After receiving the telegram from Commander Xiong of the Fifth Army, Commander Du immediately became alert, hurriedly looked at the map, and found that his team was already in danger, and that East China had not only settled on the 12th Corps to gather in Shuangdui, but also might have to surround his troops brought out of Xuzhou.
Chief Du hurriedly sent a report to the chairman of the committee in Nanjing, telling the current dangerous situation of his team, hoping to immediately evacuate the area around Xiao County in the south, and that he could not take care of rescuing the 12th Corps, so he should first keep the corps brought out of Xuzhou.
After receiving the telegram from Chief Du, Lao Jiang was furious, believing that Chief Du was protecting himself and was afraid of threatening his troops in East China, so he sent several telegrams in succession, the wording of the telegram was very harsh, and clearly asked Chief Du to continue to move westward in the direction of Shuangduiji and Yongcheng to rescue the 12th Corps Commander Du can't help it, he clearly knows that this westward advance will definitely fall into the trap of East China, where they are encircling and annihilating the 12th Corps in the encirclement, and they are rushing over at this time, isn't it self-defeating, although the number of his own troops is more than that of East China, but he knows that after losing the Jinpu Road communication line, those teams under his command will rely on the air force to airdrop and rob the food of the local people as military supplies, if this team has no logistics supplies, then how can it fight But Lao Jiang's telegram clearly told him that he must go west to rescue the 12th Corps, otherwise he will be punished for disobedience, Chief Du is very entangled in his heart, he does not dare to resist Lao Jiang's will, knowing that the front is a dead end, he as the actual supreme commander of the current Xu Beng battlefield, can only follow Lao Jiang's orders, although there are a hundred unhappy in his heart, but he still ordered the commander of the Fifth Army Xiong in front to send troops west to Shuangdui to rescue the besieged 12th Corps After receiving the order from Chief Du, Commander Xiong scolded: "Damn, let Lao Tzu go to Shuangduiji to die, but you can think beautifully, the forward regiment in front of me has not been attacked and attacked yet, how can you rest assured that you will go west."
On the grounds that his troops were being harassed and attacked in large numbers, Commander Xiong sent a telegram to Commander Du to suspend the westward advance and gather the pursuing party to the south, saying that the Fifth Army had caught up with a group of troops and was encircling them, and the results would soon be obtained.
When Commander Du saw that the Fifth Army did not obey his command, and rashly moved towards Caozhuang in the south, he was furious, and hurriedly sent another telegram asking Commander Xiong to immediately advance westward to the direction of Yongcheng, threatening the flank of the 12th Corps, and declaring that this was the intention of Chairman Nanjing, and if the Fifth Army did not do so, then we would go to Chairman Chiang Chiang in Nanjing to theorize When Commander Xiong saw that Chief Du had moved Lao Jiang out, he had no choice but to obediently order the forward regiment under his command to give up the pursuit of the evacuated team in front, turn to the west, and march in the direction of Yongcheng After Lao He rescued the young women who were forcibly robbed by the Kuomintang army, they attacked the enemy's regimental headquarters, and under the cover of Lao Zhu's stolen American-made tank, they grabbed several large trucks, and let the young women get on the trucks and go first, and they took dozens of brothers to break the back.
The Kuomintang soldiers who pursued up saw that there were only a few dozen people and horses left in front of them, and they suddenly became bolder, and some officers shouted and shouted at Lao He and they rushed to Lao He, at this moment Lao Zhu had already shot all the shells in the tank, and could only use heavy machine guns to resist the Kuomintang soldiers who rushed up, and Lao He and them slowly retreated in the direction of Cao Zhuangji under the cover of the tank.
The Kuomintang officers on the opposite side saw that the American-made tank was covering, so they hurriedly brought in large-caliber howitzers and prepared to bombard the tanks As soon as the words fell, a shell whistled and exploded not far from the tank, although Lao Zhu and they were in the tank, they did feel the power of the enemy's large-caliber shells, rather than hiding in the tank and waiting for death, it was better to take advantage of the fact that there was still some fuel, rush up and kill the Kuomintang soldiers who fired the artillery Lao Zhu hurriedly told the two brothers what he meant, they all nodded and expressed their willingness to follow Lao Zhu to rush over, Lao Zhu hurriedly hung up the gear and stepped on the accelerator, only to see a sound of "poof", the American-made tank rushed up to the front of the team like a frightened bison, and the enemy on the opposite side saw that the tank was rushing towards their side, so they hurriedly used the weapons in their hands to shoot frantically at the tank, but to no avail, those officers shouted to the large-caliber artillery behind: "Quick, aim at the tank." and wreck it" The three 100 mm howitzers opened fire and bombarded, and the sound of the shelling shook the earth, but because the tank rushed towards the position at high speed, and it was not a straight line, Lao Zhu kept changing the direction of the tank, the large-caliber artillery was not a direct fire gun specifically for tanks, the trajectory was parabolic, and the probability of hitting a moving target was very small, and there were only three howitzers, so it was not easy to destroy Lao Zhu's tank that rushed back and forth in a short time Soon, the two 127 mm heavy machine guns on Lao Zhu's tank fired, and the Kuomintang soldiers on the opposite side of the fight rolled and crawled back one after another, and the howitzer firing position was three miles away, Lao Zhu drove the tank for a while, and soon rushed to the vicinity of the enemy's howitzers, and those Kuomintang artillerymen saw that the tanks had rushed to it, and hurriedly dropped the cannon and ran backwards, and the rest of the enemies saw it, and they also abandoned their respective positions and fled to the back, and those Kuomintang officers kept firing warning shots into the sky, But those fleeing soldiers will listen to the warnings of these officers, still rushing to the back, Lao Zhu and they chased fiercely for a while, only to turn around and return satisfied, this time Lao He and their special forces not only repelled the pursuing enemy team, but also captured three large-caliber howitzers, a lot of gains At this moment, the commander of the forward regiment of the Fifth Army, who had been pursuing, received an order from above, telling him to immediately stop the pursuit of the attacking attackers and turn to the direction of Yongseong.
The forward regiment commander had no choice but to stupidly order the team to suspend the attack and withdraw to Dazhangzhuangli, just now Lao He and their team of 200 people beat him almost to take his life, a tank was robbed, one was destroyed, and the young women who were finally robbed were rescued, so angry that the regiment commander scolded and ordered the team to immediately pull out and move towards Yongcheng.
These Kuomintang soldiers are really bad enough, before leaving, they actually set fire to the entire Dazhangzhuang house, for a while, the flames rose into the air, black smoke billowed, with the help of the northwest wind, the fire burned bigger and bigger, the rising black smoke almost shrouded half of the sky south of Xiao County, and saw that Lao He, who was evacuating towards Caozhuangji, scolded those Kuomintang soldiers for not being a thing, and even the houses of the common people were not spared Rushed to Caozhuang set, Lao He hurriedly reported to Zhou Wu the situation in Dazhangzhuang this time, when talking about the enemy and turned to the west, and burned the entire Dazhangzhuang, Zhou Wu listened, and couldn't help but scold: "This account must be calculated with the Fifth Army, remember first, and then settle accounts with them after we deal with Li Mi's Corps and the Twelfth Corps."
The young women who were rescued by Lao He came to the headquarters to thank Zhou Wu and them, Zhou Wu hurriedly asked Lao He to lead them to find their families quickly, the villagers who ran out earlier have been placed by Zhou Wu in a village near Caozhuang Ji, and they are about to be beaten here, so it is very dangerous for these villagers to stay here, and it is better to move to a safe place as soon as possible.
The families of the villagers reunited, and they expressed their gratitude to Zhou Wu, Zhou Wu hurriedly asked Xiao Xie, the militia captain of Cao Zhuangji, to lead these villagers to withdraw, and the 12 Corps in front of him was about to rush here, and the Li Mi Corps in the east was also rushing here, Cao Zhuangji was about to start a bloody and tragic battle here, whether this place could be blocked or not, it would depend on these brothers under Zhou Wu.
In the command post of the 12th Corps of Shuangduiji, Commander Huang was in a daze on the map, he had been surrounded for so many days, he tried to break through in many ways, but he was beaten back by the opposite side, the offensive was getting stronger and stronger, his defensive position was shrinking again and again, and about 100,000 men and horses had all been compressed to a narrow area of only about ten kilometers in front, fortunately there was no large-caliber artillery, if a shell fell down, how many brothers would have to die, it was too crowded, if you want to keep the 12th Corps, you must break out At this moment, Commander Huang received a telegram from Li Mi, in which Li Mi claimed that a division of his forward unit had arrived in the Caozhuangji area, and as long as he advanced another ten miles, he could join up with the 12th Corps Commander Huang saw that he repeatedly praised Li Mi for fighting, and when the other corps were still waiting and watching along the Jinpu Road and hesitating, only Li Mi's corps dared to break through the defense line of Suxian on Jinpu Road and hit Caozhuangji, as long as Li Mi's corps captured Caozhuangji, the 12th Corps would have the hope of breaking through.
Commander Huang was like a drowning man who suddenly grabbed a life-saving plank, and his confidence suddenly came up, and he hurriedly turned his head and asked the staff officers around him: "Which unit is closest to Cao Zhuangji?"
"Report to the commander, the closest to Caozhuangji is the 108th Division of Commander Liao, they are currently only ten miles away from Caozhuangji, and with their mechanized marching speed, they can rush to Caozhuangji in an hour to make contact with the communist army," replied the staff officer of the Corps Headquarters. t1706231537: