"Battal Commander, I just counted the number of enemy troops who surrendered from the opposite side. They are 57!" the guard reported.
Yang Xiansheng was a little surprised after hearing this: "One pot of meat has invisibly reduced the number of enemy troops on the opposite side by one-third! It also brought the situation of the enemy's defenses on the opposite side. What a clever idea the commander has! It's so worth it!"
It was learned through Song Laowei that the enemy's more than 300 enemy troops deployed on the first line of defense were severely damaged by 105 howitzers.
The enemy officers who deployed the second line of defense learned their lesson. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, they only deployed 150 people. At the same time, they dug air-raid shelters and placed the remaining personnel in the house at the entrance of the village. Once the soldiers from the independent detachment rushed up, all the people in the house would be destroyed.
The enemy will quickly reinforce the second line of defense outside the village.
Early morning on July 8th.
The headquarters sent someone to notify that eight bombers and four fighter jets were flying from the Shizhuang airport toward Wei County.
At the same time, the Japanese troops coming for reinforcements from Xingtai were intercepted in the Pingxiang County area by the First Regiment of the Advanced Column of the Eighth Route Army and the Third Regiment of the Youth Column in collaboration with local armed forces.
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Just after seven o'clock in the morning, the rumble of the plane's engine came from far away and became closer.
Zhou Weihan held up the telescope and looked, and found a small group of black dots flying in the northern sky.
A flight formation of eight bombers and four fighter jets was flying towards the battlefield.
Last night we took turns to attack. At this time, it was Xu Dali's 2nd Regiment and 1st Battalion who were on the position.
The first battalion's position was filled with piles of straw. Seeing the Japanese aircraft approaching, the soldiers of the first battalion lit the piles of straw.
After a while, thick smoke filled the entire position.
"First company commander, arrange for two soldiers to keep an eye on the enemy on the opposite side, while everyone else hides in the air raid shelter!" shouted the first battalion commander.
After hearing the battalion commander's order, all the soldiers of the first battalion covered their mouths and noses with wet towels and got into the air-raid shelter dug in advance.
"Report to Commander, all ministries have completed concealment work!" the correspondent reported.
"Okay!" Zhou Weihan responded, holding a telescope and looking at the machine gun position arranged alone in the southwest corner!
Zhou Weihan considered that the Japanese aircraft were coming to relieve Shi Yousan, so he would definitely attack our military positions in the west first, and arrange the machine gun position at the junction of the two positions in the west and south, so that he could output firepower to both sides at the same time!
Originally, Zhou Weihan wanted to take command in person to indulge his addiction to masturbating, but Zhao Gang and Xing Zhiguo were firmly opposed, and finally had to let Chen Feng, the artillery battalion commander, take command.
Yamada Inma was the commander of this flying formation. Hearing that the empire was going to send planes to bomb the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei, Yamada Inma seized this opportunity.
Yamada Ima looked at the thick smoke below and cursed: "Bage Ya Road, the Chinese people who are as timid as mice, do they think they can withstand the bombing in this way?"
Based on the experience of fighting against China, even the regular army does not have many aircraft and anti-aircraft machine guns. How could the Eighth Route Army in southern Hebei pose a threat?
Yamada Ima smiled grimly and used hand gestures to inform the surrounding friendly aircraft that there was no cover, no reconnaissance, and even the fighter jets were swooping down from north to south.
The heavy machine guns were arranged in groups of three, plus more than a dozen light machine guns. Each group had a surveyor from the artillery battalion. Chen Feng personally controlled a Maxim heavy machine gun. He stared closely at the missiles flying towards them.
airplane.
"Don't be in a hurry to shoot. The Little Japanese plane is diving now. When the plane is waiting for the bomb to be dropped, it is at the lowest flight altitude and fire one position ahead of time!" Chen Feng said to the machine gunner next to him.
Even though Chen Feng was professional in the use of artillery, he had no way to accurately estimate the flight altitude of the aircraft. He just shot at the aircraft when it dropped bombs.
"Now, fire!" Chen Feng shouted, and he saw the little Japanese plane facing directly over the western position!
Then he suddenly pulled the trigger, and a series of bullets, including five tracer bullets each, were fired towards the Japs aircraft in the sky.
As Chen Feng's machine gun team opened fire, the other 12 machine gun teams also opened fire almost at the same time. A fire net of dense bullets formed densely in the airspace as the Little Japanese plane continued to head south.
The Little Japanese plane seemed to have crashed into it due to its inertia.
For a moment, the sound of machine guns was so loud that it even covered up the rumble of the engine of the Little Japanese plane.
All the heavy machine gun shooters worked hard, and the muscles on their faces were shaken wildly.
Although Zhou Weihan was at the rear command post, he was extremely nervous. Although the Little Japanese plane was fragile and could not block machine gun bullets, it still had to be able to hit it.
In order to shoot down a Jaap aircraft, despite all the appropriate arrangements, it ultimately depends on the actual operation of the gunner.
The Little Japanese plane had just finished dropping a wave of bombs, and was just about to raise its altitude and turn around to bomb another wave.
As a result, the three planes in front immediately hit the fire net of machine gun bullets. The dense bullets hit the fuselage. The fuel tanks on the plane were detonated, and the air immediately turned into a ball of sparks.
The little Japanese pilots in the second echelon tried hard to maneuver the fuselage sideways and tried to turn around, but they did not escape the fate of being hit. Only the three planes in the third echelon climbed urgently and turned around to fly north.
Suddenly, the machine gun position deployed in the central column to the north opened fire, but because the remaining three Little Japanese planes were flying too high, the machine guns could not reach them.
The machine gunners in the central column could only watch the little Japanese plane escape.
"Boom" was heard as a deafening explosion, and a huge fireball was seen rising from the village where the enemy army was located.
It turned out that a kid's plane was hit, and the pilot wanted to take the opportunity to parachute and land in the village where his friend Sanbu was. As a result, after parachuting, the plane lost control and hit the ground directly in the village and exploded.
At this time, Zhou Weihan watched as a plane in the second echelon in the air had its right wing broken and spun towards the south.
He immediately ordered: "Monk, ask Zhu Dashan's cavalry company to capture the pilot of the plane that made an emergency landing!"
As the remaining three Little Japanese planes escaped, the soldiers also stopped.
A machine gunner from the Fourth Regiment of Wang Yigong let go of his machine gun, laughed and shouted: "It's so damn fun, damn it, during the Battle of Xinkou, an aerial bomb from the Japs bomber fell, and our company
My brothers all died, I really let out a bad breath today!"
"Brothers, I personally avenged you today! You go well!" In the blink of an eye, the soldier was kneeling on the ground with tears streaming down his face.
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"Well, I said yes. We still managed to shoot down the Japanese plane! Only three of the twelve planes escaped. Who dares to believe this record when word spreads about it?" Zhou Weihan could no longer hide his pride.
"Come on, Lao Zhou, wipe the sweat off your forehead first and then yell, who was circling nervously just now!" Zhao Gang mocked without mercy.
"In the past, the little devils bullied our country's weak industrial strength and could not build airplanes, so they could only be bombed on the battlefield. After the bombing, they used aircraft machine guns to shoot at low altitudes. Now they use machine guns to destroy the little devils' planes. From now on, the little devils will be
Don't dare to be arrogant anymore!" Xing Zhiguo said with a smile.
"If we had more than a dozen anti-aircraft machine guns, not a single Japanese plane would be able to escape!" Zhou Weihan said confidently.
"Communicator, ask the soldiers to pull back the wreckage of the plane after the explosion. There are good things on this plane!"
In fact, it didn’t matter what Zhou Weihan said, several regiments hiding in the green gauze tent behind saw the little Japanese plane falling, and they scrambled to run towards the landing place of the plane!