Chapter 1 Starting with a Famous Scene Live Broadcast, Leading the Human Race to Rise

When the Kawashima Eiji Taro squad and the Hayashiya Ryuto squad, already inside the sixth encirclement, were under attack from both sides,

the two squad leaders of the Japanese devils chose to break out of the encirclement at the same time!

Just as they issued the order to break out,

intense barrages of gunfire erupted simultaneously from the bamboo forests to the left and right of the two Japanese squads.

Countless bullets rained down from both sides, targeting the Japanese devils who had just begun to move to the left and right.

They were immediately forced back.

In less than five minutes, the two Japanese squads had been reduced to fewer than thirty men.

Squad Leader Kawashima Eiji Taro finally stopped struggling, resigned to his fate.

He ordered the dozen or so surviving Japanese soldiers beside him: "Disperse and break out! Don't go to Anji!

If anyone manages to escape, go straight back, back to Hangzhou!"

For an organized team, dispersing to break out meant every Japanese soldier was on his own.

In most cases, this kind of breakout would usually result in a few stragglers managing to escape.

Now, Squad Leader Kawashima Eiji Taro had lost all hope for his future.

At the same time, Squad Leader Hayashiya Ryuto also issued the same order to his Japanese soldiers.

Then, the two squad leaders simultaneously grabbed machine guns and began to fire wildly at the Special Operations Brigade opposite them.

Neither of them wanted to live any longer!

These two Japanese squad leaders were doomed anyway, even if they managed to break out successfully.

Their battalion commander had died, and they hadn't died with him, already smearing the reputation of the Imperial Army.

Therefore, both Squad Leader Kawashima Eiji Taro and Squad Leader Hayashiya Ryuto made the same choice:

to die gloriously!

Their actions didn't last long.

The Sixth Regiment's Type 92 infantry guns quickly targeted the two squad leaders.

After two shells exploded,

both squad leaders were obliterated, and the remaining Japanese soldiers from the two squads began to scatter in panic.

These Japanese soldiers disappointed their squad leaders.

Ye Dadan used a full four companies, six hundred soldiers from the Special Operations Brigade.

Since they had come to encircle and suppress these hundred-plus Japanese devils, they had no intention of letting a single one escape.

The four companies surrounded the two squads of Japanese devils in an area of less than two hundred meters.

When these Japanese soldiers scattered to escape, hundreds of Special Operations Brigade soldiers were watching in every direction.

When Third Company Commander Qi Yixuan saw that the Japanese devils inside the encirclement had scattered like birds and beasts,

he ordered the artillery to cease fire, and the heavy machine guns and machine guns to stop firing.

After his company stopped, the Seventh Company, First Company, and Second Company all stopped as well.

The four companies simultaneously charged towards the position where the Japanese devils were putting up a last-ditch resistance.

This time, there was no return fire from any of the Japanese soldiers.

It wasn't that these Japanese soldiers didn't want to shoot, but that these Japanese devils had already become the best kind of Japanese devils in the brigade commander's eyes.

Lin Fan had said: Only dead Japanese devils are truly good Japanese devils.

At this time, Lin Fan was looking at the temporary runway below the mountain: This runway outside Anji County had now been expanded to fifteen meters wide and twelve hundred meters long.

Last night, a transport plane from Quzhou had delivered a thirteen-man warplane maintenance team and some fighter jet parts.

Repairing planes at night wasn't convenient, and the thirteen mechanics had no intention of repairing the two planes overnight.

That transport plane immediately returned after delivering the people and equipment.

In any case: The sky here was still unsafe.

At daybreak, this thirteen-man aircraft maintenance team immediately began to get busy.

They were working hard on the repairs below the mountain, while the heavy artillery on the mountain had nothing to do.

When the heavy artillery on the mountain roared to life, these mechanics finally understood: It turned out these cannons weren't just for show, they were actually going to be used!

These mechanics had received orders yesterday during the day to go to Guangde to repair the fighter jets.

They had also heard the transport plane pilots constantly talking about the Battle of Jurong at the airport.

They spoke of the Special Operations Brigade commander's divine marksmanship!

Although these people spoke with conviction, few people believed them.

It wasn't that people didn't believe them, it was just that the matter was too unbelievable.

Guan Guohao and Jing Hebi had damaged the planes too badly.

The maintenance team couldn't repair even one fighter jet in the entire morning.

After the aircraft runway was completed, Jing Hebi, along with the wounded soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade, were sent to Jurong.

Jurong had a Special Operations Brigade field hospital, where the wounded could receive better care.

Guan Guohao was constantly waiting for his fighter jet to be repaired quickly.

However, repairing a plane wasn't something that could be done on demand.

Lin Fan was already discussing with Commander Li Zhongren about purchasing several diesel engines from the Fifth War Area.

He was now focused on making money!

He needed several diesel engines to build a few speedboats himself.

The Special Operations Brigade's next get-rich plan would require speedboats.

Lin Fan wanted to plunder on the Yangtze River: The Japanese devils had special cargo ships for transporting materials looted from Nanjing.

The Japanese cargo ships sailing on the Yangtze River now were all loaded with these things.

Because these materials were all looted by the Japanese devils from Nanjing, they didn't dare use foreign ships to transport them.

Therefore, they could only use their own cargo ships to transport them.

During this period, as long as they intercepted the Japanese cargo ships on the Yangtze River,

they would be 100% full of materials they had looted from Nanjing.

But if they wanted to intercept the Japanese cargo ships on the Yangtze River, they couldn't accomplish such a task without speedboats.

The plan was already in place, just waiting for him to be able to spare a day, even if it was only one day of free time.

Lin Fan was going to the Yangtze River to conduct guerrilla warfare.

If he couldn't get the engines from the Fifth War Area, Lin Fan would have to remove two engines from cars to use.

At this time, Lin Fan endlessly missed the Japanese speedboat he had once captured, but unfortunately it was no longer in his hands.

Good news kept coming: The Fourth and Eighth Regiments had successfully blocked the Japanese devils, eliminating a full two battalions of Japanese devils and one battalion of puppet troops.

They were being wiped out along the Yaoguai Mountain and Long Mountain line, and the two regiments were cleaning up the battlefield.

The Sixth Regiment had also annihilated an enemy reinforcement battalion on the Phoenix Mountain and Guazi Mountain line.

They were also cleaning up the battlefield!

The Third Regiment had completely occupied Anji, but Anji County had become a pile of ruins.

This made Lin Fan speechless.

After successfully retaking Anji, Lin Fan immediately sent a telegram to Li Zhongren, commander of the Fifth War Area: "The Special Operations Brigade has completely annihilated the Japanese devils stationed in Anji and has now completely occupied Anji!"

Now the Fifth War Area could implement the plan to strategically advance towards Anji.

Although the Special Operations Brigade's air battle yesterday was impressive, the Fifth War Area still had some doubts about the Special Operations Brigade's land battles.

After all, two battalions of Japanese devils were defending the city, and if the National Army were to attack, they wouldn't dare to move without two divisions.

Now they finally heard the definitive news, and there was joy and laughter in the Fifth War Area Command: This time, the Central China Expeditionary Force had assembled two divisions, plus puppet troops and the navy, a total of more than 70,000 Japanese devils to attack Hangzhou.

More than 100,000 National Army soldiers responded, and so far more than 10,000 Japanese devils had been killed or wounded, which had already achieved the strategic goal.

On the surface, it seemed that the National Army had lost territory and the Japanese devils had occupied Hangzhou.

But the strategic goal that the National Army wanted to achieve this time was to inflict heavy casualties on the Japanese devils and preserve their own strength by losing territory.

Using the vast rear to continuously inflict casualties on the Japanese devils, constantly depleting the enemy's strength, and ultimately achieving the goal of victory.

Li Zhongren immediately sent a reply, praising the Special Operations Brigade's Battle of Anji in the telegram.

And he ordered: "The Special Operations Brigade must adhere to the plan and hold Anji for at least half a month.

Provide protection for the National Army strategically advancing."

Today, the army commanders Ye Zhao and Deng Longguang from Quzhou were also present.

Their 66th and 83rd Armies were advancing toward Ningguo.

Since they had their own transport planes, they were immediately summoned by Commander Li Zhongren and arrived in Quzhou.

In the Fifth War Area Command, a sandbox model of the Anji area had been specially created to study how the Special Operations Brigade had won.

This time, the Special Operations Brigade had a total of three infantry regiments, one infantry-artillery coordination regiment, and one flying squadron.

If the two regiments attacking Changxing were added, the Special Operations Brigade had a total strength of about one division.

The total number of people was nearly 7,000.

But only four regiments, with a total of less than 5,000 people, directly attacked Anji.

Yet they had annihilated a full five battalions of Japanese devils plus one battalion of puppet troops.

How was this done?

Of course, the Fifth War Area wanted to thoroughly study the Special Operations Brigade's combat methods.

Army Commanders Ye Zhao and Deng Longguang were summoned again because they had fought alongside the Special Operations Brigade.

They understood their combat methods better, and Li Zhongren wanted to learn more about the Special Operations Brigade and Lin Fan from the two army commanders.

Army Commander Ye Zhao was the first to encounter the Special Operations Brigade. He thought for a while, organized his words,

and then said: "After our army broke out of Nanjing, we entered the Tangshan area.

Because we didn't dare take the highway, fearing an encounter battle with the Japanese devils,

we had been taking mountain roads, but in Tangshan we couldn't find a guide.

We weren't familiar with the roads either, and there were many mountains and ponds in Tangshan.

We walked all night and were still going around in circles.

On the morning of the 14th, our army was exhausted.

Just as the entire army was resting temporarily, a large group of Japanese transport planes suddenly appeared in the air.

Many fighter jets flew over our heads.

Those planes ignored us.

Then we saw many paratroopers jumping out of those transport planes.

Immediately afterwards, shell after shell hit those transport planes.

Most of the paratroopers inside the transport planes had not yet come out when they were blown up.

At that time, the scene was like fireworks exploding in the sky.

Not a single plane escaped.

Some of the Japanese paratroopers landed 500 meters in front of our army.

At this time, of course we couldn't let them go.

But those Japanese devils were really strong in combat, more than 100 Japanese devils were defending on the mountain.

I sent a regiment, but it was still difficult to move forward.

We couldn't attack at all!

At this moment, shells came flying from a distance.

Every shell hit the Japanese machine gun emplacements on the mountain.

My regiment followed the gaps opened by the artillery fire and charged up, annihilating all 100-plus Japanese devils.

This was our army's first meeting with the Special Operations Brigade."

Li Zhongren thought for a moment: "What was the purpose of the Japanese devils sending so many planes to hunt down the Special Operations Brigade at that time?"

Army Commander Ye Zhao smiled bitterly: "At that time, we didn't know, but with such a powerful teammate to rely on,

I didn't think too much and just followed them.

Speaking of Lin Fan, this person is quite righteous.

When he saw that our army soldiers didn't have dry rations or food,

and that many soldiers had lost their weapons,

he immediately provided food for more than 10,000 of our soldiers and replenished one of my regiments with Type 92 infantry guns, heavy machine guns, light machine guns, mortars, and ammunition.

From that day on, until yesterday when we completely captured Jurong, all supplies for the entire army were provided by the Special Operations Brigade."

Li Zhongren became interested: "He provided all of this free of charge?"

"No! We have an agreement, all the weapons are considered borrowed from him, and we have to return these weapons after we get to Guangde.

If our army fights the Japanese devils along the way, all the spoils will be divided proportionally between the two sides.

The weapons we get are our own."

Li Zhongren asked: "The Special Operations Brigade didn't have many people at that time, not as many as your two armies.

Why did the Japanese devils have to fight the Special Operations Brigade?"

Army Commander Ye Zhao laughed: "It wasn't that the Japanese devils wanted to fight the Special Operations Brigade, I only found out later.

It was that the Special Operations Brigade had to fight the Japanese devils.

The Special Operations Brigade had heavy artillery, hundreds of cars, and hundreds of carts.

They could only take the highway when they retreated.

They fought their way out of Nanjing all the way to Tangshan.

What they encountered was the headquarters of the Japanese Shanghai Expeditionary Army!

I don't know why?

This headquarters of the Japanese devils just didn't want to give way.

They were determined to fight the Special Operations Brigade head-on.

These Japanese devils retreated from Tangshan to Jurong.

The Special Operations Brigade chased after them all the way, on the outskirts of Jurong:

The Japanese devils sent all the wounded out to fight.

The Special Operations Brigade killed at least more than 10,000 Japanese devils that afternoon."

"So many? Is that an exaggeration?" A staff officer interjected.

"Don't say you don't believe it, I don't believe it either.

But that's the truth, and if that's the case, then at Tangshan.

The Japanese devils sent out at least several divisions of cavalry regiments.

Just the warhorses, the Special Operations Brigade captured 2,500 at that time, and sent 200 to our army.

They also sent 200 to Army Commander Deng, in Lin Fan's words:

This was to make communication between the armies more convenient.

In addition, we ate horse meat every day when we were cooking with the Special Operations Brigade.

The Special Operations Brigade seemed to have an internal rule that they had to eat meat every day.

And they also had a slogan: Good eating ability is combat ability.

They require every soldier to eat as much as possible and train more."

"Good eating ability is combat ability! Interesting! Makes sense!"

"Wouldn't that mean the entire team is full of rice buckets?" Someone asked.

Army Commander Ye Zhao said seriously: "In the Special Operations Brigade, 'rice bucket' is the greatest praise the officers give to the soldiers.

In their opinion, eating more means having more strength.

They like bayonet fighting with the Japanese devils the most, and they practice assassination every morning."

Hearing him say that the Special Operations Brigade liked bayonet fighting with the Japanese devils, everyone in the Fifth War Area fell silent.

Even if they hadn't been on the battlefield themselves, they knew:

Bayonet fighting was the most morale-testing battle for a team.

Only when a team's morale is high would they dare to fight the enemy with bayonets.

A team that likes bayonet fighting, and still fights the Japanese devils with bayonets, what kind of morale does this team have?

Li Zhongren looked at Army Commander Deng Longguang: "Tell me!"

Army Commander Deng said with a smile: "After our army broke out, we had been in the Tuanshan area.

We saw an observation balloon in the direction of Jurong at about 4 p.m.

It said that the 66th Army was in Baorong.

That's how we went to join them.

The Special Operations Brigade's help to us was the same as the 66th Army's.

They gave us food and equipment.

Our team participated in the attack on Chunhua, annihilating the Japanese reinforcements sent out from Nanjing.

Later, we captured Jurong.

Then we walked all the way to Guangde."

Army Commander Deng Longguang spoke simply, as if he hadn't said anything at all.

At this time, a staff officer from the Fifth War Area came in and handed a telegram to Li Zhongren.

After reading the telegram, Li Zhongren immediately wrote a few instructions and sent it back.

"Where does their morale come from?" Li Zhongren asked, puzzled.

Army Commander Ye Zhao thought for a moment and said: "Brigade Commander Lin Fan said: As long as you win a few more battles, you will have morale.

That's what he said when our army first sent people to cooperate with the Special Operations Brigade."

Wasn't that the same as saying nothing?

Who didn't know that if a team wins more battles, its morale will naturally rise.

Army Commander Deng Longguang thought for a moment: "The Special Operations Brigade makes the soldiers take lessons every night, teaching them how to read.

And telling some of the battles they have fought."

"They also teach the soldiers to read?" Li Zhongren asked.

"Yes! Brigade Commander Lin Fan said: Soldiers without knowledge are not good soldiers." Army Commander Deng Longguang said with a smile.

"This Lin Fan really says a lot."

"Yes! He also has a saying: Only dead Japanese devils are good Japanese devils!" After Army Commander Deng said this, everyone present laughed.

"That's really the case on the battlefield." Li Zhongren said with a smile.

"That's what they do on the battlefield, as long as it's a battlefield that the Special Operations Brigade has cleaned up, there will never be a Japanese devil who can escape.

They always require: When cleaning up the battlefield, every body lying on the ground must first be stabbed with a knife.

And then go search!"

"This person is so meticulous?

Then, when you left Guangde this time, did you return the weapons that the Special Operations Brigade lent you?"

"No! It was written off, Brigade Commander Lin Fan settled the bill with us." Army Commander Ye Zhao said with a smile.

Li Zhongren already knew about their transaction: They exchanged two regiments for all of this.

To be honest, even Commander Li Zhongren didn't know who was at a disadvantage in doing this.

"One person can't support a team, who are Lin Fan's subordinates?" Li Zhongren asked.

Army Commander Ye Zhao said: "They used to be a special operations company, with all the men in the ranks of squads.

When they were in Nanjing, they had a total of nine squads: First Squad Chen Sichuan.

Second Squad Liu Laopao, Third Squad Jia Shusheng, Fourth Squad Xiao Dongbei.

Fifth Squad Zhen Danxiao, Sixth Squad Ye Dadan, Seventh Squad Yang Daren, Eighth Squad Feng Junya,

Ninth Squad Hui Jianming. The Eighth and Ninth Squads are heavy artillery squads."

"You said when they were in Nanjing, did they increase again when they were in Jurong?"

"When they were in Jurong, they added the Tenth Squad Li Zhize, the Eleventh Squad Ji Wudi.

The Eleventh Squad is a Japanese field hospital they captured."

"Field hospital? Tell me more about it!" Li Zhongren's eyes lit up when he heard there was a hospital.

"After we captured Jurong, we found out that the Japanese devils of the Central China Expeditionary Army had set up a large field hospital in Jurong.

They concentrated most of the doctors and nurses from their various divisions and armies in Jurong.

The wounded were also sent to Jurong for treatment.

This is why more than 10,000 Japanese devils were killed on the outskirts of Jurong.

Most of them were the wounded."

"How many doctors and nurses did you accept?"

"More than 800!" Army Commander Ye Zhao said.

This number of doctors and nurses shocked everyone present.

"So many?"

Army Commander Ye Zhao thought for a moment and finally decided to remind him: "The Special Operations Brigade may want to stay in the territory they have captured."

Li Zhongren was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then became happy:

"Good! If they don't leave, they will be a barrier between our army and the Japanese devils.

If the Japanese devils want to attack our army, they must first pass through the Special Operations Brigade's defense zone.

If this is the case, the east side of the Fifth Defense Zone can be easier."

At this time, when the Japanese devils' forces were at their strongest, Li Zhongren, as the commander of the Fifth War Area, hoped that there would be more teams like the Special Operations Brigade in his defense zone that could fight the Japanese devils.

For the time being, Li Zhongren hadn't thought about suppressing the development of teams like the Special Operations Brigade.

On the afternoon of the 24th, five companies each from Chen Sichuan's First Regiment and Liu Laopao's Second Regiment arrived in Changxing.

The newly joined Fourteenth Regiment of the Special Operations Brigade, led by Regiment Commander Shangguan Zhiwen, also arrived in Changxing with the entire regiment.

For a time, three regiments of the Special Operations Brigade gathered in Changxing.

That night, the three regimental commanders gathered together for a meeting.

According to Lin Fan's latest order: "On the 25th, Chen Sichuan will lead the First Regiment to attack Yixing;

Liu Laopao will lead the Second Regiment to attack Wuxing;

Shangguan Zhiwen will leave a battalion stationed in Changxing, and the other two battalions will follow the First Regiment to advance.

After the First Regiment occupies Yixing, they will take over the defense of Yixing.

The battalion left in Changxing will cooperate with the company left by the First and Second Regiments to reorganize and train these surrendered puppet troops in Changxing.

At the same time, all the soldiers in Shangguan Zhiwen's regiment will also be trained according to the Special Operations Brigade's training methods."

The three regimental commanders gathered together to discuss how to arrange the next battle.

According to Lin Fan's order, the First and Second Regiments would be fighting on their own in the next battle.

This was each man for himself.

Only the more than 1,000 puppet troops in Changxing needed to be treated well.

Regiment Commander Shangguan Zhiwen certainly understood their concerns.

He said to Chen Sichuan and Liu Laopao: "I will let the First Battalion be stationed in Changxing.

Battalion Commander Yang Wenguang will specifically send a company to be stationed next to these puppet troop camps.

I guarantee there won't be any problems."

Hearing that there was a company guarding the side, Chen Sichuan and Liu Laopao were relieved.

Changxing and Yixing were less than eighty *li* apart.

Changxing and Wuxing were less than fifty *li* apart.

At three o'clock in the morning on the 25th, Chen Sichuan led the Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Companies of the First Regiment from Changxing.

The First and Second Companies of his regiment would depart three hours later.

Because the First and Second Companies were transported by car, and the five companies behind them were on foot.

At the same time, the purpose of doing this was also to maintain the combat effectiveness of the First and Second Companies.

Shangguan Zhiwen's two battalions also set off with Chen Sichuan at three o'clock in the morning.

For these officers and soldiers who had just transferred to the Special Operations Brigade, marching had become a habit.

During these days, they walked all the way from Nanjing to Jurong, and then from Jurong all the way to Guangde.

Although there weren't many battles, they had gotten used to this marching.

Like these soldiers, when they arrived in Changxing yesterday, they also saw the traces of battle in the large training ground.

Being able to join a team that wins every day, the morale of the soldiers in Shangguan Zhiwen's regiment was still very high.

When Chen Sichuan led his team to Maoshanjie, it was already seven o'clock in the morning, and the motorcade of the First and Second Companies had caught up.

Maoshanjie was only ten kilometers away from Yixing County. The entire regiment would rest here for twenty minutes.

Company Commander Gu Xiuming of the First Company sent a squad to scout out the enemy's situation.

Squad Leader Hou Junnan of the First Squad immediately left on horseback with his thirteen men.

In the First to Ninth Regiments of the Special Operations Brigade, every soldier in the First Company of each regiment was equipped with a warhorse.

These warhorses were the ones captured in Tangshan.

The main force of the First Regiment rested here.

Liu Laopao's Second Regiment also set off at three o'clock in the morning, and at seven o'clock, the Second Regiment had launched an attack on Wuxing.

Company Commander Yushan Shotaro had just taken over the defense of Wuxing yesterday.

Originally, a Japanese battalion and a puppet army battalion were stationed in Wuxing.

Battalion Commander Ametake Haruka Aozora had led the Japanese devils to reinforce Anji yesterday, and puppet army Battalion Commander Fu Minghui had also gone with him.

After Company Commander Yushan Shotaro took over the defense of Wuxing, he only walked around the entire Wuxing once.

A county town was so big, and he only had 184 Japanese devils under his command.

And he didn't have a puppet army to command, so what else could he do?

This situation was temporary!

Company Commander Yushan Shotaro was clear about this.

Therefore, he ignored all the outposts outside the city.

He only sent a squad to each of the four city gates to be responsible for inspecting people entering the city.

He left two squads of Japanese devils in the command post.

If anyone dared to cause trouble in that direction, he would immediately send a team out to suppress it.

The plan had been made, and the rest was to execute it according to the plan.

The first night was uneventful, which made Company Commander Yushan Shotaro feel relieved.

What did he have to worry about?

There were two full battalions out there to support Anji, and there was a fleet supporting them from behind.

It was precisely because it was such a safe place, that only one night had passed.

Gunfire had already been heard from the west gate in the morning.

Squad Leader Yamato Naoya had only entered Wuxing City with his thirteen Japanese devils yesterday afternoon.

He was sent directly to guard the west gate by Squad Leader Miyake Iori.

Thirteen Japanese devils had to be on duty all day, so Squad Leader Yamato Naoya could only let his soldiers work in pairs, changing shifts every three hours at night.

During the day, they changed shifts every half day.

From five to eight o'clock in the morning, Sergeant Higashifuku Toshiichi and Private Arai Takahiro were on duty.

Sergeant Higashifuku Toshiichi looked boredly at the scenery outside the west gate.

Suddenly, he saw a team rushing out of the Anji direction. At first, he thought it must be the Imperial Army.

It wasn't until that team rushed to within 300 meters of the city that Sergeant Higashifuku Toshiichi realized that something was wrong:

It was the National Army!

In a panic, Sergeant Higashifuku Toshiichi quickly blew his whistle and fired a warning shot!

At the same time, he was still shouting: "National Army! The National Army is attacking the city!"

His actions immediately triggered Sergeant Arai Takahiro to follow suit.

The two Japanese devils began to snipe the attack of Liu Laopao's Second Regiment on the city wall.

The heavy machine guns pushed to the front immediately opened fire to suppress the two guns of the Japanese devils.

The First and Second Companies continued to charge without being affected at all.

Company Commander Shi Junxia of the First Company pointed at the Japanese devils' firing point and ordered: "Xin Yongfu, take them down for me."

"Yes!" Xin Yongfu, who was carrying the mortar barrel beside him, agreed.

He immediately squatted down. The Special Operations Brigade practiced every day with these artillery and guns that required coordination to fire.

When Xin Yongfu agreed, Jing Liquan, who was carrying the gun mount behind him, was already ready.

The gun mount, gun body, and gun barrel were combined in less than fifteen seconds.

The first shell had already been fired.

It was a little off!

The second and third shells finally hit.

There were no more Japanese devils firing on the city wall.

At this time, Company Commander Yushan Shotaro was already taking a walk in the courtyard.

When he heard the sound of gunfire coming from the west gate, he immediately ordered: "Assemble! Assemble!

Yanashita Mitsuo Taro, go to the west gate and ask what's going on!"

Squad Leader Yamato Naoya, who was resting in the turret, woke up with a start when he heard the gunfire.

He shouted loudly: "Get up! Get up!"

He had already heard the shouts coming from outside: "National Army! The National Army is attacking the city!"

Unable to wait for all the soldiers to get up, Squad Leader Yamato Naoya had already rushed out.

He rushed towards the position where the two whistle-blowing Japanese devils, Higashifuku Toshiichi and Arai Takahiro, were crouching and firing.

He wanted to see the situation outside! What he didn't expect was that the attacking National Army was actually firing artillery at the city.

The first shell was a little far away, and the second one didn't hit either.

Squad Leader Yamato Naoya had already rushed behind the two Japanese devils who had first sounded the alarm by blowing their whistles.

At this moment, the third shell came down.

Listening to the sharp whistling sound made by the shell as it cut through the air when it fell,

Squad Leader Yamato Naoya's face changed: "Lie down!"

He could only say these two words.

The three Japanese devils all lay down, and the shell exploded less than two meters away from them.

At this distance, no matter what they did, they couldn't escape.

At this time, the other Japanese devils saw from afar that their squad leader was finished just like that.

They felt a little flustered, but they still wanted to resist.

After all, the National Army was a group of teams without combat effectiveness.

Company Commander Shi Junxia of the First Company saw that the Japanese devils' firepower had only stopped for less than a minute, and more firing points had emerged.

He loudly ordered: "Xin Yongfu, suppress the Japanese devils on the city wall.

Zhong Youcai, Li Youde, your mortar squad, take out the Japanese devils' firing points."

His company had a total of five mortars. Upon receiving the company commander's order,

the five mortars were lined up and fired at the Japanese devils' firing points about 200 meters away.

At a distance of 200 meters, Liu Laopao's two companies had rushed to the city in less than a minute.

They immediately began to put up ladders to climb the city wall.

This squad, with only ten Japanese devils left, was unable to lift their heads due to the intense artillery bombardment.

The First and Second Companies climbed the city wall from the left and right sides of the city gate respectively.

At this time, the Third and Fourth Companies also launched an attack on the south gate.

The Fifth and Sixth Companies launched an attack on the east gate.

Only the Seventh Company was ambushed outside the north gate, quietly waiting for the Japanese devils to leave the city.

Yanashita Mitsuo Taro, whom Company Commander Yushan Shotaro had sent out, had not yet returned from the west gate.

He heard gunfire coming from all three sides of Wuxing.

He was immediately shocked.

He had just been preparing to send all the two assembled squads to the west gate.

Now he could only pause and wait for the news to come back.

The first news to come back was from the north gate: All is well! The second messenger who came back was from the east gate: The National Army, about a battalion, is attacking fiercely, requesting reinforcements.

A signal soldier also came back from the south gate to report: The National Army, about a battalion, is attacking fiercely, and the city wall can't be defended.

Requesting reinforcements.

At this time, Yanashita Mitsuo Taro, whom Company Commander Yushan Shotaro had sent out, finally ran back.

The National Army had already entered the city from the west gate, it was unknown how many there were.

Hearing this news, Company Commander Yushan Shotaro didn't hesitate and immediately ordered: "We will go out from the north gate and go back to Lake Taihu."

They would go back to where they came from.

The entire company of Japanese devils had landed from Lake Taihu, so it was normal to return to Lake Taihu now.

Company Commander Yushan Shotaro's plan was to return to Lake Taihu and ask the Japanese devils of the Lake Taihu fleet to come and take Wuxing back.

The National Army was attacking each city gate with a battalion, and they had already rushed into the city.

He, with just one company, would not be able to defend the city. Instead of dying with the city, it was better to preserve his strength and wait to return with a large army to take revenge later.

The company commander's orders were quickly conveyed to the Japanese devils who were still holding on to the city walls.

At this time, the Japanese devils on the east and south gates no longer had a chance to retreat.

Although the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Companies were all new recruit companies,

each of these companies had ten veterans of the Special Operations Company.

If a lion leads a group of sheep, then it is a group of lions.

This was the situation now.

With ten veterans setting an example, the soldiers of these companies fought very bravely.

And their firepower was the same as the First and Second Companies.

With fire suppression and veterans setting an example, the Special Operations Brigade had also climbed the city walls in these two directions.

Facing the few remaining Japanese devils who were putting up a last-ditch resistance,

the Special Operations Brigade used its favorite bayonet fighting again, which was also the Japanese devils' favorite.

They, facing these National Army soldiers who were clearly outnumbered and could completely use bullets to solve them,

actually chose to fight with bayonets, and Squad Leader Kichiwa Yuki, who was guarding the south gate, was extremely happy.

He wanted to prove in this last moment that the warriors of the Empire would not give in.

Gao Xiangchen was a new recruit of the Sixth Company. Facing this Japanese devil who was rushing over,

he stood with his feet firmly planted according to the basic steps he had learned in recent days, and the rifle in his hand was slightly forward.

He was a little nervous, this was the first time he had fought a Japanese devil with a bayonet.

Seeing that the Japanese devil had rushed closer, he roared loudly and stepped forward with his left foot.

The rifle in his hand stabbed forward like lightning, and at the same time his body leaned slightly to the side.

With this set of movements, his body leaned slightly to the side, causing the knife stabbed by the Japanese devil to miss.

But Gao Xiangchen's bayonet steadily stabbed into the Japanese devil's chest, and the Sixth Company soldiers around him burst into cheers: "Good!"

These new recruits saw that Gao Xiangchen could fight with a bayonet alone, and could kill a Japanese devil.

They could certainly do it too!

These new recruits no longer hesitated and stabbed at the remaining Japanese devils one after another!

Company Commander Yushan Shotaro led the Japanese devils who had lost a squad in a frantic escape.

When he rushed out of the north gate, he looked back at Wuxing City with hatred.

He said loudly: "I will be back!"

Not far outside the city, the soldiers of the Seventh Company of the Second Regiment of the Special Operations Brigade, who saw the drawbridge of the north gate being lowered and the city gate opening, were already smiling at this time.

They had set up directional bombs on the road where the Japanese devils were retreating.

The Japanese devils in their current state were probably not going to notice these bombs.

Company Commander Ke Fei of the Seventh Company looked at these people who were running out of the city in a hurry