The division's artillery battalion worked hard to pull to Baimao Mountain, but did not fire a single shot, not because they were afraid that the Japanese army would notice that they had been served by a pot, but because they really did not get a chance to shell it.

I just received an order from the top to prepare to withdraw and withdraw to Shanggao, because the ferry port in Meilin Town, which is a little lower down the Ganjiang River, has been beaten down by the Japanese army.

If you don't retreat, it is estimated that you will be rounded around by the Japanese army, and you will be trapped in Baimao Mountain and you will not be able to walk.

The artillerymen of the artillery battalion were very aggrieved, and after more than half a year of repair, they were finally ready to go to the battlefield to fight.

But in the past few days, I have been either basking in the sun or sleeping in Baimao Mountain, and I only heard that the 152nd Regiment on the high mountain side of the front mountain was fighting very lively, and the sound of guns and artillery was crackling, which made the artillerymen of the artillery battalion itch in their hearts.

The appetite was hung high, but he asked to withdraw, and he withdrew without firing a shot, which is really unfortunate. Now it is just right that the artillery company received the request of the 152nd regiment, and immediately asked the division headquarters to ask for a few artillery shots before leaving, and it was not too late.

In the end, the division headquarters agreed to the request of the artillery battalion, demanding that the artillery battalion withdraw immediately after one round, and that no mistakes should be made, and violators should be held accountable.

Therefore, the 75 mountain guns and 105 howitzers of the division's artillery battalion immediately swept across the river defended by the third battalion, and the 105 American-made howitzers were extremely powerful, and the four infantry guns of the Japanese army also fought together.

This shelling opened the eyes of the soldiers of the three battalions, and the powerful mountain artillery and howitzer shells exploded in the river, forming a tight barrage.

The impact of the explosion of the shell directly overturned the Japanese ferry, and the impact broke and mixed with the fragments of the shell, almost sweeping everything.

Almost all the ferries were blown over and shattered again, even if there was a steel roof like a turtle shell, it was useless, and a large number of devils were killed on the spot.

Some of the devils were directly blown into the sky, and then torn to pieces by the powerful air currents in the air, and bursts of blood mist sprinkled all over the sky, making the soldiers on both sides of the strait stunned.

Captain Sakamoto Nakasa, the captain of the 2nd Brigade of the 20th Brigade of the Japanese Army, turned blue, sat down on the shore, looking at the mutilated corpses of the imperial soldiers all over the river, he was almost discouraged, and he wanted to draw his saber and immediately disembowelment by the river.

After several rounds of shelling, the divisional artillery battalion immediately began to withdraw, even if the planes came, that is, to bombard an empty artillery array.

The 152nd Regiment also received an order to retreat, and since the crossing of Meilin Town on the left flank had been broken by the Japanese army, the task of staying here to block the Japanese army crossing the river was no longer useful.

If you continue to stay, the left flank will be attacked by the Japanese in a roundabout way, and even the rear will be copied, so it is better to retreat now, and together with other large forces, the Japanese will not have a chance to make a roundabout attack.

Due to the ferocious offensive of the 34th Division of the Japanese Army in the middle of the road, they conquered the Xishan Wanshou Palace and Xiangfuguan all the way, and now Gao'an has also been defeated by the 34th Division.

The requirements of the Chinese army were to resist and lure the enemy into deep attrition and retreat to a decisive battle, but now some troops have retreated in great strides.

Neither resisting nor consuming the enemy one by one, knew that the enemy was lured deep and retreated too quickly, resulting in the depth of the middle defense suddenly losing the important barrier of Gao'an, and Shanggao suddenly became critical.

The 33rd Division of the Japanese Army on the North Road stopped fighting and ran back to Fengxin Anyi, while the 20th Brigade on the South Road was estimated to have been frightened by the Chinese army before, but now it is a grass on the wall, playing slippery, and watching the 34th Division fight wherever it goes, it will follow up.

The current situation is that there is no fighting on the north road, and the middle and south roads are in an emergency, and General Luo Zhuoyin, deputy commander of the Ninth Theater of the Chinese Army, has moved the headquarters from Hantang Town, west of Shanggao, directly into Shanggao City.

Tell everyone that his old man is going to live and die with Shanggao now, and you army and division commanders will look at it, and if you retreat, you will retreat to my headquarters, and see that I don't kill you.

Old man Luo regards himself as the leader of the supervision team, and he doesn't plan to ask for his life, this Gao'an is only dozens of kilometers from Shanggao, and the Japanese army can arrive in half a day and a day, Old Man Luo does have momentum and courage.

The commander-in-chief is like this, and the commanders and division commanders below also feel that the pressure is very heavy, and the 51st Division of the 74th Army followed the large army to shrink its strength and defend the place, approaching from Quangang all the way to the northwest and Shanggao, and retreating to Gray Port Town.

Gray Bu Town is located in the middle of Gao'an and Shanggao, south of the Jinjiang River, in the southwest of Sixi where the 51st Division Sangou was stationed, with a Jinjiang River in the middle, which belongs to the traffic point from Gao'an to the south of the Jinjiang River in Shanggao.

The pronunciation of this gray town and Fengxin Huibu Town is almost the same, just a word difference, but now the treatment is a world of difference, Fengxin Huibu Town is located between Fengxin and Shangfu Town, and now it is peaceful and harmonious.

The 152nd Regiment stayed here, and a battalion guarded the line from Liaoshan Mountain to Shaguling in the southwest of Graybu.

The 2nd Battalion was responsible for the line from Shaguling to Wutouling, and the 3rd Battalion guarded the line from Wutouling to Wugongling to the Jinjiang River, just forming a defense line from south to north to the west of Gray Port.

Fortunately, there were still the 153rd Regiment and the 151st Regiment in the back, and two fronts were set up, which were regarded as the three fronts of the 51st Division, and they were placed all the way to the Jigongling to the Jinjiang River, which was regarded as having some defensive depth.

The 152nd Regiment bore the brunt of the attack and did not directly defend the town of Graybu, where the terrain was gentle, there was no danger to defend, and the Jinjiang River on the edge of the town was not open enough, so it could not be used to exert its troops.

But the line from Laoshan to Wugongling is only twenty or thirty miles in a straight line, and it is too open, and a 152nd regiment cannot hold such a long defensive line at all.

The defense line of the third battalion from Wutouling to Wugongling to the Jinjiang River is the longest, more than ten miles away, and it also includes the important intersection of Wutouling, which is far from enough as a battalion's strength.

Even if the third battalion is a reinforced battalion, each company has to defend five miles of road, and each platoon has to guard more than one mile of road, so it can only be watched, without any depth, it is very dangerous, once the enemy breaks through a little, the entire defense line will collapse.

There is no way, Sangou still feels that he can't spread the three camps evenly like an egg cake, and can only hold a few important points, such as Wutouling, a necessary intersection from Gray Port to Shanggao.

This is to be heavily guarded, at least one company must be placed, and it is enough to make three lines of defense, and Sangou decided to put the most defensible nine companies here.

There is also another hill, Wugongling, where the Seventh Company is placed there, and the Seventh Company is both offensive and defensive, and can take care of the fronts on both sides.

The line from Wugongling to the Jinjiang River is the longest, so let the Eighth Company defend it, after all, it is far away from the main road, and the probability of the Japanese army going is not large.

However, it was also necessary to guard against the Japanese troops along the Jinjiang River, as well as the 34th Division that might appear on the north bank of the Jinjiang River, so the Eighth Company had no way now, and adopted a tentacle extension defensive tactic.

It is to extend the strength of a company to the flank of the Jinjiang River as much as possible, with the squad as a unit, and the power is used as a tentacle to play an early warning role.