Warlords: Rising from the Northwest Border and Sweeping Across the Powers

"Get the rocket battalion ready! Keep firing Katyusha rockets! I'm going to use up all 30,000 shells today! Raze the Kwantung Army's defensive positions to the ground and blow their funeral song!"

"Yes, Commander!"

At Su Zhengyang's command, 120 Katyushas were divided into two columns, with each group of 60 vehicles firing a thousand rockets at the same time, indiscriminately covering one of the trench positions of the Kwantung Army. The rockets came in an overwhelming manner, like a torrential rain, and never stopped that night. On the other hand, Fuso had exhausted all its efforts to prepare twelve defensive positions that were known as indestructible fortresses, but under the indiscriminate coverage of Katyushas, ​​they were blown upside down, as if the end of the world had come.

On the battlefield, the deafening sound of the explosions obscured everything. The Fuso soldiers were in despair, waiting for the arrival of death.

They didn't know where to escape as the artillery shells were too dense. No matter where they hid, they would encounter huge rockets exploding not far from them. What made them even more desperate was that the overwhelming rockets ignited a large amount of explosives they had buried in the trenches, causing a series of explosions. This was a living example of what it means to bring disaster upon oneself.

The twenty-five prepared artillery positions were also torn into pieces under the firepower. The Fuso people would never have dreamed that the indestructible defense positions and military fortresses in their eyes could be so easily crushed into ruins by the enemy...

Overnight, the Kwantung Army troops, which numbered more than 100,000 and were stationed in twelve trench positions, suffered more than 90% casualties. The remaining less than 10,000 soldiers were basically scared out of their wits and completely lost their fighting spirit.

The front-line headquarters of Fujiwara Sanshao was blown into rubble by multiple rockets before it could be evacuated. Many Fuso Kwantung Army division commanders who were on the ground were already dead before they could fully understand the situation....

It can be said that this was the most frustrating battle that the Fuso Kwantung Army had ever experienced. They didn't even see the shadow of the enemy. The defense positions that stretched for more than ten kilometers and were three kilometers deep, with countless heavy firepower, were completely blown up by rockets. The originally criss-crossing trenches were completely flattened. It can be said to be the largest artillery baptism in the entire history of East Asian wars...

At four o'clock in the morning, the Fuso scouts sent out from Yuancheng City sent back news. This news caused an uproar and also made the commander of the Tokyo Division, Yamashita Tomotake, stunned on the spot.

Because according to the news sent back by the scouts, the entire front-line defense position, in addition to the piles of corpses and broken arms, huge pits everywhere, and uneven land, the 100,000 Kwantung Army almost evaporated overnight, leaving only less than 10,000 remnants, almost all of whom were injured...

Having led troops in battles for more than fifteen years, the renowned Yamashita Tomotake had never experienced such a heavy blow.

After learning from the surviving Fuso soldiers about the situation they had encountered, the entire Tokyo Division was in an uproar.

Could it be that the other party knew magic? Silently summoned countless meteorites from the sky and directly sent 100,000 Kwantung troops to the underworld?

With such a terrifying long-range attack method, how can we fight the next battle?

The morale of the entire Tokyo Division was severely damaged and the people were in panic. While Yamashita Tomotake made the decision to defend Gencheng City, he immediately asked for help from the rear headquarters, hoping to obtain more troops and firepower support.

Different from the depressed and gloomy atmosphere in the Tokyo Division from top to bottom, on Su Zhengyang's side, the Western Front Army of the Northern Expedition Corps witnessed the local positions being blown upside down, and their morale was greatly boosted!

This battle was so damn easy. Without spending a single soldier, we completely destroyed the enemy's blockade that seemed impossible to break through. If this goes on, the Japanese can just raise the white flag and surrender. Why bother fighting?

Only Su Zhengyang felt excited but also felt pain in his heart. He fired 30,000 rockets that night. According to the price ratio of rockets in the system, one rocket is worth thousands of dollars in reality. In other words, Su Zhengyang threw away tens of millions of dollars in one night. These 100,000 Kwantung Army were killed by money.

The exhaustion of rockets transported to the front line means that in the next war, in the short term, it will be impossible to replicate this resounding victory by using the power of rockets.

"Get ready, cross the local frontier positions, lead the Viking Division as the vanguard, and go straight to Yuancheng City! I want to bury the Tokyo Division, the elite division known as the first trump card unit of the Kwantung Army, in Yuancheng!"

"Yes, Commander!"

Following Li Yichen's order, the Western Army of the Northern Expedition Corps began to make big moves. A force of more than two taels of men from the Viking Division acted as the vanguard, followed closely by the Six Towns of the Northern Frontier and the First Army, which marched towards Yuancheng in a mighty force.

Under the dispatch of Yamashita Fengwu, a Class B division and a Class A division that were originally ambushed in the Xuelinwo area north of Yuan County began to rush back to Yuancheng for support. However, due to the long distance, they obviously could not get back to Yuancheng before Su Zhengyang launched the general attack.

The only determining factor in this war was Fuso's defensive position, which lasted less than a day before it was completely destroyed.

The large army marched towards Yuancheng City. When passing through the trench positions of the Fuso army, the land was already in a mess, which brought a more intuitive visual impact to everyone.

With the defense position as the center, the area within a dozen kilometers nearby was completely bombed into a hornet's nest, with charred shell craters of varying depths, burnt body parts, broken arms and corpses of Fuso soldiers, and scattered munitions fragments everywhere, forming an extremely bloody battlefield oil painting. Due to the uneven ground, armored units had to spend a lot of time to pass through, and ordinary trucks and jeeps could easily break down in the face of the endless shell craters.

Su Zhengyang simply ordered all his troops to advance on foot. As for the heavy firepower, they could only continue to detour westward and transport it from the official road of Yuan County to the vicinity of Yuancheng, and take down Yuan County by the way.

The two Fuso infantry regiments stationed in Yuan County held out for about three hours under the fierce attack of Qingfeng Town, one of the six towns in the northern border. The city was officially declared broken and the two infantry regiments in the city were completely wiped out. At 8 o'clock that night, the 200,000 main forces had arrived at Yuancheng and surrounded the entire city.

In the command center, Yang Chengjun, Liu Chengxu and others gathered together. Liu Chengxu said to Su Zhengyang with full energy: "Commander, now there is only one unit left in Yuancheng, the so-called Tokyo Division. It is difficult to do anything alone. I think we should make a concerted effort and directly attack and take down Yuancheng."

Su Zhengyang frowned. According to the information sent back by the reconnaissance battalion, the entire Yuan City was built as impregnable as a rock by the 20,000 troops of the Tokyo Division. Of course, facing an army of 200,000 of their own, as long as they launched a strong attack, no matter how powerful the Tokyo Division leader was, he would not be able to defend Yuan City.

However, Su Zhengyang wanted to change his siege strategy to avoid too many casualties for his army. You know, in addition to Yuancheng, the first line of defense of Hanbian, there are more than 500,000 main forces of the Fuso Kwantung Army in Baizhou and Xingzhou occupied by Fuso. If the losses are too great, it will have a great impact on the subsequent war.