Chapter 1 When Mao Wenxing Received the Takeoff Order, His Heart Was Still Somewhat Uneasy

In the past, his planes were all parked in Guangde, after the Brigade Commander had inspected them with the Americans.

Mao Wenxing's reconnaissance plane was then stationed in Jurong.

The flight route was still fixed every day. The Brigade Commander's requirement was to patrol the Special Operations Brigade's area of jurisdiction every day.

After two consecutive months, he knew the situation around the Special Operations Brigade like the back of his hand.

The Brigade Commander had also specifically instructed him: If encountering a Japanese fighter plane pursuit,

First, reduce altitude and fly back, immediately notify the ground by radio, and prepare for a response.

Now the Special Operations Brigade has set up anti-aircraft guns in several county towns.

Temporary runways have also been built outside various county towns.

These preparations made by Lin Fan are to quickly dispatch teams from various locations to the scene in case of emergencies.

Quickly reaching the battlefield and protecting his soldiers and civilians.

These are all very important.

Mao Wenxing could feel the Brigade Commander's care for every soldier from these arrangements of the Special Operations Brigade.

He had no other skills, so he could only try harder to familiarize himself with the Special Operations Brigade's territory.

To become even more familiar, so that every day when he looked down from the sky, he could know what place it was.

And whether there was any difference from the ground surface in the previous two days.

Today was different from the previous days. His mission today was to act as the eyes for the artillery.

He had done this kind of thing once before in Mogan Mountain.

That time had a very profound impact.

With the experience of the last time, he was of course more confident this time.

In fact, right after the last time he directed the artillery bombardment in Mogan Mountain,

Upon returning to the ground, Lin Fan ordered the artillery defending Guangde Airport to add an artillery class to all pilots and

flight cadets.

It specifically explained how to report the target's position to the artillery after seeing it in the air.

After the artillery fired shells and created impact points, how to use the most accurate and simple language to direct the artillery to adjust the impact point.

Mao Wenxing called this gun calibration.

Today, he was to be responsible for discovering the Japanese and calibrating the guns.

When Mao Wenxing was flying his reconnaissance plane over the Yangtze River in the Dangtu section,

It was easy for him to spot the Japanese gunboats and Japanese infantry.

The eleven gunboats parked along the river were somewhat large compared to the Yangtze River.

In reality, there were still many fishing boats and cargo ships parked along both sides of the Yangtze River.

But there were just too many Japanese resting by the river.

More than thirteen thousand Japanese, some were staying by the river, and some were resting on the railway.

They stretched continuously along the river, with Japanese activity throughout a five-kilometer range.

This target was too conspicuous.

Mao Wenxing saw the Japanese infantry formation at a glance, and then noticed the eleven gunboats by the river.

Lin Fan watched his reconnaissance plane fly overhead.

A flag was erected above the artillery position.

This flag was the origin point. Everything Mao Wenxing saw from the air had to be calculated based on this origin point.

Mao Wenxing kept reporting what he saw.

Lin Fan stood on a distant hill, carefully listening to this intelligence.

Commanding four heavy artillery companies to adjust the direction of their guns.

The four companies sent by Jia Shusheng and the ten companies of Gao Wenxuan's entire regiment had already sneaked into position one kilometer to the left front of the Japanese.

Although their group numbered more than two thousand people,

They were very careful along the way and did not alarm anyone.

Now Jia Shusheng and Gao Wenxuan were standing on the hilltop.

They had already spotted the Japanese.

Through binoculars, they saw the Japanese gunboats parked by the river.

They estimated the distance to be about two thousand five hundred meters.

The vanguard of the Japanese army was only one kilometer away at the closest point.

But there were not many of them, only a little over a hundred Japanese.

The main force of the Japanese army was concentrated two kilometers away.

This time, there were too many Japanese soldiers, densely packed and endless.

The ten companies of Li Zhize's regiment and Feng Junya's four artillery companies were also one kilometer to the left rear of the Japanese.

They could not directly see the Japanese, but could only locate the Japanese through Mao Wenxing's report.

Lin Fan ordered: Feng Junya's four artillery companies, target the eleven Japanese gunboats parked on the riverbank.

The four companies of the Third Regiment and the ten companies of Gao Wenxuan's regiment concentrated all their artillery fire to bombard the front section of the Japanese troops.

Li Zhize's ten companies concentrated all their artillery fire to bombard the rear section of the Japanese formation.

Jia Shusheng proposed a new suggestion to Lin Fan: They could visually see the Japanese gunboats.

He suggested that the Third Regiment and the Thirteenth Regiment first bombard the Japanese gunboats.

Striving to kill the Japanese soldiers on the gunboats without sinking the gunboats,

And capture the Japanese gunboats!

Feng Junya's heavy artillery would deal with the Japanese infantry.

Miserliness can be contagious. Lin Fan wanted to take possession of anything good he saw.

Jia Shusheng was the same.

These days, he had been stationed in Dangtu, seeing fishing boats and cargo ships going back and forth on the Yangtze River,

But he didn't have a single boat himself, which made him feel somewhat uncomfortable.

Today, he finally discovered the Japanese gunboats.

And immediately took a fancy to them.

These gunboats were not big, which made them even more suitable for his use.

Of course, Lin Fan also knew how much such gunboats would improve the Special Operations Brigade's combat effectiveness in the Jiangnan water towns.

Japanese gunboats under one thousand tons could have their bridge blown off by mortar shells, killing the Japanese manpower.

But it was really not easy to sink those gunboats.

Thinking of this, Lin Fan accepted Jia Shusheng's suggestion.

The target of the heavy regiments was changed to the Japanese infantry, and the target of the Third Regiment and the Thirteenth Regiment was changed to the gunboats.

With an order, Feng Junya's four artillery companies, a total of twenty-nine 150mm Krupp howitzers and twelve 88mm anti-aircraft guns,

Tensely calculated the firing data and adjusted the angle of the cannons according to the distance and direction provided by Mao Wenxing.

They had just been aiming at the gunboats, and now they needed to readjust.

The mortars, infantry guns, mountain guns, and field guns of each infantry regiment were the same.

Although the target was the same, the performance of various artillery pieces was different, and the firing data that needed to be set was very different.

Five minutes later, Lin Fan ordered via radio: "Fire!"

The latest wireless radios purchased from Hong Kong had now been distributed to every company.

Lin Fan's order now reached every company in this area.

"Boom! Boom boom!" The sounds were endless.

Mao Wenxing in the air only saw countless shells flying from a distance and falling towards the position where the Japanese were staying.

Twenty-nine shells weighing more than ninety pounds each, all hit the Japanese infantry formation on the shore.

These shells created large pits two meters deep and four meters in diameter when they exploded on the ground.

Especially those shells that exploded on the railway subgrade, they themselves had more than two thousand eight hundred shrapnel pieces.

And they also blasted out the crushed stones covering the subgrade.

The power of each stone was no less than that of a bullet.

There was a phenomenon in the Special Operations Brigade: the division commander with the earlier regiment number had more say.

Just like the Third Regiment Commander Jia Shusheng's suggestion just now, it was accepted by the Brigade Commander as soon as it was proposed.

Clearly, the Third Regiment only had four companies here, while the Thirteenth Regiment had ten companies here.

The two regiments were now fighting in the same direction.

Regiment Commander Shang Wenxuan consciously handed over the command of the entire regiment to Jia Shusheng.

And he looked very cooperative.

Jia Shusheng was not polite, and numbered the eleven Japanese gunboats parked on the riverbank from near to far.

The ten companies of Regiment Commander Shang Wenxuan bombarded gunboats number one to ten in the order of company one to company ten.

The four companies under Jia Shusheng's command bombarded in reverse order from far to near.

Company one and company two bombarded gunboat number eleven, company three bombarded gunboat number ten, and company four bombarded gunboat number nine.

The artillery company of the Third Regiment stayed in Dangtu as a precaution and did not come along.

The artillery regiment of the Thirteenth Regiment did follow.

The two mountain guns and two field guns of this artillery company were being adjusted according to Jia Shusheng's order.

With Lin Fan's order, the five mortars and two infantry guns of each company all bombarded their targets.

Jia Shusheng could see that some of the gunboats parked on the riverbank were hit and some were not.

With so many artillery pieces firing at the same time, it was impossible to observe the impact point of his own cannon.

Fortunately, the mortar had a fast firing rate, so whether it hit or not, it continued to fire.

On the other hand, the crater blasted out by the 150mm howitzer was obviously different.

Mao Wenxing circled in the sky, continuing to guide these heavy guns to adjust their positions.

Commander Shinka Reo of the 11th Squadron of the Japanese Third Fleet was chatting about ideals with Brigade Commander Kuroyama Yoshikatsu when

they were brought back to reality by a sudden bombardment of artillery shells from the sky.

He quickly jumped up and rushed towards his gunboat, "Ataka."

Brigade Commander Kuroyama Yoshikatsu also stood up and calmly pointed to the left front, ordering: "Artillery, return fire!

Infantry Unit Commander Hazama Kanade sends a battalion to attack forward.

The remaining regiments send teams to occupy the high ground.

Prepare to counterattack!"

Judging from the direction the shells were flying, Brigade Commander Kuroyama Yoshikatsu could see that the entire brigade was under attack from two directions.

But he was not afraid.

Soldiers would block when they came, and earth would dam the water.

The 11th Mountain Artillery Regiment, which received the order, began to take emergency action.

Regiment Commander Ayakoji Yuki ordered the soldiers to deploy on the spot and prepare to fire nervously.

They were just planning to rest here, have lunch, and then continue moving forward.

All the cannons were still in traveling mode.

It would take time to immediately deploy and return fire.

On the other hand, the 43rd Infantry Regiment was the fastest.

Regiment Commander Hazama Kanade of the 40th Regiment shouted: "Gorobe Yutaka Battalion, attack immediately!"

The Japanese soldiers of the Gorobe Yutaka Battalion had already begun to scramble for cover when the shells were bombing.

When the Battalion Commander received the order to attack forward, he waved the command knife in his hand and pointed forward:

"Charge!"

These Japanese soldiers, who had just been running around like headless flies,

Found their backbone all of a sudden, with the battalion commanding the company, and the company commanding the squad.

They quickly gathered and attacked forward.

Jia Shusheng and Shang Wenxuan also issued orders: "Each company set up directional mines in front of the position.

Dig trenches on the spot and prepare for defense!"

If the Japanese retreated backward, they would prepare to pursue and kill them.

If the Japanese took the initiative to attack, they would defend on the spot.

Li Zhize's 10th Regiment had already launched an attack on the mountain ahead before Lin Fan even began to order the bombardment.

They wanted to occupy the high ground as quickly as possible after the shells exploded.

Just now, they were afraid that exposing their position in advance would be alarming.

Since the shelling had begun, everything was out in the open.

Attacking the Japanese from a high position could achieve the best combat effectiveness.

And it was also one of the best ways to fight the Japanese.

Today, Lin Fan did not necessarily have to wipe out the entire brigade of Japanese troops here.

From this position, the Japanese would have to travel a long forty kilometers to retreat back to Nanjing City.

Every step on this road would be a grave for the Japanese.

In the final analysis, Lin Fan just didn't want the soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade to suffer too many losses.

The main purpose of being in this place was to drive the Japanese back, and it would be easier to fight them on their way back.

Regiment Commander Li Zhize understood Lin Fan's intentions.

His current goal was just to seize the mountain ahead, and at the same time, try to annihilate as many Japanese troops as possible here.

Regiment Commander Yuichi Shotaro of the 11th Transportation Regiment heard the sound of explosions coming from ahead.

And immediately ordered his Japanese soldiers to quickly seize the mountains on the left side.

His infantry regiment had more than 1,200 Japanese soldiers.

Regiment Commander Yuichi Shotaro ordered half of the Japanese soldiers to seize the mountains, and half of the Japanese soldiers to protect the supplies.

It was not only his regiment that was doing this when the bombing started at the front.

The entire 22nd Brigade had two infantry regiments, as well as a cavalry regiment, a mountain artillery regiment, and an engineer regiment.

The regiment commanders of these regiments

Were all ordering their troops to first seize a high ground and establish a defensive circle.

The Japanese 22nd Brigade, which stretched for five kilometers, instantly demonstrated its combat qualities.

These troops were all marching along the railway line, and the high ground was all on the left side.

Mao Wenxing, who was flying in the sky, saw that the artillery fire had started, and in less than a minute,

Dozens of black lines extended from the railway line, all climbing towards the high ground.

From his current height, he could see that the mountain that Li Zhize's 10th Regiment wanted to seize also had Japanese infantry charging towards it.

Looking at the distance, the Japanese were much closer.

It could be clearly seen that when the Japanese occupied the mountain, the 10th Regiment was still halfway up the mountain.

How could this be tolerated?

Mao Wenxing maneuvered his plane and dove down.

And specifically strafed the Japanese soldiers who were completely exposed and charging towards the mountain.

Regiment Commander Yuichi Shotaro watched the Japanese soldiers he had sent out quickly charge towards the mountain.

And were suddenly strafed by a plane circling in the sky.

"Is this... is this still the Empire's reconnaissance plane?"

All along, the Japanese soldiers had thought that the reconnaissance plane circling in the sky was their own.

Lin Fan's combat orders had been issued, and planes from Changxing and Guangde took off.

The three planes that took off from Changxing were the attack planes that the Special Operations Brigade had been researching on its own during this time.

Lin Fan named it the Long Teng (Dragon Soar) Generation One.

Lin Fan's original intention in designing this type of aircraft was only one: ground attack!

He abandoned speed and defense, and only strengthened attack and air loitering capabilities.

Three Long Teng Generation One planes, equipped with four machine guns each, were manufactured.

Today was to be used for actual combat testing.

Mao Wenxing's reconnaissance plane had two machine guns on it, and he strafed the Japanese soldiers who were climbing.

And immediately disrupted the rhythm of these Japanese soldiers seizing the high ground.

Regiment Commander Yuichi Shotaro didn't understand why, on such a long line, with so many Japanese soldiers seizing the mountains,

Why was only his transport team being attacked?

Just as it had this thought in mind,

The plane in the sky seemed to have heard its thoughts, and strafed all the way along the mountainside.

Regiment Commander Yuichi Shotaro suddenly felt a sense of balance.

Mao Wenxing strafed all the way until he reached the position bombed by the Special Operations Brigade's artillery.

Then he turned and flew higher.

He could not fly at low altitude in a position being bombed by artillery.

It would be a tragedy if he was shot down by his own artillery.

Li Zhize was now a regiment commander, and when he fought, he was the same as when he was a company commander.

He was still charging in the front, and when he led Company One up the mountain,

He discovered that the reconnaissance plane that had been flying back and forth on the other side of the mountain

Was actually solely responsible for intercepting the Japanese from seizing the high ground.

Company One had just climbed to the high ground and saw that the Japanese were less than a hundred meters away and working hard.

Two mountains in the distance that the 10th Regiment wanted to occupy had already been seized by the Japanese.

The 10th Regiment's original goal this time was to seize five mountains, but the Japanese seized two mountains, and they only occupied three mountains.

Just after climbing to the top of the mountain, the 10th Regiment, which had not yet gained a firm foothold, immediately opened fire on the Japanese soldiers who were coming to seize the position.

The Japanese soldiers on the other two mountains were also the same: they immediately opened fire on the 10th Regiment soldiers who were approaching the top of the mountain.

Regiment Commander Li Zhize had sent five companies to seize the mountains this time, but the speed of Company Three and Company Five was a little slower than the Japanese.

They had not yet rushed up, and were being suppressed by the Japanese who had occupied the high ground.

The newly formed artillery company of the 10th Regiment was not happy: the four cannons immediately fired at the Japanese soldiers on those two mountains.

The other four infantry companies, which were still serving as a reserve force in the distance, also concentrated their mortars and infantry guns to bombard the Japanese soldiers on those two mountains.

Company Commander Gu Wenwei of Company Three had come out of Nanjing with Li Zhize.

They were both instructors in the Central Training Corps.

Today, in seizing the mountains, his company had not won against the Japanese.

Gu Wenwei was very unhappy.

The company commander had to command his heavy machine guns to suppress the firepower of the Japanese soldiers on the mountain.

And ordered the infantry guns in the rear to target the Japanese machine gun firepower and fire.

Takebayashi Rokushichi Squad belonged to the 11th Engineer Regiment, and just as the shells exploded,

Regiment Commander Fujita Kaede ordered this squad to quickly seize the high ground nearby.

Squad Leader Takebayashi Rokushichi led the entire squad of Japanese soldiers and finally quickly rushed to the top of the mountain.

As soon as they arrived at the top of the mountain, they saw a National Army team rushing up from the other side.

The distance between the two sides was less than a hundred meters.

Squad Leader Takebayashi Rokushichi immediately ordered to open fire, and there was no time to dig trenches or fortifications.

Relying on the natural forests and stones on the mountain to establish a defense.

As soon as the guns fired, the National Army team, which had just been charging desperately, all lay down.

The Japanese soldiers of the Takebayashi Rokushichi Squad had not had time to catch their breath when they were immediately met with intensive artillery fire.

The fact that this squad had occupied the mountain and was being bombarded was seen by Regiment Commander Fujita Kaede.

The 11th Engineer Regiment immediately sent another team of two hundred people to come up to support.

The 11th Engineer Regiment had only six hundred Japanese soldiers in total.

Regiment Commander Fujita Kaede did not dare to send all the Japanese soldiers to seize the mountains. He had to leave a group of Japanese soldiers behind to wait for the regimental commander's orders at any time.

Although the most that this regiment could send was three hundred Japanese soldiers to seize the mountains,

Not far from the engineer regiment, there was also a battalion of the 44th Infantry Regiment.

Battalion Commander Aoyama Yuto received the request, and although he could not see the situation clearly at the moment,

The mountain next to the railway was to be occupied.

In fact, when a infantry squad of his position rushed up the mountain, they did not encounter any resistance at all.

There were actually National Army soldiers appearing on the neighboring mountain?

Engineers only built bridges and paved roads. Fighting still had to be done by the infantry.

Battalion Commander Aoyama Yuto felt a sense of superiority.

Someone was seizing it, so of course he had to pay attention to it, although he was not sure: the National Army seized a few of the many mountains along the way.

Could it be that they wanted to encircle the entire brigade here?

Battalion Commander Aoyama Yuto speculated on the motives of the Special Operations Brigade

While sending the Nakazono Koki Company to support the engineer regiment.

Mao Wenxing saw in the air that the Japanese infantry had occupied almost all of the high ground along the railway line five minutes after being attacked.

The Special Operations Brigade only seized the three mountains at the very end, and two mountains were still being contested.

One mountain was at the very end, and no Japanese soldiers had gone to seize it at all.

The two mountains that were being contested were very close to each other.

At the same time, there was artillery fire from the 10th Regiment, and Mao Wenxing's plane did not dare to go there again.

He pulled the plane up and flew higher to see the overall situation of the entire battlefield.

The Japanese soldiers in the front of the 22nd Brigade were about to reach the front of the positions of the Third Regiment and the Thirteenth Regiment.

However, the artillery of these two regiments was still bombarding the Japanese gunboats parked on the riverbank.

Of the original eleven gunboats, two had capsized on the riverbank at this time.

Were they blasted by artillery shells? Or did the Japanese soldiers capsize the gunboats themselves because they were too excited?

Mao Wenxing could not observe this now.

The remaining nine gunboats had been blasted beyond recognition by artillery shells, but although those gunboats had not started,

They were still stubbornly firing at the positions of the Third Regiment and the Thirteenth Regiment.

These gunboats also had cannons on them, but this distance did not allow the machine guns on the gunboats to play much of a role.

But these gunboats, whether machine guns or cannons, were still persisting in firing.

Although, looking down from the sky, many of their machine guns and cannons had gone silent.

On the flagship "Ataka" of the 11th Squadron: Commander Shinka Reo was loudly ordering all the gunboats to advance forward.

To break into the Special Operations Brigade position in front of them and bombard them.

Getting closer would allow them to bring the power of the machine guns into full play.

After his order was issued, all the ships replied that they had received the order.

The "Ataka" gunboat also began to start, trying to rush out.

What Commander Shinka Reo did not expect was that not a single gunboat in the entire squadron could start.

This was embarrassing: the intensive artillery fire had long caused a lot of damage to these gunboats.

The crew suffered heavy casualties, and the decks were covered with crew corpses.

The weapons were also severely damaged.

The "Katata" and "Lotus" gunboats reported: a large hole had been blown in the side of the hull by artillery shells.

River water was entering, and it was impossible to stop the leak.

Request to abandon ship! Could Commander Shinka Reo say no to such a request?

The crew members on those two gunboats who retreated to the shore did not number fifty.

Originally, there should have been two hundred and thirty-six Japanese soldiers on these two gunboats.

Commander Shinka Reo immediately understood: those two gunboats had suffered much greater damage.

Even so, Commander Shinka Reo was now regretting not listening to the commander's words.

When he set out, Third Fleet Commander Hase Seikawa had personally told him: the march must follow the north bank of the river.

Stay away from the south bank of the Yangtze River. Only open over here during operations, and run back to the north of the Yangtze River after hitting.

Commander Hase Seikawa was a very careful commander, and he had suffered a great loss in Jiangyin.

Both the air force and the navy had been well educated by Lin Fan.

Since capturing Nanjing, his fleet had not been attacked, so he had relaxed a bit.

A few days ago, he received a report from Battalion Commander Kondo Yamasato of Yuxikou.

The past came back to mind.

Therefore, he gave the order to the entire fleet to sail along the north bank of the river.

As a result, Commander Shinka Reo naively believed that with the 22nd Brigade on land, the 11th Squadron would sail close by.

In this way, the water and land routes would form a pincer, which could support each other.

He had never imagined that the National Army would be so brave.

That they would dare to take the initiative to attack an imperial brigade.

Commander Shinka Reo never expected that Brigade Commander Kuroyama Yoshikatsu would be so bold.

That he would not place a reconnaissance team in front of the marching road.

Now his entire 11th Squadron was blocked on the riverbank, unable to escape.

Want to fight?

Only the cannons on the gunboats could hit the other side.

But the Special Operations Brigade was simultaneously carrying out precise strikes on the eleven gunboats.

Now that two warships had capsized,

The two companies that had just bombarded these two warships had shifted their targets.

Jia Shusheng did not think there was anything wrong with the gunboats capsizing.

On the contrary, he became excited and shouted into the radio:

"Just follow the way Company Ten hits, and capsize the Japanese gunboats!"

He reported to Lin Fan: "Report to the Brigade Commander! The Japanese gunboats have been bombarded by us and are stopped in place, unable to move.

Two gunboats have capsized.

The remaining gunboats are still fighting back, but they have not escaped."

"Continue to bombard! Hold on." Lin Fan replied simply.

Under Mao Wenxing's guidance, Feng Junya and his regiment continued to bombard the Japanese infantry along the railway line.

The five-kilometer-long Japanese infantry line was all within the range of the twenty-nine heavy guns.

Brigade Commander Kuroyama Yoshikatsu ordered the troops to attack forward and occupy the mountain on the left as soon as they were bombarded.

Now he had reacted: the Special Operations Brigade had fierce firepower, and now it was also dividing a portion of its artillery fire to bombard the fleet.

If that batch of artillery fire returned to the shore,

He couldn't imagine whether his troops would be able to withstand it.

Fortunately, after five minutes, the 11th Mountain Artillery Regiment finally completed its deployment and began to fire at the Third Regiment and the Thirteenth Regiment in front.

Mao Wenxing discovered that the Japanese artillery regiment had fired at the first time!

He immediately guided the 150mm howitzers to bombard the Japanese artillery positions deployed along the railway line.

Regiment Commander Ayakoji Yuki of the 11th Mountain Artillery Regiment shouted: "Fire! Fire forward."

His artillery regiment had thirty-six 75mm mountain guns.

Only twenty-four cannons had been deployed, and twelve more mountain guns were being deployed.

Although the twenty-four shells had not hit Jia Shusheng and the others,

It also made the Third Regiment nervous.

As long as the Japanese continued to fire, they would always adjust the impact point.

The Third Regiment and the Thirteenth Regiment could only continue their target, risking being bombarded by the Japanese artillery fire.

Five minutes after the start of the battle, not many Japanese soldiers from the 22nd Brigade were actually participating in the battle.

Only the Japanese soldiers at both ends of their formation had been attacked.

The 11th Mountain Artillery Regiment was in the middle of the entire brigade's marching formation.

They had just fired and bombarded the Special Operations Brigade in front of them

When they were met with the first round of heavy artillery bombardment in less than two minutes.

A communications team of Japanese soldiers marching next to the mountain artillery regiment.

A 150mm caliber howitzer exploded inside the communications team.

In an instant, of the more than two hundred Japanese soldiers in the entire communications team, only forty or so were still standing.

The Japanese soldiers, who had just been gathered together, ready to move to the hillside, suddenly fell to the ground.

Far away from those groaning and screaming Japanese soldiers, at a distance of eighty meters, a huge crater suddenly appeared.

The doctors and nurses of the First Field Hospital following behind the communications team immediately had something to do.

They rushed to the battlefield and began to carry down the wounded Japanese soldiers.

Director Muto Akishi of the First Field Hospital looked around: he wanted to find a safe place to gather the wounded.

Looking from here, smoke was everywhere in front of him, and the sound of artillery was booming, making it unsuitable for establishing a temporary field hospital.

Not far behind him, there was also intense gunfire, and the battlefield here was full of gunfire.

Its field hospital could not be established at all.

Director Muto Akishi was not an indecisive Japanese soldier. He pointed to a flat area next to the railway:

"Carry all the wounded here."

The First Field Hospital unfolded here and immediately prepared the operating room.

The bombing in front became more intense.

The 11th Mountain Artillery Regiment was subjected to continuous bombardment.

Regiment Commander Ayakoji Yuki finally discovered at this time that the attack was not coming from the front.

But from the south. The Special Operations Brigade had hidden a heavy artillery position in the south.

He immediately sent a signal soldier to report this information to Brigade Commander Kuroyama Yoshikatsu.

Now, even if they knew that their mountain artillery regiment was being targeted by the Special Operations Brigade,

The Japanese soldiers of Ayakoji Yuki's regiment could not retreat.

Forward and backward were both within the range of the enemy's bombardment.

Regiment Commander Ayakoji Yuki now only hoped that the infantry attacking in the front could quickly break through the obstacles.

And the entire brigade could rush out, out of the range of the enemy's cannons.

The first round of bombing had not caused any damage to the entire 11th Mountain Artillery Regiment.

All the damage was borne by the communications team and the cavalry regiment in front.

Regiment Commander Yokota Sanjuro, who led the entire regiment, had been waiting for the brigade commander's order.

Their cavalry regiment was now in a difficult situation: the hillside was too steep, and the warhorses could not go up.

Charging forward, the entire road ahead was full of Japanese soldiers, making it impossible to break through.

Now those Japanese soldiers had dispersed to the hillside or the riverbank to avoid the artillery fire.

A road had been cleared, but the Japanese soldiers of Yokota Sanjuro's regiment had already suffered one-third casualties.

Regiment Commander Yokota had thirty-six acres of land at home, so he had this name.

Now he looked at the craters on the road ahead and hesitated for a moment.

And finally ordered: "Charge!"

He was going to lead the entire cavalry battalion to rush to the front, preferably to break through the Special Operations Brigade's blockade.

And carve out a bloody path for the entire brigade.

He also saw now that the Special Operations Brigade's heavy artillery bombardment was aimed at the mountain artillery regiment.

His cavalry regiment had just been accidentally injured.

If they continued to stay here, the entire cavalry regiment would be accidentally injured and wiped out.

Even if Regiment Commander Yokota Sanjuro reacted quickly and commanded properly,

His regiment was still grazed by three howitzers when charging.

With just this light graze, more than a hundred excellent imperial knights fell.

Without even engaging with the Special Operations Brigade in person, the entire Yokota Sanjuro Regiment had already suffered more than half casualties.

Regiment Commander Yokota Sanjuro was filled with grief and indignation in his heart: he had never fought such a battle before.

Ayakoji Yuki of the 11th Mountain Artillery Regiment was also equally frustrated now:

His mountain artillery regiment was bombarding the Special Operations Brigade infantry in the distance.

But they were not fighting back at all.

But the bombardment from that unseen heavy artillery team in the distance was coming wave after wave.

Now his entire artillery regiment, at first there were twenty-four mountain guns firing.

Originally, when the other twelve mountain guns were deployed and joined in, the firepower would become stronger and stronger.

Changes were always faster than plans.

The speed at which they were deployed and joined in to fire was not as fast as the speed at which they were destroyed by the Special Operations Brigade.

Now only eighteen could fire.

The entire mountain artillery regiment already had eighteen guns that had gone silent for various reasons.

How could this continue?

Regiment Commander Ayakoji Yuki began to feel afraid.

But in this kind of terrain, his mountain artillery team had no place to run.

Abandoning the artillery and fleeing for their lives! Such thoughts only crossed Regiment Commander Ayakoji Yuki's mind for a moment, and then did not continue.

Abandoning the artillery and fleeing for their lives, even if they escaped back, they would inevitably have to go through a military court, and the outcome would not necessarily be better than dying here.

Although ordering to abandon the artillery now might allow a few of the Japanese soldiers under his command to survive,

As an artillery regiment commander, Ayakoji Yuki certainly knew how slim the hope of surviving under the bombardment of 150mm heavy guns was.

Now he already knew what role that plane circling in the sky was playing.

It was the same role as the high-altitude observation balloon of the Empire's heavy artillery brigade: guiding the artillery bombardment.

"Is this Special Operations Brigade really the National Army?

Their weapons and equipment are not inferior to the Empire's troops at all!"

Many members of the American business delegation were at the Special Operations Brigade's artillery position at this time.

They personally saw this artillery team from receiving the order to deploying to firing, taking a total of twenty-three minutes.

Such a heavy artillery team, such speed, surprised these Americans so much that they kept using "God!"

To express their amazement.

They did not know what the situation was like in the battle ahead for the time being.

They could only see that the commander of this heavy artillery team would occasionally hear news from the radio.

And then immediately issue orders to the entire heavy artillery team.

As onlookers, they had long understood that all the information came from the reconnaissance plane in the sky.

At this moment, a huge engine roar flew overhead.

Three planes that looked very rough were flying very low, heading towards the battlefield ahead.

Hearing the familiar engine roar, Lin Fan looked up at the sky.

These planes flew past from an altitude of more than two thousand meters.

These three planes were the first generation Long Teng attack planes that Lin Fan had personally designed and participated in building.

The three pilots were all cultivated by the Special Operations Brigade itself.

Xiao Jianying, He Haiqing, and Zhu Qingmao were the three who followed Lin Fan to learn to fly transport planes the earliest.

For the past two months, they had been following Pan Yongshan and the others to learn.

When they learned that the Special Operations Brigade had built its own planes, these three strongly requested to come and be test pilots.

They had flown these three planes for more than twenty hours, so they were very familiar with these planes.

Today, they were going to put the capabilities of these planes to the test in actual combat.

As soon as their three attack planes arrived at the battlefield, they received Lin Fan's order: "All actions are to be directed by Mao Wenxing."

Although they were flying in the sky, the danger on the battlefield was still everywhere.

Having a veteran pilot command and guide the results would definitely be different.

Lin Fan's order was also heard by Mao Wenxing in the radio.

He immediately ordered Xiao Jianying and the other two: "Fly to the downstream position, from west to east, strafe along the railway line."

At the same time, the heavy artillery also stopped bombarding.

Regiment Commander Ayakoji Yuki of the 11th Mountain Artillery Regiment watched only two cannons in the entire regiment still firing.

He could no longer cry.

Thirty-six cannons, in a matter of minutes, only two cannons were left!

How could this battle be fought?

Fortunately, the National Army's heavy artillery bombardment had finally stopped.

He had not even had time to show his joy and relief

When a fierce machine gun strafing swept in from far to near.

The three Long Teng Generation One attack planes, each equipped with four machine guns, strafed all the way like this.

Xiao Jianying and the