Chapter 1

  The night color gradually dispersed from the earth, and the suffocating smoke enveloped the hilly areas in southern Guangxi. Pushing open the faint mist, one could vaguely see that the distant mountains were painfully groaning in the midst of fierce flames.

  In the air, various warplanes from both sides emitted a screaming sound, launching interceptors from beyond visual range to engage in fierce dogfighting. From time to time, one after another fighter planes were shot down into the valley or river, exploding into smithereens, and some planes simply exploded into a dazzling fireball in mid-air.

  What most terrified the ground troops was the heart-stopping roar of rotor blades slicing through the air, those attack helicopters that could suddenly appear from the treetops at any moment, a nightmare for ground troops compared to high-flying fighter jets.

  Here is near Nanning, Guangxi, the war has broken out for more than a month. The war was caused by conflicts between China and Vietnam in the South China Sea, gradually turning from conflict to a local war. Originally thought that within a month's time could advance to Hanoi. But who would have thought that the fierce battle between China and Vietnam turned into a large-scale local war between China against the US-Japan alliance and anti-China Western alliance!

  Under the support of the United States, Japan dispatched troops, while France supported Vietnam. Under the international anti-China sentiment, Indonesia, India, Britain and Germany all symbolically sent so-called "human rights national liberation volunteer army" to assist in the war. Under the enemy's crazy attack, not only did they take away Langshan, which had already been taken by us, but this "anti-China alliance army", known as the "new eight-nation coalition force", also stretched its dirty hands into Guangxi, China.

  The US has taken action, with the F-15 and F-16 fighter jets, under the crazy attack of the US-Japan alliance, China's Guangxi Nanmen airspace has lost its air superiority. At this moment, brave Chinese pilots are driving fighter jets that are inferior to the enemy in performance, stubbornly competing with the enemy for air superiority.

  The losses were extremely heavy, but all this could not wear down the strong will of the officers and men!

  Type 05 tank driver Li Bin sits inside his beloved tank, which is hidden in a sturdy bunker with only the turret exposed and aimed outside.

  This tank, following the Type 99 tank, is China's most advanced main battle tank. It is equipped with a 14mm caliber smoothbore cannon, one 1.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun, one 7.6mm coaxial machine gun and one 7.6mm parallel machine gun. Originally, this tank was to be installed with electromagnetic machine guns capable of strong air defense, but due to the outbreak of war, when electromagnetic machine guns were not yet available for deployment, only ordinary anti-aircraft machine guns could be temporarily adopted. However, this does not affect this tank from becoming an advanced tank: it has active defensive armor that can effectively counter airborne anti-tank missiles and various armor-piercing shells, and the reactive armor wrapped around the outside of the tank can almost withstand any type of armor-piercing projectile attack.

  Inside the turret sat Commander Liu Ping and gunner Lin Zhaohui, taking advantage of this brief respite, the three of them let out a slight sigh of relief. However, they were well aware that a fierce battle was soon to come.

  Outside Nanning City, on the flat ground in the middle of the hilly area, the twisted and deformed bodies of the coalition forces were scattered all over. One by one, the destroyed tanks emitted rolling thick smoke, and from time to time, there were still a few loud explosions. The wreckage of various broken planes was scattered in the valley, still emitting bursts of green smoke.

  The mountains had long been flattened by tens of thousands of tons of bombs, and the Friendship Pass was also blown to pieces. The mountainous area on the Sino-Vietnamese border fell, and the "New Eight-Nation Alliance" advanced all the way to the outskirts of Nanning City, where they encountered unprecedented tenacious resistance.

  "Be careful! All units, prepare to take cover!" The commander's anxious voice came through the headphones. Before he had even finished speaking, the headphones went dead silent, with only a piercing "shhhhhh" sound and the intermittent voices of the commanders could be heard.

  "Damn it!" Conductor Liu Ping cursed loudly, "The American's electronic jamming device is here again! Little Li, reverse the train quickly!"

  The arrival of an electronic jamming aircraft means that an air raid is about to begin.

  Driver Li Bin quickly started the tank and backed into the depths of the bunker. The black muzzle that was originally exposed outside was retracted, and from the sky, it was impossible to see that this was a tank bunker.

  The Americans had infrared detection equipment, fortunately, the Type 05 tank had anti-infrared coating, and when hiding in cover, it was not easy for the Americans to discover Li Bin and his men.

  A large string of dark, ghostly shadows appeared on the horizon. Just as people on the ground heard the roar of jet engines, rows of BU-8 laser-guided bombs had already fallen from the F-16D fighter's racks, bringing with them a screaming sound of death, and fiercely smashing down towards the ground.

  Bombs with ear-piercing whistles fell to the ground crazily, and in an instant, the entire earth began to shake violently like a major earthquake. The earth-penetrating bombs left deep craters on the ground, accompanied by waves of dull thunder, and clusters of black and red flames shot straight into the sky.

  Then, nine massive B- bombers flew in a chevron formation, emitting low rumbles as they swept across the sky, with heavy bombs falling from their bomb bays like hailstones to the ground.

  The entire earth was suddenly surrounded by raging flames, the scarlet fire shooting straight up to the sky, with rolling thick smoke rising into the air thousands of meters high.

  The ground was in the midst of high temperatures and fierce flames, scorching air that made the warriors hiding in underground tunnels feel suffocated and unable to breathe. Incendiary bombs instantly sucked away a large amount of oxygen, and some warriors who were hiding closer to the surface sacrificed themselves heroically on the spot.

  In a pit less than three hundred meters away from Li Bin, a ground-penetrating bomb fell in, and only a dull explosion sound was heard. More than 100 comrades who were hiding there were killed instantly, leaving behind a skull-like black hole as the dust flew into the sky.

  Inside the Allied Command headquarters, Lieutenant General Ryoji Abe, commander of Japan's 6th Division, sat confidently in the command center. He occasionally picked up his binoculars to gaze at the Chinese positions being ravaged by war in the distance. Then, he turned around and smiled triumphantly at First Lieutenant Ichiro Hosaka, saying: "With our powerful American allies, how much longer can those damn Chinese hold on?"

  "Hahaha!" Yasuhiko Hosaka burst out laughing, "This time, we will surely win! We'll take over Guangxi and Yunnan, and also capture Guangdong and Fujian! And then separate Taiwan from them!"

  The commander of the 6th Tank Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Abe Masahira, burst out laughing: "Good! The Americans have bombed well! In a while, we'll see our tanks go up and crush those damn Chinese!"

  "If the war develops as we wish, the Chinese will have to sign a treaty with our new Eight-Nation Alliance! At that time, we can take Taiwan!" Lieutenant General Anbo Toshi smiled triumphantly.

  "Hahaha!" The entire Japanese personnel in the command center burst into a fit of maniacal laughter.

  "Don't underestimate the enemy! Our allies' previous fifteen attacks have all ended in failure. Looking at those corpses and chariot wreckage ahead, I think we should be more careful." Isoroku Bose warned.

  Abeshōhei sneered: "Allies? What are you talking about, Hosaka-kun? Are you referring to the Vietnamese monkeys and French devils? Can those people fight? Do they have the bravery of the Imperial Japanese warriors? Hahaha!"

  After a fierce bombing, the Allied forces began a fierce artillery attack on the outskirts of Nanning.

  The ground artillery troops of the so-called "Anti-Chinese Volunteer Army" composed mainly of Vietnamese and Japanese, with symbolic participation from British, French, Indian and Indonesian forces, began to launch the most intense bombardment against Chinese positions outside Nanning.

  Innumerable 3-inch mortars, 1-inch mortars, and various caliber howitzers poured tons of heavy shells onto the positions of Chinese troops, with a large number of shells plowing the ground again and again, turning the entire position upside down. Not only were the conventional artillery guns used, but also the powerful M7 rocket launchers poured down a steel rain-like barrage of shells on the positions of Chinese troops. The heavy artillery shells fell to the ground, and the sound of "boom boom" explosions could no longer be heard, replaced by a series of rumbling sounds like thunder.

  Soaring flames formed a wall of fire on the ground, raging air waves flew everywhere, stones, sand and broken flesh were mixed together and swept into the air, until they fell to the ground, leaving only a few handfuls of powder-like sand and stone.

  The humid land of the south had already become unusually dry in the baptism of gunfire.

  Hearing the incessant explosions above his head, Li Bin thought angrily: Damn it! How can we fight like this? We don't have air superiority and we don't have electromagnetic superiority!

  Just then someone shouted: "The enemy has stopped firing! They're coming up fast!"

  Lian Chang shouted loudly: "Get ready to fight! Beat that little monkey!"