The Milky Way is Also a Grain of Sand
Chapter 181 Inflicting Pain on the 16th Division
After the order was issued, Brigade Commander Tatsumi Mukaiyama of the Nineteenth Brigade immediately took action.
The 20th Infantry Regiment and the 9th Infantry Regiment under his command set off simultaneously.
Commander Nakajima Kesago issued a strict order: Only after annihilating this Nationalist army retreating from Jiangyin would they continue their advance towards Nanjing.
At the same time, all the troops of the entire Sixteenth Division moved into action.
The 30th Infantry Brigade, which had been sent to attack Jiangyin in advance, rushed to Xintouxu overnight.
The 20th Cavalry Regiment, the 20th Field Artillery Regiment, the 16th Engineer Regiment, and the 16th Transport Regiment all rushed towards Xintouxu.
Commander Nakajima Kesago wanted to seize the first功 (gong - merit) at Xintouxu.
The journey from Changzhou to Xintouxu was only twelve kilometers.
From Jiangyin to Xintouxu, it was a full thirty kilometers.
The 20th Regiment of the 19th Infantry Brigade of the Sixteenth Division, under the command of Regiment Commander Tadayoshi Ohno, was the first to reach its destination.
Upon arriving, he immediately selected a nearby hilltop as a position.
This location could completely block the highway leading to Nanjing.
As long as the hilltop position was not lost, no one could pass through the road below.
Regiment Commander Ohno ordered Yūsuke Nakashiro to occupy the hilltop and establish a defensive line on the summit.
The Masaya Mase battalion established a position on the right side of the road, so that they could attack from both sides, and these two hilltops could also support each other.
A perfect chain of positions was constructed.
Two infantry battalions were enough to lock down the Nationalist army's retreat route back to Nanjing.
Regiment Commander Ohno still had two battalions as reserves, and he set up his command post on the road behind these two battalions.
The meaning of this setup was obvious: if those Nationalist troops wanted to pass through here, they would have to flatten his command post first.
The subsequent 9th Infantry Regiment, under the command of Colonel Katagiri Gorō, arranged its troops on the side of the 20th Regiment, according to the brigade commander's orders, with only one purpose: to prevent the Nationalist soldiers who arrived here from fleeing to Changzhou after their defeat.
As other troops arrived one after another, the engineer regiment arrived. Regiment Commander Takeyoshi Imanaka immediately reinforced the fortifications on the front lines of the two infantry battalions, according to the brigade commander's requirements.
At the same time, he piled up the command posts of these two infantry battalions layer upon layer with the steel rails and trees they brought.
The command post piled up in this way could withstand the bombardment of medium-sized heavy artillery.
On December 3rd, Dai Zhiqi, leading the remnants of the 103rd Division, had not yet set off.
They were startled by the sound of horses' hooves behind them: ten warhorses appeared behind them.
Ai Xuemin, riding on a warhorse, asked loudly, "Which unit are you from?"
A soldier immediately responded, "We are from the 103rd Division! Our deputy division commander is ahead!"
Ai Xuemin spurred his horse forward and was soon stopped by Dai Zhiqi, who had received the news, "Who are you?"
"We are scouts from the Special Company!" Ai Xuemin said proudly.
"Special Company? How did you end up behind us?" Dai Zhiqi didn't know what had happened behind.
"After the retreat order was issued, our company went to various炮台 (pao tai - forts) to collect all the cannons, and we had to take the cannons away.
Of course, we were a little slower!" Ai Xuemin said.
Dai Zhiqi blushed a little: the 103rd Division had now lost all of its heavy firepower.
There was no harm without comparison: the Special Company, when retreating, was not thinking about running away at the first opportunity, but about stealing cannons from various炮台 (pao tai - forts).
His own division had secretly abandoned its position and ran away in advance.
Thinking of this, he asked with concern, "Did you collect the cannons?"
"You'll be able to see them in a while. I'm going to go ahead and see if there are any devils!" Ai Xuemin spurred his horse forward.
Before leaving, he kindly told them, "You look like you've been defeated, that's not good! Why don't you wait a while and go with us!"
The officers and soldiers of the 103rd Division were stunned when they heard his last sentence: Everyone had escaped from the Jiangyin Fortress.
Who wasn't a defeated general?
The Special Company had the word "Special" in its name, so it wasn't a defeat.
Everyone could hear the contempt in this little soldier's tone.
Dai Zhiqi ordered, "Don't wait! Continue to advance!"
This was a team retreating from the battlefield, and it was necessary to keep these soldiers moving so that they wouldn't overthink things in their heads.
If they were exhausted every day and didn't want to think about anything, they would be normal after a while.
If these soldiers were allowed to sit still, they would only become more and more afraid, and in the end, they would probably fall apart.
Division Commander Dai Zhiqi, who had his own way of leading troops, ordered the soldiers to move forward.
Less than ten minutes after advancing, the cavalrymen who had just left returned, "There are devils blocking the road five *li* (Chinese mile) ahead.
Many devils, be careful!
If you can't fight them, wait for us to come up and fight!"
Ai Xuemin's words were full of confidence, but he didn't know that this one sentence had crushed all the officers and soldiers of the entire 103rd Division present.
This was a map炮 (pao - cannon), attacking indiscriminately!
Dai Zhiqi's face turned red with anger: he didn't know if this soldier was doing it on purpose or unintentionally.
If he didn't think that it would be beneath the dignity of a Major General Division Commander to argue with a small soldier, he would definitely have a good talk with this soldier about life.
Teach him some of the truths of life.
Ai Xuemin, feeling that he had done a good deed, was very happy that he had helped so many people.
He quickly spurred his horse away.
Lin Fan knew that there were remnants of the 103rd Division ahead, and he was very happy to know that there were thousands of soldiers in this group.
He was even happier when he heard that Dai Zhiqi was leading the troops.
This was a pure soldier, no matter what path he took, at least in the War of Resistance Against Japan, he was a very powerful person in battle.
Lin Fan was also a little surprised when he learned that there was a large force of devils blocking the road ahead. In his plan, this journey should have been smooth sailing all the way to Nanjing.
Which unit of devils was ahead, not rushing to Nanjing to seize功劳 (gong lao - merits), but waiting for him here?
Lin Fan believed that this unit of devils was deliberately waiting for him.
At the front of the Special Company's marching formation were two tanks, followed by cars carrying machine cannons.
Chen Sichuan's First Squad and Liu Laopao's Second Squad were clearing the way ahead.
Knowing that the devils were only about ten kilometers away, the Special Company's heavy炮 (pao - cannon) squad immediately stopped.
They chose an open space by the side of the road.
They began to establish positions according to Lin Fan's orders.
While they were digging positions, they could see ordinary people pointing curiously on the distant hilltops.
While ordering the establishment of artillery positions, Lin Fan also ordered the observation balloon to be raised.
The Fifth Squad of soldiers protruded three kilometers towards Changzhou to prevent the devils from attacking from the side.
The Third and Fourth Squads followed behind the First and Second Squads, ready to provide support.
After receiving Ai Xuemin's warning, Dai Zhiqi immediately organized a team of fifty men to investigate the situation.
After seeing the opposite devil's deployment from a thousand meters away, he couldn't help but gasp: It's over!
He knew that, not to mention that his division had lost all of its heavy firepower, even when his division was fully equipped, it would be impossible to break through here.
He saw those devil positions deployed on the two opposite hilltops.
From the traces of the soil, it could be seen that the positions the devils had established here were also new.
The devils had not arrived here much earlier than his team.
Thinking of this, Dai Zhiqi was secretly vigilant: If he hadn't rested last night and traveled overnight, he would have passed here.
At this time, another thought arose: Maybe he would have encountered these devils.
Thinking of the encounter at Xiagang, Dai Zhiqi was still glad that he hadn't traveled overnight last night.
Now he really stopped and let the entire division wait for the Special Company to come up.
Didn't that little soldier say that they had the fortress's cannons!
Regiment Commander Wan Shi Jiong looked at the devil's formation ahead, "Division Commander, we can only go to Changzhou."
Dai Zhiqi shook his head, "The devils were able to appear here suddenly, which means they know our situation quite well.
They are deliberately waiting for us here.
Changzhou fell some days ago, we can't break through.
Now we can only wait for the Special Company, I hope that kid wasn't bragging."
Regiment Commander Wan Shi Jiong laughed, "The Special Company's combat effectiveness is indeed good, but the devils opposite are not just one battalion.
There are at least one regiment of devils."
At this time, the guards around them suddenly shouted, "Devil artillery!"
The two officers looked in the direction pointed out by the guards and could clearly see the observation balloon rising into the air.
Standing on the balloon was a soldier in a devil uniform.
Now that soldier was fiddling with the instruments on it.
"What should we do!" Wan Shi Jiong was a little embarrassed.
"We are chased from behind! And blocked from the front!"
While they were in trouble, two tanks drove over from the road, followed by a motorcade behind the tanks.
The tanks were devil tanks, and the cars behind were full of Nationalist soldiers.
Wan Shi Jiong pointed to the tank at the front: "That's the one we captured."
Dai Zhiqi was puzzled: "Didn't you say that yours was blown up by the devils?"
Dai Zhiqi knew that the 618th Regiment had captured tanks on the battlefield and had learned how to use them.
As a result, it was only used for one day before being targeted by the devils and blown up.
Wan Shi Jiong said embarrassedly, "We captured three at the time, and gave one to the Special Company. I didn't expect them to still be using it."
"You're wasting our resources! You can give away tanks!" Dai Zhiqi was a little disappointed.
Then he remembered something, "Did they contribute?"
"Yes! Otherwise, how could we have given them one!"
While speaking, Chen Sichuan's motorcade had stopped behind the mountain peak, and he and Liu Laopao led a few people up.
Carefully looking at the devil's position opposite.
"How do we fight?" Chen Sichuan asked.
"You attack the left, I attack the right, and we'll do it at the same time."
"Okay, let's do it that way!"
Dai Zhiqi was walking towards their position at this time.
He had no idea that these two people had already formulated a battle plan in two sentences.
Wan Shi Jiong recognized Liu Laopao and greeted loudly, "Squad Leader Liu!"
Liu Laopao was happy, "Regiment Commander Wan, I didn't expect to meet you here.
Sure enough, we are in perfect harmony."
Regiment Commander Wan was a cultured person, he had gone to school and read books.
He didn't bother to argue with Liu Laopao, he knew that these squad leaders of the Special Company, although they all had more than a hundred soldiers under their command and were very good at fighting.
But their literacy was far behind.
He awkwardly extended his hand, "Squad Leader Liu! You will be the main attacker, and we will be the auxiliary."
Liu Laopao waved his hand, "Regiment Commander Wan! You've been walking all the way here, you must be tired and sleepy, take a rest.
Lao Liu will take the left, Xiao Chen will take the right, and it will be over in a while.
We won't bother you."
Dai Zhiqi's face turned a little ugly when he heard this small squad leader speaking so loudly.
Wan Shi Jiong introduced, "This is our 103rd Division Deputy Division Commander Dai."
Liu Laopao was straightforward, "Division Commander Dai, you wait, I'll go and kill the devils first and then come back."
At this moment, a cavalryman with a red flag rushed up the mountain, and Chen Xing, who was next to Chen Sichuan, quickly ran down to lead the cavalryman up.
Dai Zhiqi looked at the cavalryman with the red flag in some surprise, "What does this mean?"
Liu Laopao said, "This is an emergency communicator sent by the company commander, only used in the most urgent situations."
Wan Shi Jiong became nervous, "Are there devils chasing us from behind too?"
Liu Laopao laughed, "That would be good, we can have a good fight."
Dai Zhiqi sneered, "Fight? Even if your company has more than a thousand people, if it weren't for us clearing the way for you in front this time.
You would have been stopped by the devils long ago."
Liu Laopao was puzzled, "You cleared the way? We fought our way through ourselves."
Wan Shi Jiong said embarrassedly, "Squad Leader Liu, we encountered devils near Qianjia Village and in Xiagang Town.
We fought to the death to break through."
Chen Sichuan laughed, "Xiagang啊 (a - interjection)! We fought the devils twice on the night of the first. Yesterday during the day, I destroyed a devil tank team in Xiagang Town and killed a cavalry team of more than two hundred devils.
By the way, do you want horse legs?
Chopping down more than two thousand warhorses would give us about ten thousand legs, we can't eat them all anyway."
When Chen Sichuan just opened his mouth, Dai Zhiqi wanted to refute him, thinking that he was bragging.
But when Chen Sichuan asked him if he wanted horse legs, he felt that it might be true.
"Why did you chop off so many horse legs?" Wan Shi Jiong asked, not understanding.
"Time was tight, Xiagang was too close to Jiangyin, and the company commander was afraid of being包了饺子 (bao le jiao zi - surrounded like dumplings), so he told them to clean up the battlefield quickly.
There was no time to cut open the warhorses and clean them up properly, so they could only chop off the horse legs and leave.
After all, the thigh has more meat."
The cavalryman dismounted and handed a letter to Chen Sichuan.
Chen Sichuan was responsible for the two squads in the advance guard.
Chen Sichuan opened the letter and read it, and said nonchalantly, "The company commander is too careful!"
He said to Liu Laopao, "Wait a moment! The company commander ordered us to start in an hour, and the brothers in the heavy炮 (pao - cannon) squad will help us."
Liu Laopao said, "That's fine! Blow those bastards up directly, and we'll go up and clean up the battlefield."
Dai Zhiqi asked, "Do you have heavy cannons?"
Liu Laopao said proudly, "Last time we captured devil *** cannons in Nanzha, we took six of them, and there were still twelve left.
The day before yesterday, we got eight more from the fortress, making a total of twenty.
It's about to start soon."
Liu Laopao looked at the observation balloon in the distance.
Dai Zhiqi pointed to the balloon, "Is that yours?"
"Yes!"
"Why is he wearing a devil's uniform?"
"To fool the devils!" Liu Laopao laughed triumphantly.
"If we wanted to fool the devils, we could all put on devil uniforms!" Chen Sichuan explained.
Wan Shi Jiong and Dai Zhiqi looked at each other.
At this moment, two炮 (pao - cannon) shells streaked across the sky, flying over their heads.
Exploding in the distance.
Neither of these炮 (pao - cannon) shells hit the devil's position.
After a while, two more炮 (pao - cannon) shells flew over.
Still didn't hit, every time two炮 (pao - cannon) shells flew over.
Until the fifth batch.
Finally hit.
From the moment the first round of炮 (pao - cannon) shells flew over, Grassland Tatsumi, the brigade commander of the 19th Brigade, was so startled that he turned around from in front of the map in the command post:
"Who is **炮 (pao - cannon)ing?"
Soon there was a report, "The Nationalist army is炮 (pao - cannon)ing us."
"Request support from the Air Combat Team, request the 22nd Field Artillery Regiment to immediately bomb the opponent's artillery positions.
Under no circumstances can they be allowed to fire."
The artillery positions of the 22nd Field Artillery Regiment, commanded by Colonel Mikuni Naofuku, were on the flank.
This regiment had 36 120mm howitzers and 12 75mm field guns.
After receiving the order, they immediately raised an observation balloon.
The devil observation balloon that suddenly rose in this direction was immediately spotted by the observers of the Special Company.
He immediately reported, "Eight thousand three hundred meters to the southeast, a devil observation balloon has risen."
Lin Fan also saw the devil observation balloon in the southeast direction and immediately ordered, "Six heavy炮 (pao - cannon)s continue to bomb the devil's position.
The other fourteen heavy炮 (pao - cannon)s immediately turn to the southeast, adjust the angle, and prepare to fire."
Now that they had only discovered the devil observation balloon, the devil artillery position should not be far away.
First, set a heavy炮 (pao - cannon) firing angle and azimuth, and then make fine adjustments after it is determined.
Lin Fan was really anxious this time: the devil artillery was too great a threat to him.
He reached out and grabbed the rope of the observation balloon and began to climb.
This kind of observation balloon always had people in the observation basket. After rising into the air, people could not go up on the spot, and the people above could not come down.
Now Lin Fan's body was as agile as a monkey, climbing up the rope, and soon climbed very high.
Even Chen Sichuan and the others saw it here.
At the same time, they also saw another observation balloon rising in the distance.
Liu Laopao recognized it from the telescope, "That's the company commander, what is the company commander doing up there?"
Chen Sichuan said without a good sound, "What else can he do? Of course, it's the devil observation balloon that made the company commander anxious.
He wants to personally see the devil artillery position!"
Before Lin Fan climbed to the highest point, he saw炮 (pao - cannon) shells flying up in the southeast direction.
This was the devil artillery position firing.
It would also take some adjustment to hit the target at such a long distance.
Lin Fan stopped climbing up and stayed in mid-air until he had determined the devil artillery position.
Only then did he slide down all at once.
This time, he personally adjusted the azimuth angle for fourteen炮 (pao - cannon)s and operated a German-imported one hundred and fifty millimeter榴弹炮 (liu dan pao - howitzer).
With an order, fourteen炮 (pao - cannon) shells were fired.
The observation balloon in the air exploded all at once.
The air observer could not see the devil artillery position, he could only see the smoke rising in that direction.
The heavy炮 (pao - cannon)s of the Special Company fired five炮 (pao - cannon) shells in a row, ignoring everything, and the devil artillery position did not fight back.
At this time, Lin Fan turned the fourteen炮 (pao - cannon)s back and joined the ranks of bombing the devil artillery position.
After he destroyed the devil artillery position, he immediately led eight anti-aircraft炮 (pao - cannon)s to rush to the front line.
When the heavy炮 (pao - cannon) bombing ended here, these direct-瞄 (miao - aiming)炮 (pao - cannon)s were needed to suppress the devil positions with firepower.
Dai Zhiqi and Wan Shi Jiong watched as the devil positions on the opposite two hilltops were bombarded by fierce炮 (pao - cannon) fire.
Standing next to them were also many officers of the 103rd Division.
They whispered, "The heavy炮 (pao - cannon)s of this Special Company are too powerful!
They really emptied the fortress."
"Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river! Now it's time for the devils to taste the taste of being bombed."
Regiment Commander Mikuni Naofuku watched helplessly as his artillery regiment was blown to pieces by炮 (pao - cannon) shells that suddenly fell from the sky.
He knew that there was an artillery team on the opposite side.
It could be seen from the distant observation balloon.
However, he was not panicked at all, after all, his artillery regiment had been through hundreds of battles.
It was not like the Nationalist artillery, who were reluctant to fire炮 (pao - cannon) shells.
But the result was now like this, his artillery had fired less than ten炮 (pao - cannon) shells.
He was greeted with a storm-like attack, and the炮 (pao - cannon) shells on the opposite side did not even have the order of校 (xiao - correcting)炮 (pao - cannon)ing, they fired directly.
And they all hit his position.
Although this wave of attacks did not scrap all of the four ***炮 (pao - cannon)s in the entire artillery position, it did blow up at least twelve of his炮 (pao - cannon)s.
Because these火炮 (huo pao - artillery guns) had all been torn apart.
Although the cannons under his command still had the power to fight, Regiment Commander Mikuni Naofuku had no intention of continuing to fire.
The artillery position had been exposed, and the other side had attacked it.
If he continued to entangle, and the other side continued to bomb, the entire artillery regiment might be annihilated.
Regiment Commander Mikuni Naofuku's hesitation made Major General Kusaba Tatsumi, the brigade commander of the 19th Brigade, very uncomfortable.
Messages requesting guidance and support had already been sent out.
Guidance and support did not come.
Instead, the bombardment of those Nationalist troops on the opposite side came as scheduled.
These bombardments were not the seventy-five millimeter炮 (pao - cannon) shells of infantry炮 (pao - cannon)s, nor the eighty-two millimeter炮 (pao - cannon) shells of mortars.
The炮 (pao - cannon) shells that hit the positions of his two battalions were all one hundred and fifty millimeter heavy炮 (pao - cannon)s.
After a炮 (pao - cannon) shell exploded, it could leave a crater two meters deep on the hilltop.
The commander of the 20th Infantry Regiment now stood blankly in his command post, watching the smoke and dust constantly rising on the two hilltops not far away.
He strongly suspected that the team attacking him was the regular army of those Westerners.
Or they sent people, but changed into the uniforms of the Nationalist army.
This kind of fierce炮 (pao - cannon) fire bombardment was something that his regiment had never encountered before.
Even though he was outside the炮 (pao - cannon) fire bombardment, he felt the earth trembling.
Captain Nakashiro Yu, who was in the center of the explosion, felt like the whole earth was dancing.
Although his own command post had not been hit by a炮 (pao - cannon) shell, just now a炮 (pao - cannon) shell exploded less than twenty meters in front of the command, and fragments splashed into the command post.
The unlucky Consultant Yuta Chongzhong and several guards standing at the door were pierced by shrapnel and had no chance of being rescued.
In this way, five people died in his own command post.
Captain Nakashiro Yu did not know the casualties on the outside positions.
Under such a dense炮 (pao - cannon) fire bombardment, even the signal soldiers did not dare to go out.
Captain Mase Masaya on the other hilltop also encountered a similar situation.
Fortunately, this kind of bombardment finally ended.
The sudden end of the bombardment made the entire devil Sixteenth Division relieved.
Chen Sichuan's First Squad and Liu Laopao's Second Squad had launched a charge with土 (tu - earth) armored vehicles at this time.
At this time, Lin Fan had set up eight anti-aircraft炮 (pao - cannon)s in battle formation. The heavy炮 (pao - cannon) bombing had just ended.
The remaining devils had just poked their heads above the工事 (gong shi - fortifications) and were immediately bombarded by anti-aircraft炮 (pao - cannon)s.
These anti-aircraft炮 (pao - cannon)s were not as powerful as榴弹炮 (liu dan pao - howitzers), but they were not comfortable either.
When a炮 (pao - cannon) shell exploded, there was no living person within a thirty-meter radius.
Looking at the Special Company soldiers rushing forward like a tide, the devil's interception firepower on the hilltop was pitifully small.
Dai Zhiqi said with emotion, "If we all had this kind of equipment and this kind of combat style, how dare the devils look at us directly."
Wan Shi Jiong persuaded, "With the first such team, there will be a second and a third."
Dai Zhiqi waved his hand, as if to wave away his unhappiness just now.
He said to Wan Shi Jiong, "Shall we also charge?
It feels so embarrassing!"
Wan Shi Jiong immediately replied, "Okay!"
The two of them each led a team and rushed towards the devil hilltop in the distance.
When Chen Sichuan and the others were attacking the hilltop.
The 30th Brigade, which had retreated all the way from Jiangyin, also launched an attack on the heavy炮 (pao - cannon) position in the middle of the Special Company.
Division Commander Nakajima Kesago of the Sixteenth Division discovered that this team had a powerful heavy炮 (pao - cannon) unit.
He immediately ordered the 30th Brigade and the 20th Cavalry Regiment to attack the location of the heavy炮 (pao - cannon) squad.
Jia Shusheng's Third Squad and Xiao Dongbei's Fourth Squad immediately joined the fight.
Feng Junya ordered: "Put the cannons down! Aim at the devil cavalry rushing over and fire."
One hundred and fifty millimeter炮 (pao - cannon) shells fired directly at the cavalry. Cavalry Regiment Commander Kasai Maitake, waving his command刀 (dao - sword), was in the midst of a charge when he heard a violent explosion suddenly erupting beside him.
Watching the cavalry behind him constantly falling down.
He was extremely anxious in his heart. Now that there were still eight hundred meters to the opposite artillery position, and the opposite炮 (pao - cannon)s were so powerful, could they still charge in?
Yang Daren's Seventh Squad was the带刀护卫 (dai dao hu wei - sword-bearing guard) of the heavy炮 (pao - cannon) squad. They had already set up their heavy machine guns.
The infantry炮 (pao - cannon)s of the Seventh Squad were firing. Compared with the heavy炮 (pao - cannon)s of the heavy炮 (pao - cannon) squad, the nine-two infantry炮 (pao - cannon)s in their hands were like toys.
Not to mention mortars.
Cui Jianming never thought that one hundred and fifty millimeter榴弹炮 (liu dan pao - howitzer)s and加农炮 (jia nong pao - cannon)s could be used like this:
Directly aiming at infantry!
Following the Special Company these past two days, he had really opened his eyes.
He knew that these artillerymen of the Special Company had never really learned artillery tactics.
Therefore, these people were not restricted by various regulations and frameworks, these people could fight however they wanted.
However, it was really enjoyable to use big炮 (pao - cannon)s to directly瞄 (miao - aiming) at devils.
And when they really fought, the soldiers under his command were much stronger than those half-way house soldiers of the Special Company.
Cavalry Regiment Commander Kasai Toshimatsu was finally unable to persist in continuing the charge. He saw that the soldiers following him were becoming fewer and fewer.
And in the more backward positions in the distance, some cavalrymen had already turned their directions, and the charging positions were different.
Watching the rapidly charging devil cavalry began to turn around.
But Feng Junya had no intention of letting them go, and continued to command the twelve炮 (pao - cannon)s under his command to chase and fight.
Save炮 (pao - cannon) shells? Lin Fan had never told him that.
This time, the Thirteenth Division also brought a six thousand man puppet army.
This puppet army was composed of some deserters and supporters of the devils who were编 (bian - enrolled) from the occupied areas by the devils.
The puppet army commander was watching the cavalry in the other direction fleeing in panic, and his heart was also beating: Don't see me! Don't see me!
Sure enough! After Feng Junya ran off the devil cavalry regiment, the second target was the devil regular army.
Not only Feng Junya, but the artillerymen of the Third, Fourth, and Seventh Squads all bombarded the devil infantry 38th Regiment that was charging.
The 38th Regiment had suffered heavy losses the night before, and the personnel had not been replenished today.
They had only rested for two days, and their morale had recovered a little.
Captain Abo Ren was commanding the team to charge. In fact, when he saw the power of this team's heavy炮 (pao - cannon)s just now, he didn't want to charge.
It was certain death to flee before the battle on the battlefield.
It was the right way to flee after fighting for a while.
Therefore, Captain Abo Ren actually did not intend to fight to the death this time.
Sometimes plans can't keep up with changes.
His大队 (da dui - battalion) happened to become the focus of attack by this Nationalist army.
Captain Abo Ren really didn't know what characteristics of his大队 (da dui - battalion) attracted the attention of those people on the opposite side.
If he could know: I will change!
Obviously, the驛面 (yi mian - people on the other side) did not give him a chance to change.
Not only步兵炮 (bu bing pao - infantry炮 (pao - cannon)) and mortars were bombing, but even one hundred and fifty millimeter heavy炮 (pao - cannon)s were also directly瞄 (miao - aiming)ing and firing.
What kind of打法 (da fa - fighting method) was this!
Captain Abo Ren's大队 (da dui - battalion) was crippled in less than five minutes.
However, even if they crippled the devil a大队 (da dui - battalion), the several squads of the Special Company could not launch an attack.
There were still many devils on the opposite side, and even more puppet troops.
Six thousand puppet troops gathered together and were timidly rushing forward.
They wanted to defeat the Nationalist army on the opposite side in their hearts.
After all, these puppet troops knew that being a puppet troop was not a good profession, because they wanted to defeat the army on the opposite side, and then let those people on the opposite side also join their team.
At that time, everyone would fall into the粪坑 (fen keng - cesspit), you don't say I'm臭 (chou - smelly), I don't say you're dirty.
Everyone would have臭味相投 (chou wei xiang tou - like-mindedness), 相见恨晚 (xiang jian hen wan - regretting not knowing each other sooner), and work together for the 太军 (tai jun - Japanese army).
It was just that they were very afraid of the team in front, and even the regular 太军 (tai jun - Japanese army) had run away.
Could they beat it?
The commander of this puppet army was called Li Liangpeng, who had also been a团长 (tuan zhang - regiment commander) in the Nationalist army.
It was just that he was清退 (qing tui - removed) for corruption a few years ago, and after returning to his hometown, he became a local rich man.
When the devils打 (da - attacked) over this time, he immediately湊 (cou - went) up.
The devils knew the local situation very well and had already paid attention to him.
They immediately封 (feng - granted) him a Security Commander.
In this way, Li Liangpeng, the Security Commander, gathered some deserters who had退下来 (tui xia lai - retreated) from the battlefield.
Formed this team.
Now they were being派 (pai - sent) up.
Feng Junya looked at the puppet army opposite and knew very well in his heart: If he hadn't met Lin Fan, he might have been one of those puppet troops on the opposite side.
Most of the soldiers in the Special Company were actually the same.
If they hadn't met the company commander, they would have lived in such a muddled way.
What was家国 (jia guo - nation), what was大义 (da yi - righteousness), they didn't understand anything.
They only knew that people had to eat and live! So looking at these people, Feng Junya's heart softened.
He did not command the heavy炮 (pao - cannon) squad to bomb.
Cui Jianming hated this kind of people the most, he was not polite: he had just unlocked a new skill.
He had to use it more, and he also discovered a new benefit of the Special Company:炮 (pao - cannon) shells were there, as long as you wanted to打 (da - fire), just打 (da - fire).
When Cui Jianming打 (da - fired) at the devils, he could command twenty heavy炮 (pao - cannon)s.
Now, when he was打 (da - firing) at these puppet troops, only the soldiers under his command were firing.
The old men of the Special Company were all composed of deserters and溃兵 (kui bing - defeated soldiers), and they had a bit of 同病相怜 (tong bing xiang lian - sharing the same misfortune) with the puppet troops on the opposite side.
Whether they fired or not, this batch of puppet troops was obviously not as resistant to beating as the devils.
Cui Jianming commanded eight big炮 (pao - cannon)s to fire only one round of炮 (pao - cannon) shells, and these puppet troops had already炸 (zha - exploded) their nests, and everyone was窜 (cuan - running) around.
These people became puppet troops just to find a bite to eat, but they were not here to送命 (song ming - sacrifice their lives).
Therefore, they散伙 (san huo - dispersed) immediately after being bombed.
In fact, these puppet troops would not散伙 (san huo - disperse), most of them would still return to Commander Li Liangpeng.
After all, at this time, this was also a profession that could混 (hun - muddle)饭 (fan - food) to eat.
The Third, Fourth, and Seventh Squads did not let these people go,炮 (pao - cannon) shells and heavy machine guns were fired at these people without any pity.
This team with the largest number of people散 (san - dispersed), and those devil regular troops who were still persisting also began to retreat.
They had developed the habit of退 (tui - retreating).
On the battlefield, soldiers only退 (tui - retreat) once and countless times.
Teams that do not退