Before dawn, Bengbu was still busy cleaning up the battlefield, cleaning up the remnants, and facing Suzhou to aid the Japanese army.

Huai'an defended the enemy with two divisions, one of the Japanese 20th Division and the other of the 38th Division.

The 20th Division was formed after the victory of the Soviet-Russian War and the occupation of Korea by the Japanese, and followed the Kwantung Army all the way into the pass, and did not withdraw to Seoul as in the previous time and space.

The commander of the division, Miyake Koji, as the forward military commander of Huai'an, can be regarded as a battle-hardened battle, digging criss-crossing trenches around Huai'an, and preparing for a big battle with the advance army.

Before dawn, Dong Ku was in place in various departments, and Qu Jun was still moving, but after arriving at the predetermined position, he ordered the general attack to begin.

The artillery that had already been prepared roared in the command, and the shells tore through the pre-dawn darkness and flew towards the coordinates that had already been marked.

The soldiers had already taken advantage of the night to move to the forward position of the Japanese army, and four or five hundred meters away, watching the fire on the Japanese position, comfortably resting and the fatigue brought by the rapid march.

The Japanese army, already expecting that the advance army would come, Miyake Mitsuji dug an anti-artillery hole in the position that was enough to resist the shelling, and even the observation mouth was more than two meters deep to observe the scene outside the shelling, and the principle of a periscope was used, which was refracted with a lens to observe the surroundings.

The cannonball fell with a bang without suspense, the earth trembled violently, and a devastating shock wave swept out of all directions with the rising mushroom cloud, scraping off a layer of soil on the position, and also making the explosion area instantly covered by dust, making the darkness before dawn even darker.

As soon as the explosion sounded, Miyake Mitsuji was awakened. After a short period of confusion, without waiting for the guards to come in and report, they had already put on their clothes and shouted: "Inform all departments to defend against artillery bombardment, and be careful of the enemy's rapid advance!" ”

On the position, a strong heavy machine gun, light machine gun has been supported under the thick layer of soil. Although the muzzle firing range is small, the coordination of the machine guns is enough to keep there are no dead spots in front of the position. As long as the Qin army in Xi'an dares to charge, in front of the position, it will be the grave of the Qin army in Xi'an.

This is Miyake Mitsuji's defensive strategy, a hidden fortress built with earth and stone bunkers to deal with the powerful artillery bombardment of the advance army.

Dong Ku had already received information from the scouts, but he didn't know that the Japanese position was designed in this way, but he felt that the Japanese position was too clean, and there were few helmets. Moreover, the trenches were built too high, exposing the ground by two or three meters, so I guessed that this was similar to the Japanese defense system in Heilongjiang, and built underground tunnels and bunkers to deal with their own artillery bombardment.

Originally, he did not plan to attack hard, but only blocked the Japanese troops inside so that they could not escape, eliminate the threat of Japanese artillery fire, and besiege but not attack.

Of course. The shelling still continued, although the 200-caliber howitzer could not inflict absolute damage on the Japanese troops under such a deep layer of soil. However, there will still be deaths of Japanese soldiers, and those who are not shocked to death will also have giant earthquake syndrome, and their combat effectiveness will inevitably decline.

Miyake Mitsuji listened to a loud noise from the distant position, and smiled darkly while dressing, "It is said that the advance army attacks sharply. I'll see how you guys get past my defenses! ”

In the burrow, the Japanese soldiers plugged their ears with cotton one by one, held the end of the periscope, and looked out hard in the shaking like chaff. As soon as the enemy dares to charge, the long-awaited passion in the trenches will pounce on the battle position and crush the invading enemy with machine guns.

Sun Tao gave the order during the artillery bombardment, and the troops quickly bypassed Huai'an, and in the loud roar, they easily advanced and made a detour in the direction of Siyang.

Although they were dozens of kilometers apart, the sound of violent explosions still faintly reached them, and then Huai'an's phone call arrived, saying that the enemy was attacking in a big way.

The moment they received the message, it was also when the defenders in Suqian received the news.

The Matsui Division in Suqian Tiangu was ordered to be stationed to defend Huai'an and Suqian. And Nakajima's 16th Division had already moved north and entered the vicinity of Xuzhou.

At the moment when Tiangu received that Huai'an was attacked, he did not hesitate to order two wings to remain in Suqian City, and other troops rushed to Huai'an with a division from Taiwan for reinforcements.

He will not wait for the advance army to break through Huai'an, nor will he wait for Miyake Koji in Huai'an to ask for reinforcements before sending reinforcements, the enemy's speed is too fast, once he asks for help, the distance of 100 kilometers is probably too late.

At the beginning, he once had a complaint about the base camp for letting him enter Suqian, because, once Huai'an was attacked, he still needed reinforcements there, back and forth, wasting time, but he did not violate the intention of the base camp, because, not to mention the combat effectiveness of the two divisions in Huai'an, after several battles, the entire Huai'an has been built into a defensive fortress according to the information obtained, which is used to consume and strangle the vitality and materials of the advance army.

Qu Jun was still nearly 40 kilometers away from Suqian at this time, and since it was almost dawn, he had to find a place for the army to hide, otherwise, it would be difficult to avoid the reconnaissance plane that was about to appear overhead.

And here in Siyang, the attacking troops were already in place, and at the moment of the beginning of the shelling, they quickly seized the favorable terrain around Siyang, and at the same time, rushed towards Siyang.

The defenders of Siyang did not know that the enemy was approaching, and after receiving the information that Huai'an was attacked, they prepared to defend.

On the position, machine guns were erected, and all the Japanese troops rushed to the position to prevent the enemy from making a detour to Siyang.

But their movements were still slow, and while the Japanese were moving, a regiment had approached their position, and as the guns and grenades flew up in pieces, the fire lit up Siyang in an instant.

While the Japanese were still in motion, the soldiers rushed into the position in the blast of the explosion, and then the fierce white-knuckle battle began.

In the few minutes when the telephone line was cut off and the telegram had not had time to be sent, Siyang was breached, and all the Japanese troops were wiped out, and the battle ended in no more than ten minutes.

"Build a position!"

"All the machine guns were moved out, mortars, infantry guns were mounted!"

While clearing the remnants of the Japanese army and traitors in Siyang, the soldiers of the advance army connected with the favorable terrain that had been seized outside Siyang and moved out the few ammunition in Siyang. In addition to guns, bullets, grenades were all transported to the position.

Huai'an, the shelling continues, and at this time, the forward positions after half an hour of bombardment are already in tatters. According to the report of the Japanese troops in the trenches, Miyake Mitsuji suddenly found that his carefully constructed defense line did not seem to be able to stop the enemy's advance. The enemy's shelling was so severe that dozens of machine gun ports were buried by the collapsed earth and lost their effectiveness, and there were not many periscope glass pieces that were not shattered, so that the Japanese troops in the hole became blind in the dark and did not dare to approach the firing port. There, shells fell. Few can hold on, even if they don't die, their ears are buzzing, and their blood is surging.

"The enemy's artillery fire is so fierce?!"

Miyake Mitsuji still couldn't believe it at this time, this was a defense system that took him a lot of effort to complete, how could it not stop the enemy's shelling?

Feeling that it was difficult to hold on and there was pressure, he did not hesitate to send a message to the command for help. When he heard that Tiangu personally led two divisions or so of troops to rush to reinforcements. While relieved, I was still apprehensive.

Shelling. After the exchange of telegrams from the Japanese army, they began to not only frontal fronts, but the roundabout advance troops had already mounted their self-propelled artillery on three sides and began to bombard Huai'an's positions.

"Not good! We're surrounded! ”

Miyake Mitsuji heard the sound of artillery all around, but he didn't expect the enemy to move so fast. In a short period of time, Huai'an was surrounded. Although he had been waiting for the enemy to surround and attack, once he was surrounded, he was still a little flustered.

When the surrounding Japanese troops were asking for help in Huai'an, they received orders and rushed to help. The plan is to use Hua'an's sturdy defenses to flank inside and out, killing as many enemies as possible.

The Japanese army in Lianyun dispatched two brigades, divided their troops into four routes, and advanced towards Huai'an. At the same time, planes from Qingdao and Jinan took off one after another and rushed towards Huai'an.

In Suqian, in the grass, Qu Jungang's guard Li Er whispered: "Division commander, the Japanese army is advancing in three ways, and if we come to him, we will definitely be able to eat most of it, and the rest will be scattered." ”

Qu Jun just put down the binoculars and shook his head, "Our goal is Suqian, this reinforcement will be left to the new Sixth Division in Siyang to deal with, inform the troops not to move, lurk and wait for the enemy to cross!" ”

"Yes!"

The staff officer next to him took out his walkie-talkie and gave an order, and everyone pressed the muzzle of their guns, slowly lowered their heads, and hid in the grass and woods.

Tens of thousands of enemies were lurking around him, and his two divisions were passing under the noses of these lurking crowds.

Tiangu couldn't have imagined that the enemy was already at his doorstep, he sat in the truck, looked at the advancing team, looked at the scouts marching by the mountains and forests on both sides, and thought in his heart how to teach the enemy in Huai'an a painful lesson.

But he didn't know what to do, and the scout's feet were about to step on the heads of the lurking advance soldiers, and just passing in front of their eyes was not like he had walked away from the ghost gate.

The army, all the way with smoke and dust, rumbling forward. Although the tanks and armored vehicles of Zhilu Dao did not pour out much in the advance army, Tiangu did not give up these 1,000 weapons that could be called sharp weapons, thirty tanks, twenty armored vehicles, marching on the road, used as a fixed fortress, Tiangu would not let these huge amounts of money to build things in Suqian.

Qu Jun just looked at the passing Japanese troops in front of him, measuring the combat effectiveness of the Sixth Division, he was really a little worried that the defense of the Sixth Division would not be too difficult.

Indeed, there are more than 200 75 mountain guns and field guns and infantry guns carried by Tiangu, which is far more than the normal configuration, and the heavy machine guns are even more than one on each truck.

Dong Ku soon received this report, and he smiled when he saw the number of equipment of the Japanese army.

Burning the telegram, he turned his head and ordered: "Send a telegram to the new Sixth Division, let it be ready for battle, and in three hours, the artillery will be in place, and there is no need to worry about no long-range fire support." ”

Cui Gang, the commander of the Sixth Division, saw the telegram and felt that he had a lot. He advanced lightly, and he didn't carry heavy weapons, otherwise it wouldn't have been all the weapons of the little Japanese put on the battlefield, and he was not worried about being bullied by the Japanese army without suppressing firepower?

Dong Ku sent a telegram and asked, "Did the forward observation post see any changes in the Japanese position?" ”

"Captain, no, no one from the Japanese army went to the position in the explosions in turn, and it seems that no one held the position."

"No one is holding out?"

Dong Ku glanced at Sun Tao and felt that this matter was a bit unreliable, perhaps, the Japanese army really had a conspiracy, or rather, it really had a means to deal with the shelling.

He didn't know that Miyake Miyake Koji did have a backhand, but he hadn't taken it out yet.

Although it is strange, Dong Ku is not in a hurry, how can he wait for the enemy in Suqian to arrive in Siyang, Suqian has successfully attacked and is studying the attack on Huai'an.

At this time, for more than an hour, Huai'an had been surrounded by iron, and the figures of the advance army were everywhere, all lurking under the dust in the smoke of gunpowder.

At this moment, Sun Tao suddenly received a report that the Japanese planes had already rushed straight to Huai'an, with a total of 40 fighters and bombers, and the reconnaissance planes had already rushed to Huai'an.

Dong Ku took the telegram handed by Sun Tao and saw that it belonged to Yu Ke, and when he saw the number of Japanese planes above, he handed the telegram back to Sun Tao and did not care.

Sun Tao took the telegram and ordered: "Inform the troops, prepare for air defense, and the artillery positions are hidden!" ”

With his order, the bombardment suddenly stopped, making Huai'an, which had just been noisy, suddenly quiet.

The sudden halt of the shelling made Miyake Mitsuji's heart tighten, and he ordered loudly, "Get ready, the enemy is going to attack!" ”

At the sound of his shouting, the position was already busy, and the muzzles of the machine guns buried in the earth poked out wooden sticks one by one, stabbing the dirt that blocked the firing ports, revealing holes the size of basins.

The Japanese army ran even faster, endured the discomfort of the huge shock to their bodies, ran to the combat position, held the machine gun, and waited for the enemy's attack. The periscopes, which had lost their usefulness, were dragged down from the cave at the moment of the end of the shelling and were intensively repaired.

"Look, there's a hole in there!"

"There's it too!"

When holes appeared in the earthen dam-like ridges of the position, they were seen by the soldiers who were observing not far away, and they saw the firing ports.

This information was immediately transmitted to Sun Tao, who was busy preparing to meet the Japanese bombing, Sun Tao handed the walkie-talkie to Dong Ku and did not speak.

After listening to the report, Dong Ku's brows furrowed slightly, he keenly captured the intentions of the Japanese army. These bunkers have no front doors, or rather, the communication trenches are covered as bunkers, and these positions are traps.

"Sample, play tunnel warfare with me!"

Dong Ku smiled and said: "What the Japanese army thinks is quite beautiful, when they turn around to attack the position, we will call the little devil to surprise!" ”

Ha Lu Ha! Zuo Boyang and Sun Tao laughed. They were all looking forward to the surprise that Dong Ku said, and they were looking forward to the spectacular scene at that time. (To be continued......)