Outside Shanhaiguan, the First Regiment of the Army's First Division and the Artillery Corps directly under the division, and the Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment, led by the First Regiment Commander Colonel Feng Kuang, had arrived at Shanhaiguan.

In a wooded forest, Feng Kuang and the regiment chief of staff Li Wenjie and others were holding a telescope and peeping at Shanhaiguan.

Looking at the majestic wall, the mountains on both sides were steep, and the shadows of Japanese soldiers were shaking on the wall, Chief of Staff Li Wenjie couldn't help but sigh: "Shanhaiguan is worthy of being the most powerful gate in the world. It is really a sign that one man can pass by ten thousand men."

"If a man is a pass, ten thousand men will not open? That's the past." Feng Kuang put down his telescope and smiled with confidence: "It's different from the past. Our artillery can turn this world's first pass into ruins in two hours."

"You must not be careless in the regiment. The Japanese army has retreated outside the pass for a long time, and Shanhaiguan is the first important road to exit the pass. Such a strategic location must have been fully managed for a long time. This battle is not careless." Li Wenjie reminded at the majestic Shanhaiguan.

"Well. I understand this." Feng Kuang nodded and immediately said: "Notify the artillery regiment and the self-propelled artillery regiment to cover Shanhaiguan in thirty minutes, and then fire a large number of poisonous gas bombs at the shutdown. Then, my first regiment and battalion took advantage of the situation to launch an attack."

"Yes!" Li Wenjie quickly stood up and responded.

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Shenyang City, the Japanese Kwantung Army Headquarters.

The failure to win over Yan Xishan, the Qiao family army immediately rushed north. This series of unfavorable news gave Hideki Tojo, the current commander of the Kwantung Army, a headache.

When he learned that the vanguard of the Qiao family army had arrived at Yamaneguan, Tojo Hideki was even more anxious as an ant on a hot pan and kept paced back and forth in the headquarters.

Chief of Staff, Hitaro Kimura, walked in and saluted him and reported: "Your Excellency General, the Shanhaiguan Guard Team is urgently sent."

"Oh? What's the situation?" Hideki Tojo asked, stopping.

"The garrison reported that the vanguard troops of the China Army have arrived at the gates and are expected to launch an attack on the Yamaguan defense line soon." Kimura Hitaro replied.

"How is the Jinzhou defense line?" Hideki Tojo said.

"Yoto Shinozuka has called. They have made all preparations and will definitely be able to stick to the Jinzhou defense line for more than three months." Kimura Hitotaro said.

"That's good, tell the Shanhaiguan Guard to resist with all its might and persevere until the last moment. The Tamazaki fights!" Hideki Tojo relaxed and waved his hand.

Kimura Hitaro wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it, nodded and left.

He knew that although it was a bit cruel to make the two thousand imperial troops of the Shanhaiguan Guards fight in a jade-breaking battle, he also knew that this was a helpless move.

Because once Shanhaiguan was broken, their escape speed was definitely not as fast as the mechanized pursuit of Qiao's army. Instead of being completely wiped out while running away.

It is better to use Shanhaiguan's dangerous terrain to fight the Chinese army to the end and consume the vigor of the Qiao family army as much as possible.

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The Jinzhou defense line was built by Hideki Tojo who carefully mobilized two-thirds of the Kanto Army's troops.

He knew that it would be impossible to stop the Qiao family army from heading north with just one Shanhaiguan.

To this end, he specially appointed Yoshio Shinozuka, the former commander of the 10th Division of the North China Front Army, as the front-line commander, responsible for commanding 200,000 elite Kanto Army troops in Jinzhou, Huludao, Jinxi, and Ningyuan (now Xingcheng) to build several Jinzhou defense lines centered on Jinzhou.

Its first line of defense was built with Jinchuan Fort and Xianling Temple Fort based on the Liuzhou River.

This is the place that the Qiao family army must pass after entering the pass and wants to go north to Jinzhou.

The second line of defense is in Ningyuan City, Tuanshan Fort, Xingshui County and Juehua Island.

The third line of defense is the Jinzhou line of defense. Its outer periphery radiates to Tashan, Shahe Fort, Huishan Fort, and Dahongluo Mountain.

The three lines of defense have a capacity of 200,000 troops, and the Kwantung Army has been operating outside the pass fortifications for a long time, and it is complete with various defensive fortifications.

This is also the determination and confidence that Shinozuka Yoshino's claim to be able to hold on to at least three months or even half a year.

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Under Shanhaiguan, the First Division Artillery Regiment and the Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment were on the positions.

After nearly half an hour of intense preparations, the artillery regiment finally completed all pre-war preparations, including building artillery defensive positions.

With Feng Kuang's order on the phone, hundreds of 105mm howitzers and 120mm caliber self-propelled cannons were fired one after another.

"Bangbangbang..." With one muffled sound after another, shells broke out from the chamber and roared and fell towards Shanhaiguan.

Judging from the attacking position of the reorganized regiment, countless shells in the sky dragged their long tail flames and made sharp whistle-like whistle-like whistle-like whistle-like thundering through the sky, and fell towards Shanhaiguan like a meteor.

"Boom boom boom boom boom..." One round of shells fell accurately inside and outside the Shanhaiguan wall, and a violent explosion occurred.

From time to time, Japanese troops were blown away by huge air waves and fell from the female wall to the city.

In the violent and dense explosion, this majestic level with a long history began to turn into a sea of ​​fire and ruins.

The shelling lasted for twenty minutes, and the hard walls on the exterior wall were blown up and devastated. The entire Shanhaiguan was covered by fire and smoke.

The Japanese army was in danger and suffered heavy casualties and wailed everywhere.

However, when the surviving Japanese stubbornly picked up their guns and prepared to resist, the expected charge did not happen.

However, a sharp and harsh whistling sound suddenly sounded in the sky. The surviving Japanese soldiers looked up and saw countless black dots falling head-on.

All the Japanese soldiers were shocked and hurriedly avoided, but the shells did not explode after they landed on the ground, but emitted bursts of aurora smoke.

The Japanese soldiers suddenly screamed in horror, ran in panic, trampled on each other, and the entire pass was in panic.

On the attack position of the reorganized regiment at the Pass, more than a thousand soldiers from the Second Battalion, led by the battalion commander Major Qi Delong, had already assembled. All the soldiers were wearing gas masks, fully armed, ready to go.

Qi Delong walked to the officers and soldiers of the battalion with a stg44 assault rifle (i.e. mp-44) with great strides, pulled down the gas mask, and looked around his subordinates with a torch.

He said coldly: "Brothers, Shanhaiguan is the first battle for my Qiao family's army to go north. The chief magistrate handed over the mission of this attack to our first regiment. That is our supreme glory. Show your energy on the kang of the woman, rush up for me, and capture Shanhaiguan. The glory belongs to the First Army Division, our entire regiment, and our second battalion!"

After saying that, Qi Delong pulled the bolt of the mp-44 assault rifle in his hand and pointed behind him: "Run!"

More than a thousand officers and soldiers immediately responded: "Kill! Catch!" They screamed and flocked towards Shanhaiguan with mp-44 assault rifles.

The mg42 machine gun group on its own positions also opened fire to provide strong fire cover for the offensive troops.

"Kill!" Qi Delong pulled down his gas mask and joined the charger without hesitation with his subordinates.

"Glory belongs to our First Army Division, kill it!" The first company commander Zhao Quan roared and rushed to the front.

At this time, the Japanese army on the top of the city was still in chaos. Some Japanese soldiers endured the invasion of poisonous gas and stubbornly shot and blocked the attack, but it was useless to get the mantis armed and chariot.

Without complete firepower support, it is impossible to stop the charge of more than a thousand soldiers of the Qiao family army with just the scattered shooting of the rifle.

What's more, the mg42 machine gun group on a group of positions exerted super firepower to suppress them. The Japanese soldiers who were stubbornly exposed and shot were unable to fire the machine gun, and they would be hit by bullets pouring like raindrops and fell down.

The mp-44 assault rifle in the hands of the charge soldiers also showed its power. Whether it is a single shot or a continuous fire suppression, it can be fully exerted.

The 38 rifles in the hands of the Japanese on the city were unable to resist, and even the 92 heavy machine guns they were proud of could not suppress hundreds of assault rifles.

As the distance approached, the rocket soldiers from each platoon of the Second Battalion finally had the opportunity to take action, and Bazuka rocket launchers opened fire one after another.

The target pointed directly at the surviving Japanese heavy machine gun fire points. With the launch of rockets, the only remaining fire points of the Japanese were also destroyed one after another.

Zhao Quan's first company rushed to the wall, and three rocket soldiers carried the Bazuka rocket launcher and replaced the blasting bomb, aiming at the gate of the wall that was blocked by the Japanese army.

"My roar!" Three sharp roars sounded, and three explosion bombs were scattered, flying towards the city gate with fire.

"Boom boom boom!" Three loud noises sounded almost at the same time, and the flames rose up. Under the huge explosion, the giant wooden city gate wrapped in copper and iron was immediately blown into pieces.

However, the inside was sealed by the Japanese army with stone concrete.

At this time, the Japanese army on the wall had already obtained a gas mask, and reinforcements from the wall also rushed to the women's wall, and for a moment, the top of the city was bombing like rain.

Three rocket soldiers who bombarded the city gate were shot one after another and fell into a pool of blood.

Seeing this, Zhao Quan was very anxious and picked up the mp-44 assault rifle in his hand and swept it towards the top of the city.

"Company Commander, what should I do?" A platoon leader asked anxiously when he saw that the way to pass the pass had been blocked by the Japanese.

"Go up the ladder!" Zhao Quan made up his mind and took the lead in running towards the attack of the other two companies.

The first company was responsible for breaking through the city gate, while the second company, the third company and other troops were responsible for climbing the city to attack with ladders.

When Zhao Quan and his subordinates rushed to the left, a soldier on a ladder happened to die. He pointed to the ladder and shouted: "Hurry up, let me climb up!"

Seeing this, the Japanese soldiers on the city wall shot and fired, and dense bullets flew past Zhao Quan.

"Fire Spitfire!" Zhao Quan roared loudly at the top of his throat: "Burn those dog-dreams to death."

Soon, several fire-breathing soldiers rushed over with bullets on their backs, and a burst of fire was blowing towards the city several meters high.
Chapter completed!