Wing breakthrough on the 19th

  Old Wang found Xie Jin-yuan and said that he had dug out important intelligence from the Japanese captives. / This intelligence is worth at least a thousand devils.

  Xie Jin Yuan smiled and said: "Tell me what's so valuable about this content."

  Old Wang said: "Our 16th Division Headquarters still has a battalion of guards. The rest of the troops have gone to reinforce Yuhuatai."

  Xie Jin-yuan smiled wryly and said, "If I had a division under my command or if Liao Yao-xiang's troops were willing to listen to me, then I could put up a fight."

  Old Wang patted Xie Jin-yuan's head and said: "What are you thinking about? You've suddenly become a senior!"

  Xie Jin Yuan burst out laughing.

  Old Wang said mysteriously: "However, now more than a thousand devils are rushing to grab food, evenly distributed within an area of ten square kilometers. You say we should go and kill them now."

  Xie Jin-yuan immediately stood up straight and shouted: "Orderly, command everyone to assemble."

  Liao Yaoxiang found it strange, the good guys who just defended the city gate were up to something again. When he heard that these crazy guys wanted to attack the 16th Division's headquarters, Liao Yaoxiang thought they had eaten too much. Liao Yaoxiang thought that since it wasn't his own direct unit, let them go and fight if they wanted to! The more devils that died, the less pressure he would have.

  Xie Jin Yuan ordered his troops to quickly exit Guanghua Gate and advance southward rapidly.

  16th Division Headquarters

  Nakajima said, putting down his dirk on the desk: "Kusaba, for the honor of the Imperial Japanese Army, you'd better kill yourself!"

  Cao Changchen knew he had made a big mistake this time. The newly appointed Brigade Commander and himself didn't have much of a relationship. Usually, his attitude towards him was hypocritical. It would be strange if he didn't take the opportunity to get rid of him today.

  The grassland two didn't say a word, picked up the conductor's knife and went out.

  Nakazawa walked up to Nakajima and said: "According to reliable intelligence, a regiment of Chinese soldiers just exited Guanghua Gate."

  "Is it coming for us?" Nakajima asked:

  Nakazawa shook his head and said, "They are heading straight south."

  Nakajima walked up to the map and said, "This group of Chinese soldiers really have guts, they're heading straight for our grain-snatching battalion."

  "That large troop is now scattered all over! If they were attacked, the consequences would be unthinkable." Nakazawa's forehead was slightly sweating.

  Nakajima smiled and said, "Don't worry, Nakazawa. A regiment of Chinese soldiers wants to swallow up an entire battalion of our troops. He's still short of a good set of teeth. Send an urgent order for that battalion to assemble immediately and resist in place. Ask the Gyōji Brigade about the progress of the battle on Yuohua Tai."

  Nakazawa returned after a while and said: "Koshino radioed back that the Rain Flower Platform's position has broken through the first layer."

  "Nakajima, holding a baton, said: 'Order Ushijima to withdraw one regiment from the first line of defense at Yuhuatai and approach Guanghua Gate from the side.' Nakazawa turned around to send a telegram. Nakajima stopped him and added: 'Tell Ushijima that if he doesn't want me to become the first division commander in the Empire to be captured alive by the enemy, please hurry up. Call all staff officers and logistics personnel of the division to come out, I will give them a pep talk.'"

  Xie Jin-yuan and Old Wang led their troops of over three hundred men to arrive outside the two villages.

  Pan Village and Tang Village are two relatively large villages outside Nanjing. In the middle, a dirt road divides them into two parts. Xie Jin Yuan ordered the third company to build machine gun positions on the road. The first and second companies launched a surprise attack from both sides of the village and drove out the devils.

  Lao Wang just had some luck and was familiar with history, so he naturally didn't have much experience in commanding such a battle, and followed Deng Yinghe to set up machine gun positions on both sides of the road.

  Less than a minute later, the sound of gunfire erupted on both sides of the village. The devils were now scattered in groups of three to five and had not concentrated their forces. Upon hearing the gunfire, they all rushed out, and many were mowed down by machine guns. Even those who managed to gather together did not dare to engage in a frontal battle and wanted to flee to another village to regroup with their own troops before doing anything else. As a result, as soon as they reached the middle of the road, they suffered another barrage of mortar fire combined with machine gun fire. In less than half an hour, the devils in Pan Village were almost all killed.

  Lao Wang's mind is no longer in Pan Village, he has already run off to another village.

  At first, some of the devils in Tangcun village rushed out recklessly. Later, no devils were seen at all.

  Old Wang ran into Pan Village and found Xie Jin-yuan, telling him to retreat quickly.

  Xie Jin Yuan asked: "Why."

  Old Wang said, "The devils in that village have already organized. / Fastest search net / With just over 200 of us and 500-600 devils fighting on flat ground, what do you think the outcome will be?"

  Xie Jin Yuan heard this and immediately called all levels of officers to tell them to slowly withdraw northward.

  Since Xie Jin-yuan and the others came out of Guanghua Gate, Zhong Dao had been standing in front of the map with his command knife. When he heard Nakazawa tell him that the grain-snatching battalion still had more than 500 people left after being ambushed, he was overjoyed: "Order them to stand by on the spot. Wait for my order to attack."

  Nakazawa was shocked, "Commander, what if this army comes to dig up our division headquarters?"

  "Have all of Nakazawa-kun's chronic illnesses been cured?"

  "Yes, sir," Nakazawa replied.

  "Okay, take me there."

  Nakajima looked at the hundreds of miscellaneous troops gathered under his command and said, "Today, the honor of the 16th Division is entrusted to all of you. The division headquarters no longer has any guard units. In a while, Chinese troops will be passing through our position. We not only need to withstand their attack but also hold them back. Everyone, I'm counting on you."

  Lao Wang followed the troops back to Guanghua Gate and suddenly stopped. Lao Wang hurriedly ran to Xie Jin Yuan's side to ask why the troops had stopped.

  Xie Jin-yuan pointed to a messenger and said: "Liao Yao-xiang knows that the enemy division headquarters has no guard troops. He told us to attack the enemy division headquarters from south to north, while he attacks from north to south."

  "There are still several hundred devils behind us! If the devil's division headquarters can't be taken down in a short period of time, we'll have to sacrifice these more than 200 good men and the wounded." Old Wang was getting annoyed.

  Xie Jin-yuan smiled wryly and said, "Others had anticipated this move of ours. Liao Yao-xiang's letter included an order from the superior authorities, requiring us to gnaw on this hard bone, so as to boost the morale of our anti-Japanese military and civilians."

  "Damn politics again."

  Xie Jin-yuan said: "If we can still make it back alive this time, that would be a real miracle."

  Xie Jin-yuan babbled on as he ordered his troops to launch an attack.

  The atmosphere in the headquarters of the 16th Division was also very tense, and the staff officers said: The enemy has already started attacking from the south. There are also enemies moving behind us.

  Nakajima said: "Leave a small number of people to guard the back, and most follow me to the south. From these days, it can be seen that the commander-in-chief on this southern side is quite fierce in using troops. As for the back, it's not worth worrying about. Order Ushijima's unit to wait for orders, and the remaining battalion at Kusatsu will pursue and attack the enemy. The rest depends on us."

  The attack progressed very poorly. It took half an hour to advance dozens of meters into the enemy's depth, and dozens of casualties were caused. Shangguan Zhibiao scolded: "Isn't this division headquarters of Little Devils not having any guards?"

  Xie Jin-yuan picked up the binoculars from the ground and took a look, saying: "It's the staff of the Devil's Division Headquarters."

  "A division of devils has so many people." The superior officer asked again:

  Xie Jin Yuan calmly replied: "There will always be three to five hundred people."

  Shangguan Zhibiao cursed: "We have this number on our side, and Liao Yaoxiang's side doesn't even have a single devil."

  Xie Jin-yuan bitterly smiled and said: "From the beginning I didn't hear any gunshots from that side."

  "Hei Da Ge roared in anger: 'Could it be that we've been betrayed?'"

  Old Wang nodded.

  Hei Da Ge furiously shouted: "I'll screw your mother."

  Old Wang said to Xie Jin-yuan: "Hurry up and withdraw! If we're late, those little devils will be upon us."

  Xie Jin-yuan shook his head and said: "We can't withdraw anymore. Look at the enemy's momentum, they want to keep us here. Old Wang, you go first!"

  Lao Wang looked at the situation in front of him and said, "I think we can't retreat from the Guanghua Gate direction. Turning back to Yu Hua Tai is also impossible, there are three Japanese divisions in between! On the left is a mountain, only the right side towards Shanghai is left."

  Xie Jin-yuan looked at Old Wang and said: "Don't you know that area was the first place occupied by the devils?"

  Old Wang picked up the rifle on the ground and said, "The devils are so rampant this time, the front line has no depth at all. If we abandon our heavy weapons and break through, there is still a certain chance of survival."

  Xie Jin-yuan bitterly smiled and said: "As soon as we withdraw, the devils will come up. We won't engage in a fierce battle with you, but we'll entangle you to death."

  "No way, what has to be sacrificed will have to be sacrificed. First of all, the wounded cannot be taken away. Secondly, the covering troops behind may not be able to get out either." Old Wang's emotions were a bit low.

  Xie Jin said with a shake of his head: "I'm not doing it, brothers who have been through thick and thin together."

  Old Wang suddenly said: "You leave the wounded here, I have a way to send them back."

  Xie Jin-yuan was taken aback, and Old Wang couldn't wait for him to figure it out. He grabbed a white cloth, fashioned a makeshift white flag, and said: "Leave the wounded where they are. You take advantage of my negotiations to retreat quickly. If you want me and these wounded brothers to survive, then do as I say."

  Lao Wang and Xie Jin-yuan went aside and whispered a couple of sentences. Xie Jin-yuan said: "Will it do?"

  Let's just treat the dead horse as if it were alive!

  Lao Wang didn't wait for Xie Jin Yuan to react, grabbed the white flag and went up. While holding the white flag, he loudly shouted out a few Japanese phrases he learned from watching Japanese dramas in his previous life.

  The Japanese troops were momentarily stunned and then continued firing upon discovering **'s retreat attempt.

  Finally, Old Wang was caught by the Japanese army who rushed up. Old Wang shouted towards the camp: "I have important information to find your Nakajima Division Commander."

  The Japanese soldiers who rushed up didn't believe it and were about to stab Old Wang's neck with their bayonets.

  Old Wang shouted: "Matsui Ishkon and Tanaka Hisao are homosexuals."

  While shouting and dodging the devil's first stab, the devil was about to make a second stab when the chief of staff of the division arrived in front of them and said: "Leave this man alive, he's quite interesting."

  Old Wang saw that he was a high-ranking official, and immediately said: "I have important intelligence to report, I want to see your division commander. You can't mistreat the wounded under my command. Otherwise, I won't say anything."

  Nakazawa looked at Old Wang who was chattering away in a dialect he couldn't understand, and it was the translator next to him who translated what Old Wang was saying.

  Nakazawa smiled wryly, thinking that this Chinese soldier was probably afraid of death. He shouted out randomly, hoping it would be useful somehow.

  Lao Wang took a look at Nakahara's smile and understood that this guy didn't believe him, and it was a high-level secret. Lao Wang quickly searched his mind for the information that could have an effect on this Japanese official at this time.

  Old Wang thought of Nakajima's resume. This should be useful, so he shouted loudly: "Nakajima Hiroshi, born on June 15, 1881 in Oita Prefecture, Japan." When the translator translated this to Nakazawa, Nakazawa was stunned. The resume of a Japanese military officer is top-secret information of the Empire, and a Chinese person can shout it out casually, this matter is absolutely unusual.