Devil's Army

The next morning, Lieutenant Colonel Takeda ordered Major Fujie, who had come from Kaihara, to join him in attacking the devil's troops at seven o'clock.

At the beginning of the battle, Lieutenant Colonel Takeda still used the three axes that the Japanese army often used in battle, first bombarding with cannons, then suppressing with machine gun fire, and then charging with infantry. But this time his three axes failed, because as soon as his cannons fired, his nightmare began. The Jackal's golden eagle locked the position of his artillery position.

Of the five 150mm heavy howitzers, the two in charge of Red Wolf were aimed at the troops of Major Fujie coming from Kaiyuan, and the three in charge of Jackal were aimed at the troops of Lieutenant Colonel Takeda coming from Rehe.

The golden eagle passed the parameters of Takeda's artillery position to the Jackal. The Jackal adjusted the parameters of the three 150mm howitzers and commanded six team members to put each 50-kilogram shell into the howitzer, then waved a small red flag. The three gunners pulled the strings at the same time. Boom boom boom boom, with three huge explosions, the three howitzer shells whizzed towards Lieutenant Colonel Takeda's artillery position.

There is no chance of survival for people and animals within 150 meters of the impact point of a mm howitzer shell. It can also cause deafness in soldiers within meters.

The three shells hit the Japanese artillery squadron from the left, center and right. Lieutenant Colonel Takeda's artillery squadron was completely wiped out on the spot. Even the infantry squadron defending the artillery position suffered heavy casualties.

Lieutenant Colonel Takeda heard the whistling sound of the 150mm shells and shouted, "Not good," and ran out of the command room. He wanted to ask his artillery to move their positions, but was it possible?

Three howitzer shells hit his artillery position accurately, causing the artillery shells to explode. When Lieutenant Colonel Takeda ran out of the command room, his artillery position was already exploding with continuous explosions and flames shooting into the sky.

Wu Lang was still sleeping soundly, not waking up. After all, he hadn't closed his eyes for a few days. The three howitzer sounds startled him so much that he jumped out of bed and ran out the door.

The nine artillerymen who had come to the howitzer position temporarily had their ears plugged and their mouths wide open. Each of them also wore a homemade mask. But their ears were still buzzing and their mouths were full of dirt and dust. But these nine artillerymen jumped around the howitzer like children, looking at it and laughing.

Lieutenant Colonel Takeda had a sad face and immediately sent a telegram to Commander Musashi for help:

"The enemy has heavy howitzers. Our artillery positions have been completely destroyed. Request bomber support."

Soon, Musashi Nobuyoshi replied: The enemy has an unknown anti-aircraft weapon, and three of our bombers were blown up by the enemy at the same time. Before finding out the enemy's strength, it is not appropriate to send out planes to bomb.

Lieutenant Colonel Takeda held the telegram in his right hand and muttered to himself: "Unknown anti-aircraft weapon, unknown anti-aircraft weapon..."

Although the artillery position was destroyed and the most powerful of his three axes was broken, Lieutenant Colonel Takeda firmly believed that his infantry were the most powerful in the world.

He ordered a major next to him to go to the front line to supervise the battle and break through the enemy's defense line as soon as possible.

The major ordered a squadron of Imperial Army troops to attack in combat formation.

When the Japanese attacked to a position about seven or eight hundred meters away from the fortifications, their light machine gunners and a heavy machine gun group lay down and suppressed the First Battalion with firepower.

The members of the first squadron of the first battalion were stationed in front of the defense line. They were surprised by the whistling sound and the inexplicable explosion behind the Japanese. The Japanese artillery fire also stopped. But the Japanese were attacking and they could not afford to be distracted. They quickly focused their attention on the Japanese attacking in front and prepared to block them.

At this time, the whistling sound flew over our heads again, and then three big pits were blown up in the charging Japanese troops.

This squadron of Japanese soldiers were unable to dodge and immediately lost the ability to attack and retreated one after another.

The members of the First Squadron marveled at the power of the shells and raised their guns to shoot and kill the retreating Japanese soldiers.

Wulang was about to say "bad news" when he saw the Japanese had a large-caliber howitzer, but he felt something was wrong. Because the sound was coming from near and far. Then he saw three huge explosions from the Japanese position in the distance. He quickly ran to the Jackal's headquarters.

As soon as he ran into the headquarters, Wulang shouted to Jackal, "Good fellow, you didn't tell me earlier that you had such a large-caliber howitzer. I was forced to send an entire squadron there for nothing."

"What should I tell you? Run over or ride over on horseback?" The jackal spread his hands and said helplessly.

"Yes, our communication method is too backward. We need to at least transfer the radio to the brigade level."

"We did seize a few radio transmitters, but we are short of telecommunications personnel."

Wu Lang looked at the Japanese soldiers who were retreating in a hurry and said nothing.

Major Fujie of Kaiyuan also had a difficult time. His artillery position was also locked by Feilong just after firing, and then suffered a devastating blow.

Major Fujie sat in the operations room, and handed over the command to his adjutant. After fighting the enemy for so many days, he still couldn't break through the enemy's defense line even with the support of artillery fire. Now that all the artillery positions have been destroyed, he really can't see the hope of victory.

His adjutant led the Japanese to launch four charges, each more fierce than the last, but still failed to break through the enemy's defense line. Instead, two and a half squadrons of troops were trapped.

The adjutant walked into the operations room with his head lowered in dismay.

"Let's ask Commander Musashi for help?" Major Fujie said expressionlessly.

Soon, the sky gradually darkened. Lieutenant Colonel Takeda launched nearly ten charges in one day, and put nearly a battalion of troops into the enemy's defense. But he still failed to break through the enemy's defense line.

With the support of large-caliber howitzers, the first squadron held its position firmly and suffered few casualties.

At this time, a messenger ran over and brought Leng Feng's order.

Wulang said to the jackal, "We have finally held out for three days. We can withdraw now."

The jackal nodded and was about to say something, but the messenger just stood there motionless.

"Hey, what did the captain say? Why are you standing there like an idiot?" the jackal asked the messenger.

The messenger scratched his head and said, "Captain Leng said that the machines in the Fengtian City Arsenal have not been completely dismantled yet, and he ordered you to hold on for another day."

Wulang and Jackal smiled at each other and said, "It seems that we can't have a drink together to relax tomorrow."

The jackal also smiled and said to the messenger: "We promise to complete the mission."

The messenger saluted the two of them, turned and left.