The Japanese soldiers charged several times, but were beaten back by the Chinese soldiers who stood firm. Lieutenant General Sakurai captured the loopholes in the Chinese Army's defense in the dark night. Finally, he discovered that on the right side of General Chen Mianwu's position, the Chinese Army's counterattack was not very strong. He was keenly aware that there were probably two Chinese Army units here. *The joint part of the team.
The lieutenant general ordered to immediately mobilize a brigade to attack the right position of Chen Mianwu's newly formed 55th Division. When Commander Chen received the order from the Army Commander, he had already led the reinforcements to the front. Commander Chen Mianwu had participated in the Battle of Xuzhou and was deeply aware of the cunning of the Japs. He sensitively predicted that the Japs would probably break through from the junction of his defense zone.
Therefore, Commander Chen led a regiment of troops to urgently reinforce the joint position. The joint between the newly formed 55th Division and the 8th Army was defended by a company. After withstanding three waves of attacks, the company commander had a premonition that his position would become the focus of the Japanese attack.
The company commander ordered everyone to keep grenades at hand, and as soon as the Japanese approached, they would use grenades to hit his ***. In the fifth attack, the Japanese rushed up in a swarm. The company commander personally took control of a light machine gun, and the barrel of the gun was red. But the little devil was not afraid of death and kept charging up, using his machine gun to clear the way while charging.
Bullets as dense as locusts were flying between Chinese and Japanese soldiers. In the dark night, stray bullets hit a Chinese soldier from time to time. For more than thirty minutes, the Japanese rushed upward one after another. Finally, the Japanese rushed closer and closer and rushed into the position.
The company commander shouted, picked up a submachine gun with a bayonet, and rushed towards the Japanese. The company commander thrust out his bayonet, and the sharp bayonet pierced the figure in front of him. He twisted his hands and drew the bayonet fiercely.
There was a sound of bayonets hitting the position, and the sound of ** falling to the ground. At the critical moment, reinforcements led by Chen Mianwu arrived. Commander Chen heard the sound of stabbing on the position and shouted: "Everyone is here, bayonets!"
All the soldiers fixed their bayonets and rushed to the position with shouts. Commander Chen Mianwu grabbed the submachine gun with a fixed bayonet from a soldier next to him and rushed to the position first. The division commander's guard panicked, quickly pulled out his pistol, turned on the safety, and followed closely beside the division commander.
Mr. Chen rushed to the battlefield and shouted: "It's the Chinese who are singing "March of the Broadsword" to me!" Everyone didn't understand at first, but soon they understood that as long as they sang, they were Chinese, and those who didn't sing or hummed nonsense Hum, they are the Japanese soldiers.
In the darkness, bursts of "cutting off the heads of the Japanese with a machete" rang out. The majestic song also boosted the morale of the soldiers. The Chinese soldiers sang "March of the Broadsword" loudly while approaching the black shadow around them.
More and more Japanese soldiers fell under the bayonet. Commander Chen personally went into battle to fight with the bayonet. The morale of the reinforcements was high. In the singing, they drove the Japanese off the position in one breath.
The Japanese brigade attacked several times in succession, but was beaten back by Chinese soldiers. The Japanese soldiers reluctantly withdrew to their starting position and went to rest. The exhausted Japanese soldiers were no longer able to break through.
General Zheng Dongguo learned that the Japanese troops were breaking out towards the 66th Army position, and immediately judged that there were not many Japanese troops facing the 8th Army.
Zheng Dongguo decisively ordered General Li Mi's 8th Army to counterattack across the board, cutting into the back of the Japanese army along the Pinglipu city wall, and forming a front-to-back pincer attack with the 66th Army.
Commander Li Mi immediately ordered the 198th Division, the most elite of our army, to launch an attack. The three regiments under Commander Ye Peigao used a powerful offensive to attack the Japanese positions in front of them. There were not many Japanese troops left on this front line, and more than a dozen positions were captured by Chinese soldiers in one go. Suddenly, a large hole was torn open in the Japanese defense line, and Master Ye's main force forced its way through the gap.
The further the 198th Division rushed forward, the less resistance it encountered. The three regiments pushed westwards along the periphery of the Pinglipu city wall. Later, the 82nd Division followed closely.
By daybreak, two divisions of the 8th Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force forcibly inserted themselves behind the Japanese 33rd Division, completing the encirclement of the Japanese soldiers together with the 66th Army. The soldiers who fought fiercely all night, covered with mud and water, looked at the gleam of light on the horizon and breathed a sigh of relief.
Lieutenant General Sakurai supervised the troops who fought hard all night and failed to rush out. From the staff report, he learned that the ** team had once again completed the encirclement, and the Lieutenant General's face was surprisingly calm.
"Everything will end today! I really want to see the cherry blossom trees in my hometown!" The lieutenant general stared at the east.
At this time, the Japanese Army, the 215th Regiment was guarding Pinglipu and the area to the north, and was trapped by the newly formed First Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. Outside the southern city of Pinglipu, the 8th Army and the 66th Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Army encircled the Japanese 33rd Army. The main force of the division, the Japanese troops in both places could hear the sound of each other's return fire, but they just couldn't take a step forward. It was this step that destined the Japanese 33rd Division to be deleted from the Japanese order of operations.
At four o'clock in the afternoon on the second day, at the positions of the 8th Army and the 66th Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the sound of artillery was loud, and the moment of the general offensive came. More than 200 artillery pieces of the Chinese Expeditionary Force aimed at the main force of the Japanese 33rd Division in the encirclement., the "unconscionable artillery" at the front of the 8th Army also took advantage of the situation and opened fire.
The artillery fire of the Chinese ** team was unusually fierce. The Japanese forward position completely turned into a sea of ????fire, and the Japanese position was shrouded in flames and smoke. The entire Japanese position was in a state of depression, and the morale of the Japanese soldiers was at its lowest point. Everyone looked blankly at the soldiers around them falling in a pool of blood, or being torn apart by shrapnel.
The dull Japanese soldiers did not care about life or death. Everyone knew that this Chinese army would not be merciful to them. When the gunfire ended, the Japanese bullets would shoot them into sieves.
What they faced was to continue to resist, to be torn to pieces in the fierce fire or buried alive by the rolled up soil. Maybe they will have a trace of regret in their hearts, that they should not have come to this place and should not have participated in this war. Perhaps it's more about admiration. In the early days of the Chinese battlefield, the Chinese Army faced the same situation as them.
The Japanese army without solid fortifications was almost nakedly exposed to the powerful artillery fire of the squadron. After an hour of fierce bombardment, almost no inch of land in the Japanese army's position was not burning with flames. The remaining Japanese troops were also shattered by the fierce artillery fire of the Chinese Army. Their belief in survival was shattered. They held their guns numbly and opened fire at the attacking Chinese soldiers.
In the remaining Japanese trenches, the Japanese soldiers used their last courage one by one to prepare for a decisive battle with the Chinese. The sound of the roaring tank engine came, and when the huge steel figure of the Xiafei tank came into view of the Japanese army, the last trace of the Japanese's determination to resist was like a soap bubble, floating far away, and shattered with a "pop".
A tank battalion attached to the newly formed First Army was transferred by General Zheng Dongguo to participate in the battle. General Zheng Dongguo's intention was obvious, which was to use guns and tank tracks to crush the Japanese into pulp and blow them to pieces. Chinese lives are valuable.
"I don't know which Japanese soldier fired first. "Crack!" The bullet from the 38 rifle hit the armor of the Xiafei tank and caused a spark on the armor. The tank was not damaged at all.
Immediately afterwards, the Japanese light and heavy machine guns were aimed at the charging tanks like crazy. The sound of "dinging" bullets hitting the armor was extremely pleasant, but extremely helpless.
"Boom, boom", the tank guns aimed at the fierce Japanese machine gun fire points and fired. The roaring shells directly blew away the machine gun fire points. The vehicle-mounted machine guns screamed "beep beep beep", and the Japanese soldiers in the trenches were immediately covered with blood. As noted, some were cut in half directly, leaving horrific wounds on their faces exposed by bullets.
All resistance was so weak. The Chinese infantry followed the tanks, shouting and charging forward with submachine guns. The tanks formed an iron wall and pushed forward resolutely, easily sweeping away any Japanese troops who dared to stand in their way.
When the Chinese tank pushed to the bottom of the tube like a piston, Lieutenant General Sakurai pulled out his sword and said, "Warriors! Kill Jiji!" He took the lead and rushed towards the Chinese ** team, many meters away from the tank, and the tank machine gun " "Beep beep beep" sounded suddenly.
A string of bullets accurately shot into the lieutenant general's chest. The lieutenant general's chest was like a bright red plum blossom blooming. The root of the plum blossom was a huge hole, and the overturned flesh and blood were particularly ferocious.
The tanks stopped moving forward, and the machine guns kept firing in all directions. The Chinese infantry stood between the tanks, and the submachine guns in their hands spit out tongues of flame, repeatedly licking and burning the Japanese soldiers.
When the last Japanese soldier fell unwillingly, the Chinese soldier, with a livid face, showed his bayonet, walked into the group of Japanese corpses, turned the Japanese corpses with his bayonet, and stabbed each corpse fiercely. A few knives.
Leaving one regiment to clean the battlefield, the rest of the troops surrounded Pingli. Not surprisingly, the Japanese garrison in Lipu was quickly annihilated. After counting, no one of the Japanese 33rd Division slipped through the net and was completely and completely wiped out.
General Zheng Dongguo¡¯s telegram reporting his victory was sent to General Stilwell, and also to Yue Hanping, who was thousands of miles away.
The First Group Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force left an infantry division temporarily in Pinglipu to count the spoils and clean the battlefield. The main force immediately turned around and marched eastward, working with General Chen Mingren's Second Group Army to encircle and annihilate Wenduo's enemies.
Wen Duo, a member of the Japanese 54th Division, was extremely shocked when he learned the news that the 33rd Division had been wiped out. The mood of failure was permeated throughout the division. The division commander, Lieutenant General Shigesaburo Miyazaki, called General Kenkichi Ueda and insisted on breaking out of the encirclement.
General Kenkichi Ueda received a telegram from the commander of the Miyazaki Division. The general looked up to the sky and sighed, "The Chinese offensive is too fierce. The situation in Myanmar has completely turned upside down! Where can we retreat to? The base camp does not allow us to retreat."
General Ueda Kenkichi called back to Division Commander Miyazaki extremely sternly: "The 54th Division should defend Bundo and never be allowed to retreat!"
The division commander Miyazaki lamented: "General, the 54th Division was sacrificed with just one telegram from you." The division commander could not give such an order to his subordinates. I wonder if Lieutenant General Miyazaki found out because of his conscience. Or is it to save as much strength as possible for the imperial army??, the lieutenant general changed the general's order. He told the commanders of each wing that if they really couldn't hold on, each wing could retreat at once.