to be completely wiped out by the chasing 74th Army before breaking through the defense of the ** squadron, so the heavy southward moves he made are all to lure the enemy, and the real goal is to enter Suxian in the east, eliminate the command of the southern line of the ** army, and shake the rear of the ** army.

Yang Yuchun judged Nakajima's goal correctly, but both he and Zhuang Jihua misjudged his speed, when Liao Yaoxiang's department, which was full of soldiers at the front of the car, set off from Xuzhou, Nakajima was only less than ten miles away from Suxian, Nakajima requisitioned all the cars, carriages, bicycles, and mules that he grabbed along the way, he personally led this mobile force to set off with Lucao's cavalry, and the chief of staff Gu Shu led the remaining soldiers to rush to Suxian by force, leaving the lightly wounded at the end, and the seriously wounded committed suicide on the spot.

In the dark night, the Japanese soldiers formed several fire dragons, quickly advancing forward, some horses ran and ran and brushed their legs and foamed at the mouth to the ground, as long as the soldiers on the horse did not fall to death, they got up and continued to run forward, and the infantry walked and walked straight down, never got up again.

Seeing that more and more soldiers were falling behind and more and more horses were falling, Nakajima immediately jumped off his horse, gave up his horse to a cavalryman who had lost his horse, and then drove all the officers out of the car, loaded the soldiers, especially machine guns and mortars, into the car, and then led the officers and soldiers to Su County on foot.

There was not the slightest movement at the head of the city, and the horse lantern on the city tower was still shaking, all of which showed that the squadron had not yet realized his arrival.

Listening to the uncontrollable wheezing sound coming from behind him, Nakajima hesitated a little, the rapid march that lasted for a full twenty hours had exhausted the physical strength of the soldiers, and he didn't know if he could succeed in attacking Suxian like this?

"Your Excellency, give an order, you can't take Su County, we are already standing by the door of victory, Your Excellency, we can't hesitate." Shikacao saw through Nakajima's hesitation, knew what he was thinking, and urged him to make up his mind.

This march turned most of Lucao's cavalry into infantry, the horses were either exhausted or abandoned, the soldiers were equally exhausted, and his own horse was also abandoned, a seven-year-old Oriental horse, whose black fur added made it look so strong, that even such a strong horse collapsed in this race against time.

Nakajima looked back at his soldier, and when he glanced at it, the soldier who was gasping for breath immediately straightened his waist and tried to balance his breathing, fearlessly meeting his gaze.

"Lucao-kun, you take five hundred people to take down the train station and block the train station. The others followed me and took Suxian. Nakajima let out a low sigh calmly, and then took the lead towards the swarthy city, and Lucao waved his hand and led five hundred people towards the north railway station. Several of Nakajima's guards took a few steps in front of him.

A sun flag fluttered in the cold wind.

More than a thousand people walked silently, no one spoke, no one shouted long live, each with an indomitable determination in their eyes, and the slight creak of their leather boots on the snow.

There was still no movement at the head of the city, close to the city wall, Nakajima waved his hand, and more than a hundred soldiers quickly ran to the city wall, and then quickly took out the rope and still went to the city wall, and quickly climbed the city wall, and after a while, a short and fierce gunfire rang out on the city wall.

Nakajima stared nervously at the city gate, and after a while, the city gate creaked open, and Nakajima pulled out his command knife and pointed to the city gate hole, "The time has come to establish meritorious deeds for the empire!" Banzai! ”

Nakajima was the first to rush to the city gate, "Hooray!" A roaring cry sounded behind him, and more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers picked up their rifles with bright bayonets and rushed to the city gate.

The gunfire alarmed Li Pinxian in the headquarters, contrary to Zhuang Jihua's rapidity, Li Pinxian did not think that Zhongdao's target would be Su County, thinking that Zhongdao was not in line with the near and far, he would continue to attack Deng Xihou or Lu Han in the south, so although he received Zhuang Jihua's alarm telegram, he still did not believe that Zhong Dao would come to Su County, and at the same time in his heart he was very dissatisfied with Zhuang Jihua's severe treatment of Wei Yunsong, he simply told the head of the guard to strengthen the guard, and he didn't care about it anymore.

But now the gunshots from the west gate really told him that Nakajima was coming, and Li Pinxian was stunned, and when he came to his senses, the first thought was, it's over, it's completely over.

Guns rang out everywhere in the city, burning everywhere, and the Japanese soldiers broke into dozens of groups and rushed into the city, and they fired their guns at will to create panic throughout the city.

I didn't know how many Japanese troops entered the city, panic spread among the defenders, the defenders quickly collapsed, Li Pinxian fled out of the city in a hurry under the protection of the guards, he even forgot to bring the radio station that was extremely important to the command, and it was not until a few hours later that the radio director arrived with the communications office, and in these few hours, the shadow of the commander-in-chief of the southern line could not be found on the entire southern front.

Li Pinxian's delay caused the new 22nd Division to suffer inexplicable losses. Soon after Lucao occupied the railway station, the train carrying the 716th Brigade, the vanguard of the New 22nd Division, rushed to the railway station. The 716th Brigade suffered heavy losses, the brigade commander Dong Xiangxun was killed on the spot, and the troops lost more than 1,000 people.

After receiving Yao Songtao's telegram, Zhuang Jihua had no time to get angry, he felt that this battle could not be fought anymore, and it was time to retreat.

"Chief Bai and transferred to Chairman Wuhan, this morning Su County was lost, the southern front has been cut off, and the loss of the Huhe River is within a few days, based on the battle on Jinpu Road, our army has dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army, continue to love the war, and the blow to the Japanese army will not increase much, humbly request to retreat, preserve the main force in the theater, in order to facilitate the long-term war of resistance."

But Chiang Kai-shek and Bai Chongxi's reply surprised Zhuang Jihua.

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