Chapter 496

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Protagonist:

Lv Muzhi

On the open ground at the border of Yi'an Province, heavy elephant hooves trampled the earth, and piercing elephant cries penetrated heart and lung.

Before the attack even reached their eyes, the intimidation was already maxed out.

Meng Fan saw that the Zhongnan State soldiers were indeed somewhat frightened, and could only shout at the over a hundred Youth Army soldiers:

"Listen up to me! Elephants are also made of meat, smash this big lump of meat directly, after the fight we'll eat boiled elephant meat!"

Colonel Ruan Linqing also rallied his subordinates: "Brothers, even the Youth Army fights to the death without retreating; this is our homeland, behind us are the newly divided fields, we have no way to retreat, fight the enemy to the death, don't let the Youth Army laugh at us!"

On the position, several M2 Browning Heavy Machine Guns had already been loaded with brand-new ammunition belts, the golden bullets lined up neatly.

Long magazines were inserted into the receivers of the 20mm autocannons, waiting for the order to open fire.

Behind the position, the gunners of the 37mm and 50mm anti-tank guns held their breath and focused their minds.

Armor-piercing shells had already been pushed into the breeches; these sharp weapons specially used to deal with tanks were now aimed at those slowly advancing mountains of flesh.

They vowed to poke ten thousand transparent holes in the Royal War Elephant Corps!

Meng Fan stood with hands on hips, his gaze sweeping over the pale-faced Zhongnan State soldiers beside him; he reached out and pulled a young lad to the machine gun position.

"Don't be afraid! This is a. 50 caliber heavy machine gun, air-cooled, elephants can still be killed!"

"Hold your hands steady, I've already locked the elevation mechanism for you; you just need to pull the trigger hard, sway left and right like this, just like cutting grass."

Meng Fan said while helping him adjust his shooting posture.

"See that? What's opposite isn't an elephant, it's a big lump of moving rotten meat, nothing to be afraid of."

Colonel Ruan Linqing held a pistol in his hand and shouted loudly at the soldiers around him.

"Brothers, the Youth Army is our Zhongnan State's best big brother; you must believe in them!"

War elephants trampled the earth, shaking the ground with a rumbling sound, coming closer and closer.

The Zhongnan State soldier holding the heavy machine gun handle had sweat all over his palms, his eyes fixed tightly on the group of war elephants coming closer and closer.

Meng Fan's face instantly darkened, and he fiercely swung down his arm.

"Open fire!"

With this order, the heavy firepower that had long been silent on the position instantly erupted, and the entire defensive line seemed to spray out dozens of fire dragons.

Boom boom boom! Boom boom boom!

The M2 heavy machine gun fired 12.7mm caliber bullets capable of penetrating light armor, sweeping across the thick skin and flesh of the war elephants, instantly bursting into clusters of huge blood mist.

Thai machine gunners crouched in the towers on the elephants' backs, desperately sweeping downward with machine guns to counterattack.

But facing such a dense curtain of fire, they soon discovered that the originally invincible war elephants began to fall into chaos.

Some war elephants' forelegs were swept by bullets fired from M2 Browning Heavy Machine Guns; unable to bear the pain, they could only kneel forward with their forelegs and collapse to the ground.

The huge inertia shook the Thai machine gunners on the elephants' backs down, falling from three meters high on the elephant's back; the Thai machine gunners broke their bones directly.

Even worse, the following war elephants followed up, actually stepping on the back of the fallen Thai machine gunner......

Immediately after, the following war elephants were also cut by various heavy firepower; some had their elephant legs shattered by machine cannons, some had their back towers sliced off by heavy machine guns.

The soldier operating the M2 Browning Heavy Machine Gun looked at the war elephants falling one after another before his eyes, and finally revealed a look of ecstatic joy on his face.

"This gun has power!"

He pulled the trigger frantically, turning all his fury into deadly bullets, shooting at the advancing war elephant herd.

To prevent the elephant herd from scattering due to fright, the Thai elephant handlers directly took out black cloths and tightly covered the elephants' eyes.

Afterwards, they issued the final charge order to the war elephants; the elephants completely fell into a frenzy in the darkness and pain.

These colossi, under the strikes of machine gun bullets, emitted shrill howls, like out-of-control heavy trucks, rushing forward madly.

In the Japanese tanks behind, Japanese tank crew watched this scene through observation windows, extremely surprised.

"All gone mad... these war elephants seem to be disposable consumables."

"Even if the battle is won, these war elephants are basically ruined, full of bullet holes and shrapnel."

Absolute firepower suppression could not be filled by elephant flesh and blood; the Youth Army's anti-tank guns opened fire.

Boom—Boom—!

The direct fire of the 50mm anti-tank gun precisely hit a war elephant's chest cavity.

The shell entered from the chest and flew out from the rear buttocks.

Before the huge kinetic energy of the warhead, the so-called thick skin and flesh were like a piece of thin paper; the shell directly penetrated through.

The giant beast over three meters tall couldn't even utter a mournful cry before collapsing with a boom while running, kicking up dust all over the sky.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

The second wave of 107mm rocket launcher coverage descended; dense bullet rain smashed into the rear columns of the Thai Royal War Elephant Corps.

Rocket shells caused devastating strikes among the elephant herd.

One colossus after another turned into piles of unnameable rotten meat in the continuous explosions; the battlefield was filled with the smell of blood.

Seeing this, the Japanese tanks didn't even need to request instructions; they directly shifted into reverse and fled in disgrace under the cover of black smoke.

The morale of the Zhongnan Army reached its peak at this moment; watching the war elephants turned into rotten meat and the tanks fleeing in disgrace, they let out cheers like mountains overturning and seas surging.

"Long live! Long live Zhongnan State! Long live the Youth Army!"

In their hearts, the Youth Army were not only instructors who taught them how to fight hand in hand, but also great saviors who defended their homes and land.

Some rejoiced, some worried.

Major General Phraya received the battle report and looked at Colonel Hira-o in disbelief:

"My Royal War Elephant Corps is invincible, always relying on the beasts' ferocity to break through enemy lines—a national treasure, just gone like that?"

He grabbed Hira-o's collar by the clothing collar and roared hysterically: "Where are the reinforcements? The Zero Fighters and the main force of the Fifth Division you promised?"

Hira-o pushed his hand away with an expressionless face:

"The Navy replied: affected by sea fog, carrier fighters cannot take off temporarily. The Army replied: the main force of the Fifth Division still needs half a day to arrive."

"Major General, you need to continue commanding your troops to hold the line, show the courage of your Thai Kingdom."

"Our reinforcements will arrive soon!"

Major General Phraya broke out in a cold sweat: "The Youth Army... their tanks haven't arrived yet, right? If the tanks arrive, we're really finished."

Hira-o shook his head and guaranteed with a confident expression.

"Impossible, aerial reconnaissance aircraft have been monitoring the railway line, and found no signs of large-scale armored troops unloading."

Hira-o lied; the Japanese Army had not prepared any reinforcements at all!

He also did not tell Major General Phraya that as early as one hour ago, he had already learned the news that the Youth Army tanks were coming by railway transport, and the Japanese reconnaissance aircraft had been intercepted and gone missing by BF109.

Hira-o had already prepared to retreat with the Japanese armored troops and artillery.

The pitiful Thai troops were still kept in the dark; their blood would be completely drained with the tacit consent of the Japanese Army.

And with the Thai Mainland losing its elite main force protection, it would be wantonly plundered by the Japanese Army.

The Thai troops invading Zhongnan State did not yet know their doom was near; the vanguard of the Youth Army tanks had already joined Meng Fan and the others.

Colonel Long Wenzhang arrived at Ruan Linqing and Meng Fan's position.

As the Chief of Staff dispatched by the Youth Army to the First Division Headquarters of Zhongnan State, Long Wenzhang personally issued the counterattack order to everyone.

"According to the instructions of Lu Commander and the First Division Headquarters, the Youth Army and the Central-South Army will join hands fully to counterattack all invading enemies!"

"Your regiment will serve as the assault vanguard, cooperating with the armored troops to launch a full-scale attack on the Thai Royal Army First Division!"