Chapter 220: A Brutal Attack
In the west, a few kilometers away from the Qingyun Railway Station, a huge observation balloon floated slowly in the air at a height of hundreds of meters, and a lieutenant in a gray-green military coat was constantly observing the movement of the station in front of him with a telescope...... 00324 ......, artillery position azimuth 0236...... 1425…… Prepare to indicate targets for artillery. ”
"Yes!"
Naturally, someone next to him recorded his order, and a corporal took out a large flare from his waist and pulled the trigger in front of him.
"Bang...... Bang bang ......"
Three signal flares, one red and two green, were fired in the direction of the station, and they could be seen even in bright daylight, and at the same time, the signal soldiers on the side also picked up the telephone and shouted loudly to mark the firing position to guide the artillery to shell the Japanese position......
Not far from the observation balloon, more than 20 M40 self-propelled guns nicknamed "Long-legged Tom" had already been aimed at the front with their muzzles held high, and Bai Hongshan, the commander of the artillery regiment, also shouted loudly into the walkie-talkie after receiving the coordinates transmitted back by the observer: "All gun positions are in place, and the No. 1 special bomb is ready!" Target 00323...... 00324! …… Eight Rapid Shots! ”
"Boom, boom, boom......"
As Bai Hongshan's words fell, the loaders on the artillery position stuffed the shells marked with white paint into the chambers of the warheads that had been prepared long ago. With a muffled sound of "clang", the gunner, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately closed the bolt and shouted: "One shot is good!" ”
"The second cannon is good!"
"Three guns are good"
"Six guns are good"
……
"Put!"
With a hoarse sound, as soon as the gunner pulled the gun rope, the self-propelled gun weighing 37.6 tons shook violently, and the muzzle fire flashed, and the 43.1 kg shell immediately flew forward at a speed invisible to the naked eye......
At the same time, near the Qingyun Railway Station, many Japanese soldiers were struggling to dig trenches with shovels, and bunkers were gradually forming around them. Behind the railway station building, rows of improvised tents were set up, and a terrible scream was coming from the tents, which were the doctors who accompanied the team to operate on the wounded. In fact, according to the regulations, the medical team is not allowed to be placed too close to the soldiers, for fear that the wounded soldiers will affect the morale of the soldiers, and they will not care about anything else, and they are now surrounded by Chinese soldiers, and they can only squeeze four or five thousand people in a radius of less than a few square kilometers with the station as the center.
A Japanese soldier Nakasa was standing on the platform with spit flying and shouting to the busy soldiers around him.
"You are all warriors of the Great Japanese Empire, and you have come to Shina for the sake of His Majesty the Emperor's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and the hegemony of the Empire, and your parents, wives, and children are watching you in Japan. Now all you have to do is take up your rifles and pierce the chest of the people with your bayonets. The land here is so fertile, so wide, that the cowardly Shina people do not deserve such good land, and your mission is to kill them all, and then turn these lands into the Great Japanese Empire, and then your children and grandchildren can settle here and become the masters of this land......"
"Woo woo woo ......"
Just as Nakasa was spitting and spitting, there was a terrible whimper in the sky. As soon as the experienced soldiers heard this, they immediately drilled into the nearest hidden spot, and the officers shouted loudly: "Shelling...... Take cover...... Hidden ......"
"Boom ......"
A shell landed near the tent behind the station, but the expected loud explosion and earth-shattering loud noise did not sound, but with a dull explosion. A cloud of black explosion fragments was sprinkled into the sky, and then tried to float down from the sky, but before the black mass could hit the ground, they turned into hot fireballs in midair. Then it fell to the ground, and a radius of more than 30 meters turned into a sea of fire.
"Boom ......"
The fireballs that spilled set fire to all the seven or eight tents that were tightly lined up around them, and in less than ten seconds, these tents immediately became a sea of scorching fire, and it turned out that those M40 "Long-legged Tom" self-propelled guns fired non-conventional high-explosive shells. It is a white phosphorus incendiary bomb that was banned by the international community in later generations.
After the explosion of the white phosphorus incendiary bomb, the trace explosives in the shell will blow up the napalm mixed with white phosphorus and scatter it, turning into a splash of fire and splashing on the bodies of the Marine Corps soldiers who are lying on the ground, napalm like an ointment of napalm and the fat on the soldiers' bodies burn more fully, and they will become colorless or light yellow, translucent waxy substance when burning, with strong irritation, as the cannonballs fall one by one, countless burning people suddenly appeared in the station, Their screams soon enveloped the entire Qingyun Railway Station.
Many Japanese soldiers saw their companions set on fire, and after being horrified, some of them tried to help their companions slap them, trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies, but to their surprise, these flames were not extinguished after being beaten, but would turn into smaller flames flying around, and many flames even flew to their bodies, so the body of the rescuer also began to catch fire.
The shelling did not last long, but lasted only about ten minutes, and when the shelling was over, the air at the railway station was filled with a strong smell of gunsmoke and garlic. The Japanese marines who had been ignited by the white phosphorus bombs all let out heart-rending screams, and those who had sworn to sacrifice their lives for His Majesty the Emperor's allegiance let out nightmarish screams, many of whom were lying on the ground in pain and rolling around, and even screaming in hoarse voices for their companions to give them a shot to end their suffering.
Several trains parked at the railway station also began to burn at this time, some ammunition that had not yet been removed began to explode, explosions were heard everywhere, soldiers who were killed and injured could be seen everywhere, a Japanese soldier was ignited all over his body and detonated the bullet belt on his body, his whole body was blown off by the detonated bullets, the broken bullet belt was still on his shoulder, and the rice balls and flavored soup eaten on the train flowed out of the broken blue-gray intestines.
Nakasa, who was standing on the train and shouting slogans before the explosion happened, was miraculously uninjured, and at this time, he was already frightened by this hellish scene. He saw a soldier who was lucky enough not to be injured to scream loudly, it turned out that there was a bloody blur hanging on a railing next to the platform, and if you looked closely, it was a human leg, and there was a corpse lying not far away, his whole body had been burned to black, and his intestines and blood flowed all over the ground, the scene was very terrifying. One soldier knelt beside him and cried...... (To be continued.) )