Chapter 1 Zhongshan Shouyou's Predicament

Zhongshan Shouyou, the battalion commander, knew that the Jiro Konoe Battalion was located three *li* behind his camp.

Originally, they were competitors.

Now, he was going to seek refuge with the Jiro Konoe Battalion.

The devils of the Jiro Konoe Battalion heard the sounds of gunfire and cannons coming from the front.

They also saw the flares lighting up half the sky.

However, night marches were the easiest to fall into ambushes.

Even if they knew that the location was a friendly army's camp,

Battalion Commander Jiro Konoe still strictly ordered his devils: "Guard the camp well!

No attacking! No reconnoitering!"

At this time, they only needed to guard their own camp.

Everything would be discussed at dawn.

Battalion Commander Zhongshan Shouyou never imagined that his battalion would have such an embarrassing day.

His battalion ran away when they couldn't win!

They had already retreated to this point. He hadn't expected that cunning ambush team

had quietly planted landmines on his retreat route.

Directional bombs scattered the Zhongshan Shouyou Battalion, which was originally retreating in an organized manner.

These devils, who were attacked again, finally stopped moving in an orderly fashion toward the Konoe Battalion in the rear.

Instead, they started running around like startled ants.

The officers and soldiers of the First Company kept in mind Lin Fan's order: "No pursuit!"

Second Platoon Leader Qian Tianyou directed the soldiers to quickly clean up the battlefield.

It was night, and there wasn't much time.

Tonight's battlefield cleanup was uniformly stipulated to only retrieve weapons, ammunition, and grenades.

Lin Fan rushed into the camp of the Zhongshan Shouyou Battalion and immediately changed his mind when he saw more than a hundred mules and horses left behind by the fleeing devils;

and more than seventy carts.

He ordered the Second and Third Platoons to quickly harness these mules and horses to the carts.

Bring all the grain and ammunition left by the devils in the camp.

All the captured weapons and ammunition were also placed on the carts.

After another half an hour of busy work, they began to return to Teng County.

On the Teng County North Gate city wall, Division Commander Wang Mingzhang looked at the flares rising continuously in the distance.

He frowned and asked, "Which team encountered the devils?"

Squad Leader Deng Zizhen and his soldiers quietly lurked in the distance, watching the Special Forces Brigade driving the carts toward Teng County.

They waited until all the flares were extinguished and the devil camp was plunged into darkness.

The surroundings were silent.

Deng Zizhen then said, "I'll go in and take a look. You guys wait here."

Deputy Squad Leader Li Qi said, "Squad Leader, shall I go with you?"

"You have to stay here to respond. It's easier for me to get away alone."

Deng Zizhen carefully touched the edge of the devil camp.

Using the faint moonlight, he saw the corpses lying scattered on the ground.

He carefully lit a fire to take a look: they were clearly devils.

The faint light was surrounded by devil corpses.

So many devils?

Deng Zizhen had seen the team just now.

There weren't many of them, about a company.

The devils they killed numbered over a hundred in this area alone.

His small flame didn't cause any reaction.

Deng Zizhen simply lit a torch and held it in his hand.

Now he could see further.

There were devil corpses everywhere.

Li Qi and the other soldiers watched their squad leader suddenly swaggering around with a torch.

They were all sweating for him.

Soon, Deng Zizhen walked around the entire battlefield before extinguishing the torch and returning.

"Let's go! Go back!"

"Squad Leader! How was it?" Li Qi asked.

"The devils suffered a great loss in the battle just now.

I counted at least eight hundred dead devils.

I just don't know which brother company did it," Deng Zizhen said with a smile.

"Killed eight hundred devils in such a short time?" Everyone in the reconnaissance squad couldn't believe it.

"I can't believe it either! But that's the fact," Deng Zizhen said with a smile as he walked back.

On the ten-meter-high city wall of Teng County's East Gate, Division Commander Wang Mingzhang looked in the direction of Longyangdian:

Which team encountered the devils?

Could it be that the devils are attacking the Beisha River position?

"Call and ask about the situation on the Beisha River side?"

Soon the call was connected, and the report from the other side was that they didn't know what was happening, but they had already sent a reconnaissance squad to check the situation.

Wang Mingzhang waited patiently until the sky over Longyangdian finally darkened.

After nearly an hour, he received a report from the Beisha River direction:

"Reconnaissance squad reports: The devil camp stationed in Longyangdian was ambushed.

The devils left eight hundred corpses and abandoned their camp to flee."

"Say it again!" Wang Mingzhang couldn't believe it.

"The devils left eight hundred corpses and abandoned their camp to flee!"

Hearing the same report again, Wang Mingzhang was puzzled:

If it was his returning team that made the devils run away,

they should have arrived outside Teng County by now.

So much time had passed, but there was no movement outside the county seat.

Could it be that there were friendly troops passing by around Teng County?

Division Commander Wang's doubts were destined to remain unanswered.

Although the devils lost eight hundred infantrymen, this still didn't solve the fundamental problems facing Teng County.

Alas! Wang Mingzhang sighed heavily.

At this time, the arrival of Wang Zhonglian's army in Teng County was the fundamental solution to all problems.

Unfortunately, the Central Army was not something he or Commander Sun Zhen could command.

In fact, at this time, Li Zhongren, Commander-in-Chief of the Fifth War Zone, had personally issued an order for Wang Zhonglian to move north.

Helplessly, he still used the same reason: wait until the entire army corps was assembled before moving north in a unified manner.

Commander Li Zhongren was also powerless to do anything about it.

At this time, he thought of the Special Forces Brigade again: why was there such a big difference between the same armies?

Lin Fan, the brigade commander of the Special Forces Brigade, who he was thinking about,

was leading the First Company, driving more than sixty carts, into Teng County from the West Gate.

Tonight was the First Company's first battle after arriving in Teng County.

They fought very well!

Everyone from top to bottom was very happy. After traveling a long distance to get here,

they finally had a good start and could sleep well tonight.

Lieutenant General Isoya Renji, commander of the 10th Division of the devil army, learned that the vanguard preparing to attack Teng County had been ambushed.

Eight hundred devils died overnight.

He immediately ordered: "No matter what, the attack on Teng County must begin on the morning of the 16th."

Colonel Akachiba Yaezo, commander of the 10th Regiment, had no choice but to order the Takahashi Yuto Battalion, which was besieging Beisha, to withdraw from the battle.

Join the force attacking Teng County.

At eight o'clock in the morning on March 16, 1938.

The devils of the Konoe Jiro Battalion arrived at Teng County.

The city walls of Teng County were very well built, ten meters high and five meters thick.

The outer moat was five meters deep and twelve meters wide.

The devils searched around the city wall and found that the south side looked relatively weak.

However, there was an airplane parked on the runway outside the west gate!

This plane was known to both sides on the entire Teng County battlefield:

A tiger was painted on its belly.

Last time, this plane ambushed Sohta Fujiyama's fighter plane, and Sohta Fujiyama never returned.

When the devils of the Zhongshan Shouyou Battalion saw this plane,

Battalion Commander Zhongshan Shouyou immediately made up his mind:

Capture this plane.

Regain the face they had lost after being beaten to a pulp last night.

Last night, more than two-thirds of the devils in the entire Zhongshan Shouyou Battalion had died.

Even if they barely made it to Teng County tonight, they were still covered in dirt.

Battalion Commander Zhongshan Shouyou had been thinking about finding an opportunity to make a splash.

To boost morale.

Now was the opportunity. He wanted to retaliate, take revenge, and seize the opportunity.

From the beginning of the attack, the Zhongshan Shouyou Battalion showed a desperate spirit.

The battalion only had one company of combat infantry left.

But this was not a problem. Battalion Commander Zhongshan Shouyou ordered all the devils in the entire battalion: whether they were combat personnel or non-combat personnel.

All the devils rushed toward the plane on the runway outside the west gate with weapons.

What made Battalion Commander Zhongshan Shouyou so happy that he almost fainted was:

The city gate was still open!

Wasn't this opening the door to welcome thieves?

Bah! Battalion Commander Zhongshan Shouyou spat at himself.

This was called opening the door to welcome guests!

He could already see the prospect of his battalion rushing into Teng County.

Mao Wenxing stood on the city head, looking at his plane.

He asked Lin Fan for instructions, "Brigade Commander! Let me fly the plane away!

If that doesn't work, I can also circle in the air and land after the fighting is over."

Lin Fan said with a smile, "The devils are poor devils. When they see the plane,

all they think about is capturing it, not shooting it down.

Don't worry! They will be very careful to avoid the plane.

We don't have anything special here.

There is no way to attract the devils to attack.

Fishing also requires bait. This plane is the bait to attract the devils to attack."

Mao Wenxing said with heartache, "Brigade Commander! If you break this plane for me,

you have to compensate me!"

Lin Fan said with a smile, "I'm also reluctant to break a plane.

Do you really think we are rich! A plane costs 300,000.

But don't worry, after we go back this time, our Long Teng-2 will definitely fly higher and faster than your plane!"

The plane was now only thirty meters away from the city wall.

Lin Fan deliberately placed it in a corner to avoid accidental injury.

Battalion Commander Zhongshan Shouyou personally pressed the formation and brought up all the remaining four hundred devils in the battalion at once.

Rushing in the front was the Utsunomiya Eimon Infantry Company, which had luckily escaped last night.

Company Commander Utsunomiya Eimon shouted at the soldiers to rush toward the plane.

They were preparing to take a two-step approach: the first step was to push the plane away from the battlefield.

The further they pushed it, the better. They now wanted to push it to the other end of the runway.

The second step was to concentrate their forces and rush in through the city gate.

Since the Sichuan Army guarding the city dared to open the city gate wide, it certainly wasn't an "empty city ploy."

Even so, Battalion Commander Zhongshan Shouyou was confident and determined to capture the west of the city.

Becoming the first battalion to rush into Teng County.

These devils did not walk close to the city wall.

On the contrary, they deliberately stayed far away from the city wall and rushed onto the runway.

They rushed toward the plane along the runway.

This could avoid many attacks from the city wall.

After all, the Sichuan Army on the city wall would not intentionally destroy this plane, would they!

Battalion Commander Zhongshan Shouyou could not distinguish the difference between the Sichuan Army and the Special Forces Brigade at this time.

He foolishly believed that the ones on the city wall were still the Sichuan Army.

Let the Sichuan Army be afraid of hurting the mouse because of the vase!

This was Battalion Commander Zhongshan Shouyou's idea.

This idea now seemed to be showing initial results.

At least when the devils rushed to within a hundred meters of the plane, the soldiers on the city wall had not yet opened fire.

This was a good sign!

The devils of the Utsunomiya Eimon Company also became excited.

They were rushing in the front. They would provide cover later.

The devils who followed behind pushed the plane.

The combat mission was quite heavy.

Company Commander Utsunomiya Eimon pointed to the area around the plane and ordered: "The first squad will establish a defense on the left side of the plane.

Machine guns and grenade launchers should not save ammunition.

The second squad will establish a defense on the right side of the plane.

The third squad will prepare to rush in through the city gate.

Attract the attention of the Sichuan Army.

Let them be distracted so that we can safely push the plane away."

The plan was very perfect, and the feasibility was also very high.

They were now less than fifty meters away from the plane and only eighty meters away from the city wall of Teng County.

At this moment, Lin Fan on the city wall slashed his hand down.

In less than five seconds, the devils of the entire Zhongshan Shouyou Battalion

were covered by the iron pellets fired from the directional bombs.

All these iron pellets flew in the direction of the devils.

Not a single one ran toward the plane.

This was the advantage of directional bombs over landmines.

Controllable!

As soon as the bomb exploded, the rifles on the city wall also opened fire.

A team rushed out of the opened city gate.

The artillery platoon of Anping was firing on the city wall.

Gu Xiuming's First Company was charging under the city.

Anping and the others did not fire machine guns, heavy machine guns, or cannons.

Cannons were feared to be uncontrollable with shrapnel, and Mao Wenxing would not want to hurt the plane.

Machine guns and heavy machine guns were also based on the same idea.

Gu Xiuming and the others had been prepared for a long time.

In front of their charging team were five small carts.

These small carts swept across the devils at the rear of the Zhongshan Battalion as they charged.

When they saw these five carts,

the devils of the Zhongshan Shouyou Battalion immediately understood: it was this team last night.

After all, they had never encountered such a distinctive team on the battlefield before.

Last night, these people left a very deep impression on the devils.

The devils, who had just been ravaged by the directional bombs, were still standing stubbornly.

Some were still insisting on moving forward.

When they saw the small carts this time, they immediately turned around and wanted to run.

Battalion Commander Zhongshan Shouyou was particularly jealous when he saw these five small carts!

Drawing his command knife, he pointed at the First Company rushing over: "Kill! Kill!"

A distance of one hundred meters could be reached in less than twenty seconds.

Even if the heavy machine guns in front cleared the way and ran slower,

the distance between the First Company and the devils was rapidly closing.

The advantage of heavy machine guns was immediately revealed on this flat and clean runway.

Those devils who had been frightened last night turned around and wanted to run.

They only ran two steps before being harvested by the rain of bullets.

If they wanted to survive, they could only lie down temporarily and not become targets for the machine guns.

Battalion Commander Zhongshan Shouyou knelt down in humiliation in this situation.

And his movements were very fast. As he fell, he took advantage of the situation and pulled a devil's body in front of him as a shield.

He wasn't finished yet, and continued to stack a second body in front of him.

There were more than four hundred devils in the Zhongshan Shouyou Battalion who charged together.

Nearly three hundred devils were knocked down by the directional bombs just now.

Although most of them were not dead yet,

and were still groaning and struggling.

However, Battalion Commander Zhongshan Shouyou couldn't care so much now.

He loudly ordered: "Use corpses to build fortifications!"

When he issued the order, Company Commander Utsunomiya Eimon had already stacked the third devil in front of him.

However, using expediency in an emergency also had its drawbacks.

The devils he stacked were still struggling. As soon as they were stacked,

these struggling and wailing devils rolled away the already perfunctory fortifications.

This made Company Commander Utsunomiya Eimon a little anxious.

He pulled out the pistol from his waist and slammed the handle hard on the head of the devil used to build the fortifications.

Things suddenly became easier.

This time, five devils were stacked on top without collapsing.

"Company Commander is wise!"

Sergeant Major Saito Yuji, who saw this scene up close, secretly praised.

Learning from the example, although he didn't have a pistol, using a rifle butt had the same effect.

It was just that one thing was not good. The movements required to wave a rifle were larger.

It was this slight increase that caused a mistake.

A bullet, which was unknown where it came from, hit him just as Sergeant Major Saito Yuji was hitting someone.

It hit him in the wrist, and his entire wrist was shattered at once.

Sergeant Major Saito Yuji rolled around in pain.

Immediately, a second bullet hit him.

While he was still groaning, someone gave him a rifle butt.

Then his body was stacked on top of the already three-layer human flesh fortress.

Lin Fan and Anping stood high and could see clearly.

Seeing the devils so quickly build up human flesh bunkers on the completely flat runway without any defense,

they were very impressed.

However, Company Commander Gu Xiuming obviously did not give these devils, who were desperate to survive, any chance.

Whether it was the human flesh fortifications built by Battalion Commander Zhongshan Shouyou, Company Commander Utsunomiya Eimon, or other devils,

Before these fortifications could really play a role, the First Company had already rushed into their human flesh fortifications.

These devils, who didn't even have time to stand up, just lay on the ground and fought hand-to-hand with the soldiers of the First Company.

The devils had the courage to see red with their bayonets.

It was just that their way of fighting with bayonets while lying on the ground like mangy dogs

did not hinder the soldiers of the First Company in the slightest.

From the moment the directional bomb exploded to the moment the First Company ended the battle on the runway,

It took less than ten minutes in total.

Lin Fan shouted at a group of people in the city, "You guys go out with ten carts.

Bring back those things outside."

These people were fifty civilian workers specially invited by the Special Forces Brigade.

The last time they repaired the runway, the Special Forces Brigade's food was so delicious.

Lin Fan paid them to follow the Special Forces Brigade to help, but some timid people were afraid and dared not come.

In the end, there were still fifty brave people who stayed.

Now it was time for them to go out and clean up the battlefield.

In fact, the runway had already been roughly cleaned up.

Weapons and ammunition had already been collected together.

These people drove the carts out to load the guns and ammunition onto the carts and pull them back into the city.

Lin Fan reported to Division Commander Wang Mingzhang on the phone:

"More than four hundred devils attacked the west of the city, and I have completely annihilated them.

Please rest assured, Division Commander!"

Division Commander Wang Mingzhang, who had just received the news that hundreds of devils were attacking the west of the city, was still worried.

He knew that the plane on the runway outside the west of the city

would definitely attract the devils to attack.

In addition to being happy, he asked, "Brigade Commander Lin! If that plane can take off,

should we fly to Lincheng?

It's safer there."

Lin Fan said with a smile, "Thank you for your concern, Division Commander, there's no hurry for the time being!"

After thinking about it, Lin Fan reminded:

"Division Commander! If there is anything you need, the Special Forces Brigade will do its best."

Wang Mingzhang immediately thought of the Tang Enbo Corps, which had long received orders to support Teng County.

This was not the time to say discouraging words to his subordinates.

He suppressed his feelings and said with a smile, "You only have two hundred people defending the west of the city.

It's already very difficult.

If there are unexpected circumstances, don't hold on."

"Yes!" Lin Fan responded loudly.

Zhu Shaoyuan and the others had just heard a few loud noises outside the city.

Then the officers and soldiers guarding the west of the city rushed out.

Then the gunfire was fierce.

It soon stopped, and they were asked to drive the carts out.

At this time, the sound of gunfire and cannons could be heard throughout Teng County.

They couldn't tell which direction the gunfire was coming from.

But what they could be sure of was: it wasn't the west of the city.

Although Zhu Shaoyuan and the others were psychologically prepared,

and they were also brave, they were still startled when they walked out of the city gate and saw the scene on the runway.

Not far in front of the plane, on the open space, there were already ten or so piles of rifles set up.

And more than a dozen piles of ammunition bags, satchels, and backpacks.

These were not scary.

What was scary were those things that were not things piled up next to those things.

They were all corpses, the corpses of devils!

They smelled the pungent smell of blood even a hundred meters away.

Even the mules pulling the carts neighed and refused to go forward.

These people had to jump off the carts and reach out to pull the mules forward.

The closer they got, the more surprised they were.

Many devils had died. These devils were lying on the ground, scattered in all directions.

The blood they shed had already formed streams on the runway.

Zhu Shaoyuan boldly asked Company Commander Gu, "Company Commander! Did you guys kill all these devils just now!"

Gu Xiuming smiled as he helped load the guns onto the cart, "Of course! If you don't kill the devils yourself,

no one will help you.

These devils wouldn't have died here."

Wen Chao looked at the leather shoes on the devils' feet and said enviously,

"Company Commander, can we pick up a pair of the devils' leather shoes to wear back?"

Gu Xiuming said with a smile, "Yes, you can. But this place will soon be occupied by the enemy.

If you wear a pair of devil soldiers' leather shoes, aren't you afraid that the devils will make trouble for you?"

Wen Chao looked at the good leather shoes and had to give up his idea.

Gu Xiuming said, "Over there, we tear the clothes and pants into pieces of cloth,

dye them, and then make them into clothes.

This way, people will recognize them.

There is no good way to modify these leather shoes."

Hearing the idea Gu Xiuming gave, these people's eyes lit up immediately.

"Let's transport these things back first, and then come out to skin them!" Zhu Shaoyuan said loudly.

Gu Xiuming suggested, "Take off a set and go back now.

There may be devils coming later."

Colonel Akachiba Yaezo, commander of the 10th Regiment of the devil army, did not expect that the battle to attack Teng County had just begun,

and the Zhongshan Shouyou Battalion had already been completely annihilated.

This made Colonel Akachiba Yaezo, who had never suffered such a big loss along the way, furious.

He immediately ordered, "The Takahashi Yuto Infantry Battalion, the Kunouchi Ryota Tank Company, and the Fumino Hayato Artillery Regiment will jointly attack the west of Teng County."

At the same time, he ordered another artillery regiment, the Fujiwara Taiichi Regiment, to cooperate in attacking the south of the city.

He wanted to take Teng County in one fell swoop.

Because Colonel Akachiba Yaezo was clear: the train from Lincheng to Teng County was still open.

The Sichuan Army could receive reinforcements from the rear at any time.

As long as the reinforcements from the rear came, his regiment's current situation would be very dangerous.

The Sichuan Army could withdraw from Jinyang Mountain, Beisha River, and Da, Xiao Wucun.

Surrounding the entire 10th Regiment would have unimaginable consequences.

Now he wanted to cut the Gordian knot with a sharp knife and take Teng County with the greatest strength and speed.

Lin Fan considered again and again and finally accepted Division Commander Wang Mingzhang's suggestion.

He ordered Mao Wenxing to take off, temporarily circle around Teng County, and scout the enemy's situation.

When it was time to land, he would still fly to Lincheng.

Upon receiving the order, Mao Wenxing took off immediately.

After surveying the situation around Teng County, he reported:

"The defense positions of the various units of the Sichuan Army north of Teng County are somewhat scattered.

It seems that something has happened to them.

The devils have forty-five tanks and two artillery regiments that are heading toward Teng County."

Lin Fan immediately called the 122nd Division Headquarters.

When Division Commander Wang Mingzhang heard Lin Fan asking about the situation at the Jiehe, Beisha River, and Huangjiashan positions,

he had to tell Lin Fan, "The telephone lines between Teng County and the outside world have been destroyed, and we can no longer contact the outside world."

Lin Fan understood, "The front line has lost contact with Teng County.

The various units are afraid that Teng County has been lost, and they dare not continue to hold on.

They are preparing to retreat.

Teng County has now become an isolated city."

At ten o'clock in the morning on March 16th.

The devils' two armored companies and two field artillery regiments all arrived in Teng County.

Also arriving were two machine gun battalions.

According to Colonel Akachiba Yaezo's order, they were deployed separately in the west and south of the city.

They then notified the devil army flying team stationed at Nanyuan Airport in Peiping to prepare for a joint bombing of Teng County.

Before the devils' planes arrived, the Fumino Hayato Regiment and the Fujiwara Taiichi Regiment began bombing Teng County.

Mao Wenxing, who was still in the air, clearly saw that the devil's artillery positions were located five kilometers away from Teng County.

This meant that the Special Forces Brigade's cannon could only hit the Fujiwara Taiichi Regiment's artillery positions.

Based on Mao Wenxing's guidance, Lin Fan fired the first test shot.

It deviated 500 meters to the left front of the devil's position.

A shell exploded to the left front of the position, and the devils of the Fujiwara Taiichi Regiment were also taken aback.

They quickly fired shells toward Teng County.

Some of the devils' shells exploded on the outer runway, and some exploded in Teng County.

The artillery observation point set up by the Fujiwara Taiichi Regiment was located in a forest at the end of the runway.

Now they had discovered the Special Forces Brigade's cannon.

They were also adjusting the firing angle of the cannon.

Lin Fan adjusted the cannon again, but this time it was still off.

The shell exploded 100 meters in front of the devil's artillery position.

This was the reason for being unfamiliar with the terrain.

In recent days, only the reconnaissance squad had gone out to familiarize themselves with the terrain.

Lin Fan was still not familiar with the area around Teng County.

This seriously affected his judgment on the landing point of the shells.

Even so, it frightened the devils of the Fujiwara Taiichi Regiment and made them start firing indiscriminately.

The current situation was that both sides were seeing who could hit first.

Regimental Commander Fujiwara Taiichi ordered: all thirty-six cannons in the regiment to fire at the same time.

If they couldn't hit accurately, they would make up for it with quantity.

What if they were lucky and hit the Sichuan Army's artillery position?

He was now also at a loss: wasn't it said that the Sichuan Army didn't have cannons?

They had fired shells five kilometers away. What was that if it wasn't a cannon?

It had to be said that Regimental Commander Fujiwara Taiichi was an excellent artillery commander.

The position he chose now made the Special Forces Brigade also very helpless.

A distance of five kilometers was too far for mortars to reach.

This made the Special Forces Brigade's five mortars completely useless in this artillery battle.

Gu Xiuming was already asking Lin Fan for a battle: "Brigade Commander! The First Company can advance two kilometers

to blow up the devil's cannons."

Lin Fan shook his head and said, "Don't be impulsive!

You just heard that the devils also have tanks and infantry.

Without the cover of a heavy artillery regiment, you can rush out three kilometers.

What about coming back?"

Seeing that the devils' shells were also approaching the city wall,

Whether the devil's shells hit the city or outside the city,

They were all getting more and more accurate.

Lin Fan saw a reflection flash in the forest at the end of the runway.

Looking again, there were no more discoveries.

Pointing to the forest at the end of the runway, he said,

"Mortars, bomb that place.

It should be on the edge of the forest facing us.

It's the devil's artillery observation post."

Gu Xiuming was furious, "Damn it, they ran under our noses."

Five mortars immediately bombed the location Lin Fan pointed out.

Hidden in the forest were not only the devil's artillery observers, but also a company of the Takahashi Yuto Infantry Battalion.

They were working hard to observe the defense situation on the city wall.

They didn't pay much attention to the pile of devil corpses lying on the runway.

The dead devils no longer had any value.

The empire did not need such waste.

Lin Fan's third adjusted shell finally found its position.

It exploded on the devil artillery position of the Fujiwara Taiichi Regiment.

Mao Wenxing's excited voice came back, "Hit the third door on the right side of the devil artillery position."

The entire devil's artillery position had a total of thirty-six doors.

The interval between each door was thirty meters.

Finding the first target, Lin Fan's movements became as natural as flowing clouds and flowing water.

The cannon moved slightly in his hands. Every time a shot was fired, the cannon barrel moved a little.

When Regimental Commander Fujiwara Taiichi saw that one of his cannons had been hit,

The sound of his order was still so calm: "Positions one to twelve reduce the propellant charge by two.

Positions thirteen to twenty-four reduce the propellant charge by one.

Positions twenty-five to thirty-six increase the propellant charge by two.

Prepare!

…"

His orders were clear and accurate.

Before the word "fire!" could be shouted,

The benefits of anti-aircraft guns were fully realized at this time.

Lin Fan fired this cannon at its theoretical firing speed: twenty-five rounds per minute.

This was also thanks to Platoon Leader Anping and his men for quickly loading ammunition into the ammunition depot on the side.

One shell after another exploded on the artillery position of the Fujiwara Taiichi Regiment.

Although many devils could no longer hear the voice of Regimental Commander Fujiwara Taiichi shouting,

But they could still see the red command flag waving down.

It was just that less than ten shells were finally fired.

The devils in the remaining positions were either blown to death or injured.

Some positions began to explode.

Fortunately, the artillery position of the Fujiwara Taiichi Regiment was built strictly according to requirements.

Even the exploding cannons did not affect the other positions on both sides.

However, the shells fired down by Lin Fan did not stop.

It was as if he had the situation of this artillery position in his mind.

The shells that had just been fired had destroyed those positions, and those positions had not fired the shells over.

Lin Fan remembered everything clearly.

Mao Wenxing in the air was also reminding Lin Fan, guiding the shells to be delivered quickly.

Regimental Commander Fujiwara Taiichi watched as his team was hit by one terrifyingly accurate shell after another.

This made him fall into a deep sense of powerlessness and self-blame.

If he could have hit the opposite artillery position a little earlier and faster,

Until now, he still didn't know that there was only one cannon on the opposite side.

Battalion Commander Takahashi Yuto looked at the smoke rising from the artillery position, feeling uneasy.

Why did the cannons on his side stop firing?

At this moment, more than a dozen black shadows appeared in the sky to the north.

This was the bomber group that the devils sent from Peiping to bomb.

They clearly knew that the Sichuan Army had no planes here.

Even if they did, there was only one.

This time, the devils sent three fighter jets and nine bombers.

Their target was Teng County.

Although the last flying squadron in Teng County was shot down by a team called the Special Forces Brigade,

The Peiping Army Flying Team would rather believe it was a coincidence than believe it was true.

Flying in the front was also the captain of this flying team, Kihara Haruki.

He was piloting a fighter jet and had already discovered Mao Wenxing circling in the air.

After being reminded by the ground, Mao Wenxing now knew that the devils' planes were coming.

He quickly flew toward Teng County.

Platoon Leader Anping was also quickly changing shells for the anti-aircraft gun.

The shells used to shoot down planes and bomb the devil's artillery positions were different.

To be precise, it was the fuze of the shell that was different.

The one used to shoot down planes was a mixture of a time-delay fuze and a contact fuze.

When the shell was fired, it would explode itself within a certain period of time if it did not hit the target.

If it hit the target, it would explode immediately.

There was only one purpose for using such a fuze.

When the plane was not hit, these shells would not explode on their own people when they fell.

Otherwise, if they did not hit the target in the air and exploded on the ground again,

Wouldn't it become a bombing?

Only contact fuzes were used for bombing.

No matter how long the shell flew in the air, it would explode as soon as it touched something.

Anping and the others nervously changed the shells.

Lin Fan was also adjusting the angle of the cannon.

Flying Team Captain Kihara Haruki saw the lonely plane circling in the air.

He said to his team members with a smile: "That's just one plane.

The Hanshita Shunsuke squadron was unable to shoot it down.

It's a disgrace to the Imperial Flying Team.

No wonder the navy looks down on our army so much.

It was affected by such a fool."

"Yes! Yes! Westerners have long said:

A lion leads a group of sheep to fight, and that is a group of lions.

Sheep lead a group of lions to fight, and that is a group of sheep.

Poor those warriors of the entire Hanshita Shunsuke squadron.

They were all killed by a company commander."

Said pilot Toyama Kohaku.

These words were quite pleasing to Captain Kihara Haruki's ears.

He laughed happily:

"You can rest assured and bomb. That plane on the opposite side is already dead.

It will not have the slightest impact on our plane group."

The pilots of the nine bombers all responded.

For a time, the air was full of flattery to Captain Kihara Haruki.

Listening to these people's flattery, Captain Kihara Haruki felt his body floating.

The plane seemed to be lighter too, as if it had no weight.

It wasn't until he heard a terrified shout in his headset

that he came back to his senses.

"I've been hit!" This was what bomber pilot Yamashita Nijuku, who was flying in the back, shouted.

"I've been hit too!" Another devil shouted.

At this time, Captain Kihara Haruki realized that there was a fiery line on the ground, constantly flying toward the air.

Opposite was an anti-aircraft gun, which could hit so many bombers in his plane group?

Captain Kihara Haruki did not hesitate, accelerated and swooped straight toward that anti-aircraft gun.

It was very dangerous to accelerate when swooping.

Now Captain Kihara Haruki had been blinded by anger.

Or rather, he had been blinded by the responsibility