Chapter 251: Zheng Tong swayed to Zhang Xian's side.

It wasn't that Zhang Xian was unwilling to launch an attack; the main force of the Fifth War Zone was currently in the Xucheng area, and to annihilate the enemy to the greatest extent possible, the Japanese had to be lured in.

His forces were mainly concentrated in the western part of the Grand Canal, in the western part of Shandong.

The Japanese troops marched south along the railway, their target being Xucheng.