Are you a spy? Killing the enemy is too cruel.

Chapter 619 Fighting for Glory

Central Plains, Zhengzhou battlefield.

The 5000-man independent regiment led by Ye Feng held their position south of Zhengzhou for two days and two nights.

Despite the Japanese's indiscriminate bombing and desperate and crazy charge, the independent regiment suffered few casualties.

This was due to Ye Feng's flexible tactical arrangements, which involved staggered blocking and layered defense, mainly to avoid enemy artillery bombardment and supplemented by attacking enemy infantry. If a position was lost during the day, it would be taken back at night, and this cycle was repeated to fight against the enemy and continuously eliminate the Japanese devils' effective forces.

"Damn it, these devils are really fearless. For two consecutive days and nights, they launched more than a dozen large-scale raids on our positions. In addition, there were dozens of small-scale infiltration raids."

"I wasn't killed by artillery shells, I wasn't killed by bullets, and I wasn't killed by Japanese bayonets, but I was ready to die of exhaustion."

"Stop complaining. We are exhausted. Aren't the Japanese devils who took the initiative to attack even more exhausted?"

"I have to say that after joining the underground party, we no longer have to lose battles all the time. At least we can compete with the Japanese in positional warfare."

"In the past two days and two nights of defense, we actually had the upper hand. According to my observation, the Japanese casualties and injuries this time reached at least 15,000, and the total casualties were close to half of theirs."

"No way? After we, the defeated soldiers from the mountain city, joined the underground party, are our fighting power so strong?"

"Get lost! Actually, the number of enemies killed by our several thousand people is not that high. Most of the deaths of the Japanese are actually due to the commander."

"That's right. We are divided into combat units. Every time, it is the commander who leads the team to resist. We soldiers can take turns to rest, but the commander has been fighting for two consecutive days and two nights. According to the lowest estimate, at least several thousand Japanese soldiers have died at the hands of the commander."

"It seems that the legend is true. This great hero of Shanghai, this underground party super agent, is really a man with terrifying combat power comparable to that of a Japanese regiment."

"With the commander here, it will be hard to lose this battle."

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Taking advantage of the pause in the enemy's attack, everyone replenished food and water while talking in the trench.

Although everyone's face was filled with fatigue, their eyes were bloodshot and their faces were covered with mud, their fighting spirit was still extremely high and their morale had not dropped.

For everyone, this kind of defensive battle, in which a small loss is in exchange for a large number of casualties of the enemy, will not have any complaints even if it lasts for ten days or half a month, let alone two days and two nights. As long as the people are still in the position, as long as they are not all dead, they will be like nails, nailed to the position.

Before this battle, every soldier of the Independent Regiment was a failure, a defeated soldier on the battlefield.

Back then, they followed the troops in Shancheng to fight against the Japanese invaders, but they ended up being defeated and routed.

Many of their comrades-in-arms died at the hands of the Japanese.

They wanted revenge and to avenge their previous humiliation, but the national situation was in a state of deterioration. The Japanese controlled most of China and had sophisticated weapons, advanced equipment, and powerful firepower, and they had the upper hand everywhere.

They can only suppress the anger and hatred in their hearts, struggling to survive every day, and muddle through life in a numb state.

I thought they would just die in such a cowardly way in this life.

But when the underground party's anti-Japanese armed forces arrived, they quickly dispatched troops and recovered most of the Central Plains in a short period of time. They won victory after victory, demonstrating the power of China and the bravery of the Chinese men.

Not only that, after the underground party’s troops regained the lost territory, they did not plunder or oppress the people.

They had strict discipline and did not take a single needle or thread from the people. They also spent countless amounts of money and food to distribute them free of charge to the homeless poor people. They also divided the area into pieces, resettled the people, distributed basic living supplies, and allowed the people to build new homes.

This is a brave and fearless army, and also a good army that loves its people like its own children.

Each of these actions makes the people of the Central Plains grateful, appreciative, and deeply supportive.

Under such circumstances, Ye Feng issued an announcement to summon the defeated soldiers of the Shancheng troops to form an independent regiment, so everyone enthusiastically joined the army, joined the underground party's anti-Japanese armed forces, and became a member of the Shanghai 12th Army Independent Regiment.

On the day he became a new recruit, Ye Feng said that every soldier of the independent regiment must fight for himself, fight for the glory that he had lost, and avenge the shame left by the Japanese in the future.

All the soldiers of the independent regiment on the Zhengzhou battlefield fought bravely and with high morale.

They have failed before.

This battle is to wash away past shame and fight for personal glory.

"what's the topic?"

Ye Feng came over with a few guards and said with a smile, "The food in the army is a little worse than that of the Japanese devils on the opposite side, but it's still okay to have enough to eat. After you have eaten and drunk enough, I will lead you to counterattack."

Really?

Many soldiers didn't even bother to eat, and hurriedly asked, "Commander, you're not kidding us, are you? Can we really counterattack?"

"We have been under heavy attack from the Japanese these past two days. I have long wanted to get back at them for this."

"Yes, half of the Japs' troops have been killed or wounded, their morale has dropped greatly, and their military spirit is definitely unstable. We can charge in the opposite direction. As long as we can gain the upper hand at the beginning and suppress the Japanese, then once the Japs are defeated and retreat, we will continue to increase our pursuit firepower and really be able to launch a strong counterattack and take back Zhengzhou."

"Not only can we counterattack head-on, we can also split a portion of our forces to go around the enemy and attack from both sides."

"Once the Japanese are defeated, they will definitely want to retreat back to Zhengzhou City. If we block the road to the north, they will have no choice but to retreat to the east. Although the road there is also flat, there are two rivers blocking the way, which can slow down the Japanese. If we pursue them closely, we may be able to wipe out the Japanese in one fell swoop."

"By the way, in order to prevent the Japanese from coming out to support us, we can also use a show of force. We can pull up a few cannons, rush directly to the city of Zhengzhou, and fire hard at the Japanese above to scare the Japanese in the city."

"Well, in terms of manpower, we will divide it into four parts. One part is the frontal counterattack, which requires 3000 people. The flanking force will only require 1000 people. Then we will send another 1000 people. The last 1000 people will be divided into two steps and ambush in some high-lying positions in the east in advance..."

"We can also bombard Zhengzhou City again and deliberately pass on the news that the Japanese outside the city have been annihilated to the Japanese inside the city, so that the Japanese inside the city will panic. When they are in a panic, we will quickly sweep away the enemies outside the city and attack the city with a large army. By then, we may not even need to attack the city and Zhengzhou can be recaptured in one fell swoop."

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Listening to the soldiers' battlefield analysis, Ye Feng was not surprised, because many people's opinions were too taken for granted.

North side of the position.

There are still nearly 30,000 enemy main forces. Why do we split our forces in advance before defeating this main force of the Japanese?

Isn't this asking for death?