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Taro Tomosaka, the company commander, was also unable to appoint several squad leaders or team leaders from this nominal company, which in essence was only a squad.

These Japs would rather be ordinary sergeants than become squad leaders. In normal times, being a squad leader in the Jap army was a position that these Japs would fight tooth and nail for.

This shows that the Japs in this division had completely lost their will to fight. Taro Tomosaka knew that even if they were to airdrop these two hundred-odd Japs, or even two thousand, it wouldn't reignite the fighting spirit of these Japs in the 106th Division.

In any case, the mission still needed to be completed. Fortunately, although these Japs were slow, they still moved after the orders were given.

About fifty Japs slowly walked towards Zhanggu Mountain, familiar with the roads there.

Without Commander Taro Tomosaka's instructions, they went straight to the foot of Zhanggu Mountain, pointing to the hilltop three hundred meters away and saying, "It's right here!"

"Why aren't you continuing the attack?" Commander Taro Tomosaka asked, puzzled.

"Wait! Wait for the air force to bomb, wait for the artillery bombardment!" Sergeant Annai Muroko confidently replied.

"If they don't come to bomb, you won't charge?" Commander Taro Tomosaka was a bit irritated.

"Of course! We have so few men, and the number of the National Army on the mountain is several times ours, and their firepower is fierce.

Without artillery cover, we'll all be dead before we even reach the foot of the mountain," Sergeant Kikukawa Ryunosuke said discontentedly.

Commander Taro Tomosaka was starting to regret not asking properly whether there would be artillery bombardment when he left the regimental headquarters.

He now felt that he, the company commander, was being led by the nose by these Japs, like a fool without any say.

Just as he was hesitating whether to force these Japs to charge, artillery shells actually began to fall on the mountain peak in the distance.

Sergeant Kikukawa Ryunosuke grinned foolishly at Commander Taro Tomosaka, as if to say: "See! I was right!"

The entire company, all fifty or so Japs, were looking at Commander Taro Tomosaka and laughing, as if they were all fools.

Commander Taro Tomosaka understood that these Japs were mocking him, laughing at him for being a fool. He grew even angrier.

At this moment, several bombers flew in from the horizon. They really were there to bomb Zhanggu Mountain. Looking at the mountain peak engulfed in artillery fire,

they thought that the defending troops on the mountain must have all been killed. In any case, artillery first, then infantry! That was always the right approach.

Commander Taro Tomosaka drew his command saber, pointed it firmly towards Zhanggu Mountain, and loudly ordered, "Charge!"

His voice was loud and his momentum was strong, but his Japs were clearly unaffected.

They still moved forward slowly. They were three hundred meters away from the foot of Zhanggu Peak. At this rate, the defending troops on the mountaintop wouldn't be able to hold out.

At this moment, Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke and Commander Nakajima Forty-Six were seen approaching with their troops.

Judging from the way the Japs under their command were walking, all the Japs were the same; none of them had any fighting spirit.

The three company commanders exchanged glances and led their troops towards Zhanggu Mountain. They waited at the foot of the mountain, and after about half an hour, the shelling stopped.

The bombers that had been circling and bombing also left. Now it was time for these Jap infantry to charge. Commander Taro Tomosaka stood behind the troops, shouting loudly, "Charge!" But not a single Jap charged forward.

All the Japs looked at him as if he were an idiot. They wanted him, the company commander, to stand at the front and lead the charge!

Commander Taro Tomosaka understood that if he didn't take the lead, these Japs wouldn't take a single step forward.

What could he do in this situation? Of course, he had to go to the front. He stopped shouting and just bent over, holding his rifle, and charged towards the mountaintop.

After charging a dozen steps, Commander Taro Tomosaka looked back worriedly and found that all the Japs were following. Since he was charging fast, these Japs were able to keep up.

With dozens of Japs following, Commander Taro Tomosaka felt much more at ease. The National Army soldiers on the mountaintop, after the artillery bombardment, had already started firing at them. If they didn't move faster in this situation, they would be courting death.

Commander Taro Tomosaka led these fifty-odd Japs to charge uphill. They had only charged a few steps when he heard a Jap behind him cry out in pain.

Then a Jap shouted, "Fujito Reo is injured!" Except for the Jap who shouted, none of the others moved.

Commander Taro Tomosaka ordered, "Sergeant Kikukawa Ryunosuke, carry Fujito Reo back." This was a sweet deal. As long as he ran those few dozen meters, he would survive this attack.

Kikukawa Ryunosuke was overjoyed and quickly agreed, carefully crawling over, first bandaging Fujito Reo's injured chest, and then slowly dragging him out.

Commander Taro Tomosaka continued to order, "Machine gunner! Suppressive fire! Suppress their machine gun fire." His mood was improving: these Japs under his command were finally starting to listen to him. As long as he could get them to listen step by step,

Commander Taro Tomosaka believed that before long, he would be able to completely control this team, make them completely obey his orders, and make them go east without daring to go west.

This place was too close to the position, and if he wasn't careful, he could easily be shot by a National Army sniper. Just as Kikukawa Ryunosuke was thinking this,

he suddenly noticed that there were many more Japs crawling backward with him. He immediately understood and asked, "The company commander is dead?"

"Dead!" Sergeant Annai Muroko replied, with some excitement in his tone.

"Company Commander Tomosaka really didn't live for more than three hours!" A Jap said with a smile. The Jap machine gun also quickly stopped firing, but it stopped a little too late.

It had already attracted fierce retaliation from the National Army, who had just suffered artillery bombardment from the Japs and had a bellyful of anger with nowhere to vent it.

Seeing the Jap machine gun trying to take advantage of the situation, all the soldiers aimed their weapons at the machine gun and fired.

Sergeant Kitakaze Tsubasa, who was holding the machine gun, couldn't retreat in time and was hit by several bullets, falling backward. His assistant gunner quickly snatched the machine gun back and ran.

The Japs in this company laughed as if they had heard a joke. When they turned around and saw that Kitakaze Tsubasa was dead, they didn't find it surprising.

These Japs had long foreseen their end. Dying sooner or later, it was all the same. On their way back, they even helped Kikukawa Ryunosuke drag the wounded soldier out of the danger zone.

Just after dragging him out, Kikukawa Ryunosuke said disdainfully, "No need to drag him! He's already dead!"

It turned out that when he checked Fujito Reo's injuries, he had already seen that this Jap couldn't survive.

But he wanted to take this opportunity to slip out of the battlefield, so he didn't say anything.

Now, for the Japs in this company, the battle was over. Without a new company commander or squad leader, they didn't have to fight.

Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke saw Commander Taro Tomosaka suddenly fall while charging and never get up again.

Then he saw the Japs from Tomosaka's company retreating, and he waved his command saber, "Go back! Continue attacking!"

Sergeant Annai Muroko glanced at him coldly, "Are you teaching me what to do?"

Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke's temper flared up, and he swung his command saber at the Jap who dared to contradict his superior.

Annai Muroko stepped back, and about forty Japs immediately surrounded him. All the Japs who had just retreated came over.

Each Jap pointed his rifle at the clearly overfed Jap, "You want to command us?"

Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke panicked. Not a single Jap under his command had followed him. Instead of coming up to rescue their commander, these Japs even took a few steps back, clearly indicating that they weren't with him.

Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke faltered, and he smiled awkwardly, "I just wanted to ask you to act together, but if you don't agree, then forget it."

Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke finally managed to get rid of those retreating soldiers and turned back to look at the Japs under his command. Now he truly understood that these Japs didn't care about the life or death of their superiors.

They probably wished that he, like their previous commanders, would die sooner so they could escape back and survive for a few more days.

Even though he knew the true thoughts of these Japs, Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke had no way to deal with them. He still had to lead them to charge towards Zhanggu Mountain.

The situation was the same as with Commander Taro Tomosaka. If the company commander didn't take the lead, all the Japs wouldn't move.

Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke walked at the very front of the troops, and he was also panicking: the Japs charging at the front always died the fastest.

Commanders like him were originally supposed to be directing from behind, but now he had to lead the charge.

While charging towards Zhanggu Mountain, Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke discovered the body of Commander Taro Tomosaka. He specially turned the body over to look at it: Commander Taro Tomosaka had been shot twice in the chest and once in the forehead. He had indeed been shot from the front, not by his Japs firing a cold shot from behind.

This put Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke a little at ease: he had been afraid that the Japs under his command would shoot him in the back.

That way, they wouldn't have to continue charging towards Zhanggu Mountain. Fortunately, that hadn't happened yet.

Looking at a corpse covered in flies not far away, Sergeant Yoshitaka Kota looked at it and pointed, "That's Company Commander Hayashi, who died here yesterday."

Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke suddenly asked, "Before we came, I saw that all the company commanders who died had their bodies dragged back and placed in a central location."

Sergeant Yoshitaka Kota sneered, "That's for those who were company commanders when they entered the mountain. For company commanders like you who don't live for more than a few hours, the officers probably didn't even ask your names."

When he said this, Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke recalled everything that had happened after the airdrop, and unfortunately, the Jap was right.

The regimental commander really hadn't asked their names. When giving orders, he would directly say, "You go to Ito's company, you go to Tanaka's company."

Thinking of this, how could he not understand that these airdropped Japs were being used as cannon fodder? The regimental commander referred to them as "you," "you," and so on, and he couldn't help but feel a little dejected.

He had originally thought that he was coming from afar to reinforce the area, and he had a high sense of honor, but now, after hearing this, he suddenly felt like he had been dealt a heavy blow and was a little disheartened.

Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke looked at the body of Commander Taro Tomosaka, "You two Japs, drag him down and bury him!" He originally thought that no Japs would carry out his order.

But the result was a big surprise to Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke. Two Japs immediately rushed out, fighting to lift up Taro Tomosaka and run backward.

These two Japs were clearly exhausted. They only carried Taro Tomosaka's heavy body for a few steps before putting him down on the ground. One Jap dragged an arm, and they dragged him backward.

"Why?" Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke asked, puzzled.

Sergeant Yoshitaka Kota sneered, "That way, they don't have to participate in this battle to attack Zhanggu Mountain."

The words awakened him from his dream. Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke hadn't expected these Japs to be so afraid of attacking. He wasn't optimistic about this attack either.

With such subordinates, how could they attack? In any case, he Qingkong had to charge upward.

Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke ignored the Japs following behind him, only carefully guarding against the bullets fired by the National Army soldiers on the mountaintop.

After he advanced some distance and was suppressed in a hidden position, he looked back and found that most of the Japs in his company had actually followed him.

This reassured him a lot, and he loudly ordered, "Machine gun suppression! Cover me!"

He wanted to rush out of this position to a place he had already seen, where there was a blind spot for the National Army's firepower on the mountaintop, so he could slowly exchange fire with the National Army.

After Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke issued the order, the machine gunner in his company quickly opened fire, suppressing the National Army's firepower.

Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke rushed out in one go. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Sergeant Yoshitaka Kota with a sneer on his face.

This gave Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke a bad feeling. As expected, he was shot in the thigh and chest less than two meters after rushing out.

Now, Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke couldn't charge any further. He could only lie on the ground, preparing to retreat. At this critical moment, he was stunned to find that the machine gun that had been covering him had suddenly stopped, and the machine gunner was retreating with the machine gun.

The Japs in the entire company were all retreating backward. Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke shouted for help: he, the company commander, wasn't dead yet. Why were they all scattering like birds and beasts?

The Japs in the entire company acted as if they hadn't heard his shouts, and they all ran backward, disregarding everything. Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke, lying on the ground, saw that some of the Japs who were running away had also fallen.

But none of the Japs turned back to help them. They were all running away, minding their own business.

So that's why these Japs were unwilling to be squad leaders or company commanders! If they became squad leaders or company commanders, they had to charge at the front and lead the charge.

As soon as they were injured, the entire team would scatter! With such a team, the morale was lost, and they couldn't be led at all.

Unfortunately, Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke understood too late. He was lying alone in front of the position, listening to the dense bullets flying over.

He could no longer return alive! Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke's eyes didn't close even after he died. He was too angry.

A few hours ago, he was still in Nanjing City, preparing to go shopping and find something fun to do, or find a restaurant and have a drink. A few hours later, he died here. The key was that he thought he had died in vain.

It was too frustrating. As a company commander, none of the Japs under his command obeyed his orders. Unfortunately, he couldn't express his frustration anymore.

But his frustration was ultimately manifested. After this battle, the Jap 106th Infantry Division was directly revoked. This could be regarded as a roundabout way of avenging Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke!

But in fact, there was no need to wait that long. The Japs who had just escaped from the foot of Zhanggu Mountain were all clear in their hearts: they probably wouldn't survive.

Commander Miyazawa Kamenosuke only died an hour earlier than them. Just now, during the attack organized by Commander Miyazawa Kamezaki, more than a dozen Japs had died.

Of the two hundred-odd Japs who were airdropped from six transport planes from Nanjing to the Wanjiialing Mountains, only forty-odd Japs safely landed in the area controlled by the Japs. They were immediately sent to the front lines to participate in the battle.

These Jap grassroots commanders all had the same fate as Taro Tomosaka and Miyazawa Kamezaki.

This wasn't a problem that could be solved by changing a company commander or squad leader. The problem was that these Japs in the 106th Division had completely lost their fighting spirit.

If they wanted them to continue fighting, they had to undergo a long period of rest and training. But the current Commander Matsuura Juro said: it couldn't be done!

While sending transport planes to directly airdrop grassroots commanders, Commander Yan Junliu of the Central China Expeditionary Army bypassed Commander Okamura Neji of the 11th Army Group and directly ordered the Jap divisions to do their best to rescue the 106th Division and ensure that the Japs of this division were rescued.

When they received Commander Yan Junliu's strict order to rescue the 106th Division at all costs, the 27th Division, which had previously tried to rescue the 106th Division without success, once again sent a detachment to the Wanjiialing Mountains to rescue them.

The 101st Division also sent a brigade, the 9th Division sent a brigade, and all the troops of the 106th Division stationed in Jiujiang were dispatched.

The orders received by these Jap troops were to rescue the 106th Division at all costs, even if it meant exchanging two of the Japs who went to rescue for one of the Japs who were being rescued.

There was only one reason: the Jap 106th Infantry Division had now attracted the attention of all the ordinary people in their country. This forced the Jap headquarters to use all its strength to save the fate of this division.

If Commander Matsuura Juro of this division was captured or killed by the National Army, the current Jap cabinet would probably collapse immediately.

The 106th Division had to be rescued at all costs. This was the Jap's unilateral idea.

The Jap 106th Division had to be completely annihilated before October 10. This was the order given by Chang Qi Shen to the Second War Zone.

He needed to prove to the world on this day that the National Army was still capable of fighting, that the National Army was still continuing the war of resistance, and that the Japs could be defeated.

At the same time, Chang Kai-shek also wanted to prove to the people of the whole country on this day that the National Army, under his leadership, had won another great victory. Although the National Army had been retreating, it had been resisting and constantly eliminating the Japs' strength.

After annihilating the Jap airdropped commanders, the Second War Zone didn't relax its attack and continued to attack. They also formulated the next general offensive plan.

According to the current situation in Wanjiialing, it was the "encircle the point and strike the aid" tactic that Lin Fan liked to use most.

It was just that the combat effectiveness of the Second War Zone was insufficient, and the combat effectiveness of the entire National Army was not enough, so they didn't dare to use such tactics and only wanted to eliminate the point surrounded in Zajian as soon as possible.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, the heavy artillery brigade that had just been formed in the Second War Zone was ready. They hadn't stopped for these few days.

In particular, the officers and soldiers of Xu Jingshi's Second Heavy Artillery Regiment were mostly students from artillery schools. They were young, quick-witted, and flexible. After three days of learning with the Special Forces Brigade, they had become veterans from rookies.

During the bombing of Zhanggu Mountain this morning, the power of the heavy artillery was immediately displayed, forcing the Japs who had already attacked Zhanggu Mountain to retreat under the fierce artillery bombardment.

Starting at seven o'clock in the afternoon on October 9, all the artillery in the Second War Zone simultaneously launched a full-scale attack on the Japs who were shrinking in Jianlu Su, Wanjiialing, Tianbu Su, Leiming Gu Liu, Yangjia Mountain, Daxiao Jinshan, and other places.

This bombing of the Japs wasn't just a matter of two heavy artillery regiments bombing the Japs' defense line. All kinds of artillery in the various armies, divisions, and regiments participating in the siege of the Japs were firing.

The Japs' defense line was illuminated by the firelight of the explosions, so that it was brightly lit. This kind of fierce artillery fire was something that the 106th Division had never encountered before.

The 113th Regiment of the Jap 106th Infantry Division was guarding Daxiao Jinshan and Wanjiialing. Regiment Commander Kawashima Takuma was in a very depressed mood at this time.

Its regiment had been severely damaged in the previous battles. A Jap infantry regiment, which should have had five thousand Japs, had less than a thousand Japs when it set out from Maling.

The three thousand Japs that were replenished to its regiment had already arrived in Jiujiang, and it would only take an hour to send them to Maling.

However, Commander Okamura Neji strictly ordered the 106th Division to seize the opportunity and set off immediately. Commander Matsuura Junro considered its regiment to be too weak, so he let its regiment be the third echelon.

As a result, Kawashima Takuma's 113th Regiment had become the most powerful unit in the entire 106th Infantry Division.

Its regiment had been fighting until now, and there were still about eight hundred Japs left. These Japs were assigned to guard three hills, and Regiment Commander Kawashima Takuma had specially left some Japs in the regiment headquarters as a reserve team.

The Japs sent to defend each hill were nominally a battalion, but in reality, there was only one company.

The Japs in its regiment hadn't encountered a situation where all the grassroots commanders had been killed, but the grassroots commanders in its regiment had also suffered a lot of casualties.

Now, their position was once again being bombarded by the National Army's fierce artillery fire. At this time, it wasn't necessary to think about it to understand the Second War Zone's intentions: they wanted to launch a general offensive tonight.

The bombing lasted for a full hour, and the National Army's 66th Army began to attack Xiaojinshan and Dajinshan.

Army Commander Ye Zhao arranged this because:

These two regiments had studied with the Special Forces Brigade for several days, and all kinds of equipment had been replaced. The entire regiment had hundreds of rifles, machine guns, and heavy machine guns. Each company was equipped with five mortars, and they also had a special artillery company, which had three Type 92 infantry guns and twenty mortars.

These were just the advantages in weapons and equipment. The officers and soldiers of these two regiments had lived with the officers and soldiers of the Special Forces Brigade for these few days.

They had meat every meal, and they had been winning battles with the Special Forces Brigade every day. The morale and mental outlook of the two regiments were obviously different from the other regiments in the army.

Good steel should be used on the blade. Such obvious strong soldiers should of course be used to overcome difficulties.

These two regimental commanders were also unambiguous. After receiving the army commander's order, they immediately led their troops to the predetermined attack position.

Starting at seven o'clock, these two regiments bombarded the target position with their regiment's artillery. After an hour of bombing, the two regiments each sent three companies to charge from three directions.

Although he only had two hundred Japs under his command, Brigade Commander Ikuta Hyuga, who was defending Xiaojinshan, had promoted five company commanders, and each of the five company commanders had promoted three squad leaders.

In this way, in the Jap troops on Xiaojinshan, among the two hundred Japs, there was one brigade commander, five company commanders, fifteen squad leaders, and forty-five team leaders, for a total of sixty-six Jap commanders.

When Shi Yi's regiment was bombing the Jap position on Xiaojinshan just now, any artillery shell explosion could kill a Jap commander.

Now that the bombing was over, Company Commander Jiang Liangong of the first company led the entire company to charge towards Xiaojinshan from the front. These days with the Special Forces Brigade, he had also learned that when charging, he had to shout, "Brothers, follow me!"

Then, he had to take the lead and charge at the front. In this way, every soldier in the entire company would charge forward without fear of death.

He couldn't shout, "Brothers, charge for me!" and then hide behind the troops. In this way, there wouldn't be many soldiers who could charge. Most of the soldiers would have the appearance of charging, but their pace wouldn't be fast enough.

Today, Company Commander Jiang issued the order and took the lead, charging at the very front. All the soldiers in the entire company were full of energy, and each one was charging faster than the other.

As a result, Company Commander Jiang, who wanted to charge at the very front to lead the troops, only charged in the second echelon. It wasn't that he didn't want to charge at the very front, it was just that he wasn't running as fast as the others.

When Company Commander Jiang and the others charged to within two hundred meters of the Jap defense line, the Japs had already opened fire. Company Commander Jiang didn't care about these things.

He shouted, "Set up the heavy machine guns for me, and the light machine guns will cover me first!" When the five heavy machine guns of the first company opened fire, they immediately suppressed the Jap machine guns that had just opened fire.

Company Commander Jiang was still not satisfied, and he shouted, "Mortars! Set them up for me and bomb the hell out of them."

It was said that those who were close to the water could get the moon first. His regiment had been following the Special Forces Brigade every day, so of course they had gotten a lot of good equipment. At the same time, he had also intentionally taken more shells and left them behind.

Now, his regiment had plenty of shells, and he didn't feel sorry at all for bombing the Japs. This was called taking from the Japs and using it on the Japs.

Brigade Commander Ikuta Hyuga, who was defending Xiaojinshan, had just been bombed for an hour, and more than fifty Japs had been killed or wounded in its brigade.

There were only two hundred Japs in the brigade, so there were only one hundred and fifty Japs left. After the shelling ended, Brigade Commander Ikuta Hyuga urged the Japs loudly: "Be careful of the National Army's attack!"

The National Army would definitely not be bombing for fun for an hour tonight. As expected, Brigade Commander Ikuta Hyuga was able to vaguely see National Army soldiers charging up in the pale light of the flares.

It immediately ordered all the Japs to fire, but what it didn't expect was that the National Army on the opposite side used even more fierce firepower to counterattack less than three minutes after its machine guns opened fire.

Sergeant Takizawa Taichi, who was operating the heavy machine gun, was killed in one go. His assistant gunner, Sergeant Aiba Daisuke, immediately took over and opened fire.

This time, Sergeant Aiba Daisuke died even faster. Before he could finish a magazine, he fell on the machine gun.

This made the Japs behind him a little hesitant. To make matters worse, the attacking National Army soldiers even had mortars bombarding them.

An artillery shell exploded near the heavy machine gun, killing and wounding all the hesitant gunners.

In such a short time, Brigade Commander Ikuta Hyuga's Japs had lost another ten or so. Even so, Brigade Commander Ikuta Hyuga could only order them to continue firing!

The Japs from the Suto Sei squad were replaced to operate the heavy machine gun. Squad Leader Suto Sei could only command ten Japs, including himself.

Among the eleven Japs, there were also three team leaders. Now, all these commanders had become the most ordinary Japs. They lined up to operate the heavy machine gun, and they were often shot dead by the National Army after only firing a few bullets.

The surrounding environment couldn't be seen clearly at night, even in the light of the flares. However, the muzzle flashes of the weapons during shooting could be seen much more clearly than during the day.

The Japs of the Ikuta Hyuga brigade, who were lucky enough to still be alive, could see clearly that there were three heavy machine guns on the opposite side firing at their only heavy machine gun.

With a three-on-one situation, how could they fight? Even if the Japs of the Ikuta Hyuga brigade were lying in the trenches, they would be shot by the machine guns on the opposite side if they opened fire from time to time.

The firepower of this National Army team today was too strong!

This was just the first company attacking from the front. On its left and right sides, the second and third companies were also attacking Xiaojinshan.

This made Brigade Commander Ikuta Hyuga even more stretched. How could it cope with attacks from three directions at the same time when it only had a hundred or so Japs left?

Without a solution, Brigade Commander Ikuta Hyuga could only ask Regiment Commander Kawashima Takuma for help. Regiment Commander Kawashima Takuma was very conflicted: the Japs on Dajinshan and Xiaojinshan were both asking for help.

These two places were important places that couldn't be abandoned, and it couldn't not send Japs to rescue them, but it only had a reserve team of two hundred Japs.

In the end, Regiment Commander Kawashima Takuma sent two platoons to rescue Dajinshan and Xiaojinshan, respectively.

Company Commander Fukuyama Taro received the order and led fifty or so Japs to rescue Xiaojinshan. Each of these Japs followed the company commander listlessly towards Xiaojinshan.

These Japs all had eyes and ears. They could guess from the simultaneous artillery bombardment of each position that tonight should be the time for the National Army's general attack.

Now, they were being sent to the Xiaojinshan position, which wasn't the same as sending them to their deaths? These Japs had just escaped the artillery bombardment, but in the end, they couldn't avoid the fate of going up the mountain to die.

Sergeant Koshigoe Ichisuke dragged its heavy steps, as if it were going to the execution ground. Walking on the country road, it saw countless tracer bullets cutting through the night sky and heard countless gunshots constantly ringing.

It didn't want to move its feet forward even more. This wasn't just one Jap's idea. All fifty or so Japs were thinking the same thing.

These Japs no longer had the naive idea of wanting to fight, wanting to charge and kill to make contributions. They only wanted to go home now.

No matter what these Japs thought, they had to take this path in the end. They rushed up from behind Xiaojinshan. Company Commander Fukuyama Taro looked at the crumbling defense line and quickly ordered the fifty or so Japs under his command to immediately enter the position.

The National Army had already broken through two of the defense lines of the Ikuta Hyuga brigade on Xiaojinshan, and now only the last defense line was left.

There were only less than fifty Japs in this brigade who could still fight. The fifty or so Japs were concentrated on the last defense line on the mountaintop, and they suddenly received the support of fifty or so Japs.

This stabilized the almost collapsing Ikuta Hyuga brigade a little. Before this, Squad Leader Tsukamoto Yushin had already prepared to lead the Japs to withdraw from the position.

Its squad didn't even have the number of a platoon in reality. After an hour of exchanging fire with the National Army's attacking troops on the front, half of the few Japs who weren't already there had been killed or wounded.

Now, there were only five Japs left who could still fight, and now a few more Japs had been added to its position.

This made the Japs in Tsukamoto Yushin's squad feel a little more at ease, but their peace of mind was only for a moment. The National Army team that was attacking today had too much firepower. The machine guns had never stopped from the beginning to the end, and it was still the same now.

Sergeant Koshigoe Ichisuke, who had just entered the position, had just stuck its head out, wanting to see the outside world, when it was shot down by several bullets.

Asano Rin, who had come with it, quickly dragged Koshigoe Ichisuke down and ignored it after only one glance. There were two more bullet holes in Sergeant Koshigoe Ichisuke's face, which was obviously unsavable.

It hadn't even fired a shot on the position, and a supporting Jap had died. Asano Rin was also a little nervous in its heart.

This team was a little stronger than the Japs who attacked Zhanggu Mountain during the day. At least these Japs weren't as desperate.

The various teams in the Second War Zone had organized suicide squads again tonight, not only the broadsword team, but also the assault team.

The task of Ning Hezhi's regiment tonight was to capture Dajinshan and break through inside. Company Commander Ke Qu of the first company led the troops as the main attackers.

With weapons and equipment, the way of attacking had also become simpler. The mortars in the company bombed, and the heavy machine guns covered them.

With such powerful firepower, the benefits of attacking were also shown: the Japs' machine guns were hit as soon as they showed their heads, and there were fewer casualties when the first company attacked.

After capturing two Jap defense lines in a row, when there were very few Japs left on the mountaintop to resist, the three companies attacking Dajinshan concentrated fifteen mortars to bombard the Japs.

This made these Japs dizzy and unable to find the north. Brigade Commander Noguchi Kanade also died in the artillery bombardment.

Company Commander Nagasawa Kazuki came up under this situation. It led fifty or so Japs to catch up after the just-ended artillery bombardment, and saw that there were only a dozen Japs still alive on the entire mountaintop.

The National Army soldiers had already seen them. The distance between the two sides was only a dozen meters. There was no choice under this situation.

Company Commander Nagasawa Kazuki commanded the Japs to fix bayonets. Company Commander Ke Qu didn't hesitate and ordered the entire company to charge up and engage in close combat with the Japs.

This time, Company Commander Ke and the others had the advantage in the close combat. Three of their companies had charged up, and more than four hundred people were fighting with bayonets against sixty or so Japs, which gave them a great advantage.

In addition, they had learned a lot by watching the Special Forces Brigade's soldiers fight and train these days.

Most importantly, all the soldiers had learned the spirit of the Special Forces Brigade's soldiers who were not afraid of death on the battlefield, especially when fighting close combat with the Japs. If you weren't afraid of death, it would be the Japs who were afraid of death.

Under this situation, the one who was afraid of death would always die first. Shouts of killing were heard on Dajinshan. Every time the National Army soldiers stabbed out, they had to shout "Kill!"

This was also learned from the Special Forces Brigade. More than four hundred people shouted loudly on the mountaintop, scaring the dozens of Japs in Nagasawa Kazuki's company to death and making them at a loss.

They were already small in number, and their morale had been suppressed by the National Army soldiers. They were just going to die when they fought with bayonets.

After the three companies occupied Dajinshan, the other companies in the regiment immediately passed through here and charged towards the depths. The battle on Xiaojinshan also ended at this time. Regiment Commander Ning Hezhi only left a company commander to guard Xiaojinshan.

It led the other nine companies in the regiment and continued to break through into the depths.

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