Chapter 46: Scorched Earth

The incendiary bombs that burst in the airport were not just as simple as burning a few Japanese soldiers, a full four 300-kilogram incendiary bombs flooded the entire airport, the fire engulfed everything in the airport, not to mention, the high temperature flames also caused the ammunition hoarded by the Japanese army in the airport to be killed, and the bullets and shrapnel that were fired out in the flames made the Japanese engineers who had run out of the airport complain again and again.

Screaming and rolling were the only things that the Japanese soldiers who didn't have time to run away could do, and the flames of up to 1,500 degrees Celsius were difficult to extinguish as long as they touched their bodies, and the incendiary bombs not only contained napalm, but also a large amount of chemicals. Maggots-like flames of tarsal bones are extinguished only after they have burned all the combustible materials they come into contact with, and they can even burn the soil if conditions permit. Takahashi, who was engulfed in flames, was like the other soldiers on fire, screaming and screaming on the ground with flames all over his body, but no matter how they rolled and moved on the ground, they couldn't extinguish the flames on their bodies, even if they poured water on them.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, ten thousand years" Takahashi Ken really couldn't hold it anymore, and took out the southern pistol from the burning cowhide holster and shot himself in the head. There are not a few guys in the airport who commit suicide by swallowing guns like Takahashi Ken, it can't be said that their will is not firm, it is really that they can't stand the unquenchable flames on their bodies, rather than waiting to be burned alive, it is better to simply die early and save their lives early. But they were all wrong, the flames that burned on them did not spare them because of their suicide, corpse oil and fat were also the medium of burning, and all the corpses were burned to black coal, and the flames would end their invasion of them.

"Obediently, this thing is so powerful, our husband is ruthless enough" A shrub more than 400 meters away from the airport shook slightly, and the two people with grass circles on their heads glanced at each other, and the horror in each other's eyes was clear. Tang Lei and the others were originally left in the small mountain village to recuperate and stand by according to Zhao Zhi's order, but an order suddenly came in the middle of the night last year, asking Tang Lei to arrange someone to monitor the movement of the airport, saying that the flight team was going to test the new bomb here today, and asked them to observe the power of the bomb on the spot, so that they could report to Zhao Zhi after they returned.

Tang Lei brought the dead and wounded of the people in Yuncheng, and the only ones who were intact were the old bark and a scout named Haizi under his command, so this important surveillance task was handed over to the two of them to complete. The old bark and Haizi who set off at night traveled all the way, and finally arrived at the airport before dawn and found a suitable place to lurk. At first, the artillery and ordinary bomb attacks of the flying team made the old bark almost doze off, and he really couldn't figure out what his husband had arranged for his family to come here to see, and this level of attack would have no effect on the Japanese airfield at all, and the Japanese engineering troops would be able to restore the airfield to its original state in just a few days.

It wasn't until the moment when the incendiary bomb exploded at the airport that the bored old bark understood the intention of his husband, looking at the flames that exploded in the airport, the old bark only felt a chill in his back, if such an object was used by the Japanese army to deal with his own brothers, he really didn't know how many of his brothers would survive. "Brother Shu, it seems that there are more than a dozen guys who have slipped through the net, should we kill them" Haizi spoke with a general urn voice, this time they came out, they brought Liang Zi and their sniper rifles, and it was easy to deal with a dozen Japanese soldiers.

Old Bark looked in the direction pointed by Haizi, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who had escaped from the airport in a hurry were sitting on a wasteland outside the airport, a fierce light flashed in the eyes of Old Bark, and then shook his head gently, "No, Mr. wants us to observe this new bomb, it's just some small minions, ignore them first, watch the movement in the airport attentively, and wait for the fire to go out, let's find a way to go in and have a look."

As the minutes and seconds passed, the flames that swept the entire airport like a cloud of fire gradually extinguished, and the fighters that dropped this powerful incendiary bomb had already left, and the originally noisy airport was dead silent, and more than a dozen Japanese engineers who fled quickly stood in the open space outside the airport and looked at the airport that was already charred and black. The companions who had been talking and laughing with them half an hour ago were now lumps of black charcoal, and it was difficult to find a living creature in the entire airport, and even the runway they had worked so hard to restore had burned a wide crack.

"Oshima, what are we going to do?" Sanshui Juyong, whose legs trembled vigorously, couldn't control the fear in his heart, and asked in a low voice to Oshima Miji, who was sitting next to him, only a dozen of them were engineers who survived the escape from the airport. Mitsumi Kikuyong and Oshima Miji are fellow villagers, and they are also the engineering troops who joined the army in the same year, if it weren't for Oshima saying that he had diarrhea just now, he would have to wait for him for a while, maybe he would have become a lump of black charcoal in the airport.

Oshima Miji shook his head, and said in a hoarse voice, "I don't know, why don't we go to Yuncheng, maybe we can meet reinforcements halfway, the explosion just now was so loud, I don't think Yuncheng won't know" Oshima Miji, who was also weak in legs, and Sanshui Juyong stood up with each other's arms, beckoning those companions who were still stupidly looking at the airport to walk in the direction of Yuncheng. Everything in the airport was burned to rubble, and the guns that fell to the ground were burned to the iron, and the only thing they could defend themselves against now was a bayonet per person.

"Bang" a gunshot, Sanshui Juyong, who was leaning on Oshima Miji's shoulder, fell to the ground, and Sanshui, who lost control after being shot, also brought Oshima Miji to the ground, "bang" was another gunshot, and Oshima Miji, who fell to the ground, didn't even have a chance to scream, and his head exploded like a rotten watermelon. "Enemy attack, enemy attack" Mitsumi Kikuyong and Oshima Miji were shot, causing the engineers who were still gathered together to scream and scatter in panic, and fled in a panic towards the place where they thought it was safe.

The slightly dull gunshots rang out non-stop, and the bullets flying through the wilderness knocked down the Japanese soldiers who were desperately running one after another, and these Japanese engineers who only carried bayonets could only run desperately, hoping that they could escape the bullets fired by the attackers. "Come out, you cowards, come out" Finally, one of the remaining Japanese engineers stopped with his bayonet in his hand, screaming at the surrounding wasteland, and his companions were killed by the attackers one by one, which had already made this young guy on the verge of collapse, and he made a crazy move knowing that he had no hope of survival.

"Since you don't want to live, then I'll fulfill you" The old bark lying on the ground covered the Japanese soldier with a sniper scope, and his index finger was gently buckled, "bang" The old bark's shoulder fell back, and the head aimed at in the sniper scope had become a rotten watermelon. Picking up the bullet casings around them and putting them in their pockets, Old Bark and Haizi carefully observed the area around the airport with sniper scopes, they wanted to make sure that this group of Japanese soldiers was the only one who had escaped, and that they would not show themselves from their hiding place until they were sure that they were safe.

There was no sound, no living creatures, the deathly silence of Yuncheng Airport, the bushes moved and were gently removed, and two people came out of the dirt holes under the bushes. "Let's go, go over and have a look" The old bark artist was bold, and he moved quickly towards the airport with Haizi. After looking at it several times, they made sure that there were no living Japanese soldiers in or around the airport, and then they got out of the hole where they were hiding. "You stay, I'll go over and take a look" Ignoring Haizi's obstruction, the old bark took off the extra things on his body, and only lay on the ground with his own gun, like a real mouse, clinging to the ground and running to a place less than 100 meters away from the airport barbed wire.

It was too miserable, the tragic situation in the airport had already exceeded the old bark's expectations, although he had predicted the fate of the Japanese troops in the airport in the earthen cave just now, but he was still stunned by what he saw with his own eyes. The airfield was littered with the corpses of Japanese soldiers huddled together like black charcoal, and guns, trucks, and buildings were burned clean with everything that could be used to burn. The old bark picked up a piece of iron on the ground that was still a little hot and threw it at a lump of black charcoal, "click" the black charcoal actually cracked, cracked into several pieces, there was no rancid smell and bloody smell expected by the old bark, the high temperature flame had completely carbonized these corpses.

A whirling wind blew, and the old bark watched as the cracked pile of black charcoal was blown away into ashes, leaving no trace of a corpse on the ground except for a few pieces of iron that looked like parts of a firearm. As far as the eye can see, the airport is full of such black charcoal, and the old bark is bold, but the scene in front of him still makes him feel a little palpitating. When the flight team launched an attack on the airport, it was lunchtime, and hundreds of lively Japanese puppet soldiers were all in the airport, but the four big guys were all reimbursed, and they all became such black charcoal.

"Let's go, let's go back" The pale-faced old bark searched around the airport, and then hurried back, and when he passed Haizi, he just stretched out his hand and patted him, and he didn't mean to stop at all. On the way back to the small mountain village, no matter how Haizi asked, the old bark just shook his head and said nothing. In the distance just now, Haizi didn't see the airport very clearly in the sniper scope, so he didn't know what the black charcoal in the airport was.

Haizi's question was not answered until a few years later, at a gathering of the old guys who survived the scout detachment, the old bark who had not eaten barbecue for most of his life told the truth, which made Haizi who was present vomit for a while when they looked at the barbecue meat in their hands, and ordered and scolded the old bark for being too bad.