The Milky Way is Also a Grain of Sand
Chapter 303 Seizing the Japanese Devils' Tanks
Battalion Commander Konoe Jiro was overjoyed and immediately ordered the Inukai Shingo machine gun battalion to strafe the city wall at the breach.
He also ordered Sergeant Ishifuku Tomoya's squad to attack through the breach.
He wanted to rush in through this opening and expand the gains.
The Inukai Shingo machine gun battalion's combat force had four machine gun companies.
And a thirty-man battalion headquarters.
In addition, there was a one hundred and ten-man ammunition company.
Each machine gun company had twelve heavy machine guns.
Upon receiving the order:
All forty-eight heavy machine guns of the entire Inukai Shingo battalion fired at the newly blasted breach.
The dense rain of bullets poured onto the city wall like a storm.
Countless bullets poured in through the breach, and no one could stay in that position for even a second.
This was a good sign.
Sergeant Ishifuku Tomoya, who received the order to charge, saw this situation and was delighted.
As the attacking side, he was naturally happy to see this.
And after the Inukai Shingo battalion began firing, even the Sichuan soldiers on the city wall stopped showing their faces.
"Kill, kill!" Sergeant Inukai Tomoya pointed to the breach and shouted loudly.
Defending the southeast corner of the county seat was the 1st Company of the 371st Regiment of the Sichuan Army.
The machine gun battalion of the Japanese devils, with forty-eight heavy machine guns, was strafing.
The 1st Company was unable to fight back from the city wall at all.
Company Commander Yi Hongbao ordered all the soldiers in the company to hold four grenades each.
They waited on both sides of the breach for the Japanese devils to rush in.
When Sergeant Ishifuku Tomoya led more than fifty Japanese devils to charge,
they encountered no resistance, and the morale of the entire squad soared.
They believed that the Sichuan army's morale had collapsed after seeing the city wall fall.
Those Sichuan soldiers must have run away!
Sergeant Ishifuku Tomoya took the lead and rushed to the front. When he just rushed into the breach,
he saw the scene in front of him, and his whole person was not well!
He saw Sichuan soldiers on both sides of the breach.
These soldiers were quietly lying on the ground.
Pairs of indifferent eyes looked at the Japanese devils who charged in.
On the battlefield, the calmer the soldier, the more terrifying they are.
If all the soldiers in a team are equally calm,
there is only one possibility: they have tenacious will and the confidence to win.
Sergeant Ishifuku Tomoya thought a lot, but could do very little.
His squad had already rushed into the breach, and now they were lambs in a tiger's mouth, unable to back down.
He only had time to shout "Kill, kill!" one more time.
The grenades held by the Sichuan soldiers had already been thrown out.
More than two hundred grenades fell densely like a flood released from a gate.
There was no dead angle at all.
The entire Ishifuku Tomoya squad had no survivors!
Battalion Commander Konoe Jiro watched the Ishifuku Tomoya squad successfully rush into the breach.
And then watched the smoke from the countless grenades exploding at the breach.
And then there was no then.
The entire Ishifuku Tomoya squad didn't even have a single Japanese devil firing back.
What did this mean?
Konoe Jiro was extremely angry and ordered loudly:
"Sergeant Momodai Rokushijūshi, you take your warriors to continue the attack. You must rush into Teng County no matter what."
Sergeant Momodai Rokushijūshi was a famous person in the entire Konoe battalion.
This was because his father, Old Momodai, had him when he was sixty-four years old.
Old Momodai, who had a son in his old age, of course thought this was a great event.
The people around him also believed that Momodai Rokushijūshi would become a big figure.
Those who can become big figures, of course, will not die here in Teng County.
Therefore, Battalion Commander Konoe Jiro sent the big figure Momodai Rokushijūshi up this time.
Sergeant Momodai Rokushijūshi, who accepted the mission, could do nothing different from the Ishifuku Tomoya squad.
The suppression of the city wall and the breach by the Inukai Shingo machine gun battalion had never stopped.
Outside the city wall, the Japanese devils of the Momodai Rokushijūshi squad charged decisively and quickly.
When they approached the city wall and were about to enter the breach,
Sergeant Momodai Rokushijūshi ordered:
"Squad Leader Suzuki Juro, lead your entire squad to charge ahead and open the way.
You only need to hold on for one minute in front.
The entire Momodai squad will follow."
"Hai!" Squad Leader Suzuki Juro accepted the order.
He turned around and led thirteen Japanese devils into the breach.
This time they walked carefully.
Just as they approached the breach, they had already discovered the Sichuan soldiers ambushing on both sides of the breach.
Yi Hongbao and his brothers from the 1st Company had been waiting here all along.
They saw that the Japanese devils were no longer climbing up the city wall.
Instead, they changed to attacking from this breach.
Most of the 1st Company's forces were deployed here.
As soon as these Japanese devils from the Suzuki Juro squad showed their heads, they were immediately greeted by a hail of bullets.
Seven of the thirteen Japanese devils in the entire Suzuki Juro squad were shot down at once.
Looking at the few Japanese devils lying on the ground groaning and begging for help,
Squad Leader Suzuki Juro had no choice but to continue speaking inside.
Sergeant Momodai Rokushijūshi, who was following behind them, saw that the team in front was only encountering snipers.
It didn't end up like the Ishifuku Tomoya squad, which was wiped out all at once.
He had already led the Japanese devils of the entire squad to rush up.
More than forty Japanese devils exchanged fire with Yi Hongbao's 1st Company at the breach.
The Japanese devils were blocked at the city wall breach, and there was no cover at all.
Here at the 1st Company of the Sichuan Army, simple fortifications had been temporarily built with sandbags.
They occupied an absolute advantage in terms of terrain.
If it wasn't for the fact that all the grenades of the entire company were used in the first wave to bomb the Ishifuku Tomoya squad,
this time the Momodai Rokushijūshi squad would not have survived either.
Company Commander Yi Hongbao, who had no grenades, could only let his brothers slowly kill the Japanese devils with bullets.
There was no way to give these Japanese devils another wholesale slaughter.
Even so, the Sichuan army, which occupied a completely advantageous terrain, still inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese devils of the Momodai Rokushijūshi squad.
Seeing that the entire squad had suffered more than half of its casualties, Sergeant Momodai Rokushijūshi could no longer continue to hold on.
He had to make a difficult decision: "Retreat!"
The remaining ten or so Japanese devils dragged more than a dozen wounded and fled the breach in a panic.
Company Commander Yi Hongbao and his men ambushed on both sides of the breach. As long as the Japanese devils retreated out of the breach,
they would not be able to hit them.
Sergeant Momodai Rokushijūshi put the wounded outside the breach and let them go.
He once again organized the Japanese devils to rush into the breach. This time he didn't want to rush in anymore.
He just led the remaining dozen or so Japanese devils to rush in to rescue the wounded who were still on the battlefield.
Battalion Commander Konoe Jiro, who was watching the battle from a distance, what could he say in the face of this behavior of not abandoning a single imperial warrior?
He could only send more Japanese devils to help carry down the wounded of the Momodai Rokushijūshi squad.
Sergeant Momodai Rokushijūshi also retreated with the team.
This was not what Battalion Commander Konoe Jiro wanted.
What he needed was not to rescue the wounded.
What Battalion Commander Konoe Jiro needed was to occupy Teng County!
The Momodai Rokushijūshi squad could not be used.
Immediately send another squad to continue the attack.
Konoe Jiro was no longer willing to give the Sichuan army defending Teng County any chance to breathe.
The Japanese devils of the Niinosawa Mirokuro squad immediately took over and charged towards the breach.
Sergeant Niinosawa Mirokuro had seen the previous two attacks with his own eyes.
He was summing up the lessons learned.
Regarding the Sichuan army, these Japanese devils had some understanding: strong fighting will.
Poor weapons and equipment.
Combining the result that the first Ishifuku Tomoya squad was wiped out as soon as they rushed in, and the second Momodai Rokushijūshi squad only suffered casualties,
Sergeant Niinosawa Mirokuro had a bold idea: the Sichuan army had run out of grenades.
Since this was the case, his squad certainly couldn't use the piecemeal tactics like the Momodai Rokushijūshi squad.
More than fifty Japanese devils in the Niinosawa Mirokuro squad swarmed in.
They all squeezed into the breach.
Wu Dazhuang was a machine gunner in the 1st Company of the 371st Regiment of the National Revolutionary Army.
When the first wave of Japanese devils rushed in, his machine gun didn't fire a single bullet, and the Japanese devils had all been blown to death.
When the second wave of Japanese devils rushed in, as the shooter of the only Hua machine gun in the entire company,
Wu Dazhuang felt that the position he had chosen just now was not good, and he didn't shoot well.
This was why so many of that wave of Japanese devils escaped back.
This time, he had made full preparations:
Sandbags were piled up into a fortress-like style.
More than a dozen sandbags were piled up, leaving only a small hole in the middle for the barrel of the gun to extend out.
This way, he could ignore the bullets fired by those Japanese devils who rushed in.
He could keep shooting at the Japanese devils non-stop, but the Japanese devils' bullets could only hit the sandbags.
The Japanese devils of the Niinosawa Mirokuro squad rushed into the breach and entered Wu Dazhuang's line of sight.
Wu Dazhuang didn't fire immediately, but waited for a few seconds.
Let the Japanese devils rush in faster and more!
Seeing that more than thirty Japanese devils had rushed into the machine gun's range,
Wu Dazhuang opened fire at this time.
The Hua machine gun opened fire and immediately harvested like a sickle harvesting ripe rice.
A large area of the Japanese devils who rushed in fell down.
This was much better than using rifles to hit these Japanese devils.
The Japanese devils of the Niinosawa Mirokuro squad, who were suddenly subjected to this fierce attack, immediately returned fire at the position that was constantly firing.
The Japanese devils' machine guns also strafed towards Wu Dazhuang's position, wanting to retaliate.
It's just that Wu Dazhuang only left a shooting hole in the fortress, so that all the Japanese devils' counterattacks failed.
In less than a minute, the Japanese devils who rushed into the breach were suppressed and unable to move an inch.
The Japanese devils of the entire Niinosawa Mirokuro squad, whether dead or alive, were all lying on the ground.
They couldn't get up or move at all.
The Japanese devils persisted in lying on the ground and returning fire for two minutes.
Sergeant Niinosawa Mirokuro had no choice but to order: "Retreat! Retreat!"
He clearly knew that if the entire squad continued to persist in this place,
the only thing waiting for them would be the fate of being annihilated.
Seeing the Japanese devils of the Niinosawa Hatsuro squad rush in like a swarm of bees.
When they retreated, there were only seven left.
Battalion Commander Konoe Jiro was dumbfounded:
He didn't expect that he originally thought that suddenly blasting a breach in this position
was an opportunity, but now it had turned into a trap.
In just half an hour, the Konoe battalion had lost more than a hundred corpses at this breach.
This kind of attack could no longer continue.
He had no choice but to order: "Suspend the attack!"
The Inukai Shingo machine gun battalion also stopped firing.
This area in the southeast corner finally calmed down.
This position could not be attacked.
Colonel Akushiba Yaezo once again pinned his hopes of attacking Teng County on the Takahashi Yūshō infantry battalion attacking the west of the city.
After all, he had placed heavy troops in this direction.
Although the artillery regiment had suffered a devastating blow,
the Kuno Ryota tank company was still there.
The temporary airport runway built in the west of the city was flat and wide, making it the best terrain for tanks to launch an attack.
Twenty-one tanks drove over from a distance.
When they drove onto the runway,
Company Commander Kuno Ryota stepped on the accelerator to the end.
The feeling of driving on such a flat road was different.
The tank was flying as if it was about to take off, and it was also very stable.
The gunners inside the tank were not enjoying the silence.
They were busy adjusting the angle of the cannon and aiming at the city wall.
These gunners were preparing to fire a few shells at the city wall while driving.
Such a flat road was really too easy to aim at.
Lin Fan looked at the twenty-odd tanks flying over, his hands steady.
Company Commander Gu Xiuming said to him,
"What good tanks! Brigade commander, let's go out and grab them back for our own use."
The 1st Company had two tanks, although they hadn't driven them onto the battlefield for a long time,
but all the officers and soldiers of the entire company had to train with these two tanks.
Everyone could drive them, this was Chen Sichuan's requirement for the 1st Company.
Every officer above the platoon leader in each company must also be able to drive, and each company must have at least fifty soldiers who can drive tanks.
These were Chen Sichuan's rigid requirements for the 1st Regiment.
Seeing the Japanese devils' tanks rushing over, Gu Xiuming certainly didn't want to let them go.
Lin Fan said with a smile, "Let the 1st Platoon prepare to attack. I'll take out these tanks first.
Whether or not they can be driven back depends on luck."
The most professional way to take out tanks is to use anti-aircraft guns.
It's just that these Japanese devils' brittle tanks, if they were really hit with anti-aircraft guns,
I'm afraid there would only be slag left, which is not in line with the Special Operations Brigade's goal of wanting to seize them.
Lin Fan personally operated the mortar to fire.
Every shell landed accurately on the top of every tank.
This time, Company Commander Kuno Ryota had the confidence to win this tank cluster charge.
Infantry Battalion Commander Takahashi Yūshō also had the idea of taking Teng County in one go.
He sent out two companies to follow behind the tanks.
Although the tank company was very fast because the road was flat,
it left its two infantry companies far behind.
But this did not affect the charge of the two infantry companies.
Company Commander Kuno Ryota, who was driving the tank and feeling relaxed and happy, suddenly heard a collision sound above his head.
Immediately afterwards, countless fragments splashed down from above his head.
The entire combat team inside the tank was spared no one.
The shell the shell exploded on the top of the tank.
It blew open the not-so-strong top cover all at once.
The inner layer of the entire iron cover, countless small iron blocks were blasted and splashed out by the violent explosion.
Company Commander Kuno Ryota fell silently on the driver's seat.
The right foot that was stepping on the accelerator was weakly bounced up.
The tank moved forward another two meters with inertia.
Finally stopped.
It wasn't just the tank driven by Company Commander Kuno Ryota that was like this.
All twenty-one tanks of the entire Kuno Ryota tank company stopped slowly like this.
The Nakamura Hideki Company and the Kobayashi Haruki Company, which were following the Kuno Ryota tank company from afar, not only did not stop their advance.
They also accelerated their charge.
The Japanese devils of these two companies saw the tanks in front being bombed by artillery fire.
Although the opponent's shells were not many, they were accurate!
One bomb was assigned to one tank, it seemed very fair.
Platoon Leader Feng Ruili, who received the mission to attack, had already led more than fifty soldiers out.
They were running wildly on the airport runway, trying to rush to the stopped tanks a little earlier than the Japanese devils' infantry.
The two heavy machine guns pushed in the front were not firing now either.
Full sprint!
After Lin Fan stopped the twenty-one tanks,
he didn't stop there.
He changed to the mortar shells produced by the Special Operations Brigade itself.
This was with iron pellets added to the warhead, and the power was greater than the Japanese devils' shells.
Five mortars began to perform, bombing the Japanese devils who were charging at the other end of the runway.
The Japanese devils of Company Commander Nakamura Hideki were running on the runway.
There was a flat road ahead, and it was still thousands of meters away from the city wall.
There were also tanks to cover them in the front.
Even if those tanks had stopped moving and had not launched an attack on the city wall,
but they were still iron lumps after all, and could be used as cover.
Such a place thousands of meters away should be safe!
This was also the reason why Company Commanders Nakamura Hideki and Kobayashi Haruki were completely unprepared.
But it was under such circumstances that they were subjected to artillery fire from the Teng County city wall.
This made Battalion Commander Takahashi Yūshō, who had been paying attention to his team from a distance, vomit blood in anger.
He looked at the artillery regiment of the Bumino Hayato behind him with all his grievances and dissatisfaction.
If the artillery regiment was of any use, they should have launched a bombing at this time.
Suppressing the bombing from the city wall.
Fortunately, his infantry battalion also had artillery.
Two Type 92 infantry guns began to counterattack the city wall.
There were also twelve mortars that joined in.
What disappointed Battalion Commander Takahashi Yūshō was that the attacks from the city wall were stable, accurate, and ruthless.
The shells fired by his artillery were scattered, chaotic, and poor!
It didn't cause any impact on the Sichuan army on the city wall at all.
When the first shell of Company Commander Nakamura Hideki fell into the middle of the team,
he had an ominous premonition: not good!
His company was full of veterans who had been through many battles.
When the artillery fire fell, all the Japanese devils lay prone on the ground.
In order to avoid the constantly intertwined shrapnel in the air.
The Japanese devils of the Kobayashi Haruki Company did almost the same thing.
These Japanese devils were crawling forward on the ground, trying to quickly escape this bombarded area.
Company Commander Nakamura Hideki heard from the sound of these shells exploding:
This is a mortar shell!
The killing power is not great!
While ordering his soldiers to crawl forward, he looked up at the situation in the entire bombarded area.
If he didn't look, he wouldn't know, but when he looked, he was really startled.
Only about half of the Japanese devils in the two companies were still following orders and crawling forward, speeding up to leave this area.
The rest of the Japanese devils were either lying on the ground motionless, or groaning and writhing on the ground.
His ominous premonition was realized: in just a moment, the entire charging team had suffered more than half of its casualties?
Was the Sichuan army on the opposite side still the Sichuan army?
They had fought against the Sichuan army countless times in the past two months.
Weren't they all very frugal with ammunition?
There had never been such a situation of densely using mortar shells to bombard things.
This was Company Commander Nakamura Hideki's misunderstanding:
If the Sichuan army's mortars could hit as stably and accurately as the soldiers of the 1st Company,
the Sichuan army would also be willing to fire so many shells.
It's just that the Sichuan army was really poor, and although there were mortars in the team,
they usually trained less and didn't really want to fire them.
They couldn't afford to fire inaccurate ammunition.
Of course, they wouldn't fire ammunition that wasn't accurate.
They had to save money!
It wasn't like the Special Operations Brigade, where Lin Fan had always told all the soldiers.
Marksmen are fed with bullets.
There were strict requirements for the use of ammunition for soldiers' training, and they had to fire a certain number of bullets.
Soldiers who were fed with countless ammunition, of course, had different accuracy.
In the current situation, every shell that was fired could reap several or even dozens of Japanese devils.
Everyone would be willing to do it.
Even so, the 1st Company's shells didn't fire for a long time. Each gun only fired eight shells.
The dense shelling stopped.
The Japanese devils of the Nakamura Hideki Company and the Kobayashi Haruki Company could finally stand up again.
Company Commander Nakamura Hideki only had time to stand up and take a look at the west city wall of Teng County.
His face changed: "Defense! Defense!"
The defending army on the opposite side didn't talk about martial ethics at all!
Nor did they play according to the routine.
You are the defending army! Just wait safely on the city wall.
Wouldn't it be good for us to charge over and attack?
Now what are you doing rushing out?
Who is the attacking side?
Platoon Leader Feng Ruili had never been a person who talked about martial ethics.
The people of the Special Operations Brigade were all like this. As long as they won, what routines did they play?
Now they had rushed into the Japanese devils' tank pile.
Platoon Leader Feng Ruili ordered: 1st Squad and 2nd Squad continue to charge, 3rd Squad clears the tanks.
Company Commander Nakamura Hideki saw them pushing two carts and rushing towards his position.
That's why his face changed.
He discovered it in time, and the order was issued in time.
The Japanese devils of the Kobayashi Haruki Company took the initiative to lean towards here.
The remaining forces of the two companies still had the strength of one company.
This made the two company commanders feel a little more at ease.
They had twice as many troops as the opposite side.
Lin Fan stood on the city wall and watched the Japanese devils quickly gather together after being bombarded by artillery fire.
He ordered: "Five rounds of rapid fire! Bomb those Japanese devils again."
Gold will shine, and gold will be burned in the fire. This is called bombing.
It is getting brighter and brighter as it is bombed.
The joint company that had just been formed by the Kobayashi Haruki Company and the Nakamura Hideki Company
immediately welcomed a wave of head-on bombing.
After this wave of shells was fired, the Special Operations Brigade soldiers of the two squads had rushed to a position less than fifty meters away.
There was nothing on the airport runway that could be used as cover.
Two heavy machine guns also began to strafe, and two light machine guns also joined in the strafing.
Artillery bombing, infantry sweeping!
The two company commanders of the Japanese devils couldn't fight anymore.
Their subordinates had a total of 370 Japanese devils, but they hadn't fired a single bullet, and more than 300 had already been killed or wounded. How could they fight this battle?
The remaining dozens of Japanese devils could no longer face such a ferocious team.
They wiped the soles of their feet with oil, turned their bodies backwards, and began to flee.
The two company commanders in the game no longer insisted and ran back together.
Battalion Commander Takahashi Yūshō, who was watching the battle from a distance, stamped his feet in anger: "Bombing! Bombing for me!"
Now he no longer expected his artillery to bombard the city head.
He only hoped that the artillery could bombard the dozens of Special Operations Brigade soldiers who were chasing the Nakamura Hideki Company and the Kobayashi Haruki Company.
There were clearly only thirty soldiers chasing them, but they had created an aura of thousands of troops and horses.
How could this be?
He must suppress this kind of momentum.
As an old Japanese devil commander who had fought many battles.
He of course understood how terrifying a team under such momentum was.
He wanted to suppress the arrogant momentum of this team.
Lin Fan's idea was exactly the opposite of his.
Just now, the 1st Company had to suppress the Japanese devils' tanks and those infantry charging on the runway.
That's why they didn't immediately retaliate against the artillery of the Takahashi Yūshō Battalion.
Now that they had freed up their hands, Mao Wenxing, who was still circling in the air, had already transmitted the positions of the Japanese devils' dozen or so mortars and two Type 92 infantry guns.
Lin Fan adjusted a mortar and tried to fire the first shell.
It was a little off and hit the Japanese devils' infantry.
The second time was correct.
Five mortars and two Type 92 infantry guns were the 1st Company's family property.
They fired at the same time.
Bombing the last artillery of the Takahashi Yūshō Battalion.
Battalion Commander Takahashi Yūshō, who had just realized that something was wrong,
hadn't even transmitted the order for the mortar gunners to retreat.
A fierce artillery bombardment had already covered the entire artillery position.
The pitiful dozen or so mortar gunners were all concentrated together.
They were continuously hit by shells and there was no dead angle at all.
These Japanese devils could not die any more in the artillery bombardment.
Battalion Commander Takahashi Yūshō's attention had already shifted from the Nakamura Hideki Company and the Kobayashi Haruki Company to the artillery position.
Seeing artillery fire flying and smoke billowing over the artillery position,
he quickly ordered: "Rescue! Rescue!"
Mao Wenxing, who was in the air as the eyes and command of the Special Operations Brigade, didn't just let them go.
After guiding the bombing of the Japanese devils' artillery position, he continued to guide the bombing of the Japanese devils' infantry.
This made Battalion Commander Takahashi Yūshō embarrassed: his entire infantry battalion had to retreat backwards.
Retreating all the time.
He retreated all the way to the position of the artillery regiment of Bumino Hayato.
This place had exceeded the attack range of the mortars and infantry guns of the Special Operations Brigade.
It was only here that the Japanese devils of the Takahashi Yūshō Battalion could be considered stable.
Battalion Commander Takahashi Yūshō was stunned by the tragic situation at the position of the artillery regiment of Bumino Hayato.
He was on the front line and only knew that this position had been bombed.
He never knew that the situation was so serious:
All thirty-six field guns of the entire artillery regiment were all crooked.
Not one was intact.
Artillery, you can disassemble a part from the east, find a part from the west, and put it together to make two guns.
But the corpses of the gunners next to the artillery made Battalion Commander Takahashi Yūshō understand:
In a short period of time, it was impossible for the artillery regiment of Bumino Hayato to restore its combat power.
There were Japanese devils' corpses around every artillery.
He couldn't care about the situation of his infantry battalion and asked Colonel Bumino Hayato:
"Who did this?
What kind of shells are so powerful?"
They were all old Japanese devils who had fought many battles.
The power of the shells could be seen from the crater blasted by the shells.
The crater was not particularly big, so why was the power so strong?
Colonel Bumino Hayato didn't understand either!
He was still in a daze until now and didn't want to admit this reality.
Seeing that the listless Colonel Bumino Hayato was useless,
Battalion Commander Takahashi Yūshō should still care about his infantry battalion!
Again, if he didn't look, he wouldn't know, but if he looked, he would be startled!
The Japanese devils of the entire Takahashi Yūshō Battalion who had fled here were less than 400.
Battalion Commander Takahashi Yūshō didn't believe it and counted it again.
This time the number was accurate: 379 Japanese devils.
Just two companies.
At this time, Battalion Commander Takahashi Yūshō suddenly thought of the Nakamura Hideki Company and the Kobayashi Haruki Company, which had launched the attack the earliest.
Just now he was only focused on escaping and forgot what the situation of these two companies was now.
He only thought of those two companies at this time.
The corpses of Company Commander Nakamura Hideki and Company Commander Kobayashi Haruki were already cold.
Their joint company had not even begun to resist before their military spirit was broken.
The more than seventy Japanese devils left in the two companies started a great escape competition.
Originally, they thought that they didn't need to run very fast. As long as they ran faster than their comrades, they could escape.
As a result, they miscalculated again.
What was chasing these Japanese devils was a team that trained to run every day as if it was eating.
Lin Fan had always emphasized that the soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade must be able to run.
They must run fast! When chasing Japanese devils, they must not let the Japanese devils escape.
When escaping, they must not let the Japanese devils catch up.
Today was the time to not let the Japanese devils escape.
Platoon Leader Feng Ruili personally led two squads and made full use of their advantages in running fast.
The distance between them and the Japanese devils was only the difference between fifty steps and one hundred steps.
Under the circumstances that Platoon Leader Feng was leading the soldiers to catch up,
this distance was getting closer and closer.
Their thirty Special Operations Brigade soldiers were chasing seventy Japanese devils to the point where they had no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth.
When they were still about twenty meters away from the Japanese devils, Platoon Leader Feng ordered:
"Prepare grenades! Throw!"
Even if the accuracy of the grenades thrown during running was not high,
it still covered all the Japanese devils who were running away.
Thirty grenades made the Japanese devils, who had already become frightened birds, all fall down.
Most of the Japanese devils were injured or killed by the grenades.
Only a few Japanese devils were frightened and quickly lay prone on the ground, preparing to avoid the next wave of bombardment.
There was no second wave of bombardment.
There was only the second wave of attacks that Platoon Leader Feng Ruili led his men to rush up.
The bright bayonet made it impossible for any of these Japanese devils who had fallen down voluntarily or passively to stand up.
The civilians inside the west of the city once again ran out in carts.
They were here to transport the spoils of war.
Zhu Shaoyuan, who was leaving the city for the second time this morning, said with a smile:
"Look at how these people are fighting this battle, it's just like playing!"
Wen Chao had a different perspective: "Fighting this battle is too profitable.
The more than 400 guns we just transported back, even if we only sell one gun for ten yuan,
that's more than 4,000 yuan.
And those leather shoes and quilts are all money!
They are all money!"
Zhu Shaoyuan said regretfully: "It's a pity that we don't dare to wear those leather shoes!
Company Commander Gu is right, if we wear such a pair of leather shoes, it's obvious that they were taken off from the Japanese devils' bodies.
At that time, we'll be charged with killing the Japanese devils.
Yellow mud falls into the crotch of our pants, it's shit even if it's not."
His words made all fifty people in the civilian team laugh.
Originally, they didn't all need to come out.
It's just that these civilians knew that they could also get some clothes and pants worn by the Japanese devils from the battlefield to disassemble into pieces of cloth.
None of the civilians wanted to stay in the city and get paid for nothing.
They had discussed it: all the cloth pieces that were disassembled would be divided equally.
Now, as soon as they rushed out of the city gate, twenty people ran to the position where the hundreds of Japanese devils who were killed in the first battle to strip off their clothes and pants.
The others continued to drive the carts forward.
An Ping was also a little surprised to see that these civilians were so active:
"Can this work?"
Lin Fan said with a smile, "Instead of letting them rot, it's better to make the most of them.
Pay attention to observation and prevent the Japanese devils from sneaking up on us."
An Ping pointed to the sky: "Mao Wenxing is watching, Brigade Commander, don't worry."
Lin Fan said sternly: "It's one thing for Mao Wenxing to be watching in the sky.
We can't relax our own vigilance.
The sky and the ground complement each other, and we can't rely on others alone.
Relying on the mountain, the mountain will collapse, and relying on people, people will run away.
Do you understand?"
This was Lin Fan's rare stern tone.
An Ping quickly replied: "Yes! Brigade Commander, I understand.
We must not relax our vigilance on the battlefield for a moment."
"Good that you understand!"
The west and east of the city had repelled the Japanese devils' attacks, and the battle report had to be sent to the 122nd Division headquarters.
Division Commander Wang Mingzhang heard the report from the 1st Company of the 371st Regiment: they had repelled the Japanese devils' three consecutive attacks.
More than 100 Japanese devils were killed.
He was very excited and praised them repeatedly, encouraging Company Commander Yi Hongbao to make persistent efforts and fight every battle well.
Although the communication between Teng County and the various front-line positions was all broken,
the communication between the radio station and Lincheng was still smooth.
In the telegram, Division Commander Wang Mingzhang once again explained the current difficulties in Teng County.
He requested Commander Sun Zhen to urge the Wang Zhonglian Army to set off immediately to support Teng County.
Now, not to mention Sun Zhen, commander of the 22nd Army of the Sichuan Army,
even Li Zongren, commander of the 5th War Zone, could not command Commander Wang Zhonglian.
Although theoretically, Chiang Kai-shek had transferred the command of the entire Tang Enbo Corps to the 5th War Zone,
Division Commander Wang Mingzhang heard the battle report that Lin Fan sent again: "Destroyed 21 Japanese devils' tanks, annihilated two Japanese devils' infantry companies.
Destroyed 36 artillery guns of one artillery regiment of the Japanese devils."
He felt that such a result was a bit exaggerated.
It's just that he couldn't send anyone to count them in detail now, so he could only encourage them.
No matter what: they came from a long distance to support them.
They had fought to this point, and the team had not dispersed or run away, which was very good.
What was even more rare was that they had guarded the west of the city, and they could hold the city. No matter how exaggerated it was, it was acceptable.
The situation that Lin Fan reported next made Division Commander Wang Mingzhang very uncomfortable:
"The defense line of Li Zhai, Huangjiashan, Baishi Mountain, and Puyang Mountain outside Teng County has completely collapsed.
All the teams are retreating, and they are not gathering in Teng County.
Instead, they are directly avoiding Teng County and retreating towards Lincheng.
The closer third line of defense of Dawu Village, Xiaowu Village, Jiehe, and Longshan is also retreating in the same way."
Division Commander Wang Mingzhang knew: "This is because after the communication between the headquarters and the front line was interrupted,
the front-line commanders believed that Teng County had fallen.
Their persistence was no longer meaningful.
And if the Japanese devils came from Teng County, the Sichuan army in these places would be attacked from both sides.
There was a risk of the entire army