A 105mm grenade exploded less than thirty meters away from Ding Wei. Although the shock wave of the explosion had been blocked by the foxhole, Ding Wei was still choking and coughing from the acrid smell of gunpowder smoke and dust.
When he finally got better, Commissar Li, who was hiding in the same foxhole with him, couldn't help but curse: "These devils are really crazy, they don't stop even at night!"
Ding Wei ignored Political Commissar Li's complaints. He raised his binoculars and looked forward to the right for a while, trying to find the location of the artillery attack. After a long time, he shook his head and said, "The Japanese artillery is at least ten kilometers away from us. Otherwise, there would be no trace of it at night."
Not exposed either.”
"Ten kilometers?" Political Commissar Li frowned slightly, "What kind of artillery can fire that far?"
Ding Wei looked a little gloomy, "I heard that the Japanese have a very advanced 105-caliber field cannon with a maximum range of 18 kilometers. However, this type of artillery is relatively expensive and is only equipped to the most elite field divisions.
It's probably this kind of artillery that's shooting at us now."
Political Commissar Li fell silent. As the saying goes, a sight is better than a hundred hearings. In the past two days, he had been taught a good lesson by the Sixth Division.
Whether it is combat experience, individual soldier quality or combat will, this most elite field division of the Japanese Army is much higher than the Japanese army stationed in the First Army in Shanxi.
After eating up a search team of the Sixth Division yesterday, the new regiment did not stay too long at all. They just hurriedly cleaned the battlefield and then retreated. The whole process took less than twenty minutes.
But just in these twenty minutes, the rest of the search troops of the Sixth Division surrounded them like hyenas smelling blood. During this period, Ding Wei laid ambushes several times to teach the opponent a lesson, but the Sixth Division's
No matter how many losses the search team suffered, they still fought to the death. They had only one purpose, and that was to hold off the new group. As long as they waited until the main force arrived, they would have completed their mission.
If it were normal, Ding Wei would not be afraid of the Japanese army's style of play at all. He even had several ways to easily eat these small troops. But the situation is different now. He knows that as long as the new group is held back for more than one
In two hours, the Japanese follow-up troops will arrive like flies smelling blood and surround them.
Later, the situation also developed in the direction that he was most worried about. Although the new regiment was already on its way, due to the desperate delay of the Japanese army, they were still rushed to the cavalry unit of the Sixth Division at ten o'clock in the night after hearing the news.
The team caught up.
Seeing the large Japanese troops arriving, Ding Wei immediately realized that there was no point in continuing to run. He immediately ordered his troops to seize two surrounding hills and urgently build fortifications to hold on, and then sent a telegram to the Liantai militia for help.
Just when Ding Wei asked for help, the Japanese Army's Sixth Field Artillery Regiment and the 45th Infantry Regiment arrived one after another, and soon formed an encirclement of the new regiment.
However, although the Japanese army arrived, they did not launch a large-scale attack on the New Regiment. Instead, they sent small groups of troops to harass and feign attacks against them. The field artillery regiment continued to attack the New Regiment's positions with artillery.
On the surface, the Japanese shelling was at night, so the casualties caused to the New Regiment were really limited. However, Ding Wei did not think that the Japanese army had so many shells that they could not get out of the pile, but that he knew that the Japanese army was constantly harassing them in this way.
, so that the soldiers of the New Regiment could not rest well. After dawn, the Japanese army could calmly launch a general attack on the New Regiment, and then eat the New Regiment in one fell swoop.
"Old Li, is there any new news from the Liantai Militia?"
"No!" Political Commissar Li shook his head, with a look of confusion on his face, "They just replied more than an hour ago, asking us to wait for reinforcements and then there was no follow-up. But I think Commander Gao would not let this happen.
us……"
"etc……"
Ding Wei suddenly interrupted him, "Listen... there seems to be a sound from the sky."
"Buzz...buzz..."
Following Ding Wei's words, waves of low roaring sounds began to be heard in the sky.
Political Commissar Li was startled: "Plane... It's late at night now, how can there be a plane?"
Radar and electronic technology in this era were relatively primitive and backward, and aircraft could basically only fly during the day. The risk of flying at night was too high, so generally speaking, aircraft rarely flew at night unless absolutely necessary.
"Bang bang..."
Following his voice, several planes began to lower their altitude, and then threw out several round objects. Then, accompanied by low explosions, rays of light that were as dazzling as the sun shined in the sky.
In an instant, everything within a few kilometers of darkness became as bright as day.
This sudden movement startled the fighting new regiment and the Japanese army, and everyone subconsciously looked up to the sky.
Under the light as bright as day, 24 Stuka dive bombers painted black appeared in everyone's eyes. They were scattered everywhere, and dozens of flares emitting light comparable to daylight were dragged down on the slowly floating sky.
In the air, the two warring parties that were originally hidden in the darkness were all exposed to each other's sight.
"No...order the troops to hide immediately!" Ding Wei, who was the first to react, gave the order reflexively.
But in his desperation, he didn't know that the Japanese commander on the opposite side also issued the same order.
When the flares lit up in mid-air, the first batch of B-25 bombers in dense formation also dropped in altitude, and the belly doors slowly opened.
Under the hot bright light, targets on the ground are simply not easy to distinguish in the eyes of observers.
When the 100-kilogram high-explosive bombs fell from the belly of the aircraft to the ground, after just over ten meters of sliding, the heavy bombs came into contact with the ground.
"Boom...boom boom boom..."
In an instant, a violent explosion rose into the sky accompanied by thick smoke and flames that destroyed the world, and instantly swallowed up everything hundreds of meters in front of Ding Wei's position.
Based on the fact that each B-25 can carry a maximum of 14 100-kilogram aerial bombs, the maximum number that a squadron of 24 bombers can drop at one time is 336 aerial bombs, totaling 33.6 tons of ammunition.
When more than three hundred aerial bombs exploded in an area of less than a thousand square meters at almost the same time, the effect was extremely astonishing.
Although Ding Wei's position was more than 300 meters away from the nearest explosion point, when dozens of tons of aerial bombs exploded together, everyone could feel the entire mountain trembling.
Many foxholes were directly blown down by the strong vibrations. Along with countless flying sand and rocks, like the dust of landslides and tsunamis, gunpowder smoke and flames almost swallowed up the entire position.