Defending the camp was the 95th Division of the 37th Army, that is, the famous Zhao Zilong Division, the division commander was called Luo Qi, a student of the first phase of Huangpu.

The 95th Division was originally Ningma-Ma Hongkui's troops, that is, Ma Jiajun.

In the autumn of 1934, the 1st Column of the Henan Bandit Army and the newly formed 40th Brigade were combined into the 95th Division of the Army.

Because the 95th Division was earlier composed of the Northwest Majia Army, which was good at hand-to-hand combat, it was a good hand in white-knuckle combat, from officers to soldiers.

Originally, it was the three divisions of the entire 37th Army that defended Yingtian, but because the Xinqianghe defense line was in an emergency, Guan Linzheng transferred two divisions.

Who would have thought that the Japanese army would make such a detour and land in Yingtian.

At that time, there was only one regiment on defense, and it failed to drive the Japanese army off Dongting Lake at the first time, so the Japanese army took the opportunity to expand the tidal flat position, and more and more Japanese troops began to land.

Not only a few thousand people of the Kamimura detachment, but the 13th Division also sent a part of the army to reinforce here, wanting to use Yingtian as a breakthrough.

If it was only the Shangcun detachment, the 95th Division might still be able to hold on, but with the increase of Japanese troops, the 95th Division gradually became weaker, and some of them withdrew to Miluo in the east, and some of them withdrew to Xiangyin, and the entire army did not collapse.

In Santang Town, north of Xiangyin, there is a unit of the 95th Division holding on, which is the soldiers of the 284th Regiment, led by the Hunan man who is not very tall, that is, Huang Hong, the deputy commander of the 284th Regiment of the 95th Division, with these nearly 2,000 soldiers here to resist the attack of the Japanese Shangcun detachment.

Their regiment commander had been injured and was sent to Xiangyin City for treatment, and Huang Hong, as the deputy regiment leader, naturally took on the heavy responsibility.

Looking at the devils who had at least two squadrons and pounced on them violently, some of the soldiers were obviously afraid.

"Deputy Commander Huang!" A defeated captain officer approached Huang Hong and begged, "If you can't beat it, let's withdraw, let's withdraw to Xiangyin City."

"Get out of the way!" Huang Hong slapped the captain to the ground, and then stretched out his hand to point at the people who were hurriedly avoiding in the streets and alleys behind him and the Miluo River defense line in the east, and roared, "We ran away, what should the people in the town do?"

What to do with the brothers of the 73rd Army on the flanks?

What to do in Changsha? ”

"Regardless of whether they live or die, we are soldiers of one regiment, can we manage so much?" The captain covered his face and cried.

"Shut up!" Huang Hong's eyes widened angrily, and he said sharply, "How do you usually teach you?" Even if you don't have ammunition, you have to fight the devils with big knives and bayonets, and retreat? Without the order of the division headquarters, who dares to say retreat, labor and management collapsed him! ”

Huang Hong took the shell gun in his hand and looked coldly at the officers and soldiers around him, especially those who showed evil intentions.

Don't look at the fact that there are many fewer soldiers from the northwest of the 95th Division, mainly from Hunan, but the spirit of daring to fight has always existed.

After all, the fear is only a part, as long as the small part of the people who want to run are stopped, there is no big problem.

Hearing Huang Hong's words, those soldiers froze for a moment, with a determined look on their faces, and then turned their gaze back to the frontal battlefield, looking at the Japanese soldiers who were planning to attack again, revealing their ruthlessness.

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Outside the town, on the road.

Nagashima Daisa, who was behind the position, looked at the town blocking the road in front of him, and showed a look of contempt.

In front of him was the town of Santang, where the smoke of gunfire was everywhere, and it was not possible to see some Chinese soldiers walking back and forth behind those improvised positions, carrying ammunition or transporting the wounded.

A Shao Zuo next to him walked over and said in a deep voice, "The strength of the Zhina army in the town is not weak, and it actually blocked one of our attacks. ”

Shao Zuo is from the Third Division, and since he entered the Chinese battlefield, the Chinese army has basically few of you blocking their round of attacks, but I didn't expect to meet them in front of me.

"It's just one attack, and in the next round of attacks, we can occupy this place, and then go straight to Xiangyin City. If you can attack Changsha City, it will be even better! ”

An officer of the rank of Nagashima did not know the battle plan drawn up by the command of the 11th Army, and even several division commanders did not know.

"Can we bypass the town and attack Xiangyin City directly?" Shao Zuo suggested.

"Baga, will our imperial army give up because of such a slight setback?" Nagashima scolded angrily, "Order, the 1st and 2nd squadrons of the Ikeda Brigade are responsible for the frontal attack, the infantry is detoured from the right side, the 4th Infantry Squadron is outflanked from the left flank, and the Honda Brigade is responsible for guarding.

Whether it is the people of China, or the soldiers of China, even if it is a beast, as long as it is alive, they will be killed, and there will be no living mouth! ”

"Hey!"

Shao Zuo paused his head and took the order away.

After a while, Ikeda's brigade split into three and launched another attack on the town of Santang.

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An encounter is destined to unfold.

As soon as the fire was received on the side of Santang Town, the 40th Division, which was marching rapidly towards this side, was alarmed.

The main force of the 40th Division was in Xiangyin City, and it was Chen Wei's 118th Regiment that discovered the crossfire in Santang Town, and the 118th Regiment went to Yingtian as a vanguard force to support.

The Chinese army was reinforcing much faster than Masanobu Tsuji had predicted, because in his opinion, the Chinese army was chaotic and vulnerable, and it was impossible for the Chinese army to march so quickly.

But in fact, the 40th Division arrived ahead of schedule, more than 60 kilometers, and only walked for 8 hours, and then rested for a few hours in Xiangyin City before continuing to march north.

In fact, it can be faster, mainly because you need to wait for baggage and artillery, otherwise the speed of the light march is much faster than this.

"Division Commander Yang, Deputy Division Commander Leng, and the 118th Regiment came to report that they found the 1st Division of the 95th Division in Santang Town blocking the Japanese army."

Li Shuzheng hurriedly came to Yang Wenjin and Leng Jie.

"Santang Town?"

Yang Wenying was stunned for a moment, and the staff officer next to him took the opportunity to spread out a military map and pointed to Santang Town, which is located north of Xiangyin.

"This place is less than 20 kilometers away from us! How many Japanese troops were there? Leng Jie immediately asked.

"It is estimated that there is more than one brigade of troops, possibly more, and Commander Chen asked if he could attack."

"We have to fight, how can we watch friendly troops exchange fire with the Japanese army, and we watch the play? Tell Chen Wei to quickly reinforce and report the situation to the division headquarters at any time! Yang Wenjin commanded without hesitation.

"Yes!" Li Shuzheng received the order.

"If you guess correctly, the friendly army in Santang Town should be the 284th Regiment of the 95th Division, plus Chen Wei's 118th Regiment, as long as the devil is not a wing, it should be able to defeat in a short time." Leng Jie looked at the map thoughtfully.

"What? What's a good idea for you? Seeing Leng Jie's expression, Yang Wenjin knew that the other party should have other ideas.

"According to the people of the 95th Division, the main force of the Japanese Shangcun detachment was not on the side of Xiangyin, but instead divided its troops and went east to Miluo, obviously trying to cut off the retreat of the main force of the 15th Army." Leng Jie said.

"That's normal!" Yang Wenjin didn't understand.

"I mean, the Japanese army must be heading for Changsha, and wouldn't it be easy to attract the attention of the Japanese army by fighting the Japanese army north of Xiangyin? What I mean is to fight and retreat, paralyze the Japanese army, and then lure the enemy deep and find a place near Xiangyin to kill the Japanese army.

The location of Xiangyin is relatively important, not only to threaten the west bank of the Xiangjiang River, but also to threaten the position on the south bank of the Miluo River.

If I were the commander of the Japanese army, in addition to sending a part of my forces to attack Miluo, I would also send more troops to capture Xiangyin, and then make a detour to the south to encircle the entire Chinese army north of Changsha.

This kind of large-scale detour operation is what the Japanese army is good at, and I believe that the Japanese army will definitely continue to use this kind of operation.

All we need to do is surround a Japanese army, and then ambush the main force where the Japanese army must pass and fight his reinforcements. ”

"Do you want to surround the dots and send reinforcements? However, if the Japanese army has too many reinforcements, we may not be able to eat it alone. Yang Wenjin was also worried that Leng Jie's appetite was too big and he might not be able to eat so many Japanese soldiers.

"If there are too many Japanese troops, we will be like the military department asking for help!" Leng Jie suggested.

"Then let's try, I hope there won't be too many reinforcements from the Japanese army!"

The order above is to let them stick to Xiangyin, but there is no requirement for how to fight. As long as Xiangyin is held, how to fight is the problem of the 40th Division itself.

And Yang Wenjin and Leng Jie also wanted to see how the offensive capability of the 40th Division was, and it was just time to test it in actual combat.