"Hmmm! We will act separately, and I will lead the second battalion out of the city to assist the first battalion, and you will command the overall situation here! Chi Fengcheng nodded with a slight expression, after all, the Tiger Ben Army has a powerful air force, even if a regiment of artillery is destroyed, then the Air Force of the Tiger Ben Army can also give the devil's artillery a devastating blow in the blink of an eye.

If there is no artillery on both sides, then with infantry, the 20th Division may have very little surname if it wants to capture Suxian.

"Big brother, you have more command experience than me, so it is more appropriate for you to stay than me to stay, or I will take the second battalion out of the city." Liang Haoyao thought for a while.

"Okay, but be safe." Chi Fengcheng thought about it, what Liang Haoyao said was also reasonable, and at this stage, it is not the time to compete with each other, everything should be based on the overall situation.

"Don't worry." Liang Haoyao said this, turned to the confidential room and shouted: "Communication soldiers! ”

"Yes!" A communications soldier hurriedly walked out of the confidential room, came to Liang Haoyao, stood up and saluted, "Counselor, what are your orders?" ”

"Immediately send a telegram to the military block, report the battle situation of our artillery battalion with heavy losses, and ask the military seat to send the air force to reinforce as soon as possible!" Liang Haoyao said without thinking.

"Yes!" The communications soldier answered, and immediately turned around and strode towards the confidential room.

After the communication soldiers left, Liang Haoyao turned around and saluted Chi Fengcheng, and said awe-inspiringly: "Big brother, this place will be handed over to you." ”

"Hmm!" Chi Fengcheng returned the salute and nodded solemnly.

Liang Haoyao immediately turned around and strode towards the outside of the regiment headquarters, and shouted: "Guards, order the second battalion, gather immediately, follow me!" ”

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Xiangcheng, the military headquarters of the Tiger Ben Army.

"Military seat, according to the intelligence detected by the reconnaissance plane, the current army on the north bank has increased to more than three divisions, in addition, the 10th and 14th divisions of the army are already attacking Yongcheng, if Yongcheng is broken, then Bo County will directly face the front of the army." In the military headquarters, Wang Gensheng, the head of the guard regiment, pointed to the map and reported to Qiao Anbang.

"Hmm." Qiao Anbang nodded thoughtfully, although he now wants to give some support to Tang Enbo's department, but he is already powerless, the strength of the Tiger Ben Army has been fully invested in the front line of northern and southern Anhui, Qiao Anbang's only mobile force at hand, the Fifth Division and the armored brigade, and even his own special operations battalion and guard regiment have been forced into battle, to put it mildly, he has no troops to adjust now.

Just when Qiao Anbang was thinking about how to repel the two-sided attack of the two major strategic fronts of the northern and southern armies, his personal attendant adjutant Liang Jiahan hurriedly walked in with a telegram in his hand, walked up to Qiao Anbang, saluted and reported to Qiao Anbang: "Military seat, Su County emergency telegram!" ”

"Huh?" Qiao Anbang was shocked when he heard this, and immediately reached out to take the telegram, and after reading it in a hurry, Qiao Anbang's face became extremely heavy and he muttered for a while and said to Liang Jiahan: "Pass my order, and the flight regiment will immediately send fighters to support Suxian." ”

"Yes!" Liang Jiahan answered, and then turned around and left.

After seeing Liang Jiahan leave, Wang Gensheng asked puzzledly: "Junzao, what happened?" ”

"The artillery battalion of the defenders of Suxian County was hit by the artillery fire of the superior artillery group of the Yue Army, and almost the whole army was wiped out, without the cover of artillery fire, the infantry suffered large losses, and the situation in Suxian County is becoming more and more unoptimistic!" Qiao Anbang said thoughtfully.

"Junzao, I feel that we can't hold on to such a stubborn position, this kind of war of attrition is unfavorable for us, especially our forces have been greatly dispersed, we don't have an advantage in terms of troops, and the devil is so desperate to attrition, and in the end it will be us who can't hold on!" Wang Gensheng said tentatively.

"Stubborn defense?" Qiao Anbang seemed to fall into deep thought when he heard this, indeed, now the strength of the Tiger Ben Army has indeed been greatly dispersed, which has caused the already undominant forces to be even more stretched.

In contemplation, Joan Bang began to pace back and forth in the military headquarters with his hands behind his back, trying to recall any example of a large-scale defensive battle he could think of, and only then did Qiao Anbang hate himself for not studying history properly in the first place.

After thinking about it, Qiao Anbang thought of the anti-encirclement and suppression war commanded by Mao Weiren back then, and the main point of the investigation was to let go of the front, lure the enemy deeper, and a small force continued to attack and block, secretly concentrate the main force, and eat one of the enemy troops with superior forces.

As the saying goes, it is better to cut off one of its fingers than to hurt its ten fingers.

After lighting two more cigarettes and pondering in his heart for a long time, Qiao Anbang exhaled deeply and said confidently: "Gensheng, immediately send a power to Li Yifeng, and let him go north at the rate of the first division." ”

"Huh? Transferring the 1st Division to the North? Wang Gensheng was puzzled and said: "Junzuo, there are 150,000 troops in the direction of Yingzhou now!" All three divisions of our army are deployed in Yingzhou, and the strength is still insufficient, and now the first division will be transferred to the north, what if the army launches a large-scale attack? "It must be known that the first division is the strongest combat force in the entire Huben army, and without the first division, it is difficult to say whether the second division and the fourth division of recruits can maintain the Yingzhou defense line.

"That's right, transfer the first division to the north!" Qiao Anbang nodded confidently, and then said: "As for the Central China Front, Lian Yue, with the cooperation of the New Fourth Army, their logistics supply line has been almost paralyzed, and our air force has carried out non-stop bombardment of the divisions and regiments of the main force of the Yue Army gathered south of Yingzhou. ”

Speaking of this, Qiao Anbang said meaningfully: "You are right, we should not continue to fight with the devil, if we want to win, we must also give full play to our advantages!" In addition to transferring the 1st Division to the north, you sent another telegram to the defenders of Suxian County, telling Liang Haoyao to hold on until tonight, and then pretend to be invincible, and immediately lead his troops to retreat to Nanping Town and Shuangduiji. ”

"What? Give up Suxian and the military seat, so that the devil can drive straight in and pounce on my pheasant and the camp. Wang Gensheng was puzzled.

"All I want is their drive! The exploits of capturing my pheasant and the base area, I think any division of the devil will be excited, right? On the battlefields of the southern and northern fronts, only the 20th Division attacking Suxian is the weakest, so we will use this 20th Division to lure the enemy deep and annihilate it under the pheasant and the city! Qiao Anbang explained meaningfully.

"What does the military seat mean to let the first regiment of the fifth division and the 31st division open the opening, let the 20th division of the army come in, and then return to attack Suxian County, cut off the retreat of the 20th division, and then assemble our pheasant and the Jiyuli garrison brigade and the 20th division of the 1st Division that returned from the north of the southern front to encircle and annihilate the lone army?" Wang Gensheng suddenly realized. "Yes, however, at that time, the 20th Division will not only use the Reading Force Garrison Brigade and the First Division, but also pull all our militia units up to attack in turns, and by the way, use this 20th Division to train and train troops." Qiao Anbang nodded solemnly.

"Oh, lowly got it!" Wang Gensheng nodded abruptly, then turned around and walked away quickly.

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Outside the city of Suxian, the position of one regiment and one battalion of the five divisions.

In order to ensure a breakthrough through the field fortifications of the Tiger Army, the artillery of the 20th Division can be said to have spared no expense this time, and from the beginning of the shelling of the 1st Regiment Artillery Battalion to the present, they have carried out a fierce artillery bombardment for nearly 40 minutes.

The hundreds of artillery pieces of the two artillery wings poured at least 100,000 rounds of shells of various calibers on the field defensive positions of the first battalion, and the entire position of the first battalion had been plowed back and forth several times, and the originally strong and unusually strong defensive positions had become fragmented at this time.

After about two minutes, the devil's artillery fire, which had been roaring for more than 40 minutes, finally began to gradually stop, and in the position of the first battalion, under the shouts of the officers, the surviving officers and soldiers crawled out of the mud one after another.

As soon as the shelling of the devils ended, nearly 3,000 people from the entire 78th Wing of the Japanese Army launched a group charge against the position of the first battalion.

At the same time, inside the North Gate City, Liang Haoyao, chief of staff of the Fifth Division, listened to the sound of artillery outside the city, and immediately took the lead in getting up and turning around and shouting to the hundreds of soldiers of the Second Battalion behind him: "Brothers, the time has come to kill the enemy and serve the country, rush out with me, and swear to defend the position, defend Suxian, and defend northern Anhui!" Come on! ”

"Rush!"

"Rush!" Under the leadership of Liang Haoyao, hundreds of soldiers of the second battalion rushed out of the city with angry shouts, and quickly rushed towards the position of the first battalion filled with gunsmoke.

At this time, the attacking army had already entered the firing range of the first battalion, and the commander of the first regiment, Tian Jinzheng, led the surviving officers and soldiers to shoot desperately, and the few remaining MG34 general-purpose machine guns broke out again with a piercing sound of tearing oilcloth.

The riflemen also shot quickly, although the first battalion shot with all their might, but there were still too many devils, and as soon as the front fell, more devils would rush behind them.

More than 3,000 people lined up in a dense formation to charge in groups, looking like a sea of people, endless, and the pressure on people's hearts was unprecedented.

"Give Lao Tzu a hard beating! They must not be allowed to pass through from now on! Seeing this, Tian Jin, the commander of the regiment, looked anxious, and quickly ran to the side of an MG34 general-purpose machine gun that the machine gunner had sacrificed, pushed the machine gunner's body to the side, personally picked up the gun, and began to shoot fiercely.

"Dada...... Da da da......" The dense and piercing sound of machine guns broke out in vain.

Seeing that the devils were getting closer and closer, at this moment, behind the position of the first battalion, there was a sea of shouts and killings, Tian Jin looked back, only to see that under the leadership of Liang Haoyao, hundreds of soldiers with steel guns rushed over quickly.

(To be continued)