At eight o'clock that night, Xinyang City. Romance debuts

Just when the battle of Huangshan was in full swing, Xinyang City was also shrouded in a chaotic war. Half an hour ago, the ** Air Force launched a round of bombing of Xinyang, and hundreds of fighters and bombers tossed back and forth for nearly half an hour, and the intensity of the bombing was greater than that of Huangshan.

It is not that the chairman is biased, but it is true that Xinyang is more important than Huangshan, and the weapons and equipment of the Fifth Theater are far from being comparable to those of the 40 th Group Army.

Outside Xinyang City, on the nameless mountain about two kilometers away, Bai Chongxi pointed to Xinyang City and roared angrily: "No matter how big the casualties are, Lao Tzu must break the city tonight!" ”

After three days of fighting, the casualties of the troops were not small, but there was no substantial progress in the offensive, as the commander-in-chief of the Fifth Theater, Bai Chongxi was anxious, and rushed from Xiangyang to the Xinyang front in the afternoon, personally cheered up the soldiers, and personally commanded the attack.

Standing below Bai Chongxi were Liao Lei, commander of the 21st Group Army, Zhou Zuhuang, commander of the 48th Army, and Zhang Guan, commander of the 7th Army.

At this moment, a senior staff officer hurriedly sent a telegram, saying that it was an urgent telegram from the commander of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and that they had been ordered to come to support Xinyang.

Bai Chongxi immediately frowned, the battle has been fought until now, although Xinyang has not been taken down, but the breaking of the city is the matter in front of him, the Eighth Route Army is now drilled out, it is clear that he wants to put gold on his face, and the government is coming, this kind of good thing Bai Chongxi will not fulfill them.

He immediately ordered the staff officer to call back and ordered the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army to stand by and serve as a reserve force of the Seventh Army to listen to orders at any time.

Immediately, he ordered the soldiers to quickly chase back Zhang Guan, the commander of the Seventh Army.

Suddenly, Zhang Guan ran up the mountain out of breath again, Bai Chongxi said about the Eighth Route Army, Zhang Guan immediately became anxious, and said: "Deputy Commander, this is not good, our 21st Group Army fought for three days, with nearly 10,000 casualties, and also gave the enemy heavy losses, and it was about to break the city, why should we give a share of credit to these Tu Eighth Roads?" ”

Bai Chongxi smiled, waved his hand and said: "Zhang Luopan, Lao Tzu called you back, that is, to sue you, if you can't defeat Xinyang tonight, the Eighth Route Army should get a piece of the pie, this is not what I want to see, but for the victory of this battle, I can only let the Eighth Route Army go up as a last resort." ”

Zhang Guanyi patted his chest and said: "Vice President, don't worry, I have already calculated, we will definitely take Xinyang tonight, you let those Tubalu stay in the back and see how we fight." ”

Zhang Guan is very well-known in **, not because he has made any great military exploits, but because he is superstitious about the art of feng shui divination. Zhang Gan, who is dressed in military uniform, often uses the compass as a magic weapon to fiddle with in public. It is said that whether he was marching or arming, he would put a compass in the defense area to look at feng shui, and even every time he was seated in a meeting, he would also look at the compass to determine the direction of the seat. As a result, his subordinates privately referred to him as "Zhang Luopan" or "General Luopan".

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At about ten o'clock that night, three red signal flares suddenly rose in the sky, and then the cannon rumbled, and the flowing fire dragged a long tail flame, smashing into Xinyang City from the north and south directions outside the city, and Xinyang City, which had been silent for less than two hours, suddenly had an explosion rumbling and flames soaring into the sky.

At the same time as the artillery sounded, the ** 21st Group Army launched a full-scale attack, with two divisions of the 48th Army in the south as an assist, three divisions of the 7th Army as the main attack in the north, and more than 60,000 people in five divisions rushed to Xinyang City under the cover of artillery fire.

The cluster charge of more than 30,000 people, this kind of battle has never been seen since the Anti-Japanese War, Bai Chongxi is really anxious, he didn't even leave the reserves, and he pressed it all up, and his determination to break the city can not be said to be resolute. At this time, the 22nd Group Army, which was supposed to be also in Xinyang, had been transferred to Suizhou because the Japanese troops in Jingzhou were moving closer to Suizhou, and in order to prevent the Japanese army from reinforcing them.

After three consecutive days of attacking, the biggest gain was to put all the enemy's troops outside the city into the city, and the continuous bombardment of the day also made the walls of Xinyang City basically collapse, and the offensive and defensive battles between the two armies revolved around the ruins of the city walls.

The spectacular scene of tens of thousands of people charging in clusters can be imagined, and the surging soldiers rolled forward with the earth-shattering killing shouts, and fought a few hundred meters close to the city wall, and for a time the gunfire was loud and the explosions were everywhere.

Although the 13th Division of the Japanese Army did not belong to the 17 permanent divisions of the Japanese Army, it was also a type A division, which was abolished in 1925 and rebuilt after the outbreak of war in 1937. He successively participated in the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Jiangyin, and the Battle of Wuhan, and was also one of the participating troops in the Nanjing Massacre. After three years of tempering, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers should not be underestimated, not to mention, there are more than 20,000 puppet troops in Xinyang City.

However, the 13th Division of the Japanese Army also allocated a part of its troops to Jingzhou and Suizhou, not to mention half, at least more than the level of the wing, and the total strength should not exceed 20,000, plus more than 20,000 puppet troops, compared with more than 60,000 horses, it can be said that ** has an absolute advantage.

The Japanese army has the protection of the city wall, but it has the spirit of not being afraid of death. Since the release of the telegram of the all-people war of resistance of the whole army, the soldiers have long put life and death out of the way, and they may not understand the great principle of "the skin does not have the hair", but they know that if they lose the battle in front of them, the country should be finished, the country is finished, and their parents, wives and children will not escape the fate of being ravaged by devils.

The attack was launched at ten o'clock, and at eleven o'clock** it advanced to the city wall, and the most tragic battle also began.

As the main direction of attack, the northern city wall was also the most fierce front line of the war, and the officers and men of the Seventh Army put on fire suppression as soon as they came up, and all the light and heavy machine guns and small-caliber artillery of the whole army pressed on the front line, suppressed with the most powerful firepower, and organized infantry charges.

But the firepower of the Japanese army was by no means worse than that of the Seventh Army, on the contrary, only worse.

The explosion rumbled, the bullets rained down, and thousands of ** soldiers rushed forward with a big gap in the city wall.

The scorching bullets cut them down piece by piece like a scythe of death, but as long as there was still a breath, their charge would not stop, the front one fell, the one behind made up, the first thousand troops all fell, and the second thousand people in the back replenished and continued to rush forward.

In less than half an hour, the stones and bricks were no longer visible on the ruins of the entire city wall, and they were all the corpses of the ** soldiers, but the charge was far from over.