Rebirth of the Republic of China: The Rise of China

Beach landing

More than forty fighters of the enemy and us in the sky above the battlefield, fighting each other together, shooting a burst of hot flames at their opponents without interruption.At the same time, every few seconds, a fighter plane was hit by the opponent, crashed to the ground with billowing smoke, or was hit by the opponent and exploded in the air, even the pilot had no chance to escape.

Of course, the ground troops would not miss such an air combat scene.

The forward headquarters where the division commander Zhu Shengda is located, except for the necessary staff on duty, is still busy coming and going in the headquarters.The rest of the staff, including the division commander Zhu Shengda, all gathered in a field outside the headquarters, with their heads held high, admiring this unprecedented air battle.

As the little devil fighter planes painted with plaster flags smashed to the ground with billowing smoke, a loud cheer and applause quickly sounded from the command department. [

"Okay, good fight... Another kid's plane was shot down..."

"East, there is also a little devil plane shot down in the east... >

"No, it's our plane. One of our planes was injured by the little devil. It seems that we are about to withdraw from the battle..."

After being hit by a bullet, the plane with billowing smoke fell rapidly like a shell that had lost its aim.In the blink of an eye, there was an intimate interaction with the ground, and a huge fireball burst out.However, the crash of the plane does not mean that the pilot of the fighter plane will fight with the plane and turn into a ball of fire.

As the air battle continued, snow-white parachutes with pilots escaping slowly appeared above the battlefield one by one, and slowly fell to the ground.

See these little devil pilots who might escape back to North Korea.Commander Zhu Shengda immediately thought of what Chief Li Guosheng once said to himself: On the battlefield of air combat, kill an experienced pilot.Far greater strategic significance than shooting down a Japanese aircraft.Because the Japanese army lost an aircraft.It can be replenished in a few weeks at most.But without the loss of an experienced pilot, without a year, or even years, of training, absolutely no replenishment will come.

Then, a murderous sneer quickly appeared on Zhu Shengda's face.

A staff officer was called over, and he gave an order: "Staff Wang, you immediately issue an order to all the troops under our army. If you find any little devil pilots who have parachuted, all the captives who can be captured, and those who cannot be captured, will be shot to death, and strive to eliminate them. All the pilots of the Kwantung Army. As for our pilots, even if they fall into the hands of the little devils, they must be rescued at all costs."

"Yes, Master..."

Order issued.This suspenseless air battle has also come to an end... >

The three Wildcat fighter squadrons of the Second Air Division, after paying a small price for the destruction of one fighter and the damage of one fighter.Successfully annihilated two Japanese Nakajima fighter squadrons...

At the end of the air battle, Zhu Shengda's attention was quickly attracted by the constant sound of guns and guns on the surface of the Yalu River.

air strike.Although the ground artillery strikes caused a devastating blow to the Kwantung Army's defense line along the river on the other side of the Yalu River.but.The remaining Japanese troops, less than a thousand, still rely on the ruins of their positions.Fight to the death.

Although the strength of the remnants of the Kwantung Army is small, the various heavy weapons they rely on and the ruined walls where they hide cannot be underestimated. The sound of juliè's shell explosion can kill a little devil of flesh and blood, but it can't damage all kinds of light and heavy weapons.

After most of the light and heavy weapons of the infantry regiment are concentrated in the remnants of less than a thousand people, almost every two little devils can get an average of one light machine gun, and every three little devils can get an average of one heavy machine gun.As for the mortars and 37mm anti-aircraft guns that can be easily transferred, there is an average of one for each infantry squad.

Hidden behind the ruined walls of positions that could not be destroyed by naval artillery shells and mortar shells, with the help of a huge number of light and heavy machine guns, they quickly formed an airtight bullet net on the Yalu River, hitting the gunboats and landing craft with sparks flying from the protective steel plates.

As for the mortar shells of various calibers and anti-aircraft artillery shells that kept falling towards the river.Although the power is scary, it rarely hits the fast-moving gunboats and landing craft.

On the surface, the first wave of landing troops of the Ninth Army, relying on the cover of rough-skinned landing craft and gunboats, was galloping towards the other side of the Yalu River with an unstoppable offensive.However, Master Zhu Shengda, who was watching the battle, was not so optimistic.

Although it was the first time for me to command troops to land on the beach, I still knew some examples of the beach landing. [

It can be said that the key to the whole beach landing battle is not crossing the river.Instead, on the other side of the Yalu River, relying on the flesh and blood of the infantry, they blocked the Japanese army's dense counterattack firepower and quickly seized a landing point on the other side of the river.

Therefore, as several landing craft got closer and closer to the other side of the Yalu River, Master Zhu Shengda's clenched fists became tighter and tighter.With a pair of eyes wide open, he stared motionlessly at the surface of the Yalu River where bullets and rain were flying.

"Boom...>

A loud noise sounded from the bottom deck of the landing craft. Under the action of the huge inertia generated by the high-speed advance of the landing craft, this landing craft carrying a light tank and an infantry squad rushed up the river bank and ran aground in a water less than half a meter deep. the river beach.

If the landing craft stays on the shore for too long, it will definitely usher in a joint attack from various artillery of the Kwantung Army, causing heavy losses.

Therefore, a second lieutenant platoon leader who was in charge of commanding the landing craft, the moment the landing craft had just run aground, directed at an infantry squad behind him and ordered loudly: "What are you doing in a daze, hide behind the tank immediately, and want to eat the little devil!" bullets...>

"Immediately open the front deck of the landing craft, ready to land..."

"Boom...>

A huge deck made of directly welded steel plates that stood in front of the tank crashed down, and had an intimate exchange with Jiang Tan.Of course, at the same time as the intimate meeting, the passage of the landing craft to the river bank was also opened.

The remnants of the Kwantung Army defending directly opposite were not fools either. Seeing that the entrance and exit hatches of the landing craft were opened, dozens of light and heavy machine guns deployed on the front of the landing craft immediately concentrated their firepower and extinguished dozens of flames.They all concentrated on the entrance and exit of the landing craft in an attempt to trap the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Army hidden inside the landing craft.Shoot them all.

However, what the little devil didn't expect was that.The bullets they fired, without exception, all hit the protective armor at least three centimeters thick in front of the light tank.The dense rain of bullets, like itching a tank, fell on the cabin deck of the landing craft one after another, not even hurting an infantryman of the Ninth Army.

And at this moment, the tank, which had already roared, began to move...

With more than a dozen infantrymen behind him, they slowly drove out of the landing craft.Against the bullets "shot" by the Kwantung Army at me, I rushed to the Jiangan Kwantung Army's defense line along the river...

Relying on the reinforced protective armor on the front of the tank, the entire tank, like entering an uninhabited land, successfully landed on the river bank with more than a dozen infantry behind it.And relying on tanks, a temporary firepower point was built to cover and wait for follow-up troops to land and launch an attack together.

Half a minute passed in the blink of an eye.An infantry squad standing around the tank, after successively eliminating several groups of the Kwantung Army who launched a "suicide" attack in order to destroy the tank.The second, the third...>

A whole battalion of accompanying infantry followed closely behind the tank, ready to attack.

Looking more than 100 meters away.Five little devil bunkers standing alone on the ground.A sneer quickly appeared on the face of the infantry battalion commander.Holding a gun.He gave a murderous order to the subordinates around him.

"Attention all troops. Frontal assault, attack...>

A huge engine roar sounded on the battlefield, and 10 light tanks lined up, like an unstoppable torrent of steel, faced the bullets fired by the Kwantung Army on the opposite side, and slowly pressed towards the direction of the river more than 100 meters away. .

100 meters, 50 meters, 30 meters, 20 meters...

In a blink of an eye, five-meter-high reinforced concrete bunkers appeared in front of the tank company.

Facing the tank company that was close at hand, the Japanese soldiers who were still sticking to the bunker seemed to understand that their lives had entered the countdown stage.Regardless of the bullets fired at him head-on, stand in the shooting hole and tilt the bullets outwards desperately.One machine gunner was hit and fell to the ground, and the other machine gunner took over the machine gun and continued to shoot outwards. [

The dense rain of bullets quickly enveloped ten tanks in the rain of bullets.At the same time, the large number of ricochets produced by the bullets "shooting" at the tank's protective steel plate also caused a large number of casualties to the infantry following the tank.

Continue to attack forward, although ten tanks can block the bullets fired by the Kwantung Army from the front.However, it couldn't stop the bullets fired by the Kwantung Army from the bunker.More importantly, the tanks charging to the foot of the bunker will be completely within the throwing range of the Kwantung Army's grenades and explosives.A bad tank that stands in front of it will suffer a devastating blow.

"No, we must completely destroy the remaining bunkers, otherwise, we will suffer heavy losses...>

After thinking for a while, he picked up the walkie-talkie carried by the correspondent beside him, and asked, "Commander Chen, does the tank company have a chance to shoot shells into the bunker's firing holes..."

Within five seconds of waiting, the voice of the commander of the tank company came from the earphone of the walkie-talkie: "Sir, I will let everyone try it right away...>

It is absolutely easy for these tank gunners who are completely fed with shells to hit the firing holes 20 meters away and [-] cm in length and width with tank guns...>

As soon as the order from the commander of the tank company was issued, a series of dull shelling sounded on the battlefield.One after another, 50mm caliber armor-piercing projectiles flew out of the gun bore quickly and flew towards the shooting holes that were close at hand.

"Boom boom boom... >

Just when everyone thought that the shells that hit the shooting holes had killed all the Japanese troops in the bunker.An incredible scene appeared in front of everyone.

The thick gunpowder smoke hadn't cleared away, and the light and heavy machine guns that had just stopped for less than five seconds started roaring again.

As the gunpowder smoke cleared, the shooting hole of the bunker appeared in front of everyone again.Narrow shooting holes.Except for a gap that was blown out by the shell, there was no damage at all.

soon.The voice of the commander of the tank company reached the ears of the battalion commander of the infantry battalion: "Sir, no way...>

"That is to say, the shells we fired exploded before they entered the enemy's bunker...>

"Yes, sir...>

Just when Battalion Commander Huang Xinjun frowned again into a big word 'Chuan'.The sudden complaint from the deputy battalion commander beside him made Huang Xinyun, who was in trouble, couldn't help but his eyes lit up, and he thought of a solution.

"Damn it, if the incendiary bombs are not banned by the superiors, just throw a few incendiary bombs around these bunkers, even if they are burned, they can burn the little devils in the bunkers to death... >

Incendiary bombs, as a low-tech artillery shell, are based on Japan's national strength.It took less than a month to complete the research and deploy the troops.

In order to prevent the Japanese army from using incendiary bombs with mass destruction to its own troops, Commander-in-Chief Li Guosheng had to issue an order to the troops prohibiting the large-scale use of incendiary bombs.To avoid the Japanese army's retaliatory incendiary bomb attack, resulting in a tragic situation where both armies suffer losses.

Thinking of the ban on incendiary bombs issued by the chief to all troops above the battalion level, an idea.Suddenly came to Huang Xinjun's mind: the chief executive only said that the large-scale use of incendiary bombs was prohibited, but he did not say that the use of incendiary bombs was completely prohibited.I used dozens of small-caliber incendiary bombs.It's not disobedience to the order of the chief seat at all.

A sneer quickly flashed across Huang Xinjun's battalion commander's face.Point into the walkie-talkie microphone.He asked expectantly: "Commander Chen, does the tank company carry incendiary bombs...>

"Yes... However, because of the order from the superior to prohibit the large-scale use of incendiary bombs, each tank is only equipped with ten rounds of incendiary bombs...>

Compared with Chen Tie's hesitation, Huang Xinjun, who had already figured everything out, didn't have so many scruples.With an excited face, he said: "A tank with ten incendiary bombs, the entire tank company, that is, one hundred incendiary bombs, is enough...>

And at this moment, the hesitant voice of Chen Tie, the commander of the tank company, reached Huang Xinjun's ears again: "Sir, the superior has a rule that incendiary bombs cannot be used on a large scale. I don't know you...>

Huang Xinjun responded indifferently: "I know the orders of the superiors. However, the superiors only said that the large-scale use of incendiary bombs is prohibited, but they did not completely prohibit the use of incendiary bombs. Think about it, a hundred small-caliber incendiary bombs, even if If you hit them all, you can only form a fire field the size of a palm. So, don't worry, if anything happens, I will take full responsibility..."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Chen Tie to continue to speak, he ordered decisively: "Company Commander Chen, now I order all tanks to aim at the shooting holes of the bunker and shoot out all the incendiary bombs in stock. Remember, one" Shoot an incendiary bomb from the firing hole, never repeat, we have a limited number of incendiary bombs in our hands."

Although he knew that this order violated discipline, Company Commander Chen Tie still replied without hesitation: "Yes, sir...>

Afterwards, the ten tank turrets began to rotate... >

In less than five seconds, ten long tank gun barrels sprayed out a long string of orange-red flames again.Ten rounds of incendiary bombs, just flying out of the muzzle, have already accurately hit the shooting holes of the bunker that is close at hand.

The shell exploded, although juliè's shell exploded was not heard.However, without exception, a large amount of incendiary matter that quickly splashed out from the incendiary bomb body was all stained on the wall of the shooting hole.As a little spark flashed out from the impact point, the burning material attached to the wall of the shooting hole quickly began to burn.In a blink of an eye, the shooting hole, which was still black just now, was shrouded in intense fire.

Dozens of shooting holes the size of the five bunkers, like a roll call, were all hit by incendiary bombs fired by tank guns, igniting a raging fire.

In order to make these bunkers stronger and more durable on the battlefield, and at the same time to make the defenders stick to their positions with the determination to die.When these bunkers were built, except for the reinforced concrete walls with a thickness of one meter, only an underground tunnel was designed for troops to enter and exit.

However, as the surrounding bunkers were successively destroyed in the explosion of underground explosives, these underground passages leading to the outside world were all buried without exception.

In other words, at this moment, the only thing that connects the entire bunker with the outside world is the shooting holes on the outer wall of the bunker.

But now, with the firing holes completely covered by the raging flames, the only channel for the defenders of the bunker to the outside world was undoubtedly cut off.In addition, the combustion of the incendiary bomb quickly withdraws most of the oxygen inside the bunker, and prevents external oxygen from entering the bunker.The hundreds of devil soldiers who stood firm in the bunker suddenly fell into a state of hypoxia.

In addition, the high temperature generated by the burning of the incendiary bomb quickly poured into the bunker, causing the temperature inside the bunker to rise to over [-] degrees in just a few minutes, and it is still rising sharply.Hundreds of devil soldiers in the bunker, facing death from hypoxia and suffocation, also face the end of being roasted as a roast suckling pig at any time...

The final result was no surprise. As the burning material attached to the outer wall of the "shooting" hole was slowly burned away, a strong smell of barbecue slowly came out from the "shooting" hole... At the same time, just now The bunker that is still pouring ammunition outwards, at this moment, has fallen into a deathly tranquility...>

Battalion Commander Huang Xinjun, who personally led the attack, knew that the five bunkers had now become five huge ovens.However, on his face, he did not show the slightest forbearance.Facing his subordinates, he decisively ordered: "Tank company, cover the infantry, continue to attack... Demoman, prepare explosives, destroy all the bunkers in the position, and start attacking..." (To be continued.)