Iwataki Tatsuya's squadron had deployed two squads at Zhao Village and Miaogang, each leading a thousand newly supplemented transport soldiers into battle.

Squadron Leader Iwataki Tatsuya successfully returned to Jurong Town and rushed to Captain Shihomi Yota.

He reported loudly, "The three squads at Xiejiatang, Zhangjiazhuang, and Shangzhuang, along with three thousand wounded soldiers, have all been annihilated by the pursuing National Revolutionary Army.

Now, the National Revolutionary Army is engaged in a bloody battle at Miaogang and Zhao Village."

Seeing Captain Shihomi Yota's unpleasant expression, Squadron Leader Iwataki Tatsuya finally added, "The Empire's warriors are no match for them, and the pursuers may charge up here at any moment."

He didn't need to remind him; Captain Shihomi Yota was well aware of this.

After thinking for a moment, Captain Shihomi Yota, with a sliver of hope, ordered the cowardly squadron leader, "Come with me to report to Commander Prince Asaka Yasuhiko!"

Captain Shihomi Yota knew at first glance that Iwataki Tatsuya was a deserter.

No matter what reason he used to disguise it, a commanding officer who fled from the battlefield alone was a deserter.

Currently, Squadron Leader Iwataki Tatsuya was unaware of the captain's extreme contempt for his desertion.

If it weren't for the fact that they were in dire need of manpower, Squadron Leader Iwataki Tatsuya would have already been subjected to military discipline by the captain.

Commander Prince Asaka Yasuhiko met Squadron Leader Iwataki Tatsuya, who had just come from the battlefield, in his command headquarters.

After listening to Squadron Leader Iwataki Tatsuya's report, he simply pondered for a moment, "No matter what, we must hold our ground!

The Empire's glory cannot be lost here by the King's uncle.

You may leave!"

Disappointed, Captain Shihomi Yota left the Shanghai Expeditionary Army headquarters without a word.

He coldly ordered Squadron Leader Iwataki Tatsuya, who had just rushed back from the front line, "Now you can return to the front line, to your command post."

Squadron Leader Iwataki Tatsuya stared blankly at the captain, as if he hadn't heard clearly, "Nani?"

"Return to your front line, return to your command post!

Sergeant Funasaka Atsushi, take three men and escort Squadron Leader Iwataki Tatsuya back."

This time, Squadron Leader Iwataki Tatsuya finally understood: he had just escaped the tiger's mouth, only to be sent back into it!

Escorted by four soldiers!

Was this an escort? It was an escort under guard!

In this situation, Squadron Leader Iwataki Tatsuya dared not say anything, dared not do anything.

All he could do was salute, "Hai! Farewell! Captain Shihomi Yota!"

Squadron Leader Iwataki Tatsuya hoped that his words would resonate with the captain, but he didn't expect all his attempts to be interpreted by the captain from the perspective of a coward.

Thus, Squadron Leader Iwataki Tatsuya's final attempt at salvation failed.

He had no choice but to run back to Baimiaogang again under the "escort" of four soldiers.

It wasn't that Squadron Leader Iwataki Tatsuya wanted to run back on his own; it was just that the captain had ordered him to return to the position as quickly as possible!

At this time, Squadron Leader Iwataki Tatsuya hoped that the attacking force would be stronger.

Even stronger! To completely occupy Miaogang before he returned to the position.

Heaven finally granted him one of his wishes: before Iwataki Tatsuya and his group of five could reach Miaogang, they saw soldiers from the Special Operations Company continuing to advance towards Jurong.

Now he didn't have to go to Miaogang after all. A smile appeared on Squadron Leader Iwataki Tatsuya's face.

Sergeant Funasaka Atsushi clearly saw the smile on his face.

A strange smile also appeared on Sergeant Funasaka Atsushi's face.

With this smile, he said to Squadron Leader Iwataki Tatsuya, "Captain Shihomi's orders: The Miaogang position has been lost.

Execute him on the spot!"

As soon as he finished speaking, "Bang!" A gunshot rang out.

Squadron Leader Iwataki Tatsuya looked in astonishment at Sergeant Funasaka Atsushi, whose gun barrel was still smoking, and asked with difficulty, "Why?"

"A coward who deserts his post! Don't you know that yourself?"

Sergeant Funasaka Atsushi said with disdain.

With two more shots, Squadron Leader Iwataki Tatsuya finally fell.

The sky! It had already darkened!

Lin Fan's order also came down, "Rest on the spot! Suspend the attack!"

The vanguard of the 83rd Army had now entered the territory defended by the 66th Army.

Leading the way were Army Commander Deng Longguang and Division Commander Wu Jianxiong of the 154th Division.

The 154th Division was the leading force.

Lin Fan, Army Commander Ye Zhao, and Division Commander Tan Sui of the 159th Division came forward to greet them.

After the group met, Lin Fan said with a smile, "More than ten thousand soldiers from the 83rd Army have arrived.

I have no other way, so I had some pancakes baked, some meat cooked, and some porridge made.

Each soldier gets two pancakes, a piece of meat, and a bowl of porridge.

Let's all eat first!"

As he spoke, Sheng Menghai, Ji Wudi, and the others had already brought buckets and basins over.

This was specially ordered by Lin Fan to be delivered to Army Commander Deng and the others. Lin Fan wanted to hold a meeting with these big shots here first.

Army Commander Deng Longguang picked up a pancake, felt it, and found it to be thick, large, and heavy!

He said with a smile, "This pancake is solid!"

Lin Fan said with a smile, "We can't be too particular now; we can only make do!"

"This is very good! Very good! The tens of thousands of brothers in the 83rd Army will be grateful to you," Army Commander Deng said as he ate heartily.

Ji Wudi handed over a piece of meat, "A bite of pancake, a bite of meat, a sip of porridge soup, that's how it's fragrant."

Looking at the fist-sized piece of meat, Army Commander Deng declined, "There's no need to prepare so well for me.

One pancake, at most two, is enough."

Lin Fan laughed, "Don't worry, Army Commander Deng! The brothers in the 83rd Army are eating the same as you.

My soldiers and I are eating the same tonight!"

Deng Longguang ate a bite of the meat, "So fragrant!"

In reality, Sheng Shicai had simply put the meat in a large pot, boiled it with water and salt.

Today, they had to prepare food for more than twenty thousand people, and the number of cooks had been increased to more than a hundred.

Qian the Elder looked at the force that had been just over a thousand people a few days ago, and in one day, it had suddenly ballooned to more than twenty thousand.

He sighed and said, "An auspicious sign of prosperity!"

He said to Qian Youcai, "From now on, you will follow this Company Commander Lin and work."

He also said to his daughter, "Don't miss the opportunity!"

Qian Jiao, of course, understood what this meant, but she hadn't reached the point where she would actively pursue Lin Fan.

Besides, the little Company Commander Lin was really busy right now.

Lin Fan, Li Xian, 66th Army Commander Ye Zhao, and 88th Army Commander Deng Longguang were holding a meeting here, with the four division commanders of the 154th Division, 156th Division, 159th Division, and 160th Division in attendance.

Lin Fan first introduced the situation. This time, he shared the information he had brought from later generations:

"Based on our attack today and the intelligence that the Japanese even sent out their wounded to fight,

I believe that the Japanese we have been fighting from Tangshan onwards are from the Shanghai Expeditionary Army headquarters, and their current commander is Prince Asaka Yasuhiko.

He is the Japanese King's uncle.

That is why the Japanese cavalry and motor vehicle units were desperately trying to rush over from Nanjing to die.

That is also why there were paratroopers airdropped from the air."

When Lin Fan said this, Ye Zhao asked, "Why doesn't the Shanghai Expeditionary Army go from Jurong, Tuqiao, Chunhua all the way to Nanjing?"

Lin Fan smiled and said, "For the pride of the King! To this day, one thinks of Xiang Yu, who refused to cross the Yangtze River.

Some people's pride is irrational."

The generals present all laughed!

Although at this time, they had only just broken out of Nanjing City.

Lin Fan pointed at the map and said, "Based on the situation we observed from high altitude, there are not many Japanese soldiers left in Jurong Town.

At most, no more than three thousand Japanese soldiers."

He said this very easily, as if three thousand Japanese soldiers were really nothing.

Army Commander Ye Zhao didn't speak, but Army Commander Deng Longguang said, "Three thousand Japanese soldiers are equivalent to a Japanese regiment.

If our army was fully equipped, we could try to fight three thousand Japanese soldiers.

But now..."

He didn't finish, but everyone knew what he wanted to express.

Lin Fan explained, "Today, we came from Tangshan, and the Japanese soldiers we eliminated along the way have long exceeded three thousand.

It has even exceeded six thousand Japanese soldiers."

Army Commander Deng Longguang and the two division commanders under him clearly didn't quite believe it.

Division Commander Wu Jianxiong directly asked, "Company Commander Lin! Even if your company has more than a thousand people,

how could you possibly eliminate six thousand Japanese soldiers?"

Lin Fan said with some annoyance, "There were too many Japanese soldiers eliminated, and it's not easy to count them clearly.

The Seventh Squad held the rear and destroyed twenty Japanese transport trucks in the first battle, that's five or six hundred, right?

Then they destroyed a Japanese cavalry regiment, and the horse legs that were cut off are what everyone just ate.

That should be more than a thousand Japanese soldiers.

Next, they sent back more than two thousand warhorses, that's also more than two thousand Japanese soldiers.

Then there were more than fifty Japanese cars that came to our door. That should be more than a thousand Japanese soldiers.

Calculated like that, the Seventh Squad and the Fifth Squad should have eliminated five thousand Japanese soldiers.

The artillery shot down fifteen Japanese transport planes in Tangshan, which were full of Japanese soldiers, the exact number is unknown.

We won't count that.

On the way from Tangshan, we should have killed four or five hundred Japanese soldiers.

Here in Jurong, we fought continuously in the afternoon, and the Japanese sent out only wounded soldiers.

After cleaning up the battlefield, we have collected more than three thousand rifles, which should also be more than three thousand Japanese soldiers.

The battlefield is still being cleaned up in front, and we don't know how many more Japanese soldiers have been killed.

Calculated like this, we have actually killed nearly ten thousand Japanese soldiers?"

He didn't know until he counted, and he was shocked when he counted! Lin Fan was really stunned by this number.

The numbers Lin Fan said directly stunned Army Commander Deng, Division Commander Wu Jianxiong, and Division Commander Li Jiang.

Division Commander Wu Jianxiong sneered and was about to say something when...

Army Commander Ye Zhao pressed his hand down.

He was from the Guangdong Army and had a very good relationship with the 83rd Army.

He had something to say, so Division Commander Wu Jianxiong stopped.

He listened to how Army Commander Ye was going to refute this Company Commander Lin.

Army Commander Ye Zhao said, "When the Japanese transport planes were shot down in Tangshan, our army saw it.

They said they destroyed the Japanese cars, and Liu Wan and Liu Yong went to the battlefield afterward to clean up, and they can also testify.

Speaking of which, I'm the same as Brother Deng. For the past day and night, the entire army has been hungry and exhausted.

I heard Company Commander Lin say that they had just destroyed a Japanese cavalry regiment and had horse meat to eat.

So I sent two regiments to cut horse meat.

I won't hide it from Army Commander Deng, we had horse meat for lunch.

After that, we were with Company Commander Lin's force.

Now, let's listen to what Company Commander Lin has to say."

Army Commander Ye Zhao's words were clearly endorsing Lin Fan.

Lin Fan continued, "There are not many Japanese soldiers in Jurong. If we just want to break through, we can leave at any time.

The Japanese won't dare to come after us!

At least, the Japanese soldiers in Jurong Town won't dare to come after us anymore."

Hearing him say it so confidently, the generals present all laughed.

With the biggest hidden danger eliminated, they all relaxed.

Finally safe!

The generals present all understood: once they passed Jurong, they would be like an alligator snapping its golden hook and breaking its golden lock to become a dragon.