my bright sword career

Chapter 321 Sudden Air Attack

At dawn, the Japanese soldiers of the 31st Division, who were tortured by the heavy rain and almost stayed up all night, began to pack up their tents under the yelling of the officers, and then they had to set off after eating a rice ball with the little cold water left in the kettle. The order received was to arrive at Guojialing before this evening and join the 37th Division there.

Lieutenant General Shigezaburo Miyazaki finished his last sip of flavor-enhancing soup under the service of his orderlies, then stood up and stretched himself, and asked the Chief of Staff Akihisa Sakagami who just arrived: "Are the troops ready?" ? Nothing happened last night, right?"

"Your Excellency, Division Commander, the troops are ready and ready to leave at any time. It's just that many soldiers drank unclean water last night. At least 200 soldiers started to have diarrhea this morning, and dozens of others developed fever."

Shigesaburo Miyazaki snorted softly, "Is the situation of those soldiers serious? Can they keep up with the troops?"

"It's okay at the moment and can barely keep up, but I worry that their condition will become more and more serious, resulting in non-combat attrition."

Shigeru Miyazaki said displeasedly: "Didn't I give an order not to allow soldiers to drink unboiled water? Why are so many people disobeying the order?"

Sakagami Akihisa said helplessly: "The order was indeed issued, but many soldiers couldn't bear it, and secretly ran to the nearby creek or the puddle by the roadside to get water to drink. One eye is closed and the other is closed, so these problems arise.”

"Baga, bastard!" Miyazaki Shigeru couldn't help bursting out a national curse.

Since ancient times, marching and fighting has been a great knowledge.

Some people may ask, it is already the twentieth century, did the Japanese army not even solve the problem of drinking water?
The answer is of course solved. For this problem, the Japanese army also set up a "water supply unit". Their task is to provide clean drinking water for the Japanese army.

As early as the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army established the first water supply unit. At that time, the water supply trucks imported from Germany were used to produce drinkable fresh water by thermal distillation.It is also equipped with some water filters to facilitate soldiers to drink water on the battlefield.Later, Okamoto-type water filter, 97-type water filter and Ryomoto-type water filter were also invented.

In 1940, the Japanese army's water supply unit was equipped with a hot water truck mounted on a truck.In fact, it is to install a 2.5-ton water tank on the truck, and then there is a stove, so that there is hot water for drinking at any time.Moreover, the water supply unit not only has hot water trucks, but also cool drink making machines.

But unfortunately, due to the rapid march of the troops these days and the rugged road in the middle mountain, dozens of large water filter vehicles and hot water trucks accompanying the march were stuck behind and could not follow up in time, while those small ones Due to the insufficient number of filters, it is simply a drop in the bucket for divisions with a cost of [-] to [-], so an embarrassing situation has arisen.

If it is normal, this situation can still be solved, as long as you set up a large iron pot and boil the water for 10 minutes, all kinds of bacteria can be wiped out, but the terrible thing is that yesterday's heavy rain almost turned the surrounding In the swamp, you can't even find a dry firewood, let alone boil water.

Although very angry, Shigeru Miyazaki also knew that the officers below could not be blamed for this matter, so he could only order the troops to set off angrily.

When the No.30 First Division was in a hurry, they didn't know that a group of Reapers carrying deadly bombs was flying towards them.

When the soldiers of the 31st Division who were marching heard the buzzing sound from the sky, they all looked into the sky. Soon, a dull gunshot rang out.

Some Japanese soldiers pointed to a few black spots in the air and shouted in horror: "Airplane...the plane of the Chinese is coming!"

In view of the lessons learned from yesterday's investigation, the 31st Division has also made some improvements. For example, they installed only dozens of Type [-] anti-aircraft machine guns on trucks to deal with sudden air strikes.

Many people are familiar with the Japanese Type [-] heavy machine gun, but presumably many people may be unfamiliar with the Type [-] anti-aircraft machine gun.

The Type 93 machine gun uses 13.2 mm caliber bullets. After installing the tripod, it is usually used as an anti-aircraft anti-aircraft machine gun. It uses 30 rounds of magazines for ammunition, but it is rarely known because of its scarcity.

"Air strike!"

"It's the black crow of the Chinese!"

The Japanese soldiers on the ground began to disperse twice towards the road. The officers commanded the soldiers to evacuate while commanding the troops to carry out air defense. Several Type [-] anti-aircraft machine guns poured bullets into the air, the sound of motors and sharp whistling and machine guns The sound of shooting made people's ears hurt.

After seeing the arrival of the Chinese plane, Shigeru Miyazaki jumped out of the car he was riding in immediately, jumped to the side of a mound on a slope, and fell beside a person.

At this moment, a bomb exploded nearby, and a wave of air hit the back of his head like a whirlwind. He raised his head with difficulty, and saw three dive bombers swooping down in his direction. The aluminum wings and the glass on the canopy shone golden in the sun, and the bullets of the anti-aircraft machine guns streaked across the plane like a silver line.

Black crow is the Japanese name for the Stuka dive bomber, because in the eyes of the Japanese army, those planes that look as ugly as seagulls and are painted black all over are like crows. Once they appear, they will only bring them endless bad luck and death.

"Woooooooo..."

Accompanied by the sound of sharp sirens, three Stuka dive bombers lined up in an arrow and dived towards the ground at an almost vertical angle. The sirens placed under the wings were automatically activated. panic.

"Boom boom boom..."

The air waves rolled, orange flames rose, and the muddy ground rose into the sky like a whirlwind. The three Stukas that had dropped their bombs immediately rose rapidly, turned around facing the sun, and then turned left, facing the ground on the ground. The Japanese army rushed again.

They dropped bombs again at a height of [-] meters above the ground, and fired downwards with large-caliber machine guns. The bullets were like a whip of fire, stirring up the bodies of the Japanese soldiers lying on both sides of the road, making them roll in the muddy water. Seeing this, lying down The Japanese soldiers on the ground jumped up and ran in all directions.

Shigeru Miyazaki, who was lying on the ground, saw a soldier being knocked to the ground, waved his hands and then stopped moving.

The other soldier panicked, running one way and then the other, panicked, looking left and right, but the machine gun bullets knocked him down from the side, like a red-hot wire from top to bottom. The general was broken into two parts, and the two parts were separated by several meters.

But even after being beaten into two pieces, the stump on the ground still moved like an earthworm, and it took a while to stop wriggling.

(End of this chapter)