"Yaga!" There were two loud "pops", and a commander of the Haruki Brigade of the 6th Division, who was responsible for attacking Changsha, was slapped twice by the division commander, Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba.

"We are the meritorious unit that occupied the capital of China, and we are one of the two strongest divisions in the empire, and we have always been invincible in China.

I don't think it took so much effort to attack Nanjing, but you were good, but you suffered nearly 5,000 casualties on the first day. How many people are there in our division? If you continue to fight like this, it won't take more than five days for our Sixth Division to be wiped out.

Fighting a small Changsha, your casualties are so large, are you worthy of Lieutenant General Gu Shoufu who was forced into the wilderness? Are you worthy of the trust entrusted to us by Commander Gangmura Ningji? Are you worthy of the high expectations placed on us by the people of the Empire? ”

Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba was furious, he really couldn't understand why the casualties of 50,000 Japanese troops and 30,000 puppet troops would be so large.

"I'm sorry, division commander, it's all my fault, I was too eager to engage in a hand-to-hand street battle with the enemy, and as a result, I was met with strong resistance from the defenders of Changsha.

I will definitely learn a lesson, and tomorrow I will definitely show the Changsha defenders a great experience. However, Your Excellency, the division commander, the combat effectiveness of the Changsha defenders this time was very strong, and almost all of their soldiers were not afraid of death.

Moreover, they are also equipped with a large number of straight-barreled guns that can be fired in a straight line, although the range is not as far as our mortars, but the strike accuracy and intensity are better than our mortars, and they are much stronger than our grenadiers.

If it weren't for the fact that the defenders of Changsha had such a powerful weapon, our tank armored units would not be afraid of street fighting. The commander of the Haruki Brigade reported.

"Now, a cannon that can shoot directly? Is it the kind of cannon that can be carried around by one person, and white smoke will be emitted after firing it? Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba asked strangely.

"Yes, Your Excellency the division commander, it is exactly the kind of artillery you described, this kind of artillery we have suffered from him in Nanjing before, but I didn't expect to encounter it again in Changsha." The commander of the Haruki Brigade responded.

"Do you see the enemy's banner clearly? What part of the troops are they? Inaba Shiro hurriedly asked.

"See, it's the banner of the Third Army of Hainan, but we have never heard of this army, according to the intelligence sent back by our intelligence department, Li Tie only established the First Army and the Second Army of Hainan in Hainan, and did not have the establishment of the Third Army.

Therefore, several brigade commanders and I have always wondered whether the Chinese troops on the other side are trying to scare us under the banner of the Hainan Escort Army, who knows that this unit under the banner of the Hainan Third Army is so strong in combat, although it is not as flexible and changeable as the Hainan Escort Army that fought with us in the past.

However, its ferocity is indeed more severe than that of other guards in Hainan. Their soldiers often carry out suicide attacks even when they are outnumbered.

These soldiers did not care about their lives at all, as if as long as they could achieve a large casualty ratio, their soldiers would not hesitate to pull the cluster grenades on their bodies.

The Hainan Third Army's desperate style of fighting caused our soldiers to suffer heavy casualties, and because the attack was too smooth at the beginning, tens of thousands of people fell for the Hainan Third Army's strategy to lure the enemy into depth.

When our troops penetrated deep into the city center, they were immediately hit by artillery fire from all sides of the city, and by this time it was too late for the soldiers to retreat.

Then tens of thousands of Hainan Third Army and militia in the city came out from every corner, and they were armed with all automatic weapons. Soon the Changsha garrison intersected with the troops we entered the city, and it was impossible to distinguish where the elite troops of the empire were and where the Changsha garrison was.

The Hainan Third Army's large number of automatic weapons caused heavy casualties to our soldiers in street battles. Moreover, hundreds of people of the Third Army of Hainan launched a suicide attack, and as a result, our soldiers were completely emboldened.

Now that the more than 5,000 soldiers who finally ran back have also been killed by the Hainan Guards, I am afraid that tomorrow's attack will have to send more puppet troops or other divisions to take the lead. ”

The commander of the Chunmu Brigade finally said his true purpose, and it turned out that he was also broken by the Hainan Third Army and wanted to come to replace the dead ghosts.

"Major General Haruki, I don't even know how to reprimand you like this. Although you have never heard of the Hainan Third Army, this does not mean that the Hainan Third Army does not exist.

Before we confronted the Hainan Guards, had we heard of the names of the Hainan Guards? Besides, since we can have the numbers of the first and second armies of Hainan, why can't we have the third army, or even the fourth and fifth armies?

Maybe you'll meet more Hainan guards in the future. But these are not the reasons for your defeat, and I admit that the combat effectiveness of the Hainan Guards is indeed much stronger than that of the Central Army. At the end of last year, they also defeated our 21st Army on Hainan Island.

But now in Changsha, Hunan, we have air superiority, we have artillery superiority, and I also have military superiority, I really can't believe that our imperial warriors, who are several times the enemy, can't fight a mere Hainan Third Army?

Passing on my order, I ordered the artillery wing to immediately organize a special bomb attack, and in the middle of the night tonight, I was optimistic about the direction of the wind and fired 1,000 rounds of poison gas bombs into Changsha City.

Tomorrow morning, give me another thousand incendiary rounds. Then we'll go on the offensive again. Before the attack, organize me another 3,000 death squads.

I don't believe that the soldiers of the Third Army in Hainan are all steel and iron bones, and even if the Chinese army is beaten with iron, I will burn them to slag. Shiro Inaba of the Sixth Division said fiercely.

The defenders in Changsha City became the Third Army of Hainan, and this information soon reached Ningci in Gangcun, Wuhan. Look at the battle report in front of you.

Gangcun Ningji fell into deep thought: "Li Tie has been very successful in the past few years, and unconsciously he has developed and grown, and he only knew that he had good strength in Hainan, but now he knows that his big hand has reached out to the Chinese mainland."

With the tradition that the Hainan Guards have always been able to fight well and are well-equipped, if they want to capture Changsha in a short time, the casualties must not be small. I can't say that we can only use more air forces again.

On 24 September, the number of planes attacking Changsha increased to 200, and at the same time, the Japanese army even divided some fighters and began to attack Chongqing, so that the Chinese fighters who came from Chongqing to reinforce were much smaller.

Fortunately, Changsha Chengxian was covered with hundreds of anti-aircraft machine guns and dozens of anti-aircraft guns, although the results of the battle against the air were not large, but they also effectively contained the attack of the Japanese air force. So that the Japanese army did not dare to bomb Changsha unscrupulously.

In the early morning of the 24th, the Japanese army took advantage of the fact that the sky was still very dark and the Chinese defenders in the city were resting, and suddenly fired thousands of poison gas bombs at Changsha Chengxian.

As soon as Bai Fengxiang, who was guarding Changsha City, received the news that the Japanese army was using poison gas bombs, he immediately organized soldiers to evacuate the people overnight.

When the Hainan Third Army was in Vietnam, it often conducted training to prepare for poison gas attacks, so Bai Fengxiang was not worried about the soldiers of the Third Army in Changsha City at this time, he was worried about the 20,000 militiamen.

After all, gas masks are still a rare thing, even if Bai Fengxiang pulls more than a dozen cars this time, there are only 50,000 gas masks. It can only be achieved that all the troops of the Central Army have one hand, and the other 200,000 local troops still do not have a gas mask.

Seeing that the Japanese army really used poison gas to attack, Bai Fengxiang became more and more worried that the people in Changsha City would be affected by the pond fish. And things were just as Bai Fengxiang expected.

The Japanese army's poison gas bombs were extremely powerful, and the breeze was rippling this night, which was just right for the poison gas to spread in the city. As a result, in just a few hours, although all the soldiers of the Hainan Third Army went out of their positions to participate in the rescue and defense against the poison gas attack.

However, in the middle of the night, nearly 10,000 militiamen were poisoned, and although less than 1,000 people actually died, the other 9,000 or so were all seriously injured.

At the same time, tens of thousands of casualties were also suffered among the people of Changsha. All of a sudden, Changsha City was full of mourning. Bai Fengxiang saw the casualty figures in his hand, and his anger flared up.

"Japanese devils, one day I will give you a taste of poison gas bombs." Bai Fengxiang knocked the table in front of him, and the table slammed.

However, the nightmare of the Changsha military and civilians was not over, and when the Changsha soldiers and civilians were busy treating the masses and militiamen who had been smoked by poison gas, they only heard the sound of artillery shells whistling over Changsha again, and then only heard the loud roar of the fire, and one incendiary bomb after another was fired into the city of Changsha by the Japanese army.

Then thousands of houses quickly caught fire, at this time it was the dry weather, a house fire, soon burned to the surrounding houses, the army and civilians in Changsha City had to divide a large number of people again, began to extinguish the fire burning everywhere in the city.

Just when these incendiary bombs successfully set the city on fire in Changsha, it was another ten minutes of artillery fire. Then, thousands of Japanese death squads with white strips of the word "death" tied to their heads began to slowly advance towards Changsha City with the help of tens of thousands of puppet soldiers.

This time, the Japanese army was no longer greedy for merit, and every time they went to a block, they had to repeatedly search every corner of the block, and after making sure that this block was not hidden by the Hainan Third Army, they would leave a part of the soldiers to occupy it, and then advance to the front block again.

The Japanese took this steady approach, and apart from a little sporadic resistance, they did not encounter real resistance. After a whole day of attacking, it seemed that it took almost no effort to occupy one-third of Changsha City.

The Sixth Division cheered from top to bottom, the power of the army's special ammunition was too strong, and if this continued, in three days, they would be able to occupy Changsha City.

When the news of the Japanese occupation of one-third of Changsha City came back to Wuhan, Gangcun Ningci squinted his eyes and nodded happily.

At the same time, the news that Changsha City had been seriously damaged by the poison gas attack reached Chongqing, and Commander Jiang and a group of national bigwigs were shocked and asked Xue Yue again and again what was going on in Changsha City.

And Xue Yue only replied: "The casualties are very heavy, but everything is under control." Hearing Xue Yue's simple telegram, the Chongqing national bigwigs were so angry that they greeted the eighteenth generation of Xue Yue's ancestors.

It's a pity that Xue Yue, who was hidden on the outskirts of Changsha, couldn't hear the curses of these bigwigs, and at the same time, he was also cursing Bai Fengxiang in Changsha City, because that sentence was what Bai Fengxiang told him. Because he couldn't get the specific situation in Changsha City, he could only report to the Chongqing bigwigs in Bai Fengxiang's original words.