On the evening of 27 February, the artillery, ironclad convoy and anti-aircraft artillery deployed by the 200th Division arrived at Taierzhuang South Station one after another. On the same day, in order to ensure the victory of the Battle of Xuzhou, the Military Committee ordered Huang Jie's 8th Army, Liu Xing's 27th Army, Yu Jishi's 74th Army, Song Xilian's 78th Army, and Li Hanxun's 64th Army, which were assembled near Wuhan, to quickly reinforce the Xuzhou area. In the early morning of February 28, the 9th Division and the 11th Division marched north to attack Xin'an Town, Donghai and Lianyungang.

The total strength of the Japanese army exceeded 40,000, with more than 120 large and small tanks, more than 150 mountain artillery, field artillery, and heavy artillery, and there were planes in the sky to help the battle. All bridges and roads that were favorable to the Chinese army were blown up by Japanese aircraft. Huang Weigang's 38th Division and the 20th Army of Guan Lin's 52nd Army, which were stationed in the East China Sea, followed the original plan to lure the enemy into depth, and after resisting for half a day, they feigned that they were unable to support and withdrew to Linyi County and Yulingou Mountains respectively.

Liu Zhensan's 180th Division held on to Lianyun and launched a bloody battle of life and death with the Japanese army. Because the geographical location of Lianyungang is quite critical, if it is lost, the Japanese army can use Lianyungang as a supply line for the "Battle of Xuzhou", which will have a significant impact on the entire Battle of Xuzhou. On September 13, 1937, Cheniushan Island outside Lianyungang was occupied by the Japanese army, and when the Japanese 11th Division launched a fierce attack on Lianyun, the Japanese marines and gunboats attacked and shelled Lianyungang along the east coast!

Although the 180th Division was flanked on both sides, the officers and soldiers of the whole division under the leadership of Liu Zhensan fought to the death with the Japanese army in Sunjiashan, Xiaoxizhuang, Haitouwan, Wutiaogou, Damajian and other places, so that the Japanese army could not cross the thunder pond by half a step! At the same time, the 13th, 16th, 101st, 6th, 114th, and 110th Divisions of the Japanese Central China Front began a fierce attack on Hefei, Huoqiu, Tianjia'an, Fengyang, Linhuaiguan, Xuyi, and other places, striving to make a breakthrough while containing the Chinese army.

The new 5th Division, 20th Division, 10th Division, and 22nd Division of the Japanese Army also began to exert their strength, launching a full-scale attack on the Huaxia Huben Army Defense Area, Fei County, Teng County, and the Third Army respectively! For a time, the entire Fifth War Zone became a rumor, and dozens of battlefields, large and small, were killed by both sides of the enemy, and the number of casualties continued to rise! On March 1, the Japanese army divided its troops into three routes and continued to move north, killing Linyi, Pixian and Sihu respectively!

Linyi is an important place in southern Lunan, and the capture of Linyi not only cuts off the direct connection between the Jiaodong Group Army and the Fifth War Zone, but also further threatens Fei County and Teng County, and forms a north-south flank attack with the Itagaki Division! And Pixian and Sihu are the gateway obstacles to Taierzhuang, and they are also the strongholds of the Japanese army!

Although the Fifth War Zone has formulated a plan to lure the enemy deep and set up a large encirclement near Taierzhuang, it does not mean that these more than 40,000 elite troops of devils must be directly put into the vicinity of Taierzhuang before they can start fighting! The 9th and 11th Divisions of the Japanese Army are in full swing, but they can't just draw a circle on the map and eat them, they must resist step by step and constantly consume their sharp energy and vital strength.

Therefore, the 59th Army and the 75th Army stationed in Linyi, Pixian and Sihu fought to the death and stubbornly resisted the attacking Japanese army! Teng County, Shandong. Yun Qichang was ordered to cooperate with the Third Army to garrison Fei County, and when he entered Fei County, he had several skirmishes with the Kunisaki detachment, but Kunizaki Deng could not hold out and retreated to Yi County.

What followed was a few days of calm, and Yun Qichang thought that there was really no battle to fight, but he did not expect that the Kunisaki detachment seemed to have a storm since yesterday morning, and the troops launched a fierce attack on the defense line of Shiqiaozhuang Village, Dawa Village, and Hengliang Mountain in Fei County in three ways. Yunqichangbu and Pang Corps coordinated defensive operations, and fought fiercely with the Japanese Kunisaki detachment for a whole day, and the Japanese army could not advance half an inch! At dawn this morning, the Japanese attacked again under the cover of aircraft and tanks!

After four hours of fierce fighting with the Japanese army in Dawa Village, Yun Qichang took advantage of the fatigue of the Japanese army to order the tank armored unit to attack, and a battalion of infantry followed closely to carry out a countercharge against the Japanese army. In one fell swoop, the 21st Wing of the Japanese Army destroyed 6 Japanese tanks, killed more than 560 Japanese soldiers, and completely stabilized the defense line of Dawa Village!

The defense line of Shiqiaozhuang Village and Hengliang Mountain is a mountainous terrain, and it is impossible to use armored troops, so it is relatively hard to fight! After two days of fierce fighting, more than 380 people were killed in the Pang Army, 52 people were killed in the Jiaodong Group Army, and more than 1,500 people were killed in the Japanese army! At the same time, the 32nd Group Army of Tengxian County, under the assistance of two regiments led by Xie Kangquan, withstood the repeated strong attacks of the Japanese 21st Brigade and regiment, and the Hunan Army lost more than 420 people in two days, and the Jiaodong Group Army lost 17 people! The 21st Brigade of the Japanese Army paid more than 1,100 lives!

Generally speaking, the offensive intensity of the 10th Division is not large, but the pressure on Teng County and Fei County is not small! And the defense area of the Jiaodong Group Army was also not spared, and the devils attacked more than 40 times in Jiaoxian, Gaomi, Anqiu, Yishui and other counties in the Jiaodong region!

Rao is Jiang Qiang's family has a big cause, and it seems to be a little stretched at this time, except for the special operations brigade and the 4th Division, there are still troops to maintain mobility, and the other troops basically have no spare energy to take care of anything else, except for the necessary defensive troops! The most pressure is still on the Third Army, especially Sun Tongxuan's 12th Army, which almost lost a division, and the 55th Army's casualties are as high as more than 4,000 people!

Under the all-out attack of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army, the Third Army now only has three defense areas left: Cao County, Dingwu County and Chengwu County! If the 20th Division continues to maintain the current offensive intensity, it will have to suffer casualties in ten days at most, unless it is withdrawn to Henan for rest, or reinforcements arrive, otherwise the number will really be revoked! On March 8th, the headquarters of Hanjia Temple in Taierzhuang! "Now it's finally our turn!"

Standing on the south bank of the canal, Jiang Qiang could already hear the endless rumbling of artillery, and the Japanese army was only one step away from Taierzhuang! Although there were 148 combat vehicles and 72 anti-aircraft guns of the 200th Division, as well as heavy weapons such as anti-tank rocket launchers and anti-aircraft guns provided by Jiang Qiang, the Japanese army concentrated a large number of Type 97 medium tanks, and there were large-scale bombing by aircraft, and Sihu, Xiangcheng, Aiqu, Lanling, Dige and other places were lost one after another!

The northeast of Taierzhuang has been completely exposed in front of the Japanese army, and Teng County, Fei County, Lianyungang, Pi County, and Linyi have not fallen under the heavy encirclement and continuous attack of the Japanese army! After just a few days of bloody battles, the 2nd Army, the 59th Army, and the 75th Army paid an extremely heavy price for casualties, and nearly 10,000 hot-blooded Chinese men spilled their blood on the battlefield!

In addition, after more than ten days of bloody battles, the Third Army finally got the order to retreat, and the remnants of the army had retreated to Minquan in Henan on the evening of March 7! Since then, all places in Shandong have fallen except for the Jiaodong Group Army Defense Area, as well as Teng County, Fei County, Yi County, Pi County, Linyi County, and Tancheng County! "Headquarters!"

At this time, Gu Liangmin walked quickly to Yang Fan, saluted Jiang Qiang and said solemnly: "General seat, please allow me to take the brothers of the 46th Regiment into Taierzhuang, and we will swear to fight the Japanese devils to the end!" People are in the city, people are dead in the city! Kong Xiangsheng, the commander of the 46th regiment, followed and saluted: "Please also ask the general seat to approve!" It is our duty to protect our family and defend the country! ”

The 46th Regiment of the Jiaodong Group Army is a 3,000-strong regiment reorganized from the 130th Regiment of the 66th Brigade of the 22nd Division of the former Third Group Army. However, these days, Gu Liangmin and others have been like ants on a hot pot and can't sit still, and they can't eat well and sleep well!

Because they saw too many casualties and sacrifices, they saw the reserves of the Second Army crossing the pontoon bridges one after another and constantly throwing themselves into the battlefield, and they also saw a large number of seriously wounded people with missing arms and legs constantly being carried back from the front line! The friendly brothers shed blood and desperately suffered heavy casualties on the front line, and there were more than 12,000 people in four reinforced regiments and one tank company on their side, and they either could not hold out in Taierzhuang, or they were on the south bank of the canal to "watch the fire from the other side", how could Gu Liangmin and others be at ease?

Especially when those newspaper reporters ran to the camp of the Jiaodong Group Army again and again, and questioned Gu Liangmin and others in front of the gongs and drums, everyone blushed, wishing that there was a crack in the ground to get into! But the military order is like a mountain, without Jiang Qiang's order and approval, even if there is more anger and shame, Gu Liangmin and the others can only hold it first!

Now that the devil is about to hit Taierzhuang, Gu Liangmin and the others naturally can't hold it anymore! Jiang Qiang chuckled: "Don't worry! If you want to fight, you have a chance! Taierzhuang is a big game of chess, and it can't end in a few days! You just have to be patient and ready to fight on the south bank! "At present, there are two regiments of the Jiaodong Group Army deployed in Taierzhuang, plus the 186th reinforced regiment of the Second Group Army, and the total strength of the first wave of defense is more than 10,000! The other two regiments, Jiang Qiang was placed on the south bank of the canal as a reserve force!

The main reason for this is that Taierzhuang is not big enough, and there are too many people to use it, and it is easy to suffer from the scourge of dense artillery fire and bomber groups by devils! Jiang Qiang has not only built dozens of pillboxes in Tai'er City, dug a lot of air defense bunkers and underground passages, and stockpiled enough weapons and ammunition, but also set up supporting facilities such as radar and telephone communication networks!

After the completion of the construction and reinforcement of the military fortifications in Taierzhuang, most of the engineer regiments and construction personnel were transported back to the Jiaodong area by helicopter, leaving only an engineer company of more than 100 people on the south bank in case of emergency! "Please rest assured, we promise to come as soon as we are called, we will be able to fight, and we will win the battle!" Gu Liangmin and Kong Xiangsheng saluted again, looking at Jiang Qiang with blank eyes. "Hurry up, everyone, Jiang Qiang is in front!" "Yes, we must ask him to give us an explanation today!"

At this moment, a group of young men and women who looked like reporters swarmed from a distance! As soon as Xu Shigang, a reporter from the Central News Agency, ran to him, he asked in an unkind tone: "Commander Jiang, I want to ask when your Jiaodong Group Army is willing to go out to fight devils?" Please give us a clear answer today! "I'm sorry, it's a military secret, and I don't have anything to say!"

Jiang Qiang glanced at Xu Shigang and knew that he must have been assigned to interrogate again, so he used an official phrase very unceremoniously! Because at the beginning, Jiang Qiang showed that he would not listen to Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi: This time he came only to hold Taierzhuang and protect the northern gateway of Xuzhou, as for other combat orders, don't come! Therefore, whether it is the headquarters of the commander of the Fifth Theater or the chairman of the committee, they can only stare at him dryly, and there is no way to dictate his actions!

However, the Central China Front and the North China Front gathered nearly 300,000 troops and launched a multi-front assault on the entire Fifth War Zone, and the whole situation became extremely serious, especially the Japanese army advancing to the Linyi area of Taierzhuang caused great pressure on Xuzhou! So many people can't hold it back, and they all hope that Jiang Qiang can make a strong move and create all the brilliant achievements before!

The demon lord is good to see that the little ghost is difficult, and the big man above is not good to directly put pressure on him, so using the news and public opinion to force Jiang Qiang to take action has become the best option. Xu Shigang's face sank, and he sneered at each other with an extremely sour rhetoric: "Commander Jiang, when the national disaster is at hand, you only think about preserving your strength, Han Fuyu's experience is right in front of you, do you want to end up with him?" ”

"What do you say? You bastard, do you have to say it again? Our headquarters and my brothers in the Jiaodong Group Army, how can you slander casually? Believe it or not, Lao Tzu shot you down? Before Jiang Qiang could speak, Huzi couldn't help it, grabbed Xu Shigang's neckline as soon as he went up, and raised his pistol murderously against Xu Shigang's head! You can say anything, but if you dare to attack Jiang Qiang personally, that is, the king of heaven and Lao Tzu will not be able to do it! “……”

Gu Liangmin and Kong Xiangsheng glared angrily, and their anger was not small, but they couldn't refute it with words! "What are you going to do? Is there any royal law? Xu Shigang was suddenly frightened, his whole body trembled, and his face became extremely pale! Don't mess around, let people go! "We are journalists and have the right to do any interview!" "Commander Jiang, how can your Jiaodong Group Army bully others?"

The reporters next to him were dumbfounded, and then screamed. "Huzi, let him go! We are not afraid of shadows! Go your own way and let others say go! Jiang Qiang waved his hand, focusing on the overall situation and power of the whole situation, how could he have the kung fu to deal with these little people! It's cheaper for you! If you dare to talk nonsense again, Lao Tzu doesn't care who you are! ”

Huzi glared at Xu Shigang fiercely, and then pushed and pushed the little white-faced reporter in front of him to the ground. Woo ~ Woo ~ Woo ~ At this moment, a sharp air defense siren sounded in Taierzhuang. "Quick! Fast! Fast! "Holy shit!" "A gentleman doesn't stand under a dangerous wall, hide first and then talk about it!"

When those news reporters heard the fierce air raid siren, they all panicked all of a sudden, and they no longer had the heart to bother with interviewing and questioning Jiang Qiang, so they quickly ran away! "Boss, the devil plane is coming again! It's too dangerous here, so please go back to the headquarters as soon as possible! Gu Liangmin subconsciously looked at the eastern sky!

These days, the devil planes really haven't stopped, they have to bomb two or three times a day, and every time they come, they are a large group, and they are no longer as rampant as before! It seems that the Devil Aviation Regiment was frightened by the Flying Tigers of the Jiaodong Group Army, and no longer dared to come only to the bomber group, and there were a large number of fighters to escort it every time!

And Jiang Qiang, in order not to expose himself in advance, and in order to accumulate strength, he held back his big moves, so he endured not pulling out the Flying Tigers for air combat! It was only with anti-aircraft guns that sporadically bombed down 5 devil planes, so that the devil aircraft group did not dare to be too rampant in low-altitude intensive bombing, which greatly weakened the bombing effect! "It seems that the devil can't wait! As soon as he took Nanluo and Liujiahu, he rushed to Taierzhuang! Let's go and avoid the limelight! "In the face of the hordes of devil bombers, Jiang Qiang naturally won't hold it up!

The devil's hundreds of kilograms of aerial bombs are not vegetarians, and even the reinforced concrete permanent fortifications built inside and outside Taierzhuang City can't withstand the toss, let alone the flesh and blood. So these days, the officers and men of the Jiaodong Group Army Engineer Corps have not been less busy, and some of the bunkers have been repaired back and forth five or six times!

This is also due to Jiang Qiang's sufficient capital, and the reinforced concrete is enough, otherwise he would not have thought of fighting with the devil in Taierzhuang in peace and stability! "Commander Sun, you've worked hard these days, brothers!" After returning to the headquarters, Jiang Qiang said to Sun Lianzhong in a deep voice: "Now we can let the noble army brothers around Taierzhuang withdraw first to rest, and then let's have a good fight with the little devil!" ”

Sun Lianzhong nodded gratefully and said, "Commander Jiang, we have the help of your army these days, otherwise we would not be able to support it until now!" The next defensive battle of Taierzhuang will be entrusted to your army! Although the main force brought by Jiang Qiang did not participate in the battle, dozens of elite squads were sent to various defensive positions to assist the Second Army in the defense, focusing on attacking valuable targets such as tanks, heavy machine guns and commanders of the Japanese devils!

Moreover, Jiang Qiang also established a field hospital on the south bank, sparing no effort to provide medical care and rescue to the evacuated light and serious wounded, which greatly reduced the number of casualties of the Second Army! Although the Second Army and the Japanese army fought bloodiwarmly for 7 days and 7 nights, although they paid an extremely heavy price in casualties, Sun Lianzhong and others were not the slightest dissatisfied with Jiang Qiang, but were full of gratitude! Indeed, the current situation of the second group is much better than the original history!

In the original history, due to the delay in launching a general attack on the Japanese army by the Tang Enbo Corps out of its own considerations, the Second Army fought a bloody battle with the Japanese army in the Taierzhuang area for ten days and ten nights, and almost suffered all casualties! "Rest assured, victory will be ours! The little devil must not be able to eat and walk around! ”

Jiang Qiang nodded with great confidence! Under the favorable terrain, superior firepower and strong logistical support, Jiang Qiang has enough confidence to hold on to the old age, and he is not worried at all about whether Tang Enbo will play Tai Chi like in the original history to drag out the rhythm!

As he was talking, there was a tingling buzzing sound in the sky in the distance, and it didn't take long to see a dense group of devil planes flying in the sky, and there must be hundreds of them at any time! In order to capture the last barrier in front of Xuzhou as quickly as possible, the little devil was really hard enough, and dispatched 46 bombers and 55 escort fighters in one go! Taierzhuang Guandi Temple was originally a two-story brick building, covering a wide area, and later after the careful reinforcement and transformation of the Huaxia Engineer Corps, now it has become the former enemy headquarters of Taierzhuang!

Xu Guangming's face was hideous, and he said loudly to Wang Xingfu, the combat staff officer: "Pass the order, let all the anti-aircraft fire be fully opened, and this time you don't have to get used to the little devils!" Hit me hard! "Order!" Wang Xingfu greeted him very excitedly, and then picked up a black walkie-talkie: "Pay attention to all air defense positions!" Attention to all anti-aircraft gun emplacements! All of them are there, the division has an order, and the firepower is in full swing! ……”

"Received on the 1st!" "Received on the 2nd!" "Received on the 3rd!" "......" "Received on the 32nd!"

In order to increase survivability and be targeted, a large number of reinforced concrete batteries were built in Taierzhuang, and each gun was separated by a certain distance! Among them, anti-aircraft fire, there were 12 76-mm anti-aircraft guns and 20 twin anti-aircraft machine guns! "Ready! Fire! ”

When the devil group entered the effective firing range, 12 anti-aircraft guns took the lead in firing, and 12 shells shot into the sky, and after a while, they exploded in the sky one after another and turned into countless fragments and fired in all directions. In the first round of fire, two fighters of the Japanese planes were shot into smoke, and several planes were painted. With a rate of fire of 20 rounds per minute, one shot in three seconds, at this time the fire is in full swing, naturally there is a wave of unsettled waves, and the first round of fire has just ended, and the second round of 12 anti-aircraft shells will continue to explode!

Although anti-aircraft shells are not precision-guided missiles and can be fired directly into the soul, they are better than the amount of area damage! There was a burst of indiscriminate bombardment, blocking a large area of airspace in an instant, and the devil plane group suffered great damage, and only a dozen or so devil planes began to fall rapidly with smoke in smoke!

"Yaga! It's this hateful bunch of Chinese pigs again! "Drop the bomb now!" "Hurry up and drop! Blow up all the Chinese pigs! ”

The Japanese air force, which had had many combat experiences, naturally understood that most of them had encountered the Jiaodong Group Army again, because looking at the Huaxia army, only Yang Fan's department had this kind of long-range and powerful anti-aircraft artillery. The Japanese devil bomber group did not dare to stay in the sky over Taierzhuang for too long, and it felt that it was almost over, so they began to throw bombs frantically below! This looks like a dense laydown of eggs, but the accuracy is greatly reduced, and even only 40% of the bombs fell into Taierzhuang, blowing up some buildings and positions!

But there was no damage to the personnel, because except for the battery and a few observation posts, all the officers and soldiers took refuge in the anti-artillery shelters and anti-aircraft bunkers early! Most of the others fell into the wilderness outside, and at most some flowers and plants were blown up, and there was not much use at all!

"Wow, look! Actually shot down so many imp planes? "The Jiaodong Group Army is really different! Bullish! Ha ha! "This is the anti-aircraft artillery of the Jiaodong Group Army?" "Today is an eye-opener!" "Haha, that's so relieving! I see how the little devil plane is rampant! "Wow, Commander Jiang, you guys are really a blockbuster if you don't make a sound!" "This guy finally made a move!"

I have long heard that the Jiaodong Group Army has many records of shooting down a large number of Japanese planes, but what I heard and what I saw with my own eyes are completely two different concepts! In particular, the shocking scene of dense anti-aircraft artillery fire rising into the sky and devil planes falling like rain suddenly made the Chinese soldiers and civilians within a radius of dozens of miles enthusiastic!

Even Xu Shigang, who had spoken disrespectfully to Jiang Qiang before, stretched out his thumb and kept applauding! Come and go in a hurry, where do the devil bomber groups dare to stay longer, and as soon as the bombs are thrown, they will fly away! "Senior Commander Xu, it's so exciting to fight with you! Ha ha! The little devil has a hard time this time! ”

The eyes of Wang Guanwu, the head of the 186th Strengthening Regiment, were full of envy and admiration, he had been with Xu Guangming and others for a long time these days, and the good life was really nourishing! Every day, you can eat luncheon meat, beef jerky, canned fish, rice, self-heating hot pot, and drink a few sips of wine. In addition, the crown five is even more eye-opening, learning and seeing too many military common sense and weapons and equipment that have not been exposed to before! Xu Guangming smiled indifferently: "When the devil finishes firing the cannon, the show will officially begin!" Commander Wang, when the time comes, let's fight side by side and kill the little devils fiercely, how about it? ”