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When the brothers set out from Hubei, they were still shining with steel helmets and a mighty army, but after a few days of fighting in Dangshan, the brothers were covered in blood and dirty.

Although the Japanese attack force would launch several attacks every day, Yangling's position was impregnable, allowing the Japanese to bomb indiscriminately, or charging in groups, and this position was like a nail, blocking the way of the Japanese army.

Although the 74th Army is not as elite as the German armament, after all, it is a descendant of the Central Army, and it can be regarded as the main force on the battlefield.

"Bang!"

The dull sound of gunfire rang out on the battlefield, and the head of a Japanese soldier with a telescope looking at Yang Ling's position burst open like a broken watermelon, and the blood-red paste in his head splattered everywhere.

"Smack! Syllable! ”

"Dada-"

The dull sound of gunfire triggered a new round of gunfire on the position, with weapons firing and bullets whizzing over the trenches, hitting some hapless man or smashing sandbags.

Wang Zikun, a student soldier who joined the army during the Battle of Nanjing, heard the dense gunfire like bursting beans, rubbed his sore calves with a smile, and sat down with his back against the trench.

The shot just now was the target he found after lying dormant for half an hour, but fortunately, he didn't miss in the end, which made Wang Zikun very happy.

He took out a delicate knife from his bosom and carved a heavy stroke on the birch butt, the fifth devil he had killed since entering the sniper platoon in the battalion.

Yang Ling's 301st Regiment and the Japanese army formed a trench tug-of-war, and on the battlefield within a radius of dozens of miles, the units of the 74th Army and the Japanese army were scorched together, and cold guns and cold artillery became the norm of firefights.

Yang Ling originally selected brothers with good marksmanship to form a sniper platoon during the winter training, the purpose of which was to train a special squad to lay a foundation.

But I didn't expect this sniper platoon to shine on this battlefield, killing many Japanese soldiers, so that those arrogant Japanese soldiers had to be always on guard, afraid of being blown off by the brothers of the sniper platoon.

Although Wang Zikun was still a new recruit in Nanjing, he could endure hardships and train crazy, since he was promoted to squad leader, this momentum was even worse, and he entered the sniper platoon dominated by veterans, and became a sharpshooter admired by everyone.

The dense gunfire caused by his gunfire had stopped, and he put away his delicate knife, and ran to the heavy machine gun bunker more than ten meters away, his dirty hands poking into the barrel full of water.

The cool water refreshed Wang Zikun, and the stains on his face were washed away, revealing his white skin, as if he had regained the appearance of a student.

"College student, save some water, this machine gun also needs to be eaten." The veteran saw Wang Zikun washing his face with the cooling water of the machine gun, and reminded while smoking.

Wang Zikun smiled: "I'll bring you two more buckets later."

"How many have you played today?" The Heavy asked.

Wang Zikun replied: "If you miss two, you will knock one."

The heavy machine gunner said: "That's not bad, we haven't caught any of them today, this little devil is getting better and better, hiding in the trenches and not showing his head, I'm afraid I want to be a king."

Hearing the complaints of the machine gunners, there was a burst of laughter in the trenches, the direction of Huilongji they guarded was no longer the main direction of attack of the Japanese army, and the fighting in the east had been fierce in the past two days, but there was nothing to do on their side, which made their hands itch.

The blocking battlefield at Dangshan made it difficult for the Japanese army to advance an inch, and they met their strong opponents, the 74th Army and General Song Xilian's 7th Army were both hard-headed troops, and they fought side by side, which made the Japanese suffer a lot.

The brothers hid in the trenches and fought the Japanese into a tug-of-war with the Japanese army, and in the temporary regimental headquarters in Huilongji, the grizzled deputy regiment commander Yang Ling and the haggard regiment commander Zhang Handuo also received new battlefield briefings.

These battlefield briefings were received by the military headquarters of the 74th Army from various units, and then transcribed by staff officers and sent to regimental commanders so that commanders at all levels could understand the situation on the battlefield.

"This little devil inevitably has too much appetite, and if he wants to eat the main force in my Xuzhou region in one bite, he is not afraid of breaking their teeth." Regiment commander Zhang Handuo looked at the new battlefield briefing and couldn't help complaining.

The Japanese army dispatched countless elite divisions and regiments, and the troops were divided into seven routes to form a centripetal attack on the Xuzhou area, in an attempt to eat the main force of the Xuzhou Fifth Theater of 600,000 Chinese troops.

The Japanese army has always been extremely arrogant, and they have always liked to attack more with less on the Chinese battlefield, but they have succeeded with a wisp, which is why they have become more and more arrogant and unscrupulous.

Yang Ling was not worried: "As long as our 74th Army is nailed to Dangshan, the Japanese army will not be able to complete the encirclement, and our main force in Xuzhou will be safe and worry-free."

The commander of the Fifth Theater is General Li Zongren, who commanded the Taierzhuang Battle in the early stage and annihilated more than 10,000 Japanese troops in the first battle, which greatly increased the prestige of the Chinese army and dealt a blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army.

The regiment commander Zhang Handuo was not as optimistic as Yang Ling, he frowned and said: "I heard that the 9th and 13th divisions of the devil have been forced from the south, once the mouth in the south is sealed, my 600,000 main force in Xuzhou will become a tiger in a cage......

Zhang Handuo's worries are not groundless, after all, the Japanese army's combat intentions can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye, the Japanese army is using a yang strategy, whether it is the theater staff or the commander is well aware, but no one wants to give up the good situation since the victory in Taierzhuang, and then take the initiative to give up the Xuzhou area.

However, if the Xuzhou area is not abandoned, then the main force of the 600,000 troops in the Fifth Theater in the Xuzhou area will be in danger of being destroyed.

Yang Ling's worries did not last long, and General Li Zongren, the commander of the Fifth War Zone, quickly made up his mind to evacuate, after all, he still understood the truth that people and land were lost.

Surrounded by the iron barrels of hundreds of thousands of elite Japanese troops, the 600,000 miscellaneous troops under the command of General Li Zongren began to evacuate the Xuzhou area in alternate cover.

In order to avoid repeating the mistake of the great rout in the Battle of Shanghai, General Li Zongren specially stipulated the order and time of the evacuation of each army corps and each unit, and everything was carried out in an orderly manner.

Yang Ling's Eastern Henan Corps was responsible for continuing operations in the eastern Henan region to cover the withdrawal of the main force of the Fifth Theater from Xuzhou.

This was an unprecedented evacuation operation on the Chinese battlefield, although there was a bloody battle in Tengxian and a great victory in Taierzhuang in the early stage of the Battle of Xuzhou, but in the face of the powerful offensive of the Japanese army, the Zhonghe army had to take the initiative to transfer.

The 600,000 troops and millions of people who were evacuated converged into a long gray dragon, and if the radio advertised, this was a strategic retreat, not a failure!

The withdrawal of the Chinese troops from the Xuzhou battlefield made the Japanese army angry, and the attacking divisions accelerated the pace of the offensive in an attempt to bite the retreating Chinese army.

Among them, the main force of the 14th Division of Kenji Tuhihara was even more rampage, and the lone army rushed to the city of Lanfeng, trying to insert it into the west of Xuzhou and cut off the Longhai railway line.

At this moment, General Xue Yue, the commander of the Eastern Henan Corps, who was covering the withdrawal of the main force of the Fifth Theater in the eastern Henan region, saw the wild wolf rushing to him and smelled a hint of a fighter plane.

General Xue Yue has always had the nickname of "Tiger Cub", and now that the curtain of the Battle of Xuzhou has fallen, he doesn't want to let it go in the face of the 14th Division of the Japanese Army that rushed all the way to him.

"Annihilate the 14th Division of the Japanese Army in the area between Neihuang, Yifeng, and civil rights! All units immediately left for the designated area on time! Violators will be punished by military law! ”

In the end, General Xue Yue, the commander of the Yudong Corps, was still deciding to annihilate the 14th Division of the Japanese Army in one fell swoop and win another big victory like Taierzhuang!

The reason why General Xue Yue has such confidence is because the Yudong Corps under his command is all elite units of the Central Army, whether it is the 74th Army and General Song Xilian's 7th Army, or Gui Yongqing's 27th Army, Li Hansoul's 64th Army is the number one unit in the combat effectiveness platoon, so there is a possibility of completely annihilating the 14th Division.

"Go all out to the inner yellow! Attack Forward! ”

The battle order was quickly sent to the headquarters of the 301st Regiment, and the regiment commanders Zhang Handuo and Yang Ling glanced at each other, and they both saw the excitement on each other's faces.