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Chapter 1346 The city is burned by fire

In the areas of Sanhe, Pinggu and Jixian, dawn usually breaks at around 5:20 a.m. in August, and it is the darkest time before dawn. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, for the night sky between Sanhe County and Pinggu County, darkness is only temporary, and light seems to be the theme, because as early as after the first wave of artillery attacks launched by the Japanese army, the entire black sky was illuminated by bursts of dense artillery fire, flying and exploding bright lights. The brilliant orange, dark red, and crimson light was like lightning in and out of the black clouds, splitting the entire sky. The whimper and roar of the cannonballs shook the earth, and the sound shook the wilderness, like bursts of thunder waking up the earth.

If you haven't been on the battlefield in person, it is estimated that you will never understand how terrifying the power of large-caliber howitzers is, taking the Taisho four-year 150 mm field howitzer equipped by the Third Brigade of Field Heavy Artillery as an example, this howitzer has a barrel length of 2190 mm, an elevation angle of up to 65 degrees, a projectile weight of 36 kg, a projectile muzzle velocity of 389 m / s, a maximum range of 8800 meters, a shell falls and explodes, even if it is not hit by shrapnel within 20 meters, the personnel in this area will die from the violent shock wave, The radius of destruction of the fragments of the shells fired is as high as 50 meters, and as long as a person is hit by one piece, he will be seriously injured if he does not die, and only when he is 200 meters away can he be considered truly safe.

One can imagine what terrible consequences would occur when the artillery positions exposed by the An Jiajun were bombarded by heavy artillery of this caliber.

As a result, in the midst of earth-shattering explosions, huge orange fireballs exploded one after another on the artillery positions of the Anjia Army distributed along the long road, and shot gun barrels, machine guns, rifles, bayonets with gun heads, and human stumps and severed arms into the sky and poured them everywhere.

The heavy artillery of the Japanese army was also mixed with the bombardment of 75-mm mountain guns and field artillery of the two artillery wings, and the bombing points were so dense that it was almost impossible to distinguish the distance between them, and the improvised loess road connecting the two county towns of Sanhe and Pinggu was instantly bombed beyond recognition.

In particular, the power of the 150 mm caliber heavy howitzer is too terrifying, and every roar will blow up a huge deep pit on the front of the An Jiajun, blasting all the objects under the projectile into pieces and quickly throwing them out, completely strangling and tearing them apart, and when they land, they can only see a bloody mess, but they can't tell which part of the body they are.

Dense shells fell repeatedly on the entire yellow dirt road, and the sharpness of steel shards screamed violently, wreaking havoc everywhere without hesitation, destroying all the targets it approached, and turning the position of An Jiajun's hard-fought and stable position turned the world upside down again.

Just more than ten minutes ago, the artillery unit of the An Jiajun gave the two artillery wings of the devil a taste of what is called artillery hell, and now, the devil immediately retaliated with a more violent and resolute attitude!

The artillery of the Anjia Army and the adjacent infantry suffered extremely heavy losses, and only the 64 125 howitzers of the two artillery regiments directly under the Fifth Army Corps and the 17th Army Headquarters were temporarily saved because they did not join the previous shelling.

In the face of the extraordinary firepower of the Japanese heavy artillery, although Major General Zhang Zhongkang, commander of the artillery regiment directly under the regiment, said that he had locked the position of the Japanese artillery position, and once he gave the order to open fire, he would definitely break up the Japanese offensive as soon as possible. But as the last trump card in his hand, Hu Jialin did not dare to play it easily, no one knows whether the frenzied Japanese invaders have left a follow-up move, if these 64 125 howitzers are also lost, then the Fifth Army Corps under the heavy encirclement of the Japanese army, can really only throw away all the baggage, with the wounded and sick to escape into Panshan and Danan Mountain, to fight guerrillas.

Just when Hu Jialin was undecided, after getting the news that the main force of the Anjia Army and the 20th and 27th divisions of the Japanese army had started a fierce battle on the front line of the digging mountain, a mixed brigade arranged by the Japanese army in Sanhe County also began to actively move outside the city.

For himself to be confused by the empty shelves of the An Jiajun, the brigade commander Shipin Yinzheng, Major General was very ashamed, and he ordered his subordinates to find out that those trucks outside the east gate of the county with headlights and engines driving at the expense of fuel consumption were unattended.

A squadron of the Japanese army had just rushed out of the east gate, and the convoy of the Anjia Army, which seemed to feel that the crisis was approaching, extinguished its headlights in unison, and Sanhe County, which was originally directly illuminated by the car lights, suddenly fell into darkness.

There is always a gradual process of adaptation to the sudden darkness of human eyes, just when the ghost soldiers stopped and waited for their eyesight to recover, a truck suddenly started, and the motor roared, and the speed became faster and faster. When the truck crossed the Gouhe Bridge, the driver pushed open the cab door and jumped into the river below with a single lunge, disappearing with a "bang".

The truck was still roaring angrily, and it rushed straight towards the east gate of Sanhe County.

The Japanese officers and men raised their guns to shoot, but the car did not have the slightest intention of slowing down, and suddenly hit five or six people who were blocking in front of it, and roared and accelerated towards the city.

The rest of the Japanese troops hurriedly dodged a road, only to see the truck "whirring" and panting, rampaging through the straight road, and finally crashed into a sandbag bunker on the street outside a three-story building more than 300 meters away from the city gate.

Because the speed of the truck was too fast, the front of the car suddenly stopped, and the rear car under the action of inertia, the forward momentum did not decrease, and it stood up at a high speed of 70 degrees, and the whole car was like a simple projectile, throwing all the things carried, and quickly affecting the entire building.

This building was once the seat of the Japanese puppet Sanhe County in the East African Armed Zone, and is now temporarily used as the military command center of the Japanese army in the county.

The mysterious objects in the truck compartment touched the surface of the building's walls, and quickly emitted an earth-shattering sound, and the windows of the building instantly cracked, and in the burst of flames, thick plumes of smoke soared into the sky. The flames that flew everywhere attached to the surface of the building and burned rapidly, and the mushroom-shaped flames that rose five or six meters high in the air ignited all the houses near and far, and the fire spread like a plague.

Major General Funa, the brigade commander, was mobilizing his troops in front of the telephone, when the loud explosion in his ears made him instantly deaf, and he stumbled into the corner of the wall, bleeding profusely from his forehead.

It was as if the Great Kanto Earthquake had happened again, and everyone in the building was knocked to the ground, and panicked screams and exclamations could be heard everywhere.

The Japanese officers and soldiers outside the building rushed to put out the fire, and the power of the napalm bombs was fully displayed, and hundreds of unknown devil soldiers were affected, wailing and rolling on the ground, transmitting the pain to everyone who came into contact with their bodies.

At this time, it was another truck rushing to Sanhe County at high speed, but there was an explosion in front of the city gate, and more than a dozen Japanese soldiers crowded at the city gate were lifted more than ten meters away by a huge air wave, holding their stomachs and spitting blood, and they couldn't live, but unfortunately, this car was not loaded with napalm bombs, otherwise the city gate would instantly become a hell of flames.

It turned out that all kinds of bombs loaded in the beds of these trucks were equipped with timed detonators developed by the Syrian Research Institute, and once they were activated, they exploded at the specified time, which was the most advanced and luxurious bomb of this era.

Just when the Japanese troops in the city were in chaos, most of the vehicles outside the city began to evacuate in an orderly manner, retreating to the temporarily safe Huangtuzhuang Town and Tiejialing, leaving five trucks to continue the suicide attack.

Seeing that the Japanese army began to shout and rush out of the city again, another car rushed towards the county seat, this time after crashing into the crowd, an explosion occurred not far from the city gate, and dozens of Japanese soldiers who were eager to get out of the city were involved in the explosion, and the screams came and went.

"Something is wrong, such a toss didn't blow up the pot, and the Japanese troops in the county don't seem to have as many as we imagined." A special team member who was responsible for taking care of the remaining cars and blocking the gate of Sanhe City said to his comrades-in-arms beside him.

"yes, is our estimate wrong?" The other team member had a solemn face.

At this time, the Japanese army saw that they could not break through the city gate, and in annoyance, they began to use mountain artillery and field artillery to cover the road east of the city.

The Japanese army's first mixed brigade has five infantry brigades and artillery, engineering, communication, and baggage brigades, with more than 8,000 people in the brigade and regiment, equipped with 1,800 military horses, more than 4,000 infantry guns, 120 grenadiers, 120 light machine guns, 30 heavy machine guns, 10 anti-aircraft guns, 20 mountain artillery, 12 field artillery and other weapons and equipment.

As the shells continued to fall near the truck, several special forces members did not dare to stay longer, immediately drove the vehicle, and galloped madly towards Sanhe County in turn, when passing the Gouhe Bridge, the special forces jumped off the Gouhe River one after another, and several cars that lost control, like crazy galloping horses, knocked away all the objects in front of them, and killed all the way into Sanhe County from the east gate.

This timer is set according to the order of the explosion in front of the front, first the last truck exploded at the city gate, and the raging flames sputtered when the condensate bomb exploded blocked the east city gate tightly, and any devil soldiers who tried to rush through the wall of fire with their own bravery were all buried in the fire without exception.

The penultimate and third trucks exploded at the barracks in Xijie Village, and the bombs bleed to death all the Japanese troops within 100 meters of the distance, and the most terrifying thing was still the napalm; escorted by the powerful impact force produced by the explosion, one napalm after another flew a distance of 100 meters, and only when they landed, did they explode one after another, instantly igniting the battalion that could accommodate 5,000 officers and men.

Houses near and far were also affected by the flames splashed by napalm, and the entire county was shrouded in a sea of fire.

The last remaining truck, miraculously passing through the city, exploded at the gate of Mikawa Nishi, blowing up a checkpoint that had just been set up here, and sending Amaterasu Okami with more than 20 devils sleeping in tents next to the checkpoint.

Then the napalm exploded, attached to the city gate, and quickly sealed the west gate of Sanhe County.

The entire Sanhe County has become a sea of fire, and the artillery positions of the mixed brigade are also surrounded by fire, and countless devil soldiers cry wolf howls, running in all directions, and they are attached to napalm if they are not paying attention, and after struggling helplessly, they are crying and waiting for the coming of death, as if the end is coming.