Chapter seven hundred and seventy fourth indelible impression
After hearing the advice of the young staff officer named Yang Jicai next to him, Liming was about to get angry after being urged by Wang Guangyu's telegram. At this time, he did not bother to ask the liaison staff officer sent by the Nenjiang Military Region how he knew about the No. 1 special bomb. Secret weapons are only known to cadres above the military region column, commanders above the deputy chief of staff of the aviation force, and a very small number of relevant personnel.
After a brief thought, Liming gritted his teeth and said to Yang Jicai: "Since the No. 1 telegram also authorized us to use the No. 1 special bomb when necessary when the ground troops' westward advance is blocked, then I will risk my life today. , you go and send a telegram to Commander Wang, asking them to retreat one thousand meters on the spot, and an hour later, I will use special bombs to clear the way for them."
After Yang Jicai turned around and went to the radio station to send a telegram to Wang Guangyu, Liming turned around and said to Hong Haitao, the director of the aviation ordnance department who had followed him: "Take out all the No. 1 special bombs stored in the special-sized warehouse and order the next one." The bomber groups that attack the Zamin River in waves are all equipped with the No. 1 special bomb."
This order from Liming made Hong Haitao stunned for a moment and then said quickly: "Deputy Chief of Staff, the No. 1 special bombs we have stored in Qiqihar only total twelve. These twelve bombs are for the headquarters to prepare for the next stage. During the operation, it was specially approved to deal with the Japanese army's permanent fortification points west of Xing'an Mountains."
"At the moment, Deputy Commander Wang's progress is only blocked. It has not reached the most critical moment. If it is all used up at once, what will we do when we really need it? The production of this kind of thing is too complicated. Since the end of the battle last summer, Since it was officially put into service, the total reserve of the entire army is less than 200."
"The twelve currently deployed in Qiqihar were originally brought in as treasures at the bottom of the box. Once these twelve are used up in advance, if the situation becomes more serious, we will have nothing to use, right? It would be better to consider using napalm."
Regarding Hong Haitao's words, Liming shook his head and said: "Brother Comrade, my butt is on fire right now, and I still worry about what these things are for. If they are gone, they can be re-shipped. Anyway, we still have them in the warehouse at our headquarters, even if they are all After it is used up, the arsenal can still build it. Although this thing is a bit complicated, it is not impossible to build."
Speaking of this, Li Ming looked at the group of planes that had completed their missions and were returning to the sky. After a moment of silence, he said: "Rescuing troops is like putting out fires. If Deputy Commander Wang continues to fail to open a gap, Hailar will really It's too late, and by then, even if No. 1 doesn't deal with us, how can we live with our consciences."
"I just want to go all out to sell iron at all costs today. Even if I use bombs to open the way, I still have to send Deputy Commander Wang to Hailar in the shortest possible time. In short, at all costs, cooperate with the brother troops to get rid of the enemy as quickly as possible." Seize the first line of Hyrule."
Hearing Li Ming even say the words "sell the pot and sell the iron", although I don't know why the Hailar frontline attracted so much attention from the superiors, I also understand that the things there are probably quite serious. Otherwise, Li Ming has always been steady and never extreme. Hong Haitao, who could not say such words, did not dare to delay.
Hong Haitao, who did not ask any further questions, immediately directed the ground crew to carry the No. 1 special bomb out of the warehouse, put on the deceleration chute, and loaded it on the twelve Il-4 bombers preparing for the next wave of attacks. This kind of bomb The power is indeed great, but the preparation before throwing is also quite troublesome compared with ordinary high-explosive bombs.
Not only must a deceleration parachute be installed on the missile body, but the charging part, fuze and other parts of the missile body are usually stored separately and are not assembled on site until they are used. Therefore, these twelve missiles can only be assembled on site. It takes a certain amount of time for a bomb to go from being stored to being put into actual combat.
When the twelve 700-kilogram bombs were finally assembled, due to the unique shape of the bombs, even if each Il-4 bomber had a maximum bomb load of 1,500 kilograms, the number of weapons required for an attack would be very low. The range is only a few hundred kilometers, but you can only carry one.
After nearly an hour of fussing, twelve Il-4 bombers and twelve Su-2 light bombers took off under the cover of twenty-four P-39 fighter jets. After drawing a circle over the airport, they turned around. Flying towards the battlefield where the fierce fighting is taking place in the west,
During the period when the missile body was being assembled, Wang Guangyu commanded the troops to retreat to a safe distance in accordance with the requirements for the use of this type of bomb. Although ordinary cadres and soldiers did not understand this order to retreat, they did not understand it. Why did we give up the position we finally won? But under the consistent requirements of army discipline, we still strictly implemented the orders of our superiors.
Not only did the infantry troops not understand why they had to retreat one thousand meters, but they were also standing nervously in front of the air radio station, nervously debugging the contact band, while constantly looking at the sky above the special mission assigned to Wang Guangyu by the aviation force. The air communications staff also didn’t understand.
Although he is specifically responsible for the air-ground liaison staff and has participated in many battles, he has never experienced anything like this. When the aviation force is supporting the ground, the entire ground force is actually required to evacuate one thousand meters back. Even though There was an error in the bombing by the aviation force, but in his opinion it would not exceed a few hundred meters.
He didn't know that there were new weapons such as air-fuel bombs, so he thought that even if he used the most lethal ground-penetrating bombs and napalm bombs among the current weapons in the aviation inventory, he would not be able to retreat such a long distance in one go. Moreover, several positions that had been won at great cost had to be withdrawn. This time, the superiors rarely asked the ground troops to retreat a thousand meters at a time, which made him very confused.
Fortunately, the communication staff and Wang Guangyu's incomprehensible subordinates were not made to wait for too long, and they found out why their superiors insisted that they abandon the positions they had spent a lot of blood and lives to gain, and all retreated backwards. to a thousand meters away,
When the light bombers used airborne 50-kilogram bombs to clear the lush vegetation in the target area first, the twelve Il-4 bombers in a formation of two did not take the usual level after finding their respective targets. bombing method,
Instead, this medium-sized bomber with a bomb load of 1,500 kilograms was used as a dive bomber. After diving from east to west into the sky above the target area at an altitude of 1,500 meters under the guidance of the ground, Dropped a barrel bomb with a parachute on its tail,
After these bombers dropped their bombs, they did not stop at all. They pulled up at maximum speed and quickly left the sky above the target area. Instead of completing the bombing before, they also hovered over the target area for a while to confirm that the target had been destroyed. After that, they will leave,
Before the communication staff could figure out why the bomber group adopted tactics that were very different from the previous ones, the bomber group over there dropped bombs with parachutes, and the power displayed by the fluttering bombs hit him and the Nenjiang Military Region. The officers and soldiers of the 1st Independent Brigade were stunned.
Not to mention those ordinary officers and soldiers, even Wang Guangyu, who has always been mature and prudent, was attracted by this inconspicuous thing, which looked more like a beer barrel with an iron rod than a bomb. I was stunned by the huge power of the explosion.
Regarding this weird-looking bomb, as a senior commander of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, he had only heard of it and had contact with the detailed information of this bomb. Compared to Du Kaishan, who had experienced the power of this kind of bomb, he still really saw the physical form of this kind of bomb.
At the beginning, this seemingly large-sized bomb made a much lighter sound than fifty kilograms when it exploded, and the white smoke emitted enveloped the main Japanese positions along the Zamin River. At that time, Wang Guangyu thought it was Liming who used aviation smoke bombs or captured Japanese poison gas bombs to fool him.
But the scene that followed left him dumbfounded. There were loud noises one after another, which suddenly made people feel thunderous and the earth trembled. Even the officers and soldiers of the only brigade who were closest to the explosion area were thousands of meters away. , did not escape, was shaken and staggered, unable to stand, and lay down horizontally and vertically.
And as multiple explosions sounded more violent than before, the entire Zamin River flashed with flames. Almost all the big trees that had survived the previous fierce battle were pushed down by the air waves. At the same time, strange mushroom clouds rose into the sky. The heat wave that swept through at the same time could be felt thousands of meters away. Inhuman screams came from the Japanese army positions, which gave people a creepy feeling.
When dozens of minutes passed, Wang Guangyu led his troops to the Japanese position where they had paid a heavy price. Almost everyone was stunned by what they saw. The field fortifications on the Japanese position had become a vast field. In the ruins, near the impact point of the bomb, almost all living things, whether people or vegetation, had almost become a piece of charcoal. Several tanks at the center of the explosion, together with the crew inside, were instantly melted into pieces by the high temperature. Piles of scrap metal,
Although the people who were a little further away were not burned to a pile of coke by luck, they were different from those who had been bombed by ordinary high-explosive bombs. There were no wounds on the surface. They just looked at the sky with their mouths wide open. Those were used as anchors. At the point of fire, inside the tanks that were not near the impact point and escaped unharmed, although there appeared to be no damage on the outside, no one inside could survive either.
Compared with the corpses exposed in the field fortifications, the corpses in the tanks were even more horrifying. Except for those that were not burned, all of them had their own throats scratched, which made people feel It was extremely painful when they died,
The two field artillery squadrons used by the Japanese army as fire support and deployed behind the positions on the west bank of the Zamin River were not seriously damaged because they were far away from the explosion point, and all the artillery were still neatly placed. , but all the horses used to pull the artillery, like their owners, had suffocated to death,
This battle left an indelible impression on all the officers and soldiers who participated in the battle. This experience was very different from ordinary battles. Although the superiors issued strict silence orders, decades later, the officers and soldiers who participated in this battle still became Things I never forget,