The Tenth Army not only withstood the attack of the Japanese invaders in Changsha City, but also slowly regained its inferiority. Although the Tenth Army itself suffered heavy casualties for this reason, the Japanese troops who entered the city did not take advantage of it, and even the casualties of the Japanese invaders were greater than those of the Tenth Army! What is especially important is that the Japanese 3rd Division seems to have a tendency to be dragged to death by the 10th Army to Changsha City!

Xue Yue, the commander of the theater of operations, saw that the time for a counterattack had come! Immediately order all the peripheral troops of the Ninth Theater to quickly encircle Changsha City! The troops of the Ninth Theater of Operations, which were intercepting the Japanese invaders on various battlefields in northern Hunan Province, immediately launched a comprehensive counterattack against the enemy in front of them!

The commander of the 11th Japanese Army, Anan Yuki, now looked as if he had just woken up from a nightmare, sweating profusely at the catastrophe he had committed during his dream: the Third Division was suffering like purgatory in the city of Changsha; The first part of the sixth division was trapped in the suburbs of Changsha, and enjoyed the same treatment as the third division. The 40th Division and the 37th and 99th Armies of the Chinese Army have been fighting hard for several days in the vicinity of Jinjing, and the fighting is still going on, and there is no clear trend at all.

On the periphery, the Fourth Army, the 73rd Army, the 79th Army, and the 26th Army were dividing into three sides to encircle Changsha City, while the 74th Army was rushing towards Chunhua Mountain at the speed of a rapid march, and the 20th Army and the 58th Army were constantly attacking and attacking the support units of the Japanese divisions along the Miluo River, and there was a very strong intention to cut off the Japanese army's return route!

How do you look at it, the overall situation of the Japanese army on the big battlefield in northern Hunan has also fallen into a comprehensive passivity! The hundreds of thousands of troops commanded by Xue Yue have the possibility of encircling and dividing several main divisions of the Eleventh Army at any time, cutting them into sections and eating them!

After spending the initial period of shock and fear, Anami immediately ordered all the divisions to turn back! The Japanese army has entered Changsha, China, the goal of destroying the main force of the Ninth Theater has been achieved, and the 11th Army has achieved its strategic goal, and now it is about to triumph!

No matter how good Anami Yugi's order to turn back sounds, it is always an indisputable fact that when the Japanese divisions were ordered to retreat from 4 January, they were far less calm than they had retreated in the previous two battles.

The first to receive the order to turn back must have been the 3rd Division in the bloody battle at Changsha City. Lieutenant General Botaro Toyoda and his division are now in a dilemma, with soldiers of the 3rd Division dying every moment, demoralizing the troops, and a lack of ammunition supplies, and the division encountering unprecedented difficulties. The order of the military headquarters was as timely as sending charcoal in the snow, and the commander of the Toyota Division did not dare to delay for a moment, and immediately gave orders to the major teams to reverse the whole army!

It's not easy to come, and it's even more difficult to go. Where is it so easy for the 3rd Division to safely withdraw from the city of Changsha, where street fighting has been fought for several days? Entangled and fighting with the Tenth Army all the way, the Third Division slowly walked outside the city, and the Tenth Army intercepted everywhere, vowing to bury the devil in Changsha City!

During the battle, the captain of the 1st Brigade of the 68th Wing, Yokota Shaosa, was killed, the liaison adjutant of the 68th Wing was killed, and the captain of the 8th Squadron was killed.

With tears in their eyes, the devils of the Third Division retreated from Changsha City step by step, while the other Sixth Division, which participated in the Battle of Changsha City, turned back relatively easily. After all, there were not many troops of the 6th Division to Changsha, only a crippled 23rd Wing with a brigade of the 13th Wing, and it was not far into the city, but there was a battle with the 190th Division of the 10th Army in the north of Changsha. As soon as the battle began, the 190th Division caused a great embarrassment to the devils of the 6th Division with a fierce offensive, and the Japanese began to be cautious in the ensuing battle.

When the order to turn back was issued, the advance team of the 6th Division immediately broke away from contact with the 190th Division, and before our army could understand the intentions of the Japanese army, the Japanese troops of the 6th Division began to quickly withdraw southward! Zhu Yue, the commander of the 190th Division, found out that the devil was going to run, but of course he would not let this opponent leave easily, and the troops followed the retreating Japanese army in pursuit.

The wounded of the 6th Division became a big problem. In order not to affect the speed of the main march of the troops, the wing commander organized the field hospital and the medical team together, and then transferred a squadron of baggage troops to form a detachment of wounded soldiers, and retreated with the large army in the dark of the night of four days.

The Tenth Army, as well as the Fourth Army, which had just arrived on the outskirts of Changsha City, pursued the Japanese army overnight, and the wounded detachment left behind by the Sixth Division naturally became the target of our army's attack. By the early morning of the 5th, the battlefield commander of the 6th Division had received a report that the wounded detachment had all been killed.

On the Chunhua Mountain battlefield, the 500th Army and the 6th Division exchanged fire.

"Up!" Liu Xing held the box cannon and led nearly 2,000 soldiers of the 503rd Regiment to launch a fierce attack on the main peak of Chunhua Mountain!

On the top of the peak, because the national army has built positions here several times, there are still trenches and other defensive facilities left on the mountain. Since Kanda Masa has decided to fight a decisive battle with Gao Quan in Chunhua Mountain, as an old devil who has fought in China for many years, of course he will not forget to seize the commanding heights on Chunhua Mountain. It's just that because the decisive battle at Chunhua Mountain was a temporary initiative of Lieutenant General Kanda, he suddenly remembered that the number of troops sent out by the old devil to occupy the commanding heights was not too large, and he didn't bring any heavy weapons, so the fire suppression on the mountain was not so fierce.

However, even if this is the case, it is not so easy for our army to easily snatch the main peak of Chunhua Mountain from the devils. The devil's light machine guns and grenadiers were equipped all the way to the squad, and more than a dozen light machine guns and grenadiers went to the top of the hill, and in addition, the devil soldiers were generally stronger than our soldiers' shooting accuracy, and our attack troops suffered great casualties in the upward attack battle.

went up a company, lost a platoon and a half when it came down, and sent another battalion, and let a dozen machine guns of the devils overwhelm the halfway up the mountain. Liu Xing's eyes turned red, and he snatched a German-made submachine gun from the soldier next to him and was about to lead the team to rush forward in person.

"Commander, let me go!" The person next to him pulled Liu Xing.

As soon as Liu Xing turned around, he saw that it was the main battalion elder under him. "Old thief, how are you going to fight?" Liu Xing now only has the old thief's battalion relatively complete, if he calls the devil to make a fuss again, the 503rd Regiment will not have a strong attack force that can be handled!

During the Battle of Wuhan, Zhang Lingfu led the assault team to climb up from the cliff behind Zhang Gushan at the risk of death, and only then did he annihilate the 106th Division and achieve a great victory in Wanjialing. Although there is no cliff like Zhang Gushan behind Chunhua Mountain, there are not as many devils on the mountain as Zhang Lingfu's opponents at that time! You lead the troops in front to attract the attention of the devils, and I lead a battalion around the back slope to climb up, and we will attack on both sides, so that we will not be able to take the main peak position! ”