In what year Yinfang Town became a town, even the old people in the town can't say clearly, some say Song, some say earlier, and some explain the dynasty, but the most accurate statement is on the tablet. In the early years, there was a land temple in the north of the town, and there was a tablet that said that in the late Northern Song Dynasty, the people in the plains fled into the mountains in order to avoid the war, and there was Yinfang Town.

When the devils occupied Yinfang Town in 40 years, they demolished the land temple and built the warehouse there, and later Yang Bangzi robbed the materials in the warehouse, and burned down the devil's warehouse, and the people in the town went to find the tablet but didn't find it.

According to the old man's memory of this stele, this Yinfang town has a history of more than 800 years! After so many years of multiplication, it has not been destroyed, and this time it is considered a complete house courtyard that was completely destroyed by the war!

It turns out that there are several people in this Yinfang town surrounded by big willow trees and old locust trees, it is said that there must be seven or eight hundred years of history, some trees are too old, the trunk is split from the middle, obliquely supported by the common people with stones, and actually blooms every year full of strings of white locust flowers, the old locust tree blooms, the whole town is an intoxicating acacia honey fragrance!

Today, these old trees that survived the last attack and defense of Yinfang Town were blown off one by one, ignited, and burned into black charcoal, only the old locust tree on the edge of the big stone well in the middle of the town, and the wooden stake more than one person high remained that did not fall.

Kuroda looked at the black smoke and the fireworks that continued to explode, put down the binoculars and said to several officers around him, let the planes bomb a batch, and completely wipe the town off the map.

With a few words of understatement by the devil, a town that was seven or eight hundred years old was wiped out. Kuroda is not the kind of devil who is arrogant. He didn't say it, but in his heart he still accepted the lesson of the black kiln ditch. If you despise the opponent of the Eighth Route Army, you will have to pay a heavy price.

He guessed that the Eighth Route would not give up the town easily, so he simply used his heavy artillery and numerous small-caliber guns to concentrate firepower to destroy all the areas where the Eighth Route might have defensive forces with artillery fire, plus the aircraft's aerial bombs covering the entire battlefield, he could minimize the damage rate of his own wing soldiers.

In the afternoon, nine Japanese planes flew over the town of Yinfang. Four medium-sized bombers circled in turn and dropped the bombs in the belly, and more than ten tons of aerial bombs not only turned the whole town upside down, but the huge smoke balls formed by the explosion shrouded the mountain sky of Yinfang Town like a sudden rise of a mountain, and this thick pillar of smoke could be seen dozens of kilometers away!

The surrounding mountains were also bombed, and the initial shelling left large and small craters on the ridges, but as the shelling continued, the craters gradually joined together, and large areas of the hillside were ploughed and loosened by the artillery fire, and then collapsed and slid down. Exposed reddish-brown or dark cyan soil and rock formations.

When the bombs dropped by the planes fell again on the ridge of the hill, which had been plowed several times by artillery fire, it was as if the entire beam had been turned into a pile of firewood that had been lit. The smoke and dust that glowed brightly were swept into pillars of smoke and drifted rapidly into the sky, and underneath these pillars of smoke were a sea of fire, fresh earth and rock formations that had just been turned out by the artillery fire, and now they were roasted into a layer of hard gravel.

When the bombers were finished, the front-line destroyers swooped down one after another with their wings crooked and with a sharp whistle, and used small bombs and machine guns on the planes to bomb and strafe the entire battlefield in a field-wide manner.

When the sun was setting, the artillery bombardment and aircraft bombardment that lasted for eight hours finally stopped as the devil plane flew away!

Captain Kuroda was in the telescope, looking at the battlefield near and far, using the word unrecognizable to describe the scene he saw, it can be said that it was too general, before the arrival of the devil in the morning, although some houses in Yinfang Town were still under repair, and some of the courtyards that were blown up and burned down had not yet had time to be leveled, but no matter how you look at it, this is still a town with thousands of households, and now, anyone who has never been here sees these black and muddy rubble, and sees mountains that are more destructive than volcanic eruptions and earthquakes. Who would have believed that there was the largest town within a radius of 100 miles?

In addition to the smoking rubble piles and the street surface that can vaguely be seen as a stone road, the highest object in Yinfang Town is probably the old locust tree with only half of the body left, and the upper half of the body that was blown off and shattered by the bomb has already burned into sections of black charcoal.

It's no wonder that some of the other old trees were blown up and there was only one root left, some even the roots were blown into a big pit by the bomb, and the roots of the trees were burned into black ashes, and some of the branches with the red cloth strips used by the people to pray for blessings were swept out a hundred and ten meters away by the air waves, and the dark red in the rubble seemed to make people remember the old tree full of people's wishes.

The devil thinks that this is an important central area of the Eighth Route Army, and it is useless to keep the devils, razed to the ground, and the Eighth Route is untenable, not only the base of the Eighth Route Army implements this kind of scorched earth policy, you look at how many towns like Yinfang Town with hundreds of years of history and thousands of years of history have been destroyed since the beginning of 37, and how many villages have been burned and killed in one walk!

In eight hours, thousands of shells, hundreds of aerial bombs, bombarded indiscriminately, not to mention people, there was not even a single grass left! Do the devils think that this will conquer the Chinese? The more we destroy our Chinese's homeland in such a frenzied manner, the more fierce the resistance that the devil encounters!

The home is gone, why don't you work hard? The common people think that it is so simple, Kuroda thinks that he can use steel to defeat the eight roads, and the common people are scared to bow down, wait!

Kuroda ordered the use of artillery groups and army aviation planes in the morning to destroy the horseshoe-shaped defensive position of the Eighth Route Army, and he also had a reason, and it can be seen from the telescope that this town was built into a typical village defense system by the Eighth Route Army, otherwise why would a squadron of infantry come back with a bruised nose and swollen face after being beaten with the support of tanks.

In the past few years, the Eighth Route in the battle with the Japanese army, the battle of position defense, especially the resistance of the village, is still very experienced, generally relying on the village to build the necessary fortifications, the main position should be built 100~200 meters outside the village, constituting a character or plum blossom-shaped stronghold, each village around the formation of independent support points, each support point can be independent defense or mutual support.

The deployment of troops should be less and more tuned, and commanders should master 1/3 of the troops as the strength of mobility; The firepower allocation should be fixed and mobile, and the frontal firepower and the flank firepower should be complementary, and the defensive front and depth should be echeloned, forming a dense firepower network that complements each other, staggers the distance and the near, and combines the front and the side. It is necessary to use a variety of means to oppose enemy tanks, such as building anti-tank trenches, setting up anti-tank minefields, and organizing anti-tank groups.

This is quite exquisite, Kuroda did not enter Yinfang Town, but in the analysis report of the Japanese army, the defensive tactics of the Eighth Route Army, which has become a routine, are described and analyzed very thoroughly, so Kuroda ordered to use artillery bombardment and bombing to completely destroy the defense system on which the Eighth Route depends!

He wanted to destroy the entire town, and the Eighth Route Army would be without these fortifications or something, and even if there were still soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who survived the artillery fire, they could only be exposed to the intensive fire support of the Japanese army in the ruins, and it was basically impossible to give full play to their expertise in street fighting.

The Japanese army will first take the high ground on both sides, and then outflank the mountains behind Yinfang Town, and when the town is encircled, then send infantry into one area to clear one area after another.

After eight hours of shelling and bombardment, Kuroda's first purpose was achieved, and the town of Ginbo was indeed destroyed! However, when night falls, what awaits the Japanese soldiers of the Black Sky Wing? (To be continued......)