June 25, 1942, morning, Liaoyang. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Both the Northeast Coalition Army and the Kwantung Army were thinking of gathering troops here.

To the north of Liaoyang County, the Japanese army camped on the spot. The command occupied a village, because the Japanese army came in tens of thousands of troops at once, and a large number of troops were stationed in the field, and large tents were lined up along the road, which was not spectacular.

The trenches were crisscrossed, and the fortifications were against the fortifications, although there were no fierce battles, and there were sporadic clashes. Here, large swathes of crop fields were destroyed, crops were overwhelmed, and nearby villagers were driven away.

The war clouds are thick, and the war is about to break out.

The Japanese army had already received information that the Eighth Route Army had gathered about forty or fifty thousand men here, so the Japanese army decided to destroy them by fighting more and fighting less.

On the 19th, Japanese reinforcements arrived in Liaoyang and were ambushed by Yang Jingyu's troops. Then, the vanguard of the Japanese army and Yang Jingyu's troops fought for half a day until the end of the Battle of Anshan. In the past few days, the Japanese army and their opponent, the Manchurian Eighth Route Army, have been in a state of confrontation and have not been fighting.

Since the loss of Beiling and Dongta airfields, the air superiority of the Japanese army has been lost. Previously, for the implementation of the southward policy, the vast majority of the aircraft of the Army Air Corps went to the South Seas, and the planes of the Naval Air Corps were originally in the Pacific and South Seas, so the number of aircraft in the Northeast and the Far East was very small.

And in the Northeast and the Soviet Far East, the Japanese army focused on the Soviet Far East. Since the beginning of the spring, the vast majority of aircraft have been in the Baikal region, fighting with the Soviet Air Force, Manchuria? There are only a few dozen combat aircraft left.

The situation of the Japanese army in Manchuria was best known only to the Japanese army itself. That is why they decided to negotiate to ease the offensive of the Eighth Route Army.

In the past few days, the Japanese army has known that more and more people have been assembled by the Eighth Route Army, and 80,000 people have entered the battlefield.

On the first day of contact fighting, the vanguard of the Japanese army was disabled, and the enemy blew up the tanks that opened the road with shells, and then, after the enemy used very dense artillery fire to blow up the Japanese troops at a loss, the other side began to charge.

One out of every five or six of them was armed with a submachine gun. This gun has a lot of firepower and is more powerful and convenient than a submachine gun. The Kwantung Army knew about equipping this weapon in many ways for a long time, and even got a gun and sent it back to Japan for study.

This time, the Imperial Army once again learned the power of this gun, and in less than three hours thousands of people were killed and wounded. The Japanese army retreated, and there were chest-length crops on the side of the road, and the Japanese army ducked and avoided it, and there were many fewer deaths.

The vanguard retreated, and after joining up with the main force, the other side stopped pursuing.

A few hours later, the news came that Anshan had been lost.

Should the 80,000 Imperial Army retreat? The Imperial Army should attack, it has been a habit for many years. However, this habit has run into problems.

The opposing side and the Imperial Army began to confront each other, with an open strip in the middle of the position, flanked by positions on both sides.

Even worse news came, as the Eighth Route occupied the Imperial Army's Dongta Airfield. This time, there is no superiority in the air.

In the confrontation that followed, bad news continued to come, and the secret service sent back telegrams in the areas occupied by the Eighth Route Army, saying that the Eighth Route Army had brought in a large number of troops.

In the next few days, the imperial army gradually transported the baggage and the remaining troops to the front line of Liaoyang, the fortifications were gradually being built, and the headquarters made a plan to prepare to attack the Eighth Route in a few days, eliminate the Eighth Route Army, and recapture Anshan.

In the past few days, although there have been occasional planes circling over the positions of both sides, it has been relatively calm.

The plan of the Japanese army had been approved, attacking on the 26th.

On the 25th, the Imperial Army was suddenly bombed, and this time it was not known that tens of thousands of small bomblets fell on the Japanese positions, each bombette was one to two times more powerful than a grenade, and although it could not blow up houses, it could kill people. Thousands of Japanese troops were killed and tens of thousands wounded.

What's going on?

During this time, a secret bomb codenamed Thunderbolt equipped the Northeast Democratic Alliance Air Force.

The so-called thunderbolt fire was caused by many accidents during the development process after Xiaolu handed over the design materials and design drawings to the Weapons Research Institute. Such bombs are cluster bombs.

Xiaolu once wanted to give up. In his time, such weapons were forbidden and too inhumane. However, Ichun's weapons researchers were adamantly against it, because they saw the enormous lethality of such bombs. Now, they have made dozens of them, each of which contains more than one bullet, and when a bullet explodes, it can produce 30 pieces of shrapnel, and an airplane can drop two or three mother bombs at a time. The bombers had been trained many times, and they had figured out the optimal height to drop bombs, so that the bomblets would explode when they landed, and the bombs would be spaced exactly the effective explosion radius.

At present, the bullet explosion rate of cluster bombs is only 65 per cent, which means that 35 per cent of the bombs will not explode. These bombs turn into very unstable mines. This is bound to cause a certain amount of casualties to civilians. Seeing that everyone refused to give up, Xiaolu asked them to solve the problem of cleaning up the battlefield and removing the bombs.

Today, there are 70,000 or 80,000 Japanese troops on the Liaoyang front, and everyone unanimously decided to use this weapon. The Japanese army may attack at any moment, our equipment is being replenished, it will take time, and bombardment with such bombs can inflict heavy casualties on the Japanese army and ease our unfavorable situation.

Xiaolu understood that everyone's opinion was reasonable, so he stopped insisting, but asked the bombers to drop bombs only on the Japanese positions, and never drop them outside the positions. The ground was required to use thick smoke heaps to guide the boundaries of the positions of the two sides and to guide the position of the Japanese headquarters.

At ten o'clock in the morning, more than two dozen planes appeared in the sky.

The planes soon flew over the Japanese positions. The Japanese were nervous at first, and later saw both bombers and battles

planes, all of them are Japanese planes, so I didn't get too nervous.

However, when the plane arrived at the Japanese army and began to circle and descend, it was not until it was several hundred meters high that the Japanese saw the red five stars painted on the plane, and then they did not notice it well.

Scouts reported that there were many piles of smoke on the positions of the Eighth Route Army, and the Japanese army felt that it was not good and dangerous.

It's late.

More than a dozen bombers dropped bombs on Japanese positions two miles wide and one mile long.

The Japanese began to lie down. They had no air superiority and had to lie down.

The falling bombs exploded gently at a height of several hundred meters in the air, and one by one the large bombs turned into small black dots of crows. In an instant, the Japanese position remembered the sound of dense explosions, each small bomb was more powerful than a grenade, and after two minutes of exploding, the bombers dropped bombs again, and the cluster bombs exploded again in different locations. Three times in this way, the Japanese positions were blown up.

When the investigators looked at the plane, they saw that the thick smoke was connected into a line, and two or three hundred meters north of the line was the Japanese position, which destroyed a large number of crops, and could see very clearly.

Dozens of holes were blown out of the Japanese army's position, each hole was half a mile round, and the inside was still exploding, the flames of the explosion were shining in the thick smoke, and the people inside were busy, carrying people and saving people. And the explosion took place in these figures.

After reconnaissance clear, the bomber flew away to the west under the cover of fighters.

Half an hour after the plane left, the explosions on the Japanese positions continued, although not dense enough, but one after another.

The commanders of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army, who were observing the effect on the other side, were very surprised, and they had really never seen such a terrifying bomb. Although the entire Japanese position was still well fortified, wherever there were bomb explosions, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties.