Just a few hours.
The Kwantung Army lost two regiments of troops one after another.
Honjo Shige was so angry that the generals standing in front of him did not dare to breathe.
He walked to the map, looked at the landmarks of Crane City, and murmured to himself:
"Ma Jinshan, I gave you a chance!!"
"Since you insist on going against the Locust Army, the Locust Army will not let you stay!"
"Order Duomen Ergou, Suzuki does not light up, and destroy Ma Jinshan and his defenders at all costs!!"
"Hai!"
The senior counselor beside him responded quickly.
At midnight on April 16th.
The soldiers stationed on the three lines of defense in Hecheng lay down in the trenches to rest.
The soldiers enjoyed the brief silence of the night.
0:15.
Suddenly the roar of airplanes came from the sky.
The sound woke up the soldiers hiding in the trenches.
Ma Jinshan followed the sound and looked at the dark sky. He immediately ordered the troops to gather in the trenches laid with steel plates and lie down on standby.
Xie Ke took Ma Jinshan's arm and said, "Commander, hide first!"
He put away his telescope and followed Xie Ke into the trench paved with steel plates.
Thirty past zero.
The Japanese bomber formation taking off from Bingcheng arrived over Hecheng.
Countless bombs exploded at Angang Creek, Sanjianfang and other forward positions.
For a moment, the front position was filled with flames and thick smoke.
The 225-kilogram aerial bomb exploded instantly.
The entire frontline defenses instantly collapsed into flat ground.
The Wuxing position where Ye Anran was located did not escape the air attack.
Fortunately, before he set off, the trenches at the Wuxing position were covered with steel plates, and sandbags filled with soil were used to hold down the steel plates.
The soldiers hid below, and deafening explosions came from the ground.
The trenches and cat-ear holes built previously were razed to the ground by the explosion.
Ye Anran squatted in the trench.
The explosions outside were deafening. The soldiers stood next to each other, listening to the roar of the planes and the frequent explosions. They were thankful to have escaped.
Sun Maotian squatted next to Ye Anran.
"Damn that little devil, I really want to beat him down!"
Ye Anran leaned against the trench.
It is useless to say anything else. The Northeast Army currently does not have the conditions for air defense.
There is no plane belonging to them.
Facing the Japanese bombers, they had no choice but to be bombed.
Ye Anran realized that he had entered the universal tool box.
The NPC took the initiative to salute him, "Host, I feel that your mental state has serious problems. Is there anything unhappy? Tell me and make me happy!"
…
Ye Anran had a bitter look on her face.
He looked at the NPC who was making fun of him and really wanted to go up and kick him.
What kind of thing dares to tease the host!
"Can you hear anything outside?"
Ye Anran was a little helpless.
NPC: "Host, I'm very sorry. We are temporarily unable to provide you with air defense weapons. The system will unlock air defense equipment for you as soon as possible. Please continue to pay attention."
Ye Anran spread his hands speechlessly. This was no different from sharpening a gun in battle.
Japanese planes are continuing to bomb Hecheng.
More and more aerial bombs were dropped.
The entire Hecheng forward position was filled with bomb craters, and the houses in Sanjianfang, Angangxi, and Gujiadian were all ablaze.
After Ma Jinshan issued the declaration of resistance, he transferred most of the residents in the center of Hecheng City.
It was originally thought that the Japanese aviation force would only target Ma Jinshan's army.
But he was wrong.
The Japanese aerial bombs landed directly on the provincial government building, and the shells blasted a hole directly from the roof of the building.
Ma Jinshan, who was stationed at Angang River, lay in the trench, looking toward Hecheng through the observation port, feeling heartbroken.
“His grandma’s little brat!!”
"damned!"
Xie Ke stood aside. He looked at the Hecheng that was burning with raging fire, and clenched his hands tightly into fists.
Inside the city, there are ruins and broken walls everywhere.
The bomb explosions destroyed many houses, and some bombs even exploded on the roofs of ordinary people.
Many people in Hecheng streets fled in panic.
The entire Hecheng was in chaos at this moment.
Originally used as a reserve team for logistics support, it was responsible for the task of relocating civilians.
The soldiers jumped out of the trenches, carried the elderly and young children on their backs, and quickly evacuated to the rear through the communication trenches.
The Red Cross field ambulance team formed by Dongxing Hospital walked in the traffic trench with flashlights and stretchers.
Xia Qiancheng is carrying a medical kit.
Near a cat ear hole, the faint light of her flashlight stopped on the lower limbs of a little soldier...
One leg of the little soldier was bleeding profusely, and from the calf down, there were bones.
Xia Qiancheng's eyes instantly became moist.
She knelt beside the little soldier and quickly opened the medical kit. It was too dark at night, so she put a flashlight under her arm and took out gauze to quickly bandage the little soldier.
"Does it hurt?"
Xia Qiancheng's hand holding the gauze kept shaking, "Little brother, you'll be fine soon."
"It'll be fine soon!"
"Stretcher, can someone bring a stretcher?"
The little soldier's face turned pale. He used the dim light of the flashlight to see that his legs had been blown away. He said with a trembling corner of his mouth: "No, it doesn't hurt."
After saying "It doesn't hurt", Xia Qiancheng couldn't stop tears from flowing out of her eyes.
"You are so young, why do you want to be a soldier?"
"You are so brave!"
"Little brother, what's your name?"
Xia Qiancheng choked and bandaged the little soldier's leg, "Listen to sister, tell me what your name is?"
She was worried that the little warrior would fall asleep.
While bandaging, he distracted the little warrior.
He looked about fifteen or sixteen years old, and his childish face could not conceal his bravery and fearlessness.
After Xia Qiancheng finished bandaging, two soldiers from the Red Cross health team brought the stretcher.
They carried the little soldier onto a stretcher and walked quickly from the traffic trench to Dongxing Hospital.
Xia Qiancheng held the little warrior's hand on one side and said, "Brother, what's your name?"
His lips were white and his face was bloodless. He looked at Xia Qiancheng and whispered: "Thank you, sister, my name is He Xiaobao..."
"Xiaobao, you must not sleep, you must not close your eyes."
"We'll be at the hospital soon, almost there!"
Xia Qiancheng held He Xiaobao's hand and shouted He Xiaobao's name at the top of her voice.
The Japanese military planes continued to bomb the surrounding areas of Hecheng.
The sound of the explosion was almost deafening.
The soldiers carrying the stretcher bent down and walked toward the hospital almost as fast as they could in their lives.
With the cover of traffic trenches, the threat from aerial bomb explosions to soldiers and civilians is much less.
Especially at night, the Japanese blindly dropped bombs.
Some shells even penetrated directly into the soil of the traffic trench without exploding.
Just as we were about to arrive at the hospital.
Xia Qiancheng felt something was wrong.
She shook He Xiaobao's arm and said, "Xiaobao, don't sleep, okay?"
A smile appeared at the corner of He Xiaobao's mouth, "Sister, I'm sleepy..."
"We'll be at the hospital soon. We can sleep there."
After Xia Qiancheng said this, He Xiaobao tilted his head toward her, and then lost his breath.
She held He Xiaobao's still warm hand and knelt down with a plop.
Tears flowed out uncontrollably.
"Xiaobao!"
The soldiers carrying the stretcher stopped immediately.
They looked back at Xia Qiancheng, who was crying in tears, and their eyes rested on He Xiaobao's stiff body.
He died.
They put Xiaobao's body next to the wall facing the street and quickly turned around to rescue others.
this moment.
Xia Qiancheng felt like he had lost his soul.
The aerial bombs dropped by the Japanese were still making deafening explosions.
The explosion ignited a fire that shot into the sky, dragging Xia Qiancheng back to reality.
An ambulance team carrying a stretcher passed by her.
War does not give people time to think and grieve. She adjusted her mentality, picked up the medical box, followed the stretcher team, and joined the ambulance team again.
The Japanese bombing lasted for five hours.
After the explosions stopped, each unit quickly took engineering shovels and began digging trenches for defenses.
The trenches on the frontline positions had the largest damage area.
The trench fortifications of the second and third lines of defense were essentially razed to the ground.
Wuxing, where the Shadow Regiment was located, only encountered five or six aircraft bombings.
Since the Japanese surrendered blindly, the trench fortifications were relatively strong.
The signal corps rearranged the telephone lines.
Ye Anran quickly learned about the situation from Ma Jinshan behind him.
The Japanese bombing caused huge damage to the second and third lines of defense.
There are even ruins in Hecheng, and many civilian residences are within the bombing range of the Japanese.
Officials from the Black Provincial Government are working with the rear logistics support troops to rescue the wounded.
The entire Dongxing Hospital was overcrowded, and many injured people could only lie on the road outside the hospital.
Many people injured by bombings were not protected against tetanus when they arrived at the hospital, and many of them lost their lives during the rescue process.
The 102nd and 103rd Divisions suffered few casualties.
Because the trenches and the steel plates provided by Jingang Group played a protective role during the bombing.
This prevented the Northeast Army from suffering greater casualties.
The Japanese bombed Hecheng for one night.
Plenty of time was provided to the Domen Division and Utsunomiya Division Army.
Zhang Peng was lame and led the Taosuo Border Security Force, a squadron of the 14th Infantry Regiment of the heavy baggage troops and the 12th Infantry Regiment of Akita Inuichiro, through Tailai County.
The 14th Regiment of Heavy Troops suffered more than half of its casualties in Dongping.
Only six Renault tanks and more than 350 men remained.
Its wing commander Yamada Ozawa died!
The unit is temporarily replaced by Captain Akita Inuichiro of the 12th Infantry Regiment.
They marched very quickly.
When the planes bombed Hecheng, they passed through Duonai Station and went straight to Jiangqiao.
Ye Anran stood on a high ground, holding a telescope and looking at the 12th Infantry Regiment that had entered his pocket.
After a sudden thought, he immediately ordered the artillery battalion stationed at Duonai Station to bombard the 12th Infantry Regiment near Jiangqiao!
You can't see those bastards at night.
I didn't expect them to run so fast.
Fortunately, the location of the 12th Regiment is within the artillery range of the artillery brigade stationed at Jingxing and the artillery battalion of Duonai Station.
Zhang Erpao had already discovered the Japanese who had entered the shooting range.
His forward artillery battalion scouts were veterans for many years.
Two people work in groups, one is responsible for positioning and the other is responsible for communication.
After receiving the order, Zhang Erpao immediately ordered to fire.
13 105 mm field guns fired a salvo.
The deafening sound resounded throughout the entire Hecheng forward position.
After marching all night, Akita Inuichiro, who was taking a short rest, heard the sound of cannons and looked around with his binoculars.
No trace of the Northeast Army was found!
Zhang Peng stood next to Akita Inuichiro, with his Taosuo border security force behind him.
He listened to the rumbling sound of shelling and said, "The locust army is not coming for us, right?
