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"Major, it's absolutely safe here. The aerial bombs of the Eighth Route Army can't blow up our gun towers at all."

North of the abandoned Xincheng Airport, in a blockhouse on a high ground, the leader of the devils stationed in the blockhouse said to a devil major.

This reinforced concrete turret is more than ten meters high. Around the turret, the Japanese have also deployed supporting defense facilities such as mines, ditches and trenches.

In the gun tower, food and ammunition supplies are sufficient, even if it is besieged, a devil with a strengthened squad inside can last for a month.

When repairing these reinforced concrete bunkers and gun towers, Yoshio Iwamatsu was very confident.

With the attack methods of the Eighth Route Army at that time, it was absolutely impossible to destroy these artillery towers.

In the last wave of aircraft dive attacks, the aerial bombs dropped by the aircraft of the Eighth Route Army hit the outer wall of the reinforced concrete gun tower.

Although the Japanese inside the turret were shaken by the explosion, their heads were buzzing, but the damage to the steel and concrete caused by the aerial bomb was minimal.

"Yoxi..."

Major Guizi said with gloomy eyes.

This Japanese Major's name is Yoshimatsu Atsushi, and he is a captain of the 41st Division Engineer Regiment.

In the afternoon, with hundreds of engineers under his command, he was assisting the Fifth Division in constructing trench earthworks.

As the captain, it is naturally impossible to personally participate in the trench digging. He set up a pot not far away, with hot pot boiling in it, and singing the military song of the North China Front Army.

Eating hot pot and singing songs, and then was bombed by the Eighth Route Army.

That kind of terrifying incendiary bombs still scares Yoshimatsu Atsushi, even though Japanese fighter jets and bombers can also carry incendiary bombs.

However, compared with the power of the incendiary bombs dropped by the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese army's incendiary bombs are almost as powerful as firecrackers and hand grenades.

That kind of incendiary bomb not only has a large burning area, but also has extremely terrifying temperatures.

The flames of the explosion swept in all directions, and the ground fluctuated like ocean waves. The Japanese soldiers who were bombed were quickly burned to ashes!
He saw with his own eyes that a drop of splashing sparks ignited the clothes of a Japanese soldier, and the clothes were ignited almost instantly. The Japanese soldier screamed and took off his clothes, but it was useless, and the flame continued to burn on the skin .

A few soldiers next to him wanted to help him put out the fire, and some soldiers were also covered with sparks until a hole was burned out of their skin.

The entire position was covered with a breath of death, and the faces of all the Japanese soldiers changed. They had never seen such a powerful incendiary bomb.

After the bombing by the planes of the Eighth Route Army, Ji Songdu's engineering brigade of hundreds of people actually suffered more than half of the casualties.

Most of the casualties were burned to death by incendiary bombs, and only a few were killed by aerial bombs.

After those soldiers were burned, they screamed like hell, leaving an indelible mark on Ji Songdu's heart.

If I were hit by an incendiary bomb, I would shudder just thinking about it!

Good thing…

This reinforced concrete blockhouse is very safe.

The squad leader here happened to be a fellow villager of Jisong Du, so he took dozens of cronies from the engineer regiment and got into the gun building.

As for the dozen or so puppet troops stationed inside the blockhouse in collaboration with the Japanese, they had all been driven out of the blockhouse.

Think of it as a very safe place.

Only then did Ji Songdu relax slightly from his tense expression.

at this time.

There were some humming sounds in the sky.

The faces of the devils inside the gun tower changed. Even though they knew that the planes of the Eighth Route Army would not come to blow up the gun tower to waste bombs, the devils were still a little scared.

boom boom boom…

In the distance, the field fortifications of the 41st Division and the [-]th Division heard thunderous aerial bomb explosions, blasting the vast sky.

Atsushi Yoshimatsu and the Japanese squad leader clattered up the wooden stairs to the observation deck at the top of the turret.

On the observatory, a devil was holding a telescope and watching the bombers of the Eighth Route Army in the distance, bombing the Japanese positions.

Although the specific situation could not be seen due to the distance, judging from the smoke rising after the explosion, the Eighth Route Army dropped a large number of aerial bombs on the positions of the 41st Division and the [-]th Division.

At this moment, a whining sound came from behind.

Ji Songdu's face changed, and he looked towards the sky behind him. At some point, a plane of the Eighth Route Army circled behind the gun tower.

Like a sharp sword, it swooped towards the gun tower, and the engine of the fighter-bomber of the Eighth Route Army came like a thunderbolt.

Looking at the two bombs under the wings of the telescope that looked like huge metal eggs like cylinders, Ji Songdu's expression changed drastically.

Ji Songdu recognized this cylindrical metal bomb as the Eighth Route Army's incendiary bomb.

"idiot!"

Ji Songdu's face turned pale, he threw away the binoculars in his hand, and got into the interior of the gun tower.

However, the Saber fighter's dive speed was faster than its flight speed, and it was already approaching the sky above the gun tower in a blink of an eye.

Since there was no threat of anti-aircraft fire from the devils on the ground, the pilots of the new group flew the plane close to the ground after a dive, only a few tens of meters above the ground.

After approaching the devil's gun tower, aiming at the devil's gun tower, the new group of pilots pressed the bomb button.

The huge black egg-like metal bombs detached from the wings of the fighter-bombers almost simultaneously, rolling and smashing into the Japanese gun towers.

……

In the reinforced concrete blockhouse.

Sixty or seventy Japanese soldiers were huddled together, shivering.

"How did I hear the sound of the plane?"

A timid little devil soldier screamed.

"idiot!"

A Japanese engineer squadron leader cursed angrily:
"It's absolutely safe here, keep quiet, the bombing by the Eighth Route Army will last up to 20 minutes."

The turret suddenly became quiet.

However, the sound of the plane's huge engine grew louder and closer, as if it was about to bomb the turret.

"Eight-way aerial bombs can't blow up the gun tower. Don't worry, everyone will be stunned at most."

A devil veteran stationed in the gun tower spoke confidently.

However, as soon as he finished speaking, he saw Major Jisong and the team leader get down from the ladder, and their expressions changed drastically.

Nani?

The expression of the devil in the gun tower suddenly changed.

Major Yoshimatsu looked inside the turret, then focused his eyes on the shooting holes inside the turret, and said in a hurry: "Block the shooting holes with something immediately!"

"idiot!"

Seeing a group of ghost soldiers, they were slightly taken aback.

Major Yoshimatsu was furious: "You are a bunch of trash, can't you understand Japanese? Hurry up and block the shooting holes, otherwise we will all die!"

Only then did the Japanese soldiers react and hurriedly looked for something to block the shooting holes.

However it was too late.

"boom!"

A landslide-like explosion sounded beside the gun tower.

next second.

Endless flames poured in from the firing holes, and at the last moment, the gun tower was filled with horrified eyes of devils.

His eyes were drawn into the distance.

The entire gun tower was enveloped in huge flames, and the flames generated by the explosion, with the inertia of the shells, passed through the firing holes and entered the gun tower.

ahhh-

From the turret, Japanese screams sounded like they were coming from hell, but the screams quickly died down.

The pilots of the new group pulled the plane up into the clouds, glanced at the Japanese turrets wrapped in endless flames below, smiled slightly, and immediately looked for the next target.

After the second wave of bombing is completed.

The new flying brigade quickly returned to Dagu Town Airport, took a short rest, replenished fuel and aerial bombs, and then carried out a third wave of bombing against the devils in Taiyuan.

After the third wave of bombing was over, the sky gradually darkened, and the flying brigade stopped bombing.

……

Taiyuan.

Japanese First Army Command.

Although it was late at night, the headquarters of the First Army was still brightly lit.

The air raid siren in Taiyuan City sounded almost all day long.

Yoshio Iwamatsu also spent almost the entire day in the air raid shelter.

Although the planes of the Eighth Route Army did not come to bomb the inner city of Taiyuan, the officers of the First Army Headquarters were also afraid, so they all went to work in the air-raid shelter during the day.

"Report to the commander, the casualties of the Fifth Division and the 41st Division have been preliminarily counted."

Deputy Chief of Staff Masao Miyazaki walked in quickly with a telegram in his hand and bowed his head to report to First Army Commander Yoshio Iwamatsu.

Yoshio Iwamatsu asked: "How many casualties?"

Masao Miyazaki's face was ugly: "The Eighth Route Army dispatched more than 100 sorties to bomb the field fortifications of the 41st Division and the Fifth Division, as well as the permanent fortifications outside the city. The total casualties of the locust army exceeded 2700!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Miyazaki Masao suddenly changed when he saw Iwamatsu Yoshio's expression.

"So many casualties?"

Yoshio Iwamatsu exclaimed:
"how can that be?"

Iwamatsu Yoshio also heard about the Eighth Route Army's fighter jets and bombers. He guessed that the Japanese casualties must be high, but he did not expect the casualties to be so high.

The Eighth Route Army only dispatched more than 100 sorties of aircraft, causing more than half of the Japanese regiment to be casualties.

According to reports, not even a single Eighth Route Army aircraft was shot down.

This means that the casualty ratio between the Japanese army and the Eighth Route Army was 2700 to 0.

Masao Miyazaki said in a helpless tone: "Reporting to the commander, the Eighth Route Army used extremely powerful incendiary bombs. Many of our soldiers were burned by this incendiary bomb. Moreover, the Eighth Route Army is very cunning. It was useless during the first wave of attacks." The incendiary bombs attacked the permanent fortifications, making the soldiers of the locust army mistakenly think that these permanent fortifications are safe, and many soldiers ran to the permanent fortifications to avoid the bombing of the eight-way aircraft."

"As a result, in the second wave of attacks by the Eighth Route Army, all incendiary bombs were thrown at these permanent fortifications. Almost all the Locust Army soldiers in the bombed permanent fortifications were burned to death."

"Many of those burned to death were lieutenants and assistant officers."

After finishing speaking, Masao Miyazaki couldn't help his eyes tearing apart.

It was so miserable.

After dark, he personally went to those bunkers and gun towers to take a look. Some Japanese soldiers were burned to charcoal, some were burned to ashes, and some were even roasted alive.

Most of the Japanese soldiers in this casualty data were burned to death, and only a small part of them were injured by aerial bombs.

Due to the second wave of attacks by the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese suffered heavy casualties. The 41st Division and the Fifth Division ordered all soldiers to leave the bunkers and gun towers to disperse and hide.

"idiot!"

Hearing this, Yoshio Iwamatsu cursed angrily, picked up a blue and white porcelain vase and threw it to the ground:
"Immediately report this matter to the North China Front Army Command."

"If the aviation units of the Eighth Route Army are not eliminated, the locust army will be in big trouble!"

"Hi!" Masao Miyazaki suddenly nodded. (end of this chapter)