Feng, the company commander, immediately changed his wait-and-see tactics after hearing the artillery platoon leader, Ding Luquan, report the disheveled appearance of the follow-up Japanese troops after being bombarded.

He led three platoons in a proactive attack, while ordering Platoon Leader Ding to continue bombarding the Japanese infantry company.

Platoon Leader Ding knew that the company commander was leading the troops in an attack, and that his task was to suppress the Japanese infantry and not give them a chance to breathe.

The shooting speed of the entire artillery platoon slowed down slightly, but they still maintained the momentum of continued bombardment.

Captain Hiramatsu Kazuki listened to the screams of Sergeant Kuroki Shunsuke coming from nearby, and had to reluctantly look over.

Turning his head in the thorns, he was startled. An eyeball was less than ten centimeters away from his face, practically riding on it.

Captain Hiramatsu Kazuki was not a novice on the battlefield. He had risen step by step on merit. What kind of scenes had he not seen on the battlefield?

But this was the first time he had ever seen an eyeball growing on a thorn.

Startled, he reflexively shrank his head back, only to be pricked again on the back of his head by the thorns, bringing tears to his eyes.

He quickly pushed his head forward, his face almost touching the eyeball in front of him. Only then did he see clearly: the eyeball had been plucked out by a thorn.

Looking at the bloodstains flowing from between Sergeant Kuroki Shunsuke's fingers covering his left eye, Captain Hiramatsu Kazuki immediately understood: Sergeant Kuroki Shunsuke's left eyeball had been plucked out by the thorns.

At that moment, he was finally relieved: at least the thorns here, apart from pricking people, had not grown eyes.

Just now, Captain Hiramatsu Kazuki was really afraid that these thorn bushes had really grown eyes, which would have been completely beyond his comprehension.

Captain Hiramatsu Kazuki pulled out his command saber, lay on the ground to avoid the flying shrapnel, and while desperately hacking at the thorns, shouted loudly, "Have you forgotten the samurai spirit? Shed blood and sweat, not tears!"

Sergeant Kuroki Shunsuke, who had been groaning and crying, was so frightened by the captain's voice that he dared not cry out anymore.

Captain Hiramatsu Kazuki's command saber was very sharp. He cut out a small hole and crawled to Sergeant Kuroki Shunsuke's side. He took out a bandage from his satchel and wrapped it around Kuroki's eye.

Now Sergeant Kuroki Shunsuke could finally open one eye to see the world, but during the time he was crying, the artillery bombardment had not stopped.

The remaining one hundred or so Japanese soldiers of the entire company all burrowed into the thorn bushes on both sides of the road during the artillery bombardment, unable to advance or retreat.

These Japanese soldiers hid in the thorn bushes but could not avoid being bombed. It could only be said that by hiding in here, they were more dispersed, and the damage they suffered was less.

But these Japanese soldiers were also pricked quite badly. They were, after all, Japanese soldiers armed to the teeth, not real pheasants. They began to carefully cut the thorny brambles with their bayonets, preparing to open a road of retreat on this hillside.

Just as the Japanese soldiers were struggling to survive, Company Commander Feng led three platoons in a rapid sprint towards this position. Sprinting was the most basic training for soldiers, with at least five kilometers of cross-country running every day. Today was the time to test the results.

Company Commander Feng shouted loudly to the soldiers of the three platoons, "We've always said during training: when chasing the Japanese, we must not let them escape.

Now the time has come to prevent the Japanese from escaping. All of you, give me your fastest speed to charge."

The soldiers of the three platoons took off at a hundred-meter sprint speed from the very beginning, charging forward.

The sound of artillery was the signal. The location of the artillery bombardment was their battlefield. First Platoon Leader Guan Qingsheng charged at the front of the team.

They were more than two kilometers away from Captain Hiramatsu Kazuki's company. It only took these soldiers five minutes to see the shells exploding before their eyes.

As they charged in, Platoon Leader Ding on the hilltop ordered the soldiers to bombard the hillside where the Japanese might be hiding.

The three platoons that had just rushed onto the battlefield charged into the smoke-filled battlefield and began to shoot those Japanese soldiers who were afraid of pain and did not burrow in deeply.

Squad Leader Ninari Taichi heard the gunfire coming from behind him, and then realized that soldiers from the Special Operations Brigade had rushed over. He had to turn around with difficulty, look at the thorny road he had crawled through, and then began to shout loudly, "Shoot! Shoot!"

Captain Hiramatsu Kazuki had a command saber in his hand, so he burrowed in quite deeply. From where he was, he could no longer see the road below, nor could he see clearly how many soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade had charged up.

He only heard the sound of gunfire exploding like popping beans, and he also heard Squad Leader Ninari Taichi commanding the Japanese to shoot below.

Captain Hiramatsu Kazuki had no choice but to turn around and charge down the mountain. He also ordered the Japanese soldiers around him, "Turn back! Turn back!"

Bullets whizzed past them. Branches of shrubs fell around them from time to time, and Japanese soldiers groaned and fell from time to time.

The positions where the Japanese soldiers had crawled through the thorns all left holes. The soldiers of the Third Company could see the buttocks of the Japanese soldiers through these holes.

The soldiers fired at the Japanese soldiers inside from these holes, constantly sweeping towards the hillside along these positions.

The Third Company's strafing caused heavy casualties to the Japanese soldiers hiding in the thorn bushes. In the rain of bullets, they had to endure the pain of being pricked all over and the itching all over their bodies, while trying to turn around and fight back.

Squad Leader Mizuno Ryojin painfully directed his Japanese soldiers to establish a position under such circumstances.

Just now, they had been trying their best to avoid the bombardment and crawl in. Now, it was almost as difficult as reaching for the moon to establish a complete defensive position.

Sergeant Isetani Shinnosuke finally turned around in the thorn bushes, only to be hit by a stray bullet that flew in from nowhere.

In this battle, Captain Hiramatsu Kazuki's company fought in a confused manner. They did not organize any decent resistance at all, and the entire company was defeated.

Captain Hiramatsu Kazuki still had some foresight. While he organized the Japanese soldiers to turn around and counterattack, he did not forget to send three Japanese soldiers to clear the road back up the hillside.

When he realized that the Third Company's attack was so fierce that his company could not resist it at all, he decisively ordered, "Second squad covers the rear, third squad retreats!"

Squad Leader Mizuno Ryojin, upon receiving the order, quickly gathered the remaining Japanese soldiers around Captain Hiramatsu Kazuki. Dozens of Japanese soldiers worked together to cut through the thorns.

This time, they were trying to escape for their lives. These Japanese soldiers who were fortunate enough to be ordered to retreat no longer cared about the thorns pricking their hands and faces.

They desperately cut open the thorns in front of them, risking bloody cuts on their bodies and faces, and tried to escape as quickly as possible.

Squad Leader Ninari Taichi led the last seven or eight Japanese soldiers to form a defensive position, blocking the attacking Third Company.

First Platoon Leader Guan Qingsheng ordered, "Rocket launchers! Blow them up!"

In a series of explosions, Squad Leader Ninari Taichi and several Japanese soldiers around him were all blown into the air.

The Japanese soldiers in his squad were not all dead, but they had all given up resisting. One by one, the Japanese soldiers curled up in the thorns and did not move.

These Japanese soldiers wanted to pretend to be dead to escape this disaster, but they did not know how meticulous the Special Operations Brigade was in cleaning up the battlefield.

All the Japanese soldiers that could be seen would be given a finishing blow. Although today's battlefield was full of thorns and the Japanese soldiers were very scattered, it did not affect the soldiers' cleaning up of the battlefield.

Jiang Yuanlong had just learned from the company commander: cleaning up the battlefield must be thorough and meticulous.

He was in the front, and Squad Leader Huang Tao was in the back. The two of them searched forward along a thorny path opened by the Japanese.

The thorns swayed back and forth, and a blood cut would appear on their faces from time to time.

Jiang Yuanlong and the others did not care about this at all, staring at both sides of the passage and searching carefully. Suddenly, there was a cluster of branches on the left side of the passage that was covered tightly.

Although this cluster of thorns was very dense, it was not airtight. This cluster of dense branches seemed a little strange.

Remembering the company commander's instructions, Jiang Yuanlong pointed the submachine gun in his hand at the cluster of branches. "Da da da!" A string of crisp gunshots rang out, and the cluster of branches full of thorns suddenly moved.

Three Japanese soldiers stood up from the thorns, wailing. They turned around with difficulty, pulled the pins on their grenades, and wanted to die with Jiang Yuanlong, who was strafing them.

To their disappointment, Jiang Yuanlong was reminded by the squad leader when he fired. He fired while retreating, and was now a full ten meters away from these Japanese soldiers.

The three desperate Japanese soldiers tightly clenched the grenades in their hands, and they exploded in their own hands with such unwillingness.

At this time, Squad Leader Huang had already knocked Jiang Yuanlong to the ground in one fell swoop. The fragments of the grenade passed by, bringing a gust of wind, and hitting a branch without causing any damage, and then fell back to the ground.

This time, Jiang Yuanlong finally personally experienced why Company Commander Feng had so solemnly educated the soldiers to be careful and careful when cleaning up the battlefield.

Just now, if he had not been prepared in advance, he would have been plotted against by these Japanese soldiers.

The explosion here immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding soldiers. Platoon Leader Guan asked loudly, "What's going on?"