In the city of Dandong, a group of Wehrmacht soldiers was hiding behind the ruins and exchanging fire with the Japanese troops on the opposite side, and although the continuous clashes for many days had not yet reduced the whole of Dandong to ruins, it had already caused serious damage to the new city.

In particular, the high-rise buildings that have just been built in the last two years have become the first targets to be hit―――――― no way, who is too conspicuous.

However, the war has been fought so far, and the army has not mentioned it for the time being, and there have not been many civilian casualties. This was mainly due to the fact that at the beginning of the fighting, the Communist government had already ordered the people to move to safe places and vacate the cities for battlefields.

So although later, the Japanese even used heavy artillery, but the actual casualties of the people were not very many―――――― and there were so many stubborn people who said that they were unwilling to leave their homes, and even shouted that they would die in their own homes even if they died, but in the end they were taken away by a few soldiers.

How to say it...

After all, it is impossible to keep them here, although Dandong is not very dangerous at the moment, but after all, it is a battlefield, and if any shells fall on their heads, they are afraid that they will really have to live and die with their own home.

"These little devils are really good at playing with their lives..."

Looking at the Japanese soldiers who rushed up with bayonets and screaming, Wang Dayou couldn't help but scold.

After scolding, Wang Dayou picked up the shotgun in his hand, and waited until the Japanese soldiers rushed to the front before firing at the nearest Japanese soldier.

The power was so great that it quickly beat the soldier into a sieve.

However, Wang Dayou had just pointed his gun at the next soldier. And when he sent the men away, he saw that the rest of the soldiers had rushed up. Fortunately, Wang Dayou also had many comrades-in-arms around him, and before those Japanese rushed up and stabbed the bayonet into Wang Dayou's body. His comrades had rushed up to help him stop the enemy.

Taking advantage of the opportunity for his comrades to block people, Wang Dayou hurriedly pointed his gun at another enemy. But before he could pull the trigger, a bullet had already landed not far from him. Wang Dayou was stunned for a moment, then reacted, and soon saw an officer with a pistol in his hand aiming his gun at him.

Before he could react, Wang Dayou saw the other party's muzzle flash of fire, and then his arm was like a heart-piercing pain.

"!" yelled. Seeing that the Japanese officer had not given up, Wang Dayou hurriedly rolled to the ground, just dodging the next few bullets.

After hiding behind a ruin. Looking at the wound on his arm, Wang Dayou couldn't help but gasp. Looking at it, Wang Dayou's arm was bleeding uncontrollably, and at the same time, he also felt unbearable pain. I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on my forehead.

Later. It's not that I don't dare, but I don't want to look at the wound again. Just hiding behind the ruins and shouting medical soldiers―――――― although in the past, on the battlefield, he also saw his comrades injured, and some of them even reached the point of 'miserable'.

But after all, it was someone else who was injured, and now that it's me, it definitely feels different.

On the other hand, hiding behind the rubble, I felt a heart-piercing pain coming from my arm. Wang Dayou closed his eyes and took a deep breath. I want to relieve the pain in my arm.

It's just that he had just closed his eyes when he felt something coming from his side, as if something had fallen beside him. When I opened my eyes, it was actually a smoking grenade...

"!"

Almost instinctively, Wang Dayong grabbed the wooden handle of the grenade with his still intact arm, and threw it to the side. Not long after the grenade was thrown, a loud bang was heard, followed by a wave of air...

Looking at the grenade that had exploded, Wang Dayou gritted his teeth for a while.

"Fuck, I'm going to die..."

Grabbing the shotgun, Wang Dayong loaded the gun with his only remaining hand, intending to continue playing with the Japanese, until the medical guards rushed to the position...

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Seeing that the grenade was accurately thrown behind the rubble, the officer who had just hit Wang Dayou with a pistol was still very happy. But after seeing the grenade thrown again, this joy suddenly fell to the bottom...

However, just as he was about to throw another grenade, a soldier rushed up with a bayonet. In desperation, the officer had no choice but to abandon the idea.

The reason why he had to let Wang Dayou die was because they, the soldiers who used shotguns, had caused the Japanese a lot of suffering in the clashes of the past few days. Especially in white-knuckle warfare, those soldiers with shotguns are almost a killing machine, and those Japanese soldiers who originally planned to fight with the Wehrmacht with bayonets have been beaten into a sieve without even having the ability to fight back...

Such a situation is naturally intolerable to the Japanese, not to mention that the threat of this pump-action shotgun equipped by the Wehrmacht is indeed too great on the battlefield. So there was even an unwritten rule within the Japanese army that when you saw a soldier with a shotgun, you must kill them first. If a captive with such a weapon is caught, it can even be executed on the spot without trial...

The reason why the officers were so entangled just now was because of such a reason.

For this reason, he even used the wooden-handled grenade that he had sent from the mainland not long ago, but unfortunately he did not get any results―――――― since the Battle of Shandong, the Japanese Army has been protesting against the original horsetail grenade.

After all, this kind of grenade that needs to find a place to knock it first, and then grab the hemp rope and throw it out, is inevitably too unscientific when using it. I don't know how many soldiers who survived the Shandong campaign are complaining about the inconvenience of this grenade, especially in the trench, if the trench is spacious enough, it doesn't matter, if it is not spacious enough, they don't even know how to throw the grenade out...

In the face of such complaints from the Army. Japan's weapons research institutes can only choose to improve.

The problem was that Japan at this time did not know much about overseas weapons, especially the grenade, which was a relatively out-of-the-way weapon―――――― at least before the First World War. This kind of weapon is indeed quite out of the way.

In the end, there was no way, and the Japanese could only use the grenades captured from the Shandong battlefield as a reference, and finally developed a wooden-handled grenade that was very similar to the grenades equipped by the Wehrmacht.

The reason why it is very similar is that between the two, except for a few details, the rest is almost exactly the same. However, the Japanese have no problem with this, after all, Japan is a very good nation at learning. What's more, they have already learned Chinese characters and other cultures. Now it doesn't seem like much to 'learn' a grenade. The most important thing is that the Japanese of this era were not as arrogant as they were historically, especially after the Battle of Shandong...

And this grenade after being put into service. It has also received very good reviews―――――― especially after comparing it to the horsetail grenades originally used by the Japanese army.

It's just that the number of such grenades is not very large, and the unit where the officer was in just now is equipped with the most horsetail grenades, which are only equipped with a very small number. And for this case. The reasons given by the War Department are also very strong.

"There is no war at the moment. There is no need for the army to be in such a hurry to update this weapon that is not very important, not to mention that the horsetail grenade still has a large stock in our country, if it does not first carry out some consumption, it will be a huge waste to announce the early retirement of this grenade?! ”

Japan is a country that is very short of resources, and there was indeed a large number of horsetail grenades stored at that time, so this kind of "wasteful" remarks were accepted by the army. And in their opinion, the Ministry of War is right. At present, there is no war yet, so there is naturally no need to update equipment in such a hurry. Especially this kind of equipment that is not very urgent.

So this new type of grenade has always been produced in small quantities...

But now...

After knocking down the Chinese soldier on the opposite side with the pistol in his hand, the officer couldn't help but grit his teeth when he looked at a subordinate who was using a horsetail grenade not far away.

"Those damn bureaucrats..."

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While the Wehrmacht soldiers and Japanese soldiers were fighting in the city, in a low-rise building behind the front line, Wu Zhiyi and several staff officers were looking at the sand table of Dandong City that the staff officers had made temporarily made not long ago―――――― no one in the Ministry of Defense had ever imagined that there would be a possibility for foreign enemies to invade the city.

Coupled with the city, no one knows when a new building will be made, especially in recent years, the development of domestic cities is very large, almost can be described as changing with each passing day, and hundreds of new buildings will emerge in each city every year.

Even if you make a sand table, it will take about a month or two, I am afraid that it will be completely eliminated, and it is not easy to get a new sand table.

Therefore, usually the city only has a map, a sand table or something...

However, the staff officers in the staff department still tried their best to come up with a sand table. Although the sand table itself is a little too simple, it can more or less give Wu Zhiyi a more intuitive perspective.

At this moment, on the sand table, countless small flags representing the Japanese army and the National Defense Army are being planted, which also allows Wu Zhiyi to intuitively understand where the front line is now.

"The people of the city have already withdrawn, right?"

Looking at the flags on the sand table, Wu Zhiyi turned his head and asked a staff officer next to him.

"It's all gone..."Hearing Wu Zhiyi's question, the staff officer hurriedly said. Unless there's something we haven't noticed, we're basically the only ones left in the city right now..."

"Yes." Wu Zhiyi nodded, and then continued to ask. "What about the casualties of the troops?"

"It's big—" this time it was not answered by the staff officers around him, but by the chief of staff who pushed open the door and walked in from the outside. I just went to do some statistics, and the casualties of the troops in the past few days have been very large, if it weren't for the troops in Fushun and Shenyang that have been put in, I'm afraid we would have been a little unable to support it..."

"There's no way..."Hearing the chief of staff say this, Wu Zhiyi couldn't help but shake his head. After all, it's all a bunch of recruits. It's good to be able to play like this..."

The chief of staff also sighed, but there was nothing to say.

There are not many troops stationed in Dandong, just a C infantry division. The number is about 12,000. In addition to heavy machine guns, ordinary infantry squads are not equipped with even a light machine gun, and even such equipment as shotguns is not equipped in every squad ...

As for the latest submachine guns? Of course there is such a thing, but it is not in Wu Zhiyi's infantry division, that's all...

In fact, even for the Wehrmacht, the submachine gun was a very advanced piece of equipment. Especially after considering the man-hours and costs required. So far, the only troops in the Wehrmacht who have been equipped with such weapons are the main forces that are carrying out the westward expansion strategy, and the troops stationed near Beijing ―――――― the Imperial Forest Army, not to mention anything else. The equipment is always better.

But the equipment or something, no matter how it is updated, at least in five years, I am afraid it will have little fate with Wu Zhiyi's infantry division, after all, Wu Zhiyi's infantry division is just an ordinary C division.

If not. It's the words of a first-class master. With the more than 20,000 people on the opposite side alone, Wu Zhiyi has already driven them back to North Korea, like now, they still need reinforcements to hold Dandong...

Of course, even if this is all about it, it is the problem of recruits that really matters...

The scale of this expansion was so large that almost all of the Defence Force were recruited. The expeditionary force is better to arrive, even if the recruits roll on the Western Front for two years. Most of the people who survived were veterans. The First Army Group, which followed Cai Ye to implement the westward expansion strategy, although the battles along the way were not very good. But at least it has been honed along the way, not to mention that the local resistance groups also have some experience.

Even the troops under Feng Guozhang gained a lot of experience in fighting along the Trans-Siberian Railway towards Yekaterinburg. But for Wu Zhiyi's kind of B troops, unless they are selected to go to Europe, otherwise...

Of course, it is precisely for this reason that almost all of Wu Zhiyi's part are recruits, and the reason why Dandong was so easily attacked was because the Japanese acted too suddenly, but on the other hand, it was also because they had little experience.

Although the Japanese also have many new soldiers, they usually take the form of veterans leading new soldiers, and even if they expanded, they did not directly expand from one million to more than two million like the national government...

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Although there were some sighs, but the battle still had to be fought after all, standing next to the sand table, looking at the situation of the dogs and teeth above, Wu Zhiyi and his chief of staff couldn't help but sigh.

But...

"After all, reinforcements have arrived, and the certainty of driving the Japanese out is much greater..."

Seeing Wu Zhiyi's sad appearance, the chief of staff comforted him on the side.

Hearing the chief of staff say this, Wu Zhiyi nodded, but his face didn't seem to look much better. But while they were still there, someone walked in with a briefcase...

"May I ask if you are Major General Wu Zhiyi?"

"That's right, it's me, you're..."

"The commissioner specially sent by the Ministry of National Defense..." took out his ID, and the man in black looked at Wu Zhiyi and said. I've brought an order, can I ask the idlers here to quit first? After saying that, the man in black glanced at the chief of staff. Of course, you don't have to..."

Looking through the documents, although he didn't understand what the hell the person in front of him was doing, Wu Zhiyi still nodded to his subordinates.

Soon, the staff officers and soldiers who were originally in the command room all retreated from the room, and Wu Zhiyi's expression also looked at the man in black with a slightly stiff expression. "Now, it seems that Your Excellency can explain your intentions..."

"Of course." The man nodded, then glanced at the two of them. "I brought the president's order ..."

"President..." Hearing that it was Yan Shao, Wu Zhiyi and the chief of staff's expressions suddenly became stern. I don't know what the president's old man ordered, even if our division is broken, we will definitely complete the order given by his old man..."

Standing next to Wu Zhiyi, the chief of staff also nodded a little excitedly.

Although the division commander looks not small, but after the large-scale expansion of the army in the country, the infantry divisions one by one do not know how many, and it is impossible for Yan Shao to send a special envoy to deliver telegrams in each infantry division, so in Wu Zhiyi's opinion, it is really a special honor to let Yan Shao personally send a telegram.

It was in this almost pious atmosphere that the man in black informed himself of the orders he had brought.

"The president asked you to drag the Japanese army in Dandong City, and you can't let them retreat across the Yalu River under any circumstances..."

Hearing such an order, Wu Zhiyi and the chief of staff were taken aback.

How to say it...

If the order given to them by Yan Shao was to drive the Japanese out of Dandong in a certain amount of time, then they could understand a little. The reason why the chief of staff said that just now was because he thought that Yan Shao was planning to order like this...

Who would have thought that Yan Shao not only did not give such an order, but asked them to drag the Japanese in Dandong as much as possible and prevent them from running out, which is inevitably some...

"This ........." looked at the man in black, Wu Zhiyi said a little strangely. What the hell is the president..."

"I don't understand, do you?" glancing at Wu Zhiyi and the chief of staff, the man in black chuckled. If you don't understand, if you really want to understand, then you will also become president. All in all, you just have to do what you are told, it's as simple as that..."

"Yes!" (To be continued......)