A night raid on the town of Zhanggang began, and it was already two o'clock in the morning of the 28th, and everyone, including the Chinese and Japanese troops, was exhausted physically and mentally, but in order to slaughter the enemy who was also human, they began to fight unwillingly. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhanggang Town did not have any effective defensive equipment at all, and if it were not for Nagaoka Waishi's fierce attack on Zhanggang Town regardless of the cost, with the tactics of the Japanese army and the fierce artillery fire, it would only be necessary to attack it step by step after dawn. However, Nagaoka was so anxious that he couldn't wait to bite off the second division and join the Japanese crusading army under the Etoshi Castle, and if possible, he even wanted to occupy the Etoshi Castle alone.

The Japanese army soon rushed into the ruins of Zhanggang Town, and the two regiments of the defenders basically carried bayonets and long knives to kill the Japanese army, and the two sides once again engaged in a white-knuckle battle in the dark of night. All of a sudden, the ruins of Zhanggang Town were full of corpses, the mentor was shouting to kill, and every second a soldier fell to the ground.

Yu Zhengxiong, the commander of the second regiment, took turns to see the enemy camp, and the soldiers also charged forward, although the soldiers of the Jiangbei Army were not as skilled as the Japanese army, but the Jiangbei Army has been fighting for half a year, especially the second division of the Jiangbei Army, which was the first to contact the Qing army, and repelled the enemy many times in Xuzhou. They rushed into the enemy camp with big knives in hand, and the Japanese army was short in hand, especially Zou Ziping, the commander of the first battalion of the second regiment, Zou Ziping, who had a big waist and a round waist, belonged to Xuzhou, with a figure of more than 1.90 meters, holding a big knife in one hand and a Mauser pistol in the other. It is said that there is a general who has what kind of soldiers, and his subordinates followed suit, stripped naked and fought hand-to-hand with the Japanese army, which frightened the Japanese into retreating for a while.

The superiority of the Japanese firepower was weakened by their own stupid tactics, and Nagaoka had no choice but to order the withdrawal of the ruins of Zhanggang Town and shell the town with artillery.

Li Zuzhi, the commander of the second division, hated the Japanese artillery the most, the Japanese artillery has been equipped to the brigade, while the artillery of the Jiangbei Army is only equipped to the division, and now in order to concentrate on destroying the middle of the Japanese army, the second division has supported its own artillery regiment to Jiangdu, and even allowed the Japanese artillery to attack.

At dawn the next day, Li Zuzhi received news that the remaining soldiers of the 11th Garrison Regiment went around to the rear of Zhanggang Town and asked for battle. Li Zuzhi was surprised and moved by this group of fishermen from Yangzhong County, but he knew that these people were not strong in combat, and most of them were tired after a night's march, so he let them rest in the rear. Subsequently, Li Zuzhi scattered the supplementary regiments at hand and replenished them to various units on the front line.

The naval officers of the 11th Garrison Regiment had seen the Japanese artillery raging and suggested another sneak attack on the Japanese artillery group. Li Zuzhi inquired about the characteristics and location of the Japanese artillery group, and learned that the Japanese army had two brigades guarding the artillery group, so he decided to continue to consume the Japanese army on the frontal battlefield, and after two days, the Japanese army was tired, and he would send cavalry to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese artillery group.

After dawn, he ordered the troops to launch a fierce attack on Zhanggang Town without interruption, Yu Zhengxiong, the commander of the second regiment of the second division of the Jiangbei Army, was killed by shelling, and the commander of the sixth regiment, Zhao Zheng, replaced Yu Zhengxiong as the front-line commander of Zhanggang Town, at noon on May 28, Zhao Zheng led the army to fight with the Japanese army, and was killed by Japanese soldiers, Zhuang Xiaochen, deputy head of the second regiment, died an hour later, and finally Li Dazong, deputy commander of the sixth regiment, became the only commander in the town, and he led the army to resist stubbornly, Repeatedly fought with the Japanese army in the ruins of Zhanggang Town, forcing the Japanese army to be unable to enter Zhanggang Town.

On the evening of the 28th, Li Zuzhi sent the first regiment to replace the second regiment and the sixth regiment and all the soldiers on the front line to defend Zhanggang Town, but in the rear, Li Zuzhi was stunned to find that only 1,318 of the 3,000 people of the second regiment survived, and only 982 of the 2,400 people of the sixth regiment remained, all the chief and deputy commanders of the second regiment were killed, the battalion commander was only Zou Ziping, and the sixth regiment was left with only deputy regiment commander Li Dazong and the third battalion commander Li Baifan. The Fifth Regiment and the Sixth Regiment were actually two infantry regiments that were temporarily expanded to deal with the Japanese army, including one-third of the veterans of the Second Division and one-third of the Qing prisoners of war (including patrol battalions and prisoners of war of the Beiyang Army) and one-third of the recruits.

Li Zuzhi sent a telegram to Wang Yongan, and commented on the bravery of the Qing prisoners of war on the battlefield, saying that they emitted greater energy than when they fought with the Jiangbei Army, and that they could consider replenishing the Qing prisoners of war to the battlefield.

After receiving the telegram, Wang Yongan consulted with Luo Yinxian, who was in charge of the prisoners of war, and Luo Yinxian supported the replenishment of prisoners of war to the front line to fight the Japanese. Through several battles with the Qing army, the Jiangbei Army captured nearly 20,000 Qing prisoners of war, and these prisoners of war could not be killed, and they still needed to spend food and manpower and material resources to support them, so it was better to send them to the front line.

So Wang Yongan immediately ordered that 5,000 prisoners of war be transferred to supplement the 6th Division of the Northern Front, 5,000 prisoners of war to supplement the 2nd Division of the Southern Front, and 5,000 prisoners of war to supplement Jiangdu.

After the first regiment of the second division entered the position of Zhanggang Town, it was found that Zhanggang Town was full of corpses, the smell of blood and gunsmoke, the smell of burning fat mixed with the smell of corpses, Chinese soldiers and Japanese soldiers were entangled together, some Japanese were cut off their heads, and the headless corpses were left lying on the ruins, some Chinese soldiers were lying in the corners, it seemed that they had climbed here but died of excessive blood loss, and there were many pieces of Chinese soldiers' flesh hanging on the roofs of buildings or broken trees, all of which made Zhanggang Town look comparable to hell on earth.

After seeing this hellish scene, many soldiers in a group squatted on the ground and vomited, and more of them were pale and didn't know how to put their feet, maybe accidentally stepping on someone's severed hand, accidentally touching someone's head in their hands.

When they did not adapt to the terrifying atmosphere of the battlefield, the Japanese attack came again, and they rushed up like waves, and the Japanese artillery continued to reorganize Zhanggang Town. When the soldiers of the first regiment first entered the battlefield, they had not yet adapted to the intensity of the battlefield, and were caught off guard by the Japanese attack, and lost half of Zhanggang Town in less than an hour. The Japanese did not choose to advance this time, but chose to fight steadily, killing the Jiangbei Army with excellent shooting skills, and gradually sat firmly on the east side of Zhanggang Town.

In the battle of Zhanggang Town, the stalemate was fought over the ruins of Zhanggang Town, and Li Zuzhi also achieved his tactical goal and firmly dragged the 19th Brigade of the 16th Division to Zhanggang Town, an unknown place.