Although in the past bombings, the Japanese army has been continuously replenishing the losses on the front line from the rear, the fortification lines on the coast cannot be repaired and reinforced in a short time. However, the bombs of the National Defense Air Force are continuously produced from inland production lines and even local arsenals in Fuzhou.

After several days of bombing, although the number of Japanese soldiers on the coastal defense line was still the same as when war started, the fortifications and defense lines they relied on were almost damaged.

Without these things, the Japanese army's resistance was much weakened.

It was in this situation that Wang Yaowu decisively joined the flamethrower using flamethrowers.

Flamethrower is a weapon with extremely high lethality. Even in this era, the range of flamethrower still reaches dozens of meters, and is definitely not even less than ten meters like in the movie.

And the level of dozens of meters is already higher than the average effective kill range.

Even the effective range of ordinary rifles is only 200 to 300 meters...

Using fire-breathing soldiers does not mean that Wang Yaowu likes this army, after all, this army is too dangerous. If the fuel they carry is exploded, there will definitely be endless troubles. If nothing else, just the circle of people around him will probably be burned to death inhumanely.

Of course, the military experts responsible for researching this weapon have guaranteed that this weapon is still very safe, at least it will not explode if it is hit by a single shot, or even unless it is a weapon such as incendiary bomb. Otherwise, it will be impossible for an explosion to occur...

In fact, this is proven both in actual combat and during testing.

Otherwise, if this weapon is really so dangerous, no matter how powerful it is, the National Defense Forces will not be equipped. After all, this is not just a double-edged sword. If it is not done well, it is likely that more people will be killed by such things than enemies.

However, despite this, there are still very few people in the National Defense Forces who like this kind of weapon. After all, it does not mean that it will not explode, and no one wants to be too close to this kind of thing. Therefore, although the fire spits in the National Defense Forces have a relatively large salary, there are not many friends in the military.

In addition, the operation is still such a high-risk weapon————Although the level of danger may not be as good as a rifle that will explode, there will be some perverts in the fire spitting army, and the conditions for the explosion are not absolute.

Paratrooper Robert Fret Lore.

Fourth Parachute Corps, 15th Engineer Company; 1944, Italy, Mount Casino

"As engineers, we have received training in the use of the Four-One Flamethrower with gunpowder tubes. But am I willing to use this equipment even if I had to? No! Thank you. The reason for rejection is simple. On the battlefield, you are hit by a ****, a rifle or even a machine gun, which is nothing more than leaving a hole on your body. But if you are unfortunately carrying a flamethrower, any small shrapnel can burn you into a fireball. When enemy soldiers hear the sound of your flamethrower, all bullets will fall around you. No soldier is willing to be burned to death. All experienced soldiers will give priority to using their bullets to 'care' the guy who is trying to burn them with flamethrowers!"

It should be noted that the most psychologists in the entire army are fire spitting soldiers, mine clearance soldiers and other types of troops...

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The development of flamethrowers began during World War I. At that time, due to the cruelty of trench warfare, a new type of weapon was completely needed, such as grenades, mortars, tanks and other weapons specifically targeting trench warfare. Of course, the same is true for shotguns and grenade launchers.

And a powerful weapon like a flamethrower is naturally also in research and development projects.

In fact, there was no dispute over this cruel weapon during World War I. After all, the Allies and the Allies were throwing poison gas bombs on the Western Front battlefield at that time, and even poison gas bombs were used, so naturally there would be no objection to the flamethrower.

The history of flamethrowers was far earlier than muskets and artillery. As early as the seventh century AD, the Byzantines used a liquid burner called "Greek Fire" in a naval battle with the Arabs. This burner was usually enclosed in a wooden barrel and was sprayed from a throat through a pipe when used. The liquid burner of "Greek Fire" was specially formulated and ignited spontaneously when it encountered air.

The inventor of the flamethrower in the modern sense is recognized as the German Richard Federer. In 1901, he built a flamethrower sample for German army evaluation. Federer's device has basically all the characteristics of a modern flamethrower. The device is carried by manpower and is equipped with a cylindrical container with a circumference of 1.2 meters. The interior of the container is divided into two parts horizontally. The lower half is a compressed air bottle and the upper half is a combustion agent bottle.

When the shooter pressed down the throttle handle on the fuel barrel, the compressed air sprayed the liquid combustion agent from the steel launch tube mouth through a rubber tube. The launch tube mouth has a simple ignition device. After the liquid combustion agent is ignited, a mushroom-shaped fireball is formed to spray towards the target. The range of this equipment is 18 meters and can be sprayed for two minutes. However, the ignition signal tube is used once and must be replaced with a new one for each launch. It was not until 1911 that the German army formed a special regiment with 12 companies and equipped the first flamethrower in modern history. However, it was not until 4 years later that the flamethrower showed its terrifying power on the battlefield.

In February 1915, the French were the first to taste the flames of the Germans in Verdun. Two months later, on July 30, 1915, the British also tasted the smell of hellfire mixed with gasoline, rubber and sulfur in the trenches of Hooge in the Flander region. During the two days of battle, the British army lost 31 officers and 751 soldiers. After the Hooge battle, the huge close lethality of the flamethrower was also written into the combat report for the first time.

The British and French, who suffered, also began to develop their own flamethrowers, which was more realistic. Their designs were basically imitated by the Germans and put into use in 19171918. The British were too whimsical, and the flamethrowers they built were giants weighing 2 tons. In the Somme region, the British deployed four monsters, fixedly installed in a fortification 55 meters away from the front of the German army, and ahead of them was the unmanned land where both sides confronted each other. These four large flamethrowers were specially used for the Somme Battle, with a range of 80 meters, and were used to clear the first line of defense of the German army before the infantry charge. However, after the Somme Battle started on July 1, 1917, the German counterattack artillery fire destroyed two of the four flamethrowers, and the other two lost their function after taking over the first line of defense of the German army.

After Hogg's success, the German army attached more importance to the role of flamethrowers. They organized the flamethrowers into a group of six people, each with three flamethrowers. The scattered configuration was on the entire front, and the main task was to clear the front line of the Agreement Team when the German army launched an offensive. In 1917, the German army improved the equipped flamethrowers to reduce the weight. They used a multiple-ignition signal tube, which greatly increased the maneuverability and firing frequency of the flamethrowers. Despite this, due to the British and French coalition forces, the

The German flamethrowers were already alert. When the German flamethrower soldier fired, the British and French coalition forces concentrated their firepower to shoot at them. Once the German flamethrower soldier was captured, they were shot and shot immediately. In addition, this weapon could not provide continuous firepower at long distances and wide fronts, and this excellent trench warfare weapon no longer played a decisive role as in the Battle of Hogg. During the entire World War, the German army carried out more than 650 flamethrower attacks. The similar offensives of the British and French coalitions were almost zero.

Indeed, the casualties caused by the flamethrower to both sides in this war are far less than those of machine guns and heavy artillery. But in the almost hand-to-hand trench war, the German flamethrower undoubtedly brought great psychological shock to the Allied soldiers who were trembling in the mud and water.

During World War I, or when the First World War was about to end, the National Socialist Government began to study flamethrowers that had begun to show their appearance on the battlefield. Therefore, in the morale of the First World War, there were no Chinese spitfire soldiers on both the Asian battlefield and the European battlefield.

After the end of World War I, although there was constant conflict between China and Russia at that time, because it was a relatively peaceful period, the National Defense Forces were not equipped with flamethrowers. However, after understanding the power of this weapon, the military has been studying this weapon.

It was not until 1935 that the National Defense Forces began to formally equip the first flamethrower.

That is, the 35 flamethrower, which is different from the bulky during World War I. The 35 flamethrower is a single-soldier flamethrower. Due to the design of the World War I experience, the total weight is "only" 38 kilograms. The storage tank is mixed with 11.8 liters of No. 19 combustion agent and compressed nitrogen, and the injection distance is 25 to 30 meters. The 35 flamethrower can inject all oil storage at one time, or can perform fifteen short-point injections. When the short-point injections are short-term, the fuel agent flow limiting valve and the ignition signal tube in the liner are opened and closed at the same time to control the injection amount of the fuel agent. The production of the 35 flamethrower continued until 1941.

After equipping the 35 flamethrower, the National Defense Forces have been improving and researching this weapon. Of course, the focus is on range, safety and weight. After all, 38 kilograms plus a piece of equipment, there is no difference between a fire spit and a woman fighting on her back.

So this weapon continues to develop until the current Forty-two.

The weight of the Forty-two flamethrower is only 18 kilograms. Of course, this is the case without fuel. If you load the fuel, you can reduce the weight to 30 kilograms, and the range reaches 40 meters, which is a great advantage compared to the Forty-two Five.

The main equipment of the National Defense Forces is the current Forty-two flamethrower.

I don’t know if it is because of the strong production capacity of the National Social Security government, or if it is too small, the number of flamethrowers is too small. In less than half a year after the war started, all the firewhistles have been replaced with the Forty-two flamethrowers. As for the original Thirty-five, they all support Russia or other allies...

On the other hand, flamethrowers also contributed greatly to the use of diesel as fuel for the Wehrmacht tanks.

As a melee weapon, the use of flamethrowers is not essentially different from that of World War I on the battlefield of World War II. It is mainly used to attack buildings, bunkers and fortifications and to clear away the remaining enemies.

However, in World War II in history, the flamethrowers of German infantry were often used as close-range anti-armor weapons. The flames ejected by the flamethrowers could not burn through the armor of most tanks, especially the later Soviet tanks. However, the flowing flame jets emitted by the flamethrowers could flow from some openings on the surface of the armored targets. For example, the top cover of the tank engine compartment flowed into the vehicle body, igniting its fuel or ammunition, thereby disable or completely destroying the armored targets. The combat reports of the troops showed that the flamethrowers had obvious destruction effects on vehicles using gasoline engines and US m4 tanks, but had limited destruction effects on Soviet tanks using diesel engines.

The early defense army also equipped gasoline engine tanks, but after discovering this obvious disadvantage, all the tanks in the later stage were replaced with diesel engines. For example, 15 modifications, zt40, zt41, etc.

In addition, most of the flamethrowers of the National Defense Forces can be carried by individual soldiers, but a fire spitting group is still composed of two to three soldiers, one of which is the fire spittinger and the other two are the observers. The fire spittinger is only equipped with self-defense **** except the flame spittinger. The observer is generally equipped with a submachine gun to provide cover for the fire spittinger.

There is no way. After all, no matter how priority the opponent is, the Fire Spitfire is definitely the Fire Spitfire. Without the cover of the observer and other comrades, the Fire Spitfire might have become a plug as soon as it appeared.

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I have to say that just like machine guns and incendiary bombs, flamethrowers are also a cruel killing machine, especially in terms of cruelty, which is second only to machine guns, probably after incendiary bombs and chemical weapons.

Under the cover of the observer, the fire spearmen rushed to the entrance of fortifications, bunkers and other facilities, and sprayed flames at the entrance. The flames pouring in from the entrance turned the Japanese soldiers inside into firemen one by one, and watched this scene of the fire spearmen laughing happily.

This kind of laughter made the soldiers around the National Defense Army feel a little chilled.

Although as a soldier, they have some awareness when they set foot on the battlefield, being enlightened does not mean they like to be burned to death. In fact, this is another reason why they don’t like fire spitting soldiers.

The Fire Spitfire didn't care much about the strange gaze of his comrades. After all, they often had such gazes in the army, and they became accustomed to them over time.

After burning all the enemies in the fortification into firemen, the fire spearmen also turned their target to the next fortification.

Flamethrowers are not only the only way to burn the enemy who resists in the fortifications into firemen. In the Pacific War, every time the US military landed on the island, facing countless Japanese bunkers and tunnel fortifications hidden in the complex environment of the tropical rainforest, they had to pay a heavy price to conquer. Due to the complex terrain, naval naval guns are often unable to support them. There are almost no heavy artillery when landing, light artillery is difficult to collapse fortifications, and bullets are difficult to hit the Japanese army in the fortifications. Therefore, flamethrowers that can rely on high temperature to kill strong bunkers, fortifications, caves or trenches, and flamethrowers that can also be used to ignite enemy flammable weapons, equipment and materials have become an important force for the US military to attack.

By burning the Japanese army in the fortification at high temperature and burning violently, the oxygen in the narrow fortification can be consumed in a short time to suffocate them, which can quickly lose resistance to the enemy in the target fortification, thereby conquering the Japanese position at a very small cost.

In fact, this is also one of the reasons why Wang Yaowu would make the Fire Spitfire appear.

Basically, as long as the flamethrower is aimed at the outlet, there are only three choices left in the Japanese soldiers inside, either running out to fight for their lives, or waiting to be burned to the fire, and one is killed by suffocation. Of course, suffocation may not necessarily be killed, but even if they are not dead, it is probably almost the same. After all, when they suffocate, they lose their resistance.

After the fire spearmen completed routine work on a concrete fortification, the fire spearmen advanced towards another target under the cover of the observer, while the soldiers who were originally far away from them rushed into the fortification from the entrance. If the enemy inside died, it would be nothing, but if there was still resistance, their mission was to add a shot or capture these enemies...

After the flamethrowers were put into the battlefield, due to the huge power of the flamethrowers, the Japanese army that had already resisted in fortifications and bunkers under the bombing were soon disintegrated.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the National Defense Force occupied the defense line that originally belonged to the Japanese army, and helped the engineers sent by Wang Yaowu to re-enforce and repair the fortifications, preparing to welcome the Japanese counterattack. Until now, the Air Force is still bombing and blocking the Japanese army coming to support, delaying the Japanese support speed, otherwise the defense line would not have fallen so easily.

After taking down the defense line, the National Defense Forces' mission is to defend the defense line and wait for more reinforcements to arrive and arrive.

However, no matter what, since a landing site has been acquired along the coast, Taiwan is equivalent to falling into the hands of the National Defense Forces. After all, for the Japanese army on Taiwan Island, the gap between the two sides is too big.

On the other hand, after learning about this result, Tojo Hideki ordered the Japanese troops stationed in Taiwan to regain the defense line, he was also mentally prepared to lose Taiwan.

At the same time, Hideki Tojo also understands that losing Taiwan is equivalent to opening a door for China. Next, the Chinese Navy can break through the blockade formed by Taiwan, Ryukyu and other places, and directly pose a threat to the Philippines and other places...

"Next, will it all depend on the navy..."

Standing in the office, looking at the sun flag behind him, Hideki Tojo murmured. To be continued...

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