Smoke was thick over Iwo Jima, and the island was also covered in thick smoke, with visibility less than 10 meters.

Six Hellfire heavy carrier-based bombers roared and flew in, dropping more than twenty aerial bombs again.

A series of violent explosions were heard, and the entire Iwo Jima was once again plunged into a sea of fire, like the eruption of a fire in the last days, and the scene was very spectacular.

This was undoubtedly hellish misery for the Japanese troops defending the island.

It was the latest aerial bomb developed by the Tang Army, its main charge was white phosphorus and ammunition with high combustion value, and the explosion could produce a high temperature of thousands of degrees at an instant, whether it was steel or rocks, it would melt, and the Japanese troops hiding in the depths of the tunnel could hardly endure the huge heat, like ants on a hot pot. The Japanese army, who couldn't bear the huge heat, suddenly rushed out of the tunnel, trying to find a water source to cool down, but unexpectedly, the fragments of the white phosphorus bomb burned even more violently when they touched the water, and even if the flesh was sticky a little, it corroded into the bones in an instant, and the ghost cried wolf.

However, most of the Japanese soldiers could not hear their own and others' shouts clearly, because their ears had already been shaken to the point of bleeding by the roar of the high-explosive aerial bombs, and most of them were deaf.

The Tang Army did not have many white phosphorus bombs, and the first batch of hundreds of aerial bombs was quickly used up, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese army and thousands of people suffering burns and scalds of varying degrees.

Although the Tang Army's white phosphorus bombs were temporarily used up, the Tang Army's new weapons were still prepared, the most powerful of which was the Tang Army's flamethrower device.

A Japanese bunker that had been scorched by high temperatures, several Japanese soldiers endured the great pain of being burned and scalded all over their bodies and continued to resist stubbornly, and the 89-type machine guns spewed tongues of fire. Blockade the soldiers of the Don Army who are carefully advancing at the foot of the mountain.

After several Don Army sappers cleared three mines, two flamethrowers found a vantage point under the cover of the chariot and sprayed flames at the Japanese bunker.

The flame was more than ten meters long. It burned until the mouth of the Japanese bunker came out, and the Japanese machine gunners were burned all over the fire, let out a terrible howl, and crawled out of the bunker and rolled down.

The Tang army did not shoot them, but let them scream like that, so as to make the rest of the Japanese troops in the bunker panic and achieve the purpose of psychological warfare to deter the enemy. Completely crushed the resistance of the Japanese army.

The Japanese army was able to resist so stubbornly because of the long-standing arrogance of winning a hundred battles and the reality that they could not stand the rise of the weak Chinese people. In the face of the fierce attack of the Tang army, they also subconsciously regarded them as weak national troops, and they would not surrender even to death.

Standing on the watchtower on the bridge, Li Haichen put down his binoculars. Such a tragic battle was the first time in his life that he had seen it. It was also a battle in which the Tang Army paid the greatest casualties since its establishment, and more than 300 officers and soldiers had been killed on Iwo Jima before and after, which was a great casualty price for the royal army of the Tang Empire.

Of course, this is from the position of the Tang Army itself, if it were replaced by the armies of other countries, they would definitely drop their jaws in surprise, because of such a tragic battle. Or as an attacking party, even the most elite German army has to pay the price of tens of thousands of people, and it is good to be able to do it.

"It's getting dark. Can't you take this broken island today? ”

"Commander, we have obtained the authorization order of the Supreme Commander, and a new weapon will arrive on the battlefield soon."

"And new weapons?"

Li Haichen couldn't help but exclaim, but asked with a happy face: "What kind of weapon?" Is it more powerful than this white phosphorus bomb in front of you? ”

Major General Li Jianhui, the commander of aviation, nodded suddenly and said with a smile: "It's a poison gas bomb, but it's more powerful than a white phosphorus bomb!" ”

Li Haichen suddenly frowned and said, "We also have this thing?" It seems that The Hague International restricts the use of poison gas bombs, and we will not be criticized by international public opinion! ”

Li Jianhui nodded and replied: "It's not a high-grade poison gas bomb, it's just chlorine gas from industrial reserves, which is simply converted into a bomb." The little devil hides in a hole in the ground, he can not eat or drink, but he can't not breathe, and he throws dozens of cans of chlorine gas tonight and kills them all, who knows that we have used poison gas bombs? Tomorrow morning, keep our flag and plant it on that peak. ”

Li Haichen said: "It doesn't matter what you use to deal with the little devils, it's just whether it will hurt our soldiers, after all, if our soldiers all wear gas masks, everyone knows that we have started to use poison gas bombs." ”

Li Jianhui said confidently: "Don't worry, our meteorological personnel have been monitoring data nearby for the past few days, and the westerly wind will blow tonight, and the wind will not exceed level 2, which is the most ideal state for releasing poison gas." There will be a heavy rain tomorrow, just enough to wash off all traces. ”

Only then did Li Haichen feel relieved and continued to watch the battlefield ahead.

In the evening, 36 Tang Army Thunder bombers that had taken off from Saipan flew in formation over Iwo Jima, and the Tang Army had already retreated to the beach west of Iwo Jima to stand by.

Dozens of canisters of poison gas bombs were dropped on Iwo Jima, millions of cubic meters of yellow chlorine gas were released, and the Japanese army had built the fortifications of Iwo Jima in a hurry for several months, and there was no anti-biological and chemical equipment, and the chlorine gas was not visible at all at night, and all the Japanese inhalers died, and the death was extremely terrifying.

Thousands of Japanese troops were wounded, so they all died not long after the poison gas attack, and all the Japanese troops on Iwo Jima were killed in the first half of the night, but the Tang army waited until the next morning, after heavy rain, to re-attack Iwo Jima.

Without any resistance, the Japanese troops in the tunnel were first attacked by white phosphorus bombs, and then eroded by poison gas bombs, all of them died in a terrible state, and there was still poisonous gas in the tunnel, and the Tang army did not dare to go deeper, so they directly blew up all the tunnels and buried all the corpses of the Japanese soldiers on the spot.

When they saw the military flag of the Tang Army fluttering on the highest peak of Iwo Jima, Li Haichen and others showed their victory-like joy.

In the first battle of Iwo Jima, more than 15,000 Japanese soldiers of a division were killed, and the Tang army only paid the price of more than 300 casualties.

Within a week of the following, the Tang army quickly captured the other islands of the Ogasawara Islands, but did not meet with fierce resistance, and the only inhabited main island, Fujima, was forcibly relocated, more than 600 men were sent to Iwo Jima to build an airport and trestle bridge for the Tang army, and more than 600 women were sent to the Tang Dynasty itself. Since then, he has been reduced to official slaves and official prostitutes.

The capture of the southern islands by the Tang Army made Japan extremely nervous, because it meant that the Tang bombers would be able to use the airfield on Iwo Jima to bomb the Japanese mainland again.

Minoru Saito's cabinet convened an emergency meeting. It was believed that even if the Tang Army did not land on the Japanese mainland, it would be dragged down by the endless bombardment of the Tang Army.

However, Minoru Saito planned to negotiate peace with the Tang Empire, but was strongly opposed by the Japanese military, and he would rather return to the primitive society than bow to the Tang Empire. However, Minoru Saito still acquiesced in the secret communication between a group of Japanese celebrities and the high-level leaders of the Tang Empire, and tried to mediate through a group of pro-Japanese factions of the Republic of China government as intermediaries.

But the Tang Empire has no intention of a truce, and will take advantage of your illness to kill you. This is a rule set by Zhang Meng, and no one can change it.

However, with the capture of the Ogasawara Islands by the Tang Army. When the news came out that they were preparing to start bombing the Japanese mainland from scratch, Britain, France, the United States, and other European and American powers, who had been watching the Tang-Japanese War at the beginning, changed their attitudes.

Previously, Britain, France, and the United States were afraid of Japan's series of military moves in the Pacific and Asia, which touched the interests of various countries in the Asia-Pacific region, so they were happy to see the Tang Empire strike at Japan fiercely. I hope that the war between Tang and Japan will be lost on both sides.

However. It was only the Japanese Empire that was injured, and it was very miserable, and in turn, the Tang Empire was not only not weakened, but became more and more powerful.

In the face of an increasingly uncontrolled Tang Empire, the strong rise of its military liliang, coupled with Zhang Mengxin's recent tens of billions of dollars in France, made the Tang Empire's funds sufficient to the point that all Shijie countries were red-eyed. Naturally, the attitude of Britain, France, and the United States will change, and they do not want Japan to be overly weakened. I don't want the Tang Empire to dominate the Pacific Ocean uncontrollably.

As a result, Britain, France, and the United States demanded that the Tang Empire stop attacking Japan on the grounds that the Tang Empire's wanton bombing of Japan and injuring millions of innocent civilians seriously violated humanitarian principles, and publicly stood up for mediation.

In the face of the joint mediation of Britain, France and the United States, the attitude was extremely resolute, Zhang Meng had to reconsider the issue of war against Japan, after all, the Tang Empire lacked strategic depth, and the surrounding area was surrounded by the colonies of Britain, France and the United States.

Obviously, Zhang Meng faced the same problem as the joint intervention of Germany, France and Russia during the Sino-Japanese War.

At the imperial meeting, Zhang Meng did not speak, and kept smoking a cigarette violently, and the others were also very angry.

"These foreign devils are really not things, seeing that we are going to take down little Japan, they actually jumped out to stop it."

"Why do you want to buy the account of foreign devils? According to me, if we continue to beat the little Japanese devils and let them shout for themselves, we will not negotiate peace, and this time we will have to kill the Japanese devils at once. ”

"That's right, if you don't die by fighting snakes, you will suffer from them, let's defeat Japan in one go, so that they can no longer be arrogant."

Zhang Meng exhaled a puff of smoke rings, looked at an old man with glasses, and asked, "What does Mr. Tang think?" ”

That person was Tang Shaoyi, but he did not serve as the prime minister of the Tang Empire, but came to Chang'an as an adviser. This is also an agreement reached between the Tang Empire and the Nationalist Government, the government let Tang Shaoyi come to the Tang Dynasty, but asked Tang Shaoyi to find a way to guide the military and financial resources of the Tang Empire to the camp of the Nationalist Government, Tang Shaoyi refused to tell Zhang Meng about the matter, and could not completely offend the Nationalist Government, so Tang Shaoyi gave up Zhang Meng to his position as prime minister, and helped Zhang Meng manage the Tang Empire as an adviser, so that the Nationalist Government could not help Tang Shaoyi.

Tang Shaoyi also thought about it carefully, and said to Zhang Meng: "Stopping the offensive will inevitably give the devils a chance to breathe, but if you offend the European and American powers, it will not be beneficial to the future development of the Tang Empire." Now it is obvious that Britain, France, the United States and other countries have been afraid of the strength of our Datang, if we do not restrain ourselves, I am afraid that these powers will target us in various fields. Our Datang is indeed very strong, but after all, it has been established for too short a time, and it is not wise to make enemies on all sides! ”

Tang Shaoyi is still very influential, not to mention that what he said is indeed reasonable, although everyone is unwilling, they also have to consider reality.

Zhang Meng thought for a while, so he said: "Since Mr. Tang has said so, there must be a reason for him." In this way, we sell Britain, France, and the United States a face, and agree to mediate with them, but we have to let the Japanese devils bleed, how they bullied the Chinese back then, today we will get it back with interest. Specifically, I hope that Mr. Tang will help him. ”

Tang Shaoyi nodded and said: "Your Highness is wise, the old man is willing to do his best, what we can't get on the battlefield, we will take it back from the negotiation table, and it is better not to have that little devil." ”

Zhang Meng suddenly hahadaxiao said a few times, and said: "Or Mr. Tang knows my heart very well, so this matter will be handled by you!" ”

Tang Shaoyi immediately received the order and said: "I will live up to my mission!" ”

Everyone must have known Tang Shaoyi's true purpose when he said that what he didn't get on the battlefield would be brought back at the negotiation table, and they all smiled with joy. (To be continued......)