The Japanese plane flew away, leaving only chicken feathers on the ground. Seeing that the position the troops had spent a whole day building was blown to pieces, Gao Hongming felt helpless.
No matter how many advanced anti-aircraft artillery he adds to the air defense battalion, he can only conduct passive defense after all, while Japanese planes can carry out air attacks on him at any time, in any direction and at any place.
Either proactive or passive, no matter how well-prepared he is, how many times he can repel the Japanese attacks, but as long as the Japanese seize the opportunity, the Liantai militia will be doomed.
"We can no longer be beaten passively." Gao Hongming secretly made up his mind to build his own air force after returning this time.
Some things must be done no matter how difficult they are. After all, no matter how ferocious a tiger is, there are times when he takes a nap. It is not his character to be passively beaten.
However, although the idea is a good one, the prerequisite is to survive this difficulty first. He estimated that the frontline troops of the Japanese 408th Division should be arriving soon.
Facts have proved that Gao Hongming's guess was correct. Not long after the Japanese plane flew away, the observation post at the Qianqiuqiao stronghold reported that the Japanese vanguard was discovered.
Gao Hongming called the staff: "Have all the armored battalions returned?"
"Reporting to the regiment, all the armored battalions have returned. Their casualties were not large. Only the mechanized infantry company suffered more than 20 casualties during the attack. However, a Lynx reconnaissance tank was lost during the battle. Fortunately, the inside
All the armored soldiers were rescued."
"That's good. The loss of the tank is a trivial matter, as long as the people can be saved."
After hearing that there were no casualties among the armored soldiers, Gao Hongming breathed a sigh of relief. Training armored soldiers is not easy. He has stumbled all the way through time travel and has only trained more than a hundred armored soldiers with all his efforts. Most of them are raw melons and eggs.
He would feel distressed if he lost just a few people.
"Now that they are back, let them retreat to the predetermined location and hide, and tell Li Changan that they must not be exposed easily without my order, otherwise I will not spare him if there are heavy casualties!"
"clear!"
While Gao Hongming was busy arranging his troops, Fujino Kuming, captain of the 222nd regiment who had just arrived at Qianqiu Bridge, frowned deeply as he looked at the roaring river water and the more than 200-meter-long stone bridge on the other side.
, couldn’t help but say something.
"Baga, the Chinese people are very cunning!"
He had just received a telegram from the division commander. The 30th Flying Squadron had just bombed the Chinese position opposite. However, according to the news from the 30th Flying Squadron, the bombing effect was not very good.
The Chinese ground air defense firepower was unexpectedly powerful. The 30th Flying Group lost six Type 1 fighters and four Type 97 heavy explosive aircraft in this bombing. It was claimed that this was the first time the 30th Flying Group entered China.
The biggest loss ever suffered.
Fujino Hisaki, who was already worried because the First Battalion was hit hard, raised his vigilance to the highest level.
As soon as the troops arrived at the Qingyuan River, they sent more than a dozen top soldiers to investigate the Qianqiu Bridge. They found that there was not even a Chinese soldier on this side of the river, and the gun towers that originally stood by the bridge were blown into ruins.
The chief of staff of the regiment on the side asked him: "Your Excellency, regiment commander, the division commander ordered us to attack the Chinese immediately upon arrival. Should we attack immediately now?"
"No, launching a large-scale attack now is courting death."
Fujino Jiuming shook his head and pointed to the stone bridge in front of him: "Sakai-san, look...this stone bridge is the only bridge within a hundred miles of the Qingyuan River. If we want to cross the bridge, we must capture it. But you have
I never thought that the Chinese people obviously had enough time to blow up this stone bridge, but why didn't they do anything?"
Anyone who can become the chief of staff of the wing is certainly not a fool. Sakai thought for a moment, "Could it be that the Chinese deliberately left that bridge open just to let us pass through, and then concentrate their firepower to kill us?"
Everyone knows that the number of people the stone bridge can accommodate is limited. If they want to forcefully pass through, the other party's casual artillery fire will be enough for them to eat a pot.
"This is the only explanation at the moment." Fujino Jiuming nodded.
"Baga Yalu, Commander China is clearly humiliating us!" Chief of Staff Sakai cursed angrily, and Fujino Kuami's face turned ugly.
Unlike the Japanese army in Shanxi, the 108th Division has been stationed in Hebei for most of the time since it came to China. It has been used to smooth sailing over the years. Although it was severely punished by the armored battalion today, almost the entire first brigade was beaten.
Although he was disabled, his contempt for the Chinese army still remained unchanged.
Therefore, even though they knew that they were likely to face a powerful army, the two of them still believed that even if they could not defeat it, there should be no problem in a fight.
So after thinking about it, Fujino Kuming first sent out a team of engineers to inspect the stone bridge. After confirming that there were no traps on the stone bridge, he sent a small team to carefully walk along the stone bridge toward the river.
As soon as the team reached the bridge, gunfire rang out from the opposite side.
"Kaka...kaka..."
Amidst the sound of tearing oilcloth, which can also be said to be a chainsaw-like sound, dense bullets instantly submerged the team in the hail of bullets...
On the other side of the bridge, Fujino Kuming was holding a telescope, his face was shocked and pale.
The machine gun firepower of the Chinese army on the opposite side could be said to be the strongest he had ever seen in his life. He could clearly see that the opponent used a total of four machine guns to form a complete crossfire, and the rate of fire of this machine gun was extremely exaggerated. It was only a short time.
In less than five minutes, a small team was gone.
"Sakai-kun, did you see it?"
"See, the Chinese on the other side are equipped with a powerful machine gun that we have never seen before. The rate of fire is extremely exaggerated. Compared with him, our Type 92 heavy machine gun is like a slow old lady."
Fujino Hisumaki and Sakai both had serious expressions on their faces.
"Sakai-kun, you just took note of the Chinese fire positions. Order the artillery squadron to bombard the Chinese machine gun positions, and then send out another unit to conduct a probing attack."
"Are you going to send a small team this time?"
Fujino Jiuming shook his head: "No... Judging from the intensity of the Chinese firepower just now, a small team will not have much effect. This time we send a squadron, and we must occupy the bridgehead position as quickly as possible, so as to provide our
The large force went over to create conditions."
Soon, the Japanese artillery squadron launched an artillery bombardment on the Chinese position that had just been surveyed and mapped. Four Type 92 infantry guns bombarded the other side of the bridge for more than ten minutes, and the other side of the Qianqiu Bridge was beaten into dust for a while.
After the bombardment ended, another squadron of Japanese troops rushed across the stone bridge...