Feng Wencheng led the ground attack aircraft in a sweeping strafe from east to west, clearly seeing from the air:

The 34th Infantry Regiment of the devils, assaulted by directional bombs, was in complete disarray.

Many figures lay on the road, it was impossible to tell if they were corpses or wounded.

Many devils were squatting in the drainage ditches on both sides of the road, counterattacking the warriors of the Special Operations Brigade.

Feng Wencheng adjusted the four machine guns on his attack aircraft, giving priority to the devils in the ditches.

As he swept past, Bian Gang followed behind his captain, seeing the same situation. His targets were the same.

Captain Koizumi Kenta was the commander of the 4th Battalion of the 34th Infantry Regiment, which had originally been the rear guard of the entire regiment.

Now, it had become the first unit to be strafed by the ground attack aircraft.

Captain Koizumi Kenta was also hiding in a drainage ditch, but he was luckier.

He was not injured in the first round of directional bomb attacks, and he avoided the aircraft strafing this time as well.

However, his guard, Aoi Shiji, was not so fortunate. Aoi Shiji took several machine gun bullets to the body.

The machine gun bullets pierced through Aoi Shiji's neck, tearing apart half of it. Blood spurted out like an arrow, splattering Koizumi Kenta's face and body.

However, Captain Koizumi Kenta dared not move a muscle. He believed that his current hiding place was a good spot.

If he moved even slightly, he would be shot. Therefore, even though he was being showered in the blood of an ordinary soldier, he was unwilling to budge.

Captain Koizumi Kenta had reason to think this way: Aoi Shiji, in front of him, was bound to die from the bullets, and Asano Mataro, behind him, was also wounded.

Although Asano Mataro might not die, his wails of pain from behind made Captain Koizumi Kenta very anxious.

If he were not concerned about his status, Captain Koizumi Kenta would have drawn his gun and killed the groaning fellow.

Captain Koizumi Kenta, squatting in the drainage ditch, quickly felt a wetness beneath him, assuming that he had leaked urine due to nervousness.

Squad Leader Tsukamoto Kokuo, at the rear, urgently shouted, "Defense! Defense!"

Their current situation was extremely difficult: machine gun fire from aircraft overhead, and machine gun fire from infantry on both sides.

Now, a squad of infantry was launching a strong attack from behind. Wasn't this a clear case of "when it rains, it pours"?

Tsukamoto Kokuo's squad of devils suffered continuous attacks. Of the one hundred and eighty-four devils, fewer than one hundred were still able to fight.

Under the command of the squad leader, these devils began to struggle to establish a defensive line.

In this situation, Squad Leader Takenaka Rintaro had no idea how to build a defensive line that could withstand the advancing team behind them.

He said to Squad Leader Tsukamoto Kokuo, "Squad Leader! The machine gun fire on both sides is too intense. We have nowhere to defend!"

Indeed! They had nowhere to defend. If they ran out of the drainage ditch, they would be torn to pieces by the machine guns on both sides.

If they huddled together in the drainage ditch, they would become targets for the aircraft.

Now they also had to defend against the advancing team behind them. Squad Leader Tsukamoto Kokuo could not think of a solution either.

The squad leader's silence implied another plan: an escape plan!

Squad Leader Takenaka Rintaro understood. He shouted, "All wounded soldiers, immediately take up your weapons and defend in place! You must do everything in your power to hold the line and prevent the Nationalist soldiers from rushing up.

The rest of the brave warriors will follow me to attack and advance towards Luying Town to rescue the 18th Infantry Regiment."

Squad Leader Tsukamoto Kokuo was very pleased with his command. He had the wounded hold the line while the able-bodied soldiers escaped with him.

Tsukamoto Kokuo's squad quickly charged towards Luying Town. Captain Koizumi Kenta listened to the reports from Squad Leader Tsukamoto Kokuo.

The aircraft overhead had temporarily moved ahead, giving his battalion a brief respite, but the strafing and bombing from both sides had not stopped.

Captain Koizumi Kenta had originally planned to take advantage of the absence of aircraft to order the devils to attack on both sides.

Now, hearing that Nationalist soldiers were pressing in from behind, he calculated the remaining strength of the entire battalion based on the reports from several squads.

Captain Koizumi Kenta estimated that the combined strength of all the remaining devils was now less than five hundred.

If such a small number of devils attacked on both sides while also defending against the advancing team behind them, their forces would clearly be insufficient.

He was also decisive, repeating Squad Leader Takenaka Rintaro's order: "All wounded soldiers, establish a defensive line in place to cover the battalion's attack on Luying Town."

After giving the order, Captain Koizumi Kenta immediately charged towards Luying Town.

The 4th Battalion advanced rapidly and soon joined the ranks of Oita Kikukawa's battalion.

Regiment Commander Tagami Hachiro was with the 3rd Battalion. He summoned Captain Koizumi Kenta, knowing that the situation behind them was even worse than it was now.

The situation on the battlefield was too chaotic, and he no longer sent men to verify the situation behind them. He knew one thing: he had to get the troops into Luying Town first.

If the Nationalist soldiers were laying a net to catch fish here, then he, the fish, would have to fight to the death in order to survive.

After listening to Captain Koizumi Kenta's report, Regiment Commander Tagami Hachiro analyzed the situation this way: the Nationalist soldiers who laid the trap must believe that he would lead the 34th Regiment to attack and break through along the road they had come from.

He was now going to do the opposite and continue to attack and advance towards Luying Town!

Regiment Commander Tagami Hachiro immediately issued an order: "All wounded soldiers in the regiment, immediately establish defensive lines in place to resist attacks from all directions.

The remaining soldiers will immediately attack and advance towards Luying Town."

He was the regiment commander, the highest commander of this force. After his order was issued, the vanguard battalion led by Yuma Teshigawara immediately took action.

In fact, Battalion Commander Yuma Teshigawara had also noticed something strange: the ambushed troops today were all attacked from both sides.

There were no blocking troops on the road leading to Luying Town: perhaps there was a trap ahead. He had already sent devils to scout ahead.

Now that the regiment commander's order had been issued, he immediately began to execute it.

Squad Leader Uda Yuta, the vanguard of Yuma Teshigawara's battalion, had been wounded and left behind to build a defensive line.

Squad Leader Amuro Nataisuke took over as acting squad leader to carry out the assault mission.

The squad led by Tetsuya Miki charged at the very front of the formation. Their mission was actually very simple: charge forward through the hail of bullets.

At least, within their visible range, there were no blocking positions established by the Nationalist soldiers ahead.

The bullets fired from the machine guns on both sides were very dense. These charging devils mainly focused on dodging the attacks from both sides.

On this charging path, the remaining devils in Amuro Nataisuke's squad suffered even greater casualties.

After all, they had gone through the initial panic, and had since found places to hide.

As the Diamond Sutra says: "As a man in the thorns, he is not hurt if he does not move."

These devils had achieved just that: "As in a hail of bullets, one is not hurt if one does not act."

However, now that they had left their hiding places, their casualties increased rapidly.

Battalion Commander Yuma Teshigawara did not completely abandon these wounded soldiers. He simply shouted at them, "Immediately suppress the firepower on both sides!"

Tetsubetsu Ono was wounded during the charge. He was very clear about what being wounded at this time meant.

Those devils charging towards Luying Town still had a glimmer of hope, but these wounded soldiers defending in place had absolutely no chance of holding out until the regiment's devils broke into Luying Town, brought out the 18th Infantry Regiment, and then left together.

The plan announced by the battalion commander was clearly a lie!

No matter how they were being deceived, these wounded devils were already a vulnerable group, unable to struggle, and could only obey orders.

Tetsubetsu Ono rolled into a drainage ditch, took out a first-aid kit on his own, and began to bandage his wounds.

Although he understood everything, he still held a glimmer of hope in his heart: what if the battalion commander and the others really did come out to take him home?

Therefore, he had to bandage his bleeding wounds first, so that he would not be dead by the time the battalion commander and the others returned.

The 34th Infantry Regiment of the devils continued to abandon the wounded, leaving only the devils who could fight to charge towards Luying Town.

Feng Wencheng led the ground attack aircraft team to strafe from east to west, and now they turned around and continued their mission from west to east.

This time, the devils were in a miserable state: the devils who were charging towards Luying Town were suddenly hit head-on.

Yuma Teshigawara's battalion was really hurting. The devils, who were already few in number, were given a head-on strafing run.

Even more wounded soldiers were left behind to carry out the defensive mission, but even fewer devils were able to charge.

"Yaga!" Regiment Commander Tagami Hachiro could only roar this out when he saw this scene.

He could do nothing more.

He had never imagined that the 34th Infantry Regiment would fight like this.

However, he was powerless against the aircraft overhead, and he had no way to deal with the machine guns on both sides.

In this situation, he could only order, "Attack and advance towards Luying Town!"

The entire regiment continued to attack and advance towards Luying Town under the machine gun fire.

The situation on the battlefield was promptly reported to Lin Fan's command post by the fighter planes circling in the high sky.

Hearing that this infantry regiment of devils was braving all the attacks and continuing to charge towards Luying Town,

Lin Fan was very pleased: he wanted the devils to have this kind of fearless energy. The more fearless they were, the faster they would die.

Only then would they believe that they had broken into Luying Town by fighting to the death.

Understanding the situation on the battlefield, Lin Fan was confident and composed.

On the other side of Luying Town, Zhang Zizhong was in the headquarters of the 59th Army, listening to the explosions in the distance and watching the planes that passed by from time to time.

Knowing that the Special Operations Brigade was already fighting with the devil reinforcements, he had sent two thousand soldiers to build the airport as he had promised Lin Fan.

At this time, if the Special Operations Brigade could not stop the devil reinforcements, the 59th Army would have committed the military taboo of dividing their forces.

After hesitating again and again, he finally dialed the phone to the Special Operations Brigade's headquarters.

Zhang Zizhong asked, "Clan Leader Lin! Is the battle to strike the devil reinforcements going smoothly? Feel free to ask if the 59th Army needs to assist."