Kento Otani's efforts as a pilot were all in vain.

It was as if it had been targeted by a ferocious beast, a series of alarms going off in its heart, its whole body trembling.

Otani Kento felt a gaze from the ground lock onto him tightly.

Causing both it and its fighter plane's movements to become stiff.

In reality, at this time, Lin Fan had already fired a shell at its plane.

He didn't look at it anymore, but instead looked towards the next fighter plane.

Today, these fighter planes had not come to attack Lin Fan and the others.

These fighter planes were all flying at an altitude of more than four thousand meters. In fact, the Tojo Saemon squadron was indeed just passing by.

Squadron Leader Tojo Saemon never imagined that flying in the sky could also lead to being ambushed, and this was near Nanjing.

Otani Kento felt the plane trembling as well, as if it had been infected by him.

Then the entire plane suddenly exploded.

No matter what kind of flower those planes in the sky flew out.

In the end, under Lin Fan's attack, they turned into fireworks one by one.

The soldiers of the 14th Regiment lurking under the mountain could not cheer at this time.

Although they really wanted to do so.

Their enemies had not yet arrived, and they could not reveal their position at this time.

The Sanjō Susumu Battalion received the order to reinforce Wuhu at 6:30.

Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu looked at the marching route. From Nanjing to Wuhu, the fastest way was, of course, by rail.

Moreover, this battalion was equipped with an artillery company.

Four 70mm Type 92 infantry guns were best transported by train.

The entire battalion assembled and set off in ten minutes.

When they arrived at the station, preparations had already been made here.

There was already a train transporting ammunition to Wuhu, and now only fourteen more carriages were temporarily added.

The entire Sanjō Susumu Battalion was loaded in.

In this way, the entire train had a full twenty-seven carriages.

Although the railway to Wuhu was relatively smooth, twenty-seven carriages were still within the capacity.

But this also slowed down the train.

The devils of the Sanjō Susumu Battalion boarded the train reluctantly.

For them, leaving Nanjing, such a comfortable nest, so quickly was a huge loss.

It wasn't that they were greedy for the comfort here, it was just that it was too comfortable here.

Since entering this city on the fourteenth of last month, they had been surrounded by a great sense of happiness.

This wasn't just the honor brought by occupying the capital of this country.

More happiness came from the wealth they had looted during these days.

Most of the devils who were ordinary soldiers could not loot as many good things as their officers at once.

But the requirements of these ordinary soldiers were not high. They were happy with a daily income of dozens of yuan.

In any case, they could go out and loot every day. Of course, they couldn't be polite to those who dared to go out without money.

If you don't pay, you pay with your life!

Such a good life suddenly came to an end.

Today, they would leave this good place.

The devils of the Sanjō Susumu Battalion looked at the city again, reluctantly.

We must leave after all!

The whistle sounded! The train started slowly, and the devils of Sanjō Susumu began to advance towards Wuhu.

The entire battalion was immersed in a sad atmosphere.

Even Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu was no exception. If he could choose, he wouldn't want to leave Nanjing either.

Squadron Leader Yanashita Takashi was also very unhappy today.

His local informants had already said that they had found three more possible locations of large tombs.

They were just waiting for Squadron Leader Yanashita Takashi to take people to blow them open and excavate them.

As a result, before he had time to make a fortune, he was going to be taken to the battlefield.

Yanashita Takashi wasn't afraid of going to the battlefield, but he didn't want to go to the battlefield now! If he could choose, he wanted to be stationed here forever.

In the past few days, Yanashita Takashi had vaguely heard a piece of news: the Senkikumaro cargo ship was missing.

In order to confirm this news, he had also inquired with the staff officers of the headquarters.

Everyone was tight-lipped about this matter.

This made Yanashita Takashi feel uneasy: they didn't even say it out loud.

The obvious rumors had come true.

Thinking of the eighty-one boxes of treasures that he had sent on board at the last moment.

Squadron Leader Yanashita Takashi's mood was particularly heavy.

Now that he was about to leave Nanjing again, didn't he come empty-handed and leave empty-handed again?

Leaving the treasure mountain empty-handed, no one could be in a good mood!

The train didn't care about the mood of these devils, the locomotive only knew how to run forward, chugging and chugging.

The 14th Regiment, led by Wu Yuan, finally heard the sound of the train coming.

The rails in front had already been dismantled for a thousand meters.

According to Lin Fan's idea, if possible, he also wanted to dismantle all the rails along the way.

These were all good steel that could be used to make many good things.

Even if they couldn't use them all, wouldn't it be good to use them to make kitchen knives and hoes?

When Kong Xuebo was driving the train and humming a song, running happily on the railway.

Suddenly, he saw that the rails were gone! What was going on?

He looked at the railway carefully again: the rails were really gone, starting from less than fifty meters ahead.

There were no more rails until the end of the line of sight.

Kong Xuebo immediately started braking.

The harsh sound of emergency braking, the sparks generated when the train's iron wheels rubbed against the rails, could be clearly seen by the soldiers ambushing on the hillside.

The huge inertia still caused Kong Xuebo to fail.

The car still couldn't stop within a distance of fifty meters.

The front of the car suddenly derailed and tilted onto the roadbed.

The emergency braking of the train caused the devils in the dozen or so troop carriers at the end of the train to collide with each other.

It was just that the train was not fast, and some of the devils of the Sanjō Susumu Battalion were bruised and swollen.

There were no real serious injuries.

As soon as the train stopped, Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu immediately ordered, "Send someone to see what happened!"

Their fourteen troop carriers were attached to the very end.

The devils didn't know what had happened in front.

The devils in these fourteen troop carriers opened the doors.

Some devils jumped out of the car and immediately saw the locomotive that had tilted onto the roadbed.

Gudō Kameinosuke shouted loudly, "The train has derailed."

Hearing that the train had derailed, more devils jumped out of the train.

These devils were curious and wanted to run to the front to see what was going on.

Hearing that the train had derailed in front, more devils jumped out of the carriages.

In any case, the train could not run for a while.

Sitting in the carriage was also boring, so these devils jumped out to prepare for some activities.

Gudō Kameinosuke and several of the first devils to come out walked towards the derailed locomotive.

Battalion Commander Wu Yuan looked at the devils jumping out of the carriage one after another: there are so many devils today!

At least four or five hundred devils had jumped out of the carriage.

There were still many devil figures shaking in the carriage.

Those few devils who got off the car first had already reached the position of the locomotive.

Gudō Kameinosuke and the devils realized that there was no roadbed with rails, and they understood that someone had sabotaged it.

"We can't wait any longer!" Battalion Commander Wu Yuan saw the devils at the derailment of the locomotive.

These devils had already discovered the truth.

Wu Yuan ordered loudly, "Bomb!"

"Fire!"

Directional bombs were the tradition of the Special Operations Brigade. For actions like today, ambush circles had already been set up.

More than a dozen directional bombs blew the devils who got out of the car to pieces.

When the bombs exploded, the attack of the 14th Regiment arrived simultaneously.

Fire immediately after the bombing.

Gudō Kameinosuke and the devils who were standing at the locomotive were knocked down by the officers and soldiers of the 14th Regiment in the first round.

Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu heard the explosion and also heard the sound of countless bullets hitting the outside of the carriage.

Ordered loudly, "Defense! Defense!"

When he first learned that the train had derailed, he was still considering what to do.

Should he lead the team on foot to Dangtu?

He never thought that he was being attacked.

When the explosion sounded, he began to order the soldiers to fight back and defend.

These carriages were natural fortresses.

Those devils who were still staying in the carriages stayed in the carriages and exchanged fire with the officers and soldiers of the 14th Regiment.

Ordinary bullets could not penetrate the steel plates of the carriages at all.

The heavy machine guns of the 14th Regiment could only block the doors of each carriage, preventing the devils from getting off the car.

They also blocked the devils' position for fighting back from the car door.

Those devils who had just jumped off the train and wanted to see the derailment of the locomotive.

Some of them were lucky enough to survive the explosion of the directional bomb.

Sergeant First Class Ono Kaito was one of those who survived.

Now he was lying tightly on the ground, trying to look towards the hillside.

From here, Sergeant First Class Ono Kaito could see gun muzzle flashes from the gunfire all over the hillside.

This was completely a premeditated ambush!

Sergeant First Class Ono Yuto was hiding in a hidden place on the side of the roadbed, where he could perfectly avoid the attack from the hillside.

In less than five minutes after the start of the battle, the entire Sanjō Susumu Battalion was suppressed in the carriages and unable to move.

There were still some sporadic devils outside the carriages resisting, and they had been suppressed by the fierce firepower from the hillside.

Most of the devils were still hiding in the carriages and firing.

Squadron Leader Yanashita Takashi had now put away his careful thoughts of making money.

He only wanted to repel the 14th Regiment that was ambushing them.

He ordered his soldiers to hide on both sides of the open car door and counterattack towards the hillside.

This was also the method chosen by all the devils who were still in the carriages.

Machine guns and grenade launchers all fired towards the hillside.

These devils were hiding in the carriages, and all the bullets from the hillside were blocked by the carriages.

Company Commander Shi Yongchun of the 1st Company on the hillside watched the bullets fired by the soldiers and saw sparks splashing on the train carriages.

They couldn't penetrate the carriages at all.

The devils relied on the carriages and hid inside to fire.

If the firepower of the 14th Regiment wanted to cause damage to the devils, they could only fire into the car door.

The devils also carefully pushed the car doors halfway closed, making the attack of the 14th Regiment even more difficult.

For a while, neither side could do anything to the other, and the officers and soldiers of the 14th Regiment became a little anxious.

Battalion Commander Wu Yuan was even more anxious at this time: if they couldn't break open the hard shell that the devils were relying on.

If this continued for a long time, who knew what kind of changes would happen?

Since heavy machine guns couldn't penetrate those carriages, they could only use artillery.

Lin Fan and Hui Jianming were on the top of the mountain and could clearly see the resistance of the devils in the distance.

Hui Jianming pointed to the train and said, "There must be supplies in the thirteen carriages in front of this train.

After fighting for so long, not a single devil has come out of these carriages."

Lin Fan nodded, "The 14th Regiment seems to be in trouble. They can't hit the devils in the carriages."

Just as he said this, a shell shot straight from the hillside and hit the resisting carriage.

The shell blew a big hole in the carriage.

Wu Yuan ordered loudly, "Infantry guns! Aim and fire!

Pass the order down, all company infantry guns, open fire!"

His regiment's organization was complete, with ten companies.

Each company had two Type 92 infantry guns.

Upon receiving the regiment commander's order:

All these infantry guns fired at the carriages where the devils were sticking their heads out.

There was a heavy machine gun in the roof of the carriage that the Imaki Yuto squad was riding in.

These devils creatively closed the car door, leaving only a slit.

They used the car door to block the rain of bullets from outside.

They nervously lifted the heavy machine gun to the back of the door and placed it properly, then carefully opened the door a little.

As soon as the heavy machine gun poked its head out, it immediately began to strafe the 14th Regiment on the hillside.

Attempting to suppress the firepower on the hillside.

The devils in this carriage were so creative!

The infantry of the 14th Regiment gave priority to attacking these devils with heavy machine guns fighting back.

But the devils in this carriage used the train door as a shield to protect the heavy machine gun.

The Imaki Yuto squad used this heavy machine gun to suppress the firepower of the Special Operations Brigade in front of them all at once.

Battalion Commander Wu ordered to use infantry guns to deal with the devils hiding in the carriages.

A 70mm grenade hit the carriage.

The car door was blown open with a big hole, and shrapnel flew around in the carriage.

There was a series of clanging sounds.

This was the sound of shrapnel hitting the carriage.

More shrapnel hit the bodies of the devils in the carriage.

The heavy machine gun was lifted up by the blast of air from the shell.

The devils surrounding the heavy machine gun to fight back towards the hillside were all killed by this grenade.

Even those devils hiding deep in the carriage were injured by the raging shrapnel.

This was because the volume in the carriage was still too small for a 70mm grenade.

The shrapnel produced by the grenade explosion could still bounce around in the entire carriage.

As if it wouldn't stop until it had shot into a devil's body.

Infantry guns could blow open the devils' bunkers!

With the experience of penetrating the devils' carriages, twenty infantry guns began to rejoice.

They fired at the carriages where the devils were fighting back.

Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu stayed in the corner of the carriage.

This was a dead angle for outside shooting.

As long as they didn't rush into this carriage, they couldn't find Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu at all.

In this corner, it had been safe since the start of the war.

Until Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu heard the constant sound of huge explosions.

This was the sound of shells exploding, and he could tell from the frequency of these shell explosions:

The team ambushing them had a lot of artillery.

This was not a good thing.

Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu knew clearly that the outer shell of the train carriage could withstand bullets.

It was still impossible to block the bombardment of shells.

Even the empire's tanks didn't have this ability now.

If the opponent had artillery, the combat strategy of the Sanjō Susumu Battalion had to be changed.

Although ordinary bullets could not penetrate the carriages, the attack from the hillside had never stopped.

They were using bullets to attack the empire's warriors who were fighting back hidden in the car door.

Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu had already seen that the devils in his carriage were locked inside.

Presumably the situation in other carriages was the same.

Freight trains were just like this: each carriage was separate.

He couldn't command the entire battalion here at all.

The sound of shells exploding outside was still ringing non-stop.

Although he couldn't see the situation outside,

But Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu could feel that:

If they didn't rush out, this carriage would become the grave of all the devils.

Thinking of this, he ordered loudly, "Rush out! Everyone rush out!"

Although the shooting from the hillside was very fierce, Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu couldn't stay for another second.

He had a strong sense of crisis: if he didn't rush out, he was afraid that he would die here.

Following Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu in a carriage was his battalion headquarters and a squad of devils.

Squad Leader Tano Shichirō loudly urged the devils under his command to rush out despite the rain of bullets.

Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu was watching from the side, and these devils had to rush out of the carriage despite the dense rain of bullets.

And after they rushed out, they immediately began to counterattack the National Army on the hillside.

Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu, who had just rushed out of the carriage and was lying prone on the side of the railway, finally had time to see the current situation of the entire battalion.

His battalion was riding in the last fourteen carriages, and now the siding on the hillside side of seven carriages had been blown open.

There were no devils fighting back from those carriages.

There were still some devils fighting back along the railway line.

Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu watched another carriage being blown open with his own eyes.

The carriage that was still fighting fiercely just now suddenly became silent.

He became anxious and ordered loudly, "Pass the order down: all devils get out of the car! All get out of the car!"

With the battalion commander's order, the devils hiding on the railway line immediately passed the order down.

There were still many devils in the carriages that had not been blown up rushing out despite the rain of bullets.

Although they left more than a dozen corpses at the car door, they managed to escape dozens of devils.

Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu saw the situation clearly: the firepower of the team ambushing on the hillside was extremely strong.

Not only did they have infantry guns and heavy machine guns.

When these devils rushed out of the carriages, there were even mortars starting to bomb them.

Those devils who escaped from the carriages were looking for hiding spots that were not easily hit from the hillside.

At this time, of course, it was time for the mortars to be effective.

The ambushing National Army had strong firepower and a large number of people.

Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu didn't have the slightest intention of counterattacking.

He ordered loudly, "Retreat back along the railway line, retreat back to Nanjing."

This order gave all the remaining devils great courage.

If they had asked them what their greatest wish was before the entire Sanjō Susumu Battalion was attacked?

At least a thousand of the devils in the entire battalion wished to return to Nanjing! Now the battalion commander ordered: break through towards Nanjing.

At this time, although there were less than three hundred devils left in the entire battalion.

These devils, after being stimulated, developed a strong fighting spirit.

Squadron Leader Yanashita Takashi immediately took action: "The Watanabe squad covers, the rest of the team retreats while fighting!"

His squadron still had eighty devils.

It was considered the largest team now.

With the order to return to Nanjing, Squadron Leader Yanashita Takashi's thoughts immediately became active.

The morale of the entire Sanjō Susumu Battalion had been completely destroyed in the battle so far.

Suddenly hearing that they could return to Nanjing, these devils finally had the courage to fight to the death.

Wu Yuan watched the devils start to move towards the tail of the train, and of course knew what they were thinking.

He was overjoyed and ordered the entire regiment to fight steadily and drive the devils towards Nanjing.

The one rushing in the front this time was the Yanashita Takashi squadron, the most numerous team right now.

The combat effectiveness was also the strongest.

This was because the devils in the entire Yanashita Takashi squadron were all making money with the squadron leader.

Of course, they knew that as long as they returned to Nanjing, they could continue to make money.

Birds die for food, and men die for wealth!

For money, these devils of course had to do everything possible to return to Nanjing.

Squadron Leader Yanashita Takashi was still encouraging these devils:

"I received the news last night that three locations have been determined and need our help.

After we go back this time, we will first dig up those three places that have been scouted."

This was giving all the devils a shot in the arm! This time, half of the squadron was missing, and if they found good things again.

When distributing, each devil would be able to get half as much more.

The devils of the entire squadron thought of this and felt a fire in their hearts.

They only needed to break out of this ambush circle now.

Maii Yuto looked at the road ahead. Along the way, there were corpses of devils everywhere.

Now these devils had rushed to the position of the tail of the train.

Walking forward was a road that no devil had ever walked.

And the attack from the hillside was not as fierce as before.

It could be seen that this was the edge of the National Army's ambush circle.

Squadron Leader Yanashita Takashi was also secretly happy. The soldiers could see the situation.

Of course, he also saw that this was the edge of the National Army's ambush circle.

These teams only needed to rush out another hundred meters, no!

They only needed to rush out fifty meters to escape the ambush circle and escape to freedom.

Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu followed behind the Yanashita Takashi squadron.

He also breathed a sigh of relief: they were finally about to escape.

Now, at this time, reinforce Wuhu?

Rescue the Yamaguchi Akashi Battalion?

The Sanjō Susumu Battalion was already struggling to protect itself!

Everything else was no longer within his consideration. Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu was only thinking about how to return to Nanjing alive at this time.

Squadron Leader Yanashita Takashi looked regretfully at the Watanabe squad that was still in place to cover them.

He knew that the Watanabe squad could not retreat.

Because when these devils rushed past the tail of the train, the National Army ambushing them also discovered the problem.

They obviously strengthened the firepower control on the edge.

No more devils from the entire Sanjō Susumu Battalion could escape from the ambush circle.

But then again: if they could return to Nanjing and excavate a few large tombs, they would be devils who had made so much money.

Would he be able to get even more?

Squadron Leader Yanashita Takashi himself didn't understand why he would suddenly think of this at this time!

Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu looked at less than a hundred devils following him.

Thinking that a battalion had been reduced to less than one-tenth in the course of an hour.

He felt uneasy. Would he be court-martialed after returning?

Just as he was feeling uneasy, he suddenly saw a flash of fire less than ten meters ahead.

It wasn't just Battalion Commander Sanjō Susumu who saw the fire flashing on the side of the road.

Squadron Leader Yanashita Takashi also saw it.

And soon they heard a huge explosion, and also felt the air wave produced by the explosion.

And the iron bullets from the directional bomb.

This team of nearly a hundred devils who had finally escaped were blown up by four directional bombs.

There were only less than ten devils who could still stand.

And then machine gun bullets swept over: it turned out that this was still the National Army's ambush circle!

Squadron Leader Yanashita Takashi, who was lying on the ground, died with his eyes wide open!

He still wanted to make money!

Battalion Commander Wu Yuan, who had been nervously watching them, ordered loudly, "Blow the charge!"

For this ambush, the 14th Regiment had set up directional bombs for a full 1,500 meters.

Even if the Sanjō Susumu Battalion escaped another two hundred meters, they would still be within the range of the directional bombs set up by the 14th Regiment.

Battalion Commander Wu Yuan had long wanted the devils to walk backwards, to retreat in the direction of Nanjing.

If these devils had retreated earlier, the 14th Regiment would have saved a lot of shells.

There were only twenty or thirty devils who were still resisting stubbornly.

Squad Leader Imai Yuto and Squad Leader Tano Shichirō desperately picked up their rifles.

They bravely rushed towards the hundreds of Special Operations Brigade soldiers rushing towards them.

They knew that with so many National Army soldiers rushing over, there was no possibility that these devils could survive.

The charge launched by the 14th Regiment, which had more than a thousand men at this time,

Quickly wiped out the last twenty devils of the Sanjō Susumu Battalion.

Those soldiers who rushed fast and ran in the front even fought a bayonet with the devils.

These soldiers deeply realized that the bayonet skills they had practiced during this period were very useful.

It seemed that the devils' bayonet skills were not strong!

Lin Fan, who had been paying attention to the 14th Regiment's battle from a high place, saw that Wu Yuan finally let the team charge.

He launched a bayonet charge with the devils.

This team of devils is finished! Lin Fan said to Hui Jianming beside him.

Of course, Hui Jianming knew this: he had known this since this team of devils entered the ambush circle.

The 9th Regiment was on the top of the mountain, and two anti-aircraft guns had been aiming at those carriages.

As long as the situation on the battlefield was slightly unfavorable to the 14th Regiment.

The wrath of thunder from the 9th Regiment would descend.

The fate of these devils of the Sanjō Susumu Battalion had been sealed since they set off in Nanjing.

The 14th Regiment began to clean up the battlefield.

The Special Operations Brigade didn't take prisoners, and the soldiers of the 14th Regiment began to give the devils lying on the ground a final stab according to the habits of the Special Operations Brigade.

They collected weapons and ammunition! This was the first time that this regiment had killed so many devils alone.

Wu Yuan smiled so much that his mouth couldn't close! They ambushed a battalion of devils today.

A regiment completely annihilated a battalion of devils. Such a record was very dazzling in any team.

Of course, such a record could not be compared with the few regiments of the Special Operations Brigade.

Wu Yuan now felt that his regiment's record was not obvious because the brigade commander had not given him a chance some time ago.

If you give a little sunshine, it will shine, and if you give a little spring breeze, the garden will be full of flowers.

The brigade commander gave the 14th Regiment a chance to fight, and they completely annihilated a battalion of devils.

Wu Yuan, who was so happy that he couldn't find the north.

Suddenly heard the soldiers shouting, "Shells! All shells!"

In this ambush, from beginning to end, not a single devil had run out of the thirteen carriages in front.

The soldiers were very curious about what was装in these carriages.

They opened the doors of these carriages.

They smiled one by one, "Battalion Commander! These are all shells!

This one is bullets!"

Thirteen carriages were all ammunition.

Lin Fan didn't expect, "The devils sent thirteen carriages of supplies."

He was just about to go and see the ammunition himself.

When he saw three devil warships sailing up from downstream.

Leading the way were two destroyers, followed by a cruiser.

Lin Fan and the others discovered the devil fleet.

The devils on the fleet also discovered the battle that had just taken place here by Wu Yuan and the others.

The explosion of the directional bomb had already alarmed the devils on the warship.

The smoke of battle had not yet cleared, which was very eye-catching to the devils.

The three warships sailing up the Yangtze River were the destroyers "Yūnagi" and "Yūbari"; the cruiser "Yūkumo".

The destroyers "Yūnagi" and "Yūbari" were launched by the devil navy in 1928.

Their standard displacement was 2,077 tons, the ship was 120 meters long, 10 meters wide.

The draft was 3.76 meters.

The main engine had a power of 50,000 horsepower, a maximum speed of 35 knots per hour, and an economic speed endurance of 5,000 nautical miles.

The ship was equipped with six 127mm guns and thirteen 20mm guns.

Eight 610mm torpedo launchers.

The crew was 225 men.

The cruiser "Yūkumo" was launched in July 1923.

The displacement was less than 3,000 tons, the ship was 138 meters long, and 12 meters wide.

The draft was 3.6 meters, and the main engine had a power of 58,000 horsepower.

The maximum speed was 33.5 knots per hour.

It was equipped with six 140mm guns, one 76mm gun, and four 610mm torpedo tubes.

The crew was 328 men.

On the destroyer "Yūnagi", Captain Tōdō Jūichi was looking at the smoking place on the south bank.

From the telescope, he could see that the Jinan Railway line was winding and twisting, extending all the way along the Yangtze River to Dangtu.

There was a train stopped on a section of the railway.

From Captain Tōdō Jūichi's position, he could only see the end of the train, but not the overturned locomotive.

When he saw the soldiers standing around the tail of the train.

He immediately issued an order, "Alarm! National Army on the shore! Prepare to attack!"

The battle alarm on the warship "Yūnagi" sounded, and soon the alarms of the entire fleet sounded.

The sound of the warship's alarm was all over this section of the Yangtze River.

The devils who were still looking at what was happening on the south bank on the side of the ship were all busy at this time.

Sergeant Fourth Class Yoneme Kieta was the operator of the 127mm gun on the destroyer "Yūnagi".

Hearing the orders constantly being issued on the ship's broadcast.

He quickly rushed to the gun position.

He directed the other operators of this gun to quickly adjust the angle and direction of the gun.

Preparing to bombard the train on the railway line on the south bank.

Captain Tōdō Jūichi was observing more carefully at this time.

The three warships slowly stopped in the center of the river.

This was an unprepared temporary battle. Captain Dōi Mizuki of the destroyer "Yūbari" was not flustered at all.

He calmly directed the warship to drop anchor and settle down here.

Although there were only three 127mm guns on the port side of this warship, it was enough to deal with the National Army on the south bank.

Not to mention that they were a fleet, and they were not weaker than the National Army on the shore in terms of firepower.

Even so, Captain Shimonoda Kanade of the cruiser "Yūkumo", while ordering the entire fleet to attack freely.

He also sent back the intelligence that the fleet had discovered that the National Army had attacked a train at a distance of ten kilometers from Dangtu.

When Hui Jianming's 9th Regiment discovered these three devil warships, they had already begun to prepare.

This heavy artillery regiment had run so far to intercept the devil fleet.

It was just that the warships sailing on the Yangtze River were not large in tonnage this time.

From this point of view, Lin Fan had miscalculated.

Most of the officers and soldiers of the 1st Company of the 9th Regiment were soldiers from various forts in the Jiangyin Fortress.

They were professional at fighting warships.

When they were at the fort before, they didn't have such good conditions today: they couldn't see visually before, and they had to listen to the command to fight.

Now they could visually see the warship and fire themselves.

However, today the elevation and angle of these guns still had to be commanded.

Lin Fan ordered loudly, "Elevation 36.6 degrees, direction 37 degrees."

With such a distance of less than 3,000 meters to 4,000 meters, these 150mm howitzers and cannons were very easy to hit.

Even on the shore, the officers and soldiers of the Special Operations Brigade could hear the battle alarm on the devil warships from a distance of several thousand meters.

Lin Fan gave an order, "Fire!"

The 9th Regiment had twenty heavy guns, eight more than the 8th Regiment.

Twenty heavy guns fired at the same time.

A huge cloud of smoke suddenly rose from the mountain where they were hiding.

The sound of the cannons also traveled very far.

The battle alarm on the three devil warships on the Yangtze River had not stopped.

Therefore, they could not hear the roar of the cannons, but only saw the smoke and fire rising from a mountain in front of the stopped train.

Then there was a huge explosion of artillery shells on the warships.

The firing parameters personally measured by Lin Fan, and the firing elements set by these parameters for twenty cannons.

Although they did not send all twenty shells to the three warships at the same time.

At least half of them hit.

Captain Tōdō Jūichi, who was still full of confidence, felt the destroyer "Yūnagi" suddenly shake violently.

"Was it hit?"

The two anti-aircraft guns of the 9th Regiment were also firing at these warships at this time.

Sergeant Fourth Class Yoneme Kieta's gun had not been adjusted yet.

When he heard the explosion in his ear, the entire warship shook violently.

"It was hit!"

All the devils on the destroyer "Yūnagi" felt it.

Staff Officer Yamakaze Hayato kept receiving reports from various positions on the warship.

After organizing the situation, he reported to Captain Tōdō Jūichi, "Captain! Our ship has just been hit by three shells.

The bottom cabin has already flooded, and one shell hit below the waterline.

The engine room has been hit and is closing the waterproof doors.

One shell hit the middle and rear of the warship, and the entire ship has now lost all power."

Captain Tōdō Jūichi did not expect that the cannons on his warship had not fired yet, and they had already suffered such great losses.

He ordered loudly, "Close the airtight waterproof doors! Weigh anchor!

We will strand ourselves downstream.

The cannons fire back!"

Sergeant Fourth Class Yoneme Kieta and his gun had been prepared.

Upon receiving the captain's order, they fired immediately.

The other two cannons beside it also fired.

This was not a battle of only one warship, the destroyer "Yūnagi". As its counterattack began.

The warships "Yūbari" and "Yūkumo" also began to fight back.

The destroyers "Yūnagi" and "Yūbari" also had five 20mm guns installed on the left and right sides.

Now these guns were also firing towards the south bank.

It was just that in a hurry, the shells fired by these warships flew out and did not know where they hit.

It was not that the combat quality of these devils was not good, but that the warships were flooding.

And they were attacked by the impact of the waves caused by the榴弹exploding in the river.

The entire ship shook violently, and these devils could not aim properly at all.

Captain Tōdō Jūichi ordered loudly, "Adjust the target, aim at the mountain opposite.

Open fire on the National Army's artillery position!"

The initial targets of these fleets were the train and the hillside where the train was located.

Because they had discovered the busy figures of the Special Operations Brigade soldiers there.

Now the threat to the entire fleet was not those busy soldiers, but the artillery position on the mountain in front of the soldiers! At this time, time was life!

It was the life of all the devils in the fleet! Captain Shimonoda Kanade of the cruiser "Yūkumo" thought so.

While directing his devils to save themselves, he was also ordering the artillery to quickly adjust the target.

The second round of attacks from the 9th Regiment's twenty heavy guns was coming again.

This time the three warships could not