As soon as the 50 small artillery shells hit the ground, napalm splashed in all directions with a "soaring" sound, and the enemies within a radius of 20 to 30 meters were inevitably affected.
But its lethality goes far beyond that.
After being ignited, the Japs will lose their senses and run around in pain. If they encounter anything, they will hug it tightly like grabbing a life-saving straw and refuse to let go. Then, the burning people will spread around and cause two people.
Kill twice or even three times.
This left the Japanese behind the tanks with no place to stay, and they were all hiding in a mess. Not to mention providing cover for the tanks, their own safety could not be guaranteed.
This is actually partly due to panic.
The reason is that at this time, the Japanese and even the whole world did not have such incendiary bombs fired by artillery shells.
This is not to say that no one has thought of it, but that napalm has not been developed yet.
There is no napalm and the space of the cannonball is very limited. If it is filled with gasoline with a low combustion value...a cannonball will only cause a small fire and hurt few people. It is better to directly fill it with gunpowder, which will be more lethal.
But now, because of napalm, the same space filled with napalm can cause dozens of times more damage than gasoline or even gunpowder, so it makes sense.
Although the Japanese have flamethrowers and aerial bomb-type incendiary bombs, they have never seen such incendiary bombs fired in the form of mortars.
Seeing the terrifying destructive power caused by the incendiary bomb, he immediately became confused and scurried around like a headless fly.
At this time, the rocket launcher shooter, under the cover of his comrades, approached the tank at a low profile, and then rockets flew towards the target one after another.
These rockets are also incendiary bombs.
This was actually unexpected. Wang Xuexin originally developed this thing to fight bunkers, but unexpectedly he discovered that it could also fight tanks by some strange combination of circumstances.
But when I think about it, it’s true.
Let’s not talk about whether the incendiary bomb can burn through the armor... This is a small probability event. Unless it hits the weakest part of the tank, it will be difficult to burn through the armor.
But even if it cannot burn through the armor, its flames and smoke will immediately block the sight of the tank crew, making them likely to become blind.
Secondly, steel armor is a good conductor of heat. The heat of incendiary bombs can easily be conducted into the tank, causing the tank crew to become unbearably hot. If it splashes onto the engine and burns... it can cause the engine to overheat and malfunction, or even ignite the engine.
Set the entire tank on fire.
This is why the bear can use "Molotov Cocktail" to fight against enemy tanks, and the bear uses gasoline bottles with low combustion value.
In fact, another advantage of incendiary bombs is that they will penetrate and burn through the gaps in the tank's armor, but Wang Xuexin didn't know this yet.
After a wave of rockets, the flames burning in front of the tank caused the Japanese tank to lose most of its firepower.
Although many tanks were still firing, most of them were firing randomly without any target.
Then, the soldiers threw out the Molotov cocktails one after another...
In an instant, the Japanese tanks lined up in a long line on the road turned into a sea of fire, filled with Japanese roaring and jumping around covered in fire.
Yukie Nagai couldn't believe what he saw.
Just now, he thought that his troops would be able to defeat all the enemies in front of them until they joined forces with friendly forces to close the encirclement.
But now...
But in the blink of an eye, his army was on the verge of collapse.
These are twenty-three tanks, including five improved Type 97 tanks. They didn't even fire a few shells, and they were burned here.
With a "boom", the explosion of a tank woke up Yukie Nagai who was in a daze.
He immediately returned to the armored vehicle and reported to his superiors on the radio: "Yukie Nagai reported that our unit has been surrounded by the enemy's main force and is about to be destroyed. All members of our unit will be loyal to the empire. Please be sure to worry about the enemy's incendiary bombs...
"
Just as he was talking, a Molotov cocktail was thrown at Nagai Yuukie's feet.
Yukie Nagai's words immediately turned into hysterical screams...
Yukie Nagai talked a lot of nonsense, about all employees being loyal and being surrounded, these are not the main point.
At this time, he should report as quickly as possible that the enemy has incendiary bombs fired by mortars and rocket launchers.
But then again, saying this won't do Yuuki Nagai any good.
For Nagai Yuukie, what he was most worried about was that he and his troops would be regarded as a shame to the empire, so at the last moment he pointed out "surrounded by the enemy's main force" and "all members are loyal", and then burned
bomb.
Therefore, Anda Twenty-Three was baffled when he heard this information.
Nagai Yue's army has a total of 25 tanks and three armored vehicles, as well as a dozen vehicles and a total of more than 300 infantrymen to coordinate with it.
How could such a unit be suddenly surrounded by the main force of the Eighth Route Army and have all members be loyal!
Anda 23 sent people out for reconnaissance while reporting the situation to the military headquarters in Taiyuan.
Okamura Neji was also shocked when he received the information.
"The tank troops were completely wiped out by the enemy?" Neji Okamura said: "This... is impossible. How did they do it?"
Yoshio Shinozuka replied: "Your Excellency, the intelligence mentioned 'incendive bombs', could it be..."
As soon as Okamura Neji was reminded by Shinozuka Yoshio, he remembered the "Molotov cocktail" mentioned by Zhu Ziming in the intelligence.
At that time, they didn't take it seriously. They didn't expect that this inconspicuous thing could have such terrifying lethality!
Okamura Neiji immediately forwarded the information about the Molotov cocktail to Adachi Twenty-three, and ordered: "Since the other party has the Molotov cocktail, they are probably the independent regiment, the main target of this battle. They must be surrounded and do not let them escape, especially
Wang Xuexin!"
"Yes!" Anda Twenty-Three responded, spread out the map and looked at it for a while, then issued an order to the troops to surround Shanguai.
At this time, the independent regiment was cheering for the victory they had just won.
This was especially true for Sun Ming and the Jin-Sui Army led by them. They had never seen such incendiary bombs before. They suddenly appeared in front of them and exerted such amazing power, which completely shocked them.
Li Yunlong said to Sun Ming with a "hehe" smile: "Adjutant Sun, isn't this thing interesting? It was done by Xiao Dongbei again! This is the only one with no semicolon! You can talk to Brother Chu some other time and see if this thing can be exchanged
How much food!”
Sun Ming didn't know how to answer. He was not sure whether the Jinsui army that had retreated to the mountains... still had enough food to trade.
When Li Yunlong and Sun Ming were talking, they had no idea that the number and location of the Independent Regiment had been exposed by the Molotov cocktails, nor did they know that they were the main targets of the Japs, nor did they know that the forces of the two Japs brigades were surrounding the mountain one after another.
Turn.
They still unswervingly carried out the orders from their superiors: "Hold the enemy for three hours."