Half an hour later, Feng Anbang, the commander of the 42nd Army, personally led 500 daredevils to launch a thunderous onslaught on Liu Jiaji on the northeast side of Fuyang.

Liujiaji was the northern barrier of Lixin County, where the Japanese army stationed an infantry brigade, and once Liujiaji was captured, the door of Lixin County, which was just a stone's throw away, was immediately opened.

Once Lixin County is occupied by the Nationalist Army, then the devils besieged in Fuyang and Mengcheng will be cut in two, and the 9th Division in Fuyang and the 13th Division in Mengcheng will no longer be able to connect as one, and the situation faced by the Japanese army will deteriorate sharply, and the annihilation of the whole army is a high probability event.

It was precisely because of this that the 2nd Army would concentrate its forces to storm Liujiaji.

It was precisely because of this that Feng Anbang did not hesitate to risk his life and personally acted as the captain of the death team.

The battle began, and Feng Anbang rushed to the front with a flower mechanism in his hand and a steel helmet on his head.

Seeing that the army commander Feng Anbang was actually like a big-headed soldier, charging personally with a machine gun, the five hundred daredevils were suddenly deeply encouraged, and they all rushed to the Japanese position like tigers descending the mountain, and soon, several lines of defense around Liu Jiaji were broken through by the daredevils.

Garrisoned in Liujiaji is the 5th Brigade of the 7th Infantry Wing of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army, the captain Haruta Shisan Lang is a standard Japanese soldier, but also a fanatical militarist, after several days of fierce fighting, the 5th Brigade has less than 500 remnants left, but Haruta Shisan Lang did not ask for help from the division headquarters.

Because Haruta Shisanro knew very well that the division headquarters had no more reinforcements to send.

Seeing that the Nationalist Army had broken through into the deep position of the Japanese army, Haruta Jusan immediately gathered all the non-combatants of the brigade headquarters, and then issued them the Type 38 rifles left by the fallen soldiers, and temporarily organized a death squad, and then Haruta Jusan Lang led this death squad to launch a fierce counter-assault.

About 500 meters away from the headquarters of the Chuntian Brigade, the two death squads met head-on, and a tragic white-knuckle battle was staged in an instant.

General Feng killed six devils in a row, and finally lost his strength.

When facing the seventh devil soldier, General Feng stumbled under his feet, and was caught by the devil soldier Cao on the opposite side, a stride stab, the sharp bayonet pierced the general's chest in an instant, the general tried his last remaining strength, cut off the head of the devil soldier Cao, and then staggered back two steps, and sat down to the ground.

By the time the general's guards arrived, the general was already in a dying state.

When he was dying, the general shouted freely: "Attack, attack, attack......"

After shouting three times to attack, General Feng Anbang finally swallowed his last breath, which was also another general who died after Tong Linge, Zhao Dengyu, Rao Guohua, Wang Mingzhang, and Zhang Zizhong.

The courage of the Northwest Army and the Sichuan Army can be seen from this!

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Because of Xu Rui's radio speech, there was already a storm outside, but Xu Rui, who was in the center of the storm, was still ignorant of it.

When Xu Rui finished his radio speech, it was late at night, and the whole city was silent.

Perhaps because too many shells had been thrown during the day, the devil's artillery was quieter than ever tonight, and they didn't even fire a single shell into the city.

However, as a veteran, Xu Rui had already smelled something strange from the dead silence.

The 5th Brigade of the Field Heavy Artillery, the 6th Wing of the Field Artillery of the Kumamoto Division, and the 18th Wing of the Field Artillery of the Juchi Brigade, opened fire fiercely, dumping tons and tons of ammunition into the urban area of Feicheng, which had already been blown into ruins.

Half an hour after the bombardment, more than 100 attack planes and reconnaissance planes of the flying regiment directly under the Central China Front once again flew over Feicheng and immediately dropped hundreds of aerial bombs on Feicheng.

Kojima Jun, who piloted one of the Type 97 carrier-based attack planes, wrote in his memoirs fifty years later.

In less than two days, our 3rd Flying Regiment dispatched at least 700 sorties of attack planes and dropped at least 1,000 tons of aerial bombs on Feicheng, which was the highest bombing density since the full-scale outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War.

Even rats could not survive such a fierce bombardment, but the Dameishan Independent Regiment was stunned to hold on.

The Japanese air force and artillery continued to bomb Feicheng indiscriminately until half past nine o'clock in the morning, and finally ended; after the end of the bombardment, the Kumamoto Division and the Kikuchi Brigade immediately dispatched ground troops to launch a fierce attack on Feicheng from the east and south gates at the same time.

After fierce fighting until noon, He Shuya's independent battalion was basically wiped out, and the east of the city was also lost.

In such a high-intensity battle, the consumption of troops is completely beyond people's imagination.

At half past two in the afternoon, the control area of the independent regiment had been reduced to less than 300 meters around the headquarters of the original Feicheng Garrison Brigade, which was also the last position marked by Xu Rui before.

As for the rest of the area, it has all fallen into the hands of devils.

However, because the area under the control of the independent regiment was smaller, the defense was strengthened, and in the following hours, the Japanese army repeatedly organized forces to force breakthroughs, but the result was in vain.

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For the officers and men of the Separate Regiment, today is an incomparably long day.

For the commander of the Japanese Central China Front, Shunroku Hata also had an incomparably long day, since he got up at half past four in the morning, Shunroku Hata began to sit motionless behind the large table, his eyes never left the map on the opposite wall for a moment, and he did not even take his eyes off the meal when he was eating.

However, out of the corner of his eye, Shunroku Hata always paid attention to the telephone in the corner of the large table.

Yes, Shunroku Hata is waiting, waiting for good news to come from the front line of Hijo.

Shunroku Hata never left his office for a moment, and the chief of staff of the Central China Front, Shozo Kawabe, became an errand runner, going back and forth between the war room and Shunroku Hata again and again, and reporting the latest battle report of the Feicheng front, even if it was the slightest breakthrough, even if it only occupied a crossroads, to Shunroku Hata.

Kawabe Shozo walked into Shunroku Hata office again in a hurry, and immediately reported: "Your Excellency, the Kumamoto Division has occupied the ruins of the former Hiseong Water Supply Company, and now the control area of the Dameishan Independent Regiment has been compressed to a radius of less than two hundred meters by the imperial army, and its destruction has been overwhelmed overnight. ”

A young staff officer who followed the river side Zhengsan came in, and immediately walked to the front of the big map, picked up a red pencil and painted a small area on the map in a striking red, and as this small area was painted red, more than three-quarters of the entire Feicheng area had been painted red, and only a small piece in the middle was left.

However, unlike Shozo Kawabe, Shunroku Hata's face did not have a trace of excitement.

Kawabe Shozo keenly sensed that Shunroku Hata was a little depressed, and asked at the moment: "Your Excellency, General, are you still worried about the battle situation in Feicheng?" ”

Shunroku Habata said: "Kawabe-san, didn't you notice it, at the beginning of the morning, the Kumamoto Division and the Kikuchi Brigade can be said to have made rapid progress, and they controlled most of Feicheng in less than noon, and the 13th Infantry Wing captured the eastern part of the castle that the Kagoshima Wing had not captured for four days in only two hours, but ......"

After taking a breath, Shunroku Hata continued: "But since the Imperial Army occupied most of the city, that is, from two o'clock in the afternoon, it has only advanced less than fifty meters, and the newly added control area is a little insignificant compared to the previous results?" ”

Kawabe Shozo frowned and said, "Your Excellency the General, is the independent regiment deliberately shrinking?" ”

"I don't know if the Independent Regiment intends to shrink." Shunroku Hata waved his hand and said, "But I can see that after the control area is reduced, the defense of the independent regiment has been significantly strengthened, and according to the current progress, it is impossible to end the battle before dark today, and even tomorrow, it may not be able to end the battle." ”

Kawabe Shozo said indifferently: "Even if it can't end tomorrow, it will definitely be the day after tomorrow." ”

"The day after tomorrow?" Shunroku Hata shook his head and said, "I'm afraid we don't have that much time." ”

Hearing this, Hebe Zhengsan's face changed slightly, and he asked, "Your Excellency, General, what do you mean by this?" ”

Shunroku Hata didn't answer, just picked up a telegram from the large board table and pushed it to Shozo Kawabe.

Kawabe Shozo picked up the telegram from the table, and when he saw it, his face suddenly changed, and he said in a lost voice: "Nani? Liujiaji was lost in the early hours of this morning, and Lixin County was also lost at noon? ”

Hata Junliu sighed and said: "At the cost of sacrificing a general and hundreds of daredevils, the Chinese army tore open the defense line of Liujiaji in one fell swoop, and after the loss of Liujiaji, the main force of the 2nd Group Army of China took advantage of the weakness and captured Lixin County in one fell swoop. ”