"I don't dare to ask for it! It is an honor for all the brothers of our 186th Regiment to be able to fight side by side with Division Commander Xu, Regiment Commander Hao, Regiment Commander Tian and all the brothers of the Jiaodong Group Army! "Crown Five laughed, although life and death have long been put out of the way, but with such a powerful ally on the side, the chances of survival and victory will inevitably be greatly improved, which is definitely a great luck for the Crown Five and others who are placed in the place of death!" Good! ”

Xu Guangming stretched out his hand and shook the crown five times, and after staying with Jiang for a long time, he naturally learned the essence of digging the foot of the wall, no matter whether there are dates or not, let's talk about it! "Yaga! Damn Huaxia pigs, why are you everywhere! Today I will definitely leave you dead without a place to bury! Dead, dead, dead! The commander of the 9th Division, Yoshizumi Ryosuke, put down the binoculars, and then ordered through gritted teeth: "The artillery unit immediately opened artillery bombardment on the North Railway Station, the North Gate of Taierzhuang, the Northwest Gate, the West Gate and the East Gate!" Tank Brigade and 7th Wing, get ready for battle! ”

The bomber group was far from achieving the expected bombing effect, but Yoshizumi Ryosuke's mood was not affected in the slightest, because he still had 93 field guns of different calibers and 128 tank fighting vehicles in his hands! Yoshizumi Ryosuke is very confident that under the pressure of powerful heavy firepower, he can definitely raze the small town in front of him directly to the ground, even if the Jiaodong Group Army is stationed inside, it will be turned into ashes in the huge artillery fire and flames! After these days of bloody battles and fierce battles, although the Chinese army paid an extremely heavy price of casualties, it also caused great casualties and attrition to the Japanese army!

In order to capture Taierzhuang as soon as possible, Yoshizumi Ryosuke opened the last gateway barrier to Xuzhou, and mobilized all the artillery and combat vehicles that could be requisitioned within the current ability! With Yoshizumi Ryosuke's order, several devil artillery positions that had long been around Taierzhuang adjusted their firing Zhu Yuan, and soon one shell after another whistled out, followed by earth-shattering explosions one after another. Boom, I saw a ball of fire rising into the sky, Taierzhuang and the surrounding area were soon shrouded in thick gunsmoke, and many places also lit a raging fire!

The little devil didn't dare to use the gas bomb blatantly, but this time he used a lot of sulfur bombs. Similar to a combination of fire bombs and poison gas bombs, brimstone bombs can burn violently in the air and produce a large amount of toxic gases, which is very useful for bombing town buildings! "Not good! The devil used a brimstone bomb! "These brutes can't die well! Gas bombs again! "Quick! Put on a gas mask now! "Haha, fortunately, the friendly brothers gave us gas masks in advance, otherwise it would have been a bad thing!"

When the Jiaodong Group Army Engineer Corps rebuilt Taierzhuang, it took into account that the Japanese army would use fire bombs and sulfur bombs, and all the pure wooden houses in the city were demolished! Therefore, the devil's sulfur bomb will not cause a wide range of burning, but the pervasive poisonous smoke is still frantically diffused everywhere, and the officers and soldiers defending the city who found out about the situation have taken out their gas masks from their backpacks!

The little devil really made a bloody effort this time, and the violent saturation shelling lasted for half an hour! Not only the four gates of the North Railway Station and Taierzhuang were bombed, but even the fortifications and bunkers in the city were also severely tested! The North Railway Station was almost flattened, the city was bombed to the ground, the strong masonry walls showed countless craters and cracks, and the city was in shambles, littered with rubble and ruins! "Yo Xi!"

Yoshizumi Ryosuke put down the binoculars, nodded with satisfaction, and then drew his command knife and shouted, "Assault!" Tao times change! "Crunch, 128 devil tanks marched in five directions towards the North Railway Station, West Gate, Northwest Gate, North Gate, and East Gate, followed by more than 3,000 little devils! Among them, the direction of the West Gate has become the focus of the devil's attack, and 45 devil tanks and 800 devil infantry have been gathered!

Because a pontoon bridge was built on the canal in the northwest corner of Taierzhuang, which was the lifeline of the defending troops! Japanese tanks could use the plain in the northwest corner of Taierzhuang to advance quickly to occupy the pontoon bridge and cut off the connection between the defenders of Taierzhuang and the Chinese army on the south bank. "Commander Jiang! This one is going to be fine, right? Watching a large number of devil tanks rapidly advance, Sun Lianzhong's eyes were full of solemnity, and he knew very well how powerful the devil artillery unit and tank armored force were!

After all this period of saturation and bombing, how many defenders are left in the city, and how many fortifications are still useful? How long can the remnants hold out under the onslaught of so many tanks? Thinking about it carefully, even Sun Lianzhong, who is extremely good at defense, feels his scalp tingle at this time! Especially the tank tank and anti-aircraft units of the 200th Division a few days ago, in front of the Japanese anti-aircraft guns and tanks, they were simply no different from papier-mâché, and they were directly pierced and blown into a bunch of parts before they fired a few shots!

If it weren't for Jiang Qiang's provision of a large number of individual rocket launchers, he would have blown away a lot of devil tanks, so that the little devil tanks would not dare to crush the position recklessly! Otherwise, I don't know how many lives it will take to fill the devil tank! "Don't worry! The fortifications we built are not tofu scum projects! The devil wants to destroy it directly with artillery fire, that is a pipe dream! The devil's three-plate axe is not easy to use here! ”

Jiang Qiang has full confidence in this, the permanent fortifications built of special cement and steel bars are not vegetarian, unless they are hit head-on by heavy artillery many times, it is very difficult to completely destroy! The bombing of the planes and the fire of the field artillery just now by the devil really looked violent, but in fact they were all a burst of blind fire in a large area, and the effect on the reinforced concrete pillbox fortifications was extremely limited! "That's good! That's good! ”

Seeing Jiang Qiang so calm and relaxed, Sun Lianzhong's nervousness was greatly relieved. "Commander Sun, please watch the show with peace of mind!" Jiang Qiang smiled, and then said to Liu Qiang: "The West Gate artillery is ready, the little devil tank is coming, you must behave well!" "The head seat is really a miracle! Please rest assured, the brothers have been waiting for this moment for a long time, and they will definitely not drop the chain! Huzi nodded with a smile, and then picked up the walkie-talkie. Commander Jiang, your telephones are really advanced enough! ”

Sun Lianzhong looked at the walkie-talkie in Huzi's hand with envy, and couldn't understand that it could talk remotely without a phone line! "Haha! So-so! ”

Jiang Qiang smiled very modestly, with the previous lesson, Jiang Qiang no longer easily gives others walkie-talkies, because the newly purchased walkie-talkies are all encrypted type, and they are easy to be monitored by others after they are lost! In addition, within the scope of the Jiaodong Group Military Defense Zone, Jiang Qiang is already building a new communication network, which will be upgraded into a PHS communication network in the near future, and the PHS network in Shanghai is already in use in large quantities. At that time, you don't have to worry about the leakage of walkie-talkies in the defense zone!

"The devils are attacking!" "Quick! Get into position! "Haha, little devil, grandpa has been waiting for you for a long time!" Soon, the defenders of the North Railway Station, the five city gates of Taierzhuang, and the city wall have drilled out of the anti-artillery shelters and anti-aircraft bunkers one after another, and quickly entered their respective positions! "Sodesnay! What a quiet battlefield! "Yo Si! Under the saturation and bombardment of the Imperial Heavy Artillery, even if the Chinese rats are not blown to pieces, they will be shattered! "Needless to say! Under such a raging fire, even steel and iron bones will be melted! ”

The rumbling sound of the motor came from far and near, and more than 20 devil tanks creaked to the North Railway Station, and a group of little devils followed closely behind the tank with nervous expressions! When the ghost soldiers saw the North Railway Station not far away, which turned into ruins and a sea of fire, almost everyone decided that in this case, there would definitely be no living creatures at the North Railway Station! "Yaga! Don't be careless at any time, keep in good formation and concentrate, but if you find anything abnormal, shoot immediately, don't hesitate! If you want to put it in a box and send it back to Japan, I didn't say it! ”

At this time, a devil squadron leader warned loudly and solemnly, as an old devil who has been born and died many times, he is naturally very aware of the danger on the battlefield! "Hahaha!" "Sakai-kun, don't you hear me, why don't you put away your notebook quickly!" "Ono-kun, you're walking too fast!" "It's almost time to get to the train station, everyone must be extra careful!"

The little devils around him burst into laughter, and their tense and serious emotions were suddenly relieved a lot, and at the same time, they became more cautious! At this moment, there was a slight rustling sound in the ruins of the railway station, followed by dozens of black holes under the ruins. "Brothers, give me a hard beating!"

Wu Chuan, the commander of the 37th Company of the 13th Battalion of the 5th Regiment of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Division of the Jiaodong Group Army, saw that the time was ripe and even gave the order to attack! Immediately afterward, heavy machine guns, sniper rifles, and tank defense guns hidden under the rubble spewed tongues of fire and roared towards the devil infantry and tanks. The North Railway Station and Taierzhuang are each other's horns, and their strategic location is very important to the entire Taierzhuang Campaign, but due to the sudden position and small room for maneuver, it is difficult to hold on to the heavy firepower and heavy attack of the devils.

Therefore, Jiang Qiang abandoned the fortifications above and carried out large-scale renovation on the basis of the original bunker, not only built more than 20 strong fortresses, but also built a tunnel to Taierzhuang! At this time, the fire was in full swing, and the little devil infantry fell in pieces by surprise, and several artillery shells in several tank companies around were directly blown to pieces!

"Yaga! Shoot! Sasi change, Sasi change! "Fire! Kill these Chinese rats! ”

Although the casualties in the surprise attack were not small, the well-trained Japanese troops did not show obvious panic, and more than a dozen Type 97 medium tanks quickly turned their heads and stopped four or five hundred meters in front of the pile of ruins at the railway station! Then the gunner of the devil tank quickly calibrated the muzzle of the gun and began to fire accurately at the firing hole that was spewing out tongues of fire! Boom, a few cannons went down to the ruins, the rubble flew everywhere, the smoke and dust were everywhere, the half-collapsed ruins and broken walls trembled, and the bricks and tiles kept falling!

A few points of fire were dumbfounded, but the little devil was not happy for long, and tongues of fire erupted from the shooting hole again! The surrounding little devil infantry used tanks as cover to quickly form a counterattack position, and long and short guns and light and heavy machine guns opened fire one after another for fire counterattack! The defensive battle of Taierzhuang led by the Jiaodong Group Army officially began, and the ruins of the North Railway Station instantly turned into a strong fortress covered with thorns, and the little devils around had no way to get close to half a step!

At this time, in the northwest corner of the Japanese army's key attack, 45 tanks and 4 squadrons of devil infantry were already less than 400 meters away from the pontoon bridge on the bank of the canal! "Brothers, now it's our turn to perform! Attention to all gun emplacements, immediately adjust the shooting of Zhu Yuan! Hit me hard if you aim at it! Until you beat all the little devils down! "All gun emplacements are available! Preparation! Fire! ”

The 12 battle defense guns on the south bank of the canal lifted their camouflage and quickly calibrated the barrels! The 8 37mm anti-aircraft guns above the city wall of the west gate of Taierzhuang also extended the barrels out of the shooting holes, and the barrels of the black holes were aimed at the devil tank troops! The mortar positions on the south bank of the canal are also nervously adjusting and firing Zhu Yuan!

Just one minute later, 20 anti-aircraft guns, 15 heavy mortars and almost at the same time roared! I saw that the light bombs and the armor-piercing bullets were fired crosswise, like fire dragons hitting the devil's tank, and the shells continued to explode among the devils.

In the fierce explosion, more than a dozen tanks of the devil were destroyed on the spot, and more than a dozen tanks were damaged to varying degrees. PAK37 anti-aircraft gun is an infantry anti-aircraft gun developed by the German company Rheinmetall in the 30s of the 20th century, with a barrel length of 1.66 meters, a gun width of 1.65 meters, a gun height of 1.17 meters, and a marching weight of only 450 kg, so the maneuverability is very good!

The gun has a rate of fire of 13 rounds / min, a muzzle velocity of 762 m / s, and an effective range of 300-600 m. When dealing with tanks, it mainly fires 37 mm armor-piercing shells, which can penetrate 34 mm thick homogeneous steel armor at a distance of 100 meters, and has an armor-piercing capacity of 29 mm at a distance of 500 meters. The effective range of the Bazooka anti-tank rocket launcher produced in Shanghai is 270 meters, and when using it, the shooter must ensure that there are no obstacles in the rear before launching, otherwise the gunpowder gas spewed out may reflect and burn the shooter!

Therefore, it must use a kneeling position, it is easily killed by enemy fire, and it is not suitable for use in a closed and narrow fortress! "Shoot! Kill! "Dozens of shooting holes on the city wall of Taierzhuang can also spew out tongues of fire one after another, aiming at the devil infantry is a crazy slaughter!" Yaga! Fall back! Hurry up and drop! ”

In the face of powerful artillery fire and dense metal storms, even if the devil had a large number of Type 97 medium tanks with strong defense, they were beaten powerless under the fire of the north and south banks, and the casualties rose rapidly! Seeing that the situation was not good, the commander of the devil's front line hurriedly ordered the troops to retreat, and after a rush of retreat, only nearly twenty smoking tanks and dead bodies were left all over the ground! "Wow, Commander Jiang, your anti-tank firepower is too fierce, isn't it? This is the time to beat the devil to the ground! ”

Sun Lianzhong was dumbfounded, originally in the future, there would be an extremely difficult bloody battle when so many tanks and so many infantry were killed, but he never dreamed that the devil would be directly beaten and retreated in a hurry before he started attacking! Previously, the Second Army also had ten battle defense guns, which were distributed to more than ten large and small defensive positions, and also played a great role in destroying many devil tanks and heavy machine guns, but where did it have such an effect? "That's the advantage of concentrated firepower!"

Jiang Qiang smiled indifferently, and then picked up the binoculars and looked at the east gate of Taierzhuang, where a fierce battle was taking place! The Japanese army gathered 22 tanks at the east gate of Taierzhuang, and under the cover of the tanks, the surrounding devils had established forward positions and stacked several half-man-high sandbag bunkers. The devil tank guns continued to fire at the defenders and pillboxes on the city wall, and the devil infantry in the rear were also not idle with light and heavy machine guns, mortars, grenadiers, and 38 big covers!

The city wall of Taierzhuang was constantly bombarded by artillery fire, craters of different depths, rubble was flying, the whole wall was trembling, dense bullets were coming, and Chinese officers and soldiers were constantly shot and fell! The little devil infantry also rushed to the bottom of the city wall at one point, threw grenades, built siege ladders, and wanted to rush to the top of the city wall!

But obviously, the devils thought too much, under the strong defensive firepower and the heroic battles of the Chinese officers and soldiers, these little devils quickly rushed to the city wall so easily, and after a while, they fell to the ground and died, and the surviving devils retreated in a hurry! The situation at the North Gate and the Northwest Gate is not too much, and the offensive of the Japanese army is quite fierce, at least on the surface, it is pressing the Chinese defenders to fight, and the battle situation is extremely grim. Although a large number of pillboxes, bunkers, and forts were built on and within the city walls, it was impossible to turn all the city walls into reinforced concrete pillboxes, and large open areas on the city walls still needed officers and soldiers to rely on the city walls for defense!

During the Japanese shelling and grenadier launches, these Chinese defenders could only lie down under the city walls to protect themselves, and only after the bombs exploded did they raise their heads and shoot back and throw grenades! The devil's heavy army failed to raid the canal pontoon bridge behind the west gate, and after the hasty retreat, he reorganized the offensive and launched a fierce attack on the west gate of Taierzhuang! The guns and cannons on the five battlefields of the North Railway Station, the West Gate, the Northwest Gate, the North Gate and the East Gate are constantly sounding, and both sides are trying their best to fight to the death, but only the South Gate of Taierzhuang is extremely calm!

The Japanese army did not bypass the southeast corner to attack the south gate, not because they were playing the old routine of encircling the three unique ones, but because there were infantry guards of the Chinese army along the canal! If the Japanese army made a clever detour to the south gate to carry out a front and rear flanking attack, it would inevitably suffer from both sides of the defenders of Taierzhuang and the defenders on the south bank of the canal, not to mention that the siege would not even have a foothold! The fierce offensive and defensive battle was fought from morning to night, and Yoshizumi Ryosuke was full of strength to capture Taierzhuang in one go, but where was it so easy under the strict defense of the Jiaodong Group Army?

After more than ten hours of fierce fighting, the little devils not only did not attack the city, but the number of dead reached more than 600, and there were hundreds of minor and serious injuries! The total number of casualties of the Huaxia defenders was only 96, including 12 from the Jiaodong Group Army, 157 seriously wounded, and more than 300 lightly wounded!

The seriously wounded have been transferred to the rear field hospital one after another, and they have basically survived after being rescued by the medical team of the Jiaodong Group Army! If it weren't for the fatal attack of force majeure, basically even if you hung up the heavy lottery, you could pick up a life! "Haha, Commander Jiang, I have opened my eyes today! I used to think that I was very good at defense, but now I know what it means to have a mountain outside the mountain! ”

It was dark, the little devil stopped the offensive, and Sun Lianzhong's hanging heart fell to the ground temporarily, he really didn't expect that after fighting all day, the number of dead did not exceed 100! Tian Zhennan also nodded in shock: "Yes, it's incredible!" The little devil's attack is so fierce, planes, artillery and tanks, if we don't fill in the time of the day, it will be strange if we don't fill in the thousands of 800 lives! ”

Without waiting for Jiang Qiang to answer, Gu Liangmin smiled and said, "If the little devil wants to gnaw us off, he needs a good pair of teeth!" "The Jiaodong Group Army is armed to the teeth with luxurious equipment, strong physique, excellent military technology and strong logistics and medical care, which makes the battlefield survivability extremely strong!" Is that! Is that! Ha ha! Sun Lianzhong nodded with envy, naturally understanding the meaning of Gu Liangmin's words, and at the same time understanding why Jiang Qiang had to wait for the attack!

Holding the defensive position can kill and injure the enemy tenfold, and taking the initiative to attack is often to kill the enemy by 1,000 and lose 800 by himself. Jiang Qiang exhaled lightly and said, "Today is the first victory, but the next will be even more severe!" I'm not worried about my side, I'm afraid that Teng County, Fei County and Linyi will be under too much pressure and can't stand it! "After more than half a month of fierce attack, the 20th Division has driven the Third Army out of Shandong, not only completely relieving the hidden danger on the left side of the Japanese 10th Division, but now it is also transferring troops to Zou County!

Once these two devil divisions are allowed to join, the pressure on Teng County and Fei County will inevitably increase, especially when the devils smell that they want to encircle and annihilate the Japanese troops that have attacked Taierzhuang, Linyi, and Pixian, they will definitely be very desperate! Therefore, Jiang Qiang made tactical adjustments in advance, transferred two regiments to Teng County and one regiment to Fei County, and transported all the seriously wounded on the front line back to the defense area, of which the 32nd Group Army and the Third Army Corps had more than 600 seriously wounded!

Because Zhang Zizhong in Linyi was attacked by the 11th Division of the Japanese army, the casualties were extremely heavy, and the casualties reached more than 4,000 in a few days! The Japanese army once broke through the southern city gate and started a bloody street battle with Zhang Zizhong's troops, and the situation became extremely critical. After receiving the telegram for help, Jiang Qiang immediately parachuted a regiment of troops into Linyi, and after several hours of fierce fighting to the death, he drove out the Japanese troops who entered the city, recaptured the south gate and temporarily stabilized the battle situation! So far, the Jiaodong Group Army has dispatched more than 40,000 troops to various front-line battlefields, more than one-third of the total strength.

At the same time, the defense area of the Jiaodong Group Army was also attacked by the Japanese 10th Division and the 22nd Division, and the rumbling artillery and fried bean-like gunfire could be heard every day from morning to night! "It's finally another day! Brother Yan Mou, how is the situation everywhere now? Li Zongren stood above the city wall of Xuzhou, staring at the dark night in front of him, and his mood was particularly solemn.

The so-called plan is not as fast as changing, setting a trap in the Taierzhuang area, and constantly depleting the sharp spirit and vitality of the Japanese 9th Division and the 11th Division through layer by layer resistance! When the time is ripe, Huang Jie's 8th Army, Liu Xing's 27th Army, Yu Jishi's 74th Army, Song Xilian's 78th Army, Li Hansoul's 64th Army and other troops are waiting for the opportunity to force the canal to cut off and divide the 9th and 11th divisions of the Japanese army, and block the Japanese troops that may come to reinforce them!

And the 20th Army Corps of Tang Enbo, which was hidden in the mountainous area, launched a general attack on the Japanese troops in the Taierzhuang area with lightning speed! The 20th Army Corps has three armies under its jurisdiction, with a total strength of more than 72,000 people. Theoretically speaking, the Tang Enbo Corps could eat more than 10,000 Japanese 9th Divisions near Taierzhuang in one go! But here's the problem, Tang Enbo is a descendant of Chairman Jiang, and he is not too interested in Li Zongren's orders, and he has put on a posture of avoiding the important and taking it lightly from the beginning! Therefore, as to whether Tang Enbo's army can launch a general attack tomorrow morning as planned, Li Zongren is not completely sure and confident in his heart!