Quartermasters can also fight the devils

However, the sound of gunfire from the encounter between the row of soldiers of the 57th Division and the squadron of Japanese attacking forces that entered Changde City made the division commander Yu in the 57th Division headquarters in Changde City react immediately. It turned out that Japanese troops were sneaking into the city.

Therefore, Commander Yu ordered some non-combat personnel in the 57th Division headquarters to arm themselves immediately to fight against the Japanese troops entering the city, and to completely annihilate the Japanese troops entering Changde City.

At this time, the squadron of the 120th Regiment of the Japanese Army that sneaked into Changde City had suffered more than half of its casualties. The advance of this Japanese army was blocked by the machine guns in the reinforced concrete bunker built by the 57th Division in the middle of the street in Changde City, and it could not move forward at all.

The officers and soldiers who came to reinforce from the division headquarters of the 57th Division, led by Commander Yu, took advantage of their familiarity with the terrain in Changde City and seized the commanding heights on the houses around the streets. They continuously dropped bombs and fired at the Japanese troops, and finally wiped out the Japanese squadron that had sneaked into Changde City.

At this point, the west gate of Changde City was still generally controlled by the 57th Division, and the 120th Regiment of the Japanese Army only controlled a breakthrough point in the city wall on the west side of Changde City.

However, at this time, the defense line of the east gate of Changde City could no longer hold. Under the bombardment of more than 30 100mm heavy artillery pieces of the Japanese 11th Army's offensive forces, the 170th Regiment, which was responsible for the defense of the east gate of Changde City, had suffered almost all casualties. The 170th Regiment had organized all the medical soldiers, grooms, cooks and even all the lightly wounded, and sent them with guns to reinforce the front-line defense positions.

However, even though the 170th Regiment had used up every last man, there were still too few officers and soldiers at the east gate of Changde City. In addition, the Japanese 11th Army's offensive forces had too many attack points. The officers and soldiers of the 170th Regiment had no way to successfully block all the attack points of the Japanese 11th Army's offensive forces.

Faced with the fierce attack on the east gate of Changde City by the offensive forces of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, the commander of the 170th Regiment, Sun Jinxian, was so anxious that he kept pacing in the regiment headquarters. However, now Commander Sun really did not have a single soldier left. At present, all the men in the 170th Regiment who could still move had already gone to the front line to participate in the battle.

Suddenly, Captain Sun of the 100th Knights remembered that he had seen a large number of scarecrows piled outside some houses in Changde City. These were the scarecrows that the farmers had dismantled after the autumn harvest and were going to burn them as firewood. So, Captain Sun remembered the story of borrowing arrows from a straw boat in the novel of the Three Kingdoms, and he suddenly had an idea and decided to copy the ancients' method.

Captain Sun ordered the military uniforms of some fallen soldiers to be taken off and put on the scarecrows, and then the scarecrows were inserted on some walls of the east gate of Changde City to disguise them as Chinese soldiers on the defense.

Captain Sun knew that although his method might not necessarily scare off the attacking forces of the Japanese 11th Army, he felt that this method, which was really a last resort, could at least make the attacking forces of the Japanese 11th Army waste some ammunition, and could also delay the speed of the attacking forces of the Japanese 11th Army on the east gate of Changde City as much as possible.

Facts have proved that the method used by Commander Sun of the 170th Regiment was really effective. After several days of attacking the east gate of Changde City, the attacking forces of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army had long been frightened by the tenacious resistance of the Chinese army at the east gate of Changde City. This was because the officers and soldiers of the attacking forces of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army found that as long as there was an officer and soldier of the 57th Division on the defensive position, their attack would be intercepted by firepower and cause many casualties.

When the attacking forces of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army at the east gate of Changde City discovered the officers and soldiers of the 57th Division disguised as scarecrows on the city wall, they were frightened and immediately fired at the city wall of the east gate of Changde City with rifles, grenade launchers and machine guns, and called for artillery support from the rear. Only after all the scarecrows on the city wall of the east gate of Changde City were knocked down did the attacking forces of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army dare to climb the city wall. In this way, the attacking forces of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army wasted a lot of attacking time outside the city wall.

Later, after the officers and soldiers of the attacking force of the Japanese 11th Army carefully climbed up the city wall of the east gate of Changde City, they found that those lying among the rubble were all scarecrows wearing Chinese military uniforms. This made the officers and soldiers of the attacking force of the Japanese 11th Army feel extremely uncomfortable. After all, they were blocked by these scarecrows for a lot of time.

On the 29th, the attacking forces of the Japanese 11th Army finally blasted open the east gate of Changde City with uninterrupted heavy artillery attacks.

The officers and soldiers of the 170th Regiment had actually used a lot of debris to block the east gate of Changde City. However, the heavy artillery deployed by the attacking forces of the Japanese 11th Army was too powerful. After the bombardment of the heavy artillery of the Japanese 11th Army, most of the east gate of Changde City was shattered.

When the Japanese 11th Army's troops responsible for attacking the east gate of Changde City saw that the gate had been smashed by heavy artillery, they launched a charge on the east gate of Changde City, trying to take advantage of the opportunity to rush into Changde City. The machine gun fire points set up by the 170th Regiment near the east gate of Changde City also desperately fired bullets at the gap in the east gate to prevent the attacking troops of the Japanese 11th Army from entering.

Seeing that the east gate of Changde City was finally about to be captured, the attacking forces of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army also launched a desperate attack on the east gate. The officers and soldiers of the attacking forces of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army also continuously rushed into the east gate of Changde City.

At the east gate of Changde City, the attacking forces of the Japanese 11th Army and the officers and soldiers of the 170th Regiment of the 57th Division were fiercely shooting at each other at a distance of only more than ten meters, and constantly throwing grenades at each other.

Just ten meters inside the east gate of Changde City, the remaining 300-odd officers and soldiers of the 170th Regiment of the 57th Division and the attacking forces of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army fought a desperate battle for more than an hour. In the end, the officers and soldiers of the 170th Regiment were almost wiped out, and the attacking forces of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army finally rushed into Changde City after suffering huge casualties.

The Japanese 11th Army's forces deployed at the east gate of Changde City were still too strong. When the attacking forces of the Japanese 11th Army finally occupied the east gate of Changde City after suffering huge casualties and entered Changde City, they immediately split into two routes and continued to attack forward.