Their respective interests fight, two of them are called Li Bai, of which Bai is known as Xiao Zhuge Bai Chongxi, Li is known as Li Mengzai Li Zongren, Li Zongren since he was appointed as the commander of the Fifth Theater of Operations, he has put all his energy into commanding the battle, especially after Han Fuqu was shot, he is ready to fight with all his strength, because the main force of the Central Army has been consumed at this time, Li Zongren can only use the local army to resist the enemy.

Li Zongren is a traditional Chinese general, China's military thinking is very different from the West, especially in modern times, Western military thought, often only weapons, this is also because the results of modern Western firearms sweeping the world make Western generals more convinced that weapons determine everything.

From Lu Shang's Liutao to Sun Wu's Art of War, from Li Jing's "Tang Taizong Li Weigong Asks the Right Questions" to Chairman Mao's Discussion on Protracted War, most of China's military thinking does not emphasize weapons, but rather emphasizes ideology and strategy.

Li Zongren was a general who was proficient in the Chinese art of war, and at this time, a phone call came to his headquarters, but it was Jiang Zhong, who was troubled.

Jiang said with a smile: "Delin, do you think there is still a shortage of people in the fifth war zone?" I have some Sichuan troops here that have not been assigned yet, do you want them? ”

It turned out that the Sichuan army was not valued by the major war zones at all because of its backward weapons and insufficient food and wages, and even because the Sichuan army often looted grain to supplement the shortage of food, it was also rushed to and from various war zones.

Li Zong thought for a while and said, "There are no inactive soldiers, only inactive generals." Back then, Zhuge Liang was still a straw man as a suspicious soldier, and the Sichuan army was always stronger than the straw man. I want it! ”

He not only allocated food and salary to the Sichuan army, but also gave weapons and equipment, and other troops said: "Even Commander Li of the Sichuan Army values it, will he still need us?" "For a time, everyone in the Fifth War Zone practiced martial arts and prepared to fight to the death.

Li Zongren watched the Japanese 10th Division and the 5th Division approaching step by step, and also completed the final plan and deployment.

- Linyi

Pang Bingxu, who had been guarding Linyi for several days, was anxiously waiting in the confidential room. Outside the city, nearly 10,000 troops of the Fifth Division had launched nearly 100 or more attacks in small groups, and the Japanese planes and artillery had turned the positions he had worked so hard to build into a sea of fire.

"Commander, reinforcements have arrived on the way, and they are expected to arrive in three days." The intelligence officer said immediately after deciphering the code.

"What? Three days? It's too slow, and then urge, which troop is it? Pang Bingxu clenched his fists and said anxiously.

"It's General Zhang Zizhong's Fifty-ninth Army." The intelligence officer replied.

"Who? Zhang Zizhong? It's over, it's over. As soon as Pang Bingxu heard Zhang Zizhong's name, his face immediately changed.

The intelligence officer asked curiously, "Commander, what's the matter?" ”

Pang Bingxu sighed and said, "This Zhang Zizhong and I are old acquaintances, we have known each other since we were in the Northwest Army, and I once attacked him. also injured him with his own hands, it can be said that the hatred is as deep as the sea, he will not come to save me. That's it, let's prepare for martyrdom together, and tell the brothers that we were born in the northwest and died in Shandong!! ”

Although Pang Bingxu's legs and feet are inconvenient, he is worthy of the name of the tiger general. Under his leadership, the Fifth Division did not enter Linyi.

The commander of the Fifth Division, Itagaki Seishiro, looked at another failure of the attack on the battlefield, shook his head and said, "The combat effectiveness of this branch is very strong, it seems that the battle in the future will not be as easy as starting to fight Han Fuqu." ”

The new commander of the 21st Brigade next to him, Sakamoto Shun, said disapplausively: "Your Excellency, Division Commander." Are you too careful, as long as we go all out, I don't believe that the Shina troops on the opposite side who don't even have chariots can withstand our warriors. ”

Seishiro Itagaki looked at him, shook his head, and said, "Have you forgotten why your predecessor, General Toshiji Miura, was transferred to the rear?" The Chinese troops should not be underestimated, once you underestimate the enemy. He'll bite us hard. ”

At this time, a communications soldier jumped off his horse and said, "Report, a branch of troops is rapidly approaching the battlefield. ”

Seishiro Itagaki looked at the battlefield that was still in the midst of a fierce battle. "How many?" was asked. Which unit is it? ”

The signal soldier replied, "It's Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army." ”

Itagaki Seishiro knew Zhang Zizhong's name, and he knew the 59th Army even more. This is the new army composed of the original Song Zheyuan's troops, and the equipment is even better than that of the Central Army.

Itagaki Seishiro stood on the high mountain, looked at it with a telescope, and sure enough, he saw hundreds of fierce horses stepping on the dust, quickly crashing into his troops, and after the dust slowly dissipated, only the corpses were left in one place, which was the cavalry unit of the original Northwest Army.

Itagaki Seishiro quickly calculated, felt that he couldn't swallow two armies, and said, "Order, retreat thirty miles, we are just a feint, don't be too desperate." Pang Bingxu looked at the visitor in disbelief, his lame foot seemed to be fine, and he stepped forward step by step, and his four big hands were tightly clasped together.

The person who came was Zhang Zizhong, he finally got what he wanted, and began to gallop on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, he shook his hand and said, "Brother Pang, I'm late." ”

Pang Bingxu's hands were trembling, he looked at Zhang Zizhong, whose eyes were full of bloodshots, and knew that this was the result of rushing overnight, Pang Bingxu closed his eyes, a tear flowed down, and said, "Brother Zhang, don't say anything, brother is ashamed, from today on, let's kill devils together." ”

Zhang Zizhong nodded and smiled, "Okay, kill the devil!" ”

Itagaki Seishiro looked at the Linyi troops whose morale was greatly boosted because of the reinforcements, touched his beard and said, "Order the troops to be ready for a counterattack at any time." The Shina troops are very prepared, and I am afraid that our Terauchi general's calculation was wrong. ”

- Teng County

The defenders of Teng County were Deng Xihou's 22nd Group Army, which was commanded by Sun Zhen at this time. The Sichuan Army is the establishment of the B Army, that is, each army has two divisions, each division has two brigades, and each brigade has two regiments, and there are no special forces, and its main weapons are Sichuan-made 79 rifles, broadswords, grenades, and a few home-made light and heavy machine guns and mortars, and the equipment is outdated. In addition, because the Sichuan army fought with the Japanese army on the battlefield of Jindong for more than 40 days before coming to Teng, suffered heavy losses, and suffered more than half of the casualties, when it came to Tengxian County to defend, the whole army actually had only eight regiments, and the total strength was only 20,000.

Guarding the city of Tengxian was the 45th Army.

Hong Xinzhi was already a veteran at this time, and he even had the life of a devil in his hands, although this Japanese soldier was killed with the help of the old squad leader Lao Shan. But it also made him grow.

Hong Xinzhi was standing guard at the camp gate at this time, suddenly. He saw a group of people coming over, and he hurriedly shouted, "There is a situation!" Everyone, be on alert!! ”

But I heard a voice from the crowd, "Boss, we are here to work for the army, don't shoot." ”

Hong Xinzhi couldn't believe his ears, come to the labor army? After coming out of Sichuan, he knew how unpopular the Sichuan army he belonged to, and it would be good if the people didn't rush it, and he would still work in the army?

"I'll go and see, and shoot as soon as you see something is wrong." Lao Shan walked down from the watchtower and walked towards the procession.

Lao Shan walked out of the camp gate and saw that it was indeed a big car and a small car. He rubbed his hands excitedly and said, "Xiucai, you see, I'll go to find the teacher, but I saw the pig, we have a good day today." “

Wang Shijun, the commander of the 125th Division, heard the report of this small squad leader, looked at him with a happy face, and said angrily, "I didn't give you food or clothing, I don't look promising, come out with me to have a look." “

Lao Shan lowered his head and looked at his straw sandals, which he still wore from Sichuan. That's how he spent the winter. Due to the frequent battles (driven to and from various districts), most of the Sichuan army still wore such shoes and shorts. Clothes can only be worn by whoever goes outside and who wears them thicker, and everyone takes turns to wear them, but there is really no way to wear shoes, so they can only insist.

Lao Shan followed Wang Shijun to the gate of the camp. Seeing that the soldiers were in a hurry, although they really wanted to take it in their hearts, who would dare to take it without an order from their superiors. Especially knowing that the division commander was coming soon, he could only push back, and the common people didn't bother to talk to the soldiers. After a while, the gate of the camp was full of all kinds of agricultural products, like a vegetable market.

Hong Xinzhi saw Lao Shan and Wang Shijun, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Master, we can't stop it." “

Seeing that it was the officer who took the lead and came, an old man said with a smile, "It's Master Wang, the little old man brought some things with the villagers today to replenish the boss's body." I hope Master Wang will accept it with a smile. ”

Wang Shijun looked at the chaotic camp and said with a wry smile, "Uncle is kind, we have it, but this is really not good, not to mention the food and salary that Commander Li has already repaid, if we take your things again, we will really become bandits." ”

The old man shook his head with a smile, and said with a cane, "This Teng County is the place where I was raised, you don't want to protect here, will we be reluctant to have a little food?" Look at how these CEOs are still wearing straw sandals. With that, the old man dragged his shoes off, stepped on the ground barefoot and squatted down to put on Lao Shan's shoes. Frightened, Lao Shan hurriedly retreated and said, "I can't help it, I can't help it." ”

The old man frowned and said, "What's wrong?" Folks!! Our soldiers are still wearing single clothes and straw sandals, do we have to do something, otherwise in the future, others will say that we Shandong people don't know how to be hospitable. ”

Shandong is the hometown of Confucius, here is very important to the ceremony, as soon as they heard this, the young descendants also took the initiative to take off their shoes and clothes and handed them to the soldiers, Hong Xinzhi knew that the family was not rich to do some ordinary people, maybe the family was just this thick cotton clothes, and hurriedly shirked it. Lao Shan stood behind, looked at these people, and sighed slowly, "This is hoping that we will all die here." ”

More than 30,000 people of the 10th Division led by Isoya Ryosuke to obtain Jinan soon approached Teng County, and Isoya Ryosuke looked at the intelligence on the opposite side, and did not even have the ** to fight, but only ordered planes and artillery to bomb in turn, feeling that an enemy like the Sichuan army was really unnecessary to pay attention to.

But to Isoya's surprise, the Sichuan army on the opposite side was surprisingly tenacious, although there was not even a single anti-tank gun, the Sichuan army simply blocked his attack with flesh and blood.

"No, if we continue to consume like this, we won't be able to fight for long, no matter how willing the brothers are, they can't fight these little devils." Wang Mingzhang called the commander of the regiment, Sun Zhen, and said anxiously, "Reinforcements, where is our reinforcements, where is the Central Army of Tang Enbo?" ”

Sun Zhen comforted, "Don't worry, the vanguard of the Tang Department has arrived in Lincheng, I should urge it to hurry north, and you must ensure that Tengxian is waiting for reinforcements." You move the headquarters into the city to command and defend the city, and if the troops are not enough, you can transfer all the troops of the 41st Army outside the city to the county town to defend and wait for reinforcements. ”

Wang Mingzhang had no choice but to obey the order. And Tang Enbo in Linxian has his own ideas.

There are only three units under Li Zongren that are really combative, one is the original Song Zheyuan army of Zhang Zizhong and others, the second is the former Northwest Army of Sun Lianzhong, and the third and most effective is Tang Enbo's Central Army.

Li Zongren's entire Taierzhuang campaign plan was actually to consume the Japanese army with all the miscellaneous armies under his command, and then use the most elite Tang Enbo troops to settle the battle after the Japanese army was exhausted.

Tang Enbo also understood his importance, for fear that after saving Wang Mingzhang, he would be glued by the Japanese army, making himself a garrison corps and disrupting the entire combat deployment.

As a result, Tang Enbo insisted on not obeying Li Zongren's command, and under the pretext that the troops had not arrived, he did not send troops to rescue Teng County. Prepare for the final battle.

The outer city wall of Teng County had been breached at this time, and due to the penetration of the Japanese army, the Sichuan army was divided into two pieces, and there were less than 3,000 people left in Teng County.

Hong Xinzhi shot nervously, the city wall had been blown down by heavy artillery, and hundreds of Japanese troops were attacking along the blown up city wall.

Hong Xinzhi looked at the cotton shoes on his feet, looked at the Japanese soldiers who rushed up again, touched his bullets, and there were seven rounds, Hong Xinzhi said with a crying voice, "Squad leader, can't we hold it?" “

Lao Shan had already been shot, and with a bandage on his arm, he said, "Gua Wazi, what are the crows talking nonsense, they can't hold on to retreat, what are you afraid of?" As he spoke, he fired a shot, and after firing it, he quickly rolled to the side, and sure enough, several machine-gun bullets hit the position he had just been, sending a puff of dust.

Lao Shan stuck out his tongue and said, "Xiucai, you go quickly, I'm here to guard." ”

Hong Xinzhi said anxiously: "Let's go together." ”

Lao Shan scolded, "When is it, it's still my mother-in-law's, if I don't leave, no one will be able to leave, the turtle son will get out of me, and I will kill a few more little devils in the future to avenge my uncle." Don't you want to leave us some seeds? “

Hong Xinzhi left in tears, Lao Shan saw Hong Xinzhi walking away, picked up his gun, inserted the bayonet, and suddenly got up and shouted, "Little devils, grandpa fought with you." ”

After stabbing a Japanese soldier to death, Lao Shan was stabbed through the body by several bayonets, Lao Shan slowly looked down at his shoes, and said helplessly, "Turtle son's, it's really not worth it." ”

The Japanese army soon captured Tengxian, and more than 3,000 soldiers of the Nationalist Army led by Wang Mingzhang died in Linyi, and the 10th Division also suffered a lot of losses, but because of the merit with the 5th Division, it began to march to Taierzhuang, and the 5th Division was still blocked in Linyi and could not move.

Li Zongren's puzzle is finally about to be completed. (To be continued.) )