The Chinese army deserted into the city, but the Japanese army could only passively defend the city. This is simply a shame for these Japanese generals who seem to look down on the Chinese army. Not long after he sat down, Lieutenant General Sumita Laishiro, the commander of the 39th Division, roared loudly: "Yamamoto-kun, the damned Shina army has already reached the outside of the city, and our dignified Japanese Imperial Army can only defend the city, this is a shame! I ask Yamamoto-kun to allow me to attack, and I will completely wipe out the people who dare to offend the majesty of our Imperial Japanese Army!"

Lieutenant General Yamamoto Sano glanced coldly at the roaring Lieutenant General Tsukita Rashhiro and said: "Sumida-kun, please calm down! Have you not attacked the Shina army? Our three divisions and regiments have besieged the Shina army on three sides and have been defeated by the Shina army, do you think we can win by attacking now? You must know that we are facing the most powerful army in Shina, Wang Haitao's 90th Army!"

Lieutenant General Mitsuo Yamamoto's words silenced the room, and even Lieutenant General Seishiro Sumida, who kept roaring, shut his mouth. After a while, Lieutenant General Sakuma asked cautiously: "Yamamoto-kun, our army still has tens of thousands of troops in Hengyang City, and there are more than 30,000 soldiers in battle, can we only be trapped here and let the army of China attack us?"

Lieutenant General Yamamoto Sano smiled and replied: "Tell you that Commander Isamu Yokoyama has sent a telegram that the 13th Army has dispatched two divisions with a total of more than 50,000 troops from Liuyang County to reinforce Hengyang, and now what we have to do is to defend Hengyang City to the death and use the strong defense line to consume a large amount of the living strength of the Zhina people. As soon as the reinforcements arrive in Hengyang City, we can encircle the Shina army with the reinforcements, and it will not be difficult to defeat or even destroy the strongest army in China at that time, and at that time you will all establish immortal feats for our Japanese Empire and His Majesty the Emperor!" Yamamoto Sano's impassioned speech made everyone below shout in unison: "Your Majesty the Emperor, ita!"

On the morning of the next day, the three troops that had already been prepared launched an attack on Hengyang City at the same time. Except for the 130 heavy cannon regiment outside Zhujiayan Town, which did not move, all the heavy artillery began to roar. Outside Hengyang City, only the rumbling cannons sounded, and other sounds were completely covered by the sound of cannons. Groups of heavy artillery shells fell on the Japanese positions outside Hengyang, and the barbed wire, triangular barricades, and bunker fortifications that the Japanese army had carefully arranged were covered in endless artillery fire.

Smoke and fire filled the air over the Japanese position, and all kinds of building materials, weapon parts, and corpses of Japanese soldiers flew up. On the Chinese position outside the north gate, Li Changwu stood in front of the observation hole of the command post, observing the situation on the Japanese position in front of an artillery mirror, and Wei Ye, the commander of the 462nd Brigade, stood beside him.

Today's offensive task Li Changwu was handed over to the 463rd Brigade, and for this reason, Wei Ye also had some opinions about Li Changwu. The 152nd heavy howitzer and artillery regiment behind the position was still bombarding the Japanese position, and the 105th self-propelled * artillery regiment under the division gave full play to the characteristics of mobility and flexibility, approaching the Japanese position to make precision strikes.

At the front of the Chinese position, the 880th Regiment was ready to go, while the brigade commander Wei Erxi was holding a telescope in the forward command post to observe the effect of the shelling. At his side stood several signal men, ready to relay his orders. In this shelling, the artillery belonging to the 463rd Brigade, including the killer rocket artillery battalion, did not open fire, because Wei Erxi wanted to use them to deal with the artillery that the Japanese army might appear at any time.

The artillery bombardment continued for 20 minutes, the barbed wire fence at the front of the Japanese position had been reduced to fragments, the triangular horses blocking the road were scattered, and even the first trench of the Japanese army had collapsed in many places under the accurate bombardment of self-propelled howitzers and artillery guns. The artillery fire began to extend deep into the Japanese position, and Wei Er was pleased to see that the time had come to attack, and immediately ordered the 880th Regiment to attack.

The position of the 880th Regiment was 500 meters away from the Japanese position, and these 500 meters were all flat ground, and the Japanese army had also leveled this area, and there was nothing to use as cover. The order to attack reached the 880th Regiment, and dozens of heavy machine guns on the heavy machine gun positions of the 880th Regiment immediately roared, and bullets flew like a rain of bullets to the Japanese positions, and the soldiers in the trenches on the suppressed Japanese positions could not raise their heads at all.

And that's not all, the 24 heavy mortars of the heavy fire battalion of the 880th Regiment also joined the ranks of covering the attack, and one by one the heavy * aimed at the trench and kept falling. Under the double cover of heavy machine guns and heavy mortars, the officers and men of the 1st and 2nd battalions rushed to the Japanese positions. More than 1,000 officers and men opened a straggler line and quickly assaulted forward.

The first 200 meters were not very dangerous, and only a few machine guns were firing intermittently on the Japanese position, and the machine guns could only fire blindly at such a distance, and it was even more impossible for the rifles to be accurate. However, as soon as the officers and men of the 1st and 2nd Battalions entered the Japanese position, within 300 meters of the Japanese position, not only did the accuracy of the machine guns improve considerably, but the rifles could also be aimed and fired, and the most dangerous thing was the Japanese grenadiers.

The quality of the soldiers is quite good, the machine guns are very methodical, and the accuracy of the rifles is also very high, especially the grenadiers, the grenades and bullets fired are really thieves, and they are specially aimed at shooting in crowded places. The officers and men of the 1st and 2nd Battalions had bent down as best they could to reduce their targets, but there were still soldiers who fell on the way forward.

Wei Lixuan, the regiment commander standing in the position observation post, saw that the Japanese army was blocking the attack in a very orderly manner, and that soldiers in the attacking troops were constantly being shot and falling. Wei Lixuan immediately ordered the heavy fire battalion to strengthen fire cover, and the mortars focused on the grenadier and machine gun fire points of the Japanese army. The Japanese firepower must be suppressed as soon as possible.

As soon as the order was given, the heavy machine guns and mortars were fired more happily, and the Japanese machine-gun fire points were destroyed several in a row, and the blocking fire weakened a lot. But the grenadiers didn't seem to have suffered much damage, and they still kept hitting the attacking teams with grenades and bullets. Seeing this scene, Wei Lixuan picked out more than a dozen sharpshooters from the guard company around him and asked them to specialize in sniping the grenadiers of the Japanese army.

The officers and men of the 1st and 2nd Battalions stubbornly continued to advance in the face of bullets flying from the Japanese positions. After breaking through another 200 meters, the Japanese resistance became more ferocious, and the soldiers were suppressed and could only crawl on the ground, crawling forward while returning fire. Eighty meters ...... Seventy meters...... Sixty meters...... The Japanese resistance had reached the point of madness.

Under the pressure of the Japanese forward commanders, the Japanese soldiers also lay in the trenches desperately to shoot in front of the position, regardless of life and death, and were often hit by oncoming bullets before they could fire two shots, and then another soldier would immediately come up and continue shooting. The remaining machine-gun firing points were also desperately firing outward. Even the grenadiers didn't care about aiming, and fired grenades and shells one after another at the front of the position.

Under the desperate resistance of the Japanese army, the casualties of the officers and men of the first and second battalions continued to increase, and the two battalion commanders also understood that they had to grit their teeth and persevere, otherwise their previous achievements would be wasted, and the sacrificed soldiers would die in vain. Finally, they crawled to a distance of only forty meters from the Japanese position, and at this distance, even the hideous faces of the Japanese soldiers could be seen clearly.

The distance was so close, the soldiers on both sides invariably threw their hands, mines, grenades, and bombs at each other, and a large amount of gunpowder smoke and dust enveloped the entire front of the position in the midst of the loud explosion. When the two battalion commanders saw that the opportunity had come, they shouted at the same time: "Brothers, rush with me!" The two took the lead and jumped up at the shout.

The shouts of nearly a thousand people behind them rang out, and all the soldiers jumped up from the ground, followed the two battalion commanders, and rushed towards the Japanese position. At the same time, on the Japanese position, the commander also drew his command knife, pointed forward and shouted: "Kill and give!" So the Japanese army also rushed out of the trench, and the two sides collided together in an instant like two torrents.

The Japanese army is indeed very strong in fighting stabs, and the 38-type rifle has the advantage of length, and the ordinary national army troops are not opponents of the Japanese army at all when they fight bayonets, even if they are the CCP troops who are better at this aspect, it takes three or five people to replace a Japanese soldier. But Wang Haitao's troops are different, the Guangxi soldiers are extremely fierce, and they have a lot of martial arts skills, plus Wang Haitao attaches great importance to bayonet fighting, and he pays the most attention to this training on weekdays.

The length of the 54-type semi-automatic rifle may not be as good as the 38-type rifle, but its * knife is much stronger than the bayonet on the 38-type rifle, as long as the Japanese bayonet is not the key point, the soldier can have the power to fight again, and even if the * knife does not stab the vital point, the person who is stabbed will lose its combat effectiveness. In addition, among the officers and men of the 1st and 2nd battalions, there were still a small half of them carrying broadswords, and their eight swords were used to completely restrain the Japanese bayonets.

The two sides scuffled together at the front of the Japanese position, at which point the machine gun and artillery fire on both sides ceased, and the focus was on the fighting crowd. The 1st and 2nd Battalions began to gain numerical superiority, but the rear of the Japanese position was constantly joined by fresh troops. Wei Lixuan also immediately reinforced the three battalions, and thousands of people were killed in this way.

As time passed, the 880th Regiment began to gain the upper hand, and the Japanese knew that they did not have an advantage in numbers, and they were unwilling to give up their positions easily. Finally, the Japanese commander saw that the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to his side, and could only retreat to the second line of positions. But how could the troops that had already been fought so easily withdraw, and he could only grit his teeth and watch his soldiers fall one after another.

Another 20 minutes passed, and after fighting for more than half an hour, the 880th Regiment had clearly gained the upper hand, and although its own losses were not small, the number of Japanese troops was getting smaller and smaller. The Japanese commander gritted his teeth and watched all this, and the hand holding the handle of the command knife was already bruised. Finally, he couldn't help it anymore, gritted his teeth and said: "Baga! Damn the Chinese people! Order the artillery to open fire and cover the forward positions with artillery fire!"