Chapter 268: The Battle of Lilu (6)

"Luodian Town is only three square kilometers, and the town is surrounded by many xiǎo rivers and ponds, which is not suitable for large-scale troop movements, so we can only put troops into it one by one, but this kind of refueling tactic is taboo. Therefore, the support of our aviation and your artillery is particularly important, Division Commander Wang, it is up to you below! ”

Hu Lian, Wang Qinglong, who had just arrived, and other officers sat in front of a huge sand table, and Hu Lian personally explained the plan he had formulated.

"No problem, as long as you need artillery support, we are always ready to provide support!" Wang Qinglong, who had a centipede scar on his right forehead, looked very hideous at this time.

At this time, in the sky above Luodian, two twin-engine F-5E lightning reconnaissance planes swept over Luodian 1,000 meters away, and after a while, they turned back and swooped downward, using their airborne reconnaissance cameras to photograph various targets on the ground.

"Buzz, buzz、......"

The roar of the two planes when they dived made the Japanese soldiers on the ground, who had just captured Luodian and were still resting at this time, hurriedly lie on the ground, and looked at the two planes that were rapidly passing in the air with a look of fear and anger, and before they could come to their senses, the planes that flew over their heads flew over their heads again, this time at a lower height, so that when some bold Japanese soldiers looked into the air, they could even see the black tiger flag on a white background and the blue sky and white sun flag on the fuselage of the plane flying sideways.

"Baga, are the empire's navigas dead? I even let the reconnaissance plane of the Chinese people take pictures on our heads! ”

On the ground, the co-captain of the 12th Wing of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army (Shantongji Division) looked at the sky and cursed angrily.

"Yellow finches, yellow finches! I'm staring, I'm staring, wild horses have been spotted, wild horses have been spotted! Azimuth 036, azimuth 036. Repeated, wild horses have been found, azimuth"

After flying over the heads of the Japanese troops again, the pilots who identified them immediately used the radio to contact the temporary field airfield in Wuxi.

The airfield in Wuxi was originally a field standby airfield, and it was also the temporary station of the two flying regiments of the 4th Air Division transferred from Longmén, and the pilots in this field airfield were neatly dressed at this time. The plane had already entered the taxiway, and everyone was anxiously waiting for the order from the control tower to attack.

"Burn those bastards!"

As the ground crew told the pilots when they hung napalm on the fighter planes, the tragic situation of the Japanese planes bombarded by the heavy artillery of the Japanese planes in Luodian and the brutal situation of the Japanese troops had reached the ears of everyone at the airport. Division by division was filled in, but only three to five were disabled by the Japanese planes and heavy artillery, and some divisions of more than 10,000 people were left with less than 1,000 men in half a day's effort.

But even so, the brothers rushed to the battlefield without hesitation.

Anger runs through everyone's heart. The rampant and brutality of the Japanese army infuriated everyone, and most of the 50-kilogram aerial bombs that had been hung under the wings were removed, and the high-explosive aerial bombs were replaced by napalm by the ground crew.

At this time, Yuan Hongming, commander of the 4th Air Division, who had just arrived at the Wuxi airport and was anxiously waiting for the reconnaissance plane's report on the command tower, heard the pilot's briefing. He immediately grabbed the microphone and ordered.

"Stare, stare. I am a yellow finch, I am a yellow finch. Continue to track down enemy forces. Continue to track down enemy forces. Regularly report the location of the enemy ......"

"Staring received! Staring received! Confirm the command. Continue to track down enemy forces. Regularly report the location of enemy troops! ”

"Order the troops to attack!"

After hearing the command from the reconnaissance aircraft confirming the command. Yuan Hongming turned to the chief of staff of the border area and said.

At this time, the runway side has been looking at the tower platform signalman. I saw the scene that I had been waiting for for a long time. The signalmen on the tower issued the order to attack with the signal.

"Bang! Bang! Two gunshots rang out. Two green flares dragged the long smoke dragon straight into the sky.

"Burn those dog mongrels! Brother, please! ”

Finally, the ground crew, who checked the machinery and the mount of the bomb for the aircraft, shouted to the pilot!

The pilot didn't answer, just gave the ground crew a thumbs up!

More than 30 47 engines roared along with more than 60 Stuka dive bombers, which became the only sound in the airfield. This is already all the bombing power in Yuan Hongming's hands!

One after another, planes began to slide off the runway, and the heavy fuselage full of bombs flew into the sky with difficulty.

Two miles away from Luodian, more than 4,000 officers and men of the 6th Regiment of the 102nd Division gathered in a forward position, all of them fully armed, waiting for the officer's order, while the officers looked at the sky in the distance, waiting for the familiar voice in the sky to come.

In the distance, more than 200 mén guns of Wang Qinglong's Fourth Artillery Division had already set up positions, and the huge muzzles of the guns that had faded from their armor pointed straight ahead.

In Luodian, the position that was still emitting misty green smoke was anxiously contacting the liaison officer of the navy: "Missy Mixi, I am the commander of the 12th wing, and there are two reconnaissance planes of Shina above me, and I ask the navy to send planes to shoot them down or drive them away." Otherwise, every move of our army will be under the surveillance of the Zhina army! Please! ”

"Hey! Please don't worry, I will definitely report to the chief, but the plane is very busy right now, please be patient! ”

The polite and unfamiliar words of the liaison officer sounded so hateful to Xiǎo Yanagizu Masao Daisa.

"Yaga, a bunch of fools, we'll all get it when the Navy planes arrive!" Xiǎo Yanagizu Masao Dasa, who put down the microphone, scolded that his years of military career gave him a bad premonition.

"No, you have to inform the division commander!" The more Yanagizu Masao Daisa thought about it, the more wrong it became.

Xiǎo, who had just picked up the microphone, heard a familiar and unfamiliar buzz coming from the clouds.

"Hey, are those idiots in the Navy moving so fast today?" Xiǎo Yanagizu Masao thought curiously.

Luodian is actually not big, and the area of three square kilometers can fly back and forth in the blink of an eye for an airplane. Under the guidance of the reconnaissance planes, the bomber group soon found the location of the Japanese troops in Luodian Town.

The captain of the Stuka Bombardment Brigade looked at the beautiful scenery below that was originally surrounded by green water, but now it had turned into a desert under the raging war, and his already cold heart became stronger.

"Bomber group, follow me, prepare to dive and drop bombs!"

"Yaga, that's not an imperial plane," Xiǎo Yanagizu Masao blinked, reconfirming the unfamiliar black tiger logo on a white background on the plane that swooped down from the clouds.

"All hidden, it's a Chinese plane!"

As soon as Xiǎo Yanagizu Masao's order was issued, the plane on the clouds swooped straight down, and without Xiǎo Yanagizu Masao's orders, the Japanese soldiers who had been in battle for a long time lay on the ground or found cover to hide.

The first bomb dropped by Stuka was not napalm, but an ordinary 500-kilogram high-explosive bomb, and the smoke cloud from the explosion of the high-explosive bomb would serve as an indication of the target, and the bomber group that followed it would drop bombs in turn.

The free-falling bomb in the air grew bigger and bigger in the eyes of the soldiers on the ground who did not rush to dodge, and finally swept over the heads of the soldiers at a very fast speed, and landed in the center of Luodian Town, and in an instant, a huge shock wave mixed with countless steel fragments swept across the ground and overturned a large number of soldiers nearby.

A burst of sand and gravel and the bricks and tiles of the houses in Luodian Town burst open, splashing everywhere in all directions, and for a time the smoke and dust filled the entire Xiǎo Town, and before the soldiers of the 12th Wing of the Japanese Army could react, several bombs fell on both sides of Xiǎo Town one after another, and the earth seemed to tremble with the explosion.

The Stuka group had already begun to drop bombs along the 100-meter-high cloud of black-and-gray smoke raised by high-explosive bombs, and napalm immediately began to drag the sound of "whoosh, whoo......sh" free-fall, falling one after another from a height of one meter towards the ground. When there were still several hundred meters above the ground, the incendiary cluster bomb containing nine Xiǎo was activated by the timing fuse, and the fixed cable outside the iron shell was blown open, and then the nine Xiǎo napalm were scattered in all directions like scattered flowers.

At this time, the bombing of Luodian seemed to be very different from ordinary bombing, and there was no deafening explosion in the traditional sense, although the bombs kept falling, and the continuous explosion was not even as violent as the gunshots. "Sizzle...... Sizzle...... "When the gasoline bomb explodes, it doesn't make a loud noise, or even just a weird sizzle.

Just like a gasoline bomb dragging a one-meter-long strip of cloth hit the ground and threw shè bombs instantly, the bomb was immediately detonated, and then shè sprayed out a fire dragon more than 30 meters long, and the napalm blocks sprayed out immediately fell on almost every corner of xiǎo town, further expanding the burning area, and those soldiers who were originally running wildly all over xiǎo town were also hit by splashing napalm blocks, and suddenly the position and xiǎo town were full of miserable screams.

Splashing napalm on a person is like lard paste. Viscous and burn-resistant. The soldier who was hit tried to slap the oil on his body with his hand. But the more it hits, the more it gets bigger. And their hands were on fire. Some of the soldiers who couldn't stand the pain wanted to roll on the ground to extinguish the fire. As a result, his whole body was covered with fire. At this time, the Xiǎo town of Luodian could be seen everywhere with those people screaming in the flames. It was like being in hell, and the Burning Man was constantly struggling with the last of his strength. to alleviate their own suffering. As a result, he was burning oil and human oil. Throw it on the other people around you. There are more and more burning people. When the stumbling fire man hits a nearby tree, he also ignites the tree.

Just after the napalm ignited the ground in Luodian. Suddenly a strong gust of wind blew in the air. Wind speeds are as high as sixty kilometers per xiǎo.

This area of only three square kilometers quickly formed a sea of fire. The wind fuels the fire. The wind blows away the flames. The fire spread quickly. made Luodian immediately fall into a sea of fire. Amid the explosions and the flames, the cries for help of the soldiers came and went. The soldiers who had tried to save their comrades were forced to abandon the attempt at this time. The fire caused a strong convective wind between the hot air and the cold air. Wind speeds are as high as kilometers per hour. Fire borrows the wind. The wind fuels the fire. The fire set almost everything on fire. Even firearms and artillery in the interior were melted by the heat. Both men and weapons and equipment spontaneously combusted in the suffocating heat!

The incendiary bombs were scattered everywhere by the strong wind, and some scattered flames were ignited everywhere around Luodian. Under the action of wind and earth, scattered flames quickly converged into a raging sea of fire.

"Oh my God! The whole Luo store is on fire! ”

After dropping the bombs, the Stuka pilots hurriedly pulled up the plane, and they could still see the black smoke and the fire that could not be hidden even in the daytime at a height of thousands of meters. Even they are marveling at their 'masterpieces'.

At this time, the crowd burned bigger and bigger, and the heat spread to all around, which made the two sides of China and Japan, who were fighting desperately around Luodian, involuntarily stop fighting, and looked at the scorching heat from Luodian not far away.

At this time, the entire Shanghai Tang saw the smoke and fire hundreds of meters high in the sky above Luodian! Even Matsui Ishone on the heavy cruiser 'Kako', which was dozens of miles away, saw it.

"Intelligence officer, come to me at once!" Matsui immediately had a bad premonition, as if something bad was going to happen.

After a while, the intelligence staff officer hurriedly came to Matsui Ishone's office.

"Report to the commander, there is a fire on the Luodian side, and the Twelfth Wing is interrupted from contact!"

"Nani? Contact is broken! Send someone to check it out now! Matsui Ishone commanded loudly.

"The reconnaissance plane has been dispatched, but the fire there is too big for the reconnaissance plane to get close to the scene!" The staff officer's helpless words were accompanied by Matsui Ishone's face.

"What is it about the fire that is so fierce? Yes, it must have been the kind of gasoline bomb that Chahar used last time in Datan Town" Matsui Ishone, who was slumped in his chair, immediately thought of the terrible gasoline bomb that had caused the destruction of the 13th Division a year earlier.

At that time, the experts of the empire had gone to Datan to investigate and take samples, and after studying them, they handed a report to the military headquarters, which said that it was a new type of petrol bomb, so powerful that it could burn almost everything, even metal.

"Could it be that the fate of the 13th Division befell the 12th Wing again last year?" Matsui Ishine could now confirm the fate of the 12th Wing that had just captured Luodian.

The fire interrupted many of the combat deployments of both sides, including the 102nd Division, which was preparing to launch an attack.

"Divisional commander, do we still want to attack?" Wang Changqing, the commander of the Sixth Regiment, who was originally scheduled to attack as the first Pots, stammered and asked Hu Lian on the phone.

"Attack, don't you see it there?" Hu Lian's somewhat depressed but joyful voice came from the phone.

"Doodoo"

Listening to the blind voice on the phone, Wang Changqing and the soldiers who had been preparing for the attack for a long time were dumbfounded