When the commander of the 9th Division, Yoshizumi Ryosuke, learned about this incident, his face was red with anger and his neck was thick, and when the brigade commander of the Ide Xuanshi hung his head and reported to him in frustration, Yoshizumi Ryosuke gave Ide Xuanshi two slaps, gritted his teeth, and scolded Ide Xuantoki.

He also asked Ide Xuanshi to personally go out tomorrow and win a big battle to recover this loss.

On the morning of the 5th, he commanded 100 tanks, 200 cavalry, and 1,500 infantry to launch an attack on Chunhua Town.

The enemy rushed forward, and the officers and men of the 51st Division fought back against the Japanese.

Planes, artillery, tanks, bombs, and shells continued to vent to Chunhua, a large number of houses were blown up, bunkers and fortifications were destroyed, and the 51st Division put the Japanese army in front of its eyes and engaged in a brutal white-knuckle battle with it.

After a whole day of fighting, the Japanese army suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and the national army also paid a heavy price, the regiment commander Ji Hongru was seriously wounded, 9 company commanders were killed in battle, more than 1,400 officers and soldiers below the platoon were killed and wounded, and the 301st regiment was basically wiped out.

When Commander Tang learned of this, he quickly ordered the 51st Division to shrink its position, abandon Chunhua Town, and move to the line of Heding Bridge and Matian to prepare for a new battle.

Niushou Mountain, also known as Niutou Mountain, is 15 kilometers outside the Zhonghua Gate of Jinling, because of the confrontation between the two peaks, the shape is like a bull's head and gets its name.

It is an important passage for Sujiang Jurong, Lishui and Hui'an Dangtu, Ma'anshan to reach Jinling Zhonghua Gate, since ancient times, it is a battleground for soldiers, especially since the Tang and Song dynasties, it has become a battlefield where soldiers and armor resonate many times.

There was a poet in the Song Dynasty who once wrote, 'Mountains are linked to mountains, mountains are close to mountains, and strange peaks pierce the sky through the clouds.' The clouds are swirling, the miasma is full, and the ethereal road is difficult to see. ’

This poem is the best portrayal of the topography of Niushou Mountain, during the Southern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei once set up a camp here, ambushed in the deep mountains, and defeated the Jin soldiers.

Bald Head and Commander Tang also came here when they inspected the defensive line, and they took a fancy to the dangerous terrain between the two mountains here, and wanted to use it as a barrier to defend the capital.

Bald Head and Commander Tang immediately put another tiger general of the 74th Army, Feng Shengfa, the commander of the 58th Division, here to organize the defense.

On November 29th, Feng Shengfa led the troops into Niushou Mountain, he knew Yue Fei's deeds quite well, when he was in elementary school, he read Yue Fei's words "Man Jianghong", and the Chinese teacher told the story of Yue Fei's fight against the Jin soldiers vividly and vividly, so Feng Shengfa fell in love with the national hero Yue Fei.

When he was in his second year of high school, he learned that the Guangdong Huangpu Military Academy was recruiting new students, and this news revived his dream, and the desire to emulate Yue Fei to serve the motherland that he had dreamed of for many years was about to come true.

He once replied sonorously in front of the examiner: "I applied for the Whampoa Military Academy to learn from Yue Fei and serve the country loyally!" ”

During the Northern Expedition, Feng Shengfa repeatedly made military exploits, after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he deliberately asked for leave to return to Hangzhou, in front of Yue Fei's statue, revisited Yue Fei's "Man Jianghong", and bit his fingers, and wrote such an oath: learn Yue Fei, serve the country loyally, and never go home if you don't defeat the Japanese army!

This time when he came to Niushou Mountain, he led the troops and told the officers and soldiers about Yue Fei's deeds of resisting the Jin soldiers in Niushou Mountain, and then introduced the terrain of Niushou Mountain, asking all regiments to buy more time to rush to repair the fortifications.

This year, the winter of Niushou Mountain came very early, to be precise, the winter of the whole Jinling came very early, the north wind howled, the weather was unusually cold, at the beginning of December, the snow fell on the mountain, slapped on the face, cold to the muscles and bones.

The officers and men had just retreated here from Shanghai, and before they had time to change into winter clothes, they wore thin single clothes, waved shovels in the cold wind, and built fortifications. Feng Shengfa saw it in his eyes and was anxious, he commanded the soldiers to repair the fortifications urgently, and at the same time reported to his superiors, asking for the rapid distribution of winter clothes.

At night, he was afraid that everyone would get sick from the cold and affect their combat effectiveness, so he organized everyone to go up the mountain to chop wood and make a fire to keep warm.

In order to annihilate more enemies, Feng Shengfa asked everyone to do two things when building fortifications.

First, the fortifications should be built in a zigzag and zigzag way, extending 500 meters forward. Second, the main position should be built into a Bagua Array, which is not only convenient for concealing oneself, but also allows the enemy to enter and not get out.

On December 5, the fighting between Tangshan and Chunhua was fierce, and the enemy began to attack Niushou Mountain again, and this enemy was the Takeshita and Okamoto brigades of the 114th Division of the Japanese Army.

The Japanese 114th Division won the battle in Shanghai, thinking that the Chinese army would not be able to crush.

In their opinion, it is almost effortless to occupy a small Niushou Mountain, so the vanguard troops who serve as the vanguard of the attack on Niushou Mountain are very arrogant, the devils are leisurely and complacent, the team is sparsely pulled, searching and advancing along both sides of the continent, and the team stops and stops, as if they are watching the scenery.

The team entered the Bagua Array of the 58th Division, which was still more than 20 meters away from the outpost, and the figure of the Chinese army had not yet been found.

To be precise, this Japanese army completely regarded the Chinese as when they were in the four eastern provinces, fleeing without firing, completely forming a stereotype, so at the end of the Battle of Songhu, the great rout formed by the national army, in the eyes of the Japanese devils, just like when they were in the four eastern provinces, they entered the Chinese cities, their troops were vulnerable, began to rout, evacuated, left a large number of people and materials, and even gave away the land.

From Shanghai, all the way along the road, passing through one village after another, without encountering resistance from the Chinese people, isn't this exactly the same as when the four eastern provinces were in the past?

Along the main road, you can directly hit the capital of the Chinese.

Every move of the devil was seen by Feng Shengfa, seeing that the Japanese devil was so rampant, he was angry and angry, and when this Japanese army entered their ambush position, he decisively ordered: "Fight!" ”

On the hills on the left and right sides of the hill was a very light and heavy machine gun, the spray of cathartic bullets hit the weeds in the mountains and swayed, the bullets were like raindrops, dripping from the mountains, and the grenades were all over the sky, falling on the road, erupting into a deafening roar, echoing between the two mountains.

The sudden attack directly stunned the Japanese army, dizzy, and reacted, wanting to escape from the rear, it was too late.

The road back was blocked tightly by the 58th Division, and the battle was carried out cleanly, and a squadron of Japanese troops was completely annihilated at Niushou Mountain.

The loss of a squadron in the direction of Niushou Mountain, and the heavy blow to the two captains of Takeshita and Okamoto, suddenly came to their senses, and analyzed that Niushou Mountain must be heavily defended by the Chinese army, and must not paralyze and underestimate the enemy.

Therefore, before the attack the next day, the Japanese army sent 25 planes and 35 92 infantry guns to carry out intensive bombardment on the two hills of Niushou Mountain.

The bombing lasted for half an hour, and the entire Niushou Mountain was shrouded in a gray smoke of gunpowder.

The Japanese bombing worked, the fortifications on Niushou Mountain were blown up beyond recognition, and the woods on the mountain burned red half of the sky, followed by 1,200 Japanese troops began to attack Niushou Mountain, but this group of Japanese troops had just climbed halfway up the mountain, and they were violently counterattacked by the 58th Division, and the officers and men of the 58th Division, who were not afraid of death, fought bloody battles with the Japanese army for two hours, repelled the enemy, and paid a lot of casualties.

As night covered the battlefield, Feng Shengfa listened carefully to the battle reports of each regiment under the oil lamp, and then he concluded: "Judging from today's situation, the Japanese army has discovered the position of our position, and has also estimated the strength of Niushou Mountain, I estimate that tomorrow the Japanese army will concentrate greater forces to retaliate, which is very unfavorable to us." ”

At the meeting, everyone had solemn faces and solemn expressions, quietly listening to Feng Shengfa's speech.

Feng Shengfa stood up, looked at the map, thought for a moment, and proposed that instead of waiting for the enemy to hit the door, it was better to take the initiative.

"The Japanese army chased all the way here from Shanghai, without any rest, and today they organized several large-scale attacks, they must be very tired, we should seize the opportunity to take advantage of the night to take the initiative to attack, even if these Japanese devils want to rest, we can't let them sleep comfortably."

When everyone heard about the night attack, they all quite agreed, and during the daytime positional warfare, the Japanese devils had aircraft and artillery, and they might not be able to beat them.

But at night, when the eyes are dark, the aircraft cannons are not used, and that is the real contest.

The most critical point is that the Japanese army is in a hurry during the day and organizes an attack, and the soldiers are tired, which is a good opportunity.

Seeing that everyone agreed with him, Feng Shengfa thought for a moment and said, "Each regiment will send a reconnaissance company to form a night attack team, and set off in two hours. ”

Two hours later, in the second half of the night, the moon was obscured by a thick dark cloud, Niushou Mountain was submerged in this hazy darkness, the cold wind blew the leaves rustling, the three reconnaissance companies quietly gathered in such a dark night, there was no mobilization before leaving, in the cold wind howling, every soldier still felt the blood around him as if burning, not feeling cold at all.

The Japanese troops were stationed in Chenxu Village, Yanhu Village, Zhu Village, Taoxiang and other places, and the devils who had worked hard for a day fell asleep at night, and the reconnaissance company touched these villages, only to see sparks flickering in the cold wind, and did not see the Japanese devils' activities.

Approaching the village, you can hear the sound of snoring loudly and low, and the officers and men of the reconnaissance company cleanly and neatly dealt with the sentries of the Japanese devils, smoothly touched the village, and threw a large number of grenades at the sleeping Japanese devils, some of them swept with the Czech style, and some used grenades to blow up the gasoline barrels of the Japanese devils.

I don't know which village opened fire first, and then the explosions and gunshots were heard, and many Japanese devils went up to the west while still asleep.

The Japanese devils who were awakened were in a mess, looking for clothes and touching weapons in a panic, but they could not find a target and shot indiscriminately, and most of the devils died in the fire.

When the officers and men of the reconnaissance company returned to the camp victoriously, in the direction of the devil's station, the fire was still burning, and there were still gunshots, and there was no detailed statistics, and it was estimated that this night attack on the Japanese army had lost at least 800 people, which was a huge victory.

On the morning of December 6, the Japanese devils did not make any moves, and it was obvious that the night attack last night had a great impact on the Japanese devils.

Feng Shengfa analyzed that the Japanese devils may be cleaning up the damage last night and burying the corpses of the devils, so they have no time to attack Niushou Mountain again.

Just take this opportunity to let the troops seize the time, dig trenches, build fortifications, and make full preparations to fight a vicious battle with the Japanese devils.

In the afternoon, the sky was a little overcast, and above the heavy clouds, the roar of the engines of the Japanese fighter planes was heard, and they went straight to Niushou Mountain, and they were very arrogant, they rushed out of the clouds, flew low against the top of the mountain, and made a piercing whistling, and the wings were smeared with sun markers, which could be seen clearly.

Flying over the top of the mountain, sometimes even the pilot's face of the Japanese devil can be seen quite clearly.

About 12 enemy planes launched a round of bombardment of Niushou Mountain, and then the Japanese heavy artillery began to roar, and the whistling sound echoed in the valley, and the huge roar, deafening, spread between the valleys, the hard mountains were blown to pieces, and the gravel splashed everywhere, rolling down the ridge like raindrops.

The rocks hit by the shells shattered and turned into countless fragments flying around, and many officers and soldiers were wounded in the heads.

The sound of a huge explosion shook every corner of Niushou Mountain, and thick columns of smoke rose one after another, filling the air with the choking smell of gunsmoke.

The bombs and artillery shells were like huge hailstones, tilting towards the position of Niushou Mountain, and the shrapnel was as fast as a sharp knife, cutting off the huge branches one after another, and the broken branches and leaves were smashed towards the heads of the officers and men.

As soon as the artillery fire stopped, the Japanese troops began to charge up the hill like locusts.

On the other side, at the headquarters of the 58th Division, Feng Shengfa mobilized the commanders of each regiment by telephone, asking about the battle situation while demanding that they must withstand the Japanese attack and push the Japanese army back.

The Japanese army was menacing and vowed to swallow Niushou Mountain, so the battle was quite fierce, and the defending national army struggled to support, the two sides came and went, the positions changed hands back and forth, and the two sides repeatedly fought for a piece of the mountain, which was full of corpses and blood-stained mud.

During this period, countless soldiers bravely defended the country.

Among them, there are many deeds of 'Yu Peiyi disguised as a man to join the army and participate in the war'.

The time came to the 9th.

Commander Tang received information that the Japanese army had broken through Banqiao Town on the right flank of Niushou Mountain and Fangshan on the left flank, and that the 58th Division had become a lone army on Niushou Mountain, and if it did not retreat in time, the Japanese army would cut off the retreat of the 58th Division, and the 58th Division would inevitably fall into the encirclement of the Japanese army on all sides.

As a result, Commander Tang immediately ordered Feng Shengfa to retreat.

Feng Shengfa commanded the troops that night and left Niushou Mountain in the hazy night.

The loss of Niushou Mountain is painful, and it also proves that the Japanese army's attack cannot be stopped by the national army.

During the loss of Niushou Mountain, Tangshan, Chunhua and other positions were lost one after another, just like the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese attack was rapid, the speed of advance was fierce, and it was encroaching on the positions of the defenders of Jinling little by little.

Just like in the government meeting, the loss of Jinling is inevitable, even if more troops are sent to defend Jinling, it will still not be able to hold it.