The artillery of the 18th Division Artillery Squadron opened fire, the formation...
One division of the Japanese invaders was equipped with as many as 488 artillery pieces and 432 grenade launchers. But that was when all were fully staffed, not to mention the third
How many losses did the Eighteenth Division suffer all the way from the Songhu battlefield to here?
Let's just say that a lot of artillery was lost this morning when Lu Feizhou used their own heavy artillery.
Despite this, the artillery shells fired with the help of illumination flares still caused huge casualties to the probing attack force.
The grenades threw flakes of fifty-millimeter grenades into the soldiers who were probing the attack. Although their skirmish lines were quite scattered, many people were still killed.
But this time no one ran away directly, because the armored troops behind them were really killing people and wouldn't give them a way to survive.
Rather than running away with the name of "coward" and being beaten to death in shame, it would be better to hide underground where it is safer.
But the artillery shells fired from various artillery positions landed around the tanks and cars.
The tank that was hit made a loud explosion, and the infantrymen protecting the tank were also blown to pieces. There was also a huge fireball caused by the explosion of ammunition, rolling upwards into the sky.
However, no one ran back, and no one dared to run away. Because there was another unit behind them who opened the skirmish line, and anyone who ran back would be brutally executed.
The battlefield will always be so cruel, especially when the artillery advantage is not on your side. In any case, with nearly 20,000 infantry gathered at this moment, it is impossible to rush out without paying any casualties.
As for the front line serving as the supervising team, shooting all the soldiers in front who dare to run back is a helpless move.
Of course, Zhang Sixing did not fail to consider the problem of Japanese artillery. When they fired the first round of artillery, causing damage to the attacking troops in front, the people arranged by Zhang Sixing to deal with the artillery had already arrived in the sky.
It's just that they are hidden under the low clouds in the night sky.
What is better than before is that now all the delta wings of the delta wing night attack force led by Hansen are equipped with walkie-talkies.
"Everyone, have you seen the position of the Japanese artillerymen who came out? Give them a taste. God bless our cluster bombs can ignite their ammunition."
As Hansen's order was given, the delta wings dived downward.
Although their delta wings were equipped with cluster bombs and were fully capable of surface attacks, everyone still carefully shut down the engines, trying not to make any noise on the battlefield with the noise of gunfire.
No one is paying attention to the air at this moment. Even if they notice that the Japanese are not equipped with any more anti-aircraft guns except rifles and crooked guns. Compared with their artillery, the Japanese army divisions are very poor at anti-aircraft. They can only be said to be better than nothing.
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In fact, he doesn't need to worry too much about accuracy, because the dive of the delta wing is slow and silent. Especially when the engine is turned off, the dive speed is quite fast.
A piece of cluster bomb called "Tiannu Scattered Flowers" fell under the Japanese artillery position. When it was about 100 meters away from the ground, it began to disperse the 50 kilogram-class cluster bomb, carrying 150 submunitions, evenly from the air.
Sprinkle it down.
A series of submunitions separated from the mother body, like an abstract floor-sweeping skirt, were evenly scattered from the bomb's mother body, and then exploding fireballs rose up on the ground.
Of course, the submunition modified based on the 158 clay porcelain grenade cannot be more shocking than the explosion of a 150 mm heavy artillery shell.
However, in the extremely large coverage area, clay-porcelain grenades exploded one after another, and shrapnel that was almost denser than dust flew everywhere. The effective killing range of a cluster bomb called "Tiannu Scattering" covered an effective killing range of more than one
Thousands of square meters.
Of course, the following situation will not only create chaos, but also create greater lethality.
In the dust and smoke raised by the newly exploded submunition, the mother body rotated in the cross-shaped rotor at the rear, like a dancer enjoying herself, listening with interest to the applause of the audience.
It landed on its head on the ground, and then it suddenly exploded. A small bomb containing the napalm egg substance exploded, and then a large amount of sparks flew out from where it was.
Egg liquid-like droplets mixed with white phosphorus will burn violently wherever they fall, regardless of whether there is an open flame or not.
Of course, Zhang Sixing, who designed this device, did not expect such a device to hurt people. His purpose was very clear, which was that when such a device exploded, it could completely destroy the "matrix" of the "Tiannu Sanhua" cluster bomb.
Although the equipment will not be unknown to the enemy as long as it is used on the battlefield.
But isn't it that the later the better?
But tonight's greatest achievement fell on this napalm-burning egg that destroyed the mother body.
At the ammunition storage yard of the 18th Division Artillery, due to a lack of time, the ammunition transported by vehicles had to be piled on the spot on the pile of artillery shells. It happened that a few extinguished droplets fell on it.
And this has an incredible result. Although the temperature is relatively low in winter, white phosphorus with an ignition point of 40 degrees Celsius has no reason to spontaneously ignite.
Unfortunately, these droplets themselves had a high temperature when they were blown out by the night wind while flying. In addition, saltpeter powder added as a strong oxidant further worsened the situation.
A small yellow-white cannon re-ignited inconspicuously on the ammunition, and then more white phosphorus, saltpeter, and gasoline in those viscous droplets were added to the reaction, and the pyrolyzed asphalt released more combustion-supporting substances.
Finally, when someone shook his head, stunned by the explosion of the earthenware grenade, and discovered the fire rising from the ammunition box, the shell explosion had already developed to an irreversible level.
"Run...run quickly..."
I don't know who warned them, but everyone was still stunned when they looked at the flames. The surviving gunners turned around and ran away in panic as if they were being chased by evil spirits.
But before they could take a few steps, a loud noise came from behind.
The detonation of the artillery shells is not like the explosions in the movies. It is a scene that only occurs when the bullets detonate. The detonation of the artillery shell will detonate all the explosives around it in the explosion range.
This is why the T72 will definitely fly off the turret when it explodes, because its ammunition compartment is just below the turret. Once a shell explodes, all the tank shells will explode together, and then fly off the turret again.
Hundreds of artillery shells of different calibers exploded together, and the scene was very spectacular.
It's like the heaviest bomb, giving people a feeling of explosion like the earth is shattering.
A white flash appeared outside the explosion fireball, and it spread rapidly outward.
What is surprising is that not only people will be torn to pieces, but all objects hit by it along the way will fly uncontrollably like leaves.