Solve the Japanese army in the alley, the 23rd regiment can finally get out of the city victoriously, the situation is a little bad, Chen Chunyi has just received a telegram from the division headquarters, the Japanese army has begun to reinforce Zaozhuang, so the troops in Zaozhuang must retreat quickly, fortunately, all the troops have basically cleared the Japanese army in the city, and it is much easier to run away than to attack, and for a time the city gates are dusty.

The situation changed again, the Japanese 63rd Wing attacked Taierzhuang, was repulsed by the defenders many times, this situation was learned by the top of the Second Army, the Second Army ordered the Japanese troops in the Linyi area to reinforce Taierzhuang as much as possible, and ordered the Japanese troops in Zaozhuang Yi County to reinforce Taierzhuang.

The Chinese side also responded quickly, and Li Zongren ordered Tang Enbo's 20th Army Corps to stop the attack in Zaozhuang and Yixian, and shift its main energy to the Taierzhuang line, and cooperate with the Second Army to "gather and annihilate the enemy's army" in Taierzhuang.

In response to Li Zongren's order, Tang Enbo quickly made a response deployment, he ordered Guan Linzheng's 52nd Army to immediately move to the direction of Taierzhuang, while Wang Zhonglian's 85th Army was still responsible for containing the Japanese army in the area of Zaozhuang Yixian.

Chen Daqing received the order and immediately ordered all units of the 4th Division to break away from the battle and move to the area of Qingshan and Fushan.

Zhang Wei led the troops, the first to go out of the city gate, and was also the first to go out of the city, near the city gate there were several soldiers of the 23rd Regiment left to guard, not far away is the third battalion that is being deployed.

"Are there any Japanese troops?" Zhang Wei asked at the soldiers.

"Report sir, no." A sergeant answered him.

"Well, the big army is behind, and you continue to meet them."

Zhang Wei looked at the dusty troops out of the city behind him, and thought to himself that he had to quickly lead the troops out of the city gate, otherwise he would suffer if he blocked the city gate, and besides, he had to guard against the Japanese surprise attack.

The team ran all the way forward, and soon rushed to the defense of the third battalion, and asked the soldiers of the third battalion, but nothing happened, Zhang Wei still felt that he should continue to move forward and expand the search area, after all, Zaozhuang has been fighting for so long, and with the consistent style of the Japanese army, reinforcements must be sent.

Zhang Wei advanced one kilometer with the independent company, which could be used as a warning and second, to contact the follow-up troops, without delay.

In order to prevent a surprise attack, Zhang Wei sent a squad of Hao Zhong to search forward in order to be prepared for the unexpected.

On the plain outside Zaozhuang, a Japanese search team is also advancing, and an infantry detachment of more than a dozen people is also the vanguard of the Japanese army to reinforce Zaozhuang.

In the grass, the soldiers of the forward squad of the independent company calmly hid, the squad leader was a veteran of the original teaching corps, and at the moment he was observing the ranks of the Japanese army.

The appearance of a dozen people, probably flies on the head, and there are Japanese stragglers intermittently in the back, so there must be a larger Japanese army behind.

The squad leader looked at the Japanese soldiers who came to help, and now it is too late to send someone back to report, so he can only fire a gun, then defeat this group of Japanese soldiers! The company commander was warned by the sound of gunfire that the Japanese troops in the rear were still some distance away from this place, and with this time difference, the troops would be ready to respond to the enemy.

The squad leader raised his hand to the surrounding soldiers, and the soldiers under his command hid in different locations according to the distribution of each combat group, and the squad leader leveled the Zhongzheng rifle in his hand, and pointed the Japanese soldier who was walking in the front on the crosshair, because the distance was very close, almost to the nose, so there was no need to adjust the ruler at all.

Bump - the bullet hit the Japanese soldier accurately, tearing a large hole in his chest. After the squad leader's gunfire, others also began to fire, and the Japanese detachment that was suddenly attacked lost half of it in this instant, especially the light machine gun fire, the Japanese rarely encountered such Chinese troops.

The machine gunners used short shots and single shots to take out most of the remaining Japanese troops, and the riflemen occasionally plugged leaks, and finally ran away from two Japanese soldiers.

There are gunshots! After Zhang Wei heard the gunshots, he immediately asked the troops to advance in battle formation, and he was still running at the front.

When he walked to the place, Zhang Wei was prostrate on the ground, and what he saw were sporadic Japanese corpses, and there were no casualties in the forward squad. After asking the forward squad leader, Zhang Wei judged that this was the search team of the Japanese army, so there must be a large force behind, their purpose was to reinforce Zaozhuang, and they must be blocked, otherwise the 23rd Regiment and even the 4th Division would be in danger!

"Defend in place, dig trenches!"

Zhang Wei's shout was an order, each platoon dispersed, and began to dig a simple individual pit in a group, at this time it was too late to build a trench, and it was impossible to connect the foxholes, so they could only dig a simple individual pit before the arrival of the Japanese army.

The soldiers began to dig trenches in battle groups, and each three-person combat group except one person stood guard on the spot, and the other two men dug on the spot with small shovels, and one after another foxholes were formed.

Zhang Wei's foxhole was naturally dug for him, and he took a telescope to observe the distance, almost a flat river, once this kind of terrain was hit on a large scale, then maybe the entire national army in Zaozhuang would be finished.

The appearance of the Japanese army just now was very strange, normally speaking, the distance between the forward search team and the large army was only one kilometer at most, but now except for the scattered Japanese stragglers in the telescope, I didn't see the big force at all, that is to say, the Japanese army just now was too long on the front line and too far away from the big army, so the big army didn't have time to rush here, maybe, those devils were on the way back to report the news.

Zhang Wei thought for a while, this is a good thing for himself and the troops, looking at the individual pit that is gradually taking shape, Zhang Wei called the four platoon commanders.

"Wait a while to take care of your respective platoons, hear my gunfire before firing, and the grenadier group should be placed at the back of each squad, ready to support, and there will be no confusion."

"Company commander, what if there are too many devils?" He Kun asked a useful question.

Zhang Wei put away the binoculars: "The Japanese are now too long on the battle line, they are fighting with us in the Zaozhuang area, and they have to divide their troops to Taierzhuang, Commander Tang has an army and a division of troops here, and their people are not enough at all." ”

"The battle line is too long, there are too many battlefields, the Japanese army's forces must be scattered, there will not be many of them, and it is impossible to take out all the forces to attack, it must be to carry out a wide frontal search first, and then attack, we just need to resist and let Commander Chen and them be prepared."

Several platoon commanders ate Zhang Wei's reassurance, and they also knew it in their hearts, but Xu Yi was still a little drumming, after all, he was fighting with the Japanese seriously, and he didn't have a few days at all, and it was still a little difficult to understand what Zhang Wei said about the light positive search.

Zhang Wei jumped into the foxhole dug for himself by the search team, and put his own business on the edge of the pit. The soldiers around were basically ready, and a simple defense system consisting of dozens of foxholes had taken shape.

Behind Zhang Wei, Dong Erli's mortar squad also dug a position, Zhang Wei would personally command them, in the battle in Zaozhuang, Dong Erli got three grenadiers and a batch of ammunition, and finally equipped it again, now, it will drag on for time, waiting for the Japanese army to make a move.