On the morning of 16, the Tufeiyuan Division was killed under the city of Caozhou, and the 20th Division, the 23rd Division of the Second Group Army, and Dong Zhao's 28th Division, under the command of Sun Yinting, the acting commander-in-chief of the Third Group Army guarding Caozhou, a total of three divisions plus two regiments of the new 37th Brigade, a total of 35,000 people blocked the Japanese army. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Japanese army used heavy artillery and tanks to launch a fierce attack on Caozhou City, and in one morning, the defenders of Caozhou City suffered thousands of casualties.

For a while, the battle was fierce!

On the Juancheng side, the Japanese Sakai detachment crossed the Miyama River and launched an attack on the new 37th Brigade and the 22nd Division of the Third Army.

The Sakai squadron, equipped with a tank squadron, had fierce firepower, and at one point occupied the high ground on the eastern bank of the mountain of Kei, forcing Leng Feng to order the shrinking forces to retreat.

However, the Japanese army wanted to drive straight in, but it was difficult to succeed for a while.

Leng Feng knew very well that if he wanted to confront the Japanese army head-on with the strength in his hands, he was looking for death, and the strategy was still that, delaying the Japanese army's attack, and consuming it with the Japanese army, before the large army entered the field, this was the only way, at least he could contain the thousands of people in the Sakai detachment.

However, even so, it is still aggrieved enough.

Leng Feng had a regiment of the 37th Brigade in his hands, as well as some engineer units, plus a special service regiment directly under the division headquarters (missing a battalion, on the way back), and then the troops directly under the division headquarters basically stayed in Jining, and the command headquarters was lightly armed, plus the 22nd Division of the Third Army, there were 10,000 horses.

However, of these 10,000 people, there are more than 6,000 people in the 22nd Division, and more than 2,000 of these 6,000 people are from the Luxi People's Army this time.

There were no weapons, some only had a red tassel gun, and their combat effectiveness was limited.

These 22nd divisions were originally also units with relatively good combat effectiveness under Lao Han, and after several battles, most of the men and horses were lost, not to mention the heavy weapons.

However, the new 37th Brigade fought a few battles at the beginning, captured some weapons, replenished the 22nd Division, and barely improved its combat effectiveness, but it was reluctant to pull to the front line to fight the Japanese army.

Leng Feng tried once, and in less than ten minutes, he was beaten by the charging Japanese army, and Leng Feng angrily ordered all the battalion and company commanders who commanded the battle to be shot, and then the rout was stopped.

Otherwise, the whole front collapses, and the fun will be great.

When it is time to be ruthless, you must not be merciful, the same as for the enemy, and the same for your own people, in that battle, there were no deserters in the team?

Not everyone in the First Division of Honor is not afraid of death, and there are many people who are afraid of death, but as long as they escape from the battle, let alone the battalion commander, even the regiment commander has been shot.

And it was Leng Feng who shot it himself.

This happened while guarding the river fortifications, and a deputy regiment commander of the new 38th Brigade, because he was afraid of death, escaped from the battle, and was caught by Leng Feng, who was patrolling the front line, and was caught on the spot and killed.

Although many people have never seen that scene, it is widely spread in the honorary first division, that person is still a company commander of the old teaching second regiment, but in Nanjing City, he has killed devils and made meritorious contributions, and he will be killed.

Leng Feng also received a telegram from Taierzhuang's great victory, and the new 38th Brigade annihilated the Japanese Sakamoto detachment and killed the detachment leader Sakamoto Shun, he was naturally very happy.

If the Japanese army can be surrounded earlier, the GJ in the Xuzhou area can evacuate earlier to avoid the danger of being surrounded by the Japanese army, and he can get the support of the retreating GJ.

At noon, the news of Taierzhuang's victory was officially announced, and all the encircled Japanese troops were annihilated in Yixian and Taierzhuang areas, except for a small part.

This was the second huge victory since the Anti-Japanese War, the first was in Huainan, and the main force of the 13th Division was annihilated, also in the Fifth Theater.

This time, also in the Fifth Theater of Operations, the main force of a division of the Japanese army was completely annihilated.

This is already the third!

In front of Nanjing, there was the 16th Division, the 13th Division in Huainan, and the 10th Division in Taierzhuang, Xuzhou, all of which were the most elite field divisions in Japan.

"Black Tent", "Death Scythe" and "Steel Army", three famous troops, all failed, and they were defeated badly.

Of course, there was also the 6th Division of the "Black Beast" and the 5th Division of the "Iron Army", which were also defeated.

The defeat of these five divisions was all due to one unit: the 1st Division of the Chinese Army.

Devil troops!

Since the beginning of the war, none of the Japanese troops that have encountered the devil's troops have won, and all of them have lost.

Not to mention, the 16th Division lost directly at the hands of the newly established devil troops, and the defeat was so miserable that even the commander was killed in anger.

The 13th Division was also lucky, but the two main wings under its command were also buried at the hands of the devil's troops, and one unit was almost completely captured, which was simply a shame within a shame.

Needless to say, the Sixth Division lost its troops and lost its generals, and Ushijima came with a heart of revenge, but when he rushed to the foot of Yongcheng City and heard the news of the fiasco of Taierzhuang, did he feel a chill in his neck?

The Seya detachment of the 10th Division encountered a head in Taierzhuang and broke the blood flow, and the later Sakamoto detachment was also blocked in Lanling Town and could not advance an inch, if it were not for the Chinese deliberately releasing water, they would have come over at all, and this is more than that, they were beaten head-on and full of bags, and they did not dare to go over for half a day.

The new 38th Brigade, the Japanese have long figured it out, is in the same group as the devil's troops, and the two of them are a family.

At the emergency operations meeting in Tokyo, the newly appointed army vice minister Hideki Tojo was heroic, and although the land minister Sugiyama Motomo had already made it clear that he was going to leave his post, he was still the land minister before the new army minister took office, but his voice was not heavy.

He no longer attends meetings unless they are important.

Hideki Tojo became the new celebrity of the War Office, and his radical ideas seemed to be beloved by many middle and lower-ranking officers.

"Some people are responsible for the defeat of Taierzhuang, and their eagerness for quick success is the main reason for the defeat of the empire on the battlefield in China!"

"Tojo-kun, that's too absolute, isn't it?" Umezu Mijiro, the deputy chief of staff, frowned slightly, this time he set the tone, it seems that Hideki Tojo has not yet become the land minister.

"In fact, as early as February 16 this year, His Majesty said at the Imperial Council that before August, it would never attack new areas, but consolidate and digest existing areas, but the North China Front turned a deaf ear to this and deliberately provoked this battle!"

"It was the Chiang government in Wuhan that continued to carry out their anti-Japanese and communist policy, and the empire would never allow such a government to exist!"

"In the current situation, what should we do, continue to fight, or negotiate with the Chinese side?" Prime Minister Fumima Konoe asked.

"Negotiate, by no means!" The Minister of the Navy, Miguang Interior, stood up and said heavily.

"Negotiation is to take the initiative to admit defeat, how can our great Japanese empire admit defeat to a country that is against us at every turn, this is intolerable."

"Then keep fighting?"

"Yes, no matter what, we must fight this battle and completely defeat the Chinese, this is not only about the face of the empire, but also about the interests of the empire, we can't lose!" Hideki Tojo said, "If we lose, the consequences are very eye-catching, this is not just a simple loss of a war, Europe and the United States and other Western countries will change their attitude towards us, they are now unwilling to go against the empire, that is their lack of skills, but once we lose the war, then they will no longer be afraid of us, and even continue to pinch our necks, many of our resources are now purchased from them, so, this is a war related to the fortunes of the country, we must fight!" ”

"And what about the ultimate goal?"

"As long as we continue the strategy of advancing north and south, occupy the important city of Xuzhou, and connect North and Central China and South China, the empire will gain a stable rear ......"

"How many troops are needed to achieve this?"

"Three hundred thousand, at least three hundred thousand!"

"I'd like to ask you to keep an eye on one more unit, or one person." Foreign Minister Kazunari Ugaki stood up, his white beard trembling with excitement. Shaking said, "The first division of the Honor of the Chinese Army, that is, the devil unit of the Chinese Army rumored in the army, so far, we have suffered several major defeats, which are more or less due to the factors of this army, among which in Nanjing and Huainan, this army has caused us huge losses, so the combat objects under the imperial army must take this army as the primary target......

This foreign minister, known as the "confusing star in the political circles", is really eloquent, saying a set of things, spitting stars flying around, impassioned for a while, tactful and low for a while, like crying, when it comes to excitement, even old tears!

"Destroy the devil troops, destroy the Yakshas!"

The Japanese military leaders who attended the meeting quickly unified their thinking and reported it to Emperor Hirohito, who agreed to the War Department to attack almost, but set a prohibition order for the troops, which was limited to Xuzhou.

Also, there is about the honor of the first division.

The Tokyo base camp issued an instruction to the North China Front, and on the premise of ensuring the strategic objectives of the empire, to deal a devastating blow to the honorary 1st division of the Chinese army, which had caused huge losses to the empire!

Such an order can be said to be an order to hunt down and kill a certain Chinese unit and a certain general since the September 18 Incident.

"Division, the Japanese base camp in Tokyo sent a telegram to the headquarters of the North China Front, and Team Leader Chi has just deciphered it." Leng Feng was eating noodles when Xue Ping walked in with a telegram.

"What, can you decipher the telegram of the Japanese army base camp?"

"No, this message is not highly encrypted, so it is not difficult to decipher." Xue Ping explained.

"Really, I'll take a look?" Leng Feng smiled and reached out to take the message.

"Hehe, this is asking for my head, why, the Japanese hate me so much now?" Leng Feng looked at the content of the message, laughed, and didn't care at all.

"Master, your heroism is rare in the world!"

"Don't be a sycophant, I don't care, and I'm not afraid, but this telegram is quite troublesome for my next actions." Leng Feng doesn't care about the content of the telegram itself, but the meaning behind the telegram is great.

He became a thorn in the side of the Japanese army, a thorn in the flesh, and when the time comes, he will inevitably be targeted by many people, especially those Japanese soldiers who want to become famous in World War I.

"Master, do you want to report this telegram to Wuhan?"

"No, those elm heads will only leak secrets, they just know it internally, and also, the military commander is going to shoot liaison officers and technical exchange teams to come over, don't give all our things to others, if you keep a hand, understand?"

"Understood."

(To be continued.) )