It is inevitable that anyone will feel trepidation and fear when they see a tank rushing towards them with a roar for the first time, and Saigo Takamori is no exception. But Saigo Takamori, who is a generation of famous generals, recovered relatively quickly, and when the soldiers were still dumbfounded, he had once again regained the feeling of his generation of war gods.

"Attack!" Saigo Takamori didn't know what a tank was, but he knew he couldn't let this behemoth get close to his defenses.

Under the kicking of the officers, the soldiers finally began to shoot, and the bullets from rifles and machine guns rained down on the tank, and the hit rate was also very high. However, the tanks advancing in the iron rain were not affected, as if they were strolling leisurely, and continued to move forward unhurriedly, and even the infantry hiding behind the tanks did not react.

"Is this a mechanical elephant?" Yeli Qiutong is more knowledgeable than ordinary people, and he quickly thinks of a type of military that has only appeared in Southeast Asia and India and other places - elephant soldiers.

Elephants with rough skin and thick flesh have also been invited to the stage of war and have left their own strong marks. Elephants are not afraid of feathered arrows, can move steadily in the rain of arrows, and because of their size advantage, they can trample the enemy at will. The average infantry has no way to take elephants, whether it is the pressure of the Great Emperor or the Chinese who dominate East Asia, when they first encountered elephant soldiers, they suffered some small losses.

"Cross-fire, attack the infantry behind them!" Saigo Takamori had no choice but to use the gap between the tanks to attack the infantry behind the tank.

Saigo Takamori's method was very good, but the Manchurian army had already prepared. If the Tiger 1 tank is in the shape of the T-34, the height of the tank itself is slightly lower, which can indeed give insufficient shelter area to the infantry. However, the Tiger still has Sherman's blood, regardless of his tall and towering figure, he can cover the infantry well, and the stereotype of the family is an infantry support tank. After discovering that the Japanese army began to aim at the infantry, the tanks quickly concentrated, and the infantry also clung to the tanks, hiding tightly.

"Fire, fire!" Saigo Takamori saw that he couldn't touch the infantry at all, so he hurriedly ordered to dispatch his big killer at the bottom of the box.

The Japanese artillery has a large number, all of which are the latest breech-loading * guns made in the United Kingdom. After the British loaded the shells with yellow explosives, although they still supplied Manchurian artillery, the lethality was also very considerable. Saigo Takamori has always been reluctant to use it, also because the Japanese artillery caliber is small and the firing range is limited, he is reluctant to be exposed prematurely, and he is given a nest by the Manchurian army's naval guns and large-caliber artillery. But now that the tanks are on top, he can't withstand it without using the artillery, so he can only take it out quickly, otherwise he won't even have a chance to use it.

"Ding...... While...... There was a piercing sound of metal crashing and shell explosions on the battlefield, and the accuracy of the Japanese artillery was a little worse, but it still hit a lot, but the effect was not satisfactory....... Whether it was a frontal hit or an explosion nearby, the Japanese shells had no effect on the Manchurian Army's Tiger tanks, and could not even slow them down. The only effect of the shelling was to slow down the pace of the infantry behind the tank, but they could catch up immediately after a stop, and the Japanese could not seize such an opportunity.

"Boom...... Rumble...... Boom ......" Saigo Takamori's judgment was still not wrong, the Japanese artillery just showed up for a while, and the heavy artillery of the Manchurian Army came to suppress it very quickly. Relying on the trench position, the Japanese artillery was not completely destroyed, but it also had to move its position and temporarily withdraw from the battlefield. The Japanese army had no choice but to shoot frantically with firearms, not giving the Manchurian infantry a chance to show their heads. Saigo Takamori is not discouraged yet, he still has a lot of things! There were also mines and antlers in front of the position, and the Manchurian army did not want to put them up.

"Boom...... Rumble...... Kala...... "The tank ruthlessly crushed everything, and the ground ............ The thunder was triggered by the tank, but the steel monsters were still unscathed, and the barbed wire and antlers were crushed like papier-mâché, and they were not hindered in the slightest.

"Da ......" The Japanese machine gunners were firing frantically, they had no barrier and could only use bullets to fend off the enemy. This time they had a strong position, they had plenty of ammunition, and as long as they held on, the infantry of the Manchurian army still did not want to enter their trenches.

"That thing moves! That's artillery! Yeli Qiutong exclaimed, and what he had been treating as an iron elephant's trunk moved, and he finally saw what it was, it was actually a cannon mounted on a chariot.

The 85-millimeter tank guns were aimed at the Japanese machine-gun positions at a distance of less than 500 meters, and then there was a roll call, and the Japanese machine-gun positions and fortresses were reduced to ruins one by one by shells. The valiant soldiers fought back until the last moment, but their efforts were so weak that everything was reduced to nothingness by the relentless artillery fire.

"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" One after another, the samurai who were unwilling to die in the trenches rushed out, with grenades tied up and even two shells in their arms, and they rushed to the tanks and died with these steel beasts.

Even if they did rush in front of the tank, they would only be able to tear themselves apart, and they would not have a chance to hurt the tank. However, the Manchurian Army did not even want to give them this opportunity, and the infantry, who had been hiding behind the tanks, suddenly showed their heads and beat these crazy brave men into a sieve from a hundred meters away.

"Attack!" Yeli Qiutong and Saigo Takamori saw an opportunity at the same time, they really couldn't do anything with tanks, these guys really couldn't gnaw, but they still had a chance to fight infantry.

"Dada...... ......"The Japanese attack had not yet begun, but the Manchurian Army was the first to move, and the main attack was still their tanks.

The first machine gun on the tank, the coaxial machine gun, and the 12.7 caliber machine gun on the hatch cover fired at the same time, forming a barrage in an instant, and the terrifying momentum swept over the Japanese position. The infantry behind the tank also crossed the tank and began to launch a surprise attack on the Japanese positions in squads. With close artillery fire and machine-gun cover, there were almost no obstacles in the way of these infantry attacks. The Japanese had no way to raise their heads, not to mention their offensive, but the remaining houses nearby had been torn to pieces by dense fire.

"Boom!" The grenade exploded in the trench, and then a dense barrage of bullets cleared the entire trench, and the Manchurian infantry fought into the last support of the Japanese army.

The soldiers of the Guards Brigade were armed with the most advanced equipment in the world, semi-automatic rifles, general-purpose machine guns, *, etc., and these burst weapons were a complete nightmare for the Japanese army. The single-shot rifles of the Japanese army, in the face of these weapons, were no different from burning sticks at all. The Manchurian Army's rapidly changing battle formation and coquettish position were things they could not understand at all. Except for bullets and grenades, the only thing the Japanese could touch was death, and they could not even see the appearance of the enemy until they were turned into corpses.

"Retreat, retreat, second-line defense!" Saigo Takamori saw very clearly that the Japanese army's front-line positions were finished, and it would only be a waste of troops to struggle any longer.

Saigo Takamori's previous thinking stopped in the Middle Ages, so he paid special attention to the first-line defense, because once the army was defeated on the front line of the ancient war, there would be nothing to do from there. After the last battle with the Manchurian Army, Saigo Takamori's thinking has changed a lot, and the Manchurian Army's in-depth defense can be regarded as an eye-opener for Saigo Takamori, and it turns out that the battle can still be fought like this. Therefore, when Saigo Takamori deployed his own defense this time, he also attached great importance to defense in depth, and made three follow-up lines of defense. Moreover, in the setting of the position, Saigo Takamori also made tricks, the echelon configuration of each defense line, from the second line of defense to the first line of defense, it can definitely be seen at a glance, and the shooting boundary is clear.

After the infantry of the Manchurian Army fully occupied the first line of defense of the Japanese army, in addition to clearing the remnants of the enemy and consolidating the defensive line, they did not advance further, but the tanks pressed up again. Looking at the tanks from the second line of defense, it is very clear, but the Japanese army has no choice but to stare at these steel monsters. The tanks pressed forward again, and Saigo gave the order to abandon the second line of defense, and there was no point in resisting, and it would only waste the lives of the soldiers.

Saigo Takamori is so resolute, and he also has his considerations. The distance between the first and second lines of defense was relatively wide, which gave the Manchurian army the opportunity to organize the attack formation again, and the same battle was fought again, but the Japanese still lost. The third line of defense is different, the distance between the second and third lines of defense is so close that the Manchurian Army cannot reorganize at all, and the third line of defense can also directly attack the Manchurian infantry in the second line of defense.

However, the facts gave Saigo Takamori a resounding slap in the face, and after the tank ran over the second line of defense of the Japanese army, it did not stop, but pushed the third line of defense of the Japanese army like a bulldozer. Now the Japanese army will be embarrassed, these steel monsters are fierce and fearless, they have no way but to flee for their lives. Moreover, these monsters were repeatedly crushed on the trenches, which really had the effect of bulldozers, and the trenches were filled for them, and many soldiers who did not want to retreat were buried alive in the trenches.

A few brave soldiers climbed onto the tank and resorted to all kinds of means on the roof of the vehicle, but there was still no way. By the time a few geniuses finally came up with the idea of stuffing the gun into the barrel*, the Manchurian infantry had already caught up, and after a burst of machine-gun fire, the brave Japanese army was reduced to a mutilated corpse.

"Let's get the Guards Brigade out! Their experimental mission is over, and the battle is still up to you! Fuquan, who was watching the battle with binoculars in the rear, found that his Guards Brigade had been killed or wounded, and immediately asked for a midfield substitution.

"Good, good!" Enyuan and the others were so shocked that they were almost speechless.