Daqin: I, Fusu, can summon the undead

Chapter 267: The Iron Forest Jungle War Ends
After the explosion, the three Sakura soldiers immediately returned, carefully aimed at the hole, took out tactical flashlights and carefully checked the situation inside.

This is a pit of about seven square meters and only one and a half meters deep. It is covered with wooden boards and soil for camouflage, leaving only an entrance and exit of one and a half square meters.

At this time, the eight people hiding inside had stopped moving, but the Sakura soldiers still shot them again.

Then the two squads of soldiers immediately returned to the team and replenished their ammunition at the armored vehicle.

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At the same time, attacks continued to occur in the forest, with gunshots and explosions heard in the forest almost every moment.

A large group of Sakura soldiers advanced very slowly through the forest. Every time they advanced a hundred meters or so, they would have to stop to deal with traps and sneak attacks.
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"Division Commander, the Sakurada Battalion has advanced three kilometers. Due to the complex terrain, numerous obstructions, and huge consumption of ammunition, the casualties have exceeded 153, and more than 1,000 enemies have been killed. A large amount of daily necessities have been seized. All advances have now stopped."

Outside the forest, a communications soldier reported to Matsushita Taro.

Upon hearing this, Matsushita Dalang frowned.

They only advanced three kilometers in three hours and suffered 153 casualties.

Although the results of annihilating more than a thousand enemies and seizing a large amount of daily necessities seemed very fruitful, those were ordinary warriors and civilians without sufficient weapons and guns. They dared not use the seized daily necessities and could only give them to the captured indigenous people as laborers.

Although they have accepted their fate as cannon fodder, they do not take the lives of their soldiers lightly and will try to avoid casualties if necessary.

After thinking for a while, Matsushita Dalang immediately ordered: "Let them stand by for the time being, and let Xiaoyongjiro's team get ready!"

After saying this, Matsushita Dalang left quickly. He needed to report this to Tadayoshi Masao.

A little later, Matsushita Dalang returned and immediately ordered the signalman: "Let the Sakurada Battalion withdraw."

"Hi!" The signalman responded immediately and started contacting Sakurada Hanashita right away.
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"Keep moving forward!"

In the Iron Forest, a samurai was lying behind a bush with a gun in his hand, looking through the gaps in the bushes at the Sakura soldiers who had stopped advancing in the distance, muttering to himself.

Fifty meters ahead of the Sakura soldiers who had stopped advancing, there were traps set by his team. And there were a large number of them. Their team had used detonating tags and bows and arrows in those traps. In addition, there were many pits with spikes.

Now the enemy stopped fifty meters in front of the trap. At this moment, he hoped that the enemy would continue to move forward. He even wanted to shoot to attract the enemy.

Unfortunately, he only had five bullets, which were too precious, and the distance was too far. He didn't want to waste them and planned to wait a little longer. Anyway, the enemy would definitely continue to advance.

Just as he was looking expectantly, the Sakura soldiers who had stopped in the distance began to retreat, and their retreat speed was very fast.

"Damn it!"

Seeing this, the warrior cursed, then gritted his teeth, picked up the rifle, aimed, and pulled the trigger.

"boom!"

A gunshot rang out.

The bullet hit the tree next to the armored vehicle, two meters away from the soldier he was aiming at. (Machine aiming)

Hearing the gunshots, this team of Sakura soldiers immediately became alert.

"Quick, retreat faster!" However, the next moment, the squad leader gave the order. The soldiers immediately ran out quickly, without any intention of fighting.

"Damn you, from another world!"

Seeing this, the warrior cursed immediately, but did not fire again to attract the enemy. After all, he only had four bullets, and he could not hit the target from such a long distance.

Of course, in his opinion, the enemy only retreated temporarily and would definitely come back again.

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"Division Commander, the Sakurada Battalion has all retreated to the designated position!"

Outside the forest, the signalman reported to Matsushita Dalang again.

"Okay, notify the artillery regiment immediately and bombard the forest with high-explosive bombs!" Upon hearing this, Matsushita Dalang immediately gave the order.

As the order was issued, the artillery regiment of the Matsushita Division, which had already been in position, immediately began shelling the forest.

More than one hundred artillery pieces with a gun diameter of 150 mm or larger kept firing.

Immediately afterwards, artillery regiments from the other two divisions also began shelling the forest.

The 75mm and 105mm artillery pieces from other regiments also began to join the firing queue.

Even rocket launchers joined in, with large numbers of rockets whizzing into the forest ahead.
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In the Iron Forest, after watching the Sakura Soldier Squad retreat, the samurai hesitated for a moment, then called on ten civilians under his command to set traps again to increase the number of traps here.

However, after they had dug a few traps, they heard a whooshing or whistling sound in the sky.

The next moment, before they could understand what was happening, a huge explosion sounded not far from them.

Then another explosion sounded not far away.

"Hide now."

Seeing this, the warrior shouted and led his men to run quickly towards the cave where they were hiding.

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Under the bombardment of five hundred artillery pieces, large tracts of trees in the Iron Forest were blown up and broken. Especially under the bombardment of rockets, many trees were ignited by the unconsumed fuel of the rockets, and fires burned fiercely in the forest in the form of multiple blooming points.

Not long after, a forest fire swept through a large area of ​​forest.

In the cave, the warriors looked at the burning trees and the billowing smoke, and they were terrified. They did not hesitate and shouted, "Retreat quickly! The enemy is setting the forest on fire."

Upon hearing this, middle-aged and elderly civilians ran out of their caves and followed the warriors deeper into the forest.

They didn't want to die in this forest fire without accomplishing anything. Besides, since the forest fire was burning, the enemy couldn't get through. Their purpose of blocking the enemy had been achieved, and staying would be useless.
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"Stop the shelling!"

Tadayoshi Masao looked at the images sent back by the reconnaissance plane, which showed many parts of the forest on fire, and immediately gave the order.

Although this pollutes the environment and wastes resources, the lives of soldiers are more important, and this is not Sakura Planet, so pollution doesn't matter. Although those woods are valuable, they are not very precious.

As for the pace of the attack, he had already made a judgment after the tentative advance. Speed ​​no longer mattered. Both the time required for jungle warfare and the time the forest fire burned were enough for the people of the Iron Kingdom to escape to the Thunder Kingdom by boat. The strategic goals could not be fully achieved, so it was still important to reduce casualties.

At the same time, we are also waiting for logistical supplies.

It is estimated that such a large forest will take at least one or two months to burn.
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"Lord Mifune, the enemy has set a forest on fire. Some of the people ambushed in front of the forest have no choice but to withdraw. What instructions do you have?"

In the Land of Iron, at the edge of the Iron Forest, a Cloud Ninja came to Mifune to report.

"The enemy set fire to the forest, why didn't I think of that!"

Upon hearing the report from the Cloud Ninja, Mifune's eyes suddenly lit up.

Their mission was to stop the enemy's advance and buy time for the people of the Iron Country who were retreating. No matter how they did it, as long as they could buy time, a mere Iron Forest could not compare to the people of the whole country.

It is better to burn the forest, so that the enemy will not have wood to build ships. Besides, in the future described by the witch, the whole world will be a scorched earth and will be destroyed sooner or later. Why leave it to the enemy?

As for fighting back in the future, we don’t know how long it will take. Moreover, when we fight back, the wood used will also be from the Land of Thunder.

Mifune, who had figured it out, immediately gave the order: "Order the entire army, let all civilians retreat, and the samurai stay behind to provide cover. Also, let the retreating civilians set fire to all the trees in the forest along the way. I don't want the enemy to have any trees to use, let alone wood to build ships."

"Hi!" Yun Ren responded immediately and left quickly.

(End of this chapter)