In less than half an hour, more than half of the city of Tokyo was engulfed in raging fires. Even the Japanese General Staff Headquarters located in the city had to move the battlefield and temporarily work in several huge tents....

Looking at the sky over Tokyo, which had been lit red by the raging fire in Tokyo, Lieutenant General Tanaka knew that he had lost this battle so far...

Not to mention the losses caused by this shelling to the defending troops, let's just say that half of the city of Tokyo was burned to ashes, and more than 100,000 people were buried in the fire, and the immeasurable economic and material losses were not something that one of his deputy chief of staff could bear. It is conceivable that no matter what the outcome of the decisive battle in Tokyo is, there is only one ending left for himself, and that is to apologize for his sins with death...

Of course, Lieutenant General Tanaka was able to sit in this position today, and he is not a person without responsibility. After a quick glance at the demoralized subordinates around him, a trace of murderous aura and hatred directly appeared on his face.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you should know better than I do about the situation in the city. Since they are dead before and after, as the warriors of the Great Japanese Empire, even if they die on the battlefield, they must also deal a fatal blow to the squadron outside the city that destroyed our homeland, and make them pay the price of blood..."

"Think about the relatives who burned to death in the city, think about the people who died in the Chinese shelling in the city, think about the Japanese people who lost their houses and were homeless after the battle...

"Revenge....revenge...."

I have to say. Lieutenant General Tanaka has some experience in boosting morale. Just two sentences. It will boost everyone's low morale. Dozens of people, directly waving their fists, shouted loudly.

"Yo Xi, it's very good, it's revenge..."Lieutenant General Tanaka nodded with satisfaction, and then ordered with a majestic face.

"Now I order, all personnel are in place....War Department, immediately count the specific number of combatable troops in the city, detect the extent of damage to the various defensive lines around Tokyo City, and prepare to meet the attack of the squadron...."

"Ha Yi ......"

I don't know if I don't check. The half-hour artillery bombardment, under the blows of hundreds of thousands of shells poured down from the front and rear of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, especially the blows of large-caliber naval artillery shells, almost all the positions outside the city were leveled. As for the half of the city that has been reduced to ashes. Not to mention

Look at the various defending units defending outside the city, they were either blown into a pile of minced meat, and not even a single intact corpse was left, or they were shocked to death on their own positions....

In the city of Tokyo, in addition to the infantry wing that was directly killed in the flames, there were more than 6,000 soldiers, who were swept into the raging flames and finally turned to ashes...

Looking at the heavy report in his hand, Lieutenant General Tanaka's heart was dripping blood, and the hearts of everyone in the staff headquarters were dripping blood. At the same time, I began to worry about the real decisive battle next...

There were more than 30,000 guards in the Guards Division, except for the three infantry wings in the city that were defending around the palace from the baptism of artillery fire and survived. The remaining infantry, without exception, all disappeared under artillery fire ....

The other 30,000 miscellaneous armies were full of more than 15,000 people left...

"Yaga, despicable Shina, I must make you pay the price of blood......" clenched the report in his hand. Lieutenant General Tanaka, who was full of anger in his heart, roared directly.

And at this moment, another staff officer rushed over out of breath.

"Your Excellency Chief of Staff, the Chinese outside the city began to extend their artillery fire...."

The extension of artillery fire means that the infantry attack is coming.

Lieutenant General Tanaka, who could not take any advantage in artillery fire. Immediately realized the arrival of an opportunity for the Japanese defenders. Because, in his eyes. Excluding the equipment components, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army is absolutely the best in the world. …,

However, he seemed to have forgotten that the Chinese expeditionary force in front of him was some veterans who had fought against the Japanese army for a year. More importantly, after a series of re-equipping, the advanced level of equipment of the Chinese Expeditionary Force has been several grades higher than that of the Japanese army.

However, at a critical moment when the security of the capital is at stake, a victory is urgently needed to boost the morale of the troops. Lieutenant General Tanaka couldn't think of so much at all, and ordered directly.

"Order, all combat units immediately enter the position, and if there is no position, use the shell craters ....in a word, at all costs, crush the first offensive of the Chinese Expeditionary Force...."

"Ha Yi ......"

In the dark night, seeing the sky over Tokyo City, which had been illuminated by the flames, although the commander-in-chief Liu Hua was not on the front line, through the understanding of the Japanese building structure in the city, Liu Hua could still be very sure that in the city of Tokyo, not only Japanese soldiers, but even ordinary people must have paid heavy losses in this fire.

Of course, as Liu Hua from later generations, he will never feel any heartache for the casualties of foreigners. In his eyes, the best outcome would be to massively reduce the proportion of the population of strong men in Japan through this campaign.

And just when Liu Hua looked at the sky red by the firelight and fell into deep thought, Zuo Quan, the chief of staff with an excited face, walked in: "The general secretary ordered, the latest statistical results of the observation post in front of you..."

"Under the constant bombardment of ship-based naval guns and large-caliber howitzers of the expeditionary force, the several defensive positions deployed by the Japanese army outside your city of Tokyo have all been blown into ruins. The Japanese troops defending outside the city, if nothing else, were already gone....half an hour of shelling is coming to an end, you see..."

"The artillery mission is accomplished, and the next thing is up to our infantry....order all artillery units to replace them with incendiary bombs and extend the artillery fire into the city of Tokyo for five minutes... Order the commandos of all armies to immediately launch an attack and break through the defense of Tokyo...."Liu Hua didn't think about it, and directly opened his mouth and ordered.

"Yes, Commander-in-Chief..."

As the shells began to fly towards the city of Tokyo, the commanders at all levels who received the order to attack were like eating chicken blood, directly revealing their bloodthirsty eyes....

"All mortars, concentrated fire, covering the front-line positions of the Japanese army ....tank assault battalions, armored assault battalions, infantry assault battalions, immediately begin the assault ....set off ..."

A dense and dull explosion sounded in the front-line positions of the Japanese army, and the artillery group of more than 300 mortars was assembled, and at the fastest firing speed, began to pour ammunition on the Japanese positions that had been blown into ruins.

At the same time, the roar of huge engines from tanks and armored combat vehicles also began to sound on the battlefield ....

Twenty-four tank and armored fighting vehicles in front and behind, which were arranged in the shape of arrows and arrows, directly spitted black smoke, and in the roar, rushed towards the Japanese positions that were still shrouded in artillery fire. At the same time, a battalion of commandos, also holding their weapons tightly, followed closely behind the armored battle bodies of tanks, and very cautiously launched an attack on the Japanese positions ....

"Baga, it's a tank, a tank of the Chinese..." The appearance of more than twenty steel monsters directly caused riots in the Japanese troops on the position.

Looking at the distance getting closer and closer, with light and heavy machine gun bullets, at most you can equip the opponent with a tank armored combat vehicle that leaves a white dot. The Japanese commander roared directly.

"Baga, what are you still doing in a daze, use tank guns immediately, use infantry guns if you don't have tank guns, quick..."

Regarding the captain's order, the slightly frightened subordinates did not act, and replied directly with a panicked face.

"Great....Your Excellency, Captain....The tank guns were all destroyed in the shelling just now....The infantry guns were also blown up....The whole position, except for the heavy machine guns, only grenades remained......."...,

The reminder of his subordinates made the captain's face suddenly turn pale.

However, after thinking of the military order of the chief of staff before departure, a thick murderous aura directly appeared on his face.

"Yaga, in that case, what are you still doing in a daze...."

"Order the troops, inoculate all the grenades....form a death squad, blow up the enemy's tanks with grenades, quickly, even if all the battles are killed, and we can't let the tanks rush to our position, and start acting immediately...."The captain ordered directly with a murderous face.

In less than ten seconds, more than a dozen devil soldiers with grenades around their waists were lying in the shell crater next to them.

"Machine gun cover, warriors, for the sake of the Empire, kill to...."

Dozens of light and heavy machine guns opened fire, and more than a dozen little devil death squads jumped up directly from the crater and rushed towards the tank group more than a hundred meters away...

24 tanks and armored fighting vehicles, on the front alone, were armed with a full 48 heavy machine guns.

The fire of the Japanese light and heavy machine guns, although to a certain extent, attracted a lot of fire from the heavy machine guns. However, even so, there were still more than ordinary vehicles with heavy machine guns, guarding the front of the vehicles all the time, looking for and shooting possible Japanese daredevils.

More than a dozen little devil death squads, as soon as they appeared in front of the position, were strafed by several vehicles at the same time with heavy machine guns....

Looking at the daredevils who disappeared in front of him in a blink of an eye, the face of the Japanese captain immediately turned iron-blue. Continue to order: "Second round of daredevils, continue on...."

"The third round of daredevils, kill to give...."

Round after round of little devil daredevils, under the strafing fire of more than 20 vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns, few escaped. Of course, even if they were lucky enough to escape the heavy machine gun fire on board and rush into their own demolition targets, the infantry commandos who followed closely behind the battlecar were not vegetarians.

More than 20 semi-automatic rifles were fired at the same time, and no matter how strong the Japanese army's combat strength was, it could not dodge the rain of bullets....

In the end, the entire tank assault group, with the close cooperation of the infantry, did not suffer any losses and managed to break through to a position less than twenty meters from the first line of defense of the Japanese army

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