Chapter 214 Tanaka Kazama's Collapse
Looking at the raging fire burning in the river section ahead and the black smoke rising into the sky.
Tanaka Kazama's arm, which was originally holding the command knife, began to tremble.
"What kind of weapons did these Eighth Route Army soldiers use?
Why is it so powerful? "
Tanaka Fuzama looked at the sea of fire in front of him, puzzled. Even their own military incendiary bombs could not achieve the degree before their eyes.
In other words, why are the weapons of the Eighth Route Army more powerful than those of the Locust Army? !
Tanaka Fujian didn't understand why the Eighth Route Army he encountered this time was completely different from the ones he had encountered before.
Although the Eighth Route Army was difficult to deal with in the past, the enemy had little ammunition and had to charge after firing only a few shots.
Although the Eighth Route Army was brave in close combat with bayonets, in terms of technology, the Locust Army had first-rate skills. No matter how brave the Eighth Route Army was, their physical fitness was poor. It took at least two ordinary Eighth Route Army soldiers to deal with one Locust Army soldier.
Originally, Tanaka Fuzama was ready to fight the Eighth Route Army with bayonets, ready to let the Eighth Route Army see the combat effectiveness of his own troops.
But at the beginning, the Eighth Route Army, contrary to common sense, did not wait for them to get close. As soon as they entered the range of about 200 meters, the Eighth Route Army's heavy machine guns opened fire.
You have to know that in the past the Eighth Route Army would never open fire unless the enemy was within 50 meters.
Because at a distance of fifty meters, the Eighth Route Army's reloaded bullets can be fired accurately, otherwise, if it is farther away, the bullets will fall downwards.
Moreover, placing it at a distance of fifty meters would make it easier for the Eighth Route Army to use grenades to counterattack.
However, this group of Eighth Route Army did not allow his troops to advance within 50 meters like the other Eighth Route Army troops that Tanaka Fujian had encountered before. Instead, they opened fire at 200 meters.
And the bullets used are not reloaded bullets, but new bullets.
Because Tanaka Fuzama dug up a bullet that was shot into the soil and saw it, he knew that the bullets fired by the Eighth Route Army were all very regular. They were not reloaded bullets that were rubbed out one by one by hand, but standard bullets that were mass-produced by machines in the arsenal.
Not only that, in addition to the good quality of the bullets, the Eighth Route Army also had a large number of bullets, and the heavy machine guns rarely stopped firing.
However, considering that there is an Eighth Route Army arsenal in the ancient town and the Eighth Route Army has a large number of bullets here, it is not difficult for Tanaka Fujian to understand.
Then Tanaka Fuzama wanted someone to use a grenade launcher to blow up the Eighth Route Army's heavy machine guns.
As a result, as soon as the grenade launcher shooter appeared with the grenade launcher, he was immediately shot by the sharpshooter of the Eighth Route Army.
Otherwise, they would have been blown up by the grenade launchers of the Eighth Route Army.
Just as they rushed to the river and were about to wade across, they were attacked by a large number of grenade launchers from the Eighth Route Army.
Tanaka Fuzama really didn't understand. The enemy only had one regiment of the Eighth Route Army, so why did they have so many grenade launchers?
Judging from the density of the explosions, the number of grenade launchers of the Eighth Route Army was obviously twice that of his battalion.
It is understandable that Tanaka Fujian has a lot of bullets, and it is also understandable that there are a lot of grenades. After all, the ancient town behind is an arsenal, so it is normal to have sufficient ammunition.
But there are so many grenade launchers... Could it be that the Eighth Route Army handed over all the grenade launchers to the opposing troops?
It is absolutely impossible for the Eighth Route Army Arsenal to produce a large number of equipment and store it in the warehouse without distributing it.
Equipment is not like ammunition. It is normal to produce 10,000 rounds of ammunition a day.
However, in terms of weapons and equipment, given the Eighth Route Army's production capacity, it was considered good if they could produce ten guns a day.
In the past, Tanaka Kazama was able to find various reasons to resolve his doubts.
However, the incendiary bombs thrown by the Eighth Route Army at the end made Tanaka Fukama completely at a loss as to how to explain it.
Why are the weapons of the Eighth Route Army more powerful than those of the Locust Army? !
Tanaka Fuzama could see that those incendiary bombs were actually clay pots, with clay pots used as shells for the incendiary bombs... It was obvious that the Eighth Route Army did not have suitable processing equipment and could only use clay pots.
It's like a crock mine.
There wasn't enough material, so I chose to use a clay pot.
But even the Eighth Route Army, which lacked sufficient materials and suitable equipment, developed weapons of such terrifying power.
Why didn't the Locust Army, which had a large amount of materials, machinery and equipment, and a large number of talents, develop such a terrifying weapon? !
"Damn it, did those weapons experts at the base camp use the money given to them by His Majesty the Heavenly Locust to watch the song and dance show?!
The Eighth Route Army can develop such a powerful weapon, what about us? !
Are we not as good as the Tubalu?!"
Looking at the power of the Eighth Route Army's weapons, Tanaka Fuzama began to curse the so-called weapons experts in the base camp.
Tanaka Fuzama saw a soldier whose arm was only on fire, but the soldier could not put out the fire no matter what he did, whether he used water or sand.
Even the Locust Army's gasoline incendiary bombs could not achieve this level, but the Eighth Route Army happened to develop this special incendiary bomb.
While Tanaka Fuzama was observing and cursing, the Japanese soldiers in the sea of fire were wailing continuously.
"Inoue-kun, Inoue-kun, help me, help me!
It hurts so much! It hurts so much! "
A Japanese soldier with his body on fire rolled on the ground wailing in pain, begging his companions to help him.
The Japanese soldier who was called out saw his companion in pain and could only raise his gun to help his companion end his suffering.
Some Japanese soldiers saw their companions on fire and wanted to help, but ended up being covered in flames and burning themselves.
Some even couldn't bear it, but without any companions around them, they could only endure the pain and pull the ring of the grenade on their bodies. The usually very simple knocking action became extremely difficult at this moment.
The Japanese soldier endured the pain and used the last bit of his strength to knock out the fuse of the grenade.
As the grenade exploded, the burning special fuel on the Japanese soldiers' bodies flew towards other Japanese soldiers under the influence of the shock wave.
Those Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough not to be hit by the incendiary bombs looked at everything in front of them, listened to the wailing of their companions, and looked at the hell-like scene before them, and were so scared that they crawled back.
At the same time, the burning fire and rising black smoke on the river successfully blocked the Japanese's sight, making it impossible for the Japanese machine gunners on the river bank to suppress the Eighth Route Army's positions along the river on the opposite bank.
The Eighth Route Army soldiers on the positions along the river directly set up their machine guns, aimed at the burning flames, and pulled the triggers.
Bullets flew out of the gun barrel and quickly shot at the Japanese soldiers who were not yet dead.
The battalion commander of the 1st Battalion of the New 2nd Regiment looked at the flames rising in the river and couldn't help but personally operate a heavy machine gun to attack the Japanese.
"Captain, if we do this, I'm afraid this river will be ruined..."
On the hillside behind, the commander of the engineering company of the New Second Regiment looked at the flames in the river and the bodies of the Japanese soldiers who fell into the river, dead but still burning, and couldn't help but speak.
"It's worth it to destroy a river and kill so many devils!
There are still many Japanese soldiers on the river bank over there. Notify the people upstream to open the sluice gates and release the water!
I'm going to let the Japanese on the shore enjoy it too!" Kong Jie saw that many Japanese had climbed onto the shore in the river, and decisively ordered the sluice gates upstream to open and release water, preparing to use the flood to drown the Japanese on the river bank. In this way, the fuel in the clay pot could be washed to the shore along the water flow, and then none of the Japanese on the shore would be able to escape.
Looking at the corpses of the Japanese soldiers in the river, Kong Jie thought for a while and continued to give orders to the commander of the engineering company.
"Tell the logistics department to keep an eye on the downstream area and stop anything that washes down. Remember to bury it properly, otherwise it will be troublesome if a plague breaks out."
"Yes!"
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"Platoon Leader Xu, Commander Kong orders you to open the sluice gates and release the water!"
Yuxi Town, river sluice.
After a cavalry communicator of the independent regiment received a telegram from the New Second Regiment, he immediately rode to the sluice gate and conveyed Kong Jie's order to the platoon leader of the special forces platoon of the New Second Regiment who was responsible for guarding this place.
"No problem, open the gate immediately!"
Although this dam is called a dam, it is better to say that in order to have enough water to irrigate the land, the local people directly cut off the river, forced the river to change its course and built an earth wall.
The river between the ancient town and Tongshi town is more like a canal than a river.
Therefore, Kong Jie was not afraid that there would be any major problems when opening the sluice gates to release water. At worst, he could just blast open the original river channel and let the water flow back to the original river channel, right?
Without the replenishment of fresh water, the canal will eventually dry up.
After receiving Kong Jie's order, Platoon Leader Xu immediately led the soldiers to prepare to open the gates to release the water.
Since they had to open the floodgates to release water to fight the Japanese, it was naturally impossible for Kong Jie to do it simply by using water.
A large amount of firewood tied with hemp ropes, bunches of wild grass, and even whole logs were piled up in the channel below the gate.
Among these items there are also a large number of earthenware jars.
In addition to some incendiary bombs filled with special fuel, those earthenware jars also contained the "gold juice" that Platoon Leader Xu had someone prepare.
"I hope the leader won't scold me..."
Looking at some huge earthenware jars fixed to logs under the gate, Platoon Leader Xu muttered to himself.
Then Platoon Leader Xu took the lead in swinging the axe and pried open the top wooden board of the gate.
Then he took out a grenade, pulled the ring and threw it down along the wooden board.
If you look closely, you will find that the grenade thrown by Platoon Leader Xu was not a domestically produced grenade.
It was a genuine German M24 hand grenade.
"boom!"
The power of the German M24 grenade is incomparable to that of the domestic one. The huge power of the grenade directly blew up a sluice gate that was nearly two meters wide and more than one meter high.
The river water that was blocked behind found an outlet after the sluice gate was blown open, and rushed out along the blown-open sluice gate.
At the same time, the items piled under the sluice gate were quickly drifted to the downstream area of the river under the influence of the water flow.
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"Get ashore, get all the soldiers ashore quickly!
Push all the carts over here!"
Tanaka Fuzama looked at the flames burning in the river and the clay pots falling from the sky. Tanaka Fuzama understood that it was impossible to cross the river at this moment, so Ya could only helplessly give the order to retreat.
However, due to the continuous attacks, the three infantry squadrons under his battalion were almost completely crippled.
I don’t know if we can gather half of the infantry by gathering the remaining soldiers together.
Before Tanaka Fuzama could order his soldiers to retreat, he saw a large amount of things floating up the river.
At the same time, the flow rate of the river also increased.
“Bagaya road!
Fire the grenade launchers, fire them, blow those things up for me!"
Looking at the things floating down the river, you can tell without thinking that they are not good things.
Tanaka Fuzama decisively ordered the grenade launcher shooters in the brigade who had not taken any action to use their grenade launchers to blow up those things.
Under the command of Tanaka Fuzama, the Japanese grenade launcher shooter quickly set up the grenade launcher and began shooting at the things floating down the river.
But it would have been better if he hadn't fired. Once the grenade launcher fired, the small grenade exploded among the firewood, directly blasting the earthen jars mixed in it into pieces.
The earthen jar broke, and the fuel and the five heads inside naturally flowed out.
After coming into contact with the flame, the flowing liquid immediately began to burn.
Then a larger sea of fire appeared in front of Tanaka Fuzama.
And with the sudden increase in the river water, the river water began to rise rapidly, and the flames also began to rush towards the shore along with the river water.
And because those logs at the front have undergone some special treatment.
After the explosion, the hemp ropes tied to the logs broke directly, and objects tied with ropes, similar to anchors, fell into the water, sank to the riverbed, hooked on the sand and stones, and forcibly stopped the logs that were flowing with the river.
Logs floated on the surface of the river, pushing the fuel that was flowing downstream directly towards the river bank.
Watching the flames quickly spread to the shore along with the river water, the soldiers who had just escaped on the shore were surrounded by flames again.
Tanaka Fuzama's legs went limp and he sat down on the ground.
In just three hours, an entire battalion of infantrymen were basically killed here.
Such a serious loss, he, Tanaka Fujian, simply cannot afford it...
When Tanaka Fuzama saw that the soldiers under his command fell into despair again, Tanaka Fuzama collapsed directly.
"Lieutenant Colonel Tanaka, Colonel Kasahara Koizumi asked what happened... What, what is going on?!"
Kasahara Koizumi, who was behind, noticed a large amount of black smoke suddenly rising in front of them, and sensed something was wrong. He couldn't get through on the phone, so he simply sent someone to Tanaka Kazama to see what was going on.
The adjutant sent by Kasahara Koizumi had just run up the hillside and came to Tanaka Fuzama who was sitting on the ground. Before he could convey Kasahara Koizumi's words to Tanaka Fuzama, he saw the flames in front of him.
And the soldiers wailing in the flames.
The adjutant looked at Tanaka Fuzama. At this moment, he no longer needed Tanaka Fuzama's answer because he knew what was going on.
Looking at the few remaining troops around, which were basically engineers, artillerymen, and some logistics soldiers, the adjutant understood that Tanaka Fuzama was finished this time.
(End of this chapter)
