Under the hard work of Wang Haitao and all the soldiers, the Japanese attack was repulsed, and the failure of the attack dealt a serious blow to the confidence of the Japanese army, and within half an hour, no further offensive action was organized. And Wang Haitao is also injured here, there are only more than 300 people who can fight, and now there is only one reconnaissance platoon at the west gate, less than 50 people are stationed, and here at the east gate, there are only 140 people who can participate in the battle.

The Japanese army brought more than 100 casualties to Wang Haitao in one attack, and more than 40 soldiers were killed. These are the elites of the 90th Army, Wang Haitao couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart. The situation is now critical, with more than 100 wounded alone, and half of them are seriously wounded. With this little person in hand, whether the next attack of the Japanese army can be stopped, Wang Haitao really has no bottom in his heart.

Looking at his watch, it was already half past five in the afternoon, and more than nine hours had passed since he sent the report to Wuzhou, and the 210th Division should be almost there. It has been eight and a half hours since the 210th Division set off from the 871st Regiment, so how could it not have arrived?

It turned out that the 210th Division was in Lubu Town, 50 kilometers away from Fenghuang Town, and encountered a strong resistance from the Japanese army. Lieutenant General Toshio Miyake, the commander of the 104th Division of the Japanese Army, learned that the Shina troops besieged in Fenghuang Town were not ordinary troops, and he thought that the Shina Army would send other troops to rescue the besieged Shina troops, so he sent blocking troops to the west and north of Fenghuang Town.

The blocking force to the west was the 161st Infantry Wing of the Japanese Army, and the blocking position was set up in Lubu Town, which was 50 kilometers away from Fenghuang Town. To the north was the 228th Wing, which had just been formed from the mainland and transferred to Guangzhou. At the same time, a mountain artillery brigade was reinforced on both sides. The 871st Regiment rushed to the west of Lubu Town at half past two in the afternoon, and after the armored reconnaissance company at the head found that there was a Japanese blocking position in Lubu Town, and that a large number of Japanese troops were stationed in Lubu Town, they immediately notified Tang Shaofeng, the regiment commander behind him, by walkie-talkie.

Although Tang Shaofeng was in a hurry to rush to Fenghuang Town, he was not a reckless person, and he heard that a large number of Japanese troops had set up blocking positions in front, and on the one hand, he let the armored reconnaissance company continue to reconnoitre, and on the other hand, he asked the soldiers to get out of the car and prepare to attack the Japanese position. The regiment's field artillery battalion also quickly set up artillery positions and prepared for artillery bombardment.

Tang Shaofeng ordered the artillery battalion to shell the Japanese positions, and ten minutes later, the artillery fire extended, and the heavy armored vehicles covered the infantry to launch a charge against the Japanese positions. Tang Shaofeng's order was not wrong, but he despised the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army. After the artillery fire was extended, the heavy armored vehicles covered the infantry charge, and the eighteen 75-caliber mountain guns hidden by the Japanese opened fire on the heavy armored vehicles.

The armor of the heavy armored vehicles could not resist the bombardment of the 75 caliber mountain artillery, three of the eight heavy armored vehicles were destroyed at once, and two were injured and could not move, and the attacking infantry also suffered heavy casualties under the fire of the Japanese army. The attack was blocked, and Tang Shaofeng had to give the order to retreat.

After that, Tang Shaofeng attacked twice, but he could not break through the Japanese position, and when Tang Bin arrived with the 872nd Regiment and the 873rd Regiment, an hour had passed. Tang Bin didn't have time to reprimand Tang Shaofeng, he immediately combined the artillery battalions of the three regiments in one place, first destroyed the Japanese artillery position, and then covered the Japanese blocking position with artillery fire, and finally sent two regiments to attack the Japanese position with more than a dozen heavy armored vehicles as the main force.

By the time the Japanese troops on the blocking positions had been routed and the troops continued to advance, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon. The 460th Brigade, with the 872nd Regiment as the vanguard, rushed to Fenghuang Town at full speed again, and when it was only a dozen kilometers away from Fenghuang Town, it heard the rumbling of artillery in the direction of Fenghuang Town.

Less than 50 kilometers away, under Tang Bin's urging, the 872nd Regiment, which was the vanguard, approached Fenghuang Town in only half an hour. Just seeing the wall of Phoenix Town from a distance, the 872nd Regiment was intercepted by the Japanese army again. The situation was quickly reported to Tang Bin. Tang Bin was surprised and delighted when he received the report, and he was glad that the Japanese army was still intercepting outside the town, indicating that they were still guarding the town. What is surprising is that the Japanese army has mobilized so many troops to besiege the military seat, and it has really invested a lot of money.

There were obviously more Japanese troops outside Fenghuang Town than there were Japanese troops in Lubu Town in front, but no amount of Japanese troops could stop the advance of the soldiers of the 460th Brigade. Tang Bin once again set up the fifty-four field guns of the three field artillery battalions, and all the heavy armored vehicles were also lined up in front of the line. Eighteen six-wheeled heavy armored vehicles, raising the muzzles of the chariot guns, put great pressure on the Japanese troops who were blocking.

At this time, the Japanese army attacking at the east gate of Phoenix Town had been repulsed, and Wang Haitao looked at his watch and was looking forward to the arrival of the 210th Division. The West Gate was originally besieged by the 170th Wing of the Japanese Army, and later a 104th Wing of Cavalry was added. Most of the dozen small guns of the 170th Wing were destroyed in the first attack, and the existing 92 infantry guns were still too few to deal with eighteen heavy armored vehicles, but the 170th Wing also had a squadron of 37 mm rapid-fire guns, armed with 8,37 mm rapid-fire guns, which Koga Ryutaro Osaku also placed on the front-line positions.

After the field artillery was erected, Tang Bin immediately ordered the artillery to be fired, and 54 field guns simultaneously covered the Japanese positions with artillery fire. There was a sudden fierce cannon sound from the west, which surprised Wang Haitao and the soldiers, but Wang Haitao listened to it and showed a relieved smile on his face. He was too familiar with the sound of the German-made 75-caliber field gun, and as soon as this cannon sounded, it meant that the 210th Division had arrived and was attacking the Japanese army west of the town.

A few minutes later, I don't know if the Japanese troops in the east of the town knew that the reinforcements of the defenders had arrived, and were ready to take the Chinese army in the town before the reinforcements broke through the blockade, so they began to shell the town again, and at the same time the two infantry brigades were also ready for the final attack. As soon as the Japanese artillery fire arrived, the artillery positions in the town, which had just been replenished with five 150-caliber howitzers, began to fire at the Japanese artillery again.

By the collapsed wall, Wang Haitao hid behind a bunker and shouted: "Brothers, our reinforcements have already arrived outside the town, everyone hold on a little longer, as long as we hold on, we will be able to go home alive!" Wang Haitao knew that at such a time no slogan was as useful as coming home alive, so why didn't the soldiers understand this? With Wang Haitao's shout, the morale of the soldiers on the battlefield was boosted.

After the five howitzers in the town counterattacked, the Japanese artillery did not turn all in the direction of the howitzer array as last time, but some of the artillery still bombarded the positions here in the wall. However, Wang Haitao and his veterans were all experts in dodging the Japanese shelling, and the Japanese shelling did not bring many casualties to Wang Haitao and them.

After less than 10 minutes of shelling, the two infantry battalions of the Japanese army began to attack, and the more than 2,000 Japanese troops did not divide into any formations, and attacked in dense formations. When they were 300 meters away from the wall, Wang Haitao ordered more than 20 mortars behind the position to start firing back, and wave after wave of shells exploded in the attacking Japanese ranks, causing the soldiers in the dense Japanese attacking ranks to fall one by one.

The eyelids of Kanjiro Miyata, who was in charge of the command, jumped from behind, but the orders of His Excellency the division commander were in front, and he couldn't care about the casualties of the soldiers. The Japanese army, relying on the large number of people, continued to approach the wall. Two hundred meters later, Wang Haitao shouted: "Fire!" Dozens of light and heavy machine guns on the position fired at the same time. There was no need to save bullets for submachine guns, and after adjusting to bursts, strings of bullets flew towards the Japanese army.

When the Japanese opened fire, Tang Bin's order to attack was also conveyed, and eighteen heavy armored vehicles roared and pressed against the blocking position that the Japanese had hastily built. Behind them, more than 5,000 officers and soldiers of the 872nd and 873rd regiments shouted and charged. To say that the 210th Division has not been trained by German officers for so long in vain, the coordination of infantry and artillery is really in place.

A few 92 infantry guns and a few 37 rapid-fire guns on the Japanese position, which could pose a threat to 18 heavy armored vehicles, were immediately cleared out by the field guns, and the remaining heavy machine guns and grenadiers were not harmed by the heavy armored vehicles if they were not absolutely lucky. Those who dare to jump out of cover as a human bomb will be killed by the infantry covering the armored vehicle at the first time.

The armored vehicles advanced to a distance of only a few dozen meters from the Japanese position, and the artillery fire began to extend, and the Japanese troops, who were devastated by the artillery fire, had not yet recovered their senses, and the armored vehicles and a large number of infantry had already rushed to the position. The commander of the 170th Wing of the Japanese Army, Ryutaro Koga, was also strictly ordered by the division commander Toshio Miyake not to let go of the Shina army in the town, so he also personally supervised the battle, and ordered all the 170th Wing to go up and fight to the death.

The two sides fought desperately on the position, and when they were deadlocked, the Japanese cavalry wing, led by Wing Commander Takahashi Howa Nakasa, launched a charge against the 460th Brigade. Although the number of this cavalry wing of the Japanese army was only 1,500 men, the collective charge of 1,500 cavalry was still quite imposing. At the critical moment, eighteen light armored vehicles of the 460th Brigade used for reconnaissance were killed, and they did not hesitate to go up. More than a dozen heavy armored vehicles, which were still intact, also turned around with difficulty and caught up with the Japanese cavalry wing.

Nearly 30 armored vehicles lined up, dozens of vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns and more than a dozen vehicle-mounted artillery pieces, and at the same time a metal storm was launched, and the Japanese cavalry wing was hit head-on by this metal storm, and immediately the horses and men fell one after another. This was not a war, but a massacre! In just a few minutes, a cavalry wing of 1,500 men, including Wing Commander Takahashi Ho and Nakasa, all died on the way to the charge.

The destruction of the Japanese cavalry wing was another heavy blow to the Japanese army, and most of the more than 20 armored vehicles of the 461st Brigade were blown up by the Japanese army with explosives packs because they lacked the protection of the infantry. Now the two battlefields are fighting to the death, and the victory or defeat is on the line, and it depends on who can hold out to the end. The 460th Brigade did everything to melee with the 170th Wing of the Japanese Army, and when it was difficult to distinguish the winner from the loser, Tang Hongming led the follow-up troops of the 210th Division to arrive, which became the last straw that crushed the Japanese army.