Chapter 555: The End of Ryosuke Isoya (4)

The encircled Japanese soldiers, the tenacious fighting spirit and resistance, beyond the imagination of the Gui soldiers, especially the Japanese group combat tactics, when besieging a little, often killed by the fire from the back or from the flanks, they are not used to this style of play, and have not seen this way of fighting, very unadaptable, suffered a lot of losses, for a time they had no choice but to be surrounded, the stubborn Japanese army.

The troops of the independent division fought with the Japanese army many times, especially several main brigades, from the northeast to North China, and the Japanese army's combat routines had long been clearly understood.

Instead, in the form of group-to-group, light artillery dispersed into various attacking units, after forcing the Japanese troops to hold a fortified position, they did not shoot or shout, and a few mortar mounts and shells bombarded the large place of the pigsty held by the Japanese army, and then went up to clear the remnants of the enemy.

When encountering a place where the mortar could not move, it immediately called for heavy artillery support, and the temporary fire points held by the Japanese army were cleared one by one, although the speed of this method of fighting was slower, it could minimize the casualties of the troops, and the method of compressing from the periphery to the center was adopted, and the Japanese army was gradually driven to the central area of Tongshan.

The dazzling movements of the troops of the independent division, the neat point-by-point clearance, and the skillful infantry and artillery coordination tactics stunned the commanders and soldiers of the Gui Army, and they were amazed, and the head of the Gui Army division commander was very lively, this is a brand-new tactic, and it is a fool not to learn? With an idea, the platoon level was used as a unit to disperse the troops into independent divisions and fight along.

However, it is also in vain to look at it, and if you learn tactics, it is also in vain if you can't keep up with the equipment, and that unit in China has an independent division equipped with so many artillery pieces of various calibers, and walkie-talkies are equipped to the company level, and you can directly call for regimental artillery support.

The battle was fought from day to night, during which Isoya Liansuke sent several rescue troops, all of which were beaten back by the blocking troops arranged by Tang Qiusheng, plus the troops of the Sichuan Army and the Gui Army in front of Xuzhou, and constantly launched small-scale counter-assaults, and the main force of Isoya Liansuke was twisted on the battlefield outside the west gate of Xuzhou, so that he could not send more troops.

The Japanese army organized several large-scale breakouts, intending to break through the encirclement of the Chinese army and move closer to the direction of the main force, and the artillery fire of the five artillery regiments of the independent division blew all the areas that the Japanese army tried to break through into a sea of fire, and fought until dawn, and the remaining more than 20,000 Japanese troops were finally compressed in a narrow area within a radius of only a few kilometers in Tongshan, and the breath of despair inevitably spread among the Japanese soldiers.

Whether it was the encircled more than 20,000 Japanese troops, or the besieged independent division and the Gui army troops, they all clearly knew the fate faced by the remnants of the Japanese army, the Japanese soldiers who were in a desperate situation, constantly making suicidal charges, falling into the fire net one by one, all the efforts were in the dying struggle, Tang Qiusheng saw that the battle situation was developing according to the original plan, ordered the infantry to stop the attack, and the artillery to cover the Japanese army.

Forty minutes later, the artillery fire stopped, the smoke dissipated, and the copper mountain had been completely changed by the artillery fire.

The soldiers did not even have the interest of cleaning up the battlefield, this kind of situation, this is not the first time to experience, the soldiers and officers of the Gui Army are different, seeing forty minutes of time, more than 20,000 devils will be wiped out, not even the bones and slag can be found, so shocked that they can't close their mouths, one by one standing there, can only be shocked to describe their feelings.

At the end of the battle in the direction of Tongshan, Tang Qiusheng sent a brief telegram to Li Zongren: "Commander Li, the battle of Tongshan has ended, and after a night of fierce fighting, the Japanese army has raided more than 45,000 troops in Xuzhou, and all of them have been annihilated. ”

Li Zongren, who received the telegram, shouted in his voice: "Okay" This movement was so loud that it frightened all the officers in the command headquarters, and Li Zongren's face was full of red light, and defeating Isoya Ryosuke's unit was equivalent to breaking his two legs, and it was time to make the final blow.

He immediately ordered Liao Lei's troops of the 21st Group Army to immediately encircle the more than 50,000 Japanese troops outside the west gate of Xuzhou, and the order was issued, and the main force of the Gui Army, which had listened to the sound of gunfire for a day and a night, had long been holding back the fire in their bellies, and slaughtered from the two wings of the Japanese army like a tsunami.

Li Zongren had the courage to do so, the battle of Tongshan, annihilated nearly half of the Japanese army's troops, the troops in the hands of Isoya Ryosuke, but more than 50,000 people, his own troops were more than four times the strength of the Japanese army, the Japanese army also wanted to go back to Zhengzhou, even Xuzhou could not go out, Tang Qiusheng commanded his troops, from the direction of Tongshan, to attack the west of Xuzhou.

On the afternoon of December 23, more than 200,000 Chinese troops on the battlefield of Xuzhou surrounded from three directions, and tightly surrounded the remaining 50,000 troops of Isoya Liansuke under the city of Xuzhou.

Knowing that in the direction of Xuzhou, the First Army, which he had high hopes for, fell into the encirclement of the superior Chinese army, suffered heavy losses, was surrounded in Xiao County, and there was no hope of breaking through, Kazuki Kiyoji was shocked, and he could not afford to lose the First Army, not only pinned his high hopes, but also His Majesty the Emperor and the base camp, all had high hopes, hoping that through a series of battles of the First Army, the stalemate in the battlefield of China, and seek a breakthrough, at least it was a great support for the Songhu battlefield.

However, the current situation is completely opposite, not only did Ryosuke Isoya not break the deadlock, but he fell into the trap of the commander of the China, the mud bodhisattva crossed the river and it was difficult to protect himself, and the eyes of Kazuki Kiyoshi were in a hurry, and the first army was finished, and he was also finished, even His Royal Highness the Manned Prince could not protect himself.

He ordered the Japanese troops in the direction of Cangzhou to break through the resistance of the Chinese army at any cost, go south to Xuzhou, and rescue the first army of Isoya Ryosuke, in order to unify the command of the 300,000 Japanese troops in Cangzhou, he implored His Royal Highness Prince Zairen to serve as the commander of the Cangzhou Front.

Zairen, who received a telegram from Xiangyue Qingji, was reluctant to go to this troubled water, the entire North China, there is no mobile force that can be mobilized, the existing troops, it is difficult to break the deadlock, the last time in Dezhou, the head has been touched and the blood flowed, this time it will definitely not be pleased, can not stand up to Xiangyue Qingji a series of several telegrams, the words are sincere, almost crying, if he can get out, will kneel in front of Zairen, there is no way, Zairen had to go to Cangzhou to be the commander with an unhappy stomach.

Xiao County, an independent small courtyard, the headquarters of the Japanese First Army is located here, at this time, the headquarters is gloomy, just one night's work, Isoya Ryosuke suddenly aged a lot, from the pride and ambition when he went out to the battle, to now being besieged in a lonely city, unable to get out, but only ten days of effort.

Ryosuke Isoya sat silently in his chair and went through all the battle situations in his mind, he now fully understood that the desperate blocking of the troops of the Independent Division in Kaifeng and Shangqiu was to buy time for the transfer of the Chinese army, and the blocking only took into account Tang Qiuli's troops, and there were no extra troops to stop him from going south, and he did not expect that there were troops from other parts of the Chinese branch that could be transferred to Xuzhou, and it was the scale of more than 200,000 troops.

That Li Zongren was a local warlord in Guangxi, why did he take the initiative to participate in the war against the empire? Before the war, the intelligence department of the base camp provided information that all the local warlords in China were not of the same mind as their central government, and that their sole purpose was to preserve their strength, and that the imperial army could easily defeat them one by one.

Now it seems that this is not the case, if the First Army did not choose to attack Xuzhou in the east instead of following the orders of His Majesty the Emperor and the base camp, but went west to attack Xi'an, echoing the Yamaguchi troops in Shanxi, if he had not been bent on creating a miracle and establishing immortal feats, it would not be the current situation.

However, there is no if, everything has happened, and he is desperately drilling into a big trap, he can't scold the emperor and the base camp for being stupid and mentally retarded, nor can he scold himself for being a madman and brainless, he can only scold the person who is too cunning, especially the devil Tang Qiuli, thinking of Tang Qiuli, Ryosuke Isoya snorted like a toothache.

All the Japanese officers in the headquarters who were stunned and listened to the fierce gunfire outside were startled by the painful moans of His Excellency the commander, thinking that it was a heart attack, looking at the frightened faces of the officers, he couldn't suppress the panic in his heart, Isoya Ryosuke was very angry, but it was not the time to play prestige and lose his temper, so he asked with a gloomy face: "Did you send a telegram to the headquarters of the dispatch army?" ”

This is the only thing he can do, hope is pinned on the troops in the direction of Cangzhou, as far as they can go south, although he also knows that the hope is very slim, but there is a life-saving straw, it is much better than empty-handed.

This was a telegram to save his own life, and the Japanese communications officer dared not send it immediately, and the content was even stricter than that dictated by His Excellency the commander, and it was sent out several copies in a row, rendering the current situation extremely urgent and tragic, although the Chinese army had not yet launched an attack, but it was a matter of time before the 130,000 troops at the time of departure were now only more than 50,000 people, so that these Japanese officers who were once full of confidence could not help but be afraid.

(To be continued)