Without too many losses, after tossing all night, the Kato Brigade, which was already exhausted and almost lost its combat effectiveness, was annihilated by most of the 30th Regiment of the Pre-10th Division under the White Sand Ridge, except for Lieutenant Ikeda Zhi who broke out with a small unit, and hundreds of devil soldiers, including Kato, were all dead in the ice and snow.

Fang Xianjue is not like Wang Chaokui, Dai Cunxiang and the like, he will not slaughter the devil soldiers who have lost their combat effectiveness, and he also sent health soldiers to treat these demons who have slaughtered these crazy demons.

Perhaps it was his "benevolence" that should not exist on the battlefield that moved the sky, and when cleaning the battlefield, the soldiers handed in a complete document package, which was carried on the back of a dead devil ensign, and next to the body of this second lieutenant there was the body of a devil Nakasa, both of whom were killed in the first round of heavy machine gun fire of the 30th regiment, and the sudden change made the devils panic, and no one remembered to destroy this extremely important document package.

You can't criticize the devil soldiers, the chief officer is dead, and the devil who is already exhausted, who will take care of this document bag containing many important secrets.

When Fang Xianjue got this document bag, he realized that this might affect the harvest of the entire battle, he only looked through the Japanese documents full of documents in the document bag slightly, and immediately sent a squad of soldiers to the Ninth War Zone Commander's Headquarters. There were also staff officers who knew Japanese in the headquarters of the Advance 10th Division on the southern city wall, but intuition made Fang Xianjue make an extremely correct judgment, and this document package that really changed the course of the war was handed to Wu Yizhi as soon as possible.

Although Wu Yizhi is a graduate of the German Military Academy, he is also quite proficient in Japanese, and after quickly reading the documents in the document bag, he excitedly said to Xue Yue: "Commander-in-chief, great, really good!" ”

"What's so good?" Xue Yue didn't realize that there would be any valuable information in this yellow document bag that was seized, because from the report of the Tenth Division, only a few hundred devils had been eliminated, how could there be a big surprise.

"Commander-in-chief, I can tell you with great certainty now that the Japanese army attacking Changsha now is the third division of Toshima Botaro." Wu Yizhi said with a smile: "From these captured documents, I can also tell you that the 6th Division of the Japanese Army is now located in Langli City, and the 40th Division of the Japanese Army is now in Jinjing. ”

"Are you sure?" Xue Yue was taken aback, he was really shocked by the information hidden in this small document bag.

"It's true!" Wu Yizhi raised the paper in his hand and said, "Commander-in-chief, these are not the most important information, if I say the most important, I'm afraid you won't be able to calm down." ”

"If there is any important information, don't sell it, tell it quickly." Xue Yue's appetite was raised.

"The three Japanese divisions attacking Changsha were already seriously short of ammunition, and most importantly, they ran out of food? Judging from the messages sent by these Japanese troops, for a maximum of three days, if they are not reinforced, they will not be able to continue on the battlefield. ”

"What?!" Xue Yue couldn't believe Wu Yizhi's words, if Wu Yizhi had already shocked him by telling him the location of the main force of the Japanese army before, then what he said just now was nothing less than dropping a bomb in his heart.

"Commander, as long as we can block the supply line of the devils, in three days at most, the Japanese army will definitely be defeated!" Wu Yizhi's words were sonorous and powerful, and the entire command headquarters instantly fell silent.

Li Yutang was originally discussing with a few staff officers on the huge military map, but after hearing this, he hurriedly rushed over and asked, "Chief of Staff, what did you just say?" ”

Seeing that everyone's eyes in the headquarters fell on him, Wu Yizhi simply repeated it again: "The Japanese army is already running out of ammunition and food, as long as we can hold out for another three days, the Japanese army will surely be defeated." ”

As soon as his words fell, there was a round of applause in the command headquarters, the people in the room can be called the elite of the army, how can they not understand the lack of food and ammunition, what it means for the army, especially in this cold winter wax moon, there is no food, even if the devil's Amaterasu comes over, it will not be able to persevere.

"Send an urgent telegram to Yang Hanyu of the Twentieth Army, no matter what method he uses, within three days, I can't let any Japanese supply convoy enter the range south of the Xinqiang River."

"Telegraphed Sun Yumin's 12th Army to immediately launch an attack on the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army on the outskirts of Changsha."

"The telegram ordered the artillery regiment directly under the theater and the artillery regiment of the Tenth Army on Yuelu Mountain to temporarily obey Sun Yumin's command and cooperate with the attack of the Twelfth Army."

"The telegram ordered Ou Zhen's Fourth Army to enter Changsha City immediately, and cooperate with the Tenth Army to be ready to launch a counterattack against the Japanese army from the city at any time."

"The telegram ordered Chen Pei's 37th Army and Sun Du's 58th Army to attack the 40th Division of the Japanese Army in Jinjing and block the retreat of the three divisions of the Japanese Army."

"Telegraphed Fu Zhongfang's 99th Army to attack the Japanese Sixth Division with all its might, even if it can't defeat them, it must press them in the direction of the Third Division."

Xue Yue waved his hand to stop everyone's applause, and gave several orders to Wu Yizhi and the staff officer on duty.

China was about to launch a large-scale counterattack, and the Japanese army did not feel it at all.

On the 4th, the forward positions of the 3rd Division in the eastern, northern, and southern suburbs of Changsha, which had been under siege for nearly two days, were finally "taken" and "captured" almost at the same time. He was about to report this "good news" to Anan Weiji in Yueyang, and personally urge the troops to replenish, but before the staff officer could inform the radio station, explosions suddenly sounded in all directions of the attacking troops.

"What's the situation?"

The division headquarters in Toshima was more than ten miles away from the front line of the attack, but at such a distance, it still couldn't stop the sound of explosions from drilling into his ears.

Although he didn't know what was happening in front of him, Toshima knew very well that these explosions were the sound of shells from a cluster of howitzers. Their heavy artillery was stuck behind, either because they couldn't cross the river, or because the road was dug so badly that cars and towed guns couldn't pass through it at all. So he knew that these explosions could not be his own, if not his own, then there was only one possibility, this was the heavy artillery of the Chinese army.

Sure enough, soon the reports of various departments came out of the walkie-talkie, and the positions that had just been occupied in the east, north and south of the city were covered by devastating artillery fire from the Chinese army, if the explosion heard in the division headquarters could still be tolerated, after all, there was such a long distance, the voice in the walkie-talkie was really desperate, not only the explosion made people desperate, but the voice reported in the walkie-talkie was even more desperate.

Toshima Fangtaro's face turned pale instantly, and he knew that the troops on the three Chinese defenders' positions would definitely suffer heavy casualties. It's not that the Third Division can't bear this kind of loss, but this kind of desperate artillery fire will completely defeat the soldiers is a psychological defense line, once the military spirit is scattered, and then want to gather it, it will be difficult, without military morale, how to talk about combat effectiveness, how to talk about attacking Changsha City?

To be able to attack three places at the same time, and the artillery coverage in each place is devastating, it would require at least three howitzer brigades, that is, at least three artillery regiments of the Chinese army, and heavy artillery regiments. From the launch of the first Battle of Changsha in 39 to the attack of the "Imperial Army" on Changsha, when has the Chinese army ever seen such a large-scale artillery bombardment? When did the Chinese army become so strong that it actually had three heavy howitzer artillery regiments? For these questions, Toshima Botaro must not know, he gave up the telegram he had prepared to show his merits to Anan Yuji, and said directly to the staff officer who recorded the order: "Telegraph to Commander Anan Yuji that our attack has been frustrated, and the ammunition and food have been exhausted, and I request to retreat." After saying these few words, Toshima Botaro's whole body seemed to be drained in an instant, and he sat down on the stool.

Xue Yue handed over the command of the Ninth Theater Heavy Artillery Regiment and the Tenth Army Artillery Regiment, Sun Yumin was not as excited as others imagined, in his opinion, the rout of the Third Division was doomed, although there was a personal grudge with Toshima Botaro, but compared to Kanda Masao's Sixth Division, Sun Yumin wanted to eliminate the latter. What the Sixth Division did in Nanjing was angry with the heavens and the people, and the people and gods were angry, and as a Chinese, Sun Yumin was eager to eat his flesh raw, thirst for his blood, draw his tendons, and skin him.

In order to annihilate the 6th Division outside Changsha, he took out all his belongings, not only put the 20th Division on the front line, but also the new 34th Division and Dong Wenbin's mechanized brigade all came to the front line.

"Inform the theater artillery regiment and the artillery regiment of the 10th Army on Yuelu Mountain to bombard the forward positions of the national army in the east and north of the city on the periphery of Changsha, and order the artillery regiment of the 20th Division to bombard the forward positions of the national army in the south of the city."

After receiving the notice that the troops of the Tenth Army had retreated from the outlying positions, Sun Yumin immediately gave the order for artillery bombardment. Once he decides to start fighting, he won't give the devil the slightest respite and a chance.

"Yes, Throne!" Deng Dongping played the role of recording orders, even if there were many staff officers in the headquarters, but the stakes were very high, and he was not at ease to let others do this at a critical moment.

"Ordered Zhang Xiaohu's 20th Division, after the artillery bombardment, immediately launched a siege of the Japanese 3rd Division, and told him that as soon as the battle began, the 10th Army in the city would ...... Tell him that the Nationalist troops in the city will assist in the attack. Sun Yumin originally wanted to inform Zhang Xiaohu that the Tenth Army and the Fourth Army would join forces to attack from the city, but he was worried that this guy would have the idea of underestimating the enemy if he knew that the troops of the two armies would help attack, so he changed half of his words.

"Order Dong Wenbin's Brigade Artillery Regiment to immediately bombard the Japanese Sixth Division in Langli City, and tell him and Li Tiedang that the 99th Army is also about to attack Kanda Zhengzhong, if the two of them give Fu Zhongfang the credit, don't come to see me with a shy face."

"Okay, do you have any other orders?" Deng Dongping recorded very quickly, in fact, the operational deployment had already been completed, and all departments knew what they had to do, and the substantive effect of this order was only to remind them, and then some were to tell Zhang Xiaohu that this battle was not only fought by the 12th Army, but also by troops from other countries grabbing credit.

After receiving Toshima's telegram, Anan immediately scolded: "Toshima-kun is simply not worthy of being a samurai, he has encountered a little difficulty, and he only wants to retreat rather than overcome, he is no longer worthy of being the commander of the heroic Third Division!" "Anan Wei has not been the commander of the 11th Army for a long time, and he does not have a deep understanding of the commanders of these divisions under his jurisdiction, and it is inevitable that he will not be angry when he sees that Toshima actually sent a telegram asking for retreat at such a critical moment in the war.

Anan will have such a misunderstanding, but Kinoshita Isamu will not, what kind of troops are the Third Division, what kind of soldiers is Toshima, he really knows that this telegram can't see anything on the surface, but he realized the seriousness of the problem, and hurriedly said to Anan Yuji: "Your Excellency Commander, I think you should agree to his request, with my understanding of Toshima-kun, he should be in big trouble, otherwise he would definitely not have sent such a telegram!" ”

"Agree to his request? Crazy? How can it be! Anan only asked, "Isn't it just that there is not much ammunition and food?" This is not a big trouble, Kinoshita-kun, you immediately give an order, independently mix into the 9th Brigade Ikegami Kenyoshi, personally lead the troops to escort supplies to the Changsha battlefield, and solve Toshima-kun's logistical worries in one fell swoop. ”

"Your Excellency, Commander, I'm afraid things won't be so simple." Isamu Kinoshita did not faithfully carry out the order as usual, and he responded: "According to what I know about Toshima-kun, if it weren't for the fact that things were out of control and uncontrollable, he wouldn't have taken the initiative to retreat." My guess is that the 3rd Division must have been attacked by a full-scale counterattack by the Chinese army, and with the strength of the 3rd Division, it was no longer able to resist it, so it proposed to His Excellency the Commander to retreat. ”

"Is that really possible?" Anan was a little disbelieving, and he asked suspiciously: "With the strength of the third division, even if the Chinese army uses the strength of the three armies, it may not be able to take advantage. If it is really as you said, Toshima-kun asked to retreat because he was unable to resist, and how many troops would have to be mobilized to fight him like this? When did the Chinese army have such strength? ”

"Twelfth Army, Sun Yumin!" Kinoshita Yong's mouth spit out these words, and he said: "You should not forget that in the Battle of Changsha in September, this Sun Yumin blocked the two divisions of Toshima and Kanda with the strength of one army. If my guess is correct, it is the Chinese army's Sun Yumin Department that embarrassed Toshima-kun. ”

"Sun Yumin! It's him again! Anan Weiji gritted his teeth and said, he was about to ask Kinoshita to order the Third Division and the Sixth Division behind him to switch attack positions, and the voice of the telegraph officer came from the door of the headquarters: "Report to Your Excellency Commander, the commander of the Kanda Division has sent an urgent telegram, the combat units of the Sixth Division have been subjected to large-scale artillery bombardment by the Chinese army, and the preliminary judgment is that the artillery bombardment of Sun Yumin's division of the 12th Army of the Chinese army is preliminary." ”

Before Anami Yuji and Kinoshita could react, another telegraph officer ran to the door again, followed by a report: "The commander of the Aoki Division sent an urgent telegram that the 40th Division was counterattacked by the Chinese army, and the preliminary judgment was that the Imperial Army had been looking for the main force of the 37th Army and the 58th Army of the Chinese Army. ”