Seeing that nine Japanese planes actually chose to enter the battlefield from the south, Cheng Tieshou's eyes almost fell out of his head.
He thought about many scenarios. He thought about the Japanese opportunity being concerned about ground firepower and leaving after dropping the bomb. Hello, me, hello, everyone. He also thought about the Japanese opportunity entering the battlefield from the north. The terrifying airborne 7.7mm machine gun would be used by three infantry battalions.
He left a scene of tragedy on his position; but he did not expect that the Japanese army would enter the battlefield from within the fire area of his 2nd artillery battery.
Did this little devil have his forehead squeezed?
The shooters of the 2nd Artillery Battery looked at the Japanese fighter planes that jumped down from high altitudes, and while holding on to the handles of their guns and taking aim, it was difficult not to make comments like this.
Of course, this is from the perspective of the shooters of the 2nd Artillery Company. In fact, from a real battlefield perspective, Captain Ono entered the battlefield from the south. He could not only observe the effect of the 'artillery position' that had just been bombed more closely, but also pass enough
The distance allows the fighter planes to attack the Chinese army on the main battlefield at a suitable height, which can give the greatest help to the Japanese infantry on the main battlefield. There is nothing wrong with this choice.
The reason why he made such a choice was because when they just bombed important targets such as the 'artillery position', the Chinese army did not counterattack at all, which made him conclude that the Chinese army actually did not have much ground-to-air firepower.
Just like most of the Chinese troops they encountered.
Because no one would give up their artillery so easily, not even the Imperial Army.
Almost all successful soldiers in the world have one characteristic, which is to be extremely sure of their own judgment and to execute it resolutely.
Therefore, successful people are in the minority!
Captain Ono's determination was not wrong, but the mistake was that he took Lieutenant Zuo Zuomu with him, who was full of unlucky attributes, even though the guy had already accepted the order and returned home happily.
Captain Ono is the commander, so he is in the second group and is the central commanding type.
The first group of fighters entered the battlefield about 1,000 meters ahead of his 96 fighter. Just when his fighters dived down to 600 meters before reaching his prescribed altitude of 400 to 500 meters, the sparks shining on the ground stung the windshield.
Eyes behind glasses.
"Free fire, all machine guns, give me a shot!" Cheng Tietshou's order before stepping on the machine gun pedal was simple and rude.
At this time, a DER tactic was used. The Japanese plane swooped down, and the pilot's hand was on the machine gun trigger. The straight-line distance between the two sides did not exceed 800 meters.
The ground and the air are like two teams of cavalry competing in ancient times. There is nothing fancy about it. They pick up their lances and compete!
Whoever pierces the opponent's body with the gun first wins!
The Suluotong machine gun emptied the bullet plates of ten bullets in one go. The ammunition soldier on the side quickly inserted the prepared bullet plates again. Then, Cheng Tietshou stepped on the pedal again.
The 20mm machine gun manufactured in Sweden trembled violently and fired shells as thick as cigars into the air, drawing terrifying trajectories in the sky.
This kind of projectile endowed with strong kinetic energy may not be comparable to 'grenades' that can carry out explosive damage such as infantry guns and mountain guns, but if it is shot into the human body, it will basically end up falling apart. Even a 10 mm steel plate can
Pierced with one blow.
As for the fragile skin of the 96 fighter, the warhead can easily tear a hole the size of an adult's fist. All ten shells without a bullet hit it. Just one or two rounds, and the 96 fighter will be happy.
The key is that there are two such machine guns in the 2nd gun company, and in order to increase the firepower intensity, the two machine guns are only 30 meters apart, and an MG34 with a fire rate of up to 1,000 rounds per minute is added in the middle.
This thing that the Germans came up with is simply incomprehensible in this era. It has a rate of fire that is twice that of an ordinary heavy machine gun. It is almost similar to the Phalanx machine gun of the future. It only takes ten seconds to eject 150 projectiles.
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Facing the sudden explosion of bright bombs, the three leading Japanese planes were absolutely stunned at that moment.
Why do they say the Chinese don’t have surface-to-air firepower? What is this?
However, the three Japanese pilots were well-trained. Even in a dazed state, they still instinctively aimed at the area in front of them where the bullets were blooming, pulled the trigger of the machine gun, and then slammed the rudder.
Without any discussion, the three Japanese planes, which were no more than 50 meters apart, all turned right in unison. This level of tacit understanding was astonishing and could not be developed in a day or two. The cooperation was so skillful.
Three tongues of flames plowed a trace visible to the naked eye on the ground, which was seventy or eighty meters long. Several bullets even hit the steel shield of the machine gun where Cheng Tietsou was, making a clanging sound.
However, the power of the 7.7mm machine gun mounted on the nose of the 96 fighter plane is no problem for hitting infantry, but it is much less powerful against slightly stronger fortifications.
Cheng Tieshou's expression remained unchanged, and he still aimed at the Japanese aircraft, which was skilled in dodging ballistics, and shot his second bullet into the air.
The two Sulotong machine guns are the most powerful anti-aircraft equipment of the 2nd Artillery Company, but they are also the shortcomings of the 2nd Artillery Company. After being supplemented by the secret arsenal of the Xuzhou Northeastern Army, other types of ammunition are extremely sufficient for the four-row regiment.
The Tusu Luotong 20mm machine gun still fires one round less.
The reason why Cheng Tieshou personally took on the role of shooter again was not to show off as a hero, but because he was worried that his subordinates would empty out the last inventory in one go.
After all, the Four Lines Regiment is still hundreds of kilometers away from its destination. There may be a need for air defense operations on the way. Without these two machine guns, the anti-aircraft range of the Maxim heavy machine gun with a modified gun mount can be
It's very limited.
The Iron Tou Company Commander, who is famous in all four groups, is naturally extraordinary.
From the time the Japanese troops entered a low altitude of 1,000 meters away to the time when the Japanese machine gun bullets hit the steel shield, it actually only took 10 seconds. However, Cheng Tietsou fired 20 bullets, and at least two of them hit the Japanese plane.
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A Japanese plane that veered crazily to the right was emitting thick white smoke and its speed dropped sharply. It should be that the plane's engine was hit and malfunctioned!
Fortunately, although the performance of aircraft of this period is far inferior to that of future jet aircraft, the simpler the structure, the more resistant it is to manufacturing, which prevents it from losing power immediately. The 96 fighter is like a small aircraft with injured wings.
The bird flew over the 2nd Artillery Company at high speed and struggled to escape due north.
The three anti-aircraft positions of the 2nd Artillery Company did not chase the three Japanese planes and shoot. It was not that they did not know how to beat up the drowned dogs, nor that they did not know how to chase the rogues. It was because they did not have time. The second wave of fighters led by Captain Ono
It has come roaring.
Captain Ono was filled with fear and anger, mixed with a bit of joy. What was scary was that the Chinese could endure this and watched their artillery positions being destroyed without making any counterattack. They did not attack the fighter fleet until they reached low altitude.
Counterattack, in theory, is the tactic that has the best chance of effectively attacking his fleet; angry, his judgment on the Chinese was wrong, causing one of his three fighter planes to be damaged; and happily,
However, the Chinese's deliberate efforts could only damage one of their own fighter planes. Their combat power is actually limited. At least, it is far from their previous frightening forbearance.
Regarding this point, Captain Ono has a very clear mind. In order to strengthen the heavy firepower of the infantry battalion in the expanded Four Lines Regiment, both Pang Hai's 1st Artillery Company and Cheng Tietsou's 2nd Artillery Company have deployed at least half of them.
Compared with before, the combat effectiveness of the backbone squad leaders and veterans of the First Army has weakened a lot.
Just like the current 12 heavy machine guns of the 2nd Artillery Company, except for the shooter, who is a veteran, the other observers and ammunition handlers are novices. With this sudden war, the shooting level is naturally much worse than before. Otherwise, there would not be three
Of the Japanese planes, Captain Tietou alone opened the attack and wounded one.
Such a result, not to mention letting Captain Ono get a hint that his side still had an opportunity to attack the Chinese army's air defense positions, Cheng Tieshou himself was also very angry. Since he served as the commander of the fire support company, when had he stretched his hips like this?
"You bitch, tell me what I ordered. If you don't shoot down a stupid plane today, everyone in the company will not have dinner for me, and they will be embarrassed at grandma's house." Cheng Tieshou pointed the gun again.
The second wave of Japanese planes that were about to pounce on them roared angrily.
As if to calm Captain Tietou's anger, a loud booming sound was heard not far away. Many officers and soldiers of the 2nd Artillery Company looked back and saw flames shooting into the sky hundreds of meters away.
It turned out that the damaged Japanese plane hit the ground.
However, that is really not the credit of the 2nd Artillery Company, but the results of Qian Dazhu's Infantry Company.
Or maybe it was Zuo Zuomu, the unlucky kid's 'Kyou' attribute that struck again.
The damaged Japanese plane just focused on escaping, but forgot one thing. He was flying over the main battlefield. What's more terrible is that due to engine failure, he couldn't pull up at all, and he was only more than 400 meters above the ground.
The metal belly of the machine was exposed in front of the Chinese soldiers, and the speed was not very fast. It looked like a girl who had taken off most of her clothes and was desperately ogling the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Line Regiment.
For a group of big men who have already taken advantage of it, do you think they can still endure it?
"All light machine guns, give me a hard time." Young Captain Qian ordered decisively.
This was great. All the light machine gun shooters in the trenches were facing up, holding their light machine guns in the air and firing. The strong recoil almost broke the shoulder bones of the light machine gun shooters, but more than a dozen light machine guns also successfully shot them.
200 rounds of bullets were fired into the sky at the Japanese aircraft, whose speed had dropped to less than 180 kilometers per hour.
Fortunately, a few rounds of bullets hit the already damaged engine of the Japanese aircraft. This undoubtedly made the engine even worse. It sprinkled a few more salts on the bleeding wound and shut down the aircraft, completely losing power.
It entered a terrible stall and crashed straight into the ground.
The Japanese infantry on the ground were in pain!
What was painful was not only the broken wings of the heroic aerial knight of the empire, but also the fact that the imperial war eagle that had lost control crashed into, seemingly, the center of the battlefield.
To put it bluntly, it was the area where the Japanese infantry were.
No one knows what the pilot of this 96 fighter plane was thinking in the last few seconds of his life. Anyway, he turned his body and the fighter plane into the last bullet and shot it towards
Shoot it to your colleagues who have numb scalps!
The explosion of a fighter plane slamming into the ground from an altitude of 400 meters was no less powerful than a 75mm mountain artillery shell. At least five or six Japanese infantry hiding in the grass were blown away by the air waves.
Good guy, luck and strength allowed these Japanese infantrymen to escape the blazing rain of bullets from the Chinese soldiers and the shrapnel from the grenades that rained down, but they did not escape the "accurate" impact of their own fighter planes on the ground.
Is this the legendary saying of ‘Don’t be afraid of opponents who are like gods, but be afraid of teammates who are like pigs’?
At this moment of the 'heroic aerial knight', the cliff became the 'stinking shit' in the heart of the infantry!
In the distance, Ishiguro Sadazou Ozuo couldn't see this scene because he was too far away, but this did not stop his left eyelid from twitching.
As the Chinese saying goes: The left eye twitches, looking at the fleet of friendly fighter jets leaping into low altitude in the sky, the Japanese army commander's heart has been filled with countless gloom, and it has become even more dark.
"Baga! You are just watching the fun, I am the real one!" Captain Ono, who was aiming at one of the air defense positions and firing wildly in the air, would definitely have cursed like this if he knew what the leftist was thinking.
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Previously, the 2nd Artillery Battery had not been very lucky. Two machine guns and a dozen machine guns fired wildly. In the end, Qian Dazhu's infantry company got a big advantage, but fate will eventually favor those who work hard.
Although the exchange of fire with the second wave of three Japanese planes led by Captain Ono only lasted less than 8 seconds, under the threat of no dinner, the Chinese shooters burst out with unprecedented determination and courage.
The sandbags used to defend against the blast of artillery shells were hit by at least a dozen rounds from Japanese fighter planes, and several ammunition handlers were even hit by machine gun bullets and fell to the ground covered in blood. However, their fearless shooting finally bore fruit.
The two Type 96 fighters to the left and right of Captain Ono were hit by bullets one after another. The fuselage of one of the fighter planes was so densely packed with bullet holes that it was even visible to the naked eye. The pilot howled desperately on the radio channel.
Not because of fear, but because of severe pain!
The fragile fuselage was unable to stop the ravages of metal warheads. If a camera was placed in the cabin, it might be possible to clearly see that the Japanese pilot was like a broken bag full of holes, covered in blood, but perhaps
Because he missed his vital point and was shot in dozens of places, he couldn't die for a while and could only cry out in pain.
The man did not die, but the fighter plane could not continue to hold on. The fighter plane, riddled with bullet holes, continued to descend, and finally plunged into the Bi River, causing a cloud of water to rise into the sky.
The other damaged fighter plane had previous experience. It turned on the rudder desperately and fled towards the edge of the battlefield. The thick white smoke trailing behind the fighter plane was shocking.
"Everyone evacuates!" Captain Ono issued an order over the radio with a heartbroken voice.
Then, after passing over the air defense position, it pulled up as hard as possible, jumped to an altitude of 1,000 meters, and left without looking back.
At that moment, Captain Ono finally understood a truth with a clear mind: as long as he is next to Zuo Zuomu, no matter whether he is there or not, he will definitely defeat him.
Now only two people are dead and one is injured. If the battle continues, thinking about the outcome of the New Year encounter with 12 fighter planes, only Zuo Zuomu survived. Captain Ono felt a sudden chill in his crotch, but Zuo Zuomu is still alive!
The remaining three Japanese fighter planes received the order and did not jump down from the altitude at all. They passed directly from the right wing of the battlefield, accompanied by the still smoking friendly aircraft, and left the battlefield at high speed.
How majestic you were when you came, how embarrassed you were when you left! The Japanese aircraft fleet interpreted this sentence to the extreme.
But after the war, this military order was recognized by the Army Aviation staff as Captain Ono's wisest decision. Otherwise, based on the comparison of the machine gun firepower of both sides at the time, it would have been good if half of the aircraft fleet participating in the attack survived.
Of the 9 fighter planes, the remaining 7 gradually turned into black dots and disappeared into the sky.
The 10 fighter planes that arrived did nothing but blow up several of our own people and splash some water in the river to watch the fun.
But that was the last hope of the Japanese infantry.
The 14th Division is running towards an infantry regiment, which is still more than 40 kilometers away.
"Baga! Luhangmalu!" The Japanese infantrymen on the ground screamed desperately in their hearts.
The desperate roar of the Japanese infantry truly kicked off the 2nd Infantry Regiment's complete fall into the abyss.
