I used the Mo Dao (a type of long-handled sword) to fight the Japanese.

"Order the soldiers to follow the tanks and charge toward the pass on the left! Don't worry about the right side. As long as we get within 200 meters, the right side won't be able to hit us! Increase the tank speed to 40 miles per hour and fire continuously. Even if we have to ram, we'll smash this stone wall down!" Tatsuo Shigeshita firmly ordered.

Since they still have the strength to fight, they can't afford to waste time. If they wait for reinforcements from Mafang Village, it will be even more difficult to deal with them! Moreover, they are only attacking the left pass, so even if the tanks can't withstand the enemy's arrow rain, the pressure will be much less! As long as they open a gap, victory will still belong to them!

"Yes, sir!" Takahashi Nobuo understood that opportunities were fleeting. His simply bandaged arm draped over his chest, his other hand holding a Mauser pistol in response. This battle concerned his future and honor; he couldn't let it be lost to a bunch of lowly Chinese!

Soon, the Japanese soldiers followed the tanks and launched another attack on the pass, this time with even greater ferocity! The tank cannons roared louder and louder, and the Japanese soldiers followed behind in long lines.

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"Damn it! The Japanese still have iron tortoises!" The hunter, stationed at the pass, was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan! Although they had just repelled the first wave of Japanese attacks, and Old Zhu, who had returned from the iron mine with him, had even led a dozen brothers to take down the Japanese artillery with crossbows, the current situation remained dire, leaving them no time to even catch their breath!

That shelling just now cost them more than thirty brothers. He had no idea how long the remaining company of soldiers could hold out!

"Boom! Boom!"

The shells fired by the iron tortoise exploded on the fortress wall, each one causing the wall to tremble violently and stones to shatter and fall to the ground. It was hard to say how long the fortress wall could hold out at this rate!

"Company Commander! That iron turtle is too powerful! This can't go on!" Old Zhu shouted in the hunter's ear.

"What's your plan? Don't keep it to yourself!" the hunter shouted.

"..." Old Zhu was incredibly frustrated! What could he possibly do? If he had a plan, he would have done it already!

"...How about we send someone to call over Third Master's artillery company as reinforcements?" Old Zhu said after hesitating for a long time.

"..." The hunter glanced at him as he fired, "Don't you understand the principle that distant water can't quench immediate thirst? By the time Third Master and the others arrive, it'll be too late!"

"It looks like the Japanese are attacking towards Eagle Gully. Forget about that Iron Turtle for now, call all the brothers over and take out those Japanese soldiers behind it! Also, push those dozen or so crossbow carts over here!" the hunter ordered.

Without cannons, we can only try using ballistae. It's impossible to damage the tanks, but we hope to disrupt the Japanese soldiers inside. As long as we hold out until reinforcements arrive, we can still fight this battle!

They're clueless and will lose hundreds of dollars! If they could also tinker with those unscrupulous cannons, this one tank really wouldn't be enough!

"Yes!" Old Zhu knew he had made a blunder and quickly accepted the order.

Soon, all the brothers gathered at Laoyinggou through the cave between the two passes and fired in a continuous barrage, with machine guns, Type 38 rifles, and grenade launchers all aimed at the back of the Japanese tanks!

A single tank couldn't possibly protect so many soldiers in such a long line, and so the familiar scene unfolded once again: many Japanese soldiers were caught in a hail of arrows and suffered heavy casualties!

Soon, more than a dozen ballistae were pulled to the pass wall, and the hunter himself took charge of setting up a ballista to test its power against the iron turtle in the distance!

This is absolutely a crazy idea! Forget about arrows, even if you just keep firing machine guns at that iron lump without it moving, you can't do anything to this iron turtle even if you run out of bullets!

However, everything has its weaknesses. Mancang was able to destroy the Japanese biological research institute with a single rocket by finding the fuel tank as a weakness and killing it in one hit! The Hunter also wants to replicate Mancang's feat and is preparing to work on the tank's fuel tank!

However, little did they know that the tank's fuel tank was encased in a thick layer of armor, making it impossible to spot from the outside, let alone kill it with a single blow!

The hunter stared at the approaching tank for ages but couldn't find the fuel tank. His eyes grew tired, and he still hadn't found anything. It was like trying to eat the sky with your claws but finding no way to strike!

"Huh?...That's a head?..." Just as he blinked, a head popped out from behind the turret, glanced around, and quickly retreated!

What does this mean? Did the Japanese soldiers only escape because this guy poked his head out to see? Does that mean that if they killed this guy, the iron turtle would become blind?

The hunter immediately became alert, adjusting his crossbow and waiting for the creature to peek out again!

Sure enough, a head popped out from behind the gun emplacement again after a short while, turned to look at the surroundings, and then prepared to retreat back inside.

"call out!"

Just then, a crossbow bolt shot straight at him, startling him so much that he quickly ducked. The javelin-like bolt flew over the cannon barrel, embedded itself firmly in the canopy, and bounced off, landing beside the barrel. The sharp arrowhead had even dented a deep crater in the canopy!

"Damn it! I missed!" the hunter exclaimed regretfully.

"Brothers, see that cover behind the Iron Turtle? Aim there and shoot! There's a Japanese soldier hiding there. If we take him out, the Iron Turtle will be blind!"

"Huh? Someone's here?"

"Having people around makes things much easier!"

"Got it!"

A dozen or so brothers, armed with crossbows, followed the Iron Turtle's movements and locked onto the thing behind the cannon barrel. If they could find a way to counter it, this battle was still going to be fought!

With the artillery gone, if we also take out this iron lump of Japanese troops, the remaining Japanese soldiers will be lambs to the slaughter. A few dozen men guarding the pass will be no problem at all!

This was a lucky accident, thanks to the hunter's careful observation; the problem of observation hadn't been solved for tanks during World War I and World War II. Tanks aren't like cars where a windshield solves everything. In peacetime, when not in combat, the driver could simply open the overhead hatch to achieve rapid movement.

But it didn't work out from the start of the battle. If the pilot dared to peek out, he would be exposed to a hail of bullets, and if he opened the hatch to observe, he would be courting death!

At this point, an observer is needed to direct the driver's direction of travel and other information through the observation port. If the situation is not complicated, the observer can use the periscope to peer through the observation port. However, if the situation is complicated, the observer needs to stick their head out to watch and direct. It's just that this observation port is behind the gun emplacement, which reduces the danger considerably.

"Shhhhhhh!"

Sure enough, a square metal tube was shot out from behind the cannon a moment later! However, the brothers had already locked onto the target, and several arrows hit the metal box almost simultaneously, pulling out a "Z"-shaped metal tube that fell outside!

At the same time, the tank's speed decreased significantly, and the sounds of artillery fire and machine gun fire also slowed down considerably. The ballista successfully harassed the tank's posture, giving them a glimmer of hope!