Devil's Army

Outside the two city gates, there were two different burning scenes.

Brigadier General Li suddenly slapped the city wall and shouted:

"I have reported to Commander Tan about the large-scale tank raid by the Japanese Army. Our Commander must know what happened."

He and Captain Ye looked at each other and hurried to the command center.

After a while, Gray Wolf replied to them: Those are the newly developed solidified fuel oil bombs and aluminum iron fuel oil bombs of our army. He also asked about the combat effectiveness.

Captain Ye was holding the reply from Gray Wolf, his hands were shaking with excitement. If we had more high-tech weapons like this, how could the Japanese invaders not be destroyed?

After receiving a reply from Brigade Commander Li, Gray Wolf learned that these two types of incendiary bombs were quite effective on the battlefield in Sanhe County.

At this time, Zunhua County was in danger again. The Japanese army had already broken through the north gate of Zunhua County, and the soldiers of the 3rd Regiment of the 6th Brigade were fighting the Japanese army in the streets by relying on houses.

Gray Wolf then ordered Captain Yin to use the remaining two fuel bombs on the battlefield at the north gate of the Zunhua Line.

A bomber from the First Army flew over the Japanese troops outside the north gate of Zunhua County when the Japanese fighter planes left the sky over Zunhua County, and dropped two incendiary fuel bombs on the Japanese soldiers who were successively attacking the city.

The solidified fuel bomb burned loudly on the ground, and the clothes and hair of the affected Japanese soldiers quickly caught fire.

The Japanese soldiers, who had never encountered incendiary bombs, immediately fell into chaos. The burning Japanese soldiers rolled on the ground, trying to put out the flames.

The Japanese soldiers quickly put out the flames on their bodies. The incendiary bombs did not cause much damage to the Japanese soldiers.

The First Army's bombers then continued to drop bombs on the Japanese troops outside the city and launched a bombing campaign.

The ammunition had been delivered by a battalion of the 16th Brigade more than two hours ago.

The commander of the Third Regiment took advantage of the fact that the Japanese troops outside the city were under attack and the Japanese troops inside the city were lacking in support, and ordered the Second Battalion of the 16th Brigade, which was transporting ammunition, to participate in the counterattack and attack on all fronts!

The machine guns fired "da da da..." continuously, and the Japanese soldiers who were confronting the soldiers of the Third Regiment were knocked down one after another.

Type 40 rockets and mortars were used in turn, causing the Japanese troops in the front position to scream and howl in agony.

Soldiers from the 16rd Regiment and the nd Battalion of the th Brigade took the opportunity to recapture the city wall of Zunhua County that was occupied by the Japanese army.

After the Japanese army retreated, the soldiers of the 16rd Regiment and the nd Battalion of the th Brigade urgently consolidated the city walls that had collapsed due to Japanese bombing and repaired the anti-artillery fortifications.

The captain of the battalion attacking Zunhua County immediately reported to Brigade Commander Hirabayashi Seito that they were attacked by incendiary bombs from the Devil Forces.

The commander of the brigade, Pinglin Shengren, knew that the Devil's troops had incendiary bombs when a brigade in Luan County was attacked by incendiary bombs last time. However, in order to stabilize the morale of the troops, he chose to conceal the fact and did not inform the troops below.

This resulted in another brigade of his attacking Zunhua County being attacked by incendiary bombs from the Devil Forces and having no way to deal with it.

After receiving the report from the commander of the Third Regiment of the Sixth Brigade, Gray Wolf also fell into deep thought.

Why did the Japanese troops in Zunhua County suffer few casualties in the same incendiary bomb attack?

Gray Wolf drew three conclusions based on the descriptions of Zunhua County, Sanhe County and Luan County attacked by incendiary bombs by the commanders of the Third Regiment, the Sixth Brigade and the First Regiment, as well as his understanding of the local geographical environment:

The intensity of the burning of an incendiary bomb depends on the amount of flammable material around the attack site.

For example, the incendiary bombs dropped on the north side of Xiaoguancun Airport caused the flames to spread rapidly because the Japanese infantry were surrounded by flammable branches and weeds, causing much greater casualties from heat radiation and fire burns.

There were few branches and weeds outside Zunhua County that could burn, so the flames spread very slowly. The Japanese soldiers could put out the flames by rolling on the ground, which resulted in much fewer casualties for them.

When dropping the solidified incendiary bombs, the planes would first spray aviation fuel to intensify the burning of the fire and increase the casualties of the Japanese army.

Third, you must pay attention to the wind direction. The wind must blow towards the Japanese army, otherwise your position may be devoured by incendiary bombs.

Like the last time when we dropped incendiary bombs on the position north of Xiaoguanzhuang Airport, if the wind had not been blowing towards the Japanese army, our own position would have certainly caught fire.

To this end, Huilang wrote a summary of the effects and precautions of the use of solidified fuel bombs and aluminum iron incendiary bombs and sent it to Leng Feng to guide the First Army Air Force to better use these two incendiary bombs.

At this time, the Japanese Army Headquarters learned that the Northeast Devil Force Headquarters was supplying weapons, ammunition and troops to the Tangshan Devil Force base, and ordered the Kwantung Army Commander Umezu Michiro to prepare to launch a large-scale encirclement and suppression of the Tieling County base.

On the one hand, Leng Feng sent the precautions on the use of incendiary bombs to the Air Force so that they could learn and know the precautions on the use of incendiary bombs.

On the other hand, the arsenal was urged to produce the Hua Xia II fighter plane and incendiary bombs.

As long as we can control air supremacy, we can defeat the Japanese encirclement and suppression campaign.

The Eighth Route Army was preparing to cooperate with the First and Second Front Armies of the First Anti-Japanese Army in their counter-encirclement and suppression campaign and launch a massive raid.