Chapter 25, Battle of Xuzhou 2

"Bell, bell!"

Lu Qiang knocked on the iron sheet that was still intact, climbed up and lifted the cover, and a smell of blood immediately came to his nose, and when he fixed his eyes, the whole cabin was scarlet, and the shredded pieces of meat were everywhere, and Lu Qiang's dream of driving a tank was instantly shattered. If you want to open it, you must at least clean it once, after all, the condition inside is not something that people can bear. If you want to wash it, not to mention that there is no water now, and even if there is water, you don't have time to wash it now. Besides, you can buy a tank after two levels, the system version, T34, Big 59, Tiger, Mouse, M1, T90, 96, 99 and so on. As soon as he thought of this, Lu Qiang's saliva flowed, and he didn't care that he couldn't drive a tank at all.

"Whew! Shout! ”

Suddenly, there was a screaming sound from the sky.

"Shelling!" Zhang Yanchun shouted, and immediately found a place to hide.

"Shit, shit." Lu Qiang scolded, and hurriedly found a place to hide.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

Two shells suddenly exploded around Lu Qiang, the power of the explosion was not great, and it only lifted Lu Qiang away, fortunately it was a small-caliber mortar, the caliber is estimated to be 50mm, it may be a grenadier, because the power is not very great.

Lu Qiang lay on the ground and held his head, regardless of the crumbs that exploded in his mouth, he felt lucky for himself, if the two shells were closer, or 60mm or 80mm, it was estimated that he would go to the underworld to report.

The shells exploded around him, and Lu Qiang, who was lying on the ground, felt uncomfortable, and felt that his internal organs were about to shatter, ", I have long heard that you can't lie on the ground when you are shelled, but now it seems to be true." Lu Qiang scolded, arching his back at the same time, shrinking his body, holding his head with his hands and supporting his elbows on the ground, curling his body as much as possible to make the contact area between his body and the ground smaller.

"Boom!"

The last shell exploded, Lu Qiang raised his head and looked at the position, the position was now unrecognizable, almost all the shells hit there, and it became a dead place. And Lu Qiang and the others were very lucky, because they looked at the tank and left the position, so they were fine, and the monkey was scraped.

"The devils are attacking again." The leopard suddenly barked, because of his good eyesight, he saw the devil's yellow figure from afar.

"Go, retreat." Lu Qiang withdrew from this place with a few people, and threw a grenade into the tank that was okay. When walking to the edge of the position, Lu Qiang glanced at the place where Battalion Commander Zhang, who had been talking to him, and now there was only a blurry mass of flesh and blood left......

"Yo Xi, order the warriors of the Empire to attack quickly." An obscene and lean Japanese officer stood with a command knife and smiled obscenely.

"Hayi!" A Japanese soldier replied.

"By the way, what about the Imperial planes? Let them plow the north of the city into flat ground. The obscene Japanese officer said obscenely.

"Hayi, notify the airport immediately." ……

"Whew!! Shout!!! ……”

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ……”

In the afternoon, a large number of planes flew over Bengbu City in multiple sorties, dropping dozens of tons of bombs, and the entire north of Bengbu City could not see a little intact, and the defenders had almost all been killed, even if there were still alive, it was useless.

But this is no longer Lu Qiang's business, he has already left Bengbu, and the bombing is not long after he left, watching planes fly over Bengbu, one after another more than 200 kg of bombs are thrown from the planes, screaming across the air, falling to the ground, triggering the fuse, exploding. The entire Bengbu was shrouded in firelight, black smoke, and dust.

On the hill in the distance, Lu Qiang and the others looked at the bombed Bengbu, all of them were terrified, if they came out later, then they would definitely not have to come out, they would be buried in the city directly, and there were no bones.

"Let's go."

On the same day, while attacking Bengbu, the 26th Brigade of the Japanese Army sent a brigade to force the Huai River from the southward protrusion of the Huai River under the cover of aircraft and artillery fire. After 4 hours of fierce fighting, he was repulsed by the defenders. The Bengbu defenders retreated to the north bank of the Huai River and blew up the Huai River bridge, but the hundreds of civilian ships that had been moored on the south bank did not have time to withdraw. On 3 February, the 26th Brigade of the Japanese Army, which had captured Bengbu, carried out a forced crossing east of Bengbu with about two brigades of troops by civilian boats. The 342nd Brigade, which defended this section, fought valiantly, but still had a Japanese army on the north bank. On the morning of 4 February, the 113th Division of the 51st Army arrived by car, coordinated with the 114th Division to counterattack, and repelled the enemy who had landed on the north bank. However, on that day, another unit of the Japanese 26th Brigade crossed the Huai River west of Bengbu, captured Huaiyuan, and reached the south bank of the Vortex River; The 65th Wing also advanced to Shangyao. The 51st Army adjusted its deployment: ordered the 113th Division and the 2nd Anhui Provincial Security Regiment to defend the riverbank positions from Xiaobengbu (in the north of Bengbu, a small town on the north bank of the Huai River) to Huaiyuan and the north bank of the Vortex River; The 114th Division was on its left flank, defending the position on the north bank of Linhuai Pass to the bank of the Ximen River. The military headquarters is located in Guzhen.

On 8 February, more than 20 Japanese planes bombed Xiaobengbu, and immediately prepared artillery fire to destroy all the fortifications on the riverbank. Under the cover of artillery fire, more than 1,000 Japanese troops took civilian boats and motorboats to carry out forced crossings. The defenders resisted stubbornly and twice repelled the Japanese troops who crossed the river. At 23 o'clock that night, the Japanese army carried out a night forced crossing, once landed on the north bank, and captured Xiaobengbu. Zhou Xianlie, commander of the 113th Division, ordered the 337th Brigade to counterattack, and the fierce battle lasted until 1 o'clock on the 9th, and the position was restored. At dawn on the 10th, the Japanese army launched another large-scale forcible attack, and captured Xiaobengbu around 10 o'clock. The 113th Division counterattacked with all its might. The two sides fought many times, and Xiaobengbu was finally occupied by the Japanese army.

On February 10, at the same time as the Japanese army that invaded and occupied Bengbu launched an attack, the Japanese army that invaded and occupied Linhuai Pass also launched a forced attack, first breaking through the coastal positions of Yangongmiao around 6 o'clock, and soon occupied Meiyuanzi, Qianbanzi, Xinzhuang and other places. Mu Zhongheng, commander of the 114th Division, ordered the 340th Brigade to organize a counterattack, and "bloody hand-to-hand combat" lasted all day to recapture some positions such as Xinzhuang and Meiyuanzi. However, on the 11th, the Japanese follow-up troops crossed the Huai River, and the 114th Division suffered more than 2,000 casualties. As a result of numerous breaches of coastal positions, many of the defending units lost command due to the death of officers. In order to concentrate forces and reorganize the troops, Yu Xuezhong, commander of the 51st Army, ordered the whole army to move to the line of Heji and Xinmaqiao near the Xianghe River on the night of the 11th.

On February 13, Li Zongren transferred Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army, which had just been transferred to the Fifth War Zone, to the vicinity of Guzhen and took over the defense of the 51st Army. The 51st Army withdrew to the area around Xisipo Station for rest. The 59th Army deployed the 38th Division (owed to the 81st Brigade) to defend the line from Watuanji to Yangdianzi west of Guzhen, and the 180th Division to defend the line from Yangdianzi to the southeast of Guzhen, with the army headquarters located at Renqiao. At this time, most of the main force of the Japanese 13th Division advanced to the north of the Huai River. Li Zongren ordered the 31st Army to carry out flank attacks from Hefei to Mingguang and Dingyuan from Hefei to Shangyao and Fengyang, and ordered the 7th Army of the 21st Group Army of the Xinli Fifth Theater to carry out flank attacks from Hefei to Mingguang and Dingyuan; At the same time, the air force was asked to support the bombardment of the enemy at Bengbu and Linhuai Pass, forcing the Japanese army to withdraw the main force that had crossed Huaibei to Huainan, so as to strengthen the defense of Bengbu and the Tianjin-Pudong railway. Zhang Zizhong took the opportunity to order the 180th Division and the 38th Division to form a reinforced regiment on the 15th to counterattack the enemy at Xiaobengbu. After fighting, Xiaobengbu was recaptured, and all the Japanese troops north of the Huai River withdrew to the south of the Huai River.

After 17 February, the situation in the northern section of the Jinpu Road became tighter, and the Japanese army began to attack the 3rd Army west of the canal from Jining. On the 20th, according to Chiang Kai-shek's instructions, Li Zongren ordered that "Zhang Zizhong should be transferred to Lincheng to stand by." The southern section of the Jinpu Road was still defended by Xuezhong's 51st Army, and temporarily confronted the Japanese army across the Huai River.

The Japanese army marched all the way north, and Lu Qiang and them also followed the wave to block the attack, and along the way they were low-key people, high-profile work, specializing in ambushes, and looking for lone devils, after all, they only had a total of 6 people, and they could not participate in the large corps operations.

However, although the results were small, they were also recorded by the devil and listed as one of the must-kills. Because they make trouble for the devil from time to time, harass the logistics, kill a transferred officer when something happens, or bury some mines on the road, in short, it is like a fly for the devil, and when he hits him, he disappears before he goes down, and he doesn't come out to make trouble, which is really annoying. is in response to this sentence: Hades is easy to provoke, and the little ghost is difficult.

"Bang!"

The leopard took down the last devil soldier with one shot, a pair of a dozen people...... All the beast devil soldiers went to see their Aunt Amaterasu.

"Boss, this devil is too incompetent." Hu Zhuang grumbled.

When Lu Qiang heard this, he raised his hand and was a chestnut, and the tiger Zhuang who knocked it screamed in pain, "Good fight?" If it weren't for our strong firepower, we would have made a fart. Lu Qiang scolded, their previous firepower against the enemy was 3 81-bar grenade launchers, an 85 sniper, an SVD sniper, and an MG34 light machine gun, the firepower is not not strong, and they also planted a lot of mines before the fight, if they don't win, then they don't have to live.

"Smack!" It's not gunshots, it's the sound of a teacup breaking. A delicate ceramic mug was thrown to the ground by its owner and smashed into pieces.

"Eight Grid Tooth Road," as the main force this time, the 26th Brigade can be described as infinitely beautiful and invincible along the way, but now, there is an unknown team that destroys logistics and increases the pressure on the front line. "I command you that this team must be found within three days and destroyed."

Lu Qiang didn't know that he had been targeted by devils, but even if he knew, it didn't matter, because they were making trouble in the rear of the Japanese army like this, and sooner or later they would be remembered by the Japanese army.

Lu Qiang and the others are now in a withered grass-colored tent, eating quick-heating rice, with all kinds of canned food, and they can eat as refreshing as they want.

"Buzz !!"

Listening to the buzz overhead, Lu Qiang and the others knew that a group of devils' planes had gone to the front line to bomb.

"Boss, what are we going to do next?" Hu Zhuang asked as he ate a hot meal.

Lu Qiang, who was eating dripping beef, saw that everyone was looking at him, "This, monkey, you can talk about it." Lu Qiang kicked the ball to the monkey, after all, he had been in Japan and learned a lot.

The monkey saw that his boss kicked the ball to himself undisciplinedly, and picked it up helplessly, "I think we should stop harassing the devil for the time being......"

Before the monkey finished speaking, someone immediately objected, but he was pressed down by Lu Qiang, and then the monkey continued.

With Lu Qiang's consent, the monkey continued, "We harass the devils, I think we should attract the attention of the devils, if it goes on like this, it will definitely cause the devils to encircle and suppress, so we should leave here for a while, and after a while, the devils have almost forgotten about it, we are continuing." The monkey finished and looked at the crowd.

"I agree." After hearing this, Lu Qiang thought about it for a while, and then you agreed.

"I listen to the boss." Hu Zhuang said, the leopard does not express his opinion, Xiao Qi does not have the right to speak at present, and in the end only the lynx is left.

"Okay, agreed."