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

The main road surrounding Qingcheng Port.

The sky was overcast, and the air was filled with the salty smell of the sea breeze.

In the very middle of the highway, several wide and deep anti-tank trenches stretched out.

This was dug out by thousands of laborers from the Great Xia region, who were forcibly conscripted from the city, under the bayonet charge of the Japanese soldiers over the past few days, working through the night.

Since the coastal defense batteries had already been breached by armor-piercing bombs fired by the Stukas sent by Lin Feng, this outer perimeter position was the only line of defense the Japanese could rely on.

These anti-tank trenches are more than five meters wide and more than three meters deep.

The excavated soil was piled up behind the trench, forming a natural breast wall.

Behind the breastwork, Japanese marines wearing helmets with anchor insignia lay densely packed together.

The commander in charge of this outer perimeter position was Japanese Navy Lieutenant Commander Kenji Matsui.

Matsui Kenji's high-top leather boots pounded in the muddy trenches. He held up his binoculars, looking at the empty road ahead, smug and unable to suppress the corners of his mouth.

"Gentlemen, watch carefully."

Kenji Matsui put down his binoculars, turned to the majors and captains around him, and loudly boasted:

"This anti-tank trench draws on the mature defensive experience of European powers in the last world war."

With such astonishing width and depth, if Lin Feng's chariots dared to launch a forced attack, they would simply fall into the ditch one after another, turning into scrap metal, like dumplings being dropped into a pot.

Several Japanese officers immediately bowed and scraped, showering him with flattery.

"Your Excellency Lieutenant Colonel is wise."

"The Chinese chariots couldn't get through, so they had to use infantry to fill the ditches."

Kenji Matsui drew his command sword from his waist and slammed it down on the sandbag in front of him, his eyes contorted with rage.

That's right.

At that point, they will have no choice but to use their infantry to withstand our machine gun fire and sacrifice their lives to move sandbags and timber to fill the trenches.

This place will be the bloodbath of the Chinese army!

I will make Lin Feng's 33rd Legion shed its last drop of blood here!

However, Matsui Kenji had barely finished speaking.

"Waaaaah—waaaah—"

Suddenly, a voice that was all too familiar to the Japanese soldiers rang out from the sky.

The arrogance on Matsui Kenji's face froze instantly.

He suddenly raised his head, his pupils contracting sharply.

On the horizon at the edge of their vision, countless black dots were crashing down on their position with the force of Mount Tai.

The roar of the artillery division directly under Lin Feng's army began.

A total of seventy-two large-caliber howitzers.

It includes a large number of 105mm light howitzers and a small number of terrifyingly powerful 150mm heavy howitzers.

"Enemy attack! Artillery fire! Take cover immediately!"

"Boom! Boom! Rumble—!"

The shells rained down on the Japanese soldiers' carefully constructed defenses.

The earth was trembling violently, as if an earthquake of magnitude 8 had occurred.

Huge, orange-red fireballs rose into the air in front of and behind the trenches dug by the Japanese soldiers, kicking up mud and stone pillars more than ten meters high.

Kenji Matsui huddled tightly inside the bunker, his hands covering his head.

Mud, gravel, and mutilated limbs rained down on his back like hail.

He felt as if his internal organs were churning, and his eardrums were bleeding.

"boom--!"

A 150mm high-explosive shell landed less than 20 meters away from him.

The terrifying shockwave swept across like a tangible hammer.

Even more critically, the Japanese engineers had laid a large number of anti-tank mines in front of the position last night.

Under the devastating shockwave of the heavy artillery, a horrific secondary explosion occurred.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Large numbers of landmines were detonated, and the area in front of the defensive line instantly turned into a boiling sea of ​​fire.

The barbed wire and wooden fences used to block the infantry were instantly reduced to ashes by the high temperature and blast waves.

The entire outer perimeter of the position looked as if it had been thoroughly plowed by a herd of prehistoric mammoths.

Apart from a few anti-tank chevaux-de-frise made of thick steel bars, which are still barely surviving.

The rest of the defensive structures were mostly destroyed.

The heavy artillery barrage, which lasted for twenty minutes, finally stopped.

"Cough cough... cough cough cough..."

Matsui Kenji crawled out of the mud pile, covered in dirt and grime, spitting out a mouthful of black mud mixed with blood.

He shook his dizzy head and peered out while clinging to the sandbag.

A deep engine roar was rapidly approaching from the distant smoke.

Zhao Dashan's armored forces have arrived.

A steel torrent of tanks and half-track armored vehicles rolled across the ravaged land and came to a stop about a kilometer away from the anti-tank trench.

At this distance, the Japanese existing 37mm anti-tank guns are basically unable to penetrate the frontal armor of the Panzer III medium tank and the Jagdpanzer III tank destroyer.

"Haha, they can't get through."

As Kenji Matsui looked at the tank parked on the other side of the trench, his eyes, which had been filled with despair, suddenly blazed with ecstatic joy.

He suddenly drew his sword and roared like a madman:

"Machine gunners, get them all ready."

The Chinese infantry will be coming up to fill the ditch soon.

"Shoot them all dead by the trench!"

The surviving Japanese soldiers scrambled to set up their Type 92 heavy machine guns, pulled the bolts, and stared intently at the opposite side, ready to reap the lives of the Da Xia infantry.

however.

A minute passed.

Two minutes passed.

There wasn't a single Xia infantryman carrying sandbags charging out from the other side.

"What's going on?" Matsui Kenji was stunned.

Just then, the tank formation opposite suddenly parted to the sides, creating a passage.

Immediately afterwards, several strangely shaped armored vehicles slowly drove out, accompanied by the heavy scraping sound of their tracks.

These tanks, with their low-slung bodies, were topped with a huge and complex folded steel frame.

This is precisely the Panzer II bridge-laying tank that Lin Feng upgraded from an ordinary Hans II light tank using the system.

Lin Feng has now armed the First Honor Brigade to the teeth, and even prepared six bridge-building tanks.

"What...what kind of monster is that?!"

Kenji Matsui's eyes widened, almost bulging out of their sockets.

Under the horrified gazes of all the Japanese soldiers.

Several Panzer II bridge-laying tanks drove directly to the edge of the anti-tank trench and came to a steady stop.

"laugh--"

It was accompanied by a loud sound of hydraulic gas being released.

The massive mechanical arm on the back of the bridge-building tank began to slowly rise.

The folded steel frame unfolded in mid-air like a Transformer, transforming into a long and sturdy steel bridge.

"Clang!"

A loud bang.

The heavy steel bridge steadily spanned the five-meter-wide moat, one end resting on the opposite bank, while the other end firmly gripped the muddy ground on this side.

In less than three minutes.

Kenji Matsui was proud of it and considered it an insurmountable barrier.

In an instant, it became a smooth, unobstructed road.