The newly transferred political training section chief learned from the past and knew that the unruly and unruly veterans were not a good thing, so he learned his lesson and stopped making trouble for his brothers. He discussed everything with Yang Ling, the deputy commander.
Yang Ling naturally knew that although they had a slight upper hand in the overt and covert battle with the previous political training section chief, it was all because of the huge pressure from brigade commander Zhou Zhidao.
After all, the war on the frontline is now in full swing, and all ministries are focusing on military training, so political training has been appropriately relaxed.
But everything has a limit. If you don't know what's right and continue to fight against the people in the Political Training Department, I'm afraid even brigade commander Zhou Zhidao won't be able to report to his superiors.
So when the new political training section chief came to discuss it politely with him, Yang Ling did not reject the fat white political training section chief, and finally decided to have five days of military training and two days of political training every week.
Although this result dissatisfied the new political training section chief and felt that the political training time was a bit short, Yang Ling also had his own reasons.
"Chief Zhou, it's not that I don't pay attention to political training. Most of our regiment are fresh recruits who can't even hold a gun. The Military Commission will review us soon. Who will be responsible if we make a fool of ourselves?"
"To take a step back, the fighting on the Xuzhou frontline is fierce. We may be dragged up to fight at some point. If we don't seize the time to train and improve our combat effectiveness, can you bear to watch these brothers who know nothing go to die in vain?
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Yang Ling told the truth, so the new section chief, who was devoted to political training, had to make temporary concessions.
"Now that Deputy Chairman Yang has said this, I personally understand it deeply, but all the brothers must be present for the political training two days a week, and no one can be absent. After all, this political training is a matter assigned by the Chairman, Deputy Chairman Yang
Sir, you also make it easy for me to get along with you, right?"
"Okay, I promise no one will be absent when the time comes." When Yang Ling saw that the political training section chief respected him, he didn't want to disgrace him, so the two sides reached a private agreement, five days of military training and two days of political and ideological training every week.
Educational learning.
The agreement made both parties happy. The new political training section chief could complete his overlapping tasks, and Yang Ling could let the brothers combine work and rest and take advantage of the political training period to rest.
The training of the troops was carried out in an orderly manner. While Yang Ling paid close attention to the training, he read frontline battle reports and newspapers from various newspapers every day to understand the war situation.
In this era of backward communication, the channels for understanding the outside world were limited, and Yang Ling could only spy on the situation through newspapers and battle reports issued by the army.
During their political training, the Battle of Xuzhou was already in full swing. The troops of the Fifth War Zone fought on the north and south fronts under the command of the commander-in-chief, General Li Zongren, and achieved great results. Among them, the troops of the 11th Group Army in the south blocked the attack in Chihe.
Although the battle lasted for more than a month, the two sides annihilated more than 2,000 Japanese troops, which greatly boosted the anti-Japanese morale of the military and civilians across the country.
In addition to the victory in the Chihe Blockade, there were also many other good news. General Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army cooperated with the 51st Army at Linhuaiguan and Bengbu. There were also many gains on the front line. Although the Japanese 13th Division was aggressive, it was difficult to survive.
Enter.
The fight in the south was good, but bad news kept coming from the north. Although General Li Zongren deployed the main force in the north to fight against the Japanese army going south, the Japanese 10th and 5th Divisions were sharp and had occupied large areas of urban areas. The situation was
Not optimistic.
Among them, the Setani detachment of the Japanese army attacked Teng County in Lunan with all its strength and advanced towards the Taierzhuang area.
Taierzhuang is the gateway to Xuzhou, where the headquarters of the Fifth War Zone is located, and Dateng County in southern Shandong is also the gateway to Taierzhuang. General Li Zongren, who has many miscellaneous troops in his hands, handed over the task of defending here to the Sichuan Army transferred from the Second War Zone.
22nd Army.
After the Setani detachment of the Japanese 10th Division captured Zouxian County with tens of thousands of troops, they rushed straight to Tengxian County without stopping. The Sichuan Army's 22nd Group Army, which was deployed on the periphery, could not stop the Japanese army. Many troops, entire battalions and entire companies, died in their positions.
Above, the battle was fierce.
Wang Mingzhang's 122nd Division of the Sichuan Army guarding Teng County was not frightened by the powerful Japanese offensive. Instead, it relied on the broken city wall to resist. The two sides fought fiercely from the 13th to the 17th. The Sichuan Army suffered heavy losses. The Japanese Seya Detachment
Only then did they invade Teng County.
Facing the Japanese army that invaded Teng County, the remaining Sichuan soldiers resisted bravely, with division commander Wang Mingzhang taking command from the front. The two sides fought for another day and night. In the end, only hundreds of wounded soldiers who were lying on stretchers unable to move were left alive.
In January, before he died of illness in Hankou Hospital, the Sichuan Army's commander-in-chief, Liu Xiang, left a call: "If the enemy invaders do not withdraw from the country, the Sichuan Army will never return home." The Sichuan Army shouted this slogan on all battlefields and fought bravely to fight the enemy.
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This unwanted Sichuan Army unit in the Second War Zone first repaid General Li Zongren for taking him in, and secondly obeyed the last words of the Sichuan Army coach who died of illness. These hundreds of Sichuan Army wounded soldiers who were seriously injured and unable to move faced the ferocious Japanese army, and finally fired at the same time
He fired a grenade and ended the defense battle of Teng County in a tragic way.
"All the officers and soldiers of the 122nd Division of the Sichuan Army from division commander Wang Mingzhang on down died heroically for their country, and no one surrendered."
When Yang Ling saw the news in the newspaper with his own eyes, he couldn't help but shed tears. These stubborn Sichuan men did not embarrass their hometown elders in the end. They are real heroes.
Since the Sichuan army delayed the Japanese offensive in Teng County, General Li Zongren was able to calmly mobilize his troops in Taierzhuang and rush to Taierzhuang to deploy defenses.
The Japanese army then invaded Taierzhuang in large numbers. Chi Fengcheng, commander of the 31st Division who was responsible for guarding Taierzhuang, led more than 10,000 officers and soldiers to defend Taierzhuang. The two sides fought house to house and street to street, and hand-to-hand combat was staged every day.
The 31st Division successfully dragged the Japanese army into Taierzhuang, and Tang Enbo's regiment took the opportunity to outflank it from the outside, putting the Japanese army attacking Taierzhuang in a dangerous dilemma and having to break out to survive.
General Li Zongren commanded various armies to launch a counterattack against the Japanese troops in Taierzhuang. Although the Japanese troops finally succeeded in tearing open the gap and running away, more than 10,000 people were killed or injured.
The news of Taierzhuang's great victory was like a spring breeze, and soon spread throughout the country. Since the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing, this was the first major victory for the Chinese army to wipe out more than 10,000 enemies on the battlefield, leaving the dark clouds hanging over people's hearts.
Sweeping it all away, the whole country was inspired.
Although Yang Ling and his 74th Army were training in Wuhan, the news of Taierzhuang's victory came, and the brothers were all excited and excited like never before. A grand celebration ceremony was held that night, and many brothers were drunk. This victory was too hard-won.
The great victory in Taierzhuang inspired the brothers. They trained even harder and were eager to go to the battlefield and fight.
After the great victory in Taierzhuang, General Li Zongren quickly mobilized troops to counterattack and expand the results. He successively gathered 60 divisions with a total of 600,000 to 700,000 troops in the Xuzhou area, beating the Japanese army into a panic.
They were not reconciled to the defeat of the Japanese army in Taierzhuang. Instead, they used part of their forces to contain the Chinese army head-on, secretly deploying the 3rd, 9th, 13th, 16th, 114th, 14th, 10th, 5th divisions and other large divisions.
The troops marched to the Xuzhou area in an attempt to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Chinese army in Xuzhou. At this moment, the Chinese soldiers and civilians were still filled with the joy of victory and were unaware of it.