At eight o'clock in the evening, two hours after the evacuation of the 45th Regiment, Lin Junxiong ordered the 89th Regiment to evacuate first, and first chose favorable terrain to ambush on the west bank of the Fangyuan River, and at the same time ordered the heavy machine gun company of the 332nd Regiment and the logistics unit of the brigade headquarters to also follow the 89th Regiment to evacuate.

An hour after the evacuation of the heavy machine gun companies of the 89th Regiment and the 332nd Regiment, Lin Junxiong ordered Gao Shang to set up concealed grenade ambushes in various fortifications at Yeji Gang, and then withdraw towards Fangyuan River.

At 9:30 p.m., when Yoshino again used the telescope to inspect the situation on the pheasant hill, he found that the situation was not right, and none of the torch lighting on the pheasant hill was moving, rather than shaking from time to time as before. He immediately ordered the reconnaissance troops to approach and inspect, and soon the reconnaissance troops brought back the news that there was no one on the Pheasant Hill after suffering heavy casualties in a grenade ambush, and the national army had retreated westward.

Yoshino Asada began to regret that he did not launch an attack from time to time, so that the national army on the pheasant gang could not retreat so quietly, if this national army went all the way to the west, and then waited for the opportunity to attack Neihuang in the southwest, then he would suffer a catastrophe, and the order he accepted was to seize the pheasant gang, if he could not do it, he also wanted to avoid this national army to launch an attack on Neihuang, which was the general headquarters of the Japanese army's westward advance, and only one brigade was defending.

Yoshino Sada was frightened into a cold sweat and ordered the troops to pursue immediately, to catch up no matter what, and to hold back.

And Lin Junxiong naturally could not know that Neihuang was the general headquarters of the Japanese army's westward advance troops, he was advancing with Gao Shang with the 332nd regiment while waiting for the pursuit of the Japanese army, when he entered only 2 miles from the Fangyuan Bridge, there was no news of the Japanese army's pursuit, just when he decided to give up attacking this Japanese brigade, the reconnaissance team sent back the news, the Japanese army was rushing to the direction of the Fangyuan River, the current distance is less than 3 miles, Lin Junxiong's hanging heart finally let go, he ordered the troops to leave some traces to guide the Japanese army to pursue the Fangyuan River.

When Lin Junxiong arrived at the west bank with his troops from Fangyuan Bridge, he had already seen the torches of the pursuing Japanese army, and he asked Gao Shang to take two battalions to continue to advance and join the 89th Regiment, and the pursuit took a battalion of the 332nd Regiment to block the pursuing Japanese troops on the west bank, he wanted to see how strong the willingness of this Japanese army was to pursue.

Yoshino Asada led his troops to catch up with the national army, and the two sides fought fiercely on the east and west banks of the Fangyuan River, and his heart calmed down a little, and he ordered the artillery to continuously shell the national army on the west bank, and organized the troops to force a breakthrough from the Fangyuan Bridge.

Lin Junxiong saw that this group of Japanese troops seemed to be afraid of their withdrawal, and in order to avoid excessive casualties caused by Japanese artillery fire, he ordered the troops to withdraw while fighting, leading the Japanese army to the ambush circle arranged by the 89th Regiment.

Yoshino Asada also commanded his troops to cross the river in pursuit, and since the artillery could not transport artillery across the river from the chain bridge, he could only order the artillery to stand by on the east bank.

The Japanese army was in hot pursuit, for fear that Lin Junxiong would disappear again with his troops, which made Lin Junxiong a little puzzled, and after determining that the Japanese army had no reinforcements, he was even more puzzled, the Japanese army, which had lost its artillery superiority, was in hot pursuit, and they were in Pheasant Gang with complete strength, but they did not move, why is this?

Yoshino Asada couldn't say it because he was bitter in his heart, the direction in which Lin Junxiong's troops were moving was exactly the direction of Neihuang, how dare he not chase it, he comforted the national army because he was afraid and had to retreat in a hurry, he shouldn't want to rush to Neihuang, and thought that the national army should not have time to arrange an ambush.

It was only in an area lined with small hills, hearing the dense gunfire around him, that he knew that he had been fooled, and this national army did not want to rush to Neihuang at all, and it was impossible for them to know such a confidential news that the westward expansion headquarters was in Neihuang, they just wanted to lead themselves out to achieve the goal of eliminating their own troops.

Although it was a little late to understand, Yoshino Asada still believed that he could break out of the encirclement and wait for reinforcements at Pheasant Gang, he organized his troops to retreat in the direction of the Fangyuan River while fighting, and the two battalions of the 332nd Regiment did not block the attack of the frenzied Japanese army, and had to make way for the Japanese army after resisting two attacks.

Yoshino Asada led the troops out of the encirclement, and found that the troops had only suffered three percent casualties, he secretly called luck in his heart, and he was grateful to himself for waking up in time, he ordered to send a report to the division to explain that his brigade was dragging a division of the national army, and asked the division to remind the yellow direction in the headquarters to pay attention to the sneak attack of the national army, and at the same time contact another brigade for reinforcements, after learning that the other brigade will not arrive until noon tomorrow, he roared for a long time and could only accept this reality.

As long as he reached the bank of the river, covered by the fierce artillery fire on the east bank, the pursuing national army behind him had no choice but to take advantage of himself, and as long as he held the chain bridge, he could block the attempt of the national army to occupy Pheasant Gang again.

There was still a distance of 1 mile from the Fangyuan River, Yoshino Asada finally breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly, the east bank sounded fierce gunfire, his heart began to sink, he has been ignoring, this national army also has artillery, his own artillery can not cross the river, the artillery of the national army did not cross the river, realizing that the situation is very bad, he ordered the troops to rush to the Fangyuan River desperately.

Fang Yun took the 45th Regiment and three mortar companies to quietly arrive at the position where they could attack, he was waiting, looking at the three artillery batteries of more than 20 mortars, and his heart was also excited. Lin Junxiong's task to Fang Yun was to annihilate the Japanese artillery platoon and flank the large Japanese army, but the timing required to wait until he saw the Japanese torches before launching an attack.

More than 20 mortars, firing two rounds, the Japanese artillery platoon on the east bank and a Japanese squadron guarding the guard only reacted, but, when they reacted, the dense gunfire became their urging sound, more than 1,000 national troops, under the cover of artillery fire, quickly approached, more than 200 Japanese troops were all annihilated without being able to resist too much, Fang Yun looked at the Japanese mountain artillery, 70mm Type 92 infantry guns, and a lot of shells, he touched this, touched that, he couldn't put it down, and his heart was even more happy.

When Yoshino Asada arrived at the west bank of the Fangyuan River, the east bank had calmed down, and he sat on the ground with his ass on his shoulder, muttering, "It's over, it's all over." ”

The soldiers saw that the supreme commander was deflated, and they also became depressed, Yoshino Asada stood up suddenly, drew his command sword and shouted: "Warriors of the empire, as long as we rush across the river and destroy the national army on the other side, we can wait to join the large army, rush." ”

"Hey, the little devil of the dog day, he dares to be arrogant when he dies, and some of the artillery companies of each regiment will use this Japanese artillery to come over and bombard those dog days with the Japanese artillery."

Before Yoshino Asada organized the troops to rush to the head of the Fangyuan Bridge, artillery shells fell overwhelmingly, and the morale that the troops had just aroused instantly collapsed, and the soldiers began to scatter and flee.

Lin Junxiong and Tang Jijun and Gao Shang also arrived when the Japanese army reached the river bank, Lin Junxiong ordered the troops to surround the Japanese army in a circular arc, and then ordered the troops to stand by, watching the battle of the 45th regiment and watching the Japanese army dying and struggling.

There was heavy artillery fire on the riverbank, and it was impossible to rush through, so Yoshino Asada divided his troops in two and attacked along the upstream and downstream. Lin Junxiong also ordered the troops to start the attack, and the two sides exchanged fire fiercely.

Fang Yun saw that the Japanese army began to assault upstream and downstream, and ordered the first battalion and the second battalion to move upstream and downstream to prevent the remnants of the Japanese army from swimming across the river, and he took the third battalion to the west bank to join the battle.

An absolutely unequal battle was staged on the west bank of the Fangyuan River, more than 500 Japanese troops tried to find a glimmer of life in the encirclement of nearly 3,000 national troops, but waiting for them only death, some saw their own soldiers continue to fall, the desire to survive instructed them to jump into the river, wanting to ask for a trace of life, but tried their best to swim to the middle of the river, some were weak to go with the river, some were still struggling, when hope was getting closer and closer, the gunshots on the east bank rang out, sending them to death.

At the end of the battle, more than 1,200 Japanese troops went to meet the emperor, and the 45th Brigade once again eliminated more than 1,200 Japanese troops at the cost of less than 300 people, and Lin Junxiong ordered the troops to return to Yeji Gang overnight to camp and rest.

The next morning, Wei Xin reported the battle report to Xue Yue, and it was strange that Xue Yue didn't immediately call to ask Lin Junxiong, and Lin Junxiong guessed that he might be busy with something.

Near noon, the phone rang, and Lin Junxiong received a commendation call from Xue Yue, saying that Chairman Jiang personally praised Lin Junxiong's performance in the first battle of Pheasant Gang by name.

"I guess you kid must be scolding the chairman for being stingy in your heart, right?"

"Big brother, the chairman is a little stingy, and if you don't get promoted, you will be given some weapons and equipment?"

"You kid, the rewards are all for you to remember, as for weapons and equipment, you annihilated more than 2,000 Japanese troops and still lack weapons and equipment, and now your troop preparations are almost the best equipped in the national army, what else is it called."

"I'm just talking about it, hehe, what's the next task for big brother?"

"The next step is to stand by at Pheasant Hill and take a good rest, you are not tired of two battles in three days, and your soldiers are also tired."

Xue Yue hung up the phone, and Wang Dongchen and Wang Zhibin also called to congratulate Lin Junxiong, all of which were verbal praises and no substantive rewards.

At noon, another reinforcement was stationed more than ten miles away from Pheasant Gang, and the two brigades were completely annihilated, and they only dared to watch from a distance, not too close.

Xue Yue then sent troops to recover Neihuang and other places. However, because Gui Yongqing, commander of the 27th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, abandoned the important place of Lanfeng without authorization, the entire battle plan was destroyed. Xue Yue complained to the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, and after retiring Gui, he readjusted the arrangement, recaptured Lanfeng, and pressed the Japanese army to the three strongholds of Sanyiqi, Xingji and Luowangqi for siege. At the moment when annihilation was in sight, the Eighth Army, which was responsible for blocking the enemy reinforcements from southwest Luxi, withdrew from Guide in violation of the order, so that the Japanese army in Luxi continued to invade westward and support the besieged enemy.

On May 30, Xue Yue was promoted to commander-in-chief of the former enemy in the First Theater, commanding Tang Enbo, Shang Zhen, Sun Tongxuan, Cao Fulin and other units of the First Corps and the Second Corps. On June 1, the Japanese soldiers divided into two routes, all the way from Guide and other places to the west, occupied Sui County, approached Lanfeng and Qi County, and attacked all the way to Taikang, in order to relieve the siege trapped in Sanyi, Quxingji, Luowangqi Tufei Yuan, and then attack Kaifeng, Lanfeng and other places. Chiang Kai-shek, fearing that the main force would be wiped out, ordered Xue Yue to withdraw his troops to the mountains west of the Jinghan Railway, and the former enemy's headquarters to Luoyang.

On June 9, Chiang Kai-shek promulgated the battle sequence of the Wuhan garrison, and Xue Yue was appointed commander-in-chief of the first corps of the garrison. Soon after, he was the commander-in-chief of the 1st Corps of the 9th Theater of Operations.

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