The soldiers of the advance army jumped up at the moment when the grenades flew out, and in the firelight, pounced on the position, and then, with the sound of gunfire, hundreds of people rushed into the camp of the Japanese army, who outnumbered them, like tigers descending from the mountain.

The moment the Japanese saw the soldiers of the advance army, they screamed and rushed over with guns. In just thirty or forty meters, they were stopped by AK's strong firepower and fell to the ground.

The short fierce battle here was reported to the command headquarters, Sun Tao and Dong Ku felt sorry for the sacrifice of the soldiers on that position, Sun Tao urgently ordered, "Inform the flank guard to push the position three thousand meters away!" ”

Such a loss is distressing, being attacked by dozens of mortars and sacrificing five or six hundred soldiers is indeed undeserved. After all, for their defense, it was unrealistic for the Japanese to break through to the front of the position.

In the fierce battle on this side, the Tsukada attack also received the real attack of Suzhou, and the enemy carried out the penetration at the same time, and now it has marched to the west side of Xuzhou, and if it is not blocked, it will surround Xuzhou.

But at this time, he was no longer able to defend on two fronts, and most of his troops were transferred to the east side, and the firepower on the east side was too fierce, so it still could not stop the advance speed of more than ten kilometers per hour.

The changes on the battlefield are different every minute, and what makes him powerless is not that he has no soldiers in his hands, but that the speed of the movement of the troops is too slow to keep up with the enemy's attack. Even if the confrontation is so far, the enemy has the advantage, he is not without combat effectiveness, but when the enemy's attack speed is fast, more than 20 kilometers in an hour, he really can't imagine why.

Qu Jun was not entangled by the fierce battle on both sides, he rushed forward with all his minds, and changed the self-propelled artillery to one kilometer and one alternate, so that the density of the artillery bombardment was more intensive, as long as there was a position marked by the Huya team members in front. The barracks are stationed, and the artillery fire will be roaring non-stop.

With such an artillery bombardment, the shells were consumed as quickly as fireworks, and a cart of shells became empty in the process, and then pulled the fighters. Follow the movement of the Great Army.

Self-propelled artillery at this time is no longer bombarded at a long distance, it is a small elevation angle, bombarding everything within three or four kilometers, in this way, the barrel is low, the center of gravity is also stable, so that the speed of travel has increased a lot, after all, the road is basically not in the direction of travel, and the Japanese army wants to transport artillery in a fixed position and route.

"Count shell consumption!"

On the move. Sun Tao asked the transport troops to inquire about the consumption of ammunition.

Soon, the consumption of ammunition arrived. A third of the shells leaving the supply convoy have not yet arrived, and this does not include the shells and fuel that are now in the front or position, and there is not much consumption, and the self-propelled artillery does not consume as much fuel as the tank.

Knowing such a bombardment, the consumption can still be withstanding. Sun Tao did not order the troops to fill in, but still used artillery to open the way. Rush all the way.

After more than five hours of fierce fighting, the route along the way was as steady as Mount Tai, and the tore openings never had a chance to close, while Qu Jungang's advance had always maintained a fixed speed and was steadily moving forward.

At this time, the Huya team members were almost caught up by Qu Jungang's attacking troops. They, with one more vote, can leave the path of advance and avoid their own artillery bombardment.

Along the way, they have already destroyed three command posts. All are brigade or wing headquarters. The war was chaotic, the personnel were already in chaos, and the people in the command headquarters went in and out, so that the Huya soldiers mixed in with their proficient Japanese language and wore Japanese uniforms, quickly cleaned up and cut off the command headquarters, and quickly evacuated, and in just a few seconds, they got a lot of command knives.

More than 300 Huya soldiers on this line, this will, all gathered together, the goal, is to advance to the Qu army just before the march route, before the arrival of the Qu army, began to build a position, ready to block, to buy time for the pursuing troops behind, can not break their two wings, first stop the forward, but also to avoid the doom of Xuzhou being surrounded.

At this time, the artillery fire at a distance of more than ten kilometers was in the sky, and the troops of a brigade and regiment here had just arrived, and they were urgently building a position, and the personnel were even more chaotic, so that the Huya team members could easily approach the command headquarters, and did not let the Japanese army find that these Japanese soldiers who were carrying large bags, wearing Japanese military uniforms, and holding weapons were not 38 big covers.

The soldier who took the lead raised his hand to signal, and then, without the slightest hesitation, the soldiers quickly rushed to the temporary headquarters that was busy setting up tables and chairs, preparing telephones and maps, and without waiting for the Japanese army to ask, the sound of gunfire rang out intensively, and in just a few seconds, all the thirty or forty people inside were put down, and then, taking off those command knives, a few grenades were thrown in, and at the same time, people had already rushed out.

Gunshots rang out from the headquarters, even if there was a distant cannon sound, it was still heard by the surrounding Japanese troops, and immediately, the Japanese troops in the brigade swarmed in, but before they could get closer, a ball of fire rose in the roar, and then someone shouted loudly, "Enemy attack!!" ”

In the shouting, a group of Japanese soldiers with guns in the firelight, da-da, shouting, rushed over, and in a short moment, rushed into the crowd of Japanese soldiers who swept down.

The sudden change and the shooting of his own people made all the Japanese soldiers stunned, and they didn't know what was going on, and before they could react, the group disappeared into the darkness.

Not even two minutes before and after, this command, including the radio, was destroyed. The members of the raid team also joined up with the responding soldiers, and then quickly disappeared sideways and quickly disappeared among the Japanese troops who were building positions.

By the time the Japanese army reacted, the headquarters had been blown up by grenades, there was not a single person alive, paper scraps all over the ground, and radio parts that had been blown up all over the ground.

The speed of the Qu army's march has a lot to do with the decapitation in front of Huya, the command of the Japanese army is out of order, even if the low-level generals rebuild the command system, it will take time and need a radio, so that his breakthrough is almost not much hindrance, plus the intercepted Japanese army has no artillery, relying on mortars alone, it is not enough for anti-aircraft machine guns to strafe, naturally there is not much resistance.

At this time, Nakajima of the 16th Division left a brigade in Shangqiu, and the army gathered two divisions and one brigade, divided the troops into multiple routes, and rushed to Xuzhou.

He knew that once Xuzhou was captured by the advance army, they would be greatly injured and would not be able to stop the enemy's advance, and this battle would be a battle of life and death. Therefore, the vanguard gathered all the trucks, armed only with mortars and light machine guns, and drove to this side, trying to stop the enemy before they could close them.

Tsukada did not plan to evacuate, even if there were still planes and passages, the order he received was to defend to the death, of course, he would faithfully carry it out until he died in battle.

However, the speed of the enemy's advance was too fast, and although the enemy's progress on the west side was slower, it also broke through Huaibei and advanced in the direction of Dangshan.

The enemy troops on the east side moved faster, and the forward, just now, had arrived along the Weishan Lake, and divided the troops into two routes, all the way to Taierzhuang, all the way to Dangshan direction, according to the speed, Nakajima Imasago had no time to arrive at the battlefield when the encirclement was formed.

At this time, the Qu army had just withdrawn from the Japanese position in Huya, and the moment the news was sent, the artillery had been put up, and the shells tore through the darkness and fell towards the Japanese position of the three rounds.

The Japanese brigade had just been integrated, and within twenty minutes of it, the shells were falling with a whistling fire.

The violent explosion caused the improvised trenches that had just been dug to collapse rapidly, and the earth rose into the sky, so that the Japanese army lost nearly half of the artillery fire before they could see the shadow of the enemy.

The artillery fire did not stop until the sweeping lights appeared only two or three hundred meters away from the position, and the moment the tom machine gun rang out, the battle here was no longer suspenseful.

Qu Jungang compared the captured Japanese map according to the coordinates provided by the Huya team members, and knew that this was the last stop in the road, and he dared to block the mouth and block the enemy in Shangqiu.

He put away the map in the truck, looked up and watched the soldiers rush into the position, still sighing in his heart, it was too fast to advance like this, it was so cool!

Looking at the flickering firelight around him, Qu Jun just retracted his mind and ordered: "Send a flare, end the battle quickly, we are on our way!" ”

After giving the order, he picked up the walkie-talkie and ordered, "The troops are moving forward at eleven o'clock!" ”

Sun Tao and Dong Ku received that Qu Jun had just arrived at the predetermined position, and the team would turn to Dangshan in fifteen minutes.

Dong Ku asked Yu Ke about the situation and Yu Lei's progress, and see if you can complete the encirclement before dawn.

But Yu Ke's call back made Dong Ku smile.

Lao Zhao's troops were quite numerous, unwilling to just eat the enemy of Taierzhuang, when he was in Ke's breakthrough, the scholar advance army, quickly surrounded Zaozhuang, the forward wonder arrived at Weishan Lake, and Yu Ke's army closed the encirclement on the shore of the lake. And Linyi has also been included in the attack distance, but a defensive line has been set up, waiting to block the Japanese army in Linyi.

"Lao Zhao's appetite is not small!"

Zuo Boyang took the telegram and read it and said: "Although this is too big, the time for strangulation is extended, and the blankets are too big, even if Xuzhou and Taierzhuang want to clear the Japanese army inside, it will be difficult to eliminate the Japanese army in ten days and eight days." ”

Dong Ku knew that Zuo Boyang had opinions about Lao Zhao's expansion of the battle circle, but he knew that Lao Zhao's urgency to regain the lost territory was not to occupy territory, and he also urgently needed to train troops to improve the combat effectiveness of the soldiers.

He didn't explain, and ordered No. 5 to send a separate power to Lao Zhao and let him eat Zaozhuang independently, but he must ensure that the Japanese army in Linyi would not break through his defense line and affect the attack on Taierzhuang.

Of course Lao Zhao is willing, he just wants to really attack the city, see the difficulty of attacking the fortification, master the tactics of attacking the fortification, etc. Moreover, according to the way the advance army attacked the fortifications, they had their own set, that is, grenadiers, and too many grenadiers were captured, which were used for attacking fortifications, comparable to gun grenades, but the range was smaller...... (To be continued......)