Zhu Tian: Beginning to Cross the Changjin Lake

At this moment, Li Guotao and his men had already hidden in the reverse slope position.

The Japanese reacted very quickly, and their artillery positions responded quickly.

Shells flew continuously towards the 10th Army's position, violent explosions continued to sound, and the artillery fire directly covered the position where Li Guotao and his men were just now.

Chen Jianghe said with a smug look on his face: "Thanks to the battalion commander's cleverness, we retreated in advance. Now the Japanese are just wasting their shells."

Song Weiguo frowned and said thoughtfully: "With such a fierce bombing, it seems that we must have caught a big fish this time, otherwise the Japanese wouldn't be so angry."

Li Guotao naturally knew that he had caught a big fish, but he couldn't tell them this because if he did, he wouldn't be able to explain it.

Anyway, Li Guotao was just a passer-by and didn't care about military achievements or anything like that, so there was no need to make a fuss about it.

However, Li Guotao really didn't expect that the big fish he caught was far more important than a small colonel.

As Sakuma breathed his last over there, the system prompt sound on Li Guotao's side also rang.

[Ding Dong~! Congratulations to the host for successfully killing a Japanese lieutenant general division commander, and a heavy bomber bombing card was dropped. ]

[Heavy Bomber Bombing Card: Use this card to summon 24 heavy bombers to bomb the designated target area. Up to three bombing areas can be designated.]

As the system prompt sounded, Li Guotao couldn't help but open his mouth in surprise.

Lieutenant General Division Commander?
It actually killed a Japanese lieutenant general division commander?

On the opposite side was the Japanese 68th Division, so 68% of the people killed in the bombing were the commander of the th Division, Lieutenant General Sakuma Hitoshi.

Another 116 percent chance is that the commander of the th Division was killed in the explosion while visiting, but this possibility is almost zero.

Therefore, Li Guotao has basically confirmed that Sakuma Hitoshi was killed in the explosion.

According to Li Guotao's memory, Lieutenant General Sakuma Hitoshi was indeed attacked by our artillery fire while he was scouting the terrain during the Battle of Hengyang.

However, there is controversy over whether he was killed in the explosion. Some say that he was seriously injured in the explosion and eventually died. Others say that he was only seriously injured in the explosion and sent to the rear to recuperate, but did not die later.

Therefore, Li Guotao had no idea whether this old devil was dead or not in history.

But in this world, Li Guotao has confirmed that this guy was really blown to death by himself. After all, the system will not lie.

Li Guotao was extremely excited because he killed a Japanese lieutenant general division commander in one fell swoop.

After all, during the entire 14-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the number of Japanese lieutenant generals killed on the Chinese battlefield could be counted on one hand.

After all, it is not so easy to kill a high-ranking Japanese general of this level.

I was lucky this time and got a great bargain.

Moreover, the special props dropped by this guy are also quite good. A bombing card can summon 24 heavy bombers to bomb the Japanese.

The intensity of this bombing is quite considerable, and Li Guotao is also itching to try it out at this moment.

According to his estimation, since the Japanese attack failed, they would definitely use despicable tactics such as poison gas next.

Even if not used, the Japanese artillery is still the biggest threat to the defenders.

The Japanese troops of the 68th Division and the 116th Division each had an artillery regiment. The 68th Division was equipped with a mountain artillery regiment, all of which were equipped with 75mm mountain cannons, a total of thirty-six guns.

The 116th Division was even more powerful, equipped with a field artillery regiment with 36 field guns, which were even more powerful.

If these two artillery regiments could be eliminated in advance, it would be like breaking the teeth of the Japanese, causing their combat effectiveness to be seriously reduced, and even directly affecting the subsequent battles.

Thinking of this, Li Guotao immediately made up his mind.

"System, if we use the bombing card, foggy weather won't affect the bombing effect, right?"

[No, the host can automatically designate the bombing area, and all bombs will be accurately dropped into the designated area.]

"That's good!"

Li Guotao felt very proud and did what he said.

"System, use the heavy bomber bombing card immediately."

[Ding Dong~! Used successfully, please specify the bombing area, up to three bombing targets can be specified. ]

Two is enough!

Li Guotao felt very proud. At this moment, a map appeared in his mind, on which he could specify the bombing area.

Li Guotao had already figured out the locations of the two artillery regiments of the Japanese through the system map, but he had no way to deal with them before, so knowing their locations was useless.

The mountain and field artillery equipped by the 10th Army could never be a match for the Japanese artillery regiment.

But this time the use of heavy bombers is different. As long as the position is accurate enough, it will be enough to destroy their entire artillery position.

Moreover, Li Guotao had just confirmed that all the Japanese artillerymen were gathered at their artillery positions. Even the Japanese soldiers from the 116nd Field Artillery Regiment of the 122th Division were all gathered on the positions. It was obvious that they were always ready for battle.

This is even better, let these little Japs and their cannons go to the sky together.

Li Guotao quickly marked two areas and accurately included the two artillery regiments of the Japanese into the two bombing areas.

[Are you sure you want to bomb the above two targets? Once confirmed, it cannot be changed. 】

"Sure!"

[The bombing has begun! ]

At this time, Li Guotao was excited, but also vaguely curious whether the sudden appearance of this group of bombers would arouse other people's suspicion.

Of course, no matter how suspicious they are, they can't possibly suspect him. In fact, the problem is not too big for him.

Li Guotao was just worried whether this move would affect the progress of the entire battle. After thinking about it, he felt that it would not be the case.

After all, the Japanese were determined to capture Hengyang.

In this case, Li Guotao felt relieved.

Another reason for choosing to take action at this time is because of the heavy fog. I'm afraid no one will be able to spot these planes.

Li Guotao kept looking up at the sky in the distance, and indeed he never saw the shadow of a plane, nor did he hear any movement of an airplane.

However, there were bursts of violent explosions from the Japanese positions, and flames shot up into the sky.

The Japanese artillery regiment's position, which was originally bombarding the defenders, was suddenly silenced.

At this moment, the Japanese soldiers at the artillery regiment position of the 68th Division were also very surprised, because they also did not see the plane, nor did they hear the movement of the plane.

All they heard was the whistling of bombs, and then one bomb after another fell from the sky and landed directly on their artillery positions.

There were continuous violent explosions. The heavy bombs were so powerful that huge fireballs rose into the sky. The Japanese artillery positions were destroyed one after another, and cannons were blown to the ground and scrapped on the spot.

The Japanese soldiers had no time to escape from their positions and were torn into pieces by the raging shock wave, some even completely turned into smoke and dust and soared into the air.

Not only the artillery positions of the 68th Division, but also the field artillery regiment positions of the Japanese 116th Division in the southwest were bombed in the same way.

The Japanese were caught off guard and suffered heavy losses.

At this moment, there were a lot of ammunition piled up on the enemy's artillery positions, some of which were also detonated during the bombing. Not only artillery shells, but also a large number of poison gas bombs that were about to be used were destroyed in this bombing.

A large amount of poisonous gas leaked out and gradually began to spread around.

Li Guotao stood on the top of the mountain, holding up a telescope to observe the situation in the distance, and said excitedly: "Did you see that? The Japanese artillery position exploded."

Chen Jianghe scratched his head and asked in confusion: "Why did it explode suddenly?"

Li Guotao said: "I don't know, but it exploded anyway."

"And it looks like they have a gas leak."

Chen Jianghe nodded and said, "The fog over there is indeed a bit yellow."

At this time, Song Weiguo pointed in another direction and said, "Look over there, it seems that the Japanese positions were also bombed."

Li Guotao turned his head and took a look, then said, "How do you know it was bombed?"

Song Weiguo said: "My guess is that an explosion of this magnitude could only be caused by an airplane bombing!"

Li Guotao frowned and said, "But we didn't hear any airplane noise just now!"

"Besides, if the Flying Tigers were going to bomb, they probably wouldn't have chosen such foggy weather. It's impossible to see the target clearly."

Chen Jianghe frowned and said, "If it wasn't a bombing, it couldn't be that the Japanese's artillery exploded, detonating the shell and blowing everything up."

Song Weiguo shook his head and said, "That's absolutely impossible. There is a safe distance between the gun positions. It's possible that one or even two guns were blown up. But it's absolutely impossible that so many guns were blown up at once and the entire position was blown up."

Li Guotao smiled and asked, "How do you know that it was their artillery position that was bombed?"

Song Weiguo frowned and said, "Their artillery was still firing at us just now, but suddenly it stopped, and it stopped completely after a series of explosions just now."

"Wasn't it their artillery position that was bombed?"

Chen Jianghe looked at Li Guotao and asked, "You just said that the Japanese artillery position was blown up."

Li Guotao explained: "I am just guessing. Just like Weiguo said just now, their artillery has stopped."

"And based on the Japanese artillery bombardment just now, we can also roughly determine the approximate location of the Japanese artillery position. It should be over there."

"But this matter is really strange. Why did the Japanese artillery position suddenly explode?"

Chen Jianghe suddenly said, "Who cares? If you can't figure it out, just stop thinking about it."

"Anyway, it is a fact that their artillery positions were blown up, which is a good thing for us."

“Yes, yes, yes~!”

At this time, Song Weiguo stared at the distance and suddenly said, "You just said that the Japanese poison gas leaked?"

"Don't you see? It's all turned yellow over there."

"Will these poisonous gases drift towards us?"

Li Guotao said thoughtfully: "It shouldn't be possible given the distance!"

"But we still need to report this to our superiors and have the brothers in the frontline troops prepare for any eventuality."

Song Weiguo said quickly: "I will go and inform the higher-ups right away."

Li Guotao showed a hint of smile. They were at the front line, close to the enemy and could see clearly, but they didn't understand what was going on. Others didn't understand what was happening even more.

The news quickly reached the military.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, I just received a report from the front line that the enemy's artillery position suddenly exploded."

"exploded?"

"Which artillery position?"

Sun Mingyu replied: "The artillery positions of the Japanese 68th Division in the south and the artillery positions of the 116th Division in the southwest were all bombed."

"what?"

Commander Fang's eyes widened in surprise, and his mouth opened wide enough to fit a duck egg.

"Great~!"

After Commander Fang realized what was happening, he immediately danced with excitement and said, "Great! The Chief of Staff's artillery position has been blown up. If all of these dozens of guns are destroyed, or even if only most of them are destroyed, the next battle will be much easier to fight."

Sun Mingyu nodded and said, "That's true, but this is really strange. Why did their two artillery positions suddenly explode?"

Upon hearing this, Commander Fang also frowned and asked in confusion, "How did the frontline report it?"

Sun Mingyu replied: "The frontline reported that the enemy's position should have been bombed, but the details are not clear. Anyway, there was a series of explosions suddenly."

"The rhetoric is almost the same at several frontline positions."

"According to preliminary estimates, it was probably bombed by an airplane."

Commander Fang frowned and said, "We did ask the Flying Tigers to send bombers to help us, but we haven't received a response. At most, they just sent some fighters to help us, but they didn't say they would send bombers?"

Sun Mingyu nodded and said, "If they send bombers here, they will definitely contact us first. If they knew there was heavy fog in Hengyang, they probably wouldn't come at all."

"Moreover, we did not provide them with the specific location of the Japanese artillery positions. In addition, there was such heavy fog in Hengyang that they could not accurately drop bombs and hit the target at high altitudes. This was absolutely impossible."

"The soldiers on the front line did not notice any planes passing through the sky, so this matter is indeed a bit strange."

Commander Fang said, "Send a telegram to the Flying Tigers immediately to inquire about the situation and see if they have sent bombers to Hengyang."

"Yes!"

Sun Mingyu responded quickly.

Commander Fang said excitedly: "No matter what, the explosion of their artillery positions is a good thing for us."

Sun Mingyu nodded and said, "That's true. According to reports from the front, the explosion also caused a large amount of poison gas to leak from the Japanese."

Hearing this, Commander Fang frowned and cursed, "Damn it! These devils really wanted to use poison gas bombs. Fortunately, they exploded, otherwise we would be in big trouble."

"I hope these poisonous gas leaks won't drift to our positions."

Sun Mingyu said: "The enemy's artillery position is far away from the front line, so it shouldn't drift to our position."

Commander Fang nodded slightly and said, "But we must also be on high alert, just in case, the poison gas of these damn devils is still very powerful."

"Let the brothers on the front lines do a good job of protection in advance to be prepared for any eventuality."

"Yes!"

Sun Mingyu responded quickly and turned to convey the order.

Commander Fang stared at the map in front of him, puzzled.

Commander Fang was too lazy to think about the problem and said with a smile: "This is really a blessing from heaven!" (End of this chapter)