At this time, cadres Wang Gang and Shen Mo from Dongping County had been fighting with the Japs for nearly a day.
The casualties of the troops gradually increased.
Although the Chaoxian Division's combat effectiveness is indeed average, they are several times more powerful than Wang Gang and Shen Mo's cadres, and they possess large-caliber siege artillery.
The east city gate attacked by the Chaoxian Division had already been punched with thousands of holes. Even the crenellations of the city wall had been punched out with several gaps.
And in the evening, more than a dozen Japanese bombers conducted violent bombings on Dongping County, especially on the positions outside the Dongcheng Gate.
Therefore, it is inevitable that cadres Wang Gang and Shen Mo will suffer heavy losses.
Now, Wang Gang's 56th Army and Shen Mogan have switched defenses.
The number of casualties in Shen Mogan's regiment reached almost half. However, Wang Gang's regiment only had one encounter, and more than thirty people were killed.
The Chaoxian division then charged under the cover of artillery fire, and when the soldiers of Wang Gang's regiment reacted, the Chaoxian soldiers had already rushed to the position.
The two sides engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat.
Although the Chaoxian Division was repelled in the end, Wang Gang's troops also suffered more than a hundred casualties in this battle.
Subsequently, the Chaoxian Division once again launched an artillery attack on the East City Gate, but this time, the Chaoxian soldiers did not launch an attack. Instead, when everyone's attention was on the artillery attack on the East City Gate, the North City Gate suddenly encountered Chaoxian. The raid of the Xian Division.
It was already dark, and under the cover of night, the Chaoxian Division rushed in directly through the damaged city gate.
Although sandbags were piled up at the city gate to block it, all these sandbags were blown away after a violent explosion.
And everyone's attention was on the east city gate, so when the soldiers of the 55th Army who had just retreated to rest noticed, the people from the Chaoxian Division had already rushed in.
So the two sides started a fierce gun battle and hand-to-hand combat at and near the North City Gate.
Although there were soldiers during the battle who could hear the other party's language as if it were different from that of the little devil. But at this time, who could care about such a thing?
Everyone is desperately trying to drive the enemy out.
However, there were too many enemies, more than twice as many as the officers and soldiers defending the city. The north gate was declared lost. A large number of Japanese soldiers from the Chaoxian Division launched an attack along the city wall toward the east wall.
Wang Gang ordered people to block the enemy, but the Chaoxian Japs who entered the city could no longer be driven out.
Wang Gang discussed with Shen Mogan and quickly built a defense line in the city to fight with the Japs in the streets.
But no one can tell how long this battle will last, because the enemy's firepower is too strong, and they only have light weapons such as rifles and machine guns. They also plan to search for weapons and ammunition on the enemy's corpses at night. It was also ruined.
Because the enemy has been attacking, they have no chance to pick up the enemy's weapons and ammunition.
Therefore, the best result of this battle is that the supervision team arrives in Dongping County early.
But it was obvious that their expectations were in vain. At this time of the Dragon Boat Festival, an ambush was being planned in Feiyun Ridge to get rid of the enemy.
This Feiyun Ridge was previously the place where the Special 1st Battalion ambush the 1st Puppet Division.
And coincidentally, Dragon Boat Festival was ambushed by the Japs less than ten kilometers away.
Of course, if there was favorable terrain nearby, Duanwu would choose to ambush nearby. And if the incident hadn't happened suddenly, Duanwu would never have been so eager to withdraw from the battle.
The first is the enemy's strength and the firepower ratio is unknown. The second is that there is no favorable terrain nearby for the supervision team.
Moreover, it was not clear whether the enemy had reinforcements. In this case, if they fought head-on with the Japs, Dragon Boat Festival's supervision team would definitely suffer heavy losses.
Therefore, the most advisable way is to quickly break away from the battle and investigate the specific number of Japanese troops, their firepower ratio, and whether there are enemy reinforcements around, especially the enemies on the north side.
Duanwu had received news from Ma Pingan before that at least one mixed brigade of the 110th Division had crossed the river from the direction of Dong'a.
If this force is encircled by the Japanese army that is facing the Dragon Boat Festival at this time, the supervision team will be in an extremely unfavorable situation.
And Duanwu thought of one thing. It is now difficult for him to get rid of the enemy in a short time, so the soldiers of the 56th Army and the 55th Army who are still guarding Dongping County at this time will be very dangerous. So he asked Lao Abacus to quickly
He sent electricity to the 55th Army and the 56th Army, saying that he had been entangled by the Japs and asking them to withdraw the two regiments from Dongping County immediately.
A moment later, Liao Guangyi and Cao Fulin received messages from the Dragon Boat Festival, but by this time, it was already too late.
Due to the loss of the strength of the two regiments and the heavy casualties after sending these two regiments out, the Japanese army had broken through several checkpoints and reached the gates of Jining City.
The same goes for Cao Fulin's 55th Army. Although the Japanese army has not yet reached Cao Fulin's headquarters, it is only a matter of time before the defense line completely collapses.
More than half of the troops suffered casualties, and Li Zhongren's reinforcements were delayed. They could only forward the Dragon Boat Festival telegram to Li Zhongren.
Li Zhongren frowned slightly when he saw the telegram. But he didn't dare to make the decision on his own in this matter.
In other words, this is indeed the Chairman's secret order.
Although Han Fuju was dead, he had many direct descendants in the Third Army, so even if the Fifty-sixth Army, the Fifty-fifth Army, and the Twelfth Army were not wiped out by the Japanese, they would still be weakened.
But the most important thing is that the Chairman did not expect that the Japs would deploy so many troops to encircle and suppress the Supervision Corps. Moreover, if the front line collapsed, it might be even more detrimental to the Supervision Corps.
So the Chairman thought over and over again and telegraphed that Li Zhongren could retreat, but he must maintain suppression of the Japanese and puppet troops and not allow him to send reinforcements to the hinterland, which would add pressure to the supervision corps.
And at the same time, the chairman of the committee sent a message to the supervision team to inquire about the status of their troops.
Duanwu only replied: "Don't make unnecessary sacrifices and break out on your own."
Then Duanwu ignored whatever the Chairman said again. Because it was useless. Now that he was in the hinterland of the Japanese army, anyone who came in would only increase casualties.
And if reinforcements hadn't suddenly appeared in Dongping County, how could he have risked going south?
Therefore, it was better not to have reinforcements at this time, including the 129th Division. Duanwu also told Ma Pingan to let them go back.
Because this is too dangerous. If we fall into the siege of the Japs, the entire 129th Division may be in danger.
But what no one expected was that the battle on the Western Front was far less cruel than Duanwu imagined.
The 110th Division sent reinforcements across the river twice to encircle and suppress the Dragon Boat Festival, draining all nearby troops. In addition to the fierce resistance of the Japanese and puppet troops in HD, Li Yunlong simply sang loudly in other small towns. He arrived at Liaocheng without encountering almost any resistance.
Liaocheng is also a very large town in theory, but the defenders only have more than a hundred traitors. Li Yunlong did not fight hard, and the traitors ran away from the east gate.
Li Yunlong has seized a large amount of military supplies again. He, Old Li, shouldn't be too happy!