In TY City, Yoshio Shinozuka froze as he heard the commotion outside the city. The enamel cup in his hand slipped, spilling a full cup of boiling water onto his feet.
"Hiss..."
"Baka! Go out quickly and see what's happening!"
The deafening artillery fire was clearly not from the Yanagishita Brigade. As for their own artillery positions, it was out of the question; the enemy was still beyond their firing range, making it impossible to open fire!
"Death to you all! General Shinozuka, a call from Brigadier General Yanagishita!"
Just then, in the command post, a communications soldier holding the walkie-talkie earpiece bowed and said to him. Shinozuka Yoshio quickly went to answer: "Moshi moshi, are you having diarrhea?"
From the earpiece came the panicked voice of Brigadier General Yanagishita: "Your Excellency, the enemy's firepower is too intense, requesting reinforcements! Requesting reinforcements!"
"Baka!"
"Ten thousand men, with armored corps cover, and you still ask for help!"
"What the hell are you doing!"
Shinozuka Yoshio couldn't understand. In his opinion, an armored brigade working with two regiments, even if they couldn't annihilate the enemy, could at least engage them for a long time, enough to hold out until the troops south of TY arrived. But now, in less than ten minutes, they were already asking for reinforcements?
"Whoosh............"
"Boom............"
At this moment, a missile landed outside the door, and the shrapnel from the explosion shot into the command post through the doors and windows.
"Ah............"
"........"
Shinozuka Yoshio, standing behind the door, narrowly escaped. He looked out through the crack in the door and saw three helicopters hovering not far away. The noses of the aircraft were pointed directly at the command post's main entrance. Even the missiles on the suspension pylons on both sides of the fuselage were clearly visible.
"Baka!"
"Quickly send a telegram to Tokyo, TY is in danger!"
The enemy planes being able to appear so brazenly here was enough to prove one thing: without air superiority, TY City was completely defenseless against the enemy's aerial bombardment! He had placed his hope in the Yanagishita Brigade, but the rescue call just now indicated that even the most elite armored brigade in Taiyuan was useless against the enemy!
"Beep.... Beep.... Beep...."
In the command post, the surviving telegraph operator did not dare to hesitate and sent the message back to the country as quickly as possible. Perhaps, this could buy him a sliver of hope for survival?
The second the telegram was sent, Shinozuka Yoshio watched with great horror as missiles were launched from the helicopter opposite.
"Yamete........"
"Yamete........"
A full six missiles! Under the threat of death, Shinozuka Yoshio screamed at the top of his lungs, his voice even more captivating than his wife's screams.
"Boom........"
Six missiles hit the command post simultaneously! After the violent explosion, Shinozuka Yoshio and the command post he was in turned into dust together...
At the same time, earth-shattering explosions were heard from the direction of the enemy's ammunition depot and artillery positions. Those locations had also been taken out by other squads!
The Japanese soldiers in the city became panicked as they witnessed this scene. The air force was gone, and the air defense forces were gone. The ammunition depot was gone, and the artillerymen were gone! The armored brigade outside was missing, presumed dead, and now the commander was gone. Everything had happened so fast! They all knew what they had done on this land. If captured, they dared not imagine what they would face. The so-called Geneva Conventions were meant for people, not for beasts. If they were in the position of the 'rabbits', they probably wouldn't accept any prisoners of war!
In the face of life and death, they abandoned the spoils of their plunder, grabbed their only defensive Type 38 rifles, and fled towards the south gate. That area was not surrounded by the 'rabbits', and perhaps they could escape. Then, they could hide in the mountains and wait for reinforcements!
Outside the city, all the tanks and armored vehicles of the Yanagishita Brigade had become scrap metal after that round of concentrated fire. The nearby Japanese infantry were blown away, while those further away stood there stunned, unable to comprehend how the invincible armored brigade could be wiped out in one go. It wasn't until hundreds of Type 59Ds drove into sight, and the hot bullets spewed from their machine guns hit them, that they snapped back to reality. Flee! Without infantry-tank coordination, facing such an elite armored cluster, their proud Bushido spirit meant nothing in the face of life! They knew they were invaders, and if they lost, they could find a way to return home and still live a peaceful life. Therefore, it was absolutely impossible for them to fight to the last soldier and the last man like the Eighth Route Army!
A massive rout began, a collapse like a mountain crumbling! Those inside and outside the city, tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers, like unrestrained sheep, charged forward!
The Japanese aircraft, and the people of Tamada, looked at the telegrams sent by the military intelligence department, their faces as dark as the bottom of a pot. He hadn't taken the unidentified international broadcast from two hours ago seriously, but this telegram now clearly indicated that the 'rabbits' had started to bite.
"Baka, you'd better give me a reasonable explanation!"
"Why do the 'rabbits' have such powerful armored forces, and your intelligence never mentioned it!"
He roared and crumpled the telegram, throwing it at Tojo Hideki's face.
"Heh! Death to you all!"
The old bastard dared not dodge. After being hit, as he bent down to bow, he picked up the telegram. After reading its contents, he was also completely bewildered.
"Li Huangbi Xia, this is impossible!"
"The aircraft and tanks mentioned in the telegram have never appeared in the world!"
"Given the current situation of the 'rabbits', they couldn't possibly have produced them."
The person from Tamada slapped him in the face: "Baka! Then tell me, where did the armored forces mentioned in Shinozuka's telegram come from!"
"Death to you all!" The old bastard bowed again and then remained silent.
(So, after being hit and saying "Death to you all", is it an apology or a curse?)
At the same time, Chu Yunfei, who had been closely monitoring the movements of the Independent Regiment, also looked at the telegram in his hand with great bewilderment.
"They just took Ping'an County and now they're heading to Taiyuan?"
"Li Yunlong has played a very big game!"
"No, this is impossible. Even if he had the guts, the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment wouldn't cooperate with him."
"Where did those aircraft and tanks come from?"
After murmuring to himself for a long time without figuring anything out, he had no choice but to send the information to his superiors.
Chongqing.
That hooligan was once again thrown eight zhang away...
"Damn it! Who can tell me where they got their armored forces!"
"Where is Italy? I want an answer from him as soon as possible!"
"Sooner or later, we will have a battle with the Eighth Route Army. Such important intelligence was unknown. What is the Statistics Bureau doing!"
TY City, the battle started with a climax. Due to its important military location, it quickly attracted the attention of all major figures in the country. Moreover, this was the first full armored corps to appear in China!
In the 129th Division Headquarters, a telegram from Commander Chen was received every few minutes.
"10:05 AM, our unit arrived outside TY City. The helicopter squadron engaged the enemy in air combat and annihilated 24 enemy aircraft!"
"10:20 AM, all of our air power was deployed to clear the enemy's air defense forces."
"10:35 AM, the enemy dispatched the Yanagishita Armored Brigade, combined with two regiments totaling 10,000 men, to counterattack our armored cluster."
"10:37 AM, the enemy command post was destroyed by our air power!"
"10:43 AM, the enemy ground armored forces were completely destroyed by our forces, with a total of 76 tanks and 21 armored vehicles!"
"10:45 AM, our air power focused on attacking the enemy's artillery positions. The artillery shells detonated, destroying all 68 artillery pieces!"
"10:53 AM, the Japanese soldiers in the city began to rout!"
"11:05 AM, all large-scale resistance forces in TY City were eliminated. Our forces entered street fighting, clearing out the remaining Japanese soldiers!"
"The situation is under control!"