▊ In the evening, Song Yuhang unexpectedly received a telegram from the chief of staff of the Ninth Theater 37, in which Zhao Zili depressedly said that he had left Changsha and was on the way to Hengyang at the moment Zhao Zili's telegram made Song Yuhang really feel the crisis, the fall of Changsha may have become a foregone conclusion, and Zhang Deneng's 4 may also be in danger. gt Then Song Yuhang connected the phone of the military headquarters of the 10th Army in Hengyang, and was told that Zhao Zili was in the garrison headquarters.
Zhao Zili and Song Yuhang were both spectators and kept a cool head, they believed that the battle of Changsha at this moment was completely different from the previous ones, and Changsha should be heavily garrisoned to consume the edge of the slack Japanese army, and then use Hengyang as a basis to conduct a decisive battle with the Japanese army in great depth, and Changsha, which was already surrounded by enemies on all sides, should not be defended.
Zhao Zili believes that to defend Changsha, we must first defend the commanding heights outside the city, Yuelu Mountain, the so-called defense of the city must first defend the mountain, if Yuelu Mountain is lost, then Changsha City is bound to be difficult to hold, should be held by two divisions of Yuelu Mountain, one division is deployed in Changsha City, use street fighting to delay the Japanese army as much as possible, give the Japanese army a certain number of casualties and then take the initiative to break away, withdraw to Yuelu Mountain and join the main force.
However, Zhang Deneng, the commander of the 4th Army, put two divisions in the city according to Xue Yue's deployment before leaving, and one division defended Yuelu Mountain, Zhao Zili went to Zhang Deneng, and Zhang Deneng said that before Xue Yue left, and explained that he obeyed the command of the chief of staff, Zhao Zili hurriedly called Xue Yue and asked if he could command 4, but Xue Yue told him that "you don't command" Zhao Zili angrily reported the imperial complaint to Chiang Kai-shek through Wang Yaowu and Shangguan Yunxiang, and then angrily went to the 10th Army of Hengyang Fang Xianjue, which was also a bit of a refuge.
In Song Yuhang's view, Zhao Zili's plan to defend Yuelu Mountain instead of defending Changsha City can only make 4 more than a few days to breathe, and the 4th Army in history is to defend Yuelu Mountain with the second division, and the Japanese army captured Changsha City in only three days, but according to Zhao Zili's plan, 4 can hold at least 20 to 30 Although it was inevitable that the fate of annihilation would not be avoided in any case, the battle situation a month later was bound to undergo earth-shaking changes, the strategic materials used by the Japanese army for the offensive were consumed in large quantities, the Japanese army's attack on Yuelu Mountain was bound to be killed and wounded, its vigor was bound to be reduced, and the deployment and adjustment of our army would also be completed by then If his first mechanized army went to defend the city, how would he fight about defending the city, Song Yuhang had already talked to Zhang Deneng about it, but it was a pity that Zhang Deneng had Song Yuhang, the acting deputy commander, in his eyes, but he just hummed and dealt with it, and after hanging up the phone with Zhao Zili, Song Yuhang was a little confused 212, the Japanese army's six divisions approached the city of Changsha, the heavy artillery unit had completed the artillery test firing, at 10 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army's earth-shaking artillery fire opened the prelude to the Changsha battle.
How long can Zhang Denengdi 4 hold on.
Even in the basement of the central bank in the city, he didn't even know it in his heart.
The overwhelming artillery fire of the Japanese frightened him.
For the defense of Changsha.
Zhang Deneng didn't take it to heart.
The Tenth Army was able to defend.
Supplemented with a lot of American-style equipment, how could he not defend it, so he spent most of his attention on the actress who fled from Shanghai.
Now the war is fierce.
He didn't regret it until now.
But the little bird was gone.
Poor Zhang De can know where to know.
At this moment, the little bird in Wuhan is reporting the information obtained by the reconnaissance in the headquarters of the 11th Army in Wuhan.
At this moment, the residents of Changsha have also been evacuated.
The 59th Division and local officers and soldiers were deployed in the city.
Yuelu Mountain was held by the 90th Division.
Together with the 90s, the 3rd Brigade directly under the Military Commission was equipped with 60 advanced American-made howitzers to defend the Yuelu Mountains The defense of the 4 places of the national defenders is still based on the last battle of Changsha.
Most of the fortifications were also renovated using the ones left over from the last battle.
But in the Japanese base camp special selection of Takasenshima Kanbu Osachi Raiders.
However, it avoided the previous offensive routes from the north to the south.
A big roundabout tactic was adopted.
Hit the two divisions first, and the superior forces attacked Yuelu Mountain first.
Heavy artillery combined with air raid bombing.
Completely destroy the Changsha city defense facilities.
Chariots were then used to cover infantry attacks. 1 p.m.
The 34th Division of the Japanese Army took the lead in attacking the summit of Yuelu Mountain from the south side.
Then the Japanese 40th Division attacked along the northern flank.
After several unsuccessful attacks.
The Japanese first used heavy artillery bombardment.
Subsequently, more than 30 sorties were used to drop a large number of incendiary bombs on Yuelu Mountain.
It's winter.
When the grass and trees are dry.
The Japanese army invested in ground bombs and incendiary bombs, which caused flames to spread all over the mountains.
For a time, smoke billowed from Yuelu Mountain.
The officers and men of the 90th Division defending the Yuelu Mountains were forced to fight and retreat.
At 16 o'clock in the afternoon, a coordinated assault by infantry and artillery organized by the Japanese army achieved major results, and was almost assaulted by the Japanese army to the main position of Yunlu Palace But at this moment, they thought that they had the intention to kill Kou and had no power to return to the sky, \ the two-sided attack made the 3rd Artillery Brigade directly under the Military Commission fall into absolute passivity, they were no longer able to turn the muzzle of the gun to support Changsha, and the artillerymen who were too busy to take care of themselves had already picked up rifles and grenades to fight the Japanese army.
The situation has reached the point of great crisis, the commander of the 90th Division, Chen Kan, had no choice but to call the commander Zhang Deneng to tell the emergency, asking for reinforcements to repel the Japanese army on the southern slope, Chen Kan did not know that the Japanese army began at 10 o'clock in the morning The fierce shelling destroyed a large number of the defenders' fortifications, and a large number of fortifications became living coffins, and the defenders suffered heavy casualties under the heavy artillery bombardment of the Japanese army, and the 59th and 102nd in the city had fallen into the passive of the whole line, and the city defense had been broken through by the Japanese army at noon.
Dozens of Japanese troops, led by chariots, were fighting fiercely with the defenders in the city.
On a nameless hill outside Changsha City, Yokoyama Yong alone held a telescope to watch the battle situation, not far below the hill, a squadron of heavy artillery has reached the best firing position under the manpower traction of Japanese soldiers, the Japanese soldiers in the distance jumped and ran in the smoke of gunpowder, from time to time someone was shot and fell to the ground, the advancing chariot was broken into a huge fire ball, but the battle did not stop for a moment, the battle line continued to advance with the attack, Isamu Yokoyama nodded quietly to the staff officers who had rushed to report on the progress of the battle, as if he was not satisfied with the results achieved, as if all this was taken for granted.
Yokoyama remembered that in the last Battle of Changsha, Anan only a few light troops advanced in a hurry, unable to carry heavy artillery, and as a result, a large number of Japanese troops died in front of the defenders.
At midnight, the Japanese army terminated the offensive on the hill and in the city at the same time, so that the Chinese defenders could not help but breathe a sigh of relief, but it was a rare exception for the units under the Central Army: