Speaking of the 14th Division, I have to mention that the division commander of this division, Kenji Dohihara, a lieutenant general of the Japanese Army, belongs to the elite of the Japanese army elite.

Born into a Japanese military family, he attended the Army Infant School as a child, and then graduated from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School and the Army University.

He not only served in the infantry wing of the 14th Division of the Army, but also went to China to participate in the spy organization, and successively served as the head of the Tianjin secret service and the head of the Fengtian secret service.

He participated in the planning of the Huanggutun Incident that killed Zhang Zuolin, and was one of the planners of the 918 Incident, and later planned the autonomy of North China. In 1937, he became a lieutenant general and served as the division commander of the 14th Division.

Tu Feiyuan has been engaged in intelligence work on China for a long time, is familiar with China's customs and customs, and can speak fluent Chinese, and even several dialects.

It is surprising that a foreigner can do this, understand China more than ordinary Chinese. He is not only an intelligence officer, but also has experience in leading troops, such an elite person, he is indeed a very threatening figure.

Therefore, the Japanese North China Front will choose him as the commander of the roundabout troops of the large corps, and take the 14th division, like a huge iron stream, to drive straight into the back of hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops.

As a matter of fact, there were still some differences between the various units of the Japanese army on the discussion of the battle plan in the base camp.

The 1st Army of the North China Front advocated that in order to destroy the living forces of the Chinese army, it would not attack Xuzhou for the time being, and that it would first launch a great detour near Shangqiu Lanfeng and encircle the Chinese army, and then start the Xuzhou operation, so as to expand its own results.

The 2nd Army of the North China Front (with the 5th and 10th Divisions) urgently needed to occupy Xuzhou in order to avenge the 5th Division's efforts in Linyi and the 10th Division's in Taierzhuang.

In the end, in order to balance the interests of the two armies, the Japanese base camp adopted these two proposals at the same time, on the one hand, the 2nd Army continued to move south and stormed the Yuwangshan and Xuzhou areas, and on the other hand, the 1st Army made a great detour back to the Lanfeng area to outflank the large forces of the Chinese army.

As the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army, after learning the true intentions of the Japanese army, it also made corresponding strategic changes, on the one hand, it sent the 60th Army of Yunnan to Yuwang Mountain in Xuzhou to withstand the crazy attack of the Japanese First Army.

On the one hand, a strategic retreat was carried out, and hundreds of thousands of troops were urgently broken out of Xuzhou, mainly to the west and southwest.

Finally, in response to the large corps of the 14th Division of the 1st Army of the Japanese Army, they prepared to intercept and encircle, and if there was an opportunity, they would encircle and annihilate this arrogant terrorist force, which had a shocking effect on the entire military circle of the Japanese army.

Now the 74th Army is assigned to the First Corps of the First Theater (Central Plains Henan Region), that is, General Xue Yue's Eastern Henan Corps, including the 71st Army (the 87th and 88th Divisions of the two German armoury divisions that participated in the Battle of Songhu) and the 27th Army.

In addition, the main force of more than a dozen divisions of more than 100,000 people, including the 79th Army, the 32nd Army, and the 3rd Group Army, came to the Lanfeng area and its surroundings in order to make a detour against the Japanese 14th Division.

The entire front line was strong and strong, and the Supreme Command also showed its determination and confidence to encircle and annihilate the elite 14th Division of the Japanese army, which made the young and strong officers like the three dogs in the bottom troops excited.

I have fought so many big and bloody battles with the Japanese army, and most of them were mainly defensive, at most they were local small-scale counterattacks and surprise attacks, and there was hardly a frontal offensive battle.

This time, we finally waited for an active offensive battle, so that the participating troops below were all gearing up, and they all wanted to show themselves, defeat the invincible 14th Division, and capture alive the heinous crimes.

After a day of intense preparations for battle on 20 May, Regiment Commander Zhang Lingwu not only fulfilled his previous promise, but also allocated dozens of guards from the guard company to make up for the shortage of personnel in the seventh company.

The Seventh Company was also saturated with ammunition, mainly rifle machine gun shells, mortar shells, grenades and grenade grenades, etc., but Sangou still insisted that each of the Seventh Company had four grenades as standing ammunition.

At dawn on May 21, the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), General Xue Yue, commander of the Eastern Henan Corps, commanded more than 100,000 troops to attack the 14th Division of the Japanese Army in Yifeng and Neihuang from the east, west and north.

Among them, the 3rd Army (now Sun Tongxuan as commander) that had been Han Fuqu attacked from Dingtao in the north, Gui Yongqing's 27th Army and Song Xilian's 71st Army attacked from Lanfeng to the east, and Li Hansoul's 29th Army, including the 74th Army, attacked from Minquan to the west.

The 51st Division of the 74th Army, where Sangou belonged, took the lead, and when the light came at the moment of dawn, it rushed to the north of the Longhai Railway Line with lightning speed, and the 58th Division launched a fierce attack on Renheji in the south of the railway.

The 305th Regiment of the Three Dogs belongs to the forward troops, the stainless steel is used for the blade, and the Seventh Company belongs to the tip of the sharp knife, which entered the preset position in the second half of the night last night, only to wait for the dawn of the charge to sound.

In fact, the devils have long known that the Chinese army will besiege them, and this large army is continuously mobilized around, and it is impossible not to know, but the devils are not afraid of their own strength.

However, no matter how vigilant the devil is, he can't prevent so many troops from attacking from everywhere together, and Sangou with seven companies launched a large-scale attack on the Japanese army for the first time with a large army.

Taking advantage of the dawn of the day, the guns and cannons around the area rang out fiercely, and the smoke of gunpowder was bursting out, lingering, and the Seventh Company rushed to the front of the inner yellow city wall according to the established assault route.

Neihuang is a small town on the Longhai railway line, but the geographical location here is prominent, and the people and sets in the south are stuck on the Longhai line.

Therefore, there were national fortifications built before, and after the arrival of the Japanese army, some fortifications were also strengthened and built, and the former city walls were used to add bunkers and bunkers.

Sangou and Xiucai bamboo poles took a simple city defense map last night and discussed for a long time, and the offensive route of the Seventh Company had to pass through a city wall and two bunkers.

Before the battle began, Sangou ordered the three platoons of bamboo poles to concentrate on the demomen, carrying explosive packs, to lurk in front of the protective position in front of the Japanese bunker.

After waiting for the mountain artillery of the 51st Division to bombard the inner yellow city wall and bunker, taking advantage of the dense smoke, the three rows of demomen, in groups of two and four in groups, rushed to the bunker of the devil in the smoke.

The devil was blown up by the mountain artillery of the 51st Division, and it was the first time he saw such a fierce artillery fire from the Chinese army, just as the artillery fire was extended, and the devil was about to enter the broken position.

The protective position in front of the bunker has already been occupied by the Seventh Company, and it is thanks to the carelessness of the devil to take the protective position in front of the bunker so easily.

Even if the devil knew that the Chinese army would launch an attack in the next few days, he did not expect such a big attack, nor did he expect that the Chinese army would have such great determination and confidence to eat the most elite division of their empire.

Therefore, at night, the devils only set up a few sentry posts in the forward position, and most of the rest of the people entered the bunker or the city to rest.

As the Chinese army bombarded this fiercely, several sentry posts on the devil's forward positions were either killed or blown up so that they could not find the southeast, northwest, and center and turned white.