Ji Wudi said in a low voice, "Are we just driving them back home?"

Lin Fan was speechless.

In Lin Fan's mind, driving the Japanese devils out and back to their homeland...

...would mean victory in the War of Resistance.

The next step would be to build the motherland.

He hadn't expected Ji Wudi to have such a question.

A country that commits heinous crimes, is it enough to just drive them back home?

Lin Fan didn't know!

"These invaders rushed into our country, plundered our food, looted our mines, and killed our parents and sisters...

...and then when they are defeated, they just return home as if none of this ever happened?"

Ji Wudi's voice was very low, only Lin Fan could hear it.

Lin Fan thought for a moment, "I really can't think of a better way."

Ji Wudi said resentfully, "We should fight into their country, seize their lifeline, and make sure they never have the ability to invade others again."

Lin Fan was deeply impressed by Ji Wudi's words!

"You're right! That's how it should be, that's how it should be! Let's work together towards this goal!"

Ji Wudi looked at Lin Fan earnestly with her big eyes, "Are you serious?"

"Of course! My goal used to be to drive the Japanese devils out and make sure all the poor had food to eat and clothes to wear.

To make sure this nation is no longer bullied by the great powers.

Now, I have added a new goal: to make sure all invaders never have the ability to wield a knife again!"

Ji Wudi chuckled, "This little girl was just saying it casually."

"You can speak such reasonable words even casually, if you seriously thought about it, the logic you came up with would shock the world.

But even what you just said is shocking enough," Lin Fan said sincerely.

"What I just said, is it really that reasonable?" Ji Wudi asked, a little unconvinced.

Lin Fan sighed inwardly, thinking, "It's not just reasonable, it's too reasonable."

He said with a smile, "Really! Truer than true gold, pure gold."

Unknowingly, the Special Company had been marching for an hour, and it was now four o'clock in the afternoon.

Today, the equipment and supplies carried by the entire Special Company were much more than when they left the Sihang Warehouse.

This was because in the recent battle, they had captured a large number of weapons and ammunition.

The Japanese devils in an entire squadron hadn't used much of the ammunition they carried.

Now, it was all on the backs of the Special Company soldiers.

Each soldier was now carrying two guns, and some stronger soldiers were even carrying three guns on the march.

This did make it easier for the Special Company soldiers to get tired on the march.

In the recent battle, the Special Company didn't use up much, the biggest consumption was the twenty shells that Lin Fan had fired.

This situation couldn't continue. Thinking of this, Lin Fan asked Ji Wudi, "Is there a hidden place nearby where we can store these guns?"

Ji Wudi thought for a while, "About three *li* to the left, there's a natural cave.

It's about seventy or eighty meters deep."

Hearing that it was seventy or eighty meters deep, Lin Fan thought it was already enough.

He immediately said, "Take us there."

The entire Special Company still made decisions based on Lin Fan alone.

The team rested for ten minutes and then set off again.

After setting off again for a quarter of an hour, Ji Wudi led the group into a dense forest. After walking less than two hundred meters, she pushed aside a place covered in dense vines.

An opening about half a person's height appeared.

She took the lead and crawled in.

For the first five or six meters of the entrance, it was only half a person's height, and to enter, one had to bend over and walk or crawl forward.

After passing this initial position, the space inside suddenly became much larger.

It was about two meters high and four or five meters wide.

Ji Wudi said, "Just keep walking, and you'll reach the end in seventy meters."

Looking at the situation inside, Lin Fan ordered, "First Platoon, come in, the rest of the platoons rest outside."

Twenty-odd people walked inside with torches, and Lin Fan carefully examined the stones on the cave walls along the way.

He wanted to see if this stone cave was natural or an ancient tomb.

A group of twenty-odd people walked in this cave, the sound of their footsteps echoing endlessly, sounding even more terrifying than walking at night.

The soldiers of the First Platoon were all a little scared.

Ji Wudi looked at Lin Fan tapping the cave walls from time to time and said in a low voice, "I've looked at it carefully, it's natural, not man-made."

Speaking in this enclosed cave, even though the voice was low, it still echoed and buzzed in the cave.

Ji Wudi's words reassured the soldiers of the First Platoon a lot.

They had been a little scared just now.

The group walked to the end of the cave. There was nothing there. No matter how Lin Fan looked at it, he felt that the cave was artificially excavated.

But now wasn't the time to explore these things. He looked at the ground at the bottom of the cave and saw that it was dry, which was very rare.

He immediately decided to leave all the unused weapons here.

Once the decision was made, the group all walked out again.

The Special Company soldiers began to wipe and maintain their guns. Even if they were going to leave the weapons here.

The weapons still needed to be wiped and maintained properly.

The better they were wiped and maintained today, the longer they could be stored here.

Lin Fan didn't want these guns to turn into scrap iron after some time.

The soldiers of the First Platoon kept carrying the wiped weapons into the cave.

The three Ji siblings followed the soldiers to learn how to disassemble and assemble the weapons.

Perhaps it was because Xiao Dongbei had helped Ji Jiahen in the recent battle.

Ji Jiahen had been squatting in front of Xiao Dongbei, acting like an honest student.

Ji Guochou followed Liu Laopao, calling him teacher with every other word.

He coaxed Liu Laopao to tell him all the knowledge he knew.

He also told Ji Guochou that the Special Company also had competitions for disassembling and assembling weapons, and he must win first place next time.

Lin Fan wasn't special either. He was also wiping weapons, and because he used more weapons, he had even more to wipe.

Ji Wudi followed Lin Fan to learn. She had been following Lin Fan all day, and she had many doubts in her heart, but it wasn't easy to ask because they weren't close enough.

Lin Fan was like Tang Sanzang, explaining in detail the function of each part in the gun when disassembling it.

Ji Wudi was actually very tired today. She had been harassed by the Japanese devils all night yesterday, so her body was already very uncomfortable.

Today, she had been walking all the time, and she had only rested for a few hours during the day.

However, she and Ji Jiahen were holding on with a burst of energy.

Ji Wudi disassembled her own gun in comparison.

The gun in her hand hadn't fired a single bullet today, but the bayonet had already seen blood.

The setting sun in the west also plunged into the horizon to rest.

At this time, Lin Fan let the company go into the cave to make a fire and cook.

At this time, even the smoke produced by making a fire and cooking in the cave couldn't be seen from a distance.

The light of the fire in the cave couldn't penetrate through.

When they set off yesterday, they brought a lot of canned meat and dry food.

These things were delicious the first time they were eaten, but they were like chewing wax the second time.

And when they cleaned the battlefield today, Lin Fan had asked people to cut up Lieutenant Colonel Iiyama Ryosuke's mount.

Horse meat was also meat!

Now was the time to eat meat!

The sky gradually darkened. The Japanese devils at Hongqiao Airport were a little panicked.

Their commander, Lieutenant Colonel Iiyama Ryosuke, had left with a squadron in the morning, and no news had been received since then.

All afternoon, Chief of Staff Takaomi Kentaro of the Japanese First Air Fleet, who was stationed at the airport, was a little uneasy.

The First Air Brigade had two flying squadrons under its command: the Kisarazu Air Squadron and the Kanoya Air Squadron.

The two air squadrons had a total of ninety-seven aircraft of various types.

Today, the entire Shanghai battlefield suddenly became quiet.

The senior Japanese military officials, for some unknown reason, had stopped actively launching attacks since the day before yesterday.

The Guilin forces' main divisions, which had just arrived, were crippled during the counterattack on the thirtieth, and they also quieted down today.

No war on the western front! No war on the southern front!

No war anywhere!

There was no war on the entire Central China battlefield for the whole day.

And Chief of Staff Takaomi Kentaro also knew that the warehouse that had attracted world attention today would also be occupied by the Imperial Army tonight.

This would be a victory for the Imperial Army.

Today was a rare day without an operational plan since the two air squadrons had moved into Hongqiao Airport.

Chief of Staff Takaomi Kentaro looked at the two newest Mitsubishi G3M2 bombers parked on the airport.

These two aircraft were parked on the airport. They were sixteen and a half meters long, nearly four meters high, and had a wingspan of twenty-five meters.

Such behemoths weren't just big.

They also had a bomb load of eight hundred kilograms and could carry seven crew members.

The aircraft was equipped with a 20 mm autocannon and four machine guns.

Bombers with such firepower were the most powerful for both ground bombing and ground attack.

However, because they had only been developed this year, they were still in the flight test phase.

They hadn't been equipped to the troops in large numbers.

But their performance during the flight tests was so outstanding that they were brought to the battlefield to test their effectiveness in actual combat.

These aircraft had a maximum speed of 373 kilometers per hour and a range of 4,380 kilometers. With such a range.

The world was so big that they could go anywhere.

Since these two aircraft arrived on the battlefield, they had been on duty every day for a month.

They had never disappointed:

Whether it was the ground troops who called for the air squadron's guidance or the flight crews.

Or the air squadron commander who dispatched these two aircraft, they all gave the highest praise to this new type of bomber.

In the past, as long as he saw these two aircraft take off and soar in the blue sky, Chief of Staff Takaomi Kentaro would be particularly excited.

Seeing these two aircraft on the tarmac could calm Chief of Staff Takaomi Kentaro's mood.

Even though he had been staring at these two aircraft all day today, Chief of Staff Takaomi Kentaro was still restless.

The commander had been out all day, and there was no news at all. What could he do?

Now it was dark outside. What should he do?

Chief of Staff Takaomi Kentaro finally made a decision: to send out three squads to set off overnight and search in three directions: Xinjing, Longhua, and Qingpu.

The entire Hongkou Airport was guarded by only one regiment of Japanese devils.

The commander had taken a squadron with him when he left, and now he was sending out another squadron to meet the commander. Tonight, the airport was short of two infantry squadrons to guard it.

There were only three infantry squadrons left of the Japanese devils.

However, Chief of Staff Takaomi Kentaro wasn't worried. There were also more than six hundred logistics personnel and nearly four hundred flight crew members at the airport.

The entire airport now had almost two thousand personnel in total.

Therefore, Chief of Staff Takaomi Kentaro wasn't worried about the safety of the airport at all.

It was getting dark.

In any case, the things that should be done always had to be done: such as eating!

Such as Chief of Staff Takaomi Kentaro's personal hobbies.

Chief of Staff Takaomi Kentaro was different from Lieutenant Colonel Iiyama Ryosuke.

Lieutenant Colonel Iiyama Ryosuke didn't have a particular fondness for women.

Chief of Staff Takaomi Kentaro, however, enjoyed such things.

He only liked the beauties of his own country, especially those beautiful female students who had just been inspired by the Empire's holy war from school and had traveled across the ocean to join the army.

They had the awareness of sacrifice, and they also had a high literary quality. They were obedient and could talk to him.

Regardless of whether the commander would be back tonight, Chief of Staff Takaomi Kentaro was still going to enjoy himself.

Lin Fan and his team left the extra guns and ammunition in this nameless cave, and one hundred rounds of ammunition per gun were stored in the cave.

The weapons and ammunition stored in this cave were enough to arm a company. Only the machine guns were all taken away by Lin Fan.

The Special Company needed such continuous firepower.

They rested here until nine o'clock when it was pitch black.

A dark and windy night, a time for murder and arson!

Today was November 1, 1937, according to the Gregorian calendar, and September 29 according to the lunar calendar. It was the darkest moment of the moon.

Lin Fan felt that he had the advantage of the heavens to sneak attack the Japanese devils' airport on such a day.

With Ji Wudi, this living map, he also had the advantage of the terrain.

The Special Company had one hundred and thirty people, and the entire company was united. He also had the advantage of the people.

The timing of heaven, the advantages of terrain, and the harmony of people, these three essentials that Mencius spoke of, he had them all.

Tonight would be a great victory!

At nine o'clock in the evening, the Special Company soldiers, after resting for more than three hours.

Set off again.

This time, the entire company didn't use torches for the night march. Ji Wudi led them along the main road.

The so-called main road was actually the same road as the farm machinery roads of later generations.

Although it couldn't be compared with the modern asphalt roads, with such a road that was more than three meters wide, they wouldn't fall if they were marching in the dark.

And that! Was already enough!

When fighting the Japanese devils, as long as they could win, a little difficulty wasn't considered a difficulty.

The entire company advanced silently, with only the sound of neat footsteps echoing in the dark night.

Such a sound didn't travel far, let alone cause ripples.

Two hours later, Lin Fan stood on a high ground, looking at the brightly lit place not far away.

That was Hongqiao Airport!

In the dark night, the lights of the airport were more attractive to the soldiers of the Special Company than the fireflies of summer nights.

This position was a full two thousand meters away from the Japanese devils' airport.

Ji Wudi pointed to the airport in the distance and explained the distribution of the entire airport one by one.

Lin Fan realized at this time that she was really a good staff officer, every time she explained a location, it was an accurate number.

Even places that were easily misunderstood, such as slightly left or slightly right, she thoughtfully used angles.

This was what surprised Lin Fan. If the women of this era knew poetry, songs, and could play musical instruments.

Lin Fan wouldn't be so surprised. Art cultivated sentiment, which was in line with the character and positioning of women.

Lin Fan was the first time to discover a girl like Ji Wudi who had an understanding of the position and angle.

Of course, in this era, Ji Wudi was also the third woman that Lin Fan had had little contact with.

This girl had the mind of a science and engineering man!

Through Ji Wudi's introduction, Lin Fan quickly established a three-dimensional stereoscopic map based on this airport.

To be safe, he compared it with Ji Wudi again.

Lin Fan gathered the seven squad leaders and one directly subordinate captain, announced his planned combat plan, and asked for their opinions.

This time, all seven squad leaders and one captain objected!

Strongly opposed!

Li Xian, the deputy company commander, didn't understand military affairs yet, so he didn't have the right to speak. He could only quietly watch the eight squad leaders present arguing and expressing their opinions.

There were ten people on the scene, eight opposed, and one neutral. Lin Fan was stunned: this plan was so perfect and ensured the safety of the Special Company soldiers to the greatest extent!

The eight squad leaders' reasons for opposing were very simple: "The entire company ran so far, just to watch you fire a cannon?"

Lin Fan's plan was for safety and security: it was for him to strike the Japanese devils' airport and auxiliary facilities from a distance in this position.

Lin Fan was very confident in his cannon firing technique.

And at a distance of two thousand meters, after bombing the Japanese devils' airport, they could retreat completely before the Japanese devils could react.

It wasn't that there was no risk at all, such as the Japanese devils' artillery counterattack, such as the Japanese devils' infantry search.

But as long as they were arranged properly, there would be no problem!

Lin Fan was very confident about this.

But in this way, the entire Special Company soldiers became Lin Fan's cannonball carriers. Did everyone spend two nights and one day just to carry three shells over?

Xiao Dongbei said firmly, "We've all come here, deliberately wanting to fight.

If we don't give these Japanese devils a hard time, we're sorry for this day!"

He was referring to the dark sky today.

Xiao Dongbei's heart was also dark enough. The timing of today was indeed suitable for a sneak attack.

His heart must be darker than the night now in the matter of fighting the Japanese devils.

The other squad leaders also meant the same.

According to Lin Fan's original plan, their squad was just to do some guard work nearby.

If the Japanese devils' search team found them here, they would only let them fight a small ambush.

But they wanted to fight the Japanese devils!

They wanted to actively fight the Japanese devils!