"Shoot! Shoot! Hurry!" A Japanese officer on the beach roared at the top of his lungs while waving his command knife.

In the dark night, one flare after another illuminated the beach as if it were daytime, and hot and dazzling tongues of flame spurted out, pouring the hot bullets towards the beach like water.

The Japanese soldiers who charged desperately were cut down in pieces like withered grass. Occasionally, some Japanese soldiers raised their 38 rifles and carried out weak fire resistance.

The Japanese officer quickly became the target of the sniper squad leader. With the light of fire and flares, the sniper squad leader aimed at him, who was constantly roaring at his subordinates for charging.

When the Japanese officer's head appeared in the crosshairs, the sniper squad leader immediately and decisively pulled the trigger.

Amidst thousands of gunshots, a 7.92mm rifle bullet accurately shot into the head of the Japanese officer with a hot whistling sound.

The bullet entered his forehead and came out from the back of his head, smashing his entire brain tissue to pieces.

The Jaap officer's roar suddenly stopped, and he fell straight backwards. Before his body fell, the saber he had been waving in his right hand just now fell to the ground with a clang.

"Boom! Boom!" Some grenades were thrown out by several Northeast Border Guard soldiers, and they immediately exploded violently.

About seven or eight Japanese soldiers who were charging forward with their 38-inch rifles howling and crouching were suddenly bombarded and screamed repeatedly, and fell into a pool of blood one after another.

Behind the Northeastern Frontier Defense Line, more and more reinforcements arrived upon hearing the news, and 60,000 troops occupied the Kanmon Strait. They have not yet been counterattacked by the Japanese's overwhelmingly superior force.

Their strength was still abundant, and they had an absolute advantage in strength when faced with the Japanese night attack of less than one infantry brigade.

As more and more Northeastern border guards arrived to join the battle, more than 500 Japanese soldiers were quickly killed and wounded, and the entire army was wiped out.

On the eve of the end of the battle, dozens of Japanese remnants tried to board the boat and escape, but the boat was turned into ruins by mortars and rocket launchers from the Northeastern Border Guards.

While his comrades were cleaning the battlefield, the sniper squad leader who first issued the warning was sitting in the trench, holding the sniper rifle in his arms, holding a dagger in one hand, and carving something on the gun.

Seven, plus the ones killed before, the total is eighty-nine, and there are still eleven to reach one hundred. Well, next time I will work harder and try to break through one hundred as soon as possible.

The sniper squad leader looked at the scratches on his rifle and murmured to himself,

In Kitakyushu Island City, the headquarters of the first batch of landing troops.

Wang Tiehan was awakened from his dream by the intensive sound of gunfire that had just come from the direction of the Kanmon Strait.

Without even getting dressed, he walked out of the small single bedroom, went to the combat conference room and asked, "What's going on? Where was the sound of gunfire just now?"

A staff officer on duty was also puzzled and said: "Deputy Commander, I don't know about my humble position. I just hung up the phone to the 107th Division Headquarters and they couldn't tell. But they have already sent someone to check. It should be

There will be news soon."

The staff officer on duty just finished speaking, the phone dinged and the phone rang in vain.

The staff officer on duty reached out and picked up the phone: "Hello. Yes, this is the headquarters. What happened to the gunfire just now? Oh, oh. OK, I understand. I will report to the commander-in-chief immediately."

After the staff officer on duty hung up the phone, he raised his head and said to Wang Tiehan: "Deputy Commander, this is what happened. A small Japanese force just came over from the other side of the Kanmon Strait and attempted to launch a sneak attack on our forward position. We discovered it in time.

Annihilated it."

Wang Tiehan quietly breathed a sigh of relief and said: "If we go deep into the enemy's territory, accidents may happen at any time. It seems that we have to be more vigilant. We order all the troops on duty to be more vigilant, just in case, the Japanese may launch an attack on us at any time.

Counterattack.”

"Yes, I'll call each division and regiment right now." The staff officer on duty saluted and left as ordered.

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Kurume, the headquarters of the Japanese 18th Division.

Although it was already late at night, the division leader Nakamura Taniichi was not sleepy at all and was smoking one cigarette after another.

With a frown on his face, he was smoking and pacing back and forth with one hand in his pocket.

Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps, and Nakamuraya turned around in vain, only to see his chief of staff Yungo Hyakuga walking in in a hurry.

"Hakuga-kun, how is the situation?" Nakamura Yaichi immediately asked.

"General, the situation is not very optimistic. Kitakyushu Island has fallen, and the reinforcement reconnaissance force we sent out discovered a large Chinese tank and combat vehicle force.

In order to avoid repeating the same mistakes as the 55th Infantry Regiment, they have entered Asakura and other cities to escape and hold on." Yungo Momago said with a sad expression.

When Nakamuraya heard this, his brows knitted together. Although he was unhappy, he knew that this was a helpless move by the rescue team.

Because the 55th Infantry Regiment had already suffered losses from the enemy's tank troops before, and in the battlefields of Manchuria and Korea, the Imperial Army suffered heavy losses from the China Army's armored tank troops, so that hundreds of thousands of troops were defeated.

Lost the city and lost the land.

Therefore, defending the fortified city is currently the only effective way to deal with the tanks of the Northeast Border Guard.

Who said that the performance of the tanks and armored vehicles of the Empire of Japan was so backward? No effective anti-tank weapons were developed.

Seeing Nakamuraya frowning and saying nothing, Chief of Staff Yungo Yungo said: "General, hasn't the base camp begun to mobilize reinforcements from Honshu Island? We currently don't have many troops, and reinforcements from Kumamoto and Nagasaki are still on the way. I think I

It is not advisable to take the initiative, but we should hold Asakura and Kurume to wait for reinforcements.

Once the reinforcements arrive, we will attack from the north and the south, and we will definitely be able to wipe out all the Chinese troops that have invaded our territory."

Nakamuraya thought for a moment, then nodded and said: "That's it, we will also step up the mobilization of reserve personnel in the Kurume area and be ready to expand the troops at any time in case of emergency!"

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After dawn, outside Tagawa City, a torrent of steel consisting of three hundred tanks and combat vehicles from three tank regiments was swarming past on the road 2 kilometers outside the city.

A Japanese squadron was originally stationed outside Tagawa Castle. After learning that the Japanese squadron had landed and Kitakyushu Island had fallen, the Japanese squadron, which had already received the news, quickly entered Tagawa Castle and organized young and middle-aged reserve officers and soldiers in the city to hold on.

At this moment, the four gates of Tagawa Castle were tightly closed, and the Japanese soldiers on the top of the city looked a little panicked and were waiting with their weapons raised.

It was obvious that they had known about the arrival of this surging torrent of Chinese armor in advance.

The person responsible for leading and commanding this tank and armored force is Xing Zhanqing, colonel commander of the tank regiment directly under the reorganized 106th Division.

Commander Xing, Tianchuan City is ahead of us, but the little devil seems to be prepared. Look at the city gates being closed tightly, as if you are facing a powerful enemy." Not far from the city wall, two tanks were parked on the side of the road.

A tank regiment leader pointed to Xing Zhanqing Road at Taguan City in the distance.

Xing Zhanqing stood on the tank, raised his telescope with both hands and looked forward. Wherever he looked, he could clearly see the fortifications built by the Japanese on the parapet wall.

From time to time, there were Japanese soldiers walking back and forth carrying various defensive supplies and ammunition.

"How about it? Do you want to fight or not?" the regiment leader looked sideways at Xing Zhanqing and asked.

Xing Zhanqing put down the telescope and said slowly: "This is not far from Kitakyushu Island. All roads and railways leading to Kitakyushu Island pass through here. It can be said to be a choke point.

Logically speaking, we should capture it and let the infantry hold on here. However, we don't have many troops and we have to block the entire Kanmon Strait.

I don’t think the commander-in-chief would agree to divide the troops from Kitakyushu to stay here.”

"Then what should we do? Just abandon such an important place like this? I would say that it is more strategically important to defend here than to defend Northern Kyushu Island.

It is also more convenient to block the Japanese counterattacks from Nagasaki, Kumamoto and Kurume on Kyushu Island." said the regimental commander.

"Who says it's not, but this is just a local perspective. From a strategic perspective, Kitakyushu Island must be defended.

Because we not only have to block the Japanese counterattack from Kyushu Island, but also deal with the Japanese attack from Honshu Island." Xing Zhanqing.

"Then what should we do?"

Xing Zhanqing lowered his head and pondered for a moment, then took the map from the adjutant's hand and looked at it again. After a while, he said: "We will not attack Tianchuan anymore, we will move forward."

"To the east? Crossing the bridge?" The regiment leader looked at the map and said in surprise.

"Yes, it's Xingqiao. It's a city by the sea. There may be a port. A port means there are factories. Our task is to destroy. There are too many things in such a port city that are worth destroying."

A proud sneer appeared.

Following his order, the troops quickly turned eastward, coming and going like the wind, and soon disappeared into the billowing smoke.

On top of Tagawa Castle, a Japanese major said to a middle-aged man in kimono: "Mr. Mayor, the Chinese have withdrawn, and we are safe for the time being."

The middle-aged man is the mayor of Tagawa City (similar to the county magistrate of a small county in China) named Utsu Junichiro.

After listening to what the major officer said, Utsujunichiro couldn't help but take out a sweat towel and wipe the cold sweat from his forehead. He was obviously frightened by the large group of iron armors outside the city just now.

"Major Suzuki, what are your plans?" Utsujunichiro was afraid that the frightening torrent of armor would come back again, so he quickly asked the officer Major.

The major officer replied: "I have reported the situation in Tagawa to my superiors. I believe that reinforcements will arrive soon. Before the reinforcements arrive, my superiors ordered me to lead my men to stick to Tagawa and protect the safety of all Yamato people in Tagawa Castle to the death."

.”

Upon hearing this, Utsujunichiro secretly breathed a sigh of relief, nodded repeatedly and said: "That's good, that's good."
Chapter completed!