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Chapter 1521 Battle Xinkou (5)

The ferocious shelling of the Japanese invaders continued, but the intensity was much less. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The Japanese troops in the encirclement began to gather a large number of troops, and slowly pressed over the entire defensive line operated by the 170th Division, and the focus of the attack was naturally placed on Yuanping Village, which was almost turned upside down.

At this time, two squadrons of AB26 bombers flew over from the southeast sky, and the three devil soldiers who were sitting in hot air balloons in the sky and directing the artillery operation let out desperate screams.

One of the AB26 bombers, with a string of cannon shells sprayed from the nose, accurately hit the hot air balloon, bursting with a large field of shining sparks.

In the process of accelerating the fall of the hanging basket below, another ab26 was not to be left behind, and used the aviation machine guns on both wings to accurately hit the hanging basket.

Seeing the nemesis coming, the Japanese artillery fire stopped with interest. The Japanese infantry took advantage of this opportunity and launched a fierce attack.

In this wave of decisive assault, the Japanese army even used another hidden force: cavalry.

Cavalry is an extremely ancient type of military that still plays a unique role in the era of rampant hot weapons. For the infantry, deprived of positions and artillery help, the cavalry was a complete nightmare, a life-harvesting scythe wielded in the hands of the Grim Reaper.

In the first line of Yuanping Village, where there was no in-depth defense, less than one-third of the officers and men of a regiment were left because they had been bombarded by extraordinary Japanese heavy artillery. Under the assault of the cavalry of the Japanese army, although the soldiers did everything they could, they were torn through the defense by the Japanese cavalry.

Seeing this, a large number of devil soldiers who followed behind the cavalry were in high spirits, and rushed towards the front line of Yuanping Village with a shout.

Seeing that the devils were about to break through this gap, Yang Jiuxiao did not hesitate to issue an order to concentrate all the mortars of the 170th Division and the artillery regiment directly under the 17th Army Army, and concentrate on shooting at the front line of Yuanping Village, no matter what, to block the route of the Japanese army's northward escape. Subsequently, Yang Jiuxiao even sent the First Regiment of the Teaching Brigade directly under the army, which was a strategic reserve.

The huge firepower of 400 mortars was concentrated, covering the entire Yuanping Village in an instant, and almost every inch of land enjoyed the attack of several mortar shells.

Such a dense artillery fire covered the devil's cavalry wing and suddenly caused the devil's cavalry wing to suffer a catastrophe, and in the miserable roar of war horses, all the lives of Yuanping Village in an area of several square kilometers were invisible.

Seeing this, the devils who followed the cavalry charge were greatly frightened, and quickly retreated to the position where the charge was launched, waiting for the artillery bombardment of the squadron to end.

Stepping on the landing point of the mortar, the 1st Regiment of the Teaching Brigade directly under the army, under the leadership of the regiment commander Lieutenant Colonel Deng Yue, entered the blocking position. Walking on the blood-stained ground, every commander and fighter felt as if they were in hell, the whole position was filled with choking gunsmoke, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of blood and the strange smell of barbecued meat.

After the continuous shelling of the Japanese army and the squadron, the position of the trench built by the 170th Division could no longer be found at all, and the stumps of men and horses, internal organs, and parts of various weapons were everywhere, and the craters were full of corpses of people and horses with missing arms and legs, and some of the corpses had been burned to the point that only a pile of ashes remained.

Some soldiers who were still very greedy at the beginning of smelling the aroma of meat have figured out what the strange aroma of barbecue meat is about, and their stomachs can't help but roll.

Since most of the officers and men in the teaching brigade were veterans with extremely rich combat experience, many of them were still able to restrain themselves from throwing up, but there were still some officers and men who were more sensitive, and their faces changed drastically, and they bent down and vomited out "wow."

Deng Yue led the officers and men of the first regiment of the teaching brigade to inspect the entire position, and there was blood and corpses as far as the eye could see, and fighting in such a place was a huge physical and psychological damage to the soldiers and soldiers.

Yang Jiuxiao knew what kind of scene the front line was like through Deng Yue's words, and immediately agreed, but let the first regiment pause, and the military department did some technical processing first, and then it was not too late to push the defense line forward.

Soon, Yang Jiuxiao got in touch with the air force command and requested to target the forward positions of the Japanese army and carry out precise bombing.

The two squadrons of AB26 bombers, extremely angry at the cunning Japanese who had once again hidden their artillery positions, circled in the sky and refused to leave.

At this time, forced by the cunning of the Japanese artillery, the South China General Headquarters had already made a decision in view of the battle situation, and the B1 bomber group would drop napalm bombs on the two hills of Pingdiquan and Tanglingang, where the Japanese army was located. War is not a game, as long as you can fight the opponent, you can't care about anything else.

The AB26 bomber group, which was preparing to return home, suddenly received an order from the headquarters to carry out precise bombardment of the enemy's forward positions under the guidance of ground artillery.

Five minutes later, the artillery battalion of the 4th Regiment of the 170th Division used six 75mm howitzers to bombard the forward positions of the Japanese army.

When the sound of artillery rumbled, the flames continued to shine on the Japanese position, and the AB26 bomber group, which had been accurately guided, immediately pounced on the Japanese position like a cat smelling fish, and a string of aerial bombs, like fish eggs, fell densely above the heads of the devils.

If the artillery 75mm howitzer was just like an itch for the Japanese position, then the air force attack was like a trial from hell.

Huge explosions sounded one after another, and the 500-kilogram bombs went down, and the flames of the explosion rose forty or fifty meters high, and the columns of smoke that were stirred up soared into the sky, and within hundreds of square meters, the shock waves shook back and forth, and shrapnel and splashed soil, with enough kinetic energy, destroyed all life and objects.

When the Japanese position suffered ***, the officers and soldiers of the 1st Regiment of the 17th Army Teaching Brigade had already pounced on the Japanese position, and when the explosion stopped and the fighters in the sky left, they had already touched the Japanese position, and did not hesitate to pull the trigger for those wounded soldiers who were still struggling.

At that time, the southern and western fronts of the Japanese army were under fierce attack by the squadron, and at the same time, the breakout battles in other places in the north were still in progress, and no anomalies were found in the south of Yuanping Village.

Just when the Japanese artillery saw the aerial group flying towards the southeast sky, they breathed a sigh of relief, and were about to carry out a saturation shelling of the defense line of the squadron again, the roar of the aircraft motors in the sky came again.

The sound of the plane's motor this time was very peculiar, "buzzing" like the sound of mosquitoes flapping their wings, and it soon came from the southern sky to the top of the battlefield.

The Japanese artillery clinged to the cliff, holding their breath for fear of attracting the attention of the fighters in the sky.

But how could the squadron let the little Japan get through again, the 75mm howitzer roared at the right time, and the shells continued to fall on the two hills of Pingdiquan and Tanglingang, but because of the problem of firing angle, it did not cause any substantial hindrance to the artillery positions built by the Japanese army on the mountainside.

Just when the Japanese were full of suspicion and wondered what the Chinese artillerymen wanted to do with such an artillery bombardment, the actions of the planes in the sky answered their doubts.

Mosquito bombers flew over the spot where the shells landed and dropped a string of 50-kilogram, 100-kilogram, or even 200-kilogram napalm.

The artillery observers did not know what these bombs were, and quickly calculated the landing point in their hearts, and confirmed that due to the angle of the hill, the artillery position would not be attacked by the blast wave, and an unforgettable scene appeared:

These aerial bombs exploded violently the moment they landed, and although the sound was not loud, along the direction of the bombs, a sky-high fire was generated, presenting a terrifying huge mushroom shape.

On the edge of the mushroom-shaped, there were countless flames splashing out, and where the flames touched, they immediately burst into flames, and then one by one the fire points were connected together, forming a large sea of fire.

The distance of these flames splashing is extremely terrifying, because the flames twist and rotate rapidly when burning, showing a strong centrifugal force, like a rotating umbrella full of water, the flames thrown at high speed, the radiation area is as high as forty or fifty meters, and a large area of devil artillery is wrapped in the falling flames.

Although they were not directly hit by napalm, many Japanese artillerymen were still splashed by the flames, no matter how they were beaten, they did not extinguish, and even caused a large number of comrades to suffer, one by one the devil artillerymen screamed and rolled on the ground, trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies, but the power of napalm was fully displayed, and it instantly burned through the thick coat and squeaked and burned on the human skin.

The severe pain made the Japanese soldiers, whether officers or ordinary soldiers, scream like crazy, threw themselves on the slope and kept rolling back and forth. Unfortunately, the dirt and grass on the ground did not extinguish the flames, but ignited more places, and at the same time left the whole body full of fire - this is the characteristic of napalm, and wherever it touches the flames, a chain reaction will occur!

Because the Japanese artillery positions were connected together, these napalm instantly made more than 1,000 Japanese artillery soldiers go to see Aunt Amaterasu, and what made the Japanese army even more frightened was that a large number of "fire men" screamed and fled in all directions, and when they saw familiar people, they would lose their minds and hug them, asking them to relieve their suffering, but they didn't know that this would affect others; If you encounter an object that you usually have a grudge with, you will pounce on it and bite it, so that the two of them are wrapped in flames at once, which is extremely terrifying.

The transpiring flames and the movements of the Japanese artillery on the ground pointed out the direction to the bombers in the sky, and a large area of napalm was thrown down, this time directly hitting the target, the artillery positions arranged by the Japanese army were all surrounded by flames, and then, the high heat generated by the combustion detonated the ammunition depot, and the two hills made earth-shattering explosions, and the huge shock wave threw napalm at the Japanese infantry under the mountain, causing greater panic.

Half an hour later, the B1 mosquito bomber group finally turned around and left, but the fire on the two mountains became more and more intense, and the devil's artillery and air defense troops were completely lost.

At this time, Tojo Hideki already knew that the town of Haradaira had been lost, and the Japanese troops in the encirclement had completely lost all their artillery and heavy weapons, and felt the seriousness of the matter.

Soon after Deng Yue led the first regiment of the teaching brigade into the position, the Japanese army finally found that its position on the northern front was lost, and in panic, they quickly mobilized their troops, striving to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the squadron to take back the defensive line, and the battle began quickly.

The battle was unusually cruel, and the Japanese army attacked at all costs, putting great pressure on the officers and men of the regiment. All the officers and soldiers only mechanically repeated the action of killing the enemy: concealment, fortification, and killing the swarming devils who tried to kill themselves. Aiming at the striking red dots on their steel helmets, the hot bullets spun at high speed and flew out of the muzzle, stubbornly tearing through the curved steel above the opponent's head, rushing into the thin scalp, shattering the hard skull, rolling, deforming, and shattering in the cranial cavity.

The devil's equally young face, with a firm expression at the beginning, driven by the kinetic energy of his limbs and the belief in his mind, quickly rushed to the front of the position, and in an instant, his pupils expanded rapidly, his expression immediately stiffened and froze, and under the inertia of his body, he suddenly stopped and fell on a foreign land.

Do these people have dreams? Did they achieve it? When these people study hard at the non-commissioned officer school, will they think about their place today?

There is no one to answer these questions, and there is, just your life-and-death, non-stop killing!