Anan Yui paused a few times, "また...... Chinese がが肋王の位牌を杀すことができれば、その士気から支那人に打撃を与えることができる. (additional...... If you can destroy the ace army that the people of China are proud of, you can deal a heavy blow to the people of China in terms of morale. ）

"Commander Hall はやっぱりTakami! Kinoshita は感心する! (Your Excellency the Commander is indeed a good idea!) Kinoshita admires! Kinoshita lost no time in patting the sycophants.

"Kinoshita-kun, すぐにconfidential monitoring を指示して二军の移向をmonitoring し、There is a chance は直ちに爆撃をして、Kanda 師団长の圧力を軽設する." (Kinoshita-kun, immediately order reconnaissance planes to closely monitor the movements of the 12th Army, and bomb them immediately if they have the opportunity to relieve the pressure on the commander of the Kanda Division.) Anan Wei gave a vicious order, eager to eat Sun Yumin and his 12th army in one bite.

Even if Zhanshutang slowly tried his best to delay and grind, the 12th Army was still faster than the 74th Army's journey for nearly three days, and at this moment there were already devil's planes constantly reconnoitring the route of the troops' advance, if they forcibly marched during the day, they would definitely be bombed by enemy planes, with the current equipment of the 12th Army, there was nothing they could do about the enemy's planes at all, and it was impossible to let the enemy bomb them on such a righteous and bright march, which just gave him an excuse that he could not arrive in time.

Xue Yue was so angry that he scolded his mother after receiving Sun Yumin's telegram, but after calming down, he also understood that what Sun Yumin said was reasonable, even if the 12th Army and the 74th Army were forced to march during the day, they might not be able to save the siege of Changsha.

In desperation, he had to move the headquarters of the Ninth Theater to Xiangtan in a hurry, and organized nearly 100,000 troops to prepare to fight the devils on the front line between Changsha, Zhuzhou, and Xiangtan, and only waited until the 12th Army and the 74th Army arrived together, which was the decisive moment.

But after the headquarters was moved to Xiangtan, the war situation was still deteriorating sharply, and Xue Yue, who was in a hurry, repeatedly sent telegrams to Sun Yumin and Wang Yaowu, urging the 12th Army and the 74th Army to speed up and immediately go to Xiangbei to meet the enemy. In desperation, Sun Yumin had to take the risk and ordered the vanguard 81st and 139th divisions to march forward during the day.

In the next two days, the 81st Division and the 139th Division were successively bombed by Japanese planes.

On September 25, the 81st Division led by Zhanshutang was the first to arrive at the designated assembly place: Liuyang.

After arriving, before the troops had time to rest, Zhanshutang received an operational order: to lead the 81st Division and the 139th Division to Huanghua City and Chunhua Mountain to build positions to cover the upcoming main force of the 12th Army.

Zhanshutang has long been accustomed to doing these dirty work, when he was under Sun Tongxuan in the past, the 81st Division often played this role, but now it is different from before, he has become the deputy commander, this kind of work is not dirty work, at best, it is just a front station. Shi Zhonghua and Wang Heng of the 139th Division said that they had the greatest losses in the Battle of Shanggao and acted as the vanguard in this battle, but they were not unwilling to do these things, after all, the commander of the 139th Division was the commander himself, which was a very face-saving thing in the army that attached great importance to the concept of hierarchy, but then again, face could not block shells and bullets for them, so all they could do was to race against time and build a good position before the Japanese attack, so as to reduce the casualties of the troops.

Perhaps there was a providence in the dark, and originally Anan only ordered Kanda Masazen's Sixth Division to be responsible for attacking the Twelfth Army, but it was Toshima Botaro's Third Division that was the first to fight against the Twelfth Army.

It is "not that enemies do not get together", Toshima Botaro once fought with Sun Yumin during the Battle of Lanfeng, when he was the commander of the 27th Brigade of the 14th Division of the 2nd Division of Tohihara Kenji, and Sun Yumin was still the commander of the 20th Division at that time, and now both of them have become the commanders of the independent side, fate let them meet again after three years, and the first to represent the two of them was Wang Heng, deputy commander of the 139th Division of the 12th Army of the National Army, and Hanaya Masa, commander of the 29th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army.

At 9 o'clock in the morning of 26 September, the 3rd Brigade of the 18th Wing of the 29th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, which had been pursuing the Nationalist troops, crashed headlong into the defensive position of the 139th Division. At noon, the other two brigades of the 18th Wing joined the battle under the leadership of the wing commander Ishii Shin, Wang Heng led his troops to respond calmly, and at the critical moment, Shi Zhonghua led the rest of the 139th Division to arrive in time and work together to repel the 18th Wing.

Ishii Nobu had not been able to break through the position of the 12th Army until the evening, and he judged that the opposite side must be the main force of the Chinese army, so he hurriedly reported the battle situation to his superior, the commander of the 29th Brigade, Hanaya Masa, who had led his brigade all the way since the start of the war on September 18, and basically did not encounter strong resistance, and was also a little surprised. In the evening, the 139th Division attacked the position of the 139th Division, led by Wang Heng and Shi Zhonghua, like an indestructible Great Wall, blocked in front of the Japanese army, so that the Japanese army did not advance half a step.

At this time, in the command post of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army in Yong'an City, Hanaya was hurrying to the command post, ready to report the battle situation to Toshima Botaro, but Toyoshima Botaro received an urgent telegram from Anan Yuji first.

Hua Gu was watching from the side, and the face of the division commander gradually changed from fair to red, and then from red to purple and red with pork liver.

"豊島師団長は、現在、貴師団の向こうで出会ったのは中国軍の第12軍であり、軍長は閣下の西の知り合いであり、かつて蘭通一帯で閣下の大破をした元20師団の孫玉民長だった。 …… Anan はただ何人か。 (Commander of the Toshima Division, it has now been ascertained that the 12th Army of the Chinese Army encountered opposite your division, and the commander of this army is Sun Yumin, an old acquaintance of Your Excellency and the former commander of the 20th Division, who defeated you in the Lanfeng area.) ...... Anan Weiji. ）

"Yaga!" Toshima Botaro tore the telegram to shreds, turned around and bumped into Masashi Hanaya, who was at a loss for words.

"ばか!あなたはそこで立って何をしていますか?" (Bastard!) What are you doing standing there stupidly? Toshima Botaro shouted angrily at Hanayamasa: "Tomorrow is a morning attack!" 向こうの陣地を持っていないと、あなたは帝王さまにabdomenを立てて謝罪します! (Tomorrow morning order the whole attack!) If you can't take the opposite position, you will apologize to His Majesty the Emperor by disembowelment! ）

Hanaya was scolded at a loss, he didn't know the grievances between Toshima and Sun Yumin, and when he saw that the division commander, who rarely lost his temper, was angry today, he felt that the situation was not good, so he immediately stood up and went back to prepare for the next day's attack.

At the same time that Toshima Fangtaro got Anan Weiji's "Radical General Telegram", Sun Yumin also figured out that his old opponent Toshima Fangtaro was on the opposite side of the position, his eyes suddenly widened, and a figure came into his mind, that since the Songhu battlefield has followed his own iron bull Lai Wenli, he has been following him since a reconnaissance squad leader, is his very important brother, Nanjing Guanghuamen and his own life and death together, Jining has served as the vanguard of the 20th Division many times, but it is on the battlefield of Lanfeng, Iron Bull Lai Wenli was lured into the village by Toshima Botaro, and all the soldiers he brought with him were martyred, all because of the opponent in front of him.

"Iron Bull, my good brother! It's time to avenge you! Sun Yumin endured the sadness of his memories and secretly resolved to kill Toshima Botaro on the battlefield in northern Xiangbei.

The enemies were very red when they met, and Sun Yumin and Toshima Fangtaro met again after three years, and a bloody battle was inevitable.

"Dongping, since you are our enemy, then are you we should give some 'meeting gifts' to others!" Although Sun Yumin's words were said very politely, there was fierceness in his tone, and even his expression was a little hideous.

"Junza, what kind of 'meeting gift' do you want to give to this old devil?" If it were normal, Deng Dongping would definitely laugh, but at the moment he was asking seriously.

"Order Deputy Commander Zhan to lead the 81st Division to raid Yong'an, where the command post of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army is located."

When the 81st Division of the Zhanshutang Department carried out an attack on Yong'an in accordance with Sun Yumin's order, the sleeping Toshima Botaro was awakened by the sound of gunfire, and Hanaya Masanori, who was guarding Yong'an, was frightened. The offensive has not yet entered the second day, and if the division commander is reimbursed in his hands at this time, I am afraid that if he does not want to commit suicide by caesarean section, someone will kill him.

In a panic, he ordered the commander of the 18th Wing, Nobu Ishii, to block the Chinese attack no matter what.

The two regiments of the 81st Division and the 18th Wing of Nobu Ishii fought from early morning to noon, and the two sides repeatedly fought and the battle was extremely tragic. This is still the attack of the 81st Division, if it is replaced by the new 34th Division, which has not yet arrived, or the 20th Division, the main force of the 12th Army, I am afraid that a mere 18th Wing will not be able to stop the first punch thrown by Sun Yumin.

Just three hours after Zhanshutang launched its assault on Yong'an, Sun Yumin threw a second punch, and he ordered Wang Heng to lead the 139th Division to launch a surprise attack on the 5th Brigade of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, which was facing his troops head-on.

The officers and men of the 139th Division, who had been defending for a day, were already hungry and thirsty, and they jumped out of the trenches one after another and rushed to the Japanese army, which had been attacking for a day.

The two brigades under Toshima Fangtaro were attacked by the Twelfth Army one after another, and the two punches thrown by his old opponent Sun Yumin hit the old scar of Lan Feng being hit hard, which made Toshima Fangtaro feel a hot pain in his heart, and he shouted like a mad beast: "Baga! Backlash! Reverse attack!" (Yaga!) Counterattack! Fight back for me! ）

Because the 3rd Division was equipped with a wing of field artillery units, with the support of strong artillery fire, the 81st Division and the 139th Division fell into a bitter battle again, especially the 139th Division led by Wang Heng and Shi Zhonghua, because it was in the core position of the Japanese attack, so the casualties were huge.

Sun Yumin saw that Wang Heng was gradually losing power, and immediately sent Xu Changgeng, deputy of the 417th Regiment of the 139th Division, to lead more than 1,000 people to support Wang Heng.

The dazzling sunlight shone on the battlefield where blood flowed all over the ground and corpses were strewn all over the field, Xu Changgeng looked up, there were dazzling plaster flags all around, and less than half of the more than 1,000 brothers led by him were left, and the Japanese troops besieging them were obviously shocked by the fearless spirit of the Chinese army that broke into their abdomen, and the two sides entered a short stalemate.

An officer beside Xu Changgeng came over and asked cautiously, "Deputy of the regiment, can we break through?" It's been fighting for so long, so you should have bought the deputy division commander enough time to adjust, right? While we still have combat effectiveness, and the devil is also in the period of respite, at this time, it should not be difficult for us to break out of the encirclement. ”

Xu Changgeng was silent, he was thinking, he was also the "old man" who followed Sun Yumin to Huoshan when he was in the twentieth division, and he was deeply influenced by Sun Yumin, it can also be said that it is because he has a group of subordinates who are obedient and loyal to his henchmen and brothers, Sun Yumin can gallop on the field and be invincible.

Xu Changgeng was still thinking about it, and at this time, a black crowd suddenly appeared from the northwest direction, although the same plaster flag, but the outfit was a little different from the third division that was besieging them, obviously this was the reinforcement of another division of the Japanese army, Xu Changgeng saw from the telescope that the leading officer of the Japanese reinforcements saluted the officer of the third division, and then the two talked for a while, the latter pointed to the former in a distant direction, and then made a beheading action.

To his surprise, the reinforced Japanese troops did not rush to their side, but advanced extremely fast in the direction of the Japanese officer's finger of the third division, Xu Changgeng looked back at that direction, and suddenly suddenly realized, and shouted loudly to the few remaining officers and soldiers he brought: "Brothers! Those devils are heading for our division headquarters! Brothers! Protect the two deputy division commanders! Fight with the little devils! After shouting these words, he jumped out of cover and took the lead in rushing towards the Japanese army, and the devil soldiers who surrounded them were caught off guard and forcibly tore open.

Just when Xu Changgeng led his troops to rush to the Japanese reinforcements, the Japanese reinforcements who heard the gunfire behind them hurriedly turned around to fight, and Xu Changgeng, who was desperate to fight out of the encirclement, had already exhausted the last bit of troops, and there were only a few dozen people left around him.....

Xu Changgeng's eyes were blurred, and a group of figures walked towards him in a trance, led by a national army commander.

"Captain Lai, my good leader, are you here to pick me up? ...... Are all the brothers in Guanzhai here? ..... I miss you so much! ..... I'm really tired! It's time to rest...... Captains...... Top dog...... I can't follow you to kill devils anymore! …… Deputy Division Commander and Regiment Commander Wang...... You're going to kill more devils for me...... ”

On September 27, 1941, Xu Changgeng, deputy of the 417th Regiment of the 139th Division of the 12th Army, was martyred!

He was Sun Yumin's first confidant brother who died in battle after he took charge of the Twelfth Army, and when the news came, the entire headquarters of the Twelfth Army was silent, and a room full of people fell into grief.