Peng Gui felt uncomfortable, and Masaharu Honma had a hard time. In the case of the bombing of Wuxian Town, the two brigades of the Second Wing were still unable to take the town, and the reconnaissance unit came to report that the pursuers behind them were less than twenty kilometers away from them. There are not many soldiers left that can be used to fight.

In desperation, Honma Maharu organized all the soldiers who could fight, and asked the first wing, engineers, and cavalry to go behind to block the pursuers, and he personally led the escort team and the third wing to the attack position in front of Goxian Town. As soon as the commander of the second wing, Sakuraba Shiro Osa, organized the remaining soldiers of the second wing, Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma came to the position.

Lieutenant General Honma Masaharu didn't care about scolding Sakuraba Shiro Daisa at this time, and hurriedly organized the remnants of the third and second wings together, preparing to jointly attack the defender positions of Goxian Town. In order to prevent the defenders of Wanji Mountain from reinforcing Wuxian Town again, Lieutenant General Honma Masaharu still sent a brigade to encircle the position of Wanji Mountain.

At this time, Lieutenant General Honma Masaan still had more than 4,000 elite infantry in his hands, and the battalion reinforced by the 565th Regiment on the Wuxian Town position was only more than 1,000 people who could fight. Fortunately, the Japanese army was out of artillery, and the defenders still had a mortar position on the hill and a dozen mortars left in the town at their disposal.

This time, Honma Masamei sent two infantry brigades of Japanese troops, and set up a warlord team behind them. Although the Japanese troops in these two brigades did not have supporting artillery, they also had a lot of grenadiers and light and heavy machine guns, and the Japanese soldiers generally had high individual quality and accurate marksmanship. In the absence of a retreat, it still brought a lot of pressure to the defenders guarding Wuxian Town.

Peng Gui did not dare to let the Japanese troops approach the position anymore, and when the Japanese troops were still 200 meters away from the position, he ordered to open fire. The defenders suffered many casualties, but there was still no shortage of heavy weapons, and the dense offensive formation of the Japanese army gave automatic weapons a great deal of leeway, so the Japanese soldiers fell under the guns one by one under the strafing of dozens of light and heavy machine guns.

Maybe the Japanese army also knew that there was no way out, or maybe it was the muzzle of the black hole hole of the supervising team behind them, the Japanese army still fought to the death in the face of the rain of bullets that came over, and the soldiers in front fell, and the soldiers in the back just bent their waists lower, and rushed up while returning fire. The Japanese army's accurate counterattack caused the soldiers defending the position to be shot and fall down continuously.

The light and heavy machine guns, which played a key role in the defense, were also the focus of the Japanese army's care, and without artillery, the Japanese still used grenadiers to accurately fire grenades at the machine gun positions. In just ten minutes, half of the light and heavy machine guns on the positions were lost. Unlike the regiments of the 90th Division, the 564th Regiment trained many sharpshooters, and in the face of the Japanese grenadiers, Peng Gui had to order the use of a dozen mortars in the town to return fire.

And the mortars on the hill also lost no time in shelling the Japanese attacking team. The Japanese army also suffered heavy casualties under the double blow of artillery fire and defenders, and the remaining Japanese troops did not retreat, but pressed towards Wuxian Town step by step. At this time, not very far from the rear of the Japanese troops, rumbling artillery was heard.

Hearing the sound of cannons, Peng Gui perked up and shouted excitedly: "Brothers, fight to the death to block little Japan, the brothers of the 272nd Brigade have been outflanked." Peng Gui's shouting also made the officers and soldiers on the battlefield feel like a shot in the arm, and the gunfire became more intensive.

Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma was also taken aback by the sound of the cannonball, and couldn't help but look behind him. Although he couldn't see the battlefield behind him, Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma also understood that on the position behind him, with the First Wing and those miscellaneous soldiers, it was impossible to stop the Shina army, that is, how long it could be stopped. Thinking of this, Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma frowned and looked at the battlefield in front of him.

When he saw that hundreds of attacking soldiers had approached the walls of Goxian Town, Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma decisively sent the soldiers around him except for the guards again. More than 1,000 Japanese soldiers pounced on the fierce Xiang Wuxian Town. When Brigadier Peng Gui saw that the Japanese army had reinforced more than 1,000 people, his heart couldn't help but sink.

When Peng Gui still wanted to lead the remaining hundreds of soldiers to work hard and try to block the Japanese army, a scout ran to Peng Gui's side out of breath and said loudly: "Report to the brigade, the Japanese army was found in the direction of Shucheng, the size should be a wing, and it is only less than ten kilometers away from Wuxian Town." ”

Hearing the news, Peng Gui knew that this Wuxian Town really couldn't hold it. So Peng Gui let out a long sigh and ordered the troops to retreat while fighting. The defenders retreated into the town while firing, and the attacking Japanese saw hope and attacked more fiercely. Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma, who was watching the battle from a distance, saw that the defenders were beginning to retreat, and nodded, with a satisfied expression on his face.

Tang Longzai led the troops a few kilometers away from Wuxian Town, encountered the Japanese army's obstruction, in the telescope Tang Longzai saw that the number of Japanese troops on the opposite side was three or four thousand, although there were many people, but there was no defensive position, and the second was also very panicked. In the face of the Japanese army, which only constituted a simple fortification, Tang Longzai did not want to dwell on it too much, and directly notified the artillery to open fire.

The heavy artillery of the heavy artillery regiment set up artillery positions, and half an hour later, together with dozens of mortars from two brigades, they rained shells on the Japanese positions. The Japanese were killed and wounded all over the ground under the shelling, but the surviving soldiers not only did not retreat, but used the corpses of their comrades as covers, lying on the corpses, and firing back.

In this case, the Japanese army was still stubbornly resisting, which also surprised Tang Longzai. Zhu Gangwei was a little breathless, and said to Tang Longzai: "Brigade Commander Tang, let's attack our brigade." Tang Longzai also knew that it would not work if he didn't send infantry up at this time, so he agreed to Zhu Gangwei's proposal after thinking about it for a while.

Zhu Gangwei saw that Tang Longzai agreed, and immediately ordered the 566th Regiment under him to attack. The 566th Regiment is also the main force of the 276th Brigade, and this time in the blocking battle in Yuexi, the 276th Brigade only beat the side drum, and the whole pressure was on the 272nd Brigade, and Zhu Gangwei and they were also holding back a lot of energy.

With the order to attack, Yang Lianxuan, commander of the 566th Regiment, immediately ordered the regimental mortars to cover the Japanese position, and the heavy machine guns of the whole regiment also fired suppressive fire at the heavy weapons on the Japanese position from all angles. This is to bully little Japan into running out of artillery, otherwise such a way of fighting would meet Japanese artillery, and it would have to suffer heavy losses.

Under the cover of heavy weapons, the officers and men of the 566th Regiment lined up in an offensive formation and rushed straight to the Japanese position. The soldiers of the first wing of the Japanese army on the position were elite, and the soldiers of the cavalry brigade were inferior, but the cavalry brigade also hid four cavalry seven or five field guns. At this time, the Chinese army attacked with infantry, and it no longer hid, but pushed out.

The shells of the Japanese returned fire exploded in the ranks of the attacking regiments of the 566th Regiment, leaving the attacking fighters to the ground. This angered Zhu Gangwei, and Zhu Gangwei hurriedly ordered the artillery of the 276th Brigade to find the Japanese artillery and destroy it immediately. After waiting for about ten minutes, when the artillery of the 276th Brigade destroyed all the four 75th cavalry field guns, the four artillery pieces of the Japanese army had already caused dozens of officers and men of the 566th Regiment to fall.

The stubborn resistance of the Japanese army suppressed the 566th Regiment a few dozen meters in front of the position. Yang Lianxuan was also slightly injured during the attack. When Tang Longzai saw this situation, he ordered the 545th Regiment to transfer the Gaoping dual-purpose twin heavy machine guns, and at the same time transferred more than a dozen 67-type heavy machine guns. As soon as the four Gaoping dual-purpose twin heavy machine guns entered the battlefield, the situation was immediately different.

There was barely anything on the Japanese position to stop the 12.7 caliber bullets of the Gaoping dual-purpose twin heavy machine gun. Several heavy machine gun positions of the Japanese army were riddled with holes by these four heavy machine guns, and the machine guns and gunners were beaten to parts. After the firepower on the Japanese position was completely suppressed, the officers and men of the 566th Regiment jumped up from the ground and launched a charge at the Japanese position with a shout.

Forty meters away, the fighters of the 566th Regiment threw a large number of grenades at the Japanese positions. In the smoke of grenades, the officers and men of the 566th Regiment broke through to the Japanese positions and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese soldiers who were still alive. As soon as Tang Longzai saw that the 566th Regiment had broken through into the Japanese position and started hand-to-hand combat, with a wave of his hand, the soldiers of the 545th Regiment and the 546th Regiment behind him pulled out the big hands behind their backs, shouted and rushed forward again.

An hour later, the battle here was basically over, more than 4,000 Japanese troops had hundreds of sappers and baggage soldiers surrendered, and the rest of the soldiers were annihilated, among which the first wing of the wing Yun Ya Hou Sun Erdazuo died under Zhao Fei's knife, and the captain of the cavalry brigade, Hashimoto Tokio Nakasa, also died in the hands of Yang Lianxuan.

At the end of the battle, Tang Longzai asked the 566th Regiment to stay behind to clean up the battlefield and take care of the prisoners, while he continued to rush to Wuxian Town with other troops. When Tang Longzai arrived here in Wuxian Town, he only saw Peng Gui, the commander of the 275th Brigade, who was ashamed. Peng Gui saw Tang Longzai, greeted him and said, "Brigade Commander Tang, Peng Mo is ashamed that he failed to defend Wuxian Town and let Little Japan escape from here. ”

Tang Longzai asked about the details, and Peng Gui also told the story one by one. Tang Longzai saw that there were only a few hundred officers and soldiers left under Peng Gui, and almost all of them were injured, knowing that Peng Gui had done their best, and Peng Gui was not his subordinate, so he didn't say much, just comforted Peng Gui, and then asked the soldiers to clean up the battlefield.

At the temporary command post in Wuxian Town, Tang Longzai wrote down all the situation into telegrams, one to the military headquarters of the 90th Army and one to the front command of the 92nd Division. In this battle, only more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers escaped, and the rest of the Japanese troops were either captured or annihilated, capturing a large number of weapons, ammunition and military supplies, and also relieving the threat of the Japanese army in the direction of Yuexi County.

Soon after, a reply from the front headquarters of the 92nd Division arrived first, ordering Tang Longzai to rest in place for the night, leaving the 565th Regiment of the 275th Brigade to garrison Huoshan County the next day, and all the rest of the troops to withdraw to Yuexi County. Tang Longzai complied, and the next day the various troops seized the prisoners, took the booty, and headed for their respective destinations.