Although in the past bombardment, the Japanese army has been continuously replenishing the losses of the front line from the rear, but those fortifications on the coast can not be repaired and strengthened in a short time, but the bombs of the Wehrmacht Air Force are produced in a steady stream from the inland production lines, and even from the local arsenal in Fuzhou.

After a few days of bombardment, although the number of Japanese soldiers on the coastal line was still the same as at the beginning of the war, the fortifications and lines on which they relied were almost damaged.

Without these things, the resistance of the Japanese army weakened a lot.

It was in this situation that Wang Yaowu very decisively invested in the flamethrower.

The flamethrower is a weapon with extremely high lethality, even in this era, the range of the flamethrower still reaches tens of meters, and it is by no means less than ten meters like in the movie.

And the degree of tens of meters is already higher than the effective killing range of ordinary pistols.

Even the effective range of an ordinary rifle is only two or three hundred meters...

The use of the Pyro does not mean that Wang Yaowu likes this class, after all, this class is too dangerous. Just the fuel they carried, if it exploded, it would definitely be endless, not to mention anything else, just the surrounding circle of people was estimated to be inhumanely burned alive.

Of course, the military experts in charge of researching this weapon have assured that this weapon is still very safe, at least it will not explode or something if it is hit by a random shot, and even unless it is hit by a weapon such as an incendiary bomb, it will not explode...

In fact, both in actual combat and in testing, this has been proven.

Otherwise. If this weapon is really that dangerous, no matter how powerful it is, the Wehrmacht will not be equipped with it, after all, this is not just a double-edged sword. If you don't get it right, it's likely that more of your own people will be killed by this kind of thing than your enemies.

However, even so. But there are still very few people in the Wehrmacht who will like this kind of weapon, after all, just because it is difficult to explode does not mean that it will not explode, and no one wants to get too close to this kind of thing. Therefore, although the salary of the Pyro in the Wehrmacht is relatively large, there are not many friends in the army.

In addition, this high-risk weapon is still being operated―――――― although the danger is not necessarily comparable to that of a rifle that can explode. But there are some perverts in the Pyro, not to mention that the conditions for the explosion are not absolute.

Paratrooper Robert. Fret Lor.

4th Parachute Regiment, 15th Engineer Company; 1944, Italy, Cassino Mountain

"As sappers, we were trained in the use of the Quadruple flamethrower with a powder hose installed, but am I willing to use this equipment in battle, even as a last resort? No! Thank you very much. The reason for refusal is simple, if you are hit by a pistol, rifle or even machine gun on the battlefield, it is nothing more than leaving a hole in your body. But if you're unlucky enough to have a flamethrower on your back, even a small piece of shrapnel can burn you into a fireball. When enemy soldiers hear the sound of your flamethrower, all the bullets will fall around you. No soldier wants to be burned, and all experienced soldiers will give priority to 'taking care' of the guy who tried to burn them with a flamethrower with their bullets! ”

It should be noted that the army needs the most psychiatrists. It's Spitfire, Deminers and a few other types of troops...

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The development of flamethrowers began during the First World War, when the brutality of trench warfare required a new type of weaponry, such as grenades, mortars, tanks, and other weapons specifically for trench warfare, as well as shotguns and grenade launchers. …,

And the flamethrower is such a powerful weapon. Naturally, it is also in the R&D project.

In fact, there was little controversy about this cruel weapon during the First World War, when the Allies and the Allies were throwing poison gas bombs at each other on the Western Front. Even gas bombs were used, so naturally there would be no objections to flamethrowers.

The history of flamethrowers predates muskets and artillery, as early as the seventh century AD, when the Byzantines used a liquid incendiary called "Greek fire" in naval battles with the Arabs. This incendiary agent is usually encapsulated in wooden barrels and used by a hand-cranked pump to spray it through a pipe to enemy ships. The liquid incendiary of "Greek Fire" has a special formulation. Spontaneous combustion in the air.

The inventor of the flamethrower in the modern sense is recognized as the German Richard Federer. In 1901, he created a sample flamethrower for the German army to evaluate. Federer's unit already had essentially all the characteristics of a modern flamethrower, which was carried by man, equipped with a 1.2-metre circumference cylinder, and the interior of the container was horizontally divided into two parts, the lower half of which was a compressed air bottle and the upper half was an incendiary bottle.

When the shooter depresses the throttle handle on the fuel cartridge, compressed air ejects the liquid incendiary through a rubber tube through the steel firing nozzle, which has a simple ignition device, and when the liquid incendiary is ignited, it forms a mushroom-shaped fireball and sprays it towards the target. The device has a range of 18 meters and is capable of firing for two minutes, but the ignition tube is a one-time use and must be replaced with a new one for each launch. It was not adopted by the German army until 1911, when it formed a special regiment of 12 companies, armed with the first flamethrower in modern history. However, it wasn't until four years later that the flamethrower showed its formidable power on the battlefield.

In February 1915, the French were the first to taste the German flames at Verdun, and two months later, on July 30, 1915, the British also tasted this infernal fire mixed with gasoline, rubber and sulphur in the trenches of Hooge in Flanders, and the British lost 31 officers and 751 soldiers in two days of fighting. After the Battle of Hogg, for the first time, the flamethrower's massive close-range lethality was included in the combat report.

The British and French, who suffered hardship, also began to develop their own flamethrowers, the French were more realistic, their designs basically imitated the Germans, and put into use in 1917~1918. And the British are too whimsical. The flamethrower they built was a 2-ton behemoth. In the Somme region, the British deployed the four-gate monster, which was permanently installed in the fortifications 55 meters from the German front, in front of which was a no-man's land of confrontation between the two sides. These four large flamethrowers were designed for the Battle of the Somme and had a range of 80 meters. Used to clear the first line of German defense before an infantry charge. However, after the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1917, German counter-fire destroyed two of the four flamethrowers, and the other two were rendered useless after taking the first line of German defense.

After the success of Hogg, the Germans paid more attention to the role of flamethrowers. They formed the Pyros into teams of six, each with three flamethrowers. Dispersed along the entire front, the main task was to clear the forward line of the Entente when the Germans launched an offensive. In 1917, the Germans improved the flamethrower equipped with a lighter weight and used a signal tube that could be fired multiple times, which greatly increased the mobility and frequency of the flamethrower. Despite this, the Anglo-French forces were already wary of the German flamethrowers. When the German flamethrower fired, the British and French concentrated their fire on it, and once the German flamethrower was captured, he was immediately shot on the spot. Coupled with the fact that this weapon could not provide sustained fire from a wide frontal range, this excellent trench weapon never played as decisive a role as it did in the Battle of Hogg. Throughout the First World War. In total, the Germans carried out more than 650 flamethrower attacks, while the Anglo-French forces had almost zero similar offensives. …,

It is true that the flamethrowers inflicted far fewer casualties on both sides in this war than machine guns and heavy artillery, but in the near-hand-to-hand trench warfare, the German flamethrowers undoubtedly brought a huge psychological shock to the Allied soldiers who were shivering in the muddy water.

During the First World War, or rather, towards the end of the First World War. The government of the Kuomintang began to study the flamethrowers that were beginning to appear on the battlefield, so in the first world war, there were no Chinese flamethrowers in the Asian theater or in the European theater.

And wait until after the end of the First World War. Although there were constant border clashes between China and Russia at that time, the Wehrmacht was not equipped with flamethrowers because it was still in a relatively peaceful period―――――― but after learning about the power of this weapon, the military has been studying this weapon.

It was not until 1935 that the Wehrmacht began to officially equip the first flamethrower.

That is, the Type 35 flamethrower, which is different from the bulkiness of the First World War. The Type 35 Flamethrower is a single flamethrower that uses World War I experience in its design. Its full weight was "only" 38 kilograms, and the tank was filled with a mixture of 11.8 litres of No. 19 combustion agent and compressed nitrogen, and the injection distance was 25 to 30 meters. The 35 type flame thrower can spray all the stored oil at one time, and can also carry out fifteen short point shots, when the short point is fired, the ignition restrictor valve and the ignition signal pipe in the liner are opened and closed at the same time to control the amount of fuel injection. The production of the Type 35 flamethrower continued until 1941.

After being equipped with the Type 35 flamethrower, the Wehrmacht continued to refine and research this weapon. Of course, the focus is on range, safety and weight, after all, with a weight of thirty-eight kilograms and a full body of equipment, there is no difference between a Pyro and a woman on his back.

As a result, this weapon continued to evolve until the current Type 42.

The weight of the Type 42 flamethrower is only 18 kilograms, of course, this is without fuel, but when loaded with fuel, the weight can be reduced to 30 kilograms, and the range reaches 40 meters, which is a big difference compared to the Model 35.

At present, the main equipment of the Wehrmacht is the Type 42 flamethrower.

Cough, I don't know if I should say that the production capacity of the national government is strong, or whether the number of flamethrowers is too small, anyway, in less than half a year after the start of the war, all the flamethrowers have been equipped with 42 flamethrowers, and the original 35 are all supporting Russia or other allies...

On the other hand, flamethrowers also made a significant contribution to the use of diesel fuel in the tanks of the Wehrmacht.

As a melee weapon, the flamethrower was used in World War II as intrinsically different from World War I, and was mainly used to fortify buildings, pillboxes, and fortifications, as well as to clear out the remnants of the enemy.

However, in World War II, the flamethrowers of the German infantry were also often used as close-range anti-armor weapons. The flames ejected by the flamethrower do not burn through the armor of the vast majority of tanks. Especially in the late Soviet tanks, the fluid flame jets emitted by the flamethrower can flow into the hull from some openings in the surface of the armored target, such as the roof of the tank's engine compartment, igniting its fuel or ammunition. Thus incapacitating or completely destroying armored targets. Operational reports of the troops showed that the flamethrower had a noticeable effect on vehicles running gasoline engines, as well as on American M4 tanks, but limited in damage to Soviet tanks using diesel engines.

The early Wehrmacht was also equipped with gasoline tanks, but after discovering this obvious shortcoming, all later tanks were replaced with diesel engines. Such as 15 change, ZT-40, ZT-41 and other ......, in addition to the vast majority of the Wehrmacht flamethrowers can be carried by individual soldiers, but a fire-breathing team is still composed of two ~ three soldiers, one of whom is a flamethrower, and the other to two are observers. Flamethrowers are armed only with self-defense pistols in addition to flamethrowers, while observers are generally equipped with submachine guns to provide cover for flamethrowers.

It can't be helped, after all, no matter how much each opponent's priority target is definitely the Spitfire. Without the cover of the Spotter and other comrades, I'm afraid the Pyro would have turned into a stopper just after he appeared.

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It has to be said that, just like machine guns and incendiary grenades, flamethrowers are also a brutal killing machine, especially in terms of cruelty and even more so than machine guns. Probably second only to incendiary bombs and chemical weapons.

Under the cover of the observer, the flamethrowers rushed to the entrance of the fortifications, bunkers and other facilities, and sprayed flames at the entrance entrance, and the flames pouring in from the entrance turned the Japanese soldiers inside into burning people, and the flamethrowers laughed heartily at this scene.

This kind of laughter somewhat chilled the Wehrmacht soldiers around him.

Although as a soldier. When they set foot on the battlefield, they have a little bit of awareness, but being aware does not mean that they like to be burned to death. And in fact, that's another reason why they don't like the Pyro.

The Pyro didn't pay much attention to this strange gaze from his comrades, after all, he often appeared in the army when he was in the army, and he got used to it after a long time.

After burning all the enemies in the fortifications, the Pyro also turned his attention to the next fortification.

Flamethrowers don't just burn recalcitrant enemies into firemen. In the Pacific War, every time the U.S. troops landed on the islands, they were confronted with countless Japanese pillboxes and tunnel fortifications hidden in the complex environment of the tropical rainforest. It will take a lot of money to conquer it. Due to the complex terrain, many times the naval guns could not support it, the heavy artillery was almost non-existent when landing, the light artillery was difficult to collapse the fortifications, and the bullets were difficult to hit the Japanese troops in the fortifications. Therefore, flamethrowers, which can rely on high temperatures to kill the enemy hidden in strong bunkers, fortifications, caves or trenches, and can also be used to ignite the enemy's flammable weapons and materials, have become an important force for the US military to attack fortified positions.

By burning the Japanese troops in the fortifications at high temperatures, and burning violently to deplete the oxygen in the small fortifications for a short time and suffocate them, the enemy in the target fortifications can quickly lose their resistance, so as to conquer the Japanese positions at a very small cost.

In fact, this is one of the reasons why Wang Yaowu will let the Pyro appear.

Basically, as long as the flamethrower is aimed at the exit, the Japanese soldiers inside are left with only three choices, either run out and play for their lives, or wait to be burned to the fire, and the other is to die of suffocation―――――― of course, suffocation does not necessarily have to die, but even if they don't die, it is estimated that it is almost the same, after all, when they suffocate, it is equivalent to losing resistance.

After the Pyros finished their routine work on a concrete fortification, the Pyros moved towards another target under the cover of the observer, while the soldiers who were far away from them hurriedly poured into the fortifications from the entrance, if the enemies inside were dead, it would be nothing, but if there was resistance, their task was to recharge the enemies or capture them...

After the flamethrowers entered the battlefield, due to the great power of the flamethrowers, the Japanese troops who had been left to resist in the fortifications and bunkers under the bombardment were quickly disintegrated.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Wehrmacht occupied the defensive line that originally belonged to the Japanese army, and helped the sappers sent by Wang Yaowu to reinforce and repair the fortifications to prepare for the Japanese counterattack――――――.

After taking the defensive line, the task of the Wehrmacht was to hold the line and wait for more reinforcements to arrive and arrive.

However, in any case, since a landing site has been taken along the coast, Taiwan is equivalent to falling into the hands of the National Defense Forces. After all, for the Japanese army on the island of Taiwan, the difference in strength between the two sides was too great.

On the other hand, after learning of this result, Hideki Tojo ordered the Japanese troops stationed in Taiwan to recapture the defensive line, and at the same time, he was also mentally prepared to lose Taiwan.

At the same time, Hideki Tojo also understands that the loss of Taiwan is equivalent to opening a door for China. Next, the Chinese Navy can break through the blockade composed of Taiwan, Ryukyu and other places, and directly pose a threat to the Philippines and other places...

"Next, is it all up to the navy..."

Standing in the office, looking at the sun flag behind him, Hideki Tojo muttered.