The Japanese spent a lot of money this time. After receiving the urgent request for help from the Ishii Regiment, they directly sent more than a dozen bombers to support.
In the past, the enemy's artillery superiority gave the Eighth Route Army troops with backward equipment and scarce ammunition a headache.
The Japanese air support left the Eighth Route Army even more helpless.
Not to mention the distance, the entire Eighth Route Army does not even have a single aircraft that can go on the battlefield.
Kong Jie can send commandos to blow up the Japanese airports and bomb the Japanese planes, but it seems that it is basically impossible for the Eighth Route Army troops to have their own aviation power.
As soon as more than a dozen Japanese bombers arrived, the situation was reversed.
Round after round of bombs were bombarded towards the area where the Eighth Route Army team that was pursuing the Ishii Regiment was bombing.
Although Shen Quan discovered the Japanese plane in advance and promptly ordered the soldiers to spread the team and use the mountains and trees to cover it, several rounds of Japanese bombs fell, and there were still some casualties in the team.
"Damn it, this little bitch is just bullying us because we don't have a plane."
"Let them go wild, go back and find the location of the Japanese airport, and then blow it up for him!"
First Battalion Commander Wang Leihu couldn't help but curse, and then shouted to Shen Quan: "Old Shen, the Japs' plane is obviously covering the retreat of the Ishii Regiment. The Japs' bombing is too powerful, and our team cannot pursue it now, otherwise there will be casualties." Unavoidable."
"Fortunately, we are not far away from the Ishii Wing now. The Japanese bombers do not dare to carry out high-altitude bombings for fear of accidentally injuring the little Japanese. Look carefully, every time the Japanese bomb, the planes are lower."
"I can't bear to swallow this bad breath when I use planes to bomb this stupid little devil as soon as I can't defeat him."
"How about we arrange some machine gunners in advance and use the trees to hide in advance. When the Japanese bombers swoop down again, when they reach the lowest point, we will shoot at the air together. If we can shoot down one, we will count it as one."
Chen Quan looked at the first battalion commander with some surprise, "Okay, Lei Hu, you have learned to use your brain, I think this method will work!"
The two battalion commanders did what they said and passed on the orders immediately.
The soldiers quickly carried out the execution. The No. 40 and 50 machine gunners stayed close to the tree trunk, with two assistants in groups of three. The two helped stabilize the gun stand. At the same time, they served as ammunition handlers and the main shooter was responsible for shooting in the air.< /p>
After the rapid deployment, it didn't take long for the Japanese plane, which had just dropped a round of bombs, to roar past, turn in a big circle, and then roar back again. As it approached the bombing target, the plane dropped in altitude.
Boom——
Another round of bombs was dropped, and with the loud explosion, the two 7.7 mm machine guns carried by the aircraft fired at the area where the Eighth Route Army was located in the mountain forest.
Chen Quan and Wang Leihu roared and issued combat orders.
"Hit!"
The Japanese used Japanese Zero fighters.
The advantages of this kind of aircraft are obvious, such as fast flight speed and high climbing efficiency, but the shortcomings are also obvious. Due to the excessive pursuit of light load of the aircraft, the armor is relatively weak.
When more than fifty machine guns fired at once, shooting into the air.
From the perspective of the Japs pilot, a sudden burst of firepower suddenly erupted from the dense forest. The bullets seemed to be intertwined into a dense net, and they flew directly towards the Jaap fighter jets flying at low altitude.
At this time, the distance between the two sides was not too far. In order to carry out precise bombing, the Japanese plane flew at a very low altitude. The machine gun bullets hit it and easily penetrated the armor of the Japanese plane. The flying bullets could easily threaten the enemy. A Japanese pilot sitting in the cockpit.
It only lasts about eight or nine seconds.
More than a dozen Japanese bombers roared past again.
When they passed through the intertwined fire net of more than fifty machine gun fires, the armor of many Japanese aircraft was beaten like a sieve. Five of the dozen or so bombers roaring past had begun to smoke. Three of them were relatively unlucky. Bullets hit the fuel tanks, and they died in the explosion. The control rod failed and the pilots were killed. They flew not far away and plunged directly into the mountains. Then there was a loud explosion. .
This scene startled the Japanese pilots, who quickly maneuvered the plane to climb quickly out of the effective range of the machine gun fire on the ground.
I don’t dare carry out low-altitude bombing anymore.
At this time, the bombs carried by the Japanese plane were almost exhausted.
In addition, the Ishii Regiment had used planes to bomb the Eighth Route Army, taking the opportunity to distance itself from the pursuing independent regiment and Ding Wei's new regiment ambushing both sides of the mountain road.
The Japanese bombers that completed their mission roared away.
The wreckage of the three planes and the three pilots remained on this twilight land forever.
Captain Ishii Haraichi, who finally took the opportunity to escape the pursuit of the Eighth Route Army, successfully arrived at the nearest large stronghold deployed by the Japanese army on the highway. After recovering from his shock, he quickly ordered to count the casualties of the regiment.
The final statistical result is:
The Shijing regiment that went all the way to Zhangjiazhuang was originally three thousand elite.
In the hands of the First Company of the Independent Regiment and the militia soldiers, at the turns and ridges of the mountain, more than 400 people were injured or killed, including 203 killed in action.
After that, the Independent Regiment was pursued along the way, and the First Company and the militia suffered some minor casualties, and then stepped into the final ambush of the Independent Regiment.
In less than ten minutes, the Ishii regiment, which hastily responded to the battle, ordered a retreat. However, the regiment still suffered casualties of more than 1,000 people, including more than 500 killed in action.
After that, they retreated all the way and were pursued by the independent regiment, and were ambushed by a new regiment led by Ding Wei on both sides of the mountain.
The Ishii Regiment once again suffered more than 400 casualties, including more than 100 killed in action.
All in all, the main force of the Shijing Regiment that attacked Zhangjiazhuang suffered more than 1,800 casualties, including more than 800 killed in action.
After listening to his subordinate's report, Ishii Haraichi turned pale for a moment.
His Ishii United team returned with a disastrous defeat this time.
If it were not for Ishii Haraichi's decisive retreat order and the air support, the casualties of his Ishii regiment would probably be far more than this.
Then, the Japanese chief of staff, who was equally embarrassed, said one sentence that made Ishiihara fall into the ice cave:
"Your Excellency, Captain, Nishimura has not received any information all the way up to now!"
Ishiihara fell silent. At this moment, his original arrogance had already been severely damaged by the Eighth Route Army.
He didn't even know what kind of place the Niukou Village was and how many main forces of the Eighth Route Army were there.
Even the main force of the alliance was directly defeated all the way to Zhangjiazhuang, and Xicun has not reported back the situation until now.
Those 500 imperial troops and the 2,000 Imperial Alliance troops are probably in serious danger.
If calculated in this way, the number of Japanese casualties in the Ishii Regiment would probably be an additional 500.
The number of soldiers killed in battle exceeded a full brigade.
More than one-third of the entire Ishii Regiment was killed, and more than half were casualties.
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West Village.
The specific situation is almost the same as Ishiihara's worst guess.
The more than 200 Japanese soldiers who were entrenched in the danger, after Li Yunlong led the troops of the New Second Regiment to detour to the rear, the commander of the fourth battalion Lei Dasheng and the commander of the fifth battalion Du Aiguo joined forces with Li Yunlong's troops to attack from front to back. After a battle that lasted for nearly an hour,
, to clear out the stubborn Japanese troops.
At this point, the battle finally came to an end.
In the end, it ended in a disastrous defeat for the Ishii United Team and the Yamamoto Special Agent Team...