On May 27, the 54th Infantry Regiment and the 6th Mixed Infantry Regiment of the 17th Division of the Japanese Right Wing arrived at Hashino Town. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info located in the center of the canal in the Yangzhou area, the canal and the bifurcation of the river have always been around the villages and towns, many villagers by boat to and from everywhere, if it is not for the stability of the political situation in Jiangbei, built a lot of bridges, I am afraid that the pace of the Japanese army will be faster.

At noon on the 27th, the 54th Infantry Regiment and the 6th Mixed Infantry Regiment of the 17th Division of the Japanese Army engaged in a fierce battle with the 6th Division stationed in Qiaoye Town.

The Sixth Division is Fang Xianwu's old unit, and the current division commander is Wang Zhi, the former chief of staff of the Eighth Division. Wang Zhi has always been known for his prudence, and Wang Zhi had previously discussed with Fang Xianwu that this time in the war against Japan, he would strive to completely annihilate the 16th Division, so the 6th Division only needed to drag the two infantry regiments of the 17th Division. Therefore, Wang Zhi made full deployment in Qiaoye Town, and arranged the five regiments of the Sixth Division in four directions, leaving one regiment as a reserve force and three supplementary regiments as supplementary forces, believing that he could hold back the opponent.

On the Japanese side, due to repeated battles, coupled with casualties and other reasons, the total strength of the 54th Infantry Regiment and the 6th Mixed Infantry Regiment of the 17th Division of the Japanese Army was far from the full strength of 12,700 people, and the 17th Division had been a non-combat formation before, and there were only 8,700 people when they arrived in China. Had to be on a horse all the time and barefoot, being called a barefoot commander.

Contrary to Wang Zhi's caution, Aoki Jiahe has always been known for his courage and courage, so Uehara Yusaku has the confidence to send Aoki Jiahe as the commander of the right flank, leading a quarter of the troops to break through the town of Hashino from the right flank, and then outflank the county seat of Jiangdu. In order to take Qiaoye Town as soon as possible, Aoki Jiahe concentrated part of the artillery of the 17th Division and began an indiscriminate bombardment of the position of Qiaoye Town, and then, Aoki Jiahe invested 1,600 people in two brigades at one time (all of them were not under the formation) to storm the Niangniangmiao defense line on the east side of Qiaoye Town, as if he wanted to swallow Qiaoye Town in one bite.

The situation was precarious, and Wang Zhi was afraid that the 3rd Regiment defending Niangniang Temple would not be able to stop the fierce attack of the Japanese army, so he immediately sent a supplementary regiment in his hand, the 21st Regiment, to Niangniang Temple to support the 3rd Regiment in the battle. When the 21st Supplementary Regiment arrived at Niangniang Temple, the Japanese artillery had already blown up several sections of fortifications, and more than 100 Japanese troops rushed to Niangniang Temple under the cover of artillery fire.

Zhong Shu, the new commander of the 3rd Regiment of the 6th Division, commanded two companies to plug the gap, and sent the guard company to countercharge, and there was a fierce white-knuckle battle with the Japanese assault troops. When the two sides were fighting, Zhong Shu received the support of the supplementary regiment, and he transferred another company and asked his younger brother Zhong Yuan to personally lead the team to support Ou Lie. The Japanese army was physically exhausted and had to retreat, and Zhong Yuan led the army in hot pursuit.

After a fierce battle, the Japanese 17th Division was finally repulsed from this wave of attack.

As soon as the battle of Niangniangmiao ended, the battle on the south side of Hashino Town sounded again, and another Japanese brigade, Moriya Brigade, under the cover of artillery fire, frantically launched a fierce attack on the position on the south side. Mo Guchang, the commander of the 2nd Regiment of the defenders of the southern position, was hit in the head by shrapnel from an enemy shell.

This attack of the Japanese was very fierce, the Japanese veterans were very accurate in marksmanship, and the Japanese artillery fire also blew up the positions on the south side, and the defenders were full of flesh and blood, and suffered heavy casualties. Then the Japanese army began a fierce attack, and Mo Guchang personally selected a death squad to prepare to counterattack from the flank. When the Japanese army stormed the position, Mo Guchang personally led this 200-man death squad to penetrate from the side and repel the Japanese army. However, Mo Guchang also fainted due to excessive blood loss, but fortunately, the Japanese offensive was weak, and Wang Changdong, deputy commander of the second regiment, took over Mo Guchang's command.

Wang Zhi did not expect that as soon as the battle began, the battle had already reached a fever pitch, and he had to once again transfer a supplementary regiment, the 22nd Regiment, to support the southern position. At this time, the light and strong in the city also spontaneously organized, went to the front of the position to carry the wounded, and brought the wounded back to the field hospital on the west side of Qiaoye Town in the rear one by one.

Wang Zhi knew that the 17th Division's fierce attack on Qiaoye Town was because they desperately wanted to insert it from the north to Jiangdu County, and he had to ensure the smooth annihilation of the 16th Division under Jiangdu County, so Qiaoye Town could not afford to lose. Wang Zhi gave orders to all the regiment commanders and battalion commanders under his command that no one should lose a position, otherwise military law would be enforced.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the northern position defended by the Fifth Regiment of the Sixth Division was broken through by the Japanese army, and more than 300 Japanese troops broke through the defensive line from the north under the cover of heavy artillery fire and pounced on Qiaoye Town. Yang Guanguan, the commander of the Fifth Regiment, immediately rushed out of the command post and led the soldiers of the first battalion to personally encircle and annihilate the more than 300 Japanese troops. Almost at the same time, the two sides arrived at a village of only ten households on the north side called Xiaofengzhuang. There was no time to react, and the two sides immediately started a white-knuckle battle.

Holding a broadsword, Yang Guanguan personally charged forward, gradually forcing the Japanese army back, and finally forcing the Japanese army to abandon Xiaofengzhuang, but Yang Guanguan was stabbed in the waist and abdomen by the Japanese soldiers, and when he found out that he was injured, his intestines had flowed out of the wound. He put the intestines back into his stomach, bandaged it briefly with his clothes, and immediately explained to Ji Ming, the commander of the first battalion: "After I die, the deputy regiment commander Yun Fulai will command for me, and after Yun Fulai dies, the chief of staff Fang Zuhui will command, and after Fang Zuhui dies, you will command the." Soon after the explanation, Yang Champion died on the battlefield.

Ji Ming didn't have time to go north, he had to drive the Japanese army back with a battalion, so he asked a soldier to return to the command post with the regiment commander's body and password, and led the team to pursue the Japanese army. At six o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese were driven away from the north flank, and the positions on the north flank returned to the hands of the 5th Regiment.

Yun Fulai, the acting head of the regiment, came to inspect the position, and saw a group of soldiers crying, and said angrily: "Cry your mother, give me a careful look, the little devil is good at sneak attacks." He walked over to take a look, only to see that it was Ji Ming's body, Ji Ming's guard cried and said that when Ji Ming was inspecting the position just now, he was killed by the Japanese cold gun, and the bullet hit him directly in the head, no one thought that a Japanese soldier was hiding 80 meters away under their noses.

"What about the devil?"

"Ran away."

"Ran away?" Yun Fulai was furious, the regiment commander was gone during the day, and Ji Ming was gone at night, he couldn't bear this breath, so he immediately organized soldiers to carry out a night attack on the Japanese army. However, the Japanese army was highly nervous and vigilant, and the night attack organized by Yun Fulai was not successful, but left more than 20 corpses and withdrew.