He Pai-chang had already scored one Japanese commander today, and now he wanted to make it a double.

Ji Deye followed closely behind He Pai-chang, not wanting to fall behind even half a step.

In today's battle, the two of them had cooperated very well, one attracting the Japanese attention with a frontal attack, and the other lurking behind to launch a silent sneak attack.

Seeing the direction of He Pai-chang's charge, Ji Deye knew that this time he was heading for the Japanese commander. He was excited at the thought that after killing another Japanese commander, they could each get credit for one.

Captain Rikuzen Kazuo was charging forward, but before he could reach his intended target, he was intercepted by a Chinese soldier.

This made him very angry, and he swung his command saber fiercely at the soldier in front of him.

The soldier in front of him was burly, raising his rifle with both hands to parry. The first strike failed to achieve its intended goal.

Captain Rikuzen Kazuo became even angrier, shouting wildly, and swinging his command saber even harder and faster.

When He Pai-chang parried the Japanese soldier's saber again, Ji Deye struck from behind him: a rifle flashed out from under his left rib.

It stabbed straight towards the Japanese soldier's stomach. Captain Rikuzen Kazuo watched as his command saber was blocked by the soldier in front of him.

He watched helplessly as another bayonet stabbed towards his stomach. He could not dodge this strike, there was no way to avoid it.

He could only watch as the bayonet pierced into his stomach. Rikuzen Kazuo let out a painful howl.

He glared at He Pai-chang and said, "You, don't speak of martial virtue!"

He Pai-chang didn't care about virtue with the Japanese at all. The Japanese soldier's command saber had already fallen to the ground. He was busy giving the Japanese soldier another stab.

He stabbed the Japanese soldier twice in a row, and seeing that the Japanese soldier could not possibly survive, He Pai-chang stopped, and without looking back, said to Ji Deye, "Good stab!"

Ji Deye was busy shouting the count at this time: "Eighth one!"

Together, the two of them had killed eight Japanese soldiers. This combat power was definitely in the first echelon of the Seventh Company.

When Captain Rikuzen Kazuo charged to the front line, his company of Japanese soldiers was already showing signs of defeat. Now that even he was dead.

The entire company of Japanese soldiers had no command, and with the death of their captain, their courage had been lost. Without courage when bayonet fighting, the entire company of Japanese soldiers collapsed even faster.

After all the Japanese soldiers on this defense line were dead, the order received by Chen Zhiping, the Seventh Company Commander, was to continue to advance.

Ahead was Qingyuan City wall. The upper and lower ranks of the Fourth War Area believed that the Japanese would deploy heavy troops here and resist desperately.

But when they rushed to the bottom of the city wall, it was quiet and silent, and no Japanese soldier fired a shot, nor could they see a single Japanese soldier's shadow.

When they rushed into Qingyuan City, they discovered that the Japanese had already retreated completely.

Brigade Commander Wu Xing entered Qingyuan County and saw that the Japanese had retreated so hastily that they didn't even have time to take away the military maps in the command headquarters.

The Fourth War Area successfully counterattacked Qingyuan in one day, and the army has now been stationed in Qingyuan County. Such good news, of course, must be immediately reported to Chongqing.

Chang Kai-shek saw clearly written on the battle report: The 186th Division of the Fourth War Area counterattacked Qingyuan, annihilated more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers, and had already recovered Qingyuan County.

Through another report from his personnel within the Fourth War Area, he learned that this attack on Qingyuan relied entirely on the Fourth War Area's own forces.

This was what made Chang Kai-shek the happiest. His own troops could independently counterattack and recover the county seat, which meant that the Fourth War Area had finally recovered its combat effectiveness in the recent reorganization.

After the commander of the Japanese 21st Army Group, Gu Zhuangganlang, learned that Qingyuan had been recovered by the Fourth War Area, he just said expressionlessly: "Understood!"

All of his attention was now focused on the direction of the Special Forces Brigade's attack. This time, the Special Forces Brigade's mission was to cooperate with the Fourth War Area's actions and contain the Japanese troops to prevent them from going to reinforce Qingyuan.

For a whole day, the Special Forces Brigade, with its land and air coordination, completely recovered Shenzhen and opened up the land route to Hong Kong.

The planes on aerial reconnaissance had already seen the Japanese troops constantly gathering in this direction. The Japanese navy and army aviation units stationed in Guangzhou were terrified by the Special Forces Brigade.

They knew that as long as the planes fought the Special Forces Brigade, none of them could return again. Therefore, no matter how fierce the battle was today, they would no longer send planes to help.

After dark, Commander Gu Zhuangganlang finally breathed a sigh of relief. From the intelligence reported back by the Japanese soldiers scouting on the front line, he came to a conclusion: the Special Forces Brigade had no intention of continuing to advance towards Guangzhou.

This allowed his originally suspended heart to finally relax a little.

After the Fourth War Area recovered Qingyuan, they had no intention of continuing to attack.

Commander Yu Hanmou was only trying to show Chang Kai-shek the strength of the Fourth War Area to show that he was still useful.

The Special Forces Brigade also encountered new problems here. In the past, they had done bandit suppression work in Jurong and the Lunan area.

At that time, with the cooperation of the local people, the bandit suppression work went relatively smoothly. During this period, the Special Forces Brigade's progress in bandit suppression in both Huiyang and Zengcheng was not smooth.

The situation here was too complicated, the relationship between the bandits and the local people was also very complicated, and there were also Japanese spies among these bandits who were strategizing.

This forced the Special Forces Brigade to use a lot of troops to maintain stability in the rear. Lin Fan emphasized at the meeting: Bandits must be suppressed, and if they are not suppressed, the rear cannot be stabilized. When fighting the Japanese on the front, we still have to think about whether the backyard will catch fire, which is not acceptable.

If we can't wipe out the bandits in one year, we will take two or three years. We must completely wipe out the bandits no matter what.

The Special Forces Brigade vigorously suppressed bandits in Guangzhou, and the frontal battlefield began to stalemate with the Japanese.

The fighting in the Guangzhou direction eased, and the previous battles between the Special Forces Brigade and the Japanese in Lunan, Jiangbei, and Jurong also eased.

For the Japanese, the war that had been going on for a year and a half was about to collapse their national strength, especially the bombing operations organized by the Special Forces Brigade some time ago.

It caused many Japanese casualties and also caused many of its military enterprises to be burned down, making the Japanese unable to organize large-scale wars for a while.

Both sides temporarily stopped large-scale military operations, and small conflicts occurred every day.

In order to facilitate the command of the various teams of the Special Forces Brigade, Lin Fan specially asked Li Zongren, the commander of the Fifth War Area, to upgrade the current organization of the Special Forces Brigade to a division.

Li Zongren asked Chang Kai-shek for instructions, but was rejected!

The Special Forces Brigade's current infantry regiment has been compiled to one hundred, but it is still a brigade. In order to facilitate unified organization, each regiment now has twelve companies, each with a strength of two hundred and fifty people.

One hundred infantry regiments mean that the Special Forces Brigade now has 300,000 infantrymen, which is already a very large military group.

Such a large military group, all the regiments asked Lin Fan for instructions and reported to him, which had already made him too busy.

In order to facilitate management, Lin Fan decided to establish detachments between the regiment and the brigade. For example, the Lunan Detachment had thirty regiments under its command, commanded by Gu Xiuming.

The Jiang Detachment was also equipped with thirty regiments, commanded by Chen Sichuan, and the thirty regiments based in Jurong were commanded by Yang Dadan.

The twelve regiments here in Guangzhou formed the Zengcheng Detachment, commanded by Liu Dapao. The detachment leaders commanded the various regiments under them, and then they were responsible to Lin Fan.

With this arrangement, Lin Fan's work was suddenly much easier. Taking advantage of this time, the teams under the Special Forces Brigade began to concentrate on re-equipping.

All of them were replaced with new weapons produced by the Special Forces Brigade itself. As for the Japanese equipment captured in the past, they were all provided to the local guerrilla teams behind enemy lines.

Lin Fan even had time to enter Guangzhou City and walked around the outside of the headquarters of the Japanese 21st Army, inspecting it to see if he could raid the Japanese headquarters.

After seeing the outer fortifications of the Japanese headquarters, Lin Fan gave up his idea: the fortifications built by the Japanese here were definitely worth the investment. To attack here, you would need at least a 150mm heavy gun to open up these strong fortifications.

Obviously this was an impossible thing.

I've been sick these past few days and have to go to the hospital to take care of patients every day. I'm really too sleepy, so I'll update these first and make up for it during the day!