At the same time, Li Tie, who was far away in Hainan, also received information from Bai Fengxiang that the defenders of Changsha had been attacked by the Japanese army. At the same time, on the periphery of Changsha, in many combat areas on the border between Hunan and Jiangxi and Hubei, the Japanese army also used poison gas bombs.

The Japanese gas bombs caused heavy losses to the Chinese military and civilians, who lacked adequate gas masks. Many of the Chinese troops who were pestering were dying in battalions and regiments. Tens of thousands of soldiers lost their combat effectiveness because of the lack of deep poisoning, and as a result, they were captured by the Japanese army.

As a result, the Japanese army accelerated the pace of encirclement in the Changsha area, while the Chinese army lost the opportunity to quickly move closer to Changsha because there were too many wounded to be accommodated.

Thanks to the Hainan Third Army, which came to help defend Changsha City, otherwise Xue Yue would have to fight alone in Changsha City now. The central flowering tactic he thought of was simply impossible to implement.

Now it's different, although the national army on the periphery of Changsha has suffered all kinds of losses and can't rush to the outside of Changsha in time, but who can know that Xue Yue is not in Changsha City now, but hiding in the mountains outside Changsha City and waiting for the opportunity.

However, even Xue Yue, who was hiding in the mountains outside Changsha, was subjected to a tentative attack by the Japanese army's poison gas bombs. Fortunately, Xue Yue also had the gas mask sent by Li Tie, and it was hidden in the mountains, so the loss was not large.

After a simple attack on the mountainous areas outside Changsha, the Japanese army did not find the Chinese army hiding in it, so they thought that several mountainous areas near Changsha were safe, so the armies everywhere once again accelerated their speed and moved closer to Changsha City.

Xue Yue and Bai Fengxiang confirmed the attack time again. Since Xue Yue's troops only brought seven days of food, the local troops in Hunan had to arrive at the designated place within seven days.

And Bai Fengxiang got the death order to defend Changsha City for at least seven days, and after seven days, it was the day of the general attack. Xue Yue had already discussed with Commander Chiang in Chongqing that it would be time to counterattack the Japanese army in seven days.

At the same time, Li Tie, who was far away in Hainan, also communicated with Bai Fengxiang by telegram, and it was also seven days later, Hainan's reinforcements would arrive, so whether Bai Fengxiang's Hainan Third Army could hold Changsha City for seven days was the key to the victory of this Battle of Changsha.

Bai Fengxiang brought all the orders of Li Tie and Xue Yue to the generals of the Third Army, whether it was several division commanders of the original 19th Route Army or several generals who Bai Fengxiang and Yang Hucheng later poached from the Northeast Army and the Northwest Army, they all agreed that they must resolutely complete the tasks assigned by their superiors, and defend Changsha City even if they fight to the death of one soldier.

Bai Fengxiang, who was deeply convinced, immediately ordered the whole army to take the initiative to attack and fight for the area that the Japanese army had already occupied. On the night of the Japanese occupation of one-third of Changsha, the Guangxi children of the Third Army of Hainan were famous for their lightness, dexterity, and good at fighting in the mountains, but now they were in the low city of Changsha.

In the ruins, the soldiers of the Third Army of Hainan were interspersed, and they were even more like fish in water. Thousands of soldiers of the Third Army of Hainan were covered with grenades and held various submachine guns in their hands. Hundreds of small detachments, with the help of familiar terrain, began to clear the occupied area by area to clear the Japanese troops in the occupied area.

These soldiers of the Hainan Third Army fought very cunningly, and they would not engage in a long war of attrition with the Japanese troops in their positions.

As long as the first wave of sneak attacks cannot be successful, immediately shift positions to attack the next target, and then several teams that have completed the task will turn around and surround the target that did not succeed in the first time.

If all the Japanese troops occupied Changsha City had been occupied, the Japanese army would have fought better, and the Japanese army was known for its strong combat effectiveness.

However, don't forget that at this time, only a few thousand Japanese troops occupied one-third of Changsha City, and even if the Japanese troops temporarily stationed last night did not exceed 5,000 in total, there were nearly 10,000 puppet troops standing at the forefront of the position.

As a result, more than 10,000 puppet troops who could only fight with the wind collapsed after receiving the first wave of attacks, and tens of thousands of defeated soldiers fled outside Changsha City, and many defeated soldiers rushed into the Japanese position. And the Hainan Guards found an opportunity to take advantage of it.

As a result, dozens of small detachments of the Hainan Third Army pretended to be puppet troops and began to carry out a sneak attack on the Japanese positions. As a result, the unsuspecting Japanese troops were severely damaged by the small detachment of the Third Army in Hainan, and the Japanese soldiers, who had been tired for a day, were sent to the west by grenades thrown into the house from the window before they could even put on their clothes.

As a result, the gunfire and explosions continued throughout Changsha, and the fighting between China and Japan continued, and the Japanese army was already defeated, and I don't know whether the puppet army speaking Chinese in front of me was a real puppet army or a fake Hainan Third Army.

The poor Sixth Division Major General Haruki immediately reported the chaos in the city to Lieutenant General Inaba Shiro, and in desperation, the commander of the Sixth Division could only order Major General Haruki to lead the death squad to withdraw from the city first, and wait for dawn to find a way.

After a night of fighting, the Hainan Third Army successfully drove the Japanese army out of Changsha City. That is to say, on the third day of the war, it returned to the situation at the beginning of the war, and the Hainan Third Army still controlled the entire Changsha City.

The Japanese army still surrounded Changsha City on all sides, and still confronted the Changsha defenders inside the city not far from the city.

Looking at Changsha City in the distance, which was still emitting black smoke from time to time, Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba had black lines all over his face.

"Is Xue Yue in the city? This style of fighting was not Xue Yue's command style at all. ”

"Report to the general, Xue Yue's headquarters is located in the city, although we have not directly engaged Xue Yue's Central Army, but our reconnaissance plane reported that a large number of national troops in the city have been attacked by poison gas.

And these wounded national troops numbered tens of thousands, and only the Central Army could hide in the city with the size of tens of thousands. Therefore, it can be inferred from this that Xue Yue should be in the city. The intelligence chief of the 6th Division reported back.

"In other words, Xue Yue's central army has been hit hard, and now the defense of the entire Changsha City is in charge of the Hainan Guards, but when did the Hainan Guards enter the city? Why did our intelligence officers not find out when so many troops entered Changsha City? Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba looked cold.

"Report to the general, before we attacked Hunan, the entire Changsha was deploying troops every day, and for more than a year, the Chinese army has paid great attention to the secret work in the theater, so it is difficult for our intelligence personnel to get accurate reports on the movement of troops in a timely manner." The intelligence chief reported.

"In this way, the Hainan Third Army also entered Changsha City only a few days before the war, but why is the Hainan Third Army, which has just entered Changsha City, so difficult?

Moreover, I also found that whether it was from the Battle of Shanghai, to the Battle of Nanjing, to the Battle of Hainan, or now to the Battle of Changsha, it seems that as long as there is a presence of the Hainan Guards, the attack of our Imperial Japanese Army will always be frustrated, and in the end, even if the battle is won, there will be heavy casualties. "Shiro Inaba was very depressed. I had a headache for the Hainan guards who suddenly appeared in Changsha City.

In fact, after several years of fighting, the Japanese military has discovered that the most capable regular army in China is the National Revolutionary Army. Almost all local troops were able to fight face-to-face with the Japanese army under the leadership of the Nationalist Army.

Although the soldiers of the Nationalist Army were able to fight, their generals were dull in tactics, their command ability was weak, and their ability to coordinate between troops was almost zero. Therefore, they were often defeated by the Japanese army due to their lack of tacit cooperation with each other.

Of course, the Nationalist Army also had other local troops with very strong combat effectiveness and strong command ability, such as Li Zongren's Gui Army and Liu Xiang's Sichuan Army, but most of these local troops were outdated in equipment and could not resist the Japanese army with obvious equipment superiority.

However, there are exceptions among China's hundreds of local warlords, and this exception is the Hainan Escort Army led by Li Tie. Since Li Tie's Hainan Escort Army appeared in front of the world, it has never played its cards according to common sense.

Whether it was the magical regiment of the Battle of Shanghai, the independent regiment of the Battle of Nanjing, and the Second Army of Hainan composed of the 19th Route Army, even the navy and air force of Hainan, which had only been established for a few years, suddenly appeared and brought great losses to the Japanese military.

Think about the Battle of Hangzhou Bay during the Battle of Shanghai, and think about the Battle of Hainan Island a year ago, both of which caused tens of thousands of losses to the Japanese army. In this comparison, the losses inflicted on the Japanese army by troops in other places are almost negligible.

Lieutenant General Yotsuba Inada couldn't figure it out, why is there such a big gap in combat effectiveness between the same local Chinese troops?"

Although Lieutenant General Daotian couldn't understand this truth, if the more than 100,000 troops could not take Changsha City, which was defended by tens of thousands of local troops, he might as well be killed by a headlong crash.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Inada ignored the request of the Haruki Brigade, which had already suffered more than half of the casualties, and strictly ordered the commander of the Haruki Brigade to immediately organize an attack.

So the poor commander of the Chunmu Brigade had to lead the death squad and tens of thousands of puppet troops to attack Changsha City again. But this time Changsha City is not easy to fight.

Although the defenders of Changsha still retreated without a fight, they took the initiative to give up the neighborhood near the city gate. But this time, these neighborhoods have become hedgehogs covered in thorns, because the soldiers of the Hainan Third Army planted a lot of tricks when they evacuated these neighborhoods. As a result, the Japanese daredevils and puppet soldiers who searched for it suffered heavy casualties.

The commander of the Chunmu Brigade saw the casualty reports that kept coming back, and he was so angry that he was about to go crazy: "The Chinese are cunning and cunning, they did not bury mines during the first occupation, and buried them in the second occupation, which still makes people not live?" ”

In fact, the commander of the Chunmu Brigade could not blame the Hainan Third Army, Changsha City was occupied for the first time because the Hainan Third Army was busy treating the wounded who had been poisoned by poison gas that night.

Now it's different, the same night drove the Japanese army out, and the 20,000 soldiers of the Hainan Third Army couldn't all defend the entire Changsha City, so they could only choose to give up some positions.

The soldiers of the Third Army who had eased up would not give their positions to the Japanese army in vain, so when the soldiers of the Third Army of Hainan evacuated their original positions, they planted a lot of trip mines, pressure mines, and even cluster grenades that were detonated with time bombs.

After suffering a large number of casualties, the Japanese army had to mobilize a large number of engineers to begin the gradual demining and explosive removal work in the Japanese-occupied area of Changsha City.

In this way, after two days of difficult demining work, the Japanese finally reoccupied a third of Changsha, but two more days passed.

When the Chunmu Brigade finally occupied the position, the Battle of Changsha had entered the sixth day, and the official offensive and defensive battle between the two sides began again.