Half an hour later, fully loaded, a squadron of Djanth bombers began to take off for Manila.

In an underground bunker behind Manila, Masaharu Honma has returned to take refuge here. In the future, he will never set foot on the road to Manila again.

The long, silent night brought endless coldness and desolation. In the air, the smell of gunpowder smoke is constantly emitted. This is the best proof of what was left of a whole day of shelling.

Shimono Masasa, chief of staff of the Japanese Dispatch Force in the Philippines, walked quickly into Honma Masaharu's lounge, and immediately retracted his feet and said to Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma, the supreme commander of the Philippine garrison: "Your Excellency, the casualty statistics have come out, and the number of dead troops in the entire day's artillery bombardment has reached 2,000. Among them, the 23rd Infantry Wing suffered heavy losses, with more than 800 killed and missing, nearly 200 seriously wounded, and the commander of the infantry wing was also killed. ”

The 23rd Wing was the defending force that was stationed in the three mountains.

"What!?" Masaharu Honma said in disbelief, "There are so many casualties? ”

Honma Masaharu was a little difficult to accept the news, hollowing out those three mountains took him countless energy, and it was an important support for the whole of Manila. In his opinion, these three mountains are three large war machines. So, after hearing the news, how can he be able to accept it.

"Hello!" Shimono Massamu bowed his head abruptly and said, "Your Excellency, according to the surviving soldiers, it is really because the Chinese naval guns are too fierce, coupled with the continuous attack for a day, which has caused the collapse of many tunnels. That's why so many elite Imperial soldiers were killed. ”

"Yaga." Honma Masaharu said in a deep voice. "Shimono-kun, it looks like we're in trouble."

"Your Excellency, Commander, we can't expect too much on the fortifications in front, and we must order our troops to build strong blocking fortifications in the rear as soon as possible." Shimono Shoshu suggested.

"Immediately let those damned natives (Filipinos) continue to repair and strengthen the mountain tunnels, and at the same time order the garrison in the rear, and give me all the people around me, and requisition all the timber and cement and steel in the territory, and build fortifications with all my might." Masaharu Honma said angrily.

"Hey!"

"......Boom, Boom" The scream of cannonballs suddenly sounded on the ground. Immediately, the earth shook again.

"Baga, China is a big bully." Masaharu Honma couldn't help but roar. He'd been listening to it all day.

The voice fell. A loud explosion sounded on the ground, and in an instant, the entire underground headquarters began to shake slightly, and a large amount of rubble smoke fell down through the wooden beams on the top of the bunker. Masaharu Honma and Masashi Shimono were disgraced in a moment.

However, the two of them just clenched their fists tightly. In addition to being filled with anger in the heart. To the rumbling cannon outside. There is no way to do it. Not to mention that the shore defense artillery has been destroyed, even if it is not destroyed, it will not reach the Chinese fleet more than 30 nautical miles away. Bombed. It's already doomed.

Immediately after, a series of explosions came down through the surface.

Time passed slowly in the sound of a huge explosion, and when I looked up through the lookout hole, I saw that the entire ground had been completely shrouded in gunsmoke, mixed with the pervasive night, and there was no longer a trace of light!

Gradually, Masaharu Honma's face changed a little.

Shimono Massa's face was also a little embarrassed, and he said in a difficult voice: "Your Excellency Commander, it's a hundred!" ”

Honma Masaharu's legs trembled slightly, what Shimono Masashu said about one hundred and eight did not refer to the number of shells, but the number of salvo rounds, that is to say, the large-caliber main guns of the Chinese Navy have fired a hundred salvos at Manila City, and the total number of shells has definitely exceeded one thousand, and it seems that the Chinese Navy still has no intention of stopping the shelling.

At this moment, a terrible air defense siren sounded on the ground, and the Chinese air force actually came.

As soon as the terrible air defense siren sounded, a huge explosion like a landslide and tsunami had already been violently transmitted from the surface, and in an instant, the entire underground bunker of the command headquarters began to tremble violently. Even the earth shook like an earthquake, and even the station was almost unstable.

Blockbuster bombs, definitely super heavy bombs! Masaharu Honma and Masamu Shimono looked at each other awe-inspiringly.

The aftermath of the explosion of the first bomb has not yet dissipated, and the second and third explosions have struck one after another, and the continuous sound of explosions, with a majestic momentum, stirred up boundless vibrations. The earth shook as if the end were coming, and the whole earth trembled.

Shimono Shoshu also took two steps back abruptly, holding on to the wall to barely stabilize his figure. Honma Masaharu was directly knocked to the ground, and the sand and gravel that shook off the top of the bunker kept falling and smashed on the two of them.

In the endless explosions, one after another violently slammed, the thunderbolt of the blue sky seemed to shatter everyone's eardrums.

Suddenly, there was an even more violent tremor on the earth, and this time it seemed that a real earthquake had come, and it was a big earthquake.

An even louder earth-shattering bang shook Masaharu Honma and Masashu Shimono to the point that they were deaf in both ears, and there was only an endless "buzzing" sound in their ears, and their heads were even more confused.

In the face of the sudden earth-shattering noise, Honma Masaharu and Shimono Shoshu suddenly changed their faces after they woke up slightly. Shimono Shoshu shook his head vigorously, forcibly endured his dizziness, and immediately ran over and picked up Masaharu Honma, who had fallen to the ground. Dragging him, he flashed into the telecommunications room next door and ran towards the passage outside.

As veterans, of course, they could hear that this was the movement of a heavy bomb falling directly on the surface very close to the cover. And Shimono Shoshu, who was already slightly conscious, had already seen that the bunker above his head had been seriously damaged, and even the wood of the last layer of wooden structure had begun to break, and under pressure, there were already signs of imminent collapse.

This is also the reason why Shimono Shoshu hurriedly dragged Honma Masaharu out of here. Almost as soon as Masaharu Honma and Masamu Shimono flashed into the telecommunications room, a dozen large logs on top of the war room collapsed.

This is the power of a super heavy bomb, unless it is an unusually strong and heavy reinforced concrete fortification, as long as it is directly hit, even an underground bunker ten meters deep underground, it will collapse in one shock.

A direct hit by an ordinary heavy bomb can also destroy an ordinary reinforced concrete fortification. It is not too much to say that it is this kind of super heavy bomb, which Chen Yi called "earthquake". Definitely a great killer for any fortification.

In the roar of the previous naval guns, the Djinn God squadron that had already set off also arrived here. After receiving the coordinates, they immediately launched a bombing campaign against the three mountains. The nearly three-ton "earthquake" ground-penetrating bombs brought great shock to all the Japanese troops.

I don't know why, maybe it wasn't right when I hung the bomb. There happened to be an "earthquake" that was off the crosshairs and landed not far from the underground bunker where Masaharu Honma and the others were, causing the damage just now.

The entire underground bunker was directly collapsed in many places. This happened to be within the killing range of the bomb, and the sad Honma Masaharu was almost scared to pee his pants. If it hadn't been for Shimono Shoshu dragging him away, I'm afraid he would have been crushed to death by the collapsed soil and wood.

And on the three big mountains not far from here, the summits that were originally above three or four hundred meters above sea level were directly blown flat by at least fifty meters. A strong explosion rolled up countless rocks and sputtered down the mountain. Many of the debris that flew from the explosion also landed in the city of Manila, which shows the lethality of these violent explosions.

The tunnels in the mountains also began to collapse on a large scale, and the Japanese soldiers who were huddled in them were directly buried in the mud. If you are lucky, you will be crushed to death directly by the rocks and get rid of it as soon as possible. Those Japanese soldiers who were covered by the dirt could only slowly enjoy the fear of death brought about by gradual suffocation, which was definitely hundreds of times more uncomfortable than dying directly.

However, there are still a number of tunnels that remain intact, and these tunnels are located in the middle of the mountain, near the bottom. Although the power of these bombs is large enough, they still cannot completely destroy the entire mountain structure. And the Japanese soldiers who stayed here were lucky enough to pick up a dog's life, so that they could survive for a while.

In the bunker where Masaharu Honma was, more than half of it had collapsed, and only one of the defensive fortresses farthest from the center of the explosion remained. At this time, Masaharu Honma and Masamu Shimono were gasping here.

The shelling outside had stopped, and apparently another wave of shelling had ended.

Honma Masaharu gasped out with palpitations, feeling the slight wetness in the crotch of his pants, and his heart was filled with endless shame. It is undeniable that he was already very scared in his heart, and if it hadn't been for Shimono Massashu pulling him out in time just now, I'm afraid he wouldn't have had a chance to catch his breath.

"Shimono-kun, thank you." Looking at Shimono Shoshu, who was also panting next to him, Masaharu Honma said in a serious voice.

"Your Excellency, Commander, this is not a place to stay for long, you must leave as soon as possible, I am afraid that attacks like this just now will continue." Shimono Shoshu accepted Masaharu's thanks to Honma, but when he came back from the death line, his heart was also full of fear of death.

At the collapse site, those staff officers were directly buried alive before they could react, and although Shimono Massamu had the heart to save these subordinates, he had no time to take care of them! And if such an attack were to happen again, he didn't know if he still had the luck to dodge it.

"Shimono Army, then let's get out of here quickly." Masaharu Honma didn't want to stay here anymore, and the attack that China had just made him fear of death too much. He didn't want to stay here any longer. (To be continued.) )