Division Commander Qian immediately ordered the armored regiment in front to stop advancing, and the engineer regiment immediately rushed up to repair the roads that had been damaged by the New Fourth Army troops, and at the same time ordered the infantry teams behind to catch up and seize the commanding heights on both sides of the road, ponds, rivers and other terrain.
It was the brothers of the First Brigade of the Jiangbei New Fourth Army led by Lao Chen who came to intercept, they first rushed here, destroyed the road, planted various mines around it, and then arranged a battalion of brothers to ambush around, and the large army followed behind, waiting for the battle to start, pretending to be inadequate, and quickly withdrawing backwards, luring the 18th Division to continue to attack and advance in the direction of Huai'an City.
The sappers of the 18th Division really had two brushes, and soon they had the opportunity to remove all the mines that Lao Chen had planted on the road here, and repaired the road, and the tanks and armored vehicles of the Kuomintang recalcitrant armored regiment continued to drive forward with a "boom", and the commander of the Qian Division in the back received a report, and hurriedly ordered all the infantry to follow and engage the New Fourth Army troops who were blocking the opposite, he didn't believe that those dirt buns of the New Fourth Army team could block his fully American armed forces here, this is a plain area, A horse Pingchuan, in addition to a few small slopes and a few ponds around, there is nothing to use to block the terrain, in this kind of terrain to defend stubbornly, the opposite Zhou Wu seems to be nothing more than that, there is nothing outstanding, it seems that the praise of him in the anti-Japanese battlefield must be exaggerated, today his old money wants to completely overthrow the myth of Zhou Wu's invincibility, and see how our elite defeated Zhou Wu who defected to the Communist Party's New Fourth Army The battalion commander of the 1st Brigade of the Jiangbei New Fourth Army who served as a blockade at the front intersection stared closely at the Kuomintang recalcitrant tanks that were coming over, and ordered his brothers not to open fire first, and the brothers of the demolition group immediately prepared, and as soon as the battle started, the brothers covered with firepower, and the demolition team immediately dispatched to blow up the tanks in front of them and block the road of the recalcitrant army These Kuomintang recalcitrant soldiers are equipped with new American-made tanks given to them by the Americans to fight the Japanese devils, which are much larger than those thin-skinned tanks of the little devils, and the natural armor is also much thicker, especially the tank guns on the turret, the caliber is larger, and the momentum of the drive is not small.
The brothers of such a big tank have never seen it, and I don't know if the explosives bags and grenades in the hands of the brothers in the demolition team can blow up these steel monsters that "rumble" over, if they can't be blown up, then these brothers who are broken off will be in big trouble.
The first few tanks of the Kuomintang recalcitrant armored regiment were getting closer and closer, and when they were 200 meters away from the position, the battalion commander on the broken rear position pulled out the 20-shot box gun on his waist and fired a shot at the tank in front.
The demolition team is up and blows up the tanks in the head."
Machine gun fire desperately strafed around those tanks, the brothers of the demolition group rushed up in pairs with explosives bags, the recalcitrant tanks on the opposite side found these brothers of the New Fourth Army demolition group rushing over, the heavy machine guns on the tanks immediately yelled at them, a series of bullets hit, hit the side of these brothers in the demolition group, "chirping", these brothers with explosives bags and grenades flexibly dodged the bullets fired from the tank, but there were still many brothers who were shot by bullets and fell to the ground and couldn't afford it, The battalion commander behind him was so anxious that he stomped his feet again and again, and shouted to the brothers behind him at the top of his voice: "The demolition team will go up again" At this moment, the four brothers of the two groups of demolition groups who rushed to the edge of the tank in front suddenly jumped up from the ground, and the recalcitrant tank found that four soldiers of the New Fourth Army holding explosive bags suddenly rushed in front of them, and they were so frightened that they did not even have the courage to fire, and hurriedly reversed backwards, and the tank suddenly made a "Kerala" sound, and the engine behind the tank gasped and emitted black smoke, trying to avoid the brothers of the New Fourth Army demolition group who rushed over at the risk of death.
As soon as the four soldiers of the New Fourth Army who had been seriously wounded saw that the recalcitrant tank was about to run, they hurriedly gritted their teeth and tried their last sharp weapon, pulled the explosive bag on their bodies, and suddenly rushed under the tank, almost at the same time, the two tanks of the recalcitrant army were blown away by the explosive pack, and the turret was blown away by the shock wave generated by the explosion.
The battalion commander watched the brothers of the four demolition groups die together with the recalcitrant tanks, and he was very sad and indignant, and rushed forward with his brothers to fight these Kuomintang recalcitrant soldiers, but Lao Chen's order kept ringing in his ears: "Don't fall in love with the enemy, it's important to lure the enemy."
When the two tanks of the recalcitrant army were blown up, the road was blocked at that time, and the commander of the armored regiment under him scolded the commander of the armored regiment: "What a fucking rice bucket, order him to quickly use the tank to push the wreckage away, and the infantry of the large army will pounce on it, isn't there a New Fourth Army armed with four or five hundred people in front, and the first brigade of the 18th Division is ordered to solve the battle within two hours, otherwise he, the brigade commander, will not have to do it, remember to plant sweet potatoes."
The commander of the 1st Brigade of the 18th Division, who received the order to attack, was anxious, and hurriedly ordered his recalcitrant infantry to launch a tidal assault on the position of the New Fourth Army in front.
The first onslaught of the recalcitrant infantry was defeated Taking advantage of the gap between the recalcitrant attack, the battalion commander who had been wounded counted the casualties on the position, and the result came up, which scared him: more than 400 brothers only fought in this battle, and only 100 brothers were left who could still fight, and the four mortars brought by them were all destroyed by enemy fire, and the battalion commander's heart sank suddenly: If we continue to fight like this, we will not be able to resist the enemy's next onslaught no matter what.
The battalion commander saw that the situation was not good, and immediately made a decision, ordering the brothers on the position to cover each other and evacuate to the rear, and the division commander Qian heard that the New Fourth Army blocking team in front had begun to withdraw in the direction of Huai'an, and happily shouted to his subordinate officers: "Haha, you see, the New Fourth Army can't withstand our onslaught, it seems that our artillery and machine guns are still powerful, and ordered all the troops of the 18th Division to rush towards Huai'an City in two ways to recover Huai'an City."
As soon as Lao Chen saw that the recalcitrant army had finally been deceived, he hurriedly sent several small-scale teams to constantly harass and attack the Kuomintang recalcitrant troops along the way, trying to delay their speed of wanting to approach Huai'an City, and Division Commander Qian knew that these small groups of New Fourth Army troops were here to harass the marching speed of his team, so he ordered his team to divide into several small detachments to deal with them, and he himself led the 18th Division to continue to push along the road towards Huai'an City, at this moment their forward was only more than 50 kilometers away from Huai'an City, as long as it was two or three hours, You can see the city walls of Huai'an City, and at this time when Huai'an City is recovered, Master Qian can't help but feel excited, and the time has come for him to be promoted and make a fortune In a small village on the shore of Hongze Lake, Zhou Wu had already rushed here with the staff officers of the brigade headquarters, and as the commander of this campaign, he could command all the regular troops and local armed forces of the New Fourth Army in the anti-Japanese base area in Jiangbei, and the army commanders and division commanders who were meeting in Yan'an sent a telegram to Zhou Wu, asking him to fight hard, strive to win a big battle, completely dispel the arrogance of the Kuomintang diehards, and return a peaceful environment to the base area, so as to seize a favorable opportunity when the victory of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression is imminent.
When he heard that the 18th Division had broken through Lao Chen's blocking position and rushed in the direction of Huai'an City, Zhou Wu hurriedly asked the staff officers around him: "Where are the 1st Regiment of the Independent Brigade and the Special Service Regiment now?"
"According to Commander Liu's latest telegram, they should have rushed to the Taizhou area by this time," the staff officer reported.
"Ah, no, the big battle on Huai'an's side is about to start, the first regiment and the special service group have not yet arrived, we have no certainty of victory, immediately telegraph and order the fat man and Huang Shuisheng, let them speed up the march at all costs, and rush to the south bank of Hongze Lake before tomorrow morning to tell the fat man that this is a death order, and the time can only be advanced, not delayed" Zhou Wu said to the staff officer.
The staff officer of the brigade headquarters hurriedly went to the communications office to send a telegram to the fat man, this time the advance speed of the Kuomintang recalcitrant army exceeded Zhou Wu's original expectations, the strength of the New Fourth Army assembled on the edge of Hongze Lake was not enough, and it was necessary to wait for the fat man and Huang Shuisheng and their two regiments to join the battlefield, then Zhou Wu had eight points of certainty to win this tough battle against the 18th Division, otherwise he could only order Lao Chen, who was blocking the enemy in front, and let their first brigade block the attack layer by layer, resisting step by step, and try to delay the speed of the attack on Huai'an City at 18 o'clock.
At this moment, the fat man and Huang Shuisheng have already rushed to the city of Taizhou with a group and the brothers of the special service group, originally the fat man wanted to bypass those devils in Taizhou and directly insert himself into the south bank of Hongze Lake to join Zhou Wu's large army, but at the moment when he was about to pass through the city of Taizhou smoothly, the scout in front came to report breathlessly: "Regiment leader, the devil was found in front" t1706231537: