The fighting is in full swing east of the Huangyadong Arsenal.
However, the Japanese 36th Regiment has arrived at the first line of sky to the west of the arsenal.
A line of sky is inherently easy to defend but difficult to attack.
What's more, the one who defends the front line is the special agent group directly under the headquarters with strong combat effectiveness.
As soon as Jiro Wakisaka, captain of the Japanese 36th Regiment, Ozuo came up, he ordered the infantry artillery to blast the special agent positions in the direction of the sky.
At this time, Wakisaka Jiro happened to receive a telegram from Shinozuka Yoshio:
The 2nd Guards Division was bombarded by the Eighth Route Army and was ordered to immediately attack the Eighth Route Arsenal to respond to the 2nd Guards Division.
After shelling for a while, Wakisaka Jiro immediately ordered a squadron of Japanese soldiers to launch a test attack.
Attacked by more than 30 mortars from the Secret Service Regiment, the Japanese squadron suffered more than half of its casualties before it even got close to the Secret Service Regiment's position and retreated hastily.
Jiro Wakisaka ordered the artillery squadron to fire.
The terrain here is special. Entering the Eighth Route Army Arsenal from this direction, there is only a line of sky.
We can only attack after the artillery bombardment and the infantry attack, and then the artillery bombardment after the infantry attack, because there is no detour.
Just when Jiro Wakisaka led the 36th Regiment to attack the front line.
The boss personally directed each regiment to outflank and gradually encircle the 36th Regiment.
In addition to the two regiments led by Chen Geng to block the 36th Regiment, there are also the special agent regiment responsible for frontal containment, three regiments of the reserve team, four regiments brought by the division commander, and the artillery regiment directly under the headquarters.
The headquarters prepared 11 regiments and more than 15,000 soldiers to participate in the siege of the Japanese 36th Regiment this time.
Moreover, each artillery company of the artillery regiment directly under the headquarters is led by special team members of the Sword Squadron to guide the artillery bombardment.
The arrogant Japanese 36th Regiment was the first to invade Jinling City during the Battle of Jinling and participated in the massacre.
There is no way to escape the fate of destruction today.
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At the same time, the 2nd Guards Division.
Although the old devil Kunomura Momoyo is old, he is very agile.
After he jumped into the ditch, Zhongze Province jumped into the ditch one after another, and all the Japanese took cover immediately.
However, Kunomura Momoyo and Nakazawa Shoichi discovered that the plane in the sky did not seem to be coming towards them.
Kunomura Momoyo just breathed a sigh of relief, but suddenly her expression suddenly changed.
"No, the fleet is heading for the 5th Wing!"
"Where are the communications soldiers? Use the radio to hide the 5th Regiment!"
Kunomura Momoyo yelled at her filial piety, her voice was hoarse and her eyes were about to burst.
"Your Excellency, Division Commander, it seems...it's too late."
As soon as Nakazawa put down the telescope, he said with an ugly expression.
Because the communication team has to receive telegrams at any time and stop to set up antennas, the communication team is often at the back of the team.
However, Nakazawa Shoichi said it was too late, not because the communication team was too far away, but because he saw the bomb bay in the belly of the bomber slowly opening.
Kunomura Momoyo raised the telescope and looked up at the sky with an extremely ugly expression.
A group of bombers flew right over their heads, and the bomb bay under the belly of the aircraft was slowly opening, which was a signal that the bombs were about to be dropped.
Just when Kunomura Momoyo was wondering why some airplanes didn't have propellers.
After the bomb bay was opened, aerial bombs rolled out continuously from under the belly of the bomber. Soon, the scream of aerial bombs grazing through the air could be heard in my ears.
The 5th Regiment of the 2nd Guards Division, under the leadership of Tetsuro Inokura, was advancing rapidly towards the area where the 3rd Regiment and the 4th Regiment were shelled.
You can reach it by climbing over the mountain in front and passing through a valley.
Suddenly, Inokura Tetsuro and the Japs felt something was wrong. Why was there a sharp whistling sound in their ears?
The Japanese soldiers looked up anxiously and were frightened on the spot.
They saw countless aerial bombs falling on their heads like dumplings.
When the plane fell, it was accompanied by a scream, and the scream was getting louder and closer.
"Baga, lie down quickly!"
Inokura Tetsuro Ozuo yelled at the top of his lungs.
But it was too late.
When the bomber passed over the heads of the Japanese, huge cylindrical shells landed on the ground.
Then.
Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom…
The overwhelming sound of aviation explosions sounded immediately!
The bomb load of a B29 bomber is 9 tons, and the bomb load of 30 aircraft is 270 tons.
This is not 270 tons of potatoes, but 270 tons of life-threatening aerial bombs.
Moreover, as the bomber flew forward, all the ammunition was released at once, causing shock waves and barrages on the ground.
It was like a carpet being lifted up across the entire ground, and no grass grew wherever it went.
This is carpet bombing.
At this time, the 5th Regiment of the 2nd Guards Division suffered a carpet bombing.
As the aerial bombs continued to fall, huge circles of air waves, accompanied by red mushroom clouds, extended forward at an extremely fast speed.
The entire valley was enveloped by the air waves and mushroom clouds.
The whole world seemed to be shaking.
Some of the Japanese were frightened, while others threw away their guns and started running for their lives.
But the running speed of the Japanese's legs could not outrun the aerial bombs.
Countless aerial bombs were dropped along the valley where the Japanese marched. The entire valley was covered by aerial bombs, with no blind spots at 360 degrees.
Behind the bomber, 10 Saber fighter jets dived to drop metal napalm bombs in areas where the density of aerial bombs was not high.
Boom boom boom…
Accompanied by a huge explosion, there were huge circles of flames, and then turned into black mushroom clouds that spread and swept around.
Even if a few Japs were lucky enough to survive the carpet bombing, they would be dead in the face of this napalm bomb.
First, they carpet-bombed the area with aerial bombs, and burned it again with napalm bombs. The entire valley where the Japanese were marching suddenly burst into flames, like a purgatory on earth.
Bombers and fighter jets flew past the valley and flew into the distance without looking back, leaving only endless flames in the valley.
Zhang Tianfu and another member of the Sharp Sword Squadron looked at this scene, their eyes widened, and they could not recover from the shock for a long time.
This is what the regiment leader calls carpet bombing, real carpet bombing!
The last time air support came, they fought hand-to-hand with the Japanese in Dawangou. They only heard a lot of noise but did not see the carpet bombing with their own eyes.
But this time, they both saw the carpet bombing.
Zhang Tianfu said with emotion: "I'm a turtle. Not even the snakes and rats in the field can survive this kind of bombing."
Even from 2 kilometers away, you can feel the hot breath coming towards your face.
After a pause, Zhang Tianfu organized his speech, picked up the high-power walkie-talkie and said: "Call the headquarters, call the headquarters, I am Zhang Tianfu..."
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At the top of the temple.
Taihang Column Headquarters.
Huang Erhu put down the walkie-talkie and reported to Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang: "Report to the commander-in-chief and political commissar that the Japanese regiment that attempted to reinforce has been wiped out."
"pretty!"
Before Li Yunlong could speak, Zhao Gang said with the corners of his mouth raised in an extremely excited tone:
"In just a few dozen seconds, a regiment of Japanese soldiers melted away. This battle was... haha!"
After laughing, Li Yunlong said: "What a beautiful job!"
Because we are separated by two mountains, we can only see planes in the sky from Siding Mountain, but we cannot see the valley bombed by aerial bombs.
But Li Yunlong could imagine the scene of a Japanese regiment being carpet bombed.
As Zhao Gang said, within a few dozen seconds, more than 3,600 Japanese soldiers melted away, and most of the Japanese soldiers' corpses were gone.
Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang had seen such a scene more than three months ago.
Artillery shells covering the ground and aerial bombs carpet bombing, these two kings will directly determine the outcome of this battle.
In this battle, at least tens of thousands of Japanese were annihilated, but the Eighth Route Army suffered very few casualties.
In the canyon below, the soldiers were engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese who were lucky enough to survive.
The Japs of more than 7,000 men in the two regiments had already suffered heavy casualties after being hit by 40,000 artillery shells.
The Eighth Route Army's attacking troops blocked all the Japanese's escape routes from all directions.
This is an unequal hand-to-hand battle, and the ending has no suspense.
There was a buzzing sound in the sky, and another plane was coming. Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang hurriedly raised their telescopes to look.
This time it was Japanese planes, as many as 10 of them. The Japanese planes passed by at low altitude.
The Japanese pilot discovered that the dense crowd in the canyon below was intertwined, gray and yellow mixed in between.
Finally, the Japs pilot's hand released from pressing the bomb release and machine gun firing buttons, and the plane passed by.
Immediately, Japanese planes circled nearby to find the location of the Eighth Route Army's artillery positions.
However, the Eighth Route Army's mortar positions have long been moved, and the mountain artillery positions have been well concealed.
The Japanese planes attacked a nearby fake artillery position, then flapped their wings and flew away to the north.
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"Reporting to the division commander, the officers and soldiers of the 5th Regiment are all shattered!"
The scouts of the 2nd Guards Division reported the detected situation to Kunomura Momoyo.
"Nani?"
"Are they all broken into pieces? Are you sure?"
Although he guessed that the 5th Regiment was finished, Kunomura Momoyo still couldn't believe it when he heard the bad news.
He grabbed the scout's collar with both angry hands and stared at him fiercely, his fire-breathing eyes as if he wanted to eat the scout.
"Hi!"
The scout lowered his head, his legs trembling: "The aerial bombs and incendiary bombs from the Eighth Route Army turned the valley where the 5th Regiment was marching into a sea of flames. No one could survive such a bombing!"
"idiot!"
Kunomura Momoyo violently threw away the scout.
"Your Excellency, Division Commander."
"The top priority is to retreat immediately!"
Zhong Zesheng looked extremely ugly and said in a deep voice.
"Retreat?" Kunomura Momoyo asked, "Nakazawa-kun, the 5th Regiment is finished. Are the Search Regiment, 4th Regiment and 3rd Regiment also going to give up?"
"You can order the search wing, 3rd wing and 4th wing to break out immediately." Zhongze Province said: "If the bombers and fighter jets just come back again, the division headquarters and artillery wing will be finished."
Kunomura Momoyo did not answer, but quickly found a higher place, raised his binoculars and looked towards the valley ahead.
I saw that the valley ahead turned into a sea of fire, it was simply a hell on earth.
Thinking of the aerial bombs falling like dumplings, Kunomura Momoyo couldn't help but shudder.
"Nakazawa-kun, please immediately draft a telegram and report the situation here to Commander Shinozuka."
"Order the Search Wing, the 4th Wing, and the 3rd Wing to break out immediately!"
"Retreat, retreat quickly, move quickly!"
Kunomura Momoyo ordered the escape without hesitation.
At this time, the 2nd Guards Division Regiment Headquarters and the Artillery Regiment walked to the Nangou Village area.
Zhang Tianfu and another special team member also discovered this group of Japs. There were a large number of mules and horses among the Japs.
He immediately used a high-power walkie-talkie to report to Li Yunlong and found that the artillery regiment suspected of being Japanese was escaping.
Li Yunlong immediately ordered the cavalry that blocked the Japanese retreat in Gujiacun to leave two cavalry companies to continue breaking up. After that, the cavalry battalion of the new regiment and the brigade cavalry regiment pursued the Japanese artillery regiment that escaped.
