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They reported the location of all Japanese troops to the headquarters.
Therefore, on that night, the location where the Japanese army moved and the area where it might eventually arrive were all within the expectations of the Fourth Army.
Under this situation, Wei Xing immediately began to adjust the deployment of troops.
They opened an opening to allow the main force of the Japanese division to join the besieged Japanese brigade.
At the same time, the main forces on the north and south sides began to make a detour to the Japanese army's flanks and rear.
They wanted to use the night to counter-encircle the Japanese army again.
Not only that, but also on this night, the most elite armored division of the Fourth Army and two howitzer regiments also arrived in the south of Xinxiang.
However, they did not join the battle immediately, but looked for a place to hide. In this way, after waiting for the daytime battle to come, they can ensure the suddenness of their attack, catching the Japanese army off guard and having no time to defend or react.
It was also in the afternoon of this day that the three besieged divisions in the first theater began a breakout operation.
After two days of fighting, the strength of the more than 30,000 national army soldiers who were besieged had been reduced sharply to 25,000.
Such losses are not small. In order to avoid greater casualties, they may even be completely annihilated by the enemy. Commander Zhang Changshan decisively chose to break out.
Their troops arranged their retreat at around four o'clock in the afternoon.
The 54th Division of the National Army, led by Zhang Changshan personally, acted as the rear troops and finally retreated.
The other two national army divisions retreated in front of the 54th Division.
The two national army divisions on the periphery will launch attacks on the Japanese troops on the periphery to support their breakout.
Coupled with the air support promised by the Fourth Army, Zhang Changshan has full confidence in this breakout operation.
At 4:30 in the afternoon, accompanied by the artillery bombardment of the national army, their troops began to launch a breakout operation in the direction of Gaoshan Town.
The Japanese army also had a premonition about the retreat of the national army division.
They immediately began to pursue and intercept the national army. On the Japanese defensive positions, machine gun fire and rifle fire, as well as mortars and a large number of artillery units, all began to block the charging troops of the national army.
The Japanese armored troops and cavalry units began to circle around the flanks of the national army's breakout troops, and continued to attack the national army's flanks.
The 54th Division, as the rear unit, was personally led by Zhang Changshan and resisted the Japanese attack from the rear.
Their breakout operation was very difficult, and almost every step forward cost a lot of casualties.
The Japanese artillery, armored vehicles, and even poison gas bombs and other weapons began to kill them. It can be said that there is nothing left to do.
The agreed peripheral support attack was not launched.
The Japanese army does not need to deploy its troops to resist the attack of the two national army divisions on the periphery.
They even deployed their reserve troops in the direction of Gaoshan Town to block the fierce charge of the two divisions of the national army.
This turned the original breakout operation of internal and external cooperation into a single-direction breakout operation of two divisions of the national army.
The difficulty of this breakout operation suddenly increased due to these reasons.
However, these national army troops still launched a fierce attack on the Japanese positions.
At seven o'clock, when the sky was about to turn completely dark, a burst of fighter planes buzzed in from a distance.
This sound made these troops of the national army very scared.
Because they lacked anti-aircraft weapons, the Japanese aviation units often bombed and strafed them.
This makes them subconsciously want to find a place to avoid the Japanese bombing whenever they hear the sound of the plane's engine.
At this time, the fighting was at its most intense, and the Chinese troops almost rushed to the Japanese defensive positions. If it was because of the Japanese aerial bombardment, we would withdraw like this.
So for the next charge, they don¡¯t know how many casualties they will have to pay to advance to this position.
But at this moment, those fighter planes suddenly lowered their flying altitude, and then dived directly from the side towards the Japanese position.
After the fighter planes lowered their flying altitude, the soldiers of the National Army saw that there were no Japanese sun flags on the wings of the fighter planes.
That¡¯s not a Japanese fighter plane! !
It was also at this time that the air force bomber squadron dispatched by the Fourth Army began to drop aerial bombs and napalm bombs against the Japanese defensive positions.
Not only that, the escorting fighter formations also began to line up at this time, passing over the Japanese positions, and then used the heavy machine guns on the wings to shoot wildly at the Japanese positions.
These Japanese troops did not expect that the air force of the Fourth Army would actually support the Japanese troops here.
So they were completely unprepared and suffered such violent bombing and machine gun fire. The Japanese army immediately suffered huge casualties on this line of defense.
Seeing this scene, the soldiers of the national army immediately cheered loudly.
"Long live the Fourth Army!!! Long live the Fourth Army!!!"
They shouted loudly.
The bombing lasted only about five minutes.
In these five minutes, the air force of the Fourth Army poured all the bullets and bombs they carried onto the Japanese positions.
The commander of the national army at the front saw the Japanese position and fell into a sea of ??fire. He immediately roared: "Brothers!! Charge!!!"
With such roars, the soldiers of the national army launched another charge.
The Japanese army, which had suffered heavy bombardment, had not yet recovered when they heard bursts of shouts of killing coming from the front.
The sound was overwhelming, like a tsunami, shaking the sky and the earth.
The Chinese soldiers quickly rushed to the Japanese position. As for the Japanese soldiers on the position, before they even set up their machine guns again, they saw shining bayonets pressed against their heads.
The brutal hand-to-hand combat begins! ! !
Because the Japanese army needed to disperse its forces, it surrounded the three national army divisions in several directions.
Therefore, on one side, the troops that can be deployed are far less than the three national army divisions that concentrated their forces to break out at this time.
Although the Japanese troops on the battlefield were tenacious, they were not afraid of death. However, facing the surging tide of national soldiers, they gradually couldn't hold on anymore and began to retreat to the second direction behind.
"The soldiers of the national army did not stop at all. After chasing the buttocks of these Japanese troops, they began to attack the second direction set up by the Japanese troops in Gaoshan Town.
At the same time, the second batch of bombers and fighter squadrons dispatched by Xia Yang had also arrived on the battlefield.
They began to follow the previously marked coordinate points and began to launch ferocious bombing on the Japanese army's second defensive position, creating a breakthrough gap for the three retreating national army divisions. (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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