On 20 September, the Military Commission of the Shancheng Government sent a telegram to Chen Xuan, commander of the Sixth Theater of Operations, to take advantage of the enemy's empty forces to recover Yiling and launch an offensive in three days.

This major operation was not only to deal with the Ninth Theater of Operations and the Japanese army, but also to remove the major threat of the Japanese army to the mountain city and the southwestern rear. In order to strengthen the offensive strength of the Sixth Theater, the Military Commission ordered that the strength of the two armies and six divisions of the 33rd Group Army under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Theater be temporarily allocated to the command of the Sixth Theater.

Under Han Lin's constant persuasion and encouragement, it was difficult for him to resist the benefits of recovering Yiling this time, so he made up his mind to fight this battle, and he immediately issued a combat order, and the troops of the Sixth Theater quickly marched forward.

Han Lin knew very well that the failure of the Sixth Theater to attack Yiling was due to the lack of preparation time of the combat troops, and they suddenly received an order from the Theater Command, and the shortcomings of the Shancheng government army's insufficient training and slow action and low combat quality were completely exposed.

Therefore, without waiting for the official order of the Military Commission, he urged Chen Wei to give orders to all units to prepare for battle, and won at least three days, which was also a crucial three days.

The intelligence base of the Hankou Intelligence Station in Yiling City.

Zhou Bingqing personally sat in the stronghold and received Wu Kuiyuan and Peng Jiacui, who set off from Enshi and came to carry out the task of blowing up the Japanese ammunition depot, these two are masters in action, or masters among masters, especially Wu Kuiyuan, whose physical flexibility is breathtaking, and she can complete incredible movements.

"Stationmaster Zhou, have you also come to Yiling?" Wu Kuiyuan said with a smile.

"When I was in the mountain city, I received a secret mission from my boss, and I never returned to Hankou, and we had a detailed survey of the important military facilities of the Japanese army, and in order to ensure the smooth completion of the mission, I personally monitored the ammunition depot for a week, and chose the most convenient place to move, and mastered the time and route of the Japanese patrol." Zhou Bingqing said.

"The boss explained, the ammunition depot is related to the top priority of an army's life, the Japanese army's defense must be very tight, we can't force it, wait for the sixth theater to start the offensive, after attracting the enemy's attention, we will carry out this task, for this reason, specially from the headquarters with a plane to transport a time bomb, I also want some special auxiliary tools, that is, medicine, laxatives!"

"I was going to use poison, but the boss raised a butcher's knife against the people of Yiling in consideration of the anger of the Japanese army, and I was not allowed to use such a method." Wu Kuiyuan said.

"Our secret service can't afford such a responsibility, the boss's consideration is right, these Japanese invaders are all murderous beasts, slaughtering our people, this is the most common retaliatory action, take advantage of the opportunity to kill a few more Japanese officers and soldiers, and also relieve hatred." Zhou Bingqing said.

On the 23rd, under the command of the Theater Command, Chen Wei personally rushed to the outskirts of Yiling to supervise the battle, mobilized seven divisions of the Jiangfang Army, and transferred two more divisions, a total of nine divisions, to launch an attack on Yiling, and the rest of the troops were inserted into various key roads to prevent the enemy, especially the 39th Division of the Japanese army, from reinforcing the army.

At this time, the 13th Division only had three infantry wings, the 56th, 58th, and 104th, and then the field artillery, engineers, baggage troops, signal corps, cavalry corps, and field hospitals.

The 39th Division of the Japanese Army, which defended Jingmen and Dangyang, was attacked by the Sixth and Fifth Theaters, and could not divide its troops to come to support, and under the precise guidance of the agents in the city, it attacked fiercely for four consecutive days, and the key points of Ciyun Temple and Dongshan Temple in the eastern suburbs were captured by the Chinese army, and the strongholds in the north were also broken through in many places.

Faced with five times the strength of the Japanese army, they desperately resisted in a chaotic group, and Uchiyama Eitaro successively reported to the headquarters of the 11th Army, and the situation developed in favor of the 6th theater.

The ammunition depot north of the 13th Army of the Japanese Army.

Wu Kuiyuan and Peng Jiacui, who originally wanted to cause some trouble, found that the situation was completely different from what they thought, and even more different from before the war.

Just a day ago, it was a heavily guarded ammunition depot, and in the case of the sharp reduction of Japanese troops, more than half of them were taken out to participate in defensive operations, and now only one squad is performing the duty of guarding, which also provides the best opportunity for operation.

"If we had known that this was the case, we wouldn't have had to spend so much energy on making a plan of action, and we wouldn't have to use laxatives, except for the guards at the door and around us, the interval between patrols was more than fifteen minutes, and we would have killed the guards at the western wall, and I would have entered through the air window, and it would have been easy to get it." Wu Kuiyuan said.

The two climbed over the wall and entered the courtyard, waited for the patrol to return to the duty room, and saw the right time to kill the two Japanese soldiers walking back and forth in the corner, and then Wu Kuiyuan used the flying claws to enter through the air window of the ammunition depot.

The geographical location of Yiling is very important, this is the throat position leading to the mountain city, the Japanese army attaches great importance to it, the ammunition depot, there are a large number of high explosives and shells, bullets, grenades, etc., the number of troops defending the city is small, so naturally it will not be used much.

Wu Kuiyuan put the two time bombs he was carrying, placed them between the ammunition box and the high-explosive charge, and quickly withdrew, and the whole process took less than five minutes.

The two climbed over the wall and came outside, in a corner of the courtyard wall, Zhou Bingqing and two agents were waiting for them, and the five of them left the ammunition depot as fast as they could.

"This is the easiest time for me to carry out the mission since I graduated and participated in the actual combat, even such an important military facility is so laxly defended, it seems that there is indeed no one in the Japanese army." Wu Kuiyuan said.

"This is also normal, the army attacking outside the city is completely a strong attack at any cost, the Japanese army has more than 10,000 troops, and some of them are still isolated in the east of the city, and the number of troops available in the city is limited, I see that some expatriates are holding guns to participate in the defense of the city." Zhou Bingqing said.

Five minutes later, the time bomb was detonated, and there was a violent explosion at the ammunition depot, which leveled the entire warehouse and killed one of the Japanese squads guarding it. It's a pity that part of the ammunition in the ammunition depot was consumed, otherwise the explosion would have been more violent.

A week after the attack was launched on the 23rd, the attacking troops entered the city and engaged in fierce street battles with the enemy.

In fact, the explosion of the ammunition depot had a great impact on the 13th Division, otherwise it would not have entered the city so quickly, and the firepower of the two sides would have been very different.

Although a division is not only an ammunition depot, but other ammunition depots do not have such a large scale and reserves, and the 26th Infantry Brigade went to Tanzhou to participate in the battle and took away a lot of ammunition.

"I received the latest report from the boss, the Japanese army attacking Tanzhou, the Fourth Division has entered Tanzhou City, and now it is beginning to retreat, it is estimated that it is worried that Yiling will be recovered, and then threaten the safety of Jiangcheng." Zhou Bingqing said with the message.

"But the trouble is that the Japanese army organized the condolence group and the Japanese expatriates to resist, and we have not broken through the enemy's division headquarters for a long time, but don't come to a critical time, the army of the sixth theater will drop the chain." Peng Jiacui said.

What she didn't know was that at this moment, Lieutenant General Uchiyama Eitaro, the commander of the 13th Division, sent all the wounded and non-combatants out to engage in street fighting, ordered the burning of military flags and confidential documents, and wrote a desperate letter to prepare for death.

On the evening of 1 October, the attacking troops surrounded the courtyard of the division headquarters, and then launched a final attack on the few headquarters guards.

As the gate of the headquarters was forcibly blown open by explosives packs, a company of troops rushed into the courtyard, and except for a few wounded who were stubbornly resisting, they were killed, and the rest of the divisional and regimental command officers, including the division commander, had committed suicide.

(End of chapter)