Fighter planes, as dense as a swarm, flew over the Anjia Army's front line of defense in Bangjun, frantically pouring dense bombs onto the position.
Under the cover of fighter jets, the bombers with dazzling plaster flags, one after another, let out a shrill scream and dived towards the ground. Aerial bombs, carrying the breath of death, rained down on the position overwhelmingly.
Deafening explosions rang out one after another in the three positions that An Jiajun had repaired overnight by relying on the movement at the foot of the mountain.
Sharp shrapnel, swept by the splashing flames and surging air waves, splashed in all directions, mercilessly killing all targets on the position. However, at this time, the New 1st Brigade and the 49th Brigade were deployed on the east and west lines.
Most of the officers and soldiers of the two regiments hid in the excavations beforehand.
In the good artillery caves, I silently touched the steel gun in my hand, waiting for the end of the bombing by Japanese fighter planes. Many of the artillery cave entrances were collapsed by aerial bombs. The officers and soldiers in the caves quickly picked up the engineering shovels and dug quickly.
, he soon dug a way out and breathed oxygen greedily.
The concave-convex defense line built by the Anjia Army from west to east was shrouded in thick smoke.
The Japanese fighter planes bombed for a long time and saw that the defense line of more than ten kilometers had been bombed. They circled in the air triumphantly and found no moving targets, so they flew towards the county seat of Jixian.
A small number of the people in Ji County were worried about the retaliation of the Japanese army. They evacuated the county along with Liu Zhi's Second Army and joined the army fleeing south. However, there are still many indifferent people who think that no matter who rules, the same indifferent people choose.
To stay.
Therefore, when the Japanese fighter planes came over Jixian County, the crowd on the street gradually increased and they did not realize to avoid them. At this time, the Japanese fighter planes had already swooped down from the sky.
Bombs with strange whistling sounds fell densely on the street. People who felt the fear began to run around. However, in such a short period of time, how could they avoid the speed of the bombs? Many people were quickly
Violent explosions and shrapnel hit, and his limbs were shattered.
The houses in the county town were like toy models. They collapsed amid bursts of explosions, and flying dust shot into the sky.
The Japanese attack aircraft pilots who were escorting the bombers were already feeling itchy. At this time, they couldn't wait to start performing. They swooped down from high altitudes and aimed at everything in sight to escape the collapsed buildings or the flow of people desperately trying to avoid bomb attacks.
, carried out reckless shooting.
A group of Japanese attack planes flew across the low altitude like locusts. The aircraft machine gun bullets on the nose of the plane sprayed out a violent storm of bullets, leaving clear bullet marks on the street. Countless bullets rushed like hailstones.
It was swept away by the running crowd, taking away lives one by one, and the overflowing blood instantly dyed the ground red.
After arrogantly cleaning up all their bombs and machine gun bullets, the Japanese fighter jets jumped into the high altitude, slightly rearranged their formation, and continued to fly forward with reconnaissance planes, carrying a mix of attack planes and bombers, triumphantly
The land left the county seat of Jixian County.
The county town was filled with raging flames and billowing smoke. Wails and screams could be heard everywhere. Piles of blood-soaked dead and survivors struggling desperately in the piles of blood could be seen everywhere. Many people were directly hit by aerial bombs.
It exploded into pieces, and dense flesh and blood sprayed everywhere on the streets, houses, and city walls, and the air was filled with the smell of blood.
In Luotuoling, Fujun Mountain in the north of Jixian County, Yang Jiuxiao, commander of the 40th Division, saw the miserable situation of the people in Jixian through the telescope and shook his head:
"It's so tragic! Last night, our soldiers went door to door overnight and mobilized people from door to door to temporarily move to the mountains to the north of the county to take shelter. However, no one believed that the Japanese would blow them up with bombs, and they also called us cats and mice fake mercy.
These people who are used to being obedient citizens finally realize that the Japanese army is not as benevolent as they thought!"
"How similar is this scene to when our Northeast fell?"
Deputy Division Commander Wang Yulin sighed: "Back then, the Japanese were all under their noses, but no one believed that the Japanese really dared to take action. As a result, the Northeast Army, which had an army of 300,000, muddle-headedly took advantage of them.
Three provinces have been lost. In the final analysis, it is still the insensitive and insensitive thinking that is causing trouble. I think after this lesson, the people of Jixian County will wake up suddenly. People who are not my race must have different minds!"
At this time, Tong Zhiqiang, chief of staff of the division, walked quickly behind Yang Jiuxiao and Wang Yulin:
"The Japanese troops crossing the Fangyu front line are slowly approaching our frontline position in Caofangyu. According to the investigation results of the special operations team assigned to our division, the Japanese troops we are facing are not regular divisions. They are probably newly formed in the Northeast.
The *** infantry brigade is about the size of two regiments."
Yang Jiuxiao was slightly surprised: "Damn it, didn't Liu Zhi say that this front line is facing the main division of the Japanese army? What the hell is going on?"
Tong Zhiqiang shook his head: "I don't understand either. I have sent out all the division's special agents to closely monitor the Yulong Mountain and Tielingzi lines to be on guard against Japanese troops attacking us from behind."
Wang Yulin pondered for a moment and suggested: "Report this special situation to the military headquarters and see what the military commander has ordered."
"good!"
Yang Jiuxiao raised the telescope again and looked to the south of Jixian County. He saw smoke and dust covering the sky and the earth. Although the distance was too far to hear the sound of gunfire, he could feel the intensity of the battle. He said with some worry: "We are facing a
The smaller the pressure, the heavier the pressure the *** Division and the 17th Division will bear. I hope they can withstand it."
Wang Yulin also raised the telescope, looked at it carefully, and said: "It should be no problem. Our three regiments of the 118th Brigade are respectively deployed in Balipu and Fenghuang Mountain. They can support the two divisions at any time. And I took a look.
, the two divisions have not used anti-aircraft artillery and heavy artillery yet, probably they will save it for more critical moments. Just wait and see, the Japanese army will suffer!"
Yang Jiuxiao nodded: "I hope so!"
...
The first line blocking position in the south of Bangjun Town.
After the air attack, the Japanese army conducted another half-hour shelling. The entire front line dug wide and deep trenches with a depth of two meters. Under the successive attacks of Japanese aerial bombs and heavy artillery, the Japanese army had already been in dilapidated condition. Big trees far and near were in ruins.
Under the continuous bombardment, it was scorched by the strong airflow, burning like a torch.
The smoke shrouding the position has not yet dissipated, and the sound of Japanese heavy artillery shelling is still raging. The Japanese army has launched a fierce attack on the new regiment's position with overwhelming momentum.
"The devils are coming! Brothers, attack!"
Li Jun, the temporary regimental commander, spotted the movements of the Japanese troops through the periscope deep inside the shell-proof shell, and immediately shouted into the walkie-talkie.
Soon, a battalion of officers and soldiers responsible for front-line defense quickly entered the position.
At this time, the entire front line was in a mess. The trenches that the soldiers had dug all night were destroyed by the Japanese bombing. Half a meter of the trenches had been destroyed by the Japanese bombing. The trenches that originally needed to be padded with wooden supports urgently built by the engineering troops before shooting could now be done by standing on the ground.
The defensive position of the Anjia Army's First Division was built on a gentle slope at the southern foot of Panshan Mountain. The terrain is high in the north and low in the south, which is very conducive to the defense of the defenders. Moreover, the three front and rear trenches distributed in a ladder shape can also easily form continuous and dense firepower.
, the Japanese troops who needed to attack from the rear encountered considerable difficulties this time.
Seeing the dark Japanese troops rushing towards them, the company and platoon commanders on the front line calmly put the Japanese troops within 200 meters away before shouting "hit".
Soon, tongues of orange flames were spitting out from everywhere along the entire front, splitting up the heavy smoke screen and sending out sharp whistling sounds in the air, just like a combine harvester.
The Japanese soldiers were crushed piece by piece on the land that was still smelling of gunpowder smoke.
The Japanese soldiers were well-trained and fell down one after another to avoid the dense rain of bullets that swept over their heads and raised their guns to fire.
The bullet hit the ground, sending up bursts of flying sand and rocks.
The Anjia Army's attack was quickly met with a counterattack by the Japanese army. Type 92 infantry cannon, grenade launchers, Type 38 rifles, Type 92 heavy machine guns and crooked light machine guns intertwined into a tight fire network, like a violent storm.
Sweeping from above the Anjiajun position
However, the enemy's exposed firepower points immediately became the key target of a mortar battalion. Amidst the intensive shelling sound on the hills behind the Anjiajun position, the Japanese firepower points misfired one by one, and were soon overtaken by the Anjiajun forces.
Suppress it.
On the first company position, a sniper raised the 12.7-caliber sniper rifle named "Zhongzheng III Type" in his hand. The crosshairs of the scope were pointed at a Japanese grenade that jumped into the crater and prepared to attack.
soldiers.
The sniper smiled slightly, and gently pulled the trigger of the sniper rifle with his finger. The butt of the gun shook slightly, and a bullet filled with hatred left the muzzle of the gun like lightning and headed towards the head of the Japanese soldier.
"puff--"
The 12.7mm armor-piercing bullet penetrated a hole in the Japanese-style steel helmet. The helmet was quickly knocked away by the huge impact. The white brains and blood of the Japanese grenade hand quickly sprayed out from the Tianling cover that was lifted by the bullet.
Out. As if being pushed hard by gravity, the Japanese grenade hand flew back two meters and fell backward toward the ground.
The unmanned grenade fell to the ground with a "clang". The melon grenade that had just been loaded into the grenade was triggered and shot out of the crater in a strange parabola, quickly landing on the heads of the nearby Japanese troops.
, a ball of flames exploded, and two or three Japanese soldiers who were shooting were instantly killed by grenade shrapnel splattering everywhere.
After the sniper killed a Japanese grenadier, he quickly retracted into the trench, crouched and ran for more than ten meters in the trench, and then quietly poked his head out from the other side.
The Zhongzheng Type 3 sniper rifle adopts a semi-automatic drive bullet. It does not need to pull the bolt once every time it is fired like ordinary rifles. This drive mainly uses part of the gunpowder gas and recoil to eject the cartridge case, and the bullet is automatically loaded. However,
Each time the trigger is pulled, only one bullet can be fired.
From the scope of the sniper rifle, the sniper clearly saw melon grenades flying out from one place continuously, one after another, and throwing them into the Anjia Army's trenches with great accuracy, stirring up clouds of flames and smoke.
There were violent explosions, mixed with a few faint grunts. In a short period of time, several Anjia officers and soldiers were killed and injured by this Japanese grenade launcher.
The grenade that the Japanese army equipped to squads and even detachments is a very strange thing. It has no mortar sight at all, and the accuracy is extremely poor. It relies entirely on consciousness to operate. It is based on the Japanese grenade.
Some veterans with great shooting experience are selected as the shooters.
This grenadier who performed unscrupulously was obviously an ace among the Japanese grenadier soldiers. He actually hid in a huge crater that had been previously bombed by a large-caliber aerial bomb, and used the grenade in an orderly manner.
With the memory in his mind, he carried out continuous attacks on the Anjia Army's front line.
The Anjia Army sniper, who was unwavering when he found the target, pointed the sniper rifle in his hand at the crater where melon grenades continued to fly, held his breath, and calmly waited for the moment when the Japanese grenade launcher appeared.
What a pity, this grenadier
He was really patient. He manipulated the simple grenade and fired for five or six minutes. He threw melon grenades one by one on the Anjiajun position, forming a continuous and powerful strike firepower from point to line.
, balls of flames kept rising from the Anjiajun position.
An Jiajun's mortars finally couldn't bear it anymore, and a series of bombs roared towards the crater. Unfortunately, due to the angle problem, every time they missed the crater, the crater remained unscathed.
On the contrary, Anjiajun's mortars were quickly hit by a mortar group that the Japanese had been holding back for a long time. Anjiajun's defense line was once again shrouded in a series of explosions and thick smoke.
It is estimated that the continuous bombardment by Japanese mortars made the Japanese elite grenade launchers feel that they should take advantage of this opportunity and move to other places to carry out the next wave of attacks on Anjiajun's exposed firepower points.
jumped out.
Unfortunately, just as he rushed out of the crater, a black armor-piercing bullet hit him directly in the face, accurately entering his left eye, blowing his head into a rotten watermelon and losing control of his body.
It crashed back into the crater and there was no more movement.
"ok!"
The sniper shot out immediately, without even looking at it, he quickly retracted and ran all the way in the jagged trench, turning several turns in a row. Behind him, the shells fired by the Japanese mortars had already
fell on him
Where I was standing just now, pieces of orange fireballs suddenly exploded, and thick smoke mixed with soil and gravel shot straight into the sky, and then "crackled" down like rain, causing the trench to lose half a meter.
.
However, the continuous shelling caused the Japanese army to expose the location of its mortars, and they were immediately hit hard by the Anjia army's mortars. The artillery fire, which was an important reliance of the Japanese army's attack, fell silent again.
Seeing that the attack was ineffective, the Japanese troops retreated one after another, and soon calm returned to the position.
Knowing that the Japanese army was going to play artillery cover again, the Anjiajun position blew the whistle of "hide immediately". Soon the troops retreated, and those who escaped into the artillery holes immediately dived into the dark and damp ground five or six meters underground.
in the cave.
"Well done, kid, what's your name?"
An old squad leader in his early thirties saw that the young man sitting next to him, with a somewhat youthful air on his face, was the sniper who had shown bravery just now, and he handed him a cigarette.
"An Ruoqi!"
The young man said that he did not know how to smoke, shook his head and rejected the platoon leader's kindness, then put down the sniper rifle in his hand, took out the water bottle, took a sip, and put it back on his waist.
"Your accent doesn't sound like you're from the north. Where are you from?" The squad leader smiled, lit a cigarette for himself, inhaled deeply into his lungs, and exhaled slowly.
"I am from Xinyang, Henan. During the Great War in the Central Plains, there was a drought in my hometown and my whole family went south to escape. As a result, the whole family starved to death. When I was about to starve to death, I was taken in by the Anjia Army. Later I entered the Xufu Boy Scout Academy and was admitted to the Military Academy.
Special major, I just graduated last year and was assigned to the regiment's special agent company. This time in order to enrich the front-line team, I was temporarily assigned to your platoon." An Ruoqi replied.
"ah!?"
The squad leader didn't even know the butt of his cigarette fell to the ground. He suddenly stood up and saluted the young man: "Sir, Sergeant Lu Daniu greets you!"
An Ruoqi was startled, and when she saw all the soldiers around her looking over, she quickly pulled Lu Daniu to sit down: "What are you doing? Although I have the rank of lieutenant, I am now attached to your company, and I belong to you, the grassroots commanders and fighters."
Commander, it’s my turn to salute you. Squad Leader Lu, how much did your squad suffer in that round of fighting just now?”
Lu Daniu's face darkened: "There are fifteen people in our class, and four have been sacrificed. It is expected that the next battle will be more brutal. I don't know how many will be left when we withdraw..."
At this time, the screams of artillery shells outside sounded again, followed by earth-shaking explosions, and a new round of Japanese attacks began.