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"You see, our cover task is undoubtedly very difficult. However, according to past experience, devils generally do not go out to fight at night, so we are still sure that we will cover the safe retreat of the whole army tonight. It's just that I estimate that there may be a bloody battle tomorrow, so we must seriously consider dealing with it. ”

Commander Zhou immediately laid out a military map, studied the enemy situation and retreat route with him, and finally the two decided to gradually withdraw to Shatangji, more than 40 miles south of Deyan, because there was a steep hill, and they could also rely on the Baihedong mountain immediately behind to block the attack. After they telegraphed to the division headquarters and received permission, the division headquarters also returned the 2nd Battalion, which had been allocated as a division reserve, to its formation, and drove to Shatangji overnight to occupy a position, preparing to receive the main force of the regiment to withdraw south.

At 0:00 on the 20th, the main forces of the whole army began to retreat. At 2 o'clock in the morning, the 8th Regiment withdrew to the surveillance force, and the headquarters moved to Shatangji at the second speed, fighting and retreating to block the attack. At 7 p.m. on the 21st, the whole regiment arrived at Liling to return to the division.

Of the three withdrawal warrants, only two were delivered, and the 152nd Regiment of the 26th Division also received them, but they supported it until after dusk on the 51st before retreating to Zhuzhou through Baishui, Miluo, Malinqiao and other places to rebuild. However, the regimental headquarters of the 154th Regiment and Luo Shijie's 3rd Battalion did not receive the order to retreat, and did not dare to leave without permission, and were still defending the original position and standing by.

On the morning of the 21st, the Dongtang position was calm because it was on the left flank, but it had become an isolated position behind the enemy, and the devils did not have time to take them, so the main force hurriedly advanced southward. That night, Luo Shijie suggested that Regiment Commander Huang abandon his current position and move closer to the friendly forces to the right.

Huang Yantong didn't think about it and said: "The order I received is to defend it, how can I retreat and escape without an order?" ”

"It looks like all the friendly forces have been evacuated!" Luo Shijie frowned: "Why don't I go search for it?" ”

Huang agreed.

At about 8 o'clock in the evening, Luo Shijie led the officers and soldiers of the 3rd Battalion on the position to search and advance in the direction of Shejiachong. Suddenly, he heard intermittent gunfire in the distance, and after traveling about 20 miles, he reached a village, and found that there were large Yanmar and baggage carts on the open field, and it was obvious that the devils had occupied them, and immediately attacked them.

The army was caught off guard and rushed in a hurry. When the devils in the neighboring village heard the gunshots, they also fiercely returned fire at the 154th Regiment, and for a moment signal flares and tracer bullets pierced the sky. Because it was late at night, neither the enemy nor the enemy understood the situation, so they just shot at each other, and they did not dare to approach. After about an hour of fighting, Luo Shijie did not see any movement on the right flank, and estimated that the friendly troops had withdrawn, so he ordered the battalions to quickly shake off the enemy, assemble their headquarters before dawn and return to the Dongtang position, and then concealed and lurked in the local area for the whole day.

At night, Huang Yanqi asked Luo Shijie to discuss countermeasures. After repeated study and analysis, the two unanimously concluded that [***] had all retreated, and the enemy's army had completely occupied the Miluo River defense and continued to advance, and they had become an isolated small unit trapped behind the enemy, and they were in danger of being encircled and annihilated at any time. So it was immediately decided to break through by night.

After that, they chose to retreat south along the Yue Changgu Avenue on the west side of the Hunan-Hubei Railway on the military map, and found two guides to lead the way, avoiding the front, looking for gaps, and searching for advances along the way. As a result, they finally broke through the enemy before dawn on the 27th.

After the army occupied Miluo, it thought that [***] would no longer have any combat effectiveness, so it ventured into Changsha, captured Pingjiang and Yongan City, and advanced to the Laodao River on the 25th.

In the process of retreating backwards, the officers and men of the 2nd Provisional Division saw thousands of ordinary people along the way, abandoning their homes and fleeing with their children and daughters, in an extremely miserable state. They all clenched their fists, and they really wanted to fight the devil again.

They were the last to retreat from the Xinqiang River, and when they retreated to the south bank of the Miluo River, they actually stopped and prepared to continue their resistance. However, the headquarters of the group army of Guan Linzheng had retreated to Changsha, and they used radio stations to communicate, and the military headquarters replied: "Our army has no task of defending the south bank of the Miluo River; For the time being, the 2nd Division withdrew south to Jinjing. ”

In this way, they had to retreat to the area of Jinjing and Rwangji.

However, Chief of Staff Han Kaosi's desire to fight a war still did not stop. On the afternoon of the 27th, he said to the division commander Xie Yi: "Division, the enemy of the southern attack is only a few thousand, and it will never go deep; We must not retreat too far and remain in contact with the enemy. If we and the 92nd Division set up an ambush between Luwangji, Qiaotouyi, and Jinjing, and the army enters our ambush area, it will certainly suffer heavy casualties. ”

Xie Yi has already become a famous general in a hundred battles, and the 2nd Division of Xinqianghe has fought very fiercely, so he thought about it a little: "Okay! I think this way is going to be done, hit him, good idea! ”

They immediately asked the command for instructions. Soon after the troops entered the camp, Gao Fei sent a telegram: "The enemy has entered the Miluo River and is engaged in a fierce battle with our covering troops. The 2nd Provisional Division immediately moved to Rwangji as fast as possible to occupy its position. The division commander immediately brought the necessary personnel to Rwanji to receive instructions in person. ”

Xie Yi informed the chief of staff of the above situation and instructed all units to prepare for departure immediately. Then, he led two brigade commanders and the chief of staff to the Rwanji military headquarters first. The troops, led by Chief of Staff Han Kausi, quickly advanced towards Rwanji in a loose formation of multiple columns.

When Shay arrived in Rwanji, he found that it was ten rooms and ten empty. Gao Fei immediately called again: "Now that the enemy who landed in Yingtian is fighting fiercely with the 93rd Division, the friendly 70th Army of Xiangyin is sending troops to reinforce Yingtian in order to delay the enemy's advance towards the Xiangjiang River. The 91st Division is moving south of the Miluo River. I am determined to fight the enemy in the area north of Changsha City."

"What about our mission?"

"The task of the 2nd Provisional Division is to delay the enemy between Rwanji and Xiaqiao City for 3 days in order to cover the completion of the operational deployment of our main force, and then to cooperate with the main force to annihilate the attacking enemy on the enemy's flank."

The battle went on step by step, and although the army attacked fiercely, almost everything was carried out in the plan made by Gao Fei before.

Xie Yi immediately took two regiment commanders and staff officers to inspect the terrain of Rwangji and choose a defensive position.

The terrain around Rwanji is undulating. There was no danger to the location, so Xie Yi decided to focus on the defense of the village, and because of the urgency of time, he relied on the village and the nearby highlands to dig fortifications. It was decided to think about it, and the chief of staff, Han Kaosi, led the troops to rush to the scene.

After Xie Yi consulted with him, the defensive deployment was as follows: the 6th Regiment was attached to the search company, with Rwanji as the core to form the first line of defense; The supplementary regiment formed a second line of defense between Fuxing Temple and Rwanji; The 8th Regiment was in reserve, assembled near the Fuxing Temple; The division headquarters is stationed in Fuxing Temple.

At about 2 o'clock in the afternoon of the 26th, all units had entered their positions.

At dusk, a fierce battle broke out between the reconnaissance unit of the Chinese army and the search company of the 2nd Provisional Division in front of the position, and the commander of the search company was killed. The army was also ambushed and flanked, suffering heavy casualties.

On the morning of the 27th, the army fiercely shelled the positions of the Chinese [***] team, enemy planes reconnoitred and bombed Rwanji, and the infantry launched a fierce attack on the position of the 2nd Provisional Division under the cover of aircraft and artillery fire.

However, the artillery fire of the Chinese army was extremely intensive, and the 2nd Division was captured by the Chinese army in two villages and a high ground on the outskirts of Rwangji, and several positions formed a state of dog-tooth interlacing, and by dusk, the whole division had suffered more than 300 casualties.

Xie Yi and the chief of staff of the Republic of Korea studied the battle situation and believed that the terrain of Rwangji was easy to attack and difficult to defend, and there was no task to defend it; If it continues to resist in place, under the pressure of enemy aircraft and superior artillery, the 6th Regiment may not be able to support it, and will be forced to retreat during the day tomorrow, and will inevitably suffer greater casualties, which will be detrimental to the task of holding the enemy for three days; The terrain of Shimohashi City is good, close to the Makufu Mountains, and it is defended with all its might, so it will not be a problem to fight for two more days. So it was decided to withdraw from Rwangji that night and retreat to Xiaqiao City.

Xie Yi personally ordered the 8th Regiment with a supplementary regiment to immediately go to Xiaqiao City to occupy positions, and the 6th Regiment immediately moved to Xiaqiao City and assembled in a certain village as a division reserve. Chief of Staff Han led the division headquarters to move to a village southeast of Xiaqiao City.

On the morning of the 29th, the cavalry of the Yue Army fought again with the search company of the Temporary 2nd Division in front of the position of the 2nd Division. Then, the reconnaissance planes of the army circled over Xiaqiao City, and in the afternoon bombers flew in to bomb them, and the vanguard of the devils also approached the front of the position to conduct fire reconnaissance. Xie Yi judged: "The enemy will attack in a big way on the 1st!" ”

Han Kaosi immediately drafted an order: "All troops should strengthen the fortifications and resolutely hold Xiaqiao City." Then he sent someone down.

That night, Gao Fei telegraphed and asked Shay: "Why don't you stay in Rwanji for one more day?" ”

Xie Yi told him the situation and the reason for retreating to Xiaqiao City, and Gao Fei scolded: "You will withstand Xiaqiao City for at least two days. "Then there were no more calls.

On the morning of 1 July, enemy planes came to bomb as usual, and apart from sporadic shelling, the infantry showed no signs of what the 2nd Division had originally predicted, and in the afternoon only a few reconnaissance planes circled overhead, spun around, and flew away again. Seeing this, Chief of Staff Han said: "The movements of the enemy army are worth studying!" ”

Xie Yi looked at the map for a while: "Send scouts to go deep behind enemy lines to find out the situation." ”

At this touch, the "situation" was much more than they expected, and all the intelligence proved that the army was retreating, and the plane bombing was just a cover. Xie Yi immediately reported to Commander Zhang and ordered a frontal search force to follow him.

It turned out that the 13th Division and the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army entered the area of Rwangji and Qiaotouyi, fell into the ambush circle of the 92nd Division, and suffered many casualties after being flanked and assaulted. The 33rd Division on the southern Hunan side was blocked in Xianzhong and Chiayi, and could not join forces with the Northern Hunan Army as planned, and the rear transportation and supply lines were destroyed by the Fan Songfu column of the Central [***] team. Okamura Nintz saw that he was about to fall into Goofy's pocket, and on October 1, he decisively canceled the offensive strategy and ordered a quiet retreat north.

After receiving the report that Gao Fei had transferred the temporary 2nd Division, the friendly Xue Yue Department learned that the army had retreated, and slapped his thigh: "The battle is over!" While reporting to Gao Fei, he ordered the 73rd Army to break through to prevent the retreat of the army.

Xue Yue immediately telegraphed to the Yucheng Military Commission, which learned of the situation and immediately reported to Chiang Kai-shek, who was also overjoyed and immediately announced that Gao Fei would be promoted from general to lieutenant general to official general!

The youngest general of the National Revolutionary Political Axe!

The search force of the 2nd Provisional Division has reached the banks of the Miluo River. The command order was officially down, and Gao Fei ordered the 2nd Division to search head-on and follow the pursuit. Xie Yi immediately ordered: "The two regiments are advancing side by side, and the 6th regiment is the left column, which is to search and advance along the railway; The 7th Regiment was the right column, searching and advancing along the Luwangji and Xinshi Avenues, and the division headquarters and the supplementary regiment of the directly subordinate troops followed behind the right column. ”

So, each regiment sent two battalions, divided into two search detachments, to advance in front of the columns and search.

Since the 2nd Provisional Division was always in contact with the enemy, the retreat of the Japanese army now became the vanguard of the pursuit of the enemy. That night, the whole division began to pursue and advance. As soon as the officers and men heard that it was a pursuit, their hearts were lifted and their morale was high, and they hurled forward with their legs and shoulders.

3 He ordered the armies: "(1) The advancing troops will attack the enemy's rear lines of contact with all their might, disrupt communications, prevent their reinforcements, and hinder their retreat. (2) The frontal units immediately pursued the enemy in front of them in their current position, and must capture them in the areas south of Yueyang and Chongyang. (3) If the enemy stubbornly resists the original position on the right bank of the Xinqiang River, I will keep my focus on the right flank and press and annihilate it on the Dongting Lake and Yueyang side. (4) Each pursuing force may send a unit to monitor and sweep the enemy, and the main force will surpass the pursuit. ”

However, the devil is also desperately running away, and our army is chasing, but it is only a lame man chasing the thief, and the more he shouts, the farther he goes. The fastest 79th Army flew to Pingjiang Changshou Street, intercepted the enemy force rushing from southern Hunan, and inflicted heavy damage on the enemy Nara detachment and the 33rd Division.

The attacking army ran back to the north bank of the New Wall River. On July 5, the 2nd Provisional Division reoccupied the confrontation position of the 52nd Army in the new wall of Hawara. On the second day, Shay sent a reinforced battalion across the Xinqiang River to search all the way to the periphery of the enemy stronghold and monitor the movements of the devils.

This was the end of the pursuit. However, along the way, the officers and soldiers picked up a lot of telephone lines and some canned food boxes and other things that the devils had discarded when they fled, but the Yueyang County militia searched for a wounded corporal from the woods, and did not capture any other prisoners.

Subsequently, the Provisional 2nd Division was ordered to temporarily hold the position of Xinqianghe and wait for the 4th Army to come to take over.

On July 8, the Chinese [***] team completely restored its original positions before the battle of Xinqianghe. On the 10th, he crossed the Xinqiang River to the north and attacked the strongholds of Taolin and Xitang on the periphery of Yueyang.

At this point, the first stage of the battle organized by Goofy ended in victory!

At this time, the 151st Regiment led by Liu Sihai also encountered an emergency!

In July, the army was divided into two routes to attack the east, with more than 600 people attached to an artillery section along the way, attacking from Datang to Jiuping, and fighting fiercely with the 523rd Regiment of the 175th Division on the high ground around Huajia Mountain in Jiuping; Another infantry artillery of about 1,000 people, from Xiao Dong to Nalan to Bancheng, near Tunmao with the 151st Regiment of the alert troops, the alert troops could not resist, forced to retreat. The army continued to advance and engaged the main force of the 151st Regiment in the Dashiling Mountains northeast of Tunmao, and at dusk, the two armies formed a confrontation.

At dawn on the second day, Jiuping Yi's army continued to attack the position of the 523rd Regiment of Huajiashan, but was repulsed by the regiment.

The army at Dashiling continued to attack the position of the 151st Regiment, and fierce fighting ensued between the two sides.

At about 10 o'clock in the morning, Liu Sihai heard the sound of fierce artillery fighting in the direction of Dashiling, and judged that the 56th Regiment had hit the enemy. He listened attentively, and the sound of artillery became closer and closer, and he immediately called Zhang Chen, chief of staff, to report.

After 12 o'clock, the sound of guns and artillery was getting closer and closer, and Liu Sihai thought to himself that it must be that the 56th Regiment was retreating in an unfavorable situation; Think about it again, if the devil takes advantage of the victory to pursue, he can reach Siheao within 3 hours.

Siheao is about 5 kilometers south of Lingshan Taipingwei and 2 kilometers north of Qinxian Zhennanwei, on the boundary line of Qinxian and Lingxian counties, and is the main road of Qinxian Xiaodong through Taiping Tongling Mountain. The pass was only guarded by the 3rd Battalion of the 524th Regiment. And Siheao is about 30 miles away from Dashiling, the 3rd Battalion is weak, and it will definitely be difficult for the devils to support it, and Shangjing is 15 miles away from Siheao, and Liu Sihai just wants to deal with it, but he can't catch up at once! Thinking of this, Liu Sihai immediately decided to push the main force of the regiment to Sihe'ao and prepare first, so as not to knock out the front teeth and swallow it in the stomach.

So, he reported his decision directly to the military department.

Why report directly to the military department? Because one is to look down on the teacher Feng Huang, thinking that he is grinding and talentless; The second is that Gao Fei once personally called He Xuan, the commander of the army, that the 151st Regiment belonged to Gao Fei's troops after all, and He Xuan could not help but give Gao Fei face and could not use the 151st Regiment as his own troops.

After receiving his report, Commander He Xuan asked in surprise: "Why did the new 19th Division and the 56th Regiment never report, making the situation so urgent?" ”

"I don't know." Liu Sihai said on the other end of the phone.

He Xuan is a native of Yiyang, Hunan, and a student of the Baoding Military Academy, and Bai Chongxi are classmates at the same time, and have been close friends for many years, and can be regarded as a member of the Gui Department, and is the main combat faction of the 16th Group Army, immediately agreed to Liu Sihai's suggestion, and said on the phone: "You move quickly, and after arriving at Sihe'ao, you will be properly deployed, and send someone to get in touch with the 56th Regiment." ”

Liu Sihai put down the phone and led his troops to rush to Siheao.

At 6 o'clock in the afternoon, the whole regiment arrived at Siheao in a hurry, and the 3rd Battalion was safe and sound. Liu Sihai breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately summoned the commanders of all units to issue combat orders. Each division entered the designated place, occupied positions, and built fortifications.

After the commanders of the troops left, Liu Sihai stood at the door and looked, and suddenly found that a unit in the distance was coming from the river, and when it was about 3 miles away from the front of the 524th Regiment's position, it stopped and rested on the side of the road. He thought that this was the retreat of the troops of the 56th Regiment, but then he thought, why didn't they send someone to contact him? Immediately send the regimental headquarters to contact the officer. After a while, the liaison officer ran back in a panic, and said out of breath: "Stop the troops in front of my position, not my 56th regiment!" ”

"Who is it? Could it be a devil? Liu Sihai was taken aback and blurted out.

"No, it's the vanguard of the devil!"

It turned out that the 56th Regiment had abandoned Nahegang and retreated backwards, and the devils pursued them and actually rushed ahead of them and reached Sihe'ao. Because it was dusk and the situation was unknown, I stopped to rest. Liu Sihai immediately ordered: "Concentrate on shooting at the devils!" ”

The troops rushed over and "crackled" at the army, that is, big guns and small cannons were fired at the same time. The devil was suddenly attacked, suffered heavy casualties, and fled west to Zhennanwei in embarrassment, but as a result, he was blocked by Liu Sihai and led by the group, and was cut off alive!

(To be continued)