Chapter 439: Fierce Night Battle

The night of the seventh day of the Battle of Changsha came, and this night was the most important night for both China and Japan. Both sides want to launch a night attack in order to inflict more damage on the other.

Shiro Inaba hoped that tonight's night attack would inflict heavy damage on the Changsha defenders, and that it would be best if they could drive the Changsha defenders out of the city, just in time to use this victory to present the arrival of Commander-in-Chief Gangmura Ningji.

Bai Fengxiang also wanted to take advantage of the last night to inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army, he gathered a full 10,000 people of the Hainan Third Army, tonight he is not afraid to fight the team, as long as he can support until tomorrow day, Li Tie's reinforcements will arrive.

Li Tie did not tell Bai Fengxiang when the reinforcements would arrive, but Li Tie said that as long as they could hold out until noon tomorrow, the reinforcements would definitely arrive, and victory would definitely belong to the Hainan Guards. Both strong armies, both wanting to take advantage of the night to inflict heavy damage on each other, attacked almost at the same moment.

On the evening of the seventh day, the soldiers of both China and Japan had just finished dinner and received the last pre-war mobilization from the commanders at all levels, and then tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides began to enter their respective positions, and they would deal the most fatal blow to the other side tonight.

First, after a half-hour artillery preparation, hundreds of Japanese artillery pieces of various types were the first to attack, and almost at the same moment, hundreds of artillery pieces of various types of Hainan Third Army also bombarded the Japanese position.

Since it was night, everyone could not find the specific location of the opponent's artillery position, so the artillery on both sides smashed as many shells in their hands as possible to the opponent's known position.

Because the Chinese army was often shelled by the Japanese army, it was accustomed to the long-term fire preparation of the Japanese artillery, but the Japanese soldiers, who were known for their elite, were not used to such a long period of shelling by the Chinese troops on the opposite side.

Many Japanese soldiers wondered if their artillery had hit the wrong position, and they had never encountered such a fierce shelling by the Chinese army.

Many Japanese veterans even doubted that if the Chinese on the opposite side of every battle had so much artillery fire, they Japanese would not have been able to defeat the Chinese so easily.

At this time, Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba was hiding in a well-defended bunker, which was converted from a large bomb shelter. There is only one entrance to the entire bunker, except for a few hidden air outlets.

This entrance is surrounded by machine-gun bunkers, which are defended by the 6th Division's direct spy squadron. If you want to storm the command bunker through the protection of these machine gun bunkers, it is impossible to storm this bunker without thousands of people regardless of casualties.

This large bunker was one of the most outstanding permanent fortifications of the Changsha garrison, but unfortunately it had to be abandoned due to a lack of troops, and the Japanese took advantage of it.

However, even if it was an empty bunker, the Sixth Division had sacrificed hundreds of elite soldiers in order to get this bunker a few days ago.

Because this bunker group has been planted with dozens of mines, and the trigger point of these mines is actually the doorknob of one of the innermost bathrooms in the bunker headquarters.

All it takes is for someone to pull the doorknob in the bathroom to set off a bomb planted around the bunker complex.

This immoral design is too deceitful, if it weren't for the fact that a soldier had a stomachache at the time and detonated this mechanism in advance. If Shiro Inaba's headquarters were all moved in and then detonated, then their sixth division would have a lot of fun.

So when the news of the detonation of this bunker group reached Inaba Shiro's ears, he came to check it out curiously, and as soon as Inaba Shiro came here, he took a fancy to the ease of defense and difficult to attack of this bunker, and immediately decided to set up the headquarters here.

Therefore, he was relieved to leave only one squadron of spies here to defend, and put all his troops into the operation of attacking the defenders of Changsha.

Through the hidden lookout, you can clearly see the cannonballs whistling in the sky in front of you from time to time and glowing, and Shiro Inaba's brows couldn't help frowning slightly:

"It seems that the defenders of Changsha on the opposite side have not put their real strength on display, and tonight, they took out hundreds of guns at once, and the firepower of the artillery seems to be no less than that of the Japanese army.

This has not happened in the past few years since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War. And tonight, the Chinese defenders are shelling like losers, which shows that they are also preparing to launch a big battle this evening.

It seems that the commander of the other party is also a gambler who loves to take risks and does not play cards according to common sense. This character is a bit similar to me, in that case, let's play bigger, and see if it is the attack of your Chinese army, or the combat effectiveness of our great Japanese Empire. ”

Thinking of this, Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba immediately issued an operational order to the Liangshang Wing of the 106th Division, which came to reinforce them, ordering them to enter the last urban area of Changsha in the form of a group attack without first reporting near the headquarters.

He believed that the last defensive focus of the Changsha defenders must be there, and since the Chinese army also had to send a large number of soldiers to attack the Japanese army, their rear defense must be empty. In this case, it is the opportunity for their 106th Division to make a contribution.

Tonight, their Sixth Division will be responsible for dragging the Third Army on the opposite side of the sea. He wanted to see that the Changsha Command, without the protection of the Hainan Third Army, could support for several hours under the protection of a group of wounded soldiers.

Half an hour of artillery coverage was over, and the soldiers on both sides divided into hundreds of small detachments and began to shoot at each other like hundreds of sharp arrows. Some of the sharp arrows met unexpectedly in the air and both broke off, while some of the sharp arrows passed by and shot into the depths of the other party.

In less than three hours, more than 30,000 elite soldiers and nearly 1,000 squads of Chinese and Japanese troops had already gathered together in the entire city of Changsha.

There was scuffle everywhere, gunfire everywhere, and the strategic points that the large forces were responsible for defending at this time were the quietest. Because no squad will take the initiative to attack an area defended by a large army.

The squads of both sides are strangling each other's living forces, and both sides are thinking of doing their best to kill and injure each other's fighters.

Inaba Shiro thought very clearly, he had a lot of soldiers, and he could afford it. And Bai Fengxiang was thinking that a soldier who did not go through a bloody battle was not a good soldier, so he was willing to die.

The two ruthless generals were attacking each other with childlike tactics, fighting until midnight, soldiers on both sides were entangled, many troops were scattered, and they didn't know who was fighting, and the original battle target had long been lost.

Now I don't know where I am, in short, I shoot when I see the enemy, and blow up the enemy's fortifications when I see them.

It is said that the course of war is controlled by great men, but the outcome of war is often determined by small people, this sentence is too incisive.

Originally, if there was no small person, the seventh night of the Battle of Changsha must have been a lose-lose battle. Even if you fight until dawn, you won't be able to tell the winner.

In this way, on the eighth day, Li Tie's reinforcements arrived, and Xue Yue may have also gone out of the mountain, but Gangcun Ningci's reinforcements also arrived. The two sides are still half-hearted, but I am afraid that the battle of Changsha will only be more tragic than in the previous life.

The outcome of the war was also not predicted by anyone. But due to the appearance of a small person, the whole battle situation became confusing.

This little person is a soldier from Yulin, Guangxi, of the Third Army of Hainan, he is an engineer of the Third Army of Hainan, and he is also a blaster, whose name is very ordinary, called Chen Chao.

When the fierce battle reached midnight, the soldiers on both sides were seriously overdrawn both mentally and physically, and the Japanese soldiers at this time were no longer able to continue to carry out a wide range of interspersed positions in the Changsha defenders.

Many Japanese soldiers have begun to look for a place to hide and rest, preparing that when the Japanese army attacks here the next day, they can kill from the shadows, come to meet the outside and deal heavy damage to the defenders of Changsha.

After a night of fighting, the nearly 10,000 soldiers of the Hainan Third Army had already lost more than half. However, thousands of soldiers were also lost in the Japanese positions.

They could not find a sheltered place to sleep, because they could not quickly find their way back to their positions on the Chinese side.

Early tomorrow morning, as soon as the morning dawns, the large forces of the Japanese army will find them, and at that time they will have no chance to run even if they want to.

The Japanese army's combat effectiveness during the day was very strong, and if nothing else, the mortars and grenadiers that were fired very accurately were enough for them to drink a pot.

Chen Chao's squad had a total of thirty people, which were a super attack force squad composed of an engineer squad, a machine gun squad and an infantry squad.

From the beginning of the battle, they began to boldly intersperse with the Japanese positions from west to east, except for the defensive area of two large armies, they made a detour, and on the way they encountered no less than five Japanese detachments.

The small number of them surrounded and annihilated together, and the large number of people they fired a few shots, threw down a few grenades and ran away. After most of the night's fighting, they had only a few grenades left, enough bullets for two skirmishes, and only two explosives packs left. They were carried on the shoulders of Chen Chao and another sapper.

After these battles, although their small detachment killed and wounded no less than 100 Japanese soldiers, their combat attrition was also very serious, and now there are only 10 people who can walk and do not affect the battle.

Almost all the people who could not walk, or were seriously injured and could no longer fight, either freed themselves or dragged the Japanese soldiers who were close to them to Huangquan before they died.

Now the Chen Dynasty and several people are hiding under the low wall of a ruin, and everyone is leaning against the wall, taking advantage of the temporary tranquility of the battlefield to rest carefully.

The captain of this squad had already died with the enemy, and several squad leaders also died heroically in order to cover everyone's retreat when they were entangled with the Japanese army.

Among the ten people who are still alive now, Chen Chao is the oldest, so he naturally became the temporary commander of this team.

He asked everyone to rest first, he came to stand guard, and after two hours, everyone continued to attack the Japanese army, since they were destined to not go back tonight, then they would die vigorously.

Who knew that the team had just fallen asleep, and Chen Chao was lying on the low wall and suddenly smelled a familiar smell: "Well, where is the smell of dog urine?" ”

Then Chen Chao, who lives in Yulin, Guangxi, and has been killing and selling dogs for a living for generations, carefully climbed over a low wall, taking advantage of the light that is still on fire next to the ruins. He saw several Japanese soldiers leading a large wolfdog to pee under the rubble.