"The West Gate was broken through, and the commander of the 53rd Wing, Kiyoki Daisa, was killed. \\.qВ(5), coМ//Wing is now under the command of Chief of Staff Takeshita Shosa, who requests tactical guidance. ”

"At the north gate, the Tsuda United lost seven hundred and eighty killed, two hundred and fourteen wounded, and now there are five hundred and sixty-two, and Tsuda Daisa asks for tactical guidance."

"At the east gate, the offensive of the Chinese army is not fierce, and the antlers brigade has lost 310 people,...。"

"The artillery brigade was bombed by the Chinese Air Force, all the heavy artillery was lost, and the captain of the brigade was killed."

The gunfire from the west became more and more intense, and the chief of staff, Sheng Nei, showed an anxious look: "Division commander, there is no reserve anymore, so we can only cut the flesh and mend the sores, let's transfer troops from the east gate, the situation at the east gate is slightly better." ”

At this moment, Sakai Yasu's heart was full of helplessness and anger, he knew the situation of the 17th Division very well, the division suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Northern Hubei, the division commander Hirabayashi Shengren was killed, and the troops were completely annihilated, and now this army is formed by the remaining personnel of the original army plus the logistics personnel drawn from the domestic army of the Kwantung Army, plus the patchwork of recruits, in the eyes of his veteran, this is a group of rabble, and it cannot be compared with the elite soldiers who died in the Battle of Northern Hubei at all.

In order to improve the combat effectiveness of the troops as soon as possible, he adopted many abnormal means, even bloody means, risking the risk of being sent to the war criminals court by the Chinese government after the war, and trained new recruits with civilians and prisoners. But after all, that can only let the recruits know what killing is all about, and it can't improve the recruits' technical and tactical abilities.

Killing people can only strengthen courage and reduce the fear of recruits when they first enter the battlefield, but technical and tactical abilities can only be formed after long and arduous training. However, he did not have such a long time to train the troops, the essence of the entire division and regiment was annihilated in the Northern Hubei Campaign, the reconstruction of the division and regiment was only completed in April, and the technical equipment was only in place in May.

Therefore, Sakai Yasu knew that with the current strength of the 17th Division, the troops scattered to the banks of the canal for hundreds of kilometers could only be broken by the Chinese. Therefore, he simply only sent part of the small troops to defend, but the main force was concentrated in Jining, hoping to rely on the strong city walls of Jining to drag the attack of the squadron.

However, this combat plan caused a lot of controversy in the division headquarters, and some staff officers believed that the canal should still be held, otherwise once the squadron broke through the canal defense line, with the ability of China's mechanized troops, the squadron would be able to rush all the way to Jining. Now it is not 1937, and the more than 200,000 squadrons are not something that more than 10,000 people of the 17th Division can withstand.

But Sakai refused, he suppressed the opposition within the division with the strongest attitude, and sent only one brigade in the northern section of the canal, and his judgment was correct, this brigade was right on the breakthrough of the squadron, the Chinese lined up more than fifty tanks on the west bank, and the imperial soldiers could not raise their heads at all under artillery fire. In half a day of fierce fighting, the brigade lost half of its ranks, most of the officers were killed, and the captain of the brigade was seriously wounded.

To Sakai's surprise, after the squadron rushed through the canal, it did not rush directly to Jining, and the main force went north to attack Wenshang and Dongping. Sakai Yasu was keenly aware that this was an opportunity, an opportunity for the whole division to retreat, so before the loss of Wenshang, he proposed to Matsui Ishine that he should either give him reinforcements or let him retreat; But to his anger, both requests were rejected by Matsui Ishone, and Matsui Ishone's order was only one to hold, and he appealed to Okamura Ninji, the commander of the North China Dispatch Army, in the most angry protest method in the Japanese army, but the order he received was still to hold on.

In desperation, he could only shrink his troops to Jining and use this time to drive the citizens of Jining to strengthen the city defenses. In just three days, inside and outside the city of Jining, there were dense clear and dark forts, every street and every building in the city was opened, all the residents were expelled from the city, and only 9,000 imperial soldiers were left in the city.

When the ** team swept through the north and turned south, Jining had become a huge fortress. Sakai Yasu believes that this fortress can be relied on to compete with the squadron, although the tactical ability of the soldiers is not good, but the defense of the city should still be able to fight a dozen.

But the fact disappointed him, the artillery fire of the squadron has far exceeded the Japanese army, just one day, most of the strongholds outside the city were lost, especially the 68th Army of the Chinese Army attacking from the northwest, the artillery fire was fierce, the speed of the attack was so fast, it was beyond his expectations, just one day and one night to hit the city of Jining.

The next day, the new 40th Army reappeared, and the attack became more and more violent. But at this time, Matsui Shigen called again, agreeing to his retreat to Yanzhou, this order made him scold him at the division headquarters for three minutes.

After scolding, in order to find a way out for the division, he risked sending a brigade from the east gate to attack Huangtun, but before he arrived at Huangtun, he encountered the resistance of the Zhina army, and the Eighth Route Army of the Zhina that attacked the north gate came from the flank and back, and the brigade finally withdrew, and half of it had been lost.

After that, Sakai Yasu died of the heart of breaking through, in addition to repeatedly asking Matsui Shigen for tactical guidance, and then not going out of the city to counterattack, those staff officers of the division headquarters no longer shouted to counterattack and break through, and they both knew in their hearts that if they left these fortifications, the division might not be able to fight for three days.

Sakai Yasushi relied on the Jining city wall and struggled to support it for three more days, repeatedly urging reinforcements, but Matsui Shigen's telegram either held on, or that reinforcements were on the way, or told him that the imperial army was gathering on the north bank of the Yellow River and was preparing to counterattack from behind the Shina army attacking Jining. The Kezhi army didn't seem to know the danger at all, and still attacked Jining incessantly.

Now there is no other way but to tear down the east wall and make up the west wall.

Yasushi Sakai ordered two squadrons to be drawn from the garrison at the east gate to launch a counterattack against the Shina army that rushed in from the west gate. Soon, the effect of the counterattack came out, and the rapidly advancing gunfire eased, and Yasu Sakai just breathed a sigh of relief.

"Boom" A fierce cannon sound came from the dock, Sakai Yasu was shocked, the officers of the command were all fluted, and the dock was attacked?

Jining City is located at the mouth of Nanyang Lake, and it is also the exit of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and the south gate of Jining is actually the wharf; So far, China and Japan have a general understanding of each other's combat methods and advantages; The squadron has never carried out a landing operation, so the dock is the weakest place in the entire Jining defense, at the beginning of the battle, Sakai Yasu only put a squadron here, with the fierce battle, most of this squadron came over and was transferred to the West Gate, and there was only one squad left at the dock, and the defense was the most empty time.

Moriai grabbed the phone and called the docks, but he quickly put it down and called a staff officer to go to the docks to see what was going on. Sakai Yasushi grabbed a telescope and went out without a sound. The division headquarters was not located in the Japanese garrison, but was moved to a small villa next to the church before the war.

Sakai Yasushi quickly climbed to the top of the church, raised his binoculars and looked in the direction of the pier, hundreds of sailboats appeared on the lake, the sky above the pier had fluttered the blue sky and white sun flag, in several streets close to the pier, several blue sky and white sun flags were still advancing rapidly, and the Japanese soldiers were retreating one after another.

Seeing this scene, Yasu Sakai and Morinai faced death at the same time, and they realized that Jining could no longer hold on.

"The landing is successful, and the assault on the city is good" Sakai Yasu was cursing, but Song Xilian was excitedly clasping his palms in celebration.

The 78th Army was ordered to go north to join the attack on Jining, but Song Xilian thought about it again and again, thinking that there was already a second group army, a guerrilla corps, and a first mechanized group army outside Jining, with a total strength of up to 200,000, and an additional 78th army could not be placed; Secondly, regarding the threat on the north bank of the Yellow River, Song Xilian believes that there are already the New Eighth Army and the New 110th Division in Dongpingwen, and the puppet army anyway, even if it cannot stop the Japanese attack, it can delay the Japanese attack, and the main force of the army will also have time to turn.

After thinking about it again, Song Xilian made a bold plan and telegraphed Yu Chengwan, the commander of the 78th Army, that after the troops went north to Yutai, they secretly collected ships and asked that they could transport at least one brigade at a time, and then hide in the reeds north of Yutai and wait for orders.

In the early hours of this morning, after the attack on Ximen was counterattacked by the Japanese army again, Song Xilian felt that the strength of the Japanese army was almost over, and most of them were attracted to the front, so he decisively ordered the 78th Army to attack.

Sure enough, the landing of the 78th Army was met with only weak resistance, and the troops quickly went ashore, and more importantly, there were many fishermen near Nanyang Lake, and there were many fleets in the canal, and the boats collected by Yu Chengwan were enough to carry and load two brigades, which were like sharp knives piercing Sakai's back.

"Order Chifeng City, Yu Chengwan has landed at the dock, immediately put the reserves in, and be sure to hit the headquarters of this guy Sakai."

"Order Liang Dai, the troops move north, the devils on the north bank may not be able to stay."

After giving the order, Song Xilian breathed a sigh of relief, in his opinion, breaking through the West Gate and landing on the dock, the Japanese army had been attacked from the front and rear, and the overall situation of the Battle of Jining had been decided.

The Japanese army north of the Yellow River assembled in Dong'e, according to intelligence, the three divisions of the Japanese army have all been in place, Gao Shuxun and Xie Zi in Dongping and Wenshang are engrossed in the defense, heavily guarded, Wenshang and Dongping are building fortifications, especially Xie Zi's Dazhai Mountain, and tens of thousands of people nearby bring tools here to help build fortifications.

What made Song Xilian strange was that the Japanese army never moved, and the air force visited Dong'e several times a day, and almost all the roads from Dong'e to the ferry port were blown up, and the steamers at the ferry port were also blown up. According to Song Xilian's estimate, when he hit Jining the day before yesterday, the Japanese army on the north bank should have acted, but the Japanese did not; But when he first broke through the West Gate, the Japanese should have acted as well; But today, when they burst into the city, the Japanese should have acted.

However, to his disappointment, the Japanese still did not move.

There was no movement on the north bank, which made Song Xilian uneasy, so he withdrew the 68th Army as a reserve early, and even if the 40th Army was beaten out twice, he did not transfer the 68th Army.

Now, even if the Japanese troops on the north bank crossed the river to attack, they would have no chance. Song Xilian stood up and stretched, showed a smile, and commanded in a somewhat ostentatious tone: "Telegraph to the guerrilla corps that our army has broken into the city, and the 78th Army has landed at the pier, and ask them when they will be able to break through the north gate." ”

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