While Dragon Boat Festival was moving towards Xintai County unhurriedly and paying attention to the enemy's movements at all times, the battle in Taierzhuang continued.
After receiving reinforcements from a section of the Chaoxian Division,
The little devil launched the third attack on Taierzhuang City.
The Japs used heavy artillery to bombard the walls of Taierzhuang. The north wall was blown down and the small north gate was destroyed. All the officers and soldiers of the 3rd Battalion of the 181st Regiment who guarded the small north gate of Taierzhuang were killed, and more than 300 Japs broke into the city.
The fierce street fighting began, and the defenders in the city launched a fierce street fighting with the Japanese invaders.
Although the Japanese army occupied two-thirds of the entire village, the Chinese defenders in the Nanguan area refused to retreat until death, holding on to their positions in order to enable the external forces to complete the counter-encirclement of the Japanese army.
This was a battle plan that Li Zhongren had already formulated. He would use part of his troops to defend Taierzhuang. The defenders would try their best to hold off the enemy so that the army outside the village could surround the Japanese invaders and catch the turtles in a jar.
But the little devil naturally didn't know that this was Li Zhongren's plan, and thought that the Chinese defenders could no longer bear it.
So the Japs invaded the northwest corner of Taierzhuang the next day, seeking to seize the west gate and cut off the connection between the headquarters of the Chinese garrison's 31st Division and the village.
The commander of the division, Chi Fengcheng, commanded, suppressed the enemy with powerful artillery fire, and organized dozens of death squads to fight hand-to-hand with the enemy, preferring death to retreat.
At the same time, the 52nd Army and the 85th Army of Tang Enbo's Army attacked the Zaozhuang and Yixian Japs from the outside.
The Japs, on the other hand, deployed all the Chaoxian divisions as cannon fodder to support the Japanese army in Taierzhuang.
This Chaoxian division was the subordinate of Prince Li Cheng. Li Cheng followed Momotaro into Mount Tai and was already dead.
But his other Chaoxian division, Zhang Guangsan's division, is still serving the Imperial Japanese Army.
Zhang Guangsan, like Li Cheng, was a fanatical pro-Japanese faction. Even after Li Cheng died, he still did not repent. Moreover, in honor of Li Cheng, he also wanted to sacrifice his life for the Imperial Japanese Army.
So, he got his wish, when Zhang Guangsan led his troops and quickly occupied the eastern half of Taierzhuang.
The Chinese defenders completely surrounded the Japanese and Chaoxian divisions who entered the Taierzhuang area, and the battle quickly fell into an extremely unfavorable situation.
Naturally, the little Japanese would not sit still and wait for death, and immediately asked for help from the headquarters of the Japanese Second Army.
Naturally, the Little Japs Command would not give up the lives of so many Japs so easily. They immediately ordered the rest of the Ban Heng Division to rush for reinforcements.
Ban Heng's fifth division had been crippled by the Dragon Boat Festival before. However, the remaining troops still had a large number of people, so they formed a mixed brigade with the Imperial Alliance Army and headed for reinforcements.
Ban Heng led his troops to rush to Taierzhuang for reinforcements, arrived at Xiangcheng and Aiqu areas, and flanked our 20th Army Corps.
The army immediately ordered the 52nd Army and the newly arrived 75th Army to besiege the Banheng Brigade. During the fierce battle, the Banheng Brigade was severely damaged again, and its plan to rescue Zhang Guangsan and enter the Japanese army in Taierzhuang failed.
Seeing that there was no hope for help, the little Japs in Taierzhuang decided to fight to the death.
However, the Chinese defenders had five times the strength of the enemy, and victory was only a matter of time.
When I received the battle report from the front at Dragon Boat Festival, I was very satisfied. I had a sure chance of winning this battle.
And this is also the reason why the Dragon Boat Festival did not put much energy into the Battle of Taierzhuang.
Taierzhuang is a must-win battle, and if he gets involved, he is just wasting extra combat power.
His purpose was to annihilate the Japs, and his operational ideas were correct. The Japs had already transferred the Chaoxian division from Chaoxian due to lack of troops.
In other words, the little devil has begun to decline at this time. If he continues to kill, the little devil will definitely lose.
Duanwu put down the message in his hand and no longer paid attention to the Taierzhuang battle, because the outcome of this battle had been decided. He was now concerned about the battle in Xintai County.
This battle is a trap for the Japanese, but he will dance on the edge of the knife.
"Dragon Boat Festival Brothers."
At this moment, Ma Pingan ran up from the back of the team.
Since all the cars were blown up, Duanwu and others could only walk or ride horses.
At this time, Ma Ping'an came running. Because Ma Ping'an had a car, but it was a donkey cart. Like Lao Abacus, he needed to receive telegrams, so he couldn't do it without a car.
So at this time, Ma Pingan came to report to Duanwu, saying that they had an underground party comrade who had discovered a large number of Japanese in Gangcheng Village.
The exact number of people was unknown. The underground party comrades had just asked a fellow villager, but when they approached Gangcheng Village, they saw that a fellow villager was killed by Japanese soldiers dressed as ordinary people, and then dragged into the bushes.
In other words, the people in Gangcheng Village may also have been killed.
Ma Ping'an said: "Brother Duanwu, maybe this is really a trap by the Japs. Why don't we retreat?"
Duanwu smiled and said: "Don't you think this is an opportunity? We already know that this is the enemy's trick, so we can use it. You tell Lao Li not to rush into Xintai County first. Let's kill the little Japanese in ambush first."
"············"
Ma Ping'an was speechless, because Li Yunlong had already brought someone with him. I'm afraid he had arrived in Xintai County by now, right?
But Ma Pingan didn't know whether it was specific or not. The last time he contacted Li Yunlong, he said that he was less than 30 kilometers away from Xintai County, and said that this operation went very smoothly. It should be that the little devil knew that he, Old Li
I came here to move something, and I deliberately put water in it.
In other words, Li Yunlong had realized that this might be a trap set by a little Jaap. But he still swaggered and killed him just to test the waters for Dragon Boat Festival.
Although the combat effectiveness of his desperate column was mediocre, Li Yunlong didn't panic at all with the Dragon Boat Festival around. If the little Japanese's ambush troops jumped out in advance, it would play into his hands.
Moreover, he, Old Li, was not a vegetarian. Although he brought with him all new soldiers, he was in compliance with Li Yunlong's words: One soldier is a raging enemy, and a den of generals is raging.
Even though they were all new recruits, under the leadership of Li Yuanlong, they all howled like little tigers descending from the mountain.
So if the little devil wants to eat up Li Yunlong's death column in one bite, he is just kidding.
Otherwise, Li Yunlong is not a fool. Why would a mere transport team dare to cross the line of fire of the Japs and go directly to the hinterland of the Japs?
At this time, the little devils were naturally confused. Their plan was to target the supervision team, but a group of transportation teams wearing ordinary people's clothes appeared in their field of vision.
But the strangest thing is that the trucks of this transport brigade have nothing loaded on them. Instead, they all go to Xintai County empty, just like they are going to Xintai County to haul things.
And if they weren't all dressed in civilian and Eighth Route Army clothes, the little devil would even suspect that this was an imperial army transport team!