On December 30, 1941, the 3rd, 6th, and 40th divisions of the Japanese army successively "broke through" the positions of the Nationalist army on the left bank of Mishui and advanced to the assembly points designated by Anan Weiji.

At this time, except for the 37th Division of the 95th Division of the National Army, which was blocking the front of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, the rest of the National Army units lost their traces overnight.

Anami was somewhat annoyed, and ordered the Toshima 3rd Division to turn and insert itself into the back of the 37th Army of the Nationalist Army, with a very clear purpose, intending to completely annihilate the only main force of the Nationalist Army that could be found.

The 95th Division was originally cobbled together by several security regiments in Henan, at first the combat effectiveness was low, and later Luo Qi, who was known as "General Zilong", took over as the division commander, and after his transformation, the 95th Division took on a new look, and in 1941, in the Ninth Theater Review, it ranked first among all divisions and was known as the "Dangyang Army".

Luo Qi, a native of Rongxian County, Guangxi, was born in the first phase of Huangpu, and he was a belligerent, capable and daring to fight, and under his painstaking management, the 95th Division was also contaminated with his personal temperament, and was the backbone of the 37th Army. With the 95th Division alone, Chen Pei's 37th Army won the trust of Xue Yue far more than the 58th Army, which was transformed from the Yunnan Army to the Central Army.

It is precisely because he is deeply appreciated by his commander, and there is a strong and competitive, heroic and fearless division commander that the 95th Division will be so blatantly blocked in front of the 6th Division, like a nail inserted in the palm of his hand, which makes Kanda Masazhong very annoyed.

Under his orders, the 13th Infantry Wing, supported by the 1st Flying Regiment, launched an attack on the forward positions of the 95th Division stationed at Yazui Mountain, but made little progress. In the afternoon, Kanda Masasa ordered the 23rd Infantry Wing to join the attack, and for a time the 95th Division was caught in a three-sided attack.

Faced with the predicament, Luo Qi was not too afraid, but smiled and said to the commander of the subordinate regiment: "The Japanese army is crazy for a decisive battle, and they can't find the main force of the national army, so they actually put such a big blood on my 95th division. ”

Roach is a hardliner, and the regimental commanders under him are not good at stubble, and after hearing his words, they are all happy, and they are not at all like the extreme cowardice of some national army officers.

"Commander, you can't mess around! We have been attacked on three sides, and if we are not careful, we will be completely annihilated, so we must be cautious. Roach's "hubris" frightened the chief of staff.

"How can the devil be messed up, no matter how many sides he attacks, he wants to eat my ninety-fifth division, Kanda Zhengzhong doesn't have such a big mouth!"

"Master, we have to carry out the orders of the Governor's Department, and if we don't fight this battle, we won't fight devils in the future, you must think clearly, don't make a big mistake for the ages because of impulse." The chief of staff's "bitter words" made Luo Qi and the military commanders laugh even more, which made him a little angry, and scolded several regiment commanders: "If you don't help persuade the division commander, forget it, but you still add fuel to the fire......

"Okay, Chief of Staff, don't worry, I'll stop fighting, listen to you, can't we withdraw the 95th Division?" Luo Qi did not "tease" the chief of staff again, he immediately issued an order to retreat, asking all units to withdraw from Yazui Mountain at night.

The Sixth Division mobilized two wings, as well as the planes of the First Flying Regiment to assist, fought for an afternoon, but did not capture Yazui Mountain, not only that, but also suffered a lot of losses, which made Kanda Zhengzhong a little decadent, and he vaguely felt that this Changsha battle would not be so easy to fight.

Fortunately, Toshima Botaro's 3rd Division has been turned to insert into the hinterland of the Chinese army, and within a day, this Duckbill Mountain National Army position will be surrounded on all sides, which may be the most comforting thing for Kanda Masashi.

But what made him angry again happened, overnight, the defenders, who had behaved unusually iron-blooded yesterday, actually escaped cleanly, and when the attacking troops discovered the abnormality, the artillery unit wasted a lot of shells.

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After receiving a call back from Lao Jiang, Sun Yumin immediately gave the 20th Division an order to set off, which was the most powerful division in his hands, and it was not enough to say that it was an army.

Because Sun Yumin felt that he owed the 20th Division, he forcibly rebuilt it into a supernumerary division, and even reconfigured it with an artillery regiment, the 3rd Brigade and 11th Regiment had more troops than the other three divisions of the 12th Army combined.

The 20th Division was followed by the new 34th Division and Dong Wenbin's mechanized brigade, while the 139th and 81st Divisions, which had been the vanguard of the 12th Army since Shanggao, served as a reserve, protecting and following the division headquarters to Changsha.

After the death of Zhanshutang, the 81st Division fell into a short panic, the veterans were worried that the troop establishment would be withdrawn, and the new recruits who were added in had no combat effectiveness, and the 81st Division was almost a pile of scattered sand for a while, but fortunately, Sun Yumin expressed his attitude and appeased in time, and sent Shi Zhonghua to the 81st Division as the division commander, so that the general stabilized the morale of the army. Although the 139th Division is relatively better, it also has a lot of new recruits, and its combat effectiveness is naturally not the same.

Although these two divisions were not suitable for the front line, he still did not hesitate to take them to Changsha, because he knew that the battlefield was the best place to train soldiers, and it was far better for the soldiers to feel the shock of the battlefield than to describe the battlefield to them virtually. This is the reason why Sun Yumin insisted on taking two divisions, knowing that he would achieve a big victory, he also put the two meritorious troops in the rear, on the one hand, he didn't want people to gossip: Sun Yumin was worried that the troops would run out, so he put the two divisions in the rear; On the one hand, he didn't want to see the 139th and 81st Divisions in the future unable to raise their heads in front of Silly Xiong and Huzi's troops.

When Luo Qi's 95th Division was in the midst of a fierce battle with the 13th Wing of the Japanese Sixth Division at Yazui Mountain, the troops of Sun Yumin's 12th Army had already arrived at the designated position, and even the army headquarters had been set up, and tens of thousands of troops and cars and tanks had disappeared into the mountains and rivers around Changsha.

"Junza, I just received a war briefing, and the 95th Division attracted Kanda Masagre and Toshima Fangtaro in Yazui Mountain."

Deng Dongping, holding two pieces of paper in his hand, was walking out of the small house in the telecommunications room, and when he saw Sun Yumin, he cried out excitedly.

"Ninety-fifth Division? Chen Pei's 37th Army was also only able to show Luo Qi of the 95th Division. Sun Yumin sighed, he had heard of this person's name, and this was a figure who later became a general of the national army.

"I found that this Luo Qi and Cun Xiang are a little similar, they are both bold and bold lords, with the strength of one division, they actually dare to provoke the devil and two divisions, and they are not afraid of being dumplings." Deng Dongping's words are not to ridicule others, but to be really worried.

"No, if the devil wants to encircle the 95th Division, he must pass behind the 37th Army, not to mention that Chen Pei will not agree, and even Sun Du of the 58th Army next to them will not sit idly by."

"Isn't the combat effectiveness of the 58th Army too good? If Chen Pei really let the devil pass in front of him, Sun Du may not dare to come forward, although his 58th Army is now the establishment of the Central Army, but he was born in the Yunnan Army, relying on him? It's okay to dream! When Deng Dongping said the 95th Division, his tone was filled with infinite admiration, but when he talked about the 58th Army, he was obviously disdainful.

Sun Yumin knew Deng Dongping's thoughts, and his chief of staff looked down on the troops of the Yunnan army, but in fact, he himself was full of good feelings for the Yunnan army. Although in the period of warlord melee, Tang Jiyao's reputation of the Yunnan army was not very good, but after Long Yun and Lu Han opened the new Yunnan era in 1927, the strength of the Yunnan army was actually not comparable to the warlords of the southwestern provinces.

Wang Longyun of Yunnan not only purchased a large number of French-style weapons, but also trained soldiers according to the French army's infantry drill ceremony, and instilled them in grassroots officers according to the European theory of infantry firepower allocation, which made the combat effectiveness of the Yunnan army rise sharply in just a few years.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Long Yun immediately drove the most elite troops to the anti-Japanese front.

The strong firepower of the Yunnan army was enough to match the Japanese army, and the machine gun array made the Japanese army suffer a lot. This flower machine gun is another name for the submachine gun used by the Twelfth Army, the only difference is that Sun Yumin uses German-style MP38 and MP40, while the Dian Army uses a French submachine gun. When Long Yun sent 100,000 Yunnan troops out of Yunnan, he was bent on resisting the Japanese invaders, and he didn't take into account that once the troops stepped into the Central Plains, they would not be able to recover them.

Sun Yumin only remembered these because he had seen it in a certain document: During the entire Anti-Japanese War, about 100,000 children of the Yunnan army sacrificed their lives for the country, but there was not a single surrendered general and puppet army!

This glory is something that even the Gui army and the Hunan army have never done, how can it not make Sun Yumin admire.

"Dongping, you are wrong, if I were the commander of the Japanese army, I would rather fight with two 37th armies than with one 58th army." Sun Yumin made a joke, and then he said: "But the 37th Army is not a good stubble, especially this Luo Qi!" ”

"Speaking of Luo Qi, the Ninety-fifth Division is very dangerous now, Junzao, should we support him, or remind him." Deng Dongping seems to have a good impression of Luo Qi, and there is a bit of sympathy in his words.

"We don't need to speak, we don't need to move, someone is more anxious than us, according to my judgment, Luo Qi will definitely withdraw from Yazui Mountain tonight." Sun Yumin rejected Deng Dongping's proposal, and he continued: "What I am thinking about now is not whether the 95th Division Luo Qi will be eaten by the Japanese army, nor will I think about whether Sun Du's 58th Army will help Luo Qi and the 37th Army. ”

"And what are you worried about?" Deng Dongping asked curiously.

"I don't have to worry about it, I'm just thinking about whether the troops left around the Xinqiang River by the 20th Army of the Sichuan Army will think of attacking the supply lines of the Japanese army, this is a godsend, if the logistics supply of the Japanese army can be cut off, then half of this battle has been won before it is fought." Sun Yumin said with emotion, he even moved to send a few teams to the back of the devil's ass to make some movement, but it was a pity that Ganglenzi and they went to Huoshan with a bayonet detachment, otherwise it would be most appropriate to use them to do these jobs.

As Sun Yumin thought, the 398th Regiment of the 133rd Division of the Sichuan Army, where Gao Chaokui was located, received an order to attack the devil's baggage soldiers with all his might.

Although it was the middle of the night, the light reflected by the snow made the entire Changhu Town clear.

Changhu Town is located in the southeast of the Xinqiang River, is in the key place of the Japanese army's logistics supply line, since the beginning of the war is the camp of the devil's baggage soldiers, in order to prevent the supply line from being attacked and harassed by the Chinese army, the Japanese army set up a military battle here, and also sent a squadron of soldiers stationed here, acting as a guard of the station.

Wang Chaokui took the soldiers of his second battalion, stepped on the thick snow, and rushed to Changhu Town, he was ordered by the regiment commander to act as the arrow of the whole regiment, attacking the Changhu Town military station.

He didn't sleep in the middle of the night, braving the cold wind and heavy snow to do his life's work, even if he was a saint, he would be unhappy, although the brothers didn't show any complaints, but Wang Chaokui knew that the big guys were holding their grievances in their hearts.

When defending, the second battalion should be at the front to block, and when attacking, the second battalion should run at the front and rush, and in a sneak attack like this, the second battalion must act as the arrow of the whole regiment, so as not to be annoyed. Wang Chaokui even had some doubts that his second battalion was still not part of the 398th regiment, whether it was the Sichuan army, if not, why would the regiment commander and division commander always keep an eye on the brothers in his second battalion. He made up his mind, as long as he did not die in this battle, as long as the regiment commander and division commander put the exploits belonging to the second battalion on the first battalion, he would immediately take the brothers of the second battalion to find another way to make a living, and he could not let the brothers be sold and help the number of money.

In the harsh winter night, apart from the howling north wind and the boiling snow, all that remained was the footsteps and rapid breathing of the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion marching in the snow.

Although it is not too far from the hiding place of the troops to Changhu Town, only more than 40 miles, it is undoubtedly not a big test of physical strength and endurance in this snowy night.

Fortunately, they finally arrived at the outskirts of Changhu Town in the second half of the night, perhaps because of the strong wind and snow, their arrival was not discovered.

The devil soldiers stationed here would never have imagined that the Chinese army, which had already been chased and fled, would have a large number of troops hidden on the north and south banks of the Xinqiang River. Originally, it was a beautiful difference to be assigned to guard the station, not only did not have to go to the front line to work hard, but also enjoyed the same food as the baggage soldiers, and maybe there would be comfort women to work in the army, who wouldn't want to live this kind of comfortable life? Who would want to give up the warm quilt on such a cold winter night and run out to stand guard and keep vigil. So these days, it doesn't take until the second half of the night to have no one at the sentry post of the military station, the officers will not come out to check the sentry, and the soldiers will naturally not come out to stand sentry, which allows Wang Chaokui's second battalion to easily touch the town.

Changhu Town, like other towns along the Xinqiang River, had already run clean before the war, and the "scorched earth policy" and "clearing the countryside" suggested by Sun Yumin were implemented very thoroughly by the Ninth War Zone after they came out of Lao Jiang's mouth.