Chapter 1 The Warriors' Opportunity

The hesitation of the Japanese soldiers was precisely the opportunity the First Company soldiers needed. Over a hundred soldiers swarmed forward, and the remaining hundred or so soldiers of the Oonai Yamamine Company were quickly annihilated.

At this moment, Battalion Commander Takeda Kazuki finally fell. However, not all the Japanese soldiers of Takeda Kazuki's battalion had fallen.

There were always a few who had been lucky enough to avoid injury. After a period of shock, these Japanese soldiers finally reacted.

Under the command of another company, they continued to charge towards the First Company.

The entire Takeda Battalion now had fewer than two hundred Japanese soldiers left, equivalent to the strength of a full company.

These soldiers did not turn and run despite suffering a heavy blow. They still saw hope for victory in the number of soldiers in the First Company.

After all, the Chinese soldiers opposite them had already fought a battle, and now the Japanese still had a numerical advantage.

Company Commander Aoi Heiyo was commanding the last two hundred or so Japanese soldiers of the entire battalion, launching a final charge against the First Company.

At this moment, Guo Juncai, who was behind the heavy machine gun, understood what was happening: the Japanese were using the "add oil" tactic! (successive, uncoordinated attacks)

Company Commander Shi had just ordered Platoon Leader Jing to lay landmines to reduce the number of charging Japanese soldiers, and also to buy time for the First Company to completely annihilate the Oonai Yamamine Company at the front.

Now, the hundred or so Japanese soldiers who had first engaged the First Company in close combat had all fallen. Although more Japanese soldiers were charging up again, they only outnumbered the First Company soldiers by forty or fifty.

Obviously, the First Company soldiers did not take this slight numerical disadvantage to heart.

Just as both Guo Juncai and Company Commander Aoi Heiyo thought that the First Company was preparing for close combat,

Company Commander Shi suddenly shouted out two words: "Hand grenades!"

More than a hundred soldiers in the entire company threw out at least a hundred hand grenades. Taking advantage of the smoke from the hand grenade explosions, these hundred or so soldiers swarmed forward.

The Japanese soldiers who were still charging were being bombed for the third time. Before they could react, the First Company soldiers had already rushed in front of them.

The bright bayonets stabbed straight into their chests. This Chinese army was too cunning and did not follow the rules of engagement!

Everyone was prepared for close combat, but they actually used hand grenades to blast a wave before charging up for close combat.

The Takeda Kazuki Battalion, which had just had two hundred soldiers, was blasted by hundreds of hand grenades, leaving fewer than fifty Japanese soldiers able to stand. The First Company had succeeded in its sneak attack again.

This wave of close combat ended faster than Guo Juncai had expected. Company Commander Shi Junxia of the First Company did not continue to advance after this battle.

He reported the details of the battle to Regiment Commander Liu Laopao and requested to build a defensive line on the spot.

Regiment Commander Liu approved: the First Company soldiers were not made of iron. They had marched overnight last night and had already fought two fierce battles this morning.

Company Commander Shi Junxia did not dare to continue attacking. The soldiers needed to rest, and the battlefield needed to be cleaned up.

Cleaning up the battlefield once again opened Guo Junxia's eyes: some of the First Company soldiers were digging trenches, preparing for defense.

The other soldiers were giving the Japanese a final stab, regardless of whether they were dead or alive, they would stab them in the throat.

There were at least two or three hundred Japanese soldiers groaning on the battlefield, especially in the area where the landmines had exploded, the groaning of the Japanese soldiers was like hell.

The First Company soldiers did not have any special movements, they just walked in front of the Japanese soldiers, flashed their bayonets, stabbed them, and then pulled them out.

One group of soldiers was giving the final stabs, another group of soldiers was collecting weapons and ammunition, and something else that opened Guo Juncai's eyes again appeared:

The First Company soldiers were even taking off the Japanese soldiers' clothes and shoes and piling them up.

The Japanese corpses on the battlefield were piled up together, stark white.

Guo Juncai asked in incomprehension, "Why are you doing this?"

Company Commander Shi said with a smile, "Giving the Japanese soldiers a final stab before collecting their weapons is to prevent them from feigning death and launching a sneak attack.

As for prisoners? The Special Operations Brigade never takes them! Those clothes and shoes are collected and sent back to the training teams in the rear.

The Special Operations Brigade does not receive supplies from above, all supplies can only rely on ourselves, so we are a bit frugal."

Guo Juncai pointed to the Japanese corpses and asked, "Are you piling up those Japanese soldiers to build a landscape?"

"No! We are going to bury these Japanese soldiers! The weather is like this now, and the corpses will stink after a day. If they are not buried in time, the corpses will rot and may cause a plague in the surrounding area," Company Commander Shi explained patiently.

Guo Juncai was a little speechless. This team was said to be fierce, but they could bury the enemy's corpses. It was said that they abide by international conventions, but it didn't seem right.

No matter what they did, it seemed to have its own reason, and none of the soldiers seemed to have any discomfort.

Company Commander Shi pointed to the Qilin Peak in the rear and said, "There are many weapons and shrapnel left by the Japanese soldiers on that mountain peak. The Eleventh Company, which is cleaning up the battlefield, will have a great harvest this time."

"You are also picking up the shrapnel after the artillery shells explode?" Guo Juncai was surprised.

"Of course! These are all steel. We are an agricultural country, shouldn't we recycle such things properly, and then melt them down to fight the Japanese?" Company Commander Shi said as a matter of course.

Guo Juncai understood: this team's supplies all had to be obtained by themselves, so they were very珍惜 all materials. (cherishing)

Looking back at the Second War Zone and the entire Kuomintang army, it was impossible to find such a thrifty team.

However, cleaning up the battlefield in this way also requires confidence, at least you must not be afraid of the Japanese soldiers suddenly charging over on the battlefield.

Guo Juncai looked at the soldiers of the First Company, each one of them looked happy. Were they afraid of the Japanese soldiers charging over?

These soldiers were probably hoping that the Japanese soldiers would charge over to die! The Takeda Kazuki Battalion, which attacked Qilin Peak, was finished, and the Matsushita Yuta Battalion, which attacked Jigong Ridge, did not get any advantage either.

This place was originally an easy place to defend and difficult to attack. The artillery of the Japanese 27th Division had just carried out a dense artillery bombardment on Qilin Peak.

They did not pay as much attention to Jigong Ridge as they did to Qilin Peak.

Battalion Commander Matsushita Yuta sent the Ikebata Hideki Company to act as the vanguard at the front.

They also started from Xiaoao and only needed to walk five miles forward along the Ruiwu Highway to reach the bottom of Jigong Ridge.

The Japanese soldiers of the Irie Kyuro squad were walking at the front of the entire battalion, and Sergeant Abe Toyosuke was watching Jigong Ridge from afar.

The target was clearly visible, and these Japanese soldiers were more careful. Company Commander Zheng Tianan of the Third Company heard Platoon Leader Jiang report that a large group of Japanese soldiers was coming.

He immediately ordered the entire company to hide and the first platoon to set up directional mines.

The soldiers of the first platoon quickly set up along both sides of the road. These roads had been deliberately destroyed by the Kuomintang army. Although the Japanese soldiers had repaired a lot for marching, both sides of the road were full of fresh soil and gravel.

Such an environment made it too easy for the first platoon to set up directional mines. They could just dig a pit, set up a pile of dirt to disguise the mines, and no one would notice.

The Japanese soldiers were advancing very quickly. The Third and Fourth Companies deliberately retreated hundreds of meters to set up traps.

Jigong Ridge was silent. Neither Squad Leader Irie Kyuro, who was walking in front, nor Battalion Commander Matsushita Yuta in the distance, noticed any activity of the Kuomintang army on Jigong Ridge.

"Could it be that the Kuomintang army has retreated?" Battalion Commander Matsushita Yuta thought to himself.

Thinking of the attack launched by the Kuomintang army in the morning, how could they give up the high ground that they had just painstakingly occupied?

Not being able to see any activity of the Kuomintang army made Irie Kyuro feel an ominous premonition: it was not afraid of the large number of Kuomintang soldiers on Jigong Ridge, but was afraid of this kind of appearance where there was no one at all.

There must be something wrong!

No matter what kind of traps there were on the ridge ahead, the Irie Kyuro squad still advanced firmly.

They had already entered the trap set up by the Third Company, but Company Commander Zheng had not yet issued the order.

In the eyes of the soldiers of the Third Company, fifty or so Japanese soldiers were too few. Not to mention that they were now cooperating with the Fourth Company.

It was too bullying for two companies to fight a small squad of Japanese soldiers.

In fact, the trap set up by the first platoon was a bit long, and it could completely trap the Japanese soldiers who were following behind.

Company Commander Ikebata Hideki looked at Jigong Ridge and excitedly ordered loudly: "Speed up! Follow up!"

It was ordering the entire company to follow the pace of the Irie Kyuro squad. If Company Commander Ikebata Hideki knew that this was urging the entire company to speed up and walk into the Yellow Springs Road,

It would definitely cut off its own tongue.

Company Commander Zheng Tianan watched the Japanese soldiers running into the trap he had set up and couldn't help but be very grateful to the Japanese company commander who was waving his command knife.

Seeing that all the Japanese soldiers of one company had entered the trap he had set up, Company Commander Zheng Tianan then ordered: "Detonate!"

With an order, "Rumble! Rumble!" Continuous explosions sounded one after another not far away.

As soon as the smoke cleared, Company Commander Zheng had already ordered: "Charge! Be quick!"

The soldiers of the two companies rushed out of the hidden bushes and charged towards the Japanese soldiers who had been blasted into a daze.

Sergeant Abe Toyosuke was walking at the front of the team, and the directional mine was the first to explode in front of it.

Abe Toyosuke, who was originally the most likely to be炸死 (blown to death), saw countless black shadows passing by him, and at the same time, many sharp swooshing sounds flew past his ears.

It was so scared that it stayed where it was, not daring to move at all. Even so, it was lucky enough not to be injured.

The Japanese soldiers of the Irie Kyuro squad and the entire Ikebata Hideki Company who were following behind it were less fortunate.

As soon as the explosion stopped, miserable groans rang out in the area where these Japanese soldiers were located.

Many Japanese soldiers fell to the ground, shouting loudly: "Save me! Save me!"

The huge explosion in front, of course, attracted the attention of the Matsushita Yuta Battalion, which was a little distance behind Ikebata Hideki.

They only saw a huge cloud of smoke rising in front of them, and they didn't know what had happened in front of them at all.

Battalion Commander Matsushita Yuta immediately ordered the entire battalion to suspend their advance and sent a dozen or so Japanese soldiers to the front to find out what was going on.

Company Commander Ikebata Hideki finally reacted after being bombed. At this time, the Irie Kyuro squad in front of it had already come into contact with the Third Company.

The soldiers of the Third and Fourth Companies rushed up and stabbed the standing Japanese soldiers in the chest, and gave a final stab to the wounded Japanese soldiers who were struggling on the ground.

More than three hundred soldiers were dealing with the Ikebata Hideki Company, which had been bombed and only had less than a hundred Japanese soldiers left, it was completely碾压 (overwhelming).

Captain Kazumasa Kamikata was running forward quickly with the battalion commander's order. It wanted to catch up with Company Commander Ikebata Hideki, rush into the smoke, and ask what had happened.

When it had not yet rushed into the area filled with smoke with a dozen or so Japanese soldiers, it saw teams of Kuomintang soldiers rushing out of the dissipating smoke.

It didn't see a single Japanese soldier!

Seeing dozens of Kuomintang soldiers charging towards its position, Captain Kazumasa Kamikata did not hesitate at all.

It turned around and ran! It was originally here to find out what was going on, and building a defensive line on the spot was not its mission. This was suicide.

Platoon Leader Jiang saw the dozen or so Japanese soldiers in the distance turn around and run away, such a long distance, it would not be able to catch up at all.

It ignored them and smiled and turned back to clean up the battlefield.

Receiving the news that the Ikebata Hideki Company had been ambushed and completely annihilated by the Kuomintang army in a few minutes,

Battalion Commander Matsushita Yuta almost didn't stand firm: this blow was too great.

If the Ikebata Hideki Company had lasted for an hour, and had been annihilated by the Kuomintang army in half a day, it could still accept it a little bit.

Like now, nearly two hundred Japanese soldiers died in a few minutes, Battalion Commander Matsushita Yuta could not accept it at all.

Whether it accepted it or not, this was what had happened. After a period of futile rage, Battalion Commander Matsushita Yuta had to order again:

"Retreat!"

It was a cautious commander. Instead of fighting a field battle with the Kuomintang army here, it would be better to retreat a little and wait for this Kuomintang army in Xiaoao.

At that time, it would see whether the team that had just ambushed the Ikebata Hideki Company was fighting a guerrilla war? Or was the Kuomintang army starting a counterattack on the front line?

After ambushing a Japanese company, Company Commander Zheng Tianan of the Third Company received Lin Fan's order: "Clean up the battlefield, hide in place, and send out reconnaissance teams to scout the situation and familiarize themselves with the terrain."

Each company of the Special Operations Brigade would send out reconnaissance teams to familiarize themselves with the terrain at this time. This was a tradition of the entire team.

Lin Fan now had some understanding of the entire battlefield. The Battle of 万家岭 (Wanjialing) was a great victory in the anti-Japanese war that was as famous as the Battle of 台儿庄 (Taierzhuang) in the frontal battle against the Japanese soldiers.

Later generations have made a lot of publicity about this battle, calling it a great battle that completely annihilated a Japanese division. Lin Fan also remembered the names of the places like Zhanggushan and Leiminggu Liu.

Confirming the location of the Special Operations Brigade, Lin Fan looked towards the mountains to the east. He could not see Wanjialing from here.

This place was still twenty miles away from Wanjialing. His current task could only be to block the Japanese 27th Division in place and not let it break through the defense line.

The reconnaissance teams sent out by each company all had a guide to lead the way. At the same time, Lin Fan also ordered the reconnaissance teams of each company not to run too far. There were many mountains and ridges here, and it was very easy to get lost.

At this time, Lieutenant General Kankuro Ochiai, the commander of the Japanese 27th Division, had received a report from Regiment Commander Shuu Ono: "In one morning, the 3rd Regiment of the Garrison Force lost the two key areas of Qilin Peak and Jigong Ridge.

At the same time, three battalions were completely annihilated, and Battalion Commander Matsushita Yuta, the only one who escaped from the front line, also lost one company."

Originally, General Ochiai, who had received the report, was very dissatisfied with Commander-in-Chief Okamura Neiji's order for the 27th Division to abandon its original combat plan and approach the 106th Division.

Seeing that the 106th Infantry Division had lost two entire battalions, the dissatisfaction in his heart had already broken through the sky.

General Ochiai ordered: "Don't care about Qilin Peak, and don't pay attention to those idiots in the 106th Division.

We will only advance along the Ruiwu Highway. As long as we occupy Ruoxi, we can carry out a counter-encirclement against the Kuomintang army that is besieging the 106th Division.

At that time, their encirclement will naturally be lifted. This is called "圍魏救趙" (relieving the state of Wei by besieging Zhao)!"

Reporting its action plan to Okamura Neiji, the 27th Division ignored the orders issued by the 11th Army and only acted according to its own plan.

No matter what General Ochiai's plan was, the Special Operations Brigade that was blocking the Ruiwu Highway was something they could not bypass.

Today, the Ono Shuu Regiment was severely damaged, and the Japanese soldiers did not organize an attack again, but only began to prepare for the next action.

The 106th Division, which had already entered the Wanjialing area, had received the news that its logistics supply route had been cut off by the Kuomintang army.

General Jumpei Matsuura, the commander of the division, was not too concerned about this. His division had carried six days of rations for each Japanese soldier when they set off from 馬回嶺 (Mailing). Starting from today, it believed that it would definitely be able to break through the current defense line of the Kuomintang army in six days.

Although the plan to join forces with the 27th Division had failed, General Matsuura felt that the Kuomintang army's front line was not strong and was full of loopholes.

In order to defeat the Kuomintang army's defense line as soon as possible, the battalions of the Japanese 27th Division advanced side by side, preparing to attack from multiple points and defeat them one by one.

On the 28th, the Special Operations Brigade was the only one on the Second War Zone's defense line that had recaptured Qilin Peak and Jigong Ridge. In addition, the 66th Army had cut off the Japanese army's food supply route.

There were no more battles on the entire defense line. The armies of the Second War Zone that had received orders were withdrawing from each defense line and rushing towards the Japanese 106th Division together.

The Japanese soldiers of the Matsuura Division had a very unsuccessful march on this day. After entering the mountains, they found that the compasses were not working.

And there was a new problem facing the entire division: the mountains here were stacked on top of each other, and the roads on the map could not be passed.

In other words, the entire 106th Division was now lost in the mountains.

It happened to be foggy in the mountains today and it was difficult to distinguish the direction. Even the Japanese reconnaissance planes could not find them.

This was embarrassing! General Matsuura could only order everyone to take a break and camp in place.

The people in the villages of Panjia Village, Liujia Village, Xingjia Village, and Nantianpu in this mountainous area had all fled.

The Japanese 106th Division could not find a single guide to lead the way, and this was not the most important thing.

The most important thing was that the Kuomintang army had learned from the experiences of the Battle of Shanghai and the Battle of Nanjing.

When the people were being moved away around the Wuhan battlefield, they were all implementing a "堅壁清野" (scorched earth policy), and the Japanese soldiers could not find a single grain of food in these villages.

Now they still had dry food, and this was also the first day that their supplies had been cut off. All the Japanese soldiers were not actually worried and did not know what they were going to face next.

On September 29, the Special Operations Brigade, which had been resting for a day and a night, took the initiative to attack.

They received intelligence from the Kuomintang Reserve 6th Division: They learned that the Japanese 27th Division's 3rd Garrison Regiment was stationed in Xiaoao Village.

The regiment had four infantry battalions, and three of them had been completely annihilated. Lin Fan decided to concentrate the strength of two regiments of the Special Operations Brigade and eliminate the Japanese soldiers in Xiaoao Village.

At six o'clock in the morning, the two rocket artillery companies of the Special Operations Brigade began their first salvo. This time, they were not just firing one round and stopping.

According to Lin Fan's order, this time they were to fire three rounds. After the three rounds were fired, the Special Operations Brigade would only have enough rockets left for five salvos.

When the first round of rockets was fired, Liu Laopao led the Second Regiment along the highway and launched an attack on the Japanese soldiers from the west.

Shangguan Zhiwen also led the 15th Regiment around the Hube Reservoir and launched an attack on the Japanese soldiers in Xiaoao Village from the west.

Regiment Commander Shuu Ono had received the order from General Ochiai yesterday afternoon: Open up the road to Ruoxi.

This order came a little too late. If it had been one day earlier, when its regiment still had more than two thousand Japanese soldiers, it would have been easy to complete this task.

Now it was different. Its regiment only had six hundred or so infantrymen left. If it were to deal with the old Kuomintang soldiers, it would still have a little bit of confidence.

But now it was facing a team of unknown designation. Yesterday they were so fierce, how could its regiment, which only had six hundred infantrymen left, attack?

It was necessary to report the specific difficulties. General Ochiai was still very considerate to his subordinates, especially since he had transferred one battalion each from the First Regiment and the Second Regiment to assist in the attack.

At the same time, he sent two thousand Japanese soldiers from the three thousand replacement soldiers that had just been sent up from the rear to the 3rd Garrison Regiment.

In this way, the number of soldiers in Regiment Commander Shuu Ono's hands instantly expanded to more than before.

However, the two thousand replacement soldiers who had just arrived were all farmers, merchants, and workers who had only undergone seven days of training. These Japanese soldiers could only fight in a winning situation.

In order to train these newly arrived Japanese soldiers, Regiment Commander Shuu Ono had also formulated an attack plan for today.

It was preparing to let these newly arrived Japanese soldiers have a good breakfast and then set off towards Jigong Ridge.

It would let the Northbound Battalion from the First Regiment send a company to open the way in the front, and the newly formed First Battalion of the Third Regiment would follow behind to provide support.

This was Regiment Commander Shuu Ono's arrangement for these Japanese soldiers to experience the battlefield.

Plans were always changing faster than expected. Before the Japanese soldiers of the entire regiment had even eaten breakfast, they were subjected to fierce artillery bombardment.

This wave of artillery bombardment was too fierce. Regiment Commander Seiichi Murakami of the 27th Mountain Artillery Regiment estimated that the other side had at least two heavy artillery regiments, and at least eighty cannons were involved in the bombardment.

Eight rockets carried out three rounds of salvos on Xiaoao Village, and nearly three hundred shells were fired into the Japanese camp in less than ten minutes.

This disrupted Regiment Commander Shuu Ono's attack plan. Junior Sergeant Kinoe Itousuke, who had just arrived in Xiaoao Village yesterday afternoon, had heard on the island that the empire's army had been winning victories here.

That's why it gave up its job in the shipyard and joined the Japanese army. From signing up to being notified of being accepted, it only took one day.

Mr. Sato, the general manager of the shipyard, gave a very high evaluation to them and this group of people who actively signed up to participate in the war on the front line.

Mr. Sato also gave them, these twenty-odd new Japanese soldiers, two months' salary as a reward.

The entire factory was organized to send Itousuke and the others off happily. After this group of workers was sent away, Sato collapsed into his office.

Since the start of the war last year, more than two hundred skilled workers had left its shipyard. Now there were several work positions in the factory where it could not recruit suitable people. It had already started recruiting women to replace them.

But this was not the end. The Japanese government was still issuing conscription tasks to these factories.

Itousuke and the twenty-odd Japanese soldiers who had actively signed up had actually solved its factory's conscription task.

That's why General Manager Sato had given them two months' salary. This time's conscription task was considered to have been passed. What about next time?

The current General Manager Sato thought of the time last year when the government announced that the war would end in three months, and that they would be able to conquer the great power on the other side in three months.

Then it was three months and three months and three months again. The government on the other side had been resisting and fighting.

This situation had already made elite members of society like Sato feel very bad.

From what it saw in the newspapers, the Japanese soldiers were still taking the initiative and continuing to attack the major cities in the central part of the other side.

But it was not clear how many times the island had conscripted replacement soldiers. All the previous reserves had been sent to the battlefield.

But this number was far from enough. Even its shipyard had already conscripted the third batch of replacement soldiers. This was enough to show that the battles on the front line were not as smooth as the newspapers claimed.

The thoughts of General Manager Sato were not clear to Junior Sergeant Itousuke. It joined the military training with the twenty-odd Japanese soldiers from the factory.

The month-long new recruit training that had been originally planned was ended on the seventh day. According to the officer who was training them: "You are all natural warriors. Seven days of training is enough to be better than those Japanese soldiers who have undergone a year of training in the past.

Therefore, you can take a boat and cross the sea tomorrow to fight on the opposite continent and make contributions to the empire."

It was in this feeling of being a natural warrior that two thousand Japanese soldiers entered Xiaoao Village.

And on the second morning after they moved here, they were subjected to fierce artillery bombardment. Junior Sergeant Itousuke personally saw Junior Sergeant Yoshitaka Haruto, who had come here from the factory, and several other Japanese soldiers being blown down by a shell at the same time.

Itousuke, who rushed over in a panic, was so frightened by the sight of Yoshitaka Haruto, who was missing half of his head, that he collapsed to the ground, trembling all over and without any strength at all.

This was different from what it had imagined, very different! In Itousuke's imagination, it and the entire Japanese army would be walking swaggeringly in the village with their guns in hand.

The people in the village would be kneeling on the ground, trembling, and the KMT soldiers guarding the trenches would be holding up their weapons, waiting for it to go and disarm them.

But the reality was too disappointing for it. Before it had even eaten breakfast, it was bombarded by artillery fire.

Half of the twenty-odd Japanese soldiers who had come from the factory had died at once. This was not the end. The bombardment was still continuing, and it did not know if it would be able to survive.

At this time, Junior Sergeant Itousuke had only one thought: It was too dangerous here, and it wanted to go back to the shipyard.

Regiment Commander Shuu Ono was still inspecting its camp at this time according to its usual routine. It wanted to see the situation of the Japanese soldiers in the morning.

It was startled by the overwhelming bombardment. Its guards quickly helped the regiment commander to hurriedly escape back to the command post.

Shuu Ono's command post had been specially reinforced and could withstand the bombardment of artillery shells.

The sudden bombardment came and went quickly. But it did not give Regiment Commander Shuu Ono time to catch its breath.

It was already reporting to it that there was intense gunfire on the defense line that it had set up outside Xiaoao Village.

After Yuta Matsushita's company was ambushed and annihilated yesterday, it had hurriedly retreated, thinking that there were fortifications outside Xiaoao Village that the Japanese army had built that could be defended.

The KMT artillery bombardment had just ended, and the attack on the outer defense line had begun. This was definitely not a surprise attack, but a planned attack.

Regiment Commander Shuu Ono immediately ordered: "The Northbound Battalion will reinforce the western defense line, and the Numata Hyuga Battalion will reinforce the eastern defense line."

The main attack direction of the KMT army now was in these two positions. Regiment Commander Shuu Ono sent out two of his most elite battalions, these two battalions were the ones that had been sent over by the First and Second Regiments to assist in the battle. Of course, they had to let them rush to the front when there was a battle.

Another reason was that only a few hundred Japanese soldiers were left in the Third Battalion of the Ono Shuu Regiment, who could be considered veteran soldiers. These few hundred Japanese soldiers were all scattered and assigned to the other battalions when they received two thousand additional soldiers yesterday afternoon.

In this way, although the combat effectiveness of the Third Battalion was temporarily lower, the overall combat effectiveness of the Japanese soldiers of the entire regiment had been improved a lot. If they fought one or two less intense victories, the combat effectiveness of the entire regiment could be completely restored.

It was because of these considerations that Regiment Commander Shuu Ono sent the two battalions to the front line.

It was thinking that when it counterattacked and chased after them in a while, it could send out these newly added Japanese soldiers from yesterday.

Battalion Commander Liu Laopao of the Second Regiment had concentrated all the infantry guns and mortars of the entire regiment and bombarded the KMT army's forward positions.

His regiment had not consumed much in the battle yesterday and could be extravagant today. The ten infantry companies of the entire regiment had fifty mortars and twenty Type 92 infantry guns.

With so much artillery support, the First and Second Companies, which were in charge of the main attack, were running very fast with their small carts.

The Japanese soldiers on the opposite side had not had time to react, and the two companies had already rushed to within one hundred meters of their fortifications.

The two companies rushed too fast, which made the Aihara Akito company, which was defending this section of the fortifications, feel very uncomfortable.

In the rocket bombardment just now, its company also had Japanese casualties. These Japanese soldiers had not been dealt with yet, and then there was a wave of mortar bombardment. This was not the end, and there was also the KMT army launching a charge on the front.

Artillery bombardment! Infantry charge! The warriors of the Special Operations Brigade had long been familiar with this classic tactic.

Company Commander Shi Junxia of the First Company commanded the entire company to push six carts and only charged forward. This time, it was even easier than charging while fighting.

It was just pushing the small cart forward, and the entire company followed behind the cart and charged together. The Second Company on the side was doing the same action, and Company Commander Xuan Yiren was following behind the small cart.

Now all the mortars of the entire regiment were suppressing the Japanese soldiers on the defense line. The two companies didn't have to worry about anything, they just had to keep charging.

The two companies kept charging until they were less than fifty meters away from the Japanese fortifications. Then Company Commander Shi notified Battalion Commander Liu through the radio: "The First and Second Companies are fifty meters away from the Japanese positions. The attack is ready."

Receiving the notification from the front line, Battalion Commander Liu then ordered: "Stop the bombardment!"

Before the Japanese soldiers of the Aihara Akito Company could even rejoice that the artillery bombardment had stopped, another wave of hand grenades fell on their heads.

This was the hand grenades thrown by the soldiers of the first squad who were following behind the heavy machine gun at the order of Company Commander Shi.

After the hand grenades were thrown, the carts at the front began to charge again. For the sake of speed, the heavy machine guns still did not fire this time.

The first squad that threw the hand grenades followed and charged up. When the second platoon rushed to this position, it also threw a round of hand grenades.

When the third platoon rushed to this position and threw the hand grenades, the first platoon at the front had already rushed to the front of the Japanese fortifications.

The fragments produced when the hand grenades exploded hit the carts and made a ding-ding sound.

The Japanese soldiers of the Aihara Akito Company had laughed at them in private yesterday when they saw the Matsushita Yuta Battalion just being ambushed and fleeing in a panic.

Today, these Japanese soldiers were attacked by the Second Regiment like this. The Japanese soldiers of the Aihara Akito Company who were lucky enough to be still alive understood that Battalion Commander Matsushita Yuta was the truly wise Japanese soldier.

But they understood it too late. At this time, the First and Second Companies rushed into the fortifications of the Aihara Akito Company at the same time.

This was completely without suspense. After several rounds of bombardment, there were less than thirty Japanese soldiers of the Aihara Company who were lucky enough to survive and were still able to fight.

Being swept over by more than four hundred KMT soldiers, without even causing a ripple, the entire Aihara Company was completely wiped out.

At this time, the Northbound Battalion, which had organized its team and rushed out of Xiaoao Village to provide support, had not even entered the battlefield yet.

The report that Regiment Commander Shuu Ono received made it feel frustrated and mad. In such a short period of time, the defense lines in the east and west directions had been broken through.

Attacking from the east was Shangguan Zhiwen's 15th Regiment. This regiment was originally a KMT army formation. Ever since Lin Fan had exchanged them over,

The training, equipment, and education of the 15th Regiment were all the same as the other regiments of the Special Operations Brigade.

Regiment Commander Shangguan Zhiwen's attack on the Japanese army was also the same. He concentrated all the artillery of the entire regiment to bombard the Japanese defense line, and the First and Second Companies were the main attackers.

After occupying the position, the twelve carts of the two companies did not stop and continued to advance deeper.

Company Commander Jing Chengxuan of the 15th Regiment and Company Commander Lu Lejia of the Second Company commanded their teams with the heavy machine guns at the front, and the soldiers of the entire company followed behind.

They had just rushed out of this defense line not far when they discovered that Japanese soldiers had rushed out in front of them.

Squad Leader Tadashi Utagawa was the first team to set off from the Numata Hyuga Battalion. Their task now was to support the outer positions at the western end of Xiaoao Village.

It was not until Squad Leader Tadashi Utagawa led more than thirty Japanese soldiers out of the village that he discovered: In just a short period of time, the defense line that they were going to reinforce had been broken through by the KMT army.

And as soon as their team showed its head, it was met with a dense rain of bullets.

Six heavy machine guns attacked them fiercely, and at once, Squad Leader Tadashi Utagawa's team was reduced by seven more people.

The Japanese soldiers of the entire squad all crawled on the ground and quickly fired at the KMT army that was rushing up in front of them.

The Tadashi Utada Company, which was closely following its squad, quickly rushed up to strengthen the defense line.

The Japanese soldiers of the entire Tadashi Utada Company had to find natural barriers on the spot to use as cover and open fire on the KMT army that was rushing up.

The First and Second Companies were different. There were six carts in front of each company, blocking the bullets fired by the Japanese army.

Now their charging speed was a little slower because the heavy machine guns had to fire to suppress the Japanese army's firepower.

Company Commander Tadashi Utada stared at so many KMT soldiers rushing up and immediately ordered: "Quickly report to Battalion Commander Numata that the KMT army's main force has launched an attack."

It also commanded the company's machine gunners and grenade launchers to suppress the team that was charging over.

Soon, Company Commander Tadashi Utada discovered: Machine gun fire was useless against them.

It could only place all its hopes on the grenade launchers.

What the Japanese soldiers of the entire Tadashi Utada Company did not expect was that: their grenade launchers had just fired a grenade,