The Nationalist army was busy moving supplies, and battles continued on several fronts.

The 6th to 10th companies of the 15th Regiment had now broken through the defense line and were chasing the remnants of the Tsukamoto Kazuki Battalion, which had retreated four hundred meters and then stopped.

The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd companies of the 2nd Regiment had driven away the Fujiyama Tōmi and Yoshioka Yaxiong companies from below the hillside, and were now concentrating their forces to deal with the Ikebegame Hide Company and the Kishida Tarō Company.

The Japanese soldiers of these two companies refused to retreat even in death. Originally, when they saw the Tsukamoto Kazuki Battalion Commander retreating down the mountain, they were prepared to retreat after holding out for a while longer.

As a result, the Tsukamoto Kazuki Battalion stopped retreating, and the two companies on the hilltop certainly could not retreat either.

However, the three companies of the 2nd Regiment had fifteen mortars and six infantry guns constantly bombarding them, making it unbearable for the Japanese soldiers of these two companies.

The two large trees that had been blocking the middle of the open ground had now been blown to pieces. The Japanese soldiers of the Kishida Tarō machine gun company were suppressed by eighteen heavy machine guns and could not even lift their heads.

Many of the rocks they used as cover were shattered by the Nationalist army opposite them.

Seeing that the Japanese soldiers were completely unable to counterattack, Shi Junxia of the 1st Company ordered, "The 2nd Company continues to suppress them. The 1st Company will cut through from the foot of the hill and attack the Japanese soldiers from behind.

The 3rd Company will attack from the left!"

Although the 3rd Company's attack from the left could not break into the Japanese soldiers' position, it could attack the position that the Ikebegame Hide Company was now relying on from the left side.

The actions of the Nationalist army were watched by Company Commander Ikebegame Hide, who was anxious: he was waiting for artillery support!

He felt like a century had passed, but the artillery support he imagined had not arrived.

If he didn't have the thought of artillery support to sustain him, he and the machine gun company would have already retreated with their tails between their legs.

But now he was in a dilemma: if he wanted to retreat, he was afraid that the artillery support would arrive as soon as he retreated.

At that time, it would be difficult to attack the hilltop again.

Not retreating! He was afraid that there would be no artillery support, in which case, the two companies would be completely wiped out here!

This was really a difficult choice.

Regardless of how difficult it was for the Japanese soldiers, in the eyes of Company Commander Shi Junxia on the hilltop, the main force of the Japanese soldiers at the foot of the hill had retreated. Now was the time to concentrate all the firepower of the three companies to encircle and annihilate the Ikebegame Hide Company and the Kishida Tarō Company, which were still entrenched on the hilltop.

At this time, only half of the Japanese soldiers of the Ikebegame Hide Company and the Kishida Tarō Company were still able to fight, just over two hundred Japanese soldiers.

The three companies of the 2nd Regiment still had a full seven hundred soldiers who could fight. The three companies originally had seven hundred and fifty soldiers, but about fifty soldiers had been lost in the battle.

Seven hundred against two hundred, and the Nationalist army's equipment was better than the Japanese equipment. Company Commander Shi and the others had a complete advantage.

The fifteen mortars were now concentrated again to bombard the Japanese soldiers on the hilltop, and the six infantry guns were not to be outdone, specializing in bombing the machine gun emplacements of the Kishida machine gun company.

In this way, the days of the Ikebegame Hide infantry company and the Kishida Tarō company became difficult.

Such fierce artillery bombardment was completely unbearable for them!

At the same time, the eighteen heavy machine guns of the three companies also began to advance forward at this time.

They no longer needed to snipe at another team of Japanese soldiers on the hillside. All the weapons of the three companies could fire at these two Japanese companies.

Eighteen carts carrying heavy machine guns began to slowly push towards the position defended by the Ikebegame Hide Company.

Their speed of advance was not fast. The eighteen carts were at the very front, which not only served as shields, but also as firepower fortresses.

The eighteen heavy machine guns became eighteen mobile fortresses, and their threat was even greater than those mortars.

The heavy machine guns were getting closer and closer to the Ikebegame Hide Company's defense line, and had already reached the edge of the open area.

The closest point between the two sides was less than forty meters. The Ikebegame Hide Company and the Kishida Tarō Company were suppressed and completely unable to move.

The firepower support that Ikebegame Hide Company had been waiting for had not yet arrived, but his company was really unable to hold on any longer.

He had to make a difficult decision: retreat!

The Ikebegame Hide infantry company left the Mizumonji Yūsuke squad to defend in place, and the rest of the Japanese soldiers all ran quickly down the mountain.

The Mizumonji Yūsuke squad still had thirty or so Japanese soldiers left, which was considered the squad with the highest survival rate in the entire Ikebegame Hide infantry company.

It was precisely because of this that Company Commander Ikebegame Hide ordered this squad to stay behind and cover the retreat of the two companies.

Strictly speaking, they were covering the retreat of four companies, after all, although the Katō Yūto infantry company and the Itō Jirō machine gun company had less than ten Japanese soldiers left, they still represented two companies.

The retreating Japanese soldiers were running down the mountain quickly. Their target was the position where the Tsukamoto Kazuki Battalion was now staying, three hundred meters past the foot of the hill.

Squad Leader Mizumonji Yūsuke, who was staying in place to provide cover, immediately shrank the defense line. He moved the entire squad's defense line back about thirty meters.

A new blocking position was re-established at this new location. When Company Commander Ikebegame Hide retreated, he kindly transferred two machine guns from the machine gun company to increase their firepower.

These two machine guns were being operated by Sergeant Hata Eito and Sergeant Iwai Shigetomi. They were the main shooters, and each had two assistant shooters helping them.

Sergeant Hata Eito aimed at the carts carrying heavy machine guns that were still advancing slowly, and bullets rained down like a torrential downpour.

The two sides were now less than one hundred meters apart, and the sound of bullets hitting the iron plates was crisp and clear, like music.

However, Sergeant Hata Eito was not in the mood to listen to music at all. His heart was full of despair: these carts were too difficult to hit.

Like tanks, they completely concealed the gunmen behind them. There was no way for the Japanese soldiers to hit the pushers behind them and stop the carts from moving forward.

This made the Japanese soldiers extremely uncomfortable, and what made Sergeant Hata Eito really want to die was that the bullets fired from his machine gun could not penetrate the carts that were being pushed over, and he did not expect to hit the Nationalist army on the opposite side.

What drove him crazy was that at a distance of less than one hundred meters, the bullets could not penetrate the steel plates, so they could only bounce around.

The current situation was that many of the machine guns they fired were being bounced back and hitting their own positions.

He was now firing, completely hitting himself! Squad Leader Mizumonji Yūsuke had not expected such a scene to occur on the battlefield.

The Japanese soldiers of his squad died without knowing whether they were killed by the Nationalist army soldiers charging over or by the ricocheting bullets fired from their own machine guns.

Company Commander Ikebegame Hide and the Japanese soldiers who retreated had not yet reached the hillside when seven or eight Japanese soldiers of the Mizumonji Yūsuke squad had already died.

Even one of the assistant shooters of Sergeant Iwai Shigetomi's machine gun squad had died.

The Japanese soldiers' defense line retreated a little, and Company Commander Shi Junxia certainly would not stop there. The same action continued: the eighteen carts were slowly advancing towards them.

At this time, they had already entered the open area. The distance between the two sides was now only fifty meters.

The open area that had been a chasm for the entire Ikebegame Hide Company was now being easily crossed by the eighteen carts.

Although the corpses of the Japanese soldiers on the ground were causing some resistance to the advance of these carts, they could not affect the overall situation at all.

The Japanese soldiers of the Mizumonji Yūsuke squad watched as the Nationalist army soldiers easily crossed the area that they had been unable to pass through.

What could they do now?

Squad Leader Mizumonji Yūsuke no longer cared about anything else and gently made a gesture to retreat.

He did not dare to issue the order loudly: "I'm afraid the Nationalist army soldiers on the opposite side will hear it."

A dozen or so Japanese soldiers following Squad Leader Mizumonji Yūsuke quickly fled down the mountain in a panic.

Sergeant Hata Eito and Sergeant Iwai Shigetomi's machine gun squads, and the three or four scattered Japanese soldiers near them, had no idea that the entire squad had retreated.

They were still trying to resist. Company Commander Shi immediately noticed that there were only two Japanese firing points left and signaled the rocket launchers to take out these two firing points.

Several rockets were fired, and the ten or so Japanese soldiers at Sergeant Hata Eito and Sergeant Iwai Shigetomi's location were either wounded or killed, and could no longer resist.

Sergeant Hata Eito, who had been seriously injured, finally had time to look back at the other Japanese soldiers in the entire squad.

He wanted to have other Japanese soldiers come up to replace his machine gun and continue to resist.

As a result, he only saw corpses all over the ground, and Squad Leader Mizumonji Yūsuke and the others were all gone.

Hata Eito turned his body with difficulty and saw Squad Leader Mizumonji Yūsuke and the other dozen or so Japanese soldiers who had fled to the middle of the hillside.

Only then did he realize that his few Japanese soldiers had been abandoned. "Beasts!" These were the last two words that Sergeant Hata Eito said.

The soldiers of the three companies pushed the heavy machine guns forward quickly and soon reached the edge. The eighteen heavy machine guns fired at the Japanese soldiers who were fleeing in a panic.

Company Commander Shi Junxia ordered, "The 1st platoon of the 1st Company will stay on the hilltop to guard the position. The rest of the troops will chase and kill the Japanese soldiers."

The main force of the Japanese soldiers at the foot of the hill had already fled five hundred meters away. This position was actually of no use.

Therefore, Company Commander Shi ordered the rest of the companies to pursue and kill the Japanese soldiers. The soldiers of the 1st platoon had been injured a lot in the previous bayonet fight, and they had been fighting with injuries all along.

Now it was time for them to rest.

The team that went down the mountain to pursue and kill the Japanese soldiers was commanded by Company Commander Xuan Yiren of the 2nd Company. There were also five infantry companies of the 15th Regiment at the foot of the mountain, who were chasing the remnants of the Tsukamoto Kazuki Battalion along the railway.

Company Commander Shi immediately notified Company Commander Lü Jiagui of the 6th Company of the 15th Regiment through the walkie-talkie: there were a dozen or so Japanese soldiers going down the hill, and more than a hundred Japanese soldiers were running away a hundred meters ahead of the 15th Regiment.

After receiving the situation report, Company Commander Lü immediately ordered the team to speed up and charge forward.

They turned the corner and immediately discovered the Japanese soldiers of the Ikebegame Hide Company who had fled to the railway.

Company Commander Shi on the hilltop did not rest either. He ordered the mortars and infantry guns to bombard the Japanese soldiers who had fled to the railway.

Now, the mortars of the five companies of the 15th Regiment had also joined the bombardment.

This time, the Japanese soldiers of the Ikebegame Hide Company and the Kishida Tarō Company could no longer escape. They could only crawl on the ground.

They hoped that this round of bombardment would end soon so that they could climb up and run away quickly.

Squad Leader Mizumonji Yūsuke, who was running away on the hillside, saw the fierce bombardment at the foot of the mountain and did not dare to run over and get bombed.

He wanted to change his location to go down the mountain, then take a detour and go directly to join Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki.

However, the eighteen heavy machine guns on the hilltop that were chasing them and the soldiers of the 2nd Company, 3rd Company, and the other platoons of the 1st Company who were chasing them down the mountain did not agree.

A dozen or so Japanese soldiers simply could not gain a foothold on the hillside. Squad Leader Mizumonji Yūsuke only hesitated for a minute, and the dozen or so Japanese soldiers who had fled with him were killed, leaving only four.

Knowing that they could not survive, Squad Leader Mizumonji Yūsuke stopped running and lay down on the spot, preparing to resist stubbornly.

The 2nd Company, which had caught up, threw a round of grenades, killing all the Japanese soldiers.

The mortars continued to bombard the area from the top and bottom of the mountain. The infantry from the top and bottom of the mountain were charging towards the Ikebegame Hide Company and the Kishida Tarō Company.

The mortar bombardment only ended when the two teams that were charging were less than fifty meters away from the Japanese soldiers.

The artillery bombs first, and then the infantry charges!

Company Commander Lü Jiagui led the five companies to charge up immediately, and Company Commander Xuan Yiren led the three companies to charge down immediately.

The Ikebegame Hide Company, which was being attacked from both sides, no longer ran away. They simply could not escape.

Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki saw through his binoculars that the dozens of remaining Japanese soldiers of his division's infantry company and machine gun company were being charged by thousands of Nationalist army soldiers.

After a round of charging by the Nationalist army soldiers, all the Japanese soldiers of the two companies fell by the side of the railway. Those Nationalist army soldiers were as if nothing had happened and were still charging towards his newly established defense line.

"Artillery! Artillery!" Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki shouted anxiously.

In reality, no matter how loud he shouted, he could not notify the 106th Field Artillery Regiment more than a thousand meters away.

He was just anxious! If the field artillery regiment could not provide fire support to him within five minutes, the remaining Japanese soldiers of his battalion would be entangled by the Nationalist army troops again, and it would be difficult to retreat at that time.

In reality, he did not know that even now, they could not retreat. The 4th Company of the 2nd Regiment was blocking between his infantry battalion and the artillery regiment.

When Xuan Yiren led the three companies, which were missing a platoon, down the mountain, all the heavy weapons of the three companies were still on the hilltop.

However, all the equipment of the five companies led by Company Commander Lü Jiagui had followed. At this time, the mortars and infantry guns of his five companies began to bombard the remaining Japanese soldiers of the Tsukamoto Kazuki Battalion.

The thirty heavy machine guns of the five companies simply could not be lined up in a row on the railway.

Ten heavy machine guns were pushed to the front to block the Japanese soldiers' bullets. This time, Regiment Commander Shangguan Zhiwen had ordered them to start attacking the Japanese soldiers' defense line head-on.

Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki looked at the heavy machine guns that were slowly being pushed up, and his head was now very painful: only artillery could deal with these heavy machine guns.

However, his battalion was now severely lacking in artillery. There was a field artillery regiment a thousand meters away, but they were not firing.

When Tsukamoto Kazuki left Jiujiang, he brought out fourteen companies from the seven divisions. Now, eight companies from four divisions had been completely wiped out.

Only six companies from three divisions remained, with heavy casualties. They were: the Kunitokunaga Kurō infantry company and the Matsutake Atsukaze machine gun company of the 106th Division; the Utsunomiya Mamoru infantry company and the Inoue Jūzaburō machine gun company of the 116th Division; and the Nakamura Hiroki infantry company and the Sakai Tatsuya machine gun company of the 18th Division.

The combined number of Japanese soldiers in these six companies was less than five hundred. Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki ordered the Kunitokunaga Kurō infantry company and the Matsutake Atsukaze machine gun company to provide lateral fire on the railway line.

This time, the Japanese soldiers finally dug fortifications. They started building fortifications as soon as they fled here, and now their fortifications were of some use.

Simple fortifications could not cope with the mortar shells falling from the sky. The mortars and infantry guns of the three companies of the 2nd Regiment on the hilltop were also firing at the Japanese soldiers here.

A full forty mortars and sixteen infantry guns bombarded the newly established defense area of Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki.

This was completely unbearable for him. At this time, the area of the 106th Field Artillery Regiment, which he hoped could provide artillery support, was also filled with dense gunfire.

"It's over!" Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki was truly desperate this time!

He stopped here, hoping to get artillery support from the artillery, but now the artillery regiment itself was under attack.

They were unable to take care of themselves, so how could they have the opportunity to set up an artillery position? How could they provide fire support to him here?

Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki had already seen the fate of his infantry battalion. At the same time, he vaguely felt that the artillery regiment not far away was also finished.

The current Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki still had one last fantasy: he thought that it was less than eighty kilometers from Jiujiang Airport to here, and it would only take a few minutes for the air force to arrive on the battlefield to provide guidance.

Clinging to the last glimmer of hope, Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki sent another telegram to the 11th Army.

This time, he reported that his entire battalion now had only five hundred Japanese soldiers left, and that the 106th Field Artillery Regiment not far away was under attack by the Nationalist army.

Finally, he made a request: please send the air force to provide guidance!

This request had just been rejected by Commander Okamura Neji, but the situation was different this time.

The 106th Field Artillery Regiment had also arrived on the battlefield and was still being attacked by the Nationalist army?

What to do?

The headquarters of the 11th Army fell silent again, and all the Japanese soldiers did not dare to utter a sound.

They knew that this was a difficult choice: the two reconnaissance planes that had just taken off from Jiujiang Airport had been shot down.

Now, should they send an air squadron to their deaths? Maybe the Nationalist army's shooting down of the reconnaissance planes was just a coincidence.

Sending an air bomber squadron over might be able to rescue the 106th Field Artillery Regiment and the five hundred remaining Japanese soldiers of the Tsukamoto Kazuki Battalion.

As for the Japanese soldiers and supplies at Mahui Ridge that the 11th Army initially wanted to save, the Japanese soldiers at the headquarters no longer had any hope for them.

Commander Okamura Neji really had a feeling of regret at this time: if he had not sent the Kobayashi Takafumi Regiment to reinforce Mahui Ridge from the beginning.

The 11th Army's loss would only have been Mahui Ridge, but after he sent out the first reinforcement team, the loss became greater and greater.

Thinking of this, he finally made a decision: do not send the air force over to provide guidance, let the Tsukamoto Kazuki Battalion try to save themselves!

The order that Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki received was: "Break through to Jiujiang with all your strength! The 11th Army will meet them ten kilometers in front of Jiujiang!"

Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki looked at the Nationalist army soldiers who were gradually approaching, and thought with despair: "His battalion can't even run a thousand meters now, and he wants to escape more than ten kilometers?"

This impossible task made Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki abandon all his illusions. He issued the order fiercely: "Everyone! Charge! Charge!"

This time, he was not retreating in the direction of Jiujiang, but charging in the direction of Mahui Ridge.

Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki's command sword pointed at Company Commander Lü Jiagui and his soldiers.

The Kunitokunaga Kurō infantry company of the 106th Division was the vanguard of the entire remaining Japanese soldiers. Company Commander Kunitokunaga Kurō, upon receiving the order, immediately howled, "Charge! Charge!"

His company had been defending here and had been constantly bombarded by mortar shells, but they did not have any weapons to counterattack those mortars.

The entire company had been silently enduring this, and Company Commander Kunitokunaga Kurō had long wanted to retreat.

Now that he had received the order to charge, it was better than staying in place and waiting to die.

They were already prepared to die, but Company Commander Utsunomiya Mamoru of the 116th Division did not have this awareness.

He felt that his company could still be salvaged, but he was just looking at the Kunitokunaga Kurō infantry company and the Matsutake Atsukaze machine gun company that had already rushed out of the fortifications.

Company Commander Utsunomiya Mamoru did not dare to say anything. He could only order with a sorrowful voice, "Attack!"

A higher rank can crush a person to death, and this is even more true on the battlefield. Company Commander Utsunomiya Mamoru knew that Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki's order was to have the remaining five hundred Japanese soldiers use the banzai charge tactic to attack.

Five hundred Japanese soldiers charging at the Nationalist army troops who were clearing the way with heavy machine guns. The Kunitokunaga Kurō company, which was charging in the front, would definitely not live long.

Fortunately, the Utsunomiya Mamoru company was in the second echelon and should be able to charge into the middle of the Nationalist army troops.

If the Nationalist army's troops collapsed, there might be a glimmer of hope.

Company Commander Utsunomiya Mamoru had many thoughts, but time passed very slowly. He mechanically followed the entire company and charged forward.

The Inoue Jūzaburō machine gun company, the Nakamura Hiroki infantry company of the 18th Division, and the Sakai Tatsuya machine gun company, which were following behind, also shouted and got up from the ground.

Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki also joined the ranks of these charging Japanese soldiers. He no longer had the idea of being able to return alive.

He just wanted to use this tactic of burning jade and stone together to give this Nationalist army troop a lesson and let them know the Sixth Division's spirit of dying rather than submitting.

If Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki knew that the Special Operations Brigade would never announce these actions of the Japanese soldiers on the battlefield, he would definitely vomit blood in anger.

Company Commander Lü Jiagui ordered the five companies to attack the Japanese soldiers and saw that the Japanese soldiers had actually rushed out of the fortifications.

They actually dared to launch a counterattack? This was too unexpected!

Company Commander Lü Jiagui almost laughed out loud: the battlefield area was too small, and the thirty heavy machine guns on his side could not be set up at all.

These heavy machine guns could not all be placed in the front to advance. Now that the Japanese soldiers had taken the initiative to launch an attack, these heavy machine guns could stop and be used as fixed fortresses to fire.

The thirty heavy machine guns were arranged in five rows in a staggered manner, set up on the spot, and fired.

This time, Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki really vomited blood: when he ordered the charge, there were only a few heavy machine guns firing on the opposite side of the Nationalist army.

This gave him the feeling that with five hundred Japanese soldiers, he could use a hundred Japanese soldiers to take the bullets in the front, and the Japanese soldiers behind could still charge into the Nationalist army troops.

He could fight the Nationalist army soldiers with bayonets, and no matter what, he had to drag some Nationalist army soldiers down to die with them.

With this sudden situation, he could no longer count how many heavy machine guns were firing on the opposite side.

However, he was very clear that five hundred Japanese soldiers could not rush into the Nationalist army troops, maybe five thousand Japanese soldiers could rush up.

His steps forward began to become crooked, and he opened his mouth and vomited a mouthful of blood. Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki persevered in charging forward with a mouthful of blood every step of the way.

He had to complete the charge order that he had issued. Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki, whose eyes were already a little blurred, watched as the Japanese soldiers in front of him continued to fall.

They had been charging for so long, but the Japanese soldiers in the front were even further away from the Nationalist army.

The Japanese soldiers who fell in front of them covered the entire railway. This ending would soon befall Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki.

He was shot twice and could no longer persevere in charging forward. Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki, who had already fallen to his knees, even had a still-warm Japanese soldier's corpse under his knees as a cushion.

Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki used his last bit of strength to find a support point. The command sword in his right hand was still pointing forward, pointing at the location of the heavy machine guns.

His actions stimulated the Japanese soldiers of the two companies of the 18th Division who were following behind him.

The remaining Japanese soldiers of the two companies, which numbered less than a hundred in total, still howled and charged towards the thirty heavy machine guns. This act of moths flying into the fire quickly came to an end.

Company Commander Lü Jiagui ordered the soldiers to charge forward and clean up the battlefield. Company Commander Xuan Yiren led his men to charge down from the hillside as well.

This battlefield was in Lin Fan's blind spot, and he learned of the news from Company Commander Lü's report.

This was good news. The second echelon of Japanese soldiers who had come to reinforce them had been completely wiped out. Now was the time to concentrate their forces to annihilate the third echelon of Japanese soldiers who had been sent over and seize those cannons.

Company Commander Lü Jiagui only left a platoon of soldiers here to clean up the battlefield and led everyone along the railway to the Japanese field artillery's 106th Regiment.

The 4th Company of the 2nd Regiment on another hilltop also received the order: they were to retreat from their position and charge directly towards the Japanese artillery regiment.

Regiment Commander Abiko Satoshi had just watched the last of the Japanese soldiers of the Tsukamoto Kazuki Battalion die.

He was also very helpless! He was still being bombarded by artillery here, not to mention sending troops to support Tsukamoto Kazuki.

The 106th Field Artillery Regiment was now in dire straits and could not even save themselves.

If the front and rear of the train had not been bombed, he would have already ordered the train to escape back.

There was no such thing as "what if" on the battlefield. He could only watch helplessly as the Nationalist army soldiers poured towards him from all over the mountains and plains.

How could the Abiko Satoshi Regiment resist so many Nationalist army soldiers?

Regiment Commander Abiko Satoshi decisively ordered: "Abandon all the cannons and retreat to the rear!"

There were no Nationalist army soldiers to be seen in the rear of his regiment. He believed that as long as he ran back as fast as his legs could carry him, he would definitely be able to survive.

At this time, it was not the time to care about appearances. Running fast was the only, the most important, and the smartest choice.

With Regiment Commander Abiko Satoshi setting an example, all the Japanese soldiers of the entire regiment naturally followed suit and ran to the rear together.

Even Battalion Commander Sai Naoki of the 1st Battalion no longer cared about his few infantry guns and joined the retreating troops with a team of Japanese soldiers.

The Kohinata Daiji Battalion was no longer leveling the artillery positions. In fact, they could not continue to do so. The artillery positions were within the target range of the Nationalist army's artillery bombardment.

Even if they moved the cannons over and set them up, wouldn't they just be targets for the Nationalist army?

As for the cannons, they could just leave them casually by the side of the railway. Anyway, following the regimental commander, there would definitely be no problems.

If they continued to persevere like this, the artillery positions would definitely not be able to be set up, and they were afraid that they would lose their lives here.

All the Japanese soldiers of the 106th Field Artillery Regiment thought this way. They fled along the railway towards Jiujiang in a swarm.

The situation in front was indeed as Regiment Commander Abiko Satoshi had imagined. On their escape route, except for the attacks and pursuit from the soldiers of the five companies of the 15th Regiment on the hillside, they had not encountered any snipers in front.

This made Regiment Commander Abiko Satoshi, who was running the fastest, very grateful, grateful that he had commanded properly.

At the same time, he also secretly despised Battalion Commander Tsukamoto Kazuki: if he had had his decisiveness, he would not have been surrounded by the Nationalist army and forced to carry out a suicide charge.

The development of the situation on the battlefield was unexpected, and Lin Fan did not expect that the Japanese soldiers would throw away their cannons and run.

However, he liked such sensible Japanese soldiers! From Company Commander Shi's report, he learned that the Japanese artillery regiment had abandoned their cannons and fled.

Lin Fan was happy when all the cannons were under the protection of the 15th Regiment. At this time, he sent a telegram to Commander Xue Yue of the Second War Zone: "My brigade has defeated the Japanese artillery regiment seven kilometers from Mahui Ridge to Jiujiang and captured six Type 92 70mm infantry guns, twelve Type 38 75mm field guns, twelve Type 38 105mm field guns, twelve Type 96 150mm howitzers, and a number of shells.

Please send someone to receive the equipment!"

When the Second War Zone Headquarters received the telegram and heard the chief of staff read it out loud, the entire field fell silent, and a pin could be heard dropping!

"This is the second artillery regiment's equipment that the Special Operations Brigade has captured." A staff officer said in a low voice after a while.

Commander Xue Yue had a headache: "I just asked the president for several hundred artillery soldiers to form a heavy artillery regiment, and they haven't even seen combat yet, and now here comes another heavy artillery regiment's equipment.

Where am I going to find so many artillery soldiers?"

He had never encountered this kind of happy trouble before. The Nationalist army had always had too few cannons and too little firepower. Suddenly, the Special Operations Brigade forced two heavy artillery regiments' equipment on him, which really made him feel that happiness had come too suddenly and he couldn't grasp it!

Regardless of whether he could grasp it or not, these cannons had to be taken back. How to take them back was the problem!

If it was before the war, the railway between Mahui Ridge and De'an would have been smooth, and this would not have been a problem at all.

Now: the Second War Zone could only temporarily repair the railway. This made the engineers of the Second War Zone feel troubled.

When they were destroying the railway, they were afraid that they would not destroy it thoroughly enough and that the Japanese soldiers would easily restore traffic. Now that they had arrived at the scene and looked at the railways that they had destroyed, they only hated why they had destroyed them so thoroughly in the first place.

The various regiments of the 66th Army, which were still moving supplies at Mahui Ridge, received a new order from Commander Xue Yue of the Second War Zone: "Temporarily stop transporting supplies. Go all out to assist the engineers in restoring the railway between the front line and De'an. All supplies that have not been transported will be transported by railway."

At the same time, he sent a telegram to Lin Fan: "The Special Operations Brigade will establish a defense line on the spot and hold it for twenty-four hours, waiting for the engineers to repair the railway and transport the cannons and all the supplies.

The 66th Army will send a division to assist the Special Operations Brigade in combat, and the remaining troops will be under Lin Fan's command."

They had already taken back Mahui Ridge for so long, and the second battlefield had already ended before Lin Fan reported to him.

From Lin Fan's attitude, Commander Xue Yue could also see the attitude of the Special Operations Brigade: fight their own battles and leave others with no battles to fight.

Such a person would definitely not want a commander to be placed over his head, so Xue Yue directly put the four regiments of a division under Lin Fan's command and did not let those brigade commanders and division commanders go over. This could avoid many awkward situations and reduce many troubles.

At least in terms of position, Lin Fan was a brigade commander and could completely command those regimental commanders.

Lin Fan replied very simply and decisively: "Received! Executing!" He did not even say a word to guarantee the completion of the mission.

This was enough to reassure Xue Yue. He was stepping up the mobilization of the various troops to encircle the Japanese 106th Division in Wanjialing.

Not every troop could march a hundred miles overnight like the Special Operations Brigade.

The Second War Zone could not provide logistical support to a combat force of six thousand men with a three-thousand-man logistics team, as it did for the Special Operations Brigade.

Of course, this was also because the Second War Zone did not have a second troop with the combat power of the Special Operations Brigade.

If Xue Yue really had a troop as invincible and unstoppable as the Special Operations Brigade, he would be willing to equip them with a logistics team at a ratio of two to one, or even one to two.

However, elites like the Special Operations Brigade were always very few. Most of the Nationalist army troops were ordinary troops, and their marching speed was not fast.

After the mobilization order was issued, it would still take a long time to complete the entire layout.

Despite this, Xue Yue was full of confidence in the upcoming battle. In any case, he now had two more heavy artillery regiments, which he had snatched back from the Japanese soldiers.

He had more than the Japanese soldiers, and the Japanese soldiers had less. In this way, the Japanese soldiers' firepower would be much weaker in the next battle.

The most important task for the Second War Zone Headquarters at present was to repair the railway and reorganize another artillery regiment. The task of repairing the railway had already been assigned. The 66th Army at Mahui Ridge was going all out to assist.

In the direction of De'an, the New 90th Division was arranged to go on the road to work as laborers for the engineers, with the goal of getting through as soon as possible.

Commander Xue Yue had also considered the matter of sending troops to repair the railway, combined with the fact that the Special Operations Brigade had already shot down two Japanese air squadrons in a row.

The Second War Zone estimated that the Japanese soldiers would not dare to send planes to this area in a short period of time.

The railway would be repaired as far as possible, and the Japanese soldiers would not dare to come over and destroy it.

However, the reorganization of another heavy artillery regiment still required reaching out to the Wuhan headquarters.

Chiang Kai-shek sat in his office, listening to his staff officer read out the battle report sent by the Second War Zone.

When he heard that the Second War Zone had successfully recovered Mahui Ridge, and had also ambushed the Japanese reinforcements and an artillery regiment five kilometers in front of Mahui Ridge and captured forty-two cannons,

He immediately understood what Xue Yue wanted next. Sure enough, after the battle report ended, Xue Yue once again proposed the need for an artillery regiment's soldiers to operate those cannons.

In the telegram, Xue Yue explained in detail that there were many shells among the supplies seized at Mahui Ridge Station.

These cannons, equipped with shells, would be a perfect match for bombarding the Japanese 106th Division in the Wanjialing area.

Chiang Kai-shek smiled and slapped the table: "Xue Yue has also learned to be bad, and he's even using 'perfect match'!

This is really a perfect match. Call Chen Cheng over."

Chen Cheng quickly came over, and Chiang Kai-shek showed him the telegram. Chen Cheng said with a smile: "Xue Yue is having a good time