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Chapter 455: The Final Battle (End)

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    The fighting lasted until late at night. The two sides started fighting at 7 o'clock in the morning and fought continuously for more than 20 hours, but they still had no intention of stopping.

    The corpses of Japanese soldiers were everywhere under Guide City. They were so densely packed that they were impossible to count.

    But separated by just a wall, the city was also like a Shura hell, with a large number of national soldiers killed.

    Because the battle was so fierce, neither the wounded nor the bodies of the dead had time to be transported down to the position, and they were piled on the position like the Japanese soldiers outside the city.

    The Japanese troops rushed into the city several times, but were quickly beaten out by the defenders. The forward positions changed hands repeatedly, and both the offensive and defensive sides suffered heavy casualties.

    By this time, Li Guoyao had returned to the headquarters, but all the officers, including Li Guoyao, were in heavy hearts.

    The craziness of the little devil made them feel tremendous pressure. If the fight continues, they may really be found here.

    "Old Ma, what are the casualties of the troops?" Li Guoyao asked Ma Desheng under the dim light.

    "Back to the military seat, our army currently has less than 4,000 combatable troops, and the Eighth Army has also suffered heavy casualties. The 187th Division has less than 2,000 troops left at this time, while the 24th Division has suffered more than 4,000 casualties.  , the 40th Division suffered more than 5,000 casualties"

    "Don't say this, just tell me how many troops there are in the city!" Li Guoyao said.

    "More than thirteen thousand people!"

    "That means our army's casualties exceeded 8,000 today?" Li Guoyao asked in surprise.

    "Well, the 170th Division and the 173rd Division combined have less than a thousand men. If this continues, we can only hold on for a day or two at most before we have to retreat!" Ma Desheng said.

    "How many wounded are there in the city?"

    ¡°There are more than 14,000 mildly and seriously injured people, but due to the lack of medicines and enough doctors, wounded people die without treatment every moment.¡±

    "Where are the reinforcements? Didn't Xue Yue say that the reinforcements have gone south? It's only a short distance from Kaifeng to here. Why did it take so long?" Li Guoyao asked in a deep voice.

    "Military seat, the reinforcements have indeed set off, but they were bombed by Japanese aviation on the way. The losses were considerable. In desperation, Commander Xue could only let them rest in hiding during the day and march again at night."

    "Then when do you expect to arrive?"

    "We should be there early tomorrow morning!"

    "Well, order the troops in the city to defend to the end and send all the reserves up. Success or failure depends on this!" Li Guoyao said in a deep voice.

    "yes!"

    ?¡­Dividing line¡­.Dividing line¡­

    ¡°While word of the great victory in eastern Henan spread across the country, and the people were excited about it, no one knew that some of the national troops, represented by the 61st Army, were still fighting the Japanese army on the Guide front line.

    The battle lasted until three o'clock in the morning the next day. With most of the defenders killed and stimulated by a large amount of stimulants, a part of the Japanese army finally broke through the east gate wall, broke into the city, and established a firm foothold.

    Immediately afterwards, a large number of Japanese soldiers rushed in from the gap. Seeing that the battle was about to turn from offensive and defensive to street fighting, almost everyone's mood sank to the bottom.

    But at this moment, the Beimen garrison called and said that a national army unit was found in the north of the city. After verifying their identity, Li Guoyao and others finally breathed a sigh of relief, and their reinforcements finally arrived.

    Although only two divisions with less than 10,000 troops came at this time, with the addition of this new force, after two hours of fighting, the Guide defenders finally defeated a group and a half of Japanese soldiers who suddenly burst into the city.  Kicked out again.

    At this time, the Japanese army also reached its limit. After noticing the arrival of reinforcements from the defenders, Nakajima and others finally gave the order to stop the attack.

    The Japanese attack finally stopped, and Guide City, which had been noisy for a week, finally calmed down, but the former important town in eastern Henan was completely turned into ruins.

    Looking from the top down, there is almost no decent building in the city. There are broken walls and the remains of burning or burned houses everywhere. The whole city is full of fire and smoke.

    ???????????? There are corpses everywhere in and outside the city, including those from the National Army, the Japanese Army, and a small number of ordinary people. The entire Guide City is like a purgatory on earth.

    After the first batch of reinforcements arrived at four in the morning, two more divisions of reinforcements arrived at around ten in the morning. By this time, the total strength of the defenders in Guide City had exceeded 38,000.

    After yesterday's bloody battle, the number of Japanese troops on the front line has dropped significantly, to less than 40,000.

    More importantUnfortunately, their ammunition and supplies are also seriously insufficient, and reinforcements from the national army are rushing to Guide in a steady stream.

    Knowing that this battle could no longer continue, General Juichi Terauchi had no choice but to order the frontline troops to strictly implement the orders of the front army headquarters and retreat immediately.

    At noon on June 2, the Japanese troops on the Guide front line hurriedly withdrew their troops, not even collecting the bodies of the fallen outside the city.

    After receiving the news that the Japanese troops had withdrawn, both Li Guoyao and Xue Yue breathed a sigh of relief.

    Although this battle lasted only a short time, in terms of brutality, only the Battle of Luodian in the Battle of Songhu could compare with it.

    In this battle, the Chinese army deployed 12 corps and 20 divisions on the Lanfeng battlefield in eastern Henan. Although the 14th division was completely annihilated, eight divisions themselves were crippled, and many other troops were destroyed.  to varying degrees of losses.

    On the southern front, the National Army invested the main force of one corps and two divisions in the early stage, and also invested more than 10,000 supplementary troops. Later, it also invested all three main divisions of the Eighth Army. The result was 65,000  After the war, only more than 10,000 people remained after the war, with more than 50,000 casualties.

    Of the more than 50,000 people, two-thirds were killed in battle. Nearly 40,000 people completely sacrificed their lives for the country. Only more than 13,000 people survived by chance.

    This is only the current statistics. You must know that these wounded people are dying every moment. No one knows how many people will be alive in the end.

    Of course, they didn¡¯t make the little devil feel easy either.

    After the Japanese army retreated, the soldiers gathered more than 13,000 Japanese corpses under Guide City alone. In addition, the soldiers also discovered several huge cremation grounds in the southwest of Guide City, where the ashes were thick.  On the first floor, it was obvious that many little devils were cremating corpses here.

    Although it is impossible to count the final casualties of the Japanese army, from Shuangjian Town to Mengcheng, then from Mengcheng to Woyang and Bozhou, and from Bozhou to Guide, it is conservatively estimated that the Japanese casualties were more than 30,000, and the number of casualties will not be small.  to 20,000 people.

    Including the Doihara division that was annihilated on the Lanfeng front and the independent mixed fourth brigade that was defeated on the northern front, the Japanese casualties in this battle are conservatively estimated to be more than 55,000.

    Although judging from the number of casualties, the Chinese army suffered nearly 100,000 casualties in exchange for 55,000 Japanese troops, which seemed to be a bit of a loss.

    But judging from the actual results of this battle, the Japanese army suffered the most tragic defeat since the war began, and its impact was even greater than that of the Battle of Taierzhuang.

    So after the war, the Japanese North China Front Army and the Central China Front Army had to take the initiative to retreat. The North China Japanese Army abandoned Yucheng and withdrew to Dangshan.  The Japanese army in Central China abandoned Bozhou and Guoyang and retreated to Mengcheng.

    More importantly, the Japanese army also lost a large number of heavy weapons such as tanks and aircraft, especially tanks. The 14th Division alone lost nearly 400 tanks on the Lanfeng line, and the Japanese army on the southern front also lost  More than two hundred vehicles were purchased.

    The same goes for aircraft. The two major front armies in North and Central China lost more than a hundred fighter planes in total. As for artillery and light and heavy machine guns, it is even more difficult to count.

    The Japanese army was defeated in this battle, undisputed and complete!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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