12dz Chapter 707 Fire, Trees and Silver Flowers
Chapter 707 Fire, Trees and Silver Flowers
Ochiai Jinjiurō looked at the direction where the gunshots came from with a heavy heart, without saying a word. He was so high-spirited just now, but now he looked tired.
A deep sense of powerlessness swept over Ochiai Jinjiurō and everyone in the 27th Division Headquarters. They seemed to be facing an enemy that was impossible to defeat, and no matter whether they attacked head-on or used some tricks behind the scenes, they could not shake it.
Ochiai Jinjiurō adjusted himself quickly. Facing the column's offensive, there was only one way, which was to survive under the artillery fire and then fight back!
"Hoo! Order all troops to retreat and defend. Don't we have some steel plates left for building the Yellow River Bridge? Transport them all here and put them on top of the trenches!"
The Japanese soldiers immediately took action and worked hard to pull back all the thick steel plates next to the iron bridge to strengthen their fortifications.
Now the biggest threat to the middle position of Taohuayu is the flamethrower tank. As long as we cover the trenches with steel plates and endure the "grill" of the flamethrower tank, we can survive successfully.
As for what happens after surviving, it is about taking revenge if there is revenge, and avenging grievances if there are grievances.
Early the next morning, the independent column's reconnaissance plane came for a low-altitude reconnaissance as usual. Seeing that the Japanese trenches were all covered with iron plates, it immediately pressed the shutter and took pictures.
The photo soon appeared in the Pingshun Military Fortress Command Center. Wang Meng looked at this "non-mainstream" trench and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"Old Li, are the Japanese crazy? Put iron plates on the trenches, and then we use flamethrower tanks to burn them. The temperature is hundreds of degrees, won't they be burned to a teppanyaki?"
Li Yunlong touched his chin and thought for a while, then asked curiously:
"Mengzi, what is teppanyaki?"
"Well, it's just to put the teppanyaki on a sizzling iron plate, and then grill the meat on it, sprinkle it with cumin, pepper, and chili powder. It's so delicious, and that feeling..."
Wang Meng's speech went off topic until he suddenly realized he had gone off topic.
"Hey, why am I telling you about this thing!"
"Hey, it sounds like you're pretty delicious!"
Wang Meng was too lazy to pay attention to him and called Lu Tianlong again.
"Old Lu, immediately fill up the bomber with fuel and prepare to go to Taohuayu!"
"Got it. I'll arrange it right away. Do you want to carry high-explosive bombs again this time?"
"No, this time we're going to give the Japanese some new products. I'll have the arsenal's transport team deliver them to you right away. You guys should get ready to receive them!"
Trucks towing wooden boxes covered with canvas drove towards the Pingshun Military Airport and directly onto the runway.
The soldiers escorting the weapons carefully moved the bombs into the ammunition bay, and then boarded the plane together, ready to deliver the weapons themselves and record their battlefield performance.
Standing on the tower, Lu Tianlong watched as ten B-17 Flying Fortress bombers slowly slid to the end of the runway, and then he called the military fortress headquarters:
"Reporting to the Chief of Staff, the ten bombers of the Independent Column Air Force are ready and can take off at any time. They are expected to arrive at the Taohuayu position in half an hour. Please give instructions!"
Wang Meng glanced at Li Yunlong, and when he saw Li Yunlong nod, he spoke into the microphone:
"You can take off. Take off to evaluate the results. Be sure to avoid the Yellow River Bridge!"
"understand!"
Under the command of Lu Tianlong, the bombers of the independent column took off quickly, and after meeting up with the circling F6F Hellcat fighters, they flew towards Taohuayu.
The Third Army, which received orders from Wang Meng, carried out a small-scale artillery attack on the Japanese first-line trenches before the arrival of the bombers of the independent column to eliminate the Japanese air defense forces.
Afterwards, four F6F Hellcat fighters flew over the field at low altitude, strafing the area and verifying whether there were any anti-aircraft weapons of the Japanese on the battlefield.
"Safe, we can bomb at low altitude!"
Ten B-17 bombers flew low and opened the bomb bay doors. Unlike the high-explosive bombs dropped previously, this time what was dropped from the bombers were "fireworks"!
Dai Anlan and Hu Lian held up binoculars and watched the bright spots in the sky slowly fall down. They looked at each other with puzzled expressions.
So all the work this morning was just to set off fireworks for the Japanese?
"Yan Gong, who is your chief of staff? Why is he so mysterious? And what is this thing dropped from the bomber? Can it kill the Japanese?"
Dai Anlan held up the telescope and continued to watch the sky full of "fire trees and silver flowers" falling on the Japanese positions, muttering to himself:
"Our chief of staff is a god. He can command and fight, and his personal combat quality is also first-class. No one in our independent column disobeys him!
And all of our weapons and equipment were developed by him and President Lin Shubing of our Pingshun National Defense University. I guess the falling fireworks are also new weapons, but I don’t know what they are.”
Dai Anlan now wished he could fly to the sky immediately and bend down to see what the Japanese position was like.
Although Dai Anlan could not fly into the sky, reconnaissance planes and bombers were circling over Taohuayu, constantly observing the effects of the "bombing".
At the 27th Division headquarters, five kilometers away from the Japanese first-line trenches, Jinjiurō Ochiai was also watching the sparks in the sky slowly falling on the front-line positions.
Although the sparks did not seem to have any deterrent power, they made Ochiai Jinjiurang's heart beat fast. He firmly believed that no matter how rich the independent column was, it would not send ten bombers to show them fireworks!
The sparks in the sky fell quietly on the Japanese's steel plates.
The Japanese soldiers inside breathed a sigh of relief. When they heard the roar of the independent column's bombers, they all held their heads and prepared to be bombed. However, they did not expect that there was no vibration at all. Could it be that the bomb missed the target?
The Japanese soldier looked up and saw the red steel plate. Suddenly, he felt an unbearable heat that spread from his skin to his bones.
Then the more than ten millimeters thick steel plate began to soften and slowly droop, and even in some red locations, molten steel began to drip, burning through the bodies of the Japanese soldiers directly below, revealing their white bones.
"what!"
Heart-wrenching cries echoed in the silent Taohuayu, and they became one, like needles piercing Ochiai Jinjiurō's eardrums.
He thought of the Chinese people who had been tortured to death by him, who also made such horrifying sounds. These were cries from the depths of their souls caused by extreme pain and fear.
"Did the 2nd Infantry Regiment encounter a ghost? They actually made such a noise! Someone, go and take a look!"
Shinjiurō Ochiai looked around at the empty space and realized that his chief of staff Masao Isshiki had been sent to the 2nd Regiment.
"Get me the second squadron!"
"Report to the division commander, the telephone line is disconnected!"
"Then send a telegram and ask what's going on?!"
Just when Jinjiurō Ochiai was puzzled, a soldier ran in with a steel plate broken into two pieces.