Dong Ku issued an order to attack Taierzhuang and Xuzhou at the same time at the moment when the siege was completed, and sent a telegram to Lao Zhao, telling him that the battle here could not last for three days, and that he was going north, and asked Lao Zhao to give up his plan to attack Linyi and end the battle of Zaozhuang as soon as possible, and he had no energy to assist in the attack of Zaozhuang.

At the same time, let Gu Zhutong end the battle against Suzhou as soon as possible, take Suzhou, join Zhang Zizhong's troops, encircle the Japanese army that was divided by Yu Lei, and press towards Shangqiu, cut off the retreat of the enemy in Shangqiu, who had just exchanged fire with the Qu army's defending troops, and eat these reinforcements.

Lao Zhao smelled a special smell and went north without attacking Shandong, which showed that Dong Ku was in a hurry to move his army north, which made him guess that he might be in Mongolia or Heilongjiang.

Sure enough, before he could finish his thoughts, the personnel who stayed in Heilongjiang called and told him that the Japanese army was attacking on multiple fronts, and the fierce battle had lasted for more than half an hour, and he could not get close to the front line, and he still did not know the situation of the battle in Ludao. Hulin was also attacked, the artillery fire reflected the red sky, and news also came from Suifenhe and Raohe that they were also attacked.

Could such a good situation be reversed?

Lao Zhao pinched the telegram from Heilongjiang, and he was really unwilling. But he knew that Harbin was the foundation of Dong Ku, and once there was a loss there, Dong Ku's loss would be very huge. He didn't have time to think about it carefully, and while sending electricity to the headquarters, he ordered a general attack in advance, cleared the positions around Zaozhuang, and attacked Zaozhuang at dawn.

With his order, the troops did not care about resting, and in the dark, the whole line pressed forward and forcibly attacked Zaozhuang. At the same time, the two divisions that had made a detour to Linyi were withdrawn, and they made every effort to defend the enemy in Linyi and build a defensive line.

Although Gu Zhutong's advancement was not fast, it was very steady, at this time. Suzhou was already an isolated city, and the surrounding Japanese troops were either driven into the city or wiped out.

Yu Lei successfully broke through the Japanese front and completed the cutting, which surprised him and knew what to do. Therefore, he ordered an all-out attack on Suzhou, and contacted Zhang Zizhong to prepare to encircle and suppress the Japanese army in the area divided by Yu Lei, so that the advance army could attack Xuzhou alone.

While they were moving, the troops on Dong Ku's side had already divided into several sharp knives and rushed all the way towards the Japanese troops attacking the marching route.

The Japanese, at the expense of casualties, pounced on the defensive positions along the line. In the blind defense of the advance army, the opponent did not have the strength to launch a general attack on Xuzhou, or did not completely encircle, and before it was time to attack them, they all rushed forward desperately, trying to break through the defense line of the advance army before the opponent could draw out his energy.

At this moment, the bombardment of artillery suddenly changed. From the original covering shooting, it became the kind of bombardment that exploded in one large area.

The cannonballs fell with a loud bang. Then, a huge ball of fire soared into the sky and did not disperse for a long time.

The shock wave cleared the Japanese troops within one or two hundred meters of the surrounding area, and a blank area appeared.

The explosion was followed by a dense explosion, and the earth shook violently like chaff. Clusters of fireballs rushed into the air one after another, and the light shone in the smoke of gunpowder, making the sky turn red.

The Japanese were bombarded so fiercely that they were difficult to resist. Still howling, charging in the direction of the position, letting the shock wave take their lives, allowing the shrapnel to shred their bodies, they had only one thought, and that was to rush to the enemy's position and kill all the lives that stood there.

But their charge was meaningless, and the advance army of a regiment rushed towards the few remaining Japanese troops in the tongue of fire in the AK54, and in a short moment, they killed these Japanese soldiers who were running and shooting, and did not even make defensive moves, and then rushed forward.

As the team advanced, the artillery muzzles on the rear positions began to rise, ready to quickly bombard the front at any time.

The constantly floating fire clouds made the sky within dozens of kilometers of Xuzhou red, like flames, burning fiercely, and the ground became brighter, and even flares were saved.

As soon as the charge began, the Japanese army was difficult to parry, and in just a few minutes of artillery bombardment, the Japanese army attacking along the line was routed, and then the remnants were shot by the charging soldiers, and they advanced straight towards Xuzhou.

After withstanding the attack of Shangqiu's reinforcements, Qu Jun handed over the task of defense to Peng Shan, the commander of the Fourth Brigade, and personally led a convoy, together with other convoys, each team was thousands of kilometers apart, and rushed straight to Xuzhou.

At this time, the muzzle of the self-propelled artillery was still lowered, bombarding the Japanese troops within three or four kilometers, and the trucks, following behind the self-propelled artillery, strafed the scattered Japanese troops in the public test in the coming year.

Behind, the soldiers who had already got off the car spread out, cleaning up the Japanese troops who were scattered by artillery fire in the firelight. No one fought with bayonets, they all held guns, and when they saw a figure in front of them, they immediately opened fire, and when there were many people, they skimmed out their grenades, and when they came to the corpses, they hurriedly pulled down the grenades and cartridges, and trotted after the team.

The charge of the advance army was unstoppable, the shells fell, although the Japanese army was crazy, but after all, it was flesh and blood, under the violent explosion, before waking up from the shock, they were killed by the soldiers who followed up, those who were stunned, were missed by the soldiers, and those who did not replenish the guns picked up a life, and those who were not crushed into flesh by the chain rails, for the time being, they could still breathe.

Qu Jun Gangha's attack speed was the fastest, the muzzle of the cannon was low, and the shells were fired one by one, making it difficult for the Japanese troops in front to resist, and the combination of anti-aircraft machine guns and heavy machine guns followed made the battle simple and fast.

In the tom tom, the Japanese troops on the position were torn apart one after another, and there were not many opportunities to shoot, besides, even if they fired, it was difficult to threaten the killing god three or four hundred meters away, at most it was to extinguish a few headlights.

The advance army encircled and immediately launched an attack, which surprised Tsukada Attack, who received the order to hold on, isn't the other party worried about the nest? Even if you don't wave your army north, shouldn't you sit down and talk? No matter how you look at it, the other party doesn't care about Heilongjiang, it is purely to eliminate the main army here in Xuzhou.

But he will not sit still, although it is a death order to stick to it, but it is also necessary to kill and wound more enemies.

But now there are enemies everywhere, and there is offensive artillery fire everywhere, so that the Japanese army, which is no longer able to command the outer defense, can only focus all his energy on the five kilometers around Xuzhou, including the street battles in the city.

So, with his order, bunkers were quickly erected on the street, and in the distant firelight, there were one every thirty or forty meters, and even some houses on the main street were piled up with sandbags in the windows and doors, and the roofs were the same.

In less than an hour, Qu Jungang's troops rushed to the outskirts of Xuzhou, and got Dong Ku's approval, and before the Japanese army saw their convoy, the scouts who had advanced first had already reported the coordinates.

"Overturn the frontier position, we will enter Xuzhou together!!"

As soon as Qu's army received permission to enter Xuzhou first, the artillery fire launched an effective bombardment of the outer positions of Xuzhou from a distance of three kilometers.

On his side were thirty self-propelled guns, firing three groups of effective guns, spitting flames quickly, and one after another red cannonballs flew forward, drawing beautiful arcs and falling with a bang.

The loud roaring sound continued to flash, and the Japanese defensive positions were indifferent in the violent explosions, and the Japanese troops on the positions were torn apart by the violent shock waves, and their lungs were shattered by the violent shock, and they fell into the trenches in pieces, and then they were buried in the soil.

The sky-high flames illuminated the whole of Xuzhou, and as more and more artillery fire from the side joined the bombardment, the Japanese army's most rearline line to resist the attack was wiped out in less than twenty minutes of bombardment.

The battle seems too simple, but the non-stop bombardment of 200 caliber artillery, even if it is not a civil bunker, it is a cement trench, it cannot withstand the continuous bombardment of such a large caliber artillery, coupled with the unique effect of effective shooting, it is reasonable to destroy the position. It's just that in this way, the consumption of shells is quite huge, and in just twenty minutes, Qu Jun just used a truck of shells here, five or six hundred.

In the city, Tsukada attacked and defended a violent shock, he didn't know if the artillery bombardment had already bombarded the city, but one thing he knew was that the enemy's attack speed was not something he could stop, and he could only hope that the street battle could strangle the enemy. Otherwise, this battle may end in just two or three days, and he may not be able to kill many advance troops.

Indeed, the fierce artillery fire is Dong Ku's absolute advantage in using artillery shells at any cost, and he has no time to delay, otherwise, it will be difficult to destroy most of the Japanese troops in Hebei within a month, take back Beijing and Tianjin, and take Shanhaiguan.

The same is true of the artillery bombardment of the various divisions, all the artillery that can reach the Japanese positions at all costs, the effective fire is covered in patches, and in one round, there are very few Japanese troops left alive on the ground, and the soldiers do not even have a chance to shoot. They only need to rush forward, report the coordinates, and urgently retreat one or two hundred meters, wait for the shelling, and then destroy the Japanese troops close to their side, and they will be done.

Dong Ku should all arrive at the periphery of Xuzhou before dawn, and launch a general attack on Xuzhou at dawn. After all, the troops here are not good, it is difficult to compare with the semi-mechanized trucks of Qu Jungang and Yu Lei, although the pressure of the fighters' advance is much smaller because of the coverage of the effective shot, but the two legs can't outrun the truck.

During the twenty minutes of artillery bombardment, he saw that the Japanese troops on the city wall were dodging the shelling, so he pointed to the city gate and ordered: "Grid 12, longitude 35, latitude 923, effective shooting, once every three minutes, the coordinates remain unchanged!! ”

"Six groups of artillery open the way, the trucks rush forward, close to the position, we attack!"

With his order, the self-propelled artillery roared, and then, about 500 meters in front of the city gate, a burst of fire, violent explosions and scattered bricks and stones rained down on the city, and the violent air waves were wrapped in smoke and dust, covering everything at the city gate, and then, the truck drove in the direction of the city gate under the self-propelled artillery. (To be continued......)