The Milky Way is Also a Grain of Sand
Chapter 474 Three Attempts on Anqing
The news immediately reached Regiment Commander Li Zhize. Only then did he understand why so many Japanese planes were parked here.
It turned out the Japanese planes were out of fuel, and not only their planes but even the airport's fuel depot had no fuel left.
Forty pilots searched the planes one by one, and finally found that twenty-four planes were fully fueled.
This gave them an idea. They immediately extracted the fuel from these planes and injected it into the others.
The distance from Shizhushan Airport to Qianshan Airport was less than forty miles, so not much fuel was needed.
The pilots estimated the amount of fuel needed for the planes, and those pilots who flew back to Qianshan immediately boarded two transport planes filled with fuel and flew back to Shizhushan Airport.
This time, they were finally able to distribute some fuel to all one hundred and forty-eight planes here.
The pilots who had just gotten off the transport planes started forty planes again and flew back to Qianshan.
Regiment Commander Li Zhize sent half of his troops ten kilometers towards Anqing to guard the road from Anqing to Shizhushan Airport, preventing the Japanese from coming to sabotage their plan to move the airport.
When Anqing Garrison Commander Yeto Gojuro received a call for help from Commander Takaradani Akita, he was very nervous.
Having just taken over this position, he already knew how his predecessor had died, and he certainly wouldn't make the same mistake again.
Commander Takaradani Akita's first call was for help, and twenty minutes later, he called again to say goodbye.
Upon receiving the call, Commander Yeto Gojuro's first order was to put the entire city on lockdown! He wanted to defend Anqing City, and only needed to defend Anqing City.
As for the airport, he was now willing but unable!
In the middle of the night, the Japanese and puppet troops in Anqing City suddenly mobilized on a large scale, and those with a keen sense smelled a familiar scent in the city.
The Japanese had carried out such a mobilization twice before, and then the next day the situation in Anqing City changed: all the Japanese were dead, and the puppet troops surrendered and followed the others away.
Would tonight be such a night again? Some people had already quietly gotten up, hiding behind doors and windows, secretly observing.
They even greeted familiar puppet soldiers, inquiring about what had happened.
The Tenth Regiment, completely undisturbed, had a much greater harvest this time. Li Zhize sent people to turn the Japanese warehouse for spare parts at Shizhushan Airport upside down, taking even a single screw.
As for the Japanese warehouses for storing grain, the operation was the same, even though these warehouses had been bombed in the recent bombing.
This did not hinder the soldiers of the three regiments from clearing the ruins and transporting grain in the slightest.
The Japanese airport's generators, the lights on the runway, and all the wires, all the things that could be dismantled were dismantled.
Even the barbed wire was not spared. With such careful cleaning, time was running short.
All one hundred and eighty-eight planes had flown away before six o'clock, but the cleaning of the remaining materials at the airport continued.
The Tenth Regiment was well-prepared for the battle tonight, making it very easy to fight. Wu Yuan, the commander of the Tenth Regiment, and Shangguan Zhiwen, the commander of the Fifteenth Regiment, clearly felt they had not had enough.
The two of them suggested to Regiment Commander Li, "It's only thirty miles from here to Anqing, the distance the soldiers run during training every morning.
Let's continue to attack Anqing, like the last two times, even if we just take Anqing and walk around the city once.
It would be good to clean up those traitors in Anqing City!"
The traitors in Anqing City had already begun packing up and preparing to flee. They were too clear about the process of the team attacking the airport: first attack the airport, then attack Anqing, and do nothing upon entering the city, except kill traitors and move the Japanese warehouses.
However, Commander Yeto Gojuro had ordered a city-wide lockdown, with no one allowed to leave or enter.
These traitors did not have enough influence to get the Japanese guarding the city gate to open it, so they could only wait anxiously at the city gate.
As long as they left the city, boarded a boat, and went down the river to Nanjing, or even if they didn't go to Nanjing, sitting on the boat and floating on the river was much safer than waiting in Anqing City.
Commander Noguchi Oki didn't expect that after staying in Anqing City for one night, the situation would change when he woke up.
Like him, those pilots who had been messing around in the city all night walked out of the nightclub, bleary-eyed and staggering.
They couldn't get out of the city gate no matter what. Although they were Japanese, the Japanese guarding the city gate didn't dare to let them out.
Two hundred Japanese were crowded at the north gate of Anqing, which was a major event. Commander Yeto Gojuro came to deal with it personally.
The two commanders met. Commander Noguchi Oki knew Yeto Gojuro, after all, he was the local overlord.
Commander Yeto Gojuro heard that this was Noguchi Oki, the commander of the planes that had temporarily landed at the airport, and couldn't help but feel lucky for this group of Japanese.
They were not at the airport last night, so they escaped a disaster.
The Japanese pilots present heard Commander Yeto Gojuro talk about Commander Takaradani Akita making two calls within half an hour.
Saying that the airport was attacked by an unknown team of tens of thousands of people, and in the end, there were less than three hundred Japanese left at the entire airport.
Commander Noguchi Oki understood that Shizhushan Airport had fallen!
He still couldn't believe it. "I want to talk to Commander Takaradani Akita." His words were ambiguous, and the Japanese present understood.
Commander Noguchi wanted to call the airport, but the phone couldn't get through. At this time, the phone lines were being nervously rolled up by the soldiers of the Jiangbei Detachment.
If the telephone poles were not made of wood, the soldiers would have wanted to dig them up and move them away.
This was great news! More than one resident living in the north of Anqing City heard that Shizhushan Airport had been occupied by the National Army again.
Then they heard a Japanese shouting, "One hundred and eighty-eight planes! One hundred and eighty-eight planes!
Were they just destroyed like that? How am I going to explain this to my superiors!"
Commander Noguchi Oki spat out a mouthful of blood. Now he couldn't care about anything else. He pulled out the pistol from his waist and fired at his own head.
"Bang!" A gunshot rang out, but his shot was pushed away by another Japanese and missed.
"Commander! Don't! Let's think about what to do next! There are still more than two hundred imperial elites here!
If you just leave like this, what will we do?"
This Japanese's words had two meanings: first, if the commander died, there would still be someone to take the blame, and these two hundred pilots would be punished, which would be a huge blow to the air force.
The other meaning was: now that you are dead, what will we Japanese do in Anqing City?
After attempting suicide once, Commander Noguchi Oki's desire to die faded. He coldly ordered, "Let go!"
After the Japanese who was holding him let go, he said to Commander Yeto Gojuro, "I request that you send someone to the airport to check the specific situation. Also, I want to report the situation to Commander Okamura Neji."
These were not excessive requests, and Commander Yeto Gojuro immediately agreed, and also invited these two hundred Japanese into his command headquarters to settle them down.
The news that the residents in the north of the city heard was immediately transmitted to Wuhan via radio waves.
The intelligence officer who received this telegram immediately presented it.
While Chiang Kai-shek was still happy that his air force had shot down twenty-three enemy planes, he received news that Anqing Airport had been attacked by tens of thousands of unknown troops at night, destroying one hundred and eighty-eight Japanese planes.
The moment he received the intelligence, his face changed, and his good mood for the night was completely dispelled by this completely unreasonable intelligence.
It was as if he had eaten a delicious steak, but in the end, he found half a maggot in the plate.
"Who presented this? Is such a thing possible? When would the Japanese park so many planes at an airport?
Check it out, which troops are around Anqing?"
The adjutant who presented the intelligence had to understand this kind of non-classified intelligence and had inquired in advance, "Near Anqing Shizhushan Airport is the Jiangbei Detachment under the Special Operations Brigade. They are stationed in Qianshan and Tongcheng. The two places are seventy miles away from Shizhushan Airport."
"Let the Fifth War Zone ask what the specific situation is. In the future, don't report such uncertain intelligence."
"Yes!"
Originally, reporting this good news was to make Chiang Kai-shek happy, after all, he had been happy all night after shooting down twenty-three Japanese planes yesterday.
Wouldn't he be happy for three days for this brilliant achievement of eliminating one hundred and eighty-eight enemy planes?
But the result was counterproductive!
Lin Fan quickly received an inquiry telegram from the Fifth War Zone, still in the same format, personally drafted and sent by Li Zongren, the commander of the Fifth War Zone.
Lin Fan respected this commander. He also tried to report the situation he wanted to understand truthfully.
Li Zongren already knew Chiang Kai-shek's attitude from his attendants. He had thought of many versions: perhaps there was an error in the intelligence transmission process, and an eight was added when sending the telegram.
Or there was an error in the source of the news, etc. He had thought of everything.
But he didn't expect the telegram Lin Fan sent back to be like this: Last night, our army raided Shizhushan Airport, seized one hundred and eighty-eight enemy planes, and now they have safely flown to Qianshan Airport.
Also, eliminated one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven Japanese and seven hundred and eighty-four puppet troops, and captured three thousand five hundred and sixty-three puppet troops.
Seized a number of weapons, a number of aircraft parts, and a number of grains! Shizhushan Airport has been completely destroyed by our army.
Our combat troops are attacking Anqing!
The telegram did not state how many troops Lin Fan used to complete this attack.
According to the previous plan, attacking the airport would cause the Japanese puppet troops in Anqing City to come out to reinforce, so they could kill the Japanese puppet troops together.
This time, the Japanese in Anqing City had learned to be smart. They actually stood by and did not rescue, so Regiment Commander Li Zhize had to change the follow-up plan.
He reported to Lin Fan that Anqing should continue to be attacked. Lin Fan had always supported the spirit of his regiment commanders to dare to fight the Japanese.
The Special Operations Brigade was not afraid of losing battles, but of not daring to fight!
Because Regiment Commander Li Zhize and the others were going to continue fighting, Lin Fan certainly would not reveal the number of combat troops.
Li Zongren held this telegram in his hand, as if he had seen a peerless piece of jade, and was reluctant to put it down for a long time.
He believed in the battle reports of the Special Operations Brigade. After all, they did not need to falsely report military exploits to ask for rewards, so there was no need to overreport the results of the battle.
Moreover, one hundred and eighty-eight planes, such a large air force, was really a timely help for the National Army.
After half an hour, he reacted and asked someone to forward this telegram to the Wuhan headquarters command, unchanged.
The telegram was transferred by the Fifth War Zone, and more importantly, this telegram was sent by the Special Operations Brigade.
People in the headquarters staff department were clear that this team, whose organization was called a brigade, had just eliminated 50,000 Japanese.
Of course, the telegram they sent was presented to Chiang Kai-shek's desk immediately!
Seeing that the Special Operations Brigade had not destroyed one hundred and eighty-eight enemy planes, but had seized them!
Song Meiling, who had just arrived at his office, saw her husband suddenly stand up, his face flushed, his expression excited, ashamed, and finally turned into excitement.
She asked in surprise, "Darling! What's wrong?" She came here today to ask for more money to buy more planes for the air force.
Yesterday, twenty-three Japanese planes were shot down, so it was always easier to get money at this time.
Chiang Kai-shek said with a smile, "This time I don't need to give you money, I'll give you one hundred planes directly! Is that okay?"
"One hundred planes!" Happiness came so suddenly that Song Meiling couldn't believe that these words came from her husband.
She was very clear that the National Army had now lost the wealthiest Shanghai and Jiangnan areas of the entire army, and the finances were very tight.
Even today, she was only thinking that she could get enough money to buy ten planes.
She did not expect that ten times the amount would come directly, and Song Meiling's head was a little dizzy.
"Is this true? Darling!"
Chiang Kai-shek handed over the piece of paper in his hand, "Take a look!"
This time, he was determined that even if he gave Lin Fan the appointment of an empty-handed division commander, he would let Lin Fan hand over some of the planes to the National Army for use.
The more planes to protect Wuhan, the better!
"They actually robbed one hundred and eighty-eight Japanese planes! How is this possible?"
Chennault of the Wuhan headquarters staff department was urgently summoned to look at the telegram he had just received.
They stood in front of the map and analyzed the authenticity of this telegram!
When Chennault was designing yesterday, he considered that the Japanese planes had no fuel. Today, he stood in front of the map and measured the distance from Nanjing to Wuhan and then back to Anqing.
He immediately said, "Some of the Japanese planes took off from Nanjing. They flew back and forth for nearly 700 kilometers. Plus, they were entangled in the air by our planes for half an hour.
Even their bombers couldn't fly back to Nanjing. They could only land in Anqing to refuel.
The Japanese fighters should have taken off from the warships and Anqing. Because they didn't have enough fuel, they had to make an emergency landing at Shizhushan Airport.
It is estimated that there were too many planes landing, and the airport's fuel reserves were not enough, which caused a large number of planes to be stranded at Shizhushan Airport.
It is possible for nearly two hundred planes to be parked at the airport!"
War is like this, as long as there is a possibility, it will often become a reality.
Now Chiang Kai-shek thought that he could receive one hundred planes, and his mood suddenly improved.
He also listened to Chennault's analysis very carefully and said very seriously, "Without Mr. Chen's early planning and strategy, there would be no Battle of Shizhushan Airport."
Everyone liked to hear these words, and the truth was indeed like this. It was precisely because the Japanese planes had no fuel that they were stranded at Shizhushan Airport.
Lin Fan received Li Zongren's message from Chiang Kai-shek, which was not an order this time, but a request for Lin Fan's opinion.
Please, Lin Fan, in view of the fact that he was also a member of the National Army in the war of resistance, transferred one hundred captured planes to the Wuhan battlefield.
Originally, when Li Zongren received this task, he felt that this matter was too unkind.
If people have merit, they should be rewarded, and if they have soldiers, they should be paid, but now they want to take away other people's loot.
He didn't know how to tell Lin Fan about this matter, but he had to obey the orders of his superiors.
He did not expect that Lin Fan's reply was so fast, it was completely a reply seconds after receiving the telegram.
The reply only had a few words: "Okay! Please send pilots to Qianshan to pick up the planes!"
Chiang Kai-shek did not expect that Lin Fan would be so generous this time. One hundred planes, calculated at 300,000 per plane before the war, would be worth 30 million.
Lin Fan actually agreed so readily that Chiang Kai-shek couldn't believe it and was afraid that there would be some trap in the middle.
He telegraphed Li Zongren again. After all, his commander knew Lin Fan better. Although Li Zongren was surprised, he could still understand Lin Fan.
He explained, "He will support anything that is conducive to the war of resistance within his power!
As for sending pilots to pick up the planes, it should be because they don't have enough pilots of their own.
This time, one hundred and eighty-eight planes were captured. Even if one hundred planes were sent to Wuhan, they still have eighty-eight planes that need pilots.
And pilots are not big radishes that can be cultivated casually."
Hearing Li Zongren's analysis, Chiang Kai-shek was relieved.
Now it was Song Meiling's turn. She had to arrange for one hundred pilots to go to Qianshan to pick up the planes.
The distance was not long, but if they wanted to go there, they would have to detour, and there was no safe road at this time.
In order to be safe, she had to prepare some more pilots to go there.
These difficulties were not a problem compared to the joy of receiving one hundred planes.
Li Zhize also received a telegram from Lin Fan. He had no objection to the distribution of the planes.
If he could make a request, his request would be: continue to let him stare at Shizhushan Airport, and come back again after the Japanese have built it well!
Now Li Zhize was following the team and marching towards Anqing.
In the air, the soldiers of the Jiangbei Detachment's Aviation Brigade were already flying towards Anqing City in the planes they had just captured last night.
Flying alongside these planes were the Lunan Detachment's own ground attack aircraft.
This time, Regiment Commander Li Zhize would of course use all his strength to attack Anqing City. He would use a sledgehammer to crack a nut.
Last time, the Japanese in Anqing City were annihilated on the way to reinforce the airport. There were very few Japanese guarding the city.
Today was different. The Japanese guarding the city had not suffered any losses at all.
Okamura Neji, the Japanese commander in charge of the Battle of Wuhan in Jiujiang, heard the report that one hundred and eighty-eight planes at Shizhushan Airport had been attacked by the National Army last night and all had been destroyed.
This news also reached Yanyan Junlu, the commander of the Japanese Central China Expeditionary Army. The reactions of the two Japanese were the same. They both vomited blood and slumped in their chairs.
The "Doomsday" plan was carefully planned by them, and they were determined to use this plan to attack the National Army's confidence.
Now, their confidence had been attacked by others.
Commander Yanyan Junlu and Commander Okamura Neji did not believe this fact. They decided to send reconnaissance planes to Anqing to take a look.
Captain Senen Souta had just refueled and flown back from Shizhushan Airport yesterday. He received an order to go to Shizhushan Airport to take a look.
He was very confused, "There are still so many planes there. What do you want me to see?"
He did not dare to disobey the orders of his superiors, and did not dare to ask anything. He immediately ran to the apron, where the plane had been prepared.
Seeing that the plane prepared was not a reconnaissance plane, but a fighter plane, Captain Senen Souta did not struggle with this detail.
For him, it was not far from Nanjing to Shizhushan Airport. He could just fly over and take a look and then come back.
Moreover, this Mitsubishi A5m2 "Claude" fighter plane had a maximum level flight speed of 454 kilometers per hour and a range of 1,200 kilometers, which was enough for him to fly.
On the other side, pilot Kitakaze Yuya of Jiujiang Airport was also boarding the plane. Coincidentally, they were both using the same type of plane.
Two Japanese fighter planes took off from Nanjing and Jiujiang respectively and flew towards Shizhushan Airport.
Commander Yeto Gojuro was restless in the command headquarters, as if something bad was about to happen.
Just when he didn't know what was going to happen, the sound of machine guns rang out, "Da da da!" "Da da da!"
Soon he received calls from various city gates that they were being strafed by planes.
A shrill air raid siren sounded over Anqing City. The residents of Anqing City had often heard this sound four months ago.
This was the first time they had heard this siren since the Japanese occupied the city.
The residents of the city not only did not hide, but they walked out of their homes and looked up at the sky.
A surprising scene appeared in the sky: Japanese planes and some planes with a fat tiger painted on their bellies were flying peacefully in the sky.
Japanese planes were also diving and throwing bombs at the Japanese on the city walls, and those planes with fat tigers were also shooting at the Japanese on the city walls.
This situation only made the residents of the city stunned for a moment, and then they understood: the rumors in the city were true.
The planes at Shizhushan Airport had been robbed by the Jiangbei Detachment and were now flying over to fight the Japanese.
People were asking each other for news on the streets. Many people vividly described the wonderful scenes of last night, as if they were all there at the time.
Only those traitors who were blocked at the south gate turned pale: they had also heard the rumors in the city just now.
Thinking of Commander Yeto Gojuro's actions that began in the middle of the night yesterday, these traitors were the first to believe that the rumors were true.
Now that this news had been confirmed, these traitors only wanted the city gate to be opened quickly so that they could escape.
However, Commander Yeto Gojuro had no intention of opening the city gate at all.
Open the city gate? No way, Commander Yeto Gojuro was now only afraid that the city gate was not tightly closed, so that the National Army attacking the city would rush in.
Obviously, he was thinking too much! The Special Operations Brigade had always been strong at attacking cities.
Today, with the help of the planes, the ground attack aircraft strafed the city walls back and forth, making it very difficult for the Ito Ryosuke Squadron guarding the city walls.
These Japanese originally relied on the city walls to resist the attack from outside the city. This kind of defense was completely undefended against the planes in the sky.
The Ito Ryosuke Squadron of more than 100 Japanese only endured two rounds of such back-and-forth strafing, and then left nearly a hundred corpses and retreated from the city walls.
The First Company and Second Company of the Tenth Regiment who came to attack carried bamboo ladders and rushed up. The soldiers were as nimble as swallows and acted quickly!
They quickly rushed to the city walls and established their own defense line. The Tenth Regiment established a defense line on the city walls.
The situation on the other city walls of Anqing was similar. The Fourteenth Regiment and the Tenth Regiment also attacked the city walls in the east and south directions respectively.
Regiment Commander Li Zhize, as the commander of this operation, slightly fought for the right to attack one more city wall for his regiment.
The Tenth Regiment attacked the city walls in the west and north directions. The four city walls were almost simultaneously seized.
Commander Yeto Gojuro never thought that Anqing City would be breached in less than fifteen minutes in his hands.
At this time, he began to regret it: he regretted not running to the Yangtze River with some Japanese when those traitors wanted to escape just now.
Was it still too late? Whether it was too late or not, he had to try.
There was also the Isuzu Haruto Squadron and a squadron of the headquarters plus more than 200 Japanese pilots led by Commander Noguchi Oki in the command headquarters.
These pilots also knew that the situation was critical. They were all armed and used as infantry.
In this way, Commander Yeto Gojuro organized a team of nearly 600 Japanese. Now he was going to lead this team to charge towards the south of the city.
They could only break out from the south of the city to reach the Yangtze River, and they could escape with their lives by finding any boat.
Lu Yewei, the first company commander, and Fu Mingcheng, the second company commander, of the Tenth Regiment, who had just rushed into the north of the city, were already commanding the soldiers to open the city gate at this time.
Let the follow-up troops of the entire regiment enter the city.
They themselves only left a platoon on the city walls and led the troops to continue chasing the Japanese who had just retreated from the city walls.
Ito Ryosuke, the captain of the Ito Ryosuke Squadron who had just retreated from the city walls, fled in embarrassment towards North Street. These Japanese could only hide under the eaves of the houses on both sides of the street and retreat to the city defense headquarters.
Those Japanese who had just fled from the streets had been shot down by the bullets strafed by the planes.
The troops who had just rushed to the city walls were chasing up again at this time. Captain Ito Ryosuke immediately ordered, "Inuyashiki Emon Squad, stay behind to snipe!"
Upon receiving the order, Squad Leader Inuyashiki Emon had to stop running immediately. His squad originally had more than 50 Japanese, but now there were only about 20 left.
The remaining Japanese had either died on the city walls or on the streets behind.
More than 20 Japanese squatted under the eaves of the houses on both sides of the street and opened fire on the soldiers of the First Company and Second Company who were chasing up.
The street here was not wide. Four carts blocked in front took up most of the street. Four heavy machine guns opened fire on the Japanese who dared to stop and snipe.
The bullets fired by the Japanese also splashed sparks on the carts.
This completely unfair battle had already ended as soon as it started: the Japanese of the Inuyashiki Emon Squad squatted on the side of the street without any protection.
They were quickly shot down under the strafing of the heavy machine guns. They did not let the First Company and Second Company who were chasing up stay for more than a minute.
The carts rushed to the Japanese without stopping, and the soldiers following the carts easily cleaned up the Japanese who were still resisting.
Captain Ito Ryosuke had only just escaped thirty meters when he heard intense gunfire behind him and bullets constantly whizzing past him. He turned his head in horror.
He found that the entire Inuyashiki Emon Squad had been wiped out, and the pursuers behind were still closely following him.
He no longer had the idea of ordering the Japanese to stay behind. Now he only had one idea: run faster, no matter what, run past the Japanese next to him.
The ones attacking in the west of the city were also from the Tenth Regiment. This side was the Sixth to Tenth Companies. The Sixth Company Commander and Seventh Company were the vanguards.
The Sixth Company Commander Mede and Seventh Company Commander Hu Ronghua commanded the troops and broke through the city walls effortlessly with the assistance of the planes.
Attacking the city walls used to be the most difficult thing. Now, with the help of the planes, this became the easiest place to break through.
The ones guarding in the west of the city were the Itan Yosuke Squadron. After being hit hard on the city walls, the Itan Yosuke Squadron went directly to the center of the county after getting off the city walls.
Captain Itan Yosuke had no intention of engaging in street fighting in the city. These Japanese had learned the entire process of the last fall of Anqing.
Knowing that these troops who came to attack did not dare to stay in Anqing City for a long time, the Japanese of the Itan Yosuke Squadron wanted to retreat quickly, leaving this city to the attacking troops for a few days.
In a few days, when they left, they would run back again.
It was not only Captain Itan Yosuke who had this idea. The Japanese in the east and south of the city thought the same way.
The four squadrons of Japanese were all thinking in the same direction and were all escaping in one direction. As a result, the Tanaka Yugi Squadron in the south of the city was blocked by Commander Yeto Gojuro just after retreating less than 50 meters.
The four Japanese who were all retreating to the center of the county had not thought of escaping from any city gate.
Captain Tanaka Yugi now knew that Commander Yeto Gojuro wanted to escape from the south of the city.
He had no choice but to bite the bullet and lead the troops back to the soldiers of the First Company and Second Company of the Fifteenth Regiment who were chasing up.
Seeing that the Japanese were actually charging back, Company Commander Ino Tsugunobu of the First Company was extremely happy and shouted loudly, "Machine guns! Hit them hard!"
With the street less than ten meters wide, six heavy machine guns blocked it. How could the Japanese charge?
Commander Yeto Gojuro heard the sound of gunfire behind him close at hand and knew that the situation was critical.
No longer caring about the casualties of the Japanese, he shouted loudly, "Everyone, charge! Charge!"
The Japanese present also knew that charging was death, and not charging was also death. Now charging still had a chance of survival.
These Japanese immediately launched their proud suicide charge. The Japanese in the front row blocked the bullets and fell down.
The Japanese in the back row continued to charge, and they kept charging forward.
Although the firepower of the First Company and Second Company was fierce, it still allowed these fearless Japanese to charge closer and closer.
Company Commander Ino Tsugunobu was not at all flustered, "Machine guns, hold on! First squad, prepare grenades, pull the pin and throw them after holding them for one second."
Company Commander Ru Lejia of the Second Company ordered, "Second Company, first platoon, go to the left, second platoon, go to the roofs on the right and strafe the middle of the Japanese!"
"Boom! Boom!" The sound of explosions kept ringing out.
More than a dozen grenades exploded in the air, making the Japanese who were still resisting the machine gun fire fall down faster.
Just when they were fighting most vigorously, the first company commander of the tenth regiment was already shouting on the walkie-talkie, "Company Commander Ino! The heavy machine guns can stop, they have already shot through the Japanese and are flying to my side."
Receiving the call from Company Commander Lu Yewei, Company Commander Ino immediately ordered the heavy machine guns on the street to stop and continue to compress forward.
At the same time, he ordered the squads to keep throwing grenades and continue to advance until the heavy machine guns were close to the Japanese troops.
Then he ordered the carts to give way, and the first company rushed up to fight the Japanese with bayonets.
When Yeto Gojuro came out of the command headquarters, he led nearly 600 Japanese. On the way to escape to the south of the city, more Japanese who had retreated from the various city gates were added, and there were as many as nearly a thousand Japanese at most.
Just after launching a suicide attack, there were blockades in front and pursuers behind, and the troops surrounding them on the left and right.
Under the circumstances of being trapped on all sides, his nearly thousand Japanese were being reduced very quickly. When the sound of killing was earth-shattering, both sides were fighting with bayonets from front to back.
Only the middle of his troops was being bombed. At first, they were being strafed by machine guns.
Later, the company commanders of several regiments sent rocket launchers to the roofs and used rocket launchers to attack the Japanese.
This was the most efficient. A rocket could clear a piece of ground more than ten meters wide in the middle of the Japanese.
It was just that the scene was a bit bloody. The Japanese who were blown to death had severed arms and legs flying everywhere. There were even Japanese intestines hanging under the eaves and on the branches on both sides of the street.
This did not stop the soldiers of the several regiments. They kept bombing until the edge of the bombing was only about 30 meters away from the position of the bayonet fight.
Then teams of soldiers jumped down from the roofs, jumped down from the bombed-out area, separated the Japanese, and continued to fight the Japanese with bayonets from the middle.
This was not the first fierce street fight in Anqing City, but it should be the bloodiest.
The sound of killing on the street was earth-shattering. Under this situation, the Japanese had the advantage in the bayonet fight.
There were three regiments of the Jiangbei Detachment attacking the city, a total of tens of thousands of troops, but so many soldiers could not be deployed on this narrow street.
Only about 20 soldiers were really fighting on the front. Fortunately, under this situation, the company commanders of the various regiments all wanted to kill more Japanese.
They jumped directly from the roofs into the middle of the Japanese troops. When these soldiers jumped down, the bayonets in their hands always stabbed at the Japanese.
These soldiers were like tigers descending from the mountains, rushing into the Japanese ranks. They quickly formed three-man fighting groups.
Attacking from the edge and blooming from the middle, the battle was very tragic, but it ended quickly.
When the sound of killing stopped, the residents on both sides of the street peeked out from behind the windows with courage and saw the intestines hanging from the eaves at a glance.
Thinking about what it was, some people vomited behind the windows at once.
Some bolder people looked outside and saw that the outside was a blood-red world. The ground of the street was red, and there was still blood flowing. The trees on both sides were dyed red, and some positions were stuck with some flesh and shrapnel.
The soldiers of the Jiangbei Detachment also greeted him friendly, and this person recognized him at once, "You are the one who ate for free last time!"
This soldier quickly took out the money from his pocket, "That was when I was a puppet soldier.
Boss still remembers it so clearly. I'm greeting you to pay back the money."
The boss quickly said, "No! No! No need! I just said it quickly just now."
The soldier forcibly stuffed the money to him, "This account is settled. You have to remember to clear the account!"
The boss took the money, "There is no account at all, I will clear it for you in my heart." Just kidding, who would dare to keep an account for the puppet soldiers who ate things and didn't pay?
Everyone could only remember it silently in their hearts. This account would never be forgotten for a lifetime, and they would only have to ask for it back when the opportunity was right.
The boss deliberately said that sentence just now because he had heard that the Jiangbei Detachment had "Three Main Rules of Discipline and Eight Points for Attention."
The soldier said with a smile, "In the past, when I followed the Japanese, people became ghosts.
I always felt that I had to take and eat from the villagers to make myself feel powerful.
After following the Special Operations Brigade, the ghost also became a person. We soldiers, eating and wearing are all given by the villagers, and we are still showing off in front of the villagers. Isn't this a Japanese?
We are now from the Special Operations Brigade, and we don't take a single needle and thread from the masses. Fair trading is a must."
The boss looked at the soldiers who were cleaning the street and couldn't help but repeat, "The Japanese turned people into ghosts, and the Special Operations Brigade turned ghosts into people!"
Just today, many small vendors in Anqing City received a lot of soldiers from the Jiangbei Detachment who came to pay back their debts.
These soldiers were once the group who had been puppet soldiers in Anqing City, and this unexpected joy made the vendors in the city instantly have a burst of recognition for the Jiangbei Detachment.
After the battle in the city ended, Li Zhize had already started to have people clean up the Japanese supplies in the city.
Since they had broken in, of course they could not let go of anything that the Japanese had stored in Anqing City.
Traitors also needed to be cleaned up. It was too easy