"Whew...... Rumble!!! ”

"Hiss ......"

"Bang ......"

"Da Da Da ......"

At this time, it was only noon, but the outside of Songming County was shrouded in overwhelming thick gunsmoke. A large caliber shell pulled a long trajectory and roared towards the three lines of defense that had been urgently constructed outside the city by relying on the mountains.

Violent explosions were heard on the entire battle line of two or three miles in length, the sound of the new machine gun tearing cloth was low but resounded throughout the front of the battlefield, the intermittent fire of the Huaxia Type 1 rifle and the Huaxia Type 2 semi-automatic rifle, and even the sound of submachine guns.

The terrain of Songming is a typical mountainous terrain in the southwest, although the location of the city is relatively flat, but some undulating mountains were borrowed by the instructor who reacted, and forced the reorganization of the Sixth Division and the defeated half of the regiment with guns, relying on these undulating small mountains to build three of the simplest defense lines.

As the person in charge of the southwest plan, Okamura Ninji, who also served as the "chief adviser of the Sino-Chinese friendship Yunnan Army," specially ordered Amiya Taro to be the "adviser commander of the reorganized Sixth Division." In his opinion, Asamiya Taro is an out-and-out emperor [***] person who is ashamed, easy to talk big, lacks real materials, and even his promotion depends on family relationships. But even a rising star in the military department, as one of the founders of the Showa warlord system, Okamura Ninji can't watch Taro Asamiya go to his death.

Behind him is a huge family, although it does not have much influence in the military and politics, but it controls most of the logistics and supply rights of the emperor [***] team, and can be regarded as one of the invisible gate valves that can affect the empire.

Asamiya Taro got the opportunity to show himself as he wished, and was ordered to lead the Sixth Division as the vanguard to attack Xundian County. Although the 6th Division was the worst of the six integrated divisions, Okamura did not have any doubts about victory. In his opinion, no matter how bad the Sixth Division was, it was fully equipped with rifle equipment, and even replenished with heavy machine guns and a few mortars. Although such a force only needs one brigade of the emperor [***] team to break through, he does not think that Zhang Shusheng's troops can be as elite as the emperor [***] people, and it is impossible for them to have a perfect firepower configuration at all levels like the imperial troops.

All he needed to do was to reprimand him on the battlefield after Mamiya Taro paid huge casualties and took Xundian, and the line of fire reprimanded him.

"Ma Gong-kun, the first line of defense is in an emergency, please order the second line of defense to be ready to deal with the enemy!!" An instructor with a face blackened by gunpowder smoke burrowed into the field command post set up by Taro Asamiya on the hill outside the city, in a rudimentary bunker paved with stone slabs, and shook violently in ten seconds, and the dust that shook made both the Chinese and himself in the command post tremble.

This kind of cannon sound, such a power of explosion, many soldiers and officers of the Yunnan Army have never even encountered it. A staff officer of the Yunnan army and a battlefield observer even saw a heavy artillery shell fall on a heavy machine-gun position on the mountain range, and as a result, the huge explosion force even overturned the Dian army within a radius of several tens of meters, and the consequence of hitting this small battle cluster was to directly cause dozens of casualties. After the explosion, a huge crater was left in place, several meters deep.

"Baga, the other party actually has a 150mm level heavy artillery !!" Asamiya Taro, who got the staff officer's analysis report, suddenly felt a little cold in his hands and feet, it was not that he had never seen heavy artillery, he had seen heavy artillery of a larger caliber, and even super naval guns, and he had also seen their power, but it was all a drill or a visit, not like now, people on the battlefield, being bombarded by the enemy with heavy artillery. "There are so many advanced weapons, Yo Xi, we have all looked away......"

Because the militia adopted the new explosives developed by the returned chemist Shi Bi, the power of the 1922 type 120mm heavy cannon installed by the militia was even comparable to the power of the 150mm heavy artillery in China at the same time.

Asamiya Taro only thought of one reason, this cunning Zhang Shusheng must have smuggled back heavy artillery from abroad, otherwise, is the military blockade of the West useless?

And although some spies and the Dian army provided Okamura Ningji with relatively well-equipped information about the Dongchuan District, they were not so specific. Only Taro Asamiya, who is on the battlefield, knows what the different sounds of these weapons represent in the battlefield where the battlefield is in full swing.

“とんま！” In a hurry, Ma Gong Taro even scolded a swear word, in his opinion, the Chinese [***] people are stupid, Zhang Shusheng's troops defeated the army of Zhaobishan outside Songming County, and only launched a half-hour attack on Songming County. But these fools can't stop it, if it is a soldier of the Great Empire, they only need a brigade to launch a counter-charge. "Order, the second and third lines of defense immediately abandon the defensive battle plan, form an offensive formation, condescendingly, and launch an active attack on the enemy."

According to battlefield observers, the enemy was nothing more than a brigade unit, and Asamiya Taro decided to take a gamble and try it once with a division of men. In his opinion, it is not that Zhang Shusheng, a small warlord with some advanced equipment, is too strong, but that the Yunnan army is too weak, "Order the instructor group to immediately organize a team of supervisors, and those who are timid and retreat will be shot on the spot!" ”

"Hail!!"

As soon as his men left, Asamiya Taro picked up the binoculars again and climbed the ladder in the bunker to the hidden observation port, ready to see the results of the charge. He didn't know that this look would allow him to witness a miracle created by China.

"Gu Tianfeng!! Is your lump-eating? It took 30 minutes to take a mere line of defense. Chen Jun, who was a little short-tempered, saw that his well-equipped troops did not have a very satisfactory attack effect, so he came directly to the front line, found Gu Tianfeng, the commander of the regiment, and slapped him on the map table of the temporary front finger on the spot.

"Brigade commander, this is the battle report just now, and I haven't had time to send it to the brigade headquarters yet." Chen Jun, who had only been in the middle of an hour and had not received a report on the battlefield, naturally did not know the hidden secrets.

"My instructors have some level. Although they did not have time to build a position, they cleared the grass and rocks under the hillside, and when the first battalion launched the attack just now, they suffered a small loss, and then concentrated superior artillery fire to take the first line of defense in half an hour. ”

In fact, the three foothills outside Songming County, it is not quite right to say that the defense line is not right, at best it is a small hillside with a slope, but there are many terrain in the southwest, a division divides a regiment to defend the first line, and a battalion of the militia really can't rush them away. Of course, if it weren't for the instructors on the defense line of the Yunnan army who carried sabers, these Yunnan troops who had never fought a vicious battle would have run away a long time ago. Although the result of my reorganization was that each of them was given a rifle, there was no time to change their usual style.

Fighting if you go along with it, and fleeing if you go against it, this is a major feature of the melee of warlords in China.

"Level? Now Lao Tzu doesn't want to listen to who has a level, and the officers of our militia are more qualified than those dogs on the other side. Command!! Chen Jun glared angrily, Gu Tianfeng didn't dare to explain anymore with his legs together, "The armored troops immediately dispatched, and the artillery battalion calibrated the coordinates and aimed at the third line of defense of the Yunnan army. ”

"Huh? What is that? ”

The soldiers of the Dian army lying behind the hillside heard a strange roar, and then looked out, this time it was unbelievable, and more than thirty monsters drove under the slope of the hill with a small slope. There was black smoke coming from behind the monster's buttocks, and there was a long tube in front of it, like a bamboo pole stuck into a large wooden cabinet.

"Boom!"

Just as the Dian army was stunned, a flash of fire suddenly appeared from the long pipes of these monsters, and then explosions sounded one after another on the hillside, although the power was not as strong as the heavy artillery just now, but it was more accurate and closer.

These big guys, while leaning on two thick belts to grind the early stage, stopped from time to time to aim and fire. From time to time, rifles and heavy machine guns were fired at them, but the other side was not damaged at all, and such a strange way of fighting suddenly frightened a large number of Dian troops, and some of them even bowed their heads.

"Yaga, lying down, lying down, mortar and heavy machine gun fire!!"

There is no need to say that the instructor barks at the dog, the Dian army is lying down faster than anyone else. The Dian army, which was all over the mountains and fields, except for those who lay down, turned around and wanted to escape.

The instructor who led the team and was preparing to charge was shocked, where did China get the tanks? In this country of the sick man of East Asia, there are so many tanks??? Why did this place appear when only the Great Empire and Western troops were equipped with advanced weapons? Could it be that the other forces and Tang Jirao colluded with Westerners to exchange for these advanced equipment?

According to the common sense of the instructor who led the team, it was very likely that the tanks in the country would be destroyed if they used mortars and heavy machine guns intensively. "Attention Warlords, fire!!"

It was not until the supervising team organized by the instructor in the rear opened fire that the fleeing Dian army lay down on the spot again, looking in horror at the tanks that were stubbornly climbing up the slope of the hill with a low slope in the distance.

"When!!"

The eyes of those who witnessed it widened by a chance impact, and it was the sound of a shell hitting a tank. On this battlefield where the guns were roaring and the guns were rumbling, all the instructors shuddered when they saw a mortar fire hitting the tank on the side of the turret and hitting the armor on the side of the turret, while the tank continued to drive up the hillside without any problems.

"Yaga ......"

Condescendingly, Taro Amiya, who happened to see all this through the binoculars, only felt that his hands and feet were cold, and the telescope in his hand fell under the bunker with a puff.

In his field of vision, the troops who were originally going to organize a counter-charge were frightened by the sudden appearance of the armored troops, and they chased and chased them, making them like ducks in the mountains.

He had never felt that death was so close to him, when he was in China, he had seen this kind of iron tank, but he didn't expect that Zhang Shusheng's troops would have dozens of them, which was comparable to the number of armored vehicles of a division and regiment in China.

It was too late to run, and between the command post and the city wall, it was completely separated by all kinds of shells into a death zone. And because he was too optimistic, he didn't think about retreating into the city at all, but at this time, he could no longer enter Songming County.

Imagining the scene of those tanks going on a rampage, driving the reorganized Sixth Division into a large group and preparing to take prisoners like ducks, Amiya Taro felt a chill down his spine, "Immediately send a telegram to Okamura-kun, Zhang Shusheng's department has dozens of tanks, and the surname can be advanced, and I hope that Okamura-kun will prepare early." Humble duty should be the emperor's jade shatter!! ”

He no longer cares how the battle outside ends, the Chinese did not massacre the Chinese, let alone shoot the prisoners with the machine guns on the tank, but he knew that if he waited for the capture like this, it would be an extremely painful thing, and maybe he would be crushed to death on the spot by the angry Dongchuan soldiers with tanks.

"Bang bang bang!"

After firing three shots in a row, Asamiya Taro blew the muzzle of the gun with a smile, looked at the three dead soldiers, then rolled on the ground a few times, and then hit the earthen wall of the command post headlong, his head hurt, and he fainted.

————————“…… At 1:30 p.m. on February 27, our Songming County was conquered by Zhang Shusheng's Second Brigade...... At 10:34 p.m. on February 27, the Yunnan Army in Guiyang received information that troops from Guangxi and Dongchuan were rapidly attacking Kunming. According to another telegram, warlords in Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, and other places have all made changes...... In addition, we have received special telegrams from all over the country, totaling ......"

A staff officer read yesterday's all-day battlefield report with a blank face, Tang Jirao sat on the infusion, and his whole body trembled slightly involuntarily, listening to this battle report like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, he finally realized Yuan Shikai's mood back then.

It turns out that imaginary things can never be compared to experiencing them in person. originally thought that as long as he was strong and strong, and he was said to be his backer, even if the matter was leaked, it would only be the result of becoming a king and defeating a king. But now, the whole country is shouting about the anti-Tang Dynasty, all forces are condemning it with one voice, and foreign forces are sternly warning it...... Even when he was expelled by Gu Pinzhen, he had never been so desperate, did he really want to follow in the footsteps of President Yuan?

No, never!! Tang Jirao ripped off the infusion tube on his arm, regardless of Okamura Ningji and the others, who seemed to be sitting calmly and leisurely, he angrily reprimanded the staff officer: "Read it to me, keep reading!" ”

“…… The British and French ambassadors to China sent a joint foreign telegram, stating that if a reasonable explanation for the incident is not given and a proper solution is made, Britain and France will reserve the necessary force claims......"

"Yaga!!"

This time, not to mention Tang Jirao, who fell back into his seat, even Okamura Ningji couldn't sit still, and the southwest plan he had worked so hard to plan, even if he encountered so much trouble, in his opinion, it was all a trivial matter that hurt his muscles and bones, even the "dying loyalty" from Taro Asamiya that he received yesterday did not make him feel frightened. The tank is nothing, in his opinion, if it is in the north, it is difficult to resist Zhang Shusheng's troops with the Dian army alone, but here is the southwest, with dense paddy fields and mountains, and he has many ways to deal with the small iron box in his impression.

However, Anglo-French intervention was different. Once Britain and France did invade Yunnan from Burma and Vietnam, their entire plans for the Great Southwest would be in vain.

"Tang Jun! We must immediately change our plan, organize absolutely superior forces, and attack Dongchuan District on all fronts after eliminating Zhang Shusheng's tank troops!! Guizhou Province must be abandoned. Okamura Ninji said angrily.

"It's like ......" Before Tang Jirao finished speaking, he was interrupted by a sudden commotion outside.

"Down with the traitorous ......"

"Supervise the resignation ......"

“……”

"What's going on out there!!" Tang Jirao scolded loudly.

"Report to the Overseers, thousands of students have come out to petition, saying, ......" The guards didn't dare to continue.

Tang Jirao was distracted for a while, and the shouts he heard seemed to be close in front of him.

"Student たちが行進に発砲しなければならない" Okamura Ninji saw this and whispered to Miyai Nagao next to him.

Tang Jirao originally understood the language, but he didn't hear this abrupt passage clearly when he lost his mind.

After Miyai Nagao ran out, Tang Jirao suddenly seemed to realize something, and the sentence that he didn't fully understand just now actually recalled in his mind again, and suddenly rushed to the outside of the Overseer's Mansion like crazy, "Oh my God!! No!! Don't fire!! Don't fire............"

"Da Da Da ......"

"Bang bang bang ......" -

From this chapter onwards, because it involves a special story, Tang Jiyao's title is hereby corrected to Tang Jirao.

(To be continued)