March 27, 1938, Evening:

From the moment they began defending Taierzhuang.

The 31st Division, which was guarding Taierzhuang, had suffered more than 3,000 casualties so far.

Several regiments were already nominal, with only dozens of officers and soldiers remaining in a regiment.

And when they entered Taierzhuang, Tang Enbo and Wang Zhonglin had solemnly guaranteed.

Reinforcements were nowhere in sight.

It was initially promised that after the 31st Division engaged the Japanese, reinforcements would arrive in one day at the earliest, and three days at the latest.

The 20th Army would launch a counterattack, surrounding the Japanese forces attacking Taierzhuang and annihilating them.

Three days had passed, and Wang Zhonglin's 52nd Army was still fiercely fighting the Japanese in Zaozhuang.

They had neither captured Zaozhuang nor were they able to retreat.

Army Commander Wang led the 52nd Army and had captured most of Zaozhuang.

They also completely destroyed the Zaozhuang airport and set fire to the airport's oil depot.

This made the Isonuku Renjie Division very uncomfortable: the planes that flew over from Beiping.

Needed to find a place to refuel if they wanted to continue bombing Xuzhou.

The Japanese had already recaptured the airport, but the oil depot could not be restored immediately.

In order to recapture Zaozhuang Airport, the Japanese also increased their forces.

This made life difficult for the 52nd Army.

Army Commander Wang Zhonglin had to ask his superior, Tang Enbo, for assistance.

Tang Enbo immediately ordered his subordinates to send a division to support Zaozhuang.

That division issued an order: send a brigade to support Zaozhuang.

In the end, only a platoon was actually sent.

The platoon fired a few shots on the outskirts of Zaozhuang and immediately returned.

Wang Zhonglin angrily complained: the old commander is using the same tricks on his own people!

In any case, Tang Enbo just wouldn't expose his main force.

Where exactly was the main force of the 20th Army?

Commander of the Fifth War Zone, Li Zongren, didn't know.

He very much wanted to know and also wanted the 20th Army to quickly attack the Japanese from the side.

To support the already battered Second Army.

But now his communication with the 20th Army was cut off, and orders could not be issued.

The Fifth War Zone, having no other choice, could only keep calling out.

Japanese 10th Division Commander, Isonuku Renjie, also did not know where the 20th Army was.

He knew the 20th Army was nearby, but he could never find where its main force was.

Division Commander Isonuku Renjie hesitated to commit all his forces to Taierzhuang precisely because there was such a main force of the National Army nearby.

Therefore, he was also frantically searching for the main force of the 20th Army, trying to find Tang Enbo and fight him decisively.

Division Commander Isonuku Renjie knew that only by defeating the National Army's 20th Army.

Would his life in Xuzhou be easier.

He could not rest easy until he found the 20th Army.

To guard against a sneak attack by the 20th Army, the main force of the 10th Division was entrenched between Yixian and Zaozhuang.

Ready to meet any attack from the shadows.

March 27 was the most difficult day for Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army and Pang Bingxun's Second Army.

Pang Bingxun originally thought that the battle on the 25th was the darkest moment of his life.

Now he realized: there is no darkest, only darker.

His troops guarding Linyi had no most difficult, only more difficult.

The 24th was hard, and when the 59th Army arrived on the 25th.

Pang Bingxun thought his life would be easier.

But it was still very difficult.

Although the 59th Army had cleared all the Japanese strongholds on the west bank of the Yi River.

And at the most difficult time, they sent three regiments to help him recapture the main position on the east bank.

That should have been the most difficult, right? Far from it.

By the 26th, the battle was even more difficult.

Japanese 5th Division Commander, Itagaki Seishiro, used the 21st Infantry Brigade as his main force.

To attack Taoyuan, which they had just lost the night before.

The feeling of gaining and losing again was not pleasant.

The frontal attack was the Koshikizaka Battalion.

Defending here was the 38th Division, the absolute main force of the 59th Army.

Brigade Commander Sakamoto Jun of the 21st Brigade personally commanded.

The Koshikizaka Battalion of the Japanese army launched the main attack, and the entire brigade's artillery bombarded the 38th Division's position.

Seeing the fierce Japanese artillery fire and the heavy casualties of the 38th Division, Zhang Zizhong had no choice but to order the troops to retreat.

He also ordered the 180th Division to voluntarily abandon the ancient city position east of the river.

When the 59th Army had just arrived, all the positions east of the river that they had seized were now abandoned.

They had to retreat to the west bank and confront the Japanese across the river.

Xu Zuyi, Chief of Staff of the Fifth War Zone stationed in Linyi, telegraphed Commander Li of the War Zone: "Pang's army has suffered excessive losses... and has lost its combat effectiveness. Although half of Zhang's army remains, its morale is much lower than before. Without fresh reinforcements, Linyi will be difficult to defend. Please decide early." Li Zongren originally sent the 59th Army to Linyi because he thought that with Zhang Zizhong in Linyi, it would be safe.

At this time, he realized the danger of the situation in Linyi, which Zhang Zizhong and his 59th Army could no longer support alone.

However, most of the Fifth War Zone's troops were deployed on the Taierzhuang battlefield and had no time to take care of Linyi.

By the 27th, Pang Bingxun had pulled all his troops to the front line outside Linyi City to fight.

The defense of Linyi City was entirely entrusted to the local security regiment.

He had sent the last soldier in his hand to the battlefield.

Now Pang Bingxun's Second Army had completely lost its combat effectiveness.

Zhang Zizhong's life was equally difficult.

The 59th Army he led suffered heavy casualties, and morale was also declining.

After receiving an emergency military report from the Xuzhou front.

Chiang Kai-shek flew to Xuzhou again.

He personally spoke to Zhang Zizhong, telling him that he must hold Linyi.

Linyi and Taierzhuang had always been the northern gateway to Xuzhou.

Now both places were under fierce attack by the Japanese.

To lose one would be to lose all, which must not happen.

Regarding Zhang Zizhong's request for reinforcements.

Chiang Kai-shek said: Reinforcements will take time, let him hold on for two more days.

Having comforted Zhang Zizhong in the direction of Linyi.

Regarding Division Commander Chi Fengcheng of Taierzhuang, Chiang Kai-shek insisted on going to Taierzhuang to meet him in person.

Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi both tried to dissuade him, saying that Taierzhuang was located on the front line and was too dangerous.

Chiang Kai-shek said: "Before Division Commander Wang Mingzhang of the 112th Division and the entire division heroically sacrificed themselves in Tengxian,

I regretted that I had never met him. Now that Division Commander Chi is also facing a life-and-death crisis, since I have come here, I cannot turn back.

I cannot leave any regrets this time."

He insisted on going to Taierzhuang to meet Chi Fengcheng.

Chi Fengcheng, who had not received any prior notice, suddenly received an order to go to the Taierzhuang Railway South Station.

When he saw Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi accompanying Chiang Kai-shek walking down from the train.

The excited Chi Fengcheng saw Chiang Kai-shek, was both surprised and excited, and didn't know what to say.

Chiang Kai-shek said to Chi Fengcheng: "Taierzhuang is the shield of Xuzhou, you must defend it well.

The Fifth War Zone is using Taierzhuang as its center, playing a big game.

The key to success lies in whether Taierzhuang can be defended.

Your superiors say that you are loyal, brave, capable, and resourceful, and today it seems that this is true."

Chi Fengcheng said: My division will definitely fight to the end and coexist with the position to repay the country and to repay your kindness.

Chiang Kai-shek stayed in Taierzhuang for less than half an hour before returning immediately.

His visit gave Chi Fengcheng great encouragement.

In Chiang Kai-shek's mind, the Taierzhuang defense battle and the heroic defense of Tengxian were on the same level.

He believed that to hold Taierzhuang, it was necessary to have the spirit of the 112th Division, which sacrificed the entire division for the country and never retreated.

This was also the purpose of his visit to Taierzhuang.

Chi Fengcheng now had the awareness of sacrifice.

That very night.

Division Commander Chi Fengcheng reorganized the entire division into seven battalions.

The 31st Division, which had twelve battalions in four regiments when it entered Taierzhuang, now had only seven battalions left.

His 31st Division suffered heavy casualties, and the situation of the 27th Division under his command was similar.

The National Army was preparing for a big game.

Division Commander Isonuku Renjie didn't care about these things and continued to increase his forces in the direction of Taierzhuang.

Outside the Taierzhuang periphery, in the villages occupied by the Japanese, there was a hubbub of voices and traffic.

The Japanese reinforcements had arrived at Liujia Lake.

Also that night, the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th companies of the 1st Regiment of the Special Operations Brigade finally boarded the plane.

During the day, they had already assembled.

From the newspapers, they could see that the battle in Taierzhuang was very difficult.

They would fly to Xuzhou and then arrive at Taierzhuang by railway.

Regiment Commander Chen Sichuan informed the three company commanders who were going this time of the telegram that Lin Fan had sent back.

From the brigade commander's telegram, they saw that the National Army's forces around Taierzhuang were more than three times that of the Japanese.

The gap in weapons was very large.

From a global perspective, the Japanese were on the offensive, but from the perspective of Beiluo, which was defended by the 1st Company, the 1st Company was still in the initiative.

Regiment Commander Chen Sichuan instructed the three company commanders: "The Japanese are still those Japanese.

Their combat effectiveness is no stronger than those who were killed a few days ago.

The reason why three more infantry companies are being transferred is simply because there are too many Japanese.

The 1st Company simply can't finish them off.

You have another task when you go there, protect the brigade commander!"

Company Commander Hua Deze of the 2nd Company, Company Commander Shan Huacan of the 3rd Company, and Company Commander Dan Chengfu of the 4th Company replied loudly:

"Yes! Guarantee to complete the mission!"

Chen Sichuan and Li Xian watched the plane take off from Jurong.

During the days that Lin Fan was gone, the various tasks in the entire base area were proceeding in an orderly manner.

The local security regiments in various counties and towns had already distributed the first batch of guns to their personnel.

Thousands of guns were distributed to activists, which greatly stimulated many onlookers.

These people originally held the idea that whoever was in charge, they would pay their taxes according to the rules.

And serve on time.

Now they saw that some people in the village could actually receive guns and come back.

And these people were gathering together to train every now and then.

When the gunshots rang, the children in the village all ran over to watch the excitement.

These were not the most important things.

The most important thing was that with guns in the village, the bandits of the past were nowhere to be seen.

In the entire Jiangnan, there was not a single bandit in the base area established by Lin Fan.

The Special Operations Brigade had stationed regular troops in various county towns, and now the security regiments formed in various villages.

Had at least thirty guns and as many as one hundred guns.

These guns were all Type 38 rifles, which were much better than the guns used by the bandits.

Those bandits who originally wanted to take root in the base area were all driven to the occupied areas.

The lives of the people in the occupied areas were now very difficult.

After the Japanese ravaged the area, some people picked up the weapons left behind by the National Army when they retreated.

They formed groups of three or five and didn't dare to fight the Japanese.

They specialized in bullying the people.

The Japanese had no time to manage the large areas they had just occupied during this period, and there was no basic order at all.

This allowed many ambitious people to establish various societies and associations, harassing the people every day.

Life in the occupied areas became more difficult day by day.

Many people quietly fled to the base area.

According to the plan that Lin Fan had set long ago: all these people were to be arranged to work in factories and mines.

The Special Operations Brigade was carrying out large-scale infrastructure construction in the base area:

Highways were to be built between all county towns, and roads were to be repaired in every township.

The wharves along the river were also being renovated.

At this time, the mines were still manual, and the number of people needed was the more the better.

The current base area had become a population black hole.

No matter how many people came in, they could all be absorbed.

And these people were living a good life.

When the news spread back to the hometowns of these refugees, it attracted even more people to come.

Lin Fan was very happy when he received this news.

His ability was limited, but he could at least bring peace to one side of the people.

That was always a good thing.

During these days, there was one more thing that he had been doing:

That was to provide spiritual food to the people of New York: writing novels.

Judging from the news that Shang Yuegui had sent back, she had now become the most mysterious writer in the entire United States.

As time went by, her fame was growing.

It seemed that before long, he should be able to accomplish the main task of going to the United States.

There was also something that frustrated her.

The novels that Lin Fan wrote, in her opinion, were not that great.

But they were so popular with Americans.

The newspaper that she submitted to now had a daily circulation of 200,000 copies.

It had become a national newspaper.

And this newspaper had spread throughout the English-speaking world.

The prospects were getting better and better.

Shang Yuegui herself tried to write novels, but they always flopped.

No editor would accept them.

If they were not separated by thousands of miles, she would have liked to take her manuscript and ask Lin Fan:

"What's so bad about my novel?"

Unlike Shang Yuegui's question, Zhang Zizhong's question was:

"Where are my reinforcements?"

Army Commander Zhang Zizhong never imagined who the reinforcements would be.

It is better to remove the firewood from under the pot than to ladle out boiling water! (Address the root of the problem rather than just treat the symptoms)

That was what he said when he came to support Pang Bingxun for the first time.

Now, of course, there was someone who could remove the firewood from under the pot.

It was someone that Zhang Zizhong, Li Zongren, and Bai Chongxi would never have imagined.

Commander of the Japanese North China Front Army, Terauchi Hisaichi, was very angry that the offensives in the directions of Taierzhuang and Linyi had not made any progress.

He ordered Commander of the Second Army, Noshio Yasuji, to immediately suspend the offensive against Linyi.

He ordered the 21st Brigade, which was attacking Linyi, to be transferred to Taierzhuang, concentrating superior forces to defeat the main force of the National Army gathered in Taierzhuang.

Then turn around and attack Linyi.

On the morning of the 28th, Zhang Zizhong was pleasantly surprised to find that the Japanese offensive had suddenly weakened by ten levels.

His last five minutes, his last second, had finally succeeded again.

The 59th Army could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Army Commander Zhang Zizhong was not a complacent soldier, now that he had breathed a sigh of relief.

Of course, the next step was to counterattack.

This time, Commander Terauchi Hisaichi of the Japanese North China Front Army had helped the 59th Army.

Turning sand into gold!

The hard days of the 59th Army were over.

Tang Enbo immediately paid close attention to the entire battlefield, hiding quietly in the shadows.

He saw that Brigade Commander Sakamoto Jun of the Japanese 21st Infantry Brigade was leading his troops to Taierzhuang.

Tang Enbo had to be careful, he was afraid that this force was heading for his main force of the 20th Army.

After confirming that the Sakamoto Jun Brigade was indeed focused on attacking Taierzhuang, Tang Enbo was relieved.

At the same time, he also showed himself!

His appearance was a big move: sending the most elite 111th Division of the 13th Army and the Independent Cavalry Regiment to support Linyi.

The 13th Army was the most elite army in the entire 20th Army.

The army commander was also Tang Enbo himself.

However, these two forces would not arrive for another day.

But that was enough to make Zhang Zizhong and Pang Bingxun ecstatic.

Zhang Zizhong immediately began to formulate the combat plan after the arrival of these two forces.

His meaning of living now was to fight the Japanese!

The Japanese withdrew their troops to attack Taierzhuang when he was at his most difficult, so of course he had to seize this opportunity.

Up to now, in Linyi, the Fifth War Zone had made one mistake: during the first battle in Linyi, when the 59th Army had the upper hand.

They withdrew their troops and did not strike a drowning dog.

Allowing Itagaki Seishiro to climb out of the water and catch his breath, creating the passive situation that followed.

Now the Japanese North China Front Army had also made a mistake: Commander Terauchi Hisaichi transferred the Sakamoto Jun Brigade when the National Army was at its most difficult.

Also allowing the 59th Army to catch its breath.

War is like this, sometimes it is a contest of who makes fewer mistakes.

Who is better able to seize opportunities.

At 3:00 a.m. on the 28th, the three companies of the Special Operations Brigade arrived at Taierzhuang.

They were immediately sent to Lin Fan.

Although the battle inside Taierzhuang also needed people.

But Lin Fan was holding on to the two villages of Beiluo and Nanluo with one company.

Which made Division Commander Chi Fengcheng very uneasy.

Even if the combat effectiveness of the Special Operations Brigade was strong, the lack of troops was always a weakness.

Therefore, as soon as these three companies arrived at Taierzhuang, he immediately ordered them to report to Lin Fan.

Lin Fan was of course happy with the arrival of the three companies.

He had long wanted to jump out of the Taierzhuang periphery and go behind the Japanese.

But he only had one company at hand, so there was no use in thinking too much.

Now it was different.

When Lin Fan saw the three companies, he immediately summoned all officers above the platoon level to a meeting in the command post.

Pointing to the Taierzhuang sand table, he explained the current situation.

Lin Fan ordered: "The 3rd Company will be stationed in Beiluo, the 4th Company will be stationed in Nanluo, and the 2nd Platoon of the artillery will be at the Beiluo position.

At the same time, they will also assist the 2nd Battalion of the 185th Regiment in defending Liujia Village.

The 1st Company, the 2nd Company, and the 1st Platoon of the artillery will set off immediately.

Go to Lincheng and Tengxian."

Lin Fan's current goal was to go to the rear of the Japanese army to disrupt their logistical supplies.

The main force of the Japanese army was in the area of Yixian, Zaozhuang, and Hanzhuang.

The Japanese forces in the rear were weak, that was for sure.

Lin Fan led the 1st Company and the 2nd Company to attack Lincheng and Tengxian.

There was only one reason, the 1st Company had already been to these places.

And there were many locals in the 1st Company, and they were familiar with the roads.

After the order was issued, the 3rd Company and the 4th Company immediately took over the defense.

The 1st Company, the 2nd Company, and the 1st Platoon of the artillery quickly assembled.

Taking advantage of the night, they quietly disappeared into the darkness. On the night of the 27th, Division Commander Chi Fengcheng, who had just been held by Chiang Kai-shek, issued a combat order.

The officers and soldiers of the 30th Division were still using the same old method: forming suicide squads to launch attacks on the Japanese inside Taierzhuang.

Although the method was old, it still had some effect.

The first batch of Japanese soldiers who rushed into Taierzhuang had not closed their eyes for three days and three nights.

During the day, the officers and soldiers of the 31st Division were attacking.

At night, the officers and soldiers of the 31st Division were still attacking.

People are iron, rice is steel, you'll be hungry if you don't eat a meal. (Food is the most important thing)

This lack of sleep was even more uncomfortable than hunger.

Whether it was inside Taierzhuang or on the periphery, the 31st Division was organizing night attacks.

Even if they couldn't defeat the Japanese, they would exhaust them to death!

The 31st Division was fighting!

Commander Li Zongren, who accompanied Chiang Kai-shek back to Xuzhou, immediately issued a strict order to the Second Army.

Li Zongren ordered Sun Lianzhong to clear the Japanese inside Taierzhuang before dawn on the 29th.

In the order, he expressed his shock that the National Army's forces in Taierzhuang were three times that of the Japanese, but they had not been able to drive the Japanese out.

Division Commander Chi Fengcheng was speechless in the face of such an order!

These two days, if it weren't for the reconnaissance companies that Bai Chongxi had transferred from various armies to fill the gaps.

Taierzhuang! The 31st Division would have lost it.

Even in this state, the 31st Division had used all its strength.

If they could, the 31st Division would of course be willing to drive the Japanese out.

On the morning of the 28th, the Japanese's daily siege began again.

Artillery bombardment!

These were all basic operations, every morning from seven to nine o'clock was the time for the Japanese artillery to perform.

Today was the same.

The Japanese cannons once again blasted a large gap in the Taierzhuang wall.

Through so many days of bombardment, they had gained experience and blasted out a level.

They had basically reached the point where they could bomb every corner of Taierzhuang at will.

Today they chose the northwest corner of Taierzhuang.

The Japanese of course didn't just blindly designate this direction to attack.

They had occupied the north and west sides of Taierzhuang.

By breaking through the northwest corner, the Japanese hoped that their forces inside Taierzhuang could be connected into one.

The wall in the northwest corner fulfilled the wishes of the Japanese, collapsing a large gap of more than ten meters under their powerful firepower.

The Japanese, who had been prepared outside for a long time, rushed in, and this time they succeeded again.

The Japanese who rushed into the village completely cut off the connection between the 31st Division and the inside of Taierzhuang.

Deputy Division Commander Wang Guanwu, who was commanding inside Taierzhuang, immediately organized his troops to attack the northwest corner after realizing that he had lost contact with the outside.

Today was not yesterday.

The Japanese had originally occupied the west and north sides of Taierzhuang.

Now with the support of these two directions, it was impossible to rush out from the village and recapture the northwest corner.

After sacrificing dozens of soldiers, they still could not move an inch.

Deputy Division Commander Wang Guanwu had no choice but to order: suspend the attack on the northwest corner.

At the same time, Division Commander Chi Fengcheng outside the city also organized a suicide squad of dozens of people.

While directing artillery fire to suppress the Japanese, trying to open up contact with the inside of the village.

Now the 31st Division's artillery fire was much stronger than when it first engaged the Japanese.

The four 150mm anti-tank guns alone made the Japanese uncomfortable.

There was also an artillery battalion elsewhere, with ten 75mm field guns.

This time, Division Commander Chi Fengcheng was really anxious and concentrated all these forces.

Just to open up a communication channel.

But the Japanese firepower was no weaker than the 30th Division, and their eighty artillery pieces fired at the same time.

Two anti-tank guns were destroyed.

This caused half of Chi Fengcheng's plan to open up a communication channel to fail.

The suicide squad rushed up and fought desperately with the Japanese, but they could not make the Japanese retreat half a step.

Battalion Commander Qu Tiancheng of the artillery battalion led ten field guns and quickly disengaged from the battlefield.

These days, he had been using artillery to fight guerrillas.

Ten field guns were not in the same league as the Japanese's eighty artillery pieces.

Therefore, Battalion Commander Qu Tiancheng did not dare to fight the Japanese head-on.

He used tree trunks and leaves to disguise an artillery position.

Then he pushed up two cannons and fired a few shots at the Japanese from behind this fake artillery position.

Then he retreated immediately.

The Japanese artillery reacted quickly and immediately opened fire on the National Army's artillery position.

Qu Tiancheng's artillery battalion had been fighting like this these days.

They held back most of the Japanese artillery's energy.

Which made the Japanese artillery very confused: there were too many National Army artillery pieces.

No matter how they fired, they could never finish them off.

They were able to destroy Qu Tiancheng's disguised positions every time.

But they did not damage a single real cannon.

Now, at this time, Qu Tiancheng had taken his troops to fight guerrillas again.

Lin Fan led his troops on a forced march all the way.

At 2:00 p.m., two companies of the Special Operations Brigade suddenly appeared outside Lincheng.

The Japanese Isonuku Renjie Division was short of troops on the front line, and all the Japanese troops were concentrated on the front line.

Lincheng had been handed over to the 17th Regiment of the Puppet Manchukuo Army, commanded by Li Yutang.

He was the nephew of Liu Guitang, the commander of the 17th Army of the Puppet Manchukuo, and was very valued.

Li Yutang did not take it seriously when he found National Army soldiers appearing outside the city.

Over the years.

He had fought tough battles with the Japanese.

Whether it was cooperating with the Japanese or fighting independently.

Li Yutang was clear and understood the combat effectiveness of the National Army.

His regiment was very well-equipped, although it was not as good as the Japanese infantry.

But it was much better equipped than ordinary National Army troops.

Li Yutang commanded the puppet troops under his command to fire on the Special Operations Brigade that was attacking the city.

His regiment had two infantry guns, guarding here in the south of the city.

And there were two heavy machine guns and three mortars on the city wall.

The 1st Company and the 2nd Company of the Special Operations Brigade were still 800 meters away when the puppet troops on the city wall opened fire.

According to the usual tactics of Li Yutang and his puppet troops: opening fire at this time was just to show off their strength.

Two infantry guns, three mortars, and two heavy machine guns fired at the same time.

The troops that came to attack, seeing such powerful firepower.

Would immediately turn around and leave, not daring to continue to get entangled.

Because attacking a city was originally a very difficult action.

Encountering such powerful firepower, ordinary National Army troops simply did not have the ability to rush to the bottom of the city wall.

Continuing to charge was just sending them to their deaths.

This time, Li Yutang and his puppet troops were wrong.

They fired less than ten shells on the city wall.

The result was that they attracted a rain of shells from outside the city.

The 1st Company and the 2nd Company simply ignored their shells.

And continued to charge forward! Lin Fan personally fired the artillery.

The current situation was inside the belly of the Japanese army.

Lincheng was only 20 kilometers away from Yixian.

What the Special Operations Brigade wanted was a quick battle and a quick decision.

Li Yutang was stunned as he watched the shells fall on the city wall.

The first shell exploded next to his infantry guns.

Coincidentally, all the artillerymen of the two cannons were killed.

The second shell exploded next to the mortar.

Divine cannon!

Li Yutang was not a timid person.

Otherwise, he would not have been able to become a regimental commander in the puppet army.

There were also two Japanese monitoring him in his regiment.

The power of these two Japanese was greater than that of his regimental commander.

If Li Yutang had any thoughts, these two Japanese could directly kill him.

Of course, there was only dog-like treatment for being someone's dog.

Wasn't that how all the masters were?

If the dog was disobedient, just kill it.

It would be good to replace it with a loyal dog.

Li Yutang was afraid and didn't dare to stay on the city wall anymore.

The two Japanese beside him didn't force him.

In their opinion, it was right for the commander not to be exposed to the range of artillery bombardment.

What these Japanese did not expect was:

Before they had time to get off the city wall, a dense rain of shells fell on the entire city wall.

Two shells fell next to them.

The highest commander of the puppet army in Lincheng died!

At the same time, the two Japanese who were supervising the entire regiment died together.

When the puppet troops saw that their commander was killed and so many shells were falling on the city wall.

If they waited any longer, they would definitely suffer the same fate.

All the puppet troops immediately ran away.

When Company Commander Gu Xiuming of the 1st Company led his troops to the bottom of the city wall.

Not a single puppet soldier fired a shot.

No matter how the enemy reacted, the 1st Company still did things their own way.

Five siege ladders were erected.

The 1st Platoon rushed up.

Platoon Leader Feng Ruili established a defense on the city wall.

The city wall was already empty.

Those puppet troops had really run away.

The city gate was lowered, and the 2nd Company rushed in, quickly advancing into the city.

They did not encounter any resistance along the way.

The 1st Company attacked the east and west city walls from the city wall.

They did not encounter any resistance at all.

All the puppet troops stationed in Lincheng had fled from the north gate.

The 1st Company did not catch any puppet troops.

But they did seize a large number of supplies at the railway station in the north of the city.

Lin Fan was very familiar with these supplies.

There were thousands of mules and horses here, and mountains of food and ammunition.

Seeing the supplies that the Japanese had piled up here.

Lin Fan sighed secretly: when he retreated from Tengxian, he led his troops to dismantle no less than ten kilometers of railway tracks along the way.

How many days had it been?

The Japanese had completely restored the railway.

The Japanese who occupied the Northeast looted the steel and heavy industry of the Northeast.

When the railway tracks were dismantled, they immediately transported them over and installed them.

These supplies were all sent by the Japanese.

Gu Xiuming also found ten tanks.

Not only Lin Fan smiled when he saw these brand new tanks.

Gu Xiuming's face was also full of smiles:

"This Japanese transport team is really meeting our urgent needs!

They sent us ten tanks at once."

Here, the Japanese not only stored tanks, but also stored hundreds of barrels of oil.

Lin Fan ordered: "1st Company! Immediately inspect the tanks.

Refuel the tanks.

Check if they can be used."

The veterans of the 1st Company immediately took action.

Only the new recruits who had just joined could only watch the veterans busy, unable to help at all.

Lin Fan continued to order: "Harness all the mules and horses to the carts, give priority to carrying weapons and ammunition.

Load as much food as possible."

At the same time, Lin Fan asked Long Fei and Long Shu to look for local people around Lincheng to rent boats.

There were too many supplies here, and it was impossible to transport all these things away by land.

But it was still easy to transport them by water, by boat.

Lin Fan specifically said: "You can use silver dollars or these mules and horses to pay the rent."

At this time, mules and horses were the hard currency.

Now Lin Fan's idea was very simple, to take away as much of the supplies stored by the Japanese here as possible.

Until the end, only consider burning them if they really couldn't be taken away.

At the same time, he ordered the 2nd Company to select some horses to ride and go to a location ten kilometers south of Lincheng to blow up the railway tracks.

To prevent the Japanese from attacking Lincheng by train.

Lincheng was attacked?

The news was quickly sent to Division Commander Isonuku Renjie.

When he saw the news, he confirmed it again in disbelief.

After receiving a definite answer.

He could no longer sit still and immediately ordered: "Suspend the offensive against Taierzhuang on the periphery.

Order the 3rd Battalion of the 10th Regiment to immediately go back and recapture Lincheng.

At the same time, request the Beiping Army Flying Brigade to send planes to bomb the enemy in Lincheng."

These days, the Beiping Flying Brigade had always been dropping planes in this direction.

They were already very afraid of the direction of Xuzhou.

They dared not disobey military orders! This time they only sent six planes over.

It was just to go through the motions.

The officers and soldiers of the 2nd Company were still in Jurong yesterday, but now they had come to Shandong and occupied a city.

The scene changed too quickly.

Hua Deze led the 2nd Company, quickly charging along the railway line.

According to Lin Fan's requirements: destroy the railway line and then leave a squad to lie in ambush and observe.

The main force would then retreat back.

They knew: the surrounding situation of the entire team was complex, and there were armies everywhere.

There were both National Army and Japanese soldiers!

No one knew which side they would encounter next.

A regiment of the Puppet Manchukuo Army was also stationed in Tengxian.

The Japanese stationed so many puppet troops in Tengxian and Lincheng only because these places were important nodes on the Jinpu Railway.

And also the main artery for their team's supplies.

If the Japanese forces were not too small, Division Commander