The China Army and the Japanese Army fought in Taierzhuang (now Zaozhuang City) in Yixian County, Shandong Province.
On March 23rd, the 3rd1Division of the Second Army met with the Japanese at Nigou Station, and the Battle of Taierzhuang started. In the evening, the Japanese army pursued the Chinese Army's 1st 1 1 Division185th Regiment to Nanluo. Be ambushed. On 24th, after the enemy entered Liujia Lake, they continued to invade the south and raided the northeast of Taierzhuang City, where more than 200 people were annihilated by 186 regiment. On the 25th, the Japanese attacked Nanluo. 185 regiment took the initiative to attack, and the battalion commander of the third battalion led the whole battalion to a decisive battle with the enemy and vowed to seize the enemy guns. 1 000 More than 20 tanks swooped down on Gaoying. Colonel Wang Yubin led 1 and reinforced the 2nd Battalion. A bloody battle lasted for two days and nights, and Gao was injured. On the 27th, the Japanese army attacked the north gate of Taierzhuang. The 3rd1Division of China Garrison launched a tug-of-war with the enemy in this village, with heavy casualties on both sides. The Japanese army constantly increased its strength and transferred more than 4,000 reinforcements from Yixian.
On 28th, the Japanese army invaded the northwest corner of Taierzhuang, seeking the west gate, and cut off the contact between the headquarters of the 3rd1Division of China Garrison and the village. Chi Fengcheng, the division commander, suppressed the enemy with powerful artillery fire and organized dozens of death squads to fight hand-to-hand with the enemy. The 52nd Army of Tang Legion and the 85th Army of Guan He attacked Japanese troops in Zaozhuang and Yixian from outside. On the 29th, the Japanese Laigu detachment once again sent troops to support and occupied the eastern half of Taierzhuang. 3 1, the defenders of China will enter the Laigu detachment in Taierzhuang area and be completely surrounded. At that time, Sakamoto Brigade was transferred from Linyi to Taierzhuang, arrived in Xiangcheng and Aiqu, and attacked the 20 th Army. The regiment immediately ordered the 52nd Army and the newly arrived 75th Army to besiege Sakamoto detachment. After several days of fierce fighting, it was hit hard by the Japanese army, and its plan to rescue the Seya detachment fell through. After the Japanese invaders successively occupied Nanjing and Jinan on February 3 and 27 of 1937+ 17, they decided to take Nanjing and Jinan as their base areas and attack Xuzhou from the north and south along the Jin-Pu Railway, so as to quickly realize the invasion plan of destroying China and connecting the north and south battlefields.
Commander-in-Chief of Taierzhuang Campaign
General Li Zongren.
Taierzhuang is the gateway to Xuzhou. It is located on the north bank of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, 30 kilometers northeast of Xuzhou, on the railway branch line from Lincheng to Zhao Dun, connected to Jinpu Road in the north and Longhai Line in the south, guarding the canal throat. It was the first place where the Japanese attacked Xuzhou.
On March 24th, 1938, the Setagaya detachment of the Japanese aggressor army launched an attack on Taierzhuang, and fought fiercely with the 3rd1division of the 2nd Garrison of China. A Japanese army broke into the northeast corner and was repelled by the defenders. On the 27th, the main force of Setagaya detachment broke into the north gate, and the 3 1 division fought a tug-of-war with the enemy, causing heavy casualties to the defenders. On 28th, the Japanese army that broke into Taierzhuang was besieged by 3 1 division, and the enemy suffered heavy losses. On the 29th, Li Zongren ordered the 2nd Army to defend the position of Taierzhuang, and ordered Tang to go south to help the 2nd Army solve the enemy of Taierzhuang. On 3 1 day, China's army will enter Taierzhuang and be completely surrounded by the enemy. On April 3rd, China's army launched an attack on the Japanese invaders. The Japanese army fought hard and occupied most of the city streets. China's army fought back again and again, launched a barricade and retaken the streets occupied by the Japanese army. The two sides are in a bitter struggle. On the evening of the 6th, the China army attacked the Setagaya detachment on all fronts. By the early morning of the 7th, all the besieged enemies were wiped out, leaving only one Japanese army to break through and stay near Fengxian.
The Battle of Taierzhuang was a great victory for China's army. In the fierce fighting that lasted for half a month, China's army suffered huge sacrifices, with 46,000 troops participating in the war and 7,500 missing. Under the heroic resistance of the Japanese army, it achieved a great victory in annihilating more than 65,438+10,000 Japanese troops. This battle dealt a heavy blow to the fierce flames of the Japanese invaders and inspired the military and civilians throughout the country to persist in the war of resistance.