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On November 27, the 51st Division of Wang Hui Corps launched an attack on Huangshi City, an important transportation town by the Baiyang River northwest of Taoyuan. Huangshi City was the key point of the enemy's 13th Corps and the 74th Army. The final step into Changde. The 58th Division, led by the lame general Zhang Linfu, took the opportunity to attack the enemy's rear, led by Colonel Yang, the division deputy, and surrounded the enemy's 13th Division on two sides. However, the enemy's 13th Corps fought very tenaciously and defended Huangshi City. For a while, the two sides were in a stalemate.
Almost at the same time, the 19th Division under the 100th Army went straight to the Yuanjiang River, quickly captured Zoushi, an important town to the west of Changde, and marched straight in, preparing to regain Taoyuan.
To the north of the battlefield, the Tenth Army was also progressing smoothly. The Eighteenth Army and the Sixty-sixth Army advanced hand in hand, advancing towards Nuanshui Street, Shimen and the Public Security Bureau. The Eighteenth Army has been maintaining its strength in Sandouping since the Battle of Western Hubei. At this time, he was ordered to attack in the direction of Gong'an and Songzi, which was the rear of the enemy's 39th Army. Under the leadership of Army Commander Peng Tianguang, the 18th Army showed off its power, and the 55th Division under it It had already rushed into Nuanshui Street on the border of Hunan and Hubei, and started a street battle with the enemy; the 18th Division also defeated Wangjiafan, and the 11th Division ran straight towards the police. Fang Qing's 66th Army did not show weakness. Its 185th Division had already rushed into Shimen and started a battle with the enemy's 39th Division. At this time, the enemy's 39th Division was attacked by the superior national army and showed a state of weakness, losing several important strongholds one after another.
The Japanese Eleventh Army, which was bravely besieging Changde in Hengshan, was about to be cut off by the Chinese army.
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Before dawn, the Japanese army began another day of fierce attack. At this time, the 57th Division had run out of all types of artillery shells and could only fight with light weapons.
After fighting like this for a day, the fighting in the west, north and east directions was extremely fierce, especially the north gate. It was obvious that the enemy had placed the breakthrough in the north. On this day, the enemy attacked the city several times and was driven out of the city several times by the defenders. They still mixed forces with brigade-level infantry and artillery, organized into siege death squads, charged fiercely, and exploited gaps in all directions, intending to break through the 57th Division's defense line with absolute superiority. The enemy's 133rd Regiment of the 116th Division was attacking at the North Gate. It first bombarded the position of the 171st Qinqishan Regiment with artillery, and there were Japanese aircraft in the air to assist in the bombing. Under the powerful artillery fire, For three full hours. The division commander of the Japanese 116th Division, Yan Yongwang, believed that even if the 57th Division was still in position, it would be frightened by such a large-scale indiscriminate bombing and would lose its will to defend the city, so he ordered his 133rd Regiment The First Battalion took the opportunity to rush forward with all its strength. Unexpectedly, the 171st Regiment, led by its leader Qin Qishan, rushed out from the collapsed ruins, inflicted heavy damage on it again, and killed the leader of the First Battalion who rushed over. Xiewu was killed, and the brigade was immediately attacked and retreated in defeat.
At the east gate and west gate, the fighting was equally fierce. The east gate was still defended by Zhang Xian's two battalions of the 169th Regiment. Although they were two battalions, they actually only had six or seven hundred people at this time, including The political workers assigned by the division, division staff, police, artillery, baggage team, stretcher team and other miscellaneous workers, but all of them were determined to die and vowed to live or die with Changde.
At this time, the most powerful weapons of the 169th Regiment were only six Czech-style light guns. The other heavy weapons had long been out of ammunition and could only be a pile of scrap metal. Zhang Xian is a thoughtful person. He buried the mortars and heavy machine guns that his regiment no longer needed. He was worried that the enemy would attack and was reluctant to scrap his weapons, so he came up with this idea. He knew the method very well. If reinforcements were not available and the enemy continued to attack like this, the 57th Division would not be able to support them for too long.
The ones attacking the east gate are the 109th Regiment of the enemy's 116th Division and the 234th Regiment of the enemy's 68th Division. Among them, the enemy's 109th Regiment has been the main opponent of the 169th Regiment in the past few days. , fought from the outside to the city wall, the 169th Regiment led by Zhang Xian killed two regiment captains and three captains, with most of the casualties and few remaining. This has become a great shame for the 109th Regiment, but Due to the serious casualties, they have lost their offensive spirit and combat power, and can only become a vassal of the enemy's 2, 3, and 4 regiments. Of course, the 169th Regiment also paid a heavy price. The battalion commander of the second battalion, Gao Wei, was seriously injured. Four of the six company commanders of the two battalions had been sacrificed, and a deputy battalion commander was killed. Another deputy battalion commander was injured, and more than 500 troops were lost, which was more than half of the two battalions. At this time, only two school-level officials, Zhang Xian and Chang Liqiang, were left supporting the east gate.
The 234th Regiment of the enemy's 68th Division was the one that suffered few casualties among all the Japanese troops attacking the city, because it was only in the late stages of the siege that it was forced to attack from the vicinity of TokuyamaThe bullet hit many places, and the bullet mouth was unusually large, making it almost impossible to treat him after being hit. In just a blink of an eye, more than twenty Japs had fallen. The Japs behind them hurriedly evaded. Some lay on the ground, some jumped behind the broken wall, and some could only use the bodies of their dead teammates as their base. rely on.
A grenade was thrown from the enemy's camp, but Chang Liqiang had quick eyesight and quick hands. When the grenade fell to the ground, he quickly picked it up and threw it back. The grenade exploded in the middle of the enemy, and several more The Japanese poured out from behind the wall.
However, the enemy began to use grenade launchers. When the first grenade exploded in front of the fortification built with corpses, Chang Liqiang already knew that the fortification could no longer be defended and quickly called the four pilots to withdraw. He rolled into a broken wall first, but the enemy's grenades came one after another. One of them landed in the middle of the fortification just now. One of the four machine gunners ran a step slower and immediately His body was blown away, his flesh and blood scattered like rain, and the machine gun was also thrown to the ground.
Chang Liqiang returned there as quickly as a rabbit, picked up the light machine gun on the ground and rolled forward. While leaving the ground, he fired again at the enemy who had just climbed up on the opposite side. The man had already fallen to the opposite side and collapsed. In the ruins, he was covered in blood, and he didn't know who it belonged to. It seemed to belong to the enemy or a comrade. Zhang Xian looked at him from a distance and then disappeared.
The Japanese finally opened the roadblock in front of them. As long as they cross this street again, they can see the Catholic church still towering in front of them.
This street used to be the most prosperous place in the east city of Changde, but now it has become a dead end alley.
When the Japs' vanguard rushed to the end of the long street, they discovered that there was also a preset position here. There was a bunker that had been built before the war. It also became the last stronghold at the east gate of Zhang Xian's 169th Regiment. How could the defense line let them pass so easily? The few enemies who didn't have eyes to rush ahead were hit by the machine guns in the bunker first, and fell to the ground in the blink of an eye. At this moment, when more than two hundred Japanese soldiers entered the street, the firepower from both sides also intertwined. Coupled with the precise shooting of the National Army soldiers hiding in the dark, these enemies who broke into the formation were like Sweeping around like headless flies. The Japanese began to retreat one after another, and groups of people fell down. Despite this, these tenacious enemies also retaliated crazily. Their grenades were thrown towards the place where the gunshots were fired, blowing up the already crumbling walls and sending bricks and stones flying everywhere. Many soldiers were killed by enemy bullets. He was hit, but was injured by flying gravel and even smashed by a collapsing wall.
Seeing that the Japanese were already retreating, Zhang Xian knew that the enemy was already frightened and the opportunity had come. He shouted loudly and led everyone to rush out from the ruins. He shouted and charged towards the enemy formation with guns raised. These enemies were retreating. They were already a little panicked. In addition, the sky was getting dark, and they couldn't tell how many warriors their opponents were hiding. They could only hear the shouts of killing from all sides. Not caring about anything else, he turned around and ran out of the east gate. The enemies at the back didn't know what was going on in front. Seeing the people in front retreating, their neat formation was scattered, and they all ran back. For a while, chaos became a mess, and no matter what the enemy's alliance was, It didn't help that the captain was yelling from behind. In this way, from the street to the east gate, the Japanese left hundreds of corpses blocking the road and exited the city. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com