The First Book of National Martyr's Lonely City Blood War Chapter 46 Accidental Success (Additional Update for the Holiday)

  No other meaning, just an update for the festival!

  The gunfire and artillery fire in the rear grew more intense, with a trend of getting closer and closer. The pale-faced Slime glanced at Scott, and the two slumped down on a row of ammunition boxes, silently smoking cigarettes. The British soldiers nearby also looked like they had no will to fight, holding their guns as if ready to surrender to the Japanese at any moment.

  Sun Liren found himself increasingly disapproving of the British way of doing things, with two senior officers actually playing a counterproductive role at a critical moment?

  However, after a while, the scout troops sent by the Special Operations Unit returned. Of the 32 people who set out, only 16 came back, carrying Lieutenant Colonel Jiang Lianzhang, the commander of the garrison unit, who was covered in blood.

  Jiang Lian reported the situation to Sun Li-ren with his weak body struggling, and as soon as he heard that the Japanese army had a force of about two battalions, Sun Li-ren was suddenly shocked out of a cold sweat!

  Sun Liren forced himself to calm down and asked: "Didn't you immediately contact the Second Hundred Regiment's Commander Song? Where are their troops now? What is the situation?"

  Jiang Lian was panting heavily, letting the medic bandage his wound. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said: "Song Battalion Commander and the others had already engaged with the Japanese an hour earlier than us. I sent someone over to help, but they held off the enemy's battalion on their own without our assistance. Song Battalion Commander asked me to keep a close eye on the situation across the river, so I pulled my troops back across the river, just in time to run into the enemy's main force. We fought an encounter battle, and later were able to temporarily hold off the enemy thanks to the Third Company."

  After listening to the introduction, Sun Liren ordered people to take good care of Jiang Lianchang. Jiang Lianchang's account startled him and made him break out in a cold sweat. If it weren't for Song Yuhang letting his own troops stay behind to guard the river crossing, his command would have been defeated by the Japanese long ago.

  Hesitating for a moment, Sun Liren immediately came to the front of the map. He knew that the current situation was probably no longer describable as precarious.

  Now he is most concerned about whether Song Yu-Hang's unit can stop the Japanese army's attack. If Song Yu-Hang cannot stop them, then his own 113th regiment and the British 7000 troops will be surrounded by the Japanese army. However, the encirclement has become a multi-layered cake, with enemies within our ranks and our people among the enemy, can the word "chaos" describe this situation?

  "Surround yourself and get surrounded!" Sun Liren felt a bit suffocated at this moment, but he soon discovered that the Japanese troops who appeared from behind seemed to have no coordination with the original Japanese troops surrounding the British army! What does this imply?

  "An opportunity once lost can never be regained!" The British had already lost their will to fight and were completely unreliable. Sun Li-ren immediately decided that the first battalion would switch from attack to defense, while the second battalion would quickly assemble its troops to cooperate with the third battalion in defeating the Japanese who appeared behind them, ensuring that the main force of the regiment completed the crossing before dawn. As for how many British could escape, that was their problem!

  Like Sun Li-jen, the battered Sakai Iwao was astonished that the Chinese had suddenly stopped their attack. The British abandoned all their gear and fled towards the Chinese rear.

  Soon, scouts reported to Sakuma that there was a fierce and intense firefight in the rear of the Chinese army. Realizing that his reinforcements might have arrived, Sakuma immediately ordered a counterattack, but he was embarrassed to find that he could only gather less than one company of soldiers.

  With two large detachments using the terrain to surround the 7,000 British troops, he had already done his best to intimidate them with empty threats, scaring the British into staying in place. As a result, he could only disperse his limited troops to defend key points! After a night of fierce fighting, his troops were basically defeated by the absolutely superior forces of the 113th Regiment's First Battalion! Wanting to reassemble his troops would have to wait until dawn the next day.

  Sun Liren's attempt to retake the Hebian position was unsuccessful. Under the personal command of Yunnan Hao Xiong, the Japanese army repelled the alternating attacks of the 2nd and 3rd battalions of the 113th Regiment twice in a row, with more than 200 Chinese soldiers' bodies lying on the road to the attack.

  Two consecutive failed offensives made Sun Li-jen think of the British 7th Armoured Brigade, so he found Slim and asked for cooperation from British tanks and heavy artillery regiments.

  Sun Li-ren sternly warned Slim that if he didn't want to go live in a Japanese POW camp, he had to take down the riverbank positions. As long as they took down the riverbank positions, whether it was the British or Chinese, everyone could go home. Otherwise, it would either be death here or going to a Japanese POW camp to suffer and enjoy slow death.

  It seemed as if Slime had seen hope again, and he hastily went to gather his armored troops. Many of the armored soldiers abandoned their vehicles due to the darkness and narrow roads, fearing that the tanks would become targets for the Japanese army. After great effort, Slime finally managed to find one tank and two armored cars. The British Royal 26th Heavy Artillery Regiment also made preparations for firing.

  Under the guidance of a British tank and two armoured cars, the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 113th Regiment concentrated their forces in five companies in a single line.

  The performance of the British 26th Heavy Battery left Sun Li-jen aghast. The British gunners, who were already on edge, grumbled loudly when they received orders to dismount and prepare to abandon their guns. Now all they could do was wait for the Chinese to blast a bloody path out for them to retreat home.

  The Royal 26th Heavy Battery of the British Army began a fierce bombardment, firing wildly at the coordinates. The intense artillery fire shook the northern bank of the Bin River, with occasional stray shells landing in the Japanese positions along the river.

  The Japanese, who were trembling with fear at the sharp whistling sound of the heavy artillery shells, soon discovered that the British cannons weren't accurate at all and had all landed on the opposite bank of the river! They burst out laughing at the British, and some even jumped onto the trenches, pulled down their pants, and waved their white buttocks wildly towards the Chinese positions.

  Chinese soldiers naturally didn't show any courtesy to the little devils, and after knocking down a few white buttocks, the Japanese army suddenly became much more obedient!

  With an embarrassed expression on his face, Slime rubbed his hands and explained to Sun Liren: "The relationship at night will be more accurate after dawn!"

  Sun Liren, who was speechless with anger, could only quip: "Not bad, it's already very good that no one on our side got hit."

  Since ancient times, most of the time there have been people who are happy and people who are worried. Yunnan Hao Xiong despised the British artillery level at that time, but he never expected that most of the shells that fell on the north bank of the river would hit the head of the Western Field Army, and the unprepared Japanese army received a baptism of flying shrapnel.

  The powerful 7-pounder shells of the British army will only have simple individual shelters for Japanese troops, and every explosion will have Japanese soldiers' limbs flying into the sky in the flames.

  Nishida's troops suffered heavy casualties in this beautiful misfire. After the shelling stopped, there were huge craters all over the riverbank, and the blood of Japanese soldiers dyed the water that seeped into the craters red. In a sea of wounded soldiers' wails, Nishida knew he was done for.

  On the south bank of the Bin River, Sun Liren's counterattack also encountered trouble. Because Chinese soldiers had never practiced the cooperative mode of infantry and armored vehicle tank joint attacks, the infantry and armored vehicles actually pulled open a distance of more than 50 meters, and the exposed armored vehicles were quickly shot and bombed by the Japanese army into piles of bonfires.

  A Chinese infantry squad riding in a British armored vehicle didn't even have the chance to dismount before it exploded along with the vehicle. The Chinese soldiers riding on the tank were splashed with fuel and engulfed in flames, their agonized screams causing the following infantry to halt in their tracks.

  The already demoralized Chinese troops launched an attack under the urging of their officers, with predictable results; five infantry regiments retreated back to three and a half.

  The Japanese did not counterattack when the Chinese troops retreated, Sun Liren knew that the Japanese were waiting for dawn, after which the Japanese air force would come to assist in the battle, plus the Japanese reinforcements rushing from all directions, the situation would be even more unfavorable. Sun Liren anxiously looked at his watch, it was already 3:50, and the time left for him was limited.

  Helplessly, Sun Liren could only send out the most humiliating telegram to the Military Department: "Deputy commander, a large number of Japanese reinforcements have arrived, and after my unit merged with the British army, we were surrounded. Song's regiment is resisting the Japanese on the north bank of the river, urgently hoping that reinforcement troops will approach our unit and coordinate with Song's regiment to attack the enemy from both sides."

  Du Yuming slammed his fist on the table, his face turning red with rage, and shouted: "He didn't listen to us when we told him not to go, now look what's happened! His whole division, including himself as the commander, has been surrounded by the Japanese! Where is the prestige of his Taxation Police Corps? Why doesn't he go ask Commander Luo for help? Now he's in a critical situation and still expects us to rescue him?"

  Du Yiming glared at Liao Yaohiang, who wouldn't stop talking. Seeing that Du Yiming was really angry, Liao Yaohiang hastily shut his mouth and ran to the side to smoke a cigarette, not daring to make another sound.

  Du Yuming had been in the war for many years and was generally very accurate at judging people. There were not many who could deceive him, like Song Yuhang did. Sun Liren was a famous tough guy during the Shanghai Campaign, he was wounded 11 times but still refused to leave the battlefield! In order to send troops to Ningxia, it can be said that he had offended himself. Du Yuming believed that unless it was absolutely necessary, Sun Liren would not speak lightly. Since Sun Liren spoke up, Du Yuming believed that the situation had now reached a critical point.

  "But can reinforcements arrive in time now?" Du Yuming suddenly thought of Song Yunhou's troops, who were also heading to Renqiang'an.

  "Can only pin hopes on Song Yun-hang now! The war is imminent, and before the battle, one of the main forces has already been lost. Who will take responsibility for this?" After a moment's hesitation, Du Yuming immediately called in the head of the cipher room, Su Na, to dictate a telegram to be sent to Chongqing.