Chapter 395: Huaxing's Air Force
Tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers who wanted to snatch the battle merits rushed out of the various ruins and bunkers two kilometers away from the defense area of the escort army, and in order to compete for the battle merits, these soldiers gathered into dozens of people to charge the position of the escort army.
The Japanese squad leader, squadron leader, and even the captain of the Japanese army behind him were all full of energy, waving the command knife in their hands vigorously, and the reporters accompanying the army also scrambled to take pictures, they wanted to record the precious historical moment when the imperial soldiers launched the final charge against the defenders of Nanjing.
They believed that when these precious photographs were sent back to Japan, they would be loved by the people of all Japan, and they would become heroes of the empire just like these heroic imperial soldiers, and that more aspiring young people would join the sacred imperial army.
Seeing that the soldiers from all directions had rushed to the front of the steel fortress group one after another, before these Japanese soldiers could find a way to enter the fortress.
Countless Chinese soldiers wearing Chinese army uniforms and pig-nosed gas masks suddenly appeared from the ruins and ruins.
One by one, they held all kinds of light and heavy machine guns, and fired at the Japanese troops in front of the fortress group, accompanied by grenades thrown at the Japanese ranks.
The Japanese soldiers, who reacted quickly, immediately fired back at the Chinese soldiers in all directions. As a result, the triangular fortress, which had not reacted all along, suddenly moved.
The three-sided firing ports were opened, and three huge machine guns were extended. Then there was the sound of dull anti-aircraft machine gun gunfire.
On the side of the street, next to the ruins, all the Japanese soldiers who had just entered the defense area of the Hainan Escort Army were dizzy by bullets and grenades from shooters from all directions.
Many Japanese soldiers had just set up mortars and wanted to attack the Chinese soldiers hiding behind the ruins, but suddenly many Chinese soldiers were shooting at the Japanese soldiers with straight rocket launchers one after another.
These bazookas were so powerful that they exploded in the Japanese army without stopping. Almost every rocket that exploded took the lives of several Japanese soldiers, and even more so the Japanese mortars who were attacked by the rockets were detonated from the shell boxes on their shoulders.
With the detonation of the shell box, more Japanese soldiers were blown up. What frightened the Japanese soldiers the most was the triangular fortress, and the danger of the three flat-firing anti-aircraft machine guns was too great.
Often, a single anti-aircraft machine gun bullet could pierce the bodies of three or four Japanese soldiers at close range. And every Japanese soldier who was hit by an anti-aircraft machine gun was all divided into four pieces, and his flesh and blood flew everywhere, which was even more tragic than being killed by an artillery shell.
These Japanese soldiers also did not have time to think about why the Chinese army, which had always been backward in equipment, had so many gas masks.
Thousands of poison gas bombs not only did not hurt a single hair of the Chinese army, but instead made the Japanese army plan to fight a big ambush for the Japanese army.
Two kilometers away, the Japanese artillerymen, who saw the attacking Japanese soldiers slaughtered by the heavy machine guns of the Hainan Guards, immediately replaced themselves with normal shells and began to carry out covered shelling of the positions of the Guards, which these artillerymen wanted to prevent the Chinese troops from shooting at the Japanese troops.
At this time, in a church in Nanjing that was still in good condition, in the temporary headquarters of the Japanese army, Matsui Ishone, who had just learned of the failure of the poison gas bomb attack, was furious, and he scolded the generals in the headquarters one by one, believing that someone must have leaked the plan of the poison gas attack this morning to the Chinese defenders.
Generals including Kojuo and Yanagawa Heisuke were scolded by Matsui Ishone, and he asked these division commanders to personally command their respective divisions, no matter what method they used, before sunset today, they must wipe out the Hainan Escort Army.
Several division commanders had never seen Matsui Ishine so angry, and one by one he fled back to his division commander. Seeing that all the division commanders had left the headquarters, Matsui Ishine's mood was a little better.
At this time, Nanzao Yunzi looked at her watch, calculated the time, and walked towards Matsui Ishine step by step. She suggested to Matsui Ishine that in order to better destroy the defenders of the Hainan Guard, some bombers could actually be dispatched from Shanghai.
Although there were not many anti-aircraft machine guns in the Hainan Guards, the army was allowed to make a heavy encirclement posture, and then attract the firepower of the escorts with small forces.
Taking advantage of the shelling of various artillery pieces against the escort army, and then the huge aircraft group composed of hundreds of bombers carpeted the small escort defense area, even if all the triangular fortresses could not be blown up, at least the corpses of the more than 10,000 Chinese defenders outside the fortress would be gone.
At the same time, in order to urge all divisions and regiments to attack with all their might, she was willing to go to the front line to supervise the battle in person.
Matsui Ishine felt a little better when he saw that Nanzo Yunzi was so enthusiastic, and he immediately gave the Japanese Air Force at the Shanghai airfield a combat order.
All the heavy bombers immediately loaded their bombs and came to Nanjing to carry out the bombing mission. At the same time, he personally gave Nanzao Yunzi an order to form a team of superintendents.
Nanzao Yunzi happily accepted the task, and then when she left the temporary headquarters and returned to her residence, she sent Matsui Shigen's last order to Li Tie, who was commanding everything in Chongqing.
He took the members of the original Yunzi group out of Nanjing City with the latest order, and hid in a small village not far away.
When Miss Yunzi left Nanjing, no one knew where she had gone, and the Japanese troops on the front line attacking the Hainan Escort heard that a hundred bombers would come to Nanjing to bomb the Escort's position.
The morale of all the Japanese troops was greatly boosted, and they shouted that it was long overdue to send planes to blow up the turtle shells of the escort troops. I don't know whose idea was to persuade him to surrender, but he didn't say anything about surrendering, and several thousand Japanese soldiers died in front of the position of the Hainan Escort Army early this morning.
The high-ranking generals of the Japanese army all knew that General Matsui Ishine had been scolded by the emperor, and they also knew that General Matsui Ishine had given a death order to capture the positions of the Hainan Guards before sunset today.
At present, around the Hainan Guard, a full 80,000 Japanese troops and 700 large-caliber artillery pieces of various types are lined up in front of the position of the escort army two kilometers away, and all the Japanese troops are ready to go.
As soon as the air force arrived, the air and ground were combined to bombard the positions of the Hainan Escort Army into slag.
Minutes and seconds passed, and an hour and a half later, a huge fleet of more than 300 planes flew from the west of Nanjing. The Japanese soldiers on the ground had begun to wave the Japanese flag happily.
Many Japanese soldiers took out their bayonets and put them on and put them on all the cannons, just waiting for the first bomber bombs to drop on the positions of the convoys.
The captain of an artillery brigade looked at the hundreds of planes in the sky, and his heart suddenly rose with pride: "Look at the air force of our Great Japanese Empire, what a magnificent scene."
Hundreds of planes bombed at the same time, and when we bombed Shanghai a few days ago, there was no time when hundreds of bombers were dispatched at one time. ”
But thinking of this, the artillery captain suddenly discovered a strange thing, that is, except for a few dozen of these hundreds of planes that looked very small, the remaining hundreds of planes looked so big.
If he remembers correctly, although there were nearly 700 planes in Shanghai, it seems that there were only 100 bombers, and the remaining 600 were all fighters and reconnaissance planes. Could it be that the empire itself has been reinforced with hundreds of bombers?
Just when the commander of the artillery group was puzzled, he found that after flying over the escort troops, these planes did not immediately drop bombs, but scattered in all directions, divided into several groups and flew towards the periphery of Nanjing.
It was at this time that some sharp-eyed Japanese soldiers suddenly shouted: "Oh no, it's a Chinese plane." Then, there was a panic in the artillery ranks, and even the infantry not far away scattered in all directions, all in a hurry to find a hidden spot to escape the bombing of the Chinese planes.
The artillery captain still couldn't believe it, he took out his binoculars and looked at the planes that were flying in the direction of his artillery position, only to see that the fuselage of these planes was all printed with the words Huaxing Airlines.
"Is there any mistake? Isn't this a transport plane from Huaxing? This thing can also be bombed? "This artillery captain really couldn't understand what the Chinese wanted to do, and they actually used civilian aircraft to carry out bombing.
They don't know that the delivery of aerial bombs requires a special bomb magazine, and it is not scientific to modify the bomb magazine with ordinary civilian aircraft.
But what surprised him was that these modified airliners did not drop bombs from the belly, they dropped huge packages from the tail.
In fact, among these passenger planes, there are actually nearly 100 professional bombers, but these bombers also did not drop the usual bombs, and they also dropped countless huge packages from the belly.
These bombers were also very strange, because after dropping packages on the various Japanese positions on the periphery of the Hainan Escort Army's defense area, they did not even have time to check the results of the battle before they returned to their respective flights, but 50 escort fighters kept flying over Nanjing.
Then, when the first large package fell in the air and exploded, the Japanese army really reflected that these large packages were so powerful.
After these packages exploded in the air, nearly 1,000 square meters of fire were emitted, and then these packages in the entire air actually ignited each other, and a more intense explosion occurred again.
The artillery captain was still laughing at Huaxing Company, and he said that this passenger plane could not be converted into a bomber, right? Well, the bomb detonated in advance in the air, and then, at this moment, the rain of fire fell towards the artillery position on the ground, and a small spark landed on the shoulder of the artillery captain: "Wow, it hurts." ”
The captain immediately patted the little spark on his shoulder with his hand, but his hand was also stained with the little spark: "Wow, what, why can't you get rid of it?" ”
At this time, the commander of the artillery group, who thought he was smart, was on fire except for his shoulder, and the captain of the painful group immediately jumped into the pool beside him, but the fire was still not extinguished in the pool.
"Wow, ah, help!" The captain of the artillery group howled miserably in the pool, and at the same time, more miserable screams rang out in the artillery group.