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Chapter 340: The Great Victory at Taierzhuang

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    The reprimand telegram from the Central China Front Army greatly stimulated the Japanese troops on the front line. In their view, such telegrams were doubts about the combat effectiveness of the front-line troops and the greatest insult to their military honor.

    Yoshizumi Ryosuke was even more furious and went to the front line to supervise the battle. In just two days, one regiment captain and four captains were dismissed due to poor combat performance!

    Under such a high-pressure policy, the Japanese troops on the front line unleashed a powerful fighting force, and few defenders could sustain their positions for a day.

    However, the Japanese army still underestimated the determination of the defenders to block the attack. Although the Japanese attack on the front line was terrifying, they could not bear it. The defenders must have a blocking defense line when encountering mountains, and there must be an ambush when encountering forests. It is less than fifty kilometers from Chihe Town to Fengyang.  At a distance of several miles, the defenders set up more than 20 lines of defense here.

    ¡°Anyway, Li Guoyao has made up his mind to hold back these Japanese soldiers at all costs, and he will complete the task in just ten more days.

    Of course, delaying is just a tactic, but it is definitely not what Li Guoyao likes. In fact, he has been preparing for the past few days to see if he can fight a beautiful counterattack.

    But judging from the current situation, there is no suitable opportunity for the time being!

    Beginning on April 3, the frequency of Japanese frontline attacks became faster than before. Of course, casualties were also increasing rapidly.

    As the Japanese army became more and more crazy, the defenders' defense lines were breached one by one. As of April 6, the Central Army finally made a major breakthrough and arrived at Fengyang City.

    And the East Route Army has also come to light, only the Chongteng detachment of the West Route is still unable to advance under Dingyuan City.

    Since the strength of the Chongteng detachment had dropped to about 2,000, Yoshizumi Ryosuke immediately transferred two brigades from the Central Army to go south to reinforce Dingyuan.

    Facing the front and rear attacks of the Japanese army, the defenders held on for two more days, but finally could not bear the huge casualties. They broke out of Dingyuan on the night of April 8, and the Japanese army captured Dingyuan.

    And just as the main force of the Japanese army was besieging Fengyang and Guangming and approaching Bengbu, the Lunan battlefield ushered in a turning point. The main force of the Japanese army suffered unprecedented heavy losses in Taierzhuang.

    In fact, after formulating the operational plan to annihilate the Japanese army, the Fifth Theater Command has been deploying troops. After all the troops arrived at their scheduled positions at 20:00 on April 2, the Commander of the Fifth Theater realized the opportunity.  Already mature, he immediately ordered the troops to act according to the advance battle plan.

    At this time, the battle for Zhuangzili in Taierzhuang also entered the most intense stage. After learning that reinforcements from the 21st Infantry Regiment of the 5th Division had arrived, the enemy's 63rd Regiment in Zhuangzhuang violently attacked westward from the East Gate area and advanced.  About 100 meters and occupied the southeastern gate of the village.

    At the same time, the main force of the 10th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army detoured east of Taierzhuang and southward to capture Huangzhuang by the Grand Canal, about 2 kilometers southeast of Taierzhuang, and deployed a smoke screen to prepare to force a crossing of the canal, but was repulsed by the 44th Independent Brigade.  Later, as the national army stepped up its offensive in the Beiluo area, only one squadron of the enemy's 10th Infantry Regiment was left in Huangzhuang, and the main force returned immediately.

    The 21st Brigade of Sakamoto Shun, which had arrived for reinforcements near the east of Taierzhuang, was fiercely resisted by Zhang Qi's 6th Division in the Dashibu and Puwang areas about 5 kilometers southeast of Taierzhuang and made no progress.

    On April 4, the Japanese troops in Taierzhuang continued to attack westward and encountered strong resistance. They only advanced about 80 meters. The 10th Regiment had returned to Beiluo from Huangzhuang.

    "Sakamoto Shun's 21st Brigade was surrounded and attacked by the 6th Division and the 27th Division in Puwang, east of Taierzhuang.  At this time, the troops of the 5th theater were encircling Taierzhuang from the north and east as planned. The Air Force dispatched 27 aircraft to bomb the Nigou Station and the Japanese troops in the northeast area of ??Taierzhuang. The battle on the entire Lunan battlefield became more intense.  .

    In view of this, Kei Setani, commander of the Japanese 33rd Brigade, attempted to strengthen the attack from the west and ordered the 10th Regiment gathered near Beiluo to launch an attack from the west of Taierzhuang. However, he was met with stubborn resistance from the 30th Division and the 110th Division.  Resistance without progress.

    Since the troops of the 5th theater had encircled the area north of Taierzhuang, the Sakamoto Shun Brigade east of Taierzhuang found that the situation was urgent and retreated northward on the evening of April 5, returning to Linyi.

    It is worth mentioning that Setani Keizen sent a message to ask about the situation of Jun Sakamoto, but Jun Sakamoto did not give a positive answer and withdrew. This move also directly trapped the Setani detachment.

    Because Jun Sakamoto suddenly withdrew 4 infantry brigades, 2 artillery brigades and tank troops, the enemy's strength near Taierzhuang was reduced.

    At this time, Tang's Army was encircling Taierzhuang from the north, Zhou Qi's 75th Army was from the east, and Sun Lianzhong's 2nd Army was encircling Taierzhuang from the south and west. Segu felt that the situation was serious.

    At this time, Oguqi¡¯s 33rd Brigade had been fighting continuously for 22 days since March 14. Although more troops were added in the meantime, the casualties were already very high.  Even against TaiwanThe battle at Zhuangzhuang has also lasted for 12 consecutive days. Due to the fierce counterattack of the defenders, it failed to capture. Moreover, the situation on the outside was already very urgent. The leading troops of the Tang Army on the north road were approaching Nigou and Segu to start their brigade.  Yangjia Temple, where the regiment headquarters is located.

    Kei Setani, who is experienced on the battlefield, already knows that his troops are being heavily surrounded by Chinese defenders, and also knows that once they are completely surrounded, unimaginable consequences will occur.

    After calculating the time, Kei Setani believed that if he had requested instructions normally and waited for the division's reply before retreating, he would have been surrounded and unable to escape from the predicament. Therefore, he made a decisive decision to report to the division headquarters at the same time.  The troops were ordered to organize a retreat that night and quickly leave the battlefield.

    However, what Kei Setani did not expect was that after receiving the report from Setani's troops, the commander of the enemy's 10th Division in Yanzhou, Rensuke Isotani, refused to withdraw.

    The reason is that Isotani Rensuke has just studied with the commander of the Second Army Nishio Hisao and is preparing to concentrate a certain amount of troops to capture Taierzhuang, and reinforcements are already on the way.  For this reason, the 10th Division Chief of Staff, Changdi Fujia, telegraphed to Setani Kai to stop the retreat and still carry out the original mission.

    But Kei Setani did not act according to the order. He knew that if he did not leave the Taierzhuang area that day, he would be trapped in a tight siege.

    Because the retreat was sudden and under critical circumstances, the Japanese army had been fighting in Taierzhuang for nearly half a month and accumulated a large amount of military supplies, of which ammunition, bullets, explosives, grenades, grain, medicine, gasoline, clothing, etc. were the largest.  It was difficult to carry all the supplies in a hasty retreat.

    Therefore, according to Setani Kei¡¯s order, all supplies that could not be carried were set on fire.  Therefore, on the evening of April 6, the area near Taierzhuang was ablaze with flames.

    The brutal enemy troops not only set fire to the supplies and equipment they could not take away, but also burned many villages. This was a brutal behavior often committed by the Japanese army when they failed.

    However, some Japanese troops failed to withdraw. For example, some enemy troops in Taierzhuang were heavily blocked and shot by the defending 31st Division when they retreated, making it impossible for them to escape. When this enemy troops were cut off from their own troops,  When they were contacted and could no longer escape, they set fire to themselves and burned themselves collectively.

    After a night of fighting, the defenders finally cleared away the remaining enemies at 4 a.m. on April 7.

    When Jun Sakamoto's 21st Brigade learned that Seya's 33rd Brigade had retreated from Taierzhuang, he immediately led his troops to speed up their retreat to the Linyi area, and the Fifth War Zone immediately organized troops to pursue it.

    Subsequently, all the Chinese troops participating in the war seized the retreating Japanese fighter planes and launched an all-out counterattack.  Suddenly, the Chinese army attacked from all sides in the Lunan area, and the Japanese army fled in panic. The death toll exceeded 16,000 people. This was the largest defeat the Japanese army suffered on the battlefield since the Meiji Restoration.

    The Japanese army was defeated in this battle, completely defeated!  The Fifth Theater of the Warring States Army defeated the main forces of the 5th and 10th elite divisions of the Japanese army, annihilated more than 20,000 Japanese troops, and seized a large number of weapons and ammunition, which seriously dampened the Japanese army's arrogance.

    Post-war statistics show that more than 20,000 enemies were killed in this battle, and more than 10,000 rifles, 931 heavy machine guns, 77 infantry guns, 40 tanks, and more than 50 cannons were captured (Remember  Website address: www.hlnovel.com
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