On the earthen city wall, Chief He and Stilwell held up binoculars and saw the Japanese plaster flag at the top of Yangquan City falling and the People's Liberation Army flag raised. They watched Xie Tian leading the tank army as they rushed straight into Yangquan without encountering any obstruction. Cheng couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.
It turns out that modern warfare can also be fought in this way.
Tunnel warfare, a method of warfare that has been abandoned by the concept of large group operations, can also achieve unexpected results on local battlefields.
General Stilwell felt that his trip was not in vain. The Allied offensive in Burma had been repeatedly frustrated. He was at a loss as to how to organize the next attack. At this time, he suddenly understood.
Why not abandon the idea of quick victory, imitate Xie Baoqing's style of fighting, fight step by step, and use tunnel fighting to kill the Japanese army, which has obviously insufficient supplies of supplies?
Commander He was also relieved. He was really afraid that Xie Tian would let the Miyamoto division go. If that was the case, the Chongqing old man would probably overturn the table.
Fortunately, Miyamoto Kujiuki rejected this only chance of escape, which also allowed Mr. He to give an explanation to the old man in front of the Allied inspection team.
At this time, there were flowers everywhere in Yangquan City, and almost all the strongholds occupied by the Japanese army were under attack. Only there was no movement from the east gate direction.
Since ancient times, siege warfare has always been done with nine dense and sparse walls, leaving a way for the besieged enemy to escape and preventing the enemy from fighting even after being trapped and causing greater casualties to our own troops.
Did Xie Tian keep his promise and leave a way for the Japanese to survive at the East Gate?
wrong.
From the moment Miyamoto Kujiumu rejected Xie Tian's ultimatum, the Miyamoto division's retreat was dead.
Xie Tian left the east gate unattacked because he wanted to drive the Japanese out of Yangquan City from the east gate and deal with them outside the city to avoid causing greater losses to Yangquan City.
Ever since Xie Tian's tanks entered Yangquan City, Yangquan had been his Yangquan, and he had to rebuild it if it was destroyed.
The Japanese soldiers who lost their command were as confused as headless flies. The radio was filled with jittery calls, but no one could effectively organize the scattered troops.
The non-combat troops were even more confused. The field hospital had organized the transfer of medical staff and wounded people. Dozens of guns escorted hundreds of wounded soldiers and medical staff towards the east gate, the only place where there was no gunfire. Many more dispersed Japanese troops joined them, and by the time they marched to the east gate, they already had a team of more than 2,000 people.
The sound of gunfire was heard all over the city. Tanks and armored vehicles exerted great power in urban warfare. No solid fortifications could stop the rampage of tanks and vehicles. More and more broken troops were driven towards the east gate.
The battle in the city lasted for more than two hours. After the tanks ruthlessly crushed the last few Japanese strongholds that were still resisting, the gunfire in the city had become sparse. The highway fled eastward, followed closely by the tank troops led by Xie Tian.
Due to Xie Tian's ultimatum, the little Japanese didn't even bother to eat dinner and rushed to prepare for war. Now being chased by the People's Liberation Army behind him, he was already hungry and exhausted.
At midnight, the retreating Japanese troops were driven into the narrow valley between Fenjizhang Village and Luanliu Village. The 101st Division, the 131st Rapid Response Brigade, and the 121st Independent Regiment had already been ambushing in Luanliu Village, Fengzhang Mountain, and Zhainao Mountain. A round of fierce artillery fire blocked the Japanese retreat, and the armored troops and the 102nd Division led by Xie Tian behind them also pressed forward, trapping the remaining Japanese soldiers in an area less than one kilometer between Fenjizhang Village, Fengzhang Mountain and Zhainao Mountain. Like a can of sardines.
With no way out, the Japanese have lost their central command and are now fighting independently in groups and squadrons.
At this time, rounds of illumination bombs suddenly shot into the sky from all directions, exposing the densely packed Japanese in the valley.
The Japanese knew that the People's Liberation Army was about to launch a general offensive, and they were preparing to organize their forces to fight a bloody road when the buzzing sound of aircraft engines sounded in the air.
The Japanese soldiers looked up in panic and saw huge bombs falling from the sky.
The Japs who had seen the power of cluster bombs were already screaming in fear and running up the mountain. Unfortunately, no human legs could outrun the bombs dropped by planes.
In the first battle, the B-17 bombers dropped 6 cluster bombs on the defeated Miyamoto division, which is now all Xie Tian's wealth.
The speed at which the Taiyuan Arsenal manufactures bombs is simply not enough to meet the speed at which the People's Liberation Army uses bombs.
All six cluster bombs were loaded with incendiary S bombs. The six cluster bombs exploded a section of less than one kilometer along the Tao River into a sea of flames. Countless Japanese soldiers who were ignited cried and jumped into the rapid Tao River. , the blood has turned the river red in a short time.
The dead bodies flowing down the river blocked the Tao River. The water rose higher and higher, forming a barrier lake in a low-lying area.
In the lake, there were Japanese soldiers crying for their fathers and mothers everywhere.
On the B-17 bomber, Xu Jinghao held her hand on the XBQ-1 Death Cannon rapid-fire machine gun that had just been installed on the cabin door, and looked in shock at the Japanese soldiers struggling to death in the sea of fire in the valley.
This was the first time she had witnessed the actual combat effect of cluster bombs. She insisted on getting on the plane. No one at Caizhuang Airport could stop her and no one dared to stop her.
Xu Jinghao's identity as Mrs. Chu Yunfei, commander of the 50th Army, aside from her other identities, is already high.
What's more, Xu Jinghao also plausibly said that she wanted to test the actual combat effectiveness of cluster bombs and death cannons. Who has the right to stop her?
The machine gunner who was aggrieved to be Xu Jinghao's assistant shooter saw that Xu Jinghao was holding the Death Cannon with her hand and not firing for a long time. He couldn't help but remind him: "Xu Jinghao, if you don't fire, you will miss the best shooting angle..."
Before the machine gunner finished speaking, Xu Jinghao suddenly let go of the machine gun and held onto the hatch and started vomiting. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and overnight meals all rushed out of her stomach, and she couldn't control herself.
The machine gunner almost laughed without braying. While he ordered his deputy shooter to take good care of Xu Jing, he grabbed the operating handle of the Death Cannon and fired bullets at the Japanese soldiers struggling to escape in the sea of fire without hesitation.
Da da da da…
Bullets pouring down like hail mercilessly passed through the human body and shattered the rocks on the ground. The Japanese in the sea of fire fell to the ground one by one, finally relieved of the pain of being burned by the fire.
Fire bombs mixed with rubber particles are extremely difficult to extinguish. The burning rubber particles cannot be beaten when they fall on a person. The more they are pulled, the larger the burning area.
Smelling the aroma of barbecue and burnt stench in the air, Xu Jing almost vomited out bile. She had begun to regret that she insisted on boarding the plane.
Xu Jinghao thought she could face life and death calmly, her own and others', but it turned out that she couldn't.
There was a movie from the former Soviet Union called: War, Let Women Go Away.
