Chen Cheng spoke eloquently in the Wuhan Garrison Command headquarters.

His predictions from yesterday had all been confirmed, and now it was his time to speak.

Everyone in the command headquarters was listening attentively.

After listening to his three strategies—superior, intermediate, and inferior—

someone immediately echoed, "The current situation of the Sixty-sixth and Eighty-third Armies is indeed very dangerous.

It's also very worrying.

They are too close to Nanjing. You must know that there are 200,000 Japanese troops in Nanjing.

If the Japanese launch a full-scale attack, their 20,000 men in Jurong will not be able to resist.

Therefore, I believe that the priority now should be to preserve strength.

Adopt General Chen's superior strategy.

Immediately retreat from Jurong and march towards Ningguo with the victorious army.

They will definitely be able to reach Ningguo safely in one go.

And they will also be able to secure their achievement of eliminating tens of thousands of enemies during the breakout."

This analysis was logical and took all aspects into account.

Chiang Kai-shek nodded repeatedly, "Then proceed according to the superior strategy!"

The Wuhan Garrison Command immediately transmitted the instructions via radio waves to Mu Yingyao, the radio operator of the Sixty-sixth Army, who was ready to receive orders at any time.

The "di-di-da-da" sound was exciting to the officers and soldiers present.

They had finally re-established contact with the higher-ups.

Lu Hongmao quickly translated the telegram and sent it to Commander Ye Zhao.

Ye Zhao's expression changed after reading the telegram.

Commander Ye Zhao still had some reservations about Lin Fan's "encircle and strike reinforcements" plan:

He was afraid of failing to catch the tiger and instead being injured by it.

And the unsuccessful attack on Jurong earlier also made him worried.

Especially the battle in the Chunhua direction. The attack on Chunhua was going very smoothly.

At least four thousand Japanese soldiers had rushed from Nanjing to Chunhua. The two sides should have made contact by now!

At this moment, another messenger he had sent out returned.

After the first discovery of Japanese reinforcements, Commander Ye ordered a report from the Chunhua direction every five minutes.

In the last five minutes, the message returned was that there were already more than four thousand Japanese soldiers, and more were appearing continuously.

This messenger rode his warhorse over, running somewhat hastily.

Yan Bowen immediately jumped off his horse when he saw the commander there, "Reporting, Commander!"

Commander Ye was a little anxious, "Just tell me the situation!"

"More than five thousand Japanese soldiers coming from the direction of Nanjing have now been killed by our explosives.

Less than a thousand Japanese soldiers remain, and Regiment Commander Liu Wan and Regiment Commander Liu Yong are attacking them."

Happiness came too suddenly, Commander Ye ordered, "Say it again!"

"More than five thousand Japanese soldiers coming from the direction of Nanjing have now been killed by our explosives.

Less than a thousand Japanese soldiers remain, and Regiment Commander Liu Wan and Regiment Commander Liu Yong are attacking them."

Yan Bowen repeated the report just now.

"How did they fight? How could they eliminate thousands of Japanese soldiers in five minutes?" Commander Ye asked.

He wasn't the only one with this question in his mind; dozens of officers and soldiers present had the same question.

Yan Bowen calmed his rapid breathing from the hasty ride just now.

Only then did he begin to speak.

The results were great, but the matter was small: "The Special Company set up a minefield one kilometer long along the road.

After the rear of the Japanese troops entered the minefield,

the soldiers of the Special Company detonated the mines.

All the Japanese soldiers who were in the minefield were killed.

Only the hundreds of Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough not to be standing on the road were unharmed."

Hearing that the Special Company had sent thousands of Japanese soldiers to heaven with just a simple minefield,

the officers and soldiers present looked at each other, feeling that this battle was too easy.

Commander Ye Zhao ordered, "Send a message to Wuhan: Five minutes ago, our army annihilated more than four thousand Japanese reinforcements outside Chunhua Town.

The remaining hundreds of Japanese soldiers are being surrounded and suppressed."

He did not answer whether to execute the instructions from Wuhan or not.

Mu Yingyao, Lu Hongmao, Bu Heshuo, and Leng Hongzhe, the four of them, felt that their worldview was about to be subverted after hearing Yan Bowen's report.

When did the National Army become so powerful: killing four thousand Japanese soldiers in five minutes?

Don't even talk about killing four thousand Japanese soldiers in five minutes; even killing four hundred Japanese soldiers in an entire battle was a great victory.

Seeing this messenger riding back on a warhorse to report, it should be real.

Seeing the warhorses, they remembered again: "There are too many warhorses here.

Where did they get so many warhorses from?"

If there were questions, they had to be asked immediately, and Bu Heshuo and the others immediately got their answer: The Special Company annihilated the Japanese cavalry regiment and seized the warhorses.

This answer was even more outrageous than saying that these warhorses were equipped by the National Army.

Now was not the time to dwell on these small matters. The four of them were only here to act as robots,

serving as eyes and ears for the Wuhan Garrison Command, only listening and watching.

Ye Commander and the others were the ones who truly decided what to do, and Bu Heshuo and the others could not interfere.

Now, Commander Ye Zhao was taking the telegram to find Lin Fan.

The news that had just been reported had to be delivered to Company Commander Lin in a timely manner.

At this time, Lin Fan was still wandering around those planes: he also wanted to have his own planes.

In this era, with the help of planes during combat, there were too many things Lin Fan could do.

Now he wanted to fly a plane to see the Japanese army coming from Tennoji that Andrei had mentioned.

He also wanted to take a look at Nanjing City.

At this moment, he saw Commander Ye Zhao coming over with an excited expression on his face.

From a distance, Commander Ye shouted loudly, "A great victory at Chunhua!

The Japanese soldiers who came from Nanjing have been defeated."

As expected, Lin Fan did not put on a surprised expression in coordination.

Commander Ye felt a little disappointed, but after thinking about it, this was the team that had fought it.

They had annihilated several Japanese cavalry regiments.

Company Commander Lin had become accustomed to such victories. Thinking of this, Commander Ye Zhao finally felt a little better.

He handed the telegram in his hand to Lin Fan, "Wuhan wants us to set off for Ningguo immediately."

Lin Fan took the telegram and read it at a glance: No rush for now!

We have now captured Chunhua.

From this direction, our reconnaissance can already reach Takaishomon.

There is an eighty-mile buffer in between, enough for us to react.

The battle on Tangshan's side has not yet begun. After repelling the Japanese soldiers in the Tangshan direction,

it will take another day for Nanjing City to reorganize a group of people to come out to support.

We can fight slowly.

We will fight if we can win, and run if we can't.

These days, let the soldiers eat well and rest well.

Be ready to fight at any time, be ready to run at any time.

If we let the Eighty-third Army go and fight Tennoji again, our strategic space will be even greater.

This kind of opportunity is not easy to find.

Commander Ye! What do you think?"

Commander Ye Zhao, who had just received the telegram from Wuhan, wanted to accept the order as his first reaction.

Immediately lead the troops through Jurong and advance directly to Ningguo.

Commander Ye really didn't have much confidence in the combat effectiveness of his own team.

The National Army had deployed 150,000 troops but hadn't held Nanjing City for a few days. Could his own ragtag team be stronger than 150,000 troops?

That's what he thought.

After receiving the news that Chunhua had defeated the Japanese soldiers who had come to reinforce,

he became hesitant again.

He knew clearly that if the Sixty-sixth Army persisted here, the Sixty-sixth Army would have a share of all the victories around Jurong.

Such victories would definitely be heavily publicized by the National Army during the general defeat.

At that time, he would be a nationally known anti-Japanese general, and the reputation, fame, and status would all come.

If he left Jurong and the Special Company fought a beautiful battle here,

not to mention that the subsequent honors would have nothing to do with the Sixty-sixth Army, even today's victory would be overshadowed.

There might not even be the name of the Sixty-sixth Army at all.

It was precisely because Commander Ye Zhao thought of this that he hesitated.

Now, when he heard Lin Fan's tone, he still wanted to continue "encircling and striking reinforcements."

"Encircle and strike reinforcements? The Special Company's bombs are so powerful.

The Japanese suffered such a big loss. If this situation could happen again,"

Commander Ye felt excited just thinking about it!

Commander Ye immediately said, "Company Commander Lin, don't worry! The Sixty-sixth Army will definitely fight alongside the Special Company."

Chief of Staff Tai Shihongyang of the Eighty-eighth Army also stated, "The Eighty-third Army will definitely fight alongside the Special Company as well."

The news that the Special Company had annihilated more than four thousand Japanese soldiers in Chunhua with a single blast

had also shocked Chief of Staff Tai Shihongyang.

After being shocked, Chief of Staff Tai Shihongyang immediately sent someone to deliver the news to Commander Deng Longguang.

He believed that Commander Deng, who received this news, would definitely support his decision.

Lin Fan smiled and said to Commander Ye, "Now Commander Ye can send two regiments, and the Eighty-third Army can send two regiments, to Chunhua to take over the weapons and equipment.

Let the officers and soldiers who were unable to go to the battlefield today see the corpses of Japanese soldiers everywhere in person.

This can greatly boost the morale of the officers and soldiers, and then equip each of their squads and companies with machine guns, heavy machine guns, and mortars.

When fighting the Japanese, they will no longer be afraid."

Commander Ye Zhao laughed, "Company Commander Lin still remembers this matter!

Aren't those equipment supposed to be divided?"

Just now, when he proposed to send two regiments to assist in the battle, Lin Fan refused him.

He said he wanted to wait a while. It turned out he was waiting for this great victory!

Thinking about it, that was indeed the case. Morale was something that could not be seen or touched,

but it could be clearly felt. The combat effectiveness of a team with morale and a team without morale was vastly different.

This was why the ancients had to have a justifiable reason for fighting, and why they said that an army filled with grief would surely win!

Even in the current battle, the Japanese were constantly promoting the righteousness of their war.

The soldiers of the Sixty-sixth and Eighty-third Armies joined the battle with the momentum of a great victory.

Indeed, their combat effectiveness was at least 30% higher than before.

If you add the addition of light and heavy machine guns, mortars and infantry artillery to the equipment,

the combat effectiveness of the entire army was at least 70% higher than in the morning.

The more he thought about it, the more Commander Ye Zhao admired Company Commander Lin, like a torrential river, endless.

Lin Fan said with a smile: "Distributing it to the soldiers is for the sake of resisting Japan.

Record the quantity of the division first, and when we have completed the task here,

let's have a clear accounting between brothers. How about more refunds and fewer supplements?"

Chief of Staff Tai Shihongyang immediately said: "Okay! Clear accounts between brothers.

Now the military situation is urgent. Distribute good weapons to the soldiers immediately.

Using Japanese weapons to fight the Japanese, I feel relieved just thinking about it!"

Lin Fan said with a smile: "The person sent by the Special Company to do the statistics is Section Chief Qian Youcai.

You two armies should also send an officer to do the statistics!"

Commander Ye Zhao laughed: "Company Commander Lin handles things openly."

He immediately ordered: "Zuo Zhehan, you go with Section Chief Qian and just record the quantity."

According to Lin Fan's statement: "Now we are just distributing weapons and ammunition to various troops.

The specific amount to be divided among the various teams has not yet been determined.

Distribute the weapons first, and settle the accounts later.

The ones who benefit from this kind of approach are definitely the Sixty-sixth and Eighty-third Armies.

Because they have a lot of people and poor weapons, it is precisely the time when they need equipment.

The Special Company and Li Zhize Company have few people, and the equipment has been prepared in one go.

There is no need to allocate weapons and equipment into it anymore.

This time, the Sixty-sixth and Eighty-third Armies have made a big profit."

On the one hand, Lin Fan wanted to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the National Army. After all, the combined strength of these two armies was more than 20,000 people.

On the other hand, he wanted these teams that escaped from Nanjing to see the battlefield with their own eyes:

The Japanese are not that scary, nor are they invincible.

As long as the tactics are right, fighting the Japanese

is not difficult!

Lin Fan believed that as long as the four regiments that these two armies sent to receive weapons and equipment

arrived at the scene and saw it, they would definitely be much braver when fighting the Japanese again.

Finally, Lin Fan also had a little bit of a careful thought: so many weapons and equipment,

even if they were all left to the Special Company, the Special Company would not be able to transport them all away.

There are more than 20,000 transportation teams out of thin air, if you don't use them, you will feel a loss.

The three parties discussed and decided, Lin Fan said: "Food and supplies will still be kept in a unified manner for the time being.

After all, we still cook together."

The Eighty-third and Sixty-sixth Armies did not care about these small things!

The two things they cared about now were: safety and weapons!

Bu Heshuo looked at the situation on the scene, and although he was shocked that a company commander was actually directing two armies to do things,

he didn't bother to dwell on these things. He just wanted to complete his mission,

establish a direct connection between the Special Company and Wuhan.

Lin Fan's Special Company originally had a radio station, but he had always only contacted the organization.

He had never contacted Nanjing or Wuhan.

Wuhan had actually sent professional liaison personnel to his company, which suddenly raised the Special Company's worth.

Captain Bu Heshuo said to Lin Fan: "Company Commander Lin, we came from Wuhan

specifically to establish a connection between the Special Company and Wuhan.

Do you have anything to ask Wuhan to give instructions or report?"

Lin Fan thought for a while: "There is nothing to report or ask for instructions for the time being."

Captain Bu Heshuo continued to ask: "Can we walk around and take a look at the team?"

Lin Fan immediately said: "When you enter the Special Company, you are a member of the Special Company.

You can ask or see anything.

The Special Company now only has one purpose: to fight the Japanese!

If you agree with this and abide by the rules of the Special Company, that's all."

He pointed to Li Xian and said, "This is Li Xian, the deputy company commander of the Special Company.

You can ask him any questions you have."

After dismissing these two people,

Lin Fan really didn't have time to care about these two paratroopers.

Attacking Jurong and sniping at the Japanese army in the direction of Tangshan were all things that needed to be paid attention to.

Especially the Japanese army coming from the direction of Tennoji. Although there was an entire army of the Eighty-third Army in that direction,

what was their combat effectiveness like?

Lin Fan was not sure.

Company Commander Fumino Ryo was originally from the 114th Division of the Tenth Army.

It was only on the way to attack Nanjing that, in order to ensure the safety of the transportation of supplies for the occupied cities of the Empire,

his company had to be left in Tennoji to serve as a protection task.

From Shanghai to Nanjing, in these cities and villages, after this period of great war,

there were countless weapons and ammunition discarded by the National Army, and many weapons were scattered among the people.

There were groups of three or five people with guns everywhere.

They dared to move anyone and dared to rob anything.

After robbing the supplies sent to the front line by the Tenth Army several times, Fumino Ryo's company had to stay to maintain the safety of the route from Tennoji to Jurong.

Company Commander Fumino Ryo received the news that Commander Asaka Yasuhiko had been trapped in Jurong, and then took the puppet army that had set off from Changzhou to Jurong.

Before setting off, Company Commander Fumino Ryo already knew that two elite infantry regiments of the Empire had set off from Nanjing City.

In Company Commander Fumino Ryo's view, two elite infantry regiments of the Empire were equivalent to a division.

The National Army, which had just had its capital captured, would definitely not have the guts to continue staying in Jurong.

With this judgment, Company Commander Fumino Ryo also brought hundreds of carts of food supplies this time.

These were to be sent to the front line.

Leng Jingguo led his 6,000 troops and walked in front of Company Commander Fumino Ryo.

Many of his 6,000 troops were originally people who made a living with the Nanjing government.

A few days ago, they were fighting the Japanese, but when the Japanese really came,

they changed their identities and made a living with the Japanese.

This time, when they heard that Nanjing City had been captured, these puppet troops seemed to think that this was their victory

and looked very excited.

Their goal this time was Jurong. They heard that a big Taijun (Japanese officer) was stationed there

and was blocking the National Army soldiers who were fleeing from Nanjing.

Now the Taijun was surrounding those National Army soldiers and fighting fiercely.

Carrying expectations, Leng Jingguo led the team and walked ahead to clear the way.

Along the way, he had seen at least six heroes hiding in hidden positions and secretly watching.

Leng Jingguo's team had 6,000 people and was not afraid of those outlaws.

His team had only set off after eight o'clock this morning and had traveled ten kilometers in two hours.

At this speed, they would be able to reach Jurong today no matter what.

When Andrei was in the air, he saw the Japanese army coming to Jurong from three directions and was very worried about the National Army staying here.

Obviously, he did not see fear in the eyes of these soldiers and officers.

Instead, he saw a sense of eagerness in the eyes of these soldiers.

Andrei was a little worried: he was worried that his team would be caught by the Japanese before he could even fly.

Fortunately, the commander here was still friendly to the plane: he sent thousands of people to level the runway.

They filled in the small potholes on this road and also leveled the uneven places.

Andrei had already turned the direction of five fighter jets that could take off.

They were ready to take off at any time. He had already told Yekaterina: "If we encounter an emergency and have to take off,

Yekaterina will take the transport plane back.

Just destroy this fighter jet here."

After borrowing the radio station of the Sixty-sixth Army and asking Mu Yingyao to send a telegram back to ask for instructions,

Air Force Commander Zhou Zhirou also agreed to this decision.

Fortunately, only half an hour had passed, and the three cavalry teams that had just been sent out had actually dragged back the tail of the plane.

Lin Fan looked at Su Hongfang and said, "The one you found is the most suitable.

Let's use this one."

Su Hongfang became happy and said loudly: "I said it, when we found this plane,

this half was still connected to the plane. I don't know where the other half went.

We originally wanted to drag the whole plane back, but it was too heavy.

We didn't bring a big car, so we had to break this piece off.

I asked them to shake this half for a long time before they shook it off."

Lin Fan looked at the wrinkles at the fracture of this wing. It was obvious that great strength had created a miracle.

It was broken after being continuously bent and folded hard, causing metal fatigue.

He smiled and said: "Well done."

Now everyone was waiting for his performance.

Lin Fan's maintenance was very simple. He used wooden stakes and ropes to fix this wing to the tail of the plane, and the maintenance was complete.

It took less than thirty minutes in total.

Lin Fan also gave Yekaterina face-to-face instructions: With the plane in its current condition, try not to make difficult maneuvers.

After all, it is injured!

This was Lin Fan's final conclusion.

Captain Andrei looked at the plane that Lin Fan had repaired like this.

He was 10,000 times against Yekaterina piloting it back.

Lin Fan was happy and spread his hands: "In this place, we can only repair it like this.

If you can't fly it, we will protect it well.

We will always take it to Ningguo!"

When Andrei heard Yevgeny translate Lin Fan's words, his eyes lit up immediately: "Can you really take it to Ningguo?"

Lin Fan answered affirmatively: "Of course."

With this affirmative answer, Andrei was relieved: "Yekaterina, you take the transport plane back.

The plane is too dangerous in its current state.

I order you: Leave this plane here for the time being."

Yekaterina also knew how risky it was to fly a patched-up plane for hundreds of kilometers.

When she heard that the Special Company guaranteed that they could take this plane to Ningguo,

she could only obey the order.

Lin Fan happily watched the Andrei team fly into the sky.

Before boarding the plane this time, Andrei asked earnestly: "Do you need us to attack the Japanese army that is coming to attack?"

Lin Fan smiled: "We can handle those Japanese soldiers."

He waited for Andrei and the others to take off quickly, Lin Fan's hands were already itching.

Andrei and the others took off, and soon the black dots of the plane disappeared.

Lin Fan happily sat on the plane that he had just repaired.

Commander Ye Zhao asked strangely: "Company Commander Lin! Can you fly a plane?"

Lin Fan said with a smile: "I'm just going to Tangshan and Tennoji to take a look."

Li Xian immediately stood up: "You can't go."

"Why?" Lin Fan was surprised.

"You are now the commander of more than 20,000 people here and cannot leave your post without authorization.

Even the Soviet pilots think it is dangerous to fly this plane.

We can't let you take the risk!"

Lin Fan really wanted to go up and see the situation in both directions.

Li Xian would not allow it no matter what: "According to the regulations in the organization, you are in charge of military affairs.

I am in charge of life affairs, and you have to listen to me on this matter."

As soon as he said this, Lin Fan had to get off the plane.

He said to Li Xian: "I repaired this wing."

No one wanted to believe this.

Lin Fan sighed: "Then I'll teach a few apprentices and let them learn how to fly this, okay?"

Li Xian smiled: "Of course, we now have cannons and tanks. If we have planes again,

who can be our opponent in the sky and on the ground?"

Lin Fan walked around the plane, thinking about what parts could be streamlined and improved.

This plane was still a propeller plane, and Lin Fan had to think carefully about how to use it.

But now was not the time. He needed to see how the fighting in Jurong was going.

Chen Sichuan and Liu Laopao fought into Jurong.

They immediately felt the malice of the Japanese.

This time, Battalion Commander Maenosono Sohta placed all 2,000 seriously wounded soldiers in various rooms in the town.

These seriously wounded soldiers didn't have to care about anything. They just needed to use the guns in their hands to fire at the soldiers who touched them.

The soldiers of the first squad had just rushed into Jurong Town.

Immediately, Japanese soldiers fired at them from hidden positions.

Kushi Ryunosuke's calf was broken by heavy machine gun bullets. He had been receiving treatment in Jurong these past few days.

At the same time, he was waiting for Nanjing City to be captured, and then these wounded and disabled soldiers would be able to be sent back to their hometowns via the Yangtze River.

Originally, he thought that he would never have the opportunity to go to the battlefield again.

He did not expect that there would actually be such an opportunity.

Kushi Ryunosuke was unwilling to live a life of disability.

In the days after he was injured, the doctors and nurses were very unfriendly to him.

Nurses would only come once a day, except when changing the medicine.

It was difficult to see anyone at other times.

Thinking that he would be lived being disliked by others for the rest of his life,

Kushi Ryunosuke regretted that he should have been more courageous at the time.

If he had insisted on standing up, then he would have become a hero and his soul would have returned to the country.

Presumably his family would be even happier, and the people here would not treat him as a burden.

Every time he thought of this, he did not want to live anymore.

It just so happened that there was such a good opportunity. He could still go to the battlefield again.

When he was helped into this window facing the street by two soldiers,

Kushi Ryunosuke decided: Die here!

Now the machine gun in his hand had long been loaded with bullets, waiting for the appearance of the National Army.

Peng Jianyi followed carefully behind the tank. These dozen or so infantrymen advanced forward with the tank.

Some of the Japanese soldiers hiding in the rooms on both sides fired at the tank, and would immediately attract a counterattack from heavy machine guns or cannons.

They were now walking under a three-story building.

According to the habits of the Japanese soldiers, this three-story building was a very good commanding height.

There should be Japanese soldiers setting up a firepower point on it.

But this time there was nothing.

No bullets came out of this building, until the tank passed by this building.

Suddenly, a gun barrel stretched out from the window on the second floor.

Peng Jianyi, who had been wary of this building, shouted: "Get out of the way!"

The machine gun in his hand shot towards the window where the barrel had just emerged.

Kushi Ryunosuke sat on a chair, ignoring the bullets that were swept over.

He just rested the barrel of the gun on the windowsill and pulled the trigger hard.

Strings of bullets rained down.