This time the Japanese bombers were caught off guard, and the Liantai militia was completely unprepared and did not react until the planes flew overhead.
Fortunately, the target of the Japanese military aircraft was not Liantai County, but indiscriminate bombing of several stations of the Liantai militia stationed around the county.
After a brief panic, the anti-aircraft artillery of the Liantai Militia was not a vegetarian. Soon the 88mm anti-aircraft artillery of the anti-aircraft battalion, the Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun and even the Tornado and Dongfeng self-propelled artillery of the armored battalion were all aimed at the sky and fired.
There were roars and explosions everywhere.
Since battalion-level units do not have specialized air defense units or specialized air defense weapons, the only thing that can currently pose a threat to the Japanese is the 12.7 mm M2 Browning heavy machine gun that was just equipped some time ago.
And there are not many in number. Each battalion only has 18. When this type of machine gun is used for air-to-air shooting, its effective shooting height is only about one thousand meters, so it can only deal with low-altitude targets.
Moreover, the Japanese aircraft that attacked this time were the 21st Flying Group of the Japanese Army stationed in Shanxi. Since they had dealt with the Liantai Militia many times and knew that the Liantai Militia's air defense capabilities were quite good, they adopted a hit-and-run approach.
The strategy was not to be entangled with the ground's anti-aircraft firepower at all, but was divided into five or six small formations. Each formation was composed of four Type 97 heavy explosive aircraft, and took action against the predetermined target at an altitude of more than a thousand meters.
The method of running away after the explosion.
In this way, the bombing time of the Japanese planes was very short. In less than five minutes, the Japanese planes that dropped the bombs immediately turned their backs, turned their noses, and ran away in the direction they came from, leaving only the ground air defense troops behind.
Somewhat confused.
When Gao Hongming arrived at the regiment headquarters, all that was left was the mess on the ground and the broken eaves and broken walls that had been blown up to the point where they were almost unrecognizable.
"Shame...simply a shame..."
"The dignified regiment was bombed like this, but as for you, not even a Japanese hair was left. What do you do for food? All the guys in your hands are fire sticks?"
Looking at the furious Gao Hongming standing on the remains of the original regiment headquarters that was bombed, the battalion commanders who came after hearing the news were all silent, watching their noses and noses. No one dared to offend Gao Hongming at this juncture, especially
Hu Dahai, the commander of the air defense battalion, almost shrank his head into his crotch.
After scolding him for a while, the anger in Gao Hongming's heart became a little lighter. His sharp eyes glanced at everyone, and finally fell on a man with his head lowered: "Hu Dahai... tell me, what is this?"
What's going on? Why didn't our lookout post issue an early warning? We didn't notice until the Japanese were all over our heads?"
Facing dozens of stares, Hu Dahai's dark face turned purple, and he whispered: "The regiment... This matter is the responsibility of our air defense battalion. We have just discovered that the little Japs are not from
Instead of flying from the northeast, he made a special circle and flew from the southwest.
As a result, the lookout posts we placed in the northeast are useless, and we only placed two lookout posts in the southwest, and because our flight group often conducts training in the southwest airspace during this period.
When the Japanese plane arrived, these two lookout posts mistakenly thought it was our plane, so they did not issue an early warning, which led to what happened."
"Hey……"
Hearing this, Gao Hongming was a little angry. He didn't expect that the little devil, who had always been a fool, would actually fire a feint in order to bomb them?
"Okay, let's talk about the loopholes in early warning later. Now let's talk about the losses of each battalion, right?"
"17 people in the first battalion were killed and 31 were slightly or seriously injured."
"The Second Battalion had 11 killed and 19 wounded."
"The third battalion had 6 killed and 8 wounded."
"Fourth Camp..."
Listening to the casualty figures reported by each battalion, Gao Hongming did not speak for a long time. The losses caused by the Japanese bombing were not too great for the Liantai Militia. The total number of battalions was less than a hundred, but for the troops
The impact has been huge.
Since the heavy damage to the 16th Division and the 108th Division, the entire militia has fallen into a state of excitement. To use the words of later generations, it is a bit floating.
Of course, Gao Hongming was well aware of this situation, but he did not step in to stop it. In his view, the army was a monster that needed to be constantly fed by victory.
Besides, if the army doesn't make the soldiers proud when they win the battle, then what's the point of winning the battle?
So he didn't care too much about the excitement of the soldiers in the army, but now it seems that he was still too careless. As the old saying goes, a proud soldier will be defeated.
You can have pride, but you can't be too proud, otherwise things will easily happen.
Take this air raid as an example. Although the air defense battalion only deployed two observation posts in the southwest, those two observation posts obviously failed in their duties. They could not even distinguish their own aircraft from the Japanese aircraft. This was already a major mistake.
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Seeing that Gao Hongming was silent, the officers gradually became quiet and quietly waited for their boss's instructions.
After a long time, Gao Hongming raised his head and said in a deep voice: "I'm the Luo family!"
"arrive!"
Following Gao Hongming's voice, a short, expressionless major stood up.
The Luo family wears an ordinary 35-style German army uniform, but what is different from others is that he wears an armband with a scale embroidered on his arm. At first glance, he has an aura of keeping away from strangers. He is
Director of the Military Law Department of the Liantai Militia.
"Luo family, I, you go immediately and take people to bring back the officers and soldiers on duty at the two observation stations today, and investigate carefully what happened today, so that the Japanese flew such a group of aircraft, they
To my surprise, no warning signal was sent out at all.”
"yes!"
Luo Jia I didn’t waste any time and immediately turned around and left the venue.
Looking at the Luo family and me who turned to leave, everyone felt a chill in their hearts.
The people in the Military Justice Department are all a bunch of inhumane guys. Normally, if you don't make any mistakes, you're fine. But if you make a mistake and get caught by these guys, you'll have to shed your skin even if you don't die.
Hu Dahai's lips twitched, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he swallowed the words that came to his mouth. He, the commander of the air defense battalion, had nothing to do with what happened today.
The subordinates begged for mercy.
Seeing that the atmosphere at the scene had become particularly depressing, Gao Hongming continued: "Brothers, we have suffered a loss today and feel very uncomfortable, but this matter is not over yet. It is not the temperament of our Liantai militia to just be beaten without fighting back.
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"Commander...Are we going to attack the little Japs again?" The officers were all surprised.