The attack of the Japanese infantry was completely suppressed under the blockade of the dense fire of the defenders, although the accuracy of the shooting was affected by the night, but the firepower of the defenders was too strong, and more than 20 light and heavy machine guns were strafing in a fan, blocking the road of the Japanese attack, making the Japanese pay the price for every step forward. And the mortar bombardment of them has caused a large increase in casualties.

For the Japanese army, night fighting was not its forte, and the accuracy of shooting while attacking would have been affected, and in addition, the accuracy would have been affected even more if it was a night battle. The defenders could use dense firepower to reduce the impact on accuracy, not the single-shot Type 38 rifles in the hands of the Japanese army. In this way, under the supervision of the officers, the Japanese troops still attacked forward under the bombardment of mortars and the dense bullets fired in front of them.

The Japanese attack power was constantly being depleted over time, and when they advanced to a distance of about 100 meters from the wall of Hung Yen Town, a full infantry brigade suffered more than half of the casualties. With such large casualties, even the well-trained Japanese troops could not bear it, and there was confusion in the attacking ranks. The captain who commanded the attack saw that the team could no longer hold on, so he had to give the order to retreat.

Zhou Sheng saw that the Japanese attack was repulsed and hurriedly walked to the position, and Wang Dashan also commanded his men to rescue the wounded and strengthen the fortifications. Repelling the Japanese attack, the first company also paid dozens of casualties, three heavy machine guns and two light machine guns were blown up. However, there is still the strength to fight again, and Zhou Sheng has no intention of changing. After admonishing Wang Dashan a few words, Zhou Sheng returned to the bunker.

Outside Guilin, the main forces of the 90th Division and the 211th Division had completed their assembly, and the main force of the 90th Group Army, with the armored brigade as the vanguard, was rapidly rushing in the direction of Xing'an Town. Wang Haitao, who was left last, was saying goodbye to Wei Yunsong, commander of the 16th Group Army. Originally, Wei Yunsong was also ready to let the 188th Division recover Quanzhou with Wang Haitao's action, but in the battle with the 116th Brigade of the Japanese Army, the 188th Division was heavily damaged and was unable to attack again, and Wei Yunsong had no choice but to give up.

However, this time, the 188th Division was able to wipe out most of the 116th Brigade and kill the commander of the 116th Brigade, Major General Ikeda Kintaro. Wei Yunsong was excited and also understood that the 90th Group Army accounted for most of the credit, but it seemed that Wang Haitao did not plan to compete with him, and Wei Yunsong was also full of gratitude to Wang Haitao for this.

After being polite for a long time, Wang Haitao left Guilin City with his men. In the dark of night, the troops marched forward in a neat formation, and the whole team did not make any noise or leave the unit, showing the high fighting quality of the soldiers of the troops. The speed of the troops' march was not slow, and according to Wang Haitao's estimate, the vanguard troops could reach Xing'an Town in two to three hours.

Soon after the main forces of the two divisions left Guilin City, the second attack of the Japanese army on Xing'an Town began, and this time Lieutenant General Shunjiro Takeuchi was really anxious, and in order to capture Xing'an Town as soon as possible, he handed over the only tank brigade to Major General Uzawa Shoshin under the command of Major General Uzawa Shoshin. The arrival of the chariot brigade restored a lot of confidence to Major General Uzawa Naoshin, and in the new attack, he sent four chariots at once to cover an infantry brigade to launch an attack.

After concentrating more artillery fire, Major General Uzawa Shoshin ordered the artillery to bombard the wall of Hung Yen Town with all his might, and only by blowing a gap in the wall could the infantry attack the city, so all the Japanese artillery fire fell on the wall. With the cover of chariots, the speed of the Japanese infantry attack increased a lot, and the defenders on the wall still began to block the Japanese after they entered the 200-meter range.

The Japanese had tanks as cover, and the casualties were not large at first, but as they continued to advance, they increased under the blows of dense fire. Zhou Sheng saw that the Japanese army dispatched chariots to cover the infantry attack, and immediately transferred the 40 rocket launchers of the heavy firepower company. With four zeros in hand, the defenders were not at all worried about the attack of the Japanese tanks.

The mortars of the artillery company still regarded the attacking infantry as the main target, and under the double blow of the fire points on the wall and the mortars, the Japanese infantry brigade soon suffered several hundred casualties. After the bazooka was transferred to the wall, the four Japanese tanks did not take much effort to become four torches. Seeing that the Japanese attack would be in vain, the wall of Xing'an Town collapsed in the Japanese artillery fire.

The sudden change made Zhou Sheng and Wang Dashan stunned, and dozens of soldiers on the collapsed wall were buried in the broken bricks and stones. Zhou Sheng also had some remorse in his heart, originally Zhou Sheng found that the wall of Xing'an Town was not solid, but first, the time did not allow it, and the second was that it was not necessary to garrison for a short time, so Zhou Sheng did not command the soldiers to strengthen the wall, but he did not expect the wall to collapse in such a short time.

As soon as the wall collapsed, it became even more difficult to hold the town of Xing'an, and Zhou Sheng decided to withdraw his troops from the town as soon as possible. However, if you want the troops to withdraw smoothly from Hung Yen Town, you must repel the Japanese attack. At this time, Major General Uzawa Shoshin, who saw that the wall of Xing'an Town had collapsed and was broken, was also excited, and immediately asked the 133rd Wing to send another infantry brigade.

After the wall collapsed, the first battalion and the second company quickly repaired the gap, and the soldiers buried under the broken bricks and rubble were quickly rescued, but only a few of the dozens of soldiers survived after being wounded, and the others died. Han Shengli, the commander of the second company, concentrated more than a dozen light and heavy machine guns and erected them on the rocks in the gap.

When less than 100 meters away from the gap, Han Shengli gave an order, and more than a dozen machine guns spit out tongues of fire at the same time. At the same time, the network of machine-gun fire and artillery on the wall intercepted the infantry that had been reinforced.

The battle lasted for more than an hour, and finally the Japanese could not bear the huge losses and withdrew again. In this attack, the 133rd Wing almost lost an infantry brigade, and the Japanese army, which was greatly damaged, temporarily stopped the attack. In Xing'an Town, after Zhou Shengrang broke three consecutive breaks, the rest of the troops retreated outside the town in an orderly manner. Half an hour later, the third company also finally withdrew to the north of the town.

The armored brigade of the 90th Group Army and the two regiments of the 271st Brigade of the 90th Division had approached the town of Hung Yen after nearly two hours of advance. The reconnaissance team that was on a reconnaissance mission had discovered a large number of Japanese troops outside the town of Hung Yen. At this time, Lieutenant General Shunjiro Takeuchi also received a report, and a large number of Chinese troops and a large number of tank troops were found in the rear of the troops.

Lieutenant General Shunjiro Takeuchi understands that the 116th Brigade under his command is already very unlucky, but now the Xing'an Town in front of him has not been able to take it, and his situation is very bad. Lieutenant General Shunjiro Takeuchi ordered the remaining forces of the Kono Brigade to immediately rush to the rear of the troops to set up defenses, and on the other hand, he ordered Major General Uzawa Naobu to immediately capture the town of Hung Yen at all costs.

At this time, the Kono Brigade was able to muster together the strength of two infantry brigades, and under the leadership of the brigade commander, Major General Kono Takeshi, they came to the rear of the troops and began to repair the fortifications. Major General Takeshi Kono was full of pessimism in his heart, but he did not dare to show it at all in the face of Lieutenant General Shunjiro Takeuchi. When the troops of more than 30,000 people were attacked from Hunan, they had already lost most of their troops in a short time after the battle, not to mention the capture of the entire territory of Guangxi and the passage to Indochina, and they did not even know whether they could withdraw to the border of Hunan.

Not long after Kono rushed to repair his position, good news came from the front, the Chinese troops in Hung Yen Town had retreated, and the troops had reoccupied Hung Yen Town. After the capture of Hung Yen Town, the Japanese army finally had a foothold, but Lieutenant General Shunjiro Takeuchi did not think that Hung Yen Town could hold back the pursuit of the Chinese army. Therefore, Shunjiro Takeuchi ordered the Kono Brigade to stay in the town of Hung Yen to block the pursuit of the Chinese army, and he himself led the rest of the 116th Division to continue to retreat to Jeonju.

Major General Takeshi Kono, who received the order, couldn't help but ask all the eighteenth generations of relatives of Lieutenant General Shunjiro Takeuchi, but he still didn't have the courage to disobey the order, so he could only lead the last two infantry brigades of the brigade to stay. Lieutenant General Shunjiro Takeuchi did not dare to delay at all, and ordered the 130th Brigade to open the road in front, and the whole division set off immediately and turned in the direction of Jeonju overnight.

However, before the division headquarters of Lieutenant General Shunjiro Takeuchi had opened the north gate of Xing'an Town, Major General Uzawa Shonobu in the front came with news that the forward troops had encountered a blockade from the Chinese army, and the two sides had exchanged fire. This news made Lieutenant General Shunjiro Takeuchi feel a chill in his heart. Now it can be said that there are interceptions in front and pursuers in the back, and his more than 10,000 people cannot return to the whole state, and he has no bottom in his heart.

Lieutenant General Shunjiro Takeuchi could only stop at Xing'an Town first, and on the one hand ordered Major General Uzawa Naobu to break through the Chinese army's interception as soon as possible, and on the other hand, sent a telegram for help to the headquarters of the 11th Army in Nanchang. Lieutenant General Isamu Yokoyama, commander of the 11th Army, also frowned when he received the telegram asking for help, and immediately asked the chief of staff, Major General Nakayama Sadatake, to discuss matters at the headquarters.

This time, the 11 th Army was entrusted by General Okamura Ninji, commander of the Central China Front, to launch attacks on Hengyang, Yongzhou, Shaoyang, and other cities from the flank of Changsha, and as soon as it cooperated with the main force of the 13 th Army to capture the Yangtze River, it immediately attacked the territory of Guangxi, striving to capture Guangxi Province and opening up the passage from Changsha to Indochina, so as to support the Southern Army in Southeast Asian countries by land.

Now that the 13th Army had invaded the periphery of Changsha, and its own 11th Army had also conquered Hengyang, Yongzhou, and other cities, it was only in this situation that it sent the 116th Division and the Kono Mixed Brigade to launch an attack on Guangxi. The city of Qinzhou in Guangxi has more than 30,000 troops, including the 70th Division, and it should be able to quickly capture the entire territory of Guangxi under the attack from both sides.

Two days earlier, Lieutenant General Shunjiro Takeuchi had also telegraphed to report that he had captured Jeonju and was advancing towards Guilin, and the attack was going well. But now a telegram for help has been sent. This surprised Lieutenant General Isamu Yokoyama and at the same time was a little confused about what was going on. Not long after, the chief of staff, Major General Nakayama Sadatake, walked into the office of Lieutenant General Isamu Yokoyama, and Lieutenant General Isamu Yokoyama handed the telegram to Major General Nakayama with a solemn face.