In the area of Qingshan Mountain, the dust was flying, and the troops who came over made the originally calm mountain area lively.

The 85th Army was determined to rely on the mountainous area to contain the Japanese army in the area of Zaozhuang Yi County.

In the temporary headquarters of the 85th Army, army commander Wang Zhonglian and commander of the 4th Division Chen Daqing and Zhang Xuezhong, commander of the 89th Division, gathered together to discuss the battle situation and orders.

"Now that the Japanese army is fighting with our army in the area of Taierzhuang and Zaozhuang, the theater command has issued an order for us to cooperate with friendly forces and contain the devils on Zaozhuang's side, and the 52nd Army has been transferred. The devils who are ready to besiege Taierzhuang with the 2nd Army of the Northwest Army over there. ”

Army Commander Wang Zhonglian explained the general situation of the battle, and the two division commanders under his command had different ideas after listening to it. The first to speak was Zhang Xuezhong: "Junzao, so I see that our army has a good chance of winning the siege of the enemy, but the casualties are very large." ”

In the fierce battle for several days, the casualties of various units were not small, and a few company-level units had already been wiped out, and there was no time to replenish them. Chen Daqing thought farther and asked: "It is impossible for the Japanese army to let us succeed like this, I heard that the fighting on the Linyi side is also very fierce, I don't know if Zhang Zizhong can withstand it?"

Of course, Wang Zhonglian knew that the battle on the Linyi side was fierce, but now, the position was still firmly in Zhang Zizhong's hands. "The Linyi direction has not been broken through now, Zhang Zizhong and Pang Bingxun have held their positions, but they have fought very hard, at least now, it seems that it is worry-free." Next, Wang Zhonglian temporarily arranged the defense, the troops were mainly on defense, tried to avoid taking the initiative to attack, and were not allowed to act rashly before issuing the order to attack, and dragged the Japanese army with defensive warfare and harassment, as long as the goal of holding down the Japanese army was achieved.

This arrangement is really helpless, the casualties of the troops are very large, and now the last batch of recruits of the supplementary regiment and a group of strong men who have not undergone military training have been replenished to the troops, and it is precisely before the counteroffensive order is issued that they cannot attack indiscriminately, otherwise the troops will be finished if they run out. At this time, Taierzhuang.

The second brigade of the 63rd wing of the Japanese army has just captured a stronghold, and all the officers and men in the northwest have been killed in battle.

"Kill" A shout of killing came from a distance, the Japanese soldiers hurriedly grabbed their weapons, and the Chinese troops in the village began to counterattack again! The defenders of Zhuang Nai were the 91st Brigade and the 93rd Brigade of the 31st Division, and the battalion commander at the front learned that the last stronghold outside Zhuang was lost, and issued a strict order to recapture it, and even he himself went to the front line to supervise the battle. Looking at the subordinates who were no longer in formation, the battalion commander was ruthless, and ordered all the defeated soldiers to gather together and participate in the counterattack. The routers lined up on the pile of tiles outside the village, and behind them were the overseers and the formed counterattack troops, and after a while, they would attack together. Some soldiers threw away their rifles and picked up the broadswords behind them, but more chose bayonets, and these soldiers of the Northwest Army found in the battles for several days that the wrought iron broadswords in their hands did not have any advantage over the Japanese bayonets and mechanical command knives, but the bayonets could use their position to counterattack.

War is always the best teacher.

"Hit!" Several Type 24 heavy machine guns on the rocks began to fire, firing at the place that the Japanese had just captured. The soldiers jumped out of the stone piles and the walls outside the village, shouting and charging. "Kill. The Japanese rifle salvo and machine gun fire composed of a network of fire, constantly harvesting the lives of the officers and soldiers in the northwest, more than 30 people relying on the positions just captured and the northwest army in a fierce battle, unfortunately, the Japanese army is insufficient, in Taierzhuang is only a strengthened infantry brigade, they have no way to invest enough troops in a single point, even such a rapid counterattack, still can not block the northwest army's counterattack offensive.

"Fuck you." A platoon commander of the Northwest Army threw out a grenade, hit it in his hand, and stuck a shell gun in his waist, just like a standard Northwest Army pistol team equipment, and the soldiers around him also beat him with rifles. The exploding grenade killed two Japanese soldiers who were shooting, and a gap appeared in the Japanese defensive line, and the officers and men of the Northwest Army took this opportunity to rush forward.

"There's a leak, there's a loophole." More firepower hit this breach, and the Japanese were powerless to fight back, and soon, a flood of officers and soldiers from the northwest rushed into the newly lost position. Hand-to-hand combat began, more than 20 Japanese soldiers and the Northwest Army, which was several times their size, fought fiercely, the platoon commander of the Northwest Army slashed people with a knife, and at the same time opened fire on people with shell guns, fighting in the old way, and the others fought against the Japanese army.

With the sound of a shot from the platoon commander, a local counterattack was successful, and the Japanese army was almost completely annihilated, with only a few fish that slipped through the net, but the casualties among the officers and men in the northwest were even greater.

"Damn, it's still the same old way of playing." The platoon commander plunged a bloody broadsword into the soil. At the same time, the 52nd Army, which rushed to the area around Taierzhuang, also began to launch a counteroffensive. On the 29th, the main force of the 52nd Army arrived at the predetermined location, the main force of the 2nd Division attacked the Japanese troops in Beidayao and Nanluo and Beiluo, and the 25th Division attacked the Japanese troops in Hongwawutun, with the purpose of encircling and annihilating the Japanese Seya detachment! The first to attack was the 2nd Division, and the division commander Zheng Dongguo decided to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Japanese army to attack the Japanese troops on the front line of Guanzhuang and Beidayao. The officers and men of the 2nd Division launched an attack on the 10th Wing of the Japanese Army under the cover of artillery fire, and the Japanese army was forced to give up under the onslaught of the 2nd Division because it had just arrived here, and its foothold was not stable and it had not been replenished.

After the 2nd Division launched an attack, the 25th Division also attacked the enemy in front of it, but the Japanese army in front of it was ready, the 25th Division organized several fierce charges, but did not take the position, and finally contacted the 2nd Division, only to find a hole in the defense of the Japanese army in front, the Japanese army failed to make enough defense on the flank, and there was almost no Japanese army in the area of Zhangshan and Tianmu Mountain, which became a loophole to be exploited.

The 25th Division then sent troops, made a detour to the flank, and after launching a feint attack on the front, launched a surprise attack on the flank, and the Japanese were suddenly attacked, and finally forced to retreat, leaving behind a lot of corpses along the way.

Under the attack of the 52nd Army, the Japanese army was defeated and retreated to the Haozhuang-Zhanglou-Jiajiazhao line, and the battles along the way caused them a lot of casualties. In order to better implement the encirclement plan, Tang Enbo ordered the 85th Army to launch a feint attack on the area of Yixian, and Wang Zhonglian ordered the 89th Division to pretend to attack Yixian, in fact, it was to hang around twice on the outskirts of the city and shoot a few shots.

When the 85th Army launched a feint, the 52nd Army launched another attack with high morale and the cooperation of friendly troops, and in less than two days, forced back the counterattack of the 10th Wing, attacked by the Haozhuang-Zhanglou line, successively defeated Lanchengdian and Sanfolou, and finally captured Wangzhuang, and the small Japanese defenders in the village were completely annihilated.

The extended attack of the 10th Wing was returned by the 52nd Army, and finally counterattacked by the 52nd Army, leaving several points behind. Not only did it affect the retreat of the troops, but the second brigade of the 63rd Wing, which was attacking Taierzhuang head-on, also felt the pressure, and the attack was forced to stop. The 2nd Group Army, which held Taierzhuang, learned of the success of the counterattack of the Central Army, coupled with the failure of the Japanese offensive outside Zhuang, Commander Sun Lianzhong ordered the other two divisions, the 27th Division and the 30th Division, to also send one to participate in the counterattack, and the 63rd Wing was completely driven out of Taierzhuang, and at the same time, relying on the superiority of troops, it also faintly formed an encirclement trend.

The Seya detachment is really in danger, and the counterattack of the Tang Army is beginning to bear fruit!