Anteng was very distressed, and Tang Enbo was also very uncomfortable. The strength of the 20th Legion was stronger than the last battle of Xuzhou. During the last battle, the 13th Army was still empty-handed and remained in western Anhui and did not participate in the war. The reorganization was not completed until two months ago. Now the entire 20th Legion has reached 100,000 people.

After the recruits added, Tang Enbo spent the past two months to train hard. The reason for working so hard was that he was personal. In the last battle, he had a conflict with Zhuang Jihua in Linyi, and was left aside by Zhuang Jihua, and only played some role in the final stage. After the war, Guan Linzheng and Wang Zhonglian both received medals, and even Zhang Zhen received a treasure tripod medal, but he, the commander, had nothing. On the contrary, when Chiang Kai-shek met him, he scolded him a few words and asked him to obey orders in the future. This made him clearly understand that in Chiang Kai-shek's mind, Zhuang Jihua's weight was much heavier than him, and he would never dare to disobey Zhuang Jihua's orders.

Anteng's attack was very fierce. After receiving the notice of changing the combat deployment in the war zone, Tang Enbo immediately understood Anteng's purpose. He immediately adjusted the deployment and transferred Guan Lin's army to the front of Ju County. Wang Zhonglian on the right wing guarded Qiaoshan south of the Mu River. The 13th Army relied on Fulaishan on the left wing to block the 28th Division. After the adjustment, Tang Enbo gave a death order. All positions must be defended to the death, and they must fight to the last soldier. If the position is abandoned, they will be killed.

With this murderous order, bloody battles were fought around Ju County, and rare bravery broke out on both sides, from generals to soldiers. The Japanese army attacked desperately, and the Chinese soldiers did not retreat. Every position was fighting bloody battles, each position was stained with blood, and each position was filled with corpses.

From Ju County to Tai'an to the south, the entire Yimeng Mountain is burning. Zhang Zizhong and Pang Bingxun fight bloody battles in Laiwu, and Sun Lianzhong and Sun Tongxuan blocks Tai'an.

Seeing that the game was too late, Nishio Suzuo was anxious and transferred the 14th Division from the four divisions commanded by Yoshino Shinohara, retreated to Jinan, crossed the Yellow River from Jinan, detoured the north bank of the Yellow River, and crossed the river southwest of Pingyin through Renping Donga, preparing to directly penetrate to Dongping.

Zhuang Jihua was prepared for this move, and Du Yuming's 60th Army had not moved, just waiting for the Japanese army. The 14th Division bumped head-on into the 60th Army, which had been waiting for the battle. The two sides fought fiercely across the river. The 14th Division was beaten back by Du Yuming after three forced crossings. Du Yuming wanted to cross the river, but was stopped by Zhuang Jihua and ordered that the crossing of the river be prohibited. At the same time, Zhang Lihui's division was drawn to reinforce Sun Lianzhong to prevent Yoshino Shinohara from breaking through the Tai'an defense line.

The battle situation on the Eastern Front was at a deadlock. Sugi, Yamamoto of Peking and Shinrok Hata from Nanjing were both deeply dissatisfied. In order to open up the situation on the Eastern Front, Honma Shinrok Hata urged Haneda to go north as soon as possible, and on the other hand, he secretly gathered the 7th Division in Shanghai. He hid this action and did not announce until the last moment that Osawa took the risk to send information, but it was already a little late. The Japanese army boarded the ship in Shanghai and landed in Haizhou Bay at dawn that day.

After the 7th Division landed, it defeated the local security forces stationed in Ganyu. It occupied Ganyu, then crossed the Qingkou River, advanced rapidly to the northwest, and occupied Chengtou Town at the foot of Ma'an Mountain on the same day.

The Japanese army marched very fast, and Zhuang Jihua had no time to react and had no choice but to do so. At the end, Han Deqin, the chairman of Jiangsu Province and commander of the 26th Army, gave up Taizhou, quickly headed north and attacked Haizhou from the south. This was too slow after all, and it was impossible to completely eliminate the danger of the flanking of Ju County.

"Order the new 38th Division to attack immediately, face the 7th Division and block the attack path of the 7th Division." Zhuang Jihua looked solemn, and Hata Shunji suddenly added a division on this line, and the strength comparison immediately tilted towards the Japanese army. Hata Shunji was at Zhuang Jihua's weakness.

"What should I do with Linyi?" Xu Zuyi couldn't help asking: "There is also Fei County, and Zhang Zizhong and Pang Bingxun are under great pressure."

The purpose of putting Sun Liren in Linyi was not only to support Tang Enbo, but also to take care of Zhang Zizhong and Pang Bingxun in the middle. They were transferred away. What would happen later? The front line of Linyi was empty.

"Transfer a division from the 24th Army." Gong Chu suggested: "The original combat plan has been abandoned, and the concentration of the 24th Army in Zaozhuang and Linyi areas has caused disconnection in front and behind. It is better to move the 24th Army forward to the front and front lines of Zaozhuang and Feixian."

Gong Chu was originally a relatively conceited person, but over the years, from the Communist Party to the Kuomintang, from the Red Army to the Kuomintang army, it turned out that his arrogance had long disappeared without a trace and became cautious. Last time, Zhuang Jihua accepted his suggestion very happily, and then he boldly made several suggestions, and Zhuang Jihua accepted them all, which greatly boosted his confidence and became more and more daring to express his opinions.

Zhuang Jihua frowned and thought about it, nodded: "Well, this is a solution, but the troops are still a little weak. Let the New 22nd Division go to Linyi and the 20th Army go to Fei County, and establish a position north of Fei County."

"What should I do in Xuzhou?" Gong Chu asked in surprise. After the New 22nd Division was transferred, Xuzhou basically became an empty city, and there were no soldiers except the war zone guard regiment and the military police regiment.

"As long as the outside is good, we will be as stable as Mount Tai." Zhuang Jihua said calmly.

"In addition to protecting Xuzhou, the new 22nd Division also has the function of protecting the southern line. If transferred, what should we do if the southern line?" Gong Chu did not give up, but continued to ask.

"South Line?" Zhuang Jihua thought silently and shook his head affirmatively: "No, there will be no problem with the South Line. We have an advantage everywhere."

After Honma crossed the river, the Japanese army on the southern front also launched active actions. The 9th Division and the 13th Division resumed their attacks and fought fiercely with the 5168th Army of the 41st Army, 46th Army, along the Sei River.

Zhuang Jihua was quite relieved about the Japanese army on this road. Although the 9th Division and the 13th Division had strong battles, there were only two divisions after all. The total strength of the four armies gathered on the north bank of the Sei River was as large as 100,000, and the 41st Army had 50,000 people, all of which were new forces, and their equipment was not weaker than that of the Japanese army. They could completely block the Japanese army south of the Sei River.

The 6th and 18th Divisions that went west had the 45th and 58th Army. The 11th Army blocked the attack. Even if they could not win, they could at least block Tanishou Tanisuo to the south of Yongcheng.

The Third Division in Shou County has the 21st Army and the Second Army responsible for the attack. Here are three armies who attack 100,000 people from the Third Division, with the largest force comparison, so Zhuang Jihua designed to launch a counterattack here.

Looking at the entire southern line, the troops were superior everywhere. Zhuang Jihua did not think there would be any problems, so he boldly prepared to transfer the new 22nd Division out of Xuzhou to reinforce the battlefield on the Eastern Front.

Xu Zuyi could not find any problem with Zhuang Jihua's judgment. If it was slightly weak, it could only be the north bank of the Sei River on the Jinpu Line. His weakness was reflected in the 51st Army and 68th Army. The morale and combat effectiveness of these two troops were weak. The former was discriminated against because of the Xi'an Incident, and the latter was extremely poor in equipment, which was slightly better than the Sichuan Army before Chongqing was built. However, after strengthening the 45th Army, the 45th Army and the 46th Army could fully support the defense on the north bank of the Sei River.

Gong Chu opened his mouth and did not refute it in the end. He disagreed with Zhuang Jihua's analysis and comparison. In recent years, he was involved in the Kuomintang army, first in the Yuhan Staff of the Guangdong Army, then in the Central Army, and later in the Sun Lianzhong Second Army, and knew a lot about the local army. He secretly compared the armies with the original Red Army, believing that both the German armed division and the Northwest Army, which is known for its tenacity, have a certain gap compared with the Red Army in terms of tenacity. This is also whenever there are stalemates, the Red Army will win in the end. However, after more than a year of battle, he believes that in terms of tenacity, the Japanese army may be the only unit that surpasses the Red Army, and his equipment is far superior to the Red Army. Although there are many defenders on the southern front, it is still difficult to say what the result is. Of course, he dare not say this now.

"Order Li Yannian to speed up," Zhuang Jihua suddenly became a little unhappy: "What happened? It's been three days, why haven't the attack been launched yet?"

Li Yannian went south to attack the Third Division, which was an important part of the southern front operation. Zhuang Jihua hoped that this move would attract Gu Shoufu's troops back, but the battle in Shou County was fought and then Liao Lei. However, Li Yannian had been away from Li Xin for three days and had not launched an attack, which made Zhuang Jihua difficult to understand. According to his previous estimate, he should have launched an attack yesterday.

"Maybe there was some difficulty." Xu Zuyi argued for Li Yannian. Li Yannian was also the first phase of Huangpu, and was famous for his perseverance and good combat. When the Northern Expedition was blocked by Linhuai Pass, he insisted on regressing and finally conquered Linhuai Pass.

Zhuang Jihua did not accept this explanation, but ordered Gong Chu: "Give a power to inquire immediately, and speak a stern tone, so that Li Yannian can give it truthfully."

The 7th Division crossed Ma'anshan and advanced towards Linyi, and collided with Sun Liren head-on in the mountainous area south of Linshu Town. The two sides immediately fought fiercely, and Sun Liren seized the Big, Xiaoyaoziling and Kuzhushan to block the 7th Division.

On the southern front, the reason why Li Yannian was unable to launch an attack was because he was entangled by the Daji Regiment of the 18th Division who came from Mengcheng. Li Yannian did not take the corps seriously, but did not want to reveal his strength, so he only sent one division to deal with him. Unexpectedly, this Japanese army was like a dog skin plaster and could not be shaken off. After receiving a telegram from Zhuang Jihua, Li Yannian made up his mind to use a brigade to lead Daji away, and the main force went south to Shou County.

With the landing of the 7th Division in Haizhou, the battlefield further expanded, from Jiangsu Anhui to Jiangsu to Shandong and Henan to north of the Yangtze River. On this battlefield of thousands of miles, a million Chinese army and 600,000 Japanese army were concentrated; the highest commands of both sides realized that to this extent, the second main battle between China and Japan had been formed since the Battle of Songhu.

Japan welcomes this decisive battle. The Japanese base has long hoped to defeat the Chinese team and force Chiang Kai-shek to surrender in a main decisive battle. On the contrary, China does not want to engage in such a decisive battle. It is just that it continues to invest troops without realizing it, which ultimately leads to an infinite expansion of the battlefield and forms a decisive battle with the main decisive battle.
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