Faced with the fact that the positions outside the city were all lost, Lieutenant General Chilu Li was also powerless, and the field artillery wing inside the city was completely wiped out, and he could not come up with more means to stop the attack of the Chinese army. There are still more than 10,000 troops in the city, and one-third of them are drawn from the engineer brigade and the baggage wing, and the combat effectiveness is relatively poor.

The walls of Yongzhou City could not withstand the long-term bombardment of the heavy artillery of the Chinese army, and the chief of staff, Chikawa Yongji Daisa, proposed to abandon the city walls, put all the troops in the city, and use the fortifications in the city to drag the Chinese army, but Lieutenant General Chilu Li thought for a long time and felt that the city wall still had to be defended. So he placed a squadron of soldiers on each of the three walls to defend it.

At dawn the next day, the Japanese troops defending on the city wall saw huge chariots lined up a few hundred meters outside the city, and the black barrels of the chariots pointed directly at the city wall. Behind the chariot were heavily armed infantry, and the murderous aura that soared into the sky made the Japanese troops on the city wall chill for a while. They hadn't been nervous for long before the heavy artillery of the Chinese army began to roar.

Cannonballs whistled and fell, most of them falling on the city walls, and a few exploding inside and outside the city. A loud explosion rang out, and the walls trembled with the earth. From time to time, shrapnel flew everywhere to harvest the life of a Japanese soldier, and the blood-stained city walls were mottled. Half an hour later, several of the walls could not withstand such a bombardment and collapsed with a bang, when the engines of the chariots waiting in front of the attack position sounded with a bang.

The remnants of the Japanese troops on the city wall were horrified to see that the huge chariot hundreds of meters away was moving, and it was rushing towards the collapsed city wall faster and faster. "The Shina army is attacking!" Several shouts rang out almost at the same time, and some of the Japanese soldiers who had reacted were lying on the city wall and began to shoot outside the city. However, the sparse sound of gunfire could not stop the Chinese army from attacking.

In the command post outside the south gate of Yongzhou City, Tang Longzai arrived early in the morning, and he will still sit here to command the battle today. In front of the positions were two heavy tanks, four light tanks, four heavy armored vehicles and ten light armored vehicles. Behind these battlecars were all the officers and men of the 877th Regiment who attacked at the same time. The reason why ten light armored vehicles have been added today is due to the fact that in street battles only armored vehicles are the most practical, especially light armored vehicles.

The gap in the wall was blasted open, the chariots began to start, the task of the heavy artillery had been completed, and the shelling stopped, and it was up to the chariots and infantry to follow. The chariots roared towards the gap, clearing the remaining Japanese troops from the walls with vehicle-mounted artillery and vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns as they advanced. The officers and men of the 877th Regiment followed closely behind the chariot.

At the same time as the city wall fell, the Japanese army, which had been prepared for a long time, also reacted quickly. The strength of an infantry squadron immediately pounced on the gap, ready to close it with manpower. As soon as the Japanese troops in this squadron arrived at the gap and lay down in the midst of the broken bricks and stones to set up their weapons, they encountered a rain of bullets from the vehicle-mounted artillery and the vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns, and for a time the Japanese troops were suppressed and could not even lift their heads.

The two heavy tanks that rushed to the front ignored the Japanese fire, and quickly drove towards the gap, a few hundred meters away, they only took a few minutes to rush there, and the Japanese army at the gap did not think about how to deal with these steel monsters, and the chariot rushed in front of them. What's even worse is that the chariot did not stop when it reached the gap, but pressed the slope made of broken bricks and stones, and rushed straight towards the city.

Several dead soldiers rushed to the side of the chariot with explosives and medicine packets to detonate it, but the chariot was not damaged at all, which gave the Japanese troops guarding the gap a blow to the head, and in the face of the chariots that rushed up, the Japanese commander who had nothing to do could only order the troops to abandon the gap and withdraw to the city. Soon the 877th Regiment occupied the southern wall.

Behind the walls there was only a small open field, and further inside were a field of houses. However, due to the bombardment of heavy artillery, this house has become a broken wall. This ground tank is somewhat difficult to use because of its large size, while the smaller armored vehicle just plays to its advantage. The tanks stopped attacking, and the armored vehicles began to cover the infantry and rushed into the wrecked wall.

Seeing that the 877th Regiment had already broken into the city, Li Changwu immediately threw the 878th Regiment into the attack, and the 878th Regiment also brought dozens of mortars, rocket launchers and other sharp weapons for street fighting. At the command post, only the 879th Regiment was not yet in reserve, and the other was the guard battalion of the brigade headquarters. Tang Longzai, who was standing on a high place, watched the 877th Regiment successfully attack the city in the telescope, and also smiled excitedly.

Soon after the 462nd Brigade broke into the city, the 461st Brigade and the 463rd Brigade also broke through Yongzhou City one after another. However, the breakthrough into Yongzhou City did not mean that the Japanese army had given up resistance, and the three brigades encountered strong resistance from the Japanese army in three directions. The Japanese army built a large number of fortress fortifications and bunker fortifications in the city, and they relied on these fortifications to desperately block the attack of the Chinese army.

For the attacking troops, the Japanese fortifications were not difficult to deal with, and what made them feel troubled was that there were still many civilians in the houses, and these civilians made them throw rat traps, which seriously affected the progress of the attack. After Tang Longzai heard the report, he immediately issued an order, everything should be done to protect the lives and safety of the people, and the lives of the people should not be endangered by the strong attack.

This order made the soldiers even more restrained, and in many cases, for the safety of the people, they had to abandon the use of heavy weapons and only fight with light weapons, which also led to a rapid increase in the number of casualties. After Wang Haitao learned about this situation in the headquarters, not only did he not blame Tang Longzai, but praised it: "Longzai's order is good! Is the army that disregards the safety of the people still an army that defends the country and the people?"

The two sides fought fiercely for a day, and only broke through more than 1,000 meters into the city in three directions, and if this progress was followed, it would take several days to take the whole city. However, in the fierce fighting during the day, the three brigades rescued thousands of civilians, and these rescued civilians were all grateful to the soldiers. After dinner, the brigades held another meeting to discuss countermeasures.

Wang Haitao in the headquarters not only paid attention to the battle situation in Yongzhou City, but also paid attention to the movements of other divisions and regiments of the Eleventh Army. In the past few days, through the clarification of the information continuously sent back by the reconnaissance brigade, Wang Haitao has become more and more certain that the Japanese army has set up a big ambush for himself southwest of Hengyang. At present, only one of the 39th Divisions of the Japanese Army is still in motion, and the 3rd Division and the 68th Division have reached the south of Hengyang.

According to the intelligence of the reconnaissance brigade, 50 kilometers south of Hengyang, the Japanese 3rd Division occupied Yumu Mountain and Guanyin Mountain and was rushing to repair fortifications, while the 69th Division occupied Shiniu Mountain and Niuya Mountain and was also rushing to repair fortifications. The 39th Division's target was Yunpan Mountain and Tanzi Mountain, which formed a basin from three sides, through which the road from Yongzhou to Hengyang passed.

Wang Haitao looked at the map and said to Su Zuxin: "Old Su, the 11th Division has set up a pocket array for us, it seems that the 13th Division is defending Yongzhou City to buy time for the 39th Division, what do you think about this pocket array?" Su Zuxin also looked at the map for a while, and then replied: "Little Japan has concentrated tens of thousands of troops, and its ambition is not small. Commander, we have to take it seriously!"

Wang Haitao laughed and said: "I just want to fight to the death with the 11th Army! Lao Su, you see, this basin is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the middle piece is 15 kilometers long and 10 kilometers wide, and my three divisions can be completely opened, so we will fight the Japanese army in this place, as long as the three divisions of the Japanese army are defeated, the 11th Army will be finished, and then I will recover Nanchang City in one fell swoop." ”

Su Zuxin was taken aback by Wang Haitao's words, and then thought about it carefully, his three divisions and three independent brigades were really not afraid of the three divisions of the Japanese army, especially when the artillery, weapons, and combat vehicles had an absolute advantage. Su Zuxin, who had tasted it, said to Wang Haitao with a smile: "Commander, you know that there are tigers in the mountains, and you prefer to go to the tiger mountains!"

Wang Haitao smiled and said, "Isn't Hengshan Yong not ready yet? I'll give him time to prepare! I'm going to eat the 13th Division of Yongzhou little by little now." Lao Su, you go and convey the order to Tang Longzai, asking him to wipe out all the 13th Division and never let them escape. It's okay to fight a little longer, but there can't be major casualties. ”

Wang Haitao's order reassured Tang Longzai, and Tang Longzai immediately forwarded this order to the three brigade commanders. As soon as the three brigade commanders heard the order, they immediately settled down and asked their subordinates to slow down the pace of the attack and advance steadily towards the center of the city little by little. No heavy casualties are allowed as a result of an advance or assault. The order was conveyed, and the commanders of these battalions and regiments also understood it.

At present, the troops have been dispersed into combat groups, and these combat groups are basically based on squads, which can be divided and combined, and are particularly mobile. In each group, there are machine guns for support firepower, rush and front guns for assault firepower, and sniper rush for precision strike firepower, which is extremely combative. As soon as he encountered a Japanese position that was difficult for the group to capture, the team leader would immediately take reinforcements.

Soon nearby combat groups will converge, and even armored vehicles and mortars will come to support. In the face of such an infiltration attack like a drop of mercury, the Japanese army was absolutely difficult to resist. The Japanese army has been fighting to the death, and many times Japanese soldiers have rushed to the armored vehicles with explosives and medicine packs, but the armored vehicles in the attack are covered by infantry, so the number of successes of the Japanese army is very small.

Two days have passed in the blink of an eye, and with the increase in the number of people rescued, the number of civilians in the central area has become small, which has also accelerated the progress of the army's attack a lot. Two days later, in the evening, the fierce gunfire that had been fired all day gradually subsided, and the Japanese army had been compressed into an area in the center of the city, and the attack in the south and west was relatively smooth, while the east had to face the Xiangjiang River, and the attack was much more difficult.

The 13th Division Division Headquarters is located in the warehouse of the original Yongzhou Railway Station, this warehouse is a reinforced concrete structure, it is extremely strong, and there is a railway station as a stronghold next to it, and the Xiangjiang River that crosses the city is not far behind, the terrain is very good, it can be said that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. However, there is no way to retreat here, there is the 461st Brigade east of the Xiangjiang River, as long as the other three sides are blocked, the division and regimental headquarters will have nowhere to escape.