August 16, 1938, night.

The Sixth Division of the Japanese army stationed along the Dayanjiao, Yangjialing, Qinan Mountain, and Beishanling lines were all quietly moving.

Hutou Mountain stronghold was the southernmost and highest mountain occupied by the Japanese in Susong.

The loss of this stronghold

meant that the Special Forces Brigade could advance from south to north,

sweeping across the area from high to low.

This was the reason why Division Commander Shiro Inaba was determined to recapture Hutou Mountain.

It wasn't that he wasn't trying hard,

nor that the Sixth Division of the Japanese army wasn't strong,

but that the Special Forces Brigade's artillery was too powerful.

Two battalions were lost wholesale during the day,

and many more were wounded on the front lines.

The total loss far exceeded three thousand two hundred Japanese soldiers.

In just one day,

the Sixth Division was reduced by three thousand two hundred soldiers,

returning to the state it was in after just capturing Huangmei.

Division Commander Shiro Inaba could only shrink the defensive line

while urgently requesting reinforcements from Commander Neiji Okamura of the Eleventh Army.

He wasn't asking Okamura to send an entire division to help.

The Sixth Division was proud; they didn't need help from other divisions.

But the Sixth Division was now severely understaffed.

Division Commander Shiro Inaba requested additional troops again,

this time asking for eight thousand Japanese soldiers.

To this end, he made a guarantee to Division Commander Okamura Neiji:

"Upon receiving eight thousand reinforcements,

we will immediately launch an attack on Guangji

and then capture the last fortress on the Yangtze River before Wuhan:

Tianjiazhen Fortress."

This old man, Okamura Neiji,

was originally the commander of the Second Army of the North China Area Army.

When the Japanese began attacking Wuhan,

they found that the terrain and landforms in the south were completely different from those in North and Central China.

This presented them with a challenge.

The Japanese high command needed to find a general familiar with the South to command the Wuhan campaign.

They reviewed their generals

and discovered that Neiji Okamura perfectly met the requirements:

during the Second Northern Expedition,

he served as an advisor in the Northern warlords' army,

commanding the defense of Wuhan.

At that time, Zhang Fakui of the Northern Expedition Army was in charge of attacking Wuhan.

More than twenty years had passed in a flash.

Now, it was Zhang Fakui facing off against Neiji Okamura again,

but the roles of attacker and defender had been reversed.

The Japanese were attacking, and Zhang Fakui was defending!

This time, Neiji Okamura was well-prepared.

When he was an advisor in Wuhan,

although he lost, he gained a valuable asset:

a map of the area around Wuhan.

When it comes to maps,

they are the most important thing for military operations.

The Japanese had started surveying and mapping the Northeast, North China, and Central China fifty years ago.

Although they had also surveyed and mapped the mountainous areas of South China,

they had not done so in detail.

It was far less detailed than the map brought by Neiji Okamura.

Throughout the Battle of Wuhan, the military map used by the Japanese was the one that Neiji Okamura had commissioned more than twenty years prior.

This could be considered taking advantage of the terrain.

Although Zhang Fakui was fighting on his own land,

the maps he had were not detailed at all.

He still followed the same tactics as twenty years ago,

spreading his troops like sesame seeds

evenly along the south bank of the Yangtze River.

This meant defending everywhere,

but not securely anywhere.

On the north bank of the Yangtze River, the Eleventh Army, with only one Sixth Division, could force the Fifth War Area's hundreds of thousands of troops to retreat step by step.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, the Japanese used more than just one division.

These days, after occupying Jiujiang,

Neiji Okamura immediately sent the 106th Division to attack Mount Lu.

According to the Japanese high command's plan,

they only needed to capture Wuhan.

If that was the only goal,

after Okamura Neiji commanded the Japanese to capture Jiujiang,

they only needed to continue up the river

and directly attack Wuhan.

However, Okamura Neiji was clearly not a Japanese soldier who only wanted to fight one battle.

He commanded the troops to attack along the Jiujiang-Nanchang railway.

His plan was to occupy Nanchang first,

and then have the troops continue westward

to occupy Changsha as well.

This would completely block off the northern part of Hunan Province

and create a large encirclement of Wuhan.

Even if they could not occupy Changsha,

as long as they occupied Nanchang,

they could also block off the southern part of Hubei.

No matter which part of Okamura Neiji's plan could be completed,

it would be able to encircle the National Revolutionary Army troops stationed around Wuhan,

achieving the intention of annihilating their main force.

This was the plan that Commander Neiji Okamura had carefully considered after thoroughly studying the three major battles of Shanghai, Nanjing, and Xuzhou after taking office.

In the previous three major battles,

the National Revolutionary Army troops commanded by Chiang Kai-shek had mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops for each battle.

After the defeat, these main forces of the National Revolutionary Army would immediately disappear without a trace.

This made the Japanese feel that they had spent a huge amount of manpower and material resources

only to occupy territory

without eliminating Chiang Kai-shek's forces

and without weakening Chiang Kai-shek's strength.

In fact, according to the Japanese understanding,

since Chiang Kai-shek publicly acknowledged the anti-Japanese united front,

although he had been constantly losing territory,

Chiang Kai-shek's strength was stronger than before the war,

and he had received more support than before.

The Japanese were getting weaker and more uncomfortable as they fought,

while their opponent was getting stronger as they fought.

This made the Japanese feel even more uncomfortable.

It was precisely because of this

that in this Wuhan campaign,

Commander Neiji Okamura not only wanted to occupy Wuhan,

but also wanted to annihilate the million-strong army that Chiang Kai-shek had deployed in Wuhan.

He wanted to completely defeat Chiang Kai-shek

and reduce him to a local warlord.

In this way, the Japanese strategic goal would be achieved.

They could then cease hostilities and focus on plundering supplies to support the country's economic construction.

It was for this reason that he sent troops to attack Nanchang.

The Japanese plan was not profound

and could be regarded as a conspiracy in broad daylight.

Chiang Kai-shek also saw it.

These days, the Japanese 106th Division, under the command of Division Commander Rikuro Pura, had been advancing westward.

When they advanced to a place called Jinguang Bridge,

they encountered difficulties.

The National Revolutionary Army on the opposite side was an obscure local unit,

the 19th Division from Hunan, led by Division Commander Li Jue.

With the strength of one division, he stubbornly blocked the Japanese there.

Of the 106th Division's nine infantry battalions, sixteen thousand Japanese soldiers,

eight thousand had died at Jinguang Bridge.

The invincible momentum of the Japanese soldiers south of the Yangtze River when fighting on the riverbank

was suddenly useless after they penetrated deep into the mountains.

The battles south of the Yangtze River continued,

while the battles north of the Yangtze River seemed to have stopped.

At least on the 16th, the Sixth Division voluntarily retreated,

and both sides seemed to have entered a period of peace.

Neither the Special Forces Brigade nor the Fifth War Area launched any major actions against the Japanese

in either the Susong or Huangmei directions.

The Sixth Division was silently licking its wounds,

waiting for supplies and reinforcements.

Chen Sichuan didn't have to wait anymore.

Regiment Commander Li Zhize's hastily expanded airfield in Qianshan had been completed,

and Li Xian had also sent a team of fifty pilots and fifty mechanics from Jurong.

Everything was ready, just waiting for action!

August 19, night.

Two teams set out from Qianshan and Tongcheng respectively.

Their destination was the Anqing Tianzhu Mountain Airport.

Upon receiving the news of the main force's departure, the 1st Company of the 10th Regiment

immediately took action.

They were the vanguard of the entire 10th Regiment,

having arrived here three days earlier.

In those three days,

they retreated into the mountains during the day,

watching the busy Japanese and puppet troops inside Tianzhu Mountain Airport from afar.

At night, they quietly approached Tianzhu Mountain Airport,

secretly marking the Japanese-laid mines on the periphery

for use during the attack!

Company Commander Lü Yewei wasn't alone.

This wasn't to say that he had more than a hundred men following him.

Rather, on the other side of the runway,

the 1st Company of the 1st Regiment was doing the same thing.

Regiment Commander Li Zhize led his team, spending five hours covering the thirty-odd kilometers from Qianshan to Tianzhu Mountain Airport.

Three hours later, Chen Sichuan led the 1st Regiment, also arriving at the designated attack location.

This time, the 10th Regiment had brought ten companies and an air force team of over a hundred men.

All twelve companies of the 1st Regiment had come.

The two sides used radio to confirm the attack time of 4:35 AM,

when the sky would be slightly bright

and the Japanese would be sound asleep.

The original plan was just to destroy the Japanese airfield.

Although the Japanese were now protecting Tianzhu Mountain Airport very closely,

if the 1st and 10th Regiments were only destroying the airfield,

it would still be relatively easy.

After all, destruction didn't require entering the airfield;

it could be done with remote bombing.

Now, the plan had changed:

first seize the planes, then destroy the airfield.

To seize the planes,

they had to enter the airfield.

To enter the airfield,

they had to completely occupy the airfield.

The difficulty between destruction and occupation had increased eighteen-fold.

But whether it was Chen Sichuan, the 1st Regiment Commander, or Li Zhize, the 10th Regiment Commander,

they were still willing to choose to seize the planes first and then destroy them.

Since that was the case, they would of course maximize their benefits.

All kinds of supplies stored by the Japanese in the airfield couldn't be missed.

The largest item was, of course, fuel.

The Special Forces Brigade couldn't produce this at all right now.

Every drop of oil used by the planes

had to be imported by the Special Forces Brigade!

In order to transport the fuel from the airfield,

Chen Sichuan and Li Zhize had also specifically organized a team of thousands of laborers.

At the same time, planes needed maintenance,

which required many parts.

The Japanese airfield would have some commonly used ones on hand.

These supplies also had to be seized.

In general,

the Special Forces Brigade would move everything from the entire Tianzhu Mountain Airport except for the bricks, tiles, stones, and mud.

Even the barbed wire used by the Japanese to mark the boundaries,

Chen Sichuan had arranged for a special team to collect.

After gathering them together, they would be pulled away to be used in the future!

The time for the attack hadn't arrived yet.

The two regiments' attack forces had quietly entered their respective starting positions.

In recent days,

various forms of resistance had been constant in the Japanese-occupied areas,

and guerrilla activity had been frequent.

Anqing was no exception.

The Special Forces Brigade had even occupied Anqing County a few days ago.

This forced the Japanese to strengthen their defenses in the rear.

At Tianzhu Mountain Airport,

the Japanese had deployed a full battalion to defend it,

plus another battalion of puppet troops.

Adding in the air force's maintenance teams, pilots, and so on,

the total number of Japanese and puppet troops inside Tianzhu Mountain Airport was close to five thousand.

The perimeter of the airport was entirely composed of barbed wire and bunkers.

Within a three-hundred-meter range outside the barbed wire,

the Japanese had carried out a strict clearing,

cutting down and burning all shrubs and tall trees that could block their view.

Small mounds were flattened, and small ditches were filled in.

To ensure the safety of Tianzhu Mountain Airport,

Commander Kaji Kawa Taichi, who was in charge of the airport's security, had really put his heart and soul into it.

Chen Sichuan and Li Zhize had long learned from reconnaissance reports that:

the Japanese had particularly strengthened protection near the tarmac,

not only adding barbed wire,

but also building trenches and bunkers.

Even the two-thousand-meter-long runway

was entirely surrounded by barbed wire,

and a bunker was set up every hundred meters.

These bunkers were connected by trenches.

The entire airport had a ring of communication trenches built along the barbed wire.

Compared with the protection of the Guangde Airport back then,

the Tianzhu Mountain Airport was completely undefended.

The Tianzhu Mountain Airport,

on the other hand, was armed to the teeth.

The 1st and 10th Regiments arrived at night.

For the first three days,

two companies from each regiment had been working outside the barbed wire for three nights.

The job of these two companies was to mark the mines that the Japanese had laid outside the barbed wire.

At that time, they could only mark them,

not remove them!

Because as soon as they removed a mine,

the Japanese would probably discover it during their patrol the next day.

Tonight, as soon as it got dark,

the two companies began frantically clearing mines.

They had to clear five attack routes.

The 1st and 10th Regiments were going to attack simultaneously from six directions,

with one extra route attacking the airport directly from the front.

At 3:30 AM, the two mine-clearing companies reported one after another:

"Attack routes cleared of mines!"

With one hour left until the attack,

all the officers and soldiers of the 1st and 10th Regiments began to rest.

The task of this attack was for the 1st Regiment to attack from the left side of the airport

and the 10th Regiment to attack from the right side of the airport.

Compared with the preparations made by the 1st and 10th Regiments,

the Japanese guarding the airport did not relax at all.

Patrol squad leader Kita Takuto, pulling on the ropes while leading two German Shepherds,

complained:

"These damn dogs, they've been barking at the outside like this for days!"

As he spoke, he scanned the flat minefield outside with a flashlight.

Sergeant Kanie Shichiro looked at the silent ground

and said with a smile: "Could there be ghosts outside?

These days, at least three hundred laborers have been buried outside for building the airport!"

Squad leader Kita Takuto said disapprovingly:

"They're the ones who call us Japanese devils.

We're Japanese devils, what are we afraid of?"

Kanie Shichiro chuckled and said:

"That's why they're afraid of us

and dare not come in, only able to wander around outside.

These dogs have a keen sense of smell

and must have discovered the souls of those wronged people."

"What wronged souls?

They were disobedient

and always lazy when working.

If such people are not punished,

how can we rule them?

If we didn't kill the chicken to scare the monkey,

the airport wouldn't have been completed so quickly."

Squad leader Kita Takuto was not angry

and simply refuted his subordinate.

Their team of thirteen Japanese soldiers

patrolled a distance of more than five kilometers each time.

If they didn't talk to each other,

some of the Japanese would probably fall asleep from such a boring walk.

Therefore, Squad leader Kita Takuto not only did not blame Kanie Shichiro,

but also hoped that he would say more,

as long as they could keep the conversation going

and finish this patrol route.

The task of the 1st and 2nd Companies of the 10th Regiment was to seize the tarmac

and protect the pilots of the Special Forces Brigade to board the planes smoothly.

Company Commander Lü Yewei of the 1st Company had been watching this place from the distant hilltop every day for the past few days.

He had mentally rehearsed the attack on Tianzhu Mountain Airport hundreds of times.

He didn't meet 2nd Company Commander Fu Mingcheng until after the entire company had finished clearing the mines on the attack route.

As soon as they met,

the two companies organized a meeting of officers above the squad level.

At the meeting, Lü Yewei explained all the situations he had observed these days.

The Japanese had set up two lines of defense at the location of the tarmac they were going to attack.

The outer perimeter was the entire airport's barbed wire,

as well as the bunkers and trenches near the barbed wire.

The inner perimeter was a line of defense specifically built to protect the planes on the tarmac,

with even denser bunkers on this line of defense.

They only had one access point to enter the airport in this direction.

However, as long as they passed through the barbed wire,

they would have entered the airport.

The Japanese patrolled right next to the barbed wire.

Company Commander Lü Yewei was now assigning the task starting from entering the barbed wire.

He pointed to the map he had drawn:

"I have numbered the outer bunkers from one to five.

The 1st Company will take care of numbers one and two,

and the 2nd Company will take care of numbers three to five.

There are a total of nine bunkers in the inner perimeter.

They are located in the south, north, and east directions.

The west is where the planes taxi onto the runway,

so there are no bunkers.

We are attacking from the east.

The 1st Company will attack to the north, and the 2nd Company will attack to the south.

Be sure to block the west side of the tarmac in the shortest possible time

and prevent the Japanese planes from taxiing onto the runway.

In addition, the Japanese pilots' dormitory is in the north.

The first thing the 1st Company must do is prevent a single Japanese pilot from entering the tarmac.

This is the best way.

After occupying the tarmac,

protect our pilots as they board the plane

and escort them onto the runway!

Our first phase of the mission will be completed.

The follow-up mission is to cooperate with the 1st Regiment in attacking the Japanese defensive forces."

2nd Company Commander Fu Mingcheng stared carefully at the map,

asked in detail about the location of the outer bunkers after breaking through the barbed wire,

and also asked about the location of the inner bunkers.

After making sure that every squad leader under his command understood,

he thought for a while and asked:

"Are there any more of these maps?"

1st Company Commander Lü Yewei smiled and took one out of his pocket and handed it over:

"Here you go!"

"I want to give the artillerymen in the company a closer look!" Fu Mingcheng laughed.

The 1st Company didn't have this problem.

All the soldiers in the company were already very familiar with the Japanese bunkers and trenches.

Fu Mingcheng returned to the 2nd Company

and immediately gathered the company's infantry artillery and rocket launcher operators.

Pointing to the map and facing the still-dark Japanese airfield,

he began to explain.

He wanted everyone to clearly know

which bunker they were going to attack.

The task of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Companies of Li Zhize's regiment was to ensure that there were no Japanese on the runway

and to protect the seized planes to take off smoothly.

The task of the remaining companies was to occupy the fuel depot and other supply depots of the airport.

Now, they saw that the Japanese patrol team had passed through this section of the newly cleared path.

Each company began to enter its position.

The scouts at the front had already infiltrated the barbed wire,

with the large pliers in their hands ready to go,

waiting for the order to start.

The task of Chen Sichuan's 1st Regiment

was to attack the airport's control center,

eliminate the airport guards,

block any Japanese reinforcements that might come from Anqing,

and destroy the airport's facilities and equipment after the 10th Regiment withdrew.

The companies of the 1st Regiment

had also clearly defined their tasks.

They had not yet entered the position in front of the barbed wire.

This was because the Japanese patrol team was coming in this direction.

The companies of the 1st Regiment needed to wait for the Japanese patrol team to pass

before entering their positions.

According to past experience,

the Japanese would complete their entire patrol mission at 4:20 AM.

They would rest for half an hour in the airport's rooms

and then begin another patrol lasting one and a half hours.

Watching the Japanese patrol team from afar with flashlights,

patrolling along the barbed wire,

interspersed with the howling of the dogs they were leading.

These animals were howling so vigorously because they smelled people far away outside,

but the 1st Regiment was three hundred meters away,

and these dogs only barked a few times.

Seeing that their masters didn't react,

they stopped trying.

Chen Sichuan clearly knew

that today's mission was arduous.

First, there were many Japanese and puppet troops guarding the airport.

Second, their defensive positions were too well-built.

The Japanese defenses were so perfect

that even if the 1st and 10th Regiments were launching a surprise attack,

they actually couldn't get too close.

At most, they could only sneak up to the edge of the barbed wire.

After the Japanese patrol team passed a section,

a team from the 1st or 10th Regiment would sneak over

and wait at the barbed wire.

At 4:00 AM,

the two regiments plus a thousand laborers,

a total of more than three thousand pairs of eyes, watched as the Japanese patrol team finally completed a patrol mission.

Each company had entered its position.

At 4:35 AM,

the rooster crowed three times!

The Japanese soldiers, who had just entered the room to rest,

took a few sips of wine

and listened to the rooster crowing.

Sergeant Kanie Shichiro said with a smile:

"Where is there even a rooster?"

They had torn down the houses of the surrounding people long ago when they built the airport.

There was no way there would be a rooster crowing.

Squad leader Kita Takuto said disapprovingly:

"Maybe it's a wild chicken that ran over from somewhere!"

This explanation made sense.

After all, this was the wilderness,

and there were still many wild animals.

Each company commander, who had long entered their position

and had been waiting for the signal, immediately ordered:

"Move out!"

Three rooster crows were the signal for their action!

This was also for concealment

and the suddenness of the attack!

Of course, attacking the Japanese should be as sudden as possible.

At this time,

launching a flare could also achieve the effect of everyone moving together,

but the Japanese would also be alarmed

and be prepared.

These teams of the Special Forces Brigade

not only moved when they heard the rooster crow,

but also confirmed the time on their watches:

4:35 AM!

The soldiers guarding the barbed wire

started making loud kacha sounds with the large pliers in their hands.

They had to cut a large opening,

which was for the passage of the Tu Tank (homemade armored vehicle) and Type 92 infantry gun.

The 1st Regiment prepared the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th Companies to attack the airport from the front.

They didn't need to cut the barbed wire.

As long as they charged forward, they would engage in combat with the Japanese guarding the airport.

In order to avoid alerting the enemy,

they needed to wait for the companies attacking around the airport to fire the first shot

before starting their attack.

7th Company Commander Gan Huaxing stared at the fortifications and barricades set up by the Japanese in front.

The situation inside the fortifications couldn't be seen clearly.

The location of the barricades could be seen:

four Japanese soldiers were standing guard,

looking around from time to time.

The first to engage the Japanese was the 1st Company of the 10th Regiment.

They quietly entered the airport,

walked forward more than ten meters,

and had already entered the communication trench built by the Japanese.

As soon as they entered, they alarmed several Japanese soldiers lurking in the communication trench.

The 1st Company hadn't discovered these Japanese soldiers in their observations these days.

After discovering that someone had infiltrated,

these Japanese soldiers immediately blew the whistles hanging around their necks.

At this time, the sky was already slightly brighter,

and they could see a distance of about ten meters in the hazy light.

The shrill whistle echoed in the airport's sky.

Both sides were so close.

Wu Yuhang, An Liangcai, Fu Tian, and others at the forefront of the 1st Company took a step forward

and rushed to the front of the Japanese soldiers.

They thrust the bayonets in their hands forward,

and the bright bayonets stabbed into the chests of the Japanese soldiers.

These Japanese soldiers were not without resistance,

but their resistance was ineffective

and they couldn't resist.

When the whistle sounded here,

many Japanese soldiers rushed towards this direction.

Without the company commander's command,

two infantry guns immediately fired at the bunkers on the left and right sides.

Rocket launchers also fired at a bunker at the location of the tarmac.

In an instant, both the Special Forces Brigade and the Japanese fired flares into the air.

The entire airport was suddenly brightly lit,

and they could see the Japanese soldiers in the distance.

The heavy machine guns of the 1st and 2nd Companies immediately opened fire.

The airport runway was straight,

and the communication trenches built by the Japanese were also straight.

Two heavy machine guns fired back-to-back,

and the Japanese soldiers in the communication trenches had nowhere to escape.

Company Commander Lü Yewei commanded the soldiers of the 1st Company to rush quickly towards the tarmac.

2nd Company Commander Fu Mingcheng didn't stop either.

They were advancing along the barbed wire.

The firing holes and observation holes of the bunkers that the Japanese had built on the outer perimeter

faced outward.

The Special Forces Brigade's attack came from the inside.

This made the Japanese soldiers in the bunkers a little embarrassed.

They hadn't even discovered the attacking troops

when they were blown up by shells.

This situation was completely unexpected by Battalion Commander Kaji Kawa Taichi.

When the whistle sounded,

he immediately jumped out of bed.

When the gunshots sounded,

Battalion Commander Kaji Kawa Taichi was already dressed.

Hearing gunshots and explosions everywhere in the airport,

he shouted loudly: "All units immediately act according to the emergency plan!"

He was prepared for an attack on the airport

and had made a complete plan,

regardless of whether it was useful or not.

At least now,

this plan was useful.

Battalion Commander Kaji Kawa Taichi and the Chao Chongwen puppet army battalion,

these Japanese and puppet troops began to act according to the established plan.

The fastest and most responsive of all the Japanese soldiers was the patrol team tonight.

They hadn't slept at all.

They were just sitting and resting in the duty room.

Some of the Japanese soldiers were dozing off,

while others were drinking alcohol.

Hearing the whistle, Squad leader Kita Takuto quickly led the Japanese soldiers out of the room,

watching at least ten bunkers exploding simultaneously throughout the airport.

In fact, even more bunkers exploded simultaneously,

but his eyes couldn't see that many.

What could he do at this time?

Squad leader Kita Takuto could only lead the thirteen Japanese soldiers

and rush towards the nearest bunker that had been blown up.

Just as they were charging,

"Tuk! Tuk! Tuk!"

The sound of woodpeckers pecking at wood rang through the airport.

This was the special sound of the Japanese heavy machine guns firing,

but the people firing the guns were the soldiers of the 1st and 10th Regiments.

At the same time, countless flares rose,

and their team charging on the runway

immediately became the most eye-catching Japanese soldiers in the early morning.

In an instant, they attracted the fire of at least a hundred guns.

No matter how hard the thirteen Japanese soldiers of the Kita Takuto Squad tried,

they couldn't withstand such a fierce rain of bullets.

The thirteen Japanese soldiers fell to the ground in an instant,

never to get up again.

The four companies of the 1st Regiment, who had been waiting at the main entrance of the airport for a long time,

had been waiting for the signal.

For them, gunshots were the signal!

When the gunshots rang inside the airport,

four bullets hit and four Japanese soldiers guarding the barricade on both sides fell to the ground.

Gui Wen gave an order: "Attack!"

The several companies that had been lurking in the darkness quickly stood up

and rushed towards the Japanese outer perimeter defenses a hundred meters away.

The Japanese had built houses on both sides of the barricade.

When gunshots rang outside,

the Japanese soldiers resting in the houses immediately woke up.

These awakened Japanese soldiers

held their guns and rushed to the window to take a look,

only to see that many people had rushed to the front.

Company Commander Gui Wen, who was charging at the front, saw figures moving in the house.

He threw a grenade.

The grenade accurately entered through the window,

and the Japanese soldiers who had just gathered at the window screamed in horror.

The faster ones immediately ran towards the door,

while the slower ones stared blankly at the grenade rolling on the ground.

With a "boom" sound,

accompanied by the flashing of orange-red flames,

the five Japanese soldiers in the house on the left all fell down.

The grenades of the Special Forces Brigade

had two hundred and eighty small iron pellets inside.

This ensured that at least three hundred pieces could be produced as long as they exploded.

The Japanese soldiers on the right side of the barricade met the same fate.

The same grenades,

the same loud noise and flames.

Then, the painful groans of the Japanese soldiers could be heard from the two rooms.

The soldiers of the 1st Company who rushed into the house

immediately performed surgery on these Japanese soldiers who were still groaning.

They immediately shouted!

The 1st Company was still advancing.

Not far away, in the Japanese fortifications,

Squad leader Nozawa Asao was shouting loudly:

"Fire! Fire!"

The Japanese soldiers under his command

had been sleeping soundly.

Although it was their turn to be on duty,

they could also sleep in the trenches.

For these Japanese soldiers,

they could also fall asleep in the trenches.

However, the sudden attack made them not clear-headed for a while.

However, the squad leader's roar

made these Japanese soldiers, who were used to following orders,

finally know what they should do.

Yamashita Taro, the machine gunner, rubbed his eyes

and was immediately kicked by Squad leader Nozawa Asao:

"Machine gun! Fire!"

Yamashita Taro had no time to rub his buttocks.

He immediately pounced on the heavy machine gun,

picked up the handle, moved the barrel,

looked for a target, and immediately opened fire.

At this time, Xia Tianchang, who had been paying attention to the two black gun barrels on the trench, immediately crouched down.

He aimed and fired the rocket launcher he was carrying on his shoulder.

The whole action was smooth and unhurried.

He didn't do one thing, but he didn't stop there!

Originally, he wanted to keep the two heavy machine guns

and capture them for his own team to use.

Now he didn't dare to take the risk.

He loaded the second rocket and fired at another heavy machine gun that hadn't been operated by the Japanese.

Watching this heavy machine gun being blown high into the air

and falling heavily to the ground more than ten meters away,

Xia Tianchang got up

and continued to charge with the team.

When the machine gunner Yamashita Taro

started to move the barrel,

his assistant, Sergeant Fukada Yuto, also rushed over.

Sergeant Fukada Yuto was holding a magazine

and hung it on the heavy machine gun's ammunition chain.

Just then,

he only felt as if a sun suddenly rose in front of him.

At the same time, he heard a huge sound in his ears:

"Boom!"

He felt a scorching heat wave hit his face.

Then he didn't know anything.

The power of the rocket explosion

killed the two closest machine gunners at the same time.

Not only that,

but it also implicated several Japanese soldiers around them.

Squad leader Nozawa Asao, who was urging the Japanese soldiers to get into the state quickly in his defense area,

heard a loud noise from behind,

turned around sharply,

he only saw Yamashita Taro's body fly two or three meters high with the heavy machine gun,

and then fell down.

When the heavy machine gun landed,

because the gun tail was tightly held by Yamashita Taro,

the first to land was the gun tail,

which slammed heavily on Yamashita Taro's head.

His head was instantly shattered like a ripe watermelon being dropped on the ground.

Such a tragic scene

stunned Squad leader Nozawa Asao for a moment.

Then he suddenly reacted

and shouted loudly again:

"Fire! Fire!"

His voice trembled a little.

At this time, he had seen that the people rushing up were the National Army.

They had rushed to a distance of about ten meters in front of the trench.

There were many people, a dark mass.

At a distance of ten meters,

with the shooting speed of the Type 38 rifle,

the fastest shooter could only fire two bullets.

Ordinary Japanese soldiers could only fire one bullet.

Squad leader Nozawa Asao changed his mind:

"Charge!

Fight the enemy with bayonets!"

At such a close distance, fighting the National Army with bayonets was the most suitable for the Japanese.

Squad leader Nozawa Asao felt that although there were many National Army soldiers rushing over,

the Nozawa squad might not lose if they fought with bayonets.

And the reinforcements sent by Battalion Commander Kaji Kawa Taichi inside the airport would arrive soon.

His last thought was not wrong.

According to Battalion Commander Kaji Kawa Taichi's emergency plan,

the unit coming to support the entrance defense was a company of the Chao Chongwen puppet army battalion.

The puppet soldiers of this company were busy getting up.

Of course, their training couldn't be compared with the Japanese.

Two companies of the 1st Regiment, more than 300 people,

fought with a small squad of Japanese soldiers with bayonets,

which was completely bullying the Japanese.

Company Commander Gui Wen shouted loudly:

"The 1st Platoon clears the remaining Japanese soldiers,

the other platoons continue to move forward!"

The bayonet fighting in the trenches had just begun.

In Company Commander Gui Wen's eyes,

the entire Nozawa Asao squad had become a group of remnants.

The attack in front of the airport's main entrance was going smoothly.

If they charged forward again, they would enter the Japanese airport gate.

At this time,

a few bricks suddenly fell from the originally whole walls on the left and right sides of the airport gate.

A gun barrel stretched out from inside,

and the Japanese machine gun began to fire.

Strings of sparks immediately splashed on the ten Tu Tanks charging at the front.

The Japanese even had hidden bunkers!

"Xia Tianchang!" the company commander shouted!

"Here!"

"Take it down!" Gui Wen ordered.

At this time, more than a dozen firing holes had appeared on the originally neat walls.

"Infantry gun!" 2nd Company Commander Wu Long also ordered.

With so many firing holes,

firing from multiple angles,

the Japanese immediately stopped the momentum of the attack of the 1st and 2nd Companies.

The soldiers of these two companies had to lie down

to avoid the Japanese bullets.

The 3rd and 4th Companies, who were following behind the 1st and 2nd Companies, were also anxious at this time.

3rd Company Commander Yuan Ruishi and 4th Company Commander Yan Yuan