The news of the Taierzhuang victory shocked the hearts of the Chinese.

China's highest military authorities ordered the Fifth War Zone to concentrate troops near Xuzhou and prepare to annihilate the Japanese army again.

After the defeat, the Japanese army changed its combat plan and used some of its troops to restrain the opponent from the front. The main force deviated westward, attempting to surround Xuzhou from the side and behind to annihilate the main force in the fifth war zone.

On April 18, the 10th and 5th divisions of the Japanese army advanced south from Yicheng, Shandong and the Yitang area northwest of Linyi, respectively, and carried out restraining attacks on the 2nd Army of the defenders, the 20th and 3rd Army of the 27th Army of the 27th Army.

The defenders fought tenaciously, and by the end of the month, they stopped the Japanese army on the front lines of Hanzhuang, Pi County and Tancheng.

On May 5, the Japanese army began to encircle the west side of Xuzhou from both north and south.

To the south, the 9th and 13th Divisions advanced northward along the Beifei River and the west bank of the Wohe River from Bengbu area. On the 13th, they captured Mengcheng and Yongcheng (belong to Henan), and then attacked Xiaoxian and Dangshan, Jiangsu; the 3rd Division entered the Dayingji area from Bengbu and attacked Suxian.

To the north, the 16th Division crossed the canal from Jining, Shandong to the 14th. After the capture of Yuncheng, Shanxian, Jinxiang, Yutai, and advanced towards Fengxian and Dangshan, Jiangsu; the 14th Division crossed the Yellow River from Puyang, Henan, and then captured Heze and Caoxian in Shandong, and went straight to Lanfeng, Henan; at the same time, the 10th Division handed over the battles in Hanzhuang and Taierzhuang areas to the 114th Division, crossed Weishan Lake near Xia Town, and attacked Pei County.

As the Japanese army had formed a four-sided encirclement situation against Xuzhou, on May 15, the Supreme Military Conference of China decided to abandon Xuzhou. On the 16th, the Fifth War Zone ordered each unit to break through the mountainous areas of Henan and Anhui borders respectively. Xuzhou fell on the 19th.

The Japanese army advanced west along the Longhai Railway and occupied Kaifeng on June 6. In order to prevent the Japanese army from advancing, the old man ordered the Yellow River embankment to be blown up near Huayuankou, northeast of Zhengzhou, the river water passed through Zhongmu, and the Weishi flew south along the Jialu River. The Japanese army was forced to retreat to the area east of the Yellow River. The battle ended.

During the Battle of Xuzhou, the National Army participated in the war, with 400,000 troops reduced by 200,000 troops and 22,000 troops reduced by 22,000 troops.

Zhou Yun, a previous life, saw in the information that after the battle in Xuzhou, the Japanese army confiscated more than 200,000 guns.

These guns were of no use to the Japanese army. The Japanese army only used the turtle-eight hood cover. Therefore, the seized guns were taken out for the later Peace Army troops. The remaining 100,000 guns were sold.

As for who sold it? After the senior Japanese army's investigation, there was no news. In the end, it was left alone. It was probably sold by the Japanese army.

You should know that after the Battle of Xuzhou, the landlords and gentry in Anhui, Jiangsu suddenly became armed. They established their own escort armed forces and security groups, which caused a lot of restraints on the local anti-Japanese armed forces.

After traveling over, Zhou Yun found out that this was the Japanese plan to arm some people and fight against the anti-Japanese armed forces.

The Second Division and the Second Regiment are formal units of the Peace Army, so the weapons and ammunition they lack should be replenished soon.

After dinner, he returned home. Zhou Yun turned on the radio and heard if he had his own secret power.

Not to mention, there is really!

After Zhou Yun wrote it down, he translated it out and couldn't help but laugh.

It turned out that Director Dai called and asked Zhou Yun to take advantage of the chaos after the Xuzhou war to buy a batch of weapons and ammunition. This time, Director Dai paid for it, which of course was a very cheap price.

Last time, Zhou Yun gave him more than 10,000 guns. After returning, he pieced together and made up five thousand guns. However, after three battles, the five thousand guns were killed.

The National Salvation Army had to ask the director for a gun. But it was difficult for the director to do so!

The members of the Military Commission have always been opposed to the Military Commission's establishment of the military. In the end, the old man agreed and said that the Military Commission would solve the problem by itself.

Just this is the self-financing, the Military Commission only provides military pay, not guns and ammunition.

Every battle will cost a large amount of weapons and ammunition. Until now, the National Salvation Army has only 3,000 guns.

There was really no way, so Director Dai asked Zhou Yun to get thousands of guns. As for the cost of purchasing guns, he would transport a ship of tungsten sand from Jiangxi to Zhou Yun.

When it comes to tungsten sand, we have to talk about smuggling in the Republic of China. The biggest smuggling is tungsten sand.

China's tungsten sand storage is the most abundant in the world. However, it was not until the end of the Qing Dynasty that China discovered tungsten ore in southern Jiangxi for the first time.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the outbreak of World War I became an opportunity for China's tungsten industry to take off quickly, because this war not only expanded and highlighted the importance of tungsten sand in military and industrial terms. The move by Britain, the United States, Germany, Japan and other countries to buy a large number of Chinese tungsten sand also had a direct stimulus to the mining of China's tungsten ore.

As major tungsten ores in the Nanling area were discovered one after another, this world-famous tungsten ore-rich area across the borders of Guangdong, Jiangxi and Hunan provinces gradually emerged. China's tungsten industry not only started to respond to external demand, but also could not utilize the tungsten sand produced due to the underdevelopment of its military and steel industry. Export has become the main or even the only way out for China's tungsten sand.

However, while the normal foreign trade of tungsten sand has developed, the phenomenon of exporting tungsten sand through smuggling is also accompanied by, and the latter has become a serious issue that has long plagued the supreme authorities of the Kuomintang and has attracted international attention.

In 1936, the Resources Committee under the Military Commission of the National Government established the Tungsten Industry Management Office, and successively reached a "provincial cooperation" agreement with local governments such as Jiangxi, Hunan, and Guangdong. The Tungsten Industry Management Branch was established in the above provinces to uniformly implement the tungsten sand control. The Tungsten Industry Management Office clearly stipulates: "Tungsten is a military material and is not allowed to operate it in private."

From then on, special minerals have increased their smuggling efforts.

Therefore, being able to get a ship of tungsten sand is a great fortune for Zhou Yun. As long as it is shipped out of Shanghai and traded at sea, it is a lot of money.

However, this is difficult to accomplish with Zhou Yun.

After receiving the telegram from Director Dai, Zhou Yun went to the French Concession on a whim.

He thought that it was not just Wuhan that had targeted those weapons.

Sure enough, when he saw Yao Bin, Yao Bin also asked Zhou Yun about the need for weapons.

"The Fourth Army expanded very quickly, but the guns and ammunition were in short supply. The Ministry of Social Affairs asked me to ask if I could get a thousand guns."

Zhou Yun is a experienced person, so of course he knows this situation.

After the outbreak of the national war of resistance in 1937, according to the agreement between the Red Party and the Kuomintang authorities, the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and guerrillas, which insisted on guerrilla warfare, were reorganized into the newly formed Fourth Army of the National Revolutionary Army (hereinafter referred to as the Fourth Army) in 15 guerrilla areas in eight provinces, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan, Hubei, Hunan and Guangdong Province, in October, with 8,000 personnel.

A year later, the Fourth Army developed rapidly and reached 30,000 people.

However, the National Government only recognized the 8,000 personnel and only gave 8,000 guns.

In this way, the Fourth Army had serious strength problems.
Chapter completed!