Ximen was broken through, and Colonel Qingmu, the 53rd Regiment team leader, was killed. The wing is now commanded by Chief of Staff, Major Takeshita, who requests tactical guidance."

"North Gate, the Tsuda United Team (54 United) killed 780 people and injured 214 people. There are still 562 people. Colonel Tsuda requests tactical guidance."

"The east gate, the Chinese army was not strong in offensive, and the deer antler brigade was killed in battle, ……*……………”

"The artillery team was bombed by the Chinese Air Force, and all heavy artillery was lost. The captain Yuki was killed in battle*..."

The gunfire from the west became more and more intense, and the Chief of Staff Sheng Nei looked anxious: "The division commander, the reserve team is gone, so he can only cut off the flesh and make up for the sores. Please draw troops from the East Gate. The situation at the East Gate is slightly better."

At this moment, Yasuhi Sakai was filled with helplessness and anger. He knew very well about the situation of the 17th Division. The division suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Northern Hubei. The division commander Shengren of Hirabayashi was killed and the troops were completely wiped out. Now this unit was formed by the left-behind personnel of the original troops, the logistics personnel drawn from the domestic army of the Kwantung Army, and the patchwork of new recruits. In the eyes of his veteran, this was a group of mobs and could not be compared with the elite soldiers who died in the Battle of Northern Hubei.

In addition, the heavy artillery, ammunition and other materials lost in the Battle of Northern Hubei were not completed. In order to help the troops improve their combat effectiveness as soon as possible, he took many abnormal means, or even bloody means, and risked the risk of being sent to the war criminal court by the Chinese government after the war, and used civilians and prisoners to train new recruits. But after all, they could only let the new recruits know what the killing was, and they could not improve the new recruits' technical and tactical capabilities.

Killing people can only enhance their courage "reduce the fear of recruits on the battlefield for the first time". However, the technical and tactical abilities must be formed after a long period of hard training. But he did not have such a long time to train the troops. The essence of the entire division was annihilated in the northern Hubei campaign, and the division reconstruction was completed in April. The technical equipment was only in place in May. In just three months, the troops had just taken shape and were devoted to such a big battle.

Therefore, Yasushi Sakai knew that with the current strength of the 17th Division, he would scatter the troops to the canal bank of hundreds of kilometers, and could only be defeated by the Chinese. So he simply sent only some small troops to defend it, but the main force was concentrated in Jining. He hoped to rely on Jining's solid city wall to hold the attack of the Chinese team.

However, this combat plan caused great controversy in the division headquarters. Some staff members believed that they should stick to the canal. Otherwise, once the Chinese team broke through the canal defense line, with the ability of China's mechanized troops, the Chinese team could rush all the way to Jining City. It is not in 1937, and more than 200,000 Chinese teams could not resist more than 10,000 Chinese teams in the 17th Division.

But Yasuhi Sakai refused. He suppressed the opposition within the division with the toughest attitude, and only sent a brigade in the northern section of the canal. As a result, his judgment was correct. This brigade happened to be at the breakthrough of the brigade. The Chinese people lined up more than 50 tanks in the west coast, and the soldiers of the Imperial Army could not raise their heads under artillery fire. In the half-day fierce battle, the brigade lost half, most of the officers were killed, and the captain was seriously injured.

What surprised Sakai Yasui was that after rushing across the canal, the Chinese team did not directly rush to Jining. "The main force headed north to attack Wenshang and Dongpei. Sakai Yasui was keenly aware that this was an opportunity and the opportunity to retreat, so before Wenshang fell, he asked Matsui Ishigen to either reinforce him or ask him to retreat; but what made him angry was that both requests were rejected by Matsui Ishigen, and Matsui Ishigen had only one perseverance in the Japanese and Chinese army. He appealed to Okamura Yasui Commander of the North China Expeditionary Army through the most angrier protest method in the Japanese and Chinese army. The order he could get was to stick to.

In desperation, he could only shrink his troops to Jining and use this time to drive Jining citizens to strengthen the city defense. In just three days, inside and outside Jining City, there were many open bunkers and secret buildings, every street and building in the city were opened, and all residents were expelled from the city. Only nine thousand imperial soldiers were left in the city, and the *** team swept across the north. When they turned south, Jining had become a huge fortress. Sakai Yasui believed that with this fortress, the soldiers' tactical ability was not good, but they could still fight to defend the city.

But the facts disappointed him. The artillery fire of the Chinese team was far greater than that of the Japanese army. In just one day, most of the strongholds outside the city were lost, especially the 68th Army of the Chinese army attacking from the northwest. The artillery fire was so fierce and the attack speed were beyond his expectations. It only took one day and one night to attack the city of Jining.

The next day, the new number of the Forty Army appeared again, and the attack became more and more fierce. But at this moment, Matsui Ishien called again and agreed to his retreat to Yanzhou. This order made him scold him for three minutes at the division command center. If he had known this, he would have done what he did.

After cursing, in order to find a way out for the division, he took the risk of sending a brigade from the East Gate to attack Huangtun. Before he arrived at Huangtun, he encountered the Chinese army's blockade. The Chinese Eighth Route Army, which attacked the North Gate, came from the side and behind. The brigade finally retreated and had lost half of it.

After that, Katsuya Sakai died of breaking through. In addition to repeatedly asking Matsui Ishigen to ask for tactical guidance, and if he did not go out of the city to counterattack, the staff of the division headquarters no longer yelled to counterattack and break out. They knew in their hearts that if they left these fortifications, the division would probably not be able to fight for three days. **Kang relied on the Jining city wall and struggled for two days, repeatedly urged the reinforcements, but Matsui Ishigen's telegram was either persistent or the reinforcements were already on the road, or told him that the Imperial Army was gathering on the north bank of the Yellow River and was preparing to counterattack from behind the Chinese army attacking Jining. But the Chinese army seemed to have no idea of ​​the danger at all, and still attacked Jining continuously.

Now there is no other way, so I can only tear down the east wall and repair the west wall.

Katsuya Sakai ordered two squadrons to be drawn from the east gate garrison to launch a counterattack against the Chinese army rushing in by Ximen. Soon, the effect of the counterattack came out, and the sound of the rapid advance was eased, and Katsuya Sakai had just breathed a sigh of relief.

"Boom!" A fierce cannon sound came from the dock. Sakai Yasushi was shocked. The officers of the command were stunned. The dock was attacked?!

Jining City is located at the mouth of Lake Lake in Nanyang, and is also the exit of the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou. Jining South Gate is actually a dock: until the war is over, China and Japan have a general understanding of each other's combat methods and advantages; the Chinese and *** teams have never conducted landing operations, so the dock is the weakest place in Jining's defense. At the beginning of the battle, Katsuya Sakai only placed one squadron here. As the battle was fierce, most of the squadrons came over and were transferred to the West Gate, with only one squad left at the wharf, and the defense was the most empty time.

Monei grabbed the telephone to call the dock, but soon he put it down and called a staff officer to ask him to go to the dock to see what happened. However, Yasuhi Sakai grabbed a telescope and left. The division command was not set up in the Japanese garrison, but moved to a small villa next to the church before the war.

Yasui quickly climbed to the top of the church building, raised his telescope and looked towards the pier. Hundreds of sailboats appeared on the lake. A blue sky and white sun flags were already flying above the pier. On several streets near the pier, several blue sky and white sun flags were still advancing rapidly, and Japanese soldiers were retreating one after another.

Seeing this situation, Yasushi Sakai and Morinai were facing death at the same time, and they realized that Jining could no longer defend.

"The landing is successful, and the city is attacking! OK!" Sakai Yasuhi was cursing, but Song Xilian excitedly closed his hands to celebrate.

He was proud of landing at Jining Wharf. The 78th Army was ordered to go north and join the attack on Jining. However, Song Xilian considered it over and over again and believed that there was already a Second Army, Guerrilla Corps, and the First Mechanized Army outside Jining City, with a total force of up to 200,000. Even if the 18th Army was added, it could not be stopped. Secondly, regarding the threat from the north bank of the Yellow River, Song Xilian believed that there were already New Eighth Army and New and Old Divisions in Dongpingwen. Anyway, the puppet army could not resist the Japanese attack and could also delay the Japanese attack. The main force of the troops also had time to turn.

After repeated consideration, Song Xilian formulated a bold plan and telegraphed Yu Chengwan, the commander of the 78th Army, that after the troops headed north to Yutai, they secretly collected ships, demanding that at least one brigade be transported at a time, and then waited for orders in the reed marsh hidden north of Yutai.

Early this morning, after the attack on Ximen was counterattacked by the Japanese army again, Song Xilian felt that the Japanese army had almost the same strength and most of them were attracted to the front, so he decisively ordered the 78th Army to attack.

Sure enough, the landing of the 78th Army was only subjected to a slight resistance, and the troops quickly landed ashore. More importantly, there were many fishermen near Nanyang Lake and many fleets of the canal. The ships collected by Yu Chengwan could carry and carry two brigades, which were like a sharp knife stabbed into the back of Sakai.

"Appoint Chi Fengcheng, Yu Chengwan has already landed at the dock, and immediately put the reserve team in. We must hit the headquarters of this guy Sakai*..."

"Appoint Liang Dai, the troops moved north, and the Japanese on the north bank may not be able to stay here..."

After giving the order, Song Xilian took a breath. In his opinion, breaking through the west gate and landing on the wharf, the Japanese army had been attacked from the front and back, and the overall situation of the Jining War had been settled in Dong'a. According to the information, the three Japanese divisions had been in place. Gao Shuxun and Xie Zixing from Dongping and Wenshang were fully focused and on high alert. Wenshang and Dongping were both building fortifications, especially Xie Zixing's Dazhai Mountain. Tens of thousands of people nearby brought tools here to help build fortifications.

But what made Song Xilian strange was that the Japanese army had never been moved. The Air Force visited Dong'a several times a day. Almost all roads from Dong'a to the ferry were blown up, and the ships at the ferry were also blown up. According to Song Xilian's estimate, when he hit the city of Jining the day before yesterday, the Japanese army on the north bank should take action, but Japan himself did not: But when he broke through the west gate for the first time, Japan himself should also take action: But today, Japan himself should break into the city, Japan himself should always take action.

However, to his disappointment, Japanese* himself still did not move.

There was no movement on the north bank, which made Song Xilian uneasy. For this reason, he had withdrawn the Sixty-Eighth Army as a reserve force early. Even though the Forty Army was attacked twice, he did not transfer the Sixty-Eighth Army.

Now, even if the Japanese army crossed the river on the north bank to attack, they had no chance. Song Xilian stood up and stretched, smiled, and ordered in a somewhat flaunting tone: "Tele to the Guerrilla Corps that our army has broken into the city, and the Seventy-Eighth Army landed at the dock, and ask when they can break through the North Gate."

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