While the Dragon Boat Festival was moving towards Xintai County slowly and paying attention to the enemy's dynamics, the battle in Taierzhuang was still continuing.

After receiving reinforcements from the Chaoxian Division,

The Japanese launched the third attack on Taierzhuang City.

The Japanese used heavy artillery to bombard the Taierzhuang wall. The northern city wall was blown down and the Xiaobei Gate was also destroyed. The officers and soldiers of the 3rd Battalion of the 181st Regiment guarding the Xiaobei Gate of Taierzhuang were all killed, and more than 300 Japanese broke into the city.

The tragic street fighting began at this point, and the defenders in the city launched a fierce street fighting with the Japanese aggressors.

Although the Japanese army occupied two-thirds of the entire village, the Chinese defenders who stood in the Nanguan area did not retreat until death and defended their positions with the purpose of the external troops completing the anti-encirclement of the Japanese army.

This is a combat plan that Li Zhongren had already formulated, and he used some of his troops to defend Taierzhuang to death. The defenders tried their best to hold the enemy so that the army outside the village would surround the Japanese invaders and catch turtles in a jar.

But the Japanese naturally didn't know that this was Li Zhongren's plan, and they could no longer bear it as the Chinese defenders.

So the Japanese attacked the northwest corner of Taierzhuang the next day, so as to seize the west gate, and cut off the ties between the 31st Division of the Chinese defenders and the Zhuang Nei.

The division commander Chi Fengcheng commanded the commander of the division, suppressing the enemy with powerful artillery fire, and organizing dozens of suicide squadrons to fight with the enemy in close combat, rather than retreat.

At the same time, the 52nd Army and the 85th Army of Tang Enbo's army attacked the Zaozhuang and the Yi County Japanese devils on the outside.

The Japanese, and the Japanese, dispatched all Chaoxian Divisions as cannon fodder to support the Japanese army in Taierzhuang.

This Chaoxian Division is the subordinate of Prince Li Cheng. Li Cheng followed Momotaro into Mount Tai and was dead.

However, his other Chaoxian division, Zhang Guangsanmen, was still serving the Imperial Army of the Great Japanese Army.

Like Li Cheng, Zhang Guangsan was a fanatical pro-Japanese faction. Even after Li Cheng died, he still did not repent. Moreover, he actually wanted to sacrifice his life for the Great Japanese Imperial Army.

So he got what he wanted, just when Zhang Guangsan led his troops to quickly occupy the eastern half of Taierzhuang.

The Chinese defenders were completely surrounded by the Japanese and Chaoxian Divisions who entered the Taierzhuang area, and the battle situation quickly fell into an extremely unfavorable situation.

Naturally, the Japanese would not sit still and wait for death, so they immediately asked for help from the Japanese Second Army Command.

The Japanese command naturally would not give up so many Japanese lives easily. I immediately ordered the remaining troops of the Banheng Division to rush to reinforce.

Banheng's Fifth Division had been crippled by Dragon Boat Festival before. However, the remaining troops were still quite large, so they gathered a mixed brigade with the Imperial Army and went to reinforce.

Banheng led his troops to Taierzhuang for assistance, arrived at Xiangcheng and Aiqu areas, and attacked the 20th Army Corps in the side.

The legion ordered the 52nd Army and the just arrived 75th Army to besiege the Banheng Brigade. During the fierce battle, the Banheng Brigade was hit hard again, causing its plan to rescue Zhang Guangsan and enter the Japanese army in Taierzhuang to fail.

The Japanese in Taier Village decided to fight to the death when they saw that they had no hope of seeking help.

However, the Chinese defenders have five times the enemy's strength, so it is only a matter of time to win.

When the Dragon Boat Festival received the battle report ahead, I was very satisfied. I was sure to win this battle.

This is also the reason why Dragon Boat Festival did not invest much energy in the Taierzhuang battle.

Taierzhuang is a sure-win battle. When he got involved, he was just wasting his extra combat power.

His purpose was to annihilate the Japanese, and his combat ideas were not wrong. Due to insufficient troops, the Japanese had already drawn the Chaoxian Division from Chaoxian.

In other words, the Japanese devils have already begun to go downhill at this time. If they continue to kill, the Japanese devils will undoubtedly be defeated.

Dragon Boat Festival put down the telegram in his hand and ignored the Taierzhuang Battle because the situation of this battle was decided. What he is now concerned about is the battle in Xintai County.

This battle was a trap for the Japanese, but he was going to dance on the tip of the knife.

“Dragon Boat Festival Brothers.”

At this moment, Ma Ping'an ran up from the end of the team.

Since all the cars were blown up, Dragon Boat Festival and others could only walk or ride horses.

At this time, Ma Ping'an came running. Because Ma Ping'an had a car, it was a donkey cart. Like the old abacus, he needed to receive and send telegrams, so it would not work without a car.

So at this time, Ma Ping'an came to report to the Dragon Boat Festival, saying that they had an underground party comrade who found a large number of Japanese devils in Gangcheng Village.

The specific number of people is unknown. Comrades from the underground party just asked a fellow villager, but saw a fellow villager being killed by an ordinary Japanese when he approached Gangcheng Village and dragged it into the grass.

In other words, the people in Gangcheng Village may have been killed.

Ma Ping'an said: "Brother Dragon Boat Festival, this may be a trap for the Japanese. Why not retreat, right?"

Dragon Boat Festival smiled and said, "Don't you think this is an opportunity? We already know that this is the enemy's trick, so it's just right to use the trick. Please tell Lao Li not to rush into Xintai County. Let's kill the Japanese ambush first."

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Ma Ping'an was speechless because Li Yunlong was already with him, so he probably had arrived in Xintai County at this time, right?

But Ma Ping'an didn't know whether he had arrived 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 the action was very smooth this time. It should be that the Japanese knew that Old Li was coming to carry things and deliberately put water on it.

In other words, Li Yunlong had already realized that this might be a Japanese trap. But he still swaggered to kill him in order to try the waters for Dragon Boat Festival.

Although his decisive column has a very average combat effectiveness, Li Yunlong is not panicked at all with Dragon Boat Festival. If the Japanese ambush jumped out in advance, it would hit his old Li's thoughts.

Moreover, Old Li is not a vegetarian. Although he is accompanied by recruits, it is exactly what Li Yunlong said: One soldier will be a nest of bears.

Even though they were all new recruits, under the leadership of Li Yuanlong, they screamed one by one, like little tigers going down the mountain.

So the Japanese wanted to eat Li Yunlong's Death Column in one bite, which was also a joke.

Otherwise, Li Yunlong was not a fool either. Why did the mere transportation team dare to cross the line of the Japanese and run directly to the Japanese’s hinterland?

At this time, the Japanese were naturally confused. Their designs were aimed at the supervision corps, but a group of transportation brigades in ordinary clothes appeared in their sight.

But the strangest thing is that the car in this transport brigade was not equipped with anything, but all the cars were empty to Xintai County, just like they were going to Xintai County to pull things.
Chapter completed!