In order to win the Battle of Xuzhou, the Chinese army continued to increase troops from all sides, and at the end of March and early April of the 27th year of the Republic of China (1938), the General Headquarters mobilized a large number of troops from various theaters.

The strength of the 5th Theater was increased from 29 divisions to 64 divisions and 3 brigades, with a total of 600,000 troops.

At the same time, the 1st, 8th, 71st, and 74th armies of the Central Army were deployed in eastern Henan as a backup force in Xuzhou, trying to fight the Japanese army in Xuzhou.

The victory in Taierzhuang on 7 April greatly stimulated the high command's desire to win and turn the tables. At that time, many people thought that a decisive battle with the Japanese army had arrived, defeating the Japanese army in one fell swoop in the Xuzhou area and driving the Japanese army out of China.

No matter from the afterthought of later generations or the reality at that time, the Chinese army could not compete with the Japanese army in terms of weapons and personnel quality.

Those who have the idea of defeating the Japanese army, although it is worth encouraging, reality does not allow it; Ideas can be had, but when they are put into action, they still have to be operated according to reality.

You must know that the great victory of Taierzhuang in the Battle of Xuzhou was the result of gathering hundreds of thousands of people in the five theaters to deal with three or four divisions of the Japanese army in the north and south; Moreover, it also took advantage of the Japanese Seya detachment's rash advance.

More than 100,000 people of the Gui and Northeast armies on the southern front of Xuzhou relied on the Huai River to carry one or two divisions of the Japanese army, which was considered a tie, and they could not advance or retreat from each other.

The northern front was in Linyi, relying on Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army and Pang Corps to withstand the attack of the Sakamoto Detachment of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army, and at the critical time of besieging Taierzhuang, it also received strong support from the 85th Army of the Tang Army.

Therefore, the Japanese army was able to attack Xuzhou in the end, and only the single line army of the Seya Detachment of the 10th Division in the north remained.

Although the Seya detachment was a combination of brigade and regimental level and field artillery wing, it was already a tired and adventurous light soldier in a hard battle all the way, fighting Tengxian County, and reaching the periphery of Taierzhuang.

In this way, a single-line Japanese army of more than 20,000 people ventured into the cloth bags of hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops, and could still rampage for more than half a month before retreating, and hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops could not be completely annihilated, which shows the huge gap between the Chinese and Japanese armies.

After experiencing the battle of Songhu and the tactics of employing a sea of people to hold on to the dead ground, the defeat of the Songhu army and the defeat of the army in Songhu, the defeat of the army in Songhu and the defeat of Nanjing, the defeat of Nanjing, the defeat of the army, the defeat of the army, the defeat of the Songhu army, the defeat of the Songhu army, the defeat of the army, the defeat of the Songhu army, the defeat of the army, the defeat of the Songhu army, the defeat of the army

Naturally, he also gained a lot of experience, not to hoard troops in the dead land, the land of the four wars (similar to Xuzhou), etc., not to defend a certain city, but to use the vast field to fight with the Japanese army in the field.

In particular, the retreat of the large corps after the battle should refer to the disorderly and hasty retreat after Songhu, and it is necessary to strictly enforce the discipline of retreat, make preparations for retreat in advance, and leave more time for all troops.

This is the famous thesis of several major leaders of the year: "space for time" and "protracted war......

What they all have in common is to preserve their strength and slowly knock with devils.

After the victory of the Battle of Xuzhou in Taierzhuang, due to the gathering of 600,000 Chinese troops, it naturally attracted the attention of the Japanese army base camp, which was to avenge the revenge of Taierzhuang.

Second, the huge temptation of encircling and annihilating hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops made the Japanese army salivate, you know, once the great success of the Songhu pursuit was replicated, China was about to have no troops to fight.

With the exception of some troops defending the national defense in remote areas, the mobile corps will be greatly reduced and will not be able to resist the attack of the main Japanese army.

In April, the North China Front and Central China dispatched troops from Pingping, Tianjin, Jin, Sui, Suzhou, and Anhui to gather 13 elite divisions and about 300,000 troops to attack the Xuzhou area from the north and south

This also included the regrouping of the two divisions of Isoya (10th Division) and Itagaki (5th Division) after retreating from Taierzhuang to replenish the resting forces.

These troops were also equipped with all kinds of heavy weapons and hundreds of planes, and their troops formed a large-scale encirclement of Xuzhou by six routes, and adopted the tactics of advancing from north to south, flanking and detouring, and cutting off the rear road, in an attempt to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Fifth Theater gathered in the Xuzhou area.

The 300,000 elite Japanese troops are all the mobile forces of the Japanese army in China, and they can be said to have poured out. Since the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army has once again gathered so many troops for a battle.

In other words, the previous Battle of Xuzhou and the previous Taierzhuang were just an appetizer for the Japanese army, a tentative attack by a small local force, but it was only a setback in Taierzhuang, and it failed without talking about the whole battle.

Now, the Battle of Xuzhou, which the Japanese army thought was in its opinion, had really begun.

The Japanese North China Front reinforced the 5th and 10th Divisions of the Northern Front with the 16th and 144th Divisions, and advanced south along the Jinpu Road to lure the main force of the Chinese army.

The 14th Division crossed the Yellow River from Puyang into southwest Shandong and eastern Henan, cutting off the Longhai Road, thereby blocking the Chinese army coming to Xuzhou and cutting off the retreat of the defenders of Xuzhou.

The 13th Division of the Central China Dispatch Army on the Southern Front assembled in Bengbu and Huaiyuan on the Southern Front; with the 6th and 9th Divisions to Fengyang and Hefei; With the 101st Division, he attacked northern Jiangsu.

In mid-May, the Japanese army on the north route and the Japanese army on the south route echoed each other and pressed towards Xuzhou. At this time, the Japanese army's encirclement of Xuzhou had been completed, and it was advancing to Xuzhou from all directions, seeking a decisive battle with the main force of the Chinese army.

General Li, the supreme commander of the 5th Theater, was not optimistic about the situation, and he knew very well that the previous victory in Taierzhuang had only taken advantage of the fact that he had taken advantage of the fact that he had fought more and fought less.

Now the Japanese army is no longer more than 20,000 people in the Seya detachment, but there are 15 times as many as 300,000 people, and it was very hard to fight more than 20,000 devils before, and now 300,000 people are coming, isn't it going to kill them.

Moreover, although Xuzhou is a strategic place, it is a place of four wars, surrounded by plains, there is no danger to defend, the Japanese army is a mechanized force, and there are many air forces to help the war, fighting here, the Chinese army will suffer a big loss.

The Fifth Theater of Operations put up fierce resistance in the vicinity of Xuzhou, but failed to stop the Japanese offensive, and Xuzhou was in a treacherous situation surrounded by the Japanese army on all sides.

The 59th Army of the Northwest Army was responsible for the work of the Rear Corps, and sent a number of veterans who were familiar with the terrain and fighting against Japan to flood the newly arrived 60th Army.

Tan Yizhong, who was originally with Qin Guogang, came out of the Baohuashan Brigade of the Loyal National Salvation Army in Niu Gu and was assigned to the second battalion and third company of the 223rd Regiment of the 112th Brigade of the 38th Division of the 59th Army.

After Tan Yizhong fought the Linyi Blocking Battle this time, he then followed the 59th Army to fight the Taierzhuang Peripheral Battle, and now he has also stayed, and he has been added to the 3rd Battalion and 8th Company of the 1085th Regiment of the 184th Division of the 60th Army as the deputy company commander.

The 60th Army was the Yunnan Army (Yunnan Army), which had just been transported from Yunnan and belonged to the new force, but they had a historical grudge with General Li, the commander of the Fifth Theater of Operations, and his Gui Army.

When the Gui army was against Chiang, just at the critical moment of defeating Chiang, the 60th Army of the Yunnan Army, which was bought by Chiang, suddenly attacked Guangxi from Yunnan and defeated Nanning, the old nest of the Gui army.

The Gui army, which was attacked by the enemy on its belly and back, could no longer support it and was defeated, so far, the Gui army and the Dian army formed an indissoluble enmity.

Later, after the reunification of the whole country, although this matter was not brought out to talk about it, within the Gui Army, the Dian Army has always been treated as an anti-backbone, and even hated it to the bone.

To this day, the whole country has unanimously fought against the Japanese invaders, and even the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, which are either dead or alive, have shaken hands and made peace, not to mention the troops in these places.