The attack of the Japanese reinforcement squad was very sudden and the firepower was extremely fierce. The unprepared 75th Brigade lost dozens of people in a moment.

The 75th Brigade thought that the Japanese plainclothes reconnaissance team was hidden in the artillery tower, so it sent troops to attack. The 75th Brigade attacked for an hour or two before it discovered that the enemy was not the plainclothes team, but the field team.

The artillery tower occupied by the Japanese army was a national defense fortification built by the National Army. The building was very strong and the firepower was also very strong. The Sulutong small cannons and heavy machine guns equipped by the 75th Brigade could only block the enemy's shooting holes and could not destroy the bunkers. Until the afternoon of the attack, the 75th Brigade, which could not be captured for a long time, decided to dig tunnels to bury explosives and blow up the artillery tower.

At noon on the 23rd, just as the 75th Brigade was besieging the small team of Japanese devils, two or three hundred Japanese devils drove to Zaozhuang. They tried to rescue the surrounded Japanese devils, but were blocked by the 1st Battalion of the 75th Brigade.

Just as the 75th Brigade was about to dig tunnels and blew up the bunker with explosives, Guan Linzheng received military information and immediately transferred several 75mm field cannons.

At 4:00 pm, the 75mm Bofos Mountain Cannon that was approaching directly opened fire. The first shell hit the target and blew a big hole in the artillery tower. After the second and third shots, the artillery tower began to tilt, and the Japanese troops who were still alive inside jumped down from the second floor of the bunker. In the end, more than a dozen Japanese successfully escaped.

Later, the 75th Brigade explained that the Japanese were not completely eliminated because they wanted to capture the alive prisoners. But in the end, the 75th Brigade only captured a wounded Japanese sergeant. The 75th Brigade explained that it was because the Japanese soldiers had good physical fitness and ran fast, so the soldiers of the National Army could not catch up.

The incident reached the 73rd Brigade where Li Qinglin was located, and the officers and soldiers of the 73rd Brigade were in an uproar.

The 75th Brigade actually lived in the same village with the Japanese, and they did not find the enemy. This vigilance was too poor. Moreover, the Japanese were only fifty, and they were surrounded by heavy troops by the 75th Brigade. The 75th Brigade had an absolute advantage in firepower from the early morning to the afternoon, but not only did more than 100 people in the casualties, but in the end they also allowed more than a dozen Japanese to escape successfully. The 75th Brigade had too poor combat power, and it was simply a "tofu brigade".

Li Qinglin taught the company a lesson based on this battle example. The platoon leaders also discussed it enthusiastically, and each of them also thought about how to attack the bunker. The platoon leaders' ideas were not necessarily the most correct, but Li Qinglin was very happy. At least they began to think about ideas. If they really encountered this situation in the future, the 5th Company would never make such low-level mistakes like the 75th Brigade.

The Japanese troops failed to rescue Guo Liji's field team, and they sent more troops. At 3:00 pm, the plainclothes team of the 25th Division saw dust flying on the road in the direction of Zaozhuang in Lincheng. The military headquarters judged that it was obviously the gang of Japanese in Zaozhuang that Zaozhuang attacked Guo Liji. The military headquarters decided that the 25th Division stepped up the resolution of the enemies in the bunker, and then let the commander of the 150th Regiment lead a battalion to stay in the position. At the same time, the military headquarters ordered the 73rd Brigade and each of the 75th Brigade left a battalion commander to command a company and plainclothes team. The two together with the 150th Regiment formed a reinforcement battalion and were unified under the command of the 150th Regiment commander Gao Peng.

After the 75th Brigade finally solved the Japanese squad in the village, Gao Peng commanded these troops to stay in Guoliji. They gradually resisted according to their existing positions to confuse the enemy. Their purpose was to cover the main force of the 25th Division to move into the mountains in the northeast of Guoliji. When the main force of the division was all withdrawn, they gradually resisted and evacuated.

Li Qinglin and the others thought they had fought a big battle near Guoliji this time, but they didn't expect that they would eventually turn to the hidden main force.

The Taierzhuang Battle is in full swing, and the 10th Japanese Division is attacking wildly. China and Japan have become a mess in the surrounding areas of Xuzhou.

On March 24, the main force of the Japanese Isogai Division successively joined the Taierzhuang position. The Japanese Army Aircraft, more than 70 heavy artillery and more than 50 tanks launched a continuous and fierce attack on Sun Lianzhong's troops who guarded Taierzhuang.

With fierce firepower support, the Japanese army broke into Taierzhuang and once occupied three-quarters of Taierzhuang's territory.

Sun Lianzhong's second army was born in the Northwest Army, and the 31st Division commanded by Chi Fengcheng, who was defending Taierzhuang, was Sun Lianzhong's basic unit. The 31st Division inherited the fine tradition of the Northwest Army being good at close combat. Everyone was determined to die and would rather die than retreat. In Taierzhuang, the officers and soldiers of the 31st Division resisted bravely, fought repeatedly, and fought fiercely with the Japanese army. The Chinese and Japanese sides in Taierzhuang were in a stalemate.

Li Qinglin and the others didn't have time to relax, and the combat mission of the 52nd Army came soon.

When Taierzhuang Sun Lianzhong's troops dragged the main force of the Isogu Division with their flesh and blood, the Fifth War Zone ordered Tang Enbo's 20th Army to immediately attack the Isogu Division.

On March 26, the 20th Army launched a fierce attack on the enemy of Shizao, and won a complete victory in this battle. The 20th Army wiped out most of the enemy, and the 10th Division of Isogata was about to fall into the encirclement of the national army.

On March 29, the 5th Division of Banheng, which had captured Lincheng, sent more than 3,000 troops of infantry, cavalry and artillery joint troops to bypass Linyi and suddenly Xiang Aiqu and Xiangcheng. This Japanese army was composed of the Fiery Regiment as the backbone, and they directly threatened the side of the 20th Corps.

In order to meet with the 10th Division as soon as possible, the Chiba gang attacked very quickly. In the south of Xiangcheng City, the Chiba gang encountered the 52nd Army, and there was an encounter between the two sides. In order to pass through this place as soon as possible, the Chiba gang left a reinforced infantry. More than 200 cavalry squadrons invaded Liuzhuang in the south of Xiangcheng City, in order to let the strengthening squadron drag the 52nd Army and cover the main force of the gang to go south to pick up the Yingshigu Division.

Liuzhuang was the defense area of ​​the 145th Regiment. The enemy's teachers and veterans were tired and went deep into the army. Our army was waiting for work and was ready to fight. This was a great time to surround the Japanese and annihilate them. Guan Linzheng, the commander of the 52nd Army, immediately ordered the 145th Regiment to eliminate the enemy. In order to enhance the firepower of the 145th Regiment, Guan Linzheng also transferred a mountain artillery company to the 145th Regiment, which was equipped with four 75mm caliber Bofos mountain artillery guns.

The 145th Regiment was already full of units in Luoyang. Now, with a mountain artillery company deployed in the army, the total force is ten times that of the Japanese army in Liuzhuang.

On the afternoon of the 29th, the 145th Regiment surrounded the enemy of Liuzhuang. The first battalion occupied two small villages about one thousand meters northwest of Liuzhuang and began to build positions to prevent the enemy from escaping northwest; the second battalion approached Liuzhuang from the northeast in an offensive manner. The Bofus Mountain Artillery Company and the 3rd Battalion Mortar Company built the main artillery position in a small mountain village about nine hundred meters south of Liuzhuang. The 145th Regiment was located in the artillery position, and the main force of the third battalion was stationed in the small mountain village about three hundred meters behind the artillery position.

On the night of the 29th, the telephone number between the regiment headquarters and the battalions was set up, and all troops entered the predetermined location, and the encirclement and annihilation battle could be launched at any time.

At four o'clock in the morning on the 30th, the mountain cannons and mortars of the 145th Regiment bombarded Liuzhuang, and a siege and annihilation battle to catch turtles in a jar began.
Chapter completed!