The hands of the Konggu Shun Jie brigade commander, who answered the phone, began to tremble: Was Mizune Ichiro's regimental commander confused?

To say such impossible things in broad daylight.

Thinking of this, Konggu Shun Jie brigade commander said sternly: "Regimental commander Mizune, do you know what you are reporting?

Such unwarranted slander of one's subordinates is not a dignified act for an officer."

Regimental commander Mizune Ichiro was about to cry: "Brigade commander! If I hadn't seen it on the battlefield myself, I wouldn't have believed such a scene, but that's the truth.

The Special Operations Brigade is stronger than any team we have ever seen. I request the brigade commander to send a team to reinforce us immediately."

He said it sincerely, but Konggu Shun Jie brigade commander was still skeptical. However, he had already decided that regardless of whether it was true or false, the entire brigade must arrive in Tianji’an today.

To achieve this goal, Konggu Shun Jie brigade commander put down the phone and ordered the remaining teams under his command: "No matter what, all teams must start boarding the train before 4 pm today."

The Infantry Independent Mixed Tenth Brigade still had five infantry battalions, one cavalry battalion, one tank squadron, and one engineer battalion around Xuzhou, and could still be considered strong and well-equipped.

Among these teams, the tank squadron, cavalry battalion, and engineer battalion were all ready.

Of the five infantry battalions, only the Shenchuan Dazhi battalion was in a somewhat difficult situation.

Gu Xiuming, commander of the Lunan Detachment of the Special Operations Brigade, and concurrently commander of the First Regiment, was now clinging to the Shenchuan Dazhi battalion.

Since receiving Lin Fan's notification to have the Lunan Detachment cooperate with the main force of the Special Operations Brigade in the battle in Jiangbei, Gu Xiuming immediately began to take action.

The Lunan Detachment temporarily did not target the railways or highways.

Instead, they sent working groups to all the villages on both sides of the railway and highway to mobilize the masses, establish organizations in these villages, recruit manpower, and form guerrilla teams.

This time, the Lunan Detachment carried out a major expansion, and wherever they went, they only targeted bullies, bandits, and devils.

Those bandits who had previously been in the territory of the Lunan Detachment and had been driven out now had confirmation and knew that the Lunan Detachment was going to expand its base area.

Some of them had to join the war of resistance, and many others chose to cooperate with the devils.

Lu Chengyun was one such bandit who cooperated with the devils. His team had more than a hundred guns and more than three hundred bandits.

When the Lunan Detachment had just begun to receive refugees from the flooded Yellow River area, this group of bandits colluded with some people among the refugees to resell the refugees' rations at that time.

After being discovered by Gu Xiuming, the scum among the refugees were all cleared out.

Lu Chengyun and his gang of bandits heard the news and fled early, setting up a new stronghold far away from the Lunan Detachment.

This time, the Lunan Detachment expanded its base area again. With nowhere to go, this group of bandits decided to become traitors.

It was they who colluded with the Shenchuan Dazhi battalion, secretly set a trap, and prepared to ambush the Special Operations Brigade.

Lu Chengyun sent more than a hundred people without weapons from the bandit den to Xuzhou as hostages.

More than a hundred bandits with weapons remained in the stronghold, luring the Special Operations Brigade to attack.

In fact, an infantry battalion of devils was ambushing in their stronghold.

The Shenchuan Dazhi battalion commander originally thought that such a surprise attack could catch these arrogant guerrillas off guard.

Lu Chengyun's gang of bandits only had more than three hundred people. Gu Xiuming initially sent only the First, Second, and Third Companies to encircle and suppress them.

As soon as the battle started, the three companies were surrounded by devils who rushed out of the bandit village.

Company Commander Feng Ruili of the First Company, Company Commander Hou Junnan of the Second Company, and Company Commander Dai Tiancheng of the Third Company immediately built a defense line on the spot.

At the same time, they radioed Gu Xiuming for help. Gu Xiuming knew that his three most capable companies had been surrounded by devils while suppressing bandits.

Gu Xiuming immediately ordered the aviation team of the Lunan Detachment to attack. When the Lunan Detachment was first established, Lin Fan had already sent them twenty fighter planes.

Later, after ground attack aircraft were successfully put into production, he sent them another twenty ground attack aircraft.

Upon receiving the attack mission, Yu Zhengyang, Shi Zhengqing, and the other pilots immediately got up. It would take the planes half an hour to reach the battlefield, which was more than 100 kilometers from the hidden airport.

In these half an hour, the three companies of the First Regiment formed a triangular defense line that took care of each other.

Each line was defended by six heavy machine guns, each apex was defended by two infantry guns, and in the center of the triangle was a small artillery position composed of fifteen mortars.

Lu Chengyun, the bandit leader, thought today was the day when they would show their loyalty to the devils.

Although the men of the Lunan Detachment had taken the bait, neither the devils nor the bandits had expected that although they had hooked a fish, the fish was too big. Not only could they not annihilate them all, but they also could not break their defense line.

Lu Chengyun took off his shirt, bared his arms, and shouted to the bandits under his command: "Brothers! Today is our first cooperation with the *Taijun* (Japanese soldiers), we must fight well and not let the *Taijun* look down on us.

Brothers, charge! Tonight we'll find a village and let everyone have a good time."

What he meant by finding a village was that after the battle was over, they would go out and find a village, kidnap some young wives and young women to the mountain stronghold, which would not only bring in ransom money but also satisfy the bandits' desires.

Hearing what the boss said, the bandits all became excited and jumped out of their hiding places one by one, charging forward desperately.

Lu Chengyun was the boss, and he was only responsible for mobilizing his brothers to charge, while he supervised the battle from behind.

Seeing that at least a hundred people had rushed out of the bandit den, he nodded in satisfaction: This time, he would be able to show his face in front of the *Taijun*.

The Shenchuan Dazhi battalion commander didn't think much of the number or quality of this group of bandits.

The only thing that impressed him was that this group of bandits was familiar with the local area and knew every village within a hundred miles.

This was also why Shenchuan Dazhi, as a battalion commander, was willing to call a bandit leader with only more than three hundred people brother.

Now he saw that this group of bandits was indeed not afraid of death and dared to fight, and his eyes were full of admiration: This group of bandits is reliable, they really dare to charge in battle.

Faced with the dense rain of bullets, the devils did not dare to launch an attack, but could only crawl forward slowly from a distance, advancing slowly.

The infantry guns of the Shenchuan Dazhi battalion were also pushed to the front line, and they were bombing the surrounded Nationalist troops sporadically.

By now, both the Shenchuan Dazhi battalion commander and Lu Chengyun, the bandit leader, knew that the surrounded team was the Lunan Detachment of the Special Operations Brigade.

This was because the Lunan Detachment had been vigorously promoting itself, with the aim of letting the villagers in the surrounding villages distinguish the Lunan Detachment from the Nationalist troops left behind by Chang Kai-shek to fight guerrilla warfare.

The Shenchuan Dazhi battalion commander also knew that the Infantry Independent Mixed Tenth Brigade was going to Tianji’an this time to deal with the Special Operations Brigade.

Judging from the name, this Special Operations Brigade was the superior unit of this team.

Squad leader Shanteng Daisuke, seeing that the bandits he usually looked down on were able to charge forward in the face of such a fierce rain of bullets, was also aroused his wildness.

He loudly ordered the devils under his command to all follow behind the bandits and charge forward.

These devils all understood that the triangular defense line built by the team in front, as long as one side was broken, the entire defense line would collapse.

Therefore, squad leader Shanteng Daisuke was following behind the bandits, concentrating his forces to attack the other side's weak spot.

Shi Qian's original surname was Shi, and he was not called by this name, but because he was short and agile, the bandits used the name of Gu Shang Zao (literally translated as Flea on Drum) Shi Qian to call him.

Now he was taking the lead, charging in front of all the bandits. He dodged and moved nimbly in front, and so many heavy machine guns and machine gun bullets did not hit him.

With him attracting firepower in front, the advance speed of the entire charging devils and bandits was very fast.

Soon they rushed to a distance of one hundred meters from the First Company's position. After entering this distance, casualties began to increase, whether it was among the bandits or the devils.

However, this was still within an acceptable range for them. Whether it was the bandits or the devils, they were still charging.

Sergeant Village Shang Tai Xiong was a devil following behind the bandits. He followed closely the cover found by the bandits in front, and for a while, he felt much safer.

The devils did not only attack in one direction. In fact, they sent a squad in all three directions to carry out probing attacks.

It was only in the direction of the First Company that the devils on this side had the addition of bandits, so they followed behind the bandits, reducing casualties a lot.

The bandits charging in front silently endured the most rain of bullets. Lu Chengyun did not feel much when some of his bandits died.

In his opinion, these brothers could all be used to exchange for power and money, and they were all cannon fodder.

Now seeing that the bandits under his command had rushed to a distance of less than 50 meters from the First Company's defense line.

Whether it was Lu Chengyun or the Shenchuan Dazhi battalion commander, they both believed that the battle was about to end.

The Shenchuan Dazhi battalion commander had already ordered the Yamada Jianren squadron to rush towards the First Company's defense line immediately.

In his opinion, the First Company's defense line was already lost. Now he only needed to send a squadron to rush into the defensive position of the team in front.

This would allow them to break through the team in front from the inside, and then divide and surround them, and then wipe them out one by one.

This team was quite large, with as many as three squadrons according to the devil's organization.

While thinking like this, the Shanteng Daisuke squad, which was charging in the front, was less than thirty meters away from the defense line in front.

At this moment, a violent explosion suddenly came from the position in front, and at the same time, a huge cloud of smoke and dust covered the Shanteng Daisuke squad that had just rushed up.

What happened in front? The Shenchuan Dazhi battalion commander didn't know, didn't understand, and couldn't see it either.

When building the defense line, the First Company had already placed directional mines ten meters in front of the position.

Just now, this was the sound of the directional mine exploding. The smoke and dust generated by the explosion made the devils and bandits in the distance unclear about what was happening inside.

Shi Qian, who was called the Flea on Drum, had always been at the forefront of the team, running fast and jumping happily like a flea.

When the explosion occurred, all that was in front of him were black iron pellets, filling the entire space. At this time, even if he was a real flea, he would not be able to avoid the bombing of the directional mine.

So Gu Shang Zao (Flea on Drum) also became a dead flea, and the bandits and devils following behind him were about the same.

Even if some of them did not die completely for a while, the soldiers of the Lunan Detachment had already rushed out of the temporary defense line.

Rushing towards the dazed devils and bandits, these soldiers held bayonet-mounted rifles in their hands.

Rushing to the front, they shouted "Kill!" and thrust out their rifles with all their might. The devils and bandits who had not yet reacted fell down one by one.

Some of the lagging soldiers could only give the devils who fell on the ground and were still struggling a final blow.

When the smoke cleared, the Yamada Jianren squadron leader, who had not rushed up, discovered that the devils and bandits who had just rushed to the position and were about to engage in close combat with the Lunan Detachment were now lying in a pool of blood.

Even their weapons were taken away!

How could this be tolerated?

The Yamada Jianren squadron leader directed the team to continue attacking. The Shenchuan Dazhi battalion commander, who was standing further away, could see a larger scene.

He found that the attacks in all directions had failed, and it was a complete defeat without a single devil returning.

What exactly happened in the smoke just now was something every devil wanted to know but could not know.

The combat effectiveness of this team in front was a bit strong. The Shenchuan Dazhi battalion commander had received orders to return to Xuzhou today.

So in the other two directions, he also sent a squadron to attack. This time, the Shenchuan Dazhi battalion commander was starting to exert his strength.

Lu Chengyun, the leader, saw that his elite bandits had just died completely. Now he had only twenty bandits left beside him.

His face suddenly turned white: What kind of sorcery did this team just use? They killed so many brothers and *Taijun* all at once.

If according to the joining oath of these bandits: Not born in the same year, same month, same day, but willing to die in the same month, same day.

He would have died together with those more than a hundred bandits today.

Obviously, Lu Chengyun did not really have the idea of dying. He didn't even dare to send the twenty or so bandits left beside him to fight.

Strength! In troubled times, the best way to protect oneself is strength. Now that the strength of his subordinates has declined so much, if he doesn't hold on to the *Taijun*'s (Japanese soldiers) thigh, the days to come will be quite difficult.

The Shenchuan Dazhi battalion commander clearly saw his worries and immediately said: "Don't worry, Leader Lu, after this battle is over. You will make up for the manpower, and all the weapons will be replaced. I have better weapons for you to use."

These words made Lu Chengyun smile. He didn't expect that he could actually turn misfortune into blessing. It didn't matter if some brothers died, as long as there were reinforcements to replenish them.

Moreover, there were also weapons issued by the *Taijun*. This time, he was really betting correctly.

The Yamada Jianren squadron leader led the team to a distance of 200 meters from the First Company's position.

They only suffered from the bombing of infantry guns and mortars. The shells exploded in the devil's team. The Yamada Jianren squadron leader ordered the entire devil's offensive line to expand once again.

This way, they could avoid a situation where one shell killed too many devils. The devils dispersed very quickly this time. When they entered a distance of 150 meters, heavy machine guns, machine guns, and rifles all participated in the attack.

Although the rain of bullets was dense, the devils were scattered, and not many devils fell.

The devils in the other two directions were also like this. They were very scattered, which made the effect of the artillery bombardment not good.

Even if heavy machine guns and machine guns were fired, they could only suppress the devils a little.

They immediately used crawling movements to advance quickly.

His three companies were surrounded by devils. Gu Xiuming personally led the First Regiment to reinforce them.

Now ground attack aircraft could already be seen, with dozens of black spots in the sky. Gu Xiuming, who had expectations in his heart, immediately thought of the planes he sent out.

The sound of "buzzing" was getting louder and louder, and a large group of planes flew from afar.

As soon as these planes arrived at the battlefield, they immediately began to dive, slow down, and start firing at the scattered devils on the ground.

The four-barreled machine guns swept towards the devils. Although the devils of the Yamada Jianren squadron were very scattered, the attacks from the air were dense and rapid.

The devils, who had just been filled with hope, were suddenly thrown into chaos.

The First, Second, and Third Companies also launched a counterattack, charging towards the devils who had been ravaged by the planes.

The devils of the Yamada Jianren squadron had already suffered heavy losses in the low-altitude strafing just now.

Now they saw that the First Company stood up and began to charge. The Yamada Jianren squadron leader immediately ordered the devils to fix bayonets, preparing for close combat.

He now understood that the Nationalist troops opposite actually wanted close combat.

Seeing this, the Shenchuan Dazhi battalion immediately sent all the last three squadrons in his hand. This time, he had bet everything.

This time, his plan failed. The planes in the air, seeing that new troops of devils had joined the battlefield, immediately sent out a part of the planes to start intercepting them first.

For these devils who had just begun to disperse, they reaped the lives of the devils like the scythe of the Grim Reaper.

Watching the devils fall to the ground one by one, never moving again, the Shenchuan Dazhi battalion commander regretted it.

He regretted coming here to set up this trap with Lu Chengyun, the bandit.

What they had hooked was a fish! It was clearly a *jiao long* (mythical flood dragon).

The trap made by the devils and bandits had been broken by the Nationalist troops who had entered the net.

At this time, Lu Chengyun was immersed in the fantasy of hugging a thigh and having a better life in the future, and an inexplicable smile unconsciously appeared on his face.

This smile just happened to be seen by the Shenchuan Dazhi battalion commander, who was wondering whether today's trap was set for the team on the opposite side or for himself.

Seeing Lu Chengyun's smile, he became even more suspicious, but he was a cautious devil and did not immediately turn his face.

He still had a little bit of hope, hoping that these were just coincidences, but the battle could not continue.

The Shenchuan Dazhi battalion had already left the lives of more than 400 devils here. He gave the order: "Retreat!"

Hearing the *Taijun*'s order to retreat, Lu Chengyun was a little reluctant. He persuaded: "*Taijun*! We still have so many men, and the team on the opposite side is surrounded, with a limited number of people and limited ammunition.

A journey of a hundred *li* is only half completed at ninety *li*. We can be considered to have really reached the halfway point. Is it too uneconomical to retreat at this time?"

Hearing what Lu Chengyun said, the Shenchuan Dazhi battalion commander was also hesitating. On the one hand, he could not capture the position after a long attack, and on the other hand, there was the brigade commander's call-up order.

Just as he was hesitating, Commander Gu Xiuming had already arrived with the remaining troops of the First Regiment. As soon as they arrived at the battlefield, they immediately formed another circle on the outside.

Now the First, Second, and Third Companies of the Lunan Detachment were in the middle, the Shenchuan Dazhi battalion of devils was on the outside, and the First Regiment was on the outside again, surrounding them layer by layer, like layers of a sandwich cookie.

The Shenchuan Dazhi battalion, squeezed in the middle, had the most difficult time. They could neither attack the innermost defense line nor break through the defense circle set up by the First Regiment on the outside.

Most importantly, the First, Second, and Third Companies kept in contact with the First Regiment on the outer layer.

They wanted to cooperate from the inside and outside to eat up the entire Shenchuan Dazhi battalion. This was not a very profound tactic. In this situation, every commander would do the same.

The Shenchuan Dazhi battalion commander guessed the actions of the First Regiment in this way, so he had already sent devils to arrest Lu Chengyun and his twenty or so bandits when the First Regiment surrounded them.

Now the Shenchuan Dazhi battalion commander could be sure and affirmed that today's trap was a trap set for him by the bandits and the Lunan Detachment together.

At the same time, he immediately asked the Konggu Shun Jie brigade commander for help, reporting in detail that in order to complete the mission, he had fallen into the trap of the bandits, and now the entire battalion was surrounded by the Lunan Detachment and could be wiped out at any time.

This was not good news. The Konggu Shun Jie brigade commander looked at the map. The closest team to the Shenchuan Dazhi battalion was in Xuzhou, a distance of 70 kilometers. Even if a fully mechanized team went there, it would take at least two hours.

A battalion of devils, this could not be left unsaved. But before saving the devils, he had to do one thing: arrest all the more than one hundred family members of the bandits Lu Tianyun who were being held hostage in Xuzhou City.

They would be immediately escorted to the execution ground. He wanted everyone to know that the consequences of deceiving the *Taijun* were very severe.

Lu Chengyun, who was fantasizing about eating delicious food, drinking spicy drinks, and playing with small women in the future, and the last twenty or so bandits, were all arrested.

When Lu Chengyun had not understood the reason, the Shenchuan Dazhi battalion commander had already ordered the devils to fire.

Regardless of whether his group would live or die next, he would first let this group of bandits die. This was the right thing to do.

This was what the Shenchuan Dazhi battalion commander thought!

He shot Lu Chengyun and his gang of bandits here. In Xuzhou City, Konggu Shun Jie also sent all the relatives of Lu Chengyun and his gang of bandits to the execution ground to be shot together.

This bandit of Lu Chengyun and his gang was truly eradicated from the root. Not a single one of them escaped, and no descendants were left.

The Shenchuan Dazhi battalion commander let the devils, who were already demoralized, shoot more than twenty bandits, and the morale of the devils recovered somewhat.

Now they were about to face a situation of being attacked from both sides, preparing for how to fight the First Regiment.

The Shenchuan Dazhi battalion commander had just understood that his battalion had to hold on here for at least two hours, or even longer.

Hold on and wait for reinforcements!