You were tasked with guarding the Sihang Warehouse, and you brought out a Tiger tank?

Now his Honor Brigade only has two regiments left, it's time to add another infantry regiment.

After all, now that the organization is larger and there is the perfect cover of gathering the defeated soldiers, he can produce more system soldiers to enhance his combat power.

In the past, we had to hide it, but now with tens of thousands of soldiers in the army, who knows which battalion came from where?

So Lin Feng waved his hand.

I spent over 3000 exchange points to exchange for an entire infantry regiment.

A total of over 3200 people, armed with Hanyang rifles, Czech-made guns, Maxim guns, 81mm mortars, 75mm Czech mountain guns...

Looking at the equipment in the hands of the deployed troops, Lin Feng decided to use up all his merit points and upgrade once more.

After consuming over 4000 merit points, the weapons in the soldiers' hands were instantly renewed.

The infantry squad was equipped with Mauser 98k rifles, the squad leader carried an MP40 submachine gun, and each squad was equipped with an MG34 general-purpose machine gun.

每个步兵营额外一个武器支援连，下辖4门81mm迫击炮、12挺MG42通用机枪和4挺M2HB大口径机枪。

In addition, at the infantry regiment level, there is a regimental support weapons battalion equipped with 6 120mm heavy mortars and 6 75mm mountain guns.

This regiment was directly renamed the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Honorary Brigade.

Lin Feng wanted to upgrade his infantry squad again, upgrading them to the elite level with G43 semi-automatic rifles and StG44 assault rifles, but unfortunately, he didn't have enough merit points.

Having dealt with the infantry, Lin Feng then looked at the remaining exchange points.

He thought of the approaching Japanese 13th Division.

That's a top-tier division, the Sendai Division, with extremely formidable combat power.

While we can hold our ground with our existing firepower, to fight a decisive battle, eliminate more Japanese troops, or even attempt to annihilate a whole unit, we need to strengthen our long-range suppression capabilities.

"System, redeem 12 10.5 cm leFH 18 light howitzer squads."

[4800 exchange points consumed.]

Twelve imposing 105mm howitzers, along with the Sd.Kfz.11 half-track vehicles that towed them, appeared on the position.

This is a genuine heavy artillery piece belonging to the Hans division, with a range of 10km.

He planned to deploy this artillery company at Huashan, together with the two 150mm sFH 18 heavy howitzers he had picked up on the retreat route, and the five captured Japanese 105mm howitzers, to form his own heavy artillery group.

With a total of 19 howitzers of 100mm or more, Lin Feng was prepared to let the Japanese devils taste the "truth" properly this time.

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3 PM.

Southeast of Jiangyin, on Chengyang Highway.

A large Japanese army is marching.

This is the vanguard of the Japanese 13th Division—the 65th Regiment under the 26th Infantry Brigade.

Regimental Commander Colonel Ryokaku Yosaku, mounted on his horse, looked at the marching column stretching for several kilometers ahead and behind, his face full of arrogance.

"Quickly, speed up!"

He brandished his riding crop: "The Chinese army has completely collapsed. We must seize Jiangyin Fortress before the 11th Division."

In his view, the Great Xia army in front of him was nothing but a flock of frightened birds, and they would scatter as soon as the Imperial Army arrived.

Therefore, the 65th Regiment did not send out many scouts at all, but instead swaggered along the road in a dense marching column, with even horse-drawn carriages and some artillerymen mixed in.

However, what they didn't know was...

Several scouts in camouflage were hiding on a hilltop beside the road, coldly watching the flock of lambs to the slaughter through high-powered binoculars.

"Calling the Grand Marshal, this is Guerrilla Number Two."

"A large Japanese force has been spotted: the 65th Infantry Regiment, in a densely packed marching column..."

Soon after, the Japanese troops began to enter the shelling range.

"Coordinates XXX, ... Requesting artillery fire support."

Artillery positions on the reverse slope of Huashan.

Lin Feng stood beside the gun emplacement, listening to the report over the radio, feeling great.

"Dense column formation? Great, I love how cooperative the Japanese are."

He raised his hand and swung it sharply downwards:

"Attention, all artillery!"

"Three rapid shots, fire."

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The earth trembled, and dust flew everywhere.

Nineteen large-caliber high-explosive shells, accompanied by a whistling sound, pierced the sky and flew towards the highway more than ten kilometers away.

on the road.

Just as Colonel Ryogoku was about to take a sip of water, he suddenly heard that familiar, chilling shriek.

"What?! Artillery fire?!"

Before he could shout "Take cover!", an explosion occurred right in the middle of the formation.

"Boom—!!!"

A 150mm heavy artillery shell hit a Japanese troop transport truck right in the middle of the road.

The truck instantly disintegrated into a giant fireball, and the more than twenty Japanese soldiers on board, along with the driver, were reduced to flying parts.

Immediately afterwards, a barrage of 105mm shells rained down.

The highway instantly turned into a battlefield.

The dense marching formation left the Japanese soldiers with nowhere to hide.

Shrapnel swept across, and shockwaves raged.

The Japanese soldiers were blown to pieces, their limbs and torsos hanging from the trees by the roadside, and their blood staining the puddles on the road.

"Baka! Where did that artillery fire come from?!"

Colonel Ryogoku was thrown into a roadside ditch by the blast wave. He got up, covered in dust, and was completely stunned by the hellish scene before him.

"How can the Chinese have so many heavy artillery?!"

Before he could even see the enemy, his regiment had suffered hundreds of casualties from the bombing, and many of the heavy weapons in the marching column, such as heavy machine guns and grenade launchers, were blown to pieces.

This is the power of beyond-visual-range strikes.

This was the gift Lin Feng prepared for the Sendai Division.

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After enduring a barrage of unsportsmanlike, long-range artillery fire, the Japanese finally learned their lesson.

Regimental Commander Colonel Ryokaku Gakusaku crawled out of the ditch, covered in dust and dirt. Looking at the shattered trucks and corpses scattered on the ground, he was so angry that he almost ground his dentures to powder.

But being a professionally trained officer, he immediately realized that the other side possessed powerful long-range firepower and reconnaissance capabilities.

"Scatter! Everyone scatter!"

"In small teams, occupy the wilderness, woods, and burial mounds on both sides of the road; do not take the highway."

"Scouting squad, go forward and dig out the Chinese observation posts."

As soon as the order was given, thousands of Japanese soldiers, like a swarm of startled, brownish-yellow cockroaches, quickly disappeared from the highway and burrowed into the withered, yellow wilderness of early winter in Jiangnan.

They attempted to use the terrain for cover, limiting the operational space of Lin Feng's reconnaissance troops, and to blind Lin Feng's artillery through "counter-reconnaissance."

However, they soon discovered that they had run into an invisible wall.