In hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army, the officers and men of the 54th Division were obviously at a disadvantage, but none of them thought of escaping, and they desperately rushed to kill knowing that they were invincible, which showed the courage of the Chinese soldiers and their determination to fight to the death. In the fighting, the Chinese soldiers, who were constantly seriously wounded, pulled the grenades on their bodies and died together with the Japanese soldiers. As the time went on, the number of defenders became smaller and smaller, and just as the Japanese were about to break through their positions and enter the town, shouts of killing rang out in the town, and the officers and men of the 54th Division of two regiments came up to reinforce them.

The two sides fought hard for a long time at this section of the collapsed wall, and finally the Japanese could not resist it, leaving more than 300 corpses behind and retreating. In the regiment that was originally guarding here, three battalion commanders lost two of them, another was also seriously wounded, and there was not one out of ten company and platoon commanders below, and when they withdrew, less than 100 people could go down on their own.

The 236th Wing of the Japanese Army fell short, and the Wing Commander Yoshio Kamegawa Osaki was unwilling to do so, and launched a continuous attack on this section of the collapsed wall overnight. The defenders also blocked this gap with all their might, and the two sides fought until midnight, and the Japanese still failed to attack the town of Shimodakahashi. After several hours of fighting, both sides were exhausted, and Kamegawa Yoshio Osa was no longer reconciled, and looking at his subordinates' tired expressions, he had no choice but to stop attacking.

Early the next morning, the guns and artillery on the three positions rang out again, and the Japanese launched another attack on the three positions. The other two formations can still be defended, and the most dangerous is here in Xiagaoqiao Town. In yesterday's attack, Yoshio Kamegawa knew that the defenders he was facing were much inferior to his own in terms of weapons and equipment, and the quality of the soldiers, so he ordered his three infantry brigades to attack the defenders' positions in turn early in the morning.

The 54th Division tried its best to resist such a frantic attack by the Japanese army, and held it until noon, when the Japanese finally broke through the position and entered the town of Xiagaoqiao. Wu Chongyan, commander of the 54th Division, personally led his troops to engage in street fighting with the Japanese troops who had attacked the town, and by 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese had captured most of the town, and the 54th Division had suffered more than half of the casualties, so the division commander Wu Chongyan had to order the whole division to retreat.

The Xiagaoqiao position was lost, a gap was opened in the third line of defense of the 20th Army, and there was no need to hold on to the Yingzhu Mountain position and the Guhua Mountain position, and Yang Hanyu, the commander of the 20th Army, immediately reported the situation to General Yang Sen, commander of the 27th Group Army. General Janssen immediately ordered the whole army to retreat to the last line of defense.

On the evening of the 27th, the new 11th Division of the 58th Army was stationed at the Yanglin Street position, the rest of the 133rd Division arrived at the Longfeng Bridge position, the 134th Division arrived at the Chenjiaqiao position, and the remnants of the 54th Division arrived at the Guanwangqiao position. This was the last line of defense of the 27th Group Army, and the Miluo River was not far behind the line of defense. On the south bank of the Miluo River was guarded by the 72nd and 78th Armies of the 30th Army.

In the last line of defense, according to the order issued by Commander Xue Yue, the 27th Group Army still had to hold on for 24 hours, and Yang Sen seemed that with the existing strength on the defense line, it was still not a big problem to hold on for 24 hours. After capturing the town of Xiagaoqiao, the Japanese army successively occupied two positions on Yingzhu Mountain and Guhua Mountain, and then after a short rest, they tightened the retreating Chinese army, and arrived in front of the fourth position in the early morning of the 28th.

Just as the Japanese were about to attack the defenders' fourth line, a heavy rain fell from the sky, and the sudden heavy rain caused difficulties for both sides. The Japanese were in a hurry to attack forward, and both division commanders gave the order to attack in the rain, so in the heavy rain, the Japanese attack on the defenders' positions began. On the Longfeng Bridge position defended by the 133rd Division, the defenders defended along the defensive position by a small river, focusing on the bluestone bridge across the river - Longfeng Bridge.

The 23rd Wing of the 6th Division of the Japanese Army mainly attacked the Longfeng Bridge position, and the two sides fought fiercely at the Longfeng Bridge for eight hours, from morning to evening, the Japanese army left hundreds of corpses in front of the position, and the 133rd Division also lost more than 400 people. The 133rd Division desperately blocked the Japanese army, and the Japanese army had nothing to do in the face of the defenders who did not retreat, and it was not until 9 o'clock in the evening that the order for the entire 27th Group Army to retreat was issued, and the 133rd Division withdrew from the Longfeng Bridge position.

There was not much difference between the other positions, and the fiercest battle was the Chenjiaqiao position held by the 134th Division. The Chenjiaqiao position is divided into two parts, one part is the main position of Chenjiaqiao, and the other part is the Dounanjian Plateau one kilometer east of Chenjiaqiao. Yang Gancai, the commander of the 134th Division, put a regiment and a half regiment here on the Dounanjian Heights, relying on each other on the Chenjiaqiao position to block the attacking 236th Wing of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army.

The 236th Wing of the Japanese Army divided an infantry brigade to attack the Dounanjian Heights, and the rest of the soldiers attacked the Chenjiaqiao position. The Dounanjian Heights are a hillside with a height of more than 60 meters, and the Japanese army fired a large number of artillery shells at the Dounanjian Heights, and after a day of fighting, the Dounanjian Heights were actually cut down by the Japanese artillery shells by more than one meter, and the officers and men of the 134th Division who held their positions were under such ferocious artillery fire from the Japanese army, and they repelled the attacks of the 236th Wing again and again, and held this small high ground to the death.

Even the later report of the 236th Wing of the Japanese Army to its superiors used such words as "Our army's attack met with extremely stubborn resistance from the Chinese army, and although the day's battle suffered heavy casualties, there was no progress." At the same time that the Dounanjian position was under fierce attack, the main position of Chenjiaqiao was just as fierce as the Japanese attack. Two infantry battalions of the 236th Wing, under the cover of artillery fire and heavy machine guns, launched a series of attacks on the defenders' positions.

For a time, the cannon sound on the Chenjiaqiao position continued, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and some soldiers continued to scream and fall. The 134th Division also fought bloodily, fought to the death and did not retreat, and in one day, the Japanese army could not advance an inch. After the battle on this day, the 134th Division, which had suffered considerable losses, lost two-thirds of its personnel, and it can be said that it was disabled.

Comparatively speaking, the rest of the 54th Division, which was guarding the Guanwang Bridge, had to defend more arduously, and the 54th Division had already suffered more than half of the casualties in yesterday's battle, and had just moved to the Guanwang Bridge position, and before it had time to catch its breath, the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Wings of the Japanese army rushed to the front of the position. The officers and men of the 54th Division could only rise up to fight back against the Japanese attack.

Holding on until the evening, the 54th Division was weak, and after sending several telegrams to the army commander Yang Hanyu asking for help, the division commander Wu Chongyan personally led the guard company to rush to the front-line position. At this point, Yang Hanyu, the commander of the 20th Army, did not have any reserves in his hands, and Yang Hanyu had to send a telegram to Yang Sen, commander of the 27th Group Army, asking for help.

There are still two divisions of the 58th Army in Yang Sen's hands that have not moved, which is to prepare for the future. Unless he had to do it, Yang Sen was not prepared to use these two divisions. Now there were only a few hours left before the end of the mission, and Yang Sen gave an order that the whole army must hold the line until nine o'clock in the evening, and then the whole army retreated in the direction of Dengdong Bridge and Hengfang to the east.

The order was quickly issued to all the troops, and among the defenders of several positions, some could easily hold until nine o'clock in the evening, and some were difficult, but they could complete the task with a hard fight, only the 54th Division, every minute was quite difficult for them, and the division commander Wu Chongyan gritted his teeth to encourage his subordinates, and used all the forces that could be used, even at the expense of hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese army, and only held out until eight o'clock in the evening.

When the 54th Division withdrew from its position, there were less than 2,000 men left in the division, and even the division commander Wu Chongyan was slightly wounded. The position of Guanwang Bridge was first occupied by the Japanese army, and then as the defenders on each position withdrew from their positions one after another, the Japanese occupied several positions that could not be attacked for a long time. After capturing these positions, the Japanese army did not care about rest and rushed to the north bank of the Miluo River overnight.

The report of the successful attack was delivered to the desk of the commander of the Japanese Eleventh Army, General Anami, and at the same time, information on the Chinese defenders on the south bank of the Miluo River was also sent. In the past two days, the attacks of the 1st Division and the 40th Division have greatly expanded the confidence of Commander Anan Weiji, and after learning that the defenders on the south bank of the Miluo River are the 72nd Army and the 78th Army of the 30th Group Army of China, Anan Weiji quickly made a judgment.

He judged that the commander of the opposite Zhinayue was trying to stop his attack on the south bank of the Miluo River. The 14th and 16th Divisions of the 72nd Army occupied the existing positions on the left bank of the Miluo River, and the 13th and 16th Divisions of the 78th Army occupied the existing positions on the right bank of the Miluo River as far as Pingjiang, preparing for a protracted battle with themselves.

Faced with the deployment of the Chinese defenders, Anan Weiji made adjustments to his troops. First, the new 3rd Division should move forward to the north bank of the Miluo River before the 30th of this month, and launch an attack on the south bank of the left side of the Miluo River after dawn on the 30th. Second, the 6th Division should reach the north bank of the Miluo River near Wushi before the 30th, and also launch an attack on the south bank of the Miluo River after dawn on the 30th. Third, the new 4th Division should arrive near Changle Town before 30 July, and launch an attack on the south bank of the Miluo River after dawn on 30 July. Fourth, the main force of the 40th Division should move to the southeast of Changle Town at an appropriate time, rush to the direction of Hukou Town, seize the ferry, and respond to the attack of the 4th Division.

The task was issued, but the torrential rain has not stopped since the 28th, the water level of the Miluo River has increased a lot, and the flow speed has also increased, so it is impossible for the Japanese army to wade in vain, so it can only build a bridge over the river with sapper troops, and in order to cover the bridge built by the engineer troops, General Anan Wei mobilized eight inland river gunboats into the Miluo River, and airdropped a batch of rubber boats to several troops.

The 3rd Division was the 11th Army's most powerful and largest division, and in the previous few days of attack, the 3rd Division had been pressed behind by Commander Anami Yuji, which made Lieutenant General Takahashi Tagaji, the commander of the division who had just taken over the 3rd Division, hold his breath. Under the orders of Lieutenant General Takahashi Tagaji, the commander of the division, the 3rd Division arrived at the designated place on the morning of 29 July, and then Takahashi Taga ordered the 5th Brigade to forcibly cross the Miluo River.