Wei Erxi's 463rd Brigade captured the railway station in one morning, completely annihilating the remnants of the 115th Wing, including the 115th Wing of the 13th Division, Daping Jindazuo, and annihilating more than 1,400 Japanese troops this time. Large quantities of military materiel, weapons and ammunition were also seized. The 462nd Brigade was the main attack on the regimental headquarters of the 13th Division, and unlike the 463rd Brigade, the 462nd Brigade encountered the most tenacious and frantic resistance of the Japanese army.

The headquarters of the 13th Division was originally a cargo warehouse next to the railway station, with a large area and a square for stacking goods, and a wall with barbed wire in the entire warehouse. The wall could not withstand the bombardment of artillery fire and the impact of tanks, but the Japanese dug a trench outside the wall, and hundreds of Japanese soldiers fought desperately in and behind the wall to block the attack of the 462nd Brigade.

There was only one gate in the entire warehouse, and the 462nd Brigade also launched an attack in the direction of the gate. The front of the offensive was somewhat cramped, and Li Changwu initially committed only four tanks and a battalion of troops. The artillery fire blew through the wall, and the fire of the heavy weapons suppressed the Japanese troops in the trenches, and Li Changwu ordered his troops to start attacking.

Halfway through the attack, the sound of artillery suddenly rang out in the courtyard of the warehouse, and a dozen shells fell on the heads of the attacking troops. When the sound of artillery sounded in the courtyard, Li Changwu, who was in command of the battle, secretly shouted in his heart: "Not good!" He heard that this was the sound of the Japanese army's 75-caliber mountain artillery. Sure enough, the shells exploded in the attacking ranks, bringing a rain of blood.

Li Changwu hurriedly ordered the troops to withdraw, but under three rounds of Japanese artillery fire, only one light tank was withdrawn from the four tanks, and one battalion of the attack also suffered more than 100 casualties. Li Changwu, who suffered a loss, was very distressed, these soldiers were veterans of a hundred battles, everyone was wealth, and the hard-won chariot was lost like this.

The appearance of long-lost artillery on the Japanese army's position also shows that the Japanese army is still trapped and fighting, and has only taken out the artillery until now, which is really beyond Li Changwu's expectations. Now that it is known that there are still artillery on the Japanese positions, it is impossible to launch a large-scale attack until these artillery pieces are completely destroyed, otherwise the casualties will be greater.

The best weapon to deal with artillery is his own artillery, and after Li Changwu asked Tang Longzai for instructions in a hurry, he also transferred the third battalion of the artillery regiment over, so that 32 self-propelled howitzers and artillery pieces of the two artillery battalions were concentrated, plus more than 60 heavy mortars of the whole brigade. The artillery fire of the bombardment began from the trenches outside the wall, and advanced little by little into the courtyard, until the bombardment lasted for almost an hour, plowing the entire warehouse position, and Li Changwu stopped the shelling.

The ensuing attack went relatively smoothly, and after easily annihilating the remnants of the Japanese troops on the outlying positions, the tanks and infantry rushed over the trenches and walls and into the warehouses. The first to rush into the warehouse were four chariots and soldiers from the second battalion of the 877th Regiment, and then the regiment commander Wei Ye also rushed in with the third battalion. As soon as he rushed through the wall, Wei Ye saw that the freight yard in front of him was full of traces of shelling, the corpses of Japanese soldiers were scattered everywhere, and there was already a layer of blood on the ground.

More than 100 meters away in front of the freight yard is the main warehouse, not only the only gate has bunkers and sandbag fortifications, but all the windows have been changed to machine gun fire points, and more than a dozen machine guns are spewing tongues of fire. There was also a row of vertical houses on each side of the main warehouse, which surrounded half of the freight yard, and these two rows of houses were also defended by Japanese troops.

If the main warehouse is attacked in the front, then the Japanese troops in the left and right rows of houses will definitely open fire, so that the attacking troops will be caught in a three-sided attack, and the casualties will not be small. So Wei Ye immediately decided to use the artillery and heavy machine guns on the chariot to suppress the Japanese machine-gun fire points in the main warehouse, and immediately divided two troops to clear the Japanese troops in the houses on both sides first.

It is certainly not possible to clear the Japanese troops from the houses on both sides and attack from the front, but the soldiers who have fought many street battles have their own methods to deal with such a situation. The second battalion commander, Zhong Brigade, and the third battalion commander, Tang Fuquan, first sent a company to go around the back of the two rows of houses, and then used explosives and medicine packs to carry out multi-point blasting on the walls behind the houses.

Several explosions sounded, and the soldiers took advantage of the smoke and dust to throw a few grenades and bullets into the house, and then rushed in with their guns and guns. After a fierce burst of gunfire, the two rows of houses fell silent again, and two company commanders came to Zhong Brigade and Tang Fuquan one after another, and reported to them that they had cleared the Japanese troops in the houses.

After clearing the Japanese troops in the houses on both sides, he could concentrate on dealing with the Japanese troops in the front warehouse, Wei Ye arranged for four light tanks and four heavy armored vehicles to line up in the freight yard, and each tank was followed by a platoon of infantry, and just pressed towards the main warehouse. The Japanese troops in the main warehouse were desperately shooting out through the window, and even the grenadiers were hitting the chariots with grenades and bullets.

Combat vehicles will only be damaged or destroyed if they are bombarded by artillery, and grenades and shells fired by heavy machine gun bullets and grenadiers are basically ignored. The infantry behind them suffered very little damage because they had a tank that blocked most of the bullets. Just as the tank was about to advance in front of the warehouse, the Japanese army pushed out a number of oil drums from the warehouse, and then shot and exploded the oil drums, and suddenly the front of the warehouse burst into flames.

Vehicles can ignore bullets, but they are still very sensitive to fire, and all of a sudden all the vehicles not only stop moving forward, but also retreat. Naturally, the infantry behind them could not rush through the sea of fire, so they could only retreat with the chariots. Li Changwu, who was watching the battle, couldn't help frowning when he saw that he was about to attack the warehouse, but he was blocked by the fire.

Looking at the time, it was noon, and the gunfire on Wei Erxi's side became more and more intense, and some scouts reported that the 463rd Brigade had launched a final attack on the Japanese troops at the railway station, but their side was blocked out of the warehouse and could not enter an inch, so it would be false to say that they were not in a hurry. But the fire is not extinguished, no matter how anxious it is, Li Changwu can only scold: "Little Japan that should be destroyed, I see how many things you have to burn!"

Although the Japanese pushed the oil drums outward twice, more than an hour later, the fire gradually decreased without follow-up oil drums. The 463rd Brigade had already ended the battle and began to clean up the battlefield before the 462nd Brigade's attack on the warehouse continued. This time, the tank rushed to the outside of the warehouse, and used the vehicle-mounted artillery to bombard the bunker and sandbag fortifications outside the warehouse gate, and after eliminating the Japanese troops outside the warehouse, it opened the warehouse door several times in a row.

The Japanese squad left outside the warehouse was completely wiped out, and the Japanese troops behind the windows in the warehouse also suffered heavy casualties. At this time, the officers and men of the two battalions of the 877th Regiment rushed into the warehouse with shouts. Immediately after that, gunshots and fighting rang out in the warehouse. Li Changwu hurriedly went up to a battalion with reinforcements, and then he was a little relieved.

When Wei Ye rushed to Li Changwu and reported to Li Changwu that he had completely annihilated the Japanese troops in the warehouse, and killed the commander of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Akalu Riri, and the chief of staff Chikawa Yongji Daisa, Li Changwu finally let go of the stone in his heart, turned around and shouted to the signal soldier: "Send a telegram to the military seat and the headquarters!"

As early as two days ago, Wang Haitao entered Yongzhou City with the people from the headquarters, and chose a two-story building in the south of the city that was still intact as the headquarters. While paying attention to the fighting in Yongzhou City, Wang Haitao commanded the logistics department to build a field hospital first. Because of the large amount of penicillin, the death of wounded soldiers has dropped a lot, which is also one of the important reasons why Wang Haitao's troops have not experienced a serious decline in combat effectiveness despite continuous fierce battles.

Wang Haitao was not worried about the battle to capture Yongzhou City, after all, the strength of his own troops was there, and if he couldn't deal with a 13th Division with three brigades, then why should he argue with the 11th Army? Wang Haitao's only concern was that his subordinates would kill red-eyed and recklessly attack, resulting in a large number of casualties among the soldiers.

When Li Changwu's telegram arrived at Wang Haitao, Wang Haitao was visiting the wounded in the field hospital. Wang Haitao was also very happy to learn that he had killed the commander of the Japanese division, Lieutenant General Chilu Li, but Wang Haitao was thinking about the decisive battle with the other three divisions of the Eleventh Army, so Wang Haitao immediately called Tang Longzai and asked Tang Longzai to quickly count the casualties and count the ammunition consumption.

In the evening, Tang Longzai rushed to the headquarters and sent Wang Haitao a report on casualties and ammunition consumption. In the Battle of Yongzhou, the 461st Brigade of the 210th Division suffered the fewest casualties among the three brigades because it did not participate in the final battle, with a total of 486 casualties, of which 258 were killed and 179 were seriously wounded.

The 462nd Brigade of the 211th Division suffered 967 casualties, of which 526 were killed and 269 were seriously wounded, while the 463rd Brigade suffered 792 casualties, of which 385 were killed and 176 were seriously wounded. Wang Haitao calculated that the three brigades in this battle had lost more than 2,200 troops, and almost one regiment was wiped out.

However, it is still very cost-effective to exchange a regiment for a division of the Japanese army, and it can be regarded as a great victory. The Chinese army has been able to achieve this record several times, and I am afraid that only its own troops can achieve this record. Putting down the casualty report, Wang Haitao picked up the report on the consumption of ammunition again, and learned from the report that there is not much consumption of heavy artillery shells now, mainly the consumption of mortar shells and machine gun bullets, and some machine guns only have a base number of bullets, which need to be replenished immediately.

Wang Haitao decided to regard Yongzhou City as his logistics base, and he informed the logistics department to replenish as much ammunition as possible for the troops, that is, to replenish all the existing ammunition, and the inventory could be transferred from Longzhou as soon as it was empty. In order to let the troops breathe a sigh of relief, Wang Haitao decided to rest in Yongzhou City for three days, so that the troops could take the opportunity to rest and recuperate.