Zhao Yong followed Gao Dong to the place where the Independent Brigade was stationed, although the soldiers of the Independent Brigade were dressed in shabby clothes. The vitality that can be emanated from these people makes Zhao Yong's eyes shine.

After Gao Dong returned to the Independent Brigade, he did not delay, but immediately led the troops to restart, aiming directly at the devils from the north. He knew that time was running out for him, and that he had to find their weak points before the devils could attack on all fronts.

"Captain Gao, do you really want to rush directly into the devil-dense barracks and rob them of their things? What about after the robbery? Swaggering back? Zhao Yong set off with two companies and Gao Dong, and after a day of walking, he finally asked a question that had puzzled him for a long time.

Gao Dong turned his head to look at him and said with a slight smile: "We are not fools, and the Japanese are not fools. Do you think they're going to stay there and wait for us to grab it? ”

"That............ What exactly do you want to do? Zhao Yong's confusion intensified, and he found that he couldn't see through the man in front of him more and more.

Gao Dong laughed and turned his head to look ahead: "Soon you will know what we are going to do, and when the time comes, your great assistance is indispensable." ”

At this time, the Japanese Fifth Division had already captured Linyi, and as long as it continued to advance, it would reach the Xuzhou battlefield and meet the main force of the Chinese army. Because Han Fuqu in Shandong fled without a fight, Shandong, which could have been defended, surrendered without a fight under the iron heel of the Japanese army, and the supply of the main force in Xuzhou was not in place, and it was also because of the rapid occurrence of this battle.

The 5th Division is a long-established unit in Japan, which was changed from the Meiji Restoration and was originally a town, so it is also called the Hiroshima Division.

This division has a great relationship with China, not only in the early Sino-Japanese War, but also in a war with Japan and Russia on the soil of the Chinese, and since then it has killed countless Chinese, which can be described as notorious.

The commanders of the Fifth Division were all ambitious people and extremists in the Japanese right-wing parties. In recent years, the division commanders of the Fifth Division have all become representative figures in the Japanese army who are actively invading China, and this division can be described as having Chinese blood on their hands.

The current division commander is the notorious Itagaki Seishiro, the executioner who planned the 918 Incident with Ishihara Waner, and challenged the 200,000 Northeast Army with 10,000 Japanese troops. Later, he became the division commander of the Fifth Division, and once defeated more than 30 divisions of the Nationalist Army with half a division and occupied Shanxi.

Now he is invincible all the way with the victorious army, all the way from Shandong to Linyi. His purpose was very simple, to let his brilliant achievements once again flutter on the battlefield of Xuzhou, so that all Chinese would tremble when they heard his name of Itagaki Seishiro.

The defenders of Linyi had been routed to the direction of Xuzhou, and Itagaki Seishiro also ordered the troops to rest temporarily. Because they were advancing so fast, the Marines, who were attacking at the same time with the 5th Division, were left far behind them. Seishiro Itagaki had to stop and wait for those stupid people, and complained that these people in the navy were so useless.

As night fell, Seishiro Itagaki stood in the courtyard of the residence of the former commander of the Linyi garrison, looking up at the starry sky.

"The starry sky here is so beautiful, just as beautiful as in Japan. Soon, this place will no longer be called China, but a colony of our Great Japan. Seishiro Itagaki looked at the sky with confidence, in his eyes, the Chinese army was weak, and no one could stop him.

At this time, two officers hurriedly entered the door. Itagaki Seishiro looked over with a frown, usually in the middle of the night, if there was nothing urgent, he forbade anyone to disturb him. Because he has to think, and that's a habit he's developed over the years.

"General, we have lost contact with the Marines. They are like, as if the world has evaporated! The two officers hurriedly came to Seishiro Itagaki and said eagerly.

"Evaporated?" Itagaki Seishiro's brows furrowed even tighter: "Half of my supplies were held by these naval bandits, and they actually evaporated like this?" Is this a demonstration to me for the rights of their navy? These damn bastards! ”

Seishiro Itagaki roared in a low voice, he knew that it was those Marine bastards who were jealous of his Fifth Division's rapid attack and robbed them of many of their exploits that deliberately delayed, but there was nothing he could do.

Within Japan, there are two camps: the navy and the army. Because Japan is an island country, the navy has been vigorously developed since the Meiji Restoration, and its foundation is strong, and its power is certainly far stronger than that of the army. Politicians and cabinet members, including the emperor, attached great importance to the navy far more than to the army.

This also greatly increased the power of the navy, so the navy has always pressed the army. On the battlefield in China, the supply of many materials also depended on the navy to continuously transport them from the mainland or other occupied areas, so as to ensure the normal supply of the army.

Itagaki Seishiro's troops were brilliant, but the consumption was also very large. They were short of ammunition and medicines, which their fellow Marines were responsible for receiving from the Navy.

Although Seishiro Itagaki is a general, and the Marine Corps commander who is traveling with him is only a wing commander, he has no way to deal with the other party. Because the two sides belong to different branches of the military, and his supplies are supplied by this army, itagaki Seishiro can often only act according to the eyes of the other party.

"Find them for me, these bastards. Tell them that my exploits are half as good as theirs. Seishiro Itagaki shook his hands into the house angrily, he didn't want to hear the damn Marines anymore. They did this just to want to make war achievements, but he Itagaki Seishiro had to do it, without that army, he would be without everything, and what would he talk about attacking Xuzhou.

But what Itagaki Seishiro didn't know was that the marines who landed in China early and followed him all the way here were not making things difficult for him, but getting lost.

It was a Marine Corps of three thousand six hundred men, consisting of two standard brigades, combined into one wing. The commander's name was Kasusa, and at this moment in the darkness of the night, his subordinates illuminated him with the faint light of torches, so that he could carefully look at the battle map.

"What the hell is this? Where the hell are we? What about the Fifth Division? Aren't they supposed to wait for us? Where did it go now? He Suzuo looked at it for a long time, and finally threw away the battle map in his hand.

To be honest, his brain was about to explode. He was a naval officer, but the naval headquarters in Japan transferred him to this improvised Marine Corps as a commander for the convenience of landing operations.

He has always served on ships, galloping in the ******. Prior to accepting the appointment, he had only returned to the military academy for six months before being sent to China to take command of the improvised Marine Corps.

It is a pity that although the Navy Headquarters has formed this Marine Corps with the goal of landing, it does not attach great importance to it. As a result, the quality of their weaponry and personnel training is much worse than that of the army, and their combat effectiveness cannot be compared.

What made him even more mad was that most of his soldiers were simply trained in land combat before being drafted. Many of them were assigned from ships, where there is any real combat experience on land.

He Susa's mission gradually changed from cooperating with the army to a transport brigade, because it was a coastal operation, they received a large amount of supplies from Qingdao and became the transport brigade of the 5th and 10th Divisions.

Just the day before yesterday, when the Fifth Division was attacking the positions of the Chinese defenders, because they were afraid that they would be affected, he ordered his troops to bypass the positions of both sides and continue to advance. He was going to wait for the arrival of the 5th Division at the front!

Unfortunately, as soon as they bypassed the position, the Chinese defenders were routed by the 5th Division. The defenders retreated, and saw that there was still a Japanese army behind them, regardless of 3721, it was a ruthless fight.

When had He Susa suffered such a fatal blow, he just led his troops to retreat after a simple defense. However, he was completely lost in this walk, and with only a little study of military maps, he and his troops were lost in the vast land of China, becoming a swarm of headless flies.

If only he knew, at this moment he had surpassed the distance of the Fifth Division by a day, and was already close to the positions of the Chinese defenders. It is estimated that he will not even ask for the materials transported, and he will have to flee with all his strength if he turns around.

The Japanese Marines were a relatively out-of-the-way unit, as rare as the German paratroopers in World War II. However, the latter is famous every time it appears, and the Japanese marines are just an ornament.

Just as Gasusa was melancholy, his soldiers reported that there was a fire ahead, which was supposed to be the place where the army was stationed.

He Susa was stunned for a moment, but then he was relieved: "The one who dares to light a torch at night like this must be the Fifth Division, and only the madman that Seishiro Itagaki dares to do this." With half a division, he defeated thirty divisions of the Chinese and occupied Shanxi, and what else was he afraid of. ”

"Go, march the whole army, and pull out to the place where the fire shines." He Susa even omitted sending troops to reconnoitre, and directly led the whole army forward. It was really difficult for him to think about what the Army should do with the thinking of a naval officer.

And where the fire was ignited, on a hillside, Gao Dong and a row of people were lying on the top of the hillside. He held a night-vision high-powered telescope in his hand and carefully observed every move of the Japanese marines, while Zhao Yong looked at the telescope in Gao Dong's hand with envy on the side, swallowing vigorously in his mouth.

After a long time, Gao Dong slowly put down the binoculars, and the shocked look on his face was not at all worse than the look of the generals who looked at him after he defeated Zhao Yong that day.

"Are these pigs sent by Japan? I didn't go looking for them, and they actually sent them to the door themselves? Gao Dong took a deep breath and patted his cheek again, making sure it wasn't a dream.

Lin Fan was also shocked and said, "Captain, they are not afraid of the dark and came to us as a companion, right?" ”

It took Gao Dong a long time to regain his senses, coughed and said, "No matter what, since there are ones delivered to the door by ourselves, then we will accept them all!" ”