Chapter 349, Taierzhuang Defense Battle VII.

The deathly sound of the heavy machine gun of the cloth ripper sounded, and the dozen or so Japanese infantrymen who rushed out of the tank fortress and blew themselves up were instantly beaten into a sieve and fell to the ground and died! In the face of such a dense metal storm, where could it be possible to rush to the tank with only flesh and blood?

On the contrary, two anti-aircraft guns and six anti-tank rocket launchers once again spewed out tongues of fire, and the power of the close-range bombardment was much enhanced. "Fire!" At this time, Jiang Qiang pressed the fire control switch again, and directly destroyed a devil tank again, so far there are only 5 devil tanks left firing frantically!

Boom! Three shells hit the Tiger tank, causing Jiang Qiang and the others to shake violently, and the other two shells hit the only two remaining anti-aircraft guns! The battle defense artillery was torn apart, and several officers and soldiers next to them were also swept away by the powerful blast wave!

"Bastard! Die! "Jiang Qiang's eyes were red, and after locking on to the target, he directly penetrated another devil tank!" Little devil, die! ”

6 bazooka soldiers half-squatted on the ground, aimed at the devil tank and blasted out, boom, boom, after a violent explosion, the devil tank was seriously damaged, but it has not completely lost its combat effectiveness! "Yaga! Assault! Crush the Chinese pig! ”

The devil tank driver looked hideous, stepped on the accelerator to the end, and rushed forward frantically, no longer bothering to kill the Pershing tank, because they had already smelled death! So instead of being consumed to death, it is better to rush forward and open a bloody path for the infantry.

"Yaga! Assault! Tao times change! "The devil commander is already going crazy, his own 14 latest advanced tanks beat a Huaxia tank and couldn't destroy it, not to mention, he was killed and wounded in just a few faces! For now, there is only a wave of death, and the devil commander can only order the troops to follow the 4 crumbling tanks to charge forward! "Get on the bayonet!"

Seeing that the Japanese army was about to rush to him, the officers and men of the Tiger Ben Army took their bayonets from their waists and put them on. "Boom!" Jiang Qiang destroyed a tank again! Immediately after, the remaining three tanks were completely destroyed by the bazooka as soon as they fired a round of shells, turning into a blazing fireball! "Kill!"

All the Jiaodong Group Army let out an earth-shattering roar, and they all stood up and rushed towards the devil soldiers who killed them. "Baga Ya Road! Kill! More than 400 little devils rushed over with bayonets and red eyes, and they collided with the Huaxia Tiger Army at once! The fierce white-knives battle of life and death broke out in an instant!

"Take a seat! Li Zongren sent good news! "What, so fast? Isn't it just an hour before the general attack? In the combat hall of the Wuhan Headquarters, the chairman of the committee was anxiously pacing back and forth, and a communications staff officer rushed over. The committee member was very puzzled and took the telegram and looked at it, and suddenly became even more puzzled: "What? Did we send the Air Force to intercept the Japanese bomber group just now? And shot down nearly 20 Japanese planes at once? "No, right? Didn't you give the relevant combat orders? "Yes! Commission, will there be an error in the information? "Chen Cheng, Bai Chongxi, Qian Dajun and others, you look at me, I look at you, and in the end, they all shook their heads again and again!

Now that there are only some seeds left in the national air force, how can it be possible to send fighter jets to confront the Japanese army without the approval of the commission? "Ah, is it Jiang Qiang's air force? Mother Xipi, this, what the hell is going on? Where did they get their planes? "Looking at the stunned appearance of everyone, the chairman suddenly had a flash of inspiration in front of his eyes!" Ah, this, it's really possible! ”

"There is indeed such intelligence, saying that training aircraft and fighters have often appeared in the airspace near the Jiaodong area recently!" "This is really surprising!" "If that's the case? So can't we buy a batch of fighters from Jiang Qiang? "Even if you can't procure it, you can send people to train pilots!"

Chen Cheng and Bai Chongxi nodded again and again as if they suddenly realized, although they didn't understand the specific situation, but everyone quickly recovered their emotions, because they were not used to seeing it, their anti-toxicity was not ordinarily strong! "That's it! Be quiet, the most important thing now is the decisive battle of Taierzhuang! Everyone went back to their posts and kept an eye out for any movement! The chairman waved his hand very heartily. Brothers, rush! Fast! Rush to help! ”

Just a few minutes after the white-knuckle battle, two tanks and more than 1,500 follow-up troops of the Jiaodong Group Army followed, and all the officers and soldiers rushed wildly! The Chinese officers and soldiers, who already had the advantage, were even more strengthened after receiving strong reinforcements, and they completely wiped out these more than 400 devils in just over 20 minutes of bloody battle! I saw that the whole battlefield was covered with corpses, the land was stained dark red with blood, and many places became muddy!

"Keep going!" After a short pause, Jiang Qiang ordered the troops to continue to the village in front! At half past 1 o'clock in the morning, Jiang Qiang led his troops to finally join the 4th Division of the National Army in Sihu Town after a bloody battle! There are only more than 1,000 Japanese troops left in the town, and now they are divided and surrounded in two core positions and stubbornly resist!

"Haha! On the other side, is it the brother of the Jiaodong Group Army? You are so powerful, not only have you firmly held Taierzhuang for more than ten days, but now you still have such a strong combat power! Admire! Admire! After the two armies met, Wang Yuwen saw the opponent's agitious heavy tanks and infantry armed to the teeth, and knew that the team he encountered was the famous Jiaodong Group Army!

"Yes! You're not bad, you guys are crushed in Sihe Town! The sedan chair was carried by everyone, and Hao Cheng saluted Wang Yuwen and said: "I am Hao Cheng, the commander of the 5th Regiment of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Division of the Jiaodong Group Army!" Sir, dare to ask which part of you are? "Hello Head Hao!"

Wang Yuwen returned the salute, and then reported to his home: "I am Wang Yuwen, deputy commander of the Fourth Division of the 13th Army of the 20th Army Corps, and I am really fortunate to be able to meet Commander Hao on the battlefield today!" "Senior Master Wang is polite!"

Hao Cheng nodded with a smile, and then said: "There are still nearly a thousand little devils in the four households who are stubbornly resisting, and our artillery troops will launch a tough battle after they arrive!" In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, please hand over this hard bone to us! "Good! I have long heard that your army has a special set of street battles, and today we are here to open our eyes! ”

Wang Yuwen readily agreed, in the face of the hedgehog defensive position like the devil, they really didn't have many effective means except to fill it with human lives. When attacking Sihu before, the 4th Division had already tasted enough, and attacked with all its strength for two or three hours, but it was never able to break through to the core area, and it paid thousands of lives to capture only a few weakly defended peripheral positions! Thinking of this at this time, Wang Yuwen still felt a pang of cramping in his heart, these are all good brothers who have followed him for many years!

"Haha! Head Wang is too modest! Hao Cheng nodded his head with a smile, the two well-defended core positions of the Japanese army were a hard bone to gnaw on for the 4th Division, but for them they were golden medals of merit! In a short time, more than 20 150mm howitzers and cannons were towed by car to the town of Shinohe!

The Japanese army in Shinohe Town has completely lost the fire suppression and support of artillery, tanks, and aircraft, and is powerless to prevent the arrival of the heavy artillery units of the Tiger Army! "Haha, these big guys are finally here!"

Hao Cheng's face was about to laugh, and without saying a word, he directly let these heavy artillery pull to the two core positions held by the devils and shoot closely! The shock wave pressure of a 150mm grenade is usually 200~400MPa within a diameter of 10 meters, and the resistance to the shock wave of the wall of an ordinary civilian building is only 10kpa. The 150-mm howitzer hit the target head-on, and any strong fortifications and people inside the fortifications were directly blown to pieces and buried alive.

Concrete walls of more than 1 meter can be penetrated, and ordinary buildings are all powdered. The lethality of the 150-mm grenade to personnel is even more terrifying, and the officers and soldiers within a radius of 20 meters from the center of the explosion are directly blown into pieces. Countless shrapnel were fired within a radius of 50, and people had no chance of living at all. A radius of 150 meters is not yet safe, it is entirely possible to be hit by shrapnel. A person is considered safe outside a radius of 200 meters, but if a grenade is exploded without protection, temporary deafness can occur at a distance of 200 meters.

And these heavy artillery pieces were directly erected 1,000 meters in front of the devil's position, and several rounds of artillery bombardment did not have any suspense at all, and the construction fortifications were bombarded to smithereens, even a few reinforced concrete buildings were not spared! The little devils inside have suffered heavy casualties, and they can't do any effective countermeasures at all!

"Kill!" The heavy artillery unit crushed the Japanese army's stubborn resistance to the fortified pillboxes, and the long-awaited tanks and infantry rushed forward with a hula and continued to break through the walls and houses to remove the remnants of the enemy! "Yaga! Huaxia pig is attacking! ”

"Shoot! Sasi change, Sasi change! The remnants of the Japanese army shook their heads and came out of the rubble, and hurriedly began to organize defense, and their murderous nature made them not know what it meant to "surrender the gun and not kill"! However, the remnants of the Japanese army, which had lost its strong fortifications and heavy weapons, were simply a mantis arm in front of the well-equipped Jiaodong Group Army, which was full of morale!

It would have been an extremely difficult battle, but it became very easy under the absolute crushing of weapons and equipment, and it only took more than an hour for the Jiaodong Group Army to completely wipe out nearly 1,000 Japanese defenders in Sihu Town!

"Wow, your Pyros are so good?" "That's it?" "Why, the little devil became a soft-footed cat as soon as he met you?" "These weapons and equipment are so luxurious! Cow, cow! "Fortunately, we are allies, not enemies!"

Wang Yuwen and other officers and soldiers of the 4th Division were dumbfounded, the Jiaodong Group Army fought simply and rudely, and the Japanese devils hiding in the buildings, pillboxes, and fortifications had no room for resistance at all, so they were all cleaned up! Although the Jiaodong Group Army occupied the absolute initiative and weapon superiority, their street fighting attack tactics still made Wang Yuwen and others shine, and they seemed to understand a lot of street fighting tactics!

At this time, Xu Guangming had already led the special operations brigade to Linyi County, and together with Zhang Zizhong's department and two infantry regiments of the Jiaodong Group Army, not only annihilated all the Japanese troops who had entered Chengcheng, but also took advantage of the victory to pursue the Japanese army all the way to the mountainous area around Huangbuling! The Battle of Linyi has annihilated more than 6,300 Japanese troops, once again creating a great victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan, known as the second Linyi victory in history!

After several other divisions of the 20th Army Corps fought fiercely with the Japanese army, they had already surrounded the remnants of the Japanese army in several towns such as Xiangcheng, Aiqu, and Lanling! In addition, there are thousands of devils in Donghai and Xin'an Town guarding the town, and they dare not come out to rescue the Japanese troops in the Taierzhuang area.

Generally speaking, the progress of the general offensive is still quite smooth, and the Chinese army has formed an absolute superiority in the Taierzhuang area against the Japanese army, and if there is no accident, it can only completely destroy the remnants of the enemy in a day or two! The battle around Taierzhuang was impressive, and the battle situation was gratifying, that is, the two places of Teng County and Fei County, the Japanese Third Division, the 10th Division, and the 20th Division were under the strict order of the commander of the Second Army, Higashikurehiko, and they did not want to die in a crazy attack!

Most of the walls of the two county towns have long been destroyed, and the fortifications have been basically destroyed! The Japanese infantry attacked continuously for most of the day under the cover of tanks, planes and artillery, and there were many hand-to-hand battles and tug-of-war between the enemy and us! By the time the reinforcements of the Jiaodong Group Army in the west of the city arrived, it was too late, and after a bloody battle, the devils who had entered the city were finally driven out again, and the mouth was barely plugged again!

"Inform all troops, prepare to break out!" It lasted until 6 p.m., when Xie Kangquan received the order to retreat before issuing the order to break through, and at this time, the receiving troops had already arrived and arrived near Tengxian County under helicopter transport, and built a new defensive line. The situation in Fei County is similar, after Yun Qichang completes the defensive task, he will retreat in an orderly manner with the remnants of the Pang Army, and the receiving troops are also ready for battle! The defenders of Teng County and Fei County fought and retreated, and finally joined forces with the receiving troops before dark, while the Japanese troops who followed the pursuit once again had to stop the pursuit! Xuzhou, the headquarters of the commander of the fifth theater!

"Haha, well done! The die is cast! "Hmm! The Jiaodong Group Army is worthy of being the division of tigers and wolves, and they are really great in their great success in Taierzhuang this time! "Yes, not only did it withstand the frontal hard attack of the entire 4 divisions of the North China Front, and it has always held Taierzhuang, but also the powerful air force made the little devils dare not bomb at will, and the final counteroffensive was even more breathtaking!"

"If our country can have a few armies that can fight like this, where will it be the turn of the little devils to be so rampant!" After reading a series of the latest information, Li Zongren, Xu Zuyi, and others sighed for a while, and the results of today's general attack were surprisingly good, and the 9th Division and the 11th Division in the Taierzhuang area were cut and surrounded in several cities and towns in just one day. Although the Japanese army in the north and south directions are attacking frantically, and the defense line in the north and south of the Fifth Theater is already in danger, it now has the time and ability to eat the main force of more than 10,000 devils who are still resisting stubbornly!

"Yaga! A group of idiots, a full 50,000 people attacked, but only now did they capture Tengxian Fei County? After receiving the latest telegram, the commander of the 9th Division, Ji Jia Ryosuke, sighed in despair, never dreaming that the Chinese army's field and offensive capabilities had become so strong, and in just one day, it had successively broken through more than ten heavily guarded positions.

The 3rd, 10th, and 20th Divisions, on which they had high hopes, did not capture Feixian County until before dark, and even if they marched south overnight, they would not be able to reach the Taierzhuang area until tomorrow afternoon. What's more, there will definitely be a large number of Chinese troops along the road to block it, and it will definitely not allow them to go south to rescue easily. In this way, it would be nice to arrive at noon the day after tomorrow!

However, according to the current offensive momentum and intensity of the Chinese army, it will be enough to complete the annihilation battle before dark tomorrow, and the remnants of the 9th Division will definitely not be able to support the arrival of reinforcements!

"We can't continue to sit still, we have to break through!" At half past eleven o'clock in the night of March 12th, Ryosuke Jijia, who felt deeply bad, gathered more than 7,000 remnants to take advantage of the night to blow up the materials that were not easy to move, and broke through to Donghai County! The 2nd Group Army, the Shandong Group Army, and the 20th Army Corps, which were responsible for defending the siege, fought a fierce night battle of life and death with the Japanese army.

The Japanese army, who knew that the only way to survive was to rush out, became completely crazy, and did not care about casualties along the way, and organized waves of death squads to launch a board charge! The so-called one-man desperately invincible, the Japanese troops, who were already very tired, were driven by a strong desire to survive and their combat effectiveness skyrocketed several times in an instant, and each of them was like a demon from hell! The Chinese army was psychologically prepared and prepared for full defense, but it was still under the frantic desperate charge of the Japanese army, and it was soon torn open! "What? Ryosuke Yoshika is going to run? Order all troops to pursue immediately, and never let this old devil escape! ”

When Li Zongren heard the news, he ordered the troops to immediately take advantage of the victory to pursue the attack, and killed the Japanese corpses all over the field with the momentum of the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, all kinds of baggage were everywhere, ammunition and horses were innumerable, and even some tanks and cars could only be blown up and abandoned on the way because there was no gasoline! A desperate charge frantically broke through, a stubborn defense did not retreat and pursued with all his might, the entire battlefield stretched for more than a hundred miles, and there were many hand-to-hand battles between the enemy and us, and everywhere there was a roar of gunsmoke and shouting and killing! After a night of fierce fighting, until 9 o'clock in the morning of the next day, Yoshika Ryosuke finally fled to Tokai County with more than 1,200 remnants under the response of the Japanese army in Tokai County!

After joining up with the 11th Division, more than 6,000 little devils held the door behind closed doors, relying on strong city fortifications to resist stubbornly, but they completely lost the strength to fight back! As soon as it was dawn the next morning, Li Zongren once again ordered all troops to seize the opportunity of the Japanese army's retreat, do their best to clear the remnants of the enemy in the Taierzhuang area, and carry out a large-scale counterattack and sweep! For a time, in the Lunan area, the Chinese army attacked from all sides, and the Japanese army was either annihilated by stubborn resistance, or desperately fled and wandered around!

At 10 o'clock in the morning, Wang Hu led the special operations brigade and more than 15,000 people of the 30th regiment and the 84th division of the Jiaodong Group Army and Jiang Qiang's headquarters to meet in Xiangcheng! More than 100,000 Chinese troops carried out a strict sweep in the Taierzhuang area, and fought for one day to annihilate more than 1,400 remnants of the Japanese army hiding in various mountains, dense forests, and towns! So far, the Chinese army in the Battle of Taierzhuang has completely defeated the arrogant Japanese 9th Division and the 11th Division, and severely damaged the Japanese 3rd Division and 20th Division, annihilating more than 44,000 Japanese troops at the cost of losing 58,000 people, and achieved unprecedented brilliant results!

The Japanese army lost more than 180 artillery pieces, more than 120 tanks, more than 1,300 light and heavy machine guns, and more than 30,000 rifles. In the fierce battle, which lasted one month, about 290,000 Chinese troops and about 100,000 Japanese troops participated in the battle. The Chinese suffered more than 52,000 casualties and killed more than 44,000 Japanese soldiers.

This campaign dealt a blow to the arrogance of the Japanese aggressors and strengthened the confidence of the military and people throughout the country in persisting in the War of Resistance. This campaign boosted the morale of the whole nation, changed the international perception of the world, eliminated the prestige of the Japanese invaders, and annihilated a large number of living forces of the Japanese army.

"Sell newspapers! Sell newspapers! Taierzhuang victory! Our army annihilated more than 34,000 Japanese invaders! "Haha, we won! We've won again! "Long live the Motherland! China will win! ”

The news of Taierzhuang's good news spread, and all walks of life and overseas Chinese across the country were jubilant, and the whole country celebrated together. Chongqing, Chengdu, Wuhan, Guangzhou, Kunming and other big cities have held unprecedented grand rallies and parades to celebrate the victory!

Soldiers and civilians, men and women, young and old, were all immersed in the excitement of the festival, and cheering crowds could be seen everywhere, gongs and drums could be heard everywhere, and firecrackers could be heard everywhere. The streets are full of large banners with different horizontal and vertical slogans: "Celebrate the victory of Taierzhuang!" "China will win!" "Kill all the pirates!" Every household in the streets and alleys is dressed in red and hung colors, and the blue sky and white sun flags, colorful flags, and banners are connected together, and the scene is extremely festive and hot!

Newspaper offices of all sizes filled their cars with newspapers and distributed them all over the streets and alleys without taking a penny, hoping to spread this exciting good news to every citizen within a day! All kinds of rescue groups and organizations poured into the streets, marching, shouting slogans, singing, impromptu speeches, and opera performances used various folk arts to eulogize the heroism of the officers and soldiers of the Anti-Japanese War, and ruthlessly exposed the brutality and ugliness of the Japanese army!

The Political Department of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government not only launched and organized various celebrations to arouse the patriotic enthusiasm and self-confidence of the people of the whole country in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. In Yan'an, northern Shaanxi, the Red Party made a speech in a joyful mood of celebrating victory: "The brothers and armies of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party can win a big victory every month, such as Pingxingguan and Taierzhuang, and so on, which can greatly blow the spirit of the enemy, boost the morale of the Chinese army, and call for practical solidarity!" ”

Jiang Qiang naturally will not be idle, and he has also swiped a wave of presence and prestige, and Jiaodong People's Daily and radio stations have carried out propaganda and reports on a large scale! In addition, Jiang Qiang also personally produced and edited several documentary films of different levels, the highest level was used for the core characters to observe and learn and summarize combat experience, the second level was used for grassroots soldiers and ordinary people in the defense area to watch, and the most basic monkey version was used for nationwide propaganda!

"Bagaya Road, shame! It's unbearable! For a time, the whole country of Japan was shaken, and the Japanese emperor was even more furious and changed his original intention, and immediately convened an emergency meeting, believing that Japan could not suffer such humiliation!