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

How would Wolf Warrior fight this kind of battle?

Not long after, the reconnaissance teams retreated under the cover of smoke.

The leader was a young platoon leader, carrying the rank of lieutenant. His uniform was covered in mud and grass clippings, and there was a patch of dust on his face.

He walked directly up to Qi Liang, gave a brief report, and then took out a neatly folded contour map from his pocket and laid it on the ammunition box.

The platoon leader pulled out half a pencil from his shirt pocket and began marking it rapidly on the map.

"Battalion Commander, the Japanese main position is located on the back of the eastern ridge."

There are three intersecting firing points on the front line, all of which are light machine gun positions and can provide cover for each other.

As the platoon leader spoke, he drew various symbols on the map.

"There are two concrete bunkers on the western cliff with very small firing ports, which appear to be equipped with Type 92 heavy machine guns."

The bunker's firing ports face the hillside on our side, making them difficult to hit with direct artillery fire.

"The entrance to the reverse slope tunnel is located on the northeast side of the main peak. The entrance is covered with camouflage netting, and a newly dug communication trench leads directly to the artillery position on the mountainside outside the entrance."

The Japanese mountain guns that just shelled us must have been positioned on that very spot.

These are three possible attack routes. The middle route has a relatively gentle slope, but it is completely under the crossfire of the Japanese...

As the platoon leader spoke, he scribbled notes on the map with his pencil.

Arrows, circles, and crisscrossing machine gun fire lines marked the Japanese firing points, bunkers, trenches, and possible hiding places.

Liu Yongnian and the chief of staff stood beside him, watching the young platoon leader write on the map with great speed.

Silence fell again.

Just minutes before, this platoon leader was crawling and rolling on the front lines of the Japanese position, only a few dozen meters away from the Japanese sentries.

After withdrawing, he did not hesitate and immediately began drawing.

And it's drawn so accurately and so clearly.

Liu Yongnian glanced at his chief of staff.

The chief of staff happened to be looking at him as well.

The same message was hidden in their eyes.

If this kind of soldier were assigned to their Independent 45th Brigade, he wouldn't even be a platoon leader.

Based on his ability to draw diagrams on paper, he could easily be appointed as a brigade operations staff officer or even a regimental commander.

The brigade chief of staff even felt his face burning.

The fighting on the front lines is so fierce that a slight mistake could cost you your head.

Even in such an extremely tense environment, he was still able to calmly and clearly remember every detail of the Japanese position.

After returning, I drew these clearly on the contour map.

He asked himself if he, as the brigade chief of staff, could even do that.

Qi Liang looked at the markings on the map and asked a few questions about the details. The platoon leader answered them one by one, clearly and logically, without a single unnecessary word.

Qi Liang nodded in satisfaction, patted the platoon leader on the shoulder, and the platoon leader stepped aside.

Liu Yongnian walked over.

He looked at the densely marked map, his gaze lingering for a moment on the symbols representing bunkers and firing positions.

Then he raised his head and looked at Qi Liang.

"Battalion Commander Qi."

Liu Yongnian's tone was tinged with emotion.

"The Japanese troops' positions were arranged in a very organized manner."

With limited frontal firepower, the attacking side is lured to occupy forward outposts.

Then use heavy artillery from the rear to cover and inflict damage.

Finally, the reserve troops stored in the reverse slope's hidden tunnels will launch a counter-offensive to retake the position.

That's how our brigade suffered such a heavy loss. The Japanese division commander on the other side, Suematsu Shigeharu, truly understood mountain defense warfare perfectly.

Liu Yongnian paused, looked at Qi Liang, and asked the question he most wanted to know the answer to.

"How would your 33rd Army Corps fight a battle like this?"

Qi Liang put the pencil back into his map bag and smiled slightly.

He turned his head and shouted something to the radio operator next to him.

"Xiao Zhang, connect to division headquarters. Coordinates XXX-XX, requesting targeted elimination by the Legion Air Force, target priority B."

The radio operator immediately began making calls.

Qi Liang then turned around and said something to Liu Yongnian.

"Brigadier Liu, please wait a moment, the answer will be here shortly."

Liu Yongnian and the chief of staff exchanged a glance, and neither of them spoke. They simply stood in the command post, watching the busy radio operator.

Time passed by, second by second.

About an hour and a half later.

Just as Liu Yongnian was about to ask again,

A low rumble could be faintly heard from the sky.

Liu Yongnian suddenly looked up and raised his binoculars.

A group of black dots appeared below the clouds to the east.

The black dot rapidly enlarged, gradually revealing the outline of an airplane.

"The plane, it's our plane!"

The chief of staff was the first to speak up.

"The air force of the 33rd Army Corps has arrived. Commander Lin has sent the air force."

Liu Yongnian's hand holding the binoculars trembled slightly.

The 33rd Army Corps Air Force.

In the military circles of the Great Xia Dynasty, the name of this air force is renowned far and wide.

In several naval and air battles, countless Japanese aircraft were shot down in the Bohai Sea area, and one Japanese light aircraft carrier, several light and heavy cruisers, and countless transport ships were sunk.

In terms of ground support, these planes bombed the once-elite Japanese 5th Division, causing them to flee in panic within the encirclement, and even the division commander was captured.

Hearing about it is one thing, seeing it with your own eyes is another.

Just then, gunfire suddenly erupted from the hillside ahead.

The soldiers of Qi Liang's battalion, who had previously advanced to the mountainside, must have used some unknown means.

Several thick plumes of purple smoke quickly rose from near the Japanese machine gun bunkers and firing positions.

The smoke drifted with the mountain wind, forming several very conspicuous landmarks on the hillside.

Immediately afterwards, an aircraft with a very unique fuselage and wing shape broke away from the group.

Its wings extend backwards, making the whole aircraft look less like an airplane and more like a seagull diving downwards when it is in flight.

The plane began to dive downwards at a near-vertical angle.

The unique sound-emitting device produced an extremely shrill and ear-piercing shriek.

The sound pierced the sky, striking the eardrums of everyone on the ground.

On the ground, Liu Yongnian and the chief of staff in the command post were dumbfounded.

They had never seen such a suicidal vertical dive attack before, nor had they ever heard such a piercing scream; both of their hearts were pounding.

As the Stuka swooped down, it got closer and closer to the ground, leaving a small black dot under its belly.

The black dot rapidly grew larger in the field of vision, then slammed down on the Japanese firing point emitting purple smoke.

"boom--!"

A 500-kilogram heavy armor-piercing bomb landed precisely above the bunker on the cliff.

A huge flame shot into the sky, and the bunker was instantly blown into a huge crater, with rubble and concrete fragments flying everywhere.

"Well done!"

Seeing the bunker that had inflicted heavy casualties on the 45th Brigade vanish in an instant, Liu Yongnian slammed his fist against the wooden wall of the command post, his face flushed with excitement and his voice trembling.