Thousands of meters away, twelve tanks were blown to pieces.

The rumble of explosions was continuous.

The sound in the air made people tremble involuntarily.

The explosions were so violent.

Even the Takanishi Shinya company, at least seven hundred meters away from the tanks, and concentrating on strafing Beiluo Village,

still felt the ground shaking.

Takanishi Shinya, the company commander who was directing the Japanese soldiers' attack, had twelve heavy machine guns firing non-stop around him.

At this moment, he couldn't bear it any longer; Takanishi Shinya, the company commander, couldn't help but turn his head to check.

With just one glance, he was frightened: an entire tank company that had just been firing its guns had been completely annihilated.

The tank line, spread out in a straight line, had been so orderly and mighty just a moment ago.

Now, the burning and explosions were a spectacular sight to behold.

However, the more spectacular the scene, the more afraid it made him!

Katayama Rio Tai, the company commander who was directing the infantry charge, also noticed that something was wrong when he turned his head.

When he turned around, he saw the tank company engulfed in a sea of fire.

Although Katayama Rio Tai was further away from the tank convoy,

he carefully observed that not a single Japanese soldier was struggling in the entire tank company.

Nor was a single tank struggling.

Total annihilation!

With alarms blaring in his heart, Katayama Rio Tai immediately made a decision.

This time, he wasn't as stubborn as the previous company commanders who had attacked Beiluo Village.

Katayama Rio Tai immediately ordered: "Retreat! Retreat!"

Without the support of the tank company!

Could the infantry not attack?

Of course not; the Japanese infantry had always been very tenacious.

The only reason why the Japanese infantry retreated so readily this time

was that Katayama Rio Tai immediately realized from the rapid annihilation of the tank company that the force ahead was not to be trifled with.

Since it was not to be trifled with, he immediately decided to retreat.

Even if he hadn't issued the order to retreat, the Japanese soldiers in his company

were already somewhat afraid: the defending troops' artillery fire was too fierce.

They had blown up an entire tank company in the blink of an eye.

How could they dare to continue forward against such defenders and such a position!

At this moment, Katayama Rio Tai's order was still a little late.

The officers and soldiers of the First Company, who had been waiting in full battle readiness on the position, had long been eager to use the weapons in their hands.

Lin Fan had just destroyed the Japanese tank company.

Gu Xiuming saw that the Japanese infantry who were launching an assault were actually running backwards.

Meat that was already at his mouth was running away like this?

How could that be allowed?

That was completely not the style of the Special Operations Brigade!

Even if it wasn't their own meat, the Special Operations Brigade would rush up and take a bite.

Not to mention this kind of fat meat that was specially delivered to their door.

With a single order, all the mortars and infantry guns of the First Company were fired at the Katayama Rio Tai company, which was only two hundred meters away from the position.

Lin Fan, at this moment, decided to go all in.

After adjusting the anti-aircraft guns, he also had Anping change the armor-piercing rounds to榴弹(liudan,榴弹).

He was going to attack the Japanese machine gun company.

Although the twelve heavy machine guns on the opposite side were not needed for the time being, good things could not be allowed to remain in Japanese hands.

Abandoning them was a crime!

The anti-aircraft guns, which had been loaded with榴弹(liudan,榴弹), intentionally did not directly hit the Japanese heavy machine guns.

Instead, they exploded fifteen meters away from the heavy machine guns.

The purpose of doing this was only one: to kill the Japanese forces.

And leave behind the heavy machine guns that would be useful to the Special Operations Brigade.

Company Commander Gu Xiuming immediately understood the brigade commander's idea.

While the mortars and infantry guns were still bombarding,

he had already issued a new order: "Charge!

Bring back the heavy machine guns!"

The intense artillery bombardment caused the Japanese soldiers of Katayama Rio Tai's company

to finally no longer have to maintain formation while retreating, as they had just been doing.

They began to run wildly.

Faced with such a sudden artillery bombardment, Company Commander Katayama Rio Tai was also helpless.

Under the intense artillery bombardment, all the Japanese soldiers in the entire company fled according to their instincts.

He could only run forward on his own.

Having run less than twenty meters backwards,

he discovered that the machine gun positions were being bombarded.

This was truly a tragic day!

The tanks in the distance were still burning fiercely, and some shells were exploding.

The machine gun company, less than a hundred meters away from him, was also under bombardment.

What was crucial was that the bombardment targeting the infantry company had not stopped.

Company Commander Katayama Rio Tai could only run to the left.

Most of the Japanese soldiers in the entire company could not help but run towards Liujia Village.

After all, there were Japanese infantry positions in that direction; in times of crisis, what these Japanese soldiers in Katayama Rio Tai's company thought of was sticking together for warmth.

Company Commander Gu led the First Platoon and the Second Platoon out.

Their purpose, of course, was to pursue the Japanese soldiers and bring back the heavy machine guns.

When they rushed to the position where the Japanese infantry had fallen, the soldiers did not stop.

They continued to charge forward.

Company Commander Gu Xiuming ordered: "Second Platoon, charge to the machine gun positions and clean up the battlefield.

First Platoon, follow me and chase after the Japanese soldiers."

It wasn't that he was unwilling to let go of Katayama Rio Tai's company.

It was just that Company Commander Katayama Rio Tai was running wildly without choosing a path.

He was actually running towards Liujia Village.

Liujia Village, at this moment, was under attack by the Japanese Tanaka Shunsuke cavalry company.

The sound of gunfire coming from that direction was dense.

If the Japanese soldiers who were charging over from this side were added, it would be a pincer attack.

Company Commander Gu Xiuming was afraid that the brothers of the Second Battalion would not be able to hold on.

At this time, Jia Jianbing, the commander of the Second Battalion of the 185th Regiment, was leading his soldiers in a fierce battle.

The cavalry of the Tanaka Shunsuke company fully utilized their ability to move quickly.

They scattered and charged towards the Liujia Village position.

The company commander, in the center, shouted loudly and ordered the entire company to charge forward.

Charging in the front was squad leader Kato Jiro.

Squad leader Kato Jiro was an old Japanese soldier who had participated in countless battles like this.

Now, he and his squad were braving the sparse bullets fired by the defending troops in front.

Charging forward in high spirits.

The Lunan region in March was already full of spring, and the spring breeze was blowing.

The bullets fired by the defending troops were not dense.

For Squad Leader Kato Jiro, such an attack was just a seasoning before the battle.

The entire Tanaka Shunsuke company, charging behind him, felt the same way.

The Second Battalion did not have enough firepower to stop the Japanese cavalry outside the position.

Battalion Commander Jia Jianbing watched helplessly as the Japanese cavalry charged up, with only three or two shrimp-like Japanese soldiers falling along the way.

Although Battalion Commander Jia Jianbing was helpless about such a battle record, there was nothing he could do.

What made all the officers and soldiers of the Second Battalion most anxious was that the Japanese soldiers had charged up.

Infantry engaging in close combat with cavalry?

The Japanese soldiers had charged into Liujia Village and onto the Second Battalion's defense position.

Faced with the Japanese cavalry charging up, Battalion Commander Jia Jianbing had no choice but to order:

"Abandon the first line of defense, and the entire battalion retreat into the village to hold on."

Battalion Commander Jia Jianbing had to make such a decision:

Abandoning the position was shameful, but if they did not abandon the position, the entire battalion would really be annihilated by the Japanese cavalry.

The Second Battalion could abandon the outer defense line of Liujia Village, but Liujia Village could not be abandoned.

It could not be abandoned no matter what.

Therefore, they could only retreat in an orderly manner back into Liujia Village under the battalion commander's order.

The officers and soldiers of the Second Battalion used the cover of the houses in the village to engage in street fighting with the Japanese cavalry.

The most suitable place for cavalry to fight was, of course, on flat ground.

There were a large number of fences, houses, and alleys in the village, all of which could greatly reduce the speed of the cavalry.

Similarly, it greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the Japanese cavalry.

Sergeant Shiro Aota rode his warhorse through the alley between two houses in Liujia Village.

He waved his saber and charged towards a soldier who was trying hard to flee in front of him.

Looking at the distance of more than ten meters,

a cruel light was already shining in Aota Shiro's eyes.

At such a close distance, those soldiers in front could no longer escape no matter what.

Aota Shiro gently dragged the saber in his hand diagonally across his thigh.

With the blade facing outward, next, the warhorse would carry him, and he would carry the saber.

Passing by this soldier.

Aota Shiro didn't even need to do anything; he could use the inertia of the warhorse to adjust its running, and cut off the head of the soldier in front.

He seemed to have already seen such a scene.

Liu San'er, with a panicked expression, looked back in dismay at the Japanese soldiers who had chased behind him.

His foot stepped over a dry branch, which lay horizontally in this alley.

It was no different from some other branches and weeds.

As if it had always been here, as if it should be here.

Liu San'er desperately stepped over one dead branch after another.

But he could never escape the pursuit of the Japanese cavalry behind him.

The sound of hooves behind him was as urgent as a drum.

Each step was on Liu San'er's heart.

Sergeant Aota Shiro had a ferocious smile on his face.

He had made all the preparations.

Waiting only for a perfect ending.

Suddenly, something like a dead branch in the alley sprang up like a poisonous snake.

"Tripwire!" Only this thought flashed through Aota Shiro's mind.

The warhorse he was riding had already lost its front hooves and plunged forward.

The powerful inertia shot Aota Shiro out like an arrow.

The Liu San'er, who had just been panicked and at a loss, had now turned around.

He walked with a grin to Aota Shiro, who was already lying on the ground, struggling for survival.

At this time, Aota Shiro felt pain all over his body.

There was no place that didn't hurt.

Of course, the most painful thing was his heart.

He couldn't understand how the soldier with a smile on his face in front of him

could be the same person as the soldier who had been panicked and at a loss just now?

Liu San'er's rifle thrust out and stabbed into his chest in one fell swoop.

Making Aota Shiro, who had only had one last breath left, die immediately.

Two heads popped out from the left and right sides of the alley:

"Third Brother!"

Liu San'er spat a mouthful of saliva at the Japanese soldier on the ground.

Only then did he say, "Xiao Qi, Xiao Wu, this place can't be used anymore.

Let's change to another place!"

……

On the other side of Liujia Village, Zhao Dairu was staring nervously at a fork in the road ahead.

Just now, a team of Japanese cavalry had rushed past this fork.

He was patiently waiting for this team of Japanese soldiers to retrace their path.

Taro Mikawa rode his warhorse and had been back and forth in the village twice, but had not personally chopped down a single Nationalist soldier.

Now he was following the squad to search in the village again.

Most of the Nationalist soldiers were gathered in those few houses.

Company Commander Tanaka Shunsuke was organizing an attack.

His squad was specifically patrolling the village.

It was to search for those straggling Nationalist soldiers.

But until now, they had not found a target.

They had already circled the village twice.

The warhorses in the entire squad had slowly reduced their speed.

No longer sprinting as they had at first.

The careful Taro Mikawa saw a pile of fresh dirt on the road ahead.

It was so conspicuous.

Before he could speak, several Japanese soldiers had already ridden their warhorses past there.

Nothing happened.

Taro Mikawa laughed self-deprecatingly: he was too sensitive.

How could the Nationalist soldiers who had hid in this village dare to make small moves?

Just as he was thinking this, Squad Leader Mikawa also stepped onto that small mound of earth.

Zhao Dairu gently pulled the rope.

Squad Leader Mikawa first felt a surge of air coming from the ground.

Immediately following was a loud noise.

The warhorse fell, and he fell with it.

Never to stand up again.

The battle in Liujia Village was still continuing.

The Second Battalion, which had abandoned the outer positions of Liujia Village, did not abandon Liujia Village.

They were still in the village, fighting guerrilla warfare with the Japanese cavalry company.

Company Commander Katayama Rio Tai also led a force of more than forty Japanese soldiers into Liujia Village.

They had fled from the direction of Beiluo.

On the way to escape, Company Commander Katayama Rio Tai had already seen that the positions in Liujia Village were empty.

The Japanese cavalry were hovering in Liujia Village.

As long as it was an Imperial force, it was an allied force.

It was a life-saving straw!

Following behind Company Commander Katayama Rio Tai.

Company Commander Gu Xiuming led the First Platoon into Liujia Village as well.

Now the Japanese cavalry company was still galloping in Liujia Village, and the officers and soldiers of the 185th Regiment's Second Battalion were unable to hold on.

They were now being compressed by the Japanese soldiers into the houses.

Fighting! They couldn't win.

Their weapons were not as good as the enemy's, and their combat effectiveness was not as good as the Japanese soldiers'.

They retreated into Liujia Village to fight guerrilla warfare with these Japanese cavalry.

The Japanese cavalry were constantly circling outside.

Now a team of Japanese infantry had rushed in again.

This was really a case of blessings never coming in pairs, but misfortunes never coming alone!

It was adding insult to injury.

When Company Commander Katayama Rio Tai rushed in, Company Commander Tanaka Shunsuke did not react.

When the First Platoon of the Special Operations Brigade rushed in, Company Commander Tanaka Shunsuke immediately directed the cavalry to rush over.

In such a flat and open area, the cavalry had a natural advantage.

Seeing that the distance between the two sides was less than three hundred meters.

This was completely the best charging distance for the cavalry.

Company Commander Gu Xiuming saw that there were more than a hundred Japanese cavalry in Liujia Village.

And these Japanese cavalry were already charging towards his company.

He immediately led the team to retreat, retreating backwards.

Even the dirt tank at the front was retreating, and not even a single shot was fired from the heavy machine guns.

As if afraid that strafing would delay the speed of the retreat.

Seeing the team that had just rushed in, fleeing in a panic,

cavalry company commander Tanaka Shunsuke laughed loudly.

He personally led the team to charge over.

The Japanese soldiers of Katayama Rio Tai's infantry company were now finally relaxed.

They stopped and enjoyed this rare scene.

The First Platoon had more than a hundred people, which in the eyes of the Japanese soldiers was a walking battle achievement.

More than a hundred Japanese cavalry, all charging towards the First Company.

Squad Leader Kato Jiro did not charge in the front this time.

Faced with a Nationalist army that had no fighting spirit at all, not firing a single shot, not firing a single bullet.

A Nationalist army that immediately retreated when it saw the cavalry.

Cavalry company commander Tanaka Shunsuke, believed that he could set an example.

In this kind of safe and harmless charge, the company commander took the lead and charged at the front of the entire cavalry formation.

At a distance of three hundred meters, the soldiers of the First Platoon retreated only thirty meters.

They were about to be caught up by these cavalry.

In company commander Tanaka Shunsuke's eyes: This team began to flee at the first sight of the cavalry.

After running for dozens of meters, they realized that they couldn't escape.

That's when they started to fight back.

"It's too late!" Company Commander Tanaka Shunsuke sneered.

And the counterattack of this infantry team was so weak:

The machine guns did not fire, only sporadic rifles fired.

One of the disadvantages of the Type 38 rifle: slow rate of fire!

It was vividly displayed at this time.

The entire cavalry company fell seven or eight Japanese soldiers.

In this regard, this team was a little stronger than the team that had just retreated into the village.

Squad Leader Kato Jiro, who was following behind company commander Tanaka Shunsuke, evaluated it like this.

The officers and soldiers of the 185th Regiment's Second Battalion, saw the predicament faced by the First Platoon from the houses they were trapped in.

They also worried about this team of the Special Operations Brigade.

On the flat ground, the infantry had no danger to defend.

When the infantry faced the cavalry, it was completely the object of unilateral slaughter.

Second Battalion Commander Jia Jianbing couldn't bear to watch any longer:

He had already seen the end of this team of the Special Operations Brigade:

In the next second, the Japanese cavalry would rush into the middle of the Special Operations Brigade's team.

The soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade would be torn to pieces, and none would survive.

"Go to the courtyard next door!" Jia Jianbing braved the hail of bullets from the Japanese infantry.

He stood up at the risk and shouted loudly.

He was afraid that his voice was too low to travel so far.

He had all the officers and soldiers of the entire Second Battalion shout together:

"Go to the courtyard next door!"

He didn't know if those soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade had heard clearly.

But Battalion Commander Jia seemed to see those soldiers on the opposite side, smiling in his direction.

That smile didn't look like a bitter smile, but like something good was about to happen.

That kind of smug smile.

At this time, the Japanese soldiers had reached the position where company commander Gu Xiuming ordered the retreat to begin.

Battalion Commander Jia saw that the position suddenly flashed with fire.

He felt the earth shake: the direction of the Japanese cavalry charge was filled with smoke.

For a moment, he couldn't see anything clearly.

Four Claymore mines exploded.

Company Commander Gu Xiuming ordered: "Heavy machine guns in the front! Charge!"

The Claymore mines exploded right in front of the Japanese cavalry company.

The Japanese cavalry charging in the front were blown over to the ground, men and horses together.

The Japanese soldiers following behind were not spared either.

Company Commander Tanaka Shunsuke, who was charging in the front, did not react at all.

He suffered many blows from iron pellets and fell instantly.

Squad Leader Kato Jiro, who was on his right side, also enjoyed the same treatment.

He went with company commander Tanaka Shunsuke without a word.

Fortunately, there were about twenty Japanese soldiers who were not injured.

Their warhorses were also frightened.

When these Japanese soldiers and their warhorses were still wandering in the smoke,

the heavy machine gun bullets and light machine gun bullets sweeping over from the front arrived frantically.

At this time, the machine guns of the First Platoon were no longer silent.

The Japanese soldiers had fallen into a trap and been caught in a snare.

Now, no matter how hard they were hit, these Japanese soldiers could only bear it silently.

Suddenly, several more Japanese soldiers fell to the ground.

The remaining dozen or so Japanese soldiers no longer dared to struggle forward.

They wanted to turn around and bolt out from the side.

But this was a village.

When they had the upper hand, this narrow terrain was most convenient for the Japanese cavalry to charge as a group.

The infantry squeezed in the middle would have nowhere to escape.

Now that they were at a disadvantage, these cavalry were also trapped in the middle, with nowhere to escape.

Company Commander Katayama Rio Tai certainly knew how fierce the team that had rushed in behind him was.

When he and the Japanese soldiers under his command saw the cavalry company rushing over,

these dozens of Japanese soldiers in Katayama Rio Tai's infantry company, preferred to stop the attack on the Second Battalion.

They also wanted to find a good position and enjoy the fate of this Nationalist army that was chasing over.

What disappointed them was that after several consecutive explosions, the battlefield was filled with smoke.

They couldn't see anything at all.

But they knew: The situation was not good! Jia Chengbing and the others had seen the Special Operations Brigade use Claymore mines more than once.

The familiar smoke, the familiar taste, was so wonderful.

The Second Battalion, which had just been desperate, was instantly resurrected.

The Japanese cavalry was definitely finished.

As for the dozens of Japanese infantry who had rushed in?

Was that even a thing?

Jia Chengbing ordered loudly: "Charge!"

These officers and soldiers of the Second Battalion, who were hiding in the rooms, courtyards, and corners.

They had just seen the destruction of the Japanese cavalry.

Now they were shouting and rushing out from all over the place.

Charging towards Katayama Rio Tai's company.

When the machine guns of the First Platoon shot down the last dozen or so Japanese warhorses that were trying to escape,

those Japanese cavalry could not escape either.

They were finished off one by one by the officers and soldiers of the First Platoon who rushed up.

When the First Company was fighting the last of the Japanese soldiers in the Tanaka Shunsuke cavalry company,

the battle between the Second Battalion and Katayama Rio Tai's company was also underway.

Second Battalion Commander Jia Jianbing personally led the team to charge, no matter what.

His battalion now had more than three hundred soldiers.

In close combat, dealing with forty or so Japanese soldiers was not a problem at all.

The advantage of close combat was that the firepower gap between the two sides was reduced to zero.

The officers and soldiers of the Second Battalion, were clearly all heroes.

But just now, because of insufficient weapons and firepower, they were forced to abandon their positions.

They were forced to retreat into the village to fight guerrilla warfare.

Now the Japanese cavalry had the brothers of the Special Operations Brigade to deal with.

The Japanese infantry in front of them became the Second Battalion soldiers' punching bag.

Seeing the destruction of the Tanaka Shunsuke cavalry company,

the Japanese soldiers of Katayama Rio Tai's infantry company, were as mournful as if they had lost their parents.

They were surrounded by hundreds of officers and soldiers of the Second Battalion.

These Japanese soldiers in Katayama Rio Tai's entire infantry company were all trembling.

Although each of their Japanese soldiers was struggling to the death,

under the absolute advantage in strength, these Japanese soldiers who were fighting desperately did not last long.

Jia Jianbing killed the last Japanese infantry soldier.

The officers and soldiers of the Second Battalion also learned from the First Company, first giving the Japanese soldiers a finishing blow.

Then they went to collect the spoils.

Second Battalion Commander Jia Jianbing strode towards Gu Xiuming:

"Thank you, Commander, for leading the team to relieve the siege!

Without you coming over,

we would really have been in danger today."

Gu Xiuming said with a smile, "The War of Resistance does not distinguish between you and me.

It is right for brothers to help each other."

He looked at the more than a hundred warhorses on the ground and said to the Second Battalion Commander:

"Horse meat is not very tasty, but it's better than no meat at all.

Half of these warhorses for each of us?"

The Second Battalion Commander quickly said, "You take a hundred, we only want the odd numbers."

Just kidding: yesterday the division commander asked Brigade Commander Lin what difficulties he had.

He only made one request, which was to have meat! Now there was meat, and it was all hunted by them.

It was enough to give a part to the Second Battalion, it would be too unreasonable to really take half.

Gu Xiuming did not decline and immediately said:

"We only want the warhorses, you can clean up all the other weapons!"

The Second Battalion Commander pointed to the heavy machine guns in the distance and asked:

"Can you give us two of the heavy machine guns over there?"

"Yes! But you have to send someone to apply to Brigade Commander Lin!"

Jia Chengbing immediately said, "I'll go myself!"

He immediately led twenty people towards Beiluo Village.

"Help me bring a message, let the brigade commander send another fifty people to pull the meat."

Jia Chengbing said with a smile, "I'm so embarrassed to go over empty-handed to borrow a gun.

Since that's the case, it's a good opportunity to bring some warhorses over on the way.

It's also good as a cover."

He led fifty soldiers, dragging five warhorses that had not been cleaned up, and walked over.

Listening to Battalion Commander Jia Chengbing say his ungrateful request with embarrassment,

Lin Fan said with a smile, "Since you need them, a total of twelve heavy machine guns were seized!

You pull six of them over.

Two for each company!"

Battalion Commander Jia Chengbing originally only thought that he could borrow two heavy machine guns, which would be good enough.

He didn't expect happiness to come so suddenly.

This greatly exceeded Battalion Commander Jia's plan.

He was so excited that he was incoherent:

"Brigade Commander Lin! You are really the reborn parents of the Second Battalion.

If we had six heavy machine guns when the Japanese cavalry charged just now,

those Japanese cavalry wouldn't have been able to break into our position no matter what.

Fighting the Japanese!

The brothers are not afraid of death, and they dare to die.

It's just that the situation just now was not that the brothers didn't work hard.

It was really that the conditions didn't allow it!"

Lin Fan understood and said, "Cavalry fights for speed.

If the infantry's firepower is not enough, and they are allowed to break into the position,

it will be very passive.

Although you retreated from the position just now,

you did not withdraw from the battlefield.

You dragged the Japanese cavalry into the village to fight.

Using terrain that was favorable to yourself, to resolve the enemy's favorable conditions.

You planned it very well, and you fought very bravely.

The brothers of the Second Battalion are all good!"

Being able to get such a high evaluation from Brigade Commander Lin.

Battalion Commander Jia immediately found a confidant:

"Yes! Passive! Very passive!"

Lin Fan was willing to give the Second Battalion six heavy machine guns, also because he saw that after their position was broken into by the Japanese soldiers just now,

the entire battalion did not run away, but retreated into Liujia Village to continue the fight.

This kind of spirit of not giving up, was what Lin Fan was most willing to see.

Only such a team, had the need to be supported.

Jia Chengbing returned with six heavy machine guns, thanking him profusely.

Following him were also more than fifty people from the Second Platoon.

They were all here to help break down the horse meat.

Lin Fan was very happy that the First Platoon was able to get so much horse meat from Liujia Village.

For Lin Fan:

"Ensuring that the soldiers eat well and have enough, is as important as fighting the Japanese.

If the soldiers do not have enough energy and physical strength,

they will not be able to exert their full combat power."

Although the Special Operations Brigade fought beautifully in the Beiluo direction,

its impact on the entire Battle of Taierzhuang was still very limited.

The Japanese soldiers outside Taierzhuang were still continuing to charge inside.

They attacked from the east, north, and west directions.

As if there was no focus, they wanted to bloom in all directions.

They continued to bombard and attack Taierzhuang non-stop.

The Japanese soldiers inside Taierzhuang were still relying on the houses inside to continue to resist stubbornly.

They also seemed to know that they did not have many troops, but they had enough firepower.

These Japanese soldiers had always relied on the Chenghuang Temple, relying on the tall and solid buildings inside the temple, to set up a fortress.

Making the 186th Regiment, which had been attacking, have no way to do anything.

In the afternoon, it was getting dark.

The Japanese soldiers, who had been waiting for a long time, once again concentrated all their artillery.

They fiercely bombarded the east wall, and soon the east wall was also bombed down.

Two Japanese infantry companies, who had been prepared for a long time to charge,

took advantage of the situation and broke through the east wall of Taierzhuang.

When the team defending the wall of the 186th Regiment had suffered heavy casualties,

they rushed in all at once.

Another batch of Japanese soldiers rushed into Taierzhuang.

Now the Japanese soldiers had occupied the east and north directions inside Taierzhuang.

The 31st Division's 186th Regiment occupied only the west and south directions.

The 31st Division and the Japanese soldiers were in a standoff inside Taierzhuang.

It was the same outside Taierzhuang.

On this day, the 31st Division suffered more than a thousand casualties.

In the evening, Brigade Commander Nie Zibin inspected the defense positions of Taierzhuang.

He said to the officers and soldiers of the 186th Regiment:

"Now the Japanese soldiers have entered Taierzhuang, and the battle has entered the stage of street fighting.

It's time to use hand grenades and broadswords.

And these two things are what we are best at.

At least at this time, the Japanese planes, artillery, tanks, and machine guns are not very useful.

In this case, we can still fight the Japanese again.

In order to prevent the Japanese soldiers from setting fires, all the houses occupied by our army must have the thatch on the roofs removed.

The thatch and wooden stakes that are removed can still be used.

At the same time, we must use fire attacks, the roofs occupied by the Japanese soldiers are also thatch.

You can use cotton dipped in oil and shoot with a bow.

You can use the supplies in the oil mills and merchants in the city."

Wang Yubin, the commander of the 185th Regiment, had his thigh pierced by a bullet in the battle during the day.

After his wound was bandaged, Commander Wang continued to command the team.

It was dark, and the officers and soldiers of the 31st Division did not stop because it was dark.

Whether it was outside Taierzhuang, or inside Taierzhuang.

The officers and soldiers of the 31st Division both started a new battle.

Division Commander Chi Fengcheng ordered: "Maintain harassment of the Japanese soldiers all day long, so that the Japanese soldiers can't close their eyes and can't sleep."

That's what Commander Wang Yubin did.

In the evening, he ordered four battalion commanders, Yu Gongkui, Ru Xinming, Gu Wenzhao, and Qin Yingqi, each to be equipped with a sapper team and two mortars.

To carry out a counterattack against the Japanese soldiers occupying the eastern part of Taierzhuang.

The eight mortars of the four battalions, first attacked the Japanese blockhouses.

They fired more than fifty shells in one breath, and then each battalion attacked.

From this, you can compare the gap between the two sides.

Today, the Japanese soldiers fired more than three thousand shells into Taierzhuang alone.

The 185th Regiment, in order to attack the blockhouses, concentrated the power of the entire battalion and fired only more than fifty shells.

In reality, these shells did not have much effect on the houses built of stone.

Before and after, more than a thousand Japanese soldiers had rushed into Taierzhuang.

They had also killed more than two hundred in the battles with the 186th and 185th Regiments.

A full seven hundred Japanese soldiers were trapped inside Taierzhuang.

These Japanese soldiers, of course, knew the consequences of the loss of the blockhouses.

They were now holding on to the blockhouses, which was to hold on to their lives.

The Japanese soldiers were all desperately fighting with the officers and soldiers of the 31st Division who came to attack.

Between the enemy and us, they were desperately fighting for every wall, every room, and every courtyard.

The firepower of the Japanese soldiers was strong, and there were more troops on the Nationalist side.

The 31st Division used human lives to block the Japanese soldiers' firing points.

That's how the Japanese soldiers were driven out of the houses one by one by these Northwest men's deadly fighting methods.

Every time the Japanese soldiers were forced to withdraw from a courtyard,

they would set the entire courtyard on fire.

In the darkness, the roofs that still had thatch were set on fire.

The firelight illuminated the shadowy figures in the darkness.

The enemy and us used these firelight to launch a mutual fight.

When the Japanese soldiers could not hold on, they would retreat and set fire to these roofs.

To block the pursuit of the officers and soldiers of the 31st Division.

The officers and soldiers of the four battalions, braving the fire, were also pursuing.

Although they were burned, they were still trying their best to fight.

The Japanese soldiers resisted desperately, never easily giving up any courtyard.

The Nationalist soldiers followed one after another, only to take back every piece of their own position.

After a fierce battle until midnight, the 185th Regiment only recovered three residential courtyards.

The team's casualties were very large.

In the second half of the night, the 185th Regiment finally stopped attacking.

Battalion Commander Yu Gongkui fought bravely and was promoted to commander of the 186th Regiment on the spot.

Acting Commander Wang Guanwang was promoted to Deputy Division Commander of the 31st Division.

In the second half of the night, two tank defense companies from Kaifeng arrived at Taierzhuang.

Two reconnaissance companies transferred from the First War Zone also arrived.

They took over the work of the four battalions of the 185th Regiment.

They continued to attack the Japanese soldiers.

Division Commander Chi Fengcheng ordered the two tank defense gun companies to immediately establish positions and join the battle.

The tank defense guns of these two companies were self-propelled artillery, and they also had wireless communication equipment.

They were the most advanced weapons and equipment at the time.

On the morning of the 27th, Taierzhuang, which had been fought fiercely, once again welcomed the Japanese planes and artillery.

By now, the Japanese soldiers had deployed more than seventy artillery pieces around Taierzhuang.

They were frightened on the 25th, and these artillery pieces were not only deployed in a hidden manner, but also intentionally deployed in places farther away from Taierzhuang.

Lin Fan could not find the positions of these artillery pieces, and there was no way to deal with them.

But Lin Fan had a way to deal with the Japanese planes overhead.

On the morning of the 27th, the sky in Taierzhuang was slightly bright.

The officers and soldiers of the 31st Division, who had been fighting fiercely all night, felt a trace of fatigue even in the cool air of dawn.

The omnipresent smell of gunpowder smoke in the air, was constantly reminding these officers and soldiers: This was the battlefield!

At this time, artillery shells fired by the Japanese soldiers fell in the distance of Taierzhuang.

The continuous explosions sounded everywhere.

Even with such bombardment, the Japanese soldiers were obviously not satisfied.

Division Commander Isoya Renjie was of course not satisfied:

Although he already knew that a batch of bombers had been shot down in Taierzhuang.

But in the past two days, through the battle of Taierzhuang.

The 63rd Regiment on the front line, with so much artillery bombardment, did not attract a