Undeniably, when carrying the gun carriage and barrel during transfers, the Special Forces Company's soldiers ran much faster.

This was the advantage of strong physical fitness.

Now, these soldiers trained even more conscientiously.

That evening, the entire 128th Division was immersed in savoring the exhilarating battles of the day.

Division Commander Gu Jiaqi couldn't help but feel delighted when he thought of the Special Forces Company's and his own artillery company's battle achievements.

But now wasn't the time to celebrate.

On the battlefield, only the one who laughs last is the victor.

Although the 128th Division had fought exceptionally well today, it also allowed Division Commander Gu Jiaqi to witness the power of the Japanese artillery.

Especially those fortresses that were collapsed by a single Japanese shell.

If the Japanese infantry and artillery coordinated well tomorrow, suppressing his company's artillery, the entire battlefield situation would immediately reverse.

For victory, the entire 128th Division was busy that night.

As for the Japanese 18th Division and the Sato Detachment, they were busy reorganizing their troops.

The number of soldiers killed in action today was simply too high, making both units somewhat unable to bear it.

The one with the biggest headache tonight wasn't the 18th Division's Commander, Sadao Ushijima, anyway, the soldiers in his unit were dead.

No aftereffects.

The Sato Detachment's Commander, Satoshi Sato, was looking at his subordinate, the battalion commander, Takeo Tai, whom he most admired.

If he had any self-awareness, he should have voluntarily requested seppuku at this time.

In order to wash away the shame on his body.

But the current Battalion Commander Takeo Tai, although dejected.

But there was a strong desire to survive, he still wanted to contribute to the empire's conquest of this country.

He said that he wanted to preserve his useful body, sacrifice for the empire, and contribute to the empire!

This made Detachment Commander Satoshi Sato very speechless.

The deserters from Takeo Tai's battalion who had caused him to pursue them were also caught.

These deserters had already been dealt with by Detachment Commander Satoshi Sato, according to military law.

Battalion Commander Takeo Tai was already dead, and his soldiers were considered orphans without a mother, of course, no one interceded for these soldiers.

Dealing with those ordinary soldiers was easy, dealing with Takeo Tai was really too difficult.

Detachment Commander Satoshi Sato finally sent Battalion Commander Takeo Tai to the rear.

He fulfilled his wish to remain useful, but not to send him back to enjoy himself.

He was sending Battalion Commander Takeo Tai back to face a court-martial.

The long night finally passed.

During this night, Major Yuma Fujiwara led his special forces, waiting all night at the 128th Division's artillery positions.

But they didn't wait for anything.

He already knew what happened to the Sato Detachment yesterday.

The unexpected strength of the opponent, and the cowardice of Battalion Commander Takeo Tai, both surprised Major Yuma Fujiwara.

He couldn't wait any longer.

The Fujiwara Special Forces had to take action!

Since they couldn't break through the 128th Division's defenses from the front.

Major Yuma Fujiwara suggested to Division Commander Sadao Ushijima to assign a unit to make a large detour, attacking the 128th Division from the side.

Division Commander Sadao Ushijima, who had been trapped here for days and unable to move an inch, approved the plan after only a little consideration.

He contacted the 114th Division and allocated a battalion to Major Yuma Fujiwara.

Let him lead the team to bypass the front lines, secretly cross the Nanyang Fu Tang east of Xitang Town, and attack south along the Shanxi Highway and Changsheng Tang.

Major Yuma Fujiwara set off with his mission.

November 13, 1937, Early Morning:

Yesterday's lessons were too tragic, as soon as it dawned.

The 128th Division's front lines were met with fierce artillery bombardment from the Japanese.

Last night, Detachment Commander Satoshi Sato had moved all of his detachment's heavy artillery and mountain guns to the front of the 128th Division.

He wanted to wash away yesterday's shame.

Today, the entire force of the Sato Detachment had come to assist the 18th Division in the attack.

All the artillery of both units were pouring artillery fire onto the positions that they had failed to capture yesterday.

In the sky, Japanese bombers circling constantly were also continuously dropping bombs on the crowded positions.

Attack planes swept past the front of the positions again and again, machine guns constantly strafing the figures on the positions.

Hitting those people, causing them to roll on the ground non-stop.

Shells were exploding everywhere on the two square kilometers of land.

This all-round bombardment lasted a full hour and a half.

When the shelling had just begun, Detachment Commander Satoshi Sato was still able to see the bodies of the defending soldiers on the positions yesterday being torn apart by shells and rising into the air from his binoculars.

Today, the Sato Detachment and the 18th Division were fighting together.

Gu Jiaqi and his two brigade commanders stood in the command post, which had retreated quite a bit, watching the Japanese artillery ravage yesterday's positions.

The staff members in the entire command post all had expressions of admiration on their faces.

No one paid attention to the figures on the positions that were constantly being blown up.

All they were concerned about was that the Japanese firepower was too strong.

The entire 128th Division command post was not worried at all about the intense Japanese artillery bombardment.

On the contrary, the expressions on these people's faces were somewhat excited.

The bombardment on the front positions stopped, and the Japanese infantry began to charge.

Satoshi Sato watched the front positions nervously, silently planning in his mind, looking forward to the opposing artillery starting to bombard.

Last night, after discussions among the staff of the Sato Detachment, they came to a conclusion:

The opposing defenders were using mortars every time, according to the maximum range of mortars, it would not exceed three thousand meters.

In order to prevent their own artillery positions from being destroyed by the opponent again, it was recommended that the artillery positions be set up more than three thousand meters away from the front edge of the opponent's positions.

Today, all the artillery positions of the Sato Detachment and the 18th Division were far away from the positions of the 128th Division by more than three thousand meters.

There was only one purpose: to prevent the opponent from having a chance to take advantage.

Now Detachment Commander Satoshi Sato watched his infantry charge to one hundred meters away from yesterday's positions.

All the officers and soldiers of the entire Sato Detachment became nervous.

All the officers and soldiers of the 18th Division who were charging also became nervous.

They all knew that every time they charged to about fifty meters in front of the defenders' positions, there would be a sudden artillery bombardment.

Although artillery was also deployed in the rear of the Japanese today, ready to suppress the defenders' bombardment at any time.

But the first to be bombed were still the charging soldiers!

Fifty meters, no shells fell from the air.

This was an unexpected surprise!

Thirty meters, still safe.

The artillery bombardment that everyone had expected did not arrive.

This was not ordinary safety, even the defenders on the positions did not fire a single shot.

When they charged into the positions, these Japanese soldiers, full of strength, realized: they had been tricked again.

All the figures on the entire battle line were scarecrows.

This was the second time they had fallen into the same trap under the same trick.

They had fallen into the same pit twice.

Last night, Gu Jiaqi again ordered the entire division to retreat one thousand meters, and dug new trenches and fortifications in the rear.

On the original positions, new scarecrows were still left to confuse the enemy.

Unexpectedly, the Japanese were tricked again.

This time, the Japanese finally advanced one kilometer without bloodshed, and to this day, the Japanese 18th Division had been blocked here for a full five days.

They advanced eight kilometers!

The Japanese troops who had seized the positions did not stop, they continued to attack forward under the urging of their officers.

The distance of one thousand meters was not long, fifteen minutes later, the Japanese soldiers at the front were attacked by the defenders.

This time, the defenders did not indulge the Japanese, and only the first round of shooting repelled the Japanese's tentative attack.

As soon as these Japanese infantrymen retreated, the bombers and attack planes in the sky immediately began to attack this new line of defense.

The artillery bombardment from the rear also followed.

This time, the intensity of the bombardment was ultimately not as fierce as the last time.

The hasty and hurried bombardment lasted for ten minutes.

Next was the charge of the Japanese infantry.

Today, the focus of the Japanese attack had changed again, they changed the key breakthrough to the positions defended by the 382nd Brigade, which was the right flank of the entire 128th Division.

The artillery bombardment was also the most concentrated here.

When attacking yesterday, the Japanese used human wave tactics, suffering heavy casualties, today they changed their tactics.

Each time, they only sent a company of Japanese soldiers to attack.

As long as their infantry charge was repelled, there would immediately be artillery and air support.

Artillery bomb! After the artillery bomb, the infantry charge!

Infantry charge! After the infantry charge, the artillery bomb!

From the morning, the 382nd Brigade had been holding on under such tactics of the Japanese.

What puzzled Satoshi Sato and Sadao Ushijima was that the defending artillery that had caused heavy casualties to their units yesterday had not fired a single shell all morning.

Division Commander Gu Jiaqi said to Lin Fan in the command post, "Although the Japanese artillery fire is fierce today.

But the number of attacking people is not enough, and our artillery is not suitable for battle yet.

Our mission is to defend the Jiashan positions for four days, although this mission has been completed.

But the superiors have not issued an order for us to withdraw.

We have to continue to defend here.

I don't know how many more days we will have to defend, so what we have to attack is the Japanese people.

Your team is our biggest trump card, and we have to use it at the most appropriate time."

So Lin Fan's Special Forces Company and the division's directly subordinate artillery company could only prepare for battle in the rear.

The artillery fire continued in the front, and the wounded were constantly being sent down.

The soldiers of the Special Forces Company, according to Lin Fan's request, were conducting normal training behind the battlefield.

When Hua Yuande saw this team, still training under such combat readiness, he was very impressed.

He also ordered his soldiers to train.

Li Xian specially ran to Jiashan City today to buy meat for the soldiers of the Special Forces Company.

On the 13th, the Japanese attack never stopped.

The two sides were entangled until dusk, when the Japanese finally withdrew their troops.

Major Yuma Sato led his five hundred men, plus a battalion from the 114th Division, the entire force of 1,700 men.

Finally detoured, approaching the 128th Division's positions from the right rear.

It was just that it was late.

He did not launch an attack, at this time, the 128th Division did not know that there was a Japanese force of nearly two thousand people lurking on the right wing of their 382nd Brigade Commander.

November 14th, Morning, As the battle just began.

From the rear of the 128th Division's side, a force of nearly two thousand people suddenly rushed out.

Instantly cutting off the entire division's connection with the rear.

If this force was allowed to complete the penetration, the 128th Division would be surrounded by the Japanese.

Faced with the sudden situation, Division Commander Gu Jiaqi decisively ordered: "The entire division abandon the first line of defense at Lizexiang Nanqiao.

Directly retreat to the second line of defense at Jiashan Railway Station.

In order to ensure the retreat of the entire division.

He specially ordered the 767th Regiment to move its defenses to the west of Jiashan, guarding the No. 67 railway bridge outside the West Gate."

After the order was issued, Gu Jiaqi walked out of the command post, looking at Lin Fan, Hua Yuande, and the 767th Regiment left behind as a reserve team:

"Now is the time for you to go into battle!

Support the 382nd Brigade Commander, eliminate the Japanese troops on the right wing, and open up a retreat route for the entire division."

Shi Tianyun, the commander of the 767th Regiment, immediately led the entire regiment to charge towards the Japanese troops who had already cut off the Shanxi Highway.

The Special Forces Company followed behind.

Behind them was the 128th Division headquarters, Gu Jiaqi was behind this team, he wanted to personally go to the front line.

Major Yuma Fujiwara commanded his soldiers to attack the positions in front.

At this time, he was in a pleasant mood.

They had arrived at the battlefield, appearing behind the defenders.

Now the defenders were under attack from both sides, and their only retreat route had been cut off.

As long as they held this place, this force would definitely be wiped out here.

At this moment, he saw a team rushing out from his left wing.

Charging towards his temporarily established positions.

This was something that Major Yuma Fujiwara had prepared for.

Yueshou Xiongda's battalion from the 114th Division, which had detoured with him, immediately sent out two companies to meet them.

Zhongdui Captain Yata Enia led his nearly two hundred men to meet the charging National Army.

This time they were defending, and the National Army was attacking.

Zhongdui Captain Yata Enia felt very at ease, and ordered: the first squad formed the first line of defense, the second line of defense twenty meters behind, and the third line of defense twenty meters behind again.

The machine guns of the three squads had to maintain fire suppression on the charging National Army.

His orders were immediately carried out.

Zhongdui Captain Hanaka Waki's Zhongdu also carried out the orders.

The three squads of this Zhongdu carried out the same defensive method.

In this way, there were two squads of troops on each line of defense they established.

These Japanese soldiers watched the National Army who came to attack charge to two hundred meters away.

The machine guns began to fire.

The Japanese rifles also began to fire freely, their marksmanship was very accurate.

The soldiers of the 128th Division charging at the front immediately fell down.

When Lin Fan saw what was happening on the front line, he immediately ordered: "The Special Forces Company's direct unit stops, prepares to shoot.

The rest of the classes, continue to advance!

I'll clear the way for you, you charge up, open a gap, and hand it over to the 767th Regiment."

Li Xian replied loudly: "Yes!"

The Japanese's fierce barrage of bullets knocked down more than a dozen soldiers charging at the front.

The rest of the soldiers could only crawl down.

This position was still two hundred meters away from the Japanese positions.

Regiment Commander Shi Tianyun's heart skipped a beat: this group is different today.

The Japanese's marksmanship was accurate, but in the past, they only started shooting like this when the team charged to a hundred meters away.

Today, the distance between the two sides was still so far, according to this degree of attack.

When his regiment charged to the Japanese positions, he was afraid that there would not be many people left.

At this moment, a team of soldiers rushed past him.

These were soldiers from the Special Forces Company.

Shi Tianyun knew about this, he knew that this team's soldiers were very good at artillery.

Before he had time to speak, Li Xian had already run over: "Report to Regiment Commander Shi! The Special Forces Company requests to be the vanguard to clear the way.

Please approve!"

"Approved!" Shi Tianyun agreed to this request without even thinking.

Now was not the time to compete for credit, the Japanese firepower in front was so fierce.

The casualties of being the vanguard would not be small.

He had no reason to refuse.

Li Xian accepted the order: "The whole company prepares to attack!"

The officers and soldiers of the entire 767th Regiment all saw that when the entire regiment was crawling forward.

There was a team still bowing their bodies and rushing forward.

Such a conspicuous team immediately attracted Satoshi Sato's attention.

At this time, being able to persist in charging must be the other side's elite.

As long as this elite was taken down, the other side's morale would collapse.

The next battle would be easier to fight.

He pointed to this charging team: "Aim and fire!"

As soon as Major Yuma Sato's words fell.

A sharp whistling sound came from the air!

This was the sound of shells falling!

Major Yuma Sato's body reacted a little faster than his thoughts.

His body lunged to the side, and then did a beautiful roll.

At this moment, Major Yuma Sato felt his body being pushed by a strong shock wave, and continued to roll twice.

Only then did he stop.

When he looked up, he saw a crater appearing not far from where he had just been standing.

The several staff officers and soldiers who had been beside him were all lying in a pool of blood.

Looking around: the entire line of defense had been subjected to the other side's artillery bombardment.

"That mysterious team has appeared!" This was Satoshi Sato's first thought.

Lin Fan had just seen a group of people on the distant Japanese positions observing his direction.

Being able to observe the situation on the battlefield must be officers.

So he did not hesitate to send them a shell.

Lin Fan saw the agile movements of the officer on the other side.

"To be able to escape like this! An expert!" Lin Fan thought to himself.

But his hands did not stop at all, this time he did not bomb the commander.

This time it was to bombard the two companies sent out by the Japanese.

Zhongdui Captain Yata Enia never thought that his positions would be subjected to such a fierce artillery bombardment.

The two companies' temporary positions were actually just positions that the soldiers had found that were slightly suitable for shooting.

They had not had time to dig a simple fortification.

Now they were being rubbed against the mud by the other side's fierce artillery fire.

Zhongdui Captain Yata Enia, who was in the midst of the situation, felt that the sky was dark and the earth was dark, and the sky was full of continuous artillery fire.

In fact, Yuyu Yuma Sato and Battalion Commander Yueshou Xiongda, who were crawling in the distance, secretly observed that:

The number of troops attacking was not large, only more than a hundred people.

The artillery bombardment was not fierce either, it was just that the other side concentrated the not many shells they had on the positions of the two companies that were blocking their way.

This made the artillery fire density in that small area unusually high.