Warlords: I just made a little fortune, but I didn’t build a country.

The Qin army soldiers fought from night to day for a full seven hours without stopping. They finally drove the Japanese to the division headquarters with their powerful firepower. The Japanese relied on the defense of the division headquarters to launch a counterattack.

"Damn it, I thought I could break the record of the Guards Brigade and wipe out an entire Japanese division in seven hours. It seems I thought it was too easy," Yan Haokong said while holding a telescope. "Although we killed a lot of Japanese in a night raid, they still have tens of thousands of combatants at this time!"

“That’s pretty good.”

Chief of Staff Shen Lie said, "We were attacking the city, and we wiped out more than 8000 Japanese combatants in one night. This kind of record is top-notch no matter where you take it."

"It's only a matter of time to annihilate the Japanese 317th Infantry Division," Shen Lie continued, "We should be thankful that we used the tunnels to hide the civilians. We also stopped the Japanese's plan to use the people of Daqian as human shields in advance and rescued the civilians. Otherwise, even if we surrounded the Japanese, we wouldn't be able to defeat them!"

"Damn it, thank goodness we mobilized a tank battalion here."

Yan Haokong put down the telescope and said, "Without the help of this tank battalion, I don't dare to think about killing more than 317 Japanese in one night. After all, the th Division is the elite Class A division of the Japanese. It also rescued the civilians thanks to the tank battalion! I just don't know if our division will have the opportunity to equip a tank unit to play with."

"dream!"

Shen Lie smiled and said, "Unless you become the commander of a tank unit."

"Forget it, I still prefer commanding infantry in combat."

Yan Haokong dusted off his military uniform. As an outstanding commander who was promoted to the rank of division commander of the Qin Army at the age of only 29, and with attractive facial features, he could be said to be the dream lover of many ladies from wealthy families.

"That's all you can do!"

Shen Lie said, "With your military achievements, it is not impossible for you to command the three armies in the future!"

"Don't flatter me, you bastard," Yan Haokong said, "You said I commanded three armies. How can I, a landlubber, command three armies? Don't gossip. If you have time for that, you'd better think about how to kill the Japanese 317th Infantry Division!"

"Kill him!"

"Why do you want to kill him?"

Shen Lie took out a pack of cigarettes, took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, then quickly put the cigarette in his pocket and said, "The Japanese are now besieged by us in the county government area, but the Japanese logistics, that is, the storage of food and ammunition is actually in the underground warehouse in the north city. Without food replenishment, how many days can the Japanese division headquarters last?"

"As long as we surround them but don't destroy them, the Japs will be so hungry that they will see their grandmothers in three days at most. In just seven days, the Japs will probably have already rolled back to Japan to report to their damn emperor!"

"That makes sense. Surrounding them without attacking them is a good idea!"

Yan Haokong snatched the cigarette from Shen Lie's pocket, glanced at him, lit one for himself, and then put the cigarette into his pocket and said, "I'm afraid this little devil never thought that we could attack the city and succeed. In this case, let's surround the devils and not let even a fly out. Trap the devils to death, and let the artillery brigade fire 10 tons of shells every day to make sure the devils can't sleep well and can't eat well!"

Upon receiving the news, the heavy artillery brigade commander Zhang Dayong began to assemble his troops, took out 24 105mm howitzers and started shelling the Japanese division headquarters. The headquarters was also surrounded by the 71st Infantry Division. A large number of sandbags were piled up to form a circular encirclement.

"Boom!"

Ten tons of artillery shells were dropped, and the Japanese were blown to pieces. Although it was a blind shot, more than 10,000 Japanese were in an encirclement, so they could be hit with their eyes closed.

"Kill the chicken and give it to me!"

The Japanese did not sit still and wait for death. The division commander Hetian ordered the Second Brigade to break out. The division's artillery regiment provided fire support and requested support from the flying unit.

As luck would have it, the Second Brigade launched a counter-breakout from the area defended by Li Yunfei's troops, but what was waiting for the Japanese was the fire blocking of 100 90mm howitzers, 300 light and heavy machine guns, and 300 mortars. This was all the firepower of the entire 711 Infantry Brigade, which madly covered the Japanese.

Bullets and shells filled the entire space. In this narrow place, the Japanese started to break out under the dense shells and shells. Without a doubt, they were beaten to a bloody mess, and they fled in panic with their heads in their hands. Their entire bodies were torn to pieces by the bullets and shells. The Japanese were so overwhelmed that they retreated before they could hold on for a quarter of an hour.

"idiot!"

He Tian scolded the commander of the Second Brigade and wanted to order the First Brigade to break out, but only then did he realize that the First Brigade had been defeated and had only two or three thousand soldiers, and was licking its wounds.

"Your Excellency, the Qin army's firepower is too strong. A large number of our heavy weapons were lost during the night battle, which affected our firepower. That's why!"

"idiot!"

He Tian scolded the commander of the Second Brigade, "You are not worthy of being called an excellent commander, and you are not worthy of wearing this military uniform."

"Hi!" The commander of the second brigade responded with his head down.

"Your brigade will be combined with the First Brigade to form a reinforced brigade," He Tian said, "We must break out, otherwise our food will only last for two days. If we don't break out in these two days, we will starve to death, which is a shame for our Great East Ocean Empire!"

"Hi Yi!"

The commander of the Japanese Second Brigade quickly went to find the commander of the First Brigade to discuss the reorganization plan.

After the Japanese were beaten back, Yan Haokong began to report the situation on the front line to the headquarters, and the Jinzhong area could be taken over within about seven days.

Qin Lin, who was far away at the Bei'an headquarters, also received the news. To be honest, he was quite surprised to receive the news, because according to his calculations, it would take at least a month for the 7th Army to achieve a breakthrough victory. He did not expect that in less than ten days, there had been such great progress.

"Young Marshal."

Chief of Staff Yang Wenbin came up to Qin Lin with a telegram and said, "The commander of the 72nd Infantry Division, Chang Xingwang, called and said that it would take at most five days to defeat the Japanese 318th Infantry Division."

"Every one of them is amazing, haha!"

Qin Lin came to the sand table and said, "It seems that we can wipe out a division of the devil in about half a month, and we are still using the same number of troops. This shows that the overall combat effectiveness of our Seventh Army soldiers is higher than that of the devil. The devil claims to be the best in the Hanzhou Army, but I think it is just so-so!"

"Hey!"

Yang Wenbin said disdainfully, "They just learned the model of the Third Reich Army. The Third Reich is known as the world's number one army, so this little devil naturally claims to be the number one in Hanzhou!"

“And this person claims to have conferred the title on himself, but it is not recognized by everyone, so it has no gold content at all!” Yang Wenbin said, “When facing my Qin army, a dragon would coil up and a tiger would lie down. What’s more, this little devil is just a dog. When my Daqian country is weak, he wants to show off his power over us. He really doesn’t know his own weight!”