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Chapter 438: Downsizing the 76th Division

438 Reduction of the 76th Division

Not long after, Zhang Fang and others saw a team wearing Kuomintang uniforms approaching their division headquarters.

Zhang Fang also breathed a sigh of relief.

Although, he said that he did not need the rescue of the 209th Division.

However, when the reinforcements really arrived, he felt a lot more relieved.

"Zuo Anhe!"

"They are not from the 209th Division. They are from the traitor Zuo Anhe."

Suddenly, Chief of Staff Lin Fengtian shouted in horror.

Bang bang bang!

At this time, Zuo Anhe, who had already rushed to a distance of 20 to 30 meters, saw that his identity was exposed.

He stopped pretending and immediately opened fire with the rebel soldiers behind him.

Suddenly, many soldiers of the 76th Division around Zhang Fang were shot and fell to the ground.

"Protect the division commander and the chief of staff."

Seeing this, a large number of soldiers from the 76th Division around them immediately rushed over to protect Zhang Fang and Lin Fengtian.

Other soldiers from the 76th Division rushed forward one after another, trying to stop the rebels led by Zuo Anhe.

Afterwards, under the protection of the division staff and guards, Zhang Fang and Lin Fengtian broke out separately.

This will save you from being wiped out.

Looking at the soldiers around him, one by one they died for him.

At this moment, Zhang Fang was also extremely sad.

"I was wrong, guys, I'm sorry!"

Zhang Fang regretted it!

He regretted disobeying Ye Qingshan's order and leading his troops to break out southward in a hurry without authorization, which resulted in them being ambushed by the Japanese.

"Commander Gu, I'm sorry.

Damn it!

Zhang Fang was carried away by the guards and was extremely sad.

"Haha, Commander Zhang, don't run away.

You can't run away.

You'd better surrender to the Imperial Army honestly, and then I will recommend you to be a corps commander."

The voice of the traitor Zuo Anhe came from behind.

"Bah, you traitor, you want me to be a traitor? Dream on."

Although Zhang Fang and Ye Qingshan don't get along, he still has some backbone.

Suddenly, another group of rebels came from the front.

"Zuo Anhe, you traitor, I will fight you to the death."

"Brothers, there are no cowards in our 76th Division.

Follow me and kill the traitor Zuo Anhe."

Seeing that his escape route was blocked, Zhang Fang picked up a rifle from the ground and shouted to the staff officers and guards at the surrounding division headquarters.

"kill!"

Zhang Fang led his division headquarters and the few dozen remaining staff officers and guards to attack the traitor Zuo Anhe.

Bang bang bang!

Soldiers from both sides fought at close range, with bullets whizzing towards each other.

People kept falling to the ground.

However, the number of rebel soldiers brought by Zuo Anhe is greater after all.

Another front and rear attack.

Soon, there were fewer and fewer Kuomintang soldiers around Zhang Fang.

In the end, the division commander Zhang Fang and all the staff and guards of the division headquarters fell in a pool of blood.

"Ceasefire, ceasefire!"

Zuo Anhe rushed over, looked at the corpses all over the ground, and shouted loudly to the rebel soldiers behind him.

After everyone stopped firing, Zuo Anhe walked over, looked at Zhang Fang's body, and spat.

"Fuck, what an ignorant thing.

You must let me kill you."

As he spoke, Zuo Anhe bent down and tore off Zhang Fang's epaulettes. This was the proof he would use when he returned to ask for credit from the Japanese.

"What a pity, the one killed was not the commander of the 209th Division."

Zuo Anhe felt a little regretful.

He knew that this Japanese brigade came here to ambush and was targeting the 209th Division in Zhangfa.

As a result, the 76th Division became the scapegoat.

At this time, more gunfire was heard around.

The escaped Chief of Staff Lin Fengtian found more Kuomintang soldiers and led them to kill them.

"Go, retreat.

Report this important news to the commander of the former Chinese Brigade."

Seeing this, Zuo Anhe did not stay any longer and immediately evacuated with his rebels.

This time, he killed Zhang Fang, the commander of the 76th Division, and found out that the one inside the ambush circle was not the 209th Division, but the 76th Division.

After returning, it will be enough to report to the Japanese brigade commander.

"Master's seat!"

A few minutes later, Lin Fengtian and his men came back and burst into tears when he saw Zhang Fang's body.

"Zuo Anhe, this feud is irreconcilable.

My 76th Division will never let you go and will tear you into pieces."

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Ye Qingshan received Zhang Fa's telegram and learned that the 76th Division was ambushed by the Japanese.

Moreover, they were not the devils who came from Yiwu County.

Zhang Fa expressed his doubts and felt that there was something wrong with the Japanese troops' strength.

After reading Zhang Fa’s telegram, Ye Qingshan also became confused.

"Damn it, we might have fallen into a trap set by the Japanese."

Ye Qingshan stared at the map, which marked the positions of the Japanese troops and calculated their troop strength.

Soon, Ye Qingshan also noticed something was wrong.

If the Japanese only had the strength of two divisions, they would not be able to defend such a long front from Shengzhou to Jinhua.

It can also free up two troops to carry out flanking and ambush.

"The commander suspects that the devils have secretly increased their troops?"

Xiao Shanling also understood the meaning of the article.

“Whether it’s secretly increasing troops or other reasons.

Anyway, the number of troops that the Japanese have entering southern Zhejiang at this time is definitely not two divisions. "

Ye Qingshan said in a decisive tone.

"Send a telegram to Boss Dai and ask them to find a solution.

Get the detailed information about the Japanese troops in southern Zhejiang.

He was not required to obtain the Japanese's battle plan, but he had to find out the situation of their troop movements.

Otherwise, what's the point of having them under the Military Control Commission?"

Ye Qingshan said coldly.

"Okay, I'll contact Dai Yunong."

“Also, you can call Zhang Fa back.

I agreed with their decision to rescue the 76th Division.

Tell Zhang Fa that if possible, control Zhang Fang for me during the battle."

There was a ruthless look in Ye Qingshan's eyes. He would not allow such an important unit as the 76th Division to lose control at such a critical moment.

If later, Zhang Fang led the 76th Division away from the battlefield.

The situation on the front line will be even worse.

It may even prompt other units of the Tenth Army to follow suit.

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As the sky gradually darkened, the 76th Division, trapped in the Japanese ambush, was still fighting hard.

After all, the 76th Division still had more than people, even though they were ambushed by an entire brigade of more than Japanese soldiers.

It would not be easy for the Japanese to wipe out the 76th Division.

Along the several-kilometer-long battle line, the 76th Division was divided into many sections.

The command system of the 76th Division has been completely paralyzed.

The divided and surrounded units of the 76th Division could only rely on the command of grassroots officers to launch their final resistance.

Fortunately, they are also Gu Zhutong's direct descendants, and their fighting power is still very strong.

If it were other Kuomintang troops, they might have been wiped out in large numbers or even surrendered by now.

However, the 76th Division still held out completely from the afternoon, for more than three hours until dark.

"Hold on, the 209th Division will be attacked by the north,

Commander Zhang will definitely come to rescue us."

After Zhang Fang's death, Chief of Staff Lin Fengtian became the supreme commander and encouraged the officers of the 76th Division around him.

Although, he was not sure whether the 209th Division would come to rescue them.

“Whether the 209th Division comes or not, after dark.

We have to organize troops to break out.

Otherwise, my 76th Division will really be finished this time."

Lin Fengtian was thinking in his mind.

Boom boom boom!

Suddenly, in the northwest direction, there were intensive explosions from Baiheling, one of the main mountains in the Japanese ambush circle.

After hearing this, Lin Fengtian immediately recognized that this was the movement of the unique American-made 81mm mortar equipped by Ye Qingshan's troops.

Because their 76th Division also has such a mortar battalion.

At the beginning, it was Gu Zhutong who asked Ye Qingshan to purchase it from the Americans.

Looking towards Baihe Ridge again, I saw that it was already a sea of ​​fire.

From the other side of the mountain, there was even more intensive gunfire.

“Haha, the reinforcements from the 209th Division have arrived.

Brothers, follow me!"

Lin Fengtian seized the opportunity and immediately rushed towards Baihe Ridge with the soldiers around him.

Inside the ambush circle, other troops from the 76th Division also rushed over.

They also realized that this was their chance to break through.

Not long after, the Japanese military flag was pulled down on Baiheling.

The 209nd Regiment of the 76th Division met up with soldiers from the th Division on the mountain.

"idiot!"

Three miles away, on another mountain, the Japanese brigade commander Maenaka Takuto saw the scene of the mountain being covered by artillery fire.

I knew something was wrong.

Soon, he received a report that a large group of Japanese troops on Baiheling had been wiped out.

Baiheling was lost and a gap was opened in their ambush circle.

At the same time, troops from the 209th Division were also attacking from the other two directions.

The fighting was fierce.

It was just a gap in the ambush circle.

It was obviously impossible to rescue the thousands of soldiers of the 76th Division who were ambushed by the Japanese.

So, this is just the beginning of the big battle tonight.

Later, two regiments of the 209th Division and two units of the 76th Division joined forces to fight the Japanese 12th Mixed Brigade until dawn.

Finally, they defeated the Japanese mixed brigade and rescued the remaining soldiers of the 76th Division.

The commander of the Japanese mixed brigade, the front center, saw the situation and realized that they could not defeat the 209th and 76th Divisions.

He immediately ordered a retreat.

The night-long melee finally came to an end.

On the 76th, the remnants of the 209th Division and the main force of the th Division retreated to the vicinity of Gushan Village.

The fierce fighting that lasted all night threw both divisions into chaos.

The 209nd and rd Regiments of the th Division were in good condition and their organizational structure remained basically intact.

But the situation of the 76th Division was completely different.

The 76th Division's structure was almost completely disbanded.

In the second half of the night, almost all units of the 76th Division followed the company and battalion troops of the 209th Division that were charging in and acted together.

So, after Zhang Fa and the others withdrew their troops to a safe area.

Zhang Fa discussed with the Chief of Staff of the 76th Division, Lin Fengtian, and counted the remaining troops of their 76th Division.

After the inventory, it was discovered that there were more than 76 people from the th Division who had originally come out of Huangyanwu.

After the Japanese ambush and the fierce fighting that night, only about 6,200 people were left.

Soon, Ye Qingshan also received telegrams from Zhang Fa and Lin Fengtian.

At the same time, we also learned that Zhang Fang, commander of the 76th Division, had died in battle.

"Zhang Fang is dead?"

Ye Qingshan was also a little surprised.

But this is not a bad thing for him.

“Send a message to Zhang Fa and Lin Fengtian, asking Lin Fengtian to temporarily take over the position of commander of the 76th Division.

At the same time, the 76th Division will be downsized to improve its combat effectiveness.”

Ye Qingshan thought about it and gave the order.

If it were any other national army, Ye Qingshan would most likely have let Zhang Fa annex them at this time.

However, the 76th Division could not do that.

Otherwise, the way I eat would be too ugly and it would be difficult to explain to Chief Gu.

I am able to sit in the position of commander-in-chief of this theater of war thanks to Commander Gu.

If he were to turn around and swallow up someone else's direct master, Ye Qingshan's reputation would be ruined if this got out.