The Milky Way is Also a Grain of Sand
Chapter 338 Rebuilding Confidence
Since Captain Omassa Akimasa of the Greater Political Awareness Corps had made up his mind to run.
As the saying goes, perseverance prevails, it really found a way to retreat.
The current situation was very bad, and Captain Omassa Akimasa could not take all the Japanese devils of the entire squadron away.
After all, these Japanese devils were entangled by the First Regiment, and it was not so easy to escape.
The Tosho Keizo squadron was following behind the Omassa squadron, and they suffered significantly less damage.
At least: the first wave of directional bombs from the First Regiment had little impact on the Tosho Keizo squadron.
Of course, Captain Tosho Keizo could also hear how intense the gunfire was inside Liu Village.
His squadron was at the rear, and they had a deeper understanding of the Nationalist soldiers rushing over from a distance.
In fact, the current Tosho Keizo squadron was urgently setting up a defense line.
They had to withstand the attack of the First Regiment internally and resist the upcoming charge externally.
At this moment, the devils of the Tosho Keizo squadron discovered Captain Omassa Akimasa quietly leading a small team down the small river ditch in Village Lian.
Near Taierzhuang, river networks were dense, and such small river ditches were everywhere.
Captain Omassa Akimasa now wanted to lead a small team of devils to break through from here.
Moreover, its breakout direction was not towards the north from which they came.
Captain Omassa Akimasa was rushing towards Taierzhuang.
It believed that going back the way they came now might not work.
Although Battalion Commander Amuro Nasuo had already led more than a hundred devils, they were already running wildly on the way back.
But looking at the many Nationalist soldiers rushing over outside Liu Village.
Captain Omassa Akimasa was very pessimistic about whether the way back would work.
Therefore, it thought of taking an unusual route, sneaking towards Taierzhuang along the river ditch.
Hoping to escape with their lives!
Its idea was very good, and its execution was also very strong.
The recent explosion had already caused more than half of the casualties in its squadron.
Now it had to leave some devils to block the counterattack of the Nationalist army.
Therefore, it only took more than thirty devils with it into the river ditch.
The number was small, so it was not noticeable, and the possibility of escaping was much greater.
What disappointed it was that the devils of the Omassa squadron did not follow, but Captain Tosho Keizo discovered them.
The command knife in his hand pointed at the river ditch: "Attack!"
The Tosho squadron, which was originally panicking to establish a defense line, rushed into the river ditch with more than a hundred devils.
This immediately made the Omassa Akimasa squadron vomit blood and despair: so many devils rushed into the river ditch.
Whether it was the Nationalist army blocking in front or the Nationalist army encircling from behind, they would all discover them.
Today, for these devils who were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of troops and firepower, exposure meant death!
Captain Omassa Akimasa had already smelled the scent of death.
What could it do at this time?
Captain Omassa Akimasa could only urge the devils in front to rush faster, faster.
It could only hope that it would have already run out before the Nationalist soldiers reacted.
A very good idea!
But reality was very cruel.
Regiment Commander Gu Xiuming watched all the devils rush into the river ditch.
He was also a little surprised in his heart: the river ditch was naturally much lower than the flat ground.
The devils in the river ditch, weren't they looking for a dead end?
Regiment Commander Gu did not care what the devils were thinking.
He simply ordered: "The Second and Third Companies will immediately attack and block those devils who have rushed into the ditch.
They must not be allowed to go ashore, nor can those devils be allowed to run away."
This was a very easy task to accomplish.
The two companies each sent a platoon, charging quickly, first blocking both ends of the river ditch.
Two heavy machine guns immediately made it impossible for any of the devils in the ditch to escape.
The remaining soldiers then guarded on the shore, not allowing these devils to climb ashore.
From a high vantage point, grenades were the best at this time.
It was also the most correct weapon.
One grenade after another was thrown from a high place into the river ditch,炸起 many water splashes.
Even more, the devils of the Tosho Keizo squadron fell one after another.
Captain Tosho Keizo looked at Captain Omassa Akimasa in disbelief:
Was it intentional for you to lead the entire team into a dead end like this?
If it weren't for the more than thirty devils of the Omassa squadron in the ditch, now there would only be about ten left.
Captain Tosho Keizo would have suspected that Captain Omassa was a traitor.
Intentionally bringing his entire squadron into a dead end, allowing the Nationalist soldiers to kill without any scruples.
More than one hundred and fifty devils were compressed into a river ditch less than two hundred meters long, with heavy machine guns guarding both ends.
Want to go ashore?
Not only were there machine guns on the shore, but grenades were also constantly being thrown down.
The situation was extremely critical!
Sergeant Kobayashi Tayu was a machine gunner, and he was an experienced machine gunner.
Although he was brought into the river ditch by Captain Tosho Keizo, he still wanted to salvage the situation.
At this time, saving the entire squadron was saving his own life.
Sergeant Kobayashi Tayu shouted loudly: "Ono, Hiraka, Nakai, you guys pay attention.
When I set up the machine gun and fire, all of you follow up and fire."
Their current position was really bad, and they didn't even dare to show their heads.
Even if they wanted to counterattack, they didn't look for targets.
"Now! We take out the grenades, get ready..."
This plan was very good, first use grenades to炸一炸, even if they couldn't炸到 the Nationalist army.
At least they could炸起来 some dust or smoke, just enough to make the Nationalist soldiers who were constantly扫射 pause for a second.
Sergeant Kobayashi Tayu could set up the machine gun and cover the other devils to poke their heads out and fire.
If all the more than one hundred devils who were blocked in the river ditch could fire.
Even if they paid some price, they could always rush out of this dead end.
When Sergeant Kobayashi Tayu counted to two, a grenade fell from the sky.
This was not from their own hands, it was thrown over by the Nationalist army.
It happened to explode in the middle of Kobayashi, Ono, Hiraka, and Nakai and the other devils.
The fragments formed by the grenade, plus the iron pellets inside the grenade, hundreds of fragments splashed open.
The devils within a six-meter radius wailed.
Startled and injured, Kobayashi Tayu subconsciously let go of his hand.
Not only did he let go of his hand, but these devils who had just been preparing to counterattack forgot the things in their hands that they had not yet thrown out.
When they reacted.
"Boom! Boom!"
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Such explosions were not very unusual, anyway, these devils who were already爬不出去 in the ditch were used to hearing them.
However, after these few explosions, Sergeant Kobayashi Tayu and his group of devils all fell to the ground and could not get up again.
One devil after another fell to the ground.
Captain Omassa Akimasa had obviously begun to擺爛.
The devils under his command mustered up their courage and tried to resist.
Unfortunately, under the intensive firepower suppression of Gu Xiuming's First Regiment, their resistance was ineffective.
This made Captain Omassa Akimasa very desperate.
Looking at the ten men, in this hail of bullets, they actually stopped resisting.
Instead, they squatted in the river ditch, hugging their heads and shivering.
These devils were even more desperate than himself!
Captain Omassa Akimasa was too lazy to scold them when he saw this situation.
He also leaned against the river bank, looking at the green grass on the bank that had grown to half a foot high. Was it spring in his hometown at this time?
Captain Tosho Keizo brought more than one hundred devils into the ditch, and there was strength in numbers.
Their struggle was much greater.
It was just that the position they had entered was too bad, it was completely a dead end.
No matter how the devils struggled, one devil after another fell.
It never stopped.
Now the entire Tosho Keizo squadron had less than thirty people left.
The潺潺 flowing stream in the river ditch had been dyed red with the blood of the devils.
Just like the canal water in Taierzhuang a few days ago, gently, without emotion, it rolled up these red, life-filled liquids, diluted them, until there was not a trace left.
Only five minutes had passed, and Captain Tosho Keizo could feel that:
The intensity of the attack on them had not only not decreased, but had instead increased a lot.
The Second, Third, and Fourth Regiments had all rushed in.
The Special Operations Brigade was not used to fighting this kind of battle of encircling and annihilating devils with superior forces.
After all, they had always been fighting more with less in the past.
Gu Xiuming looked at the battlefield where the battle had ended, and said with lingering interest: "It feels just like this to bully devils with more people."
Battalion Commander Amuro Nasuo was quick to see the opportunity.
He commanded properly, and he ran away quickly.
But he was now also facing a huge problem:
On the road back, they had just been bombed by landmines.
A team of only about a hundred devils had suddenly been reduced to about thirty.
Reducing the number of people did not increase efficiency!
And around these thirty or so devils, thousands of Nationalist soldiers had rushed over.
What to do?
Even Battalion Commander Amuro Nasuo, who had been fighting on the battlefield for twenty years, was now desperate.
He did not want to die in the hands of others.
In the short period of time that the soldiers of the Anping Fifth Regiment were approaching.
Battalion Commander Amuro Nasuo performed seppuku with his command knife.
His guards helped him, cutting off his head with one knife.
Then he knelt quietly beside Battalion Commander Amuro Nasuo.
Many of the soldiers in Anping's regiment had experience as puppet troops.
They had some understanding of this Japanese tradition.
It was just that these days, after hearing about the actions of the Japanese devils in Nanjing City.
They did not feel anything about this kind of masochistic suicide.
In their eyes, no matter what method a beast uses to die, it still cannot change the essence of the beast.
So the Japanese devils kneeling at Battalion Commander Amuro Nasuo's feet all received a few刺刀 and returned to the embrace of Amaterasu Omikami with their battalion commander.
The battle in Liu Village had not yet had any effect on the Seya Brigade's attack on Taierzhuang.
The Seya Brigade's momentum for this attack was fierce.
They attacked all the way from Beiluo and Nanluo.
Like a hot knife through butter, Zhou Yan's Seventy-Fifth Army was unable to resist when facing the Japanese devils' attack.
They retreated again and again, and in a few hours, the Seya Brigade had already cleared the periphery of Taierzhuang, which they had not completely occupied in the last half month.
Army Commander Zhou Yan was also anxious. In theory, his Seventy-Fifth Army was better equipped than Chi Fengcheng's Thirty-First Division.
There were enough troops, and the training and military pay of the Central Army were worse than those of the local warlords.
Why was his team so vulnerable?
In any case: Taierzhuang could not retreat any further.
This place had the imprint of the bloody battle of the Thirty-First Division for half a month.
If he lost this place in half a day, how could he be worthy of those warriors who fell here?
At this time, he received a call from the Special Operations Brigade.
Lin Fan learned about the current situation of the Seventy-Fifth Army from Mao Wenxing's report.
Mao Wenxing saw from the air that the defensive forces of the Seventy-Fifth Army in Taierzhuang had already become chaotic.
The Japanese devils had not even attacked yet!
Lin Fan just informed him of the news that he had just wiped out a Japanese battalion in Liu Village.
Then he asked: "The whole country and the entire army are watching the defense of Taierzhuang.
I wonder what Army Commander Zhou's plan is?"
Of course, Zhou Yan knew what was flying in the sky.
He said with a wry smile: "It's not that I don't want to do my best, and it's not that the Seventy-Fifth Army doesn't want to hold on.
It's really that the Japanese devils are too powerful, and the morale of the entire army is low. I'm afraid we won't be able to hold Taierzhuang."
Lin Fan pondered for a while: "It's certain that you won't be able to hold it!"
With one sentence, Army Commander Zhou felt like he had found a confidant.
Then Lin Fan continued: "But there is no problem in holding it for a day or two."
"How to hold it?" What Army Commander Zhou Yan wanted most now was to hold it for a day, even just one day!
At least he could feel at ease.
Lin Fan said: "I have the parameters for bombing the periphery of Taierzhuang from the artillery position in Liu Village.
As long as the Seventy-Fifth Army defends in Taierzhuang and fires a few symbolic shots at the attacking Japanese devils.
The Special Operations Brigade can bomb those attacking Japanese devils in turn.
Under such circumstances, there is no problem in holding it for a day or two."
"Okay! Okay! Everything will be done according to what Brother Lin said!" Army Commander Zhou Yan agreed repeatedly.
He hung up the phone.
He immediately ordered: "The guard company will immediately go to the north wall. Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed without mercy!"
After issuing the order.
He thought for a while and said to his chief of staff: "You are in the command post! I will go to the front line to supervise the battle."
"Division Commander! In this situation, it's too dangerous for you to go to the front line!"
Zhou Yan sighed: "I also know it's dangerous, and the soldiers are now panicked.
Sending the guards up is estimated to be of little use.
Only if I stand on the stockade wall.
Will they be relieved."
The chief of staff did not speak.
Of course, he knew how important the morale of a team was. A team without morale was completely useless and had no combat effectiveness at all.
Unfortunately, the current Seventy-Fifth Army was a team without morale.
If the army commander stood on the front line, it could indeed inspire some morale.
Zhou Yan led the guard company to the command post of the One Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Division, which was defending on the north side, and ordered:
"Division Commander Huang! Come with me to the front line."
Division Commander Huang Guanghua was still studying how to defend the north side. The teams he had deployed on the periphery of Taierzhuang had now all been driven back by the Japanese devils.
The One Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Division was formulating a second plan: how to retreat from Taierzhuang.
Now he heard the army commander asking him to go to the front line.
Huang Guanghua hesitated for a moment: "Army Commander! The front line is dangerous, and the defeated soldiers have retreated.
They don't recognize people."
Zhou Yan sneered: "I want to see who doesn't recognize people."
He didn't hide it from his division commander: "Brigade Commander Lin of the Special Operations Brigade just called me.
They just wiped out a Japanese battalion in Liu Village.
Now that they have freed up their hands, they want us to hold Taierzhuang.
His artillery position in Liu Village will support us."
Huang Guanghua opened his mouth, but finally said nothing.
He took the guards and followed the army commander away.
Along the way, they encountered many soldiers with the smell of gunpowder on their bodies, who were walking towards the rear in a panic.
They all knew the army commander and division commander!
Army Commander Zhou Yan just looked at these soldiers with a serious expression.
He walked against the direction of these soldiers, towards the north stockade wall of Taierzhuang.
Those soldiers who saw the army commander and division commander coming over originally thought they would be reprimanded.
Now they saw that they did not speak, but just walked towards the direction of the Japanese devils.
Some soldiers couldn't help but pull a guard and asked: "Where are Army Commander and the others going?"
The guard said loudly: "Army Commander and the others are going to the front line.
You have retreated, but we cannot retreat!"
One sentence made these soldiers who were standing on both sides of the road blush.
After a moment of silence, a soldier finally said: "The army commander is not afraid of death, what reason do we have to run backwards?
I want to follow the army commander!"
Army Commander Zhou Yan looked back at the soldier who was speaking:
"I, Zhou Yan, will never retreat before the soldiers while guarding Taierzhuang.
Taierzhuang was defended by the brothers of the Thirty-First Division who shed their blood.
No matter what, my Seventy-Fifth Army cannot lose to them.
If you don't dare to shed blood, then let my blood shed!"
After finishing speaking, he strode forward.
The army commander and division commander were standing on the north stockade wall of Taierzhuang.
Zhou Yan ordered: "Guide the soldiers who have retreated back to Taierzhuang to rest.
Get ready to meet the Japanese devils' attack."
He looked at the soldiers who had retreated from the front line, each with a panicked face and a flustered expression.
Such soldiers had no fighting spirit at all, and even if they were forced to stay, it would be of no avail.
Forcing something will not make it sweet. Instead of trying to keep people without their hearts, it is better to let them go to the rear to rest.
When he blocked the Japanese devils on the front line, morale would be restored.
To say a thousand words and ten thousand words, the team is for fighting.
Everyone is happy when they win a battle, and morale rises all of a sudden.
When they lose a battle, morale drops all of a sudden.
This was the case with Zhou Yan's Seventy-Fifth Army. The morale brought about by the battle in Zhao Village a few days ago
Had been wiped out by the encirclement of Yixian for so long without being able to capture it.
Now Army Commander Zhou Yan placed all his hopes on the Special Operations Brigade.
The Third Brigade, led by Seya Keita, attacked Taierzhuang.
Leading the charge was the Sixty-Third Infantry Regiment.
Regiment Commander Fukuei Shinpei was very satisfied after listening to the intelligence reported by the various battalions under his command.
The army had rested for half a month and launched another attack. There was no obstruction along the way.
In half a day, they had already reached the outside of the Taierzhuang stockade wall.
Battalion Commander Takenouchi Taro of the First Battalion had already seen the north stockade wall of Taierzhuang that had just been repaired some time ago.
Excitedly, he pointed at the stockade wall and ordered: "Charge!"
This was how they were today. They charged whenever they saw the Nationalist army's position.
Then the Nationalist army soldiers fired a few shots and began to run away.
Battalion Commander Takenouchi Taro now hoped that he could replicate the success of the morning.
Mao Wenxing could see clearly in the air and immediately reported the current position of the Japanese devils to the artillery regiment.
Regiment Commander Hou Wentian received the telegram and shouted: "Fire!"
When the Liu Village artillery position was taken back, only more than thirty cannons were intact.
After so many days of repair, sixty-four cannons were now firing.
Lin Fan was also happy to see so many cannons bombing the Japanese devils at the same time.
In fact, the artillery regiment could bomb the Japanese devils anywhere.
However, if there were no spectators during the bombing.
It would only cause damage to the Japanese devils and would not have the effect of boosting morale.
The Special Operations Brigade intentionally placed the location of the bombing of the Japanese devils in front of the Taierzhuang stockade wall.
There was an intention to cheer up the officers and soldiers of the Seventy-Fifth Army.
Only by letting these soldiers see with their own eyes how the Japanese devils collapsed could they realize that the Japanese devils were not terrible.
Now the artillery regiment was bombing the Takenouchi Taro battalion, which was attacking Taierzhuang, under the guidance of Mao Wenxing.
Although the devils in this battalion had just been replenished.
More than a thousand devils were immediately blown away by the artillery shells falling from the sky:
During today's attack, the Takenouchi Taro battalion only used artillery bombardment for the first time.
Later, seeing that the Nationalist army soldiers had no fighting spirit, they simply omitted the step of artillery bombardment.
They did not expect that they would be subjected to such fierce artillery bombardment here in Taierzhuang.
Army Commander Zhou Yan and Division Commander Huang Guanghua were also a little nervous when they first saw the Japanese devils charging.
The Japanese devils had been winning battles one after another today, and their morale was like a rainbow.
When they charged, their shouts shook the sky, and their arrogance was soaring.
On the other hand, the soldiers on their side who were guarding the position had pale faces and trembling legs.
If it were not for the army commander and division commander suppressing the formation, these soldiers would have dropped their guns and run away.
Although the Japanese devils were still two hundred meters away, Army Commander Zhou Yan was already ordering: "Fire! Shoot!"
The sound of gunfire could calm the soldiers' nervous hearts.
Regardless of whether they could hit the Japanese devils or not, at least it gave the soldiers something to do.
It could ease their nervousness.
At the same time, it could also ease his own emotions.
At this moment, many black spots suddenly appeared in the sky.
These black spots came quickly and all砸 at the Japanese devils' charging team.
When they exploded, Zhou Yan realized that the Special Operations Brigade had fired!
His heart finally settled down.
From the density of the first round of shells falling, it could be seen that the Special Operations Brigade had a lot of cannons.
The Nationalist army soldiers, who had just had pale faces, began to get excited when they saw the artillery shells constantly exploding two hundred meters away.
The mud, the bodies of the Japanese devils, and the broken limbs that were set off by the explosions of the shells all flew very high.
All of this made the soldiers defending Taierzhuang excited.
They pointed at the front of the position and exchanged excitedly.
The bombing had been going on for five minutes.
The soldiers of Huang Guanghua's One Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Division had all been resurrected with full health.
They looked at the Japanese devils who were still struggling in the artillery fire, and everyone's eyes were eager to try.
They all knew that in this situation, if the infantry charged, rushing into the ranks of the Japanese devils who had been炸得暈頭转向.
It could expand the results of the battle.
They were now willing to rush out and fight the Japanese devils.
Those soldiers who had just retreated into Taierzhuang listened to the sound of the artillery shells exploding from the north.
Each of them hesitated.
They were afraid, worried, and wanted to run again.
Fortunately, clear news soon came: the shells were fired by their own people.
The Special Operations Brigade had just won a great victory in Liu Village, wiping out a Japanese battalion.
At this time, they were bombing the Japanese devils who were attacking Taierzhuang.
As long as it was not their own people who were being bombed, these soldiers who had just escaped from danger were relieved.
The soldiers, who had just been scared pale, suddenly relaxed.
These people had run back from the front line in the morning, and they were nervous and afraid.
Now that they had finally relaxed, they no longer had any strength and no longer wanted to move.
Ten minutes later, the bombing was still continuing.
Zhou Yan and Huang Guanghua had already stood on the stockade wall, at the very front of the position.
Looking at the Japanese devils, who had just been arrogant, no one was charging towards Taierzhuang at this time.
Division Commander Huang Guanghua asked: "Army Commander! Let the brothers go out and charge."
Of course, this was good!
Being able to counterattack was a sign of morale recovery.
Zhou Yan had no reason to object.
Division Commander Huang Guanghua organized two regiments and rushed out of the Taierzhuang stockade wall.
Preparing to launch a charge when the bombing ended.
Mao Wenxing, who was commanding in the air, saw the movement inside Taierzhuang.
He immediately reported the situation back.
Army Commander Zhou Yan saw that the bombing in front of the position had not stopped, but was moving.
Like a tornado, it bombed the Japanese devils who were farther away.
"Charge!"
"Charge!"
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The officers and soldiers of the One Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Division saw that the artillery fire had moved away.
They had a chance to use their skills.
These soldiers immediately charged forward, shouting.
Army Commander Zhou Yan saw clearly: The Special Operations Brigade's current tactic was completely isolating the Japanese devils' rear team.
The team he sent out to charge only needed to fight against the Japanese devils who had been bombed for more than ten minutes and had luckily survived.
Those teams that were originally staying behind, ready to support the Japanese devils in front, were now also being bombed.
They no longer had the ability to support the Japanese devils in front.
This was what Lin Fan thought.
The morale of the Seventy-Fifth Army was just beginning to sprout, and he had to be careful to protect it.
The artillery shells flying from the direction of Liu Village made Regiment Commander Fukuei Shinpei very angry.
Of course, even angrier was Battalion Commander Takenouchi Taro of the First Battalion.
Its team was blown to pieces by the sudden artillery shells.
It was impossible to organize it and launch a good attack.
Ten minutes later, Battalion Commander Takenouchi Taro only wanted to retreat the team back.
Its team had suffered heavy casualties.
When the bombing ended, the Nationalist army's bombing was still continuing behind him.
Thousands of Nationalist army soldiers were charging towards its battalion.
How could this be?
In the morning, it was him who had beaten the Nationalist army to a pulp, but now they dared to counterattack.
Battalion Commander Takenouchi Taro gathered the残兵败将 and defended carefully.
Although it was not convinced, the Nationalist army now had more people and greater momentum. These Japanese devils of the Takenouchi Taro battalion did not dare to take the initiative to attack now.
Regiment Commander Fukuei Shinpei ordered the Fourth Battalion to immediately search and advance towards Liu Village, taking down the Nationalist army's artillery position.
Battalion Commander Koizumi Yuto received the order and immediately rushed towards Liu Village.
The movements of the Japanese devils were immediately reported by Mao Wenxing.
It was less than ten miles from Taierzhuang to Liu Village.
According to the intelligence provided by Mao Wenxing, the Japanese devils were heading straight here.
The several regiments that had just cleaned up the Liu Village battlefield received the order.
They immediately went to meet them in the direction of Taierzhuang.
Although a battalion of Japanese devils was rushing towards Liu Village where the Special Operations Brigade was located.
The artillery regiment's bombing did not change its target.
It continued to provide artillery cover for the Seventy-Fifth Army.
Division Commander Huang Guanghua felt proud on his face when he saw that the two regiments under his command were attacking smoothly.
He smiled and said to Army Commander Zhou Yan: "Army Commander! This Special Operations Brigade is really good at fighting artillery.
The people are also good.
They fired so many artillery shells at once."
The Special Operations Brigade's shelling had been going on for thirty minutes.
The Japanese devils of the Takenouchi Taro battalion, facing the frantically attacking officers and soldiers of the One Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Division.
This time they could no longer hold on.
It was originally a temporary defense line, and the position was not solid.
These devils had no choice but to retreat steadily.
Although they still wanted to continue to defend here and wait for援,
The Second Battalion, which was originally following behind, was also being bombed by artillery fire at this time, and could not support the Takenouchi Taro battalion.
Battalion Commander Takenouchi Taro had no choice but to order: "Advance towards Nanluo."
They could only retreat backwards, if they didn't leave now.
They might really not be able to leave.
The Seventy-Fifth Army, both high and low, were overjoyed to be able to repel the Japanese devils attacking Taierzhuang.
After repelling the Japanese devils' attack, they seized more than 400 rifles, 13 light machine guns, heavy machine guns, and five grenade launchers.
The news of the great victory soon spread throughout the Seventy-Fifth Army.
Those soldiers who were still frightened and had retreated from the front line heard that their team had not only repelled the Japanese devils' attack.
They also killed more than 500 Japanese devils and seized a lot of weapons and ammunition.
These soldiers all became excited.
They began to communicate with each other.
For these soldiers who had been silent for half a day, they were talking to each other.
Their nervous mood was relieved, and they were no longer as 六神无主 as when they had just returned to Taierzhuang.
The atmosphere of discussion among these soldiers became more and more enthusiastic, and morale was slowly recovering.
Zhou Yan saw that the soldiers who had rushed out had already begun to return.
Each of them was high-spirited, completely different from an hour ago.
He thought of what Lin Fan had said: "Hold on for two days."
He now had some certainty.
The bombing outside Taierzhuang stopped, and the artillery regiment was adjusting the firing parameters.
It soon fired again.
This time they were going to target the Koizumi Yuto battalion.
The goal of this battalion was clear, it was coming towards the Liu Village artillery position.
When the shells landed, the Japanese devils of the Koizumi Yuto battalion were psychologically prepared.
They continued to advance towards Liu Village, braving the artillery fire.
Brigade Commander Seya Keita finally received the news that the Amuro Nasuo battalion had been wiped out.
He also received the news that the Takenouchi Yuto battalion's attack on Taierzhuang had been frustrated, and they had now retreated.
Hearing that Regiment Commander Fukuei Shinpei had sent a battalion to Liu Village to occupy the Nationalist army's artillery position.
He felt a little better in his heart.
However, he did not give up, and ordered: "Organize the team to continue the attack."
Receiving the order, Fukuei Shinpei immediately ordered the Third Battalion to attack.
Letting the Third Battalion attack Taierzhuang was a decision that Regiment Commander Fukuei Shinpei had carefully considered.
Its First Battalion's attack had been frustrated, and the Second Battalion had also been bombed by artillery shells.
Only the Third Battalion was still intact.
Battalion Commander Kita Heizo led the team to Taierzhuang.
Along the way, they could still see the Japanese devils of the First Battalion retreating with their heads lowered.
Battalion Commander Takenouchi Taro was not convinced by this failed attack.
He believed that this time he had been坑 by the artillery fire that the Nationalist army had accidentally fired.
Otherwise, he would definitely be able to complete the task of attacking Taierzhuang.
There was no point in saying this now.
This time, the Nationalist army's bombing was still fair. Its First Battalion was bombed, and the Second Battalion did not escape either.
Listening to the sound of the shells exploding was still轰鸣.
He didn't know where, but another team was suffering.
Thinking of this, Battalion Commander Takenouchi Taro suddenly felt a little better.
The Japanese devils of the Koizumi Yuto battalion had never thought that the Nationalist army's artillery fire would be so fierce.
In fact, it was not that the bombing was fierce, it was that it was too accurate.
Usually, most of the shells fired during artillery bombing would land in the empty space, without hitting the opponent's vital forces.
The artillery of the Special Operations Brigade was different. There was an observer in the air, constantly correcting the landing point of the shells.
Mao Wenxing guided the shells from time to time, only bombing the top of the Japanese devils' heads.
Even if these devils ran off the road and into the wheat field.
They still could not avoid the shells that seemed to have eyes.
The acceptable casualties for Battalion Commander Koizumi Yuto were originally within 10%.
He had never expected that in a short period of five minutes, his battalion had been reduced by at least 30%.
And the other party had not stopped the bombing.
When would this kind of bombing end?
When the Japanese devils of the Koizumi Yuto battalion were struggling on the line between life and death.
Gu Xiuming and his five regiments were marching nervously.
They wanted to set up a pocket between Liu Village and Taierzhuang, striving to wipe out this Japanese devil who had broken away from the main force.
For this goal, the five regiments had already made clear their respective tasks during the march.
The main task of the First Regiment was to插到 behind the Japanese devils, deploying between Taierzhuang North and Liu Village.
It was responsible for blocking the Japanese devils coming to援 from the direction of Taierzhuang.
The task of the Second Regiment was to deploy along the road the Japanese devils came from, on the east side of the road.
It was responsible for blocking the Japanese devils coming to 援 from the east.
The Third Regiment was responsible for blocking this Japanese devil team attacking Liu Village from below.
The Fourth Regiment was in the east, and the Fifth Regiment was in the west, encircling the advancing Japanese devils.
They had to歼灭 this Japanese devil team in the shortest possible time.
The Third Regiment was the first to arrive at the position. They quickly began to dig trenches and fortifications.
Regiment Commander Shan Huacan's face was full of smiles. He and Shan Chenfu were now the fastest-promoted among all the puppet troops who had defected.
These two people had one thing in common: they ate a lot and did a lot.
Although Shan Huacan was now a regiment commander.
When digging trenches, he still wielded the shovel like an ordinary soldier, and his movements were fast.
Compared to doing this, no one in the entire regiment could do it faster or better than him.
Eating a lot meant having a lot of strength, and great strength could break all methods.
With strength, one shovel would dig out half as much soil as others.
Of course, things would be faster.
At this time, Shan Chenfu was running at the forefront of the entire regiment. His regiment was hiding on the east side.
Waiting for the battle between the Japanese devils and the Third Regiment to break out before rushing out from the side.
Encircle and annihilate the Japanese devils.
An Ping led the Fifth Regiment to hide on the west side, and his task was the same as Shan Chenfu's.
The three regiments had entered the position, just waiting for the Japanese devils to come.
Regiment Commander Hou Wentian of the artillery regiment received the news that the three regiments making the pocket had entered the position.
Then he transferred the target of the bombing again.
Army Commander Zhou Yan and Division Commander Huang Guanghua watched the Japanese devils retreat.
Their team returned to Taierzhuang victoriously.
In this battle, the Japanese devils had not even damaged half of the newly built stockade wall of Taierzhuang, and they had already been repelled.
The entire army was very excited.
At this time, there were Japanese devils rushing over from a distance again.
"These Japanese devils are still not giving up?" Army Commander Zhou Yan looked at the Japanese devils rushing over from a distance.
Although he had just repelled the Japanese devils' attack once and killed nearly 500 Japanese devils.
However, he and his headquarters were still unsure whether they could repel this wave of Japanese devils' attack.
Those cannons just now were not his after all.
Regardless of what he was thinking in his heart, Army Commander Zhou Yan's expression remained unchanged.
He said loudly: "Japanese devils are not terrible. We were able to repel them the first time.
We will be able to repel them the second time."
When the Japanese devils rushed to 200 meters away from the