The special forces company's observation balloon had barely risen into the air when it spotted the distant observation balloon of the Japanese devils.

Bian Yongyuan, the observer at the Jiangyin Fort, carefully measured the distance between the two sides, constantly transmitting information from above.

This information and data were immediately relayed to the newly established heavy artillery position.

Lin Fan did not include the approaching tank formation in the first strike sequence.

He designated the Japanese heavy artillery position 15,000 meters northeast as the primary target.

All the heavy artillery of the special forces company began adjusting their firing angles and positions at this time.

These twelve Type 96 150mm heavy cannons, seized from the Japanese, were not being fired for the first time.

Yesterday, when they fired for the first time, Lin Fan handled the entire process himself.

However, in situations like today, everything was commanded by Hui Jianming.

Lin Fan knew to let Hui Jianming take charge.

The Xishan Fort troops led by Hui Jianming also sprang into action. Firing cannons was their bread and butter.

Now, all the 150mm large-caliber cannons in the entire fortress were under their control. There were eight such cannons in total: four German-imported 150mm cannons and four domestically produced 150mm cannons.

These cannons were even more numerous than the ones they operated at Xishan Fort.

The special forces company's heavy artillery squad only used the twelve Type 96 150mm heavy cannons they had captured.

Under Hui Jianming's command, the twenty cannons fired continuously.

The personnel in the observation balloon, watching the impact points of the shells in the distance, constantly directed corrections for the deviation.

Based on the relayed information, Hui Jianming continuously adjusted the firing angles and direction.

After three adjustments, the shells fired by the twenty cannons accurately hit the target.

Seeing that the situation here was stable, Lin Fan then led eight anti-aircraft guns to meet the Japanese tanks approaching from the southeast.

In reality, dealing with twenty-odd tanks, one 88mm gun would have been enough under Lin Fan's operation.

He had brought all eight guns on purpose. Whenever there was an opportunity, Lin Fan wanted to train his men.

Tank Commander Banjō Tarō looked at the bloody path ahead, hesitant and indecisive.

There were many corpses lying on the road ahead.

And they were all imperial warriors, which made him somewhat reluctant.

After hesitating for a moment, he still drove the tank over them.

The division commander had strictly ordered: They must catch up with and annihilate the team ahead!

Following behind the twelve tanks was the infantry battalion of Chiyo Urayasu.

The soldiers of the entire battalion followed behind the tank convoy, their feet treading on muddy and slippery roads!

The mud on these roads was all red and black, full of the smell of blood.

The bodies of the soldiers crushed by the tanks had already become a mass of flesh.

The sides of the road were also piled with the incomplete limbs of soldiers' corpses and warhorses.

Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu frowned, carefully examining the bodies of the soldiers lying on the ground.

These corpses were covered with small holes, with more than one wound. Some people had countless wounds on their bodies.

This blood-soaked road was a full thousand meters long, and the soldiers of the Chiyo Urayasu Battalion struggled to walk it.

Their leather shoes, stepping on the muddy road, would occasionally slide.

When they struggled through this road, they finally rushed into Xiagang Town.

The entire town was empty, but there were many corpses lying in it.

In the distance, several soldiers riding horses could be clearly seen hurrying back.

Captain Banjō Tarō also saw the retreating Nationalist scouts.

He knew that the Nationalist troops they were tracking were not far away.

Ye Dadan, watching the approaching Japanese tank formation from afar, ordered loudly, "Infantry guns, prepare! Mortars, prepare!"

He had buried many directional mines in front of this defensive position.

He did not know if they would have any effect on these Japanese tanks.

At this moment, Yan Hongyi ran up excitedly and said, "Report, squad leader! The company commander is bringing artillery to support us."

Ye Dadan turned around and saw the special forces company's convoy coming over, and immediately ordered, "Quick, quick! Infantry guns and mortars, cease firing.

Clear a firing position for the artillery so that the company commander can attack the Japanese."

Lin Fan arrived at the battlefield, and the special forces company's eight cannons immediately moved into position.

The soldiers of the special forces company were already extremely skilled at operating the 88mm anti-aircraft guns. All eight cannons were in position in less than three minutes.

When everything was in place, the Japanese were less than a thousand meters from the position.

Lin Fan guided the eight cannons into position, adjusting their elevation and direction.

Aiming at the Japanese tanks eight hundred meters away, he ordered, "Free fire!"

This time, Lin Fan did not operate the guns himself.

He only guided the soldiers to push the cannons into position, and the soldiers operated them entirely on their own.

The 88mm anti-aircraft gun, now leveled to fire at tanks, originally had a range of up to 14,000 meters. Now, it only needed to fire 800 meters. At this distance, the entire shell was almost fired out in a straight line.

The parabola of the shell was almost straight.

A tank commander once commented on anti-aircraft guns firing at tanks: "This is too unfair."

The trajectory of the anti-aircraft gun was straight and its rate of fire was fast.

Captain Banjō Tarō saw a flash of fire in the distance and estimated that it was the enemy's artillery.

He only had time to make an evasive action. The tank did not even have time to react.

When it was already hit by a cannon!

Sitting inside the tank, Captain Banjō Tarō only felt his life-like comrade shake violently.

Like a living animal in unbearable pain, the tank shook violently after taking the first shot.

It suddenly stopped moving forward. A large chunk of the front left wheel of the tank was missing.

It had been blasted off by the shell.

The second shell destroyed the front right wheel of the tank, completely disabling the entire tank.

Captain Banjō Tarō could deeply feel the reaction of the tank under him.

After taking two shells in a row, the tank under his feet was dead.

Completely unable to move, Captain Banjō Tarō shouted to Nakamu Kento to open the tank and evacuate quickly.

At this time, if they could not leave the tank as soon as possible, they really would not know which would come first, tomorrow or the next shell.

At that moment, at least three shells hit his tank at the same time.

Captain Banjō Tarō returned to the embrace of Amaterasu Omikami without a trace of pain.

The tank he was driving was torn to pieces in an instant.

The tank driven by Sergeant Major Makihara Yūki next to him suffered the same fate.

Ye Dadan ordered the sixth squad's artillerymen to cooperate with the company's anti-aircraft guns and bombard the Japanese tank brigade at the same time.

In front of them were not only the Japanese tanks, but also the Japanese infantry battalion.

Although they were a little far away, the little figures jumping around behind the tanks, like fleas, were all Japanese soldiers.

Even in the debris from the artillery explosions, there were many remains of the Japanese infantry.

The Chiyo Urayasu Battalion following behind the tanks was now in great trouble.

In order to hold up the Nationalist motor vehicle team mentioned in the intelligence report, and to prepare for the subsequent teams to surround and annihilate the Nationalist troops.

The entire Chiyo Urayasu Battalion launched an attack. All 1,274 soldiers of the entire battalion rushed up.

According to experience, a team in a panic was a team without soldiers, a team that did not dare to resist.

Therefore, Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu asked the logistical soldiers in the battalion to pick up their guns and follow up.

The aim was to become famous in one battle and cooperate with the tank team to completely annihilate the Nationalist troops.

What they never expected was that the tanks did not play the expected role.

His battalion was still eight hundred meters away from the Nationalist troops on the opposite side, and it was obviously not the time to launch a general attack.

Therefore, Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu did not dare to continue advancing when he saw that the tank team had been completely destroyed.

Nor was he willing to wait in place.

Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu ordered, "Retreat!"

The shrapnel produced by the explosion of the 88mm howitzer shells, the fragments produced by the tanks being blown up, and the bombing of the Type 92 infantry guns and mortars were all borne by the Chiyo Urayasu Battalion.

The Chiyo Urayasu Battalion silently endured everything!

Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu shouted hoarsely, "Down! Down!"

He issued an order to retreat, but the team could not retreat now.

The sky was full of all kinds of debris, and even if the soldiers of the Chiyo Urayasu Battalion bent over, they could not escape the attack of the debris.

For this reason, Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu had to order all the soldiers to crawl out of this battlefield.

His soldiers were crawling on the ground, trying to avoid direct hits from the incoming shells.

At the same time, they were slowly moving their bodies outwards, trying to leave this hellish battlefield.

On this battlefield, only their Chiyo Urayasu Battalion was enduring all the bombing alone.

These infantrymen did not even have the power to fight back.

The nearest opponent was eight hundred meters away. The range of the Type 38 rifles in the hands of these infantrymen could indeed reach one thousand meters.

Hitting a target at eight hundred meters was certainly not a problem, but the possibility of hitting the target at a distance of eight hundred meters was basically zero. These soldiers did not even have the mood to try.

They would rather crawl a little more, trying to get a little further away from this battlefield.

It was just that those tanks around the Chiyo Urayasu Battalion were now completely becoming a good helper for the special forces company.

These tanks blocked the 88mm howitzer shells, allowing the fragments of these howitzer shells to perfectly cover the entire Chiyo Urayasu Battalion.

At the same time, these tanks were blown into even smaller pieces, and each piece of debris carried great force and extremely high speed.

Each piece of debris was like a bullet, and thousands of pieces of debris were thousands of bullets. They were intertwined together.

Creating a net in the sky for the entire Chiyo Urayasu Battalion. Only a few extremely lucky soldiers in the middle of the net could escape.

The special forces company not only had the howitzer shells fired by the 88mm anti-aircraft guns, but also the mortar shells fired by the sixth squad's six mortars, and the shells fired by the Type 92 infantry guns. These shells kept falling from the sky.

The continuous shelling caused heavy casualties to the entire Chiyo Urayasu Battalion.

Ye Dadan was extremely excited: this time it was his artillery bombing the Japanese devils.

Bombing the Japanese devils so that they could not lift their heads.

Artillery bombardment! Infantry charge!

The artillery had not finished bombing, and the infantry charged! Now that the artillery had not finished bombing, Ye Dadan ordered his soldiers to start charging.

Ye Dadan ordered loudly, "Everyone in the sixth squad: charge towards the Japanese!"

At a distance of eight hundred meters, the sixth squad launched a charge!

At this time, the heavy artillery squad commanded by Hui Jianming was still firing!

Since arriving in Jiangyin, Gozaki Keigo, the commander of the Sixth Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, had been doing well.

His heavy artillery brigade bombed the Nationalist troops every day, and had never been bombed by the Nationalist troops.

In this respect, he was much luckier than the Fifth Brigade.

Since yesterday, Brigade Commander Gozaki Keigo had been in an even better mood: because after fighting for so many days.

The Jiangyin Fortress was finally about to collapse.

This morning, he received an order to bomb an area outside Jiangyin County. This new target required some of his troops to adjust their angles and directions.

Shortly after one o'clock, the observation balloon suddenly discovered that the same observation point had appeared in the distance:

Was it friend or foe?

Brigade Commander Gozaki Keigo was contacting the Sixth Brigade when the first round of shells landed.

These were the large-caliber heavy artillery of the Jiangyin Fortress!

He could tell from the sound.

There were only two shells in the first round, far away from his artillery position.

There were still only two shells in the second round, this time less than a hundred meters away from the artillery position.

Brigade Commander Gozaki Keigo shouted loudly, anxiously urging his men to adjust their direction quickly.

Fire at the enemy in the distance.

Sergeant Mitsumura Naoto skillfully turned the gun body. The operation of the Type 96 150mm cannon could not be done in one step.

No matter how the captain urged him, the procedure had to be followed.

When the second round of shells landed not far from the position, not only was Captain Mizunouchida Keita panicked, but Sergeant Mitsumura Naoto was even more panicked.

He adjusted the cannon in a panic.

Finally, he adjusted the cannon according to the captain's instructions.

With a command, Sanpei Haruka and Sugii Sei carried over shells weighing nearly a hundred kilograms.

At that moment: the Nationalist army's third round of bombing came down, and dozens of shells smashed into the position of the Fifth Field Heavy Artillery Brigade at once.

One of the shells landed in the shelter of Sergeant Mitsumura's gun.

A single shell produced more than two thousand eight hundred pieces of shrapnel after exploding.

So much shrapnel was all borne by Mitsumura Naoto's squad.

Not only that, the explosion at such a close range also detonated the shell that had not yet been completely loaded into the chamber.

So, a second explosion rang out at Sergeant Mitsumura's gun position.

The cannon could no longer withstand such devastation, and disintegrated in the huge explosion.

Captain Hasegawa Shunshuke, who was commanding from a distance, stared blankly as a good cannon, the heavy gun barrel, flew into the air and fell far away.

The heaviest casualties in this round of bombing were Sergeant Mitsumura's artillery squad.

All of them were wiped out!

There were also some casualties on some of the other gun positions.

Captain Hasegawa Shunshuke's flag finally pointed downwards, and dozens of cannons that had completed their loading tasks fired at the same time.

Hui Jianming calmly commanded the twenty heavy cannons, continuing to load and fire.

Although he was only a squad leader in the special forces company, he commanded a full twenty 150mm heavy cannons.

Such firepower was actually no worse than when the Jiangyin Fortress was at its strongest.

This made Hui Jianming feel somewhat proud in his heart.

After the fourth and fifth rounds of shells were fired, the message from the observation balloon was: right on target.

The next thing to do was to maintain this state and continue firing!

Brigade Commander Gozaki Keigo watched as his position was completely bombarded by the Nationalist heavy artillery. At this time, there was no chance to transfer.

His heavy artillery would take at least an hour to start transporting.

At this time, they could only withstand it, fighting the Nationalist army head-on, or withdraw the artillery.

Preserve their strength!

For the Empire, skilled soldiers were important, but these heavy cannons were even more important.

The Empire was a resource-poor country and could not afford to waste anything.

Brigade Commander Gozaki Keigo now only hoped that his artillerymen could hit the Nationalist position on the opposite side.

Even if it cost him a thousand, he had to injure them eight hundred!

At that moment, a shell directly hit the observation balloon.

This made the entire Sixth Field Heavy Artillery Brigade lose its eyes at once.

Captain Mizunouchida Keita immediately decided to have all the cannons continue firing according to the parameters just now.

At the same time, he ordered people to immediately raise a spare balloon!

During this time, their artillery position had to continue to endure the Nationalist army's bombing.

What was the power of a 150mm shell?

The Fifth Field Heavy Artillery Brigade had a deep understanding of it today. The defending troops not far from the heavy artillery position.

Could only stare blankly at the smoke filling the artillery position they were guarding.

This was not the kind of smoke that was usually produced after the artillery regiment fired shells.

It was more of the smoke produced by the explosions of the shells fired by the Nationalist army.

This was what made the Empire's infantry warriors very uncomfortable.

But no matter how uncomfortable or angry they were.

There was nothing they could do about the current situation.

They could only watch the heavy artillery brigade struggling in the fire from afar.

From time to time, they could see a line of fire flying out of the smoke-filled position, proving that the soldiers of the artillery regiment were still fighting back.

The shells fired by the Fifth Field Heavy Artillery Brigade were a little far from the target.

Hui Jianming could not even hear the sound of the shells exploding.

At a distance of more than ten kilometers, a difference of a hair's breadth could lead to a difference of a thousand miles!

The parameters were originally adjusted in a hurry, and they had not had time to calibrate them when the observation balloon was shot down.

After the spare observation balloon rose into the sky, they began to guide the artillery to correct the parameters.

But at this time, there were less than ten cannons in the entire brigade that were still insisting on firing back.

The rest of the cannons were either blown up by the artillery, or the people were blown up.

At a distance of eight hundred meters, the soldiers of the sixth squad had already charged up in less than two minutes.

The bravery of these soldiers surprised even Lin Fan: when his team was still bombing, these soldiers charged directly into it.

If the artillery had not acted quickly and ended quickly.

They might have really blown themselves up today.

When the soldiers of the sixth squad charged up, the Japanese devils on the position had not all died.

Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu was one of the very lucky ones.

Hearing that the sound of artillery fire was gone, he immediately jumped up: "Kill!"

He had already seen the sixth squad rushing out of the position just now.

Now that there was no threat of artillery fire, Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu immediately mustered his courage and began to attack the soldiers of the sixth squad who had rushed up.

This was already a face-to-face battle, so of course there was only bayonet fighting.

The soldiers of the sixth squad were in groups of three, with bright bayonets and neat steps.

Each time they stabbed out a bayonet, they shouted, "Kill!"

When the first "kill!" was shouted by these soldiers, the soldiers of the Chiyo Urayasu Battalion, who had just been terrified by the artillery fire, were startled again.

Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu personally saw that the team on the opposite side, which had just sprinted eight hundred meters, was even more powerful when fighting with bayonets than his own people, who were waiting for work.

They were even more ferocious than the Empire's warriors!

In the first encounter, a dozen Japanese devils who had survived the artillery fire were immediately reduced.

What made Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu angry was that: "These soldiers who had just rushed to the position did not all rush up to fight with his own team.

Some of the soldiers actually regarded his standing warriors as dead people.

Some of the soldiers who had just rushed up had already begun to clean up the battlefield."

This was too disrespectful to the Empire's warriors.

Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu roared and personally led his men to rush up.

He shouted loudly, and the command knife in his hand slashed at the soldier in front of him.

His knife was full of strength and momentum.

The soldier opposite him stabbed forward with the rifle in his hand, blocking the command knife.

Then he pushed the rifle outwards, causing the entire command knife to leave its original path.

Then he pulled and pushed the rifle, and the bayonet appeared in front of Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu's chest.

Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu was shocked, and quickly waved the command knife downwards, trying to block the gun that had already stabbed in front of him.

What Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu did not expect was that: his full knife only slightly changed the direction of the gun. Although the knife did not stab his chest.

But the bayonet still cut a long blood groove on the side of his body.

A burst of pain came, and Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu could feel the wound bleeding quickly outwards.

At that time, he wanted to drop the command knife and cover the wound.

Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu used great willpower to suppress his inappropriate idea.

At this time, being distracted by anything was irresponsible to his life.

In order to survive, Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu tried his best to raise the command knife again with a trembling hand, wanting to continue slashing at the soldier on the opposite side.

What he did not expect was that: the rifle in the hand of the soldier on the opposite side was like a spring, as fast as it retracted, it was as fast as it stabbed out.

Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu only had the idea of drawing his knife, and the other person's bayonet had already stabbed out.

Looking at the bayonet on the opposite side, bright as blood, fast as lightning, and as swift as the wind, it stabbed straight towards his chest.

Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu hurriedly drew his knife again, wanting to block the fatal gun.

A large cut opened in his ribs made Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu feel severe pain with every movement.

Pain made people sober, but it did not make people move faster.

This time, he was finally a few points slower and could not block the fatal knife.

Although the command knife in his hand still collided with the rifle that was piercing his chest, sparks flew out.

Unfortunately, at this time, the bayonet had already been deeply inserted into his body.

Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu could feel the bayonet rolling in his chest.

This was a ferocious person. The bayonet had already been inserted into his body, but he was still making it roll in his body. He hated that he was not dying fast enough.

Battalion Commander Chiyo Urayasu, who understood all this, finally did not need to understand any more: he had entered the eternal darkness and did not need to understand these things.

The sixth squad was cleaning the battlefield for the third time today, this time they had more time.

So they cleaned it up more thoroughly.

The special forces company had always implemented the principle of collecting everything on the battlefield!

Clothes, leather shoes, weapons, ammunition, bags, all kinds of protective gear, and everything that could be taken away was taken away.

The twelve tanks that had been blown to pieces were all ordered by Squad Leader Ye Dadan to be collected and loaded onto the trucks.

This was Lin Fan's tradition. As long as conditions permitted, all the shell casings and bullet casings had to be picked up.

In this era, all the bullet casings were made of copper.

It just so happened that we were a country lacking copper. Picking up these copper casings could not only earn a lot of money for the special forces company, but also save a lot for the country.

Lin Fan was really worried about this country!

After taking out this wave of Japanese tank force, Lin Fan led the eight anti-aircraft guns and retreated successfully.

His original purpose in leading these anti-aircraft guns here was to take out these tanks.

In this era, the Japanese tanks were almost invincible, so Lin Fan paid special attention to them.

Now Lin Fan was going to lead this artillery team back to the heavy artillery position.

The spectators standing on the north bank of the Yangtze River could not see the infantry battle.

Commander Xu Kang, Division Commander Chang Enduo, and the others only saw shells constantly flying from the south bank.

The sound of artillery was rumbling, but they did not know who was hitting whom.

At noon, they saw the trucks and heavy artillery parked at Xiagang Wharf all leave.

Not long after, the entire Xiagang Wharf and Xiagang were subjected to fierce artillery bombardment.

Chang Enduo asked very strangely, "How did they know that the Japanese devils were going to bomb Xiagang?

Did they have an insider among the Japanese devils?"

Xu Kang said with a smile, "This is Company Commander Lin's insight. Since he came to the Jiangyin Fortress.

Every time he said something, it came true.

I think Company Commander Lin should be a person like Zhuge Kongming.

It's a pity that his identity is too awkward, his status is too low, and he doesn't like fame.

Otherwise, the military department should be able to listen to his opinions."

Chang Enduo said in a low voice, "Ask about his future when you have the opportunity."

Commander Xu Kang nodded, "These days, I have been worried about the defense of the fortress, and I really forgot about this.

Someone pointing out the direction can save us from taking many detours.

But his attitude towards the Anti-Japanese War has always been clear:

Persist in fighting the Anti-Japanese War to the end! Judging from his attitude, we will definitely win the Anti-Japanese War!"

Chang Enduo nodded, "Such a smart person has been persisting in participating in so many battles, and has been persisting on the front line of the Anti-Japanese War.

At least it shows that he believes that the Anti-Japanese War will definitely be victorious."