With a ‘hong’, Su Dongming’s Third Battalion command post was directly destroyed by the grenade Yue Zhong threw.
“We’ve lost!! We’ve lost!! Our commanders have all perished!! Everyone let’s escape!! If we still stay on, we’re going to get trapped here!!”
Yue Zhong had blown apart the command post of the Third Battalion. Afterwards he used his .05 submachine gun to fire continuously and killed people, as he hollered at the top of his voice.
When the soldiers saw their own commanders blasted to smithereens, they were all shaken. Some even threw their weapons down and began fleeing wildly, while some others continued to put up a resistance.
The entire Third Battalion was thrown into chaos, with sounds of crying, shouting and calling out ringing out everywhere.
Chen Shitou took advantage of this time, and selected a company worth of soldiers to rush in. The attackers swiftly killed those soldiers who were devastated. The soldiers of Chen Shitou were also new soldiers and weren’t up to standard in terms of warfare. If the enemy decided to counter and if they were successful, he would have lost control of this battalion. Therefore, he only dared to send in a company’s worth of soldiers to complement Yue Zhong’s assault.
Under the two-pronged attack, the soldiers of Su Dongming’s Third Battalion lost all bearings and started escaping in all directions. Yue Zhong focused on picking off those who were staunchly standing their ground, adding further to the devastation. The company that Chen Shitou ordered to attack also managed to capture over a hundred prisoners-of-war.
However, Su Dongming’s reaction was fast as well, he swiftly gave the command to route 2 of the elite companies within the Fourth Battalion to assist the remnants of the Third Battalion.
After Chen Shitou sent out a company to attack, he saw the 2 companies of Su Dongming approaching from afar and immediately retreated. Without enough cover, the soldiers under him would not dare fight against the elite soldiers of Su Dongming head on.
Yue Zhong was still weaving in and out, firing his .05 submachine gun, using grenades and rockets to entangle with the 2 companies of soldiers.
Although these soldiers were the elite under Su Dongming, Yue Zhong’s ease of dealing with them showed just how terrifying his abilities were. One by one, the seasoned veterans fell under Yue Zhong’s hands, causing the morale to break down amongst the 2 companies, and it was only a matter of time before they were totally annihilated.
Shen Hongyang walked to Su Dongming and spoke deeply: “Cease the fighting!! Su Dongming, if this continues on, you will just squander the soldiers’ lives meaninglessly!”
Su Dongming had gone beyond reason by this time, and had the look of a lost gambler as he looked towards Shen Hongyang and asked loudly: “Shen Hongyang!! Lend me 2 battalions of soldiers! As long as we work together, we can definitely bury Yue Zhong here!!”
Shen Hongyang immediately refuted: “Then what? He only had a new battalion here, even if you decimate this motley crew, it wouldn’t be a huge loss to him.
He still has 7 battalions back at Ning Guang County, he could just easily activate them and send them to attack us. I can’t think of a valid reason to waste my precious soldiers’ lives just because of your personal feud with him! Su Dongming, cease this pointless fighting! There’s still time to do so!”