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Chapter 1373 Smoke rolls out

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At nine o'clock in the morning, the Japanese troops stationed in Langfang attacked Yongqing, and when they forcibly crossed the Yongding River, they encountered stubborn resistance from Wei Lihuang's 14th Group Army. Relying on the strong fortifications built by the Fifth Army at the beginning of the war, the Japanese army was repulsed three times, leaving nearly 1,000 Japanese corpses on the surface of the Yongding River and on the beach.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese army changed the direction of the attack, dispatched a large number of tanks, and launched a fierce attack on the 13th Army Corps of the Second Group Army and Zeng Wanzhong's 3rd Army stationed in Fangshan from the Mentougou and Wanping lines.

With a total of less than 30,000 men in the remnants, how could it be an opponent of the wolf-like Japanese army?

In addition, there was no solid defensive position on the front line of Fangshan, under the bombardment of the Japanese heavy artillery for a quarter of an hour, the three trenches were filled in instantly, and the Japanese tanks were overwhelmingly coming, and before the battle was engaged, the 13th Army Corps and the Third Army were defeated and fled, and the rout went all the way to the south, breaking the defense line constructed by the First Army Corps and the 52nd Army that were reorganizing the troops in Doudian to meet the first-line positions at any time, and then the entire Second Group Army was in great chaos, and the officers and men were defeated and fled, all the way to Zhuoxian County, where the headquarters of the group army was located, which was located in the south of the Daqing River.

Due to the serious threat to the flank, the originally impregnable Yongding River defense line collapsed, and the 14th Army and the New 17th Army decisively withdrew to the area south of the Daqing River, once again using the fortifications built in advance by the Fifth Army of the Anjia Army to resist the Japanese attack.

Northeast black soil.

At 11 o'clock at noon, on the front line of the Mudanjiang River in Heilongjiang, the Japanese army carried out a fierce artillery bombardment on Tieling Town across the turbulent Mudanjiang River.

The 2nd Division quickly detached the 6th Brigade to meet the enemy, and under the transportation of the train, rushed to Hailang Village, the two sides had a fierce exchange of fire in the Mudanjiang Delta, because the Japanese troops crossing the river were compressed in a small area, bombarded by dense mortar groups, suffered heavy casualties, and left more than 200 corpses and retreated to the west bank in embarrassment, and then, the pontoon bridge that had just been erected was blown up by the officers and men of the Sixth Brigade, and the Japanese army failed to cross the river for the first time.

After that, the Japanese army searched for the crossing point many times, but under the skillful response of the Second Division, every time in vain, the entire bank of the Mudanjiang River was shrouded in war and gunsmoke.

At the same time, an engineer brigade of the Japanese army, which was rushing to repair the railway south of Suihua, was attacked, and the team of more than 1,000 people was completely annihilated, and a large amount of construction equipment was swept away, and at the same time, the railway line that had just been repaired was damaged again.

From last night to this afternoon, in the northern and eastern regions of Jilin, two county towns once again fell into the hands of rescue, and Changchun, the capital of the puppet Manchukuo, was also threatened by war, and the entire northeast order was in chaos.

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It was midday, and the sky was cloudy.

Inside and outside the Japanese Concession in Shanghai, gunfire rang out.

The army has been stationed in the concession for five years, and has built a three-in-one defense line from the sky (high-rise buildings), the ground (bunkers), and the surface (warships). At the same time, due to the large number of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns placed everywhere, the firepower is far from being imaginable by ordinary people.

The Japanese warships anchored on the Huangpu River frequently bombarded the positions around Dongbaoxing Road, Tiantongan Station, and Bazi Bridge in the Huajie area, and made every effort to stop the attack of the squadron.

The Songhu Railway runs east from Shanghai North Railway Station, crosses Henan Road, and turns to the northeast, where China and Japan take the railway as the boundary and engage in fierce contention.

Under the suppressive fire of the Japanese naval guns, the squadron that attacked all parts of the Japanese concession won first and then lost, and the Japanese marines, under the cover of the bean chariot, followed the back of the squadron from the stronghold of the *** primary school on North Sichuan Road, crossed the railway along Qiujiang Road through the Hengbang Bridge, quickly seized the buildings and street positions on both wings, and used grenadiers and light and heavy machine guns to launch a counterfire at the position of the 262nd Brigade of the 88th Division.

Soon the enemy's attack collapsed under the precise blow of the 75-mm guns of the howitzer battalion directly under the 88th Division, leaving behind more than 30 corpses and the wreckage of a burning bean chariot, fleeing in disarray.

At the same time, the other Japanese army set out from its naval headquarters and launched a fierce attack on the retreating squadron along the railway line of Tiantongan Road and Xibaoxing Road, in an attempt to follow it and capture the position of the 88th Division west of the Bazi Bridge. The Japanese army was still the old trick of covering the infantry charge with bean chariots, using the artillery fire of the battleships on the river to block the return fire of the squadron, and then taking advantage of the situation to rush across the railway, and fiercely strafing with light and heavy machine guns and Type 38 rifles.

After the officers and men of the 88th Division retreated to the starting position, they immediately scattered behind sandbag fortifications in the streets, calmly responded to the battle, and when the Japanese approached, they used machine guns, rifles and grenades to eliminate the Japanese troops. At the same time, they used machine gun fire to make the enemy's support unable to move forward, and after more than ten minutes of hard fighting, the Japanese army was defeated and fled.

The two sides have come and gone, and the front has changed hands several times, but it is difficult to go further.

It was under these circumstances that the 2nd Brigade of the Southwest Air Force set out from Hangzhou Airport and was ordered by An Yi to suppress the three-dimensional crossfire of the Japanese army and give support to the squadron on the ground.

"All note, the Japanese anti-aircraft fire on the ground is extremely ferocious. According to the reconnaissance squadron's uninterrupted reconnaissance in the past few days, there are about 320 Japanese anti-aircraft fire points, and many antiaircraft guns and antiaircraft machine guns are directly erected on the building. Therefore, we can only take the form of hit-and-run and continue to fight again to support the ground army. ”

In this bombing, the 7th Squadron was used as an escort formation, supplemented by the 10th and 11th bomber squadrons, and four reconnaissance planes from the 12th Squadron to conduct battlefield vigilance and monitoring.

"Understood!"

Wang Zhengliang, the leader of the 10th Squadron, and Feng Jie, the leader of the 11th Squadron, answered one after another, and then the two used the squadron channel to explain the precautions to all the pilots who carried out the bombing mission.

The squadron, which was fighting fiercely on the ground, heard the roar of the aircraft motors and immediately knew that their reinforcements were coming.

During this period of time, the officers and men of the Air Force have continued to report successes, and both the Central Air Force and the Southwest Air Force have become synonymous with victory in a hundred battles; at this moment, when they saw the fighters of the Chinese Air Force flying from the skies in the southwest to the battleground, they all gave tremendous cheers and their morale doubled.

The fighter group first flew over the Suzhou Creek and came to the sky over the Japanese concession, through the windshield of the cockpit, Lei Yizhi saw that there was a fierce battle taking place at the Shanghai North Railway Station below, and the squadron wearing grass green khaki shirts was on one side with the Japanese army wearing yellow clothes, but looking at the current situation, it was the Japanese army launching a fierce attack, and it seemed that there were two or three squadrons.

"Bomber squadron, please confirm again, drop bombs as soon as possible after locking on the target, there are at least 20 air defense positions in more than 10 high-rise buildings around the railway station, and we must not delay too much! Now our 7th Squadron is going to attract the Japanese anti-aircraft fire, and you seize the gap in the Japanese defense to deal a fatal blow to the Japanese army! ”

"Yes!"

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As soon as Rei pressed the nose of the plane, the plane quickly lowered its altitude and rushed towards the Japanese troops attacking the railway station.

In the surrounding buildings and streets, the roar of light and heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, and antiaircraft guns suddenly sounded, weaving into a dense network of firepower, but the air force fighters had already expected the Japanese strike, and the speed did not decrease in the slightest, and like lightning, it flew over the railway station and flew towards the northeast sky, and the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery could not help but turn around and follow the 15 A26 fighters to attack.

Hoping for this fleeting opportunity, the two squadrons of bombers decisively dived downward, splitting into two lines, one towards the Japanese troops on the railway station square, and the other locking on the machine-gun positions and anti-aircraft positions of the Japanese troops on several main streets.

The bomber reached the predetermined altitude like lightning, the tenth squadron leader Wang Zhengliang pressed the bomb button, the belly of the cabin quickly opened, and a napalm bomb fell suddenly, almost not allowing the fighter to pause, Wang Zhengliang pulled the *** longitudinal rod upward, and quickly broke away from the attack of the Japanese air defense who quickly turned the muzzle of the gun after discovering the middle plan.

More than 10 bombers dropped bombs almost simultaneously, and then, like arrows from a string, quickly broke away from the converging firepower network and flew toward the northern sky, and soon flew away from the range of the Japanese anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns.

More than 10 napalm bombs exploded at the same time, the sound was not loud, but the momentum was not generally terrible, more than 10 bomb points jumped up more than 10 meters high flames, one by one in the shape of mushrooms, spraying flames outward, covering the square in front of the railway station more than 300 meters range.

The flames flew from the moment they flew into the air, the mushroom-shaped tops always flying outward, and the napalm swirled in a terrifying centrifugal force, continuously spewing flames outward at an extremely exaggerated speed.

Wherever the flames went, the entire Japanese army was surrounded by flames in an instant, and some of the devil soldiers who were splashed by small flames rolled around on the ground with a miserable howl, trying their best to extinguish the flames on their bodies.

If these marines could put their heads down and ask the naval seniors of the Second Fleet, who had suffered a heavy blow, and gain some experience in dealing with napalm, or if the War Department could have informed them of the human tragedies that had occurred in eastern Hebei, perhaps the losses of the Japanese invaders would not have been so great.

However, in the face of the terrible hellfire of the squadron, in order to ensure the morale of the officers and soldiers, the military department tried to cover it up too late, how could it take the initiative to inform it?

So the current situation is tragic, it was a hot August, the Japanese officers and soldiers generally wore thin military uniforms, and the moment napalm attached to the body, the coat was burned through, and then began to use the skin and flesh of the human body as an accelerant, and continued to burn violently.

The pain of burning himself in the fire made all the devils who had been attacked by napalm roll on the ground frantically, letting out bursts of terrible screams. Seeing his companion in such pain, people kept coming forward to help, but how could the magic of napalm be resisted by manpower? A large number of devils were quickly affected, and the terrifying situation spread rapidly.

The officers and men of the 88th Division, who were stuck at the railway station, cheered loudly with excitement when they saw the tragic situation of the Japanese troops, and took advantage of the situation to pour a dense rain of bullets on the Japanese troops.

Just after a tragicomedy was staged in the square, the street fortifications arranged by the Japanese army at the intersections of Wusong Road, North Sichuan Road, and Baoshan Road were accurately hit by aerial bombs, and the light and heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft weapons of the Japanese army were thrown around by the air waves, among which the shells of an antiaircraft artillery position set up at the intersection of Wusong Road and North Sichuan Road were detonated, and the momentum was earth-shattering, so that the Chinese people on the other side of the Suzhou Creek were stunned at first, and then burst out into earth-shattering applause.