"Quick, quick" A large number of strong men carried wooden buckets and distributed the rice balls kneaded inside to the Sichuan Army soldiers on the battlefield.
It is not appropriate to call them strong men.
Most of these strong men were sallow and thin.
In the past, many of them were Everyone has eaten one meal but not another.
What's more, at this time, the Japanese army is approaching the border, and all the food in the nearby area has been confiscated by the Japanese army.
After all, the battle of hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops consumes astronomical amounts of food and baggage.
When these Sichuan troops arrived in northern Anhui, many of them were still wearing straw sandals and unlined upper garments, but these soldiers fought without hesitation against the Japanese army.
The local people couldn't stand it and donated clothes and materials one after another.
It also allowed these backward Sichuan soldiers to fight to the death with the Japanese army despite the extremely disparity in weapons and equipment. call out A large number of shells roared in the air.
"Damn it, the little Japs are here again.
Platoon Commander Yu, you lead the people to evacuate and get out of here quickly."
The company commander ignored his dirty hands and directly grabbed a rice ball and stuffed it into his mouth.
As he spoke, there were A few grains of rice spurted out.
But at this time, no one laughed at the company commander's vulgarity.
This was a battlefield, not the beautified picture on some screens in later generations.
People who have not experienced it personally can hardly imagine its cruelty.
After fighting fiercely for most of the day, most of the soldiers' physical strength was almost on the verge of overdraft.
At this time, filling their stomachs was the first priority, and no one would care about eating.
Besides, whether the little devils could survive this wave of attacks When a wave of Japanese troops attacked, no one present had the confidence to do so.
For these Sichuan troops, they just have the belief to fight to the death.
"get down" After a burst of earth-shaking bombing, the Japanese planes overhead were flying over at high speed.
Da da Raindrops of bullets were fired from the air, and before the smoke on the ground dissipated, there was another wave of death storm.
The Sichuan soldiers on the position shook their bodies one after another.
Died tragically under the firepower of this kind of integrated air and ground.
"Company Commander" Amid the soldier's shrill roar, the company commander, who was still holding half of the rice ball in his hand and still stuffing it into his mouth, fell into a pool of blood, his face was stained with blood, and the blood even splashed onto the incomplete half of the rice ball. superior.
"You bastard little devil, grandpa will fight with you."
All the Sichuan soldiers on the battlefield saw several Japanese armored vehicles spitting black smoke in the distance, rolling over the turf on the ground and rolling over.
They felt desperate and at the same time, The last courage burst out in fear.
It's just that courage cannot be eaten after all.
Under this density of firepower, even the Northwest Army will have a hard fight, and what the Sichuan Army faced at this time was almost a massacre.
Two hours later, the Japanese Setani detachment, under the cover of aircraft and tanks, broke through the stone wall starting from Liangxiadian and went to Xiakanbu, Baishi Mountain, Xiangcheng and other outposts.
Enter the line north of the main battle areas such as Shenjing, Jiehe, Puyang Mountain and Longshan.
It was also the main position of Yang Sen's Sichuan Army.
Relying on a relatively simple position, the Sichuan Army resisted tenaciously.
The Japanese army attacked fiercely for a day.
Although the Sichuan Army suffered heavy casualties, the main position was still in their hands.
While the Sichuan army was fighting to the death with the Japanese army outside Teng County, fierce fighting broke out throughout the surrounding areas of Teng County.
However, the Sichuan army's limited strength alone was indeed difficult to resist the Japanese army's crazy attack.
While blocking the enemy, Yang Sen informed Wang Mingzhang of the situation.
Wang Mingzhang immediately ordered the 366th Brigade to quickly return to Tengxian County to aid.
At the same time, he ordered the 364th Brigade to blow up the railway bridge, leaving one battalion to defend Beishahe and one battalion to defend Chengxihong Town.
All the remaining troops retreated into the city.
At dusk the next day, the Japanese army broke through the Sichuan army's position and seized the boundary river.
Longshan also fell and was surrounded by the Japanese army.
Only one battalion of the 366th Brigade, which returned from the city, withdrew to Teng County in time.
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The main force encountered the outflanking main force of the Japanese army in Chengtou Village and was forced to retreat toward Lincheng.
That day and night, although there were many troops in the Chengguan area of Teng County, the actual combat troops only consisted of 11 infantry companies and 1 mortar company, less than 2,000 people.
In addition, there were 4 special agent companies from the division headquarters and brigade headquarters.
There are about 500 people, and there are about 500 local armed forces, totaling only more than 3,000 people.
At this time, Teng County was directly facing the onslaught of the Japanese army.
Part of the Segu detachment continued to attack Beishahe, and the main force took a roundabout way to attack Teng County.
After about two hours of preparation, the Japanese artillery moved into position one after another.
Concentrate firepower to bombard the earthen walls outside Dongguan.
A gap was quickly blasted out of the earthen wall that was in disrepair.
The defenders withstood fierce Japanese machine gun fire and used grenades thrown in the ruins to kill and wound many Japanese soldiers.
Defeat the attacking Japanese troops.
The Japanese troops retreated, and mortars and artillery came one after another.
It turned out that the defenders who counterattacked there had no time to withdraw, and were directly killed and injured by this wave of raging artillery.
The defenders' absolute disadvantage in firepower made the defensive battle extremely difficult.
This was repeated several times, and the defenders drew manpower from the city's reserve team several times to be replenished.
However, every time the Japanese army was repulsed, most of the soldiers on the position were basically consumed.
After one or two trials, the Japanese army also figured out what the defenders were doing.
Due to the weakness of the army, he used two feint attacks to consume a lot of the defenders' strength.
Soon in the evening, after several feint attacks, the Japanese army organized another attack.
Because in the previous attacks, the Japanese army lost some manpower two or three times, and the defenders often took advantage of the situation to counterattack when the follow-up was weak.
The heavy firepower of the Japanese army was worried about accidental damage, so at this time, the last attack was often not timely.
The attacking troops were defeated by the opponent.
After learning the lesson, the Japanese army quickly made adjustments and switched to using three echelons to carry out wave-like attacks.
At the same time, it extended artillery fire to the east gate and the city, and used a true blocking artillery bombardment to prevent reinforcements from the troops inside the city to the greatest extent.
The adjustment of the Japanese army was very effective.
Among the attacking troops, the first wave of troops were killed and injured by the defenders' grenades again.
However, the subsequent troops rushed in while the defenders' grenades were almost exhausted and there was no time to replenish them.
Arriving at the garrison's position.
The bloody bayonet fight also kicked off.
On the battlefield, soldiers from both sides roared one after another, and people continued to fall.
After a bloody fight, the defenders once again wiped out most of the wave of Japanese troops who invaded the position, but the defenders were also dead and wounded.
The Japanese army's wave attack worked, and a small group of Japanese troops successfully broke into Dongguan.
However, the Sichuan Army's determination to fight also exceeded the imagination of the Japanese army.
The Sichuan Army quickly organized a company to fight back.
As the only mortar company of the Sichuan Army, Tom Tom did not dare to counterattack when the Japanese army was shelling.
Otherwise, it would be directly destroyed by the overwhelming Japanese artillery fire in just a few rounds.
Moreover, it would be too ridiculous to use small-caliber mortars to deal with the Japanese army's mountain artillery and field artillery, which took seven and a half years to move.
It's just that these small cannons played a considerable role in dealing with the Japanese infantry at this time.
Several mortars used the firelight to fall directly into the Japanese formation at a very close distance, destroying the Japanese grenade launchers.
The remaining one hundred or dozens of soldiers used the flickering firelight in the night to rush up and fight with the dozens of Japanese troops who entered Dongguan.
The sound of fighting was endless, and after another fierce battle, a small group of Japanese troops who rushed into Dongguan were all wiped out.
The battle lines on both sides returned to their previous state again, but the corpses lying on the ground and the smelly blood told everyone the reality of the war.
Although it was late at night, the fighting between the two sides still did not stop.
In the night, there were flashes of fire and harsh gunshots from time to time.
Around early morning, the 370 and 372 brigade units defending the deep entrance in Chitouji and the remnants of the two battalions defending Beishahe and Hongding retreated into the city one after another.
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At this time, all friendly forces in the north of Teng County were already in position.
After being broken through, they retreated towards Weishan Lake, Yixian and other places.
At this point, the fierce fighting on the periphery came to an end, and the entire Teng County had almost completely fallen into the Japanese encirclement.
However, the remnant troops that retreated into Teng County strengthened Teng County's weak military strength to a certain extent.
In fact, when the Japanese army began to attack the areas around Teng County, Li Zongren had already called Tang Enbo of the 20th Army Corps, which had been transferred from southern Shanxi to northeastern Henan, and asked him to lead his troops to support the battle in northern Teng County and at the same time wait for an opportunity to move south to fight with the main force in Xuzhou.
Together they will annihilate the main force of the Japanese army in northern Teng County.
It's just that Tang Enbo was unwilling to put his army under Li Zongren's command, and ignored Li Zongren's telegram.
Li Zongren was not concerned about the complicated factions of the National Army.
He sent a telegram directly to Chairman Chiang Kai-shek in Wuhan, asking him to send a military committee to directly supervise the operations of the 20th Army.
As a capable general of the Central Army, Chairman Chiang Kai-shek naturally It will not chill the hearts of close relatives.
But at this time, the Battle of Xuzhou was related to the layout of the entire central government.
It was not the time to engage in factional struggle.
After some thought, Chairman Chiang sent a telegram to Tang Enbo, asking him to cooperate with Xuzhou in the battle.
At the same time, in the Linyi area, in order to cooperate with the operations of the 10th Division on the front of Jinpu Road, the Japanese 5th Division, the Sakamoto detachment was deploying an additional tank squadron.
Along the way, we captured Baita, Shaling, and Taiping to the east of Yi River and south of Tangtou.
Sun Tongxuan led his troops to march from Yi County to the west of Linyi City.
He fought several fierce battles with the Sakamoto detachment on both sides of the Yi River.
Although he himself lost nearly 10,000 people, he also caused about 3,000 casualties to the Sakamoto detachment.
Forcing most of the Japanese troops to retreat to Ju County, Tangtou and other places were temporarily rested.
"Yesterday afternoon, the Japanese army first used 15mm heavy howitzers to bombard the city wall with concentrated firepower, causing a large number of casualties to the defenders on the city wall.
After basically clearing the defenders on the city wall, the Japanese army stormed the city wall and quickly attacked the East City and West City.
To expand the victory, the defenders retreated into the city.
Under the heavy firepower of the Japanese army, the defenders were intercepted by the Japanese troops.
Wang Mingzhang, the defender general, was shot and died while moving to Xiguan.
Although the defenders in the city are still trying their best to resist, the Japanese army's occupation of Teng County was nothing more than this.
It takes two days," Zhang Zhibang reported to Jiang Lihui.
"For now, although the Japanese army has the upper hand, the Japanese army's intention of a quick victory in Linyi and Tengxian has failed.
In Xuzhou, although the situation is still tense, there has been enough time to arrange.
At least there is With hundreds of thousands of troops, the Japanese army wants to conquer Xuzhou, but in a short time, they may not even think about it. " "But there are variables.
It is not easy for a strong general like Tang Enbo to completely obey Li Zongren's command.
In short, it is a hard battle.
Tang Enbo still dares to fight, but the more than 200,000 Japanese troops are not so easy to dispatch. .
If there is no external intervention, Xuzhou will probably be able to survive for two to three months."
Yang Hucheng also nodded.
Yang Hucheng's judgment was still very accurate.
The Battle of Xuzhou in history only lasted for nearly this long.
"Aren't we an external force?
The Japanese army always thinks that our Republic of China is a piece of loose sand, and the Northwest and the Chairman's side will not deal with it.
This time we also robbed most of Henan.
Moreover, the Northwest Army also suffered heavy losses after several previous battles.
The main force of our army Now the 1st Army of the North China Front is restrained and unable to move.
Only then can we concentrate our forces to defeat the Central Army first.
We cannot give them this opportunity.
Loss, the Japanese will definitely suffer.
Although your 9th Army is newly formed, Shang Zhen and Song Zheyuan have recruited some new soldiers and are still resting.
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However, I have Zhang Chujiu’s 3rd Mechanized Brigade.
Send it to you, send Zhao Yi to lead the battle, and send another Sichuan army to you.
Let Song Zheyuan and others seize the time to rest, and when the Japanese army's retreat is cut off, they will attack no matter what. " Jiang Li said that in the past, Chairman Chiang had always tried hard to suppress the miscellaneous forces.
This was because the orders were not unified.
Although these troops dared to fight, under the Northwest Army, it was easy to enjoy the shade under the big trees after all.
On the other hand, most of the trained reinforcements from the Northwest Army have replenished the damaged Northwest Army headquarters.
However, troops such as Song Zheyuan and Sun Dianying do not have such good treatment for the time being, and many troops are still recruited directly from the past.
The method of a strong man requires more time to train.
"Okay, even if Tang Enbo can't complete the mission of flanking the Japanese army north of Xuzhou, and we are behind to make up for it, we still have to tear off a piece of flesh from the Japanese army this time."
Zhang Zhibang said fiercely, "But it is strange to say that the Japanese army Since the invasion of China, we have responded quickly to all battles.
The strategic intention was also very clever.
Even if it suffered several setbacks, it was because the war broke out too quickly and they underestimated us.
The time for the Japanese army to launch the Battle of Xuzhou was not very mature.
Although the Japanese army launched the Battle of Northern Henan again, it still failed.
Can solve the threat from Henan."
"This is because the Japanese commander is too arrogant.
Do you think we can see it?
Can the Japanese army see that the Japanese commander must have his reasons for launching a war, but he underestimated the strength of the Central Army's counterattack?
Compared with the previous Song In the Battle of Shanghai, the performance of the Central Army has risen to several levels this time, but no matter what the reason is, we have found this loophole.
If we defeat this Japanese army, we will be able to relax for a while
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