Seeing that the last 4 hours left before the specified retreat time, the second-class Japanese division commander of Taga Takahashi, who was in red eyes, bet on all the chips again, and the Japanese soldiers of the three divisions once again tried their best to fight the defenders of Changsha City.

The officers and soldiers of the 10th Army of the National Army, who were full of morale, were not afraid at all. They fought bravely with the firepower support of their own artillery and air force, and fought fierce battles of life and death with the Japanese invaders again and again.

The bloody battle was in the evening, and our position remained unmoved. The Japanese army continued to attack for more than three hours, and except for paying more and more tragic casualties, no substantial progress was made.

"Baga Road! Do you really have to fail?"

He looked down at his watch again. Tagaji Takahashi was sad to find that 5 o'clock had passed, and there were only 50 minutes left before the final retreat stipulated by the military headquarters.

But the current war has made no progress and there is no hope of victory at all. Tagaji Takahashi's heart sank to the bottom of the valley little by little, and his heart is almost collapsed.

At this moment, the division chief Saburo Kitano walked over with a dark face and held a telegram and said, "Takahashi, the military headquarters urgently sent a telegram."

Tagaji Takahashi did not reach out to receive the telegram, but asked bitterly: "Captain Anan is urging us to retreat again?"

"Hayi!"

Kitano Saburo nodded with a dark face, then said, "Not only that, Commander Anan also asked us to start a reversal immediately, and we must not hesitate at all!"

"I get it. Order to retreat!"

Tagaji Takahashi nodded silently. Now they are facing the embarrassing situation of running out of ammunition and food again. Even if there are still 50 minutes left, they are unable to organize a strong attack.

Although Tagaji Takahashi was very unwilling to accept it, he had no choice but to order his retreat.

After receiving the order to retreat, the Japanese soldiers of the 3rd Division began to set fire to the house nearby, burning away the supplies they could not take away, and then began to retreat outside the city with full of resentment and pain.

"Bagaya Road! Release special smoke quickly, the Great Japanese Imperial Army still has a chance to win!"

The commander of the 4th Division, Kenzo Kitano, was still unwilling to give up and was preparing to rush for the last time before retreating, ordering the troops to release poison gas, and then start attacking the South China Girls' School position of the 570th Regiment.

Due to the insufficient number of gas masks of the Chinese defenders, more than 100 defenders lost their combat effectiveness during the poison gas attack. The gas masks can only be given priority to machine gunners, and the rest can only urinate on towels and cover them on their noses to filter the gas.

But even so, the last wave of attack launched by the Japanese army was stubbornly blocked by the defenders. The Japanese left behind a corpse and were forced to give up their nearly suicide charge.

At six o'clock, the 101st Division took the lead in withdrawing its position and seized Li City, more than ten kilometers east of Changsha City, the key point of crossing the Liuyang River. It used this as a base to accommodate the soldiers of the divisions and the two divisions were waiting for the other two divisions to evacuate from Changsha before breaking out together.

After dark, the 3rd Division and the 4th Division had retreated to the periphery of Changsha. The Japanese soldiers began to burn the bodies on a large scale, preparing to burn the dead compatriots to ashes and take them away.

However, at this moment, three red signal flares suddenly rose in the sky in the distance, and then three red signal flares also rose in Changsha City.

It turned out that the siege troops of the Ninth War Zone had approached Changsha as planned, and the 4th Army had contacted the 10th Army through signal flares.

The red signal flare was particularly eye-catching in the black sky, and all this naturally fell into the eyes of the Japanese.

Kitano Saburo didn't know what was going on, so he immediately said to Tagaji Takahashi:

"No, Takahashi Jun has arrived, and they are about to launch a siege on us! Hurry up, retreat immediately!"

"Baga, the damn Chinese army is coming so fast! Hurry up, retreat to Li City immediately!"

Tagaji Takahashi was also full of horror. He knew that his troops were already at a critical moment and could no longer care about slow handling of the funeral. He quickly ordered the troops to seize the road and escape.

Due to the haste, they had to leave thousands of corpses that had not yet been burned and ran away in a hurry.

Before retreating, the furious Tagaji Takahashi ordered the chemical weapons troops to release poison gas to prevent the national army from pursuing troops.

However, now, they can't escape if they want to run. At least they have to pass the outer siege of the Ou Zhenjun to find a way out.

After a fierce battle, the 3rd Japanese Division broke out more than 1,000 lives before they could barely break through the siege. They met with the 101st Division, which arrived first in Li City.

However, this is just the beginning, and there are still a series of ghost gates to be overcome in front of them.

As the gunfire outside the city changed from tight to sparse and eventually returned to silence, the defenders in the city gradually realized that the Japanese soldiers had retreated on the entire line and would not attack again.

"The devils escaped, we won!"

"Haha, we won!"

"Woooooooooooooo, we finally won!"

After understanding what happened, the officers and soldiers of the 10th Army were all crying with joy, taking off their hats and cheering, and hugging each other.

After the rest of my life, I am fortunate to live to see the moment of victory. This ultimate excitement and joy cannot be expressed in words, and people who have never truly experienced it will never be able to understand it!

"I'm so sleepy! I want to sleep so much!"

"I can finally sleep for a while!"

After several days and nights of bloody battles, the officers and soldiers of the 10th Army were exhausted from top to bottom and reached the limit of the human body. When the Japanese soldiers retreated, a strong sense of fatigue came to their hearts.

After being excited, all the officers and soldiers wanted to do the most was just taking a nap on their eyes.

Last moment, everyone was hugging each other and cheering, and celebrating the victory excitedly. After a while, a large number of officers and soldiers fell to the ground physically and mentally exhausted and fell asleep.

Although they were not in the warm houses or beds, they were on the cold and cold mud land with the cold wind.

When the Japanese army retreated across the board, it was already dark. Li Yutang did not know the specific movements of the Japanese army. At this moment, a notice from the chief officer came:

"The corps of our army all started to operate by reaching the designated location. The enemy's rear was cut off, and the enemies in Changsha seemed to be fleeing.

If the enemy fled, your army is responsible for defending the city without pursuing missions."

Xue Boling knew very well that the 10th Army was exhausted and could not have the energy to continue pursuing.

After receiving the order, the first thing Li Yutang had to do was to summon troops, search and rescue the wounded, and count the number of casualties.

That night, thousands of officers and soldiers clearing the battlefield were wearing torches and looking for living people in the piles of dead people on various battlefields in Changsha City.
Chapter completed!