Commander Zhang had no choice, so he took advantage of the darkness to let the trumpeters blow the retreat trumpet, and after some troops heard it, they had already withdrawn and retreated to the second position.

There is no danger of retreat as imagined, the main reason is that the Japanese army is unable to catch up, and there are still some soldiers of the 305th Regiment who remain on the battlefield and fight with the devils.

Maybe they were already mad and couldn't hear the signal to retreat, or they couldn't leave all of a sudden, they were entangled by devils, and finally they went through the receiving troops and tried to let them know, so they retreated one after another.

There was an extremely absurd scene on the battlefield, that is, when the Chinese soldiers dragged their wounded and heavy bodies past the crowd of Japanese soldiers, they thought that they were going to have another bloody fight.

But no, it was strange that the Japanese army consciously dodged a way and let the Chinese soldiers go.

At this point, Sangou saw it for the first time, but the two sides really didn't have the strength to attack anymore, so it was better to let each other and themselves go.

As soon as the men of the 305th Regiment entered their second line of defense, most of them could not hold it and immediately collapsed to the ground, while most of the Japanese troops who remained in the first line of positions also collapsed to the ground when they saw the defenders far away.

The three dogs lay in the bunker for more than an hour before they got up to eat, and there were still many people around who couldn't get up, and the radish at this time was still laughing whether to give the devil a night attack.

As a result, this proposal was immediately and firmly rejected by the vast majority of people, in fact, the radish proposal is very good, and now is a good opportunity for a night attack, because the devil is also very tired, and it is estimated that he is too tired to get up.

But the problem is that the three dogs are even more tired, not to mention going to the night attack, and now even if they go to the devil's camp, it is estimated that more than half of them will sleep on the way.

The ancients paid attention to fighting wars, and then they fell into decline, and then exhausted, that is, they should use soldiers with high morale, and tired soldiers should not be used.

The soldiers of the third battalion left several machine gun companies that did not fully participate in the stabbing during the day to sentry, and the others all fell asleep soundly.

The devil estimates that even if there are Chinese soldiers attacking at night, if you want to die, you have to sleep comfortably before you die.

But it really made the Chinese soldiers successful again, the 306th regiment attacked at night, this regiment that had stayed for nearly half a year before, had a tradition of night raids.

They are not as tired as the 305th Regiment today, although they are also defensive, so they took a fancy to the devil camp opposite the 305th Regiment, and saw that they had fought all day without rest, and they went to do it at night.

Unexpectedly, he almost made a big deal like this, and almost killed the captain of the devil's co-captain, and in the middle of the night, a battalion of men and horses killed into the devil's camp, and the sound of killing was everywhere.

Many devils are too tired and slow to react, and even if they get up, they can't help the Chinese soldiers to slash and kill violently.

The wing commander and his subordinates lost contact, but fortunately, they had a car at the wing headquarters and drove it away, so they could be regarded as getting rid of the pursuit of the 306th regiment.

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By May 17, a small force of Japanese troops had appeared around Xuzhou, and the Japanese army gradually infiltrated the Xuzhou area.

In the afternoon of the same day, there was a bombing by Japanese planes over Xuzhou, and the Fifth Theater Command moved out of Xuzhou to work in the suburbs, and at the same time began to intensify efforts to withdraw troops from the Xuzhou area.

The withdrawal of troops that began at the beginning of May, and by May 18, most of the troops had been withdrawn, and the 51st Division of Sangou had withstood the Japanese flank attack at Dangshan Mountain, covering the smooth retreat of the large army.

In particular, the 153rd Brigade was in the Guandi Temple, and it was at the forefront of the troops who broke through the siege of Xuzhou, and fought fiercely with the Japanese army for several days in a row, nailing them to the Guandi Temple, so that the Japanese army could not advance a single step.

The Longhai line behind it is a continuous transportation every night, and hundreds of thousands of troops break through in this way, Dangshan, similar to China's Dunkirk.

The Great Siege of Xuzhou, similar to the Great Retreat of Dunkirk in China, achieved the major results of victoriously transferring hundreds of thousands of living forces.

On May 18, General Xue Yue, commander of the Eastern Henan Corps, ordered the 8th Army, 24th Division, 187th Division, and 174th Brigade to come to Dangshan to transfer the defense of the 74th Army and the 95th Division.

The 74th Army, the 95th Division, and the 64th Army were withdrawn from the battlefield and took a train along the Longhai Line to Minquan via Shangqiu, where they went to intercept the attack from the Japanese North China Front.

After receiving the order, the 305th Regiment immediately began to prepare at night, but the 8th Army had not yet arrived, saying that the 8th Army would not arrive until tomorrow morning.

But if we wait until tomorrow morning when the 305th Regiment withdraws, it will be troublesome, and now the transfer of troops is generally at night, and there are Japanese planes during the day, and the team does not dare to blatantly walk on the ground.

However, the above urged the 74th Army to leave immediately on the evening of May 18, and strive for the vanguard troops to reach Minquan on May 19 and enter the position of blocking.

There was no way, the 305th Regiment could only choose to leave one unit to guard the time of the defensive vacuum on the night of May 18, and Regiment Commander Zhang set his sights on Sangou.

This unit is not only to be tough, but also to have the ability of the commander to fight independently, looking at the entire 305 regiment, it is none other than Sangou.

Thinking of the Seventh Company, which was full of wounded soldiers, Sangou wanted to push off this task, but how? Others are also full of wounded soldiers, and they are also exhausted, and besides, the military orders are like mountains, how can they say that they can push it?

After the meeting, Zhang Lingwu left Sangou alone and invited him to have a formal meal, and last time he secretly ate some canned food at night.

This time, while eating, we chatted.

For Sangou, Zhang Lingwu is a little conflicted now, on the one hand, he admires Sangou's ability, and hopes to keep him by his side to ensure his safety so that he can be cultivated in the future.

On the one hand, he wanted to let him out and take charge of himself and contribute more to the 305th Regiment, but now it is the time to employ people, and there is a shortage of capable grassroots cadres like Sangou in the army.

So this time, it is really a bit of a dilemma to put Sangou and his Seventh Company at the end to cover everyone's withdrawal, but I think that soldiers still need more experience and dedication to the country, and besides, Jiren has his own nature, life and death.

"Company Commander Luo, the Japanese army rarely attacks at night normally, but it is also necessary to guard against them, in the past, when I was in Nanjing, the Japanese army had a non-stop attack all night."

Zhang Lingwu was a little worried, afraid that the three dogs would be careless, so he reminded him twice.

"Yes, it also depends on whether the Japanese army's mission is urgent, or whether the goal is important, now it seems that our Guandi Temple position is the forward position of Dangshan, and it is indeed more important for the Japanese army."

Sangou thought that Captain Zhang was going to test him again, so he took over the topic and talked about it.

"Moreover, this time the Japanese army is in a hurry to close the encirclement, and seeing that our large troops in the Fifth Theater are constantly breaking through, they are also in a hurry, so it is even more necessary to pay attention to the impatience of the Japanese army."

"Commander, you reminded you well, we will arrange more manpower at night, arrange more secret posts, and pay close attention to the enemy's movements."

"You have suffered a lot of casualties in the Seventh Company this time, right?"

"Report to the regiment commander, there are more wounded in the seventh company, 22 people have been sacrificed, 11 are seriously injured, and they have been sent to the field hospital, and now there are 122 people in the whole company, almost all of whom have different degrees of minor injuries."