When Li Changwu rushed to the command post of the 462nd Brigade in a hurry and in a hurry, Wei Ye had just received a report from the 877th Regiment and the 879th Regiment that he had successfully recovered the positions lost during the day and completely annihilated the Japanese troops stationed on the positions, and his own casualties were not large. Only the 878th Regiment has not yet reported that it has arrived, and the gunfire in the direction of the north gate is still raging.

Seeing the division commander Li Changwu rushing in, Wei Ye, who was playing the drum in his heart, greeted him with a smile on his face, and said after saluting: "Shizuo, why are you here at this time? Do you have any tasks?" Li Changwu looked at his subordinate generals with an iron face, and said angrily after returning a military salute: "If I don't come again, your kid is going to turn the sky upside down!"

Wei Ye was full of uneasiness, but relying on his relationship with Li Changwu, he pretended to be close and said, "Master, how dare I turn the sky in your place? I can't jump out of your palm?" Li Changwu looked at Wei Ye with a cold face and asked, "Let me ask you, what's going on with the three regiments under you?" Wei Ye pretended to be stupid and replied: "Master, didn't I report to you? ”

At this time, the sound of gunfire in the direction of the north gate gradually stopped, and Li Changwu sneered and said: "Brigade Commander Wei, are you fooling me that I don't know how to fight, or what? ”

As he was talking, the telephone on the desk rang, Wei Ye grabbed the phone, and Tang Yu on the other end of the phone reported loudly to Wei Ye that he had successfully recaptured all the positions lost during the day and completely annihilated an infantry brigade of the Japanese army stationed on the position. Wei Ye inquired about the casualties of the troops again, and learned that the casualties were not large, and he was also relieved when he accepted the range.

When Wei Ye put down the phone with a smile on his face, he turned his face and saw Li Changwu's sinister dripping face. Li Changwu sneered and spoke: "Brigade Commander Wei, explain what's going on on the phone!" Wei Ye's smile was gone, and he lowered his head and said, "Division, it's my order to launch an attack at night and recapture the positions lost during the day." ”

Hearing Wei Ye's answer, Li Changwu suddenly erupted, and he roared angrily at Wei Ye: "Okay, you Wei Ye, you have only been promoted to this brigade commander for a few days? Do you dare to deceive your superiors and act privately? Do you still have me as a division commander in your eyes? Do you have a military seat and a superior? It's not impossible for you to fight back against little Japan, but you should at least report the battle plan to the division headquarters, right? Thinking that fooling your superiors will be over? Do you think Lao Tzu is so foolish or is the military seat so foolish? You kid is a whole bastard!"

After scolding, Li Changwu didn't wait for Wei Ye to react, and then said: "Now I announce that I will remove Wei Ye from the position of commander of the 462nd Brigade, and first detain him in a confinement room for further treatment. The commander of the 462nd Brigade was temporarily replaced by Tang Yu, commander of the 878th Regiment. Wei Ye was dumbfounded, he didn't expect things to get so serious at all, he just wanted to explain and say a few good words, but he sighed and gave up.

After Wei Ye was escorted into the confinement room, Li Changwu summoned the three regiment commanders at the brigade headquarters. As soon as the three regiment leaders arrived, Li Changwu announced the decision to deal with Wei Ye, and the three regiment leaders were also dumbfounded. Li Changwu inquired about the battle history of each regiment and the subsequent deployment of defenses one by one, and told the three men to strictly hold their positions to prevent a counterattack by small Japan before ending the meeting.

As soon as the meeting ended, the three regiment commanders surrounded Li Changwu, vying to say good things to Wei Ye, and finally Li Changwu also promised to speak for Wei Ye in front of the military seat, and the three regiment commanders gave up. Li Changwu, who returned to the military headquarters, reported the situation of the 462nd Brigade to Tang Longzai overnight, and also said a lot of good things for Wei Ye. I also like Wei Ye's fierce general Tang Longzai very much, in the previous battles, Wei Ye's 877th Regiment was the strongest in the division, and Wei Ye also made great contributions many times.

But these are not the reasons for him to deceive his superiors, if the lower-level officers do this, how can this unit be led, and how can the battle be fought? Therefore, Tang Longzai is determined to teach Wei Ye a lesson this time. At the end of Li Changwu's speech, Tang Longzai said: "Changwu, you don't need to say more, I know the situation, and you also understand, if you let Wei Ye go easily this time, how will the troops be brought in the future?"

Hearing Tang Longzai say this, Li Changwu knew that he couldn't change the deal with Wei Ye, so he could only sigh and say: "Military seat, fierce generals are rare, please look at Wei Ye's past merits, and deal with it lightly!" Tang Longzai replied solemnly: "I will consider these, I am ready to report to the headquarters and let the headquarters deal with Wei Ye's affairs." ”

The treatment of Wei Ye has not been followed for the time being, but the Japanese army is in chaos. At night, the 462nd Brigade counterattacked in an all-round way, and the Japanese army was caught off guard. When the commander of the 110th Division, Lieutenant General Yoshitaro Hayashi, was awakened from his sleep by the sound of gunfire and was busy asking what was going on with his hands, his subordinate officers could only reply that the Chinese troops had launched a counterattack against the defenders on the positions, and it was not clear what the situation was at the front.

By the time it was hard to figure out the situation at the front, all the positions captured during the day had been taken back by the Chinese army, which also meant that all the efforts made during the day were in vain, which also made Lieutenant General Hayashi Fangtaro angry. When several commanders in charge of the defensive position stood in front of Hayashi Yoshitaro with their heads bowed, Lieutenant General Hayashi Yoshitaro, who was extremely angry, beat and scolded these subordinates, not to mention several captains, and even the commander of the 110th Infantry Wing, Kurosuhara Nosuke Osa, who was very valued in peacetime, also received two slaps and a scolding.

After scolding these men, Lieutenant General Yoshitaro Hayashi drove them all out, and then invited the commander of the 62nd Division, Lieutenant General Yoshio Motoqing, to discuss the attack tomorrow. The previous attack was always the main force of the 110th Division, so the 110th Division was also the most casualty, and now Hayashi Yoshitaro understood that it would be difficult to take the county seat in front of him by relying on his own division alone, so he invited Lieutenant General Yoshio Benqing over to discuss how to attack tomorrow.

Although the counterattack of the Chinese army caused the loss of all the positions captured during the day, the offensive still had to continue, because of the time constraints and the excessive losses of his own division, Lieutenant General Yoshitaro Hayashi wanted the 62nd Division to be the main attack in tomorrow's attack. Lieutenant General Yoshio Hayashi could not oppose Lieutenant General Yoshio's idea, and the responsibility for the loss of Hengyang City due to the ineffective rescue was also borne by Lieutenant General Hayashi Yoshitaro.

However, Lieutenant General Yoshio Motoqing still offered to provide sufficient artillery support for the attack of his division. Regarding the request of Lieutenant General Yoshio Motoqing, Yoshitaro Hayashi also agreed. After discussing the matter of the attack, the sky began to brighten, and the two division commanders simply did not sleep, arranging for the two divisions to change positions, and on the other hand, all the artillery units were ready for attack.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army had completed the change of position, and the three infantry brigades of the 63rd Brigade of the 62nd Division had assembled on the attacking position, and more than 20 small guns and more than a dozen heavy machine guns used for cover were neatly lined up on the position. Although yesterday's three-sided offensive forced the Chinese army to divide its forces to block the attack, it still dispersed the attacking troops, and the effect was not good.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Yoshio Motoki and Chief of Staff Ueno Sadanobu Osa studied it and decided to attack only one direction of the North Gate. The tank brigade also dispatched eight light tanks to cover the attack of the 63rd brigade. The Japanese troops assembled on the position early in the morning, and such a big movement had already attracted the attention of the officers and men of the 878th Regiment stationed at the north gate.

After Tang Yu, the commander of the 878th Regiment, was temporarily appointed as the acting brigade commander, he could only sit in the brigade command post to command the battle, and the 878th Regiment was also temporarily handed over to the commander of the first battalion, Qi Xuan, to command. Guarding the first line of defense were the officers and men of the second battalion, and the battalion commander Zhang Ping had been standing on a high place and observing the Japanese position with a telescope for a long time, and when he saw that the Japanese troops were both chariots and infantry were assembling, and then thinking about the caution of the Japanese army's retaliatory attack when the regiment left the regiment, he already understood that the Japanese army was about to launch an attack early in the morning.

The Japanese attack must have remained the same for thousands of years, first bombarding with artillery fire for a while, and then using infantry to move forward. As for the few chariots lined up in front of the Japanese position, Zhang Ping directly ignored them, in front of the bazookas and recoilless guns, these chariots were scum, and destroying them was just a matter of pulling the trigger. However, I heard that little Japan had field heavy artillery, so in this case, the shelling of little Japan should be taken seriously.

Zhang Ping immediately asked the signal corps to convey the order, leaving only a small number of observation posts on the front-line positions, and all the remaining officers and soldiers withdrew from their positions to guard against the bombardment of the Japanese heavy artillery. As soon as the order was transmitted, the officers and men on the front-line positions began to withdraw from their positions in an orderly manner. Soon after the officers and men withdrew from their positions, the Japanese artillery bombardment began, and heavy artillery shells fell with a scream.

The power of field heavy artillery shells is not comparable to ordinary artillery shells, a shell can blow up a large crater with a diameter of ten meters, and no matter how strong the fortifications are, they cannot withstand its bombardment. When one shell after another exploded, the entire earth, along with the city wall of Youxian County in the distance, trembled. And in the soldiers' hidden anti-artillery holes, the dust kept falling, and the thick logs supporting the top kept shaking.

The soldiers in the anti-artillery shelter were also shocked by the explosion, and many soldiers had blood flowing from their ears and noses. In this way, the veterans are still praying that the heavy artillery shells do not directly hit the anti-artillery hole, otherwise even if there is a layer of soil nearly two meters thick on the roof of the anti-artillery hole, it will not be able to withstand its direct hit. In the past, the bombing time of the Japanese army's field heavy artillery was not too long, because heavy artillery shells were also very precious to the Japanese army, but today the bombardment of the Japanese heavy artillery has passed for 20 minutes, and it has not stopped.

The Japanese began shelling early in the morning, and the sound of artillery also alarmed Tang Longzai and Li Changwu in the city. Li Changwu came to Tang Longzai's headquarters, and when he saw Tang Longzai, he said: "Military seat, little Japan has started attacking early in the morning, I'm afraid that Lin Fangtaro is really anxious." Tang Longzai replied: "They only managed to capture a little position yesterday, and the 462nd Brigade recaptured it all in a night attack, can this guy not be in a hurry?" After speaking, both of them laughed.