As dawn approached, the sky suddenly darkened, and the moon was no longer visible, only the deep night that could not be seen. The 23rd Division in the south of Juancheng www.biquge.info counterattacked to the death, but in Kaifeng City, Chang Kaishen had just dropped the crystal cup - Lanfeng was occupied by the Japanese army at about two o'clock. Gui Yongqing said on the phone that the 36th Division was scattered by the Japanese heavy artillery, and the division commander Chen Ruihe couldn't hold on, so he broke out with the rest of the people......

If you don't succeed, you will be a benevolent! This is Chang Kaishen's request to the Huangpu Department in his heart, he will not be so angry when other troops abandon the city, but he must not forgive the Huangpu Department for abandoning the city and leaving. In addition to breaking the crystal cup, the first order he gave was to arrest Chen Ruihe, and then ordered Gui Yongqing to organize people to take back Lan Fengcheng. After ordering Gui Yongqing, he thought about whether to transfer the 88th Army back immediately, heavy artillery is indeed important, but if the 14th Division is not completely annihilated and Kenji Dohihara is still alive, it will damage the dignity of the party-state if it is passed out.

"Chairman, now that the 88th Army has arrived near Linpu, it will be more than ten kilometers to Dongkou." Liu Fei was talking in a low voice, reporting the latest situation in the north of Heze. "The 23rd Division also sniped enemy troops between the Shusha River and the Kisha River south of Juancheng. According to the previous telegram, they have already repelled two enemy attacks......"

"The 88th Army is not far from Dongkou, but they still have to build two bridges." Chang Kaishen raised his right hand and interrupted Liu Fei's words. "The 23rd Division is just a lightly armed miscellaneous division, and it is good to deploy defenses along the river, but it is flanked by the Japanese from both sides, and it is difficult to guarantee that they can hold the line of Fuchun and Zhengying, maybe the position has been lost now. Once the Japanese took up their positions, they entered Juancheng to defend themselves. Time waits for no one, eastern Henan is safe, but the Japanese in the direction of Xuzhou are advancing rapidly, and there is not much time left for us. ”

"Chairman, but if you want the 88th Army to retreat now, you can't withdraw it, at least until tomorrow night." Liu Fei insisted.

"You don't have to wait for tomorrow." Lin Wei spoke completely from Chang Kaishen's position, "As long as the camouflage is good, you can walk during the day, just pay attention to air defense." The sooner the 88th Army returns, the situation in Lanfeng will improve. The current situation is that we have an armored corps, and the enemy also has a small armored corps, and if this small armored corps is allowed to operate wantonly in the Lanfeng area, it will be very unfavorable to the situation on the entire Longhai Road, and it is best for the 88th Division to immediately return to help, so that the situation will not deteriorate completely. ”

"What about the 23rd Division?" Seeing Lin Wei's words, Liu Fei felt that Chang Kaishen had made up his mind, so he had to take a step back and ask questions.

"The 23rd Division immediately retreated and went south with the 88th Army." Lin Wei said.

"But can they withdraw now......" Liu Fei muttered in a low voice. The troops in the battle did not say that they could be withdrawn, and the troops on the Xuzhou side withdrew quickly, precisely because most of the troops were separated from the Japanese army, of course, the result was that Li Zongren was very unhappy, saying that he was manipulating everything and forcing the troops of the 5th Theater to retreat.

"If you can't withdraw or not, you have to withdraw if you can." After Lin Wei finished answering, Liu Fei looked at Chang Kaishen again, and when he saw the latter nodding, he said again: "Chairman, the telegram has been prepared, will it be sent out immediately?" ”

"Send it out right away." Chang Kaishen hesitated for a moment, but still nodded his head - the encirclement and annihilation of the remnants of the 14th Division is the most important thing.

By the time the telegram was sent to the headquarters of the 23rd Division, the sound of gunfire could no longer be heard on the banks of the Shusha River. Just now, the death squad rushed through the cluster grenades that died together, and all the Japanese troops guarding the position were stunned, and when the Japanese army was in shock, Li Rongzuo, the commander of the supplementary regiment, led people to kill them, and after nearly half an hour of tragic hand-to-hand combat, the defenders once again drove the Japanese down the river, but soon, the Japanese army organized an artillery counterattack, and the defenders who could not avoid it suffered heavy losses immediately.

The sound of artillery stopped, and the division commander Li Bifan, who had a premonition that the Japanese army was about to rush up again, asked Li Rongzuo to shoot two flares, 'Bang... Bang...', when the flare exploded, he saw the dense Japanese troops crossing the river.

"No more machine guns?" Li Bifan swallowed a mouthful of bloody spit and asked Li Rongzuo beside him.

"It's gone, it's all blown up." Li Rongzuo said regretfully. He found that the Japanese had noticed that the defenders' machine guns were not sounding, and began to jump unabashedly into the vegetable and sand river.

"Then fight with them!" Li Bifan no longer looked at the Japanese army and began to check his Browning pistol.

"Divisional commander! The division commander ...... "A voice came from behind, it sounded familiar, and when it ran to the front and was pulled by the soldiers, the voice was cut off. Li Bifan suddenly remembered that this was Chen Lie, the chief of staff's guard. "Bring him here!" He commanded backwards. When Chen Lie came up, he asked again, "What about the chief of staff?" ”

The flare of the "Chief of Staff ......" dimmed and did not fire again. Chen Lie's expression couldn't be seen clearly in the dark, and Li Bifan only heard him sobbing twice, "The chief of staff is dead!" ”

"What about the 68th Brigade?" Li Bifan's heart was shocked, and he stopped what he was doing.

"68 Brigade ... The 68 Brigade was gone. Chen Lie said with a little crying. Before he died, the chief of staff said to let me come and find reinforcements, and I ......"

"No more reinforcements!" Li Bifan smiled bitterly, and he pulled the bolt of the gun. "The people are here." He said and said loudly: "Is it a man?" If it's a man, look for a gun......"

"Division commander......" Chen Lie was about to speak, when a grenade explosion suddenly sounded at the other end of the position, and the Japanese rushed up.

"Grenades!" Li Bifan drank loudly, and at this moment, he seemed to have returned to the Northern Expedition more than ten years ago.

"Brigade seat, it is determined to be the 23rd Division, and they are blocking the enemy in the area of the Shusha River." Xiao Pingbo of the search battalion and the messenger from the division headquarters sent the news almost at the same time, Xiao Pingbo's news was because the 23rd Division blocked the enemy, and the Japanese army was ten kilometers away from the east of his side, and the most important thing was that there was no river to block it, and both sides were on the south bank of the vegetable and sand river.

"Great!" Hu Xianqun was overjoyed, and when he was about to give the order to wait for the tank to cross the bridge to turn right, the herald said: "Sir, the military headquarters ordered us to return to reinforcements immediately, Lanfeng was occupied by the Japanese." ”

"Reinforcements?!" Hu Xianqun and Xiao Pingbo were taken aback. "How could Lan Feng be lost?"

"I don't know, the telegram said that Lanfeng was occupied by the Japanese army in the second half of the night, and the chairman personally ordered us to return to help immediately." The military headquarters, which had just received the 23rd Division's call back from the enemy, received a telephone order from Kaifeng Chang Kaishen, so the herald only brought Chang Kaishen's order to return for reinforcements.

"No way!" Hu Xianqun didn't speak, but Xiao Pingbo said loudly that he couldn't. "The Japanese army is now south of the vegetable sand river, we can do our best to kill it, and this won't delay much ......"

"Needless to say." Hu Xianqun interrupted Xiao Pingbo, and he immediately said to the herald: "You go back and report to the commander: the Japanese heavy artillery unit is only ten kilometers away from me, and our army's reinforcement at this time will fall short, I have determined to eat the Japanese army and then make reinforcements, and promise to reinforce Lanfeng at twelve o'clock in the morning tomorrow!" ”

"Sir, the commander said that the original air support has been canceled, and if the commander insists on pursuing the Japanese army, please pay attention to air defense." Before coming, Du Yuming had already guessed that Hu Xianqun would not be able to resist the fight and then withdraw, so he had this advice. The armored forces were not very afraid of the Japanese fighters, but they were afraid of the Japanese bombers, and the trucks without armor protection would suffer heavy losses if they were strafed by the Japanese planes.

"Go back. Tell the commander I'll take care of it. Hu Xianqun nodded silently, and the herald saw that he insisted on eating the Japanese army first, so he had to salute and leave.

"Attention to all vehicles, attention to all vehicles: The Japanese army is ten kilometers away from my right, and now I order all vehicles to immediately advance rapidly to the right......" Hu Xianqun's order echoed over the radio and was transmitted to every vehicle group through the retelling of the battalion and company commander.

Hu Xianqun ordered the tank to turn right, and on the north side of the vegetable and sand river, the supplementary regiment was fighting hand-to-hand with the Japanese troops crossing the river. At this time, the night is darker, as long as you feel that the opponent's military uniform is wet, the bayonet in the defender's hand is a mess, and you stab the other party yourself, many times both sides are stabbed at the same time, screaming at the same time. Li Bifan was surrounded by his own guards, and did not join the battle circle, the Browning pistol in his hand was only pointed at the nearby black shadow, but he couldn't tell who was who, and he was stunned and didn't know whether to shoot.

Gradually, there were fewer and fewer black shadows around him, and he only heard a muffled cry not far away, and a black shadow rushed over with the wind. He tried to smash the other man's head with a gun, but he was one step too late, and a cold object pumped into his abdomen, and the sharp pain made his whole body twist. 'Horn ......', Browning's pistol was aimed at this person is two shots, and at the same time as the shadow fell, Li Bifan's body was weak and he also fell to the ground.

"Junzuo ......" Someone heard the gunfire of the division commander and immediately shouted.

"Don't come! Don't come! "Li Bifan looked at the high and low shadows around him, and he couldn't tell who was who, he could only shoot at everyone who came close. Trumpet! Trumpet! The two rushing shadows were knocked down by him again, but more shadows followed the sound, and after the seven rounds were empty, Li Bifan was once again knocked down. 'Boom! Not far away, a grenade exploded, and in the firelight it seemed as if the entire position was filled with Japanese soldiers.

"Quick! Fast! Dong Jiarui, the commander of the armored battalion, had already thrown his Oriental horse to others, and he stood on the tank and ordered the tank to speed up - he couldn't hear the sound of gunfire in the distance, so he was worried about the situation over there.

The tank rumbled forward, the field was as flat as a rock, only the bumps brought by the field, and even so, the infantry on the vehicle clung to everything they could to prevent them from falling out. "Battalion commander, it's already the fastest, and no matter how fast it is, it's easy to break down." The artillery commander knew that the battalion commander was an urgent man, so he had to explain it in detail.

"How long?" Dong Jiarui looked at the dark sky and couldn't figure out when it would be dawn.

"Twenty minutes at most!" On the radio, the brigade commander said that the Japanese troops were 10 kilometers on the right, and the current speed was close to 30 kilometers, and if the information was accurate, he believed that he would be able to receive fire in 20 minutes.

The commander thought it would take twenty minutes, but in fact the two armies were engaged in fire after ten minutes. Major General Kanaokaqiao was worried about the pursuit of the Chinese army, so he set up a guard post five kilometers away from the troops, and it was silent in the middle of the night, and the roar of tanks could be heard for several kilometers.

"Rush! Rush over! Dong Jiarui shouted over the radio. There is an enemy formation in front of you, rush in and kill the devils......"

"Yo Xi, the Chinese army has finally caught up!" At the temporary command post of the Japanese army south of the vegetable sand river, Jin Gang Qiao said with compassion that he was entangled here by the army in front of him this night, if it wasn't for them, he would have entered Juancheng earlier.

"Your Excellency!" The commander of the 6th Field Artillery Wing, Tsuruyoshi Makai, did not understand what Kanaoka meant, and of course, neither of them knew that this was the Shina Panzer Army, thinking that it was just a small pursuit force.

"Shoot now! Stop the advance of the Chinese army. Kanaoka commanded.

"Hey!" The staff officer next to him shouted and began to give orders. Soon, the heavy artillery originally aimed at the north bank turned to the west, and under the command of the gun commander, eight 150mm heavy guns fired blindly into the predetermined area in an attempt to scare back the pursuers.

'Boom! Heavy artillery shells exploded not far from the tank, and the air wave almost knocked off the infantry sitting in the car.

"Faster!" Dong Jiarui ordered into the car, he was glad that the Japanese artillery fire was not dense at this time, and judging from the fire from the distant muzzle, the distance between the two sides was about five kilometers, and he could rush through.

'Boom! Dong Jiarui was thinking that he could rush through the Japanese shelling area, but a tank next to him was directly hit by a heavy artillery, and the shell caused the ammunition in the car to explode, and the tank exploded into the sky, and the severed limbs and turret flew into the air together.

"It's the chariot of China!" Tank martyrdom is too obvious a target. The staff officers in the temporary command post immediately discovered this, and Kanaoka, who was holding a telescope, also discovered this.

"Immediately order the squadrons to blow up the artillery!" In his heart, Kanaoka was unwilling to carry out the orders of the 2nd Army headquarters, but at this point, he could only order all the field artillery to be blown up.

"Hey!" After a sentence of abstinence, the order was passed down again.

"Rush! Rush over! "The radio was full of the shouts of the commanders, the firing area of the heavy artillery was only three or four kilometers narrow, and the other side was only making blind shots with coverage that was not dense and uncorrected, and it was safe to rush through these three or four kilometers. At this time, the No. 71 car that rushed to the front of Dong Jiarui was already firing artillery, of course, this cannon was also a blind fire without accuracy, but the shells brought chaos to the Japanese army, and they really didn't expect that it was the enemy chariot that rushed over.

Two 7.92mm German-made MG34 machine guns also fired at the 'Da ......' and the tracer bullets in the bullets pulled out two striking fire chains, causing the gunners in the artillery position to disperse in a hurry. The sound of artillery finally stopped, and now there were only tank guns, machine guns, and Japanese shouts. The 1st Battalion had only 18 tanks, but these 18 tanks were like tigers and sheep, and immediately caused chaos in the Japanese camp.

'Boom!! As the tanks broke through, a skyrocketing fire exploded behind the Japanese positions, which were the Japanese destroying shells.

"Quick! Fast! The devils are bombing and stopping them! "I finally rushed through the artillery array, but I didn't expect the Japanese to blow up the artillery and bomb charge first, Dong Jiarui was also anxious, he was really going to be blown up by the Japanese army, and he ran away in vain this night. The 071 car no longer strafed the enemy formation in parallel, but rushed directly into the enemy formation, rushing to the place where it had just arrived at the explosion. Machine-gun chains of fire were also fired at the artillery in various places, preventing anyone from approaching.

"Quick! It's important to grab guns, it's important to grab guns. Hu Xianqun, the brigade commander who had not yet rushed into the enemy formation, also saw the ammunition explosion just now, and he was also anxious about the Japanese heavy artillery. (To be continued.) )