Chapter 27 The Newest Order
Ma Lingyun saw the Japanese devils, who were usually high and mighty, all buried inside the bunkers. Without stopping, he quickly got up and continued running backwards.

Such powerful artillery was currently just targeting the bunkers. If they finished with the bunkers and then fired a shell at the works where they were hiding, he would be finished.

From a distance, Captain Kogen Shota, who had just arrived on the battlefield, was initially leading his team to charge towards the battlefield.

However, during the charge, he witnessed a miracle: the Nationalist army's second round of shells once again struck the remaining intact bunkers.

As far as he and his team could see, there were not many bunkers still standing.

Facing such powerful artillery fire, he feared that charging forward with his team would only be enough for the enemy to use a single shell to obliterate them.

Realizing this possibility, Captain Kogen Shota finally stopped and ordered, "Take cover! Await the battalion commander's orders."

It wasn't that he was unwilling to lead his team to the front lines; it was simply that the enemy's firepower was too intense, making Captain Kogen Shota somewhat timid.

At this moment, in another direction, Aikou Company Commander Shikata Douon and puppet army commander Bian Binbiao were also riding their warhorses, standing on high ground observing the second line of defense.

The two commanders watched as the bunkers, meticulously designed in their positions and built with considerable manpower and resources, were now being blown open one by one by the Special Operations Brigade as if they were made of paper.

The scene was truly shocking. Even from a thousand meters away, they could feel the destructive aura, let alone the puppet soldiers guarding the defense line at close range.

The conditions inside the bunkers were much better. The Aikou Company's Japanese soldiers all lived inside them, specifically on the second and third floors.

The first floor was reserved for the puppet soldiers who had done well and earned the favor of the *Taijun* (Japanese officers).

Facing the sudden bombardment, none of the Japanese soldiers living on the upper floors escaped, while a few of the puppet soldiers living on the ground floor managed to run out.

The most lowly puppet soldiers all lived in the trenches and works, and they were unharmed in this round of attacks.

This led Shikata Douon and Bian Binbiao, who were observing the situation from a distance, to have very different moods.

Shikata Douon's Aikou Company had already lost more than a thousand Japanese soldiers inexplicably on the first line of defense yesterday.

Based on the current situation, the two thousand plus Japanese soldiers on the second line of defense might also be completely wiped out.

He knew that the Aikou Company's Japanese soldiers would definitely be living in the bunkers, and these bunkers had now become coffins or traps under the Nationalist army's heavy artillery bombardment.

As long as the Japanese soldiers were inside, not a single one had escaped. The Nationalist army's attack speed was too fast and too sharp.

Bian Binbiao had a different perspective: he and Shikata Douon had roughly the same number of troops, around five thousand each.

In terms of combat strength, his puppet army was slightly stronger. However, due to his background, the entire puppet army division had been ostracized in Tianjia'an. During the first line of defense, Bian Binbiao lost two regiments.

This put him under a lot of pressure. Now, Shikata Douon's Aikou Company had suddenly lost two battalions, while his own losses on the second line of defense were not significant.

Relatively speaking, Bian Binbiao, the puppet army division commander, now had a larger and stronger force than Shikata Douon's Aikou Company.

Perhaps Reserve Commander Kaminoe Yūsuke would value him more now!

Full of hope, Bian Binbiao thought to himself, not particularly angry at the puppet soldiers on the second line of defense who were desperately running out of the works.

If they could fight, they would fight hard. If they couldn't, they would run. As long as they lived to fight another day.

As long as there were people, the war could continue!

Bian Binbiao didn't know what Commander Shikata Douon was thinking, but Shikata Douon was clearly very angry when he saw the puppet soldiers scurrying around like startled wild horses.

He said to Bian Binbiao, "Commander Bian! Please restrain your troops and order them to return to the defense line immediately. The Nationalist army's offensive is about to begin."

Bian Binbiao immediately agreed, "I will send someone to gather the troops immediately."

He said he would gather the troops, not immediately drive them back to the defense line.

Shikata Douon didn't notice the difference, and nodded with satisfaction. It was a victory that he could obey his orders like a subordinate.

Bian Binbiao didn't delay and immediately ordered, "Captain Leng! Take men and gather those people."

"Yes!" His guard captain, Leng Yuebin, immediately led a team out.

This was Bian Binbiao's guard team, all carefully selected strongmen, and each was equipped with a warhorse. Their departure was accompanied by the neighing of warhorses and thunderous hooves, creating a majestic and awe-inspiring atmosphere.

Shikata Douon looked at Bian Binbiao's guard team with envy. This was Bian Binbiao's strongest team, and their combat power was evident from their appearance alone.

What's more, Bian Binbiao had equipped this team with two guns per person, a pistol and a carbine, and the entire team also had ten light machine guns, providing ample firepower.

Captain Leng Yuebin led the team out and issued orders while charging, "Disperse by squad to gather the troops and bring the brothers back."

This wasn't the first time they had done this. Every time they encountered a defeat or the puppet soldiers on the front lines fled back, it was their time to clean up the mess.

Fan Jinglue, who had escaped from the works with his brothers and ran less than four hundred meters, saw a familiar cavalry team charging towards them from a distance.

This team, only a dozen or so people, didn't have knives or guns in their hands and charged straight towards them.

Squad Leader Qiu Wenbo, leading the team, saw Fan Jinglue and immediately smiled, "Platoon Leader Fan! The commander has ordered us to gather the troops!"

Then he pointed to his back and said, "Head in that direction, about a thousand meters."

He saw this Platoon Leader Fan every time he ran away. Squad Leader Qiu Wenbo looked down on this kind of person. When he first joined as a recruit, Fan Jinglue was a platoon leader, and after so many years, he was still a platoon leader.

He had already risen to the rank of squad leader in the commander's direct guard. If he were assigned to a company, he would at least be a platoon leader, or even a company commander.

However, this Platoon Leader Fan was still very famous throughout the division. In Captain Leng's words, "If only a hundred people are left in the entire division during a battle, Fan Jinglue will definitely be among them."

Fan Jinglue shouted happily, "Understood! Don't worry, sir! We will definitely arrive at the assembly point on time."

Although he looked down on this person, Qiu Wenbo Squad Leader felt pleased by his words.

Even against the wind, he heard Fan Jinglue's reply. Qiu Wenbo didn't stop; they had to charge down the second line of defense to inform these puppet soldiers fleeing from the front line of the assembly point.

Shikata Douon watched expectantly as the cavalry sent by Bian Binbiao charged in front of the fleeing puppet soldiers, only to pass by in a flash.

Then the main direction of the puppet soldiers' escape didn't change, and they continued to flee, only with some puppet soldiers slightly changing direction.

Soon, some puppet soldiers gathered together, and they fled in the same direction.

The satisfaction that Commander Shikata Douon had just gained vanished in an instant, and he questioned loudly, "Why hasn't your team returned to the front line?"

Bian Binbiao smiled and said, "We will establish a new line of defense a little further back."

"You~ you... This is running away!" Shikata Douon finally defined the puppet soldiers' actions.

"No! No! No!" Bian Binbiao quickly denied three times in a row.

"We are strategically withdrawing! On the front line, the strongest fortress has been completely destroyed, and countless warriors are buried inside.

Although there are still those works and trenches, are these facilities as solid as the bunkers?

I can't let the soldiers defend this line that is destined to be indefensible."

Commander Shikata Douon was stunned, watching Bian Binbiao, the puppet army division commander, talking nonsense with a straight face.

Bian Binbiao reminded, "We also need to retreat, the bunkers in front are about to be completely bombed, and they will definitely launch a full-scale attack next."

Shikata Douon was silent. He only had one battalion of troops left under his command. These Japanese soldiers, even if they were thrown in, wouldn't help.

Just as they were about to turn around, they suddenly noticed a Japanese team actually going against the tide, rushing towards the second line of defense.

Judging from the actions of those Japanese soldiers, they were clearly elite troops, elite troops!

"Could it be that Reserve Commander Kaminoe Yūsuke sent out the Japanese soldiers under his command?" Both commanders standing here watching the battle thought so.

Soon they realized that something was wrong: the number of Japanese soldiers in this rushing team was far more than the Japanese soldiers under the command of Reserve Commander Kaminoe Yūsuke.

Chen Sichuan watched from a distance as the Japanese bunkers collapsed one by one, and the First Regiment was ready and began to charge at this time.

Lin Fan and Chen Sichuan stood far away and could see further. They had already seen the puppet soldiers who were originally guarding the works had run out of the defense line and fled in panic.

Just as they were happy, a team of Japanese soldiers suddenly went against the tide from a distance, rushing towards the defense line that had just been vacated.

The second line of defense was there, and after the puppet soldiers fled, it was vacant. Several companies of the First Regiment were trying to rush over, and the Japanese soldiers in the distance clearly also discovered the soldiers of the First Regiment, and they also accelerated their charge.

Feng Junya had taken out the Japanese bunkers and successfully completed the mission, and was preparing to gather the artillery when he also discovered a large team of Japanese soldiers charging, wanting to occupy that defense line.

"This is impossible!" Feng Junya resolutely didn't allow the Japanese to do this.

He picked up the microphone and issued an order: "Target! The Japanese charging team within sight, give them a hard beating!"

This kind of visual strike was still relatively easy.

Regiment Commander Chen Sichuan of the First Regiment certainly didn't want to see his team encounter a competitor rushing in before they had even taken over the position.

His order was directly issued to the Twelfth Company, and Company Commander Si Binwei was extremely happy that they could see the Japanese charging team.

Receiving the regiment commander's order, the entire company immediately began to prepare. The four twelve-tube rocket launchers of the rocket artillery company quickly transitioned from moving to combat status.

It just took a little longer to load the twelve shells, and while they were still loading,

The sound of artillery rumbled, and shells constantly fell in the middle of the charging Japanese team in the distance.

Lin Fan could clearly see the Japanese limbs being blown up from the inside out through the binoculars.

Seeing the charging Japanese team suddenly fall into chaos, he said with a smile, "Regiment Commander Feng made a decisive decision, this round of artillery fire was well done."

The advance units of the Japanese Independent Mixed Tenth Brigade, which had only arrived at Tianjia'an Railway Station this morning, consisted of two infantry battalions and one artillery battalion.

After eating breakfast, they immediately set off for the second line of defense of Tianjia'an. The captain of the team, Nakamuya Yūsuke, immediately decided to march the entire battalion at a rapid pace to stabilize the second line of defense after receiving a report from the reconnaissance squad.

At the same time, it also sent a messenger to send a message to the rear about the situation on the front line. This messenger no longer had to run on foot like Syumura Takuya.

This was a professional messenger with a warhorse. Zhishui Yūki rode his warhorse to the front of Captain Mizune Ichiro.

He quickly delivered the letter written by the captain. Captain Mizune Ichiro looked at the message that had just been delivered.

Knowing that the second line of defense was being heavily bombarded by the Nationalist army, and Captain Nakamuya Yūsuke's battalion had already charged up.

It sealed the message and handed it back to Zhishui Yūki: "Send it back to Commander Kaminoe Yūsuke!"

Then he ordered: "Feitoda Taro Battalion advance at full speed." As for the artillery, he hadn't figured out how to use it yet, so he would let them move forward slowly for the time being.

After issuing the order, Captain Mizune Ichiro immediately led the guards and galloped towards the front line.

Before it had even reached the front line, it had already heard the "Rumble!" explosion.

Commander Shikata Douon and Bian Binbiao, the two commanders of the second line of defense, were no longer in a hurry to retreat when they saw reinforcements arriving on their side.

From their position, they could see the soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade charging towards the second line of defense, and at the same time, they also saw the newly arrived Japanese rushing towards the second line of defense.

The distance between the two sides and the second line of defense was about the same. The next thing to watch was who would run faster in the final sprint.

At this moment, "Rumble!" a loud explosion rang out, exploding in the charging Japanese team.

Next, another shell landed in the middle of the Japanese team, and one shell after another exploded in the middle of the charging Japanese team.

The Japanese team, which had just been charging rapidly and was neat and majestic, suddenly scattered like startled sparrows, running around.

"This! This... They are too unscrupulous." Shikata Douon looked at the Japanese running around in the distance, thought for a while before squeezing out such a sentence.

Seeing the Japanese team being bombed, and then seeing them running away in all directions.

Bian Binbiao was relieved, this was a time to compare who was worse. Just now, more people from his team survived, which was better than Shikata Douon sending the entire Aikou Company to die.

But fleeing without a fight was a major flaw, especially when he saw the elite Japanese infantry rushing up. If they had defended the defense line after a battle, he was afraid that he would not be able to pass this time.

Now there was no need to worry, this Japanese team had been bombed, and the Nationalist army in the distance was less than two hundred meters away from the second line of defense, they were sure to win!

This made Bian Binbiao relieved. Everyone had failed to defend the defense line, and the results were the same. And from the current situation, the casualties of this Japanese team that rushed up to die were probably not light.

Infantry that could be bombed by a 150mm howitzer would definitely suffer heavy casualties.

The two commanders standing on the side watching the fire from the other side, one was relieved and the other was angry.

Just as they were thinking differently, a large number of black spots suddenly flew from a distance, and these black spots were very fast.

In the blink of an eye, all of them hit the Japanese team that had already been bombed once: Rumbled! The sound of explosions rose and fell one after another.

This time, both Shikata Douon and Bian Binbiao had only one idea: What is this?

These were certainly shells, anyway, they exploded when they landed on the ground, of course they were shells.

The First Regiment's rocket artillery company was finally ready, and Company Commander Si Binwei couldn't wait to issue the order to launch.

The rockets fired by their company were all cover-type area attacks, one round of launch, bombing a large area.

Those Japanese who had just been scattered by Feng Junya's large-caliber shells once again ushered in a larger-scale bombing.

They had run for so long, but still had not been able to run out of the area covered by the rocket launchers.

"This~ this... How many cannons do they have!" Commander Shikata Douon no longer talked about fairness, he was just surprised.

Surprised that the Special Operations Brigade had fired so many shells this time, wouldn't that be dozens of heavy artillery pieces?

The Nationalist army on the opposite side was definitely not a heavy artillery regiment, at least a heavy artillery brigade!

Thinking of this, Shikata Douon began to worry about his fate. Originally, he didn't worry at all that he wouldn't be able to defend, after all, whether it was the first line of defense or the second line of defense, the Japanese devils were amateurish, and the puppet troops were even just a number.

In Tianjia'an, they also had the regular elite Japanese devils of the Garrison Headquarters, as well as tank teams and cavalry teams, all of which could crush the Nationalist army.

Now seeing the artillery bombardment of the Special Operations Brigade, it imagined: When the tank team charged, how many could survive if they were bombed by such artillery fire?

The same worry was also present with Bian Binbiao. For senior puppet army officers like him who had already surrendered to the Japanese devils, they could compete with the Japanese devils for some benefits in small matters, but in the overall direction, their interests were completely consistent: If the Japanese devils fell, their puppet army would not have a good time either.

Among these explosions, the most shocked and deeply experienced were the people involved, Captain Nakamuya Yūsuke and Captain Kogen Shota, these Japanese devils in the explosion site, were in the center of the explosion.

It wasn't the first time that Captain Kogen Shota had seen the Nationalist army on the opposite side firing artillery. Just now, he had only seen the Nationalist army's artillery firing at the bunkers from a distance, one cannon for each one.

At that time, he only felt that the front line was about to collapse, and his main energy was only focused on those fleeing puppet troops, and he didn't pay attention to how the Japanese devils in the bunkers felt at all.

Now he was in the explosion point, hearing the rumbling explosions, which were deafening. Feeling the earth trembling, his feet trembled unconsciously.

At this time, the shells were not dense yet, and he and his team were lucky enough not to be assigned a shell, and they could still calmly watch other Japanese devils being bombed.

Captain Kogen Shota could still lead the team to quickly spread out to the side, one was to avoid the artillery bombardment, and the second was that after spreading out to the side, they could continue to charge towards the front defense line.

The Nationalist army infantry on the opposite side must have advanced to the front defense line first, but they could rush over and take back the second line of defense when they had not yet gained a firm foothold.

Captain Nakamuya Yūsuke thought the same way, even though his battalion was still being bombed by artillery fire.

These Japanese devils who were still being bombed by artillery fire were shielded from sight by smoke and dust, and they did not see the rockets flying over like torrential rain, so they were not afraid.

Only forty-eight rockets fell on the ground at the same time and exploded at the same time, causing the ground to surge like waves.

Sergeant Xiu Cun Takuya was killed in such a turbulent wave. Although he had fortunately avoided the beginning, he had not been able to perfectly avoid the ending.

A shrapnel cunningly cut across his head, and half of Xiu Cun Takuya's head was cut open without hindrance, and the red and white inside, and the black and purple all splashed out, like opening a dye shop.

The Japanese devils of Captain Kogen Shota's team were also casualties in this bombing. Many Japanese devils only felt that the air suddenly became suppressed, and before they could react, the rumbling explosions sounded, followed by the sounds of "嗖嗖嗖!" "唰唰唰", like being able to chase souls and seize spirits, these sounds came very fast, at least much faster than bullets passing by.

The Japanese devils who were hit by the shrapnel after the explosion were not a minority, and among the dead and wounded Japanese devils, this time was the time with the most casualties.

Captain Nakamuya Yūsuke was not in the range of the howitzer bombardment just now, and he had intentionally evacuated to the periphery at the beginning of the explosion.

As a result, he was still shrouded in this round of bombardment, if it hadn't been for the fact that there were enough guards around him, and these guards helped to block a lot of the flying shrapnel.

Captain Nakamuya Yūsuke was safe and sound, but at least ten guards fell down.

Such a bombardment was obviously beyond the captain's expectations, and he had also seen the appearance of the bunkers being blown open.

Without feeling the same way, he just felt that the garrison commander Kaminoe Yūsuke had built it too perfunctorily, and couldn't even withstand a shell's bombardment.

At that time, Captain Nakamuya Yūsuke was only thinking about getting the team into the defense line, and he didn't have the consciousness of being bombed at all.

Now suddenly being bombed, he woke up from his dream and issued the latest order: "Charge! Charge! Charge into the front defense line!"

In his opinion, the Nationalist army on the opposite side was also charging towards the defense line. As long as his team charged into the defense line and had the cover of works, the effect of such a bombardment would be greatly reduced.

If he could entangle with the soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade on the opposite side, these shells would be useless.

As long as their infantry was defeated, the remaining artillery would definitely be frightened and run away directly.

Captain Nakamuya Yūsuke's order was immediately conveyed in the smoke-filled battlefield, and in this bombed battlefield, the voices of messengers were everywhere: "The captain has ordered: Charge! Charge! Charge into the front defense line."