The fiasco of the Central China Dispatch Army reached the base camp of Yueben, causing an uproar, and these bigwigs remembered Matsui Shigen, who had temporarily taken refuge in the rear due to the Nanjing Massacre, and immediately asked him to return to his post and bring some reinforcements over to stabilize the situation.

In mid-March, Matsui Ishine replaced the defeated Shunroku Hata as commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, and discussed the next battle situation with the commander of the North China Front, Terauchi Toshiichi.

After Wu Dingbang and [***] defeated the Yue army again, they did not force the Huai River to continue the attack, but left a part of the troops to confront the Yue army across the river, and the other went to Xuzhou for reinforcements.

At this time, Matsui Ishine and Terauchi Shouichi also agreed, and the two very much agreed to use a big victory to save the face lost by the imperial army, and Xuzhou was the best target.

Because the North China of the Yue Army has been operating for a long time, the foundation is much more stable, and in North China, except for Zhang Guoxing's department who came to attack Shanxi, the rest of the place is relatively stable, and the power of the Central [***] team is also the weakest, so the North China Front Army serves as the main attacker, from the north down, and Central China, which has just experienced defeat and has an unstable foundation, was arranged to serve as the deputy attacker, from the south up.

If Shouyi in the temple wants to go south, he must first ensure the safety of the backyard, and Huang Keqiang, who is in Shandong, is a big trouble, even if he does not annihilate him, he must be driven away.

So, Terauchi Shouichi immediately ordered the Fifth Division, the Tenth Division, and the Sixteenth Division to attack Huang Keqiang's troops in three ways.

Seeing Huang Keqiang retreating, the 16th Division was stationed in Heze to contain Huang Keqiang's entry into Shandong. Nearly 100,000 troops of the 10th Division and the 5th Division of the North China Front advanced rapidly towards Xuzhou in several directions.

Along the way, [***] resisted step by step, but the effect was not great, and it was rapidly advanced by the army, which also made part of the army arrogant again.

Seishiro Sakagaki, commander of the 5th Division, and Ryosuke Isoya, commander of the 10th Division, discussed and decided to advance to Taierzhuang with superior troops and seize Xuzhou in one fell swoop.

The enemy is menacing, Wu Dingbang also led the troops to reinforcements, Wei Chendong has also been paying more attention to the battle of Xuzhou, at the moment, a secret message came to Wu Dingbang, Wu Dingbang's eyes lit up after hearing it, and he quickly deployed.

At the end of March, the two elite divisions of the Chinese army finally arrived at the outskirts of Taierzhuang, and Li Zongren quickly ordered Sun Lianzhong, commander-in-chief of the 2nd Group Army, to lead his troops to hold Taierzhuang, and Tang Enbo, commander of the 20th Army Corps, to open the front of the Jinpu Railway and turn into the mountainous area of Lanling and its northwest Yungu, lure the enemy into depth, and wait for the opportunity to break the enemy.

On March 27, the army moved south from Zaozhuang and engaged the garrison troops in the Kangzhuang and Nigou areas on the north side of Taierzhuang.

Since the attack, the Yue army has been ferocious and abnormal, repeatedly attacking Taierzhuang, and repeatedly attacking Zhuangnei, the Chinese defenders of the 2nd Group Army stubbornly resisted, did not give up an inch of land, and launched a fierce battle with the Yue army.

The Fifth Theater of Operations used the main force of the 20th Army Corps to maneuver towards Taierzhuang, pinched the enemy's flank, formed an internal and external attack with the 2nd Group Army, and ordered the 3rd Army to advance to the north of Lincheng and Zaozhuang to cut off the enemy's rear route.

Wu Dingbang also led his subordinates to return to the periphery of Jining and outflank Heze.

On March 30, a military vehicle of the Yan and Huang Army arrived in Zhengzhou and continued eastward, on which each carriage was covered by a thick canvas. The long train was moving rapidly on the Longhai Railway, and along the line, countless intelligence personnel of the Yan and Huang Army were constantly paying attention to the surrounding environment, and the reconnaissance planes of the Yan and Huang Army passed by in the sky from time to time, which showed the importance attached to this military train.

Under the strict monitoring along the way, the train finally stopped at Shangqiu, and Huang Keqiang immediately sent a division of officers and soldiers to escort it, and after unloading all the supplies, he escorted a part of the division of troops to Wudingbang's tent.

At the beginning of April, the [***] team finally deployed in the vicinity of Taierzhuang, and began to launch a fierce counterattack, and the Yan and Huang Army also supported a large number of aircraft, artillery and armored troops.

The news of Seishiro Sakagaki and Ryosuke Isoya for help reached the headquarters of the North China Front and the Central China Dispatch Army almost simultaneously, and Matsui Ishine and Terauchi Shouichi immediately set fire and sent several divisions from Shandong and Jiangsu to support them.

At the same time as the reinforcements of the army came, Wu Dingbang and Huang Keqiang took the lead, on the night of April 1, Wu Dingbang led his troops to quickly rush into the Heze area, and went around Jining in a roundabout way, to the rear of the 16th Division, and Huang Keqiang's department also went out of Henan and entered Heze, the two armies formed a flanking attack on the 16th Division, and this situation was also known to the army, the commander of the 16th Division, Nakajima did not retreat arrogantly, but chose to wait for the Yan and Huang Army to attack, in his meaning, The strength of the 16th Division was used to hold back most of the Yan and Huang Army, in order to gain enough time for reinforcements to arrive, so that the main force of the Yan and Huang Army could be annihilated.

On the afternoon of the 2nd, Wu Dingbang and Huang Keqiang finally completed the flanking attack on the 16th Division.

"Hmph, since you are so arrogant, Lao Tzu will let you pay the price of arrogance, this dog, in Nanjing did not kill my compatriots, tell the soldiers, these scum are all butchers who kill Chinese, do not let one go", in the command headquarters, Huang Keqiang looked cold, he had long wanted to blade these butchers whose hands were stained with the blood of the Chinese, how could he let go of this opportunity now.

"Lao Huang, I don't think we have such a big appetite, let's eat this 16th Division first, so it's safer, what do you think?" Wu Dingbang personally contacted Huang Keqiang to discuss the next action.

"Well, I also agree, you can be resurrected if you cut it half dead, just hack these dogs to death with one knife, and see if you can directly serve the 16th Division", Huang Keqiang is arrogant, people who practice martial arts are generally more straightforward, and Lao Huang is the same.

After the two men agreed, they began to prepare for the battle, and various information of the 16th Division was passed on to the two of them.

"Let's use artillery first to lure out the devil's artillery position."

Immediately, the Yan and Huang Army first launched an artillery bombardment, and the Yue Army immediately returned fire, and the reconnaissance planes of the Yan and Huang Army quickly locked onto the enemy's artillery position, and at this time, the Yan and Huang Army began to make secret preparations.

In Huang Keqiang's department, twenty heavy trucks secretly stayed in a small forest, but these trucks are very strange, their compartments, that is, not loading personnel, nor loading goods, but are placed many square objects with round tubes side by side, at first glance, like cannons in series, however, it is true, this is the new weapon developed by the Yan and Huang Army, named "Shenzhou Warrior" rocket artillery, its caliber is 120 mm, the launcher weighs 40 kg, the launcher is 1.8 meters long, a total of 20 tubes, The total weight of the battle is about seven tons, the launch angle can reach the highest 50 degrees, the firing range of the launch direction is 40 degrees to the left and right, and the flight speed of the rocket artillery has also reached the speed of sound.

This is definitely a unique weapon in the world today, twenty Shenzhou warrior rocket launchers side by side, equivalent to four hundred guns, think about it, I feel afraid, moreover, Wu Dingbang's side is also carrying out the same work, it is also a full twenty, and at the same time towards the position of the 16th Division, one is aimed at its artillery, the other is aimed at its infantry, and the army is still unaware of the disaster.

The officers and men of the Yan and Huang Army were quickly loading the rocket artillery and adjusting the firing angle, and in less than ten minutes, all preparations were complete, and they were waiting for the launch order.

"Everyone is in place," the commander kept giving orders.

Prepare.

"Launch".

With an order, suddenly, as if there was a muffled thunder in the sunny sky, the surrounding dark clouds were thick, flashes were continuous, the sky and the earth were dark, and the fiery red light kept bursting out, so enchanting and magnificent, and accompanied by a fierce murderous aura.

"Wow......" Many artillery soldiers were stunned, what kind of artillery is this, if it goes on like this, it will not be grassy and ungrown. Direct carpet bombing, and the landing site is very accurate.

"Boom ......" was firing cannonballs of the army was still unaware, and suddenly, accompanied by a huge black smoke and dazzling tail fire, the god of death suddenly favored their heads, indiscriminate intensive attack, directly ploughed the artillery formation, the dust flew down, the smoke dissipated, leaving behind a dense crater and the pain wails lying on the ground, under such a blow, unless the luck was super good, otherwise, even if not dead, you have to be injured.

Only one volley of fire crippled the poor artillery of the 16th Division, and before the news of the artillery could be reflected to Nakajima Isago Imasato, the infantry was also hit suddenly, and the dense shells of the Shenzhou Warrior rocket artillery fell like raindrops, and they were within the range of the attack, and it was simply wishful thinking to survive.

The planes of the Yan and Huang Army kept hovering over the heads of the 16th Division, not for bombing, but for the artillery to designate directions, to see that those places were not bombed, and immediately greeted them with Shenzhou Warrior rocket artillery.

After Huang Keqiang killed the artillery of the 16th Division, he also aimed his guns at the infantry, and forty Shenzhou warrior rocket launchers fired at once, what kind of momentum would it be, I saw the dazzling fiery red tail flames and black tail smoke flying in the sky, which could be seen from afar.

The entire position of the army was shrouded in artillery fire, filled with smoke, and the dazzling light flickered incessantly, accompanied by a terrible scream.

The news of the forward position was quickly reacted to Nakajima Imago, in fact, he also had a general understanding of the horror of this weapon through the sound of explosions and the light of fire flying in the sky.

"Oh my God, how did the Yan Huangjun do it, I just heard about the 'Xiao Houyi' super cannon a while ago, what kind of new weapon is this, are these high-end weapons so easy to develop? Then why didn't the Great Empire have it? "Nakajima Imago no longer has the confidence of the other day, only a few hours of fighting, the forward position can not be kept, how to fight this battle, quickly reported the situation here to Terauchi Shouichi.

(To be continued)