My client Li Yunlong

Chapter 142: Cannons attack the Japanese, tanks crush the Japanese
Onboard!

Amid the shrill howls, Yamazaki used a grenade to stop a Tiger tank.

As a handheld weapon, the power of the stinger mine is too small and the charge is limited. Although the charge is not important for shaped-charge ammunition, the lethality of the metal jet is positively correlated with its explosive power and it can be easily blocked by other materials, so it only blows off the tracks, causing the tank to stop.

The 88mm main gun of this Tiger tank continued to fire continuously, pouring firepower on the Japanese on the position.

Yamazaki was lucky. He fainted in a bomb crater and was even covered by the upturned soil, thus avoiding the attack of the infantry.

"Damn it."

The Eighth Route Army soldiers in charge of the escort cursed.

He is also a veteran.

Since April, he has accompanied the tanks in 19 battles, protected the tanks more than 30 times, killed 13 Japanese devils, and is now a veteran squad leader.

Proficient in infantry-tank coordinated tactics,
Ranked third in the group in cultural studies.

It is expected that next month, I will go to Yangcun to participate in two years of in-depth learning.

Learn modern military knowledge and theories, further improve cultural and knowledge levels, and become talents for the modernization of the army.

He is also the best marksman in the company.

But I don't know what happened, today was really weird. The man who just rushed up, who was suspected to be a Japanese officer holding a grenade, fired two magazines, a total of seventy bullets.

As a result, he missed a single shot.

Then the Tiger tank was blown up by this devil.

Fortunately, only the tracks were blown up.

Moreover, this time, the troops were launching a general offensive with the goal of capturing the positions south of Ze County and killing more than one hundred Japanese officers. There were enough tanks, so losing one would not be a big problem.

But in anger, he fired a volley of bullets at several wailing Japanese soldiers around him.

This burst of fire fully demonstrated the elite marksmanship of the company's best marksman. Ten short bursts of three shots hit five Japanese soldiers, and each of them was hit by no less than three bullets.

All were sent to see Tian Huang.

This is a battlefield.

Unless someone surrenders by holding up Bai Qi, anyone who can move is either a comrade or an enemy.

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"Nani!"

Hattori Naoomi watched for a while, marveling at it, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.

Although the Yamazaki Battalion was fighting hard, teams of suicide squads bravely and fearlessly rushed towards the enemy tanks, destroying one enemy tank after another, demonstrating the essence of the Locust Army's Bushido.

But there were too many enemy tanks.

The firepower was just too intense.

Even though the locust warriors attacked frantically, and even though teams of soldiers launched attacks one after another, there were still a large number of enemy tanks launching attacks.

And the tank is very fast.

Soon, all the positions south of Ze County were surrounded.

They were surrounded by the enemy.

"idiot!"

At this moment, Hattori Naoomi finally understood.

The enemy's goal this time was not to annihilate them all, but to kill them all.

"Request tactical guidance from the rear and request the field artillery brigade to open fire."

However, the abdominal minister was not panicked.

Although the Locust Army is almost vulnerable in terms of armored strength, the Imperial Locust Army also has a killer weapon - the mixed heavy artillery brigade.

And there are three of them.

There are fifty-five 105-caliber long-range cannons, fifty 150-caliber large-caliber artillery pieces of various models, and even three heavy artillery mixed brigades with six 240-caliber heavy artillery pieces.

This is the true power of the Imperial Locust Army.

It was a force that could stop the Eighth Route Army's tank charge, otherwise the Eighth Route Army would have rushed into the North China Plain long ago.

And according to the information he knew,

After obtaining a large amount of international materials and advanced industrial equipment, the country is mass-producing artillery. It is expected that by next year, more than 100 Type 92 cannons will enter service in the army every month.

One hundred courses per month.

This was unimaginable for previous empires.

After all, although the Type 92 cannon is the empire's best artillery, it is limited by production capacity and the number of army equipment is seriously insufficient. The total production to date is only more than 300, which is seriously insufficient.

More than a hundred courses every month.

By then, his brigade might be able to be equipped with an artillery regiment with Type 92 cannons as its main equipment, which would improve the quality of its firepower.

And the latest information.

The most advanced 105-caliber anti-tank artillery is also under development. Although it is heavy, it is powerful enough to penetrate the armor of a Tiger tank at a distance of one thousand meters.

However, anti-tank artillery is difficult to develop and will probably not be put into service until the second half of next year.

As well as the new Empire's latest tank, which was developed by imitating the technology of the Sherman tank, Tiger tank and other technologies, it is said that the production of three tank prototypes has also begun.

The future of the empire is promising.

Moreover, up to now, although the Eighth Route Army has a large number of tanks, planes, and trucks, they do not have long-range cannons, long-range barreled howitzers, or other suppression artillery.

They could only allow the imperial artillery to bombard them.

As for their safety.

It must be said that the fortifications built by Yamazaki were very solid, and although the tank's direct-fire artillery had strong armor-piercing power, it was still not powerful enough when facing anti-artillery fortifications.

Various thoughts flashed through his mind, and Hattori Naoomi saw a huge tank with a turret even larger than its base appearing not far away.

Then, slowly raise the gun barrel.

"What caliber is this?!"

The huge muzzle of the gun made Hattori Naoomi instinctively feel something was wrong.

The caliber of the guns of these two tanks is too large.

too big!
boom!
In Hattori Naoomi's vision, the huge muzzle fireworks of the huge tank burst into flames, and finally.

boom.

A violent explosion occurred around the Yamazaki Battalion's anti-artillery cave.

The anti-gun hole that could block direct fire from the 105mm artillery suddenly collapsed, creating a huge hole.

Although KV2 is regarded as the worst of the worst, its naval 152mm main gun has a shell weighing kilograms.

Fifty-three kilograms.

How could the anti-artillery cave, which was built to defend against the 120 kg of explosives from the 16 mortar, possibly block the attack? Even if Yamazaki wanted to further strengthen the fortifications, he did not have the materials.

After fighting for so long, there is no longer any material around that is suitable for use as a position.

boom!
None of the four KV2 tanks were lost. Under the command of Cheng Shifa, they were arrogantly lined up in a row. The four 152 howitzers fired one round after another, destroying the Japanese anti-artillery holes.

at last.

After more than thirty shells fell, the Japanese position finally could not hold on and collapsed.

At this time, Hattori Naoomi received a telegram from the rear, saying that the heavy artillery brigade was preparing and it would take half an hour to prepare, so please hold on.

"Hold on!"

"Run!"

He looked at the samurai sword bestowed by the Emperor on his waist, then looked at the three large enemy tanks approaching in the distance, and the dozen or so tanks of other types behind them.

Hattori Naoomi decisively took the lead in running away.

What else can you do?

Go and fight the enemy tanks with bayonets?

Let’s see, can the samurai sword, which incorporates the empire’s most elite steel forging technology, cut through the more than 100 millimeter armor plate of a Tiger tank?

Let’s see if his general’s uniform can block the 88mm main gun of the Tiger tank. Can it block the four tank main guns that are as powerful as 150mm guns?
He is stupid!
More than a hundred surviving Japanese officers ran to the rear like a hundred pigs. It must be said that these Japanese officers were really good. Although they were fleeing in a panic, their tactical movements did not change. They moved very carefully and always used various shelters to avoid the fire from the rear.

but!

Now they were facing a dozen tanks.

The Tiger and KV2 tanks did not pursue, and their main guns kept calling out the Japanese officers.

"Hahaha···"

The deputy commander of the 772nd Regiment was inside a Tiger tank, operating the 88mm main gun, calling out the names of the Japanese officers one by one.

boom!
With one shot, a colonel flew up to a height of more than ten meters, and when he fell down, he had disappeared into smoke.

boom!
Another shot, and a lieutenant colonel was blown to pieces.

boom!
Another shot, this time it missed the target, but the fragments killed several Japanese soldiers on the spot.

"Hahaha···"

The deputy commander of the 772nd Regiment felt that he had never been so excited in his life.

How cool is it to use cannons to attack the Japanese?!

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Compared to his deputy regiment commander who used cannons to fight the Japanese, Cheng Shifa preferred to use tracks to crush them.

As to why he liked such bloody behavior, it was all because of Li Yunlong's teachings, both verbally and physically. This is how Cheng Shifa explained in his later memoirs.

After all, Captain Li likes to chop the Japs.

Everyone knows it.

Even the Japs are well known to them.

So, it is natural and reasonable that the people brought by Li Yunlong prefer to use cold weapons to deal with the Japanese.

So, Cheng Shifa drove a Leopard tank at full speed and crushed the Japanese officers.

Although the Panther weighed as much as 43 tons and had staggered road wheels, which were criticized by later generations, its 700-horsepower engine and the excellent passability brought by the staggered road wheels gave it an off-road speed of more than 30 kilometers.

Humans can indeed run at over thirty kilometers per hour.

But this is the athlete on the track.

And how long can it last?
But this is a complex battlefield environment. If you can run at a speed of 25 kilometers per hour, you have to be born with long legs of 1.8 meters. The Leopard can maintain a speed of more than 30 kilometers for more than an hour.

The Japanese officers ran away as fast as they could, wishing their parents had not given them two more legs. As for the samurai swords bestowed by the Heavenly Locust Jade Emperor, pistols, etc., they all threw away.

Why not throw it away?
Resist?
Use samurai swords and pistols to deal with the tanks behind?

But even so, in just a few minutes, they were caught up by the seven remaining Leopard tanks.

"No cannons or guns allowed. Crush these bastards to death."

Cheng Shifa was filled with murderous intent.
If we can find a few who are not beasts among the grassroots Japanese devils, then if we kill nine out of ten of these Japanese officers, there will definitely be eleven that escape the net.

Yes, eleven.

"Yes!"

The gunners stopped firing, the machine gunners stopped shooting, they opened their observation ports, stuck their heads out, holding their submachine guns, and smilingly commanded the tanks to crush the Japanese officers.

“Here, here…”

"Left, left, left, you bastard, you only pressed on my feet."

"On the right, the previous generation, good, good, headshot."

"Damn it, the devil's brains splattered all over me..."

Ah!
Sharp screams rang out one after another, and soon the tracks of several Leopard tanks were stained red.

A bloody red.

Hattori Naoomi looked at the tanks that were getting closer and closer behind him, and the fewer and fewer imperial officers around him, and howled hysterically: "You are devils, you are devils."

"You are murderers."

"The locusts will punish you."

"The Imperial Locust Army will not let you go."

"What the hell?!"

Cheng Shifa had been staring at Hattori Naoomi for a long time.

This is a major general.

Big goal.

He commanded the Leopard tank to follow Hattori Naoomi closely, and at the end, he heard Hattori Naoomi's shout.

"Sky Locust, Empire?"

Cheng Shifa knew some Japanese and sneered disdainfully:
"Here they come, I'll crush them all to death."

How come the sky locusts are invulnerable to swords and guns?

So the locusts are not afraid of tanks?

Can the Sky Locust tear apart a tank with its bare hands?

"what!"

With a scream, Hattori Naoomi, the major general of the Locust Army, the future division commander, lieutenant general, and future star, died under the tracks of a Leopard tank and was crushed into the ground.

"Keep attacking."

After killing a Japanese major general, Cheng Shifa immediately looked for the next target and ordered his troops to continue advancing.

Click, click, click…
The tank continued to move forward, and its cold tracks mixed up the remaining flesh, bones and mud of Hattori Naoomi.

The achievement of No Body Left Behind is achieved.

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"Empire!"

Behind.

Yamazaki woke up and found that there was no one around her.

Looking up, the Imperial officers in front were screaming in agony. More than a hundred Imperial officers were like chickens being hunted by their human captives. They were chased and crushed by tanks, with many dead and wounded.

Yamazaki couldn't help but sigh.

To this day, he doesn't know how the Empire will win.

He didn't understand why the empire still wanted to besiege North China.

Why did the empire surround North China at the cost of tens of thousands of casualties every month and the deaths of more than 20,000 imperial soldiers?

This is not encirclement.

This is a suicide mission.

After all, Yamazaki was just a low-level officer and had no way of understanding the full picture, let alone knowing that the Japanese high-level officials had formulated a plan to move south that even the United States had not anticipated.

It's normal to think about it.

Who would have thought.

There is such a crazy country in the world.

With the whole country mobilized, 50,000 to 60,000 troops were sent to a battlefield every month, and tens of thousands of troops were killed or wounded every month, fighting a decisive battle with the enemy.

He was even secretly drawing strength to prepare for an attack on another huge country.

of course,

There are also Americans who understand the terrifying nature of advanced technology, but it is far less terrifying than the feeling they had to face the Japanese directly.

After all, the Japs knew that even if the Empire went all out, madly increased its military strength, and even sent its navy ashore, it would not be able to defeat the enemy entrenched in North China.

And even if we win, there will be no benefit.

"Why··"

After taking a last look at the few officers left and the almost wiped out Yamazaki Battalion, Yamazaki limped away from the battlefield secretly, rescuing more than a dozen wounded Japanese soldiers.

Although Yamazaki's battalion was almost wiped out again, Yamazaki survived and completed the first tank kill in his life.

I also brought back more than a dozen seeds from the big team. (End of this chapter)