The regretful Captain Asashi Kameinosuke cursed Major Mimaki Sho, wishing he had died and said so earlier! Then he could have retreated with his unit.

　　Now he reveals his true colors after dying. So you died, but you doomed my entire company to die with you. No one knows when or how Major Mimaki Sho died.

　　Captain Asashi Kameinosuke no longer cared how he died. His entire company had charged forward and could no longer retreat.

　　Moreover, the reconnaissance platoons on the hillsides, seeing the bayonet fight unfolding on the road, also launched an assault, launching a final attack on the remaining Japanese soldiers.

　　The desperate Captain Asashi Kameinosuke finally released his major and turned to face the charging First and Second Companies.

　　Although he was at the rear, his shout still carried: "Kill! Kill!" At this time, his Japanese soldiers were already locked in a fierce struggle with the soldiers of the First Company.

　　As Senior Sergeant Murai Hiroshi charged forward with his rifle, he thrust it directly at Company Commander Jing Chengxuan. This was a thrust he made with all his courage.

　　The thrust was immediately parried by Company Commander Jing, who returned a blow. Murai Hiroshi couldn't defend against it, and the bayonet entered his chest and exited his back.

　　Clearly, Murai Hiroshi had no chance of surviving.

　　The rest of the charging Japanese soldiers met a similar fate. Few of Captain Asashi Kameinosuke's soldiers survived the initial onslaught, and a dozen fell as soon as they came into contact with the First Company.

　　These Japanese soldiers had no concept of surrender, but they knew they were doomed today. Their morale was low, their spirits were weak, and their motivation to fight was insufficient.

　　By the time Captain Asashi Kameinosuke charged up, only about twenty of his soldiers were still alive.

　　These soldiers had resigned themselves to their fate. Facing hundreds of Special Forces soldiers, they had no choice.

　　The captain charged forward, personally wielding his katana and joining the battle, but it didn't stir his soldiers much. For them, the only thing that could excite them now was if a large force of Japanese soldiers suddenly appeared behind them.

　　That wish was never going to be granted. Captain Asashi Kameinosuke wielded his katana and charged to the front, directly facing Company Commander Jing's bayonet.

　　Seeing a Japanese soldier charging with a katana, Company Commander Jing knew it was the enemy commander.

　　The Japanese soldier seemed to have singled him out, heading straight for him. Company Commander Jing didn't flinch and charged to meet him.

　　As they met, Company Commander Jing made a straight thrust. Captain Asashi Kameinosuke couldn't believe his eyes: he saw only a flash of light, and then his chest was struck.

　　He fell in a single exchange. Platoon Leader Jing Liquan led his troops down the hillside, and only a dozen of Captain Mizushima Tomoki's soldiers remained.

　　Overwhelmed by the charge of more than thirty soldiers from the hillside, the remaining Japanese soldiers fell after only a couple of blocks.

　　Platoon Leader Jing Liquan left only thirty soldiers to attack the remaining Japanese soldiers, while the rest continued to advance through the jungle.

　　The situation on the other side was the same. Major Mimaki Sho's entire battalion was annihilated.

　　Regimental Commander Shangguan Zhiwen left only a platoon to clean up the battlefield, while the remaining companies continued to advance along the road.

　　Major Akanishi Takeo witnessed firsthand the decimation of Captain Niki Hitoshi’s company. Of the original 150 soldiers, only about thirty escaped.

　　What could he do now? The entire Akanishi Battalion was down to only a thousand men, and another hundred had just died. Should he continue the attack?

　　It was a question worth pondering! After some thought, Major Akanishi Takeo decided to halt the offensive temporarily. He would wait and see if the opposing Chinese troops showed signs of panic. If they did, he would continue the attack; if not, he would cease the offensive.

　　Colonel Kanoh Hideo, commander of the Japanese 101st Regiment, felt utterly helpless. Brigadier General Sato Shozaburo was with him, and all the regiment's affairs were decided by the brigadier general.

　　They had just received news that Major Mimaki Sho's battalion, sent to reclaim the lost artillery positions, had been subjected to intense bombardment. According to reliable sources, the cannons and shells were the same ones that Colonel Yamada Hidenosuke's regiment had lost.

　t enraged Colonel Kanoh Hideo, who was even more infuriated by the fact that while Major Mimaki Sho's battalion was desperately attacking on the front lines, the entire artillery regiment had fled back. What did that mean?

　　The entire 101st Infantry Regiment was left without a reserve force. The Chinese troops attacking the pass had already reached the third line of defense, but the brigadier general didn't order a full retreat.

　　The correct course of action would have been to have Major Yamada Takashi hold the line for a while, while the brigade and regimental headquarters retreated into the mountains.

　　Now that the field artillery regiment had no cannons, it would be much easier for the entire brigade to move into the mountains, which was a stroke of luck amid misfortune.

　　But Brigadier General Sato Shozaburo had no intention of retreating. After much deliberation, Colonel Kanoh Hideo finally offered his suggestion to the brigadier general.

　　Upon hearing that someone wanted to retreat at this point, Brigadier General Sato Shozaburo flew into a rage and slapped him twice, shouting, "You're a coward!"

　　If his troops hadn't suffered losses, retreating into the mountains would have been acceptable, but now his brigade's field artillery regiment was practically nonexistent, and his last infantry regiment had suffered over half its casualties. There was no time to retreat into the mountains.

　　Even more realistically, Major Yamada Takashi's battalion was completely pinned down on the front lines and couldn't retreat. Of the Japanese soldiers in the entire brigade who could retreat, only about two hundred from his brigade and regimental headquarters had weapons. The rest had none.

　　What could they do by retreating into the mountains? They would be finished if discovered by Chinese guerrillas. It was this consideration that prevented Brigadier General Sato Shozaburo from fleeing.

　　He placed his hopes on Major Mimaki Sho's and Major Akanishi Takeo's battalions. If they succeeded in reclaiming the cannons, there would still be a chance.

　　"There's definitely still a chance!" Sato Shozaburo seemed to be trying to convince himself. He slapped Kanoh Hideo several times and shouted loudly.

　　"Hai!" Kanoh Hideo responded loudly, standing ramrod straight.

　　Liu Laopao directed the Second Regiment to continue their attack through the opened gap. Company Commander Shi Junxia led his troops in a fierce charge. After Lin Fan used anti-aircraft guns to bombard the Japanese fortifications, the entire company's attack proceeded smoothly.

　　Having taken two lines of defense, they were now attacking the third. Lin Fan also wanted to end the battle quickly and followed the troops.

　　He continued to clear the way for the charging soldiers with artillery fire, which made things difficult for Captain Omiya Yusuke's company. Although their line of defense could be considered a natural barrier, it was not as good as the first line.

　　Watching his machine gun fire points being destroyed one after another, Captain Omiya Yusuke had no choice but to ask his major for reinforcements.

　　He knew that his position was the last line of defense and could not be retreated, but to hold this line, he needed more Japanese soldiers to come.

　　Major Yamada Takashi personally left his command post and rushed to the front lines. He brought more than twenty staff officers and cooks from the battalion headquarters, all armed and charging forward.

　　Following the major's orders, they went straight into the trenches. Major Yamada Takashi ordered Captain Omiya Yusuke, "Everyone to the front lines!"

　　Even with the addition of these thirty soldiers, the impact on the overall battlefield was minimal. Lin Fan was no longer using anti-aircraft guns. Instead, he was behind the First and Second Companies, operating a mortar to bombard the Japanese soldiers.

　　He wasn't picky: Japanese machine gun nests – blow them up! Japanese rifle nests – blow them up! A group of Japanese soldiers – blow them up! A single Japanese soldier firing a gun – Lin Fan would still blow them up!

　　Bomb! Bomb! Bomb! This terrified the defending Japanese soldiers. They had long wanted to escape, but with the company commander and major glaring at them from the trenches, they didn't dare to turn back.

　　They didn't dare to slack off, but their situation was very bad. Peeking out was fine, but firing a shot was sure to attract artillery fire.

　　A shot for a shell. No Japanese soldier could withstand such consequences, yet they were forced to do so by Major Yamada Takashi.

　　Major Yamada Takashi watched more than twenty soldiers he brought being killed in less than ten minutes. It wasn't that those soldiers were short-lived, but they were new to the front lines and didn't know the rules.

　　When Staff Officer Miyama Shuntai charged to the front lines with a light machine gun, following Major Yamada Takashi, he eagerly found a place to set up the gun.

　　He immediately spotted a target: several Special Forces soldiers were crawling forward a hundred meters away, trying to establish a small position behind a rock.

　　Staff Officer Miyama Shuntai spotted these soldiers and opened fire without hesitation. Lin Fan also saw that a machine gun had reappeared on the Japanese line and was spraying bullets.

　　How could that be allowed? A shell was immediately sent over. With a thunderous explosion, Staff Officer Miyama Shuntai and his machine gun were blown away.

　　Staff Officer Miyama Shuntai didn't understand why, when he opened fire, the Japanese soldiers who had been there all changed positions.

　　It wasn't until he was flying through the air that he realized those soldiers didn't want to fly! This was a classic case of the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

　　Staff Officer Toda Shotaro met a similar fate. Although he didn't have a light machine gun, just a Type 38 rifle, he, like the other soldiers in the battalion headquarters, had been brought to the front lines by the major.

　　Not wanting to disappoint Major Yamada Takashi, he immediately began fighting as soon as he reached the front lines, throwing himself to the edge of the trench and opening fire.

　　Fire a shot, reload, fire another shot, reload. Although he had been working as a staff officer in the battalion headquarters, his firing speed today was not slow, at least faster than the surrounding Japanese soldiers.

　　Staff Officer Toda Shotaro compared himself, firing three shots while the Japanese soldier ten meters away fired only one. When he fired three shots, the Japanese soldier who was originally only one meter away immediately ran to a position more than ten meters away and fired.

　　This made Staff Officer Toda Shotaro somewhat proud. He was holding the line against many, so the surrounding Japanese soldiers were leaving a section of the trench empty for him.

　　"I alone can hold twenty meters of the front line." The proud Staff Officer Toda Shotaro didn't realize that the Japanese soldiers who ran away weren't making room for him.

　　They simply didn't want to die with him. A rifle firing rapidly was sure to attract Lin Fan's attention, and he immediately sent a shell over.

　　Staff Officer Toda Shotaro didn't know he died because he fired too quickly. He simply thought he was unlucky to be blown up.

　　That's how the soldiers Major Yamada Takashi brought died. Only about fifty soldiers from Captain Omiya Yusuke's company were still holding the line.

　　Seeing the increasingly close First Company, Major Yamada Takashi could only ask Colonel Kanoh Hideo for reinforcements. He had asked Brigadier General Sato Shozaburo for reinforcements, but received none.

　　This time, he'd better ask his direct superior for help. Colonel Kanoh Hideo understood his subordinate, the major. Hearing Yamada Takashi's request for reinforcements, he didn't hesitate or decline.

　　With a voice still hoarse from the slaps he had just received, he said, "Hold on, I'll send all the soldiers from the regimental headquarters."

　　Hearing those words, Major Yamada Takashi was moved to tears. The colonel was so good!

　　But he also knew that the regiment really had no reserves. Sending all the soldiers from the regimental headquarters was no different from what he had just done.

　　Of course, there were more soldiers in the regimental headquarters. Brigadier General Sato Shozaburo, seeing him send out all the support troops and cooks from the regimental headquarters, sighed and sent all the soldiers from the brigade headquarters as well.

　　The entire brigade headquarters was left with only thirteen guards. At the same time, he ordered the commander of the field artillery, Colonel Yamada Hidenosuke: "You, take your troops to the front lines immediately."

　　The field artillery regiment still had more than a thousand soldiers. Although they had no weapons, there was no shortage of weapons on the battlefield. What they lacked was cannon fodder.

　　As Company Commander Shi Junxia led his troops forward, he suddenly discovered a large group of Japanese soldiers emerging from behind the Japanese lines. This was quite a development. Enemy reinforcements had arrived at this time.

　　Company Commander Shi didn't dare to be careless and immediately reported the situation to Regimental Commander Liu Dapao. Liu Dapao had nothing to say and ordered all the companies in the regiment that could see the enemy to use mortars: bomb the enemy!

　　The soldiers of Colonel Yamada Hidenosuke's regiment were once again subjected to artillery fire, but this time they dared not run away.

　　When Colonel Yamada Hidenosuke accepted the mission, Brigadier General Sato Tensaburo had given him a death order: "The artillery regiment will not return until the attacking Chinese troops are repelled."

　　Major Yamada Takashi, seeing more than a thousand soldiers charging forward to reinforce them despite the artillery fire, was moved to tears again.

　　About two hundred of the thousand soldiers were armed, and they immediately entered the front lines. Major Yamada Takashi sent another two hundred unarmed artillerymen to the front lines, ordering them to pick up the weapons of Captain Omiya's company's dead and wounded and continue fighting.

　　When two hundred unarmed soldiers rushed to the front lines, there were still many without weapons. They squatted in the trenches, waiting for the soldiers firing guns to die.

　　The Japanese soldiers could die, but the firing could not stop! As soon as a soldier died, those squatting in the trenches immediately took their place.

　　As a result, the enemy's firepower suddenly increased several times, and the Second Regiment's advance was immediately halted.

　　There were too many enemy soldiers. Lin Fan couldn't handle it all. These soldiers, who had just arrived on the battlefield, had yet to experience the true power of the Special Forces' artillery fire. They believed that the artillery bombardment they had just passed through was the limit.

　　They didn't know that Lin Fan's shells were the real limit. These soldiers, who had just entered the battlefield, scrambled to fire.

　　For a time, the sounds of gunfire on the battlefield intensified. Lin Fan also began rapid bombardment, throwing shells into the mortar one after another, sending them flying towards the enemy.

　　Captain Kikawa Akira was a thoughtful captain. He was among the first to be sent to the battlefield by Colonel Yamada Hidenosuke to act as replacements.

　　When he first entered the battlefield, more than seventy of his soldiers were unarmed and squatting in the trenches waiting. But in less than five minutes, more than thirty soldiers happily took up guns and started firing.

　　Everywhere on the battlefield, one could hear, "Tanaka is dead, need one!"

　　"Honda is dead! Need one!" "Suzuki is dead, need one!" These shouts came from those who hadn't died immediately and saw the soldiers next to them fall.

　　They watched one fall and shouted for the next to come and fill the gap. The shouts never stopped in the entire trench, and most of the time, several positions were shouting "Need one!" at the same time.

　　Captain Kikawa Akira was shocked. "At this rate, my company will be completely wiped out in less than ten minutes."

　　He didn't have to worry about such things. Major Yamada Takashi had already ordered another hundred unarmed soldiers to the front lines.

　　Using this method, he finally stabilized the position. The Japanese soldiers actually managed to stabilize the line of defense using human-wave tactics.

　　No matter how anxious Liu Laopao was, it was useless. The Second Regiment had enough firepower, but the enemy was using numbers to hold them back. What could they do?

　　Lin Fan kept firing, but the barrel was too hot and needed to cool down for a while. He stopped and ordered, "Switch to another gun."

　　Then he said to Liu Laopao, "What's our goal right now? Isn't it to eliminate the enemy's manpower?

　　They're using numbers to hold us back, which suits us perfectly. I want to see if we have more shells or they have more soldiers."

　　Lin Fan's words were obviously somewhat agitated, but Liu Laopao didn't rush. He smiled and said, "What the commander said is right! In just that one engagement, at least a thousand enemy soldiers are finished."

　　Lin Fan needed to switch guns, and a soldier immediately brought one over. Lin Fan continued to bombard the enemy. It had been a long time since he had fired continuously like this.

　　It felt good to move around like this today. If he felt good, the Japanese soldiers on the opposite side would suffer. Major Yamada Takashi kept sending soldiers from the field artillery regiment to the front lines by the hundreds.

　　When he ordered another hundred soldiers to be sent forward, Colonel Yamada Hidenosuke said with a mournful face, "There are no more. Only about seventy soldiers are left in the regimental headquarters."

　　"Send all the soldiers, and you go too!" Major Yamada Takashi looked down on the commander of the field artillery regiment.

　　If he hadn't abandoned the cannons, the entire 101st Infantry Regiment wouldn't be in this desperate situation. The planned artillery bombardment of the Chinese troops in front had never happened.

　　How could Major Yamada Takashi not be angry?

　　Colonel Yamada Hidenosuke, who had lost the cannons, was not of a lower rank than Major Yamada Takashi, but the Japanese soldier who had lost the cannons no longer had any rights. He had no say in front of Major Yamada Takashi and could only set off with the last seventy soldiers in the regiment, feeling wronged.

　　His artillery regiment had been completely ruined by Major Yamada Takashi, but he didn't dare to say a word. Now he had to go to the front lines as cannon fodder. Thinking of this, Colonel Yamada Hidenosuke regretted running away from the artillery position. He might as well have died on the position and received some respect.

　　Brigadier General Sato Shozaburo, after sending the cooks from the brigade headquarters to Major Yamada Takashi's line of defense, quickly reported to Chief of Staff Nishiyama Fukutaro for help.

　　Chief of Staff Nishiyama Fukutaro was finally panicked when he heard that the 101st Infantry Brigade had sent even its support troops and cooks to the front lines.

　　What he had been unwilling to do was report to Commander Okamura Yasuji that the entire division had been attacked by Chinese troops and suffered heavy casualties.

　　Because the 101st Infantry Division had already sent Division Commander Ito Masashi to the hospital, and now the troops had suffered heavy casualties, the division would be disbanded.

　　But now he couldn't care so much and immediately asked Commander Okamura Yasuji for help. Yesterday, when Colonel Hata Juichi asked Commander Okamura Yasuji for help, Commander Okamura Yasuji didn't send reinforcements.

　　As a result, the Hata Detachment lost more than four thousand soldiers, but they returned to Maling Pass today. Today, the 101st Infantry Division asked for help, and Commander Okamura Yasuji gave the same answer: "No reinforcements!"

　　The various divisions under his command were chasing Chinese troops. The Second War Area had just retreated, and the Japanese soldiers needed to occupy all the original defense lines immediately.

　　Otherwise, if the Second War Area suddenly sent troops to take back those lines, the Japanese soldiers would have to expend effort to take back each mountain one by one.

　　No matter how miserable Chief of Staff Nishiyama Fukutaro described the situation, Commander Okamura Yasuji only gave two words: "No one!" Finally, when he was forced to, Commander Okamura Yasuji could only say, "Let your division commander come and ask."

　　Chief of Staff Nishiyama Fukutaro knew that Division Commander Ito Masashi had a head injury. The division's battle reports had been consistently positive these days. The day before yesterday, they had reported to the division commander that they had occupied the pass, which made the division commander so happy that he woke up from his coma.

　　In today's situation, they had to ask him to come forward. Perhaps the division commander had more influence, and Commander Okamura Yasuji would send out reinforcements.

　　With such expectations, Chief of Staff Nishiyama Fukutaro immediately sent a telegram to Division Commander Ito Masashi. Ito Masashi, who was dozing in bed, was awakened by a staff officer who read him the telegram from Nishiyama Fukutaro.

　　Ito Masashi, who had been thinking that his division was besieging De'an and had even occupied it, was shocked to hear that his division had had two infantry regiments wiped out and a cavalry regiment annihilated in the past two days, and the remaining two infantry regiments had suffered heavy casualties and were unable to protect themselves.

　　Most importantly, the 101st Infantry Brigade was about to be completely wiped out. Ito Masashi was shocked by this news. Before he could say anything, his head tilted, and he fell back onto the bed.

　　After the doctor arrived, he couldn't wake him up. After examining Ito Masashi's condition, the doctor announced, "The division commander has fallen into a coma again."

　　This sad news immediately reached Commander Okamura Yasuji, who simply said coldly, "I see."

　　Commander Okamura Yasuji was an officer who only looked at battle results. If your troops had combat power, he would laugh and say, "It smells good," even if they were pooping on his head.

　　If your troops had no combat power, that was the original sin, and he would not fulfill any requests. Ito Masashi's 101st Infantry Division was known as the weakest division.

　　Now it was no longer the weakest division. The 106th Infantry Division had firmly occupied the title of the weakest division.

　　But the 101st Infantry Division still couldn't change its reputation as garbage. Therefore, when Commander Okamura Yasuji heard that Division Commander Ito Masashi had fallen into a coma again, he only said coldly, "I see!"

　　Chief of Staff Nishiyama Fukutaro, who was waiting for the division commander to ask for reinforcements, received the unfortunate news that Ito Masashi had fallen into a coma again and didn't know what to do.

　　It was impossible to send his soldiers to the pass to meet the 102nd Infantry Brigade. The ferocity of the Chinese troops was not something his soldiers could deal with.

　　In this case, Chief of Staff Nishiyama Fukutaro could only tell Brigadier General Sato Shozaburo the truth.

　　He no longer gave the 102nd Infantry Brigade any orders on what to do next. Now it was: you can do whatever you want!

　　Major Yamada Takashi, who was waiting for reinforcements, saw that the enemy soldiers on the front lines were thinning out again. He had no soldiers left except for three signalmen.

　　With no soldiers to send, Major Yamada Takashi could only take the three signalmen back to the front lines again.

　　Colonel Yamada Hidenosuke turned back and said to him, "You're here too?"

　　"So you're still here!" Major Yamada Takashi was also surprised. He didn't expect Colonel Yamada Hidenosuke to still be alive.

　　So many soldiers who came up had died, but Colonel Yamada Hidenosuke was still alive. He was lucky.

　　Company Commander Shi Junxia led his troops to attack again. The attack of the First and Second Companies was stopped by the sudden arrival of a large number of Japanese soldiers, and they had retreated.

　　Now that the reinforcements had been used up, the First and Second Companies continued their attack. Seeing the troops, who had been fighting for more than four hours, were still so vigorous, Major Yamada Takashi was envious.

　　He shouted loudly, ordering the remaining soldiers to fire! Fire!

　　Colonel Yamada Hidenosuke reminded him, "Do you know how I survived?"

　　"How did you survive?"

　　"Don't fire! As long as you don't fire, you won't die easily in this situation. I just figured it out. The soldiers who use machine guns don't live for more than three minutes.

　　The soldiers who fired two bullets in a minute don't live for more than ten minutes. The soldiers who fire slowly will depend on luck. The soldiers who don't fire at all can live forever.

　　If you don't fire, you won't die." Colonel Yamada Hidenosuke shared his experience.

　　Who knew that Major Yamada Takashi didn't appreciate it? His gaze was cold. "An empire with officers like you is a disgrace to the empire!"

　　Whether it was a disgrace or honor, it made no difference to the two commanders, because the attacking troops had already charged up.

　　Major Yamada Takashi didn't plan to retreat, so he could only order all the soldiers to fix bayonets and prepare for close combat.

　　The trenches were already filled with the bodies of Japanese soldiers. There were many bodies here. Originally, it was just a company's line of defense, but suddenly 1,800 soldiers had squeezed in, and all of them had died here.

　　How could there not be many bodies? Company Commander Shi led his troops to charge up, and Major Yamada Takashi, wielding his katana, was the first to charge out.

　　This gave great encouragement to all the soldiers who had survived. Although they had preserved their strength in the previous battle, now was the time when they could no longer preserve their strength.

　　Sixty or seventy soldiers shouted and got up from the ground, charging towards the soldiers of the First and Second Companies. Colonel Yamada Hidenosuke had no choice but to get up. He had no way to escape.

　　The combat power of the two sides was completely different. Major Yamada Takashi was stabbed to death as soon as they made contact, and his soldiers fell without even making a splash.

　　The First to Fifth Companies continued to attack forward, and the more than two thousand soldiers of the logistics team began to clean up the battlefield again.

　　Brigadier General Sato Shozaburo and Colonel Kanoh Hideo, in the command post, already knew that Major Mimaki Sho's battalion had been completely wiped out. Now they knew that Major Yamada Takashi's battalion had been completely wiped out.

　　They also knew that Major Yamada Takashi had sent all the artillerymen of Colonel Yamada Hidenosuke's regiment to the front lines to die before he died. The entire 101st Infantry Regiment now had only one battalion left on the other side of the battle line, but it no longer mattered.

　　With no way to escape, Brigadier General Sato Shozaburo and Colonel Kanoh Hideo looked at each other without saying a word. The two Japanese soldiers understood each other, pulled out their guns, and decisively shot themselves in the head.

　　The officers were dead. There were thirteen soldiers in the brigade commander's guard in the command post. These soldiers committed suicide one after another in the command post.

　　When Shi Junxia led his troops into the Japanese command post, he saw the Japanese soldiers dead on the ground, went up to add a knife, and then ordered the soldiers to search the bodies, take them out, and carry them out.

　　The maps and documents in the Japanese command post were packed up and sent to the commander.

　　After entering the pass, Lin Fan ordered the entire army to rest for a while. It was like this for today. Regimental Commander Shangguan Zhiwen knew that the pass had been occupied by the Second Regiment, and there were no Japanese soldiers on the way.

　　He immediately led his troops back. Although the company commander of the Tenth Company reported that they had held the line and were confronting the Japanese soldiers, the Japanese soldiers were neither attacking nor retreating. But Regimental Commander Shangguan still wanted to lead the main force back to the artillery position to be relieved.

　　Major Akanishi Takeo received the order from Chief of Staff Nishiyama Fukutaro: "The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Battalions of the 101st Infantry Regiment have been completely wiped out. Colonel Kanoh Hideo is dead.

　　Order the 4th Infantry Battalion to retreat into the mountains and return to Donggu Mountain via small roads."

　　Major Akanishi Takeo was shocked to receive the order. Wasn't the Third Battalion supposed to work with him to recapture the artillery position from the front and rear?

　　After receiving the order, Major Akanishi Takeo immediately ordered a squad of soldiers to find roads in the mountains and ordered the signalmen to order Captain Otsuka Taiichi, who was still holding the line on the front lines of De'an, to quickly approach him after dark and withdraw from the battlefield.

　　It was dark! The Special Forces still set up guard according to their usual practice, and the entire army rested.

　　Nothing happened overnight. The next morning, the reconnaissance platoons of the 15th Regiment set off first, and the remaining troops advanced towards De'an according to the organization.

　　When the reconnaissance platoons advanced to the position where the Japanese soldiers of Major Akanishi Takeo's battalion had established a line of defense, they didn't find a single Japanese soldier.

　　They immediately dispersed and searched everywhere, but the result was the same: the Japanese soldiers had retreated.

　　The reconnaissance platoons of the 15th Regiment immediately continued to search and advance towards De'an. They didn't know that the Japanese soldiers had escaped until they advanced to the Chinese defense lines.

　　Although they couldn't know from which position they had escaped, there were so many small roads along the way. The Japanese soldiers must have taken small roads and sneaked into the mountains.

　　When the intelligence was reported to Lin Fan, of course there was nothing else. The Special Forces prepared to withdraw from the pass, head towards De'an, and then withdraw back to Xiushui to wait.

　　The Second War Area was overjoyed when it learned that the Special Forces had recovered the pass and immediately ordered Lin Fan not to rush to leave and to transfer the pass to the troops sent by De'an for defense.

　　This place was originally lost by them, and now it was recovered, which was of course a good thing. Xue Yue was even more excited when he heard that Lin Fan had captured an artillery regiment's cannons again and personally sent a telegram to Lin Fan: "Please leave these cannons in the Second War Area."

　　This time, Lin Fan only left twelve Type 96 150mm howitzers and took all the other cannons away. He wanted to equip his artillery regiment with these equipment.

　　When the Special Forces Artillery Regiment came over, they only brought 150mm howitzers and Type 88 88mm anti-aircraft guns. The 105mm, 75mm, and 70mm cannons captured this time just made up for the artillery regiment's deficiencies.

　　It was good to have twelve 150mm cannons! Commander Xue Yue was extremely happy and immediately sent people from the 2nd Heavy Artillery Regiment to take over.

　　The reason why he sent people from the 2nd Heavy Artillery Regiment was because they had a teacher-student relationship with the Special Forces. The relationship between the two sides was good. After yesterday's misunderstanding, it had to be said that the Second War Area had become more cautious when dealing with the Special Forces.

　　After receiving the order from the Second War Area, Lin Fan specifically asked if the Special Forces should go back and recapture Xigu Mountain, Donggu Mountain, and Xingzi again?

　　After the commander of the Second War Area organized his staff to deduce, he found that if he wanted to hold these places, he would need more troops to cooperate.

　　He also needed to occupy Maling Pass. At that time, he would also need to build all the second lines of defense that he had given up a few days ago. This was completely a major counterattack.

　　The current Second War Area was unable to make such a large military action. Xue Yue could only reply: "Insufficient troops, unable to defend!"

　　Lin Fan gave up. As long as it was conducive to the War of Resistance, he really wanted to attack Xigu Mountain and Donggu Mountain again.

　　The Special Forces