Due to technical and material factors, although the Jiguang armored vehicles are imitations of products from later eras, their performance is not the same. The most obvious one is the armor’s protective capabilities. Although compared with armored vehicles of the same era, the Jiguang armored vehicles are The armor capability of the light-type armored vehicle is quite outstanding. It can even withstand the Maxim heavy machine gun fire at a certain distance. However, it is still powerless in the face of heavy bombs weighing 50 pounds.
The primary bombing target of the Japanese planes was the forts. It was precisely because of the outstanding protective capabilities of Huangshan and other forts that this wave of Japanese planes carried all heavy bombs.
Under the leadership of Chen Zheyu, the soldiers worked very hard. However, they were at a natural disadvantage. Therefore, a quarter of an hour after the battle started, they still failed to shoot down an enemy plane.
"That's weird. I heard from Liu Kui and the others that the commander shot down Japanese planes in Renqiu with his rifle. How come our regiment's intensive firepower can't bring down one of them?" Chen Zheyu was angry, and at the same time quite unwilling to do so. ,
They were the first to come into contact with the Japanese aircraft, but it was the air defense troops on the Huangshan Fort who made the first contribution. Because of the heavy losses yesterday, Ouyang Yun had to face an embarrassing situation when making combat arrangements in the early morning: air defense weapons There is a serious shortage. In desperation, the air defense capabilities of Huangshan and other forts have to be downgraded. The original configuration of eight anti-aircraft guns and twelve anti-aircraft machine guns now only retains four anti-aircraft guns and eight anti-aircraft machine guns. However, , considering that the fort is the most important protection target, what remains in the fort are the most advanced anti-aircraft guns. These anti-aircraft guns are equipped with an automatic loading system. In theory, the rate of fire reaches an astonishing about 380 rounds per minute.
The person responsible for the air defense command of the Huangshan Fort was a major named Xue Ming.
Xue Ming was originally a battalion commander of the Second Academy Air Defense Force, with hundreds of people under his command. However, because of the heavy casualties in yesterday's battle, the size of the troops he now commands is only equivalent to a company.
Xue Ming had quite a lot of combat experience. He replaced all the bullets in one of the anti-aircraft machine guns with tracer bullets, and asked Wang Haifeng, who had the highest level of shooting, to serve as the main shooter to provide reference for other forts and shooters to make corrections. His move was indeed successful. The effect was achieved. As Wang Haifeng fired the bullets and shined a light in the air, other anti-aircraft guns and machine guns followed suit. The first enemy plane that broke into the attack range of the fort was shot down without even being able to drop a bomb. It disintegrated in the air and turned into a pile of burning scraps of metal flying everywhere.
When the first invading enemy plane was beaten and disintegrated in the air, on the Yangtze River not far from the Huangshan Fort, a faint black spot undulated with the waves. If you look closer, you will find that they are actually some human heads. They are naturally the officers and soldiers of the Langya Special Forces Brigade led by Ouyang Yun.
In June in Jiangsu, the weather is not very hot, especially in the morning, when the temperature is only about seven or eight degrees. The soldiers had been fighting in the water for several hours last night, and their physical energy was greatly exhausted. If they were soaked in the water for a long time, , even those who fight with iron can't stand it. Many people are already turning blue and their lips are purple at this moment. If their physical fitness is not really strong, I think some people will not be able to bear it and fall down. The reason why Ouyang Yun insists on taking care of it himself. On the one hand, he is worried about the team because of the important stakes; on the other hand, it is because of personal heroism. However, judging from his current situation, he obviously thinks about this matter too simply, and of course he does not It was ruled out that he had overestimated his physical fitness. It was fine at first, but after half an hour, his body reacted, and his nose and tears began to flow out on their own, and he began to tremble.
Regarding Ouyang Yun's insistence on taking risks personally, everyone, whether it was the soldiers of the Xuebing Army or people from the Navy such as Chen Shaokuan, had objections. Liu Kui and Shan Renxiong even came close to tying him up directly. Of course, Ouyang Yun's personality determines that everyone's opposition is ineffective. In desperation, Liu and Shan guard him on the left and right. Shan Renxiong saw his embarrassed look and said: "Commander , you'd better go up first, it's too dangerous, and it seems like your body can't bear it..." Before he could finish his words, many soldiers around him exclaimed, and the two of them followed the gazes of everyone. , saw the ball of fire that exploded,
"Good fight." Ouyang Yun waved his fist and shouted,
Liu Kui said: "Who is commanding the Huangshan Fort? This guy has a trick. He uses tracer bullets as a guide to dispatch all the anti-aircraft firepower. He is really accurate."
"This experience is worth summarizing and promoting. Liu Kui, please pay attention to it for me. When this battle is over, I want to see him."
"yes."
"Commander, the enemy ship has started to move. It seems that it wants to use artillery to help the aircraft clear the air defense firepower." At this time, a Langya soldier in charge of liaison reported to Ouyang Yun,
The Japanese ship stopped about thirty kilometers away from the fortress fort. Apparently, it wanted to wait for the aviation force to eliminate the threat from the fort before attacking the Chinese fleet. However, due to the strong anti-aircraft firepower of the fort, as the first wave of attacking Japanese aircraft Four aircraft were lost in just ten minutes. The Japanese Second Fleet could no longer keep their composure and charged forward aggressively, hoping to help the aviation force.
Ouyang Yun was very excited when he heard the news and immediately issued an order: "Contact Commander Li quickly and ask him to obtain the location of L-19."
The communications corps began to communicate via telegraph, and soon Li Hanhun called back to inform him that he had grasped the movements of the Japanese Second Fleet. Two L-19s were on the way and were expected to arrive in an hour.
Ouyang Yun calculated the time and confirmed that it was the time of low tide in an hour. He was completely relieved. Then, he ordered several soldiers who acted as correspondents to convey the news to each combat team and banish the gasoline barrels. The time was set at forty-five minutes later,
At this moment, the air-to-ground offensive and defensive battle centered on the Huangshan Fort was going on at its most brutal. With the addition of two Japanese aircraft formations, the Xuebing Army's air defense force once again began to suffer casualties. Among them, the Chen Zheyu armor was used as cannon fodder. The regiment suffered the most painful blow. In just a quarter of an hour, three tanks and eleven armored vehicles were destroyed.
After Zhang Dayou shot down an enemy plane, he was hit by machine gun bullets from a Japanese plane and fell in a pool of blood. Chen Zheyu also had his left arm crushed because the armored vehicle he was riding in was overturned.
After receiving the latest information provided by Li Hanhun, the Chinese naval fleet also fought out of the military port. In order to attract Japanese firepower, they formed several small combat formations around several forts and joined in the fight. In the ranks of Japanese planes bombing, what was not unexpected was that after the Japanese received this intelligence feedback, their second fleet immediately accelerated its march and came over in a mighty manner.
At a quarter past ten, the Japanese ship finally appeared in Li Hanhun's telescope. He roughly estimated the distance and immediately sent electricity to Ouyang Yun to inform him of the news. At this time, Ouyang Yun and the others were already exiling gasoline barrels. ,
In order to ensure that the chains composed of these gasoline barrels can lock the Japanese warships, the length of each chain is basically controlled to about fifty meters. There are a total of about fifteen gasoline barrels bolted to it, five of which are fully loaded, and another ten
It was empty. When the agreed time came, the soldiers on the shore first cut off the fixed ropes, and then each group worked together to cut off the stones and other heavy objects hanging on the chains, and started according to the marks that had been made long ago.
Divide the entire gasoline barrel chain into sections...
While the soldiers in the river were performing this operation, the soldiers on the shore began to use mortars to fire smoke grenades forward. Soon, it seemed as if heavy fog had fallen on the entire river, and the visibility dropped to 20.
Within meters,
Ouyang Yun personally cut off the rope hanging a stone, and then climbed onto another rope. This rope was used for the soldiers to go ashore after completing their mission. However, due to the strong current on this section of the river, he
The accident that he tried his best to prevent still happened. Twenty minutes later, when the roll call of the soldiers performing water operations was completed, he was informed that a total of three people were missing, including Xiao Changwu, a battalion commander of the Broadsword Regiment.
Most of the officers and soldiers of the Langya Special Forces Brigade were taken down to change their clothes and rest. A few people, including Ouyang Yun and Shan Renxiong, came to a fortification set up by the river. Several people looked through the peephole with telescopes.
Looking from a distance, they are waiting for the most exciting moment,
About twenty minutes passed, and finally there was a roar in the sky that was different from the sound of the Japanese aircraft's motor. "It's our L-19." Liu Kui said excitedly, then drilled his head out of the peephole, and tried his best to
He looked up to the sky, but because too many smoke bombs were used, the smoke not only covered the river, but also floated over the fortifications, affecting his sight. He did not see the huge figure of L-19.
On the river, the Japanese ship was only about ten kilometers away from the Huangshan Fort. From this distance, both sides could bombard each other, but the accuracy was hard to say because of the smoke.
A hit shot is difficult to achieve without considerable luck,
The "Burning Ships with Fire" plan is no longer a secret to the people of Jiangyin Fortress. Therefore, the Huangshan Fort remained silent in accordance with operational requirements. The task of lighting those gasoline barrels was left to two L-19s.
The task of instructing them to carry out precision bombing was left to a team from the Spike Special Exhibition Brigade.
The person who led this team to carry out this task was Battalion Commander Xiao Yi, and they became the only students in the army who were lucky enough to directly watch the spectacular scene of "Fire Burning Ships".