Chapter 333: Burning Hirosaki Castle

"Spread out and move forward." Wang Qiguang waved his hand, and the soldiers hunched their waists and continued to move forward with fairly standard tactical movements, taking advantage of nearby obstacles from time to time to hide their figures.

'Bang' a gunshot, this is the regimental sniper brigade fired, using a Type 03 semi-automatic rifle equipped with a quadruple sniper scope, these snipers hit quite accurately, a Japanese soldier just showed his head, a sniper bullet accurately hit his forehead, the Japanese soldier raised his hand, fell directly from the third floor.

A squad of Guards soldiers was groping their way through the alleys when suddenly a group of Japanese civilians dressed in civilian clothes rushed towards them with short knives. Seeing this group of people, old and young, the soldiers of the Guards were stunned, and in a moment, this group of Japanese people had already approached, and the first few people waved their short knives and cut down several Guards soldiers.

When the fighters who were walking behind saw their companions being cut down, they immediately came to their senses, picked up their semi-automatic rifles, and without hesitation, pressed the trigger. Several fighters fired quickly, knocking a group of Japanese people down in a pool of blood.

"Are these people crazy?" Several soldiers hurriedly ran forward, took out the first-aid kits equipped by individual soldiers, and bandaged their wounded comrades.

The bandages in the hands of the warriors continued, but their eyes occasionally looked at the Japanese civilians who were still writhing and moaning in pools of blood, including several children under the age of fifteen, who were still holding short knives in their hands even if they were dead.

The Chinese army's medical system was very well-developed, and soon several stretcher bearers carried the wounded and dead soldiers down. The remaining soldiers searched cautiously, and soon they came to the courtyard where the Japanese had rushed out, and one of the soldiers stepped forward and kicked the door open, and the first one rushed in, and as soon as he tried to shoot with his rifle, he found a pair of frightened eyes in the room.

In the room was a group of women, from sixty-year-old ladies to babies under the age of one, who had no weapons in their hands at all, and had no intention of resisting, but just stared timidly with their eyes, and these heavily armed soldiers in front of them did not even dare to come out.

The soldier breathed a sigh of relief, raised the muzzle of his gun, and said to his comrades behind him: "Why is the contrast between these Japanese people so great, the men are so fierce, but the women are diametrically opposite. ”

His comrades-in-arms said with a smile: "I heard that the women of the Wa Kingdom have a low status, and they are not much different from the previous slaves in our country, and they have no sense of resistance, send these women to the rear, let's move on." ”

The first warrior to enter the house nodded: "Okay, find two people to take them down, and let's move on." ”

"What Japanese civilians attack the army." Sun Zhonglian's brows furrowed, such a matter is very serious, although the population of the Wa Kingdom is not large, there are enough 30 million, and the troops react to the Wa State women are very obedient, but those men are extremely fierce, and they are often not afraid of death and rush up, and the troops entering the city have been attacked many times.

Shooting civilians was a big or small matter, and Sun Zhonglian didn't dare to make his own decisions, so he ordered his troops to defend on the spot while asking the headquarters.

Looking at the report sent by Sun Zhonglian, the corners of Fang Xiaoyu's mouth turned up slightly: "These Japanese people are really fierce, and they dare to charge with knives." ”

Thobul frowned and said, "This situation is very troublesome, if we continue to fight like this, our fighters will not be able to deal with it." ”

Fang Xiaoyu raised his eyebrows: "What's not easy to deal with, all those who resist are enemies, just kill them all." ”

"But if this matter is exposed, it will not have a good impact on us internationally. ”

Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Some things don't have to be done by yourself, aren't there still those Ezo people, Ezo and Japanese people are feuds, we can't control it." ”

Thoble suddenly realized: "Yes, as long as you restrain them a little and don't make too much trouble." ”

Two days after the situation was reported, Sun Zhonglian received a call back from the headquarters: "Mix the Ezo Army and the Guards Army and attack together." Looking at this telegram, Sun Zhonglian was stunned for a while, he reacted to the question of the fierce resistance of the common people of the Japanese country, how could he give himself such a completely marginal order.

The adjutant on the side looked at Sun Zhonglian and was stunned, he also secretly looked at the telegram, and then he laughed: "Commander, what's wrong with you." ”

Sun Zhonglian sighed and said, "I'm wondering what this telegram means. ”

The adjutant said in a low voice: "Commander, this Ezo and the Japanese are feuding, in case there are some radical actions......" Zhilu said that his army commander drilled the tip of the horns, and the adjutant kindly reminded him.

"That's right." Sun Zhonglian was not stupid, and under the adjutant's vague reminder, he immediately came to his senses: "The headquarters must be this what it means, and immediately ordered 50,000 Ezo troops to be transferred from the rear to enter Aomori County to fight together." ”

Sun Zhonglian's attack speed was already lagging behind, and he was a little anxious, but the speed of the troops was very fast, and the 50,000 Ezo army entered Aomori Prefecture under the personal leadership of Aik. As soon as they heard that it was an attack on the city, the Ezo people were very excited, and they were all breathed a sigh of relief for the oppression of the Japanese people for many years, and now they were able to retaliate, and they were naturally willing.

Each squad of the Guards was mixed with a platoon of the Ezo Army, and one by one of these tactical squads began to advance into the city again. With a howl, another group of Japanese civilians armed with short knives, kitchen knives, and even hoes came out of the corner and rushed towards a tactical squad. Before the Guards soldiers could make any moves, the Ezo men had already picked up their Type 91 rifles with shouts and began to shoot without the slightest hesitation.

After all, the flesh could not resist the steel, and under the merciless shooting of the Ezo people, those Japanese civilians were beaten to the point that their bodies were bleeding, and they were soon killed and wounded. Having defeated these civilians, the Ezo people were not satisfied, they came forward with their bayonet rifles, swore and stabbed their bodies in the pool of blood with bayonets, and only after making sure that there were no survivors, they left satisfied.

A burst of gunfire rang out, and a sudden string of bullets shot out of a nearby building, knocking several Ezo soldiers walking in front to the ground, and the other Ezo soldiers immediately lay down and shot desperately at the building with their rifles.

Seeing the reaction of these Ezo soldiers, the Guards soldiers shook their heads, in addition to being cruel enough to the Japanese people, they really lacked training.

Seeing the regular army resisting, the Guards soldiers immediately dispersed, they formed a firing group, blocked all windows with light machine guns and semi-automatic rifles, and then the communicator began to call for artillery fire, and soon a scream sounded from the air, and several heavy shells hit the remaining small building. The building collapsed directly, and several Japanese soldiers were buried under the rubble.

The Marines also suffered the same situation as Sun Zhonglian in Hirosaki Castle, but the commander of the 1st Marine Corps was even more fierce, and when he saw that most of the houses in Hirosaki Castle were made of wood, he directly ordered the artillery to be reloaded with incendiary bombs.

Seeing the sound of the Chinese army's shelling, those Japanese soldiers instinctively hid in the house, thinking that as long as they dodged this shelling, they could start a street battle with the other side, and at that time, the Japanese army familiar with the terrain would have the advantage.

Those Japanese soldiers never imagined how stupid it would be to enter the house to take refuge, and such a move directly sounded their death knell. One by one, white phosphorus incendiary bombs fell into Hirosaki Castle, and a small explosion broke out, but the small explosion spread white phosphorus powder everywhere.

The ignition point of white phosphorus is only 40 degrees, and the white phosphorus that drifts away with the wind immediately burns when it touches the house. The blazing flames soon ignited the dry timber on which the houses were built, and the would-be soldiers who were hiding in the houses did not hear the violent explosion of the cannonballs, but the crackling and popping sounds.

The curious soldiers ran out of the house, only to find that many of the houses had been burned, and some of the hapless Japanese soldiers were trapped in the burning wooden huts and could not get out. With round after round of incendiary catapults, the houses in the city were on fire, and at this time, the Japanese soldiers and the civilians hidden in the city had no intention of fighting, and the most important thing for them now was to fight the fire.

It's a pity that these soldiers and civilians don't know where the fire ignited by white phosphorus is so easy to extinguish, although the wind in the city is not strong, but the houses are mostly wooden, and they are all old houses, and the wood used to build the houses has long been dry, and as long as there is a little spark, it will burn brightly.

The fire in Hirosaki Castle grew bigger and bigger, and how the dozens of wells in the city alone could extinguish such a fire, and the Japanese soldiers were roasted one by one with dry mouths and did not know what to do. Even more tragic are those Japanese soldiers who were contaminated with white phosphorus, the flames of white phosphorus are difficult to extinguish, those who are contaminated with white phosphorus are rolling on the ground miserably, but they still can't extinguish the flames on their bodies, until they are burned to the bones by the flames, and they are burned alive after the last day.

The spirits of the soldiers and civilians finally collapsed, and the civilians were the first to flee, rushing out of the city with the only cold weapons in their hands, hoping to break out of the city, but they were greeted by a web of death intertwined with dense machine-gun fire.

The 1st Marine Corps, with as many as 50,000 people, had already surrounded the small Hirosaki Castle, and no matter which direction the Japanese broke through, it was impossible to succeed, but it was better to be killed by bullets than to be burned slowly, and these Japanese civilians still rushed out of the city one after another.

Soon the Japanese soldiers also joined the charge, and instead of being burned in obscurity, it was better to die heroically, holding rudimentary rifles in their hands, and the Japanese soldiers mixed with the civilians and launched a charge against the Marine Corps line.

As there were more and more Japanese soldiers, the firepower of the machine guns gradually became a little insufficient, and the machine gunners began to frequently replace the barrels that had been red, which caused some intermittent machine gun firepower.