"The Chinese troops occupied Panjin?" Japan was also startled after receiving this news. Like the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, the Japanese army also had the psychological preparation that they would fight the other side sooner or later, but they had not made plans to engage the other side in the short term.

After a brief discussion, the Japanese army, in the wake of their great victory, made a decision that they would regret too late in the future: "Send a unit to probe them."

"The Japanese sent a regiment?" Mu Husan was quite skeptical about the authenticity of this intelligence. If Mu Husan were not an officer of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, he might have thought this decision was correct. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army emphasized all day long, "You fight your way, I fight mine." If it were Mu Husan, he would either send a small unit or fight a battle of annihilation with heavy troops. He really couldn't do something like sending a few thousand people to play a probing game.

The attitude of the staff department was exactly the same as that of the commander. "How do we annihilate this enemy force?" A Japanese regiment was equivalent to a Chinese regiment level. After the military system of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army changed to the "Three-Three System", the strength of one regiment was lower than that of a Japanese regiment, while the strength of one division was higher than that of a regiment.

"As long as the Japanese army enters the plain area, use the strength of two divisions to annihilate them in field warfare." Mu Husan quickly gave his own idea.

"Should we besiege the point to strike the reinforcements?" The Chief of Staff hoped to expand the battle results even more.

"No need. We have already been to Panjin. Even if we come again next time, it will be a familiar road. No need to pursue greater combat results. It's only October, and it's already this cold. How to pass this winter is no joke." As a Southerner, Mu Husan was extremely sensitive to the weather in the North. Moreover, the military academy had also introduced that in cold regions, sometimes a small wound could kill a person.

"We are going to fight the Japanese!" The troops were extremely excited about this sudden situation. As a Chinese army, defending the country meant fighting foreigners. Although the fact that the reactionaries were also Chinese did not cause any negative impact on the troops' emotions and fighting will, fighting a war with foreigners really made the whole army feel a trace of indescribable emotion amidst their excitement.

However, the early stage of the battle was lackluster. Two divisions of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army adopted a rapid march method to try to pincers from left and right, while the Japanese army advanced normally. The sentries of both sides first discovered the other's sentries, then engaged in short skirmishes, and then judged the other's location from the direction of the enemy's retreat. Without air reconnaissance, it took both sides a whole day to enter the critical state of combat.

Captured Japanese prisoners were taken past the formation. The Japanese army's black military uniforms and cylindrical caps opened the eyes of those Revolutionary Army soldiers who had never seen Japanese soldiers before. Color pictures were always a bit distorted, and photos couldn't show the real colors. Fighting enemies wearing such uniforms tomorrow made the comrades feel a bit more confident in their hearts.

"How exactly do we fight this battle?" This was the question most asked by the soldiers in the troops.

"Don't think so much. Just beat them to death. If you can kill them, don't wound them. If you can kill them, don't take prisoners." Almost all commanders at all levels said this to the soldiers. If this were a battle with other domestic armies, the commanders would absolutely not issue such cruel orders. It was not that these commanders were full of militaristic thinking, nor was there any tendency for commanders to incite nationalism and revanchism. Rather, everyone genuinely felt that if domestic reactionaries were enemies, then foreign aggressors were even more so enemies. Plus, they didn't understand how to deal with these people at all, so everyone could only rely more on the weapons in their hands and the combat skills practiced daily.

The troop strength was nearly four times that of the enemy, so the battle naturally unfolded in the mode of a battle of annihilation. After a night of maneuvering, various units began to advance after dawn.

As the defending side, the Japanese army naturally had its advantages. What entered the field of vision of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was a very standard field position. No enemies could be seen on the position, but trenches could be seen. The Japanese army was far stronger than the Beiyang Army in this regard. However, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army did not care too much about this.

Compared with the Beiyang Army, the Japanese army was more composed. Even if surrounded, the Japanese army sent cavalry to the main force in Shenyang to ask for help. As long as the Japanese army could hold out for one day, the rescue troops would be able to arrive. The Japanese army quietly waited for the numerically superior Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army to launch an attack in the form of conventional wave assaults or even group charges. Before such an attack was launched, any shooting was meaningless.

However, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army sent out small units to approach the Japanese army. These soldiers wearing strange camouflage military uniforms made full use of the terrain to approach forward. They also did not fire, but silently shortened the distance to the Japanese army.

The originally relatively calm look of the Regiment Commander began to become anxious. If the opposing Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was allowed to approach without stopping in the form of small units like this, it wouldn't take long for the front lines of both sides to let the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army occupy the advantage in troop strength.

"Fire!" The Regiment Commander finally gave the order.

The Japanese shooting somewhat disrupted the attack method of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. The advance that was originally like flowing clouds and flowing water was temporarily interrupted. However, it was not the infantry that returned fire, but the artillery positioned at the rear. Fifty mountain guns and large-caliber mortars began to shoot at the Japanese firepower points. After a few test shots, they caused a large number of casualties on the Japanese position.

"Artillery, return fire!" The Regiment Commander roared. Even knowing that his artillery was inferior in both quantity and caliber, the Regiment Commander could not come up with any other method.

After the artillery duel began, the Regiment Commander's attention became more concentrated. At this time, it was precisely necessary to guard against those Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army infantry who were already extremely close to the Japanese lines launching a charge under artillery fire.

Such a terrible situation did not happen. The troops of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army were still moving forward. But there was never a situation where a large number of soldiers charged. However, not long after, a dozen fire dragons suddenly flew up from the rear of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. Some strange things spraying flames and thick smoke from their tails crashed into the Japanese position at high speed.

The violent explosions made the ground start to shake. The Japanese Regiment Commander didn't even understand what had happened, and simply didn't know what those weapons he had never seen before were. Were they the People's Party's heavy artillery, or God knows what ghostly things! He only felt a strong shock, a huge wave of sound and air, and a high-rising column of smoke. Behind the scattered dust and thick smoke, when the shouts of the charge rang out, the Japanese Regiment Commander, whose mind was a bit groggy, didn't even immediately realize that the infantry of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army had finally started their charge.

Under the cover of light machine guns, the soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army did not attack across the entire line, but adopted the mode of column attack according to the route observed and planned before the rocket artillery firing. They tore open the enemy's defense line, controlled the breach with light machine guns, and the troops continued to rush inside to kill. This tactic, which was only completed by the Germans at the end of World War I, showed extremely high combat efficiency in the face of the Japanese trench defense system.

Since the trenches were dug straight through, the light machine gunners didn't even need to aim with the sight; they could effectively strike enemies within dozens of meters directly by using the earthen walls on both sides of the trench as reference objects. Most of the Japanese who were shot dead simply didn't have time to use the weapons in their hands to fight back. They were like rats blocked in a dead end. When the comrades in front had not been killed, they blocked the possibility of the Japanese soldiers behind shooting, and the Japanese soldiers behind simply couldn't see what was happening in front. When the comrades in front were shot dead and fell down, they were bewilderedly exposed to the whistling light machine gun bullets.

Sergeant Yokoji Keiji led his squad to be responsible for a heavy machine gun position. The position was located in the third trench, with a very good terrain position that could overlook the attack direction of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. However, when Sergeant Yokoji Keiji woke up from the shock of the rocket artillery and could see the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army relatively clearly, he found that the enemy had already crossed the first three trenches and was launching an assault on the fourth trench. That strange camouflage military uniform blended perfectly with the dust-filled position. Yokoji Keiji surprisingly found that he couldn't count exactly how many enemies were crawling forward or running fast with their waists bent and heads down.

But at this time, he couldn't care about that much anymore. No enemies had appeared on the front that Sergeant Yokoji Keiji was supposed to defend, so he hurriedly shouted and yelled to order his subordinates to turn the machine gun muzzle. The machine gun was set up on the edge of the trench. If they wanted to move it, they had to straighten up their bodies. A moment later, these Japanese soldiers struggling to move it became targets for light machine guns. At least three light machine guns of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army began to shoot at this firepower point. Five or six soldiers were put down on the ground in the blink of an eye.

Perhaps the amulet that Sergeant Yokoji Keiji always wore on his body played a role; he was surprisingly unharmed in such concentrated fire. Unable to care about anything else, Yokoji Keiji pulled the trigger of the heavy machine gun that had already turned its direction. The position was not completely adjusted, so the machine gun began to jump crazily like an uncontrollable inferior horse. God knows how many Chinese troops were hit. The violent vibration quickly made Sergeant Yokoji Keiji's arms feel great pain. When a belt of bullets was finished, Sergeant Yokoji Keiji felt that his hands were numb, and he couldn't even effectively let go of the machine gun tightly gripped in his hands.

In this brief gap, Sergeant Yokoji Keiji saw a few things flying over. Some hit outside the trench and bounced in other directions. However, one fell straight into Sergeant Yokoji Keiji's crotch. Then it was stuck by the corpse of a Japanese soldier.

There was no pain in the initial feeling of the impact. Under the powerful impact force, Yokoji Keiji involuntarily fell backwards. In this instant, he saw the blue sky. Although polluted by gunpowder smoke, behind the smoke was the boundless blue sky with azure colors that seemed capable of sucking people in.

Various Japanese firepower points were the key targets of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army machine gunners. If machine guns couldn't eliminate them, use grenades. If grenades couldn't solve it either, then use both machine guns and grenades. In any case, the enemy's most powerful firepower support had to be eliminated. The soldiers rushing into the battlefield fought completely relying on the habits of their daily training in this huge and cruel environment.

The Japanese position was first split into two in a very short time, and then split into four in an even shorter time. The trenches in each area became dead ends. The Japanese soldiers blocked at both ends were shot dead like rats under the concentrated fire of machine guns and rifles. Some Japanese soldiers managed to hold the entrance to the trench. But the soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army threw grenades into the Japanese trenches where the number of people was very dense.

Some Japanese soldiers, terrified by this hellish scene, couldn't help but use both hands and feet to crawl out of the trenches. These Japanese soldiers were killed one after another by various firepower points arranged on the positions already controlled by the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. The skirmishers whose command system no longer existed might be able to kill or wound one or two soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army by relying on personal bravery and luck. Then they would suffer retaliation from ten times or even dozens of times the firepower, and die a violent death in a moment.

Counting from the time the infantry of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army officially attacked, it only took a little over an hour for the battle situation to turn from a two-sided fight into a one-sided massacre. Even calculating from the start of the movement to the position, the battle had not developed to this stage for even five hours.

Completely destroying the enemy's resistance, annihilating the remnant enemies, and cleaning up the battlefield instead took the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army six or seven hours.

In the battle, from commanders to soldiers, everyone upheld the attitude of "kill if possible, don't wound; kill if possible, don't capture." Of the more than three thousand men in this Japanese regiment, more than one thousand were killed and more than one thousand were wounded. And of these more than one thousand wounded, more than half had no need for medical treatment. When the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army attacked the headquarters, the Japanese Regiment Commander led the security staff and others in a Banzai charge. The soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, who had never encountered such fierce enemies, first used a concentrated fire of machine guns, rifles, and pistols, and then they rushed up almost instinctively to use bayonets and bullets to finish off these fierce enemies.

What chivalry, what respect for brave enemies, those were all strange ideas that only guys far away from the battlefield could come up with. On the battlefield, thoroughly dead enemies were what everyone really needed.

The language of the Chinese and Japanese sides was not mutually intelligible. Whatever the Japanese soldiers yelled in Japanese sounded like meaningless "bird chatter" to the soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. Even if the Japanese shouted surrender, the effect played was merely to attract the attention of the officers and soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army. On the battlefield, there was nothing worse than attracting the enemy's attention.

After the battle ended, the soldiers finally confirmed their victory. Amidst the cheers, there was finally leisure time for problems that there was absolutely no time to think about during the battle. The soldiers conquered death and eliminated the enemy. Looking at the corpses in black military uniforms all over the ground, many people felt fear after the event. The Japanese army was an army with a very strong will to fight. At least during the battle, they tried to use bayonets to solve problems more than once. However, the firepower advantage brought by the troop strength advantage turned these brave Japanese soldiers into sieves. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army attached great importance to bayonet fighting. Many soldiers were guessing what the battle would have looked like if there really had been a bayonet fight.

The commanders considered more. Many commanders felt quite strange. If the combat effectiveness of this Japanese army was regarded as the average Japanese level, such an army could actually capture Shenyang in one day. How useless must the Northeast Army be? It took the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army two days to capture Jinzhou City.

However, the political commissars were certainly not so naive. "Comrades, reactionary armies are all like this. Fight foreigners? They may not dare. But when it comes to really killing Chinese people, they may not necessarily be cowardly as mice. We must not harbor illusions about them. When a dog bites people, it is also very fierce."

The Japanese troops annihilated by this Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army belonged to the 20th Division of the Japanese Korea Army. After being surrounded, they immediately sent people to ask for help from the 20th Division in Fengtian. The 20th Division naturally immediately raised troops to rescue. In the future, this decision would be called an extremely wrong decision in Japanese military history.