Isotani Rensuke finally found that he had fallen into a huge trap. More than 30,000 people in the 10th Division were caught in the middle by 80,000 people from the north and 100,000 people from the south. The only Fifth Division that could rescue him was
division, but was tightly entangled by another army of more than 50,000 people. Although it was usually said that one Japanese soldier could defeat ten Chinese soldiers, as a China expert, he knew that it would also depend on when.
, what kind of army? Now that both the north and the south have strong soldiers who dare to fight tough battles, I am afraid it will be difficult for one to fight three. Moreover, now that the logistics line is cut off, the outcome of this battle will be even more difficult to say.
Isotani Rensuke looked at the map nervously. Now he only has two options. One is to retreat immediately, move his troops back north, and break through the blockage of Tang Enbo's regiment. The other is to ignore Tang Enbo and continue to attack Shijiazhuang, and then capture Yi Gong.
Xuzhou, which is hard to defend, waits for rescue.
Where to go? Isotani Rensuke faced a difficult choice. Isotani Rensuke asked the chief of staff next to him, Tsutsumi Bukaki, and said, "Utsubu-kun, what do you think we should do next?"
Tsubujiagui looked at the situation and said, "There is a wise saying in the military. What the enemy wants you to do must not be done. We can think about the problem from the perspective of the Chinese army. The Chinese people must have laid this trap.
I hope to encircle and annihilate our army, and the Fifth Division is in Linyi at this time. The Chinese people will not ignore the Fifth Division, so I judge that our rear is the direction with the strongest strength of China at this time, and our front,
Taierzhuang, on the contrary, will be our way of survival."
Listening to Tsutsumi's judgment, Isotani Rensuke touched his mustache and said doubtfully, "This is a risky move. Once...'
Kei Setani, commander of the 33rd Brigade, said excitedly, "Your Majesty, Division Commander, if we retreat now, we will become the first division in history to be defeated after an expedition. Our 10th Division will never be able to defeat it again from now on."
I have gained a foothold in the army." As he spoke, he walked up to Isotani Rensuke and bowed, saying, "All our soldiers are willing to fight to the last moment, and would rather die than retreat."
Several other wing captains, group captains, and staff officers were all excited when they heard this. They raised their hands and shouted, "Fight to the death! Fight to the death! Fight to the death!"
Isotani Rensuke was also infected by this fanatical atmosphere and said, "Okay, I am worthy of the name of the Imperial Warrior. This is the Bushido spirit of our Empire of Japan. Order, except for the 39th Regiment to defend the rear, all troops must be concentrated."
We will use our troops to attack Taierzhuang. After Taierzhuang is defeated, we will go straight to Xuzhou and wait for other troops to attack together from inside and outside. We will gather the Chinese troops here and annihilate them. If we win this battle, we will be famous in history and rank with all the sages of the Meiji period."
The eyes of all the Japanese officers turned red, as if they had seen themselves receiving military exploits, returning to Tokyo, and being received by the Emperor.
——Beiping
Nishio Juzo, who read the telegram, quickly reported it to Terauchi Juichi.
Terauchi Juichi looked at the telegram and asked, "Nishio-kun, what do you think of this plan?"
Nishio Hisao is also a man who is not afraid of anything. He smiled and said, "There is a saying in China's art of war, which is to risk death and survive. I believe in the Tenth Division."
Terauchi Shou nodded and said, "Order the aviation force to fully support the Taierzhuang operation."
In Taierzhuang, Sun Lianzhong, who knew that Tang Enbo had started to take action, was already convinced. He smiled and said to Chi Fengcheng next to him, "The little devils should know by now that their way back is cut off. I think the devils will retreat soon."
Chi Fengcheng's troops now numbered less than 2,000, and even the 31st Division and the 27th Division had joined the battle. Although these two divisions joined the battle late, they had already suffered more than half of their casualties. He thought about these dozen
Day and night, I simply don't know how I survived, but fortunately, the Japanese were finally about to retreat, waiting for the surrounding troops to surround and annihilate the 10th Division together.
At this time, bursts of explosions suddenly came from the position. After more than ten days of fighting, Chi Fengcheng knew as soon as he heard it was the Japanese shelling. He quickly ran out of the headquarters and climbed up the bunker and said, "What's going on? The Japanese are attacking again."
Is it done?”
Sun Lianzhong also followed up and took a look with a telescope. He only saw fireworks rising into the sky in Taierzhuang, and there were fireballs caused by shelling everywhere.
Sun Lianzhong said in surprise, "Didn't this little devil not run away but actually wanted to attack?"
Chi Fengcheng looked at the firepower and murmured, "What's going on with this little devil? There was no such artillery fire even when the war was at its worst a few days ago."
With a "hoo" sound, dozens of Japanese aircraft flew over Taierzhuang and began to bomb Taierzhuang.
Sun Lianzhong thought to himself that it was not good and pulled Chi Fengcheng down the runway, "Get off first, the Japanese plane is coming again, damn, this little Japanese is not ready to retreat. Okay, you **** dare to come, I will
If you dare to spend time here, you should immediately notify Commander Li. The Japanese army did not retreat, but instead stepped up its offensive and asked the surrounding troops to speed up the siege. Also, order the artillery to wait for the Japanese plane to leave and immediately counterattack the Japanese artillery. You can't just take a beating without fighting back.
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——Xuzhou
Li Zongren was surprised when he saw the battle report from Taierzhuang. He smiled and patted the telegram and said, "Isotani Rensuke doesn't know how to write the word "death". Instead of retreating, he intensified his offensive. Does he want to fight with his back to the wall?"
After reading the reports from various places, Li Pinxian said with some concern, "The Japanese troops in the south have begun to move out again. The New Fourth Army and several other troops are restraining them. The only good news is that the Japanese troops in the south seem to have some scruples and have not made full efforts to break through. In addition,
, the Japanese air force mobilizes very frequently, and the logistics of the 10th Division has been cut off by us. I suspect that the Japanese army is preparing to use the air force for supply operations. Finally, the 5th Division has not made any moves so far, which is a bit abnormal."
Li Zongren thought for a while and said, "Where are the new 87th, 88th, and 24th Divisions?"
Since the Battle of Songhu, the three most elite German weapon divisions of the National Army have been basically exhausted. However, due to the successive arrival of German ordnance, Chiang Kai-shek has the capital to form German weapon divisions and even has the New Fourth Army re-equipped with them.
After obtaining the German weapons, Jiang Jie always missed the original three German weapon divisions, so he simply mixed and reorganized the escaped soldiers of the three divisions with the carefully selected recruits, and established three new German weapons divisions in Hefei.
division, and the commanders of these three divisions were Sun Yuanliang, who had finally escaped from Nanjing, Liao Yaoxiang, who also escaped by pretending to be a monk, and Hu Lian, a newly promoted young officer.
This Hu Lian participated in the Songhu Battle as a regiment leader and was promoted to brigade commander. He should have followed the large army to fight guerrillas in southern Jiangsu, but perhaps because of the butterfly effect, he unexpectedly met Miss Kong Er in Wuhan.
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He didn't know Miss Kong Er and thought she was a man. Hu Lian was a gambler, so he started gambling with Kong Lingwei in the casino and won seventeen games in a row. Kong Lingwei was so angry that he almost pulled out his gun. Hu Lian was not only a gambler but also a man.
Fortunately, the prostitute saw that Kong Lingwei was angry, so he put his arm around her shoulders and said, "Don't be unhappy, let's do this. I will take you to see some interesting places." After that, he pulled Kong Lingwei away.
For so many years, everyone has either treated Kong Lingwei as a lunatic, feared him or even fawned over him, but no one has ever spoken or acted like this to him. He actually played with Hu Lian for an entire night and then treated Soong Meiling at the family banquet.
After saying good things about Hu Lian, agent Jiang next to him saw that Kong Lingwei, who never said good things about men, was actually saying good things about an officer. When he looked back, he immediately felt that he was a talented person and was promoted to commander of the 24th Division.
It is worth mentioning that among the other two, Liao Yaoxiang was quite honest and honestly confessed that he was able to escape with the help of the temple monks. However, as soon as Sun Yuanliang returned to Wuhan, he loudly claimed that he had killed someone with a gun.
However, this story seems to have happened in the Song Dynasty no matter how you listen to it, and it has become a joke among those who know the story.
Li Pinxian pointed at the map and said, "The three divisions have now arrived in Bengbu and will arrive in Xuzhou in three days. If everything goes well, the 24th Division will be able to go to Taierzhuang and join the battle in five days. The other two divisions will continue to go north and reach Linyi.
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Li Zongren shook his head and said, "Five days are too long. Sun Lianzhong is already exhausted. The changes in five days are too great. Three days, three days later they must appear in Taierzhuang, even if they run to death, let them abandon them."
Everything except ammunition, let them rest assured that I will give them food and clothing when they get to Xuzhou, and no one will want the things they throw away."
Li Zongren thought for a moment and then said uneasily, "Send a report to the Chairman of the Committee and ask him to urge him as well, and also request air force support again. Without the air force, our war will be a big victory at most, a miserable victory. Also,
Ask Zhang Zizhong to pay close attention to the movements of the Fifth Division and report immediately if there are any changes. Finally, order Tang Enbo not to be afraid of sacrifice and bite me hard."
——Bengbu
Hu Lian, who was eating at the train station, read the telegram and laughed, "Our Commander Li is anxious. It seems that the situation in Taierzhuang is not good."
Hu Lian knew that his qualifications were weak. He was from the sixth phase of Huangpu, and Sun Yuanliang was from the first phase of Huangpu. Although Sun Yuanliang was still a teacher, there was some punishment in it, but when the three teachers met, Hu Lian always kept his head down.
It is also reality.
Hu Lian swallowed the steamed buns in three mouthfuls and said, "Order all soldiers to throw away their baggage and only take their weapons and ammunition. The people in the three cars will merge into two cars for me and set off immediately. Hurry!!!"
An extremely rare rush to march without baggage occurred in the National Army. Countless packages were thrown on both sides of the railway. The roaring train took these soldiers towards Xuzhou and Taierzhuang.
But what Hu Lian didn't know was that his action made Sun Yuanliang and the two men who were marching normally behind him particularly dazzling. After the two learned what Hu Lian had done, they immediately cursed. In this way, people who didn't know would think that
Are the two of them cowardly, especially since both of them are guilty, what will happen if they are told by someone to go to Jiang's agency? The two of them are forced to carry out a forced march. But in their hearts
But he completely hated this scheming junior.
——Wuhan
Agent Jiang nodded while looking at the telegram and said, "What De Lin said is correct. I think it's okay. Let Rychagov prepare for the battle. Don't they come to make trouble every two days? I think I'll let them out this time."
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Since the Soviet Union decided to assist China, it immediately began a large amount of military assistance. At this time, the Air Force had 180 fighter jets, 80 bombers, and 10 trainer aircraft, including 10 heavy bombers. These fighter jets were all N-15 and N-
16 aircraft. Both types of aircraft have their own characteristics. The И-15 is a bi-wing pursuit aircraft with a small turning radius and flexible maneuverability, but its speed is slow. The И-16 is a single-wing pursuit aircraft with a speed of 480 kilometers per hour, but its maneuverability is poor.
.Both destroyers are equipped with four 'Skars' high-rate machine guns, which can fire 1,800 rounds per minute.
In comparison, the number of aircraft purchased by Chiang's intermediary in Europe and the United States at a huge cost was only over 30 at this time, and they were of no use at all.
Rychagov was the commander of this volunteer air force. When he received the order, he did two backflips in excitement and shouted, "Children, get ready, let's teach those yellow-skinned monkeys a lesson."
, how should we fly, oh, I’m talking about the Japanese, General Gao, don’t worry.”
Gao Zhihang said with a dissatisfied expression, "Raychagov, I hope you can be more careful in the future. Okay, let's prepare for a joint operation. Xuzhou is ready. We will transfer there and take off to attack the Japanese airfield."
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Rechagov said happily like a child, "Oh, my friend, don't worry, we have gathered more than a hundred planes this time, and we will definitely be able to drive out the bandits from your home."
Gao Zhihang nodded and said with a smile, "I hope so."
This is the largest operation of the Chinese Air Force. 80 fighter jets and 40 bombers, which concentrate more than half of the main force of the Chinese Air Force, will all be deployed on the Xuzhou battlefield. The Xuzhou battlefield ushered in the most critical battle.
——Taierzhuang
Chi Fengcheng has already filled in his own guard company, and three-quarters of the Taierzhuang position has been captured by the Japanese army. Although the National Army fought back desperately, Taierzhuang was already in danger under the attack of Japanese aircraft, artillery and more than 20,000 infantry.
Chifeng City can only rely on the last few large fortresses for final resistance. Once these fortresses are lost, the National Army will completely lose Taierzhuang.
Sun Lianzhong, who was in the rear, saw this and finally decided to put the last fresh force into the battlefield, which was Feng Anbang's troops of the 42nd Army.
At this time, Feng Anbang led a division and a brigade under his subordinates. Seeing the fierce battle in Taierzhuang, he was anxious to death. As soon as he received the order, Feng Anbang immediately led his troops into Taierzhuang from the southeast.
The 10th Division, which had finally seen the dawn of victory, was suddenly overwhelmed by the rush. The artillery unit, which had been waiting for a long time, started firing madly at the command of the commander.
I only saw the artillerymen of the National Army, all taking off their clothes and frantically carrying ammunition. At this time, Taierzhuang was full of Japanese troops. They no longer cared about the accuracy of the attack. They only needed to hit Taierzhuang. Taierzhuang suddenly
Once again, it was covered by artillery fire, but this time it was the National Army's artillery fire that suppressed the Japanese army. The National Army took advantage of the opportunity, and Feng Anbang recaptured nearly one-fifth of Taierzhuang in one fell swoop.
Seeing this, the Tenth Division changed its strategy and began to occupy the houses and fortresses in Taierzhuang, and began to defend it, preparing to wait for other troops to enter Taierzhuang before jointly counterattacking.
Seeing that the war was not going well, Isotani Rensuke said angrily, "Immediately contact the aviation force and ask for tactical guidance, and ask General Nishio to open up the logistics line as soon as possible. We don't have much ammunition."
At this time, the Japanese military headquarters was already commanded by Juichi Terauchi. After seeing the telegram from Rensuke Isotani, he immediately ordered the aviation force to send out more than 180 Japanese aircraft of various types to fly to Taierzhuang.
Terauchi Shouichi looked at the map, pointed at Huai'an anxiously and said, "What's going on with the Southern Army? Why haven't they attacked yet? Do you want to sit back and watch our North China Front lose?"
