Chapter 137

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Protagonist:

Lv Muzhi

The tank squadron's Nishizumi Squadron Leader swallowed hard, clearly seeing fireworks bursting inside the encirclement, with Locust Army soldiers and cover flying through the air together.

Seeing Nishizumi Squadron Leader make no statement, the infantry Tanaka Squadron Leader gritted his teeth and decided to charge at the risk of death; the Third Division had never suffered such a defeat, and right after landing they would lose an entire battalion's strength—this was absolutely unacceptable!

"Attack! Location: front fields, rescue Battalion Commander Yoshizumi!"

"No!"

Nishizumi Squadron Leader spoke up to stop him: "The enemy is equipped with a large amount of anti-armor firepower; my tank units can't even charge in, and if you go in you'll just be throwing your lives away!

Just wait behind; however many can run out, we'll pick up that many here, then all return together to the Shizilin Position in the rear to see Colonel Excellency Cangyong Chengzhi!"

In the ambush field, the little devils ran in front, while bullets, shells, and machine cannon rounds chased behind.

The veteran devils in the ranks simply couldn't understand how the once-weak Xia Guo Army had suddenly become like entirely different people.

The devils who witnessed the Xia Guo soldiers even suspected that those opposite weren't Xia people at all, and that they were actually fighting the Hans State.

"Where is Battalion Commander Yoshizumi!" the Second Squadron's Squadron Leader asked the adjutant accompanying him.

The adjutant, without stopping his steps, pointed with a sorrowful face at a big tree behind them: "Shattered into pieces by the enemy's machine cannon! The lower half is hanging on the tree!"

"Nani?!" the Second Squadron's devil Squadron Leader was stunned, never expecting the highest commander of the battalion had already been killed in action.

For the army, losing a battalion commander right after landing, along with the entire battalion suffering heavy casualties, was indeed hard to accept.

Bang! Pfft!

The Second Squadron's devil Squadron Leader was thinking when the battalion adjutant beside him suddenly collapsed.

Looking back, the adjutant lay on the ground, already cut in two.

One half was behind, the adjutant's lower body, and the other section was over five meters away, the upper body; horrifyingly, the adjutant lay on the ground, using his blood-stained hands to press against the mud before him, still stubbornly crawling forward, trying to escape the battlefield, his eyes fixed on the Second Squadron's Squadron Leader.

"Save~ save me! Squadron Leader Excellency... don't go, please save me!" The adjutant dragged his half-body, his intestines spilled all over the ground, but still didn't forget to call for help.

But the Second Squadron's Squadron Leader couldn't care about these things; bringing him back wouldn't save him anyway, so he hurriedly spread his legs and kept running forward.

Pfft! Pfft!

Again the sound of machine guns hitting flesh and blood; the devil adjutant lying on the ground was blasted into three pieces, four pieces... finally no one knew how many pieces he was chopped into.

"Good! Good!" On the position behind the Ambush Battalion, the Fifteenth Group Army Commander clapped and cheered, thinking back to the Northern Expedition days when passing through Jinan, the devils' Sixth Division used protecting Japanese residents as a pretext to recklessly open fire on the Northern Expedition Army's camp, but the Grand President, cowed by the devils' tyrannical might, was finally forced to retreat.

This humiliation, Chen Cheng still remembered to the bone even now, let alone the various subsequent incidents; the sins committed by the little devils couldn't be counted on two hands!

"Beautiful! Surely in the coming years this land will become extremely fertile; so much devil flesh and blood and bones will just provide nutrients for this land!" Eighteenth Army Commander Luo Zhuoying felt immensely relieved and laughed loudly.

"Good, good, good! The first land battle has crushed the spirit of the devils' Third Division! Truly worthy of being the Youth Army!" The voice came from the rear.

Lv Muzhi looked back and found it was War Zone Commander Feng Yuxiang and Deputy Commander-in-Chief Gu Zhutong who had come.

The two had heard the frontline was encircling and suppressing a devil battalion, and both Group Army Commanders were at the front supervising the battle, so they too became interested.

Feng Yuxiang originally didn't want to interfere in command, but hearing that Lv Muzhi's Youth Army was quite different, he also brought Gu Zhutong along to the front to supervise the battle together.

Lv Muzhi humbly said: "Commander Feng, Commander Gu, it was all thanks to everyone arranging the withdrawal plan, luring the little devils to pursue, plus the officers and men fighting to the death, that we achieved the first great victory against the devil army!"

Gu Zhutong, hearing these words, hurriedly waved his hands: "Hey, no no, this withdrawal plan was mainly arranged by Commander Feng; if Wei Yue wants to thank anyone, it should be Commander Feng."

Feng Yuxiang laughed heartily: "What, you don't want the credit delivered to your mouth? I think this is great! Won a battle, annihilated nearly a thousand enemies—this isn't something achievable just by guarding the beachhead!

See, after we retreated, we immediately achieved major results, and casualties were greatly reduced too; what do you say?"

Chen Cheng, as a beneficiary, spoke directly: "Not bad; this time annihilating the enemy, the Grand President will certainly be satisfied."

Feng Yuxiang pointed at the surrounding troops and laughed heartily again: "Strange—there's one Regiment observing, two Group Army Commanders plus me, this War Zone Commander, but up front fighting, there's only one Battalion."

Lv Muzhi smiled: "This is also to protect the safety of all commanders; everyone rest assured, my one Regiment has over three thousand men, and the infantry Battalion doing the ambush ahead—we have three under our feet! Plus two Divisions of the Fifteenth Group Army in the rear ready to support at any time! Everyone can watch the battle with peace of mind."

Luo Zhuoying clenched his fist, excitedly saying: "Mm! Not bad; judging from now, excluding the factors of devil naval gunfire and air raids, one Youth Army Battalion can repel one devil Battalion head-on; that is to say, one Youth Army Regiment is enough to wipe out one devil Regiment!"

Huang Wei also said: "Right! We're watching the battle here, with this one Regiment of three thousand men backing us up, we're not afraid the devils will play dirty and send reinforcements! This one-on-one duel, devil Battalion versus Youth Army infantry Battalion, is our victory!"

As several people were talking, the humming sound of airplanes came from the sky.

"Oh! There are airplanes too!" Commander Feng Yuxiang exclaimed.

Lv Muzhi proudly said: "With so many commanders and military bigwigs here, how could I be careless? If it weren't that there are too few pilots who master night flight, I would definitely send two Squadrons over!"

Shizilin.

The Sixth Regiment had already built a garrison on the Shizilin Position, and the battle report from Battalion Commander Yoshizumi's unit ahead had already arrived.

"Battalion Commander Yoshizumi's unit suffered heavy casualties, Battalion Commander Yoshizumi himself has lost contact, and Nishizumi's Tank Squadron and Tanaka's Infantry Squadron have both been repelled by the enemy!"

After hearing this, Regiment Commander Cangyong Chengzhi did not fly into a rage, because he had already begun to reassess the strength of the Xia Guo Army opposite.

According to the known battle reports, the opposite side used the strength of one infantry Battalion, yet beat one of his Battalions into utter disarray, losing helmets and armor.

Although Lv Muzhi's infantry Battalion might have received help from Regiment Direct Support Forces, he himself had also dispatched one infantry Squadron and eight tanks to support Battalion Commander Yoshizumi's unit, yet they still were not a match for the Youth Army infantry Battalion.

"Terrifying... terrifying!" Cangyong Chengzhi murmured.

"Regiment Commander Excellency, the Fifth Infantry Battalion has all landed! My Regiment's Second and Third Battalions have also completely landed; should we provide support?!"