In the bushes and mountains and forests under the moonlight, the pursuit troops of the 18th Regiment and the broken troops of the devils were in full swing, and the pursuing 18th Regiment slowly had mortar movements coming up, and it was easier to deal with the machine gun fire points of the devils in the woods, and the grenadiers of the devils were not easy to use in the jungle, and they all relied on people to solve the battle with rifles and bayonets, and the light machine gun fire points of the 18th Regiment were not many, and these light machine guns would not stay in place and wait for the bombing of the devil's grenadiers......

"Wing Commander, the Second Brigade has suffered heavy casualties, according to your orders; There are fewer than 400 people who can be evacuated. Keiichi Abe returned to the side of the wing captain and reported,

"Abe-kun, it's been a hard work; The warriors of the second brigade can retreat first, the artillery has opened the passage of the mine array, and the third brigade will carry out a new mission! "Kendai Iino" said,

"Hello! Thank you, Captain! Keiichi Abe immediately ordered the team to move on,

On potholed roads, there are craters; But now no devil dares to complain, it is not easy for him to take the lead in retreating, and the large army of the Zhina people has not given up the pursuit, so let's retreat to Liujia Village first! Tired and tired devils keep moving forward on the potholed roads;

"Yo Si! Finally passed this road; Don't wait, let's clear the way for the Wing Captain! A smile finally appeared on Abe's face,

"Hello!" The signal soldier loudly conveyed the order,

Seeing that the faces of his warriors finally had hope, Keiichi Abe kept urging forward, and then couldn't wait to follow with a few officers and staff officers......

"Boom, boom, boom......"

On the road of the pit father, the brothers of the 16th Regiment who went to bury mines did not know who planted a lonely mine on the side of the road far from the minefield, and nearly 300 devils in the entire brigade did not encounter it, and the unlucky ones were stepped on by Abe Keiichi, and in the huge explosion, Abe Keiichi and several officers did not even make a miserable cry, and they were blown into several pieces......

"Yaga!" Behind him, Kenten Iino roared throughout the night sky......

"Order the 3rd Brigade to counterattack on the spot and make the Shina people pay the price!" The angry Kenju Iino didn't care that he was in danger of being surrounded, and gave the order in a roar;

"Boom, boom, boom......"

"Da Da Da ......"

On the trail of desperate resistance, the devils who received a large number of troops supported by a large number of troops did not retreat in the face of the pursuit of the 18th Regiment, in the hand-to-hand encounter, the enemy and us were equally tired, the devil's harsh training took the upper hand, and the fierce battle lasted until 4 o'clock in the morning, and the 18th Regiment retreated to the high ground with heavy casualties;

In the direction of Confucius Temple, after a night of fierce fighting, the 145th Wing attacked the position three times under the supervision of the wing commander Ichikawa Yozo, and the defending 19th Division was in short contact, Zhuang Wenshu, the commander of the 57th Brigade of the 19th Division, was wounded, and Liu Yangsheng, the commander of the 114th Regiment of the 19th Division, was killed. The attacking 145th Wing was also not comfortable, the wing captain Ichikawa Yozo Nakasa was seriously wounded, the group leader was killed in battle, the squadron leader was 1 adjutant, the squadron leader and squad leader were killed and wounded more than half, and the casualties of the combat soldiers reached more than two-thirds; The 145th Wing was no longer able to attack;

In the direction of Ma'anshan, the Japanese 123 Wing attacked Ma'anshan again at night and occupied a corner of the Ma'anshan position. In the early morning of the 9th, it was repulsed by the Fourth Army, which also suffered heavy casualties;

The 113th Wing was even more miserable, it was alone and rushed forward, and was ambushed on all sides by the Third Division in the dark night, and the situation was seriously lacking, and Kenten Iino thought that he was surrounded by three Chinese divisions, and was forced to retreat in the case of the loss of the field camp, and in the case of a mine array in front of the pursuers, he abandoned all the infantry artillery and finally fled back to Liujia Village; The personnel were seriously damaged, the first squadron leader Yokoyama was killed, the second squadron leader Abe Keiichi was killed by a landmine, there were not a few squadron leaders left, some squadrons suffered more than two-thirds of the casualties, and there was only one third brigade left in the whole squadron, and more than half of the personnel of the third brigade were left to fight.

At dawn, the little devils finally regained a trace of vitality, the troops with heavy losses wailed everywhere in the division headquarters, and the doctors and nurses in the field hospital became the busiest people......

The night's battle made the commander of the 106th Division, Lieutenant General Junroku Matsuura, stunned, the two most important fulcrums of the Jinguanqiao defense line were not taken, and the tactics of multi-point attack were not tenacious, only that person defended, and the 106th Division was defense-free because the battle line was too wide and the strength was seriously insufficient. As for the offensive, the field hospitals at the division and regimental headquarters were all wounded, and the officers at the grassroots level suffered heavy losses and were no longer able to attack.

Under the orders of the commanders at all levels of the devils, the remnants of the devils were reorganized, and at this point, the 106th Division of the Japanese army was unable to organize an attack due to heavy casualties and excessive attrition. Okamura Ninji was forced to suspend the offensive of the division and temporarily formed a standoff with the 8th Army and the 64th Army near the Jinguan Bridge.

The sun came late on August 9, and after ten o'clock in the morning, the whole Ma'anshan battlefield fell into an eerie silence as the gunfire in the direction of the saddle stopped......

The brothers of the 8th and 64th armies, who had been fighting hard for a night, had finished cleaning up the battlefield and fell asleep directly in the broken trenches, they were too tired;

"Division Commander, the results of last night's battle are out; Four regiments faced a reorganized wing of the Japanese army and fought hard for a night to hold the high ground; Now the two regiments of the 13th and 15th regiments of the 8th Brigade had less than 800 remaining brethren, including the lightly wounded who could continue the battle; The situation of the 9th Brigade is better, and the 16th Regiment still has less than 900 men, of which there are more than 300 lightly wounded; The 18th Regiment was severely damaged by the devils in the pursuit of the devils, and the remaining strength was less than 800 people; If the devils attack again, I'm afraid we won't have any reserves. Chief of Staff Zhu Xilin took the latest report and said to Zhao Xitian,

"In other words, not counting the personnel of the division, we only have a total of more than 2,500 brothers on the battlefield now? There are still a large number of minor casualties? Zhao Xitian frowned and asked,

"That's right!" Zhu Xilin replied,

"Report the situation to the military department! Ask for reinforcements, if today's devils launch the same attack as yesterday, even the third division can't stop it! Zhao Xitian said,

"Yes!" Zhu Xilin quickly went to the radio station and was ready to ask Li Yutang for support!

The 64th Army had already been disabled, and even the supporting 19th Division had become semi-disabled, and the war broke out too suddenly, and Li Hansoul had to gather the strength of a few remnants of the division first, and temporarily deployed in the Confucian Temple position; There are two division commanders on the entire Confucian Temple position, and there are even more brigade commanders, and now these officers have become grassroots officers, and the grassroots officers of the defending army have also suffered heavy losses, and there is no way to replenish them in wartime;

"Army Commander, it's been so long since the 15th Division attacked a wing of the Devils in Phoenix Tsui; The loss of personnel is also very serious, and it is impossible to transfer personnel! Otherwise, the consequences of Phoenix Chew being lost will be even more terrible! "At the headquarters of the Eighth Army, the staff officer is reporting on the latest battlefield situation;

"Replenish ammunition and supplies for the 3rd Division, and order them to hold the high ground to the death!" Li Yutang ruthlessly gave the order,

"Yes!" The staff officer sent a telegram on the ground, and Li Yutang left after signing it.