After Li Zihan finished speaking, he turned around and ran back, Liao Yaohua saw that the legendary veteran "Two Hundred Five" who was still squatting behind the anti-tank cone and raising his gun to shoot was also turning his head and running back, and when he looked over the anti-tank cone and looked forward, he saw that several huge ironclad vehicles had already driven over with the sound of "sudden".

didn't have time to take a closer look at the appearance of the little Japanese tank, and Liao Yaohua also ran back in a panic.

When he rushed out of the underground shelter just now, he didn't see anything because the gunpowder smoke on the position had not yet dispersed, but when he ran back now, the gunpowder smoke on the position had already dispersed, and Liao Yaohua finally saw clearly that after the small Japanese cluster shelling, his own position was blown out of dense potholes of various sizes.

Many trenches were blown up, although the trenches of the 19th Brigade were well repaired and reinforced with wooden stakes, but under the bombardment of large-caliber heavy artillery, they were like paper paste, Liao Yaohua even saw that an underground shelter was blown up, at least one platoon of officers and soldiers were killed, and the big pit created by the explosion was full of severed limbs.

Liao Yaohua even saw half of the open scoop of skull, the round concave cranial cavity was already empty, seeing this, Liao Yaohua's stomach suddenly turned over, and his legs began to weaken again, if it wasn't for Li Zihan's help, he would probably fall from the edge of the trench more than two meters high.

Toshiro hid behind the squad leader and carefully got up from the ground.

Coming from a wealthy merchant family in Takego, Kyoto, Toshiro's dream was to be a traveler, but the militaristic education that prevailed in Japan at the time changed his life path, and he eventually became an imperial soldier and set foot on the distant Chinese battlefield, killing many Chinese in Nanjing half a year ago.

Toshiro was an outstanding writer, and since he set foot on the battlefields of China, he wrote many diaries, many of which were devoted to describing what he saw and heard after arriving in China.

Before going to North China, he had never seen such a vast wilderness as the North China Plain, Japan's Kanto and Kansai Plains were just a small depression compared to the North China Plain, and before coming to East China, Toshiro had never seen such a majestic and magnificent ancient city as Nanjing, as well as Shanghai, he had never seen a more prosperous city than Shanghai, and Tokyo, the capital of Japan, was like a countryside compared to Shanghai.

But at this moment, Toshiro no longer has the leisure to browse the scenery.

Little Japan's artillery equipment is far stronger than the national army, but it is only stronger than the national army, compared with Germany, the Soviet Union and other land forces on the shijie at that time, it is simply scum, and the United States after the war machine was completely launched three years later, it is even less worth mentioning, small Japan can not rely on artillery fire to destroy the national army's fortifications, nor can it cause a large number of casualties to the national army hiding in the fortifications, so after the artillery preparation, small Japan also has to send a small force to conduct a tentative attack, the purpose is to test the national army, Judge the firepower and strength of the national army that survived the artillery fire.

Toshiro's infantry squad unfortunately "snatched" this task.

Before setting foot on the battlefield in East China, Toshiro had already heard of the Battle of Songhu, and knew that the national army was very heroic in the Battle of Songhu, and the casualties of the infantry squads sent by the Japanese army to test the attack were usually very large, so Toshiro had already been mentally prepared, but he never expected that participating in the trial attack would be so dangerous.

The Chinese soldier just now was obviously four hundred meters away, but the shooting hit rate was frighteningly high, and the Beijima and other soldiers were obviously lying on the ground, but they were still shot in the head by the other party, and Toshiro was lying next to Beijima at that time, and he could clearly see the blood mist that burst out after the bullet passed through the Beijima steel helmet.

Until this moment, Higashimhiro was thinking, what would Kitajima think about at the moment of Zuihou in his life? The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, most of the soldiers in Kyoto were well-off, and their will to fight was far inferior to that of other soldiers from remote and poor counties, and Toshiro was especially afraid of death, he didn't want to die here at all.

It wasn't until the rumbling roar of machinery behind him, and then the massive body of the Type 95 light chariot crossed Toshiro's infantry squad and blocked the shooting range of the national army, that Toshiro finally felt a little safe, and with the chariot as a barrier, their infantry squad at least did not have to directly face the guns of the Chinese soldiers.

Four Type 95 light tanks lined up and ran over the position of the 19th Brigade with a fierce momentum, followed by at least one reinforced squadron of Japanese soldiers, a standard infantry squadron of 18l men in small Japan, and more than a reinforced squadron incorporated into an artillery squad and a heavy machine gun squadron

Toshiro's squad was also integrated into the Japanese army.

Little Japan's industrial foundation is actually not thin, but it is limited to a lack of resources, so it has only formed a very small number of tank troops, and most of them are left in the northeast to confront the tank units of the Soviet Red Army, and there are very few tanks put into the Chinese battlefield, so it is rare to send four tanks at a time to guide the infantry to attack like now.

The tank corps of small Japan is considered a jishu branch, the jishu branch is different from the infantry, the infantry service period is only two years, and the service period must be retired and return to the hometown after the service period, but the tank corps is composed of non-commissioned officers, and the service period is much longer than that of the infantry, and the training is better, so the quality of the tank corps in small Japan is still very high.

Even if the guns were fired during the march, the hit rate of the small Japanese tank crews was extremely high.

More than 20 anti-tank cones in front of the position of the 19th Brigade were the first to be shelled by Japanese tanks, but the kinetic energy shells fired by the 37mm main gun only left shallow depressions on the anti-tank cones, and the sharp corners of a few anti-tank cones were destroyed, but the entire anti-tank cone formation was not damaged at all, and the small Japanese tanks had to make a detour.

Toshiro followed the tank forward while listening to the squad leader whining.

The captain of Toshiro's squad is called Hasegawa Yasu, who is also from Takego Town, and his family is even better than Toshiro, and he also married a wife who is like a flower, Toshiro has seen the photos, and he is really more beautiful than those geisha in Tokyo, and Hasegawa Yasu will fall asleep with his wife's photo in his arms every night, and Hasegawa Yasu dreams of leaving the army early and going home.

But Hasegawa Yasu's wish to return home is obviously difficult to realize, at least not now, when the first march, the base camp had said that it would only take three months at most, they could win the holy war and return home, now nearly a year has passed, but the Chinese have not yet yielded, even if the capital falls, they have no intention of surrendering.

"Dongsang, do you still have water in the kettle?" Hasegawa Yasu suddenly looked back at Toshiro, this little devil complained for a long time, he was thirsty, and the water in his kettle had already been drunk by him, Toshiro untied his kettle, and was about to send it to the team leader, when he suddenly heard a loud bang in his ears, and then a fragment of unknown material spun and flew over at high speed, and cut into Hasegawa Yasu's neck at once.

Hasegawa Yasu's head fell to the ground with a steel helmet attached to it, and rolled to Toshiro's feet.

Toshiro looked fixedly, Hasegawa Yasu's face still maintained the look of indignation just now, as if he hadn't understood what had happened to him, but Toshiro was so frightened that he screamed like a pig.

"Bagayaru, you have disgraced the face of the Imperial soldiers." A military commander stepped forward, slapped Toshiro twice, and grabbed him by the collar to force him to turn and walk forward.

Toshiro was like a marionette, moving forward mechanically, and while turning his head to look back, he saw that Hasegawa Yasu's head was still standing on the ground, and he seemed to wink at him.

The huge fear suddenly completely enveloped Toshiro, and he quickly turned out the thousand needles sent by his wife from his shoulder bag, and almost every Japanese soldier hid such a thousand needles in his shoulder bag, some were given by his mother, and some were sent by his wife, which expressed their thoughts and blessings for their relatives who were far away from home and on the expedition.

Under the tenacity of a thousand needles, the photo of his wife is pressed.

The woman in the photo was still smiling sweetly, and he couldn't help but think that if he had died in China, he would never have been able to return to his hometown, and Zaijian would not have his wife and parents.

Toshiro instinctively slipped out of the back, but was pressed against his body by a sharp point, and turned his head a little stunned, but saw the cold face of the squadron leader Tanaka, Tanaka pointed to the front with a white-gloved finger, Toshiro had to cry and turn back again, following the tank that had broken through to fifty meters away.

"Stupid, you're blind, didn't you see me gesturing to you just now? weishenme was a few seconds late to press the detonator? Li Zihan turned back from the front observation position and yelled at Liao Yaohua, just now a Japanese tank happened to hit the mine, but unfortunately the detonation was a moment late, and only a few Japanese soldiers who followed the tank were blown up.

Liao Yaohua looked at Li Zihan in a daze, a little at a loss, until now his whole person was actually in a state of confusion, just like stepping on a pile of cotton, not falling, and his reaction was half a beat slower than usual, just now he obviously saw Li Zihan gesturing, but all of a sudden he just couldn't react.

After detonating the first mine, little Japan immediately became alert, and all four tanks stopped and did not advance further, but used 37mm main guns and forward-firing machine guns to suppress the fire of the 19th brigade, and then sent sappers to clear the line of fire.

More than a dozen Japanese soldiers came out from behind the tank with mine detectors, but as soon as they appeared, several sharpshooters of the 19th Brigade were dropped, and the remaining Japanese soldiers quickly shrank back, and then changed their bayonets to climb up against the ground, and switched to bayonet mine detection, although the efficiency would be lower, but it was better to be safe.

Gao Shenxing killed two Japanese soldiers, and was soon suppressed by the main guns and machine guns of the Japanese tanks, and could only run for his life between several sniper positions, unable to raise his head, and seeing that the anti-tank mines buried in front of the position could not be saved, Li Zihan could only order the detonation in advance, and killed several Japanese soldiers who were detecting mines.

After a short delay, the Japanese began to advance further.

Li Zihan evacuated the first line with the engineer platoon, the sappers actually did not complete the task well, but it is no longer useful to stay on the first line, and then it depends on the infantry.