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Chapter 1,278 The Burning Front 3

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    With his order, those flamethrowers that had been placed in the trenches for fear that their fuel tanks would be blown up by the Japs' bullets began to aim their jets at the Japanese soldiers who were rushing up.

    The effective killing distance of these flamethrowers is nearly 100 meters. At this time, the Japanese army had rushed to a position less than 30 meters and was completely within its range.

    ¡°Boom!!!¡±

    The pressure in the fuel tank directly ejected the combustion accelerant from the injection port. As the fuel was injected, the flames immediately spread along the fuel, directly burning everything along the way to ashes.

    The Japanese soldiers along the route were also covered in flames.  Some soldiers were rolling crazily on the ground, and some were directly burned to coke by the high temperature of thousands of degrees.

    More than a dozen flamethrowers, covering a range of hundreds of meters.  A large number of charging Japanese troops turned into burning men, and then rolled and struggled on the ground in pain, trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies.

    Such a hellish scene makes many recruits feel uncomfortable.  Some recruits even lay down in the trench and vomited after smelling the smell of burnt corpses.

    The two Japanese squadrons on the flanks also encountered a very resolute blockade.  The two companies occupying favorable terrain, using the heavy machine guns to form intensive firepower, are every charging Japanese soldier's nightmare.

    Thousands of Japanese soldiers, like wheat harvested in summer, kept falling to the ground with the swing of sickles.

    In front of the position, the corpses of Japanese soldiers have been piled up.  The stumps broken by heavy machine gun bullets and corpses burnt to char by flamethrowers were stacked together. A scene like a Shura field was now displayed in front of every soldier.

    They were shooting wildly, their eyes turning blood red from the congestion in their heads.  The Japanese soldiers opposite them were even crazier than them. They stepped on the corpses of their comrades and ran towards them. They didn't even shoot, they just rushed forward with their bayonets pointed out.

    Armored vehicles and tanks desperately stepped on the accelerator to the highest level and rushed towards the 228th Regiment position ahead at speeds of dozens of kilometers per hour.

    After these tanks and armored vehicles rushed into the position, they directly detonated the bombs loaded on them, killing and injuring surrounding soldiers.

    The Japanese infantry followed closely behind and continued to charge.

    This battle was more fierce than the last time. The Japanese army and the soldiers of the 228th Regiment suffered heavy casualties.

    But under the attack of intensive machine guns, flamethrowers, and rocket nests, the number of Japanese casualties rose rapidly.

    The first group they charged with only took more than half an hour, and they had already lost more than half of them.  The two Japanese squadrons that came for follow-up support also suffered very serious losses.

    Yoshio Shinozuka did not issue an order to retreat, but the Japanese soldiers in front could not withstand it.  They even had no room to charge, because the front of the position was already piled with the corpses of their comrades, as well as the burning wreckage of tanks and armored vehicles.

    After this brutal attack lasted for a full hour, the Japanese army finally stopped.  A large-scale retreat began.

    By this time, they had already dropped hundreds of corpses in front of the position.  The number of injured Japanese soldiers was even greater, and a single charge resulted in thousands of casualties, which made Yoshio Shinozuka very painful.

    If this battle continues like this, their troops may not be able to continue fighting in a few days.

    The Japanese army suffered heavy losses, and Xia Yang and others suffered similar losses.  But because of the protection of trenches, reasonable firepower configuration, and the absolute advantage of rocket nests, their casualties were much less than those of the Japanese army.

    In the 228th Regiment¡¯s more than an hour of fighting, more than 100 soldiers were killed, and nearly 300 were injured.

    The 228th Regiment, which originally numbered more than 2,000 people, had been reduced to 2,000 people after this day's battle.

    This serious loss made Yoshio Shinozuka calm down, his eyes red with blood.

    He began to reorganize the troops, arrange for wounded soldiers, and at the same time sent another telegram to Tatsumi Kusaba, the commander of the 114th Division, asking him to deploy another regiment of troops to support their operations here.

    This gave Tatsumi Kusaba a headache, because their 114th Division had already deployed several regiments. If they mobilized more troops, their garrison strength in various material warehouses and strongholds would become smaller.  In that case, it would give those Eighth Route Army an opportunity to take advantage of them.

    &nbspThe most important thing is that their scout troops on the periphery have discovered signs of activities of large groups of the Eighth Route Army.

    But Yoshio Shinozuka gave a fatal order, and Tatsuki Kusaba did not dare to disobey it casually. He could only mobilize a regiment of troops to support Lingqiu County.

    After the crazy attack in the afternoon, the Japanese army has been preparing its troops and has not launched another attack.

    But Xia Yang did not intend to let them live in peace. He sent a telegram to Chen Shiliang, asking the guerrilla troops led by him to do everything possible to harass the Japanese army's rear.

    Chen Shiliang naturally did not dare to be vague after receiving the order.  He even sent a company of troops around to the flank of the Japanese base camp and conducted a round of bombardment of the Japanese camp with mortars.

    This kind of bombardment is more about playing on the mentality of the Japanese army and has no real lethal effect. It is more about playing psychological warfare and disgusting the Japanese army on the opposite side.

    Other troops were also divided into parts to raid the Japanese transportation lines and some small-scale strongholds.  Even the Japanese scout troops have become their targets, preventing the Japanese army from extending their strength.

    The night slowly fell, and around eight o'clock in the evening, it was completely dark.

    Xia Yang gave the order and all the soldiers were ready to fight.  Because according to his understanding of the Japanese army, if the attack during the day failed, the Japanese army would basically try a sneak attack at night.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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