The Xinyizhou Operations Command was already ready to be taken back to the Military Court of the Ninth Army of Jinan by the military police for trial. Of course, Zhang Zizhong was removed from the position of division commander to the minimum.

Seeing the call from Commander-in-Chief Li Guosheng full of trust, because he was so excited that his hands, holding the telegram tightly, began to tremble without realizing it.

Then, he said to himself with a firm look in the direction of Jinan: "You trust me so much. I, Zhang Zizhong, will definitely not let down the high expectations of the chief officer for me and take over Xinyizhou. From now on, I will follow the leader of the chief officer..."

After saying that, he handed the telegram to the Chief of Staff behind him, and ordered with a serious face: "Chief of Staff, please read the latest order given to us by the Commander-in-Chief..."

"Yes..." Gao Weichang, who had already known the content of the telegram, responded excitedly.

After all, if your direct superior is so trusted by the commander-in-chief, it means that as a partner and subordinate, I will not be excluded after leaving the master's seat. I will even be favored by the commander-in-chief and soar to the sky with the master's seat...

Commander-in-chief Li Guosheng's order of trust in the battlefield in Shinyiju was read out by Gao Weichang. After five seconds of silence, the entire combat room made a neat response: "Please give orders..."

Zhang Zizhong nodded with satisfaction, with a pair of sharp eyes, and quickly swept his subordinates and colleagues around him. He ordered with a high spirit: "Very good, brothers, since the chief commander of the Japanese First Division, we will take the head of Lieutenant General Lin Xian, the commander of the Japanese First Division, to repay the commander-in-chief's trust in us..."

After saying that, a pair of sharp eyes were already unknowingly turned to the brigade commander of the artillery brigade and asked: "Brig Commander Zhang. How many artillery shell reserves do the artillery cluster have? Can it withstand the consumption of the next battle..."

"Report to the commander, there are 10,000 large-caliber heavy artillery shells, which is enough to consume two hours of continuous artillery shells.... There are more than 20,000 mountain artillery, field artillery shells, and infantry artillery shells, which is enough to consume one and a half hours of artillery shells...." The brigade commander of the Artillery Brigade, as he knows it, said.

"A total of 30,000 shells. It is enough to razor the Xinyizhou County Town to the ground..." Zhang Zizhong breathed a sigh of relief and spoke.

Then, he ordered the artillery brigade commander in front of him with a serious face: "Brig Commander Zhang, once the battle against Shinyiju starts, I will give the artillery cluster an hour and a half, and I must shoot all the shells into Shinyiju City. I see whether the Japanese are flesh and blood, or our steel shells are powerful. At that time, two bomber regiments under the First Air Division, two bomber regiments under the Second Air Division, and all the large-caliber naval guns equipped by the two submarines under the Navy. They will all participate in the preparations for this artillery fire, and use unprecedented fierce firepower to blow all the reinforced concrete fortresses built by the Japanese army in Shinyiju for half a year. They will blow them into ruins and completely wipe the entire Shinyiju County from the earth..."

Among the officers standing in front of Zhang Zizhong, not only the commander of the heavy artillery brigade, but also the infantry generals, including Zhu Shengda and others, were shocked by Zhang Zizhong's big move.

Of course, no matter how shocked the shocked, these infantry commanders were still very excited and excited about this move. Because the more fully prepared artillery fire, the more the attack on Shinyiju, the losses of ordinary infantry during the attack will be reduced to the minimum state.

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The first thing that launched an attack on Xinyizhou was not the artillery cluster brought by Zhang Zizhong, nor the air force, but the eight destroyers and cruisers under the naval fleet.

After receiving the attack order, six destroyers and two cruisers, which had been wandering away from the entrance of the Yalu River, quickly climbed along the river and appeared on the Yalu River nearest to Xinyizhou.

The ship's naval guns with a caliber of more than 150 mm were quickly removed from their cannon suits, revealing the barrel of the bowl, pointing straight to the sky.

The naval battle that took place a day ago at the mouth of the Yalu River ended too quickly. Before these naval officers and soldiers had time to shoot a shell, the battle ended. The soldiers on the ship who were ready to participate in the war were both excited and disappointed. Everyone was holding a wave of killing the Japanese in their hearts and wanted to vent.

Now, I finally have the opportunity to kill the Japanese, although I just bombard the Japanese army. However, every officer and soldier who participated in the war showed heartfelt excitement and expectation.

A naval gun had just revealed his hideous face. These excited gunners had quickly rushed to their own gun position and began to perform the final inspection of the naval gun before firing.

"All participating ship guns are pay attention to, targets, Xinyizhou County 12 kilometers away, and all ship guns are free to shoot. Now I order all ship guns, and fire immediately..." The temporary commander-in-chief of the Navy Fleet, holding the microphone specially used for broadcasting in the fleet, loudly commanded.

"Boom..." Several deafening roars sounded from the bow and tail of the warship. Four naval guns shot four large-caliber naval gun shells weighing 50 kilograms and had armor-piercing performance to the land.

The sound of cannons sounded, and the large destroyer with a displacement of more than 5,000 tons under everyone's feet couldn't help but tremble. At the same time, the bow, stern, and the four guns were located at the gun position, and were also immediately covered by thick white smoke produced by the artillery bombardment.

The gunners who stood in the gun position under the pungent smoke did not show any discomfort.

As soon as the first artillery shell was shot out of the barrel, several gunners began to get busy. When the gun bolt came, the shell shell still emitted bursts of hot air quickly fell from the barrel. Another gunner standing beside him briefly cleaned the barrel, and the huge shell held by a machine was skillfully sent into the barrel bolt under the control of a gun bolt. Close the gun bolt and continue firing...

On the deck of eight ships, hundreds of gunners repeated the same action without getting tired of it, pouring shells into Xinyizhou County more than ten kilometers away, one after another.

And at this moment, the first round of naval artillery shells that had been flying for more than ten seconds finally appeared above the battlefield.

The sharp and rapid whistling sound of the air breaking through the air just came from the air. All kinds of rapid whistles began to sound the Japanese positions in Xinyizhou City. In an instant, the Japanese soldiers who were scattered on the surface of the position just now were like frightened ducks. They grabbed their weapons and rushed towards the bunkers and underground bunkers closest to them.

When the first round of naval artillery shells that roared in, really appeared over Xinyizhou County. In the entire county, except for the reinforced concrete bunkers, there was no Japanese outside.

However, what the Japanese army did not expect was that at this moment, it was not ordinary shells falling from the sky, but large-caliber naval shells that could easily penetrate even the protective steel plates of warships that could easily penetrate.

Dozens of whizzing shells were like penetrating blank paper, easily penetrated the protective layer of the Japanese concrete bunker with a thickness of no more than 30 cm on the ground, and then an explosion occurred inside the bunker.

Of course, even if the naval artillery shells that did not hit any street fighting fortifications of the Japanese army, the explosion occurred after relying on their strong armor-piercing ability to penetrate several meters underground.

The shell exploded, a scene that shocked all the Japanese troops. It appeared in the city of Shinyiju.

A juliè explosion sounded from the inside of the bunker hit by the naval artillery shells. Countless black smoke, flames, and even the broken limbs and broken arms of the soldiers who were blown up quickly gushed out from the shooting hole of the bunker. Immediately afterwards, the reinforced concrete bunker, which was still indestructible just now, began to collapse with a huge roar.

A burst of thick smoke rose from the ground, and the entire bunker, which had turned into a pile of ruins, was instantly shrouded in a large amount of smoke and dust generated by the collapse of the bunker.

As for the shells drilled into the ground, an explosion sounded with the sound of the shaking of the earth, a huge crater with a depth of more than five meters and a diameter of more than twenty meters suddenly appeared in the city of Shinyizhou. All the bunker buildings built by the Japanese army in the crater were uprooted and turned into ruins...

"How could this happen? Without these bunkers, what can we do to block the Chinese attack..." A Japanese squadron leader who witnessed all this in front of him stared at a pair of complex gazes full of shock and despair and roared loudly.

However, his roar and his roar did not arouse any sympathy. Round after round of naval artillery shells, still falling in the city of Shinyiju like it was raining, destroying the bunker group that the Japanese army had worked hard for half a year.

Not only that, when the naval naval guns shot out the fifth round of artillery shells and came again over Shinyiju, a dull engine roar, suddenly coming from far to near, from the southwest of the battlefield. Then, a dense black dot appeared within everyone's field of vision over the southwest of the battlefield.

As the dull roar became louder and louder, the dense black dots had become a group of black machines.

Two bomber regiments under the Second Air Division and more than 70 Stuka bombers appeared above the battlefield under the escort of one fighter regiment and more than 30 wildcat fighters.

A sharp whistling sound of nearly air defense alarm sounded over Xinyiju. In the first round, a squadron of Stuka dive bombers rushed from different directions toward the county town with a small ground.

When the harsh whistling sound of the air breaking through was replaced by a huge roar, the 12 dive bombers that were almost in a straight line and fell down quickly changed their course. After drawing a huge arc in the air, they rushed back into the sky.

Of course, the 36 bombs that dived with the bomber quickly broke away from the bomber's restraint when the roar sounded, and continued to smash towards the Xinyizhou County on the ground along the bomber's original dive channel.

Thirty-six juliè explosions sounded, and the 36th regiments were mixed with a large amount of flames. The soldiers' broken limbs and arms, and even the rolling smoke of smoke and dust immediately soared into the air from the bomb point, forming a huge mushroom cloud as high as dozens of meters.

Of course, at the same time as the explosion sounded, more than 30 huge bomb craters with depths of more than ten meters and radius of more than twenty meters suddenly appeared in the city of Xinyiju. All buildings within the range of the bomb crater, whether they are reinforced concrete bunkers or original buildings, were all uprooted and razed to the ground by the huge air waves generated by the bomb explosion.

As for the Japanese officers and soldiers hiding in these bunkers, looking around, apart from a few incomplete corpses and scattered among the ruins within the crater, there was no living officer or soldier.

With the results achieved by the five-wheeled naval artillery shells, in a blink of an eye, there were hundreds of unmanned areas with a radius of dozens of meters. The number of these unmanned areas is increasing over time...

The squadron leader who had just witnessed the power of the naval gun was very lucky to survive again. Seeing dozens of craters in front of him in a blink of an eye, he saw the still dense group of bombers in the air. His face had gone from calmness at the beginning to panic now. He roared at the sky with a pale face.

"Bageya Road, the Chinese people's firepower is too strong. If they continue to bomb like this, only the Chinese team has sufficient ammunition, and the entire Xinyizhou county town will be razed to the ground by the opponent..."

A small team leader standing next to the squadron leader had a face that had been covered with pale paleness. He said to the squadron leader with a look of horror: "Squadron leader, we... what should we do next... If a bomb in the Chinese Air Force hits us, the entire bunker and the entire squadron headquarters will be razed to the ground... Even we will be bombed to the point of no bones..."

The squadron leader who was still terrified just now quickly flashed a murderous sneer on his face. As the squadron leader, he allowed his subordinates to be afraid. However, he would never allow his subordinates to fight timidly. He asked coldly to the squad leader who had just spoken: "Shinmura, are you scared? Want to be a deserter..."

The team leader quickly shook his head and replied: "No, Squadron Captain. Bei Yi is not afraid...but Bei Yi is willing to die in the front battlefield with the Central ** team. He even died on the way to charge. He did not want to die so unknown under the enemy's artillery fire in the end. He could not even leave a complete corpse..."

The squadron leader didn't have such thoughts in his mind, but this process was not something he could decide.

After sighing, he spoke to the team leader in front of him: "Forget it, let's not be an example. I hope Shinmura Jun will not say these words to attack the morale of the troops in the future..."

Speaking of this, the squadron leader changed his words and continued to speak: "However, I will report your suggestions to my superiors immediately. I believe that the Chief Office will definitely give us a satisfactory reply..."

After saying that, the squadron leader quickly left the shooting hole and walked towards the basement of the bunker where the squadron radio was located.

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The command center of the Japanese First Division located in the middle of Xinyizhou County is located in the basement ten meters underground. Although the command center, General Lin Xian, who was in the basement, could feel a little tremor, it did not cause great damage to his street fighting fortifications due to the firepower of the ** team in Qingchu.

The division commander Lieutenant General Lin Xian, closed his eyes and waited for the end of the shelling, imagining the scene when the Chinese offensive troops were beaten to the point of blood in the city of Shinyiju. Chief of Staff Major General Miyagawa woke it from his dream without mercy.

Lieutenant General Lin Xian, who had a slight bad premonition, suddenly opened his closed eyes. He asked in a deep voice at the Chief of Staff who was hurriedly walking: "Miyagawa, is something wrong again..."

Major General Miyachuan nodded helplessly and said, "Secretary Commander, the firepower intensity of the Zhongxun Team outside the city is far beyond our imagination... According to the latest casualties calculated by each unit, the Zhongxun Team's firepower preparation has just begun less than ten minutes, and more than 500 warriors have given their lives..."

"Nani, 500 Warriors... In ten minutes, 500 Warriors lost in this shelling. Miyagawa-kun, I heard it right. You know, we have built a large number of reinforced concrete fortifications in the county. Even if the Chinese team used a large caliber howitzer, it would not be possible to destroy it. How could this be possible..." Lin Xian's General asked incredible words to his old partner standing in front of him.

Major General Miyagawa shook his head and replied: "The division commander, Hu Yi, can't believe this fact, but this happened... According to the report of his subordinates: In this firepower preparation, the Chinese team not only used an artillery cluster of more than 100 heavy artillery pieces, but also used hundreds of bomber groups, and even a large number of naval guns..."

"The reinforced concrete fortifications we built can block heavy artillery shells fired by large-caliber howitzers. However, they cannot block large-caliber naval artillery shells with armor-piercing performance... In addition, all the aviation bombs used by the Chinese Air Force are bombs that weigh more than 500 kilograms, and even the Imperial Japanese Air Force rarely use. Our fortifications cannot block such bomb attacks at all..."

"Naval cannons, heavy aviation bombs... Bageya Road, when did the backward China National Team be equipped with such advanced weapons? Why did the China National Team change so huge... The Imperial Japanese Navy, why hasn't the Chinese Navy fleet been destroyed yet..." Lieutenant General Lin Xian, the commander of the division, almost roared and asked.

Chief of Staff Major General Miyachuan replied with an embarrassing expression: "Secretary Commander, you seem to have forgotten that our escort fleet had been destroyed yesterday morning under the joint attack of the Chinese Navy and Air Force..."

The Lieutenant General Lin Xian, who was still angry just now, suddenly became silent.

Even the Imperial Japanese Navy, Imperial Army Aviation, and Naval Air Force are not rivals of the Chinese, let alone the Imperial Army of the Central Team in terms of equipment.

After a brief silence, he asked Major General Miyagawa in front of him: "Miyagawa, according to the existing firepower strength of the Central ** team, how long can we last for various reinforced concrete fortifications we built in the city..."
Chapter completed!