Chapter 34: The Burning of the Company Camp (Part II)
The twelve smoke bombs that fell released a large amount of smoke with great efficiency, and immediately, a round of anti-explosive bombs flew in and exploded.
The soldiers of Company A and Company C were confused for a moment, lying on the ground at a loss, and the officers were also a little puzzled, but they did not know that they had completely stepped into hell at this moment.
Then, three rounds and twelve fever bombs fell, evenly covering the entire area they were in, and twelve dazzling high-temperature ignition points were instantly generated.
The new 80mm incendiary bomb is different from the white phosphorus incendiary bomb, and its warhead is actually thermite, which is composed of aluminum powder, magnesium powder, ferric oxide, potassium chlorate and other components.
The high temperature of more than 2,000 degrees ignited the surrounding trees and leaves, and in the blink of an eye, the raging fire began to spread to the vicinity.
If human nature is not taken into account, the plan laid out by the perimeter wind is extremely scientific from a rational point of view.
Complex terrain such as jungles and woods can make the smoke screen more effective, as shrubs and branches can break up and mix multiple smoke screen clusters.
It just so happened that there was a light breeze today, and the Assam region was hot and humid, and the effect of the red phosphorus smoke screen was almost brought to the limit of theory.
[With the increase of air humidity, the efficiency of red phosphorus and white phosphorus smoke bombs increases linearly, with 10% humidity being 350% efficiency, 40% humidity being 410% efficiency, and 70% humidity being 500% efficiency.] 】
"Why do they only fire a grenade once?"
"Did it just fall on the lighting bomb? So bright? ”
"Lieutenant, report the wounded!"
While the soldiers were still wondering why the Ming army had only fired one round of anti-explosive bombs, a discerning sergeant had realized the seriousness of the problem - it was shining because it was thermite!
"Silly guys, run!"
More than ten seconds had passed at this moment, and the gradually spreading red phosphorus smoke had reduced visibility to less than forty meters, and the Anglo-Indian troops in the woods were now completely panicked.
Surrounded by panicked companions, everyone's faces were full of panic.
The Ming army in the city did not forget to take the opportunity to fall into the well, and machine guns and rifles opened fire one after another - it didn't matter if they could hit or not, they wanted to be scary.
The Anglo-Indian soldiers, who could not find their way, scattered and fled in the woods, and some accidentally stepped on a mine and were blown to the ground, further aggravating the chaos.
As the fire grew, billowing black smoke made the already smoky woods even worse!
The woods are burning, the smoke is spreading, the bullets are whistling, the wounded are screaming, the soldiers are asking for help, the officers are shouting, the officers can't find the soldiers, the soldiers can't find the officers, this large forest has become a real hell on earth.
Thousands of meters away, the heart-rending screams can still be heard clearly, and bursts of burnt smell also drift with the wind, making people unstoppably nauseous.
Due to the smoke, Zhou Changfeng couldn't see the situation in the woods even through the artillery mirror, but he felt that the scene there at the moment should be terrifying.
The officers and soldiers who witnessed this passage could not help but be amazed, it was really hard to imagine that this commander, who looked suave and had nothing to do with cruelty, could come up with such a horrific method.
In a few moments, some lucky survivors escaped from the woods, most of them running around the smoky woods like headless flies, and finally fell to the smoke or were burned alive.
The enemy troops who had managed to escape were running faster than rabbits at the moment, and their weapons had already been thrown away, so they rushed out without hesitation.
"Look, people always burst their potential in desperate situations, and they are much faster than when they charge." Zhou Changfeng said with a smile to a lieutenant next to him.
And the latter only felt that his smile was particularly crazy at the moment, no wonder Fan Wenhai, the former machine gun captain, called this plan "crazy" and "extremely ruthless".
Seeing the lieutenant's strange expression, Zhou Changfeng yawned and said nonchalantly: "Fear war but should not reject reasonable means of killing the enemy, I follow the principle of doing everything possible to preserve myself and destroy the enemy without violating the law." ”
The smell of burnt paste from the breeze became even stronger, and the lieutenant sniffed and hesitated, "Long... Sir, isn't this a little too violent......"
"War does not believe in mercy, leave your mercy to the surrendering enemy. Before it lays down its arms, it must be ruthless. ”
"Yes."
Zhou Changfeng, who looked calm, took out a new roll of bandages, pointed to the north with his hand, and said with a slight smile: "Twelve smoke screen bombs, four anti-explosive bombs, and twelve fever bombs, a total of more than nine hundred yuan will be reimbursed for half of the battalion, I call it efficient." ”
A second lieutenant medicide, who used a small camcorder he carried with him, recorded a few footage from the previous video, which uses 8mm film, which is not as good as the 35mm film commonly used for filming.
Such a grand and violent scene, he felt that it would be a pity if it was not recorded.
Two companies of more than 290 people in the Natipur battalion finally escaped with only one hundred and one people? And most of them were so depressed that they lost their guns; Major Wright, the deputy battalion commander who personally led the team, was not spared and was buried in the fire.
The rest of Task Force Wilson's team shuddered as the frightened survivors described what had just happened.
Major Sampson was dumbfounded and said, "Are we fighting the devil here?" ”
At the same time, on the front of Heights Zero......
The three waves of large-scale assault by the Raigar and Hyderabad battalions have now come to the second wave, each of which is attacked in two or three echelons.
From the position, the vast open field ahead was densely packed with incoming enemies.
But the density is only an illusion, in fact each of them is at least five or six meters apart; The front and rear echelons are about 200 meters apart.
Without the support of the battalion's artillery platoon, the lone team could not stop the enemy's follow-up, so after repulsing the previous entire wave, it was now rushed up the hill by the second wave of enemy troops.
An enemy infantryman with a rifle with a bayonet appeared on the position, and then jumped into the bunker one after another.
Liu Qidong waved his hand and shouted: "Reserves, up!" ”
The battle heated up in the blink of an eye, with soldiers on both sides engaged in desperate battles at close range almost face to face.
In the sound of "bang-bang-bang" gunfire, the enemy and our armies desperately shot at each other, and now only one simple and cruel rule is followed - if you don't kill the other party, you will be the last to die!
In addition to the sound of gunfire, the shouts and invectives of soldiers on both sides filled the entire position.
After a soldier of Indu shot down the Ming soldier who was reloading in front of him, he was thrown to the ground by another person who rushed out next to him, and the sapper shovel reflecting the setting sun swung down fiercely, almost cutting off half of his neck, and the arterial blood that shot out was like a small fountain.
In just one minute, the corpses of the soldiers of the enemy and our armies were scattered all over the position.
The reserves of two squads arrived from the second-line positions, and they threw a round of grenades in unison, then fired a few shots, and then launched a white-knuckle charge with rifles.
The slender sword-shaped bayonet pierced the body, and when it was pulled out, the bloodstained metal blade turned a bewitching red in the afterglow of dusk.
The first group of British and Indian troops to rush up were almost completely wiped out, and the red-eyed Ming soldiers even began to launch a counter-charge downward!
In the face of this situation, the British and Indian troops who arrived later disappeared without a trace in an instant, and the two platoons of the second wave and the third echelon retreated like a tide.