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Chapter 447 The curtain falls on Shizhu Ridge (2)

"Retreat! Retreat!"

Amakasu Shigetaro still issued a retreat order to the soldiers on the front line who were fighting with bayonets.

Although the decision to issue the retreat order was painful, Amakasu Shigetaro understood that if he continued to consume here, he would repeat the mistakes of the 106th Division in Wanjialing in the past.

Regarding the devil's sudden withdrawal from the battlefield, Yang Hanyu, the commander of the army, quickly realized the reason. A telegram came out from the army headquarters, and the officers and soldiers present soon knew that it was the No. 70 Army who came to help.

No wonder the little devils of the 33rd Division suddenly withdrew from the battlefield. With this news, it means that the big ship of the [-]th Army cannot capsize today.

I don't know where to squeeze out another force. The officers and soldiers held up their big blades and chased the devils who had left the battlefield until the devils completely left the melee battlefield. When the mortar fires obstructing shells on the position.

The officers and soldiers of the [-]th Army knew that once they lost contact with the devils, they would face the devils' machine guns and cannons, so after chasing them for a while, they dispersed from the battlefield to avoid being bombarded by the devils' cannons at the end.

One pursued as far as he could, and the other deliberately left the battlefield, so the hand-to-hand battlefield, which was strewn with corpses, finally came to a standstill after fighting for a whole morning.

The officers and soldiers who survived all collapsed to the ground, and everyone had symptoms of dehydration.

For a while, no one cleaned the battlefield, and the officers and soldiers lying on the ground breathing only wanted to slowly recover from the depletion of mental and physical energy that had been under high pressure.

Among the mountains covered with corpses, only the health workers and field doctors in charge of rescue bandaged the officers and soldiers injured by bayonets.

In the huge battlefield, not many people spoke, and even those who spoke, subconsciously whispered.

Li Chong leaned on a stone, watching Yunjuan and Yunshu in the sky, thinking about the battle, his nose was already numb, and he was indifferent to the smell of blood on the battlefield.

In this battle that took place at Shizhu Ridge, if only the 33th Army and the [-]rd Division were considered, it was impossible to say who would win and who would win. The casualties on both sides were dismal, but neither had completely lost their combat effectiveness.And because the [-]th Army stepped into this battlefield, it ended in a bit of a hurry in the end, and the winner was not completely determined in the end.

But in terms of the grand strategy around Changsha, it is true that our side has won. The devil's three-way attack plan around Changsha was directly disintegrated, and the 33rd Division split into two groups and retreated to Tongcheng and Xiushui. , this threat to Changsha City is basically gone.

After a while, an advance group of the [-]th Army arrived here.

The leader of the regiment looked at the scene all over the field, and led the officers and soldiers of the regiment to solemnly salute everyone on the battlefield. After sending a report to the superiors, he turned around and led the regiment to chase the devils.

The follow-up troops of the 33th Army did not come here again, but went directly to pursue the [-]rd Division.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Li Chong heard the news that the 33th Army had smashed the [-]rd Division that had withdrawn from Shizhuling into two parts. The devils walking in front withdrew to Tongcheng, while the devils walking behind He fled to Xiushui.

Although the 33rd Division could not be wiped out, there were still quite a few devils in two parts. The total number of devils who retreated to Tongcheng and fled to Xiushui was estimated to be more than [-]. Although it sounds like a lot, they were divided into two parts after all. Two strands, this can be regarded as successfully blocking the devil's attempt to open a passage from Nanchang to Changsha along the Miluo River.

The news of the battle situation in Shizhu Ridge was immediately transmitted to the respective headquarters.

In Changsha City, unlike Shizhuling, where the sun is shining brightly, there is heavy rain within a hundred kilometers around Changsha. God is on our side, and the water level of the Laodao River has risen sharply, which makes the frontal battlefield in northern Hunan tense. got relief.

The heavy rain not only prevented the devils from crossing the river, but also made their rampaging tanks and chariots fall into the quagmire from which they could not extricate themselves.

When he heard the Shizhuling battle report, Xue Boling was standing in front of the window watching the heavy rain like a waterfall falling from the sky outside.

After listening to the staff report, Xue Boling stretched out his hand out of the window, let the rain wash away the sweat on his palm, and exclaimed, "In this way, the northeast gate of Changsha will be safe! How is the situation with Chief Luo?"

"Deputy Chief Luo is leading the people to defend the Datuling area of ​​Tonggu Mountain. Although the battle line has been tight, it has blocked the 106th Division and the Zuozhi Detachment from continuing to attack from noon today. It can be said that the northern Jiangxi battlefield The advance of the Japanese army at a speed of [-] kilometers a day was effectively stopped."

Hearing these words, Xue Boling clenched his hand out of the window, and the heavy rain that hit it instantly turned into spray.

"You can tell Commander Luo that Commander Yang has achieved results in Shizhuling. It is impossible for the Japanese 33rd Division to merge with the 106th Division. Now he can boldly block the frontal enemy with confidence. He has to do something. The 106th Division is Oh, our former defeat!"

Xue Boling was dissatisfied with the fact that the three lines of defense previously arranged in the high-security position on the northern Jiangxi battlefield were breached one after another in a short period of time.Because Luo Zhuoying, as the deputy chief of the war zone, led the [-]th Army Group, among all the troops in the Ninth War Zone, the weapon configuration and the quality of the soldiers are also very advanced.

The No.70 Fourth Army Wang Yaowu Department under its group army is one of the most capable armies in the entire Ninth Theater.What's more, as the deputy chief of the war zone, he mobilized more than just the [-]th Army. Gao Yinhuai's First Army was also under his command.

With abundant troops and sufficient combat effectiveness, under such circumstances, the 106th Division and the Zuozhi Detachment broke through the front line one after another, which made Xue Boling feel a little unhappy.

I'm afraid of comparison in everything. Yang Sen's 27th Army dispatched a 33th Army, and it was on par with the [-]rd Division in a bayonet fight. Being chased to Tonggu Mountain inevitably made Xue Boling feel a little uncomfortable.

So Xue Boling asked the communications soldiers to send a telegram to Luo Zhuoying. The last sentence in the telegram, "The 106th Division is our former defeat!" is to tell the commanders of the two army groups in Tonggu Mountain, especially the deputy commander of the theater. Luo Zhuoying: How come the 106th Division was also defeated in the past, and now being chased by the defeated generals for [-] kilometers in a row, this kind of performance is somewhat unreasonable.

"Also, tell Commander Yang in the name of the war zone commander's department that I, Xue Boling, thank him for his dedication, and hope that Commander Yang can continue to look for fighters to attack the enemy's 33rd Division as appropriate."

Inside the Japanese Army Command in Yueyang, Hunan.

Neiji Okamura listened to the battle report of the 33rd Division, and hurriedly walked to the side of the sand table, lying on the edge of the sand table, looking at the Tongcheng area on the sand table.

He reached out and removed all the flags representing the 33rd Division in Shizhuling area, inserted them back into Tongcheng, and then moved two military flags and placed them in Xiushui County.

The failure of the 33rd Division's attack at Shizhuling made Okamura's fist firmly pressed against the edge of the sand table.

(End of this chapter)