Chapter 121: Bloody Battle in the City
"Throne, please look." The soldier who got the flag excitedly handed the flag in his hand to the military seat to look at.
"Huh?" Gao Quan took it and took a look, "The 13th Wing of the 11th Brigade of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army? Hehe, it turned out to be the military flag of the 13th Wing. Gao Quan smiled at the soldier, "Yes, capture the flag of the Japanese army and reward ten pieces of the ocean." "If you have merit, you will be rewarded, and if you have faults, you will be punished, this is the way to general. When people got the devil's military flag and rushed over to present it to the military seat, didn't they just ask for merit and receive awards? Gao Quan, of course, could not disappoint the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions.
Looking down, the boots were a little dirty, and Gao Quan bent down and wiped the military boots a few times with the military flag. "Yes, this thing is really good for shoeshine!"
"Hahaha!" The surrounding warriors laughed. It's hard to say whether the boots can be wiped clean, but this action made the soldiers present have an indescribable feeling of pleasure in their hearts. The devil's military flag is also worthy of our military seat shoe-shine!
In the early morning of 27 September, the Japanese Hayabuchi detachment crossed the Laodao River and advanced to Changsha. The 98th Division, the vanguard of the 79th Army, which was reinforced by our army from the 6th Theater, encountered the Japanese army's Hayayuan detachment on the line of Sanyaotang and Baimaopu north of Changsha, and the two sides engaged in a fierce battle. The Japanese army, supported by aviation fire, continued to assault. Our 98th Division fought bravely under the leadership of Division Commander Wang Jiaben.
From the early hours of the morning to the late afternoon, fierce fighting lasted a whole day. Under the cover of aircraft artillery, the devils launched a frantic attack on our troops. The 98th Division had just come all the way from the Sixth Theater, and it had not arranged defensive positions, and the follow-up troops could not come up for the time being, and the battle was very arduous, and the troops suffered heavy casualties. On the 28th, the Hayabush detachment finally broke through the position of the 293rd Regiment of the 98th Division and broke through to Changsha.
At this time, the provisional Sixth Division of the 79th Army had already arrived at Yuelu Mountain. The theater ordered the provisional 6th Division to enter Changsha City and fight with the enemy in the streets!
When the 500 troops surrounded the 13th Wing, Tokutaro Shikai received telegrams from Okamoto Hoyuki for help, and the commander of the Kanda Division and Commander Anan also sent telegrams next to each other asking him what was going on. Tokutaro Shikai was forced to ask questions by the commanders, of course he didn't want anything to happen to the 13th Wing, but His Excellency the brigade commander didn't want to go to the rescue, even the team around him was now in danger.
The 74th Army was originally a steel division, and the 95th Division of the 37th Army was fighting hard with Wang Yaowu. The commander of the garbage well brigade can be regarded as a clever brain, as soon as he found that the momentum was not good, he led his men and horses to turn around and run!
Zhang Lingfu knew that Tokutaro had run away, but he didn't have the energy to chase him, and now the devil's third division was still fighting him, and he couldn't draw troops if he wanted to chase him! The five hundred troops left here to fight together were a multi-regiment led by Cai Feng, and Xiao Cai would not go after the garbage well detachment. Gao Quan's order to Commander Cai was to let him fight here with the 74th Army. The garbage well detachment ran, just right, and there is one less enemy on the battlefield.
In this way, Tokutaro led his remnants of the defeated army to withdraw from the battlefield in a hurry, and went to join the 6th Division in a panic along the way, although the face was not good-looking, because no one cared about him, this one was safely out of this flesh and blood battlefield.
As soon as Tokutaro Shikai left, even if the Sixth Division withdrew from the Chunhua Mountain battlefield. As early as when the 37th Wing of the 4th Division moved into Changsha, they had already left the Chunhua Mountain battlefield. The 6th and 4th Divisions were all gone, the 13th and 40th Divisions had no intention of coming over to join the battlefield, and Lieutenant General Toyoda Fangtaro now had to rely on his 3rd Division to fight alone.
After several days of bloody battles with the 74th Army, Wang Yaowu's troops suffered heavy casualties, but where was the Third Division good? How can the elite of the Central Army, which is equipped with all American equipment, get along well? Over the course of several days, Lieutenant General Toyoda's troops also suffered heavy casualties. With the addition of the main force of the 37th Army led by General Chen Pei, the life of the Third Division was even more difficult, and the two armies of China and Japan were struggling to support, depending on who could not hold on first.
The day Gao Quan grabbed the flag of the 13th Wing and wiped the military boots was September 30 in the 30th year of the Republic of China. On this day, the first division of the Fourth Division, under the leadership of Lieutenant General Kitano Kenzao, rushed to the city of Changsha.
At this time, the city of Changsha was engaged in brutal street fighting. The 79th Army fought with the 13th Division of the Japanese Army in Changsha City. Often, a building is occupied, and in less than half an hour it changes owners, leaving behind a cloud of gunsmoke and corpses all over the ground.
Such a cruel and bloody battle scene obviously made the officers and men of the Fourth Division extremely uncomfortable. Where is this war? It's obviously suicide!
The Eighth Wing is the absolute main force and the old foundation of the Japanese Fourth Division, and all the fine qualities of the officers and men of the Fourth Division are most clearly reflected in the Eighth Wing. The 1st Brigade, the vanguard of the wing, cautiously halted its advance after walking two hundred meters into the city.
The first brigade stopped here, blocking the way of the people behind, and the second brigade behind was unwilling, so they sent people over to question the first captain, what are you doing? Don't take a good road, stop and block the way? Shao Zuo listened, ah? Do you want to go ahead? Alright, I'll get out of the way!
So, the first brigade stepped aside, and the second brigade came. As a result, the second brigade also stopped thirty meters past the position of the first brigade just now. The two brigades completely blocked the road.
The wing commander at the back quit and rushed to the front on horseback with a group of orderlies, guards, staff officers, and adjutants. His Excellency Dazuo stood on his horse, pouting, and the two young ministers stood respectfully in front of the horse's head and waited for training.
"What do you mean? Why did the command troops stop? ”
The two Shao Zuo stared at each other, and after glancing at each other a few times, they were about to report, when a shout of killing in front of them attracted the attention of the three junior officers. On a street more than 100 meters away from them, a group of Chinese soldiers suddenly ran out, followed by Japanese soldiers of a similar number. There were about sixty or seventy people on both sides.
The Chinese soldiers may have been annoyed by the Japanese soldiers, and suddenly stopped while running, turned around and raised their guns to shoot! The Japanese soldiers in the back also raised their guns and shot, and ran head-on while hitting the soldiers on both sides! When they got closer, the still alive raised their bayonets and began hand-to-hand combat, and those who pulled to the back continued to shoot!
The two armies were only a few dozen meters apart, and firing a shot in two strokes was basically similar to firing face-to-face. By the time the bayonets were put together, more than half of the people on both sides were dead. In hand-to-hand combat, the well-trained Japanese army has always had an advantage, and this time is no exception, when these dozens of Chinese soldiers are all wiped out, there is still a Japanese soldier who is missing an arm is standing! The blood is flowing down, which is very tragic and touching!
This one who is still alive is also crumbling. According to this flow method, this person is estimated to be not far from dying of excessive blood loss.