Chapter 106 Annihilation

"Rumble!" As Regiment Commander An Ping gave the order, the directional mines they had buried long ago exploded.

The soldiers of the Fifth and Eleventh Regiments watched as the Japanese soldiers who had entered the ambush circle were blasted off their feet, falling into disarray.

Immediately afterward, Regiment Commander An Ping's order was issued again: "Charge!" More than four thousand soldiers were here, but there were less than two hundred Japanese soldiers on the other side, and they had just been hit by a wave of directional mines.

Not far behind Regiment Commander An Ping, the soldiers of the rocket artillery and mortar positions, drawn from various regiments and concentrated for use, were calmly packing up.

Their mission was complete. They were packing up their belongings, ready to return to their respective units.

Company Commander Ando Shotai had never imagined that after enduring the plane's strafing with great difficulty and finally seeing the artillery position not far away, he would encounter such a catastrophe at this moment.

The two companies had been reduced from more than three hundred and seventy Japanese soldiers all the way to less than two hundred. Now, after being hit by these directional mines, less than fifty Japanese soldiers were still standing.

Company Commander Yuto Yuto looked blankly at the fallen Japanese soldiers. He had not yet recovered from the excitement of the plane leaving when he was hit so hard, making it difficult for him to accept reality.

The two Japanese companies were in the smoke, and they had not yet recognized reality. The two company commanders only felt that it seemed impossible to drive away the artillery position not far away now.

Their eyes were blinded by the smoke, and they listened to the shouts of killing coming from all around. The sound of countless footsteps stepping forcefully on the ground and charging towards them was like a mountain torrent.

The hearts of dozens of Japanese soldiers were filled with fear. All of these Japanese soldiers were cautiously hunching over, holding their guns.

They tried hard to survey their surroundings, and their footsteps slowly retreated. They had made the choice to not advance at this time.

Company Commander Ando Shotai was also frightened by the overwhelming shouts. He finally decided: "Retreat!"

"Retreat!" A Japanese soldier immediately repeated his order, and there was some joy in the soldier's shout.

This was completely opposite to the voice of Company Commander Ando Shotai, who was forced to issue the order with a sense of helplessness.

The dozens of Japanese soldiers had just rushed out of the range of the smoke when they were immediately stunned by the scene in front of them and dared not retreat any further.

The dozens of Japanese soldiers immediately formed a large circle, their rifles pointed at the charging soldiers of the Fifth and Eleventh Regiments.

The bayonets on dozens of rifles reflected the morning sun, shining brightly. Although they were surrounded by the soldiers, they maintained their formation and moved slowly, trying to maintain their formation and break through the encirclement.

But Regiment Commander An Ping saw through the Japanese soldiers' weaknesses at a glance: the bayonets in these Japanese soldiers' hands were shaking violently. Their footsteps were also uneven, and many Japanese soldiers left wet marks on the ground after moving.

The soldiers of the Fifth Regiment were experienced and understood what was going on at a glance. Immediately, a soldier shouted, "The Japanese are scared shitless!"

With one person's reminder, the soldiers of both the Fifth and Eleventh Regiments saw the circle of wet marks, and many people shouted with laughter, "The Japanese are scared shitless!"

Company Commander Ando Shotai and Company Commander Yuto Yuto understood the shouts of the National Revolutionary Army soldiers surrounding them.

Of course, they knew that what the other side was shouting was the truth, and it was precisely this fact that made the two company commanders feel ashamed and wish they could die.

The soldiers of the Fifth Regiment did not make them wait for their wish to die. Several soldiers unscrewed their grenades, and six or seven grenades exploded in the center of the circle formed by the Japanese soldiers.

The dozens of Japanese soldiers did not wait for the chance to engage in bayonet fighting and all fell to the ground. The soldiers of the Fifth Regiment did not decline.

They rushed up and stabbed each Japanese soldier lying on the ground, each stab aimed at the Japanese soldier's throat.

What else could Regiment Commander Qian Gui of the Eleventh Regiment say?

Originally, he wanted to ask the veterans of the Fifth Regiment to show some style and let the new recruits of the Eleventh Regiment go up and see some blood. Even if it was just cleaning up the battlefield, it would be good for these soldiers to make a final stab!

As a result, the soldiers of the Fifth Regiment moved quickly and finished off more than a hundred Japanese soldiers in the blink of an eye.

Regiment Commander An Ping was a troop leader, so he could understand Regiment Commander Qian's psychology. He said with a smile, "Old Qian! It's safe now. Let the soldiers practice bayonet drills, training to see blood with the bayonet against the Japanese. That way, the soldiers won't be afraid during the next real battle."

What else could Regiment Commander Qian do? He immediately ordered: "Eleventh Regiment! Everyone, practice in real combat, bayonet fighting against the Japanese."

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By now, the Aso Akito Battalion of Japanese soldiers was completely annihilated, with no one escaping.

The Aso Akito Battalion was the vanguard of the entire regiment, and the Inukai Daisuke Battalion was the rearguard of the entire regiment.

When the artillery bombardment first started, Battalion Commander Inukai had the idea of running backward, but he was summoned back by the order of the Aso 56th Regiment.

Later, when they were subjected to machine gun strafing, Battalion Commander Inukai had figured it out. Even if his battalion ran a few steps, they couldn't outrun these planes.

So he accepted the reality of the entire battalion being pressed to the ground and battered by the planes in the sky.

When these Japanese soldiers discovered the Lunan Detachment soldiers appearing in the distance, they immediately resembled sharks smelling blood or hungry wild dogs.

They rushed towards the Third Regiment. Regiment Commander Shan Huacan of the Third Regiment commanded the entire regiment to charge towards the Japanese soldiers. In the past, he would have been several positions ahead of the entire regiment.

In the months since he had become regiment commander, he had finally accepted the reality that as a regiment commander, he could charge in the front, but he couldn't stray too far from the team.

More than two thousand people in the entire regiment were waiting for his command, so the current Shan Huacan could only follow behind the heavy machine guns.

Running a few steps and raising his hand to fire a shot at the Japanese soldiers in the distance was not a regiment commander's privilege.

It was the privilege of a sharpshooter. He didn't fire randomly. Every shot he fired would definitely kill a Japanese soldier on the other side.

There were already more than thirty sharpshooters in the Third Regiment, but their sniping level was still somewhat different from that of the regiment commander.

These sharpshooters still needed to stand still, hold their breath, and aim carefully before firing in order to be accurate.

The level of Shan Huacan, who could hit the target with a casual shot, was only matched by three people in the entire Special Operations Brigade: Lin Fan, Shan Huacan, and Shan Chengfu.

The heavy machine guns pushed forward, constantly suppressing the Japanese soldiers. The sound of the heavy machine guns firing "tat-tat-tat" never stopped for a second.

Similarly, the iron plates on the carts blocking the bullets fired by the Japanese soldiers never stopped either.

The clanging and tinkling sounds were all made by the Japanese soldiers' bullets being blocked.

Battalion Commander Inukai Daisuke made the same mistake as Battalion Commander Aso Akito: they both overestimated the Japanese soldiers' ability in bayonet fighting and underestimated the level of these soldiers in the Lunan Detachment.

This small mistake caused the Japanese soldiers of the Inukai Daisuke Battalion to be like a hot knife through butter when they came into close combat with the Third Regiment.

The Japanese soldiers of the Inukai Daisuke Battalion who charged at the front collapsed instantly, like darkness meeting sunlight.

The Third Regiment was not the Ninth Regiment. The Third Regiment was a regular regiment that had participated in major battles and undergone rigorous training.

When fighting the Japanese with bayonets, no Japanese soldier could withstand a single move. For these soldiers of the Third Regiment, a three-person combat team

had cooperated many times in actual combat, and they practiced together every day during normal training. At this time, when they encountered Japanese soldiers, one person would take the lead in attacking, and two people would assist.

Three rifles stabbed at a Japanese soldier one after another, from left to right, making it impossible for the Japanese soldier to defend against both sides.

How could they withstand a single move? Battalion Commander Inukai watched as dozens of Japanese soldiers, who had been filled with hope, fell down instantly.

More Japanese soldiers were still rushing forward desperately. Battalion Commander Inukai Daisuke could only console himself with this point.

He began to speed up and charge forward. There was no way to retreat at this time. If he couldn't defeat this team in front of him in a short period of time, the Inukai Battalion would be finished.

Battalion Commander Inukai was very clear about this: the surviving Japanese soldiers in his battalion numbered less than six hundred, while the number of people on the other side was a large, dark mass.

In such a bayonet fight, the side with the greater number would definitely have an advantage, but no matter how many people there were on the other side, there were not many people actually fighting in the front.

After all, the front line of the battle between the two sides was only a certain distance. The rest of the soldiers were just cheering and encouraging.

As long as the people on the front line were stabbed down, making the cheering people afraid, no matter how many people there were on the other side, they would only flee in panic.

Battalion Commander Inukai had been planning to do this from the beginning. His plan was for the Japanese soldiers to be able to fight three enemies with one and directly stab down the vanguard of the charging Lunan Detachment.

Then the Lunan Detachment would be thrown into chaos, and the Inukai Battalion's opportunity would come.

But on the real battlefield, the Lunan Detachment sent the Japanese soldiers to become real ghosts in one face-to-face encounter.

Although the Japanese soldiers who were subsequently sent up by the Inukai Battalion did not collapse, they only had one way to go if they could not rush out, and that was to become ghosts.

Therefore, Battalion Commander Inukai had to personally charge up with his sword. He wanted to use his bravery to encourage all the Japanese soldiers in the Inukai Battalion.

By the time Battalion Commander Inukai rushed to the front of the team, more than two hundred Japanese soldiers in his battalion had fallen in this bloody bayonet fight.

When Battalion Commander Inukai was still in the back of the team, Regiment Commander Shan Huacan noticed him.

A snake cannot move without a head, and soldiers will be in chaos without a commander! Regiment Commander Shan Huacan raised his meter-long rifle.

As a result, the Japanese soldier charged forward with two Japanese soldiers blocking the gun in front of him.

Since the gun had already been raised, he certainly couldn't waste his effort and fired a shot to kill a Japanese soldier.

Regiment Commander Shan Huacan also charged forward. He rushed to the front of the team and quickly stabbed out with the bayonet, stabbing down a Japanese soldier with each shot.

He cleared out a battlefield and waited for Battalion Commander Inukai to come over.

As the famous glutton of the Special Operations Brigade, Regiment Commander Shan Huacan was known for his large appetite, as well as his great strength. Every shot he stabbed out was irresistible to the Japanese soldiers. Of course, this excellent performance attracted the attention of Battalion Commander Inukai.

He couldn't help but notice Regiment Commander Shan. This person was too young and ruthless.

In the short time that Battalion Commander Inukai had charged more than ten meters, this person had stabbed down three Japanese soldiers.

All three were stabbed down with one shot, and the fallen Japanese soldiers did not move, as if they were cooperating in a play.

"This is an evil person!" Battalion Commander Inukai Daisuke's heart was filled with fear and regret.

He really regretted it: he should have run backward as soon as the artillery bombardment started.

He felt that his battalion would definitely be able to escape. Now he could only watch helplessly as this evil person attacked several guards.

Battalion Commander Inukai did not want to die. He struggled to retreat, but the several Japanese soldiers who were bandaging him were no more difficult to kill than the five Japanese soldiers in front of him.

For Regiment Commander Shan Huacan, killing these Japanese soldiers was no more difficult than swatting a mosquito.

Not to mention that his adjutant, who he had failed to catch up with earlier, had already charged up and started attacking these Japanese soldiers.

Battalion Commander Inukai Daisuke, who had struggled and retreated two steps, completely forgot that he had been disemboweled and his intestines had fallen out.

When he struggled and retreated two steps again, his intestines and all his internal organs were pulled out. When he fell down, the entire inside of his body was empty, just like the steps in making a mummy.

Battalion Commander Inukai was dead, and the Japanese soldiers in his battalion were even more panicked. Some Japanese soldiers were still stubbornly resisting, while others had already turned around and ran.

In such a close combat situation, how could the soldiers of the Third Regiment let these Japanese soldiers escape?

These Japanese soldiers who turned their backs to the soldiers of the Third Regiment only made it easier for the soldiers of the Third Regiment to kill them.

The ground battle at Zhao Village was extremely fierce from the very beginning. Above Qian Village, a dozen miles away from Zhao Village, the battle at this time was already more than halfway over.

It was said that it was more than halfway over because all eighteen fighter planes of the aviation squadron that flew from Jinan to support the Aso Regiment had been shot down.

It still took the Lunan Detachment's aviation squadron some time to shoot down these eighteen fighter planes.

During this time, the eighteen Japanese bombers had been fleeing. Although one bomber had already crashed, there were still seventeen fighters fleeing.

All of these enemy planes needed to be shot down, otherwise, Captain Yu Zhengyang would feel that this battle was not perfect.

Tokugawa Ariyasu was flying westward in his bomber when he was suddenly attacked.

He judged that he could not continue flying south to carry out the mission at this time.

Nor could he immediately fly back, as it would be easy to be caught up in either direction.

Therefore, he chose to fly west. He would fly all the way west.

A fully loaded bomber was not fast. In order to pursue the ultimate speed after unloading the burden,

Captain Tokugawa Ariyasu, who had just left the protection of the fighters, immediately ordered all members of the crew to drop the bombs.

There were a total of seven crew members on his bomber. When they heard the captain's order, Sergeant Eguchi Kinoe was a little confused, "Haven't we reached the battlefield yet?"

Captain Tokugawa Ariyasu was furious. Of course, he knew that dropping bombs at this time was an unforgivable crime for the resource-scarce empire.

Looking at a village suddenly appearing on the ground below, Captain Tokugawa Ariyasu was immediately excited.

He loudly ordered, "The battlefield is below. The target is the village below."

The bomber dived towards the ground, just like in a real battlefield.

Although such a dive and then pull-up action would delay their escape slightly, Captain Tokugawa Ariyasu had to sacrifice this little bit of time in order to shut up all the members of the entire crew.

Sergeant Eguchi Kinoe opened the bomb bay, and one bomb after another was quickly dropped towards the ground. The captain ordered, "Be sure to drop all the bombs in the shortest amount of time."

In Niujia Village, most of the people had already taken advantage of the cool morning to go to the fields to work on this autumn morning.

They were in the fields when they saw a large plane flying over in the sky, making a terrifying sound, rushing towards the village.

Black shadows kept falling from under the belly of the plane, followed by huge explosions.

Clusters of fire and smoke rose in and around the village. These people who were still working in the fields had no idea what was going on.

After they reacted, they quickly ran home. This was really a case of disaster falling from the sky while staying at home.

After Shi Zhengqing shot down his assigned target, he pulled up his fighter plane, ready to return to the formation and continue the next attack. Da Feng Novel

He then received a new order from the squadron: "Shi Zhengqing, Xia Yihang, Liu Sanyi, you three form a combat squad and pursue to the west."

The three pilots who received the order immediately chased to the west. They saw the Japanese bombers flying everywhere in the sky like startled birds.

Squadron Leader Yu issued the order in a calm and confident tone. He sent fighter planes to pursue and kill in all directions.

Shi Zhengqing said on the radio, "The visibility is good today. How about we three planes search and advance westward side by side, with a distance of about five miles between each other?"

Xia Yihang and Liu Sanyi immediately agreed. The three of them had not chased far when Liu Sanyi discovered a Japanese bomber.

He said something and immediately chased after it and opened fire. Liu Sanyi was chasing from behind the enemy plane.

The bomber was completely like a target, completely bearing all the bullets fired from the fighter plane.

The fighter that Liu Sanyi caught up with was piloted by Captain Kita Keisuke. The first thing he knew when he was attacked was: it's over!

What could he do if a lone bomber was bombed by a fighter plane?

Even so, Captain Kita Keisuke still struggled. He first turned the bomber to the left, trying to avoid the rain of bullets pouring down from behind.

He soon discovered with disappointment that all his struggles were in vain, and the engine on the right side of his bomber had stalled. Next, the engine on the left side also stopped working.

Captain Kita screamed in horror, "I'm under attack! I've been hit!"

Captain Tokugawa Ariyasu heard the screams coming from his headset while he was diving.

He immediately felt scared. Being able to hear Captain Kita's screams at this time

and hearing him say that he was under attack meant that the National Revolutionary Army's fighters had already caught up from behind.

Captain Tokugawa Ariyasu hated Sergeant Eguchi Kinoe, who had raised objections just now. If he could escape this time,

he would definitely find a way to make him have an accident during training. Such a Japanese soldier would only kill the entire crew.

The villagers of Niujia Village, who were running towards their homes, discovered that a much smaller plane had appeared in the air, chasing after the large plane.

The small plane spewed out two tongues of fire, closely following the large plane. The two tongues of fire were like two chains, tightly connecting the two planes.

The villagers of Niujia Village immediately understood that the large plane in front was Japanese and the plane behind should be from the Lunan Detachment.

Because they had heard that there was a team in Lunan that was fighting against the Japanese, and they also had planes.

The Japanese planes had just bombed their village, so when these villagers saw the Japanese planes now trailing black smoke and falling to the ground, they all cheered.

This was called instant karma. A loud noise came from the distance, followed by rising smoke. The villagers of Niujia Village were temporarily unable to care about the distance. They had to take care of their homes first.