Chapter Ninety-Three: Victory

This devil army of nearly 2,000 people has been disrupted by Van Berlin's artillery, and the devils are dead and wounded, and they have fled everywhere. Just by the fact that nearly a squadron was wiped out by Gao Quan's cavalry just now, and there were no devils over there to reinforce them, it can be seen that these devils have lost their effective command. In this case, Gao Quan is of course willing to take his cavalry battalion and pass through the devil's camp like a real warrior, and sprinkle another salt on the devil's wound.

"Kill the devil!"

The exciting battle cry sounded again, countless sabers were raised high, countless horses' hooves trampled on the earth, and the invincible iron horsemen rushed towards the enemy line like a whirlwind.

This Japanese army unit was the division headquarters of the 6th Division and part of the guard unit. Due to the close pursuit of Guan Lin's troops behind them, the Sixth Division could no longer maintain a complete formation during the retreat. In fact, even without the Chinese army in hot pursuit, Lieutenant General Inaba would not be able to line up his troops in a neat and symmetrical formation.

The 6th Division suffered heavy losses this time. The 45th Wing was completely annihilated, the 23rd Wing was seriously wounded, and even the commander of the Ushijima Brigade was lost, which means that the entire 36th Brigade has lost more than half. Plus the cavalry wing, the field artillery wing, the engineer wing, the field hospital. I didn't dare to count these losses, and when I calculated the accounts carefully, Shiro Inaba had a pain in his head, and he already had a premonition that his future was not good.

The sudden shelling of the division headquarters startled Lieutenant General Inaba, but fortunately, there were still more loyal protectors in the division and regiment headquarters. As soon as the cannon sounded here, more than a dozen officers rushed up from there to surround the lieutenant general, and several people worked together to lift Lieutenant General Inaba's four legs like a grain bag and lifted it to the side of the war horse. Someone in front of him was holding the reins, and someone in the back slapped the horse's buttocks, even pulling and beating, and dragged the horse to the side and dodged it.

Shiro Inaba also understood what was going on, although his subordinates were a little rude to him like this, they were indeed saving his life, and the lieutenant general could still think of this. Therefore, in this process, he did not resist.

The cannonballs are not all at once, Battalion Commander Fan suddenly got twice as many cannons as his artillery battalion today, if he is not familiar with this, I am afraid that he himself will scold himself for being a miser.

Thirty heavy artillery pieces aimed at one place and bombarded the devil so hard that he was crying for his father and mother, and he suffered heavy casualties. When the devils were protecting Lieutenant General Inaba and retreating to the side, there were shells falling not far away from time to time, but fortunately, the shells never fell on their heads. The riding goal is too big! Originally, the officers thought that the lieutenant general could ride a horse faster, but they knew that the war horse could not block the shells! Didn't run far. I don't know where a piece of cannonball skin flew from nowhere, and it hit the butt of the war horse at once!

Now that's a bad thing! War horse, no matter how trained it is, it is an animal after all, and when the animal is injured, the beast will attack immediately! I saw this tall thoroughbred horse neighing with his neck up, and as soon as his two front hooves were raised, he ran forward with his feet!

It's okay for the horse to run away, but the problem is that the lieutenant general is still on top! The officers next to him were dumbfounded. Fortunately, there was a captain of the guards in the crowd who was a lieutenant general. I saw that the Japanese captain reached out and took out the Wang Ba box, and looked at the war horse in front of him who wanted to run away, "Bang!" Smack! "It's three shots!

The captain's marksmanship is really not to say, three shots down, just frightened and galloping war horse, the body is crooked, the legs are weak, and the head falls to the ground, dead! The officers looked at each other in surprise, and they didn't care about praising the captain's marksmanship, so they hurriedly ran over and rescued the lieutenant general! The lieutenant general fell off his horse, and what should he do if he fell out of his hand! It is definitely not an honor to be the first lieutenant general division commander to fall off his horse and fall to his death!

Fortunately, when the officers ran over, the lieutenant general was humming and trying to get up from the ground. Although the military uniform on his body was a little dirty and his face was torn, he didn't suffer any serious injuries after all, so it's good!

"Eight Tooth Road!" This was the first greeting the lieutenant general gave after seeing his men. Subsequently, Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba, who couldn't control his emotions, shed tears, and the big snot was dragged out for the elder. His Excellency the Lieutenant General felt that something was wrong, and just as he was about to wipe it, he was grabbed by his enthusiastic subordinates and helped him out of this place of right and wrong.

By the time Gao Quan led his cavalry through the ranks of the Japanese troops, Lieutenant General Inaba had already left the area. Fortunately, these officers of the Sixth Division Headquarters had a strong sense of crisis and knew that they would take their division commander to move to another place as soon as possible, otherwise, even if they dodged the attack of the shells, Gao Quan's cavalry would definitely not let him go!

Division Commander Gao hates all the devils of the Sixth Division, not to mention that this is still a lieutenant general? In short, the unlucky Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba narrowly escaped the death of his predecessor, Tani Shofu, in this battle.

Hit the horse like flying, shouting and shouting. Swords flashed, and gunshots rang out. Gao Quan led his cavalry troops and swept through the devil's marching sequence! Although there are more devils here than the squadron of 100 people, this is the hardest hit area by artillery bombardment. It is estimated that there are hundreds of seriously injured people lying on the ground wailing and crying, and there are only a few devils who really resist with guns. Those who can run have run long before the bombing is over, and those who remain can't run!

The cavalry roared by, striking with guns at a distance and slashing with knives when they were close! They don't seem to be fighting, but they seem to be cleaning up the battlefield and taking care of the seriously wounded of the devils! Isn't this kind of battle easy? The cavalrymen performed equestrian swordsmanship, and they passed through the devil's marching sequence just now.

Lieutenant General Inaba and his officers saw this scene from afar, and their faces were as pale as paper. Fortunately, they finally escaped this catastrophe, and the rest was only palpitations.

Under the hard work of all the units of our Ninth Theater, all Japanese troops from all walks of life retreated to their respective garrison areas before the war. The cities, counties and towns occupied by the Japanese army have once again returned to the hands of our government. The problem of Changsha's insecurity, which the committee had once feared, still did not appear after all.

Hunan Provincial Changsha was saved, the ferocious attack of the Japanese invaders was repulsed, and our Ninth Theater once again won a victory in a large-scale battle.

Although some people were skeptical about the victory in this battle, until decades later, there were still some "scholars and experts" who believed that the first battle of Changsha was lost by China. However, it is a fact that the strategic goal of the Japanese invaders to occupy our Changsha with several modern divisions and regiments was not realized in the end, and the main force of our Ninth Theater was not surrounded and annihilated by the Japanese army. With these facts in place, any fallacies and heresies seem so ridiculous.

The biggest hero of the battle, needless to say, is the commission, without the wise leadership of the commission, how can such a big victory be achieved? The second is Chief Xue, it is under the strange decision of Chief Xue that our army can annihilate tens of thousands of Japanese invaders and achieve this world-renowned victory!

At this point, the first Battle of Changsha ended victoriously.