1937, October 28, 17:00 in the morning.

The artillery comes first, this is what Zhukov said, and it is also the battlefield rule followed by almost all armies in the world at this time.

Therefore, the attack of Shigeto Brigade started with the roar of cannons.

The gun body jerked backwards with the explosion when it was fired, like a devil that had eaten and vomited, and willfully spewed out a large cloud of hot and dirty gray smoke from hell.

The conical tip of the outgoing cannonball made a sharp whistle in the air. It flew across a space of several hundred meters in just a few seconds driven by powerful force.

The thick cement wall could not withstand the impact of the shell. In the blink of an eye, the shell passed through and exploded on the first floor of the Sixing Warehouse.

It was almost the first time for me to be hit by artillery fire on the first floor. The explosion hit the old man who was holding a big pipe and made him stunned.

The young man who came to report timidly lifted the shoulder of old smoker Li Youtian.

"Uncle Tobacco Pouch, Uncle Tobacco Pouch..."

Li Youtian, the old smoker who was awakened by the touch, casually took out the smoker and knocked it against the ammunition box beside him.

"Come on, let's go take a look. The little devil is crazy and wants to hit us on the first floor with a cannon."

Since the beginning of the war in Sihang Warehouse, the first floor has rarely been bombarded, but this time...

The scene in the shelled place was horrific, with blood and flesh spattered on the walls blackened by the gunfire. Li Youtian, an old cigarette smoker who had been on the battlefield for many years, took out his notebook that he never left behind.

Luo Mingyang followed them and asked the soldier who brought them here,

"Which ones are they?"

Unexpectedly, the soldier shrank.

"I don't know which ones they are, the new ones came last night."

Hearing these words, old smoker Li Youtian's tense body seemed to relax. He raised his head and shouted,

"Who is in charge here, and who were the ones who were bombed..."

Unexpectedly, before he finished speaking, the sound of cannons firing suddenly came from the distance. It was not one shot, but a group of them. The artillery team of Chongteng Brigade, including six field guns and twelve mountain guns, opened fire.

"Spread out...spread out..."

Old smoker Li Youtian pushed Basilo Mingyang next to him and pushed him behind a pillar, then waved his arms and shouted loudly.

The wall he was facing not far away was suddenly penetrated. A strong light flashed, and then with a violent roar, a huge force lifted him up.

"It's over..."

Li Youtian, who had been on the battlefield for many years, was unscathed and was thrown backward by the air wave of the shell explosion. His eyes felt like they had been punched hard by someone, and they were completely plunged into darkness and could not see anything.

"Uncle Tobacco Bag..."

"Brother Tobacco Bag..."

The chaotic shouts seemed to come from a very far away place, and the old smoker Li Youtian moved and groped around with his hands.

Seeing the old smoker Li Youtian groping around with his eyes closed, everyone looked at each other, not knowing what he meant.

Luo Mingyang was the first to react. He glanced around, took out his big tobacco bag from under a pile of broken bricks, and stuffed it back into his hand.

Then he frantically checked Old Tobacco Li Youtian's body. What was surprising was that, except for the debris thrown by the blast, there was no trace of blood at all.

It wasn't until Li Youtian, the old cigarette smoker, skillfully loaded the bag of cigarettes, took out his Qianli Fire Box, blew it, lit the pipe and took two puffs of it, that Ba Shi patted his shoulder with certainty and laughed.

"Haha, Brother Yandai, you are really blessed by the gods. It doesn't matter if you get such a hard shot."

Just as he was patting the old smoker Li Youtian on the shoulder and laughing, suddenly there was another loud shooting sound in the distance.

"Hide, hide..."

Almost everyone shouted, and then immediately dispersed, rushing to wherever they could to hide.

Compared with the artillery fire of the Marine Corps, which was repeatedly weakened by Zhang Sixing, the artillery fire of the Chongteng Brigade was fierce and accurate. The only thing the Army did not have as many anti-aircraft guns as the Marine Corps was.

In other words, the suppression of army artillery fire is not continuous.

However, before the people in Sihang Warehouse could really relax, there was suddenly the sound of messy artillery shelling. Following these artillery fires, twelve consecutive rounds of artillery fire fell on the outer wall of Sihang Warehouse.

This sudden burst of firepower from the Chongteng Brigade struck Zhang Sixing in a daze.

When the Japanese Marine Corps attacked, the artillery fire mainly suppressed the firepower on the third and fourth floors of the Sihang Warehouse. It is easy to understand that this approach was to reduce the casualties of soldiers during the attack.

But why did the Japanese Army's artillery fire directly attack the first floor?

Could it be...

Zhang Sixing, who was lying on the roof, suddenly thought of the only possibility... Dongchuan Yohei:

What a good boy, he has the ability to adapt to the changing circumstances, so he joined the army again so soon...

When Higashikawa Yohei arrived in the Army, the Japanese Army in front of him would naturally attack the soft underbelly of the Sihang Warehouse's defenses.

Attack the first floor to make the maze lose its ability to disperse troops.

After all, the purpose of a maze is to confuse those who enter it, and to be subject to pre-set close range and fierce attacks from all directions.

Even if he was not around last time, the Japanese marines invaded the first floor, and their troops were dispersed by the maze and became a mess, so they suffered heavy casualties.

Then when the front wall of the first floor is destroyed, 80% of the function of the maze will be lost.

Resist the Japanese Army's charge...

Looking back at the troop composition of the Four Lines Warehouse, he didn't think so at all. Not to mention the miscellaneous barracks, even if they were all German weapon divisions, they would not be able to withstand the attack of the mixed brigade with field capabilities in the early stages of the war.

This is not the three brigades that were formed due to insufficient manpower in the late war. This is a serious five brigades. The number can be as many as five thousand.

Zhang Sixing did not deny that artillery fire posed a huge threat. But he understood better that war is actually about killing and injuring the opponent's physical strength. Which side kills more, the greater the chance of victory.

For example, the two mushroom bombs thrown down by Yingjiang made the Japanese government, which at that time forced "100 million pieces of jade into pieces", kneel down for eighty years without even daring to dust off their knees.

That's why before this battle, so many items were made specifically to deal with infantry.

Sure enough, just as the people in the Sixing Warehouse were enduring the shelling, a small group of Japanese soldiers quickly approached under the cover of twelve Japanese tanks.

They followed the tank. Obviously, the Japanese army did not care so much about infantry-tank coordination. Hiding behind the tank was definitely not in line with the spirit of Bushido.

At the front were twelve tanks lined up. The coordination of tanks and tanks was not something worth worrying about for the Japanese who were particular about bushido.

Behind the tank is a row of infantrymen holding triangular steel shields. These triangular steel shields are obviously two steel plates welded together.

Regardless of whether rifle or machine gun bullets hit those triangular shields, quite a few bullets turned into ricochet.

The Japanese are not stupid, and they also understand that the steel slope is the main cause of ricochet. However, what I have to deal with first is not the infantry, tanks are the biggest danger at hand.
Chapter completed!