One man's resistance against Japan, I mobilized a million people to aid Shanghai.

"Scatter! There's a bomb!!"

Zhu Yong saw that Masao Tani had pressed the detonation button with a death wish, and he couldn't help but shout.

But it was too late!

With a martyr-like, crazed grin on his face, Tanida roared with his last ounce of strength, "Heavy Black Card, Banzai!"

"BOOM!!!!!!!!!"

A deafening roar, far surpassing any previous explosion and seemingly capable of tearing the heavens and earth apart, suddenly erupted from the valley field.

This wasn't just the explosives on his body.

Almost simultaneously, bursts of fire and deafening roars erupted one after another within the remaining Japanese defensive area of ​​the Fourth Barricade.

That madman, Gu Tian, ​​had secretly ordered his engineers to plant a large number of explosives and cluster grenades under the core defensive positions and in key fortifications as early as when the defensive line was being built!

He turned the entire Fourth Barricade into a giant suicide bomb!

The earth is shaking!

The flames devoured everything!

The enormous shockwave, like an invisible giant hammer, spread wildly in all directions.

Broken limbs, twisted guns, bricks and rubble... everything was thrown into the air by this destructive force, and then fell like a torrential rain.

Zhu Yong, who was closest to the victim, suffered the most damage. He felt an irresistible force slam into his chest, and everything went black.

All that could be heard was a buzzing roar. I was thrown out like a kite with a broken string and crashed heavily into a pile of ruins.

I don't know how much time passed, it felt like an eternity.

Zhu Yong's consciousness slowly awoke from the boundless darkness and excruciating pain.

He struggled to open his eyelids, which felt like they were filled with lead. The air was thick with the smell of gunpowder, and all he could see were ruins. The entire Fourth Barricade looked as if it had been ravaged by a category 12 tornado, with chaos everywhere.

Zhu Yong felt as if his internal organs had been displaced by the shock, his legs had been blown off, he had lost an ear, and his face and body were covered in blood.

"Commander!! Commander!!"

The remaining clone of Zhu Yong desperately shook him, hoping to bring him back to his senses.

"Cough cough cough!!"

......

Marine Corps Headquarters.

When Matsui Iwane heard that earth-shattering roar, he felt as if an invisible hammer had struck his heart.

"What was that sound?! Where did the explosion happen?! Was it on Jiangwan Road?!"

He rushed to the observation window and saw a thick column of dust rising into the sky from the direction of Jiangwan Road.

Even in the darkness before dawn, it appeared so glaring and menacing.

The scale of that explosion was far beyond what ordinary artillery shells or explosive charges could achieve.

A bone-chilling coldness instantly shot from Matsui Iwane's tailbone to the top of his head.

His ominous premonition about Gu Tian was amplified to the extreme at this moment.

"Signalman! Contact Fourth Barracks immediately! Contact Tanida-kun! I need to know what happened!"

Matsui Iwane's voice became sharp and distorted due to extreme tension. He gripped the communications soldier's collar tightly, his eyes looking like he wanted to devour him.

The communications soldier turned pale with fright and frantically adjusted the radio frequency, desperately calling out the call sign of the fourth barricade.

However, all that came through the headphones was a chilling electromagnetic noise.

He then tried to connect to the landline leading to the fourth barricade, but the line was busy again.

A terrifying silence fell over the command room. Everyone held their breath, their eyes fixed on Matsui Iwane and the communications soldier who had made the futile call.

A palpable sense of panic hung in the air.

Time passed second by second, each second feeling like being fried in a pan of oil.

Matsui Iwane's forehead was covered in a fine layer of cold sweat. He paced frantically around the room with his hands behind his back, his leather shoes making a jarring sound as they stepped on the broken porcelain shards, which seemed to be stepping on everyone's hearts.

Finally, an officer who had been sent to observe from a nearby high point rushed in, stumbling and crawling. He even forgot to salute, his face was deathly pale, and his lips trembled as he reported.

"Report...Reporting to Commander! A massive explosion has occurred...at the fourth barricade on Jiangwan Road!"

"The entire barricade... almost... almost completely leveled! The fire... the fire is still burning, and the smoke... blots out the sky!"

"Where's Tanida?! Where are Tanida-kun and his troops?!"

Matsui Iwane abruptly stopped, his heart pounding in his chest. He stared intently at the observation officer and demanded an answer in a hoarse voice.

"Your subordinate... Your subordinate did not see any moving Imperial soldiers. I'm afraid... I'm afraid the entire Tanida clan has been wiped out!"

Matsui Iwane's body swayed violently, his vision blurred, and a metallic sweetness rose in his throat, which he forced down.

Gu Tian... His most trusted adjutant, leading his last two thousand elite troops, was wiped out in such a way?

"Baka! Baka zalu!!!"

Matsui Iwane gritted his teeth, "Where are the Chinese??"

"The Chinese have suffered heavy losses and have likely been devastated. In the short term... there is absolutely no possibility of them launching another effective attack!"

Matsui Iwane felt a sense of relief, as if he had survived a disaster.

Such a massive explosion was clearly Tanida's final act of taking the enemy down with him!

Tanita Tama was shattered, but his sacrifice was not without value.

Although the cost was so high that he could hardly breathe, at least the imminent threat was resolved.

"Tani-kun...you...you are a hero of the empire..."

Matsui Iwane closed his eyes, and two streams of turbid tears slid down his cheeks.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm his agitated emotions and regain his composure.

With the threat from Jiangwan Road temporarily averted, he had to immediately clean up the mess and deal with Zhang Zhizhong's all-out attack from other directions.

Although the situation remains precarious, at least... at least he has gained a brief respite and no longer has to face that terrifying army immediately.

He turned to the map and began to think about how to coordinate the defensive forces in various places to plug the gaps that kept appearing on the front lines.

however--

Just as Matsui Iwane picked up the baton, ready to give the order—

"kill!!"

A deafening roar, even more ferocious than before, suddenly rang out from Jiangwan Road.

The baton in Matsui Iwane's hand clattered to the ground.

The fleeting look of relief on his face instantly froze, turning into incredulous horror.

He abruptly turned his head toward the direction from which the sound came, his pupils shrinking to the size of pinpoints, and his body began to tremble uncontrollably.

How is that possible?!

Why would there still be such a violent killing intent?

What kind of demons are they?

Matsui Iwane was actually somewhat desperate!