The trenches were filled with the continuous fall and death of Japanese soldiers. Their blood flowed everywhere, causing fear among the newly arrived soldiers like Tanaka Haruto.

The fallen bodies piled up like firewood, the vivid red blood flowing like streams.

The soldiers of Suzuki Yuki's company quickly broke down. They were not a well-trained force.

They were merely a newly formed unit, recently replenished with new recruits, most of whom had never seen battle.

Faced with such intense artillery bombardment, infantry that seemed impossible to break through, and the sight of dead soldiers, Private Tanaka Haruto stood up and ran back.

His actions sparked a chain reaction. Once he took the lead, the other soldiers couldn't stop running from the fortifications and fleeing. Fujiwara Takumi and Fukuyama Jūki followed quickly.

They had wanted to escape for a long time but lacked the courage. With the first soldier leading the way, those lying motionless at the bottom of the trenches also scrambled to their feet.

Captain Sato Jūrō saw that most of his company's already small number of soldiers were fleeing, with fewer than ten still holding their ground in the trenches.

What could he do in such a situation? "How can we fight like this?" He turned and ran. With the captain gone, the few remaining soldiers could no longer hold on.

The entire line of Suzuki Yuki's battalion collapsed. They wanted to run too, but it was too late. When Tanaka Haruto led the escape, the enemy's firing decreased significantly.

The Japanese soldiers were afraid to shoot. The First and Second Companies charged forward much faster. By the time Yamashita Arita and his old cronies wanted to escape, the First and Second Companies had already arrived.

They followed behind the Japanese soldiers, stabbing them in the back. The fleeing soldiers preferred to be stabbed rather than look back.

In their eyes as deserters, as long as they weren't lagging behind, they wouldn't die. Their victory lay in simply outrunning the other soldiers.

However, these soldiers hadn't considered that the force pursuing them was a group that trained in running every day, making them the fastest at chasing down the Japanese.

Within the First Battalion, Sato Jūrō's company wasn't the only one fleeing; all the surviving soldiers in Suzuki's battalion were running.

Their flight completely ruined the Hata Detachment's line of defense west of Mahui Ridge. The key was that Captain Sato Jūrō realized he had started running a bit too late.

Having run less than a hundred meters, he could already hear the footsteps of the pursuers behind him. Captain Sato Jūrō even felt a chill creeping up his back.

Running so fast and still feeling that chill, Captain Sato Jūrō finally understood what it was: a bayonet had pierced him from behind, protruding from his chest.

The captain looked at the bright bayonet suddenly appearing in front of his chest. His steps faltered, and he fell directly to the ground.

Even Tanaka Haruto, who had started running the earliest, didn't escape. He was overtaken and stabbed. He deliberately turned around, wanting to see what fate awaited the soldiers of the Hata Detachment who had told them new recruits so many stories!

When he saw Captain Sato's body also lying fifty paces away, he finally collapsed with peace of mind: So, we're all the same! All the stories are just stories after all.

The First and Second Companies of the Second Regiment broke through the Japanese line just a few minutes after the battle began. The other companies weren't far behind.

The Fifteenth Regiment attacked from the south, where the Japanese Second Infantry Battalion was defending. Their performance was no better than the First Battalion's.

The Japanese crumbled at the first touch, which reassured Lin Fan. This was exactly what he had expected when he chose to attack the Japanese in the Mahui Ridge direction first.

The Japanese in this area had been severely punished by the Special Operations Brigade some days ago, making them already terrified. Now, with another attack, the Hata Detachment wouldn't dare return to Mahui Ridge for at least half a month.

Two regiments charged into Mahui Ridge from the west and south. The Second Regiment was most familiar with the area.

They were no strangers to this place. They had been the ones who attacked Mahui Ridge before, so they could guess where the Japanese headquarters and supplies would be located.

Now, their mission was to eliminate the enemy's manpower. According to the soldiers' understanding, this meant killing every Japanese soldier they saw, leaving none alive.

The Special Operations Brigade's attack was so swift that when Battalion Commander Sato Yō heard the first report of the western and southern defenses being strained, and was about to request reinforcements from Detachment Commander Hata Jūichi...

The second soldier reporting was already yelling: The Nationalist army has invaded Mahui Ridge! The secret to Battalion Commander Sato Yō's previous escape was his decisive action and speed in fleeing.

This had not only saved himself but also the Fourth Infantry Battalion. Hearing how quickly the Nationalist army was advancing, Sato Yō immediately understood that what he needed to do wasn't send reinforcements but escape immediately! No sooner said than done.

Battalion Commander Sato Yō immediately led the soldiers of the battalion headquarters to escape, ordering as he fled, "All units hold the line!"

It wasn't that he didn't want to evacuate the entire battalion from Mahui Ridge, but he feared he wouldn't be able to escape without soldiers covering their retreat.

The Special Operations Brigade soldiers who charged into Mahui Ridge didn't spare the Japanese in the east and north. This time, they attacked the Japanese lines from behind. Although these soldiers had received the battalion commander's order to hold their ground…

Battalion Commander Suzuki Yuki of the First Infantry Battalion was unable to escape this time. He was a step too slow and couldn't keep up with Sato Yō.

Although Battalion Commander Tani Taita of the Third Battalion knew that the Nationalist army had invaded Mahui Ridge, he still obeyed Sato Yō's order to hold the line.

As a soldier who had just been promoted from company commander, he didn't dare disobey the battalion commander's order. Tani Taita loudly commanded, "Turn around! Defend the rear!"

Among the five hundred or so soldiers in his battalion, three hundred were newly added recruits. These soldiers, seeing the Special Operations Brigade soldiers charging out of Mahui Ridge town with carts, were frightened by their momentum.

They started firing as soon as they saw them, opening fire from three hundred meters away. Tani Taita didn't blame them at all.

Instead, he loudly encouraged the soldiers, "Good shooting! That's right, keep shooting!" There were still two hundred veterans in his battalion, and these seasoned soldiers were able to remain calmer.

They waited until the Special Operations Brigade charged to within one hundred and fifty meters before opening fire. Although the Hata Detachment had been facing the Special Operations Brigade for several days…

Only the First Battalion had truly engaged with the Special Operations Brigade at close quarters. The soldiers of the Third Battalion had no idea about the characteristics of the force before them.

Tsugotaka Shun was a machine gunner in the First Company of the Third Battalion. He kept his eyes on the Special Operations Brigade soldiers charging toward them. Seeing that the carts they were pushing had entered the range of one hundred and fifty meters, he calmly opened fire.

"Rat-tat-tat! Rat-tat-tat!" The sound of the heavy machine gun firing greatly encouraged the soldiers like Tsukamoto Shin, who had just joined the Hata Detachment.

These replacements had been trying hard for a long time, but besides the lively sound of gunfire, they hadn't stopped the attacking force at all.

They hadn't seen anyone in the attacking force fall, and they were beginning to lose confidence. Now, hearing their own heavy machine gun firing, they regained their confidence to continue fighting.

Private Tsukamoto Shin began aiming at the Special Operations Brigade soldiers in front of him again, continuing to fire.

Battalion Commander Tani Taita's voice never stopped, which also gave the soldiers of the Third Battalion the confidence to continue holding their ground.

The machine gunner Tsugotaka Shun quickly discovered a problem: although the bullets he was firing sounded impressive, they had no effect. The Special Operations Brigade soldiers attacking them were getting closer and closer.

Pi Zeqiang, the company commander of the Fourth Company of the Second Regiment, which was being swept by the Japanese heavy machine gun fire, loudly ordered, "Blast that son of a b*tch!" The Japanese heavy machine gun fire was very threatening.

At the company commander's order, the six heavy machine guns of the Fourth Company stopped firing, and the rocket launcher also lay prone on the ground, firing at the Japanese heavy machine gun.

With a loud "Boom!" Sergeant Tsugotaka Shun and his heavy machine gun, along with his assistant gunner, were annihilated.

Sergeant Tsugotaka Shun had just become the mental support of the soldiers of the First Company, and suddenly he was blown into the sky. This shattered the mental defenses of soldiers like Tsukamoto Shin.

They watched Tsugotaka Shun, who had flown into the air and fallen back down, now with his body incomplete, and the soldiers didn't dare to fire for a while.

They were afraid of suffering the same fate. Just as they were hesitating, Company Commander Mizuniwa Hideki shouted, "Fix bayonets!"

He had seen that the Special Operations Brigade soldiers had charged to within thirty meters of them. At this distance, only close combat could solve the problem.

Because all the machine gun positions in his company had been destroyed, and the Type 38 rifle had to be manually cocked after each shot, the rate of fire was very slow, making it impossible to stop the charging force.

Receiving the order, Tsukamoto Shin trembled as he attached the bayonet to his rifle. The first time, his hands shook so much that the bayonet fell.

He attached the bayonet properly on the second try. Company Commander Mizuniwa Hideki had already issued the order to charge: "Charge!"

Standing in the trench, he directed the seventy or so soldiers left in his company to charge out of the trench.

Battalion Commander Tani Taita issued the same order at this time: "Charge!" The soldiers of the entire Third Battalion charged out of the trenches.

The replacements who had just joined the Hata Detachment were terrified, but they didn't dare disobey the commander's order. They hadn't learned the technique of pretending to charge forward without actually moving their feet.

As a result, those in the front were all soldiers who had just received a few days of military training. They came into contact with the soldiers of the Second Regiment.

They were completely unable to resist and were stabbed to the ground with a single thrust. This scene immediately caused the collapse of the entire Tani Battalion.

Especially those soldiers who were on the battlefield for the first time. They no longer moved forward but frantically turned around and ran backward.

Behind them, the soldiers of the Second Regiment were chasing closely. Company Commander Mizuniwa Hideki saw that his company had only charged up and immediately returned.

They had not been fast when they charged, but their retreat was swift and unmatched. Not a single soldier in the entire company continued to move forward; they were all running backward for their lives.

At this time, he also made a decisive decision: he no longer shouted "Charge!" and turned around and ran. The situation was the same for the entire Third Battalion. Not a single soldier was willing to fight to the death; they were all running toward the outside of Mahui Ridge.

The situation of the soldiers of the Fourth Battalion was similar at this time. They also experienced the three stages of resistance, attack, and escape.

Both battalions obeyed the orders of Detachment Commander Hata and held their positions. However, their strength didn't allow them to hold for too long.

The soldiers of the Japanese Third and Fourth Battalions ran out of the defenses and fled toward the outside of Mahui Ridge.

This allowed many of them to escape with their lives. Their escape was much more advantageous than that of the First and Second Battalions.

The escape route of the First and Second Battalions was toward Mahui Ridge town, and ultimately, no soldiers escaped.

The Third and Fourth Battalions were running toward the outside of Mahui Ridge town. Outside was a vast jungle, and as long as these soldiers ran into the jungle, it would be impossible for the Special Operations Brigade to find them all.

Lin Fan didn't plan to send the entire brigade into the mountains to search for these soldiers. After driving the Japanese infantry out of Mahui Ridge, all that remained was to clean up the battlefield.

The three thousand-man logistics team was useful again this time. They skillfully followed the Special Operations Brigade soldiers to clean up the battlefield.

The Special Operations Brigade soldiers would give the Japanese soldiers a final blow, and the logistics team would take off their clothes.

The Special Operations Brigade always adhered to its principles: whenever there was time, they would dig pits and bury the dead Japanese soldiers, and today was no exception.

The captured supplies this time weren't much. The supplies and weapons that the Japanese Eleventh Army had collected last time had already been emptied by the Second War Area in Mahui Ridge.

The Japanese now had no surplus food. Their domestic economy had also completely collapsed, making it impossible to replenish them in time. The Special Operations Brigade only captured several thousand rifles, more than a hundred machine guns, and two hospitals in Mahui Ridge.

This was the only opportunity the Special Operations Brigade would give: to let the Japanese doctors and nurses live. As for the other Japanese soldiers, they wouldn't even be given a chance to speak.

Today, the medical team of this Japanese unit was unwilling to serve the Special Operations Brigade. Of course, there was no need to keep such Japanese soldiers alive.

From the start of the attack to the end of the entire battle, the time spent was less than an hour. When Lin Fan and the others retreated, the entire Mahui Ridge was empty, completely becoming a dead city.

Although the Hata Detachment had only arrived in Mahui Ridge recently, as a detachment with more than five thousand soldiers, it still had a considerable amount of supplies, provisions, and mules and horses.

This time, Lin Fan killed more than four thousand Japanese soldiers, and the number of mules and horses captured alive was as high as fifteen hundred, in addition to more than a thousand mules and horses that were killed by rocket launchers.

These dead mules and horses were all collected and carried on the march. This time, the Special Operations Brigade didn't return to Dean by the same route but continued to march east.

He was going to take his troops to cut off the rear of the Japanese 101st Division, attacking inland from the edge of Poyang Lake.

The Special Operations Brigade plunged into Mount Lu, heading to attack East Guling Mountain. Tonight, they would first rest at Mount Jilong.

They would launch an attack on the Japanese at Mount Jilong tomorrow morning. The straight-line distance from Mahui Ridge town to East Guling Mountain was thirty *li*, but by mountain roads, it was at least fifty *li*.

A force of nearly ten thousand people walked into the towering mountains. Fortunately, there were guides from the Second War Area and logistics team members to lead the way.

The supplies captured by the Special Operations Brigade in Mahui Ridge had already allowed five hundred logistics team members to lead more than a thousand captured mules and horses back to Dean.

Now, the entire force was advancing in a tense state. The Japanese soldiers of the 106th Division were still attacking hard at this time.

Division Commander Itō Masaji had just woken up in Jiujiang Hospital, but he was not out of danger. Chief of Staff Nishiyama Fukutaro was acting as the commander of the entire division.

Brigade Commander Sato Shōzō of the 101st Infantry Brigade personally commanded two infantry regiments and one cavalry battalion at Aikou, organizing attacks with the 101st Field Artillery Regiment.

Today, they had broken through Aikou and advanced to Chicken Tip Mountain, where they were stopped again by the Nationalist army defending the peak.

Regiment Commander Kana Haruji was ordering the Japanese to temporarily stop and wait for Battalion Commander Yamada Hidenosuke to deploy the field artillery battalion.

The Nationalist army had destroyed the roads, making them impassable. The field artillery needed to wait for the engineering teams to repair the roads before they could arrive.

Taking this opportunity, Regiment Commander Kana Haruji let the Japanese soldiers, who had been fighting continuously for several days, stop and rest.

At the same time, he conveyed the good news that Division Commander Itō Masaji had woken up from his coma to every Japanese soldier. This was indeed good news for these soldiers.

They had captured Aikou, and the division commander had regained consciousness. Would the division commander be cured if they captured Dean?

No matter what, as long as they won victory after victory, the division commander's condition would improve. The morale of the Japanese soldiers was high, and they were willing to risk their lives to heal the division commander, which was exactly what Regiment Commander Kana Haruji wanted to see.

The Japanese soldiers roared and waited for the field artillery battalion to arrive.

In East Guling Mountain, there was the 101st Division Headquarters and the 102nd Infantry Brigade, which they had also occupied at a great cost.

Now, this place had become a safe rear area, and the Japanese had stationed their division headquarters here. All four field hospitals of the entire division were arranged here.

With a full infantry brigade guarding it, Chief of Staff Nishiyama Fukutaro believed that this place should be extremely safe.

Some time ago, when Commander Okamura Neiji was worried about Jiujiang City being attacked by the Nationalist army and urgently transferred the 101st Division back to defend it, the 102nd Infantry Brigade had gone back.

The 102nd Brigade had also gone to rescue the 106th Division at the Battle of Wanjialing. Because of this, the soldiers of the current 102nd Brigade were still resting.

They had also suffered heavy casualties in the Wanjialing battlefield. The eight battalions of a brigade had a total of more than two thousand casualties, which was enough to shake their foundations.

What angered Brigade Commander Kudo Yoshio the most was that he had sacrificed more than two thousand soldiers to rescue the 106th Division, but he had not received a single replacement soldier.

The Hata Detachment had not sent a single reinforcement but had received nearly three thousand replacement soldiers. This was too unfair!

For this, he had specially sent a telegram to inquire, but Commander Okamura Neiji had turned a blind eye and had not replied. The 101st Division was just a division composed of merchants. It was the weakest and least combat-effective division in the Eleventh Army.

There was no need to reply to their protests. If a brigade commander of the Sixth Division asked the same question, Commander Okamura Neiji would immediately give an explanation.

Brigade Commander Kudo Yoshio, who had not received reinforcements, could only lead his two regiments and quietly recuperate in East Guling Mountain.

Lin Fan led the Special Operations Brigade and the logistics team, a total of more than eight thousand people, and silently advanced toward their target. The five hundred logistics soldiers who took the spoils back to Dean had excited the Second War Area.

Next, they began to worry: the Special Operations Brigade had not returned, and these five hundred logistics soldiers didn't know where they had gone. The current situation was changing three times a day. Although the Japanese in the Mahui Ridge direction had been driven back, the Japanese attacks coming from the Poyang Lake direction were becoming more and more intense.

The Nationalist army defending forces were all preparing to retreat. If the Special Operations Brigade didn't return soon, they might be cut off by the Japanese.

But no matter how worried they were, they couldn't notify the Special Operations Brigade. Only when the Special Operations Brigade took the initiative to contact them could they pass on the news.

The Special Operations Brigade traveled through the mountains all day. At 6:30 in the afternoon, with the last rays of the setting sun on the mountaintop, they finally reached their destination, Mount Jilong.

Mount Jilong was five *li* away from East Guling Mountain. The Special Operations Brigade rested on the back of the mountain, and the reconnaissance team had already been sent out. They needed to scout the Japanese situation.

Nothing happened overnight. The next morning, the Japanese 101st Infantry Regiment, with the support of the field artillery battalion, began to continue its attack toward Dean.

The 101st Field Artillery Battalion had twelve 75mm field guns, plus the twelve Type 92 infantry guns that the 101st Infantry Regiment itself had. These shells bombarded the mountain peaks guarded by the Nationalist army.

This made the Nationalist army infantry regiment, which only had mortars, completely unable to resist. When the Japanese artillery bombarded them, they could only hide in their fortifications and wait for the shelling to pass.

Then, they would fight the Japanese infantry to the death. In this case, the infantry needed to be very skilled in earthwork, and the dug-out shelters had to be able to withstand the Japanese artillery fire.

However, the various armies and divisions of the Second War Area were not like the Special Operations Brigade. Every battle had a summary, and the summary was sent to various regiments for discussion and learning.

There was no habit of mutual learning and exchange between the various armies and divisions of the Second War Area, which meant that the "jar cave" that Division Commander Li Jue had summarized had not spread.

The "jar cave" was a trench invented by Li Jue when he led the 19th Division to defend Jinguan Bridge. He had his soldiers dig personal shelters in the shape of jars with a small top and a large bottom slightly in front of the fortifications, connected to the trenches in the back. When the Japanese shells fell, they would shrink their bodies into the shelters, which greatly reduced the damage caused by artillery fire.

The Japanese paid a heavy price but were unable to capture his defensive line. Later, the defensive line of a friendly army was broken through, and his division had to withdraw.

After the 19th Division retreated, the Japanese specially organized the officers of the various divisions and regiments to visit the entire position and learn from it. Unfortunately, their experience had not spread within the Nationalist army.

The Special Operations Brigade, which had been resting for a night, continued to march at this time. The five *li* journey was quickly covered this time.

Although the Japanese 102nd Infantry Brigade had also set up defenses in East Guling Mountain, these defenses were very lax. Their position was close to Poyang Lake, and there was Japanese gunboat support on the lake.

Since the Japanese had occupied this place, no Nationalist army guerrillas had fired a single shot at East Guling Mountain. This was why Brigade Commander Kudo Yoshio and the others had relaxed their vigilance.

Suddenly, their defenses here were bombarded by the Special Operations Brigade's rocket launchers, which stunned the Japanese soldiers stationed here.

Chief of Staff Nishiyama Fukutaro, who was acting as the commander of the entire division, loudly ordered, "Counterattack! Counterattack!"

The force they were supposed to counterattack was already attacking.

The rocket launcher bombardment was progressive, and the attacks of the two regiments followed the position of the rocket launcher bombardment, charging inward. Second Regiment Commander Liu Laopao had already deployed the anti-aircraft machine gun company less than five hundred meters in front of the Japanese defenses.

As the rocket launchers began to bombard, you could see the Japanese infantry running around in panic. The anti-aircraft machine guns began to fire.

The three companies of the Second Regiment also began to charge toward the Japanese defenses.

Battalion Commander Takizawa Kazuteru ran toward the headquarters while issuing orders, "Have the companies immediately return to the trenches! Start the counterattack immediately."

These Japanese soldiers usually only had a squad in the trenches, and the rest of the troops were in the camp. This was also to improve the living conditions of the Japanese soldiers.

Now, suddenly attacked by artillery fire, they had to rush to the front line. However, the artillery fire today came too suddenly and too fiercely.

Company Commander Yokui Kosuke had just rushed into the trench when he saw that the force charging up the front of the position had entered within one hundred meters.

He became anxious and quickly urged, "Heavy machine gun! Heavy machine gun, open fire!"

"The heavy machine gun was destroyed in the artillery bombardment just now!" Squad Leader Ishiguro Taro reported loudly. His squad was the unit guarding the trench today.

"Is this a full-scale counterattack by the Nationalist army? The artillery fire is so fierce. In just a short time, my squad has suffered half its casualties. Now there are only twenty or so Japanese soldiers left who can continue fighting." He continued to report to Company Commander Yokui Kosuke.

But at this time, Company Commander Yokui Kosuke obviously didn't want to listen to his report. What the company commander needed was for the soldiers to open fire, for all the Japanese soldiers to open fire together.

Company Commander Yokui Kosuke had just drawn his command sword, but the order to open fire had not yet been issued. Squad Leader Ishiguro Taro watched the company commander's head suddenly explode.

Red blood and white brain matter all splattered out. Company Commander Yokui Kosuke had been hit by a bullet from a distant anti-aircraft machine gun.

Squad Leader Ishiguro Taro immediately took over command, but he was much more careful, squatting in the trench and loudly ordering, "Open fire! Open fire!"

The company's original establishment was incomplete, and a group of Japanese soldiers had just been harvested by the artillery fire. Now, the dozens of remaining soldiers followed Squad Leader Ishiguro Taro's orders and began to shoot at the Special Operations Brigade soldiers who had charged much closer.

What frightened them was that although the charging force was on the hillside, their firepower was too fierce. As long as they raised their heads slightly, they could see bullets falling all around them.

There was no way to continue fighting this battle. Of course, Squad Leader Ishiguro Taro didn't dare to lead the team to retreat to the second line of defense, so he could only stick his head out to see the situation.

Squad Leader Ishiguro Taro had just stuck his head out when he was immediately shot and fell backward. Now, command of the entire company fell into the hands of Squad Leader Toyokawa Masato.

He didn't dare to do anything, didn't dare to say anything! Just as Squad Leader Toyokawa Masato was hesitating, the First Company had charged into the Japanese trenches.

Company Commander Shi Junxia jumped into the Japanese trench and stabbed Squad Leader Toyokawa Masato with his bayonet. Company Commander Shi jumped down from the meter-high trench, and all his strength was on the bayonet.

Toyokawa Masato hurriedly blocked with his command sword, but Company Commander Shi pressed it together with his command sword onto his chest. The bayonet entered from Toyokawa Masato's front and came out from his back.

The First Company, which had charged into the trench, was still fighting the soldiers of Yokui Kosuke's company at close quarters. Company Commander Xuan Yiren had already led his troops to continue charging toward the Japanese second line of defense.

Battalion Commander Takizawa Kazuteru watched the Special Operations Brigade soldiers like fierce tigers descending the mountain. A single round of attack had broken through his battalion's line of defense.

Frightened, he quickly ordered, "Reserves, attack! Attack!" The first line of defense guarded by his battalion was a ring-shaped fortification, which could be bypassed from the left and right to encircle the section that had been broken through.

"Drive the Nationalist army out, close the line of defense, and encircle the troops that have already charged in." Battalion Commander Takizawa Kazuteru loudly ordered.

His plan was perfect. If the Japanese could really drive the First Company out, Takizawa Kazuteru could close the line of defense, and the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Companies, which had already charged toward the second line of defense, would be in the Japanese encirclement.

Battalion Commander Takizawa Kazuteru's plan was very good, and Company Commander Hiramiya Wataru believed it. He immediately led more than eighty Japanese soldiers to charge toward the First Company.

They charged along the trench toward the First Company, and the First Company was also expanding its gains along the trench. Less than a hundred soldiers of Hiramiya Wataru's company charged toward the First Company from the left, and Company Commander Kudo Yū led a similar number of less than one hundred soldiers to charge toward the First Company from the right.

The two companies had a total of one hundred and seventy or eighty soldiers, and the difference in strength was not significant. Just when the distance between the two sides was only twenty meters, the Special Operations Brigade soldiers, holding bayonets, suddenly jumped onto the trench, revealing a heavy machine gun behind them.

"Rat-tat-tat! Rat-tat-tat!" Company Commander Kudo Yū heard the familiar sound of the heavy machine gun firing and watched a cart quietly parked inside the strike range. The tongue of fire spitting out by the heavy machine gun mounted on it extended to its front.

At a distance of tens of meters, a heavy machine gun bullet could penetrate three Japanese soldiers. The dozens of soldiers of Kudo Yū's company, which had already lost half its strength in the battle, were swept by the sudden appearance of the heavy machine gun.

Only the two or three Japanese soldiers who were charging in the front saw the heavy machine gun clearly. They were hit before they could react, and the Japanese soldiers charging behind them, following in a line, were also hit. Although they were not completely lined up in a straight line, they were almost the same.

The heavy machine gun was firing in the trench, and the Special Operations Brigade soldiers who jumped onto the trench did not stop. They were still rushing toward the Japanese direction on the trench. At this time, they had long passed the positions of those fallen and wounded soldiers and rushed directly to the twenty or so soldiers who were out of reach of the heavy machine gun bullets.

Shouting "Kill!" these soldiers jumped down from the trench, and the bayonets in their hands struck down at the Japanese with the force of wind and thunder.

In the trench, the Japanese had no room to maneuver. They could only raise their rifles to parry in place. However, the thrust of the Special Operations Brigade soldiers, rising into the air, carried the inertia of their charge and the weight of their entire bodies. This force was simply unbearable for the Japanese.

These twenty or so soldiers were unable to resist and were stabbed one after another. The encounter of Hiramiya Wataru's company on the other side was similar.

The main force was shot down by the heavy machine gun bullets, and the remaining twenty or so soldiers were stabbed down by the charging soldiers. Battalion Commander Takizawa Kazuteru, who was still far away, turned around and fled without saying a word.

The attacking force today was too ferocious. It was simply not something their merchant division could handle.

At this time, Company Commander Xuan Yiren had already led his troops to attack the second line of defense guarded by the Japanese Second Battalion. Battalion Commander Akanishi Satoru saw the battle that was taking place on the hillside. He loudly ordered, "Machine guns! Machine guns, open fire."

At the same time, he continued to order, "Hideki Shūta company, go to support immediately!" Battalion Commander Akanishi Satoru saw that the force attacking today was using the tactic of breaking through one point and occupying the whole area.

Now, he had to concentrate all the strength of the entire battalion on this one point. The battle had just begun, and he had sent the reserves. At the same time, he had ordered the Japanese soldiers in the remaining positions on the entire defense line to concentrate here.

While the Second Regiment was attacking East Guling Mountain, the Fifteenth Regiment was not idle either. Regiment Commander Uekami Shimon was leading his troops to attack Xingzi Pier, which was less than a thousand meters away from East Guling Mountain.

There was also a Japanese infantry regiment guarding this place. Regiment Commander Fukui Kōtarō was guarding this place with the 157th Infantry Regiment.

This place was a piece of flat land on the edge of Poyang Lake. The people who lived here had long since fled without a trace.

This was entirely the Japanese's world. There was also a Japanese gunboat battalion on the lake, which was sending them supplies.

When the rockets fell, the entire pier was instantly filled with artillery fire. This suddenly stunned Major Takashima Tomo, who was loading and unloading goods at the pier.

He had not experienced artillery fire for half a month. The Japanese gunboats had a 75mm cannon, which had an absolute advantage when facing the Nationalist army.

They had always taken the initiative to attack the Nationalist army. Today was the first time they had been actively attacked by the Nationalist army infantry.

This made Major Takashima Tomo very unhappy. He loudly ordered, "Start up immediately and retreat first." In this situation, they didn't know where the bombing Nationalist army was.

Major Takashima Tomo wanted to fight back but didn't know where to shoot, so he ordered the entire gunboat battalion to retreat into Poyang Lake. As long as they retreated into Poyang Lake, the Nationalist army infantry would have no way to deal with them.

Even if they had cannons, they couldn't rush into the water to chase them down.

There was no problem with Major Takashima Tomo's command, but he didn't ask Lin Fan whether he agreed to let them go.

When the reconnaissance platoon returned in the morning to report, they said that there were Japanese gunboats parked on Poyang Lake. Lin Fan originally wanted to capture these gunboats and send them to the Second War Area.

The Special Operations Brigade had done this kind of thing more than once, but seeing that their response was so rapid, they began to retreat to Poyang Lake as soon as they received the first round of artillery fire.

There was no way to do this, and Lin Fan could only use the second plan. He personally operated the 88mm anti-aircraft gun and fired at the Japanese gunboats with "Dong, Dong, Dong!"

Major Takashima Tomo watched the gunboat Matsuyama, which was running the fastest, suddenly being caught up by a shell in front of him and then exploding into a ball of fire.

The entire gunboat was shattered into pieces on the spot. He was shocked, "What kind of shell is this?"

Sergeant Inoueharu Naoki also saw the Matsuyama being destroyed in front of him, but he didn't care and just thought that the Matsuyama was unlucky.

After all, this kind of one-shot kill was just an individual case and could not become a habit. Sergeant Inoueharu Naoki increased the output to make the gunboat in his hands faster. He just avoided the large pieces of wreckage of the gunboat in front of him and ignored the small pieces floating on the surface.

He operated the gunboat to directly crush them. As for whether there were any Japanese soldiers on these wrecks, he was in no mood to consider it. He had to escape faster, at least to run out of the range of the Nationalist army's cannons.

His operation immediately made him the first in the entire Takashima Gunboat Battalion. Lin Fan always attacked the Japanese soldiers who were easiest to run away first. Inoueharu Naoki suddenly became the first bird to be shot, so of course he had to be shot first.

"Boom!" Major Takashima Tomo watched the second gunboat explode in front of him again. This time, the entire gunboat battalion saw it.

Not only that, but most of the Japanese soldiers of the 157th Infantry Regiment on the shore also saw it. They had not paid attention when the Matsuyama was destroyed.

These infantry soldiers only knew that a gunboat had been destroyed, and then they began to pay attention to their fate.

This time, the Japanese soldiers of the 157th Infantry Regiment completely forgot that they were also enduring artillery fire and wholeheartedly worried about Takashima's battalion in the water.

Inoueharu Naoki died, and the gunboat operated by Kinshito Takao also exploded immediately. The Japanese soldiers on the shore felt that they couldn't use their eyes enough. They saw the gunboats in the water exploding one after another as if they had been installed with time bombs.

The way these gunboats exploded was also very special. Unlike the usual artillery strikes, at most the gunboats would be damaged, personnel would be killed or injured, or a hole would be blown in the gunboat. In short, those gunboats could still be salvaged.

Today, Major Takashima Tomo watched the six gunboats that had been destroyed and realized that they had encountered a nemesis. As long as a gunboat was hit by a shell, there was no need to salvage it.