On April 3, 1938, the situation in Taierzhuang became more severe, and the Chinese and Japanese armies engaged in hand-to-hand combat in Zhuang, tug-of-war, sparrow warfare, often a fortification, the two sides repeatedly competed, forming a complicated situation of canine teeth, you have me, I have you, the artillery has not played a role, mostly short troops, and at noon, the telecommunications connection between the Thirty-first Division of Chifengcheng, which was holding the forward position, was suddenly interrupted, and the situation was 100,000 urgent. Some of the enemy rushed to the south gate of Taierzhuang. The defenders died 78 out of 10, forced to cross the canal, only a part of the West Pass of Baotaierzhuang, a thousand gunshots, Taierzhuang was in danger...
First, the situation in Taierzhuang was critical, and Chiang Kai-shek sent another urgent telegram ordering Tang Enbo to support him
After Li Zongren received Sun Lianzhong's report, he immediately sent an urgent telegram to the base camp: "At noon on April 3, the taierzhuang telecommunications were interrupted! ”
Ju Yiqiao, the deputy officer of the base camp's attendant room, got the telegram and hurried toward Chairman Jiang's living room.
Hearing the sound of the "report," Chiang Kai-shek said impatiently: "Come in." ”
It turned out that Chiang Kai-shek was having lunch. A few days ago, I accompanied Song Meiling to eat western food and western food for a few days, which was very unappetizing. Today, I was eating alone, and I deliberately let people make a few of his favorite hometown dishes: ben cockles, locusts, chicken sauce taro, snow red fried kaiyang and chicken sauce tofu soup, plus two plates of rotten bran and stinky winter melon. I was eating with relish, and I was disturbed by people, so naturally I was a little unhappy.
"What?" Chiang Kai-shek did not raise his head, and while clipping a large number of chopsticks and oyster locusts into his mouth, he asked.
Deputy Ju sent the official document clip and said, "Sir, Xuzhou Emergency!" ”
As soon as Chiang Kai-shek heard the emergency electricity in Xuzhou, he immediately put down his chopsticks, slipped his eyes again, stunned, his look suddenly changed, he groaned for a moment, suddenly threw the folder away, and said loudly: "Immediately prepare a car to the airport and fly to Xuzhou." ”
As soon as Chiang Kai-shek said a word, the attendant room immediately became busy, and it was again a car preparation, a liaison, and a guard, and finally everything was properly arranged.
In the afternoon, Chiang Kai-shek flew to Xuzhou.
Although the trip was extremely secret, Jiang was still reluctant to wear civilian clothes, so he changed into a grass-green military uniform and a short sword with a "soldier's soul" around his waist. The riding boots were also spotlessly clean. As soon as he got off the plane, he went directly to Li Zongren's commander's headquarters to inquire about the battle situation: "What is the reason for the interruption of the front communication?" It is best to send someone to comfort and contact! ”
Li Zongren said busily: "I have ordered Chi Fengcheng, commander of the Thirty-first Division, to take advantage of the situation to counterattack, and ordered the commanders of the corps, Sun Lianzhong, Tang Enbo, and Guan Linzheng, to lead the army to support. ”
But Chiang Kai-shek was still thinking about his contact, and he asked in a hurry: "Who will be sent to contact him, ask about the situation and then say." ”
At this time, the adjutant who came with Jiang volunteered and said: "Commission, send me, I am a good friend with Commander Chi, Brigadier Bao, and Brigadier Wang, and I am very familiar!" After hearing this, Chiang Kai-shek said, "Well, go quickly and report the battle situation as soon as possible." ”
Ju Yiqiao immediately took a train to the vicinity of Taierzhuang, then walked to the forward command post, saw Chi Fengcheng, asked about the situation, and then sent someone to repair the communication line and let Chi report directly to Chiang Kai-shek.
Chi Fengcheng ignored three seven twenty-one, grabbed the phone and grumbled: "Commissioner, the Tang Legion has not seen any movement now, will we wait until we have finished before he moves?" ”
Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to reassure him on the phone, saying that he would immediately urge the Tang Army to launch an attack. Chi Fengcheng wanted to hold out for a while.
At this time, Li Zongren, Bai Chongxi, and others present accused Tang Enbo of ignoring the overall situation, not moving his troops, and delaying the attack.
When Chiang Kai-shek saw that the courtiers were indignant, he had no choice but to give Tang Enbo a warrant on the spot, and the wording was so severe and resolute that it was not at all obvious that he was conniving and accommodating to his own concubines:
"In the battle near Taierzhuang, I used the number of ten divisions against the enemy of one and a half divisions, which lasted for more than ten months, and did not achieve any results. The legion was on the enemy's flank and back, and the situation was particularly favorable, and the attack did not work, so how could it explain itself! That is, the troops should be strictly supervised, and on June and July, they should strive to make great achievements and annihilate this enemy, so as not to live up to high expectations. ”
After reading Chiang Kai-shek's warrant, Tang Enbo's face suddenly sank, and he did not dare to delay any longer, so he ordered all units to attack in an all-round way.
Guan Linzheng led the Eighty-fifth Army to accelerate the attack on the Japanese army in Taierzhuang, and successively recaptured the strongholds of Ganlu Temple, Yang Lou, and Taodun east of Taierzhuang, relieving the threat of the Japanese army in the northeast of Taierzhuang.
In the middle of the night, Li Zongren received a report that Tang Enbo's army had approached the north of Taierzhuang and expected to arrive in the morning, so he hurriedly ate a little porridge and hitchhiked to a small village on the outskirts of Taierzhuang. Set up a temporary command post to personally direct the encirclement and annihilation of the Japanese army.
Second, the Japanese army was hopeless, and Setani was determined to make a desperate bet
After dawn, the gunfire north of Taierzhuang gradually became denser, and the Tang army had appeared behind enemy lines, and the setani detachment, which was suffering from the enemy on its belly, could not retreat and fell into a heavy siege.
At this moment, Fukuei Mahei had lost contact with Setani, and he was hanging his wounded arm, his eyes were red with a command knife in his right hand, driving the soldiers to occupy the two-story stone house in Shonai, and there was only less than one squad of soldiers left around him. The squad leader Okayama was killed by a grenade when he attacked the alley just now, and Fukuei did not care to collect Okayama's body, so the soldiers pushed down an earthen wall to cover Okayama's body, and rushed straight to the stone house.
The firepower of the stone house did not seem to be strong, only the cry of an old Czech machine gun. And the shots were all point shots, obviously there were not many bullets. There were several peach trees in front of the house, full of red flowers blooming like fire like tea, under the peach tree was a piece of golden wild daisy, Fu Rong suddenly felt that this place was very similar to the small courtyard of his homeland in Japan, he was very surprised by this small courtyard, this peach tree, the miracle of this wild daisy, actually survived in this battlefield full of fire, could it be the blessing of God?
Fukuei Makoto naturally thought of his wife and Michiko in his hometown, but only when a sudden bullet hit the wall across him, he returned to the harsh reality.
"Boom!" He grunted in his throat, took out a picture of Michiko from his coat pocket, looked at it, and kneaded it into a ball, stuffed it into his mouth, and swallowed it into his stomach before chewing it up. Satisfied with all this, he drew his saber, raised it high, shouted "Bage Yaru", and rushed straight to the stone house, where he was first hit in the legs by a string of machine gun bullets, and then in the chest by a pistol bullet, and he fell under a peach tree, feeling his blood gushing in the pool, and a peach branch slanted in front of his eyes. He suddenly developed a sense of monastic disgust, towards the peach tree, for the peach blossom, for the daisy under the peach tree... He wanted to get up and bite off the peach branch that was slanting across his eyes, but before he could get up, he heard a loud cracking sound, and then he didn't know anything...
The Chinese army learned his identity from Fu Rong Zhenping's pocket cloth. His death is undoubtedly an encouragement to the Chinese military.
When Chi Fengcheng led his troops to recover two-thirds of Taierzhuang in one fell swoop and rushed to this stone hut, he looked at the body of Fu Rong Zhenping and indignantly scolded: "There is more to die than to be ashamed of!" Later, he confessed to his subordinates that he had managed to transfer the suicide note in Fu Rong's pocket to the Japanese prisoners and bring them back to his relatives in Japan...
April 5. night.
The 3,000 Japanese troops in the DiGe and Yang Lou were surrounded by Guan Linzheng and Wang Zhonglian's troops. The enemy covered the breakthrough with tanks, and the two armies of Guan and Wang blocked the exit with a fierce crossfire network, and after several hand-to-hand combat, they annihilated all the enemy troops who broke through. At this moment, Seguya, who had set up his headquarters at Yangjiamiao Temple, saw that the breakthrough could not be achieved, so he changed his strategy and ordered his soldiers to resist while rushing to repair fortifications and strengthen the village positions, hoping to risk their lives and wait for reinforcements.
Setani also knew in his heart that it was almost impossible to wait for the Itamoto detachment to come to his aid. Yesterday, the Banben detachment was also besieged near Xiao Wang, and the rear was cut off, and it was no longer possible to obtain supplies from the Fifth Division, or the commander of the Isoya Division reached out to the rescue in a crisis and tried to give the Banben detachment some ammunition and food.
In the evening, Setani unexpectedly received a telegram from Itamoto Shun: "The detachment was ordered to return to capture Linyi. ”
When Setani read the telegram, he was so angry that he scolded Ban Benshun, and at this critical moment, he wanted to slip away and let himself stand alone in the crisis, which was really not like words.
With no hope of waiting for help, Setani was determined to make a desperate bet and simply organized his troops to prepare for the breakthrough to the north on the night of the 6th. He ordered the generals to destroy them on the spot and kill all the horses so that they could rush out of the encirclement lightly and quickly.
3. Li Zongren ordered a full-scale counterattack, and Taierzhuang won a great victory
In the middle of the night, Chi Fengcheng in Taierzhuang also commanded his troops to carry out street battles, forcing the remnants of the enemy into several watchtowers, and he organized death squads to carry out attacks.
Finally, a small group of Japanese troops, with several crooked machine guns, stubbornly resisted in the tower, unwilling to surrender, so Chi Fengcheng ordered the soldiers to dig tunnels from the ground of the nearby houses to the bottom of the tower, and then install explosives.
At dawn, with a loud noise, this small group of ghosts all flew into the sky.
On April 6, Li Zongren ordered a full-scale counterattack.
Inside and outside Taierzhuang, bullets splashed, gun smoke soared into the sky, and shouts and gunshots sounded in one piece.
Tang Enbo's troops carried out the external encirclement, Sun Lianzhong's troops carried out frontal sweeps, and at about 10 o'clock, the remnants of the enemy in Taierzhuang were all eliminated. At 10:30, the defenders crossed Taierzhuang to the north and eliminated all the enemy forces in Liujiahu and Sanlizhuang.
The Fifty-second Army charged and fought hard, successively recapturing Dazhuang, Zhang Lou, and Feng Jiahu, and directly pounding the Yang Family Temple. The Eighty-first Army also conquered Yuzhuang and marched alongside the Fifty-second Army.
After fierce battles, Zhou Yan's Seventy-fifth Army successively conquered the areas of Dashibu, Xinzhuang, and Dongzhuang.
The 27th Division and the 75th Army attacked back and forth, causing the Japanese to raise their flags, while the 30th Division on the west side of Taierzhuang also occupied positions around Nigou and the 328th Brigade of the 11th O Division occupied the area west of Zhangshan.
At that time, Zhang, Pang and other armies on the Linyi side had defeated several attacks by the Japanese army, and the city of Linyi remained unchanged.
That night, before Setani slipped away, he also had to punch his swollen face and fill the fat man, and sent a telegram to the military department: "Temporarily leave Taierzhuang, and gather your troops in the rear." ”
When he was about to leave the Yang Family Temple, Setani saw the burning chariots and weights, and saw the soldiers who looked depressed and held the urns, and a feeling of inability to look back rose in his heart. On this road to the north, he knew what awaited him...
At this moment, Itamoto Shun, who had planned to return to Linyi, was also besieged by the Chinese army, rushing left and right, suffering heavy casualties, and after learning the news that the Setani detachment had led the team to leave the battlefield and slip away, he was very annoyed, so he complained to Itagaki: "Although our detachment is in close contact with the Lazy Valley detachment, the Setani detachment did not make any contact and then withdrew to nigou on the night of the 6th, and I do not express any regret about this. Then he also stopped the flag, found a gap, and quietly fled to the northeast of Yixian County. However, in his report to Itagaki, he declared: "The return on the night of the 7th was carried out under the imminent fire of enemy guns. ”
Ban Benshun's move once again confirmed the American John. What Tolan said: Sometimes, the Japanese, just to avoid embarrassment, would rather lie than admit their incompetence.
At this point, the Battle of Taierzhuang came to an end. However, the embers in Taierzhuang have not been destroyed, and the town that was once called prosperous is now devastated and destroyed by the war into a broken wall. Human corpses and animal corpses on the ground, shrapnel and shells on the ground, rags and flags on the ground, and petals and peach red floating in the blood red of the ground...
On April 7, when Li Zongren inspected Taierzhuang, after seeing all this, their faces were somber and solemn.
When The United Press correspondent Epstein asked him what secret would make him "in command?" Li Zongren said an intriguing sentence: "The answer can be obtained from the prosecution of former Shandong Provincial Chairman Han Fuyu." ”
At this time, the group walked to the slope of the near side of the Chinese defenders' small mountain artillery position outside Zhuang and looked at the surrounding scenery; they saw that the land without people was like a large brown and green chessboard, and the sky was blue on top. And gray are villages with four square walls—the smoke that permeates these villages is also gray; around the silent mausoleums, the rows of trees are like soldiers scattered in the wilderness, the villages are still hidden gun positions, the bushes are covered with military trains and command posts, the firewood sheds and hay piles used to hide from enemy aircraft, the dead soldiers, and the hillside where they stand scattered with shell fragments, yesterday, the bombs also destroyed the vegetation here, revealing ugly brown scars, but in this brown scar, But Li Zongren saw the cluster of wild daisies with small golden flowers...