Chapter 106 The Field Artillery Regiment's Cannon Was Stolen

When the Eleventh Army Commander of the National Army reported the incident of the 106th Field Artillery Regiment's cannon being stolen, he didn't hide anything.

Upon receiving the report, Detachment Leader Hata Jūichi merely laughed at the incompetence of the 106th Field Artillery Regiment, without further thought.

He knew very well that cannons were different from rifles. Without learning how to operate them, one couldn't even fire a shell, and might even cause a barrel explosion, killing the gunners.

How could something contrary to common sense occur this time? Regimental Commander Nakajima Yōkichi insisted that the National Army was using the Empire's cannons and shells, and that his regiment had suffered heavy casualties and needed to withdraw from the front line.

If an artillery regiment wanted to withdraw, so be it! That was all Detachment Leader Hata Jūichi could think at that moment.

He merely informed the 1st and 2nd Infantry Regiments of the new situation and then calmed down.

Although he was no longer indulging in entertainment, he walked into the operations command center, studying the map, seemingly trying to see through all the National Army's deployments.

The women who had been performing were now terrified, retreating to the side. Although Detachment Leader Hata Jūichi hadn't blamed them, these women, skilled at reading expressions, could tell from his livid face that Regimental Commander Nakajima Yōkichi was on the verge of erupting.

Although Captain Suzuki Keigo had issued the retreat order before requesting instructions from the regimental commander, the actions of his entire battalion were still slow.

As they busied themselves with treating the wounded and organizing the artillery, the whistling sound of incoming shells echoed in the air again.

In an instant, a barrage of shells rained down. This time, the bombardment lasted even longer, causing more of the Japanese soldiers outside treating the wounded to fall once again.

It was the artillerymen of the 2nd Heavy Artillery Regiment who were firing. Their movements weren't as skilled as the soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade. Although they also fired ten shells from each cannon, it took them longer.

This also prolonged the suffering of Captain Suzuki Keigo's entire battalion. By the time this round of bombardment ended,

Captain Suzuki Keigo didn't dare to order his men to rescue the wounded for a while, fearing that the cunning National Army would repeat this "lure the snake out of its hole" tactic.

While the Japanese artillery regiment was being bombarded, Detachment Leader Hata Jūichi finally looked up from the map and ordered, "Order the 1st Infantry Regiment to launch an attack on the National Army's front line, towards the National Army's artillery positions."

He wanted to try his luck and find the National Army's artillery. Searching for the National Army's artillery positions this way was blind, but even if they couldn't find them, breaking through their forward defenses would be good.

With this thought in mind, Detachment Leader Hata Jūichi issued the order to the 1st Infantry Regiment.

Upon receiving the order, Regimental Commander Sato Kaname of the 1st Infantry Regiment immediately assigned the task to the 1st Battalion. The task was further delegated, eventually reaching Captain Iwamiyo Ryo.

His company had mysteriously lost its forward Koshūto platoon the day before. A platoon of thirteen soldiers had disappeared in broad daylight.

They hadn't returned by nightfall, which was a first for the Hata Detachment. They had experienced soldiers disappearing one or two at a time.

These one or two soldiers might have deserted, or been ambushed and killed by guerrillas. But losing an entire platoon of thirteen soldiers at once had never happened before.

Even if a Japanese platoon encountered a National Army ambush, they would leave some clues. This time, however, they disappeared without a trace.

This not only irritated Captain Iwamiyo Ryo but also made Lieutenant Totsumura Yuta uneasy. His platoon had suddenly lost thirteen soldiers, leaving him with only forty.

Moreover, they were now being ordered to be at the forefront, probing the strength of the National Army's defenses, which made Lieutenant Totsumura Yuta very dissatisfied.

The defensive line Lieutenant Totsumura Yuta was attacking was a section guarded by Fan Guangji, the company commander of the 5th Company of the 2nd Regiment.

Seeing only forty or so Japanese soldiers approaching from a distance, hunching over, with rifles in hand, Company Commander Fan ordered, "The entire company, assign tasks! Five men aim at one Japanese soldier. Open fire when they enter a hundred-meter range."

This method of having five soldiers aim at the same Japanese soldier had appeared more than once in the Special Operations Brigade's training materials.

Company Commander Fan wanted to try it out in his company. The rocket launcher, mortar, and infantry gun crews didn't need to participate in this aiming and firing.

The soldiers using rifles, machine guns, and heavy machine guns had their tasks assigned by the platoon leaders down to the squad, and then to the individual. By the time the Japanese soldiers advanced to a hundred meters, the soldiers had already completed their assignments.

Zou Pengxing and his group of five were assigned a short, stout Japanese soldier. They saw him cautiously approaching from about two hundred meters away.

Sergeant Kamitake Hayama of the Totsumura platoon didn't know that he was already targeted by five soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade. His every move was under their close watch.

He only felt a sudden chill, which instantly penetrated his heart. It was only October, not yet the cold season. Why did he feel such a bone-chilling cold?

Sergeant Kamitake Hayama carefully looked around for a moment, thinking it might be because he was walking in a shady area.

He whispered, "Do you feel cold?"

Sergeant Aochi Sho quickly said, "Kamitake-kun, you feel it too? I just felt a chill rise from my heart, as if something was about to happen here."

Sergeant Ise Takuya also said, "Did we offend something? Should we retreat?"

Sergeant Kamitake Hayama said in a low voice, "From the moment we entered this land, we have offended all their gods and people. How can we retreat now? Keep retreating all the way back to the island?"

Aochi Sho laughed at his words, "Their gods have abandoned them. We have been burning, killing, and looting in this land, and those legendary gods haven't done anything.

It's these people who are too tenacious. Even though their weapons are so inferior, they keep rushing forward, one after another, without fear of death."

His words made the other two Japanese soldiers laugh, and the cold feeling from before instantly disappeared without a trace.

Zou Pengxing watched the Japanese soldiers laughing in the distance and said in a low voice, "Laugh! Laugh! You're already walking on the road to the underworld. The more cheerful you laugh now, the more painful you'll cry when you go to hell."

The soldiers of the 5th Company kept a close watch on the Japanese soldiers as they walked closer step by step. When they entered the hundred-meter range, and then eighty meters, the company commander still hadn't given the order to fire.

When the Japanese soldiers entered the fifty-meter range, Company Commander Fan Guangji finally gave the order in a low voice, "Pass it on, prepare to fire."

Company Commander Fan, holding a rifle, aimed at the one in the Japanese ranks carrying a command saber and gently squeezed the trigger: "Bang!" After the crisp gunshot, Totsumura Yuta fell headfirst. At the same time, "Bang! Bang! Boom! Boom!" gunshots rang out continuously.

Almost the entire Totsumura platoon was hit at the same time. Sergeant Kamitake Hayama was hit three times in the chest, and he also fell to the ground.

Thinking of the chill he had experienced earlier, he now felt even colder. The blood in his body was constantly flowing out, and he felt even colder.

Aochi Sho and Ise Takuya, who had been laughing with him, had also fallen to the ground. Aochi Sho was already lifeless, but Ise Takuya could still speak.

"Cough, cough, cough!" He coughed a few times before saying in a weak voice, "Kamitake-kun, the chill just now came from the malice of the National Army soldiers!

It was the hatred in their eyes when they aimed at us that we felt. It's a pity we ignored it!"

Kamitake Hayama still wanted to save himself, and he asked in an equally weak voice, "Ise-kun, are you seriously injured? Help me bandage it."

Ise Takuya said in a low voice, "I can't live, and neither can you. None of them can live.

You said that the gods of this continent have abandoned them, but they stood up themselves. We invaders can't live."

After saying this, he was silent for a long time. Sergeant Kamitake Hayama crawled over, feeling his nose, and confirmed that Ise Takuya was indeed dead.

Kamitake Hayama could only try to block the wound on his chest, but blood kept gushing out from his back. The hot blood and increasingly cold body made him feel that he was still bleeding continuously. If this continued, he would bleed to death without the National Army soldiers doing anything.

But there wasn't a single living Japanese soldier around him to help. Sergeant Kamitake Hayama could only call out in a weak voice, "Save me! Someone save me!"

There was no response. Throughout this small area of the battlefield, there were cries for help everywhere, but not a single Japanese soldier could stand up to help the others.

After a round of shooting, the soldiers of the 5th Company nervously stared at the Japanese soldiers who had been shot, waiting for any survivors to stand up so they could give them another round of bullets.

Whether it was out of fear or because they were all hit, not a single Japanese soldier stood up, and the battlefield fell into an eerie stalemate.

The soldiers of the 5th Company waited indifferently in their fortifications. Captain Iwamiyo Ryo, in the distance, saw that the National Army soldiers had only fired one round of bullets, and the entire Totsumura platoon stopped moving.

With just one round of bullets, Captain Iwamiyo Ryo couldn't even find the firing points of the 5th Company. The Totsumura platoon had failed to even probe the strength of the National Army's firepower.

Now the entire platoon was pretending to be dead on the front line. Captain Iwamiyo Ryo was furious, and he ordered, "Captain Kumama! Lead your team to attack and urge the Totsumura platoon to follow."

"Hai!" Captain Kumama Kishiichi enthusiastically accepted the task.

He had also seen the performance of the Totsumura platoon, and his view was the same as the captain's: the Totsumura platoon's soldiers were slacking off.

This time, his team's attack route was the same as the one Totsumura Yuta had taken. However, his team's speed was much faster than the Totsumura platoon's.

Company Commander Fan Guangji of the 5th Company, seeing another team approaching from a distance, ordered, "Same as before, aim at the Japanese soldiers. Open fire when they are a little further away than the last ones."

Company Commander Fan was worried that the second group of attacking Japanese soldiers would discover that the first group was dead and would crawl on the ground, making it difficult to hit them.

With the previous experience, the 5th Company soldiers' assignment work was much faster this time. Before the Kumama platoon could even charge into position, the soldiers had already assigned each of them to a person.

The Kumama Kishiichi platoon of fifty or so Japanese soldiers, who were still charging, were unaware of the 5th Company soldiers' preparations. Under the platoon leader's urging, they were diligently charging forward, following the same path that the Totsumura platoon had taken.

The entire team's speed was much faster, and Sergeant Iruta Kakuma was at the front of the Kumama platoon.

He was charging forward, and he could already see the Totsumura Yuta platoon crouching on the ground in front.

Just then, he heard a gunshot, "Bang!" Sergeant Iruta Kakuma felt as if his body had been hit hard, and a great force pushed him backward.

At the same time, Sergeant Iruta Kakuma also felt many bullets flying past him, and the whistling sound of the bullets made his heart cold.

It was then that he felt a pain in his chest. Looking down, Sergeant Iruta Kakuma's strength suddenly disappeared: there were large patches of blood in four places on his chest.

As a veteran who had been fighting on the battlefield for a year, he knew, of course, that he had been shot, and four times.

With such injuries, no Japanese doctor would operate on him, because he couldn't be saved anyway. If he had only been hit by one bullet, he might have been saved, but now that he had been hit four times, there was no point in saving him.

Sergeant Iruta Kakuma had only one thought in his mind: "I'm done for! I'm dead!"

After the gunshot, thirty or forty Japanese soldiers in the Kumama Kishiichi platoon immediately fell. The remaining ten or so Japanese soldiers hadn't reacted.

On the National Army's positions opposite, a barrage of intense gunfire swept over them. These Japanese soldiers who had luckily escaped the first wave of snipers, whether they had been hit or not, all quickly crouched on the ground. It was then that they saw clearly: all the Japanese soldiers who had fallen had been hit.

Moreover, these Japanese soldiers had been hit by more than just one bullet. Most of them had been hit by two or more bullets, and only a few had been hit by only one bullet.

According to the standard of giving priority to rescuing the lightly wounded, only seven soldiers in the entire Kumama platoon were eligible for rescue. In just a moment, less than ten Japanese soldiers in the entire platoon were still able to fight.

Captain Kumama Kishiichi was already dead. Platoon Leader Iita Makoto temporarily took over command. He ordered the remaining ten or so Japanese soldiers, dragging seven wounded who could be rescued, to retreat immediately.

Company Commander Fan Guangji of the 5th Company, seeing that there were still Japanese soldiers who could move, immediately ordered, "Heavy machine guns! Shoot them dead! Mortars, blow them up! Infantry guns, blast them to death!"

Company Commander Fan had only one thought in mind, not to let a single Japanese soldier go back alive. His orders were immediately carried out. The five heavy machine guns of the 5th Company began to sweep the area, and five mortars and two infantry guns all opened fire.

Platoon Leader Iita Makoto, leading ten or so Japanese soldiers, struggled to escape amidst the artillery fire. The dense artillery bombardment made their escape very difficult.

By the time he finally led the Japanese soldiers to Captain Iwamiyo Ryo, only five uninjured Japanese soldiers and three wounded soldiers they had dragged back remained of the entire Kishiichi platoon.

The three wounded soldiers were immediately carried away by the Japanese medical soldiers. Captain Iwamiyo Ryo looked at the Kumama Kishiichi platoon, which was only left with five soldiers, and he now understood: the Japanese soldiers of the Totsumura Yuta platoon weren't slacking off, they were all dead, or so badly injured that they couldn't move, and they would soon die anyway.

Platoon Leader Iita Makoto reported that most of the soldiers in the Kumama Kishiichi platoon were dead, and there were also some seriously wounded soldiers who had been shot several times and had no value for rescue. They were lying on the road ahead and could die at any time from excessive bleeding.

Captain Iwamiyo Ryo hadn't expected this situation. His company now had seventy Japanese soldiers left, one small platoon, plus his company headquarters, and the five soldiers Iita Makoto had brought back.

Although the Japanese soldiers in his hands hadn't all died, Captain Iwamiyo Ryo didn't dare to order another attack. He reported the setbacks he had encountered during the attack to Captain Sakashita Akira.

Captain Sakashita Akira was a commander who readily accepted good advice. Hearing that the National Army in front of the Iwamiyo Ryo company was so powerful, he didn't intend to continue trying to break through here.

If one direction didn't work, another would. If he couldn't break through the 5th Company, he would just change his position. With this in mind, Captain Sakashita Akira ordered, "The Inoguchi Kazuma and Hanakage Chihiro companies will attack from the left and right, respectively."

The firing points of the 5th Company that the nearly one hundred Japanese soldiers of the Totsumura Yuta and Kumama Kishiichi platoons had probed earlier were now useless.

Captain Sakashita Akira didn't want to touch such a strong defense. To take advantage of the enemy's weakness! Of course, he had to find the weak points in the National Army's defense line and attack them.

"Hai! Hai!" Company Commanders Inoguchi Kazuma and Hanakage Chihiro agreed in unison and immediately led their teams to prepare.

As for preparations, they didn't have any. Their artillery regiment was now being heavily bombarded by the Special Operations Brigade's heavy artillery, and these Japanese soldiers couldn't seek artillery support. As for air support?

The Eleventh Army had already issued orders before they set out: no air support!

Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma learned a lesson from Captain Iwamiyo Ryo's report. He believed that the Iwamiyo Ryo company had made the mistake of being too cautious and should have sent the entire company at the first attack.

This time, that was what he would do. Company Commander Hanakage Chihiro had the same idea. Although these two companies were attacking the 2nd Regiment's defensive line from the left and right,

They were also a thousand meters apart, but the attacking methods of these two teams were all the same. They directly pressed the entire company forward, with a momentum of burning their boats.

Battalion Commander Shi Shunxia of the 1st Company of the 2nd Regiment was very happy to see more than a hundred Japanese soldiers charging forward. He said with a smile: "Everyone hide, lower your heads into the trenches, leaving only two observation posts.

This time, we'll let the Japanese soldiers get thirty meters in front of the position before we attack!"

All the soldiers in the company understood the company commander's order: This was the Special Operations Brigade's most skilled tactic: first let the Japanese soldiers get within twenty meters in front of the position, detonate the directional mines that had been buried earlier, and then rush out to stab and kill them, and they would be able to wipe out the Japanese soldiers.

After such a battle, not a single Japanese soldier would be able to escape. The soldiers of the 1st Company, hearing the order, all crouched down and waited by the side of the trench for the latest orders.

The 2nd Regiment had been defending this defensive line for three days, and the trenches had long been perfectly organized. The soldiers were waiting for the Japanese soldiers to charge up in this well-constructed trench.

Company Commander Shi Shunxia looked out from the observation hole and saw that the Japanese soldiers were moving forward very quickly. Perhaps it was because they thought they had the advantage in numbers, these Japanese soldiers weren't afraid of any ambushes that might be lurking in the surrounding bushes.

They were advancing together in three small teams. Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma was walking at the back of the team, and he calmly looked at the National Army's defensive line in front, and a sneer couldn't help but appear on his face.

His company was now less than three hundred meters away from the National Army's defensive line. This distance was the most suitable for the heavy machine guns and machine guns to sweep, but the National Army opposite was still silent.

"They're scared!" Platoon Leader Kobata Yūki said flatteringly to the company commander.

"I hope they don't abandon the position and run away, otherwise, this battle will be completely meaningless." Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma said with a sneer.

He said this sincerely. In his eyes, only killing a large number of National Army soldiers could be considered the best battle.

If the National Army soldiers retreated after a little resistance, or even ran away without fighting, as they had in previous battles, and then they would appear on the next defensive line, Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma was really tired of such battles.

He hoped to face real swords and guns, face-to-face slashing. He believed that only such bloody stabbing could dispel the National Army soldiers' will to resist, and make them honestly lay down their weapons and willingly become slaves of the Empire.

Therefore, at this time, he was most afraid that the National Army on the opposite defensive line had already fled after hearing the news. When his company advanced to a distance of two hundred meters from the National Army's position, there was still no movement on the opposite defensive line.

He didn't even see a National Army soldier sticking his head out to find out the news and observe the battlefield situation.

Could it be that the National Army soldiers really saw their company coming and were so scared that they fled? Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma sighed secretly in his heart: "It's another wasted effort!"

The development of the situation seemed to confirm his guess. The entire Inoguchi Kazuma company had advanced to a distance of one hundred meters from the National Army's defensive line, and the opposite was still just as quiet.

If they had just arrived on this continent to fight, Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma would still have suspected that there might be traps set up in front of them.

But now he wouldn't think that way, because his company had encountered this kind of situation too many times: the National Army's teams were like this most of the time.

They would resist bravely once or twice and then run away immediately. The National Army team today might be like this. They had annihilated nearly one hundred Japanese soldiers in the Iwamiyo Ryo company. Perhaps they thought that the task of annihilating the Japanese soldiers had been completed today, so they had already run away.

As if confirmed by his own thoughts, the entire company had advanced to a distance of fifty meters from the National Army's position, and the situation on the opposite side was still the same.

Such a distance was the best shooting distance for rifles. As long as they aimed slightly, they could hit the target.

Sergeant Hito Moto, walking at the front of the Inoguchi company, had originally thought about whether to launch an attack at this time.

Now, the National Army's defensive line in front was silent, and there wasn't even the sound of birds. The company commander hadn't given the order to attack either.

The entire Inoguchi company was walking forward so easily, and Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma hadn't even given the order to sprint.

He had determined that the defensive line in front was empty and that the National Army had retreated. When the Japanese soldiers in his company were less than thirty meters away from the National Army's defensive line,

Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma finally heard a different sound: "Boom! Boom!"

"This is the sound of bombs exploding!" Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma was still able to react, and in an instant, he saw countless black shadows falling into his company like water.

Then there were the groans of many Japanese soldiers and the sound of killing. Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma, who had been staring at the front, looked at the more than one hundred National Army soldiers who suddenly rushed out of the trenches.

He no longer had the initial thought of praying that the National Army soldiers wouldn't escape and would have a face-to-face battle with his company.

He even regretted in his heart: Why did he have such thoughts!

Under the command of Company Commander Shi, all the soldiers of the 1st Company rushed out of the trenches and into the Japanese ranks in the blink of an eye.

At this time, the smoke from the directional mine explosions was still spreading, and the soldiers rushed into the smoky battlefield, stabbing the Japanese soldiers they saw in the chest, and stabbing the Japanese soldiers lying on the ground in the throat.

The soldiers of the 1st Company rushed too fast, and the Japanese soldiers who had just been bombed by three directional mines hadn't recovered from the shock. Those Japanese soldiers who had been lucky enough not to be injured in the explosion fell down again.

Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma, at the back of the team, watched the soldiers of the 1st Company rush up and into his team, and quickly ordered loudly, "Counterattack! Counterattack!"

The Japanese soldiers who could still stand in the Inoguchi Kazuma company were awakened by the company commander's order, and they began to meet the soldiers of the 1st Company who were rushing up.

The Inoguchi Kazuma company originally had more than one hundred and eighty Japanese soldiers, but after being bombed by directional mines, there were less than one hundred Japanese soldiers who could continue to fight.

How could one hundred Japanese soldiers who were still in shock be a match for the nearly two hundred energetic soldiers of the 1st Company.

In the hazy smoke, the shouts of the soldiers of the 1st Company resounded through the sky. The Japanese soldiers of the Inoguchi company had long been frightened by the directional mines, and now they heard such shouts, and there were many injured Japanese soldiers groaning under their feet. These Japanese soldiers who could still stand no longer had any fighting spirit.

If Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma hadn't been constantly urging them loudly at the back of the team, ordering them to fight, these Japanese soldiers would have turned around and run.

The reduction in the number of Japanese soldiers without any fighting spirit was very fast. Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma had never imagined that the Japanese soldiers under his command would be like this in a bayonet fight.

The angry Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma pulled out his command saber and ordered the few Japanese soldiers from the brigade headquarters who were with him to charge forward with him.

Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma, charging forward in large strides, rushed towards the soldiers of the 1st Company who were charging over. The two sides soon collided.

Facing the lightning-fast stab from the opposite side, Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma's heart immediately turned cold. He had never imagined that he would be so unlucky: when he went to the battlefield to fight with bayonets, he would encounter an expert at once.

The expert on the opposite side stabbed so quickly and fiercely that the command saber in Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma's hand had just touched the opponent's rifle when the opponent's bayonet had already stabbed into his chest.

This time, his heart truly felt the coldness of the bayonet, and then his heart was rotten. Li Youde's hand rotated slightly, and Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma's heart was smashed to pieces by the bayonet.

His heart was broken, and he had no strength in his hands, and no strength in his whole body. Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma couldn't stand firm and fell backward.

At this time, he hadn't died yet, and then he saw an amazing stab. The expert on the opposite side pulled out his bayonet and stabbed out with his rifle twice, even faster than before. In fact, before Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma had fallen to the ground, he had been stabbed in the throat.

Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma's eyes bulged out, and he couldn't believe it! Unfortunately, Li Youde didn't understand his thoughts.

Otherwise, Li Youde would have jumped up happily! His bayonet skills weren't particularly outstanding in the entire 1st Company, but he was considered an expert by this Japanese soldier, which was certainly something to be happy about.

After neatly stabbing the Japanese soldier to death, Li Youde couldn't find a single standing Japanese soldier. Company Commander Inoguchi Kazuma was originally at the back of the team, and when he launched his attack, there weren't many Japanese soldiers left in the entire company.

In just a moment, all the remaining Japanese soldiers in the Inoguchi Kazuma company had fallen.

Company Commander Shi ordered loudly, "Add another stab, pick up weapons! Immediately retreat back to the trenches." Now was not the time to carefully clean up the battlefield.

There were many soldiers in the 1st Company, and on average, each soldier cleaned up a Japanese soldier, so the speed was very fast.

In the smoky haze, the soldiers of the 1st Company had already retreated back to the trenches.

On the other side of the battlefield, the battle situation was similar: the Japanese soldiers of the Hanakage Chihiro company were also bombed by directional mines from the 4th Company on the way to the attack, and then pushed down by the soldiers of the 4th Company.

Battalion Commander Sakashita Akira had been paying attention to the attack of the Inoguchi Kazuma company all the time. Under his gaze, he personally saw the Inoguchi Kazuma company charge in front of the National Army's position, and a few clusters of fire flashed.

The smoke rose, and by the time the smoke was blown away by the mountain wind, only the bodies of Japanese soldiers were left on the ground, and not a single living Japanese soldier could be seen.

The situation on the other side of the battlefield was the same: the Japanese soldiers of the Hanakage Chihiro company had also fallen to the ground. This time, two companies were lost. Battalion Commander Sakashita Akira felt the pain, he really felt the pain.

Two companies were wiped out, plus the one hundred Japanese soldiers who died in the Iwamiyo Ryo company. In just a moment, his company had lost more than half of its strength, and nearly five hundred Japanese soldiers had died.

How could they fight such a battle? What made Battalion Commander Sakashita Akira even more unacceptable was that two companies were wiped out, and they didn't even see how these Japanese soldiers died.

The fire deployment on the National Army's position wasn't seen at all. The Inoguchi Kazuma and Hanakage Chihiro companies seemed to have been killed by a few landmines.

What to do now? Battalion Commander Sakashita Akira didn't know! He asked Regimental Commander Sato Kaname, and the order he received was still: "Continue the attack!"

Regimental Commander Sato Kaname was also very depressed now: He had already asked Detachment Commander Hata Juichi to bombard the National Army's defensive line in front of him with artillery fire.

In the past, such requests of his would have been met. As a result, this time, his request couldn't be met. Detachment Commander Hata Juichi, fearing that it would affect the morale of the army, simply refused Regimental Commander Sato Kaname's reasonable request and didn't tell him: The mountain artillery regiment was being heavily bombarded by the National Army's artillery fire and was unable to support them.

Not only did the detachment not have artillery support, but Detachment Commander Hata Juichi hadn't changed the task of the 1st Infantry Regiment: to break through the National Army's defensive line as soon as possible and find the National Army's heavy artillery position.

Even if they couldn't find the National Army's heavy artillery position, they had to scare them away! Heavy artillery was a very important force in an army.

As long as there was a slight danger, the National Army would definitely move the heavy artillery away. As long as these heavy artillery no longer bombarded the Japanese artillery, Detachment Commander Hata Juichi felt that the goal had been achieved.

Deeply disappointed, Regimental Commander Sato Kaname could only order the Sakashita Akira battalion to continue the attack. What else could Battalion Commander Sakashita Akira say when he received the order?

He could only order the last two complete companies of the battalion, the Chihana Tomoaki and Hakatami Reo companies, to continue the attack.

This time, he didn't change the direction of the attack. The two companies still followed the attack route of the two companies that had just been wiped out.

Battalion Commander Sakashita Akira had his own views: The landmines in front of the National Army's position had already been stepped on by the Inoguchi Kazuma and Hanakage Chihiro companies. This time, there would definitely be no danger if they sent the Japanese soldiers over again.

The Qianyan Dazhi Company and the Hakata Haruo Company immediately issued the departure order in accordance with the battalion commander's order.

This time, they no longer had the relaxed mood they had when the Iwamiyo Ryo Company attacked. This defensive line in front had already killed nearly five hundred Japanese soldiers.

And these Japanese soldiers hadn't figured out what weapons the National Army had used to kill these nearly five hundred Japanese soldiers.

The unknown was the most terrible thing. Now, the hearts of the more than three hundred Japanese soldiers in the two departing companies were all gray. If they had a choice, they wouldn't want to attack at all.

They were already afraid today, but military orders were like mountains! The company commander had already issued the attack order, and these Japanese soldiers didn't dare not to attack.

Sergeant Kogi Daiji walked in the middle of the team with trepidation. Just now, he had seen the destruction of the Inoguchi Kazuma Company, although he didn't see it very clearly.

But Sergeant Kogi Daiji saw many figures fighting in the hazy smoke, and he thought that those were heavenly soldiers and generals who had killed the Japanese soldiers in the Inoguchi Kazuma company.

They had appeared using the smoke as cover, and they had left quietly using the smoke!

With such thoughts, he didn't want to continue forward at all, but there were Japanese soldiers in front and behind him. Even if Kogi Daiji wanted to escape, there was no way to escape in this situation.

The inescapable Kogi Daiji kept looking around, looking for a route where he could slip away quietly. His actions attracted the attention of Captain Nakaue Takeo beside him.

Sergeant Nakaue Takeo said in a low voice, "Kogi-kun! Do you want to escape?"

Being exposed by the Japanese soldier, Kogi Daiji quickly denied, "No! I'm just monitoring the surrounding area for any lurking National Army soldiers, preventing them from suddenly rushing out."

Sergeant Nakaue Takeo said in a low voice, "Could it be that you also saw those figures that appeared in the smoke when the Inoguchi Company died just now?"

"You found it too?"

"They didn't look like National Army soldiers, but more like the legendary heavenly soldiers and generals!"

"Yes! I also saw them! The Inoguchi Company kept charging to the front of the position without encountering any snipers, and it was only at the last moment that smoke rose, and then they all died."

The two Japanese soldiers exchanged their experiences in a low voice, and the more they talked, the more afraid they became, and they bent their bodies even lower when they walked.

At this time, Sergeant Kogi Daiji hated his height of one meter and five centimeters. If he had a choice, he hoped that he would only be ten centimeters tall at this time.

The more deeply the two Japanese soldiers exchanged their ideas, the colder they felt. "We are going to die, the entire battalion of Japanese soldiers is going to die. Because we have offended the gods here, and he has sent heavenly soldiers and generals to kill us." Kogi Daiji still had a little bit of clarity, and he only spoke to Nakaue Takeo in a low voice.

No matter how unwilling the two of them were, the Japanese soldiers of the entire Chihana Tomoaki company still walked towards the battlefield step by step.

The situation became mysterious again: They had already walked one hundred meters in front of the National Army trenches, but the National Army still didn't react.

Their machine guns didn't sound, and their rifles didn't fire. Were the National Army or heavenly soldiers hidden in the trenches in front?

This was a question! Regimental Commander Sato Kaname couldn't get artillery support from Detachment Commander Hata Juichi, but his regiment still had some artillery. Now, he concentrated the mortars and infantry guns of the two battalions and launched a bombardment on the National Army trenches.

As soon as the Japanese artillery fired, it was seen by the observers on the observation balloon three hundred meters in the air. They immediately reported the coordinates of the Japanese artillery position by telephone.

Sato Kaname's 1st Infantry Regiment, and the two battalions that had just been mobilized, were originally hidden in the mountains and forests, and they were not easily discovered.

The mobilization just now allowed the observers in the air to discover the movements of the Japanese infantry, and their coordinates were also notified to the artillery positions one by one.

Based on the coordinates obtained, Lin Fan ordered each company to assist the officers and soldiers of the 2nd Heavy Artillery Regiment in adjusting the angle and direction of the artillery.

More than thirty cannons began to be adjusted at the same time, and more than two thousand people were busy. The officers and soldiers of the 2nd Heavy Artillery Regiment watched the Special Operations Brigade soldiers operating the cannons, and the commander shouted out an angle, and they quickly adjusted to the position.