This is the battlefield that Li Shoushan and the Japanese major saw near noon!
On the three hills 800 meters away, facing their direction, there was nothing left but criss-crossing trenches.
No one could be seen in the field of view of the telescope, but both of them knew that once they approached the shooting range, there would be countless blazing bullets flying towards them.
This is no longer something their nearly half-disabled infantry brigade and infantry brigade can solve.
While on the march, Kunizaki was stunned when he received a telegram asking for help from eight kilometers away.
"Baga! A bunch of idiots!" Kunizaki, who was riding a green horse, threw away the message in his hand angrily, picked up the telescope hanging around his neck, and looked at the captured Jiepai Village position hundreds of meters away.
The craters were densely covered, and the loess blown up by aircraft bombs could be seen everywhere, and blood that had dried to brown was sprinkled on it, fully demonstrating the brutality of this battle to the Japanese major general.
But so what? Li Shoushan had 5,000 troops, more than 20 cannons, and bomber formations dispatched by the navy to provide fire support, but he still could not annihilate a "beggar" army from the mountains.
Intelligence showed that the Chinese army blocking the path of his army came from Sichuan Province. It was a group of troops that the Chinese themselves called the "Beggars" Army.
In this way, they not only blocked the first brigade of the Jingan Army here for two days, but also re-established a blocking position on the important highway in the rear.
Why is Li Shoushan not a fool?
He slowly put down the telescope hanging around his neck and ordered in a cold voice: "Order Li Shoushan and Takahashi Nohito not to act rashly for the time being. Send out reconnaissance troops to survey the battlefield environment and wait for the arrival of the main force of our detachment.
At the same time, I am requesting naval support from the headquarters to carry out indiscriminate bombing of enemy positions before our troops arrive. Based on yesterday's experience, I request the navy to improve the accuracy of bombing.
In addition, I send a telegram to Lieutenant General Niu Dao of the 18th Division that our detachment has captured the enemy's Guangde County and will continue to advance westward tomorrow. Please urge him to urge the baggage supply team to speed up and join our detachment!"
After saying that, he clamped his legs on the horse's belly and shouted in a low voice: "All troops, speed up the march!"
On the simple road, a long yellow queue of more than 7,000 people sped up its 'squirming' speed...
"You are so arrogant!" Ushijima Sadao, who was dozens of kilometers away, blushed so hard that he almost lost his breath and vomited blood.
Kunisaki was stunned by the message. The title was quite polite, and he called him Lieutenant General, but the content was just that he was regarded as the captain of the baggage brigade.
But Ushijima Sada was full of energy, but there was nothing he could do.
The Kunisaki detachment is not the same as the unlucky kid from the 36th Infantry Brigade. The 36th Infantry Brigade is affiliated to the 6th Division and is considered the backbone of the Tenth Army. The dead ghost Hisao Tani is gone again. Even if he is a nominal commander,
, they also have to obey orders.
But the Kunisaki detachment is different. They were transferred from the Fifth Division by the North China Expeditionary Army Headquarters, and they have the support of Seishiro Itagaki. That person's influence in the army is not Ushijima Sadao.
This kind of scumbag-level army lieutenant general who was reactivated because of the war can't compare.
Ushijima Sadao failed to score against the arrogant Kunizaki, but that didn't mean that the Navy was afraid of him.
The Japanese are all very rigid. Although they knew that the words of their Major General were quite inappropriate, the Signal Corps still sent Kunizaki's original words to the Tenth Army Headquarters verbatim.
Such requests for forward generals who need support basically do not need to be approved by Yanagawa Heisuke, and are basically forwarded to the headquarters staff.
Naturally, the Third Fleet Staff received this letter which was full of ridicule from the senior army generals.
"Army Malu is a typical example of someone who eats someone else's peach and still dislikes it!" The naval officers of the Third Fleet Staff Headquarters collectively had a close encounter with Kunizaki's eighteenth-generation female relatives.
However, due to military orders, fighters had to be mobilized.
For the sake of the future of the empire, the General of the Central China Expeditionary Force personally went on board the ship and negotiated with the senior navy generals, requesting the navy to fully support the army in conquering the Chinese capital, and also sent a one million yen allowance and more than 100 yuan.
A woman.
Seeing that an army general almost "knelt down", the navy's top brass decided to maintain a high profile and not be acquainted with these mainlanders for the time being. They gave up their prejudices and worked hard to fight for a better tomorrow for the empire.
Since the top management has made the decision, it is not something that a group of assistant-level staff officers can refuse.
This military plane is going to be dispatched, but the number of dispatches is in the hands of these staff officers.
"The oil supply is extremely tight. The current oil storage is not enough to support the dispatch of a flying squadron. Then, dispatch a flying squad! The army and the mainland should be grateful to the great Imperial Navy." The colonel staff officer in charge of combat duty said lightly.
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"Oh! By the way, by the way, tell the pilots about the Army Mali's request for them to improve their bombing accuracy! I think they know what to do."
Four 96 bombers, under the personal leadership of Captain Nagano Toun, took off from the deck of the aircraft carrier in a menacing manner.
Nagano Toyun was very angry.
What made him angry was not that he failed to destroy the Chinese positions twice in a row, but that he was laughed at by the clowns from Malu Army.
As a result, the most bizarre scene in the history of world war happened.
The huge roar of four fighter planes in the sky alerted the 'Hammer' hiding in the tunnel in the mountain several kilometers away.
The red signal flares fired in the direction of the headquarters caused the soldiers in the three highland trenches to evacuate to the tunnels behind the mountain through the traffic trenches with their guns in hand. Only four or five observation posts were left behind to hide in machine gun bunkers made of hardwood and sandbags to look down the mountain.
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This caused most Chinese soldiers to miss a scene that stunned them.
The Japanese fighter planes circled two or three times at high altitude over the battlefield to determine the target they were about to bomb, but they did not lower their altitude to about 1,000 meters and start dropping bombs as usual.
Instead, two fighter planes were cruising at high altitude, and two fighter planes jumped into low altitude and performed a dive.
Of course, this is also a normal tactic.
The mountains in central Anhui are far less high than those in the south, with altitudes ranging from a few hundred meters to more than 100 meters.
For example, the altitude of Highland 1 is over 300 meters, but Highlands 2 and 3 are much gentler, only half as high as Highland 1.
The Japanese aircraft used the tactical action of diving to straf the position easily with the airborne machine gun installed under its nose. Its diving speed was as high as 330 kilometers per hour, and the land-type heavy machine gun had a firing rate of 500 rounds per minute.
There is no way to catch up.
Therefore, when the altitude of the Japanese aircraft dropped to about 400 meters, and the observation post hiding in the bunker could almost feel the roar of the Japanese aircraft and the airflow passing by, the Japanese aircraft's machine gun opened fire.
Four earth dragons formed by the burst of fiery bullets were visible to the naked eye and stretched on the ground.
The exclamations that erupted on the battlefield were clearly visible.
However, the expressions on the Chinese observation post, apart from being dull, showed no fear of being fired upon by machine guns.
The reason is very simple. The Japanese fighter planes were shooting wildly not at the top of the mountain.
Instead, the Japanese position was still being excavated in full swing 600 meters away.
"Is this a camouflaged Chinese fighter plane? Or has our airport been captured? Or is the pilot crazy?" Li Shoushan and the Japanese major looked at each other in confusion while standing in the trench observing the battlefield with a telescope.
But these doubts did not prevent these two professional soldiers from throwing themselves into the trenches regardless of etiquette, and were as disgraced as the other soldiers on the battlefield.
This accidental bombing operation has happened in various Western countries.
But obviously, the Japanese army and mainland troops underestimated their compatriots in the navy.
Seeing the panic on the ground, the two Japanese pilots in the flight cabin had satisfied smiles on their faces.
The four earth dragons disappeared into thin air more than 20 meters away from the Japanese army trenches.
"Army troops, how is the precision control of the glorious Imperial Navy?" Nagano Mizun's voice sounded on the radio station.
What answered him was laughter!
The two triumphant fighter planes showed off their control accuracy to a bunch of army buffoons, but they forgot that this was a battlefield.
The scar is healed and the pain is forgotten, which is the truest portrayal of stupidity. Provide you with the fastest updates and free reading.:.
