Qiao Anbang and the others were shocked when they heard this, and they were about to send someone to inquire, when the telephone in the headquarters had already ringed, and Qiao Anbang's attendant adjutant Liang Jiahan walked quickly to the telephone and picked up the microphone.

After a while, Xiu frowned slightly and said: "General seat, the three regiments reported that they suddenly launched a fierce attack directly on our army's position in person, and the attack was extremely strong, and the three regiments are trying their best to resist!" ”

Liang Jiahan's words fell, and everyone present changed color, and then they started to talk about it.

Xie Jinyuan took a step forward and said to Qiao Anbang: "Anbang, devils have always disliked night battles, but tonight they took the initiative to launch a night attack on our army, it seems that they have a plan!" ”

"Hmmm! If I'm not mistaken, the devil wants to break through! Qiao Anbang nodded in agreement.

"Boss, then what are we waiting for, let's attack quickly!" Zhang Xudong stepped forward and said urgently.

"No, it's not yet the time for a general attack, we don't distinguish between the enemy and the enemy at night, it's easy for the devils to take the opportunity to escape, plus our air force can't provide fire support, in this way, if we forcibly besiege, even if we win, it will be a miserable victory, and it will be extremely unfavorable for our future operations, I want to annihilate more than 100,000 troops outside Xuzhou City with the least casualties!"

After a pause, Qiao Anbang immediately turned around and said to everyone with an awe-inspiring expression: "I order ......!" ”

Everyone present looked solemn and stood up, waiting for Qiao Anbang's order.

"The Reading Garrison Brigade is fully vigilant in the north of the city, in order to guard against the Zaozhuang and Linyi armies in the north of the city, and the second regiment and the first regiment are fully committed to their respective positions, and they are not allowed to attack without orders! The Guards Regiment and the Artillery Regiment immediately went to the railway station in the western suburbs to support the 3rd Infantry Regiment! Qiao Anbang quickly ordered the adjustment of the deployment.

"Yes!" Xie Jinyuan, commander of the garrison brigade, Li Yifeng, commander of the first division, and several regiment commanders stepped forward at the same time, and immediately turned around and strode out.

After seeing Li Yifeng and the others leave, Qiao Anbang said to Chi Fengcheng, the commander of the 31st Division beside him: "Commander Chi, your troops will be responsible for garrisoning the city defense!" ”

"Hmm!" Chi Fengcheng nodded heavily.

"Commander, what about our armored brigade?!" Zhang Xudong saw that everyone had received the combat mission, and couldn't help but ask anxiously.

"The armored brigade is on standby for the time being, ready to attack at any time and rush to the aid of the regiments!" Qiao Anbang said coldly.

Zhang Xudong moved his mouth, wanting to say something, but in the end he didn't say it, and bowed his head to answer!

Ignoring Zhang Xudong's small changes, Qiao Anbang said meaningfully to the few people present: "As long as we survive tonight, as soon as it dawns tomorrow, our Air Force, the 31st Army and the 48th Army will be able to arrive with 30,000 fresh troops!" At that time, it will be the time of the destruction of the army! ”

………………………… The railway station in the western suburbs of Xuzhou, the defensive position of the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the 1st Division of the Huben Army.

Because of the special geographical location of the railway station, so it has become the main direction of attack for the army to break through, and if the army wants to break through from Xuzhou smoothly, one is to capture Xuzhou City, and then only to break through the defensive position of the Tiger Ben Army in the western suburbs of the railway station, and then go north along the canal.

As for why the army did not evacuate secretly, but instead launched an attack on the Tiger Army, which had already been prepared, this was actually a helpless move, if the army only had two or three thousand people, Ban Heng Zhengshiro would definitely be able to pick a country road to evacuate quietly.

However, now the army trapped in Xuzhou has four divisions and nearly 1230,000 people, and it is impossible for so many people to evacuate quietly.

Besides, breaking the whole into pieces and fighting sports warfare is the specialty of the Eighth Route Army, and the little devils will never understand the mystery.

Banheng Seishiro will never disperse all the hundreds of thousands of troops in his hands to break through, which is extremely inconsistent with the army's consistent combat style and tactical thinking. Moreover, if the army really disperses its actions, it will give the Tiger Ben army an opportunity to take advantage of it, and the Tiger Ben army can break them one by one with its super mobile surname and air superiority, and finally achieve a complete victory.

Therefore, if the Yue army wants to break through the encirclement and retreat north, it must attack head-on, defeat the Huben army, and withdraw north along the Jinpu Railway and the Grand Canal, and there is no other way.

The position of the three regiments was set up on the railway station, and at this time the entire position was already deafening with the rumbling of artillery and the shouting of gunfire, and the explosions one after another and the flares fired by the three regiments burst out with dazzling light, dispelling the dark night and illuminating the entire railway station and the surrounding area as if it were day.

The raging artillery fire spread in all directions, and some of the dead trees and grass on the positions of the three regiments were damaged and were burning, and the crackling and dry branches were burned again and again.

The third regiment and the first battalion were responsible for holding the front-line position, and the third regiment was worthy of being the elite unit of the Tiger Army, and after some panic, the officers and men of the second battalion had recovered from the initial haste.

The commander of the second battalion carried an MP38 submachine gun to the front-line trench to supervise the battle, the riflemen and machine gunners fired heavily and calmly and frantically, and the snipers hid in remote corners to pick out the devil's light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers.

Although it was dark at night, the flares fired by the Tiger Army and the tongues of fire erupted from the Devil's machine gun were the snipers' reliant on aiming.

In the dark night, dense bullets like rain shuttled through, and the most dazzling thing was the crossfire network composed of the MG34 general-purpose machine guns equipped with the machine gun company of the second battalion.

Those devil soldiers who were eager to charge fell in groups of three or five, and for a while, the sound of miserable howls and bullets sinking into the flesh was endless.

At the same time, the devils from several other directions also launched attacks on the Tiger Ben Army one after another, and for a time the entire Xuzhou City was full of gunfire and shouts of killing.

The Tiger Ben army was bound to win, and the army desperately broke through, and both sides used all their strength to fight, and the battle soon entered a white heat.

In the position of the second battalion of the railway station, I don't know how many large-scale group charges of the devils have been repulsed, and there are very few soldiers who can stand in the position of the second battalion.

The lieutenant colonel and battalion commander who came to the front-line trench to supervise the battle had already been martyred, and just when the surviving soldiers of the second battalion still had time to grieve, the sound of killing in front of the position rose again, and the devils who had just retreated launched a tidal wave of onslaught on the position of the second battalion again.

…………………… Inside the city, the temporary headquarters of the 11th Army (Tiger Army).

Qiao Anbang, Zhang Xudong and others were waiting for the battle report at the headquarters, and Qiao Anbang seemed very determined to sit in front of the map and smoke a cigarette, thinking about something.

However, Zhang Xudong, the commander of the armored brigade, seemed a little restless, and the headquarters was anxiously pacing back and forth, listening to the earth-shaking shouts and guns outside the city, Zhang Xudong's heart was as irritable as growing grass, and at this moment he couldn't wait to immediately lead his armored brigade to rush out of the city, rush into the devil crowd and kill him with a river of blood.

However, as the commander-in-chief, Qiao Anbang did not speak, no matter how anxious he was, he did not dare to act rashly.

Just when Zhang Xudong was restless, the telephone bell in the headquarters rang again, this time without waiting for Liang Jiahan to answer the phone, Zhang Xudong walked up in three steps and two steps, picked up the microphone and said loudly: "Hey, this is the headquarters." ”

"General seat, the army offensive is rapid, and it has launched an uninterrupted group charge for nearly two hours towards the defensive position of the railway station of our three regiments, the second battalion of the third regiment has resisted desperately, and the losses are very heavy, in addition to more than ten wounded soldiers in the whole battalion, the battalion commander Lieutenant Colonel Zhong Zhijian has all been killed and martyred, and now the commander of the third regiment, Colonel Liu Daquan, has personally led the guard company to the top, the position of the three regiments is urgent, the railway station is urgent, and the general seat is asked to send reinforcements as soon as possible!" On the other end of the phone, the anxious voice of Li Yifeng, the commander of the First Division, rang in vain.

"Yifeng, you wait, I'll report to the head seat immediately!" Zhang Xudong hung up the phone with a little excitement, turned around and said to Qiao Anbang: "General seat, Li Yifeng is calling, the position of the three regiments is urgent, and I want urgent reinforcements!" ”

Hearing this, Qiao Anbang slowly turned around, and said extremely coldly: "The armored brigade will attack immediately, remember, your task is to defeat the attacking troops of the Yue army in the direction of the railway station, the armored brigade is the sharpest sword in my hand, if you don't come out, it is enough, since it is out of the sheath, it is bound to taste the blood of the devil, do you understand?" ”

"Yes! Humble duty understands! Zhang Xudong's eyes revealed a strong fighting spirit, and he stepped forward and said loudly, and then turned around and strode out.

On the defensive position of the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment at the railway station in the western suburbs, it was only with the timely reinforcement of the guard company led by Liu Daquan, the commander of the 3rd Regiment, that the position did not fall into the hands of the devils.

Under the light emitted by the flares, you can clearly see that in front of the position, thousands of devil soldiers are rushing towards them like a tide, and the number of devils is as large as an ant colony.

In the fierce battle, there were soldiers around him who kept falling, Liu Daquan was calm on the surface, but his forehead was already quietly overflowing with sweat, if the reinforcements from the division headquarters were not there, the railway station would not be able to withstand it.

The army launched a full-scale onslaught, and its three battalions were fiercely attacked, and when the battle came to this point, Liu Daquan really had no soldiers available in his hands, otherwise he would not have personally brought his guard company to come.

As time passed, there were fewer and fewer soldiers of the guard company standing and fighting, and the disparity in the number of people on both sides became larger and larger.

A rumbling sound came from the highway in the direction of Xuzhou City, and then the firelight, Liu Daquan vaguely saw that a large group of tanks and combat vehicles on the highway were rumbling towards this side quickly.

At this time, it was naturally the armored brigade that appeared, Liu Daquan suddenly lifted his spirits, raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers, our armored troops are coming, reinforcements are coming, hold on!" ”

"Dada!" After speaking, the submachine gun in his hand erupted into a burst of fierce strafing, and a dense whirlwind of bullets roared towards the devil crowd, and several unlucky devil soldiers suddenly fell in response.

(To be continued)