Looking at the other two Japanese soldiers busying about, Second Lieutenant Ono showed a smile as if he were looking at the most delicious food.

Weren't these two born to be rations?

Thinking this, he immediately ordered the two soldiers to dive down and try again.

This time, when both soldiers were underwater, Second Lieutenant Ono quietly changed his position, standing behind them.

As they struggled to the surface for air, he reached out with lightning speed, accurately clamping down on the napes of Nakajima Issei and Takenaka Naoki.

He desperately held them down, preventing them from surfacing.

With their necks pinned, Nakajima Issei and Takenaka Naoki couldn't fight back.

They struggled desperately to rise, but found no purchase.

Reaching behind them, they tried to pry open the hands clamped on their necks, but they were too weak.

They lasted less than half a minute before they could no longer hold their breath, and began to gulp water.

When they stopped struggling, the corpses of the two soldiers sank to the bottom of the well.

Only then did Second Lieutenant Ono grab Nakajima Issei by the collar, drag him out of the water, tear open his clothes, and bite into him.

After he had eaten his fill, Second Lieutenant Ono, fearing Nakajima Issei's body would sink to the bottom, tied it to his belt.

In the water, only a tiny amount of force was needed to keep the corpse afloat.

Second Lieutenant Ono barely felt a thing, and was very satisfied to be able to keep his food by his side.

He persevered like this for two days until today, when he heard the voices of Japanese soldiers above the well.

He was immediately excited and shouted loudly, finally attracting the attention of Honda Juichiro and Fujikawa Yuki.

The two soldiers lowered a rope, and this time Ono first tied Nakajima Issei's corpse to it and had them haul it up.

He then dove back down and retrieved Takenaka Naoki's body, having the two soldiers pull it up.

By this time, a crowd of Japanese soldiers had gathered around the well.

When Regiment Commander Takeda Seiichi heard the report that there was a platoon leader from the cavalry brigade in the well, he was too surprised to speak. He personally ran to the well, wanting to see this lucky soldier at the first opportunity.

He also wanted to find out how the cavalry brigade had been wiped out.

Second Lieutenant Ono did not come up first, sending up the corpses first.

This immediately earned the respect of the dozens of Japanese soldiers present: "This is a true Imperial warrior, respect for the dead comes first.

Trapped in the well for four days, he still thought of sending up the corpses first."

Regiment Commander Takeda Seiichi said loudly: "Yoshi! Ono-kun! A paragon of an Imperial warrior!"

When Nakajima Issei's corpse was pulled up, the bite marks on his body and hands were clearly visible.

All the Japanese soldiers fell silent.

They could tell that the bite marks on the corpse were probably from Ono having eaten it.

Even though these soldiers had been engaged in burning, killing, and looting all along the way, they had never done anything like eating the corpses of their comrades.

All the Japanese soldiers were silent.

At this moment, the second corpse was pulled up.

This corpse was intact, and all the Japanese soldiers felt a little relieved.

Second Lieutenant Ono was the last to come up.

He looked at the bite marks on Nakajima Issei's corpse and said, "There are big rats in the well, very big rats."

Regiment Commander Takeda Seiichi looked at Second Lieutenant Ono shivering from the cold and ordered, "Give him a fire!

Dispose of the corpses."

While Honda Juichiro and Fujikawa Yuki were disposing of the corpses with several other soldiers, they clearly saw the bruises of five fingers on the back of each corpse's neck.

Fujikawa Yuki whispered: "They were both drowned by having their necks held."

Combined with the bite marks on Nakajima Issei's corpse, several soldiers shuddered: Ono-taicho is so ruthless.

The conversation with Second Lieutenant Ono greatly disappointed Regiment Commander Takeda Seiichi: this survivor of the 4th Cavalry Brigade knew nothing.

He had only been awakened from his sleep and jumped into the well without even putting on his clothes.

He waved his hand, telling them to take this cannibalistic soldier away.

Takeda Seiichi, commander of the artillery regiment, finally had more than two hundred Japanese soldiers available to him.

These soldiers were from the field artillery regiment. They had been scattered by ground attack aircraft and fled in all directions, eventually following the crowd towards Pingluo.

Regiment Commander Takeda Seiichi gathered them along the way, and finally collected this number.

Regiment Commander Nakajima Mitsugu of the engineers was in a similar situation, and his soldiers were working hard to build fortifications.

However, this time the team they were cooperating with was no longer the artillery, but the 1st Battalion of the 6th Infantry Regiment.

Captain Yada Taro had gathered the routed soldiers of various regiments along the way, which had expanded his original force of just over three hundred Japanese soldiers to nearly a thousand.

Now these nearly a thousand Japanese soldiers were all sent to guard the west bank of the Bai River, and there were still many Japanese soldiers wading across the river.

The sound of gunfire in the distance continued.

When Zhang Zizhong found Lin Fan with a regimental force, he first thanked him for sending a plane to take him to Chongqing.

Lin Fan said with a smile: "We are all fighting the war of resistance, it's just my duty!"

He led Zhang Zizhong to where the cannons were placed. Zhang Zizhong looked at the huge muzzle of the 150mm howitzer, and was too excited to speak for a long time.

After a while, he ordered Regiment Commander Lü who was standing beside him in a daze: "Regiment Commander Lü! Receive the equipment! Prepare yourselves, I want you to join the battle immediately."

Lin Fan was very satisfied with his decisive style: "The remnants of the Japanese army have retreated to Pingluo Village.

These cannons will come in handy."

Zhang Zizhong looked at the corpses of Japanese soldiers and the weapons they had abandoned everywhere, and asked, "Has the Japanese 5th Brigade been routed?"

"Not completely routed yet! Although they abandoned a large amount of weapons and equipment, and all their supplies as well, they still have seven or eight thousand Japanese soldiers, and they still have a lot of weapons and ammunition with them.

But they have no food supplies, and there won't be any in Pingluo, nor in Luying Town!

Without food, these Japanese soldiers will completely collapse in a few days," Lin Fan said.

Zhang Zizhong immediately understood: "Lin-xiong means to trap them for a few days?"

"Yes! Trap them for a few days, not letting them rest! So that these Japanese soldiers are either fleeing or on the way to flee.

They will soon completely lose their ability to resist. This time, there are not only two regimental commanders in the Japanese army, but also Lieutenant General Katayama Riichiro, the brigade commander of the 5th Brigade.

If you can send him to Chongqing, I believe Chairman Chiang will definitely look at you in a different light."

"No matter how differently he looks at us, we are neither part of the Central Army nor Huangpu graduates!" Zhang Zizhong sighed.

"The Chairman still values teams that can fight. The National Army still needs a few anchors on the main battlefields after all," Lin Fan said.

Zhang Zizhong certainly knew this.

He thought for a while and asked, "Should we still surround them on three sides and leave one open? Let the Japanese soldiers go to Luying Town?"

"Yes! There are complete defense lines around Luying Town, which also makes it easier to trap them to death," Lin Fan said affirmatively.

"When will we drive them away?" Zhang Zizhong asked.

"Tonight, let the brothers rest during the day and prepare themselves.

The Japanese will definitely build fortifications with all their might during the day, preparing to meet the next attack.

We will simply not move, and when the Japanese soldiers who have been busy all day want to rest at night, we will bombard them!

Drive them to Luying Town.

When the bombardment begins, the artillery of the Special Operations Brigade will also join in, striving to put the greatest pressure on the Japanese army."

"Good!"

"Two hours after the bombardment, our army will press towards the Japanese army along the Bai River, driving them away.

The ones who will continue to drive them away are the brothers of the 59th Army," Lin Fan continued.

"The 59th Army will definitely complete the mission!"

"The Japanese army has sent a division of more than 20,000 soldiers from Tanghe. Next, the Special Operations Brigade will carry out successive ambushes against the Japanese army!

For five days, the 59th Army has five days to trap the Japanese 5th Brigade and wipe it out completely.

The annihilation of the Japanese 5th Brigade cannot be too early, if it is too early, the Japanese army from Tanghe will not come over."

"You still want to continue to besiege the stronghold and strike at the reinforcements?" Zhang Zizhong originally thought that Lin Fan's saying that he would ambush a Japanese division was because he couldn't beat them.

Now, listening to Lin Fan's words, this was actually another trap.

"After I have dragged down and exhausted this Japanese division behind them, I will still hand it over to Commander Zhang.

This time, the Japanese army has invested a total of three divisions and one cavalry brigade in the Zaoyang and Nanyang battlefields.

The cavalry brigade is already gone, so let's not mention it.

We must leave these three infantry divisions here no matter what, at the very least we must give them a lesson:

So that they will not dare to take the initiative to attack next time."

Zhang Zizhong was so excited that he immediately said: "The 59th Army will fully cooperate, I am your gun, wherever Brother Lin points, we will charge!"

Lin Fan said with a smile: "The shells that the Japanese army sent over may not be enough after this battle.

But I have already ordered Jurong to send a batch of large-caliber shells over, and I will send them to Regiment Commander Lü in a while.

No matter what, we must fire the cannons if we have them!"