Ye Dadan heard Mao Wenxing's report on the radio: the Japanese artillery positions were filled with smoke.

He laughed with joy, "Good brother! I'll treat you to a drink when I get back!"

He also shared the good news with Shi Honghua, the first company commander of the artillery regiment.

"Old Shi! One more round, we can't let the Japanese artillery fire again."

In the past few days, Ye Dadan's Sixth Regiment was repeatedly sniped by Japanese artillery during its offensive.

Now that he had finally found the Japanese artillery nest, he had to crush it.

Shi Honghua quickly agreed.

Two more rounds of artillery shells were fired.

Mao Wenxing, who was already skilled in directing artillery fire, quickly guided the first company's heavy artillery to bombard the Japanese infantry positions on Mogan Ridge.

The 150mm howitzers used shells weighing more than ninety *jin* (approximately 110 lbs).

Now that the accuracy had improved, the Yamagoya Yosuke Brigade stationed here immediately felt the immense pressure.

Although they had already tasted the power of these shells in recent days and had built corresponding fortifications.

Today was different: the shells from the opposite side seemed to have eyes and were hitting accurately.

Looking out from his command post, he could see the Special Operations Brigade soldiers moving out again in the distance.

Ye Dadan sent out the First Company again.

The seven companies of the Sixth Regiment had all launched attacks in the past few days.

This was the First Company's third attack on Mogan Ridge.

Zhen Jianshu encouraged the soldiers, "Brothers! The regimental commander has just sent good news.

The Japanese artillery positions have been destroyed by us.

This time, we must charge up."

"Charge! Kill the Japanese!" the soldiers of the First Company roared.

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu was still looking at the scenery of Mogan Mountain from Naked Heart Castle.

Although the scenery here was beautiful, he was not in the mood to appreciate it.

Just now, the Yamashita Yuku artillery battalion had passed through, going to support the Kameno Yojin Regiment.

Watching the long artillery battalion pass by, Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu did not look happy.

On the contrary, he lamented in his heart: since when did the Empire's infantry become unable to fight without artillery support?

An infantry regiment could not even defeat a few hundred National Revolutionary Army soldiers and was forced to retreat step by step.

Sorrow! What a sorrow!

Now was not the time for sorrow.

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu convened a meeting of all the battalion commanders at Naked Heart Castle.

The Japanese officers, including the original commander of the Takekawa Brigade, Izumitani Ibuki regiment commander, Onishi Ichiki infantry battalion commander, Iwai Yuya infantry battalion commander, Amekazu Yuto infantry battalion commander, Takaji Akikichi cavalry battalion commander, and Koizumi Torataro heavy transport battalion commander, gathered together to discuss the battle situation today.

Yesterday's plan was for the Kameno Yojin Regiment to turn around and attack the pursuing Special Operations Brigade, opening up the road from Mogan Mountain to Deqing.

Judging from the messages sent back by the Kameno Yojin Regimental Commander: there was a big problem.

Several positions that were still in the hands of the 18th Division yesterday had been voluntarily abandoned by the Kameno Yojin Regimental Commander.

Now they were concentrating their superior forces to defend Gaofeng.

From morning until now, the entire Kameno Yojin Regiment had lost one and a half battalions of troops.

In order to ensure the Kameno Yojin Regiment's firepower, the division had sent an artillery battalion to support them.

The battalion commanders and regimental commanders present all knew: that artillery battalion had just passed by not long ago.

That was the current situation.

Ushijima Sadaharu wanted his officers to come up with ideas on how to help the Kameno Yojin Regiment.

To defeat the Special Operations Brigade, which had only a few hundred men.

Now Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu no longer hoped to completely annihilate that team.

After listening to the division commander's brief introduction of the current situation.

Takaji Akikichi, the cavalry battalion commander, was the first to stand up and speak:

"Division Commander! Let the cavalry battalion attack! We can let the Special Operations Brigade taste the power of the Empire's brave cavalry."

The battalion commanders present all had their eyes light up.

The division's cavalry had not fought since entering Mogan Mountain.

This was mainly because it was all mountains here!

It was not suitable for cavalry combat!

However, the pursuing Special Operations Brigade was a team attacking along the highway.

As long as they broke through their first line of defense.

The soldiers crowded on the highway were completely meat on the chopping board, at the mercy of the cavalry battalion.

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu nodded: "Okay! The meeting is over, the cavalry battalion will attack once.

Any other suggestions?"

The other officers present also shook their heads together.

In their opinion: the Kameno Yojin Regiment's strength against a few hundred pursuing Special Operations Brigade soldiers.

Was already overkill.

An artillery battalion had just been added, and now a cavalry battalion was being added.

Such a team configuration was enough to deal with a division, or even an army, of the National Revolutionary Army.

While these Japanese officers were meeting.

The artillery battalion that had just passed by with cattle and horses.

Suddenly ran back at an even faster speed.

The faces of these Japanese soldiers were flustered, and they shouted as they ran: "The National Revolutionary Army is attacking! The National Revolutionary Army is attacking!"

Sergeant Major Naikaku Kiyoshi, with a few Japanese soldiers, was only responsible for checking the people coming and going in the southeast direction of Naked Heart Castle.

In fact, in recent days, all the people coming and going were these Japanese soldiers from the 18th Division, and no ordinary people had passed through at all.

Sergeant Major Naikaku Kiyoshi never dared to interfere with the passing Japanese soldiers.

He let them pass freely!

Today was different, a large group of Japanese soldiers ran back empty-handed and flustered from the southeast Wen Feng.

Sergeant Major Naikaku Kiyoshi had to take care of this disorderly situation.

He ordered: machine guns ready!

Seeing that the approaching Japanese soldiers were only fifty meters away.

He shouted, "Stop! Which team are you from?"

While firing a shot into the sky!

This group of Japanese soldiers, who had been running wildly, finally stopped in the machine gun warning sweep.

The infantry sentry post in front of Naked Heart Castle stopped the defeated soldiers and did not allow them to pass.

Battalion Commander Yamashita Yuku stood up, and Sergeant Major Naikaku Kiyoshi immediately recognized him as a lieutenant colonel officer.

He did not dare to stop him and allowed Battalion Commander Yamashita Yuku to pass.

The defeated soldiers finally began to stabilize and reorganize their formation.

The nearby gunshots alarmed the battalion commanders of the 18th Division who were still in the meeting.

The guards who came out to investigate the situation invited Battalion Commander Yamashita Yuku into the operations command.

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu looked at the battalion commander, who had passed Naked Heart Castle less than an hour ago, with a flustered expression.

His heart skipped a beat: he immediately had an ominous premonition.

"What's wrong?" Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu asked.

Battalion Commander Yamashita Yuku looked at so many officers present.

He did not care about losing face.

He stood at attention, saluted, and then reported:

"When we advanced to less than a kilometer from Mogan Mountain Town.

We encountered a National Revolutionary Army disguised as the Imperial Army.

They killed my vanguard and robbed the artillery mules."

"How many people are there?" Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu asked calmly.

"Many..." Battalion Commander Yamashita Yuku had not seen the soldiers of the First Regiment at all.

He only saw his soldiers running away and immediately ran back.

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu did not get any useful information from Battalion Commander Yamashita Yuku's stammering reply.

He was about to order the cavalry battalion to send some Japanese soldiers to see what was going on.

Suddenly, an Imperial aircraft appeared in the air, flying very low.

"Aircraft!" The Japanese soldiers of the 18th Division finally saw the Imperial aircraft.

In the past few days, their requests for aircraft guidance had always been criticized.

Today, this aircraft was not requested by the 18th Division at all.

Ushijima Sadaharu looked nervously at the aircraft in the air, this time he saw clearly.

There was no tiger painted on the belly of the aircraft.

"That's good! This is not the National Revolutionary Army's aircraft." All the Japanese soldiers present breathed a sigh of relief.

Sure enough, the aircraft only circled at low altitude and did not attack downwards.

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu's military meeting, which had just been convened, continued.

Now the situation had changed again: the Special Operations Brigade had actually reached Mogan Ridge Town?

In that case, it was only two kilometers away from Naked Heart Castle.

The original commander of the Takekawa Brigade asked loudly, "Didn't you see the Kameno Yojin Regiment?"

Battalion Commander Yamashita Yuku said loudly, "No! I didn't see a single infantryman."

The original commander of the Takekawa Brigade said unwillingly, "So many infantrymen in the Kameno Yojin Regiment could not have been wiped out so quickly."

He originally wanted to question the officers and soldiers of the Yamashita Yuku Battalion for lying.

But he finally did not ask.

"Mogan Mountain Town is less than five *li* (approximately 1.6 miles) away from here. I will send someone to investigate immediately!" said Cavalry Battalion Commander Takaji Akikichi.

A thirteen-man cavalry squad set off immediately.

All the battalion commanders and regimental commanders were waiting here for news.

At this moment, the aircraft in the air returned.

Following the aircraft, there was also an artillery shell.

A ranging shell! Although Battalion Commander Yamashita Yuku had lost the artillery.

He was still very clear about the artillery process.

"Where did this artillery shell come from?" Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu asked in confusion.

His guards quickly protected him and sent him into the command post.

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu's command post was reinforced.

It could withstand榴弹(howitzer shells) below 100mm caliber.

The rest of the battalion commanders also quickly followed.

Just as they were running towards the command post, several more ranging shells fell.

These shells had already hit the Japanese camp.

Immediately afterwards, many shells fell.

These shells released scarlet smoke and a pungent smell after landing and exploding.

Even though these Japanese soldiers were far away, the smell blown by the wind made them uncomfortable.

"Chemical shells!" Battalion Commander Yamashita Yuku's face changed.

They had just entered the command post at this time.

As a Japanese soldier who often used this kind of shell, he was too familiar with the smell of this kind of shell.

But the current situation was a bit embarrassing.

They, as an artillery battalion, had complete chemical defense equipment.

But just now, all these chemical defense equipment were on the backs of mules and horses.

And had all been given to the National Revolutionary Army.

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu was prepared.

Every Japanese soldier in his entire command post was equipped with chemical defense equipment.

The battalion commanders staying here were also assigned one.

But the three infantry battalions stationed in Naked Heart Castle did not have such equipment or preparations.

The Japanese soldiers of the Onishi Ichiki infantry battalion had just had lunch.

They were resting in the camp, and these Japanese soldiers were still fantasizing about when they would be able to open up the road from Mogan Mountain to Anji.

And return to Hangzhou to enjoy themselves.

Just as they were talking enthusiastically, several shells suddenly fell from the sky.

More and more shells followed.

The Japanese soldiers in the entire battalion smelled the smell emitted by the shells.

These were chemical shells, even if these Japanese soldiers were not killed by the shells.

If they could not escape from this place, they would also be killed by these gases.

All the Japanese soldiers quickly found water, wet their towels, and covered their mouths and noses, so they could last a little longer.

The entire Naked Heart Castle, not only their battalion was suffering from such troubles.

The other two infantry battalions, one cavalry battalion, and one heavy transport battalion were all attacked indiscriminately at the same time.

There were five hundred sets of chemical defense equipment in the heavy transport battalion's supplies.

Battalion Commander Koizumi Torataro immediately ordered the soldiers to take them out and use them.

There were a total of seven hundred Japanese soldiers in the entire heavy transport battalion, and these five hundred sets of equipment were not enough.

In an emergency, you could use a wet towel to cover your mouth and nose and temporarily hold on.

The most intense reaction was from the Takaji Akikichi cavalry battalion.

Cavalry Battalion Commander Takaji Akikichi ordered all officers and soldiers to mount their horses and rush towards Mogan Mountain Town.

He originally had plans to attack, and now, in this situation, he had no choice.

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu, with the 18th Division command, began to flee again.

This time, he issued an order to the entire team: "Everyone evacuate Naked Heart Castle.

Head to Mogan Ridge."

The direction of the entire team's retreat was the opposite of the direction of the Takaji Akikichi cavalry battalion's attack.

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu had his own considerations: to avoid the limelight for the time being.

He had just heard that the pursuing Special Operations Brigade had already occupied Mogan Ridge Town.

He did not intend to fight back to Deqing from this direction.

Now, Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu only wanted to rush out of Mogan Mountain, to Anji, and then to Wuxing.

Then, with the support of the Taihu Lake fleet, he would hold on and wait for reinforcements.

This time, his orders were executed at the fastest speed.

Most of the Japanese soldiers near the entire Naked Heart Castle were covering themselves with a wet towel.

They had not even figured out which direction the attack was coming from.

They were scurrying around like headless flies, not knowing whether to defend or flee.

Now that they had the direct orders of the division commander, the Japanese soldiers who received the orders fled in panic.

Most of the Japanese soldiers did not receive the orders.

They could only rely on simple chemical defense facilities such as wet towels and hold on here at Naked Heart Castle.

The batch of chemical shells currently used by the Special Operations Brigade.

Were originally from the Japanese soldiers of the 114th Division. They had prepared five hundred chemical shells for the Special Operations Brigade.

They wanted to use them on the Special Operations Brigade.

Lin Fan had ordered that all five hundred shells be used on Naked Heart Castle.

Using the chemical shells sent by the Japanese soldiers from thousands of miles away, across the ocean, and then using the artillery they sent.

To use it on the heads of the Japanese soldiers.

Lin Fan felt that this was the correct way to use these weapons.

Mao Wenxing guided the bombing of the First Company in the direction of Mogan Ridge, and in the air, he saw a Japanese cavalry team fleeing from Naked Heart Castle.

Rushing towards Mogan Ridge Town.

He reported to Chen Sichuan via radio.

At the same time, he swooped down and strafed the cavalry team.

Chen Sichuan's First Regiment established simple defensive fortifications outside Mogan Mountain Town.

The first to arrive were a group of Japanese scouts.

These were sent by Cavalry Battalion Commander Takaji Akikichi to scout whether there were Special Operations Brigade soldiers in Mogan Mountain Town.

When this group of Japanese soldiers saw the soldiers on the position from a distance, they did not approach at all and immediately turned their horses around and ran back.

Goto Yusuke and his small team of cavalry rushed towards Naked Heart Castle.

They wanted to go back and report the situation.

As a result, before they returned to Naked Heart Castle, Battalion Commander Takaji Akikichi had already led more than five hundred cavalry who had escaped.

Goto Yusuke immediately stepped forward to report: "There are indeed Special Operations Brigade officers and soldiers ahead.

They have already set up obstacles on the road."

Battalion Commander Takaji Akikichi ordered: "Charge! The regimental commander and the others are behind us."

The entire cavalry battalion charged towards the position of the First Regiment.

Mao Wenxing saw the Japanese soldiers running from Naked Heart Castle towards Mogan Ridge.

And immediately guided the artillery on Pingling Mountain to extend in this direction.

Feng Junya was on Pingling Mountain and received Mao Wenxing's command.

She immediately guided the artillery fire forward, twelve 70mm field guns.

All attacked forward at this time.

The current Naked Heart Castle was completely shrouded in the red mist formed after the chemical shells exploded.

The fog in the valley did not dissipate.

Even if the Japanese soldiers in these poisonous mists covered their mouths and noses with wet towels, they could no longer hold on.

They involuntarily released their wet towels, opened their mouths wide, and tried to breathe.

Many Japanese soldiers were also rolling on the ground, burying their heads in the ground, trying to breathe a breath of fresh air.

Those Japanese soldiers stationed on the periphery of Naked Heart Castle, after receiving Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu's order.

Immediately fled towards Mogan Mountain Ridge.

Before they rushed out of the range covered by the poisonous fog, they were caught up by the Special Operations Brigade's continuous artillery fire.

These Japanese soldiers were now in the valley, and the poisonous gas was even more difficult to dissipate.

These Japanese soldiers fell to the ground as they ran.

They could not die for a while and were still struggling and groaning on the ground.

Chen Sichuan's First Regiment was already setting off towards Naked Heart Castle with chemical defense equipment.

There were only two thousand meters from their current location to Naked Heart Castle.

The First Regiment did not have chemical defense equipment when they came, but they found more than a thousand sets of chemical defense equipment from the Japanese artillery equipment they had just captured.

Chen Sichuan left the Seventh Company in the town to guard the equipment.

The remaining six companies all set off together.

As soon as the First Regiment walked out of the town, they encountered the charging Takaji Akikichi cavalry battalion.

The five heavy machine guns of the First Company immediately opened fire.

Chen Sichuan saw the Japanese cavalry charging in a group, completely reckless.

He also knew that these Japanese soldiers were now fighting with their backs to the river, with no way out.

He immediately ordered the heavy machine guns of the Second and Third Companies to be pushed to the front line.

At the same time, he set up the mortars of the three companies to support the infantry in front.

The mortars exploded in the middle of the cavalry battalion, immediately interrupting the charging rhythm of the Takaji Akikichi cavalry battalion.

The highway here was not wide to begin with, only allowing three warhorses to charge side by side.

A shell dropped on the highway could completely block the entire road for a few seconds.

After reporting the situation, Goto Yusuke and his scout team closely followed Battalion Commander Takaji Akikichi.

Those charging at the forefront were no longer the scout team.

Now it was the Japanese soldiers of the Koda small team charging at the forefront.

They had only come from Deqing along the highway a few days ago.

Of course, they knew that the Imperial Army had set up a sentry post outside the town.

Now, the Special Operations Brigade was relying on the defensive position built by this sentry post.

At this time, five heavy machine guns were spitting fire.

All the Japanese soldiers in the Koda small team knew clearly: they would die if they could not break through this sentry post.

Because there was no way out.

They also knew the power of chemical shells!

The heavy machine guns of the First Regiment knocked down the cavalry charging at the front, and the Japanese soldiers behind continued to charge.

Small Team Commander Koda was also trying hard to charge forward, the terrain here restricted the cavalry battalion's performance.

Its entire cavalry team quickly fell on the charging road.

Battalion Commander Takaji Akikichi realized at this time that he had thought too much during the meeting.

This narrow road made it impossible for his battalion to use its strength.

And the Japanese soldiers who died in front seriously hindered the subsequent cavalry charge.

As more and more warhorses and Japanese soldiers fell in front.

Their warhorses, which launched the charge later, stepped on the bodies of the warhorses in front or the bodies of the Japanese soldiers.

They could no longer run up to speed.

In this case, the warhorses' pace on the battlefield was like dancing.

It was not even as fast as the infantry charge.

Chen Sichuan looked at the Japanese cavalry crowded into a ball and ordered the mortars to bombard the pile of Japanese soldiers.

Mao Wenxing in the air also saw the Japanese soldiers squeezed together.

He dived down in the reconnaissance aircraft and strafed with two machine guns.

Creating a path of blood along the road.

The soldiers of the First Regiment had already rushed out of the position and actively launched a charge towards the Takaji Akikichi Battalion on the opposite side.

Goto Yusuke's scout team was unlucky and was hit by mortars falling from the sky.

They had long lost their breath.

Battalion Commander Takaji Akikichi, riding his warhorse, finally stopped attacking forward.

He wanted to go back, on the way back to Naked Heart Castle.

Battalion Commander Takaji Akikichi realized at this time: not a single infantryman had followed.

Looking at the road filled with red mist in front, Battalion Commander Takaji Akikichi hesitated: to go in? Or not to go in?

There were still more than a hundred Japanese cavalrymen following him.

They were all looking at Battalion Commander Takaji Akikichi now.

Chen Sichuan led the soldiers of the First Regiment and chased after the Japanese cavalry.

All the way to Naked Heart Castle.

They were five hundred meters away from Naked Heart Castle, looking at the Japanese position that had been bombed.

Half an hour had passed since the bombing.

The red mist in the entire Naked Heart Castle area had dissipated a lot.

But you could still see a thin layer of mist floating in the air.

You could vaguely see that there were no Japanese soldiers standing on the position in front.

Through the radio, Chen Sichuan reported that he could not see any Japanese soldiers active in Naked Heart Castle.

Lin Fan then ordered to stop the bombing.

After the artillery regiment stopped the bombing, Chen Sichuan sent the First Company to quickly rush into the poisonous gas and start reconnaissance of Naked Heart Castle.

Company Commander Gu Xiuming was not the first time seeing Japanese soldiers killed by chemical shells.

When the Special Operations Brigade was still the Special Operations Company, they used this kind of shell to deal with the Japanese soldiers when they attacked Hongqiao Airport.

He led the soldiers of the First Company and entered the poisonous gas wearing protective equipment.

After they rushed into Naked Heart Castle, they saw Japanese corpses lying everywhere on the ground.

They did not see a single living person, the entire Naked Heart Castle was empty.

After receiving the report, Chen Sichuan only ordered the First Company to roughly check the situation in the various positions of Naked Heart Castle.

The situation was similar everywhere, not a single living Japanese soldier was still holding on here.

All the Japanese soldiers who could run had run away.

Weapons and ammunition left behind by the Japanese soldiers were everywhere on the position and in the camp.

From the radio, he heard Mao Wenxing say that about a thousand Japanese soldiers had escaped towards Mogan Ridge.

This group of Japanese soldiers had now escaped from the range covered by the poisonous gas.

Chen Sichuan did not hesitate and immediately led the team to chase after them.

Everyone in his regiment now had gas masks, walking out of Naked Heart Castle, there were Japanese corpses all the way.

Extending to one kilometer away.

While the Japanese soldiers in Naked Heart Castle were being bombed by the artillery fire of the Special Operations Brigade, the Yamagoya Yosuke Battalion on Mogan Ridge was also enduring heavy artillery bombing.

Fortunately, these infantrymen had known for the past two days that the Special Operations Brigade on the opposite side had a 150mm heavy artillery.

And had done a lot of on-site defense work.

Even so, the accurate shells today caused a lot of casualties to the Yamagoya Yosuke Battalion.

After the artillery bombing! The infantry charged!

Company Commander Zhen Jianshu of the Sixth Regiment First Company had already arrived at the foot of Mogan Ridge when the artillery bombing had just ended.

And began to attack the Japanese soldiers on the ridge.

The Yamagoya Yosuke Battalion was originally here to attack Anji.

It did not expect to encounter the strong sniping of the Special Operations Brigade here, and arrived at this place.

The entire Japanese team had no choice but to advance and was forced to take a defensive position by the team on the opposite side.

The Yamagoya Yosuke Battalion had no choice but to dig trenches and fortifications on the mountain to resist the increasingly powerful and bandit-like attacks on the opposite side.

Ye Dadan had no way to deal with the Japanese soldiers guarding the mountain in front.

His regiment had taught the Japanese soldiers twice with directional mines when the Japanese team organized an attack.

Now these Japanese soldiers no longer launched attacks.

They just guarded the mountain ridge, passively waiting for the Sixth Regiment to attack.

But attacking the mountain was not something that could be done cleverly.

It had to be a hard fight! A hard fight meant casualties! This was what Ye Dadan wanted to avoid the most.

Now sending the First Company to attack, Ye Dadan only wanted to hold these Japanese soldiers back.

Because he had learned from the radio that Chen Sichuan had just passed through Naked Heart Castle with his team.

When the First Regiment arrived, the two sides would attack from the front and back, and he did not believe that the Japanese stronghold could not be taken down.

At this time, the radio reported that a large team of Japanese soldiers who had escaped from Naked Heart Castle were four kilometers away from him.

The Japanese soldiers were gathered in the valley, which was very conducive to artillery bombing.

In that case, Ye Dadan would not let it go, of course.

Today, with the reconnaissance aircraft directing in the air, the artillery shells of the Eighth Regiment also had eyes.

The more than a thousand Japanese soldiers who had escaped from Naked Heart Castle merged with the Kuniizumi Hideshi artillery battalion who had escaped from the Mogan Ridge artillery position on the way.

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu knew that the artillery deployed on Mogan Ridge had also been completely wiped out.

He did not have any more thoughts now.

Just now, in the past half an hour, there were more than five thousand Japanese soldiers in Naked Heart Castle.

Now, only more than a thousand were alive.

The entire Takekawa Brigade had only the thousand or so Japanese soldiers in front of him and the Yamagoya Yosuke Battalion still holding on to Mogan Ridge.

Altogether, there were still two battalions.

All of this was no longer important, what was important was: Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu and his battalion commanders all agreed.

With their current strength, it was impossible to open up the road ahead and get the help of the Taihu Lake fleet through Anji and Wuxing.

What to do now?

That was what these Japanese soldiers were most concerned about! Battalion Commander Yamashita Yuku suggested: "We can go back through the small road.

Although the small road is difficult to walk.

But there is no enemy interception, which allows us to easily return to Hangzhou.

In the past, we carried too much heavy equipment.

We had to walk on the main road.

Now we have no heavy equipment, and no mules and horses.

We are all lightly equipped, which is a good time to break through from the small road."

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu looked at the Japanese soldiers who had followed him, about a thousand five hundred Japanese soldiers.

There were less than three hundred Japanese soldiers carrying weapons.

And these weapons were all rifles, not even a single machine gun.

He pretended to think for a while: "We need the protection of armed forces to walk on the small road.

Order the Yamagoya Yosuke Battalion to immediately retreat from Mogan Ridge to this road."

The Special Operations Brigade needed guides to find small roads to walk in Mogan Mountain.

These Japanese soldiers could find these roads on the map.

In order to draw these detailed marching maps, the Japanese soldiers had been fighting for fifty years.

In these decades, they had constantly sent spies disguised as peddlers and wandering doctors.

To scout the roads, rivers, and hydrology of various places, these materials were all gathered together.

Only then did they have the most detailed map.

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu pointed to a location on the map and said: "We will wait at Gaoyang Mountain."

At this moment: Yamashita Yuku saw the ranging shell again,

This time it was not 75mm, it was 150mm.

He shouted in fright: Run!

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu had already formulated a retreat route, so he ran towards the small road, of course.

The Japanese soldier who sent the message to the Yamagoya Yosuke Battalion had already set off.

The small road that the Japanese army was preparing to take this time was called a small road.

Of course, it could not allow too many people to pass at once, in fact, it could only allow one person to pass at a time.

"Let the officers go first!" Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu's guards were shouting.

The 150mm caliber shells fell.

Each shell would take away the lives of dozens of Japanese soldiers.

These Japanese soldiers could no longer bear it, they wanted to squeeze onto that small road as soon as possible.

The officers at the level of division commander and battalion commander had already set foot on the small road and left.

The guards also followed behind and left.

The remaining Japanese soldiers, braving the bombing of artillery fire, frantically squeezed onto this road.

Mao Wenxing, circling in the air, watched the Japanese soldiers on the ground scurrying around like ants that had been blown out of their nests.

The Yamagoya Yosuke Battalion, who received the retreat order, immediately ordered the Yanashita Yuuki squad to stay behind.

It led the rest of the troops to retreat.

About six hundred Japanese soldiers from the entire Yamagoya Battalion retreated.

As soon as this batch of Japanese soldiers appeared in Mao Wenxing's eyes, they were immediately reported to Ye Dadan.

Company Commander Zhen Jianshu also knew.

All of a sudden, the entire First Company's attack became more fierce.

The First Company's own步兵炮(infantry guns), mortars, and heavy machine guns all fired at the Japanese soldiers on the mountain.

In order to take down this stronghold as soon as possible.

Ye Dadan sent the Second and Third Companies to join the attacking team.

The artillery and heavy machine guns of the three companies suppressed the firepower of the Yanashita Yuuki squad.

The three companies launched a charge from three directions at the same time.

Company Commander Yanashita Yuuki, who was completely unable to hold on, looked at the Yamagoya Yosuke Battalion that had already gone down the mountain.

And had to order: "Retreat!"

His squad also began to retreat, although less than ten Japanese soldiers who could withdraw from the battlefield at this time.

Ye Dadan was not prepared to let the fleeing Yamagoya Yosuke Battalion go like this.

Two of the First Company's heavy artillery had specially adjusted their positions, specially used to bomb this battalion.

With aerial visual command, the shells quickly caught up with the fleeing Yamagoya Yosuke Battalion.

These Japanese soldiers were unable to resist such bombing.

Battalion Commander Yamagoya Yosuke could only order: "Run! Keep running!

Run separately!"

He knew: as long as the Japanese soldiers in his battalion were concentrated together, they would attract artillery bombing.

Xiao Dongbei led five companies to穿插(interweave) through the mountains and ridges.

Their team had been walking in the mountains for more than an hour.

They could hear explosions coming from a distance from time to time.

Xiao Dongbei asked Jiao Huamao: "Brother Jiao! How much longer will it take to get there?"

"Soon! At most half an hour!"

"There are people ahead!" Xiao Dongbei suddenly saw figures shaking ahead.

Taking a closer look: it was Japanese soldiers!

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu, who had escaped from the small road, never thought.

That he would encounter soldiers from the Special Operations Brigade on such a road.

Did the Special Operations Brigade really want to take their own path and leave others with no way to go?

After Xiao Dongbei discovered the Japanese soldiers, he immediately ordered: "Occupy the high ground!"

In a hurry, the teams of soldiers behind him rushed forward to suppress the Japanese soldiers on the opposite side first.

Some soldiers had already climbed up the steep hillside.

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu's guard now only had twenty or so Japanese soldiers.

They rushed forward and began to engage in battle in a hurry.

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu did not know how many Japanese soldiers were following this small road.

He did not know how many Japanese soldiers he had under his command now.

Anyway, this small road was no longer passable.

The Japanese soldiers of the entire 18th Division command also climbed up the hillside.

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu was climbing the fastest at this time.

He knew: it was impossible to break through from this road.

If he wanted to survive, he had to climb up this slope and go down from the other side.

Interweave in the jungle and find a path out of nowhere.

Only then would there be a glimmer of hope for survival.

His entire guard was preventing the Fourth Regiment's attack.

Now the mountain situation here restricted the Fourth Regiment, and twenty or so Japanese soldiers guarded a mountain pass.

The heavy machine guns had not been able to set up.

The soldiers could not rush up at all.

The mortars opened fire.

Shells exploded around the Japanese soldiers.

Many Japanese soldiers who were climbing up the hillside were hit by bombs and rolled down from the top of the mountain.

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu, who had already climbed to the top of the mountain, glanced back at his guard.

It was not that he wanted his guard to go up.

It was just that Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu knew that most of these Japanese soldiers who were running away.

Did not have weapons in their hands.

Now he looked at the Japanese soldiers who were still following him, they were all empty-handed.

It was precisely because these Japanese soldiers were empty-handed that they were able to climb to the top of the mountain so nimbly.

And then wanted to rush down the mountain.

At this time, the Japanese soldiers wanted to take advantage of the fact that the soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade had not caught up.

And run farther away as soon as possible.

After the soldiers under Xiao Dongbei's command wiped out the Japanese soldiers blocking the way, they chased to the top of the mountain and saw the faint figures of Japanese soldiers fleeing in the distance in a panic.

They could no longer catch up.

They could only give up the pursuit!

The Fourth Regiment continued to follow this small road and walk according to the original goal.

The Japanese soldiers of the Yamagoya Yosuke Battalion finally scattered.

When they were separated.

When the First Company's heavy artillery no longer bombarded.

These Japanese soldiers followed the road taken by Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadaharu and the others.

They saw at least a thousand Japanese corpses in this valley, and many Japanese wounded were howling and groaning!

Battalion Commander Yamagoya Yosuke ordered the soldiers: "Pass through quickly! Don't stay!"

There were ten or so craters, more than one meter and two meters deep, on the ground of this valley.

It was obvious that they were bombed by the shells of the Special Operations Brigade.

If the Yamagoya Yosuke Battalion stayed here for a long time, and attracted artillery bombing, would it be inviting trouble?

Kamitani Saburo was the only Japanese soldier who did not listen to Battalion Commander Yamagoya Yosuke's order.

He rushed to a Japanese soldier who was still groaning, anxiously checking whether this Japanese soldier had any injuries.

While shouting: "Brother! What's wrong with you! Don't be afraid, I will take you with me."

Some Japanese soldiers who knew them said: "The injured one is Kamitani Rokuro, these two are brothers."

So that was it! This reason made Battalion Commander Yamagoya Yosuke not scold Kamitani Saburo.

Kamitani Rokuro did not have any wounds on his body, only some blood was flowing from his ears.

Kamitani Saburo