After reading Wang Haitao's telegram, Wei Erxi immediately called Wei Lixuan, the head of the 880th Regiment, over, and after showing Wei Lixuan Wang Haitao's telegram, Wei Erxi said: "It's three o'clock in the afternoon, and there are still three hours before dark, and whether you can break through the north gate of Tongjing Town depends on your regiment! I will launch another artillery bombardment on Tongjing Town in half an hour to support your regiment's siege of the city." But don't be reluctant, if the casualties are too great, I can't explain it to both the division and the military seat. ”

Wei Lixuan responded: "I understand. Then he quickly returned to the front line. Wei Lixuan, who returned to the 880th Regiment, called several battalion commanders together, discussed it, and made some adjustments to the siege troops. As soon as the 880th Regiment was ready, the shelling of Tongjing Town began. The main target of this artillery bombardment was the north of the city, but the Japanese army was already prepared for the shelling, and the deterrent effect of artillery fire on the Japanese army was greater than the lethality.

Before the artillery fire had completely stopped, an attack reorganized by the 880th Regiment began with the support of all the heavy weapons in the regiment. The number of people in this attack is 500 people, but most of these 500 people are veterans drawn from various battalions, Wei Lixuan has also made a lot of money, these 500 veterans are the backbone of the 880 Regiment, if they suffer losses, the 880 Regiment is really broken.

The veteran is worthy of being a veteran, and the quality of individual soldiers and the cooperation between each other are not comparable to those of the new recruits, coupled with extremely rich combat experience, all of which make the 880th Regiment's attack quite sharp. I saw that these veterans were in groups of three or five, cooperating with each other, cross-covering and taking advantage of all advantageous types, and constantly breaking through to the north gate of Tongjing Town.

The Japanese troops at the head of the city were desperately shooting outward under the blows of artillery and heavy machine guns outside the city, trying to block the attack of the 880th Regiment. The veterans were not in a hurry, not in a hurry, and took advantage of the sharp gap in the city wall where the Japanese soldiers were shooting, and slowly advanced to the city. 200 meters, 150 meters, 100 meters, and 100 meters away, the two sides launched an exchange of fire. The marksmanship of both sides was very accurate, and the Japanese had a condescending advantage, while the 880th Regiment had an advantage in firepower.

In the previous attack, the gate of Beicheng had been blown away by the 880th Regiment with a rocket launcher, and the Japanese army had now piled up a large number of sandbags in the city gate hole, and regarded the sandbags as a cover, and placed a lot of troops. If the 880th Regiment wants to attack the city, it must first deal with the Japanese troops in the city gate. The most powerful weapons against these Japanese troops were still rocket launchers and heavy machine guns, but there were not many rockets in the 880th Regiment, and after blowing up the sandbags with rockets, the two Type 67 heavy machine guns that had been brought up began to fire.

Without the cover of sandbags, the Japanese soldiers in the holes in the city wall screamed and were swept down by heavy machine guns. The Japanese soldiers on the city wall wanted to use machine guns and grenadiers to suppress the city, but both the machine gunner and the grenadier were the key targets of the sharpshooters in the attack team, and he was shot and fell to the ground before he could fire the bullets. However, the Japanese army in the city still had an advantage in numbers, and a group of people fell in the city gate cave and another group came up.

The ferocious attack of the Chinese army in the north of the city made the commander of the 234th Wing, Jie Daisa Shigematsu, a little unbearable, and his 234th Wing has always been the vanguard in the continuous offensive in the past few days, and the losses suffered are also the heaviest of the three wings, and now some soldiers have fallen under the shelling, and then encountered the ferocious attack of the 880th Regiment, and the support is very difficult. Shigematsu Jie Daisa hurriedly sent people to ask for help from the division commander, Lieutenant General Aoki Seiichi.

The 236th Wing beside Lieutenant General Aoki Seiichi had no losses in the previous attack, but most of the shells fell on the head of the 236th Wing under the shelling of the 463rd Brigade, and the commander of the company, Yoshio Kamegawa, was seriously wounded in the shelling, and now the temporary commander of the 236th Wing is Major General Sadaki Ishimoto, the commander of the 40th Infantry Brigade. The losses were huge, and the 234th Wing came to ask for help. The Fourth Division, which had come to support, was nowhere to be seen, and the division commander, Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki, had the idea of breaking through.

After consulting with staff officers Nagaho Yuo Osa and Major General Sadayoshi Ishimoto, Lieutenant General Aoki Seiichi finally made the decision to break through to the northeast with the entire division. Soon this decision was translated into a military order issued to all units, in which the 235th Wing was ordered to open the way for the division and regiment, and rush out of a passage to the north, with the division headquarters and the 236th Wing following behind the 235th Wing, and the 234th Wing being the rear of the whole division.

After the order was conveyed to the commander of the 235th Wing, Nishina Shin Osa, who immediately invited the captain of the cavalry team, Shizuo Saeki, Nakasa. After Sabai Shizuo Nakasa saw Nishina Shin Dazuo, the first thing he said was: "Nishiko-kun, I have received an order for the whole division to retreat to the north, and my cavalry brigade is ready to attack, please prepare for it too, after my cavalry brigade breaks through the passage, I will also need the 235th Wing to occupy and expand the passage." ”

Nishina Shin Osa was moved by Saeki Shizuo's words that he was at home. Nishina knew how much courage and determination it would take to launch a decisive charge in the face of the dense firepower of the Shina army. He stood up, bowed deeply to Sabai Shizuo, and then said, "Everything is up to Sabai-kun, Sabai-kun must take care." Shizuo Saeki smiled slightly, turned away, and a wave of hometown folk songs came over.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the north gate of Tongjing Town suddenly opened, and then more than 1,000 Japanese cavalry shouted: "Your Majesty the Emperor!" rushed out of the city gate, and the earth shook for it. In the face of the decisive charge of the Japanese cavalry, it showed the inexperience of the officers and men of the 881st Regiment, and some of the soldiers were shocked by the indomitable momentum of the Japanese cavalry when they charged, and if it were not for those veterans taking the lead, they would not even have forgotten to fire their guns.

Soon the guns rang out on the position of the 881st Regiment, but the distance was too close, and the Japanese cavalry was fast, and they rushed up without fear of death. Although men and horses continued to fall, the Japanese cavalry still rushed into the position of the 881st Regiment. The officers and men of the 881st Regiment in hand-to-hand combat were even more unstoppable, and soon the Japanese cavalry rushed through a hole dozens of meters wide in the position of the 881st Regiment.

Behind the Japanese cavalry, the 235th Wing poured out, and thousands of men and horses pressed towards the position of the 881st Regiment. Chu Zhengyang, the commander of the 881st Regiment, still wanted to desperately block the Japanese army, but Liu Kezhu, the commander of the 882nd Regiment, rushed over, and Liu Kezhu said to Chu Zhengyang: "Old Chu, little Japan is desperate, our number is too small, it seems that we can't stop it, let's withdraw first, otherwise we will have to explain to this Wanke." ”

Liu Kezhu's words made Chu Zhengyang calm down a little, he observed the situation on the battlefield again, and quickly judged that he was facing an attack by an infantry wing of the Japanese army with all his might, this kind of attack was difficult to stop the Japanese army even if he was all glorious, so now the whole regiment retreating should be the best choice. Chu Zhengyang immediately gave the order for the whole regiment to retreat.

The two battalions of the 881st Regiment and the 882nd Regiment withdrew to the west of Tongjing Town, and the Japanese troops saw that the purpose of opening the passage had been achieved, and they did not pursue the 881st Regiment. After Lieutenant General Aoki Seiichi left the town of Tongjing, Shigematsu Jie Daisakai led the remnants of the 234th Wing to abandon the north gate wall and retreat into the town while fighting.

As soon as the Japanese army retreated, the attacking 880th Regiment found out, and the regiment commander Wei Lixuan was overjoyed, and while ordering the whole regiment to press and attack Tongjing Town, he immediately reported to the brigade commander Wei Erxi. Wei Er was happy to see that before dark, the offensive had indeed made significant progress, and he couldn't help but feel excited, and immediately sent the last reserve in his hand, the brigade guard battalion, to support the attack of the 880th Regiment.

An hour later, Wei Lixuan's report was sent again, which said that the main force of the Japanese division had escaped from Tongjing Town from the south gate, and that the 880th Regiment and the guard battalion had only inflicted heavy losses on the 234th Wing of the Japanese army, destroying more than 1,000 enemies. However, during the pursuit of the Japanese army, the commander of the first battalion led his men to eliminate a baggage unit of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, and killed a Japanese officer of the Nakasa, from which several documents marked with the word "top secret" were found in the document bag of the officer.

Wei Erxi took the document bag from the signal soldier who came to report the situation, opened it and looked at it, and saw that it was all in Japanese, but the word "top secret" was marked in Chinese on the outside of the bag. Wei Erxi understood that these documents were extremely important, and immediately sent someone to escort these documents straight to Changsha City and handed them over to the division commander Tang Longzai.

After processing the documents, Wei Erxi went down the high ground of the ordnance station and entered Tongjing Town. After two days of repeated attacks, Tongjing Town is already a ruin, the whole town can not find a few intact buildings, in a relatively intact two-story building, Wei Erxi sat down, this has become the temporary headquarters of the 463rd Brigade, Wei Erxi looked at the gradually darkening sky outside the door, waiting for several regiment commanders to come to report the situation.

The 463rd Brigade was busy cleaning up the battlefield, while the remnants of the 40th Division were fleeing in a hurry to the southeast. Lieutenant General Aoki Seiichi, the commander of the division, fled more than ten kilometers, and only after seeing that the sky had fallen dark and the people of China were not pursuing, did he breathe a sigh of relief and ordered the whole army to rest in place. The Japanese soldiers, who had been tired for a day, sat on the ground and couldn't get up.

Lieutenant General Seiichi Aoki ordered an inventory of the number of people and supplies. Half a day later, staff officer Nagamu Yuo Osa, brigade commander Major General Ishimoto Sadayoshi, and two wing commanders, Shigematsu Jie Osa, and Nishina Shin Osa, all came over. After counting, there were more than 9,600 soldiers in the division, and 5,200 men in the engineer wing and baggage wing. There are very few supplies left. The soldiers had less ammunition than a base.

This result made Lieutenant General Aoki Ichi's heart desolate, his division set out with 18,000 men, and until now, three infantry wings, 12,000 people, only more than 4,000 remaining, and the mountain artillery wing is all broken, this loss is unprecedented since the formation of the 40th Division. Now Lieutenant General Aoki Seiichi doesn't know how to explain to Commander Anami.