With the escape of the two Japs, Takuya Yamaguchi and Yuto Yamada, the already precarious defense line immediately collapsed.

Captain Ren Utsunomiya roared loudly, but he couldn't stop the fleeing soldiers.

The defense line, which had only been temporarily established, was now devoid of soldiers.

Captain Ren Utsunomiya also retreated behind the fleeing Japs.

His company was only one of the units deployed on the defense line of Hutianhuang Village by the Third Battalion.

The entire Third Battalion's defense line was retreating, which infuriated Captain Shichiro Fujimoto and enraged Regiment Commander Kaho Ishii.

He had just announced to all the Japs that reinforcements, a cavalry regiment, would arrive soon.

His aim was to make his soldiers fight desperately, but he didn't expect them to understand his good intentions.

Captain Ren Utsunomiya's company still had to continue deploying defenses, and there wasn't much time to waste on these two Japs.

Seeing that neither of the two Japs was drawing lots, Captain Ren Utsunomiya directly assigned the lots, and Sergeant Takuya Yamaguchi drew the death lot.

After shooting him dead, Captain Ren Utsunomiya said to the remaining less than one hundred Japs in the entire company, "This is the fate of deserters. Anyone who deserts will be shot on the spot!"

Yuto Yamada, who had just escaped death, knelt on the ground with a thud. He was really scared.

When Captain Ren Utsunomiya's company faced the Sixth Regiment's attack again, the Japs were still afraid.

However, no one dared to run away this time. Captain Ren Utsunomiya sent three Japs to act as a rearguard.

These few Japs guarded behind the defense line with their guns pointed at the Japs fighting on the front line. Their mission was to kill deserters.

The situation faced by Fushouchuan Brigade of the Fourth Battalion of the 18th Infantry Regiment was not much better than that of Captain Shichiro Fujimoto.

Just at this moment, the Special Operations Brigade's ground attack aircraft arrived.

Twelve ground attack aircraft immediately joined the battle upon arrival, fiercely strafing the Jap defense line on the ground.

Captain Bunsai Toyokawa led twelve ground attack aircraft, swooping down and strafing along the three regiments' lines of attack.

The Jap regiment had marched all the way from Nanyang to Luying Town, and had no time or opportunity to build fortifications.

The defense line they had organized based on the terrain could still have some effect when resisting infantry charges.

At least it could reduce some casualties, but such a simple defense line of theirs was simply non-existent in the eyes of the pilots in the air.

Toyokawa Bunsai flew the plane, firing all four machine guns at the same time, slowly strafing along the Third Battalion's defense line.

This made the Third Battalion, which was already struggling to resist infantry charges, even worse. Yuto Yamada watched as the Japs beside him were torn apart by machine guns.

He was so frightened that he threw away his gun again. At this moment, he had forgotten about the near brush with military law after his escape.

Yuto Yamada's eyes and heart were filled with the tattered corpse beside him. This corpse filled his heart with endless fear.

So much so that Yuto Yamada forgot about military law. When he stood up and ran backwards.

The three rearguard members, Ikkai Watanabe, Shisaburo Takahashi, and Daiki Kobayashi, who had been focusing on him for a long time, did not question or scold him.

The three of them fired at the same time, and Yuto Yamada, who had just turned around and ran two steps, finally fell on the road of escape.

This made Captain Ren Utsunomiya regret for a moment: he should have killed Yamada and left Yamaguchi behind just now.

Soon Captain Ren Utsunomiya couldn't care about these things anymore. After his company was strafed by the aircraft.

The Special Operations Brigade soldiers charging from the opposite side had already rushed up, and hundreds of Special Operations Brigade soldiers rushed into the defense line.

They engaged in a bayonet fight with the remaining forty or so Japs in Ren Utsunomiya's company, and dozens of Japs were immediately submerged in the charging army.

The three rearguard Japs, Ikkai Watanabe, Shisaburo Takahashi, and Daiki Kobayashi, watched as the defense line had been occupied by the charging soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade.

The three Japs turned around and ran without hesitation. What rearguard? What military law?

Those were all for the other Japs. The three of them didn't care about that.

Zhang Zizhong successfully led the 59th Army across the river, and they also saw the aircraft in the air.

Watching those aircraft fly low and strafe, from the left side of Luying Town all the way to the right side.

Turning back and continuing to strafe, it was really enviable to have aircraft providing cover for combat.

The hastily established defense line of the 59th Army was occasionally approached by a few fleeing Japs.

The reconnaissance team sent out by Zhang Zizhong soon returned with news that the Japs had been intercepted by the Special Operations Brigade in Luguan Town and had been defeated.

Just as Captain Shichiro Fujimoto was leading his troops to retreat completely back to Luying Town, the Fourth Battalion also retreated completely.

The entire Regiment Commander Kaho Ishii's regiment was entrenched in Luying Town.

Regiment Commander Kaho Ishii watched as the two battalion commanders led the remnants back, and looked at the time. It was almost an hour.

The 3rd Cavalry Regiment should be arriving at Luguan Town soon, launching an attack on the Special Operations Brigade's troops from behind.

This was the last chance for the entire infantry regiment. Just at this moment, the troops that had been attacking bravely suddenly stopped.

They established a defense line on the spot, not allowing the Japs to break through, nor continuing to attack. They were just in a stalemate.

Originally, Lin Fan learned from Zhu Qingmao's report, who was directing the battle again, that a Jap cavalry regiment was advancing towards Luying Town and was about to arrive at Hutianhuang Village.

Twenty miles away from Luying, there was also a force of five to six thousand Japs marching towards Luying.

Lin Fan immediately changed his plan: he would no longer completely annihilate the 18th Infantry Regiment, which had been crippled and surrounded in Luying Town.

He was going to fight another battle of "besiege the city and strike the reinforcements" here.

Although the tactic of "besiege the city and strike the reinforcements" was a bit old-fashioned, it was effective as long as it worked.

Luying Town surrounded the Jap 18th Infantry Regiment, and he believed that their regiment commander was also inside. As long as the Japs didn't want to see their entire regiment being annihilated, they would definitely send reinforcements.

While Lin Fan sent someone to deliver the new combat plan to the 59th Army, he ordered the 7th Regiment to take over the 6th Regiment's defense line.

He would let the 6th Regiment, in cooperation with the ground attack aircraft, set up a trap for the Jap cavalry regiment.

This trap was adapted to local conditions, right between Luying Town and Hutianhuang Village, allowing the Jap cavalry regiment to penetrate deep into it.

The 6th Regiment would cut off the Japs' retreat, annihilating them all on the outskirts of Luying Town.

The plan was made on the spur of the moment and immediately transmitted to each company via wireless communication.

If the Special Operations Brigade didn't have such a convenient communication system, Lin Fan's plan wouldn't have reached the company commanders before the Jap cavalry entered the village.

Time was tight, and each company of the 6th Regiment simply opened up the main road and hid, temporarily burying some directional mines on the battlefield where the smoke of gunpowder had not yet dissipated.

When Taro Hoshikami, the commander of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, set out, he had planned that for the first fifteen miles, the entire regiment would control the speed of the horses.

Only in the last few miles would the horses begin to accelerate.

When they saw the smoke rising ahead, they began to slowly accelerate.

Hoshikami Taro didn't care about the aircraft passing overhead. To him, these were not important.

Hoshikami Taro, who had not yet suffered losses at the hands of the Special Operations Brigade, did not know that the Special Operations Brigade was professional when it came to dealing with cavalry.

At this time, Regiment Commander Hoshikami Taro had already seen the defense line of the Special Operations Brigade soldiers ahead, and further away there was another defense line facing inward.

He could tell at a glance that the 18th Infantry Regiment had been completely suppressed in Luying Town.

If he hadn't led his troops to arrive in time, the lifespan of the 18th Infantry Regiment would have been counting down.

However, these National Revolutionary Army troops on the opposite side were too unprofessional. The distance between the inner and outer defense lines was less than two hundred meters.

As long as they broke through the first defense line, was the second defense line still far away?

This was not just the idea of Regiment Commander Hoshikami Taro. All seven hundred Japs in his regiment thought so.

Captain Yuyoshi Hiramatsu swung his saber in a circle, pointed at the Special Operations Brigade's defense line, and roared, "Kill!"

The Japs, such as Yugawa Kudo and Ju Saburo Akanishi, saw the situation ahead and believed that they had encountered a troop that didn't know how to fight.

There were no obstacles set up in front of the Special Operations Brigade's defense line. Such terrain was too convenient for the horses to run, and too convenient for the cavalry to charge.

The Japs of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment began to shout five hundred meters away. They howled and spurred their horses forward.

Just at this moment, two ground attack aircraft swooped down and began to strafe the charging Japs.

The crossfire formed by eight machine guns sent the cavalry regiment, which was so excited that it was about to take off, straight to hell.

After the machine gun strafing, eight blank areas appeared in the middle of the charging cavalry regiment's formation.

All the Jap cavalry in these areas were knocked to the ground.

The remaining Japs, still in shock, heard the "rumbling" of explosions.

Daisuke Ikuta had just been rejoicing that he was lucky enough to avoid the aircraft strafing.

Next, he was startled by the huge explosion of the directional mine, and he didn't know how many iron pellets he had received.

Regiment Commander Hoshikami Taro waved his command saber and encouraged loudly. After those two rounds of attacks, only two hundred Japs were left in the regiment.

Looking at the defense line that was close at hand, Regiment Commander Hoshikami Taro believed that even if there were only fifty cavalry left, they could break through the two defense lines in front of them.

Now he was already an arrow on the string, and he had no choice but to fire!

The 3rd Cavalry Regiment had suffered two-thirds casualties. If they didn't continue to charge, they would suffer even more losses when retreating, so it was better to break through the two defense lines in front of them.

Just as he was thinking this, the heavy machine guns on the front defense line rang out, the machine guns also rang out, and even more submachine guns rang out.

So many weapons only fired at this time, obviously to catch the Japs off guard.

The Japs of the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, who had already charged to within two hundred meters of the defense line, were caught off guard and were shot down one after another by the dense rain of bullets.

Regiment Commander Hoshikami Taro looked at the fallen Japs in front of him. It was as if they had encountered a line that could not be crossed.

All the Japs fell outside the line, and he was no exception!

Although the cavalry's charging speed was fast, it could not compare to the speed of bullets.

The 3rd Cavalry Regiment was completely annihilated.