On December 4, the vanguard of the Ming army avoided the heavy Qing army in the direction of Xuzhou and made a detour to the north. The tracks of the Fourth Armored Division stirred muddy water, along the north bank of the Hanzhuang Canal, all the way through Yixian and Taierzhuang, which were relatively weakly defended, and the tank tracks rumbled through the steel tracks of the Tianjin-Pudong Railway, advanced to the east bank of Weishan Lake, and the troops approached Zaozhuang City in Shandong. At this point, the first step of the plan has been completed, separating Xuzhou from the east and Shandong, and cutting off the Tianjin-Pudong railway.

Hanzhuang Canal is a canal that connects Weishan Lake in the north and Luoma Lake in the south, more than 100 meters wide, flowing from the south side of Taierzhuang and sticking to Zhuangzi. The canal makes a big bend here in Taierzhuang. In the west of Taierzhuang, it is an east-west direction, and when it flows through Taierzhuang, it folds into a northwest-southeast direction.

The current situation is that the south and west of the Hanzhuang Canal are heavily defended areas by the Qing army, and the Qing army has basically abandoned the east and north of the canal. Now on the west and south sides of the canal, the 100-meter-wide canal is defended as a danger.

On the Hanzhuang Canal between Weishan Lake and Luoma Lake, there are two large ports along the river. One is Pi County in the south, and one is Taierzhuang in the north. Now Pi County has been taken, Taierzhuang is very close to Jinpu Railway, Jiawang Town, and Xuzhou, and another more important reason is that there is a big highway bridge in Taierzhuang. Therefore, the defense of the Qing army is still very strong, and now the Ming army has still not been defeated.

On the 4th, the Ming army had already attacked Taierzhuang, but the Central Plains Corps of the Qing army gave a death order to defend Taierzhuang. Because Taierzhuang was lost, the Ming army could cross the Hanzhuang Canal from here. Whether it is a tank or a heavy artillery, you can directly cross the bridge with a bang and attack Xuzhou.

Although Taierzhuang is called "Zhuang", it is very large. The densely built area alone has several square kilometers and a population of more than 100,000, just like a small city. The Central Plains Corps of the Qing Army concentrated one Manchurian Eight Banner Division and two Mengbaqi Divisions to defend here. These are the most elite Manchu Eight Banner Divisions, two Mongolian divisions took turns fighting with the Ming army in the village, and one Manchu division supervised the battle on the south bank of the canal, setting up machine guns and artillery, and those who dared to run south were all swept to death.

This time, the Qing army did not "coerce the civilians" again, and allowed the people of Zhuangnei to withdraw ahead of schedule. It's just that it is not allowed to run to the north, that is, to the side of the Ming army, and it is only allowed to withdraw to the area controlled by the Qing army south of the canal. Moreover, it was stated in advance that the withdrawal or non-withdrawal was entirely voluntary, and it was not compulsory. He also told the people that even if they did not withdraw, it would not be a big problem, because the Ming army had always refrained from bombarding residential areas. As long as you hide at home and don't go out during the war, you will generally be fine.

This is also the intention of the Qing army guards. Because of this, many civilians will "voluntarily" stay in the village. The reason is simple: since it is voluntary to stay, it is better to take the risk of staying. If you withdraw, you will still withdraw to the area controlled by the Qing army, and no matter who wins or loses in Taierzhuang, you can only continue to be a Qing citizen. The Ming army has reached the doorstep, and it is too much of a loss to retreat to the rear at this juncture. If you take the risk to stay in the village, maybe tomorrow, you will be the people of the Ming Dynasty.

The Qing army guards are very clever in this hand, which can not only have a large number of civilians in the village as meat shields, but also do not violate the Ming army's "save civilians order", and the following officers are not at risk of being shot, and they can fight with peace of mind:

- Look, I'm not holding civilians hostage, I allowed them to withdraw, so that they themselves don't want to withdraw, and want to stay here and wait for your Ming army, what can I do?

There were a large number of civilians in the village, and the Ming army would not use heavy weapons in the village. In this way, the Qing army could safely maintain a high density of troops in the village without being bombarded by a heavy artillery bombardment. The density of troops in Zhuangnai is high, and if the Ming army wants to capture it, it must be a hard battle.

The Qing defenders possessed the canal, and they could attack it when they advanced - they could enter the village to fight in the streets, and they could retreat to the south bank to defend the canal, and the two divisions could also take turns to retreat and rest. The back road is in their own hands, there is no worry of being encircled, and they can withdraw if they can't fight - this is also an important reason for the Qing army's intervention and stubborn resistance.

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At first, the Ming army didn't expect a small Taierzhuang to fight. Without aerial reconnaissance, the Ming army did not know how the Qing army on the other side of the canal was deployed, nor did it know how many Qing troops there were in Taierzhuang Li. It was only after the fierce battle in the village and the loss of three companies in succession that it was taken seriously.

At this time, the Ming army was already preparing to surround Xuzhou in the south and slowly gnaw. In order not to be "disturbed" by the Qing army in the north, the Fourth Armored Division of the People's Guard has been transferred to the Lunan area in the north to guard against the Qing army in the direction of Zaozhuang and Linyi. Now the infantry divisions of the 6th Army in the rear have followed.

To fight this kind of street fighting, valuable armored divisions can no longer be used. Now in charge of the main attack on Taierzhuang is the 1st Regiment of the 3O Motorized Infantry Division (under the 12th Army) of the 6th Army.

At night, the fighting fell silent for a while. After a night's rest, by dawn on the 5th, the battle was about to resume again.

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At 7:2o on the morning of the 5th, the first regiment of the 3O Division of the Ming Army resumed the attack. However, the Qing army strengthened its heavy artillery positions a few kilometers south of the canal and bombarded the Ming army's assembly area. The Ming army did not have aerial reconnaissance, so it was difficult to judge the specific location of the artillery positions of the Qing army, and across the canal, the ground reconnaissance could not pass, so they could only roughly return fire.

And if the Ming army wants to attack Zhuangnei, it must assemble in several places outside Zhuang. The coordinates outside the village were fixed, and the Qing army measured them before the battle. Now the artillery fire of the Qing army is extremely accurate and ferocious, and the Ming army has suffered heavy losses.

The Qing army set up loudspeakers in more than a dozen high places in the village, constantly broadcasting news about the handling of the families of the Qing soldiers who surrendered in Haizhou. After a while, how many divisions and regiments surrendered, the families of the officers and soldiers were executed, and the rest of the families were sent to labor camps; After a while, which high-ranking officer surrendered to the Ming army, and the whole family was sent to a labor camp......

Every once in a while, another message will be broadcast, that is, the officers and men of a certain division and a certain regiment fought bravely and did not retreat, and the whole regiment was rewarded by many oceans, and each of them was promoted to one level; Or how many soldiers have been killed in a certain division or regiment, how many pensions have been paid to the families of these officers and soldiers, how much land has been shared, and how many years of taxes have been exempted or exempted...... Wait a minute.

With such positive and negative information, carrots and sticks, plus the current retreat in their own hands and no worries about being surrounded, the Eight Banners Division of Zhuangnai is becoming more and more courageous the more they fight, and they have the feeling of "protecting their families and defending the country".

The Qing army's desperate resistance in this way also hit the temper of the Ming army, and these motorized infantry divisions of the Ming army are also the elite of the 6th Army, and they will not lose to the Eight Banners Division if they pull out a division at will. Now Hou Hekun, commander of the 6th Army and 12th Army, is also paying attention to this small Zhuangzi. Hou Hekun was a famous general of the 6th Army when he defended Nanjing, and he was known for being good at fighting tough battles.

Now, he immediately ordered the 3O Division to increase its troops and throw the other two infantry regiments into the Taierzhuang battlefield. Three regiments attacked at the same time towards Zhuangli. Then, he transferred the 32nd Division from the east, ready to take over the resting 3O Division at any time. He was ready to increase his strength to the level of the Qing defenders. The two divisions took turns attacking in relays. Anyway, you can't use heavy artillery on the village, so everyone will pile people inside. Street fighting, basically, are light weapons. That is, whoever has a higher density of troops will have more firepower and a more powerful offensive front.

Each motorized infantry division of the Ming army had a tank battalion, 32 Lightning-3 tanks. Now these 32 tanks have been put into the near Taierzhuang. But the Qing army also seems to have deployed a large number of tanks in Taierzhuang. Moreover, the tanks of the Qing army were all Barutu and Kubu tanks, standard infantry tanks. With strong firepower and thick armor, it is slow to move, but it is very useful to cover infantry in street fighting.

The tank group of the Qing army hid the tanks in the building, waiting for the Ming tanks to approach and set up an ambush, first destroying the leading Lightning 3 tank with one shot, and then the machine guns on both sides fired fiercely, and the heavy tanks roared, drilled out of the hideout, and rushed towards the Ming infantry, followed by a large group of Qing soldiers who were screaming. Many times, the streets that the Ming army had captured were recaptured by the Qing army in this way.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the Ming army occupied a quarter of the northern side of Taierzhuang.

At half past ten in the morning, the Qing army counterattacked, and the Ming army had lost almost half of what it had already occupied.

At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the Ming army intensified its strong attack, and the battle line returned to its appearance at nine o'clock.

However, when it is said to be a "battle line", in fact, there is no obvious battle line, and the control areas of the two sides are staggered, infiltrating each other, and they are also in the areas controlled by the other side, forming "isolated islands" one after another. Some of these "isolated islands" were encircled and annihilated. Some of them are connected with the breaching of a street or a building, and the areas under their own control are connected.

In the afternoon, the casualties of the 3O Division of the Ming Army had already exceeded 15oo. The casualties of the Qing army are unknown, but the commander of the Ming army judged that they were at least twice as many as himself. However, with the strength of the same division, the Ming army had a higher degree of mechanization, more complex arms, a more detailed division of labor among various arms, and more technical posts. On the other hand, the Qing army had a low degree of mechanization, not many technical arms, and a low degree of division of labor and cooperation among the arms. Therefore, excluding the morale factor, the military structure of the Ming army is actually more "delicate" and more difficult to tolerate high casualties. With the same morale on both sides, three or four percent of the casualties may not feel much for the Qing army, and for the Ming army, the combat effectiveness will drop significantly.

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