Liu Chenghai won a complete victory in Rugao, and the devils of the 11th mixed brigade decided to go all out to eliminate the Chinese troops before collecting food, so they concentrated 4 infantry brigades, 1 artillery brigade and 2 security brigades of the Imperial Cooperative Army, a total of more than 10,000 people, rushed to Rugao.

At this time, Liu Chenghai's more than 4,000 people plus more than 3,000 defeated soldiers and about 8,000 people, according to Liu Chenghai's deployment, wherever the devils go, the Wu Mu army will arrange one to rely on the geographical advantage to hold on, and the other will use the water network leading to the Yangtze River and the East China Sea to infiltrate behind the enemy to carry out a flanking attack or counter-encirclement of the devils; The guerrillas of the Wumu Army are mainly responsible for fighting against the devils, and the rout is led by the veterans of the Wumu Army and is responsible for fighting against the puppet army.

After Wan Zixiong defeated the devil, he attacked and advanced towards Yancheng while containing the rout. Because Wan Zixiong's troops are strong and strong, and the three infantry brigades march in unison, it is easy to incorporate nearly 10,000 defeated soldiers, although the quality of equipment and soldiers is different, but most of them are miscellaneous troops, and the equipment and supplies are poor and pitiful.

The 20th Independent Mixed Brigade of the Devils has landed in Yancheng, and it is gathering grain while deploying defenses. The division headquarters of the 20th Independent Mixed Brigade was set up in Yancheng City, with an infantry wing stationed in Dafeng, an infantry wing stationed in Sheyang, an infantry wing deployed in the west of Yancheng, a cavalry brigade and an artillery wing stationed outside Yancheng to respond to other infantry wings, a baggage wing and an engineer wing to assist in collecting grain, and at the same time driving more than 20,000 puppet troops to assist in collecting grain.

Wan Zixiong sent the 1st Infantry Brigade to lead the rout troops to attack from south to north, mainly attacking the grain collection teams of the devils and the puppet army.

The three infantry battalions of the First Infantry Brigade each brought more than 3,000 troops from Yongfeng, Xiaohai, and Caomiao in three routes, and launched an attack on the periphery of Yancheng to the north.

The devils also launched an attack on the southern front of Yancheng: the devils of Dafeng sent two infantry brigades to guard the roads of Nanyang Town and Xikou Town.

In the face of a brigade of less than 1,000 devils, the 2nd battalion of the first brigade from Xiaohai did not pay attention to it at all, and launched an attack of more than 3,000 troops regardless of priority, and bombarded the artillery and heavy machine gun positions of the devils with 9 heavy machine guns and 6 infantry guns belonging to the infantry battalion.

The devil did not have an obvious advantage in heavy firepower, and he did not have an advantage in numbers, and the fortifications were torn apart by the meteor flying thunder and javelin flying thunder of the Wu Mu army, and the rout soldiers flocked to the flock, and an infantry brigade of the devil was defeated in one face, and the devil had to retreat to Dafeng.

The devils in Nanyang Town fought with a large group of 3 battalions, and they also collapsed and retreated to Dafeng at the touch of a button. So more than 7,000 people from the 2nd and 3rd battalions surrounded a wing of Dafeng devils.

The Devil Cavalry Brigade in Yancheng was quickly reinforced, and a large mobile battalion was also quickly inserted to launch a powerful fire attack on Dafeng, while the 2nd Battalion was free to block the Devil Cavalry Brigade.

On the Dafeng side, a large group of 3 battalions launched an attack on the port from the east. The port of Dafeng was full of grain and salt stolen by the devils, and a large number of strong fortifications were also built: masonry materials, salt bags, and grain bags were piled up with various bunker fortifications to cover the devils' light and heavy machine gun positions and artillery positions to fiercely resist the attacking Wumu army troops.

The commander of the 3rd battalion was afraid that the artillery would damage too many materials, so he was not allowed to use artillery, and could only attack with light and heavy machine guns and heavy shotguns, so that the heavy firepower of the Wu Mu Army suffered a little loss, but fortunately, the Wu Mu Army still had a unique stunt ---- steel pot.

30 steel pots and dozens of trolleys were placed on the attack starting line. Below the steel pot is a rout soldier with 4 grenades on his back, and behind the steel pot is a Wu Mu army with a Qiguang submachine gun, the steel pot has 4 additional wheels, which can cover the attack of two soldiers at the same time; The trolley was swinging upside down, sandbags piled up at the back of the car, and a Wu Mujun armed with a Qiguang submachine gun was hiding behind, and the wheels were pushed forward by two rout soldiers armed with shell guns.

Under an order, Wu Mujun's light and heavy machine guns opened fire together, suppressing the heavy firepower of the devils, the steel pot and the cart took the lead in attacking forward, and a large number of infantry followed up, although the attack speed was not very fast, but the attack of the battalion step by step made the defending devils feel like Mount Tai was overwhelmed.

The minefield laid by the devils was too sparse, and Wu Mujun broke through the devil's defense line at the cost of losing 7 steel pots and 11 carts, and rushed into Dafeng Wharf, and the devils retreated into Dafeng City when they saw that the situation was not good.

Wu Mujun did not let go of the tail.

The mobile battalion of the Wumu Army was not afraid of material losses, and launched an intensive fire offensive with heavy mortars, automatic guns, and anti-aircraft machine guns into the city. As soon as the shells of more than 20 kilograms exploded, they were a big crater, covering a radius of more than 10 meters, and the automatic guns cleared the light and heavy machine gun fire points of the devils like probing for the bag, and the anti-aircraft machine guns hit the devil infantry so that they did not dare to show their heads. It's just that there is no infantry charge, and it can only be scored.

The 2nd Battalion was responsible for blocking the Devil Reinforcement Cavalry Brigade, but the Devil Cavalry was too fast, and the troops were quickly rushed over before they could deploy, leaving only a dozen dead and wounded war horses and a dozen Devil Cavalry, but there were 100 casualties.

Seeing the fierce fire of a large mobile battalion of the Wumu Army, they decided to take this firepower position without infantry defense, but they were attacked by the anti-aircraft machine guns of the mobile battalion from a distance.

After losing dozens of war horses, the devil cavalry finally rushed into the Wumu army's firepower position within 100 meters, but the artillery of the Wumu army was equipped with self-defense weapons---- Qiguang submachine guns, and the light fire density was not weaker than the infantry.

Wan Zixiong saw that the first battle on the periphery of Yancheng was successful, and immediately ordered the First Infantry Brigade to concentrate its forces to surround Dafeng, and the Second Infantry Brigade to send reinforcements in the direction of Yancheng.

The 1st Battalion of the 1st Infantry Brigade did not advance with the brigade towards Dafeng, because their task was to attack the devils west of Yancheng.

A wing of the devils west of Yancheng was spreading out from south to north, advancing parallel to the west to grab food, and seeing that the Wumu army was menacing, he hurriedly mobilized a brigade in the southernmost part to block it. The devil thought he was strong, and a brigade actually launched a counterattack directly against the Wu Mu army, trying to beat the Wu Mu army with an unstable foothold.

Most of the forwards of the first battalion were routed soldiers, and they were quickly routed again by the devils, but the main force of the first battalion immediately used heavy machine guns and infantry guns to suppress the devils' firepower and stabilize their positions. The defeated soldiers also stabilized the battle line, turned back and killed back, and launched an attack with the devils, and the battle fell into a stalemate.

The 2nd Infantry Brigade penetrated from the northwest of Dafeng and went straight to Yancheng.

The devils also immediately adjusted their forces, withdrawing the infantry wing to the west to defend the west of the city, and the artillery wing to the airfield northeast of the city to protect the safety of the airfield.

When the first battalion of the Second Infantry Brigade rushed to the Yancheng airport, one of the Devil's infantry brigades and an artillery squadron were already in full array, which frustrated the attack of the first battalion and supported each other with the devils in the city.

At this time, the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Battalion, and Mobile Battalion of the 1st Infantry Brigade of Wan Zixiong surrounded Dafeng and occupied Dafeng Port; A battalion of the 2nd Infantry Brigade and the 1st Infantry Brigade surrounded most of Yancheng; The 3rd Infantry Brigade interspersed to the northwest of Yancheng to block the devil reinforcements from Huai'an and Sheyang; The vast villages and towns on the periphery were defeated by the New Fourth Army and the puppet army was seized to collect grain.

Although the Wu Mu Army surrounded most of the 20th Independent Mixed Brigade of the Devils, the Devils' establishment was complete and their combat effectiveness was still strong, especially the airfield continued to provide air fire support to various battlefields, which put the Wu Mu Army under tremendous pressure, and at the same time, although the Wu Mu Army had an advantage in the number of artillery, the combat quality of the artillery was far inferior to that of the Devils' artillery, coupled with the Devils' aerial fire attacks, more than half of the artillery of the fire brigade was damaged, and although the Foguang Flying Thunder of the Air Defense Battalion shot down 9 Devil planes, it could not catch up with the super mobile aircraft. The effect of air defense is a drop in the bucket.

Wan Zixiong received bad news again, the devil reinforcements from Huai'an and Sheyang had arrived and engaged fire with the Third Infantry Brigade.

Wu Mujun has its own tricks in fighting blocking battles. The 3rd Infantry Brigade had already demolished the bridges and flooded the main roads, delaying the reinforcements of the devils, but because it had to leave a passage for the personnel transporting grain, it could not lay bamboo skewer minefields, and at the same time, it could not destroy all roads.

Since the 3rd Infantry Brigade could not block and destroy all the roads, leaving room for the devils to infiltrate, the 3rd Infantry Brigade could only fight and retreat.

In the face of the two brigades of the devil, Wan Zixiong fell into a melee in which the enemy had me and I had the enemy. Although Wan Zixiong now claims to have a force of more than 40,000 people, there are only more than 16,000 regular troops in the reorganization, and the rest are all contained defeated soldiers, although these defeated troops have recovered their combat strength after replenishing supplies and being inspired by victory, but their equipment is poor, their combat quality is low, their establishment is chaotic, and their combat effectiveness is still far from that of the devils.

Chen Yi saw that Wan Zixiong's troops were in a bitter battle, and he also mobilized troops to join the war group. However, due to the fact that the New Fourth Army did not have heavy equipment and its communications were backward, its tactics still continued to follow the guerrilla warfare of severely damaging the small forces of the devils, and it could only eat some small groups of devils who were outside the large army of the devils.

The 1st Infantry Brigade used heavy mortars, infantry guns, and automatic guns to destroy the devil's fire points, artillery positions, and infantry positions, covering the infantry battalion to launch attacks again and again, and finally captured the outer positions of the Dafeng devils, and continued to attack the city gate and city wall with fierce artillery fire.

The devils in the south of Dafeng City lost all their peripheral positions, and the city walls were exposed under the fire of the Wu Mu army. Wu Mu's army bombarded the devil's position at the head of the city with heavy mortars, and the infantry artillery extended to shoot into the city, but the automatic guns drilled a number of holes in the city wall.

Under the cover of firepower, the infantry of the Wumu Army relied on steel pots and trolleys to attack under the city wall, stuffed hundreds of catties of explosives into the holes drilled by the automatic cannon, and blew up several gaps in the city wall, so the veterans of the Wumu Army led the stragglers to finally break into Dafeng City.

The devil finally couldn't resist the momentum of the Wu Mu army's attack, and broke through the siege with the cavalry brigade first, forcibly tore through the defense line of the attacking troops in the north of the Wu Mu army, and fled in the direction of Yancheng.

The Second Infantry Brigade attacking Yancheng was attacked from behind by the devils who broke through the siege of Dafeng, and the defense line was attacked by the enemy, so they had to let the devils enter Yancheng.

At this point, the two infantry wings of the Yancheng devils, one wing of artillery, one wing of engineers, and one cavalry brigade of baggage troops, all of which were concentrated together, relying on the two mutually supportive strongholds of Yancheng city and the airport, resisted stubbornly and became a difficult bone to gnaw; The reinforcements on the periphery of the devil are also approaching step by step, and the battle has made it impossible to distinguish who is the attacker and who is the defender.

The 32nd Division of the Devils, under the transportation of the Navy, captured Dafeng again, making the Wanzi Xiongbu completely surrounded by the Devils.

Faced with the devils of 1 division and 2 brigades, Wan Zixiong's troops were forced to switch from attack to local defense.

According to the situation on the battlefield, Wan Zixiong decided that the 3rd Infantry Brigade on the outer line would launch a counterattack against the devils of the 7th Independent Mixed Brigade in the direction of Huai'an, leaving a way to retreat.

After receiving the order to counterattack, the 3rd Infantry Brigade immediately left an infantry battalion and all the contained routs to continue to block the devil reinforcements in the direction of Sheyang, and concentrated two infantry battalions and a mobile battalion to launch a counterattack against the devils on the west road.

The two infantry battalions of the Third Infantry Brigade formed a goose-shaped formation in the shape of a "man", and under the cover of the heavy firepower of the mobile battalion, the infantry guns, heavy machine guns, heavy shotguns, and all kinds of flying mines in the concentration camp launched a counterattack against the devils on the front of the main road.

The Devil's Independent Mixed Brigade is just a condensed division due to insufficient troops, and the equipment and personnel are inferior to the Devil's integrated division, which was easily torn apart by the powerful firepower concentrated by the Wumu Army, retreated to both sides of the main road, and prepared to flank the Wumu Army.

The independent mixed brigade of devils in the direction of Huai'an scattered to both flanks of the main road, preparing to launch a flank attack on the Wumu army on the main road, but Chen Yi seized the opportunity, and a large number of New Fourth Army divided many scattered devil troops. Gunfire erupted in the northern Jiangsu Plain, and it turned into a pot of porridge.

Wan Zixiong ordered the nearby 1st Infantry Brigade to organize troops to block the newly landed devils; The 2nd Infantry Brigade and the Fire Brigade continued to attack Yancheng, focusing on attacking the Devil's Airfield, striving to separate the airfield from Yancheng, and then take the airfield. Unexpectedly, the devils in Yancheng, who had strong troops, sent cavalry and infantry to launch a counterattack in the direction of the airfield under the cover of artillery, so that the task of dividing the Yancheng airfield could not be accomplished......

Just when Wan Zixiong's troops were fighting bloodily, Zhao Dahu collected intelligence from all walks of life in the general headquarters of the field army in Yangzhou and issued combat orders one after another.

Liu Qinghe's troops delayed the journey because of the staggered water network along the way, and the difficulty of marching with heavy equipment, but fortunately, the defeated troops who were contained along the way helped a lot, and the heavy equipment was transported through the difficult water network area on their shoulders.

Liu Qinghe's sophisticated weapons and equipment, abundant supplies, attracted a large number of defeated soldiers to join, and even the puppet army also joined in. Liu Qinghe organized these stragglers and routs into three brigades, coordinated with the original three infantry brigades, marched all the way and integrated training all the way, and delayed for a while.

When they arrived at the city of Huai'an, the main force of the devils in Huai'an had already rushed to the direction of Yancheng. Liu Qinghe used the fire brigade to cover the three new straggler brigades to attack Huai'an.

The stragglers and routers of the newly formed brigade had eaten enough, and after marching and training all the way, they also had a certain combat effectiveness, and with the fire support of dozens of cannons of the Wumu Army Fire Brigade, they swarmed into Huai'an City and seized a large amount of supplies.

Liu Qinghe received an order from Zhao Dahu to change the original operational plan for the attack on Lianyungang and rushed to the aid of Yancheng.

Liu Qinghe arranged for the 1st Infantry Brigade to follow the reinforcements of the devil along the main road, followed by the firepower brigade, and the other troops spread out to the two flanks and attacked along all roads that could lead to Yancheng.

Within a few days, more than 40,000 people from one division and two independent mixed brigades of the devil and more than 30,000 men from the two field army columns of the Wumu Army, more than 20,000 newly organized stragglers and routs, and more than 10,000 people from two divisions of the New Fourth Army, totaling more than 70,000 people, were mixed together. Although the number of devils is small, the overall equipment is excellent, the combat quality of the soldiers is high, and a large number of aircraft help the battle, the Wumu army is in a bitter battle and cannot extricate itself.

The current situation is: more than 3,000 people from the First Infantry Brigade, the Firepower Brigade and the stragglers of the First Infantry Column of the Wanzixiong Field Column of the Wumu Army are blocking the 32nd Division of the Devils in the south of Yancheng; The 1st Infantry Column, the 2nd Infantry Brigade and more than 3,000 stragglers attacked the 20th Independent Mixed Brigade of Yancheng Devils from the east; The 3rd Infantry Brigade of the 2nd Field Infantry Column and 2 newly formed brigades attacked the north, west and south of Yancheng; The Second Infantry Brigade of the Second Infantry Column of the Field, one newly formed brigade, and the fire brigade attacked Yancheng airfield; One battalion of the First Infantry Brigade of the Second Field Infantry Column, two battalions of the Third Infantry Brigade of the First Field Infantry Column and the Seventh Independent Mixed Brigade of the New Fourth Army besieging the devils; Two battalions of the 1st Infantry Brigade of the 2nd Field Infantry Column, and a battalion of the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the 1st Infantry Column of the Field Attack blocked a wing of the 32nd Division of the Devil Regiment in Sheyang......

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