After Major General Hanaya Masashi heard Ishii's report, his face was also iron-blue. Major General Hanaya scolded angrily: "Yaga! This group of damned Zhina people is really too cunning, I will go to His Excellency the division commander, blow up this Jibin with airplanes and heavy artillery, and bury these cunning Zhina people under the rubble." After speaking, Major General Hanaya asked Ishii Shindasa to go back first, and he went to the division headquarters by himself.

The division commander, Lieutenant General Takahashi Tagaji, listened to the report of Major General Hanaya Masashi and immediately agreed to Major General Hanaya's request, but when he approached the wing commander of the 14th Independent Heavy Artillery Wing, Takeaki Sato, and asked for heavy artillery to bombard the positions of the Shina people, he was told by Takeaki Sato that the heavy artillery shell reserves were insufficient.

The heavy artillery units of the Japanese army have always been strategic troops, and the heavy artillery shells are very expensive, and it is impossible for each heavy artillery to fire shells uncontrollably, and the attack on Changsha launched by the 11th Army this time is a bit hasty, and the logistics materials and ammunition are not well stocked, and the lack of shells for the heavy artillery is inevitable. It's just that this news is undoubtedly a basin of ice water for Lieutenant General Takahashi Tagaji.

Now Lieutenant General Takahashi Taga is very entangled in his heart, where to use the few heavy artillery shells, if they are used now, the opposite position can be easily overcome, but then in the face of the strong Changsha City, there will be no heavy artillery available, but the shells should be saved for the attack on Changsha City, and now the opposite position wants to be overcome, how many soldiers' lives will be filled in, no one knows.

After thinking about it repeatedly, Lieutenant General Takahashi Taga II still chose to save the heavy artillery for a critical time. Now he could only tell Major General Hanaya Masashi that he would hand over the 3rd Field Artillery Wing of the division to him for command, and asked His Excellency Commander Anami to send planes to assist in the battle. Major General Hanaya Masashi was also a little helpless, so he could only take over the command of the field artillery wing and return to the forward offensive position.

Returning to the forward offensive position, Major General Hanaya Masashi ordered the field artillery wing to shell the market town of Shina on the opposite side. Dozens of artillery pieces of the field artillery wing that received the order hit the market town at the same time, and for a time the buildings in the market town could not withstand the shelling, and they collapsed one after another, and the fire that was easy to catch fire ignited. Facing the market town filled with gunsmoke and fires, Major General Hanaya nodded with satisfaction.

At this time, Tang Yikuan, commander of the 90th Division, was on the second floor of Tianxin Pavilion, where the division headquarters was located, and looked at the position of the 271st Brigade from a distance with a telescope. Although the position was heavily bombed, Tang Yikuan was not worried. Because there are no troops stationed in the market town now, knowing that the Japanese army will use heavy artillery and aircraft, how can brigade commander Tang Yiqun not be prepared?

In the position of the market town near the city wall, when the 90th Division was building its position, it had dug a number of air-raid shelters underground, which were not only large in area, but also very strong enough to resist the bombing of heavy aerial bombs. The other three regiments divided the remaining air-raid shelters, and when defending their positions, according to the number of attacking Japanese troops, the three regiments took turns to attack, and the first to attack was the 542nd Regiment.

Seeing that the shelling was almost over, Major General Hanaya Masashi ordered the shelling to stop, and then asked the 18th Wing to send out an infantry brigade to attack. As the infantry brigade cautiously approached the market town, it was a mess with collapsed buildings and still burning fires. Faced with this situation, the captain who led the team was also relieved.

The captain ordered the whole team to disperse into small units to search, and as soon as they found the Chinese army, they immediately opened fire, and the nearby squads immediately supported when they heard the gunshots. After receiving the order, the Japanese troops immediately dispersed in small units to search the market town. In fact, as soon as the Japanese infantry brigade attacked, it was discovered by the observation post in the market town, and immediately reported to the brigade commander Tang Yiqun.

This time the task of blocking the Japanese army was the turn of the 543rd Regiment, and the commander of the 543rd Regiment, Tang Weimin, was in the defense of the Laodao River position, because of a moment of carelessness, he easily lost the position on the south bank of the river, so he was self-reflecting for two days in a row, and later the brigade commander Tang Yiqun called him over, criticized him and dismissed him at the same time, which made Tang Weimin come out of the shadows.

Shameful and courageous, Tang Weimin and the officers and soldiers of the 543rd Regiment held their breath to fight back for this field, the front position was guarded by the 542nd Regiment, and the 543rd Regiment could not be plugged in. Because Tang Yishu, the commander of the second battalion, was wounded, Zhang Chutian, commander of the first company of the second battalion, temporarily replaced the commander of the second battalion.

The outer 300 meters of the market town were destroyed by Japanese artillery, so the focus of the defense was now on the distance between 300 meters and 600 meters. After learning that the Japanese army was scattered in small units to conduct search and attack, Tang Weimin came up with countermeasures against the Japanese army's offensive methods. In the previous battle, all battalions suffered losses, so Tang Weimin asked the whole regiment to attack in battalion units.

With the strength of a battalion supplemented by a heavy firepower company, to deal with an infantry squad of the Japanese army, it was a knife to kill chickens, but Tang Weichu wanted to use absolute superiority to annihilate the Japanese army with a squad of troops at a lightning speed. Tang Weimin said to several battalion commanders: "What I want is not to defeat, but to move and destroy the war, to use a main battalion to deal with a Japanese squad, if you can't fight a war of annihilation, don't be this battalion commander, go home and take the children!"

Listening to Tang Weimin's cold words, several battalion commanders were shocked, they knew that the regimental seat was holding back a fire in their stomachs, and they had to plan it well, and they must fight beautifully, otherwise the regimental seat turned his face, and he couldn't afford to lose this person. Time was pressing, Tang Weimin explained a few words and asked everyone to prepare for battle, and several battalion commanders returned to the camp and immediately took the whole battalion to meet the Japanese troops who were searching.

The first battalion commander Tang Yiqiang is also the earliest old man, speaking of the regiment commander Tang Weimin is a generation shorter than himself, but now that he is the regiment commander, Tang Yiqiang doesn't want to be scolded by his nephew for not fighting a good battle, and he can't afford to lose this person. Tang Yiqiang first sent out three squads to find a suitable target, and he took the whole battalion to ambush and standby. The effort was not great, and the three reconnaissance officers all returned, each choosing a target.

Tang Yiqiang compared, chose a relatively prominent Japanese squad, and immediately led people to search the forward movement of the Japanese squad. To deal with a standard squad of 54 Japanese troops, a full company is enough, but the regiment uses a battalion, the intention Tang Yiqiang understands very well, Tang Yiqiang let the first company and the strengthened firepower company block the Japanese army in the front, the other company ambushes on both sides to attack the Japanese army from the side, and the last company detours back behind the Japanese army, not only to prevent the Japanese army from escaping, but also to prevent the army from reinforcing the army.

In order to lure the Japanese army, the company responsible for blocking the Japanese army sent a squad to attract the Japanese army. As soon as everyone was ready, gunshots rang out in front of them, and after a while, the squad that attracted the Japanese army "fled" to the blocking position, and shot behind them while fleeing, dozens of meters behind them, a Japanese squad was in hot pursuit. After the whole squad entered the formation, Tang Yiqiang shouted: "Fire!" Suddenly, nearly 20 light and heavy machine guns swept towards the pursuing Japanese troops from several directions, and at the same time, submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles also fired.

The sudden dense bullets knocked half of the squad to the ground on the spot, and the remaining Japanese troops did not have time to hide, dozens of grenades flew out on both sides, and after this round of grenades exploded, there were few Japanese soldiers left who could still stand, at this time Tang Yiqiang shouted: "Brothers, follow me!" and took the lead in rushing out of the position. Five minutes before and after, a Japanese squad was completely annihilated, and Tang Yiqiang then dealt with two Japanese squads that came over as reinforcements.

In this way, an hour later, the infantry brigade that entered the market town was almost completely wiped out, and only the captain saw that the situation was not good, and fled back to the offensive position with dozens of Japanese soldiers around him. At this time, the wing commander of the 18th Wing, Ishii Shindasa, panicked, one of his wings only had three infantry brigades, and the second attack on the two infantry brigades this morning was gone, so how could he attack again?

Ishii Shindasa once again found the brigade commander, Major General Hanaya Masa, and Major General Hanaya Masashi also had a helpless face and ordered to stop the attack and wait for the support of the aircraft. The 3rd Division also attacked the market town, but the 6th Division could not even break through the first line of defense outside the market town. In the previous battle, the 6th Division attacked the most fiercely and suffered the greatest losses.

In addition, it is a three-wing division, and it is inferior to the third division in terms of strength, and it has been fighting fiercely with the Chinese defenders since crossing the Miluo River, and it has been released by the 272nd Brigade to cross the Liuyang River. In another bloody battle with the 272nd Brigade at Nanzhushan, the 6th Division suffered more than half of the casualties when it reached the position outside the market town, especially the three infantry wings together had less than 4,000 men. Guarding the first line of defense outside the market town was the 1st Battalion of the 546th Regiment.

Seventy percent of the officers and men of the 546th Regiment were Communists, and even the regiment commander Xiao Changxin was also a Communist Party member, and this was because when the 546th Regiment was conscripted before participating in the Battle of Shenhu, the Shanghai underground party arranged for a large number of party members to enter the regiment. In addition, Wang Haitao turned a blind eye to this, so there was such a regiment in the 90th Division.

In all previous battles, the 546th Regiment's spirit of unity, bravery, and unafraid of sacrifice enabled it to maintain its strong combat effectiveness, and in terms of combat effectiveness alone, the 546th Regiment also ranked in the forefront of the 90th Division, and the brigade commander Zhang Lingfu also trusted the 546th Regiment very much after taking office, and entrusted them with the most difficult tasks on many occasions. This time, Zhang Lingfu handed over the task of defending the first spinning thread outside the market town to the 1st Battalion of the 546th Regiment, and told the commander of the 1st Battalion, Ma Long, that the task could be completed only after guarding the night of the 10th, and he could retreat.

Ma Long arranged a company and a heavy machine gun platoon in the heavy fire company on the front-line position to defend, dozens of light and heavy machine guns entered the fortifications, in addition, Ma Long also put the battalion's two 82 recoilless guns in the bunker, originally Ma Long wanted to prevent the Japanese army from using the tank, but the Japanese tank did not come, but these two guns became an important weapon to hit several rapid-fire guns of the Japanese army.