On September 27, the Japanese army was intercepted on all sides, so the same trick was repeated, and paratroopers were parachuted into Huanghua Town. After Xue Yue learned of this, his heart was excited, not only did he take a breath of cool air, since the Battle of Shanggao, the 74th Army has become the benchmark of the Central Military Commission, if this benchmark is folded here, even if Xue Yue is how to resist, there is no way to explain to Chiang Kai-shek.
Late on the night of September 27, Xue Yue sent a telegram to Zhao Zili: Wang Yaowu's Seventy-fourth Army immediately broke through and assembled at Liuyang.
At this time, Xue Yue was busy with his hands, a bit like Li Zongren in the Battle of Zaoyi, and also a bit like Wei Lihuang in the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain. Two days earlier, he had withdrawn the theater command from Changsha, and a day earlier, according to the rapidly changing situation on the battlefield, he had informed Yang Sen, commander of the 27th Group Army, leaving Sun Du's 58th Army to attack the rear of the Japanese army, Ou Zhen's 4th Army, and Yang Hanyu's 20th Army to the south of Jinjing and attack from the rear of the Japanese army.
As soon as Wang Yaowu's side received the order to break through, the military headquarters was attacked by the Japanese army.
It turned out that in the fierce battle between the two sides, Li Tianxia was forced to shorten the positions of the two wings of the 51st Division and shrink its troops to the center. The 57th Division outside the city did the same. In this way, a large opening appeared between the two cities, and a special attack team of the Japanese 6th Division took advantage of the situation and turned around to attack Wang Yaowu's direct subordinates and military headquarters.
After some fighting, the special service battalion of the 74th Army was completely scattered, and finally only one guard platoon was left. In the end, except for the platoon leader, all the other fighters were killed, and the platoon leader was captured in order to cover Wang Yaowu. After the Japanese rushed over, they found the wounded platoon leader holding a machine gun, lying alone in the pit and not moving, and there was no one around him.
In fact, at this time, Wang Yaowu was hidden in a ravine more than ten meters away, covered by dense grass.
He could hear all the conversations between the captured platoon leader and the Japanese army.
The Japanese asked, "Where is your commander?"
The platoon leader didn't say anything and scolded directly.
The translator continues to tempt: Tell me the whereabouts of your commander and we will release you!
The platoon commander still scolded angrily: The 74th Army does not have a single breed, you can't catch Commander Wang, he has already escaped danger!
Immediately after that, Wang Yaowu heard the sound of beheading, and his heart was like a knife.
The sacrificed platoon leader was Wang Yaowu's Shandong dialect compatriot, who had been following him since the Battle of Songhu, and was promoted to platoon leader after the Battle of Nanchang, when Wang Yaowu asked him what he thought, the platoon leader said bluntly: Very honorable, a military commander who can defend everyone.
Wang Yaowu continued: "By my side, nothing is nothing, once there is something, it is life and death!
The platoon leader replied: Being a soldier is not a matter of life and death.
When rushing to the aid of Hunan, in the northwestern region of Gansu, the platoon leader once asked Wang Yaowu how long this battle would be fought.
Wang Yaowu replied: Eight or ten years, it is not good to say, let's not think about this, fight a good war, the better the battle, the shorter this time will be.
It was a superior and subordinate, but also a brother, the platoon leader was at such a close distance, in order to protect him sacrificed under the Japanese saber, Wang Yaowu, who was close at hand, could not help but feel uncomfortable.
Just when Wang Yaowu was thinking wildly, the Japanese squad that killed the platoon leader rushed to the other side of the mountain forest and began a carpet search. Wang Yaowu was after all experienced in hundreds of battles and was very experienced, when his subordinates let him take refuge in the forest, Wang Yaowu observed, the forest is not big, once it is surrounded after entering, it is really impossible to get out, so he hid in the nearby ravine.
Sure enough, the Japanese army went into the forest to search, and Wang Yaowu turned around and went in the opposite direction, heading straight for Liuyang, and finally escaped the disaster.