Kaga Kantetsu, the squad leader, followed closely behind the tank. When Company Commander Ichihara opened fire, Squad Leader Kaga was startled and quickly parked his vehicle and jumped to the roadside.

The devils on the troop transport behind him had a better view: the tank in front was firing at the empty mountain, probably shooting at birds.

Because a large flock of birds had been startled and taken flight.

Squad Leader Kaga Kantetsu didn't think much of it when he heard the explosion again.

But then the tank in front of him suddenly stopped, and he heard the sound of bullets whizzing past.

Only then did he quickly jump off his motorcycle and loudly order the devils behind him, "Get out! Get out!"

Not just his squad, but all the devils of the entire Ueda Kota Company got out of their vehicles and gathered to head towards the tank company.

Platoon Leader Chang Mingde didn't detonate the directional mines when the tank passed by. He watched the troop of Japanese infantry approaching and waited until they were all within the blast radius.

Then he ordered the detonation of four directional mines.

Squad Leader Kaga Kantetsu, who was leading his team forward, saw a sudden flash of fire on the roadside, and before he could say anything, "Boom!"

The explosion occurred. He and his squad, along with the Ueda Kota Company following behind, were all caught in the blast.

More than half of the hundred or so devils instantly fell to the ground. The rest, seeing the situation was bad, either turned around and ran or threw themselves down.

Those who were still standing on the battlefield were the devils who, after being wounded, were stunned and didn't know what to do.

As soon as the explosion occurred, a hail of bullets rained down on the devils.

Sergeant Mitsugi Minegishi saw with his own eyes that Squad Leader Kaga's heart was gone. His chest was pierced by a high-caliber bullet, leaving a fist-sized hole through which one could see from his back to his chest.

Clearly, he couldn't survive. Less than half of the entire squad survived. The devils nervously crawled on the ground, desperately searching for a place to hide along the roadside.

After Platoon Leader Chang commanded the detonation of the mines, he ordered all weapons to open fire on the devils.

A charge was out of the question. The devils from farther away were coming towards this position.

He believed that they wouldn't live long either. As Platoon Leader Chang thought this, "Boom!"

Another explosion sounded!

Battalion Commander Eikawa Shuu never imagined that his team would encounter an ambush outside Gaoan City before even reaching Dachen.

He listened to the continuous explosions in front of him, anxious and burning.

He repeatedly ordered the communications officer to quickly inquire about the situation and report back. Battalion Commander Eikawa Shuu was in the middle and rear of the team, unable to see what was happening in front or behind.

Company Commander Ueda Kota was trapped behind the tank formation.

More than a hundred devils in his company had all dismounted and charged towards the hillside in front, but half of them were killed by the explosion.

The remaining devils were suppressed by the intense fire from a distance and couldn't advance at all.

Looking behind him, the situation of the Nikko Aosagi Company wasn't good either. They had also been hit by a wave of explosions.

Company Commander Nikko wanted to occupy a nearby high ground, but it had already been taken by the National Army.

With no support from behind and no possibility of advancing, Company Commander Ueda Kota had no choice but to order the team to retreat.

Although retreating was difficult, it wasn't impossible.

Company Commander Ueda Kota looked at the few remaining devils. At this moment, he received an order from Battalion Commander Eikawa Shuu, ordering him to charge forward.

Was it even possible to break through?

He handed the team over to Squad Leader Oji Akira to temporarily command and ran back to report to the battalion commander in person.

"Find Battalion Commander Noyo Yoshisuke!" Regimental Commander Ishiya Jin wanted to find Battalion Commander Noyo to understand the situation in Dachen.

But he couldn't contact him!

This was not good news. Not being able to contact someone often meant bad news.

Battalion Commander Eikawa Shuu didn't know that Battalion Commander Noyo Yoshisuke, whom he was looking for, was only a thousand meters away.

Battalion Commander Noyo Yoshisuke had heard the rumbling of cannons and couldn't resist his curiosity, so he ran to the top of the mountain to take a peek.

Then he saw tanks burning fiercely on the highway, and cars parked everywhere along the two-kilometer stretch.

Many devils were scurrying around on the highway like ants, and bullets were occasionally fired from some of the hillsides.

He quickly saw clearly from a distance: Eikawa Shuu Battalion had been ambushed, but the number of troops ambushing them wasn't large, so they had only occupied a few high grounds along the way.

At this time, if Eikawa Shuu Battalion abandoned all the cars and heavy equipment and immediately passed through the small peaks between the high grounds,

they would still be able to break through.

Looking at Company Commander Wu and Company Commander Zhang's battle plan: strike the head and tail and surround the middle!

This was not letting a single devil escape.

Ji Wudi ordered: "The Fourth Regiment's Company Commander Hua immediately sends two platoons over to clean up the battlefield. The nine infantry companies of the Second Regiment on the scene immediately march to Zhonggang Ridge, making sure to block the devils before they escape.

Also order the Fifth Company to hold the back door at all costs, and don't let the devils pass through the highway."

According to her idea, if the devils didn't take the main road and took the small road, the Second Regiment would have a chance to catch up.

If the devils escaped by car on the main road, the Second Regiment really wouldn't be able to catch up.

After issuing the order, she ordered Shi Junxia: "The First Company directly chases up the main road to hold the devils back and prevent them from running away.

The Second, Third, and Fourth Companies, chase up from the left side road to prevent the devils from running away from the mountain road.

I will take the Sixth to Tenth Companies to chase up from the right side road, first sending a company to insert into the mountain peak back to Gaoan, and don't let them escape back from the small road."

"Yes!"

The companies had sent reconnaissance platoons to familiarize themselves with the terrain. With the orders issued, the nine companies immediately took action.

Ji Wudi led five companies running through the mountains and forests. This time they had to be fast. The heavy machine guns and infantry guns in the team were all left to slowly catch up behind them.

Running at the front were only infantry carrying weapons and water. All backpacks, entrenching tools, and food were abandoned.

The entire regiment advanced lightly, and everyone marched at sprinting speed.

Ji Wudi ran at the very front of the company, leading the way. She was the highest commander of this team, and still a young girl, running at the front.

This made the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Company who were following behind admire her: as expected of the brigade commander's wife, birds of a feather flock together!

A train runs fast, all thanks to the locomotive!

Marching was the same. The soldier running at the very front determined the speed of the entire team. This time, Ji Wudi didn't suppress the speed.

Leading five companies to sprint forward, she didn't forget to contact the Eleventh Company when passing the mountain peaks, after knowing the locations of the mountain peaks they had set up.

After passing through these mountain peaks, she began to order the Tenth Company to charge up a mountain peak. The task of the Tenth Company was to charge up the mountain peak and block the devils from escaping from here.

The Eleventh Company had been stationed here in advance, and their occupied defense line was continuous. The Fifth Company had occupied the mountain top in a hurry after knowing that the devils were coming, and with insufficient troops, they had only occupied the most valuable high ground.

Some small mountain peaks had already been occupied by the devils, and now Ji Wudi was ordering the companies to snatch these small mountain peaks back.

When dispatching troops to seize the high ground, Company Commander Wu had considered the current situation.

When Ji Wudi led the team to the defense line that Company Commander Wu led a platoon to defend, the encirclement of the entire devil brigade was complete.

Now it was just a matter of tightening the rope and annihilating these devils.

Ji Wudi directed the companies through the walkie-talkie, holding the defense line and not rushing to attack, waiting for the subsequent heavy weapons to arrive.

Time was now on the Second Regiment's side.

She wasn't worried at all that the devils in Gaoan County would rush out to reinforce this devil team.

If that were the case, the next step of retaking Gaoan would be even easier.

Battalion Commander Eikawa Shuu originally thought that opening up a retreat route would be an easy task, but when it was actually implemented, the situation was completely different.

The North Wind Yosho Company's several attacks had been repelled. Just as the road was cleared, a car had just started when it was blown up by a mortar shell.

Not only were three cars blown up, but several devils were also blown to death.

Now no devil dared to move the car anymore. All the devils could only look at Battalion Commander Eikawa Shuu.

Seeing that the hope of driving these cars back was slim.

Battalion Commander Eikawa Shuu finally understood: taking the small road instead of the main road was the right choice.

He ordered: "The entire brigade will cross the mountain peak seized by the Asahi Taiyo Company and return to Gaoan via the small road.

At the same time, he reported his plan to retreat from the small road, abandoning all supplies and heavy weapons, to Regimental Commander Ishiya Jin."

Soon the regimental commander replied: "The ambush location is less than ten kilometers away from Gaoan. The support team has already set off. Attacking from both sides can quickly open up the road."

Since the regimental commander had already sent reinforcements, Battalion Commander Eikawa Shuu was of course unwilling to retreat from the small road.

It wasn't because he was afraid of losing equipment. Another reason was that there were no markings for small roads on his map. After entering the mountains and forests, the team would have to find its own way.

The risk involved was also huge!

In order to cooperate with the reinforcements' attack, Battalion Commander Eikawa Shuu began to concentrate his forces. He sternly ordered the North Wind Yosho Company: "Succeed or die gloriously!"

Company Commander North Wind Yosho, after receiving such an order, immediately understood what to do.

He ordered the remaining hundred or so devils: "Launch a suicide charge!"

This time they only had one way to go, and that was to charge, keep charging, either stand on the top of the mountain or fall on the hillside.

Squad Leader Watanabe Yosho stood at the front, with Takahashi Suo and Kobayashi Naoki standing on his left and right sides. They charged towards the hillside.

Behind them, more than a hundred devils followed. They were attacking, not looking to die. When they were still far away from the defensive line on the hillside, these devils were always moving stealthily.

When only sixty or seventy meters away from the top of the mountain, more than a hundred devils suddenly stood up, bent over, and charged straight up with their guns.

Company Commander Wu smiled: "These devils don't want to live anymore."

Ji Wudi looked at the more than a hundred devils charging up and thought: "Pig assault tactics! This is the pig assault tactics that Lin Fan talked about."

Such tactics were very effective against the National Army teams: first, they organized such a charge when the team advanced to about a hundred meters away.

At a distance of a hundred meters, the National Army's rifles could fire at most three shots, and the machine guns could only fire one burst before stopping to reload.

The momentum of hundreds of people charging together put great pressure on teams with low morale. Many soldiers would be frightened and at a loss, either dropping their guns and running away or shaking so much that they couldn't even fire their guns.

But such a charge was completely suicide for the current Special Forces Brigade.

The current equipment of the Special Forces Brigade was two light machine guns, one rifle, and nine submachine guns per squad, and one heavy machine gun per platoon.

With such automatic firepower, unless the devils used a dense charge at the brigade level, with at least ten times the force to organize the pig assault tactics, they would be able to break through the defense line of a company of the Special Forces Brigade.

Now they were just here to die.

Company Commander Wu Lexian clearly thought so too, and he ordered: "Reduce shooting and open fire when the devils charge to a distance of thirty meters."

He was afraid that if he fired now, shooting too hard, these devils would run back again.

In fact, Company Commander Wu was really overthinking it this time. None of the devils in this wave of charging North Wind Company dared to turn around. The execution team was already waiting where they had started.

The devils of the North Wind Company would be shot by the execution team if they dared to run back!

In any case, at this time, Company Commander North Wind Yosho and Squad Leader Watanabe Yosho were very happy.

After they launched this charge, the firepower on the hillside clearly decreased.

Of course, these devils didn't think it was a trap. They thought that the defenders on the hillside had been scared away. It was too late to start running away at this time!

This was what Company Commander North Wind thought. At a distance of a few dozen meters, it would only take ten seconds to charge, and soon the fastest of these devils in North Wind Company had run more than halfway.

A simple smile appeared on Company Commander Wu's face, and he loudly ordered: "Fire!"

"Boom!" "Da da da!"

The sound of the directional mine exploding and the continuous firing of machine guns and submachine guns sounded at the same time.

The hundred or so devils in North Wind Company, who were charging so smoothly, were like an ice cube suddenly encountering a hot iron plate, evaporating with a hiss.

The company was shrouded in the smoke caused by the explosion, and the supervising team below the mountain and the devils in the distance couldn't see clearly.

The platoon of the Fifth Company and the Sixth Company that Ji Wudi had just brought up on the top of the mountain only fired and swept at the devils in the smoke.

The mountain breeze came slowly, the smoke dissipated, and there were only piles of fallen devils on the hillside, and blood flowed down the hillside in a winding stream.

The devils in the supervising team stared at the top of the mountain. This time they didn't need to carry out military law, but it didn't seem like a good thing either.

Battalion Commander Eikawa Shuu was also stunned: had a company just been wiped out like that?

The previous few times when Company Commander North Wind led the team to attack, he always ran back, but this time he didn't run away, but buried the entire company.

Was it better to run away? Or not to run away?