Qiao Anbang led his troops along the Jinpu Railway to Xuzhou to march in a hurry, did not fail to hide the army, in fact, Qiao Anbang did not plan to hide the traces of the march, what he needed was to grab time with the main force of the front line of the army, as long as he took Xuzhou before they returned to Xuzhou.

Through the remnants of the 108th Division, which was routed by the Tiger Ben Army along the way, the radio transmission showed that the Yue Army left behind in Xuzhou and the main divisions on its front line all learned the whereabouts of the Tiger Ben Army.

Xuzhou City, the army has been in the whole city to carry out martial law, the east, west, north and south four city gates are guarded by armed devil soldiers, all kinds of roadblocks and fortifications are readily available, when the fifth theater retreated from Xuzhou, most of the people in Xuzhou did not retreat with the army in time, so there are still a large number of Chinese civilians in the city at this time.

After the whole city was put under martial law, all the people in the city were forced to stay at home, and no one dared to go out without authorization, and the atmosphere of the coming war permeated the entire Xuzhou City.

Most of the troops left behind in Xuzhou were the logistics supply units left behind by the 20th Division, the 108th, 109th, and the 5th and 10th Divisions, and although there were quite a few of them, estimated to be nearly 10,000 people, most of them were subordinate to the logistics and transportation units, and their combat effectiveness was far from being comparable with that of their field troops.

However, under the current situation of the enemy, all the troops in Xuzhou City were mobilized, and all the devils were allocated weapons and equipment, and they went to the fortifications built by Xuzhou on the periphery of Xuzhou, these fortifications were built by the garrison of the original Fifth Theater, which was extremely strong, although after a war, most of the fortifications were still intact, after all, the Fifth War Zone was defeated like a mountain, in order to preserve the strength, Li Zongren and others did not order to defend Xuzhou.

As a result, the fortifications were not fully utilized and fell into the hands of the Japanese army.

Just as the battle of Xuzhou was approaching, hundreds of miles away on the Yingzhou battlefield, the 150,000 troops of the main force of the Central China Army suddenly launched a fierce attack on the Yingzhou defense line of the Huben Army, and at the same time, its Sixth and 114th Divisions also launched an attack from Fengyang along the Jinpu Railway to the Huaihe defense line of the Huben Army, in order to coordinate the offensive actions of its main force in the Yingzhou area.

In the south of Yingzhou, 25 kilometers and 30 miles to the main position of the front line of the Tiger Ben Army.

Since Qiao Anbang transferred Li Yifeng's first division to the north, the defense of the original first division was replaced by Cao Er's second division, and Chu Jingming's fourth division suffered considerable losses because of the main force in the previous battle.

As early as a few hours ago, a mixed attack group composed of the 3rd Division of the Yue Army launched a tidal assault on the outlying positions of the 30 Lipu, and all the officers and men of the 2nd Division fought back under the leadership of the division commander Cao Er, and repelled several attacks by the Yue Army.

In the division headquarters of the Second Division in the town of Sanshilipu, Cao Er, the commander of the Second Division, was holding a telescope to observe the battlefield situation outside the town, and the third regiment, the main force of the Second Division, was placed in the front-line position on the periphery, and the regiment commander Liu Quansheng was a veteran of the former Pheasant and Ji Security Regiment, with rich combat experience, good at fighting tough battles and vicious battles, and had a resounding nickname "Liu Quanpin" in the Second Division.

Because Liu Quansheng has a firm surname and a big temper, whenever he fights, he must ignore life and death, and fight to the end with the enemy, under the influence of the regiment commander, all the soldiers of the three regiments are like little tigers, go to the battlefield, all of them fight bravely and are not afraid of death.

Cao Er was observing, and there was a sudden sound of footsteps behind him, and before he could turn around, the voice of Chief of Staff Wu Wen sounded at the right time: "Shizao, this is the fifth attack of the devil, is it to replace the third regiment to rest and rest?" Tune up a ball? "After all, the three regiments have been fighting with the devil for half a day, Wu Wen is inevitably a little worried, and the three regiments can't bear it.

"No, you don't." Cao Ertou waved his hand without looking back and said, "Liu Quansheng, this kid still has a lot of stamina, and it's no problem to hold it for a few more hours." ”

As he spoke, Cao Er suddenly pointed ahead and said, "Old Wu, look, look, the third regiment has started to counter-charge again." ”

Wu Wen immediately held the telescope and looked forward, through the telescope, Wu Wen clearly saw that on the position of the third regiment, the devil could be close to the first-line trench of the third regiment, and there were hundreds of soldiers of the third regiment holding submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles under the cover of the powerful machine gun fire of their own general-purpose machine gun group, and suddenly launched a counter-charge against the devil.

This kind of counter-charge is not the first time for the devil, it seems that the Tiger Ben Army has left the strong trenches, which is conducive to the Yue Army, which is good at white-knuckle fighting, but in fact, it is not.

Although a 150mm heavy artillery unit attached to the 3rd Division of the Central China Front was destroyed by the Tiger Army Air Force in the previous battle, the artillery wings directly under the jurisdiction of each division and regiment, the artillery brigades and squadrons directly under the brigades and wings were still intact.

The combined size of their artillery is astonishing, but the devils are not without their shortcomings, their artillery stocks are not much, and when logistics cannot keep up, their artillery units are not capable of sustaining artillery fire.

Although the Second Division has an artillery regiment directly under its headquarters and each regiment also has an artillery battalion, it lags behind the Japanese army in terms of the overall size of its artillery and the number of artillery, and its only advantage is that the 105mm howitzer regiment directly under the Second Division has sufficient ammunition, and its firing range and power are higher than that of the artillery of the Japanese army.

However, two fists are difficult to defeat with four hands, and it is impossible for a single 105 howitzer regiment to completely suppress all the artillery groups of the Japanese army, and the rest will depend on each regiment to deal with it on its own.

Liu Quansheng seems to be a big boss, but he has extremely rich combat experience, and he came up with a seemingly simple, but actually very useful trick to deal with the devil's artillery.

Every time the army shelled, all the officers and men of the three regiments entered the anti-artillery hole to avoid the devil's artillery, except for the necessary warning posts, and when the devil's infantry began to attack, Liu Quansheng deliberately put the devil closer, first using machine gun fire to kill the devil, and then sent a well-equipped and powerful firepower assault team to suddenly launch a decisive counterattack on the front line.

In close combat, the devils armed with manual pull-to-leash rifles are definitely no match for the Tiger Army commandos armed with semi-automatic rifles, submachine guns, and pistols with powerful sustained firepower.

Hundreds of submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles fired continuously, combined with the powerful machine gun fire of the powerful MG34 general-purpose machine gun group on your own position, the power of the explosion was extremely staggering.

Basically, the devil soldiers had just fired a bullet, and before they could even aim at the target and pull the trigger, they were already hit head-on by dozens of hundreds of thousands of dense bullets.

In a word, the hand-held rifle and the fully automatic submachine gun and the sustainable-firing semi-automatic rifle are against each other, and the consequences must be a fiasco, not to mention that the Tiger Army has a more powerful MG34 general-purpose machine gun firepower network.

The counter-assault of the three regiments, like the previous ones, still caused heavy casualties to the devils, and the devils who rushed to the front fell in pieces like cutting wheat under the intensive firepower.

Although they also have a certain group of armored fighting vehicles, due to fuel shortages, most of the armored vehicles and tanks have been unable to move, and a small number of armored vehicles have just entered the battle before they are destroyed by the extremely powerful machine gun fire network and anti-aircraft guns of the Tiger Army.

At this moment, he clearly realized how poor the quality of their tanks and armored vehicles was compared with those of the Tiger Army. The small-caliber artillery of the Tiger Army's No. 4 tank Devil could not penetrate and destroy it at all, but the protective armor of the Devil's Dougu fighting vehicle and thin-skinned armored vehicle could not withstand even the bullets of the Tiger Army's new heavy machine gun.

After seeing the terrifying rate of fire and power of the MG34 general-purpose machine gun, the devil soldiers privately gave this machine gun they had never seen before a terrifying name, Life Lawnmower, in their opinion, charging under the dense fire of this machine gun is tantamount to suicide.

Finally, after a fierce battle, the devil finally couldn't withstand the huge casualties, and once again rushed forward like a tide.

In the second division, Cao Er put down the binoculars with a smile and said with a smile: "Hehe, I'll just say that Liu Quansheng, the bear boy, hasn't done his best yet." ”

"Well, Shizuo is right, the third regiment did a good job." Wu Wen immediately nodded in agreement, then turned around and said, "However, division, let's replace the three regiments as soon as possible, after all, the soldiers also need to rest and replenish ammunition." ”

"Well, inform Liu Quansheng and ask him to withdraw and go up with a different group." Cao Er nodded in agreement.

……………………………………………………………… At the same time, Yingshang County, in the joint headquarters of the 3rd and 9th divisions of the army.

In the joint command headquarters, the senior generals of the main divisions and regiments of the Central China Front gathered together, but everyone present had solemn expressions and did not smile.

They are all anxiously waiting for the battle on the front line, and in this attack, all divisions and regiments of the Yue Army have made great determination, because of the lack of logistics, so they must deal with the Tiger Ben Army in the Yingzhou area as soon as possible, in order to achieve a quick victory.

Otherwise, once the ammunition and supplies are exhausted, the army of hundreds of thousands will be in a dilemma, and may even be defeated by the Tiger Army.

Several division commanders and chiefs of staff present were well aware of this, so everyone tensed their nerves, and the atmosphere in the entire joint command was extremely depressed and dignified.

Suddenly, a staff officer of Dazuo held a telegram in his hand, and walked in in a hurry, and everyone's eyes immediately focused on this Dazuo staff officer, who was none other than the current chief of staff of the 3rd Division of the Army, Tian Jiu Lixiong.

(To be continued)