War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 717 Bombarding Tuanchengkou!
When the snow fell from the sky, Xu Chaoyang showed the watch on his wrist in front of the phone at the 217th Headquarters. He and the other three old leaders gathered around the table where the phone was placed. When he raised his head, he picked up the phone...

This was a phone call that did not require any concealment. All combat factors, including the intention of the attack, the direction of the attack, the time of the attack, etc., could be made known to anyone, even if there were Japanese spies among the people in the Taiyuan Telephone Bureau.

When the call was connected, a voice came from the phone: "Hello?"

"Report, 217 Xu Chaoyang is giving the final report on the battle at Tuanchengkou!" Upon hearing this voice, Xu Chaoyang stood at attention with the phone in his hand, and the others looked at him at the same time.

"please say."

Xu Chaoyang took a deep breath and said, "Our troops have fought many battles in Fanshi, Dayinger, Zhongzhuangpu, Tuanchengkou Outer Edge, and Xihekou, trapping the enemy on Tuanchengkou Heights. Yesterday, we ordered the 217th Cavalry 67st Battalion to break through the Tuanchengkou Heights defense line from the periphery, and used the New 217st Regiment, th Regiment, th Headquarters Direct Guard Battalion, and the 'New nd Regiment' that had just arrived at the battlefield as the main force to besiege Itagaki Seishirō. I have specially requested to launch a general attack immediately!"

"Applicant: 217 Xu Chaoyang and all officers and soldiers of 217!"

At that moment, he didn't ask any more questions, but made a prompt decision: "On behalf of the Military Commission, I have approved the 217th's general offensive application, and I also ask you, Xu Chaoyang, to let go!"

"Damn it, it's time to tell the Japanese what we Chinese look like!"

"Yes!"

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

"Say it again!"

"Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

"I didn't hear it!"

"Make sure to complete the mission!!!"

"Good boy."

The call was hung up.

The next second, Xu Chaoyang turned around quickly and stood at the door of the 217th Headquarters, shouting loudly outside: "Pass my order!"

The communications squad gathered in the headquarters and looked at Xu Chaoyang under the moonlight.

"Order all our 217th troops and our Sichuan allies to launch an offensive towards Tuanchengkou!"

"Order the artillery battalion to immediately use up all the ammunition, not leaving a single shell behind!"

"Order the Type 95 light tanks to empty their main gun ammunition bays!"

"Go and pass the message!"

"Yes!!!"

At that moment the whole world changed...

……

Tuanchengkou Heights.

The Fifth Division, which had just been completely trapped on the top of the mountain by the 217th Cavalry Battalion like a sheepdog, was looking nervously down the mountain. They did not see any enemies from the th Army, but they knew that the area around the entrance of the regiment was full of enemies from the th Army. "Don't be nervous!"

Itagaki Seishirō appeared behind several soldiers who were standing guard, raised his legs and stepped on the sandbags on the breastwork of the machine gun position, and said confidently: "There is an old Chinese saying, called..."

"Throw yourself to death and survive!"

"We were not besieged by the 18th Group Army at Tuanchengkou. On the contrary, we took the initiative to retreat to the Tuanchengkou high ground and lured them to besiege us."

"Back then, Xu Chaoyang used the defeat of his 217th Division to lure four mixed brigades from Chahar to risk entering Xinzhou. This time, it was our Fifth Division that used its reputation as the 'Steel Army' to lure Xu Chaoyang to besiege Tuanchengkou..."

Itagaki Seishirō looked at the Japanese soldier beside him and patted him on the shoulder: "No matter what, I am more valuable than Xu Chaoyang, right? Xu Chaoyang, there is no way he can bear it, right?"

"And the moment he led his troops to Tuanchengkou Heights, that was the moment I completely wiped out the number 217 from this country's military!"

Itagaki looked at the moon above his head and said thoughtfully: "I have been waiting for this moment for a long time."

At the top of Tuanchengkou Mountain, under the bright moonlight, Itagaki Seishirō had prepared everything. He moved all the poison gas bombs to the mountain and waited for the enemy to attack the mountain. As long as the wind was in his favor that day, as long as the wind was not blowing towards him, he could send the so-called Eighteenth Army to hell no matter how many people came!

As long as he could defeat Xu Chaoyang, he could march his army toward Xinkou, making the entire Shanxi Province think that he was heading toward Taiyuan via Xinkou, and then he would accelerate through all the obstacles and head straight for northern Shaanxi...

Uh... how should I describe this kind of person... They are similar to those who, when they lie in bed unable to sleep, fantasize about how they would spend five million if they won. Sometimes, in their fantasy, one bet is not enough, they have to bet hundreds of times, and then they close their eyes and start thinking about what they should do, what kind of car they should buy, and the salesperson at the Four Sons store would even give them a blank look, and they would just spend a large sum of money to drive away the most luxurious car in their store, and drive away in the envy of everyone.

In psychology, this is called "pre-set". People who think like this are terrible. They will become more and more impatient because they are immersed in fantasy about all the sense of accomplishment that should be obtained through hard work. When they start to work again, all that is left is suffering. Even if they have completed a stage of effort and are about to get the results, they will not be happy. After all, no reality is as good as imagination, otherwise literature and film will lose their meaning.

But Itagaki Seishirō no longer has to worry about his future life...

Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo! Boo!
Boss Yuan, who was daydreaming, suddenly heard the deafening roar of cannon fire, the sound was as continuous as popping beans!
boom!
When the first shell landed on the fortifications halfway up the mountain, a meter-high splash of dirt was created in the dug trench, and huge flames surged upward from the explosion point.

Itagaki was stunned...

Is this still the 18th Group Army?
Is this still Xu Chaoyang’s army?

Where does he get so many shells? !
Xu Chaoyang's artillery was very careful in every battle report, wishing to calculate every shell to the last detail. When had they ever launched a carpet bombardment? !
boom!
The second shell landed directly at the foot of the mountain, and then the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth shells climbed up along the mountain structure. Sparks frequently rose up amid the deafening sound of the artillery fire.

"Why hasn't the bombardment ended yet?"

The shaking mountain gave Itagaki a sense of "hometown familiarity" as if he was standing on the second floor during an earthquake, but the continuous explosions on the entire Tuanchengkou Heights made him feel like he was in hell... Just now, he was still thinking about sending 217 to hell; just now, he still felt that he was more valuable than Xu Chaoyang!

It's only been a short while, but I already can't understand why people are willing to spend so much money.

"Your Mightiness!!"

A Japanese soldier suddenly threw Itagaki to the ground. The machine gun position he had just stepped on suddenly exploded. The violent explosion sounded so loud that Itagaki's ears felt tinnitus - buzz!

Nothing could be heard.

At this time, Tuanchengkou Heights, which Chang Zhan had once defended, had been completely submerged by artillery fire. More than 150 artillery shells continued to explode along the four sides of the mountain. With an average of about shells covering each side of the mountain, the entire mountain was like a "volcanic fireworks tube" that only existed in Xu Chaoyang's era!
tom!
When one of the shells landed on the highest hill of Tuanchengkou, a makeshift shed was suddenly blown up, and a stream of yellow gas shot up into the sky, like a fountain rising high into the sky.

(End of this chapter)