Chapter 522: Hell Flames

Forward positions of the 8th Army.

A senior soldier who was stunned by a Japanese artillery shell woke up from a coma, and hurriedly looked around, only to see that the black pressure was full of ghost soldiers with loaded guns and ammunition, and before the superior soldier could react, two ghost soldiers who were searching the battlefield had already pounced with bayonets, only to hear two soft pops, and two sharp bayonets had pierced into the chest and abdomen of the senior soldier.

The superior soldier suddenly howled like a wounded wolf, but the left hand hidden behind his back did not hesitate to pull off the steel ring of the grenade, and then turned back to look at the two devil soldiers who were still stabbing themselves in the chest and abdomen with bayonets.

Unfortunately, the desperate counterattack of the superior soldiers was only an insignificant wave on the entire battlefield.

At this moment, the anti-tank trenches originally used to block the advance of the Japanese armored groups and heavy artillery groups have long been covered by thick ice, and groups of trucks full of soldiers, heavy cannons, and groups of heavily armed infantry are stepping through the ice to advance and cut into the deep positions of the 8th Army......

An armored command vehicle, escorted by dozens of armored vehicles, slowly drove through the anti-tank trench and then stopped.

At the opening of the car door, a general of the Kwantung Army wearing a tweed coat appeared at the car door with great ambition, first raised his binoculars and looked at the convoy, artillery team and infantry team that were marching forward, and then waved his right hand at the young officer behind him in high spirits, and said loudly: "Send a report to the headquarters that our forward command has successfully passed the anti-tank trench ......."

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Jinzhou, the South Manchurian Command of the Kwantung Army.

The battle hall was crowded, and the telephone ringing and the ticking of telegrams in the telecommunications room next door had already sounded.

From time to time, communications staff officers hurriedly walked into the combat hall to report the latest progress of the units on the front, and immediately the combat staff officers gathered around the simulated sand table pushed the command rods in their hands one after another to advance the corresponding numbered models of tanks, artillery, and soldiers to the corresponding positions.

The faces of high-ranking generals such as Umezu Mijiro and Tamura Yoshitomi already showed an unconcealable expression.

Judging from the sand table, the 10th Tank Division and the 1st Independent Tank Brigade, which were the assault arrows, had already advanced the front by a full twenty kilometers, while the entire defensive depth of the Chinese 8th Army was only thirty kilometers, that is, as long as the armored cluster advanced another ten kilometers, the squadron's defense line would completely collapse!

"Report!" Suddenly, another staff officer hurriedly entered the combat hall, and immediately retracted his feet and stood upright, "Your Excellency Marshal, the front line command of the 5th Front Army has successfully passed through the anti-tank trench!" ”

Suddenly, the entire battle hall resounded with a tsunami-like cheer.

The front-line command of the 5th Front Army has passed the anti-tank trenches, which means that the sortie cluster of the 5th Front Army has basically passed the anti-tank trenches, which is a full 2 and a half tank divisions, 5 heavy artillery brigades and 10 mechanized infantry divisions, a full 200,000 people, even if they squeeze the squadron to death!

"Your Excellency Marshal, I think I can now make a victory to the base camp!" Yoshitomi Tamura said with joy.

Yoshimoto Sadaichi instinctively felt a little uneasy, he felt that all this was really smooth, and it was a little more than he imagined, the squadron was defeated so easily? He always felt that there seemed to be something wrong with this, but when he looked at the happy Umezu Mijiro, the words that spit out his mouth were swallowed back into his stomach.

In fact, it's all up to this, and it's pointless to remind Umezu Mijiro again.

As the saying goes, there is no turning back arrow when the bow is opened, is it possible to let the 5th Front Army withdraw now?

Umezu Mijiro waved his hand, forcibly suppressed the stupid joy in his heart, and said: "No, it's not yet time to win, immediately call the forward command, and the temporarily allocated 8 anti-aircraft machine gun squadrons must follow closely behind the armored group to strictly guard against the low-altitude attack of the gunship helicopter group of the Shina Army!" ”

"Hello." Yoshitomi Tamura bowed his head suddenly, and immediately took the order.

Speaking of which, the Kwantung Army was quite well prepared this time, not only trying to mobilize 18 tons of ammonium nitrate, but also temporarily transferring more than 200 twin-mounted anti-aircraft machine guns of 20mm caliber or 30mm caliber from various armies to specially cooperate with the armored cluster to defend against low-altitude strikes by the Chinese army aviation troops!

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Positions in depth, the headquarters of the 8th Army.

"Commander, if we don't order a counterattack, our defense line will let the little devils break through!" Chief of Staff Chen Dao hurriedly came to General Li, he was so anxious that he even spoke out of tune, if he was replaced by a political commissar, I was afraid that he would have to exercise the political commissar's right to intervene militarily, but unfortunately the political commissar of the 8th Group Army was concurrently served by General Li.

Mr. Li was still silently looking out the window, letting the rumbling cannon outside get closer and closer, but he never had the intention of ordering a counterattack, but the careful attendant adjutant found that Mr. Li's right hand behind him was constantly clenching, loosening, clenching, and re-loosening, and the frequency of tightening and loosening was getting faster and faster.

Obviously, Mr. Li's mood is also extremely nervous at this moment.

After all, it is related to the victory or defeat of a battle and the life and death of hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers, and it must be false to say that you are not nervous!

Suddenly, another major staff officer hurriedly entered the war room and said urgently: "The latent observation post in the forward position reports that the Japanese advance command has passed through the anti-tank trench, and the baggage troops and mobile oil depots are approaching the anti-tank trench, and in addition, some tanks in the Japanese armored cluster have begun to turn back to refuel!" ”

"Good!" When Mr. Li heard this, he immediately waved his fist viciously.

Immediately, Mr. Li turned around again, strode to the edge of the simulated sand table, stared at the sand table with blazing eyes, and continuously issued orders for each department to attack.

"The lurking observation post immediately directs the heavy artillery division to interrupt the shelling!"

"Tank divisions attack on all fronts, don't fight head-on with the Japanese armored clusters, and lead them around the position until they run out of fuel!"

"All the armed helicopters of the Army Aviation Division took off, rushed behind the enemy from both flanks, melted the ice with napalm, cut off the anti-tank trenches again, and then killed and injured a large number of infantry clusters that the Kwantung Army followed up, and the 82nd and 86th Infantry Divisions immediately attacked, launched a counteroffensive on the Japanese army on all fronts, and quickly wiped out the remnants of the enemy!"

One military order after another was issued, and in an instant, the 8th Army began a fierce counterattack!

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Front Command of the 5th Front of the Kwantung Army.

Senior General Shizuo Yokoyama was standing on the armored command vehicle with binoculars in his hand, watching a group of trucks loaded with military supplies, especially gasoline and diesel, rumbling from a distance, and from time to time he turned back to Major General Shiro Makino, chief of staff of the 5th Front Army, and said: "Makino-kun, let these fools move quickly, the chariot troops will be back to refuel soon." ”

"Hello." Makino Shiro bowed his head suddenly, and beckoned to the young staff officer not far away, "Yours, immediately raise the flag to let them speed up, and all preparations for refueling and maintenance must be made within ten minutes!" ”

"Boom, whistle, whistle, ......" Makino's voice fell, and the piercing sound of cannonballs suddenly swept through the sky.

"Your Excellency, General, be careful!" Makino Shiro shouted, and was about to step forward to throw Yokoyama Shizuo to the ground, but was pushed to the side by Yokoyama Shizuo, and one stumbled and almost fell a dog to eat, and then Yokoyama Shizuo said with disdain, "The artillery quality of the Shina Army is too poor, and the bullet impact point is thousands of meters...... Belch! ”

In the middle of his words, Shizuo Yokoyama suddenly snorted and said no more.

Makino Shiro was extremely uncomfortable by Yokoyama Shizuo's half-cut words, and when he looked up urgently, he saw that Yokoyama Shizuo was looking at the north with extremely frightened eyes, and the face on his face turned into a gray color in an instant, Makino Shiro's heart suddenly sank, and he slowly turned around, only to see that the rows of shells had been continuously exploding on the battlefield, and although the bullet impact point was thousands of meters away from the forward base of the 5th Front Army, it just blocked the way of the logistics troops, especially the mobile oil depot!

Trucks transporting military supplies were constantly hit by shells and suddenly collapsed, countless gun parts and steel fragments suddenly rolled into the air, and occasionally trucks full of gasoline and diesel barrels were hit by grenades, and the movement was very loud, and the churning flames were dozens of meters high!

"It can't be." Shizuo Yokoyama hissed cold air in his throat and said dreamily, "Isn't the artillery of the Shina Army long-eyed?" How did you block the advance passage of our logistics troops so accurately!? Or is this a trap at all, they have a latent observation post at the front, and there are artillery observers? ”

In particular, the timing of the squadron's counterattack was too ruthless, just stuck in the heavy artillery group of the 5th Front Army moving forward, while the tank group was at the juncture of turning back to refuel, at this moment, the Kwantung Army could not even organize firepower to counteract, and Shizuo Yokoyama could only watch his logistics troops explode and collapse under the fire of the squadron......

In an instant, Yokoyama Shizuo's heart sank to the bottom, and the mechanized heavy equipment that lost logistics support and fuel supply was simply a pile of scrap iron lumps, and the squadron could completely annihilate more than 600 Type IV tanks and more than 100 Tiger heavy tanks and more than 500 heavy guns that broke into the deep position without much effort!

Suddenly, Shizuo Yokoyama's eyes fell on the 8 infantry divisions that were marching forward in a neat marching formation, and now, he could only hope for these 8 infantry divisions and the 2 heavy motorized infantry divisions that were cooperating with the armored cluster to attack the deep position!

As long as these 8 infantry divisions and 2 heavy motorized infantry divisions can survive the most difficult two hours, and another batch of logistics supplies and gasoline and diesel that have been urgently reinforced from the rear front can be sent to the front again, then this battle is still promising! In any case, at least in terms of strength and firepower, the 5th Front had an overwhelming advantage.

What's more, the 5th Front has already broken through the squadron's defenses!

"Your Excellency, Helicopter!" Shiro Makino suddenly shouted in horror, "The army aviation unit of the Shina Army! ”

Shizuo Yokoyama shivered excitedly, looked up sharply, and saw that hundreds of black helicopter gunships had emerged from the low altitude on the left and right sides like ghosts, these gunships seemed to be slow and leisurely in the air, but in fact they were much faster than tanks, and in less than a moment, more than 200 gunships had already flown over the battlefield.

The next moment, one after another huge "aerial bombs" swayed down from the helicopter cabin, hit the ground heavily and then exploded again, and Yokoyama Shizuo was horrified to see that after the sudden explosion of the aerial bombs, a huge sea of fire with a sound of three or four hundred meters long and two or three meters wide was dragged out!

In an instant, the battlefield within a radius of more than ten kilometers suddenly became a hell on earth!

The vast majority of the devil soldiers of the entire 8 infantry divisions who were marching on the battlefield and had no time to evacuate, as well as a large number of trucks, armored vehicles and artillery, were completely enveloped and swallowed by the raging flames, thick smoke and poisonous gas in an instant, and countless devil soldiers fell in the sea of fire and rolled, struggled, and wailed、......

"No, it can't be." Shizuo Yokoyama said dreamily, "How is this possible? ”

Shiro Makino next to him also couldn't believe his eyes, what kind of bomb was this?

Just one bomb can burst and form such a large area of fire?

Moreover, the fire that splashes in all directions after these bombs explode is also extremely terrifying, even if it is only a small faint flame, it is enough to make a veteran soldier who has been in a hundred battles wait to die, the more fierce the fight will be, and the rolling will quickly spread to the whole body, in a word, once it is touched, it can only wait for death!

Even the solid ice frozen on the anti-tank trenches with a thickness of four or five meters quickly melted and vaporized under the scorching heat of these bombs.

Seven or eight bombs were dropped, and the ice layer with a length of more than 2,000 meters completely melted and disappeared, and the once smooth road once again became an insurmountable moat for all the heavy equipment of the Kwantung Army.

"Your Excellency, General, be careful!" Another bomb swayed down, the landing point was nearby, Makino Shiro hurriedly rushed forward, and protected Yokoyama Shizuo under him, Yokoyama Shizuo only felt a burning red light suddenly bloomed in front of him, and when he turned over and sat up, he saw that the surroundings had already turned into a sea of fire.

Shiro Makino was already covered in several flames, and he was rolling, struggling, and wailing in pain.

Those flames looked inconspicuous, but the temperature seemed to be extremely high, and in an instant, they burned through the skin of Makino Shiro, penetrating the muscles, and with the rolling and fluttering of Makino Shiro, the flames were still spreading rapidly throughout his body, and before he completely lost consciousness, Makino Shiro struggled to roll to the feet of Yokoyama Shizuo, and pleaded in a sad voice: "Your Excellency General, please, ......"

Shizuo Yokoyama gritted his teeth, suddenly pulled out the box of Wang Hachi, and aimed at Shiro Makino's eyebrows. R