Special Forces of Crossing: Cloud's Anti-Japanese

Chapter 736 Bloody Battle at Taierzhuang ([-])

At 01:30 in the morning, the headquarters of the Guangzhou Academy of Soldiers.

Ouyang Yun handed the telegram to Pan Meiren, and ordered: "Call Commander Li quickly, and add this at the end, the 27th Division of the Japanese Army will no longer appear on the Xuzhou battlefield."

The telegram was sent by Xia Wenyun. The content of the intelligence was that because of the resignation of the Japanese Army Minister Moto Sugiyama, the current policy toward China of the Japanese army base camp "no expansion" has become the main tone.Therefore, the scale of the Xuzhou battle will be restricted. Except for the three divisions that have already appeared on the Xuzhou battlefield, the 27th division and other Japanese troops will not appear on the Xuzhou battlefield in the short term.

Sugiyama Moto once crazily clamored to destroy China in half a year, but with the United Fleet crashing into the Taiwan Strait and the failure of the Battle of Nanjing, his argument has become a joke.

Historically, the reason why China was able to achieve great victory in the Battle of Taierzhuang was related to a piece of information Li Zongren obtained from Xia Wenyun.It was precisely because Xia Wenyun clearly pointed out the key points of the Japanese army's offensive in the intelligence that Li Zongren resolutely abandoned the northern defense line and besieged the Japanese army on the southern line with heavy troops, which severely damaged the main forces of the 5th and 10th divisions.

The appearance of Ouyang Yun, the butterfly, influenced the direction of history. Fortunately, Xia Wenyun was not overwhelmed by it, and continued to play a major role.

Around two o'clock, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi in Tongshan (Xuzhou) city received this precious telegram. "Come on! Now, the Japanese army will suffer heavy losses!" Li Zongren was originally worried that the Japanese army would have a new force joining in, destroying the balance of forces between the enemy and ourselves, and that Taierzhuang would become a meat grinder for the national army, so he was worried about the progress of the next battle. In his arms, after reading this telegram, his high-hanging heart finally fell, and he couldn't help shouting with excitement.

Bai Chongxi also let out a heavy breath.

The fierce fighting in Taierzhuang, and the heavy casualties of the national army were expected before the war.The Japanese army's artillery fire was sharp, but the national army did not have artillery fire to coerce it. The result of letting it play its role was that the defenders would inevitably suffer huge casualties.It was Bai Chongxi's idea to unify the existing artillery in the fifth theater, so he was more concerned about the casualties of the Taierzhuang defenders.He knew that once the casualties were too large, or even a certain army collapsed as a result, the Battle of Taierzhuang would surely become a turning point in the Battle of Xuzhou-the national army would not be defeated completely, but the goal set before the war would definitely not be achieved.Once Xuzhou falls prematurely, it will have a huge impact on the direction of the next battle.

"Jiansheng, are the artillery units and Hexi armies in place?" Li Zongren asked Bai Chongxi.

Bai Chongxi nodded affirmatively and said, "Just wait for your order, and our army will fire ten thousand cannons! Brother Delin, this battle can be done!"

"Yes, Ouyang Yun's telegram came too timely, so we don't have any scruples."

Bai Chongxi was in a relaxed mood, and couldn't help joking: "If you just believe him like this, what if it's false information?"

Li Zongren shook his head: "Impossible, the energy of the Xuebing Army is so low. I used to look down on those fox pupils. I thought that Ouyang Yun had too much money and no place to spend it. I didn't expect that he could show up now." Scale. This kid is young, and he has a set of tricks to start a dark business. Jiansheng, we really went astray before!"

Bai Chongxi was aroused, and said with a wry smile: "Yeah, thinking about it when he first arrived in Guangzhou, we thought he wouldn't last long. Who knew that the Xuebing Army had taken root."

"Now, we are waiting for news from Guo Muyi!"

Where are Guo Muyi and his raiding force?

The situation at the Northwest Gate, North Gate, and East Gate is similar to that of the West Gate. After the 5th Division attacked for three hours, it was difficult to advance an inch. Antengliji saw that things could not be done, so he moved his mind and wanted to wait for the cooperation of the aviation force after dawn. Go down and attack again.Perhaps with the lessons learned from the detachment, Anteng Liji was very cautious. After the attack stopped, he not only arranged for patrol troops, but also asked his subordinates to fire flares over the three city gates every quarter of an hour.

The Taierzhuang defense line is very important to Xuzhou. Once it is captured, the Japanese army will gain the bridgehead to attack Xuzhou and take the initiative on the Xuzhou battlefield.The Chinese and Japanese front-line headquarters were aware of this, so they attached great importance to the Battle of Taierzhuang. The Japanese army dispatched three armies at once.In the fifth theater, Li Zongren ordered Li Pinxian, the deputy commander of the theater and commander of the 11th Army, to sit in person.

At [-]:[-], flares were raised again in sequence over Sanmen.Flares rose into the sky, illuminating the vicinity of the three city gates. At this moment, the frontline officers and soldiers of the two sides in the war could even see the helmets of the other side showing the fortifications and trenches clearly.

Ximen, Li Pinxian picked up the binoculars at the right time and looked towards the opposite side.

When the Japanese army performed this action for the first time, the defenders were taken aback, thinking that the Japanese army had begun to attack again.When the flares went out and the surroundings of the battlefield sank into darkness and silence again, everyone knew it was a false alarm.

The truce lasted for an hour and a half. This was the third time the Japanese army fired flares. If Antenliji happened to be in the front and raised his binoculars towards the opposite side, he would be horrified to find that the defenders were rapidly gathering troops at the west gate.

Flares rose, and the officers and soldiers of the 31st Army who were gathering towards the four gates all lowered their heads and ran towards the designated assembly area under the officer's whispered order.

In Li Pinxian's binoculars, apart from dozens of helmets protruding from the trenches, there was only a group of devil gendarmes walking from south to north with guns on their backs.Putting down the binoculars, he breathed a sigh of relief, and then said to the staff officer beside him, Gu Lianqian: "Notify the night attack troops, they will start entering the battlefield in 5 minutes."

"Yes." Gu Lianqian agreed, and fled away.

The three flares went out at once, and the battlefield fell into darkness again.Li Pinxian turned back and walked into the cellar of a family not far away.There will be his temporary command post.The cellar was beeping, and he asked, "Is there a telegram from Xuzhou?"

A communications officer stood up and replied, "Commander, not yet."

"Understood, continue to pay attention. If there is any new situation, let me know immediately."

"Yes!"

Li Pinxian walked out of the cellar, took the flare gun from the guard, and asked, "Have you checked?"

Guard Li Jun replied respectfully: "Yes."

Li Pinxian weighed the gun in his hand, and walked to the front line of Ximen first.

A few minutes later, some troops began to run past him quickly. He found a place with a slightly higher ground and stood there, silently watching his men rushing towards the dark front-line battlefield.When the footsteps disappeared, he turned his head to look at the southeast, frowned and sighed softly: Has Guo Muyi's troops arrived at their destination and ready to attack?If they delay the time, then these teams of Lao Tzu will be useless.

When Li Pinxian was thinking about Guo Muyi, Guo Muyi was also thinking about him: the time to three o'clock is getting closer and closer. After a quick march, the troops have successfully appeared at a place five kilometers southeast of Taierzhuang. The night attack has attracted the attention of Anteng Liji.

Not many people in the Fifth War Zone knew about this raid, and all of them were waiting eagerly for the battle to start.Regardless of whether they agree or disagree in advance, at this moment, they only have one common wish in their hearts, and that is that this raid can be successful.

Time is not affected by anyone's will, and passes according to the constant frequency - Li Pinxian raised his left hand, Guo Muyi raised his left hand, Guo Da, Huang Haifu, Zhang Zizhong, Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi all started to check the time.

Li Pinxian and Guo Muyi's watches were checked with Li Zongren. At this moment, their heartbeats tended to the same frequency with the jump of the small second hand.

At around 43:[-], with a sound of "Woo--", a flare rose above the battlefield at the Northwest Gate.The devils of the Iteng Division on the front line of the Northwest Gate fired another flare in accordance with the division head's regulations.At this time, the small-scale battle in Ximen had just ended—after the First Xue Division entered the battlefield, it finally had its first confrontation with the Seya Detachment, and the result was that the First Xue Division was killed by more than thirty soldiers. The detachment left more than ten corpses.

When the Seya detachment started to fire, Guo Da was staring at the watch in his hand.He scolded softly: "Iteng Liji's luck is too good, the dog day's Seya Qi, sooner or later, fire at this time, so how many ghosts of the 5th Division will be awakened!"

Li Pinxian's subordinates were not included in the raid plan proposed by Guo Muyi.However, the truce of the 5th Division made Guo Da, who was on the front line, suddenly realize that due to the noise of the Jiguang tanks, it was almost impossible to get close to the Japanese army without anyone noticing when there was no battle on the front line.In this case, in order to ensure the suddenness of the raid, the only way to do so is to launch a massive night raid first.So he suggested to Li Zongren that the 31st Army should wait for the opportunity to conduct a night attack first, so as to make noise to cover up the sound of the motor of the Jiguang tank.After discussing with Bai Chongxi, Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi agreed to his proposal. On this basis, Bai Chongxi added one more point, in order to ensure that the surprise troops could appear behind the 5th Division by surprise, they simply used part of the artillery to bombard them.With the cover of rumbling explosions, it is believed that the hearing of the Japanese army would be paralyzed, allowing the Jiguang tanks to drive closer to attack.

The sudden stop of the 5th Division's attack was something no one expected. Li Pinxian accepted the order calmly after deliberation.

As the scheduled time approached, Li Pinxian no longer looked at the time, but stared closely at the Japanese camp not far away.

The subordinates who participated in the night raid did not disappoint his expectations. The ex-husbands of the two regiments with more than 30 people arrived at a place less than [-] meters away from the first trench of the Japanese army. A distance of five or six meters.Such a short distance can break through in seconds, and the flares fired by the Japanese army will provide sufficient illumination for their attack.

The flare rose quickly, and Li Pinxian rang the signal gun as soon as it bloomed. "Boom!" A red flare rose into the sky immediately, and just when the flare was just shining brightly, it just dragged a gorgeous tail in the sky——

The officers and soldiers of the night attack, who had been nervously and excitedly waiting for the attack signal, jumped up immediately. The officers and soldiers shouted: "Come on!" "Fight!" "Brothers, go!" Pulled the trigger and threw the grenade.

The devils of the 5th Division, after a long-distance raid, followed by fighting for most of the night, were already exhausted. Although the division commander An Teng had issued a strict order that the troops on duty were not allowed to sleep, nothing happened for more than an hour. In addition, the ups and downs of the battle not far from the west gate paralyzed everyone's nerves. Many devils leaned against the wall of the trench with their guns in their hands, and fell asleep without knowing it.

Thunderous shouts of killing suddenly sounded, and many devils actually thought that Ximen had started to toss again, muttering a few words in their mouths and wanting to continue to doze off by changing their positions, but what awaited them was revenge bullets or sharp bayonets.More devils instinctively raised their guns and opened their eyes, and then they were horrified to find that the enemy was close at hand.So, before they could react, a dense rain of bullets poured down, and a squadron of devils in the first trench was killed by the night attack troops almost without any power to fight back.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" Not far away, the gendarmerie devils howled, and the alarm whistle blew loudly.Immediately, the devils behind, including the devils outside the other three city gates, immediately became commotion.

Antengley Gibbon was sleeping on an armored vehicle, and was awakened by the sound of guns and guns outside, and broke out in a cold sweat.He stepped out of the armored vehicle, and with the light of the flares, he had a clear view of the situation on the battlefield, and his heart was immediately relieved.

The Japanese army outside the Northwest Gate consisted of two and a half brigades. After fighting hard for a long time, they lost 600 people, and there were about 2000 left.After these 2000 people were attacked and killed a squadron, there are still more than 600 people.Once these more than 600 devils launched a counterattack, the offensive momentum of the 31st Army's night attack troops was immediately contained.

The weapons and equipment of the 31st Army were still too poor, because all the devils in the first trench were wiped out, and the devils in the second line of defense were not afraid of hurting their own people. The raiding forces did a lot of damage. The 31st Army was in charge of this night attack by a brigade commander named Chi Zhenhai.Seeing that his offensive momentum was hindered, he remembered the commander's note, and immediately shouted: "Brothers, withdraw to the first line of defense!" Then he led the team to withdraw to the first Japanese trench that had just been captured.

And just as they jumped into the trenches filled with corpses of devils, rumbling gunfire sounded from the southwest direction.

As soon as the cannon sounded, the soldiers participating in the night attack immediately became excited. The reason why the 31st Army fought hard before was because there was no artillery capable of suppressing the enemy's artillery fire. Now they finally heard their own artillery fire. The officers and soldiers of the 31st Army naturally cheered and were indescribably excited when they were bullied by the Devil's artillery.

"Listen! It's our cannon!"

"Old man Ge, I thought all the turtle sons of the artillery unit ran away!"

"Traveler, are we going to launch a counterattack?!"

Chi Zhenhai reacted differently from the soldiers. He was very angry—the battle was so depressing today, his side had no heavy fire support, and there was nothing he could do with the little devil’s artillery. This purely defensive battle had no tactics at all. It can only be filled by people regardless of the consequences.As a result, it was only in the middle of the night, and the loss of the troops exceeded the consumption of the southern section of the Jinpu Line for more than two months.It happened that Li Pinxian came to inspect his defense line, and he couldn't help but questioned: "Commander, I don't understand! If the fight continues like this, the army will be finished sooner or later! Where is our artillery? Where is the artillery of our 11th Army? There is no way to fight a war!"

"Our artillery was enlisted by the theater command."

"What? Why? Commander, do those surnamed Li and Bai want to avenge their own private revenge! Commander, this battle cannot be fought, let's withdraw!"

Li Pinxian became angry right away——Chi Zhenhai's words hit his wound, and he roared: "You bastard, you can say that too? Remember your identity, you are the majestic brigade commander of the national army—Chi Zhenhai, I Let me tell you, even if we fight to the last person today, we must never take half a step back—do you understand?!"

"Commander, I can't figure it out!"

"Don't think about it if you can't figure it out!" Li Pinxian gave him a hard look, gritted his teeth and left.

Chi Zhenhai knew that he had said something wrong.Anyone who knows Li Pinxian knows that he is very jealous of others mentioning those things in front of him.Li Pinxian originally belonged to the Hunan Army led by Tang Shengzhi, but was defeated and incorporated by the Gui Army led by Li Zongren during the civil war.Immediately afterwards, under the call of Feng Yuxiang and Shi Yousan, he followed Tang Shengzhi to rebel against Jiang, but in the end he was defeated and lost all his troops and became a polished commander.This did not end his military career, because immediately after the outbreak of the Central Plains War, he joined the Gui Army again at the invitation of Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi.Only this time, he still failed to start and finish well. Not long ago, during the Guangdong-Guangdong Incident, he once again betrayed Li and Bai through Tang Shengzhi's agreement, thus officially becoming a member of the Central Army.

The reason why Li Pinxian is like a weed on the fence is that he has no choice but to act both ways.Including himself, the middle and low-level officers in the army under his jurisdiction are all old subordinates of Tang Shengzhi, and he can't make decisions arbitrarily at all.Therefore, although his behavior of both sides of the snake and mouse is despised by the world, he thinks he has a clear conscience.

This time, the Guangxi faction suffered a big loss in the Battle of Nanjing, and the elite troops of Li and Bai were exhausted. However, Lao Jiang assigned him to Li Zongren to command.Li Zongren is okay, he behaved quite like a general, he didn't say anything when we saw him again, but Bai Chongxi showed contempt and sarcasm from time to time. Was attacked by him.

There is a reason for Chi Zhenhai's anger - more than half of the artillery currently under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Theater Command belong to the 31st Army.If Li Zongren didn't recruit these artillery, the 31st Army's own command would definitely be able to suppress the devil's artillery.It's okay for you to recruit, but you can't hide it.If one's own artillery unit had dispatched earlier, how many fewer people would have died in one's own unit?When Chi Zhenhai thought about it this way, he naturally suspected that this was Li and Bai taking revenge.

(End of this chapter)