Fifty meters!

The Takahashi Battalion had already charged fifty meters. During the charge, Japanese soldiers kept falling, but the Japanese soldiers behind them stepped over the corpses and continued to charge.

As the distance of their charge increased, the charging speed of these Japanese soldiers also increased.

In the last fifty meters, they could rush into the trenches of the Lunan Detachment in just a few seconds.

Of the nearly six hundred Japanese soldiers, less than a hundred fell in those fifty meters.

The entire Takahashi Hayato Battalion still had nearly five hundred Japanese soldiers charging. They had already seen the figures of the Third Regiment's soldiers hiding in the fortifications not far away, desperately firing.

This gave the Japanese soldiers of the Takahashi Hayato Battalion hope. They only needed a few more seconds to rush into that trench.

Then they could use the bayonets in their hands to stab down those soldiers who had ambushed them.

The Takahashi Hayato Battalion charged fifty meters, and the losses were not too great, which gave all the Japanese soldiers great confidence.

Captain Chūdai Jirō also issued a banzai charge order. He wanted to cooperate with the Takahashi Battalion to defeat the opposing force in one fell swoop.

The Japanese soldiers in his battalion were encouraged and all crawled up from the ground, roaring.

They rushed towards the trenches one hundred meters away.

Seeing another group of Japanese soldiers gathering and launching a charge, Regiment Commander An Ping smiled.

The defensive line of the Takahashi Hayato Battalion's charge belonged to the Third Regiment, but now this group of charging Japanese soldiers was larger in number, and the defensive line they were charging towards belonged to the Fifth Regiment.

The Fifth Regiment could finally have a good feast this time!

When the Japanese soldiers of the Takahashi Battalion were less than twenty meters away from the opposite trench.

A "rumbling" explosion sounded.

The Japanese soldiers who were still firing on the highway, trying to suppress the firepower of the Third Regiment, saw that the charging Japanese soldiers of the entire Takahashi Battalion were suddenly reaped by the scythe of the Grim Reaper.

They fell down in unison, and large black spots flew out of the opposite trench at the same time.

One grenade after another exploded in the ranks of the Takahashi Battalion's Japanese soldiers.

The entire charge of the Takahashi Hayato Battalion was like a tide encountering a seawall. Their offensive shattered into waves and turned into foam.

Not a single Japanese soldier in the entire battalion was left standing.

The Chūdai Jirō Battalion, which had already rushed out twenty meters, was frightened by the sudden change.

Under the order of Battalion Commander Chūdai, the entire battalion lay prostrate on the ground, building defensive works on the spot.

The fierce attack suffered by the Takahashi Battalion scared Captain Chūdai shitless.

This explosion completely stopped the rhythm of the Takahashi Battalion's charge.

The subsequent grenades blew over those Japanese soldiers who had been lucky enough not to be hit by the bombs.

Company Commander Yanashita Saburō was excitedly roaring, urging the Japanese soldiers of the entire company to accelerate their charge.

Its voice was blocked back by the sudden loud noise, followed by many more grenades flying out.

This forced Company Commander Yanashita Saburō to crawl down. Continuing to stand and charge under such dense grenade bombardment could only be courting death.

As soon as it fell down, it never had a chance to stand up again. The grenades exploded in this instant, and the iron bullets and fragments scattered from the explosion hit the defenseless Japanese soldiers again and again.

Company Commander Yanashita Saburō watched with his own eyes as the Japanese soldiers around him struggled and groaned, without knowing when they were injured.

Soon it also joined the ranks of groaning. The grenades exploding in the air added at least six or seven wounds to its body.

The most terrible thing was that its feet were injured, and it was unable to charge forward or retreat backward.

There were not a few Japanese soldiers like it in the entire Takahashi Battalion. All the Japanese soldiers charging in the front were spared from injury.

Battalion Commander Takahashi Hayato had to issue a retreat order. Even so, only the battalion commander and a few guards at the rear who were supervising the battle crawled back.

Now, less than ten Japanese soldiers in the Takahashi Battalion could still fight, which could be said to be completely losing combat effectiveness.

Such a blow was unacceptable not only to Battalion Commander Takahashi Hayato, but also to the other battalion commanders of the entire Nakajima Regiment.

The situation facing the Nakajima Regiment was that they did not dare to charge, and less than ten returned from a charge launched by a battalion.

It was also difficult to defend. These Japanese soldiers were constantly attacked by the Lunan Detachment one hundred meters away.

Now was the best time of day, just after six o'clock in the morning. The weather was cool and the sun was shining. If it weren't for the smoke and blood everywhere in the air.

This must be a beautiful day!

Regiment Commander Nakajima was lying in the drainage ditch. It did not care that this was a ditch. If possible, it hoped that the entire regiment was in the ditch, as long as there was anything that could be used as a cover.

In this situation, it really could not think of how to defend until dark, let alone hold on for three days.

It had just received a telegram from the Xuzhou Task Force Command, requiring them to hold on to their positions for three days.

The same content was also sent to the Asō Regiment. Three days? Regiment Commander Asō Gojūroku had now seen clearly that the team surrounding the Asō Regiment like an iron barrel could wipe out his own troops at any time.

As long as the other party was willing, they could eliminate the entire Asō Regiment in three minutes.

In this case, the other party's encirclement without attacking was not just to lure reinforcements?

It had an impulse to send a telegram to Brigade Commander Inoue Munetake, telling him not to send any more Japanese soldiers to die.

In the end, a strong desire to survive stopped this stupid idea. The idea of ​​sacrificing others to save oneself still prevailed.

This was not over yet. Ten minutes later. Regiment Commander Asō received a telegram from Regiment Commander Nakajima: requesting Regiment Commander Asō to lead his troops to break through to Lilou.

The Nakajima Regiment was ambushed in Lilou and needed a small help from the Asō Regiment. As long as they launched a small charge outside the Lunan Detachment's encirclement, the Nakajima Regiment could cooperate from the inside and outside to resolve the entire Nakajima Regiment's trouble.

Regiment Commander Asō had ten thousand llamas running through his mind: just to cooperate with the breakthrough, nearly a thousand Japanese soldiers had now lost half of their numbers.

The number of Japanese soldiers capable of fighting had changed from more than six hundred to more than one hundred, and the strategic depth of the entire Asō Regiment had been reduced by more than half.

At this time, they were surrounded like an iron barrel, and they still wanted to rush out? What could the Asō Regiment use to charge?

Launching a charge against the Lunan Detachment that surrounded the Nakajima Regiment? This was simply an impossible mission!

Regiment Commander Asō simply did not want to pay attention to this idiot Nakajima, but based on the friendship of colleagues, it still sent a telegram to Regiment Commander Nakajima: "My team is in a difficult situation and is unable to launch an attack."

Regiment Commander Nakajima Ayumu received this reply and lay in the drainage ditch, cursing repeatedly: "Damn you, Asō Gojūroku, I just got off the train from Beiping and rushed over to save you.

Now you are unwilling to cooperate even a little bit. Am I trapped here now because of you?"

Unfortunately, no matter how it cursed, Regiment Commander Asō Gojūroku could not hear it.

What was being fought on the battlefield was real guns and live ammunition. This kind of verbal curse, apart from making oneself feel good, had no use at all.

Regiment Commander Nakajima Ayumu quickly understood this point. What should it do with its team now?

The Takahashi Hayato Battalion had already launched a banzai charge, and as a result, it was bombed by the enemy, and only less than ten Japanese soldiers retreated.

What should it do now?

Should it stay in place and wait for reinforcements? The entire regiment was under the enemy's guns. This was not waiting for reinforcements in place, it was purely waiting to die in place.

The sky was already bright, and the situation on the highway could be seen very clearly. Lin Fan still had not issued an order to launch a general attack.

In this situation, he occupied an absolute geographical advantage. The Japanese soldiers were all targets. Their best defensive position was the drainage ditch on both sides of the highway.

In this case, if the Lunan Detachment launched a strong attack, it would definitely be able to wipe out the Japanese soldiers.

However, there would definitely be soldiers killed and injured.

Just like now, surrounding the Japanese soldiers in the middle and slowly cleaning them up could reduce the casualties of the troops.

Lin Fan did not want to wipe out this surrounded Japanese force now. The Asō Regiment in front, with less than five hundred Japanese soldiers, had already given up struggling.

Lin Fan was afraid that he did not have enough chips and that the Xuzhou Task Force would no longer send Japanese soldiers to rescue them.

Therefore, he wanted to leave thousands of Japanese soldiers in this new team, so that the Xuzhou Task Force would have to continue to come to the rescue.

The soldiers of the Third Regiment, Fifth Regiment, Tenth Regiment, and Eleventh Regiment were in the trenches, firing from the reserved shooting holes.

In the beginning, the sky was dark, and they could only fire flares and could not observe clearly.

Now that the sky was bright, the soldiers could clearly see the Japanese soldiers surrounded in the middle.

Seeing their every move clearly made it very easy for these soldiers of the Lunan Detachment to aim.

The Japanese soldiers of the Nakajima Regiment finally reacted and piled up the Japanese soldiers who had already died or had not died yet.

This could block the bullets shot from one hundred meters away. Although the fortifications piled up in this way could not resist the opponent's infantry guns.

But it was good to be able to block the bullets, which could give the Japanese soldiers a little false sense of security.

Peng Hongyun, the company commander of the First Company of the Third Regiment, looked at the Japanese soldiers who had already built fortifications with corpses, and was anxious to attack with infantry guns.

But he was stopped by Regiment Commander Shan Huacan: "We are now leaving these here, waiting for them to send troops from Xuzhou again."

Peng Hongyun had heard the spirit of yesterday's military conference.

This time, when he saw the Japanese soldiers, he became excited and wanted to kill all the Japanese soldiers he saw.

After listening to the regiment commander's words, Company Commander Peng said with a smile: "Yes! Regiment Commander, we don't use cannons, we use guns to fight.

But Regiment Commander, did you see that some of the Japanese soldiers they used to build fortifications are still moving their hands and feet."

Shan Huacan was a sharpshooter, and his eyesight was much better than ordinary people. He said with a smile: "Those Japanese soldiers should have been pretending to be dead when they were dragged over to be a brick.

Now they are built inside, and they can't struggle out at all. The rest of the Japanese soldiers will not bother to drag them out. This Japanese soldier can only die aggrieved there."

The correspondent Yang Yong next to him said: "Those Japanese soldiers are so cruel!"

Shan Huacan said seriously: "The Japanese soldiers are like this. They are cruel to themselves, cruel to their own people, and even more cruel to outsiders.

There is only one way to deal with Japanese soldiers: kill them! Today, the Japanese soldiers we are surrounding are not to be killed.

It's just that we don't want to kill them all for the time being. We have to leave some Japanese soldiers as bait, waiting for the Japanese soldiers from Beiping to continue to come to die.

Yesterday we left the Asō Regiment behind, and today this team of Japanese soldiers came to our door.

Today, we will leave some of this team of Japanese soldiers behind, and tomorrow there will be Japanese soldiers sent over."

Yang Yong said happily: "If we continue to fight like this, will the Japanese soldiers be wiped out soon?"

"Yes! As long as we continue to fight like this, one day the Japanese soldiers will be defeated." Shan Huacan was actually not very clear about this.

However, he had heard Lin Fan say that the defeat of the Japanese soldiers was inevitable, but it was not possible to defeat the Japanese soldiers in a few days or even a few months.

The reasons for this were too profound, and Regiment Commander Shan did not understand, but this did not affect him in fighting the Japanese soldiers.

The Asō Regiment and the Nakajima Regiment were shivering in the encirclement, struggling to survive.

The Japanese soldiers of the Fukagawa Taishi Battalion had a good dream all night. When they woke up, they found that nothing had changed.

The Lunan Detachment soldiers surrounding them under Huangtu Ridge had not changed at all. The Asō Regiment that came to rescue them in their dreams did not appear.

This was too disappointing for them. Battalion Commander Fukagawa Taishi immediately sent a telegram to inquire about the situation.

The news received made it very disappointed: the Asō Regiment was trapped in Zhaozhuang, holding on for reinforcements, and the Nakajima Regiment was trapped in Lilou, holding on for reinforcements.

The reinforcements were still at the Beiping Station, preparing to depart!

So many days had passed, and the reinforcements were once again departing from Beiping.

The Japanese soldiers of the Fukagawa Battalion suddenly woke up: they would not wait for the reinforcements!

Two full infantry regiments of Japanese soldiers were divided and surrounded by the Lunan Detachment. What could these Japanese soldiers do?

Regiment Commander Hou Wentian of the Sixth Regiment had received an order: "Attack Huangtu Ridge today and wipe out the Japanese soldiers on Huangtu Ridge."

The Sixth Regiment was the artillery regiment of the Lunan Detachment and had heavy artillery with a caliber of one hundred and fifty millimeters.

In Huangtu Ridge, only his regiment was a regular main force regiment. The other two regiments were security regiments.

After receiving the order, the three regiments immediately began to act. The Sixth Regiment launched a fierce bombardment of Huangtu Ridge.

The Japanese soldiers of the Fukagawa Taishi Battalion had been surrounded on the mountain for half a month. The soldiers were sniped by the Lunan Detachment under the mountain every day, and many of them died.

Now that they knew there would be no rescue, their way of life had been cut off. Now the artillery under the mountain began to bombard the area. Battalion Commander Fukagawa lost his fighting spirit first.

Staying in the headquarters, he sighed and did not even send a farewell telegram. He committed suicide with a gun.

It was disappointed with the entire Japanese reinforcement team, completely disappointed.

The battalion commander committed suicide, and the company commanders and squad leaders followed suit. They all knew that today was their doomsday.

The Sixth Regiment's artillery bombardment lasted for half an hour. Half an hour later, four thousand soldiers from the two security regiments shouted and launched a charge.

The sound of sniping was very sparse. The soldiers who rushed up Huangtu Ridge found that there were less than a hundred Japanese soldiers who were still fighting.

Lin Fan received the news that the Japanese soldiers on Huangtu Ridge had been wiped out, and immediately ordered: "The three regiments surrounding Huangtu Ridge will all move to Zhaozhuang."

According to the law of the past few days, a regiment of Japanese infantry was ambushed in the morning, and there should be Japanese soldiers departing from Xuzhou City this morning.

But it was not until noon that Regiment Commander Gu Xiuming did not find a single Japanese soldier coming out of Xuzhou City.

This made Lin Fan and the regiment commanders of the Lunan Detachment surprised: had the Japanese soldiers given up struggling?

This was not okay! The plan to lure reinforcements was so good and still needed to be carried out.

Lin Fan thought about it and finally decided to open up the northern passage for the Nakajima Ayumu Regiment so that it could join the Asō Regiment.

He had to give the Japanese soldiers a little confidence, and could not let them be too disappointed.

The Lunan Detachment's mobilization was immediately discovered by the Japanese soldiers of the Nakajima Ayumu Regiment.

Although they did not know why the surrounding troops were mobilizing, they understood that this was an opportunity.

Regiment Commander Nakajima immediately ordered the Chūdai Jirō Battalion to advance rapidly along the highway.

Although there was firepower from the Lunan Detachment to block them along the way, the Chūdai Jirō Battalion finally broke out a bloody path.

This was a real bloody road, and all the way was the blood shed by the Japanese soldiers of the Chūdai Jirō Battalion.

The entire Nakajima Ayumu Regiment was behind them, ignoring the machine guns and heavy machine guns constantly firing on both sides of the road.

They only cared about breaking through north along the road. The officers crawled along the drainage ditch to avoid being shot.

Ordinary Japanese soldiers could only run on the highway, betting on their luck, and those who could avoid the hail of bullets could break through.

The Japanese soldiers who could not avoid it fell to the ground and were trampled by the Japanese soldiers who followed behind.

Battalion Commander Chūdai Jirō was following behind the entire battalion when it broke through.

After the breakthrough, it had reached the middle of the entire battalion.

They broke through for several miles. Regiment Commander Asō heard the sound of gunfire from the south getting closer and closer.

Seeing that the team surrounding them was a little chaotic in the south, he immediately understood that it must be the Nakajima Regiment coming over.

It immediately organized the Japanese soldiers who could stand up and launched an attack to the south.

This time, their charge was finally smoother. More than a hundred Japanese soldiers of the entire Asō Company broke through.

They joined forces with the Nakajima Regiment, and the wounded left in place by the Asō Regiment were quickly cleaned up by the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment and Tenth Regiment.

At this time, the two infantry regiments that had completed the rendezvous had nearly a thousand Japanese soldiers.

These were all combat personnel, and Regiment Commander Nakajima Ayumu could finally relax a little.

Its regiment no longer had to be under the enemy's eyes at all times like before.

Regiment Commander Nakajima Ayumu breathed a sigh of relief for less than five minutes, and the entire regiment was surrounded again.

Although they were surrounded again, the Lunan Detachment that surrounded them still left a strategic space of three hundred meters for the Nakajima Regiment.

Regiment Commander Asō saw the familiar three hundred-meter distance, such a familiar recipe. His regiment was like this yesterday.

Regiment Commander Asō Gojūroku hurriedly suggested to Regiment Commander Nakajima: "Nakajima-kun, let's continue to break through!

It's not easy to live surrounded by the Lunan Detachment."

Of course, Regiment Commander Nakajima knew that life was not easy: "Which direction should we break through?"

This was a problem!

Both regiment commanders understood that the Lunan Detachment surrounding them had at least ten thousand people.

And they now only had a thousand Japanese soldiers. The nearest friendly forces that could be found around them were all twenty kilometers away.

They did not know at this time that the Fukagawa Taishi Battalion had been completely wiped out. The Japanese soldiers closest to them were in Xuzhou, fifty kilometers away.

Regiment Commander Asō said anxiously: "But, if we don't break through now, and they build fortifications, it will be even more impossible for us to break through."

Regiment Commander Nakajima Ayumu did not have a good impression of Asō Gojūroku, who had harmed him so badly.

It said coldly: "Why didn't you break through with all your strength yesterday?"

One sentence stopped Regiment Commander Asō Gojūroku. If its team had broken through with all its strength yesterday, no matter what the result was, at least the Nakajima Regiment would not have marched so hastily, and it would not be like this now.

Regiment Commander Asō finally understood that it was no longer the Regiment Commander Asō of the Independent Mixed Infantry Brigade of the Third Brigade before.

The team under its command had dispersed, and now there were only less than a company of troops left.

Its authority had also dissipated like ice and snow. Regiment Commander Nakajima Ayumu would not listen to its suggestions at all.

They could only defend in place now and wait for rescue.

This situation was no different from its situation yesterday. It was just that it did not know which team would come to the rescue this time.

The Nakajima Ayumu Regiment and the Asō Regiment simultaneously reported to Brigade Commander Inoue Munetake that the two sides had met.

Brigade Commander Inoue Munetake knew the news that the two regiments had met, and before he had time to be happy, he heard a sad piece of news.

The two regiments combined had only a thousand Japanese soldiers left and were now holding on to the junction of Zhaozhuang and Lilou, waiting for the brigade commander to come to the rescue.

Nearly ten thousand Japanese soldiers in the two regiments, and now there were only a thousand Japanese soldiers left. Such a shock made Brigade Commander Inoue Munetake immediately realize what it meant to be heartbroken.

It finally understood why Brigade Commander Kuyagu Shunjo had committed suicide.

Now Brigade Commander Inoue Munetake also had the urge to commit seppuku, thinking of the contempt he had received from Brigade Commander Manda Yuto today and the disregard he had received from Brigade Commander Saizai.

Brigade Commander Inoue Munetake was in so much pain that he wanted to die. When the two regiments were still complete, no brigade commander dared to provoke him in front of him. At that time, he was the most likely candidate to be promoted to division commander.

At this time, everything had gone away!

Yamamoto Jiro, the commander of the Xuzhou Expeditionary Detachment, was happy to hear that the two regiments that had been divided and surrounded had finally met.

Then he heard that the two regiments that had met together only had a thousand Japanese soldiers left.

Its face twitched, but it finally held back and ordered: "Departure!"

All the remaining Japanese soldiers of the entire Xuzhou Task Force set off today.

The task of rescuing the two regiments had been suspended and must wait until all the members of the entire Task Force arrived before setting off together.

The Japanese soldiers of the Nakajima Ayumu Regiment who were surrounded soon encountered the difficulties that the Asō Regiment had encountered: water shortage!

They began to dig on the spot, trying to dig a well. The Japanese soldiers of the Asō Regiment began to calmly suck blood from the dead bodies.

This made the Japanese soldiers of the Nakajima Regiment, who were not very thirsty yet, a little unacceptable.

Although they had also used the bodies of the wounded to build fortifications just now, they had not yet evolved to the point of eating meat and drinking blood.