In the early morning, a fierce exchange of fire broke out on the south bank of the Yuan River, and the remnants of the 57th Division, which was entrenched in the central bank, were injected with a stimulant.
Yu Chengwan, whose eyes were red, immediately ordered the radio to be turned on and contacted the military headquarters, the theater, and the military commission to try to get in touch with the reinforcements.
Yu Chengwan saw an embarrassed expression, carrying a Czech-made confidential staff officer who looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, so angry that he yelled: "Don't wait for anything?"
The confidential staff officer smiled helplessly and said, "Master, you have already ordered Director Huang to blow up the telegraph machine and burn the confidential password last night."
"Ah" Yu Chengwan was immediately stunned, and for a moment, Yu Chengwan hurriedly rushed to the basement of the ground, he hoped that Huang Min did not faithfully fulfill his orders this time.
When Yu Chengwan saw Huang Min in the basement, he was stunned by the scene in front of him, Huang Min was holding the silver Browning pistol that had given him, and more than a dozen barrels of explosives were piled up on the radio, and the detonator was placed next to the haggard Huang Min's hand.
Huang Min couldn't control his feelings when he saw that Yu Chengwan was there, so he suddenly threw himself into Yu Chengwan's arms, and because the action was too intense, he knocked the placed explosive tube to the ground.
The heart of the confidential staff officer who came with him suddenly rose to his throat, and the confidential staff officer, whose face was pale and broke out in a cold sweat, resolutely packed up the explosives and disarmed the detonator before leaving.
Yu Chengwan gently stroked Huang Min's long hair and muttered comfortingly: "The reinforcements have arrived, and the reinforcements have arrived, "really" Huang Min knew that Yu Chengwan was serious and cautious, and he would definitely not make such jokes, so he reminded: "Remember what you promised me?"
Yu Chengwan smiled and nodded vigorously: "After the siege is lifted, I will invite you to have a big meal, and we will come to whatever you want."
"I hate being a pig, it's not like that," Huang Min sneered.
Yu Chengwan coughed heavily and said, "Let's get down to business first."
Let's put things to the rest of the world.
Immediately contact the Military Department, the Theater Commander's Department, and the Military Commission.
Be sure to get in touch with the reinforcements as soon as possible to respond and cooperate with the reinforcements. ” From Wang Yaowu to Sun Lianzhong.
In the to Xue Yue to Chairman Chiang.
All the people were amazed at the rapid progress of the First Mechanized Army Xue Yue, who had a habit of reading maps, sat in front of the map for several hours this time.
Originally, Xue Yue, the First Mechanized Army of Song Yuhangdi, was not very optimistic.
Fighting a war cannot always be left to chance.
But this time, the First Mechanized Army rushed to rescue Changde, but he was completely shocked.
Kunming is at least a week away from Changde.
Could it be that the First Mechanized Army could not have flown such a long distance, and the troops were not only not dragged down?
It can also annihilate the remaining troops of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army in Yuanjiang Annandi in just a few hours.
It seems that Song Yuhang does have a set.
And Xue Yue noticed.
The First Mechanized Corps, armed by U.S. allies, appears to have an unusually powerful assault capability.
Xue Yue is now more and more interested in American-style mechanized weapons and equipment.
At the right time, he decided to meet this Song Yuhang.
The Ninth War Zone is the gateway to Chongqing.
There is a great need for such a well-equipped and strong army.
At 14 o'clock in the afternoon, the 1st Mechanized Division, the 2nd Motorized Infantry Division, and the Heavy Artillery Brigade arrived on the south bank of the Yuan River, and Song Yuhang immediately ordered the Heavy Artillery Brigade to shell the Japanese troops on the south bank of the Yuan River.
The heavy artillery brigade of the 1st Mechanized Army inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese siege troops, and the last bit of self-confidence of Isamu Yokoyama completely collapsed in the overwhelming artillery fire, and then the nine 40N fighters of the 14th Air Wing from the direction of Hengyang were entangled with the six Zeros that came to support.
Soon, the joint air force of China and the United States shot down two Japanese planes.
The remaining four Japanese troops fled to the southeast The Chinese soldiers on the south bank of the Yuan River burst into earth-shattering cheers as they fell to the ground in smoke, and the nine victorious Sino-US joint air force fighters began to form a formation and repeatedly strafe the Japanese ground troops with machine guns, and did not return until they ran out of ammunition.
Although the aircraft strafed did not cause many casualties to the Japanese troops.
But it dealt a fatal blow to the morale of the Japanese army.
Isamu Yokoyama finally gave the order to reverse, but he kept his hand, that is, in addition to arranging the rear of the 1st Division, he arranged for the 68th Division and the 39th Division to keep a distance from the flanks of the 1st Division on both flanks, forming a pocket that could be flipped at any time That night, the Japanese army lit torches in Changde to collect and abandon the corpses, and it was not until the early hours of the morning that they calmed down one after another, and the Japanese troops besieging Changde retreated cleanly in one night, except for a small city of Changde that had become a ruin.
After learning of the retreat of the Japanese army.
Chiang Kai-shek did not give instructions for the pursuit as before, but delegated the power of specific maneuvers to Song Yuhang, allowing him to decide according to the situation.
Song Yuhang did not have such a strong utilitarian sense as Yokoyama Isamu in this battle, especially in this battle, he also killed more than 4,000 Japanese troops, including the commander of the Japanese Third Division and the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Yamamoto Sano, which was already a great gain.
Although the retreat of the Japanese army was somewhat unexpected by Song Yuhang, it was undoubtedly a wise move, and Song Yuhang knew that at this moment the Military Commission was mobilizing all the troops that could be mobilized in the Sixth and Ninth Theaters to move to the outer line of Changde, in an attempt to have a central strategy in the third Changsha Campaign Apparently the Japanese are not idiots.
Otherwise, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression would not have lasted for eight years, and in the end, it was because the United States successively dropped atomic bombs on Japan, and the Soviet Union sent millions of Red Army troops to the northeast, and the Japanese army was forced to surrender in a desperate situation.
The main combat strength of the Japanese 11th Army was not damaged, and the ammunition supply was sufficient, and its large-scale retreat was to avoid being strategically passive, so Song Yuhang did not plan to pursue the Japanese army at all, but sent several elite armored detachments to follow the Japanese to see him off.
The officers of the 1st Mechanized Division, who had been sent to carry out this order, carefully studied the instructions of the military seat, that is, not to let the Japanese retreat too comfortably.
Division commander Chang Tianfang personally organized five strike teams.
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Each strike team is based on three light tanks and one medium tank.
It is equipped with six armoured vehicles and one reconnaissance vehicle, and a mobile support center has been set up for logistics.
Under the cover of the ground of the 1st Tank Battalion and 3 companies, they followed the strike detachment.
The ability to maneuver quickly, the firepower was ferocious, and the elusive strike detachment became a nightmare that was difficult to wield on the retreat of the Japanese army The 3rd Strike Detachment, which was subordinate to the 1st Mechanized Division, under the command of Captain Luo Fangming, was undoubtedly the most hated by the Japanese army, and they first harassed the 3rd Division.
Later, it attacked the field hospital left behind by the 68th Division of the Japanese Army with extreme ferocity and cruelty, and finally the third strike detachment targeted the Japanese Division that was arrogant under the city of Changde.
"It's time to wake up the Japanese to pee," Luo Fangming, whose face was covered with camouflage, showed a mouthful of snow-white teeth with one mouth After the Third Strike Team led by Luo Fangming attacked the Japanese Division several times in a row, the Japanese not only planted mines on the way back, but also tried to choose towns that were easy to defend when camping, which put the Third Strike Team in an embarrassing situation.
Therefore, the bold Luo Fangming led the 3rd Strike Detachment to overtake the Japanese troops from the flank, and adopted the means of setting up an ambush in advance, preparing to add a little activity to the slightly bland retreat road of the 1st Division.
Luo Fang's tactics clearly exceeded the expectations of the Japanese.
At 1 o'clock in the morning, four combat vehicles of the Third Strike Detachment, lurking under the nose of the Japanese army, fired dozens of shells at the Pingshan Town Office, where the headquarters of the Japanese First Division was located.
One of the shells struck a Japanese truck laden with ammunition in a miraculous way, and the continuous explosion shook the mountain, turning the night sky into daylight and half the sky red, and the huge explosion almost leveled half of the town.
The Japanese soldiers, who were awakened by the explosion, shouted and began to return fire aimlessly in all directions, and after a while, they cowered in Pingshan and refused to come out to follow the division, and a squadron of chariots was even more hidden.
The Japanese army's cautiousness made Luo Fangming, who originally thought he would be able to get a vote, helpless, and the sound of the chariot going away made the Japanese army brave enough to send a squadron to search in the direction of the shelling.
Luo Fangming, who was originally going to kill the horse gun, was forced to retreat because of ammunition and fuel The Japanese attack came with great rapidity.
The retreat was also swift, except for a few strike detachments of the 1st Mechanized Division, the 58th Army, the 100th Army, and the various units of the Ou Zhen Corps that came in a detour from the outside did not even touch the side of the Japanese.
Yokoyama prepared the ground pocket for Song Yuhang, not only did he not contain the First Mechanized Army.
On the contrary, he was bruised all over his body by Song Yuhang's use of a "knife and thin cutting", especially the first division that was bombed by the ammunition truck, and he was even more apprehensive.
After determining the reversal of the Japanese army, Song Yuhang followed the first batch of troops to cross the river and took the lead in entering Changde, and he really wanted to meet the Chinese general "Yu Chengwan", who was praised by the Japanese as having a very hard bone and defending the lonely city for more than ten days Walking into the ruined city of Changde, the first thing that caught Song Yuhang's eyes was the abandoned corpses all over the ground, the bodies of the Japanese had been taken away, and all that was left was the officers and soldiers of the 57th Division defending the city, due to the increasingly hot weather, many corpses had begun to decompose.
It emits a choking stench.
Looking at the remains of Chinese officers and soldiers scattered among the ruins, Song Yuhang could imagine the fierceness of the fierce battle at that time, and many of the corpses even maintained the shape of the bloody battle.
Those broken guns and broken bayonets are all evidence of the officers and men of the 57th Division's courage in resisting a strong enemy, and it can be said that the officers and men of the brave and fearless 57th Division have displayed the pride of the Chinese people in Changde, and fought to the last soldier and swore the national spirit of not surrendering.
The casualties of the 57th Division's Tiger Ben were also shocking, the three infantry regiments of 169, 170, and 171 before the war, attached to the army artillery regiment, and the 2 companies of the army engineer battalion, participated in the battle with 8,315 officers and men, and after the war, there were only less than 300 light and serious wounded.
Eight thousand sons and daughters are fertile in blood, and heroes are in the twilight In front of the central bank in Changde City, Song Yuhang saw Yu Chengwan, one was too young, the other was too embarrassed, the two didn't know whether to salute or shake hands, and finally Song Yuhang gave Yu Chengwan a strong hug, and said in Yu Chengwan's ear full of apologies: "Brother is late, it's late."
For many days, Yu Chengwan has only had reinforcements in his heart, and he was already completely desperate, and he was ready to kill himself.
I didn't expect a miracle to happen.
The crumbling central bank held on, and the Japanese withdrew cleanly overnight, looking at the only remaining brother of the tiger.
Yu Chengwan couldn't suppress his feelings, his eyes were red, and he suddenly cried bitterly, and everyone present wept and sighed.
There is a saying: "Men don't flick when they have tears, but they haven't been sad yet" On June 2, 1943, the Battle of Changde, which lasted for a month, finally came to an end, and China and Japan returned to the dividing line before the war.
According to the usual practice, although the First Mechanized Army is directly under the Central Military Commission, the consumption of its operations must be supplied from the nearest theater where it is located, and then the theater will write off and ask the Ministry of Military Affairs for replenishment.
Song Yuhang's First Mechanized Army's attack capability is obvious to all, but the consumption is also amazing.
Just when the Sixth War Zone was extremely worried about the ease of inviting God and sending God, the two divisions under Song Yuhang set off for Kunming in a hurry.
The reason why Song Yuhang was in a hurry to rush back to Kunming was only one reason, that is, the Japanese Burma Front had already made some moves on the Indian side On behalf of the hussars to ask for a monthly pass, to see that when someone goes out to drill the ravine on business, they can still stick to the code word, and you book friends will support you a lot this month Hussar, let your enthusiasm be vividly reflected on the monthly pass, the above, pot and pot delivery: