Chapter 1 August 3, 1938, Night

On the night of August 3, 1938, Shiro Inaba, the commander of the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army, personally came to the front line of the attack on Huangmei.

He ordered the regimental commander under him:

"No matter the means, no matter the cost,

Huangmei must be taken down tomorrow.

Just this afternoon,

Taihu and Qianshan were both seized by the National Army."

Division Commander Shiro Inaba was very reluctant to reveal the news that Qianshan and Taihu had been lost.

He was afraid of affecting the morale of the entire Sixth Division,

But facing these high-level commanders,

He had no choice but to tell the truth,

To make them feel urgency,

Pressure creates motivation.

From desperation comes life!

In fact:

Even if the teams he sent out today could recapture these two places,

The entire Sixth Division would need two days to replenish its supplies.

Fortunately, however, Commander Neiji Okamura was already preparing to rescue the Sixth Division.

A new supply depot had been opened in Xiaochi, opposite Jiujiang.

But this supply depot could only be opened after the Sixth Division occupied Huangmei County.

That is to say: if the Sixth Division could not occupy Huangmei,

Then the entire army would be trapped here waiting to die.

Hearing the message conveyed by Division Commander Shiro Inaba,

The Japanese company commanders present were stunned.

Better to break one finger than wound ten.

Bai Chongxi was also very clear about this principle.

If the Fifth War Zone could annihilate the entire Sixth Division now,

It would be the first time the National Army had ever completely annihilated a Japanese division.

Whether it was personal honor or the overall situation of the war, it would be a huge victory.

Bai Chongxi now saw such a possibility,

In order to fight this battle well,

He personally went to Guangji, behind Huangmei County, to supervise the battle,

To make the 68th Army, defending Huangmei, hold on for three days.

In just three days, he would be able to mobilize more troops,

To encircle the Sixth Division.

Taking advantage of the darkness,

Bai Chongxi personally went to the front line of Huangmei County,

To speak to the officers and soldiers of the first battalion of the 68th Army, who were stationed on the front line:

"Fellow folks and brothers,

If we hold here for three days,

We will create a miracle:

The complete annihilation of the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army.

Now the Special Operations Brigade of the Fifth War Zone is already behind the Japanese army,

Occupying the two counties of Qianshan and Taihu.

We will close the door here,

The brothers of the 31st and 84th Armies will attack from the flanks,

The Special Operations Brigade will attack from behind,

The Sixth Division, which committed heinous crimes in Nanjing, will be completely annihilated in our hands.

All of this requires the brothers to hold Huangmei County.

Do you have the confidence?"

"Yes!" All four hundred soldiers in the entire battalion roared.

Chief Bai was from their hometown,

Chief Bai was in a high position of power, but at this time he personally came to the front line.

This was taking a great risk.

The fighting will of all the officers and soldiers of the entire battalion boiled over,

They must hold here,

Even if they died, they would never retreat a step.

The Japanese troops responsible for attacking Huangmei were the infantry battalion of Akatsuki Mitsushi and the infantry battalion of Fukiishi Akimasa.

When the artillery regimental commander, Kenta Abe, received the order,

He asked loudly, "Request permission from the division commander to use Type 1 ammunition."

The Type 1 ammunition he was talking about was the poison gas bomb carried by the Japanese army.

This was ammunition that was strictly prohibited internationally,

Since the division commander had said today that no means were to be spared,

Of course, this included the use of poison gas.

Regarding this request,

Division Commander Shiro Inaba did not hesitate in the slightest:

"Not only must it be used, but wherever conditions permit,

All of this ammunition must be used.

The Sixth Division is already surrounded by the National Army,

At this time, no matter what means are used,

As long as we can take Huangmei and open up our supply route, that is the most important thing."

"Hai!"

All the Japanese soldiers realized the severity of the current situation from the division commander's response.

It also made them know even more that the upcoming battle would be a fierce one.

Both infantry battalion commanders requested to the division commander:

"Provide more gas masks!

Soldiers can move freely in the poison gas,

This will allow us to inflict the greatest damage on the National Army."

……

The 68th Army of the National Army, defending Huangmei County,

Had managed to repel the Japanese army yesterday.

According to the Japanese army's past habits,

They would begin a new day of attack at six o'clock in the morning,

Why was there no movement today?

Just as the soldiers were wondering,

Japanese artillery shells fell on the position,

Inside and outside the city walls, the hillsides were full of poison gas bombs emitting yellow smoke.

"Poison gas bombs!

Cover your mouths and noses with towels!"

"Remember! The towel must be wet!"

"What if there is no water?"

"If there is no water, use urine to wet the towel!"

On the position, the National Army officers who had received some education loudly educated the soldiers under their command.

This was not the first time that the Japanese army had used poison gas bombs against the National Army.

They would use them whenever their offensive was unfavorable.

The National Army General Headquarters was unable to equip the various teams with gas masks,

They could only pass down this simple method of preventing poison gas.

In fact, this method was only suitable for emergency use,

It must also be accompanied by an immediate evacuation of the poison gas area.

Even if you covered your mouth with a wet towel, if you stayed in the poison gas area all the time,

You would still be poisoned.

The soldiers guarding the position here in Huangmei held their ground and did not retreat,

They hoped that the mountain wind would blow away the poison gas,

Then they could continue to hold on to the position.

The wind came as these soldiers expected,

Blowing away a wave of poison gas, and the Japanese army's new round of poison gas bombs hit the position again.

This battalion of soldiers guarding here,

Had listened to Chief Bai's speech last night.

They were very clear about the significance of today's battle,

Lying on the position ravaged by poison gas,

More than four hundred officers and soldiers in the entire battalion,

None of them were willing to withdraw from the position.

In the poisonous fog, there were blurred figures of Japanese soldiers,

These Japanese soldiers were wearing gas masks,

Their hideous faces and long breathing tubes,

All showed their ferocity.

The soldiers of the first battalion tied up their towels,

Enduring the discomfort of the poison gas attack,

They opened fire on the Japanese soldiers who rushed up.

Poison gas invaded their eyes,

Every soldier's eyes were blurred with tears,

Tears of blood seeped from their eyes,

But still no soldier left the battlefield,

A full battalion, more than four hundred National Army soldiers,

All died in the Japanese army's poison gas bombs.

Bai Chongxi, who was supervising the battle in Guangji,

Stood in front of the map with a gloomy face,

Listening to the report: The battalion he went to inspect last night,

In the Japanese army's poison gas bomb attack,

The entire battalion died without retreating,

Fighting to the death on the position.

The news from the front line,

From 6:30 in the morning,

The Japanese army had been using poison gas bombs,

Poison gas bombs cleared the way, and Japanese soldiers followed behind to charge,

Although the officers and soldiers of the 68th Army resisted bravely,

Holding on in the poison gas area,

But as time passed minute by minute,

The poison gas entered their bodies, and these officers and soldiers fell one after another.

The outer positions of Huangmei County were all lost,

The battle had entered Huangmei County,

The 68th Army's reserve team was fighting street battles with the Japanese army,

Even inside the county seat,

The Japanese army's poison gas bombs continued to be released,

Throughout the morning's battle,

The Japanese army had been using poison gas bombs,

The Japanese artillery all used poison gas bombs to bombard,

The Japanese infantry wore gas masks and launched an attack.

The 68th Army, poisoned by the gas,

Was unable to hold the position at all,

The ordinary people in Huangmei County,

Were even more nowhere to escape under the cover of poison gas bombs.

Bai Chongxi, the acting commander of the Fifth War Zone,

Originally came to Guangji to supervise the battle,

After learning about the situation in Huangmei County,

He was silent for a while,

And had to order with heartache:

"The 68th Army abandons Huangmei and retreats to Guangji."

Bai Chongxi was from Guangxi and had always been from the Gui系 (Gui Clique), belonging to local warlords,

The 68th Army was the Gui Army, so his requirements for this team had always been very strict.

This time, it was not that the 68th Army did not fight,

But facing the Japanese army, who completely disregarded international conventions,

The 68th Army, without gas masks, had to retreat after paying a huge price.

What did the annihilation of the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army mean to Bai Chongxi, an officer from a local warlord background?

Bai Chongxi was clear,

But...,

Facing the Japanese army, who completely disregarded international conventions,

If he did not have the strength, he could only swallow such bitter fruit.

On the battlefield, all morality and conventions were the reliance imagined by the weak,

They were actually the straw that a drowning person grasped,

They would not play any role.

From the start of the war until now,

The Japanese army had used poison gas bombs more than a hundred times, with definite evidence,

Those countries that touted justice and civilization internationally,

Were still providing the Japanese army with raw materials for manufacturing weapons,

Even among these raw materials,

There were materials for manufacturing these poisonous gases.

Backwardness invites beatings! This is an undeniable truth.

"Finally, Huangmei has been taken!"

Division Commander Shiro Inaba of the Sixth Division breathed a long sigh of relief.

His superior, Commander Neiji Okamura of the Eleventh Army of the Japanese Army, also breathed a sigh of relief.

The Sixth Division immediately sent a team to Xiaochi on the bank of the Yangtze River,

This was their lifeline,

And Division Commander Shiro Inaba was determined to defend it this time.

The Sixth Division not only received a large amount of supplies from Xiaochi,

They also received 3,200 new recruits.

From Qianshan all the way to Huangmei, the Sixth Division had suffered serious attrition,

And it had to urgently replenish its soldiers on the battlefield.

On the evening of August 3,

Lin Fan led the main force of the Special Operations Brigade to Taihu County.

Jia Shusheng's rocket artillery company had finally caught up.

Lin Fan ordered: "The entire brigade will rest in Taihu County for the night.

Tomorrow, prepare to ambush the Japanese troops coming to attack."

The infantry battalion of Yoshitaka Kazuki, which had received orders to set out from Susong yesterday, only traveled a short distance during the day.

And stopped at night.

The tank company of Nalian Amuro did not take any action that night either.

They were afraid of being ambushed by the National Army in these mountains and forests.

Before this, all the way from Tongcheng,

The Sixth Division had suffered enough from the constant harassment of the National Army,

So they did not take any action that night.

The Japanese troops did not reach Maowu Bay, twenty miles away from Taihu, until one o'clock in the afternoon.

Here, the Special Operations Brigade had already deployed three regiments, waiting for them with open pockets.

The 3rd Regiment was blocking the front of Maowu Bay, preventing the Japanese from continuing to advance.

The 1st Regiment was lying in ambush at Wangjiatang in the north, and the 2nd Regiment was lying in ambush at Beishanling in the south.

Both regiments watched the Japanese tanks pass grandly in front.

Followed by a large battalion of Japanese soldiers.

This place was still twenty miles away from Taihu,

The Japanese tanks and infantry were separated by thousands of meters,

And they had not yet entered a state of combat readiness.

After all, this place was still a bit far away from Taihu County.

The battle broke out at this time.

The twelve tanks that were moving forward,

Were suddenly bombarded by a wave of artillery shells.

For this ambush, Jia Shusheng, in the morning, had the entire rocket artillery company test-fired a full ten times.

And carefully adjusted the firing parameters.

In the first round of bombing,

All twelve Japanese tanks were within the range of the rocket artillery fire.

Battalion Commander Yoshitaka Kazuki heard the explosions coming from the front,

And urged the infantry battalion to advance quickly.

When they arrived at the battlefield,

The battle here was already over.

The 3rd Regiment only fired one round of rockets,

And did not even fire a second round.

None of the tanks in the battlefield drove out,

When the Japanese soldiers of Yoshitaka Kazuki's battalion rushed to the tanks.

The smoke from the bombing had dissipated,

Jia Shusheng in the distance saw clearly through his binoculars:

All twelve tanks had been destroyed.

Battalion Commander Yoshitaka Kazuki was now a bit embarrassed:

Should he continue to advance?

Or should he retreat?

After thinking for a while, he thought that this road was the supply route for the Sixth Division.

And it needed to be opened up no matter what.

Understanding this, he did not hesitate.

"Advance!" To boost morale, he pulled out his command knife.

And pointed it in the direction of Taihu County.

But to be on the safe side, this time he arranged a squad in front of the team as a sentry to scout the way.

He took the entire battalion to rest in place.

Jia Shusheng ordered: "Rocket artillery! Aim at the Japanese infantry,

Do it again!"

The power of the rocket artillery had been tested several times during training.

But this was the first time it had been truly used in actual combat for the 3rd Regiment.

Now it was the second time,

And it was still only one round of fire.

Four rocket artillery pieces fired at the same time,

Battalion Commander Yoshitaka Kazuki heard the whistling sound of the shells cutting through the air.

And stared blankly as his battalion,

Instantly plunged into a sea of fire.

"Cover! Cover!"

He did not know what he should do now?

Now he understood: The explosion he heard in the back just now,

Was this sound.

The sound of dozens of shells exploding at the same time.

This time it was the same as before,

The bombing came suddenly and ended quickly.

But his battalion, in this one minute,

Had lost most of its combat infantry.

Looking at the entire battalion with only less than five hundred Japanese soldiers left,

Among them, there were still a hundred quartermasters.

"How can we fight like this?"

In this situation, Battalion Commander Yoshitaka Kazuki could only send a telegram to ask for guidance.

In the telegram, he described in detail that the tank company had been completely destroyed,

And his battalion now had only five hundred Japanese soldiers left,

The key was: he had not found the National Army yet.

Now he wanted to request the air force to come and guide him,

Help him find the National Army,

And see if they could be eliminated along the way.

Division Commander Shiro Inaba of the Sixth Division was still happy about taking Huangmei just now,

But this was another bucket of cold water poured over his head.

He only thought about it for a moment and ordered:

"Retreat!"

The Sixth Division's supply route could already be replenished by water,

And there was no need to open up the land route to Taihu.

No matter what reason Division Commander Shiro Inaba used to convince himself,

This was the first retreat of the Sixth Division since it set out in July.

Battalion Commander Yoshitaka Kazuki immediately ordered:

"Everyone, turn around and immediately return to Susong."

As for the squad he had sent to the front to reconnoiter,

He immediately sent a messenger to inform them.

The remaining four hundred Japanese soldiers of Yoshitaka Kazuki's battalion began to retreat.

Jia Shusheng, who was watching all this from afar, was dumbfounded,

He did not expect that he was just testing the power of the rockets,

And these Japanese soldiers ran back.

How could this be allowed?

Jia Shusheng ordered again:

"Rocket artillery, give them another shot,

We can't let them run away like this."

"Call the 1st Regiment and the 2nd Regiment!

Tell them that the Japanese army ran back without making contact."

Another round of rocket fire washed the ground,

Yoshitaka Kazuki's battalion fled in panic,

Running a full two kilometers,

Before it stopped to gather the remnants.

Battalion Commander Yoshitaka Kazuki looked at the Japanese soldiers who had escaped with him,

There were about a hundred of them.

In the distance behind, there were still sporadic Japanese soldiers running over in a panic.

Looking at these remnants, he thought of when he passed through here an hour ago,

A fully staffed infantry battalion was striding forward,

At that time, there were twelve tanks clearing the way in front.

How majestic it was,

Compared to now, the tank company that cleared the way was completely wiped out,

A fully staffed battalion could not even fill a company now.

More than a thousand Japanese soldiers had died, and they had not even seen what their opponents looked like.

Battalion Commander Yoshitaka Kazuki sat blankly on a stone,

Thinking constantly in his mind.

The entire Yoshitaka Kazuki Battalion had suffered an unprecedented major blow.

But one squad was lucky enough to escape unscathed.

When Akai Yuta's squad was sent by the battalion commander to scout ahead,

Their squad left the entire main force.

Searching forward carefully all the way,

Just as they had gone out less than five hundred meters,

They heard explosions coming from behind.

What the Japanese soldiers of Akai Yuta's squad turned around and saw was:

The entire Yoshitaka Kazuki Battalion was within the range of the artillery bombardment.

But the smoke was thick, and they could not see the casualties of the main force clearly.

Akai Yuta's squad had not seen a single National Army soldier,

And received a notice to retreat.

They quickly retreated, fearing that they would be wiped out by unseen enemies if they retreated late.

So the entire Akai Yuta's squad once again had the good fortune to witness the bombing of the Yoshitaka Kazuki Battalion.

Squad Leader Akai Yuta ordered the team to suspend their retreat.

He already understood: The other side was deliberately bombing the main force.

As long as the Akai Squad was a little further away from the main force,

They could avoid being bombed.

This was a very wise choice,

After ten minutes, the smoke was blown away by the mountain wind.

Squad Leader Akai Yuta saw the position that had been bombed,

Many Japanese corpses were lying on the ground,

In fact, the two bombings were in the same area,

There were thousands of corpses or wounded Japanese soldiers in this position.

The scene on the ground was indeed very shocking to Akai Yuta's squad.

This was simply hell!

Or rather, it was a road to the underworld.

If they wanted to return to Susong,

No matter whether the road ahead was hell or the underworld,

Akai Yuta's squad had to walk this section of the road.

When their squad ran past a pile of corpses lying on the ground,

They could still see some wounded Japanese soldiers struggling.

These wounded Japanese soldiers,

Were originally desperate:

When they were bombed just now,

All the Japanese soldiers fled quickly like frightened deer.

No Japanese soldier paid attention to these wounded at all.

Some of the wounded were still those who had been collected together after the last bombing,

And now no Japanese soldier was willing to pay attention to them.

Now these wounded soldiers finally waited for hope,

Watching Akai Yuta's squad rush over quickly,

They waited hopefully for them to take these wounded away.

Squad Leader Akai Yuta looked at the wounded on the ground,

At least a hundred of them,

This was difficult.

If his squad took all the wounded with them?

There was no way they could take them away.

Then they would only take a few of them?

If they did not take one away, Squad Leader Akai Yuta was afraid that he would be punished in the future.

So the entire Akai Yuta's squad, two Japanese soldiers supported one lightly wounded soldier,

And continued to chase after them with these twenty lucky Japanese soldiers.

What made Squad Leader Akai Yuta happy was:

Their team was not bombed here.

For him and the entire Akai Yuta's squad, this was a kind of luck.

For Regiment Commander Jia Shusheng of the 3rd Regiment:

He did not want to waste artillery shells.

Because Regiment Commander Chen Sichuan of the 1st Regiment and Regiment Commander Liu Laopao of the 2nd Regiment both said in the phone call just now:

The pocket had been tightened, and he guaranteed that not a single Japanese soldier would escape.

In order not to disappoint the two regiment commanders too much,

Jia Shusheng finally wisely notified them:

"There are about nearly one company of infantrymen who escaped,

The Japanese tanks have been completely annihilated."

Hearing that the 3rd Regiment had only left him with one company,

Liu Laopao was unhappy at the time:

"Jia Shusheng! I've run so much,

The entire regiment has nearly two thousand people,

And you only left me with a hundred Japanese soldiers,

What are your intentions?

Why don't you kill all these Japanese soldiers?"

Jia Shusheng smiled and said:

"Isn't it too far away?

The infantry has no way to rush up,

If I wasn't afraid that you, old brother, would be waiting in vain,

I would have fired two more rounds of bombing,

I guarantee that I can wipe out this group of Japanese soldiers."

Chen Sichuan quickly said:

"Shusheng, don't be reckless,

You, Jia Shusheng, one round of rocket artillery shells requires forty-eight rockets,

And now our logistics have stopped.

This rocket can’t be replenished from the Japanese army,

Don't waste it.

Laopao, don't say any more.

No matter how small a mosquito leg is, it is still meat,

Tasting the blood is enough."

Liu Laopao was really afraid that Jia Shusheng would give those fleeing Japanese soldiers another round of rockets.

Only then did he angrily put down the microphone.

And immediately ordered the 1st and 2nd Companies:

"You guys get closer to the Japanese army quickly,

There are less than two hundred Japanese soldiers left now.

If you move slowly, you will only have the job of cleaning up the battlefield."

Although Jia Shusheng said that the distance was too far and it was not good to send infantry,

In fact, he sent four companies to clean up the battlefield.

This morning, Lin Fan was still in Taihu County,

Giving a lecture to the puppet troops of the entire baggage train that he had captured yesterday and the four hundred puppet troops who had traveled more than a hundred miles with the 2nd Regiment.

Now these teams, which totaled one thousand people, had been mixed in with the Special Operations Brigade's original baggage train.

The Special Operations Brigade originally had a five-thousand-man baggage train,

Now that another one thousand people had been added,

The baggage train had become larger.

Not only that, from Wuhu to Taihu County,

The supplies carried by the Special Operations Brigade had not only not decreased,

But had increased a lot.

This was thanks to the puppet army baggage train in Taihu County yesterday.

These people who had just joined the Special Operations Brigade's baggage train,

Soon discovered a fact:

These people, like them, were just baggage handlers,

But each and every one of them was agile and spoke with confidence,

Most importantly, each and every one of them had weapons.

Sailing with the wind was the skill of these puppet troops,

They could not escape now.

And immediately inquired about the news from these companions,

This group of activists who had just been transferred from various counties did not hide anything,

And revealed the details of these people very quickly.

Knowing that these people were all militiamen from the local security team,

The puppet troops immediately felt that they were superior to them.

Their attitude changed immediately,

Their attitude changed,

And these honest people in the baggage train were unwilling to let it go.

In the team, everyone ate by their ability,

Whoever had the ability, their voice would be louder.

Soon, someone in the puppet army who had just been incorporated into the team started arguing with the militia.

Finally, both sides agreed to compete,

Everyone used the Type 38 rifle,

They wanted to directly use the rifle to compete in bayonet fighting.

This was too dangerous, so in the end they used training dummy guns to compete.

Shao Dazhuang, true to his name, was one meter eight tall,

He was strong and sturdy, with a lot of strength in his arms.

Holding the dummy gun in both hands, he stared at the young man with a simple and honest face opposite him.

Li Xiaochun was just a farmer last year.

After the Special Operations Brigade came, he was the first to sign up for training.

The two stared at each other for a while,

Shao Dazhuang shouted, took a step forward,

And stabbed the dummy gun in his hand towards the person in front of him.

He knew that he was strong, and he was afraid of hurting people even with a dummy gun,

So he took three points of strength and stabbed forward.

Li Xiaochun took a small step back, and guided the dummy gun in his hand,

Avoiding the stabbed gun, he shouted loudly,

And immediately returned a gun.

His guidance made Shao Dazhuang's body sway,

His center of gravity was unstable under his feet, and he almost went with the other person's gun.

Shao Dazhuang was shocked in his heart, and quickly used force with his feet to stabilize himself.

He parried frantically with his hands,

He was clear in his heart:

If he had not left three points of strength when he shot,

He would have been defeated now.

Having learned a lesson from the first move, Shao Dazhuang did not dare to underestimate the enemy.

He stood firmly with his feet, guarding steadily.

He defended, and Li Xiaochun was no longer polite,

And kept stabbing the dummy gun in his hand.

But Shao Dazhuang guarded tightly,

Only defending and not attacking.

For a while, Li Xiaochun had no way to deal with him.

"Left, right, left, right!" Someone shouted.

Li Xiaochun immediately took a step to the left,

And stabbed a gun.

Before the two guns made contact, he continued to take a step to the left,

After two consecutive steps, he had already gone behind Shao Dazhuang.

This gun hit him in the back,

Having been shot, Shao Dazhuang panicked a little.

He quickly turned around, but Li Xiaochun had already run away,

And continued to move his feet around the big man.

Soon, several white dots appeared on Shao Dazhuang's back.

The militiamen watching the battle cheered loudly.

These puppet troops were a little discouraged,

They could see that in this bayonet fighting, Shao Dazhuang had lost.

Shao Dazhuang was a little unconvinced:

"When fighting, you rely on marksmanship,

There is very little bayonet fighting."

Li Xiaochun sneered:

"You can't even compare with bayonets, and you still want to compare with marksmanship."

Shao Dazhuang did not have a gun, and he wanted to compare with marksmanship.

Lin Fan said with a smile:

"You new recruits, pick ten of you,

Among these militiamen, you new recruits will pick ten to be your opponents.

You guys compete."

Leading the team, it was a good thing that the soldiers were unwilling to admit defeat.

If they did not care about winning or losing and all lay flat,

That would be a bad thing.

Hearing the chief say this, Shao Dazhuang

said immediately, "You don't choose, and we don't choose either,

Just these ten people here.

You choose ten people to compare!"

Li Xiaochun also said, "Just the ten people on this side."

The twenty-person competition team was selected,

And twenty targets were set up against the opposite wall.

Each person had ten bullets, and they started at the same time.

However, behind the ten new recruits, there were two militiamen guarding them.

Shao Dazhuang and the others did not take it seriously,

They were still clear about this:

They had only just joined, and it was right for people to be on guard.

The sound of gunfire rang out.

Ten bullets, using the Type 38 rifle,

Required two magazines.

After five minutes, both sides had finished shooting.

Everyone ran to the front of the target to check.

Shao Dazhuang looked at his own, and then at Li Xiaochun's,

And suddenly stopped talking.

Looking at the targets of the others,

These militiamen, with ten bullets each,

The best one scored forty-eight rings.

The worst one scored thirty-three rings,

And not a single bullet missed the target.

Looking at this result,

Shao Dazhuang said unconvinced:

"You are not militiamen from the security regiment at all,

You are obviously the elite of the National Army,

What's the point of pretending to be like this to deceive us?

If you have the ability, go to the front line to fight the Japanese devils."

Li Xiaochun was angry: "Admit defeat if you lose, a real man,

Are you afraid to admit defeat if you lose?"

"Who doesn't admit it? It's just that your means are not good."

"I lost, no matter whether you are militiamen or elites,

I lost,

I'm convinced that I lost to you!" Shao Dazhuang said loudly, his face flushed red.

Seeing this, Lin Fan said with a smile:

"I can guarantee that they are militiamen,

If they were really elites,

They would have been put on the front line to fight the Japanese devils long ago.

Can letting the elites guard the carts and leading the mules and horses drive away the Japanese devils?"

Shao Dazhuang and the other new recruits thought about it according to Lin Fan's thinking:

This was true.

"But! How can your marksmanship be so good?"

Shao Dazhuang asked the question that all these new recruits had.

"It's trained, we have fifty rounds of live ammunition shooting training every week," Li Xiaochun said proudly.

The militiamen had fifty rounds of live ammunition training every week,

This left Shao Dazhuang and the others speechless.

……

Lin Fan listened to Mao Wenxing's report:

The enemy's tank team had been completely wiped out in front,

Most of the enemy's infantry battalion had been wiped out,

And only one company was still fleeing.

This last enemy team,

Was already within the encirclement of the 1st and 2nd Regiments.

Regiment Commander Jia Shusheng of the 3rd Regiment's report also followed,

The content was the same.

This was good news.

However, Lin Fan also received bad news:

The enemy used poison gas in Huangmei,

The 68th Army of Liu Ruming, which defended Huangmei, suffered heavy casualties,

In order not to cause the enemy to continue to release poison gas in Huangmei County in a frenzied manner,

The 68th Army had to abandon Huangmei County.

In other words: The Fifth War Zone's plan to close the door and beat the dog,

Had now become the door being broken open by the dog.

The annihilation battle that had been leaked could no longer achieve the purpose of annihilation.

But this did not affect the Special Operations Brigade's continued advance to Susong.

Although the battle in front had not ended yet,

The main force of the Special Operations Brigade had already begun to depart from Taihu.

Battalion Commander Yoshitaka Kazuki, after leading the team to run out two kilometers first,

Stopped on the side of the road to rest, and waited for Squad Leader Akai Yuta and the others along the way.

The fifty-odd Japanese soldiers of Squad Leader Akai Yuta,

Dragging more than twenty wounded, were actually not slow in running.

It was just that they were ultimately not as good as the main force who ran away empty-handed,

Fortunately, Battalion Commander Yoshitaka Kazuki ultimately did not forget them,

Seeing that Battalion Commander Yoshitaka was still waiting for him when the escape was so urgent.

The Japanese soldiers of the entire Akai Yuta Squad were grateful,

The more than twenty wounded soldiers were even more moved.

Instantly, they felt that the two kilometers that the Akai Yuta Squad had dragged them to run,

Was not as good as a concerned look from Battalion Commander Yoshitaka Kazuki.

In fact, when he saw these wounded soldiers for the first time,

Battalion Commander Yoshitaka Kazuki was a little angry in his heart.

Seeing these wounded soldiers reminded him of the other Japanese soldiers in the artillery fire.

Could it be that this old boy Akai deliberately got a few wounded soldiers to satirize me?

Fortunately, Battalion Commander Yoshitaka Kazuki did not see a trace of satire from the expression of Squad Leader Akai Yuta.

And now was not the time to dwell on this,

Battalion Commander Yoshitaka Kazuki asked kindly, "Squad Leader Akai,

Have you seen the enemy?"

Squad Leader Akai Yuta responded in a panic:

"Report to the Battalion Commander! This humble officer did not encounter the enemy,

And was called back."

Thinking that today he had not even seen who his opponent was,

And had been beaten into this appearance.

However, Battalion Commander Yoshitaka Kazuki could comfort himself:

This was the order of the Division Commander.

Rest for ten minutes,

Battalion Commander Yoshitaka Kazuki saw that the morale of the entire team was low,

Thought about it, and said with a smile:

"Gentlemen, don't be discouraged,

The enemy is not terrible,

If they were really so terrible,

They would have set up an ambush in this place,

Wouldn't we all be unable to escape?"

What the Battalion Commander said made sense!

However, few of the soldiers bought it,

This joke was not funny at all,

And did not boost morale.

Seeing that his mobilization had no effect,

Battalion Commander Yoshitaka Kazuki no longer made an effort,

Stood up and ordered loudly, "Set off!"

This shout was full of confidence!

In his opinion, his Japanese soldiers had already escaped two kilometers from the battlefield,

And should be safe.

On the top of the mountain one thousand meters ahead of them,

Chen Sichuan and Liu Laopao were standing together.

Looking at the Japanese soldiers one thousand meters away,

Liu Laopao could not help but feel a little disappointed:

There were too few Japanese soldiers.

However, the Brigade Commander had already issued an order:

Except for the teams staying behind in Taihu and Qianshan,

The rest of the teams would all advance towards Susong.

Liu Laopao asked Chen Sichuan with a smile:

"Lao Chen! Are you really just letting me?"

Chen Sichuan smiled: "There are too few Japanese soldiers! If we two regiments rush up together,

It is easy to have loopholes,

If we let a Japanese soldier run away, it is a crime.

If there are any fish that slip through the net,

That would not be good."

Liu Laopao smiled and guaranteed:

"Don