Chapter 1 Xiao Song Taro's Demise

Captain Xiao Song Taro watched as a bayonet suddenly appeared behind Oguri Eiji, who was charging in the lead. Then, he collapsed.

Not many soldiers from the Special Operations Brigade charged forward. Only a dozen warriors blocked their escape route, giving these Japanese soldiers immense hope.

Each of them knew very well that if they didn't kill the dozen or so warriors blocking their path, they wouldn't survive. It was a matter of life and death.

The Japanese soldiers understood this principle, but their strength didn't allow them to resist. Captain Xiao Song Taro watched as Oguri Eiji, who was at the front, fell.

Immediately afterward, Sergeant First Class Fujiyama Ayumu also fell. Both Japanese soldiers seemed to have fallen without offering any resistance.

This made Captain Xiao Song Taro, who was a little further away, feel somewhat dissatisfied and uneasy: What exactly was happening up ahead?

After being bombarded by the directional bombs, they only had a few dozen Japanese soldiers left. If they continued to fall like this, they couldn't even think about escaping with their lives.

Captain Xiao Song Taro was anxious. The path ahead was their escape route, and a dozen soldiers from the Special Operations Brigade had cut off the lifeline of these forty or fifty Japanese soldiers.

Captain Xiao Song Taro certainly wasn't willing to let their path to survival be cut off like that. He roared loudly, encouraging the remaining Japanese soldiers to charge forward quickly.

The dozens of Japanese soldiers under his command now were also unwilling! They had struggled so hard for so long, just to survive. How could they allow their lifeline to be cut off here?

Sergeant First Class Miyazawa Yusei was originally hiding in the middle of the group. He wanted to wait for the Japanese soldiers in front to carve out a bloody path so he could take the opportunity to escape.

But now, seeing that the Japanese soldiers in front weren't putting in enough effort and that each of the Japanese soldiers charging forward had fallen, without inflicting even the slightest injury on a single Chinese soldier, he felt he had to act.

How could this be allowed? If things continued like this, Special Operations Brigade soldiers would catch up from the left and behind, and they would have even less chance of escaping.

Thinking of this, Sergeant First Class Miyazawa Yusei no longer dared to hold back. He couldn't afford to be cautious anymore. He had to charge out and carve out a path to survival for himself.

The Japanese soldiers in front were just delivering themselves as food, and Miyazawa Yusei couldn't hold back any longer.

He strode forward. Miyazawa had once practiced martial arts, and although he wasn't famous, he was invincible in bayonet fighting within the Xiao Song squad.

Now, he had to fight for his life. Miyazawa Yusei, holding his rifle and charging forward, stared intently at Platoon Leader Bai.

In fact, the dozens of Japanese soldiers who had survived by luck all understood: the man from the Special Operations Brigade charging at the front was a master.

It was he who had stabbed Oguri Eiji to death with a single move. Now, Miyazawa Yusei, their squad's master, was charging forward. This was a duel between masters.

The eyes of thirty or forty Japanese soldiers all followed Miyazawa Yusei's charging steps. These Japanese soldiers were cheering him on.

They all believed that as long as they killed the most fierce Special Operations Brigade warrior at the front, they could disrupt their formation, break their morale, and then they could escape.

To capture the bandits, first capture their chief; to shoot a man, first shoot his horse. With this thought in mind, Sergeant First Class Miyazawa Yusei stepped forward and charged toward Platoon Leader Bai.

The surviving Japanese soldiers clearly saw his intentions and made way for Miyazawa Yusei. Platoon Leader Bai saw a short Japanese soldier with a body like a wooden stake charging out of the Japanese ranks, knowing that Japanese soldiers of this build were very strong.

He didn't dare to be careless and shouted at the charging Japanese soldier, "Kill!" The rifle in his hand thrust out like lightning.

The two warriors who formed a battle team with Platoon Leader Bai also followed closely. The triangular formation they formed was perfectly coordinated.

Platoon Leader Bai's thrust was straightforward, aimed directly at Miyazawa Yusei's chest. The Japanese soldier stopped his forward charge and used his rifle to parry.

Both men used all their strength. With a "bang," the two rifles collided. Although no sparks flew, the sound of the impact told everyone nearby that both sides were using tremendous force.

Dozens of Japanese soldiers all erupted in cheers. Some of them shouted, "Miyazawa-kun, fight on!"

These Japanese soldiers could all see that in the first move, both sides had fought to a draw!

At that moment, a flash of white light stabbed out from behind Platoon Leader Bai, piercing into Sergeant First Class Miyazawa Yusei's stomach.

With this stab, the dozens of Japanese soldiers who witnessed this scene were all shocked: their master had been hit so quickly!

Mei Hongda stabbed the Japanese soldier in the stomach with his bayonet, rotating it twice before pulling it back. Miyazawa Yusei, his intestines twisted, no longer had the strength to continue fighting.

He dropped his rifle and stared at Platoon Leader Bai in disbelief, "You don't follow martial virtue!" This time, he spoke in Chinese.

Platoon Leader Bai didn't say a word, and the movements of his hands didn't slow down at all. The bayonet once again thrust toward the Japanese soldier in front of him.

The bayonet pierced into the Japanese soldier's throat. The light in Miyazawa Yusei's wide eyes disappeared. This time, not only did he fail to break the morale of the Special Operations Brigade soldiers, he was dead.

When Mei Hongda stabbed with his bayonet, the Japanese soldiers were still making some noise. But after Platoon Leader Bai killed Miyazawa Yusei with a throat shot, not a single Japanese soldier made a sound.

The dozens of Japanese soldiers under Captain Xiao Song Taro's command began to look around, preparing to find another way to escape. They had already recognized reality: there was no hope of breaking through from the front.

But Platoon Leader Bai had arranged for three squads to encircle them from three directions, cutting off all their escape routes.

What could they do now? Captain Xiao Song Taro could only go into action personally. At this time, the group of forty or fifty Japanese soldiers who had just been bombed had lost more than a dozen men.

Furthermore, the Special Operations Brigade soldiers who were encircling them from the rear and sides were closing in. If they didn't clear the path ahead, they would really die here.

Captain Xiao Song Taro personally went into action this time, thinking that things would be different, but in the end, nothing changed.

He didn't even make it to Platoon Leader Bai before being stabbed by another warrior from the reconnaissance platoon. With the death of the captain, this group of Japanese soldiers fell apart.

The remaining twenty or so Japanese soldiers began to run and flee in disarray. They no longer all charged toward Platoon Leader Bai's direction.

The dozens of Japanese soldiers who were surrounded in the middle split into two groups, some fleeing backward, some running to the left. They believed that the warriors charging from those two directions would be weaker than Platoon Leader Bai's group!

What disappointed Ito Zaemon was that he led a few Japanese soldiers in an attempt to retrace their steps. As a result, the Special Operations Brigade warriors they encountered were all formidable. He charged forward, but only managed to trade one move before being cut down. Now he couldn't escape.

Dozens of Japanese soldiers were wiped out without much effort. Platoon Leader Bai happily directed the warriors to clean up the battlefield.

Throughout the morning, the area around Chenjia Mountain was a battlefield, filled with gunfire. When the gunfire subsided, the reconnaissance platoons of each company all withdrew to rest.

Each company replaced them with another platoon to lie in ambush and guard the area within five kilometers of Jiantou Mountain. The reconnaissance platoons, which had fought all night, returned to camp to rest.

The warriors of the Second Heavy Artillery Regiment watched as bundles of packed rifles were carried back from the front line. All three thousand men from the transport team went to the front line to transport the captured supplies. Now that it was daytime, with plenty of manpower, the battlefield cleanup was quite thorough, thanks to the Special Operations Brigade's methods.

Not only were all the weapons on the battlefield picked up, but even the shrapnel was sucked up and recovered using mine detectors that the Special Operations Brigade had captured from the Japanese.

As for the Japanese soldiers' clothes and pants, they were all recovered as well.

The soldiers of the Second Heavy Artillery Regiment were extremely excited to see so many spoils of war today. These hot-blooded soldiers who had just come out of school were all very excited.

The morale of the entire team was unprecedentedly high. Seeing such morale, Regiment Commander Xu was also happy. As long as a team has morale, it can fight, fight well, and win battles.

Morale is the foundation of a team's combat effectiveness, even more important than weapons and equipment.

From the captured Japanese documents, Lin Fan learned that the Japanese soldiers who had been wiped out today were the Second Infantry Regiment of the Hata Shigeichi Detachment, and the ones who had been heavily damaged yesterday were the First Infantry Regiment of the Hata Shigeichi Detachment.

From these documents, it could be seen that the two infantry regiments of the Hata Shigeichi Detachment were finished. They should no longer have the ability to actively attack.

If it were according to the Special Operations Brigade's previous habits, the Japanese soldiers would have been killed, and that would be the end of it. Each company and regiment would summarize the battle examples and send them to various regiments and companies internally for study and discussion.

This time was different. The Special Operations Brigade couldn't get rewards or recognition from the Nationalist army, but they could report the results of the battle. However, the Second Heavy Artillery Regiment, the two infantry regiments of the Sixty-sixth Army, and the three thousand transport soldiers all needed these merits.

Lin Fan organized the combat situation against the Hata Shigeichi Detachment in the past few days and made a battle report: "Reporting to Commander Xue Yue of the Second War Area, our brigade, with the joint assistance of the Second Heavy Artillery Regiment and the Ninghe Zhi Regiment, Shi Yi Regiment, and Transport Regiment of the Sixty-sixth Army, heavily damaged the First Infantry Regiment of the Hata Shigeichi Detachment from the morning of the fifth to the afternoon of the sixth, and completely annihilated the Second Infantry Regiment of the Hata Shigeichi Detachment, and the Hata Shigeichi Field Artillery Regiment, totaling more than 8,000 Japanese soldiers."

The Second War Area immediately boiled over upon receiving the telegram. Yesterday and today, they were also attacking the 106th Division of the Japanese army, which was surrounded in the Wanjialing mountainous area.

The Second War Area had mobilized more than 100,000 troops, but the battle results were less than half of what the Special Operations Brigade had achieved. According to all the Nationalist troops in the direction of Mahui Ridge, the Special Operations Brigade had 6,000 men, the Transport Regiment had 3,000 men, the two regiments of the Sixty-sixth Army had 3,000 men, and the Second Heavy Artillery Regiment had 2,000 men, for a total of only 14,000 men.

They were able to annihilate more than 8,000 Japanese soldiers, which was shocking. If the Japanese soldiers who were completely annihilated in Mahui Ridge a few days ago were added, the Special Operations Brigade had annihilated half a division of Japanese soldiers in these days.

Although it made some of the staff officers in the Second War Area feel ashamed, they were still very happy.

Xue Yue was also very happy. This battle of the Special Operations Brigade meant that in the direction of Mahui Ridge, there was no need to worry about Japanese reinforcements.

On the morning of October 6, the various troops of the Nationalist army deployed in the Wanjialing mountainous area began to attack the Japanese army again.

Commander Xue Yue knew that the situation in the Wanjialing area was very favorable to the Nationalist army. If the area was enlarged, the Japanese army had already broken through Ruwu County on their periphery, and now had occupied the small town behind Wanjialing and were charging towards Wuning.

Those defense lines had been abandoned by the Second War Area in order to completely annihilate the Japanese army surrounded in the Wanjialing mountainous area. The Japanese army had now seen this point and were taking advantage of this opportunity to seize territory.

Now, both sides were racing against time to see whether the Second War Area could completely annihilate the 106th Division of the Japanese army before the Japanese army broke through the defense lines, or whether the 106th Division of the Japanese army would drag the main force of the Second Division into the Wanjialing mountainous area, waiting for the Japanese army to occupy the surrounding defense lines and then turn around to surround the main force of the Second War Area.

Xue Yue certainly didn't want to give the Japanese army this opportunity, so he ordered the entire army to attack fiercely during the day and send out suicide squads at night, no matter what, to completely annihilate the surrounded Japanese army.

The battle on October 6 was very easy for the Special Operations Brigade. Regiment Commanders Liu Laopao and Shangguan Zhiwen led their teams to sweep through the area, and they didn't encounter any decent resistance from the Japanese army on the battlefield.

When the Japanese soldiers saw the warriors of the Special Operations Brigade appear, they began to flee, and all were killed by the companies that occupied the commanding heights.

Even if some Japanese soldiers were lucky enough to escape, they were all wiped out by the reconnaissance platoons scattered along the way.

On the afternoon of October 6, the Second Regiment of Liu Laopao returned to the place of departure in the morning, and the Shi Yi and Ninghe Zhi Regiments transferred the defense line.

At this time, they had already received the third-level communication commendation from the Nationalist army. The Sixty-sixth Army, the Second War Area, and the Wuhan Headquarters all issued commendation orders to their two regiments and the Second Heavy Artillery Regiment, and each regiment also received a reward of 40,000 silver dollars from the Headquarters.

In particular, the student soldiers of the Second Heavy Artillery Regiment were all stunned when they learned that they had killed 8,000 Japanese soldiers by firing artillery yesterday and today.

When they were in school, all they heard was how powerful and difficult to fight the Japanese army was. They never thought that after going to the battlefield, it would be so easy to fight the Japanese army.

After their artillery had fired in the morning, they immediately wiped the gun barrels. In the afternoon, Regiment Commander Xu ordered all officers and soldiers of the regiment to learn how to disassemble and transport the artillery.

This was after he had a deep conversation with Company Commander Lü, and saw the results of the Special Operations Brigade's battles in the past two days. He believed that letting the soldiers touch the artillery more often might really improve their combat effectiveness.

Now, the Second Heavy Artillery Regiment's morale was soaring, and the soldiers were full of energy. They admired the three companies of the Special Operations Brigade wholeheartedly.

As soon as he said he would practice, no soldier complained. Regiment Commander Xu was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth when he saw that his soldiers were more obedient than they were in school.

He knew that the Second Heavy Artillery Regiment, as it was now, was truly a sight to behold.

After receiving the telegram from Regiment Commander Takakokura, Detachment Commander Hata Shigeichi no longer received any news from the Second Infantry Regiment.

Until the evening, Regiment Commander Sato Yo did not see a single infantry squad that had been sent out return. He had sent out a total of sixty or seventy infantry squads, with as many as a thousand Japanese soldiers.

It was too unscientific that so many Japanese soldiers hadn't returned. He waited until the early morning of the 7th before one squad of Japanese soldiers returned.

Listening to the report of this squad, they didn't encounter any Nationalist soldiers on their way back, but they saw many squads of Japanese soldiers dead on the side of the road, by the stream, and by the bonfire.

These Japanese soldiers were either bombed to death, shot to death, or stabbed to death with bayonets. Each squad had thirteen Japanese soldiers completely annihilated.

In fact, Ando Taro didn't completely tell the truth. It wasn't that they didn't encounter the Special Operations Brigade's reconnaissance platoon along the way, but that they didn't dare to fight after they encountered them.

These thirteen Japanese soldiers got lost in the mountains. After climbing to a mountaintop, they discovered the Special Operations Brigade's reconnaissance platoon operating on the hillside below. Looking at the team of fifty men, each of their movements were agile and their skills were deft.

Squad Leader Ando Taro didn't dare to let the Japanese soldiers make a sound, and didn't dare to let them open fire. They just watched the Special Operations Brigade's soldiers walk away.

Then they learned to no longer walk on mountain roads, but always walk in the jungle on the hillside. In this way, they avoided one Special Operations Brigade reconnaissance platoon after another, and also saw how one reconnaissance platoon after another killed the remaining squads.

However, he didn't dare to report these situations. They couldn't bear the charge of failing to come to the rescue. This squad of Japanese soldiers just didn't care about anything, which is how they were able to return to report completely.

After hearing Ando Taro's report, Regiment Commander Sato Yo understood in his heart: those Japanese soldiers who had split up into smaller units were probably not coming back.

The Second Infantry Regiment was also not coming back. In this way, the entire Hata Detachment only had one complete infantry battalion left.

Fortunately, this infantry battalion was in his hands. Thinking this, Regiment Commander Sato Yo finally felt at ease. Now, Detachment Commander Hata Shigeichi was also at a loss:

He had led the team over so flamboyantly, but in just three days, the entire detachment had suffered so many infantry casualties. He didn't dare to continue the attack.

He didn't dare to retreat now, so he could only let the Fourth Infantry Battalion of the Sato Yo Regiment establish a defense line and guard in place. He retreated the Detachment Headquarters twenty miles back, which was almost retreating into Jiujiang City.

Then he reported the difficulties and setbacks he had encountered to Commander Okamura Neji. He didn't dare to propose returning to Jiujiang City, but only asked the commander to replenish his troops.

He wanted to continue to advance after receiving new recruits!

From the actions of the Special Operations Brigade in the past two days, the Japanese 11th Army now believed that the Nationalist army had no plan to attack Jiujiang. Their main objective was in the Wanjialing mountainous area.

With this understanding, the Japanese soldiers who had just been transferred to Jiujiang City began to dispatch troops outward again. As for Mahui Ridge, it was no longer so important.

Despite this, it still sent 3,000 of the replacement soldiers that had just arrived in Jiujiang to Hata Shigeichi Detachment as soon as possible.

During this time, these replacement soldiers that the Japanese army sent from the country were completely cannon fodder, with more dying on the battlefield and fewer surviving.

The Japanese 27th Infantry Division was also asking Okamura Neji for replacement soldiers. Of the 3,000 Japanese soldiers they had last replaced, only 1,000 had survived the night.

Such losses forced Commander Okamura Neji to specifically order them to die a little less, and to use old Japanese soldiers to lead the replacement soldiers that were distributed.

There was really no way to replace the Hata Shigeichi Detachment. Without replacement soldiers to fill it, the Hata Detachment would only have more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers left in the infantry. Could that still be called a detachment?

Lin Fan didn't know about the Japanese army's busyness and predicament. He was just organizing the team to rest in Mahui Ridge. These 6,000 men had been fighting continuously since they parachuted here, and could only take a break during such combat intervals.

Although the Special Operations Brigade didn't receive a commendation order for guarding the Mahui Ridge line, they did receive pork from the Second War Area. This was Commander Xue Yue's special care for the Special Operations Brigade.

There were no battles on the Mahui Ridge defense line on October 7. The Sixty-sixth Army's attack on the Japanese army in Wanjialing had reached a fever pitch. In view of the fact that the Japanese army in the direction of Mahui Ridge was no longer able to attack,

Army Commander Ye Zhao of the Sixty-sixth Army ordered the Shi Yi and Ninghe Zhi Regiments to be transferred back to participate in the general attack on the 106th Division of the Japanese army.

The Second Heavy Artillery Regiment also received orders to transfer their positions to participate in the siege of the 106th Division of the Japanese army in the Wanjialing area.

Only the Special Operations Brigade and the 3,000 transport soldiers remained on the Mahui Ridge defense line. However, the Second War Area had not cut off the railway line. To this end, a special order was given to Lin Fan: be sure to completely destroy the railway line when retreating. This matter was especially important and must be remembered.

Lin Fan also knew the principle of speed being of utmost importance, and of course understood the importance of the railway line.

The battle in the Wanjialing mountainous area became more and more fierce. On October 9, Chiang Kai-shek ordered Xue Yue to end the battle before October 10, as a gift for the celebration.

It was on this day, the 9th, that Commander Okamura Neji finally began to worry about the situation of the 106th Division. According to the report of Division Commander Matsuura Junroku, the 106th Division had suffered heavy casualties among low-level officers, and the infantry without low-level officers had extremely poor initiative in combat.

From September 26, when the 106th Division began to detour and infiltrate from Mahui Ridge to the 9th, the Japanese army had been in the mountainous area for fourteen days.

The Japanese soldiers of the entire 106th Division were harassed by the Nationalist army every day and had been frightened all the time, and now they had no fighting spirit. Although the battle of Wanjialing had not yet ended, the Nationalist army had widely publicized the predicament of the 106th Division in newspapers and radio stations.

This news immediately exposed the lie that the Japanese army had been propagating in newspapers and radio broadcasts that they had been winning all the time.

After being reprinted by newspapers in the Japanese homeland, the shock it caused within Japan was no less than an earthquake. Ordinary Japanese people were all dejected. They had never imagined that the war they had tried their best to support would turn out like this.

This matter seriously affected the stability of Japan. Their emperor personally ordered Commander Hata Shunroku of the China Expeditionary Army to rescue the 106th Division at all costs.

Commander Hata Shunroku was also anxious at this time. It stopped listening to Okamura Neji's explanations and simply ordered Okamura Neji to rescue the 106th Division at all costs.

Not only that, Hata Shunroku also intervened directly: Wasn't the 106th Division lacking in grassroots commanders? It drew more than 200 experienced grassroots commanders from the China Expeditionary Army to parachute into the Wanjialing mountainous area.

At the same time, the Japanese base camp in the country finally made up its mind to attack Guangzhou in order to support the Wuhan Campaign launched by the China Expeditionary Army.

All along, they had not attacked Guangzhou, just because they were afraid of provoking the Westerners, but in the current situation, if they could not completely block the route by which the Nationalist army obtained assistance from the sea,

It would be difficult for the Japanese army to end the Battle of Wuhan. In order to end the Battle of Wuhan as soon as possible, they no longer cared about tearing apart their relationship with the Western devils. The Japanese army had already formulated a plan to attack Guangzhou, and now they only needed to implement the plan.

The Japanese army began to busily prepare to attack Guangzhou and open up a second battlefield of aggression.

The battle between the Second War Area and the Japanese 106th Division in Wanjialing had been going on for half a month. In these two weeks, the Japanese 106th Division, which had only carried seven days' worth of dry food to carry out the infiltration and assault, had long been exhausted.

In order to make up for the shortage of low-level officers in the 106th Division, China Expeditionary Army Commander Shiojun Roku's headquarters made a bold plan: to parachute more than 200 experienced Japanese low-level officers into the Wanjialing mountainous area to supplement the 106th Division's shortcomings.

This plan received special attention from Commander Shiojun Roku as soon as it was formulated. It immediately mobilized Japanese troops throughout the Nanjing garrison, and made sure to transfer elite officers to lead the 106th Division out of the mountainous area.

In the sky over the Wanjialing mountainous area, six transport planes suddenly flew over. A batch of Japanese troops jumped from the sky, they had flown all the way from Nanjing.

When Squad Leader Nakashiro Yusuke was on the plane, he felt that he still didn't understand. Three hours ago, these Japanese soldiers were still happily playing in the camp.

He was preparing to go to the street with a few Japanese soldiers to see if there were any novelty items to play with.

Suddenly, they received the order to gather all the troops. After these Japanese soldiers gathered, the company commander pulled out all the squad leaders and platoon leaders and gathered them together.

Then, he let the rest of the Japanese soldiers disperse and took these squad leaders and platoon leaders directly to the airport.

After a selection process here, mainly to see if they were strong, these Japanese grassroots commanders boarded the plane.

On the plane, they received the order: the 106th Division had suffered heavy casualties among low-level officers on the front lines. Commander Shiojun Roku ordered these officers to parachute into the front lines and lead the ordinary Japanese soldiers in combat.

This news was too sudden. Squad Leader Nakashiro Yusuke looked around: Inoue Isamu Squad Leader, Yoshikawa Shiro Squad Leader, Tezuka Takeo Squad Leader, Tomozaka Taro Platoon Leader, Miyazawa 亀之介 Platoon Leader, Sakurai 46 Squad Leader, Ono Ayumu Platoon Leader, these were all people he knew.

There were many more he didn't recognize. These Japanese soldiers clearly had a look of astonishment on their faces. They were all grassroots commanders, but was it really appropriate to parachute them into the battlefield so abruptly?

For Commander Shiojun Roku, there was no such thing as appropriate or inappropriate. All that mattered was whether it issued an order or not.

For these Japanese soldiers sitting on the plane, this order came too suddenly, especially since the vast majority of them had never parachuted.

Many of the Japanese soldiers were on a plane for the first time. In this situation, it was really difficult to let them parachute into the Wanjialing mountainous area to command combat!

Just as Squad Leader Inoue Isamu was about to say something, an aviation major walked over to his transport plane and said loudly, "Attention! I will now explain the basic actions and operations of parachuting. I will only explain it once, please listen carefully."

This was a qualified ground instructor. In this situation, every word he said and every action he made was listened to carefully by all the Japanese soldiers in the entire cabin.

If they didn't learn carefully in this situation, there would be no place to learn after they jumped out.

This Japanese major started from how to carry the parachute pack on their backs, and told all the Japanese soldiers to carry the parachute pack properly. He also explained the locations that needed attention on the parachute pack.

Then, he began to explain how to jump out of the cabin, how to open the parachute in the air, how to control the direction, and how to land.

This lecture took a full half hour. After finishing the lecture, the major said loudly, "Now rest, I will personally send you out of the cabin when we reach our destination."

The Japanese soldiers, who had just completed a half-hour parachuting course, looked at each other. Squad Leader Tezuka Takeo asked loudly, "Did you learn it?"

This was a problem! Not a single Japanese soldier dared to say that they had learned it. Each of these Japanese soldiers had only just learned how to open the parachute pack.

Having only learned this much, how could they dare to say they had learned it? Many of these Japanese soldiers were taking the time to write their wills.

This time, the danger for them was doubled. Although they didn't know what the situation was like in the Wanjialing mountainous area, the fact that the fighting had reached the point where they needed to parachute in commanders showed how difficult it must be.

Not to mention that these Japanese soldiers had never parachuted before, they had to jump from the air. This wasn't a hell-level difficulty task, it was directly sending them to hell.

Six transport planes, carrying these more than 200 Japanese soldiers, took off from Nanjing and flew directly to the Wanjialing mountainous area. These more than 200 Japanese soldiers on the plane had learned all the parachuting lessons in just half an hour, and what followed was their actual combat.

The Japanese transport team had extremely good luck, they didn't fly over the Special Operations Brigade, otherwise they would have been shot down halfway.

More than 200 Japanese soldiers arrived on the battlefield like this, and each of the Japanese soldiers, whether they were willing or not, were kicked out of the cabin and jumped into mid-air.

At noon on October 9, each division of the Second War Area surrounding the Japanese army was launching attacks on the Japanese army, which was already a routine operation.

During these days, life had become more difficult for these surrounded Japanese soldiers of the 106th Division: although they had airdropped food and ammunition,

The Japanese planes had suffered too many losses in the previous days, and their current transport capacity was limited, so the number airdropped was already insufficient.

As a result, half of the airdrops ended up in the area controlled by the Second War Area, which further reduced the amount of supplies obtained by the surrounded Japanese soldiers.

Colonel Kosagi Shoto, commander of the 123rd Regiment of the First Infantry Regiment of the 106th Division, looked at Zhanggushan not far away with bloodshot eyes. His team had lost Zhanggushan again last night.

In these few days, the Zhanggushan position had changed hands several times. The vegetation on the mountaintop had been completely overturned by the fierce artillery bombardment, and now only the color of the soil was exposed on the mountaintop.

Even so, this mountain was still a contested place between the Japanese army and the Nationalist army: the Japanese army occupying Zhanggushan was the same as opening up the road to rush out of the Wanjialing mountainous area. This was their path to survival, so they had to open up this road even if they had to pay everything.

For the Second War Area, anything the Japanese army needed was something the Second War Area had to block. Zhanggushan was the Japanese army's path to survival, so the Second War Area had to block this path.

This formed a situation where the Second War Area sent people to seize it back at night, and the Japanese army seized back the Zhanggu position again during the day under the fierce bombardment of artillery and aviation.

However, there was an accident today. In the morning, the Japanese planes and artillery worked together and had already occupied the Zhanggushan position.

What Colonel Kosagi Shoto didn't expect happened. Nationalist army shells fell on Zhanggushan like raindrops.

These shells were so dense that the Japanese soldiers under his command actually ran back from the top of the mountain. The enraged Colonel Kosagi Shoto was preparing to punish a few commanders to kill the chicken and scare the monkeys.

As a result, it couldn't even find a commander to act as this chicken, all of its squad leaders and company commanders were dead.

The team that had no commanders was the one that had all run back. Realizing this, Colonel Kosagi Shoto was suddenly dumbfounded: a team without commanders was just a loose pile of sand, what could it do?

Immediately promote a group of Japanese soldiers from the ordinary Japanese soldiers to serve as commanders? No matter what it did, it could no longer carry out its punishment of these deserters. It was impossible to execute all the Japanese soldiers!

It was in this situation that Japanese soldiers parachuted from the air! This made Colonel Kosagi Shoto extremely happy. It ordered loudly: "Pass down the order! Immediately bring the parachuting warriors to the command post."

Squad Leader Inoue Isamu was the first to jump out, it shouldn't be said to have jumped out. It was kicked out of the cabin by the major who taught them how to parachute.

Squad Leader Inoue Isamu screamed loudly and fell out of the cabin. After panicking for a few seconds in the air, it finally came to its senses: If it continued to scream like this, it would fall directly to the ground and become a puddle of meat.

Feeling around, it opened the parachute in the air. Fortunately, it opened the parachute all at once. Its body suddenly tightened, and then the speed of descent slowed down.

Squad Leader Inoue Isamu was very lucky. Nakai Saburo and Ono Yu two Japanese soldiers jumped out of the cabin one after the other.

Before them, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers had either been kicked out or jumped out on their own, anyway, they all had to go out.

These two Japanese soldiers jumped out one after the other. They had all learned a little experience from the demonstration of the parachuting Japanese soldiers in front, and they were not as flustered as Inoue Isamu was when he jumped.

Nakai Saburo jumped out and immediately pulled open the parachute, and Ono Yu squad leader made the same action. They believed that opening the parachute early was safer.

As soon as the parachutes of these two Japanese soldiers were opened, they were blown together by the wind and got tangled together. The two parachutes were tightly entangled with each other, and the result was that neither of the two parachutes was able to open completely.

The two Japanese soldiers were entangled together and fell directly to the ground like pieces of meat. Nakai Saburo and Ono Yu screamed in horror and fell all the way down like this.

The platoon leader Ueto Yuzhen, who was still on the plane and had not jumped down, watched the two Japanese soldiers fall down like that, until they were completely invisible.

Their ending could be imagined, and the platoon leader Ueto Yuzhen, who was so frightened that he was trembling, did not dare to jump down any more.

This did not affect its instructor. One stick hit the hand of Ueto Yuzhen who was grabbing the cabin, and at the same time, one foot kicked out, and the platoon leader Ueto Yuzhen left the cabin like this.

One parachute after another opened, some floating slowly in the air, some falling directly. Both sides, who were still fighting on the battlefield, suddenly discovered that Japanese soldiers were parachuting from the air. The Japanese soldiers of the 106th Division immediately felt that reinforcements had arrived, and their morale increased greatly all of a sudden.

Seeing Japanese soldiers jumping from the sky, the Nationalist soldiers who were desperately fighting the Japanese army ordered machine guns at all levels to open fire and strafe the paratroopers who were jumping down.

Squad Leader Inoue Isamu was pushed out of the cabin and opened the parachute in a panic. The only thing left was to leave it to fate. The major instructor on the plane had taught them how to adjust the parachute, so they could control the direction.

But how could these Japanese soldiers learn so much in this half an hour? It was already a good member that it was able to open the parachute and not fall directly to death.

These Japanese soldiers who were sent down to reinforce the 106th Division did not know the terrain of this place.

They also did not know the distribution of the two sides. Anyway, they just jumped down with their eyes closed, and whether or not they could reach the target depended on providence.

Even when the Japanese army dropped food and supplies, they would throw a lot to the warriors of the Second War Area. This time, the Japanese squad leaders and platoon leaders who parachuted, were strafed by machine guns while they were still in the air.

Platoon Leader Obari Ayumu was screaming in terror: "I'm injured! I'm injured!" In this situation, no Japanese soldier could help it.

Squad Leader Inoue Isamu watched the platoon leader drifting past in the air, spilling blood all the way. Looking at the amount of blood that platoon leader Obari Ayumu was spilling, Squad Leader Inoue Isamu was clear: platoon leader Obari Ayumu was dead.

The dense machine gun strafing on the ground caused many