Chapter Forty-Eight: To Scheme is to Schemed Against

  Watching the little devil team leader hate his parents for not having two more legs, the soldiers burst into laughter. The little devil team leader's speed at this time can absolutely compete with the 100-meter champion of the 21st century. With the occasional gunfire from the soldiers behind him, the little devil team leader ran even more desperately for his life.

  Finally ran out of the Chinese army's range, and kept running until they reached the enemy battalion that was waiting to attack here. The squad leader saw only one person coming back. Akakawa Hachiro, who was in charge of commanding the attack, saw that his reconnaissance team had only one person left, and he couldn't help but get angry and ask: "Did you scout out the enemy's firepower?"

  "Reporting to the commander, the Chinese are extremely cunning. My subordinates have all been annihilated, but their machine gun firepower has not been exposed."

  "Ah, Akashi Hachirō Taisa exploded in anger: 'What the...! If those Chinese hadn't exposed your light machine gun, your entire squad would have been annihilated?! You're a shame to the Empire, and you still have the face to escape back here.'"

  "Colonel, sir, it's just that those Chinese are too cunning," the squad leader tried to explain.

  "Shut up! You go kill yourself! Die die die!"

  The squad leader wanted to explain something, but Akakawa Yaegaki Hachirō drew his command knife and cut him in half with one slash, splashing dirty blood all over him. After killing the squad leader, Akakawa Yaegaki Hachirō loudly roared: "Kill them all!"

  The devils rushed to Liujiazhuang like flies, and the devils' mortars responsible for cover began to fire. A large number of devils appeared in the soldiers' line of sight, and with Zhang Biao's order, dozens of light and heavy machine guns roared at the same time. The soldiers threw hand grenades at the devils with force, and the artillerymen of the Independent Regiment also set up mortars to fire at the devils. The artillerymen on both sides began to exchange fire, and after the artillerymen of the Independent Regiment fired a round of shells, they changed positions. Most of the devil's shells were empty shots.

  The Ko's mortar was soon destroyed by the soldiers' guerrilla tactics. Seeing his artillerymen being killed, Akashiyaki Hachirō angrily ordered: "Send a telegram to the Heavy Artillery Regiment and have them come quickly to reinforce."

  "Colonel, the Heavy Artillery Regiment reports that the road is muddy and they are temporarily unable to advance," the communications soldier replied.

  "Damn it! If we had heavy artillery, I'd definitely blow those Chinese to kingdom come and make them run for their lives!" Akashiya Mataro exclaimed in rage as he watched his attacking troops being decimated by the Chinese army's artillery.

  Under the cover of artillery and sniper fire, Zhang Biao led a regiment and a Sichuan army regiment to firmly hold the front slope, and the devils who attacked Liujiazhuang suffered heavy casualties. Due to the dense dark clouds in the sky, it was likely to rain at any time, and the devil's planes could not take off to reinforce. Annoyed, Aketagawa Hachiro cursed: "Damn the weather."

  In order to capture Liujizhai early, Akatsuki no Jiro ordered his "brave" Imperial Army to launch an attack on the Independent Regiment's position under artillery fire. A large group of devils like chickens shouting in a bird language rushed towards the position, Zhang Biao drew out his big knife and shouted loudly: "Brothers charge!"

  The warriors drew out their big knives and bayonets, jumping out of the trenches to charge at the devils. Soon, soldiers from both sides collided like two raging rivers, with the sound of shattering bones, clashing blades, and angry curses intertwining together.

  At this time, Zhang Mingyu led a small team to sneak towards the Japanese army's heavy artillery regiment headquarters. Suddenly, Zhang Mingyu's radio received a telegram from Fang Jun at the command center, which read: "The fish has taken the bait." After receiving the telegram, Zhang Mingyu called Iron Cow and Li Gang over separately and whispered a few sentences in their ears. The two nodded after listening and led dozens of people away separately. Zhang Mingyu then led a small team of soldiers back along the original route.

  Kawashima Yoshiko and Takeuchi Kumako returned to the garrison of the Independent Division, still taking care of the wounded as usual. The fierce battle on the front slope was in full swing, with both sides killing each other, the devils had launched their eighth attack, and the Sichuan soldiers who Zhang Biao did not think highly of at first were fighting with unimaginable strength in close combat with the enemy.

  Every soldier burst out with amazing combat power, the machete in their hands knocked down one ghost after another, even if they were stabbed by the ghost's bayonet, they would still chop the machete towards the ghost, stubbornly engaging in a fierce battle with the ghost. It has to be admitted that the soldiers of the ghost's regular division are quite strong in bayonet fighting skills. They are all three people back-to-back like a porcupine, making it impossible for the independent division and the Sichuan army soldiers to get started. A group of three ghosts can challenge at least ten or eight National Army soldiers. However, the warriors of the Independent Division also have their own tricks, that is, they never retreat when fighting with bayonets, often when the ghosts form a group of three, they will ignore "Jianghu morality" and pull the trigger to shoot.

  Some of these Japanese die-hards still cursed with their last breath: "Bakayarō! The Chinese are so cunning, those despicable Chinese!"

  Some Sichuan soldiers saw their comrades fall under the devils' hedgehog, cursing loudly: "Little devils, I'll avenge my ancestors!" They pulled the pins on their grenades and charged at the enemy, perishing together with them.

  Under the "don't give a damn" and "don't care about lives" tactics of the independent regiment and the Sichuan army soldiers, the devils quickly abandoned their comrades' corpses again and retreated to the rear. The machine gunners took advantage of the situation and went crazy with their shooting, sweeping away another large group of devils who were running behind.

  Watching his troops being repelled by the Chinese again, Lieutenant General Akashiya Hachirō burst into a rage and shouted: "Baka! Send an urgent telegram to the artillery brigade to hurry up and provide support!"

  Under the urging of Akasaka Hachiro, the heavy artillery regiment had to advance on the muddy road towards Liujiazhuangpo, with trucks carrying several tons of shells and cannons getting stuck in the soft road from time to time. A large group of Japanese soldiers rushed to push the cars, but often when the front car was pushed out, the back car would get stuck again. The speed of the Japanese heavy artillery unit's advance was as slow as a turtle's crawl. All this was seen by dozens of pairs of eyes hiding in the dark.

  Zhang Mingyu returned to the Independent Division headquarters with a dozen or so soldiers. Due to the heavy casualties among his subordinates without artillery support, Akai Hachiro had already ordered the attack to stop. Zhang Mingyu convened a meeting with Zhang Biao, Lai San, Wang Tienan and others, and the guards stood guard outside the command post.

  A man from behind knocked out the guard standing outside the command post, and only then did Zhang Mingyu say inside: "Our army has already found the location of the Japanese Army's Higuchi Detachment Command Post. Tonight, I will personally lead the Special Troops Cavalry Regiment to raid Higuchi's Command Post. At that time, Commander Zhang and Commander Lai, you will lead your troops to launch an attack on the enemy in front, in order to attract the attention of the enemy."

  Zhang Biao and others stood up and saluted, saying "Yes". After finishing speaking, they all turned around and walked out of the command center. Upon hearing the sound of everyone standing up, a person outside the command center turned around and left.

  He soon arrived at a forest, quickly walked to the bottom of the tree, climbed out of the wooden box, skillfully opened it, took out the radio inside and quickly sent a message: "Drip drip" The radio responded with a sound, and after a while, the telegram was sent out. This person let out a heavy sigh, just about to bury the radio.

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