The headache-inducing Lin Fan was, at this moment, accompanying the American business delegation.

They heard Lin Fan say he was going to Jurong overnight.

These people were unwilling to go to Dangtu anymore; they suggested going together.

Although going to Jurong from here required an overnight journey, these people couldn't care less.

Through these days of investigation, they had learned a lot about the various situations on the Special Forces territory.

The next thing to do was to discuss terms and make decisions!

Lin Fan was anxious about this matter.

The capitalists in this business delegation didn't seem to be in a hurry on the surface.

Whether they were panicking or not, they knew it in their own hearts.

Lin Fan also knew: the United States had just emerged from the economic crisis.

In recent years, the government had been printing money and engaging in various infrastructure projects, distributing money everywhere domestically.

Using national investment to stimulate domestic demand, resolving the conflict between factory production and workers' lives.

In the short term, this approach had an immediate effect.

Now the situation had improved, but the inflation caused by continuous printing of money

was also a pain the government couldn't bear.

Moreover, people are always insatiable; during the economic crisis,

ordinary people only wanted a job, just enough to make a living.

The government had solved the job problem they wanted by heavily investing in road construction and various infrastructure projects, stimulating the entire domestic demand.

Now that these people had jobs, and wages had increased with the inflation of recent years,

the government no longer dared to continue this economic model; continuing like this would bankrupt the entire government.

They were preparing to reduce government spending and infrastructure investment.

The result of doing so would be that industrial production in the United States would once again face overcapacity.

Simply put, the consequence would be: too many products, too few buyers;

too many workers, too few job positions.

There were many ways to solve this problem, but they would all cause pain throughout society.

Some people would always be affected, and the interests of some would be harmed.

The best way was to sell the produced goods abroad.

This would solve all the problems at once

and make the economic situation of the entire society healthier.

Unfortunately, the United States was not the only country capable of producing industrial goods.

So many other countries faced the same problem: overproduction, insufficient demand.

This was why Lin Fan's proposal to build an industrial production line had attracted so much attention from Ambassador Eisenhower Jason.

If the United States could dump industrial products in this agricultural country with 400 million people, it would bring at least a million job opportunities to the country.

Now, the Special Forces territory already had more than 1.3 million people, and according to Lin Fan's vision,

it could solve the employment of at least 30,000 people.

If it weren't for the war, the people in this delegation would have already started negotiating with the Special Forces.

Today, the Special Forces had demonstrated its strength and muscle.

Giving these Americans a lot of confidence.

In fact, they didn't take the Japanese seriously at all: even if the Japanese occupied this territory, the enterprises they invested in

couldn't be taken away.

At least at this time, they still optimistically believed that the Japanese would not dare to attack the United States of America.

After all, the ammunition used by the Japanese in this war was produced by American companies.

Seventy percent of the oil used by the Japanese in this war was produced by American companies.

Half of the money used by the Japanese in this war was invested by American businessmen.

Ambassador Eisenhower Jason thought about his country, supporting the Japanese with his left hand and supporting the Special Forces with his right hand.

He felt that something was wrong in the middle.

What exactly was wrong?

Ambassador Eisenhower Jason was embarrassed to say it.

Although Lin Fan was anxious at this time, he couldn't show it.

Both sides were thinking about agreeing on the specific details as soon as possible.

But both sides wanted the most favorable conditions for themselves.

When the Special Forces artillery regiment returned to Jurong late at night,

the Japanese Navy's Third Fleet finally picked up Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu ten kilometers away from Moling, by the river.

Commander Niika Reo of Good Fortune was also alive.

In order to retrieve the more than two hundred surviving Japanese soldiers on the south bank of the Yangtze River,

Commander Nagatani Kiyokawa of the Third Fleet had also put in a lot of effort.

Although it was at night, he still followed his plan.

He only sent requisitioned civilian ships across the river to pick up the Japanese soldiers on the south bank of the Yangtze River

and then transfer them to the Third Fleet's warships.

Commander Nagatani Kiyokawa knew how many Japanese soldiers the 22nd Brigade had when it departed.

He was even clearer about how many Japanese soldiers the 11th Battle Group had sent out.

The two teams combined had 14,500 Japanese soldiers.

As a result, the civilian ships he sent only loaded half a ship of Japanese soldiers.

And then there were no more!

There were no more Japanese soldiers behind!

Commander Nagatani Kiyokawa asked in disbelief, "Is this true?"

Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu was ashamed and angry, but he couldn't help but answer.

Commander Nagatani Kiyokawa was a general after all.

"Only this many warriors broke through," Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu answered, covering his face.

This feeling was even more uncomfortable than death.

At this time, he regretted why he hadn't been more resolute on the battlefield that afternoon.

At that time, committing seppuku could have earned him the title of a warrior.

Commander Nagatani Kiyokawa looked at the 1,300 Japanese soldiers of the Navy's 11th Battle Group, of whom only about thirty were still standing.

Judging by the survival rate, the proportion of naval survivors was slightly higher than that of the army.

Always think of the good things.

As long as you think about it this way, comparing each other to see who is worse,

Commander Nagatani Kiyokawa's mentality was finally balanced.

At least not a single airman had survived.

Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu could actually think that way.

He had led more than 13,000 Japanese soldiers, and at least more than 200 had returned.

Compared to the air force, which had no survivors, it was much better.

After receiving more than two hundred warriors who had broken through,

the Third Fleet no longer lingered and immediately returned downstream.

Commander Nagatani Kiyokawa only wanted to return to the harbor as soon as possible now.

In the dark night, he always felt that a pair of eyes were staring at his fleet.

Headquarters of the Central China Expeditionary Force: The battle situation in Dangtu.

Everyone in the entire headquarters knew about it.

Whether it was the senior staff officers or the service soldiers who added tea and water, everyone was afraid to make a sound while walking.

They didn't even dare to breathe loudly.

They were afraid of being targeted by Lieutenant General Yan Junroku, the commander of the Central China Expeditionary Force, whose eyes were bloodshot.

Commander Yan Junroku had already scolded his staff officers once tonight

and had thrown away many folders that had been submitted for instructions.

There was no way!

The carefully planned battle plan had encountered hell-level difficulty right from the start.

This was not what I wanted!

This was not what we planned!

All the staff officers in the entire headquarters had this idea.

They also couldn't understand how a team of more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers could lose 99 percent of its strength in one afternoon.

Even if it were 13,000 pigs, the Special Forces couldn't catch them all in one afternoon, right!

A cowardly soldier makes a unit cowardly, and a cowardly general makes an entire army cowardly.

The 22nd Brigade was obviously too cowardly because of Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu.

Implicating more than 13,000 warriors of the entire brigade, collectively dying for the Emperor.

The headquarters' plan was reasonable.

This plan must be reasonable and feasible.

The fault, of course, lay entirely with the Japanese soldiers who executed it below.

The most basic ordinary warriors were also qualified, and the only one who was unqualified and held a position without doing any work could only be Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu.

He should be sent to a military court!

A staff officer suggested.

Staff Officer Ashiki Yuki watched the performance of the entire headquarters: shouldn't they be discussing whether to continue the attack tomorrow at this time?

You must know that tomorrow morning, there were still two brigades that would launch an attack on the Moling Pass.

When all the officers in the entire headquarters of the Central China Expeditionary Force discovered that condemning Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu had become the right thing to do,

every staff officer was speaking out indignantly.

Even the errand-running service soldier spoke up:

"Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu is no good at fighting, but he's the best at eating and taking up more than his share.

Just the day before yesterday, when he came to the headquarters,

I added water to his teacup three times."

That's right!

The atmosphere, there must be such an atmosphere!

Find someone responsible, and everything this responsible person does is wrong.

Even the way he walks, taking the right foot first when going out, is a mistake.

Commander Yan Junroku listened to all the staff officers under him unanimously saying that Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu was wrong.

He was clear in his heart, but there was no expression on his face.

Staff Officer Ashiki Yuki listened to the entire headquarters criticizing Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu.

Silently!

Division Commander Yamawari Munetake of the 11th Division heard that Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu had buried the entire 22nd Brigade.

The anger in his heart could no longer be suppressed.

When had his 11th Division suffered such a great loss?

How could he tolerate this?

He must take revenge!

He rushed to the headquarters of the Central China Expeditionary Force overnight and requested to Commander Yan Junroku in person:

requesting to give the 11th Division a chance, a chance to avenge the Special Forces.

The 11th Division still had the 10th Infantry Brigade and could fight again.

Commander Yan Junroku of the Central China Expeditionary Force was also very disappointed!

Everyone said that a new official lights three fires upon taking office.

His first fire had just been lit when a bucket of cold water was poured on his face.

This was bone-chilling!

Now, Division Commander Yamawari Munetake still had a heart to fight again.

That was very good! Very good.

Commander Yan Junroku of the Central China Expeditionary Force solemnly ordered Division Commander Yamawari Munetake:

"Order the 10th Brigade to cooperate in attacking Moling Pass tomorrow.

We must turn a two-sided attack into a three-legged stand.

We must not fail this time."

"Yes!" Division Commander Yamawari Munetake accepted the task.

Commander Yan Junroku pondered:

"The personnel you have maintaining order in Nanjing City cannot be reduced.

After all, there are only two infantry divisions stationed in Nanjing."

This made it a bit difficult for Division Commander Yamawari Munetake.

Nanjing was fifteen kilometers away from Moling.

Thinking of this, he suggested to Commander Yan Junroku:

"This time, the attack on Moling Pass is fifteen kilometers away.

The 10th Brigade does not need to send a supply team. I will send the supply team to patrol the city.

This will not affect the combat effectiveness of the entire brigade, nor will it cause panic in the entire Nanjing City."

"Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!

For a dozen kilometers of road, the soldiers only need to carry dry food with them.

They can do without a supply team.

Patrolling the city with a supply team will not allow anyone to notice anything different."

Commander Yan Junroku gave the first praise of the night to Division Commander Yamawari Munetake.

Division Commander Nakajima Kengo of the 16th Division was also holding a military meeting.

The annihilation of the 22nd Brigade forced him to hold an emergency meeting overnight.

To let the brigade commanders, regimental commanders, and battalion commanders under his command study together:

to study how the 22nd Brigade had

buried the lives of more than 13,000 warriors in one afternoon.

The specific combat situation of the 22nd Infantry Brigade in the Battle of Dangtu was still unclear.

At this time, the information the 16th Division had obtained was:

The 22nd Brigade and the 11th Naval Battle Group encountered a sudden attack by the Special Forces while resting at noon.

Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu ordered the entire army to charge forward.

The charge was unsuccessful, so he ordered the entire army to retreat.

In the end, less than three hundred Japanese soldiers successfully retreated.

This was all the information the 16th Division had collected about the Battle of Dangtu.

There was also an interlude in the middle: the Central China Expeditionary Force and the Third Naval Fleet each sent a flight squadron to support.

The result was that both flight squadrons were wiped out!

Everyone died for the Emperor!

In fact, even without Chief of Staff Nakazawa Mitsuo introducing the situation, the officers of the 16th Division had heard some vague news.

Their news was incomplete, they only knew that the 11th Division had suffered a big setback this time.

Its ace 22nd Brigade had been completely annihilated.

Now, after listening to the situation introduced by Colonel Nakazawa Mitsuo, the chief of staff of the division,

the battalion commanders and regimental commanders understood: complete annihilation was false, at least more than two hundred Japanese soldiers had escaped.

And they knew from the chief of staff's introduction that among those who escaped were the brigade commander, regimental commander, and eight battalion commanders.

Only the cavalry regiment was truly completely annihilated.

But these were all minor details; the brigade commander and infantry regimental commanders had all returned alive.

When the supplementary soldiers from the country arrived next time, a complete 22nd Infantry Brigade would be resurrected with full health.

Tomorrow, the 16th Division would attack Chunhua and Tangshan, two places occupied by the Special Forces.

The purpose of Division Commander Nakajima Kengo holding a meeting with these senior officers now was only one:

not to repeat the mistakes of Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu.

The meeting had been going on for twenty minutes.

They had not yet discussed the mistakes Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu had made in commanding this battle.

Lieutenant General Sasaki Taro, commander of the 30th Infantry Brigade, perhaps because he and Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu were both brigade commanders and both lieutenant generals,

had a feeling of sympathy for each other and suddenly asked, "What exactly did Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu do wrong in the command of the Battle of Dangtu?"

This was a question!

A question that was not easy to answer!

This question was now also being raised in the headquarters of the 11th Division.

However, the person who raised the question was none other than Regimental Commander Mitsuhashi Kotaro of the 44th Regiment, who had retreated from Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu's brigade.

Learn from the past to guide the future!

The headquarters of the 11th Division was also discussing the gains and losses of the Battle of Dangtu, which had just ended.

Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu, who had just come down from the warship, and the remaining officers and soldiers of the entire brigade were brought over.

Division Commander Yamawari Munetake of the 11th Division had already organized all the officers above the battalion commander level in the entire division to wait.

They also wanted to understand the Special Forces' combat methods and characteristics

in order to avoid pitfalls in a targeted manner tomorrow.

The ordinary soldiers of the Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu Brigade were waiting outside.

All those who entered this conference room were officers of the battalion commander level or above.

Hearing the speech of the 44th Regimental Commander,

the entire conference room suddenly became silent.

They had all just listened to Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu's entire introduction of the battlefield situation.

Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu spent a full fifteen minutes telling all the battlefield situations he had learned and the orders he had issued in the afternoon.

Now was the time for the 10th Brigade, which was about to go to the battlefield tomorrow, to summarize the lessons.

Result: The officers present could not summarize the lessons.

To be honest: they could not find any major mistakes in Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu's command.

This...

Could it be that they should summarize: that the warriors of the Empire were too weak to break through the defense line set up by the Special Forces?

Although this was indeed the fact, it seemed that the warriors of the Empire had not actually engaged in combat with the Special Forces team that was blocking their way for too long.

Regimental Commander Huzama Sobu of the 43rd Regiment suddenly said:

"I personally commanded three battalions to attack the infantry positions of the Special Forces.

The mines they buried in front of the positions were too powerful.

The Goroichi Toyokazu Battalion, which attacked first, was only bombed once by their mines.

The entire battalion, a fully equipped infantry battalion, had fewer than two hundred warriors left.

Even so, our warriors did not turn around and run away.

They continued to attack until they all died for the Emperor!

The second infantry battalion was the same, they were attacked in the same position and suffered the same fate.

The ending was also the same."

"You mean mines that can kill more than a thousand Japanese soldiers at a time, are you telling the truth?" Division Chief of Staff Colonel Katamura Shito asked.

"It should be true, the Aoyama Hiroto Battalion encountered mines when they were retreating.

The entire battalion had no survivors.

I think that's why the brigade commander ordered us to take small roads instead of main roads when we retreated later," said Regimental Commander Mitsuhashi Kotaro.

"What kind of mine is this?

Did you find a specimen?" Division Commander Yamawari Munetake was a little excited.

The other Japanese soldiers in the entire division also became excited.

They believed that this was a groundbreaking weapon, and as long as they could master this weapon, they could use it to deal with the Special Forces.

"I don't know! We didn't find a single mine," Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu had to speak.

These Japanese soldiers under his command had finally helped him clear a lot of guilt.

This was very good!

In fact, until now, Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu himself had not summarized

where he had gone wrong

to cause so many Japanese soldiers to die in the entire 22nd Infantry Brigade.

It seemed that, from the beginning, his command had not made any mistakes.

But so many Japanese soldiers had died, and this was also a fact.

Could it be that the Japanese soldiers under his command were too weak and the Special Forces on the opposite side were too strong?

Regimental Commander Mitsuhashi Kotaro suddenly said: "It's not that our warriors are too weak,

it's that the Special Forces' artillery is too strong, and they even have airplanes.

Our artillery regiment is too weak, and the artillery regiment stopped fighting less than five minutes after the battle started.

Our air force is also too weak, they didn't fire a single bullet at the Special Forces' infantry on the battlefield.

The two flight squadrons seemed to have agreed to commit suicide in Dangtu.

Not a single plane flew out of the Special Forces' anti-aircraft fire.

The navy, which the Empire spent so much money to build, is also too weak.

The 11th Naval Battle Group abandoned their ships and ran ashore in less than ten minutes on the battlefield."

This summary was good!

I want to give you a perfect score!

Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu frantically praised Regimental Commander Mitsuhashi Kotaro in his heart.

Regimental Commander Mitsuhashi Kotaro's speech could be summarized in one sentence:

The infantry of the 22nd Brigade was brave, good at fighting, and dared to fight.

It was just that the teammates who cooperated were all worse than the other, and weaker than the other.

The artillery didn't fire, the planes didn't shoot, and the gunboats weren't on duty.

Only the infantry charged head-on, and the result became what it is now.

If only one teammate had given half a point of support, this battle would not have turned out like this.

Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu said indignantly.

Good fellow!

He could finally come out of the shadow of failure.

It turned out that today's failure was not caused by him.

Division Commander Yamawari Munetake frowned:

From the speeches of these Japanese soldiers, he learned that the Special Forces' planes were very powerful.

The Special Forces' artillery was very powerful, not only were the heavy artillery powerful, but they were also always able to hit the target when bombing.

Even the number of mortars and infantry guns was very large, and the 11th Naval Fleet was defeated by the infantry.

The Special Forces' infantry was also powerful, they occupied the mountains and blocked them, like copper walls and iron walls.

Making his infantry of the 22nd Brigade smash their heads and bleed, but they could not rush over.

After losing troops, they could only turn back!

But tomorrow, his 10th Brigade would not have any other artillery support.

Air support, would there be any?

This was a problem!

What if the same situation occurred again tomorrow?

At this time, Division Commander Yamawari Munetake felt that his act of running to request a battle overnight was a bit reckless.

Could he still apply to Commander Yan Junroku to withdraw the request for battle?

Everyone would pretend that nothing had happened!

The request for battle could not be withdrawn, and the battle tomorrow had to be carried out.

Knowing that the Special Forces' firepower was dense and powerful,

the 11th Division also summarized a method: when attacking tomorrow, they would adopt the method of small forces and large dispersion.

Try to prevent the Special Forces' artillery from achieving the goal of killing a large number of warriors of the Empire.

This was easy to achieve.

Lieutenant General Ametani Jiro, commander of the 10th Brigade, had decided that tomorrow's attack would use small teams as units as much as possible

to launch an attack on the positions occupied by the Special Forces.

The military summary meeting of the 11th Division continued, but they could no longer summarize any meaningful methods.

Division Commander Yamawari Munetake had no choice but to dismiss the meeting and let all the officers go back to rest.

The Japanese soldiers of the 10th Brigade had to set off early tomorrow to attack Moling Pass.

Although the decision to attack this time was made hastily and the plan was unprecedented,

this did not reduce the expectations of the entire Central China Expeditionary Force for the 10th Brigade.

The failure of the 22nd Infantry Brigade made the Japanese soldiers in the entire headquarters of the Central China Expeditionary Force,

especially Commander Yan Junroku, unable to accept another failure.

Division Commander Yamawari Munetake personally organized the preparations for the 10th Brigade's departure.

However, at this time, the supporting regiment that the 11th Division could produce had already been buried in yesterday's Battle of Dangtu.

At this time, the weapons, equipment, and personnel that the 10th Brigade could use were only its own two regiments.

Moreover, the supply team had to be left behind in these two regiments

to maintain order and security in Nanjing City.

The military meeting of the 16th Division was held for a longer time.

Division Commander Nakajima Kengo gathered the strength of all the staff officers, battalion commanders, and above in the entire division

in an attempt to find the obvious mistakes of Brigade Commander Kuroiwa Yoshikatsu in the Battle of Dangtu.

However, the news they had obtained was only bits and pieces, and they could not deduce any useful information.

Lieutenant General Sasaki Taro, commander of the 30th Brigade, solemnly stated:

"You need to be strong to forge iron, as long as the strength of the 16th Division is strong enough,

we are not afraid of any conspiracies and tricks of the Special Forces."

This attitude won the approval of all the Japanese soldiers present:

Water comes, earth covers it; soldiers come, generals block it!

The warriors of the Empire have never feared any team.

Even so, Division Commander Nakajima Kengo still ordered the commander of the 16th Brigade, which was attacking Tangshan:

"If the Special Forces resist strongly, you can postpone the attack."

This was because the 16th Brigade's direction of Tangshan only had two infantry regiments.

The 30th Brigade in the direction of Chunhua was assigned two infantry regiments.

There were also cavalry, field artillery, engineer, and supply regiments.

The strength and combat effectiveness of the 30th Brigade in the direction of Chunhua were significantly higher.

Division Commander Nakajima Kengo's meaning was very clear: if the Special Forces were really as strong as in the Battle of Dangtu,

the two-pronged attack of the 16th Division would become a single-knife breakthrough.

Only concentrate the strength to attack by the 30th Brigade to avoid the entire 16th Brigade from being severely damaged.

The plan was finally settled, and it was almost dawn.

The sun on the morning of March 3, 1938, was the same as it had been for the past tens of billions of years.

It still rose from the east.

The infantry of the 30th Brigade of the 16th Division, who had been prepared for a long time, walked out of the Gaoqiao Gate with great ambition.

The distance from Gaoqiao Gate to Chunhua Town was only ten kilometers.

Lieutenant General Sasaki Taro set up his brigade command post here at Gaoqiao Gate.

Although Gaoqiao Gate was ten kilometers away from Chunhua Town, that was the distance to Chunhua Town.

The actual distance to the Special Forces' defensive positions in Chunhua was only about seven kilometers.

In order not to be bombarded by the Special Forces' artillery, the teams sent out by the 30th Infantry Brigade marched in company-sized units.

Today, Lieutenant General Sasaki Taro decided to advance step by step, with a company of infantry covering a squad of engineers

walking in the front to detect mines to prevent being bombed by the Special Forces' mines.

At the same time, the entire 30th Brigade also spread out the attacking front very wide, using this method to deal with the Special Forces' heavy artillery bombardment

and built a position for the 22nd Field Artillery Regiment in the Shangfang Town in front of Chunhua.

They were here to prepare to provide artillery support to the infantry regiment attacking Chunhua.

The 30th Infantry Brigade's actions throughout the morning were very smooth, and the Special Forces on the opposite side remained calm.

The two sides did not break out in the slightest conflict.

The 19th Brigade, which was attacking Tangshan, made even smoother progress.

Although they encountered strong resistance from the Special Forces soldiers,

the 9th Regiment under the 19th Brigade, through the morning's attack,

its vanguard team had broken into Tangshan

and occupied two mountains held by the Special Forces.

Although there were no casualties on either side, it was a very good start to be able to seize the position.

Brigade Commander Kusayama Tatsumi kept in mind the division commander's order to fight steadily and ordered the Katagiri Kyuro Regiment, which was at the forefront, to stabilize its position in a timely manner

and then continue to attack.

Yang Daren of the 7th Regiment, which defended Tangshan for the Special Forces, heard the report:

After the Japanese soldiers occupied two mountains, they had stopped their momentum of continuing to attack.

They stopped in place.

This made Yang Daren very depressed:

The Japanese soldiers who came to attack this time were too ignorant.

The team sent out to attack did not even have a battalion.

Only a squad was sent to the front, and fifty or so Japanese soldiers charged.

Behind this squad, there were only about a hundred Japanese soldiers pressing forward.

Farther away, there was a battalion of Japanese soldiers guarding.

In this case, the 7th Regiment was unwilling to use the prepared means.

It was too wasteful to destroy only one squad by fighting the Japanese soldiers once.

Yesterday, the 3rd, 10th, and 13th Regiments had completely annihilated a Japanese brigade in Dangtu!

According to the way the Japanese soldiers were fighting today, it would not be possible to completely annihilate a brigade in a month.

Therefore, Yang Daren made a plan to abandon the position and lure the enemy deeper.

As a result, the Japanese soldiers only occupied two positions and did not continue to attack forward.

It seemed that they wanted to stop here?

Speechless!

The Japanese soldiers, who had always been arrogant and always moved forward bravely, suddenly became cautious.

This made Yang Daren very unaccustomed.

Yang Daren got through to Lin Fan's phone and told him about the Japanese soldiers' unusual actions in detail.

Lin Fan listened patiently to Yang Daren's complaint.

After listening, he said easily: "The Japanese soldiers have become cautious.

It shows that they also realize that we are an opponent that needs to be taken seriously.

It doesn't matter what the opponent does when fighting.

The important thing is: how can we make the opponent do what we want.

A good commander can not only mobilize his own troops,

but also mobilize the enemy's troops to move according to his own ideas.

I'll give you eight words: 'There are no constant tactics, adapt to circumstances!' (bing wu chang shi, sui ji ying bian)"

Yang Daren smiled bitterly: "I know all eight words, but it's too difficult to understand when they are put together. Adapt to circumstances?

How to change?

To make the Japanese soldiers rush over along the highway like a swarm,

and then use the directional bombs that I have painstakingly arranged for the past few months, boom

The Japanese soldiers will be wiped out, and everything will be over."

The Japanese soldiers were too cunning and did not follow his plan.

Zhen Danxiao also encountered the same problem in Chunhua, the Japanese soldiers were pressing closer step by step, but they did not launch an attack.

This made people feel a little uncomfortable.

Chunhua, Tangshan, Moling, and Jurong were the most important fronts of the Special Forces.

Liu Ziqian's communications regiment gave special treatment to these places and connected their phones.

The phones in these places could be connected to each other.

Zhen Danxiao and Yang Daren, the two regimental commanders guarding the front line of Jurong, also talked to each other.

They both learned from each other that the Japanese soldiers had changed.

They were no longer as reckless and impulsive as before.

The two regimental commanders missed the past when thousands of Japanese soldiers were killed in one explosion.

They also accepted that in the future, when fighting the Japanese soldiers, they would have to accept this way of fighting, counting them one by one.

Lin Fan, who was staying in Jurong, received a call from Regimental Commander Ding Zimin, who was defending Moling Pass.

Regimental Commander Ding reported on the phone: "It was discovered that a battalion of Japanese soldiers had set off from Nanjing City and were heading towards Moling Pass.

The troops deployed on the riverbank did not discover any Japanese soldiers retreating from Dangtu."

Lin Fan immediately ordered on the phone: "Withdraw the troops deployed on the riverbank and defend with all your strength.

Yesterday, I had already ordered the 10th Regiment, and they will arrive at Moling Pass to reinforce us before 6 pm today.

Report any situations at any time!"

The Japanese soldiers really temporarily sent a team to Moling Pass.

The Japanese soldiers were beaten too hard yesterday, and today these Japanese soldiers have become timid.

This was not a good thing.

Although Lin Fan spoke easily to Battalion Commander Yang on the phone, in fact, he still liked the Japanese soldiers who were arrogant and did not take the Special Forces seriously at all.

Unfortunately, from today onwards, those good days were over.

Commander Yan Junroku of the Central China Expeditionary Force was paying more attention to the battle around Nanjing than to the north-south pincer attack on Xuzhou.

When he heard that the 16th Division was attacking so cautiously today,

although he did not give specific instructions, he was actually a little impatient in his heart.

What he wanted was for his troops to use a sweeping momentum

to occupy Jurong in one fell swoop, drive away the Special Forces, or even annihilate them in one fell swoop.

Instead of this kind of probing attack now.

However, the lesson of the 22nd Brigade was still there, and he did not dare to urge them.

He could only bear it silently, hoping that the brigade commanders under his command could understand that his first fire as a new official needed to burn quickly.

Lin Fan now not only had to worry about the battle in which the Japanese army was attacking the Special Forces on three routes,

but also had to discuss cooperation with the business delegation led by Ambassador Eisenhower Jason.

Lin Fan's request was very simple: to use the mineral deposits and markets in the Special Forces' current territory to introduce a complete set of industrial production systems.

The Special Forces would invest a part, borrow a part from the US government, and each representative company would invest a part.

The Special Forces would be responsible for the domestic product sales, and each delegation's company would be responsible for the overseas sales.

The two sides had only reached a consensus on the point of cooperation.

Each representative company was somewhat conservative on the amount of investment, but the shares they demanded greatly exceeded the proportion of the investment.

This made the negotiation somewhat unable to continue.

But this cooperation, Lin Fan was anxious in his heart, and the Americans on the business delegation were also anxious!

Although it was only the beginning of March, as the elite class of the entire country and the contributors during the presidential election,

the people in these delegations knew the policies of the entire country next.

That was why they were willing to come here to discuss cooperation with the Special Forces.

They saw the sincerity of the Special Forces' cooperation.

But this Lin Fan, for some reason, the conditions he put forward were all so uncomfortable.

It was not that those conditions were unacceptable.

It was just that

they were different from what these cunning businessmen in the entire business delegation had thought.

What they thought was: in such a backward agricultural country, and it was a time of war, and this Special Forces was just a small warlord.

Of course, these people wanted to take as many shares and benefits as possible when cooperating with him.

They never thought that this Lin Fan actually wanted to share the benefits equally with these people.

This made people uncomfortable.

If they were cooperating with the government of a country without war, the conditions that Lin Fan had put forward

were acceptable to them.

Lin Fan was anxious in his heart, but he could not show it now.

And he had a very good excuse: his research institute on fungi in Jurong needed his guidance.

The first generation of strains he made at the beginning

had been carefully taken care of by Gong Guangliang, You Liangjun, and Xie Weixiu.

Now they had been cultured to the third generation.

These strains had begun to be used in the cottonseed hull culture medium cultivation stage.

The next step was to try formal production.

However, shiitake mushrooms have a very long growth cycle.

On the other hand, the production cycle of black fungus and white fungus was about two months.

What made Lin Fan especially happy was that he had finally cultivated the oyster mushroom strain.

This was the fastest way to make money.

His strain production room was strictly confidential to the outside world.

Those Americans only knew that Lin Fan was doing research on some production technologies.

It was normal if they could not find Lin Fan sometimes.

In fact, Lin Fan did not deliberately neglect this business delegation.

Lin Fan was very satisfied with the three planes that had gone to the battlefield for the first time yesterday.

He had already asked the manufacturing plant in Changxing to build nine more of these planes.

At the same time, he also asked them to start trial production of helicopters.

Lin Fan believed that the biggest difficulty for helicopters now was the three propeller blades and the rotating shaft.

At this time,

in order to reduce weight, the entire helicopter was made of wood everywhere