Chapter 116 The Bloody Battle at the Foot of the Mountain

With the aerial threat eliminated, the bayonet fighting at the foot of Outer Mountain continued.

Lin Fan issued new orders to the teams still engaged in close combat: "Fight while clearing the battlefield!"

Today's situation was different, with so many foreign reporters watching.

The Special Operations Brigade's image as a benevolent and righteous army had to be maintained.

The Japanese devils also had to be killed.

The post-battle mopping-up of the Japanese couldn't be done so openly.

Therefore, Lin Fan specifically requested mopping-up while fighting.

It was imperative to ensure that every fallen Japanese soldier could never stand again.

The benefit of doing so was that soldiers were taking action against the still-resisting Japanese in the midst of fierce combat.

It was perfectly justifiable, and neither side could raise any objections.

Except for Sato Yakensuke, who sensitively noticed the small movements of the Special Operations Brigade soldiers.

He immediately began telling Stephen about it:

"Do you see that? The soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade are attacking the wounded."

Stephen and the other reporters shrugged as they watched the situation on the battlefield:

"Friend! Those soldiers haven't surrendered yet!

They are still resisting! Since they chose to fight, they must be prepared to endure the pain of war."

Sato Yakensuke completely believed that this Westerner was talking about the entire empire.

Since no one would speak up for him, he could only try to take more photos himself.

In fact, Sato Yakensuke knew that with the reports of the Nanjing Massacre being disclosed worldwide,

hardly anyone believed the news reported by the empire's journalists anymore.

Except for those lapdogs of the empire in this country, who still firmly believed that the empire was there to help them achieve co-prosperity.

No one else believed the nonsense written in the empire's newspapers anymore.

Even the empire's allies were shocked by the empire's massive slaughter of ordinary people.

At four o'clock in the afternoon on December 28, 1937, the fighting around Outer Mountain ended completely.

Stephen, James, and the other foreign reporters ultimately did not heed Sato Yakensuke's advice.

They didn't evacuate the battlefield early and return to Hangzhou.

Now they were watching the soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade concentrate the scattered weapons on the battlefield.

The puppet soldiers who had just been transporting the wounded Japanese soldiers also ran out at this time.

They skillfully stripped off the clothes and pants from the Japanese soldiers.

Other puppet soldiers were already digging pits a few hundred meters away.

Shang Yuegui pointed to the pile of clothes that had been stripped off and asked:

"The clothes we're wearing, they come from this?"

Lin Fan nodded with a smile.

The reporters looked at the foot of the mountain and then at the clothes they were wearing.

They stopped talking and all ran down the mountain.

This time, the soldiers protecting them no longer stopped them.

Stephen and the others saw the group of reporters coming down from Outer Mountain and asked happily:

"Dear Miss Shang, were you frightened just now!"

"No! We were able to see the entire battlefield from the top of the mountain," Shang Yuegui replied.

"Regimental Commander Pu! May I ask if we can follow you to interview the National Army?"

This question was a bit difficult!

Xiao Dongbei really couldn't make the decision.

The question was pushed to Lin Fan.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Fan shook his head and said, "We can only accept reporters who support our righteous counterattack and reporters who maintain a neutral position to follow the team for interviews."

When Lin Fan's words reached Stephen,

Stephen quickly said, "I am a reporter who supports the National Army's just war."

Xiao Dongbei already understood Lin Fan's meaning at this time and immediately said, "Mr. Stephen, today is not the right time.

I think there are reporters with various positions in your entire press corps. If there is an opportunity in the future, you are welcome to come to our garrison for interviews."

After receiving an accurate reply, these foreign reporters

no longer pressed the issue, and they began taking pictures of the battlefield.

In this process, Sato Yakensuke kept filming the scenes of the puppet soldiers stripping off the Japanese soldiers' clothes.

And carrying the Japanese soldiers and throwing them into the pit for burial.

Stephen asked in confusion: "Regimental Commander Pu! Why did your soldiers take off all the Japanese soldiers' clothes?"

Xiao Dongbei said with a smile: "Those are not our soldiers, those are the Japanese soldiers' subordinates.

They are puppet soldiers captured by us.

Isn't a person born naked into this world?

Let these Japanese soldiers also leave naked."

Xiao Dongbei's explanation made the reporters show expressions of understanding:

So that's how it is!

The laborers that the Special Operations Brigade had hired also arrived at this time with large carts.

All kinds of weapons, ammunition, stripped clothes, and protective gear seized on the battlefield were loaded onto the carts and transported away.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, the entire battlefield,

except for the bloodstains left by the Japanese on the ground that had not been cleaned, there was nothing left.

Even the bullet casings had been cleaned away.

The officers and soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade had already begun to withdraw, and Shang Yuegui specially said goodbye to Stephen.

The foreign press corps watched the Special Operations Brigade's team disappear into the distance.

Only then did the reporters return to the foot of Baldy Mountain, where the car they had come in was still there.

The Special Operations Brigade had thoughtfully left the car for the reporters while cleaning the battlefield.

On the way back, some of the reporters who came from Quzhou surrounded Xiao Dongbei,

constantly asking various questions.

Shang Yuegui focused on following behind Lin Fan, and she also had many questions to ask Lin Fan.

Among the reporters today, she and Lin Fan were considered old acquaintances.

She single-mindedly wanted to write about Lin Fan's legendary experience from soldier to general.

She was rejected by Lin Fan.

Faced with the persistent entanglement of this beautiful reporter, Lin Fan did not hide his thoughts:

"I may still go to Shanghai or other enemy-occupied areas in the future.

Being too high-profile will be targeted by the Japanese."

Lin Fan looked at the beautiful reporter in front of him and suddenly asked, "I need a letter delivered personally to the United States.

Delivered to an American rich man named Howard Hughes.

It must be personally delivered to this person, and he must open it in person and read the letter.

The mission is considered complete.

All round-trip expenses from Shanghai to the United States will be borne by me.

In addition, there will be a hundred thousand yuan for expenses."

Shang Yuegui listened silently to Lin Fan's words.

After Lin Fan finished speaking, she asked, "Is the person you are looking for the famous American film director who filmed the movie *Hell's Angels*?"

Lin Fan said with a smile, "You've heard of him? That's good, it's him.

You go find him!"

Shang Yuegui thought for a while: "Such a person should be very difficult to approach!

There must be many people who want to get to know him."

Lin Fan said with a smile: "That's for sure, ordinary people can't even see him.

But I can give you a token, and he will definitely see you.

Of course, before that, you must have a certain understanding of his past and personality."

"You're putting so much effort and money into this, what do you want him to do?" Shang Yuegui asked, staring at Lin Fan.

"What can a poor man do when he finds a world-class rich man?

I just want him to help me build an engine factory and a pharmaceutical factory.

And by the way, realize some of his ideas!" Lin Fan said with a smile.

Shang Yuegui looked at Lin Fan: You're a poor man?

A poor man who buys more than a hundred watches at a time? I want to be one too!

Lin Fan smiled wryly and looked around: signaling Shang to look around.

So many people around him need food, clothing, and war costs money.

I can't argue with you!

Lin Fan, who returned to Deqing, had no time to rest.

First, he reported today's battle situation to the Fifth War Area.

It was already six thirty in the afternoon.

The entire headquarters of the Fifth War Area was boiling again upon receiving the Special Operations Brigade's battle report.

All the news received by the entire Fifth War Area today was good news: the teams that had retreated from Hangzhou.

Except for the 82nd Division, which was still hiding in the mountains.

No Japanese soldiers were chasing after the other retreating National Army units.

The Japanese 10th Army Corps had stopped chasing as if they had received an order.

This also meant that the Hangzhou Defense Battle had come to a perfect end.

Now they had received the battle report from the Special Operations Brigade: successfully transferred 337 wounded Japanese soldiers.

Annihilated one team of the Japanese infantry battalion chasing after our transferring soldiers, and shot down twelve enemy planes.

Was this news the summary of the entire day for the Fifth War Area?

Li Zongren said with a smile.

He immediately ordered: "Forward the Special Operations Brigade's battle report for today to the 82nd Division.

Let them wait two more days."

According to the 82nd Division's original plan: if the Special Operations Brigade still could not open the road from Deqing to Anji by tomorrow,

the 82nd Division would abandon all heavy equipment and retreat along the small roads.

Li Zongren's idea was to let the 82nd Division see the strength of the Special Operations Brigade and let them give the Special Operations Brigade a few more days.

The current situation was not that the Special Operations Brigade didn't want to open the road earlier, it was just that too many Japanese soldiers were coming to die.

The Special Operations Brigade was completely overwhelmed.

Shang Yuegui and the other reporters, of course, knew that the Special Operations Brigade had a radio station.

Now they wanted to send their manuscripts back to Shanghai.

But they had no channel.

The reporters wanted to use the Special Operations Brigade's radio station to send a telegram to Shanghai, such inspiring battles today.

Of course, it would be best to be on tomorrow's front page.

It was a pity that the film could not be sent back together.

Lin Fan said with a smile: "A radio station can be lent to you for use.

We are powerless to send the film over."

Even so, it was enough to excite the reporters.

All the negatives taken by the reporters today still had to be checked by the Special Operations Brigade.

There was no room for negotiation on this.

Having witnessed the ferocity of the Special Operations Brigade on the battlefield, the reporters were no longer so resistant to their rules.

The rules set by the strong are always easily accepted.

At seven thirty in the evening, the reconnaissance team of the 1st Company of the 3rd Battalion returned.

Zhao Jiawen, Wang Degui, Zhang You Shu and the dozen or so soldiers who had scouted towards Mogan Mountain,

pointed to Mogan Mountain on the sand table in front of Lin Fan and said:

"We started from Qinglong Mountain and walked along the road to Shilong Mountain. We didn't encounter any Japanese soldiers.

We didn't see any Japanese outposts either.

Starting from Shilong Mountain, there were Japanese outposts set up, not allowing anyone to pass through.

We sneaked in from the mountains and saw Japanese units in Pingling Mountain, Gaofeng, Jun'anli, Mogan Mountain Town, Naked Castle, and Moganling.

There are a lot of Japanese soldiers."

Lin Fan had seen intelligence in Ushijima Sadao's headquarters in Deqing saying that there was a Japanese brigade in Mogan Mountain.

Now he was also a little headache after hearing the reconnaissance report.

A brigade of Japanese soldiers was more than 10,000.

With so many Japanese soldiers guarding Mogan Mountain, it would really be difficult for them to fight through.

Lin Fan smiled and let Zhao Jiawen and Wang Degui go to rest:

"You have walked so far today, you have worked hard.

Go eat now and have a good rest.

There will be new tasks tomorrow."

Lin Fan looked at the situation map of both sides that had just been marked on the sand table.

He also carefully examined the map.

The actual distance from Shilong Mountain to Moganling exceeded thirty kilometers.

How could they defeat more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers deployed on this line?

Lin Fan stared at this mountain road.

He calculated the strength he had in hand now: the 1st Battalion, the 3rd Battalion, the 4th Battalion, plus five artillery companies.

The combat strength had exceeded 4,000.

At the other end of Mogan Mountain, there was also a heavy artillery team, the 6th Battalion.

Thinking of this, Lin Fan had a plan in mind.

He notified all company-level and above officers in Deqing to hold a meeting at eight o'clock in the evening.

Liu Ziqian, the communication battalion commander of the Special Operations Brigade, had been busy all day:

She was busy organizing the equipment for her communication battalion.

She had sorted out all the wires and telephones from the materials transported from Jianqiao Airport.

She had the laborers put them in the designated carts.

At the same time, she was continuing to repair the radios. From the thirteen tanks that Lin Fan had snatched back from Hangzhou,

all the radios that could be removed had been removed.

Liu Ziqian had also repaired two more, and the remaining radios could only be used as parts.

Lin Fan was very satisfied to have seven radios.

Lin Fan ordered: Prepare a radio and send it to the 6th Battalion in Mogan Mountain.

Also sent were two Wenzhou soldiers.

Now, to send this radio over, it would be best to use a plane.

The transport plane took off from Guangde Airport and first went to Jurong.

It took the homemade tanks made today, and then flew to Deqing.

The captured rifles, clothes, boots, and all the horse meat were loaded on the plane.

Liu Ziqian specially urged the thirteen soldiers who were going with the radio.

Let them try to receive signals in high places when using it in Mogan Mountain.

The plane did not take off immediately: it was waiting for Lin Fan's military meeting to end.

And bring the content of today's meeting to Ye Dadan.

In Deqing, Lin Fan was using the command post of Ushijima Sadao, the division commander.

At this time, Chen Sichuan, Jia Shusheng, Xiao Dongbei, and Feng Junya, the four battalion commanders, and the company commanders under them were all looking at the sand table.

Lin Fan's command stick pointed to Shilong Mountain, Gaofeng, all the way to Moganling:

"There is only one road from Deqing to Anji,

A Japanese brigade is blocking here, blocking our retreat.

We must open this road, not only because our weapons and equipment must go from the road.

More importantly: we cannot easily give up the Deqing County town that we have captured.

Today we only have one topic to discuss: how to open this road?"

Chen Sichuan immediately said: "Brigade commander! Let our 1st Battalion be the vanguard, just push all the way through.

It would be even better if we could also be equipped with an artillery company.

Even without the assistance of an artillery company, we can still fight all the way back to Anji."

Jia Shusheng was unwilling: "Our 3rd Battalion is on the front line, and if we are to push back, it should also be our 3rd Battalion.

How could it be the turn of your 1st Battalion?"

The battalion commanders argued, and the company commanders under them dared not say anything.

They just quietly watched their battalion commanders perform.

Lin Fan raised his hand to stop the battalion commanders from arguing: "We are discussing how to fight now, not who is going to fight."

Chen Sichuan thought that this time when they arrived in Deqing, the 1st Battalion was the last to arrive.

It was inappropriate to grab the 3rd Battalion's vanguard.

He carefully stared at the route on the map and pointed to Naked Castle, saying:

"We can cut in here again, cut off the Japanese in the middle, and first surround the Japanese from Naked Castle to Shilong Mountain."

Everyone looked at the position pointed out by Chen Sichuan, and Lin Fan looked at the cut-off point he had set.

He said with some concern: "Cutting off the Japanese team here requires fighting on two fronts.

It also requires the coordinated troops to quickly annihilate the Japanese on this side.

The difficulty is not small!"

Xiao Dongbei immediately said: "We cut in from Anji.

We already have experience walking this road, let the 4th Battalion go.

We guarantee that we can take it down and defend it."

Lin Fan thought for a while and said: "Chen Sichuan's suggestion is very good.

But we can take things one step at a time, and we have to fight the Japanese a little bit at a time.

Let's not set our goals too far for now.

Let's fight for Mogan Mountain Town first.

The 3rd Battalion attacks Shilong Mountain along the road.

The 4th Battalion leaves two companies to guard Deqing.

The remaining troops cut in to the Gaofeng position,

Coordinate with the 3rd Battalion.

The 1st Battalion moves the attack target back a bit and attacks Mogan Mountain Town.

This way, the pressure can be a little less."

The three infantry battalion commanders all received satisfactory tasks, and no one had any objections this time.

Lin Fan continued: "The straight-line distance from Deqing to Mogan Mountain Town is fifteen *li*.

I don't know how far the actual distance is.

Ask the guides to find a mountain road that is easier to walk.

Bring the infantry artillery and an artillery company.

Depart tomorrow morning, and the 1st and 4th Battalions will launch an attack at the same time at one o'clock in the afternoon.

The 3rd Battalion's attack can be carried out as long as they arrive at Shilong Mountain tomorrow morning.

All battalions bring their radios.

Keep in touch with the team."

This time, after receiving the order, the battalions immediately began to prepare.

The 1st and 4th Battalions had to cut in from small roads, which required a lot of mules and horses to carry the cannons.

There were also two artillery companies acting with them.

All of these needed to be prepared in advance.

After the meeting, Lin Fan sent the news that the Special Operations Brigade would start attacking the Japanese soldiers stationed in Mogan Mountain from tomorrow to Ye Dadan.

Let him coordinate and attack the Japanese from the Anji direction to hold down some of the Japanese soldiers.

At the same time, he also sent a radio to the 6th Battalion and the 1st Company of the artillery battalion in Anji.

To facilitate their support.

At five o'clock in the morning on the 29th, the Special Operations Brigade stationed in Deqing began to move.

The 3rd Battalion Commander Jia Shusheng put his 7th Company on Gaosi Ridge to guard the line from Deqing to Shilong Mountain.

The rest of the battalion's companies had all gathered on Qinglong Mountain last night.

In the early morning, the entire battalion began to set off towards Shilong Mountain.

Zhou Tonghai's puppet army battalion also followed the 3rd Battalion's actions.

After Ushijima Sadao, the division commander, fled into Mogan Mountain,

he was stationed in Naked Castle for safety this time.

On the evening of the 28th, he received the news that the wounded left in Deqing had been returned by the National Army.

In order to bring back these wounded, the 114th Division lost an infantry battalion.

Such a result shocked Ushijima Sadao, the division commander.

Now he was regretting that he should not have fled into Mogan Mountain.

Now the two regiments of the 18th Division here, more than 11,000 Japanese soldiers, had been surrounded by the National Army.

Although there were only more than 500 National Army soldiers following them.

But he was driven out of Deqing by these few hundred National Army soldiers!

In Naked Castle, Ushijima Sadao, the division commander, also held his own military meeting.

This military meeting was attended by officers above the rank of captain in each regiment.

Hara Tomotake, the brigade commander, Mano Haruto, the regimental commander, Izutani Ibuki, the regimental commander, and the eight infantry battalion commanders under the two regiments.

Plus the officers from the brigade's direct artillery regiment, cavalry regiment, and supply regiment.

So many Japanese officers gathered together in the newly established command post to listen to Ushijima Sadao, the division commander, speak:

"The National Army team occupying Deqing now has definite news.

This is the Special Operations Brigade of the Fifth War Area, a newly established team.

Their number of soldiers is less than a thousand.

But their firepower is fierce, and the individual quality of the soldiers is also very high.

From the information learned on the battlefield, this afternoon they used bayonet fighting to defeat the Shiho Battalion.

Now they are in Deqing County.

Our task is to continue to attack Anji.

At the same time, we must guard against this team attacking us from the Deqing direction."

Kobuzaka Daigo, the infantry battalion commander, asked in confusion:

"Can a National Army team of less than a thousand people really defeat an imperial infantry battalion?"

Ushijima Sadao, the division commander, said unhappily: "This is the result obtained after practice by several imperial infantry battalions.

All the imperial warriors who underestimated this team have already fallen asleep forever!"

Originally, other battalion commanders also had the same question in their minds.

Now that they saw the division commander losing his temper, the battalion commanders did not dare to say anything.

Hanazaka Eiji, the chief of staff, stood up to ease the atmosphere:

"Everyone! The combat effectiveness of this National Army is unquestionable.

We should overestimate the enemy, even if their combat effectiveness is not so strong.

We will use all our strength to annihilate them at once.

To open up the road to the rear as soon as possible, isn't this very good?"

The chief of staff was right!

The battalion commanders were also entangled in this matter.

Hanazaka Eiji, the chief of staff, pointed to Gaosi Ridge on the sand table and said:

"This National Army team carries heavy artillery and cars.

Therefore, they can only come along the road.

We currently only have one company of troops in Shilong Mountain, Pingling Mountain, and Gaofeng.

Currently, a regiment of troops is concentrated near Moganling.

They are working hard to attack towards Anji.

The division commander is considering temporarily suspending the attack and returning to Deqing with all our strength.

To annihilate this cunning Special Operations Brigade team."

None of the officers answered Hanazaka Eiji, the chief of staff.

The battalion commanders and regimental commanders did not believe that a National Army team of a few hundred people had such strong combat effectiveness.

Hara Tomotake, the brigade commander, hesitated for a moment and saw that none of the Japanese soldiers were speaking.

Only then did he stand up and point to Tianshan in front of Mogan Mountain and say: "We have been strongly sniped by the National Army here these days.

The National Army on the opposite side has large-caliber heavy artillery, which has caused great trouble to our army's attack.

The infantry on the opposite side is also very cunning, always laying mines on the road.

Causing many of our warriors to be injured."

Having said that, he stopped talking.

Mano Haruto, the regimental commander, finally made a clear statement: "Since the attack on Anji is blocked,

Let's spend two days taking back Deqing."

Ushijima Sadao, the division commander, was happy at this time:

"The Hara Tomotake Regiment will leave a battalion to guard Mogan Mountainling.

The remaining three battalions will retreat to Naked Castle and be ready to support all places at any time.

The artillery regiment will continue to stay in Mogan Mountainling.

The cavalry regiment will also be stationed in Naked Castle, ready to quickly maneuver and support all places.

The engineering regiment will ensure that the telephone lines between the battalions are open.

The Mano Haruto Regiment will attack towards Deqing.

We must capture Deqing!"

The Japanese 18th Division's meeting in Naked Castle: the goal was determined, and the task was clear.

The tasks of each regiment had been assigned.

Mano Haruto, the regimental commander, began to gather his troops and concentrate on Shilong Mountain that night.

Early in the morning on the 29th, the Hidaka Harezo Battalion set off from Shilong Mountain as the vanguard of the counterattack on Deqing.

The remaining three battalions of the Mano Haruto Regiment also set off from various places along the road to Deqing.

Zhao Jiawen, Wang Degui, He Jiaqing and their reconnaissance team set off ahead of the main force.

The Japanese soldiers of the Hidaka Harezo Battalion had just walked one kilometer out of Shilong Mountain when they were discovered by the 1st Company's reconnaissance team at the Jima Peak position.

When Na Wenxuan received the news, the 1st Company had already reached the Guishan position.

While reporting the news to the battalion commander.

He immediately ordered the 1st Platoon to install directional bombs, and the entire company established a position on Guishan.

Jia Shusheng received the news and immediately ordered the 2nd and 3rd Companies to speed up and reinforce the 1st Company.

At the same time, he reported to Lin Fan via radio that the Japanese soldiers had taken the initiative to come out of Shilong Mountain.

Lin Fan ordered Feng Junya's three artillery companies to speed up and provide artillery support to the 3rd Battalion.

The company received the news and already saw a team of Japanese soldiers appear in their sight one hour later.

Captain Ichikawa Kyoto watched his reconnaissance team being sniped by the National Army on Guishan.

He immediately led the entire company to charge forward.

Sergeant Ryukawa Saburo led the thirteen Japanese soldiers under his command and became the vanguard of the entire 18th Division's counterattack on Deqing.

Their task was to scout the road for National Army ambushes along the way.

Unfortunately, Ryukawa Saburo and his squad encountered an ambush by the 1st Company at Guishan.

Company Commander Na Wenxuan was very angry: the Japanese soldiers of the battalion had not yet entered his carefully prepared ambush circle.

The directional bombs had not yet been used.

His company had been discovered by this small team of Japanese soldiers.

After alarming the enemy, would the Japanese soldiers of the battalion still enter the ambush circle all at once?

This was already a question!

Na Wenxuan put all his anger on the Japanese squad in front of him.

"Fire!"

The soldiers of the 1st Company were used to fighting this kind of battle.

Several soldiers assigned a Japanese soldier to aim at, contracted to a person.

When the company commander gave an order, all thirteen Japanese soldiers of the entire Ryukawa Saburo squad

fell down together, and none of them escaped.

Although they were dead,

the gunshots exposed the 1st Company's position.

It also let Captain Ichikawa Kyoto know that there was an ambush ahead.

His entire company was in the 1st Company's directional bomb ambush circle.

It was just that Na Wenxuan felt that there were too few Japanese soldiers, and it was too uneconomical to use his trump card like this.

The entire company stayed on Guishan, waiting for the Japanese soldiers to come and attack.

Lieutenant Imonoto led fifty Japanese soldiers cautiously charging under Guishan.

At this time, many Japanese soldiers from the battalion headquarters behind them also came up.

Two infantry cannons began to bombard Guishan.

The Japanese mortars were also firing.

Na Wenxuan was not to be outdone, the two infantry cannons and five mortars of the 1st Company were also firing.

Their shelling startled the distant Captain Hidaka Harezora.

He immediately reported that they had encountered a Special Operations Brigade sniper in Guishan.

Captain Ichikawa Kyoto had no choice but to lead his team to retreat.

They had to withdraw from the direct firing range of the infantry cannons.

Seeing that the Japanese soldiers who had already entered their mouths were about to run away,

Company Commander Na Wenxuan had to painfully order: "Blast!"

Japanese soldiers were Japanese soldiers, and it was better to kill some than none.

The Japanese soldiers of the Saemiya Kentaro Company saw such a scene for the first time:

The road ahead suddenly flashed.

Continuous explosions rang out.

More than a hundred Japanese soldiers of the Ichikawa Kyoto Company on the road all fell to the ground after the explosion.

Looking from a distance, you could see many Japanese soldiers struggling and groaning!

Company Commander Saemiya Kentaro ordered: "Charge up! Rescue the wounded!"

The Special Operations Brigade team that had been guarding Guishan also rushed out with a hundred or so people.

They were pushing five small cart-like weapons in front of them.

The infantry followed behind.

The soldiers of this team charged towards the fallen Ichikawa Kyoto Company.

Captain Hidaka Harezora was furious and ordered: "The machine gun company will go forward to snipe!

Stop this team."

Just as the machine gun opened fire,

the infantry cannons and mortars of the 2nd Company of the 3rd Battalion also opened fire.

Ko Saki led the team to charge up as well.

If Jia Shusheng had not stopped him, the 3rd Company Commander Oh Keiki would also have led his team to charge up.

Captain Kazumi watched his machine gun company being completely exposed to the Special Operations Brigade's artillery bombardment.

He quickly asked the captain for instructions: "The Special Operations Brigade's artillery fire is too fierce!

Should we withdraw the machine gun company?"

Captain Hidaka Harezora looked at the Kentaro Corps, which was still charging.

He ordered, "Hold on! Hold on for a while. I have already reported to the regimental commander.

The artillery will be arriving on the battlefield soon."

The captain gave an order, what else could Captain Kazumi say?

He could only have his machine guns hold on.

The attacking troops on the opposite side were hiding behind five carts.

Now, those carts had become ten.

Machine gun bullets hit the carts, splashing sparks.

It turned out that the team on the opposite side was actually using it as a bulletproof board.

The Kentaro Corps was less than a hundred meters away from the charging team.

Those charging Japanese soldiers also began to sweep with machine guns.

The ten heavy machine guns pushed out by the 1st and 2nd companies fired at the same time.

The ten tongues of fire were like ten red scythes, constantly sweeping across the road.

In an instant, the Kentaro Corps, which was charging, was devastated.

Those Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough not to die in the first round of sweeping could only crawl on the ground.

They simply couldn't lift their heads.

Captain Hidaka Harezora looked at the opposite side and saw that they had pushed out ten heavy machine guns.

In an instant, one of his companies was crippled.

More importantly: If they couldn't stop this team quickly,

they would immediately rush into the Kentaro Corps.

Then the Japanese soldiers who were crawling on the ground would not be able to survive.

At this time, the 1st and 2nd companies had already rushed into the Ichikawa Kyoto Corps team that had been ambushed.

They began to mop up the Japanese soldiers who were groaning on the ground.

Some of the soldiers were mopping up, and some of the soldiers were still charging.

Now they were less than thirty meters away from the Kentaro Corps, which was crawling on the ground.

They were still charging, and as long as the carts didn't fall, they would keep pushing.

Captain Saemiya Kentaro, who was lying on the ground, saw that if he didn't get up, he would be trampled to death by the Special Operations Brigade soldiers who were charging up.

He had to lie on the ground and issue an order: "Warriors! Stand up and charge!

Fight them with bayonets!"

Some of the Japanese soldiers would obey the captain's order.

Dozens of Japanese soldiers tried to stand up.

As soon as their bodies stood up, they were suppressed by the scythe-like bullets before they could stand up straight.

Captain Saemiya Kentaro had to get up as well.

He stood up less than ten meters away from the heavy machine gun.

Just as he stood up, he was hit by a machine gun bullet.

Captain Saemiya Kentaro resisted the shooting of the heavy machine gun bullets and stubbornly charged forward for another two meters.

Finally, he fell on the road.

Captain Hidaka Harezora watched in stunned silence as the Special Operations Brigade soldiers charged over with unstoppable momentum.

He couldn't understand: Why had his two companies of four hundred people died so easily?

Captain Kazumi saw that the charging team was less than a hundred meters away from the machine gun company's position.

At this time, although the Special Operations Brigade's mortar bombardment had ended.

But the heavy machine gun sweeping on the opposite side had also arrived.

The troops that had been blasted dizzy by the artillery shells were now suppressed by the heavy machine guns and couldn't lift their heads at all.

Now, even if his machine gun company wanted to retreat, it couldn't retreat.

Captain Hidaka Harezora had to make a difficult decision: retreat!

He shouted loudly: "Retreat!"

Although at this time, the machine gun company could no longer retreat.

The retreating Hidaka Harezora Battalion also had an infantry company and a logistics company.

Now the logistics company had thrown away all the supplies of the battalion, and all the soldiers ran away.

The 92 infantry guns of the 3rd Battalion's 1st and 2nd companies, which were located in the rear, kept bombarding the machine gun position.

Soon, the entire Captain Kazumi and his Japanese soldiers could no longer resist under the double attack of heavy machine guns and artillery.

Their position was rushed into by the two companies pushing the homemade tanks.

The Japanese soldiers were completely annihilated today.

Company Commanders Na Wenxuan and Ko Saki personally charged in front,

They were going to chase down the fleeing Japanese soldiers.

There were messengers behind them ordering: The entire company should advance steadily.

This was the order issued by Jia Shusheng.

He was afraid that the 1st and 2nd companies would be too impulsive and be ambushed by the Japanese soldiers.

Na Wenxuan was ordered by the captain to advance steadily and immediately calmed down.

He ordered the reconnaissance squad to continue searching ahead.

He led the entire company of the 1st Company to advance, and the 2nd Company followed behind.

The 3rd and 4th Companies, as the second echelon, followed a little further.

Captain Hidaka Harezora fled to Jima Ridge in a panic.

He encountered Captain Aiba Hito who was advancing.

Captain Hidaka Harezora immediately began to gather his troops.

The captain stood on the road to gather his troops, and the Japanese soldiers of the Japanese infantry corps and the logistics corps immediately stopped fleeing.

These Japanese soldiers were following the captain.

Captain Aiba Hito had already arranged an emergency defense on Jima Ridge.

Just now, in order not to be impacted by the defeated soldiers,

The Japanese soldiers of the 1st Battalion had given up half of the road.

At the same time, they had seized the high ground as a stronghold.

Now it was time to listen to Captain Hidaka Harezora.

Hearing Captain Hidaka Harezora say that the Special Operations Brigade coming over had terribly strong firepower,

Captain Aiba Hito was a little embarrassed: If that team's firepower was really so strong.

His battalion wouldn't be able to last long either.

Especially since he had heard that the artillery fire on the opposite side was particularly powerful.

The 1st Battalion only had two infantry cannons.

Just as he was in trouble, he could already see the figures of the Special Operations Brigade soldiers coming up in front of him.

Captain Hidaka Harezora obviously didn't want to stay here any longer and hurriedly led the remnants to continue to retreat.

Captain Aiba Hito also immediately sent someone to ask the Regimental Commander Amano to ask the regimental commander to send out the brigade's artillery corps.

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