Chapter 1012 Responding to Change with Change
Watanabe Masao's position is the highest position in the entire Matsuyama, and he can see the whole picture of most of the battlefield, and even the generals of the national army who are also observing the front line on the rolling dragon slope, if it is not too far away, Watanabe Masao will never mind sending them a few shells. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
From the vague body language of the generals of the national army, Masao Watanabe felt the murderous aura and what they were waiting for, put down the binoculars, and subconsciously looked at the sky.
There were only a few white clouds wandering in the sky, and a red sun was rising from the east, indicating that it was another sunny and good weather, and there was no danger in sight, but Watanabe Masao clearly saw the anticipatory look of the generals of the national army.
"Air strikes?"
Watanabe Masao groaned, and his eyes unconsciously looked at the two highlands of Dayakou and Dazhai, and in the trenches on the flanks, the locust soldiers were in the early morning sunshine, in groups of three or five, leisurely smoking, chatting and farting, enjoying the leisure time without war.
On the anti-slope artillery position, soldiers have already begun to wipe the barrels, and soldiers are constantly carrying ammunition boxes out of the tunnels to prepare for the battle that may come.
Everything seemed very peaceful, although he thought that the national army might carry out an air attack, but Watanabe Masao did not care at all, the strong fortress can withstand the bombardment of any aerial bombs, and the densely woven air-raid shelters behind the fortifications allow the Imperial soldiers to enter calmly when they find enemy aircraft, and no matter how powerful the aerial bombs are, they will be blind.
"Order the anti-aircraft artillery wing to prepare for defense!"
Watanabe Masao handed the binoculars to a staff officer beside him, dropped a sentence and turned around and walked towards the fortress, although his heart was quite uneasy, but for now all he could do was to adapt to all changes with the same.
As soon as Masao Watanabe entered the fortress, a terrible air defense siren sounded outside, and he, who was about to enter the underground headquarters, immediately stopped, turned around and walked to the stairs, where the lookout above could see the whole battlefield more clearly.
As soon as he arrived at the lookout, Masao Watanabe saw a dense group of planes in the sky, the number was at least fifty-six away, glanced at the high ground of the big pass opposite, and saw that several anti-aircraft guns had been aimed at the sky, and the soldiers in the trenches also disappeared at the mouth of the air-raid shelter, and the corner of Watanabe Masao showed a subtle smile on the corner of his mouth, with a little contempt.
He did not believe that the army's air force could pose much threat to the locust army by dropping bombs at an altitude of 2,000 meters away, let alone facing a fortress high ground that was enough to resist any aerial bombs.
The group of planes soon entered the airspace over the Dayakou and Dazhai Heights, and the anti-aircraft cannons and anti-aircraft machine guns on the heights roared, but no planes were shot down, and it was obvious that the planes were flying outside the range, but the bombs still landed on the highlands or outside the heights with a screaming sound.
"Boom, boom!" One after another the bombs exploded, splashing up a pillar of fire more than ten meters high, the flames splashed into the sky, the raging fire covered the entire front of the position in an instant, and the anti-aircraft fire on the position suddenly became dumb, with the bombing in front, the planes behind immediately lowered their altitude, and the aerial bombs were accurately dropped on the high ground, as if the first round of bombardment completely destroyed the anti-aircraft fire network of the locusts.
Soon, Watanabe Masao was horrified to find that the fire on the forward position was getting stronger and stronger, as if the entire mountain was burning, at first he thought it was just an ordinary incendiary bomb, but now he immediately denied his own inference, because ordinary incendiary bombs also have combustible things, this bare mountain, the army is not so stupid, a trace of ominous premonition suddenly came to his heart.
And the next scene directly made his hands and feet soft as falling into an ice cellar, I saw that on the front line, countless fire people danced in the fire, and many of them directly opened their teeth and claws and rushed down the mountain, although they couldn't see their terrifying and distorted expressions, and couldn't hear their heart-rending screams, this intuitive effect alone was enough to make people creepy.
"Eight grid tooth road, hateful, big drops, hateful!"
Masao Watanabe slammed his fist into the concrete wall with all his might, letting out a beastly roar, he couldn't figure out how the locust army could get out of the artillery hole by itself and rush directly to the fire?
He would never have known that if one person stuck to the mouth of the anti-artillery hole, the whole cave would suffer, and the rapid loss of oxygen and the scorching heat would put their soldiers at risk. In order to maneuver quickly, the anti-artillery holes are often not too deep, and although there are passages inside, it is impossible to let dozens or hundreds of people pass through at the same time.
Moreover, the fire man he saw was lucky, he was directly covered by napalm, and he didn't even have a chance to escape, he was either burned to death and burned to charcoal, or he was poisoned and suffocated by lack of oxygen.
Without waiting for Watanabe Masao to inquire, a phone call soon came from the front line, and he reported in a panic that the temperature in the tunnel had suddenly risen to unbearable levels, and almost all the soldiers had been poisoned and hypoxic, and the fortress on the first floor had begun to collapse, the steel bars were all burned red, and the cement powder was falling down, and the front troops requested an urgent retreat.
The headquarters of the fortress is generally located on the third underground floor, and the telephone lines are also passed underground, so the communication function has not been affected, and the two heights in front and the high ground behind are connected, which is also to facilitate timely reinforcements to the front, so it can also retreat urgently.
Watanabe Masao instantly understood that the incendiary bombs of the national army were like a cauldron lid, covering all the vents in the tunnel, and the high temperature caused by the incendiary bombs burned all the fortifications above, and this kind of incendiary bombs with a large amount of thermite were also produced in the empire, and Watanabe Masao easily thought that the 40th Army had imitated it.
There was such a change on the battlefield, there was no point in holding on any longer, and if he didn't retreat, the officers and soldiers of a wing in front would be finished, and after thinking about it for two or three minutes, Watanabe Masao immediately ordered a retreat.
But the strange thing is that no one answered the phone no matter how it was called, and then some soldiers came to report that several passages in the tunnel had been blocked by the fleeing soldiers, and they were almost paralyzed.
Watanabe Masao's face turned pale suddenly, he understood that the third layer of the front underground was not safe, and the people inside were either dead or fled, so it was quite terrifying to let the locust warriors flee directly without receiving an order.
Watanabe Masao did not hesitate and immediately ordered the telegraph corps to send a telegram to the military headquarters, urgently requesting tactical guidance, and at the same time requesting air support. The bombers of the army that were not destroyed were not only in the two positions in front of them, but incendiary bombs would soon be dropped on their heads.