"Boom, boom!"

At half past two in the morning, a violent explosion suddenly sounded in the sky above Mina, and countless cannonballs dragging long tail flames, with terrifying screams, flew into various areas of Mina City like raindrops, and the entire Mina City suddenly burst into flames, and the explosions continued.

The bombardment lasted for half an hour, but Mina did not find peace, and less than three minutes after the shelling stopped, sixty helicopters flew rapidly over Mina from three directions with searchlights, and rockets, missiles, machine guns, and machine guns roared all the way to the center of the city. Sixty more helicopters then joined the battle, and all kinds of ammunition were poured down on the ground for nothing, and the whole Mina suddenly burst into gunfire and explosions, and the smoke and flames soared into the sky, and the scene was magnificent.

The purpose of splitting the attack into two echelons is, of course, to free up time for the helicopters in front to return to the sea and reload, so as to ensure that the intensity of the attack will not be weakened and that the ground troops can be provided with offensive guidance at any time.

What Jiang Haoran wanted was to kill and wound a large number of enemies, so that the Japanese army in Mina would not be able to form combat effectiveness in a short period of time, even if the 38th Division and the 55th Division of the Japanese Army in the Hukang River Valley caught up from behind, the troops in front could no longer form the ability to form an encirclement, and the Japanese army would have no way to take the expeditionary force after seizing air supremacy.

After the helicopters entered the attack, ground troops swarmed from three directions, and the shouts of killing shook the sky.

Although it was night, the fire caused by the bombing had already made the visibility of the entire city of Mina as if it were day, and even if there were dead ends, the searchlight on the front of the helicopter could easily find the hiding place of the Japanese soldiers, so that the Japanese army had nothing to hide.

Under the double blow of artillery fire and helicopters, the Japanese army in the city was already in chaos, and several lines of defense were destroyed in an instant, the power of rockets and missiles was unquestionable, and the simple civil fortifications built in a short period of time were completely inadequate. The attack in the afternoon had frightened the Japanese troops in the city to a large extent, and the deaths of Takeshi Noda and Toshiaki Mukai also cast a great shadow on the Japanese troops to a certain extent. At this time, the sudden and fierce night attack made the Japanese army even more unable to touch the north, and they did not know how many troops the expeditionary force had, and the earth-shattering killing cries and dense gunfire frightened them into losing their combat effectiveness, and they only knew how to blindly retreat to the center of the city.

Although the firepower of the troops on both wings of the expeditionary force is almost there, the frontal attack is strong enough, the snow wolf special combat team plus the airborne troops of the 3,000 special operations division, the standard weapons in their hands are all AK47, plus they are all masters of street fighting, fierce and fierce, although they are not familiar with the terrain, but the walkie-talkie is in hand, they can be guided by the air at any time, and the enemy is not stubborn resistance, so that they can kill out of the land of no one.

From the beginning to the end of the attack, they were like sharp blades out of their sheaths, with tigers roaring and dragon roars, wind, rain, thunder and lightning, all the way east, from the west side of the city, directly through the heart of the city, if it were not for the time allowed, they could kill the Inouaddy River, and kill the entire city of Mina. Everywhere they went, there was a corpse all over the field, and it was impossible to count how many Japanese soldiers died under their guns in the whole night battle, but according to Shi Donglang, a soldier of the Ninth Wing of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, mentioned in his diary after the war, his wing was the first line of defense for frontal defense that night, and after the battle, the rest of the whole wing, including him, only one hundred and three people were alive without injuries.

But this is only one line of defense, and it is unknown whether there are two or three lines of defense behind it.

At five o'clock in the morning, the gunfire suddenly fell, and in the midst of the raging firelight, countless figures were gathered, and they all ran in one direction, all the way to the south, and soon, the helicopter also flew away from the sky above Mina, and hid away.

The whole of Mina was dark only in a radius of a few miles near the Inovady River, and the rest was filled with fire and smoke.

After the gunfire and explosions stopped, Tada Jun, commander of the 55th Division, walked out of the darkness with a group of staff officers, looking at the corpses in one place, the burning Mina Castle, and the Japanese soldiers who were still scurrying around and howling, and everyone was dumbfounded.

"That's what you said, Jiang Haoran will definitely not attack? They don't have enough shells? Airdrop doesn't solve the helicopter's fuel and ammunition consumption? Is this what you are capable of taking over my command? This is the tactic you are familiar with Jiang Haoran? Nakajima Imago puffed out his eyes and danced at Tada's hand, and he wanted to eat him like that.

Tada Jun looked miserable, looking at the raging fire not far away, he was sad, his eyes were actually full of tears, the blazing firelight, so that the tears also had a dazzling red, like blood!

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Back two hours ago, the headquarters of the 38th Division of the Japanese Army in the Hukang River Valley.

Not long after the expeditionary force attacked Mina, the 38th Division of the Japanese Army received the news as soon as possible.

Lieutenant General Shinichi Tanaka, the commander of the division, pinched the message and frowned, and it took a long time before he got up and said: "Let's go, go out and have a look, order the artillery to fire more flares, I think the 75th Army has withdrawn from the Hukang River Valley." ”

"This can't be, right?" The Chief of Staff, Major General Nishimura Toshiwin, replied in his mouth, but immediately raised his legs and followed Tanaka Shinichi out.

Soon, two flares hit the sky above the position of the expeditionary force in the Hukang River Valley, illuminating as if it were day, and the soldiers of the national army in military uniforms could be vaguely seen.

In the darkness of the mountainside, Tanaka Shinichi put down his binoculars and immediately exclaimed: "No, definitely not, the position is exactly the same as an hour ago, the soldiers don't seem to have moved their nests, and even the sentries are still in place, the 75th Army must have run away." ”

Nishimura Lewin also said curiously: "Yes, this guard didn't even hide when he saw the flares coming, it seems to be a little abnormal?" ”

"Pass my order, the 40th Wing immediately swim across the river and launch an attack, the engineer wing immediately build a pontoon bridge, the whole division enters a state of combat readiness, and then notify the 55th Division to approach us."

"Division commander, do you want to ask the Southern Army Headquarters first?"

"It's too late, this request, those idiots in the command have to hold a meeting to discuss and sand table exercises, and when they are done with this, the 75th Army of the Expeditionary Force has already arrived in Mina."

"Okay, then I'll give the order!"

Nishimura Levin finished talking and walked away, and the Japanese army junior officers carried out the orders simply and thoroughly, but the high-ranking generals often disobeyed the military orders, and the Japanese army base camp even encouraged this behavior. Of course, you have to be right and achieve extraordinary results on the battlefield, otherwise the punishment is not less, but if you succeed, the rewards are also great. The sweep of half of Itagaki Seishiro's division across North China and the Japanese occupation of Nanjing were all achievements of battlefield disobedience.