More than 40 kilograms of explosives exploded in a trench that was only more than fifty meters long. How powerful was it?
I'm afraid even the people at the scene would have a hard time describing it.
Because those who are still alive have already been shaken to their core by the loud noise that is beyond human acceptance, and their minds stopped working at that moment.
Perhaps all thoughts focus on one question: Am I dead? Am I still alive?
After the devastating explosion, the sound of gunfire on this side of the battlefield had completely stopped. The Chinese soldiers, who had been hiding in the trenches to avoid the huge air wave, boldly stuck their heads out and were stunned.
The first line of trenches thirty meters away has almost completely collapsed. The nearly 1.5-meter deep trench that once took hundreds of people to dig is gone. The soil soaked in blood and gunpowder smoke has also disappeared, leaving only a layer of new soil.
The trenches that could withstand the bombardment of 75-caliber mountain artillery had become like this, let alone the people in them.
At least there was no one in the trenches that had completely lost their function.
As for the Japanese troops lying on the hillside outside the trenches, they were not hit because of the angle, but they didn't suffer much either.
Some were swept away by the air waves and flung to a distance of more than ten meters without making any sound, and some were just lying on the ground quietly, like babies entering a sweet dreamland.
Even those who were lucky enough to survive seemed to have been stunned by the big explosion that was so close to Chi Chi. They were stunned and turned to look at the results they had just achieved behind them, with eyes full of disbelief.
The trenches are gone, and so are the people.
The Japanese infantrymen, who were shaken by the loud noise and their heads were buzzing, found it difficult to understand why the situation reversed in the blink of an eye when the Chinese were clearly at the end of their war effort.
They didn't understand it when they were on the battlefield, nor did the Japanese troops who were about to reap the fruits of victory more than 200 meters away.
Especially the Japanese captain who was given a death order and coldly ordered to shoot and kill all the soldiers who tried to retreat. When the loud noise shook the sky and the entire trench was almost enveloped in smoke, he knew as dumb as a clay statue that he was doomed.
It wasn't that the power of the explosives could sweep over a distance of more than 200 meters and kill him, but that one of his infantry squadrons was gone.
From this moment on, he became the first captain in the history of the Imperial Japanese Army.
Even if he had the nerve to continue living, His Excellency Colonel Kanda who issued the death order would never agree!
This is indeed a Japanese army captain who thinks too much.
Since the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army has also suffered huge losses, with more than 40,000 Japanese army casualties on the front line. He is by no means the first lieutenant captain like him to stand on the front line in despair. In the longer war to come,
, and it is definitely not the last one.
Because, as long as the Chinese soldiers do not back down and sacrifice their lives for lives, the Japanese will also die.
China once survived the most difficult first three years with an exchange ratio of more than ten to one, and finally entered a stalemate period that dragged the entire Japan into the quagmire of war.
Don’t talk about the future, but talk about the present.
The tragedy of the Japanese army is by no means as simple as the center of the explosion.
Except for the seven big "stones" that exploded in the trench and sent away all the Japanese soldiers in the trench, the "stone" that jumped over the trench because it hit the helmet may have been caused by gravity acceleration or the explosion in the trench.
The violent vibration shocked me, and I ran along the hillside for another hundred meters before it exploded when the fuse that had finally finished burning was lit.
Unfortunately, all six of the Japanese light machine guns were in that general area.
To make matters worse, since the Chinese soldiers did not have artillery, the grenadier soldiers also took a fancy to this "feng shui treasure land" and ran over to squeeze together with the machine gunners.
They didn't have any fortifications. A stone and a tree as thick as a calf were their bunkers.
Obviously, these gadgets may be able to block stray bullets, but their ability to withstand the crazy air waves and the various stone and wood fragments triggered by the explosion energy is almost useless.
Half of the six groups of machine gun shooters were blown away on the spot, and a few unlucky ones a little further away had their faces covered in blood from fragments and were rolling on the ground in pain.
This is also the reason why gunfire on the battlefield has completely disappeared.
On the battlefield in front of the companies and platoons under Major Scar, the Japanese troops rushing into the front line completely lost their ability to fight.
"Come out and kill them with bayonets!" After Major Scar was briefly shocked by his own masterpiece, he picked up a rifle and ordered boldly.
Using a bayonet is not to show bravery, but purely to save bullets.
A dozen Chinese soldiers jumped out of the trenches, carrying Type 13 rifles made in Liao Dynasty. They rushed into the battlefield under the eyes of the stunned Japanese officers and soldiers more than 200 meters away.
What can't be moved is a sharp stab with a knife.
Katori Asuka is vomiting blood!
Not to be angry.
Rather, he was shocked.
The violent vibrations caused by the violent explosives shook the Chinese soldiers in the trench thirty meters away, let alone the Japanese second lieutenant who was only seven or eight meters away from the explosion point.
Although keeping the chest and abdomen tightly close to the ground can reduce the surface area affected by bullets, it also firmly absorbs the vibration energy transmitted from the ground.
There was a large amount of brown substance in the spitted blood. Katori Asuka knew that it was fragments of internal organs. He could not survive. Even if the Chinese could let him go, he would be dead if he returned to the main formation.
Is this the fate of a soldier? Die on the battlefield! What does it feel like to be shrouded in horse leather?
The Japanese Army second lieutenant who originally thought that he should be extremely afraid of death felt relaxed and relieved at that moment. He looked at the young Chinese soldiers slowly approaching him, with a smile on his face.
He could have taken out the Nanbu Fourteen pistol in his belt, made a last stand, and died like a samurai even if he died.
However, the Japanese Army second lieutenant did not.
He was afraid that it would be too late, too late to miss him.
It was the most precious thing in his life, but he only thought of cherishing it now.
The Japanese Army second lieutenant turned over hard, vomiting blood from his mouth, looking up at the falling flares in the sky, letting the white afterglow of the flares shine on his face.
When he was young, he would lie on the couch made by his father from bamboo in the mountains under the big tree in front of his house. His mother would gently shake a fan to help him drive away mosquitoes, and talk to his father about the fields that he was not interested in.
Farm work there.
My father was drinking the home-brewed sake and talking to my mother. The atmosphere was warm and peaceful.
And he just looked up at the night sky and looked at the bright stars.
The stars in my hometown are also so bright!
Unfortunately, I can never go back.
This damn war!
The bright starlight stays in the pupils as darkness approaches.
When the severe pain came, the last voice he heard in the world came into the mind of Lieutenant Katori Asuka.
"Platoon commander, I avenged you, I killed the Japanese second lieutenant!" The young soldier murmured to himself as he stabbed the bayonet into the chest of Katori Asuka who was immersed in memory.
There were tears in his eyes, but he felt relieved.
"That's it! His platoon leader died under my gun, and I also died under their sword. Is this the legendary cause and effect?" The moment Katori Asuka breathed his last breath, he wanted to be relieved but couldn't help but feel relieved.
Somewhat unwilling.
So, what about the dignitaries who drove us into the battlefield! Will they suffer the same fate?
If Tang Dao were here, he might be able to tell this invading army officer, who only realized something at the moment of his death, that his expectations were not unattainable.
When the war ends, those war criminals who committed heinous crimes will be sent to the gallows.
On the battlefield, more than 20 Japanese soldiers watched dumbly as the shambling Chinese soldiers stabbed their colleagues on the slope to death one by one before the light fell.
Until the darkness engulfed the entire hillside.
The bullets of the Japanese soldiers who regained consciousness also turned into aimless venting.
The Chinese soldiers had already returned to the second-line trenches under the orders of Major Scar.
Now, that is the last line of defense for Chinese soldiers.
After finishing dealing with the enemy in front of them, the Chinese soldiers began to sit back and wait.
Waiting for the Japanese to attack again.
Even if everyone dies in battle, it won't be a loss.
More than half of the Japanese infantry squadron lay in front of them.
One for three, what else is there to be dissatisfied about?
