The 46th Army belonged to the Gui troops, and they were very concerned about this operation, they knew that if they could not break through the Japanese defense line and threaten the supply line from Qinzhou Bay to Nanning, then the Japanese reinforcements would definitely reinforce the Japanese army in Nanning, and at that time, if the Chinese troops wanted to capture Nanning, it would be impossible at all.

By 8 o'clock in the morning of the 20th, the troops of the 170th Division in charge of the main attack had paid more than 2,000 casualties, and He Xuan, the commander of the 46th Army, withdrew the troops of the 170th Division to rest and recuperate, and he put the troops of the 175th Division into the operation and continued to launch a fierce attack on Hengxian.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, Sun Weiguo also issued an order to the Provisional Ninth Army, and Sun Weiguo demanded that the troops of the Provisional Ninth Army must make progress before 12 o'clock at noon.

China and Japan once again engaged in fierce battles, and in addition to fierce firefights, the two sides would engage in fierce white-knuckle battles from time to time.

In addition to the fighting of troops on the ground, China and Japan also put in aircraft for combat at the same time, and the Chinese Air Force completely took out the last of its family resources this time and prepared for a decisive battle with the little devils.

By ten o'clock in the morning, the Chinese Air Force had lost ten fighter-bombers just over Pubei County, and the Japanese lost even more, they lost eighteen.

Sun Weiguo knew very well how much the Chinese Air Force had, and after receiving the losses of the Chinese Air Force, Sun Weiguo immediately sent a telegram to the Guilin camp, and he asked the Air Force to temporarily stop supporting.

Now that the real war has just begun, Sun Weiguo does not want the Chinese Air Force to lose all its planes at the beginning of the war, if this is the case, in the follow-up operations, Sun Weiguo's troops may not get any support, this is not the result that Sun Weiguo wants to see.

At half past ten o'clock on the morning of the 20th, the troops of the Provisional Ninth Army cleared the periphery of Pubei County, and they began to attack the core position of the 1st Guards Brigade of the Japanese Army.

At this critical time, the Japanese army began to transfer the 1st Independent Tank Brigade assembled in Lingshan County, and the 2nd Independent Tank Brigade reinforced the Guards Division and the 57th Division respectively.

In the front command in Lingshan County, the chief of staff of the 22nd Army, Major General Wakamatsu Zhiichi, immediately ordered the troops of the 16th Division to prepare for support, and at the same time he immediately sent a telegram to the headquarters of the 22nd Army.

However, at the same time that the two independent tank brigades of the Japanese army began to support Pubei County and Hengxian County respectively, the units of the Third Cavalry Army had begun to prepare for the attack.

At present, the units of the Third Cavalry Army have completed their organization, and the Third Cavalry Army has 201 divisions, the first cavalry division, and the second cavalry division, with a total of about 18,000 troops.

THEY HAD SIXTY TANKS, HUNDREDS OF ARMORED TRUCKS, THIRTY 105MM HOWITZERS, DOZENS OF ANTI-TANK GUNS, AND MORE THAN SIX THOUSAND CAVALRY UNITS.

Sun Weiguo asked the troops of the 46th Army and the Provisional Ninth Army to attack Hengxian and Pubei County, just to attract reinforcements from the Japanese army in Lingshan County.

After the troops of the Third Cavalry Army broke through Lingshan County, they would quickly advance to the Japanese army's vertical strip and directly threaten the Japanese supply line from Qinzhou Bay to Nanning, so as to attract the Japanese army to reinforce Nanning's little devils back.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, the troops of the 9th Brigade of the Japanese Heavy Artillery began to be transferred, and they began to focus on supporting the 57th Division of the Japanese Army deployed in Hengxian County and the Guards Division deployed in Pubei County, while the 1st Brigade of the Japanese Independent Tank arrived in Hengxian County and began to assist the troops of the 57th Division to block the troops of the 46th Army, while the troops of the 2nd Brigade of the Independent Tank had already arrived in Pubei County, and they also began to assist the troops of the Guards Division to block the troops of the Ninth Army of the Temporary.

The tank and heavy artillery units deployed by the Japanese army in Lingshan County began to be transferred, and only the troops of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army were deployed here in Lingshan County.

At half past eleven, at the request of Sun Weiguo, the Chinese Air Force began to attack, and this time the Chinese Air Force dispatched 15 bombers and 20 fighters to bomb Lingshan County.

The Chinese Air Force bombed for an hour, and when the little devil air force arrived, the Chinese Air Force immediately began to withdraw.

At half past twelve, the Little Devil Aviation Unit began to bomb the 46th Army in Hengxian County and the Provisional Ninth Army in Pubei County.

At this time, the troops of the Third Cavalry Army began to attack, and the 201st Division of the Third Cavalry Army, led by the armored regiment, quickly began to attack Sanhe Town, the junction of the Japanese army in Lingshan County and Pubei County.

At this time, Sanhe Town was stationed in an infantry brigade of the Ninth Wing of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, but after some fighting, this infantry brigade only had more than 900 people.

As the armored artillery regiment began to enter the battle, after grenades hit the little devils, the little devils quickly began to abandon Sanhe Town.

The troops of the 201st Division quickly began to break through Sanhe Town, and then began to advance in depth, while the 1st Huang Gang Cavalry Division and the 2nd Huang Yongsheng Cavalry Division of thousands of cavalry troops pursued the evacuated devil soldiers, and the sharp sabers of the cavalry began to cut off the bodies of the devil soldiers, and a famous ghost soldier began to fall to the ground.

Of the more than 900 devil soldiers, only more than 300 devil soldiers were evacuated safely, and the rest of the devil soldiers became corpses completely.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the troops of the Third Cavalry Army began to continuously break through the positions of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, and they began to enter the deep area of the Japanese army, and then they began to advance directly to the town of Long Beach according to Sun Weiguo's order, threatening the supply line from Qinzhou Bay to Nanning of the Japanese army.

After the troops of the 16th Division learned that the Chinese armored forces had broken through their positions, the commander of the 16th Division, Lieutenant General Moriokaji, immediately began to contact the troops to pursue, and more than 2,000 people of the 9th Wing quickly launched an operation, but more than 2,000 devil soldiers were attacked by the 1st Cavalry Division, and after the 9th Wing paid more than 300 casualties, they immediately began to withdraw from the battle.

Knowing that his infantry would not be able to pursue this armored force at all, Morioka immediately began to react to the Chief of Staff Wakamatsu Shoichi.

"Chief of Staff, according to the report of the Ninth Wing, a Chinese unit composed of armored troops and cavalry has broken through the position of our 16th Division, and now this Chinese unit is advancing to the depths, and they may directly hit our supply lines. Chief of Staff, now we must assemble the chariot and cavalry units in pursuit. ”

Morioka quickly came to the front command headquarters also in Lingshan County, and he found Wakamatsu Zhiichi and quickly reported it. 、

"Bagaya Road, what the hell is going on, you actually let the Chinese troops break through the defense line?" When Wakamatsu heard the news, his face was full of shock.

Even though Morioka Ji was a lieutenant general, he still couldn't help but curse, he knew what the consequences would be once the defense line was breached.

"The Chinese troops are concentrated with armored troops and cavalry, and they have a great advantage, and we are simply caught off guard." Morioka immediately explained.

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