Just when Dragon Boat Festival and the special forces successfully escaped the Japanese pursuit, Zhou Weiguo led the 522nd Regiment, the 112th Division of Commander Huo and He Zhizhong's 103rd Division also successfully retreated to the vicinity of Jintan.

After gathering the troops, counting the number of people, there were less than 2,500 people who could continue to fight.

Zhou Weiguo's 522nd Regiment had 300 people, and the Independent Regiment had less than 200 people. The remaining 103rd Division accounted for more than half, while the 112th Division accounted for only a small half.

It has to be said that the Chinese army suffered a lot of losses in the front line of Changzhou. The reason is the command problem.

The plan of Dragon Boat Festival and Zhou Weiguo was to organize a surprise soldier to insert the enemy into the enemy's living targets and quickly clear the enemy's living targets when the Japanese army attacked the front line of Changshu.

Taking the Independent Regiment and the 522nd Regiment as an example, when they head to the Changzhou battlefield, the total force can reach 1,600. Once so many troops are mobilized, they can ambush and annihilate any living forces below the Japanese brigade, or even a regiment in a short time.

Of course, if this is done properly, for example, when Dragon Boat Festival was in Changshu, it successfully wiped out their vanguard before the arrival of the 30th Brigade of the Japanese army. Sasaki was slapped loudly in the face.

But all this was destroyed by the Donald Duck. Changzhou had insufficient troops on the front line. He did not send other reinforcements, but actually directly overthrew the 522nd Regiment and the Independent Regiment.

Before Zhou Weiguo led the Independent Regiment and the 522nd Regiment to Baijia Town, he encountered a fierce battle, causing heavy losses to the Independent Regiment. When he arrived in Baijia Town, he was even more reeling from the passive battle situation. In the end, the Dragon Boat Festival could only lead a special war team to penetrate the enemy, ambush the command center of the 21st Brigade of the Japanese Army, and seized the Japanese codebook at the Japanese battlefield hospital, thus learning about the Japanese army's plan to use chemical weapons.

However, Dragon Boat Festival only destroyed the Japanese chemical arsenal, temporarily blocking the Japanese attack.

But unexpectedly, the defeat of the front-line defenders in Ma'anshan gave the Japanese an opportunity to take advantage of the situation. A large group of Japanese soldiers penetrated the back of the front-line defenders in Changzhou, causing the entire Changzhou to retreat.

So if Donald Duck had not commanded randomly, Changzhou would have never been so passive.

But at this time, the Donald Duck still did not repent and still adopted the defensive style of positional warfare, which ordered the defenders to retreat to the Jintan, and continued to resist the Japanese planes and cannons on the Danyang line.

This kind of combat idea can be imagined how many Chinese soldiers will be killed or injured.

But there is no way. Soldiers regard obedience as their duty. Sometimes, even though they know that they are dead, they still have to defend their positions.

Zhou Weiguo and others were arranged to go to Qinglong Mountain for rest. In other words, they were the reserve team.

Originally, Zhou Weiguo could have been withdrawn to a safer Fangshan base, which was the defense area of ​​the 87th Division.

However, in order to wait for the Dragon Boat Festival, Zhou Weiguo, the Independent Regiment and the 522nd Regiment voluntarily stayed in Qinglong Mountain.

But he didn't know that the Dragon Boat Festival had already crossed the Yangtze River to the north bank of the river at this time.

Of course, the north bank of the river is not safe either. Originally, Dragon Boat Festival planned to go north first and then go west into the Chinese defense zone. However, the Japanese had already deployed a large number of troops on the north bank, and they blocked the road to the west of Dragon Boat Festival.

And during the investigation along the way, the Dragon Boat Festival discovered that in addition to the Japanese army hoarding a large amount of troops on the Western Front, the Japanese actually mobilized their troops north.

It is obvious that the Japanese did not want to conquer Nanjing, but wanted everything about China. What's more, the Japanese also wanted to open up traffic on the road.

The Japanese army had occupied Hebei at this time, but Shandong was still in the hands of Chinese soldiers. So if they wanted to connect Hebei, Henan and Jiangsu into one line, Xuzhou would have to take it down.

After Li Zhongren became the commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Zone, he also noticed this.

Xuzhou is a major transportation route in eastern China, and it is easy to attack and difficult to defend.

However, although he had many troops under him, his qualities were uneven. In his words, he was a group of scattered soldiers. And at that time, many people were not willing to obey his command.

So Li Zhongren was very anxious when he arrived in Xuzhou. He could only formulate a combat plan first. As for the matters in the army, he would wait until the plan was completed and the local officers recognized it before he would talk slowly.

In other words, Li Zhongren also felt the stones crossing the river at that time, because the troops did not listen to him, what could he do?

His plan is: First, we must maintain most areas of SD Province and northern Jiangsu to engage in protracted war with the Japanese army. Second, in the early stages of fighting against the Japanese army, we should guard the Yellow River and key points along the coast directly prevent the enemy from infiltrating. We must take the initiative to lure the enemy into deeper and enter southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu regions, and prepare for the final victory in the battle.

In order to achieve this policy, Li Zhongren also made arrangements to implement it in three stages.

In the first stage, the first-line corps were used to block the Japanese army on the north bank of the Yellow River and the coastal areas. Through this method, the speed of the Japanese army's attack to the south was delayed, so that the second-line corps of the Chinese army had plenty of time to deploy near Xuzhou.

In the second stage, if the Yellow River is lost, the first-line corps retreat to Laiwu, Tai'an and Xintai to set up defenses and defend Huitong. The main force of the second-line corps promoted to Teng County, Zou County can fight with the Japanese army near Yanzhou and launch a fierce counterattack against the Japanese army in Nanjing.

In the third stage, if the battle near Yanzhou fails, a decisive battle will be held near Xuzhou.

This decisive battle policy was to defend the core of Xuzhou with a small number of troops. Most of the troops in the First World War Zone launched attacks along the flanks of the Jinpu Railway, carry out mobile warfare, and prevent the Japanese army from advancing south.

So it can be seen from this that Commander Li is not as good as the leader of the silence. If he commands the commander, he is at least better than the Donald Duck.

But he was not in dealing with Dragon Boat Festival, which made Dragon Boat Festival very headache.

If we go north now, we will have plenty of time to catch up with the battle in Xuzhou, but when we see that Chief Li, we must peel it off.

And he didn't know how he offended him. In the words of Dragon Boat Festival, he was the one who was too proud of his calf or was deceived by beauty.

Of course, the most important thing is to save your husband.

The special forces urgently need rest. They have been fighting for two consecutive days and have been rushing for more than 100 kilometers.

The Dragon Boat Festival calculated that the data was almost the same, so the soldiers were very tired and had to take a break.

But there are enemies everywhere, and there are not many ways to go on Dragon Boat Festival. What's more, he is afraid of being discovered by the Japanese.

Now, as long as he is discovered, the Japanese will immediately surround him and completely destroy his special operations team.
Chapter completed!