Lieutenant Takeda had heard the gunfire before leading his men from the airport, and the most suitable point he could find was the jungle on both sides of the road.

This may be a good option, as the jungle can be used as a hideout, the trees can be used as cover for the Japanese army, and the middle road can be controlled from the flanks...... It was a heroic act, but it was not a wise act.

The reason was that Lieutenant Takeda had too few soldiers, only fifty men, and only twenty-five on each side of the army, and the Japanese army, which numbered fifty men, still used bolt rifles, and there was no other high-rate of fire equipment except for an eleventh year light machine gun that did not have a fast rate of fire.

Originally, a standard squad of the Japanese army had three light machine guns (one per squad) and a grenadier squad with three grenadiers, but Lieutenant Takeda's squad was a long-term monitor of Korean engineers and rarely had the opportunity to go to the battlefield, so the armament was far from the standard Japanese army.

The Chinese army, on the other hand, has a battalion, which is equipped with either semi-automatic or fully automatic equipment, and even two tanks...... So this firepower comparison is one heaven and one earth.

In such a situation, what Lieutenant Takeda should do is to continue to monitor the Korean Japanese sappers stationed at the airport to take up arms and organize defense; if this is not possible, he should also be prepared to blow up the fuel, food, towers, and other important materials at the airport, and even destroy the airport as much as possible, so as not to make these materials available to the enemy.

But Lieutenant Takeda made another choice...... Directly lead troops to block the enemy.

This kind of behavior is tantamount to blocking the car with a mantis arm, but it is normal for Takeda to make such a decision, because he is very aware of the combat effectiveness of those Korean engineers, and the Japanese army such as Takeda is very harsh on Korean engineers in peacetime, knowing that he cannot rely on them when fighting, on the other hand, because of Takeda's conceit, he thinks that the enemy who is coming is just a small harassing army that has only been divided from Cape Esperance. With the strength of his squad and the superior geographical position, it is completely possible to push this enemy back.

But Takeda soon realized that he was wrong, because he saw a black oppressive enemy in the dark, and what made Takeda feel that the situation was not good, he could see from the enemy's leaping movement that the army in front of him was an elite soldier with rich combat experience.

However, now Takeda is already difficult to ride a tiger, and can only loudly order the soldiers to stick to their posts.

But Takeda's efforts have been in vain, and one of the most important points is ...... The Japanese army was full of people running in their direction, some of these people were Chinese soldiers and some were Japanese routs, and in the darkness the Japanese could not tell which were the enemy and which were their own, all they could do was shoot indiscriminately, and sadly their firepower could not block the impact of such a person.

Then the Chinese troops began to return fire.

Accompanied by gunshots. The dense bullets rained down like drops into the jungle, and the first to be knocked down was the Korean Japanese soldiers who were fleeing in the jungle, and at the same time, the branches and leaves were also beaten down like a goddess scattering flowers, but this was only the beginning, followed by a violent explosion overhead...... Takeda soon realized that it was an enemy mortar, and he was about to order his men to take cover, but it was too late, and the shells that exploded overhead exploded from branches and wooden blocks mixed with shrapnel and fired indiscriminately, only to cause the Japanese to scream.

Before the Japanese could react, they found that several smoke-emitting grenades had been thrown nearby. After a burst of explosions, the enemy was already rushing in front of him with bright bayonets.

At the last moment, Takeda chose to leave his men behind and escape.

This is not to say that Takeda is cowardly, in fact he would like to die with the enemy with his men.

However, when Takeda realized that he could not stop the enemy in front of him. He thought about the supplies stored at the airport...... Even if you are defeated, you can't leave these materials to the enemy, and even if you don't have time to burn them all, at least you have to detonate the fuel and ammunition depots!

So Takeda turned around and ran towards the airport under the disdainful gaze of his subordinates...... This move was a disgrace among the Japanese army. Takeda even felt the urge to go back and explain to his subordinates, but he knew he didn't have time to do so.

Takeda thought to himself, history will return my innocence. I'm not a coward in their eyes.

However, Takeda's wish was not fulfilled, because when he hurried back to the fuel depot at the airport to detonate it, he was held to the head with a pistol.

"Takeda-kun! Long time no see! ”

Hearing this voice, Takeda couldn't help despairing, it was the voice of Asano Gakufu, the head of the Korean engineering regiment, of course, this is his Japanese name, and his real name is actually Park Jung-hyung, a North Korean...... Takeda once raped his daughter in front of him.

"Think of your loved ones in North Korea, Asano-kun!" Takeda hopes to use this to make Park Jung-hyung stop.

Park Jung-hyung was just stunned, and then pulled the trigger without hesitation...... A gunshot rang out, and Takeda fell to the ground with a burst of brains.

"I've thought about it!" Park Jung-hyung spat at Takeda's corpse and said, "Only by completely defeating you can my relatives be truly saved!" ”

So, when Zhang Chi and others hit all the way to the airport under the cover of tanks, they saw a white flag illuminated by the Japanese army with a searchlight...... Zhang Chi also carefully identified this, because the white flag was likely to be a Japanese military flag that was blocked with a red plaster in the middle, but soon Zhang Chi found that the Japanese army had really surrendered.

Because after Zhang Chi shouted a few times at the opposite side in Japanese, several Japanese officers walked out with their hands raised, and then carefully pulled out the guns on their waists and threw them on the ground under the light of searchlights.

"We are not Japanese!" The bearded Japanese officer, led by the leader, shouted in stiff English: "Don't shoot!" We are Koreans, we joined them because the Japanese threatened them with relatives, we are sappers and we have not killed anyone...... We surrender! ”

After a pause, the Japanese officer shouted again: "We have protected the fuel depot and ammunition depot...... The Japanese want to blow them up! Are you Americans? ”

It was clear that the Japanese officers looked at the figure of the opposing unit as if it were not American.

"No!" Zhang Chi replied: "We are Chinese!" ”

"Chinese?" The Japanese officer couldn't help but be stunned: "The Chinese army has hit here......"

"Yes!" Zhang Chi stepped forward as he spoke, looked at the Japanese officer in front of him and said, "I accept your surrender, in addition, I also need to know some information, such as the distribution of Japanese on the island and the terrain!" ”

The Japanese officer nodded and replied, "I'm honored!" (To be continued.) )