Chapter 307: Burning the City

Just when Zhao Jinsheng and the others used the most ferocious means to annihilate the 33rd Division of the devil, the 2nd Division that attacked to Thanh Hoa was violently blocked, and the 1st Division Zhang Hu took Xiaoqi Mountain on the outskirts of Thanh Hoa as a position and blocked the Japanese army for a day. Because of the strong fortifications, with heavy machine-gun positions, the changed tactics kept the Japanese 2nd Division at Thanh Hoa.

The more strongly they were blocked, the more relieved Maruyama Masao was, he knew that the Southern Han army had no plans to think of, they could only use this method to block the imperial army, but there were not many troops on the opposite side, and there were only a few thousand people. It seemed that the troops were seriously scattered, and reinforcements must have gone from other directions, so he ordered the tank squadron to cooperate with the artillery to carry out a crazy dozen attacks on the Xiaoqishan position, leaving behind thousands of corpses but failing to break through the position.

The reason is that the position on the hill is not conducive to the power of the chariots, only artillery can solve some problems, no wonder the Southern Han did not hold Rong City, it turned out that there were permanent fortifications here, for which he asked the front army command to send aircraft to support, and he must smash the Thanh Hoa defense line.

In this regard, the commander of the 16th Army, Imamura, thought that it was okay to eliminate the Snow Fox army, and it seemed that the 2nd Division could not be faster than other divisions, but if it was to eliminate the large number of Southern Han troops, it would not be comparable to other armies. He ordered the three wings to take turns to launch attacks without giving the Southern Han army time to breathe.

Zhang Hu was able to hold for such a long time, thanks to the special fortifications, Xiaoqi Mountain is not high, but it is very long, just to surround Thanh Hoa, the Japanese army wants to occupy Thanh Hoa to attack the Syracuse coastal defense, must capture here. Chen Dong commanded the Fourth Division, Zhang Hu's Third Division was divided into two halves, and the 301st Brigade had other tasks, the frontal position was the 302nd Brigade, and most of the troops were equipped with anti-aircraft guns and heavy machine guns.

The Japanese artillery did not play a role, because of the defensive tactics of the Southern Han, and the Japanese army did not know how to crack it. Because the machine gun position is active, there is a small iron car underneath, there is a rope that can move quickly, when the Japanese artillery bombardment, the heavy machine gun dragged into the cave, this kind of cave is not deep and curved, the shell explosion does not damage him seriously, each soldier has one, the smaller the shell, the more he can not collapse.

As soon as the machine guns hid in such a cave, the Japanese artillery almost lost its effectiveness, but the Japanese grenadiers during the attack could not be used at all because of the large number of * protection. This tactic is Xue Ruxue's cat's ear piercing and battlefield sharpshooter sniper defense defense in the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam.

Heavy machine guns were protected not by light machine guns but by snipers, who stared at Japanese grenadiers and machine gunners, mortars, and a dozen people protected a machine gun. The heavy machine gun is the American general 40, the rate of fire reaches 800 pieces per minute, the chain feed, the barrel change and the cooling time are all first-class, the most peculiar thing is that there are only these two weapons on the position, the number of heavy machine guns is amazing, the Japanese attack greeted them with a rain of bullets, in the face of such a large number of machine guns, it became a death to attack with people.

When the helpless Maruyama Masao lost thousands of people, he had to order to stop the attack and ask for aircraft support, and the most unbearable thing for Terauchi Shouichi was that as soon as the Japanese planes were dispatched, the Southern Han fighters in the direction of Heyang would also appear, and the time was very accurate, sometimes both sides arrived at the same time, and sometimes even intercepted the Japanese bombers in the middle, and were forced to return without waiting for the place. Even if it rushes to the place, it is useless, the Southern Han Air Force is very shameless to pester, just let the Japanese run out of fuel, and do not want to destroy the Air Force aircraft, which allows the Southern Han to dispatch a small number of aircraft, and the loss is not big, it is to delay time.

The 2nd Air Brigade, which cooperated with the Second Army, was very depressed, and this tactic did not show that the Air Force was very incompetent, but from the order of the General Staff, the 2nd Air Force Flying Group temporarily obeyed the command of the Second Army on the ground, and Wu Zaiqun, the commander of the Flying Group, could only listen to Chen Dong, and the only advantage of using this tactic was that the aircraft suffered less losses and intercepted the Japanese troops and prevented him from going to the battlefield.

Chen Dong returned to Thanh Hoa, learned about the situation and said, "Is the 301st Brigade ready?" ”

Zhang Hu said: "It's done, just waiting for the devil." ”

Chen Dong said: "This is a battle that costs a lot of money, and the devil will definitely pay it back in the future." ”

Zhang Hu said: "How is the situation of Senior Commander Zhao? ”

Chen Dong smiled: "It is estimated that Sakurai Province will not be killed by the explosion, but will also have to commit suicide." ”

Chen Dong was really right, at this time, the Japanese officers and soldiers who had not died in the Japanese camp heard the shouting of killing in the distance outside, and said that they heard it, and it was because the 33rd Division was shrouded in gunsmoke. This is *, not a high-explosive shell, the smoke is very thick.

Chief of Staff Ban Hengshun Dazuo watched the body of the division commander slowly fall, his eyes were full of horror and hatred, and he couldn't hear anything in his ears, all the sound of explosions. At this time, the shells outside did not stop, constantly concentrating towards the center, looking at the huge air wave that exploded not far away, he said to the newspaper soldier beside him: "Report to the commander that the 33rd Division is broken, and the division commander commits suicide to apologize." ”

Ban Hengshun Dazuo pulled out his command knife and watched the soldier send out the telegram in horror, he raised the knife and wanted to commit suicide, but it didn't fall for a long time. He didn't want to die, not all the imperial troops wanted to commit suicide, the spirit of bushido made them desperate, but when they calmed down, it was common for human beings to be afraid of death, and the Japanese were the same.

At this moment, a huge explosion exploded around him, Ban Hengshun was blown out, he saw the radio operator and the radio flying into the sky, he felt that he was flying into the sky, and everything he saw in front of him was rotating, but he couldn't hear the sound, and he couldn't make a sound when he opened his mouth. The fear in my heart flashed, and I didn't know anything in front of me.

When he woke up again, he just wanted to get up, but when he heard someone coming in the distance, he immediately closed his eyes and opened a little slit to look into the distance, this is a group of Southern Han soldiers, they have bright bayonets in their hands, those soldiers who are only injured and not dead were killed without hesitation, and the screams of the soldiers before dying made Ban Hengshun's crotch hot, and he was scared to pee. Fierce, too fierce, the Imperial Japanese Army is already extremely fierce, it turns out that the snow fox is even more fierce, it is really a witch army.

He could understand Chinese, and the two soldiers were chatting and killing people, as if they were chickens and ducks and not people under his bayonets.

One of the soldiers asked, "Why didn't the squad leader leave them all behind and kill them all?" The man said, "Fool, didn't the queen say that?" The Japanese who set foot on the territory of the Southern Han Dynasty killed all of them and left them without leaving any food. ”

The soldier smacked his lips and said, "What a pity to kill." ”

Ban Hengshun was very grateful to that soldier, yes, what a pity to kill himself, but he forgot that when he rushed into the Chinese town, there were also Japanese soldiers who said this, because they did not assassinate the army, but the Chinese people, but he beat the soldier and forced him to kill a Chinese woman and a child with his own hands before sparing him. At this time, Ban Hengshun regretted it very much, why didn't he have this mood at the beginning! Maybe I understood at that time that I would not kill those Chinese. But regret is useless, the Chinese are no longer merciful, they have also learned to return blood for blood, tooth for tooth.

No, this is not China but the Southern Han Dynasty, Ban Heng swore obediently in his heart that he would never come to the Southern Han Dynasty again, this is a frightening place, a frightening country, and he fainted again who was worried and scared.

The "report" operator came over: "The 4th Division reported that the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army was completely annihilated, and the body of the division commander Sakurai was found, and he committed suicide by disembowelment." ”

Chen Dong said fiercely: "Cheap bastard, order the third division to prepare for a counterattack." ”

At the same time that Chen Dong received the report, Maruyama Masao, the 2nd Division who was attacking, received an order from the commander Jun Imamura that the 33rd Division was completely annihilated at Yunhui Mountain, and the division commander Yu Crush ordered his division to retreat immediately. The two divisions of the Second Army of the Southern Han Dynasty may encircle the 2nd Division, and it is impossible for one division to be the opponent of the Snow Fox Army. It was not known how they used to wipe out a division in a day, so they asked him to immediately retreat to Rong City and send a naval fleet to meet it to prevent a large-scale counterattack by the Southern Han army.

Maruyama Masao was stunned, how is this possible, won't the Imperial Japanese Army fight back? Could it be that the guns of the 33rd Division are useless? But no matter how he didn't understand, he understood one thing, that is, his own division was by no means the opponent of an army in the Southern Han Dynasty, and if the two divisions of the Southern Han Dynasty surrounded him with less than 20,000 people, the end would not be better than that of the 33rd Division.

Not daring to delay at all, he ordered an immediate retreat.

"Report, the Japanese 2nd Division retreated to Rongshi."

"Ha, sure enough, it was counted by Miss. Zhang Hu, the 3rd Division launched an attack, pursued the devil, and the 301st Brigade blocked and surrounded the Japanese army in Rongshi. ”

"Yes" Zhang Hu stood up and gave an order to his subordinate troops, and the 302nd Brigade pursued forward. The Japanese had no intention of fighting at all, and the defeat of the 33rd Division made them completely frightened, and they returned to Rong City as quickly as possible. However, just as he wanted to gather everyone to withdraw from Vinh City and retreat to Saigon, he received a report that the Southern Han troops had surrounded Vinh City from the south, west, and north, and the 2nd Division was under siege.

Because he didn't understand how many troops were outside, Maruyama Masao thought that it was the entire Second Army of the Southern Han Dynasty, and he didn't dare to break through, and that was the end of being wiped out. While arranging troops for defense, he telegraphed for reinforcements, but General Terauchi Shouichi in Saigon was already a little stupid, and the report from the 16th Army made him hard to believe. The 33rd Division was under the command of Shojiro Iida of the 15th Army, and due to the attack on the Southern Han Dynasty, it was temporarily under the command of the 16th Army, and it was impossible for a division to be wiped out.

Before he could react, after receiving the report that the 2nd Division was completely encircled, Terauchi Shouichi's eyes were already red, and he said to Chief of Staff Tsukada: "Send a naval fleet to pick up the 2nd Division from Eishi Port, and order Jun Yamazaki to come to me and carry out his plan." ”

Tsukada knew that Terauchi Shouichi did not approve of Yamazaki's plan, so although both the General Staff Headquarters and the Operations Department felt that it was feasible, Terauchi Shouichi did not pay attention to it after arriving in Saigon.

A division was wiped out and a division was surrounded, which made Terauchi Shouichi think of this Yamazaki Jun, and Tsukada Tsukatachi bowed his head: "Hey, I'll start executing it immediately." ”

Terauchi Shouichi's eyes were red, there was no news from the imperial army attacking on the northern front, and it seemed that the attack was not going well, and now the attack on all sides has become three-sided, and it can only be hoped that the Guards Division preparing to attack Myitkyina from the north of Thailand Chiang Mai will attack the Southern Han in order to cope with the offensive in the north and east, otherwise the attack on the Southern Han will fail.

Except for the Southern Han, the offensive on other fronts was very smooth, the American General MacArthur had withdrawn from the Philippines, the Japanese army also occupied the Solomon Islands and the Java Islands, as long as the next step was to occupy Papua New Guinea and fully control Bataan and Indonesia, even if the Southern Han side failed, the Imperial Japanese Army would be considered victorious.

Just as Terauchi Shouichi sent the warships of the 4th Sentai of the 2nd Fleet to Eichi to support the 2nd Division, many soldiers outside Eichi at night carried out pressure trucks and water trucks, connected the pipes buried in the ground, and began to press hard.

This is the sprinkler used for the city's firefighting, artificially increasing the pressure, at this time it is night, except for the Japanese soldiers defending on the city wall, the soldiers in the city are resting, and the whole Rong City is quiet because there are no people. They could not see that in some of the houses, in the big trees, and in some of the streets, and in some of the holes, the liquid began to gurgle outward, and flowed in all directions along the ditches, and soon they found that they were flowing in a regular manner, and in some high places suddenly it rained downwards, and a lot of water was spewed out, and the houses and buildings were all sprinkled.

However, if you get closer, you will find that this is not water, it is gasoline, and most of the time passed in the middle of the night, and the Japanese army who thought that they would not attack at night was relieved. When they changed the guard, they didn't pay attention to the smell of a lot of gasoline in the air, because there are cars, tanks, and chariots in the city, and the smell of gasoline is very normal, but it is stronger. The guard guards against the enemy, not these, it is the business of the mechanical soldiers, and it is also the business of the baggage soldiers.

But when they heard a sound outside, the devil sentry blew the whistle, and the devils in the entire Rong City got up at once, ready to go to the city wall to defend. But before they could get ready, a cannonball fell from outside the city, not very powerful, but enough to ignite the gasoline.

Almost in a few minutes, Rong City, a small city, was surrounded by flames and burned. Maruyama Masao who got up was stupid, how could this be, why? He screamed loudly, but no one could answer him.

Such a large area of fire ignited all the buildings, and the devils had to run to the open field, but there was also surrounded by fire, Rong City was not big, the Japanese army thought that a division of almost 20,000 people would be fine to hold here for a day or two, as long as the naval fleet arrived, they could pick them up.

But he couldn't have imagined that Xue Ru not only didn't care about one city and two cities lost, but also didn't care about destroying one city and two cities. This is the reason for completely moving the people of Rong City.

Where Snow Fox gave up, it was better for the Japanese army not to go in, but unfortunately this lesson is only known to Okamura Ningji, but he is now the commander of the North China Front, not in the south, and General Terauchi Shouichi does not know.

The 2nd Division that entered Rong City was wiped out, just when the Japanese army was hiding in all directions, ammunition, grain and grass, and baggage burned and exploded, the third division, two brigades and six regiments entered the city from the city gates on all sides, of course, the city wall on fire had long lost its defense, and the city gate was easily blown open, and the Southern Han army entered the city, and the Japanese army was dizzy and dizzy, and the smoke was so thick that they couldn't open their eyes, where was there still combat effectiveness.

The troops of the Third Division who rushed into the city wore gas masks and windproof eyes to make this plan, how could Chen Dong not think of this. Snow Fox is poor and does not have so many aircraft and cannons, but there is still money to buy these, and it is the principle pursued by the Southern Han Dynasty to achieve the greatest results at the lowest cost. Besides, the Japanese army used poison gas bombs no less than a thousand times from the Chinese battlefield, and Xue Ru, who had the conditions, of course equipped the troops with this kind of thing.

Chen Dong formulated this plan with the conditions of these equipment, the name is Burning City, the loss of a Rong City can be rebuilt, but the Japanese army of a division is not so easy to rebuild, so how many divisions and regiments of the Japanese army are enough?

Machine guns, rifles, pistols, bayonets, and the 3rd Division carried out a merciless massacre of the Japanese 2nd Division in the city. Because the military department issued an order not to stay and kill all of them, then what is there to study, of course, is to eliminate them all.

On the periphery of Rong City, Chen Dong held the binoculars and laughed: "Maruyama Masao, you're done." ”

In the distance, a soldier crawled over with a rolling belt: "The army commander is not in a good business, the General Staff telegraphs." ”