But now it is not as simple as the 51st Division cutting off the rear road of the Japanese army at Lion Rock, and at dawn on September 26, the 184th Division of the 60th Army of the Yunnan Army also began to rise up.

The 184th Division launched a fierce attack on Ganfang at the flank of the 111th Brigade of the Japanese Army, and when the commander of the 106th Division, Nakai, was busy dealing with the attack at Shidongkou, the left flank position on the other side had a flank attack.

The strong attack on this flank came from the 57th Division of the 74th Army, which, after several days of transfer, came to the area of Shangfu Town, and on the afternoon of the 6th, launched a powerful assault on this place.

Among them, the 170th and 171st regiments bravely attacked on the back, regained the Huxingshan position in one fell swoop, and immediately launched a fierce attack on Shangfu without stopping.

The entire 106th Division now knew that the real crisis had arrived, and the formation was in chaos, and Nakai panicked so much that he had to abandon Shangfu and start a major retreat.

But Okamura Ningji was still a little more sophisticated, and asked the 106th Division to defend Shangfu first, and then send a force of men and horses to attack the first point, that is, the stone cave entrance, if the stone cave mouth is laid, the 106th Division will break free from the encirclement and go towards Xiushui.

Of course, the Japanese army will not go to the direction of Changsha again, but will put on such a posture and drive the defensive focus of the central government through the stone cave entrance.

Attract the main force of the central ** to the direction of Xiushui, and then the 106th Division suddenly retreats and retreats to Fengxin and Nanchang to go back, so that the losses will be much less.

In fact, it is also a retreat tactic for a large corps operation.

This move was really vicious, so that General Luo Zhuoyin, the former commander of the Ninth War Zone, couldn't figure out the thoughts of the Japanese army all of a sudden, and thought that the Japanese army was determined to drill into the Xiushui Mountain.

So the troops of the first in the country began to move in the direction of Xiushui, ready to wait for the Japanese 106th Division to drill into the cloth bag of Xiushui Mountain, and come to Wanjialing again to achieve a great victory, completely eliminate the 106th Division, but a small regret of Wanjialing's great victory.

At this time, Nakai personally transferred a brigade assigned to the 111th Brigade of the 106th Field Artillery Wing to the Lion Rock position, and carried out a supersaturated strike on the position of Zhong**.

The three battalions where the three dogs were located were almost bombed for a while, and they all hid in the caves to resign themselves to their fate, and several hiding caves were blown up, and the brothers inside were crushed to death.

The Japanese army concentrated a wing of infantry and divided it into multiple lines to attack the Lion Rock ring position, and the 51st Division also fought back, and the entire Lion Rock became an oversized bunker, with countless gun barrels sticking out of the mountain and countless bullets fired at the enemy.

The two sides fired fiercely at each other, and the Japanese charged forward in the fire, and the 153rd Regiment in the forward position had to retreat as the casualties could not be replenished.

The division headquarters also ordered the 153rd Regiment to shrink its forces and positions and retreat to the foot of Lion Rock, while the 15th Regiment on the mountain spared no ammunition to suppress the Japanese firepower.

By the afternoon of the 7th, the Japanese army had organized a large number of death squads and had broken through several Lion Rock positions, and the 51st Division also called the 15th and 153rd regiments to organize death squads to carry out a counter-charge against the Japanese troops who had rushed in.

The daredevils on both sides fought to the death on several breakthroughs, and the breakthroughs became hell gates, and the corpses of soldiers killed on both sides were piled up and blocked.

The battle lasted until dusk, and the Japanese army did not stop, seeing that the Japanese army was about to attack Lion Rock, Sangou was in a hurry, and he was almost about to personally lead the death squad to attack.

Li Tianxia, the commander of the 51st Division, was also anxious, but he was a person who had seen a big scene, among which the 151st Regiment of the Reserve was still held down and not released.

Instead, he ordered the field supplement regiment in charge of maneuvering to take advantage of the darkness of night to start a counter-assault on the flank of the Japanese army.

After resting for a few days, after receiving the order, the field supplement regiment immediately entered the enemy formation, rushed to the empty flank and back of the Japanese army, and directly entered the enemy's formation.

The 113th Wing of the Japanese Army was in chaos, it had been fighting all day, and it was exhausted, and they all hoped to end the battle as soon as possible and sleep well.

This counterattack still hit the empty area behind the Japanese flank, which made the 113th Wing very uncomfortable.

The combat characteristics of the Japanese army, most of which are heavy in front and light in the rear, like to use conical tactics, mainly for the first line of the long snake formation, breaking through a point, breaking through the first line.

But the 74th Army is not an ordinary medium-sized army, and after several years of anti-Japanese war, most of the medium-sized army is no longer the defense of a long snake formation, and several in-depth positions will be set up.

However, the Japanese army still believes that the Chinese army has stayed in the previous style of play and continues to use the tapered tactic, which is also the reason why the Japanese army uses this customary offensive tactic in view of its own small strength.

When the Japanese army attacked, the troops were in front, and the front was heavy and the rear was very light, and it was also contemptuous of the defense and counterattack capabilities of the first class, so it was so arrogant.

Therefore, after surviving today, as soon as night fell, Li Tianxia released the field supplement group, quickly moved to the side of the Japanese army, and began a thunderous blow.

This big hammer directly hit the back of the devil's head, only beating the devil passively, and the house leak happened to rain overnight, just when the Japanese army was in chaos, Li Tianxia hit a heavy hand again.

That is, the 151st Regiment of the reserve, which also launched a counterattack on the front, and as soon as the fresh forces of these two regiments appeared, the tide of the battle was immediately reversed.

The 113th Wing of the Japanese Army had to fall into a melee, in the melee at night, that was the world of the Chinese **, in the foot of the Lion Rock extended for several miles, thousands of Chinese and Japanese soldiers were fighting in the flickering light.

Just when he was stalemate, Li Tianxia gambled again and let the 153rd Regiment at the foot of the mountain out, although the 153rd Regiment fought a few days of resistance and suffered a lot of losses.

But now seeing this situation, it was the best time to avenge the hatred of the brothers, and when they heard the order, they also quickly jumped out of the position and fought into the enemy line together.

The last straw came, the Japanese 113th Wing could no longer hold on, and a large number of soldiers began to flee in the direction of Huibu.

The Japanese army in the new direction also hurried over to rescue and launched an attack on the back of Lion Rock, intending to encircle Wei to save Zhao and force the Zhong** to let go of the 113th Wing.

Li Tianxia was forced to recall the 151st Regiment, came back to rescue the driver, and defended Lion Rock with the 15th Regiment, and the Japanese 113th Wing finally reduced the pressure, breathed a sigh of relief, organized troops, and fought and retreated.

The Yebu Regiment chased all the way to Cheping Village, and even to the back of the mouth, until the Japanese troops in Huibu came out to meet them, and then slowly retreated.

In this battle, the 51st Division was a complete victory, especially the Field Supplement Regiment, which won the most.

Whether it is the Japanese army or a more powerful army, as long as it is the time of rout and rout, it is the most vulnerable time, and the field supplement regiment is the best rested unit of the 51st Division.

A large number of devils were scattered, took off their military uniforms outside, didn't even want weapons, pretended to be Chinese ordinary people who had fled, and wandered around the mountains and wilderness.

The 74th Army and the 51st Division once again became the bitter masters of the 106th Division.

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