Special forces companies have more machine guns and stronger firepower, making them the nemesis of cavalry.

At the same time, Lin Fan ordered the artillery squad: "Angle sixty-five, direction three-thirty, propellant halved, rapid five-shot burst."

Halving the propellant meant reducing the amount of propellant rings when Wu Xiaobao and the others fired, so that the firing distance would explode right in the middle of the Japanese cavalry.

Lin Fan issued the order quickly, and Ji Wudi and the others acted quickly as well.

A series of shells exploded in the middle of the Japanese cavalry. The cavalry unit charging now was no longer the one hundred or so cavalry from yesterday.

But all the cavalry in the 18th Division's cavalry regiment, a full seven hundred or more cavalry.

Lin Fan didn't stop either, bombing the Japanese cavalry still in the darkness.

Shell after shell exploded in the Japanese cavalry, separated by seven or eight hundred meters.

In the darkness, all that could be seen was the firelight produced by the exploding shells, illuminating parts of the Japanese cavalry.

Faintly like ghosts.

Even though many of these cavalry were blown up by the National Army's shells,

They had no intention of retreating and continued to charge forward.

The officers and soldiers of the Third Battalion of the 654th Regiment listened to the sound of horses' hooves coming from the darkness and saw the firelight produced by the explosions in the horse herd.

Illuminating the Japanese cavalry, who were charging while waving their sabers.

The only heavy machine gun on the position that could still fire roared.

Originally, there were three heavy machine guns on the Third Battalion's position, but in the fierce battle just now, two of them had malfunctioned and could not be used.

The machine guns on the position also ran out of ammunition, so the soldiers had to use rifles to shoot at the Japanese cavalry still in the darkness.

When the Japanese cavalry charged to three hundred meters away from the position, the special forces soldiers rushed up.

They immediately entered the battle as soon as they entered the position.

The special forces company's machine gun fire was very distinctive, with at least two machine guns in each squad.

Always keeping one machine gun firing, and when one machine gun just stopped to change the magazine,

The other machine gun immediately took over.

With eight machine guns constantly blocking the front of the Third Battalion's position,

The Third Battalion's position, which maintained continuous firepower, immediately stopped the Japanese cavalry two hundred meters away.

The charging Japanese cavalry fell one after another.

Those cavalry who forcibly broke through the machine gun blockade were calmly picked off one by one by Niu Dongxing and the others.

Those Japanese cavalry who had not yet charged saw that the Third Battalion's position was heavily defended and could not be attacked at all.

These cavalry had no choice but to turn their horses' heads, changed direction, and quickly shifted their attack direction.

They crossed the railway line and charged towards the defense position of the Second Battalion of the 41st Regiment.

Now the Japanese cavalry could already be seen.

Lin Fan operated the mortar, constantly bombing the charging Japanese.

Wu Xiaofu, Zhao Long, Ji Wudi, and Ji Jiachou, the four of them, had never stopped.

Even such fierce artillery fire,

Could not stop the madness of this cavalry.

It has to be said: the Japanese fighting spirit is no worse than that of the National Army.

This batch of Japanese cavalry charged onto the Second Battalion's position, constantly hacking and killing.

Riding on their big horses, dragging their sabers, and using inertia, after rushing into the Second Battalion's position, they only needed to swing down, and this kind of power was not something ordinary people could block.

Watching their comrades on the Second Battalion's position being slaughtered by the Japanese cavalry,

Lin Fan's eyes turned red: now the mortar could not be used, for fear of accidentally injuring friendly troops.

He picked up a Type 38 rifle and fired all the bullets in the gun in one breath.

Another rifle appeared in front of him, which was handed over by Wu Xiaobao.

At the Sihang Warehouse, his and Zhao Long's task was to ensure that Lin Fan's gun was loaded.

Lin Fan fired four rounds of bullets in a row.

At this time, the Japanese infantry had already surged onto the Second Battalion's position.

The Japanese cavalry then shouted and retreated into the darkness.

The Second Battalion's position was pushed down by the Japanese cavalry in less than ten minutes.

The second line of defense defending Fengjingbin had been broken through by the Japanese.

The Third Battalion of the 654th Regiment was now also under attack by Japanese troops on three sides, and they had to retreat as well.

The special forces soldiers could only retreat as well.

Retreating twice in a row in one night was the first time this had happened in the special forces soldiers' battles.

After retreating from this position, the entire Fengjingbin had fallen.

But the blocking battle of the entire Fengjingbin was still continuing.

The soldiers of the 41st Regiment and the 654th Regiment were still holding on to a position on the south side of Fengjingbin.

Now they were completely surrounded by the Japanese army.

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadayoshi, the commander of the 18th Division, was anxious to quickly occupy Jiaxing.

He ordered a part of the Japanese army to besiege the two regiments of the National Army, and the rest of the main force advanced towards Jiashan behind Fengbin.

They had not advanced far when they encountered the defense position of the 128th Division.

The 128th Division was mostly composed of Miao soldiers from Fenghuang City, Hunan, and had another name: "Gan Army."

The origin of this name was that Fenghuang Town used to be called "Zhengan."

The troops formed by recruiting soldiers from here were historically famous for their daring battles.

Therefore, the troops composed of soldiers from this place were called "Gan Army."

During Zeng Guofan's time in the Qing Dynasty, there was a special "Gan Army" in his "Xiang Army."

Historically, there has been a saying that without Xiang, there would be no army, and without Gan, there would be no Xiang.

This was a team with excellent traditions.

The company that defended Fengjingbin and was completely wiped out was the 128th Division's headquarters guard company.

Fengjingbin had fallen, and Gu Jiaqi, the commander of the 128th Division, ordered the formation of a death squad to avenge the guard company.

This death squad quietly sneaked into the Zhu family compound in Fengjing Town and hid here.

In this courtyard, the headquarters of the 41st Regiment had not had time to evacuate.

As well as some of the 41st Regiment's wounded.

Zhu Xixiong, the owner of the Zhu family, took out the best yellow wine and cooked braised pork in a large pot.

To send off this death squad, which knew that Fengjingbin had fallen but still had to go deep into the enemy's hinterland to kill the enemy.

This team hid during the day on the ninth day, and at night, everyone took off their shirts.

Carrying large knives, it was impossible to see the enemy from ourselves in the darkness, and anyone who touched clothes on their body would be slashed, and those who were naked were our own.

Everyone in this team knew before they set off that they would die without a life.

Before leaving, everyone left a will and revealed their identity. Fang Xuesu, the deputy head of the 41st Regiment, revealed that he was a member of the organization, an identity that had been hidden for more than ten years.

They sneaked into the Japanese camp on the night of the ninth day to carry out a mission of certain death.

That night, no one in the entire death squad survived, killing more than eighty Japanese soldiers.

Fang Xuesu died in battle!

Some officers and soldiers of the 41st Regiment and the 654th Regiment began to break through towards Jiashan at 11:00 a.m. on the tenth.

Lin Fan first used shells to open a gap, and everyone charged towards this gap together.

The enemy and ourselves, who had been fighting fiercely all night yesterday, were once again entangled together.

In this direction, in addition to the 18th Division, the Japanese army also added the Sato Detachment, greatly increasing its strength.

The 41st Regiment, the 654th Regiment, and the Special Forces took advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness, rushed out of the gap, and quickly broke through towards Jiaxing.

The Japanese army bit the team tightly behind them, chasing closely, and the two sides had never broken contact.

Just in time, the 772nd Regiment of the 382nd Brigade of the 128th Division came to reinforce.

This regiment immediately blocked the pursuing Japanese army.

The Japanese firepower was fierce and completely crushed the 772nd Regiment.

In this situation, fighting a blocking battle with the Japanese army could obviously only be suppressed.

The Japanese army was chasing urgently, and the artillery fire was sufficient, but the 772nd Regiment was poorly equipped.

Continuing to fight like this was completely like being beaten without being able to fight back.

This was completely not the style of the "Gan Army."

The "Gan Army" never had a time when they were beaten without fighting back, and they had to pounce on them and bite off a piece of Japanese meat no matter what.

If the firepower was insufficient, make up for it with distance. When everyone was close, there was no need to consider firepower issues.

Zhang Jinghua, the battalion commander of the First Battalion of the 772nd Regiment, led the entire battalion to launch a countercharge against the pursuing Japanese army.

Rushing into the Japanese army, the two sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat. Da Feng Novel

The Japanese army that was chasing was still the 55th Regiment of the 18th Division.

The Amakusa Yusuke Company had been reduced by more than half in the previous battles.

It's just that the entire Tenth Army is not having a good time these days, and they are considered an isolated army in this small area.

If they cannot take down the National Army's blocking position earlier, the danger is self-evident.

The Amakusa Yusuke Company only rested for six hours and continued to fight.

Now the Amakusa Yusuke Company is engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the First Battalion of the 654th Regiment.

Amakusa Yusuke, the company commander, never thought that his company would be destroyed in this situation.

It was clear that they were still engaged in a back-and-forth gun battle with the other side just now.

Suddenly a team rushed out from the side, and this team was all shirtless.

They rushed into their own company without saying a word and swung their knives to slash.

This completely unorganized, relying only on a bloody and brave combat method, made the entire Amakusa Yusuke Company nervous.

The 18th Division was a Class A regiment of the Japanese army and had been fighting on the battlefield.

The soldiers of the Amakusa Yusuke Company had received all the military training, and the assassination skills of these soldiers were professional.

When professionals meet professionals, the battle between the two sides is a life-and-death battle from the beginning.

Amakusa Yusuke, the company commander, held his command knife in both hands, and his opponent was Zhang Jinghua.

Zhang Jinghua, the battalion commander of the First Battalion, saw that the Japanese commander had continuously killed two of his soldiers.

He slipped to the side, avoiding the bayonet of the Type 38 rifle that was stabbed straight at him.

He slashed at the neck of the Japanese soldier who was only as tall as his waist, and this knife was used with no small amount of force.

He chopped off this head with just one blow.

Zhang Jinghua was covered in blood that gushed out from the neck of this Japanese soldier.

He didn't care about this at this time, and he rushed forward and slashed at Amakusa Yusuke, the company commander.

Zhang Jinghua had just seen that this Japanese soldier was holding a command knife in his hand.

He was obviously a Japanese officer, and this Japanese soldier's slash was also very powerful.

Two fellow villagers had died under this Japanese soldier's knife.

Zhang Jinghua slashed down with all his strength, and Amakusa Yusuke held the knife in both hands and braced upwards.

At the same time, he moved his feet and finally managed to take this knife.

Zhang Jinghua gained an advantage with the first knife, and from this time on, he used all his strength with every knife, slashing at the head and neck of the Japanese soldier in front of him with every knife.

Every knife did not leave the upper body of this Japanese soldier.

Amakusa Yusuke, the company commander, had just moved his feet and, although he used some skill to block the opponent's full blow,

But it also put himself at a disadvantage, and the opponent's knife was faster than the previous one.

Although it was not as powerful as the first knife,

But every knife was so fast that it had to be blocked. If one knife was missed, then there would be no life left.

Zhang Jinghua slashed more than a dozen knives in a row, and the Japanese soldier in front of him was still blocking.

He was anxious at this time, and the next knife was no longer a slash, but a straight stab, stabbing towards Amakusa Yusuke, the company commander.

Amakusa Yusuke, who had blocked more than a dozen knives in a row, had already developed a habit and still raised his command knife upwards.

When he made this action, he realized that his opponent had changed.

He no longer had time to block Zhang Jinghua's stab, and in a critical moment,

Amakusa Yusuke no longer had any other thoughts, and the command knife in his hand immediately changed, and he slashed at the arm of the person in front of him.

In Amakusa Yusuke's heart, the opponent in front of him only needed to raise the big knife that was stabbing forward upwards to block his knife.

Then it would be his turn to take the lead.

What Amakusa Yusuke never expected was that the person in front of him was indifferent to the knife he was cutting down.

Zhang Jinghua's knife stabbed straight into Amakusa Yusuke's chest. Amakusa Yusuke was hit by this knife, and his body twisted slightly. The command knife in his hand also cut off a large piece of flesh from Zhang Jinghua's left arm, along with his clothes.

The commanders of both sides, one died and one was injured.

These Japanese soldiers of the Amakusa Yusuke Company simply did not know that when it came to exchanging lives, no "Gan Army" soldier would retreat.

This kind of scene did not only appear in the battle between the commanders of both sides.

Such scenes were everywhere on the entire battlefield.

The First Battalion's bloody courage finally stopped the pursuing Amakusa Yusuke Company.

Amakusa Yusuke, the company commander, was given another knife by Zhang Jinghua and his head was chopped off.

Zhang Jinghua, the company commander, casually wrapped the torn clothes around his arm.

Holding the big knife in one hand, he continued to slash and kill.

His battalion originally had three hundred and forty-seven people.

The Amakusa Yusuke Company was not the only company that engaged in melee combat with his battalion.

After the Amakusa Yusuke Company, the Hatamoto Takashi Company joined the battlefield.

The First Battalion, which had just fought a battle and had not rested, had to fight continuously.

When Zhang Jinghua led the First Battalion to retreat from the battlefield,

Of the three hundred and fifty people who went to the battlefield, only the battalion commander was injured, the deputy battalion commander was injured, one company commander was left, twenty soldiers, and only twenty-three people in the entire battalion survived the retreat from the position.

It was the 772nd Regiment's desperate blocking that forced the Japanese army to stop attacking from this position.

The First Battalion fought fiercely and desperately, forcing the Japanese 18th Division to suspend the pursuit on this road.

The 41st, 654th, and 772nd Regiments were able to slowly retreat into Jiashan.

In the entire Fengjing Town blocking battle, more than 3,000 National Army troops participated in the battle, more than 1,000 were killed, and casualties reached more than one-third.

Lin Fan led the special forces company to retreat into Jiashan with the three regiments.

The 41st and 654th Regiments were severely reduced and could no longer participate in the next stage of the battle.

The two regiments took the train to Hangzhou for reorganization.

The 128th Division, to which the 772nd Regiment belonged, was defending in Jiashan, so although the entire regiment was even more severely reduced,

Under the arrangement of Gu Jiaqi, the commander of the 128th Division, they rested behind the defense line and served as a reserve team.

Lin Fan and his special forces company did not plan to retreat to Hangzhou. His company had not had a single casualty so far.

He had no intention of retreating to the rear.

However, the special forces company had to rest. They set off at 1:30 p.m. on the 7th and took the train for more than 20 hours.

They had just arrived on the battlefield, rested for only three hours, and then went to the front line, fighting until now, which was 2:23 p.m. on November 10, 1937.

It was not that Lin Fan was so clear, but that the entire special forces company, except for the watches of the new recruits who had just joined, were still in Jiangyin County.

The rest of the soldiers had watches and could see the time.

Lin Fan and the others retreated from Fengjing to Jiashan, just to rest for a while.

All the soldiers in the company found a few houses at Jiashan Railway Station and fell asleep.

Seeing this situation, Lin Fan and Li Xian only whispered to arrange for Niu Dongxing and the others in the organization to persevere for two hours as hidden sentries.

This was a tradition that Lin Fan had insisted on since the day the special forces company was established.

Under no circumstances could the hidden sentries of the company be omitted.

The more difficult, dangerous, and tired, the more attention should be paid to the arrangement of sentries.

Danger and accidents always appear when you are least prepared.

This time, all the officers and soldiers of the company had been fighting continuously for dozens of hours and were already exhausted.

Lin Fan could only let these people in the organization take over.

Of course, these were the people who were there when there were difficulties.

Lin Fan also closed his eyes and rested for a while.

Lin Fan felt that he had only just closed his eyes, and when he opened his eyes again, it was already dark.

He looked left and right, and the soldiers of the special forces company were still sleeping. Li Xian was not here.

Lin Fan walked out of the room and saw Bao Junyan and He Hanliang hiding in two corners respectively.

Looking outside.

He walked over and asked in a low voice, "Where's the deputy company commander?"

He Hanliang said with a smile, "He said he was going to find something to eat."

Now the war was urgent, and the supplies for the special forces company were supplemented locally, with enough flatbreads.

Li Xian should have gone out at this time to buy some fish and meat.

He had been eating big fish and meat every day during this time in the special forces company, and the soldiers' physical fitness had simply grown rapidly.

Li Xian had discovered from this that the benefits of the ability to eat, which Lin Fan had been talking about, were combat effectiveness.

Therefore, he wanted to find some meat to supplement the entire company.

If there was no fresh fish or meat, the soldiers of the special forces company could only eat canned meat.

Except for Niu Dongxing and the other forty new recruits, who still liked canned meat very much,

The 130 veterans of the special forces company did not like it at all.

The cans that they had transported out of the Japanese airport some time ago, Lin Fan had never limited the quantity, and these people had eaten too much.

The war was fought fiercely, but there were always businessmen who wanted to make money, and Li Xian had really bought a cow.

This was because the owner's cow had been炸死了 by a bomb dropped by the Japanese.

There was no choice but to sell the beef to get some money back, which was always good.

Li Xian bought the whole cow, including the internal organs, very generously.

Lin Fan looked at the cow's lungs, tripe, pizzle, and fat.

His mouth couldn't help but water: these were all hot pot ingredients!

He could completely make a whole cow hot pot.

Unfortunately, there was no base!