Early in the morning of April 13, according to the established plan of the 52nd Army, the 25th Division attacked and advanced towards Zaozhuang.

The attack route of the 145th Regiment was to attack the east of Zaozhuang through Chen Cen, and the Economic and Tax Pavilion of the 150th Regiment of the 75th Brigade on the left wing attacked the southeast of Zaozhuang.

According to the combat plan, the 145th Regiment expelled the Japanese soldiers' posts and occupied Chen Cen. The 2nd Battalion occupied several small villages around. The 3rd Battalion built fortifications in Chen Cen and the surrounding highlands to cover the main force of the regiment's attack on the southeast of Zaozhuang.

According to the combat plan, the left wing 150 Regiment must occupy the Tax Cabinet. However, the 150 Regiment had already detected that the enemy troops were defending the Tax Cabinet. They just advanced to two small villages five miles away from the Tax Cabinet and stopped and reported to their superiors that the 150 Regiment had occupied the Tax Cabinet.

The 25th Division Division, who received the report, believed that all the troops had been in place, immediately ordered the 145th Regiment to attack in Zaozhuang. After receiving the order, the 145th Regiment took the 2nd Battalion as the vanguard, and the 1st Battalion followed closely to attack in the southeast of Zaozhuang. The 3rd Battalion stayed in Chen Cen as the defender.

At around 7 a.m., a small village appeared in front of the Second Battalion. There were only seven or eight families in this small village, and it looked empty. When the reconnaissance team in the camp was about to approach the small village, a dense bullet shot from the village towards the search team of the Second Battalion. It turned out that there was a Japanese guard team stationed in this village.

Li Qinglin's fifth company suddenly stood in front. When he heard gunfire sounds in front, Li Qinglin immediately ordered the fifth company to attack in combat formation. Among them, the second row of assaults, the first row of firepower covers the cover.

After receiving the order, Zhang Ergou personally led the second row to rush towards the small village.

After experiencing the Liuzhuang battle, the recruits of the fifth company quickly matured. Although they were still a little panicked and scared, under the leadership of the veterans, the recruits' individual actions and group tactics were both stern and very skilled.

The village is not big, with only seven or eight families, and there are not many Japanese in the village, with only one alert team. The strongest firepower of the Japanese is only a wicked machine gun and a grenade launcher. Under the suppression of two mortars and heavy machine guns of the Second Battalion, the Japanese firepower points were cleared one by one.

The second platoon's offense was as skilled as the usual class-volleyball team offensive exercises. Class 1, 2 and 3 alternately covered and leaped in a scattered way. They rushed into the small village in a short while.

Faced with the absolute advantage of the national army, the Japanese guard team did not intend to stick to it. After losing several soldiers, the other personnel left the wounded and fled to Zaozhuang in the northwest.

The thirteen-year-old six-fold military telescope is of course much better than the original four-fold "drama viewing mirror". Li Qinglin, who was behind, saw the entire battle process clearly from beginning to end. Li Qinglin was very dissatisfied with the result of just defeating the enemy.

"Everyone pursues!" Li Qinglin ordered.

The morale of the troops who had won the battle was high. The officers and soldiers of the fifth company were all screaming. The entire company rushed through the village and chased them in the direction of the enemy's escape. The village left the sixth company and the seventh company that came up later to clean the battlefield.

The Japanese army was indeed very physically good. They charged firmly and ran away faster. Although the time for the fifth company to attack was not delayed and the pursuit was not slow, the Japanese police squad escaped faster, and they ran so quickly that they could not even see the shadow.

Just as the victorious fifth company was walking back happily, a terrifying "swoosh" sound came from above his head, which was the sound of the Japanese shells fired by the Japanese slashing through the air.

The recruits in the team were panicked. They found a place to lie down and hug their heads to avoid the Japanese artillery fire. The veterans were basically nothing. They had experienced artillery attacks many times and heard the sound from the air that the Japanese army did not shoot at them this time.

Sure enough, the small village not far away was lit up in the sky, the smoke filled the sky, and explosions were heard everywhere. At this time, Japanese artillery shells were also shot from the direction of the tax cabinet, and the shells from both directions fell in the small village.

Unlike the 92 infantry cannons used by the Japanese in the past, most of the Japanese used large caliber heavy artillery this time. Li Qinglin and his team were five or six hundred meters away from the small village, but they still felt that the ground was shaking violently and the earth seemed to be about to be torn apart.

The Japanese shelling lasted for more than 30 minutes. The walls in the village collapsed and shrapnel flew everywhere, and the village became a hell on earth. After the shelling, the entire village was swept to a flat ground. The officers and soldiers of the Fourth Company and the Sixth Company who had just entered the village were either killed or injured. In this bombardment by the Japanese, nearly 100 people were injured in the Second Battalion, and the commander of the Fourth Company was killed in battle.

After the bombing of the small village, the Japanese artillery fire immediately turned, and they began to shoot at another small village two or three miles behind the Second Battalion. Under such fierce artillery fire, the small village was quickly flattened.

Li Qinglin saw through the telescope that the two small villages were completely destroyed in a short period of time, and he felt uncomfortable. The Second Battalion Battalion may still be in the small village that he had just fought. The village two or three miles away behind is the location of the regiment headquarters. These two small villages were blown up. Is there anyone in command of the 145th Regiment? What is the situation of the battalion? Should the 5th Company retreat or advance now?

Zhang Ergou ran over and said, "Boss, the battalion has been blown away. Should we withdraw first?"

Li Qinglin pondered for a moment and said, "The retreat order has not come, let's build fortifications on the spot first."

Li Qinglin then said to Ding Goudan: "Hurry up and go to the camp department to see what's going on now." Ding Goudan responded and immediately ran to the village.

Li Qinglin and the others are now in a large wheat field. Although the terrain is flat and there is no danger to guard, the soil in the plains is loose, so it is not very difficult to dig fortifications. The fox pits were dug quickly, and the soldiers of the Fifth Company are expanding to both sides so that they can connect to trenches as soon as possible.

After a while, Ding Goudan ran back panting and brought the latest situation in the Second Battalion and the regiment.

It was just now that the regiment headquarters was located, there was no one in the small village where the regiment headquarters was located, and the regiment commander and the first battalion were on the march. When they were about to enter the village, the Japanese artillery fire began. The regiment commander immediately ordered the first battalion to stop outside the village, so there was no loss to the regiment headquarters and the first battalion.

The Second Battalion was blown up this time. The village I just occupied was full of wounded soldiers and corpses. The bodies were blown to pieces, and the wounded soldiers were all lying on the ground and groaning in pain.

The second battalion commander Xi Yaozhi was fine, but he panicked ten minutes after the Japanese artillery bombardment. Xi Yaozhi handed over the command of the second battalion to the sixth company commander Wu Cheng, and ran away with a group of people. Before leaving, he said that he was going to report the battle situation to the regiment commander.

Shortly after Ding Goudan entered the village, the regiment commander and spies lined up into the village.

When the regiment commander heard that Xi Yaozhi escaped at the battle, the regiment commander was furious. He immediately reported to his superiors and demanded severe punishment of Xi Yaozhi. The regiment commander then ordered the Second Battalion to build fortifications on the spot and be ready to stop the Japanese's upcoming attack at any time.

The remaining soldiers of the Second Battalion came up soon, and soldiers were everywhere in the wheat fields.
Chapter completed!