In the early morning of February 6, the command post of the 11th Japanese Army in Yueyang.

Since the Japanese army began to attack Changsha City fiercely, Li Yutang, the commander of the 10th Army, and the soldiers of the entire army were determined to live and die with Changsha. They fought to the death with the ancient city wall of Tianxin Pavilion and fought to the death with the enemy for three days and three nights.

The so-called "Tianlu Tactics" is to lure the enemy into the depths, and then use the bone of Changsha City as bait, so that the Japanese invaders want to swallow it but can't swallow it, and want to give up but can't bear it.

The Chinese garrisons from all over the surrounding areas took the opportunity to quickly go to Changsha, forming a siege and intercepting force against the Japanese army, and then attacked inside and outside.

As Xue Boling carefully designed step by step, the outside troops of the Ninth War Zone were approaching Changsha from the east, south and north directions, and the momentum of siege of the Japanese army outside Changsha was already forming.

Looking at Anan Weiji with a pale face, he advised with great sincerity: "Anan Jun, I really can't hesitate anymore. The 4th, 20th, 26th, 37th, 58th, 78th, and 79th Army of the Chinese Army have reached its designated location and have begun operations. Not only is our army's logistics supply line broken, but our rear route is almost broken."

"Baga!"

Anan Weiji couldn't help but swear again. He didn't expect that such a result would end up being the end.

Not only did the front-line troops fight with all their might but did not occupy Changsha City for three days and three nights, but even the Kwantung Army, which had high hopes, failed to play its imagined role. They were actually dragged and blocked by the Chinese Expeditionary Force returning from the Myanmar battlefield.

The promise to form an unprecedented encirclement of the Chinese army, which eventually turned into a huge joke.

Now the main force of the 11th Army is exhausted and lacks ammunition. The more than 300,000 Chinese troops around have formed a large encirclement and are attacking the outer defense lines everywhere.

Although the communication password of the Ninth War Zone was deciphered three days ago, this battle had become a Ming chess game in Anan Weiji's eyes.

However, Anan Wei finally found that even though he had already understood the strategic intentions of the Chinese army, it had no effect except to add trouble and anxiety to himself, let alone change the passive dilemma of the Japanese army.

The reason is very simple. The bait Xue Boling put out was so fragrant and tempting.

The three main divisions of the 11th Japanese Army have all been put into battle. They have been fighting for two days, but they have been repeatedly frustrated. Although they have long been at the gate of the city, they have never been able to complete the final attack.

What's worse is that the high-intensity battles over the past few days have almost exhausted the attacking troops, but Anan Weiji has no way to provide them with enough supplies.

The supply line in the rear was repeatedly attacked since the beginning, and has been completely cut off by the Chinese army.

Although some problems were solved by using the Air Force to drop ammunition and supply, it was still not ideal, and some of the supplies sent by the Air Force were even taken away by the Chinese army.

Many front-line offensive troops who cut off ammunition had to fight for bayonets when attacking.

Anan knew that all the six main forces in the Ninth War Zone had arrived at the first attack and reached the line, and a preliminary trend of besieging the Japanese army.

This is the first time Anan Weiji has faced such a dangerous and embarrassing situation in his military career.

This is a time when you have to make a choice.

The atmosphere in the command post was solemn and depressed, and the staff officers in the room were worried, as if waiting for the judgment of fate.

"I'm passing on my order that our army will terminate the battle in Changsha. The divisions will start to return before 6 o'clock this afternoon to return to the north bank of the Miluo River tomorrow morning."

Although Anan Wei was almost unwilling to give up, there was still a trace of fantasy in her heart and still hoped to attack Changsha, but after repeated statements from Kinoshita and other subordinates, she could only make a decision to retreat.

However, he did not make a quick decision to retreat immediately, but delayed the retreat time by 12 hours, leaving a day for the front line troops to attack.

Because he was thief-hearted, he wanted to know if Takahashi and others could fulfill their promises and create miracles before dark.

Also the thief was the commander of the Japanese 3rd Division, Tagaji Takahashi.

After receiving the order, Tagaji Takahashi was unwilling to suffer heavy losses. He hoped to postpone the evacuation one day on the grounds that the troops had rushed into Changsha City and had rushed into street fighting and "it was only a little harder now", but was rejected by the military headquarters.

But this guy didn't know that Anan Weiji had already pushed back the time for 12 hours with great desperation. Where would he postpone it for another day?

Without the approval of the military headquarters, Tagaji Takahashi found a group of senior front-line commanders such as Kenzo Kitano and Yahita Saito, who were also unwilling to do so.

Takahashi Tagaji and others have now become a group of gamblers who lose their eyes. After so much effort and casualties, they naturally do not want to fail like this.

So, several old Japanese hit it off and unswervingly believed:

Although it is only about ten hours before the specified retreat, if everyone works hard together, there is still a great chance to occupy Changsha and achieve a brilliant victory in turning the tables against the wind.

Under such circumstances, the 3rd, 4th, and 101st Divisions were naturally all gambled. More than 20,000 Japanese troops launched a full-line attack on the Chinese defenders' positions under the personal supervision of the commanders of each division and launched a last-minute attack.

Tagaji Takahashi, who was eager to survive, began to use a large amount of "meat bullets". Japanese suicide squads rushed to the position one after another. After rushing to the Chinese defenders' positions, they fired explosives one after another, and exploded the dark firepower point that supported the defenders' positions.

Subsequently, the Japanese troops rushed forward and shot all the remaining guards, and positions continued to fall into the hands of the Japanese army.

Faced with the Japanese army's crazy "meat bullet" attack, the Chinese army is not unfamiliar with it.

Because during the entire War of Resistance Against Japan, Chinese soldiers repeatedly used "live bombs" to destroy Japanese tanks, armored vehicles, and used them in various tough battles.

The 10th Army, which had a bloody battle for several days, suffered more than one-third of the casualties, but the morale of the entire army was still strong. They were not afraid of the desperate attacks of the Japanese and tried their best to resist.

In the most intense battles in the Tianxin Pavilion, Bajiao Pavilion and Nanzheng Street areas, large-scale hand-to-hand combat occurred several times, and the officers and soldiers on both sides fell in pools of blood one after another.

Later, the Chinese defenders also organized suicide squads.

Chen Xiyao tied the only eighty remaining people of the 30th Regiment with grenades and explosives, and rushed into the Japanese position under the cover of more than 20 machine guns, and then fired bombs one after another, shattering the Japanese army to pieces.

After a desperate counterattack, the suicide squad regained the lost position from the Japanese army.

At the last moment of the battle, the 10th Division was organized into a company to put into the front line with commanders, choremen, stretchers, and transport troops. The division personnel also issued weapons and assigned tasks to defend bunkers and solid buildings.
Chapter completed!