jdhmnovel Chapter 156: The First Battle of the 2nd Cannon 1
Chapter 156: The First Battle of the 2nd Cannon 1
Fujiwara opened his eyes wide, staring at the huge fireball. The bright light it emitted made it almost impossible to open his eyes, and the originally dark night sky was illuminated as if it were daytime.
However, not far from him, some soldiers were still screaming desperately.
"Look, look, another one is about to fall!"
Fujiwara was startled and turned around quickly. As the panicked soldiers had said, there really was an object like a meteor falling towards the ground in the night sky.
The meteor dragged a long burning tail and was moving at an extremely fast speed, like a flash of lightning across the sky, falling rapidly from the sky in the blink of an eye.
Just a dozen seconds later, another deafening roar was heard, as if the whole earth was shaking.
However, the explosion did not occur inside the camp, but exploded about three hundred meters away from the camp.
Accompanied by a loud bang, a huge orange-red fireball rose into the sky. The power generated by the explosion of more than one ton of high explosives was astonishing, and the dazzling light illuminated the night sky again.
"What the hell is this! What the hell is this!"
Fujiwara muttered to himself that he had seen the rockets launched by the Chinese army, but the power of the 132mm rocket explosion was like drizzle compared to such an explosion.
"Here comes another one! Here comes another one!"
Just as Fujiwara was thinking about what the hell this thing was, the soldiers' shouting woke him up again.
At this moment, Major Kobayashi also reacted to the huge explosion. He grabbed the division commander and pushed him into the anti-artillery shelter that had been prepared.
Many soldiers finally reacted and followed the division commander's footsteps to run into the nearest anti-artillery shelter to hide.
On this very night, the Japanese army was fully prepared. They even arranged a regiment of soldiers to defend the periphery in order to prevent the Chinese army from launching a night attack.
It was just to allow the main force in the camp to get enough rest time, but who could have thought that such a situation would occur on this night.
This night was an unusually long night for the entire camp. The Japanese soldiers in the camp were always in a state of high tension, with their hearts filled with fear and anxiety.
Throughout the night, they suffered a total of fourteen such "meteor" attacks, each of which made their heartbeats accelerate and their nerves tense to the extreme.
Although only nine "meteors" hit the camp, the damage caused to the interior of the camp was not small.
However, what frightened them even more was that these attacks occurred in the pitch-black night, with no way of knowing when the next attack would come.
This unknown fear hangs over everyone's heart and is unbearable.
Fujiwara curled up in the anti-artillery shelter, his eyes bloodshot, like a rabbit's eyes.
He did not dare to leave the bunker easily for fear of encountering an accident. Many soldiers could no longer bear the pressure and fled the camp, regardless of the risk of being attacked outside.
At this moment, the camp was filled with chaos and panic. Many soldiers ignored the strict orders of their superiors. They just wanted to leave this deadly camp. They didn't want to live in fear all the time.
There was a serious physical conflict between some Japanese soldiers who attempted to escape from the camp and the military police responsible for guarding the camp.
However, neither side dared to use guns, it was just an ordinary fight. In this chaos, time came to the last darkness before dawn.
The northwest sky seemed to be burned red by flames, and a large number of bright spots with tails of flames appeared in the sky.
"Attack! Rocket attack!" This time, many Japanese soldiers who had encountered rocket launcher attacks recognized those dense fireballs with tails of flames.
The Japanese soldiers screamed in terror, their voices filled with despair and fear. They had personally experienced this kind of horrific attack and knew its destructive power and lethality.
And now, these terrible weapons have descended upon them once again, leaving them feeling helpless and powerless.
At the same time, other soldiers began to realize the seriousness of the situation. They stopped extinguishing the fire and looked towards the northwest sky.
Fireballs streaked across the night sky with long tails, like a gorgeous and deadly meteor shower.
The atmosphere in the camp suddenly became tense, the soldiers' heartbeats quickened, and their breathing became rapid.
They had no idea how many casualties the attack would cause, but they knew they were facing great danger.
As time went on, the rockets came closer and closer to the camp, whizzing past with all-destructive power, making it impossible to avoid them.
The soldiers watched them approaching, their hearts filled with fear and despair. The military police were finally unable to stop the Japanese soldiers who wanted to escape.
They had just broken through the interception team of gendarmerie when 132mm rockets fell into the camp.
This attack was different from the intermittent, individual attacks in the first half of the night. This was a firepower blanket!
Under this truly intensive fire coverage, certain areas of the camp covered by rockets were shrouded in fire and smoke.
In an open area east of Datong City, about 12 kilometers away from them, a multiple rocket launcher of a fire support battalion was busy working.
They had just completed a round of salvos and were now nervously reloading in preparation for the next attack.
At the same time, scouts lurking outside the Japanese camp sent important information: the Japanese camp was in chaos at the moment.
Sudden and fierce artillery fire caused the Japanese soldiers in the camp to panic and flee in all directions. Many tents and baggage supplies were already on fire, with thick smoke and flames rising into the sky.
The fire support battalion, which had originally planned to fire only one round and then evacuate quickly, decided to fire a few more rounds after learning of this situation.
Because this can not only further weaken the enemy's combat effectiveness, but also create more favorable conditions for subsequent battles.
Every Japanese soldier killed means less resistance in future operations.
"Brothers! Speed up! Today we have to send big rockets to the Japanese, let them board homemade planes, and go to the so-called Yasukuni Shrine to meet their Amaterasu!" the commander shouted excitedly.
He was well aware that this action was of great significance in undermining the enemy's morale and weakening its combat effectiveness.
As the order was given, the soldiers quickened their movements, loading rockets into the gun barrels, preparing to attack the enemy again.
The "whoosh" sounds and the flames from the rocket launches turned this place into a fiery red area.
The fire and smoke above the position enveloped all 24 rocket launchers, and right behind them was an armored regiment that was put together.
The tank team members were all put together at short notice. Many of them were workers in the tank factory. Of course, there were also some injured tank soldiers and those on leave.
The tank regiment was in chaos at the moment. After they drove here from Datong, they were able to barely maintain their formation when leaving the city.
After arriving here, the entire convoy had already formed into a long snake formation, and several tanks had disappeared into the darkness, although they could still communicate through the Luotong communicator.
But even they themselves don't know where they are at the moment.
However, the more than 60 T34 tanks that had barely gathered decided not to wait for the crews that had lost them. Anyway, they would naturally find their way home after daybreak.