When five M3 medium tanks appeared in sight with long barrels, almost the entire battlefield was dumbfounded, and the gray-brown mobile fortress, like a moving monster, drove towards this position, which basically had no ability to hinder it.

The Japanese army with a long barrel of tanks is not absent, but it has never appeared on the Chinese battlefield, including the tank squadron of the 6th Division, the Japanese tanks on the battlefield in Central China are all light, that is, the "bean chariot" jokingly called by the Chinese army.

"Tanks of the Chinese army!" I don't know who shouted in Japanese, which woke up the stunned soldiers.

In fact, it is easy to identify which tank is coming, these five tank vehicles all use a pole to carry a small blue sky and white sun flag, and among the infantry marching next to the tank, there is also a red flag full of blue sky and white sun, which is already a very clear declaration that we are the Chinese army.

The devil soldiers on the position couldn't believe that the Chinese army actually had such a behemoth, the previous shelling had already broken through their glasses, and now the tanks that appeared out of thin air broke their usual cognition, is this still the Chinese army that was chased all over the ground by the "Imperial Army"?

"Fire!"

The shock in the heart of the devil squadron leader was not small, but he was not completely dumbfounded like the soldiers below, after the initial surprise, he quickly reacted, and shouted at the machine gunners and grenadiers: "Fire." Fire on me! ”

The Type 92 heavy machine gun rang out, and the 89 grenadiers also began to throw grenades, but this could play too little role for the Chinese army covered by a steel fortress, and it was not completely useless, at least the grenades that were thrown could still cause damage to the infantry advancing with the tanks.

But this damage only lasted for one or two rounds, and the vehicle-mounted guns on several tank vehicles fired one after another, not to mention the power of this cannon, this sound alone was far from being comparable to the Japanese grenadiers.

Each of the five tanks fired only one shell, which had already rendered the Japanese grenadiers in this small position incapacitated, perhaps the grenadiers were not blown up, but no one dared to approach them, let alone use them again. Just now, the whole position saw that the soldiers on the side of these grenadiers were bombarded into a pile of minced meat by the tank's on-board artillery.

The indiscriminate attack of the tank car's artillery had already caused the devil squadron on the position to lose its grenadiers, and before the second shell could be fired, some of the devil soldiers had fallen softly in the trenches, and a few more timid ones actually turned out of the trenches and wanted to run back.

Naturally, the Devil Army Cao and the officers would not tolerate the "invincible Imperial Army" running away from the battle, and a few gunshots rang out, and all these soldiers who wanted to desert were knocked down on the escape route.

The strength of the Chinese army was too weak, and this impression always existed in the thinking of the Japanese army, so that many weapons that should have been distributed were not distributed, such as anti-tank guns, and even the explosives bags of the Chinese army against the bean chariots, and the devil troops on this position did not have.

He doesn't even have the most basic restrictive weapons, so how can he face this moving steel beast? Even if it is filled with human lives, then at least there must be explosives that can blow up the tank? You can't count on this grenade, which is known as the "Forty-Eight Petals", although the lethality of this thing is stronger than that of the grenades of the national army, but the power of the explosion is far inferior.

In the face of this unsolvable problem, if it is a national army, you don't need to think about it, you will definitely slip away, even if it is Sun Yumin's troops, it is impossible to stay on the battlefield in vain and die.

But this squadron of devils on this position chose to die. In the discipline of the Japanese army, if they retreat and flee without receiving an order, then even if they are lucky to go back, what awaits them is a dead end, not only will they always bear the infamy of deserters, but also affect their families and never be able to raise their heads, so basically on the battlefield, there will be very few Japanese deserters to see, even if they can't continue to fight and choose to raise their hands to surrender, they will not choose to escape. Like the previous soldiers who were killed on the edge of the trenches, the recruits who were only sent to the battlefield after a short training, in the eyes of the devil officers and veterans, they were not even soldiers.

Facing the steel monster with flesh and blood, and there are infantry of the Chinese army behind this monster, there is almost no suspense, this Japanese position in the north of the town of Langli City was quickly captured by the Chinese army.

The position was occupied, but the fighting spirit and will shown by the Japanese squadron stationed in the position made the armored infantry of Dong Wenbin's division who captured this position deeply shocked. I have to sigh how deeply these grassroots soldiers of the Japanese army who have been poisoned by militarism have been poisoned.

From January 6 to January 8, in a short period of three days, nearly 200,000 Chinese troops and three divisions of the Japanese army engaged in thrilling hand-to-hand combat within a radius of two or three hundred miles around Changsha City.

The Japanese army mobilized the strength of one brigade and finally sent the urgently needed supplies of the three divisions. The Sixth Division and the Fortieth Division were basically replenished, but the Third Division, which was besieged by Zhang Xiaohu's 20th Division, Fang Xianjue's 10th Army, and Ou Zhen's 4th Army, was almost in a desperate situation.

Sun Yumin originally thought that with his superiority in equipment, he could capture Langli City in two days, and he could eat all the elite Sixth Division of the Japanese army, but he miscalculated, and after three days of fighting, this riverside town was still firmly in the hands of the Japanese army.

In fact, this should also be reasonable, Anan Wei will not sit idly by and watch this last passage be completely blocked, so on the one hand, he urgently ordered the 3rd Division to turn around and retreat from Langli City, and on the other hand, he kept asking the 1st Flying Regiment Qiu Sanfeng to assist in the defense day and night.

On the third day of the battle, Dong Wenbin's artillery regiment almost ran out all the shells, and several tanks were blown up by devil planes, and the loss of infantry was even more terrifying, which made him so anxious that his eyes were bloodshot, if it weren't for Sun Yumin to suppress him in the headquarters, I am afraid that he would have to personally drive the tank to Langli City to participate in the attack.

Although the airdrop of the plane's resources was limited, the 3rd Division, which had been replenished, seemed to come back to life, and it also caused great trouble to the 20th Division, the 10th Army, and the 4th Army that surrounded them.

Similarly, the 40th Division of the Japanese Army in Kanai also became stronger, and with the mixed 9th Brigade of Kenyoshi Ikegami, who escorted supplies all the way, it was able to withstand the combined attack of the 20th Army, the 37th Army, and the 58th Army.

The war suddenly fell into a stalemate, which surprised Sun Yumin, he would never have thought that at the moment of life and death, the three divisions of the Japanese army, which they usually looked down on, would cooperate so well, and they were all competing to leave the hope of life to others, and they were trying their best to fight the Chinese army.

First, the 40th Division stubbornly blocked the joint attack of the 37th Army, the 58th Army and the 20th Army, so that the rear of the 3rd and 6th Divisions could be temporarily secured, and then the 6th Division, with the assistance of the 1st Flying Regiment, held the city of Langli in the face of huge casualties, so that this last retreat channel remained open.

The boiled duck is flying! This was unacceptable for Sun Yumin and his 12th Army, especially at a high price. The command headquarters of the new 34th Division seemed very silent, Dong Wenbin couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into, Dai Cunxiang was also ashamed, only the stupid bear was full of expectation, what this thing was thinking in his heart: The troops are not going well, now I can always let me lead the troops to fight!

The tenacity of the Japanese army greatly surprised Sun Yumin, but Xue Yue, the commander of the Ninth Theater of Operations, and Lao Jiang, who was far away in Chongqing, were not surprised. So they didn't put pressure on Sun Yumin, on the contrary, Lao Jiang also sent the three armies outside the main battlefield for emergency preparations.

The 26th Army and the 79th Army, as well as the 73rd Army, which was mainly composed of Hunan soldiers, came from all over southern and western Hunan to support one after another, and for a time, in addition to the 74th Army that was on an expedition to Guangzhou and the 19th Group Army in Jiangxi, 300,000 troops of the Nationalist Army gathered in this narrow place between the Xinqiang River and the Liuyang River.

The 45th Wing of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army held the city of Langli and the ferry crossing, so that the Japanese retreat had a way out. Originally, when the 3rd Division of Toshima retreated to Dongshan, the 79th Army had advanced to the east bank of the Liuyang River near Dongshan and blew up all the bridges, while Ou Zhen's 4th Army made a detour from the south of Changsha City and carried out a flank attack on the 3rd Division of Toshima from the side, with Fang Xianjue's 10th Army in front and Zhang Xiaohu's 20th Division interspersed in behind. However, Sun Yumin had long expected this, and under the dense fire of the 60th Brigade of Zhang Xiaohu's 20th Division on the north bank, more than 1,000 people were killed, wounded and drowned.

In the early morning of the 9th, the 3rd Division of Toshima finally retreated to the north bank of the Liuyang River and completed the rendezvous with the 6th Division of Kanda Masazen.

How could Zhang Xiaohu be willing to run away with the fat in his mouth, and pursued all the way to the vicinity of Langli City, and the 4th Army, the 79th Army and the 26th Army also pursued to the vicinity of Langli City almost at the same time.

There was already Sun Yumin's new 34th Division and Dong Wenbin's brigade here, and the strength was sufficient, but the Chinese army, which had no air defense force, basically had nothing to do with the First Flying Regiment of Feng Sanqiuci.

I had to watch as the two divisions of the Japanese army rushed across the river under the cover of Fei and retreated north side by side.

Despite the close pursuit of the Chinese army, the Japanese 3rd and 6th Divisions retreated to the north bank of the Laodao River and the Fenglin area in the early morning of the 10th.

At the same time, the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, after completing the covering task, also began to retreat from Jinjing to Chunhua Mountain. Chen Pei's 37th Army naturally did not want to let them escape so easily, and organized many blocking and flanking attacks, especially Luo Qi of the 95th Division, and its 236th Wing had a hard battle, both sides suffered heavy casualties, Luo Qi almost crippled the troops, even he himself was slightly wounded, but the casualties of the Japanese army were greater, the 2nd Squadron Leader Mizusawa Teruo Nakasa, the 5th Squadron Leader Captain Miyake Yoshikochi and the 6th Squadron Leader Sekida Ikuyoshi were all killed.

Finally getting rid of the entanglement of the 37th Army, when Aoki Seiichi's 40th Division arrived at Chunghwasan, the retreat site designated by Anan Yuji, it was attacked by the 78th Army of the Nationalist Army's Xia Shouxun Division.

The 78th Army is a third-rate army with only two divisions, and its combat effectiveness is not strong, but after all, it is fresh blood, and it is a unit that has not yet participated in the battle.

Xia Shouxun's wishful thinking was a jingle thought, but he didn't expect that the 40th Division of the Japanese Army was not a lamb to be slaughtered, and the two divisions under him: the new 13th Division and the new 16th Division, fought with the devil from the 10th to the 13th, for three whole days, and the battle was difficult to solve, and there was no winner or loser.

Xia Shouxun has no great ambitions, and he is still complacent about this kind of victory, and he is even thinking: Even if he can't completely annihilate the remnants of the Japanese army, but he can drag them down, it can be regarded as a great achievement.

But before his excitement passed, the Japanese army mixed into the 9th Brigade came over and rescued Aoki Nariichi, who was almost collapsed.

The 40th Division was not in Sun Yumin's calculations, and if they ran, they would run away, and the 3rd and 6th Divisions could not let them run away, Sun Yumin made up his mind, even if he knocked out his front teeth, he would have to bite off a piece of their flesh alive.

Sun Yumin's determination prompted the troops of the Twelfth Army to pursue all the way, and also made all the departments of the National Army dare not give up lightly.

Finally, the 3rd and 6th Divisions of the Japanese Army continued to retreat north from the north bank of the Laodao River, and when they entered the Qingshan City, Fulinpu, and Yingzhushan areas, they were surrounded by the 73rd, 20th, 58th, and 37th Armies of the Nationalist Army, the 4th, 26th, and 78th Armies, as well as the 12th Army, which was being pursued by the Nationalist Army.

The two main divisions were surrounded again, so that Anan who was in Yueyang was in a hurry, and in order to rescue them a few days ago, he had groveled to Fengshan Qiuji several times, and owed the first flying regiment a lot of favors.

Before he learned the news that the two divisions were once again encircled, Toyoyama Akiji had already made it clear to him that the fatigue of the planes of the 1st Flying Regiment had reached the highest level of continuous support these days, and that it was no longer possible to provide assistance to the 11th Army for the time being.

Anan Weiji knew very well that this battle was not for the support of the air force, and none of the three divisions he sent would have been able to return.

Now without the support of the Air Force, the 3rd and 6th Divisions are surrounded again, and he, who is already under great pressure, obviously feels powerless. He could not sit idly by and watch Toshima and Kanda Masa be annihilated by the Chinese army. But the troops that can be mobilized in hand are also pitiful, and it is already a great luck that Aoki Cheng's 40th Division can retreat, but now it is impossible to count on it, and only the 9th Brigade is left near the battle to maintain its combat effectiveness. In desperation, Anan had no choice but to send his troops south again to relieve the siege, hoping to open up the retreat of the two divisions in one fell swoop.