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On this trip back, Bian Yun will bring seven seriously wounded soldiers from the 264th Brigade back to the new China to receive the best treatment.

When he passed through again, the 8-cubic-meter space brought with it key components and ammunition from a disassembled 155mm howitzer.

However, before that, he had to carry out another task:

Clearance.

All Japanese outposts, observation posts, and patrols surrounding the naval headquarters building were eliminated.

To create a safe environment for artillery positions.

"Remember," Bian Yun said, looking at the four men, "Don't storm the building. Our goal is to clear the perimeter, rendering the Japanese blind and deaf."

Lei Gang grinned: "This is something I'm good at! It's just taking apart parts!"

Lin Mo nodded: "I will clear out all the observation posts. Make sure they can't see our artillery positions."

Su Yue: "Activate electronic jamming to the fullest extent. Completely paralyze their internal communications."

The operation begins.

Lin Mo was the first to disappear into the ruins.

The sniper was like a ghost, disappearing into the shadows of dusk.

His QBU-202 anti-materiel rifle would become a nightmare for the Japanese observation post for the next forty minutes.

The first target: an observation post on the roof of a three-story residential building, 300 meters southeast of the building.

Two Japanese soldiers, a telescope, and a light machine gun.

Lin Mo lay on the ruins of a water tower one kilometer away.

The crosshairs of the scope pressed against the forehead of the Japanese soldier holding the binoculars.

Distance: 1127 meters.

Wind speed: 3 m/s, southeast.

Humidity: 78%.

Temperature: 29 degrees Celsius.

All parameters are automatically calculated in the brain.

Pull the trigger.

boom--!

The 12.7mm special projectile hit its target precisely 1.2 seconds after flight.

His head exploded like a watermelon.

The machine gunner next to him paused for a second, then looked down at his comrade—in that very second, the second shot came.

His chest was pierced.

Observation post, cleared.

Lin Mo turned his gun towards the next target.

Lei Gang and Su Yue worked together to clear out the ground strongholds.

Lei Gang was in charge of "breaking down the door".

Su Yue was in charge of "confirmation".

A Japanese machine gun bunker set up on a street corner, made of sandbags, with a Type 92 heavy machine gun.

Lei Gang circled around from the side and set up the PF-97 rocket launcher fifty meters away.

"Su Yue, how many are inside?"

Su Yue's drone hovered above the fortress, and thermal imaging showed: "Three. All at machine gun positions."

"Okay."

Lei Gang pulled the trigger.

The rocket, trailing a plume of flame, precisely penetrated the firing port of the fortress.

boom--!!!

It wasn't an external explosion, but an internal one. The thermo-pressure effect instantly consumed the oxygen in the confined space, and the three people suffocated to death before they even had a chance to scream.

"Next." Lei Gang stood up and smoothly replaced the rocket with a new one.

On the other side, Bian Yun led a squad of soldiers from the 264th Brigade to carry out a "cleanup" mission.

It's not a direct assault, it's a hunt.

Using the advantages of night vision goggles, they hunted down Japanese patrols in the dark.

"At 11 o'clock, a five-man patrol team, spaced ten meters apart, is moving towards the Eight-Character Bridge," Bian Yun said in a low voice.

Behind him, five soldiers from the 264th Brigade held their breath. They held captured Type 38 rifles, but wore low-light night vision goggles given to them by the Army North—their hands were trembling as they used them for the first time.

"Don't be nervous," Bian Yun said. "Through the night vision goggles, they are in the light, and you are in the dark. You can see them, but they can't see you."

He raised his QBU-191:

"I'll take out the first and last ones. You guys deal with the three in the middle. Remember—fire simultaneously."

The soldiers nodded.

"Three, two, one—"

boom!boom!boom!boom!boom!

Five gunshots rang out, almost simultaneously.

All five members of the patrol team collapsed to the ground simultaneously.

The fastest one only had time to utter half a scream before a bullet pierced his throat.

"Great job." Bian Yun patted the shoulder of a young soldier next to him. "Let's go, next one."

Inside the building, Lieutenant Colonel Suzuki began to feel uneasy.

When the first observation post lost contact, he initially thought it was a communication failure.

The second, the third...

When all the observation posts in the southeast, southwest, and northwest directions lost contact within twenty minutes, he realized something was wrong.

"Send out a reconnaissance team!" Suzuki ordered. "Go check what's going on!"

Two small teams, each with six members, quietly slipped out of the side door of the building.

They had just entered the street ruins—

Su Yue's drone captured the heat signal.

"Lei Gang, at two o'clock, twelve people, spread out."

"receive!"

Lei Gang set up the QJY-201 general-purpose machine gun. Through the thermal imaging scope, twelve red figures were slowly moving.

Distance: 200 meters.

"I'll take you home." Lei Gang grinned and pulled the trigger.

Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat—! ! !

The bullets pierced the night, penetrated the brick walls, and struck each Japanese soldier with pinpoint accuracy.

All twelve people collapsed within ten seconds.

One of them wasn't quite dead yet and tried to crawl back to report the news.

Lin Mo's sniper rifle fired.

puff.

The body stopped moving.

One hour later.

Outside the building, within a radius of 500 meters, all Japanese outposts, observation posts, and patrols were cleared.

Su Yue turned on all her electronic jamming, leaving only piercing noise on the building's radios.

Lieutenant Colonel Suzuki stood in the command room, his face ashen.

He can no longer see outside.

I can't hear anything outside.

None of the people sent out have returned.

"Lieutenant Colonel..." a second lieutenant's voice trembled, "We...we're surrounded?"

"Surround them?" Suzuki gritted his teeth. "Those Chinese outside? They can't even break through the wall!"

Even so, he began to feel uneasy.

That terrifying combat power—the ability to annihilate the defenders of the Eight-Character Bridge in ten minutes…

Those little flying things...

That kind of long-range sniping...

Now, it's completely silent outside.

This deathly silence is more terrifying than the sound of gunfire.

Inside the building, Lieutenant Colonel Suzuki suddenly heard the faint sound of an engine coming from outside the window.

It's not a car, and it's not a tank.

It was some kind of... heavier, slower-moving sound.

He rushed to the observation window and peered out through the bulletproof glass—

In the darkness, nothing could be seen.

But he had a bad feeling.

"Increase vigilance!" he roared. "All machine gun positions, 24-hour watch! Not a single rat can escape!"

Inside the building, the remaining two hundred or so Japanese soldiers gripped their guns tightly in tension.

They were unaware that they had become rats in a cage.

Outside the cage—

The hunters are assembling.

A weapon capable of piercing steel.

Heavy hammer.

The head of the Eight-Character Bridge.

Bian Yun looked at the final countdown in his mind:

【00:00:10】

He looked at Huang Xing: "Have the artillery positions been selected?"

Bian Yun looked at Lu Bei and the other three:

"I'm leaving this place to you."

Lu Bei nodded: "I'll wait until you bring the cannon back."

Lin Mo: "All observation posts have been cleared."

Lei Gang: "The outer outposts are cleaned up!"

Su Yue: "The electronic interference continues; they are now deaf and blind."

【00:00:03】

Bian Yun closed her eyes.

【00:00:02】

He heard Huang Xing's last words:

"Brother Bian Yun...you must come back!"

【00:00:01】

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Hongkou Clearance Operation Report

时间：19:00-20:00（1小时）

Eliminate targets: 7 observation posts, 5 machine gun bunkers, 9 patrols

Japanese soldiers killed: estimated 120-150

Current situation: The Japanese Naval Headquarters building is completely isolated, with zero external detection capability.

Artillery positions are ready: The semi-underground warehouse on the west side of Bazhiqiao has been cleared and can accommodate 155mm howitzers.

"What we bring is not cannons, but the weight of an era—to let the reinforced concrete of 1937 taste the steel will of 2025."

—Lei Gang, Action Log