"Battalion... Battalion commander, the devils are attacking again! ”

Li Jichang, who was kneeling on the ground, asked coldly, "How many devils are there?" ”

"About a squad and a half, seventy or so!" Zhang Chi replied.

"Hmm!"

Li Jichang looked at the soldiers around him, there were only 20 people left in the entire third company, and all of them were wounded, and there were seven or eight seriously injured, but there were nearly 200 people before.

The 40th Division now has a large establishment, with about 2,500 men in a regiment and more than 600 to 700 in a battalion.

A company is basically about 200 people.

Although there were some losses in the previous battle, not counting the previous injuries and left in the hospital, now there are so many people left in the entire third company.

It can be imagined how fiercely they fought in this incense burner peak position.

Li Jichang put down Li Weiguo's body and picked up the sniper rifle that belonged to Li Weiguo on the ground, which was the person he gave to the other party at the beginning, but now it is back in his hands.

Struggling to stand up, Li Jichang looked at the soldiers around him who were all looking at him, and grinned, "Brothers, it seems that we are going to be loyal to the country together."

We've got enough, even if we die, we have to pull a few more devils on our backs before we die! ”

"Anyway, it's already enough, fight with the devil!"

"Fight with the devil!"

"Fight!"

"Get on the bayonet!"

Soon, these two dozen remnants returned to their positions and fought desperately.

All of them showed a resolute look on their faces, and they were all ready to die with the devil.

However, when the Japanese troops were less than fifty meters away from the hilltop position, there was a whistling sound of artillery shells in the air.

At first, Li Jichang and others thought it was Japanese artillery fire, but when they saw the shells falling in the ranks of the Japanese army, they reacted instantly!

"It's reinforcements!"

Li Jichang, who was stunned for a while, hurriedly shouted, "It's our reinforcements, our reinforcements have arrived!" ”

The Japanese army was also stunned, and when they saw many Chinese troops fighting from the east side of the road, the Japanese troops who attacked the Xianglufeng Heights withdrew one after another.

Seeing the retreat of the Japanese army, the trenches of the various positions that Xianglufeng was still holding burst into cheers, and everyone was excited, glad that they and others were rescued.

Not only the first battalion, but the entire 119 regiment fought badly, after all, it was two infantry wings and an artillery wing of the Japanese army that attacked them, with a strength of 10,000 people.

And they only had 2,000 men, but they held out for more than thirty hours under the attack of the Japanese army.

"Weiguo, have you seen it, our reinforcements are coming!"

"Our reinforcements are coming!"

After the Japanese retreated, Li Jichang came to Li Weiguo's body and shook each other, shouting there.

is destined to be unable to get up.

。。。。。。

"Nani? Reinforcements from the Shina army are coming? ”

The commander of the former garrison brigade did not believe this fact, but the reinforcements of the Chinese army made him have to believe it.

In fact, this reinforcement was not the 14th Division, but the 40th Regiment of the 118th Division and the supplementary regiment that came from the rear.

Half an hour earlier, Leng Jie led the 118th Regiment, the 120th Regiment and the Supplementary Regiment to annihilate the Japanese logistics units in the ambush circle, and only a few hundred people escaped.

Knowing that the 119th Regiment was in a bad situation, Leng Jie asked the 118th Regiment and the Supplementary Regiment to rush to reinforce it, and the 120th Regiment was responsible for cleaning up the battlefield.

As for the main forces of the 14th Division, it will take another hour to arrive.

It's a pity that the former brigade commander didn't know about these.

"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander!" The officer below asked, "Do you want to go on the offensive again?" ”

The commander of the original garrison brigade hesitated for a moment, waved his hand, "Give up the attack and order the troops to retreat five kilometers to rest." ”

In his opinion, since the reinforcements of the Chinese army have arrived, it is not interesting to continue fighting.

With such a position, his two infantry wings fought for a day and a night without taking down.

Now that reinforcements from the Chinese army have arrived, who knows how long it will last.

His brigade was destined to be unable to break through the incense burner peak in front of him, and there was no point in fighting any longer.

"What is the number of this unit?"

"It's the 54th Division of the 40th Army of the Chinese Army!"

"What about the division commander? Who is it? ”

"The division commander's name is Yang Wenjin, and he graduated from the second phase of Huangpu!"

"40 Division? Yang Wenjing, I remember! ”

After the Japanese 23rd Brigade retreated, the situation on the battlefield gradually shifted in favor of the Chinese army.

On the side of the 18th Division, after learning that the Baggage Wing and the Engineer Wing had been completely annihilated and that the 23rd Brigade had retreated, Jiuna Chengyi ordered the troops to retreat south at full speed and retreat to Huizhou to avoid being surrounded by Chinese troops.

The troops of the 18th Division were no problem retreating, but the Guards Mixed Brigade was a little troublesome.

On the night of the same day, even though the Japanese army retreated at full speed, only half of the Guards Mixed Brigade was withdrawn, and more than 6,000 people from seven infantry brigades, including a wing of the Guards Mixed Brigade and a section of the Nakajima Wing of the 18th Division, were surrounded by five infantry divisions of the Chinese army in the Yangwushan area north of Longmen County.

At noon on January 9, after two days of fierce fighting, except for a group of more than 1,000 Japanese troops who successfully broke through in the early morning, nearly 5,000 Japanese troops were annihilated north of Longmen.

To the north of Guangzhou, the 62nd Army failed in two attacks on Qingyuan County and was forced to retreat north.

On the side of the 54th Army and the 65th Army, because the troops were also a little tired after the battle, after Yu Hanmou and Chen Lie discussed, the battle was stopped on January 10.

Strictly speaking, this battle can be regarded as a victory for the Chinese army.

Because of the failure of the Japanese attack, the Chinese army also returned to Guangzhou, and lost a lot of troops.

The Chinese army suffered considerable losses in this battle, with a total of more than 30,000 casualties, including 18,000 killed.

And of these casualties, the 54th Army accounted for half.

The 54th Army suffered a total of 19,000 casualties and 11,000 killed. Among them, the 40th Division suffered the greatest losses, with more than 4,000 killed and more than 2,000 wounded, while the 119th Regiment ended up with only more than 700 people, including more than 300 people who were wounded in previous battles and sent to the hospital.

Not counting the deaths in the previous battle, only in the first battle of Xianglu Peak, the 119th Regiment killed more than 1,400 people, and only about 500 people survived, and Li Jichang's battalion only had less than 100 people left.

The entire 54th Army was reduced by nearly 40%, but the results were also very large.

In this Northern Guangdong Campaign, a total of 14,000 Japanese troops were annihilated (excluding the casualties of nearly 10,000, which are the corpses of Japanese soldiers on the battlefield), and 10,000 Japanese troops died at the hands of the 54th Army.

The 40th Division annihilated 5,000 Japanese troops at Mount Mali and Xianglu Peak.

If the previous battles are added, it is equivalent to more than 6,000 Japanese troops who died directly at the hands of the 40th Division.

The 40th Division killed more than 6,000 Japanese soldiers at the cost of more than 6,000 casualties, which is very cost-effective no matter how you look at it.

Although more than half of these more than 6,000 people are Japanese logistics troops, they are also Japanese soldiers, and who cares whether you are a front-line combat unit or not.

There is no need to think about how big the shock will be when this battle report is reported to the above.