great-warnovel Chapter 292 Jinzhou Meat Grinder
Chapter 292 Jinzhou Meat Grinder
"BOOM—!!"
With a terrifying, ear-piercing roar, a blinding burst of fire suddenly erupted from beneath the once peaceful black earth!
The German-made S-shaped bounding mine, launched to waist height, exploded with a deafening roar. Three thousand six hundred high-hardness steel balls, mixed with scorching steel fragments, transformed into a horizontally spreading metal storm, instantly severing the Japanese vanguard squad within a ten-meter radius in half!
"ah--!!"
"My eyes! My legs!"
"Enemy attack! Landmines!"
A piercing scream instantly tore through the thick morning fog.
Dozens of Japanese soldiers lay writhing in pools of blood, their limbs and torsos scattered all over the ground.
"Don't panic! It's just a regular landmine! Sappers, sappers, move forward and clear it immediately!"
The infantry company commander behind them brandished his saber and roared with a ferocious expression.
However, before his shout had even faded, the panicked Japanese soldiers, while trying to avoid the blast wave, once again stepped on a hidden tripwire in the grass.
"Click, click, click..."
A series of chilling spring release sounds echoed continuously through the wilderness!
"No! Lie down right now!"
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Dozens of S-shaped bounding mines were launched into the air simultaneously, weaving a deadly net in mid-air.
The dense steel balls swept across like a torrential rain, turning the Japanese soldiers who tried to lie down and take cover into bloody sieves on the spot!
The fog-shrouded plain instantly transformed into a hellish landscape!
"Baka yarou!"
Major General Kawamoto stood on the armored command vehicle, watching the rising flames and agonizing screams ahead. His face was ashen, and he trembled with rage.
"What kind of landmine is that?! Why did it explode in mid-air?!"
The staff officer beside him was sweating profusely and said in a trembling voice:
"Brigade Commander! This should be the latest type of anti-personnel bounding mine from Europe. It appeared on the European battlefield back then, but it wasn't as powerful as this. Our soldiers have no way to defend against it!"
"The forward team has already suffered more than half its casualties!"
"The engineers simply can't get close enough to clear the mines; the density is too high!"
Major General Kawamoto, his eyes bloodshot, roared hysterically:
"Damn it, what exactly did those white pigs from Europe sell to Chen Zijun?!"
"Aren't they afraid of going to the gallows?!"
"Order the tank squadron! Clear the way!"
"Let the Empire's armored chariots crush a path ahead!"
"The Chinese cowardly pave their roads with iron pots; the empire's steel tracks will crush their schemes to dust!"
"Hey!"
Several Type 89 medium tanks and Type 92 heavy armored vehicles from the Japanese Empire roared heavily, spewing black smoke, and swaggered past the chaotic infantry formation, crushing into the depths of the minefield.
In the eyes of the Japanese army, no matter how powerful the anti-personnel bounding mines were, they could not pose any threat to the armor of tanks.
However, they were unaware that within this forbidden zone of death lay 50,000 German-made heavy anti-tank mines that Chen Zijun had personally exchanged!
"boom!"
The tracks of the Type 89 tank at the very front had just rolled over a pile of gravel when a burst of fire erupted from under the entire warship-sized vehicle!
The terrifying shockwave instantly tore through the thin underbody armor of the vehicle, detonating the ammunition boxes inside.
The tank, weighing over ten tons, was blown upside down in mid-air, turning into a huge orange-red fireball that crashed heavily to the ground. The Japanese crew inside didn't even last a second before being carbonized!
"Boom! Boom!"
Two more deafening explosions rang out, and the light armored vehicles attempting to flank them also stepped on landmines one after another. Their tracks were blown off, their bodies overturned, and they let out desperate screams amidst the raging flames.
"What?!"
Major General Kawamoto's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
"Anti-tank mines?! How can the Chinese have such a professional anti-tank mine array?!"
"Commander, retreat! We're completely trapped!"
The staff officer pleaded desperately.
Ahead lay a minefield, and behind them were countless pressure traps. The mixed brigade of over six thousand men was like a piece of meat nailed to an iron plate, unable to move!
On the city wall of Jinzhou.
Chen Zijun stood beside the observation mirror, coldly watching the Japanese troops who were in disarray in the minefield, unable to advance or retreat.
"Young Marshal, all the Japanese tanks are disabled, and the infantry formation has been completely crushed by landmines."
Shen Li looked excited and walked over quickly.
"Our heavy artillery brigade is ready to fire at any time!"
Chen Zijun straightened up, a cruel sneer curling at the corner of his lips, and slowly uttered a single word:
"beat."
"He, Chang the Bald, only said that I wasn't allowed to fire the first shot. You can all testify for me, I really didn't fire!"
"Haha, okay, young marshal, I'll be your witness."
"Order! Heavy artillery brigade, fire!"
"Target: Enemy assembly area! Proceed with a barrage of fire!"
"Three shots per minute, move backward, begin plowing!"
Behind the city wall, on the massive heavy artillery position of the Chen family army, thirty-six German-made 150mm sFH18 heavy howitzers and forty-eight 105mm light howitzers had already raised their dark muzzles.
As the firing commander's red flag was violently lowered!
"BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM—!!"
The earth trembled, and flames shot into the sky!
Dozens of high-explosive shells, each weighing tens of kilograms, trailed deadly arcs in the sky as they slammed into the heads of the Kawamoto Brigade, accompanied by a piercing shriek.
"boom--!!"
The shells landed, instantly tearing open large craters several meters in diameter in the ground.
The power of the 150mm heavy artillery was on full display at this moment. Any life within fifty meters of the explosion's epicenter was instantly torn apart and vaporized by the violent blast wave and the temperature of thousands of degrees!
"Long live the Great Japanese Empire... Ah!"
A sergeant tried to raise his sword and shout, but the next second he and his sword were blown into a cloud of blood mist!
"Xu Jin's barrage! Advance fifty meters backward!"
"Boom boom boom!"
The artillery fire was like a steel plowshare, relentlessly ploughing the earth.
Japanese soldiers cried out for their fathers and mothers, trying to escape, but in their panic, they kept stepping on the remaining bounding mines. Steel rained from the sky, and death lurked on the ground. The more than 6,000 elite soldiers of the Kawamoto Mixed Brigade appeared as weak as ants in the face of this pure industrial firepower massacre!
"Help!"
"I miss Mama-san..."
"I miss the cherry blossoms and sake of my homeland!"
"Baka... This isn't the Chinese army!"
"This isn't it, this absolutely isn't it!"
Major General Kawamoto's command vehicle was hit directly by a 150mm high-explosive shell during the third salvo. The entire armored command vehicle was instantly torn to pieces, and this arrogant Japanese major general was reduced to a wronged soul in the wilderness outside Jinzhou City!
For a full half hour, the artillery fire never stopped.
As the smoke from the battle around Jinzhou gradually dissipated, the once lush grasslands and railway embankments had completely disappeared, replaced by a scorched, pitted battlefield.
More than 6,000 elite Kwantung Army soldiers were completely wiped out, with no one surviving!