In the face of the Japanese army's defensive circle shrunk into a group, Zhao Fei, the commander of the 545th Regiment, wanted to discuss with Wang Mingren, the commander of the 874th Regiment, how to attack, but Zhang Zhiming, the commander of the heavy tank regiment, interjected and said: "What else is there to discuss? In front of them are some remnants of the defeated army who do not even have a few heavy weapons, and our tanks will take the lead, and your two regiments will follow behind the tank body, and a surprise attack will almost be over." ”

When Zhao Fei and Wang Mingren heard this, this is the reason, now in front of the Japanese army who does not have a few heavy weapons, these heavy weapons are invincible, and they don't need any tactics, just push them over. So Wang Mingren boarded his chariot and used a walkie-talkie to inform all the vehicles that they were ready to launch a surprise attack on the enemy position. Zhao Fei also asked several battalion commanders to pay attention to coordinating the tank assault and protecting the tank.

Ten minutes later, 35 heavy tanks illuminated the Japanese positions with their headlights, and then the roar of engines turned into a roar, and the tanks rushed side by side along the road towards the Japanese positions. In the face of such a behemoth as a heavy tank, the Japanese army had no way to stop its advance, and the only few shells fired by the mortars fell on the body of the Cheetah tank, which was like scratching the boots, which had no effect, but attracted the return fire of the vehicle-mounted artillery.

The Cheetah heavy tank broke through the rudimentary fortifications of the Japanese army and rushed into the position, and the artillery and heavy machine guns on the tank spewed out their tongues, destroying all the enemies who dared to stand in front of the car. Behind the Cheetah tank, the 545th Regiment of the cooperative operation cleared the Japanese soldiers who wanted to rush up and blew up the tank with human flesh and shells, and at the same time eliminated the Japanese troops in the dead corner of the tank's shooting, while the 874th Regiment was responsible for cleaning up the fish that had slipped through the net.

It took only 20 minutes for the Cheetah Tank Regiment to rush to the core of the Japanese position, where a squadron of guards of Lieutenant General Makino Shiro was a personal guard, and these guards were not afraid of death in order to protect Makino Shiro, and rushed to the tank with explosives and medicine bags. There were too many people rushing up, and the heavy machine guns of the 545th Regiment and the tanks were doing their best to destroy these Japanese troops, but there were still Japanese soldiers who rushed to the side of the tanks and pulled off the explosives and medicine packs.

After the explosion of these explosives and medicine packets, the tank was not damaged much, but the officers and men in the tank were dizzy from the shock, and it took half a day to recover. In addition, the soldiers of the 545th Regiment who were close to the explosion point fell 20 to 30 people. At this time, the tanks stopped, all the guns were aimed at this area, and under the command of Zhang Zhiming, more than 30 vehicle-mounted artillery guns fired at this area at the same time.

After a burst of artillery fire, the position was quiet, and the soldiers of the 545th Regiment cautiously approached the area where the shelling was being shelled, and by the light of the tank and the burning fire, the 545th Regiment saw a large number of Japanese corpses, some of which had been torn apart, and the blood had merged into a stream. Even if the 545th Regiment is a veteran, in the face of this battlefield like a slaughterhouse, everyone's face is pale.

In the middle of the position, the soldiers of the 545th Regiment found a pile of corpses, after an inventory, the mutilated bodies of a Japanese lieutenant general, two Dazuo, five Zhongzuo and Shaozuo were found out, Zhao Fei rushed over to take a look, and said: "This should be the body of the commander of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, Shiro Makino, report to the command quickly, our army has killed the commander of the Japanese army, Lieutenant General Shiro Makino, and completely annihilated the attacking Japanese army." ”

There was silence on this side, but there was the sound of gunfire from Natongshan in the direction of Jiangzhou Town. Zhao Fei said to Zhang Zhiming and Wang Mingren: "Our regiment and tank regiment rushed to the front to support, and the 877th Regiment stayed to clean up the battlefield. Although Wang Mingren was a little unhappy in his heart, he also understood that from the point of view of Butan's coordinated operations, his regiment was not as good as the 545th regiment, so it was not good to say anything more.

Zhang Zhiming immediately ordered the tank regiment to set off, and the 545th Regiment also advanced with the tank regiment. When the tank regiment came to the position of the 877th Regiment, the 877th Regiment only left a company to wait for the tanks and the troops behind to come up, and the regiment commander Wei Ye took other soldiers to reinforce the 879th Regiment first. Zhang Zhiming did not delay any longer and ordered the tank regiment to move forward quickly.

The position of the 879th Regiment was only two kilometers away from the position of the 877th Regiment, and it took only a few minutes for the tank regiment to reach the rear of the 879th Regiment, at which time the Japanese were covering the infantry charge with more than a dozen 92 infantry guns and mortars. After observing the situation on the battlefield with the help of the firelight spit out by the weapons of both sides, Zhang Zhiming immediately ordered the use of vehicle-mounted artillery to attack the Japanese artillery positions.

More than 30 tanks were fired again, and the Japanese artillery positions were overturned, and more than a dozen small guns were all destroyed. The vehicle-mounted artillery did not seem to have enjoyed it yet, and poured shells on the heads of the infantry. After repelling the Japanese attack, Zhang Zhiming asked the 879th Regiment to get out of the way of the frontal position, and then led more than 30 heavy tanks to rush directly to the Japanese side.

In the face of the assault of dozens of combat vehicles, the Japanese army was a baggage force with very poor combat effectiveness, and when it was impossible to resist, the Japanese army began to retreat. Soon pursued by the tank regiments, the retreat of the Japanese army turned into a rout. The tank regiment rushed straight forward regardless of it, and only stopped until it reached the outside of Jiangzhou Town, and soon the 545th Regiment, the 877th Regiment, and the 879th Regiment all chased outside Jiangzhou Town, which greatly panicked the Japanese troops guarding the city wall.

The town of Eshu was also in chaos, and after Lieutenant General Honma Masaharu lost contact with Lieutenant General Makino Shiro, he knew that things were not good, and he still had a hint of illusion that the reinforcements sent out would bring back Lieutenant General Makino Shiro and the defeated soldiers. But what was waiting was reinforcements who had fled, and the chariot troops of the people had already arrived in the city.

Lieutenant General Honma Masaharu knew that this was no longer possible, so he immediately made a decision and ordered the entire group to retreat in the direction of Qinzhou City, and in order to confuse the Chinese army, Lieutenant General Honma Masaharu sent a squadron of military police to the city wall to defend it. And more than 20 75-caliber field guns that could not be carried in the city were also handed over to the remaining military police squadrons for use. The gendarmerie squadron immediately activated the guns and began to fire non-stop outside the city.

In order to reduce losses, Zhao Fei ordered the troops to retreat two kilometers and wait for the artillery units behind to come up and attack Jiangzhou Town. And so he waited until dawn. After dawn, the self-propelled artillery regiment of the 211th Division rushed to Jiangzhou Town. The reason why the self-propelled artillery regiment came late was because the road was too difficult to walk.

Self-propelled artillery has relatively high requirements for the road, and the craters that constantly appear along the way, as well as the soldiers fighting on the battlefield, all hinder the movement of self-propelled guns. At 8 o'clock in the morning, the armored brigade outside Jiangzhou Town arrived, the self-propelled artillery regiment of the 211th Division arrived, the 545th Regiment and the 547th Regiment of the 90th Division, the 874th Regiment of the 210th Division, the 877th Regiment and the 879th Regiment of the 211th Division had arrived, and Li Changwu, commander of the 462nd Brigade of the 211th Division, also arrived at the position.

Among the officers who arrived, Li Changwu had the highest rank and became the supreme commander. Li Changwu first ordered the self-propelled artillery regiment to shell the city wall of Jiangzhou Town. Fifty German-made 105-caliber self-propelled howitzers and shells were fired one after another, and the shells flew directly to the city wall of Jiangzhou Town. After half an hour of shelling, the unstable city wall of Jiangzhou Town collapsed in several places, Li Changwu stopped the shelling and ordered the heavy tank regiment to attack, and the 545th Regiment and the 877th Regiment coordinated to protect it.

The Japanese army in the town had only one military police squadron, and it lost part of it in the shelling, and the heavy tank regiment easily rushed into Jiangzhou Town without encountering any resistance, and then the 545th Regiment and the 877th Regiment also rushed in, which made Li Changwu feel a little strange. The gunfire in the town was not intense, and it didn't take long for the gunfire to stop.

After a while, some soldiers came to report to Li Changwu that they had completely occupied Jiangzhou Town, annihilated a squadron of Japanese troops in the town, and the rest of the Japanese troops had withdrawn from Jiangzhou Town at night and fled in the direction of Qinzhou City. Only then did Li Changwu understand that the Japanese army had sung an empty city plan, so Li Changwu immediately ordered someone to report to the headquarters and ask for instructions on the next move.

In Chongzuo City, the lights of the headquarters were turned on overnight, this night Wang Haitao and all the people did not rest, Wang Haitao drank tea calmly, but Tang Renxin was a little uncertain. It wasn't until he received the report that he killed the commander of the Japanese army, Lieutenant General Shiro Makino, and wiped out all the 30,000 Japanese troops who came to attack, that Tang Ren's confidence was settled, and this news made the command headquarters cheer, and even Wang Haitao praised it twice in a row: "Good fight!"

After dawn, Wang Haitao asked the guards to inform Li Li and several reporters, allowing them to enter the battlefield under the protection of the guard platoon. As soon as the guards left, the confidential officer sent a telegram from Tang Xiaoshan, in which Tang Xiaoshan reported to Wang Haitao that the reconnaissance brigade had sent more than a dozen detachments to find and completely annihilate the Japanese army's "epidemic prevention and water supply" unit, killed its commander Saharu Yukio Nakasa, and also captured a batch of intact poison and gas bombs.

Wang Haitao asked the confidential officer to call Tang Xiaoshan back, asking Tang Xiaoshan to immediately send someone to send the seized poison gas bombs to Zhengzuo City. The confidential officer had just left for a while, and then turned back, this time holding Li Changwu's request telegram. Wang Haitao knew that after Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma, commander of the 14th Army of the Japanese Army, had fled Jiangzhou Town overnight, he called back to Li Changwu and asked him to rest on the spot and remain vigilant.

Seeing that Wang Haitao had finished processing the two telegrams, Tang Renxin and Su Zuxin both came to Wang Haitao and sat down, Tang Renxin said: "Military seat, we have completely annihilated the main force of the 14th Army of the Japanese army this time, I am afraid that the Japanese army will pay more attention to us, and when we come again next time, there will be more troops." Wang Haitao nodded and said, "I judge that Little Japan will stop for a while after this blow." At present, the Japanese army is seriously undermanned on various battlefields, and I am afraid that it will not send heavy troops to deal with us again for a while and a half. ”