Chapter 11 A Surprise for the Japanese Devils

At 7:30 PM on November 11, 1937, everyone in the Special Company was called out.

Their company commander, Lin Fan, once again acted as a cook.

He made a big pot of mixed stew for the entire company.

Beef offal and beef were all stewed together.

When it was time to eat, Lin Fan said with a smile, "Everyone just woke up from a nap, eat slowly, eat more.

Tonight, we're going to give the Japanese devils a surprise!"

The veterans of the Special Company immediately understood: their familiar night battle had been arranged by the company commander again.

Since yesterday, the entire Nationalist army position had been under attack by Japanese artillery.

Lin Fan, who had seen scenes of artillery cluster bombings in later generations, only felt pride and excitement at that time.

Today, constantly bombarded by Japanese artillery fire, Lin Fan felt nothing but envy, jealousy, and hatred. He made up his mind during the day:

Go pull out those nails tonight!

Tonight, Lin Fan planned to eliminate the Japanese artillery positions in front of the Jiashan position.

According to Lin Fan's estimation, the Japanese artillery positions should be in Fengjing Bin, which the Nationalist army lost yesterday.

There were two reasons: the artillery force was a force that needed road support.

It couldn't move on just any mountain road.

To meet this condition, the Japanese artillery force could only move along highways or railways.

The team guarding Jiashan was the 128th Division. Division Commander Gu Jiaqi knew that the 88th Division had a Special Company and took the initiative to occupy Fengjing Bin.

He also knew that after this Special Company retreated from Fengjing Bin, it did not retreat to the rear.

Instead, it was resting at the Jiashan railway station. When he heard that Special Company Commander Lin Fan was requesting an audience, he immediately had Lin Fan brought in.

Lin Fan didn't exchange pleasantries and went straight to the point with Division Commander Gu, "Division Commander Gu! Tonight, I plan to lead my company to sneak into Fengjing Bin and blow up the Japanese artillery positions."

Division Commander Gu looked at him in surprise, "Your company alone? Can you make it?"

Lin Fan said with a smile, "When we were in Shanghai, we disguised ourselves as the Japanese Marines.

This time, I plan to use the same trick again.

The entire company will disguise themselves and blend into the Japanese defense line."

Division Commander Gu Jiaqi thought for a moment, "It's not that simple."

Lin Fan said decisively, "We've already made a plan."

Division Commander Gu asked strangely, "Is there anything you need our help with?"

He knew that since they had already made a plan and came to him, they must need assistance.

Lin Fan said with a smile, "I need a hundred mortar shells and fifty kilograms of explosives."

Division Commander Gu Jiaqi smiled bitterly, "We don't have mortar shells. Have you ever seen us fire artillery?

We have explosives."

"Then we need three hundred kilograms, plus four hundred iron pellets. Preferably larger caliber.

Also, a batch of flares.

One hundred and seventy white cloth strips."

Division Commander Gu called the quartermaster, "Give him what he needs."

Lin Fan looked at Division Commander Gu, "Tonight, we'll follow the night attack team of the 128th Division.

When they come back, we'll continue to charge forward."

Division Commander Gu said with concern, "Be careful of friendly fire."

Lin Fan said with a smile, "We'll take off all our clothes and go into battle bare-chested.

After the *gan jun* brothers retreat, we'll put on Japanese uniforms.

When we come back tomorrow, we'll still be wearing Japanese uniforms, but we'll tie a red or black cloth strip on our right arm as a marker."

Division Commander Gu Jiaqi nodded solemnly.

He agreed to the Special Company's attack this time.

He finally couldn't help but ask, "Which color is it exactly?"

Lin Fan said with a wry smile, "We'll use white cloth dipped in Japanese blood as a marker, but when we come back, I don't know if those cloth strips will be red or black."

Everyone present looked at this company commander.

In Gu Jiaqi's division headquarters, a company commander was not a high-ranking officer.

From this moment on, everyone remembered this company commander.

Lin Fan saluted in the eyes of everyone in the division headquarters!

Turned around and followed the quartermaster to collect supplies.

Gu Jiaqi's 128th Division did have mortars, and he also had shells, although not many.

But he could not possibly give these shells to Lin Fan's company.

It wasn't just sending shells; it was sending out the lives of his comrades. How could Gu Jiaqi do such a thing!

The night attack plan had been made. The only thing Lin Fan hadn't expected was that there were two female soldiers in his company.

How could he let them go topless?

This time, it wasn't that Lin Fan didn't support them, but he felt that the Ji sisters were really not suitable to go with the Special Company to carry out today's mission.

Ji Wudi looked at Lin Fan and said, "In Jiashan now, are we two sisters safer if we stay here?"

In Jiashan now, there were soldiers everywhere, and it was indeed not good for the two of them to stay alone.

He couldn't leave a squad behind for them!

Ji Wudi said, "Anyway, it's at night. When it comes to a bayonet charge with the Japanese devils, we'll just take off our upper clothes.

Anyway, it's dark, and no one will be able to see us."

Ji Jiachou thought the same as her sister and insisted on going with the Special Company.

Niu Dongxing and the other forty new recruits now knew that two of the four boys who were always by the company commander's side were actually tomboys.

These forty people now all had Japanese weapons, but they were missing a complete set of Japanese uniforms.

Lin Fan asked them to pick them up on the battlefield tonight.

Everything was ready. The soldiers of the Special Company followed behind the 2nd Battalion of the 7**th Regiment of the 382nd Brigade of the 128th Division.

The brigade commander of this brigade, Shen Kui, was Shen Congwen's younger brother.

Tonight, the 2nd Battalion of the 7**th Regiment was the main attack, and the Special Company was just following behind them, looking for an opportunity to blend into the Japanese army and pass through the first line of Japanese blockade.

Battalion Commander Chen Shaowu led the entire battalion, bare-chested, with broadswords, into the night.

At this time, the entire Special Company, except for two people who were still wearing clothes, were also bare-chested, but they didn't carry any less weapons.

They not only carried the equipment they had just received from the 128th Division.

They also carried their own equipment from the Special Company. Tonight, Lin Fan also brought the poison gas bombs that had traveled thousands of miles.

Battalion Commander Chen Shaowu sneaked into the darkness and advanced more than a thousand meters before discovering the Japanese camp ahead.

The men of this team immediately moved forward.

Lieutenant General Ushijima Sadayo, commander of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army, had been having a terrible headache these past few days because of the 128th Division.

This team had extremely poor weapons and equipment but extremely high combat awareness.

His soldiers were actually at a disadvantage in hand-to-hand combat with this team.

This was unbelievable!

Thinking about the military order he had made, the entire 18th Division had only advanced six kilometers in three days.

Originally, he had planned to reach Jiaxing, but now he had only touched the edge of Jiashan.

How could this be?

Fortunately, through three days of offense and defense on the battlefield, Division Commander Ushijima Sadayo understood one thing: those people would send people to touch the camp every night.

Tonight, he was going to give these people a good look so that they would never dare to send people over at night again.

In order to ensure that the plan could be carried out, in addition to the 55th Regiment at the front line, Division Commander Ushijima Sadayo transferred a battalion from the 114th Infantry Regiment.

His plan was: the soldiers of the 55th Regiment would follow the same routine as usual.

The 114th Regiment would quietly ambush around the 55th Regiment's camp.

When they discovered that a team from the 128th Division had rushed into the camp for a night attack, they would immediately fire flares and rush out to fight these soldiers.

Relying on superior forces, they would be able to ensure that these attackers would have no return.

Major Okitani Ryosuke was sent by the 114th Regiment to support the 55th Regiment.

His infantry battalion's fighting skills were famous throughout the division.

Every time the division held a martial arts competition, as long as it was a assassination event, whether individual or group, his battalion would win.

His company, led by Captain Shiba Takuya, had always been the number one bayonet fighter in the entire division.

Tonight, the task of encircling and annihilating the attackers fell on Major Okitani Ryosuke's battalion.

When Battalion Commander He Shaowu led his team, quietly approaching the Japanese camp.

He saw a bonfire burning in the middle of the camp. The Japanese had been frightened by the night battles of the 128th Division these past few nights.

There was a squad left outside as sentries. They were protecting each other to prevent being quietly killed by the attacking Nationalist army.

More people would at least be able to sound the alarm when they died, allowing other Japanese to have a chance to resist.

There were also a dozen or so Japanese soldiers patrolling the camp.

All of this was because the night attacks of the 128th Division had really frightened these Japanese.

What He Shaowu and his men had touched was the camp of Captain Manda Daichi's company.

This company belonged to the 55th Regiment and had just been rotated to the front line today.

They were the soldiers who were preparing to charge the Jiashan position in the first batch tomorrow.

In fact, Captain Manda Daichi did not know that there was an Imperial infantry battalion ambushing outside his camp.

If he had known, he would not have sent so many soldiers to patrol and stand guard.

When the 2nd Battalion, which was going to attack, had just emerged and only cut down a few patrolling Japanese soldiers.

It had already alarmed the Japanese in the entire camp.

Tonight, this Japanese army was obviously prepared. As soon as the battle started, several flares were fired into the sky outside the camp.

Major Okitani Ryosuke had been quietly resting in the darkness, and so had his team. They were all lurking in the darkness.

Like a poisonous snake hidden in the grass, quietly waiting for its prey to deliver itself to its door.

When Major Okitani Ryosuke discovered the changes in the camp he was secretly observing.

He immediately ordered, "Fire the flares, charge!"

Tonight, for the honor of the Imperial soldiers, Major Okitani Ryosuke had already prepared.

The number of enemies who came to attack every night was between one hundred and three hundred.

His battalion had one thousand and two hundred people, all of whom were experts in bayonet fighting.

Major Okitani Ryosuke liked the fighting style of the 128th Division very much.

He himself also liked the scene of watching his opponents struggle to death in front of him.

The signal flare was the order:

Teams of Japanese soldiers rushed out of the darkness, rows of bright bayonets, teams of neat formations, rushed out of the darkness.

They charged towards the 2nd Battalion and the Special Company!

The surprise attack and night battle had suddenly become an ambush and a bright battle.

But one thing had not changed: bayonet fighting!

The two sides were still engaged in bayonet fighting.

Lin Fan's heart sank, "We're ambushed!"

The Special Company was also in the Japanese ambush.

Captain Shiba Takuya knew about tonight's mission.

He had been unable to restrain himself for a long time. The fact that his entire battalion could be assigned such a mission tonight was inseparable from the hard training his company had been doing for a long time.

Without the achievements that Captain Shiba Takuya's company had usually achieved, tonight's mission might have been assigned to another battalion.

The flares illuminated the camp, which had just had a faint bonfire, turning the entire camp into daylight.

The soldiers of Captain Shiba Takuya's company had already rushed up. They had been hungry and impatient, wanting to prove their existence tonight.

The 2nd Battalion, which was originally charging in front, had already entered the camp and was still fighting with the Japanese sentries and patrols outside the camp who had just reacted.

The situation changed, and the surroundings suddenly became bright.

Such a change had little impact on this battalion.

When they set off, everyone had already put life and death aside.

When the battle started, the Special Company greeted them. There were a lot of Japanese devils tonight.

Whether it was He Shaowu's 2nd Battalion or Lin Fan's Special Company, these soldiers were prepared to sacrifice themselves when they set off.

There was nothing else to say or think about at this time.

Only pick up the broadsword, stick out the bayonet, and charge towards the charging Japanese devils.

When enemies meet on a narrow road, the brave win!

When both sides were brave, the collision at the front of the line was like two torrents colliding violently.

Soon they mixed together.

Although the planned night battle and covert warfare had turned into such a bright battle,

Ji Wudi still took off her top, stuck out her bayonet, as she had said when she set off.

Following behind Lin Fan, Feng Junya, and the others, she charged forward.

At this time, her comrades-in-arms were all bare-chested, which had one advantage: it was very easy to recognize friend from foe.

She actually had a chest wrap underneath.

If it was in later generations, it wouldn't be anything at all. It might even be considered a fashion.

Ji Jiachou was the same.

It didn't matter tonight. No one paid special attention to looking at the two of them.

At most, they would glance at them when passing by them to identify whether they were friend or foe!

All the soldiers on both sides only had each other in their eyes.

Captain Shiba Takuya's company was charging directly towards the Special Team.

Captain Shiba Takuya looked at the man charging in front of him, a burly man over 1.8 meters tall.

He was bare-chested, and his eyes revealed a calm look, which was very different from the fierce gazes of others.

When the big man's gun thrust forward, he could see the muscles in his arms and chest suddenly bulging and then quickly receding.

The Imperial soldier in front of him immediately fell down.

Captain Shiba Takuya's eyes turned red. This was a reaction to seeing his opponent. He could tell that this person's bayonet skills were very high.

This opponent was his.

In a fleeting moment, Captain Shiba Takuya also discovered one thing: everyone in the team opposite him was bare-chested.

Only behind this person, there were two people who were also bare-chested, but their chests were still wrapped in a row of white cloth.

"Injured?" A thought flashed through Captain Shiba Takuya's mind.

He couldn't help but look at those two injured people and saw that they didn't look in pain at all as they stuck out their bayonets.

Instantly, Captain Shiba Takuya became excited. He knew: they were two women!

He was going to stab the strong man in the front to death first, and then stab the two "injured" people behind him to death.

Captain Shiba Takuya no longer had anyone else in his eyes. The noise of the entire world receded from his ears like the tide.

He only had those three people in front of him.

Lin Fan didn't know that he had been targeted by Captain Shiba Takuya.

He just calmly led the Special Company to resolutely break through forward.

The Special Company's mission wasn't here; their mission was ahead.

Lin Fan wasn't the only arrowhead breaking through forward today.

To Lin Fan's left was Battalion Commander He Shaowu of the 128th Division. He wasn't charging any slower than Lin Fan.

To Lin Fan's right was Feng Junya. He wasn't any slower than Lin Fan either.