The ferocious bombardment by the Japanese invaders is still continuing, but the intensity has been much reduced.
The Japanese army in the encirclement circle began to gather a large number of troops and slowly pressed forward against the entire defense line operated by the 170th Division. The focus of the attack was naturally placed on Yuanping Village, which was almost completely turned upside down.
At this time, two squadrons of AB26 bombers flew over from the southeast sky. Three Japanese soldiers sitting in a hot air balloon directing artillery operations screamed in despair.
One of the AB26 bombers ejected a string of cannon shells from the nose, accurately hitting the hot air balloon and bursting out with a large amount of shining sparks.
While the gondola below was accelerating its descent, another AB26 refused to lag behind and accurately hit the gondola with its aviation machine guns on both wings. The Japanese soldiers standing in the gondola were instantly beaten into sieves and fell to the ground.
Then it was broken into pieces of filthy flesh.
Seeing the approaching nemesis, the Japanese artillery fire stopped. The Japanese infantry took this opportunity to launch a fierce attack.
In this wave of desperate assaults, the Japanese army even used another hidden force: cavalry.
The cavalry is an extremely ancient force that still plays a unique role in the era of rampant hot weapons. For the infantry who have lost their position and the help of artillery, the cavalry is a terrible nightmare, a life-harvesting tool wielded by the god of death.
sickle.
The front line of Yuanping Village, which had no in-depth defense in a hurry, had been bombarded by extraordinary Japanese heavy artillery before, and less than one-third of the officers and soldiers of a regiment remained. Under the assault of nearly a regiment of Japanese cavalry, although
The soldiers tried everything they could, but the Japanese cavalry still tore through the defenses.
When the large number of Japanese soldiers following the cavalry saw this, they became energetic and rushed toward the front line of Yuanping Village, shouting.
Seeing that the Japanese were about to break through this gap, Yang Jiuxiao issued an order without hesitation to concentrate all the mortars of the 170th Division and the Artillery Regiment directly under the 17th Army and fire concentratedly at the front line of Yuanping Village. No matter what, he must
Blocking the Japanese army's route to escape north. Later, Yang Jiuxiao also sent the first regiment of the military's direct teaching brigade as a strategic reserve.
The huge firepower of four hundred mortars was concentrated and instantly covered the entire Yuanping Village. Almost every inch of land was hit by several mortar shells.
Such a dense artillery fire coverage immediately caused the Japanese cavalry regiment to suffer a disaster. Amidst the miserable screams of the horses, all life in Yuanping Village covering several square kilometers in front was wiped out.
The Japanese who followed the cavalry charge were greatly frightened when they saw this, and quickly retreated to the position where the charge was initiated, waiting for the Chinese Army's shelling to end.
Stepping on the impact point of the mortar, the 1st Regiment of the Military Teaching Brigade, led by the regiment leader Lieutenant Colonel Deng Yue, entered the blocking position. Walking on the land stained red with blood, every commander and soldier felt as if they had arrived.
It was like hell, the entire position was filled with choking smoke, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of blood and the strange aroma of barbecue.
After continuous shelling by the Japanese and Chinese troops, the location of the trenches built by the 170th Division could no longer be found. The ground was full of human and horse stumps, internal organs and parts of various weapons.
It can be seen that the corpses of people and horses with missing arms and legs were piled beside the crater, and some corpses had been burned until only a pile of ashes remained.
Some soldiers, who were still greedy after smelling the aroma of meat at first, have already figured out what the strange aroma of barbecue is, and their stomachs can't help but churn.
Since most of the teaching brigade were veterans with rich combat experience, many of them were able to restrain themselves from vomiting, but there were still some more sensitive officers and soldiers whose expressions changed drastically, and they bent over and vomited.
Deng Yue led the officers and soldiers of the First Regiment of the Teaching Brigade to inspect the entire position. Everything he saw was blood and corpses. Fighting in such a place would cause great physical and psychological damage to the soldiers. In this case,
Deng Yue reported to the brigade headquarters and military headquarters via walkie-talkie, requesting that the blocking position be moved south and break into the Japanese defense line for fortification.
Yang Jiuxiao knew what the front line was like through Deng Yue's few words, and immediately agreed, but asked the regiment to pause for a while while the military department did some technical processing first, and then pushed the defense line forward.
Soon, Yang Jiuxiao contacted the Air Force Command and requested to carry out precise bombings aimed at the Japanese forward positions.
Two squadrons of AB26 bomber groups were extremely angry that the cunning Japanese had once again hidden their artillery positions, and circled in the sky unwilling to leave.
At this time, due to the cunningness of the Japanese artillery, the Nanhua General Headquarters had made a decision based on the war situation. The B1 bomber group dropped napalm bombs on the two hills of Pingdiquan and Tanglingang where the Japanese army was located. War is not a game of house, as long as it can
Attack the opponent and no longer care about anything else.
The ab26 bomber group, which was preparing to return home, suddenly received an order from the headquarters to carry out precise bombing of the enemy's forward positions under the guidance of ground artillery. It suddenly turned from anger to joy.
Five minutes later, the artillery battalion of the Fourth Regiment of the 170th Division used six 75mm howitzers to bomb the Japanese forward positions.
When the sound of artillery rumbled and the fire continued to shine on the Japanese position, the ab26 bombers, which had received precise guidance, immediately rushed towards the Japanese position like cats that smelled the smell of fish. A series of aerial bombs, like
It was like fish laying fish eggs, and they fell densely on the heads of the Japanese.
If the artillery's 75mm howitzers just tickled the Japanese positions, then the air force's attack was like a judgment from hell.
Huge explosions sounded one after another. A 500-kilogram aerial bomb fell. The flames of the explosion shot up forty or fifty meters high, and the smoke pillars shot straight into the sky. Within hundreds of square meters, shock waves oscillated back and forth.
Shrapnel and flying soil carry enough kinetic energy to destroy all life and objects.
When the Japanese position was under attack, the officers and soldiers of the 1st Regiment of the 17th Army Teaching Brigade had already pounced on the Japanese position. When the explosions stopped and the fighter planes left the sky, they had already penetrated the Japanese position.
In the position, he did not hesitate to pull the trigger on the wounded soldiers who were still struggling.
At this time, both the southern and western fronts of the Japanese army were under fierce attack by the Chinese Army. At the same time, the breakout battles in other places in the north were still in progress, and no abnormalities were found south of Yuanping Village.
Just when the Japanese artillerymen saw the fleet of aircraft in the sky flying towards the southeast sky, they breathed a sigh of relief, and were about to launch a saturation bombardment on the Chinese Army's defense line again, when the roar of the aircraft motors in the sky was heard again.
This time the plane's motor sound was very strange, the "buzzing" sound was like the sound of mosquito wings, and it quickly came from the southern sky to the top of the battlefield.
The Japanese artillerymen clung to the cliff, holding their breath for fear of attracting the attention of fighter planes in the sky.
But how could the Chinese *** team let the little Japanese get through again? The 75mm howitzer roared at the right time, and the shells continued to fall on the tops of Pingdiquan and Tanglingang. However, due to the problem of the shooting angle, they did not attack the Japanese troops built on the mountainside.
What substantial hindrance will be caused to the artillery positions?
Just when the Japanese were full of doubts and wondering what the Chinese artillery, which already knew that such shelling was useless, was trying to do, the actions of the planes in the sky answered their doubts.
Mosquito bombers flew over the impact point of the shells, dropping strings of fifty kilograms, one hundred kilograms or even two hundred kilograms of napalm bombs.
The artillery observer did not know what these bombs were. He quickly calculated the impact point in his mind and confirmed that due to the angle of the hill, the artillery position would not be affected by the explosion wave. When he did, an unforgettable scene appeared:
These aerial bombs exploded violently the moment they landed. Although the sound was not loud, it produced a huge fire in the sky along the direction of the bombs, showing a terrifying giant mushroom shape.
On the edge of the mushroom shape, there were countless flames splashing out. Wherever the flames touched, they burned immediately, and then the fire points connected together to form a large sea of fire.
The spattering distance of these flames is extremely terrifying. Because the flames twist and rotate rapidly when burning, they show strong centrifugal force, just like a rotating umbrella filled with water. The flames thrown at high speed have a radiation area of up to forty or fifty meters.
, large swaths of Japanese artillery were wrapped in falling flames.
Although they were not directly hit by napalm bombs, many Japanese artillerymen were still splashed by flames, which would not go out no matter how hard they beat them. They even caused disaster to a large number of their comrades. Each Japanese artilleryman was screaming and rolling on the ground, trying to extinguish the flames on his body.
The flame, however, showed the power of napalm, burning through the thick coat in an instant, clinging to the person's skin and burning squeakingly.
The severe pain caused the Japanese soldiers, both officers and ordinary soldiers, to scream like crazy and throw themselves on the slope, rolling back and forth. Unfortunately, the soil and grass on the ground did not extinguish the flames, but ignited more
This is the characteristic of napalm bombs. Any place touched by flames will have a chain reaction!
Since the Japanese artillery positions were connected together, these napalm bombs instantly caused more than a thousand Japanese artillerymen to see Amaterasu. What frightened the Japanese army even more was that a large number of "burning people" screamed and ran around.
When seeing familiar people, they will hug them irrationally and ask them to relieve their suffering, but they don't know that this will hurt others; if they encounter someone with whom they usually have grudges, they will pounce on them and bite them, causing two people to wrap up in one fell swoop.
In the flames, the situation is extremely terrifying.
The steaming flames and the movements of the Japanese artillery on the ground pointed the direction to the bombers in the sky. Another large piece of napalm was thrown down. This time it hit the target directly. All the artillery positions arranged by the Japanese army were surrounded by flames. Then,
The high heat generated by the combustion detonated the ammunition depot, and the two hills made earth-shattering explosions. A huge shock wave threw napalm towards the Japanese infantry down the hill, causing even greater panic.
Half an hour later, the B1 Mosquito bombers finally turned around and left. However, the fire on the two mountains became more and more intense, and the Japanese artillery and air defense troops were completely lost.
The Japanese commander in the encirclement reported the news to Hideki Tojo. At this time, Tojo Hideki already knew that Yuanping County had been lost. In addition, the Japanese army in the encirclement had completely lost all artillery and heavy weapons, and felt that the matter was serious.
While encouraging the generals not to give up their belief in resistance, to persevere to the end, and to try more breakout operations, they reported to the theater headquarters and requested support.
Not long after Deng Yue led the 1st Regiment of the Teaching Brigade into the position, the Japanese army finally discovered that their northern front position had been lost. In panic, they quickly mobilized their troops and tried to take advantage of the Chinese Army's unsteady foothold to regain the defense line. The battle quickly began.
The battle was extremely cruel. The Japanese army attacked at all costs, putting great pressure on a group of officers and soldiers. All the officers and soldiers could only mechanically repeat the actions of killing the enemy: hiding, fortifying, and killing the swarms that tried to kill them.
The Japanese who arrived aimed at the eye-catching red dots on their helmets. The hot bullets flew out from the muzzle of the gun in high-speed rotation. They persistently tore open the arc-shaped steel above the opponent's head, rushed into the thin scalp, and shattered the hardness.
The skull rolled, deformed, and shattered in the cranial cavity.
The Japs' faces, which were equally young, still had a determined expression at first. Driven by the kinetic energy of their limbs and the belief in their minds, they quickly rushed towards the front of the position. In just that moment, their pupils expanded rapidly and their expressions immediately stiffened.
Freeze, driven by the inertia of the body, he suddenly stopped and fell down on a foreign land.
Do these people have dreams? Have they realized them? When these people study hard in the sergeant academy, will they think of their destination today?
No one can answer these questions. Some people are just fighting to the death and killing endlessly!