Lieutenant General Tadayoshi Sano stood on the city wall and watched outside the city as your Chinese army charged the third line. In the face of the ferocious attack of the Chinese army, the last remaining 1,000 soldiers on the position were unable to resist and gradually retreated to the moat. In the current situation, it was difficult for the more than 1,000 soldiers to retreat into the city through the narrow drawbridge, and Lieutenant General Tadayoshi Sano could only sigh and order the drawbridge to be pulled up and the city gate closed.

The troops who entered the city had been ordered to retreat in the direction of the south gate, because there were more than 1,000 Japanese troops outside the city to make the final block, and Lieutenant General Tadayoshi Sano only arranged an infantry squadron and a heavy machine gun squadron on the city wall to support the troops left outside the city with firepower, and his own division headquarters also followed closely behind the retreating troops and withdrew in the direction of the south gate.

The more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers who remained outside the city saw that not only the city gate was closed, but the drawbridge was also pulled up, and they understood that they were already an abandoned team. The Nakasa shouted: "Warriors of His Majesty the Emperor, now is the time for us to sacrifice our lives for His Majesty the Emperor and for the Great East Asian Holy War, warriors, we must defend the honor of the samurai with our lives, please fight hard!"

At the instigation of this lieutenant commander, the Japanese troops outside the city stabilized, and with the last position, desperately resisted the fierce attack of the Chinese army. The 568th Regiment was attacking very smoothly, but I didn't expect that the more than 1,000 Japanese troops left behind were already desperate, and the momentum of the attack was blocked at once. After losing some soldiers, the 568th Regiment also calmed down and began to eliminate these Japanese troops little by little.

The 38th Division's troops retreating to the south gate together were only more than 4,000 people, and when they were retreating, a Chinese army was killed in the waist, which was rushed over by the 877th Regiment under the leadership of the regiment commander Wei Ye. The Japanese did not expect that there would be Chinese troops here, and the retreating troops were disrupted at once, and when the division commander, Lieutenant General Tadayoshi Sano, got the news and organized the troops to counterattack, hundreds of Japanese troops had already fallen, and the retreating troops were also cut in half.

Because the retreat path of the division headquarters was also cut off by the Chinese army, the Japanese troops in front stopped retreating and frantically counterattacked. The goal of the 877th Regiment was to open the north gate and welcome the troops from outside the north gate into the city, seeing that the Japanese army was too numerous, and they were frantically pounced from both sides, Wei Ye was worried that the casualties of the troops would be too large and affect the battle behind, so he ordered the troops to withdraw from the battle and turn around and move in the direction of the north gate.

Seeing that the Chinese army had given up the attack and withdrew, the Japanese army no longer pursued, and after converging the division headquarters, accelerated its retreat in the direction of the south gate. When the 877th Regiment arrived at the north gate, he learned that the 38th Division had been evacuated, and then Wei Ye realized that the Japanese troops he encountered just now were the main force of the 38th Division that had withdrawn.

Wei Ye also had some regret for easily letting go of the main force of the 38th Division of the Japanese Army, and now it was too late to pursue, and with the number of Japanese troops, the strength of one of his regiments could not eat the Japanese army. The 877th Regiment quickly eliminated the Japanese infantry squadron and heavy machine gun squadron left on the city wall, opened the city gate, and attacked the 568th and 569th regiments outside the city, eating more than 1,000 Japanese troops outside the city.

The west gate and the north gate have been captured, and at the east gate, Wei Erxi commanded the troops to also capture the east gate wall. The 229th Wing of the Japanese Army, which was guarding the east gate, had already learned that the division had sent a large number of reinforcements, and the wing commander Katsu Natsu Daisa also personally organized his troops to defend the positions outside the city. But it didn't take long to learn that Simon was in danger, and the reinforcements of their troops turned to reinforce Simon again.

Extremely disappointed, Katsunai Katsumi Osa could only muster up courage and continue to desperately resist the attack of the Chinese army. However, the Chinese offensive was extremely fierce, and the defenders soon lost the second line of position, and had to retreat to the third line of position. While Katsumi was still mobilizing all his forces to resist the attack of the Chinese army, the order for the entire army to retreat to the south gate reached him.

The strength of the 229th Wing is now only two infantry brigades outside the city and two infantry squadrons on the city wall, and after receiving the order to retreat, Katsumi Daisa immediately ordered the two infantry squadrons on the city wall to strengthen their firepower and cover the retreat of the two infantry brigades outside the city to the city. As soon as the Japanese troops outside the city retreated into the city, Wei Lixuan, the commander of the 880th Regiment who commanded the attack, immediately discovered this situation keenly.

Thinking that Ximen had already launched an attack, Wei Lixuan quickly understood that the Japanese army was about to abandon their positions and flee. Wei Lixuan ordered the troops to attack and stick to the retreating Japanese army, and on the other hand, he reported the situation of the Japanese army to Wei Erxi. Wei Erxi naturally did not let go of these Japanese troops easily, and hurriedly ordered the 570th Regiment to also participate in the attack, and also ordered the artillery regiment to aim at the city wall of the East Gate and open fire.

Under such an attack by the 880th Regiment, the Japanese troops outside the city could only leave two infantry squadrons to block the Chinese army in their positions and cover the retreat of the other troops into the city. Under the desperate resistance of the remaining Japanese troops and the bombardment of the artillery in the city, they finally temporarily blocked the tidal wave of attacks of the Chinese army.

As soon as a half-infantry brigade outside the city entered the city, Katsunai Katsumi Daisa ordered the city gate to be closed, and then led his more than 2,000 men to join the artillery brigade that was firing artillery and retreated in the direction of the south gate. The remaining Japanese troops could no longer stop the attack of the Chinese army, except for some of the Japanese troops on the city wall who saw it badly and fled to the south gate, the rest of the hundreds of Japanese troops were wiped out by the 880th Regiment in the positions outside the city and on the city wall, and the east gate naturally fell into the hands of the 880th Regiment.

The 878th Regiment, which attacked the headquarters of the 16th Army, encountered a Japanese infantry brigade on the way, and the regiment commander Tang Yu commanded the troops to gradually grasp the initiative on the battlefield under the cover of tanks and self-propelled guns. But before they could defeat the Japanese army, more than 1,000 Japanese troops came up to reinforce them. The Japanese troops who came up with reinforcements were defeated by the infantry brigade directly under the headquarters of the 877th Regiment.

Although this infantry brigade directly under it was defeated by the 878th Regiment, the losses were not large, and the 878th Regiment did not pursue, so there were nearly 1,000 soldiers when it rushed over. After the two Japanese units were combined, the strength of the army also reached 1,500 men, and small units continued to converge, so the attack of the 878th Regiment was a little difficult.

The Japanese army is more familiar with the terrain, and the defensive position they chose is already in the center of the city, where the Japanese army occupies places that are easy to defend and difficult to attack, especially the occupied several three-story western-style buildings, all of which are reinforced concrete structures, which are very strong, and even self-propelled howitzers and artillery cannot destroy these western-style buildings. So the two sides confronted each other here, and the strength of the 878th Regiment was not enough to quickly capture these strongholds, and the Japanese army was unable to counterattack the 878th Regiment.

It was not until the headquarters of the 16th Army and the headquarters of the 38th Division withdrew from Hanoi that the Japanese troops here retreated while blocking the attack, and by the time the 878th Regiment captured these strongholds, all the troops in the direction of the North Gate and the East Gate had entered the city. Wang Haitao was in the military headquarters in the direction of the North Gate, and constantly received reports on the situation from all over the place, and after learning that the West Gate direction first broke through Hanoi City, and the troops of the 211th Division were also the first to attack Hanoi City, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and a smile appeared on his face.

The troops had already entered Hanoi City, so Wang Haitao believed that it was a matter of time before Hanoi City was taken. Sure enough, Li Yuanhong from the north gate sent a report that the north gate had been captured, and the troops had entered the city from the north gate, and then Wei Erxi also sent a report that the 880th Regiment had broken through to the east gate and was advancing into the city. Soon the reconnaissance unit sent information that the headquarters of the Japanese 16th Army had withdrawn from Hanoi.

Wang Haitao also did not think that the 16th Army of Vietnam could be annihilated in World War I, so he also laughed at the report that the headquarters of the 16th Army had withdrawn from Hanoi. In any case, Hanoi had fallen into their own hands, which was also a very serious blow to the Japanese army, and the next thing to consider was to hold Hanoi or withdraw to the country.

But what we have to do now is to enter the city of Hanoi and drive out the Japanese troops occupying Hanoi, which can be regarded as a great victory, and if the Japanese army intends to attack its own 90th Army again, it must also weigh whether it can withstand its own retaliatory counterattack. However, Wang Haitao was also very soberly aware that his own 90th Army was still powerless to fight against the entire Southern Army of the Japanese Army, but Wang Haitao also believed that the Japanese Southern Army Command would not go all out to deal with his 90th Army.

Wang Haitao did not hesitate to order the troops to quickly clear the remnants of the Japanese army in the city of Hanoi, and the military headquarters of the 90th Army immediately entered the city. When Wang Haitao entered the city from the north gate under the protection of a regiment of guards, the gunfire in the city of Hanoi had basically stopped. Along the way, in addition to the patrolling soldiers, Wang Haitao saw three or five Vietnamese civilians with numb faces.

It is the ordinary people who have suffered the most from the war, and seeing these ragged and expressionless Vietnamese people, Wang Haitao felt sympathy in his heart. Wang Haitao immediately ordered the troops entering the city to strictly enforce the wartime mass discipline in the country, and severely punish those who violated it. Fortunately, it has become a habit for the troops to enforce mass discipline, and even though they have gone abroad, no army or individual dares to openly violate the discipline of the masses.

When Wang Haitao came to the building where the headquarters of the 16th Army of the former Japanese Army was located, it had almost been cleaned up by the vanguard troops, and all the useful documents were sent to the intelligence department for processing, and the office of Commander Jun Imamura was also cleared out and used as Wang Haitao's office. Wang Haitao sat behind the desk of the former commander Jun Imamura, and he couldn't help but feel some pride in his heart.

Historically, the Japanese army invaded and occupied East and West Asian countries, and the Chinese army only achieved a victory on the foreign battlefield through the assistance of the United States in the final Burma battlefield, so until the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Japan only admitted that it was defeated by the United States, but not by China. This also made Japan convinced of the United States for decades after the war, but never convinced of China.