"Major, it's absolutely safe here. The Eighth Route Army's aerial bombs can't blow up our gun towers at all."
North of the abandoned Xincheng Airport, in a highland blockhouse, the Japanese squad leader stationed in the blockhouse said to a Japanese major.
This reinforced concrete turret is more than ten meters high. Around the turret, the Japanese have also deployed supporting defense facilities such as mines, ditches and trenches.
In the artillery building, there is enough food and ammunition. Even if it is besieged, a reinforced team of Japanese soldiers inside can hold on for a month.
When building these reinforced concrete bunkers and gun towers, Yoshio Iwamatsu was very confident.
With the Eighth Route Army's attack methods at that time, these gun towers were destroyed absolutely.
In the last wave of aircraft dive attacks, the aerial bombs dropped by the Eighth Route Army aircraft hit the outer wall of this reinforced concrete turret.
Although the Japanese inside the blockhouse were shaken by the explosion, their heads were buzzing, but the damage caused by the aerial bombs to the steel and concrete was minimal.
"Yoshi..."
The Japanese Major said with a gloomy look.
This Japanese Major's name is Yoshimatsu Atsushi, and he is a captain of the 41st Division Engineer Regiment.
In the afternoon, he and hundreds of engineers under his command were assisting the Fifth Division in constructing trench civil fortifications.
As the captain of the battalion, it was naturally impossible for him to personally participate in digging trenches. He set up a pot not far away, with hot pot boiling in it, and sang the military song of the North China Front in his mouth.
We were eating hot pot and singing songs, and then we were bombed by the Eighth Route Army.
That kind of terrifying incendiary bombs still scares Atsushi Yoshimatsu to this day, even though Japanese fighter jets and bombers can also carry incendiary bombs.
However, compared with the power of the incendiary bombs dropped by the Japanese army and the incendiary bombs dropped by the Eighth Route Army, the power gap between firecrackers and grenades was almost the same.
That kind of incendiary bomb not only has a large burning area, but the temperature is also extremely terrifying.
The flames of the explosion swept in all directions, the ground fluctuated like waves, and the Japanese soldiers who were bombed were quickly burned to ashes!
He saw with his own eyes that a drop of sputtering sparks ignited the clothes of a Japanese soldier. The clothes were ignited almost instantly. The Japanese soldier screamed and took off his clothes, but it was of no use. The flames clung to his skin and continued to burn.
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Several soldiers nearby tried to help him put out the fire, and some soldiers were covered in sparks until a hole was burned into their skin.
The entire position was covered with a layer of death, and the expressions of all the Japanese soldiers changed. They had never seen such powerful incendiary bombs.
After the Eighth Route Army planes bombed the engineering brigade of several hundred people in Jisongdu, more than half of them were killed or injured.
Most of the casualties were burned to death by incendiary bombs, and only a few were killed by aerial bombs.
After those soldiers were burned, they screamed like they were coming from hell, leaving an indelible mark on Jisong Atsushi's heart.
If I were hit by an incendiary bomb, I would shudder just thinking about it!
Fortunately...
It's very safe in this reinforced concrete blockhouse.
The squad leader here happened to be a fellow villager of Jisong Du, so he took dozens of cronies from the engineering regiment and got into the gun building.
As for the dozen or so puppet troops stationed inside the blockhouse in collaboration with the Japanese, they had all been driven outside the blockhouse.
I think this place is very safe.
Ji Songdu's tense expression relaxed slightly.
at this time.
There were some buzzing sounds in the sky.
The faces of the Japs inside the artillery building changed. Even though they knew that the Eighth Route Army planes would not come to blow up the artillery building and waste bombs, the Japs were still a little scared.
Boom boom boom…
In the distance, from the field fortifications of the 41st Division and the 5th Division, thunderous aerial bomb explosions could be heard, which reverberated across the vast sky.
Atsushi Yoshimatsu and the Japanese squad leader clattered up the wooden stairs to the lookout at the top of the turret.
On the lookout, a Japanese soldier was holding a telescope and watching the Eighth Route Army bombers in the distance, bombing the Japanese positions.
Although the specific situation could not be seen due to the distance, judging from the smoke rising after the explosion, the Eighth Route Army dropped a large number of aerial bombs on the positions of the 41st Division and the 5th Division.
At this moment, a whining sound came from behind.
Jisong Atsushi's expression changed and he looked towards the sky behind him. At some point, an Eighth Route Army plane flew around behind the gun tower.
Like a sharp sword, it swooped in the direction of the gun tower, and the engine of the Eighth Route Army's fighter-bomber came over like thunder.
Looking at the two large black cylindrical metal egg-like bombs under the wings in the field of view of the telescope, Yoshimatsu's expression suddenly changed.
This cylindrical metal bomb, Ji Songdu knew it, was the incendiary bomb of the Eighth Route Army.
"idiot!"
Yoshimatsu's face turned pale, he threw away the telescope in his hand and got inside the turret.
However, the Saber fighter's dive speed was faster than its flight speed, and in the blink of an eye it was already approaching the sky above the gun tower.
Since there was no Japanese anti-aircraft fire threat on the ground, the pilots of the New Regiment flew their aircraft close to the ground after diving, only a few dozen meters above the ground.
After approaching the Japanese turret, aiming at the Japanese turret, the pilots of the new regiment pressed the bomb release button.
The huge, black, egg-like metal bombs detached from the wings of the fighter-bombers almost simultaneously, rolling and smashing into the Japanese gun towers.
…
In the reinforced concrete block building.
Sixty or seventy Japanese soldiers were huddled together, shivering.
"Why did I hear the plane?"
A cowardly little Japanese soldier screamed.
"idiot!"
A Japanese engineer squadron leader cursed angrily:
"It's absolutely safe here. Keep quiet. The Eighth Route Army's bombing will last up to 20 minutes."
The turret suddenly became quiet.
However, the sound of the plane's huge engine got louder and louder from far to near, as if it was about to bomb the turrets.
"The aerial bombs from the Eighth Route Army cannot blow up the turrets. Don't worry, they will at most be knocked unconscious."
A Japanese veteran stationed in the artillery tower spoke confidently.
However, as soon as he finished speaking, he saw Major Yoshimatsu and the squad leader getting down from the ladder, and their expressions changed drastically.
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The faces of the Japanese in the blockhouse suddenly changed.
Major Yoshimatsu looked inside the turret, then focused on the shooting hole inside the turret, and said in a hurry: "Block the shooting hole with something immediately!"
"idiot!"
Seeing a group of Japanese soldiers, he was slightly stunned.
Major Yoshimatsu was furious: "You are a bunch of trash, can't you understand Japanese? Hurry up and block the shooting holes, otherwise we will all die!"
Only then did the Japanese soldiers react and hurriedly looked for something to block the shooting holes.
But it's too late.
"boom!"
An explosion like a landslide sounded near the gun tower.
The next second.
From the firing hole, endless flames poured in, and at the last moment, the gun tower was filled with the frightened eyes of the Japanese.
Look far away.
The entire turret was enveloped in huge flames. The flames generated by the explosion carried the inertia of the shells through the firing holes and into the interior of the turret.
Ahhhh——
From the turret, Japanese screams sounded like they were coming from hell, but the screams quickly died down.
The pilots of the new group pulled the plane up into the clouds, glanced at the Japanese turrets below that were wrapped in endless flames, smiled slightly, and immediately looked for the next target.
After the second wave of bombing is completed.
The New Regiment Flying Group quickly returned to Dagu Town Airport, took a short rest, replenished fuel and aerial bombs, and then launched the third wave of bombings against the Japanese in Taiyuan.
After the third wave of bombing was completed, the sky gradually became dark, and the flying group stopped bombing.
…
Taiyuan.
Japanese First Army Headquarters.
Although it was late at night, the First Army headquarters was still brightly lit.
The air raid siren in Taiyuan City sounded almost all day long.
Yoshio Iwamatsu also spent almost the whole day in the air raid shelter.
Although the Eighth Route Army planes did not bomb the inner city of Taiyuan, the officers at the First Army Headquarters were still afraid, so they all worked in the air-raid shelters during the day.
"Report to Commander, the casualties of the 5th Division and the 41st Division have been preliminary calculated."
Deputy Chief of Staff Masao Miyazaki walked in quickly with a telegram in his hand and bowed his head to report to First Army Commander Yoshio Iwamatsu.
Yoshio Iwamatsu asked: "How many casualties were there?"
Masao Miyazaki looked ugly: "The Eighth Route Army dispatched more than 100 aircraft in total, bombing the field fortifications of the 41st Division and the 5th Division, as well as the permanent fortifications outside the city. The total casualties of the Locust Army exceeded 2,700 people!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Masao Miyazaki saw Yoshio Iwamatsu's expression, and his expression suddenly changed.
"There are so many casualties?"
Iwamatsu Yoshio exclaimed:
"How can this be?"
Yoshio Iwamatsu had also heard about the Eighth Route Army's fighter jets and bombers. He guessed that the casualties of the Japanese army must be high, but he did not expect the casualties to be so high.
The Eighth Route Army only dispatched more than 100 aircraft sorties, causing casualties to more than half of the Japanese regiment.
According to the report, not even a single Eighth Route Army aircraft was shot down.
This means that the casualty ratio between the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army was 2,700 to 0.
Masao Miyazaki sounded helpless: "Report to Commander, the Eighth Route Army used extremely powerful incendiary bombs. Many of our soldiers were burned by these incendiary bombs. Moreover, the Eighth Route Army was very cunning. It was useless during the first wave of attacks."
The incendiary bomb attack on the permanent fortifications made the Locust Army soldiers mistakenly think that these permanent fortifications were safe, and many soldiers ran to the permanent fortifications to avoid the bombing of the Eighth Route Aircraft."
"As a result, in the second wave of attacks by the Eighth Route Army, all incendiary bombs were thrown at these permanent fortifications. Almost all the Locust Army soldiers in the bombed permanent fortifications were burned to death."
"Many of those burned to death were lieutenants and junior officers."
After finishing speaking, Miyazaki Masao couldn't help but feel a little dizzy.
It's really too miserable.
After dark, he personally went to those bunkers and gun towers to take a look. Some Japanese soldiers were burned to charcoal, some were burned to fly ash, and some were even roasted alive.
Most of the Japanese soldiers in this casualty data were burned to death, and only a small part of those who were hit by aerial bombs were injured.
Due to the second wave of attacks by the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties, so the 41st Division and the 5th Division ordered all soldiers to leave their bunkers and gun towers and disperse and hide.
"idiot!"
Hearing this, Yoshio Iwamatsu cursed angrily, picked up a blue and white porcelain vase and threw it to the ground:
"Report the matter to the North China Front Army Headquarters immediately."
"If the Eighth Route Army's aviation unit is not eliminated, the Locust Army will be in big trouble!"
