"China has launched attacks on the Kanto Prefecture and Samhan, and the Sino-Japanese War has broken out." The same information is spreading frantically in the world's telecommunications networks, newspapers, radio and various media have stopped broadcasting all programs, all of which are spreading such an explosive news, and for a time telecommunications service providers all over the world are staring at the banknotes, and the telecommunications turnover in one day is almost the sum of a week, and governments and militaries are focusing their attention on the fronts in Northeast Asia. The streets of Jinan and Tokyo are filled with diplomats and spies of all stripes like frightened donkeys.

"Moximoxi, Sixth Brigade? What, Captain Hayase went to the front, how is the situation? Did the Chinese army attack? What artillery fire is so fierce that you don't know what's going on at the front? Baga, send out search troops, immediately find out the situation of the various forts and mobile squadrons, yes, immediately. Artillery support, there will be, the field artillery brigade of our wing has been deployed, and the artillery battle with the Chinese army will start immediately, you must report the opponent's artillery coordinates in time, right, cover the observation post....Mosimosi? Moximoxi? Yaga. "Captain Hatsune woke up, the sky was already illuminated by the tracer of artillery fire, and he rushed into the brigade headquarters with a rolling belt, thanks to the domestic lady who came to visit relatives in the past two days, Hatsune did not have the ability to patronize the comfort station after paying the public rations, so he was on duty in the dormitory of the brigade headquarters, so he could be the first to rush back to the brigade headquarters, but the information he got from the staff officer on duty made him confused, the only thing that could be confirmed was that it was the artillery unit of the Wehrmacht that fired in the direction of Jinzhou, but the opponent's strength, firepower, offensive direction, The losses of one's own side and the actions of the squadrons are a mystery, and it is useless to beat the staff officer on duty into a pig-headed squad leader.

When the chief of staff, the brigade attached, and the officers at all levels returned to the team headquarters from Lushun, and the casualty reports of the various squadrons and the reports requesting tactical guidance were recorded by the sergeants on duty, they realized that the entire battle situation had become out of control half an hour after the battle began, and all obstacles in the front line, whether it was minefields, barbed wire, or artillery towers, had been washed away by the enemy's shelling, and if the other side wished, they could walk through the outer defense area of Kwantung Prefecture in a leisurely manner. One of the squadrons stationed in the garrison had completely lost contact, and according to the observations of the squadron on the second line, it was believed that this squadron, which had been split into a dozen gun towers and bomb shelters, could be removed from the establishment table of the Great Japanese Army, and could save two or three kittens, and it was not enough for the other side to stuff their teeth.

The infantry artillery squad of the second-line squadron has been hit by at least thirty or more large-caliber howitzer shells from the opponent, although it is not a super human cannon that erodes dozens of miles in one shot, but it is still possible to return this four Type 01 70mm infantry guns to the state of parts. In less than ten minutes, two first-line squadrons and two second-line squadrons belonging to two wings, as well as an artillery squadron, suffered casualties, and the strong cement pillboxes could only keep the Japanese soldiers from being exposed to the wilderness in the face of large-caliber heavy artillery. If they knew that they were being cared for by an L22 155mm howitzer division of the Wehrmacht, maybe they could have laughed at Jiuquan. The baptism of 80 155-mm heavy guns made the blockade area of the two squadrons, which was less than 10 kilometers wide, look like the surface of the moon, and the demining rockets mixed in with it did not attract the attention of the Japanese army at all, and the rocket demining vehicle with three demining locks at one time could clear a minefield passage 30 meters wide and 200 meters long.

After the L22 greetings were over, the L21 type 105 mm light howitzer was replaced with the accurate point kill, and the artillery regiments of the three mechanized infantry divisions of the Seventh Army were gathered together and organized into an artillery cluster, and the firing of these 100 "light" howitzers was commanded in the air by school shooters and high-altitude airship observation posts, as long as there were signs of Japanese activity within a radius of 10 kilometers, there would be artillery to send a salvo gift package, and there were constantly squads of Japanese troops just lined up in formation, on the road, Within a hundred meters of running out of the field, they were broken into a pile of broken bones and rotten flesh under the careful care of more than a dozen artillery pieces, and those who were unlucky were directly hit by shells and disappeared, and there were not even scum left of the dead.

The Lushun Air Force in the rear of the Japanese army was not idle, but unfortunately when the Japanese troops flying the Newport 11 aircraft flew into the sky, they were caught by two squadrons of F4 Warhawk fighters ambushed from the clouds before they could climb to a sufficient height. In the face of the F4, which can reach a level flight speed of 540 kilometers per hour, under the crazy fire of the opponent's six 12.7mm machine guns, the maximum dive speed is just over 200 kilometers per hour, and the Japanese-made Newport with only one 6.5 mm Hatch Chase Japanese heavy machine gun is simply an unarmed target aircraft. The dog-fighting skills they had learned from the French were of no use here, useless in the face of a dense stream of firepower, and the only thing that would make them feel most useful was the parachutes supplied by the French that China had exported during the First World War. It didn't take long for the cheering Japanese mechanics and logistics soldiers on the airfield to be dumbfounded, and the ones who dared to drag the black smoke down and the dahlias in the air were all Newports painted with red suns, and the two-plane formations that flaunted their might in the sky were all Chinese fighters with eagle emblems. Fortunately, the Chinese war eagles have a chivalrous demeanor, and they turn a blind eye to the white umbrella flowers that bloom in the sky, and they have no intention of killing them all.

Without the threat of the Japanese Air Force, China's artillery observation planes and high-altitude observation balloons were even more inch-in-depth, and from morning to night on 2 November, Chinese artillery poured five bases of shells into the forward positions and in-depth artillery positions, infantry assembly areas, communication lines, railways, highways, and headquarters of the entire Kwantung Prefecture, and many L22 and L21 gun barrels were turned red, and the mountains of shell shells surprised the military attaches of the United States, Britain, France, Italy, and other countries in China and the officers of the temporarily formed observation regiments. This kind of ammunition consumption is even comparable to some key sections of the most brutal Verdun meat grinder of the year, even if they did not go to the front line to observe on the spot, according to their experience with the Japanese army, even the most elite Japanese standing division may not be able to maintain combat strength under this kind of shelling, but the garrison of Kwantung Prefecture is probably lucky not to be completely wiped out by the enemy's artillery fire, as for counting on them to be stationed at the front and block the Chinese armored forces that are preparing to attack, uh, it is better to wash and sleep.

By the time the howitzer group's firepower had gradually thinned out, large groups of tanks and armoured fighting vehicles had rushed to the passage in the minefield with diesel fumes, followed by armoured trucks lined with Wehrmacht field soldiers armed with new rifles, steel helmets wrapped in gray-and-yellow camouflage on their heads, and draped in tactical carrying vests and combined assault bags. The fact that the Chinese army was completely assaulted by vehicle was a novelty for the European and American military attaches and observation groups who observed, but looking at the Japanese defense line that had been changed beyond recognition, it is understandable that the Wehrmacht adopted this rapid assault method, and the occasional fish that slipped through the net were almost powerless in the face of Hound tanks and octopus armored assault vehicles. Cluster grenades* and grenadiers are even the most powerful weapons in their hands. But in the face of a bloodhound tank with a frontal armor thickness of 60 mm, it does not pose a threat at all, even if it can blow up the track, it is just a job for the maintenance personnel behind the tank to work for more than 20 minutes, but the Japanese army who dares to launch a suicide attack has almost no chance of survival, and the grenadier is a good object to expose its position, often a grenade into the sky, it will attract countless large-caliber machine gun shells and 40 mm grenades to cover, and the survivors are simply like divine help.

If the remnant bunkers encountered in the advance can withstand the direct fire of the 57mm tank guns, the advancing artillery observers on the octopus armored assault vehicles will quickly report the coordinates to the artillery group on duty, and after a maximum of three minutes, the pillbox will turn into a pile of rubble, and then the infantry will get out of the car and stuff a number of five-kilogram explosive bags into the gaps in the rubble to blast the battlefield again, even if there are remnants of Japanese troops below, they will be buried alive, and there is no threat at all. The very few fortifications that happened to be built on the anti-slope relied on tank guns and mortar crews that followed the infantry in vehicles. Basically, the hounds fired directly at the perforation, and then let the 82 mortar group consolidate the results with a vehicle-mounted mortar, and when the opponent's firepower was completely suppressed, the demolition team of the combat engineer came on the field, and a burst of napalm injection or the secondary blasting of explosive packs and blasting canisters was often all right. If you encounter trenches and other fortifications, after cleaning up the enemy of the surface fortifications, use explosives to blow up the soil layer of several key nodes, and when you encounter the hole, it is a hand * grenade, and then a burst of flamethrowers or explosives packs, there are not many opportunities to move the gun, unless the other party is unwilling to die, and rushes out with a 38-type rifle, but it will definitely be a "repeater" semi-automatic rifle to shoot a burst of random shooting into a sieve, which is also the opportunity for the Chinese National Defense Forces soldiers to use the semi-automatic rifle in their hands for actual combat.

The offensive lasted until nightfall, the Chinese troops advanced forty kilometers in the attack, reached the perimeter of Arthur and then turned to the defense, the large machinery of the engineering unit took advantage of the dusk to dig fortifications, a hunting dog tank, octopus armored assault vehicles also built semi-underground positions, large searchlight towers and pit viper-shaped barbed wire were quickly laid, anti-infantry mines and a large number of directional mines were also placed in the minefield between the barbed wire, 60 mortars constantly fired flares, machine gun positions, "fire snakes" Large-caliber machine guns were surrounded by sandbag fortifications. The soldiers were unclothed and their horses were stationed in the trenches.

As expected, the Japanese troops, who were inferior in firepower, did not give up, and they arranged a night attack on the scale of a wing at two o'clock. Perhaps because there was nothing lost in the artillery battle during the day, the Japanese army artillery did not provide fire support, but the Japanese army was still found when it advanced to a place two kilometers away from the Chinese defense line, in front of the "ruler" general-purpose machine gun and the large-caliber "Fire Snake" heavy machine gun, the Japanese pig's sudden charge could no longer regain the glory of Erling Mountain, and the firepower of the Chinese Defense Force was like a large combine harvester ruthlessly and efficiently harvesting the lives of the Japanese army, However, this feast did not bring British, French, American and Italian observers to the scene, and the only person allowed to go to the front with the former commander of Liaodong, General Du Zicheng, was his personal friend, Wilhelm Brown, a German employee of the Wehrmacht. Ernst. Major Paulus, when the observation group arrived at the forward position, it was already daylight, and looking at the scattered and bombed layers of Japanese dead bodies in front of the position, mixed with gunsmoke and the smell of burnt flesh, these battlefield veterans had the illusion of dreaming of returning to the Western Front.