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

After explaining the defense matters of Qingcheng Port, Lin Feng left the Second Guerrilla Division to assist Zhao Yushu in defending the city.

He himself, accompanied by a guard unit, boarded a convoy of armored vehicles and headed south along the newly repaired road.

In Lin Feng's plan, he needed to quickly eliminate the 5th Division in his pocket and completely establish contact with the Pengcheng Fifth War Zone Command.

Then he could take advantage of the newly unlocked system V-level permissions and production line exchange function to focus his energy on farming and industrial development in Jiaodong, and completely obtain a logistics base and the ability to generate revenue.

This would save them from having to rely entirely on robbing Japanese banks and confiscating the property of traitors to raise money to support the army and build up troops.

This time, his vehicle has been upgraded from the previous open-top Sd.Kfz.223 four-wheeled light armored vehicle to a larger and more heavily armored Sd.Kfz.263 eight-wheeled heavy armored command vehicle.

This eight-wheeled armored vehicle is longer and wider, with a large grid-shaped antenna on the roof, which, together with a more powerful radio, makes it easier for the vehicle to maneuver and command troops.

On the railway beside the highway, a massive Emperor-type heavy-duty steam locomotive was pulling several flatbed carriages and several carriages full of railway workers, making a loud clanging sound and spewing out thick black smoke as it sped south.

A few days later, at a small train station about fifty kilometers north of Tangtou Town.

This small station is usually a third-class station, and there are not many staff members on the platform.

The railway workers had already completed the tasks assigned by Lin Feng.

They used the heavy road rollers they brought to repeatedly compact the ground, then laid sleepers and rails on it, extending the railway a section and constructing an arc-shaped track in a circle on the plain far from the station.

At this moment, the workers had already been arranged to evacuate in advance.

The area around the station was cordoned off with tight security tape.

Heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft guns were deployed on all the high points within a radius of several kilometers.

Several BF-109 fighter jets were circling in the sky, vigilantly watching the surrounding movements.

Lin Feng's armored command convoy, escorted by a squadron of Panzer III tanks and wheeled armored vehicles, slowly drove into the area.

"parking."

Lin Feng pushed open the car door, stepped out in a pair of gleaming riding boots.

He walked up to the laid curved rails, carefully inspected the joints of the rails and the solidity of the foundation, and nodded in satisfaction.

Foreman Chen and his team are truly skilled.

He then waved his hand, signaling the surrounding guards to retreat several dozen meters to completely clear the entire circular track area.

After confirming that there were no unauthorized persons around, Lin Feng took a deep breath.

He raised his right hand and made a thought.

A white light flashed above the railway tracks.

The next second, an incredibly heavy behemoth appeared out of thin air on the two rows of sturdy steel rails.

"Thump—!"

The heavy weight of the steel pressed down on the rails, producing a dull thud that caused the gravel roadbed below to tremble slightly.

It appeared before him.

It was the K5(E) 280mm "Leopold" railway gun.

The entire cannon was mounted on two huge, specially made flatbed trailers with multiple road wheels, making it look extremely heavy and imposing.

Lin Feng raised his head, looked at the cannon barrel, and clicked his tongue.

This thing is considered the pinnacle of Hans Arms Industry. If you want a larger caliber than the Leopold, it would have to be the 800mm Gustav railway gun and the 600mm Karl mortar, right?

I wonder if the system would reward a Karl mortar if we captured a Japanese general?

Then, Lin Feng waved his hand and gave the order:

"Begin the unfolding."

The accompanying system artillerymen immediately began their work.

The Emperor-type heavy steam locomotive, which was parked on the lateral line and waiting for its turn, slowly reversed back with a clang and connected to the hook at the rear of the K5 train gun.

Then, the steam locomotive spewed out a thick plume of black smoke, and the drive wheels began to turn, slowly dragging this steel behemoth weighing more than two hundred tons onto the special trailer on the two-hundred-meter-long curved track.

"stop!"

The commander raised the red flag in his hand and then began to direct the locomotive to move back and forth.

The massive railway cannon began to slowly adjust the direction of its muzzle on the curved track, aiming it at the south.

The cannon muzzle was raised and adjusted to a high elevation angle.

Then, several artillerymen climbed onto the vehicle.

They opened the huge breechblock located at the rear of the cannon, revealing the dark, gaping barrel.

Beside it, a small crane at the rear of the train gun had already started, and the boom was slowly rising.

An artilleryman hangs a thick steel cable on the ammunition belt of a huge shell with a sharp tip and yellow markings on its body.

This shell is over a meter long and weighs an astonishing 250 kilograms.

The crane slowly lifted the shell and moved it to the open breech.

Two artillerymen carefully guided the shell to the breech, then shouted, "Fire!"

The shell was smoothly fed deep into the cannon barrel.

Next came the propellant charge.

Several huge propellant charges wrapped in silk were inserted into the breech one after another, and then the breech was slammed shut with a crisp metallic clang.

The entire giant cannon has completed all preparations before firing.

All eyes were focused on the railway gun, whose massive barrel had been raised.

At this very moment, dozens of kilometers away...

The field bunker where the 5th Division headquarters was located was already filled with gloom and despair.

Division Commander Lieutenant General Seishiro Itagaki was sitting on an ammunition box, his face ashen and his body trembling slightly.

Behind his glasses were bloodshot eyes, and he looked haggard, as if he had aged ten years overnight.

He had recently received devastating news from the North China Area Army Headquarters.

Qingcheng Port has been lost.

The Japanese army's ruling system, which they had painstakingly built up in Jiaodong, collapsed completely in just one week.

What made Itagaki even more desperate was that the naval reinforcements sent to reinforce him were also besieged by Lin Feng's air force, and all of their main warships were sunk at sea.

"It's over...it's all over..."

Itagaki Seishiro's vision went black, a metallic taste rose in his throat, and he suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

Blood splattered on the mud-covered map in front of him, turning the Linyi area crimson.

His Fifth Division was now completely rootless and its death was imminent!

At this moment, the Fifth Division's situation had indeed deteriorated to an extreme degree.

Nearly 20,000 remaining soldiers have been besieged in a narrow, hilly area of ​​less than ten kilometers around Tangtou Town for more than two weeks.

The supply lines had long been cut off by the Great Xia army.

Food was extremely scarce.

At first, each person was given two rice balls per day.

Later, the rice balls turned into thin porridge.

Now, the porridge is almost gone, and we have no choice but to kill a horse to fill our stomachs.

Ammunition is also in short supply.

Machine guns had long been ordered to fire only short bursts, and artillery had long since used up most of their precious shells, turning heavy cannons into useless lumps of iron.

Every day, the radio received morale-boosting telegrams from the North China Area Army Headquarters, stating that "friendly forces nearby are fighting a bloody battle in an attempt to relieve the siege."

They always spoke with absolute certainty.

But Itagaki knew better than anyone that they were just empty promises.

The nearest reinforcements were the 10th Division and other units along the Jinpu Railway, but they were blocked by other units of the Fifth War Zone and could not come to their aid.