November 25th, 1937, Afternoon:

Today is a day that all officers and soldiers in the Jiangyin defense area will remember deeply.

The battle, which started in the early morning, lasted until after four o'clock in the afternoon.

The battle was inspiring from the very beginning.

The Japanese devils' naval, land, air, mechanized, and cavalry units all took turns attacking, only to return with battered wings.

In the early morning, the Japanese naval fleet came to make trouble, and fourteen ships were annihilated.

Then came a wave of planes to bomb, and after shooting down a dozen or so planes.

In the afternoon, dozens of Japanese tanks and nearly ten thousand infantrymen came to attack.

And the Japanese air force was also cooperating.

All the officers and soldiers in the Jiangyin defense area worked together to blow up all the Japanese tanks.

They shot down more than thirty Japanese planes.

They routed the Japanese cavalry brigade in a panic.

The Japanese infantry didn't even reach the front of the defending army's position before they were driven back by the artillery brothers.

The brothers of the 613th Regiment finally launched a charge and only managed to rescue the wounded Japanese soldiers on the battlefield.

They cleaned up the entire battlefield.

In one day, all the attacks organized by the Japanese devils were repelled.

Everyone knew that the biggest credit for being able to fight so smoothly and well on this day went to the several gun emplacements on the fortress.

They had made a great contribution this time.

All the officers and soldiers in the several gun emplacements knew that the Special Company had made the greatest contribution to being able to fight so happily today.

Liu Xing, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Jiangfang, knew this.

Xu Kang, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Fortress, also knew all of this.

Commander Xu Kang came to the front of the Special Company's gun emplacement again: "Company Commander Lin! You fought well today!"

After speaking, he looked at the other soldiers of the Special Company: "Everyone fought very well!"

Then he continued to ask Lin Fan, "Some things I don't say, but you understand. I don't know if there will be any rewards from above.

But here with me, what do you want? As long as I have it, I can decide to give it to you."

Commander Xu Kang never thought about persuading Lin Fan and his team to give up their beliefs.

It wasn't that he understood so much, but he was afraid that if this company changed its beliefs and became useless in battle, it would be bad.

Therefore, he could only try to meet the requirements of the Special Company within his authority.

Lin Fan thought for a while: "High-射 (shè) machine gun ammunition, give us 100,000 rounds! Give us another thousand artillery shells! Two thousand 88mm anti-aircraft shells!

In addition, give us dozens of the warhorses that the brothers in front captured today, dead horses.

Give me twenty live horses."

Commander Xu Kang listened to Lin Fan's outrageous request with a smile.

After listening, he thought for a while before asking, "What do you want twenty warhorses for?"

Lin Fan said with a smile, "Now my company has more than a thousand people.

The team is big, so it's not easy to hide.

So, we need a mobile force to run faster to scout the road.

In addition, I want to use them to carry some equipment."

Commander Xu Kang smiled: "It's better to use packhorses to carry equipment, this kind of horse is not good.

I'll decide to give you ten warhorses, forty dead horses.

I'll give you twenty packhorses.

Is that okay?"

"Good! Good! Commander is indeed a Commander, so generous." Lin Fan beamed with joy.

"What about the shells?" he continued to ask.

"I'll give you 100,000 rounds of machine gun ammunition, can you move it? Or can you use it all up here?

10,000 rounds will do.

I'll give you five hundred mortar shells, and five hundred anti-aircraft shells.

I'll replenish as much as you consume."

Lin Fan said a little unwillingly, "Commander! Judging from the Japanese devils' attitude today, they will definitely not leave us as a nail in their side.

You might as well give me more ammunition earlier, lest when the fighting really starts.

I won't have time to ask you for ammunition!"

Commander Xu Kang smiled: "Don't worry! I won't leave here until the last moment.

When the time comes, as you said, you can move the entire warehouse as you please."

"But I only have twelve cars! So few packhorses can't carry much."

Commander Xu Kang was embarrassed.

Lin Fan reminded, "Commander! Commander Liu can also contribute something today.

Commander Liu commanded well today, the entire Jiangyin defense area achieved a great victory over the Japanese devils' sea, land, and air forces!

He can also reward some supplies to his subordinates.

Your subordinate is not greedy, just the right to use twenty cars for a month!"

"Really? Only use it for a month?" Commander Xu Kang's eyes lit up.

"Really only use it for a month!" Lin Fan quickly clarified.

"I'll put my old face down in front of Commander Liu and try to get it for you.

I'll send someone to bring you those warhorses." Commander Xu Kang left in a hurry with Staff Officer He Hesong.

The 613th Regiment, led by Regiment Commander Luo Yibin, captured 113 warhorses while cleaning the battlefield today.

Those wounded warhorses that could no longer be used and those that were already stiff from death were all swept back.

These warhorses can all be eaten after washing and stripping them.

As for the thousands of guns and sabers captured on the battlefield, he kept some for himself and handed over the rest.

Commander Liu Xing received Commander Xu Kang, who came to congratulate him, in his office.

When he heard that Commander Xu brought that the Special Company needed some warhorses for the scouts to use.

Commander Liu Xing smiled and agreed: This is acceptable.

When he heard that the Special Company wanted dozens of horse meat: This is abundant today, and we can give more.

Commander Liu Xing knew that the Special Company's gun had made the greatest contribution to the Japanese devils' cavalry being so easily repelled today.

It's just that the Special Company team, no matter how great the credit they get, will at most be rewarded with two words of praise, without any real benefits.

Therefore, it is better to give this credit to the brothers, so that the brothers can be promoted and make a fortune.

So, more warhorses can be given.

When he heard that Lin Fan wanted the right to use twenty cars for a month.

He immediately understood: "He thinks we can't hold out for a month?"

Commander Liu Xing's face changed.

Commander Xu Kang gestured around.

Commander Liu Xing asked everyone around him to leave, and then Commander Xu Kang said, "We held Shanghai for three months, how many days did we hold the Wu-Fu Line and Xi-Cheng Line?"

Commander Liu Xing pondered for a while: "We fought very well today, the Japanese devils' sea, land, air, tanks, and cavalry all came.

Weren't they still beaten by us like flowing water?"

"The Japanese devils' heavy artillery brigade didn't come, so our artillery exerted its full power.

If we didn't have the artillery support from the gun emplacements today!"

Commander Liu Xing understood: "Then give him twenty cars!

He can load as many shells as he can.

But: These twenty cars loaded with ammunition must not leave my Jiangyin defense area from now on.

They must not leave the Jiangyin defense area until the retreat."

Commander Xu Kang laughed: "This ban is well issued!"

The two commanders looked at each other and smiled, both understanding the meaning behind it.

No matter what, you can't be without a defensive mind.

These twenty cars loaded with ammunition only operate within the Jiangyin defense area, which does not affect the Special Company's mobility within the entire defense area.

And it is not afraid that the Special Company will run away with so much ammunition.

If they leave the defense area, no one will be able to chase them back if the Special Company really runs away.

In such a chaotic world, it is still very easy to become a warlord with guns, artillery, people, and ammunition.

Therefore, Commander Liu Xing still kept a hand.

The two old foxes looked at each other and smiled.

While Lin Fan and the others were still wiping the artillery, twenty cars loaded with forty dead horses were delivered.

This made Li Xian very happy. Every day he was worried about the soldiers eating meat.

Now it's good, so many warhorses are all meat.

Except for the more than one hundred people in the direct subordinate team who continued to wipe the artillery, everyone else went up to help.

These warhorses are now with their skins and fur, and need to be cleaned up and repaired.

The shrapnel in the warhorses' bodies should also be separated as much as possible, otherwise, it would be bad if they broke their teeth when eating meat.

Lin Fan immediately planned for these twenty cars, and adjusted one car from the previous twelve cars, giving each team from the first to the seventh team three cars.

Each car is equipped with a heavy machine gun, and it would be even better if a high-射 (shè) machine gun can be equipped.

This kind of thought can only exist in the heart temporarily, just thinking about it is good.

Tonight, all the soldiers in the entire Jiangyin defense area are happy.

The 61st Regiment cleaned the battlefield and cleared out a full five hundred warhorses.

No matter how these warhorses died, anyway, horse meat can be guaranteed for all the soldiers to eat tonight.

Twenty warhorses were also sent.

What made Lin Fan embarrassed was that out of the entire Special Company of 1,400 people, there was only one person who could ride a horse.

He found the horses, but couldn't find enough soldiers to ride them.

This was too unexpected.

Out of 1,400 people, only Xiao Dongbei could ride a horse.

And according to Xiao Dongbei, riding a horse is not the same as driving a car, where you can shake the car and put it in gear and go.

Warhorses also require human-horse collaboration, which cannot be learned in a day or two.

In any case, Lin Fan could only distribute all twenty warhorses to Xiao Dongbei's team while everyone else was envious.

He also gave him a death order: "Five days! In five days, you must train twenty scouts who can ride warhorses and rush out to scout the situation."

Or call them signalmen, anyway, there are only five days to let those new riders be able to at least ride the warhorses and run!

Xiao Dongbei kept complaining about how difficult it is to ride a horse!

It's just that the smile on his face couldn't hide his true feelings.

On the 25th, the Jiangyin defense area fought against the Japanese devils' sea, land, and air forces and won a great victory in all of them, and its own casualties were negligible.

This made all the generals in the Nanjing Command excited.

Chiang Kai-shek immediately ordered: "Issue a commendation order to all officers and soldiers in the entire Jiangyin defense area.

In addition, all personnel who have made meritorious service in sinking enemy ships, capturing enemy ships, destroying enemy planes, and repelling Japanese devils' infantry will be rewarded and promoted according to the size of their military achievements."

This commendation order was delivered to Commander Liu Xing before 7:14 pm on the 25th.

During these days, although the National Army resisted fiercely, the results were not actually great.

Today is different. The Jiangyin defense area sank thirteen enemy ships and captured one in one day. Although there were only two large ships, this was enough to make the Nanjing Command excited.

Not to mention that they also shot down 57 Japanese devils' planes and 37 tanks.

They killed more than 600 Japanese devils' cavalry and 2,200 infantry.

Such a result was too exciting.

At this time, Lin Fan and his Special Company of 1,400 people were closing the door for literacy education.

This has already become a tradition of the Special Company. Every night, as long as conditions permit, they will conduct an hour of literacy education.

In this hour, the instructors will combine the training and combat situation of the day to explain to the soldiers in detail.

At the same time, they will also instill some organizational equality and freedom ideas to these soldiers.

This time every night is the soldiers' favorite time.

Many people listen to it as a story, which is pleasant and can learn a lot of things.

At least the soldiers of the Special Company can now write letters home by themselves.

Although sometimes, they will draw some circles and graphics in their letters to help express themselves.

In short, they can do it themselves.

As for the cars that were only distributed to each team today, all the cars were in the direct subordinate team before this.

Therefore, the drivers are all in the direct subordinate team.

Lin Fan wants to train drivers in each team, requiring them to choose students themselves, with three drivers for each car.

Lin Fan's ultimate goal is to have everyone in the entire Special Column learn to drive, fire artillery, and ride horses.

Riding a horse may be the first practical skill that Lin Fan encountered in this world that he didn't know how to do.

When he was training, the warhorses had already been eliminated in regular operations.

This shortcoming must be made up!

Seven teams have each selected nine drivers.

They are going to learn from the old drivers in the direct subordinate team.

In the past few days, the old drivers of the direct subordinate team have sent three to each team.

They are responsible for taking good care of the three apprentices.

Liu Laopao's long-awaited red flag competition has arrived.

The last time was the disassembly and assembly of rifles and machine guns held in the Four Banks Warehouse.

After discussion this time, the types of disassembly and assembly have been increased to include heavy machine guns.

These three types of guns have now been distributed to each team.

In addition, there is also a competition for the disassembly and assembly of anti-aircraft guns, high-射 (shè) machine guns, and mortars in units of teams.

Lin Fan doesn't pick a day and directly sets it for tomorrow. If there is a battle tomorrow, it will be postponed.

After the learning is completed, the physical training time arrives.

While the soldiers of the Special Company were training intensely.

Commander Kiyoshi Hasegawa of the Japanese Third Fleet was personally questioning pilot Senji Matsuda: "Tell me the detailed situation."

Two pilots were also accompanying Senji Matsuda, and Squadron Leader Sho Hokata was also present.

Senji Matsuda quickly reported: "Commander! I am a pilot in Lieutenant Ryosuke Amamura's squadron. The situation today is as follows:"

The following is Senji Matsuda's report:

After the Amamura Squadron departed from the airport, it followed the entire air battle team to the Jiangyin Fortress, preparing to attack.

They received an order from Squadron Leader Sho Hokata: to pursue and kill pilot Fujio Chitose.

Before that, three fighter planes had crashed because of chasing him.

Because the fighter planes piloted by Squadron Leader Amamura and pilot Kazu Nagato were fast.

The squadron leader ordered me to lead the team to follow behind, and their two new planes went ahead to pursue.

We chased hard all the way behind, and flew all the way to at least 500 kilometers upstream of the Yangtze River.

I knew that Squadron Leader Amamura's plane had a maximum range of only more than 700 kilometers, and it was impossible to reach such a long distance no matter what.

That's why I decided to return!

On the way back, we encountered the fighter plane piloted by Fujio Chitose, flying at low altitude along the Yangtze River.

I immediately asked him about the news of Squadron Leader Amamura and Sergeant Eida Nagasaki.

Fujio Chitose told me sadly: "Squadron Leader Amamura and Sergeant Eida Nagasaki both crashed in the mountains."

I originally wanted to stabilize him so that our five fighter planes could directly shoot him down.

Unexpectedly, after seeing us, Fujio Chitose piloted the plane directly and turned around.

He flew towards the mountains.

Our five-man fighter team could only follow closely behind him.

While chasing him, I also tried to persuade him to come back with us.

Unexpectedly, Fujio Chitose said directly: "Go back! It's impossible to go back forever.

It's impossible to go back in this lifetime.

If you still regard me as a comrade-in-arms who once fought together.

Let's just say goodbye and not disturb each other, and go our own way.

If you want to find the place where Squadron Leader Amamura crashed, I can take you there."

I pretended to agree to him and asked him to take us to the place where Squadron Leader Amamura and Sergeant Eida Nagasaki crashed.

Along the way, Fujio Chitose kept a wary distance from us.

After guiding us to the burial place of the two warriors.

He immediately窜 (cuàn) into the valley in the jungle.

He quickly disappeared.

Fortunately, we have a lot of people, with five planes.

I immediately ascended to high altitude, and also directed Shiohei Kozakawa and Haruki Nakatsuchi to pilot fighter planes to follow into the valley.

Yano Furuya and Ryotaro Nakazeki provided low-altitude protection.

At this time, all of us were on the same communication channel.

Fujio Chitose was still reminding us on the radio: "Go back! Don't chase anymore."

I saw Sergeant Shiohei Kozakawa chasing into the valley from high altitude,

Their planes were drilling back and forth in the valley.

In less than five minutes, they had already窜 (cuàn) across three canyons, and then shortly after their three planes entered the fourth canyon one after another.

We all heard two consecutive "Ah! Ah!" from the radio.

Then we saw a thick smoke suddenly rising from the canyon.

When we flew closer, we only saw the thick smoke rising over the canyon, and none of the three planes flew out.

The three of us searched in the vicinity for nearly ten minutes, and there was no response to the radio calls.

I believe all three of them crashed in the canyon.

We didn't dare to stay in the local area for too long, fearing that we wouldn't have enough fuel for the return trip.

After Senji Matsuda finished speaking, he looked at Yano Furuya and Ryotaro Nakazeki: "They can all testify!"

Yano Furuya and Ryotaro Nakazeki quickly said, "Sergeant Senji Matsuda is telling the whole truth."

Sho Hokata quickly stood up: "Report, Commander! Our departure time was 2:30 pm, and their landing time was 5:43 pm.

The flight time in the air exceeded three hours."

Lieutenant General Kiyoshi Hasegawa knew that Squadron Leader Sho Hokata was using the loitering time to prove from the side that his subordinates were not lying.

Even so, he still had a fire in his heart that he wanted to vent.

It's just that everyone present has done their best today.

Squadron Leader Sho Hokata, in the case where the entire air battle team was afraid of war and feared difficulties, directed the entire team to achieve the purpose of attacking the Jiangyin Fortress.

Senji Matsuda and the others traveled thousands of miles and finally destroyed the deserter.

But when he thought that just one deserter had cost the Imperial Air Battle Team seven fighter planes and seven pilots.

Commander Kiyoshi Hasegawa felt a burst of panic.

If we continue to fight like this, the price of victory will be too high.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but be grateful that he had canceled the navy's decision to continue bombing the Jiangyin Fortress in the afternoon.

General Kiyoshi Hasegawa stopped the navy's advance after learning that the army was also attacking the Jiangyin Fortress, and let the army attack the fortress themselves!

These were his original words.

The 58th Regiment and the 65th Regiment of the 13th Division, which were severely挫 (cuò) in attacking the Jiangyin Fortress.

The two regimental commanders are now in front of Division Commander Ogisu Rippei.

Standing straight, saying "Hai!" at every turn.

The faces of the two regimental commanders are swollen.

Division Commander Ogisu Rippei never thought that his team would suffer such a heavy挫 (cuò) in the small Jiangyin Fortress.

The division's tank brigade was completely wiped out, and more than 2,500 soldiers were killed or wounded.

It was completely the loss of a battle.

But this is the loss of one afternoon!

It's all because these two pig-headed regimental commanders made command errors, causing his entire division to suffer such heavy casualties.

Now Division Commander Ogisu Rippei has only one idea in his mind: Attack Jiangyin! Take Jiangyin! Occupy Jiangyin!

But Ogisu Rippei is not a reckless person.

After venting on the two regimental commanders, he asked the two regimental commanders to point to the sand table that had been piled up.

He asked them to explain in detail the entire battle scene this afternoon.

Regimental Commanders Doichi Sasaki and Tatsuya Nakayu did not dare to exaggerate the strength of the defending army at all.

They honestly explained how the team organized the attack today, how much force was sent out each time.

And at what location they were subjected to the defending army's artillery bombardment.

The Japanese had already surveyed and mapped the main gun emplacements of the Jiangyin Fortress thirty years ago.

The staff officers under Division Commander Ogisu Rippei immediately calculated that the location where the Imperial infantry was bombarded was 4,300 meters from the nearest gun emplacement to the fortress.

The farthest distance from the gun emplacement was 7,600 meters.

Japan's ambition to invade the mainland has been around for a long time, and can be traced back to the Wokou invasion hundreds of years ago.

After they accepted the transformation of Western culture in their country, there were more and more people in their country doing espionage activities in the mainland.

Among these people, some were disguised as small merchants and peddlers, and some were really small merchants and peddlers.

They all have one thing in common: every time they go to a place, they will describe in detail all the local roads, mountains, rivers, and important targets.

Even the seasonal water level of the rivers is as detailed as possible.

As a result, on the battlefield, the Japanese military maps are more accurate and detailed than the National Army's military maps.

This is also why Lin Fan wants to use the captured Japanese maps to command operations.

Thanks to the prepared maps, Division Commander Ogisu Rippei already roughly understood the range of the National Army's artillery fire on the Jiangyin Fortress.

He has decided: to apply for a field heavy artillery regiment to come to help in the battle, he will continue to attack.

The Empire's warriors must get up where they have fallen.