The entire brigade was retreating towards Luying Town.

If there were any other way, Neiji Okamura would not have allowed the 5th Infantry Brigade to break through to Luying Town.

There was no other reason, just because Luying Town had just seen two Japanese infantry regiments annihilated. That alone was enough.

Neiji Okamura was really afraid that history would repeat itself: what if the 5th Infantry Brigade was also wiped out in Luying Town?

What would become of the Empire's face?

Fortunately, he had sent an additional brigade to reinforce them. Half of the troops dispatched this time were sent to the Luying Town direction.

If they still couldn't rescue the 5th Infantry Brigade, they wouldn't even be able to hold Tanghe County.

Thinking this, Neiji Okamura couldn't even sit still. He immediately went to the sand table, staring intently at Luying Town and Xingwan.

These two places had never even appeared in his sight before. He had only had them specially marked in the last few days.

Even looking at them until his eyes saw stars, he couldn't find anything special about them.

From the radio, he heard the Nationalist army propaganda saying that the battle of Luying Town was a pre-planned scheme.

Neiji Okamura thought carefully, and it really seemed possible: the Nationalist army used the main force of the Fifth War Area to retreat in large strides.

When the three divisions he had sent out were rapidly deployed and the rear forces were weak, they sent out this elite Special Forces Brigade to attack from Xinye.

They annihilated an isolated and helpless battalion in one fell swoop, and then laid an ambush in Luying Town to trap the Ishii Kahoku Regiment, guiding the campaign step by step according to the Nationalist army's plan.

Under the current circumstances, Neiji Okamura decided to up the ante: the entire 16th Infantry Division would advance towards Luying Town.

This time, he could no longer accept any variables.

After Lieutenant General Fujie Keisuke, commander of the Japanese 16th Infantry Division, received the latest order from Neiji Okamura, he felt that it was a bit of an overreaction.

Even when facing the 100,000 elite troops of the Fifth War Area, the 16th Infantry Division only needed one brigade to complete the task.

There was already the Katayama Riichiro Brigade in Xingwan, plus the Kawakawa Taro Brigade that he had sent out, totaling a full infantry division.

Now he was going to add another infantry brigade. Was Commander Okamura so frightened by the Nationalist army?

"How many days can they hold on?"

Zhao Liangong said, "The Japanese can hold on for at least two or three days! The Japanese reinforcements from Tanghe can reach Luying Town in two days."

"They won't be that fast this time," Lin Fan said with a smile.

"Why?"

"Because I won't allow them to come so quickly," Lin Fan said.

That was said with great confidence.

Lin Fan added, "This time our bombers, ground attack aircraft, and fighters will be bombing and intercepting all the way from Tanghe to Xingwan.

It will be very difficult for the Japanese main force to march. If they want to come and rescue the Japanese here, they will have to pay a sufficient price."

Zhao Liangong thought for a moment and said, "We can also block them directly here. Infantry, combined with artillery and the air squadron, can stop the Japanese."

Lin Fan looked at him for a long time before saying, "You don't want to let these Japanese go and let the brothers of the 59th Army fight them, do you?"

Zhao Liangong didn't speak.

Lin Fan said, "Fighting the Japanese! It's definitely not enough for just our Special Forces Brigade.

The 59th Army was originally a capable fighting force. We help them out and let them win a few more major victories.

The morale of this team, from top to bottom, will rise. In the future, when fighting the Japanese, whether we cooperate or not.

They can stand alone. The more and stronger the teams that fight the Japanese, the faster we can defeat them.

As for the 59th Army taking these battle merits to get something, it is also for the sake of resisting Japan.

They need to gain the approval of Chairman Chiang Kai-shek so that they can get more troops and equipment to replenish their ranks.

We are different. Our battle merits are recognized by the people in the base areas, and it is enough for us to recognize them ourselves.

The people in the base areas know what we have done, they trust us, and we also have our own supply lines.

So we don't need to do this kind of thing of currying favor and asking for rewards in front of a certain Chiang."

Lin Fan knew that Regiment Commander Zhao just didn't want the 59th Army to pick soft persimmons again. He felt that the three regiments of the Special Forces Brigade here could also annihilate the Katayama Riichiro Brigade.

Now it was good, the Special Forces Brigade fought the most difficult battles, and sent the defeated Japanese soldiers to the 59th Army to claim credit.

That was indeed the situation now, the 6th and 7th Regiments were like sending off the Japanese.

They "escorted" them all the way across the Baihe River, and on the other side of the river was the ambush circle set up by the 59th Army.

Zhang Zizhong, who had just returned to Maeda Village, did not return to the headquarters. He took a prepared artillery regiment and rushed to Xingwan.

He had received a report in Chongqing: the Special Forces Brigade had seized all the cannons and supplies of the Japanese 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, and asked him to send someone to pick them up.

Send someone?

Zhang Zizhong wanted to go in person. He wanted to be the first to see these cannons.

At this time, some fast-running Japanese had crossed the Baihe River and entered Pingluo Village.

However, the ambush troops of the 59th Army had not yet taken action. They were waiting.

The Japanese entered Pingluo. This time they learned a lesson and immediately began to build fortifications.

More and more Japanese arrived. When Brigade Commander Katayama Riichiro also arrived at Pingluo Village.

Seeing the busy Nakajima Mitsugi Regimental Commander personally supervising the work, he was overjoyed and praised, "Yoshi! Nakajima-kun, you've done a great job!"

Pingluo Village, the 4th Cavalry Brigade had been stationed here a few days ago, and there had been fierce fighting.

Traces of the battle were everywhere. When Honda Ichiro and Fujito Yuki went to a well to fetch water.

They smelled a rotten smell in the well, and at the same time, they faintly heard the shouts of the Japanese.

When they leaned over to look inside.

Suddenly, they heard a Japanese soldier shout from below: "Help! Save me!"

Honda Ichiro was taken aback and dropped the bucket in his hand.

They heard a scream of "Ouch!" from below.

Then came another sentence: "Baga! I am Ono Shiji, the squad leader of the 4th Cavalry Brigade. Which unit are you from?"

Honda Ichiro quickly replied: "Honda Ichiro, Sergeant of the 3rd Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Division."

"You! Pull me up quickly!" Squad Leader Ono Shiji had been in the well for three days.

At first, there were three Japanese soldiers in the well: Squad Leader Ono Shiji, and two soldiers, Nakajima Issei and Takenaka Naoki.

On the first day, the three stubborn Japanese soldiers were still struggling in the well, trying to climb up.

After much effort, they still couldn't climb out of the slippery well wall.

The three Japanese soldiers were soaked in the well water, cold and hungry, and couldn't hold on any longer.

If they didn't find something to eat, all three Japanese soldiers would die.

They were in a hurry when they fled for their lives and didn't bring anything.

The three Japanese soldiers in the well looked at each other, and from time to time small fish hit their feet in the well.

But these fish were very cunning, and the three unarmed Japanese soldiers couldn't catch them at all.

They spent more than an hour busy in the well, and didn't catch anything except being tired.

But they were even hungrier.

Squad Leader Ono Shiji was so hungry that he was dizzy:

What to do?

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