Chapter 460: Hangzhou Strategy (15)
The use of incendiary bombs was like opening a Pandora's box, and when Taro Kanhara's squad reported on the situation after using it, some of the squads that were blocked by the Japanese began to frequently request the use of incendiary bombs.
When the Crow Squadron reported the situation to the command of the 348th Division, Su Jin was only silent for a while and only said one sentence: "Meet their requirements!" ”
With Su Jin's order, Stuka loaded with incendiary bombs took off from Jinhua and Hengzhou airports one after another, and these vultures, all painted black, let out a sharp whistling like a god of death, spraying the flames of death to the ground.
This time, the thermite incendiary bombs they dropped could burn at a temperature of up to 3,000 °C, and the appearance of such incendiary bombs was originally used to destroy buildings and fortifications, and as buildings and temporary fortifications were burned to ashes, Japanese casualties began to increase. In the face of this kind of flames that could not be resisted by manpower, many Japanese soldiers were afraid, and some frightened Japanese soldiers fled from their positions in fear after hearing the heart-wrenching siren, although the Japanese officers could not prevent the soldiers from fleeing after several blockades, and many soldiers would rather be killed by the officers than burned to ashes by those seemingly brilliant hell flames.
Due to the large casualties, Kitada Minami had to order the Japanese army to fight and retreat, and at about 18 o'clock in the evening, the Japanese National Defense Army commanded by Taro Guan Yuan and the third company commanded by Tong Xiangjin reoccupied 18 observation points, with these observation points, they could firmly control every move of the Japanese army within a radius of dozens of kilometers.
"Smack......
A crisp sound sounded, Kitada Nan received a heavy slap in the face, and a slap print quickly floated on his face.
"Baga, you're an idiot!" A dignified brigade commander, leading thousands of imperial warriors, actually let hundreds of traitors and the Chinese people fight and retreat, why don't you disembowel?
Kitada Nan lowered his head and said loudly: "Hai...... Your Excellency Commander is right, I have disgraced the 23rd Army, but before I disembowel, please allow me to lead my troops to launch another attack, and if I still can't destroy those traitors, I will immediately disembowelment in front of you! ”
After saying that, Kitada turned around and was about to gather his subordinates to launch a final general attack on the observation points entrenched in various places again.
"Enough, you're back!" Gu Shoufu angrily called him back and scolded angrily: "There are not many of our warriors left, if you take them to death again, do you want me to guard Hangzhou alone?" ”
"Commander!" At this time, Beitian Nan was already in tears, how could he not know that no matter how many soldiers he took to launch a charge, he could only send food to the opponent's plane and heavy artillery, but he was very unwilling, obviously he had thousands of soldiers, but he let hundreds of traitors lose their armor, if the base camp knew that he would definitely be ordered to be disemboweled, rather than being ordered to be disemboweled, it is better to die on the battlefield now, maybe he can also get a good reputation.
"Okay, a major general brigade commander, what are you crying about." Gu Shoufu glared at him irritably, looked up at the plane hovering in the sky, took a deep breath and said: "The firepower of the Zhina people's plane is too fierce, and now the strong attack can only be sent to death, it seems that the only way to wait is night, no matter what, tonight, we must knock out the observation post of the Zhina people!" In the end, Gu Shoufu's face was already full of hideousness......
As the Japanese army stopped attacking, the battlefield that had been rumbling with artillery suddenly became silent.
Tong Xiangjin, who was standing in an attic, looked at the Japanese army looming in the distance, and let out a long breath, "Finally retreated." ”
"Finally retreated!"
On the roof of a house two miles away from Tong Xiangjin, Xiang Yihang also let out a long breath, today's battle was extremely thrilling, if it weren't for the heavy artillery to open the way and the planes to throw incendiary bombs, I'm afraid that each of them would have died several times and would not be able to re-form an observation network.
And when they reconstituted a complete observation network, the Japanese also seemed to be crazy, not only driving the puppet army to charge desperately at them, but also the Japanese army itself, the wave after wave of attacks almost made them breathless, if it were not for the heavy artillery group on the north bank of the river and the planes in the sky, they would have been drowned in the sea of people.
It's just that although they repelled so many attacks by the Japanese, everyone including Tong Xiangjin, Xiang Yihang, Guan Yuan Taro and others did not have a happy look, because they knew that the time to really test them was still ahead, when the night covered the earth again and the heavenly aircraft returned to the airport, that was the time for the Japanese to launch a general attack, but when the time came, would they still be able to hold here without the help of planes?
Just when Tong Xiangjin and the others were worried, Su Jin, who was on the other side of the Qiantang River, looked at the pontoon bridge that was about to be completed by the river and asked Xi Lianglin, the commander of the Zhouqiao Battalion on the side, "How long will it take for the pontoon bridge to be repaired?" ”
Xi Lianglin, who had not rested for two days and two nights, had turned red in his eyes, and he gasped and said, "Report to the military seat, it will take about sixteen hours to complete." ”
"Twelve hours." Su Jin muttered, raised his hand and looked at his watch, "It's twenty o'clock in the evening, which means that it will not be completed until twelve o'clock at noon tomorrow?" ”
"Yes, sir, this is already the fastest speed!" Xi Lianglin replied.
"Sixteen hours...... Sixteen hours, are the Japanese still willing to give us sixteen hours? ”
Su Jin muttered to himself and then muttered to himself, "The next thing is to look at the artillery regiment." ”
Li Wei on the side said with some worry: "Military seat, the heavy artillery regiment has been fighting continuously for more than 20 hours, and the personnel are extremely tired, and there will be continuous combat tonight, can they withstand it?" ”
"If you can't stand it, you have to top it!" Su Jin said solemnly: "If we can't resist letting the Japanese blow up the pontoon bridge, then the only thing we can do is to withdraw to Jinhua immediately, and then we will fall into the crazy counterattack of the Japanese." ”
After finishing speaking, Su Jin thought for a while and said: "You immediately mobilize a group of infantry to serve as loaders in the heavy artillery regiment, the hardest and most tiring these days are estimated to be those loaders, you can't let them be too tired, otherwise it will be troublesome once there is an accident." ”
"Don't worry, I'm ready." Li Wei confidently agreed.
Su Jin is right, in the heavy artillery regiment, the hardest and most tiring thing is the loader, after all, a 155 mm shell has more than forty catties, even a strong man will sweat after loading more than ten shells in a row. Therefore, the loaders in the artillery regiment are the most bitter and tiring, but there are not many Li Wei now, but there are as many personnel as there are, after all, the 20,000 men are bored, so let them all carry the shells. (To be continued.) )