Bright Sword: From Border Region Manufacturing to Major National Heavy Industry

Chapter 299 Hellfire Missiles Decapitation
"Hellfire missiles, aim all at that pass!"

Liu Weidong quickly gave orders to the gunners.

"Yes, Commander." The gunners immediately aimed the Hellfire missiles at the oblique point.

Someone still couldn't help but say to Liu Weidong, "Commander, isn't it a waste to use all eight Hellfire missiles at once? Shouldn't we save half of them?"

"No need, use them all!" Liu Weidong waved his hand.

These Hellfire missiles aren't always accurate; we must ensure that the commander of this Japanese unit is eliminated in one shot.

Without their commander, the morale of the Japanese troops would collapse rapidly.

Soon, all the Hellfire missiles were aimed and the back covers were opened to reveal the fuses.

Without hesitation, Liu Weidong ordered, "Ignite the fire."

"Yes."

The gunners took out matches and immediately lit the fuse of the Hellfire missile.

Chi Chi!

The fuses of the eight Hellfire missiles ignited almost simultaneously, burning intensely and growing shorter and shorter.

……

Major General Miyai picked up one of the rocket launchers, glanced at it, and didn't think the cannon barrel had any technological sophistication.

Major General Miyai said, "It seems that the artillery shells on that man's shoulder are not propelled by chamber pressure. The key technology should be in these shells."

After saying that, Major General Miyai bent down to inspect the shells.

At this critical moment, Major General Miyai suddenly felt unwell.

This was his sixth sense, honed through years of experience.

Whenever a crisis is imminent, Major General Miyai's sixth sense will promptly warn him.

Major General Miyai immediately looked up at the battlefield.

On the battlefield, the Emperor's soldiers and the Eighth Route Army soldiers remained locked in a stalemate, exchanging blows.

The Eighth Route Army soldiers, armed with Molotov cocktails, continued to desperately approach the tank.

Meanwhile, the tank's machine guns were desperately firing to suppress the Eighth Route Army's frenzied advance.

Major General Miyai couldn't see anything on the battlefield that could threaten him.

But he quickly ordered, "Everyone, evacuate from here immediately, evacuate immediately!"

The Japanese officers in this command post all had a tacit understanding: in the past, when a crisis was approaching, Major General Miyai's sixth sense could give timely warnings.

Several times, they survived thanks to Major General Miyai's sixth sense prompting them to evacuate in time.

Unfortunately, this time Major General Miyai's sixth sense was a little slow to anticipate.

Or perhaps the enemy acted too quickly, was too well-prepared, and held nothing back.

Major General Miyai and his group of Japanese officers hadn't even had a chance to run a few steps, or even leave the command post, when suddenly eight long artillery shells were fired from the Eighth Route Army's position.

There was no sound of chamber pressure being released; all that could be seen was the long trail of smoke behind the long shell, which accelerated very quickly and arrived in an instant.

"Baka!" Major General Miyai's eyes widened instantly, and his scalp tingled.

Kitano Chuuji's logistics and supplies were attacked by this shell, and the logistics and supplies were lost.

When the Kumamoto Division and its elite troops were locked in a critical battle, the Eighth Route Army unleashed a volley of artillery shells, destroying the division's heavy artillery positions and reversing the tide of the battle.

And now!
This type of shell has reappeared.

It's terrifying; it's so well-hidden that even airplanes can't detect it.

Its appearance is deadly.

Now, I have nowhere to escape!
The Japanese officers around Major General Miyai were all dumbfounded.

Staring at the hellish missile hurtling towards them, their minds went completely blank for a moment.

We're at this pass, the Eighth Route Army can't see the command post, so how did they manage to find it so accurately?

However, when someone looked at the rocket launcher at their feet, they understood.

It was the Eighth Route Army's rocket launcher that exposed this place.

boom!
boom!
boom!
……

Eight Hellfire missiles were launched at the pass almost simultaneously, and the pass was quickly enveloped in smoke from the violent explosions.

Some of the Japanese soldiers at the mouth of the valley were torn to pieces by the shockwave of the explosion, while others were thrown high into the sky.

However, there were still some lucky ones.

This lucky man was none other than Major General Miyako.

Although the hellish shells bombarded the area, Major General Miyai was still some distance from the impact point.

So he did not die on the spot.

However, he was also severely injured and fell unconscious.

The command post was suddenly dealt a fatal blow, which had an enormous impact on the Japanese soldiers who were fighting on the battlefield.

They stared wide-eyed in disbelief, their faces filled with incredulity.

Some Japanese soldiers were even distracted and given the opportunity by the Eighth Route Army soldiers to thrust or slash, suffering fatal injuries. "Well done! That Japanese command post is definitely gone!" Seeing the good results of the eight Hellfire missiles, Liu Weidong immediately shouted, "Comrades, the Japanese command post has been destroyed! Charge! All of you, charge out and chop those little devils to pieces!"

The morale of the Eighth Route Army soldiers soared instantly, and they charged forward like tigers descending a mountain.

Light and heavy machine guns, along with mortar grenade launchers, provided extremely fierce covering fire, suppressing the light and heavy machine guns behind the Japanese lines.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the remaining Japanese tanks and armored vehicles all reversed in an emergency.

"Baka! No retreating! We must charge through! No retreating!"

Although many low-ranking Japanese commanders were desperately shouting, trying to stabilize their position.

But it was all in vain; without a commander, the situation was essentially over.

Once the momentum is broken, it's a complete rout.

The Japanese armored vehicles hastily reversed, even running over their own men.

The screams of their own men were completely drowned out by the roar of the tank's engine.

Many Japanese soldiers were crushed into meat patties by tanks, becoming part of the soil's nutrients.

……

"Brigade Commander, Brigade Commander!" The military doctor ran up the pass and found Major General Gongjing from the ruins.

Major General Miyai was still unconscious. The military doctor called out to him twice but received no response. He then quickly checked Major General Miyai's condition.

The military doctor's brows furrowed instantly. Major General Gongjing's external injuries were mostly minor; his main injuries were internal.

The internal organs were severely damaged, and even if the patient was rushed to a field hospital for treatment, the chances of recovery were slim.

Not to mention that this was on the battlefield, our military train was attacked by the Eighth Route Army, and all our medicines fell into their hands.

There were simply no conditions available to treat Major General Miyaji.

Actually, the best solution now is to give Young Master Gongjing a quick death by shooting him in the head, thus freeing him from this predicament.

However, the military doctor simply couldn't bring himself to do it.

Seeing that the troops were rapidly retreating under the counterattack of the Eighth Route Army, the military doctor simply put Major General Gongjing on a stretcher, and two military doctors carried him away quickly.

Faced with the Japanese army's rout, Liu Weidong did not hesitate and ordered his troops to pursue them decisively.

In the end, the enemy escaped from Liu Weidong's grasp thanks to the speed advantage of their tanks and the four legs of their warhorses.

"Damn it!" Seeing that some of the Japanese tanks had escaped, the battalion commander said angrily to Liu Weidong, "Regimental commander, I didn't do a good job of the mission."

"You've done a great job," Liu Weidong praised. "You took down more than twenty tanks and armored vehicles using Molotov cocktails, which is more than what rocket launchers destroyed."

Then Liu Weidong said, "We captured several hundred horses in this battle. Next time we can ride horses to chase the enemy."

The Japanese retreated hastily, leaving behind several hundred horses which were intercepted by Liu Weidong's troops.

"Quickly clean up the battlefield, rebuild the defense line, and guard against the enemy's comeback!" Despite the great victory in the blocking operation, Liu Weidong did not let his guard down.

He ordered his troops to quickly clean up the battlefield and rebuild the defensive line.

Although the Japanese reinforcements have retreated and their commander is likely in grave danger, their supplies are still in our hands, and they will most likely come back.

But now it's dark, and their plane can't come.

The Type 92 infantry gun is gone, as are the Hell Cannon and the Hell Missile.

But we also have grenade launchers, mortars, and Molotov cocktails.

With the advantage of night fighting, we can still stop the Japanese from making a comeback.

"Commander, these are the lost rocket launchers. They've all been found." The Second Battalion Commander retrieved the rocket launchers from the ruins at the pass. Most of the barrels were deformed by the explosion and were no longer usable.

As for the rockets, they all exploded; not a single one remained.

Liu Weidong remained calm: "It's good that they've all been found. It doesn't matter if they're broken. Just take the broken ones back to the border region arsenal and have Director Li rework them."

Liu Weidong also ordered his men to drag out all the corpses of the Japanese officers at the pass.

Most of them were unrecognizable, or even reduced to fragments.

Liu Weidong couldn't find the body of the general with the star on his shoulder and couldn't help but say, "According to intelligence, this Japanese commander was a major general. Didn't those eight Hellfire missiles take him down?"

"Commander, maybe he was blown to pieces by a shell," someone said to Liu Weidong.

“No, this Japanese commander wasn’t blown to pieces.” Liu Weidong shook his head. “He was most likely carried away by other Japanese soldiers, because we didn’t see him carrying his officer’s sword here.”

Hellfire missiles can shatter a body, but they cannot shatter an officer's sword.

A general's sword can be exchanged for a Hell Cannon at the border arsenal.

Liu Weidong's Hell Cannon was destroyed by the aircraft attack. If he could capture the Japanese major general's sword, he could exchange it for another Hell Cannon.

Unfortunately, the body of the Japanese major general was not found; he must have been taken away by other Japanese soldiers along with his sword.

"Even if this Japanese major general is taken away by the other Japanese soldiers, he certainly won't survive," someone else said.

"Hmm." Liu Weidong nodded. "That's right. Even if he's taken away, he must be seriously injured. Given the Japanese's current conditions, they have no way to cure him. He might not even see the sun rise tomorrow."

"Commander, our Hell Cannon is gone, and we didn't even have our valiant swords. We're going to have to turn back..." Someone began to lament the loss of the Hell Cannon.

“The Hell Cannon is gone, we’ll figure out a solution later.” Liu Weidong interrupted, “Our current task is to continue holding our ground. The Japanese will definitely come back again.”

"Yes."

(End of this chapter)