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Eleven planes flew side by side, like wild geese on their way back, with a rainbow of momentum.

High in the sky, the leading captain made a gesture.

The other pilots flying side by side nodded.

Then, only ten planes were seen, all starting to fly downward at low altitude, less than 100 meters above the ground.

The airplanes of this era all had wooden wings and were very crude.

After flying for a few minutes, we saw the Japanese heavy artillery brigade.

Hundreds of large and small cannons were lined up one after another, covering an area of ​​several miles, which was enough to show their intimidating power.

The heavy artillery brigade is already a strategic force for Japan.

There are two heavy artillery regiments under the standard heavy artillery brigade.

Among them, there are 30 150mm diameter heavy artillery cannons and 30 150mm diameter heavy howitzers.

There are also hundreds of 75mm field guns and mountain guns.

There is also a 240mm heavy cannon.

These belong to the Eighteenth Division.

This time, in order to directly capture Wanwan, the heavy artillery brigade of the 12th Division was also mobilized, and an additional artillery regiment was also mobilized. It can be said that the entire Japanese Army's financial resources are almost empty.

There are two heavy artillery brigades in total, which can be said to be the strongest artillery in Japan at present.

Viewed from a high altitude, the uniformity is very intimidating. 09

This was after the Russo-Japanese War, and the heavy artillery brigade was strengthened.

The Russo-Japanese War was called a rehearsal for World War I because the battle was conducted almost exactly like the trench warfare of World War I.

Both Japan and Russia relied heavily on machine guns and heavy artillery. It was this battle that made the Japanese realize their shortcomings in heavy artillery, and they worked hard to change this dilemma.

However, due to economic strength, Japan can only choose one between the development of the army and the navy.

In the end, the navy is still his son.

The Japanese Army was ultimately at a disadvantage in the competition for resources with the Navy.

Moreover, the military expansion has not been confirmed by the cabinet.

In addition, Japan's own land artillery technical strength is still insufficient, so it can only watch the navy start a round of shipbuilding plans.

The artillery fire of the Japanese Army is imitated from the German Krupp Company's howitzers.

On the other hand, Gentaro Kodama, Chief of Staff of the Army, who was known as the wise general and had a brilliant career in the Russo-Japanese War, proposed another plan: to increase the infantry brigade while maintaining the existing 19 divisions. increase the number of medium and light weapons; add a field artillery brigade and a field heavy artillery regiment at the military level; set up special forces such as transportation corps (telegraph and telephone); expand the scale of the railway corps.

Kodama also proposed improvements to machine guns and artillery, the use of direct-fire siege guns, and the development of mortars. This plan mainly focuses on enriching armaments, developing firepower, and replacing quantity with quality.

Facts have proved that he is right, but Japan's economy does not allow it and there is no money for development.

The original plan was to add a machine gun squadron equipped with six machine guns to each infantry wing, but even so, it would take 20 years for the Army to equip all of these equipment.

It can be seen that the Japanese army is inferior to the navy.

Soon, the plane flew over the artillery position and was not in a hurry to drop bombs.

Their purpose was to find the Japanese ammunition depot.

Bombing some Japanese artillery was of no use to them, it just scratched the surface.

Only by destroying the ammunition depots of these two heavy artillery brigades can we give them a head-on blow and severely damage them.

When the plane passed by the artillery position less than a mile away, and saw dozens of white tents below, and many wooden boxes containing artillery shells outside the tents, the leader's eyes suddenly lit up.

The Japanese artillerymen looked at the planes speeding overhead with a blank look on their faces.

At first, they thought it was their Japanese plane.

But looking at the tail of the plane, there was no sanitary napkin flag marking them.

I felt strange in my heart.

Even so, I did not expect an enemy attack at first because I thought it was impossible.

After all, the understanding of aircraft in this era was not high. There was no concept of bombers yet, and the lethality of aircraft was limited.

On the other hand, they didn't believe that there would be enemy planes on Benwan.

In everyone's opinion, the militants on Benwan are just a group of untrained farmers. Do they have airplanes?

What's more, the plane flew over their heads and didn't make any move.

But when Shibagoro's telegram was sent, he realized something was wrong. (To read Baoshuang novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

Only then did they know they had encountered an enemy attack.

Suddenly shouted:"Enemy attack!""Enemy attack!"

Although they shouted desperately, facing the extremely fast passing aircraft, they had no way to do it.

Two artillery brigades, only six Taisho three-year-old guns (three Type 8) heavy machine guns and four or five light machine guns.

There are no anti-aircraft weapons at all.

The Japanese industry could not copy the Maxim machine gun because it copied the French Hotchkiss heavy machine gun.

They could only watch helplessly as the plane hovered in their sky.

The major general of the artillery brigade, Taro Watanabe, angrily took a 38-gauge rifle and fired at the aircraft, but it had no effect.

He could only say helplessly and furiously:"Kill me down."

Hearing this, many Japanese soldiers also hurriedly raised their guns and fired.

Bullets were like raindrops in the air but they couldn't hit.

The plane circled twice to determine the location of the ammunition depot, and then flew directly there accurately.

When Watanabe Teutaro saw the direction of the plane, he immediately understood the other party's intention and shouted anxiously:"Shoot and shoot them quickly. We must shoot them down as soon as possible." As soon as he finished speaking

, he discovered that countless pieces of wood were dropped from the plane. box.

His face turned pale, and a bad feeling came to his mind.

Just a few seconds after the box landed on the ground, suddenly, there was a loud bang.

A burst of fire shot into the sky.

Then there were countless explosions, one after another, deafening.

The explosion also ignited all the artillery shells in the artillery brigade. boom! boom! boom!

A huge explosion, accompanied by flames reaching into the sky, swallowed up everyone in the artillery brigade.

Countless artillerymen shouted in horror:"Run!"

Then, a series of big explosions began.

There was an explosion almost every three seconds, a huge"mushroom cloud" rose into the sky, the fire dyed the entire sky red at 060, and the scene was filled with thick smoke, making the whole scene look like"the end of the world."

The ammunition of the two heavy artillery brigades was all together, and the five or six-ton ​​bombs exploded together. The surrounding area within 3 kilometers was covered by the explosion, and countless shrapnel flew away and claimed countless lives.

Two artillery brigades plus an artillery regiment and an engineering regiment, totaling five to six thousand people, were all too late to escape and were swallowed up by the flames.

There was a loud rumbling sound, and the ground shook.

On the battlefield, all the soldiers who were attacking couldn't help but look back in that direction.

Then, I felt a huge wave of air coming close to the ground, flying towards them at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the sky was filled with dust wherever it passed.

Shibagoro looked at the direction of the artillery brigade behind him, with flames soaring into the sky and thick smoke billowing along with bursts of explosions. His face turned pale.

My heart almost suffocated.

The air waves can be felt even five kilometers away from the artillery, which shows how powerful it is.

There is only one possibility for such a powerful attack, and that is that the ammunition depots of two artillery brigades were bombed.

This is his specialty, strategic troops.

Without the heavy artillery brigade, the Army is a joke.

The firepower cannot suppress the opponent at all.

At this moment, Shibagoro was still in the mood to attack, so he immediately ordered a retreat, even if he died, he would still see his body.

On the Holland City fort, Chu Yunfei and others also saw the flames soaring into the sky, and were immediately surprised.

This shows that the bombing mission is completed..