Looking at the Japanese position and the outline of Ling County walls across the river, Li Hanzhang was in a complicated mood!

A year and a half ago, Gaomi County was just a defense zone of the 74th Division. It was a local county that recruited poor food and grass troops. Over the years, the troops and local governments have been quarreling about food and grass and supply issues!

However, just one and a half years later, Yang Fan started from scratch and built Gaomi County into an independent kingdom that could not be poured into the water, a super economically powerful county that was rich and a military stronghold with tens of thousands of elite soldiers and generals!

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the 74th Division was ordered to go north to guard the Yellow River defense line, and most of the original defense areas were taken over by independent brigades and local militia!

Now the independent brigade on the other side of the river has withstood the siege of the elite Japanese Armored Division and the Independent Mixed Brigade with its own strength. It has killed more than 7,000 enemies in 10 days and 10 nights. Dezhou Heling County has remained strong until now!

This record is difficult to achieve even a group of 100,000 troops. Li Hanzhang asked himself that if the 74th Division was moved, it would be difficult to persevere in three days!

Just as Li Hanzhang was looking across the river, the 81st Division's Zhanshutang Department had already arrived in Yucheng County, and was preparing to launch an attack on the Japanese troops in Pingyuan County the next morning!

"Report to the brigade, the 74th Division has arrived in Linyi County. The troops are preparing to cross Shahe tomorrow morning to launch an attack on the Japanese positions south of Ling County!"

"Report to the brigade, the 81st Division will launch an attack on the Japanese army in Pingyuan County tomorrow morning!"

Yang Fan received telegrams from Li Hanzhang and Zhan Shutang one after another, and nodded in a good mood: "It's really time for them to come. Since that's the case, let's just harass the Japanese devils tonight. We will officially launch a general attack to break through tomorrow morning!"

Yun Qichang nodded and laughed: "I finally hope for reinforcements. Now we can start to fight back against the Japanese and let them know that our Shandong soldiers are not easy to bully!"

The movements of the 74th Division and the 81st Division successively entered Linyi and Yucheng County were naturally not concealed by the Japanese intelligence departments, and the relevant intelligence information was immediately transmitted to Isotani Ryosuke.

"Baga, I want to see how the abominable Chinese mouse attacks and break through! Order the troops to hold their positions and never let the independent brigade return to the mountain!"

Faced with the fiercely 10,000 Chinese troops, the old Japanese were not panicked at all, and just casually reinforced a large group of Japanese soldiers to Pingyuan County!

Ryosuke Isotani is quite confident in the Japanese positional combat defense capabilities. While maintaining heavy siege of Ling County, Dexian, he felt that the Chinese army that came to rescue could pay the price of heavy casualties!

Moreover, Risuke Isotani was still deeply eager. The Independent Brigade could not bear it and forced a breakthrough. Then, he suffered heavy casualties in front of the carefully constructed defensive front of his side!

At 6 a.m. on October 11, Li Hanzhang's unit of the 74th Division took the lead in launching a shelling attack on the Japanese positions on the other side of the Shahe River. Li Yizhi's unit of the 220th Brigade took the earth bridge at the entrance of Caijia Village as the main attack direction, and Ma Guan's unit of the 222nd Brigade took the ferry of Zaojia Village of Sunpo as the main attack direction!

There is a small river between Ling County and Linyi County. The widest part of the river is more than 40 meters, the narrowest part is only more than 20 meters, and there is only one earth bridge on the river as the main transportation route of the two counties!

But because of such a small river, the Japanese army's invasion was blocked from the other side of the river, otherwise the Japanese army would have occupied Linyi County long ago!

It is also because of this small river that the difficulty coefficient of the 74th Division's attack on the other side of the Japanese position has been increased several times. The 74th Division has no experience in landing warfare in the beach, and lacks the tools for landing in the beach!

Fortunately, Han Fuju purchased a large number of artillery and firearms from Yang Fan. The 74th Division did not suffer much in terms of weapons and equipment, especially the dozens of field guns equipped were extremely sharp!

The 74th Division was an infantry gang, an artillery brigade and two chariot brigades against the 74th Division, with a total force of about 5,000 people!

As soon as the war broke out, artillery fired from the 74th Division's artillery positions on the south bank of the river, and gunfire sounded loudly. The powerful firepower net directly blew the Japanese frontier positions, making the smoke and dust flying, and he couldn't raise his head at all for a while!

After nearly half an hour of artillery bombardment and firepower, the 439th Regiment began to attack the Japanese army on the other side through the earth bridge!

Without armored tanks, the soldiers could only push a few trolleys filled with sandbags and wet cotton wool to rush over. As soon as they got on the bridge, a dense metal storm was encountered. The Japanese guns and tank war defense guns opened fire crazily!

The Japanese have not blown up this earthen bridge because the Japanese want to attack Linyi County through this bridge. The same militia defenders have the same plan without blowing up the bridge!

With the advantage of position, the Japanese army blocked the officers and soldiers of the 74th Division who crossed the bridge and the river with their position. The battle began to become more intense, and the battle between the enemy and us was a life-and-death battle!

The narrow river surface was blown up and the blood of the soldiers dyed the river red. The river channel of only thirty or forty meters turned into a life-and-death trough!

The 1st and 2nd Regiment of the Independent Brigade stationed in Ling County was naturally not idle. They organized two battalions of troops to launch an attack from the Japanese position head-on to cooperate with the 74th Division's strong attack on the river crossing!

At 7 o'clock the same morning, the 481st Regiment of the 241st Brigade of the 84th Division launched an attack on the south gate of Pingyuan County.

Since the 243rd Brigade of the 84th Division was besieged in Dezhou City, the main purpose of the 241st Brigade as a reinforcement this time was to restrain and attract Japanese defensive forces, not to capture Pingyuan County and open up a gap!

So the battle situation seemed very fierce, but in fact, both the enemy and us were not seriously injured and injured. To a large extent, they were local firefighting and firefighting, and did not launch a strong charge!

"Since the Japanese are so arrogant, we can't spoil them! Order all the troops to attack and meet in Ling County and eat the independent mixed brigade!"

Pingyuan County and Ling County fought fiercely, but Dezhou City seemed extremely quiet. The Japanese troops in the north, east and west were as stable as mountains and as old dogs, waiting for the independent brigade to force their breakthrough.

The information from various battlefields was transmitted, and Yang Fan carefully analyzed the situation and quickly understood what the Japanese were planning:

The Japanese army in Heling County, Pingyuan County, defended their defensive positions, relying on their advantage in geographical location, combat strength and weapons and equipment, blocked the Chinese troops who were eager to rescue and severely damaged them!

If the Independent Brigade wants to take the opportunity to break through from the north, east and west, it will inevitably encounter extremely fierce positional wars and tough battles. Obviously, this is the result that the Japanese army wants to see the most!

If the Independent Brigade directly chooses to abandon Dezhou City and go to Ling County, then the Japanese army will definitely follow him and pursue. The Japanese are not afraid of taking a head-on battle with the Independent Brigade during the day!

When the Independent Brigade and the 243rd Brigade all arrived in Ling County, the Japanese would inevitably siege again and limit the space for the Independent Brigade to the greatest extent, which would be more conducive to the power of the Japanese heavy artillery and bombers!

In a narrow range, it is extremely difficult for a troops of tens of thousands of people to avoid heavy artillery and bombers, not to mention food supplies after a long-term siege!

Isotani Ryosuke's wishful thinking was good, but his intelligence was just mistaken for being smart!

Yang Fan is not so easy to plot. Just relying on the Independent Mixed Brigade outside Ling County to block the Independent Brigade's full-strength attack was simply a delusion!
Chapter completed!