Twenty-mm rapid-fire guns did not do much against some fortified fortresses and armored targets, but they were quite practical against hidden points of fire in the city. A rapid-fire gun with a small caliber can take advantage of its direct firepower to accurately hit the window where it is firing, relying on an extremely high rate of fire to tear the hidden Japanese soldiers to shreds in an instant.

With the addition of machine gun firepower, the Weasel 1 became the most troublesome weapon for the Japanese soldiers. Lacking anti-armor weapons and not even large-caliber rifles, the Japanese soldiers could only rely on their flesh and blood to attack the combat vehicles with the only grenades.

The Japanese soldiers were brave enough to rush to the chariot with a smoking grenade, but the Marines were well prepared. According to the rules of conduct, they placed the chariots behind the infantry and used them only as support fire, and those who wanted to blast the chariots needed to pass through the layers of Marine infantry, which was basically impossible to succeed.

The rapid advance of the marines, the Japanese soldiers had no effective countermeasures, they were defeated one after another, and were soon expelled from the city, and the Japanese soldiers who were separated from the protection of the city were even more sad.

The armored units of the Guards had been waiting impatiently, and when they saw the Japanese soldiers fleeing from the city, the herds of chariots rushed forward as fast as they could, seeing the hungry wolves of the sheep.

In front of the hordes of Grizzly Bear 1 chariots, the fate of the Japanese soldiers was even more tragic. These soldiers did not know how to destroy the other party, and some soldiers even stabbed the frontal armor of the chariot with their bloody bravery, and the results were quickly crushed into a pile of flesh by the tracks.

The new concept of weapons and equipment of the Chinese army made the Japanese soldiers at a loss, and they soon collapsed, and their will soon collapsed, and the routs threw away their weapons and fled in all directions.

The soldiers of the Guards who defeated the Japanese army did not relax, except for the synchronous machine guns on the chariots, there was no ceasefire, and the Chinese soldiers who followed behind the chariots also chased the routs with semi-automatic rifles or submachine guns, and kept strafing, and a large number of Japanese soldiers were killed on the spot by bullets fired from behind.

Not to be outdone, the Marines who protruded from the city were able to outflank and intercept them in a large circle with their faster vehicles. Under the drive and cover of the armored forces, the Japanese army was crushed for thousands of miles, and the Chinese army was invincible.

Having stopped at Kurumeko Station, Zhang Zhonglin quickly divided his army into three routes, quickly breaking through in three different directions, and the troops on the left flank, mainly marines, advanced along the seashore, and the front of the troops was directed towards Fukue Castle.

The central force was dominated by the Guards Army, supplemented by the main force of the Wehrmacht, and their objectives were the most arduous. The two armies will cross the entire island of Kyushu and capture the other side of the island, Tsumisaki Castle, to complete the sweep of the entire interior of Kyushu, while the 50,000 Ezo people will serve as the rear team to protect their logistics and maintain local security.

The troops on the right flank, which consisted of two armies of the Wehrmacht, were to attack and advance entirely in the mountainous areas of Kyushu, for which they abandoned all their heavy artillery, and entered the mountains with only a large number of pack horses and hundreds of light mountain guns.

The economic center of Kyushu Island is along the coast on the left road, where it is the largest steel smelting center and cotton textile center in the Japanese country, producing one-third of the country's gross national product, and the economic value is absolutely high, but the Japanese army decided that the fish will die and the net is broken, and the marines just began to attack Fukuoka Castle, which is closest to Kurume Port, and the Japanese army began to resist frantically and destroyed the textile factories in the city.

For these textile factories, the Chinese army is not distressed, the Chinese Empire has a large number of cotton spinning enterprises led by the Fangjia Guofeng Consortium, and its production scale is almost saturated, even if there are more textile factories with outdated equipment than the Wa Kingdom, it is not much use, but it is not the same from Arikawa Castle, which is more than 50 kilometers away from Fukuoka City.

There is the only large iron ore in the country near the city of Arikawa, this iron ore is pure, the iron content is more than 60%, it is an absolute iron-rich ore, not only easy to mine, but also easy to smelt, so there is the largest iron and steel factory in the country of Japan.

The Arikawa Iron and Steel Factory is the largest steel smelting plant in the Wa Kingdom, and its annual steel output accounts for more than half of the total steel output of the Wa Kingdom.

With the experience of Fukuoka Castle, the marines did not dare to attack anymore, once they forced the Japanese army, they smashed the steel factory, and the spoils of the Chinese Empire will be greatly reduced, not to mention that the steelmaking furnace and other equipment of this steel factory are the latest products imported by the Japanese from the Saar Empire three years ago, and their performance is not backward.

With this concern, the Marines decided to postpone their assault on Arikawa Castle in order to study a plan to ensure that the steel plant was taken in its entirety, but the Japanese army was also aware of the importance of the steel plant, and they sent heavy troops to the factory on the outskirts of the city, and if they saw that the situation was not right, they would wreak havoc, and the Marines had no time to preserve the place.

Just when the top brass of the Marine Corps was at a loss, a special unit of the Iron Blood Army arrived at Kurume Port, they unloaded a large number of canvas trucks from the merchant ships, and the army headed straight for Arikawa Castle, and a few days later, the person in charge of the operation, Liu Yaqing, the commander of the Second Army of the Iron Army, came to the headquarters of the Marine Corps.

"Commander Liu Yaqing, why are you here?" Gao Dingkui, the commander of the Second Marine Corps, was rotated to the Wehrmacht by the Iron and Blood Army that year, and only came to the Marine Corps after several transfers, so he recognized his old superiors at a glance.

Liu Yaqing smiled and said: "It is the young master who knows that you must be in trouble with Youchuan City, let me help you." ”

"Help us? How can it help? Gao Dingkui asked in surprise.

Liu Yaqing said: "Don't you think that steel factory can't be built, we are here for this matter." ”

"Really? Great, isn't the second army of the Predators here? Qin Feng, the commander of the Third Marine Corps on the side, asked with a smile.

Liu Yaqing pointed outside and said, "Come out with me and take a look." The two army commanders followed Liu Yaqing out of the headquarters, and dozens of large trucks covered with black cloth were neatly lined up in the camp, and a 76-millimeter cannon was hung behind each truck.

"So few people?" Qin Feng looked at the team in front of him in surprise, there was a big gap between their number and his own estimate.

Gao Dingkui was also surprised: "There is at most one regiment here, how can such a few people capture the steel factory?" ”

Liu Yaqing said with a smile: "Don't underestimate them, this is the first special artillery regiment in our Iron and Blood Army, and their strength is very strong." ”

The two were suspicious of Liu Yaqing's words, and Liu Yaqing didn't explain to them, but just asked them to gather a brigade of troops and cooperate with them tomorrow morning.