Chapter 343 Your Excellency Commander, the ground is full of imperial troops
The communications staff of the Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan rushed in with a panic on their faces. Before they could stand still, they hurriedly reported: "General...the aviation force to reinforce Baipogou has an urgent call..."
"The Eighth Route Army is going all out to besiege and mop up the troops... The enemy and we are already fighting together. If we forcefully launch an attack on the Eighth Route Army on the ground, we will definitely injure our own people by accident!"
"They asked the military headquarters to make a decision on whether to attack the Eighth Route Army from the air!"
"What did Ando Daizuo say? For such a simple matter, why don't you just ask him directly?" Yoshio Shinozuka cursed in annoyance.
The communications staff officer shook his head and explained: "The radio contact between the military headquarters and Ando Daizuo was suddenly interrupted, and it is temporarily impossible to contact them..."
"Contact interrupted?" The anger on Shinozuka Yoshio's face was instantly replaced by worry, and he asked anxiously: "When did this happen? Why are you reporting it now!"
The communications officer was afraid that the commander would vent his anger on him, so he hurriedly explained.
"Just happened!"
"As soon as I was about to come over to report, the telegram from the aviation force requesting instructions came!"
"It says that there are at least a thousand Imperial troops fighting on the battlefield. Ando Daizuo is the commander of the sweep force in the middle. He is heavily protected. Nothing will happen. There should be something wrong with the radio!"
The chief of staff was convinced: "Your Excellency, Commander... I think this analysis is very reasonable!"
"The middle sweep force was divided into three by the Eighth Route Army, and the radio stations must have been dispersed..."
"Ando Daizuo probably only has one radio station around him, and any accident may interrupt the radio contact between us!"
"The top priority is to assemble the central sweep forces together!"
"It's best to occupy a high ground and wait for reinforcements!"
"The more troops that stick together, the longer they can hold on!"
Shinozuka Yoshio's eyes never left the sand table, and he immediately ordered: "Call back to the aviation force: tell them not to be afraid of accidental damage, immediately attack the Eighth Route Army on the battlefield, cover our army to break out of their encirclement, join the road together, and rely on the favorable terrain to defend
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"Weng buzz..."
Amidst the roar of the huge engine, a Little Japanese plane suddenly lowered its fuselage and plunged diagonally towards the ground, aiming directly at an attacking force.
"Woooooooo..."
After a while, a piercing scream sounded over the battlefield.
The moment the plane raised its head and climbed, an aerial bomb broke away from the fuselage and quickly hit the ground along the plane's dive trajectory!
A fireball mixed with a large amount of black smoke soared from the ground. "Boom, boom..." immediately sounded on the battlefield. Centered on the impact point, at least thirty soldiers fell to the ground either dead or injured...
"Damn it, one aerial bomb wiped out my whole platoon. Sooner or later I will shoot you all down..." Looking at the tragic scene after the bombing on the ground, and then looking at the arrogant little Japanese plane in the sky, Kong Jie hated
His teeth were almost broken, he punched the wooden beam, and cursed with a murderous look on his face.
"Weng buzz..."
Seeing that the second plane also started to dive, Kong Jie immediately ordered: "Notify the troops that each battalion must organize ten light and heavy machine guns for me to shoot in the air!"
"If you can't hit them, just scare them!"
"Let them not dare to drop bombs at low altitude and reduce the hit rate of aerial bombs..."
"We also need to put more smoke on the battlefield to block the pilots' vision so that they can't see us and lock on the bombing target!"
"Report to the regimental commander, chief of staff, and battalion commander asked me to report something!" The assault battalion correspondent suddenly rushed in.
"Xiao Huang?" Kong Jie thought there was something wrong on the battlefield, so he quickly asked: "What's the matter, are you so anxious?"
"About air raid defense!" the correspondent quickly reported.
"The battalion commander asked the attacking troops to put on the Japs uniforms and put more Japs plaster flags on the positions. The planes in the sky will definitely not be able to tell the real ones from the fake ones!"
"This method is feasible!" Chief of Staff Li Wensheng immediately supported.
"The positions of both sides are so intertwined that the only way for aircraft to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy is to look at the military uniforms and military flags. If the military uniforms and military flags are replaced, the aircraft in the sky will become blind!"
Kong Jie didn't waste any time and immediately ordered: "Immediately do as Xiao Huang says!"
"Let some soldiers put on Japanese military uniforms to confuse the aircraft..."
"If you don't have enough military uniforms, use your hats to make up for it... Then take out all the plaster flags from the captured little devils and wave them on the battlefield!"
After the two rounds of bombing, when the Little Japanese plane dived to the bombing height again, the planned bombing site was actually filled with "imperial troops" and plaster flags could be seen everywhere...
"What's going on? Could it be that the Eighth Route Army here was defeated by the Imperial Army!" the pilot asked with a puzzled look on his face.
The thumb on the bomb release button was released decisively, and at the same time, the aircraft was lifted up and climbed to a high altitude.
The second plane also encountered the same problem and had to temporarily suspend bomb delivery...
"What's going on? Why are there imperial troops everywhere on the ground!" a pilot asked over the radio with a puzzled face.
"I don't know either..." the other pilot responded, thinking for a moment and speaking his mind.
"Even if the Eighth Route Army temporarily decides to withdraw from the battlefield, it won't be able to run that fast!"
"The sound of firefights on the ground has not stopped, indicating that the Eighth Route Army is still on the battlefield..."
"I understand...it must be the Eighth Route Army who put on the uniforms of the Imperial Army in order to avoid air attacks, and would wave the Imperial Army's flags in their positions to confuse us!"
The pilot who asked the question looked suddenly enlightened and said: "Bagh Ya Road, it must be like this!"
"The Eighth Route Army is so cunning that they actually came up with such a trick to deal with us..."
"We are in the sky, and we don't dare to conduct low-altitude reconnaissance close to the ground. Even if we know that some of the Imperial Army are disguised as the Eighth Route Army, we can't tell the truth from the fake..."
"I suggest that we suspend the bombing... We will decide whether to continue the bombing after we ask for instructions from the summit!"
At the Japanese military headquarters in Taiyuan, the communications staff officer who had just left appeared again in front of Yoshio Shinozuka, his face even heavier than before.
The chief of staff took one look at it and frowned and asked, "Have you received bad news?"
The communications staff officer nodded quickly: "The aviation force that is reinforcing Baipogou has sent an urgent message!"
"The Eighth Route Army that was besieging and mopping up the troops suddenly put on the uniforms of the Imperial Army and erected a large number of Imperial Army flags in order to avoid air attacks!"
"They can't distinguish between ourselves and the enemy and can't continue to attack!"
Yoshio Shinozuka got angry after hearing this, and he was very dissatisfied and cursed: "Do you still need to ask the military headquarters for such a simple question?"
"Let them contact the central mopping up troops directly and make some special marks on their positions. The places without marks are the Eighth Route Army positions!"
"The commander is wise!" the chief of staff flattered him.
Surprisingly, the communications staff did not move, but looked embarrassed: "But we can't contact the central mopping up troops..."
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"After the radio contact with Ando Daizuo was interrupted, we tried to contact the other two radio stations of the central mopping up force, but there was no response from either of them!"
"The aviation force had no way to directly contact the ground forces, so it sent a telegram to the military headquarters and asked the military headquarters to make a decision!"
Yoshio Shinozuka didn't answer, but his brows had furrowed into a big "Kawa" sign. It was obvious that he was also stumped by this question, and he didn't think of a way to solve the problem after thinking about it for a long time.
He could only order with a look of helplessness: "Let them take action with the camera..."
