Chapter 1 The Two Devils

The two devils, Kuninaka Kotaro and Kamikawa Hayato, were not attacked when they charged from the road towards the hillside.

The two devils were even complaining that there was no ambush by the Chinese army, preventing them from establishing meritorious service.

Now that the Chinese army's resistance was so strong, if they could really lead the Hasegawa Company up the hillside, they would definitely be promoted on the spot.

Not to mention the other teams, two of the three squad leaders in Matsuda Kaisen's company had already died.

As long as they could charge to the top of the mountain and survive, they could all be promoted to the position of squad leader.

The position was already vacant, but Kuninaka Kotaro and Kamikawa Hayato had been beaten by the rain of bullets from the hillside and completely lost the confidence to charge up.

They still had the desire to become squad leaders, but their actions had slowed down. After all, while being an official was good, one had to have a life to enjoy it!

The two bravest and most daring devils in the Matsuda Kaisen Company had lost their nerve, and the other devils were even more so.

They all huddled in the hiding places they had found, firing at the top of the mountain in a perfunctory manner.

How long would it take to capture this hill with such a perfunctory attack?

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Matsuda Kaisen, the company commander, became anxious. He pulled out his command knife and ordered his subordinates, "Charge!"

He wanted all the devils to rise up and launch an attack. From the predicament faced by the Hasegawa Company, Matsuda Kaisen saw the crisis of the entire battalion, and even the entire Marine Corps.

In this situation, if the Matsuda Kaisen Company did not seize this hill, if they did not fight desperately, they would lose their lives later.

Commander Fukiishi Shiro's expression had changed from the excitement at the beginning to seriousness. He thought that encountering the ambush of the Special Operations Brigade today would be the same as the carefully arranged ambush of the Fourth War Zone under Mount Luofu.

Only if these devils were more tenacious and desperate, the soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade would abandon their weapons and equipment and run for their lives.

Today, the devils under his command had already performed tenaciously enough and were desperate enough, but the soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade on the top of the mountain did not cooperate well.

Not only did they not run away, but it seemed that the attack on the devils had not changed from beginning to end. This was difficult!

In combat, either the east wind prevails over the west wind, or the west wind prevails over the east wind. The key was still the cooperation of the other party. For example, now the Special Operations Brigade was not cooperating by running away, they wanted to persist in annihilating all the devils.

The remaining part needed the cooperation of Commander Fukiishi Shiro. As long as he did not call for help, and did not immediately organize the devils to break through, this was the best cooperation.

Both sides in the battle were waiting for the other's cooperation. Would Commander Fukiishi Shiro call for help?

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Of course not. If this was by the sea, he might have asked the battleships in the fleet to fire a few rounds of shells to assist.

But this place was too far from the coast, and those cannons could not reach it. As for asking the army pigs for help, impossible! It was impossible no matter what!

Commander Fukiishi Shiro had not even thought about breaking through. What he was thinking about was to annihilate this team that ambushed them!

Therefore, he ordered: "The Fujito Yuki Battalion will immediately join the attack on the hilltop, and the Kawauchi Takuya Battalion will immediately advance!" Commander Fukiishi Shiro wanted to rush forward despite the attack on the hillside. As long as he passed this section, he could turn back and surround this team.

He could even lead the team to attack Fogang. At that time, the Chinese army here would become rootless duckweed.

Although only one battalion under his command of four was fighting, all four battalions had been bombed.

Especially their artillery company, which had suffered almost devastating blows. However, in the eyes of Commander Fukiishi Shiro, these were minor matters: as long as the devils under his command were strong and brave, these difficulties could be overcome.

Could one not eat pork without the Zhang butcher? Would one not fight without cannons?

Lin Fan stood on the top of the mountain, watching the five thousand devils who were surrounded were still struggling to the death, and ordered: "Push all the Type 92 infantry guns of the artillery regiment up, and concentrate five companies of mortars from the 15th regiment to establish an artillery position here in Xiangshan to bombard the devils."

The artillery regiment had one hundred and fifty millimeter howitzers, and the two infantry regiments also had rocket artillery companies. Unfortunately, the devils were too close to the Second Regiment, and these two kinds of high-powered guns could not be used, for fear of hurting their own people.

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Lin Fan's order was executed immediately. Lin Fan once again ordered the companies of the Second Regiment: "Each company exchanges fire to attack the devils, don't just stare at the front of your own position."

The devils were only two or three hundred meters away from the front of each company's position. Looking down from the hillside, the devils were all in dead spots and could not be hit or bombed at all.

However, these positions where the devils were hiding were dead spots from this hillside, but completely exposed from another position.

It was because of this that Lin Fan ordered each company not to be limited to attacking the devils in front of their own positions, but to take the initiative. As long as they could bomb the devils, they would throw a few shells at them.

In this way, the most attacked were not the Matsuda Kaisen Company and the Yuki Battalion, who were attacking the hilltop.

The most bombed were the Hasegawa Company, which was building a defensive position on the highway, and the Okuma Saburo machine gun company, which had arrived at the battlefield.

The Hasegawa Company had already lost one squad, and the entire company had suffered many casualties. Now there were only about seventy devils left, but fortunately, the machine gun company had come to help.

This barely stabilized the defense line. The devils' machine gun company's firepower was really very fierce. Hu Xiong, the company commander, had suffered losses in the previous attack.

Now all the heavy machine guns of the two tenth platoons were at the front, acting as shields to block the devils' machine gun firepower.

Four Type 92 infantry guns and ten mortars were constantly bombarding the devils' machine gun positions.

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With Lin Fan's order: the Ninth Company and the Eighth Company on the hillside were also bombarding the devil team that had established a defense line on the highway.

This was going to kill the devils of the Hasegawa Company and the Okuma Saburo Company.

Sergeant Mamoru Michio was a heavy machine gunner. He operated the heavy machine gun to strafe the Special Operations Brigade team more than a hundred meters away. This short distance was the most powerful for a heavy machine gun.

What made Sergeant Mamoru Michio very helpless was that the machine gun bullets he fired could not penetrate the carts blocking the road at all.

However, the heavy machine guns on the carts were still constantly firing at their firepower points. Both sides had the same heavy machine guns, and there were twelve heavy machine guns firing at each other.

The Okuma Saburo Company also had light machine guns joining the battle. In this respect, they had the upper hand. It was because of this that the Hasegawa Company was able to stabilize the defense line.

If everything remained the same, Sergeant Mamoru Michio would still be able to persevere. However, the team on the opposite side obviously did not play by the rules.

If the heavy machine gun firepower was not enough, they called in infantry guns and mortars. With the addition of these artillery pieces, the devils of the Okuma Saburo machine gun company suffered.

The fortifications in front of them could block machine gun bullets, but could not defend against direct infantry gun fire, let alone mortar curve bombardment. Every shell hit its position.

As more and more artillery pieces bombarded them, Sergeant Mamoru Michio had fallen in a pool of blood.

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He was unlucky and was killed by shrapnel. The closest shell to him was thirty or forty meters away, but he still died.

Vice gunner Kyono Toshihiko took his place. These devils had to persist in resisting in the artillery bombardment, even though half of the heavy machine guns had been destroyed.

As the artillery regiment's twenty-four infantry guns came up, plus the artillery position composed of twenty-five mortars, the Special Operations Brigade intensified the bombardment of the position where Commander Fukiishi Shiro was located. The Yoshikawa Taiichi Battalion was protecting the Marine Corps headquarters.

The devils of this battalion were losing members very quickly. Lin Fan also operated anti-aircraft guns to fire at the Kawauchi Takuya Battalion on the highway.

Now there were artillery sounds everywhere on the three-kilometer-long section of the road. The companies of the Special Operations Brigade on the top of the mountain were all firing.

The Fogang people who were cleaning the battlefield in the distance could only see from the smoke constantly emanating from the artillery shells on the top of the mountain: today their team had the upper hand.

These people were here to be responsible for cleaning the battlefield and transporting the captured items back to Fogang. They did not expect to see a series of great shows, and personally watch how the devils were killed by their own team.

At this time, Vice Chief of Staff He was negotiating with the devils through an intermediary about the conditions for returning the corpses. He proposed: our army is a team that pays great attention to etiquette, and each devil's body is wrapped in white cloth.

Therefore, this cost must be paid by the devils. Considering that the National Army needs weapons and ammunition, the devils need to exchange these materials.

Of course, the devils were unwilling to do this. They only wanted to pay money. This was what Vice Chief of Staff He wanted most, and he only agreed after pretending to be reluctant.

They were talking about the deal here, and Lin Fan was directing the team to add chips to the deal. The Marine Corps commanded by Commander Fukiishi Shiro had no power to fight back in this wave of bombardment.

The Hasegawa Company Commander, who ordered the entire company to launch an attack, fell forty meters away from the top of the mountain.

All the devils of this company were forced to launch a Banzai charge, rushing to about thirty meters away from the top of the mountain.

The other side detonated the landmines buried in advance. The Special Operations Brigade's directional mines were recognized by Hasegawa as landmines.

With just two loud noises, less than ten devils were left alive in the entire Hasegawa Company.

Neither Kuninaka Kotaro nor Kamikawa Hayato survived. Their dream of promotion was shattered on this hillside.

The dozen or so devils who were lucky enough to survive the explosion were shot by machine guns when they fled down the hillside in a panic.

In the end, only four or five devils escaped down the hillside. They were unable to return to the Uchida Kameshide Battalion. All the forces of the Uchida Battalion had been sent out.

Now the Fujito Yuki Battalion was taking over to attack the hilltop. Fujito Yuki, the battalion commander, ordered these deserters to turn around immediately and rush to the front of the entire team.

Otherwise, he would execute military law immediately! Now these devils, who had finally survived, had no way out.

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Just as they turned around and climbed towards the hillside, they were met with fierce artillery bombardment. This was the Second Regiment launching a bombardment on all the devils under Lin Fan's order.

Fujito Yuki, the battalion commander, lay prone on the ground, trying to stick his head out to look around. He found that there were artillery pieces firing on the high ground he could see, which was too scary.

These devils could not withstand such attacks at all. The Fujito Yuki Battalion could not withstand such fierce artillery bombardment at all.

He did not dare to lead the entire battalion to retreat, and could only send a communication soldier to request Commander Fukiishi Shiro: "The Chinese army's firepower is too fierce, and the Fujito Yuki Battalion requests artillery support."

Battalion Commander Saina Yuki clearly knew that the entire Marine Corps' artillery had been completely destroyed, and there would definitely be no artillery support. The hidden meaning of this request was to ask the battalion whether to retreat, or even break through immediately, and not fight this Chinese army team head-on.

As his own subordinates, Commander Fukiishi Shiro understood what was going on as soon as he heard it. At this time, he also saw that the battlefield was not what he had imagined. The most important thing was that the Chinese army not only had no intention of retreating until now, but they were fighting more and more bravely, and their firepower was also getting stronger and stronger.

Commander Fukiishi Shiro also saw the flames emitted by the artillery fire on the mountains stretching for several kilometers.

He was not a stubborn commander. After thinking for a while, he began to order: "Contract the team and transfer to Conghua!"

It was unpleasant to say that they were breaking through in the direction of Conghua, but it sounded very positive to transfer to Conghua. People who did not know the situation would think that they had won the battle.

It was not easy for a team of five thousand devils to enter the battlefield and now want to retreat. Commander Fukiishi Shiro ordered: "The Yoshikawa Taiichi Battalion will immediately turn around and open the way, attacking towards Conghua.

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The Uchida Kameshide Battalion and the Kawauchi Takuya Battalion will contract their defense lines and move closer to the Yoshikawa Taiichi Battalion, and the Fujito Yuki Battalion will occupy the hillside to cover the transfer of the entire Marine Corps."

His orders were issued very systematically, and the teams that received the orders immediately began to act.

The Yoshikawa Taiichi Battalion was now going to be the vanguard of the breakthrough. It immediately ordered the Ito Taiji Company to charge towards Conghua immediately.

Lin Fan, who was standing at a high place watching the battlefield, immediately discovered the devils' new movements and ordered: "Company Commander Shi, immediately lead the First Company down the mountain and cut off the devils' road back to Conghua.

The Second Company will take over the First Company's position, and no matter what, they cannot let the devils attack the hillside."

After receiving the order, Shi Junxia immediately led the entire company to charge down the hillside. All the cannons on the artillery positions on the top of the mountain changed their bombardment targets and bombarded the Ito Taiji Company, which was changing from the rear team to the direction team.

The dense artillery fire expressed the attitude of the Special Operations Brigade: not a single devil should be allowed to return to Conghua.

The simultaneous bombardment of dozens of artillery pieces not only made it impossible for the devils of the Ito Taiji Company to move, but even the Yoshikawa Taiichi Battalion following behind them could not move forward.

Commander Fukiishi Shiro saw that he had just changed his tactics, and had only revealed his intention to break through, and this Chinese army team immediately rushed out of the trenches regardless of everything, wanting to cut off his retreat.

He suddenly became anxious and quickly ordered: "Break through! Break through!" He no longer cared about the words. When the devils became anxious, the transfer also became a breakthrough.

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Yoshikawa Taiichi, the battalion commander, received the order and dared not disobey it: "Break through! Stand up! Charge out!"

He could only urge the devils nearby who were lying on the ground to avoid the shells. He could only send a communication soldier to the Ito Taiji Company at the front to convey the order: "Stand up! Charge out!"

Commander Fukiishi Shiro finally lowered his proud head and asked Commander Sawase Koichi of the Fifth Fleet for help.

"Our army encountered a heavy ambush by the Chinese army in the Xiangshan and Dongnaoling areas outside Conghua County. Now more than half of the casualties have been sustained and we are breaking through towards Conghua. We request support."

Although he bowed his head, he was unwilling to bow his head to the 137th Infantry Regiment in Conghua County. He still remembered the arrogant appearance of Regiment Commander Kawazaki Shiro.

However, Fukiishi Shiro knew in his heart that there were only two ways to save him now, one was to send infantry over, and the other was to send an air combat team over.

However, the Fifth Fleet had already lost three air combat teams here today. Was it useful to send more airmen over?

This was a question: Commander Sawase Koichi of the Fifth Fleet also thought so, so he could only give up the idea of sending airmen.

The only reinforcements could only be the 137th Infantry Regiment in Conghua County. Of course, he disdained dealing with those low-level infantry officers. Commander Sawase Koichi told Commander Gu Zhuanggan of the 21st Group Army about the difficulties encountered by the Marine Corps.

He wanted him to order the 137th Infantry Regiment to go to the rescue. As the commander-in-chief of this attack on Guangzhou, Commander Gu Zhuanggan would of course not neglect it, and immediately issued the order to Miyake Toshi, the commander of the 104th Infantry Division, ordering him to immediately order the 137th Infantry Regiment Commander Kawazaki Shiro to send troops to the rescue.

Regiment Commander Kawazaki Shiro agreed readily, but did not move afterwards. The Takeuchi Takuma Battalion under his command had been completely destroyed, which was the suicide note sent back by Battalion Commander Takeuchi Takuma.

Now there were only the devils of the Marine Corps who had their eyes on the top of their heads on the battlefield. He did not need to worry at all.

Regiment Commander Kawazaki Shiro reported that the Chinese army team ambushing in the Xiangshan and Dongnaoling areas had fierce firepower and had completely annihilated one of his infantry battalions.

Then he reported that he was preparing to wait for the tank regiment, artillery regiment commander, and machine gun company to arrive, and then gather superior forces to settle the score with the Chinese army.

This prudent combat plan was immediately approved by Miyake Toshi. The entire 104th Infantry Division was marching towards Conghua.

Let the Marine Corps hold on for a day, and the 104th Infantry Division would rescue them in a day.

Regiment Commander Kawazaki Shiro was really not abandoning them to their deaths. In the morning, when the Takeuchi Takuma Battalion under his command was surrounded, he was also waiting in the same way.

Without the arrival of the main force, the 137th Infantry Regiment would not be dispatched, and he also had an idea: the Marine Corps had five thousand devils, and it would be no problem for them to hold on for a few days, let alone only holding on for one day.