In the next few days, the evolution of the battle situation in Xuzhou was exactly the same as Zhong Yi's expectations.

In order to relieve the pressure on the Second Army and ensure that the defense support of Taierzhuang is not removed by the Japanese army, the chief officer of the Fifth War Zone could only successively invest troops to launch a counterattack against the Japanese army.

If one army is not enough, one army will be grouped.

One army is still not enough, only two!

When the troops participating in the battle have already exceeded half, just attack in advance!

The Japanese Sakamoto Detachment and Seya Detachment immediately began to feel the pressure!

Because the Sakamoto Detachment and the Seya Detachment combined have only more than 30,000 people, the artillery troops are very powerful, with a scale of even more than two regiments, but the infantry combined have less than ten brigades.

This configuration of the Japanese army is typical of being top-heavy and is very sharp for attacking and fighting, but it can only be used for defense and fighting. This is also a valuable experience summarized by the Japanese army based on the performance of the national army on the battlefield.

Because most of the national army will only guard against the battlefield and rarely launch an offensive initiative. Even if there are occasional local counterattacks, they will only be small-scale counterattacks and will not affect the overall situation. In view of this, in order to improve flexibility, the Japanese army developed this attack detachment with heavy artillery and light infantry!

Therefore, if the National Army is just blindly guarding against death, it is the only way to the Japanese army. With its powerful artillery, the Japanese army can not only forcefully crush them, but also kill and damage the national army's livelihood. However, once the National Army launches a large-scale counterattack, the shortcomings of the Japanese infantry will be exposed immediately.

After struggling to hold on for two days, the Japanese army realized the danger.

Setani Kei and Sakamoto immediately ordered all the cannons to be blown up, and then, under the cover of the chariot troops, broke through to Ichi Prefecture along the railway.

The final result is not much different from the original historical time and space. The Kuomintang army still won the Taierzhuang victory, annihilated more than 10,000 Japanese artillery, and seized a large number of bombed artillery!

However, most of the main forces of the Japanese Seya Detachment and Sakamoto Detachment still broke through the encirclement and retreated to Ichi Prefecture to defend and wait for assistance. The national army followed like a shadow and flocked to the surrounding Ichi Prefecture, causing a flood of water!

An unprecedented challenge opened the curtain!

...

As the news came back, all walks of life in Wuhan suddenly burst into joy.

The students from the Luojia Mountain Senior Officers Training Group were having lunch when they received the news.

Because the training team is on the campus of Wuhan University, there are other teaching buildings not far from Yuying Building, which include college students who have moved from North China and East China to attend classes.

These college students have been developed into the habit of listening to radio by Xiao Bing's Voice of Nanjing.

When they learned that the Kuomintang had won the Taierzhuang victory, the entire Wuhan University campus fell into a sea of ​​joy. These young college students stopped attending classes and went to the streets to march.

In contrast, the students in the training team were very calm.

Not only was it calm, but the students even felt a little regretful.

Zhong Yi, Zhu Liangcheng and Sun Liren came to the classroom and were discussing the victory in Taierzhuang.

"What a pity." Zhu Liangcheng said, "This time, I had the opportunity to wipe out the Japanese army!"

"Yes, it will be difficult to have such a good opportunity in the future." Sun Liren also said, "And when the main Japanese army comes to aid in large quantities, the 20,000 Japanese troops in Yi County will become a sharp knife stabbing Xuzhou!"

While talking, Zhang Lingfu, Qiu Weida, Hu Lian and his group also walked in one after another.

Zhang Lingfu looked over, and Zhong Yi immediately glanced over. The two of them looked at each other coldly for a few seconds as usual. Then Zhang Lingfu snorted and looked away. However, I don’t know if it was Zhong Yi’s illusion, but I always felt that Zhang Lingfu today was a little different, and it seemed not as arrogant as before.

Qiu Weida and Hu Lian even took the initiative to surround him.

"Zi Ren, you really got it right." Hu Lian said in annoyance, "I failed to wipe out all the Japanese army!"

"Yes, it's such a pity." Qiu Weida also said, "Zi Ren, the Japanese Seya Detachment and Sakamoto Detachment are in deeper and are surrounded by more than 300,000 troops in Ichi Prefecture. Do you think there is still a chance to eat them again?"

Hearing this, Zhong Yi suddenly felt a little moved and said, "This question can actually be asked about Farkenhausen."

"Farkenhausen?" Qiu Weida asked in surprise. "What does he know, a German consultant, know, why do you ask him?"

Zhang Yuannan and Zhong Yi looked at each other and said, "As far as I know, the commander's combat policy on the next stage of the Xuzhou Battle has been discussed, and Farkenhausen also participated in the discussion."

"There is still this?" Qiu Weida said, "Then I'll ask later."

Just like Chiang Baili likes to talk about tactics in combination with actual combat, Farkenhausen also likes to talk about his war theory in combination with actual combat, especially the corps theory.

The students walked in one after another.

As soon as two o'clock arrived, Farkenhausen appeared in the classroom on time.

The Germans had a strong sense of time and were never late.

The first thing Falkenhausen did after entering the classroom was to ask the two students in the front row to pin the military map to the blackboard. The map marked the Battle of Xuzhou.

Then Farkenhausen began to give lectures, German translation.

"Students, first of all, let me tell you a good news. Just this morning, the army in the Fifth War Zone of your country achieved an unprecedented victory in Taierzhuang, defeating two Japanese detachments in one fell swoop, annihilated more than 10,000 enemies, and seized more than 10,000 guns of various types!"

"The victory of Taierzhuang once again proves that the theory of the front-line decisive victory of the large army is a universal truth!"

"So students must study the theory of the corps well and carefully understand the subtleties of it."

Zhong Yi winked at Qiu Weida. Qiu Weida understood and stood up and asked, "General Farkenhausen, can you ask you to combine the theory of the corps to analyze the subsequent trends of the Xuzhou battlefield?"

After listening to the translation, Farkenhausen nodded and said, "Although the specific tactics are not the focus of our study, since some students have asked about it, let's try to discuss it."

After pausing, Farkenhausen said again: "Given the lack of ability to attack the toughest, I think it is very difficult to annihilate the Japanese army in Yi County. If it delays too long, reinforcements from the Japanese army from North China and Nanjing will definitely launch large-scale reinforcements. At that time, the national army on the battlefield in Xuzhou will be in danger of being surrounded by the Japanese army!"

Zhong Yi winked at Sun Liren again, and Sun Liren stood up and said, "But it would be a pity to give up the attack on Yi County like this? After all, the Japanese army trapped in Yi County had just suffered a great defeat and lost most of the heavy weapons. Moreover, our army was more than ten times more powerful than the Japanese army. There is still a great hope of taking Yi County!"
Chapter completed!