The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Begins in Songhu

Chapter 566 Code Name: Tooth Extraction (Bonus Chapter for the Silver Beast)

Around noon on the 29th, Hu Biao received another piece of good news.

At that time, he and several other time-traveling companions were in a field hospital visiting Xin Huo and Ji Shouxing, who had been hastily carried off the battlefield after being seriously injured the previous night.

Thanks to the efforts of Chief Physician 803, both of them survived.

Among them, Ji Shouxing, nicknamed "Egg," was in relatively good condition, only being knocked unconscious by the explosive power of a 150mm howitzer shell.

Although Ji Shouxing was still suffering from the aftereffects of concussion, such as dizziness and nausea, when Hu Biao visited him.

When he spat, there were traces of blood in his spit, which clearly indicated that he had suffered internal injuries from the shock.

However, based on Hu Biao and his colleagues' extensive experience with internal injuries, such blood streaks are not scary at all; on the contrary, they prove that the internal injury is not that serious.

The truly terrifying situation is that one or two days before, everything is fine, but suddenly while eating or talking, a large amount of black blood flows from the mouth, nostrils, and ears.

That's a truly fatal internal injury, the kind that even a god couldn't save you from.

In cases like Ji Shouxing's, taking traditional Chinese medicine for a few days, along with penicillin for inflammation, can lead to significant improvement.

In a slightly more optimistic scenario, we might still be able to catch up with the final battle to annihilate the Japanese invaders.

However, Xinhuo, a newbie who had only joined the team during the last time travel, was in a rather bad situation.

A small melon grenade fired from a grenade launcher exploded just two or three meters away from him, leaving at least a dozen shrapnel fragments embedded in his body.

After a three-hour surgery, only half of the fragments were removed.

Other fragments found in sensitive areas such as the skull and heart were handled by a mediocre 803, whom we didn't dare to touch at the time.

Therefore, Xinhu is still in a coma with a high fever and has not yet passed the critical period.

Although he knew that Xinhuo could be perfectly restored after returning to the modern world.

However, seeing his transmigrator companion wrapped up like a rice dumpling and lying there motionless, Hu Biao felt somewhat depressed.

Under these circumstances, his bodyguard captain, Hu Yongfeng, rushed in like a whirlwind.

The first thing he said was, "Grandpa Sixteen, Grandma Sixteen and the others are back, and they brought a lot of weapons and stuff with them."

In addition to dozens of light and heavy machine guns, there were hundreds of submachine guns and pistols, a large number of grenades and bullets, and even ten mortars and a large number of shells.

The mortar's model number seems to be something like the Type 20 82mm mortar.

Upon hearing this, Hu Biao and the others were overjoyed.

They had been worried that the loss of a large number of automatic weapons in the previous battles had resulted in a significant drop in firepower, but it turned out that exactly what they needed had come to pass.

With this batch of weapons, the firepower is three times stronger than before.

Overjoyed, Hu Biao first addressed the novice, Zhi Xiang:

"Alright! Mortars, those are proper cannons too. Now that I've got you cannons, the rest of the artillery support and suppression will be up to you."

Don't tell me your legs went weak when you get to your wedding night.

"Don't worry, I guarantee you'll be satisfied." Zhi Xiang said happily, his eyes full of anticipation.

It should be noted that in the past, 803, who were also new recruits, saved countless lives in the field hospital; Ji Shouxing, Dali, and the welder even fought a bloody battle against the Japanese on the battlefield during World War I.

It can be said that each of them performed exceptionally well.

But he was the only one left training the rookie artillerymen in the reinforced artillery company, who were itching to go to the battlefield and fight the Japanese, and show off their skills.

Seeing that Zhixiang was so confident, Hu Biao put his worries aside.

He called out to the others, "Let's go greet the boss's wife and sister-in-law, these two great contributors."

This time they brought back so many defeated soldiers and so many weapons, they really solved a huge problem for us, they deserve a ton of gold medals for each of them.”

No one had any objections to Hu Biao's suggestion.

But before Hu Biao left, he suddenly stopped, walked to Xin Huo's makeshift hospital bed, and whispered something in his ear:
"Brother, you have to pull through, otherwise if you die like this, you won't have a chance to time travel next time." Hu Biao said this before leaving, naturally wanting to arouse Xin Huo's will to survive and get through the most critical and dangerous period.

As for the results? All I can say is that this was his only option.

After Hu Biao and the others left, no one noticed that Xin Huo, lying on the hospital bed, twitched his finger slightly...

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On the 29th, the Japanese troops along the C-Shacheng and Laodaohe lines not only ceased their ground offensive, but even the planes that usually filled the skies completely disappeared.

Thanks to this, the Northern Jiangsu Independent Regiment not only reinforced its fortifications.

Exhausted, everyone took the opportunity to get a good night's rest.

At 6 a.m. on the 30th, Hu Biao woke up on the front line, stretched, and felt that his energy had recovered to at least 70 or 80 percent.

Around 10:30 a.m., a large number of mules and horses, almost exhausted, appeared in the Japanese camp.

It took the Japanese soldiers a whole day and night, and after countless mules and horses died from exhaustion, they finally managed to transport a batch of ammunition back from Xinqiang River.

On average, each Japanese soldier only had forty or fifty more bullets and one or two more grenades.

The 75mm mountain guns and howitzers, on average, each had about ten more shells, but Anami believed that this was enough to take down the North Jiangsu Independent Regiment's position.

They also captured part of the 74th Army's positions, achieving a brilliant victory.

So, a little after 11 a.m., the Japanese planes that had disappeared for more than a day reappeared, with thirty of them appearing at once on the positions of the Northern Jiangsu Independent Regiment alone.

After these planes dropped all their bombs, the Japanese artillery began bombarding again.

The shelling lasted for about three minutes before the Japanese infantry reappeared.

The Japanese deployed a battalion and a half of their troops to this less than two-kilometer-long stretch of the Subei Independent Regiment's Hunan Supplementary Regiment.

They seemed determined to break through the enemy lines, recapture the regimental flag, and eliminate Hu Biao and his comrades today.

What was the result? The fierce fighting, which continued almost without pause, lasted until a little after five in the afternoon.

The Japanese launched seven attacks in succession. The first six attacks seemed to fall just short of completely crushing the few remaining soldiers on the position.

But at crucial moments, some laborers, cooks, clerks, grooms, and other support staff would shout for reinforcements and drive them back.

I don't know why the Northern Jiangsu Independent Regiment has so many logistics personnel.
During the seventh attack, the Japanese finally broke through two lines of defense of the Northern Jiangsu Independent Regiment.

To achieve this goal, the Japanese suffered a horrific loss of nearly three thousand men.

Because they had used up almost all their artillery shells in their first attack, subsequent attacks were hampered by heavy machine gun fire from the Northern Jiangsu Independent Regiment, resulting in terrifying casualties.

However, at the most crucial moment, Hu Biao and his companions ran away.

Carrying the tattered regimental flag, he ran to a place about a mile behind, where two more emergency-repaired defensive lines had appeared.

The situation on the 74th Army's side was similar.

At this point, the Japanese soldiers finally realized that something was wrong.

More than an hour before nightfall, the Japanese completely halted their attack; operational instructions and requests for retreat flooded the frontline command post in Yueyang.

Faced with this situation, although Anami Korechika still felt a strong sense of resentment, he issued an order:
All troops inside and outside C Sand City, make all preparations tonight, and tomorrow morning, with the 13th Tank Regiment as the vanguard, retreat in an orderly manner under the cover of army aviation.

But by this point, it was all too late.

Because at the moment the Japanese stopped their attack, Hu Biao and his group of time travelers, except for Lao Ma and Xiao Henan, stayed behind with the cavalry battalion and a portion of the people.

Every single one of the others led 1500 of the most elite members of their group on the journey.

Tonight, they will join forces with the 74th Army to eliminate the Japanese's strongest mobile force and sharpest claw on the C-Shacheng battlefield.

The operation's code name was also: Tooth Extraction...

(End of this chapter)