The Milky Way is Also a Grain of Sand

Chapter 491 The First Battle of Waging War Around Strongholds

The miracle that the lower-ranking devils of the Inoue Yuki Brigade hoped for never materialized. Those devils who expected a miracle died in agony from the poison gas.

The commander of the 11th Army received a report from the brigade commander Inoue Yusuke. He knew that the Kobayashi Munen Brigade, which had departed more than half an hour ago, had not yet arrived at Mahuiling. He was panicked: what was going on?

What exactly was going on? It was necessary to send reconnaissance planes to investigate.

Upon receiving the order, Jiujiang Airport immediately dispatched two planes. Pilot Fukuju Taichi nervously piloted the reconnaissance plane into the air.

Following behind him was pilot Narumiya Yoko, whose mood was equally complicated.

In the past few days, two flight squadrons had been completely wiped out in this direction. They didn't want to take on this mission at all.

But the orders of Commander Okamura Neiji, even if they knew they would die, these two devils had no choice but to go.

Pilot Fukuju Taichi said to the devil who followed, "Narumiya-san! You go left, I go right, we fly towards Mahuiling from two directions."

Narumiya Yoko asked, "Isn't the mission to fly along the railway and look for the whereabouts of the Kobayashi Munen Brigade?"

"Yes! We'll stay on the left and right sides of the railway, as far apart as possible, as long as we can see the railway.

That way, maybe one of us can survive."

Having only just taken off, Fukuju Taichi was already resigned to his death. After his explanation, Narumiya Yoko immediately thought it was a good suggestion and agreed.

The two planes flew as high as possible, as far away from the railway as possible. Fukuju Taichi, as the proposer, ultimately chose a relatively safer direction.

He was flying over the lake. No matter what the National Army did, they wouldn't hide any weapons in the lake, right?

Narumiya Yoko quickly realized that the direction he was flying was full of mountains. If the National Army was hiding weapons here, he wouldn't be able to find them at all.

But since he had chosen the direction himself, even if it was a dead end, he could only continue flying.

It took less than ten minutes to fly from Jiujiang Airport to Mahuiling. The two devils cautiously guarded against unknown attacks.

Carefully watching the winding railway on the ground, Fukuju Taichi suddenly shouted, "There's a train derailed below, and there's a fierce battle going on."

Narumiya Yoko responded reflexively, "I'll go take a look!"

At that moment, Fukuju Yoko had already started a wide turn: "You go take a look! I'll report it immediately!"

"Report! Headquarters, ten miles from Mahuiling, discovered that the train carrying the Kobayashi Munen Brigade has overturned, and there is a fierce battle going on below!"

His report ended there! A shell suddenly flew up from the ground and accurately hit Fukuju Taichi's plane, instantly turning it into fireworks.

Narumiya Yoko was swooping down towards the battlefield when he suddenly saw the plane in the distance explode in mid-air. He quickly pulled up the plane and tried to escape.

He couldn't care less about continuing to check the actual situation on the battlefield.

Now that he had been discovered, it was impossible for him to escape! Lin Fan fired another shell, sending Narumiya Yoko to hell.

This pair of unfortunate brothers who took off from Jiujiang Airport could reunite in the underworld.

Although both reconnaissance pilots died this time, their mission was considered complete.

At least they had relayed the news of the Kobayashi Munen Brigade's derailment to the 11th Army Headquarters.

The 11th Army Headquarters, upon hearing this news, didn't feel any more at ease. On the contrary, the staff officers in the headquarters became even more anxious.

They desperately called Fukuju Taichi and Narumiya Yoko, wanting to know more information.

But all their calls were like stones sinking into the sea, with no response.

Having had experience with this kind of thing, the staff officers at the 11th Army Headquarters understood that the two reconnaissance planes must have been shot down by the National Army again.

The previous two times their air groups had been suddenly wiped out in the direction of Qilin Peak, the devils had noticed this problem and had specially entrusted their sympathizers in the upper echelons of the National Army to inquire about it.

The Special Operations Brigade had been transferred from the Fifth War Zone to the Second War Zone, and had parachuted in a high-profile manner, crossing hundreds of kilometers overnight and crossing the Yangtze River to reach the battlefield.

This had already spread among the high-level officials in Wuhan and was not a secret. Commander Okamura Neiji got the information he wanted in less than half an hour.

The Special Operations Brigade! It was them again!

Knowing that the Special Operations Brigade was here, the devils at the 11th War Zone Headquarters were both angry and anxious.

They were angry that they had received the information too late. If they had known that the Special Operations Brigade was here, they wouldn't have sent even a single squadron of planes.

Sending out reconnaissance planes today was a last resort. Now that the planes had crashed, they couldn't get any more accurate information.

Commander Okamura Neiji suddenly realized that knowing the current situation of the Kobayashi Munen Infantry Brigade had no impact on the current decisions of the entire 11th Army.

They couldn't provide any help to the Kobayashi Munen Infantry Brigade, nor could they send any reinforcements, not even guidance.

Everything still required the Kobayashi Munen Brigade to work hard on its own!

The devils of the Kobayashi Munen Brigade were working very hard now. The Fujiwara Ryota battalion headquarters had been completely wiped out, but the devils in his battalion were still alive.

Captain Rikuzen Torataro took over the command of the entire battalion. Following the orders of Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen, the entire battalion was desperately trying to get out of the carriages.

As the brigade's first battalion, they had to break through quickly and rush directly to Mahuiling.

Acting Battalion Commander Rikuzen Torataro took the lead and personally charged at the front, leading the devils forward along the railway.

Leading the charge in his company was the Fat House Ryu small squad, with the squad leader closely following.

Sergeant Uehara Sora saw that the squad leader, company commander, and battalion commander were all personally charging at the front.

He was excited. Although half of the devils in his squad had been killed by the National Army, their morale didn't decrease but increased.

The leading role of several devil officers greatly encouraged the soldiers. Sergeant Uehara Sora took three steps in two, trying to sprint to the front.

The twenty-odd devils who could still charge in the entire squad quickly established a defense line in front of Acting Battalion Commander Rikuzen Torataro and the others.

These devils didn't stop. They charged forward along the railway, braving the hail of bullets and artillery fire from the hillside.

These devils ignored the harassment from the National Army on both sides of the road. They just wanted to break through and rush to Mahuiling.

Rikuzen Torataro watched as more and more devils gathered behind him, from less than a hundred at first to about three or four hundred now.

They hadn't broken through the area where the train had derailed yet.

Each time these devils passed a carriage, they could shout out some devils from inside the carriage to join them.

They kept rushing forward until they reached the front of the locomotive. Half of the locomotive had burrowed into the mud, as if it wanted to pull the train directly into the ground and drive into hell.

Seeing this scene, Acting Battalion Commander Rikuzen Torataro was secretly shocked: That was close!

When the train suddenly braked, in just that one moment, there were about twenty casualties in the carriage he was in. Some of them died on the spot.

Some were still waiting for rescue in the carriage. In this situation, any rescue of the wounded would have to wait until the battle was over.

Ahead was an open area, and Acting Battalion Commander Rikuzen Torataro felt a little nervous. In the open area, these devils would be completely exposed to the guns of the National Army. Not only was he nervous, but every devil's heart was pounding.

Completely exposed to the enemy's firepower, surviving would really depend on luck.

In fact, these devils, walking along the train carriages, could only block the attacks from the soldiers of the 15th Regiment from one direction.

These carriages were completely unable to block the hail of bullets from the other half of the soldiers.

But having a big guy like a train carriage gave the devils a psychological comfort, at least letting them think that they were protected by the carriage.

No matter whether it was an open area or a thorny ground ahead, Rikuzen Torataro had to let the devils charge forward: Mahuiling was still ahead. If they didn't go to Mahuiling, what would happen to the devils of the 106th Infantry Division stationed at Mahuiling?

Sergeant Uehara Sora shouted and rushed out. He was the first to rush into the open area, running wildly along the railway.

The devils behind him saw that he had rushed out more than twenty meters and was still able to run, and only then did they realize that the National Army's firepower wasn't as dense as they had imagined.

With Sergeant Uehara Sora taking the lead, hundreds of devils rushed out. Company Commander Ii Tsugusen, on the hillside, coldly watched these devils, watching them jump around.

The entire 15th Regiment had arrived here several hours in advance, and the arrangements made were definitely more than just this.

Company Commander Ii watched as all these devils rushed out of the shadows of the train carriages, about five or six hundred devils.

Only then did he give the order: "First set of directional mines, detonate!"

"Rumble! Rumble!" There weren't many explosions, only six.

These six explosions were inconspicuous on the battlefield filled with artillery fire, and didn't even attract the attention of Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen.

But this explosion brought a devastating blow to the battalion led by Acting Battalion Commander Rikuzen Torataro.

After the mines wreaked havoc, the open area in front of the locomotive was full of devils' bodies crawling on the ground.

Most of these bodies were bleeding. Rikuzen Torataro was lucky not to be injured.

He lay prone on the ground, listening to the wails and groans around him, and many devils were rolling on the ground, begging the devils around them to rescue them.

Acting Battalion Commander Rikuzen Torataro didn't know how many devils in the entire battalion could continue fighting. He gave the order to call out the numbers.

In this small area, his orders could even be faintly heard by the soldiers of the First Company on the hillside.

Listening to these devils in the entire battalion calling out the numbers, Battalion Commander Rikuzen Torataro heard seventy-three, and then no devils continued to call out the numbers.

The entire battalion now had only seventy-three devils who could fight. Such a team was not easy to lead!

Not to mention taking them to Mahuiling to reinforce Battalion Commander Inoue Yusuke.

At this time, Battalion Commander Rikuzen Torataro understood that he was like a clay idol crossing a river, barely able to save himself.

He issued a wise order: "Retreat! Retreat back to the train!"

Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen was very concerned about the situation of the First Battalion. From Battalion Commander Fujiwara Ryota and the entire battalion headquarters being wiped out, to Acting Battalion Commander Rikuzen Torataro personally leading the entire battalion to attack.

He was listening to the devil reports. The message reported just now made him spit out a mouthful of tea: the entire First Battalion now had only seventy-three devils left who could fight.

This was what the devils hiding in the carriages had heard with their own ears when Rikuzen Torataro had ordered them to call out the numbers.

These devils also heard Acting Battalion Commander Rikuzen Torataro's order to retreat.

It seemed that it wasn't wrong for the First Battalion, with only seventy-odd devils, to retreat, not to mention that they were still surrounded by the National Army.

Even if they had broken out of the encirclement, it seemed unrealistic to try to lift the siege of Mahuiling with seventy-odd devils.

Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen quickly calculated the current strength of his brigade: the nearly one thousand devils who had just been stationed on the roof of the train were actually the most elite devils and the strongest firepower in the entire brigade.

Machine guns and heavy machine guns were stationed on the roof, and all of them had died in the emergency braking. The devils had died, and the weapons had also fallen off. Two machine guns had been recovered, but they were all unusable.

With an average of twenty-odd casualties in each carriage, the entire brigade had suffered nearly two thousand casualties in just a few minutes of the derailment.

Now that they had been bombed for so long, the First Battalion was almost completely wiped out. Counting everything, the entire brigade had only about two thousand devils left.

Two thousand-odd devils, and a team with few machine guns and heavy machine guns, what was he supposed to do?

This was very difficult! "Has the radio been repaired?" Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen asked hoarsely.

"Almost! Almost!" His communications captain reported, sweating profusely.

When the train overturned, the radio also fell, and the huge impact made the fragile radio stop working.

This cut off Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen's contact with the rear. Brigade Commander Kobayashi now had ideas, but he needed to get guidance from the 11th Army Headquarters.

As soon as the radio was repaired, the Kobayashi Munen Brigade sent out a telegram for help: "My brigade was attacked by regular National Army troops ten miles from Mahuiling.

The train has overturned, and casualties are more than half. We are now unable to continue advancing. Request air support.

Also, please send a machine gun battalion to strengthen our brigade's heavy firepower."

Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen was now thinking: If Commander Okamura Neiji didn't approve reinforcements, he would immediately retreat and no longer continue to attack Mahuiling.

The devils had now found some new ways to get out of the carriages: They first cleared out the devils from one carriage, and then used explosives to blow open the connection between the two carriages.

This allowed the devils to poke their heads out from these places and use the train as cover to counterattack the 15th Regiment on the hillside.

But their weapons were too poor. Various artillery pieces were severely damaged in the recent collision and couldn't be used without repair.

All they could use were grenade launchers and rifles, plus a small number of machine guns. How could they launch a counterattack with such weapons?

Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen's initial plan that the National Army would run away as soon as the devils counterattacked had now gone bankrupt.

They had counterattacked, but the National Army on the hillside hadn't left. Although the firepower wasn't as fierce as it had been, they were still fighting!

This made the devils in the entire brigade very uncomfortable. The firepower wasn't fierce anymore, but the guns and cannons were more accurate, causing more damage to the devils.

Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen had to persevere in this uncomfortable battle.

However, their perseverance still had some effect. The Second, Third, and Fourth Battalions had all established defense lines outside the carriages.

Although the defense lines were only established within eleven meters outside the carriages, it was better than nothing.

The 11th Army finally received the message from the Kobayashi Brigade. In excitement, Commander Okamura Neiji shouted, "Read it!"

He had the devil read out the telegram sent by the Kobayashi Brigade. All the devils in the headquarters heard the request for reinforcements after the Kobayashi Brigade suffered more than half casualties.

Commander Okamura Neiji's face was ashen. He stared at the map, as if looking at Mahuiling on the map could see Mahuiling in reality.

Sending air support! That was impossible!

To be safe, Okamura Neiji still ordered to verify whether the two reconnaissance planes that had just been sent out had returned.

The answer was affirmative: No!

Hearing this answer, all the devils in the headquarters knew that it was impossible to send air support to the Kobayashi Munen Brigade.

The only thing that could be sent was by rail.

Fortunately, the distance was only thirty kilometers, and they should be able to reach the battlefield quickly. The key was that Brigade Commander Kobayashi was requesting a machine gun battalion. What did that mean?

The connection between the 11th Army Headquarters and the Kobayashi Munen Brigade was smooth, and they quickly understood the situation:

The entire Kobayashi Brigade had suffered three thousand devil casualties in just a short period of time. All the machine guns had been lost, and all the infantry artillery had been damaged.

That was why Brigade Commander Kobayashi had requested a machine gun battalion. Commander Okamura Neiji was calculating in his mind: Was a machine gun battalion enough?

If possible, he wanted to send another infantry brigade over, but he had no troops to spare.

Thinking of this, Commander Okamura Neiji could only order: "Notify the Jiujiang garrison troops of each division to extract one machine gun company and one infantry company to immediately reinforce Mahuiling."

This time, he had already turned his attention to the garrison troops of each division.

The main force of the 106th Field Artillery Regiment of the 106th Division was still in Jiujiang. He ordered them to assemble immediately and head to Mahuiling as the second echelon.

This time, Commander Okamura Neiji decided to bypass Division Commander Matsuura Junroku and directly issue the mobilization order to Captain Magoroku Remi of the 106th Field Artillery Regiment.

It would take some time for the field artillery to mobilize, so they needed to go as the second echelon. The infantry and machine gun battalions were heavily equipped and could set off immediately.

After Commander Okamura Neiji's order was issued, Jiujiang City was once again mobilized urgently.

The devils of the garrison troops of each division left their camps one after another and rushed towards Jiujiang Railway Station in a hurry.

Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen, who was still on the battlefield, had been preparing to run back when he heard that air support couldn't come.

He also heard that Commander Okamura Neiji had extracted one machine gun company and one infantry company from the devils garrisoned in Jiujiang to come and reinforce him.

"He's still treating me like his own son!" Hearing this news, Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen certainly couldn't retreat.

In addition, there was the main force of the 106th Field Artillery Regiment, a team of more than fifteen hundred devils, and they were also bringing artillery to help.

Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen was so moved that he almost knelt on the ground to thank Commander Okamura Neiji for giving him such great support.

The 11th Army had a total of seven divisions under its command: the 9th Division, the 27th Division, the 101st Division, the 106th Division, the 6th Division, the 116th Division, and the 18th Division.

Extracting two companies from the garrison troops of each division would be at least three hundred and fifty devils. The total number would be nearly two thousand five hundred devils, which was a full two battalions.

Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen only wanted a machine gun battalion, and now Commander Okamura Neiji was sending one and giving one free. He was really too good to him. In addition, there was a field artillery regiment.

Happiness came too suddenly! Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen felt that happiness had come too suddenly. He loudly ordered: "Pass down the order! The commander has sent us a machine gun battalion, an infantry battalion, and a field artillery regiment.

Hold on for ten minutes, and reinforcements will arrive. With the bombardment of the field artillery, the National Army on the hillside can only run away."

These devils of the Kobayashi Munen Brigade had been suppressed by the 15th Regiment on the hillside and their morale had declined.

At this time, hearing the news, these devils were like dying patients who had been given a shot of adrenaline, and their morale rose again.

The devils of the Second Battalion, commanded by Devil Head Taro, had only less than five hundred left out of the entire battalion of one thousand two hundred devils after fighting until now.

If these devils had a way to escape, they would have chosen to run away, but behind these devils were overturned carriages, and on the left and right were under the firepower of the 15th Regiment.

These devils could either only hide in the carriages or only resist outside.

Although the carriages could block rifle bullets, and even heavy machine gun bullets couldn't penetrate them.

There were always mortar shells hitting the carriages. As long as one mortar shell exploded inside a carriage, very few of the devils inside the entire carriage could survive.

Because of this, Battalion Commander Devil Head Taro ordered all the devils to run out of the carriages.

Even if they were bombed by mortar shells outside, only a few dozen devils would die, and they would never be wiped out in one pot like in the carriages.

At this point in the battle, more than thirty of the forty-odd carriages had been blown up. The carriages were full of huge holes, which made it easier for the devils to poke their weapons out from inside to counterattack.

They only left four or five devils in each carriage, setting up machine guns to fight back against the soldiers of the 15th Regiment on the hillside.

The high-powered machine guns of the 15th Regiment and the Second Regiment, which were deployed further away, were now mainly targeting the devils who were resisting in the carriages.

The devils of Mahuiling had been completely wiped out, and the eight infantry companies of the Second Regiment were rushing to the battlefield here.

The four regiments of the 66th Army were also stepping up the transportation of goods. They already knew that the Special Operations Brigade had fought the devils again on both sides of the railway line.

Commander Ning and the others believed that the speed of their transportation was consistent with the time the Special Operations Brigade needed to snipe the devils.

Only when all the supplies here were emptied would the people of the Special Operations Brigade withdraw from the front.

Therefore, the soldiers of the four regiments and three thousand transport soldiers were now completely ignoring their fatigue and were constantly transporting supplies.

Lin Fan stood on the top of the mountain and looked at the railway line in the distance, which was in fierce battle. Since he fired two shots and shot down the devil reconnaissance plane.

He hadn't done anything again. It wasn't that he was putting on airs, but that anti-aircraft shells had to be used sparingly.

The devils below were no longer a concern. To fight them, only the 92-type infantry artillery of each company was needed to blow open the trains one by one.

The current situation was very favorable to the Special Operations Brigade. The devils rushed out of the carriages and established a defense line outside.

With the strategic mind of Commander Shangguan Zhiwen of the 15th Regiment, he would not have failed to plan for such actions by the devils.

It was just that he hadn't taken action yet, and Lin Fan could probably guess some of it: It might be because there were still many devils shrinking in the carriages and hadn't come out.

Lin Fan's guess was correct. The directional mines laid by Commander Shangguan Zhiwen were definitely not just the six that had blown up the Fujiwara Battalion.

Battalion Commander Devil Head Taro would never have imagined that their current defense line was within the range of the directional mine attacks laid by the 15th Regiment on the hillside.

Commander Shangguan Zhiwen hadn't ordered the detonation yet, just because he had discovered that the devils in the carriages behind hadn't come out yet.

The directional mines were dead weapons. If they were used now, he was afraid that the devils behind would have learned from the past and taken precautions.

Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen certainly didn't know that the outside world was full of dangers. He received the news that two battalions of devils would arrive within half an hour.

He immediately ordered the remaining three battalions to come out of their holes, rush out, seize favorable positions for attack, and prepare to cooperate with the devils in the counterattack in a while.

Battalion Commander Eggplant Box River Kengo of the Third Battalion and Battalion Commander Ichidan Isamu of the Fourth Battalion ordered the devils: "The machine guns will continue to suppress the National Army on the hillside from inside the carriages. All the other devils will rush out and establish defense lines outside, like the Devil Head Battalion."

The world outside the carriage was ultimately much wider, and the devils could launch counterattacks much faster when they were outside.

Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen's plan was perfect. He got up somewhat excitedly. Half an hour had passed since the car overturned.

His emergency response had passed, and at this time, he felt a burning pain in his chest.

The medical soldiers came and carefully took off his clothes, and then they discovered that there were large blisters on the front of the brigade commander's chest.

At this time, Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen remembered that when the train braked suddenly, the two geishas who were performing the tea ceremony rolled into his arms along with the scalding hot water.

With him as a human shield, the two geishas were unscathed. It turned out that he had borne all the injuries himself.

The two young girls who had just performed the tea ceremony were now shivering. They had never thought that one day they would end up like this.

If Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen killed them in a rage, they would have nowhere to complain.

Yamada Noriko thought that she was also a famous beauty in the school, but just because she listened to the propaganda on the radio, she participated in the Women's Volunteer Corps.

As soon as she entered the devils' team, she was immediately assigned to wander around inside the 11th Army. Any devil with the rank of brigade commander had the power to order her to do anything.

Now she was suddenly about to die, and she was so scared that she could only lie on the ground without saying a word.

She didn't dare to beg for mercy: causing a brigade commander to suffer such serious injuries was a capital crime!

The anger in Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen's eyes didn't disappear as the two women trembled. Now his body was in pain, severe pain.

He needed to vent this anger. The National Army on the hillside was undoubtedly the best target, but Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen knew that he had no way to do anything to them for the time being.

He needed to be patient, to wait until the machine gun battalion and the infantry battalion arrived, and then wait until the field artillery regiment arrived before he could vent all his anger on the National Army on the hillside.

Now, he could temporarily vent his anger on the two women! Just as Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen was receiving treatment, the devils of the Eggplant Box River Kengo Battalion and the Ichidan Isamu Battalion had begun to rush out of the carriages and establish defense lines outside.

Commander Shangguan Zhiwen discovered this trend of the devils and immediately ordered: "Fourth Company, Fifth Company, Sixth Company, Seventh Company, your firepower is a little weaker.

Don't always keep the devils pinned down below. If you want to give the devils pleasure, you have to give them some sweetness.

Let the devils come out, let them establish their defense lines. If they don't come out, our traps will be wasted?"

The machine gun firepower of several companies that received the order immediately weakened a lot, which made Battalion Commanders Ichidan Isamu and Eggplant Box River Kengo overjoyed.

"The National Army is about to run away! Hurry out, we can't let them run away!"

The momentum on the battlefield was like this: either the east wind prevails over the west wind, or the west wind prevails over the east wind.

The weakening of the firepower of the 15th Regiment immediately gave the devils of the entire Kobayashi Munen Brigade a lot of courage.

Their morale, which had already begun to swell because reinforcements were about to arrive, swelled even more like a soap bubble.

Commander Shangguan Zhiwen watched as the devils emerged from their hiding places one after another. Some were hiding under the trains, and some were hiding in the connections between the carriages. Each devil was very well hidden.

Now they saw that the National Army on the hillside seemed to be running out of firepower, and these devils immediately became arrogant.

They all ran out of their hiding places, preparing to join the ranks of chasing down the National Army.

Lance Corporal Kanno Miyahara was just an ordinary devil in the Third Battalion. He didn't run out of his hiding place like the other devils.

Today's battle was too scary for the devils. He wanted to continue to lie low until the end of the battle.

Although he couldn't go into battle himself, he greatly admired the devils who had the courage to rush out and fight the National Army.

In Lance Corporal Kanno Miyahara's envious gaze, he saw the devils rushing towards the hillside one after another.

Battalion Commander Ichidan Isamu was preparing to build the defense line that Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen had ordered them to build on the top of the mountain so that they could feel safer.

"It should be starting!" On the top of the mountain, seeing so many devils suddenly rushing out, at least a thousand devils launched a counterattack.

Lin Fan smiled and said to Feng Junya. "What's starting?" Feng Junya's eyes were looking at the sky at this time. He had been looking at the sky, always ready to discover any devil planes appearing at the first moment.

Lin Fan pointed to the bottom of the mountain and said, "The bombs that the 15th Regiment prepared for the devils should be starting."

As soon as the words fell, a series of explosions suddenly rang out at the bottom of the mountain.

One directional bomb after another exploded on both sides of the railway. The explosions of "Rumble! Rumble!" lasted for a while before stopping.

Huge mushroom-like clouds of smoke rose up. Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen, who was still in the carriage, felt the train shaking again and also heard the constant clanging sounds. The sound was like the sound of summer rain beating on banana leaves.

Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen wasn't hearing this sound for the first time. He had been hearing such a sound all along, which was the sound of bullets hitting the steel plates outside the carriages.

But this time? What was it? It was impossible for so many bullets to be hitting the carriages at once.

"What's going on outside?" Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen's high-rising anger suddenly withered, and he could no longer muster the interest to vent his anger on the two geishas lying on the floor.

"The National Army outside has just detonated the landmines that had been buried long ago. Our army has suffered heavy casualties." Its Chief of Staff Katori Ichima quietly poked his head out and observed the situation outside.

Only then did he come back to report.

He didn't dare to tell the truth too much, but only took a part of the truth to report to Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen. Then Chief of Staff Katori Ichima suggested: "Brigade Commander, let's leave from the rear of the car and break through towards Jiujiang.

The reinforcements sent by the headquarters should be arriving soon, and our chances of breaking through are still very high."

"Why?" After asking this sentence, Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen understood.

The recent explosions must have caused too many casualties to the entire brigade, and Chief of Staff Katori Ichima no longer had the confidence to hold out here.

Lance Corporal Kanno Miyahara was hiding under the train. His position was very hidden. Unless someone deliberately lay on the ground to check, they couldn't find him.

Hiding in this position, the bullets or bombs from the hillside couldn't hit him, unless the train suddenly moved and crushed him into meat paste.

Lance Corporal Kanno Miyahara saw Battalion Commander Ichidan Isamu prostrate ten meters in front of him, constantly urging the devils to charge towards the hillside.

Just as Battalion Commander Ichidan Isamu's arms were waving and raised high, the explosion occurred. The continuous explosions made Lance Corporal Kanno Miyahara, who was lying tightly on the ground, very uncomfortable.

He was like sitting on a small boat, being hit by waves one after another. These didn't affect his observation.

He saw the upper half of Battalion Commander Ichidan Isamu's raised arm suddenly and strangely flying towards him.

The devils who were bent over and holding guns seemed to have been suddenly swept by an invisible sickle at this moment.

All the devils fell to the ground at the same time, and then there were countless clanging sounds of bullets hitting the carriages.

The sound was so dense that his ears couldn't react.

Lance Corporal Kanno Miyahara, who was crawling under the carriage, saw a light red mist mixed in the smoke, rising from the bodies of the fallen devils.

Each devil's body had such an indistinct blood mist appearing, and small streams of blood were flowing from under the bodies of the devils, merrily flowing towards the low-lying areas where he was located.

In the area that Lance Corporal Kanno Miyahara could see, after the explosion, no devil continued to charge towards the hillside.

But he saw a dozen devils sneaking down furtively. Some quietly touched the train, and one devil even discovered that the position under the train seemed better.

He actually drilled under the car and immediately discovered Lance Corporal Kanno Miyahara.

This devil was obviously stunned for a moment, and then said, "I am Ishifuku Shutake."

"I am Kanno Miyahara!"

"Kanno Miyahara-kun is really smart. He foresaw this setback and was able to find such a safe position."

Ishifuku Shutake was obviously a talkative person. After he drilled in and straightened his body, he felt that this was indeed a good place.

The carriage above them could provide double protection, and ordinary shells couldn't blow them up.

The main force of the devils, after such an explosion, had more dead than alive.

Commander Shangguan Zhiwen ordered: "Full attack!" They couldn't just keep fighting this ambush battle like this.

After the recent explosion, the devil's counterattack was already very weak. The entire regiment launched the final charge.

The First Company and the Second Company attacked from the position of the car, and the rest of the companies launched an attack on each carriage from the hillside.

When each company launched the attack, the heavy machine guns, machine guns, and rifles stopped firing.

The bullets from these weapons would produce ricochets when they hit the steel plates outside the carriages, which could easily cause accidental injuries to the attacking soldiers.

Now, only the high-powered machine guns and 92-type infantry artillery could carry out firepower suppression on the devils who were still resisting in the train.

The 92-type infantry artillery was used to fight the devil's machine guns, and it was not polite at all: as long as it hit, all the devils in a carriage would be finished.

The First Company and the Second Company had already charged onto the train at the position of the car. What Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen had arranged in the first few carriages was the Fujiwara Ryota Battalion. This battalion of devils had suffered a devastating blow and had long lost its combat power.

They lost the car position. The soldiers of the First Company and the Second Company cooperated, with some soldiers attacking backward from inside the carriages and some soldiers charging towards the devils behind outside the train.

This caused the devils of the Devil Head Taro Battalion to be attacked on three sides at once. There were not many devils left in the first place. Less than a hundred devils were resisting stubbornly, and now they were attacked on three sides.

The devils of the Devil Head Taro Battalion finally stopped defending and began to flee in a panic.

With these devils taking the lead, the devils of the Eggplant Box River Kengo Battalion made the same choice.

The fleeing team of devils rolled like a snowball, getting bigger and bigger. The devils of the entire Kobayashi Munen Brigade began to flee towards Jiujiang.

They were clear: the captains had all said that reinforcements were coming from Jiujiang, so they had to flee in this direction.

Brigade Commander Kobayashi Munen was a commander who followed good advice. After listening to the suggestion of Chief of Staff Katori Ichima.

He only hesitated for a minute before ordering: "The Brigade Department will go first!"