Song Minzhi was very happy. His division had suddenly launched a full-scale attack on the Lotus Leaf Mountain positions defended by the 33rd Regiment of the Special Operations Brigade at 5:30 p.m. that day.

The entire battle lasted only half an hour before the entire Lotus Leaf Mountain was captured. He left a regiment to guard the area.

He ordered the remaining troops to march towards Guangde overnight. In the reconnaissance carried out in the previous days, Song Minzhi had clearly learned that the Special Operations Brigade had a very low level of vigilance against the Nationalist army.

Although they also stationed a regiment on the border and built fortifications, there was no second line of defense behind this line.

Song Minzhi's division was acting as the vanguard in a rapid march, with the follow-up troops of the 23rd Army setting out from Ningguo behind them.

Li Pin, the overall commander of this operation, was hosting a banquet at this time, and he was very satisfied with the results of the military operation that began at 5:30 p.m. that day.

The sudden attack created two gaps in the defense line of the Jurong base, and now there were troops from two armies marching into it from each of the gaps.

He had ordered his troops to attack Anji and Guangde overnight, and to capture these two places at all costs.

In particular, Guangde Airport was the most important target they had to seize.

After receiving the order to attack Jurong, Li Pin had been thinking about when and how to launch the attack.

It would be a lie to say that he wasn't afraid of the air squadron in the hands of the Special Operations Brigade, which could cross the ocean and bomb the Japanese mainland.

It was precisely because of his fear of the Special Operations Brigade's air squadron that Li Pin and his staff specifically chose 5:30 p.m. as the time to attack.

The only purpose was that at 5:30 p.m., when the sky was dim, it would be dark within half an hour of their attack.

The Special Operations Brigade's air superiority would not be able to be brought into play. Both Guangde and East Tianmu Mountain were terrains with high mountains and dense forests.

At night, even if the Special Operations Brigade's planes took off, they would not be able to find targets. This was Li Pin's idea, and Song Zhi was thinking the same way.

The commander of the squadron stationed in Guangde, Guan Guohao, used to be with the Fifth War Area. Several of the squadron leaders in the entire flying squadron were from the Fifth War Area.

After Lin Fan captured the Japanese planes here, he specifically asked the Fifth War Area for pilots. With the development of the Special Operations Brigade's flying squadron, all of these people became the backbone of the Special Operations Brigade's air squadron.

When Guan Guohao received the news that the Nationalist army was attacking the base from two directions, his mind exploded.

He immediately wanted to take the entire squadron off, even though the sky was a bit dim and the visible distance was already very low.

But he still wanted to take the air squadron off. He believed that the 23rd Army of the Nationalist army, which attacked Jurong this time, not only did not fight the Japanese together when the Japanese army was pressing down on the border, but instead stabbed them in the back. Such people were traitors to the nation, they were Hanjians!

Guan Guohao had heard Lin Fan say this more than once: Lin Fan believed that the main task at the moment was to fight the Japanese, and everything else could be put aside.

Once the Japanese were driven away, everyone could sit down and talk slowly. Even as a member of the Nationalist army, Guan Guohao did not agree with Li Pin's move at this time.

However, Guan Guohao's request to take off was not approved. This was the first time since he joined the Special Operations Brigade.

This person stood up, looked around, and didn't say anything. From his expression, it could be seen that he felt that some things were not appropriate to say here.

Lin Fan sneered, "If you dare to do it, why don't you dare to say it? The Special Operations Brigade doesn't engage in sneaky activities."

Provoked by Lin Fan, this person immediately said, "Squadron Leader Guan came from the Fifth War Area. What if they take the planes and surrender to the Nationalist army?"

These words silenced the entire command operations room. In fact, many people understood in their hearts that the excuses about it being dark and the planes being in danger were all just excuses.

Guan Guohao had led his team across the ocean on long expeditions after dark several times without any problems, and the Special Operations Brigade's air squadron also had special night flight training, so there was no problem in carrying out night missions.

Lin Fan asked, "Who gave you this order?"

"This is what I thought of myself, there was no order!" Zhou Jun was the head of the airport security section, and he looked very firm when he said this.

Lin Fan ordered, "Remove Zhou Jun from his position as head of the security section, take him into custody, and immediately investigate who gave him this order.

Focus on investigating today's telegrams and phone calls, we must find out who this order came from!"

After Zhou Jun was taken away, Lin Fan said to everyone present, "A counter-espionage tactic! The enemy wants us to suspect our comrades.

Our team is a team that fights the Japanese, and all teams that fight the Japanese are our friends and comrades.

Even if Squadron Leader Guan and the others really came from the Fifth War Area, then the entire Special Operations Brigade was originally the Special Operations Brigade under the Fifth War Area.

Our predecessor, the Special Operations Company, was also a company under the 88th Army. Who among us is not part of the Nationalist army?

We cannot push all of the Nationalist army to the enemy's side just because Li Pin led the attack on us.

Whether someone is a friend or foe is not something you can come up with by thinking, it is something you can see on the battlefield.

Now I order: Guan Guohao, set off immediately, no matter what method you use, block the three highways between Ningguo and Guangde into three sections.

I only have two requirements: First, do not allow the Nationalist army from Lotus Leaf Mountain to approach Guangde, and second, do not allow the Nationalist army from Ningguo to approach Lotus Leaf Mountain."

"The enemies at East Tianmu Mountain will be blocked by Squadron Leader Pan Yongshan from Jurong Airport. Squadron Leader Guan, set off immediately!"

All of the pilots in the entire air squadron heard Lin Fan's speech. Squadron Leader Guan Guohao was in high spirits when he heard Lin Fan's order.

He immediately led the air squadron to set off.

Li Pin never expected that his plan, which was so perfect, would still not be able to be completed.

The first step of the plan had been successful, and the second step was to order the 23rd Army to immediately march from Ningguo to Guangde overnight.

It was this second step of the march that encountered resistance. This resistance came from the Guangde Air Squadron, which he feared the most.

The Special Operations Brigade's planes dropped large flares, illuminating the highway from Ningguo to Guangde brightly.

The long column of the 23rd Army marching on the road was completely exposed. What followed was the Special Operations Brigade's ground attack aircraft strafing back and forth.

With the road blocked by ground attack aircraft strafing, the various garrisons of the 23rd Army in Ningguo also faced fierce bombing by the Special Operations Brigade's air squadron.

According to Lin Fan's orders: tonight, the air squadron must block all of the Nationalist army from Ningguo to Lotus Leaf Mountain.

At the same time, they also had to stop the Nationalist army from Lotus Leaf Mountain from advancing to attack Guangde.

At this time, Gong Zhixue, the commander of the 33rd Regiment of the Jurong base, was also gathering his troops. He had received Lin Fan's order: the 33rd Regiment was to retreat to the Yangxi Village and Lifang line to establish a defense line.

At the same time, he ordered the 37th Regiment stationed in Guangde to immediately advance towards Yangxi Village and Lifang.

Division Commander Song Minzhi did not expect that his troops would not have much difficulty in capturing Lotus Leaf Mountain, but the advance from Lotus Leaf Mountain to Guangde was full of obstacles.

His vanguard troops encountered sniper fire and artillery attacks all the way, and these attacks were very stubborn.

Song Minzhi's vanguard was the elite regiment of the entire division. Regiment Commander Liu Kaixian was venting his anger at his reconnaissance company commander, "What are you doing? You didn't even discover that there were ambushes ahead!"

Reconnaissance Company Commander Dai Xueru was also very aggrieved, "Regiment Commander! We really searched, and we didn't find anything at the time."

"Who is blocking us ahead?" Liu Kaixian asked, suppressing his anger.

"We found out from the captured wounded soldiers that they are the Yangxi Village guerrillas!"

"Guerrillas?"

The Yangxi Village guerrillas, with more than 130 members, led by Captain Yang Guoqiang, immediately took the lead in occupying Niushan, which came from Lotus Leaf Mountain, after learning that the Lotus Leaf Mountain defense line had been defeated by the Nationalist army.

They were all locals and were very familiar with the terrain on the mountain. When the several Nationalist army soldiers sent out by Dai Xueru for preliminary reconnaissance came over, the guerrillas simply did not let them discover them.

After the Nationalist army's reconnaissance soldiers left, Yang Guoqiang pointed to the highway below, "They will definitely come from the highway, we will guard here, and we will not let them pass through here no matter what."

Liu Kaixian, who occupied this hilltop, was not happy. They found more than 20 corpses on the mountain, all dressed as ordinary civilians.

Liu Kaixian knew the situation in Jurong well, and knew that there were militiamen in every village here. They often participated in training, and the guns were usually issued to these militiamen.

Under the light of the dancing torches, looking at the people who had fallen in the trenches, Liu Kaixian could be sure that they were militiamen, that is, the guerrillas organized by Jurong.

The excitement of just occupying this hilltop had now vanished. Thinking that the entire regiment had lost a full three companies of soldiers here.

Moreover, the fact that only a guerrilla force was blocking them on the mountain made Liu Kaixian furious. He shouted loudly, "Advance immediately, don't delay any longer along the way. Tonight, we must attack Guangde County!

Who will be responsible if we delay here for too long?"

Song Minzhi knew that it was the guerrillas who had blocked the entire division for an hour in front of him, and he was both angry and anxious. He ordered, "Next time there is such a situation, just go straight through, don't get entangled with them."

Yang Guoqiang led the guerrillas and did not retreat and disappear. They retreated two hilltops to the rear under cover of darkness.

When Liu Kaixian's regiment began to advance again, they were stopped by the dense gunfire from the mountain after walking less than three li forward.

It was impossible for Song Minzhi to ignore them and just go straight through. The gunfire from the mountain was dense. If they really went straight through like this, the casualties suffered by the entire division would be unknown.

What else could they do now? Liu Kaixian could only order his troops to continue attacking the hilltop.

He was now calculating in his heart: if they went out like this, with hilltops everywhere, and if the guerrillas here continued to fight and retreat like this, it would be impossible to reach Guangde tonight.

It was now certain that they would not be able to reach Guangde. The air squadron led by Guan Guohao had already set off.

They searched ahead in the air along the highway from Guangde to Ningguo. When they saw the muzzle flashes of the Nationalist army's mortars firing on the ground, they immediately dropped flares here.

Under the pale light, they could roughly see the Nationalist army soldiers on the highway attacking a hilltop fiercely.

With a command from Squadron Leader Guan, the ground attack aircraft immediately opened fire. The ground attack aircraft, which were specifically used to deal with infantry, immediately stunned the Nationalist army soldiers who were charging.