flstandardbreds Chapter 416 Artillery Bombardment of the Japanese 1st Infantry Division 2
Chapter 416 Artillery Bombardment of the Japanese 1st Infantry Division 2
At that moment, the car carrying Takayuki Yamada and Keiichi Murakami was caught in the crossfire as the Japanese soldiers ahead were shelled.
The Japanese driver immediately drove off the road and parked the car in a large depression in the wasteland to the side.
The Japanese soldiers guarding the car were stunned for a few seconds before they immediately realized what was happening.
More than 200 Japanese soldiers quickly established a temporary defensive line using the car in the middle of the depression as the center.
"Baka yarou, where did that shelling come from?"
Inside the car, Takayuki Yamada cursed under his breath with a gloomy expression as he opened the car door to get out.
Seeing this, Murakami Keiichi followed suit.
But Yamada Takayuki pushed him back.
"Murakami, it's too dangerous outside right now. I'll go down by myself. My car has been specially modified, so it's very safe inside. Shrapnel from the explosion..."
"Boom!"
Before Yamada Takayuki could finish speaking, a 300mm shell pierced the roof of the car he was in.
The shell, weighing several dozen kilograms, smashed the Japanese soldier in the driver's seat of the car into a bloody mess.
Then, under the glaring, bloodshot eyes of Yamada Takayuki and Murakami, it exploded with a deafening roar.
The shockwave from the violent explosion of the tulip shells tore Yamada Takayuki and Murakami Keiichi, who were in the back seat of the car, along with the custom-made bulletproof vehicle they were in, to shreds.
Entrained by the shockwave, numerous fragments from the car were launched wildly in all directions from the explosion's epicenter.
Sharp shrapnel flew everywhere, tearing apart the more than 200 Japanese soldiers guarding the car. The moment their bodies came into contact with the shrapnel, they were easily pierced and torn to shreds, as if made of paper.
Even worse, some were directly blown apart by a large number of shrapnel fragments.
Its body parts were flying everywhere.
After the explosion ended.
At this moment, not a single living Japanese soldier could be seen in the depression. A thin layer of red blood mist appeared in the sky above the entire depression, illuminated by the surrounding fires.
But it was quickly dispersed by the shockwave from an explosion elsewhere.
Now all that's left is a pile of severed limbs lying haphazardly in the depression.
They couldn't even find a complete Japanese soldier's corpse.
No one would have guessed that two Japanese lieutenant generals were buried here.
However, the Japanese soldiers reacted quickly after being hit by artillery fire, and after the initial chaos...
The Japanese soldiers who had survived the first wave of shelling had already scattered, spreading out their positions and crawling on the ground to minimize the area they were hit.
Meanwhile, the remaining Japanese soldiers at the very front of the column had already discovered the location of the enemy artillery position that had attacked them.
After all, the trails of smoke left by the shells in the night sky and the continuous sounds of artillery fire from behind the valley not far ahead were quite conspicuous.
Some of the surviving Japanese officers have begun to rally their soldiers, using the dirt roads along the wasteland on both sides to avoid the artillery fire, and are starting to organize a counterattack towards the valley.
Meanwhile, the firefight between the silly girl and the more than 30 Japanese cavalrymen who rode into the valley was also nearing its end.
"Puff puff puff puff..."
With a slight tremor, the muzzle of the 191 marksman rifle in the silly girl's hand quivered.
The last three Japanese cavalrymen were also shot down by the silly girl.
Silly Girl quickly changed her magazine and glanced down at the snow-covered wasteland below, cratered by Bai Luo's explosion.
They then realized that a number of Japanese soldiers were already charging towards them, trudging through the thick snow on the wasteland on both sides.
Clearly, the Japanese soldiers had discovered them. Seeing this, Sha Niu quickly told Bai Luo the news.
"Xiao Luo, the Japanese soldiers are charging towards us from both sides of the wasteland!"
Bai Luo, who was halfway down the slope, had already noticed the movements of the Japanese soldiers on the monitoring radar.
"Qin Lan, Qin Lan. Have the Japanese soldiers entered the wasteland yet?"
However, Bai Luo's calls went unanswered, and his heart sank.
Bai Luo wasn't worried about Qin Lan; with Qin Lan's abilities, escaping wouldn't be a problem. What he was really worried about was the signal amplifier placed in the wasteland.
His walkie-talkie signal with Qin Lan has been lost, so it's very likely that the signal for the remote-controlled bomb has also been lost.
This is the key to detonating the remote-controlled bomb.
However, Bai Luo couldn't care less about that at the moment.
The tulip, the Eagle rocket launcher, and the unused anti-aircraft missile vehicle were stored in the personal space.
They left only the medium-sized heavy artillery positions, regardless of whether they could hit the Japanese soldiers.
A barrage of fire returned to the dirt road in the middle of the wasteland outside the range of the monitoring radar.
Meanwhile, 10 kilometers away, Qin Lan stood on a treetop watching shells explode one after another on the deserted dirt road.
He quickly pressed the talk button on the walkie-talkie.
"Son, you missed! The Japanese soldiers aren't on the road anymore. Some have gone into the woods, but most are hiding in the wasteland."
Oh dear, I see the Japanese artillery unit.
"What thick cannon barrels! Oh dear, they're setting up the cannons! Kids, silly girls, run! The Japanese are about to fire!"
But Qin Lan was met with a crackling sound of electricity.
Qin Lan slapped the earphone that had malfunctioned at the crucial moment in frustration.
Qin Lan raised her wrist to call Bai Luo using her communication bracelet, but in the instant she looked down, she saw the silly bear lying under the tree, with three rocket launchers on its back and looking at her with its head tilted to the side.
Qin Lan's eyes lit up immediately, and she glanced at the Japanese cannon less than 200 meters away, which was adjusting its coordinates behind the woods.
While calling out to Bai Luo, it jumped directly from the treetop into the bear's arms.
The silly bear was startled by Qin Lan's action and quickly stood up and opened its two thick bear paws.
He caught Qin Lan steadily as she jumped directly from the tree.
However, even the silly bear couldn't help but fall on its bottom.
Qin Lan, who jumped down, didn't bother to pay attention to the somewhat resentful look in Silly Bear's eyes.
Just then, Bai Luo's voice came through Qin Lan's bracelet.
"Qin Lan, retreat."
Bai Luo hung up the phone immediately after saying that.
In the woods, Qin Lan looked at the communication bracelet that had already been disconnected.
She opened her mouth, but there was still information she hadn't revealed.
Just as she was hesitating whether to contact Bai Luo again.
A series of muffled explosions reached Qin Lan's ears.
Qin Lan's gaze was instantly drawn to the sound of the explosion, even though she couldn't see what was happening through the trees.
But she knew that the commotion must have been caused by Bai Luo, who was retreating, detonating a remote-controlled bomb buried in the snow.
Indeed, Bai Luo pressed the detonation button on the remote-controlled bomb immediately after hanging up the communication.
However, the situation was not as bad as Bai Luo had anticipated; nearly half of the remote-controlled bombs were successfully detonated.
The only pity is that there weren't many Japanese soldiers in the area where the explosion occurred.
As Bai Luo pressed the detonation button, a series of heart-wrenching muffled thuds echoed from the snow beneath the Japanese soldiers' feet.
Immediately afterwards, countless miniature snowflake mushroom clouds erupted from the snow.
Those mushroom clouds were caused by remote-controlled bombs detonated by Bai Luo.
The violent blast wave sent the Japanese soldiers charging through the wasteland flying, flung into the air, and then crashing heavily to the ground.
The luckier Japanese soldiers were blasted into the air by the blast wave and landed on their comrades, successfully taking one of them down with them.
Explosions continued to erupt across the wasteland.
The swirling snowflakes, along with the broken frozen soil, the bent guns, and the Japanese soldiers' corpses torn to shreds by remote-controlled bombs, all flew into the air.
It added a touch of somber red to this barren land, which was covered in thick snow and looked rather monotonous.
Coupled with the moon that had appeared out of nowhere in the night sky, it exudes a mysterious beauty.