The Milky Way is Also a Grain of Sand

Chapter 252 It Is Advisable to Pursue the Vanquished Foe

Chapter 1 A Series of Explosions

  Just as Captain Daisuke Ando surmised that the special forces company attacking Guangde today was insufficient in strength and had to adopt a "leave one side open" tactic,

  a series of explosions erupted. The violent blast waves mixed with countless iron fragments struck his body fiercely.

 t just Captain Daisuke Ando who enjoyed this treatment.

  Captain Ichitsune Shibu, walking alongside him, also shared a significant portion of this pressure.

  Captain Daishu Nakabo, protecting him, experienced the same.

  Captain Daisuke Ando, pushed by the blast wave, staggered two steps before finally regaining his balance.

  He struggled to draw his command sword, using both hands to prop himself up, trying not to fall.

  Now, he could finally clearly assess the state of his troops.

  The earth-shattering shouts of battle were lost on Captain Daisuke Ando.

  He merely looked at the soldiers lying scattered on the ground.

  He could see the two squads that had been ahead of his battalion headquarters.

  Of the two hundred or so devils and puppet troops, fewer than twenty could stand like him.

  The rest of the devils and puppet troops were all lying on the ground.

  Captain Daisuke Ando clearly saw a layer of light red blood mist rising from the road.

  Some soldiers had small fountains of blood spurting from their heads and necks, while the clothes of others were quickly soaked with blood, revealing patches of crimson stains.

  Captain Daisuke Ando paid no attention to his own injuries.

  He merely turned with difficulty to look at the troops behind him.

  The situation behind him was no different from the惨状 in front.

  The stone bridge not far away was still there, and at the other end of the bridge, a unit dressed in National Revolutionary Army uniforms was charging forward.

  Wei Haoqi, leading the Second Platoon, Second Squad, saw this scene as they charged forward.

  Ahead of them, Jing Hongfang of the Third Platoon led a squad of a dozen men in the charge.

  This dozen-man team, pushing a heavy machine gun, had already stormed onto the stone bridge.

  Their line of sight was excellent, and a single sweep of the heavy machine gun cut down half of the dozens of devils and puppet troops who had been standing stubbornly.

  Captain Daisuke Ando, after being pierced by the heavy machine gun bullets,

  could no longer steady his body, which had been barely holding on.

  As he fell, he struggled to turn over once more.

  He wanted to look in the direction of Changxing. Now, Captain Daisuke Ando only hoped that Captain Yuma Hatsu, the leader of the forward unit, would immediately lead his troops away quickly.

  Under no circumstances should they return!

  This was a cunning National Revolutionary Army unit!

  Jia Shusheng looked at the situation of the devils on the road. The battle here was completely without suspense.

  He immediately issued an order: "Gu Xiangdi and Qi Liangcai, take your teams to clean up the battlefield.

  The rest of you, follow me to chase after the unit of devils that just left."

  At this moment, he had already seen Wei Haoqi running into the battlefield.

  He ordered towards the direction of Gu Xiangdi, "Squad Leader Wei, come up here, and have them follow us."

  Bao Houxue's squad hadn't had time to descend the mountain when they saw the devils they had just let go of charging back.

  He immediately shouted a warning, "The devils are coming!"

  Captain Ichitsune Shibu, leading the entire mixed company, was intercepted by the Third Platoon before they could turn around the hillside.

  In order to save Captain Daisuke Ando, Captain Yuma Hatsu ordered the troops to charge directly.

  The devils of Lieutenant Yuuta Nagai's squad, plus the puppet troops of Yang Haokuo's squad, numbering over a hundred men,

  obeyed the captain's order and tried to rush across the road directly.

  They encountered Dang Yichun and Ju Wenmin of the Third Platoon, First Squad, who were pushing the dirt armored carts.

  Three wheelbarrows, three heavy machine guns.

  Just as they began to fire on the road, Lieutenant Yuuta Nagai immediately panicked:

  "Down! Get down!"

  His troops had no cover at all, how could they withstand the heavy machine gun fire?

  Therefore, he had to order the troops to lie down immediately and seek cover.

  When this unit's attack was stalled, Squad Leader Yushu Funayama, following behind, immediately reacted.

  Captain Yuma Hatsu immediately ordered: "Squad Leader Yushu Funayama, go to the left hillside to suppress the enemy's firepower from the high ground."

  Squad Leader Yushu Funayama, after receiving the order, immediately led his troops up the hillside.

  The devils wanted to occupy the high ground and suppress the dirt armored carts of the special forces company commander from above.

  After all, everyone was on the same plane, and it was impossible to break through those soldiers hiding behind the armored carts.

  Jia Shusheng discovered the devils' new move and immediately ordered: "Bao Minxue and Kou Mingjun, occupy the high ground on the left and right sides.

  Knock down the devils trying to seize the mountain."

  At this time, Wei Haoqi led a squad of soldiers who had already rushed up.

  Jia Shusheng was the Third Platoon Leader, and although he wasn't Wei Haoqi's direct leader, he was still able to command him.

  Jia Shusheng pointed to the hillsides on the left and right sides and said, "Squad Leader Wei! The devils are attacking us from the hillsides.

  Send a team up the mountain to cut off their rear and prevent these devils from escaping."

  Wei Haoqi looked at the devils and puppet troops charging from both sides, each with hundreds of men.

  Nodding, he immediately ordered: "Cui Gaoyi, Ru Yaohui, Ben Fengyu, Bi Xihao, Mi Jiashi, each of you take a squad to the left hillside.

  Infiltrate behind the devils and cut off their retreat.

  The rest of the Second Squad will follow me to the right."

  After the order was issued, the soldiers of his squad immediately began to disperse.

  The distance between the Third Platoon and the devils wasn't far to begin with. Squad Leader Yushu Funayama had just climbed less than thirty meters up the hillside.

  They were already able to look down on Dang Yichun, Ju Wenmin, and those pushing the dirt armored carts.

  Squad Leader Yushu Funayama immediately ordered: "Suppress the enemy's firing points."

  Yumu Cangda was the machine gunner of this squad. After hearing the order, he immediately opened fire from the high ground.

  The devils' machine guns and rifles fired at the Third Platoon's dirt armored cart team that was advancing at the front.

  Several soldiers of the Third Platoon immediately fell down.

  Dang Yichun and Ju Wenmin were exposed to the devils' firepower.

  Squad Leader Yushu Funayama only left a dozen soldiers to shoot at the Third Platoon's leading team from above.

  He led the remaining devils to continue climbing up the hillside.

  Squad Leader Yushu Funayama had already seen the special forces company soldiers on the opposite side quickly charging towards the top of the mountain.

  Clearly, they wanted to occupy the highest point and establish a position to suppress all of these devil troops.

  In this situation, Squad Leader Yushu Funayama certainly didn't want to be suppressed.

  He quickly urged his soldiers to charge upwards.

  Following this group of devils was the puppet troop squad of Fu Haoyan.

  Shou Tiancheng and Hou Yangxu and the other puppet troops intentionally stayed to the side.

  In less than five minutes, Squad Leader Yushu Funayama discovered that something was wrong with the troops he was commanding:

  The mixed troop of over a hundred devils and puppet troops had now become only devils.

  Although those puppet troops were also on the hillside, they were already forty or fifty meters away from the devils.

  And now that those puppet troops were so far away from the devils, they no longer concealed their purpose.

  Shou Tiancheng, Hou Yangxu, and the other puppet troops found the guns in their hands and the bullets on their bodies to be cumbersome.

  They had already thrown them all on the hillside.

  They were running on the hillside as if they were leaving home with nothing.

  Squad Leader Yushu Funayama only fired one shot at those puppet troops.

 t care whether he hit them or not, and stopped paying attention to those puppet troops.

  Now, his troop strength had been reduced by half before the fight even started.

  Captain Yuma Hatsu, who was still a dozen devils away, coldly looked at Captain HeYu Xiang beside him:

  "Captain Xiang! Is this how your troops fight?"

  Captain HeYu Xiang had been looking for an opportunity to escape, but had been suffering from not having an opportunity.

  Now that he saw that his soldiers had already scattered and ran away,

  he was the only one left here to take the blame, and his heart was filled with envy, jealousy, and hatred.

  Seeing that the Taijun's tone and expression were not good,

  He quickly defended himself: "Taijun! Those soldiers, those soldiers..."

  Captain HeYu Xiang couldn't continue. It was completely no problem for his soldiers to bully ordinary people.

  But it was definitely impossible to get them to fight.

  But how could Captain HeYu Xiang say this?

  He thought and thought, but he couldn't think of suitable words to tell the Taijun: We, the puppet troops, are scum!

  Captain Yuma Hatsu obviously had no intention of listening to him continue. He pulled out his pistol.

  He said coldly, "Your! Troop, very, very bad!"

  Two consecutive shots!

  Captain HeYu Xiang fell down.

  Captain Yuma Hatsu immediately approached Lieutenant Yuuta Nagai's squad on the road ahead.

  Now, there were only a few dozen puppet troops left in this mixed squad.

  He wanted to rush to the front to see how Captain Daisuke Ando and their troop were doing now.

  The devils of Squad Leader Yushu Funayama's squad, who had climbed higher, were now even higher.

  And they had also advanced more than thirty meters along the road they had come from.

  Looking at the road covered with corpses, Squad Leader Yushu Funayama and the twenty or so devils under him gasped:

  Although they didn't know whether Captain Daisuke Ando was alive or dead,

  judging from the many corpses spread on the road, the captain was likely dead.

  The National Revolutionary Army had already sent people to clean up the battlefield, and there was no fighting in that direction at all.

  Farther away, there were still cars driving in this direction.

  Squad Leader Yushu Funayama looked at the scene in the distance and dared not climb to the top of the mountain anymore.

  He ordered his devils to quickly descend the mountain.

  When he descended the mountain, he didn't let the dozen devils on the hillside who were sniping at the special forces company's dirt armored carts leave together.

  The retreat still needed these devils to intercept the pursuers.

  Captain Yuma Hatsu saw that the troop he had sent to seize the mountain was actually descending the mountain.

  With a distance of dozens of meters, Squad Leader Yushu Funayama had already begun to loudly report:

  "Captain Ando's entire force was destroyed. A large force of the National Revolutionary Army is rushing over from a distance."

  This news was too shocking.

  Captain Yuma Hatsu was stunned, and it took a long time for him to react.

  He immediately ordered: "Lieutenant Yuuta Nagai's squad, snipe on the spot.

  Squad Leader Yushu Funayama, the company headquarters will retreat!"

  His company headquarters and Squad Leader Yushu Funayama's squad combined still had thirty or so devils.

  The Yuuta Nagai mixed squad responsible for the sniping mission still had eighty or so devils and puppet troops at this time.

  After issuing the order, Captain Yuma Hatsu no longer lingered and immediately began to retreat in the direction of Changxing.

  Now they were racing against the National Revolutionary Army that was chasing after them.

  Jia Shusheng had already ordered the mortars in his troop to fire and bombard the devils' sniper position on the hillside.

  Five mortars fired at the same time, and two heavy machine guns swept towards the devils on the hillside.

  When Yumu Cangda and the other devils had just entered the position, the wave of attacks they launched had some effect.

  The subsequent shooting only intercepted the National Revolutionary Army and had no more results.

  Now, they were suddenly bombarded by the enemy's artillery shells and heavy machine gun fire.

  Half of the dozen or so devils on the hillside immediately fell down.

  This wasn't the most deadly thing. Wei Haoqi's troop had already appeared above Yumu Cangda and the other devils.

  These soldiers also began to fire at the devils on the mountainside.

  Yumu Cangda's machine gun was now unable to fire at all.

  The firepower from the foot of the mountain was too strong. At this time, they were also attacked from the top of the mountain.

  These devils immediately panicked and wanted to retreat back using the trees and rocks on the hillside.

  However, the rain of bullets from the top of the mountain was too dense.

  Yumu Cangta had only retreated less than five meters with his machine gun when he was hit.

  He was the last of the devils on the hillside to be killed.

  After clearing the firing point on the hillside,

  Dang Yichun, Ju Wenmin, and the others immediately pushed the dirt armored carts and began to advance by leaps and bounds.

  Just as they started to set off, Liu Laopao's Second Platoon directly drove up in cars.

  A heavy machine gun and two light machine guns were set up on the roof of the car, firing at the devils ahead.

  Lieutenant Yuuta Nagai's squad and Yang Haokuo's squad of devils and puppet troops were suddenly unable to lift their heads from the dense machine gun bullets.

  Jia Shusheng ordered the mortars to change their bombardment direction. Now, they were bombing Yuuta Nagai's squad.

  Wei Haoqi's squad, who had detoured from the hillside, fired at the dozens of devils on the road from both the left and right hillsides.

  The entire Yuuta Nagai mixed squad, which was performing the sniping mission at the rear, had completely fallen into the special forces company's encirclement.

  The attacks from all directions caused the devils and puppet troops in the encirclement to be quickly reduced.

  Squad Leader Yang Haokuo looked at the rain of bullets coming from the National Revolutionary Army on the opposite side.

  He simply couldn't believe that the National Revolutionary Army would have such strong firepower.

  Squad Leader Yang Haokuo had also been a National Revolutionary Army platoon leader before.

  At that time, there were thirty-three soldiers in his platoon, but there wasn't even one machine gun. A platoon of thirty-three people only had twenty-three rifles.

  There were also ten people who didn't even have guns.

  Today, this National Revolutionary Army that attacked Guangde completely subverted his understanding of the National Revolutionary Army.

  If it weren't for Lieutenant Yuuta Nagai by his side,

  Squad Leader Yang Haokuo would have already raised his hands in surrender.

  At this time, he wasn't the only puppet troop who wanted to surrender.

  Wei Tonghe also wanted to surrender or escape, but he hadn't found an opportunity since the start of the battle.

  Just now, Wei Tonghe had discovered that the entire Fu Haoyan squad had all run away.

  Wei Tonghe, who was still being monitored by the devils, was unspeakably envious and jealous.

  Now that they couldn't escape, they could only try to find a way to surrender.

  Just as Wei Tonghe was thinking about how to surrender, several more devils and puppet troops fell beside him.

  Liu Laopao had made full preparations for this pursuit of the devils.

  He brought all the firepower of the entire platoon.

  Seeing that the devils' resistance ahead was very tenacious,

  He immediately stopped the car and ordered the dirt armored carts and Type 92 infantry guns to be pushed up.

  The armored carts blocked bullets in front, and the infantry guns followed behind for direct fire.

  Lieutenant Yuuta Nagai's squad, which was already unable to hold on,

  was directly hit by the infantry guns. At a distance of less than a hundred meters, every time the special forces company fired a shot,

  several devils and puppet troops without cover would die.

  This time, the puppet troops could no longer hold on. They disregarded the devils' threats and stood up to flee backwards.

  Lieutenant Yuuta Nagai fired continuously, killing three fleeing puppet troops, but he couldn't stop the puppet troops of Yang Haotong's squad from fleeing.

  In the end, none of the puppet troops of Yang Haotong's squad escaped.

  Because the devils of Lieutenant Yuuta Nagai's entire squad were clear about their fate next.

  These devils were unwilling to let the puppet troops live alone, so they would rather give up the head-on battle with the special forces company.

  They had to turn around and kill those fleeing puppet troops.

  The defense line that had already collapsed could no longer be organized in an instant.

  In less than three minutes, the entire Yuuta Nagai mixed squad was wiped out.

  The soldiers of the Second Platoon of the special forces company didn't stop there.

  Liu Laopao ordered the heavy machine guns and infantry guns to be dragged up.

  He wanted to continue to pursue and kill the escaped Captain Yuma Hatsu.

  Captain Yuma Hatsu led the thirty or so remnants of his troops, living in constant fear.

  They ran along the highway from Guangde to Changxing.

  At the beginning, these devils ran very fast.

  The linear distance from Guangde to Changxing was a hundred miles. They wanted to run back along the highway in one breath.

  It was obviously impossible.

  Even if these devils usually trained hard and had good physical fitness,

  running like this, disregarding their lives, they had only run less than five miles before they were too tired to run.

  Captain Yuma Hatsu had to order these devils to stop running and switch to a slow walk.

  Liu Laopao led the First Squad of the First Platoon, chasing in cars, which was much easier.

  In less than a quarter of an hour, the cars had already seen the devils ahead.

  Captain Yuma Hatsu saw the soldiers chasing after him, and he was no longer willing to move.

  The long run just now had also exhausted Captain Yuma Hatsu.

  Now, he already knew that the entire company had encountered an invincible troop.

  In order not to let all the devils die here,

  Captain Yuma Hatsu issued the last order to his soldiers: "Disperse and break through!"

  The devils who received the order immediately climbed up the hillsides on the left and right sides.

  These devils were clear that the pursuers had cars, and it was impossible to survive by running along the highway.

  They could only place their hopes in the wilderness.

  They hoped that these pursuers wouldn't go deep into the mountains to chase them.

  Facing the troop that was chasing after them, Captain Yuma Hatsu just stood in the middle of the road, drew his pistol, and shot himself in the temple.

  Squad Leader Yushu Funayama didn't have such courage. He and several devils were climbing up the hillside, using both their hands and feet.

  Liu Laopao looked at the devils climbing the slope and loudly ordered: "Leave a squad to guard the cars.

  The rest of the troops will pursue and kill the devils in squads.

  No matter what happens, be sure to return here by 3:00 PM."

  Lin Fan had already entered Guangde City at this time. He saw that the doors of the people's houses near the city walls were all gone.

  He ordered, "Let all the people go to the city walls and bring back their own doors, boxes, and cabinets!"

  This wasn't the first time the special forces company had entered a city inhabited by ordinary people.

  As soon as they entered the city, they immediately began to post notices to reassure the people.

  Lin Fan had been considering all day how to use the seventeen planes they had just captured.

  If they added the fighter jet with a damaged tail that needed to be repaired in Jurong,

  the special forces company now had eighteen planes.

  With so many planes, they could completely form a flying squadron.

  However, he didn't have any pilots or mechanics.

  According to Lin Fan's idea, pilots could be trained more quickly.

  The profession of a mechanic couldn't be cultivated in a month or half a month at all.

  And there was another problem. Although Lin Fan could fly these planes, take off and land, fight the devils, and drop bombs,

 t really easy for him to repair them.

  Thinking of this, Lin Fan's head grew bigger.

  And now, the special forces company's territory was getting bigger and bigger. If they sent their own troops to garrison each county town, it would really dilute the limited strength they had.

  The little bit of combat power they had just trained would also be quickly diluted.

  But now, every place occupied by the special forces company could be directly attacked by the devils.

  This also forced the special forces company to station troops in every county town.

  Looking at the map of Captain Daisuke Ando hanging on the wall,

  Lin Fan's gaze swept over Xuan City, Changxing, Wuxing, Nanxun, Yixing, Liyang, and Jintan.

  Taking down Guangde!

  The first combat objective of the special forces company, the Eighty-Third Army, and the Sixty-Sixth Army had been achieved.

  The Eighty-Third Army and the Sixty-Sixth Army would pass through Guangde to Ningguo.

  And his troop would take root here.

  Insufficient troops!

  Insufficient troops!

  When he only had one company under his command, Lin Fan hadn't felt that there were insufficient troops.

  Now that he had more than ten thousand men under his command, he suddenly felt that there were insufficient troops.

  While Lin Fan was worried about his insufficient troops,

  Corps Commander Deng Longguang of the Eightieth Army, Chief of Staff Taishi Hongyang, and Division Commander Wu Jianxiong

  were standing far away, looking at the seventeen planes on Guangde Airport.

  Corps Commander Deng Longguang, who had just put down his binoculars, said to the officers around him:

  "Seventeen planes, in good condition. It's certain that these planes can all fly.

  How did Lin Fan take down this airport?

 t take them long to finish the airport, and then they went to Guangde City."

  Wu Jianxiong pointed to the planes: "I heard that these planes are worth three hundred thousand US dollars each.

  These seventeen planes are worth more than five million!"

  Chief of Staff Taishi Hongyang had the same feeling: "This Company Commander Lin is too good at fighting.

  He can even pull off a battle like this."

  He observed more carefully: "The special forces company drove cars and rushed into the airport runway.

  They must have caught the devils off guard.

  Look: There's a river between this road and the airport runway.

  There are also several rice paddies.

  The special forces company used the wooden planks and wooden frames in their cars

  to temporarily build this three-hundred-meter-long road.

  Allowing the cars to rush up.

  The devils didn't react at all. The runway was lost, and the planes were captured.

  Then they fought a ground battle with the special forces company."

  At this time, several officers of the Sixty-Third Army who had received the news also came over on horseback.

  They had heard the scouts report that the special forces company had taken down Guangde Airport.

  This wasn't strange: It wasn't strange that the special forces company had taken down Guangde Airport.

  The scouts later reported that they had captured seventeen planes.

  That's why Corps Commander Ye Zhao and the others rushed over to take a look.

  The two corps commanders looked at each other and immediately exchanged views.

  Corps Commander Ye Zhao was so excited that he immediately brought his corps headquarters to come over.

  Of course, he had ideas about these planes.

  Three transport planes were parked at the airport. These planes could also be used as passenger planes or official planes.

  Transport planes, when they transported people, they were passenger planes.

  At this time, there weren't many people in the country who could own their own planes.

  Even among these National Revolutionary Army major generals and lieutenant generals, there weren't many who could own their own planes.

  Corps Commander Ye Zhao and Corps Commander Deng Longguang both wanted to have their own planes.

  Although they couldn't fly themselves, they could hire a driver to fly the plane, just like a car.

  They believed that as long as they could pay the salary, they could hire a pilot.

  What did Lin Fan want?

  The two corps commanders' eyes met and they exchanged information.

  "Soldiers! What Lin Fan wants most is soldiers!"

  In order to pull a regiment away from them, Lin Fan used all the guns and cannons that were originally borrowed to exchange for them.

  If he wanted to exchange for a plane, the two corps commanders were shocked at the same time.

  If Lin Fan wanted another regiment, they could agree.

  What if he wanted more?

  When the Eighty-Third Army and the Sixty-Sixth Army marched into Guangde City,

  the people in the entire city were沸腾.

  They hadn't expected that the National Revolutionary Army would take Guangde back so quickly.

  And they had sent so many troops over.

  When Deng Longguang and Ye Zhao entered the city, there was still some smoke billowing in the south of the city.

  There was also a smell of roasted meat floating in the air.

 t heard their scouts report.

  The special forces company had burned many devils on the city walls of Guangde.

  The smell of meat in the air was the smell of those devils.

  When they met Lin Fan, Corps Commander Deng Longguang first congratulated the special forces company on another great victory and capturing Guangde.

  Corps Commander Ye Zhao also congratulated them in the same way, and then asked, "Can the radio silence be lifted?"

  Lin Fan said with a smile, "Yes! Yes! We have now captured Guangde.

  It doesn't matter even if the devils know."

  Corps Commander Ye Zhao wanted to contact the National Revolutionary Army stationed in Ningguo through the radio.

  They had two corps of 20,000 men who were going over.

  They couldn't let the National Revolutionary Army in Ningguo misunderstand them.

  The Sixty-Third Army, which had stopped contacting for six days, finally made contact again.

  This made the Wuhan headquarters very happy.

  After the Sixty-Sixth Army lost contact on the first day, they believed that the special forces company and the Eighty-Third Army and the Sixty-Sixth Army had encountered a fierce attack from the devils.

  For the next three days, Wuhan kept trying to contact them non-stop for twenty-four hours.

  As a result, they believed that this troop operating around Nanjing had been annihilated by the devils.

  To find out the truth, they originally only needed to send another flight of planes to take a look.

  But Chiang Kai-shek was unwilling to hear any more news about the special forces company.

 t dare to mention sending planes to scout.

  After all, scouting the Jurong line was very risky.

  Now, when they learned that the Eighty-Third Army and the Sixty-Sixth Army had fought all the way from Jurong to Tiangong Temple, Lishui, Langxi, and Guangde,

  and were now in Guangde, the entire Wuhan headquarters suddenly fell silent.

  The staff immediately placed flags representing the National Revolutionary Army on the map.

  "Have they been marching all these days?" a staff officer asked.

  "Didn't the devils send troops to garrison Lishui, Langxi, and Guangde?" someone else thought in reverse.

  Someone immediately denied it: "The Sixty-Sixth Army has maintained radio silence all these days.

  This shows that they are afraid that their action plan will be exposed and deliberately targeted by the devils.

  That's why they are so careful.

  It shows that the devils they are facing must not be few."

  While they were discussing, Corps Commander Deng Longguang and Corps Commander Ye Zhao were discussing with Lin Fan how to allocate the captured transport planes at Guangde Airport.

  Lin Fan initially didn't want to transfer those planes.

  However, these two corps commanders both put on a posture that they were determined to get the planes, and they could offer any price.

  Lin Fan finally succumbed to the pressure of the two corps commanders.

  This time, he only asked for a regiment from each of the two corps.

  In addition, he took back thirty mortars and ten infantry guns that he had sent out.

  Even so, Lin