Chapter 614-1: A Tragic Recovery
The Yamada family had been fetching water from the well early in the afternoon, and all the containers that could hold water were full. Yamada, who is in the timber business www.biquge.info has experience in fire prevention, has seen many places in the city of Vladivostok on fire, and has begun to clean up everything that can catch fire around the house, and also water everything that can be watered.
He also stored a lot of water in the bomb shelter, which was prepared for people, and in order to prevent the house from catching fire, many daily necessities were moved into the bomb shelter.
He has a well of his own, and his family and his neighbors draw water here. As long as there are no planes in the sky, everyone will desperately fetch water. When the container was full, he poured water on the house.
In the afternoon, the house of the neighbor to the northwest caught fire. The fire quickly burned down the neighbor's house. The flames were blazing, and the fence of the Yamada family's house was quickly dried.
In the evening, a fire tornado swept in from the northwest.
A fire tornado is a whirlwind that is created during a fire, and the whirlwind is wrapped in flames and light firewood and grass that ignite the fire. The fire tornado came from the northwest and walked down a street. If the fire tornado could speak, it would say, in the name of the wind, I come to greet you.
Yamada's house is just down the street. The street, with no trees and no plants, is a natural fire barrier, and there is already a fire on the other side of the street, and many people have fled their homes to places where there is no fire. Now, the street is simply a passage leading to the fire. The fire tornado constantly draws the flames from the fires on both sides, and spreads the flames out without stopping.
As soon as the fire tornado arrived, the Yamada house began to catch fire, and the fire started from the fence on the side of the street, went straight to the yard, and soon burned to the house.
The Yamada family all survived the fire as they took refuge in bomb shelters, where they wet their bodies with stored water.
Yamada later recalled that his fence caught fire first, and the flames quickly reached the house. The house burned down for half the night before it went out. It's all over.
At six o'clock in the evening, the whole city of Vladivostok was on fire, and all the wooden buildings were on fire.
Some Japanese soldiers escaped from bunkers and houses and took to the streets. Someone began to organize, to organize people on the street to put out fires.
The buildings built by the Soviets, the big houses, rather than the town halls, churches, barracks, factories, etc., were made of red brick and stone, which was very fire-resistant. Civil buildings are made of wood. Unlike Japanese wooden houses, the Soviets had rough houses and were not as elaborate as the Japanese people. Soviet houses used more logs, while Japanese houses used more planks. When the Japanese captured Vladivostok, a large number of buildings were blown up, and many were repaired with wood.
After half a month of spring breeze, there is dry wood everywhere, and it catches fire everywhere. The Japanese tried to put out the fire, but the fire was so big that it would be good not to burn the firefighters to death, and it would not be extinguished at all.
The sound of airplanes was heard again. This time, Vladivostok did not have air defense at all, the planes flew at low altitudes, the flames lit up the sky, and the planes could see clearly. Guided by fighters, several bombers went out into the wide street and dropped a dozen incendiary bombs. On the streets, thousands of people were engulfed in flames.
April 28, 1943.
Today, the tide of the war has changed, with the Japanese forces in the north of Korea desperately attacking northward, and the Japanese forces in Vladivostok attacking desperately. It was clear that the Japanese army in Vladivostok was going to break through.
Japanese troops stationed in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula quickly moved in the direction of Vladivostok to rescue Vladivostok.
The North Korean garrison is moving fast enough. This time, the troops stationed in the north of Korea were dispatched, and the vanguard was transported by all vehicles. Before the vanguard reached the Tumen River, it was attacked by the Northeast coalition forces in ambush in the mountains. Airplanes, plus artillery, and the army, the offensive was fierce.
In order to rescue, the Japanese army attacked north at all costs. The blocking force will stop here at all costs.
After more than a day of assault, the 30,000 attacking Japanese troops found that there were more than three times as many troops blocking the mountain as they were.
At the same time, tens of thousands of Japanese troops echoed the Japanese troops coming from the south, broke through the northern defense line, intending to break through to the north, and turned around the bay and retreated to the Korean Peninsula.
The city of Vladivostok is located on the peninsula, and in order to break through, it is necessary to break through on the northern side, and then, after bypassing the bay, it is possible to go south to Korea.
The Japanese position was several hundred meters away from the offensive line of the Northeast Coalition Army, and in order to break through the encirclement, the Japanese army had to force a pig breakthrough and cross the open space of several hundred meters.
Leaving the well-built positions, they lost their advantage. The original reinforced concrete fortifications completely lost their effectiveness, and the condescending terrain advantage was also lost, while the Northeast Coalition Army blocked them in the makeshift fortifications and transposed the attack and defense.
In one day, the Northeast Coalition Army repelled more than a dozen of their charges, and the Northeast Coalition Army had strong infantry heavy weapons, and even the flamethrowers were taken to the front line, and the Japanese troops who rushed up directly breathed fire.
On the 29th, the exhausted Japanese army continued to attack. Their fortifications helped them escape the fire, but they did not help them to keep supplies, and most of the people went hungry. The Northeast Coalition Army, on the other hand, has to change troops and dig fortifications almost every time it blows and blocks the position. This is the refueling tactic, where tired troops leave and new ones are constantly being added. The new troops, armed with new weapons and new tactics, dealt more vicious blows to the Japanese army one by one.
It was dark, and the Japanese stopped breaking through. The front of the position was densely packed, and all the corpses of Japanese soldiers were there.
The breakout battlefield was where the Northeast Coalition suffered the greatest losses. Due to the change in wind direction, part of the position was burned and had to retreat. The new position did not dare to use wood, it was very unfortified, it was attacked by the Japanese army, and the losses were huge.
May 1.
The fire burned for two whole days, because Vladivostok was on the peninsula and there were more than 100,000 troops on the north side. Because of the Japanese fortifications, the fire did not spread. The whole city was scorched, the worst of which was in wooded residential areas, and the better was in the city center, where some old stone buildings escaped the fire where there were no incendiary bomb explosions.
The incendiary bombs that were still being dropped by Chinese planes upwind, and the fire burned from northwest to southeast with strong winds, and the entire city was burned, and few were spared.
Today, the fire in the northwestern windward area has been extinguished, but the bombardment of the northeastern coalition continues.
In the morning, on the northern defensive line, the Japanese army gathered tens of thousands of people to continue to break through.
Today, the Northeast Coalition Army changed its tactics, and in the part where the position was not repaired, within a radius of about a dozen kilometers, the Northeast Coalition Army completely retreated. The Japanese army broke through in great strides. When the whole army began to march rapidly, the bombers came.
Bombers of the Northeast Coalition began to drop cluster bombs here, and the Japanese troops on the positions were carpet-bombed. The Japanese army had heard of this devil's bomb for a long time, and they talked about it all in color, but now they have seen it on the battlefield, people's hearts are fluctuating, everyone is panicked, and most of the Japanese soldiers have been burned to death, and most of the living have been burned, and the will to fight has almost been lost.
A small part of the Japanese troops who broke through were killed by such bombs. The ones alive continued to break through, and after getting out of the bombing zone, they found that they had been surrounded by the Northeast Coalition forces.
The Japanese army tried to start a white-knuckle battle, but the Northeast Coalition Army seemed to have enough bullets and resolutely refused to fight a white-knuckle battle, relying on temporary fortifications and continuing to fight a blocking battle. In the afternoon, the Japanese concentrated on attacking a little, and the white-knuckle battle had to begin.
This was the largest white-knuckle battle in the Northeast Battlefield and even in the whole of Asia, with more than 100,000 people invested by the anti-Japanese coalition army and 30,000 people invested by the Japanese army.
The Northeast Coalition Army has long ordered that it must not fight a white-knuckle battle unless it is absolutely necessary. If you fight a white-knuckle battle, you must have three times the number of enemies, and you must work in groups of three people to fight together.
The white-knuckle battle began, and the Northeast Coalition Army continued to mobilize troops to join the white-knuckle battle. The victory or defeat of the three members of the vigorous unit against a starving and wounded Japanese soldier can be imagined, except for the fierce fighting in the place where the Japanese army gathered, the Japanese army in other places was assassinated, and it was unspeakably miserable.
By three o'clock in the afternoon, the white-knuckle battle was over.