On March 31, the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), the Chinese army completely surrounded the Seya Detachment of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army (more than 20,000 people of the Seya Brigade Heavy Artillery Wing) that entered the Taierzhuang area.

At this time, the Sakamoto detachment of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army turned from Linyi to Taierzhuang to rush to help, arrived in the Xiangcheng and Aiqu areas, and flanked the 20th Army Corps of the Chinese Army.

The 20th Army Corps immediately ordered the 52nd Army and the newly arrived 75th Army to besiege the Sakamoto detachment, and fought fiercely for several days, inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese and frustrating their plan to rescue the Seya detachment.

Seeing that there was no hope for rescue, Seya decided to fight to the death, killing them one by one. Although the Chinese army besieged with five times the strength of the army and paid a great price for casualties, it was difficult to destroy the enemy, and the war was in a stalemate for a while.

On the evening of the same day, 800 death squads acted in groups, counterattacked the enemy in the middle of the night, fought to the death with the enemy, fought fiercely all night, and annihilated 5 or 600 enemies who entered the north of Taierzhuang.

The death squad recaptured the Neiwei market in Taierzhuang, recaptured many positions in one fell swoop, Lao Qin and their "-stirring stick" death squad with battalion commander Xu Dehou as the captain, 57 people and nearly 13 people survived.

On April 1, that is, in the early morning of the next day, Lao Qin, Lao Shao, Lao Qian, Xiao Wan, and Xiao Ren were injured and sent to the temporary field hospital of the division headquarters for ambulance.

At the same time, in order to expand the results of the battle, the Fifth Theater added a supplementary regiment to the 31st Division, and after crossing the canal, it immediately plunged into the house-to-house battle with the devils.

On April 2, the Air Force Committee of the General Headquarters also sent the Air Force to participate in the battle and drop bombs and strafe to cut off the Japanese troops outside the village from entering the village to help.

On April 3, Tai'er Zhuangwei continued to kill the enemy, desperately attacking the stubborn devils at the north gate, and the devils began to besiege outside the village, and the Japanese troops in Linyi, Yixian and other places also wanted to get closer, but were intercepted by the 59th, 75th, 52nd and other armies, and were not allowed to advance.

On April 4, the stubborn Japanese army at the North Gate began to burn documents and military flags, and many devils hugged their heads and cried under the bunker, almost running out of ammunition and food, and the devils could only rely on planes to transport food and ammunition, but many floated to the positions of the national army.

On April 5, the Chinese army surrounded and attacked inside and outside, hunting and killing Japanese soldiers house by house. Within one day, the 31st Division fought hand-to-hand with the enemy dozens of times, and regained Gongzhuang and Fankou in the northwest corner of Taierzhuang, and a small number of enemies at the north gate resisted stubbornly.

Lao Han, the third battalion of the 184th Regiment, took a different path, with a company of recruits, did not go to the market or alleys, but used a large number of grenades and explosives brought by the recruits to blow up the houses along the road.

Every time he went to a house, he used explosives to open the walls, then threw grenades and blew people up, and machine guns strafed all the dead corners, and every time he hit a house, it was almost razed to the ground, so that the devils inside had nowhere to hide.

In this way, Lao Han took a company of people to do the work of sapper blasting, and then added infantry to sweep the tail, blow up houses along the road, split a road, and hunt devils.

When the explosives ran out, they used cluster grenades (there were more than 12 bunches) to blow up houses and bunkers, anyway, now almost all the devil tanks outside Zhuangzi are lying down, because the supply line has been cut off and there is no gas.

The artillery also stopped, and there were no shells. But the mad devil, when he was dying and struggling, actually began to use poison gas.

Poison gas is a good thing to use on enemies under siege, because the besieged people can't move to hide and hide; But for the outside siege, the effect is average.

Therefore, when the devils used poison gas, it aroused the great indignation of the Chinese army, and the Chinese army used fire to deal with the poison gas of the devils against the dark fort compound where one of the devils was defending.

This is also Lao Han's ghost idea, he knew that poisonous gas is a thing, that is, gas, when it encounters wind and fire, it will float away, so they first used fire to suppress the devil's bunker gun hole.

Then he found a large amount of firewood and piled it up around and lit it; Even drove the car abandoned by the devil, filled it with oil and firewood, lit it, crushed the accelerator of the car with a heavy object, and the car rushed into the gate of the compound by itself.

The burning outside here burned the poisonous gas of the devils into the sky, and also burned the devils in the bunker compound, like ground mice, couldn't stand it and fled in all directions.

is just waiting for you to come out, there are guns of the Chinese army all around outside, as long as a devil comes out, even if it is a devil who is burned all over his body, he will be shot.

On April 6, the 5th Theater issued a general attack order. The 52nd, 85th, and 75th armies launched a fierce offensive against the enemy near Taierzhuang.

The Chinese Air Force bombed Japanese positions in the northeast and northwest of Taierzhuang with 27 aircraft. That night, the Japanese Seya detachment was overwhelmed, blew up the materials that were not easy to move, and fled to Yixian.

The 30th Division of the 31st Army, the most critical force in this battle, received the order to counterattack at this time, and the remnants of the division, looking excited, shouted the slogan of avenging their brothers, rushed out of Zhuangzi, and tried their best to counterattack.

At this time, the enemy army had become the end of the crossbow, the ammunition and gasoline had run out, many motor vehicles had been destroyed, and the whole army was devastated and fled in confusion. The Chinese army seized this good opportunity and pursued it fiercely, and the corpses of enemy soldiers were everywhere, and all kinds of baggage were everywhere.

On April 7th, Taierzhuang won a big victory!

We won! We won. The brothers of the 31st Division ran and shouted, and even Lao Qin and them, who were in the temporary field hospital, hugged each other and cried.

It's not easy!

In the Battle of Taierzhuang, the Chinese army defeated the main forces of the 5th and 10th elite divisions of the Japanese army, annihilating more than 11,000 Japanese troops.

A large number of weapons and ammunition (more than 10,000 rifles, 931 light and heavy machine guns, 77 rifles, 40 combat vehicles, more than 50 cannons, and a small number of prisoners were captured) were captured, which seriously dampened the arrogance of the Japanese army.

It was also a great victory in the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which invigorated the spirit of the whole nation and strengthened the belief of the Chinese people in the victory of the War of Resistance against Japan.

The Northwest Army almost used the traditional broadsword to withstand the steel storm of the Japanese army in Taierzhuang, and the statistics of the 30th Army afterwards showed that an average of one or so devils were killed with a broadsword.

Some of the brothers known to Lao Qin were on the list: Liu Zhihao, a master of swordsmanship, slashed and killed 13 people, and Wang Jiashan, the commander of the Han battalion of the third battalion, killed 9 people.

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Lao Qin, who had just recovered, walked on the road of Taierzhuang, and the shrapnel of shells and grenades accumulated a lot, and the thick places were several inches deep.

The sunshine of late spring was a bit dazzling, and Lao Qin's gaze, through the sun, seemed to see the brothers who had sacrificed in the Ninth Company, not far away, under the leadership of the old company commander Guo Kaiting, facing him together and greeting him.

It's a casual greeting, as if it's a certain afternoon, everyone greets everyone to go to training, go to the canteen to eat, or go to the market to relax and go shopping.

"Company Commander", "Qin Company Commander", and "Old Qin" ...... "Go together. ”

All kinds of formal and informal, cordial, and warm names filled Lao Qin's ears for a while.

Seeing them coming with laughter and laughter, Lao Qin in a trance, before he had time to reply, saw them like shadows, straight through Lao Qin's body.

Frightened, Lao Qin broke out in a cold sweat, and hurriedly retreated to the side of the road, leaning his back against the wall full of gun holes, his mouth squirming, but he couldn't say a word.

Lao Qin was full of words, and he didn't know what to say for a while, so he slowly raised his right hand, straightened it and put it on the brim of his hat, and gave his brothers a slow and lengthy military salute.

Looking back at the backs of his brothers who had disappeared away, Lao Qin's soles were weak, and he sat on the ground covered with shrapnel, closed his eyes, and was reluctant to open his eyes to see this world and this cruel and sad world for a long time.