Time travel! Regrets will never happen again!

"Boom boom boom" more than 105 artillery pieces with a caliber of or above bombarded the Japanese positions outside Xinzhou city.

As soon as the Japanese 22nd Division arrived at Xinzhou City, they discovered a large number of Chinese troops around them.

Pingyuan had been captured by Zhang Biao's 101st Army the night before, but it wasn't really captured, as a brigade of puppet troops in the city launched an uprising at night.

They opened the city gates to welcome the troops of the 101st Division of the st Army into the city. A battalion of Japanese garrison troops was completely wiped out without even a splash of water.

The fall of Pingyuan split the entire Japanese army in Shanxi Province into two. Now only a few important cities in Shanxi Province are still in the hands of the Japanese army, and the rest have all been lost.

"Your Excellency, the division commander! We may not be able to hold our position outside the city for much longer! The commander of the Nakano regiment has requested tactical guidance three times in a row!"

The Chief of Staff of the 22nd Division, Yoshino Shuta, carefully reminded his division commander.

The commander of the 22nd Division, Saburo Yamada, was known to be brutal and cunning among all the Japanese division commanders.

"Tell that coward Nakano! I have no reinforcements to give him! Tell him to hold his position outside the city, or else he will commit seppuku!"

Lieutenant General Yamada had no intention of sending reinforcements to reinforce the positions outside the city.

"Take all those Chinese civilians to the top of the city. If the Chinese want to capture the city, they will kill their compatriots first!"

Upon hearing the division commander's order, Chief of Staff Yoshino moved his mouth a few times, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it and turned around and left.

"Your Excellency, the commander of the wing! Please give us some more reinforcements! More than 70% of our team has been killed or wounded. If we can't get any more reinforcements, we can only report to the Yasukuni Shrine!"

Captain Sakai Tokuji pleaded on the phone, saying that his battalion had more than 1200 people, but facing the overwhelming artillery fire, only more than 300 of them were still able to stand.

The civil fortifications were like tofu dregs under the heavy caliber artillery fire.

After the artillery fire stopped, more than a dozen T34 tanks followed by a large number of infantry began to launch a ground attack on the position.

"Hurry! Get to the position quickly! The Chinese are coming again!" Major Sakai could only continue to urge his subordinates to rush into the position that had become like a meat grinder.

The entire position was littered with broken body fragments, which were the fragments of the Japanese soldiers killed by artillery fire.

The shelling lasted for nearly two hours, and these frontline positions, which were made only of civil engineering structures, were already shattered into pieces.

The bodies were constantly torn apart by the artillery fire. The Japanese soldiers knew their fate and were now in despair.

The remaining 300-odd Japanese soldiers were crying and shaking. Most of them were young and middle-aged people who had just joined the army in recent years.

If it weren't for the strict military discipline of the Japanese army, which prevented them from acting on their own, they would have collapsed long ago.

"Pay attention to the front position! The Japanese are not all dead!" Tank No. 1048 commander Xu Ren reminded in the communication channel.

"Be careful of the Japanese suicide squad! It doesn't matter if they are slow, safety is the most important thing. There is no need to fight the Japanese desperately!"

Before he finished speaking, a ball of fire burst out from the Japanese position right in front of him with a loud "boom", and the entire 1048 tank trembled.

This was a high-explosive bomb, which exploded directly on the front armor of the tank. The violent explosion shocked the crew members.

"Right front, 300 meters away, a Japanese 92mm infantry gun!"

The observer quickly reported the direction of the shelling. It was a 92mm infantry gun, and the Japanese used it directly as an anti-tank gun.

"Use high-explosive grenades! Kill it!" Xu Ren gave the order calmly!

With a "boom", a fireball flashed from the muzzle of the 76mm tank gun, and a hot shell flew out of the barrel in a rotation.

Another loud bang was heard, and a huge fireball rose from the Japanese 92 infantry gun position. Even the wheels of the gun and the thigh of some unlucky guy were blown into the sky.

"Damn it! Who told them to fire without permission!" Sakai saw that there were only two 92 infantry guns left. One of them directly fired at the Chinese tank, which was exposed and then blown up. He couldn't help but feel anxious!

The rumbling sound of tank engines roared in their ears, and the Japanese soldiers buried their heads firmly in the trenches.

The Chinese tanks were less than 30 meters away from the position, but at this moment, they stopped.

Then a strangely shaped steel chariot appeared. The appearance of this tank was the same as the T34, but it did not have the 76mm tank gun.

These are actually three OT-34 flamethrower tanks, equipped with ATO-42 flamethrowers, carrying 200 liters of fuel. The flamethrower has a maximum range of 120 meters and can spray five times within 10 seconds.

After this OT-34 tank appeared, all the surrounding tanks moved to both sides to make enough space for it.

Major Sakai raised his head slightly and observed the situation in front of him. A tank without a cannon appeared among the Chinese tanks.

Their appearance seemed so abrupt among a dozen T34s. Just when Sakai was wondering what it was used for.

Suddenly a fire dragon appeared, and the direction of the fire dragon was towards them.

Sakai was so frightened that his soul was scared to death. It turned out to be a flamethrower tank.

"Hide quickly!" Sakai rushed into the anti-artillery bunker immediately. Those Japanese soldiers who were still lying in the position with their heads down had no idea that death had come.

A large amount of thickened gasoline liquid is instantly ejected from the nozzle. This thickened gasoline liquid not only has a high combustion value and a high flame temperature, but also has low fluidity and strong adhesion. Once it adheres to the target surface, it is difficult to shake off and can cause persistent severe burns.

"Ah! Ah!" The Japanese soldiers' positions that were hit by the flames let out terrifying screams.

After the flamethrower tanks continued to spray, the entire Japanese position was filled with burning flames and large amounts of thick black smoke.

Many Japanese soldiers were on fire. They ran around the position, wailing and screaming, until they fell to the ground in agony, with only their bodies twitching occasionally.

Soon he was burned by the fire and curled up like a burnt shrimp.

Sakai also did not escape the fate of being engulfed by flames, and the fire spread everywhere on the battlefield.

As long as they were on the spray route, basically no one or object could escape, and the remaining Japanese soldiers who were not sprayed were all scared silly.

What kind of devil fire from hell is this? How could the Chinese have such a vicious weapon? Run! This became the only thought in the minds of all the surviving Japanese soldiers.

Several Japanese soldiers abandoned their weapons and fled without care, and then the remaining Japanese soldiers also began to flee.

Even some sergeants followed suit and fled, but their turning around and running away completely exposed their bodies to the T34 tanks.

"Da da da" the sound of a coaxial machine gun was heard, and strings of bullets flew forward, shooting the fleeing Japanese soldiers to the ground one by one from behind.

"Boom boom boom" continuous explosions sounded on the Japanese positions. This was the result of the ammunition being detonated by the burning flames.

Thick smoke billowed, the sound of bullets whizzing around the T34, and the sound of bullets hitting the tank armor clanging.

Xu Ren, who had originally planned to stick his head out to observe the situation of the Japanese position, temporarily gave up this dangerous idea.

If a stray bullet hits your head and explodes it, you would die unjustly!

Standing on the top of the city wall, officers and soldiers of the 22nd Division of the Japanese Army saw thick smoke billowing from the west of the city and explosions that resounded through the sky.

Everyone's faces looked very ugly, and many Japanese soldiers' bodies and calves could not help but tremble. After all, they were not the veterans who had fought in hundreds of battles a few years ago, but just a group of new recruits!