Not enough Japanese devils to kill? 1.4 billion people volunteer for the Battle of Shanghai.

boom--!

The hunter-killer fin-stabilized discarding sabot armor-piercing projectile is a special type of ammunition designed specifically for ultra-long-range precision strikes.

The projectile is longer and the core is thinner. It is stabilized by a composite tail fin. After leaving the barrel, the sabot quickly detaches from the muzzle. The slender core is like the needle of death, piercing the target 3,300 meters away.

Flight time: Approximately 2.8 seconds.

For the advancing Japanese mortar squad, those 1.8 seconds represented the following process—

1 seconds.

Lieutenant Matsui urged from horseback, "Faster! Faster!"

The complaining veteran looked up, wiped his sweat, and muttered, "What's the rush? The Chinese can't fly..."

The young private looked around curiously, and then someone heard a strange sound.

It wasn't the roar of artillery fire.

It was... a very high-frequency, sharp sound, as if it were about to tear your eardrums apart—

Whistling.

"What's that sound?" someone asked.

2 seconds.

Lieutenant Matsui abruptly reined in his horse and looked up at the sky.

His military knowledge told him that this was the sound of a large-caliber artillery shell flying at high speed!

Moreover, the sound came from the direction of Luodian!

ありえない? !

How could the Chinese garrison in Luodian possibly have artillery capable of firing from such a distance?!

He stared wide-eyed, trying to search the azure sky.

Then he saw it.

A small black dot.

High in the sky, against the backdrop of sunlight, trailing an almost invisible contrail, it was moving towards them at an incredible speed—

come down!

No, it wasn't a fall.

It was precise, and carried a clear killing intent—

Dive!

"Fire!!!!" Lieutenant Matsui's roar had just burst from his throat.

3 seconds.

The warhead has arrived.

It didn't land next to the group.

It was not a "near miss".

It is precision-guided and goes straight for the core.

Direct hit!

The bullet landed precisely in the middle of the formation.

The delayed fuse is triggered the instant of contact with the ground.

boom--!!!!

It was not the explosion of an ordinary artillery shell.

It is a metal jet explosion that is unique to armor-piercing projectiles, concentrated in a very small area, and subjected to extremely high temperature and pressure!

At the epicenter of the explosion, the temperature instantly exceeded 5000 degrees Celsius.

Two soldiers carrying mortar base plates were vaporized before they could even scream. The dozens of kilograms of base plates they were carrying were turned into a white-incandescent plasma fireball, a mixture of metallic vapor and carbonized human tissue!

The fireball expanded outwards.

In the first blast, more than a dozen soldiers within five meters of the blast point were torn apart by the shockwave.

Limbs were severed, and internal organs were squeezed out of the chest and abdominal cavities, like a crushed tomato.

In the second circle, soldiers within ten to fifteen meters were covered by jets of high-temperature metal and pre-formed shrapnel. Countless tiny, incandescent metal particles were sprayed out like shotgun pellets.

Some had half their heads severed, brains splattering everywhere. Others had more than a dozen clear holes in their chests, blood gushing out like fountains. Some had both legs broken, lying on the ground, staring at the clean-cut ends of their thighs, letting out inhuman screams.

In the third circle, soldiers within fifteen to twenty meters were thrown back by the blast wave. They crashed heavily to the ground, their bones shattered, internal organs injured, and blood gushing from their mouths and noses.

And what's even more terrifying is—

Those cannonballs they're carrying!

Four ammunition boxes were located near the epicenter of the explosion!

Explosion!

Boom boom boom boom—!!!

Four more violent explosions followed in quick succession!

More than 80 81mm mortar shells were detonated almost simultaneously!

The power of this explosion was even more terrifying than the explosion of the armor-piercing shell itself.

A larger fireball, more than thirty meters in diameter, rose into the air!

The flames rolled upwards in a mushroom shape, billowing black smoke that shot up hundreds of meters into the sky!

All Japanese soldiers within the blast radius—

Whether they were killed or injured in the first wave of explosions, or only suffered minor injuries, or even those who were further away and had just ducked for cover—

They were all swallowed up!

The intense flames instantly licked their bodies.

Clothes burned, flesh carbonized, and eyeballs boiled and burst inside their sockets.

Some people tried to escape, but after only two steps, they were engulfed by the flames chasing from behind, turning into running fireballs. After a few more steps, they collapsed to the ground and continued to burn until they turned into charcoal.

Some soldiers lay on the ground with their hands covering their heads, but flames swept overhead, exposing their spines to the air and roasting them until they were smoking.

A mortar squad of fifty men.

Under the impact of a shell fired from 3300 meters away, the source of which they could not even see—

Total annihilation.

The smoke and dust from the explosion slowly dissipated.

On the dirt road, a huge crater appeared, with a diameter of more than 15 meters and a depth of about 2 meters.

Within a radius of thirty meters around the crater, there was nothing intact.

Only shattered and molten metal fragments of the cannon parts remained.

Only burnt, shredded fragments of ammunition boxes remained.

All that remained were charred, twisted, and still smoking humanoid remains.

That young Japanese private... could not be found intact. Only a charred hand, still in a clenched fist position, flew to a tree fifty meters away, hanging on a branch, swaying slightly.

Lieutenant Matsui was relatively "lucky".

He was thrown from his horse by the blast wave of the first explosion and landed in a ditch twenty meters away.

The mud and sewage in the ditch saved his life—it shielded him from some of the high temperature and debris.

But he only had half a life left.

His left leg was blown off below the knee, the bone was exposed at the break, and blood gushed out like a tap had been turned on.

His right arm was fractured and twisted at an odd angle.

His face, neck, and chest were covered with burned blisters and embedded tiny metal fragments.

He lay in the stinking ditch, looking up at the sky.

The sky is very blue.

The sunlight was blinding.

He opened his mouth, trying to call for medics, but only spat out a mouthful of bloody foam.

My ears are ringing, and I can't hear anything.

Only my eyesight is still barely usable.

He saw something reflecting light above the ruins in the distance, towards Luodian.

Is it a cannon barrel?

That's so far... how could it be...?

His consciousness began to fade.

In his final moments, he suddenly remembered what the old soldier had said:

"The Imperial Army opened fire from two kilometers away; they didn't even know where we were. When the shells landed—BOOM! We'd all be on our way to the afterlife!"

Yes.

only……

The roles have been reversed.

People who are sent to heaven without even seeing the other person...

It was the Imperial Army.

Lieutenant Matsui's lips curled into a sarcastic smile that was more unsightly than crying.

Then, he tilted his head to the side.

He stopped breathing.

…………

Inside the brick and stone shop, the angels were still performing surgery on the wounded.

outside.

The ruins remain.

The scorched earth remains.

The river of blood remains.

But the angel knew, at least for this moment—

This small corner, guarded by all Chinese soldiers working together on the north bank of Luodian.

It is safe.

She had complete faith in the Chinese soldiers...