Chapter 39: The Annihilation of the Honda Alliance in Xinghe County Defense War

  In terms of personal feelings, Chen Feng is still very sympathetic to these pseudo-armies, unlike the hatred that most people have when mentioning pseudo-armies today. Chen Feng has more of a psychology of being angry at their incompetence and sad for their misfortune.

  Would those pseudo-armies be willing to fight against their own compatriots? Obviously not, all of this is for survival, they also have a hard time. As long as there is a way, no one wants to do such a business that can't even enter the ancestral tomb after death.

  "Shout to those fake soldiers at the forefront, telling them to lie down and not move. Our main target is the little devils, we don't want to clean up these cannon fodders, let them all know their place." Chen Feng said.

  At the same time as the exchange of fire at the front line, more than a dozen loudspeakers were suddenly set up in the position of the first battalion of the security regiment. More than a dozen soldiers with loud voices shouted: "Listen to you pseudo-military brothers on the opposite side! We are the Xinghe County Security Regiment, an anti-Japanese army unit. You guys who don't have balls, although you don't admit that you're Chinese, but we don't want to waste bullets on you. Those of you who know what's good for you should get down and not move. We won't shoot like you do. If there are those who don't want to live, someone will send you on your way."

  As both sides were at war, no one dared to listen to the words of the defending army at first, but when dozens of fake soldiers suddenly fell to the ground motionless, more and more fake soldiers learned this trick, some even smeared a handful of fresh blood on their faces to pretend to be dead.

  It happened suddenly, in just over ten minutes, thousands of fake soldiers "fell down" on the charging road. When all the fake soldiers had put away their tricks, the little devils were exposed to the defenders' guns.

  For the pseudo-army's first battalion warriors, they would still leave some face, but for these big bullets from the East, the warriors would have liked to shoot all the bullets in the machine gun at them.

  By noon, the Fujita detachment had lost two-thirds of its men. As for that fake military cavalry division, it was a joke, with less than 1,500 people. More than 300 were eliminated yesterday, and today, at the beginning, another 300-400 were killed by the defending army. The vast majority of the remaining people all lay down on the battlefield between the two armies pretending to be dead. Only about 100 people remained following the little devils.

  Killing 10,000 enemies and losing 8,000 of our own, after more than two hours of fierce battle, one battalion has already suffered over half casualties. Battalion Commander Li Bin called the command center twice in a row, asking Chen Feng to withdraw first, in order to prevent unforeseeable consequences in case the Japanese army breaks through the position.

  "Chief of Staff, 3rd Regiment and 2nd Battalion, 3rd Battalion, where are they now?"

  "Li Yifeng, the commander of the 3rd battalion, just sent a telegram saying they are within five kilometers of the command center and will be able to join the battle in at most fifteen minutes. The 2nd and 3rd battalions have not yet made contact, but it's probably almost time."

  "All right, send orders to Li Wensheng and Li Yifeng as well as Li Bin, 15 minutes later the whole army will launch a counterattack, whatever troops we have will be thrown into battle." Chen Feng said.

  Yes

  "Guard squad assemble, go to the front line..." Chen Feng continued to order.

  The Japanese army command post, Honda Shinichi looked at the distant battlefield with a gloomy face. The Fujita detachment had organized four attacks, but the effect was getting worse and worse each time.

  "Watanabe, the Fujita unit has lost its fighting strength. If we continue to fight, it will be a complete defeat for our entire army. You must immediately lead the second unit to provide support. I'm only giving you half an hour. If you can't even take care of one Chinese remnant battalion within half an hour, you know the consequences!" Honda Shin'ichi shouted loudly.

  "Hi!"

  The battle resumed, the Japanese army was still crazy, and the soldiers of the first battalion were already very tired after half a morning's battle, but not one person shrank back. All officers of the first battalion had entered the front trench, including Battalion Commander Li Bin.

  "The little devils are coming up, everyone get ready, take aim at me and fire, hold on for fifteen minutes, reinforcements will arrive in fifteen minutes." Li Bin gave the order fiercely.

  "Fire..."

  "Dada dada..."

  Li Bin knew that, relying on the current situation, he was no longer needed as a regimental commander. The soldiers had overcome their pre-war fears and excessive excitement, leaving only combat instincts and cold hearts. Now, apart from the guns in their hands, they no longer had any concept of life or death in their minds. After giving his final order, he himself picked up a Czech-style light machine gun and started firing wildly.

  "Captain, the commander has arrived..."

  "What the f**k are you doing, not shooting?!" Li Bin yelled loudly as he was roughly pulled by the arm.

  "Captain, the commander is here..."

  "What commander... wait a minute... Commander, you said the commander is coming up, where did he go..." Li Bin, who was highly tense and excited, finally reacted to what the guard was saying.

  "Over there!" The guard pointed to a location on the left side.

  Following the direction of the guard's pointing, Li Bin saw an officer in a dusty gray major general uniform holding two face wash basins and opening them to the left and right.

  No need to look, this must be Commander Chen Feng. In the entire security team, only Chen Feng has this style of military uniform. This was personally sent by General Fu Zuoyi, Chairman of Suiyuan Province, and is a one-of-a-kind in the security team.

  He handed the submachine gun to the guard and said, "You stay here and watch, I'll go for a trip."

  Several cats rolled and crawled, Li Bin arrived in front of Chen Feng, nervously saying: "Commander, how did you come up? If something unexpected happens to you, I'll jump into the Yellow River and still can't wash it clean."

  "Mind your own business, I don't need you to take care of me. Seven minutes later, launch a counterattack. At that time, don't take care of me, just blow the charge horn."

  Yes

  Japanese Army Forward Enemy Command Headquarters.

  "Report to the Brigade Commander, an urgent telegram has arrived from Headquarters!"

  "Thought"

  "Reconnaissance plane has just discovered a large number of Chinese troops behind your unit, with at least two thousand men. Please be cautious, Tōjō."

  "Nani, Shina's army? Impossible! How could the Chinese army appear behind us? What is their aim?" exclaimed Honda Shin'ichi.

  "Commander, it must be the enemy army that fought us yesterday. They didn't escape to here, but rather hid in the nearby mountains and reappeared behind our troops after we passed by." said Lieutenant Colonel Sasaki, commander of the Sasaki battalion, who was heavily damaged yesterday.

  "What is their purpose?"

  "A pincer movement, the ultimate goal is to annihilate this entire fleet." Lieutenant Commander Sasaki said with difficulty, although this idea was a bit crazy, but after yesterday's battle with that army, Lieutenant Commander Sasaki somehow believed that this army indeed had such strength.

  "Hmph, a mere Chinese security regiment dares to have such intentions? I, Commander Honda, will see how these Chinese pigs annihilate my Honda Brigade. Orders..." Just as Commander Honda was about to give his orders, a major staff officer rushed into the command center and reported: "Report, sir! The Chinese army has launched a charge against us, and both sides are now engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat."

  "What?"

  Honda Tadakatsu didn't even have time to give orders, and hastily left the command center, then picked up his binoculars and looked out over the entire battlefield.

  At this time, the entire battlefield was completely chaotic, but it could be divided into three distinct sections. One section was dominated by khaki-clad troops, which were undoubtedly the Imperial Japanese Army, numbering over a thousand people.

  The second group was a troop wearing yellow and green stripes, which was the same Chinese army that had clashed with Honda Shinichi for the past two days. This wave of people was not many, less than three hundred.

  But the last wave of troops was what left Honda Shinichi stunned, less than 300 meters behind the first wave of Chinese troops, a troop of unknown number was charging towards the battlefield like a fierce tiger coming down from the mountain, and the entire mountain was filled with yellow and green clad soldiers.

  Honda Shinkichi's first reaction was that he had been ambushed, and thinking of the telegram from Tojo just now, Honda suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

  It was really guessed by Sasaki that the Chinese were going to annihilate this infantry regiment, sandwiching them from both front and back, and it's hard to say what would happen even with inferior forces.