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7.112 Final Preparations

Townenburg's 20th Army Corps did not carry out the operational plan developed before the war in the 5 theater. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Tang Enbo has always tried to avoid encountering the main force of the Japanese army, to preserve his strength, and to move according to the development of the war situation. Its 85th Army did not solve the enemy near Zaozhuang and occupy Zaozhuang, and the 52nd Army did not launch an attack on Yixian.

At dawn on April 3, Tang Enbo received an urgent telegram from Chief Li, and in the past few days, the battle in Taierzhuang has been raging, and the main generals of the 20th Army Corps have gathered at Tang Enbo's corps headquarters to wait for Tang Enbo to give the order to attack.

Guan Linzheng, commander of the 52nd Army, and Zheng Dongguo, commander of the 2nd Division, were the two most anxious of the many generals of the 20th Army. Before the war, Guan Linzheng and Zheng Dongguo accompanied Tang Enbo to Taierzhuang, and Guan Linzheng and Zheng Dongguo also saw Tang Enbo's promise to Chifeng City that as long as "the 31st Division can hold out for three days, the 20th Army Corps will definitely give the Japanese army a fatal blow"!

At the moment, even if the battle on the outskirts of Taierzhuang is not counted, the 31st Division of Chifeng City has been fighting for almost two days and two nights, if the 20th Army Corps still does not move today, then will they not break their promise?

Soldiers pay special attention to credibility, in fact, Guan Linzheng and Zheng Dongguo have a lot of opinions about the actions of Commander Tang Enbo. But because Tang Enbo is the chief, Guan Linzheng and Zheng Dongguo have always been patient, hoping that Tang Enbo can change his mind.

After reading the contents of the telegram sent by Chief Li, Tang Enbo closed the folder with disdain, then raised it in his hand and waved it at the generals in front of him, and finally asked a question with a mocking tone.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Guess what Li Delin said in the telegram? ”

What else could the telegram sent by Chief Li at this time say? It is nothing more than urging the 20th Army Corps to attack from behind the Isoya Division as soon as possible! Now that Sun Lianzhong's 2nd Army has firmly pinned down Ryosuke Isoya's 10th Division in Taierzhuang, now the only thing left for Chief Li is to close the net! Concentrate all the forces on the front line of Taierzhuang to encircle and annihilate the 10th Division of Ryosuke Isotani!

And the 20th Army Corps, which has been hiding in the Ligu Mountains north of Zaozhuang after carrying out the mission of luring the enemy, is the key to this "net collection operation"!

Although all the commanders of the 20th Army knew the answer to this question, most of them still planned to see the situation before speaking, until Tang Enbo had expressed his opinion.

Zheng Dongguo, the commander of the 2nd Division, was a little overwhelmed and planned to stand up to answer the question raised by Tang Enbo, but was blocked by his army commander Guan Linzheng and lost the opportunity to speak.

Tang Enbo saw that the person who stood up was Guan Linzheng, and couldn't help frowning slightly. At present, several divisions of the 20th Army Corps are shrinking in the Ligu Mountains, and only one of the 52nd Army of the Linzheng Army has reached Guoliji. It seems that this Commander Guan and his Tang Enbo are not of the same mind.....

"Oh!? Commander Guan seems to have something to learn? Okay, okay! Say it and let's discuss it! ”

Because it was Tang Enbo's own question, Tang Enbo could only pretend to be very happy and ask Guan Linzheng to speak freely, but the expression on Tang Enbo's face looked a little unnatural.

"Commander! Our 20th Army Corps has not acted again since the mission of luring the enemy, but we have sent a telegram to Chief Li saying that the 20th Army Corps has joined the war! If it's always on standby, I'm afraid it's a little unreasonable...... right? ”

Guan Linzheng's words were very subtle, deliberately saying that the 20th Army Corps' avoidance of war was on standby.

"Hey! Commander Guan's words are wrong! How am I the kind of person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, but now the situation is special, and I have to do it as a last resort! ”

Tang Enbo saw that Guan Linzheng did not speak thoroughly, so he seized the opportunity to start defending himself, Tang Enbo took out the telegram sent by Chief Li from the folder, held it in his hand and shook it, and put on a very aggrieved look:

"Look at y'all! Come and see! What is Li Delin talking about? 'The Sun group in Taierzhuang is in a state of stalemate, and the enemy and us are in difficulty, and your army should quickly move south to attack it for powerful assistance....' The battle plan clearly said that after Sun Lianzhong's 2nd Group weakened the Isogu Division, our 20th Army Corps would attack again, and now that the battle situation in Taierzhuang was not clear, they wanted us to go south to participate in the war. Since we joined the combat sequence of the 5th war zone, Li Delin has been wearing small shoes for us everywhere! Can I still believe what he Li Delin said now? ”

Tang Enbo's words made Guan Linzheng a little confused, and Guan Linzheng couldn't help but subconsciously say: "It seems... Chief Li didn't do anything bad for our department, did he? ”

Guan Linzheng's tone just gave Tang Enbo room to play on the topic, and saying that black is white, which is Tang Enbo's forte!

"Yudong! You're this straight guy! Where can you see the sinister nature of these warlords! When he Li Delin asked our 20th Army Corps to go to Xu to participate in the war, he clearly said that he didn't need our 20th Army Corps to fight a bad battle, and only used it as a strategic reserve in the 5th theater! But what did he do when we got to the 5th war zone? Assist in the defense of Teng County, lure the enemy deep...! What kind of rotten errand is this? I think Li Delin is intent on splitting our 20th Army Corps and using it, taking the opportunity to consume our Central Army! If I hadn't been careful everywhere and brought everyone together, I'm afraid that our 20th Army would have been torn apart by now! Songhu, Nanjing, and North China have fought bloody battles, and how many elites of the Central Army are still left? If we run out, what will we do to maintain the situation? Before coming to the 5th war zone, the commissioner had instructed me to go to his old man if I had something to do, and the commissioner knew all this I am doing! ”

When they heard Tang Enbo say the word "commission," the generals present hurriedly stood up and fought well, and this has become a habit of the central military system. Raising the highest authority as a shield at the right time was another trick of the town. Guan Linzheng, who was born in the first phase of Whampoa, did not dare to question the highest authorities under any circumstances.

There is a reason why Tang Enbo did not fulfill his promise to Chifeng Castle before the war: "Once the 31st Division engages the Japanese army, the 20th Army Corps will move south to flank the Japanese army."

In Tang Enbo's view, if Taierzhuang and Linyi were not secured, then his 20th Army Corps would be in danger of being attacked by the Japanese army from the north and south in Yixian. On the contrary, if the Chinese troops in Taierzhuang and Linyi can hold their positions, thwart the Japanese attack, and consume the enemy to the greatest extent, then it will be easier, more labor-saving, more certain, and more convenient to defeat the exhausted enemy.

Therefore, on the one hand, Tang Enbo made arrangements to avoid engaging the main force of the Japanese army, and on the other hand, he lied about the military situation to deal with the constant phone calls from Chief Li and Huang Haoran. On the grounds that the main force attacked the direction of Zaozhuang first, the main force of the 20th Army was placed in the Qigu Mountains north of Zaozhuang and did not move.

Wanting to win and being afraid of losing is the truest portrayal of Tang Enbo's current psychology.

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"Commander! The command of the 2nd Army is in an emergency! Taierzhuang's former enemy headquarters is in an emergency! The Xuzhou Commander's Department is in an emergency! ”

Just when Guan Linzheng hesitated how to continue to speak, the confidential chief of the 20th Army sent three telegrams to Tang Enbo at once, and Tang Enbo learned from the source of the telegram that these three telegrams were from Sun Lianzhong, Huang Haoran and Chief Li, and the level of these three people was higher than the other, and the first one was bigger than the other!

"Quick! Hurry up and get it! ”

Tang Enbo was obviously also taken aback by this formation, and these three telegrams sent in at the same time had the meaning of "twelve gold medals", so that Tang Enbo did not dare to slack off!

There was also a commotion among the generals of the 20th Legion in the room, and everyone wondered what was going on......

After reading the three telegrams, he finally had some clues......

Although the three telegrams arrived at the headquarters of the 20th Army Corps almost simultaneously, they were not pre-arranged.

The reason for all this was that the battle situation in Taierzhuang was urgent, and after giving Sun Lianzhong an order to annihilate the Japanese army that broke into Taierzhuang within a time limit, Commander Li issued an order to Tang Enbo to transfer troops to Taierzhuang.

Chief Li first told Sun Lianzhong: "Taierzhuang is an important place in front of Xuzhou, and it is also a liaison route for the rear of the Tang Army, and the relationship is important. Now Taierzhuang has been broken into a part of the Japanese army, there is only the possibility of shaking the overall situation, I hope that your department will fight hard, and the Japanese army that broke into the village will be cleared before dawn on April 4, so as not to delay the opportunity to make a mistake. ”

Then, in this second telegram sent to Town, Commander Li clearly delineated the current tasks of the 20th Army, as if he was afraid that Townenbo would take advantage of it again.

In the telegram, Commander Li said: "Order the 20th Army Corps to abandon the plan of attacking Yixian and Zaozhuang, quickly monitor the enemy in front of it with one unit, and turn south with the main force to annihilate the enemy in Taierzhuang first." ”

Because Tang Enbo and Guan Linzheng had promised Chifeng City that "once Taierzhuang is attacked, it will definitely be able to return within one day" and "insist on completing the task in three days", so after receiving the telegram from Chief Li, Sun Lianzhong immediately sent a telegram to Tang Enbo asking for help. It was to the effect: "After several days of fierce attack by the enemy, the 31st Division suffered heavy casualties, and I hope that your troops will attack the enemy's flank and back with all their strength to support the battle of Taierzhuang." ”

The content of Huang Haoran's call is completely a fusion of the two telegrams of Chief Li and Sun Lianzhong, which can be described as a combination of rigidity and softness, and he is also a general of the Central Army to Tang Enboxiao's reasoning and affection.

In addition to the different ways of expression, the ultimate goal of these three telegrams is the same, Sun Lianzhong, Huang Haoran and Chief Li all hope that Tang Enbo's 20th Army will attack from behind the Isogu Division as soon as possible!!

"Hey! It seems that it will be difficult for us to continue to hide and be idle! The debtor has caught up with the door......!"

Tang Enbo's sigh lifted the spirits of Guan Linzheng and Zheng Dongguo! They have waited until now, waiting for this sentence from Tang Enbo!

"I command! The 52nd Army carried out a flanking attack from the area of Fushan and Qingshan to the southward troops of the Isogu Division, and made contact with Sun Lianzhong's 2nd Army; The 85th Army should occupy the areas of Yungu Mountain, Huangshan, Mashan, and Shenshan with one part, contain the enemy in the areas of Qicun, Zaozhuang, and Guoliji, and assemble the main force in the areas of Shenshan, Xiangshuiquan, and Zhushan to stand by......."

"Yes! Commander! ”

The generals of the 20th Legion responded with a bang!

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In order to support the operations of the 27th Division, on the morning of 3 April, Sun Lianzhong transferred one mountain artillery battalion (8 mountain artillery) commanded by the group army and two tank defensive guns commanded by the 31st Division to the 27th Division.

At 8 a.m., the 27th Brigade of the 79th Division began a fierce assault on the Japanese. The officers and men of the 27th Division fought bravely and routed the Japanese troops on the Peizhuang side.

In Taierzhuang, Chi Fengcheng led the defenders to actively counterattack the Japanese troops who invaded Taierzhuang while the 27th Division was attacking the Japanese army outside the city. The officers and men of the 31st and 187th Divisions braved the rain of bullets and bullets to charge the Japanese positions, and the sounds of killing, gunfire, and explosions resounded in the sky above Taierzhuang.

In order to regain the positions lost in these two days as soon as possible, Chi Fengcheng ordered the formation of a death squad, and the officers and soldiers of the 31st Division signed up for hundreds of fighters, and finally Chi Fengcheng selected 57 people.

Under the cover of artillery fire, the 57 daredevils wore Japanese uniforms, with grenades hanging from their waists and holding short guns. Secretly climbed out of the village and went around to the rear of the Japanese army, climbed the wall into the village in separate ways, penetrated directly into the back of the Japanese army, and rushed into the Japanese position with lightning speed. A daredevil's squad engaged in a fierce struggle with the devils in the trenches of the Japanese position. Wounded and fallen daredevils constantly pulled grenades on their bodies and died with the Japanese soldiers. After an hour of fierce fighting, the 31st Division regained two trenches and several bunkers. The Japanese forces that broke through to the northwest of Taierzhuang were significantly weakened.

In order to boost the morale of the defenders of Taierzhuang, Huang Haoran asked the Wuhan Military Commission that the air force could send a "symbolic participation in the war."

Huang Haoran's phone was quickly transferred to the Aviation Committee, first a major general Gao Shen accompanied Huang Haoran on the phone and said a few polite words, and then a voice that Huang Haoran was very familiar with rang!

"Youchen! It's been a long time since I've heard your voice, brother! How are you doing in the 5 war zone!? ”

Huang Haoran immediately recognized that the owner of the voice was Qian Dajun, the former head of the chamberlain! I didn't expect that "Madame's" action would be so fast, and it only took such a short time to transfer Qian Dajun to the Aviation Committee!

Although the post of chairman of the Aviation Committee is held by "Mrs.", the actual commander-in-chief of the Chinese Air Force is Qian Dajun! The "lady" is a good hand at diplomacy, but she knows nothing about commanding the air force, and the purpose of serving as chairman of the Aviation Committee is purely to pass the official pleasure, and all the boring and boring work of the Aviation Committee has been thrown to Qian Dajun by the "lady."

"Money .... Brother Makuyin! Since the Air Force is your brother's boss, you're welcome! Brother, I was bullied by the little devil's plane in Taierzhuang! Didn't the planes of the Soviets already arrive? I also hope that Brother Muyin can let the Air Force help me! I do not ask the Air Force to undertake the task of defending Xuzhou City, the command center, nor do I ask it to cooperate with the Army in long-term operations, but I only hope that the Air Force can carry out several bombardments of the Japanese positions on the front line of Taierzhuang. Boost the morale of the troops! ”

Huang Haoran habitually wanted to call Qian Dajun the head of the chamber Qian, but when the word "money" just came out, Huang Haoran suddenly remembered that Qian Dajun was no longer the head of the chamberlain! In front of the short man, not to mention his height, Huang Haoran quickly changed his words, and called "Brother Mu Yin" according to Qian Dajun's words.

Huang Haoran has not stuffed benefits into Qian Dajun's pocket in recent years, and has also helped Qian Dajun do a lot of things, what is even more commendable is that Huang Haoran did not respect Qian Dajun like most people after learning that the highest authorities had the intention of enabling Qian Dajun, and the conversation on Lushan made Qian Dajun think that Huang Haoran was a person who knew him very well and was his real friend of Qian Dajun!

After the Chinese Air Force received assistance from the Soviet Union, it had already overcome the dilemma of having no planes available, and Huang Haoran's words to the highest authorities that "you should get as many as you want" were well implemented by Qian Dajun, and the number of planes that the Chinese Air Force got from the Soviet Union was far greater than in the same period in history, and Qian Dajun, who had more than 200 fighters and bombers in his hands, was now very confident, and he agreed to Huang Haoran's request!

"If someone else said this, I could only answer that I needed to ask 'Madam', but now that you, Brother Youchen, I will make an exception and agree!" Madame've often praised you, Brother Youchen, in front of me, and I believe that the Air Force will definitely be allowed to attack! Twelve fighters, nine bombers, how? ”

Qian Dajun, who was holding Su Yuan, was in the tone of an upstart, and actually provided 21 planes to Taierzhuang to help in the war at once, which made Huang Haoran a little overjoyed! You must know that when Chief Li was attacked by an air raid in Xuzhou, the air force said that there were no planes to provide, and he didn't even mean to make a show!

There are really people in the DPRK who are good at doing things!

"Brother Makuyin! Thank you so much! When you return to Wuhan, you must get drunk with Brother Muyin! ”

Huang Haoran said a lot of things to Qian Dajun before, but basically it was either sycophant or against his will, but this time, Huang Haoran said the truth! was able to get the help of the Air Force so smoothly, all thanks to this "Brother Muyin"!

"Youchen! Don't thank you first! I have something to ask you here! ”

"Brother Mu Yin, just ask! Youchen must know everything and say everything! ”

Huang Haoran's slightly moved tone made Qian Dajun very happy, and now Qian Dajun is no longer the "chief manager" of the highest authority. Although there is a "lady" behind the back, the status of provinces and cities is still a lot worse! Today's Huang Haoran is thriving, and he is very appreciated by the highest authorities and "Mrs.", and there are still people in the government who are proposing to promote Huang Haoran to army general! Qian Dajun knows that he will definitely not be wrong to invest in Huang Haoran now!

If he can get such a big help from Huang Haoran in the army, Qian Dajun feels that the position under his ass will be much more stable!

"Youchen! Ever since you mentioned the 'four-character strategy' for dealing with Soviet aid, the government's attitude towards the Soviets has changed, and not only the army has opened its mouth to the Soviets, but our aviation committee has also benefited as much as it wants! Since the last Lushan talks, the Soviets have become very talkative, willing to provide more planes to us, but the model is a little older, the following air force hopes to have more E-16 fighters and TB-3 bombers, but the Soviets said that now they do not have much inventory, can only provide a batch of E-15 fighters first, if we insist on E-16 fighters and TB-3 bombers, we will have to wait for another year or so! How do you think I should reply? ”

Before Qian Dajun's words were finished, Huang Haoran already knew what was going on, don't look at the E-15 fighter and the E-16 fighter are only a little different from the name, the actual difference is big!

The E-15 fighter was the last generation of Soviet biplane fighters, a single-seat biplane with a stubby fuselage and a canvas-covered wooden skeleton structure, using a Seagull-type upper wing, all using a nine-cylinder star-shaped air-cooled engine, using an open cockpit and a fixed rear three-point landing gear, and equipped with a two-bladed propeller. Dimensions: wingspan 9.75 meters, length 6.1 meters, height 2.2 meters, wing area 21.90 square meters, empty weight 1012 kg, take-off weight 1490 kg.

The E-16 fighter was the first Soviet fighter with a cantilevered lower wing and retractable landing gear. In 1935, he made his first appearance at a mass rally on Red Square to commemorate May Day, flying in formation over Red Square. In July 1935, production began of Type 5 with an M-25 engine and a ShKAS machine gun, with a production of about 1,500 units. In 1935-1937, the E-16/5 was the fastest fighter in the world at the time, and its performance during the Spanish Civil War was significantly superior to that of the rebel Fiat CR-12 biplane.

The E-16's stubby, low-wing wooden monocoque structure uses a nine-cylinder star-shaped air-cooled engine with simple reinforced protection but no drag reduction measures, an open cockpit and retractable rear landing gear, a two-bladed variable-pitch propeller, and the first armored cockpit.

Dimensions: wingspan 9 meters, length 6.1 meters, height 2.6 meters, wing area 14.50 square meters, empty weight 1350 kg, full load weight 1715 kg.

The difference in the number is one digit, but the performance of the aircraft is one generation worse! As a pilot of the Chinese Air Force, of course, I want an advanced fighter like the E-16 or a bomber like the TB-3, after all, in air combat, the performance of the fighter directly affects the outcome of the air battle, and flying a classic aircraft like the E-15 is not as safe as flying a new fighter like the E-16!

In the end, it's a matter of liking the new and hating the old!

However, Huang Haoran has no reason to accuse the Air Force of "liking the new and hating the old", because Huang Haoran knows that the Air Force is also doing this to defeat the Japanese Air Force faster.

The reason why the Soviets rejected the request of the Chinese Air Force was actually very simple, the Soviet Air Force did not have time to fully reequip such a new fighter as the E-16, and the good thing was, of course, to equip its own Air Force first, in fact, the E-16 fighters were piloted by Soviet fighter pilots of the Soviet Aviation Volunteer Corps for Aiding China in the early days of the anti-Japanese battlefield.

"Brother Makuyin! Don't blame the little brother for being too straightforward... In the opinion of the younger brother, the most important thing that the Chinese Air Force needs to solve now is the problem of the number of aircraft! Only when the needs of quantity are met first, can we talk about quality! Is it worth it to wait for the latest aircraft to have to wait a year for the Air Force to form combat effectiveness!? Older planes can't be used for air combat, but can also be used to train new pilots and bomb ground targets! The officers and men on the front line don't care whether it is the latest aircraft or not, as long as they can see their air force appear in the sky, they are already very happy! ”

Qian Dajun's hearty laughter came from the other end of the phone, and Huang Haoran also heard Qian Dajun slapping the table vigorously.

"Well said! Well said! Youchen, you really woke up the dreamer with a word! There must be quantity first, then there is quality! I couldn't figure out such a simple truth after thinking about it for half a month! At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, there were more pilots and fewer planes, and after several battles, it became that there were pilots but no planes, so everyone focused on buying airplanes, but completely ignored the fact that a large number of pilots died! When the Soviets' planes are all in place, we should think that there are more planes and fewer pilots! Fight with new planes, train with old ones! Just enough to solve the problem of lack of pilots! You can still pull it out to fight in a pinch! That's killing two birds with one stone! ”

Huang Haoran is naturally not stupid enough to want to monopolize the credit, and the 25th Group Army will inevitably ask the Air Force for help in the future, Huang Haoran decided to give Qian Dajun the credit for coming up with the idea:

"Brother Makuyin! You are really too exalted little brother, I just said some immature ideas, the specific things are all thought up by yourself, Brother Mu Yin, at most, I can only be regarded as throwing bricks and stones......"

"You! What a person! You can rest assured about the bombing of the Japanese position! I'll send you a plane right away! ”

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Near noon, the roar of aircraft motors was heard in the sky near Taierzhuang.

The Chinese officers and soldiers on the ground cursed a few words in a low voice, and then they went into the trenches and bunkers to prepare to avoid the air attack, and the devil soldiers on the Japanese position on the opposite side cheered. There are even devil soldiers who only have the throwing cloth left, standing on the ground and dancing.

"Onboard! Great Japanese Empire onboard! ”

"Let these stupid Shina people taste the bomb!"

In the blue sky, 12 fighters and 9 bombers flew over Taierzhuang, because the sun's position was behind these planes, the strong sunlight pierced the devil soldiers on the Japanese position.

Huge planes cast huge shadows over the Japanese positions.

"Hurry! Wave the flag! Tell our air warriors that this is our position! Our planes need target designation! Get started now! ”

After the Japanese commander on the ground found that the planes in the sky were not dropping bombs above the positions of the Chinese troops, they immediately made a judgment that the planes could not identify the targets, and the Japanese soldiers who received the orders waved the sun flags and bayonets in their hands one after another to indicate the location of the Japanese battle line in the air, so that the planes in the sky could identify the targets on the ground and then drop bombs on areas where there was no sun flag dancing.

But the scene that the devils were looking forward to never appeared, the sun flag dancing in their hands seemed to have a fatal attraction to the planes in the sky, and the devil soldiers watched with puzzled faces as the planes flew above their heads, and then many small black dots fell on the top of their heads!

"Boom!" "Boom!"

The shock wave and air wave from the explosion blasted the devil soldiers who rushed out of the trenches and danced everywhere, and the devils were unsuspecting by the sudden bombardment, and they screamed and scurried around with their heads in their hands. The Japanese positions were in full bloom, and thick smoke billowed from them.

There is a "stubborn" devil officer standing on a high place with a command knife and shouting and scolding at the sky:

"Yaga! You idiot pilots!! Blow up the wrong person! The people of China are on the other side! Opposite side! Yaga! I'm going to accuse you of the military headquarters! ”

The Chinese officers and men who hid in the trenches and bunkers waited for a long time and did not wait for the bombs to fall, and they were very puzzled, and they were very worried that this was a new trick played by the devils. Just when the Chinese officers and soldiers couldn't help but want to get out of the trenches and bunkers to take a look, a series of explosions suddenly came from the Japanese positions on the opposite side!

Could it be that the little devil's plane blew up the wrong target? There is such a lively thing to see, and the Chinese officers and soldiers will definitely not miss it!

"Quick! Hurry up and run! The little devil dog eats the dog! This is a must-see! ”

The officers not only did not stop the soldiers from watching the lively action, but also added fuel to the fire in the middle, and fought a bloody battle with the Japanese army in Taierzhuang for several days.

After seeing the Japanese position that had been bombed into a sea of flames, the Chinese officers and soldiers laughed happily, and they gathered together in twos and threes to talk about the world, as if they were squatting at a rally in their hometown to watch a play.

"Roar! This bomb is so loud! At least a dozen little devils have to be blown up, right? ”

"A dozen? Definitely more than that! Didn't you see that the Type 92 infantry guns all flew into the sky? I see, at least half a squad! ”

"Look, look! It's burning over there! Looks like it's blowing up the devil's ammunition depot! ”

"! Why don't you say it's the stove that blew up the devil? Those who are on fire are the cooks? ”

Planes in the sky were constantly circling over the Japanese positions, diving and dropping bombs at the Japanese positions. Every beautiful dive can be exchanged for a burst of exclamations from Chinese officers and soldiers!

After completing the bombing mission, the Chinese Air Force flew over the positions of the Chinese troops one after another, flying low and waving their wings to salute the officers and men of the army who were holding their positions.

"Huh! It's like our own plane! ”

"Cow eggs! You don't talk nonsense! Retract back! Don't let the devil plane find out!

"It's not... Captain! You see! Look! Our planes! Blue Sky White Sun Badge! It's our Chinese Air Force! Brethren! Look! The Air Force brothers are here to help us fight devils!! ”

After the Chinese officers and soldiers on the ground saw the badges painted under the wings, they jumped out of the trench bunkers, raised their guns and took off their hats, and cheered. Many soldiers shed tears of emotion. The appearance of the Chinese Air Force in the sky over Taierzhuang for the first time was a great encouragement to the defenders of Taierzhuang who held their positions!

The morale of the Japanese army has been hit like never before!

The balance of forces between the Chinese and Japanese armies in the Taierzhuang area is quietly changing......

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After the end of the air raid by the Chinese Air Force, Furong Zhenping's 63rd Wing concentrated its forces, and under the cover of 1 field artillery brigade, 2 field heavy artillery brigades, 1 150mm howitzer squad and more than 30 combat vehicles, coordinated with the 2nd Brigade that broke into Taierzhuang, launched a new round of onslaught against the troops in Chifeng City. As the Chinese army was boosted by the air force, the Japanese only occupied the northwest corner of Taierzhuang in the first wave of attacks after the artillery was prepared, and there was no further progress. Chi Feng Cheng organized all the miscellaneous personnel of the 31st Division who could fight into battle. The two sides engaged in a fierce hand-to-hand tug-of-war, fighting each other against each other, fighting house by house, and the positions formed a state of dog-tooth staggering.

In the evening, Huang Haoran carried out a rotation of the troops of the 25th Army in Zhuangnei, and a regiment of the 121st Division took over the previous mixed unit, and after the mixed regiment retreated to the south bank of the canal through the pontoon bridge, the number of people counted, and there were less than 800 casualties and more than 60 percent.

Seeing that the attack of the Seya Brigade was blocked, and that the 20th Army Corps of the Chinese Army was advancing southward, and that the Seya Brigade was in danger of being encircled and annihilated, the Sakamoto Detachment of the 5th Division temporarily suspended the attack on Linyi and turned to reinforce Taierzhuang; At the same time, the main force of the 10th Division was fully invested in the front line of Taierzhuang.

After Commander Li discovered the new movements of the Isogu Division, he hurriedly telegraphed the Tang Army to "quickly move south to flank the Japanese army." The 85th Army was ordered to respond to the feint attack of the enemy in Yixian and contain the enemy's southward movement, but it should maintain the original direction from east to west. The 52nd Army should quickly advance to Nigou and Beiluo, and after arriving at this place, it will use a part to Nanluo to assist the Sun Group Army in solving the enemy near Taierzhuang, and use the main force to destroy the railways and highways to block the connection between Yixian and Taierzhuang, and coordinate with the 85th Army to prevent the enemy from moving south in Yixian. However, the 85th Army should maintain its original orientation from east to west. Commander Tang should quickly contact Commander-in-Chief Sun. ”

On the morning of 4 April, Major General Se Wuping, commander of the 8th Infantry Brigade, led the main force of the 8th Brigade and the chariot unit from Yixian to the south. At this time, Sun Lianzhong reported that he had "not yet made contact" with the 20th Army Corps, and at 20 o'clock that night, Commander Li telegraphed Tang Enbo again: "The enemy's main force seems to be moving south...... The commander of your army monitored Yixian with a department, personally led the main force to advance, and cooperated with Sun Jun to clear the enemy in Taierzhuang, and arrived before dawn on the 5th, so as not to delay. ”

After learning of the situation of the main force of the 8th Brigade in the south, the 63rd Wing and the 10th Wing in Taierzhuang, with the strong support of the aviation and the Japanese troops outside Zhuang, launched a frantic attack on the defenders in Taierzhuang, and advanced to the north bank of the Nantou Canal in Zhuangnantou that night. Huang Haoran ordered Sun Lianzhong to send the 176th Regiment of the 30th Division to Zhuang for reinforcements, and transferred two more battalions from the 189th Division to fight in Zhuang, and cooperated with the troops of the 31st Division to defend the western half of the position, desperately resisting, and stopping the expansion momentum of the Japanese army.

On the night of the same day, Ryosuke Isoya, commander of the 10th Division, was transferred to the 1st Brigade of the 39th Wing stationed in Jining and assigned to the 10th Wing to strengthen the offensive capability of the Seya Detachment. After receiving a report from Pang Bingxun and Zhang Zizhong that "the enemy in front of them had been repulsed," the Fifth Theater ordered the 139th Division of the 59th Army, which had been originally going to be transferred to Linyi, to "transfer to the Taierzhuang side as a reserve" in order to stabilize the battle situation in Taierzhuang.

In the second half of the night, the 31st Division finally received a telegram from Guan Linzheng, commander of the 52nd Army of the 20th Army Corps: "It is a pity that the army did not come south in time because of the mission, and now it is ordered to attack the flank of Taierzhuang with all of it, and it can contact the Japanese army in the afternoon of the 5th. ”

With Guan Linzheng's telegram, the final preparations for the 5th Theater Siege Isoya Division seemed to be about to be completed, and everything began to go smoothly......

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