Glorious Mission 1937

Chapter 610: The battle outside Changsha City (asking for subscription, asking for monthly ticket, asking for all kinds!!!)

At this time, Ananwei is almost like a crazy gambler who won the first hand, he is no longer satisfied with the current harvest.Although not completely ignorant of future risks, he bet a bigger bet and wanted to win back a bigger capital. On the morning of September 9, the 1th Army Headquarters issued a final order, abandoning the goal of encircling and annihilating the Communist Party, and changing the combat goal to capture Changsha!

The issuance of this order completely and completely deviated from the thinking of the 11th Army when it first proposed the operational concept: to annihilate the 37th Army.At this time, there is no visible benefit to attack Changsha.Maybe at this moment, Anan was just having a fever.

After receiving the order from the 11th Army Headquarters, the three divisions and two independent regiments participating in the attack also went crazy, thinking that the squadron in front of them launched a violent attack.With the support of the air force, the 3th Infantry Regiment of the 6th Division attacked the position of the 13th Division in Yazuishan, gradually advancing from north to south.In the afternoon, the 95rd Infantry Regiment fought fiercely with the army based on the steep Piaofeng Mountain.

But to the dismay of the Japanese army, the defenders in these two places took the rare initiative to surround the headquarters of the 23rd Regiment from the left and right wings.The Japanese army did not defeat the defenders until the evening with the support of the air force, but they also suffered extremely heavy casualties. The captain of the 6st Squadron of the 1th Wing of the Zhongshan Artillery Field Artillery was killed in battle.

At the same time, the 40th Wing of the 235th Division of the Japanese Army was also frantically blocked when it attacked the headquarters of the 99th Division near Yukou Bay. The two sides fought hard all day and night without any progress.A deadlocked situation was formed, and it was not until the night of September 9 that this position was won.

For the Ninth War Zone, the situation on September 9 was grim.On the front, the 1rd Division crossed the Laodao River via Liqiao and Fenglingang, passed through Pailoupu, Langlishi, and Dongshan attacked Changsha; the 3th Division, coordinated by the Air Force, advanced from Xinshi on the south bank of Mishui, and passed through Changsha. Ling, Fulinpu, Malin City, and Dalangli City to cooperate with the 6rd Division to attack Changsha.The 3th Division fought against the 40th Division of the 37th Army with a part of the Yajian, Modaojian, and Tianjing Temple in the Mishui River Bend west of Wukou. The main force went south to Jinjing via Lishan Lane, Changling, Tianwang Temple, and Elephant Trunk Bridge. In the area, contain the defenders in the eastern mountainous area.Coordinating the attacks of the 95rd and 3th divisions.The situation is critical.

But Xue Yue was as stable as Mount Tai. He had already seen that the Japanese army was rushing to Changsha this time, so while ordering the frontal troops to stop them, on the other hand, he quickly mobilized troops to the two wings.Made a huge pocket outside Changsha.If the Japanese army hadn't come to Changsha.Then the layout of the Ninth War Zone is useless, but if the Japanese army really intends to completely occupy Changsha, then this pocket can come in handy.

And according to the information obtained before the war.Xue Yue judged that the Japanese army's old problem of not paying attention to logistics had reappeared. Judging from the situation of the previous battle between the two sides, the Japanese army did not intend to capture Changsha. Now that such a move suddenly came, it should not be a prepared battle plan in advance, it may be Anan The old devil suffered from dizziness and temporarily changed the battle plan.

After fighting the Japanese army for 4 years, I know Xue Yue, the group of devils on the opposite side, very well. I even know the 11th Army of the Japanese army better than I know my own troops. I know that these Japanese devils don’t pay much attention to logistics. They dared to go on a rampage without any preparation. This is also an important reason why the Japanese army often did some evil things, because they did not have perfect logistics, and they could only rob ordinary people when they fought!

With this judgment, Xue Yue ordered the frontal troops to retreat while fighting, using the favorable terrain to block the Japanese army, consuming a large amount of the Japanese army's vital forces and ammunition.

At 9 pm on September 2, the 2rd Division advanced all the way, and finally arrived at the city of Changsha before the 3th Division and the 40th Division.The advance troops of the 29th Brigade first crossed the Liuyang River near Mopenzhou in the afternoon of the same day, and the 3rd Engineering Wing along with them began to build a bridge.At 18:68 p.m., the 23th Regiment arrived in Langli City. Through translators and puppet troops, they asked local residents that trekking was possible near Mopan Prefecture, so they immediately began to cross the river. At 9:[-] that night, the unit completed the crossing.So far, the Japanese army has reached the bottom of the pockets arranged in the [-]th theater.

The 9th War Zone ordered all the troops on the same day to carry out an anti-encirclement of the enemy outside Changsha before the attack at 4:9 on the 4th, and limited it to the first attack arrival line on the night of September [-]th.

At this time, both sides seemed to see the hope of victory. The Japanese army saw the city of Changsha and hoped to grab it and leave. Moreover, the Japanese army's logistics and heavy weapons could not support long-term operations.The Ninth Theater believes that the pocket array has been laid out, the prey has come, and the remaining time is the harvest. But at the same time, Xue Yue is also worried that the bottom of the pocket is too thin and will be pierced. Both sides are now ready to kill each other. deadly.

On the afternoon of September 9, the headquarters of the Third Division of the Japanese Army, which had already arrived at the outskirts of Changsha, issued an order to attack.

However, the Japanese army obviously underestimated the will of the Changsha defenders to resist. After being attacked, the 10th Army stationed in Changsha immediately fought back. The two sides fought across the city wall, the moat, and the permanent fortifications outside Changsha.The Chief of the Ninth War Zone gave the Changsha defenders a deadly order. Even if the entire army was wiped out, they could not retreat half a step. Ordinary soldiers ran and shot the squad leader. The company commander also ran away, and the battalion commander and regiment commander were pulled out and shot.

In addition, the fortifications of Changsha City have been built since 1939. Although they have gone through wars, they are still very strong.The most important thing is that the Japanese Third Division lacks artillery support. The Japanese army does not lack artillery, but due to road restrictions, the artillery cannot act together with the soldiers.

Besides, even if the roads are okay, the current situation of the Japanese army cannot keep up with the consumption of ammunition, so the Japanese troops attacking Changsha only have a small amount of artillery support. The troops were concentrated under the unified command of the 10th Army, with a total of about two artillery regiments, equipped with more than 10 infantry artillery and 80 heavy mountain field artillery, which surpassed the Japanese Third Division in terms of artillery in one fell swoop.

In order to win this battle, Lao Jiang deliberately transferred the American Flying Tigers stationed in Kunming to Chengdu to deal with the Japanese army aviation troops.

After fighting hard all day and night, the Japanese army did not make any progress, but lost more than a thousand people. At 9:4 a.m. on September 9th, just as the Ninth War Zone was about to issue a counterattack order, the Japanese army suddenly changed its offensive method and divided its troops into Changling, Nanyuan Palace, and military storage depots, trying to seize the storage depots and the nearby military depots. Tianxin Pavilion.

The Ninth War Zone responded quickly. The 190th Division stationed at the north gate immediately counterattacked Zuojiatang, and the 10th Division in the south counterattacked the army storage. The position was recovered.The Kato Battalion, which fled to Baisha Ridge, encountered the reinforcements of the Ninth War Zone at around 10 pm that day. The commander, Major Kato, was shot through the abdomen immediately and died soon after.The rest of the officers died in battle one after another, and only Ikeda Zhi, the commander of the army, made a bloody way out of the emergency.

The Japanese army immediately launched several charges in an attempt to rescue Kato, but under the fierce resistance of the defenders, the Japanese army's several attacks were to no avail.By the night of the 4th, the surrounded Kato Brigade was completely wiped out.

The Battle of Baishaling was extremely important to the Ninth Theater. For the Japanese army, Kato's death was not just the loss of a captain.However, the Ninth War Zone obtained from Kato's body various plans and orders and other documents since the Japanese army dispatched, and learned a lot of Japanese army intelligence that has not yet been mastered.More importantly, the Ninth Theater finally determined that the Japanese army lacked this important intelligence.

Xue Yue then adjusted his tactics. On the one hand, he ordered all the armies to quickly close up to the periphery of Changsha to encircle and annihilate the enemy army according to the predetermined plan; at the same time, he ordered the 10th Army to counterattack. Prevent it from retreating.

Due to tactical adjustments, the battle plan to encircle and wipe out the Japanese troops outside Changsha was forced to postpone until September 9th.Apparently, the Japanese army only saw that the 6rd and [-]th Divisions had approached the city of Changsha, and victory was in sight. They had not yet discovered that there were a large number of Chinese army troops on both sides of these two divisions, and they might make dumplings for them at any time.

Anan Weiji was still daydreaming about capturing Changsha, and ordered the third and sixth divisions in front of them to increase their offensive efforts, and they must capture Changsha City within 3 days.

After receiving the order, the Japanese army's offensive strength has indeed increased a lot. The troops once again took out the rogue tactics that are not afraid of death, and rushed to the position of the 10th Army without fear of death. In just one day, the eastern suburbs of Changsha, the northern All the forward positions in the suburbs and southern suburbs were lost, and the army in the northeast retreated to Kaifu Temple, Shangpanjiaping, Tangjiaxiang, Shangdalong, Hujidu, Chenjiashan, Dujialing, Yuanjialing, Yaoling, and Changling.The Southern Suburbs firmly guarded Houjiatang, Saobangtang, Dongguashan and other strongholds.

However, the Japanese army stopped here. Due to logistical supply problems, the ammunition of the 3rd Division was almost exhausted.Coupled with the fact that the division suffered heavy casualties in the past few days of combat, all troops had to be put into battle, and there was no ammunition and no reserve team. The situation of the third division was very bad.

In addition, according to the news sent back by the Japanese intelligence agency, the Chongqing side transferred the directly controlled reserve force, the 74th Army, the number one ace of the Chinese government army, to the command of the 9th theater.Except for the 58th Division of the army who stayed in Hengyang for training, the main force immediately drove to Hengshan, Lukou, and Zhuzhou.At the same time, Shang Zhen's 4th Army was also rushing to Changsha.This situation is enough to make the Japanese shudder. (To be continued..)