Gu Jiaqi interjected at this moment, "Shaowu! Now that you've broken through the encirclement, you can come back by taking a detour."

He Shaowu licked his lips, "Still thirsty!"

"Give him water!"

After drinking another half bowl of water, He Shaowu continued, "Seeing how fiercely those special forces soldiers were killing Japanese devils, this subordinate felt a little unwilling.

I wanted to turn around and launch a surprise attack, so that our Gan Army wouldn't be looked down upon."

Gu Jiaqi laughed, "When have we, the Gan Army, ever been looked down upon?"

He Shaowu continued, "This old man charged into the Japanese encirclement a second time, and this time it was a bit more difficult.

Anyway, we just kept hacking at the Japanese devils.

I don't know how long it lasted.

Suddenly, the Japanese camp behind us was bombarded with bombs.

Those Japanese devils were shocked and started scattering.

Only then did I lead the brothers back."

Gu Jiaqi asked, "How many brothers came back?"

"Two hundred and seventy-three."

Gu Jiaqi knew that He Shaowu's Second Battalion had three hundred and forty-seven men when they set out.

Seventy-four brothers sacrificed themselves this night.

He Shaowu's excited mood was somewhat subdued when he talked about the casualties, and then he reported in a low voice, "These seventy-four brothers can rest in peace.

We killed at least five hundred Japanese devils tonight."

Gu Jiaqi was really surprised this time, "Really!"

"Really! It's just that the battle was too fierce. Otherwise, I would have cut off the left ears of the Japanese devils to claim credit," He Shaowu said with some regret.

"That's not necessary.

After that special forces company left, do you know what they did?"

"I don't know!"

He Shaowu pointed to the fiery lines in the night sky and said, "Did they fire those cannons?"

"Why do you say that?" Gu Jiaqi asked.

"They were going to attack the Japanese artillery positions, and now those cannons are firing from behind the Japanese devils.

Looking at the direction, it's coming from Songjing. Who else could it be but them?" He Shaowu said with a smile.

He was too happy tonight. Killing more than five hundred Japanese devils in one battle was a great victory!

Gu Jiaqi thought that Lin Fan and the others came from the Jiangyin Fortress, and there were definitely cannons on the fortress.

Thinking of this, he returned to the command post to have the phone connected to the Jiangyin Fortress command post.

This required several transfers.

After at least ten minutes, the connection was finally made.

Gu Jiaqi reported his identity on the phone, but at this time, no one on the Jiangyin side had ever heard of his name.

Gu Jiaqi, a general from a local area, could only get straight to the point, "I have a special forces company here claiming to be from the Jiangyin Fortress. The company commander is called Lin Fan.

I want to find out if there is such a unit and such a company.

I also want to ask if this company knows how to operate artillery?"

Xu Kang, who answered the phone, laughed, "There is such a company, and there is a company commander named Lin Fan.

The entire company has one hundred and seventy men, and the deputy company commander is called Li Xian.

As for artillery, there is no one in this world who can fire more accurately than Lin Fan.

On the morning of the sixth, Lin Fan operated an anti-aircraft gun and shot down thirty-nine enemy planes.

This is what I and Zhang Boting, the chief of staff of the Eighty-eighth Division, witnessed with our own eyes."

Gu Jiaqi was stunned when he heard the other side say that he shot down thirty-nine planes in one morning.

After exchanging a few more pleasantries, Gu Jiaqi put down the phone.

Looking at He Shaowu, who was waiting eagerly for the answer, he said, "They said that Lin Fan is the most accurate artilleryman in the world.

Their entire company are artillerymen!"

This really confirmed that those shells that were bombing the Japanese camp might really have been fired by the special forces company.

Gu Jiaqi had an idea in his mind: if this company could come back, he could give them some of his treasured shells.

While he was thinking this, he walked out again, looking at the artillery fire in the night sky that seemed like it would never stop, "How did they do it?"

In Gu Jiaqi's mind, even if Lin Fan and his team succeeded in a surprise attack and occupied the Japanese artillery position.

But firing cannons openly to bombard the Japanese camp like this would definitely cause a counterattack from the Japanese devils.

How could a team of more than one hundred people resist the encirclement from all directions?

It had been almost an hour since those cannons started firing, right?

No matter how slow the Japanese devils were to react, they should have figured out the reason by now.

He was right to think so.

But what Gu Jiaqi didn't expect was that the special forces company had accidentally found out the location of the headquarters of the 18th Division.

And they bombed this headquarters at the first moment of firing the cannons.

This delayed all the Japanese devils' response plans.

By the time Ushijima Sadauo reacted and began to deploy troops for a counterattack, it had been half an hour since Lin Fan and the others had started firing.

What Gu Jiaqi and Ushijima Sadauo didn't expect even more was that Lin Fan's team could use high-powered shells to block the Japanese devils who came to attack.

Whether it was Gu Jiaqi knowing that the special forces company only had one hundred and seventy men, or Ushijima Sadauo knowing that the mountain artillery regiment had less than seven hundred soldiers.

Under normal circumstances, such a team would not be a match for the four teams sent by Ushijima Sadauo.

But the special forces company liked and was best at attacking when the enemy was unprepared.

They placed high-powered bombs on the only way these teams had to pass.

This kind of directional bomb, specially used for attacks, ambushes, and assassinations, was used by the officers and soldiers of the special forces company with great skill.

This kind of directional bomb was much better than landmines, and its power and attack area were also much larger.

Without obstruction, it could kill enemies more than one hundred and thirty meters away at the farthest.

This was why the special forces company set up a defensive line every one hundred meters.

Gu Jiaqi didn't return to his room until he saw that the fiery lines in the sky had stopped.

But he couldn't sleep tonight.

He knew, "From this moment on, that team is in the most dangerous situation."

Now the special forces company was surrounded by Japanese devils, and it was not easy for them to pass through the Japanese defense line and return to the position of the 128th Division under the eyes of the Japanese devils.

Ushijima Sadauo looked at the shells constantly flying across the sky, and the anger in his heart could already burst out of his head.

He had already sent two regiments of cavalry to attack the artillery position from the east and west.

At the same time, he also sent two battalions to follow behind the cavalry.

The cannons on that artillery position were still firing.

This was completely beyond his control!

When did he lose control of an artillery regiment under his command?

The cavalry had been dispatched for half an hour, but no news had been sent back, and those cannons had not stopped firing.

What was going on?

Ushijima Sadauo had to send another team to reinforce them.

As soon as the reinforcement team set off, a magical scene appeared.

The artillery fire in the night sky stopped.

The Oharajunpei Battalion was dispatched urgently.

Their mission was to rush to the artillery position of the 18th Mountain Artillery Regiment as quickly as possible.

Find out what happened.

When this team rushed to a distance of one thousand meters from the artillery position.

They saw a burst of intense fire erupting from the artillery position.

And there was a huge explosion.

"What happened to the artillery position?"

Although Oharajunpei Battalion Commander had already known when he set off that the 18th Mountain Artillery Regiment had been defined as a rebel army by the division commander.

Oharajunpei Battalion Commander urged the soldiers to run.

As the team advanced to a distance of six to seven hundred meters from the artillery position.

The light that exploded from that position was even more dazzling than before.

When the Oharajunpei Battalion continued to advance more than one hundred meters, there were many corpses on the flat and muddy road.

The team continued to advance, and there were more and more corpses on the road, which could be described as layers upon layers.

Oharajunpei Battalion Commander ordered the messenger, "Report to the division commander that there are dense corpses of imperial soldiers and warhorses on the road five hundred meters from the artillery position!"

After giving the order, Oharajunpei followed the team to continue advancing, looking at the artillery position in front, after the two explosions just now.

Everything returned to darkness.

"Flare!" Oharajunpei ordered.

Now the entire battalion could see the situation under their feet.

Under their feet were the corpses of imperial soldiers, and it was conceivable what kind of battle they had experienced to cause such heavy casualties.

At this moment, Oharajunpei suddenly heard two more explosions.

Under the pale light of the flare, two clusters of fiery red light suddenly burst out.

Then he felt as if he had been pierced by countless bullets.

He was not the only one in the entire Oharajunpei Battalion who was hit like this.

At least three hundred people were hit like this.

Those soldiers who were close to the explosion point had already lost their pain in an instant.

Only those soldiers who were farther away were hit by several iron pellets.

They didn't die for a while, howling and moaning in pain.

Oharajunpei Battalion Commander was killed, and Vice Captain Kosugichokuya took over the command.

He shouted loudly, "Flare! Ahead!

Charge! Charge!"

Some soldiers of this team, which was suddenly attacked, panicked and fired at the artillery position in the darkness ahead.

It was not wrong to counterattack first when encountering an attack.

They kept counterattacking for nearly five minutes before they realized that the darkness on the opposite side silently endured everything.

There was no counterattack!

When this battalion charged towards the artillery position again.

Under the white light of the flare, they could clearly see that all the cannons on the entire artillery position were crooked on the ground.

The gun barrels were all cracked, and the gun bodies were also twisted.

Such cannons could no longer be used at all.

The entire artillery position was in a mess, and no clues could be found.

Kosugichokuya Captain sent a messenger again, "Oharajunpei Battalion Commander was killed, and the Oharajunpei Battalion occupied the artillery position.

Twenty-four cannons were completely destroyed, and all the shells were completely destroyed."

This was enough.

Ushijima Sadauo confirmed his guess in a short period of time: all four teams that were sent out first were killed.

The artillery position had also been completely destroyed.

He could not accept such a result.

At this time, the soldiers of the special forces company were marching along a river called Xianjing by the locals.

The soldiers of the special forces company were used to such marching. They walked quickly, following the people in front.

Don't talk!

During their march, they had already discovered two Japanese camps.

These camps were now noisy.

From the noisy voices, it could be heard that these Japanese devils were somewhat panicked!

The Japanese devils were obviously shocked by the sudden situation tonight.

The straight-line distance between the two sides was less than two hundred meters.

The soldiers of the special forces company quietly passed through the edges of these Japanese camps.

The soldiers of the special forces company were not doing this for the first time.

This was even more nothing to the forty people of Niu Dongxing and the others.

When they were fighting guerrillas, they would even quietly pass through the grass and bushes a few meters away from the enemy.

This kind of scene tested the soldiers' psychological quality.

The special forces company passed through four such Japanese camps all the way without any danger.

Lin Fan remembered what the resident of Fengjingbin said: the Japanese devils had blocked all waterways and land routes.

Now it seemed that the special forces company's continuous artillery bombardment had made the Japanese devils misunderstand that the national army should have a major operation tonight, so they shrunk these blockade lines.

They should be preparing to shrink their forces and prepare to deal with the imagined national army troops' attack.

When Lin Fan and the others returned to the garrison again, it was already six o'clock in the morning.

Division Commander Gu Jiaqi personally came to the garrison of the special forces company.

What he saw was that the soldiers of the special forces company were eating breakfast. The beef from yesterday had not been finished by the special forces company.

Beef soup, white rice!

Gu Jiaqi also had an appetite, "Give me a bowl too!"

Li Xian quickly brought a bowl of rice for the division commander, and the dishes were placed on the table in large basins.

Do it yourself!

Gu Jiaqi looked at Lin Fan, "How are the casualties?"

"Five wounded, all minor injuries!"

Lin Fan's words almost made Gu Jiaqi drop the bowl in his hand.

In such a fierce battle last night, only five people were injured.

But he was someone who had seen big battles after all: stabilize!

Gu Jiaqi said to himself.

"Have you seen a doctor? Do you have medicine?" he asked with concern.

"We have medicine, but we haven't seen a doctor." Lin Fan's impression of this division commander who asked about the wounded first improved at once.

"Let them go to the field hospital to bandage themselves later.

We have doctors, but we don't have much medicine. We don't lack these few wounded of yours either," Gu Jiaqi said lightly.

Lin Fan said with a smile, "Thank you, division commander!"

At this time, Gu Jiaqi asked, "Was it successful last night?"

Lin Fan said with a smile, "It was successful! We occupied the Japanese artillery position, with a full twenty-four cannons.

Not only that, we also fired a random barrage, firing cannons for a full hour.

Only then did we completely destroy those cannons, ensuring that not a single usable cannon was left.

But the Japanese devils are too cunning. They obviously didn't concentrate all the cannons in one place.

Even if we destroyed twenty-four of them, it is estimated that there will be cannons transferred over.

After all, they have forty-eight cannons in a division.

What we saw last night was only half the firepower of their division."

Gu Jiaqi had been stunned since he heard Lin Fan say that they fired cannons for an hour.

At this time, he said, "It is already very remarkable to be able to blow up twenty-four cannons.

We will fight the cannons that come up later in the same way.

It's always better than not destroying them."

Lin Fan nodded with a smile.

Gu Jiaqi looked at Lin Fan, "Are you going to continue to defend here?"

Lin Fan said, "Of course, we came from Jiangyin to fight the Japanese devils."

Gu Jiaqi said embarrassedly, "I brought you three hundred shells!"

Lin Fan accepted them with a smile, and then said embarrassedly, "We fought all night yesterday, so the soldiers need to rest during the day today. We may not be able to participate in the battle.

But we will not retreat."

Gu Jiaqi finally couldn't help but ask, "When you occupied the artillery position last night, didn't the Japanese devils come to stop you?"

Lin Fan laughed, "How could they not come? Last night, I originally wanted to go to Yun Zhujia Courtyard first and ask Zhu Laosanzhu Xixiong about the situation.

Before we got close, we found cars parked outside his courtyard.

We didn't dare to go in, so we found someone else in the town to ask.

Only then did we know that all the wounded and the Zhu family in the entire Zhujia Courtyard had been buried alive by the Japanese devils."

When Lin Fan said this, Gu Jiaqi couldn't help but clench his fists.

He didn't speak, but there was already a murderous aura in his eyes.

Lin Fan continued, "We found out the location of the Japanese artillery position.

We swaggered into the position, killed the sentries, and then blew up all the Japanese devils in the entire artillery position.

We sent people to guard the four directions separately.

We readjusted the angle and direction of the cannons before firing.

Those howitzers of the Japanese devils can only hit far and cannot hit near.

We used mortars to hit Zhujia Courtyard, firing a full two hundred shells.

It can be regarded as revenge for the Zhu family.

As for the cavalry sent by the Japanese devils, two teams did come, but none of them broke through our blocking position.

Their infantry was the same."

Lin Fan looked at Gu Jiaqi and said with a smile, "It's not that we are so powerful, it's actually because it's night.

Everyone can't see, and we planted bombs in advance.

The Japanese cavalry and the infantry who rushed over behind them were all ambushed by us.

They were in chaos before the battle, so of course they couldn't beat us.

If it were daytime, such an ambush would easily be discovered by the Japanese devils.

It would not be possible to have any effect.

Another thing is that there was no artillery support for the Japanese devils last night!"

Lin Fan explained so much, and Gu Jiaqi knew that he was taking care of the face of his 128th Division.

Today, his team had been forced to retreat again by the Japanese devils and could only enter the national defense position.

More than a thousand bunkers had been built in the entire Jiaxing.

Gu Jiaqi had already seen that the firing holes of the bunkers were too large, and the soldiers could only block them with small sandbags.

The sky was slightly bright, and he couldn't stay here any longer. Gu Jiaqi had to return to the command post.

Today will be another fierce battle!

Of course, at this time, he still didn't know what kind of damage Lin Fan's special forces company had caused to the 18th Class Division on the opposite side.

When Ushijima Sadauo saw Zhujia Courtyard again, he couldn't believe that this was the place he had lived in yesterday.

The entire Zhujia Courtyard, with so many houses, now not a single one was intact.

The roofs of all the rooms had collapsed, and the walls of the houses were also in ruins.

There was not a single intact wall.

Ushijima Sadauo looked at the soldiers who were still clearing the ruins, constantly carrying out the corpses of imperial soldiers from under these houses.

Now he had no feelings.

What he cared about were the documents buried in the ruins.

Yesterday, he fled in a hurry, and not a single document from the entire headquarters was brought out.