Chapter 15, Battle of Xuzhou
Solve that devil, Lu Qiang and they started looking for the boat again, this time they didn't dare to turn on the lights, it would be bad if a few more devils came.
"Boss, boss, found it." The emperor lived up to his wishes, and the monkey jumped up and down, shouting as he ran.
"What, where?" Lu Qiang asked happily.
"In the grass over there, covered with grass, if I hadn't been trampled a bit, I really couldn't find it." The monkey said excitedly.
"By the way, Lynx, what's the task I've given you?" Lu Qiang turned around and asked the lynx who was observing the Yangtze River.
"Well, it's already clear, the devil's gunboat runs every half an hour, and if we want to cross the river, we have to cross it within half an hour." Bobcat Trail.
"When's the next time?" Lu Qiang asked.
"There are about 13 minutes left." The monkey looked at his watch and replied,
"That's good, let's change into the frogman wetsuit I gave you as fast as you can, and push the boat into the water." Lu Qiang ordered, after hearing this, several people immediately went to change into diving suits and prepare to dive at speed, although there is a boat, but who can guarantee that there will be no accidents, if you have a diving suit, you are not afraid of falling into the water, you deserve it......
Eight or nine minutes later, several people finished loading, pushed the boat into the water, found a place with dense aquatic weeds and launched the water, and then stayed on the boat, waiting for the devil's gun ship to pass.
Soon, a pillar of light shot through the river, followed by a "woo" sound, needless to say, it must be a devil's gunboat.
Lu Qiang and the others stared closely at the devil's gunboat, and a searchlight with a lot of power on the gunboat swept everywhere on the river.
A minute later, the gunboat was visible from far and near, and the side was displayed in Lu Qiang's eye. At a distance of more than ten meters, every move of the devils on the boat, Lu Qiang and they could see it clearly, four or five devils walked back and forth to patrol, and one devil shone everywhere with a steady searchlight.
This devil's cannon ship came and went quickly, and when the back of the gun wheel completely disappeared from Lu Qiang's sight, Lu Qiang waved his hand, and the four of them waved their oars and rowed to the opposite bank, but it was also smooth sailing, there was no emergency, after crossing the Yangtze River, Lu Qiang took back the frogman diving suit, changed into an ordinary robe, and pinned a pistol to his waist, and set off towards the nearest town.
Early in the morning, Lu Qiang and the others found an inn, and now they are all asleep, and on the other side, Zhang Yaoguo's base is happening in a major event of life and death, and the devil has come to the door.
"The devil has come to the door, what should I do, everyone should think of a way." Head Zhang looked at the group of subordinates in front of him and said anxiously.
"What else can I do, fight with them." A man who looked five big and three thick shouted loudly, and he knew from his appearance that he was a brainless person.
"What do you fight, just your body of flesh, it's not enough for a devil to shoot twice." A lean man beside the strong man said.
"What do you say? Begging for a beating, isn't it? As soon as the strong man heard this, he immediately stopped doing it, rolled up his sleeves, and looked ready to fight hard.
"Okay, okay, all the eyebrows are burning, and you're still arguing." A middle-aged man who was relatively thin said impatiently.
"Commissar, what do you say?" The lean man asked the middle-aged man.
"By the way, I'm not here these days, didn't you say you met a team of 5 people?" The political commissar suddenly changed his head and asked a few people present.
"yes, what's the problem?" Head Zhang listened to the words of the political commissar and asked suspiciously.
"I suspect they're devilish spies." The commissar said.
"What?!" Those present were shocked.
"How is it possible, are you mistaken?" Head Zhang was the first to express his disbelief, after all, the other party gave you a lot of help for yourself, especially killing devils and grabbing poison gas bombs.
"What's impossible, if he's not a spy, then why does he leave on the front foot, and the devil in the back immediately finds here, no one leads the way, and the devil can't find here." The commissar argued.
"Don't talk about these useless things, think about how to break the devil's sweep." Head Zhang interrupted the political commissar's speculation, anyway, he didn't believe that Lu Qiang would be a spy.
"I think it's better to take the initiative to find a good position to ambush the devils, according to the reconnaissance report, there are two squadrons of these devils, but they are separated, we can break them one by one. Otherwise, when the devils come, the two squadrons will be combined, and it will not be something we can deal with. The political commissar analyzed.
"Okay, that's it, let's see which devil to fight first." Head Zhang happily agreed to the political commissar's opinion.
The battle plan is urgently being formulated here, Lu Qiang's side has already woken up, and those who didn't wake up were also woken up by him, and spent a few oceans to ask the shopkeeper to buy some breakfast, because of the war, most of the people in this town have run away, and only some people who are old or reluctant to leave are left, and the chef of this inn also went with the flow, and when he left, he also took the proprietress of the store and his son with him. This is called by the owner of the shop, asking the chef to take away his wife and son, which is regarded as a continuous incense, but he himself is reluctant to leave, because this inn has been passed down from his ancestors for generations, and he is afraid that after leaving, he will be scolded by his ancestors in the future.
Soon, Xiao Er came back and brought 4 buns and 5 steamed buns, Lu Qiang and the others looked at the steamed buns on the table, and then turned their heads to look at this Xiao Er, the meaning was self-evident.
Seeing this, this little two immediately understood what they meant, and hurriedly explained, it turned out that because this town was on the front line of the war, everyone ran away, and among the people who ran, there were a lot of 'technical' personnel, which led to the rise in prices in the town, and there were originally many people selling steamed buns, but now there are only a few old people left, making these things in short supply, originally 3 oceans can be a bun, but now they can only buy 9, that is, a big ocean can buy 3 buns or steamed buns.
Lu Qiang and the others listened to the explanation and found that they didn't know what to say, so they gave him a few more money and asked him to buy some more.
After eating this unpleasant breakfast, Lu Qiang went back to his room, recalling the Battle of Xuzhou, the Battle of Xuzhou on the southern front began on January 20, 1938, and the 13th Division of the Japanese Army went north along the Jinpu Road to capture Jiangdu, Shaobo, and Tianchang Bengbu in Anhui, but suffered heavy losses along the way, and was unable to go north to the Huai River again. The defending 11th Army of the 31st Army, after resisting one by one in the area on the west bank of the Chi River, retreated to the west of Dingyuan and Fengyang. By February 3, the Japanese army had captured Linhuai Pass and Bengbu. On the 9th~10th, the main force of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army crossed the Huai River at Bengbu and Linhuai Pass respectively and launched an attack on the north bank. The 51st Army engaged in a fierce battle with the Japanese army, suffered heavy casualties, and retreated in the direction of the Lu River and the Huhe River on the 12th. The Fifth Theater of Operations led by Zhang Zizhong, commander of the 59th Army, rushed to the Guzhen area, and cooperated with the 51st Army to stubbornly resist the Japanese army in the area on the north bank of the Huai River. At the same time, on the south bank of the Huai River, the 48th Army of the 21st Group Army held the Luqiao area, and the 7th Army coordinated with the 31st Army to attack the Japanese flank of Dingyuan in a roundabout way, forcing the main force of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army to return from the north bank of the Huai River. The 59th and 51st armies took advantage of the situation to counterattack and restored all positions north of the Huai River by early March. The 21st Army and the 31st Army were concentrated from the south bank of the Huai River to the north bank. The two sides confronted each other across the river. This is an operation on the Southern Front.
In late February, the Japanese 2nd Army began to split its way to the south. The 5th Division of the East Road moved south from Weixian (now Weifang) in Shandong, and fell into Yishui, Juxian, and Rizhao in succession, and went straight to Linyi. The 3rd Army Corps, the 40th Army and other units resisted step by step. The 59th Army was ordered to rush to the rescue, and on March 12, it arrived on the west bank of the Yi River in the northern suburbs of Linyi, and cooperated with the 40th Army to carry out a counterattack, fighting fiercely for 5 days and nights, inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese army, and forcing it to retreat to Juxian. The Nagase Detachment (equivalent to a brigade) of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army on the West Road crossed the canal from the west of the Jining area and attacked Jiaxiang, but was stubbornly resisted by the 3rd Army and the attack was frustrated; The Seya detachment (equivalent to a brigade) marched south along the Jinpu Railway, and on March 14 attacked Tengxian (present-day Tengzhou) from Liangxiadian, south of Zou County (present-day Zoucheng). The 41st Army of the 22nd Group Army of the defending army resisted bravely, suffered heavy casualties, and fought hard until the 17th, Wang Mingzhang, the commander of the 122nd Division of the army defending the city, was martyred, and Tengxian County was lost. This is an operation on the Northern Front.
There are also battles in Taierzhuang and near Xuzhou.
The Battle of Xuzhou lasted more than four months, and although the Japanese army opened the Jinpu line, its goal of vainly trying to attack the main force of the Chinese army was not achieved. Once again, the Japanese army's attempt to achieve a quick victory. The Chinese army attracted the main Japanese force to the Jinpu line, temporarily diverted the direction of the Japanese army's attack, and won valuable time for the deployment of the last key battle in the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, the defense of Wuhan, especially the victory of Taierzhuang, which greatly encouraged the will of the people of the whole country to resist the war.
Lu Qiang spread out the map and looked at it, and found that his current location was in the area of Bengbu, not too far from Bengbu, it wouldn't take long for him to arrive at Bengbu, and it would not be long before the Japanese army attacked Bengbu for more than half a month, which made Lu Qiang still have some days to prepare, of course, he couldn't think that he could stop the army of devils with only five of them, although he couldn't stop it, but it was still okay to kill a few.
The words were divided into two ends, and the head of Zhang led the team to ambush on the hillside, waiting for the arrival of the devil, according to intelligence, the devil came from this road.
"When the hell is this devil coming?" Head Zhang held an unknown telescope seized from the devil and looked at the end of the road, looking impatient, hoping that the devil would come soon.
"It's coming, it's coming, the devil is coming, hurry up and prepare. By the way, tell those three boys to beat me hard. Commander Zhang suddenly saw a figure coming out of the corner, brushing in rows and rows, wearing a-yellow military uniform, needless to say, it was a little devil, Commander Zhang saw the devil coming, and hurriedly retracted into the trench, "Also, ask the fat man how they learned the grenadier mortar." ”
"Yes." A little eight-way took the order, and ran to inform it.
Seeing the devil slowly enter his encirclement, Regiment Leader Zhang suddenly shouted: "Fight!" He fired a symbolic shot, and the "bullet" didn't know where it went.
After he thought about this, the eight roads on the hillside opened fire one after another, shooting at the devil.
When these devils heard the gunshots, they were shocked and angry, and they were shocked that there was an ambush here, and they were angry that these people were not waiting for them to be slaughtered, and they still wanted to ambush them, they were really looking for death.