The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Begins in Songhu

Chapter 676 Opening Arms (Two-in-One Chapter)

It was the same time, but the location was changed to the 731 Unit's base, about 1.5 kilometers outside the main gate, on a low hill.

I turned on the flashlight, glanced at my watch, and realized that it would be past 9 p.m. in twenty seconds.

Zhi Xiang first lit a cigarette for himself and took two puffs.

Then he opened his throat and roared out:

"Attention all personnel, to your positions immediately!"

The Harbin Pingfang District, where Unit 731 is currently located, was naturally far less prosperous than it is in modern times.

Instead, the Japanese, in order to keep their heinous acts secret, drove away the few remaining people in the surrounding area, turning the area into a no-man's land.

This is why the roar emanating from the elephant's mouth can now be heard far and wide in the quiet night.

But this stubborn guy, Xiang, didn't seem to be worried at all that his roar would be heard by the Japanese soldiers on duty and guarding the gate of Unit 731, so that they could take some precautions in advance.

Given this situation, one can only say that Hu Biao and his allies were extremely wealthy in this battle.

Therefore, tonight's battle will be easier than ever before, and there's absolutely nothing to worry about.

At the command of the elephant, the fifty KL soldiers who had received some artillery training in their recent training immediately sprang into action.

They were divided into four groups and then sprinted away.

Four cannons and shells were lined up on a flat area below the hill, ready to fire at any moment and continue firing.

It should be noted that the four cannons mentioned above were spoils of war obtained by Hu Biao and his men when they attacked a Japanese munitions train outside Jiamusi.

Perhaps because this military train was replenishing supplies for the legendary Tiger Head Fortress, it was loaded with not only several cannons and ammunition.

Moreover, the caliber of those cannons was quite frightening.

So they were lined up all the way down the hill, with their cannons aimed at the four cannons of the 731.

The two smallest cannons were both Japanese-made Type 91 105mm howitzers; this caliber would have been considered heavy artillery on the Eastern battlefield.

The other two are a Type 96 150mm cannon.

This thing is incredibly powerful. In Hu Biao's memory, without adequate fortifications, it would be difficult to survive within a hundred meters.

However, this terrifying heavy cannon is nothing compared to the other cannon.

Because it was the last cannon, the Japanese called it "Maru-ichi Cannon".

It was a 300mm caliber cannon specially developed by the Japanese for use in fortress defense; each shell weighed about half a ton, and a crane had to be used to assist in loading it.

It was packed with at least 200 kilograms of high-explosive TNT, so you can imagine how powerful it was.

We won't mention the fifty KL warriors who were brought here by the elephant.

Suddenly, I saw four cannons lined up in a row, with their muzzles raised high, and a huge pile of ammunition behind them.

They looked at each other in disbelief, their hearts filled with immense shock.

However, having received prior instructions from Zhixiang not to ask questions, he forcibly suppressed his many doubts.

Anyway, after the commander personally calculated, he aimed the four cannons at the outer perimeter of Unit 731, at the Japanese battalion-sized defensive force.

Their defensive positions and the military camp they were in were further reinforced with other arrangements.

These thousand or so Japanese soldiers posed no threat whatsoever to Hu Biao and his men; they were simply like vegetables laid out on a chopping board...

Perhaps having faintly heard the roar coming from this direction, the Japanese soldiers on a small pillbox near the main gate of Unit 731's base immediately shone a small searchlight over.

At such a distance, the beam of light from the small searchlight on the watchtower couldn't reach the area, so naturally nothing could be seen.

Even so, a sergeant, accompanied by four Japanese soldiers, jogged over with Type 38 rifles in hand, intending to see what was going on.

It must be said that the Japanese soldiers responsible for the defense of Unit 731 were indeed quite cautious and dutiful, but it was all in vain.

At this moment, Zhixiang, who was still standing on the high hill, took a deep breath.

He raised a pair of binoculars to his eyes, revealing the entire encirclement of Unit 731; as he raised the binoculars, he also issued a command:
"Fire!"

Upon receiving the order, the temporary gunners of the four cannons instinctively pulled hard on their gun ropes.

The deafening roar of artillery fire shattered the tranquility of the night.

However, at a distance of less than two kilometers, in a very short time, four shells had already landed on different targets.

Because there had been no prior test firing, all four shells deviated considerably upon impact, but they still demonstrated the terrifying power of heavy artillery, the 'king of war'.

Especially the 300mm howitzer, its huge shells flying through the air produced a roar like a speeding train.

When the shells fell, they did not hit the two-story military camp that was originally being targeted.

Even the actual landing point was more than twenty meters off.

Even so, when hit by the incredibly powerful shockwave of the explosion, a two-story Japanese military camp made of red bricks collapsed as quickly as if it were made of paper.

Almost an entire company of Japanese soldiers were buried before they could even react.

Good heavens! Even when this thing's shells miss, they have such insane destructive power. If they hit the target squarely, what would happen?

However, the fact that the shell missed its mark doesn't seem to be a big deal.

Because of a rapid calculation in his mind, he had already made some adjustments based on the impact point of the shell.

He shouted a series of new commands: "Cannon number one, adjust the sight 0.5 degrees to the left and 1 degree down; Cannon number two, adjust the sight 1.5 degrees to the right and 0.5 degrees down; Cannon number three..."

Upon receiving this order, the brothers at the foot of the hill immediately sprang into action.

Then he opened the breechblock, ejected the spent cartridge case, loaded a new shell, pulled the firing rope again, and fired another shell.

Of course, the Type 13 was limited to two 105mm howitzers and one 150mm cannon.

The other 300mm howitzer was so complicated to load that even professional Japanese artillerymen needed five minutes to complete one loading.

These comrades from KL were originally just struggling infantrymen; it was only here at the elephant training center that they learned some artillery theory.

Even with the guidance of the expert, and despite being quite flustered, it still takes about eight or nine minutes to load one shot.

Fortunately, the 105mm and 150mm artillery pieces were sufficient for the current situation; when the loud sound of artillery fire rang out once again.

A 150mm shell landed at the gate.

They immediately blew up a pillbox on one side of the gate, and a large number of bricks flew everywhere with the shock wave, almost all of the dozen or so Japanese soldiers on duty at the gate were knocked over, and some were smashed to the ground.

Suddenly, a dark opening appeared before Zhixiang's eyes at the location of the gate, resembling a Japanese woman lying flat.

The other two 105mm shells hit two other buildings.

The weight and caliber of this shell are so much smaller than those of a 300mm fortress gun, so it is naturally far less powerful than the one just fired.

However, after the explosion, a large gap was still blasted into each of the two Japanese red-brick dormitory buildings.

The number of Japanese soldiers killed or wounded was not large, about twenty or thirty men in half a squad; but how many half squads were in a Japanese battalion?

More importantly, even if the KL comrades are not very skilled.

They move very quickly; a 105mm howitzer can fire 3 rounds per minute, and a 150mm cannon can fire 2 rounds per minute.

With enough shells, the Japanese camp could be completely razed to the ground and the Japanese soldiers wiped out very quickly.

Then they could turn the guns around and continue bombarding the research institutes, warehouses, factories, and residential areas of Unit 731, and everything else that needed to be destroyed.

Unfortunately, the Japanese soldiers weren't fools; they didn't stay in their barracks to endure the bombing. After the second round of shells landed, Zhi Xiang could see through his binoculars a large number of Japanese soldiers continuously running out of the barracks' dormitories.

There were about five or six hundred people in total.

These panicked Japanese soldiers, without pausing for a moment, rushed towards the direction from which the shells were flying, led by some officers.

This is a strategy of directly eliminating the opponent's artillery when one has no artillery to counterattack.

Zhi Xiang, however, was completely unconcerned about such a scene.

He uttered another string of data to adjust the cannon muzzles, causing the massive cannons to rotate and point directly at the factory area of ​​Unit 731 further away.

They actually abandoned the Japanese soldiers who were attacking them and prepared to bombard the core area of ​​this den of iniquity.

As for the safety of these artillerymen, what will happen next? It can only be said that in this unprecedentedly rich battle, the means they have prepared are far more than just these four cannons.
It would be a miracle if those hundreds of Japanese soldiers could even reach his artillery position...

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Amidst the deafening roar of the engine, Black Star used all his self-control to refrain from accelerating the Type 97 medium tank he was currently driving to 38 kilometers per hour.

Rush forward and kill the Japanese soldiers who are rushing out of the gate and heading this way.

Then came the urge to storm into the core area of ​​Unit 731 and slaughter those demonic Japanese researchers.

There's no other way! Tonight's plan for Unit 731's operation is to have 50 people, including Annie, Mina, Xiao Cui, and 803, go into the city to cause trouble, in addition to Annie, Mina, Xiao Cui, and 803.

In addition, he ordered Zhixiang to lead fifty brothers in a frenzied bombardment.

In addition, he had nearly 600 men left. One hundred of them were divided into ten groups of ten men each, with each group carrying two light machine guns. They set up positions about one kilometer away from 731.

Once the Japanese soldiers were seen trying to escape, they were immediately put into full fire and killed.

Make sure that none of the Japanese soldiers escape tonight.

The remaining 500 men were divided into two teams of 300 at the front gate and 200 at the back gate, and were sent to attack from under the tanks.

The priority is to first eliminate the Japanese guards before launching an operation to destroy Unit 731, this den of iniquity.

Therefore, at the front gate, Black Star, AT, and Lao San were each driving a Type 97 medium tank that they had acquired from Jiamusi City, lined up at the front to act as the spearhead.

If the tank driven by the three of them goes too fast, wouldn't they become separated from their brothers behind them?

Using combined infantry and tank tactics like the Japanese army made them, the transmigrators, look utterly ashamed.
Soon after, the distance between the group of over 300 people led by Hei Xing and the more than 600 Japanese soldiers who rushed out from the front gate was only 50 or 60 meters.

Perhaps it was because the night was too dark tonight, and the headlights of the three tanks were shining too brightly.

These panicked Japanese soldiers didn't realize that the people following the tanks weren't their comrades, but rather they mistook them for reinforcements.

Instead of firing or stopping, they waved at the tanks driven by Black Star and his men while shouting loudly:

"Turn around, turn around! We have to deal with those cannons first!"

It's not hard to understand why these Japanese soldiers made such a misjudgment; they weren't unaware that the attackers would be Hu Biao and his men.

Based on this guess, they instinctively ruled out the possibility that the tanks were brought by Hu Biao and his men.

Given that Hu Biao and his men were being pursued by the Kwantung Army, it was already a miracle that they managed to escape the encirclement. How could they possibly have obtained so many tanks?

This is precisely why these Japanese soldiers suffered an extraordinary and catastrophic disaster...

As soon as the Japanese soldiers shouted "Turn around!", almost simultaneously, AT, Black Star, and Lao San all yelled out the same thing:
"Shoot them, kill these bastards!"

Under this order, the KL soldiers acting as machine gunners in each tank immediately began firing at the two 7.7mm vehicle-mounted machine guns in front.

Three tanks, that makes a total of six machine guns.

Their sudden burst of firepower immediately felled the unsuspecting ghosts like mowing grass.

This was just the beginning. The firing of the machine gun on the tank was, for Hu Biao, Lao Ma, Xiao Henan, and others following behind the tank, an order to take immediate action.

Immediately, they all raised their weapons and joined in the firing.

Although the Japanese arsenal had very few submachine guns, it had a large number of light machine guns.

In this way, Lao Ma and his group of about 300 men were still equipped with more than 50 automatic weapons, and the firepower they unleashed was quite fierce.

After they emptied their magazines and gun barrels in a very short time, only a little over two hundred Japanese soldiers remained.

During the process, these Japanese soldiers did not just take the beating without fighting back; it's just that their resistance was too weak and feeble.

They fired their Type 38 rifles at the tank, only managing to create sparks on the front armor; they tried to rush forward with grenades to act as human bombs to blow up the tank, but they were knocked to the ground halfway there, without even a chance to get close.

Such a devastating battle must have given Old Ma an incredibly satisfying experience.

Unfortunately, before he could even reload his submachine gun with a new magazine, he had already wiped out the remaining Japanese soldiers.

Black Star, acting as the driver, could no longer hold back. He couldn't even wait for the two KL brothers inside the tank to reload their magazines.

Finally, he floored the accelerator and rammed into the Japanese soldiers in front of him.

Two seconds later, after seeing the rear of a tank billowing thick black smoke through the narrow observation hole, AT suddenly realized what was happening and cursed under his breath:
"You big oaf, you with thick eyebrows and big eyes, you actually want to eat it all by yourself?"

They also floored the accelerator, causing the tanks to accelerate rapidly, and rammed into the Japanese soldiers; while the cunning third brother, though silent, joined the ranks at the same time.

He watched as his colleague was knocked to the ground by the enormous steel monster.

Then their bodies were crushed by the tracks, and the scene of their frantic struggles and screams terrified the remaining Japanese soldiers.

First came the bombardment of heavy artillery, then the barrage of bullets, and finally the ramming and crushing by tanks. Such a ruthless fighting style was too much for even the renowned elite of the Kwantung Army to withstand.

They were terrified and fled in panic.

The only remaining rationality in his mind was that he didn't head towards the rear of Unit 731's base, but instead fled in other directions.

Faced with these fleeing Japanese soldiers, the group had no intention of pursuing them.

They continued charging forward through the now blood-red remains of the three tanks, into the completely destroyed front gate.

Somewhat coincidentally, at the same time, Bao Gongtou and Van Gogh, each driving a tank, also rushed into the back door.

At this point, apart from a few scattered Japanese soldiers, there was no other regular resistance force in front of them.

Although Unit 731 still had many guards, these people could only bully their compatriots who were being used as experimental subjects; their combat strength was much weaker.

It was as if this den of iniquity had completely opened its arms to them...

A minute later, Uncle Bo, who was lying on a small mound, started cursing in a voice only he could hear, looking very frustrated.

There's no way around it! Every Chinese descendant with a sound mind hates the hellish 731 to the extreme, and would love to set this place on fire if given the chance.

This was solely to prevent any Japanese researcher from successfully escaping from here.

Even though they had deployed a hundred brothers to guard the area, they were still somewhat uneasy and believed that a transmigrator must lead the team.

Thus, Uncle Bo, the only sniper in the time-traveler team, was assigned such a task.

In other words, why would we need snipers in a battle where the outcome is so overwhelming? It would be better to leave them outside and take out the fleeing Japanese researchers from a distance.

Despite being extremely unwilling to accept this statement, Uncle Bo was speechless.

Just as he was cursing, his eyes suddenly lit up; he saw the Japanese soldiers scattering and fleeing in front of him.

He raised his gun, opened fire, and killed the first Japanese private.

Uncle Bo started shouting loudly, his voice filled with indescribable joy: "Beat them! Beat them hard! Don't let a single one escape..."

(End of this chapter)