Xu Rui nodded and said, "Okay, then hit the north of the city." ”

As soon as Xu Rui finished speaking, Yang Bayan suddenly said: "Regiment leader, this counterattack, I ask to join the commando." ”

Xu Rui turned his head and deliberately glanced at Yang Bagan, Yang Bagan dodged back a little unnaturally, trying to hide the injured left arm hanging on his neck behind He Guangming.

To be honest, Yang Bayan's performance today still made Xu Rui quite satisfied.

So Xu Rui shook his head and said, "Forget about you as a wounded." ”

"What happened to the wounded?" Yang Bagan said unrelentingly, "How can there be no injured people in the whole regiment now?" Aren't you also injured, the commander? ”

Xu Rui was speechless, he was indeed injured.

In a counter-assault battle in the evening, Xu Rui was hit in the neck by a stray bullet that rebounded from the wall, but fortunately, it only pulled out a hole, and it did not hurt the vital point, if it hurt the common carotid artery, it would be over directly, but it still scared Xiao Taohong and Saihong enough, and now Xiao Taohong began to follow Xu Rui inch by inch.

This is also the task that Sai Hongfu gave to Xiao Taohong, no matter how to protect Xu Rui's safety.

Of course, Xu Rui doesn't need the protection of Xiao Taohong, but he can't brush off the beauty of Saihong's whisk.

Yang Banan said again: "Regiment Commander, although my left hand is injured, I still have my right hand, and I can shoot a gun, and I am not necessarily worse than others, no matter what, I am an officer student from the Central Military Academy!" ”

The implication of Yang Bayan's words is that the officers and students of the Central Military Academy may not be good at military theory, but their tactical literacy is not necessarily worse than those big-headed soldiers, and in any case, in the year of the Central Military Academy, they received the strictest, most cruel, and highest standard of military training, and that is not a slight.

Xu Rui stared at Yang Ba for ten seconds, and finally nodded: "Okay, since you insist on wanting to participate in the battle, and you are still the chief of staff of our independent regiment after all, then I will not look for another person, I will directly appoint you as the commando leader, and I will see your performance tonight, Chief of Staff Yang!" ”

Yang Badan snapped and said, "Don't worry, the head of the regiment, his humble position will never be dishonored!" ”

Xu Rui nodded, raised his wrist again and said: "Now start the table, the time is eight o'clock, eight twenty o'clock commando first launched an attack from the intersection of Yangzi Street and Jingjia Lane, attracting the attention of the devils in the north of the city, and then the 3rd battalion and the 2nd battalion soldiers divided into two ways, detoured from the left and right flanks, and completed the encirclement of the devils in the north of the city, remember that the action must be fast, and the battle must be ended before the little devils transfer reinforcements from outside the city!" ”

"Yes!" Wan Chongshan and Xu Dekun Huo Ran stood up and responded loudly.

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However, before the night counterattack of the independent regiment could be officially launched, the bandits of the eighteen villages in Feixi outside the west gate launched an attack first, and one hundred bandits selected from the chessboard village and Niangniang village had a twenty-shot box cannon each, and the firepower was definitely not blown, and they broke through the devil's defense line and broke into the west area of the city.

Feicheng originally had a city wall, but the devil's aviation and artillery bombarded indiscriminately for two consecutive days, but the city wall that had been in disrepair for a long time was completely blown up and completely turned into ruins, and the defense of the devils in the west of the city focused on the independent regiment in the city, and the defensive deployment for the direction outside the city was much lax.

Therefore, the bandits of the eighteen villages in Feixi quickly broke through the devil's defense line.

Hearing the gunshots coming from the west of the city, Xu Rui decisively changed his plan, and originally planned to take the devils in the north of the city, but now it has changed to take the devils in the west of the city to sacrifice the flag.

Although Xu Rui has not yet figured out the enemy situation in the west of the city, judging from the gunshots, Xu Rui knows that this is definitely not a fake, the little devil probably does not have such a high IQ, and he actually knows how to create such a realistic "enemy attack" in the west of the city to lure them into the Dameishan Independent Regiment to fall for this.

In charge of guarding the western area of the city was an infantry brigade of the Kikuchi Brigade.

The Kikuchi Brigade was subordinate to the 18th Division, which was established two years after the end of the Russo-Japanese War, and in the 14th year of Taisho (1925) due to financial constraints, it was abolished along with the 13th, 15th, and 17th Divisions.

After the full-scale outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the 18th Division quickly resumed its formation and participated in the landing in Hangzhou Bay.

However, because the soldiers who were added to the 18th Division were not active soldiers after all, but reserve or even reserve soldiers, their combat effectiveness was still quite short compared with that of the 17 permanent divisions, and their performance in the process of advancing to Nanjing after the landing in Hangzhou Bay was not ideal.

Especially in Guangde, the 18th Division faced the Sichuan army, which was poorly equipped, and could not advance an inch for several days.

In the Battle of Nanjing, the 18th Division was only responsible for flank protection and did not participate in the frontal attack.

In other words, although the devils of the 18th Division have a good level of equipment, they actually do not have much actual combat experience.

Therefore, after the battle began, under the attack of the bandits of Feixi Eighteen Villages and the Dameishan Independent Regiment, the infantry brigade of the Judi Brigade was quickly defeated, most of them were annihilated, and a small part fled from the two flanks of the battlefield to the north and south of the city, and the Independent Regiment recovered almost the entire western area of the city in one fell swoop.

The speed of this night counterattack was very fast, and the devils who were so fast to the east and south of the city didn't have time to react at all, and when Inaba Shiro and Kikuchi Mei got the news, the west of the city had already been lost, and most of the infantry brigade stationed in the west of the city was also annihilated, so Inaba Shiro and Kikuchi Mei gave up the idea of counterattacking.

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As is customary, Xu Rui broadcast the good news to the rear again after the battle.

At this time, the press conference of Nanjing Fanghuayuan has not yet ended, and the process has just reached the middle break.

After receiving the notice from her assistant, Helena, the Associated Press war correspondent in China, immediately became excited, the Americans have always been unorganized and undisciplined, and acted extremely casually, and Helena actually went straight to the lounge.

The guards were stunned and let Helena break into the lounge.

"Your Excellency, General!" Helena hurriedly walked up to Shunroku Hata and asked urgently, "We just listened to the broadcast of the Dameishan Radio Station, and learned that the Dameishan Independent Regiment launched a night counterattack half an hour ago, annihilating a Japanese brigade in one fell swoop and restoring the area west of the city, may I ask Your Excellency the General, is this true?" ”

Shunroku Hata's face suddenly became very embarrassed, and he had just gotten the news.

Gritting his teeth, Shunroku Hatatake's face was gloomy and said, "Yes, there is indeed such a thing. ”

"Wow." Helena shrugged her shoulders and said with a smile, "Your Excellency General, if I remember correctly, half an hour ago, you also told us that your army would soon be able to capture the entire city of Feicheng and capture Xu Rui, the head of the Dameishan Independent Regiment, but the current situation seems to be a little different from what you said before?" ”

Shunroku Hata was speechless, and his face turned black to the bottom of the pot.

He was still saying unashamedly just now that he would be able to eliminate the Dameishan Independent Regiment and capture Xu Rui alive, but in the blink of an eye, the Dameishan Radio Station released another news that the Dameishan Independent Regiment had just eliminated an infantry brigade of the Japanese army and restored the entire western area of the city.

Why don't you give a little time difference and let people attend a press conference unpleasantly?

Helena refused to let go of Shunroku Hata and continued to ask: "Your Excellency, General, do you still believe that your army will be able to occupy Feicheng soon and capture Xu Rui alive?" ”

"Yes, I'm convinced of that." Shunroku Hata said in a deep voice.

Helena smiled and asked, "Your Excellency, you seem to be too optimistic. ”

Shunroku Hata said with a dark face: "The defeat of a local battle does not tell the story. ”

Helena retorted: "But the Russian military attache in China, Colonel Sovsky, has just told me that your army seems to be at a disadvantage at the level of the whole campaign? Feicheng has been unable to fight for a long time, but the northbound clusters of Fuyang and Mengcheng have been divided and surrounded, although the various divisions of the North China Front are rushing to the aid with all their might, but I am afraid that it is too late in time? ”

Shunroku Hata was speechless, what he said before could only deceive media reporters who didn't understand military affairs, and in the face of a soldier like Sofsky, he simply wanted to cover up.

When Helena wanted to continue to ask, Shunroku Hata was already completely impatient.

Although Shunroku Hata likes the young and beautiful American reporter in front of him, and her youthful energy allows him to inadvertently recall the good times of his youth, but the American reporter's questions make him a little tired, and he doesn't want to answer her aggressive questions anymore.

At that moment, Shunroku Hahata called Shozo Kawabe over, then stood up and walked straight away.

Helena also wanted to ask Shunroku Hatata, but was politely stopped by Shozo Kawabe.

At this time, Japan's relations with the United States were generally in a period of cooperation, and Japan imported a large amount of scrap steel, crude oil, and chemical raw materials from the United States, and the United States regarded Japan as its financier, and Japan regarded the United States as a reliable object of cooperation.

"Miss Helena, you can ask me any questions." Kawabe Shozo said politely.

It's a pity that Helena has no interest in Shozo Riverside, and she is only interested in Shunroku Hatata.

Or, to be more precise, Helena is not actually interested in Shunroku Hatata, the reason why she takes the trouble to ask Shunroku Hata is entirely because of another person, that person is younger and more handsome than Shunroku Hatata, he is Xu Rui, the head of the Dameishan Independent Regiment, Helena asked Shunroku Hata like this, just to know how to interpret Xu Rui from the perspective of Shunroku Hata as an enemy?

"I don't think so." Helena closed her notebook and said, "I've already asked all the questions I should ask." ”

Watching Helena leave with her plump buttocks swaying, Hebian Shosan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and then thought viciously in his heart, Americans, what's so great? One day, the Great Japanese Empire will trample you America under your feet like stepping on China, and the world belongs to the Japanese race!