The soldiers of the third battalion were woken up one by one in the dilapidated trenches, and they cheered up their spirits and fought the last battle against the Japanese troops on the upper heights under the mobilization of each platoon leader and squad leader. ｗ?ｗ?ｗ?．??

Everyone divided into three detachments and rushed towards the Phoenix Ridge on the west side of Sixi, at this time there was no night attack, this area, especially in the area of Guanqiao, the fighting was very fierce, and there were gunfire everywhere.

Moreover, when the Luo General Headquarters saw that the 33rd Division was sending troops in Nanchang and Fengxin, it immediately asked the Poyang Lake area of the Third Theater to send troops to attack and harass the empty Nanchang, or put on a posture to defeat Nanchang.

This move made the commander of the 33rd Division, Sakurai Seizo, frightened, and he was originally going to drive all the 33rd Division to Shanggao to support the 34th Division, but now he didn't dare.

Compared to the importance of Nanchang, Sakurai would rather hold Nanchang than lose Nanchang because he went to save the 34th Division.

After all, the 34th Division was the result of taking the blame on itself and insisting on going its own way without listening to advice, even if it was beaten badly, it didn't really matter how big the 33rd Division was.

But if the 33rd Division loses Nanchang, then the responsibility will be great, even if the 34th Division is rescued, it will not be able to make up for it.

Therefore, the infantry brigade commander Araki Shoji can only be sent to command the two infantry wings 214 and 215 with a mountain artillery brigade as a rescue force, and break through from the direction of Fengxin to rescue the 34th Division.

Seeing that the Japanese army did not dare to rescue the 34th Division, the Luo Headquarters in the Ninth Theater of Operations in northern Jiangxi also came up with great strength and asked the 70th Army Pre-9th Division in the Fengxin area to get out of the way and let the two wings of Araki in.

In addition, a division of the Sichuan Army was urgently transferred to assist the Ninth Division, and then this gap was filled, preparing to surround and fight the two wings of the 33rd Division together.

Luo Headquarters's heart is really big, and it's hard to say whether his appetite is so big, but now as a medium **, it is indeed rare to dare to fight like this.

More than a dozen divisions dared to encircle two divisions of the Japanese army, General Luo Zhuoyin's superior, General Xue Yue, did not dare to do this before, in Sanyi Village, using the country's elite Central Army, to be able to surround a 14th division.

The same is true in Wanjialing, encircling the 106th Division and fighting extremely hard, so that it can be regarded as encircling and annihilating most of the main forces of the Japanese division.

And now, General Luo Zhuoyin dared to surround two Japanese divisions in the plains and hills, which was indeed bold, and even General Xue Yue, commander of the Ninth Theater of Operations, was heartbeating.

However, at present, the most effective is still the 74th Army, of which the 57th and 58th Divisions have pursued the Japanese army to the area of Guanqiao, and the two wings of the Araki Detachment of the 33rd Division who came to the rescue are fighting in the dark.

The 51st Division is now attacking from the front line of Yuntou Mountain, approaching Phoenix Ridge, as long as Phoenix Ridge is taken tonight, it can enter Sixi Town, the base camp of the Japanese army, and draw salary from the bottom of the kettle.

Therefore, the three battalions rushed to Phoenix Ridge, and did not want to sneak into a night attack, but fought a battle very quickly to attack the third brigade of the 217th Wing of the Japanese army that retreated here.

At this time, the third brigade of the Japanese army was already running out of oil lamps, and most of the grassroots soldiers had not eaten for a day, and all the things that could be eaten in the mountains were dug up and eaten.

In the early spring, there was nothing to eat in the fields, at most some greens and grass, and sweet potato seeds for sowing were kept in the cellars.

These sprouted sweet potatoes were already the best grain that the Japanese army could find, but the quantity was extremely small, after all, when the common people heard that the devil was coming, they sealed the mouth of the cellar on the mountain, and it was difficult for people who did not know to find it.

Now the Japanese soldiers can only drink some muddy water filtered water, and later there is no filtered water, but fortunately, the terrain here is relatively low, and a few deep wells can still produce a little water.

The most critical thing is the lack of weapons and ammunition, the soldiers have only a few dozen rounds of ammunition left, and most of the machine guns are either missing bullets, or they are seriously damaged, and there are not many spare barrels.

Like mortar grenadiers and even mountain artillery, the shells are almost exhausted, and only a pile of scrap steel is left, and the artillerymen have to retreat desperately.

The original mules and horses were almost killed, and they had nothing to eat, so they had to eat these things.

Therefore, the third brigade of the 217th Wing of the Japanese army, which is now guarding Phoenix Ridge, has already felt very critical, and the suicide note of its captain Tanaka Shaozo has been written.

Tanaka destroyed the infantry artillery in the brigade, no shells is equal to a pile of scrap metal, and a large number of soldiers who have no food and drink will be exhausted, originally waiting for the airdrop of ammunition, but now it seems that it can no longer wait.

Rather than letting the infantry artillery be seized by the middle **, it is better to destroy it yourself, including some unused mortars and grenadiers, which are either buried deep in the ground or destroyed.

Now Tanaka ordered the last few heavy machine guns to be used as firing points, supporting the entire framework of defensive firepower, and other light machine guns around these firing points to protect and enrich the firepower from far and near and from multiple angles.

The artillery squads, grenadiers, and mortars can only pick up their rifles and become ordinary riflemen, along with a few broken infantry squadrons, distributed around these firepower points, similar to the flesh and blood in the skeleton, supporting the defensive system of Phoenix Ridge.

As the 152nd Regiment and the 3rd Battalion, it is not clear that the Japanese brigade has reached such a point of exhaustion, but no matter what the Japanese army is, it still attacks to the death as always.

This time, the divisional artillery battalion of the 51st Division also sorted, but it was hidden at first, waiting for the 152nd Regiment to lure out the Japanese firepower point and then attack.

Sangou didn't know in advance that there was a mountain artillery from the division to assist, and after hundreds of people approached Phoenix Ridge in several echelons, they began to crawl forward in a straggler formation.

In the past, the Japanese army attacked the hill they guarded, but now the three battalions have copied it, at least until now on this local battlefield, the generation gap between the strength of the two sides has been shortened to an equal position.

The flares and the raging fire burning at the front of the position illuminated the forward position, and the Japanese riflemen hid in the hidden trenches and carried out precise strikes against the middle **.

Sangou and several company commanders saw that it was wrong, so they first called grenadiers and mortars to blow up and extinguish these burning fires, and then fired smoke bombs to let the night return to its true colors.

At the same time, the heavy machine guns began to fire at the positions of the Japanese riflemen, and as long as there were bright guns on the Japanese positions, they would be fired at the point, forcing the Japanese troops to move everywhere, and they could not aim and attack the Chinese soldiers with all their hearts.

The Japanese army's heavy machine guns did not dare to show their heads at first, because they could only endure it when they saw that there were mortars in the middle of the fire, but they couldn't help it when they got to the back, because the front troops of the Chinese soldiers had already touched the 200-meter area of the forward position.

After entering this area, the grenades that were equal to the first in the world could be driven into the trenches of the Japanese army, and some barbed wire and barricades in front of the Japanese army were almost blown up by mortar shells and grenades, which did not play any role for the Chinese soldiers.

Seeing that the grenades of the Chinese soldiers were about to be set up and attacked, the Japanese army finally couldn't hold it anymore, and no longer fired heavy machine guns, and it was estimated that the position was being eaten away by the Chinese ** step by step.