Chapter 5: Blood and Fire (40)

At a time when the Itagaki Division was struggling to move forward under the city of Linyi, the 10th Division of the Japanese Army on the North Xuzhou Road was driven by the bushido spirit of the division commander Lieutenant General Ryosuke Isoya, and still pushed south desperately.

On March 17, the first line of defense on the northern front was broken through, and Wang Mingzhang, commander of the 122nd Division of the Sichuan Army, was killed.

On March 18, Teng County was lost. That night, Lincheng fell.

The next battlefield in Xuzhou once again entered the planning of both sides.

The 5th Division was dominated by Sakamoto Shun, and the Sakamoto Detachment was established with the division headquarters and other independent wings, which became the main force of the Eastern Front. After participating in the Nanjing Massacre, the 9th Brigade of the 5th Division, Noboru Kunizaki, returned to North China in February 1938 to rebuild, and the 9th Brigade suffered heavy losses in the battle of Nanjing, Shanghai and Hangzhou, and was not replenished until mid-March in Qingdao, and immediately rushed to Zizhou to become a general reserve. The 10th Division was also divided into one large and one small, the troops directly under the division headquarters and the 33rd Brigade of Seya Qi formed the Segu Detachment, which became the main force to attack the north of Jinpu Road, and the 8th Brigade of Changshu Wuping was used as a surprise soldier to pull the Chinese army in the area of Xuecheng Zaozhuang and cover the Seya Detachment's attack on Taierzhuang, the north gate of Xuzhou.

Li Zongren's Fifth Theater Staff had insight into the Japanese army's plan, and Sun Tongxuan's Third Army and Sun Zhen's 22nd Army fought with Nagase Takehei in the area of Xuecheng Zaozhuang, because the equipment of the Chinese army was far inferior to that of the Japanese army, and in the face of the fierce tanks and armored vehicles, there was no too superior geographical advantage on the plain to use, so they could only adopt the method of fighting with one dip and go, even so, there were not a few soldiers who died under the wheel of the armored unit of the Nagase brigade. On March 23, the 81st Division of the 12th Army attacked Yanzhou at night, annihilating the enemy and destroying the railway north of Yanzhou; On March 26, the 29th Division of the 55th Army blew up many places on the Dawenkou Railway, causing the Japanese train to derail; On 29 March, the 81st Division attacked Dawenkou airfield at night and destroyed eight enemy planes......

After pulling away the trouble-stirring Nagase Takehei, the Fifth War Zone set up a feast in Taierzhuang, and the 30th Division of Chifengcheng of the 30th Army of Tianzhennan of Sun Lianzhong's Second Group Army was responsible for entertaining guests, and waited for the Seya Detachment to visit Taierzhuang. At the same time, Xu Zuyi, Zhang Zizhong, and Pang Bingxun worked together to attack left and right, and beat the Sakamoto detachment back to the Tangtou area, unable to raise their heads at all.

On March 24th, the villain arrived. The 10th Wing of the Field Artillery set up an artillery position in Liujiahu Village, five miles north of Taierzhuang, lined up 10 heavy artillery cannons, and bombarded Taierzhuang, opening the curtain of the Taierzhuang battle. The funny thing is that the artillery can never avoid their weaknesses, they can hit the shells to Taierzhuang five miles away, but they can't deal with the opponent in front of them, the 31st battalion commander of the 31st Battalion of the 183rd Regiment of the 91st Brigade of the 3st Division led the soldiers, each with a big knife, 8 *, into the artillery position, cut the 10th Wing of the field artillery can not parry, abandon the artillery and flee.

This time, the North China Front Command of the Japanese Army felt not only an ordinary shame, but a great shame, and immediately ordered the North China Flight Brigade of the Air Force, the North China Artillery Wing, and the Tank Wing of the 2nd Army to cooperate with the Seya Detachment to rush to the north gate of Taierzhuang, where Wang Zhen, commander of the 186th Regiment of the 92nd Brigade of the 31st Division, and Jiang Changtai, commander of the 1st Battalion, were holding on to the north gate of Taierzhuang.

The fighting proceeded as planned by both sides.

On March 27, the north gate of Taierzhuang was broken and street fighting began.

On March 28, he entered the northwest corner of Taierzhuang and sought to capture the west gate.

On March 29, the Japanese occupied the eastern half of Taierzhuang.

The Japanese offensive went almost miraculously.

On March 30, the General Staff of the Fifth Theater finally tore off its weak coat. Sun Lianzhong's Second Army successfully entangled the Segu detachment in Taierzhuang, and Tang Enbo's 52nd Army Guan Linzheng, 75th Army Zhou Zhe, and 85th Army Wang Zhonglian surrounded the Segu Detachment and formed an internal and external clamp in Taierzhuang.

On March 31, in order to rescue the Japanese Seya detachment that was cornered in Taierzhuang, the headquarters of the 2nd Army in North China thought of a trick to attack the real with a false attack, and the two brigades of the Sakamoto detachment, which was closest to Taierzhuang, dressed as the main force, entangled with Pang Bingxun and others in the Linyi area, and the real main force was led by Sakamoto Shun to reinforce the encircled Seya detachment. Xu Zuyi had already gained insight into the conspiracy of the Japanese army, and responded with hypocrisy, pretending not to know the enemy's division of troops, but privately asked Zhang Zizhong to lead his troops to chase down. Before the Sakamoto detachment arrived at Taierzhuang, it was stopped by the 52nd Army and the 75th Army of the 20th Army Corps, and fought fiercely for several days, with many casualties, retreated in embarrassment, and stepped into the net laid by Zhang Zizhong.

On April 3, the 20th Army Corps of Tang Enbo, which had driven Sakamoto's detachment away, began to move against the Seya detachment in Taierzhuang.

On April 4, the Chinese Air Force, which had not seen each other for a long time, bombed Japanese positions in the northeast and northwest of Taierzhuang with 27 aircraft. That night, Kei Seya sensed that defeat was imminent, and ordered to blow up the materials that were not easy to move, and fled to Yixian.

However, Taierzhuang is not a place where the Japanese can come and go as soon as they want, Li Zongren rushed to the vicinity of Taierzhuang and personally commanded the troops to counterattack on the whole line, Sun Lianzhong's 2nd Group Army, the 30th Army Tian Zhennan, the 42nd Army Feng Anbang, the 27th Division Huang Qiaosong, and the independent 44th Brigade Wu Pengju composed of the left wing corps, with Tang Enbo's 20th Army Corps as the main force of the right wing corps, a large-scale counteroffensive. The order was given, the crowd was excited, the sound of killing shook the sky, and the guns and bullets in Taierzhuang City rained down, and the blood flowed like a river. The Japanese army was devastated and fled in disarray. Li Zongren ordered the troops to chase fiercely, and the corpses of the enemy soldiers were all over the field, and all kinds of baggage were everywhere.

On April 7, the remnants of the Japanese army retreated to Yicheng and Zaozhuang.

On 8 April, as the military commander of the 526th Brigade of the 176th Division, Modi participated in the celebration meeting held by the 21st Group Army in Bengbu.

Sitting on the hand-cranked rail car, the wind blows the face, it is not too cold, after all, it has passed the Qingming Festival, the railway is very flat, very straight, it is the first time to contact the railway so closely, and the feeling of sleepers drilling into their feet is very fresh. Sitting next to him was Li Songde, chief of staff of the 526 Brigade, both of whom were dressed very brightly, invincible and short, wearing high-waisted black leather boots of the captured Japanese army, and wearing a Japanese army windbreaker.

"This car is pretty fast!" Trees on the side of the road slipped past the side of the car, Mo Enemy said.

Zhao Guolong took three people to act as the driver and power of the hand-cranked rail car, and two people in the front and rear held the handle of the bar with both hands and rolled up and down alternately, so that the car could run forward at a speed of 20 kilometers. Zhao Guolong replied with a smile: "We haven't worked hard yet, and it will be faster to make efforts." ”

"Okay, okay, it's going to be fast, I'm going to faint if it's too fast." Li Songde, who was sitting side by side with Mo Di in front, said that he was holding the car tightly with a painful expression.

"After sitting for so long, I've been thinking about the question, what if there's a train coming in front of us?" Mo Di said.

The soldier who rocked the car with Zhao explained in a local accent: "Let's stop and give way." "This is a newly enlisted soldier, named Hu Sande, the son of a worker at the Mingguang Railway Station, when the Ninth Division retreated, he robbed all the things in his house, and beat his father who worked at the railway station to death, and his mother was also * to death, he came out of his hometown, joined the army in a fit of anger, and became Zhao Guolong's subordinate.

"The question is how do we let it!" Li Songde also became interested in this issue.

"This car usually asks the station dispatch to the station, there is a station can go, if there is something urgent, there is no need to go to the station also walk, it doesn't matter, when there is a car coming, it will be carried down the road, the train has passed, and then carried up. This car is not heavy, only about 400 catties, and four people can get it up and down casually. There are also a few small flatbed trucks at Mingguang Station, which can be hung on the back of the hand-cranked car to pull goods. But you can't pull more, you can carry it down. If you can't lift off the road, you will be in trouble when you get into the car. Hu Sande said.

"Will you be run over if you get in a car?" Zhao Guolong asked.

"That's not it, the train will stop when it sees a hand-cranked car from a distance, and sometimes the people on the train will come down to help carry the car, but you can't run people to death at every turn, everyone is looking for food on the railway, and you can't do this kind of gnashing of teeth." Hu Sande said: "I can also drive trains, and I often help my father move the head of the train and transfer the car at the station, and it is easier to drive a train than a car." ”

"That is, you don't have to turn the steering wheel, you don't have to look at the road, you can't go down the road no matter how you go." Zhao Guolong said.

Everyone laughed. Talking and laughing, Li Songde also let go a lot, and asked Mo Di: "Tianzong, what do you think Xuzhou should do next?" ”

"How?" Mo Di smiled and said: "If you see it, you will accept it, and you will kill more than 10,000 people, it is enough, next time you will find an opportunity to kill another 10,000 or 20,000 people, and kill him hundreds of thousands a year, and within three years, the Japanese army invading China will be all killed." ”

"Hehehehehe!" Zhao Guolong and his gang all laughed, this is what their 1056 regiment did, in the past half a year, the Japanese who have been killed under one of their regiments, not two thousand, but also three thousand, if each regiment has this kind of result, the Japanese will really not be enough to kill for long.

Li Songde shook his head and said, "I estimate that the upper authorities will not let go of this great opportunity easily, and they will definitely expand the results in Xuzhou." ”

"No, the masters around Chief Li won't be at your level! With a master like Commander Liu Tuyi by the side of Chief Li, he would not do such a stupid thing. When he was a militia group, he knew that Liu Shiyi's "three-house policy" of serving soldiers in the regiment, learning from generals, and recruiting from conscription was the foundation of Guangxi's governance. When he came to the battlefield, his foresight also made Mo Dou admire, he was able to prepare to anticipate his first train operation, and at the same time thought that he was more effective on the outside than on the inside, and he was a true confidant.

"I heard that Commander Liu has been transferred to the Military Training Department as deputy director and is no longer in the Fifth War Zone." Li Songde said: "What you said makes sense, as soon as Commander Liu leaves, it will be difficult to say, the Fifth Theater Staff was able to win the battle of Xuzhou, thanks to Commander Liu Shiyi's decision, Commander Liu is gone, Xu Zuyi is an outsider, only Li Xingshu, that old man, will hold a spear and a big knife and call to charge and fight." ”

"Hehe, Lao Jiang in Wuhan also likes to fight in groups, and he will get together if he has nothing to do, this is the case with North China, and the same is true with Shanghai, it's hard to say that this time is the same." Mo Di said, "! The Japanese are not stupid, how can they fall twice in a pit, and if they want to pit people, they have to change places. ”

Li Songde was overwhelmed by the invincible theory of war, and he really didn't know how these victories were fought, and he didn't have any serious things.

After more than two hours, the handcart arrived in Bengbu. More than a month ago, the sky was dark here, and more than a month later, the market is still so prosperous, and the streets are bustling with people coming and going, doing business, pulling foreign cars, and it is completely impossible to see that this is still a war zone, it seems that the war is far away from here, and people's self-healing ability is still very strong.