The hill was covered by smoke. The explosion of the flames tore the smoke apart. After the flames disappeared, the smoke filled the hill again. The original Zhong Ling's elegant aura in the mountains was replaced by the flood of killing. In a sheltered part opposite the hill covered with weeds, Tani Suo was carefully observing the shelling on the opposite side with a telescope. The chief of staff of the division, Shinono, and the commander of the 36th Brigade, were also watching with a telescope.

The sound of cannons stopped, and a yellow stream of people appeared in the telescope and rushed towards the hill. A ball of light suddenly burst out from the hill. The yellow stream was immediately stopped. Gu Shoufu's face was gloomy. The small hill had blocked their progress for two days. The 36th Brigade attacked the hill three times and was hit three times. Gu Shoufu didn't know how the Central ** team on the hill survived such fierce artillery fire, but indeed, his troops were blocked.

"Kun Niujima, prepare to organize the eighth attack." Tanisuo put down his telescope and tried to suppress his anger. Although the troops were still attacking up, he had already seen that the Zhong** team on the mountain was still very strong, and it seemed that they had received reinforcements.

"Hay." Takashima agreed, Tanisuo added: "I don't want to see the ninth attack."

The division has been going well since its departure from Nanjing, but after conquering Sanjie Town, things began to change. The Zhong** team did not resist strongly in Sanjie Town, but they set up the blocking position on the hill behind Sanjie Town. This hill looked not dangerous and not very high. However, after two days of attack, they only occupied two outpost positions at the foot of the mountain.

Tani Suo knew that the success some time ago was actually an illusion. The Zhong** team had been shrinking and luring the enemy into depth. Now they had explored the attack route of the empire and began to officially resist.

However, the strategy of the Imperial** team is not what you stupid Dizhi people understand. Tani Shouo sneered in his heart. In fact, the Japanese offensive route has also changed. After conquering the prefecture, Hanedahara, the commander of the southern attack cluster, divided the troops into three routes. The first route, the 6th Division, attacked along the Jinpu Railway, which is the main attack direction; the second route is the 9th Division, which deviates to Mingguang along the junction of Dingyuan and Mingguang; the third route is the 106th Division affiliated to the 3rd Division, attacked Dingyuan, and then crossed the Huaihe River to deviate from the southwest to Bengbu and penetrated directly behind the Chinese defenders. This is a double siege tactic. The 9th Division is the first floor, close-range deviates, and the third division is the second floor, long-range deviates, hoping to defeat the main force of the Central ** Team in the South Line in one fell swoop.

According to this tactical requirement, the Sixth Division, which was attacked on the front, would attract a large number of Chinese defenders to the front, creating conditions for the success of the long-distance detour of the Third Division.

Now the 6th Division is being stubbornly blocked by the Chinese defenders outside the Sanjie Town. If the situation cannot be opened up as soon as possible, it will be difficult to complete the task of attracting a large number of Chinese teams to fight head-on, so Tani Shouo was a little anxious.

Half an hour later, the attacking Japanese troops retreated. The captain who led the troops to fight stood in front of Niu Dao with blood and asked him to attack again. Niu Dao did not talk nonsense to him, and waved his hand to let him go down and then ordered the fire.

The sound of cannons shook the mountains again, and the earth shook.

On the other side of the hill, Zhou Guanglie, the commander of the command post of the 113th Division, listened to the Chief of Staff’s report with a serious expression: “……………The sky, the 5th Regiment of the 236th Brigade on the left wing suffered 600 casualties, nearly half of them, and has lost combat effectiveness; the 7th Regiment of the 7th Regiment of the Right wing brigade lost 800 and has lost combat effectiveness; the 4th Regiment of the 236th Brigade on the front, repelled seven Japanese attacks, and the entire regiment suffered nearly 1,000 casualties and lost combat effectiveness. In addition to the casualties of the 237th Brigade yesterday, to this day, the entire division suffered more than 3,400 casualties and soldiers."

"Order, withdraw," Zhou Guanglie felt a vague pain in his heart. His division was a system of the third brigade of the B Division. The entire division had more than 8,000 people. Yesterday one day, plus nearly half of the entire division suffered casualties today. According to the orders of the military headquarters, we must resist here for three days. Another day, the Japanese attack became more and more fierce. After three days, I am afraid that the division would be reimbursed. However, despite this, he still did not dare to withdraw. Chiang Kai-shek arrested Han Fu cleanly in Kaifeng. Although the incident caused little shock to the top leaders, it was very shocking to the military commanders. Nanjing killed one Zhou Lan, Kaifeng arrested one Han Fu, one Lieutenant General Deputy Chief of Staff, and the other was even more amazing. Deputy Commander of the War Zone, the more he killed the greater the officers. Strictly, the military law hung above their heads, and Zhou Guanglie did not dare: "Let the 9th Brigade Regiment replace the position and order the Division Guard Regiment to replace the position of the 5th Regiment of the 236th Brigade."

After hesitating for a while, Zhou Guanglie added: "Ask reinforcements from the military headquarters."

After saying that, Zhou Guanglie turned around and looked into the distance. Explosions rose up from the hills. He was worried. What should I do if I add to the war after the war was over?

Since the Lugou Bridge Incident, the 51st Army did not participate in any major wars. They only participated in the rear guard battle when they were receiving Song Zheyuan. The scale of the battle was not large, and then they were transferred to Jiaodong and stationed in Qingdao to prevent the Japanese army from landing from Qingdao.

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The team is the Northeast Army. Since the Xi'an Incident, the Northeast Army has been subject to the Central Committee.: The military pay alone has not been paid for three months. The brothers complained. The army commander Yu Xuezhong urged him several times. The Central Committee always replied that he had no money for the time being and asked them to find a way. Qingdao Mayor Shen Honglie was not bad and got them a batch of military pay, but this person was about to be paid, so what should I do if the central government didn't provide any supplements?

The explosion was even louder, and Japanese local fighter planes appeared in the sky. Zhou Guanglie looked up and ignored him. He didn't understand in his heart. Where did the Chinese plane go? During the Shanghai War of Resistance Against Japan, the newspaper boasted about the Air Force's victory all day, but they never saw the Chinese Air Force provide air cover when they fought.

"Report, the military headquarters called back."

The Chief of Staff took a few steps, took the telegram and took a closer look, and then handed it to Zhou Guanglie.

"After the telegram from Commander Li, the 9th Division of the Japanese Army was following Li Yu and attacking, attempting to deviate from the rear of our army. The 92nd Division of the 46th Army is now resisting step by step. Our army's mission is to delay and consume the Japanese army. You should review the tactics in time. Sanhe Town is not defending the dead, but should use movement defense and counterattack tactics to deal with the 64th Regiment."

Zhou Guanglie breathed a sigh of relief after seeing it. The combination of movement defense and counterattack made him suddenly cheerful: "Order the troops to stop reinforcements, and the regiments will be resigned, and the camera will withdraw from the position. Order the 9th regiment will be prepared for night battles."

The Japanese army finally took down the hill that was crossing their way forward for the ninth attack and rushed down the mountain randomly, but did not move farther away, and encountered the blocking line of the Chinese team again, and the Japanese army quickly retreated.

The darkness fell on the earth, and the relaxed spirit after a fierce battle made the soldiers fall asleep quickly. Fires lit on the hills. The Japanese army used these fires to illuminate the front of the position to guard against the sneak attack of the ** team.

The fire was pouring out his heat in the darkness. By dawn, the fire gradually weakened. At this moment, a group of figures quietly came up from the flanking hillside, and the sharp sword emitted a cold light in the moonlight.

The sentry was killed quietly, and then the crowd rushed into the trenches. Soon, a gunshot broke the silence before dawn, and then the entire position became powerful. The impact of weapons, screams, and curses came. Sometimes, accompanied by the raucous sound of submachine guns, until the sky was bright, the Japanese troops in the position were all destroyed, and the 113th Division regained the position.

Tani Shouo was furious. After dawn, he immediately launched a new round of attacks. The war became fierce again. In the afternoon, the Sixth Division recaptured the hills.

When Tanisuo was furious, the Third Division's attack went smoothly. The 21st Army in front of him always had a slight contact, that was the back. However, when he pushed down Dingyuan County, Liao Lei commanded the 48th Army to carry out a large-scale blockade, fought with the Third Division for two days, and then gave up Dingyuan and retreated westward. Fujita was proud to send troops north and headed straight to Bengbu to complete the first phase of the southern battle. The 106th Division (with a brigade) searched westward to cover the division's flanks.

Liao Lei waited in the west for two days, but he did not see the Japanese advance westward, so he used the Seventh Army as the vanguard to launch a counterattack towards Dingyuan. The vanguard contacted the 106th Division's reconnaissance team in Jiuzi west of Dingyuan. The Seventh Army was a trump card in the Guangxi class. He annihilated the search team as soon as he met, and then rushed directly to the city of Dingyuan.

Under the command of the division commander Jun Matsuura, the 106th Division launched a bloody battle with the group army. After a fierce battle for a day, Liao Lei saw the weakness of the 106th Division and lined up the two armies in a row, using the Seventh Army to restrain the 106th Division, and the Forty-Sixth Army directly rushed to the county from the southern part of Dingyuan.

Seeing that the 21st Army was coming in a fierce manner, Haneda immediately dispatched the 5th Brigade of the Third Division to reinforce Dingyuan. Fujita, who had lost half of the troops, suddenly declined and was easily blocked by Chen Dingxun's troops of the 45th Army of the 22nd Army. Haneda did not notice the tactical changes of the Zhongzhang team. After the 21st Army went west again, the 5th Brigade ordered the 5th Brigade to return the system and reclaim the troops. Fujita Jin, who had just arrived at the front line, heard from the county headquarters that the 21st Army, which was in dispersed, launched a counterattack again. This time, the Zhongzhang team fought more resolutely. The forwards hit the city of Dingyuan within half a day, which made Haneda confused. He didn't quite understand what the Zhongzhang team was doing.

So Haneda of the Fifth Division ordered the 29th Brigade of the Third Division to reinforce Dingyuan. As soon as the 29th Brigade arrived at the battlefield, the 21st Army immediately retreated westward. Now Haneda understood that the tactic of the Chinese team was to use flank counterattacks to weaken the power of the Japanese frontal attack.
Chapter completed!