After Zhang Tianhai nodded in agreement, the survey team directly under the First Regiment Headquarters of the Third War Zone began to be decentralized to each battalion camp to guide each battalion in the construction of standardized positions.
This day is April 27, the twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China.
However, during these days, the fighting between the Chinese army and the Japanese army did not stop.
On April 23rd, the enemy troops from southern Shandong invaded south in three groups. One of the enemy groups captured Tancheng County, and the defenders of one battalion were martyred in the city!
To the north of Taierzhuang, Sun Lianzhong's Second Group Army was locked in a stalemate with the enemy in a mud ditch. The enemy did not dare to advance. However, Sun Lianzhong's unit had already suffered 78% casualties and was unable to attack.
Therefore, we can only stand in a stalemate with the enemy and cannot attack each other.
On April 24, the enemies of Tancheng County invaded westward. At this point, fierce battles were fought across the entire line from Taierzhuang to Pi County.
Chen Zhongshu, commander of the Luhan Division of the 60th Army of the Yunnan Army, died heroically during a fierce battle with the enemy in Xinglou, Taierzhuang. At the same time, Long Yunjie, commander of the 1082nd Regiment of the 182nd Division, died in Xinzhuang. All the commanders and battalion commanders died in the battle and martyred their country. Only a dozen soldiers survived until the reinforcements sent by the division commander An Enpu were saved.
After the reinforcements took in the battlefield, they discovered that the unit was the designation of Rensuke Isotani's 10th Division!
Although the main force of the 10th Division suffered heavy blows in Taierzhuang and Yixian, they were still invincible. What's more, the division commander Isotani Rensuke, the brigade commander and the commanders of each regiment are basically still there. The brigade commander and squadron commander suffered heavy casualties.
The Japanese army is most indispensable for qualified middle- and lower-level officers and well-trained grassroots soldiers.
On the same day, the enemy reinforcements from the Taiwei Highway and Jinpu Railway gathered from the southeast of Yi County and the southwest of Linyi to Lanling County, heading south through Hongshan Mountain first, threatening Pi County.
The Pi County garrison was a brigade under Wang Zhonglian of the 85th Army of Tang Enbo's Corps. Army Commander Wang Zhonglian personally led the army to supervise the battle.
"Military seat, the enemy advancing in the direction of Hongshan has come into contact with our outpost troops. The enemy's offensive is very fast and violent. Commander Zhu called to report that the enemy's offensive is very fast and violent, and the outpost troops can no longer withstand it. ." A combat staff officer ran to Wang Zhonglian's side and reported.
"What about the troops of the Yunnan Army? Aren't they responsible for defending the mountain defense company? How come they disappeared so quickly?" Wang Zhonglian asked three times in a row, which showed his nervousness.
"The Yunnan Army troops repeatedly fought with the Japanese troops north of Lianfang Mountain a few days ago. The casualties were very heavy. No less than three regiment commanders have been sacrificed, and a brigade commander was sacrificed the day before yesterday." the combat staff officer replied truthfully.
After hearing the news, Wang Zhonglian frowned slightly. He already knew that the actual situation was more serious than he imagined. The intensity of the battle was already comparable to that of the Battle of Zaozhuang. He could only order Said: "Let him withstand it with all his strength. If he can't withstand it anymore, then retreat into the city!"
The Yunnan Army troops are well-equipped and have been trained for a long time, so their combat effectiveness should be very strong. Even they suffered such heavy casualties. It seems that Lian Fangshan will be lost soon. Wang Zhonglian was thinking in his heart.
However, Wang Zhonglian still ordered the troops to continue to hold on and hold on to the end.
Otherwise, Wang Zhonglian could still order a retreat but the Fifth War Zone was not afraid of killing another general who retreated without a fight.
However, things are not subject to human will.
On April 25, Pi County was in emergency, and the 85th Army transferred a regiment of reinforcements. The defenders were still resisting the enemy in the southeast of Taierzhuang and north of Pi County, and the reinforcements had divided their advance.
On April 26, the Nationalist Army and the enemy in the west of Tancheng had been fighting for three days. The Japanese army repeatedly surrounded the left flank of the Nationalist Army in an attempt to break through the Nationalist defense line. However, both attacks were defeated by the Nationalist Army. retreat.
Until late at night on the 26th, the Chinese army and the Japanese army were still fighting in a bloody battle. The fighting was very fierce!
It was also on this day that Lian Fangshan was declared to have been lost, but the national army troops were still organizing and continuing to counterattack!
On April 27, after several days of brutal blocking battles in Puwang, Xinzhuang, Houbao, Yuwangshan and Huoshibu, at around eight o'clock in the morning that day, a message from the frontline commander came from the headquarters of the 60th Army. Order from Sun Lianzhong's headquarters: The enemy's main force has advanced to the front of the 60th Army and entered our army's pocket-shaped position. It is decided that at ten o'clock in the morning today (the 27th), all armies will launch a full-scale attack to annihilate the enemy in the area north of Yuwang Mountain!
Along with the combat order, there is also a combat plan.
This battle plan stated that the attack targets of each division were: the 182nd Division was Puwang and Houbao; the 183rd Division was Lizhuang and Wushengtang; the 184th Division was Taogou Bridge.
Once the order was issued, An Enpu immediately organized a division meeting.
After discussion at the division headquarters meeting, according to the actual situation, the main purpose was to protect the existing positions and dispatch the strike team to carry out the orders of the former enemy command headquarters.
Soon, the 182nd Division Commander An Enpu and the Chief of Staff came up with a combat plan, and the 182nd Division acted directly in accordance with this combat plan.
On the right wing, the 1078th Regiment is in charge. The leader of this regiment, Dong Wenying, is the officer with the strongest patriotism and the desire to kill the enemy among the commanders here. The Yunnan Army has just moved eastward to the battlefield. Dong Wenying Wenying immediately wrote a will and came up with the determination to succeed or succeed.
On the left wing, the 1077th Regiment is in charge, under the unified command of the regiment leader Yu Jianxun.
The battle that took place near Yuwang Mountain that day was extremely fierce, especially the offensive of Dong Wenying's 1078th Regiment. When Dong Wenying heard the order to attack, he was immediately overjoyed and repeatedly offered to lead the troops. The troops attacked to restore Puwang.
Despite persuasion, Dong Wenying still personally led a machine gun company and a mortar platoon to advance towards Puwang in two lines. The second line was handed over to the second battalion commander Chen Haoru to lead the troops at 500 meters (1 A meter is equal to one meter) and then follow up.
At 13 o'clock, the troops of the 1078th Regiment began to approach Puwang.
Dong Wenying personally commanded the front-line assault team to rush towards Puwang's right wing. The enemy's infantry and cavalry coordinated a counterattack from its left wing, surrounding the first-line assault team of the Yunnan Army.
Dong Wenying led his troops to charge left and right, and the sound of killing resounded for miles.
Fortunately, the second-line assault force led by Chen Haoru arrived and counterattacked the Japanese army's flank. This prevented Dong Wenying's first-line assault force from being completely destroyed by the enemy's encirclement.
Dong Wenying led his troops to break out of the encirclement immediately, merged with Chen Haoru's second line of assault troops, and after a fierce attack, they retreated to the rear fort and the parallel line.
When Dong Wenying's troops retreated to the line parallel to the rear fortress, fortunately, the attack team of the 1077th Regiment on the left responded from afar, and the heavy weapons support from Huangshishan and Daizhuang on the right allowed the troops to stabilize and move to the spot. Fight with enemy troops.
Not long after, about twenty minutes later, Gao Zhenhong, commander of the 539th Brigade, discovered a number of enemy tanks moving south from Puwang in Hushan. He immediately informed Dong Wenying of the situation and ordered them to quickly withdraw to their original positions and hold on.
Due to negligence, the retreat was exposed, and the enemy immediately organized superior forces to follow them. Among these tracking troops, the infantry, cavalry, and chariot units were coordinated, and their combat effectiveness was quite strong.
By sunset, the troops of the 1078th Regiment had already retreated to Daizhuang. Unfortunately, even if the main force of the 1078th Regiment had withdrawn, together with the defending troops of the original position, they were still able to resist. Unable to defeat the overwhelmingly superior enemy troops, the troops suffered heavy casualties.
Dong Wenying made a prompt decision and ordered the troops to withdraw to Hushan to guard to prevent the enemy troops from continuing to advance!
The fighting under Dong Wenying's command was fierce, but Yu Jianxun's 1077th Regiment also suffered heavy casualties.
On April 28, in the northern part of Pi County, a regiment of the 184th Division of the Yunnan Army and a regiment of Wang Zhonglian's command of Tang Enbo's Corps passed by. After two days and two nights of bloody battles, the National Army finally regained the company's defense mountain.
At the same time, the frontal battle between the main force of the Yunnan Army is still going on!
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PS: The first update is here, and the second update will be updated tomorrow!
