The blood of the Anti-Japanese War stained the mountains and rivers

The head of the regiment, Zhang Handuo, was not as optimistic as Yang Ling. He frowned and said, "I heard that the 9th and 13th Divisions of the Devils have been forced over from the south. Once the opening to the south is sealed, my 60 main force in Xuzhou will become a prison The fierce tiger in the..."

Zhang Handuo's worries are not groundless. After all, anyone with a discerning eye can see the Japanese army's combat plan. The Japanese army is using a conspiracy. Both the theater staff and the chief are well aware of it, but no one wants to give up the great situation since the Taierzhuang victory. Take the initiative to give up the Xuzhou area.

However, if the Xuzhou area is not given up, then the main 60 troops of the fifth theater staying in the Xuzhou area are in danger of being wiped out.

Yang Ling and the others' worries didn't last long. General Li Zongren, the chief of the Fifth War Zone, soon made up his mind to evacuate.

Surrounded by iron drums of hundreds of thousands of elite Japanese troops, the 60 miscellaneous troops commanded by General Li Zongren began to evacuate the Xuzhou area alternately.

In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the great defeat in the Battle of Shanghai, General Li Zongren specially stipulated the evacuation sequence and time of each army regiment and each unit, and everything was carried out in an orderly manner.

The Eastern Henan Corps where Yang Ling and the others belonged was responsible for continuing to fight in the Eastern Henan area to cover the withdrawal of the main force of the Fifth Theater from Xuzhou.

This was an evacuation operation of unprecedented scale in the Chinese battlefield. Although there was a bloody battle in Fuji County and a great victory in Taierzhuang in the early stage of the Xuzhou Battle, in the face of the powerful offensive of the Japanese army, the neutral forces had to take the initiative to transfer.

The evacuated 60 troops and millions of people gathered together into a long gray dragon. If the broadcast advertised it, this was a strategic retreat, not a failure!

The withdrawal of the Chinese army from the Xuzhou battlefield made the Japanese army furious, and the attacking divisions accelerated their offensive pace, trying to bite the retreating Chinese army.

Among them, the main force of Kenji Doihara's 14th Division went on a rampage all the way, rushing frivolously under the city of Lanfeng, trying to insert into the west of Xuzhou and cut off the Longhai Railway.

At this moment, General Xue Yue, the commander of the Eastern Henan Corps, who was covering the withdrawal of the main force of the fifth theater in the eastern Henan area, saw the wild wolf rushing forward and smelled a trace of a fighter.

General Xue Yue has always had the nickname of "Tiger Cub". Now that the curtain of the Xuzhou battle has fallen, facing the 14th Division of the Japanese Army rushing all the way to him, he does not want to just let it go.

"Annihilate the 14th Division of the Japanese Army in the area between Neihuang, Yifeng, and Minquan! All troops immediately go to the designated area on time! Violators will be punished by military law!"

In the end, General Xue Yue, the commander of the Eastern Henan Corps, still decided to annihilate the 14th Division of the Japanese Army in one go, and win another big victory like Taierzhuang!

The reason why General Xue Yue has such confidence is that the Yudong Corps under his command are all elite troops of the Central Army, whether it is the 74th Army and the 7th Army of General Song Xilian, or the 27th Army of Gui Yongqing, Li Hanhun The 64th Army of China is the number one unit in the combat power platoon, so there is a possibility of completely annihilating the 14th Division.

"Advance into Neihuang with all your strength! Attack and advance!"

The combat order was quickly sent to the regiment headquarters of the 301st regiment. Zhang Handuo and Yang Ling, the commanders of the regiment, looked at each other and saw the excitement on each other's faces.

Main text Chapter 367 Go all out!

Thick black clouds overturned the entire battlefield. In the trenches full of death, the soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army covered in dust silently wiped their bayonets, sorted their bullet bags, and made the final preparations before the attack.

In a low and dim house behind the position, the lanterns hanging on the wall swayed and trembled with the occasional cannon sounds in the distance. Under Wen's weak light, there were dusty but resolute faces.

General Xue Yue's Eastern Henan Corps has issued an order to encircle and wipe out the 14th Division of the Japanese Army. The 301st Regiment has also received a new combat order, which is to cooperate with friendly forces and attack the inner Huangcheng at all costs to complete the annihilation of the Japanese army. task.

The brothers of the 74th Army have been training all winter, and it has been a week since they arrived at the battlefield from Hubei. During this short period of time, most of them were engaged in tug-of-war with the Japanese army in the trenches, and no large-scale battles occurred. They can't play well.

But now they are going to act together with the entire Yudong Corps to annihilate the elite of the 14th Division of the Japanese Army, which is advancing arrogantly. This is an unprecedented large-scale operation, and all the brothers are extremely excited.

The head of the regiment, Zhang Handuo, was in a neat uniform with shiny riding boots. His voice was sonorous and forceful, conveying the combat order from the military headquarters. All the officers above the platoon level gathered in the temporary regiment headquarters read the order, and their blood boiled in their bones. stand up.

"Did you hear the order clearly!?" Zhang Handuo, the head of the regiment, closed the file folder, glanced sharply at the officers in the room, and asked loudly.

"At all costs! Push into Neihuang with all your strength!"

All the officers in the room answered neatly, their voices were confident and resonant, shaking the low-rise civilian houses to rustle with dust.

Brothers have waited for this day for too long. In the past, they were always retreating, throwing cities to the Japanese. They fought countless defeats, but now they are going to take the initiative to attack and annihilate the Japanese army divisions group.

"Brothers! The troops of the Sichuan Army stained Teng County with blood. They are bloody and not afraid of death! Chief Li's troops were able to wipe out more than 1 little devils in Taierzhuang. They have shown the prestige of our Chinese soldiers! Our Central Army is not a coward! This time we must We must go all out to wipe out the Tufeiyuan Division! Show off our army's prestige! Boost our morale!"

The words of the head of the regiment Zhang Handuo were so loud that all the officers were excited. Although the troops commanded by General Li Zongren achieved a great victory in Taierzhuang and wiped out more than 1 devils, it was a pity that they did not wipe out all the devils in the end.

Seeing the friendly troops fighting lively, their central army is known as the elite, but they have been beating on the periphery. This time, they also urgently want to fight a big battle to encircle and wipe out the Japanese army divisions, and win a victory that shocked the whole country, so that the friendly brothers also Take a look, let the people of the whole country see that their Central Army is not just a show, but a mainstay on the anti-Japanese battlefield!

"Okay, disband, launch an attack in half an hour!"

Seeing the high morale of the officers, the head of the regiment, Zhang Handuo, didn't say much, and announced the dissolution with a wave of his hand.

The officers filed out, and soon went straight to their respective companies and disappeared into the darkness. After Yang Ling said goodbye to the regiment commander Zhang Handuo, he went straight to his third battalion, while the regiment headquarters moved together with the second battalion.

This battle is very different from the previous ones. Now the 14th Division of the Japanese Army is occupying the Longhai Line and is attacking the area west of Xuzhou, while Yang Ling's combat mission is to advance in the direction of the Japanese army's attack. This is an extremely risky battle. Big confrontation, not like the previous defense.

On the one hand, there is the elite 14th Division of the Japanese Army, and on the other hand, the Yudong Corps, which has gathered countless elite troops of the Central Army. This is a head-on confrontation between the strong and the strong. You will know in one battle.

The battlefield was still dead silent, and the scorched-earth battlefield turned pale by occasional flares. Yang Ling walked along the trenches and crossed the trenches crowded with brothers, patting the brothers on the shoulder all the way, silently encouraging them.

Yang Ling soon arrived at the forward position, where he could see the Japanese army erected barbed wire and deep trenches in the opposite position, and their third battalion would attack from here.

This was an unreserved offensive operation, the entire regiment participated in the attack, and even the cooking soldiers and clerks were incorporated into the combat companies.

In addition to the 301st regiment, all units of the 74th Army have also arrived at the designated attack position. They will cooperate with General Song Xilian's troops to launch an attack from the southern front.

In the other directions, there are elite attacking troops, such as Gui Yongqing's troops, Li Hanhun's troops, etc., are all elites armed to the teeth, and the 14th Division, which is fat and round, has become a turtle in a urn. There will be a thunderbolt.

The wait was tormenting, and the time passed by every minute and every second. Yang Ling hadn't been so excited and excited for a long time. He checked his gun and bullets again and again, raised his watch, and saw that the hour hand had pointed to It was nine o'clock.

"Everyone is ready!" Yang Ling's steady voice rang out in the trench, and there was a crackling sound from the trench, and everyone loaded their guns.

"call out--"

A red signal flare rose up into the sky, followed by the rumbling sound.

A burst of white light suddenly flashed across the horizon, and there were countless sounds of piercing overhead, and the overwhelming artillery shells dragged a long line of fire and poured towards the Japanese positions.

Two full hours of artillery preparation was enough to blow up the Japanese army's position in front of them to pieces. In fact, it was true. The artillery fire of the entire army was concentrated, and even the reinforced concrete fortifications could not hold it.

Groups of explosive flames lit up from the Japanese positions, and soon the entire Japanese positions turned into a sea of ​​flames, and the entire night sky was illuminated red.

In the flames of the explosion, the rotten wood, mutilated limbs, steel helmets, and sandbags on the Japanese army's position were all lifted into the sky by the fierce air waves, and the Japanese army's position fell into a fiery hell.

The densely packed brothers lying in the trenches looked at the miserable conditions of the Japanese army positions without any pity or sympathy. They wished to blow up these little devils to the sky.

The scorching air wave of the explosion swept over, and the entire buffer zone was filled with gunpowder smoke and mud dust. The thick smoke was billowing, and the sight of the brothers was gradually covered, but the flash of the explosion could still be seen in the thick smoke.

The artillery fire was extending to the depths of the Japanese positions. Amid the deafening artillery fire, the officers shouted loudly from all the trenches: "Attack! Attack!"

The order to attack resounded across the battlefield in the darkness, and the crowds of people in the dark trenches surged, as if the trenches had life. The densely packed brothers turned out of the trenches and rushed towards the Japanese positions that were engulfed in flames.

Text Chapter 368 Confrontation

The earth-shattering shouts of killing resounded through the night sky, and the surviving Japanese soldiers under the bombardment looked in the direction of the sound, and saw Chinese soldiers all over the mountains and plains rushing towards them.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

The terrified Japanese soldier let out a shrill roar, but his voice was quickly drowned out by the louder explosion.

In the flames of the explosion, black shadows quickly rushed into the Japanese position.

The original strong trenches, well-defined fortifications and firepower points of the Japanese positions were all completely destroyed by artillery fire, and many trenches were razed to the ground.