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Half an hour later, the artillery fire from the new regiment arrived as expected.

Each artillery position first conducted a wave of pre-fires, and then opened fire at full power. Shells soared into the air, drew graceful arcs in the sky, and then fell into the Japanese positions.

"Boom boom boom!!"

Continuous explosions rose up on the Japanese positions, along with the broken limbs of the Japanese soldiers.

"Baga, how come the firepower is so strong!"

In the Japanese Army Regimental Headquarters, Colonel Tatemi Aikai, commander of the 40th Regiment, opened his eyes wide with disbelief on his face.

In the morning, at the 40th Regiment Headquarters, his regiment encountered a battalion of the Eighth Route Army.

At that time, as soon as the two sides exchanged fire, he felt something was wrong.

He thought that the main force of the Eighth Route Army had arrived, so he led his troops to retreat quickly and pretended to leave some equipment and ammunition for the Eighth Route Army.

But it was not until now that Colonel Aijia Lishen realized that the morning meal was just an appetizer and now was the real meal.

More than 82 pieces of mm mortars from the mountain artillery battalion and the mortar battalions directly under the infantry battalions opened fire at the same time.

Several waves of artillery fire were directed at the hill where the 40th Regiment was located!
However, the old Japanese soldier Aijia Lishen was also very cunning. He only deployed two infantry companies on the two hills on both sides of the road, and the rest of the troops hid behind.

"As expected, they're a unit capable of defeating the 2nd and 21st Brigades."

"This artillery firepower is too strong."

"Why is there no heavy artillery?"

"Could it be that all the heavy artillery of the Eighth Route Army was blown up by the Locust Army's aviation unit?"

Colonel Aijia looked puzzled. Once the Eighth Route Army's heavy artillery opened fire, his infantry regiment would be wiped out in one or two hours at most.

Just then, the shelling ended and the Eighth Route Army's infantry and tanks launched an attack.

Seeing the Eighth Route Army's attack, Colonel Aijia immediately sent out six infantry companies to reinforce the positions on the hilltop and continued to observe.

"After the artillery bombards, the infantry charges. After the infantry charges, the artillery bombards. This is the locust army's tactic."

Colonel Aijia gritted his teeth. He knew the tactics of the Eighth Route Army, but he could do nothing about it.

The Eighth Route Army had almost abnormal artillery support and heavy tanks with extremely thick skin and deep defenses, but he had no corresponding artillery firepower to suppress them, nor anti-tank weapons, so he could only passively take the bombing.

The Eighth Route Army's infantry and tanks attacked very slowly.

The tank stopped two hundred meters away from the top of the hill and aimed at the hill. The infantry crawled on the ground and covered their ears. The artillery position of the Eighth Route Army in the rear launched another wave of artillery fire at the hill where the Japanese position was located.

"Baga, you despicable Eighth Route Army soldiers, you have no moral principles!"

Upon seeing this scene, Colonel Aijia was furious and terrified.

Because of this wave of artillery fire, the Eighth Route Army finally used heavy artillery.

Almost as soon as the six infantry companies entered the positions, the shells of the Eighth Route Army's heavy artillery fell on the Japanese positions.

Boom, boom, boom!

On the top of the hill, every explosion was several times or even dozens of times larger than the previous explosion, and its power was also increased by dozens of times. However, the Japanese did not build anti-artillery fortifications in a hurry, not even trenches and foxholes. Sometimes a single artillery shell would kill a large number of Japanese soldiers.

Then, the firing rate of the Eighth Route Army heavy artillery units became faster and faster, and the accuracy became higher and higher. At the beginning, some shells flew hundreds of meters away and even accidentally injured the attacking brother troops, but after a few minutes, almost all the shells covered the Japanese positions.

The strength of the Eighth Route Army's elite artillery unit was developed through repeated actual combat training and live-ammunition shooting.

The artillery of the New 1st Regiment was on par with the Japanese Type A Division, and even the combat proficiency of the artillery was higher than that of the Japanese elite artillery. In less than five minutes, the six infantry companies that Colonel Aijia had just sent in had already suffered heavy casualties. The two infantry companies that first defended their positions were decimated by two waves of artillery fire, leaving few survivors.

The 40th Regiment has a total of three infantry battalions, each infantry battalion has four infantry companies, a total of twelve infantry companies.

Before they came into direct conflict with the main force of the Eighth Route Army, the eight infantry companies had already suffered heavy casualties.

"Send the order, retreat!"

Colonel Aijia issued an order in great grief and anger. If they did not retreat now, without the Eighth Route Army's attack, the eight infantry squadrons of locust soldiers would all be fed to the Eighth Route Army's artillery shells.

Their 40th Regiment was just putting on a show, there was no need to sacrifice the entire regiment.

As the order from the regiment headquarters was issued, the surviving Japanese soldiers in the eight infantry squadrons deployed on the hilltop did not care about the wounded, let alone the corpses of the Japanese soldiers. They turned around and ran away, wishing their parents had only given them two legs.

This scene was seen by the artillery observer who was attacking with the tanks and infantry, and he immediately notified the artillery positions in the rear to conduct a slow-moving barrage of fire.

Then, the point where the Eighth Route Army's artillery shells exploded moved forward several hundred meters as the Japanese soldiers ran madly.

But after the Japanese ran to the reverse slope position, they disappeared from the artillery observer's sight, and the effect of Xu Jin's barrage shooting was much lower. However, the heavy artillery shells were powerful and still killed a lot of Japanese.

"Attack, occupy the position, and then wait!"

The attacking infantry and tank troops received orders from the headquarters and captured the position in a wave of charge with almost no resistance. Then they began to clean up the battlefield. When they saw the Japanese, they would immediately shoot them regardless of whether they were dead or not.

Colonel Aijia led the 40th Regiment and ran for two kilometers. The Japanese soldiers turned into iron-footed soldiers and ran very fast.

The whole place looked like they had thrown away their weapons and armor, and the officers and soldiers were in a mess. Colonel Aijia, who was riding on his horse and looked back at this scene, was stunned. It didn't seem like his troops were acting.

It looked more like a truly defeated army...

Thinking of this, Colonel Aijia cursed angrily: "Baga, cheer up, we are not a defeated army."

But the effect was limited. Some soldiers still looked terrified and were obviously still a little scared of the Eighth Route Army's heavy artillery. Their eyes were full of despair.

"Captain, Captain!"

At this moment, a squadron leader in charge of the rearguard ran up quickly and reported: "The Eighth Route Army didn't catch up."

"Nani?"

Colonel Aijia's face changed, and he quickly raised his telescope and looked back, and found that the Eighth Route Army had indeed not caught up.

He doesn't understand.

The 40th Regiment was almost completely defeated, but the Eighth Route Army was still able to remain calm and willing to give up this great opportunity to make merit?
The Eighth Route Army seemed to be setting up artillery on the top of the hill, and some Eighth Route Army artillerymen were giving them a thumbs-up, which was obviously not an affirmation of their efforts, but a preparation for artillery fire.

"It seems that now we can only pretend to be real."

Colonel Aijia's face was gloomy, and he was about to join the game himself. He glanced at the Japanese officers and soldiers:
"Only when our 40th Regiment is completely wiped out will the main force of the Eighth Route Army continue to advance."

"We, the 40th Regiment, are not a defeated army. We are the elite troops of our fraternal country."

"Everyone, see you at Kudanzaka!"

"See you at Kudanzaka!"

"Sky locust on board!"

"..."

Amidst the enthusiastic cheers of the Japanese officers and soldiers, the morale of the 40th Regiment quickly recovered. (End of this chapter)