The messenger quickly rode back to the city and found the squadron leader, Ono Sakura.
"Taijun, bad news. The other party is not a bandit. They still have a few cannons. We can't beat them at all!”
With a slap, the messenger's teeth almost fell out.
"Bagaya Deer, you are all trash!”
The messenger did not dare to resist at all. He lowered his head and covered his face as he replied repeatedly,"Yes, yes, yes. You're right, Taijun."
Ono Sakura couldn't be bothered to talk to such a small fry. He directly chased him out and then began to discuss with the other squadron leader, Sakamoto Ichiro.
Xinghe County was the main traffic route from Zhang Jiakou to Jining, but it could not compare to Tianzhen and Yanggao in the south.
Therefore, other than the two squadrons of infantry, they only had one small team with two cannons as fire support.
After discussing for a while, the two decided to launch a large-scale attack. They left two small teams of about 100 people to guard the county city while the other 400 people moved out. They wanted to capture all the bandits outside.
At the beginning of the war, the Japanese troops were still well-trained elites. They quickly gathered and set off.
What they did not know was that not long after they left the city gate, a few light tanks lurking nearby had already detected their movements and reported their situation.
"Good, the fish has finally taken the bait! Old Tie, get them ready to attack and annihilate the enemy at any time!”
"Yes, Marshal!"
After nearly half an hour, the Japanese finally arrived.
Ono Sakura immediately took over the command, and then asked them to launch another probing attack. He wanted to see how the opponent's firepower was.
However, before they could start attacking, the sound of cannons had already sounded.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The self-propelled howitzers hidden a few kilometers behind opened fire.
10 155mm M41 self-propelled howitzers and 10 105mm M37 self-propelled howitzers completely covered their 1000-strong team.
"Pui! Pui!"
"Bagayalu, they actually have heavy artillery!”
Ono Sakura and Sakamoto Ichiro were lucky enough not to be killed by this round of bombardment, so they could only crawl on the ground in fear.
The 105mm howitzer was only considered a light artillery in the Western countries, but in the Eastern battlefield, both sides treated it as a heavy artillery.
The reason why heavy artillery was regarded as a threat by the military of various countries was because its lethality was too great.
Take the 155mm howitzer as an example, the absolute killing radius was 15m. Within this range, even if there was no shrapnel (such as in the trenches), one would still die from the shock wave.
The lethal radius of the fragments was 50 meters. Within this range, there was at least one shrapnel distributed on an area the size of a human body to ensure the damage.
The safety radius was 200 meters, and some shrapnel could fly 150 meters or more.
In just one round of artillery fire, they had lost almost a third of their 1000 men.
Initially, they thought that the enemy only had a few infantry cannons, so they didn't pay too much attention to it and didn't think of building fortifications to hide it.
Now, they had tasted the bitter fruit of their carelessness!
However, this was not the end. The cannons continued to fire.
"Rumble…"
After another round of artillery fire, the enemy had already lost more than half of their forces. However, other than hiding, they did not dare to stand up and escape.
A 105mm cannon could fire four shots per minute, and a 155mm cannon could fire two shots per minute. How far could they run in just a few dozen seconds?
Therefore, they could only lie on the ground and see who was lucky enough to survive!
Tie Guozhu ordered the other tanks to attack as soon as the self-propelled artillery started firing.
The tank rumbled forward and soon arrived at the battlefield.
The self-propelled artillery behind them also stopped in time. Their aim was not that good, and they could not hit accurately like in the game.
Ono Sakura saw that the cannon had stopped and wanted to raise his head to observe.
However, he did not expect that just a glance would almost scare him to death on the spot.
"Bagayalu, who are they? Why do they have a chariot regiment?”
Yes, more than 80 medium-sized tanks, plus a dozen light tanks, it was indeed as many as their entire chariot regiment. There was nothing wrong with it!
"Boom, boom, boom…"
The tanks fired as they advanced, blowing up the remaining half of their men until they could not even raise their heads.
The tanks were getting faster and faster, but it didn't affect their ability to fire high-explosive shells. After all, the shells only needed to land on the ground, and they didn't need to be accurate.
As they watched them charge over, some of them wanted to set up their machine guns.
Unfortunately, there were only tinkling sounds. There was no way to penetrate the tank's armor.
The tanks quickly rushed over, and the Japanese began to panic.
Many people picked up their guns, but they could not find a target to shoot at.
Meanwhile, the person sitting inside the tank had already opened fire.
"Da da…"
The machine gun in front of the passenger seat had already released their anger, and a series of bullets shot out.
Regardless of whether they were lying on the ground or raising their heads to shoot, under the combined attack of the artillery and machine guns, they instantly lost their ability to resist.
At this moment, the infantrymen also began to charge forward.
However, their legs were too short to outrun these tanks. When they arrived at the battlefield, there were few enemies left.
As a timid person, Xia Zilong did not charge forward, nor did he choose to enter the battlefield.
His life was the most important thing. A place like the battlefield was not suitable for him. If he could not go, he would not go!
He stayed at the back and watched the self-propelled artillery and logistics vehicles pack up, waiting for the battle to end.
After a while, the distant battlefield finally stopped firing, and Tie Guozhu came over to report the situation.
"Marshal, we've already taken care of them! More than 800 people were killed on the spot and 400 were captured. There were both Japanese and puppet soldiers. They seized more than 700 intact guns, including 38 large covers, Mauser, Liao style, and so on. There were also two infantry cannons and a number of bullets.”
"Alright, we can finally get them to equip themselves with guns," Xia Zilong said. But why are those devils still here? Are they trying to waste my food?”
" Uh, Commander, you mean…" Tie Guozhu made a shooting gesture.
"Let the captured puppet soldiers deal with it. I believe they will be very happy! Also, don't absorb those puppet troops. After we take down Xinghe, we'll pull them all over to do hard labor.”
Tie Guozhu nodded.
China lacked everything except for people. It was better not to have these trash!
The matters on the battlefield were quickly settled. There were only so many people, so it did not take long to dig a hole and bury them.
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