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Chapter 362 The victory came too soon

"Is there any good news?" The Chief of Staff looked at Guo Xuejia in confusion. The front line was tight and he didn't understand what good news she would bring.

"Report to attend the seat, great victory, great victory." Guo Xuejia said loudly. Her voice seemed a little trembling due to excitement.

Guo Xuejia's voice suddenly shocked everyone in the war room, and everyone looked at her with surprise.

"Where did you get a great victory?" asked the deputy chief of staff, who was relatively impatient, before.

The Chief of Staff also looked at Guo Xuejia with concern, his eyes full of doubt.

"The report was a good news from the 62nd Division." Guo Xuejia said loudly. After saying that, she handed the telegram to the Chief of Staff.

After reading the telegram, the chief of staff clenched his fists and waved them hard in the air, saying, "Good job."

The deputy chief of staff couldn't wait to receive the telegram from the chief of staff, glanced at it in a hurry, and then began to recite it loudly in Guiliu's words:

"The Chief Office of the Fifth War Zone, Chief Junjian:

At 8 am this morning, our 62nd Division entered the ambush position at an unknown mountain 28 kilometers away from the Xinfenghe Highway Bridge. 11:20. A Japanese strengthening corps entered our ambush position. After all the soldiers of our division fought bravely, after 1:04 minutes, they wiped out the 145th infantry registrar of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army, an artillery brigade of the 106th Field Artillery Registrar, an enhanced squadron of the 106th Engineering Registrar, and a battalion of the 106th baggage brigade, killing more than 5,200 Japanese soldiers, including 27 Japanese soldiers. The remaining results are under further statistics.

Our division suffered 714 casualties.

After the battle, our division rested for an hour, and the main force had already gone to Da and Xiao Chenzhuang to encircle and annihilate the 21st Regiment of the Japanese Third Division and other units.

Wu Tianming, commander of the 62nd Division, chief of staff Wang Wenxue, deputy director of the Ninth War Zone Training Command, Gao Jiu, and Chu Tianxiong, director of the Nanchang Station of the Military Control Commission. It is 1:45 noon today."

After the deputy chief of staff finished reading, everyone felt a little strange. If it weren't for the signature below that included Gao Jiu and Chu Tianxiong, everyone would have thought that the telegram was fake again.

Not long ago, Wu Tianming and others gave up on the big and small Chenzhuang, let the Japanese reinforcements go straight in, and sent a telegram to fabricate fake situations, which was obviously afraid of the enemy and avoided the war, and also ignored the crisis in the entire Nanchang area, which was extremely bad. The Fifth War Zone Command had already had the idea of ​​holding Wu Tianming and others accountable.

In just a few days, things changed drastically. Wu Tianming's 62nd Division was able to achieve such a great victory, which was the first major victory since the Battle of Wuhan.

It was a miracle that the enemy killed more than 5,200 people and lost only 714 people in its own losses. This was simply a miracle, because the proportion of casualties between the enemy and us in the past in the battles was that our casualties were far greater than those of the enemy. This time the 62nd Division actually fought an 8:1, and achieved such a great result at such a small price.

This was too incredible and unbelievable, and the war room fell into silence for a moment.

The Deputy Chief of Staff, the Chief of Operations and others all looked at the Chief of Staff and waited for him to make a judgment.

The Chief of Staff said without hesitation: "This matter is true. I believe Mr. Gao and Chu Tianxiong will not lie."

"Okay! That's great!"

“It’s amazing!”

There was joy in the war room.

The deputy chief of staff said excitedly: "This is a major victory. This victory came too timely. Now we can annihilate the Japanese army under Nanchang City according to the original combat plan. If we can annihilate the Japanese army, the 113th and 21st rebels, the Japanese army, which are strengthened by the Japanese army, will be an amazing and great victory, which is enough to reverse the situation in the southeast of the Fifth War Zone."

The Operations Director said excitedly: "Two people, it's time to make up their minds to eat the Japanese army surrounded by Sanhezhuang."

The deputy chief of staff also looked at the chief of staff and said, "Please give orders."

The Chief of Staff nodded and said, "You will issue the combat orders. I will report this great victory obtained by the 62nd Division to the Military Commission."

The deputy chief of staff said, "Okay! I'll give this order." After that, he picked up the phone and said, "Check me the commander Wang of the 57th Division."

Commander Wang of the 57th Division was the commander-in-chief of the battlefield of the three divisions in Sanhezhuang area this time.

After the phone was connected, the deputy chief of staff said: "Captain Wang, he had just received a telegram from the 62nd Division. They had wiped out more than 5,000 Japanese troops in a reinforcement corps, the 145th Regiment of the 106th Division, and other units of the Japanese army."

"Is it true?" A disbelieving question from Commander Wang came from the other end of the phone.

"It's true. I'll inform you of the war report later."

"This guy Wu Tianming can actually fight such a battle. He really became a spirit." Commander Wang said.

The deputy chief of staff said: "Wu Tianming and the others are just one division's troops. There are three divisions there, and it depends on yours next.

Now, on behalf of the Chief of the War Zone, I order you to launch a general attack on the Japanese army immediately, quickly eliminate the besieged enemies, and then turn south to encircle and annihilate the 21st Regiment of the Japanese army."

The excited voice of Commander Wang of the 57th Division came from the phone. He was probably stimulated by the victory of the 62nd Division's independent annihilation of a strengthening corps of the Japanese army. He said with some excitement: "Please rest assured, please don't worry, we will launch a general attack on the Japanese army immediately and end the battle before dark today."

He was really excited. He originally planned to attack the Japanese army at night, but now he has no patience to wait until the evening.

Sanhezhuang.

According to the drawings designed by Gao Jiu, the 57th Division, 58th Division and 112th Division of the Guo Army had dug the trenches to a distance of only 30 meters from the Japanese trenches. In order to prevent their trenches from approaching, the Japanese army kept throwing grenades at them.

Relying on the large number of people and powerful forces, the officers and soldiers kept throwing grenades into the Japanese trenches, completely suppressing the Japanese army in the first trenches.

One hour after Commander Wang of the 57th Division issued an order to prepare for the general attack, the troops of the three divisions entered the trenches and traffic trenches, and were ready to launch a general attack on the Japanese army.

At 3:30 pm, Commander Wang of the 57th Division, commander Wang of the combat commander-in-chief, gave the order, and all the artillery soldiers of the three divisions opened fire violently at the Japanese position, and the entire Japanese position was filled with smoke. Immediately afterwards, Commander Wang ordered the artillery fire to extend and continue to bomb the hinterland of the Japanese position, and then issued an order for a general attack.

The troops of the three divisions each prepared 3,000 soldiers in the first trench on the front. After hearing the order of the general attack, 9,000 soldiers threw grenades into the Japanese trench, then jumped out of the trench and rushed towards the Japanese position.

Under the suppression of fierce artillery fire, the Japanese army's firepower was difficult to exert. Most of the Japanese army in the first trench died in the explosion of 9,000 grenades, and only a few Japanese troops were blocked in the ears of cats.

9,000 soldiers shouted and charged forward quickly! The distance of 30 meters arrived in an instant, in just a few seconds. Although many of the officers and soldiers of the guo army fell in the Japanese army's bullet rain, most of the soldiers rushed into the enemy's positions.

They quickly destroyed the remaining Japanese troops in the first trench, and then threw grenades into the second trench of the Japanese army in the same way, and then launched a charge.

The Japanese army fought to the death, but the number of troops was too large. Soon the army attacked the second trench. All the remaining Japanese troops were compressed into the main position with Sanhezhuang as the core.

The main position of the Japanese army was composed of the houses and buildings of Sanhezhuang. Although the artillery of the army did not have much effect on the trenches, it still had great destructive power for houses and buildings like Sanhezhuang.

In order to quickly annihilate the enemy, the three divisions also spent a lot of money to hit the shells as if they were not expensive. This time, the artillery bombardment lasted half an hour, and there was no complete house in the entire Sanhezhuang decoration.

Commander Wang of the 57th Division, the commander-in-chief of the battlefield, saw that it was almost done, ordered the shelling to stop and issued another order to attack.

"Run."

"Kill!"

Thousands of soldiers of the National Army rushed towards the ruins of Sanhezhuang with rifles with bright bayonets.

Half an hour later, the remaining Japanese troops hid in a vegetable cellar and were all killed by a grenade from the Guo army. So far, all the Japanese troops in the Sanhezhuang area were annihilated.

A great victory is another great victory.

There was also a burst of cheers in the war room of the theater command.

The Chief of Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Chief of Operations and others were stimulated by two major victories, and their fighting spirit was inspiration and their confidence was overwhelmed. They immediately ordered the 57th Division, the 58th Division and the 112th Division to take advantage of the victory to advance to encircle and annihilate the 21st Regiment and other units of the Japanese army.

Just when the guo army surrounded and annihilated the Japanese army in the Sanhezhuang area, a fierce battle also broke out in Da and Xiaochenzhuang.

The 145th Japanese Regiment was quickly annihilated under fierce explosions and artillery fire, and they didn't even have time to report the ambush to their superiors. However, the 21st Regiment Captain Heidu Nagawa still knew about the accident in the 145th Regiment.

During the march, the 145th Regiment, in accordance with the agreement with the 106th Division, should report the location of the march to the division headquarters early, mid- and late before meals.

When the 62nd Division launched an attack on the Japanese army, the 145th Regiment was preparing to bury pots and cook rice after passing the hillside in front. Therefore, it had not yet conducted a routine report to the division headquarters of the 106th Division of the Japanese army.

At 12:00 noon, the 106th Division did not receive a report from the 145th Regiment, so it sent a telegram to inquire, but it completely lost the news from the 145th Regiment.

They realized that something happened to the 145th Regiment, so they informed the situation to the Third Division, which informed the situation to Nagawa Hirado.

Last night, Nagawa Heidu launched an attack on Nanfeng Mountain again. The guo army officers and soldiers were on high alert and repelled the Japanese attack again. The Japanese army lost more than 200 more people.

Nagawa Heito was in a bad mood. From that time on, he had a premonition of danger.

After receiving the news that the 145th Regiment of the Third Division had lost contact, Nagawa Heidu affirmed his premonition, so he immediately reported to the 3rd Division's division headquarters, believing that the plan to reinforce the Japanese army in Sanhezhuang area could not be completed. The 21st Regiment was in great danger to stay in this area, and requested to give up the reinforcement mission and return quickly.

After sending the telegram, he immediately sent a combat staff member to take a radio station to Chenzhuang, a big and small place, which was an important passage for them to return smoothly. He was worried that something would happen there.

After the Japanese combat staff arrived at Xiaochenzhuang on a motorcycle, they did not enter Xiaochenzhuang directly, but hid in a distance for observation. After careful observation, he found that the Japanese sentries guarding the trenches had now been replaced by soldiers of the Guo army. He knew that something had happened here, so he immediately sent a telegram to Heidu Nagawa.

At this time, the Third Division did not call back to Nagawa Heidu. This is easy to understand, because it was ordered by the Second Army Command to reinforce the Japanese army surrounded by Sanhezhuang area. The Third Division had no right to cancel this task directly. They had to report to the Second Army Command, and the Second Army Command had to telegram the 106th Division to inform the matter.

The 106th Division was unwilling to give up the Japanese army in the Sanhezhuang area and firmly asked the troops of the Third Division to continue to reinforce. The Third Division expressed its opinions again. After a few moments, the dispute began and time was delayed.

Nagawa Heidu received a telegram from the combat staff. While reporting the situation to the 3rd Division Command, he left a squadron as the rear guard to monitor the Guo army in Nanfeng Mountain, and immediately gathered troops to advance quickly towards Sanhezhuang at the speed of a rapid march.

He wanted to seize the big and small Chenzhuang before the troops of the guo army formed an encirclement to the 21st Regiment, and open up the road to retreat.

Dachenzhuang.

Liao Gengsheng, the commander of the 338th Regiment of the 113th Division of the 85th Army of the National Army, left only a few surveillance posts in Xiaochenzhuang, concentrating all the main forces at Dachenzhuang. They kept digging trenches, and now basically completed the defense system according to the drawings provided by Gao Jiu.

The officers and soldiers hid in the trenches they had worked hard to dig, and were very satisfied with the structure that could fight and defend, so they waited for the Japanese to attack.

After lunch, Liao Gengsheng and others received a telegram from Gao Jiu that the 62nd Division had annihilated the 145th Regiment and other units of the Japanese army. He was worried that the 21st Regiment of the Japanese army had received this news and was likely to attack villages of all sizes and make them ready for battle.

Liao Gengsheng and Zhuang Chunkai, the commander of the supplementary regiment, conveyed the news that the 62nd Division had annihilated the 145th Japanese Regiment and other units to every commander and soldier. The officers and soldiers were very excited and had high morale, so they were looking forward to the Japanese coming to die.

2:25. The forward of the 21st Japanese Army Regiment appeared.

Liao Gengsheng gave an order: "Brothers! The devils are here, prepare for battle."

At this time, Gao Jiu, Wu Tianming and others led the main force of the 62nd Division to Da, Xiao Chenzhuang.

When passing a fork in the road, Gao Jiu asked about the direction leading to the fork in the road.

Wang Wenxue was very familiar with the terrain of this area and said to Gao Jiu: "This fork can lead directly to Yudong County."

Gao Jiu said to Wu Tianming and others: "If it were not unexpected, the 21st Japanese Regiment received news that something happened to the 145th Regiment. They would attack Da and Xiao Chenzhuang to open up the road to retreat.

I believe that the 338th Regiment and the Supplementary Regiment will be able to defend the defensive positions of the Big and Small Chenzhuang. The Japanese army has been unable to attack for a long time and is worried that they will be surrounded by our army. They may turn west and break through the siege of Dongping Town. There is only one battalion of the 338th Regiment, and the troops are weak. I suggest that with the strength of a regiment, we will detour the Yudong County to strengthen the defense of Dongping Town."

Wu Tianming and others were now convinced by Gao Jiushi and immediately accepted his suggestion and ordered the 187th Regiment to go to Dongping Town to prevent the Japanese army from breaking westward.

At this moment, they received a telegram from Dachenzhuang from Liao Gengsheng, the leader of the 338th Regiment, saying that the Japanese army had attacked them.
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