Chapter 1 The Cemetery of the Entire Company

Captain Anai Itaiya of the Japanese army never imagined that his second charge would bury his entire company.

Though he was at the rear of the entire company, he was stabbed to the ground by the charging soldiers of the first platoon. The soldiers of the first platoon were very quick, and after killing these Japanese devils, they picked up their weapons and immediately returned to the defense line.

Captain Yafang Yousuke, watching from afar as the entire company was wiped out, was furious. They had just won a great victory in Gao'an today.

He never expected that they would lose an entire company at Xiangfu Temple. How could he possibly tolerate this?

He ordered all the mortars and infantry guns of the entire battalion to bombard the positions in front of them.

At the same time, he ordered Captain Yamada Kenichi to immediately attack Xiangfu Temple. Once Xiangfu Temple was captured, the entire battalion would rest there for the day.

This order was issued, and the Japanese devils of the entire battalion cheered. Although their victory this morning was genuine, so was their fatigue.

After all, fighting was very hard work, and running from Gao'an to here was also very strenuous. Resting early was, of course, exciting for all the Japanese devils.

Captain Yamada Kenichi led his troops and immediately launched an attack on Xiangfu Temple. The other companies of Japanese devils stood scattered nearby, acting as bystanders watching the battle.

Company Commander Gui Junxiong saw that one company of Japanese devils had been wiped out, and another company had come, with many more Japanese devils waiting behind them.

At this time, he had no choice but to ask for reinforcements. Ji Wudi immediately ordered the ground attack aircraft at Shanggao Airport to move out. This was the fastest team she could get to the battlefield.

At the same time, the Second Regiment also began to withdraw from Shengmi Street. Ji Wudi sent a telegram to Wang Yaowu to inquire, and immediately received a reply.

In the telegram, Wang Yaowu admitted that his subordinates had lost Gao'an, but he guaranteed that he would send troops to recapture Gao'an again.

At the same time, he also said that the pressure on the 51st Division was very high. They had been attacking Fengxin since the 21st, but had not yet captured it.

The Japanese devils were now using Fengxin as a base, not only sending troops to attack Gao'an, but also sending troops to advance towards Dacheng. Their next target was Dacheng.

Their ultimate goal was definitely to encircle the four regiments of the Special Operations Brigade between Shengmi Street and Dacheng.

When Wang Yaowu learned that Ji Wudi had already captured Shengmi Street, he was visibly surprised and did not reply for a long time.

During this time, he and his staff were looking at the map and calculating their strength.

He knew the combat effectiveness of the Special Operations Brigade, but he had only seen it with his own eyes during the Battle of Nanjing. At that time, the Special Operations Brigade had a total of more than a thousand people. Although their combat effectiveness was strong, it was not as strong as it was today.

Ji Wudi had sent out a full four infantry regiments, 12,000 men, to attack Shengmi Street, which was completely the configuration of a main force division of the National Army.

Compared to the time in Nanjing City, their strength was ten times greater, and their combat effectiveness, if not ten times higher, was at least three or four times higher, which was not a problem.

Looking at the map, Wang Yaowu said with some regret: "If we had Gao'an in our hands, and Fengxin had been captured, and the 49th Army cooperated to recapture Jing'an, and then directly took Anyi and Huangxi, a three-sided encirclement, attacking Nanchang would still be easy."

Wang Yaowu finally sent a telegram back to Ji Wudi: "I suggest you hold Xiangfu Temple and Dacheng, and attack Huangxi along the highway.

As long as Huangxi is occupied, the Japanese devils, in order to protect Nanchang, will transfer most of their troops back."

Ji Wudi replied in a telegram: "I want to ensure that there are no worries behind me, so I will attack Gao'an first. I will defend Gao'an this time!"

She was a direct person, not euphemistic, and directly put forward her plan.

Wang Yaowu replied after a while: "You defend Gao'an! You attack Huangxi!"

"Okay!"

The small local plan was formulated in this way. Ji Wudi's plan had undergone some changes. The Japanese devils in Fengxin were also moving towards Dacheng.

The tasks of the Third and Fourth Regiments had, of course, changed. Ji Wudi ordered the Third Regiment to send troops to block the Japanese devils on the highway from Fengxin to Dacheng, and to kill as many of their living forces as possible.

At this time, the Second, Third, and Fourth Regiments had only just withdrawn from Shengmi Street and were heading towards their respective targets.

When Jiang Yuanwu received Ji Wudi's order, he also received news from the Aviation Brigade: This morning, the Aviation Brigade bombed the Japanese devils' airports in Wuchang and Jiujiang, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese devils.

Jiang Yuanwu passed this news on to everyone at the airport, and also sent a copy of the news to Ji Wudi. Ji Wudi also received a telegram from the Special Operations Brigade at this time, and learned of the news.

Of course, she understood that the bombing of the airports in Wuchang and Jiujiang was clearly beneficial to her team.

At least the safety of Shanggao Airport had been greatly improved. Jiang Yuanwu led twelve ground attack aircraft and twelve fighter planes to depart.

Ground attack aircraft must be escorted by fighter planes, which was the rule of the Special Operations Brigade's Aviation Brigade.

They flew along the road to Gao'an, and a little further ahead was Xiangfu Temple.

Jiang Yuanwu flew over at low altitude and immediately discovered the traces of the Japanese devils. The entire Yafang Yousuke Battalion was on the side of the highway and on the hillside. This target was too easy.

The ground attack aircraft immediately began strafing, and six ground attack aircraft strafed all the way to the front of the Fourth Regiment, First Company's position.

The other six ground attack aircraft and six fighter planes continued to fly towards Dacheng. They were going to see the road between Dacheng and Fengxin, and intercept the Japanese devils coming from Fengxin.

The firepower of the ground attack aircraft was very fierce. Captain Yamada Kenichi had no choice but to stop his charge and ordered the entire company to disperse and hide.

Captain Yafang Yousuke hid in the bushes, looked up at the planes in the sky, and felt depressed: During this period of time, the sky above him had always been filled with the empire's planes.

Why had the weather changed today? The planes that appeared in the sky were actually from the Special Operations Brigade. Where were the empire's planes?

He ordered a telegram to be sent immediately requesting the division commander to send an aviation squadron to help him, and at the very least, to drive away the planes overhead.

He needed to have the conditions to fight on an equal footing with the defending troops in front of him.

At this time, Captain Yafang Yousuke had completely forgotten that the National Army troops, whom he had always looked down upon, had been fighting while enduring their planes strafing and their artillery bombardment.

Now that it was his turn to fight in this situation, he immediately felt that it was unfair and that this battle could not be fought.

However, Regiment Commander He liked this move that they had made against the Japanese devils.

Whether the pilots in the air could see it or not, he still waved to the planes to pay his respects and thank them for their help.

Regiment Commander He could guess from the sudden disappearance of the Japanese devils' artillery fire that their artillery positions must have been attacked.

Jiang Yuanwu and the others had exhausted their ammunition. They had fought all the way from Xiangfu Temple today, and they did not have much ammunition when they arrived in Fengxin.

The twenty-four planes waved their wings to pay tribute to the fearless soldiers below, and then flew away in the direction of Shanggao.

They still needed to fight the next battle themselves.

After the planes in the sky left, Captain Yamada Kenichi began to gather his troops. He found to his dismay that there were less than a hundred Japanese devils left in the entire company.

How could they attack in this situation? Courage is essential for battle! One attack brings courage, a second brings decline, and a third brings exhaustion.

The Japanese devils of his company had been interrupted by the strafing of the planes when they were attacking just now. Now they needed to go back and rest and prepare before they could continue their attack.

Captain Yafang Yousuke looked very ugly. He had seen the scene when the planes arrived. There was nothing wrong with Captain Yamada Kenichi's company retreating.

He was just angry that the empire's aviation squadron was still able to allow the National Army's planes to appear in the sky here: "Those idiots, when the empire's army needs them most, they disappear."

Anger was anger, but the battle continued.

Captain Yafang Yousuke looked at Xiangfu Temple in the distance, which was still the same as it had looked when he first saw it. The only change was that there was a pile of Japanese devil corpses in front of the defense line.

Even though his battalion had been riddled with holes by the strafing of the planes, the mission still needed to continue.

The Yamada Kenichi Company, which had just retreated, was ordered to launch another attack on Xiangfu Temple after resting for half an hour.

They had to take this place. The entire division was still waiting to open up this place and wipe out all the encircled troops inside, and to destroy the Ninth War Zone's plan to counterattack Nanchang this time.

Captain Yamada Kenichi ordered the Chiyoda Maru Yuzhen squad to carry out the breakthrough in the front, and he personally led the remaining Japanese devils of the company to follow behind.

Sergeant Mang Sheng Yosuke had been lucky enough to survive the strafing of the planes just now, and in less than an hour, he was sent to the front line to charge again.

He had ten thousand unwillingnesses in his heart, but he was helpless. Mang Sheng Yosuke already knew that this battle would not be easy to fight today.

The firepower of the troops defending Xiangfu Temple was clearly different from that of the National Army. They were really willing to fire their artillery shells. From the first round of attack to now, the opposite side had fired no less than five hundred artillery shells.

They were still firing their artillery shells non-stop this time. Were their artillery shells inexhaustible?

Squad Leader Chiyoda Maru Yuzhen was also complaining like this in his heart. His squad, which originally had more than fifty Japanese devils, now had only more than thirty left.

The entire company was the Chiyoda Maru squad that had been lucky enough to have the most Japanese devils left. It was precisely because of this that Captain Yamada Kenichi had them charge in the front.