While the Dragon Boat Festival moved unhurriedly towards Xintai County and always paid attention to the enemy's movements, the battle in Taierzhuang continued.
After receiving reinforcements from a section of the Chaoxian Division,
The little devil launched his third attack on Taierzhuang City.
The Japs used heavy artillery to bombard the walls of Taierzhuang. The north wall was blown down and the small north gate was destroyed. The officers and soldiers of the 3rd Battalion of the 181st Regiment who guarded the small north gate of Taierzhuang were all sacrificed. More than 300 Japs broke into the city.
The fierce street fighting began, and the defenders in the city launched a fierce street fighting with the Japanese invaders.
Although the Japanese army occupied two-thirds of the entire village, the Chinese defenders in the Nanguan area refused to retreat until death and defended their position. The purpose was for the external troops to complete the counter-encirclement of the Japanese army.
This was a battle plan that Li Zhongren had already formulated. He would use part of his troops to defend Taierzhuang. The defenders would try their best to hold off the enemy so that the army outside the village could surround the Japanese invaders and catch the turtles in a jar.
But the little devil naturally didn't know that this was Li Zhongren's plan, and he thought that the Chinese defenders could no longer bear it.
So the little Japanese invaded the northwest corner of Taierzhuang the next day, seeking to seize the west gate and cut off the connection between the headquarters of the Chinese garrison's 31st Division and the village.
The commander of the division, Chi Fengcheng, commanded, suppressed the enemy with powerful artillery fire, and organized dozens of death squads to fight hand-to-hand with the enemy, preferring death to retreat.
At the same time, the 52nd Army and the 85th Army of Tang Enbo's Corps attacked the Japanese flanks in Zaozhuang and Yixian from the outside.
The little Japanese mobilized all the Chaoxian divisions as cannon fodder to support the Japanese army in Taierzhuang.
This Chaoxian division is the subordinate of Prince Li Cheng. Li Cheng followed Momotaro into Mount Tai and died.
But his other Chaoxian division, Zhang Guangsan's division, is still serving the Imperial Japanese Army.
Zhang Guangsan, like Li Cheng, was a fanatical pro-Japanese faction. Even after Li Cheng died, he still did not repent. And he actually wanted to sacrifice his life for the Imperial Japanese Army in honor of Li Cheng.
So, he got his wish, when Zhang Guangsan led his troops and quickly occupied the eastern half of Taierzhuang.
The Chinese defenders completely surrounded the Japanese and Chaoxian divisions who entered the Taierzhuang area, and the battle quickly fell into an extremely unfavorable situation.
Naturally, the little Japs would not sit still and wait for death, and immediately asked the Japs Second Army Headquarters for help.
As for the Little Japs Command, they would naturally not give up the lives of so many Japs so easily. Immediately ordered the rest of the Banheng Division to rush for reinforcements.
Ban Heng's fifth division had been crippled by Dragon Boat Festival before. However, the remaining troops still had a large number of people, and they formed a mixed brigade with the Imperial Alliance Army to go for reinforcements.
Ban Heng led his troops to rush to Taierzhuang for reinforcements, arrived at Xiangcheng and Aiqu areas, and flanked our 20th Army Corps.
The army immediately ordered the 52nd Army and the newly arrived 75th Army to besiege the Banheng Brigade. During the fierce battle, Ban Heng's brigade was severely damaged again, and his plan to rescue Zhang Guangsan and enter the Japanese army in Taierzhuang failed.
Seeing that there was no hope for help, the little devils in Taierzhuang decided to fight to the death.
However, the Chinese defenders have five times the strength of the enemy, and victory is only a matter of time.
When I received the battle report from the front in Dragon Boat Festival, I was very satisfied. This battle is certain to be won.
And this is why the Dragon Boat Festival did not invest much energy in the Battle of Taierzhuang.
Taierzhuang is a must-win battle, and if he gets involved, he is just wasting extra combat power.
His purpose was to annihilate the Japs, and his combat ideas were correct. The Japs had already transferred the Chaoxian Division from Chaoxian due to lack of troops.
In other words, the little devil has already started to go downhill at this time. If the killing continues, the little devil will definitely be defeated.
Duanwu put down the message in his hand and ignored the Taierzhuang battle because the outcome of this battle had been decided. What he is concerned about now is the battle in Xintai County.
This battle is a trap for the Japanese, but he will dance on the tip of the knife.
"Brothers Dragon Boat Festival."
At this moment, Ma Pingan ran up from the back of the team.
Since all the cars were blown up, Duanwu and others could only walk or ride horses.
At this time, Ma Pingan came running. Because Ma Pingping has a car. But it is a donkey cart. Like Lao Abacus, he needs to receive and receive telegrams, so he can't do it without a car.
So at this time, Ma Pingan came to report to Duanwu, saying that they had an underground party comrade who discovered a large number of Japanese in Gangcheng Village.
The specific number of people was unknown. The underground party comrades had just asked a fellow villager to ask, but when they approached Gangcheng Village, a fellow villager was killed by Japanese soldiers dressed as ordinary people, and then dragged into the grass.
In other words, the people in Gangcheng Village may also have been killed.
Ma Ping'an said: "Brother Duanwu, maybe this is really a trap by the Japs. Why don't we retreat?"
Duanwu smiled and said: "Don't you think this is an opportunity? We already know that this is the enemy's trick, so we can use it. You tell Lao Li not to rush into Xintai County first. Let's kill the little Japs in ambush first."
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Ma Ping'an was speechless, because Li Yunlong had already brought someone with him. I'm afraid he had arrived in Xintai County by now, right?
But Ma Pingan didn't know whether it was specific or not. The last time he contacted Li Yunlong, he said that he was less than 30 kilometers away from Xintai County, and said that this operation went very smoothly. It must be that the little devil knew that his old man, Li Lai, was here to move things, so he deliberately let go of the water.
In other words, Li Yunlong has realized that this may be a trap of a little devil. But he still killed him arrogantly, just to test the waters for Dragon Boat Festival.
Although the combat effectiveness of his decisive column was mediocre, Li Yunlong didn't panic at all with Dragon Boat Festival around. If the little devil's ambush troops jumped out in advance, it would play into Lao Li's hands.
Moreover, he, Old Li, was not a vegetarian. Although he brought with him all new soldiers, he was in compliance with Li Yunlong's words: One soldier is a raging enemy, and a den of raging generals is the same.
Even if they are all new soldiers, under the leadership of Li Yuanlong, they are howling like little tigers descending the mountain.
So if the little devil wants to eat up Li Yunlong's death column in one bite, he is just kidding.
Otherwise, Li Yunlong is not a fool. Why would a mere transport team dare to cross the line of fire of the Japs and go directly to the hinterland of the Japs?
At this time, the little devils were naturally confused. Their design was aimed at the supervision corps, but a group of transportation brigades wearing ordinary people's clothes appeared in their field of vision.
But the strangest thing is that nothing is loaded on the trucks of this transportation brigade. Instead, they are all empty trucks heading to Xintai County, just like they are going to Xintai County to pull things.
And if they weren't all wearing the clothes of ordinary people and the Eighth Route Army, the little devil would even suspect that this was an imperial army transport team! .
(End of chapter)
