It was almost noon, and the fighting on the ground battlefield had come to an end. Under the ravages of more than ten Japanese gunboats, even though the Jiguang tank had far more efficient armor than the Type 99, it still had no choice but to fight. Choose to retreat,
Under the clouds in the east, the Japanese fighter planes were clearly visible. At this moment, the artillery commanded by Li Hanhun had just begun to withdraw from the battlefield.
The gunner's performance today was quite good, and it can be said that it played a decisive role. It was under the gunner's almost abnormal precision shooting that the heavy artillery regiment of the 11th Division, which was the most threatening to the tank division, entered the battle for only ten minutes. The left and right sides were annihilated. In this way, the superiority of the Xuebing Army's tank troops was established. Therefore, the next battle almost became the performance time of the Xuebing Army's tank divisions.
Ouyang Yun came down from the height, got into the headquarters, and said to the busy staff officers: "Give the air defense troops an order. It's time for them to perform. The key to whether the artillery divisions can safely evacuate to Nanjing lies with them." .”
The Xuebing Army's air force is under construction. Although the Xuebing Army's aircraft manufacturing plant has been able to produce the "Wanfu-02" fighter jet with complete intellectual property rights, most of the required materials need to be imported from the United States. , and there is a serious shortage of skilled workers, so now only one finished aircraft can be manufactured every two months. Such a production speed has seriously affected the expansion speed of the Air Force. The good thing is that with the efforts of Gu Lianyun, the joint venture aircraft in the United States The manufacturing plant has been put into production, and although the current production capacity of this factory, which is mainly based on the US military, has reached about forty fighters per month, according to the original agreement, among the forty fighters, the Xuebing Army can be allocated About ten, plus one L-19 every month, I believe that in half a year, the air force of the Xuebing Army will truly become a backbone force.
By then, the safety of the Fujian-Guangdong airspace will at least be guaranteed. But now, we have to rely on the air defense troops. Ouyang Yun thought, feeling a little powerless. In the battle of Jiangyin Fortress, the student army suffered the most losses from the air defense troops. , the Fifth Division and the Tenth Division each originally had half a brigade of armored units, but because they were pulled out for air defense, they lost a full regiment and a half of armored vehicles and tanks. If it weren't for the loss of so many combat vehicle units, this would have been It is possible to press forward in one fell swoop and completely drive the Japanese troops in Pukou into the Yangtze River to feed the bastards.
Except for about a brigade-sized self-propelled howitzer, the artillerymen of the Xuebing Army are all towed. The traveling speed of the self-propelled artillery is about forty-five kilometers, but the towed ones are much worse, with only three Around fifteen, this speed is enough if the Japanese army does not have an air force to participate in the war. However, once it is faced with those air strike forces that can easily exceed 500 kilometers at speed or even more, it will be like a snail.
The efficiency of relying on ground forces to intercept fighter jets is really low. What's terrible is that the enemy can completely ignore the ground interception troops and fly over to directly attack the target.
In order to reduce the intensity of the attack on the gunners as much as possible, Ouyang Yun had no choice but to dispatch all ground troops with air defense capabilities, and the combat requirements for them were a bit harsh: I don't care what method you use, you must intercept the Japanese fighter planes, as long as If the Japanese army is not allowed to bomb the artillery, even if you have completed the mission,
After all the Japanese fighter planes appeared on the battlefield, Ouyang Yun sincerely felt that he was so lucky. Yes, for some unknown reason, the number of Japanese fighter planes in this wave was only eight. Moreover, from the numbers they dropped,
The bombs are just medium-sized bombs weighing about 20 to 30 pounds. As long as such bombs do not directly hit the weak points of the relay type, they cannot even effectively break armor.
Discovering this new situation, he immediately gave Qian Guangming an order: "After evacuating the Japanese gunboat strike area, defend in place, attract the attention of the Japanese aircraft, and try to strike them as hard as possible. As for the 22nd Regiment and the 40th Regiment, let them return to the trenches."
Go ahead, right now, the Japs from the 11th Division and Shantian Detachment should be busy integrating the troops and treating the wounded."
The first thing the eight Japanese planes discovered was the Xuebing Army's tank unit. Four of the fighter planes immediately began to look for a suitable dive position, and then went into bombing.
One bomb after another fell from the belly of the Japanese plane, and the "whoosh" sound in the air made people's scalp numb. Then, in a series of explosions, an area the size of a football field was shrouded in fireworks.
After the violent explosion, one tank was directly overturned by the air wave, and another tank exploded because the ammunition depot was hit. After a loud "boom", the light-traveling tank turned into a
A pile of burning scrap metal, all the occupants inside were martyred,
It would be unwise to use tank troops to attract the attention of Japanese aircraft. However, the existing anti-aircraft firepower of the Xuebing Army is limited. The original five regiments of anti-aircraft troops now only have one and a half regiments left in Pukou, so
, if you want to really delay all the Japanese fighter planes here, you can only rely on these tanks equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns.
Two Japanese fighter planes bombed the same area at the same time, destroying three tanks of the tank division and damaging four at once. This made Qian Guangming extremely angry. He took the telephone and shouted loudly: "Don't mess up, keep it up."
Formation, with battalions as units, covering fire, TMD, I don’t believe it, we have so many tanks, we can’t defeat these eight Japanese planes.”
Eight Japanese planes left behind four tanks to bomb the cadet army. Captain Jiu Ping Zhengyun, who led the team, originally thought that this was enough, and the results of the first two Japanese planes' bombing also convinced him
He realized this, but only about five minutes later, as a Japanese plane on his left was hit by intensive anti-aircraft fire and disintegrated in the air, and then another Japanese plane was hit on the right wing, he wrinkled
He frowned and thought to himself: The Chinese artillery has not been found yet, so let’s just deal with these tanks first. The tank troops of the Xuebing Army are a serious problem for the empire. Previously, Tiangu and Kunizaki detachments have suffered losses at their hands.
, Now, the empire's latest Type 99 tank unit has been defeated again. Anyway, I have to turn around to deal with these tanks, so I just change the order of attack. So, on the remaining two Japanese aircraft
After completing the bombing and starting to shoot at the tanks of the Academy Army with machine guns and cannons, the four Japanese planes that had moved away turned around again and flew towards the tank division position led by Qian Guangming.
In the fifth trench behind the tank troops, the remaining air defense troops of the Xuebing Army had fixed the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns. As the Japanese planes began to lower their flying altitude, the commander gave an order to distribute them among the five air defense units.
The anti-aircraft guns on the position fired at the same time. Immediately, the airspace where the Japanese plane was flying was filled with "boom, boom" explosions, and clouds of smoke exploded, dyeing the entire sky gray.
As soon as the anti-aircraft guns appeared, Captain Jiu Ping's wingman immediately reported the situation, and at the same time made gestures, requesting that he himself should deal with this part of the branch.
The flying altitude of the Japanese aircraft was still around 1,500 meters. At such a height, anti-aircraft machine guns were powerless, so only anti-aircraft guns were used to show off their power. The total number of anti-aircraft guns on the five positions was 17. These 17 anti-aircraft guns fired at the same time, which also gave the Japanese The pilot of the aircraft was under a certain amount of psychological pressure. Captain Jiuping made a gesture and agreed to the wingman’s combat request.
As a result, this Japanese aircraft broke away from the four-aircraft formation and pulled to the left alone. Then, it swooped down from the left and went straight to an air defense position on the far left of the Xuebing Army.
Jiang Haiyang is a battalion commander of the Third Division Air Defense Regiment. The battalion he commands is on the far left.
Jiang Haiyang is from Renqiu. Before joining the Xuebing Army, he worked as an accountant for two years. Because of his experience, his comrades nicknamed him "Old Accountant".
The reason why Lao Zhang joined the Xuebing Army was not to protect his family and the country or to get promoted and make a fortune. His original intention was just because the salary of the Xuebing Army was five oceans a month. In fact, being a bookkeeper's income was already pretty good. Three oceans a month is considered a "white-collar worker" in Renqiu. However, because his parents are in poor health and they have to support five younger siblings, these three oceans are far from enough. So, he Only then would he join the army regardless of his family's ancestral motto that "a good man should not be a soldier" in order to earn an extra two dollars a month.
The old accountant joined the army just to earn a living. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand his slackness in the military camp at the beginning. As a former accountant, Jiang Haiyang is a person who has really seen the world. He went to Peiping alone After three times, he had the opportunity to see those soldiers. In his original understanding, despite the loud slogans of the Xuebing Army, they were actually just thugs of a warlord separatist force.
The change in his thinking started from the first time he listened to Ouyang Yun's class. The Xuebing Army attaches great importance to the cultural quality education of officers and soldiers, so various training classes emerge in endlessly. As Jiang Haiyang likes reading, he is naturally happy to recharge for free. Once when he was listening to Ouyang Yun's class, he didn't know that the young man standing in front of the podium was the "little officer" of the cadet army. It was Ouyang Yun's first time giving a lecture to the cadets. Unlike other instructors, He didn't bring any handouts at all, and Ouyang Yun didn't really explain anything in that class.
Jiang Haiyang still remembers the first words the junior officer said after he came to power: "Everyone, you are now a member of the student army. So, what I want to ask is, why do you become a soldier?"
As soon as he finished asking, someone immediately stood up and said loudly: "I am reporting to the instructor to protect my family and the country."
The young officer smiled, nodded, and asked, "Is there more?"
Someone stood up and said: "Report, I want to avenge my parents. I am from Shenyang. All five members of my family were killed by the Japs except me. I heard that the purpose of the Xuebing Army was to fight the Japs... "
After this person finished speaking, a few more people gave some upright answers. Jiang Haiyang listened and curled up his lips with a disapproving expression. What he was thinking in his mind was: "Maybe he wants revenge." Are you telling the truth? Others, huh, what they said was better than what they sang. They thought it was an opera. However, the instructor seemed to like listening to the opera. Hehe, who is an official who doesn't like to listen to this? It’s a scene.”