Chapter 1 Lin Fan's Battle Report

Lin Fan's battle report was very well written, and the results were very real, without any exaggeration.

The people in the Fifth War Zone believed his telegram, because they had more dealings with him and knew more about Lin Fan and the Special Operations Brigade.

However, few of the high-ranking staff officers at the Wuhan headquarters believed the battle report.

They only thought that Lin Fan was exaggerating the strength of the Lunan Detachment in order to get the headquarters to consider incorporating them into the National Revolutionary Army sequence that was still fighting behind enemy lines in the Lunan area.

Or he just wanted the headquarters to increase the Special Operations Brigade's establishment, promoting his brigade to a division, or even a corps.

The high-ranking staff officers at the headquarters also knew something about the Special Operations Brigade's situation. Just the fact that the Special Operations Brigade could establish a foothold in Jurong, near Nanjing, was enough to justify giving Lin Fan a division's establishment.

After all, in a place so close to Nanjing, the National Revolutionary Army couldn't hold on, even with a concentrated force of an entire war zone, let alone a division.

The high-ranking staff officers at the Wuhan headquarters were clear about this, but who asked Lin Fan to be so clueless? They didn't know the ins and outs of the telegram, so they could only guess randomly.

Chiang Kai-shek looked at the contents of the telegram, then looked at Dai Li: "You've met this Lin Fan before. Do you think the contents of this telegram are true or false?"

"It's true! Lin Fan never proactively reported on the Lunan Detachment before. The fact that he's reporting this telegram today is definitely not because of urging from the headquarters.

It can only be that he wants to send this telegram to the Japanese side, to make the Japanese believe his report. The casualties of the Japanese Independent Mixed Brigade Tenth Brigade, the casualties of the Independent Mixed Brigade Seventeenth Brigade, the Japanese can verify these details, and they won't be false.

Otherwise, he won't be able to deceive the Japanese,"

"What about this?" Chiang Kai-shek's finger lingered on the line about ten regiments and more than 20,000 men.

"That's also true! Without that many men, he couldn't have fought such a battle." Dai Li saw that Chiang Kai-shek's expression was not good.

Chiang Kai-shek thought to himself: Damn it! Even with hundreds of thousands of my elite troops, I can't fight such a beautiful battle. This is too embarrassing. With such thoughts in his heart, his expression was naturally not good.

Dai Li immediately changed his tune and continued, "However, he may have concealed his strength. After all, it's unrealistic to annihilate so many Japanese with only 20,000 troops."

Chiang Kai-shek liked to hear this, as his subordinates often couldn't stop a Japanese division of 20,000 men, even with hundreds of thousands of elite troops.

If the Lunan Detachment really had so few people and killed so many Japanese, and even surrounded 30,000 Japanese, where would the National Revolutionary Army put its face?

"Moreover, Lin Fan knew that the Japanese would see this telegram when he sent it. You could say that he intentionally wanted the Japanese to see it," Dai Li continued.

"His purpose in doing so is to get the Japanese to continue to send troops to Tashan, and then take advantage of the emptiness in Xuzhou to attack Xuzhou?" Chiang Kai-shek's previously unpleasant expression turned excitedly red again.

With the Japanese besieging Wuhan and constantly clamoring to occupy the whole country in three months, if a team could recapture a major city, the international impact would be enormous, and the morale of the domestic people would be greatly boosted.

Moreover, in the current War of Resistance, any achievement made by any team was inseparable from his wise leadership. This was what excited Chiang Kai-shek the most.

"Maybe, or maybe he wants to besiege the city to strike at the reinforcements!" Dai Li continued.

"Are you saying that he surrounded 30,000 Japanese, and then also deployed troops on the periphery, waiting for the Japanese reinforcements to come and continue to annihilate them?" Chiang Kai-shek asked.

Then he said in succession, "That's impossible! That's impossible! He can't possibly have that kind of strength!"

After three consecutive denials, he chose not to mention the matter and instead asked, "Can we find that person?"

Dai Li said seriously, "We definitely can. Before this telegram arrived, I had already sent people to monitor everyone from the radio station to the decoding, and then to everyone who copied the telegram.

No matter which person has a problem, I can find him."

Ever since he personally went to the Shanghai battlefield to comfort the troops last year, watching the Japanese naval guns fire and wiping out entire companies of soldiers, Wang Jingwei's fear of the Japanese had erupted again. From Nanjing to Wuhan, its power in the National Revolutionary Army was under Chiang Kai-shek, which also made it very dissatisfied.

Just when the Battle of Wuhan was at its most intense, it had already sent people to secretly contact the Japanese to explore how to end the current war.

The economic crisis in Japan was even more serious, and they had long hoped that the National Revolutionary Army could surrender. Now that Wang Jingwei had taken the initiative to approach them.

They immediately threw out bait, proposing, "No territory, no reparations, withdraw troops within two years." This greatly encouraged Wang Jingwei, who believed in his heart that continuing to resist would ultimately lead to defeat, so it would be better to surrender temporarily in exchange for the Japanese withdrawing their troops two years later.

It had contact with the Japanese, and last time the North China Front Army wanted it to find out the strength of the Lunan Detachment. Of course, the Japanese's purpose was to know the enemy and know themselves so as to annihilate the Lunan Detachment, which Wang Jingwei knew. But it agreed without hesitation.

In its view, teams like the Lunan Detachment were precisely the people who were destroying its plans for peace talks. However, the telegram sent out last time through the headquarters of the General Staff Department did not receive a reply, so it did not complete its mission.

This time, Commander Terauchi Hisaichi of the North China Front Army personally drafted a telegram to inquire again. Wang Jingwei looked at the anti-Japanese telegrams from all over the country every day, and there was no report from the Lunan Detachment.

It wanted to collect this information from within the National Revolutionary Army but could not find it, so it had to order its subordinates to send an inquiry telegram to the Fifth War Zone again.

This time there was a result! It took the telegram and smiled when it saw the data reported on it: "Self-deception!"

Wang Jingwei, who was frightened of the Japanese to the core, never believed the battle reports sent by the National Revolutionary Army teams.

In the past, it believed that the number of enemies annihilated reported by the National Revolutionary Army should be reduced by a factor of ten to be considered true.

Today, the Special Operations Brigade reported the Lunan Detachment's battle report, which it believed was exaggerated to an unbounded degree, at least a hundred times.

In any case, it immediately had the telegram that had just been delivered forwarded to the Japanese. There was no need to avoid suspicion when doing such a thing, and the telegram was sent out in such an aboveboard manner.

Dai Li quickly found out that a total of five people had handled the telegram, and it had been submitted to two people for approval.

After Commander Terauchi Hisaichi received the telegram, he was overjoyed: it finally knew the Lunan Detachment's establishment, and it also knew their details. With this information, it could formulate a targeted combat plan.

Thinking that the Lunan Detachment only had more than 20,000 people, and they dared to surround the 30,000 Japanese Xuzhou Task Force. It really didn't know what kind of heart the commander of this team had.

Commander Terauchi Hisaichi was a prudent man. It did not immediately believe the telegram, but instead asked the staff officers of the headquarters to first verify whether the Japanese casualties on the telegram were true.

Soon news came back that it was completely true. Looking at the number of Japanese casualties on the battle report, Commander Terauchi Hisaichi shed tears: the mere Lunan Detachment of 20,000 people had caused such heavy casualties to the North China Front Army.

Fortunately, it now knew its details, and it could annihilate them next.

Commander Yamawaku Tsugiro, who was still organizing the Japanese defenses in Tashan Town, received the telegram forwarded by Terauchi Hisaichi.

However, the report on the Lunan Detachment's battle results from the day before was deleted. Looking at the number of Lunan Detachment written on the telegram, a total of ten regiments and more than 20,000 people.

Commander Yamawaku Tsugiro immediately announced the good news to the three brigade commanders. Since the other side only had more than 20,000 people, it was not afraid!

The original plan to break through in the direction of Xuzhou immediately could wait a little longer.

The Independent Mixed Brigade Seventeenth Brigade stationed in Xuzhou also received an order from the North China Front Army, which announced that the Lunan Detachment surrounding Tashan Town had only more than 20,000 people.

Therefore, the headquarters of the North China Front Army ordered: "The Independent Mixed Brigade Seventeenth Brigade will immediately depart from Xuzhou and launch a lightning attack on the Lunan Detachment on the periphery of Tashan Town.

Coordinate with the Xuzhou Task Force to launch a counterattack and annihilate the Lunan Detachment in one fell swoop. Then, Commander Yamawaku will lead the Task Force to continue to pursue and kill the remnants of the Lunan Detachment and pacify the Lunan base area in one go."

This was a good plan, and its feasibility was very high. However, Brigade Commander Mantian Yuto was still unwilling to send troops.

It found a loophole in the order and specifically sent a telegram back to inquire about how the data of the Lunan Detachment with ten regiments and more than 20,000 people came about. It believed that this data was inaccurate, so it was prepared to wait in Xuzhou for Commander Yamawaku to lead his troops back to defend Xuzhou.

Its idea was quickly shattered. Commander Terauchi Hisaichi personally drafted a telegram: "The information comes from within the high command of the National Revolutionary Army and is absolutely reliable!"

Absolutely reliable! These four words shattered all of Brigade Commander Mantian Yuto's thoughts of wanting to struggle and resist.

It had no choice but to send troops!

The people of Xuzhou once again saw large groups of Japanese soldiers leaving from the north of the city.

The topic of discussing the fate of the Japanese soldiers a few days ago and what these Japanese soldiers were going out to do today immediately became the mainstream topic for people's after-dinner conversations.

Too many Japanese soldiers had been seen leaving from the north of the city this month, but none of them had been seen returning.

However, there were still some well-informed people who argued: How could you not see the Japanese soldiers returning?

Yesterday, at least 500 Japanese soldiers entered the city from the north, but their faces were ashen, and they were holding pottery jars in their hands, which seemed to be the kind used to hold the ashes of the Japanese soldiers after they died.

The people around were immediately interested: How many Japanese soldiers died this time?

The person who had just revealed the news stopped talking and looked to the left and right. After someone ordered two liang of wine and a plate of peanuts, he mysteriously looked around: "I heard that more than 8,000 Japanese soldiers died this time!"

"More than 8,000!" The people around exclaimed in unison. This number was a bit large.

Immediately, someone with data analysis compared: "Last time, there were very many Japanese soldiers who left the city, at least tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers.

It is possible that more than 8,000 died."

"What do you mean possible? In my opinion, still too few died. All of those tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers should die.

It would be good if all the Japanese soldiers died. When will God open its eyes, these Japanese soldiers will definitely all die." A middle-aged man said hatefully.

Someone nearby who knew him whispered: "Old Wang, don't speak so loudly, be careful of attracting the traitors and black dogs."

"I'm not afraid, anyway, my whole family is only left with me." Although he said so, this person's voice was much lower.

Some familiar tea drinkers knew this Old Wang next door. His family ran a rice shop. When the Japanese soldiers entered the city, they wanted to requisition his family's rice shop.

Of course, he was unwilling, and the result was that the Japanese soldiers directly opened fire, and his family members and shop assistants all fell to the ground after being shot.

Old Wang was lucky. His heart was different from others, and it grew crookedly, so he survived. He hated the Japanese soldiers to the core. Every day, he liked to come to the teahouse to hear people say that the Japanese soldiers had suffered another disaster.

Brigade Commander Mantian Yuto had to lead his troops out of the city to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Lunan Detachment.

Commander Yamawaku Tsugiro was overjoyed again when it received the news that it had already sent troops: Happiness came so suddenly.

At this time, being able to get a strong foreign aid, it believed that Commander Terauchi Hisaichi's plan to annihilate the Lunan Detachment with internal and external cooperation could be completed.

The attack by the infantry battalion led by Rikuzen Kazuo and the tank company led by Ishiki Ryosuke to open up the road from Tashan Town to Xuzhou, which had been wiped out in the previous battle, was just an accident.

There was no need for Brigade Commander Saito Taisho's suggestion to immediately organize a larger team to open up the retreat in one go.

The entire Xuzhou Task Force would just stand firm on the spot, hold back the Lunan Detachment, and then cooperate with the Independent Mixed Brigade Seventeenth Brigade that came out of Xuzhou to launch a counterattack.

This plan was very perfect, and Commander Yamawaku Tsugiro liked it very much.

Although it was a little pity that the last six tanks of the entire task force had been blown up in the previous battle.

In the battle just now, Battalion Commander Rikuzen Kazuo had sent the Takenaka Yoshio company to follow the six tanks of Company Commander Ishiki Ryosuke in the front.

It led the entire battalion behind them, ready to attack at any time. Company Commander Ishiki Ryosuke specially kept the speed of the tanks slow to cooperate with the Takenaka Yoshio infantry company that was following behind the tanks, so that the infantry could keep up, watching the trenches on the opposite side getting closer and closer: 500 meters! The defending troops on the opposite side did not move.

400 meters! The defending troops on the opposite side still did not move.

This made Company Commander Ishiki Ryosuke and Company Commander Takenaka Yoshio a little excited. With the cover of the tanks, the closer they got, the greater the advantage.

The Rikuzen Kazuo battalion following behind them was only about 100 meters behind them.

Battalion Commander Rikuzen Kazuo was also very excited at the moment: It seemed that this team on the opposite side did not have any weapons to deal with tanks.

They were so close, and the anti-tank weapons had not fired yet. They were probably not there!

It had completely forgotten how it had been driven out of Tashan Town by the artillery fire.

When the Japanese tanks in the front were less than 50 meters away from the trenches, the Japanese team was still moving forward slowly, a team of Japanese soldiers followed behind the tanks, crouching and bending over, wearing shit-yellow clothes, constantly jumping.

From time to time, they jumped out from behind the tanks to observe the situation ahead. The purpose of the Japanese soldiers of the Takenaka Yoshio company jumping out from behind the tanks was to observe whether the soldiers of the Lunan Detachment had rushed out of the trenches.

They believed that: Since the Lunan Detachment did not have anti-tank weapons, they could only send soldiers to rush out and lurk on the road ahead, ready to use grenades or explosive packs to blow up the tanks.

The Japanese soldiers of the Takenaka Yoshio company were closely following them to prevent this from happening.

What relieved them was that: The people guarding the trenches seemed to not know how to fight. They did not send anyone out to deal with the tanks at all.

This reassured all the attacking Japanese soldiers, and they had already seen the hope of breaking through the trenches.

When the Japanese tanks rushing in the front were less than 50 meters away from the trenches, Battalion Commander Rikuzen Kazuo finally gave the order: "Attack!"

It wanted the entire battalion to rush up, catch up with the tanks in the front, and rush to the position of the Lunan Detachment.

The Japanese battalion in the back all started to charge, and Company Commander Ishiki Ryosuke also ordered the Japanese soldiers in the tanks to open the top cover and operate the machine guns on the tanks to prepare to start strafing.

At this time, Company Commander Wu Zhizhi, who had been waiting for the Japanese to act, ordered: "Fire!" Twelve anti-aircraft machine guns fired at the same time according to the targets assigned by the company commander.

Gu Xiuming's first regiment had five infantry companies deployed here, and there were also three companies that could hit the Japanese.

The three company commanders also gave the same order. At such a close distance, mortars and Type 92 infantry guns could no longer be used.

The bazookas fired were too close, and the fragments produced by the explosion of the rockets at such a distance could hurt their own people.

However, this was not a problem for the Lunan Detachment hiding in the trenches.

Nine rockets were fired at the Japanese tanks at the same time. The tanks were already so close that they could be hit without too careful aiming.

With the sound of "rumbling" explosions, the six tanks stopped first, and Company Commander Wu ordered: "Hit the Japanese!"

His meaning was to hit the battalion of Japanese soldiers who were charging behind the tanks. Company Commander Feng ordered: "Heavy machine guns and machine guns will hit the battalion of Japanese soldiers who are charging up behind. The rest of you, rush up."

The Japanese tanks were less than 50 meters away from the trenches, and Company Commander Takenaka Yoshio, who was following behind the tanks, clearly saw the Japanese soldiers on the tanks coming out to prepare for machine gun strafing.

The sound of "da da da" machine gun firing was heard, but the Japanese soldiers under his command fell to the ground.

Some of the Japanese soldiers who were hit had their arms directly missing, and some of the Japanese soldiers who were hit in the chest had wounds the size of a fist in their chests.

What kind of weapon was this?

Company Commander Ishiki Ryosuke was sitting in the tank, waiting for the machine gun strafing on the top of his head to begin, when he suddenly heard the sound of clanging and banging, and at the same time, his body felt like it had been hit hard.

It lowered its head and looked at its feet. Its calf had fallen to the floor at a strange angle.

Suddenly, a skylight appeared on the front of the tank, and it could see the outside world through these small holes.

Just when it understood that the front armor of the tank had been pierced, a huge explosion sounded, and Company Commander Ishiki Ryosuke lost all consciousness.

Its tank was hit by a rocket and was instantly blown to smithereens.

When the Japanese soldiers of the Takenaka Yoshio company had not reacted, the tanks in front of them stopped almost at the same time.

Then, there was a violent explosion at the same time, and then the entire tank fell apart. The fragments that shot out when they fell apart caused most of the more than 100 Japanese soldiers of the Takenaka Yoshio company to fall down at once.

The lucky Company Commander Takenaka Yoshio was not injured. It lay prostrate on the ground in horror, trying to bury its head in the dirt, waiting for the explosion to stop.

The sound of "jijijiji" was constantly heard in its ears, and it did not know if it was the sound of bullets or shrapnel flying past. It was lying on the ground with its whole body, and it could still feel the ground trembling.

Time seemed to have stopped, and Company Commander Takenaka Yoshio felt like a month had passed. The sound of "jijijiji" finally disappeared, and the sound of explosions also disappeared.

But the trembling of the ground seemed to be more intense. Company Commander Takenaka Yoshio raised its head from the mud and looked at the soldiers of the Lunan Detachment who suddenly rushed out.

It shouted in horror: "Get up! Get up! Prepare to fight! Prepare to fight!"

These soldiers who rushed up were holding bayonets on their rifles and were charging forward.

If the Japanese soldiers of the Takenaka Yoshio company did not get up from the ground, they would all be stepping stones for them and would be directly trampled to death!

Company Commander Takenaka Yoshio's order still had an effect. Those Japanese soldiers who, like it, had buried their heads in the dirt also realized that the end of not struggling was death.

These Japanese soldiers hurriedly got up from the ground. In such a tense moment, Company Commander Takenaka Yoshio had not forgotten to look back.

It saw that the Japanese soldiers of the Rikuzen Kazuo battalion had rushed to less than 50 meters behind them.

The joy in Company Commander Takenaka Yoshio's heart was beyond words. It loudly encouraged the Japanese soldiers who had survived by chance:

"Battalion Commander Rikuzen has led the main force to rush up. As long as we rush up and hold on for one minute, we can kill them!"

The Japanese soldiers who had survived by chance did see a large group of Japanese soldiers rushing up behind them, and they were all excited.

They shouted, bayonets fixed, and rushed up with their rifles. The first company, the second company, and the third company were the closest to the Japanese soldiers, and they were the first teams to rush up to fight the Takenaka Yoshio company.

The remaining infantry companies of the first regiment also accelerated their pace of charging at this time and rushed towards the Rikuzen Kazuo battalion.

Company Commander Wu Zhizhi commanded the anti-aircraft machine guns and was firing at the charging Rikuzen Kazuo battalion.

The bullets of the anti-aircraft machine guns could penetrate four or five Japanese soldiers at once. If they hit the limbs of the Japanese soldiers, the limbs would be broken. If they hit the bodies of the Japanese soldiers, they would not be able to survive.

Not only were there twelve anti-aircraft machine guns firing, but there were also dozens of heavy machine guns and hundreds of light machine guns strafing the charging Japanese soldiers.

The sound of bullets flying past made Battalion Commander Rikuzen Kazuo tremble with fear, but it saw that the Japanese soldiers of the entire battalion were still able to persist in charging.

It had to force itself to keep up with the pace of the charge, and Japanese soldiers were constantly falling down beside it.

On the way to the charge, it was always able to see injured Japanese soldiers moaning, and the Japanese soldiers who could continue to charge always avoided these injured Japanese soldiers.

Their task now was to charge forward, break through the position of the Lunan Detachment in front of them, and rescue the wounded. This kind of thing would have to wait a little longer, until they had killed back those people on the opposite side.

Company Commander Takenaka Yoshio finally gathered about 40 Japanese soldiers, and they rushed back at the soldiers of the first company who were rushing up.

The two sides quickly met beside the burning tanks, like two different ocean currents colliding at sea.

Company Commander Takenaka Yoshio shouted loudly, and the command sword in its hand concentrated all its strength and chopped down at the charging soldier.

What it did not expect was that the soldier on the opposite side just used its bayonet to gently pick it up, and diverted the knife that it had chopped down with all its strength to the side.

With all its strength, it chopped at the air, and then the other party's bayonet stabbed forward smoothly.

This set of movements was like flowing water, and Company Commander Takenaka Yoshio did not react at all. It only felt a pain in its chest, and a stream of blood spurted out of its chest.

Then, there was another flash of the knife, and another stab in its chest.

"Can I still survive like this?" When Company Commander Takenaka Yoshio was still thinking this in its heart, it could no longer hold the command knife in its right hand.

With a "clang" sound, the command knife fell to the ground, and Company Commander Takenaka Yoshio staggered forward two steps and fell to the ground.

It was soon trampled under the feet of the soldiers who rushed up and continued to meet the other Japanese soldiers who rushed up.

Following the first regiment were also two security regiments who rushed up. This time, Lin Fan had transferred a full 50 security regiments to participate in the battle.

There were reasons for this in terms of combat needs, and there were also reasons for training the teams. Lin Fan knew that the Battle of Wuhan was about to end, and the end of the Battle of Wuhan meant that the Japanese's mopping-up and encirclement of the occupied areas would enter a new stage.

At this time, the base areas faced a lot of pressure, so he wanted to mobilize the strength of the entire Lunan base area once before this.

It was better to actually mobilize once than to talk about military strategy on paper a thousand times. This time, he not only mobilized the reserve forces of the Lunan base area.

This was to allow these security regiment soldiers who usually held hoes to personally experience the real scene of war, face to face with the Japanese soldiers, blood and fire on the battlefield.

The first security regiment and the second security regiment of Ju County were following behind the soldiers of Gu Xiuming's first regiment. Most of them were fighting the Japanese soldiers on the battlefield for the first time.

However, their so-called fight was just following the first regiment's charge on the battlefield and adding a knife to the Japanese soldiers who fell to the ground.

Lin Fan's request was not to let a single Japanese soldier go back, and Gu Xiuming of course had to complete this order without compromise.

The soldiers of the first regiment were fighting with bayonets against the Japanese soldiers of the Rikuzen Kazuo battalion in the front, and the two security regiments in the back began to clean up the battlefield.

Yang Kaihuai was a soldier of the first security regiment of Ju County. He was not originally from Ju County. He had only heard people talk about the Lunan base area taking in a large number of refugees from the Yellow River flood area at the end of July.

That was why he came with hundreds of people. As soon as they came, they were arranged, and food was distributed to them every day, enough for them to eat their fill.

Although they had to build their own houses, the locals did not come to stop them. During these days, they ate the food sent by the Lunan Detachment, and lived in houses built with the materials from other people.

Every day, they were also reclaiming wasteland to sort out the fields, and the people of the Lunan Detachment said: The fields that were reclaimed would be owned by all of them.

Two days ago, the Lunan Detachment summoned all the people who had participated in militia training, saying that the Japanese soldiers were coming to mop up, and now they were taking the initiative to attack and fight the Japanese soldiers.

Yang Kaihuai followed the team to set off. He had walked this road once two months ago when he came.

But when he came, his stomach was empty and his feet were weak. This time it was different. When he walked, his feet were light, and his feet stepped on the ground as if he could stomp out a pit.

After eating his fill for more than two months, and doing farm work and training, Yang Kaihuai's body had long been trained. His chest was broad and thick, and when he exerted strength on his arms, the muscles bulged out.

Today, their first security regiment of Ju County, under the leadership of Regiment Commander Xu Zhengyi, was fighting together with the most powerful first regiment of the Lunan Detachment.

The soldiers of the entire first security regiment of Ju County were very excited, and now they were following behind the first regiment.

Yang Kaihuai looked at the tanks that were still burning. The air was filled with the smell of roasted meat. That was the smell of the Japanese soldiers in the tanks being roasted by the fire.

The ground was full of Japanese soldiers lying in pools of blood. Some Japanese soldiers had not died yet and were staring at them fiercely, these new soldiers who had just rushed into the battlefield.

Regiment Commander Xu had ordered before entering the battlefield: "We are going to clean up the battlefield. Every Japanese soldier on the battlefield, whether it is a corpse or alive, must be stabbed in the throat.

The first company is responsible for stabbing in the front, and the other companies are responsible for collecting weapons, ammunition, and other items in the back."

Xu Zhengyi was also assigned from the regular regiment of the Lunan Detachment to train the local security regiment.

He was very clear about the standards of the Special Operations Brigade for cleaning up the battlefield, so he specially required them to stab first and then collect.

Yang Kaihuai was in the first company. He watched the regiment commander personally demonstrate how to stab the Japanese soldier's throat accurately with one knife.

He thought that he could do it too. When he really aimed at the Japanese soldier's throat and stabbed down, he realized that it was easy to watch the regiment commander do it, but it was difficult when it was his turn.

The Japanese corpse in front of him, although it was still on the ground without moving, the bayonet always stabbed it askew.

In the end, Yang Kaihuai could only push the bayonet tip close to the Japanese soldier's throat and push forward hard before he could complete the task.

Xu Zhengyi looked at him after he had done all this and smiled and praised: "Young man, not bad, you are brave and know how to think of ways."

Yang Kaihuai said a little dejectedly: "Regiment Commander! I can't always stab it accurately!"

"This requires more practice usually. Your eyes, hands, and heart must be in place! I also practiced for almost a year before I could do it like this.

For a new soldier like you, it's already very good that you are not afraid of seeing the Japanese corpse and that you don't faint when you see blood.

Young man, do a good job!"

Regiment Commander Xu was very busy and had to go to guide the other companies. Yang Kaihuai was extremely happy when he heard the regiment commander's praise and continued to follow the team to add knives.

Battalion Commander Rikuzen Kazuo underestimated the strength of the Lunan Detachment. When it led the entire battalion to press up, the team on the opposite side, although there were only more than 500 people, managed to hold off the charge of its entire battalion.

This made Battalion Commander Rikuzen Kazuo angry: Its team still had the advantage in numbers, but it could not defeat the other side?

Even if its team was a logistics team, not to mention defeating three enemies with one, it should also win one-on-one!

However, the actual situation on the battlefield was that the other side was unilaterally pressing over, and what made Battalion Commander Rikuzen Kazuo the most panicked was that it saw that there were actually hundreds more soldiers of the Lunan Detachment rushing up not far away.

Further away, there were actually thousands of soldiers charging towards its battalion.

"God! What kind of hornet's nest did I poke? Do you need so many people to deal with my battalion?" Battalion Commander Rikuzen Kazuo immediately ordered the entire battalion to retreat.

However, the two sides were already in close combat, and they could not retreat at all. The desperate Battalion Commander Rikuzen Kazuo could only try to encourage the Japanese soldiers: "Kill!"

The entire battalion of Japanese soldiers was killed in less than half an hour, and the subsequent battlefield cleanup work had already been completed.

The first and second security regiments of Ju County very considerately carried the Japanese corpses that had been completely cleaned up to a large pit that had been prepared on the edge of the battlefield.

According to Lin Fan's request, the corpses of these Japanese soldiers had to be treated harmlessly so as not to spread the plague.

The corpses of the Japanese soldiers had to be sprinkled with lime and buried deep. With more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers and 4,000 security regiment soldiers to bury them, the speed was quite fast.

The first regiment's position in the front had returned to calm, and Tashan Town in the distance was still under artillery fire.

After Lin Fan sent a telegram to the Fifth War Zone, he immediately issued an order to the team monitoring Xuzhou to pay attention to the movements of the Japanese soldiers stationed in Xuzhou.

Sure enough, it was not long before the news came that Japanese soldiers had come out of Xuzhou City.

Lin Fan was really happy this time. The Japanese soldiers wanted to find out the information of the Lunan Detachment, and he gave them the information. Finally, he had lured out another team of Japanese soldiers.

When Brigade Commander Mantian Yuto set off from Xuzhou, he had ordered Regiment Commander Xie of the 37th Puppet Army to immediately withdraw from Xuzhou Airport.

Anyway, it had already been learned from Regiment Commander Xie's report that the airport had been completely destroyed, and there was nothing to protect by leaving a regiment there.

More importantly, this time it had taken all the Japanese soldiers of the 17th Infantry Brigade out of the city to Tashan Town. Xuzhou City was only guarded by the 37th Puppet Army.

Brigade Commander Mantian Yuto was thinking that it would be better for the puppet army in Xuzhou City to have one more regiment. The defense force would be stronger, wouldn't it?

Brigade Commander Mantian Yuto had calculated everything, except for one thing that it did not expect. The information obtained by the headquarters of the North China Front Army was wrong.

Brigade Commander Mantian Yuto had calculated that Commander Yamawaku had 30,000 Japanese soldiers under its command, and it had taken 8,000 Japanese soldiers.

With nearly 40,000 Japanese soldiers to deal with 20,000 regular soldiers of the National Revolutionary Army, it would be a sure win no matter what.

Another important point was that: If this team was not dealt a blow, would they attack the airport last night, and would they sneak attack Xuzhou next time?

Taking this opportunity to annihilate or defeat this team would protect the safety of Xuzhou.

It was precisely because of this idea that it had brought out all of the 17th Independent Mixed Brigade.

It did not bring a single puppet soldier with it. Brigade Commander Mantian Yuto disliked the puppet army's poor combat effectiveness and did not want to carry these burdens with it.

There were a full 61 regiments surrounding Tashan Town. When Lin Fan called the teams here to a meeting, they could only do so in the field.

Facing the regiment commanders or commissars sent by each regiment, Lin Fan announced the information he had just obtained.

They would definitely fight the team that was coming from Xuzhou. Which team should be sent to fight?

Gu Xiuming was the first to stand up: "Brigade Commander, let our regiment go!"

Since it had stood up, no one dared to compete with the other regiment commanders of the Lunan Detachment.

Lin Fan thought for a while: "You should still bring the first, second, seventh, and eighth regular regiments. Also, bring the first, second, third, and fourth security regiments of Ju County.

Don't set up the battlefield too far from Tashan Town so that the artillery of the sixth regiment can support."

Gu Xiuming thought for a while and said: "Brigade Commander! I request air support!"

Lin Fan said with a smile: "That's good! The Japanese soldiers are coming from Xuzhou, and there are no fortresses or decent camps to defend along the way.

It's a good place for ground attack aircraft to exert their power.

Okay! Let's do it that way!"

Lin Fan was very satisfied with the method proposed by Gu Xiuming: "Since that's the case, there's no need to choose a battle location."

Gu Xiuming said with a smile: "In the past half month, I've walked around outside