Katayama Riichiro looked at the company commander under him with the eyes one reserves for idiots.

He didn't say a word!

Silence spoke volumes!

Those who could reach the position of company commander were naturally not real idiots.

Company Commander Kuronaga Tatsuji immediately understood the brigade commander's meaning: let them die!

Better a dead comrade than a dead me!

Wasn't the brigade commander marching so cautiously to avoid the ambush of the National Revolutionary Army?

If a team of over ten thousand men advanced together, they could trample over any traps, even if they encountered an ambush by the National Revolutionary Army.

Infantry Sixty-eighth Company Commander Ito Umi Line asked, "After Company Commanders Inoue Hachiro and Ishii Kaho died gloriously, do we retreat to Tanghe or continue to encircle and suppress the National Revolutionary Army?"

"Retreat to Tanghe!" Brigade Commander Katayama Riichiro didn't hesitate.

The brigade commander's attitude was very clear: avoid fighting whenever possible!

All the battalion commanders understood: avoid fighting as much as possible!

At this time, they didn't know that the three regiments of the Special Operations Brigade had already taken the initiative to come to their door, and it was impossible to avoid fighting.

Brigade Commander Katayama Riichiro, who had slept well all night, suddenly heard at the darkest moment before dawn:

"Rumble! Rumble!"

The sound of fierce artillery explosions rang out. When he rushed out of the room in a hurry and looked out into the courtyard, he realized that it wasn't the brigade headquarters that had been bombed, but the bombing was definitely targeting their own troops.

Brigade Commander Katayama Riichiro asked anxiously, "Where was the attack?"

It wasn't dawn yet; it was still pitch black!

Charging forward, he slapped him repeatedly, "Baga! Put out the fire immediately! So many elite soldiers of the Empire, are they just going to be cremated like this?"

"Hai!" Squad Leader Ryugen no Jie received a slap, his body swayed from the blow. He quickly stood at attention and offered his face, allowing the battalion commander to continue slapping him in the most comfortable way.

After slapping him more than ten times in a row, Battalion Commander Numata Kaori was tired, and then stopped.

"Report to the battalion commander! The people here are all living in thatched huts, and the quality of the houses is extremely poor.

The houses collapsed when they were shaken by the shells. Many warriors were buried in the houses.

The fire then swept over, and the flames could fly across dozens of meters of rooftops in an instant. This subordinate was unable to save anyone in time!" Squad Leader Ryugen no Jie reported loudly.

The smell of roasted meat in the air became stronger. The thatch burned quickly and fiercely.

But it wasn't a good fuel; it didn't sustain the fire and soon turned into ashes. The fire quickly subsided in those collapsed houses.

Only the purlins and the tables and chairs inside the houses were still burning.

Although the fire had only burned for about ten minutes, none of the Japanese soldiers trapped in the houses could last for ten minutes.

Under the menacing gaze of the battalion commander, the remaining fifty or so Japanese soldiers of Squad Leader Ryugen no Jie braved the fire and smoke to clear a thatched hut. Seven Japanese soldiers, curled up in a ball, were lying inside the hut.

There was no saving them. The weapons they left behind had been burned by the fire, and all the bullets had exploded. Apart from a pile of scrap iron, nothing was left.

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