The captain of the 231st Regiment, Oura Ginjiro, held a command knife in his hand and hid under a rock. The shells exploded around. On the hillside, the blue sky and white sun flag guided the Chinese soldiers all over the mountains to charge towards the top of the mountain. The Japanese soldiers who were defending the mountain were no longer able to counterattack. Soldiers kept rolling down the hillside with grenades. The explosion sounded like a blood mist in the sky. According to the past, such a desperate counterattack would definitely weaken the enemy's offensive, but today it was different. The squadron's offensive only slowed down a little and continued to attack upwards.

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Oura Ginjiro saw with his own eyes that several retreating Chinese soldiers were shot and shot on the spot by the officers supervising the battle behind him, which was rare in the past. Oura exhaled turbid air, and the squadron showed his strong determination to keep them here.

The corps collapsed within one day and fell into an annihilation. Opi was both sad and unwilling to accept it. His corps had more than 3,800 people according to the organization, but in fact there were only 3,500 people. After the last battle, he was unable to fill up the full force. During this attack, the corps had always served as a vanguard. Although the battle was not fierce, the losses were more than 600 people. However, the troops with less than 3,000 people were still in the offensive posture yesterday. The gaps between the brigades were as high as two kilometers. The Chinese made full use of these gaps and resolutely penetrated deep at the beginning of the counterattack. With absolute superior forces, they launched an attack from all sides. In just one night, the entire corps was divided and surrounded. It was entirely due to the bravery of the soldiers.

"It's over, it's all over."

There were less than a hundred soldiers on the position, but there were thousands of Chinese soldiers attacking, and the ammunition was basically exhausted. There were soldiers who could not resist the fear, so they simply stood up and exposed to the squadron's bullets.

"Muze-kun, please." Oura bowed his head to the Chief of Staff Umeze. Meizawa looked expressionless. Oura pulled out the command knife, wiped the blade clean with his shirt, and then inserted it into his stomach. Meizawa did not say a word, chopped off his head with one knife, and then pulled out his gun to commit suicide.

At this moment, the sound of killing broke through the sky, and the blue sky and white sun military flag jumped to the top of the mountain.

The hotel and the outer defense line were all lost. All the surrounding mountains were controlled by the squadron.

The 231st Regiment of the Northern Line was destroyed, and the three divisions of the 102nd Army were divided into three routes and were crushed from the Northern Line.

In the 232nd Regiment to the east, the corps leader Colonel Hori Shizuichi was shot dead. The remaining troops, led by the brigade leader Omazusa, were trapped in Mai Naifeng and besieged by the 1021st Brigade of the New 21st Division. The main force of the 78th Army continued to attack the inn.

After the 36th Division gave up Yang Ji, it turned around and headed north, and attacked the inn from the south with the 127th Division of the 45th Army.

The shells exploded in the town, and the entire inn was shaking. The two soldiers screamed and fled to the town. Yuanhe was very helpless. These soldiers were engineers and baggage soldiers who rarely went to the battlefield. They could fight when the battle was smooth, but when the perseverance was tested, the gap between them and veterans with rich combat experience emerged.

An officer ventured out of the shelter to stop the two soldiers, but before they could react, the shells roared and exploded nearby, and several figures flew into the air.

As soon as the bombardment stopped, the sharp charge sounded, and the tide of figures rushed down from the hillside, and the sound of machine guns like violent beans sounded. The figures rushing in front fell one after another, and the figures behind still rushed up. Yuanhe rushed to the edge of the machine gun and personally directed the machine gun shooting.

The soldiers on the attack line fell down one after another. Several soldiers quickly set up 60 mortars, and the shells quickly exploded on the machine gun position. Yuanhe felt his body flying into the air. He was shouting in his mouth, but he could not hear his voice.

At this moment, the commander of the 102nd Army Guo Xunqi was standing on the hill outside the town. The telescope followed the attacking soldiers closely. The troops had already rushed into the town and the Japanese were retreating one after another.

"The battle ends in half an hour." Guo Xunqi put down his telescope and ordered coldly. The subsequent troops had already rushed in, and it was no doubt that the entire 39th Division was destroyed.

Victory is in hand, but Guo Xunqi is not relaxed. He occupied the hotel five hours later than expected. Zhuang Jihua's telegram urged him again and again, indicating that he is still worried about the development of the entire battle situation.

Half an hour later, the gunshots in the town subsided, and Sun Zhen's telegram arrived, ordering the 102nd Army to be affiliated with the 36th Division of the 78th Army to immediately go south to Zhongxiang, occupy Chunde Mountain in northeast Zhongxiang, Sibuying, Wuguanchong and Guobatai line, establish a blocking position, and cut off the way to escape south of Kanda.

The 45th Army (deserve the 126th Division) and the 41st Army advanced westward in two routes. The 45th Army directly reinforced the 125th Division of Changshou Town, and the 41st Army went straight to Yangzi Town. These two armies blocked the way to escape westward by Kanda.

Judging from this deployment, Zhuang Jihua is not worried that Kanda will not be the river at all. There are three armies west of the Han River. If Kanda flees along the south of the river, four armies on the east bank will block the river along the river, and the 101 army on the west bank will follow and pursue. It is not in 1940 now, and squadrons in the sky and the ground have the advantage. It is impossible for Kanda to escape from the Yangtze River.

In addition, the task of pursuing the 58th Division fleeing south was handed over to Song Xilian's 36th Army. The entire 50th Army turned to blocking the 104th Division that was advancing westward, and the 33rd Army turned to defend and attacking the Second Mixed Brigade.

On the northern front, Sun Lianzhong commanded the two armies of the Second Army and the two armies of the 21st Army to launch wave after wave of attacks on Xinyang. In order to make it safer, Zhuang Jihua transferred the 68th Army that was still reorganized to Sun Lianzhong and served as the reserve team for the entire northern front. Further north, Fan Hanjie used attack instead of defense, and used the First Tank Division as the vanguard to attack Queshan. The 48th Army swept across southern Henan and conquered Shangcheng Xinxian, with the troops heading straight to Guangshan Huangchuan.

The entire northern Hubei and southern Hubei were in full swing. The squadron changed its past passive situation and launched an attack on the Japanese army with an active challenge attitude, while the Japanese army was passive everywhere and beaten everywhere.

The situation in northern Hubei changed drastically, Tokyo was shaking a lot, Emperor Hirohito urgently summoned Hideki Tojo and the generals of the General Staff of the Base Camp. The emperor was concerned and the possibility of encountering failures that had never happened since the establishment of the Japanese Army. Hideki Tojo had an unprecedented fear. If this battle failed, not only would his status as prime minister be unsecured, but the war was likely to turn.

"You are the Prime Minister, the Minister of the Army, or the Chief of General Staff. What are you going to do with such a situation?" Hirohito's voice was still so gentle, but Tojo sounded like a word that hurt his heart. He kept wiping the sweat coming out of his forehead.

"Your Majesty, the base camp has made a decision to stop the New Guinea operation and stop the Myanmar operation, draw three divisions from the Soviet Russian battlefield, two divisions from the Nanyang battlefield, and then form two divisions in China, with a total of seven divisions supporting the China battlefield."

Hirohito frowned slightly: "Is there no other way besides these?"

Tojo understood Hirohito's meaning in his heart, but he could not interfere. Since the Lugou Bridge Incident, he has been a firm war pro-war party, resolutely taking the battle and punishing Jina. Not long ago, he firmly rejected the suggestion of Nishio Suzuo and Itagaki Seishiro's suggestion of peace talks with the Chongqing government. Now letting him propose peace talks is equivalent to admitting that he was all wrong in the past.

"It seems that Tojo still cannot save the situation." After Tojo Hideki left, Hirohito sighed and said to Kido.

Of course, Kido knew the will of the emperor very well, so he quickly comforted him: "Your Majesty, this is the only way for the time being. Let's talk about it after this battle."

Hirohito was silent. He also understood what Kido meant. The battle in North Hubei was facing failure, and others would never be willing to take the fire from the fire at this time. The blame could only be taken by Tojo.

"There are brothers in the world, but how can swords and weapons come up everywhere." Hirohito sang his grandfather's poem again, and Kido looked at his back with complicated eyes.

One day later, the Tokyo Base Camp issued a series of orders to draw the Fifth Division, the Ninth Division and the Twentieth Division from the Southern Army to the battlefield of China. In addition, the Base Camp ordered the formation of the 137th Division on the local area, the 138th Division, the 139th Division and the 140th Division in the Northeast, and the 141st Division in North Korea. After the formation was completed, the 137th and 138th Divisions were transferred to the China dispatch army sequence.

Tokyo is preparing for the future, while Chongqing is nervously paying attention to changes in the battlefield situation. Chiang Kai-shek sent several telegrams in succession, requiring the generals of all departments to act quickly and annihilate Kanda on both sides of the Han River.

Chiang Kai-shek was a little depressed during this period because he started negotiations with the United States and Britain since last year, abolished unfair treaties since 1840 and took back all concessions, including Hong Kong. This negotiation was extremely difficult, especially for the British, when the British refused to return Hong Kong, Chiang Kai-shek had to make concessions and agreed to temporarily shelve the Hong Kong issue. But just before the agreement was reached, Wang Jingwei signed the "China-Japan New Testament" with Japan, and Japan decided to return all concessions to China, including Hong Kong. Although now, the Japanese army has not occupied Hong Kong and Guangzhou.

The "China-Japan New Testament" stole Chiang Kai-shek's glory. Chiang Kai-shek was furious. He felt that there must be information leakage here and strictly ordered Dai Li to investigate the leakers. Now that the victory in Hubei and northern Hubei is about to be, this will be a greater victory and a greater glory. Chiang Kai-shek paid more attention to the progress of the war with greater enthusiasm.

Chiang Kai-shek's attention and Zhuang Jihua's strict orders directly reflected on the battlefield that the war between the Han River and the Han River became more intense.

The 6th Division led by Kanda forced its crossing the Han River under the attack of the Chinese Air Force. The 6th Division is worthy of being an elite Japanese army. Even in the face of great losses, the 36th Brigade, which first crossed the river, still conquered Ganjiazui and Pumengang, and repelled the 373rd Brigade of the 125th Division. After Kanda led the 11th Brigade to cross the river, he conquered Yan Dengbulu, Gaotaizi, Blacksmith Po, and the 375th Brigade of the 125th Division retreated to Shujiashan, Xujiaba, and 374th Brigade concentrated its main force to defend the front line of the Fire God Temple.

At Yujianao Ferry, the 17th Division also forced its way through the Han River at a huge cost, occupied Zhongshankou, and pressed towards the flank of the 375th Brigade. The 375th Brigade was forced to abandon Shujia Mountain and retreat to Wannian Temple, where the Tongjia Mountain line continued to block.

The main force of the 6th Division and the 17th Division crossed the east, and the most direct reaction was that the war on the west coast of the Han River was immediately changed.

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