The War of Resistance Against Japan: Special Operations Battalion Traverses Shanghai and Slaughters

The Tiger tank's turret armor was 102 mm thick, and the hull armor averaged 83 mm.

It is equipped with an 88mm main gun, and a 7.92mm vehicle-mounted MG34 machine gun is mounted on the commander's cupola and the front of the hull.

Compared to the Japanese Type 92 and Type 89 tanks, with their mere tens of millimeters of armor thickness and 37mm and 57mm main guns, they were not even in the same league.

"Boom... Bang... Boom..."

Ten Tiger tanks fired their first volley of armor-piercing shells amidst a deafening roar.

All hits on the Japanese tanks were accurate, and the tanks' thin armor was easily penetrated.

Finally, after the armor-piercing projectile penetrated the Japanese tank, the explosives inside the projectile also caused a violent explosion inside the tank, resulting in a secondary detonation.

In an instant, ten Japanese tanks were reduced to scrap metal, their turrets blown into the air, and the tank crews were all reduced to dust.

This sudden turn of events caught the Japanese soldiers off guard, and they all stared at the pile of scrap metal with incredulous eyes.

The most satisfying thing was that the armor fragments of the Japanese tanks were blown up and flew in all directions like shrapnel, killing or wounding dozens of Japanese soldiers on the spot.

Before the Japanese could react, the Tiger tanks had already begun their second round of firing, and this time they successfully destroyed another ten Japanese tanks.

However, after two rounds of attacks, the Japanese soldiers realized what was happening.

The Japanese tanks immediately adjusted their guns and launched a counterattack against the Tiger tanks.

Before the regimental commander could give the order, the Japanese soldiers of the 13th Regiment all lay down on the spot and then fired wildly at the Tiger tanks.

Although they knew that their attack was pointless against such a steel behemoth.

But the Japanese soldiers, already gripped by fear, had no choice but to resort to this method to bolster their courage.

But something even more devastating happened.

The shells fired by the Japanese tanks were like tickling the Tiger tanks; they didn't even leave a deep bullet hole, let alone penetrate the armor.

In less than five minutes, all 42 of the Japanese tanks were destroyed, none of them survived.

Immediately, the crew inside the Tiger tank switched from armor-piercing shells to high-explosive shells and began shelling the Japanese infantry.

Behind Linting Town, the Wild Bee self-propelled artillery positions set up by the special operations battalion have also begun shelling according to the precise coordinates provided by the observers.

"Whoosh... Boom..."

After two test shots and two corrections, the twelve Wild Bee self-propelled guns began a 12-round salvo.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh... Boom... Bang bang bang..." After the whistling of the shells, there was a deafening explosion.

Within minutes, the Wild Bee self-propelled guns launched ten rounds of fire, in addition to the four test shots.

A total of 124 shells were fired at the Japanese 13th Regiment.

This is a 150mm caliber howitzer; each shell leaves a crater five or six meters in diameter on the ground.

This shell is incredibly powerful; its fragments and shockwave can not only destroy light armored vehicles within 5 meters, but also penetrate reinforced concrete fortifications of about 200 millimeters.

It can completely destroy semi-permanent brick and wood fortifications within 10 meters.

For the human body, a radius of 10 meters is considered an absolute lethal radius.

Overpressure shockwaves and high-speed fragments can directly tear human organs and internal organs apart, causing death.

Even within a range of 10-20 meters, the human body's auditory organs and internal organs can still suffer great damage, and the limbs are very likely to be fractured, with a serious injury probability of over 70%.

At a distance of 20 meters, although the power of the overpressure shock wave is much smaller, being hit by high-speed fragments can still cause serious injury.

The most critical thing is that at least half of the Japanese 13th Regiment's personnel are currently gathered in the empty training ground.

Under the baptism of artillery fire, so many Japanese soldiers had no choice but to obediently lie on the ground.

But the Japanese soldiers lay on the ground, which allowed them to dodge the explosions of artillery shells and the attacks of shrapnel.

However, the huge shockwave generated when the shells landed and exploded could also damage the internal organs of these Japanese soldiers through the ground.

Soon, they will die in agony, vomiting blood.

More than a hundred howitzer shells, plus more than a hundred high-explosive shells fired by Tiger tanks.

The training ground, which spans more than 10,000 square meters, is riddled with bullet holes.

Under intense artillery bombardment, the Japanese 13th Regiment suffered the complete annihilation of all four of its tank companies.

The entire regiment suffered over 1,800 casualties, with many Japanese soldiers being blown to pieces.

Everywhere there were severed limbs, dismembered organs, and other bodily tissues; the entire town of Linting was shrouded in smoke and dust.

The air was filled with a strong, nauseating smell of blood.

Okamoto Yasuyuki was lucky; when the Tiger tank attacked the Japanese tanks, he sensed the danger and immediately rode his horse back at full speed.

By the time the Wild Bee self-propelled guns began firing, Okamoto Yasuyuki had already run to Tanikawa Masanori's side.

Tanikawa Masanori hurriedly helped him off the horse, then complained.

"Okamoto-kun, I've warned you time and time again to be careful of ambushes, but you just wouldn't listen. Now our retreat has been cut off by the Chinese army, what should we do?"

Okamoto Yasushi was still in shock after dismounting and didn't hear what Tanikawa Masanori was saying at all.

At this moment, Yasuyuki Okamoto was just talking to himself.

"What? How can the Chinese army have such a powerful tank force and a large-caliber howitzer force?"

Seeing that Okamoto Yasuyuki was terrified, Tanikawa Masanori grabbed his shoulders and shook him violently.

"Okamoto, Okamoto, wake up! If we don't react, we'll all die."

Before Okamoto could speak, the Japanese soldiers heard the bugle call sound again.

"Beep beep...da da da da...beep beep...da da da da..."

Soon, soldiers ran up to report that the Chinese army's tanks had launched an attack.

These ten Tiger tanks now move as if they own the land, and have stopped firing their cannons, switching to using the machine guns on their tanks to sweep the area.

Those Japanese soldiers who weren't killed by the bombs, as well as those who were wounded and fell to the ground, were either riddled with machine gun fire or crushed into a pile of minced meat by tank tracks.

The MG34 machine guns emitted a series of shots.

"Da da da... da da da..."

The Japanese soldiers who were hit by bullets screamed in agony.

The special operations battalion soldiers, who had already surrounded the 13th Regiment on all sides, used three hundred MG34 machine guns to carry out the final roundup.

As the smoke and dust gradually dissipated, the snipers hidden in various locations began searching for targets.

This scene not only stunned Chen Defa and Ge Dahai, but also made the officers and soldiers of the 37th Brigade, who were hiding in the woods, completely forget the danger.

They rushed out of the woods in unison and stood there shouting.

"My God, the Dragon Flame Army is amazing! They're cutting down the Japanese like it's nothing."

"Their weapons and equipment are so good, they're completely dominating the Japanese."

"Hahaha, those little devils have finally met their match! It's so satisfying, so exhilarating, so incredibly satisfying!"