How to fight a night battle has always been an important military subject for discussion between China and Japan, but the night battle of tens of thousands of people on the night of 30 September 1939 did not have any practical reference value.

Because the Japanese army, having lost its supreme commander, collapsed. The Japanese infantry, which had always been known for its strength and ability to fight well, collapsed overnight.

The reason for the collapse of the soldiers was that the entire Japanese attack group was leaderless, and it turned out that if only Lieutenant General Inaba Shiro died alone, it would not lead to the collapse of the Japanese army in the entire Changsha City.

However, when Chen Chao tied Lieutenant General Inaba's dog to an explosive bag and sent it back to Inaba Shiro's headquarters, more than a dozen Japanese brigade commanders and numerous wing commanders had just returned to the headquarters not long after.

Because of the stalemate in the battle between the two sides in the first half of the night, taking advantage of the fact that the offensive and defensive forces of both sides had entered a stage of suspension in the middle of the night, Inaba Shiro took the opportunity to recall almost all the officers above the captain of the brigade and returned to the headquarters for the next step of military deployment.

When that explosive bag exploded in the headquarters, it first killed Shiro Inaba and a dozen generals around him. But none of these are the deadliest, the most lethal is that the detonation of the explosive pack directly blows up the entrance to the bunker.

The collapse of the entrance not only blocked everyone in the bunker, but also caused several important air outlets to be blocked.

And hundreds of staff, including communications, command, staff, operations, and so on, are in this huge bunker.

Due to the blockage of the entrance, there was not enough oxygen in the bunker, and all the staff soon felt that they could not breathe.

In addition, the explosion of the explosive pack caused many documents in the bunker to catch fire, and the burning documents consumed the already small amount of oxygen even faster.

Although soon someone extinguished the open fire in the bunker, and organized manpower to start picking up the dirt and gravel at the entrance with their hands. But dozens of people took turns to fight, and the more they picked up, the more they had no strength.

The boulders that fell from the collapse of the entrance could not be picked up by human hands at all, and soon everyone fell on the ruins of the entrance.

As a result, hundreds of captains at all levels, chiefs of staff, intelligence officers, and middle and high-level officials at all levels in the entire huge bunker headquarters were all buried alive under this rubble.

When Chen Chao arrived at the bunker again with hundreds of squad members, they saw that there was no Japanese defense in the machine gun bunker outside the bunker, and these machine gunners were all digging the entrance to the bunker with various tools.

These Japanese soldiers didn't care at all about the arrival of Chen Chao and other Chinese soldiers, and some Japanese soldiers even threw down their weapons and ran in front of Chen Chao with their hands raised.

Looking at the strange scene in front of him, Xiao Zhang held a gun and asked Chen Chao carefully: "Brother Chen, are these Japanese soldiers in trouble, just forget it if you don't shoot when you see us, and kowtow to us, which play is this singing?"

My father taught me since I was a child, don't hit the smiling person, although the Japanese are hateful, but they all kneel down for us, do you say we shoot or not? ”

"You ask me, who do I ask? I just came to check the results, and who knew that there was a group of Japanese soldiers who had hit the ghost in front of the door of this bunker. Chen Chao also scratched his head, did he capture these people as prisoners? Or did you just shoot these Japanese soldiers? Anyway, the white army commander said that all Japanese soldiers can be killed.

Xiao Zhang didn't reply to Chen Chao for a long time, and then looked at the strange behavior of those Japanese soldiers, he seemed to understand a little: "Brother Chen, looking at them, it seems that they want to rescue the people in the bunker." Could it be that there's something of value in there? Or is there something important in it? ”

"Nonsense, there must be important people, it is estimated that their senior officials are buried inside, maybe their Dazuo is buried in the ruins.

But we don't have time to look at these captives, and I'm going to capture a big one. I made a bet with the commander of our engineer battalion that if I could capture an adjutant knife, he would promote me to platoon commander. Brethren don't have to pity these Japanese devils and surprise them. ”

As soon as Chen Chao's voice fell, he immediately pulled the spear in his hand, and dozens of soldiers of the Third Army of Hainan around him also began to shoot wildly, killing dozens of Japanese machine gunners in front of him.

In this way, the last hope for the survival of the hundreds of officers in the Japanese command was shattered. As there are still numerous boulders blocking the doorway at the entrance.

Chen Chao didn't want to waste this precious time, and after killing these dozens of Japanese soldiers, Chen Chao took Xiao Zhang and others to continue to chase and kill in the direction outside Changsha City.

Tonight's Japanese army is less courageous than rabbits, and its combat effectiveness is weaker than grass, and if you don't take the opportunity to make some military achievements at this time, and if you don't take the opportunity to recover more lost ground, God will blame yourself.

Chen Chao didn't know at all that he had actually become the biggest hero of the First Battle of Changsha, and he had made the greatest contribution. He didn't know that at this time, there were not only dozens of excellent adjutant knives in the bunker, but also more than a dozen general knives quietly waiting for him to get them.

All this will not be unearthed until the dust settles after the Battle of Changsha. Now Chen Chao doesn't know all this, and he is still working hard for the desire to capture a devil officer alive.

On the eighth day of the Battle of Changsha, after a night of fighting, most of the Japanese army had withdrawn from Changsha City, and in just one night, half of Changsha City, which the Japanese army had finally taken, returned to the hands of the Chinese defenders.

Except for a small area left at the east gate to prepare as a springboard for battle, there was no area in the entire Changsha city in the hands of the Japanese army.

On the morning of October 1, when Gangcun Ningci's 30,000-strong army arrived outside Changsha, Gangcun Ningci received a detailed report of the extraordinary battle that had taken place the previous night.

"What? The headquarters of the Sixth Division was attacked by a small detachment of the Hainan Third Army, and from Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba downward, dozens of officers and colonels in the entire headquarters were killed. Gangmura Ningji looked at the report in his hand and showed a shocked expression.

"Yes, Your Excellency Commander, since the soldiers who were fighting at night lost all contact with the headquarters, our army in Changsha fought separately, and the Hainan Third Army attacked in an all-out way, and our army finally had to withdraw from Changsha City entirely.

In last night's battle, half of the soldiers of the 6th Division were killed and wounded, and even the two wings of the 106th Division were seriously damaged, and now they are guarding the front line of the east gate waiting for the commander's tactical guidance. Osa Ishida, who is the chief intelligence officer, reported.

"It's a good Hainan Third Army, they still have this strength, and they hit my Sixth Division hard overnight. It seems that I am going to enter the city in person and give the Hainan Third Army a little color.

I don't believe that if so many of my soldiers are killed or wounded, their Hainan guards will be unscathed, and I want to see how much strength they still have to defend Changsha City. Ordered the 33rd Division to assemble quickly, and after entering the city, directly launched a general attack. ”

It's a pity that Gangcun Ningci didn't calculate that Bai Fengxiang had reinforcements. Just when Gangcun Ningci was mobilizing troops to enter Changsha City and launch an attack on the Third Army of Hainan.

The chief of staff of the 33rd Division ran over from a distance with an urgent telegram: "Commander Gangcun, the big thing is not good, a large number of traces of Chinese army activity have been found outside Changsha City.

The division of these Chinese troops into five routes has blocked several of our retreats to Hubei and Jiangxi, and several units have already engaged in exchanges of fire with the Chinese army.

These Chinese troops have strong firepower and excellent combat effectiveness. According to the reports of our top soldiers, these troops are the main force of the Chinese Ninth Army.

According to the analysis of the staff of our 33rd Division, Xue Yue, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army, is likely to be hidden in these armies. Because we not only found the numbers of these five armies, but also found that these armies cooperated very well with each other.

With the Chinese army's habit of fighting on its own, there must have been higher-ranking generals hiding in these armies, otherwise they would not have been able to attack our retreat almost simultaneously so tacitly. ”

Commander Gangcun immediately picked up the topographic map of Changsha in front of him and looked at it: "This Xue Yue is very bold, he deliberately left the Hainan Third Army to attract our firepower in the city, and he led the main force to jump outside Changsha City and copy our rear road."

As long as he can block us, the Chinese army in the whole of Hunan can surround us outside the city of Changsha, and then the Hainan Third Army will come to the center and blossom, and they will join forces inside and outside to eat us in one fell swoop.

Haha, this Xue Yue's ambition is not small, but it's a pity that his wish is about to come to fruition. Now there are only 20,000 Hainan Third Army in Changsha City, and I don't know how much combat power is left.

And the 50,000 Central National Army was divided into five routes, blocking our five retreat roads. They want to annihilate us in one fell swoop when we are defeated.

However, the strength of the two sides was there, and the nearly 200,000 miscellaneous troops of the Ninth Army were scattered all over Hunan, and it was impossible for them to rush to Changsha in time to defeat themselves.

And as long as he works harder, he may be able to conquer Changsha quickly, where is there any extra Chinese army in Changsha City to defeat him, and the heavenly soldiers and generals are almost the same. ”

Gangcun Ningci figured this out, and was very contemptuous of Xue Yue's groundless blocking of his retreat, and thought he was a good opponent. It turned out that he was also a wise and talented guy.

"Don't worry, we attacked Changsha to destroy the Chinese army, the more Chinese troops around Changsha, the better, as long as we quickly occupy Changsha, the encirclement of the Chinese army around it will become a decoration.

At that time, it's time for us to come to a center and blossom tactics. Gangcun Ningji had just said a few words, and he suddenly found that the chief of staff of the 33rd Division in front of him was looking at the sky behind him in a daze, and his eyes showed a look of horror.

Gangcun Ningci noticed that something was wrong, he heard a louder and louder buzzing sound in his ears, he turned around and looked up, oh my God, the sky in the distance of Changsha City was full of planes, almost no less than hundreds.

"This is a fleet of Chinese?" Just when Gangcun Ningci was shocked, these planes had already flown outside Changsha City, and a full 300 fighters spraying the Hainan Air Force began to frantically drop bombs on the Japanese positions.

Ishida Daisa, who was next to Okamura Ninji, immediately pulled Okamura Ninji from the front of the car to the ditch on the side of the road and hid it. At the same time, more than 20,000 Japanese troops of the 33rd Army also began to scatter, looking everywhere for shelters where they could hide from the bombing of the Hainan Air Force.

However, a full 100 fighters and 200 bombers poured ammunition back and forth on the Japanese army outside Changsha City, and more than half of the more than 20,000 Japanese troops had already suffered casualties in just three rounds of bombing.

Most importantly, most of the heavy weapons brought by the 33rd Army were blown up. When the Hainan Air Force bombed and left satisfied, Gangcun Ningji crawled out of the ditch wet.

"Yaga! Where did our Air Force die? ”