In the dark of night, the officers and men of the 6th Division were evacuating from the dangerous place. The commander of the 6th Division was confused on the way to retreat, and from time to time he pondered a puzzled question in his mind: The Japanese army intercepted the evacuation of the troops on the front line? "Chief of Staff, you said that the Japanese army was evacuated?" The chief of staff said without thinking: "It must be our reinforcements coming up, and the Japanese army chose to retreat because of their timidity?" "Impossible, the first line of heaven is very dangerous, and even if the rescue force comes up, it will not be able to capture the first line of heaven in a short time, so I guess that there is a problem with the Japanese defense line of Guishan."

The chief of staff was surprised: "You mean that the 8th Division took the opportunity to launch an attack on the Guishan defensive line?" The commander of the 6th division said: "The Japanese army has stationed two divisions on the Eastern Front's Guishan and Gufeng defense lines and Tianmu Mountain defense lines. We have already learned that the Japanese troops blocking us at Rabbit Ridge had at least one brigade, and that the closest Japanese troops to us were the Watanabe Division, which was defending the defense line of Turtle Mountain and Gufeng. ”

The chief of staff suddenly realized: "Division commander, what do you mean to say that the Watanabe Division blocked us at Rabbit Ridge and used reserve brigades, and it was the Japanese army that mobilized the troops to intercept our troops in the Guishan position. "Exactly, otherwise the Japanese army would not have had time to quickly draw troops. Therefore, I guess that the 8th Division was the void of the Kameyama defense, and immediately captured the fighters, and it is very likely that it broke through the Kameyama defensive line. "If the 8th Division unexpectedly breaks through the Guishan defensive line, the situation of the battle will inevitably change greatly." The chief of staff was surprised.

The commander of the 6th Division stopped and said loudly: "Order the troops to stop advancing." The follow-up troops were ordered to control both sides of the first line of heaven and make contact with the 12th Division to follow up. Order the forward brigade to withdraw, the reserve brigade to turn around, and we will kill him with a rifle. The chief of staff said worriedly: "Division commander, do you want to report to the corps headquarters?" "It's too late, the battle is a little less fleeting, and we must seize the opportunity."

The 6th Division turned around and fired a shot, and the melee situation that was extremely favorable to the Northern Expeditionary Army began. At this moment, the brigade of the Japanese army blocking at Rabbit Ridge received an order from the commander of the Watanabe Division, and 100,000 people in Kameyama were in a hurry. The commander of the Japanese brigade immediately rushed back to help. He left only one brigade to defend Rabbit Ridge and notified the French troops on the west side to take over the Rabbit Ridge defensive position. But who would have thought that the besieged Northern Expeditionary Army actually killed a horse pistol. At about 4 a.m., fierce fighting broke out again.

The officers and men of the 6th Division themselves were holding back their anger, they bravely charged, and in less than an hour, the defending Japanese brigade was difficult to parry, and the officers and men were overwhelming and bravely rushed to kill, and the Japanese brigade was defeated. The 6th Division did not give up and pursued all the way. It is said that the Japanese brigade should be unlucky. At this time, Watanabe, the commander of the Japanese division, had been killed, and the 1st Division of the 8th Division was attacking the main position of Gufeng. The other was exchanging fire with a brigade of the Lai Gu Division, which had come in for reinforcements.

Let's talk about the 11th Provisional Division, which followed the 8th Division into the Gushan area, and immediately used two brigades to block the Kawashima Brigade that was returning to the reinforcements, and then surrounded the Kawashima Brigade. Then the provisional 11th Division dispatched a brigade to the north, targeting the Japanese brigade at Rabbit Ridge. It just so happened that this Japanese brigade quickly returned to help, and the brigade of the 101st Division going north intercepted the Japanese brigade in the charming valley, and a large-scale melee opened the situation.

There was no combat at all, it was all up to the commander's on-the-spot performance, and in a word, it was to destroy the enemy in front of him. At dawn, the commander of the 6th Division ascended to Rabbit Ridge, and at this time, the French troops on the west side had already retreated when they saw that things were not going well. A war horse stopped in front of the commander of the 6th Division, "Report to the division commander, the pursuing troops found that the Japanese army was blocked in the charming valley, and the number of the interception unit is unknown." ”

The commander of the 6th Division glanced at the chief of staff and said, "There is no doubt that the 8th Division must have broken through the Guishan defensive line. Order the whole division to advance immediately towards the Charming Valley, and I will eat this Japanese unit cleanly. The chief of staff said: "Division commander, what should I do with Tongbai County?" "The battle situation has changed greatly, Tongbai County is no longer important, notify the 12th Division for the time being, and Tongbai County will be handed over to them." After speaking, the commander of the 6th Division stepped on his war horse and took the lead in running east. The officers and soldiers trotted all the way, as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

A few hours later, the main force of the 6th Division arrived on the battlefield and quickly encircled the Japanese brigade. The Japanese army was very tenacious in a desperate situation, and this is the difference between the Japanese army and the Western troops, knowing that they were in a desperate situation, they still resisted stubbornly. In the afternoon of the same day, the Japanese brigade was gradually compressed into an area of less than two kilometers. The division headquarters, the 6th Division, said in a loud voice: "The general attack will be launched in 10 minutes, and the Japanese troops in front of you have humiliated us, show your courage and meet the Japanese bayonets." ”

Accompanied by the sound of a loud military trumpet, the officers and men of the 6th Division rushed towards the enemy position like tigers descending from the mountains. Brutal hand-to-hand combat broke out, and the Japanese army's stabbing jishu had not yet formed a large-scale during this period, especially the physique and liliang of the Japanese soldiers could not be compared with the Northern Expeditionary Army, and the Japanese soldiers fell into disadvantage at the beginning of hand-to-hand combat.

A tall soldier of the Northern Expeditionary Army was not afraid to face the three Japanese soldiers, only to see him stride and stab, and the tip of the knife quickly plunged into the chest of the Japanese soldier who was advancing in front of him. Before the other two Japanese soldiers could react, the Northern Expeditionary soldier had already drawn his bayonet, and then smashed the butt of his rifle into the Japanese soldier next to him. The Japanese soldiers hurriedly blocked with their guns, and the bayonets of the Japanese soldiers on the other side of the kung fu stabbed fiercely.

This tall soldier of the Northern Expeditionary Army, with a twisted figure, a bayonet slashed under his armpit. It can be described as a master of art and boldness, this Northern Expeditionary soldier took advantage of the situation to clamp the bayonet of the Japanese soldier, and then flew with a kick, and suddenly the short Japanese soldier's body was thrown up. Another Japanese soldier was affected, and when he was stunned, the rifle between the armpit of the Northern Expeditionary soldier and the Japanese soldier's head was wrestled, and the following scene could be imagined with his feet.

The battlefield was full of bloody corpses of Japanese soldiers, and the Northern Expeditionary Army's bayonets and brutal fighting made the will of the Japanese soldiers collapse, and some soldiers began to lay down their arms and surrender. The commander of the Japanese brigade in Zuihou committed suicide in despair, and the Japanese army gave up resistance. By dusk, the battle was over. Almost at the same moment, the 8th Division captured Gufeng and wiped out the Japanese troops at Gufeng. In addition, the battle of the provisional 11th Division against the Kawashima Brigade was also coming to an end. Although the battle of the 81st Division, which was responsible for intercepting the brigades of the Yoriya Division, was still going on, with the destruction of the Watanabe Division, it became clear that there was a large-scale melee.

That night, the 12th Division followed in the footsteps of the 6th Division, and after crossing the Rabbit Ridge, they quickly advanced towards Tongbai County, and launched an attack on Tongbai County in the middle of the night. The French army defending Tongbai County was difficult to resist, and after resisting for several hours, the French army abandoned Tongbai County. The impregnable defense line of Tongbai Mountain, which was propagated by the coalition forces, was completely broken.

The commander of the French Army Headquarters in Tanghe, Bergony, initially received a report from the Japanese army, saying that he did not care about the crisis of the Guishan defensive line. The reason is that the Kameyama defense line is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and I didn't expect Watanabe to transfer Kameyama's defensive forces. However, when the French army on the west side of Rabbit Ridge received a report that the besieged Northern Expeditionary Army suddenly occupied Rabbit Ridge, Commander Bergoni realized that something was wrong.

The chief of staff of the French army panicked: "How can there be a problem with the Guishan defense line defended by the Japanese army, could it be that the Japanese army has withdrawn the strength of the Guishan defense line to intercept the besieged Northern Expeditionary Army?" Bergni said: "Maybe we were fooled, the Northern Expeditionary Army used bait tactics and deliberately let us be fooled, it seems that the Guishan defense line is dangerous." Is there any news from the direction of Kameyama? The delay in the news of the battlefield made Bergoni hesitate, and at the same time he misjudged the situation on the battlefield.

Bergoni hesitated, and the situation changed dramatically overnight, and then bad news came from Tongbai County, and the news that the Northern Expeditionary Army had captured Tongbai County came in the morning. At this time, Bergny realized that the Turtle Mountain defense line had been lost, and in a hurry, he quickly ordered the French troops to abandon their forward positions and shrink their forces back. Another important factor is that the headquarters of the capital should have sent an order, but there has been no news so far, and many factors have combined to hasten his demise.

The news of the great change in the battlefield situation soon reached the headquarters of the Northern Expeditionary Army in Wuhan, and everyone immediately boiled when they heard it. Chen Jintang was overjoyed and said: "Commander-in-chief, just as you said, the situation on the battlefield is unpredictable, it is simply a melee. Pei Ge chimed in: "A melee that is very beneficial to me and relieved of luck, the breakthrough of the Guishan defense line means that the Tongbai Mountain defense line is fragmented. At present, the 13th and 15th divisions have been inserted into Xinyang, and if we capture Faith, the British and French troops will be surrounded. ”

Deng Zixuan also said with joy on his face: "This is the will of heaven, which shows that the invaders will not end well." At present, the French army has retreated, and Li Tianxiang was ordered to slow down the offensive and not to force the French army in a hurry. I would like to confirm whether the coalition headquarters is effectively in control of the situation at the front. If this is true, we will be determined to eat the coalition forces in Henan. In addition, Li Tianxiang was ordered to increase the strength of three divisions on the Guishan side and form a large corps pattern in the east to prevent the coalition forces from escaping. ”

An operational staff officer of this kung fu came in to report: "Report, the headquarters of the Middle Route Corps reports that the Japanese troops in Tianmu Mountain have abandoned their positions and fled to Dabie Mountain. Chen Jintang said with a smile: "Commander-in-chief, if the Japanese division and regiment stick to Tianmu Mountain, we will inevitably be in trouble, and choosing to flee to the hinterland of Dabie Mountain is to accelerate our demise." Ordered the Central Route Corps to dispatch a division in the direction of Anhui to intercept the Japanese Lai Gu Division, and I wanted to completely destroy this Japanese army. ”

Deng Zixuan continued: "It seems that we have succeeded in paralyzing the Jihua of the coalition headquarters, and the coalition forces in various places have fallen into a situation of fighting their own battles. I think the commanders in the various parts of the coalition forces will soon judge the situation, so preventing the coalition forces from escaping is the first priority. Being able to eat the coalition forces on a large scale is more important than capturing a city. Therefore, we have to make large-scale adjustments in our operations. "The situation on the battlefield has changed dramatically, and Deng Zixuan naturally wants to speed up the process.

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