The First Book of National Heroes: The Lonely City's Bloody Battle Chapter 30: Unexpected Harvest

  Just as Song Yuanhang was comforting himself, the deputy captain of this operation, Xiao Guodong, ran to his front with a happy face and said: "Commander! Have we found the treasure?"

  "Baby?" Song Yuanhang frowned unhappily, hating it when others made him guess.

  Xiao Guodong found that Song Yuanhang's face was somewhat off, and hastily handed a thick notebook to Song Yuanhang. As soon as he took the notebook and flipped through a page, Song Yuanhang was overjoyed. Oh heavens! The little devil's password book!

  Song Yuanhang wrapped the password book in a raincoat, just about to put it in his arms, and took it out again. He tore off the front and back covers and several directories, threw them on the telegraph machine, and then knocked over an oil barrel outside the door. Looking at the raging fire, Song Yuanhang waved his hand and said, "Time's up, retreat!"

  Several officers immediately assembled the team according to their previous division of labor, and the 300-man team was divided into three teams: front, middle, and rear. They covered each other, and Song Yuanhang's plan could be said to be nearly perfect. However, after all, it was still individuals who executed the orders, and the first part of the plan went very smoothly. But during the retreat, a certain degree of chaos appeared in the team.

  Fortunately, the Japanese army was also in chaos. At this moment, Song Yuanhang was still regretful for not being able to kill the Japanese general, but he had not yet realized that his raid had brought such a severe disaster to the 55th and 56th Divisions of the Japanese Army.

  The cause of the disaster was due to the combat unit organization of the Japanese army, and the existence of the Japanese army's field army and subordinate army-level units as strategic units. Most of the time, they only played the role of a large headquarters megaphone, while the actual combat planning, tactical coordination, logistics supply, etc. were all completed by the staff within the divisional command post.

  Because the Japanese military believed that only commanders and staff at the front lines could make the most timely judgments about the ever-changing battlefield situation and enemy positions.

  If the infantry regiments, artillery regiments and other units of the Japanese army are considered as limbs, then these staff officers called 'army brain' by the Japanese General Headquarters are the central part of the Japanese division.

  In accordance with the Japanese Army's convention, except for a small number of professional staff officers who graduated from the Army University, most staff officers were required to have experience as company commanders or battalion commanders. These experienced staff officers were extremely difficult to replace and could be said that every single one of them was the precious elite of the Japanese Army!

  Due to the stubborn defense of the 200th Division, Watanabe Toshio proposed an attack on the Japanese 55th and 56th Divisions in Tonggu. To coordinate operations, it was decided to merge the staff departments of the two divisions. The entire staff personnel of the two Japanese divisions were annihilated by a surprise raid led by Song Xianyong.

  The torrential rain and the intense battles of the previous days had made the Japanese troops relax their vigilance, as most of the Japanese officers and men thought that if it were not for the new combat order from the General Headquarters, the Second Hundred Division of the Chongqing forces surrounded would have been completely annihilated. They did not believe that the Chinese army, which was already out of ammunition and food in the encirclement, could still launch a raid.

  It can be said that the Japanese army's base camp saved Song Yuanhang and others!

  The heavily guarded joint command post was attacked? Almost all the combat staff of the two divisions were sacrificed! This huge loss made the 55th and 56th Divisions severely wounded, and the staff system almost collapsed. The 55th and 56th Divisions never recovered until the end of the Burma Campaign.

  Song Yuanhang's retreat plan also encountered problems due to the heavy rain, and the two M3 tanks that were supposed to arrive for support were nowhere to be seen. The rear team, which was originally maintaining a distance of 100 meters, lost its way, and the number of soldiers who fell behind accounted for 20%.

  Song Yuanhang, walking in the column, realized that even if there were veterans with combat experience, they could not be used as special forces without systematic and strict training.

  Looking at the stormy rain, the desperate squad members who were advancing with difficulty without any tactical awareness, Song Yuanhang let out a light sigh. Most of these soldiers came from the peasant class, and to them, the government was just a brutal tiger or wolf official and endless various miscellaneous taxes that brought them a hard life and endless oppression.

  It is precisely this point that gives the Japanese hope. In the eyes of the Japanese, overthrowing the National Government is merely a matter of changing the tax collector for China, so they came!

  The Japanese were wrong, in the face of brutal invasion by foreign tribes, these Chinese who had long since lost their bloodiness responded to the government's call, picked up their outdated weapons, and with a lack of weapons, training, and security, they used their flesh and blood to resist the Japanese planes and artillery, leaving the Japanese who boasted that China would be destroyed in three months still unable to see a glimmer of hope after several years.

  Song Yuanhang wiped the rain from his face, touched the password book in his pocket, and helped up a fallen soldier. He thought to himself: "Are my demands on these people who are sacrificing for the country and nation too high? After all, using 21st-century standards to demand from ordinary soldiers of the 20th century is somewhat unreasonable."

  Suddenly, the gunfire in front of the team became intense. The Japanese army, which was originally repairing the ruins and broken walls, rushed to the street. In response to the sudden situation, Song Yuanhang gave a decisive order: each team maintained its original formation and interval distance, and charged forward with a fierce attack.

  In the pitch-black darkness where one can't see their own hand, a torrential rain is accompanied by flashes of lightning and thunder! Everywhere are bullets flying recklessly and grenades exploding from time to time.

  Due to the dare-to-die troops wearing Japanese military uniforms, and the heavy rain blocking visibility, under the Chinese soldiers' unscrupulous attack, the Japanese soldiers also started a frantic counterattack.

  When Song Yuanhang tried to contact the forward troops, several Thompsons on the opposite side fired at the same time, hitting two soldiers beside Song Yuanhang.

  Song Yuanhang knew that the situation had completely spiralled out of control, let alone shouting, even the sound of gunfire mixed with the howling wind and heavy rain was intermittent and weak, the changed tone of the gunfire made it impossible to distinguish what kind of weapon was being fired.

  The reconnaissance team sent out successfully brought back a dare-to-die member with an M1928 Thompson submachine gun, who was wounded in the leg. After questioning, Song Yuanhang only found out that the ones walking ahead of them were actually the rear guard?

  "Where did the vanguard go?" Song Yuanhang's face turned iron-green as he glared at Xiao Guodong, who insisted on following him.

  In the pitch-black rainy night, Xiao Guodong couldn't see Song Yuanhang's face at all. He believed that even if he saw it, he wouldn't care. From the start of the action, he had made up his mind and stuck to Song Yuanhang like a leech. This guy, who was a third-rate director in Shanghai 35 years ago before joining the army, always believed in the theory of clinging to the right leg. With his innate business acumen, he could haggle over prices until merchants didn't want to buy from him. In the logistics department of the Second Hundred Division's headquarters, where everything was strictly regulated, he could still get by with ease. A small lieutenant colonel living a carefree life.

  Song Yuanhang is the male lead in Xiao Guodong's eyes at this moment, and this play has not yet fallen, following the male lead naturally without error. Moreover, he believes that Young Master Song will definitely leave a 'good road' for himself, but unfortunately, he does not know that the Young Master Song in front of him is actually a desperate man who often wants to take the 'deadly road'.

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