"Boom, the general trend has been decided!" Seeing that the 22nd Army on the other side was beaten without a fight back this time, Ichikawa Yongji was also so happy that he couldn't keep his mouth shut. Ichikawa Yongji said with great joy: "After all the attacking troops in this wave cross the river, the living force on the other side of the river will reach more than 10,000 people, and it will be completely possible to tear through the defense line of the 22nd Army from the front and gain a firm foothold on the west bank." ”

At this time, a devil staff officer answered: "The 15th Army has also made significant progress under the coordinated operations of the Imperial Navy, and the Bilu Island garrisoned by the Tiger Army is about to be breached!" After taking Bilu Island, the Imperial Navy and Army could further lay siege to the cities of Mawlamyine and Motama, and if the battle went well, they might be able to completely break through the Salween line before dark. ”

"Yo Xi! The more critical the moment, the more we must be calm, knowing that our enemy is not only the 22nd Army, but also the powerful opponent who has caused the empire to suffer many great losses! This cunning Chinese commander always has some unexpected means and skills, and we must all be on high alert until we achieve a final victory! Hashimoto-kun, immediately send a telegram to the front-line troops, so that they must fight steadily and steadily, and beware of the deception of the Huaxia army! ”

Listening to the extremely optimistic tone of the officers around him, Kawabe Shozo suddenly became alert at this time. The so-called once bitten by a snake for three years is afraid of the well rope, not to mention that the riverside Zhengsan is not planted in Yang Fan's hands once or twice. "Hello! Your Excellency the Commander is wise! ”

A group of devil officers hurriedly seconded the proposal, showing that they were very teachable, but they were not very worried in their hearts. Because in the eyes of everyone, everything on the other side of the river is in full view, and the huge gap in strength between the enemy and us is in front of them, even if the Chinese army uses some small tricks, it will not have any impact on the overall situation.

Former enemy command of the 5th Army. "Junza, I'm afraid the devil is going to launch a general attack on the defense line of the 22nd Army's Pa'an River section this time, maybe there will be a big melee from the last time soon!" After Dai Anlan put down the binoculars, he turned his head to look at Du Yuming, who was observing the battlefield with the binoculars, and said in a worried tone: "And this time is completely different from the last time, the devils have strong troops, so don't worry about lack of stamina at all!" Once the devils and the 22nd Army are allowed to start a melee battle, the devil troops on the other side of the river can cross the river without any pressure, so that our army will passively engage in a decisive battle with the Japanese army! ”

Du Yuming naturally saw the Japanese army's combat intentions, and said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, although the 22nd Group Army has suffered a lot of casualties, the main force is still there and the morale is still strong, just with these more than 10,000 devil troops, there is no way to defeat the 22nd Group Army!" ”

After a pause, Du Yuming continued: "If the devil continues to increase troops on the west bank on a large scale after a large-scale melee with the 22nd Group Army, it will not be too late for us to send troops to support at that time!" Liao Yaoxiang nodded and agreed: "The military seat is a very clever plan, the devil forced to cross the Salween River, on the surface it is violent, but in fact, it is a sacrifice of strengths and weaknesses, even if the devil is of high quality alone, but in the melee without a large number of heavy equipment to fight together, they don't want to take too much advantage." ”

Since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, due to the backwardness of weapons and equipment, in the face of the devil's aircraft, tanks and artillery, the Chinese army has suffered extremely passively, but can still find a sense of existence in hand-to-hand combat and white-knuckle combat with the devil. Although it was still a loss to fight with the devil with a bayonet in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, at least he could die under the bombardment of the devil's aircraft and artillery without being aggrieved, because in this way, he could at least die vigorously, at least cause substantial casualties to the devil!

After a long time, the Chinese army gradually summed up the trick of fighting bayonets with the Japanese devils, and the ability of white-knuckle warfare was greatly improved. At the same time, the weapons and equipment of the Huaxia army have not been significantly improved, so when the Huaxia army fights with the devils, they would rather rush up and fight with the devils when they have the opportunity, rather than be passively bombed and die without being aggrieved.

"That's right, you can only catch big fish if you put a long line!" Du Yuming grinned and said: "I think the 22nd Group Army is also playing this idea, otherwise with the current combat effectiveness of the 22nd Group Army, it will not give the Japanese devils the opportunity to build a beachhead on the west bank!" However, as brother troops in the same trench, we should still take the initiative to ask for help! "As Du Yuming analyzed, the 22nd Army is indeed casting a long line to catch a big fish, and it is about to come to the time to close the net.

Since there was no threat of ground anti-aircraft artillery fire and no early warning from radar stations, the Devil Fighter Group carried out wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of the 22nd Group Army's defense line on the Pa'an River section and several anti-slope artillery positions. The entire bombing process lasted for 12 minutes, and the devil air force dropped more than 10 tons of bombs and strafed tens of thousands of bullets.

Several mountains were once again covered in smoke and blazing fire, and the defense line of the Hpa-An River was even more so thick that at first glance it looked as if visibility had become extremely low at dusk. During the whole process, the defenders of the 22nd Army's defense line on the Pa'an River section were completely on the defensive side, and except for a few necessary vigilance and observation forces, the rest of the officers and men all went into the nearby anti-artillery holes to avoid the crazy bombardment of the devils.

Even though a large number of high-standard trenches, pillboxes, anti-artillery holes and other fortifications were built along the defense line along the river, under the continuous and frenzied bombardment of devil planes and heavy artillery, the fortifications, including pillboxes and anti-artillery holes, suffered serious structural losses, and the defensive strength was greatly reduced.

As for the trenches of those civil structures, they were even more damaged, and many areas had collapsed in large areas. The bombing lasted for more than 10 minutes, and for the officers and men of the 22nd Group, who were evading the bombing, it was like a century had passed. The earth-shattering explosion sound wave made people's eardrums suffer sharply, cause temporary deafness, and even grind blood, and the powerful shock wave and overpressure shock wave made people's internal organs displaced, and it was uncomfortable to die or live.

There are also many soldiers who died heroically under this carpet bombing and sacrificed their precious lives for the country and the nation! "These shit! I must pay you for your blood today! "The front has turned into a black oppressive patch, and all you can hear is the incessant sound of violent explosions, and you can faintly see the flickering explosion fire in the thick smoke and dust, and everything else is obscured by the smoke and dust.

Li Jiayu's eyes were red, and his heart was extremely crazy, although the entire defense line of the Pa'an River section had been completely covered by gunsmoke and dust, and he couldn't see the specific casualties at all, but from the movement in front of him, Li Jiayu knew that the 122nd Division and the 123rd Division must have suffered heavy casualties, and this round of bombardment before the devil's general attack exceeded expectations and imagination.

After ten minutes of hard work, the group of devil combat planes that were still running out of bombs and bullets finally left, and the entire battlefield instantly fell silent, leaving only a gray world covered by billowing smoke and dust. Li Jiayu pulled his throat with red eyes, and shouted loudly to the heralds beside him:

"Pass my order, the 122nd Division and the 123rd Division will leave one part to cover the retreat, and the rest of the divisions will retreat to the second line of defense on all fronts." "The rocket artillery unit is ready for battle, and when the 4th wave of the devil's attacking force arrives on the west bank, launch an artillery bombardment as soon as it arrives, and hit me hard!" "Yes!" The herald choked up, then picked up the walkie-talkie and began to call. "Quick, plant explosives, the rest" "Yo Xi! Damn Huaxia Army, it should be almost the same now! ”

Rin Nakajima, commander of the 17th Wing of the 8th Division, held a telescope and looked forward to carefully observe the Huaxia position in front of which was still shrouded in thick smoke and dust. I saw that the Huaxia position 300 meters away was dead silent, no sound could be heard, and no figure could be seen, as if the Huaxia position in front had become a lifeless dead place.

At this time, a devil captain answered with a cruel smile: "With such a high-intensity and high-intensity bombardment, even the Chinese soldiers are steel and iron bones have to be blown to pieces!" "Yo Xi, the Imperial Japanese Air Force is very powerful! The Chinese army's mantis arm blocks the car, dead and dead! Rin Nakajima nodded extremely happily, and then said to Yu Ikeuchi, the captain of the devil brigade beside him: "Ikeuchi-kun, you immediately lead the imperial warriors of the headquarters to find out the enemy's situation, be sure to be careful!" ”

Although he was very confident in the effect of the carpet bombing just now, thinking that the Huaxia defenders should be almost dead, out of caution, Rin Nakajima still decided to send a small force to explore the road first. "Hello! Please rest assured! After Ikeuchi Yu paused, he immediately stood up and organized six or seven hundred devil soldiers to form a scatter line, taking advantage of the thick smoke to disperse, and quickly touched the Huaxia position shrouded in smoke and dust in front.

Just a few minutes later, the devil soldiers touched all the way to the vicinity of the Huaxia forward position, and at this time, the smoke and dust had dissipated a lot, and the devils such as Chiuchi Yu could already see the Huaxia formation 40 meters ago more clearly! "Yo Si! The Chinese army is dead, dead! "I saw that most of the Huaxia trenches had been blown up, and there were only scattered figures and a few gun mounts on the trenches on the position, and there was no dense defensive formation like before the bombing.

An arrogant smile appeared at the corner of Ikeuchi's mouth, and he said that the Huaxia defenders were dead, and immediately pulled out his command knife and shouted: "Imperial warriors charge!" Tao times change! "Rush!" "Great Japanese Empire onboard!" Hundreds of devil soldiers also found out about the situation, and they all thought that the Huaxia defenders had been killed and wounded, and suddenly they were like being beaten with chicken blood, and they suddenly rushed with blood and energy, striving to be the first imperial warrior to attack the Huaxia position. "Brothers, beat me hard! Kill! "Kill!" Bang bang bang! Da-da-da-da!

As soon as the devil man began to run wildly, the left-behind troops who were responsible for covering the retreat and luring the enemy did all kinds of things, and rushed to the devil's troops.

A string of high-speed rotating metal bullets shot at the devil soldiers like a torrential rain, and a moment later, blood flowers were shot out on the ghost soldiers, and dozens of ghost soldiers were instantly beaten into a sieve and lay on the ground. "Yaga! The Huaxia army is dead, dead! "Shoot!" "Tao Ci Change!" For the sudden blockade, the devil was not surprised at all, although a lot died at once, but the devil soldiers were not afraid, but they also did not have a stupid hard board charge, but fell to the ground one after another and began to organize a counterattack!

The devil soldiers have been woken up by the Huaxia Expeditionary Force with a powerful automatic fire network, knowing that that the thing that kills people and does not recognize it, it is completely a death harvester, and no matter how much flesh and blood can charge on board, it can't withstand the sudden burst of light and heavy machine guns. "Yo Si! The Huaxia army in front is already at the end of the crossbow, quickly order the mortar troops to suppress the fire, and immediately after the shelling is over, organize a charge and be sure to capture the Huaxia position as quickly as possible! ”

Hearing the sudden fierce gunfire in front of him, Rin Nakajima was not surprised, because he clearly heard that the firepower on the Huaxia position had weakened by half, and it seemed that only some remnants of the defeated army were still resisting. "Brothers, get out! Our mission accomplished! "Quick!"

After overturning a wave of devil soldiers, the remaining troops did not like to fight, knowing that most of the devil troops were about to shell again, they hurriedly began to retreat in an orderly manner from the rear communication trenches according to the predetermined retreat plan! "Hello!" The Devil Mortar Unit, which had been preparing for a long time, began to load ammunition and shell the Huaxia position after receiving the order. Boom, boom, a series of explosions exploded in an instant, once again blowing up the Huaxia position into smoke and dust! "Tao times change! Assault! "Rush!" "Great Japanese Empire onboard!" "His Majesty the Emperor is onboard!"

When the shelling was over, the captain of the devil brigade, Yu Ikeuchi, waved his command knife again and ordered the troops to charge. At this time, not only the more than 600 surviving devils under his command began to run wildly, but even the thousands of devils around him began to charge wildly!

And this time the charge was unusually smooth, and the short distance of tens of meters was about ten seconds, and the devil soldiers quickly rushed into the empty Huaxia position. Well, it's really empty, not only are there no living people in the kilometer-long trenches, not even a single corpse, and the whole battlefield is as clean as a dog licking it.

"Yo Si! We've won! "We have finally broken through the Huaxia Army's position!" "Great Japanese Empire onboard!" But at this time, the devil soldiers who were on the rise did not find the slightest abnormality, they were all immersed in the joy of victory, raised their guns to celebrate, and many devil soldiers jumped into the trenches to search.

"Very good, the rocket artillery unit immediately opened fire and blew up these dogs!" When the 122nd and 123rd Divisions retreated to the second line of defense a kilometer away, and the 4th wave of Devil's troops began to land one after another, Li Jiayu shouted in an excited and hoarse voice over the walkie-talkie.

"Yes! Roger that! Please rest assured, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Li, let the little devil cry and call his mother! On the other end of the phone, Sun Anshan, commander of the rocket artillery unit, immediately replied with a smile.

After hanging up the phone, Sun Anshan smiled at Yang Fan beside him and asked, "General seat, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Li has finally given the order, and we will start performing?" ”

Jiang Qiang nodded with a smile and said, "Well, I'm also looking forward to the first battle effect of your rocket artillery unit, give me a hard fight until all the shells are gone!" ”

The last time he missed the epic war scene, Jiang Qiang was also extremely regretful, so this time he took Stilwell, Li Zongren, Sun Zhen and other senior generals to desert and also came to the front line to watch the battle. "Guaranteed to complete the mission!" Sun Anshan saluted Jiang Qiang excitedly, and then ran away.

"All of the rocket artillery regiments are there! Remove the camouflage now! "There is an order to use all the shells as quickly as possible!" "This is the first appearance of our rocket artillery regiment, you must give me a beautiful fight!" "Quick! Adjust the shooting elements now! "One test shot! Preparation! Fire! ”

At present, Jiang Qiang's Asian People's Liberation Army rocket artillery unit is equipped with a total of 75 122-mm self-propelled rocket artillery vehicles, which are hidden in several dense grasslands 17 kilometers west of the Salween River, forming five temporary rocket artillery positions. After receiving the combat order, the artillerymen unveiled the protective camouflage on the self-propelled guns as quickly as possible, and then the artillerymen quickly adjusted the firing according to the parameters and began a test firing.

Whoosh, and soon five 122-mm rockets shot up into the sky, roaring towards the devil soldiers more than ten kilometers away. Due to the slow muzzle velocity of the rocket artillery, less than 100 m/s, far less fast than the speed of sound of 340 m/s, the rocket artillery has not yet reached the head of the devil soldiers, but the rumbling sound of the cannon has reached the ears of the devil first.

"Nani? What is this sound? "It's thundering in the sky, is it going to rain?" The devils were either celebrating their hard-won victory, searching in the trenches and rear artillery holes, or landing on the Salween River in a steady stream.

At this time, there were suddenly a few dull explosions in their ears, and the ghost soldiers were stunned for a moment, and then subconsciously looked at the sky, thinking that this was just about to change the sky! First, because in addition to mortars, the muzzle velocity of the current mainstream artillery will not be less than the speed of sound, and often only the first bombardment can be heard! Second, because it is clear at a glance within nearly 10 kilometers in front, there is no possibility of the existence of Chinese mortar positions at all.

In addition, at this time, the sky overhead was covered with thick smoke, like dark clouds, and the five cannon shots next to each other were like rumbling thunder, and the whole thing was like a prelude to a thunderstorm. At the same time, due to the distance and daylight time, a few small black dots flying in the sky several kilometers away are not easily visible to the naked eye.

More than a minute later, just as the little devils were busy not taking the cannon fire they had just heard seriously, five rockets suddenly fell from the sky. Although the caliber of the 122mm rocket launcher is smaller than that of the 155mm howitzer, the shell itself is much longer, and the overall weight is more than twice that of the 155mm howitzer. Boom, boom, five shells fell to the ground one after another, and the high-speed fragments and overpressure shock waves generated by the explosion instantly overturned a large number of devil soldiers.

"Yaga!" "Shelling!" "Help!" "I don't want to die!" "Dead, dead!" "Hurry up and hide, this is a test firing of Huaxia artillery!"

Although there were only five rocket shells in this round of test firing, four shells accurately hit the devil crowd, and each shell caused heavy casualties to the devil soldiers, and it was okay to directly kill dozens of devils. But the ghost soldiers around them who were crippled by the explosion were miserable, seeing that they were missing arms and legs, and bursts of heart-rending pain came, making them die of pain.

However, the devil knew that most of these five shells were test-fired by Chinese artillery, so he didn't dare to stand stupidly in place and suffer from the shells, and he didn't have the time and leisure to save the dead and help the wounded. The devil soldiers near the trench jumped into the trench without thinking, and then began to drill into the anti-artillery hole.

"These shit-damn guys have finally taken the bait!" Wang Zhiyuan, the commander of the 122nd Division, saw a large number of devil soldiers jumping into the trenches to avoid the shelling, so he couldn't hold back any longer, and immediately picked up the walkie-talkie and said: "Quick, immediately detonate the bomb and send me all these dogs to the western sky!" "The 122nd and 123rd Divisions voluntarily gave up the first line of defense, but they were not given to the devils as a bridgehead. Before leaving, the front-line officers and soldiers planted a large number of explosive packs in the trenches according to the tactical arrangement, and connected the wires that had been laid long ago.

Anti-artillery holes, "Yes! Mission completion guaranteed! Battalion Commander Ai Gang responded excitedly, and then waved vigorously at several soldiers not far away. Little devils, I'm going to die! The fighters gritted their teeth and pressed the detonator with both hands!

Boom! A moment later, there was an earth-shattering explosion in the first trench of the 122nd Division, just like the crackling of electric artillery, a series of crazy explosions!

Even if it was nearly a thousand meters away, the high-decibel sound came in waves, and everyone still couldn't help but have a pain in their eardrums and tremble. The same recipe and the same taste, the 122nd Division just exploded, and the 123rd Division also blew up. The explosives placed in the trenches and anti-artillery holes are originally very powerful, and they are also added by confined spaces and small spaces, and the power is self-evident.

In this series of explosions, I don't know how many devil soldiers were directly blown into a pile of minced meat, and I don't know how many devil soldiers were blown apart and died extremely ugly. Even if he was lucky enough to survive and not die, he suffered extremely serious internal injuries, and he could only survive, basically without being saved.

These devil soldiers who hid in trenches and artillery holes thought that this would be safer and more secure, but unexpectedly, they went to meet Amaterasu first, "Nani? How so? A series of earth-shattering explosions came, and the leader of the devil wing, Rin Nakajima, was directly shocked, even if he didn't see the explosion scene with his own eyes, he knew that the nearly 1,000 imperial soldiers who jumped into the trench just now to avoid the shelling were basically dead.

"Bagaya Road, this must be a trap carefully set by the Chinese army! These insidious and despicable Chinese people! Stunned, Rin Nakajima suddenly made up his mind wishfully: it turned out that the previous artillery bombardment was just a feint, and the Chinese army simply did not have enough artillery to cover the firepower, and the real killing machine was buried in the abandoned position.

Thinking of this, Rin Nakajima only felt that his IQ was crushed, and he was furious and said to a devil officer beside him: "Order the front-line troops to immediately rush into the Huaxia position to set up defenses, and the medical soldiers quickly go to the front line to rescue the injured imperial warriors!" "Eight Ga Ya Road! A bunch of idiots, I've told them to be careful, how could they make such a low-level and stupid mistake?

Damn Rin Nakajima, don't come back alive, or you'll wait to kill yourself by seppuku to thank His Majesty the Emperor! The old devil on the east bank of the Salween River was itching his teeth, and he scolded, and his heart hurt even more. Nearly a thousand imperial soldiers were lost in a wave of explosions, and even the 19th Army could not withstand such consumption!