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Shimen City.

  Inside a civil fortification, Sun Liangcheng, commander of the Second Front Army of the puppet army, and a group of senior officers of the puppet army looked towards the battlefield with binoculars.

  This civil fort ring fortification is connected to underground bombproof caves.

  The ring fortifications are constructed of civil engineering and concrete and can withstand shelling from the Eighth Route Army's 105mm howitzers.

  The underground anti-gun cave can withstand the shelling of the Eighth Route Army's 150mm howitzer.

  The Japanese engineering regiment built a large number of such civil ring forts and bomb-proof holes in Shimen City and Zhengding areas.

  The original Japanese plan was to place the puppet troops in the frontier and deep fortifications to resist the Eighth Route Army's aerial bombs and heavy artillery bombs.

  but.

  After the large Japanese troops retreated, the remaining Japanese and puppet elites all entered the ring fortifications and artillery holes.

  Some unpopular puppet troops were placed in defensive positions.

  at this time.

  Inside the civil fortification, the traitor Sun Liangcheng, wearing the uniform of a lieutenant general, put down the telescope in his hand, with a solemn expression and a calm expression.

  But in Sun Liangcheng's heart, he was not as calm as on the surface. He was already extremely frightened.

  If it weren't for the war supervisor sent by the Japs here, facing the Eighth Route Army's level of aircraft bombing and heavy artillery shells clearing the ground, he would have escaped with his troops or directly surrendered to the Eighth Route Army.

  In another time and space, the traitor Sun Liangcheng was such a capricious villain.

  First, he led his troops to surrender to Wang Furi. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he was recruited by Principal Chang. During the War of Liberation, he led his troops to surrender to the Communists. Later, he fled to Shanghai under the pretense of persuading Liu Ruming's troops to surrender.

  His troops have been stationed in the Kaifeng area and he does not know the true strength of the Shanxi Eighth Route Army.

  I only heard that the Eighth Route Army was very powerful. It wiped out the First Army and severely damaged the Japanese North China Front.

  But he didn't expect it to be so powerful. He hadn't seen the Eighth Route Army yet. The Eighth Route Army first came with a wave of aerial bombs to clear the ground, and the shelling lasted for an entire hour!

  Who can resist this?

  No wonder the locust armies of the 11th, 40th and 56th Divisions are running away.

  "Commander, according to the intelligence from Jingxing County, the Eighth Route Army has assembled more than hundreds of heavy tanks and hundreds of new heavy artillery at least near Jingxing County."

  The intelligence staff took a look at the Major of the Locust Army who came to supervise the battle with a cold expression and cold eyes, holding a samurai sword, and then reported to Sun Liangcheng.

  The good news is that the Major of the Locust Army cannot understand Chinese.

  "How many exactly?"

  Sun Liangcheng's expression remained unchanged, but his heart suddenly sank.

  "It's still unclear...even the Locust Army lacks specific information. However, based on the information from the Locust Army, it is speculated that the Eighth Route Army's heavy tanks and new heavy artillery are both no less than 300."

  "In addition, a friend of mine from the Locust Army secretly told me before leaving with the large army that the main force of the Eighth Route Army was infiltrating."

  "It won't take long for the Eighth Route Army to completely surround Shimen City and Zhengding County."

  As soon as the intelligence staff member finished speaking, there was a gasp of air in the headquarters. Several staff members could not hold back on the spot, and their expressions all changed.

  Even the corners of Sun Liangcheng's eyes couldn't help but beat wildly.

  More than 300 heavy tanks and 300 heavy guns!
  Although the Second Front of the puppet army also has several old tanks and dozens of old mountain cannons, there is no problem in following the Japanese army to bully the Eighth Route Army in Shandong and the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei.

  But facing the Eighth Route Army's 300 tanks and 300 heavy artillery, they would be crushed to pieces at any time.

  This is a dimensionality reduction attack in terms of strength, which cannot be compensated by courage and tactics.

  What's more, although the puppet army under his command has strong combat effectiveness and is an elite force among the puppet army, it is okay to fight with the Locust Army, but such a big headwind battle will probably be defeated by the Eighth Route Army soon.

  When the time comes, he, Sun Liangcheng, will either be shot dead or become a prisoner of the Eighth Route Army and then be shot in public.

  "Yeah, why are you telling me such an important thing now?"

  Sun Liangcheng couldn't bear it anymore and slapped the intelligence staff officer in the face with his backhand.

  "Commander, I..."

  Sun Liangcheng slapped Sun Liangcheng with enough force. The intelligence staff covered his face and was about to explain. The Japanese Major suddenly stood up and cursed: "Baga!"

  Sun Liangcheng snorted coldly, turned away, and continued to observe the battlefield situation.

  The Eighth Route Army wanted to encircle Shimen City and Zhengding, but the intelligence staff did not report such an important matter. He really wanted to shoot the intelligence staff.

  "How long has the Eighth Route Army been shelling?"

  Sun Liangcheng turned to look at a puppet army combat consultant beside him.

  "Report to Commander, the Eighth Route Army's heavy artillery has been shelling us for 50 minutes!"

  The combat staff officer replied with a solemn expression.

  "More than 100 mountain guns, 200 new heavy guns, and hundreds of 82mm mortars!"

  The tone and expression of the artillery staff officer on the side were very solemn.

  The puppet army officers in the headquarters were all stunned.

  With this level of shelling, I am afraid that even snakes and rats on the infantry positions will be killed by the Eighth Route Army's artillery shells.

  "Where did the Eighth Route Army get so many heavy artillery and artillery shells?"

  Sun Liangcheng didn't understand and found it difficult to accept.

  If I had known that the Eighth Route Army had such strength, why would I have voted for the Japanese? Wouldn't it be nice to join the Eighth Route Army?
  But now, if you want to join the Eighth Route Army again, I am afraid that the Eighth Route Army will not agree, and the locust troops supervising the war may not agree either.

  Ten minutes later, the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army gradually became sparse. The Japanese Major who was supervising the battle suddenly stood up, with a stern expression on his face, and babbled.

  The fat translator on the side said to Sun Liangcheng:

  "The Eighth Route Army is about to attack. The Locust Army orders you to immediately follow the Locust Army into defensive positions and prepare to deal with the Eighth Route Army's attack!"

  "Hi!"

  Sun Liangcheng suddenly bowed his head to the Japanese, and then ordered:

  "Pass my order, all Locust Alliance troops will immediately follow the Locust Army into their positions and destroy all the attacking Eighth Route Army!"

  When turning around, Sun Liangcheng quietly winked at a combat staff officer.

  The operational staff member immediately understood and responded with a look. He turned around and quietly arranged manpower and escape routes in the name of issuing orders.

  As the orders from the headquarters were issued, the Japanese and puppet troops emerged from the artillery holes and entered defensive positions.

  But at this time, the defensive positions had been plowed several times by artillery shells and aerial bombs. Most of the original foxholes, trenches and civil fortifications had been blown up and replaced by huge craters.

  Even the area where the Japanese anti-tank cones were built with concrete was plowed by artillery shells.

  The Japanese and puppet soldiers had just entered the position and set up various light and heavy machine guns and rifles when they discovered to their horror that the ground began to shake slightly.

  "what happened?"

  Some puppet soldiers shouted in panic.

  "It's an Eighth Route Army tank!"

  A puppet company commander looked at a Japanese holding a Type [-] anti-tank mine next to him and said loudly:

  "Don't panic, the Locust Army has anti-tank weapons!" This puppet company commander had fought against Japanese tanks before. He fought against Japanese tanks on the battlefield, but later surrendered to Japanese soldiers along with Sun Liangcheng.

  Those who were unwilling to surrender either fled or were cleared.

  The puppet soldiers suddenly became depressed, clenched the steel guns in their hands, and stared straight ahead with breathless breath.

  As the smoke filled the air, the Japanese and puppet troops saw dozens of tanks approaching them.

  Behind the tank, followed a large number of Eighth Route Army soldiers.

  As soon as the Japanese and the puppet soldiers took a look, they knew that these Eighth Route Army soldiers were the best among the elite. A murderous spirit almost turned into a real sense of oppression, rushing towards the Japanese and the puppet soldiers.

  The effectiveness of the new regiment's excellent training in peacetime large-corps operations was fully demonstrated.

  When attacking, the company commander, platoon commander and squad leader of the new regiment each performed their duties, maintaining the stability of the offensive formation and advancing in a skirmish line behind the tanks. Although they looked scattered, the formation was not chaotic, but Always maintain a three-by-three formation.

  The offensive formation of thousands of Eighth Route Army soldiers was like a wave, sweeping towards the positions of the Japanese and puppet troops.

  Some of the timid puppet soldiers were frightened to death by this formation on the spot.

  I was really scared to the point of peeing, my pants were wet, and even the soil under my crotch was soaked.

  Not only the timid puppet troops, but also some of the Japanese recruits from the 40th Division and the 56th Division who were on the battlefield for the first time were so frightened that they wet their pants.

  However, the vast majority of the Japanese soldiers still have ferocious faces, ready to be loyal to Tian Locust at any time.

  "Tum, tom, tom..."

  The Japanese and puppet troops' mortars, infantry artillery and grenade launchers opened fire. Shells continued to explode between the Eighth Route Army's offensive formations, raising clouds of mud and mist.

  From time to time, soldiers from a new regiment of the Eighth Route Army were hit by shrapnel and fell down with a muffled groan.

  However, the mortars, infantry guns and grenades of the Japanese and puppet troops are not very powerful, and their explosive power cannot be compared with the 122mm howitzer.

  In addition, the troops' offensive formation was widely spread out, so the casualties of the new group of soldiers were not large.

  Simultaneously.

  The 60mm mortars and 82mm mortars of the new regiment in the rear began to fire back in the direction of the Japanese artillery positions.

  "Da da da…"

  Seeing the tanks and infantry of the Eighth Route Army approaching, the rifles, light machine guns and heavy machine guns of the Japanese and puppet troops opened fire, and gunfire sounded like exploding beans.

  As the tank approached, its 75mm tank gun and M2 heavy machine gun opened fire.

  The advantages of the tank force's large-scale live-fire training are fully demonstrated at this time.

  The Japanese lacked anti-tank weapons. Even the 47mm anti-tank gun could not penetrate the armor of the new group of tanks.

  The light machine guns and heavy machine guns of the Japanese and puppet troops were like targets in front of the tank gunners of the new regiment.

  The M2 heavy machine gun implemented fire suppression, and the 75 anti-tank gun fired non-stop, almost one shot at a time.

  "Baga, fire gas bombs!"

  When the Japanese commander saw this, he angrily ordered his troops to fire gas bombs.

  "Tom tom tom..."

  After a muffled sound, the poison gas bombs drew beautiful arcs in the air, fell into the Eighth Route Army's formation and exploded. Some yellow, green, and red poisonous gases spread rapidly among the Eighth Route Army's offensive formations.

  However it was of no use.

  The expressions of the infantrymen and tank soldiers remained unchanged as they skillfully took off the gas masks they carried with them and put them on their faces again.

  The Japanese's poison gas offensive was fruitless.

  By the time the new regiment of tanks arrived at the forward positions of the Japanese and puppet troops, almost all the firepower points of the Japanese and puppet troops had been removed.

  "Onboard!"

  At this moment, the Japanese soldiers hiding in trenches and bomb craters, pretending to be dead, holding Type [-] anti-tank mines or holding explosives, launched a desperate charge against the Eighth Route Army tanks.

  "Da da da…"

  The sound of intensive Type [-] submachine guns rang out, and the Japanese who charged desperately were beaten to bloody sieves in almost a few seconds.

  When the Japanese soldiers holding explosives and anti-tank mines saw this, they quickly retreated into the trenches or shell holes and pretended to be dead, preparing to suddenly attack when the Eighth Route Army tanks passed by.

  Those puppet soldiers who were not dead were already huddled in the trenches and shivering, preparing to wait for the Eighth Route Army to come over, to simply raise their hands to surrender or simply pretend to be dead.

  The Japanese wanted to fight to the death and take away a few Eighth Route Army soldiers before they died, while the puppet soldiers just wanted to survive.

  If it weren't for the Japanese war team, this group of puppet troops would have collapsed the moment they saw the heavy tanks of the Eighth Route Army.

  It's a pity that the devils' ideas are beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

  More than ten meters away from the forward position, all the Eighth Route Army tanks stopped together.

  Behind the tank, rows of Eighth Route Army flamethrowers wearing gas masks and carrying M2 flamethrowers appeared.

  The M2 flamethrower on the backs of the soldiers is already an upgraded version of the system. The weight has not been reduced, but the flames shoot farther and last longer, and the utilization rate of napalm is higher.

  Each flamethrower is protected by two or three soldiers armed with Type [-] semi-automatic rifles and Type [-] submachine guns to prevent the Japanese and puppet troops from sneak attacks.

  These new groups of fire-breathing soldiers quickly stepped forward, came to the forward position of the Japanese and puppet troops, turned on the safety, and then without hesitation faced the trenches of the forward position and pulled the trigger of the flamethrower.

  Strips of flame were like fire dragons, spurting out towards the trenches of the Japanese and puppet troops!

  And sweeping back and forth from left to right.

  "what!!!"

  The next moment, countless Japanese-style screams and pseudo-style screams came from the trenches.

  The Japanese who were pretending to be dead and preparing to sneak attack the tanks, and the puppet troops who were pretending to be dead and preparing to surrender, were all burned in an instant.

  The Japanese and puppet soldiers covered in flames were rolling in the trenches in pain and wailing.

  Not many humans can bear this kind of pain that burns into the bone marrow and even the soul.

  "Xinei!" The Japanese soldiers, who were covered in flames, shouted loudly. They rushed out of the trenches and wanted to die with the Eighth Route Army, but were beaten into pieces in an instant.

  When the puppet troops in the rear position saw this scene, they were frightened on the spot.

  "Mother!"

  The puppet soldiers who didn't want to be burned to death collapsed on the spot. Even if there were Japanese soldiers around, they turned around and ran away.

  As one puppet army took the lead in escaping, more and more puppet armies collapsed. They were defeated and fled directly.

  However, on the way the puppet troops escaped, the Type [-] heavy machine gun and the Civilian [-] heavy machine gun of the Japanese and puppet army supervisory team had long been set up.

  "Da da da…"

  The firing sound of the heavy machine gun rang out like exploding beans, and the puppet soldiers fell one by one on the way to escape.

  It’s not that the Eighth Route Army does not accept the surrender of the puppet troops.

  Instead, the Japanese hid among the puppet troops, and when the Eighth Route Army tanks passed by, they used anti-tank weapons to attack the Eighth Route Army tanks.

  War is so cruel. These soldiers have fought against the Japanese before, but since they surrendered to the Japanese, they must bear the corresponding price!

  The flamethrowers cleared the trenches of the Japanese and puppet troops' forward positions. Under the cover of the infantry and the flamethrowers, the tanks continued to attack the deep positions of the Japanese and puppet troops.