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With the launch of a comprehensive counterattack by the Chinese army in the 5th theater, the main battlefield of this battle has shifted from the front of Taierzhuang to the areas of Yixian, Zaozhuang, and Lincheng. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the following days, Huang Haoran will lead 200,000 troops to implement the second phase of the battle plan for the Battle of Taierzhuang drawn up by him and Commander Li on this new battlefield, and the target is naturally the 20,000 remnants of the Isoya Division and Sakamoto's detachment that are huddled in this area.

Because Chifengcheng's troops suffered heavy casualties in the battle in Taierzhuang, Huang Haoran did not let the 31st Division take on new combat missions. It was only ordered that Chi Fengcheng's troops were responsible for cleaning up and burying the remains of Chinese officers and soldiers in Taierzhuang and on the nearby battlefield, and by the way, clean up the battlefield and dispose of the corpses of Japanese soldiers.

The sun in mid-April was already a bit dazzling, and Huang Haoran did not want the corpses of the Japanese soldiers to decompose and pollute the groundwater and bring infectious diseases to the Chinese troops in the 5th theater.

Given the Chinese military's poor health care system, Mr. Huang's caution is necessary......

After days of artillery fire and smoke dissipated, Taierzhuang, a small canal-side city, finally returned to tranquility.

Out of a certain inspiration from the depths of his heart, Huang Haoran left the former enemy headquarters at Hanjia Temple and crossed the canal with his guard battalion to the north bank.

After the pontoon bridge at the south gate of Taierzhuang was destroyed by the Japanese army, the engineering units of the 25th Army re-erected two pontoon bridges on this canal. The one used by Huang Haoran now is erected next to the wreckage of the original pontoon bridge, and the other one has become the passage for Xie Wendong's 188th Division to cross the river, erected at the victory pass, which is far away from the south gate of Taierzhuang.

After the baptism of Japanese artillery fire in Taierzhuang, there is no longer a complete building, the four sides of the city wall are still intact on the south side of the canal, and the other three sides are full of holes. Huang Haoran tried to find the former East and West Streets in the ruins, but in the end he had to give up!

The criminal Japanese invaders destroyed this small city without humanity, and now Taierzhuang has become a pile of ruins! The inner walls of the village collapsed, the collapsed buildings piled up small hills on the street, the stone roads were blown out of deep pits, and the scorched earth was everywhere, and the destruction was so miserable that it was rare!

In the area where the battle is raging, the grenade shrapnel and artillery shrapnel on the ground are actually covered with a thick layer! God knows how many back and forth the Chinese and Japanese soldiers will have to fight in these places to create such a battlefield!

Facing everything in front of him, Huang Haoran couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "At this moment, I really understand what is called 'scorched earth resistance'!" It is a great blessing for the nation to have such a heroic army! ”

Wang Huanzhi and Fan Jie, who set off with Huang Haoran to Taierzhuang, both expressed their deep sympathy, and the two of them said in unison: "It is really not easy for the 31st Division of Chifeng City to hold on to such a position to the end!" ”

The group walked from Zhuangnan to Zhuangbei, and on the way, the officers and soldiers of the 31st Division put down the things at hand and stood up to salute Huang Haoran and them. Huang Haoran noticed that these officers and soldiers had more or less some injuries on their bodies, and the military uniforms they were wearing were covered with mud and blood, and only one face was still clean, and the contrast between the top and bottom was really too great.

Wang Huanzhi originally wanted to stop and ask a few words, but since Huang Haoran had no intention of stopping at all, Wang Huanzhi could only continue with his curiosity.

Finally, behind the half-cut stone wall, Huang Haoran saw Chi Fengcheng, the commander of the 31st Division. The youngest division commander in the Northwest Army was sitting on a pile of rocks smoking a cigarette at the moment, his face haggard, his eyes sunken, and his chin full of beards.

Huang Haoran was secretly surprised in his heart, it had only been less than half a month since his meeting with Chi Fengcheng at the end of March, but he didn't expect Chi Fengcheng to look like he had aged several years. At the beginning, Huang Haoran almost didn't recognize that the person in front of him was Chi Fengcheng.

"Fengchen!"

A light call opened the closed inner world of Chifeng City. When Chi Fengcheng looked up and saw clearly that it was Huang Haoran, two lines of hot tears rolled down from his Yan Zhao man's eyes!

"Bench! I carried out your orders! All those who could move were filled into the trenches by me! A division of 8,000 men! In the end, there were less than 2,000 left! O my brethren! You're all dead! All of them are dead......"

Speaking of the heartache, Chi Fengcheng was already beating his chest and couldn't cry.

Before coming to Taierzhuang, Wang Huanzhi, Fan Jie and others had imagined what it would be like after meeting Chi Feng City, and even prepared a lot of congratulatory words. Who would have thought that they would actually see a Chifeng City with such a look in the village!

Everyone is a person who leads the troops, and at this moment, Chi Fengcheng's feelings, Wang Huanzhi and Fan Jie, they can all understand, including Huang Haoran, all the officers of the 25th Group Army have red eyes.

"I, Huang Haoran, will definitely not let the brothers of the 31st Division die in vain! If I don't take back Ryosuke Isoya's head and put it in Zhuangzi, I'll put my head here! ”

Compared with saying some words of consolation, vowing to avenge the martyrs of the country is obviously more suitable for the current occasion, after Huang Haoran took the lead in making a military order, Fan Jie, Wang Huanzhi and others also wanted Chi Fengcheng to guarantee that they would definitely pay for the blood debt of the Isogu Division!

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On the morning of April 11, Huang Haoran's troops and the Isogu Division were attacking and defending each other.

On the Chinese side, in order to prevent the Sakamoto detachment from joining forces with the Isoya Division, Huang Haoran ordered Xie Wendong's 188th Division to stop attacking the 22nd Brigade in the direction of Yixian, turn eastward, and insert between the main forces of the Sakamoto detachment and the Isogu Division. A new blocking front was built on the front line of Fushan and Qingshan. Disrupted the plan for the convergence of the Sakamoto detachment and the Isoya division.

On the Japanese side, the main force of the Isoya Division captured Lincheng, which was occupied by the 139th Division, and formed a situation of mutual horns with Zaozhuang and Yixian, drawing a triangular area on the map.

Looking at the "triangle" on the map, Huang Haoran fell into deep thought......

The order for the 139th Division to abandon Lincheng was given by Huang Haoran himself, and due to something that happened to Qian Guoliang's 99th Division and Zhang Jing's 189th Division while passing through the area where the Tang Enbo Corps and Sakamoto's detachment were engaged, the 25th Army was unable to gather enough forces in time in the direction of the northward flight of the Isogu Division. In order to prevent the Isogu Division from slipping away, letting Wang Shankui take Li Yuhe's 139th Division to take the initiative to retreat to the front line of Guanqiao to deploy defense was the safest choice Huang Haoran could think of.

Now that the situation of the battle has become clear, the Chinese army has put on a posture of flies fighting rabbits, and it seems that it is about to annihilate all the remnants of the Japanese army in the Taierzhuang area!

The news of Tengxian's Guangfu and Taierzhuang's counteroffensive on all fronts had been transmitted back to Wuhan on the night of the 10th, and at the moment it had been printed and circulated everywhere in the "Central Daily".

After the fall of Nanjing, the officials of the Wuhan government have been scolded by the people of the whole country for months! Now the whole government, including the highest authorities, is waiting for some good news from the front! It can be used to divert the attention of the public!

In such an atmosphere, after the Wuhan government received the battle report that Huang Haoran had annihilated thousands of enemies in Taierzhuang, how could there be any reason not to hype it up?

The civilian officials of the Ministry of Military Affairs all have the ability to write brilliantly. In the past, when there were no victories, they were still able to "dig out" some "victories" from defeat! Now that you have the real value of the battle in hand, you can simply blow it to the sky!

The small Teng County was also attached to them with extremely far-reaching significance!

"Huang Haoran annihilated nearly 10,000 enemies! Recover the place where the commander of the Sichuan Army Wang Mingzhang was martyred and comfort the heroic soul! 》

Such an attractive headline was printed on the front page of JoongAng Ilbo, and it was impossible for this issue of the newspaper not to be out of stock!

Not only that, but the clever "Minister He" even overdrew the future dividends in advance, and he repeatedly hinted at the impromptu press conference that the Chinese army in the 5th theater of operations under the command of Huang Haoran had the possibility of completely annihilating the Isoya Division and the Sakamoto detachment! As soon as these words came out, the whole of China was boiling!

At 12 o'clock at noon on the 11th, Huang Haoran received a "royal telegram" from the highest authorities, in which the highest authorities demanded that Huang Haoran actively expand the results of the battle and annihilate 10,000 to 20,000 Japanese troops as much as possible! ”

Listen to this tone! It's like Huang Haoran is not facing the elite divisions of the Japanese Army, but the children of the Eight Banners of the Manchu government!

At this time when everyone was drunk, only Huang Haoran and his officers were awake enough! In Huang Haoran's view, the situation of the Chinese army is actually not optimistic!

Although the Isoya Division suffered heavy losses, the loss was only a part of the 33rd Infantry Brigade after all, and Isoya Ryosuke still had a relatively complete 8th Infantry Brigade in his hands, plus the directly subordinate troops and the remnants of the 33rd Infantry Brigade, there were still more than 10,000 people!

In order to eliminate the 10,000 remnants of the Isoya Division, the Chinese army in the 5th theater will have to do everything in its power! However, the actual situation is indeed that not far from the Isoya Division, the Sakamoto detachment of the Itagaki Division is still gathered! Although the Sakamoto detachment experienced two battles of Linyi and the siege of Tang Enbo's corps, it still retained four or five thousand troops, and if this Japanese army was counted, the Chinese army would probably have some indigestion.

In the previous battles, several group armies in the 5th theater also suffered a lot of losses, especially the losses of Sun Lianzhong's 2nd Group Army, the 31st Division in Chifeng City alone, the casualties exceeded 6,000 people, and if the losses of several group armies were combined, the number of casualties should exceed 20,000!

In the end, the overall quality of the Chinese army is still inferior to that of little Japan, and it is obvious that it is a devil in its pockets, but it has actually become a situation of "destroying 800 enemies and losing 1,000 self-losses."

Knowing that he can't eat two tables of noodles, it is best to choose to give up one side, Huang Haoran is now facing a multiple-choice question.

Isoya Division or Sakamoto Detachment? It doesn't seem that difficult to choose.

Huang Haoran's promise to kill Ryosuke Isoya in Chifeng City was still in his ears at this moment, and the highest authorities demanded in a telegram that Huang Haoran would destroy another 10,000 to 20,000 enemies. This is destined that Huang Haoran can only take the Isogu Division!

Should I fill in the "standard answer"? Huang Haoran kept asking himself in his heart......

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Zaozhuang, the headquarters of the 10th Division.

The Japanese staff officers at the division headquarters were all stuffy and did not dare to come out at all, and the chief of staff was constantly synthesizing the telegrams sent back by the various wings of the 10th Division, and the whole morning, except for the recovery of Lincheng, the 10th Division did not produce any decent results.

Guan Linzheng's 52nd Army pursued and advanced from the east of Tai and Zaozhi Road, along the areas south of Xiazhuang, Mashan, Jiushan, and Tanshan to Yixian.

Sun Lianzhong commanded Zhang Zhen's 110th Division to pursue and advance from Tai and Zaozhi roads to Yixian.

Cao Fulin's 55th Army appeared in the area north of Yixian, and the posture was to separate the main force of Seya Kai's 33rd Brigade and Isoya Division. If the Chinese army is allowed to occupy the high ground on the east and west sides of Yixian, then Yixian will become a second Teng County, and the remnants of Kei Seya's 33rd Brigade are likely to be wiped out! The Isoya Division can no longer afford such a big loss!

Ever since he received a telegram from Kei Seya from Yi County asking for help, Ryosuke Isoya has maintained an extremely serious expression, and Chief of Staff can basically guess the reason for Ryosuke Isoya's anger. In Isoya's opinion, it was because of Kei Seya's incompetence that the 33rd Brigade was robbed and killed by the Chinese army in the process of retreating, and coupled with the losses suffered by the 33rd Brigade in the attack before, Kei Seya's troops had lost seventy percent of their troops!

The 10th Division is a mechanized division in the Japanese Army, and the total strength of the two infantry brigades under it exceeds 8,000 people, and the loss of 70% of the troops means nearly 6,000 casualties! According to the requirements of the Japanese Ministry of War, if an infantry brigade pays 6,000 casualties, it can basically be canceled!

Once the number of the 33rd Brigade is canceled by the military headquarters, the Isoya Division will be discredited! Ryosuke Isoya will never be able to hold his head up in front of his colleagues!

How do you make Ryosuke Isoya feel better?

After reading all the battle reports, the chief of staff of Di Bujia came up with a summary of the battle reports for the morning. In some cases, it is necessary to give it to Ryosuke Isoya for a look. According to the analysis of Chief of Staff of the Commander of the Tsukibugui, if the division headquarters sends reinforcements to the Seya Brigade in Yixian in a timely manner, it is very likely that a tragedy will ensue.

"Your Excellency, Division Commander! The Chinese army is pursuing Yixian, and now that Tengxian's retreat has been cut off, if our 10th Division intends to hold on to it, we must hold this important fulcrum of Yixian! If we are responsible, our defenses will be flat and more vulnerable to fatal blows! ”

Ryosuke Isoya said weakly: "The embankment is not clamped! It's not that you don't know the current situation of the division, the 39th Infantry Wing in Lincheng was attacked by Huang Haoran's 25th Army before it could stand firm! And here we are, Towneberg's 20th Army is not far away! The 10th Division only has a total of four infantry wings, and one was cut off by this bastard Seya Kei, what do you want me to take to reinforce him? ”

The chief of staff of Di Bujiagui smiled a little embarrassedly, and then pointed to the battle report in his hand and said: "Yi County is very critical now, Huang Haoran mobilized at least three armies to besiege the remaining 2,000 people of the Seya Brigade!" If the 33rd Brigade is destroyed, then we will become the laughing stock of the North China Front! For the sake of your honor and future of the division commander .... Is it for the cavalry wing to go to reinforce the Seya brigade? Now in such a battle situation, we can only hold on to it! The cavalry has lost its role, and I intend to let them dismount and fight, not only how does the division commander think it ......? ”

"War horse, what should I do?"

Ryosuke Isoya would rather care about War Horse than pay attention to Kei Seya, but you can imagine how much he has hated Kei Setana!

Chief of Staff said to himself in his heart, even if Kai Seya can escape from Yi County alive, it should be impossible to stay in the 10th Division!

"Let's stay for now, we don't have much food.......

Ryosuke Isoya's answer surprised the chief of staff, he really didn't expect that the chief of staff of the company was already preparing for a long-term hold!

Although the Japanese Army has always paid little attention to logistics, and often asks army divisions and regiments to levy grain and grass on the spot, elite troops like the 10th Division will still carry some grain on the road, and if Ryosuke Isoya remembers correctly, the 10th Division's military food stocks should be able to last at least five days!

Five days! Wasn't it enough for the generals of the North China Front to react? Knowing that Seishiro Itagaki's 5th Division had arrived near Linyi, Ryosuke Isoya believed that as long as Itagaki Division could join forces with his 10th Division, it would not be difficult to break through the encirclement of the Chinese!

"The embankment is not clamped! You're a little worried! Although Seishiro Itagaki had a bet with me, he is not a person who does not understand right and wrong, and he can't afford to sit back and watch the 10th Division be annihilated by the Chinese army! What's more! His Sakamoto detachment also fell under the siege of the Chinese army! I think the 5th Division will be very active in moving south! ”

In fact, it was not that Chief of Staff was unaware of these links, but it was because he was worried that Ryosuke Isoya would be angry and unwilling to ask for help from Seishiro Itagaki's 5th Division, so Chief of Staff did not come up with such a radical method of "killing military horses".

Finally, the chief of staff waited for the answer he wanted.

"The division commander is wise! In that case, we should try to get as close to the Sakamoto detachment as possible! It would be better to be able to complete the convergence with the Sakamoto detachment before the arrival of the main forces of the 5th Division! In this way, it may be possible to complete the plan of 'center flowering'! ”

Ryosuke Isoya felt that this was also a safe way at present, and by absorbing the thousands of Japanese troops of the Sakamoto detachment into the defense system of the 10th Division, he could operate the triangle of Lincheng, Zaozhuang, and Yixian like an iron bucket. With the combat vehicles and heavy artillery of the 1st Brigade in his hands, coupled with the bombers of the Army Airlines, Isoya Ryosuke could hold out in this area for a long time, waiting for the North China Front to carry out a counter-encirclement of the Chinese army besieging the Isoya Division, and then offset the fiasco at Taierzhuang with the military exploits of the "central flowering" to contain the Chinese army! Perhaps, Ryosuke Isoya's future can be saved!

"Alright! Let the Sakamoto detachment come over! Guoliji is the barrier of Zaozhuang, as long as the Sakamoto detachment holds Guoliji, Tang Enbo's 20th Army will not be able to help us, and we can also free up our hands to deal with the 25th Army in the west! (To be continued.) )