April 3rd, 1938, early morning.

The Special Forces were stationed outside the Long Family Village.

Early-rising veterans of the Special Forces were explaining key assassination points to the newly joined soldiers.

These soldiers, originally from the Northeast Army, were mostly trained in using broadswords.

They were now being retrained to use bayonets, which they found somewhat unaccustomed to.

However, they had already been taught a lesson by the veterans of the Special Forces.

They realized that a bayonet, when used well, was no less effective than a broadsword.

Using a bayonet instead of a broadsword had one major advantage:

During marches, they could carry one less broadsword, which reduced the weight by several pounds.

Wasn't it better to use that weight to carry ammunition and supplies?

Although their movements were still a bit clumsy at the beginning of the practice, these soldiers' enthusiasm was undiminished.

The old guerrilla captain of Long Family Village was already standing outside early in the morning, waiting for Lin Fan.

He had no other intention but to ask Lin Fan to send some people to teach some skills to the youngsters in his village.

What could Lin Fan say?

He specifically sent a platoon to help the guerrilla fighters of Long Family Village.

These villagers used to be farmers.

Suddenly, they were asked to hold guns instead of hoes.

These people were still a little unaccustomed to it.

Some of them had already fired guns, when they drove away the routed soldiers a few days ago.

And there was also the time when the old man led them to attack the Teng County Railway Station, when they fired guns.

Those who got guns yesterday had never even fired a gun before.

Now, it was really difficult for the soldiers of Qian Tianyou's Second Platoon to explain weapons to these people whose knowledge of firearms was close to zero.

Fortunately, each veteran in the current Second Platoon was also leading two new recruits.

Whether it was herding one sheep or a flock, it was all the same.

These veterans had nothing to say.

Now that it was morning, Lin Fan agreed that these new soldiers could try firing a gun.

For these farmers, first getting familiar with the feel, hearing the sound of the gun, and feeling the recoil would allow them to have a better understanding of the rifle.

Old Village Head Long Zaitian would never normally let the people in the village waste bullets like this.

He believed that it could only make noise and was of no use at all.

Of course, now that they were training with the Special Forces, and with Lin Fan as the big financier, Long Zaitian had no objections at all.

He himself fired a whole magazine in one breath, and then loaded another one and continued firing.

The thing that the farmers liked most was firing guns and hearing the sound.

After firing the first magazine, the veterans began to explain how to aim and how to train with the gun.

Such as putting a copper coin on the barrel and keeping it still, so that the coin would not fall.

Hanging a brick under the barrel to exercise arm strength.

All these methods were taught.

The methods were simple, but few people could truly practice according to these methods.

Even fewer could persevere.

After shooting, it was time to maintain the firearms.

These farmers originally thought that the gun was an iron pipe.

Like the hoes and sickles at home, they would just leave it there after use and not bother with it.

Anyway, the iron lump would not break.

Now, hearing the veterans say that the gun was a delicate thing, and that it must be disassembled after each shot and the parts wiped clean one by one.

And it also needed oil, and too much oil was not good either.

It had to be wiped at least twice after each shot.

Even if it was not fired, it needed to be wiped every few days.

And every part had to be wiped clean.

The new guerrillas of Long Family Village now knew that this gun was, after all, different from a hoe.

The new soldiers who came from the Northeast were now most interested in the Special Forces' assassination techniques.

They earnestly learned from the basic steps.

The distance between the feet, how to hold the gun.

How to exert force when thrusting the gun.

How the feet, hands, and waist work together, there was too much to learn in between.

At this time, these new soldiers realized that a simple assassination movement, when broken down, was so complicated and so difficult to practice.

The laborers also did not sleep well last night because they were so excited.

In the morning, they also learned from the guerrilla fighters of Long Family Village.

And started practicing!

Qian Tianyou and the others did not have any prejudice against these auditors.

They also let these laborers fire guns if they wanted to experience it.

They explained disassembly and assembly, and weapon cleaning one by one.

On this plain, one side was practicing assassination, one side was practicing weapon disassembly, and one side was practicing shooting.

It was a lively scene.

The Special Forces' morning exercise was one hour.

At seven o'clock, it was meal time!

The Special Forces' meals were what the new soldiers and laborers yearned for the most.

This was the time to eat based on ability, if you had the ability, you could eat more.

At half past seven, the team of more than six thousand people began to move forward.

Today, there would be more small teams sent out for guard duty and reconnaissance.

A full seven teams were sent out.

Mao Wenxing was also flying in the air early in the morning.

He kept reporting: Two infantry battalions of the Japanese army had come out of Lincheng.

The main force of the Japanese cavalry regiment had also left the city.

They had sent out at least thirty cavalry detachments to scout for news of the Special Forces.

The infantry had also separated out a dozen small teams to feel their way in this direction.

The Japanese cavalry and infantry were both treating this direction as the main search direction.

No wonder, yesterday afternoon, two reconnaissance planes were shot down.

The sympathizers of the Japanese army in Teng County had also seen it.

The news reached Isogu Renjie.

The Tenth Division's staff deduced the approximate location of the Special Forces from the location where the planes were shot down.

The main search direction of the Japanese army today was towards here.

While the Japanese army was searching nervously, the two armies sent by Tang Enbo were sitting tight.

Not nervous at all, they had already arrived at the predetermined assembly point last night.

Now they were just waiting for Lin Fan's team to engage with the Japanese army before launching an attack immediately.

The Seventy-fifth Army's Commander Zhou Yan led his subordinates: Sixth Division Commander Zhang Qi, Ninety-third Division Gan Lichu, and One Hundred and Thirty-ninth Division Huang Guanghua.

The Eighty-fifth Army's Commander Wang Zhonglian led his subordinates: Fourth Division Commander Chen Daqing and Eighty-ninth Division Commander Zhang Xuezhong.

They had a total of five divisions, nearly 50,000 people.

This time, Tang Enbo had also put his heart into it.

However, although this team had arrived at its destination.

Tang Enbo strictly ordered: The order to attack needed to be issued by him personally.

Until now, he had not made up his mind.

If the situation was unclear, these two armies would not attack even if they arrived at the place.

Tang Enbo knew that his Twentieth Army Group was now the key to the victory or defeat of both sides on the Taierzhuang and Linyi defense lines.

If used correctly: victory would belong to the National Army.

If used incorrectly: not only would the National Army collapse on the Taierzhuang and Linyi defense lines, but even Xuzhou would no longer be able to be defended.

His pressure was actually no less than that of Li Zongren, the Commander of the Fifth War Zone.

Lin Fan listened to Mao Wenxing's report, and the entire team slowed down and moved forward according to the plan.

Only two hours after departing from Long Family Village, the reconnaissance team sent out by Gu Xiuming's company had already encountered the Japanese army's search team.

Abe Saburo's cavalry detachment set out from Lincheng this morning.

Their mission was very clear: to find the guerrilla force that had escaped from Teng County.

When detachment leader Abe Saburo saw a dozen National Army cavalrymen moving in the distance.

He was overjoyed and immediately sent a Japanese soldier back to report the news.

This was what Regiment Commander Feihouwu Mingji had specifically instructed when these reconnaissance teams set out this morning:

If you find the target, immediately send a Japanese soldier back to report the news.

Regiment Commander Feihouwu Mingji knew that his subordinates were likely to rush up to fight when they found the National Army.

In order to prevent accidents, he had issued a strict order.

After Abe Saburo's detachment sent a Japanese soldier back to report the news, there were still twelve left.

They rushed towards the target they had just discovered together.

Squad Leader Hou Junnan led the soldiers of his squad at the front of the entire team.

When Abe Saburo's detachment discovered them, Hou Junnan also discovered this group of Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese army's fighting will was very strong, and the two sides glared at each other.

The Japanese soldiers immediately urged their warhorses and rushed over.

Hou Junnan did not hesitate and immediately ordered: "Retreat!"

He did not want to fight the Japanese army head-on.

Following the way they came, the dozen or so soldiers of the squad quickly ran back.

These people were amateur cavalrymen.

Hou Junnan and the others' profession was infantry.

The professional cavalrymen of Abe Saburo's detachment had only been chasing for less than five minutes.

The distance between the two sides had narrowed a lot.

This made the Japanese soldiers shout excitedly.

They urged their warhorses to run faster.

Hou Junnan and the other soldiers seemed to be frightened by the Japanese soldiers' shouts.

The speed of their escape slowed down a little.

The slower the National Army soldiers ran in front, the more excited the twelve Japanese soldiers of Abe Saburo's detachment became.

Seeing that they were less than two hundred meters away from the fleeing soldiers in front.

Hou Junnan and the others began to panic.

Some people even turned back to shoot, which brought the two sides closer.

However, these people were not in chaos and were all running away together.

The Japanese soldiers of Abe Saburo's detachment seemed to have seen it:

In five minutes at most, they would be able to catch up with the fleeing National Army soldiers in front.

And cut them down one by one with their sabers.

At this moment, Squad Leader Abe Saburo, who was rushing at the front, suddenly saw a flash of fire on the ground.

With a loud bang, countless small black dots poured down on them.

Hou Junnan ordered loudly: "Go back!"

Their horsemanship was not high, and they could not turn quickly.

When these people riding warhorses returned to the battlefield.

The new soldiers of the first squad who were ambushing on the ground had already cleaned up the battlefield.

None of the twelve Japanese cavalrymen escaped.

Eight of them were killed by directional mines, and four were shot dead by the infantry on the ground.

The number of people in the first squad was now a full platoon of fifty-four people.

Only a dozen of them could ride horses.

Hou Junnan only took twelve people riding horses to scout the way ahead.

The rest of the soldiers, they had no warhorses, nor could they ride horses, so they could only follow behind.

When they discovered that the cavalry was running back, they immediately began to ambush.

This impromptu ambush killed twelve Japanese soldiers at once.

Four warhorses were captured, and eight horses could be used for luncheon meat.

Regiment Commander Feihouwu Mingji received reports from more than one Japanese soldier: A small team of cavalry had been discovered.

Although the positions of these small teams of cavalry were not in the same place.

But they were all in the same general direction.

These Japanese soldiers who came back to report all only saw a small team of cavalry before returning.

None of them saw a large team of National Army soldiers before coming back to report.

Regiment Commander Feihouwu Mingji did not hesitate and immediately passed the news he had just received to the infantry.

It also led the main force of the cavalry regiment to rush towards the direction where the small team of cavalry was discovered.

After Brigade Commander Se Takehira, who had been specially sent here by Division Commander Isogu Renjie to preside over the suppression of this team, received the news from the cavalry regiment.

He immediately searched on the map and marked the location where the small team of National Army cavalry was discovered.

Then connect the location where the plane crashed yesterday and Teng County into a line.

It completely conformed to the trajectory of this team coming out of Teng County.

He immediately ordered: "The First Infantry Battalion and the Second Infantry Battalion advance towards Gao Family Village.

The cavalry regiment will go first, but is not allowed to take the lead in attacking."

Brigade Commander Se Takehira was very serious and cautious about suppressing Lin Fan and his team.

He did not want to make any mistakes due to underestimating the enemy.

If it was ten days ago, he would not have been so careful as he was now.

He would have directly ordered the Feihouwu Mingji cavalry regiment to launch an attack and annihilate the National Army team.

It was not ten days ago now.

The Tenth Division could no longer afford any accidents and losses at this time.

He had to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut to ensure that there were no accidents.

In particular, the team could not suffer too much damage and attrition.

In the past ten days, the Tenth Division had suffered losses in Taierzhuang, and they could no longer bear large attrition.

The main force of the Special Forces team, more than six thousand people, were walking on the road.

They heard gunshots and explosions all around them.

It was certainly fake to say that they were not nervous.

It was just that these people had already made a fool of themselves when the enemy planes came yesterday.

Today they were much calmer, and all actions depended on the veterans.

As long as they saw the veterans of the Special Forces looking indifferent.

Everyone walked with peace of mind.

Of course, Hou Junnan's squad was not the only team that encountered the Japanese cavalry reconnaissance detachment.

Squad Leader Dai Tiancheng's small team also encountered the Japanese army.

They were all from the same company, and their tactics were to exploit their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.

These soldiers of the Special Forces were not professional cavalrymen.

Their horsemanship was laughably naive in the eyes of the Japanese cavalrymen.

This was also why the Japanese reconnaissance detachments kept chasing them relentlessly.

Wasn't it easy for professional cavalrymen to hunt down unprofessional cavalrymen?

The Japanese soldiers of the Kuraki Yuso detachment thought so.

When they saw Dai Tiancheng's team, they could tell:

This was a team that could not even ride horses very well.

To say that they were cavalrymen was really lowering the lower limit of cavalrymen.

But this team made the Japanese soldiers of the Kuraki Yuso detachment very angry.

This was because this unprofessional cavalry team actually had someone fire a shot from horseback and kill a Japanese soldier in the detachment.

This made the Japanese soldiers of the Kuraki Yuso detachment unable to find any reason to forgive this National Army team.

This shot was fired by Dai Tiancheng.

He was also afraid that the Japanese soldiers would not chase after them.

He deliberately fired a shot to attract hatred.

In order to fire this shot, Squad Leader Dai Tiancheng deliberately jumped off his warhorse and fired while standing on the ground.

Only in this way could he guarantee that he would hit the target accurately.

It was also this way of firing that made the Japanese soldiers of the Kuraki Yuso detachment understand:

They had encountered an infantryman riding a warhorse.

These dozen or so Japanese soldiers did not disappoint Squad Leader Dai.

After one Japanese soldier was killed, they did not hesitate at all.

They immediately whipped their horses and chased after him. After Squad Leader Dai fired his shot, he immediately got on his horse and ran.

Even so, the distance between the two sides was quickly shortened.

It just so happened that the soldiers of his squad were all waiting together.

Everyone ran together!

This gave the Japanese soldiers of the Kuraki Yuso detachment great confidence.

They silently planned in their hearts: At the current speed of both sides, they would be able to catch up with the hateful National Army soldiers in front in three kilometers at most.

The horses' hooves flew, and they ran on the plain in spring.

Dai Tiancheng and the others ran in front, and Kuraki Yuso and the other Japanese soldiers chased behind.

After chasing for a while, the Japanese soldiers of the Kuraki Yuso detachment realized that they had overestimated the National Army soldiers in front.

The speed at which they were running away was not as fast as they had imagined.

The distance between the two sides quickly narrowed, and in such a short time.

The distance between the two sides was close to two hundred meters.

With the two sides so close, the National Army soldiers running away in front were a little flustered.

They began to shoot back.

Wanting to hit the target while firing a gun on a running warhorse was much more difficult than winning the lottery.

The Japanese soldiers of the Kuraki Yuso detachment chased even harder.

Just when they thought they could catch up with the fleeing National Army soldiers in front in five minutes.

The ground trembled slightly, and countless black shadows pounced on them.

Squad Leader Kuraki Yuso, who was rushing at the front, was hit by these iron pellets without any reaction.

The warhorse under him was also wounded all over.

The soldiers of Dai Tiancheng's second squad did not favor one over the other.

They treated the dozen or so Japanese soldiers who chased after them equally. After the directional mine exploded.

The soldiers ambushing in the wheat field immediately opened fire.

Aiming at those Japanese soldiers who were still riding on their warhorses and had not recovered their senses, they opened fire.

More than thirty rifles fired at the same time.

Some people fired guns to shoot the horses, and some people fired guns to shoot the Japanese soldiers.

The Kuraki Yuso detachment, which had a total of only twelve Japanese soldiers, encountered such an organized, planned, and premeditated ambush.

In an instant, the entire army was wiped out, and there was not a single survivor.

Squad Leader Dai Tiancheng reined in his warhorse at this time and slowly walked back.

He loudly ordered: "Immediately clean up the battlefield, collect the weapons and ammunition."

Most of the soldiers he ambushed here were the laborers who had just joined yesterday.

"What about these warhorses? It's a pity to just throw them away."

It was indeed a pity!

No matter what, the Japanese warhorses were innocent.

These were all good meat dishes!

Dai Tiancheng ordered: "Drag the dead warhorses to the road.

Let the main force that follows behind deal with it themselves.

We are still continuing to scout ahead."

This was a good method.

The soldiers of the second squad all took action.

……

Those new soldiers and laborers who had just received guns last night followed the large group and walked on the road, feeling a little uneasy.

The gunshots were sometimes on the left and sometimes on the right, and had never stopped.

These uninformed people could not help but start to think wildly.

The more they thought, the more chaotic their minds became.

The ideas of these people were more complicated than those new soldiers who had already encountered the Japanese army on the front line.

After all, they already knew the current situation and had also participated in the ambush of the Japanese army.

More importantly, the ambush was very successful, which gave the newly joined soldiers great confidence.

They were very happy now and wished that their old squad leader would lead the troops to lure a few more Japanese detachments to ambush.

The main force continued to move forward, and the uneasy mood made the newly joined soldiers a little depressed.

Everyone lowered their heads and walked, and no one talked non-stop like they did at the beginning.

Something suddenly appeared on the road ahead of them.

At the beginning, it was far away and could not be seen clearly.

As they walked closer, they realized:

On the road ahead, it was no longer just a road.

There were a lot of things in the middle of the road and on both sides of the road.

There were Japanese corpses lying motionless on the ground.

There were also warhorses tied to the roadside, these tied warhorses were still shaking their heads and wagging their tails, snorting.

Not far from these things, there were also the corpses of warhorses that had been bombed to death, as well as guns and ammunition that had been stacked neatly.

There were also the clothes, helmets, and leather shoes that had been stripped from the Japanese soldiers.

There were the most corpses of warhorses, and it could be seen that some warhorses had been dragged over.

Guns, ammunition, and equipment were piled up casually on the roadside.

Seeing these things, the people in the team suddenly became excited:

No one was a fool, seeing these spoils of war.

Everyone understood: The Japanese army had suffered again.

The Japanese corpses lying on the road should have been killed here. There were so many warhorse corpses, they must have been killed elsewhere.

The comrades-in-arms did not have time to clean up, so they dragged them over here.

What was the idea, wasn't this Sima Zhao's intention – known to all? (an idiom meaning an open secret)

Lin Fan ordered: "The company at the front will immediately start cleaning up these warhorses.

The rest of the team continues to move forward."

The pace of the team's advance could not be stopped.

The company in front, the company commander was Ye Tianshi, he ordered loudly:

"Brothers, move faster, put on the helmets.

Not so many?

Put on as many as you can.

Change into the leather shoes that can be worn.

Everyone, move faster, peel off the skin of these warhorses.

Take out the meat, leave all that can be eaten.

At noon, everyone will have to work hard to eat meat again.

The Special Forces are like this, always eating horse meat.

I'm tired of eating it."

Qin Lao San quickly chimed in: "Company Commander! In the future, if you want to vomit, just vomit into my bowl.

I like to eat horse meat."

The other soldiers in the company laughed, and many also said:

They would not dislike the horse meat that the company commander could not eat.

They could eat as much as they could.

While they were cleaning up the warhorses on the roadside, teams of new soldiers continued to pass by.

When these people saw them busy taking out the meat.

They suddenly became excited.

The depressed atmosphere just now was suddenly broken.

The whole team became lively again.

Everyone was talking in whispers: "How many Japanese cavalrymen were killed?"

"Less than twenty!"

"Bullshit! I just counted twenty-three, twenty-three horse heads.

Twenty-three Japanese soldiers must have died."

"I counted, there are only twelve Japanese corpses."

"Didn't you see that those dead horses were dragged over, they must have been killed in the distance and dragged here."

The soldiers discussed in their mouths, but the steps under their feet gradually became stronger.

They wanted to speed up their steps, as if they could enter the battlefield sooner.

The team continued to advance for half an hour and arrived at Zhao Village.

Lin Fan ordered the entire army to stop.

From the information sent by Mao Wenxing's aerial observation, Lin Fan knew that the Japanese cavalry brigade was not far ahead and had already assembled.

And the skirmishes between the reconnaissance teams in front and the Japanese reconnaissance detachments were becoming more and more frequent.

Zhao Village was the planned combat position of the Fifth War Zone last night.

Now Lin Fan led six thousand people to arrive at the battlefield.

And began to dig trenches, preparing for battle!

Lin Fan arranged the team of six thousand people on a hill on the side of the road.

The entire team built a defensive position on the side of the road.

On the plain, the Japanese army had infantry and cavalry, and they had a lot of troops.

According to Mao Wenxing's observation and statistics today: two infantry battalions, adding up to at least two thousand five hundred Japanese soldiers.

A Japanese cavalry regiment, nearly two thousand Japanese soldiers.

The Special Forces now had only a little over a thousand more troops than the Japanese army.

Numerical advantage did not represent combat effectiveness.

His own team of more than six thousand people could be considered a mob.

At least a thousand people were laborers and guerrillas who had just learned how to fire a gun.

In addition, there were five thousand people who had been converted from puppet troops.

Such a mob could only fight a favorable battle and could not fight a tough battle.

Lin Fan was very clear about this.

Of course, if Tang Enbo's two armies could appear as planned, then this time the National Army troops participating in the battle.

Would be ten times more than the Japanese army, and this battle would be very easy to fight.

In fact, the whereabouts of Lin Fan's team were already in the sight of the Eighty-fifth Army and Seventy-fifth Army who had been lying in ambush.

The scene of the Special Forces reconnaissance teams being hunted down by the Japanese cavalry detachments.

Was also seen by the scouts of the Eightieth Army and Seventy-fifth Army.

These people were not many in number, nor were there many teams.

But as third parties and observers, these scouts in the regular army were now feeling turbulent waves in their hearts.

These people also often encountered Japanese cavalry reconnaissance teams.

But they had never been like these soldiers of the Special Forces:

None of the Japanese soldiers who chased after them could return alive.

At first, these scouts of the regular army looked at the Special Forces soldiers riding on their warhorses with stiff postures.

They were all looking at this team with a condescending look.

As time passed: they found.

All the Japanese reconnaissance detachments, after discovering the Special Forces team.

Would send a Japanese soldier back to report the news at the first time.

The rest of the Japanese soldiers began to hunt them down.

The result was that none of the Japanese soldiers who participated in the hunt returned.

It had always been that, after a short time, those Special Forces soldiers who had just been hunted down.

Appeared in their sight again riding on their warhorses with such stiff postures.

But the Japanese soldiers were all gone.

Although they did not know what these soldiers did to the Japanese soldiers.

But everyone was a scout, and they believed that the Japanese soldiers must be dead.

Otherwise, even if there was only one Japanese soldier left, this Japanese soldier would definitely appear in their sight.

Division Commander Chen Daqing of the Fourth Division of the Eighty-fifth Army, who received the news, commented like this:

"They were able to capture Lincheng and Teng County, so they should still have some combat effectiveness."

He did not want to hit his own team too hard.

In fact, being able to wipe out the Japanese cavalry reconnaissance team, such a team was more than just having some combat effectiveness.

It was completely bursting with combat effectiveness.

It was just that he could not say that, because it would hurt the face of the soldiers under him too much.

Tang Enbo was very happy when he heard that the Special Forces had gained the upper hand in the small competition before the war.

To him, after all, this was a team that was going to join forces with him.

Of course, the stronger the combat effectiveness, the better.

After receiving the order from the Fifth War Zone yesterday.

He immediately began to inquire about Lin Fan and this team of the Special Forces.

He was one of Chang Qishen's most trusted generals.

Not to mention that he had many channels to inquire about this news, and it was also very accurate.

By now, he had already learned all the major events that happened between Lin Fan's sudden appearance and Taierzhuang.

He summed up one thing: this Lin Fan was serious about fighting the Japanese army.

This Lin Fan liked to take risks.

This was completely the opposite of Tang Enbo's way of fighting: Tang Enbo sought stability in fighting.

He would not take action unless he had a 90% chance of success.

Therefore, he had not yet made up his mind about this ambush of the Japanese army.

As the Special Forces team stopped in Zhao Village and began to repair the trenches.

The news reported by the Japanese cavalry reconnaissance team became more accurate:

There were already Japanese soldiers who had run back to report that they had seen a large group of the Special Forces.

This confirmed the target.

Brigade Commander Se Takehira ordered: The Feihouwu Mingji cavalry regiment would advance towards Zhao Village.

The First Infantry Battalion and the Second Infantry Battalion would also change their advancing targets at the same time.

And advance towards Zhao Village!

The movements of the Japanese troops were immediately reported to Lin Fan by Mao Wenxing in the air in real time.

Brigade Commander Se Takehira ordered the Feihouwu Mingji cavalry regiment not to launch an attack without authorization.

It had to wait until all the infantry battalions arrived before all the Japanese soldiers would press on together.

And use a force of ten thousand tons to crush this National Army team in one fell swoop.

Until now, Lin Fan's team had been very cooperative with Brigade Commander Takehira's plan.

The Special Forces did not break through in a dispersed manner, nor did they give up their supplies and flee.

All these made Brigade Commander Se Takehira very happy: this was an opponent who had no strategic vision at all.

A commander who was reluctant to part with his odds and ends was destined to be a failed commander.

If he had encountered this situation, he would have burned all the supplies by now.

And dispersed the entire team, allowing the teams to break through separately, so as to preserve their strength to the greatest extent.

Obviously, the commander on the opposite side was still fantasizing about retaining the materials he had seized from Teng County.

This was definitely unwise!

The more foolish the opponent was, the greater his chances of winning.

Brigade Commander Se Takehira had already clearly seen the scene of his victory.

After annihilating this team, he would immediately lead the team to the forefront of Taierzhuang.

Taking advantage of the great victory, and leading the victorious division, he would take Taierzhuang in one go.

And lead the entire Tenth Division out of the trough.

At that time, his future could be described as a golden road.

At this time, Lin Fan was also using Mao Wenxing to understand the surrounding terrain and the current positions of the Japanese troops.

Cavalry was very different from infantry.

Of course, the speed of the Feihouwu Mingji cavalry regiment was much faster.

When they came out of Lincheng early in the morning, they had been heading towards the center of the battlefield.

At that time, they only had a general direction, but no clear specific target.

When they received Brigade Commander Se Takehira's order to advance towards Zhao Village.

The speed of the entire Feihouwu Mingji cavalry regiment immediately increased.

They were not too far from Zhao Village.

Half an hour later, the Feihouwu Mingji cavalry regiment was less than seven miles away from the current defensive position of the Special Forces.

They stopped here.

One was to let the warhorses rest, and the other was to wait for the arrival of the two infantry battalions.

The Japanese army wanted to combine their forces and use the greatest strength to attack in one go.

Of course, Lin Fan hoped to be able to defeat them one by one.

Such an opportunity had now arrived.

The Japanese cavalry was five miles away.

Lin Fan immediately ordered: "Artillery Platoon! Second Company, new soldier companies one to thirty-three, take action immediately.

March towards the southeast direction of Zhao Village at full speed."

He was going to have an infantry and cavalry field battle with the Japanese army on the plains.

After receiving the order, the Second Company set off first, they were the sharpest blade at the front of the entire team.

Behind them, the thirty-three new soldier companies formed a long horizontal line.

For the sake of speed, Lin Fan ordered these thirty-three new soldier companies to advance side by side.

Such a marching method was only possible on the plains.

If it were in the mountains, the team would not be able to spread out at all.

Such a marching method of the Special Forces suddenly drove out the Eighth-fifth Army and Seventh-fifth Army soldiers who were not far away.

Fortunately, the soldiers of the Special Forces did not chase after those soldiers wearing the uniforms of the National Army.

Their large-scale march was also discovered by the Japanese cavalry scouts.

The fact that the Special Forces team suddenly left the defensive position it had built to attack.

Was greatly beyond the Japanese army's expectations.

The Feihouwu Mingji cavalry regiment had more than two thousand three hundred Japanese soldiers, and cavalry had a natural bloodline suppression over infantry on the plains.

Feihouwu Mingji was unwilling to give up such an opportunity.

But it did not dare to make a decision to attack so hastily.

And asked Brigade Commander Se Takehira for instructions.

This was somewhat different from Brigade Commander Se Takehira's plan.

But it was also clear that infantry without any defensive positions on the plains would only wait to be slaughtered like lambs in the face of a cavalry charge.

This was a good opportunity! A little man in Brigade Commander Se Takehira's head said this.

Let the cavalry regiment retreat, and be sure to wait until the infantry battalion arrives before launching an attack.

Another little man in Brigade Commander Se Takehira's head was speaking.

The two ideas in his head both had their own reasons.

In the end, Brigade Commander Se Takehira decided: The cavalry regiment would attack!

Lin Fan had already learned from Mao Wenxing's report that there were indeed tens of thousands of National Army troops staying on the shore of Weishan Lake, ten miles away.

It was just that they had not shown any signs of action yet.

Therefore, when he led this team to attack, he secretly instructed Gu Xiuming, who stayed behind:

"If your attack does not go smoothly, and Gu Xiuming and the others encounter strong pressure from the Japanese infantry here.

You can retreat in the northwest direction.

In that direction, there are tens of thousands of National Army troops hidden."

The Special Forces dispatched more than five thousand people at once, and only those laborers and the First Company were left behind.

Even the guerrillas from Long Family Village set off together.

The Special Forces suddenly left their positions and headed towards the southeast.

This was completely not in the plan, and Commander Wang Zhonglian and Commander Zhou Yan immediately reported this situation to Commander-in-Chief Tang Enbo.

The Special Forces had a reconnaissance plane in the sky, this was something that the Twentieth Army Group already knew.

Faced with this sudden situation, Tang Enbo analyzed: there was only one situation, Lin Fan must have thought that a battle opportunity had appeared.

No matter what this battle opportunity is, we will not participate!

He ordered: "The Eighty-fifth Army and Seventy-fifth Army will send additional manpower to observe on the spot.

Temporarily stand by and pay close attention to the surrounding situation."

If the situation was unclear, the army would not move!

Commander Feihouwu Mingji finally waited for the order to attack.

At this time, the Special Forces soldiers were only three miles away from its main cavalry force.

"The main force of the Japanese cavalry is moving!

The vanguard of the Japanese cavalry is three miles away from the Second Company!"

Mao Wenxing, who was closely monitoring the movements of the Japanese army, reported.

Upon receiving the information, Lin Fan ordered: "Each unit will follow the plan, send out small teams, and set up bombs.

The main force will build a defense on the spot."

Under the current circumstances, even if they built a defense, there was no time to dig trenches and fortifications.

All they could do was lie down on the spot, arrange their weapons, and even out their breathing.

More than five thousand people began to shrink, shrinking into a large circle.

Anping's artillery platoon was right in the middle.

The eighty-eight millimeter anti-aircraft gun had been leveled at this time.

The ninety-two type infantry guns and mortars equipped by the artillery platoon were also ready.

Facing the direction in which the Japanese soldiers were charging.

The infantry guns, mortars, and heavy machine guns of the Second Company were all aimed at the direction in which the Japanese soldiers were charging.

The team charging at the front of the Feihouwu Mingji cavalry regiment was the Kono Jiro squadron.

Squadron leader Kono Jiro waved his command sword and pointed at the Special Forces defense line opposite.

He ordered loudly: "Charge