Bright Sword: From Border Region Manufacturing to Major National Heavy Industry

Chapter 111 Are you worried that the brigade commander is congratulating you on getting rich? Haha
Rumble!
Rumble!
Rumble!
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Kuroshima Morita's cavalry regiment pounded the earth, their thunderous roar like lightning from the sky.

The warhorses galloped swiftly from the horizon, as fast as the wind.

Behind the swirling yellow sand, the mechanized forces' tanks and armored vehicles rumbled into motion, fueled by their burning rage!

Behind them was an infantry regiment.

Although they were exhausted, the Japanese infantrymen still gritted their teeth and ran like a pack of wounded wild beasts.

"Commander, Captain Fujita has sent an urgent telegram!"

The communications officer handed the newly arrived telegram to Kuroshima Morita.

Kuroshima Morita grabbed it, looked at it, and his eyes immediately blazed with fury: "Baka! Damn it!"

The telegram stated that the Third Regiment had already been defeated.

Even more critically, there was an ironworks in the Third Regiment's territory.

Now, this ironworks has also fallen into the hands of the Eighth Route Army.

"You continue forward." Kuroshima Morita ordered the cavalry to advance. He came to the armored vehicle of Ueno no Mura and said to Ueno no Mura, "Ueno-kun, Captain Fujita just sent a message that the Third Regiment has been defeated and the ironworks in their jurisdiction has fallen into the hands of the Eighth Route Army."

"What?! What did you say?!" Uenomura stared at Kuroshima Morita in utter shock. "Kuroshima-kun, the Third Regiment was defeated? They have an ironworks in their territory?"

This was the Third Regiment, attacked head-on, and they still lost.

As for the ironworks, they are even more important to the empire, and we cannot allow the Eighth Route Army to get their hands on them!
"Mine No. 9 is lost, but the ironworks cannot be lost too!" Kuroshima Morita roared. "We must hurry over there and take the ironworks back!"

As for annihilating the Eighth Route Army to avenge them, that was secondary!
The ironworks is the most important!
It is related to the imperial logistics and iron supply!

"Baka, looks like I'll have to switch places with you." Uenomura gritted his teeth.

The reason why Ueno Village's mechanized troops were behind Kuroshima Morita was because the road was not smooth, and the convoy could not floor the accelerator, otherwise it would be easy to overturn.

Furthermore, increased speed also leads to increased fuel consumption.

There's already not enough oil, so we have to be careful.

Therefore, the mechanized regiments of Ueno Village marched at a slower pace than the cavalry.

Now, the ironworks has fallen into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, and the Third Regiment has been defeated.

Ueno Village must risk going to reinforce them as soon as possible, and they must put fuel consumption to the back of their minds.

Under Ueno-no-mura's orders, the mechanized troops quickly floored the accelerator, overtook Kuroshima Morita's cavalry regiment, and roared forward.

"Commander Kuroshima, what's going on?" Seeing the mechanized units accelerate, Commander Kasahara Koizumi of the 22nd Regiment asked Kuroshima Morita, "Has my defense zone already fallen?"

With its own defense zone sparsely defended, its fall was inevitable.

Although Kasahara Koizumi had already anticipated this, she still asked again.

"The Third Regiment was defeated. They had an ironworks in their territory, and that ironworks fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army." Kuroshima Morita didn't mention Kasahara Koizumi's territory at all; his wretched territory was meaningless compared to the ironworks.

"What?! The Third Regiment has been defeated?!" Kasahara Koizumi was utterly shocked.

He was certainly aware that there was an ironworks in the Third Regiment's territory, since the Third and Twenty-Two Regiments were both under the Fourth Brigade and their defense zones were adjacent to each other.

The ironworks' defenses weren't weak, yet they were breached by the Eighth Route Army!
"I know you're tired, but keep going. I'm going now." Kuroshima Morita didn't say much and rode off.

"Baka! Warriors, give it your all! Charge!" Kasahara Koizumi roared, understanding the implications of the loss of the ironworks.

boom!
boom!
boom!
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Just as Kasahara Koizumi was urging the infantry to speed up, the mechanized regiment at the forefront was ambushed.

They detonated the landmines buried on the highway.

The road was already uneven, and when the chariot was floored, the vehicle bounced violently.

The tires were blown up by the landmine, and the vehicles immediately lost their balance. Some rolled on the spot, while others overturned into the roadside ditch.

Immediately, two motorcycles and two armored vehicles were removed from the combat sequence.

"Commander, this must be the cunning Eighth Route Army laying mines on the highway. Should we send in engineers to clear them?" someone immediately asked Ueno no Mura.

"Baka! You cunning Eighth Route Army guerrillas! They're trying to stop us from sending reinforcements!" Ueno no Mura roared in exasperation. "Stop!"

Kuroshima Morita came up from behind, and Ueno no Mura said to him tactfully, "Kuroshima-kun, did you see that? The Eighth Route Army planted landmines on the highway."

Kuroshima Morita naturally understood what Ueno Village meant.

While cavalry horses are valuable, imperial chariots are even more so.

The Eighth Route Army laid mines on the highway and sent engineers to clear them, but that was too slow and obviously wouldn't work.

The best solution is to send the cavalry's horses to step on the mines.

A look of pain flashed across Kuroshima Morita's face, and he immediately ordered, "Send a batch of warhorses to the front of the mechanized troops to clear the mines."

"Commander, isn't it a bit too much to use our warhorses for mine clearance..." Some soldiers couldn't accept it.

After all, he spent every day with his warhorse. Naturally, he was reluctant to let it step on a landmine.

"Baka! Execute the order!" Kuroshima Morita understood that using warhorses to clear mines would be a huge blow to the soldiers' morale, but time was of the essence, and they had to do it.

Under the pressure of Kuroshima Morita, a group of warhorses were selected and used by the mechanized troops as mine-clearing vanguards.

boom!
boom!
boom!
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As the mechanized troops advanced, landmines were indeed cleared from the road ahead.

Every landmine explosion meant that one or two warhorses fell.

Kuroshima Morita's expression twitched involuntarily: "Baka! Once we take back the ironworks, I'll make sure to use all of these Eighth Route Army soldiers as a sacrifice for my warhorses!"

Uenomura comforted him, saying, "Kuroshima-kun, you need to calm down."

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"Damn it, these little devils are really going all out! Using warhorses to clear mines, what a waste!" Li Yunlong watched this scene, his heart aching with pain.
"Old Li, what are you so worried about?" Ding Wei looked at Li Yunlong. "The Japanese horse meat tastes pretty good. Once they're gone, our soldiers can pick up the horses and eat the meat."

"Old Ding, what do you know!" Li Yunlong cursed. "In my eyes, the warhorses of this Black Island Cavalry Regiment will be mine sooner or later. You're telling me that these little devils are using warhorses to clear mines? Aren't they sacrificing my warhorses?"

"Old Li, it's just a mere Black Island Brigade," Ding Wei comforted him. "I could give you a cavalry battalion before, and I'll give you a cavalry regiment later."

In Ding Wei's opinion, it was indeed a pity to use Kuroshima Morita's warhorse for mine clearance.

But the Japanese have so many cavalry units, why should we worry about not being able to seize more warhorses?

"Forget it, forget it, even if you gave me a cavalry division, I wouldn't want it." Li Yunlong recalled something unpleasant.

"Hahaha." Ding Wei laughed and exposed him directly, "You're worried that the brigade commander is congratulating you on getting rich, hahaha."

Ding Wei had known about this for a long time, and he gave the cavalry battalion in Wanjia Town to Li Yunlong.

No sooner had Li Yunlong brought back the cavalry battalion's warhorses than the brigade commander called, leaving Li Yunlong with a company's worth of horses and equipment, while the brigade commander gladly accepted the rest.

Kuroshima Morita's cavalry cleared the mines, but the trouble did not end there.

boom!
A cannonball from Hellfire exploded in the middle of the mechanized corps.

Although these were projectiles designed for attacking strongholds, and their power was somewhat reduced by Li Muzhi, their effectiveness was still outstanding.

The shell hit a medium tank precisely, instantly turning it into a fireball that flew into the sky.

The shockwave from the explosion overturned the two miniature tanks, one in front and one behind.

The two little tanks rolled to one side like spinning tops and then bumped into two other little tanks.

The two tiny tanks were severely deformed from the impact and rendered incapable of combat.

This is not counting.

The fireball that was blasted into the sky fell back down and landed squarely on a truck.

This isn't an ordinary truck; it's a truck transporting ammunition!

boom!
The ammunition truck exploded with a loud bang.

That power is far greater than the destructive shells of the Hell Cannon.

A mushroom cloud rose up, and the shockwave spread violently in all directions, carrying dense fragments of train carriages and bullets that whizzed outwards.

The tiny tanks and their armor were penetrated, not to mention the trucks.

After a burst of sparks and screams, a quarter of the mechanized unit's combat power was wiped out!

A whole quarter of it!!!

Seeing this horrific scene, Uenomura was furious. Waving his sword, he roared in the direction from which the shells had come, "Baka! Attack! Shoot down those damned Eighth Route Army heavy artillery pieces!"

Kuroshima Morita quickly stopped him: "Ueno-kun, please calm down."

"Kuroshima-kun, how can I stay calm? My tank regiment came out and didn't even kill a single enemy before suffering such heavy losses. How can I stay calm!" Ueno-no-mura's spittle flew everywhere.

Earlier, after seeing that the warhorse had been blown up, he advised Kuroshima Morita to calm down.

Unexpectedly, it was so soon that it was the other person's turn to advise me to calm down.

You don't feel pain unless the knife cuts you.

The knife slashed at his own head, and all he felt was rage. Calmness was nowhere to be found!
This is a tank regiment!
When fighting against the regular Chinese army, they are invincible and unstoppable!
We utterly routed the regular Chinese army.

In this rear security campaign, not a single Eighth Route Army soldier was killed, but instead, we suffered such heavy losses at their hands. The fact that we didn't cough up blood on the spot shows that we have a very strong mentality.

Kuroshima Morita roared, "Ueno-kun, didn't you realize that this is the Eighth Route Army doing on purpose? They brought heavy artillery to harass us, just to divert our attention! Ueno-kun, calm down. Is it more important to destroy the Eighth Route Army's heavy artillery or to recapture the ironworks?"

A Japanese officer standing next to Kuroshima Morita said to Ueno no Mura, "Commander Ueno, the Eighth Route Army's heavy artillery is obviously providing cover for them to move materials to the ironworks. We can't fall for their trick."

"Baka, baka, baka!" Ueno no Mura could only suppress his rage and abandon the idea of ​​attacking the Eighth Route Army's heavy artillery with his entire army.

A small group was sent to intercept the Eighth Route Army, the damaged tanks were pushed to the side to clear the way for the tanks behind, and the column continued its journey.

(End of this chapter)