The 52nd and 62nd Divisions of the Nationalist Army, which launched an attack from the left and right sides of Wusha Town, were the main divisions of the Nationalist Army that participated in the Battle of Songhu, and after the reconstruction, the 52nd Division was the Central Army and belonged to He Yingqin's lineage, and it was not bad in terms of combat effectiveness and weaponry. Although the 62nd Division was a Hunan army, it also regained its combat effectiveness after the reorganization, and before participating in this battle, it had been persisting in the anti-Japanese struggle in the area of Hangjiahu and had many confrontations with the Japanese army, and had very rich experience in actual combat.

With these two main divisions as the main attack, and the 144th Division and the newly formed 7th Division, two Sichuan Army divisions to assist, the strength in the two directions should not be underestimated. The two detachments of the Second Column also understood that in order to cover the smooth crossing of the river by the military headquarters and the main force of the troops, it was worth fighting all by themselves. On the battlefield, the spirit of sacrifice carried forward by the troops under the leadership of the Communist Party often created countless impossibilities.

From noon, the national army launched a full-front attack on Wusha Town from three directions, and the opponent Wang Haitao was facing head-on was replaced by the 108th Division. The 108th Division showed numerical superiority from the beginning, and under the suppression of mountain artillery, the strength of the three regiments spread out across the entire line, in an attempt to break through the defenders' positions with the tactics of a sea of people. After a morning of bloody fighting, the officers and men of the Independent Regiment also grew up rapidly, and in the face of the fierce attack of the national army, they remained calm and calm, and took advantage of their superiority in firepower to kill and wound a large number of attacking national soldiers.

On the left side of Wusha Town, the 52nd Division also concentrated dozens of mortars and several mountain guns to shell the defenders' positions, and they were facing the second detachment guarding the positions. The second detachment originally had more than a dozen mortars, and now it has 20 mortars supported by Wang Haitao, and the detachment leader Huang Yuting did not show weakness and ordered all mortars to return fire, and the battle between the two sides began in the artillery battle.

There is not much difference in the number and power of the artillery on both sides, but the artillery under Wang Haitao is more trained in live ammunition, so the accuracy and flexibility are stronger, which also causes the artillery of the 52nd Division to suffer serious losses in the half-hour artillery battle between the two sides, and only more than ten mortars were blown up, while only eight mortars were lost in the second branch.

Liu Bingzhe, commander of the 52nd Division, was also heartbroken when he saw that the artillery battle had fallen behind, and his own artillery losses were serious; he must know that under the current circumstances, it is quite difficult for the troops to get artillery, and his division, that is, the regular army of the Central Army, will have so much artillery, and it will be difficult to replenish it after this loss. Liu Bingzhe could only let the artillery withdraw first, and then mobilize the infantry to attack.

The 52nd Division's training in peacetime was very tight, and the soldiers had experience in big battles, so they attacked in a very orderly manner. Whether it is the deployment of the attack formation or the covering cooperation between each other, it is very well done. Huang Yuting, who was guarding the position, also frowned in the face of the attack of the 52nd Division. Fortunately, the weapons and equipment of the New Fourth Army are now much stronger, and the soldiers of the main force such as the Second Detachment generally have Japanese-style weapons in their hands, and each squad not only has more than two light machine guns, but also at least one heavy machine gun.

There were also many semi-automatic rifles and rushing and frontal guns in the troops, all of which were provided to the New Fourth Army by the Jurong Arsenal, and Huang Yuting relied on his ferocious firepower to stubbornly block the attack of the 52nd Division. The stubborn resistance of the defenders also made Division Commander Liu Bingzhe, who did not look down on the New Fourth Army very much, look down on the New Fourth Army with admiration. In the offensive and defensive, there were casualties on both sides, and in general, it was the New Fourth Army that had the upper hand.

The attack of the 62nd Division on the right was more difficult than that of the 52nd Division. The strength of the third detachment is comparable to that of the second detachment, and the strength of the 62nd Division is a cut worse than that of the 52nd Division, but the 62nd Division has more actual combat experience than the 52nd Division.

The 62nd Division was all sons of Xiangjiang, and the troops were very united, and they cooperated with each other in the offensive very well, and they did not retreat in battle. In this case, the attack was obviously much sharper, which also gave the soldiers of the three detachments a headache, and the detachment leader Zeng Zifeng also made full use of the advantages of the weapons in his hand and the assistance of dozens of mortars, and was also able to block the attack of the 62nd Division.

From noon to evening, the gunfire around Wusha Town never stopped, and several divisions of the Nationalist Army took advantage of their numerical superiority to launch tidal attacks one after another, while Wang Haitao's independent regiment and the two detachments of the Second Column were like reefs in the water, no matter how the tide hit, they never moved. However, after an afternoon of fighting, the casualties of the defenders were relatively serious.

Wang Haitao's independent regiment suffered the best casualties, also suffering more than 80 casualties, and no less than 200 people lost their combat effectiveness after being seriously wounded. More than 200 soldiers of the second detachment lost their lives, and as many as 300 soldiers lost their combat effectiveness due to wounds, and nearly a quarter of the fighting personnel were lost. The third detachment fared slightly better than the second, and the combat attrition also amounted to a fifth.

After dark, the two sides temporarily stopped fighting, and Wang Haitao also took the opportunity to ask the security regiment to return the bodies of the wounded and sacrificed soldiers back to Wusha Town. After listening to the battle situation of the second and third detachments reported by his subordinates, Wang Haitao frowned slightly and fell into deep thought. Now his biggest disadvantage is the lack of soldiers, the number of national troops is large, and the losses are high, but the loss of a soldier on his side is less combat strength.

Counting from the time he rushed to repair the first defensive position, he had been holding the position for three days, and news came from the New Fourth Army that the logistics department and the wounded had crossed the Yangtze River for the most part, and at this rate, they would be able to cross the river in two more days, which means that they would be able to complete the task as long as they held on for two more days and two nights. But how could these two days and two nights be so easy to keep?

Especially in the final stage, the second and third detachments also had to withdraw to cross the river, and the pressure of defense could only be borne by their own troops, and the national army lost more in the past two days, and in the end there were still 60,000 or 70,000 horses, and it would be good if they could have 2,000 men left in the end. With 2,000 men and horses to carry a strong attack of tens of thousands of people at least overnight, and to break out of the encirclement, can his own troops do it? What Wang Haitao can do now is to minimize casualties and strive to maintain his strength to the end.

After dinner, the national army launched an attack on the defender's position overnight, and the battlefield was full of variables in the dark night, and Wang Haitao did not dare to be careless, not only the entire independent regiment was engaged in the battle, but even the security regiment was mobilized, ready to fill the loopholes at any time. The two sides fought until late at night, and the national army took the initiative to stop the attack, and Wang Haitao's independent regiment lost more than 100 people.

After losing several hundred people, the defensive force on the three-kilometer defense line became even weaker, in order to better hold the position, Wang Haitao ordered to abandon the first line of positions, and the whole army withdrew to the second line of positions, so that Wang Haitao's independent regiment and the second and third detachments were all held on the second line of semicircular positions. The separate regiment was in the center, two detachments on the right and three detachments on the left.

After a night of rushing to cross, except for the military headquarters and a detachment, some medical personnel, and the newly wounded, the rest of the troops had all crossed the Yangtze River, and Ye Ting sent someone to send a message to Wang Haitao, saying that the second and third detachments would withdraw from their positions after dark today, and the New Fourth Army would all cross the river tonight. The reason why the New Fourth Army decided to cross the river tonight was also because the battles between the two sides and the New Fourth Army's crossing of the river in the past few days had attracted the attention of the Japanese troops along the river.

The troops on guard of the Fourth Column in Jiangbei had discovered the Japanese patrol troops many times, and on two occasions they were almost exposed, but fortunately, the Fourth Column dealt with it carefully under the command of Chief of Staff Zhang Yunyi, and it was considered that there was no danger. However, it was necessary to speed up the crossing of the river, otherwise the risk of exposure to the Japanese army would increase. Wang Haitao knew that the final moment was getting closer and closer.

As soon as dawn, several divisions of the national army pressed on the whole line again, and launched an attack on the defenders, and the national troops in front of the independent regiment found that the defenders had abandoned their positions and retreated, and immediately pressed forward, and this time the 108th Division used the strength of two regiments to launch an attack on the whole line when the supporting artillery fire was not yet in place. After the independent regiment withdrew to the second line of positions, the front of the defense was shortened, and the strength of the regiment was much thicker.

Seeing that the two regiments of the 108th Division were attacking, Wang Haitao was not polite, and ordered mortars to launch artillery bombardment on the attacking soldiers; yesterday they were suppressed by the mountain artillery of the national army, and the remaining 60 mortars Wang Haitao were basically useless, and now the mountain artillery of the national army has not yet moved into place, and it is a good opportunity for him to use these mortars. The unrestrained fire of 60 mortars blew up the two regiments that had come up and collapsed.

After the two regiments were defeated in an embarrassing manner, they lost nearly half of their men, which made Rong Jiwu, the division commander, sober up when his heart ached, and they were facing a section of the 90th Army with extremely strong combat effectiveness. This defeat made the 108th Division no longer dare to make any rash moves until the supporting artillery was moved into place.

At the same time as the 108th Division attacked, the attacks on the left and right sides also began, but the attacking troops were replaced by two divisions of the Sichuan Army. At this time, the pressure on the second and third detachments was reduced a lot, and the combat effectiveness of the two Sichuan army divisions was not a little worse than that of the 52nd and 62nd divisions.

The second detachment faced the attack of the 144th Division, the 144th Division sent two regiments of troops into the attack, and more than ten heavy machine guns were concentrated behind them to cover, but the soldiers of the Sichuan Army did not have any offensive formation at all, first rushed upwards in a swarm, and after the second detachment swept down the soldiers who rushed in front with light and heavy machine guns, the soldiers behind were lying on the ground, and they no longer dared to attack forward, but they just lay there and fired indiscriminately with the weapons in their hands, and the bullets did not know where to fly at all.

The attack of the new 7th Division faced by the 3rd detachment was similar to that of the 2nd detachment, and this kind of attack was much easier to defend than yesterday's attack. However, both Huang Yuting and Zeng Zifeng were not easy in their hearts, they both understood that this was the national army using a miscellaneous army to consume themselves, and the two divisions as the main force would participate in the attack at any time!