Chapter 676: A Sudden Collapse
With a roar and a dull and rapid gunfire sounding overhead, he thought that he was going to die, and looked at the four Japanese soldiers who were beaten into minced meat and blood mist more than ten meters in front of him for a second or two, and then he saw a chubby P-47 fighter plane almost passing over his head, and the strong air flow blown by this plane brought up countless dust, which made many people fascinated. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
"...... It turned out to be this dead fat man. ”
After a long time, Xiang Yihang muttered out, looking at the swaggering fighter plane flying over his head, Xiang Yihang felt for the first time that this kind of ugly dead fat man in the past was so cute.
The appearance of this P-47 seemed to be like a signal, with a roar, more and more Thunderbolt fighters appeared in the air, and one after another 227 kg bombs continued to detach from their wings and exploded in the Japanese attack formation, and the violent explosion blew up a Japanese soldier into a powdered state.
Seeing so many Chinese fighters suddenly appear in the sky, the faces of the two sides who were fighting immediately changed, the different side was ecstatic and the other side was dead-faced, because they both realized that when one side's fighter plane suddenly appeared on the battlefield, it also meant that the battle for air supremacy in the sky that had lasted for several days had been divided.
As the thunderbolt fighters appeared on the battlefield one after another, cheers rang out on more and more positions, and the air support that the Third Garrison Division had been waiting for for several days finally appeared, and in an inconspicuous command headquarters somewhere in Maojindu, looking at the fighters that were constantly hovering in mid-air, Zheng Zhimin, commander of the Third Garrison Division, looked at the familiar figure in the sky, and the corners of the eyes of this strong northwest man couldn't help but moisten.
A staff officer stumbled into the command post and shouted: "Division, plane!" Our plane is coming! We have just received a telegram from the headquarters, our 1st Air Division and 2nd Air Force Division have taught the ground aviation troops of the JS and GD devils a hard lesson, and now in addition to the 1st Air Force Division to stay at home, the remaining two regiments of the 2nd Air Force Division are rushing towards us one after another, and we have been saved! ”
"I know, what are you anxious about?"
Zheng Zhimin said calmly, you immediately order all regiments to take the opportunity to abandon their existing positions and move closer to Liujiazhuang, and then contact the brothers of the Second Air Division, and ask them to blow up a passage for us!
"Understood!" The staff officer immediately took the order......
The arrival of the Fourth Flying Regiment and the Fifth Flying Regiment was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, quickly reversing the originally stalemate of the battle, one after another "shrew" fighters shuttled in the air, and a rain of deadly metal bullets erupted from their wings, and the Japanese army, which had been fighting hard, finally collapsed, and one after another fighters and Zero fighters were either beaten to the point of volleying and exploding or helplessly falling from a high altitude with thick smoke.
After a fierce battle, the "Vixen" fighter finally seized the air supremacy of Meng Jindu, and the "Thunderbolt" fighter, which was responsible for ground attack cover, unscrupulously showed its powerful firepower to the ground. Eight 12.7 mm Browning machine guns and three 227-kilogram bombs blew up the attacking Japanese troops on the ground, and the 25 and 35 divisions, which were part of the Kwantung Army, tasted the bitter wine of defeat for the first time.
Listening to the roar of the plane, the explosion, and the roar that seemed to be unbearable overhead, Shi Jiangyi pulled the bayonet out of the chest of a Japanese soldier and shouted: "Brothers, our plane is coming to support us, hurry up and drive the devil out!" ”
"Whoosh! Rumble! ”
With the sound of a sharp cannonball falling, Shi Jiangyi, who had just jumped out of the trench, was blown up by the air wave set off by the Japanese shells, and the Kwantung Army, which had always been arrogant, was indeed fierce, although it knew that its aviation had failed, but the Japanese artillery behind it still covered the attack of the army with intensive artillery fire, and the large-caliber heavy artillery shells still bombarded the already weak fortifications of the third company, blowing the body of a soldier of the third company into pieces.
"Ah......h
Xiang Yihang, who had bandaged his legs and arms again, stood up again, he endured the pain and raised his gun to shoot desperately forward, at this time he had fallen into a state of madness, even if the company commander had just been blown up in the air by a cannonball in front of him, even if a soldier of the third company died in front of him, he could not let him separate even a trace of superfluous thoughts. He was screaming and shooting desperately, and the open area of more than ten meters in front of the position was already full of Japanese soldiers who had been killed and wounded.
Seeing that the Japanese troops on the ground were still attacking their own positions, the fighters in the sky seemed to be enraged, and soon a low roar sounded from mid-air, and eight Stuka dive bombers swooped down vertically from an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, and in the sharp siren that resounded throughout the battlefield, a black oil drum-like thing fell from under the belly of Stuka and fell rapidly to the ground.
"Tom!"
With a somewhat silent explosion, an orange-red wall of fire dozens of meters long appeared, it with a high temperature of thousands of degrees and flames more than ten meters high instantly enveloped the entire Japanese offensive formation, after the first solidification ****** dropped by the long plane, the eight Stuka of the first bombing wave successively dropped this solidified ****** weighing 250 kilograms in the Japanese offensive formation.
The principle of solidification ****** is not complicated, 97% of gasoline can be added with 3% of natural rubber, and a variety of chemical accelerants such as aluminum powder and white phosphorus can be added at the same time to make coagulation ******. Compared with ordinary bombs, the cost of this kind of incendiary bomb with gasoline as the charge and thin tinplate shell is less than 10 percent of that of similar high-explosive bombs, but its power is not inferior to those ordinary high-explosive bombs, and its lethality to people is even surpassing.
When the solidified ****** exploded, they burned for only a few seconds at first, and with a puff of rising black smoke, everything seemed to be over. But as the charge was blown up and splashed on the Japanese soldiers who were lying on the ground as if they were conditioned, the napalm became as viscous and resistant to burning as lard paste.
In the Japanese army that was originally attacking in a dense formation, you can see everywhere those Japanese soldiers who are burning with flames, they let out a painful scream and slap their burning bodies with their hands, but the more they beat the fire, the bigger it becomes, and there are some Japanese soldiers who seem to be clever and try to roll on the ground to extinguish the fire, but they are all on fire, and there are also some Japanese soldiers whose bodies are burning There are more places on fire, and the companions on the side are trying to stay away from their comrades who have become burning people. Because of the hard struggle of the burning man, the burning oil on his body was thrown on the person next to him, forming a secondary killing effect, and the entire front of the third company position could be seen everywhere in panic and running around to avoid the Japanese soldiers who had become burning men and the soldiers who were bombarded in the air.
"Boom...... Rumble...... Boom ......"
That's not all, after the Stuka raged, more than a dozen P-47s swooped down from the sky, this time their target was not the Japanese army in front of the position, but the Japanese artillery position more than ten miles away from the position of the third company.
The P-47s, who carried the second and third waves of 227 kg and 454 kg high-explosive shells, formed squadrons to bombard valuable targets on the battlefield at will, and the artillery positions that had been caught in a sea of fire were their targets. High-explosive shells weighing 227 and 454 kilograms completely plunged the Japanese artillery positions, which had been concentrated and raging the positions of the 3rd Division with shells.
"Boom!"
With a loud bang, the large pile of ammunition behind the Japanese artillery position exploded violently, and the black smoke raised by the explosion of thousands of shells soared into the air hundreds of meters high.
Under such a fierce blow, the Japanese army, which was still fighting to the death at the previous moment, finally collapsed. The captain of the 1st Brigade of the 219th Wing of the 35th Division, Yanazawa Kanan Shaoza, looked at the Japanese soldiers around him who had completely collapsed, and his face showed a look of horror and disbelief. He didn't believe that in less than ten minutes, the originally imposing army had collapsed like this, was this still the flower of the fearless and invincible imperial army in his impression?
"Don't go back...... No one is allowed to retreat, and those who dare to retreat will be shot! ”
Carrying the command knife, he roared desperately, but the retreating Japanese soldiers ignored their commander's words, and just ran desperately towards the back.
Yanagisawa Kanan forgot one thing, although the Japanese soldiers were armed with brutal training and bushido spirit, and they were able to attack the enemy with heavy casualties on weekdays, but the ability of any army to withstand was limited, especially when they experienced something cruel that they had never seen before, and the original seemingly indestructible belief would be easily destroyed. Just like the scene in front of me, watching as the companions who were attacking the enemy one moment turned into burning fire men the next, watching these people let out a terrible roar that was not like a human being. Moreover, these soldiers covered in fire will also drag their companions into hell as they run around, so that even the strongest soldier will collapse.
"Run...... Come on...... Run to places where planes can't bomb them! ”
This was the only thought in the minds of those Japanese troops who had collapsed.
The addition of the 2nd Air Division brought about earth-shaking changes in the occupation, and the 25th and 35th divisions of the Japanese Army, which were originally frantically attacking the 3rd Division, quickly collapsed under the frantic bombing and strafing of more than 300 aircraft, especially the Stuka dive bombers carrying solidified ****** became a nightmare for the Japanese army, and these always arrogant Kwantung Army saw the power of solidified ****** for the first time.
For the Japanese soldiers, it is common to be killed by the enemy's bullets, bombs or stabbed to death when fighting with the enemy with bayonets on the battlefield, after all, it is the era of hot weapons, but many people can never accept the cruel death of being burned, and many Japanese soldiers have begun to have a shadow in their hearts after witnessing the tragic situation of being burned to death by incendiary bombs. The thought of those companions whose whole body was burned to the size of a baby and those who were lying on the ground with their whole body burned red and black, and whose flesh and blood were blurred and could only lie on the ground and wail, almost all of them couldn't help but shudder, this kind of death was so terrible that they would rather go to a military court or even be ordered by their superiors to die like this.
Although the 25th Division commander of the Japanese army, Lieutenant General Akashiba Yaezo, and the commander of the 35th Division, Lieutenant General Shigeta Tokumatsu, tried their best to suppress the attack, fear still spread like a plague, and in the face of the overwhelming bombing and strafing of hundreds of Chinese fighters, tens of thousands of Japanese troops collapsed like a herd of sheep being driven, and the entire battlefield was full of collapsed Japanese troops.
In the face of such a good opportunity, if Zheng Zhimin, the commander of the Third Garrison Division, does not grasp it, he will be the commander of this division in vain. On the spot, Zheng Zhimin immediately changed his previous strategic deployment and ordered the three regiments to concentrate and launch a new attack on Mengjindu.
It stands to reason that after a few days of hard fighting, the 3rd Garrison Division, which had lost one-third of its strength and almost ran out of ammunition, wanted to occupy Chijindo under the siege of two Japanese divisions, but today it has become a reality.
Originally, the 25th Division of the Japanese Army deployed heavy troops in the direction of Maojindu, and it was not easy for the 3rd Garrison Division to attack it, but these days, in order to besiege them, the 25th Division almost all the garrison troops were evacuated, which also made the 3rd Garrison Division easily cross the river and occupy the opposite ferry when attacking Maojindu.
"Bagaya Deer, how is this possible? The troops of the two divisions were defeated like this, are Akashiba Yaezo and Shigeta Tokumatsu idiots? ”
The news of the defeat of the 25th and 35th divisions quickly reached Yoshio Shinozuka's desk, and looking at the telegram in his hand, Yoshio Shinotsuka almost crushed his mouth full of steel teeth, and today he finally understood what it meant to be a boiled duck flying away. The fact that things that were already safe and secure actually collapsed, which made Yoshio Shinozuka, who had been immersed in joy for the past two days, stand it, and he didn't dare to imagine how angry Emperor Hirohito, who had just issued an edict to praise him, would be once the news reached Hichimoto himself.
"No, we can't let the third garrison division of China run away like this!"
Yoshio Shinozuka shouted to the chief of staff in front of him, Major General Hanaya Masa, with red eyes: "You immediately send a report to the 25th and 35th Divisions, ordering them to immediately re-attack the 3rd Garrison Division in China, and we must eliminate them in Maojindu, otherwise I will report to the base camp and severely punish them!" ”
Hua Gu said with a bitter face: "Your Excellency Commander, it's too late!" Now the 25th Division and the 35th Division have been broken up under the blow of the China Air Force, and they cannot be retracted in a short period of time, and it will take at least one or two days to rebuild and enter the battle. (To be continued.) )