The early morning sunshine shines on the streets and alleys of Shanghai, the high-rise houses, the riverbanks of the ports, and... the smoke-filled battlefields.
Today seems to be another hot day, just like the battle between the Dahua Army and the Rising Sun Army.
What I didn't expect was that the early morning sunshine had just shown its face for a while and was covered by a large group of dark clouds.
The dark clouds that came from the northwest were so big that they almost covered the entire city of Shenzhou. As a result, the entire city of Shenzhou became dark. The dark clouds hung lower and lower, as if they were pressing down on everyone's head. .
Between the clouds, golden lightning danced wildly, and from time to time there were bursts of low thunder.
A terrible rainstorm seemed to be coming.
This is an extremely rare sight.
In the major concessions, those foreigners from the Western Continent who had to temporarily stop many businesses due to the war between Dahua and the Kingdom of the Rising Sun and became very leisurely took out their cameras after eating breakfast. Standing on the clean and beautiful balcony of my home, I took pictures of the sky.
As for the intrusive and constant thunder, not many people were afraid of it.
Because over the past month, the entire city of Shanghai has become accustomed to hearing the roar of artillery fire, and has become extremely numb to such sounds.
Today was just like usual. Not long after the dark clouds came, the sound of artillery fire on the battlefield began to roar again, even overwhelming the thunder in the sky.
The coming heavy rain could not stop the two teams from fighting.
The war has been going on for more than a month, but the battlefield has been restricted to Zhabei, Wusong, Caojiaqiao, Liuhe, and Baziqiao areas, and the war has not yet spread into the main city.
This shows that Dahua's army still has the ability to resist and is still resisting.
And this result was something that all the military observers in the Western Continent, who predicted that the resistance time of the Dahua army would not exceed three days before the war started, did not expect.
Even the warring parties themselves did not think of it.
Since the Sino-Japanese War of 1895-1895 fifty years ago, the entire country of Great China has been a little afraid of the Rising Sun Army, believing that their own army is at least decades behind the Rising Sun Army.
Fifty years later, the gap between the two teams has widened even further.
If the Rising Sun Army is recognized as having reached the average level of several powerful countries in the Western Continent, it even defeated the army of the Ross Empire thirty years ago.
However, the combat effectiveness of Dahua's army has become increasingly low. In addition to the central military system, there are still a few armies capable of fighting. The armies under local warlords can basically only scare ordinary people.
For example, the Republic of China government almost concentrated its military troops and took turns attacking a small Liangzhou, but they were defeated one after another. This is the best proof.
The Rising Sun Army once publicly declared that if it went into full-scale war with Dahua, the Rising Sun Army could completely defeat the Dahua army within three months.
No one in the international community questions their remarks, and Dahua itself is unable to refute them.
Therefore, before this battle, almost no one thought that the Dahua army could defend Shencheng.
The equipment is not as good as the people, the training is not as good as the people, the morale is not as good as the people, and there is not even much advantage in numbers. How should we fight this battle?
If Shencheng hadn't been so important, if the capital of the Republic of China hadn't been hundreds of miles away and had to be pushed aside, the president in Jinling might not have been willing to fight this war at all, just like he did to the Three Continents outside the Guan. The attitude is the same.
But the battle in Shencheng has been going on for more than a month. The Rising Sun *** team, which claims to be able to occupy the entire Dahua within three months, has not even penetrated the main urban area of Shencheng!
This battlefield result has to be said to be a surprise to everyone.
During this period, the Kingdom of the Rising Sun had changed its commanders three times and increased its troops four times. However, on the battlefield outside Shencheng, the offensive was still struggling.
What stood in front of them was the 19th Route Army of the National Army of the Republic of China.
This is not even a central army, but a miscellaneous army originally stationed near Shencheng.
However, it is such a miscellaneous army. Facing the Kingdom of the Rising Sun,
The elite army held on for a whole month. After the battle losses reached 60%, they still stood firmly outside Shencheng and were still fighting.
Forty-two days ago, the Kingdom of the Rising Sun sent troops to three continents outside the Pass, brazenly declaring war on Dahua. The President of the Republic of China called on the entire army not to resist.
The morale of the people in Dahua has hit rock bottom.
However, outside Shencheng City, at a moment that no one expected, the spirit of the Great China Army quietly bloomed in the body of a miscellaneous army!
This is the current situation in Shencheng.
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The four-legged snake swam quietly under the river.
It is still thirty miles away from the mouth of the river.
The last section of the river flows from Zhabei outside Shencheng to Wusongkou, where several tributaries such as the Huangpu River, Wusong River, and Liuhe merge into the river.
Now the armies of Dahua and the Kingdom of the Rising Sun are also fighting fiercely in this area.
Shu Guan, Han Biao and Four-legged Snake were about to pass through the middle of the battlefield.
Four-legged snakes swim at the bottom of the river.
Shu Guan and Han Biao were walking along the river bank. In order to avoid trouble, Shu Guan put an invisibility charm on Han Biao and himself.
My ears were filled with the roar of artillery fire, the whistling of bullets, and the roar of soldiers fighting. The battle lines of the two warring parties were criss-crossing. Troops dressed in blue and yellow were fighting fiercely on the battlefield on the river bank.
Shu Guan walked in silence.
Along the way, he could roughly tell that the battlefield situation was not good for the side wearing blue military uniforms. The equipment and firepower of the side wearing yellow military uniforms was obviously better than that of the army in blue uniforms, and the blue army had been forced to On a relatively narrow battlefield, the troops in blue uniforms were constantly encroaching on their positions.
However, the troops in blue uniforms fought extremely hard and bravely. From time to time, one could see groups of suicide squads carrying explosives and rushing towards the tanks and chariots of the troops in yellow uniforms. Once the soldiers in blue uniforms were trapped in the position, When surrounded, if there is no hope of escape, almost all of them will fire grenades and choose to die with the enemy.
No soldier in blue uniforms chose to escape or surrender.
Shu Guan naturally knew that those wearing yellow military uniforms were the troops of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun.
Wearing blue military uniforms are the Dahua *** team.
A soldier wearing a blue military uniform fell a few meters in front of him. His face was covered in blood and his eyes were wide open. On the soldier's armband, "National Army of the Republic of China" was clearly embroidered. The words "Nineteenth Route Army".
Shu Guan walked past the soldier's body. As he passed by, he suddenly squatted down and closed the soldier's eyes.
This may be the only thing he can do.
Otherwise, what else could he do?
Although he is no longer a disciple of the Seven Immortals Alliance, he no longer needs to force himself to abide by the rules of heaven.
But there are some things that have nothing to do with heavenly rules, but are things that no wise practitioner will do. This is also a bottom line that practitioners in the Eastern and Western Continent, whether it is the Alliance of Seven Immortals or the Black Dragon Society, abide by tacitly. .
The bottom line is:
Mortal armies can fight each other.
Wars can also occur between practitioners and practitioners.
But practitioners cannot take action against the opponent's mortal army.
Otherwise, you can bring a few Nascent Souls and kill thousands of soldiers, and I can bring a few immortals and kill tens of thousands of soldiers.
After a few rounds, the mortal army will probably be dead.
No party can afford this price.
Therefore, this bottom line has not been stated explicitly by either party, and it has no binding force, but neither party dares to break through it.
Perhaps the most binding thing is that neither party dares to do it themselves.
Shu Guan didn't dare to do it either.
Now there must be practitioners from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun in Shencheng. If he attacks the Rising Sun Army now, the practitioners from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun can start massacring the Dahua army with his backhand.
So apart from helping the soldier close his eyes, Shu Guan could not do anything else.
He continued walking forward, just wanting to leave this battlefield as soon as possible.
Dozens of minutes later, Shu Guan and Han Biao finally reached the edge of the battlefield, with only the last twenty miles left to the sea.
The dark clouds in the sky are getting lower and lower, the sound of lightning and thunder is getting louder and louder, and those golden lightnings will break through the clouds at any time.
Shu Guan's expression became more solemn.
Within twenty miles, thunder will definitely fall.
There are also those practitioners with ulterior motives who have been following behind. If their target is the four-legged snake, then when the four-legged snake goes through the thunder tribulation, it is naturally their best time to take action.
This is something that is easy to speculate on.
Shu Guan glanced towards the river and could vaguely see the slender and thick body of the four-legged snake passing downstream from a bridge.
This is the intersection of the Liuhe River, a tributary of the Dajiang River, and the Dajiang River. The water is quite strong. A reinforced concrete bridge spans both sides of the river. Under the bridge, there are many dilapidated shacks.
Between the shacks, you can see many shabby figures walking around.
The poor people in these shantytowns live on the edge of the battlefield, and they have to bear the risk of being affected by the war every day, but besides here, where else can they go?
At least there is a place to stay here. If they leave here, they will be homeless refugees.
Shu Guan walked past the bridge and past the shanties under the bridge.
At this time, a dozen large speedboats suddenly appeared from the upper reaches of the Liuhe River. The speedboats were crowded with soldiers from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun wearing dark yellow military uniforms. There were as many as two thousand people.
The speedboat docked on the shore here. The soldiers of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun rushed off the speedboat, rushed past Shu Guan and Han Biao, and rushed to the battlefield where the fierce battle was raging in the distance.
Shu Guan's brows suddenly wrinkled.
Having just walked from the battlefield, he was very clear about the situation on the battlefield. The Dahua army set up positions on the river bank, so that they only had to face frontal attacks from the enemy. But now the Rising Sun Army came from Liuhe. Bian made a big circle and penetrated to the rear of the Dahua army's position.
This war, which lasted for more than a month, was probably going to be decided because of the Rising Sun *** team that had completed surprise attacks.
Shu Guan sighed deeply.
The Dahua army is in a desperate situation.
He didn't look back, he couldn't bear to look.
Behind them, among the soldiers of the Kingdom of the Rising Sun who rushed towards the rear position of the Dahua army, a small team separated from the team and came to the bridge. They installed many packages of explosives on a pier near the shore and then detonated them. Dynamite.
Because of the tight time limit, no matter the amount of explosives carried or the explosion points placed in a hurry, they could not blow up the bridge immediately.
But it won't be long before the bridge collapses.
And the 19th Route Army, which had resisted them for more than a month, would have no way to retreat and could only be wiped out by them on the riverside.
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Come on, the little girl was frightened by the explosion not far away. She opened a pair of big, round and clear eyes, and her cute little face was full of panic, but she was so frightened that she forgot to run away.
Seeing that this innocent little girl was about to die under a bridge, a big hand suddenly appeared from the void and picked her up.
Shu Guan appeared, threw the little girl in his arm towards Han Biao in the distance, and shouted at Han Biao at the same time.
"Let the people here leave immediately."
Then he jumped more than ten meters and jumped onto the bridge pier that had a huge crack in it.
I saw that this bridge pier, which was originally about two meters in diameter, was blasted with a crack more than 1.5 meters deep. The cement on the outside was almost completely blown away, exposing the steel bars inside that were as thick as a thumb.
At this time, as the bridge began to tilt and the load-bearing capacity changed, the steel bars began to break one by one. As the steel bars broke, the bridge collapsed faster and faster.
The smell of gunpowder smoke still lingered around.
Shu Guan stepped onto the gap, raised his arms high, and dragged them over the gap in the bridge pier.
The slowly collapsing bridge suddenly stopped.
The veins on Shuguan's arms popped out.
Just the next moment, the bridge began to slowly collapse towards this side again.
Although the speed was much slower, the collapse process was not reversed.
Shu Guan's physical strength is very strong. Perhaps with the blessing of his remaining strength, he can knock down a five or six-story building with one punch.
But his physical strength was not enough to hold up this reinforced concrete bridge with a deck of about ten meters wide.
Shu Guan turned around and took a look, and saw that in a shanty town not far away, without Han Biao doing anything, the people living in the shanty towns had realized the danger and began to get out of the dilapidated shanty towns and run towards the distance.
But there were many old, weak, women and children inside, and it would probably take at least ten minutes for them all to escape from the dangerous area.
And as I am now, I will never be able to hold the bridge for ten minutes.
Shu Guan's eyes flashed.
Then his palms suddenly left the top of the bridge pier, then turned around like lightning and shrugged.
All the steel bars in the bridge piers finally broke at this moment, and the bridge pier above crashed down heavily, hitting Shu Guan's shoulder and back.
Shu Guan's knees suddenly bent, a flush of blood surged on his face, and he let out a loud roar.
Two words he yelled.
"Take the mountain!"
Following Shu Guan's roar, the collapsed bridge suddenly stopped!
One second, two seconds, three seconds...
One minute, two minutes, three minutes...
The bridge remained stationary and did not continue to collapse.
Shu Guan stood half-crouched under the bridge, standing where the bridge pier was originally, motionless, with the broken bridge pier pressing on his shoulders.
At this moment, Shuguan took up a steel bridge.
The art of carrying mountains!
A few days ago, his senior brother taught him the mountain-carrying technique. After his senior brother left, Shu Guan left and started practicing.
However, Danshan Technique is not a Taoist technique, but a method of luck and force, just like Man Yujin. Therefore, he can master it as soon as he learns it, and he can show his greatest power in a short time.
With Shu Guan's current basic physical strength and mastery of the mountain-carrying technique, it is natural that he cannot really carry a mountain on his shoulders.
But at this time he at least carried a steel bridge!
After a few minutes, Shu Guan was sure that the bridge would not continue to collapse. He felt that he could at least hold on until everyone in the shanty town had escaped.
This made Shu Guan relax slightly.
However, at this moment, huge thunderclap sounds suddenly came from the sky.
Then a golden thunder light fell from the sky and landed on the river.
The thunder that had been brewing in that dark cloud for more than half a month finally fell at this moment.
The golden lightning penetrated the river water and hit the body of the four-legged snake at the bottom of the river.
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It's useless no matter where you hide in the catastrophe of thunder.
The four-legged snake suddenly jumped out from the bottom of the river, raising its head and letting out a long and painful roar.
The waves it stirred up when it jumped out of the river swept towards both sides of the river bank.
And above the sky, within the dark clouds, golden thunder and lightning one after another seemed to be about to fall.
On the bank of the river, not all the people in the shantytowns had fled.
The light in Shu Guan's eyes flashed again.
"Not here! Find another place!"
Then he immediately shouted to the four-legged snake.
The four-legged snake with most of its body leaping in the air had just endured a thunderbolt and was in great pain, but it still heard Shuguan's cry.
The four-legged snake turned its head and looked at Shu Guan, who was half-crouching with a bridge on his shoulders, and immediately understood.
Then it began to swim, preparing to change places to survive the thunder tribulation.
And the look he had just made with Shu Guan made the four-legged snake understand something.
Therefore, it does not swim to the entrance to the sea ahead, but turns back and swims back.
The golden thunder in the sky began to fall one after another.
All the golden thunder landed ten meters around the four-legged snake, and moved with the swimming of the four-legged snake.
On the river bank, thousands of soldiers from the Kingdom of the Rising Sun wearing dark yellow military uniforms were running along the river bank and outflanking the rear of the Dahua army's position.
The four-legged snake was getting closer and closer to them, and a strong murderous aura and intent suddenly surged in its golden dragon eyes.
At this moment, the destiny of the person who bestowed him with justice seemed to suddenly awaken.
