August 6, 1938, 9:00 AM:

The Second Company of the Sixth Regiment of the Special Forces Brigade was already engaged in fierce combat with the Ebihara 43rd Squadron, which had been sent to reinforce the east of the city.

Meng Qilue, the company commander, led his troops into the ranks of the Ebihara 43rd Squadron, smashing through their lines with irresistible force.

Company Commander Meng led the charge at the front of the formation, immediately attracting the attention of the Ebihara 43rd Squadron Leader.

He couldn't help but notice him; it seemed to be destined.

In order to stop this Chinese army force that had broken through, the Ebihara 43rd Squadron Leader drew his command saber and charged towards Company Commander Meng Qilue.

Meng Qilue had just bayoneted two Japanese soldiers in front of him when a command saber came crashing down towards his face.

The Ebihara 43rd Squadron Leader's strike was swift and fierce, and he put all of his strength into it.

He had chosen his moment carefully. In a head-on duel, the Ebihara 43rd had seen this ferocious Chinese soldier continuously stab two of his men to death.

Afraid that he was not his opponent, he immediately attacked while the other man's bayonet was still stuck in the Japanese soldiers, ensuring the other would not be able to defend himself.

Company Commander Meng Qilue saw the flash of the saber in front of him as the command saber descended towards him, while his own rifle's bayonet was still stuck in the chest of the Japanese soldier.

He couldn't panic in this situation. He exerted force with his feet, and the effects of the past six months of training were immediately apparent.

Company Commander Meng leaped backwards, maintaining his posture, yet retreating a full meter.

The Ebihara 43rd had considered that this ferocious soldier might move to the left, or perhaps to the right.

These actions were within his calculations, and he had prepared follow-up attacks.

What he hadn't expected was that the other man would retreat as if he had wings, retreating a full meter, putting himself out of reach of his command saber.

After leaping back, the bayonet of his rifle naturally came out of the Japanese soldier's chest.

Company Commander Meng Qilue did not pause for even a moment.

As soon as his feet touched the ground, he immediately sprang forward, leaping into the air once again in a basic bayonet charge: a lunge!

The Ebihara 43rd Squadron Leader had not expected this soldier, who had been as ferocious as a tiger when fighting his men, to be as agile as a fox when faced with his sneak attack.

This retreat and advance not only allowed him to avoid his deadly strike, but also put him in a desperate situation.

Seeing the bayonet stabbing towards his chest like lightning, the Ebihara 43rd Squadron Leader shouted and swung his saber downwards with both hands.

This time, he was aiming to chop at the rifle that was stabbing towards him.

Once again, the Ebihara 43rd Squadron Leader never expected that this man, who had leaped over so quickly with such earth-shattering force, would actually be able to retract his gun in mid-air.

The soldier seemed to pause in mid-air for a moment, and his movements suddenly seemed to slow down.

His saber struck empty air due to excessive force and continued to slash towards the ground.

Knowing that he was in a desperate situation, the Ebihara 43rd Squadron Leader roared again, trying to steady his command saber, and at the same time trying to steady his center of gravity so that he would not fall forward.

Company Commander Meng Qilue retracted and delivered the bayonet in his hand.

This time, the Japanese soldier had no ability to resist.

His center of gravity was unstable, and it looked as if he was actively using his chest to meet the bayonet.

The Ebihara 43rd Squadron Leader was also a ruthless man.

Even as his chest was pierced and he felt an unbearable pain, he stubbornly swung his command saber horizontally.

He clearly felt the bayonet spin halfway in his chest.

This was like sending a large part of his life to the goddess Amaterasu.

There was no way he could survive.

However, the legs of this fierce Chinese soldier would soon be gone.

Company Commander Meng Qilue realized the Japanese soldier's intention: he wanted to trade his life for his legs!

Company Commander Meng exerted force with his feet again, performing another classic leap back.

The Ebihara 43rd Squadron Leader watched in despair as his last-ditch swing of the saber cut through the air.

He struggled to lift his head and look at Company Commander Meng Qilue: "Are you a monkey?"

The way he jumped around, he couldn't imagine how such a ferocious man could do that.

Company Commander Meng Qilue was a little surprised that this Japanese soldier was asking about his zodiac sign.

He was an honest man, and he answered very truthfully: "I'm a pig."

The Ebihara 43rd Squadron Leader finally used up his last breath, and his body fell to the ground.

This was just a minor interlude.

At this time, the Japanese soldiers of the entire Ebihara 43rd Squadron were fighting desperately, but their desperate struggles were actually useless.

Today, they had encountered these soldiers of the Special Forces Brigade, and they were completely crushed by the entire Ebihara 43rd Squadron in terms of height, strength, and skill.

Behind the Ebihara 43rd Squadron was the Kagawa Hideki Squadron.

Squadron Leader Kagawa Hideki could not clearly see what was happening in front of him, but he could hear the sounds of gunfire from the Li Xiuping Squadron following behind him.

Moreover, he had already seen the puppet troops squeezing towards his squadron in a panic.

With snipers in front and pursuers behind, had the Kagawa Hideki Squadron become a sandwich cookie?

Just as he was worried, many Chinese soldiers suddenly appeared on the roofs on both sides, and these soldiers threw down a rain of grenades as soon as they showed their heads.

Squadron Leader Kagawa Hideki's order and the grenades sounded at the same time: "Roofs! Shoot at the roofs!"

However, the sound of his order was not as loud as the grenades, and it was immediately drowned out by the sound of the explosions.

After seeing the Chinese soldiers on the roof, Squadron Leader Kagawa Hideki immediately rushed to the side of the street.

By the time the grenades exploded, he had already moved away from the most dangerous middle of the street.

Attacking the middle of the Japanese army in the east of the city were the Eighth Company and the Seventh Company, and the two companies were in the nearby alleyways not far away.

There was no direct route to get there.

Both companies were taking unconventional routes.

They went straight over the roofs.

These two companies were standing high and could see far, and they could also see clearly that the Japanese soldiers were trapped on East Street.

The Second Company was fighting the Japanese soldiers at the east end, and the Fifth Company Commander was pushing a homemade tank towards the puppet army at the west end.

Of course, these two companies were attacking from the center.

Company Commander Xi Jiapeng of the Seventh Company loudly ordered, "Jump down! Go into the middle of the Japanese soldiers!"

These two companies that had gone up on the roofs did not bring heavy weapons such as heavy machine guns, mortars, or infantry guns up to the roofs.

Only rocket launchers had gone up to the roofs.

They first used grenades to blast a wave, and then used rocket launchers to kill a bunch of Japanese soldiers.

The Seventh Company used grenades to clear the way and rockets to wash the ground.

The Seventh Company Commander immediately ordered them to rush into the middle of the Japanese soldiers.

He took the lead and jumped down.

The roof was not high from the ground, only about two meters, and Company Commander Xi jumped down, still imparting his experience: "Jump onto the Japanese soldiers who are lying on the ground to cushion the fall."

As he spoke, he had already rushed towards the Japanese soldiers with his gun.

The people in the puppet army company originally wanted to squeeze into the middle of the Japanese army to seek some comfort and help.

As a result, the puppet troops who had first squeezed into the Japanese army were bombarded by the Seventh and Eighth Companies, and many of them fell down at once.

Grenades and rockets did not distinguish between puppet troops and Japanese soldiers; both puppet troops and Japanese soldiers fell down.

The people in the Li Xiuping puppet army company were immediately frightened.

They watched as Special Forces Brigade soldiers jumped directly from the roofs, as if heavenly soldiers and generals had descended from the heavens.

These puppet troops could no longer muster any thoughts of resistance or escape.

They all threw down their weapons and knelt on the ground.

Their heads were lowered, and if there were holes in the ground, they would have loved to crawl into them.

Surrender was contagious.

The puppet troops in the middle surrendered, and those puppet troops who were still resisting no longer insisted.

Company Commander Yi Wenhao of the Fifth Company watched as the puppet troops opposite him suddenly raised a white flag.

The Special Forces Brigade did not accept surrendered Japanese soldiers, but there was no such restriction for puppet troops.

Across a distance of more than thirty meters, the soldiers of the Fifth Company loudly ordered, "Throw out your guns, squat on the ground, and put your hands on your heads!"

Seeing that the puppet troops really threw out their weapons, the soldiers of the Fifth Company immediately pushed the heavy machine guns and rushed up.

These puppet troops were indeed serious about surrendering, and not one of them resisted.

However, the flag they surrendered was somewhat unserious; it was actually a pair of underpants.

Neither white nor black, but gray.

Company Commander Yi Wenhao of the Fifth Company ordered the Third Platoon to gather these prisoners, and he led the First and Second Platoons to continue advancing.

They didn't rush out far before seeing that the street ahead was full of their own people.

They couldn't see the situation further ahead.

The Second Company's predicament had obviously been resolved, and the Fifth Company Commander quickly led his men back; they had to continue their advance towards the center of the city.

The Fifth Company had charged into the city from the north, rushing in all the way.

They hadn't encountered many Japanese soldiers in the north of the city.

Captain Kato Naoki had only deployed a small squad of Japanese soldiers and a company of puppet troops in the north of the city.

However, they were facing an attack by a full battalion of Special Forces Brigade soldiers.

The fifty or so Japanese soldiers were unable to provide any resistance and the defensive line was broken through.

The puppet troops assisting in the defense on the city wall immediately defected and surrendered when they saw how powerful the attacking Chinese army was.

This had nothing to do with faith. For these puppet troops, only interests mattered.

Saving their lives was the first priority, and everything else was unimportant.

The Second Battalion left only a platoon to guard these puppet troops on the city wall, and the remaining troops quickly rushed into the city.

The soldiers of the First Company cooperated with the Second Battalion to capture the north city wall and continued to rush towards the west city wall.

The changes that had taken place in the north of the city had made the puppet troops on the city wall become silent as cicadas in winter, and all of them were shrinking back.

If it weren't for a squad of Japanese soldiers here, they would have either scattered or surrendered immediately.

Only fifty or so Japanese soldiers launched an attack on the First Company.

Just as this squad of Japanese soldiers rushed towards the First Company, the puppet troops behind them were already in chaos.

These puppet troops threw away the weapons in their hands and fled madly towards the bottom of the city.

Squad Leader Uehara Yuta turned around and found that the puppet troops had already collapsed.

At this time, there was nothing he could do.

The First Company in front was attacking very quickly.

Several specially made small carts were lined up on the city wall.

The heavy machine guns swept across, and they could hit the Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese soldiers' rifles and machine guns hit those small carts, but they could only see sparks flying, and they could not pose any threat to them.

How could they fight such a defensive battle?

Squad Leader Uehara Yuta finally managed to get a heavy machine gun, but it was blown up by the First Company's rocket launcher as soon as it fired.

Not only was Squad Leader Uehara Yuta's heavy machine gun gone, but all the Japanese soldiers next to the heavy machine gun were also gone.

Unable to resist!

Unable to resist!

Just as Squad Leader Uehara Yuta was thinking this, the First Company had already rushed to the front, and only a dozen or so Japanese soldiers were still resisting stubbornly.

Behind the Japanese soldiers, the Third Company had also appeared.

Fearing that they would accidentally injure their own people, the First Company's heavy machine guns stopped firing, finally letting Squad Leader Uehara Yuta breathe a sigh of relief.

However, his breath was finally used up, and the grenades thrown by the Chinese army opposite him blew up the entire Uehara Yuta Squad so that they no longer had the ability to resist.

Seeing that the battle here had ended, the Third Company could only reluctantly turn around, close the city gate, and guard the city wall, waiting for their brother companies to beat the dogs.

The First Company also quickly cleaned up the battlefield and closed the gate to beat the dogs.

Second Company Commander Meng Qilue led his entire company to break through the Ebihara 43rd Squadron.

There were still Japanese soldiers struggling further ahead, and there were also brother companies fighting the Japanese soldiers.

The soldiers of the Second Company swarmed up and rushed into the ranks of the Kagawa Hideki Squadron.

The Japanese soldiers of the Kagawa Hideki Squadron were already under attack from three companies and could not hold on any longer.

Now that another company had rushed in, the hundred or so Japanese soldiers in his squadron were not enough for four companies to share.

In less than five minutes, the two Japanese squadrons that Captain Kato Naoki had sent to retake the east of the city were completely wiped out.

Some of the puppet troops kneeling on the ground turned their heads and quietly watched this scene, trembling with fear: this army was too powerful.

What these puppet troops did not expect was the next scene: the fierce Chinese soldiers, like tigers descending from the mountains, had just killed all the Japanese soldiers and immediately began to charge into the city.

This was not strange, and there was nothing to be surprised about.

What frightened these puppet troops was that there was a team putting the finishing touches on the Japanese soldiers lying on the ground.

This way of cleaning up the battlefield frightened the puppet troops who were used to playing dead on the battlefield.

They had never imagined that there would be such a fierce army.

When the Chinese army team that rushed over asked them about the situation, these puppet troops rushed to answer, and everyone was willing to be a guide for the guerrillas and lead the way.

They only wanted to be useful to these soldiers and to be useful to the cause of the war of resistance.

The attitude of the puppet troops did not surprise the several companies here.

Each company brought two puppet troops with them to lead the way, and they rushed towards the Japanese headquarters in Tongcheng.

The Second Company was now behind. They had to clean up the battlefield and gather the large number of puppet troops here.

The Third Battalion, which rushed up from behind, also pulled a few guides from these puppet troops and continued to rush forward.

Second Company Commander Meng Qilue could only let these puppet troops take them to find the Japanese granary and ammunition depot.

When they found the granary, Company Commander Meng Qilue realized that there was so much grain here.

There were also weapons and ammunition. Was this a Japanese supply base?

When Regiment Commander Ye Dadan received the report from the Second Company Commander, he couldn't help but run over to check it out himself.

Seeing so many supplies, he also felt that he had made a fortune.

He quickly reported to Lin Fan: "A Japanese supply base was found in Tongcheng, with a large amount of grain and weapons and ammunition inside."

So many supplies made Lin Fan feel that happiness had come too suddenly.

After setting off from Jurong, Lin Fan was most worried about the supply problem, so when they intercepted a Japanese supply team in Taihu County, Lin Fan was extremely happy.

Now they had also captured a Japanese supply point, so they would not have to worry about supplies for at least half a month.

Ye Dadan asked for instructions on what to do with these supplies.

Lin Fan could not arrange a good place for these supplies for a while, so he could only order Ye Dadan to take good care of the supplies and discuss it with the whole regiment.

Captain Kato Naoki stood blankly in the headquarters, listening numbly to the news sent back by the communications soldier: "The Irie Kotaro Squadron, which reinforced the north of the city, was completely annihilated, the three squadrons that reinforced the east of the city were completely annihilated, the west of the city has been occupied by the Chinese army, and the south of the city has been occupied by the Chinese army."

Bad news came one after another.

At this moment, he finally received the order from the Sixth Division: "Withdraw at will! Burn the supplies!"

Captain Kato Naoki could not do either of these two things now.

Withdraw?

The four gates had been sealed. Kato Naoki heard how powerful the invading Chinese army was, and he did not think that he could break out of the city.

Burn the supplies?

Captain Kato Naoki's team now only had one squadron plus the Japanese soldiers from the team headquarters.

Gunfire came from outside the yard.

This was because the puppet troops who had just surrendered had become guides, and they led the soldiers of the Sixth Regiment directly to the Japanese headquarters in Tongcheng.

The soldiers gathered outside Kato Naoki's headquarters numbered five companies from the Sixth Regiment.

Captain Kato Naoki had already given up hope, but as the commander of a team, he had to struggle a little to show that he had tried his best, even though he knew that such a struggle would not help.

Kato Naoki loudly ordered, "Withdraw! The entire team will break through to the west of the city! Squadron Leader Fujiyama, your team will lead the way. You must break out at all costs."

"Hai!" Squadron Leader Fujiyama Yuki loudly agreed.

As the last remaining team in the entire Kato Naoki team, his squadron was the strongest.

"Captain He! Your team will hold on here. Be sure to stop the attacking Chinese army. The empire will not forget you." Kato Naoki turned his head and ordered the puppet army captain, He Youbao.

What could He Youbao say at this time?

What did he dare to say?

Looking at Kato Naoki's serious expression, He Youbao had ten thousand alpacas running through his heart, but he did not show it at all on his face: "Guarantee to complete the task. The Taijun has been kind to me, and I will definitely defend Tongcheng and coexist with Tongcheng!"

Kato Naoki was very moved by these words.

He loudly ordered, "Depart!"

He had an idea when he chose to break through to the west of the city. Sixty miles to the west was Lu County, where Japanese soldiers were stationed. If they went all the way west, they would be able to escape.

The idea was very correct. The Fujiyama Yuki Squadron encountered resistance as soon as they rushed out of the headquarters yard.

This was a sniper attack from the Fourth Company.

Company Commander Gui Yehua of the Fourth Company was happy to see the Japanese soldiers rushing out of the gate he was guarding, and he immediately ordered, "Fire! Rocket launchers and infantry guns, all of them!"

The entire company's rifles, machine guns, and heavy machine guns all opened fire.

Such fierce firepower caused more than twenty Japanese soldiers who had just rushed out to fall to the ground and never get up again.

"Captain! The firepower outside is too fierce, we can't break through at all!" Kato Naoki was mentally prepared for this situation.

He loudly ordered, "Grenade launchers, mortars, machine guns, provide fire cover, and rush out! If we can't rush out of here, how can we rush to Lu County?"

The Japanese soldiers in the Fujiyama Yuki Squadron immediately began to fire at the outside of the yard after hearing the captain's order.

The mortars did not care where they hit, and they began to bombard using the skill of hitting the cow across the mountain.

All of these Japanese soldiers did their best.

Squadron Leader Fujiyama Yuki ordered, "The Ichihara squad will attack!"

The Japanese soldiers of the Ichihara Shichiro squad had to accept the order.

They all bent over, held their guns, and tried to minimize their body size.

After a wave of fierce sweeping from machine guns and heavy machine guns, they shouted loudly and rushed out of the door.

This time, Kato Naoki ordered, "Everyone, charge!"

He knew very well that whether they charged or not, they would die.

If they did not charge now, when the Japanese soldiers of the Ichihara squad were all dead, the Japanese soldiers here would have no hope of rushing out.

The Japanese soldiers of the Ichihara Shichiro squad rushed out of the door like a swarm of bees.

This time, the attack they encountered was much smaller.

At least in the entire squad, most of the Japanese soldiers were still standing.

This was because Gui Yehua, the commander of the Fourth Company, had learned from the previous lesson.

Just now, he had hit the Japanese soldiers who had rushed out too hard, and the Japanese soldiers had shrunk back.

It took such a long time before they poked their heads out again.

The commander of the Fourth Company adjusted his tactics, and the entire company retreated slightly, leaving a little strategic space for the Japanese soldiers.

With this retreat, Squad Leader Ichihara Shichiro immediately discovered an opportunity.

He pointed to a stone platform in front of him and ordered, "Rush over and occupy it."

That stone platform may have been a stage or something from the past in Tongcheng.

It was just a platform about two meters high and ten meters long and wide.

If the Ichihara squad could rush to the stone platform, they could block most of the firepower attacks from the Chinese army outside with the help of the stone platform.

Seeing hope, these Japanese soldiers of the Ichihara squad were quick and agile, and a group of them rushed over.

Behind them, the Japanese soldiers of the entire Fujiyama Yuki Squadron rushed out.

These Japanese soldiers also saw the natural cover, and without hesitation, these Japanese soldiers rushed towards the stone platform.

Kato Naoki, protected by the Japanese soldiers of the headquarters, also rushed out.

Just as the Japanese soldiers of the Ichihara Shichiro squad rushed to the bottom of the stone platform and began to look for a location to set up a defensive position, a flash of fire appeared under the stone platform.

"Bomb!" A Japanese soldier shouted loudly.

His voice was full of despair.

This was the voice of Yoshioka Yataro.

He was right in front of the bomb, and there were Japanese soldiers behind him.

This made him discover the bomb, but he had no way to dodge it.

In fact, when he discovered the bomb, it was too late for him to do anything.

However, his warning still reached Kato Naoki's ears.

He was still some distance away from the stone platform.

Hearing the warning, he quickly fell to the ground.

Then he heard a rumbling explosion.

It was definitely not just one explosion.

At the same time as the explosion sounded, Kato Naoki heard countless shrapnel flying past his ears.

Every sound made him feel cold.

After so much shrapnel wreaked havoc, how many of his Japanese soldiers would be left?

No matter how many Japanese soldiers were left here, the Fourth Company had already launched an attack.

Such tactical actions were originally a set, first bombing and then charging!

Bombing and killing some of the Japanese soldiers made them confused, and then they began to charge and fight the Japanese soldiers with bayonets!

These commanders of the Special Forces Brigade were absolutely confident in the bayonet skills of their team.

This was also what Lin Fan had emphasized every time: a team that was afraid to fight with bayonets was a team without combat power and a team without courage.

Only by fighting the Japanese soldiers face to face in a bayonet battle could we cultivate the courage to move forward.

The entire Special Forces Brigade had won battle after battle, which had long made all the soldiers courageous and morale high.

In such a charge as now, the soldiers of the Fourth Company were firm and quick in their charge.

In fact, even though the remaining Japanese soldiers had been attacked by the two directional mines ambushed here by the Fourth Company, the number of these remaining Japanese soldiers was not much less than that of the Fourth Company.

After all, the Japanese soldiers who had rushed out were one squadron plus more than one hundred from the headquarters.

The total number of Japanese soldiers exceeded three hundred.

Hearing the neat footsteps, the ground was vibrating.

Kato Naoki quickly got up from the ground.

He saw the soldiers of the Fourth Company rushing up.

He saw that these soldiers were holding rifles, and the bright bayonets on the rifles were a little dazzling.

Kato Naoki loudly ordered, "Attack! Attack!"

Happiness had come a little suddenly, and he was about to lose control of it.

If the Chinese army had been using its firepower advantage to stop his team, Kato Naoki believed that he would not be able to hold on for ten minutes.

But now he had a glimmer of hope in his heart: the commander on the other side actually wanted to use the bayonet method to end the battle.

Then let the warriors of the empire teach these Chinese soldiers a lesson!

Squadron Leader Fujiyama Yuki was also shouting loudly, "Attack! Attack!"

Squad Leader Ichihara Shichiro did not say anything this time.

He had been unlucky just now, and had been hit by several iron bullets.

He had fallen to the ground and was groaning.

All the Japanese soldiers were busy dealing with the Chinese soldiers who were rushing up.

Not one of the Japanese soldiers had time to pay attention to him, the squad leader.

At this critical moment, another team rushed out of the door that these Japanese soldiers had rushed out of.

These were the soldiers of the Seventh Company of the Sixth Regiment.

The puppet army captain, He Youbao, had just made a promise to the Taijun to defend the city.

As soon as Kato Naoki had left, he immediately ordered, "Everyone, put down your weapons, raise a white flag, and we will surrender."

His order was very popular with the army.

Not one of the puppet troops in the entire team objected.

Originally, He Youbao was still carrying a gun, preparing to shoot anyone who did not listen to him.

Now he did not need to.

When the Seventh Company rushed over, He Youbao very tactfully reported, "Officer! The Japanese soldiers escaped from this door! They only ran out a little while ago."

With such an enlightened puppet army leading the way, the Seventh Company did not take any detours and caught up with the Japanese soldiers who were preparing to fight the Fourth Company with bayonets.

Seeing the Chinese army catching up, Kato Naoki no longer gave orders to the entire team.

He just shouted and rushed towards the Seventh Company, which had just rushed out.

The soldiers of the Seventh Company did not have the habit of indulging the Japanese soldiers.

If a Japanese soldier rushed over, they would just kill him.

The last group of Japanese soldiers in the entire Tongcheng were wiped out just like that.

When the news that the Special Forces Brigade had occupied Tongcheng reached Bai Chongxi, he was excited.

In just three days, this team had occupied three counties.

Such a team was good!

However, when he looked at the teams under his command, there was no harm without comparison.

People were driven crazy when compared to others, and goods had to be thrown away when compared to other goods.

His three armies were not as good as one brigade.

Of course, the Special Forces Brigade was not really a brigade.

They were just wearing the coat of a brigade, but in reality, they now had the strength of a full army.

Thinking of the plan proposed by Lin Fan, the Fifth War Area would counterattack Huangmei, and the Special Forces Brigade would launch a main attack on Susong.

After thinking about it again and again, Bai Chongxi gave up this tempting plan.

It was not that he did not want to, but he really could not do it.

Now he could only suggest to Lin Fan that if the Special Forces Brigade had the spare strength, it could also occupy Lujiang County.

For the current Special Forces Brigade, it was indeed difficult to fight a Japanese division head-on, but it was still no problem to harass the Japanese army's rear.

However, it was too risky for Ye Dadan's Sixth Regiment to both garrison Tongcheng and send troops to attack Lu County.

Although Lin Fan did not rule out taking risks in marching, he was mostly unwilling to do so.

Wanting to be safe, he would send a regiment back from Taihu here.

Thinking of this, Lin Fan finally decided to send Chen Sichuan's First Regiment to advance to Tongcheng.

The First Regiment would attack Shucheng and Lujiang County.

The First Regiment, Sixth Regiment, and Tenth Regiment would be under the command of Chen Sichuan, and they would strive to establish a new base area in these places.

As for Susong, the Special Forces Brigade still had four infantry regiments, the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fourteenth, and the Eighth Regiment, an artillery regiment.

The distance from Taihu County to Tongcheng was a full one hundred and ten kilometers.

Lin Fan did not issue an order to Chen Sichuan to march quickly.

He asked Chen Sichuan to ensure the soldiers' physical strength during the march.

When Chen Sichuan was about to leave with his team, he was a little worried because the Special Forces Brigade had already made direct contact with the Japanese Sixth Division.

He was afraid that what if Lin Fan could not stop the Japanese counterattack?

Lin Fan pointed to the high mountains outside and said, "Don't worry about this. If the Japanese are really strong, we will smash some jars and cans and enter the Dabie Mountains to fight guerrilla warfare. We can smash these things, but the Japanese will never give up these things. We are here, and there is no problem with the safety of the people. After you arrive in Tongcheng, try to mobilize the masses and fight back along Tongcheng. Try to establish a base area in Jiangbei that echoes Jurong. It will also be convenient to obtain supplies from the south of the Yangtze River in the future."

Chen Sichuan immediately understood: "Lin Fan wants to grab territory on the ground in Jiangbei."

Lin Fan said with a smile, "We will not grab it from the Kuomintang, but only from the Japanese. While the main force of the Japanese army is now concentrated in the direction of Wuhan, their troops in the occupied areas are now the least. It is the best time to establish a base area behind enemy lines. At the same time, we must also pay attention to destroying the Japanese transportation lines so that they cannot easily send supplies to the front line. At least the food, ammunition, and fuel needed for our operations must be taken from the Japanese supplies."

Chen Sichuan said that he understood.

At dawn on August 7, Chen Sichuan led the First Regiment from Taihu.

This time, they did not carry a large amount of food and ammunition.

Along the way, food could be replenished when they reached Qianshan, and there was a large supply of ammunition in Tongcheng.

After receiving Lin Fan's order, Ye Dadan immediately sent several reconnaissance teams to the directions of Shucheng and Lujiang.

He also scouted the terrain near Tongcheng.

Ye Dadan asked each company to be familiar with the terrain within ten kilometers around Tongcheng.

The rocket artillery company had to go to the training ground outside the city to have a clear understanding of the terrain in various places.

At the same time, they had to prepare for the Japanese army's attack and investigate the location where they launched the attack and test the shooting parameters.

The Sixth Regiment was prepared to welcome the Japanese army's attack.

From the 6th to the 10th, when the First Regiment arrived, no Japanese soldiers came from either Lujiang or Shucheng.

At 2:00 p.m. on the 10th, Chen Sichuan led the First Regiment to Tongcheng.

In recent days, the people inside and outside Tongcheng had often heard artillery fire in the city.

These artillery fire were all rocket artillery companies testing and testing shells and collecting various parameters.

In the days after the First Regiment left, Lin Fan did not stop.

He commanded the troops on the front line in Susong to take turns shooting at the Japanese positions, as if they were doing shooting training in Jurong.

The only difference was that the targets had been replaced with Japanese heads.

In the beginning, the results were very good.

On the first day, seventy-three Japanese soldiers were shot in the head.

Some of these Japanese soldiers were poking their heads out of the trenches, and some were Japanese soldiers running to the water source to wash their horses, or even take a bath.

The Second Regiment even brought back two warhorses.

A day passed, and Division Commander Inaba Shiro knew that in just one day, so many of his Japanese soldiers had been killed by the Special Forces Brigade's cold shots.

He could not stand it all at once, and he ordered the Ushijima Brigade to learn from the Special Forces Brigade and send out special sniper teams to shoot cold shots at the Special Forces Brigade.

The sniper teams of both sides opened the curtain on the battle, and from then on, the troops on the front line did not dare to easily poke their heads out, and they did not dare to go to the water source to fetch water or wash.

Lin Fan sent the soldiers in several infantry regiments to carry out missions in turn.

When he was first in the Four Lines Warehouse, he wanted to train a special force in the War of Resistance, but plans could not keep up with changes.

At this time, although Lin Fan's special warfare dream was still there, the battlefield did not give him enough time to train a group of elite special operations soldiers.

He could only explain some special operations training methods and combat methods to all officers and soldiers in the gaps between battles.

As a result, it was considered guerrilla warfare.

In recent days, Lin Fan always asked Mao Wenxing to scout the Japanese supply line from Huangmei to Jiujiang.

From the observations in recent days, Lin Fan had already learned that the Japanese were transporting supplies by water.

Each time, the supplies were escorted by six gunboats, and a dozen or twenty iron-hulled ships transported the supplies.

They had to pass through a river called Shangxin River, and there were Japanese positions on the section of the river close to Huangmei.

Lin Fan decided to take action one kilometer from the entrance of Longgan Lake into the Shangxin River.

This location was fifteen miles away from Huangmei County, and even if the Japanese received the news, their reinforcements would not be able to reach it in a short time.

The Special Forces Brigade could have enough time to retreat.

The biggest difficulty now was that the Japanese troops were coming slowly, but across from them was Jiujiang, where there was a Japanese airport.

The Japanese planes could arrive in ten minutes.

This required an anti-aircraft gun to go over.

This time, the Eighth Regiment had brought all the regiment's cannons over, and there were plenty of anti-aircraft guns.

Since they were going to bring one over, they might as well bring two.

One was for air defense, and the other was for hitting the Japanese gunboats or other Japanese reinforcements.

With the goal set, the next step was to implement it.

Lin Fan personally went to the side of the Shangxin River to take a look and found that there was Mount Luwang 1,500 meters behind a place called Zhaojiazui.

The anti-aircraft gun would be deployed here, and the main force would also be hidden here.

Only a small force needed to be deployed in Zhaojiazui to clean up the Japanese soldiers escorting the supplies.

Mao Wenxing had already seen clearly from the air that there were fewer than five Japanese soldiers on the iron-hulled ships in the fleet escorted by gunboats.

According to the largest supply fleet, there were five Japanese soldiers on one ship, and only about one hundred Japanese soldiers on twenty ships.

According to Lin Fan's idea, the gunboats could only be destroyed, but the iron-hulled ships had to be captured.

The Special Forces Brigade needed to capture all of these supplies.

If they could not capture the iron-hulled ships, Lin Fan was also prepared to hide a transportation team behind Mount Luwang.

At that time, they would have to carry some supplies away even if they had to carry them on their backs.

With the plan set, they began to implement it.

The first thing to do was to build the road.

From the Special Forces Brigade's current front-line position to