Song Xilian's description was already bleak, but in reality, his troops were in even worse shape than he let on.

Bai Chongxi remained silent, simply nodding, which could be taken as tacit agreement.

The wounded soldiers of the First and Second Companies had never imagined they would meet the Commander of the Fifth War Area.

Bai Chongxi's arrival was akin to an imperial tour from bygone days.

The soldiers of the First and Second Companies were overjoyed, feeling as if their bones had lightened and their wounds weren't as painful as before.

Bai Chongxi extended cordial greetings to all the wounded, visiting every injured soldier in the hospital before returning to the men of the First and Second Companies, who had only just come off the battlefield that day.

He had clearly seen that these soldiers possessed the highest morale in the entire field hospital.

He asked warmly, "Did you sustain injuries fighting the Japanese devils today?"

Shi Yongzhi, a wounded soldier from the First Company, felt overwhelmed by the warmth of Bai's question and hastily replied, "Yes, sir!"

Bai Chongxi smiled and gently pressed him back down as he tried to rise. "Lie down! Lie down! You fought exceptionally well today. Tell me, how did it go?"

Hearing the Commander personally commend his troops, Shi Yongzhi was thrilled. The excitement he had felt since leaving the battlefield surged anew.

"Sir! Not to boast, but I personally killed three Japanese devils today, all with my bayonet.

Our planes were incredibly powerful today, especially at the beginning. We charged down the mountain and saw that the Japanese had already set up defensive positions.

Their heavy machine guns were firing 'dut-dut-dut', and their light machine guns were spraying bullets 'da-da-da'.

Seeing the intensity of the Japanese fire, everyone was a bit scared, and some hesitated to advance.

Just then, our planes flew in from behind. Machine guns and cannons rained down on the Japanese positions in a furious barrage.

The Japanese heavy machine guns were blown away, and the light machine guns fell silent. If we didn't charge then, when would we?

The company commander took the lead, and the brothers of the entire company charged forward with shouts,

engaging the Japanese in bayonet combat.

The Japanese force defending that location was originally a company, but after being strafed by the planes, only a few dozen survived.

After a chaotic melee, not a single Japanese soldier escaped.

That's how it was. Our planes paved the way at every Japanese defensive line, and the brothers fought with increasing vigor and courage.

Later, we encountered a large group of Japanese, probably four or five hundred. The company commander didn't even blink before leading the charge.

None of the brothers were cowards. Not one hesitated, and they all charged forward. That's where I got wounded.

Sir! I didn't let you down this time. I personally stabbed three Japanese devils to death and even grabbed the legs of two others, allowing my comrades to finish them off."

Bai Chongxi said with a smile, "Excellent! Excellent! You all fought well, bringing honor to the regiment, the Thirty-sixth Division, and the Fifth War Area.

I want to thank you for your bravery on behalf of the Fifth War Area!"

He questioned other wounded soldiers, and their stories were consistent. They had advanced through the battlefield under the cover of aerial bombardment, eventually reaching the Japanese artillery positions.

What struck Bai Chongxi the most was that these soldiers were initially afraid but grew bolder as the fighting progressed, daring to charge against numerically superior Japanese forces.

That was the most crucial quality for a fighting force!

How could they maintain this state of mind in the soldiers?

...

荻洲立兵 Diqiu Libing, the division commander, received the report from the 赤田大树 Akada Daishu regimental commander and was so enraged he nearly vomited blood.

His division headquarters, located twenty kilometers from 富金山 Fujin Mountain, had also been attacked by the Special Brigade's planes, but the damage to the headquarters was minimal, and he didn't pay much attention to it.

In Diqiu Libing's view, since the National Army had gained access to Soviet-supplied planes and pilots, their air force capabilities had improved, but ultimately, infantry would decide the outcome of battles.

However, soon after this thought crossed his mind, news arrived that the Akada regiment's three infantry battalions had been wiped out.

This wasn't the most painful part for him. What truly distressed Diqiu Libing was that one of the division's only two artillery battalions had been seized by the National Army.

Seized was the key word.

If Diqiu Libing had a choice, he would have preferred the artillery to be destroyed rather than captured by the National Army.

This wasn't the first time he had suffered such a setback. He had suffered significant losses during his engagement with the Special Brigade a few months prior.

Diqiu Libing finally calmed himself and began issuing orders: "The Akada regiment will immediately deploy to recapture the artillery, or destroy it."

In any case, he couldn't allow the National Army to keep those artillery pieces.

If the National Army acquired those cannons and used them to bombard the Japanese, Diqiu Libing knew that his troops' advance would become even more challenging.

Given the current situation, he had no choice but to report to Prince 東久邇宮稔彦 Higashikuninomiya Naruhiko.

Prince Higashikuninomiya Naruhiko's reaction upon receiving the report was similar to Diqiu Libing's.

The number of bad news he had received in the past few days had become overwhelming.

First, Hefei was raided, then the Sixteenth Division was decimated, and now it was the Thirteenth Division's turn?

From the report sent by Diqiu Libing, two points caught Prince Higashikuninomiya Naruhiko's attention.

The first was the squadron of planes that appeared during the attack on the Thirteenth Division, and the second was the National Army's counterattack.

In their battles with the National Army, there had been counterattacks before, but each time, the Japanese had fiercely pushed them back.

This time was different. The National Army soldiers had counterattacked for five kilometers and captured the Thirteenth Division's artillery.

Prince Higashikuninomiya Naruhiko didn't care about the fighter planes that had crashed on Fujin Mountain. Fighter planes were bound to crash eventually.

In fact, he was upset that the Japanese fighter planes had failed to stop the National Army's planes, but since the Japanese pilots were already dead, he let it go.

With new developments emerging at the front, Prince Higashikuninomiya Naruhiko not only refrained from ordering the troops to consolidate their positions but instead ordered them to accelerate their advance.

He believed that it was essential to achieve their strategic objectives as quickly as possible and capture Wuhan.

Only then could he break free from his current predicament: the Second Army's retreat route had been cut off by the Special Brigade.

Although he had already dispatched the Tenth Division to reinforce their defenses and was confident they would recapture Hefei,

wouldn't it be safer to make progress on the front lines as well?

Currently, his Second Army had only two divisions engaged in combat at the front.

The Third and Thirteenth Divisions were advancing in a two-pronged formation,

launching simultaneous attacks on the National Army. Prince Higashikuninomiya Naruhiko intended to designate the direction with the initial breakthrough as the main offensive axis.

Now that the Fujin Mountain sector had suffered significant losses, he was considering shifting the primary focus of the attack to the Third Division.

Regardless of what the commander of the Japanese Second Army, Prince Higashikuninomiya Naruhiko, was thinking, Diqiu Libing's mission remained unchanged: to immediately dispatch troops to recapture or destroy the lost artillery.

The specific task was still assigned to the Akada Daishu regimental commander, which put the regimental commander in a difficult position.

His regiment now had only one infantry battalion left. The battalion commander, Ishide Kyohei, set out immediately after receiving the order.

Ishide Kyohei had already made some preparations before the mission was assigned.

The Special Brigade's planes flying overhead had caused some casualties to his battalion as well.

However, his battalion didn't have any combat missions at the time, and the Japanese soldiers of the entire battalion had taken cover in the woods, avoiding complete annihilation.

With the planes gone, he immediately ordered, " Nishirin Yosho company commander, depart immediately and recapture the artillery position."

The Japanese soldiers of the Nishirin Yosho Company braved the scorching sun and rushed along the highway toward the artillery position three kilometers away.

When Regiment Commander Li Tianhao led his troops to the designated sniper position, he surveyed the terrain.

In this area, the highway was built on the steep slopes of a hillside, with a small mountain peak. A stream flowed ten meters below the highway.

He immediately pointed to the hillside on the left and ordered: the Third and Fourth Companies will immediately move along the hillside to the mountain peak and establish a defensive line.

The Fifth and Sixth Companies will defend along the highway and the hillside below, and the remaining troops will retreat five hundred meters to prepare for support.

The highway had been deliberately damaged by the National Army during their retreat to hinder the rapid advance of Japanese mechanized units.

In recent days, the Japanese had been repairing these roads. The large potholes and rocks on the road had been filled or removed, and it was almost fully restored.

It would be difficult for the First Regiment to defend the highway if Japanese tanks were to advance.

At this point, Regiment Commander Li Tianhao was unaware that the Japanese tank units had been completely destroyed in the previous battle.

He sent men to the artillery position, requesting that two anti-tank guns be brought over to deal with the Japanese tanks.

The artillery position had been captured by the First Regiment, and those transporting the cannons were willing to show their appreciation.

As a result, two 37mm anti-tank guns and fifty rounds of ammunition were delivered.

The officers and soldiers of the First Regiment were busily constructing fortifications, preparing for the upcoming battle.

One hundred meters behind the first line of defense, Chen Tianhao ordered the reserve team to set up a second line of defense, with communication trenches dug between the two lines.

For Chen Tianhao, defensive warfare was his specialty, and his current plan for the trenches was fully geared toward long-term resistance.

The importance of artillery to the Japanese was self-evident. The upcoming Japanese counterattack would undoubtedly be fierce, and there would be no air support this time.

The soldiers of the First Regiment were not disappointed by this. For them, battles without air support were the norm.

Battles with air support, like the one this morning, were exceptions.

The Japanese soldiers of the Nishirin Yosho Company advanced in eight vehicles along the highway, each with a machine gun mounted on the roof.

The few kilometers of mountain road took the vehicles about ten minutes. The Nishirin Yosho Company soon spotted the trenches blocking the road.

Hong Wenhua, the Third Company commander, loudly commanded the two newly arrived anti-tank guns, "Fire!"

Two 37mm shells shot out of the barrels with a "boom!" Unfortunately, they missed.

The shells hit the hillside behind the Japanese convoy and exploded. The Japanese soldiers of the Nishirin Yosho Company scrambled out of the vehicles in a panic.

If such a shell were to hit a vehicle, those Japanese soldiers still inside would undoubtedly be killed.

Seeing the Japanese vehicles stop far away, columns of Japanese soldiers charged along the highway.

Hong Wenhua, the Third Company commander, loudly commanded the heavy machine guns, "Fire!"

Although the Japanese vehicles were still five hundred meters away, the Third Company opened fire with the newly captured heavy machine guns.

The "dut-dut-dut!" of gunfire echoed as the two heavy machine guns swept across the distant Japanese vehicles.

The distance of five hundred meters was still too great, and the rain of bullets from the two heavy machine guns only occasionally struck one or two Japanese soldiers.

Columns of Japanese soldiers jumped out of the vehicles and gathered along the hillside not far from the vehicles.

That area was a blind spot for the Third Company, beyond the reach of the heavy machine guns and anti-tank guns.

Nishirin Yosho, the company commander, ordered, "Smokedai Kota platoon, attack immediately!"

He only saw the Third Company's position in the center of the highway and only paid attention to the two heavy machine guns.

After sending a platoon to probe the attack, Nishirin Yosho, the company commander, ordered the grenadiers in his company to open fire on the heavy machine gun positions immediately.

At the same time, he ordered his company's heavy machine guns to advance immediately, setting up a heavy machine gun fire point three hundred meters in front of the National Army's position.

The Japanese soldiers of the entire Nishirin Yosho Company moved in an orderly manner. Chen Tianhao, who was observing from a distance with binoculars, was a little surprised to see the Japanese arrive so quickly.

The trenches and fortifications on his side had not even been fully dug yet, and the Japanese were already upon them.

The fact that the first two shots fired had missed made the soldiers of the First Regiment feel regretful.

Those two guns then fired again, this time hitting a Japanese vehicle.

Watching the lead vehicle explode into pieces, the soldiers of the First Regiment cheered.

Regiment Commander Chen Tianhao ordered the cannons to be dragged back. There wasn't much ammunition, and they couldn't afford to waste it.

He was counting on those shells to use against Japanese tanks.

Judging from the troops charging forward and the weapons they were carrying, there was one thing that put Chen Tianhao's mind at ease.

At least there were no cannons in the Japanese ranks, not even infantry guns.

This gave the First Regiment some advantage.

The continuous artillery fire from the National Army made Company Commander Nishirin Yosho somewhat fearful: the National Army had cannons, but he didn't.

Therefore, he only sent a platoon forward to probe the attack and assess the strength of the defending force.

The Japanese soldiers of the Smokedai Kota platoon moved stealthily along the inner slope of the highway, using the terrain for cover. They quickly reached a point less than two hundred meters from the Third Company's position.

From there, they could clearly see the situation on the highway, and they also spotted the Fourth Company on the hillside.

This put Platoon Leader Smokedai Kota in a dilemma: if he charged straight up now, it would be suicide.

The Fourth Company had a commanding position, and there was no place to hide on the highway. Advancing two hundred meters under the National Army's fire would require sacrificing lives.

Platoon Leader Smokedai Kota directed the fifty-odd Japanese soldiers of the entire platoon to hide in a depression and sent a signaler to report the situation to the rear.

Hearing that the situation at the front was complicated, Company Commander Nishirin Yosho brought up the entire company.

He cautiously poked his head out to observe: two hundred meters ahead, there were fortifications built by the National Army on the highway, and there were trenches dug by the National Army on the hillside.

Clearly, they had built a mutually supporting defensive system, which made it difficult to attack.

Despite this, they had to attack.

Company Commander Nishirin Yosho could only order: the grenadiers will immediately fire on the National Army's heavy machine guns, and his heavy machine guns will suppress the National Army's fire on the hillside.

The 今江翔太郎 Imie Shotaro platoon will cooperate and attack the hillside.

Now his company was fighting on two fronts, with the remaining platoon temporarily serving as a reserve.

The two Japanese platoons finally emerged from their hiding places, hunching over, heads down, and charging quickly toward the positions of the Third and Fourth Companies ahead.

Fourth Company Commander Liu Xingguo ordered the soldiers to open fire on the charging Japanese soldiers.

The Third Company didn't show any weakness either. Seeing the Japanese had charged to within close range of the positions, not only were the heavy and light machine guns firing,

but even the rifles were all firing, and the gunfire on the battlefield immediately intensified.

The Japanese heavy and light machine guns were also firing, trying to suppress the fire from both directions.

The grenades fired by the Japanese grenade launchers exploded around the Third Company's position, with a continuous barrage of explosions.

Company Commander Hong Wenhua pointed in the direction from which the grenades were flying and shouted, "Heavy machine guns, take out the Japanese grenade launchers!"

Chen Tianhao, who was watching the battle from behind, was also ordering, "Mortars! Blow up the Japanese grenade launchers, blow up the Japanese heavy machine guns."

Immediately, shells flew up and toward the Japanese. The First Regiment's artillery fire wasn't accurate.

Not only couldn't it compare to Lin Fan, but even compared to the ordinary soldiers of the Special Brigade, their accuracy was too poor.

This was understandable, as not many troops could engage in frequent combat and use a large amount of ammunition to train artillerymen like the Special Brigade.

The battle continued, and after Company Commander Nishirin Yosho, another company of Japanese soldiers arrived.

西崎正树 Nishizaki Masaki, the company commander, saw the fierce fighting ahead, directed the soldiers to dismount, gathered the troops, and ordered, "Everyone, attack!"

He personally led the way. The mission today was urgent and important. If they didn't recapture the artillery quickly, the National Army would move it away.

With the addition of the Nishizaki Masaki Company, the Japanese firepower suddenly became stronger.

The two platoons that had been suppressed and unable to move could now crawl forward.

Nishirin Yosho, the company commander, didn't keep a reserve platoon at this point and sent his last platoon to join the attack.

The pressure on the Third and Fourth Companies suddenly increased a lot, even though the battle had only just begun for less than ten minutes.

Hou Tianci, the first company commander, seeing that the pressure on the front line suddenly increased, couldn't help but suggest to Chen Tianhao:

"Regiment Commander! I'll take the First Company, go around the hillside, and hit the Japanese from behind."

Chen Tianhao frowned as he looked at the company commander who had performed so well today. "The First Company only has seventy-odd men left. That's too weak. I'm afraid it won't have much of an effect."

The second company commander, Song Yongsi, stepped forward and volunteered, "Regiment Commander! We'll go together."

Chen Tianhao thought for a while: "You go around the hillside and behind the Japanese, fire a few shots from a distance, and harass them.

You don't have to charge into the Japanese ranks and engage them in bayonet combat."

Today, he had personally witnessed these two companies acting like fearless newborns.

They fought as soon as they saw the Japanese, charged as soon as they saw the Japanese, regardless of the number of Japanese soldiers.

He was afraid that these two company commanders would rush around like they did this morning, so he specially told them a few words.

Company Commander Hou Tianci said with a smile, "Don't worry, Regiment Commander! We won't be reckless."

Chen Tianhao said again, "You seize the opportunity, and retreat immediately after you are exposed. We will meet at the Fujin Mountain position."

"Yes!" The two company commanders replied together.

With the battle raging in front of them, if they wanted to go around to the rear of the Japanese, these two companies could only cross the mountain peak first and then walk forward.

This trip would be at least five to ten *li*, and they would not be able to support the main battlefield for a while.

The third company commander, Hong Wenhua, watched the Japanese charging closer and closer, and he couldn't help but feel anxious.

All the soldiers of the Third Company who could participate in the battle were firing, but the Japanese firepower was too fierce.

They had established several fire points two hundred meters away, and heavy machine guns, light machine guns, and grenade launchers were all firing desperately.

His own mortars stopped firing after blowing up a Japanese fire point.

Chen Tianhao was also very helpless about this. There weren't enough shells, and he didn't dare to fire all the mortar shells in less than half an hour after the start of the war.

If there wasn't enough ammunition, they would have to use their lives! Now the First Regiment could only use manpower to resist the Japanese attack.

The third company commander watched his soldiers fall one by one, all of them hit by Japanese bullets.

Now the Japanese had charged to a point fifty meters in front of the position, and Smokedai Kota platoon still had more than thirty Japanese soldiers left.

The platoon leader, Smokedai Kota, looked at the National Army position ahead, where the heavy machine guns had stopped firing, and the light machine guns had also gone silent.

He shouted, "Charge! Charge!"

They rushed through the fifty meters in a few seconds, and he had decided to charge into the National Army position and drive them out.

Company Commander Hong Wenhua also issued an order when he saw the Japanese had charged up, "Brothers! Charge up and fight the Japanese with bayonets!"

After shouting, Company Commander Hong Wenhua was the first to jump out of the trench and charged out.

This morning, they had dared to charge when there were hundreds of Japanese soldiers opposite them, and that courage was still there.

When the soldiers of the Third Company saw the company commander taking the lead, no one was willing to fall behind, and they all shouted and rushed out of the fortifications to meet the Japanese.

This scene made Platoon Leader Smokedai Kota a little confused: according to his plan, when his platoon charged, the National Army soldiers in the position should turn around and run away.

Then his platoon would just follow and chase them all the way.

Why didn't the National Army follow the previous routine in this situation?

While he was wondering, hundreds of officers and soldiers of the Third Company had already charged up, and in terms of morale, the Third Company was not inferior to the Japanese at this time.

In terms of numbers, they outnumbered the Japanese by more than three to one in this small area in front of the position.

The Third Company, which completely did not act according to Platoon Leader Smokedai Kota's plan, immediately plunged the charging Japanese into an encirclement.

The company commander Nishirin Yosho, who was not far away, was anxious, and he had been leading the third platoon to charge up.

Seeing that the situation of the Smokedai Kota platoon was critical, he immediately led the 定月佑介 Sadatsuki Yusuke platoon to join the bayonet fight. Da Feng Novel Network

The sound of fighting shook the sky on the highway, and the two sides began to fight with bayonets, so that the Japanese firepower in the distance was useless.

They could only vent all their firepower on the fourth company on the hillside, and the continuous rain of bullets hit the trenches of the Fourth Company, so that all the Japanese firepower was now borne by the Fourth Company.

Hong Wenhua led the Third Company to fight the Japanese with bayonets. The soldiers of the Third Company had become addicted to fighting today, and they were very experienced in dealing with the Japanese in the encirclement.

Several people stabbed a Japanese soldier at the same time, making it impossible for him to parry.

After the Japanese soldier was stabbed, these soldiers only left one person to finish him off.

The rest went to deal with the next Japanese soldier, and their efficiency was very high.

When Company Commander Nishirin Yosho led a platoon of Japanese soldiers to join the battlefield, all the Japanese soldiers of the Smokedai Kota platoon were already dead.

Seeing that the National Army soldiers on the opposite side were so fierce, the Sadatsuki Yusuke platoon, which had just joined this battlefield, was frightened by the murderous look.

They were hesitant and hesitant. But under the order of Company Commander Nishirin Yosho, these Japanese soldiers had to continue to charge forward.

This method of fighting was completely a piecemeal tactic. Faced with the Japanese soldiers who charged this time, the Third Company's number was no longer three to one as it had been before.

But they still outnumbered the Japanese, and they still fought more with less.

Li Tianhao, the regiment commander, saw the Third Company rushing out of the position and fighting the Japanese with bayonets from behind,

and immediately ordered: "Seventh Company! Immediately reinforce the Third Company and take over the position of the Third Company,

cover the Third Company to retreat."

He could see clearly that the Third Company had rushed out of the trench for more than ten meters when they fought the first batch of Japanese soldiers with bayonets, and they rushed forward for more than ten meters when they fought the second batch of Japanese soldiers with bayonets.

If the Third Company won after the bayonet fight, the Japanese soldiers on the opposite side would definitely use machine gun fire to reap the Third Company.

Therefore, he would send a team over now to prepare to cover the Third Company.

Just as the battle on the front line had become white-hot, the subsequent Japanese soldiers of the 石出恭平 Ishide Kyohei Battalion arrived on the battlefield.

团长阿天浩 Chen Tianhao, the regiment commander, frowned when he saw another Japanese team arrived on the battlefield.

Judging from the number of Japanese soldiers, there should be another company. There were already three companies of Japanese soldiers here.

The Third Company was fighting fiercely with the Japanese soldiers of the Sadatsuki Yusuke platoon and the Nishirin Yosho company headquarters. The Third Company now had nearly one hundred soldiers left, and the Japanese had nearly seventy. The two sides were entangled together.

People kept falling, and people kept getting up and continuing to fight.

The officers and soldiers of the First Regiment who were watching this scene from a distance were silently cheering for the Third Company, and they were also secretly vowing: they would do the same.

Chen Tianhao watched the number of people in the Third Company decrease continuously, and the number of Japanese soldiers was also decreasing.

The two sides in the bayonet fight were now evenly matched, and 西崎正树 Nishizaki Masaki, the company commander, saw that his support team had arrived on the battlefield, and he acted.

Company Commander Nishizaki Masaki jumped out and shouted, "All members of the Nishizaki Company! Charge!"

His command sword pointed at the position of the Third Company, which was fighting with bayonets. His company was still intact.

When the entire company charged, nearly two hundred Japanese soldiers were aggressive and charged directly towards the battlefield.

Company Commander Nishizaki Masaki did not make the decision impulsively. He had already seen that as long as he killed the National Army team fighting with bayonets, he could directly attack the defense line behind them.

If they continued to pursue them like this, the entire battle could be over.

This was the most direct and fastest way to break through this defense line.

Chen Tianhao, who was still commanding the battle in the rear, saw that the Japanese were again increasing their troops to the bayonet fighting position.

What else could he do? He couldn't just watch the entire Third Company be killed by the Japanese in front of the position!

Chen Tianhao immediately ordered: "The Seventh Company will rush up and fight the Japanese. The Eighth Company will immediately enter the front line position and prepare to cover the Third and Seventh Companies."

He was clear that if this bayonet fight failed, his defense line here would collapse, which was why he had to add people.

Although he still had the Ninth and Tenth Companies, these two reserve teams, it would mean putting all the regiment's strength in if the entire regiment was put in after only half an hour of fighting. How would they fight later?

雷坚成 Lei Jiancheng, the company commander of the Seventh Company, led his team into the position, and he had long been full of enthusiasm when he looked at the fighting in front of him.

He and his soldiers watched the Third Company's soldiers see blood, and every knife was aimed at the vital points of the Japanese soldiers. When they stabbed a Japanese soldier to death, the soldiers of the Seventh Company cheered loudly.

It was just that the regiment commander had ordered that they could not rush up, and the Seventh Company had already set up machine guns in the position, waiting for the end of the melee to cover the retreat of the brothers of the Third Company.

As a result, a large group of Japanese soldiers rushed towards the position. There were a lot of those Japanese soldiers.

The officers and soldiers of the Seventh Company were worried about the brothers of the Third Company, and just at this time, the regiment commander's order was issued: let them rush up and help the brothers of the Third Company to defeat the Japanese soldiers.

Company Commander Lei Jiancheng immediately led the entire company to rush up, and even the machine gunners rushed up holding light machine guns.

The entire highway was full of National Army soldiers and Japanese soldiers fighting each other. The sound of fighting shook the sky, attracting the Imie Shotaro platoon, which was attacking the hillside.

The platoon leader saw that the company commander was in danger below, and no longer continued to attack the position of the Fourth Company on the hillside.

It led the remaining thirty-odd Japanese soldiers of the entire platoon to rush down quickly from the hillside and join the battle group.

The Seventh Company was much closer to the battlefield, and their joining the battle group immediately led to a sharp decrease in the number of Japanese soldiers on the battlefield.

Even with the addition of these thirty-odd Japanese soldiers from the Imie Shotaro Platoon, their fate was not changed.

When there were only a dozen Japanese soldiers left in the entire 西林阳翔 Nishirin Yosho Company, the Japanese soldiers of the 西畸正树 Nishizaki Masaki Company finally joined the battle group.

The number of Japanese soldiers suddenly increased by nearly two hundred, and the Third Company had already suffered a lot of casualties in the previous continuous fighting.

Now the Third and Seventh Companies together were less than two hundred people, and the number was insufficient!

Regiment Commander Chen Tianhao had to order again: "The Eighth Company rushes up! No matter what, we must not let the Japanese gain the upper hand.

The Fifth and Sixth Companies abandon their original positions and transfer to the position of the Third Company."

He was clear that if this bayonet fight failed, his defense line here would collapse, which was why he had to add people.

Although he still had the Ninth and Tenth Companies, these two reserve teams, if he put the entire regiment's strength into the battle after only half an hour of fighting, how would they fight later?

双茂实 Shuang Maoshi, the company commander of the Eighth Company, received the order and immediately led his team to rush up. Their joining the battle group immediately stabilized the situation, and the number was much larger than the Japanese.

井狩阳生 Ikari Haruo, the company commander who had just arrived on the battlefield, saw that two companies in front of him were fighting with the National Army with bayonets, and the National Army had sent a lot of people to fight on the battlefield.

He did not dare to delay, pulled out his command knife: "Kill 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