The night was dark, and it was already past three o'clock in the morning of 22 March, and Wucheng Town in Yongxiu County had become silent, and the fierce fighting between China and Japan had stopped. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Garrisoned in Wucheng is the 142nd Division of the 32nd Army, which is the starting unit of Song Kentang, the acting commander of the 32nd Army, with the Japanese 101st Division and the 106th Division crossing the Xiushui River, the location of Wucheng here has become not so important, Song Kentang also began to consider the issue of evacuation, after all, the 142nd Division has been here for three days, and the casualties of the troops are also very large.

After Sun Weiguo put forward a counterattack plan, Wucheng became the first assembly point of the main force of the new 1st Division.

At half past three in the morning, when the artillery units of the 3rd Artillery Brigade began to arrive, the main force of the New 1st Division had already begun to complete its assembly in Wucheng Town.

After coming to Wucheng Town, Sun Weiguo immediately met with Fu Liping, the commander of the 142nd Division, for negotiations.

After Fu Liping learned that the reinforcements of the new 1st Division had come, he was naturally very happy, and Fu Liping was even more excited when he heard that Sun Weiguo was preparing to launch a counterattack.

The troops of the 142nd Division fought hard for several days, and the number of troops was reduced to more than 5,000 people, but these 5,000 troops were still able to continue fighting.

Compared with Song Kentang and Li Jue's skepticism about counterattack operations, Fu Liping seems to have a great interest in counterattack operations.

"Division Commander Sun, our division can still send more than 3,000 people to fight, and I will form an assault regiment with more than 3,000 people, and how to fight us is all under your command."

Fu Liping was very bold, although it was the first time he met Sun Weiguo, he knew Sun Weiguo's command ability, and he handed over the command directly to Sun Weiguo.

When Sun Weiguo heard Fu Liping's words, he was very relieved that he could get Fu Liping's support at this time, which was very important to Sun Weiguo.

Wucheng is the first battle of the new first division's counterattack operation, if there is an accident in this operation, then the morale of the Chinese troops will be greatly hit, after all, the new first division is used as the most elite main force, even the new first division can not defeat the little devils, then other troops naturally do not have this ability.

Similarly, this operation was also the first battle after the re-expansion of the new 1st Division, and the results of this operation will also have a great impact on all the officers and men of the new 1st Division.

For the sake of conservatism, Sun Weiguo did not directly launch a counterattack against the Japanese army after the troops came to Wucheng Town, and Sun Weiguo had a detailed discussion with Fu Liping.

After discussions between Sun Weiguo, commander of the new 1st Division, and Fu Liping, commander of the 142nd Division, the two divisions immediately drew up a battle plan, and then the two divisions began to mobilize.

The sky soon became brighter, and bursts of artillery began to come from the center of Yongxiu County, which was the Japanese heavy artillery shelling the positions of the 32nd and 70th armies.

And the Ishihara detachment, which had rested all night, also began to enter the starting position one after another, and Ishihara Tsunetaro personally came to the front line to supervise the battle.

Five infantry brigades formed a three-way army, the main attack was in the center, where the 1st Infantry Brigade, the 2nd Infantry Brigade and an infantry artillery squadron were assembled, while the Japanese army on the left gathered the 3rd Infantry Brigade, on the right side the 4th Infantry Brigade, and the 5th Infantry Brigade served as a reserve.

Ishihara Tsunetaro threw in four infantry brigades in one go, and today he asked the troops to quickly break through Kure Town and defeat the defenders of Wu Town.

At six o'clock in the morning, four 41-type mountain guns began to carry out artillery bombardment, and after ten minutes of shelling, four infantry brigades began to attack Wucheng Town.

The first to attack were the troops on the left and right sides of the Japanese army, and the three and fourth infantry brigades of nearly 2,000 people quickly advanced towards the left and right sides of Wucheng Town.

After three days of fierce fighting, Wucheng Town had become a ruin, and the troops of the 142nd Division were defending in a long snake formation, so as not to be broken through by the Japanese army and penetrate deep into the depths.

Ishihara Tsunetaro took the lead in mobilizing troops on the left and right flanks to attack this time, hoping to attract the defenders to strengthen the flank deployment and thus weaken the defense in the center.

As long as the defenders' defense in the middle is weakened, then the Japanese troops in the center who are the main attack will be able to break through quickly, and according to the practice of fighting between China and Japan, as long as the Japanese army breaks through the defenders of the Chinese troops a little and quickly detours to the sides, then the Chinese troops will be defeated.

The little devils began to advance towards the defenders' positions, and the west of Wucheng Town was close to the Xiushui River, and to the east was the Ganjiang River, a tributary of Poyang Lake, which was not conducive to defense.

Soon, the little devils began to exchange fire with the defenders, and the Japanese infantry charged.

According to the predetermined plan, the defenders on both sides of the defense began to show signs of rout, and by seven o'clock in the morning, the defenders on the west side of Wucheng began to withdraw from their positions, and the Japanese Fourth Infantry Brigade quickly advanced from the western position and pursued the evacuated Japanese troops fiercely.

At 7:10 a.m., the defenders on the eastern flank began to abandon their positions, and the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army immediately pursued the front quickly.

When Tsunetaro Ishihara, who was in command at the front, saw this, he immediately began to give orders, and he quickly ordered the 1st Infantry Brigade, the 2nd Infantry Brigade, and the Infantry Artillery Squadron to be put into battle, and at the same time he asked the 3rd Infantry Brigade and the 4th Infantry Brigade to quickly advance to the depth and capture the White Horse Temple and Nie Gong Temple and Caiyuan Village in the depth of Wucheng Town.

The Chinese positions were breached, and Ishihara Tsunetaro felt that the Chinese forces had suffered a large-scale rout, and instead of ordering the breakthrough troops to make a detour to the flanks of the position as usual, he ordered the two infantry battalions that broke through the position to advance in depth.

Tsunetaro Ishihara had a great appetite, and he hoped that the 3rd and 4th Infantry Brigades would quickly capture the Chinese forces, such as the Hakuba Temple, which was deep in depth, so as to completely encircle the Chinese troops stationed in Kure, and then annihilate them completely.

Tsunetaro Ishihara, who has been fighting with the Chinese troops for more than a year, knows very well that even if the Chinese troops fight well in defensive operations, as long as the positions are breached, the Chinese troops will completely become a rabble without any organization, and they will have a chaotic rout, and the officers and men will frantically flee to the rear, and the Chinese troops will not have any combat effectiveness in this situation.

Ishihara Tsunetaro felt that such a situation had occurred in the defenders of Wucheng Town, and he tried in vain to cut off the rear route of the Chinese troops, so as to encircle and annihilate the Chinese troops stationed in Wucheng Town.

This Chinese army had caused Ishihara Tsunetaro to lose all face, and he felt that only by annihilating them could he wash away his shame.

And now that the Chinese army has been defeated, Ishihara Tsunetaro sees this as a golden opportunity, and he wants to annihilate this Chinese force in one fell swoop.

But Ishihara Tsunetaro didn't know that he fell into Sun Weiguo's trap step by step.

As the two Japanese infantry battalions quickly began to break through from both sides and move closer to the depths, the new 1st Division, which had been hidden in the trenches, began to move. (To be continued.) )