readx;? The Japanese troops retreated, and after taking a few breaths with the rifle whose bayonet had been broken, Zheng Daodong, the commander of the 571st Regiment, looked at the messy scene in front of him, did not care about resting, and ordered the officers and soldiers who could still move to rescue the wounded, clean up the battlefield, and then set up heavy machine guns in several important places. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Zheng Daodong knew that he would never be able to fight back the next attack of the Japanese army no matter what, but Shangfeng did not have the order to retreat, and he would die on this position.

After half a day of tidying up, there were still 89 people on the position, including the lightly wounded, one of the four battalion commanders under his command was killed and one was seriously wounded, only the first battalion commander Xiao Shuyun was slightly wounded, and the commander of the fire battalion, Ni Dingyi, was not injured in commanding the artillery. Zheng Daodong called the signal corps, asked the signal corps to send a telegram to the military seat, informed him of the battle situation in Tongcheng, and telegraphed the 571st Regiment of the military seat to swear to defend Tongcheng to the death and fight to the last man.

After the signal corps left, Zheng Daodong put down his worries, sat down on the battlefield and smoked calmly. At this time, Ni Dingyi, the commander of the fire battalion, came to Zheng Daodong's side and said: "Tuanza, we don't have many shells, and there are more than ten shells for each cannon. Zheng Daodong replied: "When Little Japan attacks again, you will shoot all the shells for Lao Tzu, and then blow up the cannons, and you will lead everyone to the front for reinforcements." ”

Ni Dingyi stood up and saluted and said, "Yes, Tuanza." Zheng Daodong glanced at the remaining officers and soldiers on the position, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, today we are all here to fight with Little Japan, if Little Japan wants to occupy the city behind us, then we have to step on our corpses Brothers, are you afraid of death?"

The officers and soldiers on the battlefield replied in a gossipy manner: "Tuanza, you are not afraid of death, we are afraid of a ball" "Tuanza can fight with little Japan, it's worth it." If you are afraid of death, you will not come". Listening to the gossip answers of his brothers, Zheng Daodong's eyes were a little moist, and he shouted loudly: "It's all worthy of the soldiers led by my Zheng Daodong, no one is a bad breed, even if we die today, we have to pull a few more small Japanese backs, killing one is enough, and killing two will be earned." ”

The 571st Regiment was ready to be martyred, but the Japanese army did not attack again. Seeing that it was already dark, Zheng Daodong breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that in this attack, the 113th Wing of the Japanese 111th Brigade was almost completely annihilated, and the stubborn defense of the defenders made the Japanese army a little more afraid, and the commander of the 111th Brigade, Matsushitaro, reported the situation to the division commander Junrokuro Matsuura, and Junrokuro Matsuura ordered to stop the infantry attack, and prepared to ask General Okamura Ninji to send planes to bomb, and then attack with infantry.

Just when Zheng Daodong wondered why the Japanese army did not continue to attack, Wang Haitao's call back arrived. In the reply, the 571st Regiment was asked to hold out until dark, and then the whole regiment withdrew from Tongcheng County at night, and he would send a heavy force to drive to Tongcheng to meet him. When Zheng Daodong received the telegram, he felt a sense of excitement in his heart to escape from death, and immediately ordered the whole regiment to prepare to retreat.

First of all, the seriously wounded and the baggage and supplies of the whole regiment were transferred to the south of the city, and then all the bodies of the dead comrades-in-arms were also taken away. At more than eleven o'clock in the evening, a convoy came to the south gate of Tongcheng, led by a company of the 93rd Division Guard Regiment, and after contacting the soldiers on guard at the head of the city, the south gate of Tongcheng was opened, and 30 trucks drove into the city.

After the seriously wounded, heavy supplies, and the remains of martyrs were put on the car, the thirty trucks were basically full, and Zheng Daodong was the last to leave Tongcheng with dozens of soldiers who could still march, and he stood outside the south gate of Tongcheng, and his soldiers presented a solemn military salute to this bloody city at the same time.

The next day, the Japanese sent a flying team to bomb Tongcheng, and then the infantry cautiously entered the empty city of Tongcheng. At this time, the 571st Regiment had returned to Anqing City. Wang Haitao, Li Yuanhong, Mu Su, and others personally greeted the officers and men of the 571st Regiment at the gate of Anqing City, personally arranged for the wounded to go to the field hospital for treatment, and expressed their condolences to the officers and men of the 571st Regiment.

After the Japanese 106th Division captured Tongcheng, it also stopped at Tongcheng to rest. In this battle of Tongcheng, the 571st Regiment of the 93rd Division was basically defeated, but the Japanese army also paid the price of a wing. The tenacity of the Chinese defenders taught the arrogant Japanese a lesson. Okamura Ninji finally knew that the opponent in front of him was not a ragtag army of China, but the 90th Army of Wang Haitao, known as the first army of China, which had repeatedly inflicted heavy losses on the imperial army.

In the face of this ace army of China, Okamura Ningji also retracted his contempt, and for more than a year, although Okamura Ningji's division had not fought with Wang Haitao's troops, Wang Haitao's name was already familiar to him. After Wang Haitao and his 90th Division appeared out of thin air on the battlefield in Shanghai, the 6th, 13th, and 9th Divisions of the Imperial Army, the Standing Division of the First Division, were all shattered in his hands, and even several division commanders were not spared. This kind of combat effectiveness has to make Okamura Ningji admire.

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What is terrible is that this Wang Haitao and his troops have not suffered much losses every time, and they have become stronger and stronger the more they fight, and they have now developed from a division to a group army, and this will be a real opponent, and it will also be a terrible opponent. Okamura Ninji, who learned who his opponent was, immediately informed his troops of this information, and asked his troops to strengthen their vigilance and take the Shina army seriously.

Although there is a warning from Okamura Ningfeng as the commander, there are also people who disobey Wang Haitao, and the captain of the Hatata detachment, Hata Shigeichi, is such a person. The Hakuda detachment, which used to be the Taiwan Shigeto detachment that participated in the Shanghai Campaign and the Nanjing Campaign, returned to Taiwan for rectification after the Nanjing Campaign, and during the Battle of Wuhan, the detachment leader of the Shigeto detachment was replaced by Major General Hatada Shigeichi, and the detachment was also renamed the Hatada detachment and joined the Wuhan battlefield.

The Hatian detachment was reorganized in Taiwan this time, not only replenishing the number of people, but also strengthening the artillery. At present, the Potian detachment has two infantry wings, a mountain artillery wing, an independent field artillery brigade, a cavalry wing, an independent heavy machine gun brigade, a baggage and heavy infantry wing, and an engineer wing. The detachment has a total of more than 12,000 officers and men.

Its mountain artillery wing has 36 mountain artillery guns of the latest Type 94 and 75 mm caliber mountain guns, and its independent field artillery brigade has 12 howitzers of the latest Type 96 and 150 mm caliber howitzers. These new guns have a long range and great power, and are very good for siege or suppression firepower, and the forty-eight Type 92 heavy machine guns of the Independent Heavy Machinery Brigade are also specially strengthened for it. The entire Hakuda detachment can be said to be well-equipped and well-trained.

Major General Shigeichi Hata, the commander of the Hatada detachment, looked down on the Chinese army at all, and in his eyes, the Chinese army was just a group of farmers with weapons, that is, several main forces of the Central Army still had some combat effectiveness, and as for the 90th Army, which was called the First Army of China, it may be a little stronger, but it is by no means the opponent of his own army with strong combat effectiveness.

The mission requested by Hakata Shigeichi from Senior General Okamura Ninji was to directly attack Anqing City from Lujiang County through Zongyang County. However, what Shigeichi Harata didn't expect was that this road was too difficult to walk, and it was basically a walk through the mountains. After passing through Zongyang County, there were no mountains, but there was a dense water network, and halfway through, a small group of troops began to attack and harass their own troops.

The troops walked for many days and were still dozens of kilometers away from Anqing City. Just when Hakuda Shigeichi asked the troops to speed up and rush to the city of Anqing early, the reconnaissance unit came to report that ten kilometers ahead was Laoshan Town, and the town found that the Chinese army was stationed and fortified. Ha Tian was stunned for a moment, thinking that this place is still dozens of kilometers away from Anqing City, how can the people of China have troops stationed here, could it be that the people of China have already discovered their own troops and are here to stop themselves

After a while, another reconnaissance unit came back and reported that the Chinese were stationed here to protect the batteries on the hill blocking the river. This made Shigeichi Harata understand. At that time, Harata Shigeichi decided to defeat the Shina troops in front of him first and capture this fort, so that when he attacked Anqing Castle, he could also get artillery support from warships from the river.

With this decision, Shigeichi Hauda immediately ordered all the troops to prepare for battle, and the mountain artillery wing and the independent field artillery brigade arranged artillery positions and prepared for artillery bombardment. The 1st Infantry Wing advanced to the positions of the Chinese army and prepared to attack the Chinese army. After the order of Shigeichi Hatada was given, the entire Hatada detachment went into action.

In fact, before the Botian detachment arrived in Zongyang County, Wang Haitao got a report from the reconnaissance group. Su Zuxin's plan was to send a force to garrison Zongyang County to block the Japanese army. This plan was vetoed by Wang Haitao, and Wang Haitao thought that it was better to cut off one of his fingers than to hurt his ten fingers. It is too passive to fortify and block everywhere, and this Botian detachment dares to go deep alone, this is a good opportunity for him to completely annihilate this Botian detachment near Laoshan.

However, according to the information sent by the reconnaissance regiment, the strength of this Potian detachment is still very strong, not only the number of people exceeds 10,000, but there are also many artillery pieces in the unit, as well as more than a dozen large-caliber howitzers. The soldiers are also young and middle-aged, and they are well trained from the march and so on. It's a tough nut to crack. If you want to eat this hard bone, you really have to have a good tooth.

Guarding Laoshan Town is the 570th Regiment of the 278th Brigade, only one regiment has to face more than 10,000 Japanese troops with many artillery, and the strength is a little weak, so Wang Haitao mobilized the 573rd Regiment of the 279th Brigade to reinforce Laoshan Town, and Yangqiao Town, not far from Laoshan, is on the side of the road from Zongyang County to Laoshan. Wang Haitao ambushed the 572nd Regiment of the 279th Brigade and the two strong brigades of the Guard Regiment in Yangqiao Town, which was prepared to attack the Botian detachment when the time was ripe. In the end, Wang Haitao ordered the reconnaissance regiment that after the Botian detachment left Zongyang County, the reconnaissance group must occupy Zongyang County and cut off the retreat of the Japanese Botian detachment.