"Quick, quick!" A large number of strong men carried wooden barrels, and distributed the rice balls kneaded inside to the soldiers of the Sichuan Army on the battlefield, saying that it was a strong man, and it was not very appropriate, most of these strong men were yellow and thin, that is, in the past, many people ate the last meal without the next meal, not to mention that at this time, the Japanese army pressed the border, and the food in the nearby area was collected and scraped away by the Japanese army, after all, the operation of hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops, the consumption of food baggage is also an astronomical amount.

When these Sichuan troops arrived in northern Anhui, many people were still wearing straw sandals and single clothes, but these soldiers were fighting against the Japanese army without hesitation. It also enabled these backward Sichuan soldiers to fight to the death with the Japanese army in the situation of extremely disparity in weapons and equipment.

shout

A large number of shells whistled in the air.

"Damn, the little devil is killing again. Platoon Commander, you take the people and leave, get out of here, quickly! Ignoring his dirty hands, the company commander grabbed a rice ball and stuffed it into his mouth, and when he spoke, a few grains of rice squirted out. But at this time, no one laughed at the vulgarity of the company commander, this is the battlefield, not the kind of beautified picture on some screens in later generations, and it is difficult for people who have not experienced it to imagine its cruelty. After a fierce battle for most of the day, most of the soldiers' physical strength was almost on the verge of overdraft, filling their stomachs was the first priority at this time, and no one would take care of the appearance of eating. For these Sichuan troops, they just have a belief in fighting to the death.

"Get down!"

After a series of earth-shaking bombing, the Japanese planes overhead were already speeding overhead.

Da-da-da

Bullets rained down from the air, and before the smoke on the ground had cleared, another storm of death. The Sichuan soldiers on the position shook their bodies one after another. Died tragically under the fire of this kind of open and ground integration.

"Company commander!"

In the mournful roar of the soldiers, the company commander who was still holding a small half of the rice ball in his hand and kept the action of stuffing it into his mouth had fallen in a pool of blood at this time, his face was covered with blood, and the blood stains were even splashed on the mutilated half of the rice ball.

"Dog*day* little devil, grandpa fought with you!" All the Sichuan soldiers on the battlefield saw several Japanese armored vehicles spewing black smoke in the distance rolling over the turf on the ground and crushing over, and at the same time, their hearts were desperate, but they also burst out of their last courage in fear.

It's just that courage can't be eaten after all, under this kind of firepower density, even the Northwest Army is a bitter battle, and what the Sichuan Army is facing at this time is almost a massacre.

Two hours later, under the cover of planes and chariots, the Japanese Seya detachment started from Liangxiadian and broke through the outpost positions of Shiqiang, Xiakanbu, Baishishan, and Xiangcheng all the way. Enter the north line of the main positions such as Shenjing, Jiehe, Puyang Mountain and Longshan. It is also the main position of the Sichuan army of Yang Senbu, relying on the relatively simple position, the tenacious resistance of the Sichuan army, the Japanese army stormed for a day, although the Sichuan army suffered heavy casualties, but the main position is still in hand.

While the Sichuan army fought to the death with the Japanese army on the outskirts of Teng County, fierce battles broke out in the entire surrounding area of Teng County, but it was indeed difficult to resist the crazy attack of the Japanese army with the limited strength of the Sichuan army. While Yang Sen blocked the enemy, he informed Wang Mingzhang of the situation, and Wang Mingzhang immediately ordered the 366th Brigade to rush back to Teng County, and at the same time ordered the 364th Brigade to blow up the railway bridge, leaving one battalion to defend Beishahe and one battalion to defend Chengxihong Town. The rest of the troops withdrew into the city.

At dusk the next day, the Japanese army broke through the position of the Sichuan army and captured the Jiehe River, and Yongsan also fell to the Japanese army. Only one battalion of the 366th Brigade returning from the front of the city withdrew to Tengxian in time, and the main force encountered the main force of the Japanese army in a roundabout way at Chengtou Village and was forced to retreat in the direction of Lincheng.

Day and night, although the troops in the Chengguan area of Tengxian County had many numbers, the actual combat units were only 11 infantry companies and one mortar company, with less than 2,000 men, in addition to about 500 people in the four special service companies of the division headquarters and brigade headquarters, and about 500 local armed forces, totaling only more than 3,000 people.

At this time, Tengxian directly faced the onslaught of the Japanese army, and a part of the Seya detachment continued to attack Beishahe, and the main force launched an attack on Tengxian in a roundabout way.

After about two hours of preparation, the Japanese artillery moved into place. Concentrate fire and bombard the earthen walls on the periphery of Dongguan. The earthen wall, which had fallen into disrepair, was soon blasted into a gap. The defenders withstood the heavy machine-gun fire of the Japanese army, and killed and wounded many Japanese soldiers with thrown grenades in the ruins. Push back the attacking Japanese troops.

The Japanese retreated, and mortars and artillery came one after another. It turned out that the defenders who were counterattacking there did not have time to withdraw, and they were directly killed and wounded by this wave of raging artillery, and the absolute disadvantage of the defenders in firepower made the defensive battle extremely difficult.

This was repeated several times, and the defenders were charged several times by drawing manpower from the reserves in the city, but each time they repelled the Japanese army, basically most of the soldiers on the position were consumed, and the Japanese army also figured out the reality of the defenders after one or two attempts, and consumed a lot of the defenders' strength with two feints.

Soon in the evening, after several feints, the Japanese organized another assault. Because in the first few attacks, the Japanese army also lost some manpower in two or three times, and was often counterattacked by the defenders when the follow-up was weak, and the heavy firepower of the Japanese army was worried about accidental damage, so it was often not timely to replenish the knife at this time. The attacking troops were defeated by the opposing side.

After learning the lesson, the Japanese army quickly made adjustments, switching to three echelons to carry out wave attacks, and at the same time extending artillery fire to the east gate and the city, to be honest, blocking artillery bombardment, to prevent the reinforcement of the troops inside the city to the greatest extent.

The adjustment of the Japanese army was very effective, and among the attacking troops, the first wave of troops was again killed and wounded by the grenades of the defenders, but the follow-up troops rushed to the positions of the defenders while the grenades of the defenders were almost consumed and had no time to replenish. The bloody bayonet fight also began. On the battlefield, the roars of soldiers on both sides came and went, and people continued to fall.

After a bloody battle, the defenders wiped out most of the Japanese troops who had entered the position, but the defenders were also dead and wounded. The Japanese wave attack worked, and a small group of Japanese troops successfully broke through to Dongguan.

However, the Sichuan army's determination to fight was also beyond the imagination of the Japanese army, and the Sichuan army quickly organized a company to counterattack.

As the only mortar company of the Sichuan army, Tom Tom did not dare to counterattack when the Japanese army carried out artillery bombardment, otherwise it would not take a few rounds to be directly destroyed by the absolute superiority of the Japanese army. Moreover, it is too ridiculous to use small-caliber mortars to deal with the mountain artillery and field artillery of the Japanese army. It's just that these small cannons played a considerable role in dealing with the Japanese infantry at this time. Several mortars, by the light of fire, fell directly into the Japanese formation at a considerable distance, destroying the Japanese grenadiers. The remaining 100 or so soldiers took advantage of the flickering firelight in the night to rush up and fight with the dozens of Japanese soldiers who entered Dongguan.

The sound of fighting was endless, and after another tragic battle, the Japanese troops who rushed into the Dongguan squad were all annihilated. The battle lines on both sides have returned to their previous state again, but the corpses lying on the ground and the smell of bloody plasma tell everyone the truth of the war.

Although it was late at night, the battle between the two sides did not stop, and in the night, there were flashes of fire and piercing gunfire from time to time. At about early morning, the 370 and 372 brigade units defending the deep entrance, Chitouji, and the remnants of the two battalions defending Beishahe and Hongding were overwhelmed and retreated into the city one after another.

At this point, the fierce fighting on the periphery came to an end, and the entire Teng County had almost completely fallen into the encirclement of the Japanese army. However, the remnants of the retreat into Teng County strengthened the weak forces of Teng County to a certain extent.

In fact, when the Japanese army began to attack the surrounding areas of Teng County, Li Zongren had already called Tang Enbo, who had transferred the 20th Army Corps from southern Jin to northeast Henan, asking him to lead his troops to support the northern part of Teng County on the one hand, and at the same time wait for an opportunity to go south and join forces with the **** main force in Xuzhou to annihilate the main force of the Japanese army in the north of Teng County. It's just that Tang Enbo was unwilling to let his legion be under Li Zongren's command, and ignored Li Zongren's telegram.

Li Zongren also did not care about the Kuomintang army, which was full of factions, and sent a telegram directly to Chairman Chiang in Wuhan, asking him to send a military committee to directly supervise the operations of the 20th Army Corps. However, at this time, the battle of Xuzhou was related to the layout of the entire central government, and now was not the time for factional struggle.

At the same time, in the Linyi area, in order to cooperate with the operation of the 10th Division on the front of Jinpu Road, the Sakamoto detachment was in charge of what and after the tank squadron was added. All the way to the east of the Yi River, south of Tangtou Baita, Shaling, Taiping and other places. Sun Tongxuan led his troops to march from Yixian County to the west of Linyi City. The same Sakamoto detachment fought several fierce battles on both sides of the Yi River, and while it was nearly 10,000 abandoned, it also caused more than 3,000 casualties to the Sakamoto detachment. Most of the Japanese army was forced to retreat to Juxian, and Tangtou and other places were temporarily rested.

"Yesterday afternoon, the Japanese army first bombarded the city wall with 15 mm howitzers, causing a large number of casualties on the defenders on the city wall. After basically clearing the defenders on the city wall, the Japanese army attacked the city wall and quickly attacked the east and west cities to expand the results. The defenders retreated into the city. Under the strong suppression of the fire of the Japanese troops in various divisions, the defenders were interspersed and cut off by the Japanese troops. Wang Mingzhang, the general of the defending army, was shot and died when he moved to Xiguan, although the defenders in the city are still trying their best to resist, but the Japanese army occupied Teng County, it was only a day or two. Zhang Zhibang reported to Jiang Li.

"For now, although the Japanese army has the upper hand, Linyi and Tengxian, the Japanese army's intention to fight a quick battle has been frustrated, and Xuzhou, although the situation is still tense, there is enough time to arrange. There are hundreds of thousands of troops, and the Japanese army wants to gnaw Xuzhou, and in a short time, I'm afraid don't think about it. ”

"However, there are also variables, Tang Enbo is a fierce general, I am afraid it is not easy to completely obey Li Zongren's command. In short, it was an uphill battle. Tang Enbo still dared to fight, but the 200,000 Japanese troops were not so easy to dismiss. If there is no external intervention, it is estimated that Xuzhou will reach the peak in two or three months. Yang Hucheng also nodded.

Yang Hucheng's judgment is still very accurate, and the historical Battle of Xuzhou has been fought for nearly a long time.

"Aren't we an external force? The Japanese army always thought that our Republic of China was a plate of scattered sand, and the northwest did not deal with the chairman's side, and this time we also robbed most of Henan. Moreover, after the first few battles, the Northwest Army also suffered heavy losses. The main force of our army is now in northern Henan to contain the 1st Army of the North China Front. I can't move now. Only then did he concentrate his forces and wanted to defeat the Central Army first. The North-West cannot give them that opportunity. Although your 9th Army is newly organized, Shang Zhen and Song Zheyuan's armies have all newly reorganized some new recruits, and they are still resting, but I will transfer Zhang Chujiu's 3rd Mechanized Brigade to you, and you will send Zhao Yi over to take the lead, and another Sichuan Army will be transferred to you. Let Song Zheyuan and them hurry up to rest and recuperate, and when the back road of the Japanese army is cut off, no matter what, they will be on board. ”

Jiang Li said that Chairman Jiang had been trying to suppress the miscellaneous cards in the past, and it was from here that the orders were not uniform, although these troops dared to fight, but under the Northwest Army, after all, it was good to enjoy the shade under the big tree. In addition, on the other hand, most of the trained supplementary soldiers of the Northwest Army still replenish the damaged Northwest Army Headquarters, while Song Zheyuan and Sun Dianying have not received such good treatment for the time being.

"Okay, even if Tang Enbo can't complete the task of pinching the Japanese army north of Xuzhou, let's make up for it in the back, how can we tear off a piece of meat from the Japanese army this time." Zhang Zhibang said fiercely, "But it's strange to say, since the Japanese army invaded China, it can be said that the response to all operations has been very fast, and the strategic intention is also very clever, even if it has been frustrated a few times, it is because the war broke out too quickly, and it underestimated us." The timing of the Japanese army's launch of the Battle of Xuzhou was not very ripe. Although the Japanese army launched the Battle of Northern Henan again, it still failed to resolve the threat from Henan. ”

"This is the Japanese commander is too arrogant, do you think we can see it, the Japanese army can not see it? The Japanese commander must have his reasons for starting a war, but he underestimated the strength of the Central Army's counterattack, compared with the previous Battle of Songhu, the performance of the Central Army this time has risen several levels, but no matter what the reason, this leak, we have chosen, defeat this Japanese army, and it will be easy for a while later. (To be continued.) )