From Xia Weimin to Chang Jing and Cheng Jiaji, no one expected that the advance team of the 16th Army would be so quick to fight with the Japanese, and they were still fighting the famous Fifth Division of the Steel Army.

Even the Fifth War Zone Chief Office was just to let them work with a guard company of the Chief Office to protect General Xu Zuyi, the chief of staff of the Fifth War Zone, and go to the front line of Linyi to experience the atmosphere on the battlefield. It is also necessary to have an understanding of the Japanese combat power and tactics. In the future, the main force of the 16th Army will come up, so that they will not know nothing about the situation of the Japanese army.

Many years later, the surviving veterans of various troops who participated in the Linyi Defense War were impressed by the advance team of the 16th Army in Linyi. If this unexpected new force had not arrived, Pang Bingxun's army would not have supported him at all.

If this is true, the Linyi Battle will be rewritten. Otherwise, the Linyi Battle will not be a defeated battle with both sides.

On March 11, 27, the 16th Army Advance Detachment commanded by Cheng Jiaji, a total of two infantry battalions, a cavalry company, a mortar company, an engineering company, and a pistol platoon, a total of 1,038 people escorted Lieutenant General Xu Zuyi, the chief of staff of the Fifth War Zone, to Linyi. The detachment's logistics company and logistics department stayed in Xuzhou and failed to advance to Linyi with the main force.

At this moment, Cheng Jiaji completely got rid of the confusion he had before. He was now devoted to fighting with the Japanese. Of course, Cheng Liuye, who had unprecedentedly high patriotism and anti-Japanese sentiment, never let his ambitions be lost. He still had sufficient consideration for his own safety.

This time, Linyi came to Linyi just escort General Xu to supervise the battle, and secondly, he also knew that this was a battle that destined to win the Chinese army in history. Anyone who has seen the bloody battle in Taierzhuang knows that the first Chinese army was pursuing the Japanese army.

He would not dare to go to Teng County, whose defenders were wiped out.

The third reason is that he relied on his current strength. When he learned that his younger brother volunteered to go north, Miss Cheng, who was frightened, made a big fuss regardless of the situation. After learning that he had reported it to the Military Commission, she forced Xia Weimin to greatly strengthen the advance team.

Not only did he allocate a batch of machine guns and submachine guns to the detachment, he also added a large number of ammunition, but he also specially selected 300 veterans who had been on the battlefield from other troops, and even asked Xia Weimin to join the cavalry regiment directly under the army to send a reinforcement company to Cheng Jiaji so that his younger brother could escape from danger when the battle situation was unfavorable.

If Xia Weimin hadn't repeatedly assured her that the team had few chances to go to the battlefield, the rushing and red-eyed Xia Junshi's too-headed throne could force her husband to strengthen the team into a brigade.

Now this advance detachment with less than 1,300 people has eight hundred long and short guns, one hundred and fifty submachine guns, sixty-five light machine guns, twenty heavy machine guns, twelve mortars, and one hundred and ten war horses.

Although most of the weapons were far behind the Japanese army, in addition to some German equipment, they had reached or even exceeded the equipment level of a regiment of the adjustment division in the country at that time.

In comparison, the number of mortars in the Pang Army, which has a corps of 13,000 troops, is only five times that of the advance detachment, and even if it is slightly better than that of the 59th Army, the equipment level of the advance detachment is much higher than that of the 59th Army.

Not only in terms of equipment, but also in terms of the quality of the troops, the advance detachment is no less than the 59th Army and Pang Army, which have been through the battle formation for a long time. The 1,2300 soldiers have been adjusted by the military advisors and brigade level 3. The brothers who have more than five years of military experience and have worked with the Japanese account for more than 60% of the total number. It can be said that in terms of real combat effectiveness, if we put aside the command factors, this team is actually one of the strongest regiment-level combat units on the entire Linyi battlefield.

On the one hand, Xia Weimin was worried about the safety of his brother-in-law who was most loved by his wife, and on the other hand, he was also in order to give full face to the 16th Army, so he concentrated so many veterans into this advance detachment.

The battle started at night, and it was already late at night on the 14th. The suburbs of Linyi, where the 59th Army had arrived, were preparing to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese army in the early morning of the next day to facilitate the attack on the Japanese army with the Pang army inside and outside. The Japanese Fifth Division had also turned to the 59th Army, and Linyi was no longer in danger.

None of the senior front-line generals from the war zone commander to Pang Bingxun and Zhang Zizhong expected that the Japanese army would send a brigade to bypass the position of a regiment arranged in front of the Pang Army and directly attack the command center of the Pang Army.

A brigade of the Sakamoto Detachment of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army, which was fighting bloody battles with the Third Legion, sneaked around 11 o'clock on March 13th, under the guidance of a major staff officer of the 40th Army who was captured and treasoned. It was located on the edge of a small village near the canal, where the command of Pang Bingxun's Third Legion was located.

After the Linyi Battle, the summary report submitted by the Japanese Fifth Division to the base camp described in detail this surprise attack that almost changed the situation.

Captain Sakamoto learned that the command center of the Third Army of the Chinese Army was still supporting the north bank of the canal, and there was no established guard force around him. In shock, Captain Sakamoto decided to use the Yamaki Brigade, which was originally the general reserve of the detachment, to surprise attack the command center of the Third Army of the Chinese Army located behind the front line.

The Shanmu Brigade arrived at the location of the Pang army command at late 11:00 on March 13 and launched an attack at 11:30.

After the attack was blocked, it was discovered that the Chinese army in front of him was an elite unit of a regiment. The two sides fought bloody night. Later, reinforcements from the Chinese army arrived and the Yamagi brigade was forced to withdraw from the battle.

The loss of the Shanmu Brigade was so serious that it was unable to participate in the battle the next day.

This battle was defeated due to inaccurate intelligence, not only did it fail to succeed, but the reserve team of Sakamoto's team suffered heavy losses, which basically lost its combat capability. In the next day's battle, the attack ability of Sakamoto's team was greatly damaged, which directly affected the situation.

After the war, the Japanese army learned that General Xu Zuyi, chief of staff of the Fifth War Zone of the Chinese Army, negotiated to supervise the battle at the Third Corps that night. The one that severely damaged the Shanmu Brigade was his elite guard regiment equipped with all German equipment.

The Japanese summarizing report called this accident the will of heaven. In their opinion, God did not bless the imperial army at this moment.

Although the Japanese people disagree with Cheng Jiaji's conclusion, he still admitted that the Japanese people's luck was not very good. Maybe it was because of the Japanese people's menstruation that day. In short, in Beijing dialect, it was quite unlucky for the Japanese people.
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