With the passage of time, the situation in Xuzhou, and even in the entire Republic of China in North China and East China, has become more and more severe.

Since the fall of Nanjing, the Japanese army is still not satisfied, and once again gathered forces, trying to quickly defeat the living forces of the Republic of China, so under this circumstance, the Japanese army once again entangled in mobilizing a large number of troops, preparing to organize a large-scale battle in the Xuzhou area and the Republic of China, and strive to wipe out the main force of the Republic of China!

If the Japanese army can achieve major results in Xuzhou, then the Japanese army will be able to go all the way south through Xuzhou to Wuhan.

If Wuhan is occupied by the Japanese army, they can use it as a base to encompass the entire southern part of the Republic of China, and at that time, most of the Republic of China will fall into the hands of the Japanese army, and it will be difficult to resist!

It is precisely because of this idea that the Battle of Xuzhou organized by the Japanese army this time mobilized heavy troops to come!

In this battle of Xuzhou, the Japanese North China Front Army and the Central China Front Army worked together to send part of their troops to attack the important land of Xuzhou.

In order to open up the Tianjin-Pudong Railway and the Longhai Railway to connect the northern and southern battlefields, the 13th Division of the Japanese Army crossed the Yangtze River to the north and advanced to the Lotus Pond and Mingguang line on the east bank of the Chihe River in Anhui Province, and the 10th Division of the Japanese Army that invaded North China moved from Shandong to Jiyang to cross the Yellow River in the south, and then occupied Jinan and advanced to the line of Jining, Mengyin, and Qingdao.

The Japanese army successively mobilized 8 divisions, 3 brigades, and 2 detachments of about 240,000 people, under the command of Shunroku Hatata, commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, and Terauchi Shouichi, commander of the North China Front, to advance from north to south, first capturing Xuzhou, a strategic point in East China, and then taking Zhengzhou west along the Longhai Railway, and then taking Wuhan south along the Pinghan Railway.

In view of this situation, Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater who commanded the Battle of Xuzhou, successively mobilized 64 divisions and three brigades of about 600,000 people to concentrate the main force in the area north of Xuzhou to resist the southern attack of the Japanese army on the northern front, and deployed a part of the force on the southern section of the Jinpu Railway to prevent the Japanese army from advancing north on the southern line to secure Xuzhou.

The entire Xuzhou battlefield includes the five provinces of Suzhou, Shandong, Yi, Anhui and Henan, with Xuzhou as the center and Linyi as the strategic point, opening up a super-large battlefield.

Originally, according to Li Zongren's plan, the strategic point was originally set on the south bank of the Yellow River, but unfortunately, the Yellow River defense line was because of Han Fuqu's non-resistance, resulting in the Japanese army losing the entire Shandong including the Yellow River defense line without a single soldier, so that the defenders' forward positions could only retreat to Linyi.

Arrange a defensive front in the Linyi area.

In such a situation, the two sides are almost on the verge of breaking out.

And this battle has also attracted the attention of countless people, and the total number of participants on both sides in the early stage has exceeded 600,000 horses, a battle of this scale, even in the world, is rare!

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"Travel, call from the peak!"

On this day, Chen Qingzhi was training the members of the Broadsword Team with Huzi, but suddenly a soldier ran over with a telegram.

Chen Qingzhi took it and took a look, and his face suddenly changed!

"Order the Independent Mixed Zhongzheng Brigade to assist the 31st Army in arranging a defensive front in the Dingyuan area from now on to block the attacking troops of the Japanese army on the southern front!"

Seeing this order, Chen Qingzhi suddenly understood that the Battle of Xuzhou had begun!

As soon as he thought of this, Chen Qingzhi couldn't help but tremble, this was not fear, but excitement!

When he was withdrawn from Nanjing on the battlefield, he had been recruiting, training, and reorganizing the troops, in order to wait for this day, wait for the Battle of Xuzhou to be held, and have a good fight with the Japanese army!

Now, it's finally here!

"Quick, call all the officers above the battalion level of the independent brigade to the conference room and prepare for a meeting!" Chen Qingzhi shouted loudly.

"Yes!" An officer saluted and answered loudly.

Soon, in the conference room of the independent brigade, regiment commanders and battalion commanders came in one after another, and after they sat down, they all gossiped there one after another.

Wang Yachuan looked left and right, and found that Chen Qingzhi had not yet come, so he turned his head to Fang Xiaodong who was sitting next to him and said, "Old Fang, why did you say that Luzao called us to have a meeting this time?" Are you going to prepare for war? ”

Now that you know everything, why are you asking me what I'm doing? ”

Fang Xiaodong glanced at Wang Yachuan and said lightly.

"Isn't this a bottomless heart, so I'm asking you!" Speaking of this, Wang Yachuan sighed and said to himself: "I don't know where our troops will be assigned this time, I really hope that they can be assigned to the front-line battlefield and fight with the little devil!" ”

When he said this, Fang Xiaodong was also interested, and pricked up his ears to listen to where Wang Yachuan was talking to himself.

After all, as an officer, the most important thing is your own combat environment.

Like this group of animals in the Independent Brigade, what they like most is to fight on the front-line battlefield, which is refreshing.

If you say that running to a place where birds don't poop to defend, it's really boring!

"I estimate that our independent brigade may have to be assigned to the battlefield on the northern front, after all, the battlefield on the northern front is the main position!" Fang Xiaodong said: "You see that our current station is not far from Tengxian and other places on the northern front battlefield, and it is estimated that the biggest possibility is to be assigned to the area of Tengxian!" ”

"Hmm!" Wang Yachuan said: "Our independent brigade has such a strong combat effectiveness, if we don't go to fight on the northern front, it will be really blind!" ”

When the two spoke, Huzi sat in his position silently, while Zhu Xiaocheng, the commander of the artillery regiment, sat in his position meticulously, with neat and neat military uniforms.

This Zhu Xiaocheng is a very strict self-disciplined person, even when he is walking and eating, he always pays attention to his military appearance and military posture.

To put it simply, he is a very well-behaved person!

In comparison, the others seemed to be very casual, several battalion commanders and even Wang Yachuan, the regiment commander, were all smoking, and they were all chatting about something there.

After a while, the conference room became smoky!

However, at this moment, the officer at the door of the conference room suddenly shouted: "The brigade seat has arrived!" ”

"Wow!"

As soon as they heard this, these officers, who were originally very casual, suddenly returned to their positions one by one, and behaved properly, Wang Yachuan and several battalion commanders hurriedly extinguished the cigarettes in their hands, and at the same time sorted out their military uniforms.

The entire conference room suddenly became quiet, and the pin drop could be heard.

Let's ...... Let's ......

With the sound of footsteps, Chen Qingzhi walked in and walked to the first seat of the conference room table, but at this time, everyone stood up and shouted, "I've seen the brigade!" ”

Chen Qingzhi stood in the first place, looked around the conference room, and then pressed his hands and said with a cold face: "Sit!" ”

"Thank you!"

Chen Qingzhi sat in his place, looked at everyone present, all looked at him with expectant eyes, couldn't help but smile, and said lightly: "Presumably the purpose of I called you to this meeting this time, you yourself have some guesses!" ”

"In that case, then I won't sell it!"

Chen Qingzhi said: "That's right! The Battle of Xuzhou has kicked off, and our combat mission has also come down! ”