Chapter 148 Air Drop

Captain Kawauchi Kohei of the Hanoi Air Force finally realized: he had safely returned. Not dying at Wanjiaping was a feat in itself.

The photographs taken by his reconnaissance plane were immediately sent to Jiujiang City for development, and soon they were displayed in the operations command center of the Tenth Army Group Headquarters.

Commander Neiji Okamura carefully searched for the location of the headquarters of the 106th Division in the Wanjiaping area. According to the report of Division Commander Junroku Matsuura, he couldn't find any markers made by the Japanese.

Instead, markers made by the Japanese headquarters were discovered ten kilometers south of the location reported by the 106th Division. Division Commander Junroku Matsuura had misjudged his position by ten kilometers!

How could they fight a battle like this?

Commander Neiji Okamura immediately sent the current specific location of the 106th Division to them, so they could realize where they were and correct their position.

Since Captain Kawauchi Kohei was able to return alive from his mission, Commander Neiji Okamura believed they had found a safe route. Now that the 106th Division was short of food and ammunition, he naturally wanted to replenish them, given the route was safe.

Land-based resupply was out of the question. The 27th Division in the east had been beaten back far away from this section of Wanjiaping, and the garrison troops of the 106th Division stationed at Mashunling had long been annihilated.

The only supply route the Eleventh Army Group could provide to the 106th Division was: air drop!

With tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers clamoring for supplies in the mountains, the Eleventh Army Group immediately began operations.

Captain Kawauchi Kohei didn't expect that flying to Wanjiaping once would create a safe route. He was once again needed to lead the way for another airdrop to the 106th Division in the Wanjiaping mountains.

Another flight mission he couldn't refuse and had to carry out.

It was a truly sad day! At least for Captain Kawauchi Kohei.

A long day had just begun, this time he had to lead the way in a fighter plane.

For the 106th Division, today was also a sad day. Since entering the mountains, they were under fierce attack from the Nationalist army.

This time, there was not only heavy artillery bombardment, but also infantry assaults.

In the past few days, the Nationalist army's attacks had been mainly small-scale harassment, with few attacks above the battalion level.

But today was different.

The 147th Regiment of the 106th Division suffered its first large-scale initiative attack from the Nationalist army since entering the mountains.

The First Battalion's position at Zhanggushan was attacked by a Nationalist force of regimental size. Battalion Commander Yoshijun Onizuka looked at the Nationalist soldiers charging, and they were completely different from the Nationalist soldiers they had encountered at Mahuiling.

It was as if they weren't soldiers from the same army. The troops attacking Zhanggushan today were the Sixth Reserve Division, which had taken over the Special Brigade's defense line.

After taking over, they discovered that the Japanese 27th Division had changed its attack route. The Sixth Reserve Division had seen the Special Brigade shooting down Japanese planes a few days earlier.

The morale of the entire division was greatly boosted. Because their defense line was next to the Special Brigade's, they received a lot of heavy weapons and equipment from the Special Brigade.

This included many light machine guns, heavy machine guns, mortars, and more than twenty infantry guns. They also received three base numbers of corresponding shells.

This replenishment directly gave each company of the Sixth Reserve Division five mortars, ten light machine guns, and five heavy machine guns.

Yesterday, the Second War Zone sent five base numbers of shells to all units equipped with artillery, which made the Sixth Reserve Division's shell reserves even more abundant.

This was the most ammunition the Sixth Reserve Division had received since its establishment. All the soldiers in the division were overjoyed, as if they were celebrating a festival.

Division Commander Chen specifically asked the Second War Zone quartermaster who sent the shells, "Why are you so generous this time?"

The quartermaster also smiled for the first time, "The Special Brigade seized a large amount of Japanese equipment at Mahuiling. The Second War Zone is rich now.

The commander said: There are enough shells for you to use, with only one request: annihilate all the Japanese soldiers of the 106th Division in these mountains."

Division Commander Chen knew that in order to annihilate this Japanese division, the Second War Zone had opened up several defense lines. If they couldn't achieve their goal, it would truly be a case of trying to steal a chicken only to lose the rice used to lure it.

He also said with a smile: "The commander has given us so many shells. If we still can't fight this battle well, we won't be able to explain it! Please rest assured, Commander Xue, the Sixth Reserve Division guarantees to complete the mission."

Today, the mountain the Sixth Reserve Division was attacking was a weak point in the Japanese defenses. In reality, the 106th Division only needed to hold Zhanggushan, and then walk a short distance forward to reach Zhelin Town, which would bring them to the main road.

Because of this, if they wanted to trap the Japanese 106th Division in the mountains, Zhanggushan had to be retaken.

Today, the Nationalist army launched a full-scale offensive from the periphery, not only attacking Zhanggushan, but also launching proactive attacks of regimental size or larger at Beixijie and Leiminggu Peak in the east, and Dunshangguo, Biandanshan, Dajinshan, and Xiaojinshan in the west.

This was the Second War Zone actively compressing the Japanese forces' range of activity, beginning the second step in encircling and annihilating the 106th Division: tightening the encirclement.

With so many targets to bombard, the newly formed Heavy Artillery Regiment 1 was already overwhelmed. They were now mainly bombarding the Japanese positions at Beixijie and Leiminggu Peak.

Because the Japanese 123rd Regiment in this direction had once charged all the way to Baishui Street, almost reaching Qilin Peak and joining up with the Japanese 27th Division.

Although the 27th Division had retreated, this direction led to the highway from Ruichang to Wuning. If the Japanese broke through in this direction, they could attack Wuning or retreat back to Ruichang.

At that point, it would be impossible to annihilate them.

That's why the Heavy Artillery Regiment 1 was stationed in this direction.

The Onizuka Yoshijun Battalion defending Zhanggushan, although not subjected to heavy artillery bombardment, was dazed by the Sixth Reserve Division's 305th Regiment's attack.

Regiment Commander Tang Shenghai of the 305th Regiment ordered each company's mortars to be concentrated at the battalion level. They also learned from the Special Brigade and equipped each company with five mortars.

Concentrated at the battalion level, this meant that fifteen cannons could be used to strike any Japanese firepower point that was discovered. This made it difficult for the Onizuka Yoshijun Battalion defending Zhanggushan.

Tang Shenghai ordered two battalions of the entire regiment to attack fiercely from below, and the mortar bombardment never stopped. However, Zhanggushan was a steep terrain, and the Takhashi Kishio Company was defending the front.

Company Commander Takahashi Kishio urged the Japanese soldiers, who couldn't raise their heads from the bombing, "Counterattack! Counterattack!" His company had also been without food for two days. The Japanese soldiers in the entire company were tired and hungry, and they didn't have many bullets left.

Under these circumstances, Company Commander Takahashi Kishio felt overwhelmed by the sudden and fierce attack launched by the Nationalist army!

Despite this, he still stubbornly resisted on the front line, commanding the Japanese soldiers to hold the line.

Tang Shenghai learned from the locals that there was a secret path behind the cliff of Zhanggushan that led to the top of the mountain, but this path was very difficult to walk, and was usually only used by herbalists.

He was now fiercely attacking from the front, but in reality, he personally led more than two companies from the back mountain path to the mountain.

This path was difficult to walk. When walking on the cliff, both hands had to grab shrubs and roots to stabilize their bodies.

In this case, machine guns and heavy machine guns could not be carried up the mountain. The soldiers of the first and second companies could only carry a rifle and four grenades, and carefully walked up the mountain step by step.

The sound of artillery in front of the mountain was rumbling, and they could faintly hear it in the back mountain. More than two hundred soldiers quietly climbed towards the top of the mountain.

More than an hour later, Tang Shenghai led his team and suddenly rushed out from the top of the mountain, rushing into the Onizuka Yoshijun Battalion.

Completely unprepared for the sudden appearance of the Nationalist army from the top of the mountain, the Japanese soldiers of the Onizuka Yoshijun Battalion were frightened. They retreated to Nantianpu from the other side.

Only the Takahashi Kishio Company, which was still blocking the attack on the mountainside, was left behind. The Japanese soldiers of the Takahashi Kishio Company were dragged down by the attacking troops of the 305th Regiment on the front, and could not escape from the battlefield.

Tang Shenghai led his team and rushed down from the top of the mountain, and the team at the foot of the mountain also attacked upwards, attacking from both sides.

The Nationalist army quickly broke into the Takahashi Kishio Company, and a bayonet fight immediately broke out.

After the bombardment just now, only about a hundred of the Japanese soldiers in the Takahashi Kishio Company could still stand up and fight with bayonets.

The Sixth Reserve Division's 305th Regiment had more than a thousand soldiers. Only Regiment Commander Tang led more than two hundred soldiers to climb to the top of the mountain. The strength of the two sides was vastly different, and the Japanese soldiers had been without food for two days.

When defending the position, the difference in physical strength was not obvious. When the two sides fought with bayonets, the contrast between eating and not eating was immediately apparent.

The Japanese soldiers, who were weak from hunger, were so weak and powerless in both parrying and stabbing. Although the bayonet fight was fierce, more than a hundred Japanese soldiers eventually fell to the ground.

Just as the 305th Regiment had captured Zhanggushan, the 147th Regiment Commander Yoshio Sonoda received the report.

He was very clear about the importance of Zhanggushan to the entire division. When he received this report, he immediately issued an order: "We must retake Zhanggushan no matter what."

His order was issued to Yoshijun Onizuka, the commander of the First Battalion. Whoever lost the position would have to take it back.

Although Regiment Commander Yoshio Sonoda issued the order, he didn't just leave it at that. He requested artillery support from Division Commander Junroku Matsuura.

The 52nd Mountain Artillery Regiment and the Third Company of the First Mortar Battalion were moving with the main force of the Japanese army.

Division Commander Junroku Matsuura immediately sent the most mobile mortar company over. This mortar company, led by Company Commander Tazawa Domoto, had two hundred and sixty-five Japanese soldiers and was equipped with twenty-four mortars.

By the time the Domoto Tazawa mortar company arrived on the side of Zhanggushan, the Onizuka Yoshijun Battalion had already prepared.

There was one thing that Battalion Commander Yoshijun Onizuka was not satisfied with. When his battalion set off from Mahuiling, there were only eight hundred Japanese soldiers. Originally, he needed to supplement four hundred soldiers.

However, Commander Neiji Okamura's order was issued too urgently. The entire division set off before the reinforcements could arrive.

The Onizuka Yoshijun Battalion, which had only eight hundred Japanese soldiers in total, lost more than three hundred Japanese soldiers when the Nationalist army captured Zhanggushan.

Now that they were said to have a battalion, they actually only had four hundred Japanese soldiers, which was only a little more than two companies.

With such strength, Battalion Commander Yoshijun Onizuka was a little unsure about attacking Zhanggushan. He dared not disobey the regiment commander's order.

So Battalion Commander Yoshijun Onizuka waited for the mortar company's bombardment. Company Commander Tazawa Domoto commanded twenty-four mortars to bombard the mountain, which was less than three hundred meters high.

When the bombardment was almost over, he ordered, "Company Commander Koda Jiro, it's your turn to attack!"

Battalion Commander Yoshijun Onizuka did not dare to send the entire battalion up. He only sent one company to tentatively attack.

Upon receiving the order, Company Commander Koda Jiro replied with a "Hai!" and immediately led his company of about a hundred Japanese soldiers to set off.

They rushed up along the road they had just retreated from, and were immediately met with fierce machine gun fire from the Nationalist soldiers as soon as they reached the foot of the mountain.

The 305th Regiment had already set up a defense line on the mountainside and at the foot of the mountain, waiting for the Japanese to come. They had just been bombed by the Japanese mortars, and they were full of anger.

Now it was time to vent. The Japanese soldiers of Koda Jiro Company were met with a rain of bullets before they even started to charge, and a dozen Japanese soldiers fell in just a moment.

How could they attack like this? The entire company of about a hundred Japanese soldiers would be wiped out in just a dozen moments.

Company Commander Koda Jiro decisively retreated with the Japanese soldiers without continuing to attack.

Battalion Commander Yoshijun Onizuka clearly saw the situation on the front line. It was not that the Japanese soldiers were not brave, but that the Nationalist army's firepower was too strong.

Small cannons like mortars were not effective and could not cause much damage to the Nationalist army defending Zhanggufeng Mountain.

Upon receiving the report from Battalion Commander Yoshijun Onizuka, Regiment Commander Yoshio Sonoda also began to rethink: his regiment only had a total of 1,700 Japanese soldiers in these mountains, although it was missing the main force of the Third Infantry Battalion and a machine gun platoon.

However, the minimum configuration for a regiment was also four battalions of nearly 5,000 Japanese soldiers. Even with the Third Infantry Battalion, his regiment only had less than 3,000 Japanese soldiers.

There was a shortage of two full battalions, all because reinforcements had not arrived before entering these mountains.

If the Onizuka Yoshijun Battalion was completely wiped out while attacking Zhanggushan, his regiment would not even have a battalion left.

Thinking of this, he decided to ask the division commander for help. He requested the division commander to use field guns to bombard Zhanggufeng, so that his Onizuka Battalion could reduce its losses.

Upon receiving the request from Regiment Commander Yoshio Sonoda, Division Commander Junroku Matsuura instructed with concern, "Commander Neiji Okamura has already sent a transport plane group to supply food and ammunition.

After these supplies arrive, let the Japanese soldiers eat their fill before attacking again. At that time, you can also ask the air force to provide tactical guidance."

What he meant by tactical guidance was to ask planes to bomb them. Of course, this was good. Regiment Commander Yoshio Sonoda immediately ordered the Onizuka Yoshijun Battalion to suspend the attack and wait for the air force bombers to arrive.

At the same time, he also issued an order to the entire regiment: "Transport planes will drop supplies soon. Each team must immediately lay down white crosses on the ground as drop points.

Guide the air force to the location of the supplies."

This order immediately made the Japanese soldiers of the entire regiment excited. They all rushed to the open area next to the field and laid out a clear white cross.

Standing on the top of Zhanggufeng Mountain, you could see the movements of the Japanese soldiers in the distance. Regiment Commander Tang Shenghai saw that the Japanese soldiers had laid white cloths with cross markings in several places.

He didn't know what this meant. He called and reported the situation. The Second War Zone also observed the same actions by the Japanese soldiers in other directions.

Regardless of what the Japanese meant, the Second War Zone Command ordered: "All teams on the front line must also lay out the same markings on the ground."

Who didn't have white cloth?

Captain Kawauchi Kohei was flying a transport plane and returned to the Wanjiaping Mountains again. He felt uneasy, but had to pretend to be calm.

He flew in along the newly opened route. Looking down from the air, the mountains on the ground became small.

In the mountains, some open areas were marked with eye-catching white crosses. These places were the agreed supply drop points.

A total of thirty-six transport planes swooped down towards different supply drop points, then opened their bellies, and packed ammunition and rations fell from the sky with parachutes.

At this time, how could the Nationalist soldiers surrounding the 106th Division not understand that the Japanese were dropping supplies?

They immediately began to rush to the places where these supplies fell. They sent people to pick up the supplies in their own defense zone, and sent people to snatch the supplies in the combat zone between the two sides.

If the supplies were a little further away and could not be reached, they would send people to stare at them, and bombard them with artillery if any Japanese soldiers went over to get them.

The Nationalist army did this, and the Japanese army did the same. Infantry regiments, artillery regiments, field hospitals, engineers, and logistics soldiers all sent Japanese soldiers to grab supplies.

Whoever sent more Japanese soldiers and could grab them would be the winner. When it came to manpower, the number of logistics soldiers was not large, but they did not need to fight, and they did not have a defense line to defend.

When grabbing supplies, they became the group with the most manpower. This made the Japanese soldiers in the infantry regiment unhappy.

Their infantry regiment had the largest number of Japanese soldiers, because they had to defend the defense line and were afraid that the Nationalist army would take the opportunity to attack.

Not many Japanese soldiers were sent out to pick up supplies, and now they were the weakest group. However, they had the most Japanese soldiers to feed.

When grabbing supplies, they could not grab them anyway, and these infantry soldiers immediately became unwilling. They set up machine guns and fired, regardless of who it was.

Whoever moved their rations was their enemy.

The Japanese soldiers under his command opened fire because of grabbing the air-dropped supplies, and more than twenty of them were killed or injured. When this news reached Division Commander Junroku Matsuura, he was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot.

"What is all this about!" After waking up, he angrily wanted to severely punish the Japanese soldiers who opened fire, but when he thought of the current situation, if he dealt with those infantry soldiers, would it cause a mutiny among the soldiers?

In the final analysis, the framework of the division he now commanded was expanded from the garrison troops left behind by the Sixth Division in the island.

The Japanese soldiers were all recruited from the garrison area where the Sixth Division was located. In the past few days of combat, the backbone Japanese soldiers of the Sixth Division were brave in combat, but their casualties were also high.

Without the leadership of these old Japanese soldiers, the newly joined Japanese soldiers did not dare to fire or charge at all.

Now they dared to shoot when they were grabbing supplies internally! What could Division Commander Junroku Matsuura do with such subordinates?

He could only wave his hand and let the Japanese soldiers take the wounded away for treatment, and let the dead Japanese soldiers die.

This wave of supply drops by the Japanese army benefited many Nationalist army teams, and they picked up supplies again. Division Commander Chen of the Sixth Reserve Division looked at the supplies they picked up with a smile.

He felt that his division was really lucky, and that there was such a good thing as a pie in the sky. Happiness came suddenly, and the Sixth Reserve Division still accepted it all.

In any case, the supplies from the air had kept the Japanese soldiers in the various regiments of the 106th Division alive.

Although these supplies could not meet the needs of the 20,000 Japanese soldiers, it was better than no supplies at all.

This was especially true for the Matsuura Junroku Division: during this supply, its division headquarters had collected a portion from the various subordinate regiments.

The supplies of the 106th Division Command were now extremely abundant, and Commander Junroku Matsuura could continue to issue orders to his subordinates.

His first order was issued to the commander of the 52nd Mountain Artillery Regiment, Tiger Taro Kudo, ordering his regiment to support the 147th Regiment: launch an artillery bombardment on Zhanggushan.

Together, Division Commander Junroku Matsuura also requested tactical guidance from the Eleventh Army Group Command, and launched a bombardment on the defenders of Zhanggufeng.

It could be seen from the map that as long as the 106th Division occupied Zhanggufeng, they could break out of the Wanjiaping Mountains by advancing forward.

Such a dangerous commanding height, equivalent to a lock, was indeed worth the risk for the Japanese army.

Captain Kawauchi Kohei had just taken the transport plane group to feed the Wanjiaping Mountains with supplies and ammunition.

He had just returned to Jiujiang Airport, and before the plane had stopped, he received a new mission: "Continue to fly the route from Jiujiang to Wanjiaping.

This time, it is to provide tactical guidance to the 106th Division trapped in Wanjiaping, and bomb Zhanggufeng, Dunshangguo, Biandanshan, Dajinshan, and Xiaojinshan."

This order made Captain Kawauchi Kohei feel that if he did not die in Wanjiaping, the mission to fly to Wanjiaping would always be assigned to him.

This time, he did not even have the courage to struggle, he just silently endured everything, accepted the latest order, and prepared to fly to Wanjiaping to carry out the mission.

At this time, the various teams of the Nationalist army were desperately attacking their respective targets. The 58th Division and the 91st Division were jointly launching an attack on Beixijie, which was occupied by the Japanese army.

The Japanese 123rd Regiment, which had retreated from Baishui Street, was stationed here. These Japanese soldiers had been bombed by the Special Brigade's rockets in Baishui Street a few days ago.

This time, they were able to withstand it even though they were being targeted by the newly formed Heavy Artillery Regiment 1 of the Second War Zone.

Regiment Commander Koshi Shota commanded his subordinate Yoshiki Shiina Battalion to hold on to the dangerous terrain. Behind their current defense line was not far from Panjia, and further past was Nantianpu, where the division headquarters was located.

The Japanese 123rd Regiment had retreated from Baishui Street again and again. This time, they dared not retreat any further, they had nowhere to retreat!

The Japanese soldiers, who were determined to defend to the death, made it very difficult for the attacking Nationalist army teams to fight. As long as the Japanese soldiers did not die, the position could not be taken down.

Even if the position was taken down, the Japanese soldiers would quickly use the pig突 (zhū tū) charge tactics and rush up again, retaking the position.

This situation did not only happen at the Beixijie position, the fight over Leiminggu Peak was also like this.

The 305th Regiment of the Sixth Reserve Division of the Nationalist army, which had just captured Zhanggushan today, only repelled one tentative attack by the Japanese army, and the Japanese army gave up.

Regiment Commander Tang Shenghai had been urging the entire regiment to step up the construction of fortifications, preparing to meet the Japanese army's counterattack. The position of Zhanggushan determined that the Japanese army would not give up easily.

The 305th Regiment put a battalion of nearly 500 people on the front of the mountain to defend it, and the rest of the team was lurking behind the mountain.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese artillery bombardment began. At first, only a few sporadic shells landed and exploded on Zhanggushan.

After a few minutes, a few more shells flew over. These were all large-caliber shells, and the Japanese army was testing the firing parameters.

After several rounds of shell testing were completed, dense artillery bombardment continuously fell on this mountain. Not only that.

The Japanese bombers also came over, and they bombed from west to east, all the way along Zhanggushan, Dunshangguo, Biandanshan, Dajinshan, and Xiaojinshan.

This forced the 305th Regiment of the Sixth Reserve Division of the Nationalist army, which had already been unable to withstand the bombardment of the Japanese large-caliber shells, to evacuate the position.

When they evacuated, the entire regiment had suffered more than half the casualties, which was more than the casualties they had suffered when they rushed to attack Zhanggushan in the morning.

The Japanese army's bombardment of Zhanggushan never stopped, and after another hour, their artillery bombardment finally stopped.

The Nationalist army 305th Regiment immediately rushed to Zhanggushan, they wanted to take advantage of the fact that there were no Japanese soldiers on the top of the mountain to retake the position again.

The Japanese army was also thinking the same way, Regiment Commander Yoshio Sonoda personally led the supervision team to supervise the Onizuka Yoshijun Battalion.

Battalion Commander Yoshijun Onizuka led the last four hundred Japanese soldiers to launch a charge. They had now been given a strict order: capture Zhanggushan alive or die on Zhanggushan.

If they could not capture Zhanggushan and could not die on Zhanggushan, Regiment Commander Yoshio Sonoda was already prepared here and could execute battlefield discipline at any time.

The first company of the Onizuka Yoshijun Battalion had all died in the previous battle, and now the vanguard was the second company led by Koda Jiro. The vanguard was the squad of Ishida Ryosuke.

Squad Leader Ryosuke Ishida threw the rations that had just been distributed into his mouth and looked at Regiment Commander Yoshio Sonoda, who was supervising the battle in the distance, with a gloomy look.

He did not want to charge now, he wanted to survive. Squad Leader Ryosuke Ishida had been the fourth squad leader in his squad since entering the Wanjiaping Mountains.

The previous three squad leaders had all been sniped by small groups of Nationalist troops while scouting the way. As a squad leader, of course he needed to direct the team.

This gave those Nationalist sharpshooters who were quietly lurking in the jungle a guide. They said that they would first snipe the squad leader, and then fire at the rest of the Japanese soldiers.

After fighting like this for a while, when the Japanese soldiers reacted and organized a counterattack, these Nationalist troops would immediately disappear into the mountains.

The previous three squad leaders of Ryosuke Ishida had all died like this, and the entire squad had been reduced from forty-seven Japanese soldiers when they entered the mountain to thirty-three Japanese soldiers now.

He, as a squad leader, was still forced by Company Commander Koda Jiro to become the squad leader. Before becoming a squad leader, Ryosuke Ishida was still a corporal. He was just a reservist before, and only officially enlisted when the 106th Division was formed.

Despite this, he now had to lead more than thirty Japanese soldiers and charge to the front. In the eyes of Squad Leader Ryosuke Ishida, this was ordering him to die.

However, he was unable to resist, which made him very unhappy. The same was true for the Japanese soldiers in his hand.

Corporal Koshikawa Yushin's mood was also very heavy. Since entering this mountain area, walking these mountain roads every day had made him exhausted.

However, he was still not full, and he had not eaten anything for the past two days. When the squad distributed the rations,

He was only given half a piece of compressed biscuit. Squad Leader Ryosuke Ishida, who was also a corporal like himself, did not dare to deduct the rations of those sergeants, and even broke off half of his compressed biscuit and kept it for himself to enjoy.

You must know that he was supposed to be the squad leader yesterday, but he only transferred the squad leader out of sympathy.

He did not expect that Squad Leader Ryosuke Ishida would not only not remember his act of concession, but would actually repay kindness with hatred today and deducted his rations.

He had not eaten anything for two days, and a piece of compressed biscuit was a life. He broke off half of it, which was taking away half of his life.

Corporal Koshikawa Yushin looked at the Japanese soldiers on the left and right who had been broken off half a piece of compressed biscuit like him. They were also full of anger, but they did not dare to speak out.

They all silently chewed the few half-pieces of biscuits with clear water, and reality made Corporal Koshikawa Yushin sober: the current Ryosuke Ishida was no longer the corporal of yesterday, he was the captain of more than thirty Japanese soldiers in his squad.

If he angered him, he would be shot to death, and not a single Japanese soldier would stand up for him. With this thought, Corporal Koshikawa Yushin could only swallow all the hatred with the compressed biscuit and slowly taste their taste: it was a bit bitter!

Although Battalion Commander Yoshijun Onizuka did not know the true thoughts of the Japanese soldiers under his command, he also knew that the Japanese soldiers under his command did not want to fight anymore, they needed to rest.

If possible, Battalion Commander Yoshijun Onizuka did not want to fight under such circumstances, but he had no choice, and the entire 106th Division had no choice now.

The Japanese soldiers of Squad Leader Ryosuke Ishida were not in high spirits, and the speed of this charge could not be increased.

Although Battalion Commander Yoshijun Onizuka kept urging them, the speed of the entire battalion's advance still did not increase.

When the foremost Yushin Koshikawa Squad rushed to Zhanggushan, the Nationalist army's 305th Regiment had already appeared on the top of the mountain.

Neither side expected that their positions were different, but their thoughts were the same. They were all taking advantage of the artillery bombardment to come and seize the mountain.

Of course, there was only a fight when they met on a narrow road! At such a close distance, the two sides swarmed up and saw blood with their bayonets.

This was the second bayonet fight between the 305th Regiment and the Onizuka Yoshijun Battalion today. The first bayonet fight in the morning ended with the Japanese army retreating.

This time, Battalion Commander Yoshijun Onizuka was clear: they had no retreat. Regiment Commander Yoshio Sonoda was watching them with the supervision team.

If he took the First Battalion to retreat again now, he did not know whether the rest of the Japanese soldiers would be executed for military law.

However, he knew that he, the battalion commander who gave the order to retreat, would definitely be executed for military law. He was going to die anyway, and Battalion Commander Yoshijun Onizuka would certainly not give the order to retreat again.

Battalion Commander Yoshijun Onizuka pulled out his command knife, pointed it at the soldiers of the 305th Regiment, and shouted loudly, "Kill!"

When the bayonet fight had just begun, Company Commander Koda Jiro was still expecting the battalion commander to order a retreat again. Now that he heard the battalion commander order an attack, he could only force a smile and urge the less than one hundred Japanese soldiers in his entire company to charge up.

Squad Leader Ryosuke Ishida shouted loudly, "Attack! Attack!" He was a squad leader, and now it was time for him to take the lead in charging, to give an example and demonstration to the more than thirty Japanese soldiers in his entire squad.

Let them follow him and charge up.

Yushin Koshikawa watched Squad Leader Ryosuke Ishida rush to the front and meet the Nationalist soldiers on the opposite side. He had just parried a spear stabbed by a Nationalist soldier in front of him, and another knife stabbed diagonally by another Nationalist soldier directly into his waist.

There were too many things that Squad Leader Ryosuke Ishida had not expected: first, he did not expect that he would rush to the front, and not a single Japanese soldier in the entire squad would follow.

Secondly, he did not expect that these Nationalist soldiers were so cunning and did not have any martial ethics. There were still people who attacked him when they were fighting with bayonets.

Finally, what he did not expect was that: it really hurt to be stabbed! This squad leader was really not easy to be. He had only been one for a day, and he had only eaten a few more compressed biscuits, and he had already gotten his reward so quickly.

"I really regret it!" Squad Leader Ryosuke Ishida made his last voice, and the command knife in his hand also fell weakly to the ground.

He was soon stabbed a few more times, and there were several blood holes all over his body, spraying blood outwards, and he obviously could not live.

Watching Squad Leader Ryosuke Ishida die in front of his eyes, Corporal Koshikawa Yushin finally had a feeling of great revenge being avenged.

He could clearly see that all the Japanese soldiers in the entire squad had a hint of joy on their faces, and even Sergeant Shiroishi Naoki had a happy expression on his face when he saw Squad Leader Ryosuke Ishida die.

Sergeant Naoki Shiroishi had not had his compressed biscuit taken away, so why would he be like this?

Some people say that happy families in the world are similar, and unhappy families have their own misfortunes! For the Japanese soldiers of Squad Leader Ryosuke Ishida, it should be like this: there were no satisfied Japanese soldiers in the entire squad, and the dissatisfied Japanese soldiers had their own reasons.

Of course Sergeant Naoki Shiroishi was not satisfied with Squad Leader Ryosuke Ishida. Sergeant Naoki Shiroishi was the most senior Japanese soldier in the entire squad.

Those compressed biscuits that Squad Leader Ryosuke Ishida had just deducted were not actively redistributed to him. The rest of the Japanese soldiers did not have enough rations, but Squad Leader Ryosuke Ishida still had spare rations in his ration bag, how could Sergeant Naoki Shiroishi be satisfied?

Squad Leader Ryosuke Ishida was dead, and the Japanese soldiers of the entire squad no longer continued to charge forward, they turned around and ran away.

The Japanese soldiers who reacted the fastest took the road first, and the Japanese soldiers behind had nowhere to run, they were caught up by the Nationalist army and stabbed in the back, and half their lives were gone.

This situation made Company Commander Koda Jiro very embarrassed: his company was the vanguard of this attack. The battle had only just begun, and the foremost Ryosuke Ishida Squad had actually begun to flee.

Furious, Company Commander Koda Jiro pulled out his pistol and shouted, "Go back! Go back!" Verbal warnings had no effect at all on the Japanese soldiers who had already begun to collapse.

Under these circumstances, Company Commander Koda Jiro decisively, "Bang! Bang!" Two shots, killed Sergeant Naoki Shiroishi, who was the most active in escaping.

Sergeant Naoki Shiroishi looked at Company Commander Koda Jiro in disbelief: this company commander, who was the same age as his son, actually dared to shoot himself?

His body fell down at once, and the gunshots finally calmed down the more than ten Japanese soldiers left in Ryosuke Ishida's Squad who were fleeing frantically.

They turned around again under the coercion of Company Commander Koda Jiro, and once again rushed to the top of Zhanggushan Mountain. At this time, the Japanese soldiers of Company Commander Koda Jiro were already fighting inextricably with the Nationalist army's 305th Regiment.

The Fourth Company following behind Koda Company also rushed up. All the Japanese soldiers of the 147th Regiment's First Battalion had rushed up.

More than four hundred Japanese soldiers and more than a thousand soldiers of the 305th Regiment launched a fierce bayonet fight. This time, Battalion Commander Yoshio Sonoda dared not retreat any further.

He watched his Japanese soldiers die one by one, and still kept urging the Japanese soldiers around him to go up and fight desperately.

Battalion Commander Yoshio Sonoda held a gun in his right hand and a knife in his left, constantly waving his knives and guns, strictly ordering all the Japanese soldiers not to retreat under any circumstances.

He was also like this, only advancing and not retreating! The battalion commander's spirit of fighting to the death still greatly inspired the Japanese soldiers of the entire battalion.

Even Yushin Koshikawa, who had been the most active in escaping,