Maybe the current situation of the 500 Army can't even be seen by Chief Xue, right? Of course, it is more likely that the commander does not want his Ninth Theater troops to be too weak. In short, in late November, the theater replenished the 500 Army with 2,000 recruits! Gao Quan was excited to urgently prepare a car, galloped more than 100 kilometers to Changsha, and went to the theater headquarters to thank the commander in person.

Thanking you in person is a must. With so many troops concentrated in the Ninth Theater, it was not one army or two armies that were crippled in the last Battle of Changsha. Even the first elite of the Central Army like the 74th Army lost nearly half, not to mention other second- and third-rate troops. A large number of troops need to be replenished, and at such a time, how can Gao Quan not feel flattered that the commander can think of the little-known 500 Army?

"Haha, admonish, your 500 army is not unknown now! In the second Battle of Changsha, the 500 Army completely annihilated the 13th Wing of the Japanese Army, which is not an exaggeration to say that this record is the first in the entire theater! ”

Gao Quan was shocked, and he was about to express his modesty: "Sir, I ......"

Chief Xue waved his hand to interrupt Gao Quan's modest words, "Of course, the 74th Army, the 4th Army, the 37th Army, and the 10th Army, these troops may kill more devils than 500 troops, and they may completely annihilate a wing of the Japanese army and seize its military flag, but it is really only your 500 army!" Hehe, if it weren't for the fact that he wiped his shoes with the military flag of the 13th Wing, maybe you would have been promoted to the Military Commission to serve as a senior staff member now. ”

Xue Yue's unhurried words made Gao Quan break out in a cold sweat! Obediently, there is such a thing? If it weren't for his whims, he might have left the army and gone to the Military Commission to sit in an office and study the map!

"Your shoes are shining well! The Military Commission has one less senior staff member who may be mischievous, and my Ninth Theater has one more general who can fight! You say, should I give you a reward? Okay, don't think about it so much, go back and train quickly, and strive to replenish some soldiers from the local area, I can't fill you up all of a sudden! ”

The commander's expression was a little regretful. There is a shortage of people in all theaters, and although the Ninth Theater is very valued in the Military Commission, after a battle, it has lost so many people at once, and the Military Commission can't replenish it! The reason why Gao Quan was allocated 2,000 people this time was really because Gao Quan gave him a face.

Compared with the number of losses of the 500 army, these 2,000 people could not even make up for a small half. After Gao Quan bid farewell to his commander and returned, on the one hand, he stepped up the training of the troops. On the other hand, we also have to find ways to recruit people. Fortunately, the commanders of the 500 Army at all levels have a deep understanding of the conscription work, and the enthusiasm of the various units is relatively high, so they have really replenished a lot of manpower in a short period of time.

On December 20, the 30th year of the Republic of China, the 6th and 40th divisions of the Japanese army began to assemble on the north bank of the Xinqiang River, and on the same day, they shelled our defending troops on the other side of the river. Heavy rain in northern Hunan on the 24th. At two o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese army took advantage of the heavy rain and began to migrate across the Xinqiang River. Our defenders on the south bank immediately launched a counterattack. The Third Battle of Changsha was officially opened.

Defending the New Wall River was Yang Hanyu's Twentieth Army. The devils wanted to break through the positions of the Sichuan army, and the soldiers of the 20th Army relied on the positions to fight bravely and fought fiercely with the Japanese army. Although the Japanese army broke through the Xinqiang River that night, our soldiers still fought to the death with the Japanese troops who crossed the river. On the 25th, the 20th Army was ordered to retreat to the vicinity of Sanjiangkou and Guanwang Bridge, and on the 26th, the Japanese army reached the Miluo River, and the 3rd Division was put into battle. After several days of heavy rain, the water of the Miluo River swelled, and the positions along the Miluo River were defended by the 99th Army and the 37th Army.

On the 27th, after the heavy rain in northern Hunan stopped, snowflakes began to fall again. At half past eleven o'clock in the afternoon, the 68th Wing of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army entered the site of the Miluo River Bridge on the Guangdong-Han Line and exchanged fire with the Jiangbei Guard Unit of the 99th Army. In the afternoon, with the support of heavy artillery on the ground, the Japanese destroyed the defensive position on the north bank of the 99th Army, and then began to build bridges and cross the river in the snow.

The troops of the 99th Army on the south bank fired at the Japanese invaders across the river, trying to prevent the Japanese from crossing the river. The 99th Army never stopped fighting before, during, and after the 3rd Division crossed the river. After the main force of the 68th Wing of the Japanese Army crossed the river, it advanced towards Guiyi, and when the follow-up pack horse and baggage troops were preparing to cross the river, they were subjected to continuous fire from the machine gun positions of the 99th Army, and the covering troops of the baggage troops were almost completely wiped out under the continuous fire of our army's machine guns.

The 6th Division of the Japanese invaders ran to the Miluo River on the 26th, but the surging river was already three meters deep, and with the height of the devil, there was no possibility of going through. Kanda ordered his engineer wing to build a bridge near Nagark Street. However, under the fire of our defenders on the other side, the bridge-building work of the 6th Engineer Wing did not proceed smoothly.

The 40th Division did not take part in the battle to cross the river on the 27th, but was collecting materials for building bridges. The next day, the plane airdropped rubber boats to them.

The 6th Division finally built the bridge, and when more than 1,000 people had crossed, the defenders of the 37th Army on the south bank rushed up and launched an attack on the devils. When attacking the enemy in the middle of the crossing, it is the standard offensive routine in the book of war. The bridge that the devil had just built was interrupted by the 37th Army defending on the other side of the bank.

The Twentieth Army and the 58th Army flanked Changle Street and Dutou Bridge on the north bank of the Miluo River to contain the Japanese army from crossing the river.

On the 28th, the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, which had received the airdrop rubber boats, finally succeeded in crossing the Miluo River. Our army was attacked by the Japanese troops crossing the river, and could no longer maintain enough pressure on the north bank of the river, and the devils could finally have enough time to build their pontoon bridge.

The 99th Army fought fiercely with the Japanese 3rd Division on the south bank of the Miluo River. As the 500th Army, which served as the second line of defense in the rear position of the 99th Army, it should be in the same place at this time, deep ditches and high fortifications, preparing to use the second line of defense to block the Japanese army after the Japanese army breaks through the 99th Army's defense line, or send troops to reinforce the 99th Army fighting the front line now.

Commander Xue gave orders to the 99th Army, the 37th Army, the 20th Army, the 58th Army, the 10th Army, and other troops, but he did not give orders to the 500th Army. Maybe the commander thinks that Xiangyin is behind the camp anyway, and if he can't give an order, Gao Quan will have to give a hand to the 99th Army, right?

The commander's order was not issued in time, and Gao Quan had room to turn around. He really didn't want to follow the 99th Army as the second line of defense, and it wasn't all because he and Fu Zhongfang didn't like each other, Gao Quan was not the kind of person who forgot the righteousness of the country because of selfish interests. Gao Quan mainly wanted to go to the Sixth Division to continue the fight.

There is one aspect to always be concerned about the Sixth Division, and the other aspect is that Gao Quan is not willing to be passively defended in such a layered defense line, and fighting with devils is to take the initiative to attack to be more fun and more able to grasp the initiative.