Since they didn't think about going into the flank position of the Japanese army, Tang Cheng and the others retreated sharply when they had already taken advantage, and Tang Cheng tried to attract a small group of Japanese troops chasing him again. Both Tang Cheng and the Japanese army calculated very well, but unfortunately Tang Cheng took the initiative to retreat, but the soldiers in the Japanese flank positions thought that they were poor and could not pursue. Tang Cheng, who was not fooled by the Japanese army, was a little disappointed, so he simply took the dice and went around in another direction, trying to sneak attack the Japanese army from the other direction again.

The successive defeats in the attack on the mountain made the Japanese army languish, and under the persuasion of his officers, Okazaki, who led the command, finally had an epiphany. After learning that his rear line was once again attacked by a small force of Shina troops, Okazaki, who was already exhausted, finally ordered his troops to assemble, and after trying to lose all the mortar and part of the machine fire, he retreated in the direction of Shin Pingyang with the rest of the soldiers.

After learning that his rear line was almost swept away by the cunning Shina commando, Okazaki was actually in chaos, and there was no need for Tangcheng to sneak attack again, and the Japanese army could not control the development of the war situation.

Tang Cheng, who had won successively, didn't know this, but they just took advantage of the high morale to look for an opportunity to fight the Japanese army again. The Japanese army, who had already gathered their forces like hedgehogs and was ready to retreat to Xinpingyang, would give Tang Cheng such an opportunity, paying the price of three people killed and Tang Cheng himself being wounded by stray bullets, Tang Cheng and they could only intercept about 20 Japanese soldiers, but they watched the Japanese soldiers in the brigade roar away from the battlefield.

The gunfire did not stop all night, and Tang Cheng, who was carried up the dirt mountain by the dice, was forced by Mike to lie down in a damp earth cave, but until dawn, Hou San, who went down the mountain to pursue the Japanese army, did not return. It's not that they don't come back, but they can't come back at all, and the direct company sticks to the dirt mountain and withstands the fierce attacks of the Japanese army again and again, not to mention the Japanese soldiers who have killed and injured a lot, but their own casualties are not small. The Tushan position was held, but after a night of bloody fighting, after seeing too many robes and deaths, when it was time to beat the water dogs, how could Hou San and them let go of such an opportunity not to kill enough.

The clouds in the sky still look heavy, but they no longer hang low as they did a few days ago, and the Allied planes flying from a distance are huge, and when you count them carefully, there are only a dozen planes in the sky. Mike, who stayed behind in Tushan, was beckoning a few soldiers to light the pyre with a happy face at the moment, although it was daylight, but Mike, who had no signal marker, could only use fireworks to guide the direction of the group of planes in the sky.

The fighter planes hovered in the air above the dirt mountain, and Tang Cheng, who had been sleepy-eyed and drilled out of the hole, squatted on the ground, looking up at the fighters in the air lazily and listlessly. Although no one told him what was going on, Tang Cheng knew that these planes were inseparable from Mike, and looking at the posture of these planes, he must have airdropped supplies to his direct company. The transport plane hovering in the air finally opened the hatch and threw a series of umbrella flowers from the wide belly like a hen laying eggs, and the soldiers on the ground began to laugh and chase after the umbrella flowers dropped by the plane.

Tang Cheng, who was squatting, narrowed his eyes, looking at the plane hovering in the air, Tang Cheng began to imagine himself as a plane in the city, but the plane he imagined was not airdropping supplies, but was looking down from the sky at the dirt mountain after a night of fierce fighting. The earth trough on the dirt hill used to temporarily park the corpses was almost full, and Tang Cheng had already glanced at it when he was carried up the mountain, and at least 40 people were killed in the battle last night, and there may be more wounded.

Tang Cheng didn't know if the current direct company was the worst, but he knew that his direct company must be less than 200 people now, and that was to count those who were injured but didn't die. Seeing that Tang Cheng had already come out of the earth cave, Mike, who waved to the distant group of planes, walked over to Tang Cheng, saying something that Tang Cheng was not interested in. Although he didn't want to hear it, Tang Cheng didn't come out, in this case, there was no point in arguing, and Tang Cheng didn't want to conflict with Mike now.

Mike kept telling Tang Cheng what was in the airdrops, bread, butter, coffee, cigarettes and bacon, as well as the continued ammunition supply of his direct company. The smile on Mike's face made Tang Cheng embarrassed to get angry with him, he knew that if it weren't for Mike's efforts, the command might have resupplied the airdrop supplies to his direct company long ago. Maybe the situation of the direct company is not as bad as he just liked, Tang Cheng secretly comforted himself in his heart, but when he heard Mike say that the command was going to restart the operation of attacking Xinpingyang, Tang Cheng's mind was finally confused.

Just led the Japanese troops in Xinpingyang to run in the woods for a few days, and the troops of the direct company had already suffered more than half of the casualties, if they went to Xinpingyang to contain the Japanese army according to the order of the headquarters, Tang Cheng really didn't know how many people would survive in the end of the direct company that was not enough for 200 people. Originally, Tang Cheng could still laugh when he saw the boxes with umbrella flowers piled up by the soldiers in the distance, but now he couldn't laugh anymore, the more materials were airdropped, the more people who died in his direct subordinates, and those bigwigs in the command headquarters would not make a loss-making deal.

Seeing that Tang Cheng hadn't spoken, Mike thought that Tang Cheng was due to his injury or because he hadn't rested all night, so Mike immediately asked a few words, but Tang Cheng just shook his head but didn't explain the reason. The reason is actually very simple, as long as Mike thinks about it a little carefully, it is not difficult to understand why Tang Cheng is like this, but Mike will not realize this. The sun rose, and the equally exhausted Hou Sancai returned with the soldiers who had achieved a lot of results, according to Liu Shishi, they chased the retreating Japanese army for almost 10 miles, if it weren't for the fact that everyone couldn't chase them, Guan Bao could have chased those Japanese soldiers alive.

Knowing that the command had airdropped supplies from planes, the soldiers who had just won the battle laughed again, and the anxious fellows had already rummaged through the boxes that were said to be full of bacon, and were ready to eat a good meal in advance. Tang Cheng did not participate in the robbery of the soldiers, Tang Cheng wrapped in a military blanket was napping with his eyes closed against his back against a big stone, and Mike was squatting in a place that Tang Cheng did not want to make coffee, and Mike believed that the coffee he brewed could help Tang Cheng recover his spirits well.

I don't know if Tang Cheng's prayer was really heard by God, Tang Cheng ordered his direct company to rest here in Tushan for a few days, and Mike did not object, but it was just after lunch, and Mike's radio received new information from Huang Hanju from Leduo. Stilwell had already returned to Ramgarh from Chongqing, claiming to have the support of Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, and that Operation New Pingyang, which had previously been unpopular with Chinese generals, was about to be restarted.

Tang Cheng was naturally happy not about this, but in Stilwell's re-plan, the troops of the 38th Division of the New First Army on the front line of the Nanrong River would be the first to engage in an exchange of fire with the Japanese army. Tang Cheng no longer cares whether the troops of the 38th Division on the front line of the Nanrong River can go south, as long as the troops of the 38th Division can maintain an exchange of fire with the Japanese army on the front line of the Nanrong River, I believe that the Japanese troops here in Xinpingyang cannot sit idly by. As long as the attention of the Japanese army continues to be attracted to the front line of the Nanrong River, it may not be impossible for the direct company to sneak attack Xinpingyang, as long as there is a desperate determination, it is very possible to take Xinpingyang.

Contrary to Tang Cheng's expectations, after Hou San and the others learned that the command headquarters wanted to go to Xinpingyang to attract Japanese troops, they realized that it was very normal. "We were originally a group of rough people who would only be soldiers and eat food, what did we say, then we can only do something, is it possible that we can still keep going up? It's all a war, who is not fighting, maybe if we fight a new Pingyang, the old men of the command headquarters can also promote us to the rank of official. The laughter and indifference of the dice were directly ignored by Tang Cheng, and Tang Cheng could only find Hou San and Tan Fei to sum such a thing now.

"Then the command has spoken, we can't disobey the order, right?" Hou San didn't finish his words, but the meaning of the subtext in his words was similar to what Hou San said. Although the direct company suffered a lot of casualties, it was not something that any Japanese army could handle, and Hou San was still sure of this.

"That's what I mean, but it's up to us how to fight. Anyway, if the general is not subject to the order of the king outside, those people in the command will only look at the map, what is the actual situation, they don't know, and when the time comes, it is not what we say, those guys above will listen to anything. Tan Fei is much more cunning, according to him, it is a tactic to fight with the Japanese army on the periphery of the New Plains, and it is also a tactic to go directly to the bottom of the kettle to draw salary, as for what kind of tactics are used, it all depends on how Mike reports.

Tang Cheng was very helpless and gave a roll of his eyes, if it was really so easy to solve, those people in the command headquarters are all veterans of fiddling with people, don't look at the fact that they have not really been on the front-line battlefield, but if they find out the loopholes of the direct company, I am afraid that even Mike will be affected by the time come. and Hou San and Tan Fei failed to discuss the out-of-line results, Tang Cheng could only go to Mike, and what surprised Tang Cheng again was that Mike's meaning was an amazing coincidence with Tan Fei's advice.

"The meaning of the command headquarters does not need to be too concerned at all, the Dalong River rises every year in the rainy season, and the same is true of the Nanrong River, the 38th Division wants to go south in time, and in the first two weeks of October, I am afraid that it will not be able to go south to the periphery of Xinpingyang. Without the troops of the 38th Division as a help for the attack on Xinpingyang, we can't take Xinpingyang at all. Since we can't take Xinpingyang, let's not provoke the Japanese army in Xinpingyang, at most we can attack them, I'm afraid the command also means this. ”