The First Part of National Humiliation: The Lonely City's Bloody Battle Chapter 44: Fierce Battle at Ren'an Qiang

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  The series of telegrams sent by the British military to Ren Anqiang had already been intercepted by the Japanese 6th Division, 11th Brigade, which was nearby. Lt. Gen. Kuniaki Koiso, a graduate of the Tokyo Army University and commander of the brigade, was actually not aware of this. After the Nanjing Massacre, the Imperial General Headquarters hastily dispatched a group of high-ranking officers, including Lt. Gen. Shozo Makino, to replace Lt. Gen. Taro Sakai and others in order to cover up the facts. Kuniaki Koiso was one of those who were transferred from the Army General Staff to the 6th Division, 11th Brigade under these circumstances.

  They received orders to quickly move towards Pingmian, preparing for the full-scale battle. In fact, the Sixth Division was not deployed on the previously planned eastern route, but was instead deployed on the western route in Yunnan. He had some reservations about this, believing that at this moment, the fully-staffed Sixth Division should have a corresponding opponent, and that opponent should be the Chinese army's New Fifth Army. Only divisions like the 200th and 96th were worthy opponents for the Sixth Division, not the easily defeated British.

  Although the 11th Division could not decipher the British military telegrams, by comparing the density of British telegrams over the past two days, Yunnan Hao Xiong sensed something unusual.

  "Could it be that the reinforcements are going to arrive?" Yun Nan Hao Xiong was deep in thought in front of the battle map, according to the current deployment of the Japanese army, the closest place to Ren An Qiang is Mandalay, where the main force of the Chinese army has not been found? And there is no intelligence about the large-scale mobilization of the Chinese army near Pingmanna? The last British troops were also surrounded here?

  Yunnan Hao Xiong said to his deputy officer Jiang Xiaolong: "Go and call the commander of that independent army who is cooperating with us!"

  However, soon after, Guo Dinglun was summoned to the tent of Yunnan Haoxiong. Yunnan Haoxiong ordered Guo Dinglun's troops to immediately disguise themselves and scatter to investigate the situation within a radius of 30 kilometers, not even letting go of a small thicket.

  Kuo Ting-lun's reconnaissance was quite successful, they first discovered Sun Li-jen's troops and then found the trail of Chinese army on the south bank of Pin River. To complete his master's task, Kuo Ting-lun, who had been an official in the local government, personally drove a cow with a girl brought by the army on its back to cross the river for reconnaissance.

  The cunning Kuo Ting-lun easily deceived the Chinese soldiers at the outpost, and using his knowledge of Mandarin, he claimed to be searching for a missing relative and asked to see General Pin-hsiang North China Army Commander.

  As the sentry led him to the company's position, Guo Dinglun carefully observed the personnel, firepower and defensive situation of the battalion left on the opposite bank of the river by the 113th Regiment.

  In the 113th Regiment, which had just finished digging trenches, Jiang Lianzhang, of course, waved his hand and let the sentry take him to see Song YuHang. So Guo Dinglun met this highest commander wearing a military uniform with one stripe and two stars on his collar!

  Guo Dinglun's two knives had been talking in Chinese for half a day, but Song Yuhang still didn't understand. However, at this moment, thinking of going through the defense line was like having no door, so Guo Dinglun was blown back again.

  Guo Dinglun did not find the second battalion of the 200th Mechanized Regiment's fortifications, and Song Yuhang drove him back to his own camp, so he hastily returned to the other side of the river more than 20 kilometers away to report urgent military information to Yunnao Haoxiong.

  Yunnan Hao Xiong marked the location of the 113th Regiment on the map, he had already realized that the troops in the interval would suffer greatly. If he rushed over now, there was a suspicion of stealing credit, it's better to make things absolute and wait for the Japanese army to attack the interval, when both sides are exhausted, then have the 11th Brigade take care of the aftermath.

  At this time, Yunnan Haohao had a fully equipped infantry brigade in his hands, and he carefully asked about the situation of the troops on the north bank of Binhe.

  When he heard that Guo Dinglun had met the highest commander of the Chinese army on the pretext of looking for missing relatives, he couldn't help but praise Guo Dinglun a few words.

  Like a well-behaved dog, Guo Dinglun quickly wagged his tail to curry favor with his master, and wrinkles immediately crawled all over his old tree bark-like face.

  "A lieutenant of the Chinese army?" Yunnan Haohao hesitated for a moment, looking at Guo Dinglun with a stern gaze.

  "General, I swear it's true. They are definitely lieutenants and there can't be more than a hundred of them. They're building fortifications right here."

  "Great! Oh yeah!" Yunnan Hao Xiong was very excited that Guo Ding Lun could understand the military map.

  In order to form a sudden strike on the Chinese army that was stuck on the north shore, Yunnan Hao Xiong chose a very stable plan and dispatched a large team of troops to move from the rear flank.

  "Sir, considering the combat strength of the French Indochinese army, I believe that with just one company's worth of troops, we can easily capture the position within an hour. Is deploying a battalion not excessive?"

  Yunnan Hao Xiong smiled slightly, tapping the map with his baton: "Xi Tian! Tonight your mission is the heaviest. Your Xi Tian detachment will not only face a company of Chinese troops, but once our army starts attacking, you will face an entire regiment of Chinese troops and more than 7,000 British people who are fleeing."

  Nishida Lieutenant Colonel let out a soft "oh", his colleagues beside him gazed at him with envious eyes, this position was the best place with the greatest merit and the lightest task, under the siege of the entire Allied forces, the Japanese army and British army didn't have any chance to break through.

  The officers of the 11th Division were all aware that Xī Tián was a middle school classmate of the division commander, and it was said that Yúnnán had also had an affair with Xī Tián's sister in the past...

  The sunset is infinitely beautiful! Scott, Zuo Jianmu, Sun Liren, Song Yuhang, and Yun Nanhao, these five people all expressed different feelings at the same time, but only Song Yuhang truly had the mood to appreciate the sunset.

  At 23:00 on April 28, with a row of red signal flares bursting into the air, the 113th Regiment, personally supervised by Sun Li-ren, began to launch a fierce attack on the high ground and surrounding Japanese positions on the north bank under the command of Liu Fangwu.

  In the dull explosion sound unique to explosives, the core fortifications built by the Japanese army on the small high ground flew into the sky in flames, and the officers and men of the Second Hundred Regiment who were crawling in the trenches all cast their eyes towards the direction of the battlefield.

  Soon, Battalion Commander Shi Cheng and Second-in-Command Duan Haipeng both found Song Yuhang, requesting to dispatch a small unit to launch a flanking attack in coordination with friendly forces.

  Song Yuhang, who also heard the gunfire and had a long grass on his head, naturally needed to grasp the scale and scolded the two: "Dog fart side attack, your position is in the oblique rear of the enemy's attacking position, where are you going to attack for me? All of you roll back and take care of your troops."

  The 113th Regiment's attack went very smoothly, so smoothly that Sun Li-jen temporarily changed his decision to bring forward the original plan to clear the Japanese troops on the north bank tonight and break through the river at midnight tomorrow to rescue the British troops.

  After the order was given, the 113th Regiment, which had been on the offensive, left one company to consolidate and clear up the remaining Japanese troops, while the main force of the first, second, and third battalions formed a pincher-shaped formation and launched a double attack along the 2,000-meter-long Bin River bank.

  As the battle on the north shore had alerted the Japanese army, facing the increasingly fierce firepower of the Japanese army, the 113th regiment's offensive momentum began to slow down.

  As the sound of gunfire drew closer, the British also began to organize troops to break out, but unfortunately, the Japanese army had already placed its main defensive forces on the south bank, and the British second breakout ended in failure.

  The 113th Regiment, which was rushing across the Bin River, only discovered that the south bank of the Bin River was filled with oil drums and oil pipelines everywhere. No matter where the bullets hit, it became a sea of fire.

  Chinese soldiers got their clothes wet while crossing the river, so they took advantage of the high-temperature battle where fires were everywhere to launch swift and brief attacks in units of connected buildings, breaking through and raiding the Japanese army's positions, making it seem as if the Japanese couldn't find a breakthrough point for the Chinese military at all? But upon hearing reports, it felt like they had been breached everywhere.

  Just as the 113th Regiment was fiercely attacking the Japanese army's southern high ground at the Vincent Oil Well, a group of Japanese troops were hastily marching across the Bin River to insert themselves into the defensive position of the 113th Regiment's rear company.