With the order of the division headquarters, the two main regiments of the 21st Brigade withdrew to the line of Xiaojiahe overnight, the 22nd Brigade withdrew to Tiantianling, and the special service battalions of the two brigades were left in the area of Changxing Si'an. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Two days later, the devil finally began to rush towards Changxing and Si'an with all his might, and at the same time, the enemy of Guangde was also approaching Heavenly Ridge.

However, what made the Japanese commander feel strange was that in addition to encountering the harassment of a small group of troops of the New Fourth Army, he did not encounter the resistance of the main force of the New Fourth Army all the way, as if the independent division of the New Fourth Army suddenly disappeared without a trace.

In order to severely damage Liu Tianshu's independent division, Duo Ze made a bloody investment this time, not only were tens of thousands of troops on the ground surrounded, but there were more than ten planes in the sky hovering.

It's a pity that the Japanese army in Xia Yucun never encountered resistance from the New Fourth Army until the troops approached the north of Changxing City, except for a strong resistance by the New Fourth Army at Yujiashan.

When several devils approached Changxing and Si'an, Liu Tianshu was in a small mountain village north of Tianmu Mountain, staring at the map and calculating how to give the little devil a knife.

After the division headquarters withdrew to Tianmu Mountain, Political Commissar Jiang came from Shitian County to join him.

Jiang Jinyong saw Liu Tianshu staring at the map frowning and thinking, and from time to time he stretched out his hand and compared it on the map, so he didn't bother him, but looked at the message seriously.

The military department knew that the devils had concentrated heavy troops to sweep the base areas in southern Jiangsu and the base areas of the independent division this time, so they were naturally very anxious, and this telegram was almost sealed several times a day.

From the telegram from the military headquarters, Jiang Jinyong knew that the Sixth Division was dealing with devils in southern Jiangsu, and although it did not suffer losses, it was very difficult and could not provide assistance to the independent division at all.

After Liu Tianshu carefully studied the map, his finger clicked on the location of Wukang, turned his head, took a big sip of the teacup on the table, looked at Jiang Jinyong and said: "Political commissar, the devil is about to enter Changxing, and we should also ring the alarm for the little devil." ”

"Got an idea?" Jiang Jinyong was overjoyed when he heard this, and looked at him and said.

"Well, political commissar, I thought about it carefully just now, the Japanese 142nd Division has reached the east side of Si'an, although the enemy in Huzhou has not advanced westward, but it is firmly on the front line of Huzhou, the enemy in Xia Yucun and the enemy in Yixing have already converged, and they are about to join the 142nd Division. The enemy of Guangde has occupied Si'an. In this way, Wukang was left with only one wing of the Japanese army to guard, and Xia Qiaoji had a Japanese brigade. The 72nd Regiment had already reached the outskirts of Hangzhou, and the 65th Regiment had reached the northeast of Hangzhou. Hao Mengxuan's 71st Regiment and the 64th and 66th Regiments of the 21st Brigade had quietly moved around Wukang. Liu Tianshu nodded and said.

Half an hour later, several leaders of the independent division gathered around the war room, first Deputy Chief of Staff Sun introduced the current positions of the various units, and then Liu Tianshu talked about the decision to launch an attack on Wukang and Hangzhou at the same time tonight. Of course, the main targets of the attack on Hangzhou were the Japanese army's logistics supply base in Yanguan and the Japanese military airfield in Hangzhou. The attacks on these two targets were carried out in the form of surprise attacks, striving to inflict heavy damage on the little devils in the shortest possible time, and at the same time, the 64th, 66th, and 71st regiments were concentrated to attack the county seat of Wukang by taking advantage of the darkness of night.

After Liu Tianshu talked about the operational concept, Sun Xuexuan and Xiang Luoquan were still in Zhang, deputy division commanders, and the combat plan was refined.

Subsequently, orders from the division headquarters were quickly issued by radio to the brigades and regiments involved.

In the battle against Wukang, it was finally decided that Hao Mengxuan, commander of the New Seventh Brigade, would command it, and Tong Guijie, commander of the 21st Brigade, would cooperate.

The 72nd Regiment, under the command of Gao Weiheng, carried out an attack on the Japanese airfield. The 65th Regiment was responsible for attacking the logistics base at Yanguan.

When the new 7th Brigade and the 21st Brigade were operating at the same time, Liu Tianshu did not let the 22nd Brigade rest, and the 68th and 69th Regiments of the 22nd Brigade used the night to attack the enemy advancing eastward in Guangde.

This night is destined to be a sleepless night.

The 142nd Division of the Japanese Army entered Changxing County at two o'clock in the afternoon.

When the Japanese army entered Changxing County, it was not resisted by the New Fourth Army, so to speak, the 142nd Division rushed to the city of Changxing, and the New Fourth Army had already run away. Those puppet soldiers who cooperated with the action took the lead in rushing into the county seat, and it took a lot of effort to find more than 100 people, holding small plaster flags in their hands, and they came out weakly to shout welcome.

The commander of the 142nd Division of the Japanese Army, Kogqu Wuzhang, did not have much interest in such a small county town as Changxing, and learned that the New Fourth Army had abandoned the city and fled, in order to embody the benevolence and righteousness of the Imperial Japanese Army, he only let the first brigade of the Jicheng Wing as a representative of the imperial army and stationed in Changxing, but his division headquarters was temporarily located in Zhao Village, three miles outside the city.

As an imperial soldier, Xiaoqu Wuzhang longed for the blood and fire of the battlefield, as early as in Japan, he had heard of Liu Tianshu's name, for this Chinese who repeatedly humiliated the imperial army, he had long wanted to see it, and he was even more eager to use his saber to cut off Liu Tianshu's head.

After his 142nd Division and Lieutenant General Liucun's 144th Division landed, they quickly assembled on the front line in Hangzhou, and then he received an order to encircle and suppress the independent division of the New Fourth Army, while the 144th Division received an order to attack westward along the Linchuan line.

As a high-ranking officer of the Empire, he naturally knew the true intentions of the base camp. This time, he led his troops to the north, on the one hand, to eliminate the independent division of the New Fourth Army, and on the other hand, to cooperate with friendly forces in the direction of Wuhu to carry out a thunderous attack on the third theater of operations on the Chongqing side.

Therefore, his 142nd Division will not stay here for long.

The Battle of Changsha will kick off again, and the base camp naturally does not want to let the third theater of operations on the Chongqing side threaten the flank, and only by driving the main force of the third theater into the mountains and forests to the south can the imperial army successfully take Changsha and thus coerce Chongqing.

As for the independent division of the New Fourth Army, it is naturally better to be able to destroy it, and if it cannot be eliminated, there is no need to worry, what great things can be done with only one or two hundred thousand people.

It's just that the upcoming large-scale attack of the 13th Army on the Third Theater is highly secret, and until now, the Third Theater still thinks that the Japanese army is concentrating heavy forces to encircle and suppress Liu Tianshu's independent division this time.

In the evening, Xiaoqu Wuzhang was leisurely sipping sake at the division headquarters when he suddenly received a telegram forwarded by the headquarters of the 13th Army that the New Fourth Army suddenly attacked Wukang County.

Looking at the telegram, Xiaoqu Wuzhang was stunned in his heart, it seems that this Liu Tianshu still has some ability and knows how to avoid the enemy's edge, but Wukang City not only has a wing of Japanese defense, but also has strong fortifications, does the New Fourth Army really want to capture it in one fell swoop.

You must know that if it can't be captured this night, as soon as the planes of the imperial army arrive during the day, it will be even more difficult for the New Fourth Army to capture Wukang City.

It's just that now that he is far away in Changxing, it is impossible to return to reinforce, but fortunately, Wukang is not far from Hangzhou and Linchuan, and once Wukang is in danger, the troops in these two places can naturally go to reinforce.

Thinking of this, he didn't take it to heart.

Hao Mengxuan and Tong Guijie rushed to the outside of Wukang City with their troops in the afternoon. Of course, the devil's defense map naturally didn't get his hands on, but the devil's fortifications outside the city were almost clear.

At 10 o'clock, the 64th Regiment suddenly launched an attack from the east gate, and the division's infantry artillery units concentrated their artillery fire and plowed the devils' outer positions in the east of the city, and then the three battalions of the 64th Regiment quickly pounced, and in a blink of an eye they started a hand-to-hand battle with the two Japanese squadrons guarding outside the city.

The Japanese troops guarding the positions outside the East Gate had already been bombed by the New Fourth Army during the five-minute artillery bombardment, and many fortifications were directly destroyed, and many soldiers were blown to pieces on the spot.

Hearing the trumpet of the New Fourth Army, the remaining soldiers mustered up the courage to take up their weapons, but found that it was pitch black on the opposite side, so they had to keep shooting flares into the air.

However, when he illuminated the front of his position as if it were daylight, he also exposed his position.

In the blink of an eye, the mortar shells of the New Fourth Army came and blew up the positions of the defenders.

The devil did not expect that the New Fourth Army blew the trumpet of the charge but did not launch a charge, but bombarded it with artillery, so he had to lie down and dodge the artillery, but the sharp knife company of the three battalions of the 64th Regiment quietly forced in front of the devil's position under the cover of artillery fire.

As soon as the shelling ended, the New Fourth Army rushed to its positions with shouts.

The Japanese troops holding the position responded in a hurry, which was the opponent of the New Fourth Army, which was in high spirits, and after 20 minutes of fierce fighting, the Japanese positions outside the east gate were lost one after another.

When the fighting was fierce in the east of the city, the guns of the New Fourth Army also sounded in the south, north and west of the city.

Shiro Fukuda, the commander of the Japanese army defending Takeyasu Castle, was startled by the sound of gunfire. Several armies were encircling and suppressing Liu Tianshu's independent division, but outside Wukang City, which was in his rear, a gunshot suddenly rang out, and he was naturally so startled that he jumped up all of a sudden.

In less than a minute, an officer came running to report that the defenders' positions outside the east gate had been attacked.

His face changed, and when he walked to the window, he saw that the eastern sky seemed to be turned red, and he couldn't help but be horrified in his heart.

Just listening to this thunderous explosion, you can know that the Chinese have used great efforts this time. Could it be that the Chinese want to attack Wukang City?

Just as he was suspicious, gunshots also rang out in the other three directions of Wu Kang.

He was a little dumbfounded, there were gunshots in all directions, where is the main direction of attack of the Chinese? The direction of the Chinese's main attack could not be determined, and the reserve brigade he left in the city did not dare to use it easily.

In order to defend the important support point of Wukang County, after the 142nd Division arrived, his entire wing was guarded in the area of the county seat, and its first brigade and the puppet army that cooperated with the operation were responsible for guarding the fortifications outside the city, the second brigade was responsible for guarding the city walls and city gates, and the third brigade was temporarily staying in the city as a reserve.

Just when he was in a dilemma, he received the news that the positions outside the East Gate had been lost one after another, and the Chinese attacked under the East Gate in a blink of an eye. (To be continued.) )