At this time, Tang Enbo's Twentieth Army Corps was more than twenty kilometers away from Taierzhuang.

The Fifth War Zone's operational plan had been approved by Chiang Kai-shek.

Chiang Kai-shek, of course, understood the arrogant and fierce generals under his command.

Chiang Kai-shek was truly angered by the Twentieth Army Corps' inaction.

In the Battle of Zhao Zhuang, if he hadn't personally telegraphed Tang Enbo, the Twentieth Army Corps wouldn't have sent troops, and the outcome would have been unknown.

Chiang Kai-shek questioned again with rebuke: "In the Battle of Taierzhuang, I used ten divisions against two divisions of the enemy, and after half a month, there were no results.

Your army corps is located on the enemy's flanks, with an extremely advantageous situation, but the attack has been futile.

How can the generals explain themselves?

They should immediately and strictly supervise their departments, and strive to achieve success in the next two days, the sixth and seventh, and annihilate this enemy."

Upon receiving Chiang Kai-shek's telegram, Tang Enbo immediately replied: "Immediately urge all departments to attack and advance towards Taierzhuang, and be able to compress the Japanese on the north bank of Taierzhuang and annihilate them in the next two days."

The Twentieth Army Corps immediately began to take action.

The main force of the Seventy-fifth Army attacked and advanced towards Xiangdong Village and Taierzhuang.

The Eighty-fifth Army attacked and advanced towards Diqiao and Liujia Lake.

The main force of the Fifty-second Army attacked and advanced towards Nigou and Beiluo.

After the order was issued, since the start of the Battle of Taierzhuang, Tang Enbo took the initiative for the first time to send a telegram to Chi Fengcheng, the commander of the Thirty-first Division, who had been defending Taierzhuang:

"Our army has launched a full-scale offensive against the Japanese. If the Twentieth Army Corps does not arrive at Taierzhuang by twelve noon on the sixth,

Enbo is willing to accept military punishment."

At this time, fifteen days had passed since he promised to return to Taierzhuang.

Tang Enbo sent this telegram to stabilize the hearts of Chi Fengcheng and the officers and soldiers of the Thirty-first Division.

He knew all about the difficulties of the Thirty-first Division in the Battle of Taierzhuang.

He also knew that the Thirty-first Division's defense line in Taierzhuang had been in a state of possible collapse for five days.

Now that the Twentieth Army Corps had begun to act, Tang Enbo did not want Taierzhuang to be lost at the last moment when the general offensive was launched.

Tang Enbo's telegram gave the Thirty-first Division one last shot in the arm.

On the evening of the fifth, the Twentieth Army Corps all entered the predetermined attack positions and immediately launched an offensive.

The rear of the Banben Shun Detachment was cut off, and they needed to obtain logistical supplies from the Itagaki Division.

The Itagaki Renjie Division was already having a difficult time because the Tengxian supply base had been taken, and the already difficult supply situation was even worse.

Now, Itagaki Renjie, the division commander, finally began to seriously consider the issue of retreat.

The Banben Shun Detachment had already set a time for retreat: they would withdraw after dark on the sixth.

Saya Qi, the captain of the regiment, who had long wanted to retreat, was much faster than Banben Shun.

He immediately ordered: End the mopping-up of Taierzhuang on the morning of the sixth.

It was clear that the Japanese were going to escape, but they used the term "end the mopping-up."

On the night of April 5, Tang Enbo's Twentieth Army Corps attacked from all sides and kept attacking the Japanese.

Itagaki Renjie, the division commander, originally sent two infantry battalions and one cavalry regiment for a one-day tour.

As a result, they were completely annihilated, and the original contradiction of insufficient troops was now even more prominent.

The retreat order had already been issued, but his order was only issued to the Tenth Division.

The Banben Shun Regiment of the Fifth Division was not in its command sequence, so of course there was no need to notify them.

Banben Shun, the captain of the Banben Shun Regiment of the Fifth Division, kindly notified Saya Qi, the captain of the regiment, who was cooperating in the operation: "We plan to withdraw on the evening of the sixth, let's act together!"

Saya Qi, the captain of the regiment, silently ordered: "We will withdraw at six o'clock in the morning on the sixth."

Withdraw quietly, without notifying anyone.

It wasn't that he didn't want to leave tonight, but the conditions didn't allow it. At this time, it was impossible to notify the various teams of the Tenth Division inside and outside Taierzhuang.

Therefore, he had to postpone the retreat time to six o'clock in the morning.

In fact, Saya Qi, the captain of the regiment, had wanted to retreat five days ago.

It was just that his application had not been approved by Itagaki Renjie, the division commander.

On the afternoon of the fifth, Lin Fan's team of four hundred people when he set off, and more than six thousand people when he returned, also returned to Liujia Village.

Plus the more than five thousand people who were already in Liujia Village receiving recruit training.

The Third Company and the Fourth Company also had more than six thousand people here.

When the team is large, it is inconvenient to manage if the organization is not straightened out.

It is also not easy to command.

On this night, in Liujia Village, Lin Fan changed all the Special Brigade soldiers here in Taierzhuang into a Special Brigade Lunan Detachment.

The entire detachment has five infantry regiments and one artillery regiment under its command.

Five infantry regiments, each with twelve companies.

The commanders of the First to Fourth Regiments of the Lunan Detachment were Gu Xiuming, Hua Deze, Shan Huacan, and Shan Chengfu, these four company commanders.

The various companies they led also became the first company of each regiment.

An Ping served as the commander of the Fifth Regiment, and he only brought twenty soldiers from the artillery platoon.

Hou Wentian, the platoon leader of the artillery second platoon, served as the commander of the artillery regiment.

The first and second platoons of the artillery, supplemented by some recruits, became the first company of the artillery regiment.

An artillery regiment was assigned twelve companies, including four infantry companies, which were to protect the artillery.

The team reorganization is complete.

All soldiers are equipped with weapons.

Lin Fan is temporarily the commander of the Lunan Detachment.

Lin Fan has one suitable candidate for this position in his heart: Chen Sichuan!

It's just that such a major event needs to be discussed with Li Xian after Lin Fan returns to Jurong before it can be decided.

And he also needs to ask Chen Sichuan himself what he thinks.

After all, he is now a person with a family.

Through the reorganization, the strength of the Special Brigade in the direction of Taierzhuang has suddenly increased a lot.

This is not only an increase in the number of people, but also a great increase in combat effectiveness.

For example, Gu Xiuming's First Regiment now has an existing tank company and a cavalry company.

Although their current regiment is really different from a regiment in Jurong, whether in terms of weapons and equipment or the quality of soldiers.

But everything will get better.

Lin Fan believes this.

Now the most obvious thing is that all the new recruits who joined the Special Brigade a few days ago now have guns.

Especially those soldiers who had been receiving training for the past few days, but had not received a gun.

Listening to the veterans who joined the Special Brigade since Tengxian - they have already participated in a battle with the Japanese.

These veterans talked about how they rubbed the Japanese cavalry regiment on the ground in Zhao Zhuang.

And how they stabbed thousands of Japanese infantrymen to death one by one.

Every veteran added a sentence at the end: Even if the Twentieth Army Corps did not suddenly kill from behind the Japanese.

Those Japanese would not have survived.

These proud and arrogant veterans, and the new recruits who received their guns tonight, were brothers in the puppet army a few days ago.

Now they are fighting side by side again.

It's just that how does it feel that the difference is so big?

In the past, everyone ate the same food, but today these veterans who have fought a battle with the Japanese.

Why are their eyes so proud?

Isn't it just that more than six thousand four hundred people killed nearly five thousand Japanese?

What's so great about it!

Although they said so, they still felt a little sour in their hearts.

This is really great!

Any battle that can annihilate thousands of Japanese is very great.

For some reason, the Fifth War Zone's counterattack against the Japanese did not include the Special Brigade this time.

The night of the fifth was an uneasy night.

The Thirty-first Division already knew that tomorrow would be the day when the entire army would launch a counterattack against the Japanese.

But Chi Fengcheng still arranged daredevil teams, just like the nights these days, to attack the Japanese who were still entrenched in Taierzhuang.

The night gave these soldiers of the National Army the best disguise.

Able to make the Japanese, who have superior firepower, no longer see the distance.

They can only fight the National Army soldiers in close combat.

If the weapons are not as good as others, they can only wait until night to fight the Japanese with their lives.

This night was no different from other days.

This night was a little different from every night in the past half a month.

The Japanese soldiers guarding Taierzhuang had not received the notice to retreat.

But their resistance was even more fierce, as if they already knew their fate.

As if they wanted to consume all their ammunition.

If it weren't for the fact that their machine guns couldn't take it, maybe the Japanese could really use up all their ammunition tonight.

When it dawned, the Japanese soldiers in Taierzhuang finally received the notice to retreat.

The officers and soldiers of the Thirty-first Division led by Chi Fengcheng have now given up attacking the positions occupied by the Japanese.

They just guarded the Japanese's retreat route to the death.

These days, the Thirty-first Division has suffered more than five thousand casualties, and the entire Second Army Corps has paid the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers here.

At this last moment, the officers and soldiers of the Thirty-first Division suddenly burst out with great combat power.

They stubbornly guarded the route for the Japanese to retreat from Taierzhuang.

They could not let a single Japanese soldier retreat from Taierzhuang.

Just yesterday, the officers and soldiers of the Thirty-first Division were still fantasizing about the Japanese retreating from Taierzhuang.

In order to achieve this goal, they don't know how many brothers' lives were spent.

Now it is different. The Japanese soldiers broke into Taierzhuang themselves, and the officers and soldiers of the Thirty-first Division disagreed with them wanting to walk out on their own.

During the day, the Japanese troops outside Taierzhuang quickly retreated.

Mainly the Japanese troops of the Tenth Division were retreating. The Banben Shun Regiment of the Fifth Division, which was a little further away, was still waiting for a response from the Tenth Division.

Banben Shun, the commander of the Banben Shun Regiment, even sent a team to feign an attack on the National Army's position.

Wanting to welcome but refusing, wanting to retreat but advancing first!

The Twentieth Army Corps' attack on the Tenth Division from the side was very smooth.

These days of non-stop attacks in Taierzhuang, in addition to losing troops and generals, there was no result.

This fact had long worn down the Tenth Division's spirit.

Lin Fan's carefully prepared counterattack did not have his share.

Mao Wenxing, who was doing aerial reconnaissance, kept sending news from the battlefield: The Japanese troops in Taierzhuang were blocked.

The Japanese had already broken through four times, and they had gained nothing except leaving behind a pile of corpses.

At Diqiao in the distance, the National Army had driven away the Japanese.

The Japanese were retreating in a panic, and the National Army was attacking in the direction of Taierzhuang.

Listening to these reports, Lin Fan was finally relieved: Taierzhuang had turned the corner.

That's good.

He began to complete the homework he had not finished last time: repairing the artillery.

Those cannons that were destroyed in the battlefield, as long as there was a chance, the Special Brigade would pick them up.

This is Lin Fan's greatest hobby, and it has become a tradition of the Special Brigade: no waste!

Now that he had time, he began to preside over the repair.

The six regiments that were reorganized last night also needed to be broken in and trained.

Among the six regiments, the combat effectiveness of Anping's Fifth Infantry Regiment was the weakest.

After all, the remaining regiments were all composed of old Special Brigade soldiers in an established organization.

Only his regiment was full of recruits.

This expression is also not correct. After all, there are many company commanders and platoon leaders who are still old Special Brigade soldiers.

Having a little free time, these people in the Special Brigade did not take a vacation.

They seized the time to train. As soldiers, of course they could not relax.

Gu Xiuming had already led his regiment and reported to Lin Fan:

"The First Regiment requests to go out for training."

Lin Fan agreed.

Hua Deze used the same reason.

Lin Fan agreed.

All five infantry regiments wanted to go out for training, and Lin Fan agreed to all of them.

However, he set a range for these teams that they could not exceed twenty kilometers around Liujia Lake.

Hou Wentian, the commander of the artillery regiment, could not pull the entire regiment out for training.

But the soldiers of the artillery regiment were not staying at home to sleep.

Maintaining the cannons, practicing the disassembly and assembly of the cannons.

Practicing the changes in various states of the cannons.

These are all physical tasks, all fine tasks, and all need time to break in.

The artillery of the Special Brigade has always been like this.

They can change the eighty-eight-millimeter anti-aircraft gun from moving to shooting in just over a minute.

It is trained every day like this.

All martial arts in the world can be broken only by speed!

Although Lin Fan has not said this sentence, he believes that:

This is also true for artillery.

If you want to practice peerless martial arts, of course you can't avoid practicing every day.

The fist never leaves the hand, the song never leaves the mouth.

Of course, soldiers want to practice the fastest reaction speed in the same way.

The sunset on April 6 finally went down the mountain.

Taierzhuang, which had been fighting fiercely for a day, is now back in darkness, but it is not calm.

Shanshiya Junta, the captain of the squad, looked at the dark night, and his heart was as dark as this night.

One day, a whole day, these Japanese soldiers trapped in Taierzhuang organized at least twenty breakouts.

From where they are now staying, it is only four hundred meters to the stockade wall of Taierzhuang, which has collapsed so much that only some ruins can be seen.

More than two hundred Japanese corpses fell on this four-hundred-meter road.

Shanshiya Junta was already desperate: when they received the retreat order in the morning.

There were still many gunshots outside Taierzhuang, proving that there was still fighting outside Taierzhuang.

In the afternoon, they could only hear gunshots coming from inside Taierzhuang.

The sound of gunfire outside Taierzhuang has all stopped.

Now these Japanese troops who are still trapped in Taierzhuang are all desperate:

They have been abandoned and can no longer retreat.

However, Captain Shanshiya Junta did not have the idea of surrendering. Although they cannot break out now.

But they are not willing to be captured.

Captain Shanshiya Junta silently piled up a pile of firewood.

He took out the ammunition stored here, piled it together, and poured oil on it. Dafeng novel

He put the machine gun on it, thought about it, and finally took the pistol back.

He did all this silently.

The other Japanese troops in the entire fortress silently watched his performance.

No Japanese soldier stopped him.

All the Japanese soldiers knew that if they didn't surrender, they would only die!

They wanted to die with dignity.

So when Shanshiya Junta lit the firewood, these Japanese soldiers put their rifles on it one after another.

Put themselves on it too.

These Japanese soldiers have cut off their escape route, and self-immolation is the last stubbornness of these Japanese soldiers.

On this night, in the fortresses occupied by the Japanese in Taierzhuang.

All the Japanese soldiers either self-immolated or committed suicide. Their despair was darker than this night.

On this night, Banben Shun, the commander of the Banben Shun Regiment of the Fifth Division, finally led his team to retreat.

They retreated under the attack of the Fifty-second Army.

The result of the hasty retreat was that they left behind the Japanese corpses that had been gathered together and a lot of weapons and supplies.

Whether it was the retreat of the Fifth Division or the Tenth Division, they left a lot of supplies to the National Army.

These were much better than those Japanese soldiers in Taierzhuang.

Those Japanese soldiers even threw their rifles into the fire and burned them.

On April 7, Li Zongren ordered: a full-scale pursuit!

On the seventh, the Fifty-second Army fought fiercely with the Japanese at Dige and defeated the Japanese.

The Second Army Corps, which had been fighting for a long time, also joined the team that was chasing and killing the Japanese. The 175th Regiment occupied Shaozhuang and Peizhuang.

……

The Japanese Saya Qi Regiment was besieged by the National Army in Yixian and held out for reinforcements.

The Japanese troops inside Taierzhuang have all been wiped out.

But the National Army's attack on Yixian was not smooth.

Tang Enbo's main force, the Twenty-fifth Division, also lost five hundred men overnight when attacking Yixian.

From the ninth to the twelfth, the Fifth War Zone was still unable to capture Yixian, which was defended by the Saya Qi Regiment.

At this time, Itagaki, the commander of the Itagaki Division of the Tenth Division, had led the main force to retreat to Lincheng.

Since the Fifth War Zone launched the pursuit, it has still not been able to capture any of Lincheng, Zaozhuang, and Yixian in five days.

But this did not prevent the sentiment of the quick-win faction within the National Army from concentrating its forces to fight a decisive battle.

Now they are excitedly thinking: As long as they fight a few more victories like Taierzhuang, they can defeat the Japanese.

Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi believe that the Japanese suffered an unprecedented defeat in Taierzhuang.

The Japanese plan to continue to increase troops from the country to solve the North China battlefield has been cancelled.

If they can continue to concentrate superior forces to annihilate all the Japanese troops gathered in Yixian, Lincheng, and Zaozhuang, they may be able to lay the foundation for a comprehensive victory in the Anti-Japanese War.

This is a bold idea, and it is also an idea that has been supported by most people among the senior National Army officers after the Battle of Taierzhuang.

Of course, Lin Fan can also feel this idea among the senior National Army officers.

He doesn't understand: The Japanese troops only used two divisions in Taierzhuang and Linyi.

Even if these two divisions are completely annihilated according to the plan of Li and Bai.

For the Japanese, this is definitely not a matter of hurting their muscles and bones.

Why can they win quickly?

Actually:

The Japanese troops' failure in the Battle of Taierzhuang, whether it was Nishio Toshizō, the commander of the Japanese Second Army, or Terauchi Hisaichi, the commander of the North China Front Army, only thought that:

This does not conform to the Japanese tradition.

And this is the Japanese's final conclusion on the Battle of Taierzhuang.

Although the headquarters eventually dismissed Captain Saya Qi and transferred him back to the country for this incident.

But they did not admit that this was a defeat.

On the contrary, whether it was the Second Army under the Tenth Division or the North China Front Army.

They felt extremely excited when Tang Enbo's Twentieth Army Corps appeared on the Taierzhuang battlefield.

All along, there have been two factions within the Japanese army: one is the "non-expansion of war faction."

They believe that they can get everything they want from the negotiating table without expanding the war.

The advantage of doing this is that the Japanese domestic economy will not collapse and the people's livelihood will not be so difficult.

The second faction is the "war expansion faction."

Their views are exactly the opposite: these Japanese believe that the government led by Chiang Kai-shek simply does not have the sincerity to negotiate peace.

They are unwilling to agree to the basic requirements they have put forward, such as allowing the five northeastern provinces to be autonomous, allowing all occupied land to be autonomous, and then compensating for war expenses.

This is a manifestation of not having the sincerity to negotiate peace.

Only war, occupying this country with war, will not have such troubles.

At that time, the Japanese can directly take whatever they want.

More importantly: If the empire has such a large piece of land to take and ask for, it will greatly improve the strength of the empire.

As for the temporary economic difficulties in the country, the difficult people's livelihood, and the hard life of ordinary people.

Let those people persevere for a while.

Because the war was chosen by these people, and the war cabinet was chosen by these ordinary people.

Now, the news that the Japanese two divisions were severely damaged in the Battle of Taierzhuang is actually exciting many Japanese in the cabinet.

Now the "non-expansion of war faction" has no reason to object.

The war expansion faction has completely taken the advantage.

They have planned a larger-scale operation plan:

First: Guiding principles

The North China Front Army, with a powerful unit and a part of the Central China Expeditionary Force before, will defeat the enemy near Xuzhou.

And occupy the Jinpu Line and the area near Hefei.

The operation time is scheduled for late April.

Second: Essentials

1. The North China Front Army will launch an offensive along the Longhai Line with four divisions and defeat the enemy. The main force will defeat the enemy in Xuzhou from the north, and one division will attack from the northeast of Lanfeng to cut off its retreat route.

2. The Central China Expeditionary Force will support the operations of the North China Front Army from the south with two divisions. Attack from the Jinpu Line area, and be sure to cut off the enemy's retreat route.

3. The North China Front Army will occupy the Jinpu Line north of Xuzhou, and after defeating the enemy, will occupy the area east of Lanfeng and north of the Jinpu Line.

4. After defeating the enemy, the Central China Expeditionary Force will occupy the Jinpu Line south of Xuzhou (including) and the area near Luzhou.

5. The operations of the two armies must be closely linked.

6. After the completion of this operation, the North China Front Army should deploy three divisions south of the Yellow River, and the Central China Expeditionary Force should deploy two divisions south of Xuzhou, on the Jinpu Line and near Luzhou.

This operation plan has goals and implementation processes.

There is also a division of the territory after the completion of the operation goal.

The Japanese North China Front Army and Central China Expeditionary Force each divide the territory according to the amount of effort they put in.

The plan is very beautiful, but it is very difficult to implement!

Because this time is a cooperation between the North China Front Army and the Central China Expeditionary Force.

Strictly speaking, this is not their first time. Some of the teams in the Central China Expeditionary Force were transferred from the North China Front Army.

They have not been returned yet.

But these transferred teams are clearly under the command of the Central China Expeditionary Force, so there have been no problems.

This time is different. Both armies want to be the big brother.

It is a matter of face. Which army will be the main one and which army will be the auxiliary one?

This is a problem!

In order to solve this problem, the Japanese headquarters specially sent a major general and a lieutenant colonel to mediate.

Unfortunately, the mediation was unsuccessful.

During the mediation period, the two armies only reached a consensus on the goal of occupying Xuzhou.

They did not reach any other consensus.

Including the time and method of the operation, the allocation of territory after the war, and who will command.

Various problems have not been reached a consensus, so the mediation failed.

The North China Front Army soon formulated its own Xuzhou operation plan: the general idea is that the First Army and the Second Army will participate in the attack on Xuzhou together.

The Central China Expeditionary Force only needs to send two divisions to make a friendly appearance.

The entire plan will be implemented from April 24.

On April 24, the Central China Expeditionary Force also released the Xuzhou operation plan:

The Ninth Division and the Thirteenth Division will begin to attack the enemy on May 5.

The Sixth Division and the 101st Division will be dispatched to Luzhou to block the enemy's retreat and support routes.

Although their plans are different, they are the same for the main force of the Fifth War Zone in Xuzhou.

Annihilate the main force of the Fifth War Zone.

Terauchi Hisaichi, the commander of the North China Front Army, saw the National Army's desire for victory.

He also saw that the National Army was concentrating a large number of troops and approaching Xuzhou.

The National Army is preparing to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese near Xuzhou, and it has the meaning of determining the universe in one battle.

This is what the Japanese have been seeking.

The Japanese troops, from top to bottom, have made preparations for another battle.

The National Army is still unaware of this.

Chiang Kai-shek is still constantly increasing reinforcements to Xuzhou. After Li Zongren receives these reinforcements, he is also constantly sending these reinforcements to the front line to defend.

During these days, the Fifth War Zone has not yet annihilated the Japanese troops who are still occupying Yixian, Zaozhuang, and Lincheng.

Whether it is Tang Enbo's Twentieth Army Corps or Sun Zhonglian's Second Army Corps, they have lost confidence in the siege.

Itagaki Seishirō, the commander of the Fifth Division, who was severely damaged in Linyi, has been impatient for a long time.

He believes that the North China Front Army's actions are still too slow.

He has moved his command post to Yitangji, northwest of Linyi.

The Fifth Division suffered a lot of casualties in the previous two battles in Linyi.

In particular, the Banben Regiment suffered a devastating blow from the Special Brigade when it attacked Xiangcheng.

All this is seen in the eyes of the North China Front Army.

Terauchi Hisaichi, the commander of the North China Front Army, directly transferred the backbone and soldiers of the Independent Mixed Fifth Brigade to the Fifth Division.

At the same time, he also transferred a brigade from the 114th Division to the Fifth Division.

To supplement the strength of this team.

Now, the strength of the Fifth Division, known as the "Steel Army", is stronger than before.

The North China Front Army actually gave the Fifth Division a reorganized division.

Now Itagaki Seishirō immediately sent the "Kunizaki Detachment" to launch a third offensive against Linyi on April 16.

The one defending Linyi is still the old general Pang Bingxun.

His team was on the verge of collapse several times in the previous battles in Linyi.

The Japanese troops invested more troops in each attack on Linyi.

Pang Bingxun's Third Army Corps, however, was defending again and again, and the number of soldiers was getting smaller and smaller.

A period of time has passed since the last battle in Linyi, but the Fifth War Zone has received reinforcements from all over the country, but it has not sent a single team to Linyi for a change of defense.

Zhang Zizhong's Fifty-ninth Army also retreated to Bianzhuang for rest after the Banben Regiment retreated to Xiangcheng.

The most elite division of the Fifty-ninth Army is the Thirty-eighth Division. This division had 15,000 people before the war.

After two battles in Linyi, only less than 3,000 people were left.

The Fifty-ninth Army retreated to Bianzhuang for rest, but did not get any troop replenishment.

The entire Fifty-ninth Army has two infantry divisions, the Thirty-eighth Division and the 180th Division, and now there are only more than 5,000 people in total.

It is not enough to form a brigade.

Now that Linyi is being attacked by the Japanese again, Pang Bingxun is asking for help again.

Zhang Zizhong's Fifty-ninth Army received the order again: to reinforce Linyi!

There are two things, but not three or four.

Itagaki Seishirō, the commander of the Fifth Division, clearly knew that the Fifty-ninth Army had ruined his good deeds twice before.

This time, he also knew that the Fifty-ninth Army, which was resting in Bianzhuang, would definitely go to rescue Linyi.

Therefore, he had already set up heavy blockades between Bianzhuang and Linyi. The only purpose was: to prevent the Fifty-ninth Army from arriving in Linyi.

From the 16th, Captain Kunizaki began to launch an offensive against the Linyi defense line.

Pang Bingxun's Third Army Corps has been beaten miserably by the Japanese these days.

However, the soldiers have also grown up in the flames of war again and again.

Facing the Kunizaki Regiment, which has superior firepower and superior troops.

They persisted until noon on the 19th, when the Japanese once again rushed into Linyi.

This time their good luck was used up, and Zhang Zizhong's Fifty-ninth Army still failed to arrive.

At this time, the Fifthy-ninth Army had less than one-fifth of its strength the first time.

More than 5,000 National Army soldiers were blocked on the road by the Japanese, and they could not move at all.

The loss of Linyi immediately made the National Army lose its strategic support point in southern Shandong.

The Kunizaki Regiment, which occupied Linyi, immediately went south.

Its strategic purpose is only one, to mobilize the various troops of the Fifth War Zone arranged around the Grand Canal to come.

To create strategic space for the 14th, 16th, and 114th Divisions of the Japanese Army to carry out operations in western Shandong.

Convenient for these three divisions to cut off the Grand Canal and annihilate Tang Enbo's Twentieth Army Corps and Sun Lianzhong's Third Army Corps.

As soon as the Japanese made this move, they immediately took back all the advantages gained during the counterattack of the Fifth War Zone in the past few days.

This situation forced Li Zongren to order Tang Enbo's Army Corps to lift the siege of Yixian, Zaozhuang, and Lincheng.

This kind of siege without fighting, and the situation of being unable to capture after the siege, is of no significance to the National Army.

This is to prevent the Twentieth Army Corps from being surrounded by the Japanese.

Li Zongren ordered: Guan Linzheng's Fifty-second Army, Wang Zhonglian's Eighty-fifth Army, and the Seventy-fifth to retreat to the Lanling Town and Hongshan Town areas to occupy positions.

After the Banben Detachment was defeated in the last attack on Xiangcheng, it attacked Xiangcheng again on the 19th.

This time it finally entered Xiangcheng.

The Japanese troops who captured Xiangcheng did not stop there. They continued to attack Lanling.

Tang Enbo's team resisted stubbornly under the fierce attack of the Japanese troops, and retreated steadily.

His Twentieth Army Corps suffered heavy casualties.

Saya Qi, the commander of the brigade who retreated in six days, once again led his team to attack Taierzhuang.

This time, the one defending Taierzhuang was Zhou Yan's Seventy-fifth Army.

Tang Enbo's Twentieth Army Corps retreated step by step in the direction of Lanling.

Lin Fan and his Special Brigade seemed to have been forgotten during these days.

For a full thirteen days, Lin Fan and his six newly reorganized regiments had been resting in the Liujia Lake and Liujia Village area.

Although there was no war here these days, the training of the six regiments of the Special Brigade was not put down at all.

Thanks to the many supplies seized from the Japanese twice.

The training of the six regiments has been carried out rapidly these days.

In particular, live ammunition shooting, which surprised the soldiers who had just joined the Special Brigade beyond words:

In these thirteen days of training, they fired more bullets than all the bullets they had fired since they joined the army.

The company commanders and platoon leaders are brave in combat and have excellent skills.

What they said is nice: sweat more in peacetime and shed less blood in wartime.

Marksmen are all fed with bullets.

It's just that they are a little fierce during training.

Especially during the bayonet training and the ten-kilometer cross-country run.

Each soldier must carry 200 rounds of ammunition, 5 grenades, a rifle, a bayonet, a water bottle full of water, a bag full of dry food, and a backpack.

What makes all the soldiers speechless the most is: everyone has to put four bricks in their backpacks.

The platoon leaders said it very nicely: "These four bricks are only used during training.

You don't need it when you are actually marching."

If you don't need it when marching, you don't need it during training!

This question is good, and more than one soldier has mentioned it more than once.

The company commander said that this is a reserved program of the Special Brigade, and the training outline does not require it.

But every regiment does this.

If he can see that regiment not doing this, he will eat the bricks immediately.

Suddenly, no soldiers spoke.

These days, they have not eaten bricks.

But the Special Brigade has meat every day!

They eat this meat every day.

It is precisely because of this that thirteen days of intensive training have made these soldiers not only more energetic, but also obviously more burly.

Especially those soldiers with good appetites, eating big fish and meat every day, they can clearly feel that their strength when practicing bayonet fighting has increased a lot.

Eating a lot, eating well, and training a lot, there are also company commanders telling stories every night.

These soldiers of the Special Brigade Lunan Detachment have completely integrated into the Special Brigade.

The training of the artillery regiment is not as simple as that of the infantry.

They not only have to receive the same training as the infantry, but also have to have more artillery training.

Of course, the tradition of the Special Brigade cannot be lost.

The soldiers of the infantry regiment also have to learn artillery operation, car driving, and tank driving, which all need training.

During these days in Liujia Lake, no soldier had any free time.

Today their training life is over.

There is only one reason: the Japanese are attacking again.

Brigade Commander Saya Qi has been resurrected with full health again this time.

His brigade has received troop replenishment from the country, and now it is fully staffed again.

Attacking Taierzhuang from Yixian, they have not yet arrived at Taierzhuang.

The Special Brigade's First Regiment and Second Regiment are blocking their way forward.

During these days, Mao Wenxing's time in the air has been greatly reduced.

Every day he starts from Xuzhou and patrols the situation around Taierzhuang.

Report to Lin Fan.

During the thirteen days, although Lin Fan had been training his team.

But he had not relaxed his observation of the entire defense line for a minute.

With his vision, he saw that the crisis of the National Army was at hand:

During these days, the number of Japanese troops has been increasing, and the number of National Army troops has also been increasing.

The two sides are constantly extending the defense line along the canal.

Just like Go, black and white pieces