Quartermasters can also fight the devils

Chapter 759 Nothing can be done

The Chinese government was responsible for the defense of Wugang County with officers and soldiers from the 1st Battalion of the 172nd Regiment of the 58th Division of the 74th Army. Long before the 20th Army of the Japanese Army launched the Battle of Western Hunan, all troops of the 74th Army of the Chinese government had been fully equipped with American weapons. At the same time, the number of submachine guns, flamethrowers and other weapons in the troops was increased, which greatly strengthened the problem of the Chinese troops' previous weak firepower.

The Japanese 20th Army's troops attacking Wugang were composed of the 58th Brigade of the 68th Division of the Japanese Army, which was equipped with tank armored units and a heavy artillery regiment.

With the support of tanks and more than 100 artillery pieces, the offensive forces of the Japanese 20th Army launched a strong attack on the Chinese forces defending Wugang from three sides. The Chinese officers and soldiers defending the city were also fearless in the face of the fierce attack of the offensive forces of the Japanese 20th Army and launched a fierce blocking attack on the offensive forces of the Japanese 20th Army.

The attacking force of the 20th Army of the Japanese Army fiercely attacked Wugang County for three days. However, what the attacking force of the 20th Army of the Japanese Army did not expect was that not only did they fail to successfully occupy Wugang City, but they left a large number of corpses under the city wall of Wugang.

Faced with such a battle situation, Lieutenant General Ichiyoshi Sakanishi, commander of the 20th Army of the Japanese Army, became angry again. In order to put pressure on the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army responsible for attacking Wugang, Lieutenant General Ichiyoshi Sakanishi, commander of the 20th Army of the Japanese Army, sent a telegram directly to the commander of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army, Major General Hisataro Sekine. In the telegram, Lieutenant General Ichiyoshi Sakanishi, commander of the 20th Army of the Japanese Army, scolded the commander of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army, Major General Hisataro Sekine, and ordered the commander of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army, Major General Hisataro Sekine, to capture Wugang within two days, otherwise he would be subject to military law.

After receiving the telegram from Lieutenant General Sakanishi Kazuyoshi, commander of the 20th Army of the Japanese Army, Major General Sekine Hisataro, commander of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army, also became furious and prepared to organize his troops to fight desperately with the Chinese troops defending Wugang.

Major General Hisataro Sekine, commander of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army, first organized 150 Japanese officers and soldiers to form a volunteer team. He then asked each of the Japanese officers and soldiers in the team to carry dozens of kilograms of explosives. Once they rushed to the city wall of Wugang County, they pulled the explosives and blew up the city wall of Wugang.

Under the cover of artillery fire from the heavy artillery unit assigned to the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army, the vanguard team of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army, which was entrusted with the important task, set out. However, before this vanguard team organized by the commander of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army, Major General Hisataro Sekine, could reach the city wall of Wugang, many of them were killed by the Chinese troops. Only a small number of officers and soldiers in the vanguard team of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army approached the city wall of Wugang County.

However, what the commander of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army, Major General Hisataro Sekine, did not expect was that although this part of the soldiers of the volunteer team successfully detonated explosives under the city wall of Wugang County, due to too little explosives, only a few large holes were blown in the sturdy city wall of Wugang County.

Moreover, before the follow-up attacking forces of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army launched an attack, the officers and soldiers of the Huaxia Army guarding Wugang County, with the help of local people, threw hundreds of sandbags into the holes in the city wall that had just been blasted open by the Japanese 58th Brigade's Vanguard Team, instantly blocking the holes. The follow-up attacking forces of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army could only look at the city wall and sigh.

After seeing the failure of the suicide attack by the volunteer team, Major General Hisataro Sekine, commander of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army, adopted a more brutal human wave tactic without caring about the casualties of his troops.

Major General Hisataro Sekine, commander of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army, ordered the attacking troops of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army responsible for the attack to launch a charge carrying simple ladders, preparing to climb the city wall of Wugang County with these simple ladders.

However, the officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 172nd Regiment, 58th Division, 74th Army who were defending the city were equipped with American flamethrowers. When the attacking forces of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army set up ladders regardless of casualties, the officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 172nd Regiment, 58th Division of the Chinese government used flamethrowers to burn the wooden ladders set up by the attacking forces of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army.

Under the scorching heat of the flamethrowers of the 1st Battalion of the 172nd Regiment of the 58th Division, the attacking forces of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army had to give up climbing the city wall. Afterwards, the Chinese soldiers defending the city used American submachine guns and light and heavy machine guns to concentrate their firepower on the attacking forces of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army. The attacking forces of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army had nowhere to hide, which resulted in a large number of casualties among the officers and soldiers of the attacking forces of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army. The moat outside Wugang County was dyed red with the blood of the soldiers of the attacking forces of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army.

When the fierce battle between the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army and Wugang was in full swing, the 44th Division of the Chinese government received the order and rushed to reinforce.

The 44th Division of the Chinese government also launched a fierce attack on the rear of the 58th Brigade of the 68th Division of the Japanese Army, which made the commander of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army, Major General Hisataro Sekine, think that the main force of the Chinese army was coming.

At the same time, upon learning that the reinforcements were attacking the rear of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army, the officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 172nd Regiment of the 58th Division in Wugang County also rushed out of the city gate and engaged in a melee with the attacking forces of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army.

The troops of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army were now being attacked from the front and back by the Chinese army. As for the Wugang County, they had been under siege for a long time. The commander of the 58th Brigade, Major General Hisataro Sekine, could only lead his troops to flee quickly. A small number of officers and soldiers of the 58th Brigade fled into the nearby mountains and forests.

The Chinese government's army seized the opportunity of the Japanese 58th Brigade's defeat and launched a pursuit. They immediately defeated the Japanese 58th Brigade and its attached combat troops, and they fled all the way to Suining outside Wuyang.

As for the few officers and soldiers of the 58th Brigade of the Japanese Army who fled to the deep mountains and old forests, it was not cost-effective for the Chinese troops to send a large number of troops into the mountains to encircle and suppress them. Therefore, the Chinese government's army asked the local militia to lead the common people who were familiar with the conditions in the deep mountains and old forests to go into the mountains to capture Japanese prisoners of war.

Since the local people and militia soldiers were very familiar with the nearby mountains and forests, they quickly captured more than a dozen Japanese officers and soldiers. The local government also paraded these Japanese prisoners of war through the streets of Wugang City, which attracted citizens to watch.