The twelve falling smoke bombs released a large amount of smoke with extremely high efficiency. Immediately, a round of anti-explosive bombs followed and exploded.
The soldiers of Company A and Company C were confused for a moment and lay on the ground at a loss. The officers were also a little confused, but they didn't know that they had completely stepped into hell at this moment.
Then, three rounds and twelve high-temperature bombs fell down, evenly covering the entire area where they were, and twelve dazzling high-temperature ignition points were instantly produced.
The new 80mm incendiary bomb is different from the white phosphorus incendiary bomb. Its warhead is actually thermite-composed of aluminum powder, magnesium powder, ferric oxide, potassium chlorate and other ingredients.
The high temperature of more than 2,000 degrees suddenly ignited the branches and leaves of the surrounding trees. In the blink of an eye, the raging fire began to spread to the nearby area.
If human nature is not considered, Zhou Changfeng's plan is extremely scientific from a rational point of view.
Complex terrain represented by jungles and woods can make the effect of smoke bombs even higher, because shrubs and branches can break up and mix together multiple smoke bombs.
It just so happened that there was a breeze today, and Assam was relatively hot and humid, so the effect of red phosphorus smoke bombs was almost exerted to its theoretical limit.
[As the air humidity increases, the efficiency of red phosphorus and white phosphorus smoke bombs increases linearly. 10% humidity is 350% efficiency, 40% humidity is 410% efficiency, and 70% humidity is 500% efficiency. 】
"Why did they only fire the grenade once?"
"Was that a flare that just fell? So shiny?"
"Lieutenant, report casualties!"
While the lying soldiers were still wondering why the Ming army only fired one round of anti-explosive bombs, a perceptive staff sergeant had already realized the seriousness of the problem - it was shining brightly because it was thermite !
"Silly guys, run!"
More than ten seconds have passed by now. The gradually spreading red phosphorus smoke has reduced visibility to less than forty meters. Realizing that the situation is not good, the British and Indian troops in the woods are now completely panicked.
Surrounded by panicked companions, everyone's faces were full of panic.
The Ming army in the urban area did not forget to take the opportunity to add insult to injury. Machine guns and rifles opened fire one after another - it didn't matter whether they hit or not, what they wanted was to scare people.
The British and Indian soldiers who were confused about their direction were running around in the woods. Someone accidentally stepped on a landmine and was blown to the ground, further exacerbating the chaos.
The fire gradually started, and the billowing black smoke made the already smoky woods even worse!
The woods were burning, smoke was spreading, bullets were whistling, the wounded were screaming, soldiers were asking for help, and officers were shouting. Officers could not find soldiers, and soldiers could not find officers. This large forest became a real hell on earth.
Even though they were thousands of meters apart, the heart-rending screams could still be heard clearly, and the burning smell also drifted in the wind, making people unable to stop feeling sick.
Due to the thick smoke, Zhou Changfeng couldn't see clearly what was going on in the woods even through the artillery mirror, but he felt that the scene there at the moment should be terrifying.
The officers and soldiers who witnessed this incident couldn't help but be speechless. It was really hard to imagine that this officer, who looked suave and had nothing to do with cruelty, could actually pull off such a terrifying method.
After a while, some lucky survivors escaped from the woods one after another. Most of them ran around like headless flies in the smoky woods. In the end, they were knocked down by the thick smoke or burned alive. .
Those enemy soldiers who were lucky enough to escape were running faster than rabbits at the moment. They had already thrown away their weapons and just rushed out without hesitation.
"Look, people can always unleash their potential in desperate situations. Their speed is much faster than when charging." Zhou Changfeng said to a lieutenant next to him with a smile.
The latter only felt that his smile was particularly scary at the moment. No wonder the former cannon captain Fan Wenhai called this plan "crazy" and "extremely ruthless".
Seeing the strange look on the lieutenant's face, Zhou Changfeng yawned and said nonchalantly: "We should respect war but should not exclude reasonable means of killing the enemy. The principle I follow is to do everything possible to preserve myself and destroy the enemy without violating the law."
The burning smell carried by the breeze became stronger. The lieutenant sniffed and hesitated: "Sir...sir, is this a little too violent..."
"War does not believe in mercy. Save your mercy for the enemy who surrenders. He must be ruthless before he lays down his arms."
"yes."
Zhou Changfeng, who looked calm, took out a new roll of bandages, pointed to the north, smiled slightly and said: "Twelve smoke bombs, four anti-explosive bombs, and twelve fever bombs, the total cost was more than 900 yuan and it was reimbursed. Half a battalion, I call it efficient.”
A military medical lieutenant recorded several recent images with a small camera he carried. This portable camera uses 8mm film, and the image quality is not as good as the 35mm film commonly used for making movies.
He felt it would be a pity not to record such a grand and violent scene.
In the end, only 101 people of more than 290 people from the two companies of the Natipur camp escaped back? Moreover, most of them were so devastated that they even lost their guns; Major Wright, the deputy battalion commander who personally led the team, was not spared and was buried in the flames.
Listening to the shocked survivors describing what they had just seen, the rest of Wilson's task force only felt shuddering.
Major Sampson was stunned and said: "Are we fighting the devil?"
At the same time, on the front of Highland Zero...
The Raigarh Battalion and the Hyderabad Battalion launched a total of three waves of large-scale attacks. Now they have reached the second wave, and each wave launches an attack with two or three echelons.
Looking from the position, the vast open field ahead was densely packed with incoming enemies.
But the density is just an illusion. In fact, there is at least five or six meters between each of them; and the distance between the two echelons is about 200 meters.
Without the support of the battalion's artillery platoon, the team fighting here alone was unable to block the enemy's follow-up. Therefore, after repelling the entire previous wave, it was now rushed by the second wave of enemy troops. Up the hill.
An enemy infantryman with a bayonet mounted rifle appeared on the position, and then jumped into the bunker one after another.
Liu Qidong waved his hand and shouted: "Reserve team, come on!"
The battle entered a fierce stage in the blink of an eye, with soldiers from both sides engaging in a desperate fight at extremely close distances, almost face to face.
Amidst the "bang bang bang" gunfire, the enemy and our troops shot at each other desperately. Now they only follow a simple and cruel rule - if you don't kill the other party, you will be the last to die!
In addition to the sound of gunfire, the shouts and curses of soldiers on both sides filled the entire position.
After an Indu soldier shot down the Ming soldier who was reloading in front of him, he was thrown to the ground by another man who rushed out from the side. The engineer's shovel, which reflected the setting sun, swung down hard and almost cut off half of the soldier. In the neck, the arterial blood spurted out like a small fountain.
In just one minute, the corpses of soldiers from both the enemy and our armies were scattered all over the entire position.
Two squads of reserves arrived from the second-line position. They all threw a round of grenades, then fired a few shots, and then launched a hand-to-hand charge with their rifles.
The slender sword-shaped bayonet pierced the body, and after it was pulled out, the blood-stained metal blade showed a coquettish red color in the afterglow of dusk.
The first group of British and Indian troops who rushed up were almost completely wiped out, and the Ming soldiers, who were red-eyed with bloodshed, even began to launch a counterattack downwards!
Faced with this situation, the British and Indian troops who arrived later lost their fighting spirit in an instant, and the two platoons of the third echelon of the second wave receded like the tide.
