Chapter 240: Battle of the Dragon River (4)
Outside the town.
Fang Zhensheng trotted over and said to Chen Hanzhang: "Commander, you can start!" ”
"Hmm." Chen Hanzhang nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Order, raise the fire!" ”
"The division commander has an order, raise the fire."
"The division commander has an order, raise the fire."
"The division commander has an order, raise the fire."
Chen Hanzhang's military order quickly spread throughout the division, and the soldiers put the hay and dry branches prepared in advance into a huge wooden spoon, and then poured fire oil, butter, and mutton fat oil. Then it was lit with flint, and suddenly a raging flame erupted, and it turned into a huge fireball along the dry grass and branches soaked in mutton fat.
On the city wall, Xiang Jing Minming laughed and said, "What are these people doing? Do you want to attack the city with such an ancient weapon? ”
Akasawa Nakasa also said: "According to the humble position, there is nothing that can be done about the people of China, this is just playing tricks." ”
Xiang Jing Minming said: "No matter what kind of mystery the people are playing, give the order, let the artillery aim it for me, and when I give the order, I will open the cannon, I want this group of people to know what a cannon is." ”
Political commissar Wang Runcheng said to Chen Hanzhang: "Division commander, you see that the little devil has really entered the trap we set for them. ”
Chen Hanzhang gritted his teeth and said: "The comrades of the past have spirits in the sky, and the death period of the little devil and the puppet Manchu army has arrived!" This time, none of them will try to escape, I will let them all turn to ashes and bury all the comrades and compatriots who sacrificed! ”
"Your Excellency, Wing Commander, it's not good." In the sound of hurried footsteps, a Japanese squad leader hurriedly climbed the city wall and said quickly. "Fire, fire. There's a fire in the town! ”
"Nani!" Xiang Jing Minming scolded, "Although there are many wooden houses and grass huts in this town. But now it's a cold winter moon, how to start a fire? ”
"It's really on fire." The Japanese squad leader hurriedly said, "Wing Commander, please take a look." ”
Xiang Jing Minming looked in the direction of the Japanese squad leader's finger, and sure enough, he saw several fires in the city. Smoke rose into the sky, and many soldiers ran out of their houses naked, standing in the street shouting, and many more soldiers gathered around and shouting, and the situation was extremely chaotic.
Xiang Jing Minming said angrily: "Then what are you doing in a daze, why don't you go and put out the fire quickly!" ”
"Hey!"
The Japanese squad leader agreed. Hurried away again.
When a fire broke out in the city, Mukai Minming didn't pay attention to it, after all, even if there were fires in a few places, it would be difficult for the fire to spread. What he was worried about was the people outside the city, and he didn't know what tricks he would play. When Mukai Toshiming looked back at the outside of the city, he found that the people outside were still using ancient machines to release fireballs into the city, which made Mukai Toshiming very angry, and urged the artillery to come and hit the crowd outside the city.
On the other side of town, half a squadron of Japanese artillerymen who had just eaten and drunk were now asleep. Even though there was a fire next to them, they were lying on the ground peacefully, not because they were tired from a day's march, but because they were killed in a sweet dream. On the side, a group of anti-United Nations fighters who had changed their clothes were quietly observing the movements of the Japanese army outside the door.
At the beginning of the Japanese army's operation, the underground party in Mukden sacrificed several people in order to spread this information, and even the underground organization in Mukden was destroyed. When he learned that a group of Japanese troops was going to pass here, Meng Qingshan thought of a novel he had read in later generations and burned the city. So he wanted to give these little devils a fire barbecue.
Set up a plan in Meng Qingshan, and Chen Hanzhang led the first division to the designated place. First of all, they cooperated with the local salvation association and mobilization meeting to mobilize the people of the whole town, of course, there were some people who were unwilling to go, so they were escorted to a safe place by the anti-union fighters, and the people of the whole town were moved to the town in the rear by the anti-union movement, and some landlords were left in the whole town, but the Japanese army never thought that the group of people left behind was not the so-called friends of the imperial army, all of them were pretended to be the anti-Japanese army, and they were ready to cooperate with the main force outside to eliminate this group of Japanese troops.
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On the walls outside the town.
The Japanese squad leader rushed to the city wall with a panicked expression, and said to Mukai Toshiaki: "Your Excellency, Wing Commander, the big thing is not good. ”
Xiang Jing Minming frowned and said, "What's the matter?" ”
The Japanese squad leader said: "There is no water in the city, and the fire is burning more and more fiercely!" ”
"Nani?" Toshiaki Xiang said in a deep voice, "It's really possible!"
"Your Excellency, Captain, go and have a look."
"Okay, Chi Ze, you lead the Manchurian regiment to cooperate with the defending troops to defend the city, you must not let this group of people attack in, go and take a look."
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Inside the town.
Huo Ran, the captain of the Japanese army, turned around and saw that the fire that had just been extinguished with snow was not extinguished, but was burning more and more fiercely, and he couldn't help but be surprised: "Nani? ”
In just a few moments, the fire had become more and more violent, and the wind was blowing very strongly. The wind fuels the fire, and the flames are getting higher and higher. Suddenly, the faint circle of fire had burned into a sea of fire.
Toshiaki Mukai, who came from afar, could faintly feel the heat wave sent by the cold wind.
"Yaga! Look at the burning town! In this way, the whole town will be in flames in a few moments. Xiang Jing Minming wiped the sweat on his forehead, and said to a Japanese squad leader beside him, "You take a few people to see, how did this fire burn?" How can it be more and more hot in this winter, and how did it burn? ”
"Hey!"
The Japanese squad leader agreed, and ran towards the fire site with several soldiers.
The Japanese soldiers were constantly tumbling and struggling in the sea of fire, and from time to time they let out bursts of terrible howls, which were terrifying to hear, and in less than a moment, the smell of barbecued meat began to waft into the air.
When the Japanese army arrived at the scene of the incident, there was a sound of inhalation, and all the Japanese soldiers were frightened by this terrible scene! At this moment, it has completely spread everywhere and there is a huge fire burning everywhere.
Everyone was forced to gather in the safe area on the right side of the town, only this area was safe without any fire, the fire had not yet spread, and it could be accommodated for the time being, but it would not be long before the rapidly spreading fire would burn here, so the soldiers rushed here like crazy, and from time to time there were unlucky soldiers who were squeezed down by the people behind and trampled to death.
Chen Hanzhang, who was outside the city, looked at the fire in the city and said to Wang Runcheng beside him: "It's time for Runcheng, launch a signal flare!" Let's give the little devils a big fireworks to celebrate the upcoming New Year. ”
Hearing Chen Hanzhang's words, Wang Runcheng said with a smile: "Okay." He took out a flare gun from his waist and fired three shots into the sky, three signal flares of different colors illuminated the dark night, and when the anti-United Nations fighters in various courtyards saw the signal flares, they pressed the detonator that had been prepared long ago, "Boom, boom, boom!" When the smoke was blown away by the wind, the whole town was full of the sound of Japanese soldiers wailing, and the walls of the town had been blown down at this time, and the Japanese puppet troops on the city walls all went to the sky, and the Japanese soldiers who thought they were hiding in a safe place all got on the earthen planes prepared for them by the Anti-Japanese Federation.
If you don't panic when the fire starts, if you look closely, you will find that there is a large amount of coal in these places that cannot be extinguished, and these coals are made of gasoline, so they can't be extinguished, but these are only a few, and the remaining small flames are easy to extinguish, but the Japanese army has been staring at the big flames, so that they have a good opportunity to take measures.
When the anti-union fighters walked into the town, less than a squadron of Japanese soldiers took the opportunity to escape over the wall, and their weapons were thrown on the ground, which was cheap to cooperate with the militia troops fighting the main force, who had been carrying red tassel guns to help the main force transport food and gasoline, but they did not expect to be able to pick up dozens of rifles.
The fire burning in the town has been extinguished by God's goose feather snow, except for some small flames that are still burning, the Japanese puppet army in the whole town is only left with some scattered Japanese troops and wailing everywhere without breathing, after half an hour of cleaning up the anti-union Union, finally cleared all the remaining Japanese troops in the town, of course, the trophies only captured some rifles, as for the mortars were blown up by shells, at this time the sun slowly rose, the anti-union troops treated the wounded and slowly marched to the distance with the trophies, Chen Hanzhang rode his horse and looked back at the town that was almost in ruins, and said silently in his heart: "Little devil, this is just a lesson, in the next battle, your grandfather Hanzhang will let you know that our Anti-Japanese Federation is not easy to provoke, and one day we will drive you out of China." (To be continued......)