Chapter 35: Recapture of Jingjiang (Part 2)

  Then four, eight, sixteen...

  More and more defeated soldiers joined the counterattack, finally all the defeated soldiers turned back to Jingjiang County, even those dozen wounded men threw away their crutches and shouted loudly as they rushed back.

  What is an army? This is an army!

  What is "one breath of energy"? This is one breath of energy!

  A brilliant commander, an outstanding general, even if he only has a group of disheartened and defeated soldiers under his command, he can always find a way to turn the tide and revive them!

  Yue Weihan led four or five hundred defeated soldiers back, shouting and killing as they went. Along the way, those Northeastern defeated soldiers who were originally fleeing in a panic saw this scene and suddenly became red-eyed, without needing encouragement or mobilization, all of them holding bayonets and killing their way back. In the end, the Northeastern army was also made up of soldiers, and soldiers naturally have the dignity of soldiers!

  Half a bag of smoke's work, Yue Weihan had already gathered thousands of defeated soldiers behind him, and more were gathering from all directions. However, the Japanese army also appeared in front, with about two companies of Japanese infantry running wildly out of formation, chasing and killing in all directions.

  Yue Weihan couldn't help but laugh, the 668th Regiment was running away without formation, but the Japanese army was chasing after them without formation!

  These Japanese troops are really arrogant, aren't they afraid of the Northeast Army counterattacking? Do they really think that with just two infantry companies they can drive the 2,000+ men of the 668th Regiment into the Yangtze River?

  After several rounds of gunfire, the two armies clashed head-on, and a fierce white-blade battle began.

  "Whoosh!" Yue Weihan's hand rose with a gun, and the sharp bayonet instantly stabbed into the abdomen of a Japanese army captain. With another forceful slash to the side, the left side of the Japanese army captain's abdomen was completely cut open. The hot, bloody intestines suddenly gushed out, and the Japanese army captain fell to the ground, clutching his spilled intestines and wailing mournfully.

  A faint whooshing sound suddenly came from behind his head, and Yue Weihan abruptly ducked down. A bayonet on a Type 38 rifle almost grazed his left shoulder as it slid by, its icy blade mere millimeters away from the carotid artery in his neck. The next instant, Yue Weihan knocked the bayonet off the rifle with one hand, then counterattacked with a swift slap.

  "Whoosh!" A surge of scorching hot blood suddenly splashed onto Yue Weihan's face.

  He turned around sharply, the Japanese soldier who had sneaked up behind him was already kneeling in the dust, his originally ferocious eyes had become empty and hollow. Yue Weihan's counterattack with a single knife was enough to be fatal, the Japanese soldier's neck had split open like a goldfish mouth, his white cervical vertebrae were clearly visible, and even more so, the crimson blood was spraying out in all directions like a fountain.

  "Bang!" A loud crash suddenly came from behind Yue Weihan.

  He turned his head back, the Northeastern soldier over two meters tall he had seen earlier was already lying on the ground with his legs up in the air. Underneath him was a Japanese soldier, who kicked his legs and soon died with his head tilted to one side. The Northeastern soldier's earlier move of "Tai Shan crushing the top" had crushed the Japanese soldier's chest cavity along with all his internal organs.

  "Ahhh..."

  "Ahhh..."

  Two Japanese soldiers suddenly emerged from the slope and stabbed at the Northeastern Army soldier who was unable to get up.

  Yue Weihan was just about to pull out his gun and fire when the Northeastern big soldier had already flashed out his hands like lightning, grasping the two bayonets that were stabbed into his chest. The cold, sharp blades suddenly stopped, their tips only a hair's breadth away from the Northeastern big soldier's abdomen.

  The next moment, the Northeastern big soldier's two hands suddenly pushed outward and then pulled downward with force. The two 38 large covers instantly stuck to his ribs and slid past, while the two Japanese soldiers also retreated without stopping and bumped into the Northeastern big soldier's arms. The Northeastern big soldier's mouth corners suddenly burst out a sly smile, and his lotus-leaf-like hands flashed out again like lightning, pressing down on the steel helmets of the two Japanese soldiers and pulling them inward with force!

  A piercing metallic crash suddenly rang out, accompanied by the sound of shattering bones.

  Yue Weihan couldn't help but give the Northeastern big soldier a thumbs up, and when he looked at the two Japanese soldiers again, their two steel helmets had been completely flattened, and the two heads inside the helmets had also burst open like watermelons.

  When Yue Weihan looked up again, most of the Japanese soldiers in the two companies were already dead.

  In the chaos, a Japanese lieutenant was thrown under Yue Weihan's feet. Yue Weihan raised his gun and was about to stab the lieutenant with his bayonet when the lieutenant suddenly cried out in terror: "Don't kill me, I'm Chinese, don't kill me, please, I'm also Chinese..."

  "Chinese?" Yue Weihan's rifle halted abruptly in his hand.

  "Right, right, I'm Chinese." The Japanese lieutenant looked at the cold bayonet in front of him and forced out a smile that was uglier than crying, "But I'm from Taiwan."

  "Taiwan's?" Yue Weihan said coldly, "Heavy Bamboo Branch?"

  At the beginning of the Battle of Shanghai, the Japanese army only deployed the 3rd and 14th Divisions, with insufficient troops, unable to break through the front line. The Japanese General Headquarters then transferred three main force divisions and three puppet army brigades from North China and Northeast China, and also transferred a guard brigade from Taiwan, which was the Shigeji Detachment.

  "Right, right, right, Shōto's squad." The Taiwanese lieutenant nodded repeatedly.

  Yue Weihan finally understood, he was originally still wondering when the Japanese army's bayonet skills had become so bad. It turned out that this was not even the Japanese army's most elite regular division, but just a garrison brigade from Taiwan. These secondary devils were more brutal than their masters in burning, killing and looting, but when it came to bayonet skills, they were far inferior to their masters.

  "It's really Heavy Troop Leader." Yue Weihan nodded and said: "How many people did your troop bring in total?"

  "Not many, just one infantry battalion." The Taiwanese lieutenant hastily replied, "The main force of our detachment is besieging Yangzhou with the 104th Brigade, and only our fifth infantry battalion is advancing in the direction of Taizhou and Jingjiang."

  "A whole battalion?" Yue Weihan frowned and said, "What about the remaining people?"

  "Huh, they're all here." The Taiwanese lieutenant hastily said, "Our battalion originally only had three infantry companies. One company stayed in Kunshan and the rest are all here. If you don't believe me, sir, you can send someone to look for our battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Katō. He's a Japanese noble and has a treasured sword bestowed by the Emperor."

  As soon as he finished speaking, Hua Hanlin had already turned around with a military knife in hand and said with a smile: "Captain, this is a good knife!"

  Yue Weihan took it over, and suddenly drew his sword. A cold air came rushing towards him, and when he looked again, he saw that on the blade of the knife near the guard, four Japanese characters were engraved: "Katō Yoshio". Below it was written "Showa Year 1". It seemed that this battle knife was indeed a treasured sword bestowed by Emperor Hirohito himself.

  "Hanlin, send a signal!" Yue Weihan suddenly sheathed his sword and said, "The responding troops are crossing the river."